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It's commonplace to say that it was this very idealism and lack of knowledge of life, are reasons why that generation went so willingly to war. Vera Brittain depicts her world so well, that it does help you understand people of that place and time as perhaps never before. Yet, In spite of admiring this work, I have to confess that I have never liked Vera Brittain. It's hard to say why exactly; I don't blame her for having no sense of humor, under the circumstances, but it's hard to relate to her and Roland's earnest conversations about things like the Afterlife.
I do love her portrait of Buxton, the suffocatingly provincial town she came from. It's interesting to try to trace this stifling snobbishness and narrowness and find something similar in Jane Austen's experience a century previously, but I just can't. Buxton isn't Highbury. Nor is it Chawton or Bath. Jane Austen's villages were just as confined and hermetically sealed, and brimming with snobs. So it must be Austen's own mind, laughing at it all instead of doing a slow burn like Vera. But again, this may be because Austen accepted the narrowness of her world, a provincial woman's world, without much question: things were as they were, questions had not really been raised, except perhaps like outre revolutionaries like Mary Wollstonecraft. In Vera's day the world was changing, and there were many people who were a good deal more enlightened than her stultifying, narrow-minded parents. She longed to be out of Buxton, in the more enlightened world. Austen does not seem to have ever had any such longing (she resisted meeting the literati), but then her family were not to be compared with the Brittains, being vastly more intelligent and tolerant. Austen found no one to satirize in her writings who was anything like the Brittains - but she was writing before the Victorian era, not after. That was what made the provincials in Brittain's world so rigid and conventional. Austen seems almost to celebrate the conventions of society, the order that was necessary for civility. She takes the established mode for granted because there was no possibility of anything else, yet, and seems to imply that conventional manners and ways are necessary for life to run properly, sanely, as things should be. She shows covertly things that need change - such as the lot of the dependant spinster. The young Vera Brittain, by contrast, rails with fury in a way that would be unthinkable in Jane Austen's day. Women were starting to go to universities (though they were not granted degrees yet), but her parents didn't believe females needed such an education, though they sent her brother to university. Where Jane Austen took this sort of thing as part of the world order, Vera knew there were women already at university, and that it was a fight in progress that could and would be won.
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness:
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction:
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher:
A cuff neglected, and thereby
Ribbands to flow confusedly:
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat:
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
"It's all nonsense - this morning sickness and such. Leave that to the women with no work to do."
"You'll always find that it's the lower classes who rush to pay their bills the moment they arrive."
(Speaking of would-be bohemians) "They are trying to learn the secret of our magic. But they'll never manage it. You see, they aren't real. They don't work."
She was an ardent Suffragette but strangely didn't care if she had the vote. "Why should I want a vote? As it is, I hold the power to control the votes of six - no, eight - men. All of these men will vote as I want them to, to please me, for they think of me as a woman; but directly I get the franchise my power will be taken from me."
(On a fellow novelist) "Ninety-two novels he has written, and if you were to boil the whole lot down into one book you might manage to make something just worth reading while you were waiting at a station for your train on a rainy day. But then, I am always forgetting that most people in the world can only understand trivial books."
"History is something to be created rather than remembered."
(She preferred to have admirers visit one at a time because) "I feel like a lighthouse that is trying to throw its beam on everybody at the same moment. It is most exhausting."
"The really worth-while women are those who feel most at home in rich furs."
"...a lower middle class place, such as Switzerland"
"it is safer any day to leave your children in the company of a rake than to place them for half an hour in the care of a vicar's wife."
"If you cover yourself with jewelry it's as good as proclaiming to the world that you know you are not beautiful."
"A distinguished woman, with a dream, needs a large hat."
And I've saved the worst for last:
"Much as I loathe mice, I'd rather have them in the house than keep such a common thing as a cat. A cat is almost as impoverishing to the general atmosphere of an establishment as a baby's napkins hanging in the garden."
Can you imagine this as Vera Brittain's mother-in-law? Heavens! Yet both women were extremely ambitious writers, with strong elements of vanity in their make-up. And Vera quotes Marie in a very different vein, saying shrewdly, "Why does she want to go to Oxford? It's no use to a writer - except of treatises." Perhaps they did briefly bond as professional writers, though this book sheds light on the romantic unreality of Vera's relationship with Roland: she does not seem to know anything about the world from which he came.
The book's ending is oddly troubling, disappointing. Clare is superb as long as she is describing her mother's grandiose eccentricities in her heyday. But she obviously feels very uncomfortable and has no idea how to handle Roland's death and the hard times that followed - for after the war the lavishness was at an end, Marie went bankrupt, and her life became rather pathetic. A realistic treatment would have been best, but Clare was clearly not able to come to grips with the subject matter at all, when it turned tragic. Interestingly, even though Roland and Vera Brittain were engaged, Vera is never once mentioned, though Clare does mention Roland's conversation to Catholicism, which they learned about after his death.
"But is he wholly mine? Is there there somebody else who wants him even though he is hardly more than a boy? There floats before my eyes the vision of a girl: a small, delicate-faced creature with amethystine eyes, who is dreaming dreams that have got him for their centre. What a forcing power for sex this war has been, and is!"
"If he has sent Vera The Story of an African Farm, then she can't be the ordinary sort of girl. She can't be of the great army of girls who play games and are always taking bodily exercise, yet never by any chance do anything more useful than arrange cut flowers. She must be a personality - one of the few girls that can think and are not afraid to do it; one of the few who know what real romance is, and who, because they know this, will be able to marry as often as they like, no matter how small the number of marriageable men may be, while other women stand around and gasp for a husband in vain. And if she is this - then he is not only and wholly mine as he was just a few weeks ago. He will never be wholly mine any more."
Later, Marie asks her son coyly, "Do you think you will ever be as fond of her as you are of me?" And she quotes him as answering: "What are you talking about, Big Yeogh Wough? [his stupendous pet name for her] I'm only a boy yet and not likely to get fond of any woman, except in a comradely way. [He is then twenty and a commissioned lieutenant, but we can hardly blame him for being disingenuous.] You know when the time comes for me to love a woman and think of marrying her, I'd like to find one like you, if I could. But I'm not likely to be able to do that. Yet, whether the woman be Vera or anybody else, there won't be any question of whether I love you or her the better. You and I have lived so much in each other's life we are like one person, and the woman I love will have to have you for a lover as well as me, while she'll have to love you if she wants me."
Marie describes her first meeting with Vera, at which Roland and his sister Clare (always called The Bystander) were also present: "Not one of us breathed a word as to what we had really come there for - namely, to examine each other and see how we liked each other; but the verdict was an all-round satisfactory one, and in the end we all got into a taxicab together, and Miss Vera [Brittain] sat on my knee. "How tiny you are!" I said playfully.
Later there's a stunningly melodramatic scene where Vera puts out her arms imploringly and tells Marie how she loves her son, but will give him up if she says so, and Marie takes her into her arms and holds her to her heart for a very, very, very long time.


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Sorry folks, I am still in left field when it comes to these lamps because of the silver used. I still place my bets on AVeM or Galliano Ferro, both made a ton of lamps. Galliano Ferro still produces lighting but on more of a larger level. They just speak Ferro to me, but I can't confirm it without seeing one with a label on it. Both AVeM & GF produced incredible lamps in the mid century. Rose, your very lucky to have two. :hiclp:tam bam
You have a very good son, Rose. I found this lamp. The base is a little different but I wanted to show it to you anyway.http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/avem-barovier-mid-century-murano-glass-lamptam bam
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A Trophy Investment That Can Also Keep You Punctual
By PAUL SULLIVAN
Published: April 6, 2012
New York Times
FINE watches have long been about more than just telling time. They have served as gifts for graduation and retirement. They have been collected and coveted for their craftsmanship. They are often flaunted as status symbols.
Even so, the current economic climate would not seem conducive for timepieces filled with wheels and springs — the finest ones do not use batteries — that start at $15,000 and go up to $1 million or more. Plus, any cellphone can tell you the time.
It turns out, though, that the market for vintage timepieces has been booming. Watches are now the sixth largest department at Christie's, accounting for $116 million in sales in 2011. That was a 26 percent increase from the year before, and much of the growth is being driven by Asian collectors.
"We have new collectors looking at watches as alternative investments," said Sam Hines, head of watches in Asia for Christie's. "There has also been the formation of a trophy market."
These trophies are watches that are very rare, if not one of a kind. Last year, the most expensive wristwatch sold at auction was a Patek Philippe chronograph from 1928, which sold in Geneva for $3.6 million, a record price for that model.
The demand is only partly driven by the watches' condition, rarity and "complications" — the horological term for how many different things a watch keeps track of, from day and date to bells that chime at precise intervals. Instead, much as an art gallery does for an artist, the top-end watchmakers have created an allure around their brands.
Patek Philippe, the strongest performer at auctions with eight of the 10 highest prices at Christie's in 2011, focuses on legacy, with advertisements evoking fathers and sons in earnest discussion over what a watch can mean to their relationship. Breguet has featured its most famous owners in advertisements, including Napoleon, Marie Antoinette and Winston Churchill.
Audemars Piguet has gone the other way, signing up a roster of athletes whose sports connote precision, including golfers, tennis players and racecar drivers.
So it would seem safe to assume that these timepieces are good investments. Certainly watchmakers and auction houses are in no hurry to dispel that notion. But many collectors — even those whose own watches have doubled or tripled in value — are quick to dissuade people who want to speculate on time, as it were.
"From an investment point of view, most watches do not do very well," said William Massena, a real estate consultant who collects Patek Philippe watches. "You have to be a smart buyer to have a watch hold its value."
He said his collection, which began with a Patek Philippe Calatrava that he bought in Paris 18 years ago, has appreciated substantially, with some watches tripling or quadrupling in value. But he attributes that success to timing, a bit of luck and a very different market.
"People weren't interested in these watches when I bought them," Mr. Massena said. "I was lucky enough to get in early and to have the taste of my generation — sporty, chronograph, bigger watches."
So what gives a watch investment potential as opposed to just being an expensive way to tell time? Here is some of what I learned.
The likelihood that watches will increase in value depends on how few were made and how complicated they are. But their value also depends on how the watch has been maintained.
Paul Boutros, an engineer who collects watches made by Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet, said owners often inadvertently undercut the investment potential of a watch by regularly wearing it. Sweat, for example, can enter the case and cause it to decay. Or if the face fades or shows wear, and the owner gets it refinished. "The person wearing the watch likes that, but we collectors want all original all the time," he said. "We look for legitimacy in the watch."
Hugues de Pins, president of Vacheron Constantin North America, advised collectors to look for something rare in gold or platinum and to focus on watches made in limited editions if they hope for their purchase to appreciate. His company's watches range in price from $10,000 to $800,000.
The company recently bought a rare pocket watch it made in 1918 for $1.7 million at auction. The 20-karat gold watch, owned by James Ward Packard, the automobile maker, had been sitting unnoticed in a family bank vault for 60 years.
Wealthy, but not necessarily knowledgeable, watch buyers face various risks.
Fraud is an obvious one. And these fakes are not the knockoff Rolexes sold at tourist stops in Manhattan. The outright fakes are usually models that were produced in greater quantities than the rare, complicated watches, and feel real, too.
There are subtler problems. Patrick van der Vorst, a former Sotheby's appraiser and the founder of ValueMyStuff.com, said determining whether a watch was fake or real was easy for an appraiser. But assessing if someone has cut corners in maintaining a watch takes more time.
"What mainly happens, even for the very expensive watches, is that someone buys a $2,000 watch and reuses the original wheels or crown but in the more expensive watch," Mr. Van der Vorst said. "They're original watch parts, but they wouldn't have belonged to that watch."
While the watch is not a fake, its value is lower.
The big risk now is that the brands that have appreciated so much over the last 30 years may not be the ones that appreciate over the next decade.
Mr. Massena said he wrote a post on the TimeZone watch forum in 1998 about the vintage watches that he thought were most undervalued. "I was wrong in everything I wrote," he said. "If you want to invest, buy stocks or real estate."
Mr. Hines said that while there was high demand from Asian collectors for many types of fine watches, their interest was increasingly directed at small brands, like F. P. Journe and Greubel Forsey.
Some watchmakers are taking a more active role in the management of their vintage market.
Audemars Piguet has created an exhibition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Royal Oak, its distinctive and popular sports watch. The exhibit opened for four days in New York last month and will travel to Milan, Paris, Beijing, Singapore and Dubai.
Francois-Henry Bennahmias, president and chief executive of Audemars Piguet North America, said a Royal Oak cost $3,000 in 1972 and would be worth $35,000 to $60,000 today, depending on the condition. He said new Royal Oaks started at $14,000.
Mr. Bennahmias said the company's watches had not been appreciating as quickly as they did before 2008, when the company was producing limited edition watches whose values could rise 20 to 40 percent from the preorder to release date. He said clients now were more interested in the watch holding its value or not depreciating too greatly.
Vacheron Constantin, founded in 1755, has just started to sell its own vintage watches, which the company is tuning up and authenticating. Mr. de Pins said the company wanted to meet client demand for authentic vintage watches.
For people who covet these fine watches but cannot afford a new one, this could be an option. Vacheron's vintage collection in New York was selling a round, gold wristwatch from 1956 for $9,000. Mr. de Pins said a similar model new would retail for $18,000.
Short of that, a collector can hope to be lucky. Mr. Boutros, whose passion for watches started as a hobby with his father, said they once bought an Audemars Piguet in 1989 from a jewelry dealer who could not even pronounce the watchmaker's name.
"At the time, the retail price was about $15,000," he said. "He got it in trade and wanted $1,000 for it."
"The quality just stood out, every little detail," Mr. Boutros said. "That's when I realized the high end is for real."


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Tropical Storm Humberto remained a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph Tuesday night, but the National Hurricane Center in Miami forecasts it to become a hurricane Wednesday.
As of 11 p.m., Humberto was moving northwest at 7 mph about 270 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands.
It is expected to strengthen during the next 48 hours. If it does become a hurricane on Wednesday, it would be the first of the 2013 season.
A turn toward the north at a slightly faster speed is expected during the next two days, with Humberto forecast to head northward Wednesday night and Thursday.
There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect for Humberto.
Meanwhile, tropical storm conditions were occurring on Bermuda as the reformed Tropical Storm Gabrielle slowed as it neared the island. A tropical storm warning was in effect for Bermuda, which Gabrielle was expected to pass near or just west of overnight, according to the NHC.
Gabrielle, which formed and dissipated last week, regenerated Tuesday morning near Bermuda. By 11 p.m., it had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph as it moved north at 8 mph about 25 miles south-southwest of Bermuda.
Gabrielle was expected to turn toward the north-northwest with a decrease in speed overnight or early Wednesday.
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Sometimes there is nothing more frustrating in a raid than watching your raid wipe. I feel that the only thing more frustrating than the wipe itself, is watching the healers get blamed right away. As a raid officer and healing lead seldom do I let things really truly get under my skin. But when I see a wipe and I hear the question in vent
"healers, what happened there?"
It raises my ire. I understand that healing is something that quickly comes under the analytical scope when an encounter fails. But when you have someone assigned to lead the healers it's their job to find out what happened, and on the off chance they do find something wrong it is their job to address and resolve the issue. When a tank or dps starts berating healers about what happened it gets on everyone's nerves. We're going to use the term Healer Rage here. Healer rage can take many forms, quiet determination, outright aggression, passive aggressive behavior (such as "missing" a heal on a target) all the way up to outright quitting. You might remember my first post here on World of Matticus where I talked about the 5 Archetypes of the Healer. I broke down what makes a person choose to be a healer in a game like World of Warcraft. Each of those healers are still around and kicking and always will be.
Today I'm going to talk about some general misconceptions about healers, as well as what triggers Healer Rage and how different healers deal with it.
5. All healers are created equal
There are a lot of people who seem to think you can equally exchange Healer A for Healer B and see no difference in the performance of the raid as a whole. I'm not talking classes here, purely about the player. This might seem like it doesn't happen but it does, and quite frequently.
"Why not bring Dude B, he's just as good as Dude A?"
Now I'm not trying to be elitist and talk about difference in skill, but the truth is we all have our strengths. Some healers are better at tank healing, they understand it better. Others are better topping off a raid. Some know the intricacies of a short burst fight and intensive healing, while others still are built for longevity fights. We all have our specialties our niche. The idea that you can take any healer and slap them anywhere and get the same performance is not a good one to have.
Why this causes Healer Rage
Dude B is a tank healer, he revels in it. It is his specialty without question. Dude A is a raid healer, he knows the in and out of everything there is to know about keeping the raid at peak health. Raid officer decides to switch their assignments. Dude A is now on tanks and Dude B is healing the raid. When you take a healer out of a comfort zone it is akin to dumping a bucket of cold water on a sleeping person. While some people can handle a shifting role like that, we all tend to have our preferences. Moving us from those preferences tends to make us just a tad bit grumpy.
4. All healing capable classes are built equal
Some people think that all classes are equitable. What I mean is that a Resto Shaman is the same as a Holy Paladin as a Resto Druid as a Priest. Lets be honest, while this has become closer to the truth over the many years that we've been playing this game, it is still a ways off. Sure my Shaman is capable of healing a single target quite well, But an equally geared Discipline Priest or a Holy Pally will beat me every time and vice-versa for raid healing. Sure you can stick them in that roll, but results might not be optimal. This is considering the merits of the classes and talents without accounting for player skill.
Why this causes Healer Rage
Just like above, when you take someone out of their safe spot people's nerves are on edge and performance can often times suffer. Over the years I've come to realize as healers, we tend to like our niche. When Shaman were usurped as the kings of raid healing, there was quite a loud outcry on the forums and through the WoW universe. This is very much the same as the reasoning behind the rage of number 5. I've also noticed in both 5, and 4 here that healers thrust out of their comfort zone tend to be quieter and deal with their rage about it more internally.
3. Healing is Easy!
There are some people out there who feel that healing is the easiest job in the game. I'll be honest, there was a point where I felt that way. That was when I was playing a hunter in 40 man raids and before I had ever touched the healing side of a Shaman. Nothing could be further from the truth. Healing is one of the most stressful aspects of the game. You are responsible to heal any damage taken in a raid, people look at you to stave off that wipe or to keep them up no matter what, because they think all you do is sit there and spam a few buttons.
Why this causes Healer Rage
Healing can be one of the most challenging roles in the game! Not only do we have to effectively manage our own resources such as mana our own health and consumables, but we also have the privilege of playing broker with yo ur health totals! What people often don't realize is that as a healer we often have to play triage. Prioritizing heals is more than just making sure the tank is topped off and then spilling over into your group or raid. We have to decide sometimes who lives and who dies! That is a heavy burden and one that we often times have to make as snap decisions. When a healer gets criticized for this, it's not exactly fair, and can cause not only rage but an added level of stress. This is normally when you'll find healers raging openly either through comments or possibly even over voice.
2. A healer has to carry those who are under-geared / unprepared
While a healer is capable of carrying an under geared tank or healing through a certain amount of damage from players not moving fast enough out of area damage, it should not be expected of us. There seems to be a large amount of players that believe a healer is obligated to heal the tank that isn't even trying to mitigate their damage or are woefully under geared for the content. Some people think it is OK for them to stand in the middle of a raging fire on the floor because the healer will heal them through it. You may think I'm making this up, but I've seen enough dps actually do this and then when asked about why they would say "because the healer has to heal me!". This also holds true for people who don't know the mechanics of a fight, yet insist to pull and bring much unnecessary damage on themselves.
Why this causes Healer Rage
Much for the same reason as number 3. Healing is already challenging enough in some cases. Doing things that while funny, are disruptive and unnecessary can really alienate you from your healer. Tanks don't randomly go into your dps spec and pull the groups in HoR, it just isn't happening. If you're a dps and you're purposely standing in Rotfaces's slime quadrant just to get your extra couple hits in, that's completely unnecessary and honestly it's rude. It is every raid members job to mitigate as much damage as they can, you can't rely solely on the healers. Eventually you'll get healers that will respond to this but ceasing to heal you, or openly being aggressive about your actions.
1. Whenever there is a wipe, blame healers first
There is this mentality that every time there is a wipe, you need to yell at or blame the healers first. After all it's their job to heal you through anything right? (see number 2.) There are few things more frustrating than seeing the group wipe and to hear someone immediately ask "so what happened there healers?". What boggles my mind is when this happens despite things like mortuary, big brother, raid buff system or several other mods that people may use that announce who dies and to what. We'll use one of the new ICC trash mobs for an example, Stinky. Stinky and it's twin Precious are the pets of Festergut and Rotface. They are also mini bosses very much like the trash pulls leading up to the Twin Emps were back in AQ40. Each has an unique ability, but in Stinky's case I've seen this mini boss / trash pull wipe more groups than some of the bosses! Stinky has three abilities
Decimate: aoe that knocks everyone to 15% health
Mortal Wound: 10% reduced healing done to you stacks up to 100%, placed on tanks
Plague Stench: raid wide aoe that ticks for about 3k every 2-3 seconds
He's pretty much setup to really mess with healers. If you get an ill timed Decimate followed by a quick Plague Stench it is possible to have multiple people in the raid die in one stroke. Every time I've seen a group wipe on it, the first thing I hear asked is why the healers didn't heal through it. Sometimes I've seen it expected of healers to time their group heals perfectly to go off when decimate does! I'm not saying healers shouldn't be prepared for it, but latency spikes and lag can cause heals to not exactly be spot on, and that should be kept in mind.
Why this causes healer rage
When a boss goes down smoothly you almost never hear anyone say; "That was awesome! Great job healers! That was all you!", but when a wipe happens you will hear the phrase "what happened healers?" way too often. Not everything is within a healers control. Sometimes things happen that stretch our abilities so thin there is no recovery. Random mob abilities chaining together can cause a group to wipe before a healer even has a chance to react. When someone places this burden on the healers, it's a short trip to off the rage deep end. Healers are already shouldering enough weight in a run, keeping a group topped off, playing healer triage and managing our resources to keep the group going. Looking at the healers after every wipe can cause healers to snap. I've seen healers rage quit raids, I've seen them rage quit guilds, I've seen them completely stop healing on the next pull just to watch the person who blamed the wipe on them die. I've heard stories of even worse events that have gone as far as an entire healing team leaving a guild in one swoop, leaving a raiding guild effectively healer-less.
Healers carry large burdens in a raid or group. Sure sometimes we might make comments about something being so easy because a tank out-gears an instance, but those are welcome breaks. We are not omniscient,we are not gods, we are not capable of predicting what is going to happen and when. We are just playing our role in a group, doing what we can to make things go smoothly. Remember, our job is a stressful one and one vital to the raid. Trust in your healing leads if you have one to make sure healers are doing what they need to be, and trust your healers a bit. Basically cut us a little slack, it's often times a thankless job.
That's it for today, until next time folks Happy Healing
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amazing that its been 4 or 5 years since i was really into these books and the next one's still not out...dude isn't gonna finish the series is he :(
it's definitely good tv series material though if they're willing to run it out long enough and don't try to cram each book into a single season (the 3rd book alone is like as long as the entire lord of the rings iirc)
― ciderpress, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:39 (ten years ago) link
you think they ought to make it longer? u mad
― thomp, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:42 (ten years ago) link
not necessarily make it longer, just not do 1 book = 1 season when the books are of varying length and plot complexity (4th book could be cut down by a ton for example to make room for more stuff from the 3rd book)
― ciderpress, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:53 (ten years ago) link
They could just do more episodes for the season w/ the 3rd book. I don't see how they could split it up though.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 27 March 2010 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Gobbled up all the books on the recommendation of ILXors. I'm looking forward to the HBO show, but mostly I just want the new book! And then I guess there are two MORE of these books that he has to write, in-between blogging about the Jets and going to fantasy conventions? Sigh...
― schwantz, Saturday, 27 March 2010 21:25 (ten years ago) link
expected to air around this time next year, alongside the second season of Treme.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Can't wait for the crossover episode.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:43 (ten years ago) link
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:48 (ten years ago) link
1 book = 1 season makes total sense
they can make that work
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:49 (ten years ago) link
also hbo shows arent always 1 season = 1 year
sopranos took long breaks
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:50 (ten years ago) link
Never read the books, but pretty keen on watching this.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 19 June 2010 13:11 (ten years ago) link
what is the point of this if the dude won't even finish the books???? Goddamn stop re-writing them already!!!
― ears are wounds, Sunday, 20 June 2010 10:29 (ten years ago) link
― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Saturday, June 19, 2010 7:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
name one HBO show besides Sopranos that didn't/doesn't do a new season every year
― fantast (ico) (some dude), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:04 (ten years ago) link
actually, I'll name another, Curb Your Enthusiasm, but i think that's it
― fantast (ico) (some dude), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:06 (ten years ago) link
The Wire had a significant gap between seasons 3 and 4, but that was partly because they weren't sure if they were going to renew it.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 14:25 (ten years ago) link
at this point, I am wondering if it might not be better if some talented cable TV writers finished this thing for him. I am losing faith that he has any idea where he is going with these books.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Sunday, 20 June 2010 17:00 (ten years ago) link
We should start bitching about the BSG/Lost style finalefail.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Turns out Tyrion is Jesus.
― schwantz, Sunday, 20 June 2010 19:57 (ten years ago) link
big love took a break right?
― ian, Sunday, 20 June 2010 20:02 (ten years ago) link
If it hasn't it needs to.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Sunday, 20 June 2010 20:09 (ten years ago) link
Carcetti is Littlefinger
That character means nothing to me obv.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:12 (ten years ago) link
― hot dub grime machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that is good casting
― richie aprile (rockapads), Monday, 12 July 2010 23:22 (ten years ago) link
Really looking forward to this!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:37 (ten years ago) link
more teasing
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:25 (nine years ago) link
I hope this starts a trend of classy TV fantasy adaptations. Someone should do Perdido Street Station (though would be fucking expensive). Do these books have monsters and magic and shit, or is it just guys fighting with swords?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 13 September 2010 15:44 (nine years ago) link
They have dragons and undead.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 September 2010 16:06 (nine years ago) link
only in the first and last episodes of this season though, that saves you some money right there
― thomp, Monday, 13 September 2010 16:13 (nine years ago) link
perdido street station feels basically like a miniseries already! which is unfortunate in that the other bas-lag stuff wouldn't really work as further series of.
Exclusive EW pics
Martin has penned the 8th episode.
Also EW On the Set
There's a new language or something that's better than Klingon it says.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGuIhhyNX-oLooks nice and wintry
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:01 (nine years ago) link
Wasn't the guy in the first scene of the trailer also in the Lord of the Ring movies? I guess all "serious" fantasy movies/series now have to look kinda murky with muted colours, since LotR did that. Will anyone make a colourful fantasy movie anymore?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:41 (nine years ago) link
yeah thats sean bean... ive been reading the first book and im not a fantasy guy at all but its p. good... a lot of the early parts of the story take place in a wintery shithole, which limits your color choices... plus its kind of 'gritty' fantasy and they wanna convey that style/mood...
lotr movies were pretty colorful imo, like that part where they're in elfburg and the dwarf goes AND U HAVE MY AXE... lots of stuff actually... its just the color palette changes depending on context... i mean what do you want dude, rainbows over mount doom..
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr-wS5iBv0 (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 10:50 (nine years ago) link
Well, not necessarily, of course it depends on the story... It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice. For example, based on the trailer the Avatar The Las
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 12:09 (nine years ago) link
Well, not necessarily, of course it depends on the story... It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice. For example, based on the trailer the Avatar The Last Airbender movie has the same kind of look even though the source material is actually quite colourful and fun.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 12:10 (nine years ago) link
have you read the books? if there is one story that needs to look "gritty", it's this one.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:45 (nine years ago) link
So is each season going to be one book?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:49 (nine years ago) link
God, I hope not. To me the best way to do it would be to break it down and rearrange in a linear timeline. Jump around between characters, like any good television drama with a ton of characters tends to do.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:53 (nine years ago) link
It's just that every recent live action fantasy seems to have had a similar muted colour palette as LotR, as if gritty fantasy was suddenly the only choice.
yes because there have been so, so many live action fantasy movies recently
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:05 (nine years ago) link
still lolling at "muted color palette of LotR"
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:09 (nine years ago) link
It's not fantasy, it's HBO
A decent little write-up about the 10-minute making of that premiered and also the branding of the show.
― Gukbe, Monday, 6 December 2010 05:43 (nine years ago) link
oh, and that Inside of Game of Thrones featurette:
― Gukbe, Monday, 6 December 2010 05:49 (nine years ago) link
This looks so good. I really, really hope it succeeds and gets George off his fat ass to finish the story before they catch up.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 December 2010 17:14 (nine years ago) link
April cannot come soon enough.
― schwantz, Monday, 17 January 2011 17:21 (nine years ago) link
im still peeved they didnt get tamzin merchant to play daenerys. her replacement doesnt look inbred enough imo. at least they got the iron throne right.
and yes this will be just for nerds.
― ☆, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:46 (nine years ago) link
Hopefully it will do for us nerds who haven't read the books as well.
― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:53 (nine years ago) link
i have the speakers off, did they cut this trailer to 'power'
this looks so awful. the throne of swords is a pretty stupid idea for a visual and this is not executed in any way that'd serve to redeem that
― thomp, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 10:27 (nine years ago) link
I pulled out my old copy to read again before the adaption starts and I'd totally forgotten I have an autographed copy.... lol.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:22 (nine years ago) link
hi five!
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:27 (nine years ago) link
also that counts as a humblebrag, right? ;)
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 24 March 2011 23:28 (nine years ago) link
in that respect (small scale) it's just myth ii: soulblighter, live action version
― 龜, Monday, March 14, 2016 9:52 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm not sure what you mean by this but the fact that you brought this game up again makes me happy. I've always drawn connections between the game and the series as well but I'm not sure why the scale is relevant.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:18 (four years ago) link
all the battles in game were pretty small (like less than 100 combatants)
― 龜, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:04 (four years ago) link
Oh, got you. Yeah, though comparisons can be made beyond just that aspect. I think we've discussed this months ago here.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:18 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure what you mean by this but the fact that you brought this game up again makes me happy.
same --- i played a lot of online myth 2 in my freshman year of college. dorf riot uber alles
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:20 (four years ago) link
goole has colonized my reactions to this show to the extent that i'm now yelling HUMANIZING MONOLOGUE!! to nobody four times an episode. they make me happy tho because i think of how happy they must make the actors.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:49 (four years ago) link
I played online a little bit but was a bit overwhelmed by the veterans there. CTF was nuts. However, I loved downloading plugins off of http://tain.totalcodex.net/ and combining them in all sorts of ways in singleplayer. Even had fun online playing with civil war tagsets. Definitely one of my fav games.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:55 (four years ago) link
i used to play the WWII one. throw yr nades!
― 龜, Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:59 (four years ago) link
― goole, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:02 (four years ago) link
yes i will watch s6.
Yes! Love it. Wonder if it still has a community. I think so, as The Tain looks like it's got some new content as far as I can tell.
― Evan, Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:03 (four years ago) link
― 龜, Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh yah i loved this one
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:24 (four years ago) link
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 20:43 (four years ago) link
So weird that from this point forward the show and books will be telling different stories. But then:
"So much of what we're doing diverges from the books at this point .... People are going to be very surprised when they read the books after the show. They're quite divergent in so many respects for the remainder of the show."
How the fuck do they know what Martin will or won't include in future unwritten books?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:09 (four years ago) link
I imagine they're in contact with him enough to know the outlines of what he's going to do.
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:10 (four years ago) link
Sure, no doubt. But ... he's got hundreds, thousands of pages to write over the course of several years. There is no way the guy is going to stick to whatever script he has in mind and equally hard to believe he won't crib from theirs.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:31 (four years ago) link
equally hard to believe he won't die of a heart attack before he finishes
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:32 (four years ago) link
Maybe George actually has all the books written and he just gets off on withholding them
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:33 (four years ago) link
― 龜, Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:16 (four years ago) link
Haha that's great.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:20 (four years ago) link
I mean maybe the show won't exactly spoil the books, but I find it hard to believe that the show will vary so greatly from the endgame of the books or answers to big questions like "who are Jon snow's parents?"
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Saturday, 26 March 2016 14:11 (four years ago) link
HBO jumping on the Talking Dead bandwagon by bringing in the Watch the Thrones podcast guys:
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:55 (four years ago) link
I thought if UK had one surely America would too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 17:40 (four years ago) link
10k answers and no longer any spoiler issues; new season deserves a new thread, no?
― ulysses, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 17:46 (four years ago) link
As I understand it the TV show will partly be ahead, but also partly behind?
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:42 (four years ago) link
It's already that way I think
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:46 (four years ago) link
HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:56 (four years ago) link
I can't wait to completely ignore this sh1t and just listen to Achilles last Stand
― calstars, Sunday, 7 April 2019 00:38 (one year ago) link
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 7 April 2019 01:07 (one year ago) link
Always a wise plan
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'American Idol': Nicki Minaj orders contestants to 'Get off the stage!'
Things were humming along just fine on "American Idol" Wednesday night. The contestants were enthusiastically embracing the "music of Detroit" theme. Motown legend Smokey Robinson was dispensing kindly advice. And even judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj seemed to be in synch, looking resplendent in color-coordinated red dresses.
But then came a train-wreck group performance featuring Burnell Taylor, Devin Velez and Lazaro Arbos, who combined on the Four Tops hit "I Cant' Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)."
How bad was it? So bad that a disgusted Nicki compared it to a Hollywood Week performance and actually ordered the guys off the stage!
Making matters worse, Burnell and Devin started trying to blame the others, while Lazaro just looked sweaty and ashamed. No wonder the girls are dominating this season.
Here's a look at how the overall night went down:
-- Candice Glover (Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"): This week's mentor, Smokey, calls Candice "singing personified" and, yes, she delivers another solid performance with lots of bluesy, brassy swagger. Keith Urban calls it her best performance yet and that's saying a lot. Randy Jackson deems it "crazy good" and Mariah thinks it had just the right blend of "gritty" and "pretty," though she'd like to see more churchy-jazz from Candice.
-- Kree Harrison and Janelle Arthur (Madonna's "Like a Prayer"): The country girls bring their twangy spirit to Madonna's 1989 hit, with an arrangement used by Jennifer Nettles. They sound pretty good together, which makes the addition of eight or so background singers seem a little superfluous. Of course, Janelle can't match Kree's power and Nicki feels the need to brutally point that out. "Kree definitely outshined you, my darling," she tells the blonde. Mariah chooses to praise them both, calling it a "sisterhood moment."
-- Lazaro Arbos (Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life"): God bless Lazaro. A nice kid. Heartwarming story. But he really shouldn't still be here. (He can thank the little girls and grannies for their text votes). Again, he's a little wobbly. Pretty dull and mostly forgettable. Still, he gets big cheers from the audience. On the plus side, Randy says "it's far better than last week." Keith agrees that it's better, but had some rhythmic problems. Nicki proves that she's off her meds, first calling Lazaro "Ricky Ricardo" and then "Fonzie" and then asking Smokey -- a "sexy piece of specimen" -- to be her "sugar daddy."
-- Janelle Arthur (The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On"): Janelle puts her own angsty, slow-burning twist on this Motown standard, sitting on a stool and strumming her guitar. A really lovely performance that deserves raves and she gets them. Mariah: "That was you at your finest." Keith: "Beautiful." Randy: "I absolutely loved it. I thought it was incredible." All the kind words bring tears to the eyes to the girl, who just moments ago, took her lumps for her duet performance. Nice rally. Bravo.
-- Devin Velez (The Miracles' "The Tracks of My Tears"): Uh-oh, Devin's singing one of Smokey's songs in front of the man. And guess what? He does fine with it. Smooth and in control, with some sweet falsettos. He also looks sharp in a red blazer. Nicki calls it "amazing" and says "I liked very choice that you made with the song." Randy deems it one of his best performances in weeks. Mariah calls it "flawless."
-- Candice Glover, Angie Miller and Amber Holcomb (The Supremes' "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"): We're in girl-group heaven as this trio do their best come-hither looks for this "flirty" Motown fave. We can do without the sparklers at the end, but this is pretty cool. Mariah revives her "Hastag pow" rave and then we move on without word from the other judges (must be pressed for time).
-- Burnell Taylor (Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour"): Clad all in white, a debonair Burnell brings his soulful rasp to the song and, as usual, injects his own personal flair to it. There are few notes that went awry, but it's a generally pleasant presentation. "The choices you make are so smart," Randy says. Keith adds that "You're so original that it's really hard to critique anything."
-- Angie Miller (The Miracles' "Shop Around"): Another Smokey song -- the first major hit for Motown. Angie looks way hot in a snug blue dress and we appreciate the fact that she's gone uptempo, but this isn't one of her better performances. It's pitchy and shouty. "It was not good tonight," Randy says. Mariah thinks she should have stuck by the piano and sung "I'll Be There." Keith thinks the melody "pulled her down" and Nicki wants Angie to just be Angie.
-- Amber Holcomb (Stevie Wonder's "Lately"): "Idol" isn't always fair. Someone like Lazaro racks up the votes even though he doesn't deserve them. And on the other hand, a talent like Amber has had to deal with the indignity of being in the Bottom 3. On this song, she shines. It's done with style and grace and power and finesse. The judges give her a standing ovation. Mariah calls it a "tour de force." Keith describes it as "beautiful" and "mesmerizing," and Nicki calls it "out of this world."
-- Burnell Taylor, Devin Velez and Lazaro Arbos ("I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)": Someone call the cops. These guys just murdered this song. Lyrics were bungled. Lines were stepped on. Notes were butchered. Brutal! We've seen better performances at grade-school talent shows. "I don't know what that was but I'm going to act like I didn't see it or hear it," Nicki says.
-- Kree Harrison (Aretha Franklin's "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)": By now, it's obvious that Kree can do justice to anybody -- even the Queen of Soul. Thankfully, she allows us to end the night on a positive note, rather than that dreck we just heard from the guys. So good. So powerful. Nicki sums it up best when she says, "your confidence never wavers ... and you are a queen, too."


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First-year enrollment at U.S. law schools plunged to levels not seen since the 1970s, as students steered away from a career that has left many recent graduates loaded with debt and struggling to find work.
The American Bar Association said on Tuesday that the number of first-year law students fell 11% this year. So far, 39,675 full-time and part-time students enrolled in law school, nearly 5,000 fewer than in 2012.
That's one student shy of 1977 enrollments, when the ABA reported 39,676 first-year students. The lowest previous tally was in 1975, when 39,038 students entered their first year of law school and there were only 163 ABA-approved schools (the current count is 202).
The 2013 drop extends a decline that is now in its third year. More than 52,000 would-be lawyers entered their first year of law school in 2010, an all-time high. Many of those students were thought to be seeking shelter from the economic tumult of the recession.
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from the and-look-where-it's-gotten-you,-Mr.-Heyman----all-over-the-internet deptIt appears that there are still some writers out there who moved from print to an online presence while never having learned to properly "internet." Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com is one of them. Writing up his baseball Hall of Fame ballot, Heyman botched a few facts about Jack Morris in his push for the pitcher's inclusion, as Craig Calcaterra at NBC Sports pointed out:
Jon Heyman put up his Hall of Fame column this afternoon. For years he has pushed hard for Jack Morris for the Hall. He has long overstated Morris' merits in my view, but it's gotten to the point now where he's simply making crap up:Poynter followed up on the aftermath of this error, noting that Heyman's reaction to being called out in his fiction was to fix the mistake in the article without calling attention to the correction anywhere on the offending page. When called out on this 'stealth' correction, Jon Heyman responded with his least factual statement yet.He was thought good enough to be the ace on teams that had Bert Blyleven and Dave Stewart, and to receive Cy Young votes in seven seasons. I can't allow his vast accomplishments to be re-evaluated downward by a new emphasis on different numbers.Jack Morris and Bert Blyleven were never teammates. Jack Morris played one season with Dave Stewart. In that one season — 1993 — Morris was 7-12 with a 6.19 ERA. It's possible that Heyman is calling Morris the "ace" of that 1993 Jays team because he got the Opening Day start, but he didn't distinguish himself at all that year, he was out of the rotation by early September and was left off the postseason roster. Some ace.
I'm not sure which parts of the internet Heyman is familiar with, but examining this statement (and its off-hand dismissal of the internet as a place beneath common courtesy or respect), I would hazard a guess that Heyman hasn't ventured much further than the pages run by CBS Sports. Andrew Beaujon points out that CBS Sports has failed to issue timely corrections on its website before, most notably its premature announcement that Penn State Joe Paterno had died -- a "scoop" it borrowed without attribution from a Penn State student website.
@thitchner not a simple mistake like that on the internet. I have never seen corrections listed below an internet story.— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) January 8, 2013
The "internet" that I'm familiar with is full of corrections. Updated posts happen all the time. Tom Hitchner helpfully pointed out a couple of recent corrections to Heyman -- one at the New York Times and one at Slate. Here at Techdirt, we update posts whenever clarification or correction is needed, as well as when new information flows in.
Everyone who realizes that the instantaneous give-and-take the internet provides requires this sort of transparency -- from the lowliest hobby blogger to the writer who's at least two or three sizes too small for the platform he's been given -- lists their corrections, or at the very least runs visible strikethrough. Apparently, Jon Heyman feels the internet is too insignificant to deserve honesty. If this is the attitude he's chosen to project, he doesn't deserve many readers.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. - A 13-game homestand during the month of March and 29 games against 2009 NCAA Regional competition highlight Kansas State's slate as head coach Brad Hill released the Wildcats' 2010 baseball schedule on Thursday.
Kansas State will play 28 home games, while the Wildcats face 10 squads that advanced to the previous year's NCAA Tournament for the third-straight season. Of the Cats' 29 games against 2009 NCAA Regional participants, 14 come within the final month of the regular season.
Complete 2010 Kansas State Schedule (PDF)
"This will be a challenging schedule," Hill said. "We open the season with 12 games on the road and will take on 10 NCAA Regional teams from a year ago, including three in our first homestand. The nonconference schedule will help prepare our young squad for the always challenging Big 12 Conference."
The 2009 season opens on Friday, Feb. 19, at The Citadel Memorial Challenge against Delaware. The Cats then face East Tennessee State on Saturday before taking on the host school, The Citadel, on Sunday. K-State will then stay in Charleston, S.C., to face the Bulldogs for an extra game on Monday, Feb. 22.
Kansas State travels to Florida to play eight games in nine days, beginning with the Russmatt Central Florida Invitational at Chain of Lakes Park – the former spring training home of the Cleveland Indians – in Winter Haven, Fla. The Cats will play five games in the invitational, which runs Saturday, February 27 through Wednesday, March 3. K-State will play against a combination of teams in Duquesne, Illinois State, Maine, Northeastern, St. Bonaventure, Valparaiso, Villanova and Western Michigan. The exact schedule for the tournament will be released at a later date.
Following a day off on Thursday, K-State will participate in the Bright House Invitational, hosted by Stetson, beginning Friday, March 5, in DeLand, Fla. The Wildcats will face the Hatters on Friday before squaring off against Notre Dame on Saturday. Kansas State will finish its Florida excursion and 12-game road trip to start the season on Sunday against Harvard. The 12-game road trip is the longest to start a season since 1972.
Kansas State will open its home slate with season-long 13-game homestand beginning on Friday, March 12, against Kent State. The Cats continue their series with the Golden Flashes with a Saturday doubleheader at 12 p.m., while the series finale is scheduled for Sunday at 1 p.m. Following a home contest against Creighton on Tuesday, March 16, the Cats will play another four-game weekend series beginning on Friday, March 19, against UW-Milwaukee.
The season-long homestand also sees the start of Big 12 play for Kansas State as the Wildcats welcome Oklahoma State to Tointon Family Stadium for a three-game series beginning Friday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. The homestand and the month of March concludes with a visit from in-state rival Wichita State on Tuesday, March 30.
K-State's first conference road trip is to Lubbock, Texas, as the Cats face Texas Tech, April 1-3, before coming home to take on Nebraska, April 9-11.
K-State, which traveled to BYU two years ago and played the Cougars last season in Manhattan, will travel to Provo, Utah, for a two-game series against the Mountain West Conference school on April 13 and 14.
Following a three-game home conference series against 2009 NCAA Regional participant Baylor, April 16-18, the Cats travel to Eck Stadium in Wichita to conclude their season series against the Shockers on Tuesday, April 20. K-State will then stay on the road as it travels to Columbia, Mo., to face Missouri, April 23-25.
The Wildcats will face Chicago State, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 27 and 28, in Manhattan, before traveling to Oklahoma to end April and begin May as they play the Sooners Friday, April 30, through Sunday, May 2.
The final stretches of the season see Kansas State at home for seven of its final 11 games. The Wildcats will step out of conference play for the final time in 2010 as it hosts 2009 NCAA Regional participant and Big Ten member Minnesota, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 4 and 5.
College World Series runner-up Texas comes calling for a three-game weekend series in Manhattan beginning Friday, May 7.
The Cats will renew their in-state rivalry against Kansas beginning Friday, May 14, in Lawrence, before the series shifts to Manhattan for the Saturday and Sunday contests. The Jayhawks are another 2009 NCAA Regional team.
Kansas State's regular season concludes in College Station, Texas, with a three-game series at Texas A&M, beginning Friday, May 21.
The 2010 Big 12 Championship will be conducted May 26-30 at Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Okla., while NCAA Regionals will run June 4-7 at 16 various on-campus sites throughout the country.


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Simulation of Boundary Value Problems for the Boltzmann Equation
- The paper presents numerical results on the simulation of boundary value problems for the Boltzmann equation in one and two dimensions. In the one-dimensional case, we use prescribed fluxes at the left and diffusive conditions on the right end of a slab to study the resulting steady state solution. Moreover, we compute the numerical density function in velocity space and compare the result with the Chapman-Enskog distribution obtained in the limit for continuous media. The aim of the two-dimensional simulations is to investigate the possibility of a symmetry break in the numerical solution.


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Sarah Richardson is a science historian at Harvard who studies how people understand the genetic science of sex difference. She's here to answer your questions today about the development of genomics, ideas about sex difference, and the history behind the two.
She is the author of the book Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome where she looks at questions like whether there is there a sex-determining gene, what's in store for the Y-chromosome, and the ways in which some of the early technology and discoveries about the genome shaped the ways we think about sex difference.
She'll be joining us from 11 - 12 p.m. (PST). So start asking her your questions about the history of genomics and sex difference now!


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President Barack Obama repeatedly assured Americans that their health insurance premiums would cost less, not more, once his health care plan takes effect. People with insurance understand that their premiums have been increasing annually by double-digit rates for the past decade. It couldn't possibly get worse under Obamacare, right? Think again. The standard of living for most Americans will plummet because of the skyrocketing costs of purchasing health care under Obamacare. How is that possible? According to the Wall Street Journal, Congress simply ignored "virtually every actuarial principle governing rational insurance pricing."
The WSJ cites three reasons for the rising costs: 1) health insurers must accept everyone who applies for benefits; 2) insurers cannot charge more based on serious medical conditions; and 3) the law mandates coverage of numerous items not currently covered by standard health insurance policies. The report also claims that the penalty the law imposes for not purchasing health insurance is too low to stop people from not purchasing it when they are well and waiting to purchase it once they become ill. That will create smaller insurance pools more populated by the sick. Many employers are already taking steps to end health insurance benefits for their employees because of the rising costs.
States that already have Obama-like health insurance requirements have health insurance plans that cost nearly twice as elsewhere. That's what the rest of the states can now expect to pay. About 18 states, including Indiana, will see health insurance premium increases of 35%-65%. Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming and Virginia will see the largest rate increases of between 65% and 100%. The bottom line is that the economic future of Americans could not be more bleak. Fewer jobs with lower wages and skyrocketing costs of living are what most American are looking foward to.
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- Downtown Indy said...
Whether it's hammers, toilets, parking meters or insurance, the government has NEVER lowered the cost of anything it has procured.
- varangianguard said...
I'm going to be a victim of this. woot. not.
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Marie Bernice Halliday Handegard
Marie Bernice Halliday Handegard, 83, died on Saturday, September 29, 2012, in McFarland, WI, following an extended illness. She was devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend to many.
Marie was born January 12, 1929, in Barnesville, Minnesota, the first born to Daniel and Sigrid (Storholt) Halliday. She grew up in Cormorant, MN; she was baptized on June 23, 1929 and confirmed in 1943.
After returning from the West Coast at the end of WW11, she briefly worked at AT&T in Detroit Lakes, MN. On July 13, 1947, she married Wallace Handegard. They lived in various places before settling down in Fargo, ND. She was a dietary aid at St. John's Hospital for many years. She returned to the telephone business and worked at AT&T for over 20 years. She retired as a Supervisor in 1988.
She truly loved her work and was commended for her spotless attendance record. Marie had recently moved to McFarland, WI to be near her daughter, grandson and great-grand- daughters as she dealt with her declining heath.
Marie loved to travel near and far. She visited Norway and Sweden twice and longed to return. She and her daughter (Pat) and grandsons (Brent and Derek) made the news when they completed visiting all 48 state capitols.
After retiring, Marie kept busy doting on her grandsons and great granddaughters. She wrote a brief history of her childhood and researched the Halliday Family Tree with her sister Louise. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends.
Marie was a long-time member of Peace Lutheran Church in Fargo. She volunteered at the Fargo Food Shelf and the Telephone Pioneers of America and worked with her daughter on Habitat for Humanity.
Marie is survived by her daughter, Patricia Hall (James) of Cambridge, WI, and her son, Russell Handegard (Kyle) of Fargo; four grandson Brent and Derek Westrum and Erick and Michael Handegard; three great-granddaughters, Bergen and Lila Westrum and Halle Handegard; a brother, David Halliday of Fargo, a sister, Shirley Giere (Silas) of Willmar, MN, a brother-in-law, Charles Lindstrom of Fergus Falls, MN and several nieces and nephews.
Marie was preceded in death by her parents, her ex-husband, her brother and sister-in-law, Joseph and Lorna Halliday; her sister, Louise Lindstrom. Services will be held at Peace Lutheran Church, 1011 12th Ave. N, Fargo North Dakota on Friday, October 5, at 1:00pm. Visitation will be one hour before the memorial service at the church.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's and Dementia Alliance, 517 North Segoe Road, Suite 301, Madison, WI 53705 or to Agrace Hospice Care, 5395 Cheryl Parkway, Madison, WI 53548.
Arrangements were made through Cress Funeral and Cremation Service, McFarland, WI.
Blessed be the Memory of Marie Handegard


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Speedy Moroccan meatballs
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal388
- fat25g
- saturates9g
- carbs24g
- sugars17g
- fibre6g
- protein18g
- salt1.58g
- 1 tbsp olive oil
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Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 350g pack ready-made beef or chicken meatballs (approx 16)
The classic choice of meat for a British Sunday roast. Beef is full of flavour, as…
- 1 large onion, sliced
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 100g dried apricot, halved
- 1 small cinnamon stick
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
- 400g tin chopped tomato with garlic
A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 25g toasted flaked almond
- handful coriander, roughly chopped
Heat the oil in a large deep frying pan, then fry the meatballs for 10 mins, turning occasionally until cooked through. Scoop out of the pan and set aside, then cook the onion for 5 mins, until softened.
Add the dried apricots, cinnamon stick, tomatoes and half a can of water to the pan, then bring to the boil and simmer for 10 mins. Remove the cinnamon stick. Return the meatballs to the pan and coat well with the tomato sauce. Serve sprinkled with the almonds and coriander.
Recipe Tip
Using ground cinnamonIf you don't have any cinnamon sticks, use a good pinch of ground cinnamon instead.
Recipe Tip
Making a Chicken tagineHeat 1 tbsp olive oil in a large pan and fry 4 sliced skinless chicken breasts, for 3-4 mins until cooked through. Remove, then continue with the above recipe from stage 2. Return chicken to the pan, then simmer for 10 mins before serving as above.


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What is serverless computing?
Serverless computing is a method of providing backend services on an as-used basis. A Serverless architecture allows users to write and deploy code without the hassle of worrying about the underlying infrastructure. A company that gets backend services from a serverless vendor is charged based on their computation and do not have to reserve and pay for a fixed amount of bandwidth or number of servers, as the service is auto-scaling. Note that although called serverless, physical servers are still used but developers do not need to be aware of them.
In the early days of the web, anyone who wanted to build a web application had to own the physical hardware required to run a server, which is a cumbersome and expensive undertaking.
Then came the cloud, where fixed numbers of servers or amounts of server space could be rented remotely. Developers and companies who rent these fixed units of server space generally over-purchase to ensure that a spike in traffic or activity wouldn't exceed their monthly limits and break their applications. This meant that much of the server space that was paid for usually went to waste. Cloud vendors have introduced auto-scaling models to address the issue, but even with auto-scaling an unwanted spike in activity, such as a DDoS Attack, could end up being very expensive.
Serverless computing allows developers to purchase backend services on a flexible 'pay-as-you-go' basis, meaning that developers only have to pay for the services they use. This is like switching from a cell phone data plan with a monthly fixed limit, to one that only charges for each byte of data that actually gets used.
The term 'serverless' is somewhat misleading, as there are still servers providing these backend services, but all of the server space and infrastructure concerns are handled by the vendor. Serverless means that the developers can do their work without having to worry about servers at all.
What are backend services? What's the difference between frontend and backend?
Application development is generally split into two realms: the frontend and the backend. The frontend is the part of the application that users see and interact with, such as the visual layout. The backend is the part that the user doesn't see; this includes the server where the application's files live and the database where user data and business logic is persisted.
For example, let's imagine a website that sells concert tickets. When a user types a request into the browser window, the browser sends a request to the backend server, which responds with the website data. The user will then see the frontend of the website, which will include text, images, and form fields for the user to fill out. The user can then interact with one of the form fields on the frontend to search for their favorite musical act. When the user clicks on 'submit', this will trigger another request to the backend. The backend code checks its database to see if a performer with this name exists, and if so, when they will be playing next, and how many tickets are available. The backend will then pass that data back to the frontend, and the frontend will display the results in a way that makes sense to the user. Similarly, when the user creates an account and enters financial information to buy the tickets, another back-and-forth communication between the frontend and backend will occur.
What kind of backend services can serverless computing provide?
Most serverless providers offer database and storage services to their customers, and many also have Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, like Cloudflare Workers. These platforms can execute pieces of code on the edge without storing any data.
What are the advantages of serverless computing?
- Lower costs - Serverless computing is generally very cost-effective, as traditional cloud providers of backend services (server allocation) often result in the user paying for unused space or idle CPU time.
- Simplified scalability - Developers using serverless architecture don't have to worry about policies to scale up their code. The serverless vendor handles all of the scaling on demand.
- Simplified backend code - With FaaS, developers can create simple functions that independently perform a single purpose, like making an API call.
- Quicker turnaround - Serverless architecture can significantly cut time to market. Instead of needing a complicated deploy process to roll out bug fixes and new features, developers can add and modify code on a piecemeal basis.


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This season our classic Ines Rejilla debutes in fresh new colours of our trademark cotton mesh combined with a new version of our vulcanised sole. This comfortable and chic pair has been handcrafted in Spain, one by one, by our traditional shoemakers.
Composition: Upper & Lining: 100% cotton; Sole: 100% rubber.


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February 25, 2013
I have thought daily of my students in Kosova over the eight months since my return to the USA. Thanks to emails from Besa, Gezim, Arlind, and Ragip, the seven time zones that separate us seem a bit less immense. They all report missing me as much as I miss them, a sentiment that means more to me than they may realize; they report, too, that the research writing they did in our Twentieth-Century American Literature class has served them well in subsequent courses, particularly on their major paper on Toni Morrison.
In my next email to these four students and to their 18 colleagues, I will urge them to return to this blog, where they can reminisce with me about our six months together and, just as important, where they will discover how much they continue to influence by writing. As it turns out, this blog has served as a rough draft for a book I have written. Titled Writing Visions of Hope: Teaching Twentieth-Century American Literature and Research, the book narrates our collaborative reading and writing in these two courses. More than an account of writing-to-learn pedagogy, the book narrates my students' stories and ties their lives to modern and contemporary literature of the Balkans as well as to the literature of America, 1901-2000. This book will appear, I'm guessing, in May or June of 2013, one year after my departure; it will be published by Information Age Publishing. I will certainly alert all my blog friends as well as my students when the book enters the world.
Additionally, the journal Pedagogy, published by Duke University Press, will soon publish an article on my work with these Kosovaran students, focusing primarily on our study of poetry. This piece, titled "Considering Claims and Finding One's Place," should also reach print sometime in 2013.
I also hope that my Kosovaran students will return to this blog to see how they continue to influence my teaching here at Mississippi State University. In the fall of 2012, for instance, I taught a writing course for first year students. Remembering how much my students at the University of Pristina enjoyed journaling on poetry, not only to learn how to analyze the poems but also to find personal connections to the poet's stories, I used the same approach with these young American students, who read, among other poems, Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," one of the poems my UP students read. Using the very same journaling prompts I assigned in Kosova, I asked my students to study the "five-haired beard of wisdom" and other figures and details that taught us to see the beauty of this grotesque fish and to hear the speaker's joy as she decides to "let the fish go."
But, remembering the energy of my Kosovaran students, prompted by our readings, as they narrated their lives, I asked these American students to consider writing an essay, grounded in their journaling on Bishop's "The Fish," that narrates one of their own experiences in the world of nature, one that changed the way they think about nature and their own place in the natural world. Many students took this option, one which produced some of the best writing of the semester. Attached, you'll find a sample of this nature writing, Trip Kennon's essay on "The Face of the Ozarks."
This winter/spring semester, with philosopher Dr. John Bickle, I'm team-teaching a Humanities course for third-year undergraduates, a course that blends studies in philosophy—Dr. Bickle's department—with readings in Western American novels focused on the Frontier experience—my department. Our students also relate their readings in philosophy and literature to classic movies on the American West: "Shane," the 1953 film on the clashing destinies of cattle men, "sod-busters," and loners like Shane; "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," the 1962 cinema that examines frontier justice, juxtaposing the rule of the gun with the rule of law; "Hombre" (1967) and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), films that explore the tension between selfishness and self-sacrifice that informs the heroic code.
Drawing again on my experience with students at the University of Pristina, I asked my American students to keep a journal as they read our first novel, A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s The Big Sky (1947), the story of mountain man Boone Caudill, the 'white Indian' who ironically clears the way for westward expansion even as he flees from mid-nineteenth century American civilization east of St. Louis. For their first essay, we asked the students to "identify three characteristics that best define Boone Caudill's character to clarify why novelist Wallace Stegner calls Boone a "doomed" hero of the frontier. What qualities strike you as heroic? What qualities undercut that heroism? How and why is Caudill doomed? Does his doom result from his heroic virtues, from his flaws, or from both? Does his doom result in part from forces exterior to his character?"
To help students to gather material for this essay, we asked them, just as I asked students in Kosova, to journal in response to analytical questions like these below, focused on Part Four of the novel, where Boone seems so happy with his Piegan wife Teal Eye, but then gets caught up in trail-blazing to Oregon and in jealousies that lead to his shooting of his dear friend Jim, the man whose life he had earlier saved from the frozen mountains:
- Boone has reached the age of 29, Teal Eye 22. How would you describe the sources of Boone's happiness in this relationship and in his life as a Piegan?
- What evidence do we see here that the end draws near for Indians and for mountain men?
- How, why does Boone get drawn into Peabody's Oregon project?
- Boone's fatal choice to trail-blaze for Peabody leads to even stronger evidence of nature's brutality and indifference to men and their "manifest destinies." Find at least three passages that use description to develop this naturalistic theme.
- What qualities in Boone stand out here as he and Jim face death by freezing and death by starvation?
- Look up "pantheism" in the dictionary. Do you see any pantheism emerging here? Who seems to think most deeply about the spiritually of nature?
- We see Boone's love for Jim even after it appears that Jim has betrayed him. What sequence of bad news and mistakes leads to Boone's suspicion of Jim? How do the causes and effects of Boone's rage help you to understand Stegner's notion of Boone as a "doomed" hero?
As of this writing, the students haven't written this essay yet, but their brilliant responses to these journaling prompts, which they shared in class—just like we did in Kosova—bode well for some wonderful essays.
In addition to these undergraduate courses, I have taught two MA-level courses: in fall 2012, Writing Center Tutor Training, in spring 2013, Composition Pedagogy. Writing Center pedagogy, of course, focuses on one-on-one teaching; I went into this course with great enthusiasm, having seen conferencing work so well at UP as my students moved through three drafts of their research papers on Death of a Salesman, A Lesson Before Dying, or some other work of their choice.
I approached the Composition Pedagogy course with equal enthusiasm, remembering that many of my students in Kosova aspire to become teachers. I recalled, too, that all of my UP students responded generously to my request to interview them concerning their literacy histories, particularly as those histories relate to their memories of the 1990s wars in the Balkans and to their aspirations as students and professionals. After my American MA students had read and journaled on several articles focused on how we learn to read and write and on how we might best help students in our classrooms to develop these literacies, I asked them to write a narrative essay, focusing on their own literacy histories, on their own writing processes, or on their observations of a master writing teacher (see assignment pdf), a request preceded, of course, by rough drafting and peer response sessions—precisely the strategies that worked so well in Kosova. If you will click on the attached files, you will find the excellent responses of Kiley, Aaron, Kayleigh, Jessica and Sharon; you will also see them depicted below.


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This Embroidered Felt Advent calendar is contemporary and cheerful with bold contrasting pockets made from our new wool felt. The embroidered numbers give that extra special something for generations to come.
1 14-inch vintage knitting needle (or similar object for hanging calendar)
Embroidery Thread
- 1 ball Valdani or DMC Pearl Cotton embroidery thread.
Cotton Sewing Thread
- 1 spool Gutermann color 1040 (large or small is fine)
- 1 spool Gutermann color 5980 (small spool)
- 1 spool Gutermann color 7880 (small spool)
Wool Felt
- 4 pieces 5mm Ecru Wool Felt from Wollfilz
- 1 piece each 18-inch x 18-inch Wool Felt from Woolfilz in the following colors (pictured above from left to right, top to bottom)
- Straight Pins
- Embroidery Needles
- Iron On Transfer Pencils in Blue and Red
- Rotary Cutter
- 6.5-inch x 24.5-inch (or similar) Cutting Ruler
- Iron
- Sewing Machine with Zig Zag Stitch
- Masking Tape
Transfer Numbers
Download and print numbers.
There are 5 pages, 2 pages have 2 colors each. Please note which numbers are grouped together. You will transfer all of the numbers at one time onto the appropriate color of felt.
With your iron-on transfer pencils, trace numbers directly onto the print-out. (Note: use blue pencil for red fabrics and red pencils for green fabrics). Be sure to mark the corners too as you will need them later for cutting.
With a hot iron transfer numbers onto felt. It will take approximately 40 seconds of pressing firmly with the iron to get the transfer dark enough. Keep the iron moving during this time so you don't burn the paper or felt.
Embroider Numbers
Make a quilter's knot (for a step by step tutorial on making a quilter's knot, visit our Quilter's Knot How-To). Insert needle from the back and come out at the top of the number.
Stitch the numbers using the transfer as your guide with a chain stitch (visit our chain stitch tutorial for complete instructions on working this stitch).
Normally a chain stitch is left with an obvious loop, but for this project you want to draw the thread tight enough to close the loop. The goal here is to create a double-wide stitch so that your embroidery will show up clearly.
Cut Numbers
Use your rotary cutter to cut the numbers from the felt. Each piece will be 2 1/2-inches square. Use the corner marks you transfered originally as a guide to make sure that your numbers are centered properly.
For a lesson on using a rotary cutter, visit our Rotary Cutter Tutorial.
Cut Pockets
The following directions will allow you to replicate exactly how we mixed and matched the colors on our advent calendar.
Use your rotary cutter to cut the pockets from the felt. Each pocket will be 3-inches square.
First cut 3-inch strips from all seven colors of felt and then cut the exact number of 3-inch squares listed below and use them for the pocket with the numbers indicated in the parenthesis:
3-inch squares (for pockets):
- color #6, 3 squares (pockets number 1, 9, 17)
- color #7, 3 squares (pockets number 4, 11, 21)
- color #28, 5 squares (pockets number 3, 8, 13, 18, 23)
- color #42, 3 squares (pockets number 6, 7, 15)
- color #43, 3 squares (pockets number 10, 14, 20)
- color #44, 4 squares (pockets number 2, 12, 19, 24)
- color #49, 3 squares (pockets number 5, 16, 22)
Sew embroidered Squares to Pocket squares
Center each embroidered square on the appropriate color pocket square leaving 1/4-inch of the pocket fabric showing on all four sides. Pin the squares together on all four sides. The more pins the better.
Use a straight stitch to sew the two squares together. Begin stitching along one side, continue to corner. When you come to the corner leave needle in the down position, raise presser foot and reorient square to continue sewing. Repeat at remaining corners. When you come back to the beginning of the seam take a few back-stitches. Trim threads.
Layout Pockets and Measure Placement
On a large surface, place all four pieces of 5mm ecru felt end to end.
Layout the sewn pockets in order from 1-24 with 6 pockets on each 5mm piece of felt. To ensure that all pockets are equally spaced, measure as described below:
The top three pockets (numbers 1, 2, 3) should be 1 1/2-inches from the top edge of the top piece of thick felt (or the top of the calendar). The bottom three pockets (numbers 22, 23, 24) should be 1 1/2-inches from the bottom edge of the bottom piece of thick felt (or bottom of the calendar). All the pockets that run along the right and left sides of the calendar should be 3/4-inch from the edges. Moving from the top of the calendar to the bottom, there should be 3-inches in between each row of pockets. Going from left to right, there should be approximately 7/8-inch between each pocket.
Sew Pockets onto Thick Felt
This part is a bit tricky because you can't pin the pockets to the 5mm thick felt. We used regular masking tape to hold the pockets in place. We put a short piece of tape along the top edge of the pocket leaving a 1/4 inch on each side for our seam allowance. (Not only does the tape hold the pocket in place, but it also reminds you NOT to sew the tops of the pockets closed!) You can also place a piece of tape along the bottom of each pocket making sure it only covers a tiny bit of the pocket so that you don't sew over the tape.
Using a straight stitch, sew with a 1/8-inch seam allowance around the sides and bottom of the pocket. (Note: Use the pink thread for the red and pink pockets and green thread for the green pockets.) Backstitch at the beginning and end of the seam near the opening of the pocket since there will be some wear and tear when putting in a taking out advent calendar goodies! When you come to the corner leave needle in the down position, raise presser foot and reorient square to continue sewing. Repeat at remaining corner. Trim threads.
Assemble Calendar
Sew the four pieces of 5mm thick felt together end to end (not overlapping) using a zig zag or overlock stitch. We found it helpful to have two sets of hands while doing this. One person to do the actual sewing and the other to help hold the rest of the felt so that the weight of it isn't pulling the edges apart while they are being sewn together. This is important because you want the edges of the felt to stay tightly together so the stitch catches enough of each piece of felt. (Note: We also used two small pieces of masking tape on the back of the felt to help hold the pieces together. You can pull it off after it is sewn even where you've stitched over it.)
Sew Tabs
- Cut two 2-inch x 1 3/4-inch pieces of felt, color #6
- Center tabs above pockets number 1 and 3
- fold the tabs (with the 1 3/4 side parallel to the top edge of the felt) over the top edge of the 5mm thick felt with only 1/4-inch of the tab overlapping the thick felt on the front and back. (You are leaving enough space to fit the knitting needle through as well as whatever hook you will be hanging it from).
- Affix the tab to the thick felt using the masking tape method as above.
- Use a straight stitch and sew the tabs in place with a 1/8-inch seam allowance. Make sure to backstitch at the beginning and end of the seam.
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