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This tutorial video has been one of the most-requested crafts in the comments of my videos ever since

the first Fantastic Beasts movie came out. Today, I am so excited to show you how to

make your very own Niffler plushie, complete with a tiny pocket perfect for hiding shiny

things.

I thought the Niffler in Fantastic Beasts was adorable and hilarious and as soon as

I saw the movie, I knew that I had to go home and design a plush version of him in my style.

Give this video a thumbs up if you loved this mischievous little critter as much as I did!

I also designed a bowtruckle plushie so be sure to stick around to the end of the video

to see how that one turned out and learn how to make that as well!

And if you're new here, I'd love if you would subscribe so you can join my nerdy and

crafty little online family.

Check the video description below for a list of materials and a link to the free pattern

pdf, and here's how to make a super cute Niffler plushie with a teeny little pocket.

Start out by printing out the pattern pdf I linked to in the video description and cut

out all of the pieces. Then, take a small piece of beige fleece, place the heart shape

on the good side of the fabric, and cut around it.

Do the same for the paw shape! Then for the second paw, flip the template over and cut

it out that way so you'll get a mirror image. Next up is the nose! Give the fabric a tug

to find the direction that the fleece stretches - see how one way is much stretchier than

the other? Place the nose shape so the long nose is pointing the same way as the stretch,

because we want it to stretch out longer when we stuff it. AND we'll need two of this

shape, so fold the fabric in half with the good sides of the fleece facing out. That

stretch should still be there.

Pin the template to both layers of fabric, and carefully cut around the shape. This is

where some nice, sharp fabric shears will come in handy. When you're done, remove

the pin and you should have two nose pieces. Put the top one aside, then cut like this

across the larger round edge on the bottom piece. So the top still has the round edge

and the bottom of the nose will just have a normal, straight edge.

Cut out two little round eyes on black felt using the tiny circle template and once we

have all of those little details set, we can move on to making the body shape and the pocket.

You'll need some dark brown fleece! Place the pocket shape onto a small piece of it, leaving

a little space above the straight side, then cut it out with maybe an extra half an inch

or more above that straight edge, which we'll need for seam allowance, juuust like that.

Now, fold that straight edge back so we can hem it for a nice, finished open edge on the

pocket. Pin it in place, and be ready to sew one line across that edge through both layers.

Pop it into your sewing machine if you have one and remember to sew forwards and backwards

in the beginning and again at the end to keep it from unraveling. If you want, you can also

sew this by hand using a back stitch. I'm going to link to more detailed tutorials for

every stitch I use in this tutorial so read the video description if you need help.

Trim the extra threads and your pocket should look like this! Next, grab the main body shape

and note the direction of the arrows printed on the template. Here, I have a bigger piece

of the same dark brown fleece as the pocket, folded in half with the good side facing in,

so the wrong sides are facing out. Now, give the fabric a tug in each direction to see

which one is stretchier - you'll want to put the template so the arrows are pointing

in the stretchy direction.

Mark each side of a two inch spot at the bottom of the pattern so you'll know where to leave

a gap when sewing, then flip the template over and put it face down onto the fabric.

Trace around the pattern with a marker and make sure to mark where that gap will be;

it should look like this.

Cut loosely around the shape, I just do a rectangle giving myself plenty of space to

sew because fleece is a little tough to turn in a sewing machine. And now for a bit of

a tricky part - placing the pocket! Take your front piece, which is the one that has the

marker outline on it, separate it from the back piece, and flip it so the front side

is facing up.

Now, we're going to want this to be placed right in the middle of the body section of

the Niffler, but on the front side - so we won't really be able to see the outline

we drew for reference. To get the placement right anyway, I like to put the pocket where

I want it to go on the side with the outline, then poke a few sewing pins through the fabric

at the corners and along the bottom edge. That way, when you remove the pocket and flip

it over, you can place the pocket, right side up, inside those pins. Pin the pocket itself

to that front piece, remove the guide pins from before, and we're ready to sew it on,

close to the edge and all around the curved part of the shape - leaving the hemmed straight

edge open.

Start at one corner of the pocket, go forward a few stitches and then back a few to secure

it, then really carefully sew the curved edge of the pocket to the front fabric piece. Make

sure you don't get too close to the edge because you could end up with a hole and you'll

have to go back and stitch over it again. Once you've reached the other corner, stop

and go backwards again to lock those stitches in.

It should look something like this now! Trim off the excess threads and you can also trim

the edge of the pocket a little if the fold was awkward like mine was right here. And

yay! A cute, tiny pocket. Now, bring back the other piece of fabric you separated earlier,

make sure the good, fuzzy side is up, and flip the side with the pocket over, face down

onto that. The edges should match up because you cut them together before and the outline

should be right there on top.

I'm adding one of my logo tags to the seam here, but don't do this unless it's on

a plushie you've designed yourself. And now, just pin those two layers together inside

the outline but not too close to it. For the next step, we'll be sewing them together

starting at one end of the gap, going all around the body shape and the head, back down

the other side, and stopping at the other side of that gap. Don't sew through the

gap we marked; you'll need to leave that open.

Back on the sewing machine, I'm sewing right on that line we drew, stopping to turn the

piece at the corners. There's a spot at the top of the head where the hair is that's

a little tricky to see, but other than that, it's a pretty simple shape to sew around.

Stop when you reach the other end of the line, and there we go! It should look like this.

Trim the long threads and pull out the pins.

Next, trim around the seams, being careful not to cut into any of your stitches. To keep

the shape smooth when I turn it right side out, I also like to clip these little v-shapes

into the curves and corners. After that, open up the gap we left at the bottom and turn

the whole piece right side out! You can use a stick to push the seams and poke out any

corners or details.

Then, stuff the plush using small handfuls of fiberfill. I start by pushing the stuffing

into the far end and I keep going until the piece takes shape. When you're happy with

the way it's stuffed, press the gap shut and pin it like this. We're going to use

ladder stitch to sew it shut.

Thread a needle and tie a big knot at the end, then start by pushing the needle down

into the gap and up through the folded edge on one side where you want the stitching

to start. Flip the piece around, then push your needle down into the opposite folded

edge, straight across the gap before pushing it back up again on that same fold, just a

little bit over. When you give it a tug, that's your first stitch! Ladder stitch continues

by going back and forth across the gap and up the sides until you've closed the whole

thing, and again, if you need a more detailed tutorial for this stitch, I'll link to my

ladder stitch lesson in the video description below.

When you reach the end, tie a knot by grabbing one of the stitches at the end with your needle,

and hook the needle through the loop in the thread that forms so it'll make a knot.

Tie one more for good luck, then hide your excess thread by pushing the needle down into

the plush right where the knot is and push it out over here somewhere. That way, once

you tug on it and cut the extra thread, it'll get lost inside the plush. Now we're ready

to add all of the details!

Let's start with the nose. I've got the two pieces together with the right sides out

and I'm going to sew starting at one corner, around the long nose side, and stopping at

the other corner leaving this side open. Hold them together with a pin, thread a needle

with some matching thread, tie a knot at the end, and start between the two pieces of fabric,

pushing your needle down and out so the knot will stay hidden inside the nose.

For this part, I'll be using whipstitch and I've linked to a tutorial for that as

well if you need a refresher! Basically, you wrap the needle around the side and push it

down diagonally so it comes out next to your previous stitch. Keep repeating that motion,

wrapping around then push down diagonally, so you get these stitches that are parallel

to each other, attaching your two nose pieces together right at the edges. Don't tie off

the thread this time though because we'll need it later to attach it to the face! Just

kind of drop it for now.

It's starting to look more like the niffler's long, rounded nose! I decided to add two little

nostrils by stitching one short line on either side of the top half with some pearl cotton

thread. To tie that off, I kind of grabbed onto some of the thread on the inside and

tied a double knot on there before trimming the thread. Take a couple small whisps of

fiberfill and gently stuff the end of the nose, using a stick to push it in there.

So just for reference, the nose is going to be attached to the heart shape, which I use

for many of my plushie faces. Take those two black felt circles and decide where you want

the eyes to be placed in relation to the nose, which we'll be stitching on later. Then,

using a needle and some black thread, whipstitch each eye to the heart shaped face. For these,

start your needle going up from the back of the heart so the knots stay on that back side.

It looks similar to the whipstitch we did on the nose earlier, but the motion changes

a little when we're adding a flat appliqué like this. Once both of those eyes are secure,

flip the piece over and tie two knots onto one of the threads on the back and trim the

end.

To add highlights to the eyes, thread and knot some white embroidery floss and embroider

a french knot onto the upper inside corner of each eye. These are a little tricky and

can take some practice tries, but like before, I'm adding a more detailed tutorial for

that to the video description. Poke the needle up from the back where you want the knot to

go and pull it tight. Wrap the thread around the needle twice, close to the fabric, then

without unlooping the thread, push the needle back down pretty close to where it came up

and carefully pull it so the wrapped thread eventually makes a little knot right

up against the fabric. Repeat this on the other eye, then tie a knot on the back in

the same way we were doing earlier to secure it.

Now, gather all of the pieces because we're ready to attach them all together! Start by

pinning the paws to either side of the pocket and whipstitch each one in place. For this

one, start the knot under the paw so it gets hidden between the paw and the front of the

body shape and stitch all the way around.

To secure this kind of appliqué when you get back around to where you started, use

your needle to grab that first stitch, pull until you get a small loop in the thread,

and put the needle through that loop before you pull it tight - this will give you a small

knot along the edge and you can hide the excess thread by pushing it into the plushie and

snipping off the excess over here so it gets lost inside.

Then you can start on the other paw! When you're sewing on the claws, make sure that

you don't stitch the pocket shut if they overlap with the pocket like mine do. Just

make a shallower stitch and check occasionally to make sure the pocket still opens. Tie it

off at the end, and look how cute this is! The pocket takes a fair bit of work but I

think it gives it so much personality.

Next, put the face where you want it to go on the head and pin it into place. We'll

be whipstitching this on the exact same way as the paws, but there are less little details

and no pocket to worry about so it's quite a bit easier. Once that's all tied off,

we can add the nose! Push to make sure the stuffing stays inside, then place the open

edges flat against the face shape with the rounded part on top, closest to the eyes.

This one's kind of tough to pin down because it's already stuffed, but it'll make your

life a lot easier if it stays put while you're sewing.

Using the thread that's still attached to the corner of the nose piece from before,

carefully whipstitch up the top rounded half of the nose piece where it touches the face.

When you reach the opposite corner, stop for a second and take the opportunity to add a

little bit more stuffing if you need to. This is easier now that half of it is already attached.

Then, continue stitching along the remaining edge until the nose is totally attached to

the face. Tie one last double knot, hiding the excess inside the plush, and admire your

work because we are all done!

I am so excited to have this plushie designed and made and ready to share with all of you

because like I said earlier, it has been so highly requested and I've been wanting to

do it for a while. And now you can have your very own little niffler buddy to get into

trouble with!

I had so much fun making this little guy! It was kind of a challenge figuring out how

to do the pointy nose and the claws and I knew that he needed a pouch just like the

one in the movie, but I ended up being really happy with the finished product and I hope

you are too!

If you make one of my niffler plushies yourself, I would love so much if you'd post a picture

of it on Facebook, twitter, or instagram and tag me @laurenfairwx so I can see how it turned

out! And if you loved this tutorial, definitely share it with any wizarding world enthusiasts

you know.

Of course, there are so many magical creatures in the Fantastic Beasts series and I want

to make a bunch of them into plushies, so I also made a bowtruckle! This guy was probably

my favorite creature in the first movie so I couldn't resist designing my own version

of him.

To watch my bowtruckle plush tutorial next, click the link in the card above or in the video

description below! And if you have a request for what my next plushie should be, tell me

in the comments!

Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you soon!

For more infomation >> DIY Niffler Plushie - Fantastic Beasts and How to Make Them | @laurenfairwx - Duration: 14:06.

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DIY Bowtruckle Plushie - Fantastic Beasts and How to Make Them | @laurenfairwx - Duration: 11:26.

When the first Fantastic Beasts movie came out, I was completely smitten with Newt's

bowtruckle friend so toss me a thumbs up if you were too. My heart just went out to this

shy little leafy buddy who kept himself tucked inside Newt's jacket rather than being with

his own kind in a tree. I designed my own rounder plush version in my style and today,

I'm going to show you how I made it.

First of all, if you're new here, welcome! To keep up with me and see what I make next,

click the subscribe button below and hit the notification bell if you want to make

sure you don't miss anything. Especially if you're a Harry Potter fan, because Harry

Potter crafts are my favorite.

Take a peek into the video description below to see a list of everything you'll need

to make this guy including a free downloadable pattern! And stick around all the way to the

end because I also made a Niffler plushie which is pretty cute.

Here's how to make your very own bowtruckle plushie!

Once you've downloaded and printed out the free pattern pdf from the video description,

cut out all of the pieces. You don't have to keep the little legs together like this,

but I did. Those are all ready to go, so let's start out by cutting out the heart shape on

some light green fleece. I just hold the templates in place and cut around them. Next, cut out

two little circles for eyes on some black felt. Then, place the same circle template

onto the light green fleece and use that as a guide to cut a slightly larger circle. Then,

cut that circle in half to make two little eyelids!

To make the main plushie and the legs, take some green fleece and make sure it's folded

in half with the wrong sides out. Mark where you want to put a nice, big gap on the body

shape template - mine's on the side right here. Then, give your fleece a tug to see

which direction has more stretch. Make sure that the arrows on the pattern are pointing

in the same direction as that stretch, then flip the pattern over and place it down on

the fabric. I put the legs over next to it, then traced around each shape using a green

marker. Remember to leave that gap you marked open. Then, cut around the general shapes

leaving plenty of room to sew. I kept mine all on the same piece, but you don't have

to - we'll be sewing the legs first, just on the lines, leaving the top open.

I stuck a few pins on there to keep them from sliding around at the last second, and here

we go! If you're using a sewing machine, start and end your lines by going forwards

and backwards a few stitches to keep them from unraveling later. But if you'd rather

sew this by hand, that's okay too! I'll link to a tutorial for backstitch in the video

description below if you want to learn how.

There's one leg done. Do the other the same way, and once you've sewn around both, you

can cut that piece off. Cut pretty closely around each leg shape, being careful not to

clip the seam and leaving some extra fabric at the open end. Then, carefully turn each

one right side out. To do this, I use a tool called a pair of hemostats, also known as

surgical forceps, to grab the far end and pull it out. I'll link to where you can

get them in the video description below. Then, I push a stick in there to make sure the end

is turned completely.

Now that we have two finished legs, we have to attach them to the body. They're going

to go right here at the bottom with some overlap at the top so they'll get stuck in the seam,

but to get them there, they need to be upside down and inside the plush. So keep that placement

in mind, then lift up the top flap and stick the legs between the two pieces of fabric.

Make sure the open ends will get caught in the seam AND that there is room to sew on

the lines on either side without getting the sides of them caught. I pin them down to the

fabric so they won't move as much, then continue pinning on the inside of the whole

shape.

Then, we can sew it together! Start at one end of the gap we marked and sew right on

the line all the way around, stopping at the other end of the gap so that will be left

open. Remember to sew forwards and backwards a few stitches when you start and finish,

and be extra careful while sewing through the legs at the bottom - this is the trickiest

part for me because sometimes my sewing machine has trouble with all of the extra layers of

fleece.

Whenever you reach a corner, stop the machine and turn the piece before you continue. There

are lots of turns and small sections at the top where the leaves are, so take your time,

work your way around, and do a few backwards stitches at the very end.

Pull out the pins, then trim around the seams, being careful not to get too close to them.

Leave some extra fabric around the gap, and you can also clip little v-shapes into all

of the curves and corners so it'll keep its shape when you turn it right side out.

Which is the next step! I started by pulling out the bottom section with the legs, which

should be attached. Then, I used the hemostats to grab the end of each leaf and very carefully

pull it through to the outside. Once it's mostly flipped, you can push a stick into

the points to get the shape right and ahh yay, look how cute and floppy!

For some extra detail, I decided to sew a line through the center of each leaf! I think

it makes them look a lot more like leaves, just be super careful if you're using a

sewing machine to do it since those pieces are pretty small.

Trim off any extra threads once those are done! And now we can start stuffing. Push

small handfuls of fiberfill up into the head and continue to fill it up until you're

happy with the way it looks, then pinch the gap shut and pin it so we can stitch it closed.

For that part, we'll be using ladder stitch - and I'll link to a tutorial for that in

the video description in case you're unfamiliar with it.

Thread a needle with some green thread and tie a big knot onto the end of it. To start

it, reach the needle down into the gap and push it up and out through one side of the

gap like this, so when you tug it, the knot catches on the inside. Flip the whole piece

over, then draw a line straight across the gap. Push the needle down and over along that

fold, then back up just next to where the thread is going in. Then, go back across to

the other side of the gap and repeat that same motion. Up the side, across the gap,

up the other side, back across the gap, until you reach the other end.

To tie a knot and secure your stitches, grab one of the machine stitches at the end of

the gap with your needle, then put your needle through the loop that forms in your thread

so when you finish pulling, it ties a little knot. Make one more knot in the same place,

then to hide your excess thread, push the needle down into the plush right where your

knot is and push it back out a ways over. That way, when you tug on the thread and trim

it off, the rest of the thread gets lost inside the plush.

Now he needs a cute little face, so grab the remaining pieces. Decide where you want to

place the eyes on the heart-shaped face. Start by tying a knot at the end of a piece of black

thread and push your needle up from the back so the knot stays on the back side

where it'll be hidden. Then sew the eye pieces on by hand using whipstitch. Even

if you're new to sewing, don't worry - you can totally do this and I linked to my more

detailed tutorial for that stitch as well so you can learn it! Once both eyes are sewn

on, flip the piece over. To tie a knot, grab one of the stitches on the back with a needle,

then put your needle through the loop like we did before. One more for good luck, then

you can trim the excess thread.

To add highlights to the eyes, we'll use some white embroidery floss or pearl cotton

to embroider a french knot onto the upper inside corner of each eye. To do that, tie

a knot at the end and push the needle up from the back in the exact spot where you want

the first french knot to go. Place it down on the table to free up both of your hands.

Wrap the thread around the needle one time, pretty close to the fabric, then without letting

it unwrap, push the needle back down into the fabric, right next to where it's coming

out. That way, when you very slowly pull the thread through, it should form a tiny little

knot up against the felt eye. These can be pretty tricky at first, so feel free to practice

a few on a scrap piece of fabric. Repeat that process for the other eye, then flip the piece

over so you can tie a knot on the back just like we did before.

Now, we can add the eyelids! Thread some light green thread onto a needle and tie a knot

at the end of it. Then, pick up one of those tiny green semicircles we cut out earlier

and place it off the side of one eye like this - how you place it kind of determines

the emotion on his face, so do what you think looks best. Whipstitch it on along the outer

curved edge, leaving the side by the eye open, and that's what the first one looks like!

Place the other one on the opposite side to match and use that same thread to sew on that

one in the same way. Flip it over and tie it off the way we've been doing the others

by tying a knot to one of the stitches on the back and trim your thread.

He just needs a mouth! I'll be embroidering mine on using this thinner pearl cotton in

black with a knot tied at the end. I started by stitching one little line in the center,

then added more lines to one side of it until I liked the width. I curved it up at the end,

then I moved over to the other side and tried to copy that exactly over there. This is kind

of like a backstitch in a funky order, so you can check the list of sewing tutorials

for each stitch I used in the video description below if you want a slower-paced lesson on

that. You also don't have to make the mouth exactly the way I did - feel free to give

it its own little personality! Tie it off on the back the same way we did earlier.

Look how cute. I can't deal. We just have to sew the face to the rest of the plushie

and we'll be done! Pick a spot for the face and pin it in place, then get another length

of light green thread onto a needle with a knot at the end.

To start sewing the face on, push your needle up under the point at the bottom of the heart

so the knot will get stuck between the plush and the face piece. Then, you can start whipstitching

around the edge to attach the face to the head! Whipstitch is probably my favorite hand

sewn stitch - I use it the most often. You basically just keep swooping your needle down

off the side of the appliqué and do this diagonal motion so the needle comes back up

on the edge of the face piece in the next spot over. Of course, you could use all kinds

of different stitches if you like the look of something else or if you aren't as familiar

with this one! It's totally up to you.

When you reach the spot where you started, tie a little knot right onto the first stitch

we made by grabbing it with the needle, then pulling the needle through the loop in the

thread. Then push the needle down into the plush right where the knot is and

out over here to lose our thread on the inside like we did earlier! One last quick snip,

pull out the pins, and that is our finished bowtruckle plushie.

I am pretty obsessed with these. I think they're one of the cutest things I've ever managed

to make and I'm so happy to be able to share them with you! Also, like I said earlier,

they turn out really great if you vary the facial expressions with your embroidery - I

made this little smiley one too. And now he has a friend! I… might go make some more

now.

I'm not gonna lie. I made one of these for myself and he's sitting on my nightstand.

If you make your own bowtruckle plush, definitely post a photo of it on social media! I'd

also really love to see it, so don't forget to tag me - I'm @laurenfairwx on twitter,

facebook , and instagram.

Because I couldn't leave out the niffler, I made one of those too. And he has a little

pocket for hiding shiny things! To learn how to make this niffler plushie, click the card

above or check in the video description below for a link.

I had so much fun making these fantastic beasts and I hope you enjoyed learning how to make

them! If there are any more magical creatures you'd like to see me make into a plushie,

leave your requests in the comments below.

Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon!

For more infomation >> DIY Bowtruckle Plushie - Fantastic Beasts and How to Make Them | @laurenfairwx - Duration: 11:26.

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Liverpool FC Transfer News Roundup - Keita bid denied, £89m Coutinho bid claimed

We round up the latest Liverpool transfer news and rumours, as Jurgen Klopp's squad prepare for the next leg of their pre-season schedule but frustrations over transfer activity increase.

After a productive week in Hong Kong, the Reds have undergone a double training session at Melwood ahead of their flight to Germany on Wednesday.

Liverpool will take on Hertha Berlin, Bayern Munich and either Atletico Madrid or Napoli while on tour, with Andrew Robertson, Emre Can, Sadio Mane and Danny Ings among those set to travel.

But will they be joined by some new faces? And are any set to depart? Here's the latest. No New Bid For Keita, Despite Claims.

Liverpool's pursuit of midfielder Naby Keita looks to have gone cold, after the Bundesliga side rejected bids of £57 million and £66 million this month.

On Monday night, German publication BILD claimed the Reds had returned with an improved, £74. 2 million offer for the 22-year-old, but this is reportedly not the case.

According to Goal's Melissa Reddy, Liverpool have not approached Leipzig again, and won't unless their stance shifts dramatically. Reddy suggests that the Reds have turned their attention elsewhere. It is unlikely the last we will hear on Liverpool and Keita, however. .

Barcelona Set For Second Coutinho Approach.

Liverpool have taken a similar approach to Leipzig in their attempts to keep Barcelona at bay this summer, with the La Liga giants interested in signing Philippe Coutinho.

The Reds have turned down a £72 million offer for the 25-year-old, with Klopp insisting Coutinho is not for sale at any price.

However, that has not deterred Barcelona, with Sky Sports claiming the Catalan side are set to make another bid for the Brazilian, as they plot to make him their marquee signing.

And Spanish publication Sport even claim that they have "launched their final offence" for the No. 10, with negotiations "moving forward.". They suggest Liverpool would accept a deal worth over £89 million, though this still seems dubious.

Palace Still Want Sakho, But Reds Won't Loan.

One player Klopp will be willing to part ways with this summer is Mamadou Sakho, with the centre-back training alone at Melwood having fallen out of favour.

Though the Frenchman is documenting his admirable attempts at reclaiming his role with a series of social media posts, there is little chance of him featuring for the Reds again.

According to the Mirror, Crystal Palace are still interested in Sakho, despite having already signed Jairo Riedewald from Ajax on Monday.

A deal for Arsenal's Calum Chambers is also in the pipeline, but they have so far failed in bids for Kurt Zouma, Kenny Tete, Joel Veltman and Bruno Martins Indi.

However, while Frank de Boer is looking to bring Sakho to Selhurst Park, Palace may be frustrated by Liverpool's reluctance to sanction another loan move. Watford & Hull Both Chasing £8m Markovic.

Like Sakho, Lazar Markovic is expected to leave Merseyside before the start of 2017/18, with Klopp even confirming the Serbian's availability last week.

Markovic spent the second half of last season on loan with Hull City, but was unable to steer them away from relegation, returning to Melwood for pre-season training.

However, the Mirror claim the Tigers are still interested in signing the 22-year-old, along Watford, who are now helmed by Marco Silva, Markovic's manager at Hull.

They report that Liverpool would be willing to sell Markovic for £8 million, which is represents a significant loss on the £20 million they paid to sign him from Benfica in 2014.

Markovic has struggled for form and fitness since joining the Reds, and a move away could see him revive his career. Stewart Explains Decision to Leave Liverpool.

Former Tottenham midfielder Kevin Stewart is one of four Liverpool players to be sold already this summer, along with Ryan Fulton, Lucas Leiva and Andre Wisdom.

The 23-year-old joined the Tigers in a deal worth an initial £4 million last week, with add-ons potentially seeing this rise to £8 million.

Stewart made just nine appearances for the Reds last season, and speaking to the Hull Daily Mail, explained that he was "frustrated," and that a lack of game time prompted his exit.

"I didn't feel as though I could risk staying at Liverpool for another year and just play five to 10 games," he said.

"That wouldn't have been enough for me if I want to progress and go to the next level. That's what I can do here.". Ex-Reds Youngster to Join Norwich.

Finally, some positive news for one of Liverpool's academy players to have been released on the expiry of their contracts this summer.

Adam Phillips has spent July on trial with Norwich City, and after impressing in their U23s' 4-1 win away to King's Lynn, is set to sign a deal with the Canaries, according to the Liverpool Echo.

Phillips would follow Tom Brewitt (Middlesbrough), Madger Gomes (Leeds United) and Jack Dunn (Tranmere Rovers) in finding new clubs. Jake Brimmer is thought to have signed for German side Kaiserslautern, while Kane Lewis is still unattached.

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I'm not getting that shield back, am I?

Technically, it's the government's property.

Wings, too.

That's cold.

Warmer than jail.

Hey, you wanna see something cool?

I pulled something from Dad's archives.

Felt timely.

FDR signed the Lend-Lease bill with these in 1941.

Provided support to the Allies when they needed it most.

Some would say it brought our country closer to war.

See? If not for these, you wouldn't be here.

I'm trying to... What do you call it?

That's an olive branch.

Is that what you call it?

Is Pepper here? I didn't see her.

We're kinda...

- Well, not kinda... - Pregnant?

No. Definitely not.

We're taking a break.

It's nobody's fault.

I'm so sorry, Tony. I didn't know.

A few years ago, I almost lost her, so I trashed all my suits.

Then, we had to mop up HYDRA...

and then Ultron. My fault.

And then, and then, and then, I never stopped.

Because the truth is I don't wanna stop.

I don't wanna lose her.

I thought maybe the Accords could split the difference.

In her defense, I'm a handful.

Yet, Dad was a pain in the ass,

but he and Mom always made it work.

I'm glad Howard got married.

I only knew him when he was young and single.

Oh, really? You two knew each other?

He never mentioned that.

Maybe only a thousand times.

God, I hated you.

I don't mean to make things difficult.

I know, because you're a very polite person.

If I see a situation pointed south...

I can't ignore it.

Sometimes I wish I could.

No, you don't.

No, I don't.

Sometimes...

Sometimes I wanna punch you in your perfect teeth.

But I don't wanna see you gone.

We need you, Cap.

So far, nothing's happened that can't be undone, if you sign.

We can make the last 24 hours legit.

Barnes gets transferred to an American psych-centre...

instead of a Wakandan prison.

I'm not saying it's impossible...

but there would have to be safeguards.

Sure.

Once we put out the PR fire,

those documents can be amended.

I'd file a motion to have you and Wanda reinstated...

Wanda? What about Wanda?

She's fine. She's confined to the compound, currently.

Vision's keeping her company.

Oh, God, Tony.

Every time I think you see things the right way...

What? It's 100 acres with a lap pool.

It's got a screening room. There's worse ways to protect people.

Protection? Is that how you see this?

This is protection? It's internment, Tony.

- She's not a US citizen. - Oh, come on, Tony.

And they don't grant visas to weapons of mass destruction.

She's a kid!

Give me a break!

I'm doing what has to be done.

To stave off something worse.

You keep telling yourself that.

Hate to break up the set.

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Courage Nightcore

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Courage nightcore

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Use a socket № 14

Using a simple screwdriver and a hammer remove the wheel bearing cap

Use a socket № 27

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backward(s) and forward(s) (Idioms)

from one place or position to another and back again many times

She rocked backwards and forwards on her chair.

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Steve: Here's your chance.

If you see

a body in the woods, name

something you do to make sure

it's dead and not sleeping.

Rylan: Nothing. We ain't doing

nothing.

Steve: Black people...

Rylan: Nothing!

Steve: Ain't doing a damn thing.

Rylan: Nothing.

Steve: We already know we got

to get away from this crime

scene before they mess around

and blame you. Rylan ain't

putting a fingerprint on the

body. Rylan got branches

erasing tracks. Rylan know he

got to get back in his car.

Black people know. Go over

there and touch it, your ass

did it. We ain't doing nothing.

[Laughter and applause]

You might not want to laugh at

that joke, but that's the damn

truth. We sorry, but that's how

it is. Now, it ain't going to

be up here...

It probably ain't up here.

That ain't up here, but damn

sure I'm with you, though.

Me and Rylan and--and the Lacy

family, we're not doing nothing.

[Cheering and applause]

8.

Audience: Call 911.

Steve: 7.

Audience: Throw rock/log at it.

Steve: Number one.

Audience: Poke/with stick.

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Speedrunning, a competitive sport or an art that ispired us

Most speedrunner would rather try to improve their time alone, however many people prefer to watch a WR under pressure rather than getting angry at a Larry who still doesn't want to die after 12 cycles

this brings us the the question : isn't readability in a speedrun what makes a key factor to its success ? This is the topic of this first video

Before starting to speedrun we need to find a run to inspire us, everyone uses their own method to find that special something

Some people will try only to find the latest released game and might be upset when they doen't find anything a week later

Others will look for a precise type of run using different opinion in order to find what they want out of the mess that is speedrunning

Some other will just randomly pick a game

Then you will spend many hours on speedrun.com only to find the most interesting performance to the most boring and ridiculous to watch on games most likely unknown

To finally get started on speedrunning a game, it has to be motivating, appealing to us and go beyond our expectation

This is where readability is introduced since our first impression is not going to be based on the gameplay but instead our initial viewing

While watching different videos about speedrunning, it's not rare to find negative comments about glitches or when too many things happens at the same time making it hard to understand what's going on and thus making the video "useless"

First of all glitches should not be generalized this way, in fact if certain glitches might make it hard to watch a run it's not the case of every one of them

For example Duct Tales, In less than 10 minutes the run doesn't utilized many glitches but still does use some of them. However it doesn't make it less enjoyable to watch

In this level, crounching down next to a pipe while we take a damage from the enemy makes the game teleports us through the floor to the level bellow

This kind of glitches doesn't interfer whith the viewing experience since we understand perfecly what's happening and where we are

This brings the following question; Is it only interesting to watch speedruns where we fully understand everything ?

One of the most common thinking in the speedrunning scene is that you have to understand what's happening to get the best viewing experience which makes the run much more enjoyable. This mindset is also shared through speedrunning events

With always the same setup: explaining glitchs, what's happening and if possible by the runner himself

This idea is so common if it doesn't happen this way people may think it is the result of a bad event

If we think about it, is it really important to understand and have the best readability to enjoy watching a speedrun ?

Rythm games are a perfect example for this case, who would rather watch 13 years old Kevin finishing his first level on guitar hero or is it more interesting to watch someone experimented playing OSU in the hardest difficulty with more imput per second than frames on dark souls

For us "Human beings" we don't understand much about this kind of video, however who likes them, maybe this is what is facinating

In conclusion, would it not be wrong to firmly want to understand everything about a run instead of simlply letting us admire it

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DIY Niffler Plushie - Fantastic Beasts and How to Make Them | @laurenfairwx - Duration: 14:06.

This tutorial video has been one of the most-requested crafts in the comments of my videos ever since

the first Fantastic Beasts movie came out. Today, I am so excited to show you how to

make your very own Niffler plushie, complete with a tiny pocket perfect for hiding shiny

things.

I thought the Niffler in Fantastic Beasts was adorable and hilarious and as soon as

I saw the movie, I knew that I had to go home and design a plush version of him in my style.

Give this video a thumbs up if you loved this mischievous little critter as much as I did!

I also designed a bowtruckle plushie so be sure to stick around to the end of the video

to see how that one turned out and learn how to make that as well!

And if you're new here, I'd love if you would subscribe so you can join my nerdy and

crafty little online family.

Check the video description below for a list of materials and a link to the free pattern

pdf, and here's how to make a super cute Niffler plushie with a teeny little pocket.

Start out by printing out the pattern pdf I linked to in the video description and cut

out all of the pieces. Then, take a small piece of beige fleece, place the heart shape

on the good side of the fabric, and cut around it.

Do the same for the paw shape! Then for the second paw, flip the template over and cut

it out that way so you'll get a mirror image. Next up is the nose! Give the fabric a tug

to find the direction that the fleece stretches - see how one way is much stretchier than

the other? Place the nose shape so the long nose is pointing the same way as the stretch,

because we want it to stretch out longer when we stuff it. AND we'll need two of this

shape, so fold the fabric in half with the good sides of the fleece facing out. That

stretch should still be there.

Pin the template to both layers of fabric, and carefully cut around the shape. This is

where some nice, sharp fabric shears will come in handy. When you're done, remove

the pin and you should have two nose pieces. Put the top one aside, then cut like this

across the larger round edge on the bottom piece. So the top still has the round edge

and the bottom of the nose will just have a normal, straight edge.

Cut out two little round eyes on black felt using the tiny circle template and once we

have all of those little details set, we can move on to making the body shape and the pocket.

You'll need some dark brown fleece! Place the pocket shape onto a small piece of it, leaving

a little space above the straight side, then cut it out with maybe an extra half an inch

or more above that straight edge, which we'll need for seam allowance, juuust like that.

Now, fold that straight edge back so we can hem it for a nice, finished open edge on the

pocket. Pin it in place, and be ready to sew one line across that edge through both layers.

Pop it into your sewing machine if you have one and remember to sew forwards and backwards

in the beginning and again at the end to keep it from unraveling. If you want, you can also

sew this by hand using a back stitch. I'm going to link to more detailed tutorials for

every stitch I use in this tutorial so read the video description if you need help.

Trim the extra threads and your pocket should look like this! Next, grab the main body shape

and note the direction of the arrows printed on the template. Here, I have a bigger piece

of the same dark brown fleece as the pocket, folded in half with the good side facing in,

so the wrong sides are facing out. Now, give the fabric a tug in each direction to see

which one is stretchier - you'll want to put the template so the arrows are pointing

in the stretchy direction.

Mark each side of a two inch spot at the bottom of the pattern so you'll know where to leave

a gap when sewing, then flip the template over and put it face down onto the fabric.

Trace around the pattern with a marker and make sure to mark where that gap will be;

it should look like this.

Cut loosely around the shape, I just do a rectangle giving myself plenty of space to

sew because fleece is a little tough to turn in a sewing machine. And now for a bit of

a tricky part - placing the pocket! Take your front piece, which is the one that has the

marker outline on it, separate it from the back piece, and flip it so the front side

is facing up.

Now, we're going to want this to be placed right in the middle of the body section of

the Niffler, but on the front side - so we won't really be able to see the outline

we drew for reference. To get the placement right anyway, I like to put the pocket where

I want it to go on the side with the outline, then poke a few sewing pins through the fabric

at the corners and along the bottom edge. That way, when you remove the pocket and flip

it over, you can place the pocket, right side up, inside those pins. Pin the pocket itself

to that front piece, remove the guide pins from before, and we're ready to sew it on,

close to the edge and all around the curved part of the shape - leaving the hemmed straight

edge open.

Start at one corner of the pocket, go forward a few stitches and then back a few to secure

it, then really carefully sew the curved edge of the pocket to the front fabric piece. Make

sure you don't get too close to the edge because you could end up with a hole and you'll

have to go back and stitch over it again. Once you've reached the other corner, stop

and go backwards again to lock those stitches in.

It should look something like this now! Trim off the excess threads and you can also trim

the edge of the pocket a little if the fold was awkward like mine was right here. And

yay! A cute, tiny pocket. Now, bring back the other piece of fabric you separated earlier,

make sure the good, fuzzy side is up, and flip the side with the pocket over, face down

onto that. The edges should match up because you cut them together before and the outline

should be right there on top.

I'm adding one of my logo tags to the seam here, but don't do this unless it's on

a plushie you've designed yourself. And now, just pin those two layers together inside

the outline but not too close to it. For the next step, we'll be sewing them together

starting at one end of the gap, going all around the body shape and the head, back down

the other side, and stopping at the other side of that gap. Don't sew through the

gap we marked; you'll need to leave that open.

Back on the sewing machine, I'm sewing right on that line we drew, stopping to turn the

piece at the corners. There's a spot at the top of the head where the hair is that's

a little tricky to see, but other than that, it's a pretty simple shape to sew around.

Stop when you reach the other end of the line, and there we go! It should look like this.

Trim the long threads and pull out the pins.

Next, trim around the seams, being careful not to cut into any of your stitches. To keep

the shape smooth when I turn it right side out, I also like to clip these little v-shapes

into the curves and corners. After that, open up the gap we left at the bottom and turn

the whole piece right side out! You can use a stick to push the seams and poke out any

corners or details.

Then, stuff the plush using small handfuls of fiberfill. I start by pushing the stuffing

into the far end and I keep going until the piece takes shape. When you're happy with

the way it's stuffed, press the gap shut and pin it like this. We're going to use

ladder stitch to sew it shut.

Thread a needle and tie a big knot at the end, then start by pushing the needle down

into the gap and up through the folded edge on one side where you want the stitching

to start. Flip the piece around, then push your needle down into the opposite folded

edge, straight across the gap before pushing it back up again on that same fold, just a

little bit over. When you give it a tug, that's your first stitch! Ladder stitch continues

by going back and forth across the gap and up the sides until you've closed the whole

thing, and again, if you need a more detailed tutorial for this stitch, I'll link to my

ladder stitch lesson in the video description below.

When you reach the end, tie a knot by grabbing one of the stitches at the end with your needle,

and hook the needle through the loop in the thread that forms so it'll make a knot.

Tie one more for good luck, then hide your excess thread by pushing the needle down into

the plush right where the knot is and push it out over here somewhere. That way, once

you tug on it and cut the extra thread, it'll get lost inside the plush. Now we're ready

to add all of the details!

Let's start with the nose. I've got the two pieces together with the right sides out

and I'm going to sew starting at one corner, around the long nose side, and stopping at

the other corner leaving this side open. Hold them together with a pin, thread a needle

with some matching thread, tie a knot at the end, and start between the two pieces of fabric,

pushing your needle down and out so the knot will stay hidden inside the nose.

For this part, I'll be using whipstitch and I've linked to a tutorial for that as

well if you need a refresher! Basically, you wrap the needle around the side and push it

down diagonally so it comes out next to your previous stitch. Keep repeating that motion,

wrapping around then push down diagonally, so you get these stitches that are parallel

to each other, attaching your two nose pieces together right at the edges. Don't tie off

the thread this time though because we'll need it later to attach it to the face! Just

kind of drop it for now.

It's starting to look more like the niffler's long, rounded nose! I decided to add two little

nostrils by stitching one short line on either side of the top half with some pearl cotton

thread. To tie that off, I kind of grabbed onto some of the thread on the inside and

tied a double knot on there before trimming the thread. Take a couple small whisps of

fiberfill and gently stuff the end of the nose, using a stick to push it in there.

So just for reference, the nose is going to be attached to the heart shape, which I use

for many of my plushie faces. Take those two black felt circles and decide where you want

the eyes to be placed in relation to the nose, which we'll be stitching on later. Then,

using a needle and some black thread, whipstitch each eye to the heart shaped face. For these,

start your needle going up from the back of the heart so the knots stay on that back side.

It looks similar to the whipstitch we did on the nose earlier, but the motion changes

a little when we're adding a flat appliqué like this. Once both of those eyes are secure,

flip the piece over and tie two knots onto one of the threads on the back and trim the

end.

To add highlights to the eyes, thread and knot some white embroidery floss and embroider

a french knot onto the upper inside corner of each eye. These are a little tricky and

can take some practice tries, but like before, I'm adding a more detailed tutorial for

that to the video description. Poke the needle up from the back where you want the knot to

go and pull it tight. Wrap the thread around the needle twice, close to the fabric, then

without unlooping the thread, push the needle back down pretty close to where it came up

and carefully pull it so the wrapped thread eventually makes a little knot right

up against the fabric. Repeat this on the other eye, then tie a knot on the back in

the same way we were doing earlier to secure it.

Now, gather all of the pieces because we're ready to attach them all together! Start by

pinning the paws to either side of the pocket and whipstitch each one in place. For this

one, start the knot under the paw so it gets hidden between the paw and the front of the

body shape and stitch all the way around.

To secure this kind of appliqué when you get back around to where you started, use

your needle to grab that first stitch, pull until you get a small loop in the thread,

and put the needle through that loop before you pull it tight - this will give you a small

knot along the edge and you can hide the excess thread by pushing it into the plushie and

snipping off the excess over here so it gets lost inside.

Then you can start on the other paw! When you're sewing on the claws, make sure that

you don't stitch the pocket shut if they overlap with the pocket like mine do. Just

make a shallower stitch and check occasionally to make sure the pocket still opens. Tie it

off at the end, and look how cute this is! The pocket takes a fair bit of work but I

think it gives it so much personality.

Next, put the face where you want it to go on the head and pin it into place. We'll

be whipstitching this on the exact same way as the paws, but there are less little details

and no pocket to worry about so it's quite a bit easier. Once that's all tied off,

we can add the nose! Push to make sure the stuffing stays inside, then place the open

edges flat against the face shape with the rounded part on top, closest to the eyes.

This one's kind of tough to pin down because it's already stuffed, but it'll make your

life a lot easier if it stays put while you're sewing.

Using the thread that's still attached to the corner of the nose piece from before,

carefully whipstitch up the top rounded half of the nose piece where it touches the face.

When you reach the opposite corner, stop for a second and take the opportunity to add a

little bit more stuffing if you need to. This is easier now that half of it is already attached.

Then, continue stitching along the remaining edge until the nose is totally attached to

the face. Tie one last double knot, hiding the excess inside the plush, and admire your

work because we are all done!

I am so excited to have this plushie designed and made and ready to share with all of you

because like I said earlier, it has been so highly requested and I've been wanting to

do it for a while. And now you can have your very own little niffler buddy to get into

trouble with!

I had so much fun making this little guy! It was kind of a challenge figuring out how

to do the pointy nose and the claws and I knew that he needed a pouch just like the

one in the movie, but I ended up being really happy with the finished product and I hope

you are too!

If you make one of my niffler plushies yourself, I would love so much if you'd post a picture

of it on Facebook, twitter, or instagram and tag me @laurenfairwx so I can see how it turned

out! And if you loved this tutorial, definitely share it with any wizarding world enthusiasts

you know.

Of course, there are so many magical creatures in the Fantastic Beasts series and I want

to make a bunch of them into plushies, so I also made a bowtruckle! This guy was probably

my favorite creature in the first movie so I couldn't resist designing my own version

of him.

To watch my bowtruckle plush tutorial next, click the link in the card above or in the video

description below! And if you have a request for what my next plushie should be, tell me

in the comments!

Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you soon!

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DIY Bowtruckle Plushie - Fantastic Beasts and How to Make Them | @laurenfairwx - Duration: 11:26.

When the first Fantastic Beasts movie came out, I was completely smitten with Newt's

bowtruckle friend so toss me a thumbs up if you were too. My heart just went out to this

shy little leafy buddy who kept himself tucked inside Newt's jacket rather than being with

his own kind in a tree. I designed my own rounder plush version in my style and today,

I'm going to show you how I made it.

First of all, if you're new here, welcome! To keep up with me and see what I make next,

click the subscribe button below and hit the notification bell if you want to make

sure you don't miss anything. Especially if you're a Harry Potter fan, because Harry

Potter crafts are my favorite.

Take a peek into the video description below to see a list of everything you'll need

to make this guy including a free downloadable pattern! And stick around all the way to the

end because I also made a Niffler plushie which is pretty cute.

Here's how to make your very own bowtruckle plushie!

Once you've downloaded and printed out the free pattern pdf from the video description,

cut out all of the pieces. You don't have to keep the little legs together like this,

but I did. Those are all ready to go, so let's start out by cutting out the heart shape on

some light green fleece. I just hold the templates in place and cut around them. Next, cut out

two little circles for eyes on some black felt. Then, place the same circle template

onto the light green fleece and use that as a guide to cut a slightly larger circle. Then,

cut that circle in half to make two little eyelids!

To make the main plushie and the legs, take some green fleece and make sure it's folded

in half with the wrong sides out. Mark where you want to put a nice, big gap on the body

shape template - mine's on the side right here. Then, give your fleece a tug to see

which direction has more stretch. Make sure that the arrows on the pattern are pointing

in the same direction as that stretch, then flip the pattern over and place it down on

the fabric. I put the legs over next to it, then traced around each shape using a green

marker. Remember to leave that gap you marked open. Then, cut around the general shapes

leaving plenty of room to sew. I kept mine all on the same piece, but you don't have

to - we'll be sewing the legs first, just on the lines, leaving the top open.

I stuck a few pins on there to keep them from sliding around at the last second, and here

we go! If you're using a sewing machine, start and end your lines by going forwards

and backwards a few stitches to keep them from unraveling later. But if you'd rather

sew this by hand, that's okay too! I'll link to a tutorial for backstitch in the video

description below if you want to learn how.

There's one leg done. Do the other the same way, and once you've sewn around both, you

can cut that piece off. Cut pretty closely around each leg shape, being careful not to

clip the seam and leaving some extra fabric at the open end. Then, carefully turn each

one right side out. To do this, I use a tool called a pair of hemostats, also known as

surgical forceps, to grab the far end and pull it out. I'll link to where you can

get them in the video description below. Then, I push a stick in there to make sure the end

is turned completely.

Now that we have two finished legs, we have to attach them to the body. They're going

to go right here at the bottom with some overlap at the top so they'll get stuck in the seam,

but to get them there, they need to be upside down and inside the plush. So keep that placement

in mind, then lift up the top flap and stick the legs between the two pieces of fabric.

Make sure the open ends will get caught in the seam AND that there is room to sew on

the lines on either side without getting the sides of them caught. I pin them down to the

fabric so they won't move as much, then continue pinning on the inside of the whole

shape.

Then, we can sew it together! Start at one end of the gap we marked and sew right on

the line all the way around, stopping at the other end of the gap so that will be left

open. Remember to sew forwards and backwards a few stitches when you start and finish,

and be extra careful while sewing through the legs at the bottom - this is the trickiest

part for me because sometimes my sewing machine has trouble with all of the extra layers of

fleece.

Whenever you reach a corner, stop the machine and turn the piece before you continue. There

are lots of turns and small sections at the top where the leaves are, so take your time,

work your way around, and do a few backwards stitches at the very end.

Pull out the pins, then trim around the seams, being careful not to get too close to them.

Leave some extra fabric around the gap, and you can also clip little v-shapes into all

of the curves and corners so it'll keep its shape when you turn it right side out.

Which is the next step! I started by pulling out the bottom section with the legs, which

should be attached. Then, I used the hemostats to grab the end of each leaf and very carefully

pull it through to the outside. Once it's mostly flipped, you can push a stick into

the points to get the shape right and ahh yay, look how cute and floppy!

For some extra detail, I decided to sew a line through the center of each leaf! I think

it makes them look a lot more like leaves, just be super careful if you're using a

sewing machine to do it since those pieces are pretty small.

Trim off any extra threads once those are done! And now we can start stuffing. Push

small handfuls of fiberfill up into the head and continue to fill it up until you're

happy with the way it looks, then pinch the gap shut and pin it so we can stitch it closed.

For that part, we'll be using ladder stitch - and I'll link to a tutorial for that in

the video description in case you're unfamiliar with it.

Thread a needle with some green thread and tie a big knot onto the end of it. To start

it, reach the needle down into the gap and push it up and out through one side of the

gap like this, so when you tug it, the knot catches on the inside. Flip the whole piece

over, then draw a line straight across the gap. Push the needle down and over along that

fold, then back up just next to where the thread is going in. Then, go back across to

the other side of the gap and repeat that same motion. Up the side, across the gap,

up the other side, back across the gap, until you reach the other end.

To tie a knot and secure your stitches, grab one of the machine stitches at the end of

the gap with your needle, then put your needle through the loop that forms in your thread

so when you finish pulling, it ties a little knot. Make one more knot in the same place,

then to hide your excess thread, push the needle down into the plush right where your

knot is and push it back out a ways over. That way, when you tug on the thread and trim

it off, the rest of the thread gets lost inside the plush.

Now he needs a cute little face, so grab the remaining pieces. Decide where you want to

place the eyes on the heart-shaped face. Start by tying a knot at the end of a piece of black

thread and push your needle up from the back so the knot stays on the back side

where it'll be hidden. Then sew the eye pieces on by hand using whipstitch. Even

if you're new to sewing, don't worry - you can totally do this and I linked to my more

detailed tutorial for that stitch as well so you can learn it! Once both eyes are sewn

on, flip the piece over. To tie a knot, grab one of the stitches on the back with a needle,

then put your needle through the loop like we did before. One more for good luck, then

you can trim the excess thread.

To add highlights to the eyes, we'll use some white embroidery floss or pearl cotton

to embroider a french knot onto the upper inside corner of each eye. To do that, tie

a knot at the end and push the needle up from the back in the exact spot where you want

the first french knot to go. Place it down on the table to free up both of your hands.

Wrap the thread around the needle one time, pretty close to the fabric, then without letting

it unwrap, push the needle back down into the fabric, right next to where it's coming

out. That way, when you very slowly pull the thread through, it should form a tiny little

knot up against the felt eye. These can be pretty tricky at first, so feel free to practice

a few on a scrap piece of fabric. Repeat that process for the other eye, then flip the piece

over so you can tie a knot on the back just like we did before.

Now, we can add the eyelids! Thread some light green thread onto a needle and tie a knot

at the end of it. Then, pick up one of those tiny green semicircles we cut out earlier

and place it off the side of one eye like this - how you place it kind of determines

the emotion on his face, so do what you think looks best. Whipstitch it on along the outer

curved edge, leaving the side by the eye open, and that's what the first one looks like!

Place the other one on the opposite side to match and use that same thread to sew on that

one in the same way. Flip it over and tie it off the way we've been doing the others

by tying a knot to one of the stitches on the back and trim your thread.

He just needs a mouth! I'll be embroidering mine on using this thinner pearl cotton in

black with a knot tied at the end. I started by stitching one little line in the center,

then added more lines to one side of it until I liked the width. I curved it up at the end,

then I moved over to the other side and tried to copy that exactly over there. This is kind

of like a backstitch in a funky order, so you can check the list of sewing tutorials

for each stitch I used in the video description below if you want a slower-paced lesson on

that. You also don't have to make the mouth exactly the way I did - feel free to give

it its own little personality! Tie it off on the back the same way we did earlier.

Look how cute. I can't deal. We just have to sew the face to the rest of the plushie

and we'll be done! Pick a spot for the face and pin it in place, then get another length

of light green thread onto a needle with a knot at the end.

To start sewing the face on, push your needle up under the point at the bottom of the heart

so the knot will get stuck between the plush and the face piece. Then, you can start whipstitching

around the edge to attach the face to the head! Whipstitch is probably my favorite hand

sewn stitch - I use it the most often. You basically just keep swooping your needle down

off the side of the appliqué and do this diagonal motion so the needle comes back up

on the edge of the face piece in the next spot over. Of course, you could use all kinds

of different stitches if you like the look of something else or if you aren't as familiar

with this one! It's totally up to you.

When you reach the spot where you started, tie a little knot right onto the first stitch

we made by grabbing it with the needle, then pulling the needle through the loop in the

thread. Then push the needle down into the plush right where the knot is and

out over here to lose our thread on the inside like we did earlier! One last quick snip,

pull out the pins, and that is our finished bowtruckle plushie.

I am pretty obsessed with these. I think they're one of the cutest things I've ever managed

to make and I'm so happy to be able to share them with you! Also, like I said earlier,

they turn out really great if you vary the facial expressions with your embroidery - I

made this little smiley one too. And now he has a friend! I… might go make some more

now.

I'm not gonna lie. I made one of these for myself and he's sitting on my nightstand.

If you make your own bowtruckle plush, definitely post a photo of it on social media! I'd

also really love to see it, so don't forget to tag me - I'm @laurenfairwx on twitter,

facebook , and instagram.

Because I couldn't leave out the niffler, I made one of those too. And he has a little

pocket for hiding shiny things! To learn how to make this niffler plushie, click the card

above or check in the video description below for a link.

I had so much fun making these fantastic beasts and I hope you enjoyed learning how to make

them! If there are any more magical creatures you'd like to see me make into a plushie,

leave your requests in the comments below.

Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon!

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>> From the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

>> Francisco Macias: Thank you and welcome.

A special note of thanks before we begin our program today,

to [inaudible] Rodriguez for doing all the preparation

and getting us this wonderful speaker today.

I am Francisco Macias.

I am from the Law Library.

And on behalf of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division

and the Hispanic Cultural Society, I would like to welcome you

to today's presentation titled, The Unlinking of Language and Identity--

Puerto Rican identity-- pardon me.

Which is also the name of the book authored by our guest,

Dr. Brenda Dominguez-Rosado, from the University

of Puerto Rico at Bayamon.

Her book melds portions of her autobiography

and her doctoral studies into a wonderful introspection

and examination of sociocultural linguistics and transculturation,

specifically the role of language and identity.

Dr. Dominguez-Rosado was born in Fairbanks,

Alaska to a Puerto Rican mother

and a Mexican-American father from Texas.

Go Texas [laughter].

For 32 years, she has been an educator

and has been recognized for her teaching.

At present, she is very active in academic life

at the University of Puerto Rico.

She has participated amply at various regional

and international conferences.

Among the countries where she has presented are Aruba, Cuba, Dominica,

St. Kitts, Barbados, Costa Rica, Portugal, and Spain.

She is also a consultant on linguistics

for the Emmy nominated travel show Isla y Vuelta.

She holds a bachelor of arts in English with a concentration

in teaching English to Spanish speakers, a master of arts

in American and British literature, and a Ph.d. in language

and literature of the Anglophone Caribbean.

All from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.

Not only is she a scholar, she has married and accompanied today

by her husband [laughter] and is the proud mother and grandmother

to two sons and two grandsons.

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Brenda Dominguez-Rosado.

[ Laughter and Applause ]

>> Brenda Dominguez-Rosado: Thank you so much.

>> Francisco Macias: I switched on languages [laughter].

Very appropriate.

>> Brenda Dominguez-Rosado: Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Well, welcome.

It's a pleasure for me to be here and thank you

for coming to my presentation.

Although my book is focused--

focuses on the Puerto Rican experience,

I invite you to insert your own experiences in life

with language and identity.

It doesn't really matter what heritage language you might have had

experience with in your family history.

And ask yourself, is this happening in my own community as well?

And please share your comments and your observations or your thoughts

at the end of the presentation.

It will be a whirlwind 30 minute presentation.

I'm going to go fairly quickly, so some of the slides are text heavy.

Okay? So, hopefully I won't go too fast.

It's a lot to cover.

The book is based on my doctoral dissertation

and it is a streamline version of it.

So, I have made it more user-friendly

and it has the essence of my research.

Okay? So, anyway, let me turn on the control.

All right.

So, I'd like to start with a really quick introduction to some

of the concepts and terms that I use in my research, in my book.

First of all, we must acknowledge that there is a historical link

between language and identity.

Okay? I think we can all agree on that.

Many, many studies done on that.

But I would like to clarify that the book addresses more the identity

that is our ethnic or national identity.

And just to clarify, what I mean by identity is it's the sense

of belonging to some group.

What we feel we are or where we belong.

Okay? We must also agree, or we may agree, or we may know,

that language may be a core value in cultures.

Okay? Culture is transmitted through language.

So, it is essential, okay, and is linked to culture as well.

Attitudes about languages.

The book has to do a lot with attitudes.

So, it, we, you know, attitudes about languages are assessments made

about the value of a particular language.

They can be either positive or negative attitudes,

and that is very important,

because that influences the outcome of a language.

A language can be born, a language can also die because of attitudes.

So, if we have positive attitudes, that means that we respect,

we admire, we preserve the language, we use it.

If we don't, then that means that we don't use it.

That we don't preserve it.

That we don't respect it and it might die out.

We must also assume that attitudes are not static.

Okay? They are changing constantly

because of our surrounding circumstances.

So, we must assume that they can or should change,

and language policy must take that into account.

Prevalent language attitudes provide social indicators

of changing beliefs.

Okay? They're like the thermometer.

They're taking the temperature.

What's going on?

Okay? Are we-- ?

Is it because we're in war?

Is it because we're in peace?

Times of peace, times of war.

I mean, what's going on?

Why is it changing?

Nowadays, the need to confront and eradicate negative attitudes

and stereotypes may actually be leading us away

from that traditional stance of one language, one identity.

Okay? So, times are a changing, although, if we go back in history,

that's what everybody said at the time

that they were learning, as well.

A lot of transformation going on.

All right.

So, continuing, some of you may be familiar

with Puerto Rico, some of you may not.

So, I'm going to try to summarize in a nut shell a little

about the history of Puerto Rico and why we have these two languages

on our island, because we have Puerto Rican Spanish

and we have American English.

All right?

Now, we also have what we call the Hispanicisation

and Americanization processes

and they have affected attitude towards both attitudes towards

those languages.

So, Hispanicisation process began when the Spaniards arrived

on the island in the fifteenth century.

They colonized the island, they were--

they brought their own varieties of Spanish from the Canary Islands,

from the Andalusian area of Spain, which is to the south.

They had different varieties.

They had to reach a common ground in language.

They were greeted by the indigenous population that already existed

on the island, the Taino.

And, basically, decimated the Taino population [laughter].

But, you know, some did run for the hills, okay, and they did survive.

Some of them did.

We still have DNA of the Taino in Puerto Ricans.

So, they didn't really influence the language all that much.

But, we do have place names that exist today

that come from their language.

We also have the Africans, the slaves that were brought

to our island in the sixteenth century,

and they also had their own languages.

They came mostly from the West coast, the Gold Coast.

They Uribi, the Igbo, people were the ones who were more--

the ones that arrived the most.

And so, their languages also had influence

on this emerging new variety of Spanish

which is known as Puerto Rican Spanish.

And also, the new and emerging people known

as the Puerto Rican people.

Okay? So, we're a lovely mixture of many beautiful people and languages.

And that's Puerto Rican Spanish,

400 years of Puerto Rican Spanish evolving on the island,

creating a link to identity for the Puerto Ricans.

And then-- that was 400 years--

and then, we had the Spanish-American War, where,

as part of the aftermath of that, Spain handed Puerto Rico

over to the U.S. and that was in 1898.

And so, it's been about 118, 119 years since then.

The U.S., once they arrived, immediately said,

Spain is out, U.S. is in [laughter].

Okay? So, now, you're going to speak English.

And everything is going to be the way we do it.

Okay? So, that's how it was.

So, the attitudes then, where we have the positive attitude towards

Spanish, because this is what we have known for 400 years,

then became a negative attitude towards English

because it's being imposed.

It wasn't a choice.

It was today you speak-- yesterday you spoke Spanish,

today you're going to speak English.

And schools are in English, government is in English,

holidays are ours, everything is ours.

And what you did before doesn't count anymore.

So, this is where we stand nowadays.

Attitudes are changing.

I just wanted you to know this because this is why I felt, okay,

there is a change going on after 100 years.

All right?

So, this is where we stand.

Now, at the bottom, I have a little comment.

I've noticed, and many people have noticed,

that there is a global tendency towards multilingualism

and pluriculturalism, so I mean, is it that we're special?

I mean, is this change going on in Puerto Rico only, or is it going

on in the world and we're just following a global tendency?

All right?

So, that's one of the important questions.

Okay. So, the selection of my topic for the dissertation/book,

because the book is based on the dissertation,

I've had my own struggles with identity related to language.

And very briefly, my dad was Mexican-American from Texas,

as was explained already.

My mother from Puerto Rico.

My household, we were not raised speaking Spanish,

even though my parents were Hispanic.

They only spoke Spanish to each other

when they didn't want the children

to know what they were talking about [laughter].

Okay. So, my first language is English,

but I look Hispanic, I think.

Right? And my father was in the Army.

We were at a base, we were living on a base in Texas.

Although, at that point, when this experience happened,

we were off base.

So, I was at a school where it was a public school, but off base,

so everybody from other-- the community.

Not people necessarily related to the Army were attending the school.

One student-- I was in the seventh grade--

one student approached me and she asked me something in Spanish.

And, I just blankly stared at her.

I had no idea what she was asking.

So, she thought I hadn't heard her,

so she repeats the question in Spanish.

And, I was just, again, and she says--

and then she said to me in English, don't you understand?

And I said, no.

And she says, what kind of a Mexican are you?

[laughter] And I said, oh my-- .

I was just shocked.

I didn't know-- .

I didn't say anything.

I was thinking, I had never thought of myself, you know, as Mexican,

as Puerto Rican, as I was just American.

I was just an Army brat.

I was just in middle school.

I really had no idea, but it was like a slap in the face.

And I'm thinking, my goodness, what kind of Mexican am I?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I guess I'm not a Mexican.

But then we moved to Puerto Rico when I was

in the ninth grade and my parents divorced.

My mother returned to Puerto Rico.

And I was immersed into a Spanish speaking world.

Because even though our language is the official languages are English

and Spanish, English is not used that much in the official sphere.

I mean, it's just the federal court, for example.

We do have English taught from kindergarten

to the University levels, but people, the majority who study,

basically, and study, who study in public school do not become fluent

in English, unfortunately.

So, it's a struggle.

So, anyway, I was immersed into the Spanish speaking world

and then it became a question of what kind of Puerto Rican are you?

You don't speak Spanish [laughter].

Okay. And I was immediately labeled Nuyorican [laughter].

They'd say, oh, that Nuyorican.

Okay. I had never been in New York [laughter], hadn't been born there.

No. So, anyways, what do you mean?

So, I was labeled.

I was discriminated against.

I was also called gringa.

Okay. That American girl, you know.

So, I felt like an outsider.

It was a huge incentive to learn Spanish.

Let me just tell you that [laughter].

I learned it very quickly.

But, I felt like an outsider.

So this is part of it.

And since I lived this experience myself, I know what it feels like.

And I could, because I've been an educator for the past 32 years

and I started teaching-- I'm an English professor--

I started noticing these attitudes changing in my own classes

when I started teaching high school in 1984,

the students were not that eager to learn.

You know? It was like the rebellious thing.

It was the oppressor's language.

You know? So, but things have changed.

And I said, you know what?

This is a wonderful topic.

I feel so personally, that it's a personal thing for me.

So, I think that when you're passionate

about something, it works out better.

Okay. So, I did a pilot study and that showed interesting trends.

The pilot study is documented in the book.

Okay? Research question.

So, is Puerto Rican Spanish still seen as a fundamental requirement

for Puerto Rican identity?

Number two, if people cannot speak Puerto Rican Spanish, PRS,

were not born or do not live on the island,

can they call themselves Puerto Rican?

Okay. What-- is there a changing attitude towards American English

and Puerto Rican society?

Number four, what are the attitudes towards the importance

of Puerto Rican Spanish and American English as linked

to identity among our younger university educated generation

versus the attitudes of the older generations

who are university educated or not,

who are not educated at the university level?

Or even less than that?

What are the causes of any change in attitude that may be detected?

Can people identify themselves as Puerto Rican

if they have native fluency in English?

How much has U.S. culture influenced Puerto Rican culture?

Is there a harmonious integration?

And number nine - - there were more questions, by the way, okay--

can Puerto Ricans take their place on the international stage

by becoming proudly multilingual

yet maintaining their identity as Puerto Ricans?

So, all of those questions were answered, and more.

Now, I just wanted to, very quickly, go over my theoretical framework.

This is dissertationese, okay, from the dissertation,

but I just wanted you to know that I did look at things

from a historical perspective.

I wanted to see if I could detect change from different generations.

So, I wanted to start with grandparents, then parents,

then the university students,

to see if over this 100 year period there was a change

and if I could actually document it that way.

And that's why I have focus groups.

Functional theory, I noticed that well, it affects peoples' wallets.

So, if you make money by knowing English, if job opportunities open

up for you because you're bilingual, then this is something positive

that is affecting the change.

Then I also have the cognitive dissonance theory

where when you have opposing-- sorry--

opposing attitudes that are not congruent,

you want bilingual education for your children,

but you don't like the English language,

okay, something has to change.

Okay? So, if you-- then you have sort

of a new positive attitude towards the English.

And language and identity ties that do not necessarily bind.

There is a tendency now of unlinking language.

It's not as like, oh, that's the main requirement globally.

Okay. I use a questionnaire.

And the questionnaire had a double purpose; it was for results.

I asked the questions, people answered.

But, also, I wanted to recruit the families

so I had very strict requirements that they had to fulfill.

They had to be of Puerto Rican ancestry.

They had to reside on the island.

They had to be literate.

And they also had to be willing to cooperate

with no incentive whatsoever [laughter].

Okay? Just a snack and some water or something, you know.

So, and be able to meet on the same day, same time.

So, it was a difficult process.

I also had, as I said, the focus groups that were recruited.

This is the methodology very quickly.

I had to get authorization, obviously.

The questionnaire.

I had to-- .

This-- I had problems encountered.

You'll see that at the bottom, the little list.

I had to go out into the hallways and find people to participate

that were 21 years and older.

And I work at an undergrad institution,

so the majority are not older than 21.

It was difficult.

We were at the end of the semester,

because by the time I had received permission,

it was already final exam time.

So, I was like, oh no!

I was wondering the hallways [laughter], stopping people

and then, show me your I.D. [laughter].

No, I'm not the police [laughter].

So, the thing is that I was finally able to get enough people

to answer the questionnaire to be able to recruit my families

because they had to be willing to collaborate and cooperate with me.

Okay? So, the initial plan was to have 20.

Then I was only able to get-- .

I said, no, 20 is too many, too many, too much.

10, and then that dream was slashed,

and then I finally was able to get 5.

And then, finally, at the very end, 2 families had difficulty,

so I ended up with 3 families.

So, anyway.

But, I was able to then have the focus groups.

And then the students were one female, two males.

Parents were three males.

Grandparents were two females and one male.

I interviewed them.

I gave them a choice of Spanish or English.

They all chose Spanish.

So, once I finished the interviews, I transcribed, by myself,

no machine, no helper, no assistant.

These were hours of tapes.

And then I had to translate from Spanish to English.

And then analyze and choose, you know,

what I thought were more appropriate quotes than-- for the book.

Okay? So, it was a lot of work, in other words.

Anyway, my salient findings.

That speaking Puerto Rican Spanish is not an essential requirement

for Puerto Rican identity.

And I have some quotes that I have included.

I'm going-- I'm not going to read all of them.

But, just so you know, these were some

of the things that they expressed.

And all were in agreement.

So, this is from the questionnaires and from the focus groups.

The link is not necessarily present because an individuals

or Puerto Rican society's identity is defined by more than a language.

Language is clearly important, but there are other things,

like culture, religion, customs,

that also help form a personal and social identity.

So, I don't consider it to be essential.

There's more demographic information

about all my participants in the book.

Okay? But, I was allowed to identify them by their initials.

Number two, to be able to claim Puerto Rican identity does not

require you to be born on the island or even reside on the island.

And E.R., the grandparent, said, even if you are born American-- .

Okay, I don't have time to explain [laughter], yeah.

But yes, there is that, if you're not-- .

If you're from over here, then you're American, okay,

and live in the U.S. If you're parents are Puerto Rican,

they're always going to instill in you feelings

about being Puerto Rican.

In other words, you have to feel it like the singer Marc Anthony,

who was born and raised over there, the U.S., but who always talks

about his Puerto Rican roots.

I don't believe that that impedes anything.

I'd like to read the other quote,

because it also shows how the younger generation is thinking.

I have family members in New York and some

of my cousins have never even visited Puerto Rico,

but they are proud to call themselves Puerto Rican.

And they don't have a complete mastery of Spanish,

but they follow many of our Puerto Rican customs and defend them

and are even prouder of them than we are.

Okay. And, American English is being seen in a more positive light.

This is a grandparent.

He says, well, in the past, the attitude was one

of complete rejection, because we lacked human resources

who could teach us and we preferred to speak our vernacular instead

of the imported language.

It is still being rejected by my generation, but to a lesser extent,

because we need to use it in our daily lives

because it's practically a universal language,

and it's necessary for everything.

And then the younger generation.

They, the older generations,

might have associated learning English while leaving their Puerto

Rican-- with leaving their Puerto Rican identity behind,

but our generation is more open and we can understand that just

because we learn another language, we're not going

to stop being Puerto Rican.

And we can still feel proud of who we are.

So, having a university education is not a major factor

in the new attitude towards English on the island.

They all agreed and they were of varying levels of education.

Number five, the use of technology has been instrumental in the change

of attitude-- in attitude towards American English,

and that includes social media and film and tv.

Okay? So, we are bombarded by all of the media that comes

from the U.S. and English.

Native fluency in English or being multilingual does not appear

to affect Puerto Rican identity.

So, the parent said, even if you speak perfect English

and you're Puerto Rican, it doesn't mean

that you stop being Puerto Rican.

That has nothing to do with it.

I think we can integrate more languages and still be Puerto Rican.

Number seven, a new culture with American

and Puerto Rican components may be in the process of formation.

This is an interesting phenomenon and I'd love to do a, you know,

further study on that topic.

And I'm sure that here in the diaspora as well,

a new culture is forming.

You have-- you use what you have available and you make,

you know, you make it your own.

Right? Something new.

So, at the bottom, we have the grandparents saying, yes,

we have been influenced, sometimes dramatically, such as in food.

Before, we didn't know what fast food was.

People ate rice and beans at their local rustic restaurants.

In la fonda, as we say in Puerto Rico.

But now, it's hot dog, hamburger, sushi, sirloin,

and who knows what the devil else [laughter].

Okay? He was really fun to interview, let me tell you.

He was great.

Puerto Rico-- oops, sorry-- Puerto Ricans enjoy brotherly

or neighborly relationships with other Caribbean nations,

but they are perceived differently by them

because of their relationship to the U.S. Becoming multilingual

in pluricultural will not change this perception.

So, I'm going to read the one from the grandparent.

We're all neighbors and if some people speak one language

and others speak another, it doesn't mean anything.

We're still neighbors.

Okay? They do see us as different, very different, however,

because we depend on another nation, the United States.

They, other Latin Americans from neighboring islands,

call us the kept people of the Caribbean,

lo monte nebo la Caribe [laughter].

It's a pseudonym that we've been assigned

and it's definitely affecting attitudes towards us.

It's a give and take with the U.S., but we're still dependent.

This is something very deep.

It's something you can barely touch upon because it bothers us so much.

Okay? And so, on that note, the implications.

The findings mentioned here are the result of a study

with a limited number of participants.

I do not wish to imply that the opinions

of the participants represent the majority of Puerto Ricans.

To do so would be an absurd claim.

However, the present study and its findings do open the door

into future research into the topics analyzed.

The results appear to indicate that language

and identity issues are changing on the island.

The findings also indicate

that at least some Puerto Ricans are aligning themselves,

both with their Caribbean and global neighbors,

in terms of attitudes towards language and identity.

An apparent change in progress has been documented in the responses

of the participants from three Puerto Rican generations reflecting

a shift from a monolingual, monocultural identity

to a bilingual, bicultural one and a willingness

to accept multilingualism and pluriculturalism as tools needed

to survive in a world that is becoming smaller

and more accessible because of technology.

Update. Okay.

So, my new 2016 study is not related directly to language and identity,

but it was about Puerto Rican Spanish and prestige.

Okay? I presented this, the results, last year in Spain.

But, I snuck in a question about language and identity.

So, on this online survey, I had 979 participants,

but I only considered the ones

that were complete responses; that was 902.

Some people were non-Puerto Ricans.

Okay? So, those were 50; 50 people.

So, the majority were Puerto Ricans.

These are the results.

If you take a look at the red bars, those are the Puerto Ricans.

The tan or the beige bars are--

well, I don't know if you can see them--

but they are the non-Puerto Ricans.

And you'll see that for agree and completely agree,

we have 291 agree, 273 completely agree.

And if we add those up it's 564 out of 881 Puerto Ricans

who corroborate my previous findings in 2010 and 2012.

There is a new tendency towards unlinking

because of a large diaspora that doesn't speak Spanish

yet claims a Puerto Rican identity.

The non-Puerto Ricans also mainly supported the idea.

Okay. Recommendations.

A broader study needs to be completed where the apparent change

in progress concerning attitudes towards the link between languages

and identity in Puerto Rico can be more fully documented.

And I am on it, okay [laughter],

because I have already created a new survey.

It's online.

It's waiting for permission at my campus

and at the other ten UPR campuses.

So, I am expanding out to the other ten campuses to see

if they also reflect the same findings to have a larger sample.

And, I'm waiting for permission, so I'm still in the process,

but it's going to be done.

Number two, more studies should be conducted

in the Puerto Rican diaspora.

Okay. And concerning language and identity, do--

my question is, do they see the link the same way as islanders do or not?

Okay? What is their essential requirement

for establishing a Puerto Rican identity?

My next major project will be to visit the diasporan cities

in the U.S. and in Saint Croix

where there is a large Puerto Rican diaspora, U.S. Virgin Islands,

in order to replicate the original study

with the questionnaire and the focus groups.

Although, I'm thinking it will probably be the questionnaire.

The focus groups is-- was very up hill.

Okay. And, conclusion.

The quest for determining the link between language and identity

on the island of Puerto Rico has lead to thought provoking results.

The traditional viewpoint of promoting Puerto Rican Spanish

as the bearer of Puerto Rican identity and American English

as the bearer of unwelcome intrusion now appears to be evolving

into a modern attitude of acceptance of the idea

that languages can function independently of identity.

Also, the two cultures present on the island seem to be entwining

and creating a syncretic new variety unique to Puerto Rico.

To all appearances, it seems that a new identity is being forged.

One that is not linked to any particular language,

but rather includes the heart of a people

and their evolving traditions, customs, and beliefs.

And you may access the dissertation.

It's a really long title, it's not the same.

If you put my name on, Brenda Dominguez-Rosado, it will--

the title will come up on ProQuest at your favorite library;

probably the Library of Congress [laughter].

Okay? All right.

Or, you can purchase my book online.

It's on Amazon.

I was looking for it and, you know, this weekend.

It's disappeared from other stores.

I don't know.

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I was moving out of my parent's house and stuff,

so this the first time I'd be actually on my own.

But now look at me, I'm the best crossing guard in Portland.

And this, that's proof of it.

I'm protecting the community, not like a fireman or a police officer would,

but a crossing guard still protects the community.

Yeah, a fireman protects people from fire, cops protect people from, let's see, crime.

And I protect children.

That's the most important thing to a parent.

So they're kinda counting on me to be there.

If I'm not there I'll be really letting them down.

How about the list?

The list?

When we made the list of positive attributes.

They're all listed up back there.

So we would talk about a lot about going into the community,

and having confidence in the community.

Remember these stories we talked about?

And how Danny would walk, even though he's a very tall, strong man

Danny: 6'5''!

we would walk with our shoulders slumped,

head slumped to the community and we talked about if you were

a gazelle, or a zebra, - or a wildabeest - yeah, and there was a lion, or a predator,

who would the lion go after first?

The weakest.

The weakest.

So when we go into the world, what do we project?

I stand up straight and stuff.

And tall, yep.

Show our full size, like that grizzly bear, right?

Yes.

You've seen those grizzly bears,

they're huge, they're huge!

What's the end game, Danny?

When we retire, what are we shootin' for?

Best crossing guard of all time.

And a statue, right?

And a statue, maybe even a statue!

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