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PVC Soccer Goals

PVC Soccer Goals

  1. Setting up... this goal still needs some repair work, this is addressed in step 4.
A small group of my co-workers have been playing a semi-regular game of pickup soccer for close to two years.  With the excitement of the World Cup festering in our cubicle-encased minds, we decided to make some goals sized right for our 3 on 3 and 4 on 4 games.  Thus were born the plans for our PVC soccer goals, which were far easier to move back and forth than full size goals, and didn't make us "waste" players by needing someone in goal.  All told, these goals cost roughly $50 each to put togther.  That's a bit cheaper than the $70 per goal we were finding commercially available.  We settled on 1 1/2" PVC, and I believe these are a bit sturdier than the store-bought goals, and they do provide some flexibility for size should our little game ever expand.  Step 7 also shows an even cheaper alternative.  Now on to the building!

Step 1:

Tools and Supplies

  1. Tools of the trade- cordless drill, galvanized wire, wire cutters, pliers, and white duck tape.
  2. Small bits of goal are still visible on the bit.
Tools you will need:
* handsaw
* PVC glue
* drill w/ bit slightly larger than wire
* pliers and/or wire cutters
* roll of white duck tape
* tape measure
* Sharpie
* Nylon cord (if you plan to make your own net)

For each goal you want to make (we constructed two), you will need at least:
* (x6) rounded PVC corners
* (x4) T-style PVC connectors
*  1 1/2" PVC pipe (amount depends on size, roughly 50' for 5'x8' design)
*  14 gauge (approximate) galvanized steel wire

Alternate 5' x 10' goal design checklist:
* (x4) 3-way 90 degree PVC connectors
* (x4) internal 45 o elbows
* (x2) 90 degree joints
* 1/2" PVC pipe (amount depends on size, roughly 60' for 5'x10' design shown)

As for the PVC size- I suppose it's worth mentioning that you must have connectors that match the size of the PVC you've chosen.  The original goals (not of my design) used 1 1/2" PVC, however I believe 1 1/4" is nearly as strong, as well as being slightly lighter weight and about $1.00 cheaper per 10' pipe.  The smaller you go in size, the cheaper it will be, but that starts to trade off with how rigid the goals will play.  It's also worth noting you may need to order connectors online, depending on what you find at the local hardware stores.

Step 2:

Making the Cut

  1. Straightening the end before measuring and cutting the other side.
Once you've decided on a plan, you'll have to cut your PVC pipe down to the correct sizes.  A handsaw will work fine, although I had to substitute a hacksaw after I couldn't find mine in the garage.  It's important to make straight cuts, so that your pipe will fit nicely into the connectors, and that when you drill holes to reinforce it later you won't accidently drill past the end of the insert pipe.

Step 3:

Come Together

  1. Gluing a joint. It helps if it is clean, but this picture was actually a fix, not the original construction.
  2. Cover both the outside of the pipe as well as the inside of the connector. Allow them time to dry before playing or reinforcing the joint with wire.
  3. Duck tape repair fail.
Now that the pieces are cut, it's time to glue everything together.  I recommend putting it together without glue to make sure everything fits properly before you start.  Once it's together, pull apart a joint and put the cement on both the inside of the connector as well as the outside of the pipe.  Put the pipe in place, and make sure it is placed as far into the connector as possible.  Once you have everything glued together, double check all the joints, and let it set up for a while.

Step 4:

Reinforce the Connections

  1. T-connector after PVC has been glued together. Repeated hits would break up the glue, thus the need for reinforcing the joints.
After a few times playing with our new goals, the PVC glue started to fail in some of the more stressed joints.  Our first attempt to rectify this involved duck tape, which marks the only time i have ever heard of duck tape failing to fix a problem.  Tired of trying to fix the goals each time before we played, I decided some galvanized wire would permantly fix the problem.  The white duck tape over the top of the wire helps to protect hands and soccer balls from running into the pointy ends, as well as adding some style.  When drilling and connecting the wire, always run it to the backside of the goals.  If you wanted goals that you could collapse, you could also replace strategic joints with bolts that could be disassembled when you're done.

Step 5:

Adding the Net

  1. The netting we used is plenty strong to stop the ball, but it tears where you connect it to the goal. Look for something a little thicker, or even make your own.
We initially just bought some cheap fish-net and cut it to the correct size and used zip ties to connect it to the PVC.  However, we quickly learned the zip ties tore through and our nets leaving them mostly useless after a couple of times playing.

More recently I came across a pretty cool  project entered in the beauty contest here at Comment/How and was inspired to use this technique to create a new set of net goals.  If I ever get time to create some new nets for our goals I will be sure to post some pictures.  These upgraded nets would also likely be attached using zip ties.

Step 6:

Design Flaw/Fix

  1. Joint along the top crossbar which attaches to the support pipe.
  2. Shots that hit in this area are sometimes difficult to tell if it would have bounced out or whether it would have been a good goal.

A few extra joints doesn't effect functionality, but it will add some cost to your project.  Instead, the flaw we noticed after several games was that occasionally a shot would hit at the top of the support bars and bounce out.  Unless you had tracked the shot, it often appeared that it had hit the crossbar and would still be in play.  Many times the shooter was the only one who could really tell whether it was a good goal or not.

If this is a problem, you can add a joint (or two) to this support bar that enables the top to go straight back at 90 degrees to help avoid in-game confusion.  You will want to do this before you glue and wire them together.  That will allow shots to hit the back of the goal which everyone should be able to easily discern.

Step 7:

Alternate Design

  1. View of alternate design from above. Avoids the design flaw of the original design. A bit flimsy, but can also break down easily for storage.
The alternate design pretty well explains itself.  The crossbar and back support are uncut 10' poles, the uprights and base runners are all four 5' long (two pipes cut in half.  I then cut four 6" segments to add between the base and crossbars between the 45 o elbow.  That left the diagonal supports at roughly 74".  This design using 1/2" pipe cost about $16 per goal, and the nylon cord for a net was another $8.

I think the smaller pipe would work fine for kids, but teens and adults would probably want to spend a little extra and use thicker pipe.  It costs a bit more, but the extra sturdiness is well worth it.  Another advantage of this design is that by simply removing the crossbar and back support, this is very easy to store in a garage.

Step 8:

Optional PVC Side Project

  1. The finished corner stick with a red band tied to the top.

I had a few leftover bits of 1/2" PVC pipe, and decided they would make good corner sticks.  This inspiration came to me after taking apart a non-working solar yard light.  I realized the stake part came out easily and could be attached to the PVC pipe with a simple T-cut in the end.  Since you are sawing down be careful, I ended up with a nice little gash in the thumb for my effort.  It looks kind of like a spear at this point, you need something to show which way the wind is blowing and to make it more visible.  I simply tied a band to the top similar to the top of an NFL field goal post.  Flags are traditional for the top of the corner stick, and if you happen to have an Comment/How-to robot patch, I think it would be quite dashing in the center.  You can use anything really, part of a t-shirt, plastic garbage sack, whatever can be tied to the top and make it visible.

Step 9:

Acquiring Free Supplies

  1. Keep an eye for odds and ends on craigslist and something will eventually pop up in your area.
PVC pipe is one of those funny items that it is possible to acquire for free from time to time.  For me, just spending the money and having all your supplies from the beginning is preferable, however Comment/How is heavily trafficed by younger users, and it's probably teenagers who would be most interested in building their own goals.  Parents may also need a cheap way to help entertain their kids.  Basically, just keep your eyes open from construction sights and search craigslist every so often and you should find odds and ends from time to time.  Find enough PVC, and you have a project ready on the cheap!  I found a pretty good source of information on tracking free PVC over at PVC Workshop.

Step 10:

Have Fun!

  1. public domain image from wikipedia.
The work is done, now for the fun!  Simply take your newly constructed equipment to the nearest yard, field, even a parking lot and test out your creation(s).  Invite over some friends for maximum effect.  Batteries not included.

Hope you've enjoyed reading, this has been my 11th Comment/How-to, and unfortunetely the first of 2010.  However, it is entered in the dadcando contest, so if you liked it please remember to vote at the appropriate time.  Rating and comments are also encouraged, and I'd love to see pictures of some goals other people have constructed.  I haven't given any digital patches away, so post some pics of your own project and you will be rewarded!

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Our Priorities

Our two unfunded wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, has topped $1 trillion. Our unfunded $160 billion tax cuts were signed into law, for which all other bills were held hostage for its passage. Our oil companies like BP and Exxon/Mobil can deduct from their taxes drilling exploration, oil recovery operations, percentage depletion allowances, passive investments, domestic manufacturing, foreign taxes, marginal well production, clean up costs, and fines. Our businesses like Walmart receive tax deferments and tax incentives from our local governments as incentives to come into our communities.

Our banking and financial industries speculated on our housing market, marketed and sold sub prime mortgages. They bundled and sold faulty mortgages as products, all of which led to our housing market crash. TARP program was initiated in November of 2008 and was intended to secure our large banks by purchasing “toxic assets” from our flailing banks’ balance sheets and avert repossession for struggling home owners. But before President Obama was sworn into office and just as critics feared, our banks and financial institutions are either hording the money or are using it to take over weaker rivals. Bank of America and Wells Fargo are able to forgo paying state and local income taxes. Wells Fargo is also able to forgo paying their federal income taxes as well. The cost of TARP was $2.9 trillion.

Representative John Boehner says, “We’re broke!” So in order to balance our budget, funding for certain programs must be cut. There are no funds available for low income heating assistance, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, EPA, the Health Care Bill, family planning, welfare, federal job training, high speed rail, climate change, energy reform, NASA, and National Institutes of Health. To further enhance our budget, GOP senators threaten to derail all bills that don’t cut the national debt.

Our police, firefighter, teacher, and other public unions are being scapegoated for budgetary shortfalls. Most notably, Governor Walker of Wisconsin blames collective bargaining and health care contributions for his state’s budget shortfall of $137 million. State Senator Erpenbach however, brought to light that Governor Walker gave away $150 million of business tax cuts.

With the National Deficit topping over $14 trillion, draconian cuts and austerity measures are being proposed. It is worth investigating where our money went. Precisely who are making sacrifices? Who are benefiting from these policies? Are “we broke” because of entitlement programs, or is it due to the multitude of tax giveaways to businesses?

-Silence Dogood

-As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Subsidies, New York Times, 7/4/10
-”Free Lunch”, David Cay Johnston
-Paulson abandons plans to buy up America‘s toxic mortgage assets, Guardian, 11/13/08
-No Taxes for Bank of America ((NYSE: BAC) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC), American Consumer News, 3/29/10
-Boehner: “We’re Broke”, Politico, 2/10/11
-GOP leaders forced to deepen proposed budget cuts, Chicago Tribune, 2/11/11
-GOP Reveals Plan for Deep Cuts to EPA, Job Training and More, CBS News, 2/9/11
-GOP Senators Threaten To Derail All Bills That Don’t Cut Debt, Huffington Post, 3/10/11
-The Wisconsin Teachers' Crisis: Who's Really to Blame?, Time, 2/18/11
-What's at Stake in Wisconsin's Budget Battle, Online WSJ, 2/19/11
-Lawmaker: Gov's plan has torn Wisconsin apart, CBS News, 2/19/11

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Hi there,

We're planning to buy a new Shelf to replace two older ones (DS4243 with 24 1 TB disks and DS4246 with 24 1 TB disks) on a FAS2040.

I want to buy a DS4246 with 24 4TB disks.

Now, there's a problem:

The System Specs tells me that only 136TB total raw size capacity is supported.

Currently we have 60 (12 + 24 + 24) * 1 TB drives installed.

When I add now a DS4246 with 24 4TB disk, the maximum raw capacity has exceeded (12 + 24 + 24) * 1TB + 24 * 4 TB = 156 TB).

The I've read the max raw capacity depends on the used ONTAP version (136TB max raw capacity for 7.3 & >400 TB for 8.1).

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1. How much is the real max raw capacity and  max disk count on a FAS2040(1 controller) with Data Ontap 8.1 (7-Mode)?

2. Can I add the shelf to the existing loop, migrate the current data onto a new aggregate and then remove the older shelves?

3. The FAS2040 has only one SAS port, so a "loop degration" will definitely have an impact. Do I lose a formerly created aggregate (the new one from the 24 4TB shelf), when I break the loop, remove the older shelves and replug the shelf (the one with 24 4TB disks) to the FAS2040?

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You can find max capacity and disk count in HWU. You can add new shelf online and migrate data to new aggregate but you will need downtime to remove old shelf (and may need downtime to switch access to new copy as well).


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Runs on a multi-cpu cluster of Macintosh computers. Could be run on any Unix or Linux system with MPI. Uses GNU Go as an underlying engine to supply suggested moves for global look ahead. Each cpu in the cluster is used to investigate a different global lookahead path. In addition to adding global look ahead to GNU Go, SlugGo also includes additional heuristics.


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Kaia Gilje, Lorene Bouboushian, Photo by Laura Bartczak

{“BRACKETING OUT” - a term created by Esther Neff; see below: paragraph 9}

Lorene Bouboushian is one of the most engaging, raging, and wild artists in Brooklyn and NYC pushing the limits of the cross-breeding genre of dance and performance art. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that her group performances with Kaia Gilje, Paige Fredlund, and more recently Valerie Kuehne, are completely improvised because they are every second so visceral, original, and fascinating. For a recent show, transferpoint, this past October at Outpost in Ridgewood, NY with Lorene, Kaia, and Valerie performing together, the only preparation for the show was to tell each other in a meeting what they wanted to do during the performance. This included Lorene’s gaping mouth near a microphone with Nerds candies loudly popping and fizzing in her mouth, Kaia violently and vigorously scratching her teeth with a lollipop, and Valerie grabbing her car keys and getting audience members to come on a car ride with her, which they all did, plus many more unexpected and humorous actions, with dynamic timing and raw awareness of each other and the audience.

Unlike most of Lorene’s works, this performance was not rehearsed – closer to the paradigm of how most performance art is prepared. Though the show was endlessly percolating and alive, it was hard to believe for some that it wasn’t rehearsed because the coordination, flow, and spacing of all three people and their actions were so somehow balanced and in-tune. Instead of a series of dance steps, there was a series of actions. The performance situation protocol, of audience watching performers in the same room, is often broken in Lorene’s performances, and it happened that night too. Audience members are lured outside for a night-time drive, Kaia will rollerblade away and be gone for 30 minutes, and most recently on December 13th at Panoply Performance Laboratory with Lorene, Kaia, and Valerie again, each person’s actions took place simultaneously and very distractedly in various places of the surrounding architecture on a neighboring staircase, in a basement, and outside on the street beyond where one could see anymore.

Absurdity and unpredictability is the first layer of many multi-faceted layers to expect from Lorene’s performances. She lives in both worlds of solo material and group material and she says the work is often related. Interestingly and I wouldn’t have guessed if I had only seen her group work, but Lorene actually sets her solo work. It is so relieving to me to hear that and have that confirmed. Because I’ve been so incredibly obsessed, baffled, and fascinated with improvisatory performance lately that I’ve been devaluing my tendency to work with set material. But the more I think about it and research, I realize that there are many, many brilliant and fierce artists, who care about what they’re doing and are making huge, meaningful strides with their work, who actually set works – even group works - that are still very experimental and ground-breaking.

But I still have so many questions about improvised work. Some of them are: how much can you set without it feeling contrived? How much can you set while still giving one’s performers room to make new things in the present and to explore? If most dances are 7-15 minutes, how do you structure an improvisatory performance so that it develops, grows, and has different dynamics and contours? What role does a choreographer’s or director’s ego play in the making of a work? Is it necessary to have one’s “signature” in this kind of work, and if so how? How to make “dancing” steps genuine within the conceptual and literal context? How to translate a time structure without the dancers feeling forced to oblige by it? How to nurture your performers while still trying to communicate what you want or don’t want?

I just saw Lorene perform a solo in November at Panoply that Esther Neff, Ayana Evans, and Elizabeth Lamb, the leaders of The Social Health Performance Club (a large loose collective of artists), curated for the Empathy Play evening. This solo like all of hers was set and rehearsed. She chose to empathize with and embody her middle aged, ex-cop, ex-Army Trinidadian neighbor who is the complete opposite of who she is in many ways. With this solo, she jumped back and forth like a conversation between herself and her neighbor, with movement, mannerisms, and text. Her goal was “to physically feel how he felt” as much as possible through deeply tapping into his voice, gestures, and things he would say. At one point she intensely repeated, “I’m the only man in this household, I’m the only man in this household!” over and over while shaking her pointer finger and walking in furious circles. But at the end of the piece, she did a dance for him, that was herself dancing when she was younger, that was gracious, grounded, and reverent. Even though she admits, in a fruitful interview with her this past November, that her study and embodiment of her neighbor is a “fractured and limited view,” it comes from a place of fascination and a strong desire to understand human beings. She doesn’t want to punish people for being themselves, but tuning into their “pathetic and silly” sides helps her to see the humanity in all different kinds of people. In this solo, she was making a strong statement, digging through to humanity and social awareness, as well as dancing.

Usually in her solos, Lorene is interested in multiplicity flashing between many states and characters, quickly and drastically, to the point of confusing the audience but with the real intention of viscerally engaging the audience with her rawness and smooth yet unpredictable changeability. Lorene would rather the audience be baffled than watch complacently and distanced from what’s far away on stage. She quotes personalities like Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, and a man she frequently has interactions with on the train, while dancing grand waltzes or making awkward arm gestures in her solo called, The White Lady guts flail gluttonous fail, that was commissioned by New York Live Arts through the Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program in 2011. Putting herself into peoples’ voices and movements is Lorene’s way of “recognizing other lives through a physical process.” She understands that Tina Turner and Stevie Wonder become something totally different on her body but it’s the vulnerability, despair, strength, fervor, and silliness that’s meaningful to her while she also makes fun of “the white lady” by talking about going to Whole Foods, thrift shops, and Urban Outfitters.

Very communicative and very down-to-earth, Lorene always says it how it is and flavors her conversations with a biting and unusual, wacky sense of humor.  Always wanting to understand diverse ideas, situations, and people, she likes digging and getting nitty-gritty into the meat of issues. She isn’t afraid of asking questions and taking her time to figure out what she wants to say, and is just plain in investigation-mode all of the time. Lorene is very interested in equality and is always questioning and concerned with how people of color would be treated in the same situations that she’s been in. Her father is Armenian from Beirut, Lebanon living in Corsicana, Texas where Lorene grew up, and he has been profiled in airports and the people in Texas automatically speak Spanish to him just because his skin is darker. But she’s aware it’s debatable whether he’s white or not even though he has actually lived the life of an immigrant. Lorene is sometimes considered a woman of color by some friends and colleagues, but she really doesn’t feel like she fits that identity because she knows she has enjoyed many privileges of being a white woman. She often and genuinely gets angered by race inequalities and issues, but her work is mostly fueled by class differences, with Lorene having felt the vast differences of living in a small town in Texas, going to a wealthy women’s college in NY, surviving in NY after college, and living in Ghana for one month. All of her diverse characters, awkwardness, confusion, social malaise, engaging with many formal and informal audiences, radical humor, wanting to reach out beyond race and class, and always empathizing are very heartfelt and admirable. Lorene sincerely wants to contribute and has, to conversations about both race and class through her work and in her daily life.

Like in a lot of performance art, Lorene likes to be candid, direct, frank, and close to the audience and also to challenge the audience to change their thinking or feelings even if it means that some people may be offended. Though not always thinking directly about the audience in her duet and trio improvisations with Kaia and Paige, she is well with the audience sharing realities and fascinations of social difficulties and embarrassments and why we are here, no matter whom the audience is. In her raw improvisations with Kaia and Paige, they’re responding to the constructed social situation that a performance is like the formalities of performing in a theater. Lorene says it’s the metaphysical questions that are the only part about improvisation that interests her. She believes “one needs to be somewhat engaged with the audience, otherwise it can be very self-indulgent.” How the audience is reacting is very interesting to Lorene. Daria Fain, one of Lorene’s mentors and many directors, has over time taught her the concept that “we all have bodies and we’re here.” For that reason, Lorene will never get bored of improvisation: responding to so many situations, and whether she’s including or not including the audience at a given moment, and how the audience is reacting.

As Lorene garners enchanted laughter from her eyes-glued audiences, this ardent and spastic humor is a huge element in her work and her personality as well. She says laughing at herself helps her to avoid self-obsession in her solos, which makes sense with her fascination with getting to the heart of so many characters she impersonates, which is something she’s been doing since she was a young kid with her family. In her improvised group work with Kaia and Paige, they delve into humor through awkwardness, beneath-the-skin honesty, grabbing, pulling, and slapping each other, doing shocking and absurd actions with relational commitment, singing, chanting, and exposing an intimacy with almost no boundaries between the performers. *As Esther Neff coined the term, they are “bracketing out,” which means creating a meta-stance on a situation through humor. Besides formal situations like at NYLA, Dixon Place, or Judson Church there are also ideas of nothingness in Nothingness: Performance, a duet with Kaia and Lorene from this year, or extreme abdominal pain and bodily fluids in utter darkness, which evolved into the duet with Paige called bloodsongs//saahhhliivaahh syynthessiiss traaansfoormattion also from this year.

Even though they aren’t doing perfectly polished steps or painstakingly coordinated dance movements, Lorene rehearses a lot with Kaia and Paige and builds a relationship with them that is sometimes like they are one alien divided into two aliens and then one again giving each other constant symbiotic feedback and oxygen. Even though there were more structured and set bubbles of exploration with Paige in saahhhliivaahh syynthessiiss, improvisation is a huge part of the rehearsals with Kaia and Paige. Usually at the end of rehearsal, Lorene will voice record Kaia and Paige’s stream-of-consciousness accounts of what just happened with the intention of retaining what they’ve done and what is or isn’t important or interesting to them. Lorene also writes a lot and very nonlinearly after rehearsals and performances. She likes that it’s a body-based practice and she’s able to observes how she might give attention to one word on a page or how words and phrases line up together, or how words that are missing in past accounts are important to her now in the future and why they were missing.

A lot of choreographers can get commissioned to set their work on companies or on students in Universities, or even with new dancers such as in the xyz festival for example. But Lorene’s work is so much Kaia and Paige that that wouldn’t translate and make sense for Lorene I think. Her collaboration with Kaia and Paige is so humanistic, personal, unique to what Kaia and Paige contribute, and almost equal in terms of creating ideas and paths. Lorene completely trusts Kaia and Paige because of their deep connection from the beginning, and their extreme genuine enthusiasm, and their innate ability “to make smart choices that aren’t for show but are investigating important things that matter” to Lorene. Sometimes Lorene has images or ideas in her head of what she wants to happen, but then Kaia and Paige throw curveballs that are completely unexpected or even scary, and Lorene thrives off of it. When the three of them have performed together, their decisions are so diverse adding a lot of dimensionality to the work. There’s a different intensity in all of them, which makes them good collaborators. They all navigate together, Lorene says, even though the navigating may be difficult. When Lorene is scared by their choices, she still trusts them because “it’s coming from a place of interrogating, being imaginative, and really trying to engage. It’s never going to be apathetic or wishy-washy…A whole other world can open up if you’re generous, willing, and giving into impulses.” Lorene says that the power of her solo material is “the intensity…it’s very full, the way it's structured.” With group work, Lorene realizes that there’s always a chance that ideas could not work out but even when something happens that she doesn’t want to happen, it’s usually really strong and nothing Lorene could ever have imagined.

Lorene Bouboushian, Kaia Gilje, Photo by Laura Bartczak

Below are some highlights of my introduction to performance art in the past few years since I returned to NY from London and from the MFA program at Hollins University/American Dance Festival:

Non-Grata at Grace Exhibition Space Fall 2012: whimsically but bitingly serving tea made from coins attached to mini international flags, cutting and burning pieces of their plastic costumes and handing them in flames to the viewers, organizing a fight between a black dildo and a white dildo commenting on the U.S. 2012 presidential elections. Shawn Chua Ming Ren in a 2-hour durational performance at Panoply Performance Laboratory December 2013, showing the slow and gradual process of creating bread using the heat of his own body in a vat of flour and water, and the communal, agreeable, and intimate kneading of the dough around his naked body by the audience, while he intermittently and philosophically commented about an ideal economy. Geraldo Mercado at Grace and Panoply in 2013 and 2014 tormented by religion and obligingly tortured by the audience and himself: pouring hot wax onto his face with open eyes, getting the audience to whip him as many times and with as much aggression as they wish, making out with a lipstick kiss on the wall and furiously yet hilariously saying, “don’t tempt me!”

Humorous, interactive, poignant, strong and original images, socially conscious, global topics, and perhaps but I could be wrong, not very rehearsed describe the above and some more shows of performance art that I’ve seen. Of course, not all performance art is everything above and yet a lot of dance takes on all or some of these qualities too. With the exception that most dance performances are a culmination of many if not hundreds of hours of rehearsal, shaping, and planning. As Lorene says, one of the paradigms of performance art is performing a lot which is what she has been doing a lot of the past two years. But she does rehearse many hours on her own and with Kaia and Paige, which is different than the typical performance artist who has a clear idea of what they will do in advance and essentially has what they call “brain rehearsals.” (Apologies for generalizing because of course not all performance artists operate this way.) Lorene does want to step back though and take more time with writing and developing what she’s doing, but at the same time she doesn’t want to limit herself towards a polished show at The Kitchen because it would also be pertinent to her to show her work in offbeat places like the Williamsburg Bridge.

Lorene doesn’t appeal to “noodling” or moving around in a pretty way. It doesn’t make any sense to her and it doesn’t mean anything. She cares about content and intention rather than entertaining the audience. If the lights have to be so dark that movement cannot be detected, such as in the first two and a half minutes of saahhhliivaahh syynthessiiss, then it goes that way because it satisfies Lorene’s and Paige’s intent. Lorene’s work is also a response to the advent of technology having changed us so much socially. According to Lorene, Esther recently said that growing up you wouldn't expect how important the work we're doing would be - seeing things live that aren't contrived, and actually a huge question for Lorene is what's contrived and what's not. But being present in a raw way and making improvised decisions based on the now-states of the performers and being very aware of the people in the room watching or engaging – all of this is proactively pushing technology away even if not directly intended by Lorene.

So what’s next for Lorene? She likes having these two identities as a solo artist and group artist but she’s thinking that soon she might step out of her group work and observe and see more from outside of it. She thinks it's important to not do the same thing over and over. “It's a capitalistic way of being an artist to keep on doing something because it's getting a following. You need to challenge what you're doing as an artist.” She says she has dreamt and thought about setting things in a group – will she or will she not if she removes herself and watches her performers? How else will her rehearsals and performances change if she works like that? The future is exciting and it’s astounding the variety of work that Lorene and her performers make. Lorene and her collaborators are true activators and pioneers of our times in dance and performance art and they are never afraid to go where no one has gone before. And isn’t that captivating!

Lorene performs with Valerie Kuehne at Dixon Place, January 12.

Lorene is teaching a dance/performance art class in collaboration with musician Matthew Gantt, at CLASSCLASSCLASS at The New Museum, Thursday February 5, 11am-1:30pm.

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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Sweet Soul Bread

This a good recipe for French toast. That's what I used it for. I found the original recipe in Pinterest and then made some adjustments to make it sweet. If over's like dose banana bread type. Still very good.leven when just butter.

1 2/3 cup vanilla protein powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 tsp baking soda
1tsp xanthan gum
2 1/2 tsps baking powder
1/4 olive oil
1/4 cup melted butter
2 drops of liquid sweetener
4 eggs
12 oz softened cream cheese
1/4 cup heavy cream cheese
1/4 tsp cream of tartar

Preheat oven to 325. Sray a bread pan ,9x5..with spray.
Mix butter and cream cheese in a mixer. Add in oil, cream and eggs. Blend well.
Add protein powder, soda, salt and cream of tartar. Mix slowly and only a few times.
Pour into a prepared pan. Bake about 45 min.

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Americans Believe Christians Should Have More Religious Freedom Than Muslims

In an AP poll, 82 percent of Americans believe protecting religious liberty for Christians is important while only 61 percent feel the same way towards Muslims.

In the aftermath of both the Paris and San Bernardino terror attacks, the United States has seen an uptick in anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence. Much of this has been inflamed by the idiotic, self-serving, attention-grabbing comments coming from Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

As most everyone knows by now, a day after President Obama addressed the nation regarding the San Bernardino shooting, calling for compassion and understanding towards Muslim-Americans rather than lashing out in hate and fear, Trump proposed banning all Muslims from entering the country, even U.S. citizens who were living abroad. While Republicans and Democrats largely condemned the celebrity billionaire over his plan, polls revealed that a majority of GOP voters approved of the ban.

On Tuesday, another poll showed that while most Americans believe religious liberty and freedom is very important, far more believe Christians have more of a right to these things than Muslims. In fact, out of all the religions listed to those surveyed, Islam came in dead last when it came to the importance of having rights to practice freely.

According to the Associated Press/NORC poll, which was conducted after the San Bernardino attack and Trump’s Muslim ban announcement, 82 percent of Americans believe it is important for Christians to have religious freedom protections while only 61 percent feel the same way towards Muslims. Roughly 70 percent feel Jews should have religious liberty and 67 percent think the same about Mormons.

As one would expect, when this is broken down along party lines, there is a difference, though not as wide as you’d think. 88 percent of Republicans think Christians should have religious freedom compared to 60 percent think Muslims should be protected. On the other side of the aisle, 83 percent of Democrats feel Christians should have the right to worship their religion freely. 67 percent of Dems think the same about Muslims.

Meanwhile, since the Paris terror attack in November, hate crimes against Muslims in America have tripled. Hell, dumbass bigots are even attacking Sikhs because they’re too stupid to realize that they practice an entirely different religion, but believe they’re Muslim because of course.

Considering we have a general election approaching, don’t expect the bigoted and irresponsible rhetoric to stop anytime soon. Heck, there are elections to win, books to be written, lecture tours to be booked, cable news jobs to be had…you can’t expect calm rationality and reason to take place now. Gotta whip up the fear and get the masses in a mouth-foaming frenzy!

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Friday, December 24, 2010

From My Home To Yours

I want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas! I hope you all have a wonderful time with friends and family and I hope you'll all eat to your hearts content and laugh 'till you cry. Watch your favorite flicks and dance to some great tunes. But most of all, take a few minutes and thank one another for blessings and all of the good times!

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Regional Patterns of World Trade

Looking at trade between regions of the world reveals some intriguing patterns of the ties across the global economy. Here's a table based on data from the World Trade Organization, which splits the world into seven regions. The rows of the table are the regions where trade originates; the columns of the table are the regions that are destinations. CIS stands for "Commonwealth of Independent States," which is loosely speaking the set of countries that used to be part of the old Soviet Union. For context, total world trade in 2011 was $17.8 trillion.

 Here are some patterns that jump out at me:

1) Trade in the global economy is still dominated by trade within regions. For example, by far the biggest entries in the table are from Europe/to Europe and from Asia/to Asia.

2) When looking at international trade within regions, remember that the amount is strongly influenced by the size of countries and how many countries are in a region. Trade between U.S. states is not counted as "international trade" in this table, but trade between, say, Belgium and Netherlands is counted as international trade. In this sense, the U.S. economy with its massive domestic market is much less exposed to globalization than most other countries of the world.

3) For the economy of North America, our biggest regional trading partner is still North America. But the countries of North America are a destination for almost almost as much in exports from the countries of Asia as they are from other countries in North America. but a nearly equivalent amount of exports from the region also go to Asia. Exports from North America to Asia are about double exports from North America to Europe. And the countries of North America export more to Asia than they do to Europe.

4) It's intriguing to wander through the table and look for patterns (and yes, that's the kind of person I am). Some regions of the world are nearly disconnected from each other in any direct economic sense. The countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States receive only de minimus amounts of trade that originates from North America,  South and Central America, Africa, or the Middle East. The nations of Africa send more trade to North America, to Europe, and to Asia than they do to other nations of Africa. The Middle East and Africa, although they are contiguous, barely trade.

This table is part of the process of producing a third edition of my own Principles of Economics textbook.  Of course, I encourage those looking for a well-explained and reasonably priced book to go to the Textbook Media website and check it out. Thanks to Dianna Amasino for putting together the table for this edition. The source is International Trade Statistics 2012: World trade developments: Key developments in 2011. from the World Trade Organization.


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I went to YAO Restaurant in Houston with my family yesterday. It was amazing! I chose a pot of Rose Black Tea for all of us, and was thoroughly rewarded! It was served in a gorgeous pot, with tiny cups which enhanced the pleasure of the tea, and solid sugar crystals for the sweetener! But why am I telling you...

...when I can show you? The Rose Black was excellent, looseleaf tea, and I could and would have drunk gallons! I would definitely recommend the restaurant and the tea to anyone who is, like me, passionate about the fine points of tea.


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Dexter Spoilers: Hannah Mckay Returning to Dexter Season 8

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It is a big surprise in the season seven that Dexter got a new apple of her eye and makes him to fall in once again but this girl is totally a killer likes to be the florist Hanna Mckay that killed his husband by poisoning it but she can’t do it with Dexter. She might suddenly disappear in the previous season but we just have the great news to the lovers of Dexter.

I’m just wondering if the strange florist will be back in Dexter season 8 episodes to stir up Dexter’s life and we are glad to hear it YES. She is expected to return in the middle of Dexter’s finale season in a very interesting way. She   and Dexter will always have the magnets in each other and they can be attractive but sometimes a repulsive. Since Dexter is a psycho path person we wants to see the emotional journey that he have in experiencing in what kind of human being is all about.

In the previous season of the series  she just enter in Dexter’s life such a snap and  gone  immediately but I am just wondering  how Dexter will handle the things as she’s back the things with Deb and his son. Definitely these florist killers have the strong in mind and sense stirring up some trouble with Dexter’s life. Will Dexter be with him again? I don’t maybe yes or maybe know or she might end up again in the table wrap with plastics in the second time and Dexter let to do the things he must need did before.

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Friday, August 29, 2008

Andrew Fuller Conference: The English Calvinistic Baptists of the 17th Century, An Overview- Dr. Malcolm Yarnell

although Baptists are a people of the Book, we must look at their history to see their context among congregations

those who would become General and Particular Baptists came to an understanding of believer's baptism while in communion- then the separation took place over Reformed theology (which wasn't a clean break)

Exemplar: Christopher Blackwood (1605-1670)

-was a Conformist early on
-left the parish church for a General Baptist church after his conversion to Baptist views on baptism
- became a pastor at that church but left when his co-pastor declared that he believed in universal redemption

- in his treatise on divine worship ("The Storming of Antichrist"), he explained that believer's baptism is worship after the commands of Christ
- argued that Presbyterians, Independents, and Congregationalists could learn from one another without compromising on baptism
- lived in Ireland during the persecution, though he cried out for his persecuted brethren in England
- pure worship, liberty of conscience, importance of the local church were his main concerns

Blackwood's 6 marks of a Christian church ("6 Marks Ministries"...?):
- regenerate church membership
- agreement and covenant
- right dispensing of the Word and sacraments
- profession of the faith
- ministry (faithful oversight)
- church discipline

- said paedobaptism tears down the difference between church and the world
- held a Calvinistic understanding of the Lord's Supper
- held a Biblical view of church discipline, which was for the benefit of both the disciplined and the church

- the use of the 5 points in finding how "Calvinistic" a 17th Century Baptist was is very difficult (I would have liked to hear more about why this is the case)
- was primarily a pastoral theologian who had an invitational and duty-faith/duty-repentance way of preaching
- was not as concerned with the ordo salutis as he was in preaching grace and salvation in Christ alone
- affirmed predestination of both salvation and reprobation, although his view was different than Calvin's (I would have liked to have known more about the differences)
- was ultimately motivated to exhort Christians to proclaim the Gospel rather than the 5 points
- free proffers of grace and well-meant offer of the gospel exhorted men to come to Christ

(It was interesting to have Dr. Yarnell as the first speaker, and his presence there was encouraging. I certainly benefited from his contribution! He must have learned a lot about how Particular Baptists were concerned about both the glorification of God and evangelism! Yarnell is the one who wrote about Calvinists in the SBC back in 2006. Tom Ascol gave some helpful critiques on his blog, and there was a brotherly interchange. Yarnell was also alongside Dr. Ascol as they sought the passing of a resolution on regenerate church membership at the SBC annual meeting this year; it passed but was weaker than they had hoped. And no, Yarnell didn't wear a cowboy hat to the conference...)

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February 14, 2016

{Odes to Love}

Dear Bride-to-Be:
In celebration of the season of love, I thought I'd share some of my favorite quotes on the subject!

We can only learn to love by loving.
~Iris Murdoch

Do all things with love.
~Og Mandino

Listen to your heart above all other voices.
~Marta Dante

Gratitude is what returns us to love.
~Lisa Clapier

 Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh

…only love is real.
~Marianne Williamson

If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
~Mother Teresa

Love. Listen. Let go.
...with love from Cornelia

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Erdem A/W 2011

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

How awesome are the prints here? What a contrast from springs virginal, soft hues and crisp, clean whites. If S/S was day time in the forest then A/W is set at midnight right in the middle of some kind of dark fashion ritual sacrifice party. There would be lots of drums. But back to reality, it really is beautiful. I love the more darker take on Erdems usual florals, like excotic flowers at the bottom of deep, murky pools, lit by moonlight and the more technicolour ones towards the end of the collection. Fabulous.

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Avoiding Online Trademark Infringement and Counterfeiting Starts With Awareness

Trademarks act to identify the source of a particular good or service. To be effective and drive sales, they generally must be visible to a certain segment of consumers. On the Internet, that “visibility” may be achieved through several marketing and search engine optimization techniques. The following discusses various ways in which unscrupulous infringers trade off the trademarks, trade names, and goodwill of trademark owners.

1. Domain Names - Certain usage of trademarks or confusingly similar variations as domain names may constitute trademark infringement. In addition to the remedies available against cybersquatters under the Anticybersquattering Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. Section 1125(d), a trademark owner may file suit in state or federal court. Monitoring domain name registrations is an effective initial step in averting infringement. Trademarks, trademarks plus additional verbiage, and obvious typos (known as “typosquatting”) should be considered in a monitoring program.

2. Meta Tags and Source Code - Sophisticated infringers will insert trademarks into the source code of a website to attract consumers to the site when entering search engine queries for the trademarks. These tactics include meta tags, title tags (located at the top of the page and usually displayed at the top of the browser window), and header tags (code associated with key text on the website page). Portions of the source code can be viewed by selecting “Show Source Code” or similar options depending on how what browser is used. Along with website copy, usage of trademarks in source code is likely a reason why a web page shows high in organic search engine results.

3. Website Copy - The actual text on websites is one of the more obvious ways to infringe a trademark and works well for search engine optimization. This type of infringing trademark usage can typically be found by using a find search of the website page(s).

4. Keyword Advertising - Trademark infringement in keyword advertising also known as “pay-per-click” advertising is one of the most insidious due to the effect it has on some trademark owners. In keyword advertising, someone bids on a particular keyword or phrase entered by the public into a search engine. The winning bidders typically appear as ads or results in a “paid sponsors” area of the search engine results page, usually at the top or right side of the page. Trademark infringement in keyword advertising occurs in two possible ways. First, the banner ad may contain infringing use of the mark and usually includes a link to a website. This may divert people looking for a trademarked product or service to the website of a third party. Second, the trademark may be used in the keyword bidding itself, which likewise may divert business from the legitimate trademark owner. The latter is particularly egregious because the price for keyword advertising is usually based on an auction format, and increases as the number of bidders for the term increases. Therefore, third-party infringers can drive up the cost for the trademark owner to bid on its own trademarks in keyword advertising.

5. Social Media - In addition to the obvious problem of infringers acquiring the user names of trademarks or brands (also known as “username squatting”), trademarks can be infringed in a variety of ways in social media. These include posts, domain name links, and background information. Companies should periodically monitor their trademarks on social media to prevent future infringement and stop innocent infringement as early as possible.

6. Internet Directories - Due to the numerous Internet directories that exist, unscrupulous trademark infringers can list their website or business (with a link to their website) in these directories and achieve misdirection of consumer searches for a trademark. This type of trademark infringement can be particularly difficult to remedy due the large number of directories, the relative lack of self-policing, and international distribution of operators. Typically, a settlement with a trademark infringer should include a requirement that a de-identification request be made to any Internet directories that contain infringing references or content.

7. Blog Posts, Article Sites, and Other Commentary - Blogs, article submission sites, and other sites allowing for commentary are an excellent opportunity to build inbound links and thereby increase a website’s search engine optimization. Unfortunately for trademark owners, these sites provide an equally excellent opportunity to divert business by using the trade name or trademark of others.

8. Search Engine Directories - Similar to Internet directories, search engines provide listings, such as Google Local (now Google+), where companies can list themselves along with their address, basic business information, description of services/goods offered, and website address. These listings are ripe for one business to claim the identity of another. Trademark infringement can also occur in the description of the business or services/goods offered. Most search engines provide a process to “claim” a listing or to transfer it to the rightful owner. Companies should be proactive in this area by claiming their listings before adopted by third-party infringers.

9. Website Hijacking - One of the scariest new developments in trademark counterfeiting is website hijacking. This new form of infringement is likely a response by infringers to the success brand owners have achieved in shutting down online trademark counterfeiting. Website hijacking is where an infringer hacks a website, typically a corporate one and sometimes one owned by a well-known company, sets up a sub-domain, and operates a counterfeit online store selling infringing products. The company many times is oblivious to this, and only finds out after the brand owner files suit to stop the infringing online store operated unknowingly by an innocent third-party company. This technique is particularly devious in that it provides the counterfeiter cover and time with the court system to move their operation before the brand owner can get an injunction in place.

Despite the peril posed by the Internet to trademark and brand owners, there are many effective strategies to stop infringement. Monitoring trademark usage is an effective first step. Contacting intellectual property counsel and sending cease and desist letters are additional steps that may be effective before filing suit for trademark infringement.

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UNCP 5540 Capstone: Making History in a Changing World (Spring: 3 )

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The central theme of this class is to consider the dialogue between individual choice and social context as we struggle to construct a life of effectiveness and balance. The course begins with a focus on what makes a good question. Largely, good questions are ones that can produce fruitful answers – answers that allow us to move forward in ways rooted in understanding and yet knowing that most information is incomplete, ambiguous, and contested. We will look at Boston College as a context for social action and then three case studies: Palestine (in which the context poses a single overarching challenge), South Africa (in which most people are struggling to figure out what the next chapter should be) and the U.S. (where we share in a sense that “anything goes.”). Students will be asked to focus on the balance between constructing a private life and participating in the struggle for social justice in each of these very different settings.

Instructor(s): Eve Spangler

Prerequisites: Seniors Only.

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You require more advice on HOWTO control pests in your house. Properly, you are about to get some good. And also you need certainly to keep on studying too. There's no need to permit all of your problem with pests be treated by other people. It's your house, and that means you seize control too!

If you're a dog owner, your pets will be the motive pests keep returning. Make an effort to maintain your dogis food dishes clear. If any water from their plate is poured, remove it-up instantly. Shop petfood in plastic pots rather than the papers bags they come in. each one of these things can attract parasites.

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Molecular modelling calculations have been used to explore the unexpectedly large values of crystallinity measured in atactic poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and polyacrylonitrile (PAN). Using MOPAC V:AM1 (distributed by QCPE), it was found that not only can a chain of isotactic PVC (and PAN) emulate the shape and axial repeat of an equivalent (planar zigzag) syndiotactic molecule, but that the shape-emulating conformation has its own energy minimum. This conformation is similar to that first suggested by Juijn. It appears that the dipole interactions between adjacent hydrogen and chlorine atoms are able to stabilize this conformation even though there is no minimum apparent on a two-dimensional energy map corresponding to one repeat unit. Calculations on longer sequences show that this conformation has a subsidiary energy minimum. Similar behaviour has been found in the case of PAN. Wide-angle X-ray diffraction from PVC crystals composed of syndiotactic and isotactic monomer units (but using established unit cell dimensions) was simulated using CERIUS (Molecular Simulations Ltd, Cambridge, UK). The crystalline component of the experimental diffraction profile was found to correspond to that calculated for a mixed tacticity lattice. Furthermore, the relative intensities of the 200 and 110 diffraction maxima have been shown to give a good indication of the mean chain tacticity within the crystallites which can be related to the overall tacticity of the polymer. Calculations of crystallinity content based on mixed tacticity lattices (where dyad tacticity = 0.55) were found to be consistent with the crystallinity and crystallite thickness observed experimentally (10% and 33 A), whereas these observations are quite inexplicable if the only crystallizable sequences are syndiotactic. A similar predicted relationship between lattice tacticity and relative intensity of the 200 and 110 peaks could not be confirmed for PAN as the almost pseudo hexagonal chain packing means that the 200 and i10 peaks are all but superimposed in the experimental plots. It is noted that extra low angle reflections are found in the simulations of mixed tacticity crystallites where the models are not large enough to ensure a completely random distribution of the isotactic, shape-emulating sequences, if they have been arranged with any degree of periodicity. Low angle reflections have also been observed experimentally. Hence, although PAN does not have the 200/110 WAXS fingerprint of PVC, there is, in addition to the general observation of high crystallinity for the atactic polymers, experimental evidence for co-crystallization of the configurational isomers

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

What Would You Do?

If you had this really cool empty can, what would you make out of it? I'm thinking of a pencil holder, but that seems so very predictable. Isn't it great? I don't even like canned peaches, but the "Dainty-Pak" label totally won me over.

And, just for the complete cuteness of it, a photo of my two cats sleeping on my office chair. FYI, I sat perched on the edge of the chair working at the computer for about 30 minutes so as not to disturb the cuteness. Finally my husband came in and moved the cats, muttering something about my carpel tunnel syndrome as he did so.

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The pet bed is fantastic! I love the pictures of your cats. I hope you can find a use for this can.


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Thursday, 9 September 2010

My Creative Space

Things are heating up at work. I work in a local University and we’re preparing for the annual enrolment of new students. This is the point we have been working towards all year. For me and my team, that means enrolling about 650 students in the space of 6 hours. **bites nails and crawls under desk wailing** Enrolment is 3 weeks away and I am feeling rather stressed out and ill-prepared for the onslaught that is to come. To make things slightly more interesting, we’re waiting for the builders to finish our new office so we can move in and get it ready in time for the start of term. The move is in 2 weeks and the place is a mess with rubble everywhere, dust, walls half-built, wiring and electrics not in .... hmmmmmm, that space under the desk sure looks inviting right now. What’s that song by Green Day which sums up how I feel – oh yeah, it’s “Wake me up when September ends”.

I‘ve been trying to stay sane and keep the stress at bay by trying to squeeze in at least half an hour of sewing a night. It calms my mind and lets me wind down enough to get a reasonable night sleep.

My space right now is taken up by these two foldaway shopping bags.

The darker fabric is actually a dark brown although it looks black in the photo. I thought a contrasting red bias-binding might work very well with this fabric. What do you think?

The other fabric doesn’t photograph so well – it’s a slightly darker green than in the photo above. The only bias-binding I had in my stash that goes with it was this green one.

They are both at a stage where I am ready to start attaching the bias-binding. I’ll post about the finished bags next week.

See other creative spaces here.

Have a creative day, friends.

  1. They're looking great Ady and the fabric is beautiful. I hate how cameras sometimes get the colours all confused, but I guess we just have to live with that!

    Sending you positive vibes to cope with the stress leading up to Freshers' Week! I can understand the need to get even just a little bit of crafting in a day to clear your mind and stay sane.

  2. The red bias works perfectly. Love both the fabrics too.
    I have worked for a University before, and my mum did for years, I so hear you. Make sure you do get a little sewing in each night then if it does work to calm you down. And breathe. Lots of deep breaths at work.

  3. What's bais-binding, Ady? Looks like some kind of ribbon... Do I have to "right" the sides?

    Jess.... who can only do nails....

  4. Thanks Fiona. Thanks Cat. It's a big adrenaline rush to get it all done and all the students in - I'll be real glad when it's over.

    Jess - see this link to read about bias-binding.
    It's long or continuous fabric strips which are folded and pressed.

  5. I think the bias colors you chose look great with the fabrics. A friend brought me a ton of cool upholstery fabric swatches, each about 36x24", and I think they will be perfect to make your shopping bag with. Thanks for sharing your creativity!

  6. I haven't a clue where my sanity went in life BC (Before Craft). best of luck with September!

  7. I think you should put up a sign on your desk saying "I'm only processing those students that are wise enough to bribe me with chocolate."
    You never know, it may help.

  8. Thanks all.

    Amy - those swatches sound perfect. Let me know how you get on with your shopping bag.

    Tania - I hear you ... Craft preserves my sanity completely.

    Clair - your suggestion has been noted and may well be actioned!

  9. i think the colours are great..


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Tuesday, 26 April 2011

A bit of chain maille before the sewing

I have a few sewing projects I want to finish off soon. There is also one major sewing project that I need to start which will probably take me an entire year to do. But before all that, I want to share a bit more chain maille with you.

Here are a pair of Kingscale bracelets I finished recently. One's in turqouise, gold and silver. The other is in turqouise, gold and black.

What do you think?

Which do you prefer?

I think the sun must be tired after working so hard over the weekend. It's gone away for a bit of a rest today and left us with an overcast and slightly chilly day to contend with. Nevermind. I hope it comes back soon.

Hope it's sunny where you are, friends.

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Happy Easter!

May the glory and the promise of this joyous time of year,
Bring peace and happiness to you
and those you hold most dear.

It was very sunny yesterday. Today it is overcast but dry and still a little warm. The children will get their chocolate eggs a little later and we'll do the usual thing of rationing the chocolate out over the next few days. Given a choice, Missy Moo and Dinoboy will quite happily eat their weight in chocolate in one sitting ... and then we'll have to deal with the sugar rush that will undoubtedly jump in with both feet and the resulting 'hangover' afterwards when sugar levels hit rock bottom. They don't seem to mind the rationing - they do get small bits and pieces now and then throughout the day.

Wishing you a happy and blessed Easter wherever you are.

Friday, 22 April 2011

More chalk fun

This morning was bright, sunny and warm. The kids were straight out the door to play in the back yard as soon as breakfast was finished. We took the opportunity to have a bit more fun with chalk on our patio.

I drew a giant anglerfish of sorts (Dinoboy wanted a scary fish - and anglerfish are pretty darn scary to me) and the kids took turns lying down and posing for fun shots.

Missy Moo wondered if she could take scary fish for a walk like a puppy.

Dinoboy took a bat to the poor fish.

Aaarrrgggghhhhh!!! Scary fish!!!

The kids enjoyed thinking up scenarios involving Mr Scary fish.

The skies are blue and the sun is blazing away. I've done my grocery shopping for the week, we've just had lunch, my laundry is out on the washing line and I'm lazing on a chair out in the backyard in my Jamie dress. Bliss!

Hope you're having a great day, friends.

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Chalk fun

After seeing something similar here and some really interesting photos in Jan von Holleben's Dreams of Flying portfolio, I was inspired to try a simple bit of chalk fun with the kids.

We have a nice big slabbed patio which was just the place to try this. Here's Dinoboy flying away with his balloon.

And Missy Moo with her pink balloon.

I stood on a plastic stool to take these photos.

Tomorrow we'll try to draw something else. I think I'll dig out the step ladder tomorrow and try to take photos from a slightly higher vantage point.

It's the big Easter holiday over here in the UK. We've got tomorrow (Good Friday) off work and Monday is a public holiday too. My place of work has kindly given us Tuesday off too. Nice!!! I intend to consume lots of hot cross buns and chocolate this weekend.

Have a great weekend, friends.

The final cut

In the end, I decided not to spend forever unpicking the skirt off my Jamie dress. I hacked 5 inches off the bottom to make it a knee length dress as opposed to a calf length dress.

I like it better at this length even though I do not think it's the most flattering dress for me. I do intend to make another but with significant modifications to the skirt. The poufiness is not working for me. Nevertheless it was a really good sewing experience and the instructions which came with the pattern were superb and very well illustrated with lots of photos.

Thanks to Sara for hosting the sew-along and here is the linky party for the sew-along.

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Taking a brief moment to drool

Aren't these just the most perfect shoes for those who love sewing?!!

Sorry but I couldn't help but have a shoegasm moment when I saw these and thought I ought to share them with you.

These are Christian Louboutin's Measuring tape sandals. They come in white too ...

There is of course the signature Louboutin red sole peeking out from under that 4-inch heel.

Drool-worthy shoes, don't you think?
I don't think my fear of very high heels or my unfortunate bunions will permit me to 'rock' these shoes. Given the Neiman Marcus pricetag of $795, I don't think my bank manager will permit me to 'rock' these shoes even if my feet were up to the task.

They are unconventional but utterly fun and sassy. Mr Loubi, I salute you!

Now if you'll all please excuse me, I need to go wipe my keyboard dry and lie down for a short spell.

Monday, 18 April 2011

Not feeling the love so much ...

OK, I have finished my Sis Boom Jamie dress. I have issues with this dress. (I'm having a bad hair day today - hence the headless shots. Sorry!)

I love this fabric - it's kinda wacky and so not a colour I would normally gravitate towards (I normally live in dark blues and black). And having seen some of the other fab Jamie dresses out there - like this lovely one by Monique or sew-along hostess Sara's gorgeous Jamie dresses here and here or Amanda from Kitschy Coo's awesome Zebra dress here, I felt inspired enough to have a go. This is the result.

Sorry for the appalling shot - the only long mirror we have is inside the door of the cupboard under the stairs.

But seriously folks - I am not feeling the love for this dress. It's not the fabric - that's OK. I think it is the skirt. It's pretty big. The gathers and bigness of it is of some concern to me.

OK - it doesn't help that I have bad posture in this and Dinoboy always takes unflattering shots of me ... perhaps it is something to do with the angle given that he is a shortie still.

I might have a go at reducing the skirt mass ... or I might designate it as "only to be worn in one's back yard" and have another stab at making the dress. Perhaps a tunic might be more up my street. What do you think?

Have a great week ahead, friends.

Saturday, 16 April 2011

Joining in with the Sis Boom Jamie Dress sew-along

Sara over at Sew Sweetness started a sew-along using the Sis Boom Jamie dress pattern. I really like this dress and all the finished sew-along dresses look so nice.

I decided to join in and have a go myself. This orange/yellow/gray/black cotton print was in the sale at one of the online shops I frequent - Doughtys. I thought it would make a nice summer dress. *Fingers crossed*

So here's how far I've gotten so far. I pinned the straps in to the finished bodice so I could do a quick fit before continuing.

I read somewhere that one should cut a size up on this pattern for the bodice and waist. So I did. But I then realised that I ended up with quite a large bodice width-wise and had to take it in at the sides. I think given the amount I cut back on, I should have gone for my original size after all. But that's OK - I'd rather be able to take it in than to find out I'd cut it too small.

I have made a boo-boo so far. I wanted to extend the waistband piece to the back bodice. I also wanted it to have the same rouched effect as the front. But in my haste to cut and make the bodice, I've ended up with a back waistband which is taller than the one at the front. Duh! *slaps forehead*

See the inch gap between the topstitched edges of the bands? I am such a numpty! I've decided to continue on with the dress - ignoring the mismatched bands. Good thing I decided to make the band in the same fabric as the main body of the dress. The mismatched band would have looked even more obvious if I had gone with a contrasting band. On to the skirt next.

Hope you're having a great weekend, friends.

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Chainmaille watch

The chainmaille bug just won't let me go! Recently I made myself this purple and silver half dragonback bracelet ....

Then I thought the half dragonback chain might work well with a watch face I picked up not so long ago at a craft show. The watch face came from a beading shop. I had some pink anodised aluminium rings going spare so I used those with the silver bright aluminium rings to make two short chains.

I linked up each chain to the watch and used a 2 strand slide clasp as a closure. I really like these slide clasps. Just tug on both mushroom ends at once, and the clasp will slide apart into two pieces. I think this type of clasp works well for bracelets. It locks snugly for a sleek and secure fastening.

Pretty, don't you think?

Sewing is next on the projects list as I quite fancy making a Sis Boom Jamie dress. Sara over at Sew Sweetness is hosting a Jamie dress sew-along and I rather like the idea of a new dress for the summer. No idea what it would look like on me - but I'll have a go at it anyway.

Have a great day, friends.

Sunday, 10 April 2011

Mock smock rocks!

A while back, I saw some mock smock Disney fabric at Joanns Fabrics and knowing Missy Moo's love for all things pink and princess-ey, I bought a yard of the stuff, intending to knock up a quick summer frock for her.

This stuff is fabulous! The fabric is pre-shirred and hemmed. So making the dress was dead easy.
Step 1 - measure the required length and cut.
Step 2 - placing fabric right sides together, sew up the seam to form a tube of fabric.
Step 3 - add straps.
Step 4 - put finished dress on child, sit back and enjoy the prettiness which took less than an hour to do.

Missy Moo adores her dress. She kept telling me all weekend how much she loved it. I made elasticated ruffles straps from a contrasting gingham. I thought I might eventually add a ruffled strip to the bottom hem of the dress too.

She wore it on Saturday and Sunday. I have strict instructions to ensure it is washed and dried and ready to wear next weekend!

It was the first weekend we've had almost summery weather - the mornings were slightly chilly but the afternoons soon warmed up beautifully.

I've heard that Walmart sometimes have mock smock fabric in store but not having a Walmarts over here, I wouldn't know. Hancock has quite a few on their website too - some in adult lengths! My problem is they don't ship to the UK. Drats!

This was such an easy and fun sewing project. And the client was totally satisfied. What more could I want?

Wishing you a great week ahead, friends.


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Thursday, 4 December 2014

challenge #108 Have a Mono Christmas

Hello and welcome back to our latest challenge for this next fortnight...Hows your Christmas cards going?? well maybe you can play along with us and add some more too your Christmas selection in time for posting as our challenge is
Mono Christmas ....
Which means  black and white or in varying tones of only one colour.
The DT have been busy again and come up with some fab creations for Inspiration, before i share them with you I need to say farewell too two of our DT ...Anke and Dawn....they have decided to step down which is sad for us all, as we have loved having them as part of our wonderful team.....we wish you well and hope to still see you around in blog land .

Now onto this weeks challenge...the prize this week is black and white ribbons

now lets share with you the DT creations

well i hope we have inspired you

Mr. linky is just at he end of the post and thank you for playing along with us.

Now over too our winner and Top 3 selection from our last challenge

The winner is

#29 MEG

Please contact us at

to arrange for the silver and gold ribbons to be sent to your addy

the Top 3 selection

if you would like to showcase your top 3 badge on your blog

please contact us and we will give you one to ware with pride

Dont forget the rules ....and the ribbon after all we are a Crafty Ribbon blog
Have a lovely weekend everyone and happy shopping

x Carol and the DT

meg said...

Can't believe I've won your ribbon bundle, many thanks
Congrats to the top 3

tiziana biagioli said...

wow thank you so much to all of you so to be chosen in your top 3 ... congratulations to all the other winners ...
Kudos to all the DT for your wonderful creations..
XOXO Tiziana

Margreet said...

Thank you for picking me in your Top 3....feel very honoured...congrats to the winner and the other Top 3's.
xxx Margreet

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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Kohl's round up...

Oh thank goodness today is the last day of these deals, I'm pooped! Kohls was awesome! I did 15 transactions (with Angie's help & then I helped her!) I paid $ 2.00 for the e mailed coupons off E bay. I bought:

2- play dos
2- My little Pony's
1- body spray set
1- body lotion/gel set
4- pairs of Carter's Pj's
3- calendars
1- Bakugon
1- watch
1- baby blanket set
2- pairs of socks
2- bath robes

Total Spent= 45.07
Total Savings= 249.18

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Coming soon: Sherlock figures

Have you ever wish to own a pocket version of Jawn or Sherlock? Here's your chance!

Thanks to Big Chief Studios Limited, you can now pre-order these 1:6 scale (which is about 30 cm tall) Sherlock figures.  Be warned though, according to the Big Chief Studios' website, it's going to be a range of high-end collector figures, so expect them to be costly. Yup.

Let's have a look at the figures. Here's Martin's Jawn:

Erm, good job on making this happen but can I give a little feedback? >_< The likeness is not quite there... =/

On a side note, can I just buy Jawn's shoes and walking stick seperately? They are just adorable!

A pic of Martin with the guys from Big Chief Studios:

Here's Sherlock:

Again, love the shoes. <3

And here's Benny with the guys from Big Chief Studios:

Looks like the guys from Big Chief Studios had fun on the set of Sherlock:

And here's the ensemble of Jawn and Sherlock, complete with a cuppa tea in Jawn's hand and Sherlock's violin:

They are still making final adjustments to the figures as of yesterday. Looking quite good there, you ask me. Ooh, Jawn in his jeans. And just imagine the things fangirls are going to do with Sherlock in the purple shirt... =X

Not sure how many of these figurines will be produced but there will be 400 limited edition pieces signed by each of the actors - Martin and Benedict:

Also signed by Benny is an art print of Sherlock, also on sale at the Big Chief Studios website:

Other fantasic art prints are also available for order on Big Chief Studios' website here:

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Friday, May 22, 2015

Cute Finds #3

I am so ready for Memorial day weekend! The weather has been a little crazy this past week, rainy one moment, sunny the next. But who cares? we have a long weekend  ahead of us ;)

For this month's cute finds I have 3 products that got me very excited as soon as I saw them, and their prices are very attractive as well!

In my last post I mentioned how I am giving Zoe's room a makeover. Sometimes the little details can give a new life to an item that has been around for a while. We have a white dresser that we bought on sale and painted white a couple of years ago. We simply painted the wooden pulls that came with it for a bit of color. The other day I was browsing on Etsy and found these cute round pulls and immediately thought of the dresser. There were the perfect pop of color for it and I love the updated look the dresser now has.

Continuing with Zoe's room redo, I was also looking for some artwork to hang. I had some spare frames from Ikea so I was on the hunt for a cute print or two. When I found out about Help Ink I was immediately hooked. They have super cute prints and the fact that they give part of the revenues to the charity of their choice immediately attracted me. I bought the "Right Kind" print and it looks very nice in person! I will definitely will purchase from them again.

With summer quickly approaching, I started thinking about swimsuits and cover ups. That's when I stumbled across this super cute bikini cover up. They say that you get what you pay for, so I was a bit afraid that the quality might not be the best but when it arrived I was happy to see that it not only was inexpensive but also looked great in person too!

I hope all of you have an awesome Memorial weekend!!

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