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My diary of all projects utilizing fiber; knitting, weaving, sewing, and whatever else finds its way here. A misnomer, as this fiber artist has been afloat and is now dry docked again.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
SWAP, Ready set plan
updates will follow, and I will clean up this entry and add pertinent info that is missing right now.
11 garments
2 Jackets
4 dresses
3 tops
1 skirt
1 pant
Jacket 1: light eggplant boucle from Britex Fabrics purchased July 2005, trims purchased at same time. Lining is silk charmeuse from Calamo silks. Pattern based on Vogue 7975, constructed in couture method as taught by Susan Khalje
Jacket cut out and stitching lines marked by threadbasting approx October 2005.
Jacket 2 and skirt Vogue _ _ _ _
silk tweed purchased from Eunice Farmer Fabrics fall 2004. jacket Lining: silk charmeuse from Calamo silks. Skirt lining china silk from Calamo silks. Jacket and skirt cut summer 2005, fused to sof-knit, then put away.
Dress 1 sheath dress, Butterick _ _ _ _
Chinese Brocade from Britex purchased July 2005, lining: same china silk as tweed skirt. Cut and partially assembled Spring 2006. I am counting this as my "previously made" garment, although construction is only partially complete
Dress 2 Sleeveless sundress OOP Vogue Calvin Klein pattern
print 4ply silk from Habermans (Royal Oak Michigan) purchased Sept 2005. Lining, same china silk as tweed skirt.
Dress 3 dupioni sheath with lace overlay. Vogue _ _ _ _
cross-weave silk dupioni and purple crochet lace from Eunice Farmer Fabrics, spring 05
Lining to be determined
Dress 4 Sleeveless sheath, OOP Vogue _ _ _ _ (subject to change - I may trade this out of the SWAP as it is a little dressier and not necessarily totally compatible with being worn with a jacket, although a lot of the accessories will work and I will make it whatever the case)
Fabric: embroidered silk taffeta from Van's Fabrics, Boston, purchased November 2006
Top 1 qualifying Reversible Garment
adapting Textile Studio Milan Dress pattern to make it a tank top. Pattern purchased from Timmel Fabrics as part of qualifying purchase.
side one silk jacquard print from stash, source not remembered
side two solid yellow silk broadcloth purchased from Timmel Fabrics
Top 2 cowl neck shirred midriff top, Vogue _ _ _ _
purple silk charmeuse, same as lining fabric for boucle jacket
Top 3 classic long sleeve shirt Vogue _ _ _ _
Italian cotton shirting purchased from Woolen House, a Toronto merchant, at the Sewing Expo in Novi, Sept 2005
Pant new Montana pattern Vogue _ _ _ _
stretch wool gabardine from Michaels Fabrics, online
just in today, a totally fabulous silk plisse from EOS in the perfect lavender color. May have to swap out a top.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The Weather
The weather? She's going to talk about the weather? You've got to be kidding!
no, really, I am.
See those footprints in the sand. I took that picture last Friday morning, on the beach, on Lake Michigan. Those footprints belong to a toddler who was there playing with his parents standing by.
Unless you've spent many a November in the cold northern hemisphere, you can't appreciate the significance of those bare little toe-prints in the sand.
it was gorgeous.
We had a great time.
now I give you pictures of my 'toddlers'
my babies are well.
today my dad is having surgery. We are all assuming it will go well.
Days end, from the deck.
Monday, November 20, 2006
dropping by to say I miss you, HI
this is true to a point, but I Need to sew, as in, I Need clothing to wear. So, I've been busy chained to my sewing machine and sewing table, and haven't been near the computer much.
But the other thing going on is: there just hasn't been any knitting of note to report on. Finally, the Lace cardi by Vittadini is off the needles, and is soaking now. As soon as I'm off here it is going onto the blocking board. Next up is to pick up *cough cough* a thousand or so stitches around the perimeter and knit on the ruffle. This I will do while travelling to Michigan tomorrow. With any luck it'll be done by the time I come home.
The plane knitting going to Boston was the prettiest little scarf for my friend Jacquie. She is a knitter whose life is so overbooked that when I gave her the yarn and pattern, I offered to knit it for her too and she took me up on it...the pattern is so easy and so pretty. It is a Colinette number alternating lace weight mohair with silk ribbon, all in garter stitch with every 4th row a double wrap (creating a YO) on each stitch. I think I mentioned though, no plane knitting on the way back.
Don't get that flu...it is bad and I was down nearly a week with it.
most recently off the sewing table:
I wrote a pattern review Here if you want the gory details. They do need a crease pressed in the leg - it'll happen.
Next up on the sewing table:
I've joined the Timmel SWAP [sewing with a plan] which starts Dec 1. This one has some teeth. The 1st prize is a gift certificate for $300. I'd like to win, but lord we all know I don't need a certificate for more fabric, and the real win will be getting all of these garments made up. There are a total of 14 garments here, ready to be made. 11 are required for the SWAP, so I'll have to see what it whittles itself to. In any case, I plan to make all. Best thing, all of this fabric was in my stash. (well, one pc was added to stash last week while I was in Boston...)
we've talked about that right? That my fabric stash makes my yarn stash look like childs play. And my yarn stash is nothing to sneeze at.
So I will try very hard not to bore you with too many details of the sewing, but it will be front and center for awhile.
Meanwhile, it is Thanksgiving week here, and we will be travelling to Michigan tomorrow. Both of my boys, with their respective girlfriends, my dsd, her father and I, and my dad and his wife will be celebrating in Pentwater MI.
so, see you later. Thanks for visiting.
PS, I'm taking Liz with me to Michigan too. Liz is feeling very neglected of late. oh, and Marina, I forgot how to count again. Second sleeve is nearly done on Liz, and I realized my first sleeve was wrong. I'm contemplating ripping back most of my first sleeve. So then I'll have 3rd sleeve syndrome! ;)
ETA: I love those boots I posted last entry, but none of you really thought I was so extravagant that I would spend nearly $900 on a pair of boots did you? I just looked at them and drooled, and lusted, and then went back to work.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
random shopping
They have a medieval tapestry look to them...surely there is a Starmore design suitable to wear with these ;)
Monday, November 13, 2006
Half a SWAP
A Jacket, a pair of pants and a skirt. 3 of the 6 items required for the Sewing with A Plan contest at PatternReview...which I decided to join with less than 4 weeks to go because I need to complete some clothes to wear, and it just seemed like a good idea.
Jacket Remember This? This is the finished product. I removed the patch pockets, assembled the lining with the facings that were all cut out, then hung the completed lining unit on the hanging rack where I store half finished projects....and then completely forgot that I had done that. Left it alone for two weeks, then decided to finish it up. I finished up the interfacing of the back piece, made up the sleeves, put in the bound buttonholes (must get a pic, they look really nice) , found the large rectangular stained wood buttons I originally purchased for this jacket in my button stash...then began looking for the lining. After wasting several hours, I gave up, dug through my stash and ended up finding and using a beautiful light jacket weight twill lining I had earmarked for another project. After it was all cut and assembled - I also had to cut up the remaining piece of wool I had leftover from the jacket, enough to make a skirt - for the facings....after all was assembled, I happened to look over at my hanging rack, and saw the previously assembled lining hanging there. ARGH! oh well, Onward. I finished up the jacket Tuesday night, after taking an interlude out to make the pants, leaving barely enough time to cut and make a skirt.
Particulars: Fabric, wool flannel
Pattern: Vintage Vogue (was current when this was cut out) in the "wedge" shape popularized by Linda Evans in the 80s'
Lining: Acetate twill
Interfacing: lightweight hair canvas
Extras: I used old fashioned tailoring techniques to pad stitch the collar at the roll line, undercollar is cut on bias with CB seam, applied a sleeve header of Armo Rite, made bound buttonholes, interfaced hem with wiggan, topstitched with Mettler Topstitching thread.
The style is a tad dated, but I'm tall and can carry that big-shouldered Dynasty look well, and I'm really pleased with this one.
Next up, the Pencil skirt.
Pattern: Vogue 2770. I altered this design significantly by cutting the CF on the fold and moving the walking slit to the back. This is truly a pencil skirt. The Hem is a full 4" narrower than the hip. Contour waistband, center back invisible zipper.
Fabric: Double woven wool crepe pique. Wonderful stuff that has been in my stash only about a year or so. Originally came from Eunice Farmer Fabrics in St Louis. There is quite a bit of stretch inherent in the weave here, so I Lined it with a poly tricot knit.
In order to control the stretch at the waist I interfaced the waistband with silk organza. Worked nicely.
I will make this again.
Center back slit, narrow hem.
Last Up: Pant
Pattern Vogue 2759
Contour waistband, unlined straight leg pant with side invisible zipper.
These are actually flattering, however next time I make them I will drop the waistband so that it sits below the waist about 1 1/2"
Fabric: Wool/Rayon blend gabardine with a crimped yarn which also has a degree of inherent stretch without the addition of lycra.
Lots to say about Boston. I had a gloriously fun time...however, I came back with either a very bad cold or the flu, so you'll have to wait for next post for details.
I did go fabric shopping
I did get some plane knitting done on the way there (including the 4 hour delay in Detroit). No knitting on the way back, I was feeling lousy.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
listmania, progress, and benevolent bloggers
This past week I came home to my mailbox, to a delightful surprise package from Kim in Athens GA. We were in Athens just a couple of weeks ago yet it was such a fly by trip that I didn't get to meet Kim. Anyway, I came home and opened up this package, and found the book
Classic Knitted Vests. I decided to photograph it on my knitting tray on my table, in front of the chart that I'm working right now on the vest-turned-into-lace cardi for H. Kim knew that I would have benefitted from having at my fingertips some vest patterns when asked. Also included was a listmaking pad - love those long format pads. As will be discussed later in this installment, I've become, in the last month, a real advocate of lists.
Thank you truly Kim, for a wonderful surprise.
Also, this last month I joined two of the KAL's going on. I'm keeping with my pledge not to join KAL's for projects that weren't on my radar already, but this fits with what I knit, and I love cables. In fact, I have [cough cough] several cable projects on needles right now, slated to be finished by end of year. One of the hostesses is Jennifer (whose link really should be on my sidebar, I didn't realize until just now that it isn't). Jennifer hosted the Vacay swap last Spring, and regularly visits here. Hi Jennifer!. Anyway, She and Christie, the other hostess, are running contests - and I WON! the first. I received an email from Janet Szabo herself saying that she was sending me a copy of her book. This is abook I've been contemplating and wanting. I've heard nothing but great things about it. Janet is the guru who hosted the FLAK last year, and moderates the Aran knitlist on yahoo that I read everyday. I am thrilled. Thank you all.
On to Progress Reports
Just to prove to everyone that all this talk about knitting lace is not just talk...I bring you pictures.
Unblocked, but it is coming along nicely. I met with H last Friday and we did a pin-fitting and it is perfect. I'm really pleased with the way this is turning out. Only caveat: I would not have chosen fuzzy mohair as the best yarn to show off this lace pattern. The color is a deep brick red. I've got the remainder of the second sleeve and the ruffle yet to go. H left for England and Paris, and I'd like to have this done by the time she returns at the end of the month. Very do-able
From the Sewing Room
I'm working on wardrobe enhancement. Two reasons:
1. I have nothing, nada, in fall clothes, that fit me. I've been a slug and gained a significant amount of weight since last winter, and it shows. So I'm judiciously choosing fabrics that I don't mind cutting up and making into clothing that will fit me now that I will either have to take in or store in several months when this weight is gone (And it WILL be gone).
1a. we are going to Boston tomorrow and wearing jeans isn't going to cut it. I need something to take with me.
2. I have committed to finishing up some of my vintage projects and using up at least a fraction of my extensive fabric stash before boarding a boat and all of the stash must magically disappear.
In light of the fact that I'm supposed to be making clothing for me, you might be wondering what this is a picture of.
It is the dustruffle that I completed Saturday, after we got home from going out for coffee in the AM. On leaving Kaldi's we stopped at a mattress store and bought a new mattress. Oh my aching back. Our old mattress was very bad on my back, and it was literally hurting everyday just to get up in the morning and move. dh got heartily sick of hearing me moan....so ...new mattress. It is heaven to wake up and be able to move.
So, wardrobe sewing interruptus. I told dh when we bought the mattress that I would go home and stitch up the silk plaid dust ruffle that I cut out months ago, and that is exactly what I did. Before going to the Symphony Saturday night.
Today I have the day off of altering bridemaids clothing, so as soon as I am finished writing here, I am back downstairs finishing up the jacket, pants, skirt and dress combo that I am taking to Boston tomorrow AM. Look for pics later for evidence of completion.
almost forgot I planned to write about lists....and I'm out of time, so lists will have to wait.
I need to start treating my own work as if it were client work - I would get lots more done. So, as if I were my own client, I'm on the clock, and the sewing room beckons.
later friends, thanks for checking in.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
She's alive and kicking
It is November 1st, the Vittadini Lace cardi has a back and two fronts, as well as one partial sleeve, however when the project changed so much in scope "H" let me off the hook for the Nov 1 deadline. If this were to be a simple vest, it would be done! (is not the vest portion finished?) Anyway, I had to lay off knitting for almost a full week due to a rather overambitious stint of knitting in the car on the way to and returning from Georgia a week and a half ago - I even went and got a massage on forearms last Sunday - was able to knit again Monday. oh, several of you have asked - the Vittadini cardi is being knit holding two strands of a lightweight 100% mohair together - def not for the feint of heart - this one is a bear.
I've also been sewing 8 hours a day for Isabelle, leaving little time left for my own work (ah, but there has been a little work done).
Question of the Day for those who pop on by: Have you ever seen a really pretty mother-of-the-bride / mother-of-the-groom dress? (note: this question is not prompted by any impending weddings, but by the fact that the sewing I'm doing lately are alterations [the bane of the sewists world] on bridesmaids and mother-0f dresses.) If so, what do they look like?
this is a pic of the one that I worked on yesterday
- these dresses never fit, and they are not meant to be taken apart - and the bodice on this one is heavily beaded, with boning - but it is pretty - the color of the one I'm working on is champagne.
Thanks for hanging in - I'll be back soon, I promise
Look for an update with pictures by Friday AM.


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Add the following code around the portletRender tag in the Control.jsp of each skin:

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The module creates entries in both SystemOut.log as well as the rendered html.
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[6/11/12 22:14:41:990 EDT] 0000007a PerformanceFi W PortletPerfFilter: Render Header Request for portlet /wps/PA_WCMLRingPortJSR286 took msecs: 995
The generated div uses the class portletperformance - it is possible to customize the look of the render time in the html output with css.
The html output looks like the following in the resulting html of the page for each portlet:

Msecs taken: 455

Limitations and Considerations:
- The code is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind. IBM shall not be liable for any damages arising out of your use of this code, even if they have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
- Right now the Module only supports JSR 286 portlets
- Only the 2nd part of the render phase (not the part for setting headers and cookies) is included in the html output - everything else is logged into the SystemOut.log
The ear file can be downloaded from Lotus Greenhouse:
The author is interested in feedback on the module and would like to improve the module based on your feedback.
About the Author:
Thomas Hurek is a software architect at IBM's Research Triangle Park Development Lab. He has worked on the WebSphere Portal development team for 11 years, focusing on various components, including security and virtual portals. In his current role Thomas supports clients as lab based services consultant and works as Chief Programmer on the development of the product. You can contact Thomas at email@example.com.

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Successful Day Traders Set Targets and Limits
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Behind the Facade of Tolerance
Yet what is tolerance all about and what's wrong with tolerance? For one thing, tolerance is not equality. It is condescension. George Washington understood that over 200 years when he wrote in his "Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport" that, "All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent national gifts."
What Washington was saying back in 1790 was a truth that modern liberals have worked hard to blot out, namely that tolerance is a statement of inequality. You tolerate people who you do not believe can participate equally in their own affairs or yours, for your own motives. The people you tolerate are second class citizens.
Tolerance toward foreigners can be the product of a degree of mutual respect or mutual interest, in which both sides have an interest in maintaining tolerance. That tolerance however is a long way from equality. It is an exchange of tolerance premised on the idea that neither party wants to join with the other.
But tolerance can be the product of mutual respect or cowardice. When there is no mutual respect from the other party, tolerance reveals itself as mere cowardice and appeasement. Why "tolerate" someone who refuses to tolerate you, unless you're afraid of them?
Europe's Muslims started out being "tolerated" out of condescension. Today they are tolerated out of fear. Europe's politicians have done the math, and for the most part they have accepted the growing Islamic takeover as a fact of life. Aside from taken attempts at smoothing out the worst of the extremism, their only response is to demand greater accommodations in the hopes of meeting the invasion force halfway.
That template is the ugly reality behind the facade of tolerance. It begins as condescension and ends in fear. At no time however is it equal. To tolerate something, whether out of condescension or fear, is to declare it inferior to yourself.
That same idea of tolerance is behind many of the social problems of the First World, in which liberal and socialist parties view minorities as convenient inferiors, a reliable voting bloc and a useful club to beat the conservatives with. The more they cry about the oppression of minorities and treat them as helpless children to be pandered to, the more they reinforce a narrative of protectors for people who cannot progress on their own. Having closed off the top, except for the occasional bit of tokenism, the pressure explodes downward instead. Social problems in a community give way to a broken system and to the triumph of extremist movements. The condescension then quickly turns to fear.
A true democratic system has no room for tolerance, only for civil equality, yet it is the liberal ideologies which reinforce inequality and segregation under the banner of multiculturalism, repeatedly punishing minorities who behave contrary to their political expectations. Tolerance or condescension after all are based on fear. What need is there to "tolerate" people, unless you think there is something intolerable about them. Something dangerous and unpredictable. Something that you agree to tolerate in the name of a greater good.
Such has been the history of liberal tolerance, a story of condescension that began with class... back when progressive ideologues still thought poverty was somehow a genetic inheritance, down to race. A story of corralling oppressed populations on political plantations, exploiting them for violent outbursts, from the French Revolution on down to the race riots in modern day America, keeping them deprived, miserable and frustrated, useful but dangerous tools, all in order to promote a liberal agenda.
In Europe however, its population of guestworkers have shifted from being a handy voting bloc for left wing parties, to becoming the new Europe, a phrase that liberal politicians have enjoyed bandying about, but never took very seriously. They meant a "New Europe" rebuilt in their own image, but the rising green tide of Islam means something very different by it. They mean a European Caliphate run under Islamic law.
Somewhere between Europe and Eurabia lies the compass of tolerance swinging from condescension to fear. The mask of tolerance has slipped a bit, but the left, those among them still capable of reasoning rather than parroting cant and dogma, feel they have no choice but to ride the tiger until it arrives at some congenial destination. They bred the tiger, fed it, nurtured it and if it appears to ride them now, rather than them riding it, they do their best to pay no attention to the shift.
Turning back once more to George Washington's letter, to his statement that there would be no tolerance, only civic equality; we can see once again the wisdom of making civic equality the one and only public test. Even in Washington's time, Tammany Hall and Aaron Burr had begun their work, creating oppressed voting blocks that would help them seize power in New York State, as well as in two national elections. That day had not yet come in 1790 when Washington authored that letter, but it was bound to come. Burr's political heirs would go on to insist on political representation for people they themselves held as chattel and a century hence would swoop on them to declare themselves the new party of civil rights. And the lies would go on being told. Lies told by people who despite what they claimed, only sought to rule over others.
Behind the facade of tolerance are minds oriented on the master-slave relationship, on finding people to rule over, and then to shrink in terror from them when like all master-slave relationships, the slaves eventually rise up. Washington's letter was a declaration that American citizenship should not be based on any form of inferiority. And yet the liberals cry on, tolerance, tolerance, tolerance; enacting their parodies of liberating those whom they themselves have enslaved.
7 comments:
- Danny said...
Excellent piece. Brought to my mind this lecture of Prof. Bauer who basically says the same-
(It's a long speech, I refer to the one minute between 32:20-33:20)
- 30/8/09
- Morry Rotenberg said...
"...tolerance is not equality." I agree completely.
It is ironic that at the very heart of liberal ideology is equality. Yet their policies lead to a persistant underclass and inequality of opportunity. If the conservative principle of liberty were the ideal then there would be no need to tolerate such things as poor grades, unwed motherhood, drug abuse, and etc.
- 30/8/09
- Marc said...
That is true about tolerance out of fear. The next level will probably be intolerance out of supremacy for areas overtaken by Sharia law. And the final level will be the absorption of Western Civilization into a global caliphate. These outcomes are preventable, if the West returns to intellectual honesty, and decisively combats the spread of Islamic fascism.
- 30/8/09
- Keli Ata said...
Absolutely right. The tolerance that liberals are pushing today isn't the polite "agree to disagree" most people have when it comes to discussions of religion and politics and other matters.
Liberals aren't content to agree to disagree. They insist on pushing their agenda. It does indeed start out as pandering to a group they view as inferior. They make the inferior group dependent on them with all sorts of services.
The slave/slave owner relationship.
Eventually the social services and pandering becomes like "bribe food" for a cat that wants increasingly better and more expensive food to eat rather than its regular diet.
The liberals can't keep up with all of the demands, the "slaves" become discontented and angry and viola--terrorism and a reversal of the dynamics in the slave/master relationship.
Tolerance becomes indulgence out of sheer fear.
Wonderful article.
- 30/8/09
- Sultan Knish said...
Thank you all
- 30/8/09
- Anonymous said...
Great article Sultan.
Marc said: "These outcomes are preventable, if the West returns to intellectual honesty, and decisively combats the spread of Islamic fascism". I don't believe the west can return from the brink of disaster, after 2 or 3 generations of brainwashing and diminishing intellectual challenge in the universities, written and visual media, there are very few people able to THINK and think moraly. PC has destroyed thinking, paralized all discourse out of fear of being accused of intolerance. This is why the ones who are still able to see reality turn to the internet, like a person living in a dark, dark room opens a window and the world is normal there and the sun is still shining.
- 30/8/09
- laura r. said...
tolerance is patronizing. to tolerate means that you dont except the same standards of behavior. great read daniel. always thought that was a back handed word.
- 10/2/14


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Getting divorced is widely recognised as one of the most stressful times in your life. You are likely to be offered advice from many sources, and it can become very confusing as to the best options for you and your children. However, if you are equipped with unbiased details, it can enable you to make more informed choices.
We realised that there wasn't a similar UK resource for free information about divorces in the UK and that people would benefit from free factual information for use during a relationship breakdown as well as tips about moving on with their lives - and having fun after a divorce.
Our concern was that there was no single UK resource for interesting features and practical advice on this subject.
Our features and articles are written by experts - who have experience, or a particular interest in this area.
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We've been loaned Casper the caravan, a Compass Casita 586 family caravan, for just over a year now. The Camping and Caravanning Club had given us a challenge of visiting Treasure Houses and Gardens around the UK, and so we're definitely feeling like more seasoned caravanners than when we first started. However, we haven't had a chance to use the caravan as a base for a longer stay at a campsite. And that's something we think a caravan should be great for.
With the summer holidays approaching, it was the next obvious caravan challenge: could we manage to have a beach holiday in the south of Europe, but using the caravan instead of flying and staying in a hotel, apartment, or villa?
So where to go? Europe is a big place.
The Camping and Caravanning Club has a travel service that helps you book campsites abroad for caravans and motorhomes, so we started searching their travel website for ideas.
We only had two weeks off work and with the distances involved, our choice of destinations would be limited. We wanted to take the kids to as many countries as possible and still have at least a week by the hot southern European coast.
Looking at the options available, we decided to go back to a campsite we had been to before: Camping Ca'Savio in Italy.
So, with the destination set, it was time to start planning the trip in more detail. Just how were we going to get from our historic hometown in the heart of the UK to the historic and world-famous floating city of Venice…. with a caravan in tow!
We may have racked up the miles with the Caravan in England and Wales, but we hadn't taken it abroad. Many caravanners take their vans across the channel, but towing in Europe was going to be a new experience for us.
Camping Ca'Savio in Italy is near the lagoon to Venice, and we had previously stayed in a static caravan at Ca'Savio when the kids were younger.
Wouldn't it be great to re-visit but this time bringing our home with us? And, instead of flying over the Alps, what if we could stay there as well?
I had camped in the Alps before, and I knew how picturesque they are, but this would be new for the kids.
For planning the journey with the caravan, we used the Via Michelin website. With the Via Michelin route planner, you can specify that you have a caravan, and it is supposed to select caravan-friendly routes and adjust journey times accordingly. I say "supposed to"… more on that later.
There are a few routes to the Italian coast: through France, through Germany & Switzerland, or through Germany & Austria.
We didn't want long journey times, but as we only had two weeks off work and wanted at least a week at Ca'Savio, the trip was going to be long at both the start and end of the trip.
After much internet searching, we decided on a route, that would take us through France, Belgium, Holland (well, only a bit), Germany, Austria, and to Italy.
Most importantly, we would be towing the caravan over the Alps!
Our first campsite would be Canterbury for a single overnight stay before catching the Eurotunnel the next morning. Our first European campsite would be Burg Lahneck in the Rhine Valley, then followed by a few nights at Seeblick-Toni in the Austrian Alps, before finally spending eight days at Camping Ca'Savio in Italy.
Our return leg would be the same campsites but staying at Camping La Bien Assise in Calais the night before an early Eurotunnel Crossing back to the UK.
To drive across Europe, we got all the required items: hazard triangle, hi-vis vest, breathalyser kits, headlight deflectors, etc. in a neat package I found on Amazon.
We also bought a Vignette for the Austrian Autobahn.
The caravan was made light by removing things we've been using for cooler weather, and instead packed more items for the warmer weather and the beach.
Packing was a lot easier than a holiday by plane: we just needed to put the items into the caravan!
Here are some useful items we found when planning our caravan trip to Europe.
We used the Michelin route planner, Via Michelin, to plan our trips across Europe.
This is free to use and you can create a free account, which enables you to save your route.
Using the Michelin Route Planner we could get an estimated duration for our trips between campsites. However, as we came to find out this wasn't that accurate.
Another route planning tool, which we got at the last minute, was the Garmin Camper GPS (full review coming soon!).
The Garmin Camper is a SatNav specifically for motorhomes and caravans.
We noticed that it planned slightly different routes, sticking to main roads, and also reported a much longer journey time.
I suspect that the Via Michelin assumes you have the Tempo 100 permit to drive at 100kph (around 60mph) in Germany and Austria. Whereas the Garmin Camper assumes you don't and are restricted to 80kph (around 50mph).
As it turned out, the Garmin Camper was much more accurate with the journey times – they were much slower than those calculated by Via Michelin.
Despite travelling from North to South, we only had tolls when we reached Italy and these weren't a problem at all. Either someone was there to charge your card, or you simply put it in the toll machine.
Check for lanes that are marked for caravans, but you'll probably find all lanes are suitable.
All of the Route Planners above should warn you of Tolls. The Michelin planner helped calculate the cost.
The AA also has some good information on European Toll roads.
One thing we did need was a Vignette for driving on the Austrian Autobahn. This is equivalent to buying Road Tax here in the UK, though you can get Vignettes for short periods.
We bought our Vignette from Tolltickets.com, and it arrived in the post before we set off...
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I wanted to be in a show because my older siblings have all been in shows. Being in a show seemed like fun because there were lots of people and lots of fun backstage. Also it looked like fun to be on stage and to have a whole audience in front of you.
You have to be in grade two ballet to be in The Nutcracker, but I got to be in the show when I was in grade one because I wrote a letter to my teacher, Mrs. Bouman. My letter said, "Seeing as I can't be in the Nutcracker, do you know of any other big show that I could be in?" Then Mrs. Bouman wrote me back a note. She said that she did need a small party guest and she asked if I could please tell her if I could be that girl. I was very happy.
I only had three rehearsals because it was my first show. I also went to a costume try-on. I tried on three dresses and the last one was the best for me. My mum had to take up the waist because even that dress was too big. My dress was pink with little roses and bows. Before me, dancers Savannah, Brynn and my sister Hannah had worn that dress.
My first rehearsal was in costume. It was fun. I got to learn lots of things and the other kids that I was dancing with were very nice and I loved to play with them. In the show, I was the youngest child in a family of four children. My stage father was called Gord and my stage mother was called Alison. They were very nice to me.
After the rehearsals, the show took place at Humberside CI. I skipped and ran and watched the other dancers. At the end of the party scene, my stage father carried me off stage and I had to pretend that I was asleep. Before each show, one of the bigger girls did my make-up and hair. They put up my hair in braids across the back of my head. Then I waited in a line with my partners Sarah and Assantuah until all the audience was in their seats. We snuck up the stairs leading to the hall where the audience was sitting and then we waited until the main maid came running toward the front of the stage. Then we all ran down the aisle to the stage. After each show, I took off my costume and my granddad drove me home.
After the last show, we all went to the dance school for the cast party. There were lots of things to eat and drink. I danced and played with the other kids.
I had lots of fun in The Nutcracker and I am looking forward to being in it next year.


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When Jamaica became independent on August 6, 1962, ska music was playing in yards, dancehalls, and in recording studios as this new nation celebrated. It was a spirited music, full of promise, optimism, and energy and it was the perfect sound to showcase to the world. Now that Jamaica was independent, what better way to demonstrate the culture, beauty, and art of Jamaica than through ska, both as a music and as a dance. The Jamaican government, tourist and business industry, and newly developing music industry made it their mission to bring Jamaican music to the world, through events they termed Operation Jump Up. This is the story of that effort and how, for a brief time, ska rivaled the Beatles and the Twist.
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Philip Zelikow, a longtime diplomat who worked as counselor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and was the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, has been forthright in his opposition to the harsh interrogation techniques used under the Bush administration.
Zelikow disagreed with the legal reasoning employed by Bush's Office of Legal Counsel to justify the use of harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding. And he claims that copies of a memo he circulated to detail his opposing views were destroyed by the White House.
Writing in Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog, Zelikow details:
"At the time, in 2005, I circulated an opposing view of the legal reasoning. My bureaucratic position, as counselor to the secretary of state, didn't entitle me to offer a legal opinion. But I felt obliged to put an alternative view in front of my colleagues at other agencies, warning them that other lawyers (and judges) might find the OLC views unsustainable. My colleagues were entitled to ignore my views. They did more than that: The White House attempted to collect and destroy all copies of my memo. I expect that one or two are still at least in the State Department's archives."
He also described his views in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow:
ZELIKOW: Many years earlier when I had been a law student and had been a practicing lawyer, I had worked, actually, on issues of treatment of prisoners and that whole body of constitutional law. So when I saw the memoranda, I was struck by the fact that, even aside from the policy problems, the legal reasoning seemed deeply unsound to me, and I wasn't sure that the president and his advisers understood just how potentially questionable and unreasonable many lawyers and judges would find this reasoning. And so, I thought it was important to just say, hey, there is another view here of this law, and a lot of people would regard the views in these memos as, to say the least, outliers...
It was my job to fight this with every ounce of energy at my disposal, using the legal means in front of me. Frankly, that's the same way they should have approached their job, is work within the institutions you've got, the institutions our country gives you.
They weren't committing an act of obstruction of justice by trying to destroy copies of the memos, and they did not succeed in destroying copies -- all the copies of these memos. Just because they disagree with an alternative view doesn't mean that my view was right, but it was important to register the fact that, hey, folks need to understand, if they didn't already, a lot of lawyers might believe that this is a radical, indefensible, unreasonable interpretation of the relevant law.
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A good correlation was also observed between the leaf total chlorophyll measured directly by spectrophotometric method and the data acquired indirectly by SPAD readings.
Among the models fitted to the stem height and color variation data, linear and exponential models performed best, however some differences were observed between the cultivars.
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But he is put in mind of these temptations by the arrival on the nation's TV screens of the Snooker World Championship. FB assumes that this is offered to assist the nation's insomniacs who always find this time of year, when daylight extends at both ends of the day, a trial.
At first sight, Fantasy Bob concedes the resemblances between snooker and cricket are slight. Although outfields at prestigious grounds are often compared to billiard tables and while the green playing surface, the red – and nowadays white and pink – balls have a superficial air of similarity, it is uncommon for a cricketer to run up to the wicket in a bow tie and shiny paisley pattern waistcoat. It is also uncommon for a batsman to twist his bat into a lump of blue chalk before taking strike. FB must therefore conclude that the games are different.
Cricket's relationship with the evil weed is no less reprehensible. Cricketers themselves were as tobacco dependent as any other group of the population, as any search through old photo albums will confirm. But cigarette cards were a phenomenon. The first set of cricket cigarette cards was issued in 1886 by WD & HO Wills - a year before an equivalent football set. These proved hugely popular and many other manufacturers followed suit. Sets showed counties, players, touring teams, coaching tips, everything and anything. They stayed in vogue until the 1950s. Nowadays serious prices are paid by collectors for early samples. A rare card of WG Grace was auctioned with a reserve price of £3000 earlier this year. Start searching your attic.
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The Benson and Hedges Cup ran from 1972 to 2002. At first 55 overs then 50 overs; there was a group stage then knock out rounds leading to a Lords final. It is therefore the progenitor of the CB40 tournament. Scotland joined the competition in 1980, a fundamental and important step on the long slow climb to associate and ODI status. Scotland pulled off notable scalps from time to time, their first victory being against Lancashire in 1986, but they also had to take some severe medicine. The record for the highest total conceded falls to them - 388-7 against Essex in 1992 - Graham Gooch getting 127. But it is 2 times winners Hampshire who have the lowest total - they were skittled for 50 by Yorkshire in 1991. Lancashire won the trophy 4 times.
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FB will mention in passing with a sigh the challenge here for Scottish sport - all the companies supporting English cricket - and English rugby and football for that matter - are significant companies also in Scotland. But the thought of, say O2 or Vodaphone, sponsoring a Scottish national team or competition is never on the cards. Some playing fields will never be levelled.
For snooker the vice of the weed has been replaced by the vice of gambling on-line betting in the form of Betfred.com who now support the World Championship.
The experience in Britain is replicated across the world as tobacco sponsorship has moved from a dominant position to be outlawed. For example, the Indian Cricket team once wore the Wills logo a brand of the Indian Tobacco Company. But Sachin Tendulkar, amongst others, has made very public his refusal to endorse any tobacco or alcohol product. And, quite rightly, alcohol looks like it is also retreating. It was not so long ago that Autralian-England-W Indies tri series would have been fuelled by XXXX, Tetleys and Red Stripe and taken place at the Fosters Oval. No more.
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FB is pleased to note reports that the BBC might relinquish its incomprehensible purchase of F1 shortly. Perhaps that will leave some space (if not cash) available for the channel to recapture its proud heritage to bring us the present smoke free versions of the John Player League and the B&H. If not then the paint drying website might well prove to have its attractions after all.


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Lots to see on the field at the Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. There was ab- and pectastic rapping hotness Nelly, channeling Jamie Foxx. There was Nelly's ample sized bulge. Or perhaps that was his ill-fitting cup. Or both.
WHEN YOU JUMP, a few more of a bulging Nelly running the bases. No wonder he is always smiling. How much do you wanna bet that Ashanti is smiling, too, damn her.
And last but not least, a full profile. Funny, but this is the most clothes I've seen Nelly wear in a long time. And he is just as hot, no?
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A Day In The Life Of A Writer: Jane Eastwood/
My biggest issues with my writing are DISCIPLINE and CONFUSION!
I have so many ideas/projects swimming about it my head that I tend to let them do just that – "swim" and postpone "I will do it tomorrow".
This is a BIG mistake on my part. I write better first thing in the morning. That's okay you might say but if I go to my solitary confinement room (which is essential to me, I can't cope with interruptions OF ANY KIND when writing) at that time I end up being there sometimes all day long and nothing else gets done.
Consequently – I have an additional"guilt" factor running around in my mind too.
I think "Must get the hovering/washing/ironing" done BEFORE I write which is FATAL as by the time I have done all the menial tasks I am way beyond wanting to write anything at all.
During household chores I try to simplify the confusion of "where to start" and "categorise" these projects – I want to write a book about my disability which is profound deafness. I am also currently "blogging". My youngest son will be forty soon, I have had a family tree made so imminently the PRIORITY is that I MUST write an accompanying history of the family to complete the birthday gift.
I tend to work much better with this kind of "deadline" which comes back to "discipline." I know I will discipline myself to complete that project because in my mind I "have to do it". I get lazy about the blog and don't keep up with it regularly enough so when I update that it tends to be an all day project. That leaves little time for my book on disability.
I benefitted so much from working with Bridget on courses exactly because there were deadlines to fulfil.
I need to make rules and I need to adhere to them for example, I could set aside certain days of the week for writing.
That said I find "spontaneity" is an essential tool for my writing so once again I am confronted with another dilemma, discipline and rules versus spontaneity. Tricky.
The strangest phenomenon of all is totally inexplicable to me. Writing is the EASIEST PART! When I write it just "flows" and all gets poured on to the page with ease. Getting my head around all these other challenges is what "blocks" me.


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Let's take a peek inside Jugetsudo today…
…it's a Japanese tea shop in the 6th arrondissement (super close to Pierre Hermé and Poilâne).
They also have locations in Tokyo and Tsukuba, let's go there on our next trip!
For now, we'll start with a bowl of matcha.
…and whisk.
All frothy and warming on a rainy Paris afternoon. We ate this with candied citron and three types of wagashi (in NYC and Honolulu, Minamoto Kitchoan is a good place for wagashi).
Next up, gyokuro and tea cookies. I love gyokuro because it's so umami-rich and savory. Almost like drinking soup.
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- underexplored in SEM
- Non-nested tests are specifically designed to test competing models which involve different variables.
- ECVI (Expected cross-validation index), in its usual variant is equivalent to BCC, and is useful for comparing non-nested models, lower ECVI is better fit. EVIC can be used to compare non-nested models and allows the determination of which model will cross-validate best in anohter sample of the same size and simliarly selected. Choose the model that has the lowest ECVI.
- Measures like the AIC and ECVI are good for comparingnon-nested models.
- If you are interested in comparing non-nested models (where one modelcannot be derived from the other through suitable parameterrestrictions) then you could employ non-nested tests. In essence, criteria such as AIC and ECVI provide a ranking only, they cannottell you whether one model outperforms another in a statistical sense. These measures provide a way of ranking models, the rank is on the basis of cross-validation capacity. use one of the single sample cross-validation indices, such as Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) or the Expected Cross Validation Index. The idea here is that you have a set of competing models that may or nay not be nested. The AIC and/or ECVI provide a means of comparing models and choosing one that will cross-validate best ina nother simple of the same size and similarly selected. These measures do not make sense in isolation but only comparatively. You would choose the model that has the smallest value of either the AIC or ECVI. I'm naming these two, but there are others. Perhaps the ECVI is the simplest.
- Browne, M. W., & Cudeck, R. (1989). Single sample cross-validation indices for covariance structures. Multivariate Behavioral Research 24(4), 445-455.
AIC-- Akaike's informational criteria
- one can compare non-nested competing models. Then one could choose from among them the one with the smallest AIC.
- One value of the AIC is that it allows researchers to choose among competing non-nested models in terms of predictive validity criteria. However, we rarely find outright comparisons of competing models.Typically we examine our own models and modify them according to statistical and stubstantive criteria. In this case, one can observe changes in the AIC as modifications proceed. As long as the AIC is going down, then the addition of a parameter will "cross validate" well in a future sample of the same size.
- As modificationsproceed the AIC's will drop dramatically.
- AIC is fine to use when modelsare non-nested, but only when the same variables are used in competing models. if competing models had the *same number*of manifest variables (but not necessarily the*same* manifest variables) and the same sample size,I could see a case for arguing that AIC-like criteriacould be used to determine "which model best fits itsown data". The problem is that the point estimates of AIC-likecriteria are partially dependent upon the number ofmanifest variables. If different models have differentnumbers of manifest variables, then it would be difficultto meaningfully compare values across models.
- AIC is not a test to test whether model A is a statistically significant improvement over model B. AIC is a decision criterion, not a test.
- "Model AIC" is the value associated withthe model you are estimating. If thecompeting models involve the same observedvariables, then "Independence model AIC"and "Saturated model AIC" will be the samefor all the competing models.
- Akaike, H. (1987). Factor analysis and AIC. Psychometrika 52(3), 317-332.
- Haughton et al. (1997), Information and other criteria in structural equation model selection, in: Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 26, 1477-1516.
- Kieseppä, I. A. (2003), AIC and Large Samples", Philosophy of Science 70(5), 1265-1276.
- Kumar, A., & Sharma, S. (1999). A metric measure for direct comparison of competing models in covariance structure analysis. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 169-197.
- Rigdon, E. E. (1999). Using the Friedman method of ranks for model comparison in structural equation modeling. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 219-232.
BIC--Bayesian information criterion
- Bayesian Information Criterion values can be compared between the twomodels as well by determining the difference of each model's BIC. If the difference is 5 points or more, the models are likely to be different - 10 points or more and you have near certainty. Again, if the models are different, favor the model with the lowest BIC. Otherwise, favor the more parsimonious model.
- The BIC can be used for comparing non-nested models. Raftery (1995) presents guidelines for interpreting differences between BIC-values. The smaller the BIC (as a negative number) the better the fit. A difference of at least 6 is taken as strong evidence that the model with the smaller BIC-value fits better than the other model. Use of BIC for hypothesis testing or selecting models may be controversial,because its theoretical rationale is in Bayesian statistics, not inclassical significance testing. In addition, it must be stressed that BIC gives only an approximation. Computing the actual Bayes factor inSEM-context may be too complicated. From a practical point of view, forsmall samples BIC may select models the researcher will consider too simplefrom a theoretical point of view. Raftery, A.E. (1995), Bayesian model selection in social research. In P.V.Marsden (Ed.), Sociological Methodology 1995. Oxford: Blackwell.
- For BIC, Raftery (1993) has suggested a difference of 5 points or more is indicative of a difference whereas 10 or more is near certainty of a difference (favoring the lower BIC).
- Nagin, D. S. (1999).Analyzing developmental trajectories: A semiparametric, group-basedapproach. Psychological Methods, 4(2), 139-157., the author uses theBayesian information criterion (BIC) "as a basis for selecting the optimal model
- Kass and Raftery (1995) and Raftery (1995) have argued that BICcan be used for comparison of both nested and unnested models under fairlygeneral circumstances" (p. 147)
- Haughton et al., 1997, Information and other criteria in structural equation model selection, Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 26, 1477-1516. The best performer in this simulation study was BIC*,
- Raftery, A. E. (1995). Bayesian model selection in social research. In P. V. Marsden (Ed.), Sociological methodology (pp. 111-163). Cambridge: Basil Blackwell.
- Suppose M1 and M2 are two nonnested competing models. BIC 12 is commonly applied to model comparions. If BIC 12 > 2 and BIC12 > 6, respectively, then support M2. When M1 is nested within M2, it can't give a definite conclusion if BIC12 is within the range between 0 and 2. For example, if M1 is a nonstructurd covariance matrix (a saturated model). M2 is a correlated 4-factor model. If BIC12=687, then we select M2. If M3 is a uncorrelated 4-factor model. BIC32=378. Then we select M2. Thus, a CFA model with correlated 4-factor fits the data much better. For example, if BIC54= 492, then we select M4. If BIC76=401, then we select M6. ---Lee, S.Y., Song, X.Y., Skevington,S., and Hao, Y.T. (2005), Application of structural equation models to quality of life. Structural Equation Modeling, 12 (3), 435-453.
Econometrics---encompassing principle
- Econometricians have done much morethan SEM users have in this area. Oneapproach is called the "encompassing principle"(cites below). Here the models to be compared,say A and B, need not be nested. but theremust be some model C such that both A and Bare nested within C. (C may be equal to A or toB.) 1)Mizon, Grayham E. (1984), "The EncompassingApproach in Econometrics," in Econometricsand Quantitative Economics, David F. Hendryand Kenneth F. Wallis, eds. Oxford, UK: BasilBlackwell, pp. 135-72. 2)Jean-Francois Richard (1986),"The Encompassing Principle and ItsApplication to Testing Non-nested Hypotheses,"Econometrika, 54 (May), 657-78. 3)Friedman, Milton (1937), "The Use of Ranks toAvoid the Assumption of Normality Implicit in theAnalysis of Variance," Journal of the AmericanStatistical Association, 32, 675-701. 4) Bollen, K. A., & Ting, K. (1993). Confirmatorytetrad analysis. Sociological Methodology, 23,147-175.
2SLS (two-stage least squares) Estimator for SEM (Structural Equation Models)
- Non-nested tests can beadopted for SEM by using Ken Bollen's 2sls estimator, which works onsingle equations http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~eoczkows/home.htm#2sls
- Farrell, M. and Oczkowski, E. (2002)'Are Market Orientation and LearningOrientation Necessary for Superior Organizational Performance?' Journalof Market-Focused Management, 5(3), 197-217.
- Oczkowski, E. (2002) 'Discriminating Between Measurement Scales usingNon-nested Tests and 2SLS: Monte Carlo Evidence.' Structural EquationModeling, 9, 103-125.
- Oczkowski, E. and Farrell, M. (1988) 'Discriminating between MeasurementScales using Non-Nested Tests and Two Stage Estimators: The Case ofMarket Orientation.' International Journal of Research in Marketing, 15(4), 349-366.
Reading list
- Kim, I. J., Zane, N. W. S., & Hong, S. (2002). Protective factors against substance use among Asian American youth: A test of the peer cluster theory. Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 565-584.--- example paper
- Rust, R.T., Lee. C., and E. Valente Jr. (1995) 'Comparing CovarianceStructure Models: A General Methodology.' International Journal ofResearch in Marketing.' vol 12, pp279-291. --The Rust paper uses the BCVL (Bayesian cross-validated likelihood method).This method employs the traditional MLE procedure for estimation butthen employs a Bayesian philosophy for model comparison and requiressuitable samples for cross validation.
- Browne, M. W., & Cudeck, R. (1989). Single sample cross-validation indices for covariance structures. Multivariate Behavioral Research 24(4), 445-455.
- Marcoulides, G. A., & Hershberger, S. L. (1997). Multivariate statistical methods: A first course. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- Maruyama, G. M. (1998). Basics of structural equation modeling. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Kline, R. B. (1998). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. New York: The Guilford Press.
- Kaplan, D. (2000). Structural equation modeling: Foundations andExtensions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Levy, R., & Hancock, G. R. (2004). "A framework of statistical tests forcomparing covariance structure models." Paper presented at the AnnualMeeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA,April, 2004.


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Cincinnati offers incredible museums throughout the city, but there is one museum in the city that tends to be known more by tourists than locals. That underrated museum is the American Sign Museum. The American Sign Museum provides education and celebrates the art of sign making. As a local, I was immediately mad at myself for not visiting the museum sooner! It truly is a unique gem that is very special to our city.
The outside of the building sets the tone of the vintage signs you will see.
The inside of the museum is like walking down memory lane. It's amazing how the signs connect to the history of each person who visits. Our family walked around the museum for a bit on our own before taking the tour.
I highly recommend taking the tour to get the most value out of your admission.(Wednesday – Saturday 11 am and 2 pm -& Sunday 2 pm) You also get a better understanding of what you are observing during your visit. There were so many details that we missed on our own that were really eye opening during the tour. Pay close attention to find out which sign still has a bullet hole in it. The tour lasts about an hour. If you have a larger group, you can contact the museum about setting up a private tour.
The American Sign Museum is a labor of love from it's founder Tod Swormstedt, former editor and publisher of Signs of the Times magazine. He wanted a place to preserve signs where guests could appreciate the art and untold stories of these incredible time capsules of history.
The exhibit space is 19,000 sq. ft with ample space to showcase the signs up close.
The American Sign Museum has additional space available to develop. We got to take a peek at the additional 20,000 sq. ft of undeveloped space that has a lot more incredible signs that have yet to be displayed.
Admission Prices
*prices were current during our visit. Check website before visiting.
- Adult $15.00
- Children 12 and under free with accompanying adult
- Seniors (65+) $10.00
- Students (with ID) $10.00
- Active Duty Military $10.00
- Groups of 10 or more Please schedule and reserve in advance
Tour Schedule
Wednesday – Saturday 11:00 a.m and 2:00 p.m.
Sunday 2:00 p.m.
You can find out more about the American Sign Museum from their website.
The American Sign Museum is located at 1330 Monmouth Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45225.
Thanks to the American Sign Museum for hosting our visit.