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Apartment sector creating dream scenario for renters, say experts
Calgary's buyers' market for an increasing inventory of apartment-style condos is also translating into one of the best renters' market in recent history, according to new statistics from Canada's housing agency.
And an already-rising supply of apartments for rent, due to the city's economic slump, is expected to jump even further this year.
The 30 per cent of apartment condos traditionally bought by investors to offer for rent will combine with new rental-only units being built to push Calgary's rental vacancy rate to seven per cent by this October, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC).
The head of the association representing the residential rental industry, however, says the city's vacancy rate may already have hit seven per cent – or even higher.
That compares to 5.3 per cent in October 2015 and 1.4 per cent in fall 2014.
In 2013, the vacancy rate was just one per cent.
Meanwhile, the City of Calgary released its 2016 census earlier this week, revealing that the vacancy rate for dwellings in April increased to a 16-year high. The City reported 20,800 units were empty in April, a 67 per cent jump from the same time last year. That put the city's vacancy rate at 4.3 per cent, it's highest since 2000.
The City bases its vacancy rate on the percentage of all dwellings that are available to be occupied that are not currently occupied, regardless of whether they are available for rent or not.
Richard Cho, senior market analyst in Calgary for CMHC's Prairie region, noted vacancy rates this year have generally been on the decline, with some areas of the city and sectors of the industry being more impacted that others. For example, he noted there were 6,196 apartment condominiums already under construction in March this year – almost one-third of which will likely be investor owned and become part of the secondary rental market when completed. By June, that number had jumped to 7,225 (with a concentration in the southeast, northwest and the Beltline), with just 237 new apartment condo starts in that month.
Cho noted continued construction in the apartment sector, in particular, means both buyers and renters will have more choice in where to live – especially in the current economic downturn where both employment and in-migration have declined.
"The seven per cent is well above what we typically see. That means more options, more deals," said Cho.
Calgary Residential Rental Association executive director Gerry Baxter suggested vacancies in some areas of the city are even higher than what CMHC is projecting.
"Some companies, with the larger towers, could see vacancies of 15 to 25 per cent," said Baxter, whose organization represents owners of about 65,000 rental units in the city that range from small investors to large companies.
Overall, he said the vacancy rate could already be between seven and 10 per cent. Baxter noted most of the apartment rentals in Calgary are located downtown and in the Beltline.
As part of Calgary's homebuilding industry, Baxter said the rental accommodation sector is used to the cyclical nature of its business.
However, given the combination of a more robust investor market and the flurry of purpose-built rentals — a sector that had been stagnant in Calgary for some years until the last three years of strong build — "we have not seen anything like this in recent memory. It is truly a tenants' market."
Baxter added the current situation means many landlords have been forced to lower rents and/or offer additional incentives such as free cable and utilities to attract would-
be renters.
CREB® statistics reveal the same continued lag in the apartment resale market that is similarly reflected in other multi-family resale sectors. While June was the busiest the city has seen in 11 months with 311 apartment sales, overall activity in the sector was still down, year over year, by 22 per cent.
CREB® chief economist Ann-Marie Lurie said rising vacancy rates will naturally place downward pressure on rental rates.
She also echoed Cho's comments that, moving forward, new rental apartment buildings will join continued ownership product offered for rent to keep vacancies elevated and rents on the downward trend.
CMHC forecasts rents will drop to an average $1,270 for a two-bedroom apartment by October this year, compared to $1,332 in October 2015.
Cho expects the vacancy rate will improve to 5.5 per cent by fall of 2017, with a "modest" improvement in employment and net migration.
However, because the rate will continue to be well above historical norms, CMHC predicts continued pressure on landlords will see a further reduction in average rents to $1,260 by October next year, for that same two-bedroom unit.
Baxter agreed there will be little improvement for landlords until at least 2017, especially when apartment owners not only face stiff competition for renters, but also high turnover and higher operating costs.
"It is bad this year, and maybe won't be as bad next year, but it will not be a turnaround," he said.


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China's apparent oil demand in November fell by 2.1% to an average 9.9 million barrels per day (b/d) or 40.88 million metric tons (mt) versus year-ago data, according to a Platts analysis of China's latest government data.
The November average marked the second time this year that China's apparent oil demand has contracted, following a 2.3% year-over-year decline in September.
The dip in apparent oil demand last month was due to relatively lower refining activity. Crude oil processing by refineries, as reported by the National Bureau of Statistics on December 10, was down 0.6% versus a year ago to an average 9.81 million b/d.
Oil product imports in November were 2.82 million mt, down 19.4% from a year ago. Oil products exports were 2.11 million mt, slipping 1.9% from November 2012. This resulted in net oil product imports of 710,000 mt, a 47.4% decrease from a year ago, according to General Administration of Customs data released November 8.
"The negative growth in November reflected still-subdued economic activity in China, particularly as industrial production in the country showed slower growth," said Song Yen Ling, Platts senior writer for China. "Based on Platts' calculations, gasoline was the only product among China's major fuels that saw an increase in apparent demand in November."
Apparent demand for gasoline totaled 8.03 million mt in November, a year-over-year increase of 3.8%. Domestic output rose an annual 3.3% last month to 8.33 million mt, while exports slipped 9.1% to 300,000 mt. Traditionally, China has not been an importer of gasoline.
Apparent demand for gasoil totaled 14.39 million mt in November, a 2.3% drop from November 2012 and the third straight month of decline. Gasoil -- used in the heavy transport and industrial sectors – accounts for the largest proportion of all oil products consumed in China. However, demand for gasoil has ebbed this year, mirroring the nation's economic slowdown. There were no imports of the fuel last month.
Gasoil output in November fell 2.5% from year-ago levels to 14.6 million mt. Exports fell 30% year over year to 210,000 mt. Despite being relatively lower than a year ago, gasoil outflows were still higher than the third-quarter average of 90,000 mt, driven in large part by new export quotas for state refiners in the fourth quarter.
Fuel oil apparent demand plunged 23.9% versus a year earlier to 2.68 million mt. Output fell 4.2% versus last November to 2.16 million mt. Net imports slid 59.1% to 520,000 mt on the back of a 29.3% drop in imports to 1.47 million mt. Meanwhile, exports of fuel oil rose 17.3% from a year ago to 950,000 mt.
"We are increasingly seeing more crude oil being used by independent "teapot" refiners in eastern China," said Song. These refiners have the capability to crack both straight-run fuel oil and crude oil, depending on availability of feedstock.
For the first 11 months of 2013 China's apparent oil demand averaged 9.81 million b/d, a 3% increase from a year ago and greater than the 2.2% expansion in apparent oil demand for the same period in 2012 versus 2011.
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Roses and chocolates and cute teddy bears are nice and every girl likes them, but on this occasion I wanted to do something a little more intimate.
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Anton Crepinsek '13 - The group met at 7:30 a.m. today to ride to the mountain - Pichincha. We loaded up three 4X4 vehicles with backpacks, food, and water and set out. The trip alone up to the mountain was full of excitement. Trucks fishtailed in the mud, and the wheels got stuck in small crevices.
We finally reached the base camp after several hours. We began to climb the mountain as the mist poured in all around us. Several times, we could hear the voices of the others even though we could not see them through the clouds around us. The lack of oxygen made our lungs, heart, and muscles scream as they struggled to work efficiently during the climb. For the few that reached the summit, the view was incredible. It was as if we were standing in a different world. A cliff dropped off into the mist on one side, and the barren slope of the mountain we had just climbed lay out before us on the other.
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Jess, The Rogue Traderette, has a few insights into what life is like as a trader that many did not tell her before she ventured into the industry. Trading is a difficult, time consuming, and incredibly stressful job, but there were a number of facts about trading that Jess was not made aware of.
One of the more interesting facts was that "They failed to mention that I would have to dig into my past, unravel my mind and battle a few demons in order to have any chance of succeeding." So, for aspiring traders, Jess seems to be suggesting that it's time to dig deep into the inner you.
Another interesting note was that she was never told that 90% of traders fail, which I am sure is a fact many that could cause aspiring traders to turn another way and look for a career with a bit higher of a success rate.
But the most interesting at all was her final statement, "they especially didn't tell me that I'd happily put up with all of the above because contemplating life without trading is akin to having my head shaved and my legs lopped off."
Despite all the difficult tasks Jess has faced and overcome as a trader, the career is now embedded in her and she is more than happy to deal with the stresses and difficulties that every trader is faced with.


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Building market opportunity and women's networks in MENA and Africa
By Madeleine White
Reflections on Trade+ Impact summit, in Ifrane, Morocco 19-23rd September 2016
Designed to increase the impact women-led social enterprises have in their communities, the inaugural Trade +Impact summit in Ifrane, Morocco focussed on addressing 2 key sectors: Craft/textiles (by hand) and Agribusiness for cosmetics. The idea of an event that linked real business being done and investments being made to wider discussion around inclusion and theory was an exciting one – and indeed had been 5 years in the pipeline.
I was delighted to be contributing to discussion around the importance of Impact investment and social enterprise within wider economic development, based on Challenges Worldwide role within the ACRE consortium, and Challenges Capital role as syndicate manager.
Says Kathleen Holland, founder of Trade +Impact:
"We were keen to establish a new way of collaborating, evidencing practical outcomes to discussion points that have been part of the Women's Economic Empowerment discussion for several years. We picked Trade, Social Impact Investment, Skills Development (with a focus on technology), Networking and Advocacy as the pillars at the heart of this summit, as we felt they most closely addressed the challenges faced by women in these regions and sectors."
Sponsored by the Moroccan government's trade and investment arms, Invest in Morocco, as well as educational partners Al Akawayn University and trade partners Handicraft from Morocco -Trade+Impact saw over 150 women from across five continents gather to explore their role in making change happen.
The idea behind targeting the sectors was that both agribusiness and craft sit amongst two of the top employers for women in Africa and the Middle East. Indeed, they are most often run by women-led social enterprises that positively impact their employees and communities. In West Africa alone 16,000,000 women collect and harvest the Shea nut, 10% of which goes directly into cosmetics. Morocco was a great place to launch this concept and trade fair, as it straddles both the MENA region and Africa, two regions that are seen as having significant potential but are also still challenged by real barriers to growth, particularly in terms of equal access to economic opportunities for women.
As Microsoft Social Media lead Miri Rodrigues shared in her impassioned speech,
"We are all actors in creating a reality that people can understand and use. Own your story and use it to take your work to the world."
With that clarion call echoing in my ears I set to putting the final touches to a panel discussion and workshop around my own area of expertise, linking economic growth with social purpose and knowledge share (in terms of access with finance and investment) to intelligent design around innovative investment solutions.
However, as ever, it is important to contexualise the challenges from the outset. This was done throughout the event, but was discussed with particular focus at the panel I participated in, which focussed on Social Impact investment.
The environment:
Invest in Morocco shared the point that in order to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) by 2030, the amount of investment made globally must triple – to around $2500 billion. The panel then aligned this to job creation figures King Abdullah of Jordan highlighted a couple of years ago; that the 25% youth unemployment in region needs to be met with 51 million new jobs by 2020 if countries in the MENA region are to develop and progress as per their potential.
A world in which women have the same opportunity as their male counterparts to design and implement business solutions that create wealth and ensure the sustainable prosperity of their communities, is seen as critical, if global growth targets are to be met. The 2015 Mckinsey report estimates that if women participate identically to men in the economy, by 2025, the world's economy (annual GDP) would expand by US$ 28 trillion, or 26%.
So this equation applies:
Investment = Jobs = Women's Economic Empowerment
= Community Impact and Socio-Economic Growth
But in order to work out how this might work, it is essential that the right kind of evidence and measures are gathered. Therein lies the first key barrier within a traditional approach to development funding – and inversely the key reason for the increasing importance of impact investment and social enterprise in the development landscape.
Traditional NGO and development funding is reported in frameworks and LFA's dating back to the seventies. By making the reporting backward-looking it is very difficult to create forward-looking, sustainable programmes. Basically it's like saying to a married women with children;
"Yes, you are welcome to start a high powered job, but make sure you still do all the housework and childcare … and PS, also ensure that you report on both but with particular focus on the innovation you have introduced in your new role."
It can be done, but it is very difficult. How she reports and how her success is measured will have a direct impact on her performance. She is much more likely to experience success if she is able to look at the picture as one, getting in the help she needs and working hand in hand with husband, colleagues and family to come up with a solution that allows her to thrive in all aspects of her work.
In other words, a whole new approach is needed; one that is flexible enough to showcase efficiency in terms of time and scale but recognises the underpinning structure as being critical to ensuring long term sustainability.
Moving back to the world of socio-economic growth, fuelled by new approaches to investment and enterprise support – we can see a need for a similar kind of approach emerging. Hybrid structures, such as represented by Challenges ( NGO + social enterprise), or ACRE, (NGO consortium + investment syndicate) are much more likely to be able to embrace a wider range of participants and outcomes. The measure of success is to what degree new style of interaction allows long terms sustainability.
How do we make this happen?
At the forefront must be the fundamental desire to make change happen. This means that collectively (investors, NGOs, enterprises, educators and development funders) want to build greater understanding for the role of social enterprise and impact investment. If we are all to become actors within an environment that is able to support sustainable growth, there must first be a way to unify our aims. Trust can be built between stakeholders by using the kind of digital or online infrastructure the Challenges Group is able to offer through its marketplace technology (evidencing the importance business interaction even at micro level).
The kind of evidence that is built over time by tracking enterprises and investment performance, is driven by regular monthly reporting. Enterprises report on traditional financial key performance indicators (KPIs), but also identify socio economic ones – (as defined for example by IRIS). These might include training opportunities, number of marginalised suppliers etc, whilst recording the number of women owned companies or the impact of all this on employment and community growth. These value-added metrics are able to show the difference between the return on investment (ROI) in terms of impact investment versus the more traditional investor driven ROI measures.
Technology must be part of this, with engaged individuals at the heart of driving this narrative – and the evidence that proves development. Transparency means that if an enterprise that has been invested in is struggling, intervention comes before it is at crisis point. Ongoing collaboration also means opportunities might emerge that had not been thought of in the past.
Education – of both investors and those looking for investment, is important in narrowing the gap. Very often investors are not aware of the social impact looking at things slightly differently can have. The language of investment is very different to the language of entrepreneurs, even though both desire the same outcome – sustainable profitability. By creating a digital frontline infrastructure that looks at bridging understanding through evidence and regular reporting, investors can be educated in what they should be looking for also.
For those looking for investment, education is also a critical factor. The World Bank Group for example established that the link between solid accounting standards and effective service delivery is clear cut. It is common knowledge that SME's in general struggle with this aspect of business management and studies have shown that women owned business in particular can lack financial literacy skills focus.
Increasingly NGO's are offering technical assistance (TA) to help enterprises become investment ready. However there are also great online resources. Organisations such as ACCA via ACCA-X offer an educational technology platform that builds a greater understanding of fundamental financial reporting needs, with the International Trade Centre and indeed Challenges College offering great create content around doing business generally. These kinds of platforms offer practical insights and educational pathways as well as the necessary capacity building tools. They support understanding in terms of the role of connected supply chain and markets and why these are so critical in supporting women owned businesses, from micro to multinational.
We also discussed the importance of on physical networking and storytelling. Whether online or in person, this is a form of mentoring. It is evidenced that sharing experience strength and hope between individuals, communities and regions makes it possible to bridge some of the gaps of confidence as well as understanding. However, once again there are also great online platforms. Nina-iraq, is a prime example of this in action as is UN Women's Empower Women platform.
Finally – empowerment is of course the motor behind it all. If individual entrepreneurs are empowered through KPIs relevant to them (both financial and social are critical) growth will happen in a way that is both relevant and innovative. Individuals are empowered to take responsibility for what they feel they can deliver and become stakeholders in their own performance. In turn, regular reporting (through live digital reporting) empowers investors – as they can keep a careful eye on the portfolio of organisations they are supporting.
This kind of interaction allows enterprises to move from fear driven survival to opportunity driven growth. At the same time living relationships are able mitigate investor risk and therefore allow for exploration of more innovative approaches on their part.
A final word from 22 year old student volunteer Hajar:
"Equality is not a given, it is a task to accomplish."
And we individually and collectively have a responsibility to make this kind of scalable growth happen, showing that women are at the heart of making socio-economic transformation of nations a reality.
For those of you who want to dig a bit more deeply a great report launched by FSG, which ACRE contributed to can be viewed here . Focussed on East Africa it looks at how market-shaping interventions could transform the impact investment is able to have in transforming economies.


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The final set of Mother Nature's sense of humour.
If you want to go back and look at the preceding sets then set one is here and set two is here.
Not forgetting once again to say 'thank you' to neighbour Dordie who sent these glorious pictures on to me.
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Shortly after the House passed a two-week spending bill on Thursday, the Senate followed with a vote of 81-14. President Trump signed the bill Friday, averting a government shutdown. The stopgap measure will keep the federal government open through Dec. 22. Republicans, who are trying to finish work on their tax bill, need the support of Democrats in order to put together a two-year budget deal that will pass. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday Democrats "will not leave here without a DACA fix," meaning the budget must include deportation protection for undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children.
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British Fashion Design: Rag Trade Or Image Industry?
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British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the education system and the commercial sector. Stressing the social context of cultural production, McRobbie focuses on British fashion and its graduate designers as products of youth street culture, and analyses how designers from diverse backgrounds have created a labour market for themselves, remodelling `enterprise culture` to suit their own careers.
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Wishing you all the happiest of holidays! (Shown above are some of the favorite vintage ornaments on our tree, I especially love the teal one with white and red stripes.)
Wishing you all the happiest of holidays! (Shown above are some of the favorite vintage ornaments on our tree, I especially love the teal one with white and red stripes.)
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So pretty! Happy holidays to you and yours, too!
Happy Holidays to you as well! I hope they are relaxing.
Merry Christmas! I love your blog and read it every time you post! Thanks for all of your inspiring cooking and craft ideas and for all the links you post (especially the iphone apps!)
Merry Christmas! The ornaments are beautiful :)
Beautiful picture. I love your ornaments
Have a wonderful Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too. I love the ornaments. My cat has terrorized my tree and some of my ornaments were sacrificed.
Oh! We had those snowflake ornaments growing up! Beautiful!
Merry Christmas to you & your family! I look forward to your posts:)
I swear we had the bell-shaped ornaments when I was growing up! Ours were teal when they still had all their color!
Merry Christmas to you too!
Lovely photo! Some of the ornaments remind me of ones we had as kids. Happy holidays to everyone.
A Merry Christmas to you, too!
Everyone stay safe today. Those of us in the Midwest are having a doozy of a blizzard.
I love those plastic snowflakes! I have only one or two left from my childhood and I cherish them.
Merry Christmas!
Happy Christmas!! I've been reading not martha almost daily since late 2001! Your photos/stories and links are always the best. Once you added one of my flickr pix to your favorites and that had me high for a week!!! :)
It is indeed pretty!
happy holidays!!!
Gorgeous! Vintage ornaments are my favorite – they have such character. Hope you had a lovely holiday!
Megan! We had those same vintage ornaments on our tree growing up. And …. my parents were born and raised in Cleveland? I don't think that's a coincidence!
Jackie – Probably a coincidence, since the ornaments are from Scott's grandmother who didn't live in Cleveland :)


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On Grenfell, on foot
Once upon a time I worked with colleagues on a piece of research about social capital in rural areas. It was full of good stuff but it was years ago and I only remember one thing from it: that 'social capital' - particularly the disorganised, hard-to-spot stuff that evades both statisticians and other authorities and which is called by said authorities 'informal social capital' - this 'informal social capital' is always more prevalent in places where people regularly walk around compared to places where people are usually in their cars.
I've long been intrigued by walking. I wrote a blog a few years ago about the philosophical and political and psychogeographical and health and environmental and sundry other aspects of walking and concluded that it was pretty much the most sustainable thing a person could do. On all fronts.
And I was pleased last year when, wearing my Brook Lyndhurst hat, I had the opportunity to do some proper research into the evidence about walking (and cycling). The report was published back in April, alongside the new national Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.
But it wasn't until Grenfell that I made a connection that had hitherto eluded me.
I visited the area on Friday, three days after the disaster. It's a bit of London I know well. Thirty years ago I lived at the top end of Ladbroke Grove, just half a mile east from Grenfell Tower. Since then I've lived south, towards Hammersmith, and west, towards Chiswick. I've cycled and driven and walked past and through and around that bit of the world more times than I can even begin to count. A week or so before the fire I sat outside the pub, just a couple of hundred metres south of the tower (and in sight of the great edifice that is Westfield) where I occasionally play pool with my son or my best mate.
So I felt I had no choice, really, than to be a witness to whatever was or is or might be going on in the strange rectangle described by the Westway, Ladbroke Grove, Holland Park Avenue and the A3320. I made a special journey. I was on my bike. I rode around. From time to time I got off and walked.
I don't want to spend much time describing what I saw. What I saw has been widely and accurately described in innumerable other places. It was awful and amazing and upsetting and overwhelming and incredible and painful. I didn't take many photos; it didn't seem right, somehow. But this one landed:
It's something to do, I think, with the juxtaposition: normal homes, normal kids after school, normal car – devastated edifice in the background, appalling symbol of so much. Of too much.
It's something to do, I think, with the juxtaposition: normal homes, normal kids after school, normal car – devastated edifice in the background, appalling symbol of so much. Of too much.
This one, too, makes a similar point: in the foreground, the Westfield-related development taking place opposite the old BBC building at White City, new homes and jobs for the people who are as mobile and prosperous as the financial capital upon which they depend; in the background, the dark, dark symbol, glowering and castigating us:
I don't particularly want to make any political or quasi-political remarks about what happened, or what I saw, either. Again, plenty of that elsewhere.
I don't particularly want to make any political or quasi-political remarks about what happened, or what I saw, either. Again, plenty of that elsewhere.
But as I wandered streets I'd known, and encountered those that know them now, I remembered the report I'd worked on all those years ago. If you live a life on foot – as you pop out to the all-night shop, as you join the others on the way to school, as you stroll to your church or your mosque or your temple, as you dash for the bus or the tube, as you wait for the elevator on the 20th floor – you inevitably and unavoidably and incredibly bump into all the other people on foot.
Some you nod to. In time, maybe you chat. Your baby and my baby have something in common. Those of us in this queue at the corner store will share a joke. The group of people over there are doing pretty much what we're doing over here. Look: you can see them.
And somehow, magically, a fabric of connections and interconnections, of shared experience and common sense, of – to use Ivan Illich's great word – conviviality develops.
It has a physical extent, this invisible stuff: you can sense its perimeters very easily. (It's a bit like dark matter: we can't see it, but it's the only way to explain what we can see.) Just walk south along St Anns Road and you can feel it evaporate, its essence extinguished by the ever bigger and more distant homes, the ever more expensive cars, the disappearance of people that ever venture out on foot.
And the power of this physical, bodily, ambulatory, corporeal reality is illustrated, too, by the experience of the politicians and celebrities as they visit Grenfell: look how much trouble Theresa May got into by not walking about.
So I want to say: yes, we need a full enquiry into what happened; and, yes, we need to learn the lessons and to make sure nothing like this ever happens again; and, yes too, we need to question the deep and pervasive political and cultural and economic assumptions that have led us to this place.
But let us also acknowledge the lessons we need to learn from the response to this disaster. We need to stay on our feet. We need to keep bumping into one another. We cut ourselves off from one another at our peril. We need to stay in touch, not just through social media, and not just through the formal channels and institutions, but with our smiles and our nods and our hands and our bodies.


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Monday, January 14, 2013
Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge: Lace love
12 comments:
- Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...
Ooh Trace I bet this card is so tactile. I love how you have weaved the lace and used so many varieties to create such a mouth watering card. Enjoy your week. Tracy x
- January 14, 2013 at 8:57 AM
Bond says....very cool I have never seen lace weaving used on a card before. Love it.
- January 14, 2013 at 9:33 AM
- Anna-Karin said...
Beautiful woven lace background! I wish I could touch it. The different shades and patterns of lace look so great together.
- January 14, 2013 at 1:06 PM
- Suzanne C said...
What a lovely lacy weave in the background. Beautiful!
- January 15, 2013 at 7:06 PM
- soapHOUSEmama said...
Love the woven look! Gorgeous!
- January 15, 2013 at 10:25 PM
- paula laird said...
Hi Tracey, Your card is superb. I love the woven look on your lacey background. Such a fun idea
- January 16, 2013 at 12:17 AM
- Sandra said...
Gorgeous patchwork with the lace, Trace! Great idea! Hugs, Sandra
- January 16, 2013 at 5:14 AM
- butterfly said...
A fabulous woven panel - what a fantastic way to showcase all that gorgeous lace!
Alison x
- January 17, 2013 at 7:26 AM
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Oooh! Love the weaved lace look, Trace! :)
Simon Says Stamp!
- January 17, 2013 at 12:02 PM
- Anita Houston said...
Weaving the lace is brilliant! Gorgeous card!
- January 17, 2013 at 4:47 PM
- Candy C said...
I love seeing all of the different interpretations of this challenge. Your card is so lovely. I love the idea of weaving lace to create such a lovely card front. Beautifully done. <3 Candy
- January 18, 2013 at 8:24 AM
- Laurart said...
Gorgeous idea! I love the design - it is so pretty xxxx
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The following instructions describe how I built my own lathe, as shown in the videos. My design was dictated by the tools and materials that I happened to have around, since one of the major goals of the project was to build the lathe for the minimum possible cash outlay, using mostly junk and leftovers from other projects. If you build your own lathe it will undoubtedly be different. Part of the charm to home made tools is the uniqueness of each one.
Part I of the Video
The Head StockThe head stock consists of a bicycle bottom bracket held in a sturdy wooden frame. There are at least half a dozen configurations of bottom brackets out there, many of which can probably be made to work. The kind I used, which is the most common on adult bikes of the '80s and '90s, has 10mm male threads on the spindles to which you can screw adapters for the pulley and chuck (or face plate, live center, etc). A slightly newer design, also very common, has female threads to which you can attach things with a bolt. Either one should be pretty easy to work with. My bottom bracket is old enough that it uses loose ball bearings with adjustable cones, which means I can adjust and/or repack the bearings dozens of times as they wear in. Newer units have sealed bearings which last a bit longer, but you need to replace the whole unit when it wears out.
If you don't have the tools you need to adjust or dismantle a bottom bracket (which vary depending on the type) it will be cheaper to bring it into a bike shop than to buy them. I do have the tools, though, because I used to work in a bike shop.
The bottom bracket shell fits tightly into a hole in a wood glue up and is held in with a 1/4" lag bolt that engages one of the holes in the shell. Precision is very important when building the head stock--more so than with any of the other assemblies. You want to start by finding well-seasoned, straight-grained wood. Hardwood--perhaps maple or white oak--would be ideal. I used a chunk of old-growth fir which I have been saving for something special ever since I sawed it out of a 1940's house.
After the glue dries you will want to carefully plane all of the surfaces to get them absolutely square, since everything else you build will be squared against the face of the head stock. This is one of those tasks for which there is just no substitute for a well-tuned smooth plane and a little patience.
You will probably not have drill bits that are the right size for the holes for the bottom bracket and pipes. For the bottom bracket hole I used an adjustable bit to bore it slightly (about 1/32") under-size. Then I very carefully enlarged it with a half-round file.
Optional: So I wouldn't have to remove quite so much material, I used a rabbet bit in a router to remove some of the wood from the sides of the inside of the hole.
Once the bottom bracket would go in I mounted an old crank and checked everything for square against my table saw by rotating the crank and measuring it. I was only off by a fraction of a degree and was able to correct it by a little more filing and scraping. If end up taking off too much material you will need to shim the bottom bracket square with pieces of shim stock (a.k.a. beer can).
I followed a similar procedure for the holes that received the pipe ways, except that I was able to use an adjustable hand ream to enlarge the holes. A bicycle seat tube ream is a good size for this.
Optional: You can cut a shoulder on the ends of the pipes using the pipe grinding jig that I showed you how to build two episodes ago, which will give a very nice fit and allow you to use a 1" drill bit.
The small counter-bored hole in the lower center of the head stock isn't mentioned in the video. Its purpose is to receive a lead screw later when I add a sliding carriage for metalworking, but it's easier to add it now before the lathe is assembled.
The last step is to use a router or a file to round off all the exposed corners, which will keep them from splintering.
The WaysThe ways are made of 3/4" schedule 40 water pipe. Actually, 1" or 1 1/4" would have been even better, since it would be stiffer, but 3/4" was what I had. You need to find the straightest pieces of pipe you can. An old trick is to role them on a flat surface and listen for clicks, which means that they are bent. If you have access to another lathe it would be a great idea to take a pass along each of them to true them up. Ironically, someone gave me a long-bed lathe a couple weeks after I had already installed them...that's the way these things seem to go.
The bracket that holds the tail end of the ways is just a piece of straight-grained 2x4 with holes that line up with the ones in the head stock.
Assemble the ways to the head stock, square everything, then glue and screw it to a piece of particle board. Why particle board? Because it is very dimensionally stable and you don't have to worry about it warping and bending your ways out of alignment.
Spindle AdaptersNow you need to figure out how to get a pulley on one end of the spindle and whatever chucks or other accessories you will be using on the other. In my case the pulley I was using accepts a 5/8" shaft with a key-way and my chuck goes on a 5/8" plain shaft typical of accessories that are meant for ShopSmith machines), so both adapters are basically 5/8" metal cylinders that screw onto the threads on the spindle. If you are using a threaded chuck then you will need to thread the adapter. This job is best done on a friend's engine lathe, but is possible with a die if you are careful.
The adapters can be made out of, in decreasing order of suitability, brass, pot metal, bronze or steel. The reason brass is the best because it is reasonably strong and threads nicely. Pot metal and bronze are even stronger, and thread nearly as well. Steel is the strongest, but it is hard to cut really nice threads in it, especially with a crappy tap and die set like mine. You can buy short lengths of brass round stock from Online Metals, a company with which I have done business off and on for years. I'm poor though, and didn't want to wait for delivery, so I melted down scraps of pot metal and cast my own adapters.
Metal casting is both an art and a science, and I don't pretend to be an expert. However, this is just about the simplest casting that I can imagine, and is well within the abilities of a handyman. The amount of metal involved will melt on an ordinary camp stove and the "mold" is little more than a hole poked in some dirt. The most important advice I can give you is to poor slowly otherwise you will end up with bubbles in the metal that will create voids and ruin the casting.
Also, remember that molten metal is hot! You definitely want to wear sturdy leather boots and gloves and long pants. Welding gauntlets and leathers, if you have them, would be even better. Also, be aware that when molten metal spills on concrete it sometimes causes it to spall, sending high velocity chunks around the shop, so casting over blacktop or dirt is safer. Always plan your motions ahead of time and know what you are going to do before you have a crucible of metal in your hands, and never rush; it's better to screw up a pour than to go to fast and end up hurting yourself.
Once you have your castings done, or cut your round stock, you will need to do some work to turn them into adapters. A drill press, though not absolutely necessary, is quite useful for these steps.
The first step is to create a flat reference face on one end of the casting. I started by hack sawing off one end as square as I could get it. Then I put the casting in a vice and cleaned it up with my belt sander (a file would work too, but I'm really good with a belt sander). Then I clamped the piece in a drill press vice with v-blocks and faced it up with a stiff sanding disk that I made.
Next I located the centers and drilled with a tap size drill bit (9.5 mm for the 10 mm fine threads on the bicycle spindle. In precision work like this it is best to drill first with a smaller drill bit and then "follow the hole" with your final size bit.
Next I tapped the hole in the drill press. The center in the drill chuck holds the tap square and make it less likely that you will get a "drunken" thread. If you don't have a tapping fixture for your drill press you can just put a center in the chuck and wrap a bungee cord around the feed handle to apply even pressure.
Once you have the threaded hole you can screw the blank adapter onto the spindle and turn it to the final size. "But wait," you say, "we don't have a pulley on the lathe yet, how do we make it rotate for turning?" I solved this problem by powering the lathe with my half inch drill and a flex shaft made out of some hose. You could also use the actual lathe motor and a slightly bigger diameter hose. Either way you want to clamp the drill/motor down pretty securely. Otherwise it will pull towards you and whip the hose around at high velocity.
For adapters that need a key-way, like the one on my pulley, you can cut it with a small chisel then clean it up with files. Back in the days of yore all key-ways were cut this way and it isn't difficult, just time consuming.
Part II of the Video
The Tool RestThe next step is to build a tool rest which is sturdy enough to last and adjustable enough to get you into all the positions you need for hand turning. I opted for a fairly short rest, since my lathe will mostly be used to turn fairly small objects.
Of course the eventual plan is to put a sliding carriage on this lathe, but even for metalworking hand work is more convenient for certain tasks...such as the spherical sections on almost any piece. And nearly all wood turning is done with a hand rest.
The bracket that holds the tool rest to the ways is made by gluing up some pieces of 2x4, then drilling a hole and sawing down to it. Make sure you use pieces without any knots, or they will break when you try to clamp them.
The socket that holds the tool rest is a piece of 3/4" schedule 40 pipe left over from cutting the ways. Use a round file to deburr it and smooth out the inside, then drill and tap for a set screw. I used the set screw from an electrical conduit pull box which I had already melted down for its pot metal. If you want, you can solder on a wing nut or half a dime to make it a wing screw, like I showed you how to do two episodes ago in the pipe grinder video.
The tool rest itself is a section of a 1" pipe nipple brazed or welded to a piece of 1/2" pipe.
First you will need to turn down the bottom two thirds or so of the vertical piece down so it will fit in the socket. You can do this by roughing it out with a file and then chucking it in the lathe. You will need to kludge a temporary tool rest up out of scraps--it doesn't need to be fancy, since you'll only be using it once. For the actual turning use a diamond point tool and take many light passes, then smooth it up with 120 grit sand paper.
Note: If you don't have lathe tools yet, I will be giving you some tips on how to make them in an upcoming episode.
The horizontal piece can be cut out of the 1" pipe using a hacksaw or abrasive cut-off disk in your angle grinder.
You need to cope the vertical piece so it fits against the bottom of the horizontal piece. You can do this by eye, but I also made this template which you can print, snip out, and use to mark the cut line. Rough it out with grinder, then use a half-round file to finish it.
Then drill and tap for a little 3/16" bolt or machine screw to hold everything together while you braze or weld it. If you own an acetylene torch fillet brazing with brass rod is the way to go: it looks better and will be less likely to deform the pieces. Arc welding is also fine. If you own neither a torch nor a welder, then you do what I did and just fill the inside of the rest with molten pot metal. I buried the whole assembly upside down in a can of dirt, added some vents by poking with a piece of coat hanger, and slowly poured in the metal. The result probably isn't as strong as torch brazing would have been, but I haven't had any trouble with it.
Clean up your welds/brazes with files and smooth out the top of the rest with a fine file.
The clamp that locks the tool rest is a quick release from a bicycle hub. Quick release skewers are made of heat-treated steel which is hard to cut or thread, even with carbide tools, so use the whole skewer and make a spacer out of pipe fittings or a block of wood.
This tool rest looks like a jury-rig, but actually locks up faster and tighter than the one on my big Harbor Freight lathe and about as well as the one on the old 1930's wood lathe that I owned before.
|Detail at Bottom of Tool Rest
The Tail StockThe tail stock is the single most complicated sub-assembly in this lathe.
The body of the tail stock is a glue-up made from pieces of wood. Ideally, you would make the whole thing out of some sort of tough, dimensionally stable hardwood like white oak or maple. Hardwood is expensive, though, and I made it out of dry construction lumber and only used maple for the pieces which will actually contact the ways.
Start off by gluing up two rectangular slabs, then plane them flat. Next, drill the holes for the ways, and cut off the waste piece at the bottom. Then saw out the shape on each piece. A band saw is ideal, but a portable jig saw, or even a coping saw, will work. Next, cut one of the pieces in two and glue the two pieces onto the other piece. Sand everything flush and round off exposed corners.
The next step is to make sure the half holes in the bottom of the tail stock match the ways and that it sits absolutely square. To do this, stick some PSA sandpaper on the ways. Then mark the surface with Sharpie pen or pencil and scrape the tail stock back and forth over the sandpaper for a few minutes, holding it as square as possible (it helps to clamp a square to the ways that you can eyeball on). When you turn the tail stock over you will see where the ink or pencil has been sanded off. Attack these high spots with a half-round file and/or a scrap of pipe with sandpaper wrapped around it. Repeat as needed. For the last few passes forgo the file and use the sandpaper itself to lap the holes for a really good fit.
The next step is to make the clamp that locks the tail stock in place. I cut and bent an old iron plant hanger and added a bicycle seat post quick release. This setup works well. My only complaint is that I need to bend the strap when I take the tail stock off the lathe for chuck work, and I'm afraid it will eventually work harden and break off. A better design would incorporate a hinge on the bottom piece of strap. Maybe you could weld in a small gate hinge?
The next step is to bore the hole for the tail stock ram. Do this by chucking a spade bit (not a self-feeding bit, a cheap spade bit) in the lathe chuck and slowly sliding the tail stock into it. Like the other holes in this project, you will need to enlarge this one to the precise diameter of the pipe. You could use a hand ream again, but it is easier to make a boring bar and use the lathe. In this case the boring bar is just a scrap of 1/2" EMT conduit with a sheet metal screw in the end. The end of the screw is plenty sharp enough to scrape out the inside of the hole. Take several back-and-forth passes, calipering the hole frequently until it is the right size.
Optional: If you drilled the holes in for the lead screw, you can insert a piece of 3/8" all thread rod and use it to push/pull the head stock back and forth for the boring steps. A ratchet and socket on a double nut on the end makes a handy crank. This is slower but should result in a slightly more accurate hole. Besides, it looks awesome while you're doing it!
Next, you will need to cut a key way slot in the hole to receive the 1/4" feather on the bottom of the tail stock ram. You can use a coping saw to cut the edges of the hole, then clear out the waste with a 1/4" chisel.
The tail stock ram is yet another piece of 3/4" pipe (marvelous stuff, pipe, and you can find hundreds of feet of it abandoned in the crawlspace of any house that has previously been re-piped!). It has a 1/2" hex nut pressed into each end. Because this is an interference fit, you will need to either hammer in the nuts or press them in with either an arbor press of a pipe clamp. I also put a blind rivet in each nut to hold it in.
To do a blind rivet, cut a short chunk of a nail (10d common nails are about the right diameter for this). Drill through both pieces, but don't go through to the other end. Then insert the little chunk of nail, cutting it if necessary so it sticks up less than 1/16" of the surface. Then peen it with a ball-peed hammer until it squishes into the hole and locks the pieces together. Finish by filing it flush with the surface. With larger rivets it is helpful to heat the rivet cherry red with a propane torch before peening, but it isn't really necessary with little ones like this.
The tail stock ram also gets a feather at the bottom made from 1/4" key stock, which keeps it from turning in the hole. I also attached this with blind rivets, but brazing would be another option.
A bit of paste wax on the ram makes it much easier to shove into the hole. You want a tight running fit with no side play.
The ram feed screw is a piece of 1/2" all thread rod with hex nuts and washers. It passes through a wooden plug which you can turn in the chuck (the easiest way is probably to drill the 1/2" hole first and stick a 1/2" dowel through it so you have something to grab in the chuck.
The knob on the end of the feed screw is turned much the same way. I had originally had trouble with it slipping on me, so I mortised in a short piece of left-over key stock which engages a notch I cut in one of the nuts.
Dead CenterYou will need a dead center for any kind of spindle turning. I make them by cutting off a short length of all thread rod or a bold and fixing a hex nut in the middle with a blind rivet. Turn a point on one end to about a 60º included angle. Whenever your center starts to get dull or beat up (which happens often when you are turning metal) just put it in the chuck and turn a fresh point on it.
Tail Stock ChuckMost types of drill chuck can be adapted to this tail stock. Probably the easiest is a chuck with 1/2" threads, since you can just the head off a half inch bolt and use a die to thread one end of it to the 1/2" NF threads in the chuck. Riveting a nut in the middle gives you something to hold onto when you screw it in to and out of the tail stock.
A chuck that is meant to go on a Jacobs or other taper is going to require some more complicated turning, since you will need to exactly match the taper for it to fit on. Your best bet is to turn it a few thousandths oversize and coat it with Sharpie or machinists' dye, push the chuck on to see where the high points are, and use a very light pass to adjust. Repeat until the chuck goes on all the way and stays on.
Drive CenterI don't actually recommend hand made drive centers, since they don't usually work as well as even the cheap store bought ones. Of course if you have a milling machine you can make as many high quality ones as you need--but since you are reading about how to build a lathe out of junk, I assume you don't have a mill either. The basic procedure is to start with a cylinder of steel (part of a large bolt works) and drill and tap it to go on your head stock spindle. Then mark out the spurs. Four is the most common number, although I have seen centers that use anywhere from two to twelve. Then carefully carve out the metal with a grinder and files.
It is easier to make the center pin separately and then press it into a hole in the center. This avoids the problem of turning the pin without wiping out the spurs, which can be quite a challenge with hand tools.


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When it comes to feeding a hungry infant, they will love this wholesome hearty spaghetti Bolognese – full of fresh ingredients so you don't have to compromise on flavour. Oh, and it only takes 30 minutes!
If you read the recent news that some shop bought Bolognese sauces are loaded with salt and sugar, then you might be thinking about what the alternative is.
You might be surprised at how quick, easy and affordable it is to make your own sauce and bolognese from scratch. A Mum friend of mine asked for my recipe, so I thought what the heck, I might as well share it with you too. You're welcome!
(Serves 3- 4)
Music to cook to: Eros Ramazotti
- Chop up all your ingredients in preparation
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees
- Place tomatoes in an oven dish with onion, herbs and pepper (optional) and cook for 15-20 mins, or until looking juicy!
- In the meantime get your kettle on and get the spaghetti boiling
- In a medium saucepan heat some oil and add carrots (hidden veg!), onion and garlic until they brown
- Add in the mince and cook thoroughly (this is important as kids cannot have rare mince)
- Blend up the tomatoes, adding boiled water for a lighter consistency. I recommend the Nuby blender.
- For smaller infants, mix the sauce with the mince and blend further for a smoother eat
- Mix with spaghetti, sprinkle on cheese and hey presto!
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Your baby should love this delicious meal, and you can freeze portions once cooled, for up to a month.
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Later, when I read the novel with the full awareness about its contents, I started enjoying it much more, liking certain chapters and details. Then I realised that I fell in love with it forever. No wonder "The Master and Margarita" became one of the subjects of my final diploma project in the university. This is when I started exploring the novel from a scientific point of view, discovering more and more beauty in it and getting to know new things about the world of the novel created by Bulgakov.
|an illustration to the novel The Master and Margarita
Margarita is the most famous witch of Russian, and perhaps, World literature. There are numerous books written about her character and I in turn would like to concentrate on her witchy side.
As soon as it is a novel I am talking about, there is a great love story in it and Margarita is a part of it. She is pictured as an ordinary woman living an ordinary life with a husband she doesn't love. The routine life makes her to search for a wonder of love. And she finds it... or it finds her?
Margarita means "pearl" (derived from a Greek word "margarites"). Pearl is a talisman of arts, inspiration and spiritual perfection and besides is used in witchcraft. Margarita is a symbol of Master's renewed belief in creation, this is she, who saves few pages of Master's novel he intents to burn, and also a symbol of sacrifices done in the name of love.
I used to tell in the first posts, that a witch plays a dual role in humans' life: good and bad. Witchcraft helps people get what they want. Margarita decides to become a witch and makes a deal with Devil in order to find her lover Master who seemed to be lost somewhere.
Though it seems that Margarita is chosen by Woland (Devil in Bulgakov's novel) randomly, it is not so. She was always meant to be someone else. Margarita has a squinting eye which is considered to be a mark of a dark power, she has black hair and she wears preferably black attire - a color of witchcraft; she sees prophetic dreams and is very sensitive towards the meaning of the signs around her. Her soul feels that something is going to happen.
Bulgakov describes how Margarita turns to a witch. But why turns? Because her very appearance changes when she applies a cream given by one of the servants of Woland, Azazello, on her face and body. She becomes a twenty years old instead of thirty, her eyes turn greener and she feels like... laughing! She gains strength and happiness she never knew before. Here we see one of the attributes of a witch: a magical ointment. Moreover, Margarita's initiation into a witch happens during a full moon when most of the important magical rituals are done.
|Margarita in modern art
Our Russian witch is now ready to act, she is awaiting for signal to move out of her boring house... After a call Azazello gives her, she hears a strange knocking behind the door of her room. When she opens it, a floor broom comes out jumping and eager to fly away through the window. So here comes a necessary tool of a witch a broomstick, though a bit modified. Margarita then heads to a gathering of the witches called Sabbath (rus. Shabash) naked what once again refers to a usual practice of witchcraft.
I have tried to explore which features and attributes of a "typical" witch Margarita is bestowed by Bulgakov. Among them are magical tools like broomstick and ointment, a ritual of initiation during a full moon, features of Margarita which make her look like a witch before and after initiation. I am going to continue with the novel The Master and Margarita in my next post. There is plenty to tell about :)


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EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today established Decho Corporation (www.decho.com), a new company focused on helping people protect, manage and enrich the ever-growing quantity of personal digital information in their lives, also known as an individual's "digital echo." Decho will be a combination of two formerly separate EMC businesses - Mozy, Inc. and Pi Corp. Decho will continue to offer consumers and businesses the top-rated MozyTM-branded online backup service ( www.mozy.com), as well as introduce new cloud-based services for individuals over time.
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Feature Name (see definition): Vestvorren Ridge
Feature Class (see definition): Ridge
Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID (see definition): 16017
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 73° 06' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 001° 53' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -73.1
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -1.8833333
Elevation (see definition): No data
Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1966
Description (see definition): The western of two rock ridges which trend northward from the Neumayer Cliffs in Queen Maud Land. Photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition (GerAE) (1938-39). Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE) (1949-52) and air photos by the Norwegian expedition (1958-59) and named Vestvorren (the west jetty).
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NOTE: The information regarding Vestvorren Ridge in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Vestvorren Ridge should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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Early on Saturday morning reenactors began milling about making preparations for the upcoming battle. The smell of frying bacon still hung in the air. Behind me a small squad of young Confederates practiced their marching drills. Several folks stopped by to watch me paint. There were nods of approval - then they went on their way. It was a wonderful day spent at the battlefield with close artist friends as we captured scenes for remembrance.
Fort Keys Saturday
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Oil, en plein air, alla prima on RayMar panel
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I've done a couple of things that doesn't show in the video, such as - fixing the tilt blob, tidying the cables, soldered an additional powerboard, prepared the upper level so it's more or less complete...
Things are going forward!
how are you achieving such a nice linear gradients on the led DMD, are you using 3 sub frames to create your 8 shades? and just cycling them like 011222?ReplyDelete
I'm actually drawing them all in one go (may or may not be the recommended way due to speed) with an exponential delay between each shade.
I'm using a microsecond delay of x*n, so the final shade has around 48 microseconds between each line and the first shade has 0 delay.
This evens out all the shades and the lower range is softer and blends better with the diminished pixels, but still allows the higher ranges to be crisp.
On top of that I have a "blood red filter" to color my orange display red. :)
I see, im really impressed with this demo video. Have you got a higher res version you could upload?ReplyDelete
Sounds great :)
I also noticed reading another post, you was running out of time to run your main dmd control code, i had the same problem the other week with a similar pinball dmd display project. every time i sent frames to the display using usb the display slightly flickered, i converted all the code to use hardware timers and now it runs perfect 0 flicker, i can hammer it at 128fps and you would never know its running a full usb stack in the background :)
If you ever run into display flicker problems due to busy cpu, swap the main row update routine to be triggered from a hardware timer interrupt :)
Yeah, I did the other way around actually - streamlining the process so "no matter what" I decide to do and/or add effects there would be no flickering.
Pretty rock solid 75Hz with full streaming of SD animations and effects etc. :)
Was your version running a Chipkit or Propeller?
My rev2 is now a nice stm32f4 168mhz :)ReplyDelete


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Bringing seriously sweet treats to the neighbourhood expect exclusive new flavours and freshly ground speciality coffee for the ultimate pick me up.
Crosstown has opened its doors at 35 Piccadilly London, at the corner of foodie enclave Swallow Street serving up its range of deliciously decadent sourdough doughnuts, that are all made in-house by expert scratch bakers. Crosstown's new location is just down the road from where the brand opened its first pop-up store at Piccadilly Circus, now heralding the transition from street food stall to the fifth fully-fledged store in London. On returning to the neighbourhood, co-founder JP Then "look[s] forward to seeing our old regulars, as well as getting our new neighbours hooked on [Crosstown's] doughnuts."
And truth be told, we already are. A true haven for all those with a sweet-tooth, expect innovative new flavours amongst familiar favourites, all made from the finest fresh ingredients.
To celebrate the launch, there will be a trio of brand new varieties for visitors to enjoy exclusively this September, including a deliciously tart Boysenberry & Apple Doughnut.
Crosstown are also expanding its vegan range with two new seasonal additions, the fragrant Strawberry & Elderflower and Japanese-inspired Yuzu & Matcha. Both will be available on rotation at Crosstown every Fri-Sat-Sun; the perfect weekend indulgence!
Alongside its selection of sweet treats, Crosstown will be serving up a selection of speciality coffees and Nitro Cold Brew from partners Caravan and Sandows, to drink in or take away. What's more for a limited time only to celebrate the Regent Street launch they will be offered at a special price of just £1. Even more reason to spoil yourself with one of their gourmet doughnuts on the side.
Spoil yourself with a visit to Crosstown, open every day of the week until late. For more information on opening and closing times, visit its Directory page here.
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See Jane Anson's tasting notes for the top Haut-Médoc 2016 wines, tasted en primeur...
All Haut-Médoc 2016 wines
Some extremely successful wines in this category.
The 1855 classified wines and top crus bourgeois have produced some of their best-ever bottles.
But there are successes across the board as the dry, late-harvest summer meant long, slow ripening for the Cabernet Sauvignon.
The wines have fruit and power combined with high levels of silky tannins.
Bordeaux 2016 in Médoc: Anson's first impression
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Nicole Neghaiwi is specialized in dynamic environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk analytics and metrics. Through her work, she provides key support to the financial industry in order to help them realize their carbon reduction goals. Nicole has sound experience in working with risk management as well as the assessment and optimization of the climate impact of investment portfolios. Nicole is a frequent speaker at leading industry events and conferences.
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Lorbex Acqusition, July 2015
Established 30 years ago as a supplier of bonsai trees to garden centres, Lorbex has since developed considerable expertise in house plant care, supplying products including specialist feeds, growing media and accessories. Lorbex counts the leading garden centre groups amongst its loyal customer base.
Helen Broderick, whose mother, founded Lorbex, said: "The acquisition by Doff means I can fulfil my passion to grow the business whilst continuing to deliver great quality products and service. We will continue our focus on specialist products for the garden centre market."
Matt Jones, Doff Portland managing director, said: "With Doff looking after the manufacturing and upstream supply chain, Helen will be able to focus on her aspirations to deliver a wider product range and scale up distribution to specialist retailers. We really look forward to working together as we continue to build the group into a multi-channel home and garden business."