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I Got An AccuQuilt GO! Cutter!
And just like Finley here, I'm so excited about my toy!
I had heard a lot about the GO! cutter when it first came out, because Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims are spokespeople for it, with promotional videos on The Quilt Show site. While I've long been intrigued by fabric die cutters, ever since first visiting the fabulous home quilting studio of a guild friend who has the Accuquilt Studio cutter, I didn't really think of it as being a priority item for me. I thought maybe it might be worthwhile for someone who does an awful lot of applique, but I don't, and on the odd occasion when I do, I tend to design my own. So while I was glad to know there were die cutters in the world, I didn't really covet one.
Until… I had stopped by The Finishing Stitch on my way home from a wedding the day before Mother's Day, and they had a Studio cutter and dies for sale for $600, listed as a $1500 value. A discount that steep is always going to pique my interest, but Finley was getting fussy so I didn't investigate in depth. However, I started thinking about it more on the way home, and therefore spent some time on the Accuquilt website over the rest of the weekend. The main thing that I learned was how many piecing dies are available. As I am primarily a piecer, and cutting fabric has always struck me as tedious, this was very intriguing. Although a separate die is necessary for each different size or shape, I certainly tend to use certain shapes and sizes repeatedly in my projects (2″ finished half-square triangles certainly spring to mind.) And the idea, reiterated over and over on the website, that die cutting is "up to 90% faster than rotary cutting," was extremely attractive to a full-time-working mom of two children under 3.
After all, although I know it's an all-too-temporary stage, I don't have a whole lot of free time to quilt right now. It's a trade-off I'm more than happy to make to be involved in Ronan's and Finley's young childhood, but I don't want to completely swear off quilting right now. (And several of the quilts I've made in the last few years have been for them, and they enjoy using them!) So anything that speeds the process without decreasing my artistic freedom or my enjoyment of the process is a good thing. I have no interest in using pre-cut kits because my favorite part of quilting is selecting the fabrics, but if I can choose my own fabric and then fast forward to the construction stage without spending such a long time cutting the fabric into pieceable shapes, I will get a lot more done. Additionally, I haven't wanted to do much cutting when Ronan is awake, because I have an absolute paranoia that he could get hold of the rotary cutter. While there are still blades in the die boards, he would have to do handstands on them in order to hurt himself with them.
So Monday morning, I called Jean… and she told me that she was sorry, she should have taken the signs down, because she was selling the Studio cutter to the new owner of the shop as part of the shop sale. Having just spent the last 36 hours convincing myself that I desperately wanted this thing, it was definitely a letdown. But like Aesop's fox with the grapes, I quickly recovered by realizing that the Studio would not have been the right choice for me. While it can cut more layers at once, and the dies are more numerous, varied, and larger, the dies are more expensive and the cutter requires a dedicated space, as it is heavy and does not fold up. It really seems like the good folks at Accuquilt really thought about all the factors that prevent quilters from buying a Studio cutter, and designed the GO! to meet those needs. I took my time researching the products and prices (another GO! advantage, as the Studio and its dies are only available through Accuquilt), then finally pulled the trigger in mid-July.
My GO! came in the mail July 23, the Tuesday before my mini-retreat at my house with Rhonda and Diane. I bought it from quilting-warehouse.com which offers significant discounts (30-50%) on the GO! and several selected dies, and although the shipping was expensive and the order took longer than their stated estimate to process, I cannot complain in light of the overall value. I got the 12″ block "mix and match" bundle, which is a collection of eight dies for shapes commonly found in 12″ pieced blocks. I also got some extra cutting mats, the 8.5″ rag square, which precuts the fringes for rag quilts (more on that later), the Funky Flower applique shape, and the 3.5″ mini tumbler, since I'm getting a new niece and a new nephew this fall who will each be in need of a baby quilt. With shipping, this all came to less than $450; accuquilt.com lists the cutter with the 12″ bundle alone at $581.90.
I spent all my work time at the retreat cutting: I cut almost all the pieces for the 2011 Shop Hop blocks; cut down several pairs of Dan's old worn-out jeans to make a denim rag quilt; and cut 17.5 yards of solids into triangles for the guild challenge this winter. Although I didn't get to work uninterrupted (see above re: two children under 3), I estimate that it took me less than 3 hours to cut all that solid fabric, so I stand convinced.
I've only started piecing the shapes I cut, so I can't say anything definitive, but so far the accuracy seems excellent. There's definitely a learning curve to using the cutter, but I've caught on quickly. And if using it means I get to spend more of my admittedly limited time on the parts of quilting I enjoy more than cutting fabric, I'm all for it.
Next up, a project I've already started and completed with my GO!
Finished! Evelyn's Quilt
So, half a UFO is complete! As I posted before, I still have the other 72 matching Broken Dishes blocks in the UFO box. But I finished piecing the complete set, made a quilt top with the first 72, and I produced a pink quilt to give to a baby girl for Christmas.
The particular strain of Murphy's law that has afflicted this project was still in effect, though: when I basted it, I pretrimmed the batting and discovered that no matter what the packaging says in regard to dimensions,
I still need to measure twice and cut once. Thank goodness for the Pellon fusible batting tape I bought at the Lancaster show last year!
Since I always like to get some contrast between the piecing and the quilting design, I knew I wanted to quilt curves. I had originally planned to keep the quilting formal, perhaps with a lacy Spinal Twist design from Megan Best in the white "pathways" and then something less elaborate but still following the Barn Raising-style concentric diamonds created by the fuchsia and purple triangles. If I had been trying to make an heirloom quilt, that probably would have been the way to go. However, despite the formal setting and all the white in this top, I wanted to make a quilt that would be put down on the floor for the baby to play on and spit up on, for the cat to lay on and for her parents to feel comfortable stuffing in the beach bag and then tossing in the washing machine. Therefore, I decided to take the quilting in a decidedly non-traditional direction.
I'm trying to become more comfortable with all-over quilting designs that disregard not only piecing lines but also the "pathways" created by contiguous areas of the same color or value of fabric. While I'm certainly not a fan of the overuse of lowest-common-demoninator, just hold the three layers together pantograph quilting, there is definitely a time and place for an all-over design. Hopefully this quilt falls into that category.
I've been reading Leah Day's blog a lot lately, and her recent design "Flower Power" really captured my imagination. I thought it would add some youthful feminine whimsy to this quilt without getting too crazy. I further attempted to keep things upbeat and casual by choosing a Superior Threads Rainbows variegated thread in neon pink, orange, yellow, and lime green. And although I planned out a general strategy for the placement of the giant daisies, I did them completely freehand and without marking. I purposely kept them "consistently inconsistent" so I could vary the size and degree of symmetry as the top dictated, without making any one stand out. And I think overall, I was successful.
Not that I didn't have problems. I originally planned to get all the quilting done at my recent guild retreat, but I made the mistake of only bringing along some pink Wonderfil thread for the bobbin that absolutely did not play well with the Rainbows on top; after quilting three daisies and having the thread break for the sixth or seventh time, I packed it in and made Shop Hop blocks from 2008 (more on that later.) Not that my quilting was completely free of frustrations when I tried again at home: although Bottom Line was much more successful in the bobbin, I still had trouble with occasional breakage when I'd go through heavy seam allowance convergence areas.
Also, this design really showcased a continuing weakness in my machine quilting because the extremely large petals are essentially long straight lines that require at least one, sometimes more, stops to reposition my hands as I stitch them. (Fortunately I have managed to break myself of the habit of trying to stitch beyond the area of my hands' control, which has most definitely improved my quilting.) But while I do continue to take Karen Kay Buckley's advice from her long-ago class, to only stop a straight line at an intersection to hide any wobbles when restarting (I tried to use seams whenever possible,) my stitch length is still noticeably inconsistent when restarting; I tend to have a few shorter stitches till I get going again. Also, I need to be more cognizant of approaching seam intersections to help prevent short stitches or wobbly lines resulting from the foot getting hung up or deflected by the increased bulk. I think stitching over complex piecing is one of the areas in which domestic machine quilting really has a handicap compared to longarm. It's not that it can't be done, obviously, just that I still need a lot of practice to do it well.
But that's the beauty of a quilt like this: it was far more important to finish this quilt than to try to make it perfect. I'm great at doing but lousy at practicing; the prospect of making a bunch of muslin quilt sandwiches to practice my quilting before embarking on a big project would just drive me away from the sewing machine. Instead, I practice by quilting actual quilts that will serve actual purposes, rather than just being thrown away or stuffed in a drawer. (And no, I am NOT making my practice sandwiches into placemats. If anyone wants to torture me, they can force me to attach binding to a whole bunch of small pieces I don't like very much.) This isn't a practice quilt, but a real quilt with a real destiny that allowed me to try something different without too much pressure to make something perfect. And I think the result is pretty, functional, and FINISHED!!!
The back was bought at a discount on the most recent shop hop, and I don't think I could have found a more perfect match for the fuchsia and purple at any price (not that I brought the blocks with me, so my freaky superpower for color memory persists.) The binding was a stash fabric, and although I briefly flirted with a wild impulse to bind this quilt in lime green, cooler heads prevailed. Maybe that's what I'll do for the remaining set of blocks.
For a happy dance, I'll go with "Almost There" from Disney's "The Princess and the Frog." Cassandra gave the DVD to Ronan this Christmas, and I love it! Funny how the one genre where classic movie musicals never went out of style was in animation aimed at children. I also got an education when I researched this number, in that the animators were specifically inspired by the work of Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas, whose gorgeous work I wasn't familiar with till now. Enjoy!
The Rest of My Classes at QwM 2011
Continuing my story…
Friday afternoon and Saturday morning were devoted to my two hands-on domestic sewing machine quilting classes. I feel almost honor-bound to take as many of these as the powers that be at QwM will offer, as I want to do my part to make sure they keep offering them. It also gives me the opportunity to meet, and therefore evangelize to, my fellow DSM quilters who may not know that any of the design-type classes are equally applicable to them as to the more numerous longarm quilters in attendance. We may have to sit through some minor references to canvas leaders and advancing the machine and so forth, but I use that time to meditate about how I can quilt in any direction I choose, for as long a distance as my quilt requires, and how my dining room still has a table in it. Kidding, of course, but Leah Day had an excellent post recently on Seven Reasons Why I Don't Want or Need a Longarm, which was exactly what I needed to galvanize me pre-QwM against feelings of machine inadequacy. She reinforced the fact that quality machine quilting is possible on a DSM even if you're not Ricky Tims/ Diane Gaudynski/ Lee Cleland/ Patsy Thompson/ Barbara Shapel/ Karen Kay Buckley/ Caryl Bryer Fallert/ Hollis Chatelain. Don't get me wrong; if I walked downstairs tomorrow morning to discover that my house had magically grown an extra room with a longarm quilting machine in it, I wouldn't turn up my nose. But in the real, non-magical world, that's a huge investment for a huge machine that I'd only use for my own quilts, and buying one wouldn't automatically turn me into a better quilter, just one with no dining room and a big payment to make every month. The learning curve is still paramount, and the big machine isn't a shortcut around practicing.
OK, off the soapbox and on to what I did in class. The first was "Freehand Feathers" with Beth Schillig, who has had quilts at Houston and Paducah and used to be a Bernina dealer near Columbus. She was a kind, patient, generous teacher who showed us several feather styles I hadn't tried before, and I was very happy to have produced these doodle cloths in a four-hour class:
(Click on the pictures to zoom in if you need to, photographing wholecloths is hard.)
The next morning I had "Becoming a Domestic Diva Part 2″ with Penny Roberts, who is primarily a longarm quilter and inventor of longarm gadgets, but keeps her hand in with DSM quilting and was an excellent teacher with a well-thought-out lesson plan. She provided us with a pre-"stitched in the ditch" sample so we could concentrate on the free-motion fun stuff. When she started with continuous curve, I was concerned I had taken too beginner-y a class, but I quickly came to realize that my current lifestyle doesn't really allow me much time to just play and experiment with my quilting; I always feel like I have to make every minute count so I have to accomplish! Taking these classes was like the "spontaneous activity in a prepared environment" concept from Montessori school: it gave me permission to just goof off with my machine, and I definitely feel the value of the experience. As you see:
Not to mention, through all that in-class quilting, I did not have a single problem with my machine! Not one! I certainly hope this augurs well for the future.
Saturday afternoon, feeling more than a little fried, I finished up with "But How Should I Quilt This?" with Debby Brown. While the class was excellent, the most valuable thing I took from it was finding Debby! She was not someone whose reputation I knew before taking her class, and I've greatly enjoyed perusing her blog and checking out her free online videos and tutorials. She was an entertaining lecturer, and really synthesized a great deal of disparate information into a fairly coherent system for helping the quilter focus on a few complementary designs to successfully quilt each top.
This spoke very centrally to my recurrent problem of Analysis Paralysis when it comes to quilting my own quilts: I fall for the fallacy that there is only one way to "correctly" quilt the quilt, and if I don't find it, the quilt will be a failure. Debby rationally and rightly pointed out that the first step to quilting a top is to simply make a decision. Her next words stopped me in my mental tracks and made me write them down: "Sometimes it'll be just good enough, but sometimes it'll be perfect." I think the reason I found that simple statement to be so profound (aside from sheer mental and physical exhaustion) is what she didn't say, but I've apparently believed to be true, that there is no acceptable alternative to perfection. And the secret, of course, is that there is. There's good enough. There's quite nice. There's really special. What there is not, is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE OH MY GOSH YOU RUINED YOUR QUILT. Because even crappy quilting results in…A QUILT! Not a top sitting in a box, waiting to be sold in (hopefully) many decades in my estate sale, but a quilt, that gets used and loved. That keeps the baby warm. That gives the cat a place to sleep. That lets me see that fabric I absolutely had to have. That goes to show and tell and hangs in the guild show and maybe gets given as a gift to wrap the people I love in the longest-lasting hug I know how to give. A top can't do any of that, and it's not a quilt until it's quilted.
So I'm going to go quilt those tops. I'll keep perfection on the horizon, but I'll try to keep perfectionism at bay. Let's go make some good enough quilts.
Gearing up for Quilting with Machines
Turning the calendar page for September always seems to sneak up on me. I've been out of school for over a decade now, but the end of summer still carries with it a sigh and a plodding return to a less-fun routine. However, this year it also brings excitement: September is the month I go to Quilting with Machines!
Diane and I are returning attendees this year, having had an overwhelmingly good time at last year's event. At first, I was disappointed to learn that the organizers were changing the time and the location for 2010, moving it further west and from October to September, but that was before I knew I'd be in my third trimester of pregnancy in fall 2010. Attending a machine quilting conference six-and-a-half hours away from home is much more doable at 32 weeks than at 36, when I'm no longer supposed to be more than an hour's drive from the hospital. (I've been fortunate to have a very healthy and active pregnancy to this point, so I have no reason to expect drastic change in the next two to three weeks, but obviously I will be sensible and cautious.)
Last year, I didn't really know what to expect. QwM started as a retreat for an Ohio longarm quilting guild and has grown over the years into a learning event for all forms of machine quilting. However, as a domestic machine quilter, I was concerned. Despite what the mission statement said on the website, what if the classes were far too longarm-specific? What if the teachers looked down on domestic machine quilters? What if I was wasting my time and money? Of course, all I wasted was a lot of worry. Although the teachers were all well-known longarm quilters, the designs, techniques, and thought processes they taught were applicable to any type of machine quilting.
I came back from the conference with my mind just buzzing with new techniques to try. As Sue Patten said in her Freemotion Freehand Possibilities lecture, "If you don't go home and practice what you've learned, next year just mail me a check and stay home." With that in mind, I'm trying to do as much machine quilting as possible leading up to this year's event so that I am in the best possible mindset to absorb the information. I'll be recently familiar with my biggest strengths and weaknesses in machine quilting, and thus be primed to learn, and ask when necessary, how best to overcome them.
To that purpose, I've been quilting as many tops as possible from my stash that were ready to quilt. This Noah's Ark panel was a cheapie from JoAnn's that I specifically bought because I didn't care about it: I used it to test my idea for the addition of lattice strips for Window on Whimsey last summer, thinking that if it turned out decently, I'd quilt and donate it. Now that we're having a baby, I'll use it as a "tummy time" playmat for him.
In the Quilt Guilt corner, I've been holding on to my mom's Halloween Attic Windows wallhanging forever. We took an Attic Windows class together at Smile Spinners probably 6-7 years ago (I know it was before I bought my Janome, and that was July 2004.) She made this absolutely charming wallhanging, using fabric that reminded us both of the Edward Gorey animation from the opening credits of Mystery! on PBS:
When I came across it in her sewing room a couple of years ago, still an unfinished top, I asked if I could quilt it for her. She agreed, saying, "no hurry." This is not a good phrase to use on a quilting procrastinator like me. I've taken it to at least three guild retreats with the good intention of quilting it, to no avail. At least I made the positive step back in February to order a spool of Superior Threads NiteLite Extra Glow glow-in-the-dark thread to use on it, but it's only since last weekend that I've actually made progress.
Once I've got the bindings on, and the label and sleeve on my mom's quilt, I'll post some detail pictures of the quilting. I did some playful experimenting on both, and am very happy with the results.
The third project is, of course, Matt and Alyssa's wedding quilt. I've started quilting it and I like the virtually no-mark design I've chosen, but I'm having weird thread problems and becoming very frustrated. I'm using Superior Threads Bottom Line in a pale blue in both the top and bobbin, and while it is usually one of my favorites, I've been getting unexpected skipped stitches and having the thread "catch" on the needle. (To be fair, since I've used this particular cone of thread before without incident, this is more likely a machine problem manifesting due to the fineness of this thread, than an actual thread problem.) Following the advice on Superior's excellent troubleshooting pages, I've mitigated these symptoms by adjusting my bobbin tension (eek!) and going up to a #90 titanium topstitch needle (their thread guide suggests a #70 or #80), as well as running the machine much more slowly than I'm used to, which is playing havoc with my stitch length consistency. It's improving, but problems like this can drain away one's motivation, and of course with all the ripping and adjusting, it's taking forever. I'll post a picture when it's finished.
All this quilting, with its attendant ups and downs, will hopefully not only prepare me for Quilting with Machines, but also for quilting Ruby Wedding. I haven't basted it yet (it's 90″ square, thus presenting some logistical challenges) but I've pieced the back and made the binding, so I'm getting there. I think I've even made most of the design decisions for it. At this point, it's really just a question of confidence: I'm so happy with how the top turned out that I want to make sure my quilting enhances, rather than detracts from, the beauty of the top. Hopefully all this intensive quilting will help build that confidence, because there's nothing to it but to do it.
My First Quilt
WOW. I got to meet Rachel Pellman!!!
To explain why this was such a big deal to me, we have to go back in time. WAY back, to before I made my very first quilt, to approximately 1986. I have sewn for as long as I can remember: my mom bought a Bernina when I was a toddler, and I grew up watching her make wonderful clothes for herself, me, and my sisters. I have fond memories of spending time at the Stretch & Sew store in La Grange, Illinois while she selected patterns and fabrics, and I must have just absorbed a fascination for sewing through example and osmosis. I was given access to my mother's scrap bin, and by the time I was seven, I had petitioned successfully to be allowed to learn to use the sewing machine. I made little blankets, pillows, tote bags, bean bags, and eventually some stuffed animals and simple clothes. But I was always looking for new projects and new outlets for my interest in fabric and sewing.
I was fortunate that my childhood and adolescence coincided with the quilt revival of the late 70's and early 80's. The back-to-nature movement blended fairly seamlessly into the interest in Colonial life surrounding the Bicentennial, bringing the American craft of quilting to the forefront of society's consciousness again for the first time since before World War II. (For a really good explanation of this sociological phenomenon, with lots of dreamy quilt pictures, watch the documentary, The Great American Quilt Revival.) My mom bought a handful of the quilt books that were released and promoted during this time; the ones I specifically remember as being the most influential on me were Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel, the original edition of The Complete Book of Machine Quilting by Robbie and Tony Fanning, and The World of Amish Quilts by Rachel Pellman. This last title was the book that made me want to make a quilt.
I don't know what it was that specifically spoke to me about these quilts: the graphic geometrics, the unusual color combinations, the blend of beauty and utility. By this point, we had moved to Pennsylvania and lived in a rural area with a significant Mennonite population. I was familiar with the Plain people I'd see in their horse-drawn buggies, the women wearing their distinctive dresses and bonnets, and I saw the quilts displayed for sale in various local craft stores and tourist traps. But those quilts were much more contemporary, made for the market, in the same colors that were endemic throughout housewares departments everywhere: remember those mauves and French blues, burgundies and hunter greens, all in fussy little floral calicoes? The striking "dark quilts" that were featured in Rachel Pellman's book were nowhere to be seen. So, the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I decided to make my own "Amish" quilt.
Now, of course, I approached this project as a fairly typical fifteen-year-old. While I had the interest and discipline to design my own quilt based on what I had seen in the book, I had absolutely no intention of making it in a traditional fashion. For one thing, I hated hand sewing. For another, I was an impatient teenager: I wanted it done already! Therefore, I blended what I had learned from the Fannings' book on machine quilting with the Amish designs. I would use the sewing machine for every square inch of this project, no matter what. And as I had tried a couple quilt blocks out of Georgia Bonesteel's book, and knew how long they took to make, I decided my quilt wasn't going to have 12, or 16, or 20 blocks. It would have FOUR. And they'd be BIG.
In fairness to my adolescent self, I did do some things well. I designed and drafted my own quilt, rather than relying on a published pattern. I researched the process, and I stuck with it until it was done. However, I also did a lot of things I shouldn't have. I'm pretty sure the whole thing has 5/8″ seam allowances, because I was an apparel sewer. I used a weird, twill-weave, cotton/poly blend for the top, because that's what JoAnn Fabrics had in the colors I wanted. The batting is polyester; I'm not sure I knew anything else existed, and it has bearded hopelessly. I machine quilted fearlessly, but also somewhat recklessly; there are a LOT of puckers on the back, and I wasn't ripping out or redoing anything. The binding is really interesting, as I was not going to bother with the laborious process of mitering corners, and the hand sewing on my prairie point edging looks like Frankenstein's sutures. But at the end of it all, I had a quilt entirely of my own making on my bed.
I went on to make five more bed-size quilts before I graduated high school, as well as a crib quilt and a whole stack of placemats as trial pieces for various techniques that are mostly still in use at my parents' house. I couldn't really quilt during college or dental school, although I did coordinate the making of a friendship quilt wall hanging for my sorority chapter during my senior year; I'd bought a second-hand Kenmore sewing machine out of a guy's car the previous summer, which is a story for another day. But quilting never really left my blood, and once I had free time, floor space, and an income, I picked it right back up, but now with the patience and (hopefully) maturity that I'd lacked in a younger decade. And ooh, rotary cutters had happened while I was gone!
It's possible that with my lifelong interests in fabric and needlework, I would have found quilting — or it would have found me — inevitably. But Rachel Pellman's book put me on that path during a very impressionable, creative, and inquisitive period of my life.
And I welcomed the opportunity to thank her in person.
For All the Quilters Living with Cats
This is Fergus. He just taught me something I did not know about quilt fabric.
And no, he can NOT has cheezburger.
I chose this picture because it illustrates two traits of Fergus' character that are extremely pertinent to this story: he has a voracious appetite, especially for people food that he's not permitted to have, and he has no sense of consequences. See, like most domestic cats (really, like most adult mammals that aren't us) Fergus cannot properly digest dairy products. He loves the taste of them, but they make him sick. However, since the act of becoming sick comes hours after the eating of the tasty cheese, or licking out the cereal bowl, or the yogurt carton, or what-have-you, his tiny brain doesn't link the two events. And then there's a mess for me to clean up. Fergus has the additional endearing trait of possessing a knack for finding the absolute highest point from which to then vomit, so he gets to target as many surfaces on as many levels as possible. I'd need Dexter Morgan to track the spatter patterns sometimes. (This is why my husband and I have had so many "talks" about the necessity to rinse out one's cereal bowl.)
Of course, at some point while I still had the mini-retreat setup in my dining room, including a nice little pile of fabric for Matt and Alyssa's quilt stacked up on the end of the hutch/cutting table, Fergus climbed up on the adjacent armoire and let his stomach contents fly from six feet up. Gross, but not a huge problem; after all, one of the many lovable things about fabric is that it's washable. I threw the offending fabric in the washing machine (thank goodness I am a convert to prewashing my fabric in recent years, especially for gifts, but that's a tale of woe for another day) and it emerged none the worse for disgusting wear — or so I thought. When I went to re-press the individual pieces, I found one exception:
I love metallic fabrics, white-on-whites, Fairy Frosts, and many other variations on applying a surface "paint" to a printed fabric. And while Dierdre McElroy does warn in her lectures and on her "The Perfect Stitch" DVD that they can wear off, and therefore might not be the best choice for an heirloom quilt, I tended to think of that as a decades-long process, not an immediate concern. Yet apparently, a relatively short period of contact with a cat's used food is enough to strip that surface treatment right off.
My takeaway lesson from this experience is that not only is a "painted" fabric a poor choice for an heirloom quilt, but it is also a potentially poor choice for a baby quilt. After all, babies spit up at least as often as cats, and while they may not produce as much stomach acid, I would imagine the effects could be similar. It would be interesting to approach this as an actual scientific experiment, using an acid solution comparable to human stomach acid, and comparing the results to repeated washing in regular laundry conditions to see how long standard use takes to remove those surface finishes. (Science Fair project, anyone?) I know I've washed many quilts containing metallic fabrics numerous times without seeing any visible degradation, which is why I was so shocked to see just how dramatic the Fergus Effect truly was.
So thank you, Fergus. Without your unfortunate digestive issues, the body of quilt fabric knowledge would be poorer.
(He really is a very sweet cat, whose affectionate nature more than compensates for the occasional vomit issue.)
UFOs Part III: Civil War Vintage/Repro
In light of my post about Gyleen Fitzgerald's vintage block project, I should probably talk about my own. Although, where hers ends with gorgeous quilts and an equally gorgeous book, mine ends with a bunch of scraps in a cardboard box and some wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Back before the recession ripped the beating heart out of the antique trade, my friend Kathy and I made annual pilgrimages to Atlantique City. Held in the Atlantic City Convention Center, it was a mind-numbingly, foot-numbingly huge antique show. While many of the vendors were extremely high end ($55K Pairpoint lamp, anyone?) it was also a great place to find some unusual little items at reasonable prices. One vendor I always had to frequent sold beautiful antique quilts in amazingly good condition for equally amazingly high prices, but also had bins of antique and vintage blocks and tops. Since the focus of this show was collectors, not quilters, their prices for these unfinished pieces were always significantly lower than those I'd seen at quilt shows.
I bought a set of blocks, handpieced, whose fabrics appeared to be 1860s. Unfortunately, as was common for that era, one or more of the fabrics used had disintegrated, most likely due to the mordant used in the dyeing process. Of an original set of fifteen blocks, there were only nine that remained intact:
Suffice to say, they have some problems. You know that rule we've all been taught, not to have bias edges on the outside of the block? Yeah, that's apparently a new rule. The blocks ranged in size dramatically, necessitating some trimming. And before anyone gasps and clutches their pearls in horror, before anyone requires their smelling salts, these blocks were junk. Not to me, obviously, or to the dealer, but to the vast majority of people, these blocks were rags. Yes, they're old. Yes, they're handpieced. But we're not talking about heirloom quality here. They were indifferently pieced: unmatched intersections, wonky angles, ripply edges. And let's face it, if they had been that important to the original quiltmaker, she probably wouldn't have left them as a UFO. I think the most respectful thing I can do with these blocks is to turn them into something useful and enjoyable, rather than letting them continue to be a stack of rags in a storage bin. And if that process necessitates a little trimming, even of 150-year-old fabric, so be it.
So: I repaired some damaged stitching, trimmed the blocks where I needed to, eased in fullness where I could, and stitched the nine blocks together in a square, so the diagonal rows of Flying Geese-like half square triangles could flow together. (According to Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, the block is called Pennsylvania Pineapple, which I find hilarious and endearing.) I then put some borders around it, using reproduction Civil War prints and muslin to make and add a Flying Geese border. And then I was stuck.
Actually, when in doubt, ask quilters. I brought the top as it stood to my guild retreat in April 2005 and threw myself on the mercy of the court. A very skilled and very missed guild member, Nancy, who unfortunately and untimely passed away the following winter, made a great suggestion: why not turn it on point and do some applique? And so I did:
And here's where the obstacles come into play. The first one, that derailed me from continuing at that point, is that size matters. It took me a long time to do just one of the four corners, and it became overwhelming and discouraging. This was a very ambitious project for someone who hadn't done much applique, let alone relatively complex, layered applique.
Which leads to the problem of the learning curve. The applique here was done using Beth Ferrier's Hand Applique by Machine technique, just like on "Blue Butterfly Day." Except — this was three years earlier, and I wasn't very good at it. It's a little ugly close up, which kept me from wanting to pick it back up once I really learned what I was doing. There's a strong temptation to let my inner perfectionist out and redo that entire section before proceeding with the rest, which just bungees me back emotionally to the "overwhelming and discouraging" part. There's some quilt guilt associated with this as well, since a) I took on a 19th century UFO and turned it into a 21st century UFO, and b) after my guild friend Nancy died, I really wanted to finish this quilt with her suggestion in tribute to how much she influenced and inspired me, and I have failed to.
So what do I need to do to finish this quilt? I thought about just quilting and binding it as is, but beyond wanting to use Nancy's suggestion in her memory, I also think it's a really good suggestion. I need to take a second look at that applique section and reassess just how bad it truly is. After all, this is never going to be a show quilt due to the vintage blocks, and it's never going to be a heavily used quilt for the same reason, so neither the perfection nor the structural integrity of the applique is as important as it might otherwise be. If necessary, I could always go back over the "invisible" blind hem stitching with machine blanket stitch or satin stitch. Despite my newfound love of hand applique, I don't think this is the project for that. I should complete the applique sections with whatever machine applique technique seems most appropriate, put a poison green border around the whole thing, and then quilt the living daylights out of it so neither the hand piecing nor the less-than-stellar applique comes apart.
I can only imagine the original quiltmaker would be pleased.


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Mar Suara attended the Goya Cinema Awards 2014 held at Centro de Congresos Principe Felipe on Sunday (February 9) in Madrid, Spain.
The actress wore a Michael Kors Resort 2014 monochromatic glittery long-sleeve creation with plenty of sultry appeal via two triangular side cut-outs.
With a body to-die-for, this skin-baring frock looks sensational on Mar; with effortless styling which couldn't be more complementary to the embellishments and colour palette.
A red pout and tumbling curls upped the dial on the glam-o-meter to complete her ultra sexy look.
You may remember that Miranda Kerr wore this dress back in November.
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Undergraduate students encourage academic discussion about China
Studying at Fudan University in Shanghai has inspired several Queen's undergraduate students to create a China symposium.
"The Global Development Studies Semester in Shanghai program opened our eyes to development in China and dispelled many of the myths we believed prior to studying abroad. We are now more sensitive to the issues in China and the country's impact on Canada and the rest of the world," says Jonathan Kong, chair of "The People's Republic: China's Future Path."
Mr. Kong returned to Queen's after a semester in Shanghai to discover muted levels of conversation on campus about topics related to China. Mr. Kong and other students decided to do something about that.
"By bringing together professors from different faculties and departments, we hope to create synergies that will allow Queen's to become a formidable player in Chinese studies in North America," Mr. Kong says.
The symposium will feature a wide range of Queen's faculty members including Peter Harrison (School of Policy Studies), Kim Nossal (Political Studies), Emily Hill (History), and Nailin Bu (School of Business). They will participate in seminars and panel discussions to give participants different perspectives on China.
Zhang Junsai, China's ambassador to Canada, will attend the opening gala.
Queen's is actively seeking new avenues of cooperation with universities and agencies in China. A strong partnership with Fudan University has expanded to multiple fields of cooperation with many Chinese institutions and agencies. In 2007 Queen's became the first university to establish an office in China.
The symposium will be held March 11 and March 12. Full details are available on the symposium website.
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An Abernathy family of eight is homeless after their house was destroyed by fire.
"This is where we all grew up," said one of the Castanon daughters as she surveyed the damage.
The fire broke out around 11:30 Monday morning in the Castanon's home on 3rd Street in Abernathy. The mother was washing clothes when the fire started near the dryer. She tried to put it out, but the fire spread, destroying the entire house. Fortunately, she was able to escape without injury and save her baby from the fire.
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Professor from Greece to Speak at Molecular Medicine Seminar
Lazaros Sakkas, professor of medicine and chief of the rheumatology section of the Thessaly University School of Medicine in Larrisa, Greece, will speak in the Old Dominion University Center for Molecular Medicine seminar series at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Room 144 of the Oceanography and Physics Building.
Sakkas, who also is an adjunct faculty member at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, will speak on "The Role of Immune Cells in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis."
The center's seminars are free and open to the public. Christopher Osgood, associate director of the center and associate dean of the ODU College of Sciences, is the seminar series organizer.
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Not many things went right for the Bengals that season, especially the beginning of their schedule which started with six consecutive losses, three of them being shutouts. The team looked, at times, as if they were not capable of beating most major college teams and Bengals fans were ready to run Mike Brown out of town and out of the NFL.
The fans might still like to run Mike Brown out of town at times, but they were lucky enough to receive the thrill of the year provided by the running of Corey Dillon. The Cincinnati Bengals' fans were treated to what at the time was the best single-game rushing performance in the history of the NFL.
On November 20, 1977, Walter Payton rushed for 275 yards to set a mark that would stand for almost 23 years. Payton had been bed-ridden with the flu two days before the game, but he seemed to burn the illness out of his system with every play as he racked up 77 yards by the end of the first quarter against the Minnesota Vikings' defense. Adding another 67 yards in the second quarter, he went to the locker room at half time having already rushed for 144 yards.
Payton added another 48 yards in the third quarter, and then in the fourth he busted loose for a 58-yard scamper, allowing him to eclipse O.J. Simpson's record by two yards. Payton finished his historic day with 275 yards on 40 carries.
Walter Payton retired from the game in 1987, and ten years later Corey Dillon began his NFL career. As a rookie, Dillon broke Jim Brown's 40-year-old single-game rookie record by rushing for 246 yards against the Tennessee Titans. In each of his first three seasons in the league, he rushed for over 1,100 yards, making him only the eighth player in history to do so.
Through six games of the 2000 season Dillon had rushed for only 323 yards, but he nearly doubled that total when he exploded for 278 yards against what was at that time the league's second-ranked rushing defense of the Denver Broncos.
"I still don't believe it", Dillon told reporters after the game. "From how I was running, I didn't see that I had that many yards. I was just out there trying to get four yards."
Dillon was already on his way to a fantastic game when he broke loose for scoring runs of 65 and 41 yards in the final five minutes of the game to give him the edge over Payton. When his accomplishment was announced, Dillon dropped to his knees and prayed while his teammates dumped ice water on his back.
Corey Dillon has assured himself a place in the Hall of Fame, at least for this game's performance, and he has claimed one of the most coveted records in all of football. The Bengals may continue to be a bad football team, but Dillon will never forget the day that he was the best running back in NFL history.


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Solly Moholo - Difofu Dikgopela Merapelo
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Over the year's Moholo has developed a signature sound - always accompanied by lyrics that are straight-talking, to-the-point, often funny and sometimes really moving.
Among the highlights on Difofu Dikgopela Merapelo is the hit track "Haretsamaye Rerobala Mo lema Ngeloyi" which adds yet another strong song to Moholo's deep catalogue. Also making a big impact is "Solly Moholo Supports The Kids" which is a touching song about Moholo's work in the community - and it features Moholo's daughters Lobisa (4) and Katlego (9) contributing vocals.
Difofu Dikgopela Merapelo is the latest addition to an impressive - and peerless - music career.
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Located adjacent to the UNESCO World heritage site, Djemaa El Fna in Marrakech Medina.
Opened in March 2007, The Heart of the Medina hostel was the first ever dedicated backpackers hostel in Marrakech Medina.
Located just 1 minute from the Djemaa place, your right in the heart of the city!
Use of the Salon De Thé and our new soft drink cocktail bar at the Riad Rahba!
*Breakfast included in the rate
*Dedicated english speaking staff
*Bathrooms, no extra charge for showers.
*Hot water.
*Rooftop terrace overlooking the Medina with views of the Atlas mountains.
*Free Wifi internet at our sister property.
Chill out on our rooftop terrace with your new friends, drink tea and Coffee in our new Salon De the!
Guests of the Heart of the Medina are able to use the Salon De the, Free Wifi internet, and the additional rooftop terrace at The Riad Rahba, located only 1 minute from the hostel.
Offering comfortable, quality rooms and surroundings, coupled with the real hostel experience, the heart of the Medina is your base in Marrakech.
With both mixed and female only rooms, and the ability to allocate a whole room, privately to a family or a group, we are able to satisfy your needs during your stay in Marrakech
From Marrakech Menara Airport
1. Head northeast on R212 toward Avenue Mohamed VI (1.8 km)
2. Turn left at the 2nd cross street onto Avenue Mohammed VI (1.1 km)
3. Take the 1st right onto Avenue de La Menara (900 m)
4. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Avenue Houmman el Fetouaki (850 m)
5. Turn left at Rue Beni Marine
6. Turn left at Derb Ben Aissa and continue until you reach the destination (140 m).
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The 54th running of the Daytona 500 is finally underway.
For the first time in NASCAR history, the Sprint Cup Series is running a Monday night primetime race thanks to a postponement of the race on Sunday – which was also unprecedented.
Leonard Wood of the Wood Brothers Racing team fame gave the command to fire engines – "Lady and gentlemen, start your engines!" he said – at 7:01 p.m. EST. That was nearly 32 hours after the originally scheduled start time.
And then finally, after the two-month offseason, pole-sitter Carl Edwards took the green flag at 7:14 p.m.
The Daytona 500 was supposed to begin shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday, but rain ruined those plans. NASCAR postponed the race to noon Monday, but the persistent bad weather forced officials to try again at 7 p.m.
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To be a successful team in the NFL, a team has to score big with annual draft hauls. Lately, the Cincinnati Bengals have been putting on clinics to other franchises on how to be winners over draft weekend. One could argue that for the past three to five years the Bengals have been swooping up quality talent that has been a major contributing factor to their three postseason appearances in that time window. It's becoming a Bengals fan expectation that the team will receive high grades and praise for their efforts at the end of every April.
Because of their limited resources and small front office staff, there might not be any other NFL coaching staff that does more grunt work in the draft than Marvin Lewis and Co. If you had been paying attention to our comprehensive lists and streams of prospect visits, university Pro Days and other private workouts, you would have noticed that the Bengals coaching staff and scouts have racked up quite a few frequent flyer miles.
After the smoke cleared from what looks to be another potentially outstanding Bengals draft class, I began to wonder how much stock the team placed in these Pro Days, visits and other workouts. Going through these hoops are a necessary practice for any NFL team, but again, with the limited manpower that the Brown family employs in their front office, the coaching staff becomes part of the foot soldiers in scouting. Were there any patterns? Do these visits subtly point to the players that they end up drafting?
Here is what I found out:
The Bengals were in attendance for seven of their ten 2013 draft picks' Pro Days and/or had a private visit with them. I didn't do the legwork to see how that stacks up against the league average, but I'd assume that that would be on the high side. A representative and/or Bengals coach was in attendance for the Pro Days at Notre Dame, North Carolina, SMU, Texas A & M, and South Carolina. We did not receive confirmation that the team was in attendance for the Pro Days at Georgia (as if they don't have a good enough pulse on that school already), Arkansas and Kansas. We also didn't directly receive confirmation that they were at the Ohio State Pro Day, but the team had a private visit with Reid Fragel.
The Bengals were in attendance at the Pro Days of three of their top four picks in 2013. This stat may or may not say a lot about their scouting practices. They obviously took a lot of stock in what they saw up close with a handful of their top picks. Interestingly, the team was pretty involved at the Texas A & M Pro Day and we mistook that they were really intrigued by defensive end DaMontre Moore. It turns out that the staff really liked linebacker Sean Porter, who wasn't even really on our radar as a possibility.
The Bengals sent smoke signals that they were going to draft a tight end high in 2013. Though some of us refused to believe it, the Bengals wanted another pass-catching tight end this year. Aside from attending Notre Dame's Pro Day to see their future first round selection in tight end Tyler Eifert, the team also sent position coach Jay Hayes to San Diego State's workout to have a look at Gavin Escobar, as well as staying in their own backyard to look at the University of Cincinnati's Travis Kelce. When the idea was first kicked around to "Bengaldom" about an early tight end, we saw a lot of negative feedback, though that has seemed to turn to optimism with the Eifert selection.
The Bengals drafted two players from Pro Days at which their coaches conducted the drills. We're not sure if this means anything or not, but it is worth noting. Both Hayes brothers conducted workouts at the Notre Dame and Texas A & M Pro Days. This may or may not have directly led to the team selecting Eifert and Porter.
The Bengals were taking a running back high and Giovani Bernard was always their guy. We spent all offseason wondering who the Bengals would be adding to the running back stable to complement BenJarvus Green-Ellis, be it a rookie or a veteran like Ahmad Bradshaw. The team opted to bring back Bernard Scott, but always had another Bernard in their sights, in North Carolina's Giovani Bernard. Aside from showing interest in Le'Veon Bell, Eddie Lacy and even Marcus Lattimore, the Bengals paid the most attention to Bernard. From his Pro Day to the wine-and-dine visit he had with the staff, the Bengals were smitten. Running backs coach, Hue Jackson also is apparently giddy about Bernard--maybe it's because he could pass as Jackson's son with eerily similar-looking facial qualities.
These visits are a critical part in the team's recruitment of undrafted free agents. By my count, six of the Bengals' of the 14 UDFAs this year were from schools that the Bengals had paid a visit. Every year it seems like a handful of these players seem to stick with the club, be it on the final roster or the practice squad and it appears that this year will be more of the same. If you were to ask us today who has the best chance to make the final roster, I think I'd place my money on Onterio McCalebb (who is from Auburn and the Bengals saw at his Pro Day), and/or linebacker Jayson Dimanche.
So, there you have it. Take the data however you would like, but if you weren't paying much attention to the team's activity in this regard in 2013, you may want to pay closer attention next year. Some recurring names and positions from those visits and workouts are likely to be headed to Cincinnati.
+ Some sad news out of San Diego with the passing of former Chargers running back, Chuck Muncie. He died of a heart attack on Tuesday at the relatively young age of 60. Muncie was a three-time Pro Bowl selection during his nine-year NFL career and was named one of the 50 greatest Chargers of all-time by the club. He had a previous stint with the Saints and was a touchdown machine for both clubs, rushing for 11 touchdowns in 1979, 19 in 1981 and another 11 in 1983. Muncie finished with 71 career touchdowns in those nine seasons.
Unfortunately for Muncie, he had some demons throughout the 1980s. He had a well-documented love affair with cocaine during both his playing days and in the years after, and that undoubtedly had some sort of contribution to his heart attack earlier this week. But, Muncie was one of those types of people that turned a negative chapter in his life to a positive.
For many years, Muncie ran a foundation to reach out to at-risk youth. According to reports, the foundation had assistance programs with drug issues, gang involvement and even things like tattoo removal. It was a great story for a man that had so many personal demons and had a fall from grace. Rest in peace, Chuck.


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Songting Chen, Xin Zhang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, "A Compensation-Based Approach for View Maintenance in Distributed Environments," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1068-1081, August, 2006.
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Sony Ericsson S312 is primarily designed for instantaneous video and photo. The phone incorporates many features inspite of being available a low price. The phone has faces of a silver tinge with its rear and front walls colored dark blue. The display of mirror sheeting is original and is placed in a frame of plastic with a smooth 'rolled' at the edge. The display's perimeter does not have a plastic frame which gives the mobile phone, a new and appealing look. The phone can be held in your hand easily and attracts the eye.
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You can connect to the Internet via EDGE and GPRS modules. The voice quality and the reception of the new items in the measure of sensitivity are quite good. Connectivity is offered by Bluetooth and the A2DP profile offers compatibility with wireless headphones. Bluetooth is tested on data and sample communications with HP's Pocket PCs. The devices trace each other quickly, but the data transmission on your system is really slow, at a rate of 0.13Mbps.
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After the results of the midterm elections, most political pundits speculate that California's government is bound to fail. Hundreds of companies have been taking their businesses to more business friendly states, like Texas. This not only reduces employment opportunities, it reduces State revenue. The reduction in Revenue leads to increased taxes to make up for it, cuts to teachers, policemen and fire fighters (of course, those are cut before political positions and offices). With the heavily democratic political structure of California, and the extremely high unemployment rate here, it is guaranteed the already highly taxed "wealthy" Californians will be hit hardest to "pay their fair share," to keep the State out of bankruptcy, extend unemployment benefits, provide more funding for "Green" things, etc. It is also guaranteed, that any prospective coaches, will fall into that democrat hated "wealthy" category.
Serious question. I know most here don't like to talk politics, but when reading an article about Cower not being available because of his love of the East Coast, it got me thinking... Who would choose to live in California?
So, if you are a highly regarded coach in the NFL, and you have several teams willing to pay you similarly large quantities of money to coach for them... wouldn't the State's economic and political makeup register into your decision of where you want to go? Going someplace with no income tax or California who is going to take almost as much from you as the Federal Government? State income tax for anyone making over 1 Mil in California was 10.5% last year. How much will it be next year? That is an automatic reduction of 10% to whatever they get paid. Not including property taxes, sales taxes, and all the many other taxes Cali charges (luxury vehicles, gas guzzler, blah, blah).
So, let's take $1 Million. Federal Income tax... 35% ($350,000), California... 10.5% ($105,000). Your final paycheck on $1 Mil contract, $545,000. (That doesn't include property taxes on your big new house, or luxury car and who knows what else).


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Topeka Capital Markets maintained VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) with a Buy rating and raised the price target from $46.00 to $52.00.
Topeka Capital Markets noted, "We reiterate our Buy rating and raise our price target to $52 (from $46) as we incorporate 2014 estimates. The recent .com agreement sets a baseline from which there is upside from new services and new domain activities, the latter beginning in 2014."
VeriSign closed at $44.61 on Monday.
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Written by Ed Wallington | posted in Project Management | 3 Comments
Some would say yes without hesitation – you can't beat a 'real' conference, there is no 'face to face', it is difficult to ask questions during presentations or demo's, surely the technology is far to complex to let me join, I bet I will have difficulties, I simply don't have time – and many other reasons!
I am an advocate of continuous learning and CPD, and see virtual conferences as a vital element in this process for all project managers, be they part of an organisation, a consultant or a student –no mater what field, sector or domain.
I am firmly of the view that no single person knows everything! This is why we construct project teams with the necessary skills to complete a project… and we must maintain, hone and increase these skills on a regular basis. We must not become complacent – project management, and the sectors it serves, is constantly changing and evolving and we must be on top of our game if we are to present ourselves as professionals.
From my point of view, virtual conferences fill a gap in our learning and networking schedule. We are all busy people; we don't like being away from our work (i.e. downtime during working hours) and travelling is a key drain on our time. Coupled with this in the current economic climate is the desire to cut costs, and yep, training and development are usually first to go, along with travel and conference fees!
We simply do not have the time or resources to attend many conferences, I suspect many of us would like to go to a conference every now and then, but do not attend more than one every couple of years, and only then in a good year!
This is where virtual conferences and webinars come into their own. We can attend without having to leave the office, or waste time travelling, and many allow us to 'check-in and out' at our leisure, watching streaming video presentations, slide shows and demo's as if we were actually there. If we view live we can ask questions (and yes they do get picked up and answered!).
In my opinion a virtual conference is the next best thing to actually attending a 'real' conference, I can interact from my own office, at a time I want to, I can pick and choose sessions to view, and the others are usually recorded so I can watch later. I do not have to tie up 3 days of my time travelling and attending, I can pick and choose the select elements I want, all from the comfort of my office.
So I ask the question, are virtual conferences a waste of time, or are they a vital tool and important component of continuous development and engagement in our busy lives?
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I wouldn't say a waste of time, when you have set a little time aside and committed to do it, of course you'll be learning something. My own problem is committment and staying focused when there are too many work things to be getting on with. With real conferences, you're in the building and fully signed up for the duration
Thanks for the comment Lindsay. I agree that time commitment is required, and one needs to put some time aside for CPD – and as you say ideally in a dedicated environment. Some people actually need to be there, whereas others can create their own learning environment.
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Brake Abs Warning Light problems of the 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier
Four problems linked to brake abs warning light have been reported for the 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier.
Brake Abs Warning Light problem #1
The vehicle was a 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier. While driving abs light illuminated, causing vehicle to stop. After inspectiing vehicle, deaelr determined that space behind the firewall was omitted during manufacturing. This brake abs warning light issue occurred Tuesday, February 5, 2002.
Brake Abs Warning Light problem #2
The car was a 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier. While driving abs light illuminated, causing vehicle to stall out and die . After inspection of vehicle, dealer determined that spaces behind firewall were omitted during manfacturing. Please provide additional information. This issue happened on Feb. 2, 2002.
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The vehicle's vehicle identification number (VIN) is 1G1JC12412_. Consumer owns a 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier. Over the past two years, the brakes lock when the contact drives over a bump in the road. He would have to pump the brakes in order for them to unlock. He took the vehicle to another dealer for a diagnostic and was informed that there was a spring in the rear passenger side that caused the brakes to lock. The spring would trip a sensor on the dash and the vehicle would stop. The dealer is repairing the failure and is also installing an abs sensor light for the brakes. The failure mileage was 76,000. Updated 02/05/09 updated 02/0909. It was Dec. 12, 2008 when this brake abs warning light issue occurred.
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The vehicle is a 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier. The contact stated that his front brakes were in need of replacement after 10,000 miles. In addition, the hydraulic brakes continued to lock on the vehicle while driving in forward or reverse. There were no warning indicators that indicated that the braking system failed. It was later discovered that the warning indicator system also failed. The dealer installed an ats lighting system to ensure the warning panel would illuminate if there were any further failures. The failure mileage was less than 65,000 and current mileage was 76,500. Updated 02/10/09. The dealer replaced the abs sensor light. Updated 02/11/09. This brake abs warning light problem happened on Tuesday, November 20, 2007.
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WHILE residents of Forest Reefs eagerly await news of the approval of the $195 million Flyers Creek wind farm by the Planning Assessment Commission (PAC), a new report by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) claims there are no health risks associated with the turbines.
The draft paper Evidence on Wind Farms and Human Health, released by the NHMRC, Australia's peak body for health and medical research, says there is no reliable link between wind farms and people's health.
A proposal by Infigin Energy to place 45 turbines on land 20 kilometres south of Orange has divided the community and has been a contentious issue since 2008.
Recently there was such a huge response to a public forum hosted by the PAC it had to be held over two days.
The Central Western Daily spoke with several landholders in the area yesterday, however, they declined to comment on the report.
The debate among landholders is expected to continue, with reports some of the landholders who signed contacts with Infigen several years ago want to pull out of contracts that may have expired.
Clean Energy Council policy director Russell Marsh said this latest report was another tick of approval for the wind industry from the country's best health experts.
"The NHMRC draft position statement is in line with advice from the NSW and Victorian health departments, which have both stated that noise below the hearing threshold cannot affect people's health," he said.
"This should give peace of mind to those living near operating or proposed wind farms that their health will not be adversely affected."
Mr Marsh said while there was mounting evidence that wind farms could not directly cause health problems, the industry recognised the need to make communication and community engagement a high priority when building a wind farm.
The NHMRC draft paper has been released for public consultation until Friday, April 11.
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I'm becoming a mainstay of MVN Outsider. My latest contribution was this Q&A in which I addressed the temperature of Brad Childress's seat, Tarvaris Jackson's future (or lack thereof) with the team and Monday night's match-up with the Saints. Thanks to Anthony and the MVN crew for giving me a chance to vent on their fine site.
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- [S166] Jones & Broder Families, notes of Violet Broder, c 1960, DOC 084 & 085, privately held by Faye West, Edmonton, Alberta.
- [S152] "Violet Broder's birthday list," (manuscript, c 1960; DOC 020); privately held by Faye West; Edmonton, Alberta.
- [S945] Audrey Jones & Alan Drummond, Wedding Invitation, privately held by Faye West, Edmonton, Alberta.
- [S500] Wedding Trip to Harrison Hot Springs, The British Columbian, New Westminster, 1 May 1943. File: DOC 045.
- [S563] Alan Scott Drummond, Death Registration 49-09-003204 (1949), BC Vital Statistics Agency, Victoria, British Columbia.
- [S945] Audrey Jones & Charles Campbell, Wedding Invitation, privately held by Faye West, Edmonton, Alberta.
- [S472] Interview with Marion Doyle (Lethbridge, AB), by Faye West, 23 Dec 2007.
- [S1100] Audrey Lucille Campbell, Death Certificate 022018 (28 Dec 1928), BC Archives, 655 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, film # B17120.
- [S1527] Jan West, "My Loyalist Families - Charles John Campbell," e-mail message from e-mail address (Victoria, BC) to Faye West, 2 Sep 2012.


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Could the Nexus 5 32GB have an IR Blaster?
Hello world.
Been looking at the pics of the Nexus 5 leaks and had a thought what if the Nexus flagship phone has an IR blaster?
Check the pics below, but my thinking is the 32GB version will have a bigger battery and more bells and whistles, given the rumors of the different battery sizes. The only question is what happened to the Moto Nexus? Maybe its gonna be a Moto Nexus Watch? Ala X8 computing system?


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The end of the 2012 season brought many things I liked about the team and showed areas that need to improve. As I sat down to look at the Cowboys and took a few to think about the team as a whole, I found myself having many of the same feelings I did in the season - and changing my opinion on a major piece of the team.
The biggest opinion that changed or me was the defensive scheme. I was a fan of Ryan's and at the time thought he would have another year. When he was let go and Kiffin brought in, I was excited about Kiffin and realized I really needed to go back and look at the real problems with our defense in 2012. During the season I was not happy about the coverage schemes used at times when we went from press coverage to playing mostly zone. This created mismatches deep and took our safeties from playing over the top and reacting to the ball to trying to pickup man coverage in the back. Without an effective and consistent pass rush this gave the advantage to receivers.
I then focused on the Dline very closely, because not having any clients up front I, was not focused on watching film and analyzing up there. What I found was a scheme that was very player-centered and did not use scheme to attack up front. There were too many reads, reaction and responsibility for the front seven. When we faced injuries, the backups did not have the number of reps to fully grasp everything they were supposed to do on any given play, and this led to mounting mistakes through the season.
The move to Kiffin's scheme made a lot more sense after looking at the whole picture. Having worked in a Kiffin influenced scheme, I understand that when we talk about simple, it does not mean it is easy but it takes away the multiple reads after snap. It allows players to understand their assignment presnap and execute at the snap of the ball. This move from a scheme that requires very good starters with a high amount of snaps to a scheme that has easier presnap reads and easier defined assignments will allow the Cowboys to get back to a solid rotation of players on the Dline and our entire front 7 to better absorb the injuries that will happen over the course of a season.
At this point it was time to prioritize what I wanted to focus on, improve and fix going forward. I prioritized as follows:
1. Improve the run game - This is a must happen going forward into the season
2. Improve the pass protection - Improving the run game; better continuity; changing play-calling to a quicker, more Oline friendly passing game as well as and another offseason with Callahan will go a long ways to Oline improvement in 2013. There is also a very good opportunity in the draft to bring in more talent up front and take that improvement even further.
3. Build better depth on the Dline and move to an effective player rotation up front.
4. Build on the improvements in the secondary - I like the players we have on the roster in the secondary and think Sensie will do great in the new scheme, and Church and Johnson will show to be very good players, but with the depth and talent in the draft you should not pass up the chance to make even more improvements.
These are the areas I want to address in this post and it is going to start in FA. I will start by franchising Spencer one more season. While I think Crawford may be the longterm answer at the strong side DE, it is still a question mark and this is not a great DE draft class. This will give me a year to work Crawford and some of the young guys into the rotation and have a firm grasp of where we are next offseason.
The second move I would make is trading Kyle Orton to the Arizona Cardinals for the #38 pick in the second round. Free agency holds no options for a starting QB this season. There are only two QBs, Geno Smith and Matt Barkley, who can be first day starters and they are nowhere near the talent of the QBs in previous drafts. Plus, both will probably be off the board by the time the Cards pick #7 and the Cards will want to make sure they have a starter on the roster before draft day and not roll the dice again. To replace Orton as backup I would target Bryan Hoyer in free agency. Hoyer is already familiar with the reads for the route options for the receivers and most of the plays in the playbook, so he would just need to learn the terminology used by the Cowboys offense.
The final move I would make is to trade Miles Austin to the Bills for the #41 pick. Austin was overshadowed by Bryant and Witten being in the top 10 for receiving this past season, but even with a nagging hamstring injury he was still a top 20 receiver in the league and teams needing a receiver. HC Doug Marrone is shopping for a receiver to be a deep threat and Austin has worked in a similar system and will be a big pickup for the first year HC.
The last trade I would make is the Cowboys #47 pick to the Pats for their #59 and #91 picks. The Pats will probably go safety or DT in the first and will need to move up in the second to grab the guy they want at the other position who could play a significant role in their first year. With an improved running game, the second receiver and third option in the passing game will have a reduced role, which makes trading Austin possible.
In the draft with 5 picks in the first 3 rounds I can get players who not only project to be future starters in the NFL but can also be big role players in their first year. The following is my early mock draft for the Cowboys.
18) Jonathan Cooper, G/C, North Carolina
38) Phillip Thomas, S, Fresno State
41) Jesse Williams, DT, Alabama
59) Stepfan Taylor, RB, Stanford
80) Sean Porter, OLB, Texas A&M
91) Menelik Watson, OT, Florida State
111) Devin Taylor, DE, South Carolina - 6-6, 260
5th round) Vance McDonald, TE, Rice
6th round) Ray Graham, RB, Pittsburgh