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Well my planned trip to York did not go ahead as I have been struck down by a very nasty ear infection so have spent the last 3 days in the house trying to get better before my sister, her two kids and small dog arrive to stay tomorrow! I shall have to visit the doc for antibiotics I think as it is not getting much better :-(
I have finished the hemming on the farm quilt and made a little bag for the animals so I have been being productive while laid up. Here are the pockets on the front of the quilt with two of the little animals in that will go into the bag. My idea is that my cousin's daughter who the present is for will be able to match the animals with the pockets. She is two this week and we will be seeing her at the weekend in Spain.
This is the back of the quilt and a close up of the fabric which has lots of farm words on which she can practise!
The bag was made from fabric scraps and will have a drawstring cord.
I did go out to my brother's house last night as he and his partner Amanda had invited us round for a meal and they very kindly cooked us delicious food and looked after me so I just had to sit in my chair drinking home-made Cassis and wine (I have also put my back out again somehow!)
They have a very lovely garden which they are in the process of remodelling (with outdoor BBQ and pizza oven) and Amanda loves garden ornaments as much as I do so here are some shots of her garden – the cat is a present that I bought her a couple of Christmases ago and it holds tea lights.
You can just see Ben sitting in the background of that last pic. They also have an allotment and grow wonderful veg – look at the size of these courgettes! The one on the right is about 14″ long. Amanda very kindly gave me some more of her homemade chutney and jelly to bring home with me as well.
I don't know if I will be able to do much this coming week as feel pretty awful at the moment, I have been spending most of the weekend sewing up Xmas hearts, have just sent off an exchange to Germany and am halfway through another stitched gift for a friend's new baby so do have a lot to occupy myself if needed.
I will not be posting now for a couple of weeks as we are off to Spain for a week on Friday. Take care and I will be in touch when I get back.
Thanks for visiting.
I am pleased to report that I have almost finished the Makower Farm fabric quilt in time to take it to Spain next week. In fact I do have enough time (and hopefully enough fabric) to make a little bag to go with it to keep all the animals in.
I was going to be very pushed for time but as Ellie arrived home late and very tired (but happy and very brown) from her dig yesterday evening we decided to have a quiet day in today so I got it finished. I have not got pics of the completed quilt yet as I need to do the bottom hem but plan to do that tomorrow. This was my progress up until today (as modelled by Jake!)
Six of the labels have a pocket on them (made of an extra label with the same design shown on) and I have bought six little plastic farm animals to put into the pockets as well as a set of bigger animals.
As this was my own design I have spent a lot of time trying to work out what I could do with fabric I had bought and would it have been much easier had I bought more plain and co-ordinates for sashing and borders but I will know for next time. I have just quilted the top and then made a 'bag' with the backing and turned it inside out, partly as I thought it would look better and partly as I was running out of time and fabric to do a border. I think it looks great as the outside border has enough pattern on it anyway.
We have been for a few days out since Mum arrived at the weekend. Firstly to Marsden which was lovely and sunny.
Then to Temple Newsam House near Leeds which is a Tudor and Jacobean mansion that was the birthplace of Lord Darnley who married Mary Queen of Scots.
Lots of fab rooms and textiles inside , including some wonderful portraits, lots of embroidery spotting. No inside pics allowed but I did find a copy of this pic of Arabella Stuart on this very informative website.
The jacket she is wearing reminds me very much of the Layton jacket in the Victoria and Albert Museum that I have written about previously. Below is a pic of Margaret Layton wearing the jacket.It makes me wonder about who made them both and how many more similar jackets exist – was it a popular design, did they know each other and did they ever meet (hopefully not both wearing their jackets!). They were both alive at the same time.
There was also a very interesting quilt on one of the beds – no pics allowed so I will have to try to describe it to you and see if anyone has seen anything similar as I have never come across one like it before.
It was made of glazed chintz, Chinese inspired flower / tree of life type designs so late 17th or early 18th century I think. It was patchwork but did not seem to be quilted, no wadding as far as I could tell and the patchwork design was of large squares about 14″ diameter set on point with half triangles at the border. I went to a quilt exhibition at the V and A last year and saw quilts there dating from the 15oos but nothing like this. It looked quite basic, not really stately home style and I was very intrigued so if anyone knows anything about it please let me know.
We have a trip to York to the latest Quilt Museum exhibition and the Minster planned for later in the week which will be lovely. Hopefully I will get chance to post again before I leave for Spain (with my completed quilt – hurrah!).
Thanks very much for visiting, see you again soon.
Apologies for lack of weekly post – have family staying so have been out and about and very busy so normal service will resume soon!
The pics for this month's Scavenger Hunt were all taken in a week on our recent holiday to London. I had set myself a goal of trying to get the whole list in one week – some of it was ridiculously easy while other words took a bit of searching but here they are and I hope that you like them!
A flag
Being the capital city there were a fair few Union flags around – it is only called the Union Jack when it is on a ship – but this is one of my fave flag pics – taken at Hampton Court.
A kite
Had to be a bit creative with this one as did not see any but did come across this quote from Mary Poppins in the Disney Store on Oxford Road ….
We are very big Disney fans in our house!
Being the capital city there are loads that take place here but thought I would share with you some of the memorabilia available for our latest one – the marriage of Prince William and the gorgeous Catherine Middleton on April 29th. This pic was taken in a little gift shop round the corner from the British Museum on a very rainy day. I did buy a fridge magnet to take a pic of but thought this was a lovely pic as you can just see the reflection of tourists in the rain under an umbrella opposite the shop.
Again I had to be creative here as there aren't that many in central London but we were in the theatre district and I saw this poster advertising the musical from one of my favourite films – how many Christmases did I watch this! Do you remember the bit where they fall asleep in the poppy fields?
Flip flops
For when you are feeling particularly patriotic!
Ice cream
This is not actually ice cream but a little selection of takeaway desserts from Marks and Spencer where we bought our in train picnic for on the way back – how cute!
Red, white and blue
Well I really was spoilt for choice here but I came across some fab shoes in a shop in trendy Carnaby Street – here is the patriotic UK version…
and the patriotic US version !
Again this took some thinking about but then Ellie pointed out that Ariel the Little Mermaid has a bra made of seashells in the Disney film. When Ellie was little she had a dress like this with a long fish tail which she loved.She is most upset that the Disney Store don't do adult sizes!
Something that makes you happy (not a person or an animal!)
Well apart from my family and textiles the thing that makes me most happy is travel (if I get to travel with my family and there are textiles I am super happy!). I really love travelling by train especially as I think it is very exciting and though I use the train a lot I never get bored, I love just sitting looking out of the window watching everything go by. I am sure I would be a terrible driver as I am so used to being able to look all around when I am going anywhere and see all the pretty things. So here is a pic of one of the Docklands Light Railway trains that we used, the views from these of the skyscrapers at Canary Wharf were great – you can just see them in the background here.
There was the most amazing ceiling in the chapel at Hampton Court decorated with stars – I couldn't take a photo inside but here is a pic from the front of the guide-book.
and then when we bought things from the gift shop the bag had this design on.
Here is Ellie enjoying strawberries and creme fraiche as part of our picnic at Hampton Court.
And some lovely pots lined up in the Hampton Court gardens.
I do hope that you have enjoyed my pics – very much looking forward to seeing what other people come up with this month. To see the other Scavenger Hunt pics or to join go to the blog.
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You may remember a post a while back – April I think when I commented that it was very warm and sunny – warmer than we usually get in April in Yorkshire or even July in Yorkshire, well this was one of those weekends that proved my point.It has been very, very wet for virtually all the weekend. So no garden fettling but I did manage to get a pic of my lovely new clematis blooms during a bit of sun yesterday.
Poor Ellie has been very rained on during her dig – she is down south at the moment doing an archaeological dig at some standing stones as part of her course. She can cope fine with the rain (it's just like most of the family holidays we have after all!) but unfortunately her lovely new Zandra Rhodes tepee tent that I bought her for Xmas has on its first trip out proved to be not waterproof at all! They have been very flooded so she has had to retreat to her little tent and we will have to be sending that back to the suppliers with a little note when she returns! Apart from that she is enjoying herself and they are hoping for better weather next week.
We need to wish Becky, her friend and future housemate who is also on the dig with her a belated happy birthday, it was her 21st birthday this week so a very, very happy birthday Becky and I hope that you and Gemma liked the pressies Ellie made you and that you liked the sparkly elephant that starred in last month's Scavenger Hunt.
Becky and her boyfriend Chris have just come back from staying in our house in Spain and they sent me a very wonderful bouquet of flowers to say thanks and a fab card that she got from Moonpig which had loads of their holiday snaps on it – what a brill idea! Thank you very much Becky and Chris, you are most welcome! Look at these lovely blooms – I don't know what the little multi-flowered ones are but they are so pretty and I love lilies.
I have had a very busy week again including trying to sort out more IT issues (Jacob's new birthday computer 0 restored wireless network 1) so some success on that front, bizarrely it will connect fine when downstairs but not when in his room, despite the fact that my laptop will – humm! And 2 hours on the phone with technical support could not fix it – it is a good job that I am a woman who knows my ping from my command prompt I tell you! However he is very happy as he has a super new graphics card and all is very pretty and the games work well, and I have regained access to my laptop of an evening (hurrah!).
To offset this I have a bit of fabric fettling in between marking and decorating. Have managed to work out what I am doing with the farm quilt despite a couple of 'oops I have measured that bit wrong' setbacks and have now put together all the labels with the spotty sashing – pic below shows 5 of the 12 that make up the quilt top.
Since I took this pic I have added another row of sashing between all the label blocks in a green gingham so it looks very pretty. Am pleased that I have managed to work out the design myself and that I have done all the sashing using joined piecing which I have seen others at quilt group do but had not attempted it before (aren't you impressed at all these new words I know now, I am, it is like a whole new language!)
I am very much enjoying my adventures in quilting – we have a 'Sit and Sew' day next Saturday where as the name suggests we shall spend all day sewing so I hope to have the quilt top done and possibly backed and part quilted as well as it needs to be finished within a few weeks for a birthday gift.
I have also been enjoying finding out more about quilt techniques as I have discovered a brand new resource from a link on a quilty blog. I was reading Tonya's Lazy Gal Quilting blog and she mentioned the Quilt Show and I have been having great fun watching their videos (from the comfort of my sofa thanks to the newly restored wireless connection!)
I like the way that as well as all of the free stuff when you register you can buy access to the individual shows you like without having to take out a yearly subscription and I think at about £1.50 a show that is very good value as they last an hour and are very informative.I watched a really good one on 1930s quilts the other day and am going to go back later and browse some more.
Last but not least I have picked a winner for the 200th post – using a random number generator which other people have mentioned as good way of picking. I had five comments on the post so numbered them in order and the winner is Number 2 – Lorna (no blog). I am mailing you Lorna to ask you what you would like as your ornie. Thank you to all who commented and I will be having another one in a few months in Nov as that will be my 4th blogaversary!
Well I hope that you have had better weather than we have – my Mum arrives next week for a visit so I am hoping that she will pack some Spanish sun in her case, meanwhile we will look on the bright side – at least I have got out of cutting the front hedge this weekend!
See you next week with hopefully a completed quilt top, thanks for visiting.
As regular readers will know I love taking pics of architecture (particularly pretty doors and iron work to the bewilderment of my children!) and I had plenty of opportunity in London. We arrived at St Pancras station which is an incredible building, one day would love to depart from here on the Eurostar or the Orient Express as I love train travel and it is a wonderful station, very modern on the inside with lots of shops and cafes (including a champagne bar!) but the outside is the best bit.The web site has a nice little bit on the history of the station with more pics if you are interested.
Edited to add – According to my Google banner today 13th July is the architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott's 200th birthday – well done Sir for a fine building!
No pretty pics of the British Library which we went to that day – lovely gardens and it is nice inside but too much of a brick block for me. We did see some very lovely things in the Treasures collection including old maps and illuminated manuscripts and they have a very good feature on their website that lets you look at some of these in more detail called 'Treasures in Full' and an online gallery called 'Turning the Pages'.
However the following day was heaven as we went to Hampton Court ! I didn't realise that the Flower Show was on that week which meant it was very crowded coming home on the train so we stayed and had tea there and caught a later one. Hen House has wonderful post all about the Flower Show – she went a couple of days after us so I didn't get the chance to bump into her which is probably a good things as the children would have been very embarrassed by me trying to introduce myself to one of my 'imaginary friends'!
I have wanted to visit for a long, long time because of my fascination with the Tudors, particularly Catherine of Aragon who has always interested me not just for her love of embroidery and allegedly introducing blackwork to England but also because of her story which is such a powerful one and the outcome of it changed so much about English religious culture which again is one of my interests. I have just started re-watching the Tudors from series one and am going to treat myself to series four as I missed most of that when it was shown live (on far too late at night!).
The place did not disappoint and I was also very pleased to find that there was the newer palace of William and Mary from the 18th century behind the Tudor one which I had not realised. I prefer Tudor architecture and decor to Baroque but the gardens and apartments were lovely.Below pics show the outside of their palace and one of the beautiful symmetrical gardens.
This was the really exciting bit though.The pics below show the Clock Court, Tudor Gardens and window in the Great Hall, the ceiling of the Watching Chamber and Henry's kitchens which fed 1200 people a day when he was there with his retinue.
I think that gold ceiling would make a marvellous inspiration for a goldwork piece!
And there was even more excitement with a very good exhibition about Henry's early life which we looked at after the main house including paintings of two people you might recognise.
The lovely Catherine of Aragon and her rival Anne Boleyn.
There was a very poignant part of the exhibition detailing all the stillbirths and deaths of Catherine's children and both her and Anne suffered because of their failure to produce a male heir. It really does make you appreciate what women went through in childbirth and how the status of women has changed thankfully.
We also met the great man Henry the 8th himself with his last wife Kathryn Parr – during the day they had a series of short re-enactments with some actors recreating part of their story and I was lucky enough to get some lovely pics of the in the courtyard.
Fab costume , I do fancy doing Tudor re-enactment myself but would only ever opt to be a lower staus role. I will leave the really fancy stuff to my very talented friend Kat , who by the way has just had her second baby girl – big congrats and welcome! I am sure the baby will be as beautifully dressed for re-enactment as the whole family are. Her Tudor section is here if you want to have a look at the wonderful things she makes.
We later went to the Natural History Museum which Jake loves and they had a dinosaur exhibition which was very good (the sort with the moving ones in!) This building was designed to look like a cathedral to honour of all God's creations and it is an amazing building . I bought a book on the history of the building and it is made of terracotta not carved stone as I had originally thought and was created by Alfred Waterhouse. More pics and history on this site if you are interested.
There was a bit of modern architecture appreciation as we stayed in Docklands so took another trip to Canary Wharf where we marvelled yet again at how tall the buildings are.
We are having a quiet couple of weeks here now doing some house and garden fettling. I am finding my Makower farm fabric quilt a challenge as I am designing it myself so no pics yet just a lot of moving fabric around and trying not to cut it out wrongly but hopefully I will have some progress on that by the end of the week.
Well this has been a very long post – time for a cup of tea I think!
Hope you all have a lovely week and thanks for visiting.
We have just got back from a very lovely, very busy trip to London and I have so many pictures of beautiful places to show you I have had a hard job editing them down to a few to post.
We visited the British Museum, the Museum of Natural History, the British Library and Hampton Court as well as Canary Wharf and Leicester Square on the evening of the Harry Potter premiere.I will post the historical venues later on in the week but meanwhile here's what we got up to at the premiere.
We knew we had very little chance of getting near to see anything much as we only arrived on the afternoon and there were people who had been camping out for days. Here is a pic of the kids at one of the blocked off sections of the square by the publicity hording.
However we were lucky enough to get to the back where the stars were arriving in their cars (the largest collection of silver Bentleys with blacked out windows in the world!) and peek through the hoardings surrounding the square to be able to see lots of red carpet activity.It was very amusing trying to work out who we might be seeing – we realised the next day when we saw pics in the paper that we had seen Helena Bonham Carter (recognised the hat!) We worked out we probably saw everyone arrive but since they were all behind their blacked out windows can't really saw we saw them!
Sadly we did not see the main stars but we did meet a lot of very lovely people who were very excited, like us, just to be there and Ellie and Jake got interviewed and broadcast live on BBC Radio London which was fab! The pic below shows them with the reporters.
I can't find the live interview but here is a link to the earlier interview the reporter did with them that went up on Twitter and the pic from the Twitter site.You can just see one of the fans peeking over the top trying to see who had arrived!
Later on in the week we went to Comicon – a Sci – fi film and magazine convention where we did see lots of very famous people from TV and movies close up, there were stars from films such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter and TV series like Buck Rogers, Doctor Who, Firefly as well as loads of fans dressed up.
We saw some very nice Storm Troopers, a Charles Xavier (Professor X from X Men – we have just been to see the new movie which was brilliant), Wolverines, a Klingon, a few R2D2s, some Disney princesses and too many Dr Whos to keep track of – more Matt Smiths than David Tennants and only a couple of the older Doctors – sadly no John Pertwees who was always my favourite doctor (probably because most of the people at the convention were not born when he was the Doctor!) Anyway it was a really fun day and the kids were very excited – the same as I was at Hampton Court. I have started watching all the Tudor series again tonight in homage.
As it was London and we were living the glamorous city life we had some very nice meals out and had a special picnic on the train on the way back from Marks and Spencers including this very lovely little glass of wine, you may remember that last year I posted about portable wine containers in my post on Glamping. This plastic glass full of Chardonnay came from the chiller cabinet with a peel off lid! Very useful.
I made good progress with my fabric Xmas ornies before I went away – I now have about 20 in various stages of completion – here are some pics of the crazy patchwork 'sheet', the cutting out and one of my newest finished batch in case you want to use this method to make your own.By careful placing of the heart I managed to get 8 cut out of this sheet. The final pic shows the backing fabric I have used as well. I added a small Xmas tree button to this set from the packs I bought at the Malvern Quilt Show a while ago.
I appear to have solved the problem with the fabric pics on my posts being wavy lined, I thought it was my old camera but realised that when I looked at them in slide show preview that wasn't happening , it seems it was my photo editor software, am using another one now and pics are a lot clearer!
I spent part of this afternoon working on the Makower farm animal quilt which needs to finished in a couple of weeks for a family birthday present. Am making up my own pattern so it is very challenging – think I know what I am doing but am being very careful cutting out!
Don't forget to post a comment on my giveaway post if you would like to win an ornie. Thanks for visiting.
While looking at the other contributions for this month's Scavenger Hunt I came across a post about making lists that I liked from Ellen's Blog. The list is 'Top 5 decisions you are glad you have made' so here goes.
1. To have kids – without a doubt my best ever decisions as they are wonderful – we have had such fun together ever since they arrived and still do, they are such fun to be with and we get to go off and have adventures together – like London tomorrow!
2. To move to Huddersfield – I came here to study for my degree and I had various options for where I might end up, I am very glad that this one was the one I chose as I have been very happy here, loved the degree and have loved living here since then.
3. To buy a house in Spain – a big decision but like the Huddersfield one somewhere I really, really love to be and I am so glad to be able to spend more time there with my family.
4. To apply for my current job – it is a very demanding job but I love it , the students and the staff I work with are really great and I get a real buzz out of doing it – and have been doing it for 10 years now.
5. To take life as it comes and look for the joy and the positive aspects of every situation. I didn't used to be very mellow and tried to have everything planned out but a few years ago circumstances changed and I decided that I was going to try to 'roll with it' a bit more and I am very glad I did. I am far happier now than I used to be and am having a lovely, lovely life!
See you all soon.
Thanks for visiting.
Hello everyone
I hope that you have all had a nice weekend – it has been a very hot and sunny one here in Yorkshire and much garden fettling has taken place including the clearing of weeds from a neglected area at the bottom of the garden, thanks kids for your sterling work today. We have had a lovely BBQ this evening as well!
It has almost been too hot in the conservatory to do any fabric fettling but Ellie and I did a little bit today and I have some pics to show you from earlier in the week.We have been making a whole load of very cute pincushions from her Simple Sewn Gifts book that she got for her birthday and I have been helping by cutting out the fabric. These are very lovely.
There is one for her with a very cute frog button.
One for her auntie as she loves cats.
One to go with the scissor keep she made as a donation for the 'Put em Ins' that we are making for the Quilter's Guild Tombola at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham in August (Put em Ins are anything you can put things in).
One for me to match ny WIP sofa throw in the lovely medieval fabric.
I am still sewing my little patchwork Xmas hearts which leads me to the giveaway which is the title of my post. It was my birthday this week – the kids were kind enough to buy me this lovely card!
Ellie also made me a very pretty bag and is making me a jewellery roll in the same fabric to go with it.
It is also my 204th post right here, right now – I had meant to have a giveaway to celebrate the 200th post which was last week sometime but missed it so thought I would do it now as a birthday and blog celebration.
I am offering an Xmas ornie as I love doing them and it can be any one of your choice – either a stitched one or a patchwork – tree, heart etc anything at all. If you click on the 'Xmas Ornies' link in my Category Cloud you will see all the ones I have ever made so pick your favourite one. To enter please leave a comment on this post telling me what you would like to have . I will pick the winner in two weeks on the 17th July.
We are off to London next week for a little holiday – lots of museum visiting and we are going to lurk around the premiere of the last Harry Potter movie on Thurs in the hope of seeing some stars! Hope that you all have a lovely week ahead and thank you for visiting.


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I'm curious as to what other people's shelter philosophy is for continuously wet weather (multiple days of rain or light snow - PNW weather?). My wet weather hiking experience is limited (I live in AZ but am moving to OR in a few months), so I'm looking to learn from those who know best. Three ideas that come to my mind are:1. Take a single large shelter: this will provide room to live, spread out gear, and cook. Examples: large mid or tarp2. Take your normal tent + a small tarp: the tarp will provide room to live, spread out gear, and cook, while you can sleep in your normal tent. Examples: tarptent + small cuben or silnylon tarp3. Take your normal tent: I suppose you can make do with your normal tent and rely on it and a combination of natural shelter for everything elseFrom what little wet weather hiking I've done, I've found that having a large, floorless shelter makes a big difference. It's nice to have a roomy space to eat and relax in that's not in the rain, particularly if you are out with friends. The vestibules on most tents simply aren't big enough IMO. What works well for you?Finally, my other question is on the weight of your wet shelter. I got rained on last weekend and had to pack away a wet, soggy tent in the morning (I stayed dry, but I had a fair amount of condensation). When I got home later that afternoon, I decided to weigh my tent which had been in its stuff sack since morning: my 23 oz tent had gained 15 oz. I shook it off pretty well when packing it up, but it seemed the silnylon fabric had absorbed quite a bit of water. This would have been quite the hassle if I'd planned on staying out another night. I've heard that cuben fiber does not have this problem and the water can be mostly shook off. Has any one verified this? In addition to avoiding sag, this trait might actually make cuben seem worth the price.
"In addition to avoiding sag, this trait might actually make cuben seem worth the price."Those two were the clinchers for me. A one-time tight pitch and a quick pre-pack shake are pretty nice.Ain't going back.
Edited by greg23 on 06/25/2013 19:00:53 MDT.
If it were me and I were expecting consistently wet weather, it'd be my normal tent and a large silnylon tarp (Cuben is out of my price range). I've got a 10x12 silnylon tarp that weighs about 2 lbs. Not light. But it would cover a nice sized area outside the tent for cooking, lounging, etc. I'd probably pitch the tarp first, then pitch my tent while under the tarp and move it after it was up to one edge of the tarp (with the tent entrance remaining under the tarp) and stake it down.
Edited by EagleRiverDee on 06/25/2013 19:02:31 MDT.
Through experience I have learned that 45 degree walls are the best in rain, the more momentum the water gains and flows away from your shelter, I'm a fan of Mids. Also I will bring an extra 10' X 5-12' tarp to pitch in front of the tent for down time, and to cover the door of the mid.
Im in the tent and a tarp camp. Obviously heavier- but hanging out, and cooking in the rain just soaks your clothes. Hanging out and cooking in the tent is depressing. Hammocks really shine here for the same reason, a place to hang out (no pun intended) and often the ground is saturated and/ or hilly/ rocky. Hammocks trump all that. Also, there is usually no shortage of trees.I tent with my wife. I hammock with my buddies.
In a forested area sheltered from the wind, a tarp is nice. Pitch it high and wide.An extra large ground cloth is also good for keeping all of your gear dry and clean.If you want you can build a fire in front of your tarp and keep warm and dry clothes while protected from the rain. You can't do that with a tent.
Edited by justin_baker on 06/25/2013 20:28:15 MDT.
That is not my experience with cuben fiber. I have a fairly new Hexamid Twin. Second night in it was in a light rain storm. There were a ton of water droplets hanging on my shelter. I removed most of the water with a microfiber towel and had to wring it out few times. If I had to guess there was between 8 and a little under 16oz of water on my shelter.Tarps never cease to amaze me. I was hiking last fall where it rained for the three days and the temperatures were hovering at 40*. We set up a basecamp and I hung a 9x9 tarp almost 5' off the ground with zero pitch so we could have a relatively dry place to hang out and dispose of beer. It provided enough shelter from the rain (no wind) that I could of slept under it no problem.
Edited by IDBLOOM on 06/25/2013 20:42:55 MDT.
I've spent many rainy PNW days in floorless midNeed 60 inch head room to move around a littleEnough floor area for sleeping bag plus some gearAs long as it's not too windy I like to leave door mostly open to watch rain
A big mid with plenty of space for wet gear. Add a wood stove for day temps below 45 or so.
Ian,Your post addressed a serious concern I have with the Hexamid series of tents, namely the mesh absorbing lots of water due to rain or wet grass. Was most of the water weight in the mesh or on the cuben? And is there an easy way to set it up to dry, since the mesh is underneath?
I have the tarp only so I don't have any experience with the mesh. I've heard others complain about it so I opted for the S2S nano mosquito net which just arrived. I'm taking it out to the Blue Mountains this weekend to see how it works as a modular system.But I digress..I don't think water clings to cuben any better or worse than silnylon but this shelter is still new to me and my first cuben fiber investment.
Out of the 15 or so tents I have if I expected a lot of rain and particularly some downtime, I would take the TT StratoSpire II.Reason is that at 1.1kg it gives me a lot of protected space (the floor area covers 4x20" mats) , I can set it up in the rain keeping the inner dry , I have plenty of space to cook under it (we don't have bears...) and I can leave one or more door panels open .When packing up I can remove the inner , pack everything into the backpack , then get out fully dressed, take the fly down, give it a shake and stuff that into the front pocket or under the lid of my pack.Again all up it is about 1.1 kg (38 oz)(BTW, if the wind changes direction there is no problem here either...)
I have used mid's, various shaped and flat tarps and your typical dome style tents.The typical double wall domes suck in summer rain because you have to keep the fly on in the rain and so feel a bit claustrophobic.Most mids have an issue with lack of overhang at the door and so there is a tendency to keep it closed. But the height makes up for it.I have left the zipper open on the Oware Alphamid in the rain as the door is on a vertical(not angled) side).My favorites for lots of rain and various wind situations are some of the shaped and flat tarps that allow you to vary the pitch. These allow an open highly ventilated pitch when the wind is not an issue, but can be staked tight to the ground in a gale.Although there is a tendency to think the bigger the better, a small low pitch will deflect wind and wind blown rain better and not flap as much as a big and/or tall pitch. You can then open it up and pitch high when the wind is not an issue.It can be awesome sleeping under a small open tarp in the rain, unless the wind picks up. If it does, just re-pitch until it passes.I avoid shelters that are limited in their flexibility. Some shelters are perfect for average conditions, but let in too much spray and splash in torrential wind blown rain and then can't be pitched high and open on hot summer nights. Many single wall tarptent style shelters suffer from this and of course the typical dome. Many may argue that the fly can be removed on a dome shelter in hot weather. But you can't take it off when it rains.How many times have you seen car campers with a tarp suspended over their dome so they can leave the fly off. This is not practical for backpacking or at least UL backpacking.
I once spent two weeks in the Pine Barrens under a tarp with a bivy sack. The tarp was pitched low and tight during days of continuous rain. I was warm and dry and so was my gear. The only downside was the inability to sit up which was a small unconvience. Folks I tents did not fare so well. I don't beleive any of them stayed dry during the multiple days of rain. A few were soaked out.
You are onto something there. A soaked tent - especially with fly and inner - does not vent and does not dry everything feels so damp all the time, and they do not dry out from day to day. At least with a tarp, if you're dry, your not in a constant humid/damp environment. Makes sense and that is my experience, especially from using a Trailstar on very wet ground after what seemed like endless rain late last summer in the Sierras.
Regarding Cuben vs Silnylon and weight when wet,My experience shows that water clings slightly more to silnylon and silnylon has a slightly more porous finish and should hold a little more water.You can see the water bead up and roll off of the cuben material where it tends to spread and cling to silnylon.I suspect it is only an ounce or two difference at most. What I do when hiking with a wet shelter is to put the shelter in a mesh outside pocket or strap it to the outside. If the rain stops, take it out and shake as much water out as I can and put it inside after.If I see sunlight, I take a break and get all my gear spread out on a rock, tree limbs or a line strung between trees:-)
MLD Trailstars are the bee's knees in the rain. Protected space of a shaped tarp with a protected entrance and a view.
Kyle,I recently picked up a Oookworks Cuben fibre door for the Trailstar, it weighs something stupid like 1.8oz.
For those of you who use one big tarp (an idea I like), are you concerned about food smells from cooking under it in the rain? This in reference to bears.I am thinking that boiling water for a freezer-bag meal under a well-ventilated tarp in the rain would not be too much of an issue as long as you still hang your food.
Bears have incredibly powerful senses of smell, so I would imagine that the trace scents left over from FBC in a well-ventilated tarp would be similar to anything else already on your pack or other gear not hung in a bear bag.They can easily distinguish between the odors of remnants/traces and actual food. It is inherently more risky, but I doubt it would be substantially different.
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I thought it was very impressive when southwest Missouri sent seven teams to small-school state basketball weekend two years ago in my first season here, winning three titles.
Then, last year, the area sent nine teams to state, and won three more titles.
So, it's safe to say there's an established standard of success for the small towns of southwest Missouri.
But what towns can think about planning celebration parties next month?
Class 3 boys
It starts with Mount Vernon in Class 3, as the Mountaineers have the best shot of getting to state from the area.
This would be the third trip in four seasons for coach Skip Brock's team. The biggest hurdle, however, is the team that went the other time in that stretch: Mid-Lakes Conference champion Strafford.
Expect those teams to meet Feb. 27 at Baptist Bible College in a sectional game that should decide the eventual state qualifier, despite highly-regarded Fatima possibly lurking in the quarterfinals.
Last year, when Mount Vernon humbled Strafford 56-22 at sectionals, it was clear the young Indians were a season away. Looking at the way Brock's Mountaineers are playing this year, though, that group might have to wait another long year.
Class 3 girls
This bracket is often dominated by southwest Missouri.
Specifically, the Mid-Lakes has had strong showings, with Stockton earning a title in 2011, and others have made runs to state over the years.
So, why does the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association only have Ash Grove receiving votes in the poll, and even then, have them out of the top 10?
Beats me, but it probably has something to do with records not being as good because of the competition they see throughout the season.
But Mount Vernon had seven losses when it won the championship last year, and I won't make the MBCA's mistake by overlooking the Ozarks.
Give me Fair Grove to advance deep, although watch out for Southwest and Willow Springs.
Class 2 boys
Billings is the team to beat after winning state last year and bringing back much of its very sizable offensive production.
Crane has a nice team, but I haven't seen much evidence they will be able to overtake the champions.
But since the Southwest Central League has won each of the last two Class 2 titles, Crane should be given more respect by the MBCA poll, and should garner some statewide respect.
Need more evidence to not pay much attention to the MBCA rankings? Clever is rated as a team that is getting votes in Class 2. The problem? The Jays are in Class 3.
Class 2 girls
Speaking of MBCA jokes, last year's third-place team Marionville not being ranked in Class 2 is certainly among them.
However, because of an injury that ended sophomore Josie Young's season recently, the Lady Comets probably won't get a chance to prove themselves again.
So, that makes Crane the favorites. The Lady Pirates have been beating very good teams all season, and in many cases have beaten them badly.
I've got the Lady Pirates at least advancing to state.
Class 1 boys
Fair Play and Eminence are the two ranked local teams, and that seems about right.
After a late-season scoring surge by Fair Play's Lance Schaffer, it appears he could shoot coach Lynn Long's team to a long postseason run.
Class 1 girls
Watch out for Walnut Grove, last season's state runnerup.
Chadwick and Dadeville are both dangerous, but it would take quite an upset for the Lady Tigers to get knocked off locally.
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I have a very simple local package, which performs the following:
1. Execute SQL Task
Delete from PURCHASE_LEDGER
Delete from SALES_LEDGER
2. Transform Data task
Copy everything from SAGE PURCHASE_LEDGER to SQL PURCHASE_LEDGER
Copy everything from SAGE SALES_LEDGER to SQL SALES_LEDGER
There is a workflow between steps 1 and 2, so that step 2 only
executes if step 1 is successfull.
The connection to SAGE is ODBC (which I know works fine) and to SQL it
is OLE.
This package works perfectly if I right click on it and select
execute. However, if I schedule it, the first step works perfectly but
the second step fails. I know that the first step works because the
tables are empty. If I remove the first step and the workflow from the
package, the transform data task still does not work when scheduled,
but is fine when I run it manually. In the error log, it just says:
Tables' (0x3B6A429944F946459B15D8C8683396BA) - Status: Failed -
Invoked on: 2007-03-30 05:00:00 - Message: The job failed. The Job
was invoked by Schedule 6 (Update SAGE Tables). The last step to run
was step 1 (Update SAGE Tables)."
Any idea why this package should work manually but not when scheduled?
Hi Colin,
Are the accounts you use to 1) execut the package manually and 2) the
account that runs it via a schedule, the same account?
Without digging too deeply to me it sounds like the account that is used for
the scheduled job, isnt the same as the one where you execute it manually.
Check the following knowledge base article for information
on troubleshooting this issue:
INF: How to Run a DTS Package as a Scheduled Job
On 30 Mar 2007 03:11:12 -0700, "Bobby"
Thanks, that's the answer. I've not set up ODBC to SAGE on the server.
It's set up on my p/c, which is why it works manually, but when it's
scheduled it runs from the server and can't find the link to SAGE.
Hmmm.... Not quite as simple as I thought. Anybody know how to install
the SAGE ODBC driver without installing the whole software package?
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How did the cuneiform objects get here?
As with our pieces from the Bolles-Rogers family and John Davis Hatch, sometimes the story behind how objects came into the museum's collection or life events of the donors can be very interesting. Dr. John Henry Haynes donated to the museum thirty-six Mesopotamian clay objects with cuneiform inscriptions.
Watching People, Watch people watch art…
Inspiration has a funny way of stepping right up to your face and telling you to "LOOK!"
I was wandering the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), feasting my eyes on some conceptual candy, when I paused to take in my surroundings. There was art—everywhere. There were people, scattered and stooped, pondering like myself over each framed spectacle. Then, there were the guards, whose presence dissipated and reappeared.
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Williams College Head Football Coach Aaron Kelton, has been meeting with WCMA staff in order to organize the space for his debut as a guest curator. The exhibition, A View from the Coach's Seat, in The Gallery of Crossed Destinies, will be on view October 8 through December 4, 2011. There will be an exhibition reception, Monday Football & Art "Pep Rally" on Monday October 24, 2011 from 4:00–6:00 p.m.
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Double L Excentric Gyratory II on campus
George Rickey's Double L Excentric Gyratory II is now the latest public art installation at Williams. A graceful, 30-foot-high kinetic sculpture, the artwork features two 18-foot long stainless steel "L"s. This is the first purchase from the Class of 1961's Public Art Fund.
The piece is easily seen by those driving along Main Street, right next to the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance. The "L"s are supported by a small "Y" jack and shift in a series of subtly smooth…
Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition: Elephant Graveyard
Come show your support for the senior Art Studio majors, Class of 2011, as they unveil their group exhibition, Elephant Graveyard. The exhibition, on view May 13 through June 5, 2011, features the work of 16 Williams College art studio majors: Alena L. Allegretti, Salvatoré Asaro, Kim Bui, Yu Rim Rebecca Chung, Robert Cuthbert, David Hansen, Robert Kim, Su-Mai Lin, Antonio López, Laura M. Staugaitis, Haley Steggall, Adam Stoner, Elizabeth Twaits, and Nicholas Williams. Elephant Graveyard will open with a free,…


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Hey I'm looking to get my turbo focus tuned any good tuners out there in Louisville that will do a good job
it would either be tachyon or grossman. tachyon specializes in imports and grossman does VW and audi. i know grossman has tuned an SVT before but have no idea on what mods they had. just saw it out front and went in and asked about it and they said it was a customers they were tuning. those are the only 2 options i know of here in the city
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Dynosty. Years of experience. People come from miles around for their tuning. They just recently moved to Louisville from Lexington so they could be in a larger population center. Grossman does good work but I've heard that Tachyon is staffed by a bunch of clowns. Just hear-say though.
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"The United States supports the implementation of the NAFTA trucking provisions and is working to address recent congressional concerns," Lavin told business leaders at a luncheon sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico.
He added that while he understands the safety concerns, "To my mind Mexico has lived up to its responsibility" in addressing them. "We fully intend to go ahead with liberalization in July," he said. "So we're on track."
Lavin said both governments are working to improve the efficiency of border crossings, which he said have been more of an impediment to smooth trade than increased security.
The Bush administrationannounced the one-year pilot program in February, and it initially was scheduled to go into effect at the end of April. But April 30, the U.S. Transportation Department bowed to congressional pressure and said it would allow 30 more days of public comment.
Earlier last month, the Teamsters Union, The Sierra Club, Public Citizen and the Environmental Law Foundation filed a lawsuit in a federal court to block the project from going forward, citing safety and environmental concerns. One of the major concerns is that Mexican trucks, often older than U.S. cargo vehicles, won't be able to meet rigorous U.S. safety standards.
"Some in the U.S. have legitimate concerns and others are coming from a more nationalistic bent," Lavin said at a roundtable discussion after the luncheon.
On the planned border fence, Lavin said it is unlikely to deter trade between the two countries.
The attitude of the two governments is to "make sure that at the same time we're working to protect our borders the way we see fit, that we're doing everything we can to pursue legitimate trade."
In other matters, Lavin said Mexico's high crime rates may have an impact on U.S. investment "on the margins," but said that it should be far outweighed by the "positive news," including Mexico's continued economic growth and acceptance of U.S. products. "I'm pretty optimistic about continued U.S. corporate participation in the Mexican economy," he said.


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Polonsky has been teaching for more than 30 years, seven of them at Monterey Trail. She says it never gets old.
"That's why I find teaching so exciting. We are always moving forward and trying to improve what we are doing. Never feel like our job is done," said Polonsky.
Polonsky's co-workers say she changes the lives of all of her students with her outgoing and caring personality making any student eager to learn.
Others describe her teaching style as exciting and interactive, making her classroom a unique place, where smiles are easy to find.
"She helps me and explains and translates in English with sentences. She supports me here and prepares me for after high school for when I go to college," said student Elias Navarro.


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The on-line catalog gives visibility to the ensemble of documents in the media library, available for access in different public spaces and in the stacks, by request to the study and research media library of study. It also allows readers to reserve from a distance.
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Michael Shoshani - Old No. 8 on the Straightbourbon.com forums
Oh yeah, before my time I'm afraid, I was dating my experience from the mid 1960s. Interesting though, how the pattern went from 100 to 90 to 86 then 80 proof over the years.
We're Bourbon Geeks, it's who we are, it's what we do.
The official story being told by Chris Morris is that in the 1980s B-F was looking for a lighter flavored whiskey to sell and decided to make ET that brand by using used cooperage to lighten the flavor. Both ET and Old Forester 86 were more heavy bodied products and really competing with each other for the same market. I think that this story is the truth, but I also suspect that with declining Bourbon sales of the time, the chance to save some money by re-using barrels played a role in the decision as well. Accountant always have their influence in these decisions.
Mike Veach
-- Ravensfire
"We're wanted men! we'll strike again! But first, let's have a beer" -- J Buffett
Ravensfire, I agree. If the distillery does not make money, it closes and we lose another line of brands. I was just pointing out that there were probably other reasons involved besides the official storyline.
Mike Veach
I believe ET went to 80 proof in 1985 when the FET was increased. By cutting proof they could avoid raising prices, a benefit for a value brand. I was in the room when the change to 'Kentucky whiskey' was announced and the reason was ROI (Return On Investment). With various costs going up, substituting 20% of the new barrels with used saved enough to keep the ROI unchanged without a price increase. Chris Morris was in the same room so he knows that anything about a 'lighter-tasting product' was post-justification or, at best, a rationalization for why they could make the change without losing share.
They lost share anyway. At the time, ET was selling only slightly less than Jim Beam. Since then the gap has only grown.
Not coincidentally, it was at about this time that Brown-Forman stopped its arms-length relationship with Jack Daniel's and accepted that the tail was now wagging the dog. Up until about 1985 they pretended that Tennessee whiskey and Kentucky bourbon were in different categories, a level of denial similar to the West not recognizing so-called 'Red China.' JD was run out of Nashville as a separate division that only connected to the BF at the highest management levels. In about 1985 a BF person was put in charge of JD for the first time.
BF has a long-term policy of only keeping category leaders. Although they kept ET and OF for what might be called sentimental reasons, they stopped supporting them in any significant way and put everything behind JD.
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Everyday my spirit seems to find its way to the bottom of a glass...... Don
Chuck, what year was that? I have a couple et straight bottles, I may be wrong, but I have a straight from the US I think dated 84 or 85. The other is 70's. Both are nothing to write home about.
Both the FET Increase and the switch to Kentucky Whisky took place in 1985. I see that there was 80 proof ET further back, which doesn't surprise me because the popular price brands all went to 80 proof in the 50s and 60s. I know there were some brands that cut proof in 1985 to avoid increasing prices because of the FET increase.
Everyday my spirit seems to find its way to the bottom of a glass...... Don


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Mosun Filani wedding pictures -News reaching us that sultry Yoruba actress Mosun Filani just got married to her heartthrob Kayode Oduoye the CEO of Shalom Kay Group in Ibadan. We wish them a happy married Life.
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wishing u a happy married lyf
Congratulation, wishing u a hapi marriage lyf.
wishin her a successful marriage and pray always for it to come to pass.congrats
Happy married life Mr n Mrs. Wishin u a blissful life…..
Congratulation, Eyin iyawo o ni m'eni o
Happy marriage life
May the lord bless ur marriage, happy married life.
Haaaaappy marriage life
happy married life
congratulations, ibeji laipe
Aunty am so happy for u o, ki olorun oba wa se ere igbeyawo omo alalubarika
Happy married lyf 2 d couples.
am so happy for u as u are not among ladies again, but among women.HAPPY DAY TO YOU
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many Happy returns!
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im very happy for you, ma prettie actress, wishin u a blissful conjugal
Happy married life. Olorun a fi adun si igbeyawo yin.
Appi married life sister
I wish u both hapie married lyf.i wish my dearest frd is stil alive.may his gentle soul rest peace
May God bless ur union
Congratulations Mosun, U ar one of my best in yoruba movies industry. As U tie d knot, I wish U a very execellent marriage life. CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! All the best OMO FULANI.
.At time of joy like this many people come together: well wishers, friends and family incuding those with delvish ambition. May God in his infinite mercies give you reasons to remember your wedding day and glorify his holy name. May all the wishes of the evil doers never come to pass in your life. Remember, "ounje ti baale ile kije, iyale ile kii se o" . Happy married life!!!!!!!!
oga o,heard ure wife no 3,kil ode-single men finish for naija abi.
i pray he doesnt treat you like he did to the other two wives(cos i know wat he did to them)
congratulation all the same
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Hapi married life,may u neva regret getin married.may u enjoy d rest of ur life in gud health,wealth,peace,joy,hapiness insha Allah.AMIN
Happy Married life. Mosun why are u so gullible, the man is a con star, you should have made enquiries from the first woman, in South Africa, the second lady with 2 kids and now you have joined the line.
Congratulation,Happy Married life
God will bless ur marriage
Its such a pity wen pple u feel r wise end up disapointin u.mosun,am highly disapointed,I pray he does 2 u wot he did 2 his oda wives!gbam!!!
Mosunmola, o ku oriire, i've been expecting to hear this since a year ago. olohun o nii ya yin o. happy married life.
God bless your marriage in jesus name
Happy married life, may u receive d reward in marriage .
Congratulation pretty damsel wishing u a hapi&fruitful marriage lyf,am very hapi 4 u.hpy marriage lyf.
Mosun, happy married life and i wish u happy home, mind u be submisive to ur Husband so that this marriage will live forever. Amen
Happy married life i wish yu d best,ibefa lao fi gbeeyin ho.
Wishing you happy married life
Hapi married lif.bt d informatn heard abt ur husband luks very bad.
pls dont break up lik others.mak urs to b diff.hapi marrd lif
Happy marriage lyf may god bliss u wit d best fruit in lyf which is children
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u ar so wonderful lovely pic. happy marriage life eyi iyawo ko ni mo eni ooo
i wish u d best in ur marriage. Happy married life. (AREWA, ONIDAN ELEWA B OKIN).
I wish Ɣ☺ΰ a happy married lyf .but why!hw can u stoop so low 2 dat level,married man,no 3.anyway sha u're nno more single,at least u're under one man's umbrella.i'm happy 4 you sha.
Congratulation Mosun, wish you the best in your marrital life. Conjugal bliss gal!
Congratulation Mosun, wish you the best in your marrital life. Conjugal bliss gal.
God bless u marriage dearie
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User:Pentium5dot1/Storage facility/StepMania
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StepMania, the Free DDR Ripoff(TM) was created by The Stepford Wives as part of a program to promote physical fitness in children.
edit The conspiracy
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(Something about Konami being on one end of the conspiracy? Officially, they discourage the use of StepMania because it promotes copyright infringement, but in reality they want to keep it around so people will be interested in harder and harder stepcharts. Fatal injuries eventually result from the excessively hard charts.)
(And something about such SadoMasochistic stepcharts.)
edit The Great Input Device Debate
edit Safety hazards
(Insert something here about people hurting their fingers w/ excessively hard simfiles, etc., and tie this into the conspiracy theory)
edit Legal issues
StepMania's predecessor Dance With Intensity (explain how this fits into the conspiracy) came with clearly posted warnings stating "You must legally own all music used." However, the StepMania developers were lazy and did not include any such warnings in StepMania's default theme. As a result, almost all StepMania simfiles come with pirated music. (Perhaps RIAA has a vendetta against the SM devs - just what kind of vendetta are we talking about here?)
edit Development
edit Version control systems
(Say something about why the developers switched from CVS to SVN. Mention something about the first officially sanctioned SVN binary released on 1 April 2009 (called "StepMania NSFW Edition"). Uncyclopedia doesn't have an article on either of those version control systems, which makes things a little harder.)
edit Forks
(This is just a list; appropriate satirical fluff still needs to be added. These are listed in order by original version number, not chronologically.)
Noncommercial (not counting Mungyodance and similar packages):
- StepMania 3.9 was forked to Ridiculous Timing, StepMania 3.9 PLUS (and in turn Aldo_MX), StepMania 3.9 4-player, PumpMania, ... any others?
- StepMania "3.95" was forked to OpenITG
- A CVS build near ITG PC was officially forked to StepMania 4.0 beta
- The last 4.0 CVS (2008-01-03) was forked to at least one PIU-focused build (StepNXA)
- StepMania 4.0 alpha was forked to sm-ssc, which became StepMania 5
Commercial: TODO
Whoever writes this article should express dissatisfaction with the general course of StepMania development.
edit Known bugs
edit The Secret Time Warp
(that is, negative BPMs - use by simfile authors, the "quantum paradoxes" it creates, and its suppression by the cabal in SM4.0)
The Secret Time Warp was discovered by the Foonmix team(?), who demonstrated that inserting a negative BPM value into the step data would create a quantum paradox and warp ahead to another location within the step chart. It was popularized by Family Farce with help from (a?) Mew ...
(Actually, negative BPMs have been reintroduced by various means in sm-ssc and 4.0 betas)
edit Other bugs
DO NOT EXIST (restate this in a funnier way)
edit The StepMania Music
Consortium Cabal
(artists whose music is better known through StepMania than elsewhere, like Mindless Self Indulgence[citation needed], Machinae Supremacy[citation needed], Kyle Ward, DM Ashura, Sanxion7, etc.)
edit Commercial use
edit In The Groove
Also called Pedwar It Up: In The Groove... for this joke to work, we need to pretend that at least one of the StepMania developers is Welsh[1]
edit Pump It Up PRO
edit Failed projects
edit Freeware products
edit Mungyodance
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- ↑ This idea was originally introduced by Tepples; please read his edit summary and refer to wikipedia:Welsh numerals. Notice that "pedwar" is the (masculine) Welsh word for the number 4, while "pump" is the Welsh word for 5, which corresponds to the number of panels per player in each game. Also, ITG2 was originally titled "Pump It Up: In the Groove 2" to acknowledge Andamiro's role in manufacturing the first run of dedicabs.
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Well, for one, the filesystem is the most efficient database... :) but really, there are pros and cons... i'm not sure i prefer a database... maybe it would be possible to keep it this way, but adding an index for searching/sorting... dunno if it would work out or not...
Is the next version compatible with MP3 id3v2? If not could you pleeease add this?
i've removed the id3v2 support as it's a **** to manage... lots of mp3's are bad tagged so NMC was buggy.
So i removed.
A simple calculator would be very cool!
why not just embed windows calc? I really dont want netsuo to be focusing on developing a calculator! ehhehe
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Recruits at a Texas Air Force base, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, where more than two dozen instructors were convicted of sexual abuse and other wrongdoing, have been given a voluntary survey designed to help determine if the problems persist.
A major information technology outsourcing company, Cognizant, announced Monday it is moving its U.S. operations hub from New Jersey to Texas and expects to add 10,000 jobs nationwide over the next three years. Gov. Rick Perry appeared at a university therapeutic manufacturing center to also announce Cognizant's three-year, $150,000 grant to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics education at Texas A&M.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott started emphasizing education in his run for governor. He started a series of classroom round tables, the first in Plano. He plans to make several stops around the state while preparing to unveil his vision for Texas public schools.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis released tax returns that show the Fort Worth state senator earned more than $284,000 last year. She released her last three federal tax filings dating to 2010. Her main Republican challenger, Abbott, released personal tax returns covering that same span in August.
Texas moved toward putting up hurdles for Affordable Care Act assistants. The Texas Department of Insurance, moving to enact legislation passed this year, released proposed rules Tuesday placing requirements that exceed those specified by the federal government on "navigators," the advisers who formally assist people trying to enroll for health care insurance through a portion of President Barack Obama's signature health care reform.
Texas officials announced plans to pursue a permanent $60 million per year surge in border security on the heels of a three-week crime focus in the Rio Grande Valley. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst joined Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw at the Capitol, saying they intend to fight drug cartels and related crime "at the river" before it spills into the rest of Texas. Traffic checkpoints along the Texas border that critics say were state-operated immigration traps won't be deployed again without lawmaker support, McCraw said.
Federal investigators in charge of probing the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West say they still consider the case open, eight months after the blast killed 15 people and sent debris flying miles away.
The Republican race for governor narrowed, as the most prominent GOP candidate next to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott stepped down. Tom Pauken, former chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, announced he is dropping out of the race because of his campaign's lack of organization and funds.
Davis joined bipartisan opposition against a possible restructuring of the Texas electricity market. The Fort Worth state senator said state energy regulators are overstepping their authority by supporting giving power companies subsidies to build more plants in Texas.
At the steps of the Capitol, Texas affiliates of the National Education Association and other advocacy groups issued failing grades to U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on key social and educational issues. Fellow Republicans and U.S. Reps. John Carter and Roger Williams also got F's.
A Texas grand jury indicted a former executive of the state's $3 billion cancer-fighting agency with fraud for his involvement in improperly awarding an $11 million taxpayer-funded grant, the first criminal charge following a yearlong criminal investigation into the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The indictment unsealed Friday alleged that Jerald "Jerry" Cobbs secured the execution of a document by deception.
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