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Top 5 Weekend Picks! (4/24-4/26)
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1. VERSIONFEST 2015: 100 Watts
The 15th annual Versionfest, held throughout Bridgeport and debuting Lumpen Radio.
VERSIONFEST takes place at various locations throughout Bridgeport and events range in price from free to $85. Versionfest runs from 4/23-5/3.
2. The Mayor at The Hills Esthetic Center
Work by Marcel Alcala.
The Hills Esthetic Center is located at 128 N. Campbell St. Reception is Saturday, 7pm.
3. Double Dialogues at DfbrL8r
Presenting work by Manuel Vason, in collaboration with Guillermo Gomex-Pena, Heather Cassils, Jamie McMurry, Keijaun Thomas, Linda Montano, Marilyn Arsem, Mat Fraser and Zachery Drucker.
DfbrL8r is located at 1463 W. Chicago Ave. Performance and discussion Saturday, 8-11pm.
4. When Are We? at Comfort Station
A happening by Heinze Flores (Alejandro Jimenez Flores and Paul Philipp Heinze)
Comfort Station is located at 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave. Happening Friday, 8:30-10:30pm.
Work by Maya Mackrandilal.
THE MISSION is located at 1431 W. Chicago Ave. Closing reception Friday, 6-8pm.
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (7/25-7/27)
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1. Addendum at Chicago Artists Coalition
Curated by John Marks and David Petersen, with work by Luke Aleckson, Allen Brewer, Casey Deming, Kristina Estell, Katelyn Farstad, Isa Gagarin, Peter Happel Christian, Jess Hirsch, Jonathan Kaiser, Tynan Kerr, Andie Mazorol, Ben Moren, Michael Mott, Stefanie Motta, Scott Nedrelow, Natasha Pestich, Andy Sturdevant, and Pamela Valfer.
Chicago Artists Coalition is located at 217 N Carpenter St. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
2. Bookish at Corbett vs. Dempsey
Work by Richard Artschwager, Sarah Canright, and Arturo Herrera.
Corbett vs. Dempsey is located at 1120 N. Ashland Ave. 3rd Fl. Reception Saturday, 3-6pm.
3. City Symphony in 16mm: A New Work for Expanded Cinema at Roman Susan
Work by Sam Hoolihan and John Marks.
Roman Susan is located at 1224 W. Loyola Ave. Screening Saturday, 10pm-12am.
Performance by Jessica Blinkhorn and Joseph Ravens.
DfbrL8r is located at 1136 N. Milwaukee Ave. Performance Friday, 8-10pm.
Curated by MK Meador, with work by Stacia Yeapanis and Jason Uriah White.
Design Cloud is locate at 118 N Peoria, Suite #2N. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (7/4-7/6)
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1. Fourth of July at Terrain Exhibitions
Work by Lise Haller Baggesen and Noelle Allen.
Terrain Exhibitions is located at 704 Highland Ave. Reception Friday, 4-8pm.
2. Into and Out Of at The Franklin
Work by Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero).
The Franklin is located at 3522 W. Franklin Blvd. Reception Satruday, 6-9pm.
3. Middle Double at Night Club
Work by Gordon Hall.
Night Club is located at 2017 W. Moffat St. Suite 1. Reception Saturday, 7-9pm.
4. QUEER, ILL, & OKAY at DfbrL8r
Work by Sara K., Tim'm West, Dirty Grits, Mary Fons, Cruel Valentine, Partic Gill, Chris Knowlton, and Nic Kay.
DfbrL8r is located at 1136 N. Milwaukee Ave. Performances Saturday, 7-10pm.
5. Building The Dream at Vertical Gallery
Work by Xenz.
Vertical Gallery is located at 1016 N. Western Ave. Reception Saturday, 6-10pm.
Top 5 Weekend Picks! (2/14-2/16)
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1. Take Aim at The Hills Esthetic Center
Work by Hope Esser and Daviel Shy.
The Hills Esthetic Center is located at 128 N. Campbell Ave. Reception Friday, 7pm-midnight.
Curated by Molar Productions, with by work by Benjamin Bellas, Judith Brotman, CC Ann Chen, Meg Duguid, Andreas Fischer, Jeffrey Grauel, John Henley, Andrew Holmquist, Greyson Hong, Theodore Horner, International Chefs of Mystery!, Carol Jackson, Carron Little, Nicholas Lowe, Ryan Noble, Susannah Papish, Steve Reber, Oli Rodriguez, Joshua Slater, Rafael E. Vera, Rebecca Walz and Ryan Michael Pfeiffer.
slow is located at 2153 W. 21st St. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
Work by Kendall Babl, Sarah Berkeley, Buki Bodunrin, Meg Dugid, Julia Klein, Nicole Marroquin, Mothergirl, Sabina Ott, and Erik L. Peterson.
DfbrL8r is located at 1136 N Milwaukee Ave. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
4. Six Sigils for Saint Lucifer and Other Works at Peanut Gallery
Work by Erik R. Peterson.
Peanut Gallery is located at 1000 N. California Ave. Reception Sunday, 5-9pm.
Work by Anastasia Samoylova and Julie Weber.
3433 is located at 3433 Kedvale Ave. Reception Saturday, 6-9pm.


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I'd like to use the Latin word for garlic, allium, as an adjective, but can't find any examples of this being done. Is there a rule for doing this with nouns ending in ‑um? Alliumnal sounds good, but I suspect that's just because it sounds like autumnal. Any help much appreciated.
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Alliaceous is used botanically for plants of the garlic/onion family; might it fit the bill? (It's much more standard than allial, I think, going both by dictionaries and google.)
Now I want to go out and order something big and garlicky at a restaurant, just so I can smack my lips and say "Mmmmm! Alliaceo-licious!". Or, not quite, because it would just confuse people. But I'm enjoying the idea…
Allium is already used in English to mean "a bulbous plant of a genus that includes the onion and its relatives". You could use allium as modifier.
[Reference: the New Oxford American Dictionary.]
Alluvium gives alluvial, pericardium gives pericardial, mycelium gives mycelial, so I would go with allial.

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Here is the talk of Hong Phuc Dang at the 31c3 Chaos Communication Congress about FashioTec projects and Open Garment Production Lines. Hope you enjoy it.
Hong Phuc Dang at the 31c3 Chaos Communication Congress
Let's build our own personalized open textile production line
RBB berichtet über Fashion und Technologie mit Thomas Gnahm von Trafopop.
Früher war Kleidung einfach nur Kleidung. Passen sollte sie, gern auch modisch sein und darin wohlfühlen sollte man sich im günstigsten Fall auch. Heute ist Kleidung nicht nur etwas zum Anziehen, sondern auch Technologie. zibb zeigt, was dahinter steckt. Wear It: Festival for wearable electronics in Berlin. Kleidungsstücke mit eingebauter Technik werden Wearables genannt. Sie verbinden Technik, hippe Mode und beispielsweise das Internet miteinander. Wie funktionieren Wearables genau? Und werden beziehungsweise können sie in unseren Alltag Einzug halten? zibb ist diesen Fragen nachgegangen und hat einen jungen Berliner Designer besucht. (10.10.2014 Tragbare Technik)Beitrag von Heimke Burkhardt
Wear It Berlin http://wearit-berlin.com
MeshCon: http://meshcon.net
FashionTec Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/FashionTec-Meetup-Berlin
FashionTec Working Group: http://fashiontec.org
Abendschau über die MeshCon Fashion and Tec Week Berlin 2014. Softwareapplikationen für die Modeherstellung, Wlanchips für Kleidung und Prototypen von Strickmaschinen.
FashionTec Meetups Berlin: http://www.meetup.com/FashionTec-Meetup-Berlin
Tanja Mühlhans Ansprechpartner | Projekt Zukunft Berlin
Tanja Mühlhans bei der MeshCon'14
Let's upgrade the garment and textile industry to the 21st century at MeshCon 2014 Fashion and Tec Week in Berlin. The event will take place from 10-15 October at the TU Berlin and the home of the Wikipedia community in Berlin, the Wikimedia e.V.
Today our clothes are produced in unethical ways harming people and the environment. Our community is developing human technologies, and fair and environment friendly concepts for the production of garments and textiles. How can we make it work now with the industry and consumers together? How to reap the benefits of participatory production in the textile industry?
We bring together industry experts, fashion designers, pattern creators, knitters, textile manipulators, Open Source Fashiontec developers and DIY hardware makers. MeshCon Berlin The event offers a place to exchange new ideas in personalized fashion and technologies in the garment production.
Participants from across the world are joining the five day event at locations around Berlin city. The first and second day we will start with a conference at the University of Technology TU Berlin. In the following days you can learn how to create your own fashion and wearables at workshops at the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. office. Please join us!
More at meshcon.net
Looking for sources about computer knitting, embroidery and pattern making? Check out the wiki at k2g2.org. Martin Schneider offers a lot of resources in his Craftopedia.
Hands-on tutorials for chaos crafters:
Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi and Hiromasa Suzuki already published in 2008 a way to convert 3D models into knitting models in their presentation in Japanese "3次元モデルからのあみぐるみ生成 - 五十嵐 悠紀,五十嵐 健夫,鈴木 宏".
Video in Japanese: http://youtu.be/xJyZ3XQkrh4
A knitted animal is made of a closed surface consisting of several knitted patches knitted out of yarn and stuffed with cotton. We introduce a system to create a knitting pattern from a given 3D surface model (mainly designed for rotund animal models). A knitting pattern is an instructional diagram describing how to knit yarn to obtain a desired shape. Since the creation of knitting patterns requires special skill, this is difficult for nonprofessionals. Our system automates the process and allows anyone to obtain his or her original knitting patterns from a 3D model. The system first covers the surface of the model with parallel winding strips of constant width. The system then samples the strip at constant intervals to convert it into a knitting pattern. The result is presented in a standard visual format so that the user can easily refer it during actual knitting. We show several examples of knitted animals created using the system.
3D Knitting in Pacific Graphics 2009
3D Computer Rendering and Knitting implementation
3D Knitting Examples
"あみぐるみ"は閉じた面の内部に綿を詰めることで作られている.本論文では, 3 次元サーフェスモデルからあみぐるみを作成するための編み図を生成するシステムを紹介する.編み図はどのように編んでいくかを記号化したものであるが, 編み図をデザインすることは素人には難しく, スキルをもった専門家がデザインしている.本システムではその過程を自動化し,誰でも簡単に3 次元モデルから編み図を生成することができる. 本システムは3 次元モデルへ等幅のストリップを巻きつけ, 得られたストリップを等幅でサンプリングすることで,編み図へと変換する. 編み図は通常用いられているフォーマットで出力され,誰でも簡単に編み図からあみぐるみを作成できる. 本システムを利用して作成したあみぐるみを紹介する.
Yuki IGARASHI - 3D Knitting Expert
Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi, Hiromasa Suzuki. "Knitting a 3D Model." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2008), Volume 27, Number 7, pp.1737-1743, ISSN 0167-7055, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2008.
五十嵐 悠紀,五十嵐 健夫,鈴木 宏正:「3次元モデルからのあみぐるみ生成」, Visual Computing / グラフィクスとCAD 合同シンポジウム 2008 予稿集 , 東京,2008年6月.
* http://www.geocities.jp/igarashi_lab/knit/index-e.html
* Yuki IGARASHI: http://www.geocities.jp/igarashi_lab/
[via Steve Conklin]
This paper about "Sensitive Couture for Interactive Garment Editing and Modeling" is amazing and the source code is available (but not with an Open Source license as far as I can see). It is published at ACM Transaction on Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2011 by Nobuyuki Umetani, Danny M. Kaufman, Takeo Igarashi, and Eitan Grinspun. This is the future of pattern making.
Abstract: We present a novel interactive tool for garment design that enables, for the first time, interactive bidirectional editing between 2D patterns and 3D high-fidelity simulated draped forms. This provides a continuous, interactive, and natural design modality in which 2D and 3D representations are simultaneously visible and seamlessly maintain correspondence. Artists can now interactively edit 2D pattern designs and immediately obtain stable accurate feedback online, thus enabling rapid prototyping and an intuitive understanding of complex drape form.(http://www.cs.columbia.edu/cg/SC/)
Original: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/cg/SC/
Links:* Nobuyuki Umetani* Danny M. Kaufman* Takeo Igarashi* Eitan Grinspun* Columbia University* University of Tokyo* JST ERATO* Sensitive Couture
[via Patrick Proy]
The goal of AYAB-Knitting is to be able to program a knitting machine (currently brother 9xx models) with an image from a computer and extending the capabilities of the machines, e.g. the maximum 60 pixel image width. This is achieved by substituting the control of the needles and required identification of the current position and movement of the knitting carriage is substituted by a common Arduino microntroller, combined with a custom developed shield.
In the last few weeks, we were looking at different options to make it easier for users to work on knitting machines and we came up with an idea to develop a graphic user interface in cooperation with the AYAB project. Sebastian Oliva from Guatemala will work on this project over summer gratiously funded by Google. Thank you!
What is currently supplied:- A transparent and lightweight API between the client computer and the Arduino, based on 115.2 kbaud serial communication. - A proof-of-concept python implementation of the client-side of the API (the machine side is in the firmware of the Arduino).- A simple python commandline application which uses this implementation.
Ongoing work, that will be supplied shortly as the basis for the GUI project:- A simple PySide (Python+Qt) based GUI application which uses the API implementation, as a proof-of-concept and starting point for further GUI application development work. It will just have the same functionality as the commandline version, no fancy image processing or so.- A new firmware version for the Arduino with a debug option to mock-up "end of line" events by pressing a button attached to the Arduino. No AYAB Shield, nor Knitting Machine needed for operation.
Video from Chaos Communication Congress 2013 (German), Deutschlandfunk ForschungAktuell
The goal of the AYAB project is to provide an alternative way to control the famous Brother KH-9xx knitting machines. There are some similar projects on the interwebs, such as Knitic or, of course, ladyada's electro-knit. The main drawback behind the existing projects is that they make use of the 930/40 series of the knitting machine - which are still pretty expensive. AYAB uses the older KH-910 model, which is cheaper than the other models, mainly because it features an error-prone scanner-mechanism for reading the image data (but we don't care because we won't use the scanner anyway…). The 930/940 series already use some kind of digital programming, which opens even more ways to hack them, other than what this project did. Normally, the KH-910 is programmed using semi-transparent picture cards which are scanned by the machine line by line. Using this information, the machine sets the needles accordingly to achieve the knitting of the picture shown on the picture card. Probably due to memory restrictions, the machine only supports pictures of max. 60 needles (= pixel) width, although the machine has a total width of 200 needles. At least, it is possible to "copy and paste" the scanned image multiple times to achieve a banner-like usage of the scanned data (useful for norwegian patterns). Now what we achieved is that you can just program the knitting machine with an image from your computer. The restriction of 60 pixel image width has been abolished due to the improved control. You can just knit an image with up to 200 pixel width. [https://bitbucket.org/chris007de/ayab-apparat/wiki/Home]
* All Yarns Are Beautiful (AYAB) http://ayab-knitting.com* Twitter AYAB https://www.twitter.com/AYABApparat* AYAB Wiki and Documentation* Current stable Version of AYAB* KH-9xx hardware prerequisites and Arduino shield Hardware* API and communication with knitting machine* Needlework Knitting Starter* Knittic http://www.knitic.com
* http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/chaos-communication-congress-bastler-baustler-life-hacker-12729465.html* http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/30-jahre-chaos-communication-congress-man-kann-sich-das.1946.de.html?dram:article_id=273236* http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/30-jahre-chaos-communication-congress-forschung-aktuell-vom.1946.de.html?dram:article_id=273322
Patrick Proy started an Open Source Pattern Making project in 2012. While it is currently (and maybe definitely) in pause, it is definitely of great value to look at his development ideas on the web. The project is in java and you can currently still have a look at it here : http://couture.proy.org/software_en.html
Screenshot of "Couture". Display cuts off some parts, but you can see the idea and functions of the application.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisakori/9246715441/in/pool-2202673@N25 by Lisa Kori Chung
Open Fit is a project by Kyle McDonald and Lisa Kori Chung. Open Fit is open source software that investigates several approaches to generating custom tailored pants patterns. Open Fit Lab is an attempt to use this software for on-the-spot generation and creation of custom clothes. Our first Open Fit Lab will be, Fri. June 28, 8-10 @ 1265 Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn. We will be exploring rapid prototyping and sewing of custom fit jeans as performance. By the Book is a traditional pattern drafting technique from a tailoring manual. It generates a trouser that is intended to be altered during the fitting stage. Draft From Center is an attempt to make this process more precise, and generate a fit closer to what is currently sold commercially. We are also exploring ways of modeling and flattening patterns in 3D.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisakori/9116993750/in/pool-2202673@N25 Lisa Kori Chung
How to use Open Fit for non-coders:
1. Download Processing: https://www.processing.org/download/
2. Download two additional libraries:a) You can find toxilibs at http://hg.postspectacular.com/toxiclibs/downloads/ and put it in the libraries folder of your Processing sketches. b) Download controlP5 http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/ and do the same.
3. To view our work modeling pants in 3D, you will need the peasycam and modelbuilder libraries. Get Peasycam at http://mrfeinberg.com/peasycam/, unzip and put the extracted peasycam folder into the libraries folder of your Processing sketches.
4. Go to http://workshop.evolutionzone.com/2011/04/06/code-modelbuilder-library-public-release/ and look for a link to modelbuiler (0020). Also put it in your libraries folder.
5. The simplest way to grab our code is go to the github repository for Open Fit: https://github.com/kylemcdonald/OpenFit Extract and put the zip file you like into your Processing folder.
6. When you open up a sketch in processing you will see two buttons on the top left, Run and Stop. This is how you run and stop the code. Currently, you can change the measurements two ways. You can run the sketch and click on the numberboxes to scroll through possible measurements. The variables at the beginning of the code in Draft from Center and By the Book are the measurements that the code will initially draw the pants from. You can type in new numbers here and re-run the sketch.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisakori/9265136998/in/set-72157634283502022 Open Fit Lab Measurement Guide
* Open Fit http://openfitlab.com* Lisa Kori Chung http://www.lisakori.net* An assortment of travels through electronic art by Lisa Kori Chung http://themediumandthemayhem.net* Kyle McDonald http://www.kylemcdonald.net/
I came across an interesting project from Nathan J. Hurst about cross stitching. I have no idea when he published the program, but it looks pretty nice for people who are interested in cross stitching.
The latest version is here: cs-0.9.6.tgz (Works with new PILs; nicer and more icons - Robert Smies)
Check out this page for a tutorial how to use it as well: http://njhurst.com/programming/cross-stitch/
Installation instructions:
Install PIL. On Debian this means "apt-get install python-imaging". The program has no interface or options. Just run it like this:
apt-get install python-imaging
cd cs-0.9.4/
python xs.py file.png
xFig is recommended for laying out the printer ready form.
About Nathan: "I am a modern day Renaissance man with interests ranging from mathematics, through computer science and the physical sciences through to music and art, how we live in cities, and teaching problem solving. I'm currently living in Seattle, USA" [njhurst.com]
Processing.js is pretty cool.I found a Mosaic Knitting Pattern Generator from Laura Kogler.
This is a script to generate patterns intended to be knit using the two-color knitting technique known as "mosaic", or "slip-stitch", knitting. If you make something using this pattern generator, I'd love to know about it! You can email me (me[at]laurakogler.net), or hit me up on ravelry!
Check out the new GeoGebra Google app. It has the exact functionality which the pattern editor should have:GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for education in secondary schools that joins geometry, algebra, and calculus. On the one hand, GeoGebra is a dynamic geometry system. You can do constructions with points, vectors, segments, lines, conic sections as well as functions and change them dynamically afterwards. On the other hand, equations and coordinates can be entered directly. Thus, GeoGebra has the ability to deal with variables for numbers, vectors and points, finds derivatives and integrals of functions, and offers commands like Root or Extremum. It is a free and open source software.
[via Susan Spencer]
Another video about machine knitting with brother machines with Fabienne Serriere from by Sam Muir in "Spring time" in Berlin 2012/13, which rather looks like winter though still ;-)
Machine Knitting with FBZ: Part II - In Deep Knit from Sam Muirhead.
This winter has been the longest and darkest in Berlin since 1951, so last month I paid another visit to Fabienne Serrière (FBZ) who you might recall from my earlier video as a hardware hacker and machine knitter extraordinaire. This time I had something of my own I wanted to knit. Inspired by Fabienne and Becky Stern and everybody else involved in hacking these machines, who built upon the work of others and then put their own improvements into the commons, I decided to draw on the commons to create an open source hat. ... One of many images from Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature (1863) on the Public Domain Review. These images are certainly beautiful, but that was 1863, we've moved on a bit since then. Now, thanks to the aid of modern technology, we can finally present these snowflakes as the artist would have envisioned them, in glorious 1-bit duocolor [http://yearofopensource.net/snowflake-hat/]
Knitted Snowflakes from: Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature (1863)
Two files to help reproduce the work are attached to this entry or check out the original guides below.
License: You also have permission to make, alter, improve or sell this hat, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.
I found an amazing Knitting Machine Hack and production system by some Japanese artists and developers online called Glitch Knit. The team brings together Nukeme, a hardware engineer Tomofumi YOSHIDA, the software engineer So KANNO and a supporting member Emi YAMAMOTO.
The team uses a brother KH970 knitting machine, which was produced until 2005 and was discontinued afterwards. The parts list for hacking the machine:* Arduino Due * Connector : MicroBlade™ 53014-0810 * Photo interrupter : Sharp GP1S58VJ000F or compatibles * Transistor Array : TD6208APG or compatibles PCB The team made circuit boards with a paperboard for prototyping with Adobe Illustrator and a Laser Cutter.
Source CodeThe source code is available at Github here: github.com/sokanno/KnitHack
GlitchKnit Set up
GlitchKnit Software
Glitch Knit Outcome
From the website description: This project divided into two main content. Firstly, by hacking a knitting machine, exposing the environment that can be output an image as knit by anyone. Secondly, by using the knitting machine that we hack, to make a "Glitch Knit". The glitch is "damaged of data or machinery" and "damaged data but possible to play". The "Glitch Knit" has two different way. One is output of the digital image data which was glitched. The other is to damage the structure of lace knit. It is output as knit full of holes. Knitting machine that is hacked, is introduced as a new equipment in FabLabShibuya, and how to hack is also published on Github and Instructables. In this project, knit work is also the work, and the environment itself for making the knit is also work. This is a kind of digital fabrication, extension of the handicraft, and device hacking. And more this is the one of methodology for fashion design and a thing descended the glitch movement. (http://www.glitchknit.jp/#about)
このプロジェクトは、内容としては大きく2つに分かれています。1つ目は、ニッティングマシーンをハックし、誰でも画像をニットとして出力できる環境を公開すること、2つ目は、ハックしたニッティングマシーンを使ってグリッチニットを作ることです。 グリッチとは、"機械やデータの破損そのもの"や、"破損しているけれど再生が可能な状態"のことを指します。 グリッチニットの制作方法は2つあります。1つはグリッチした画像データを、ニットとして出力したもの。もう1つはレース編みの構造を破綻させ、穴だらけのニットとして出力したものです。 ハックしたニッティングマシーンは、FabLabShibuyaに新たな機材として導入され、そのハックの方法も含めて公開されています。 このプロジェクトでは、ニット作品も作品であり、ニット作品を作るための環境自体もまた、作品です。 これはデジタル・ファブリケーションの一種であり、手芸の延長であり、デバイス・ハッキングでもあり、かつ、グリッチ・ムーブメントの流れを汲んだもので、そしてファッション・デザインのための一つの方法論です。


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A Daily Word from the Word for Monday, February 24, 2014
Today's Daily Word and tomorrow's conclusion are written by my Kingdom partner, Zalihta Pegeese.
"Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: 'The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat, Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments. They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.'" - Matthew 23:1-7
My heart was broken the other day, after a small discussion with a few colleagues, about the condition of my city. After hearing the stories of those I was talking with, I was truly alarmed by the brokenness of the multitudes around me.
Of course I knew these precious souls existed, but it hit my spirit in a different way. There are many agencies and projects that have been created in hopes of "changing" the community; but this problem, this condition, goes much deeper than that.
It does not matter how much money is put into these efforts, or how structures are changed. It is a depth of despair that no one can break through, touch, and heal, except for God Himself. People's hearts have been broken and they are wandering in their personal wilderness, not knowing where to go or what to do.
"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of this world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden" (Matthew 5:13-14 NKJ).
If those who are poverty stricken, lost, abandoned, homeless, violent, discouraged, abused, confused, hopeless, broken, wicked, and starving are wandering, whose responsibility is it to lead them to the right place? If you answered the church, then you are right. The Word of God commands us: "You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child" (Exodus 22:21-22).
When we do nothing to relieve a person of their burden by helping to meet their immediate needs and pointing them to Christ as our reason for doing so, and as their long-term and permanent solution, then we are mistreating the least of our brothers and sisters.
The city where I live in has over 150 churches with a population of about 160,000 people; so how could this be, family? Could it be that we have gotten so comfortable in our "church community" that we have forgotten where we came from? Jesus testifies, in the scripture referenced above, that we are to be salt and light to this world. We have a responsibility as a church, no matter the denomination, to go out and be light. To point these people to Jesus, the very One who saved us. If you think you are being salt in the church, you are only half right, because there are many that aren't making it to the church because they don't know how! Satan has blinded and bound them. We are to unshackle and usher "the least of these" in as a shepherd does his sheep.
"Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)
Those who are wandering do not know a Savior exists; or if they do, they don't know how to get to Him. The Church does, but where are we? Are we so focused on ourselves? The Apostle Paul reminds us that "We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. For even Christ did not please Himself." (Romans 15:1-3)
Some of you may be saying right now, "well sister Zalihta, my church is ministering to broken people!" And to this I say: we, as a corporate body, have not done enough, as evidenced by the tremendous work which still needs to be accomplished.
Could it be that church members have been too prideful to allow God to circumcise their hearts? If this is the case, then there is no change because we have broken ministries ministering to broken people. God recently gave me that revelation while reading a book by Apostle Dr. Pernell Hewing entitled "Come to Gilgal for Circumcision of the Heart and for a Deeper Walk With God" ( © 1999).
Broken cannot fix broken. Hurt cannot heal hurt. And confusion cannot usher in truth. Are you tired of wandering in the wilderness, my brother? Does church feel like a jungle to you, my sister? Then join me tomorrow, as we allow the Lord to lead us across the Jordan River, to a place called Gilgal, where every broken heart is healed, every unmet need met, and every issue is resolved.
It is a place in the Savior where the deep work of the heart is begun, won, and accomplished, so that the work of the Cross may be presented, and lives can be saved and changed into the Image of the One Who took captivity captive, so that we may live freely in Him.
Father, we repent for relying on others to fix the problems within us and within our communities. We repent for looking to people, even the church, to heal within us and others, what only You can do. Help us to focus on the real fix to every broken life, which is Jesus. Circumcise our heart, Oh God. Help us focus on the Savior, the Treasure of Heaven, Who was broken for us so that we may be made whole. In Jesus Name, we thank You that we have given you our heart, which you willingly and graciously accept, and to do the much-needed circumcision, so that we may be whole and minister from Your place of wholeness and healing. Amen and Amen.
Take action! Challenge your thinking! Choose to surrender your heart to the Great Physician, and allow Him to do only what He can do to heal your broken heart. Stop looking to people to do only what God can do for you, in you, and through you. Get off the bench and into the harvest field! The laborers are few, and God is in need of you; but in need of you only after He does the necessary work in you. And continue to fight the good fight of focusing inward so that God can use you outward; for God, your Secret Place, has already given you the victory!
If you have never received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, I encourage you to do it today, right now, by saying this prayer out loud: "Jesus, forgive me for my sins. I am sorry. I truly desire to be saved and reconciled back to God, my Father, through You. I receive Your sinless Blood as payment in full for my sins—past, present, and future. I now call You my Lord and Savior, and invite You to live within my heart, and to permanently live within me. I make You Lord over me and over my life from this moment on. Amen." Congratulations! You are now a child of God, made whole and made new, by the Blood of Jesus Christ!
God tells us that we are blessed to be a blessing (Genesis 12:2). Be a blessing to someone by sending them this word of encouragement. If God did not already put someone in your spirit and on your heart that needs to read this uplifting message from above, simply ask your Heavenly Father who to bless on today. Forward this message right now by email, facebook, or twitter.
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Don't eat fermented food or take Threelac if you've eaten poorly (ice cream). Let your body rid itself of that first, and then reintroduce it. I'm sure that's what's causing your gas.
Funny story for you! I'm in NYC, and a few days ago, I had a high fat day. My breakfast was pretty high fat, even though I had some starch in it. It was bacon, and tuna/avocado/sweet potato hash. I felt like hell after. Later I bought an almond milk/banana/almond butter smoothie, and some 'bar' that didn't sound like it was too bad. I felt worse after. Belched the rest of the evening, and gastritis was in full swing again.
More proof to me that high fat fails for me. I *have* to eat less fat, and more starch otherwise it all goes to shit. Pun not intended ;)


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A friend who lives in Lowell sent me this link to a LGBT blog towleroad . This past weekend in Puerto Rico a 19-year-old gay man, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado was murdered, his body was partially burned, his head decapitated and his limb dismembered. The story was disturbing on many levels.
In addition to the brutality of this hate crime, I found it disturbing that this story did not make the mainstream media. After I received the e-mail from my friend, I went on line and searched. Yes, you could find the story on some web sites, such as CNN, but I had to search for it.
Have we become desensitized to these types of crime? Is Puerto Rico too far away from the mainland for us not be concerned?
I believe the news media only accepts human interest stories from foreign countries if the subject is adorable. "Hate crimes" are only interesting if the accused is a celebrity or connected to a celebrity.
A gay male in Puerto Rico? Um, no. Try running this with a cute blonde female and I think you'll find the coverage you hope for.
As someone else put it, if you're a blonde blue-eyed young girl that goes missing in Aruba for 24 hours, you're font page material. If you're a young gay man that is bludgeoned to death, you're lucky if anyone is told.
According to a police official leading this investigation "…people who lead this type of lifestyle need to be aware that this will happen…" What happened to the Hate Crime legislation? Where is the outrage?!? Did the local paper even cover this? Where are the candle-light vigiles? My family would like be there to show that this is intolerable.
Thank you for posting about this horrible, disgusting crime. I'm from the island and was amazed at the lack of attention the US paid to such a hideous, hate crime. According to endi.com, one of Puerto Rico's leading newspapers, the killer was supposedly on the lookout for prostitutes when he found Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado. Apparently, the victim was dressed as a woman and when the driver found out, Lopez asked for money. He was then stabbed through the neck and you know the rest of the story: decapitated, dismembered, and partially burned. Juan A. Martinez, the suspect, justified his act by saying he had been raped while in prison for domestic violence (uhm, yeah- wife beater too?). Some people went as far as defending the murderer because of the circumstances and details of the story. It infuriates me. NOTHING justifies such a deplorable act, nothing!
Not trying to be a wise ass or start a fight but how do we know it was a hate crime? Heinous? Yup. Horrific? Yeah. But just beacuse it's a brutal murder and involves a gay or a minority does not make it a hate crime. I think the media is very quick to attach the "hate crime" label on something now for sensational reasons. How do you know the suspect isn't a former lover? Who was about to be outed? See we don't know. Brutal murders happen all the time especially of the victim and the suspect have an intimate past. Were Jeffrey Dahmer's murders hate crimes? Or was he just a sicko? There are a whole list of things to be outraged about right now and sadly you can add this murder to the list.
I dunno, how many people short of serial killers behead someone? Seems to me to be a pretty hateful crime. Generally speaking, that level of violence against someone usually means either the person in question was severely mentally unstable (ie sociopath who shouldn't be wandering the street) or one of blind rage, which often accompanies the sort of hate that hate crimes legislation tries to address.
You can't tell me the average robber or murderer even does the things this guy did. Yeesh.
Nope. I didn't say that at all. But we don't know the mental stability of the accused (and be real there are plenty of unstable people walking the streets) or yeah blind rage and that can and does happen in a crime of passion look at the former reality show guy who killed his wife- cut off her hands and pulled her teeth etc. Was that a Hate crime?
See what I mean. Just because a gay or minority is killed or beat up doesn't automatically make it a hate crime. That's my point.
Yeah but 9.9 times out of ten, Mark, it has everything to do with it.
How can you prove that?
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You a wise a**! Never
As for my comment that this was a "hate crime," I may have jumped the gun but since the authorities are weighing whether to charge the murderer with a federal hate crime charge, I think I am in good company.
There is no such thing as a "hate crime" just as there are no "love crimes."
Hate crime laws are unconstitutional because they elevate one class of victims over another and base punishment on the thoughts attributed to a criminal. And on top of that, we have an Attorney General who explicitly stated that federal so-called hate crimes law would not apply when when the victim is a white male and the criminal is a member of a protected class.
A prime example is the case in Denver where black gangs were targeting white and Hispanic men because of their race. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13835315
Hate crime laws have been used to put people at risk of property and freedom over mere words. While others whose words resulted in the death of innocents and the destruction of property are given a free pass because of the color of their skin.
And, by the way, Puerto Rico is not a foreign country. Puero Ricans are US citizens.
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Movie Review - 'Spring Breakers' is hopelessness, in a sexy way
Published: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 3:25 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 3:25 p.m.
Harmony Korine seems to want it both ways, all day, with "Spring Breakers," his super-stylized descent into a sunbaked hell where bikini-clad, gun-toting college babes serve as our guides.
As writer and director, Korine wants us to be appalled and aroused. He wants to satirize the debauchery of girls gone wild while simultaneously reveling in it. And damned if he doesn't pull it off.
This is the rare movie that I actually found myself liking more the longer I spent away from it – mainly because I couldn't stop thinking about it. In the moment, I found it numbingly repetitive: an obvious juxtaposition of sex and violence, of dreamlike aesthetics within a nightmare scenario. But it stuck with me, and it made me appreciate the genius of Korine's approach.
There is genuine artistry in this film, which is the most polished and mainstream to date from the maker of indies like "Trash Humpers." The film is also provocative in various ways — unsurprising from the guy who wrote Larry Clark's "Kids" at age 19 — depending on the viewer. In super slo-mo, as beer-soaked party girls cavort on the beach to electronic music, is that how it actually feels? Or is that the frightening extreme adults imagine?
The corruption of formerly squeaky-clean Disney Channel superstars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens may be Korine's cleverest trick: They get to show range; we get to gawk. But James Franco steals the whole movie away when he arrives about halfway through as a cornrowed, wanna-be gangster rapper named Alien (pronounced a-LEEN). It's a wonderfully weird performance, but Franco also finds vulnerability beneath the bravado.
The young women of "Spring Breakers" have their own treacherous road to follow. The four longtime friends (Gomez, Hudgens, Ashley Benson of "Pretty Little Liars" and Rachel Korine, the director's wife) long to escape the drudgery of their dreary college life. Spring break in Florida beckons, and after a quick-and-dirty, coked-up diner robbery — which three of the girls pull off without the help of Gomez's character, the churchgoing Faith — they're headed South.
Clearly these women were headed for trouble long before they got in the car; they're essentially wild animals in hot pink nail polish. They just needed a little shove, which the promise of non-stop partying provides. When they get busted for narcotics possession – and the flashy Alien shows up to bail them out – their fates are sealed.
A surprising amount of suspense reveals itself within the ridiculousness of it all; that's what makes "Spring Breakers" so hard to shake. They never feel like real people, these curvaceous banditas, but they are the future of America, and this might be the last, best time of their lives. We're all screwed, Korine seems to be saying. It's very sad – but also kinda sexy.
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Robert Michael Howfield
Position: K
Height: 5-9 Weight: 180 lbs.
Born: December 3, 1936 in Bushey, England
College: none
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 17 (5416th overall since 1950)
Relatives: Father of Ian Howfield
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You would never guess in probably a thousand years which organization has decided to defend a child when school officials allegedly tried to take his bible in an after school program, according to the Blaze. Normally the American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU has been on the other side of the fence in working to disrupt religious organization's rights during Christmas or in prayer or other related matters. Yet, when the young Tennessee student claimed that officials at an after-school program told him he could not read his bible and tried to take it, the ACLU got involved…on the boy's side.
That's right the religious freedom of a student to read his Bible should not be abridged by a school when it is done during the boy's free time. The Tennessee branch of the ACLU sent a firmly written letter to the Cannon County REACH after-school program urging school officials, "to better train staff on the proper handling of participants' religious rights," reported the Blaze.
In their defense the after-school program staff claimed that they attempted to take the Bible from the boy because of their understanding that the program could be defunded if the boy continued to harmlessly read his Bible.
Ignorance of a student's religious rights has escalated over the past five years under the Obama administration and its assaults on religious freedoms. Even Pope Francis had to give the president a verbal spanking at the Vatican recently over Obamacare's assault on religious rights when Obama visited recently.
So it is understandable that the school administrators of the publically funded program would be hyper sensitive in the current anti-religion hysteria being promoted by the president's administration.
Fortunately for the young student the ACLU sides with him and reminded the school administrators that, "The goal of our letter is to clarify for the REACH program what seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Constitution protects religious liberty," asserted The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee's Executive Director Hedy Weinberg, according to the Blaze.
A boy and his Bible together again.
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Election Results
By MortazaviBlog on Jun 18, 2009
Official results of the IR of Iran's presidential elections are posted here.
(Thanks go to Pooya K. for having found and posted the link for me.)
Official results of the IR of Iran's presidential elections are posted here.
(Thanks go to Pooya K. for having found and posted the link for me.)
ScienceLogic embeds MySQL in its EM7 network management appliances. An installation of EM7 can perform over half a billion database queries daily, storing massive amounts of data for both real-time and trended performance reporting.
Michael McFadden, senior software architect with ScienceLogic, will discuss all this in an upcoming MySQL webinar.
Happy Persian New Year (Nowruz)!
As a friend wrote to me, "This morning at 4:45 am [California time] the Sun crossed the equator signaling the first moments of the Spring, and the start of the Persian New Year :-) The site http://www.timeanddate.com/news/holidays/vernal-equinox-2008.html has a good explanation of what constitutes March Equinox."
Foreign ministers of Persian speaking countries celebrated Nowruz in Afghanistan.
My younger daughter, when 8, prepared these side dishes and salads for a lunch with her great grandmother.
The photo, two years old, fills the space with freshness.
When I was a child, my grandmother used to take me shopping for these types of ingredients.
The baskets would get full, and I would insist on carrying some of them.
Happy Persian New Year, 1387 A.H., 2008 A.D.
Patricia Khashayar has written a pretty good report on Nowruz for Press TV. Press TV also carries a report on an underwater Haft Seen in the Persian Gulf.


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Congerton spells out transfer approach
by Stuart Vose
Sporting director says club won't be rushed into deals.
Sunderland are active in the transfer market but won't be rushed into summer signings, according to sporting director Lee Congerton.
Congerton, head coach Gus Poyet and the football staff have identified summer targets, with deals for Billy Jones, Jordi Gomez and Costel Pantilimon already completed.
We don't want to sign players for the sake of it because that can cause problems later on
- Lee Congerton
Meanwhile Seb Larsson and Jordan Pickford have both agreed new long-term contracts with the club.
The Black Cats are pro-actively targeting new faces, but the considered approach is very much the way forward.
"The market is out there, it's working, people are out doing business and everything is being done behind the scenes," said Congerton, who met with Foundation of Light supporters and corporate partners at the charity's fixtures breakfast on Wednesday morning.
"Everything's ongoing but at the end of the day we're in no rush. We want to sign the right players.
"We don't want to sign players for the sake of it because that can cause problems later on."
He added: "Obviously last year the club did very well with loans and we'll go into the loan market again.
"Hopefully in years to come the loan market won't be as important as it is today and we'll have more players who've come either from the academy or belong to Sunderland AFC."
Three domestic friendlies have already been confirmed ahead of the new season, with the squad then set to fly out to Portugal for a warm-weather training camp.
There's a massive challenge for us and there's no easy games, but we're going the right way
- Congerton on 2014-15
And Congerton feels the squad will benefit from a full pre-season under the guidance of Poyet, who joined the club last October.
"Pre-season is so important for any coach or manager," he said.
"Gus has ideas and strategy and a way of playing. He understands how he wants to play and gets his message across.
"He creates practices for the players, but they're always specific to how he wants to play, not just with the ball but without it and in transition.
"I'm very confident that Gus will shape our team into a competitive side for next season. We're looking forward to it. There's a massive challenge for us and there's no easy games, but we're going the right way."


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No, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard is not gay. While George Takei (Sulu of "Star Trek: TOS") might lament that fact, The Guardian had to admit to misidentifying "Next Generation" and "X-Men" actor Sir Patrick Stewart, on Monday, as gay. Stewart, though, issued a humorous Tuesday tweet in response to his "coming out."
The initial FUBAR was a reference to those supporting actress Ellen Page, who just came out herself. In its article on Page, The Guardian referenced Stewart, as it says below:
This article was amended on 17 February 2014. The third paragraph originally said "Some gay people, such as Sir Patrick Stewart, think Page's coming out speech is newsworthy." This should have read "Some people, such as Sir Patrick Stewart, think Page's coming out speech is newsworthy."
After the Poynter Institute tweeted about the gaffe, Stewart tweeted a response.
.@Poynter But @guardian I have, like, five or even SEVEN hetero friends and we totally drink beer and eat lots of chicken wings!
In response to a suggestion that The Guardian might have erred due to Stewart's friendships (e.g., he is a close friend of Sir Ian McKellan, who is openly gay), Stewart tweeted:
MT "@Gruaig_Rua: @Poynter Silly @guardian. You can't catch gay by hanging out with #LGBT people."
The Poynter Institute is a non-profit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Fla. The Institute may have been thinking The Guardian's reporters needed a refresher.
In one final tweet, Stewart acknowledged the erroneous news as a good change of pace.
Well, @guardian it makes for a nice change...at least I didn't wake up to the internet telling me I was dead again.


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Last week I completed a huge item on my "to-do" list: Co-Chairing our school's Science Fair.
As expected, there were little glitches here and there. We will learn from our mistakes and the process should be much smoother next year. Things such as night janitors being forced to take furlough (so not available to open the gym for us) because of budget cuts were not under our control, but at least we know which questions to ask next time.
I knew there would be bumps along the road, but what I didn't expect was a couple of parents whose attitudes about science brought up some challenging questions and potentially frustrated some children.
By way of background, our Fair is held in two parts: the first is during the day when each classroom has an opportunity to visit. Parents serve as "Guest Scientists" and ask each student about his or her project. All students - whether they did a project or not - are then encouraged to see the other experiments in the room. The second part is the official "Fair" that is held in the evening. Parents come with their students. Several exhibitors present hands-on science-related demonstrations.
During the school-day classroom visit time, two women shared their dissatisfaction with what they saw as a lack of emphasis on science instruction at the school. While I can agree with some of their observations, they took it overboard.
One woman decided that it was appropriate to write notes on students' projects, telling them to google certain terms to get more information about their subject matter. She laughed as she told us that one "clueless" student didn't know why growing flowers in coffee grounds worked so well. This student's project involved different growing medium, such as adding milk to dirt, plain dirt, and the aforementioned coffee.
"Obviously adding coffee grounds works, because that's what people do when they garden!" this mom laughed, "We add egg shells and coffee grounds to plants..." and she kept going.
But an elementary-school student is not necessarily going to know much about gardening. Her curiosity in the subject should be encouraged, not mocked.
A second woman - who quickly identified herself a Civil Engineer so that we'd all know that she must be smart - declared that the students didn't know how to do "proper" science projects. "Their hypotheses are wrong," she snorted, "And once the hypothesis is wrong, the project makes no sense."
(Unfortunately, she didn't express her opinion just to the other parents. I overheard her telling a student he was wrong and that he should have done x, y, and z.)
She continued her rant, expressing how these kids would essentially be doomed to a lifetime of not learning the Scientific Method should it not be corrected right this instant. She and the other woman asserted that the Science Fair should be mandatory and graded. She even suggested that as part of the Science Fair, parents take a class in the Scientific Method so that they could "properly" teach their children.
The bit about the Scientific Method class stunned me into near silence. There is so much wrong with the underlying assumptions there that I cannot even begin to express my frustration.
Of course there is the assumption that parents are so uneducated that they need instruction themselves. There is an assumption that all parents want their children to participate in the Science Fair, or that they are able to take the time out of their schedules to have a heavy hand in the production of "their child's" experiment. There is the assumption that someone such as me would willingly teach such a class (or, do they suppose they will pay someone to do it -- from where would this money come from?)
A scientist should know that different people think different ways. While learning the Scientific Method and its particular line of reasoning and logical thinking is definitely of value, it doesn't come easy to everyone. People have interest and talent in other fields. At the elementary school level, it is important to spark interest so that when the more challenging instruction comes, the student rises to the occasion.
If a student with kinesthetic intelligence wants to pit boys and girls against each other in a test of balance and flexibility, she is engaged in her project. She might not know exactly why she supposes that girls might be better at the tasks than boys, but she's having fun. As she takes biology later, she remembers her project and tries to figure out the why behind her observations. There is a big reason that so many athletes end up becoming interested in sports medicine! When something is relevant to natural interests, it becomes exciting.
But if that student was chastised for an "improper" hypothesis, the experience becomes negative. Why bother working hard to learn all that "boring" science stuff?
The way I see it, having a fun Science Fair in elementary school where the students wonder about things, brainstorm ideas, and examine and explore puts a positive spin on science. The "rules" of how to "properly" conduct an experiment can come a bit later.
While it would be fabulous to have a huge chunk of time devoted to the Science Fair and its associated method, the budget is not there to support it. The curriculum is tied to the standardized test material. We're lucky to have an art and science foundation separate from the school to support enrichment instruction. And yet these women want more.
I'll pause to say that one of the women had a good idea about doing a "hypothesis check" earlier in the process to help focus students' ideas. If this is done in an encouraging way, it might make completing a project easier and might provide some instruction in a non-threatening way. I'd love to provide support to those students who want it (see Jaelithe's comment on her science fair experience.) I wouldn't mind asking teachers to hold back on heavy homework assignments the weekend before the Science Fair, too, to facilitate participation. There are certainly things that we can do to encourage and support participation in the Science Fair, but I still believe it shouldn't be graded (or mandatory.)
It would be terrific to spark interest in everything: art, literature, science, history, social studies, and so forth. But the time and resources are not available to do it all simultaneously.
This year, my third-grade son has a teacher who loves literature. She loves drama. She loves art. As a result, he has many at-home "presentation-type" projects to complete. Because of his workload there, he was unable to do a Science Fair project. But - I expect he'll do one next year. This year, I think it is terrific that he's memorizing scenes from famous plays, encouraging me to purchase him sequels to books his teacher has read in class, and finding ways to be creative.
Last year, my son was too nervous to read aloud much in class. This year, he enjoys trying on different voices for different characters, the way his teacher does. In the previous two years, the teachers kept telling him to use more "feeling" when reading or to speak louder. But this year, his teacher showed him how to do it.
It made sense to me, then, to encourage him to do his best work on his classroom assignments this year, rather than pushing him to do a Science Fair project. Of course, had he come to me with an enthusiastic experiment idea, I would have happily supported him.
If the Science Fair had been mandatory, and if his hypothesis had been scrutinized after he had finished the project, I think he would have been turned off from science. Instead, he attended the "exhibitor" portion of the Science Fair with me and had a blast, He enjoyed doing bottle-rockets, extracting DNA from strawberries, and building contraptions to test on an earthquake table. He asked to go to science camp this summer.
Interestingly, it appears that neither woman who believed the Fair should be mandatory showed up at the main event. Perhaps they would have been encouraged to see the glee on the student's faces as they explored. Or, maybe they would have scoffed that the kids were just "playing" with building blocks. But in a few years, perhaps those kids will remember which-shaped buildings lasted the longest on the earthquake table. Maybe they'll remember the pattern the building made as it shook, illustrating engineering and mathematical principles. Or maybe they'll just remember that science is fun.


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Properties of Diamond-Like Coatings
Methods for Producing DLC Films
Plasma Assisted CVD
Ion Beam Deposition
The Closed Field Unbalanced Magnetron Sputter Ion Plating Process
Deposition of Stress-Free Films
Extrusion Dies
Engine Applications
Bone Saws
Amorphous (a-C) and hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) films have high hardness, low friction, electrical insulation, chemical inertness, optical transparency, biological compatibility, ability to absorb photons selectively, smoothness, and resistance to wear. For a number of years, these economically and technologically attractive properties have drawn almost unparalleled interest towards these coatings. Carbon films with very high hardness, high resistivity, and dielectric optical properties, are now described as diamond-like carbon or DLC, table 1.
Table 1. Properties of diamond and DLC materials.
Thin Film
CVD Dia.
Crystal Structure
Cubic ao=3.561Å
Amorphous Mixed sp2 and sp3 bonds
Amorphous sp3/sp2
Cubic ao=3.567Å
Hexagonal a=2.47
Faceted crystals
Smooth or rough
Hardness (Hv)
Density (g/cm3)
Refractive Index
Electrical Resistivity (Ω/cm)
Thermal Conductivity (W/m.K)
Chemical Stability
Hydrogen Content (H/C)
Growth Rate (µm/hr)
1000 (synthetic)
Several methods have been developed for producing diamond-like carbon films:
• primary ion beam deposition of carbon ions (IBD)
• sputter deposition of carbon with or without bombardment by an intense flux of ions (physical vapour deposition or PVD)
• deposition from an RF plasma, sustained in hydrocarbon gases, onto substrates negatively biased (plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition or PACVD).
Until recently, the work on DLC worldwide has not yielded the expected benefits in the field of wear resistance and general mechanical performance. Most of the success has been in applications for magnetic storage media and optical coatings. The reasons for this are:
• only thin coatings (< 1µm) have been used
• the 2D aspect of most of the deposition routes
• the difficulty in gaining good adhesion to metallic substrates.
Plasma assisted CVD techniques employing RF and DC glow discharges in hydrocarbon gas mixtures produce smooth amorphous carbon and hydrocarbon films, which have mixed sp2 and sp3 bonds. These exhibit hardness values of 900-3000Hv. The CVD processes will generally require deposition temperatures of at least 600°C to give the required combination of properties, however, low temperature deposition is possible. The CVD technique gives good deposition rates and very uniform coatings, and is suited to very large-scale production.
Another technique for DLC deposition is based on ion beam deposition. This has the advantage of being able to deposit high quality coatings at very low temperatures (near room temperature). The disadvantages are that the deposition rate is very low (1µm/hr maximum) and that even substrates of simple geometry need complex manipulation to ensure uniform deposition.
A technique has now been developed that can readily apply a-C:H films (>4µm) to substrates of any shape. The process is based on closed field unbalanced magnetron sputter ion plating (CFUBMS), figure 1, combined with plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition. The commercial importance of such a development is already being seen and the potential range of applications and possibilities are enormous. The technique is highly innovative and it provides the flexibility required to ensure excellent adhesion to any substrate, and the coating of any component shape or material, in a high productivity industrial process.
Figure 1. Schematic of a four magnetron closed field unbalanced magnetron sputtering system (DG Teer, UK Patent 2258343A)
The new technique combines the benefits of both plasma CVD and ion beam deposition. The deposition is carried out at 200°C in a closed field unbalanced magnetron sputter ion plating system (Teer Coatings UDP 400 or 800 series). The system was originally designed for reactive deposition of metal nitrides, carbides and oxides. The inherent versatility of the process has enabled the deposition of DLC in the system by combining two established techniques, PVD and CVD. Low pressure RF plasma CVD is adopted for high rate deposition (>5µm/hr), in combination with simultaneous ion assistance and physical vapour deposition from unbalanced magnetron sputtering sources, to give very high quality films. As with beam techniques, the low pressure of the process means that deposition is to some extent line-of-sight, which means that substrate manipulation is necessary to ensure uniform deposition. However, because the substrates are surrounded by four long magnetrons (>1m in length if necessary) the coating flux impinges on the substrates from all directions and, usually, only simple single axis rotation during deposition is necessary.
One of the main problems with DLC deposition at low temperature, is the creation of very high internal stress levels in the films. This, combined with the ensuing lattice mismatch when DLC is applied to a wide range of substrates, commonly leads to poor adhesion. In high mechanical stress applications, the adhesion of the films is of paramount importance. This problem has now been overcome by ensuring that there are no stress concentrations near the coating/substrate interface. The magnetron sources are used to reactively deposit a series of multilayer compounds prior to deposition of the DLC. The layers have graded interfaces. This ensures that there are no abrupt changes in composition, and that the stress is introduced into the film gradually. The optimum multilayer structure series is: titanium, titanium nitride, titanium carbonitride, titanium carbide, and then the DLC. It has also been subsequently found that the mechanical properties of the hard carbon films can be improved by incorporating a small percentage of metal dopant (usually ~5% titanium) in the final carbon structure.
The resulting films have excellent friction and wear properties:
• microhardness of up to 4000Hv
• coefficient of friction during dry running in air against cemented WC always <0.15
• a wear rate 20% that of titanium nitride
• exceedingly low counterface wear.
A wide variety of objects are now being coated, ranging from small items, to large dies and moulds. The rapidly expanding uses of the DLC films developed by the hybrid technique includes:
• decorative/low friction coatings
• coating of tools for the high speed machining of aluminium and copper alloys
• ceramic washers in mixer taps
• guides in textile processing machines
• punches/dies
• seals
• cutting taps
The coatings are shiny and black, and thus also offer high aesthetic appeal.
The DLC based coatings are now highly successfully applied to a wide range of cold extrusion dies. In many cases it was necessary to pre-dip the mild steel billets in MOS2 before extrusion in an attempt to provide lubrication. In severe cases the dies needed repolishing after every billet because of pickup. The DLC coated dies now extrude 4000 billets (without pre-lubrication) and with no sign of wear. DLC coated punches can be seen in figure 2.
Figure2. Coated punches for high performance and extended lifetimes.
The coatings may well find their biggest application in enhancing properties of general wear parts. For example, it was hoped that the coating of cams and cam followers with DLC in Formula 1 motorbike engines would produce an increase in power of 0.5-1bhp. The resulting power increase was 8bhp, which in racing terms is enormous.
The coating of medical saws for bone cutting showed that after using the saws for double the normal lifetime no wear was apparent. But more importantly because of the low frictional heating and quality of cut, the amount of bone necrosis (killing of the bone tissue) was reduced so effectively, that new bone tissue was able to 'take' to the cut area very easily.
A new and very important field where the carbon films appear to perform very well, is the machining of stainless steel. Titanium nitride coated tools offer very little benefit in this area of machining. The use of carbon based coatings, such as TiCN, for machining ferrous based alloys, has always been unsuccessful owing to the reaction between the carbon in both coating and ferrous workpiece. The difficult job of machining stainless steel is therefore carried out with uncoated tools at low feeds and speeds. When the new carbon coatings (DLC with 5% titanium) were tested under similar conditions, there was on average a fourfold increase in drill life over the other coated and uncoated drills, figure 3. The coatings tested were not optimised in any way for the application, so tool lives up to the maximum 10 times and beyond are now possible.
Figure 3. Comparison of performance of uncoated, titanium nitride coated and DLC (~5% Ti) coated drills during stainless steel machining. Cutting speed 16m/min, feed rate 0-30mm/rev, blind holes 18mm depth, water-soluble coolant.
As has been demonstrated, the application of a well adhered, very hard, low friction and wear DLC based coating to a wide variety of mechanical parts is bound to produce economic benefits. In many applications, the now relatively modest coating cost that can be obtained, should far outreach the dramatic improvement in performance and life.
Primary author: D.P. Monaghan, K.C. Laing, P.A. Logan, P. Teer and D.G. Teer.
Source: Materials World, Vol. 1 no. 6 pp. 347-49, June 1993.
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In his television and radio shows this week, Glenn Beck warned of the potential for a "cataclysmic" collapse of the economic system. He pointed to the U.S. Federal Reserve's return of Germany's gold as a key warning sign.
"Subprime crisis, do you remember that?" Beck asked. "Imagine that crash on a global scale, and instead of houses its gold, which backs all of our money, and gold that is not really owned by anyone. Our money becomes worthless."
He questioned whether the U.S. still actually possesses the gold that is supposed to be held within its vaults. He suggested that the U.S. has been spending that gold and pointed to the strange methods in which the recently repatriated gold was delivered to Germany.
Beck referenced a report from Zero Hedge indicating the initial gold returned to Germany by the United States "didn't have the stamp on it." The Federal Reserve reportedly said it had to melt down the gold for transport.
Beck noted that details are scarce and virtually impossible to confirm, but speculated: "I think this is your first real indication that there is no gold. There is no gold in Fort Knox. There is no gold in the Federal Reserve."


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An old jazzer term for a marijuana cigarette or joint.
Don't bogart that mulligan, my friend.
автор: Leopold Bloom 27 августа 2006
A mulligan, in sex, happens when a player gets a second chance to perform a certain move or action. The practice is also sometimes referred to as a "do-over".
I think I'm going to sleep with Sean again because we were so drunk last time I hardly remember. A mulligan is required for sure.
автор: pusseidon 14 мая 2010
i saw that firecrotch and the mulligans
автор: meg;) 3 мая 2010
When an older rich man remarries to a much younger trophy wife. Just like in golf you can buy yourself a second chance.
Look at that old fart and his mulligan. He must be loaded.
автор: depl 10 августа 2007
1. A golfing term meaning a shot you didn't mean to play, but did.
2.A drunken hookup with some ugly as bitch you didn't mean to hook up with, but did because of your immense beer goggles.
2.A drunken hookup with some ugly as bitch you didn't mean to hook up with, but did because of your immense beer goggles.
Shutup about that girl last night, i call a mulligan.
автор: hemm 15 июня 2005
a word used to describe something as a compliment
wow, your a fucking mulligan
автор: garbo 16 октября 2006
A person who is felt to be deficient in judgment, good sense, or intelligence; a fool. Often identified by khaki pants tucked into Tony llama cowboy boots and the tendancy to carry a coozy and sunglasses depite there being no obvious need for such articles. Commonly found staring into space or using colloquial redneck vernacular in order to try and aquire street cred.
Hey man! Who is that Where's Waldo look alike in the mexican ranchero boots and croakies making love to that truck driver behind the dumpster over there?
Oh! Thats just Mulligan! 10-4
Oh! Thats just Mulligan! 10-4
автор: Sandra Rader 4 мая 2006


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