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Colourscope Win Horse & Hound Site of the Week Award
The recently launched ecommerce site for S&L Horseboxes has won the Site of the Week award in the Horse & Hound Magazine for its usability and range of products and ease to buy.
Anthony Firth was delighted to have invested in us to do the web design and build the ecommerce site which has now gone to No. 3 in Google following a full search engine optimisation procedure. Their successful online sales have enabled them to branch into a new line of business selling converted motor homes and they have asked Colourscope to design and build their next site,
We wish them the best of luck and look forward to working with them closely in the future to improve their sales and recognition.
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In today's market, information technology on storage applications has collided with advanced steel tank designs, advanced coating systems and field construction processes. The outcome includes some of the most cost-efficient, high-quality storage-containment products ever developed for industrial and municipal applications. Under review, high-quality storage products offer significant benefits to the client in the form of extended service life, low maintenance and cost savings generated over its service life.
The problem in comparing alternative types of storage construction is separating high-quality, or "Tier A" storage products from marginal quality, or "Tier D" storage products (see Figure 1). Surprisingly in today's market, premier-quality dry bulk and liquid storage products can be purchased and installed for about the same price as low-quality storage products.
The real kicker is adding the life-cycle costs to the equation. The life-cycle costs of Tier D products will often calculate at more than twice the cost of Tier A products. Needless to say, it becomes an expensive lesson for the client when marginal-quality tank construction is specified and procured for a project.
The construction of a storage tank/system should always be reviewed as a major infrastructure project. The specifications on tank construction, coating systems and field construction processes should be covered in detail. The minimum service life of a storage tank used to be considered 40 years. In today's storage industry, there are tank/containment products that are being introduced into the market that will provide less than a 10- to 20-year service life and other products that will provide service in excess of 60 to 80 years. Based on proper maintenance of a storage tank and its coatings, a steel storage tank can be maintained for an indefinite service life.
Liquid Storage
A variety of storage tank designs are offered depending on the design code specified (see Figure 2). Glass/vitreous enamel coatings, which used to be the leader in liquid applications, offer a service life of 30 to 40 years. Some shortcomings of glass storage tanks are the panel edges, bolt holes and high factory reject rates. Unlike glass tanks, which have to be replaced after their service life, bolted steel tanks can be recoated to provide an indefinite service life. Advancements in coatings technology are the driving force behind the shift from glass to steel tanks.
Dry Bulk Storage
Bolted tank construction. In bolted construction, the bolted rolled, tapered panel (RTP) design is one of the top performance products offered in the industry today worldwide. API 12B (flanged panel tank) is an older bolted tank design that has incurred field leak issues in dry bulk and liquid storage applications and is now being replaced by the RTP design.
A newly introduced storage product is the vertical flat panel (FP) design, which is being promoted as another replacement for API 12B construction. It allows the use of older, existing API 12B field construction equipment (e.g., air tugger and gin pole). In precision bolted fabrication, the RTP panel design must be rolled horizontally, the same as API 650 and API 620 fabrication.
Field-weld tank construction. In field-weld (FW) construction, API 650 and API 620 fabrication has changed little, with the exception that state-of-the-art shop fabrication equipment now is utilized. In the field, new field-weld construction technology has allowed for some significant advances in welding processes.
API 650 and 620 construction remain the premier storage products in welded tank construction. All panels (8 to 10 ft high by 25 to 35 ft long) are rolled horizontally, and leading fabricators will minimize the large piece count in the shop. Field-weld construction that does not minimize the large piece count in the shop or is not subject to radiograph examination (both in the shop and the field) per API 650 should be considered Tier D quality.
Hybrid tank construction. Any tank component combination of bolted, field-weld or concrete construction will produce a storage product classified as a hybrid.
Concrete tank construction. Slip-form concrete construction is the premier concrete storage tank design for dry bulk storage applications. Jump-form concrete routinely is utilized in biomass storage, grain applications and elevated water tank pedestals. In liquid storage containment, wire-wound prestressed designs with a steel diaphragm continue to provide good quality containment for tank sidewall applications. Concrete cover applications for liquids continue to be replaced in the industry by aluminum geodesic dome covers.
Specification & Quotation
The following storage checklist should be covered when specifying or requesting a quotation on a storage system:
If this checklist of items is followed, product specification and procurement will be made as an informed buyer. Remember, if the storage tank supplier is not responsible for the outcome, then the specifying engineer or client has assumed the responsibility. In all cases, cover your bases and specify a premier-quality storage system that will stand the test of time as a major infrastructure investment.


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"29 yo Postgraduate student of NU with a knee..."
About: Freeman Hospital Freeman Hospital Newcastle Upon Tyne NE7 7DN
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I feel the need to tell you about my problem and what is happening to me the last 7 months. I am really sorry If my English is bad but I will try to do my best in order to explain you. Before Christmas of 2013 (approximately 7 months ago), while I was trying to go to the 1st floor of my department at the University I slipped on the stairs (there was water on them) and I injured my leg. I heard a strange sound from inside the knee and I felt an acute pain. After that the knee was puffy so I went to see the GP. He was very polite and he said he could not do much for my situation and that it was necessary to see an expert doctor at the Freeman Hospital. After 2 months they sent me a letter to go to Freeman Hospital and see a doctor. (the knee was already in a very bad condition). A couple of days later they sent me another letter informing me that the appointment was cancelled and that the next appointment is after a couple of weeks (I do not remember the exact dates). Finally, I went there and I saw the doctor (I am not sure if it was the doctor himself or his assistant) and he sent me for an MRI. I had to wait 2 more months in order to do the MRI and then go back to the doctor in order to see the scan and examine my knee. In the meanwhile, between the scan and the next appointment, he sent me to a physiotherapist. (which was very-very helpful and diagnosed my problem immediately). 2 months after that I went to the doctor again. I think I saw his assistant which did not examine me at all and he just read the report of the MRI! (I could barely walk while my other knee started having some issues as well because I was putting all my weight on that in order to walk) He said to me to continue the physiotherapy and that if i have a problem ring doctor's secretary to book me an another appointment while he booked me an appointment in 3 (!) months time. I told him that I cannot walk and he sent me to another physiotherapist to examine me. That actually happened, and the 2nd physiotherapist told me the same as the 1st one (that the knee is not in a good condition and he cannot do anything about it. He pointed out that a doctor has to see me!!). That very helpful gentleman booked me an appointment with another doctor in 20-25 days time (thank you sir!). The problem is that at the moment, after all this waiting time, I feel my right knee absolutely crippled while the other one ( the left) is also in a bad condition. I do not know exactly what is going on with it but I am sure that I have heard strange sounds from it as well ( I have stumbled again 2-3 times and I have injured it.). For 6-7 months, I have been walking with one leg, so it was expected that to happen. 7 months ago, I was in a bad condition, but now I suffer. Even the knee brace does not help me at all. The physiotherapists were excellent but they could not do anything to help me. It is not rational to leave someone injured for so long time, his condition worsen everyday. Thank you
Response from Freeman Hospital 3 years ago
Mr Terzakis, Thank you for taking the time to post your review on NHS Choices. We are very disappointed to read that your care within the Musculoskeletal Services at the Freeman Hospital has not met your quite reasonable expectations and we are very sorry that you are still experiencing pain in your knee following your injury. In order that we can address your concerns and progress your treatment, we would appreciate it if you could contact Matron Saunders, Musculoskeletal Services on 0191 233 6161 and she will be happy to help resolve your concerns. Again may we apologise for the upset and distress this has caused you.
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A newly viral supercut captures such scenes from the nine years of the beloved series.
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Rave as Confrontation –
Marching Against the CJB in 1994
I read a review of a club night recently in my local free paper, The Islington Tribune. To capture just what a great place this club is they wrote that it is "filled with the kind of happy campers you could imagine filled a field in the '90s – but less crusty – it specialises in delivering the kind of electro disco beats that send buttoned-up city types into an air-punching frenzy."
The funny thing about the above sentence is that it perfectly captures the shift from rave as a force to be reckoned with (the crusties who actually LIVE in the field – Yuk!) to a pleasant night's entertainment for 'buttoned-up city types'. It is not misty-eyed nostalgia to recall that rave music – as a bottom up musical and social revolution – really did disturb the status quo for a bit back there. They even brought in laws to deal with this menace!
1 – May 1994 – My friends Pete, Eun (DJ Typhoid later to become Black Mass Plastics/Thorn Industries) and I made a large banner (approx 4Mx1M) that read 'MARCH IN LONDON TO PROTEST AGAINST THE CJB. YOUR FREEDOM IS AT STAKE. SATURDAY TRAFALGER SQUARE ETC ETC.' I remember that it said 'Your freedom is at stake'. This was to advertise the anti-CJB march coming up in the summer of '94. We hung it above the old Rex Cinema in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
2 – June 1994 – I attended the protest that ended peacefully in Trafalgar Square in June/July '94. There is an old DJ magazine with my picture in it from August 1994. On this occasion my hat said 'I'M DISTURBED BY THE CJB'. I do remember being with Eun as the face-off with the police began to develop in the late afternoon. He and I were yelling 'Where are your numbers?' to the police because they appeared to have no immediate form of ID as police officers usually do. But on this occasion I did not – nor did anyone I knew – get any closer to the forces of law than this. I also remember absolutely loving the bicycle-powered sound system. It was the only music going apart from an assortment of bongo players and whistle-blowers. That is until we got to the sound system in the square itself. This was my first anti-CJB march.
3 – October 1994 – I came down to London from Manchester with a friend (Gabi from Hekate) to attend another march against the CJB. This time, having marched the march to Hyde Park, the police refused to allow anybody to enter the park. At this point loads of people simply left. I lost touch with Gabi who had managed to locate the correct coach amongst many and begin making her way safely back to Manchester. It had been a large march and despite the decreasing numbers there was still a huge number of people lingering outside Hyde Park. I became enthralled by the face-off between mainly young 20 or 30-year-old protesters and mainly young 20 or 30-year-old riot police. I found myself in the no-man's land between these two groups on several occasions shouting at the police. On one of their charges forward I stood my ground on a railing that marked the edge of a pavement. The cop told me to move and when I said I didn't have to he simply beat my leg with his stick. I suppose this must have got the adrenalin going because I certainly didn't think of retiring at this point. The next thing I knew, the cry of 'Oxford Street' went up. I distinctly remember thinking that it was a joke. In fact, my memories of this time are very vivid indeed.
4 – Sure enough the crowd began moving towards Oxford Street. I had no real knowledge of the streets of London at that point and I simply followed the throng. Up on Oxford Street I could see that the riotous crowd had already got into the swing of things. I saw people attack shop windows and then get inside to take stuff. I did not take part. I saw a policeman on a motorbike, pulled up in the road to survey the situation, get brutally attacked with something heavy. I had no inclination to become involved in that kind of thing. I was just too excited by it all to want to be anywhere else. This was long before I owned a mobile phone so there was no question of hearing a familiar voice and removing myself from the situation in a sensible manner. I was enthralled by it all: policemen on horseback charging from one end of the street and motorbike cops zooming down from the other end. Members of the public caught up in this were driving by looking on with discomfort and horror.
5 — At this point I decided to become involved in this as more than just a passive spectator. I saw some plastic railings in the street, the red and white type that are used to stop people from falling down holes in the road. I thought it would be a good idea to pull these into the road to act as a barrier, breaking up the free and easy movement of the horses and motorbikes. I went to pull the barrier across the road and the top part came away in my hand. I immediately tossed it down onto the ground. At this point I saw a group of 4 or 5 riot police run towards me. I scrambled away from them and immediately ran into another group of riot police. They pushed me down onto the ground and began putting the boot in. I was in the foetal position. I came away curiously unscathed. I think the policy must be to terrify you rather than actually beat you into submission unless you are putting up a vigorous protest. I should ask a real riot cop to find out. There was a riot cop at one of our Deadsilence gigs but I couldn't ask him because he was out of his head on confiscated drugs.
6 — So then I'm in the back of a wagon and off to a central London police station where there are loads of other rioters. The guy in front of me has his hair in one massive clump of a dread and they've dressed him up in a white paper boiler suit. He is impressively surly as he has his fingerprints taken. Then it's me and then I'm just lying on my back on the little bed in my cell. An hour or so later a legal aid representative talks to me through the shutter. He says they have charged me with affray. He says it will probably be reduced to 'Using or threatening violent behaviour', and then I fell asleep. At about three in the morning they let me go – making jokes about how they should dump scum like me in the river. I got a pint of milk from a milkman and walked up to Euston where I got a train back to Manchester. I took a bus to the University and went to my morning lecture about 'Sufism'.
7 – Aftermath – A few months later I was in Horseferry Road Magistrate's Court. Being in court was annoying because I wasn't allowed to speak. I now have a criminal record that states I swung a beam at a line of officers. This is, as you can see from my account, untrue. The magistrate left it at a small fine and nothing more because he was satisfied that the beam -THAT I NEVER SWUNG AT ANYBODY!!!! – was made of plastic and not wood or metal. The legal aid bloke was right and it was reduced to 'Using or threatening violent behaviour'. I had to pay a £120 fine and I was bound over to keep the peace for a year.
I felt a bit daft for getting caught, but I've never felt any shame at my criminal record. I was protesting against new laws that, amongst other things, simply outlawed people getting together and, much more worryingly, took away various other rights that have been a part of British law for centuries – such as the right to silence. A lot of British law is ancient and shouldn't be tampered with just because young people are having fun in new ways. The populace at large was encouraged by the newspapers and TV news to look at raving as depraved and dangerous. A whole generation of people in this country know differently of course. Those who dream of total control however saw a chance to exploit the hype surrounding rave to justify their own restrictive agendas.
I have never shouted my head off at a protest since then, and I have deliberately avoided numerous protests I would like to have gone to, such as Reclaim The Streets when they took over the Square Mile. So the law, in my case, has acted as a deterrent.
Showing concern about the state of the world we live in should not be confined to the squatters, the anarchists, the punks, and the hippies. The massive march against the idea of invading Iraq – that I attended in February 2003 – was attended by a cross-section of society. It has since been proved beyond doubt that the invasion was not to find 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'. It was in Western interests to destabilise Iraq and the compassion of the British people for the Iraqi people was not a matter of any importance to those in power.
Greater inequality and less freedom in society are inevitable if people don't unite and protest when those hard-won freedoms are under threat.
Raving swept the nation in the late 80s and early 90s. It was a cultural phenomenon. Its very meaning as a musical form and as a social experience presented a threat to the norm. As such it is something to be proud of and it felt right to stand up for the right to party in the face of ignorant law making.
Etc. etc.
PS – Over ten years later, in the summer of 2006, I was again caught up in a full-scale riot. I was at the (attempted) Czech Tek in Pilsen. There was no proper reason to stop this festival as it had been arranged entirely legally. The riot police were brutal in making sure this one didn't happen! My letter to the Prague Monitor makes clear what the issues were. It is clear that they wanted it closed down just because of what it was rather than for any particular reason. So large unofficial outdoor gatherings remain deeply unsettling for those in power.


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Just thought I'd make this concept art for LOCKDOWN. It's the main character's hand... if you didn't quite clue in. Pretty good, huh!
I've been doing quite a bit of brain storming for this new game I'd like to make called LOCKDOWN. It's a 2D platformer and think if I got the right people behind it, it could turn out really well. So if your interested listen up...
You play as a cloned, human-like, experiment. You start off in an underground test facility where you, the free running experiment, must escape. Here's the cool part... since you play as a clone, when you die, instead of restarting the level as the same guy, you get "reborn" as a new clone. Some of the puzzle elements in the game may force you to die as one clone and come back as another to complete the puzzle. There won't be a lot of combat, more laser dodging, puzzle solving and crazy acrobatic stuff.
If your interested in helping me out then just give me a shout. My email address is email@example.com if you want to send the message to me via email. Otherwise just send me a message on Newgrounds.
So I've been working on "The Snail That Could Fly" lately and I think it's going great. I've also wanted to make a website but don't have the time or experience to do so. So here's my idea...
It's gonna be called "myhappyplace.com" (if the name isn't taken). And it's gonna kinda be a website where we (the creators) find games, animations, pictures, youtube clips, or whatever we think is awesome and put it on the site. Visitors can email us links to stuff they think is cool, and if we like it, it'll go on the site. Easy as pie. But, like I said earlier, I'm not an expert in this field and need YOUR help!
- Experience with website building
- Experience with flash
- Have a good sense of humor
- Think the Dark Knight is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!1111
- Fairly artistic
- Have seen Terminator 2: Judgment Day... if you have, go to this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDNSI4w Rwg8
If you have even one of these characteristics, you are legible to join the My Happy Place Squad! If you are interested in helping out, give me a shout at firstname.lastname@example.com or right here on New Grounds.
Cheers, Perry-Winkle
I've been trying real hard on the full length version of "The Snail That Could Fly" but it's taking longer than I thought. I'll have to extend the projects due date to the end of March. Hopefully I'll get it done by then. I'm trying to make it as high quality as possible, and it's tough for just one guy. Slow 'n steady wins the race, sorta. But I've also come up with the idea of making sequels to it as a kind of spin-off chain reaction of events that the Snail causes when on his journey.
Cheers, Perry-Winkle.
Most of you viewing this post have probably seen "The Snail That Could Fly" animated short. Just recently I got the idea of making it into a full length flash cartoon! Let's just say that it will be like no other flash animation you have seen before. If you've got any ideas for it, or want to help pitch in... feel free to give me a shout.


text: I admit the onside kick was bad but we gave up 391 yards 2 turnovers and 49 points. the refs are not picking on us our bad play has been consistent since UNI. we have had 370 yards in penalties,this team is not disciplined. we have seen the same calls over and over again making the same dumb mistakes since UNI. the officials are not out to get poor iowa state. the reason we are losing is turnovers and dumb plays. if you blame the officials you are ignorant and a sore loser. sorry


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Make a Braided T-shirt Rug
Introduction: Make a Braided T-shirt Rug
In this instructable, I'll teach you how to make a really cool rug, like the one pictured, from your old t-shirts! For me, this rug didn't cost any money because I used stuff I already had at my disposal. This project is a great way to put all of those colorful junior high track/soccer/rugby/quidditch shirts to use if you don't want to donate them.
Here's what you'll need:
- 5-10 old t-shirts, depending on how big you want this rug (I used 5.5 for a small bedside rug)
- a pair of scissors
- needle and thread
- sewing machine (optional)
The hardest part about this was how long it took to make, but it turned out cool enough that I wouldn't mind making another one. Keep reading to find out how I did it!
Step 1: Cut It
Select a few old t-shirts from your closet, a thrift store, or your Aunt Marcy's NASCAR t-shirt collection. I used 5.5 t-shirts to make a rug that is approximately 18" in diameter, but if you have more time and patience than I do or if you want a bigger rug, you could use more shirts. Next step is to prepare the t-shirts by cutting them and turn them into yarn. I used a method that I found on YouTube but I took some photos of this step for here.
You will want to flatten the shirt out in front of you, but face it sideways so that one sleeve points toward you and the other points away from you. Next, measure out every 2 inches from the bottom seam of the shirt (which is on the left or right side now), all the way to under the sleeves of the shirt. Mark with chalk or something that won't be obnoxiously permanent. You will want to start cutting on each mark or line you made, but leave 3-4 inches of the shirt still intact on the far side. Do this up to the sleeves, where you should cut all the way to the other seam. After you cut all of these lines, you can pick up the shirt and arrange it so it looks like a ribcage in front of you, as shown in the photos above. See that bit of fabric that you didn't cut? Now you're going to cut it diagonally so that you will end up creating one long piece of fabric from your t-shirt. This is really hard to explain, but as aforementioned, there are a crapload of YouTube videos explaining how to do this so feel free to search around if you need more coherent direction.
You should end up with a really long strip of fabric from your t-shirt. Stretch this out really, really well and wind it up into a ball so it is more manageable. Repeat for your other shirts.
Step 2: Braid It
After you have prepared all of your t-shirts and made them into yarn, it's time to start your braid. I used a sewing machine to start the braid and for all of my transitions, but it was only because I was so pumped to have just gotten the sewing machine that I "had" to use it. You could totally hand-sew all of these or knot them for a more care-free look.
I started by sewing the end of one yarn strip to the middle of a different colored strip to create a "T" shape. Those were the 3 pieces of the beginning of my braid and when I began to braid, it covered up the stitches (awesome!). Keep braiding until you need to sew on another color. I added a new color by sewing diagonally with the fabric placed right side to right side at a 90 degree angle, and trimming off the tiny corner. This way, when you stretch it out, the strand smoothly transitions from one color to the next. This kind of seam is used for binding in quilts also.
Keep braiding until you have added all of your shirts. You can use an office clip or a chip clip to keep the braid from unraveling if you get tired and want to take a (2 week) break, like I did. It helps to keep the yarn all balled up while braiding so that it doesn't become a big, tangly mess.
Step 3: Coil It
Start pre coiling your rug. Coil it somewhat gently so it doesn't pucker up into a braided t-shirt bowl (LOL), but try not to let any gaps show from one ring to the next. Pre coiling this braid will help you stay organized while you are sewing and will also give you an idea of how big your rug is going to be/if you need to add or remove shirts. I was meticulous (read: OCD) about my braid and made sure there was a distinct "top" side and "bottom" side while braiding, so it may be worth mentioning that I pre coiled with the "bottom" side facing up, as that was the side I wanted the stitching to be on.
Step 4: Sew It
Start sewing your braid together. I used a variation of a blanket stitch and started in the middle, working my way around and out of the spiral. This is the part that took FOREVER. Seriously. I was anticipating sewing this mofo on the machine, but lo and behold, the dang braid was too thick to even think about squeezing under the presser foot. So, hand sew I did.
When you get to the end of your blanket, weave in the ends of your braid into the previous ring and sew to secure it.
Step 5: Lay It
If you got through all of those steps, throw that rug down and relish in your own awesomeness! Whew.
I have made this and a crotchet one and found the crochet one way easier you just loop into each previous loop and through the edge of the outer loops to bind it together so you don't have to sew except if you want to add a backing pad. This one I found very time consuming and not as bouncy as the crochet one so I stopped at about one and a half feet lol! It was probably more like a hat! This one was also diddly evaluate of the length of the fabric the crotchet one had shorter lengths but actually longer lengths would be fine for the crochet because trees no twisting. By the end of one foot of braiding you have one foot of oposite raising happening to the ends to untangle so the process is very slow or you take up a huge space and lay each praise far far apart to stop tangling. Crotchet you can heap up the fabric and just continuously loop and loop and loop while watching tv there is nothing to keep straight or worry about or even think about. So although I enjoyed the look of this one it's way neater than the crotchet it was so much more hassle. We even did a crotchet one with the kids old odd socks for the dogs!! (Washed first, although the dogs love a dirty sock!!) they all have been thrown out now so I've no photos, we washed them in a machine and the stitches were just not strong enough to cope with the weight of the wet braids so it flung apart. The crotchet one held up for a few washes before it also deteriorated. If you want to keep it a long time do not let your dogs sit on it!:)
Anyone know how I can edit the above my phone has typed a lot of spells for me! Argh!
some folks in my church are doing the same with plastic bags to create "rugs" that will insulate from the cold for homeless people in our area. You lay it flat, cut off the top and end, then fold in half lengthwise and cut (2x). You end up with 4 loops which are then looped into each other to create a chain, and then single crochet to long, rectangular rug. I haven't actually made one yet, but wanted to share in case anyone else wants to do something like this in their own community. (you just can't use any that are torn, cuz they'll rip)
Thank you for sharing. Sounds like a great project for boy scouts and girl scouts or even a great family service project.
I HATE when you say free but when you click on PDF format we have to pay premium fees! No wonder i hate online subscriptions and patterns.
I completely agree with you. Its not like we are even using their paper or ink. Just let us have the print version and charge us if we need them to send us a copy
I am going to try this. I very much appreciate your instructions AND ESPECIALLY your sense of humor!!
Hmm no idea how to sew or braid. But barkpost suggested making a small version of this for an indoor safe frisbee. Since that is my pups favorite game and dog toys are so expensive it seems worth figuring it out.
I remember some time ago reading an adaptation of this concept that wasn't sewn but one of the braids was fed through the last row of the rug, incorporating the new row onto the rug... kind of a reverse french braid concept?
That was how my grandmother did hers. She never stitched it. She had a lacing gizmo called a "bodkin" she used to feed the connecting strips through the main piece as she worked on it. The "french braid" description is good. I'm not sure what she did.
op nevermind, i get what you're saying. I wonder if there's a way not to sew it at all... like thead it through
While you're braiding, you want the braids to be tight enough to hold their shape, but not so tight they start to have a rounded appearance. When coiling, the braids MUST stay flat, or the rug will start to bowl. If at all possible, sew on a large, flat surface, never in your lap.
Make sure you keep your braids flat, and the tension even. Don't make the braids too tight; that tends to create the "bowl" effect.
I think you just have to keep it flat everytime by not applying excess tension on the braid especially during coiling and the sewing part.
I'm going to give it a try I.Love the look. Good way to get rid of old tee shirts I never wear. Thank you.
Can this be made using old sheets and/or curtains? Wanting to make this with my daughter and we have sheets and curtains that match her colors in her room that we cannot use anymore.
I've bought bed sets from Walmart that were made tshirt style, meaning, the feel of fabric and thread used was the same as the one's used for making t-shirts and I have to agree the feel of my sheets and pillow cases did feel like t-shirts. So if your daughter's bedding is the same I say yes you can use them. Also, I've read a few ibles which say to use 100% cotton or if you don't have 100% cotton you could use a cotton/poly blend so again I say if you have bedding with this you can use it. Hope this helps.
I have tried making these several times. Round ones buckle up, Small flats start to curve. I think mabe a frame of some sort might work to keep shape. anyone have this problem? also, if the t-shirt is a blend, not 100% cotton the braids will strech more so i tried 100% cotton.
Do you have any advice regarding the type of shirts/fabric to use?
Is a standard low-stretch cotton jersey suitable, or should I try to use a very stretchy jersey. Our (aussie) low-stretch jersey is used more often for men's T-shirt while very stretchy jersey is used for women's loose singlets.
Also, has anyone tried braiding their T-shirts, then using a hoola-hoop to set up a weaving loom? Does this work?
Every time you describe a tricky bit of cutting or sewing, take a photo. Take several.
If you don't have the time and energy to try and flatten a rug--use it as a basket for scarves, toys, etc... I have one in the corner for magazines!
I used to cut my Dad's old socks in a spiral and crochet them into a rug. Good rainy day project when I was a kid.
My Grandmother & Aunts made these rugs all the time for over sixty years. They are awesome rugs. The only difference is they didn't use sewing machines & they would put a backing on it. The rug does bubble in the center a bit, but once you walk on it regularly the rug flattens. The backing also seems to help.
BTW, you don't have to use a presser foot. Go slow and walk the fabric through and you can use a sewing machine. Or get a quilting/walking foot.
Hi, I was just wondering if you think it would be possible to use normal non stretchy material instead of a T-shirt? Or do you think it would not work because it would not stretch? Thanks :)
I hope Marishka doesn't mind that I am jumping in here (I've made several of denim). The non-stretchy material does work, sometimes even better. The effect of the "bowl" that many experience is because the material stretches... and while adding to the rug, it gets pulled too tightly. So, relax on the stretch!
And the denim ones are so cool, especially if you are able to get a lot of different hues of blue (or even colored denim - but I like mine all blue).
can u post a pic of yours? would like to see them. i guess the denim is heavy and that prevents the buckling
Thank You! I am now thinking of making the shaggy style rag rug now as I think it might work better for what I am after but I am now worried that it will fray!! Mattea
You know, there is some fraying, but if you cut the denim along the grain, it helps to reduce the amount of fraying (mostly during wash). I try to not wash it too often to help reduce that, but you will find that fraying is inevitable. I cut the frayed threads where it is too long, but I find the fraying gives the rug a little bit more authenticity - just like your old jeans!
Good luck!
It was more fun just reading the instructions than thinking about doing it! Great narrative!
It was probably pulled too tight. It is very pretty. Perhaps you can try undoing the stitches on the back and see if you can make it looser.
Also, at one point while I was sewing the braid flipped, which meant the strands in the braid were going from the outside-in. All of suzelac's photos show the strands going from the inside-out, but I didn't realize that and ended up sewing a long section the wrong way. Eventually, the feet of the machine started catching the strands.
And here's what I've done so far. Thanks for the inspiration and great instructable!!
What kind of needle were you using on your rug? Did you also bottom stitch, or just use only a top stitch? Thanks.
Love, love, LOVE it!! I hope you have someone to help move that monster around under your feed dog!! What did you use for bobbin thread (the thread that will show on the otherside)? Maybe if a person used a plastic filament line, it wouldn't show? Or does it just not show anyway?
when you add more strips, do you make each one you add in the "T" shape ? can you knot the strips to join them together ? I don't know if it's the wording or that I'm just not picturing it in my mind. How, exactly, do you join new strips together ? I am such a visual person. I learn very quickly by watching, but if there are written directions, it seems to take me forever.l please help !! I really want to do this. I have such a love for braided rugs. I guess it's from childhood memories. They are so expensive to purchase, so, now, here's my chance to have one or twelve. LOL thank you :)
No....Right sides together,make an "L" shape~sew top left to bottom right~cut off the left bottom corner~Fold over the bottom "L" part.....to make the continuing color join the previous color
Usually, the T shape is just where you start braiding. Two strands, usually different colors, joined end to end, with the third strand attached at the join to form the vertical section of the "T". Then you just add to the strips as you run out of length to braid.
You use a heavy thread and a blunt needle to go under one of the strips on your braid and across to go under one of the strips on the coil. It is done on the inside of the coil, alternating back and forth. This way, none of the sewing shows and the rug is reversible. Here's a link for a 4-strip method which doesn't use any sewing at all: http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/no-sew-braided-rug-handmade-zmaz79zsch.aspx#axzz32GtWcGKY


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Q:I've worked with numerous young horses, but I have never encountered an issue quite like the one I'm experiencing with my 5-year-old Andalusian gelding. I'm hoping you can give me some pointers for intervening during his "temper tantrums" without escalating the situation.
I've owned Duke for three years. He was a great baby to start under saddle--eager to please and curious, a quick learner. He has always been on the anxious side, and is bottom-ranked in any herd, but he does display some stallionlike tendencies and characteristics that make me suspect he might be proud-cut.
Several months ago he started having "tantrums." While this is not unexpected from an adolescent, he is beginning to escalate these situations to a dangerous degree. Just the other day he began pawing in the trailer, which turned into striking, which then turned into sticking both front legs out the window (the drop-down window was lowered, but a grate remained--he put his legs, up to the knee, between the bars while the rig was moving). He had been hauled often, including a couple days before, with minimal pawing and some general impatience. From how the situation unfolded, I'm convinced there was no bee sting or other actual trauma that set him off. It is pure luck that he did not sustain serious injury.
This is one example--he's displayed a similar streak in other situations as well. Typically, under saddle he is brave and quiet, but recently he has begun balking increasingly at mundane things. We deflect and move on with our work, but occasionally he'll fixate and the reaction will escalate until he's worked himself into a legitimate panic--trembling head to toe, eyes bulging, lathered with sweat. He's even done this in the stall after spotting something (or nothing apparent) out the window. I can think of no common thread linking what (if, indeed, anything) sets him off.
When he gets on these tangents he seems to have no regard for his own safety, mine, or the farrier's. I worry that this will continue to the point that he will injure himself seriously. With the risk of anthropomorphizing, to gauge his expression while in the throes of one of these outbursts, he looks petulant up to the point that he gets on a roll--and then I believe he's actually worked himself up to legitimate, overwhelming fear.
I feel I've been very slow, consistent, and positive in his training, careful not to overwhelm and deliberately creating situations in which he can succeed. When we encounter these tantrums under saddle my usual tack is to "work through it" and continue with quiet, simple requests until his attention comes back. It can literally take hours to find a "good note" on which to end. Changing the situation (moving to a different arena, etc.) will sometimes defuse him if he's just getting started.
Negative correction definitely is not indicated--it makes things dramatically worse. And when it occurs in the barn or the trailer, I'm at a loss.
When not in this mode, he's a quiet, soft, willing young horse and overall I'd say he's progressing very well. He is worked four or five times per week in dressage as well as light jumping, cavaletti work, and hacking. He's been to a couple shows so far as well as hauled out for lessons (which he's handled well thus far, although he was en route to one during the recent trailer episode). He gets only a handful of grain once daily in a stall and otherwise lives outside with another gelding 24/7 on very sparse pasture.
Do you have recommendations for how I can better handle these outbursts? Any pointers on how to intervene before he gets to the fear stage? Are there any specific physical issues I should try to rule out? Is there any hope it might be a matter of age and that he'll "grow out of it"?
--Rachel, via e-mail
A: I'm glad that you ask about the possibility of physical issues, because as I read your question I was wondering if these "outbursts" or "tantrums," as they seem, actually represent a true behavioral problem or a physical problem.
For example, I would recommend exploring inner ear conditions that might cause dizziness or visual perception, and/or balance problems that might cause startle or ill-at-ease with movement of the trailer or sudden movements of the head. Especially your description of the events in the trailer with the pawing and striking and scrambling without regard for safety remind me of that sort of honest physical problem that can turn a great horse into a disaster.
These problems can be difficult to diagnose, but you might start with a neurology examination. Your situation reminds me of a horse I worked with that had a very similar problem. He was a very well-schooled horse that had traveled and competed for years without issue and started having explosive events when trailered.
The scrambling and panic and disregard for safety could be induced reliably with motion in a trailer or, as we found out, even with the beginning motion of a treadmill. The horse was willing to load on a trailer or the treadmill over and over, and he was fine and compliant until the motion started, when he would appear to lose his balance. The scrambling occurred in the same manner each time. While trying to figure out what type of motion set this off, the horse did get hurt in the trailer. After that he was unable to be transported without very heavy sedation.
Unfortunately, a team of clinicians at our referral hospital, with MRI and excellent radiographic imaging capacity, were unable to diagnose the cause of the balance problems.
You mentioned the farrier's safety. By coincidence, this horse I am remembering also had difficulty balancing when not standing on all four feet. So with the farrier, when a hind leg was lifted, the horse drifted and scrambled and panicked. So while most of the team of clinicians saw this as a physical rather than a "misbehavior" problem, we were unable to diagnose the root cause and treat it. It's my understanding that in many cases a cause for this type of episode can be found and treated, so my very first recommendation would be to see a good veterinary neurologist.
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Now, grown ups understand that all such hateful rhetoric is nonsense, of course. Not all of us require a pretend Sky Daddy to tell us how to live, we take responsibility for our own lives and decisions. All of this talk about gay marriage from fundamentalists is mainly a recruiting tool. They spewed the same hate before blacks or women got to vote, and before interracial marriage. They were wrong then, they are wrong now, and until our society stops allowing a book of mythology- written by men for a political purpose- to have any bearing on how reality in this nation (and world) operates, then we'll constantly be subject to hate speech and bigotry wrapped in the FSM sweater.
So, what is destroying society? Two words: Greed and envy.
One need not look far to see the effects of greed in today's America. The rich keep getting richer, sitting on more and more of our nations wealth, sheltering it safe from the clutches of the state, waiting on another "tax holiday" to return their money back to the US, where they can continue to off-shore jobs and underfund the communities in which they operate. They hire the lobbyists who write the laws that a bought and paid for Congress enacts- its a tidy circle of greed that enriches a tiny sliver of our population at the expense of, well, everyone else. And since our mainstream media is consolidated into so few players, we get treated to spurious "reporting" based on greed, blathered up from Cato and Heritage Foundation Randian stooges, whose motto can be summed up as "I got mine, fuck you." Societies have collapsed because of greed- Greece at this very moment, anyone?
Which brings us to envy. Some people can accept that they are free, some people can't. Some people do things- get a tattoo, watch pornography, smoke pot- because it feels good. No one else on earth is impacted by these decisions, just as the tattooed pot smoker isn't impacted in the least if their next door neighbor goes to church twice a week and watches American Idol. Some folks want to marry, or kiss, or hump someone of their own gender. They do so because it feels natural- because it is natural, to them. And somewhere somebody is hating them for it.
Why? Envy. Call it religious indoctrination, or some faint echoes of a Calvinistic past, but to a strata of our population, people doing something simply because it feels good, with no other benefit beyond that- is by nature wrong. Because they can't imagine taking the risks of say, falling in love with the "wrong person" or smoking a joint, or watching Hustler videos- because they are afraid- they envy those who can. By being unable to free themselves, they instead order that the "pursuit of happiness" is a privilege to be meted out by decree. Because they are too afraid to actually use the gifts given them at birth to make a better place for themselves in the world, they allow their fear to ruin those who feel no such restraints. My life was severely impacted by thus such people, who at some point made my father so ashamed of his sexuality that he never mentioned it to me, even as he died of AIDS. His repression of himself to his family brought a tangible, destructive element to all our lives- something the pious claim will happen to them, if Adam and Steve can wed. It's a lie. It's a lie brought about by fear manifested in envy, covered in fairy tales and sadly applauded by too many who should know better.
If our society is to evolve- perhaps even to survive at all- it will take us confronting these notions of greed and envy, denouncing them, and moving past them into a freer, more balanced place. Will we get there, before our infrastructure crumbles and our children starve as the Steve Jobs and General Electrics horde their pennies? Will our national debate revolve around the envious, fearful minority restricting the rights of gays and women because they are too afraid of freedom for themselves? Can we move ahead, past envy and greed to something better, or remain stuck in pointless debates about things that matter not, while we ignore our real problems?
Only time- and not hateful slime like Pat Robertson- will tell.


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By Rob Stein
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010; B03
President Obama has appointed a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, replacing his predecessor's President's Council on Bioethics. Like the previous entity and similar ones before it, the group will advise the president on a wide range of difficult, controversial scientific issues. Previous presidential bioethics advisory panels have considered issues such as cloning and human embryonic stem cell research.
To chair the new 13-member panel, which will convene for the first time in a public meeting in Washington on July 8-9, Obama chose Amy Gutmann, a political scientist, philosopher and scholar of ethics and public policy who serves as the president of the University of Pennsylvania. Here are excerpts of her first extended interview since being named:
Why did you decide to take on this challenge?
My scholarly expertise is political philosophy and ethics of public policy. I spent my entire professional career writing and speaking about ethics of public policy and in particular about the advantages of making democracy more deliberative. I founded an ethics center at Princeton -- the University Center for Human Values. I've written books on deliberation and democracy and articles on bioethics. So when the president asked me, it seemed, first, "How could I not accept a call to serve from the president?" And, second, it was a sweet spot of mine to be able to bring a group of experts together to deliberate about important issues in bioethics.
You are known for this idea of deliberative democracy. Could you explain it?
The easiest way of understanding it is what it isn't: It's the opposite of sound-bite democracy. The idea is quite simple, which is: Democracies do better to the extent that they allow people to discuss, including robustly argue about, their differences to try to find common ground where possible -- and, where common ground isn't possible, to come to the greatest respect possible for reasonable differences of perspective on controversial issues. So it's the give-and-take of viewpoints with an aim of finding common ground and reaching mutual respect where common ground isn't possible.
Can you give an example of how this might work?
I think all of the previous bioethics commissions have been models of deliberation. They have all brought commissioners from different perspectives together to talk and argue with an idea of coming up with some action-guiding recommendation. Let me give you the most obvious example from recent history: the commission that President Clinton put together. Shortly after it was formed, Dolly was cloned, and President Clinton charged the commission with coming up with recommendations on how the government should approach the issue of cloning. The commission deliberated and came up with a report that the president recommended. Similarly, on a different issue, shortly after our commission was created, Craig Venter announced that he had synthesized a genome in a cell that was self-replicating. And President Obama has asked our commission to deliberate on that issue and come up with a report in six months that recommends to the federal government policies that the government should undertake, both in reaction to this development and other developments in the field.
Can you say a little bit more about what you were asked to do on that issue?
The president has asked us to investigate the field of synthetic biology. Not just the recent discovery but the field and related science and technology with an eye toward its benefits and risks and what ethical boundaries we would recommend as the field develops. Ultimately, we've been asked to develop recommendations about actions that the federal government should take to maximize the benefit, minimize the risk and identify appropriate ethical boundaries.
How does this commission differ from previous presidential bioethics advisory panels?
There's been a commission under all the recent presidents, and they all have one similar mandate which is I think core to their mission, which is to deliberate about important emerging issues in science, technology and medicine and advise the president. If you look at what's different from our commission from previous ones, two things stand out. One is: We are somewhat smaller in size. We're 13 members compared to 18 on the last commission. And this commission, unlike the last one, has three commissioners who have jobs in the federal government. The other thing that characterizes our commission is that it's a very diverse group of people who are experts in their field. We have experts in different branches of medicine and law. We have a nurse. We have a public member [Lonnie Ali, Muhammad Ali's wife]. We have a Franciscan friar who is also a medical doctor. And we have three federal members [Nelson Michael, director of the division of retrovirology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Alexander Garza, assistant secretary for health affairs and chief medical officer for the Department of Homeland Security; and Christine Grady, acting chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center].


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While Tinashe stays struggling with the release of her sophomore album – 'Joyride' – the R&B princess has found a surprise hit in the UK thanks to her KDA collab 'Just Say'.
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June 18th, 2008 – by: afredrix
I felt like I was really able to escape all the tourists while I stayed in Kreuzberg. I'm fully aware that I am a tourist as well, but it's nice not to constantly be reminded of that fact. I spent the last couple days exploring different neighborhoods, watching soccer (and listening to our turkish neighborhood explode in hours of horn-honking enthusiasm after their win) and late night discussions at the kitchen table with Márton and Charlotte.
On Wednesday, I had the invitation to play volleyball with Nicola (the very hilarious Italian from the party). You can imagine my excitement for the opportunity to exercise. Especially considering walking all over the city still doesn't seem to counteract the damage caused by the daily beers and döners one must consume while in Germany. For this reason, I was equally scared and grateful when, to my surprise, we had a trainer who made us run laps and do drills I hadn't done since high school. Five gallons of sweat later, we did some scrimmaging as well. It was most excellent. But along with daily conversation, I realize I don't have the vocabulary for german volleyball either.
Wednesday was also Charlotte's last day in Berlin. She had to leave for the airport at 5 in the morning on Thursday, so she decided to just pull an all-nighter. I didn't want her to leave without saying a proper good-bye, so after volleyball and making dinner with Márton and his friends, I went to meet her.
By this point, it was already 1am and the public transportation was shut down. So Márton, being the generous host that he is, let me borrow his bike. I've become quite confident with my Berlin biking skills and riding one to the bars is actually really common.
Somewhere in the easiness of it all, I missed that turn. This was about the same time I concluded that Márton's bike was about six inches too high for me as well. So about 20 blocks and one sore crotch later, I figured it was time to turn north. By this point, I'm pretty sure I was on the very outskirts of town. At least that's what the lack of buildings to the east indicated. Turning back towards civilization carried me through a large wooded area, with nothing and no one around. So, let's summarize. The situation was this: It's 1:30 am in Berlin. I'm riding a bike that's too tall for me and is not what you would call "comfortable" through a dark wooded area (where I'm pretty sure I heard some rustling in the trees).
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