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Fabric pull for twin girls. Hot pink binding, navy background, pink, gray, green, aqua, and low volume "scraps". Stuck on a pattern. Options:
a) Churn Dash (like this: thebusybeequiltshop.blogspot.ca/2013/04/potluck-churn-das...)
b) Wonky Stars (like this: www.stitchedincolor.com/2011/02/wonky-star-love.html)
c) Flying Geese (inspired by this: craftyblossom.blogspot.com/2013/04/introducing-collage-by... )
d) "pinwheels" (like this: quiltstory.blogspot.com/2011/06/two-little-banshees-blog-...)
e) Ribbon Star blocks (like this: www.freshlypieced.com/2012/01/ribbon-star-block-tutorial....)
f) card trick (like this: ohsewtempting.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/traditional-patchw...)
g) rectangle quilt (like this: filminthefridge.com/2011/01/31/innocent-crush-rectangle-s...)
h) Toss the whole fabric pull, raid my solids, and go for a disappearing nine patch like this one which I am COMPLETELY OBSESSED with (media-cache-ec4.pinterest.com/736x/ba/53/8a/ba538a76cc129... - can't find the source link, sorry!)
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Root cause analysis (RCA) is a class of problem solving methods aimed at identifying the root causes of problems or events. This template may be used for up to 6 possible causes, which may be weighted and displayed on a small fishbone diagram. SpreadsheetWEB version of the template provides all features of the template, also can be used, saved and edited online.
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Orchard Road - Singapour -
HDA : Facades designer -
Client : Swire Properties LTD
Architect : Raymond Woo & Associates Architects
2009-2015
This is a workshop that was facilitated by ILRI as a follow up on a communication training offered to Tanzania Dairy Board (TDB) staff in Nairobi Kenya in 2014.
TDB is one of the partners in implementing the MoreMilkiT project in Tanzania, which is led by ILRI
The objective of this second workshop is to review the TDB action plan, what worked/didn't work, identify capacity gaps, and chart the way forward on how TDB can use available opportunities to achieve it's mission. (Photo Credit:ILRI/Mercy Becon)
edensmachine: medievalpoc: aseantoo submitted to medievalpoc: Sir Joshua Reynolds George Clive and his Family with an Indian Maid England, 1765 Oil on canvas Height: 140 cm (55.1 in). Width: 171 cm (67.3 in). Gemäldegalerie, Berlin [x] From Simple English Wikipedia: Lord George Clive was cousin of Robert Clive, founder of the empire of British India. He made his fortune there. Clearly the painter found the Indian nurse’s depiction his greatest pleasure. Is it just me or do the white family look unreal and vacant despite contrasting the dark shades of the back drop. Yet the nurse pops and looks tangible and alive. A lot of people have responded similarly about the contrast between the white colonial family and the indigenous woman in this painting. Even the child is nearly as white and stiff as a corpse…and yet, these images were intentionally idealized in this manner; their very whiteness can be seen as a rebuke to the Indian woman’s vivid, tangible presence here. This has everything to do with Color, Chromophobia, and Colonialism. Chromophobia is marked, not just by the desire to eradicate color, but also to control and to master its forces. When we do use color, there’s some sense that it needs to be controlled; that there are rules to its use, either in terms of its quantity or its symbolic applications (e.g., don’t paint your dining room blue because it suppresses appetite). Please note that I’m not arguing against color psychology; it’s undeniable that certain colors carry certain cultural assumptions and associations, a fact that has led anthropologist Michael Taussig to argue that color should be considered a manifestation of the sacred. But what I am arguing is that there is a pervasive idea that color gets us in the gut: it’s seductive, emotional, compelling. Color, in the words of nineteenth-century art theorist Charles Blanc, often “turns the mind from its course, changes the sentiment, swallows the thought.” According to some art critics, sensory anthropologists, and historians, this mutual attraction and repulsion to color has centuries-old roots, bound up in a colonial past and fears of the unknown. Michael Taussig has recounted that from the seventeenth century, the British East India Company centered much of its trade on brightly colored, cheap, and dye-fast cotton textiles imported from India. Because of the Calico Acts of 1700 and 1720, which supported the interests of the wool and silk weaving guilds, these textiles could only be imported into England with the proviso that they were destined for export again, generally to the English colonies in the Caribbean or Africa. These vibrant textiles played a key part in the African trade, and especially in the African slave trade, where British traders would use the textiles to purchase slaves. According to Michael Taussig, these trades are significant not only because they linked chromophilic areas like India and Africa, but also because “color achieved greater conquests than European-instigated violence during the preceding four centuries of the slave trade. The first European slavers, the Portuguese in the fifteenth century, quickly learned that to get slaves they had to trade for slaves with African chiefs and kings, not kidnap them, and they conducted this trade with colored fabrics in lieu of violence.” Where I differ with Taussig is that there is very little doubt in my mind that using the concept of aesthetics in the manner can absolutely be a form of violence, and that art can be used to subjugate. Say what you will about this being an exaggeration, but I wasn’t the one cleaning the Elgin marbles in acid in the 1800s to better fit a misconception of whiteness…after all, Greek marbles originally looked something like this, much to the chagrin of western aestheticism everywhere: So when you consider the historical context of the painting in the original post, it becomes entirely likely that the stiffness and whiteness of the colonial family is meant as a desirable contrast to the vibrantly alive Indian woman. And you should also consider what kind of ideas you have about her from the painting, and think on how your view of her is affected by the context. Is she somehow more “natural” or “wild” than the family? Is she “earthy”? How is her existence affected by the fact that she is situated below even the child in the composition…do her arms ache from holding her up? I had never seen this painting before it was submitted, and I wonder why that is. There are a lot of things about it that are unpleasant, but the ideas in it influence us anyways.
Cadet Orlando Zambrano appears in the monitor while being interviewed by ESPN's Josh Elliott. Zambrano provided color commentary as members of the West Point Parachute team performed a demonstration on the Plain during Veterans Day. ESPN broadcast live throughout the day from West Point. (Photo by Master Sgt. Dean Welch/Dir. of Public Affairs & Communications)
Fingerprint Science is one of the very primitive discipline, which has been used by the human civilization since ages. This discipline is considered very reliable and accurate due to the principles of individuality, uniqueness and permanence, which are the factors on which this entire science rests.
Researchers Andrew Burnham (clockwise from left), Jeongwoo Han, Amgad Elgowainy and Michael Wang continue to update and expand Argonne’s GREET model. The auto industry and governmental agencies maintain that GREET has become the "gold standard" for well-to-wheel analyses of vehicle and fuel systems.
Photo by Wes Agresta / Courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
Photo by Mike Akester.
Sittwe is the main city in N. Rakhine. The immediate area and to the north saw the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people. WorldFish is working with the FAO to develop a vulnerability analysis to climate change to be applied in this and other areas of Myanmar. The photos listed here document the dialogue with local government officials. In addition they form a
Implementing partners from the Alola Foundation and APSCTL, and official from UNTL with Diana Arboleda.
I had a bloodstain pattern analysis lab session today and was able to bring home one of the tests we did. What you're looking at is drops of horse blood on a rough surface (in this case sandpaper) dropped from the height of a metre. The point of this was to demonstrate how the shape and size of blood drops changes depending on the characteristics of the surface they land on.
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First the image was converted into a set data vectors in format (x,y,r,g,b), one for each pixel in image.
Then this 5D-data was projected to 2D-space using principal component analysis, The resulting image was rebuilt based on that reduced information.
Tucson Juggles Traffic, Utilities and History to Flip Interchange Grade
By Scott Blair
03/27/2012
A major interchange is undergoing a role reversal in Arizona's second-largest metropolitan area. Designed to solve traffic headaches and a dire safety problem, the Interstate-10, Prince to Ruthrauff roads project in Tucson is "flipping" the grade of Prince Road so that it will pass over, instead of under, I-10.
The revamp is part of a $76.4-million effort to widen I-10 along a two-mile stretch to eight lanes from six. Crews have to contend with six lanes of traffic at all times, a major railroad route and multiple utilities—all while keeping an eye out for potential archaeological finds.
Utilitarian
Since last fall, nearly all of the project's first 180 days have been devoted to relocating 15 separate utility lines that criss-cross the construction zone. Utilities include high-pressure petroleum and gas lines, sewer and water lines, electric power and telecommunications. "It was basically an underground utility interchange," says Jody Rodriguez, utility coordinator with the Tucson office of URS, a design subconsultant.
Crews relocated 72-in.-dia and 78-in.-dia sewer lines with flows of around 22 million gallons per day. The contractor advanced four jack-and-bore operations, including a 450-ft-long, 60-in.-dia casing under I-10 to reroute sewer flow.
As is typical, crews found utility lines that didn't match the positions indicated on the as-builts. Surprisingly, some of the existing joint trenches were encased in concrete and had to be carefully demolished—in one case, while avoiding damage to a major electrical line, says Edie Griffith-Mettey, senior project manager in the Tucson office of prime consultant AECOM.
Nevertheless, "we've been able to accomplish most all the relocations at this point without a delay to the overall project," says Todd Emery, district engineer with the Arizona Dept. of Transportation.
Besides allowing for better access and maintenance, designers had to figure out a way to protect the utilities from the weight of huge embankments and retaining walls required to elevate Prince Road. Thus, they corralled the utilities into a single utility corridor spanned by a 135-ft-long bridge. "Initially, we were going to put in a protection slab. But when we started doing the cost analysis, it was just as expensive to build a bridge," Rodriguez says.
Flipping Out
A 223-ft-long bridge is being constructed to carry Prince Road over I-10, and a third bridge will take the road over a Union Pacific Railroad track. The existing configuration crosses the railroad at grade, which has led to significant traffic snarls and accidents, Emery says. Forty to 60 trains use the line a day, but this could double due to a planned Union Pacific expansion.
Phoenix-based Pulice Construction is building cast-in-place concrete bridges, removing earth embankments currently elevating I-10 over Prince Road and constructing temporary detours to divert all traffic in phase one to one side of I-10, says Aaron Insco, Pulice project manager. To maintain three lanes of traffic in each direction at all times, all westbound traffic will be diverted to an existing two-lane frontage road that will be reconfigured into three lanes. Eastbound I-10 will detour onto the westbound I-10 lanes. After crews build half the bridges and reconstruct the freeway and eastbound frontage road, all traffic will shift to the east side as crews construct the other half of the project. Prince Road will be shut down for the duration of the project.
Most of the excavation from the I-10 embankments will be re-used to elevate the frontage roads that will tie into the top of Prince Road, but some 180,000 cu yd will be hauled away. Soft soil conditions have required nearly 400 drilled shafts as deep as 70 ft and 5 ft in diameter to support bridges and 30-ft-high retaining walls. Approximately 75,000 cu yd of concrete will be used on the project, excluding precast concrete being used for the bridge girders.
Past Presents
As crews slice away the embankments that used to elevate I-10, they will confront undisturbed earth that could contain archaeological artifacts—in fact, some artifacts already have been found during utility construction, Emery says. Construction activities will occur in two steps, pausing once crews reach virgin earth so that the archaeological team can survey and catalog the area. Meanwhile, Pulice will continue work in a pre-cleared area.
The project team also is looking out for the living. Because the area sees a lot of pedestrian activity that will be disrupted for the two-year-plus construction cycle, ADOT has set up a shuttle service to bring employees of nearby businesses to and from work on each side of the freeway. "This is the first time we've done that," Emery says. "There are a lot of firsts for us on this project."
Depending on how smoothly this project proceeds, ADOT is looking at performing a similar grade flip at the Ruthrauff Road interchange to the north. That project could go out to bid sometime after summer 2014. A year after that, Emery says they hope to reconfigure the Ina Road and I-10 interchange. “This is our test run,” he says. ”By the time we get to Ina, we should be really good at it.”
There was a lot of bitter cold involved in the making of this. At one point the icy cold wind blew my black jacket into the little lake that was just behind me taking my car keys and cellular phone down with it. I scooped it up after like 10 seconds but I was left with the prop jacket for warmth which is the other fur one in the photo. It was admittedly a lot more warmer then the black one but it also did shed a lot more then I'd have liked it to. There was fur everywhere by the time I was done. I felt like I went to a petting zoo during shedding season.
After I got home and was trying to collect all the props I dropped my lion statue the thing I'm sitting on and it broke the little buggers front paws right off. :( Felt bad, but what can you do? No use crying over broken lions when you can cry over dead zebras.
I'm gonna go order some pizza now and watch a movie, so later fickr. :)
Laura Pavlovic of USAID addresses the IFPRI policy seminar audience.
IFPRI hosted a policy seminar titled “Donor Approaches to Political Economy Analysis” on February 5, 2015. For more information, please visit: www.ifpri.org/event/donor-approaches-political-economy-an...
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