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Today I got the photos from my contact at the factory and the finish on the EpicGrips was indeed a show-stopper. You can see how the edge rounding is nowhere near the nice bevel on the samples. I am so glad this was caught before they shipped.
I'm not sure how they could fix this in just a week, but that is what I have been told so far. I will make an official update on Saturday, with whatever I learn between now and then.
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"Good job—you finished the whole bottle!"
As a parent, it's natural to gauge your baby's nutrition according to the number of bottles emptied. Half-finished bottles are worrisome and sucked-dry bottles are always the goal. Meanwhile, when babies cry, a natural first response is to try to comfort them through feeding. Maybe they are hungry.
After all, plump babies are considered healthy babies and most doctors are concerned about underfeeding. But many parents don't realize that it's also possible to overfeed babies—especially if they are bottle-fed formula or expressed breast milk.
"It's more common to overfeed while bottle feeding because it's more difficult for baby to control the flow of milk," explains Barbara Marriage, PhD, RD, a pediatric research dietitian, scientist and regulatory associate with Abbott.
Also, new parents may not be aware of the hunger and fullness cues that baby is sending. "For many new parents, the idea of feeding cues isn't something that they have learned before, explains Marriage. "To make sure baby gets just the right amount of nutrition, parents should feed on demand, or whenever baby is hungry, and shouldn't feed beyond the point of fullness.
Why Is it Important to Feed According to Hunger Cues?
When it comes to feeding baby, more isn't better. Babies have very small tummies that can't hold much food. This means that they need to eat frequently but it also means that overfilling their bellies can trigger diaper blowouts, regular spit-ups, irritability and sleeping issues. And in the long term, overfeeding has also been linked to an increased risk of excessive weight gain.
A long-term study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion in 2011 found that among 8,900 U.S. infants, 32 percent were overweight or obese by nine months of age, which the study authors attribute largely to overfeeding. A 2014 Pediatric Obesity study found that putting babies in their cribs with bottles increases the risk of childhood obesity by 36 percent.
While there are a lot of factors that can impact a baby's weight, the truth is that it's easier for bottle-fed babies to take in more fluid than they need, and more difficult for them to self-regulate intake. Excessive weight gain in infancy can delay your child's development by making milestones like crawling and walking more difficult.
Your Feeding Questions—Answered
Keeping your baby nourished, happy and healthy may seem like an overwhelming task for new parents but paying attention to baby's feeding cues can help simplify mealtime. Here, Marriage discusses bottle feeding "on demand" and helps you find a just-right approach.
1. How Much Should My Baby Eat Every Day?
"While every baby is different, there are general guidelines on how much an average baby needs to eat in order to grow," Marriage says.
For example, pediatricians typically advise that infants under six months (who are not yet eating any solid foods like cereals or purees) drink 2 to 2.5 ounces of formula per pound of body weight every 24 hours. So if your baby weighs 15 pounds, as a rule of thumb, they will need to consume 30 to 37.5 ounces of formula per day.
Still, it's important to split that total over the course of the day depending on when your baby is hungry. For instance, by the end of the first month, most babies consume at least 4 ounces of formula every four hours. By six months, 6 to 8 ounces of formula per feeding is typical, with four or five feedings taking place every 24 hours.
2. Should I Put My Baby on a Feeding Schedule?
Some modern sources have started to promote rigid or scheduled feedings but schedules that are too rigid may actually do more harm than good. When you're paying too much attention to the clock, you miss your baby's cues telling you that they are hungry or full. To make sure your baby stays on track for healthy weight gain and brain development, it's best to take a 'feeding on demand' approach. As they grow older, they will develop their own rhythms and patterns that may make feedings more predictable. But remember - always follow baby's lead.
3. How Do I Know if My Baby Is Hungry?
It's natural to worry that hunger is the problem when your baby cries. However, typically, crying is one of the last signs that your baby is hungry—and is more often than not a signal of something else… perhaps a wet diaper or wanting a change of position.
The most common signs that your baby is hungry and ready to eat include licking lips, rooting for milk, sucking or putting fingers or hand to mouth, Marriage says. "Looking for these cues will make sure your baby is getting just enough, and not too much, to eat," she recommends.
4. How Do I Know if My Baby Is Full?
If, partway during a feeding, your baby takes progressively longer and longer pauses, begins to fidget or get uneasy, or turns her head away from the bottle, chances are that she's filling up. Follow your baby's lead and put the bottle down. If after a burp or short nap she starts to show signs of being hungry again, you can always give her more then, Marriage says.
5. How Do I Make Sure My Baby Is Getting the Necessary Nutrition?
Now that you're feeding according to your baby's hunger cues, you should also pay attention to two things: 1) pediatric growth charts and 2) your baby's diapers. Both can provide reassurance that your baby is receiving the right amount of nutrition.
Large fluctuations in your baby's position on the pediatric growth chart (as determined through regular visits to your baby's physician) can indicate either under- or overfeeding.
Wet and dirty diapers can also show that, yes, plenty of nutrition is flowing through your baby's system. Typically, babies should have about five to six wet diapers per day, Marriage says. A lack of wet diapers may indicate that the baby is not getting enough formula. If you are concerned that your baby is not gaining enough weight or gaining too much weight, you should talk to your baby's pediatrician to make sure that your baby's nutrition intake is where it needs to be.


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Show me the lights
You made for my dark
Show me the lives
You set apart
To keep me holding on…
The ones who will stay
The ones who embrace
All of the darkness of me.
Show me the lies
I have welcomed as friends
Show me the ties
I let bind me again
That keep me from holding on.
Take them away
Bring on the day
And shatter this darkness in me.
The Lord is a lamp
That lights up my darkness;
To Him, the night is as day.
And when I'm surrounded
By blackened seas,
I know that HE knows my way. ❣
Inspired by someone I spoke to today, whose pain is not unfamiliar to me, albeit unique in its own ways to its bearer.
Final verse is a rhyming compilation of Micah 7:8, Psalm 139:12, and Psalm 142:3. These are my favorite verses to hold onto on the darker days. ❣


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Babaei, A., Goudarzi, G., Neisi, A., Ebrahimi, Z., Alavi, N. (2016). Vermicomposting of cow dung, kitchen waste and sewage sludge with bagasse using Eisenia fetida.
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
, 4(2), 88-94. doi: 10.22102/jaehr.2016.40225
Ali Akbar Babaei; Gholamreza Goudarzi; Abdolkazem Neisi; Zohreh Ebrahimi; Nadali Alavi. "Vermicomposting of cow dung, kitchen waste and sewage sludge with bagasse using Eisenia fetida".
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
, 4, 2, 2016, 88-94. doi: 10.22102/jaehr.2016.40225
Babaei, A., Goudarzi, G., Neisi, A., Ebrahimi, Z., Alavi, N. (2016). 'Vermicomposting of cow dung, kitchen waste and sewage sludge with bagasse using Eisenia fetida',
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
, 4(2), pp. 88-94. doi: 10.22102/jaehr.2016.40225
Babaei, A., Goudarzi, G., Neisi, A., Ebrahimi, Z., Alavi, N. Vermicomposting of cow dung, kitchen waste and sewage sludge with bagasse using Eisenia fetida.
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
, 2016; 4(2): 88-94. doi: 10.22102/jaehr.2016.40225
Vermicomposting of cow dung, kitchen waste and sewage sludge with bagasse using Eisenia fetida
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Ali Akbar Babaei
Gholamreza Goudarzi
Abdolkazem Neisi
Zohreh Ebrahimi
Nadali Alavi
Environmental Technologies Research Center AND Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Environmental and Occupational Hazards Control Research Center AND Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti Medical University, Tehran, Iran
The sugar cane industry produces significant amounts of cane trash and bagasse. Inappropriate disposal of agro-wastes can lead to environmental problems. Converting wastes such as cane trash and bagasse (Bg) to a fertilizer and conditioner is the aim of sustainable waste management in sugar cane industry. Cow dung (CD), kitchen waste (KW), and sewage sludge (SS) were mixed with bagasse as amendment in different proportions: Bg:CD (1:1), Bg:CD (1:2), Bg:SS (1:1), Bg:SS (1:2), Bg:KW (1:1) and Bg:KW (1:2) in triplicate treatment with Eisenia fetida. Chemical analysis of the samples showed a significant decrease in total organic carbon (TOC) (20%-54%), total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) (9.5%-39.7%) and C:N ratio (12%-31.2%), while total potassium (31.4%-54%) and available phosphorus (32%-55%) contents increased during vermicomposting. A significant difference was observed among weight and number of worms in control with other treatments at the end of vermicomposting. According to obtained results vermicomposting is an efficient method for sustainable recycling different classes of waste produced in sugar cane agro-industry.
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sewage sludge
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So this won't be my usual kind of review. Instead, I'm going to try and give some insights into the kind of work that goes on behind the scenes at a true escape room outfit.
From my seat, I could see two monitors that showed the video feeds from several cameras in each of the 2 escape rooms - Supercell had a group of 2 people (also first-time escapers) and my sister's group of 4 first timers were attempting the Bunker room. We also had an audio feed so we could hear exactly what was being said in the rooms (Akos and I were looking after the Bunker room and Martina was looking after Supercell 117).
What I learned from this experience is:
- there is a HUGE amount of work that goes on behind the scenes during an escape. You really do need a dedicated game master for each room, to watch every step and to guide players if they are heading off track;
- based on the hundreds of groups that have previously escaped the rooms, Akos and Martina know precisely when to give hints (eg they know which step players need to be at at different times on the clock if they are going to be able to escape in time, and they time their hints accordingly);
- it is so much fun to watch people trying to escape - listening and watching them trying to figure out clues, watching their excitement (and frustration) as they try to solve puzzles, watching them bravely walk into dark spaces, watching different personality types and how they work together and of course watching their excitement and the pure adrenalin rush as they manage to escape a room (in my sister's case, with just 2 seconds left on the clock!). It was really exciting right down to the wire.
It was almost as fun watching as it was to try to escape these rooms myself! I can imagine that as an owner and designer of a room, it must be very rewarding watching players try to escape the room that you have crafted from scratch.
Many of the other escape rooms in Sydney do not have dedicated game masters for each room. Sometimes they have one game master for 2 or 3 rooms, and other times I have experienced game masters too busy doing other things to bother to pay attention to players in a room. Several times I have escaped a room only to find nobody in reception - at other times, I have called for a clue only to have the phone ring out several times because there is nobody on the other end.
Thankfully, there are some escape room outfits (like Paniq Room, The Enigma Room and ParaPark Sydney), which are true" escape room outfits, who I think realise that their primary purpose is to provide a fully-immersive, well-designed escape experience with a good mix of puzzles and led by great game masters who know how to ensure that players have a fun time (and who know how to adapt hints to the relevant level of experience of each team). At the end of the day, it's simply good business to provide escape rooms that players love - they will keep coming back and will spread the word.
In fact, if you look at my 15 reviews on this blog to date, you will find that those outfits that score 4.5 or higher for a room all have dedicated and skilled game masters. After 15 escape rooms, I think I can call myself an experienced escape room player. What I have learned (for what it's worth) in those rooms is that the best escape room outfits provide:
- clever puzzles, with a mix of high tech and low tech (and novel or home-made and designed puzzles are always the best)
- a mix of tricky, mind-bending puzzles and "hunt and seek" fun
- excellent theming, where the story line, noises/music, props and over all ambience all make sense and create a fully immersive experience (I think escape rooms are just as much an escape from reality as they are an escape from a room)
- skillful game masters who:
- are enthusiastic
- set the scene and explain the story line of the room
- carefully guide players through the room
- adapt their hints to the players' experience level (just handing out answers is not enough - subtle hints which allow players to feel like they have still solved the puzzle is much more rewarding than simply providing answers)
- celebrate players' success! So many rooms I have been to have been such a let down when we have escaped - either nobody even notices or the game master doesn't seem to care - it's much more rewarding when game masters become engaged and truly share the experience with players)
- take the time after the escape room to answer questions and explain puzzles (particularly where players were not able to escape in time). The best rooms allow players an extra 5 or 10 minutes after the clock stops to keep going and to try to escape.


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A little while back we got asked by the Clatterbridge Cancer Charity if we would like to get involved in their corporate challenge. This involves us taking £50 and turning it into £1000 or more. So far, we have manged to pass the £500 mark and next on our list of events is a sponsored bikeathon.
The Corporate Challenge
The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity is currently trying to raise funds for a social room and roof terrace in their new Liverpool hospital. Their aim is to lessen the sense of isolation cancer patients can often experience during their treatment. Their target is £40,000 and hopefully we at Transglobal Express can help them achieve their goal.
The Bikeathon
One of our main fundraising event ideas was a bikeathon and seeing as we have two offices, one in Bromborough in the UK, and another in Kelsterbach, Germany, we thought it would be a good idea to cycle the distance between the two offices. According to Google maps, this is approximately 697 miles by bike.
Currently, we have 28 volunteers prepared to take it in turns, on an exercise bike, to achieve the distance. We will be starting the challenge on Monday 27th March and will be cycling throughout normal working hours (8am-6.30pm) of that week.
Our Managing Director has also pledged that Transglobal Express will match whatever we raise.
How to Support Us
If you would like to sponsor us or donate, you can do so via our Just Giving page. All donations go directly to the Clatterbridge Cancer Charity.


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Reinhardt-Rutland, Anthony (2007) Response scatter in measuring changing-loudness aftereffects: Evidence for simplified processing of auditory motion-in-depth and potential collision. JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, 134 (4). pp. 467-475. [Journal article]
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Researchers have postulated 2 mechanisms for processing auditory motion: a direct mechanism processing motion itself and an indirect mechanism sensitive to location over discrete points in time. Measuring aftereffects of azimuthal motion by nulling entails scattered responding, which is attributed to a conflict between direct and indirect mechanisms. In this experiment, the author obtained nulls following adaptation to changing sound level, a property of approaching or receding sound sources, and for nonadaptation. Test stimuli ranged in duration from 1.0 to 2.5 s. Longer test stimuli evinced reductions in both changing-loudness aftereffects and the associated response scatters. However, the latter matched the nonadaptation response scatters. The author suggests that judging longer test stimuli is easier, so an indirect mechanism need not be invoked. Simplified processing of changing sound level may underlie the rapid responses required for potential collision.
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Nostalgia Download!!! The Beatings Cover GBV!!!
We've been sorting through tons of disks and files, culling what will be the extra/bonus tracks included on the upcoming untitled Beatings remastered/reissued EP's compilation due out later this year… and we came upon this gem. If memory serves me, and it often doesn't, this was somewhere around 2003/2004 after the "Italiano" LP but before the "If Not Now, Then When" EP. The Beatings closed a headlining slot at the now defunct Continental, located off St. Marks in NYC with "Smothered in Hugs" by Guided By Voices. The sound is taken from the booth which was close to the front, so the room sounds sparse. But I don't ever remember us not filling that room so I'm calling bullshit on the crowd mics. I don't know… maybe no one was there. But I'd prefer to remember it packed… it's a matter of pride, sue me.


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Limbo is out now on PC. An opportune time, then, to buy it for my PlayStation 3.
It's the controls, see. Apparently they're rubbish with a keyboard, and I don't have a joypad to plug in, so I had no choice but to brave the lawless wastes of the PlayStation Store (you basically just shout your credit card details at Sony now, and hope no thieves are listening) to get my hands on this lugubrious, elegiac puzzle-platformer from developers Playdead.
It was more bloody expensive than on Steam as well! Granted, not as much as the PC version and a PC joypad would have been, but still a full third as much again for the base game. Or … it was £9.99 rather than £6.99. Is that a third as much again? Seven into ten … carry the four … multiply out the brackets …
Maths is not my strong suit. But my point is you've gotta pay extra to play on console, and I have a sneaking suspicion this is because Sony demand tithes in return for access to their exclusive bummers' club. Tithes and HUMAN SACRIFICE. Or just tithes.
Well, how interesting. I just Googled "tithes", and the word literally means "tenths", referring to the ten-percent contribution from earnings voluntarily paid to an organisation. So what would a tenth of … £9.99 divided by £6.99 be then? Or is it £6.99 times by a factor of one-tenth, plus the difference of £9.99 minus remainder two?
According to my calculations, Playdead have had to pay Sony … sixty billion to the power of n dollars to host their game on the PlayStation Network. Those poor souls.
BUT WHAT OF THE GAME ITSELF? I hear you cry. Yes we're getting there. Enjoy the perambulation whydontcha? Rushing yourself to the grave, you are.
Welllllllllllllll. Although Limbo looks genetically formulated to tickle my fancy, I'm sad to report that my fancy remained decidedly untickled. No, incorrect. Limbo did tickle my fancy. It's just every stimulation was accompanied by a forceful elbow to the balls.
This is a conflicted game. On the one hand, it wants to create an oppressive, lonely mood with its monochrome visuals and delicate ambient sounds, contrasting the vulnerability of the young boy you control against a bleak landscape, evoking an ethereal sense of an overwhelming, uncaring universe.
On the other hand, it enjoys dropping a banana peel beneath your feet and laughing as you break your back.
The challenges in Limbo are designed with a philosophy for completion you might term trial-and-error. I would term it the-developers-are-dicks.
Example: one room you have to traverse, filled with pressure pads. Some of the pads kill you if you stand on them, others kill you if you don't stand on them. There's no way to know which are which beforehand. You just have to barrel through, dying again and again, until you memorise the pattern.
This is essentially how you advance through most of the game. You watch your character being eviscerated, beheaded, crushed and impaled, by traps impossible to anticipate, and you restart and you restart, and gradually you make progress.
I can see why Playdead thought it would work. The idea of this mounting pile of deaths towering over you, draining any goodwill from the world, sounds like a clever way of ensuring the tone is engendered as much by the player's actions as by the melancholic visuals and affecting ambient score.
That's not how it plays though. For a start, the mocking nature of the traps feels distinctly personal, distinctly human, the cruel hands of the designers evident moving behind the scenes, destroying the illusion of a detached yet hostile land.
And for the deaths to mean anything they would have to hold consequence. In reality all that happens is you respawn at the start of the same screen and try again. While the reload time is annoyingly slow, and many puzzles require some labourious set-up before the actual obstacle is faced — pulling a crate up a slope and rushing up ladders as it slides back, say — the result is irritation, more than anything else. As a punishment from a brooding world perhaps set on the edge of Hell, irritation is hardly the most shocking of outcomes.
All of which is a shame, because under that irritation is a haunting, majestic game. The section known to veterans as That Fucking Spider Bit is one of the most terrifying, revolting, inspired moments in gaming. The vignette where you negotiate a deep pool by climbing across the corpses of dead children is shocking and powerful. The ambiguous minimalism of the story allows you to read just as much into it as you wish.
So it's a pity to see the mournful tone bulldozed by a loud yet prosaic sense of frustration, a wave of anger that threatens to engulf all the subtleties the game works so hard to inspire.
By the hundredth time you see your boy torn apart on the blades of a buzzsaw positioned in exactly the wrong place, you start to wonder what you can have done to the designers in a past life to deserve this abuse.
Less Limbo, then, and more Purgatory. I hope I've worked off my sins come Playdead's next release.
[To see the conflict at the heart of Limbo given voice by two of games journalism's brightest rising stars, I recommend this post on the quaint Rock, Paper, Shotgun. That "Kieron" fellow sure swears a lot. Can't see him making much headway as a videogame critic.]


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I'm having a break from my flurry of CAS cards (unfortunately I've discovered that CAS doesn't necessarily translate into "quick" since it's the painting which takes me most of the time)
Today I'm also using a Tilda that I've bought recently and using Magnnolia papers, pink accessories and some gorgeous WOC flowers.
Card Recipe:
- Image - It's Cold Outside Tilda
- Sentiment - Lili of the Valley tags
- Colouring - Distress Ink Reinkers
- Magnolia Papers
- Stazon Ink Pad
- The Langton Watercolour paper
- Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
- Viva Pearl Pen - Ice White
- Crystal Glamour Dust
- MFT Stitched Circles
- 15mm Satin Ribbon
- Flat Backed Pearls
- Glossy Accents
- That's Crafty! - Flower Power
- Lovely hAnglar Sweet Magnolia - Anything Goes
- Noor! - Sparkle
- Live & Love Crafts - (B) Bingo Board, Metal, Flowers, Pearls
- Simon's Wednesday Challenge - Make it Sparkle (glitter & pearls)


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As with my home-based hypnotherapy sessions, the initial consultation costs £35 and walking therapy sessions cost £50 each. There may be special deals at different times of year.
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Minnesota teen with Asperger's Syndrome creates incredible arcade games
A 15-year-old kid from Chanhassen, Minn. is creating his own adventure by building, designing, and programing an arcade game of his own. Not a game for an iPad, like some many kids his age play, but one of those big arcade games like Pac Man or a Donkey Kong.
Nate Allard, who has had a keen interest in gaming since he was young, designed the game called "Lost Glitch" -- which involves a hero needing to overcome a series of hurdles and pitfalls to advance levels.
"I'm kind of worried it comes off as narcissistic," Allard said of the final product.
That is because in many ways the game is a reflection of his life. When he was 3 years old he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a neurological disorder that falls on the autism spectrum. He is high-functioning, but can have difficulties in social situations from time to time.
At 15, Allard has worked hard to manage the disorder and is aware of the challenges it will pose for him.
"People with autism have a hard time coming up with original content, which is quite explainable," he said. "Kind of like brains rewired differently. Same goes with me."
At an early age, Nate's parents recognized his obsession and unique talent for gaming.
"Typically kids on the spectrum will find that one thing that they focus in on and go deep," Nate's dad Todd said.
To encourage his love of gaming, Nate enrolled in a youth technology program at Macalester College in St. Paul. There he is learning more and more about coding and programing video games.
"And you have to comb through everything you've done, which could be hundreds and hundreds of lines of code," one of Nate's fellow campers said of the program.
For his mother, the joy comes from watching the usually shy Nate come alive in the classroom.
"It's always great seeing his instructor, interacting with him," she said.
His older brother Anson is also becoming aware of Nate's unique ability and talent.
"It's really taught me patience," Anson said. "And it's not so much embarrassment anymore. It's more proud of him for being different and unique."
Nate will be a sophomore in high school this fall, he plans on working in the gaming industry when he grows up.


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several delayed votes over the past several months, and amid a flurry of controversy,
the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently voted to grant a loan to
finance Perus $1.6 billion Camisea Gas and Pipeline Project, less than
two weeks after the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) of the United States rejected
financing the project entirely.
The Camisea pipeline now runs through the Shimaa community in the Upper Urubamba River Valley in Peru. Machiguenga people watched the construction in June. Photo courtesy of Amazon Alliance.
Camisea is Perus largest development project and represents almost one point of gross domestic product per year for the next 30 years of the project, according to Perus ambassador to the United States. The IDBs characterization report says that the Camisea project could significantly raise the national standard of living, lower the cost of energy and reduce air pollution. But environmental and human rights organizations are up in arms over the threat to the ecosystem and peoples of the Amazon.
The Camisea reserve is 10 times larger than any other existing natural gas reserve in Peru, and holds around 13 trillion cubic feet of gas, with more than 480 million barrels of associated natural gas liquids (propane, butane and condensate). The project would link a collection of fields by pipelines, providing natural gas and natural gas liquids for domestic consumption and for export, according to two major companies sponsoring the project, Argentinean-based Pluspetrol and American-based Hunt Oil.
Much of the concern about the project surrounds placement of the two pipelines that will carry gas and the liquids out of the Camisea region. The gas pipeline runs 714 kilometers from the Camisea field to Lima on the coast, while the liquids pipeline runs 540 kilometers to a port south of Lima. Those routes take the pipelines through sensitive areas in the tropical Amazon rainforest, including an indigenous peoples reserve, where most of the inhabitants choose to live in isolation. Also, the present site of the proposed port and a liquid natural gas plant is located in the buffer zone of Perus only marine sanctuary for endangered birds and mammals.
Pluspetrol and Hunt Oil applied for around $300 million in loans and loan guarantees from the two public banks to finish the project, which is already 70 percent complete. But many international groups were lobbying the banks, as well as the U.S. Congress, to halt the development, or at least to delay the funding until more complete environmental reviews and assessments could be completed. Several members of Congress joined in the fight, suggesting that the Bush administration consider environmental impacts further before giving the go-ahead.
The United States owns the largest percent of shares in the 46-country IDB and the Department of Treasury directs U.S. voting on the board of executive directors. Despite, or perhaps because of, a U.S. abstention, on Sept. 10, the 14-member international board voted 13-0-1 in favor of loaning $135 million for the pipeline transportation component of the project. The Ex-Im board of directors rejected the loan request on Aug. 28 by a vote of 2-1, citing environmental considerations, including potential damage to Perus rainforests and indigenous peoples.
The IDB loans are conditional on Peru carrying out mitigation measures to reduce the construction and operation impacts on the environment and the populations living in the region, says Daniel Drosdoff, a spokesman for IDB. Still, environmentalists worry that too much damage has already been done and that the project does not meet U.S. or international standards for environmental protections.
It is our conclusion that the project will be built with or without participation of the IDB, Drosdoff says. The participation of the IDB [will] help ensure investments in environmental protection and monitoring of the implementation of mitigation measures.
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Amazon Alliance
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In mid-August, Pentex Oil UK announced the most significant onshore discovery
of oil in the United Kingdom in 20 years. The company found the field on farmland
at Avington, near Winchester in Hampshire in the south of England. Initial evaluation
suggests the field contains the equivalent of more than 100 million barrels
of oil.
The company carried out preliminary exploration tests after procuring a license from the Department of Trade and Industry. It hopes to produce oil commercially by the end of the year if further tests are positive and oil recovery proves financially viable. Generally, any onshore field in Europe or North America with more than 1 million barrels of oil will prove financially viable.
If this field is as large as initial indications suggest, it will be a useful addition to Britains reserves, though still not a major find on a global scale. For instance, while it is larger than any oil field in the Denver basin in the United States, the field is dwarfed by the 2 billion-barrel Brent field in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea. The price of Brent crude oil is a global standard and often quoted during times of oil price instability.
Perhaps the most significant aspect of this find is that it demonstrates the potential of finding appreciable amounts of oil in areas that many have dismissed as having little or no remaining potential, says Peter McCabe, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Most of the big oil discoveries we hear about these days tend to be offshore, but a substantial majority of the oil that has been found is onshore, McCabe says. In fact, the most recent USGS estimate of undiscovered oil reserves in the world suggests that fully 50 percent of the oil remaining to be discovered is onshore.
Pentex produces the equivalent of 2,500 barrels of oil a day from four onshore wells at Stockbridge and 60 wells at Gainsborough in the East Midlands, and it is the United Kingdoms third largest onshore supplier of oil.
According to BBC News, the farmer who owns the land will only receive a small fee he isnt about to become the next J.R. Ewing, he told the news agency.
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Perlite is found in most homes, workplaces and schools. Most of the white ceiling
tiles in offices and classrooms are made primarily of perlite. The soil around
potted plants also has small white grains of perlite. Other than in these lightweight
construction products and horticultural soil mixes, perlite is used in food
processing for filtration and in natural gas processing as a low-temperature
insulation that aids the gas liquefaction process. Perlite is also an excellent
high temperature insulator and resists burning.
Perlite is one of the newest economically significant minerals. Controlled experiments using perlite from near Superior, Ariz., did not occur until 1940, and perlite was not used extensively until 1945. What is unique to perlite and just a few other minerals, such as vermiculite, is that when perlite is heated, its volume increases and its density decreases dramatically a characteristic discovered only in 1928. Dropping a sample of sand-sized particles of crude processed perlite into a large furnace at 760 to 1,100 degrees Celsius causes the perlite to pop like popcorn, expanding to as much as 20 times its original volume. The average density of so-called expanded perlite is about 110 kilograms per cubic meter, whereas the average density of crude processed perlite is about 2,300 kilograms per cubic meter. A large bag of expanded perlite at a local home improvement store is as light as a large bag of popcorn.
The largest perlite mines are in New Mexico, with others in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah. After mining, crude perlite is crushed, sorted into several sizes and then shipped throughout the United States. This crude processed perlite goes to expanding plants, which heat treat the mineral and then either use or sell it. Armstrong World Industries in Lancaster, Pa., is by far the largest producer and consumer of expanded perlite, making many of the ceiling tiles used in the United States.
Mining companies in the United States sold or used about 500,000 metric tons of crude processed perlite, with an average value of about $36 per ton, in 2002. Imports of crude processed perlite, about 175,000 tons per year, supply about 25 percent of the demand in the United States. In 2002, 63 perlite expansion plants sold or used about 670,000 tons with an average value of $217 per ton. Estimates put the United States as the largest producer and consumer of crude processed and expanded perlite in 2002. Other leading producers of crude processed perlite were, in descending order, Greece, Japan, Hungary and Turkey.
Visit the USGS
minerals Web site for more on perlite.
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Kate Middleton and her newborn, Prince George of Cambridge are taking their first road trip to go visit dad William in Wales.
The little Prince is only four weeks old, well almost, and is taking his first car trip about 270 miles away from where the family has taken up residence, in Bucklebury.
Kate and George will meet William at their Anglesey, Wales home, were the couple spent the last three years while the Duke of Cambridge has been stationed as a search and rescue pilot at the Royal Air Force (RAF) base there.
And even thought Kate and William have a home there, the new parents chose to come to the home where Kate grew up, so grandma Carole (Middleton) could help the new mom care for her baby.
According to a report in People magazine, Kate and George were accompanied by Carole on the trip.
On Wednesday, Prince William talked about wife Kate Middleton and George at The Anglesey Show as he thanked the crowd attending for the hospitality with which the couple was received when they first moved there and throughout their stay.
William expressed his regret that Catherine and George could not join him for the occasion and said in a prepared speech that his son is "loud", but "extremely good looking" to the delight of those present.
Kate Middleton has not been seen in public since she and William left the hospital on July 23, the day after Prince George was born. There were some photos of the couple leaving Kensington Palace the following day on their way to Bucklebury.
While addressing the crowd at Anglesey, William confessed that Kate and he will miss Wales tremendously. It is uncertain what new role the Duke will be undertaking after he steps down from his current position with the RAF.


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July 2011 - Fran Poirier
1. Please introduce yourself. Who are you? How old are you? Where are you from? What are your hobbies (other than powerlifting)? Please give the readers an idea of what it's like to be you.
2. Where are you located in Georgia and where do you train at?
3. What is something that most people don't know about you?
4. What is your occupation?
5. Do you find that your occupation interferes with competing or visa versa?
6. How many years have you been competing?
7. How did you get into powerlifting?
8. What are your biggest squat, bench press, deadlift and total numbers.
9. What titles, records and achievements did you accumulate in your powerlifting career?
10. Can you describe your training philosophy and/or a typical training session?
11. Do you compete equipped (squat suit, bench press shirt & deadlift suit) or unequipped (no suits) or both?
12. What weight class(s) and divisions(s) do you compete in?
14. Who is the most impressive lifter you have competed against?
15. Who do you think is the greatest lifter of all time?
16. When was your last competition & how did it go?
17. Do you have any upcoming competitions? If so, when and where?
18. How do you prepare for an upcoming competition?
19. Describe your nutritional intake for an upcoming competition?
20. Is there anything you will do differently to prepare for your next competition that is different from your last one?
21. How many meets do you compete in each year?
22. Who is your greatest competitor/rival?
23. What advice & tips would you give to a powerlifter that is just beginning?
24. How has powerlifting changed your life?
25. Do you stay in touch with lifters you compete against?
27. What is your #1 or most prestigious meet you ever competed at in your career?
28. Do you compete in any other strength sports such as Olympic lifting, strongman, highland games, etc?
29. What is your favorite memory from any powerlifting competition or event?
30. Anyone you would like thank for helping you along the way in your Powerlifting career?
31. Anything else you would like to add?
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- Trey said...
Thanks guys for a fun contest! I may not be around much longer though because the boss lady at Bullets and Biscuits is probably going to have someone come and kill me for winning yet another prize on another blog! :) Thanks again!!
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Trey won?! AGAIN!? Shady, I tell ya! Just shady!
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Crime fictions: Why people do bad things
Most of what we are told about crime is a lie argues alumnus Tom Gash, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government
Criminologist Tom Gash is seeking to dispel the myths that surround the causes of crime
By Olivia Gordon
Dinner party conversations can prove rather irritating for Tom Gash. As soon as he mentions that he works advising governments on how to reduce crime, everyone's ears prick up, and everyone wants to share their solution.
'They are very quick to say "Shouldn't we just do X? Why don't we just do Y?"', says Gash. One of the things people say to him 'all the time' is that we should have longer prison sentences and make prisons tougher to deter crime. People argue: 'If we had longer prison sentences, they wouldn't do it; we should make prisons more horrible – you'd think twice, wouldn't you?'
Tom Gash is exasperated by popular theories like this. Having spent years researching the causes of crime and the results of its punishment, he has come to the conclusion that most of what we are told about crime is a lie.
The seemingly obvious notion that criminals might think again if faced with the deterrent of a harsh punishment is completely unjustified, he says. 'The thing is, you might think twice, but would someone living a drug dependent, chaotic life think twice?
Oxford Prison before the demolition of B Building in the mid-twentieth century
'Making it more catastrophic will just end up with them serving a sentence and you paying for it, with less money on education, healthcare and preventing crime in the first place.'
Of course committing a crime needs to have consequences, Gash says, 'but how harshly you punish is not going to be the thing that changes how much people commit crime.'
That's not the only myth that Oxford History alumnus Gash (St. John's, 2000) is keen to debunk. He hopes to spread the message that the following assumptions are without evidence: that crime is rising; that criminals will stop at nothing; that poverty is the real cause of crime; that immigration increases crime rates; that biology determines criminality; that criminals don't change their spots; that we need radical reforms to reduce crime; and that we need more bobbies on the beat.
After leaving Oxford, Gash worked as a management consultant, but a fascination with criminology started to build after an encounter on a train in his mid-twenties. He was on his way back from a meeting with a pharmaceutical company when an excited woman bounced into his first class carriage despite not having the correct ticket. Gash recalls how the woman announced: 'I've just got out of bird [prison]' and proceeded to tell him the story of her life. Gash says: 'She had seven kids in care; she had been in and out of prison all her life; she had £46 to her name, and had already spent some; her phone had no battery; she had no fixed abode. I thought: "Something is badly wrong in our system - this person's being sent out with very little hope of getting back on track. Could that be changed?"'
So Gash moved into the public sector to become an advisor on home affairs in Tony Blair's strategy unit. There, he had access to studies and reports on crime which almost never reached the general public. Soon, he was 'learning fascinating stuff about what motivates humans to behave badly and what governments can do about it' – and he realised that 'many of the assumptions you believe to be true about crime, how it operates and what to do about it, aren't true.'
As a result, Gash says he became a very sceptical person. 'When I watch TV, and read news stories, I'm always asking: "Is that really likely to be true? Why is someone trying to persuade me of this? What's going on behind that story?" I don't just do it with crime now - I do it with current affairs; anything we're being told.'
Too often, he thinks, 'people are attracted to a simple answer' when reality is, of course, nuanced. For example, the idea that more visible bobbies on the beat will reduce crime is false, according to Gash. 'The average police officer wandering around aimlessly will very rarely encounter a crime. You need to think about where crimes are taking place and focus resources on those places, and think much more about prevention in policing: how can we make areas less attractive to alcohol-related disorder and street fighting? You need to make sure taxi queues are supervised, that there's enough transport out of town on a Saturday night. There's a huge range of things that have an impact.'
One thing he stresses is that often crime is not particularly organised, but is rather exacerbated by opportunity. 'A lot of the things that affect crime are not within the frame of the criminal justice system; they relate to things like transport arrangements and how secure companies make their products. We had a spate of assaults by unlicensed taxi drivers. People are basically getting into cars belonging to others who they don't know and that creates risk – as soon as we have better transport so people can easily choose not to do that, you suddenly reduce the opportunity for those types of crime.'
Gash says: 'I don't want to imply there aren't people who deliberately go out and do bad things, but even for those people, the amount of bad things they do will depend on opportunity.'
There is some truth, he acknowledges, that the roots of violent or 'bad' behaviour often lie in early childhood or in psychological problems, though a propensity for wrongdoing 'can change throughout life depending on people's experiences'. But overall, he says, 'we can much more easily change the situations people encounter than their nature.'
The biggest myth of all, Gash says, is that there are 'goodies' and 'baddies'; heroes and villains. 'The vast majority of people will have committed some sort of minor crime, and roughly a quarter of people have criminal convictions. And yet we have a "them and us" thing – something we're very complacent about. The boundaries are much more fuzzy. The innocent victim and demonic perpetrator is a real myth; some who are most victimised are also committing serious crimes.'
The idea of children as angelic and being corrupted as they grow older is also misfounded, according to Gash. It's more the other way around, he says, noting that one study found people were at their most aggressive at the age of five or six. Small children are naturally anarchic, but gradually learn to behave in a cooperative, socially acceptable way, whether simply for the selfish reason of avoiding punishment, or because of altruism – says Gash, 'Most people have figured it out by the time they get into their teen years.'
Those who commit serious crimes, he says, tend to be the people who, into adulthood, fail to realise the value of behaving well, often because they weren't helped enough to grasp that value in childhood. 'They often have other problems [relating to] mental health, health, substance abuse, low educational attainment, poor job prospects. If you can support people earlier, in a way that addresses impulsiveness and build resilience, the benefits are much broader. It should be about opportunity and helping people succeed, not stopping them from doing bad things.'
Gash's views fall between the political poles of left and right. He believes 'both the typical left wing account and the tough punishment account have done us a great disservice. On one hand it's led to people thinking we cant do anything about crime until we address social inequality; on the other, we incarcerate far too many people at much too high a cost, instead of investing in prevention.'
As well as becoming more skeptical, Gash has also become more optimistic as a result of his research. 'I'm not paranoid about crime,' he says – 'there isn't any need to be; it's dropped so much over the last 30 years. It will happen, but in general you can go about life pretty safely in England.' Also, at 35, he is now well beyond the age when people are most at risk of violent crime (the teens and early twenties).
He adds: 'I know most people eventually get better behaved, and also kids are getting better behaved - there are now fewer first-time offenders coming into our justice system in the UK than in the last 40 years.'
Why is this? No one is sure, he says, but he hazards a guess it could be connected to the fact young people today go out less (they're too busy looking at phones and playing computer games), and also that fact that we've got better at making it less easy to commit crime – cars, for instance, are harder to steal these days than in the 1980s.
Having written his first book, Criminal, about his research, Tom Gash is hoping the public and government will listen to him. He says more evidence-based ideas about crime are now gradually 'percolating through' – the government's latest crime prevention strategy mirrors many of his arguments. But, he asks, 'do we have policy makers with the bravery to resist the knee-jerk response?
What TG is really saying - and I'm sympathetic - is: 'Where there's a way there's a will' - the will, of course, being an ill 'un. Or is that another misconception?
This is the all too usual exercise in how to take something potentially interesting and make it tedious and dull, which Is the story of Oxford magazines generally. This article manages to say nothing very much at all. I was an undergraduate at Oxford about 50 years ago. I was admitted because, as the Sheikh says in Lawrence of Arabia, I could both read and write. But Oxford magazines seem quite moribund, and I notice that Oxford has slipped this year in the rankings to 4th in the world, behind Harvard, which is not only annoying but also, if you have ever met Harvard graduates, pretty insulting - until one reads Oxford magazines, and then one is obliged to grimace and say: Ah so, even Harvard can be more interesting than this.
I agree with so much of what you say. We set people up to fail when they leave prison with few resources, no accommodation and no support. I was told a horrifying tale of women in prison being taught hairdressing to a low level but being given totally false ideas about how this would get them jobs, again setting them up to fail. Many years ago a revolutionary idea of the DWP and housing services preparing people to leave prison some weeks before was trialled but it is still not in place!
On more police wandering the streets, this is as sensible as a sales policy for a company of sending their sales force out to wander hopefully so that they might someone who needs their service. Any business run like this would go bust and people would think they were mad. I look forward to reading your book
I sympathise with Mr Gash's frustration at being offered simplistic solutions to undoubtedly complex problems in his area of special expertise. He does himself no favours if, as reported here, he offers an exaggerated, and in my opinion almost certainly erroneous, response however. To say that the most powerfully motivated – drug addicts leading chaotic lives, in his example – would not respond to harsher punishments does not imply that nobody would. And to say that harsher punishments would not deter strikes me as tantamount to saying that, in this context, people simply do not respond to incentives, a claim which runs counter to almost all personal experience and a considerable body of objective evidence. (I've read that a comparison of crime rates among sixteen to eighteen year olds in American states where young offenders become eligible for the harsher regime of adult prison at sixteen and those where they must be eighteen provides statistical evidence to the contrary, for example.)
Of course, simply acknowledging that some criminals would think again in the face of longer sentences does not mean that this is an effective way to deal with criminals, or that it would benefit society. People, as Mr Gash observes, are complex: the reasons for and causes of their actions, good or bad, are many, subtly inter-connected, and not always fully apparent. But then, absent a few determinists of the environmental and genetic varieties, and apparently some unfortunate choices in dinner guests, who doesn't believe that already?
Sounds like a good read, making some very important points, but this slightly bugs me:
"Having written his first book, Criminal, about his research".
"Having spent years researching the causes of crime and the results of its punishment".
The book sounds more like a review of recent thought in criminology, drawing heavily on Marcus Felson. So "his research" in the sense of finding out what research others have done, and repackaging it.
Apologies if there is indeed more to "his research" than this.
(And if there is, why not publish it?)
I should really love to see a study which assesses how much it costs to keep offenders who are not a danger to society in jail and what it would cost to employ a body of trained specialists whose job is to employ such offenders in work which they are suited to and which benefits the society which they have offended, with a view to rehabilitation and returning them to society as useful citizens. Modern technology has made it possible to ensure that such persons would not be able to disappear and escape supervision.
An article about crime, with no mention of crimes committed within homes - particularly violence against women?
If these comments really do all come from alumni, then some of them amount to a poor advertisement for the University, as Mr Parselle oberves. His own contribution is, unfortunately, the most egregious example.


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90 BC (Bethlehem, Israel) – 18 AD (Nazareth, Israel)
Do you know who Jesus' dad is? That's right – it is God the Father. And do you know who Saint Joseph was? He was Mary's husband and looked after Jesus like a dad while he was on Earth. It was with the help of Saint Joseph that Jesus learned how to be a good boy and then grow up to be a good man.
Already before Jesus was born, Saint Joseph loved Him and His mum, Mary, very much. When an angel told Saint Joseph in a dream that Mary had God's baby son in her tummy, he immediately did what God asked him and looked after Mary and Jesus. You too do that, don't you? When you see that someone needs your help, you go and help. Right?
When baby Jesus was born, the angel spoke to Saint Joseph again and told him that a bad king wants to kill Jesus and that he needs to take his family and escape to Egypt. That must have been quite scary, don't you think? What do you think Saint Joseph did? That's right! He took Mary and baby Jesus and travelled with them as quickly as he could to safety. After some years, when it became safe to return home, the angel spoke to Saint Joseph again, and the Holy Family made their way back from Egypt.
During the following years Saint Joseph taught Jesus many things and he also showed him how to make things out of wood and become a carpenter like himself. Saint Joseph also taught Jesus about the Bible, about what the prophets said and about the many adventures that his ancestors, the People of Israel have been through. With all this, Saint Joseph helped Jesus grow up to be a good man and prepare for telling everyone about how much God loves us.
"Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him."
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I just finished reading a book I happened upon by chance at the library. It is one book in a series written by Victoria Laurie. For those of you who are into ghost hunting, you would love it–if you can get past all the less believeable aspects of the book. Laurie is writing a series she calls "ghost hunting mysteries." This particular novel was entitled What A Ghoul Wants. The main character is a woman who travels around the world to haunted locations for ghost hunts, and while there seems to get involved in other mysterious events (kind of like Scooby Doo and team!). This novel was set in a castle in Wales. I mentioned earlier about getting past the less believeable parts. First, you have to accept and/or tolerate the idea of psychics/mediums. Second, you have to accept the idea that there are ghosts so powerful they can reach out and kill people (not exactly a concept proclaimed by TAPS Ghost Hunters team). I just read this as a great, fun book. I'm moving on now to more in the series!
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For today, I want to show you a simple all black outfit. I was wearing a black midi dress from a jersey material with some black boots and a red clutch for a small pop of color. As for accessories, I kept it really simple, just a golden necklace.
I really like this dress because you can style it in different ways. I will try and restyle it in future posts :)
Maybe it's just me or maybe it's something in the air but I find myself in a sort of a strange mood. Or maybe it's the spring asthenia haha. I heard that you can "cure" this asthenia with shopping, so in stores with me!!! :))
Anyway not to worry, I will try and bring myself up because Easter is right around the corner and you just can't be sad when you know that the Easter Bunny is coming loaded with gifts (hopefully!)


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Tailoring Thursdays™, Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Sewers
Choosing Machine Needles
The type of machine needle you use can affect your machine, your stitches, your fabric and your seams.
There are all kinds of machine needles out there and sometimes it can get confusing.
Really there are basically three types of machine needles for regular machine sewing, each type is often then changed slightly by the needle manufacturer to better suit certain fabric types.
There are also a bunch of different sizes for each type of needle.
Needle sizes are easy:
The smaller the number on the box, 80/12, the smaller the needle.
The larger the number on the box, 90/14, the larger the needle.
When trying to determine which needle you should use for a project you will need to know two things:
When choosing a needle the first thing you need to know is FABRIC TYPE. The type of fabric will determine the type of needle you should use:
Needle Types:
|Leather needles are a type of sharp needle. They pierce through the leather creating a clean hole and clear hole for the thread.
|Jean needles are sharp and make sewing through the thickness of denim and other thick, tightly woven fabrics easier.
|Topstitch needles are very sharp and meant for thicker fabrics as well as have the strength to go through multiple layers of tightly woven fabrics more easily.
|Using ball point needles on stretch fabrics will keep your stitches in between the knit fibers, allowing your stretchy fabric to keep it's stretch without breaking your stitches.
3. Universal Needles are a combination of sharp and ball point needles. These are an easy and common choice for your everyday fabrics.
|Quilting needles are a slightly more honed version of universal needle featuring a combination of a ball point and sharp point. They are meant for machine quilt piecing and quilting.
The second thing you need to know is THREAD THICKNESS.
Thinner the thread = smaller sized needle.
Thicker the thread = larger sized needle.
BUT....Other factors can affect needle size too.
Lighter fabric = smaller sized needle.
Heavier fabric = larger sized needle.
Medium weight fabric = mid-sized needle.
Here are some examples of how to choose a needle based on your project.
Project 1:
Heavy Denim with medium weight jean thread:
Jean Needle, Size 16
Project 2:
Light Denim with all purpose thread:
Jean Needle, Size 12
Project 3:
Cotton Lawn with cotton thread:
Universal or Sharp needle, Size 9
Project 4:
Twill with all purpose thread:
Topstitch needle, Size 12
Sometimes choosing the right needle just takes experience. The more you sew, the easier it will become to pick out the right needle for your projects.
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This book, I have mentioned it before, is a great, great reference tool for helping to decide on a needle size too.