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Info & Resources
If you know of a useful resource to add to this page, please share it below!
Grains 101
Information on different kinds of grains is available here.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have a question about how to grow your own grains, it's probably answered here.
Grain Seed Suppliers
Salt Spring Seeds
Johnny's Seeds
Prairie Garden Seeds
Full Circle Seeds
Sunshine Farm
Seed Savings Exchange
Castor River Farm (silver hull buckwheat)
Your local baker/miller
Your local organic store (Caution: you may not be able to tell if you're getting winter/spring varieties, or seed that's been heat-treated and therefore won't germinate. Avoid "groats" and anything that's been "pearled," "flaked" or "rolled.")
USA Sources (with thanks to Anthony Boutard for these tips!)
Kusa Seed Society
Bountiful Gardens
Welter Seed & Honey Co.
Heritage Wheat Conservancy
Books About Growing Grains
Small-Scale Grain Raising, by Gene Logsdon (2nd edition now available via Chelsea Green publishing)
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery
Demeter's Wheats, by Sharon Rempel (with a spiritual/political angle)
Books About Eating Grains
Super Breakfast Cereals: Whole grains for good health and great taste, by Katharina Gustavs
Amazing Grains, by Joanne Saltzman
Grains on the Web
Deconstructing Dinner podcasts re: grain CSA in the Kootenays
100-Mile Diet column in The Tyee re: grains
Small-scale grain & pulse production blog (thanks to Tom Henry for forwarding!)
Website re: the life-cycle of wheat (thanks to Sharon Rempel for forwarding!)
"Grains for the Garden" article by Dan Jason, published in Small Farm Canada magazine.
"Ancient Grains" article by Av Singh, published in Canadian Organic Grower magazine, Winter 2007 issue
"Grain in the Garden" article by Dan Jason, published in Canadian Organic Grower magazine, Winter 2007 issue
Grain Tips & Tricks
"Roasting grains before dehulling greatly increases the efficiency of any method you choose."
- Gene Logsdon, Small-Scale Grain Raising
Small-Scale Grain Machinery
Ferrari Tractor
The All-Crop Harvester
Lawrence's Homemade Thresher
More home-made threshers/winnowesr
Island Grains In the News
Sowing the Seeds Series
"Growing Grain in Cowichan" by Sarah Simpson (Island Grains member), Cowichan Valley Citizen, January 7, 2009
"Following an Historic Path" by Sarah Simpson, Cowichan Valley Citizen, February 13, 2009
"Choosing Your Crop" by Sarah Simpson, Cowichan Valley Citizen, March 25, 2009
"Local Seed vs. Big Guns" by Sarah Simpson, Cowichan Valley Citizen, May 20, 2009
"Growing a Crop Heritage" by Sarah Simpson, Cowichan Valley Citizen, June 5, 2009
"Preparing the Harvest for the Plate" by Sarah Simpson, Cowichan Valley Citizen, July 24, 2009
"Getting My Hands Dirty" by Sarah Simpson, Cowichan Valley Citizen, August 5, 2009
"The Harvest: What's the Shoe For?" by Sarah Simpson, Cowichan Valley Citizen, October 2, 2009
"Last Stop: The Stomach" by Sarah Simpson, Cowichan Valley Citizen, December 11, 2009
"Going with the Grain" by Jason Brown, Monday Magazine, January 14, 2009
"Grow Your Own Bread" by James Glave, The Tyee, February 10, 2009
"Killing Worms" by Rick Juliusson (Island Grains member), April 19, 2009
"Zero-Mile Bread" by Rick Juliusson (Island Grains member), November 11, 2009
Do you have a source for Durham wheat? In stock?
Thanks for your assistance.
I am seeking unhulled barley in qty of about 50 pounds. I do not really have a place to grow it but I would like to use it for brewing. I live in Montreal and was wondering if you know of a grower in this area?
Please let me know. This is my first time visiting your website and I have added it to my favorites as I found it very interesting.
Thank you,
Hi, thanks so much for this great resource! We are searching high and low for camelina seed in bulk quantities. Can you point us in the right direction? Thanks!
We sell an affordable foot-powered grain thresher that allows small-scale growers to quickly and easily thresh wheat, rice, and dried beans. Please see the Youtube video below to view the machine threshing wheat.
Hello there!
Very interesting site and resource. I wonder if you can make any suggestions about where I might buy a few hundred lbs. of barley, either food grade or malting grade. I live in St.Laurent, Quebec. I am a home brewer and I have been malting my own grain by using feed grade barley. The results are good, but this type of grain(feed grade) adds challenge to the brewing process due mainly to its higher protein content and lower yield or mashing efficiency. Any tips would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Hi I harvested my quinoa the other day as it had all changed color and started to fall over with the weight of the seed heads. Is it too early? What do I do now with the stalks I cut off? Thanks
I had a curious experience. I cleared an area for a new garden on Cortes Island and sowed some wheat and rye the first year. I got a pretty good crop from that, but ever since, when I've sowed the same grains for the last 4-5 years, I have not gotten anything, not even any germination. Do you have any insights as to why this has happened or how I might get grains to grow again? I also have had similar experience with quinoa.
I live in rural northeast Bulgaria on an acre and half smallholding. Half is down to vegetable gardens, and maize. The rest to grazing and hay. My step family is slowly leaving the nest and soon will be Ani and I, and Mitko.. So will reduce garden but still produce as much of what we need as we can. We can grow more animal food,with a smaller garden, but wheat could be apart of the change. Advice?
additional seed suppliers:
Sustainable Seed Company
amaranth, barley, buckwheat, millet, oat, quinoa, rye, triticale, wheat
Victory Seed Company
maize, sorghum
Adaptive Seeds
amaranth, barley, buckwheat, camelina, maize, millet, oat, quinoa, rye, wheat (ancient and modern)
Wild Garden Seed
huauzontle, quinoa
Siskiyou Seeds
amaranth, barley, maize, quinoa, sorghum, wheat (khorasan)
We just bought a 20 acre farm in Enumclaw, I'm interested in growing oats and wheat for our family. I have been able to grow quinoa very successfully, but grains are new for us. Any suggestions for the variety? Planting tips, etc, would be greatly appreciated! We will have 6 to 8 acres that we would love to use for that.
Looking to buy whole sheaves of wheat but I'm having an an extremely hard time finding them anywhere that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I understand they are out of season.
I am wondering if any one might be able to point me in the direction of a grain grower who sells locally on Vancouver Island.
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Thread: Why aikido is great!!!!!
6/30/2003 10:25am, #1
(Notice i did not say effective)
Took my level two test in Krav yesterday. Close to five hours pretty much non-stop. Dizzy, sick....bruised up. Aikido is great when your old and your body can no longer take such a beating. You just sit around and spurt about how violence is destructive and that you would just do this and that if attacked, hell your sensei told you. You bow and fall politley and nobody tried to break you in two....in another thirty years....can't wait to sign up
I found the cure for hopeThere is no cheating, there is only jiu-jitsu.
6/30/2003 10:40am, #2
Space may be the final frontier,
But it's made in a Hollywood basement."You realise the transformations give a man enough strength to destroy a truck with his bare hands!?
YOU HAVE BETRAYED ME, IN THE WORST POSSIBLE MANNER!!" - KiWarrior
"Sport ? That kind of thing's not my bag baby!" - Sammy Franco
"This system was developed with the help of notible BJJ fighter Ribbon Muchado." - "Sifu" Anthony Iglesias
6/30/2003 11:31am, #3SuperHappyLucky7Guest
I've done some reading on Aikido, and apparently Ueshiba (the founder) said that Aidido was 99% atemi - which is striking.
All the fancy tosses, etc are designed to be used _after_ you've pummeled the guy first.
I think this is why most aikido is not 'effective' - they don't train the striking to make the tossing work.
6/30/2003 11:34am, #4
oh, i think aikido is very effectuve when combined with some agression and striking...but many (not all) dojo and aikidoka prefer to atemi baskets in their basket weaving classes
I found the cure for hopeThere is no cheating, there is only jiu-jitsu.
6/30/2003 11:38am, #5Close to five hours pretty much non-stop. Dizzy, sick....bruised up
I know where you're coming from though.Taking responsibility for my actions since 1989
6/30/2003 11:46am, #6
yeah....there was a three hour review, which ended up longer and an hour and a half test, which also ended up longer...and when you are not hitting or doing self-defense techniques...you are holding a pad or attacking........and then groundfighting techniques....thankfully krav doesn't f-around with submissions. Just try to fight your way up...higher levels get more fancy. If i had to slap a triangle on someone after four hours...i think i'd just collapse.
I found the cure for hopeThere is no cheating, there is only jiu-jitsu.
6/30/2003 11:48am, #7
Sounds about like my Orange Belt test.And that's when I figured out that tears couldn't make somebody who was dead alive again. There's another thing to learn about tears, they can't make somebody who doesn't love you any more love you again. It's the same with prayers. I wonder how much of their lives people waste crying and praying to God. If you ask me, the devil makes more sense than God does. I can at least see why people would want him around. It's good to have somebody to blame for the bad stuff they do. Maybe God's there because people get scared of all the bad stuff they do. They figure that God and the Devil are always playing this game of tug-of-war game with them. And they never know which side they're gonna wind up on. I guess that tug-of-war idea explains how sometimes, even when people try to do something good, it still turns out bad.
6/30/2003 11:54am, #8
oh...and we have a new school....third floor of a mill w/o venitlation OR a/c right now
I found the cure for hopeThere is no cheating, there is only jiu-jitsu.
6/30/2003 3:46pm, #9
I think sometimes wristlocks are good for controlling people, but Aikido is the gayest load of bs ever to be pulled out of some idiot's ass.
6/30/2003 4:22pm, #10
cyrijl: Coold. The level two test is tough, especially because you don't really know what to expect when going into it. I will be testing for level 3 sometime within the next month or so, and I am told that it's actually easier. That is, the test itself is harder than the first one, but you know what you're getting yourself into, and can adequately prepare.
I remain, Hapko3You say what about my rice?


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Justice as a Theological Necessity
I'm teaching at The House of Providence in Vancouver, Washington this Sunday on the subject of "Justice as a Theological Necessity."
I wrote a whole blog post on the topic a while back so I thought I'd repost it below.
What do you think? If we question God's existence when we face injustice, doesn't it make sense that in the presence of Justice it would lead to a greater understanding of God? If God's grace makes us just (the book of Romans), wouldn't it follow that justice is a way of experiencing or knowing God?
If "theology" means the study of God or how we know God, then we can say justice – although not the only way of knowing God – is certainly a theological necessity.
Check out the post below:
Over the past several months, I began to have the realization that I had accidentally done a great disservice to the folks at Antioch.
Somehow, I had allowed the idea that "justice is a good thing, one in the mix of many other good things," grow in people's minds and understanding of Justice.
I stewed on this and prayed about it for a very long time.
You see, justice, like truth, is not just "a good thing."
They are universal things or absolutes. They exist everywhere and every subject touches them somehow.
Most people get this with truth. What is is and what is true corresponds to reality, whether we believe it, understand it, follow it or know it. Truth is a rightness or a certain rectitude between a concept and what exists in the fabric of reality. It is governed by the laws of logic etc.
Justice, likewise, corresponds to what ought to be in the fabric of relationships. Oughts and musts exist whether we believe them, understand them, follow them or know them. Justice is a rightness or certain rectitude between people and societies, structures, policies, cultural norms and laws. Injustice is the breakdown of what ought to be and justice is the existence or the promotion of what should be.
Truth and justice are universals. They are hallmark aspects of creation.
Justice, therefore, is not just a good thing.
Rather, justice is a lens by which we look at and evaluate other things.
I tried with the message below to express what I believe is a paradigm we need to hold with regard to justice – that it is a theological necessity. Our understanding of God should compel justice. And that understanding justice is one of the ways by which we are meant to understand God more clearly.
As the Psalmist writes, "The Lord is known by his justice." (Psalm 9:16)
When a child walks with, cares about and acts in something the Father does, cares about and works for there is a degree of "like-mindedness" that comes that otherwise couldn't be there to the same degree. We know God better as we understand justice. "For the LORD is a God of Justice." Isaiah 30:18
I've never tried to swing as hard at a concept in a message before and it turned out to be very provocative, but I feel a strong burden that God desires for us to reconnect the first and the second great commandments. That love of God implies love of neighbor and that love of the orphan the widow and the alien is one of the primary means by which we demonstrate love of God.
"If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen." 1 John 4:20
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27
"He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
There certainly are other things in addition to justice, but justice is, I believe, a theological necessity and more than just "another good thing."
"Kingdom people seek first the Kingdom of God and its justice; church people often put church work above concerns of justice, mercy and truth."
Justice as a Theological Necessity from Antioch Church on Vimeo.
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15.-17.2. 2011
International Fashion Fair
15.-17.2. 2011
International Fair of Footwear and Leatherware
Preliminary final report: Fashion fairs with premiere presentation of world-famous brands
The 37th International Fairs of Fashion, Footwear, and Leatherware STYL and KABO were held at three modern exhibition halls of the Brno Exhibition Centre as the biggest B2B presentation of the fashion industry and leading contracting event for the season autumn and winter 2011/2012 on the Czech and Slovak markets.
At the exhibition stands, which occupied the net exhibition area of 10,054 square metres, visitors could view the current offer of 625 clothing, footwear, and leatherware brands. The total of 391 exhibitors from 17 countries participated in the trade fairs, 42 companies visited Brno for the very first time.
The premiere brands at STYL included, among others, DKNY Donna Karan and Pleasure State in the lingerie segment, and Five Seasons, Iron Fist, Lego Wear, MAG móda, Butka Fur, Oleana, or Skunk Fung in clothing.
The new brands at KABO included United Nude, Sorel and Betty Barclay for the first time in the Czech Republic, or the revived brand Novesta.
The share of foreign exhibitors reached 26 percent. The majority of exhibitors came from Slovakia – 38 exhibitors, followed by Poland with twenty exhibitors and Germany with thirteen participating companies.
Accompanying programme focused on the hot topics of the current market. Great interest was expressed in seminar "Fashion design in the production of ready-to-wear clothing" with a presentation by a professor of design and marketing Josef Ťapťuch. Footwear retailers were addressed by a seminar dealing with the Customer protection Act and principles of the complaint procedure. Other seminars informed about a new project on the education of shop assistants selling shoes and the possibilities how to best use the trade fair for brand promotion.
Eight fashion designers passed through to the finale of the TOP STYL DESIGNER competition - from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and for the first time also from Romania. The winner was Miroslava Horká, student of clothing design at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, with her collection "Profilo" inspired by geometric shapes and patterns.
The winners of the nineteenth TOP MODEL competition, which awards the best exhibits at KABO in terms of design, quality, and innovation, were Paolo Santini, Columbia Sportswear, and U100. Special awards were presented to exhibits by Caprice, Dermatex, and Unidax.
New fashion trends were presented at trend forums situated in the V, F, and P Halls. In all the three halls composed fashion shows were taking place at the same tame, presenting new collections by the exhibiting companies. There were thirty fashion shows in total, showing classical fashion, oversized fashion, lingerie, shoes, and children's shoes. Young and student creations were presented in the collections of designers competing for the TOP STYL DESIGNER award, as well as the "Chic Plus" collection that was created under the guidance of Josef Ťapťuch at the Fashion Design Studio at the Academy of Arts, Design, and Architecture in Prague. The materials for the student's models were provided by ATOK member companies.
The visitors to the social evening held on the first day of the STYL and KABO fashion fairs were enchanted by the collections of many exclusive models by the American designer of Slovak origin Louisa Dvorak. The entire fashion show titled ART & FASHION deeply impressed all of the viewers.
Data from the preliminary statistics
At the February STYL and KABO the visitor numbers are estimated to nearly reach the expected seven thousand visitors. More than 500 foreign visitors from 11 countries registered at the cash offices during the first two days. 113 media representatives from the Czech Republic and Slovakia got accredited at the Press Centre.
The 38th International Trade Fairs of Fashion and Footwear STYL and KABO will take place on new exhibition days – Sunday to Tuesday August 21 – 23, 2011.
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Note: Translated words like 'Religion' indicate unusual relationships between the character positions in the word(s) being translated and result of the translation.
God (UFO/ET) talks to us through the ET Corn Gods language translation of words.
E is 5, 500, D.
Rd-66-66 = "DR".
Li is l+i, 21, U.
Religion = "Drug ion".
Drop o.
In-66-66…Ct, "Cult". (Add 0+66+66 .. = "ul")


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Almost every business and many individuals own and operate a website. These sites are used to either promote a name online or sell products. Whatever the reason may be, it is important that your site is up and running at all times and for this, you should be choosing the best web hosting company.
What is web hosting?
When you want to have a website, there are a few paths you can take. One is to have your own server, with a static IP and enough bandwidth which will allow internet users to access your site simultaneously or you can buy a hosting solution from a company that rents out server space.
Most people use a host and rent out space where they can run their website from because it is extremely expensive to have our own server and maintain a stable connection to the web. Only the huge multinational companies will run their own servers and have a separate IT department to manage their websites.
How to select a good web hosting company
If you look online, you will see that there are thousands of companies offering website hosting services. It may be rather overwhelming to decide on which company you should choose and therefore, you may need some guidance so that you can find a company that will be able to offer you an excellent service.
The qualities of a reliable host
There are a few qualities that a company must offer in order to become a credible web hosting services and they include the following.
We all know that there are many threats on the internet and shady characters will always try to hack a website or plant viruses and much more. It is, therefore, important that the host has quality server side security so that your site will be protected.
Your host must have enough bandwidth so that your website can be accessed by thousand if not millions of people at a time. The last thing you want a visitor to see is a denial of service notification.
Always keep in mind that no web host can offer a 100% uptime guarantee. However, a reputable service provider will be able to give you at least 99% uptime so that your website is always accessible to your customers and visitors.
The cost will of course directly correlate with the amount of space, bandwidth and quality of service. It is often best to read some reviews of various host before making a decision.


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DATE: September 28, 2011
CONTACT: Julie Goldsticker (720-542-9690) or email@example.com
Marcus Browne and Joseph Diaz Impress on Day Three of the 2011 World Championships
(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – The United States rolled on to a 4-0 start with two stoppage victories on Wednesday at the 2011 AIBA Men's World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Light heavyweight Marcus Browne (Staten Island, N.Y.) and bantamweight Joseph Diaz, Jr. (S. El Monte, Calif.) both put an early end to their first round contests in the first World Championships for both boxers.
Browne didn't waste any time in his match-up with Japan's Yoshitsuna Okada. He enjoyed a rare feat in Olympic-style boxing – a one-punch stoppage. The 20-year-old Staten Island native landed a perfectly placed left hand, stopping his Japanese opponent in the opening seconds of the bout to the delight of his American teammates. "It was a sharp and quick left hand, "Browne said. "I threw it with confidence and handled the job."
The victory earns him a berth in the second round of the tournament, where he will face Georgia's Levan Guledani in Sunday's afternoon session.
Diaz claimed a stoppage victory of his own in a bantamweight showdown with Myanmar's Kyaw Latt in the evening session. The 18-year-old off got off to a quick start, taking an 8-3 lead after the first round of action. He kept the pressure up in the second, giving Latt three standing eight counts before the referee called a halt to the bout with 17 seconds left in the second round. "It felt good to get the first bout out of the way," Diaz said. "I was so anxious to get in the ring, but once it was time; I took advantage."
Diaz's stoppage win advances him to the second round where he will take on 2004 Olympic silver medalist Worapao Petchkoom of Thailand in Monday evening action.
Welterweight Errol Spence (Desoto, Texas) will take the ring for the first time in his second World Championships on Thursday when he faces Iran's Amin Ghasemi in opening round action.
USA Boxing National Coach Joe Zanders (Long Beach, Calif.), coaches Ronald Simms (Stafford, Va.) and Manny Robles (Los Angeles, Calif.), technical advisor Ken Porter (Akron, Ohio), and Team Manager Ken Buffington (Marshalltown, Iowa) are leading the United States team in Baku.
The 2011 World Championships are the first international qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games, and the light flyweight through light heavyweight boxers must place in top ten to qualify for London while Williams and Thompson need to place in the top six.
For the full brackets for all 10 weight classes and the most up-to-date results, go to http://www.aiba.org/en-US/2011/2011WorldBoxingChampionships.aspx. AIBA will show live scoring on its website, www.aiba.org throughout the tournament and will start webcasting all the bouts on October 4 at www.aibaboxing.tv. For more information on Team USA, go to www.usaboxing.org. USA Boxing will tweet all the American results as they happen @usaboxing.
The first AIBA Men's World Championships were held in 1974 in Havana, Cuba. The event, which consistently showcases the best boxers in the world, is held every two years.
U.S. Results123 lbs: Joseph Diaz, Jr., S. El Monte, Calif./USA stopped Kyaw Latt, MYA, RSC-2 (2:43)178 lbs: Marcus Browne, Staten Island, N.Y./USA stopped Yoshitsuna Okada, JPN, RSCH-1 (:15)
USA Boxing, as the national governing body for Olympic-style boxing, is the United States' member organization of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) and a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).


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How often do you wake up feeling good but just not as good as you could, here are 5 things you should do today to turn your day from ordinary to Extraordinary!
Make a great playlist, load up your iPod and go have a great workout. Doesn't matter if you go for a run, bike ride or go hit the weights in the gym or even a mix of all of them. just try to break a sweat and get those feel good hormones flowing. I usually find that exercising first thing in the morning leaves me in the best mindset for the rest of the day. It gives me a sense of satisfaction and leaves the rest of the day open to a whole world of possibilities, getting me in that Everyday Mindset.
Appreciate the Simple Things
Our world is filled with simple wonders have you ever stopped to appreciate
- How our bodies heal itself when hurt or injured
- That your brain send a message making your hand open or close on command
- Thoughts keep appearing out of nowhere
- You sleep, you Awake from sleep
- You have total control over your thoughts
Be Kind and Help others
Doing this will breed happiness and confidence. There is an unexplained satisfaction that comes from a job well done especially when it helps other. I have found the only way to be truly happy is to do something constructive while being positive.
Make others happy and this will make you happy; give genuine compliments, listen to what friends and family have to say and have compassion for people you meet. When doing this you will see it is hard to harbor destructive feelings like hate, anger and jealousy.
This week I have read some outstanding articles on the internet covering everything from a wide variety of topics. Here are some of my favourite's:
Abundance Blog – How to be Happy
Olympic Strength – Its in all of us
20 Questions to ask yourself every Sunday
Mark's Daily Apple – Primal Blueprint
And of course once your away from the computer sit down and give yourself 30 minutes of alone time to read a good book!
Eat Good Food
Avoid all processed garbage, start your day with some nuts and berries which are in season now making them affordable and tasty. Drink water throughout the day and brew up a few cups of green tea. Remember food is a basically a drug and within minutes of ingestion causes an chemical releases in your brain affecting how you feel. If you don't believe me think back to how you feel after a few beers!
By eating good natural food you will stay fresh, hydrated and your brain will function well releasing all the right feel good hormones which are essential to feeling good and having the energy you need to have a productive day.
Bonus Tips
-Take a siesta/nap this afternoon if you can, nothing feels better
-Try and get some sunlight and fresh air if its a nice day go for a walk
-Speak to everyone, for some reason speaking to strangers feels good
-Watch Inspirational video's on YouTube. Click Here………


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Bartlett UCL London, MArch Graduate Architectural Design (GAD), research cluster 2 (RC2)
Advisor: Univ.-Prof.(IBK) Marjan Colletti PhD, Guan Lee, Tea Lim, Pavlos Fereos.
In Greek mythology the Chimera was a monstrous fire-breathing creature. She had the body of a lioness, a tail ending in a snake's head, and a goat's head arising on her back at the centre of her spine. There are of course many other examples in different cultures that could also be referred to as Chimeras. In genetics, biology and botany a Chimera represents an animal or plant with genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes or genetically different types of tissue; the resulting organism is a mixture of tissues, and of different sets of chromosomes. In paleontology, it is a fossil reconstructed with parts from different animals.
aRC(2)himera is an architectural chimera. From its distinct sets of digital chromosomes and analogue chromosomes evolves a monstrous mix-up of various approaches that go from developing skin morphologies, structure anatomies, ornamental textures, responsive environments, biological growth, robotic behaviour, miniature devices, machined fabrication, interactive media design, sensorial feedback etc. To some this may look and sound outrageous and horrific—as it is neither elegant nor pure, nor truthful or correct (process-wise).
Why this Frankensteinian, modern Promethean approach? The grotesqueness of aRC(2)himera is only relative. aRC(2)himera must be seen in a postvirtual and postdigital context of New Materialism, which marks the ambition to escape from the old unsustainable (socially and environmentally) virtual and cyber architectural visions, and from the old off-the-shelf and unsustainable (environmentally and financially) architectural production methods towards innovative applicable theories, techniques and technologies.
Why being obsessed with digital and nature-mimicry processes if what is really necessary is breeding a chimerical environment that is partly biological, partly technological, partly romantic, partly scary? The ambition of aRC(2)himera is to mark an era of synthesis, hybridity and new potentialities. Today's postvirtual era is less interested in the almost quasi-religious cyber myth of total liberation from physical limitations (think of the famous goggles or data gloves for example). Digitality is not the alien, the other. Plus, in a postdigital point of view, digitality is fully intertwined with analogue, mixed and biological technologies. Pure mathematical functions just will not suffice. Thus, aRC(2)himera should facilitate the overdue (and for some, accomplished) task of overcoming feelings of alienation and estrangement towards digital technologies, to re-addresses human cognition, augment realities, and develop nature 2.0.
aRC(2)himeras are constitutive occupier of such a conceptual, and material, landscape. Whether they project fear, or power, they can help in humanising the unknown. The ethymological root of monster, 'monstrum' means that which teaches, which is again linked to 'monstrare', to show; and both deriving from the same base 'monere', to warn. So… be warned! Architecture must inevitably respond to the current acute, actually monstrous, political, economic and ecological problems.
aRC(2)himera is part of the year-long brief entitled Form Follows Fetish. Louis Sullivan's dictum Form Follows Function is certainly one of the most known and also misunderstood statements in architectural history. Falsely propagated as a dictate against ornamentation and in favour of functionalism, yet seemingly still in vogue.
First of all it must be said that most often form outlives function. How many buildings perform other, different functions than originally planned for because it has become obsolete? Or because the programme has evolved so much that it had to move out? The body of architecture is a given (and often underestimated) fact, and so its presence and experience. Is it fair to say then, that it is form that should ideally be more controlled/planned by the architect then function (as a description of required performance) to have more chances to survive societal change? Is form here to stay because it is the primary, and also ultimate, asset of architecture?
Secondly, the proliferation of digital techniques has brought a close to the seemingly enduring separation of function and ornamentation in architecture. Whether sculpted or scripted—this is of no importance here—small variations in software protocols and fabrication mechanics can result in the more or less exuberant articulation of ornate surfaces and volumes. Thus could one state that function has long lost its primacy as design purpose, scope and object(ivity) over, for example, complex, texturized geometric formations?
In fact, we are in a new era of fetishisation within (digital) architecture. Fetish(isation) in architecture is an extremely precise articulation of aspired perfection (albeit usually exaggerated, even dysmorphic) and/or gratification (albeit often obsessive and compulsive). Fetish(isation) is truly contemporary partly due to the revived architectural discourse on nature 2.0 and beauty++, but also due to novel design and fabrication aestheticisation processes, protocols and rituals. Furthermore, the concept of fetish also raises questions on ethnicity, religion, sexuality, underground culture, and provides thus an alternative argument on architectural design that is not bound within stylistic globalisation, or default design methodologies. RC2 formulates powerful individual sets of values, defined by strong aesthetic (objects, materials) and intrinsic psychological (behaviours, fixations) factors. This is discussed in terms of 1:1 human interaction and also within a larger, urban public context…
The making:
Phase A:
1) Form-finding through processing
Process: group of agents, each attracted to a basic flock of agents for a certain lifetime and then freeze in space, giving their place in XYZ to a new agent that loops this procedure.
This simulates basic coral growth with the following principles in mind:
a) the use of "dead" agent as a structure on which the living ones move and expand b) the growth that is mainly dictated by the direction of protein and various sea life (plankton etc).
Output: point cloud and line art on which the overall form is based.
2) Small scale form-finding through grasshopper, rhino-scripting, and smart-form:
Process: development of different skin/texturing strategies and techniques experimenting with folds, layering, subdivisions, wrinkles, porosity etc.)
Output: grasshopper definitions and scripts that can populate generic uv surfaces or meshes.
3) Material testing:
Process: experimenting with glass-torching, foam milling, vacuum forming, plaster moulding, fiberglass, 3d printing etc. Also, recycled glass casting was done by Guan Lee in Grymsdyke farm.
Output: range of techniques and material samples from which high density foam and perspex were chosen as skin and structure materials respectively.
Phase B
1) Overall form
a) Processing point cloud was shrink wrapped into a minimal mesh manually in rhino.
b) The minimal mesh was used as a guide for a smooth t-spline surface version.
c) T-spline version fine-tuned in z-brush.
d) The final t-spline surface was consequently tessellated with various algorithms (kairo tiling, honeycomb, voronoi, triangulation, Catmull&Clark quads).
Output: Triangulated structural model, the faces of which were subsequently distributed to all the 13 students of the cluster for texturizing.
2) Texture adapting and structure mock-ups
Process: Adapting the textures generated in the previous phase (and some new ones to the triangles described above. And making mockups of the structure to solve practical problems.
Output: rhino files prepared for milling and DXFs for lasercutting.
Phase C
Milling and lasercutting in Grymsdyke farm and the Bartlett. Assembly for crit at Grymsdyke farm and at the Haus der Architektur, Graz as part of the By Any Means exhibition.
RC2 is taught by: Univ.-Prof.(IBK) Marjan Colletti PhD, Guan Lee, Tea Lim, Pavlos Fereos.
Fabrication: Grymsdyke Farm (http://grymsdykefarm.com)
Sponsoring: Ms. M Lim, Grymsdyke Farm.
The Masters studio in Graduate Architectural Design is a 12-month full-time programme concentrating on advanced architectural design. It offers the opportunity to be involved in the world of advanced speculative research and to develop the possibility of a personal involvement and implication in the challenging aspects of prospective architecture.
The course is directed by the newly appointed Bartlett Professor of Architecture, Frédéric Migayrou. For this academic year Professor Migayrou has decided to open out the programme to offer a larger diversity of courses, which will be defined as "Research Clusters" and, will focus on a better apprehension of heterogeneous language and the tools of production and fabrication which will radically change the shape of architecture, its social and economical role in the industrial world and its effectiveness as an active agent in the city. Through new developments such as the role of artificiality and simulation, the borders of many disciplines are more and more porous with emerging languages (computational and technological), which redefine the status and the territory of architecture, the understanding of the traditional architectural typologies and the mutations of urban morphologies.
The programme is structured so that the first three months introduce students to the theoretical concepts through lectures and initial design projects. During this period students confirm the subject of their thesis project and report and then work in specialist teaching groups. There is continuous discussion of work via tutorials and reviews. In a second period they will develop their own projects individually or in small groups depending on the structure of each cluster. This allows the individual to discover his or her individual expression; it takes many forms from speculative projects through drawings, models, printed objects, to the construction of working prototypes.


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A perfunctory tune may ruin our vibe, but a tribe set against singing too loudly might have intended for this absence of energy all along. What we deem as wrong might be right for another. Our brothers across the globe move with the sound of nature surrounding their peripheral being. While we cling to format and regimented creations, their elations come from a natural setting.
I'm betting that the bird chirps as it ought
to, for it has got to give all that it has in order to continue its upward flight. In spite of the reckless nomenclature
we base our society around, the ground still stands sturdy, even though the
birdy has evolved beyond this realm. Let
us use film to track our journey as we expand our minds in a time of great
change. In the end, our range will be
great. Hopefully we can relate to the
simple sounds of our primal relatives once again.
Flip-flopping letters and words form sentences that make sense of something that was never really there. Expressing the sesquipedalian burrows of my mind makes for an interesting passing of time, which you will find here. To be clear, this is just a play, a game, a making fun of life when life gets all too monotonous. Do not take this seriously, it is seriously semi-serious in nature. What can be found through the ceaseless typing of one's thoughts onto a page? Let's find out...
Monday, November 14, 2016
Simplicity is Finest
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Austin Community College Health Sciences Students will follow the St David's HealthCare Partnership (SDHP) safety guidelines. The following test was designed by SDHP and adapted for use at ACC.
Before starting the test, please download and read the St. David's Student Orientation Manual. Kindly refrain from printing the manual if you are able. The following test is based off of information contained in the manual, so read closely!
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Did you know you can DIY a totally awesome appliqued throw pillow without sewing a stitch? It's true!
As part of my January goal to "finish abandoned tasks" I'd like to share with you how I made my no-sew Modern Christmas Tree Pillow cover shown in my Holiday Home Tour 2012.
But before you rag on me for posting a Christmas decor tutorial after the holiday, let me promise you that this DIY is applicable to any season. Better yet, this one's gonna be a quickie, because it's so easy.
Supplies Needed:
- Iron
- Solid Color Pillow Cover (I used an Ikea one)
- Thermoweb Heat'n Bond Ultra Hold Iron-On Adhesive
- Patterned Fabric
- Scissors or a Rotary Cutter
(Cost: about $20 for the webbing and pillow cover, but I have a lot of fusible webbing left for other projects. If you use fabric scraps it helps save!)
This project was totally inspired by the solid green velvet Ikea pillow cover that I found in my Christmas decor stash. I looked at it and thought "hmm, what could I do with this to make it more exciting?"
Enter the fusible webbing (Thermoweb Heat'n Bond) and the patterned fabrics. Once I determined that I wanted to applique some simple triangular "trees" for a modern Christmas tree look, the steps were simple:
- Place the patterned fabric, pattern side down, onto the ironing board.
- Set the Fusible Webbing on top of the fabric, with the paper side facing up.
- Iron on top of the paper, leaving the iron in place for 6 seconds on each spot.
- The fabric is now adhered to the fusible webbing. Cut out your fabric shapes.
- Peel off the paper.
- Place the fabric shapes, patterned side up, onto the pillow cover.
- Iron to adhere.
Voila! Those may look like a lot of instructions, but they're really simple. I promise. My pillow cover took me about 10 minutes to make.
I wasn't sure how well the Fusible Webbing would work, but now I can tell you – this stuff is supremely awesome! I used the light Heat'n Bond, because I'm going to machine-stitch the edges of the "trees" for a more decorative look (just need to find the time!) but if you don't sew, go ahead and use the Heat'n Bond Ultra, the strongest strength. This will give you a great hold that will last for years to come.
I hope you liked this mini-tutorial. I love that the fusible webbing makes it easy for anyone to make a customized decorative pillow cover. Monograms? Animals? Geometric shapes? The possibilities are endless!!


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IT's a new dawn for cashew nut growers in the country, with plans underway to restore domestic processing of all produced nuts through revival of all dormant plant and establishing new ones.
The export of raw cashew nuts will therefore cease soon, and instead, local industries take over as consumers of the raw cashew nuts. It's a pity that about 90 per cent of all cashew nuts is exported in raw form, mostly to India, fetching extremely low prices as compared to processed produce.
The revival and establishment of cashew industries will boost value addition to the produce, benefiting both farmers and government. The good thing is that Tanzania has huge potential to expand production and increase productivity.
Tanzanian farmers, cashew nut growers included, have for years been complaining of low and unsteady prices on the cash crop, always dictated by the world market. The low prices aside, exports of raw cashew nuts imply surrendering potential jobs for Tanzanians to foreigners, abroad.
Reports therefore that Vietnamese companies have expressed interest to build new cashew processing plants and revive idle processors, are highly amusing. According to Industry, Trade and Investment Minister Charles Mwijage, the Vietnamese investors aim at boosting cashew nut production in Tanga, Lindi, Mtwara and other regions with potential for the crop.
With new investors having reportedly promised to offer training and encourage production, we firmly believe that the revival and establishment of the plant will rekindle the country's cashew sector.
Obviously, the Vietnamese investors' plans are in line with the government's drive to build up an industrial based economy. Because, it's through blossoming agro-processing industries that the country will easily realise its goals.
According to the Cashew nut Board of Tanzania (CBT), Tanzania produces averagely 130,000 tonnes of cashew nuts annually, with 117,000 tonnes exported to India.
A 2013 report of the World Cashew Nut Alliance says African cashew nut producers had set a target of processing raw cashew nuts by 50 per cent by 2020.
The report indicates that most of producers from African countries sell raw cashew nuts by 90 per cent in India and Vietnam.
In this regard, any idea to process cashew nuts within African countries must be warmly welcomed, taking into account that the processing helps to revolutionise the agriculture sector, with special emphasis on cashew nut growing.
Cashew nut is Tanzania second forex earner, after tobacco.


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SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gray Davis signed the nation's most comprehensive law Thursday to speed recycling of discarded computer monitors and televisions, an estimated 6 million of which are stacked in California offices and homes waiting to be tossed.
The law aims to shrink that stockpile and detoxify future waste -- which cannot now be dumped in California landfills because that could endanger groundwater -- by imposing a fee on new products to pay for recycling, forcing manufacturers to stop using lead and mercury, and setting standards when computer monitors are dismantled in foreign countries.
Consumers can expect to pay $6 to $10 more when they buy new televisions and computer screens after next July 1 if manufacturers won't absorb the charge.
Heralded by some environmentalists, the new law is described by experts as the most far-reaching attempt to tackle electronic waste in the country. No other state imposes a fee on new computer monitors and televisions to pay for recycling, and no other state mandates that manufacturers match the European Union goal of eliminating lead, mercury and other toxics from computers and televisions sold by 2007.


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Tiny Town, USA – Talk to anybody who knows about what happened today and you don't need pictures. In fact, some folks would like some images and sounds forever excised from their minds.
We don't know the explanation for a truckload of cars careening down one of our gorge-like main roads: It happened.
The impact was that of an explosion; it took out one of tiny town's landmark buildings, and killed a young woman who was merely at her station, taking care of sundry duties on a beautiful first day of summer. Who could imagine death arriving in such a way?
It was delivered. And violently so. The very bravest of people anywhere could not prevent the taking of a life in so random and insane manner.
Several people tried -- the entire vehicle was moving at such a velocity and turned itself in such a way that it penetrated a building, as if by terrorist intent. This is most likely not the case. Even so, this was tiny town's wake-up call: Speeding vehicles entering into gravity's realm, are not to be trusted. A driver who prefers to slam into a building as opposed to taking it in the face of barriers meant to save lives, is probably not an unusual person. Perhaps he trusted in the seeming solidity of a formidable brick building, knowing little of the hazards of physics.
We don't know. We know that people were hurt, we know that a young person with child, was killed by this reckless act of homicide.
It may well prove the driver was blinded by light, mistook The Commons for a thoroughfare, or simply was not paying attention and didn't understand what it meant to carry as much tonnage as he hauled. It was a terrible mistake.
Downtown has suffered much by way of alleged repair in the last year and a half. No one could foresee such an incident. It is terrible and cruel and the consequences irrevocable. Those who pray, make your prayers tonight on behalf of the suffering. Those who only know this as a horror, be kind, be gentle and remember how fragile is this life.
Ithaca died a little today; and it lost a fine person while others were shocked or maimed.
This was not a terrorist attack. Many heavy vehicles have lost their jake brakes on these hills. I recall at least five serious incidents in my time here, dating back to 1978. But there were more.
We have been lucky. And today, that luck ran out.
Our dearest thoughts to the suffering, our best wishes to those who tried to help and were driven back by the madness of the inferno they faced; it is no small thing to rush in where angels fear to tread.
But better to know for the future, that angels do walk among us.
Thank you to all who are helping and to those who helped, immediately, instinctively. That is the place I know as home, this confirms my highest expectations of Ithaca, my landing place, my home away from home.
-- Franklin Crawford, administrator, tinytowntimes.com