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It's officially January, which means it's the month of beginnings in the new year, a cold winter and of course Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But did you know January also has a significant impact for those in need? That's right—January is recognized as National Blood Donor Month. According to the American Red Cross, in the United States alone, someone is in need of blood every two seconds. That factors out to about every one in seven people who enter a hospital.
Yet despite the significant need for blood donations, few people actually take steps toward making a difference. Although an estimated 38% of the U.S. population are eligible to donate blood, less than 10% actually do. During the winter months especially, donation shortages can become a serious issue. With cold weather, busy holiday schedules and increases in sickness, January can deter even the most dedicated of donors. This has a severely negative impact, causing issues such as blood shortages, especially during a season with risk of accidents.
When January was declared National Blood Donor Month in 1970, its purpose was to recognize current blood donors for their giving, attract new donors and bring awareness to an issue which affects all of us. With 2018 underway, how can you celebrate National Blood Donor Month? Check out a few ideas for how you can roll up a sleeve and give through January and the year.
1. Find out if you're eligible.
Most importantly, the first step in celebrating National Blood Donor Month is to find out if you're eligible to donate. According to the American Red Cross, the eligibility requirements for donating include: (1) be of 17 years or older; (2) weigh at least 110 pounds; (3) be in good general health and feel well on the day of donation. Depending on where you donate, eligibility requirements may fluctuate. When donating whole blood, donors can give every 56 days, or every eight weeks. If you choose to donate blood platelets, plasma or power red, eligibility requirements and donation frequency fluctuates as well. Check with your donation bank or a local blood drive to be certain of your eligibility and frequency requirements.
2. Decide on a location.
There are two main ways to donate blood: either through a local blood bank or a national supplier. National suppliers of blood, like the American Red Cross, collect blood from all across the country, then redistribute it to areas in need. According to their website, the Red Cross collects approximately 40% of the nation's blood supply and distributes it to about 2,600 hospitals and transfusion centers across the United States. This means that if you donate blood in North Dakota, your contribution could go to help disaster relief efforts in Texas.
Local blood banks are just that: local. Community blood banks typically collect less blood from a smaller population area, but then use that blood within a localized geographic region. So if you give to a blood bank in your community, you can feel confident that your donation is going to help somewhere near you, perhaps even a neighbor, friend or family member. Deciding on where you want to donate is a great step in giving this January. Maybe you don't particularly care, as long as someone receives the blood. Maybe you care a lot, and decide based on your convictions. No matter what you decide, you can make a valuable contribution for others either closeby or far away.
3. Conquer your fears.
The number one reason people say they donate blood is because they "want to help others." On the other hand, two of the most common reasons for not donating are "Never thought about it" and "I don't like needles." All in all, the entire donation process—from registration to cookies—takes approximately one hour, with less than a minute of that time consisting of a needle poke. If needles tend to be an anxiety of yours, consider this: one minute of discomfort can make a world of difference for someone else in need. Your single donation can save up to three lives. That sounds like a pretty great reason to conquer your fears.
This January, celebrate National Blood Donor Month by taking steps to go out, roll up your sleeve and give. Set the tone for the month and the rest of the year to live more altruistically.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau Full Day Tour with Hotel Pickup and Lunch - German
- Varighet: 7 Timer (ca.)
- Lokasjon: Oświęcim
This tour is dedicated to people who value comfort and want to save their time. The driver will pick you up from your hotel and will drive you back to the same address. You will be met in Auschwitz I Museum by a local host who will accompany you into the museum where the official Auschwitz-Birkenau guide will be waiting for you to guide you through Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II–Birkenau in a group of up to 30 people.
The total duration of the tour is approximately 3,5 hours. You will spend 1,5-2 hours at Auschwitz and 60-75 minutes at Birkenau.
Pay your respects and hear about the history of the Holocaust on this day trip to the Auschwitz from Kakrow. The trip will visit both the Auschwitz I Museum and the Birkenau Camp.
Licensed Auschwitz guide will lead you through the history of the largest concentration camp complex and its role in the Holocaust. See the original roads, fences, watchtowers and gas chambers. Commemorate the camp's victims as you walk through the site.
At the Auschwitz I Museum, learn about the Holocaust and the warning from history that the camp represents. Hear the somber stories of what it was like to live at the camp as you view exhibitions containing original items from the camp prisoners.
Your itinerary will involve pick-up and drop off from your accommodation in Krakow, entrance to the Auschwitz I Museum and exhibits (1,5-2 hours), a 15-minute break with lunch box included in the tour price, and a visit to Birkenau (60-75 minutes), before returning to Krakow.


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There are three main areas of navigation which are available on every page on this site. The main organization menu will always be shown horizontally across the page and will contain links to pages with information which is not specific to any single team, league, tournament, or vendor. The left-hand column will contain a menu listing either all the leagues & teams setup for the current season or all the pages available for the selected league, team, tournament, or vendor. Lastly, the very top-right of each page will contain links to a contact page, a sitemap, this help page, and other helpful links.
The site will operate in the following modes*: Organization, League, Team, Tournament, and Vendor. The default mode is Organization, and it is the parent of the other modes. The site can be returned to organization mode by clicking any of the items in the main menu. When the site is in any other mode, all information displayed is filtered to show only items relevant to that league, team, tournament, or vendor. Administrators also have the ability to mark certain information as major, which will make those items visible on the relevant pages in both the parent and child modes (if there are any).
Each mode will have the option to add various types of pages to its menu, such as a home page, a calendar, a news archive, and so on. Some page types will only be available in certain modes, such as a roster page which is only available in team mode. The URL (or web address) of most page types has been made as intuitive as possible where you could guess the address of the page if you are unable to locate it in the menu. For example, the organization calendar is available here: http://ndmhl.ca/Calendar. Some of the most common page types include:
We always recommend that you use the website as your primary source for scheduling information. However, there are a few tools included with the site which allow you to import scheduling information found on this site into other calendars. These options include 1) Clicking the "Export" link found at the top of any team's calendar page, or 2) Using the WebCal feature for live updates of the schedule into other programs (Read More Here).
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Carpet in the Sewing Room: Okay or Nay?
I'm in the midst of getting my sewing room worked out. There's one little problem: it's carpeted. And I am a DISASTER at losing pins all over the place. (If Jeff ever decides to leave me, that will be the reason, I swear.) I worry about pins and needles getting lost in the carpet and getting embedded in my feet (this comes from someone who once had to have a toothpick removed from her foot in an emergency room; just ask my mom).
I had hoped to put in some sort of hard flooring before we got completely moved in, but it's not quite in the budget. So I'm curious: do any of you sew in a room with carpeting? How do you handle it? I've heard of some clever methods of pin sweeping that include a large magnet attached to a broom--anyone?
P.S. So as to not completely ignore the formality of including a picture with a blog post, here is my new dining room table, along with some paint chips that I'm thinking about for the sewing room (1, maybe 2 walls of it). Did you know there's a paint color called "couture"? I'm surely not the only lady who's chosen a paint color based on its name, right?
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- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 7:09 AM
I favour the glass/plastic headed pins as they are easier to see. But I think it's just what your'e used to! X
ReplyDelete I was in a carpeted room for a while, but then (this is in the house, not the studio) I moved to a wood-floor room. What's under the carpet? Could you take the rug up and just use what's underneath?
Love that Couture color! I think it's a bit much the way they show it with bright tangerine on the window, but it could work beautifully as one wall.i have a carpeted sewing room, the pins and neadles dont bother me, i like to think of it as one big pin cushion. Although it does bother my other half, but this is a good thing as he has moved all his crap out of my room.
the only thing that does annoy me with a carpet is that i can never get it hoovered, the bits of thread inbead them selves and even with my super dooper pet hoover it just doesnt pick them up.- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 7:21 AM
I always paint my kitchens a food color- Marshmallow (off white), celery (light gray-green) or cantaloupe (sort of pale orange).
ReplyDelete The room where I sewed in my last home had carpet. My saving grace was a magnet roller (the kind you use for picking up roofing nails). I'd just run it over the room after each sewing session. Worked like a charm. Think I picked mine up from Northern Tool, but I imagine most hardware stores would have one. I think they are called a Nail Sweep. Good luck! Can't wait to see how your room turns out. ☺
ReplyDeleteUgh, my sewing room has carpet and I hate it! (I do hate carpet in any room though, which is part of it.) We can't afford to put down other flooring and underneath the carpet is just subflooring.
I drop pins all the time, but have taken to using the long quilting pins for everything so they are easy to find.How exciting! I've always had carpet. I use the pins with the colored ball on the end so they're easier to see. If I drop one, I find it right away. I've only had one bad experience - my 2-year-old stepped on one and I felt really bad, but it didn't hurt him much and he recovered quickly. :-)
ReplyDeleteI sew in my basement. I laid a large carpet remnant over the concrete floor but I discovered that my pins would get lost in the large pile. But even worse than that were the threads and fabric scraps that no amount of vacuuming could ever pick up. It was such a mess that I just decided to get rid of it. Now all it takes is a broom and a dust pan. I must say it's much neater and more enjoyable, despite the cold concrete floor!
ReplyDeleteWith the exception of my college dorm room, all my sewing rooms have been carpeted (one in shag carpeting! It was the '70s, sue me, lol). So I guess I've just gotten used to being vigilant, especially since I like to sew in my stocking feet. And I use pins with glass heads, which are easy to see if they fall. I'm less vigilant about vacuuming ... too busy sewing! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI have carpet (low pile) with a roller chair mat next to my machine. I also use pins with a large/decorative head on them and I have a magnetic pin dish, so far so good. I also have a pair of 'scuffs': little low shoes more sturdy than slippers that I wear in the sewing room just in case!
ReplyDeleteGo with a tight berber carpet. Commercial style loop carpet. The kind that's found in an office. It's tightly woven and the pins tend not to get as lost in them. If you go to the big orange home center they should have something in stock. They will also have a magnet roller that will help as well. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI tend to sew in my room, where I have carpet and cleanup is AWFUL. I don't even have problems with pins, loose threads and small tiny frayed off bits are a nightmare to remove, even my vacuum doesn't pick some and they tend to get EVERYWHERE in the house. I strongly suggest that for your own comfort you try to get rid of the carpet :) Unless you have somebody else to clean for you :)
ReplyDeleteMy studio is carpeted. The good thing is it gets vacuumed weekly when my lady comes to clean - otherwise, I'm not sure the floor would ever get cleaned in there! Only once did I have an issue, when a sewing machine needle landed straight up, and I stepped on it wearing slippers. It went thru my slipper, but not thru my foot. The pins with the large flower heads are easy to find.
Love your colors!What type of carpet are you dealing with? Shag, plush or a low pile like berber? I currently have low pile berber type (almost office carpet) and it's working out OK. I do keep a mat under the chair at the sewing machine, and I can at least hear when I drop a pin there. I don't have a magnet, but do use a flashlight on occasion to find dropped pins. It does keep the room a bit quieter, and is nice on the feet, but if I had a do-over, it would be hard flooring.
Someone else commented about pulling up a corner and checking what's under there - that's what I'd do. I think if it were carpet with long pile, I'd pull it up and paint the subfloor if new flooring was not doable immediately.CARPET IS AWUFUL! I just moved in the beginning of this year, and my last sewing room had carpet. I sew daily, and large amounts. (I am a home decor seamstress) I used pins with bright heads that showed up on the carpet, so that wasn't the issue. The issue was with all the threads everywhere. From sewing and from cutting, my carpet was so covered with threads that you really couldn't tell what color the carpet was. I couldn't vacuum because the threads wrapped around the brush and broke my vacuum more than once. I ended up having to get a rubber broom and rub up the threads in handfuls to throw them away. Such a pain. My new sewing room has old wood floors that I want to paint white and paint a bright color stencil all over them. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI have carpet in my sewing room and hate it- not so much because of the pins but because you cannot roll your chair easily. I have tried to mat under my chair and it was not very helpful and ultimately just cracked. My carpet is a medium pile- a low pile would probably be easier but I am planning on pulling it all up as soon as I am able. Good luck and enjoy the process- moving into a new home can be fun.
ReplyDeletei have carpet in my sewing room, and it is an abomination! cannot wait to get rid of it.
Not only do some pins get stuck down into the weft, but strings and all sorts of little things get stuck and it is a pain to have to vacuum often.
Also, its fairly plush so accurate floor-hem measurements aren't really possible since everything sinks down a bit.
I hope to replace it with something else soon!
oooo... go with Couture: sounds fanciful & inspiring!You need a big magnet. Pass it over the carpet occasionally to help pull up dropped pins.
Personally, I loathe carpet as a general concept. I cannot imagine a more disgusting, less-hygienic, concept than having germ- and dirt-trapping textile permanently installed on the floor. I would rather have concrete, linoleum, varnished plywood, almost any hard surface than have carpet.
However, the house has carpet and I a) don't own the place and b) couldn't afford to re-do the floors even if I did own it, so carpet it is. That includes the sewing area. Mostly, I try not to drop pins, and I pick them up immediately if I know I've dropped one. My pins have flat, rather large, butterflies on the ends so they're easy to see in the beige carpet.Sorry--me again.
How about putting down a few plastic chair mats under your immediate sewing area, so pins don't drop into the carpet?
Also--do you have one of those magnetic pin dishes? Might help you drop fewer pins to begin with.
Re: Paint colors. I painted my room a color called "Early Grass". I have a big collection of Breyer horse figurines and, yes, I held up paint chips to see which green was most flattering to them.I have to sew in my room, and can never get the threads off the carpet, either under the sewing machine or where I cut out on the floor! I now have an extra rug, that I put upside down under the machine area, so pins don't stick in and I can sweep everything off fairly easily, and then when people come over I turn the rug the right way up and put it in the middle of the room over the cutting out thread areas!
ReplyDeleteMy sewing room was carpeted for 8 years (that's how we purchased the home, which was new at the time). The glass head pins are much easier to see on carpeting. The obstacle I ran into was that all the fabric 'dust' and threads would end up in the corners and along the base boards. Pain to keep clean. I now have walnut flooring in there. My recommendation to you is to live with the carpeting, but only until you can afford wood or tile flooring. Then go for it, get that carpet out of there!
ReplyDeleteI have a carpeted sewing room. I prefer it. When I sew upstairs my foot pedal slides all over the place. Plus, since I cut my patterns on the floor I can just pin straight down into the carpet to hold the patterns in place.
I drop pins all the time, and I think I'm just immune to them. I've stepped on a few, but just pull them out of my heel. My husband knows to never come into my sewing room without shoes. I just try to grab pins off the floor at the end of each sewing session, sometimes I'll run my magnetic pin cushion over the area around my machine table. I do always use the ones that have yellow heads though, never the kind that are just metal.
The biggest problem is really vacuuming up threads. They just get everywhere, and it isn't as easy as sweeping.My sewing room is carpeted too. We have lived here for 2 years and I have yet to step on a pin. This coming from the girl that has a magnetic pin "cushion" that I drop often. I have the glass head pins in bright colors so it makes them easy to see.
The Couture paint color would definitely be my choice based solely on it's name!So many opinions!
I rent, so I have to deal with carpet in my sewing space. It is USUALLY not a problem.
Pins with large heads on them are easiest to see when they fall. I have a harder time keeping track of needles.
And uhm, vacuuming can be kind of a nightmare, given that I tend to have threads all over. But I try to keep them from getting too out of hand by keeping a wastebasket next to my sewing machine so as I'm clipping seams and stuck all the bits go straight into it.
Good luck! I'm sure you'll find a solution that works for you :)I've had a carpeted sewing room for more than two years, and I have never stepped on a pin. But, my poor husband claims to find them everywhere; although, I think that's mainly because we share the office/sewing room, so they fall near him (except the ones he finds in the living room on occasion--those would happen whether the sewing room is carpeted or not!). Pro: pins are MUCH easier to pick up from a carpeted surface than a hard one.
ReplyDelete- MelissaMarch 19, 2012 at 11:02 AM
I have a pink sewing room with carpet! While I love the color (so cozy and fun) the carpeting I hate. Hard wood floors aren't our first priority either, so using colorful headed pins has worked fine so far. Good luck and have fun!
ReplyDelete I used to have a rug in my old sewing room, but I don't have one anymore. I definitely like sewing without it better, but both setups have been great. The trick is to keep strong magnets around to pick up the pins afterward. That way, when you're done sewing, you can wave the magnets around underneath your workspace and pick up all the pins. Even the ones you can't see will get picked up. Magnets are one thing I can't live without in my sewing room.
ReplyDeleteI sewed in a carpeted room for 2 years and honestly, for as many pins and needles as I dropped (believe me, it was an obscenely large number) I found the bigger problem to be thread. By the end of a really productive afternoon, you couldn't see the forest through the trees, if you know what I mean. As far as stepping on pins, I found that I felt the less painful (though still annoying) head of the pin more than the point. Maybe it was just my luck, but pins were the least of my worries with that carpet
ReplyDeleteI sew in my spare bedroom so it is carpeted (wooden floors upstairs make too much noise downstairs) and I'm very messy with my sewing; I'm always treading on dropped pins and try as I might to put all cut threads in a bag taped to the table right by the sewing machine, with a bin on my other side I find the carpet is always littered with thready bits, I've found a lint roller good for getting these out of the carpet, if you could somehow fit one onto an extendible paint roller you would probably save your back too, I could definitely do with a magnet contraption for the pins though!
ReplyDeleteI have carpet in my sewing area (the move to California means I've temporarily lost my sewing room) but I decided to go with the pins that have the colored heads on them. That way, I can see them much easier.
I love the colors you choose. I'm not that brave to paint that boldly. I stick with neutrals and then add splashes of color in pillows and pictures and such.i sometimes choose nail polish because of the name :) My sewing room has wood flooring, but I put down a large area rug (just because I had the rug and I like to walk barefoot on carpet). I haven't had trouble with loosing pins, but I keep a close eye on my pins--if one falls, I stop to find it immediately. The rug has very low pile though, so the pins don't have any where to hide. You could always try putting down any area rug with low pile if the installed carpet is high pile--that could help.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Gertie--so nice to have more room! I just moved from a all-wood-floor house to one with carpets in some rooms this year. I don't like it aesthetically at all, but the cats love it. (Pluses: don't see cat hair everywhere, litter doesn't track all over the house...) And the same with pins--they don't fall and travel all over the place! Once a week I usually go through with a pin magnet and brush along the carpet. And I use those little tiny glass head pins that are impossible to see.
ReplyDeleteI have carpet in my sewing area. I hate it, but not for the pins reason - for stray thread. It is so annoying. The thread gets stuck in the fibers of the carpet (it's pretty standard carpet, I don't know what "type", though) and the vacuum doesn't do such a great job at getting it out. I do have a magnetic pin "cushion" that I like quite a bit.
Tear the carpet out.I would keep magnets and vacuum handy-but it will work. What if you pulled up carpet and painted the subfloor? Then when you can afford wood do it? I did that in our home office because I think the previous owners had a naughty cat I there and it smelled. I painted it a chocolate and then did cream colored diamonds. You could even do splatters etc to tie colors together.
ReplyDeleteOh Gertie! Can't help but worry about Henry's little paws! I'd lose the carpeting, even if it's just plywood underneath. Had the same issue with my solarium, and ended up using a tinted stain on the floor, maintenance was a cinch with a broom or dustbuster! A word of warning concerning your paint. I painted a focal wall a deep Cranberry Zing (I'm a Sucker for cool paint names as well!) and when the light hit it at certain times of the day, everything looked like cotton candy pink!!! After a while it really did a number on my eyes, and my partner said "it's like being trapped in Barbie's Malibu Beach House!". Live and learn, I guess...
ReplyDeleteBasement = concrete floor, but too cold in wintertime to sew down there. Spare bedroom = carpet and proximity to bathroom. A magnet catches the few pins that fall there. Vacuum cleaner gets the rest, as well as thread snippets and lint. Also cat hair, but that is another problem. Haven't stepped on a pin in years -- they're easy to pull out. Just try not to bleed on your project.
ReplyDeleteMy sewing room is also the cat room and not being able to have laminate because the floor had a bump in it, I went for some scrubbable carpet in the event the cat threw a sicky. It doesn't have much of a pile on it so pins are reasonably easy to see. I tend to have a quick pin hunt after a sewing session. Fortunately the cat is not really into sewing so he never goes on that side of the room. I also use glass headed pins so that helps.
ReplyDeleteI used to sew in a carpeted room for a while and sadly I have no advice for you but wished somebody had given me some. Pins kept getting stuck in the carpet and literally buried themselves in the carpet. They were also much more prone to getting lodged in your feet because they stuck out of the carpet in all sorts of directions. Removing them with a magnet, like I do on my wooden flooring, was also not that easy, because the pins were literally entangled by the carpet hairs. Perhaps my carpet was particularly bad.
But I guess I do have one recommendation: wear slippers!There is carpet almost everywhere in my apartment, I hate that (a parquet floor is so much better). And of course, when my pins or my needles fall down, I have some problem to find them. But I guess this depends of the thickness of your carpet. Sometimes I find them immediately, sometimes a few weeks later when I organized a massive rescue mission (which involves having your nose 2 inches to the carpet, or using a magnifying lens). Like Katie said, usually they laid flat.
To solve this annoying fact, I am thinking about buying a plastic carpet, kind of solid, to protect the area around my sewing machine. I know you can find some at Ikea, it is supposed to make the area around your office flat and sound-absorbing. My only concern is: Can that kind of carpet stay flat on a woolly carpet ?First of all I once I narrow my paint selection down to a few I always pick the one with the coolest name. Second carpet and pins is a disaster (my aunt once had a pin lodged in her foot!) But I'm sure you'll make it work if you have to. I will say we installed that laminate flooring that looks like wood and is really cheap maybe that's an option? Lastly are you sure there isn't wood under the carpet already?
ReplyDelete- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Beware. I visited a family friend who's a retired professional dress maker. I stayed in the sewing room which had a carpet of pins. It was impossible to be in there without shoes. So horrible. I tried to pull a bunch out but they were well embedded. Rip up the carpet. You can paint the sub floor a nice color w/ floor paint.
ReplyDelete My former sewing room was carpeted, yes a problem with threads and pins so I vacuumed at the end of the day if I sewed in there, that worked well. Now I have hard flooring in my new room and I have a dust mop handy to move out anything that drops. You see I have two boys that sew with me my Weimaraners and they will grab anything that drops to eat so I must be diligent on keeping it cleaned up.
ReplyDelete- HeatherMarch 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM
Hi Gertie, I have carpet too but I replaced all my pins with the ones with flowers at the end so I could see them. Same problem - wanting to hold onto the hubby as smoke billows from his ears at the mere thought of stepping on a sewing pin... :)
ReplyDelete Nay! If you are lucky enought to have a dedicated sewing room, of course you want hard flooring there.
In our house, we have carpet everywhere on the first floor... except in the sewing room. We put down some quite cheap laminate (literally translated, so perhaps not the right word, I mean the pressed sawdust-made-to-look-like-wooden-floorboards) flooring there.
I sometimes work in a place where the sewing area is carpetted and I'm forever loosing pins and needles because there's just no way I can find them all and pick them up again in the carpet. I wouldn't want that at home, where I'm sometimes sewing bare-footed.We got rid of all the carpet in the house when the kid came along - best decision ever. Now I can't believe I ever liked carpeted floors, so gross! We couldn't afford NICE floors, so we went to Lowe's (are they national?) & picked up some laminate vinyl tiles. They're fairly cheap & easy to work with. If you want to be even more thrifty, see if they have any already open boxes or discontinued tiles - we're in ALASKA, where everything is more expensive, and we picked up some discontinued tiles for 1 room at about $1/tile. The tiles are usually 12x12".
Other than that, I'd 2nd (or like 50th) the chair mat idea. The clear plastic thing's kind of atrocious though - maybe paint it or put some stickers on it for pizzazz!
It's not the most dazzling floor, but with walls colored "couture", no one will notice the floor!I'm with everyone who recommends large-heads for your pins (it's much cheaper to buy new pins than new flooring!).
I've never not sewn on a carpeted surface, and I've never had trouble. I bought some glass-headed silk pins (super-sharp, super-fine gauge steel, no melting if you accidentally iron over one) years ago, and they're easy to find if you drop one.
OTOH, as pretty as those paint chips are, I'd like to warn you against the optical affect of being surrounded by such a rosy glow when you're going to be trying to color match in the same room. It's bound to affect the quality of the ambient light, making color decisions harder than you might think.
If I were lucky enough to have a dedicated sewing room, I'd want to think of it as my art studio -- and would want to make the lighting conditions as close to daylight as possible.My sewing room used to have carpet. I was forever losing pins and needles in it -- not to mention the fiber scraps and thread. I ripped the carpet up and repainted the plank flooring that was in there originally. I love it. Pins are easy to see, and I have a large bar magnet I use to clean up my spilled pins/needles. I also admit to hating to vacuum. I'd rather sweep, so less carpet in the house makes me happier.
ReplyDeleteUgh! I hate carpet with a passion. I have terrible allergies & carpet is an allergen magnet. My parents bought a house with carpeting in EVERY room, including the bathrooms & kitchen. I was shocked that the garage wasn't carpeted. :P
I couldn't convince my parents to rip up the carpet & just stain or paint the subfloor, because that just isn't "proper." As if my parents care the slightest bit for propriety in dress or food.....
Anyway, I have seen pictures of OSB (Oriented Strand Board) stained dark brown. It looks a lot like leather. Then there is always painting a black & white checkerboard on the floor--VERY retro. I think a painted gingham pattern would look quite amazing. If you have a bit more money & less time, shop for the best price on adhesive linoleum tiles. Large black & white squares are very common at remaindered goods or odd lot stores. They are very easy to apply, & don't require as much work to clean up the subfloor.Top tip for removing lint and threads from carpet - a wire bruch, the kind that looks like a brush and shovel brush only made of metal bristles. A quick an very gentle flick of this removes all the threads. I learnt this trick when working ina silk shop - silk frays and the resulting floss has supergluelike qualities whe it comes to carpet. The more you vacuum, the more it sticks as the static builds up! And I agree re flowerhead pins - I love them to bits anyway and you neve rlose them!
ReplyDeleteI have a strong magnet with a handle that I wave around over the carpet.
As to the flooring,are you sure there isn't hardwood under the carpet? Our house was carpeted in the wall-to-wall 60's/70's style and when we pulled it up there was beautiful oak flooring underneath! If you'r not sure, you might just pull up a little in a less conspicuous place & take a look-see. Maybe you'll get lucky like we did. And congratulations again on your new home! There's always something to tweak, but the equity is YOURS, not a landlord's. :-)I hated the carpet when I had it. It lasted the first six weeks in our (then) new house. Thread and fabric dust just love carpet and even the best vacuuming every day can't keep up. I ripped out the carpet and pad and lived with a plain, painted subfloor for a year. Over that year, I bought 144 square feet of cork tiles (the 4 mm thick, 12 inch by 12 inch, used for cork boards). They ran about $5 per pack of 5, but since they're identical, I just stashed them until I had enough. A pot of flooring adhesive, a small trowel and a quart of polyurethane turned it into the greatest floor ever. Cork is slightly yielding, warm, and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteNO CARPET ANYWHERE.
OK you live in the frozen north so you either need underfloor heating or carpet. NEVER in a sewing room. Carpets are dirty harbor dust and mites and animal hair if you have them. Lino, tile laminate all are strong, easy to clean and find dropped stuff. Who wants to waste sewing time vacuuming.Hi Gertie - just discovered your excellent blog. I sew in a carpeted room, and I put one of those large plastic office "floor protectors" under my sewing table and chair, since my chair has wheels. It works great, and if I drop pins it's usually on the plastic thing.
BTW, I chose my kitchen paint color based on its name, which was Apple Crisp (Behr). After I got it up I changed the name for my purposes to Butterscotch Pudding, which it looks as luscious as. Go for it, color is inspirational!
Dana- The Vintage SeamstressMarch 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Hey Gertie, I have a carpeted sewing room and a cat. Yes, there are pins in the carpet but somehow I never seem to step on the pins and the cat lies around everywhere and it doesn't seem to bother him either. PS Love the idea of a colour called "couture"!
ReplyDelete I have carpet in my sewing room, an awful mottled blue/grey that hides EVERYTHING. If I drop something I can't hear where it went like I could if it were a hard surface, and I usually can't find it, even after looking for quite some time.
A magnetic wand does gather up some stray pins, but it doesn't help me find beads and other small bits.
I highly recommend a solid surface floor in your sewing room if you can manage it.My craft room has a carpeted floor. The pins usually behave and lay quietly on their sides and catch the light so I see them. Six years in this house and no one, not my husband, my child nor myself has been injured by a wayward pin. I use glass or plastic headed pins and I always spot the bit of colour on the floor. Not a biggy.
ReplyDeleteDo not fret about the carpet, I sewed for years with a carpet. I now have a hard floor, and that also has its drawbacks. Just go with it, unless it is one of those 'sticky' carpets, which hold every thread. uggh! If it does, then get an offcut of lino (cushionfloor, or whatever, and put that nunder the sewing area its most needed, as a temporary fix.
ReplyDeleteWell, you certainly have no lack of opinions. :) I used to sew on my kitchen table and use pins with balls on the end. I've only dropped a few pins in the last couple of years and always pick them up right away so my two year old won't get to them. Now that I'm upstairs in a carpeted room, I agree with the commenters above that the pins aren't a problem but all the little threads. I try to throw them away right away and keep my sewing space clean. Anyway, about the wall color, I'd recommend trying out a sample first before painting the whole room. I'm so glad I did in our room- the first color would've been too orange. Eek.
ReplyDeleteAfter 16 years (!) of having carpet in sewing room I finally got laminate flooring installed, and I am delighted! I can't tell you how many times I stabbed my foot right through the shoe with stray pins, not to mention clogging up my vacuum with bits of thread and fabric scraps. Carpet in a sewing room reqires you to vacuum DAILY, and who's going to do that? Please, whatever you do, get some hard surface in there even if it's the cheapest vinyl! Down with carpet!!
ReplyDeleteUntil you have the money to remove the carpet and put down new flooring, invest $6 in some new pins with brightly coloured heads that will stand out on the existing carpet.
I've sewn in all kinds of rooms and found that pins get lost on every surface - carpet, hardwood, vinyl, tiles - so my trick has been to buy coloured pins and just get rid on pins that will blend in to the floor when they are inevitably dropped.Carpet is terrible, it won't vacuum and (since I'm very clumsy and drop my box of pins at least once per project) stepping on pins can be very painful (sticking them under your thumb too, but that's a whole different matter).
Magnets do help a lot, but mine isn't on a stick, so I have to go down to the floor and risk pins in my knees. Also I generally prick myself when I attempt to take them off the magnet. Again clumsy and more me than anything else.
Good luck finding a solution or working with the carpet as it is!- AnonymousMarch 19, 2012 at 6:22 PM
two hints I have heard about sewing in rooms with carpets... one is but the leg of a hose around a vacume tube, then it catches stuff in the hose. keep it kind of loose around the tube. The second is to have a very strong magnet and sweep with your hand over carpet to get lost pins.
Nadine I'm sure I heard somewhere that if you cover the nozzle attachment of a vacuum cleaner with a really thin material... like a pair of stockings pulled tight over it, when you turn it and run it over the carpet it'll suck the needles onto the material but not into the vacuum cleaner. Would probably work for the backs of earrings too... I'm always dropping those! Hope it helps!
ReplyDeleteI'm in the "pull the carpet up and paint whatever is underneath camp" we did this in our kitchen when we first moved in (who puts carpet in kitchens????). An annual repaint kept it tidy until we could do the whole shebang properly. I love sewing in my space with hard flooring - a broom to sweep up the detritus and pick the pins out of the pile before the thread and fabric goes in the bin. So much easier than carpet. Years ago in a rental we had super industrial strength carpet and that wasn't too bad to keep clean, the icky shag pile at my parents was the worst!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first started sewing, I did so in a carpeted apartment. NEVER AGAIN! I didn't have that much problem with pins, but cleaning loose threads and lint on beige carpet was a nightmare. The carpet always looked dirty and I had to convince the apartment complex that the carpet wasn't dirty.
Now, I sew in my basement which is outfitted with vinyl tile. I *love* it. It's so much easier to maintain.Gertie, I have a terror of needles in carpets! My mother had a sewing machine needle snap off in her foot, it had to be cut out. eek!
Also I'm clumsy, I drop needles and would surely hurt myself if I sewed on carpet. And, well, I am biased in general against carpet because of the hygiene thing people have already mentioned.
I like the flower-head quilting needles for visibility, clover makes some very cute ones.
I also like the idea of seeing whats under the carpet, hopefully it's something you can live with until flooring pennies are saved.
I'm glad for your excitement in your beautiful new place! xI'm a carpet person. I would rather feel that under my bare feet. I don't have any problems with carpet in my sewing room. I rarely drop pins or needles and when I do they seem easy to find (colorful heads on the pins). I like cleaning carpet better, just run the vacuum. Good luck with your decision. As with everything there is no right or wrong answer, it's just whatever you like better.
ReplyDeleteI once had a sewing room that had shag carpeting. Let's just put it this way- I was lucky that I never required a trip to the ER.
I would just make sure that you are up to date on your tetanus shot.
If wood flooring is not in the budget yet, maybe you can rip up the carpet and put in a cheap linoleum for the time being.
Congrats on the new house!When I was a kid, my mom was forever losing pins and needles in the carpet, then finding them with her feet. I always got stuck pulling them out! I always keep needles threaded for that reason - I need to see them!!
I bought a house built in the 1920's, and one small bedroom (6 by 10) had three layers of carpet, and every layer was full of pins, needles, and thread. We painted the plank floor, and after my oldest moved out, it was my sewing room. Still needed a magnet to get the pins out of the cracks.
You are getting lots a great advice. Fun post!To me the wooden floor has much more advantages than the carpet. Pins are pretty easy to pick up but also you can through your threads as you sew. The wooden floor is super easy to keep clean and nice.
So pins are not a problem for me but thread!!!!! And I hate carpets in my sewing space. Currently I sew in our living room which has a small carpet and it's impossible to vacuum. The carpet is black but it looks almost white from all the thread that stuck in it. Luckily in a month we are moving to a new apartment where I'll have my own sewing room.I use a magnet. I don't know if you have children about but its a great game. Gran used to pay us a cent per pin.
Maybe diff thickness of carpet is different but I dont have too much problems with my carpet. Granted i wear slippers mostly but the pins tend to sit on top of it unless i'm lazy and leave them there for ever to get trampled.We are just about finished re-doing my basement to create my new sewing center and I chose laminate wood flooring. It is really beautiful. In the past, I had carpet and stepped on one to pin to many! Easier to clean with a swifer, then I use a magnet to get the pins out before I sweep it all into the dust pan!
I've got pics on my blog of our progress:
dressed2atee.blogspot.comI sew in a carpeted room - I find it makes the pins easier to pick up because they sew. I have three cats as well - none have got pins stuck in their feet.
You could do what the Queen (of England) does - she carries a magnet with her most the time to pick up pins (she has her clothes tailored - naturally) and doesn't want the corgis getting pins in their feet.Gertie, my MIL sews over carpet and has one of those wands. Then she goes over the carpet again with a hand vacuum! (She has pets.)
I have horrible allergies and an autoimmune issue so carpet and I don't get along. In our old home, we had hardwood, so no troubles. In this house, though, we moved in and had the original-to-the-house carpet upstairs and I lost my ability to breathe.
So I tore out the carpet in the two rooms I'd be in most—our bedroom and my office/sewing room—and painted the floors. It's labor-intensive, but inexpensive compared to even new carpet, to say nothing of laminate, bamboo (my dream flooring), or hardwood. It's not permanent, but does the trick for me...and I see those needles (and threads) quite easily!
And my new office/sewing room is painted "Ballet Slipper" pink with grey accents. Love the choices you've got there, though! Beautiful...what fun!- BethanyMarch 22, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Some color psychology- I've heard RED is better for attention to detail, methodical, calculated tasks. BLUE is good for imagination and creativity. I have to admit my bedroom is painted a pinkish red and I LOVE it!
ReplyDelete - SufiyaApril 9, 2012 at 4:36 PM
While I like the colours you chose, people are RIGHT about them interfering with colour matching...the great couturiers all had their salons painted "pearl gray" so the walls would not compete with the clothes. But, do what thou wilt!
And, yes bare floors are best unless you get one of those "broom magnets" and never use anything except colour-head pins to make them more visible! I have a pin tray with a POWERFUL magnet I got at the dollar store; I can throw pins at it from a distance and the tray will draw them in! The only down-side is, is that the pins themselves become magnetic so when I go to pick up ONE pin, a few others tag along, as often as not!
And ,. people with cats: F'r gawdsake be CAREFUL about your thread/thread leavings if you have a cat! Cats like to EAT thread, and it can KILL THEM in a horribly AGONIZING fashion by tangling up in their guts!! I still remember with horror how I discovered a NEEDLE and thread in one of my cat's droppings; she was incredibly LUCKY! I have even caught her twice in the act of EATING a thread (with a needle on the end!)when I was careless about leaving my pincushion with a threaded needle where she could get to it!>wipes forehead<


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As Tuesday night wore into Wednesday morning, Turkish riot police were clashing with demonstrators in Istanbul's Taksim Square. Barrages of tear gas were fired into the square, where several fires burned on vehicles and other material. Some protesters were equipped with gas masks.
Speaking on television Tuesday, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said he will not bend to the protesters' demands. Here's a portion of that speech, from the BBC:
"If you call this roughness, I'm sorry, but this Tayyip Erdogan won't change."
"To those who... are at Taksim and elsewhere taking part in the demonstrations with sincere feelings: I call on you to leave those places and to end these incidents and I send you my love.
"But for those who want to continue with the incidents I say: 'It's over.'
"As of now we have no tolerance for them."
Early Wednesday, "a fresh wave of tear gas engulfed Gezi Park — where government officials have said protesters can stay — as a column of police broke through barricades on a side street nearby," CNN reports.
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It's 10:22 p.m. in Turkey and as the sun set, clashes between police and protesters continued. They began early this morning when riot police moved into Istanbul's Taksim Square, removing barricades and attempting to remove anti-government protesters.
As night fell, television images of Taksim Square showed protesters still there, launching fireworks at police and police responding with tear gas and water cannons.
The Guardian, which is live-blogging the situation, reports:
"Dozens of police have been again been sweeping across Taksim Square this evening, backed by water cannon.
"Reuters reports that riot police fired volleys of teargas canisters, driving thousands into narrow side streets.
"Moments before their advance, police were confronted by protesters jeering and calling for them to leave the square."
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Riot police pushed into Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday, removing barricades and pushing anti-government protesters away, NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.
Broadcasts showed some of the protesters throwing Molotov cocktails toward the police, who responded with tear gas and blasts from water cannons. Protesters could be seen fleeing. Witnesses say there were "several dozen" protesters injured, Reuters says.
It was a renewed show of force by the government after nearly two weeks of protests that have spread to other Turkish cities. What began as a peaceful demonstration against plans to develop Istanbul's Gezi Park has grown. Those who believe that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing for too many conservative changes, such as restrictions on the sale of alcohol, have used the government's initially harsh reaction to the protests against the park development as a rallying cry.
On Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal, the government tried to differentiate between the protesters who were in Taksim Square and those who have been occupying the park:
"Istanbul's governor sought to draw a distinction between violent protesters damaging the country's image and peaceful demonstrators at the adjacent park that spawned the wider protests.
"Speaking at a news conference around three hours after hundreds of Turkish riot police moved into Taksim Square early Tuesday, Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu said police intervened to clear 'marginal groups' from the square but the government doesn't intend to move against peaceful demonstrators in Gezi Park, where he said protesters have shown 'sensibility.' "
Reuters reports that during Tuesday's operation to clear the square, "police appealed to the protesters not to throw rocks, calling from loudspeakers, 'Dear Gezi friends. We are unhappy with this situation. We don't want to intervene. We don't want to harm you. Please withdraw.' "
The wire service adds that "Turkey's Medical Association said that as of late Monday, 4,947 people had sought treatment in hospitals and voluntary infirmaries for injuries, ranging from cuts and burns to breathing difficulties from tear gas inhalation, since the unrest began more than 10 days ago."
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JOHNSON: Jameel Jaffer is deputy legal director at the ACLU.
JAFFER: I don't think that's an indication that the courts can't oversee these kinds of programs. It's an indication that the particular oversight process that we have in place right now, doesn't work.
JOHNSON: Critics liken the secret surveillance court to a rubber stamp. But old rulings that have been released this winter demonstrate those judges were often frustrated with the NSA's lapses. Judge John Bates called out the agency for continually collecting too much information, and misrepresenting its activities to the court for years. His recently released opinion said the NSA vacuumed up more information on American citizens than it was supposed to, then wrongfully shared the content of email messages with other people in the government who were not empowered to receive it.
Still, Bates - like other members of the secret court - almost always gave the agency a green light to do more despite the violations. Elizabeth Goitein co-directs the National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
ELIZABETH GOITEIN: There's a sense that's emerging from what we're learning about how this court operates, that it really does see its job as getting to yes.
JOHNSON: Goitein says the judges are forced to rely on the government for the facts and technical details about how the surveillance programs work.
GOITEIN: And when you read these opinions, it doesn't look like the judges are trying to find the best interpretation of the law. It looks like they are trying to find an interpretation of the law that can plausibly sustain what the government has asked to do. And that's not the role of a court.
JOHNSON: A spokesman for the court declined to comment for this story. But the court, and the surveillance programs themselves, have some prominent defenders. Among them is former judge and U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey. Mukasey recently told an audience at the Federalist Society that reform proposals on the table - things like putting an adversary inside the court to argue against the government, and limiting phone record collection - could undermine national security.
MICHAEL MUKASEY: This is enormously important because it is the only outward-facing intelligence gathering program in the United States - the only one. And if we tinker with it and mess with it, we are going to be crippling ourselves.
JOHNSON: For experts who have followed surveillance for years, the sheer number of phone calls and e-mails the U.S. has gathered means it's almost impossible to police such a secret organization. Jennifer Granick is director of civil liberties at the Stanford Law School Center for the Internet and Society.
JENNIFER GRANICK: Mess up in a mass surveillance world, you get a massive mistake. And those mistakes have led to collection of lots of information about Americans that's supposed to be off-limits.
JOHNSON: Granick says adding new oversight, more technology and better rules might help bring those programs in line. But she's not convinced that surveillance this complicated can ever be controlled.
GRANICK: You may be seeing evidence that there is no way to make bulk collection and mass surveillance work in a democracy - period; that it is just incompatible with a democracy.
JOHNSON: Those big decisions, she says, need to be made by Congress, not federal judges acting in secret.
Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
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Amber Selman Lynn wanted to help plan a women's march in Mobile, Ala., this month to mark the first anniversary of last year's huge protests across the country. With no experience in political activism, she had helped organize a bus full of women to go from Mobile to NY. After they came back from the euphoric trip, they formed a group called Mobile Marchers that met monthly. They spoke up for the Affordable Care Act at town-hall-style meetings, and knocked on doors for the Alabama Senate candidate Doug Jones, the Democrat who beat Roy S. Moore in a stunning victory last month.
In Texas, emails collected by the organizers of the Women's March in Austin are being repur posed to promote candidates who support abortion rights. In Arkansas, Gwen Combs, the elementary schoolteacher who organized the Little Rock march, is now running for Congress. Thousands of women in October attended a convention in Detroit training them on every thing from lobbying elected officials to white supremacy.
But as the movement evolves, differing priorities and tactics have emerged among the women, nearly all of them unpaid and spread across the country. Now, on the eve of the anniversary, a rift is emerging between two groups: Women's March Inc., which organized the march on NY and spent much of the year creating more social justice protests, and another organization of activists who planned sister marches last year and believe that winning elections, particularly in red states, should be the primary goal. The split has raised questions about who can claim the mantle of the Women's March — and the funding and press attention that goes with it.
"We can march and take to the streets and yell about all the stuff we want to change, but unless we're getting people elected to office who are going to make those changes, we're not really doing anything," said Lindsey Kanaly, who organized the women's march in Oklahoma City and is now a March On board member.
The group is now focused on helping liberal women in Republican-led districts organize ahead of the pivotal midterm elections this year.
Mindful of the optics of dividing the movement, March On founders describe the organization as a complement, not a competitor, to Women's March Inc. Both groups have refrained from criticizing the other in public. But behind the scenes, there has been some frustration.
The organizers of the march in Washington made a point of picking leaders from communities who have historically been ignored by mainstream feminist groups. Of the four national co chairwomen of the Washington march, three were minorities. But the group's leadership had very little geographic diversity. Nearly all of the board members of Women's March Inc. are from New York City.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
"What they are doing is great, but it's difficult to tap into here," said Kelly Smith, a librarian from Berea, Ky., who organized buses from Kentucky to Washington for the march last year. A general strike could not work in Kentucky, a state where many women depend on hourly wages and do not have union protections, she said.
March On's founders say the group grew out of weekly conference calls held by the organizers of sister marches as they swapped tips on applying for permits, finding sponsors and obtaining event insurance. After the marches, they met for the first time at a retreat and decided to form a new organization that would focus on giving organizers tools to help win elections. In October, March On began an initiative called March on the Polls, which urges local activists to use the anniversary to help register and educate voters in advance of the midterm elections. Two months later, in December, Women's March Inc. announced its own campaign called "Power to the Polls," with an opening rally in Las Vegas on Jan. 21.
So far, the split between Women's March and March On has not dampened the enthusiasm for marking the anniversary. Many activists in the field said they were unaware of the division. Those who are say they seek resources from both organizations: Women's March Inc. provides a unifying vision and a national spotlight, while March On gives on-the-ground support, such as legal advice on applying for nonprofit status.


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No crisis of economy would be complete without a couple of cents from Jeffrey Sachs. The godfather of shock-turned-bleeding heart advocate for poverty eradication has simply dominated development economics - in both theory and practice - for the better part of the past two decades. From his days pimping out neoliberal privatization programs to the world's poorest countries, to his more recent stint as passionate advocate of kinder, gentler, but equally fraught policies of external debt cancellation, Jeff Sachs - as he never tires of telling us - has been all over the map.
Sachs is best known as a crusading activist for eliminating poverty who enlists the help of folks like Angelina Jolie and Bono. But his fame circumvents an understanding of his economic theories, which have been applied with disastrous consequences. He first came to global prominence in the mid-1980s as the wunderkind of Harvard University's econ department. He became one of the school's youngest tenured professors at twenty-eight, and quickly sold himself as an advisor to struggling governments dealing with crises of hyperinflation, a topic about which Sachs boldly claimed to know "just about everything that is needed to be known." It was during this period that the young economist fashioned his unique brand of shock therapy – a free market fundamentalism of privatization, deregulation, and government subsidy-slashing for commodities such as oil, met with debt relief and foreign aid – that would later take shape as the Washington Consensus and be subsequently savaged by the likes of Naomi Klein, William Easterly, and Dambisa Moyo. Despite massive policy failures in countries that followed his advice, Sachs has successfully avoided accepting any responsibility for suboptimal outcomes of his theory. On the contrary, he has reinvented himself as an economic tutor to the stars, and now with his new book on how to fix the American economy, his position as the most influential commentator on economic crises is more secure than ever.
So it shouldn't be a surprise to find the tirelessly self-promoting Sachs holding forth on the recent Nigerian crisis in the op-ed pages of the New York Times, despite the fact that the former boy wonder of development theory has been, well, wrong on just about every major crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Wasting no time in publicizing his own elite status in the current crisis in Abudja, Sachs argues that despite continuing demonstrations against the government's surprise decision on New Year's Day to halt state subsidies of oil for millions of Nigerians, things aren't as bad as they seem.
"Meeting with the president and his economic team in Abuja last week, in the midst of protests against the subsidy removal, confirmed my view that the Nigerian government has an unprecedented opportunity to clean up its act and win back the support of a long-suffering population. The president spoke of taking the tough medicine necessary to build the foundations for long-term growth. His lead economic architect is Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, newly returned from a top spot at the World Bank."
What should raise the eyebrows of even the most casual observer of political economy – that policy is now being shaped by a World Bank alum – is for Sachs precisely the "glimmer of hope" in an otherwise bleak landscape of corruption, political instability, and staggering nationwide poverty. At the core of the subsidy dilemma, Sachs correctly argues that corruption and elite free-riding represent the most formidable roadblocks preventing equitable reform.
"When a country depends excessively on one or two key resources like oil, gold, or diamonds, politics too easily descends into megacorruption and a brutal struggle over the resource earnings…Oil exporters like Nigeria very often keep domestic oil prices low as an easy sop to powerful local interests. Nigeria's oil prices were among the lowest in Africa until the subsidies were abruptly ended January 1. According to the government's estimates, the oil subsidy in 2011 amounted to a staggering $8 billion, roughly 4 percent of GDP…Nigeria's well-to-do households, with their cars and large diesel generators, and also some adroit oil smugglers, captured much of the subsidy."
These observations are largely correct as far as they go. What's instructive, however, is that when dishing out prescriptions to help remedy the situation, Sachs does not suggest that the government reform its own rotten institutions or prevent poaching by the nation's wealthiest families. Instead, we're told that the vast majority of the country's poor – who depend on oil subsidies to make possible everyday things like getting to market and keeping cool – should be forced to shoulder the lion's share of sacrifice as Goodluck Jonathan pursues market reform under heavy pressure from the International Monetary Fund.
Welcome to Shock Therapy 2.0. The effects of the entirely unexpected subsidy removal were profound. The price for fuel doubled overnight, inflationary pressures quickly took hold as the price for basic commodities skyrocketed by as much as 100 percent, and people poured into the streets in protest. But for Sachs, these are simply the spasmodic death throes of the country's old, decrepit order giving way to a "new day for Nigeria." The rewards for short-term pain, Sachs tells us and as advocates of austerity always promise, will arrive down the line in the form of long-term socioeconomic improvement. Says Sachs,
"The government ended the subsidies to redeploy the 4 percent of GDP toward long-term development needs, including health, roads and power. The reform logic is sound. Using the 4 percent of GDP in a strategic manner can do far more for Nigeria's poor and the country's long-term growth than haphazard giveaways of cheap oil."
Trouble is, none of this is true. Nigeria's "new day" looks increasingly like days of old when the country suffered under military rule. Faced with growing street demonstrates, Jonathan emptied the barracks, ordered the arrests of lead activists, and threatened to charge citizens with treason if they didn't abandon their protests and get back to work. Thus far, at least twenty people have been confirmed killed in the protests, with hundreds more sustaining injuries at the hands of Nigerian soldiers charged with suppressing dissent.
And to suggest, as Sachs does, that Jonathan's administration can be trusted to carry out the sort of reforms promised is to ignore reality entirely. "When Nigeria won relief on its external debt in the mid-2000s," Sachs argues, "the savings on debt service were actually redirected to meaningful social investments in the states and local governments. The government is now promising to turn the outlays on subsidies into outlays on specific and closely monitored investments in health care, infrastructure, job training and other areas." Sachs' embedded embrace of austerity—implicitly suggesting that debt relief schemes, when managed successfully, allow governments to accumulate reserves of public trust that can be drawn down on at a later date to soften the blow of social spending cuts—is as troubling as it is based in fantasy. Nigerians have seen little improvement of the sort Sachs suggests, even as the government continues to lavish grotesque sums of capital on itself.
After difficult negotiations this past weekend, the Jonathan administration reversed itself on the question of subsidies. The government reinstituted subsidies to roughly half their previous levels prompting labor unions to call for an end, if only temporary, to nation-wide strikes which had brought the country's economy to a halt. Nevertheless, as CNN reports, "heavy military presence was still evident in [Lagos'] streets in the evening, with armed checkpoints set up at most key bridges and along major roads in the city."
Interestingly, the compromise seems to have shaken Sachs out of his development reverie. When I asked Sachs, via Twitter, to comment on Jonathan's about-face Sunday, he responded that he was "glad there was compromise reached today. The whole episode was very poorly managed. Nigeria needs more basic reforms." I responded that it was messy, and pressed him on what I take to be his application of a double-standard – raging against neoliberalism this past fall in Zuccotti Park but defending policies of austerity and "shared sacrifice" for Africans. Sachs replied that he "wasn't calling for shared sacrifice and austerity in Nigeria. I was calling fr [sic] end of subsidies to rich and targeting poor." When I pointed out that he explicitly employed the rhetoric of shared sacrifice ("To share the pain, the president has ordered cuts in top salaries in the government…"), Sachs clarified that he "meant to be saying that the subsidy removal was causing pain, not to be recommending pain! Perhaps badly phrased."
Badly phrased, indeed. My suggestion that he write a follow-up editorial making his new position clear was met with silence. Perhaps he was otherwise engaged: Sachs got pounded repeatedly throughout the day by Nigerian bloggers and other informed observers for his defense of Jonathan's original policy posture in the matter. This morning, in a flurry of tweets, Sachs retreated from his editorial, noting that he "spoke too fast, too soon, without knowing the details," that he "had nothing to do with the policy, learned of it after," that "he knew nothing of about [the policy] beforehand," and that his "comments were misjudged," but managed to slap a Band-Aid on the mess by noting that "I always try, but I do not always get it right."
Unfortunately for everyone else, there will be no penalty or meaningful censure for such profoundly dangerous sloppiness. Sachs' most recent fit of poor judgment will be quickly forgiven – rewarded, even, with future opinion pieces in the world's most influential editorial section. For this very reason, it's worth reminding ourselves of the important lessons to be drawn from this episode: Sachs had no idea what he was talking about, his knee-jerk response to the crisis celebrated policies of austerity and economic shock, and the Grey Lady gave none of it a second thought. Neoliberalism, it would seem, is alive and well.


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Pumpkins are definitely in season now and I have been roasting them up to make and freeze pumpkin puree for later. When I came across the idea of a pumpkin and black bean soup on gimme some oven I diverted some of my pumpkin puree from the freezer and into making the soup. I have enjoyed the sweet pumpkin and creamy black bean combo in several other dishes in the past so I knew that this soup would be a winner. This pumpkin and black bean soup is a pretty standard vegetable soup that is nice and easy and focuses on the pumpkin and black beans. The soup is seasoned with some texmex flavours including some smoky chipotle chili powder for some heat and some cumin and cilantro to round it out. I was looking for a lighter soup so I went with a vegetarian version but you could easily make this soup a little heartier by adding cubed cooked ham or bacon, both of which would also add a ton of flavour. One of the things that I like about soups like this is that you can easily control how thick or thin the soup is by controlling how much broth you use and how much you puree the soup. I made my soup nice and thick and I increased the amount of chili powder for some extra heat which went perfectly with the sweet pumpkin. I garnished the soup with some fresh chopped cilantro and chipotle toasted pumpkin seeds .
Pumpkin and Black Bean Soup
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 onion (chopped)
- 4 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 1 tablespoon cumin (toasted and ground)
- 1 tablespoon chipotle chili powder
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 cups vegetable broth or chicken broth or chicken stock
- 2 cups pumpkin puree
- 1 (19 ounce) can black beans (rinsed and drained)
- 1 (14 ounce) can tomatoes (chopped)
- 1/4 cup dry Sherry (or dry white wine)
- 1 handful cilantro (chopped, optional)
- 1 handful toasted pumpkin seeds (optional)
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the onions and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add the garlic, cumin, chili powder, salt and pepper and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the broth, pumpkin, black beans, tomatoes and sherry and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Remove from heat and puree to the desired consistency.
- Serve garnished with cilantro and toasted pumpkin seeds.


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