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I'm sure you have heard the saying, "Less is more", right? And when it comes to decorating that is not always true. Layering decor is more and is good and texture upon texture is good too! But less is more can be a good thing when we think about the beauty of simplicity! Then less is best. And the more I decorate the more I appreciate simplicity and breathing space in a room. Today let's talk about when less is best…
I've been thinking about the less is best adage since my fall home tour. After I edited my pictures to go into the post I knew something was "off" in the back of my home. Actually, I've really known it for awhile but have been so busy with work I only gave it a passing thought.
Here is the back of StoneGable dressed up for a fall home tour…
And here is how a portion of my breakfast nook looks now…
The open shelves have come down. Although I LOVED them and had so much fun styling them they were quite a distraction. Honestly, they were just too much.
Because the breakfast nook sits between the kitchen and the family room it needed to have the less is best precept applied to it! Taking down the open shelves created the calm the breakfast nook needed!
The bar is a fixture so it stayed! And so did the planked wall. I added a large mirror with a galvanized frame that I had in the basement. It's so unique.
I really did not have a place for it when I bought it but I knew that I would use it. I'm so glad I could make that future projection! Because it works well in this area.
The bar holds a large pottery lamp, a basket with books and a topiary in it and a framed prayer. Simple, monochromatic and straightforward!
And now it is a restful place between the busy kitchen and the family room.
If you are not feeling great about the decor in one of your rooms you may need to simplify it. Here's how to tell…
- when you feel anxious when you walk into a room
- when a room feels cluttered to you
- when a room feels off-balance
- when its hard to see through a room into the next room because your eyes get stuck looking at things in front of you
- when things in a room are too matchy-matchy
- when color and or texture is not evenly distributed throughout the room
- when too many collectibles get distracting
- when you have wallpaper on the walls
And if you want a less is best look here are a few ways to get a calmer, simpler look…
- take everything out of a room and add one thing back at a time. When your room starts looking or feeling just the littlest bit full stop don't add anything else. Edit what is in the room until it looks serene and simple.
- Go with bigger and fewer items as opposed to lots of little things. Not only will a room look much more restful it will also have a more updated look
- absolutely no clutter
- limit the color palette of a room
- stay away from lots of different patterned fabric
- add a plant, just one!
- take down heavy window treatments
My best advice for you is to take pictures with your smartphone and study them. It's amazing what a photo will show you that your eyes may not be able to pick up.
Do you want a less is best room or even home? Use these tips to help you and get busy!
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to those, who haven't noticed yet, that there is a new link on site and forum > Knowledge Database
I have opened Knowledge Database, all of my research and hacks will go in there, detailed with tutorials. It is world's first wiki that contains such things, at least i haven't seen any other like it before. It will teach even to a total noob how to hack and exploit games and websites.
so dig in, there's only few articles, but it is good.


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- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 lamb shanks
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup sliced onion
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 pound tomatoes, quartered
- 1 large red bell pepper, cut into large dice
- 8 to 10 sprigs each parsley and cilantro, tied together
- 1 bay leaf
- Heaping teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 pound couscous
- 2 cups warm water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Large pinch of saffron threads
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- Black or white pepper to taste
- 1 pound baby artichokes
- 1 pound carrots, peeled, split lengthwise if large, and cut into 1-inch sections
- 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 pound butternut squash, peeled, sliced across into 1-inch slabs, then cut into wedges
- 1 pound zucchini, halved or quartered lengthwise, cut across into 1-inch sections
- 1 small head cauliflower, cut into florets
- 1 can chickpeas, drained
- 1/2 cup raisins,soaked in a little warm water until plump
- Harissa or Southeast Asian-style red chile and garlic paste
Prep time: 1 hr
Cook time: 2 hrs
Total time: 3 hrs
To make the broth, heat about half the oil in a large saucepan or stockpot over medium heat. Season the lamb shanks with salt and pepper and start them browning in the oil. Meanwhile, toss the sliced onions with the ginger, coriander, paprika, cinnamon, and the remaining oil. When the shanks are well browned, push them aside and add the onion mixture. Cook, stirring frequently, until the spices are quite fragrant. Add the tomatoes, red pepper, herb bundle, bay leaf, salt, and water to cover by about 1 inch. Simmer until the meat is quite tender, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
About an hour before serving time, spread the couscous in a large, shallow bowl (the bowl you will serve in is fine). Pour in enough cool water to barely cover the grains, then pour off as much water as possible, holding the grains back with your hand. Spread the grains out in an even layer and let stand 5 minutes. Meanwhile, combine the warm water, oil, and seasonings, and bring at least 2 inches of water to a boil in the bottom of a couscoussière or a pot with a metal colander fitted into the top. Moisten your hands with a little of the seasoned water and rub the soaked couscous between your hands to break up the clumps. Continue rubbing and moistening until the mixture is evenly crumbly, then gradually scatter it over the inside of the couscoussière. Cook uncovered until the couscous grains have swelled noticeably, 10 to 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, start preparing the vegetables: Remove the outer artichoke leaves until the leaves are more yellow than green. Slice off the top third of the artichoke and pare away any dark green parts on the stem end (but leave some stem attached). Split lengthwise, and if the chokes are developed, cut them out of each half with the tip of a knife or a melon scoop. Drop the prepared artichokes into a bowl of water acidulated with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
After the first steaming, carefully remove the top of the couscoussière and dump the steamed couscous out into the bowl. As soon as the couscous has cooled enough to handle, rub it again between your hands, adding more of the seasoned water. Repeat the steaming, cooling, and rubbing steps. Meanwhile, continue with the vegetable preparations.
When the lamb is tender, remove the shanks from the pot, discard the herb bundle, and skim as much fat as possible from the surface. Add the artichokes to the lamb broth 30 minutes before serving time. Add the carrots, sweet potato, and squash 10 minutes later, and return the couscous to the couscoussière for a final steaming. Add the zucchini and cauliflower for the last 10 minutes. Meanwhile, pull the lamb meat off the bones, cut it into bite-size pieces, and add them back to the broth. Check the broth for seasoning and adjust if needed.
Turn the steamed couscous out into the serving dish, and mix in the chickpeas and raisins. Shape it into a wide mound with a well in the center. Spoon the lamp and vegetable mixture into the center with a slotted spoon, and ladle some of the broth over the couscous. Pass additional broth at the table, some plain and some mixed with harissa.
Makes 8 servings
Good to know
In a Moroccan banquet, the couscous comes last, with its own accompaniment of broth, vegetables, and meat, and there is often another fragrant stew (called a tajine) served earlier in the meal. In this more casual, family-style menu, the two are combined, with the broth from the tajine used to moisten the couscous, and the vegetables and lamb heaped on top.
Which beer should I drink with this?
Amber or pale ale, Märzen.
1. A couple of lamb shanks split eight ways is not a lot of meat, but that's just the point. This is mostly a dish of grain and vegetables, with a rich, spicy lamb broth accented by a few bits of meat. Feel free to add more lamb (cubes of shoulder meat work well) if you want a meatier dish.
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The Balinese DJ known internationally as Agoes has released his latest official single, "Olly Olly." Like the rest of Agoes' recent repertoire, "Olly Olly" has been proudly published on the AAAM independent music label without the direction or support of the corporate music industry. Thumping, exotic, classy and cool, "Olly Olly" presents Agoes as one of Bali's most intriguing EDM artists.
Agoes cites as main artistic influences Berg, Vini Vici, Armin van Buuren, and Morten Granau. Fans of these will find much to appreciate in "Olly Olly," as it contains many of the same elements which have drawn fans of electronic dance music to nightclub dance floors and neon-lit music festivals for decades. His own style on the track takes samples from Indonesian music and uses them as hooks over a subdued, subtle beat based on smooth, pounding bass whumps for a blend of psytrance that drives without feeling brash, noisy or aggressive.
Asked to describe the message or theme of his latest single, "Olly Olly," Agoes says simply, "The ability to reach them and take them on a journey."
Agoes Mulyadi is an EDM composer, performer and producer from Bali, Indonesia. He has been professionally creating music in the scene for more than two decades. He is half of the popular EDM duo, Shahada, the other half being the popular DJ Jaux Ion. Agoes has gone on record to say that he intended the inception of Shahada to express his "love for old-skool deejaying with psytrance music."
"Olly Olly" by Agoes is available from over 600 quality digital music stores online worldwide now. Get in early, fans of EDM and psytrance music.
Also be sure not to miss the other tracks from Agoes available for listening, purchase and download from his official Soundcloud account or from the AAAM label (links provided below).
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Dear Marcie,
I am forty-one years old and my wife and I have been married for seven years. I adore my wife, see her as a princess and think she is the most beautiful woman I have ever known. Despite my heavy work schedule, I exercise and take care of my appearance in every effort to keep her interested in me. Despite my efforts, while we talk regularly, she rarely looks my way, does not reciprocate attempts at kissing, and recoils when we come in contact. I don't think I'm unattractive. What am I doing wrong? How can I regain my wife's affection?
Longing for Affection
Dearest Longing,
Let's ponder what might be going on inside the mind of the woman you love. Many things could be contributing to why the romance or interest has withered on the vine. I can only offer mild insight into why women do or may feel the way they do at times. Remember also, you two have quite a bit of history to ponder, so read with an open heart.
First off, Kudos! In a world of disposable relationships, it's heartwarming to see you fighting for the woman whom you genuinely love and have devoted yourself endlessly, even seeking out advice to save your marriage. Every woman loves to feel adored. Whether you think she notices or not, she DOES! But we too are terribly afraid of losing what we want the most, like security, love, honesty, and respect, all the while daydreaming of that hunky Knight in shiny armor who will protect us and whisk us off into the sunset (with us looking fabulous of course). It's very nurturing for a woman to know she's protected, and we are naturally attracted to strong, confident men.
Your wife's actions (or inaction) indicate she's been wounded on some level, even if unintentionally. Remember the Knight? If we feel we have been wronged in some way, directly or indirectly, our protection is in jeopardy and we immediately recoil emotionally and physically. We may emerge from our scorn and allow you into our warm graces once again, but the healing can be a long grueling process. And it will take effort on your part.
A man sees a problem and wants to fix it immediately, while a woman may not even realize there's a problem or may be in denial. No doubt you need to TALK. You mentioned your work schedule, and maybe this is a contributing factor. The problem could be simple miscommunication or not enough interaction, which can cause a disconnect in the relationship. Maybe she doesn't need a He-Man in bed, but in her heart. The solution may begin with a little B&B for you two to rekindle the communication you once shared. Remember Casanova, this isn't a patch job. It will take time and careful consideration.
And don't make the mistake of bombarding your wife at every turn or being overbearing. It can lead to resentment and feelings of suffocation. Be Knightly, not NEEDY. When she does reciprocate your affections, it should be because she desires you, not feels sorry for you. A rule of thumb: A little distance helps alleviate the pressure. Space is good in a fragile time such as this. Combine this with my belief that the tiniest heartfelt actions can be more moving than the grandest of gestures. Try the approach of being friendly (yet not too friendly), courteous (not smothering), and charming (not cheesy). And be CONFIDENT. Work to help her remember why she became smitten with you and over time the Knight will win back his princess.


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Tiisetso Makhele
The Constitution is the supreme law of the country and provides for a strikingly wide purview of judicial review, probably an important reason why it is held in such high esteem. The courts in South Africa are assigned powers to review and to declare administrative and executive conduct, as well as legislation, in all spheres of government, unconstitutional and invalid. Such extensive powers should make them more powerful than the judiciaries in most other jurisdictions.
The Constitutional Court is the apex court in relation to all constitutional matters and in a number of constitutional issues it exercises exclusive jurisdiction. It may also exercise appeal jurisdiction in relation to matters not constitutional in nature on the grounds that a matter raises an arguable point of law of general public importance. Except for this particular power, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) is the highest court in all matters not of a constitutional nature and also has sweeping jurisdiction in constitutional matters, with a few exceptions which fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court. The High Courts are not courts of final instance, but in all other respects the subject matter of jurisdiction is essentially the same as that of the SCA. Especially in view of the South African courts' broad review powers relating to legislation and executive acts, the judiciary has become a potentially important political actor which the other branches of government should heed.
Section 165(2) of the Constitution provides that the courts are subject only to the Constitution and the law, which they are required to apply impartially and without fear, favour or prejudice. Section 165(4) requires organs of state, through legislative and other measures, to assist and protect the courts to ensure their independence, impartiality, dignity, accessibility and effectiveness.
In the case of National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others v Freedom Under Law, the full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal referred to the English case of R v Director of Public Prosecutions, Ex Parte C where it was held that:
'It has been common ground before us in the light of the authorities that this Court does have power to review a decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions not to prosecute, but the authorities also show that the power is one to be sparingly exercised.'
Reversing the decision of High Court, the SCA held that: "The doctrine of separation of powers precludes the courts from impermissibly assuming the functions that fall within the domain of the executive. In terms of the Constitution the NDPP is the authority mandated to prosecute crime, while the Commissioner of Police is the authority mandated to manage and control the SAPS. As I see it, the court will only be allowed to interfere with this constitutional scheme on rare occasions and for compelling reasons … The setting aside of the withdrawal of the criminal charges and the disciplinary proceedings have the effect that the charges and the proceedings are automatically reinstated and it is for the executive authorities to deal with them. The court below went too far".
The power conferred on our courts is irrefutably substantial. The SCA sends a clear warning that the power conferred on our courts should not be overemphasised as our judiciary is in the main limited to determinations of the constitutionality of laws made by the legislature and to the judging of the crimes or the disputes of individuals. It needs to be emphasised that all litigants, irrespective of their status, should be treated equally by our courts. Judges must therefore be wary of creating the impression – which would undoubtedly be unfounded in this case – that they have more respect for some litigants or their representatives than for others.
The independence of the judiciary entails more than merely an absence of undue influence, interference or control with the judicial function of the courts, but also contemplates a genuine accountability and meaningful relationship between the judiciary and the executive under our law and the Constitution. While judicial activism will no doubt to some extent encroach on government policy and performance, the judiciary, like all other organs and institutions established under our Constitution, remains accountable under the law and, as demonstrated by the SCA in this case, must adhere to and respect the doctrine of separation of powers and must function in unison with other organs of state.
The exhaustion of internal remedy seems to be the appropriate option to discourage political parties to abuse the access of courts for the narrow political agenda. At common law the duty to exhaust internal remedies is far less stringent. There is an authority for the proposition that common law requires that a court to condone a failure to pursue an available internal remedy only in certain circumstances; for instance, where that remedy is regarded as illusory or inadequate. Our Constitutional democracy provides for the available mechanisms and internal remedies before litigants can resort to courts for adjudication. We are of the view that our courts are simply ignoring exhaustion of internal remedies especially in politically sensitive matters where parties should deal with issues as in terms of the rules.
The courts must stand in an independent relationship to the legislature and the executive, and that judges must be in a position to discharge their functions free from interference of whatever nature and from whatever source. It would be unrealistic and incorrect to portray the judiciary as the supreme power centre in the constitutional system which the weak political branches must obey. Judicial independence does not imply a judiciary in the nature of a threatening opposition to the political branches. The judiciary, even one with sweeping powers of review such as the present South African judiciary, cannot on its own be an effective mechanism for the protection of individual and communal interests. It falls well short of securing a balanced constitution. However, such a mythical image of a supposedly all-powerful judiciary is often presented.
The aura of respectability and dignity surrounding judges has been breached from time to time, particularly in view of the not so significant fact that they have proved themselves to be human and hence prone to error. This has given rise to volumes of studies on the judiciary, most of which have left the judicial reputations untarnished. Others, however, have been fiercely and unremittingly critical.
To cite an example of such decisions, the Indian Supreme Court in April this year made a court decision that may very well be an example of judicial overreach. The Court made an order prohibiting the sale of liquor on national and state highways. This finding is made despite the fact that the Constitution of India regards the prohibition of liquor as a 'directive principle', which is better left to the government of the day.
In its report; The Roberts Court and Judicial Overreach (2013), Washington-based legal watchdog Alliance for Justice stated; "It has been well-documented that the Roberts Court consistently pursues an agenda that favours powerful corporate interests and the wealthy at the expense of everyday Americans. What is less well-known is that in order to reach these preferred outcomes, a bloc of five conservative justices has proven strikingly willing to engage in judicial activism by overreaching and twisting the law". These and many other examples point to an extent to which the respectability of courts and judges have been compromised over time due to various reasons, including judicial overreach.
Professor Koos Malan, in his article entitled- "Reassessing Judicial Independence and Impartiality against the Backdrop of Judicial Appointments in South Africa, argues cogently that that judges, being senior members of the legal profession and well-versed in the rhetorical and doctrinal strategies of the legal discourse, can avail themselves of many techniques to express themselves convincingly in legal terms, and credibly to sustain the impression that their judicial decisions were genuinely and objectively reached and based on the applicable law and nothing else. Thus viewed, articulated legal reasoning is in itself a redoubtable political strategy for its ability to hide any extra-legal political considerations and motivations that might have been harboured when a politically sensitive decision was made.
It is important that courts must remain sensible to the legitimate constitutional interests of the other arms of government and avoids undue and unwarranted intrusion, while protecting fundamental rights, intrudes as little as possible in the terrain of the executive and legislature. If the judiciary loses legitimacy with the political branches and ceases to be a cog in the state machine working in harmony with the other cogs, it runs the risk of losing the support of the political branches and its own effectiveness.
With the recent developments, we are worried that our country run the risk of legislative and executive matters being run by the courts. Judiciary must be respected but the intrusion of judiciary raises serious questions about its credibility. It is a crisis that the opposition parties are so desperately trying to achieve and render our hard-won democracy ineffective and meaningless.
In a classic example of a besiege of the principle of separation of powers, the North Gauteng High Court has ordered President Jacob Zuma to provide the record of all documents and electronic records (including correspondence, contracts, memoranda, advices, recommendations, evaluations and reports) that relate to the making of the decisions to fire Pravin Gordhan as Minister of Finance as well as the reasons for the decision. This judgment has been rightly criticized as unfettered encroachment of the judiciary into the realm of the executive – pandering to the whims of the opposition who want to co-govern with the popularly elected government through the courts. The appointments or dismissals of Cabinet ministers are highly charged political decisions and courts do not usually interfere with such decisions. It would be impossible to prove that the President indeed acted in bad faith or with an ulterior purpose.
Upon the insistence by the opposition parties, the Constitutional Court is currently considering whether the motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma could be taken by secret ballot. Our view is that opposition parties are opportunistically dragging the apex court to the matters reserved to Parliament in terms of the Constitution. This is one of the classic example of cases where the judiciary is abused with matters that should have been discussed by political parties in terms of the rules of Parliament. We are worried that conduct of the opposition parties in many cases is designed to undermine the independence of judiciary in burdening it with legislative and executive matters. These grandstanding and cheap political point-scoring inevitably casts doubts on the independence of judiciary and risk the accusation of, inter alia; judicial overreach.
Dr Lehlohonolo Kennedy Mahlatsi, SACP Free State PEC Member
Tiisetso 'Afrika' Makhele, Spokesperson for Free State Premier Hon. Ace Magashule
Both authors are also members of the ANC Free State Political Education Sub-Committee. They write in their personal capacities.


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GOP Gains Seats in Alexandria
One Republican and an independent backed by the GOP won seats on the Alexandria City Council tonight. The six-member council has been the exclusive domain of Democrats since 2003.
Frank Fannon IV (R) and Alicia R. Hughes (I) succeeded even though the city went 72 percent for President Obama last year. It is just the latest Northern Virginia race in which Republicans outperformed expectations, giving hope to party leaders that they may yet take the governor's mansion in November despite two successive Democratic administrations.
"A lot of people in Alexandria thought there was no way Republicans can win," Fannon said. "The citizens of Alexandria are ready for a change--and not having a one-party system. People like to have options."
Fannon said winning along with Hughes was especially significant.
"To get anything discussed, you need to have a second vote. It was very important. If I were the only one up there, it could have been a lonely spot," Fannon said. Voters took the time look beyond party labels, he said.
"They didn't look necessarily at the party lines. We have a very smart citizenry here," Fannon said.
The other winners in the city council race were challenger Kerry J. Donley and incumbents K. Rob Krupicka, Redella S."Del" Pepper and Paul C. Smedberg, all Democrats.
(Staff Writer Michael Laris contributed to this post.)
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Great day for Alexandria as the stranglehold on the Council is finally broken. Good momentum as we start the push for November!
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National Review Online posted a blog on Alexandria City Council results shortly after polls closed, characterizing the Fannon and Hughes victories as "a couple ripples of red in a deep blue community".
Now pan-handling hope from a local city council election is what time in the wilderness is about I suppose, but they would be better served if they could identify some ideas from such victories that might have national or even state-wide application.
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Recently, so many people have asked me which one is the best sewing machine for free-motion quilting. There is no clear cut answer to this question. You only can't point your finger at a particular brand or model.
The answer depends on your budget and the features you need. You can buy a sewing machine that costs over a thousand dollars and do free motion quilting; you can also do the same task on a below thousand dollar home machine and still be happy.
So it all depends on your budget, "Money Decides!". Even though budget plays a crucial role, you need to make sure that the sewing machine you buy has some essential features required for free motion quilting or quilting in general.
Must Have Features
Drop Feed Dog lever is what converts modern sewing machines into free-motion quilting mode. So make sure that the sewing machine you buy has this feature. Otherwise, you will be throwing it out of the window.
Reliable Motor:
What's under the hood matters a lot, more so in the case of quilting. A powerful motor that is capable of delivering a high number of stitches and capable of working flawlessly for an extended period is an absolute must for free motion quilting.
High sewing speeds work the best for free motion quilting. In U.S, you can get two types of sewing machines, machines that can deliver around 750 – 850 stitches per minute and others that can deliver 1000 or more stitches per minute.
Most home sewing machines can deliver around 750-850 stitches/min. This will be enough in most cases, but if you are a perfectionist, you can go for 1000 stitches/min machines as they can provide that finishing touch which gives a professional finish to the quilts. Some of the best machines in the category are listed at the end of this article.
Variable Speed Control:
The ability to control the sewing speed might not sound much, but it makes a difference for sure. While you may need maximum sewing speed for free motion quilting, lower speeds work the best for piecing.
Built-in Stitches:
A sewing machine capable of delivering perfect straight stitches is a dream of a quilter. I have seen some affordable sewing machines deliver better straight stitches than industrial machines.
So you need to be picky. Zig Zag and Blind Hemstitches are also essential for doing machine applique. If you are a crazy quilter like me, you may also need a lot of decorative stitches. Modern sewing machines are never short on decorative stitches.
Programmable Needle Up/Down:
Must have feature for quilters. This feature gives you an extra hand. By pushing the button, you can choose the machine to stop with the needle in the up/down position. Stopping the needle in down position holds the fabric for you, and the up position is handy while removing the fabric.
Machine Throat:
This is the space to the right of the needle. The machine with a larger throat is always the best for free motion quilting.
Knee Lifter:
This allows you to raise or lower the presser foot with your knee; you don't need to use your hand in that case. You can raise or lower the presser foot in one single motion without taking your hands off the quilt.
Editor's Choice Best Sewing Machines For Free Motion Quilting
Singer 9960
- Maximum Speed Control
- 600 built-in stitches
- Needle up/down
- Sewing light
- Automatic thread cutter
- Extension table
This is the best-advanced sewing machine. It has the maximum number of features that you can expect in this price category.
It is a mouth-watering deal for a crazy quilter like me, especially when you consider the variety of stitches on board. The straight stitches are as perfect as you can get on any industrial sewing machine.
A big reason why it is on our list of "Machines You Can Buy With Your Eyes Shut".
Cons :
The Old batch of 9960 had some bobbin jamming issues, but Singer has fixed it with an upgrade. It has been a flawless machine ever since.
Brother XR9500PRW
- 850 stitches/minute sewing speed
- Variable speed control
- 100 built-in stitches
- Needle up/down
- Sewing light
- Quilting table included
This is the second-best sewing machine for quilting. The main highlights of this machine are its features and price.
In fact, XR9500PRW is the least expensive sewing machine on this list. It has also been voted as the best sewing machine. The quality of the stitches is excellent, and you can't ask for more.
Cons :
The automatic needle threader requires some practice to get used. It doesn't have an automatic thread cutter, which we listed as one of the welcome features, but it has a manual one onboard.
Brother PC420PRW
- 850 stitches/minute sewing speed
- Variable speed control
- 294 built-in stitches
- Needle up/down
- Sewing light
- Automatic thread cutter
PC420PRW is a high quality, high performance advanced sewing machine from Brother. The selling point of this machine is the quality of stitches.
Cons :
The work lights are dim for my liking. Some might consider it as expensive, especially when you can get Singer 9960 for more or less the same price and sometimes even cheaper. It doesn't come with a table as well.
Brother DZ2400
- 850 stitches/minute sewing speed
- Variable speed control
- 185 built-in stitches
- Needle up/down
- Sewing light
- Including an extra wide table
If you are looking for an affordable advanced sewing machine, DZ2400 is the one to consider. It is a value for money product. The quality of stitches is as good as any other advanced sewing machine.
Cons :
Fragile looking thread holder. DZ2400 doesn't have an automatic thread cutter, which is understandable for the price. And the manual thread cutter is awkwardly placed, which is a little far for comfort.
Janome 8077
- Extra-high presser foot lift
- 30 built-in stitches
- Needle up/down
- Sewing light
While Janome 8077 is less on features, it more than makes up for it in quality and durability. It is a sturdy workhorse.
Cons :
Lack of features is the main thing that works against Janome 8077. Just 30 built-in stitches may not satisfy everyone. Moreover, it doesn't come with a quilting table or an automatic thread cutter.
Janome MC-6300P
- 1000 stitches/minute sewing speed
- Variable speed control
- 66 built-in stitches
- Needle up/down
- Knee lifter
- Sewing light
- Automatic thread cutter
- Extension Table
MC-6300P is a quilter's dream. This machine satisfies all the 'must-have feature' requirements for free motion quilting. This is the most popular sewing machine among quilters.
This is a heavy-duty model as well. You can't ask for more sturdiness. It has a 9″ x 5″ throat, which is the largest in the category. This machine has everything that a quilter needs.
Cons :
One important thing to note is that in order to do free motion quilting, you need to use a particular purpose bobbin holder called 'Blue Dot', which is not included in the box. The sewing light is dim, as well.
Juki HZL-F600
- Variable speed control
- Light Weight Material
- Needle up/down
- 8″ throat
- Extended Sewing Table
This machine from Juki is slightly more expensive than the previous Janome machine but offers a lot of built-in stitches. The straight stitches look straight and perfect. It performs well with thick layers of fabric.
Cons :
Getting the right tension needs practice — also, the throat space is not as large as Janome MC-6300P.
Singer S16
- Variable speed control
- 400 built-in stitches
- Needle up/down
- Knee lifter
- Sewing light
- Automatic thread cutter
- Extension Table Included for extra-large quilts
Singer S18 is the least expensive in this category. It has the maximum number of built-in stitches of all three machines.
Recently it has also won the Women's Choice Award 2014 as well. One interesting thing is that this machine is made by Janome for Singer. It comes with Janome accessories as well.
Feature-wise (and cost-wise) Singer S18 is the best of all three. But if you take stitch quality and performance, Janome MC-6300P and Juki HZL-F600 are slightly ahead.
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- https://www.mybluprint.com/article/what-is-free-motion-quilting
- https://www.amazon.com/slp/quilting-sewing-machine/kvyvm56r42kv6tf
- https://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/free-motion-quilting-sewing-machine-setup.html


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(I actually wrote this on my other blog first but figured it also belonged here)
Last night, Lydia and I met up for dinner before going to see 2 Days in Paris (review coming) at an art house cinema. The cafe that we usually like to go to is currently closed for renovations and it's sister restaurant was so packed that people were queuing up on the street. We decided to go somewhere that I hadn't eaten at for years but was very close by.
We had about an hour before the film session was about to start so we walked in, plonked ourselves down and ordered a bowl of spaghetti each. We just chatted about crap for a while until we realised that the people next to us had pretty much finished their food despite arriving and ordering after us. I figured that based on the time I rang Lydia, we'd been sitting in the place for about 20 minutes. We decided to ask if it was coming and explained it was because we had tickets to a show. The waiter was initially apologetic saying that a lot of people arrived at the same time so the kitchen had a backlog. We took it for the time being.
But you know, how long does it take to make a bowl of spaghetti?! This was a place that normally throws that kind of food out!
So we decided to wait another 10 minutes before asking again because that would leave us with 20 minutes to scoff the food down. At this point, the couple next to us were onto their coffee and they actually commented to us that it was strange that we were sitting down before them and had yet to receive our food. THEY actually grabbed a waiter for us (different waiter I think - they all kinda looked like each other) but he was SOOO RUDE. Seriously, I believe he said something like this to us:
Look, I'm sorry but a lot of people arrived here at the same time, that's why your order is late. It is coming. Anyway, you've only been sitting there for about 20 minutes.
ONLY TWENTY MINUTES?!?! My curvy ass it was only 20 minutes. What kind of stupid waiter also reminds you how long you've been waiting?! Anyway, it wasn't as if they were like the best restaurant in the world making an incredibly complex dish - we'd both ordered the spaghetti of the day!!! I watch a lot of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, he may not be the biggest ball of charm but if there's one thing he knows, it's how to run a restaurant and he always rams it that you do not keep your customers waiting ages for their food. Also, the restaurant was NOT huge, it wasn't as though a tiny kitchen was cooking for 100 people.
So anyway, we looked at each other, got up, picked up our bags, told them the order was cancelled, and walked out.
F!@# you waiter and thank you for reminding me why I haven't eaten at your restaurant for years. It's going to be many more before I walk back in.


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Lisette Cooper Featured as one of Boston's Financial Champions in AUM Boston
AUM Boston's inaugural issue features the city's financial leaders who are "making their mark." Included among the list of distinguished honorees is Athena Capital's founder and CIO, Lisette Cooper.
"Boston is where impact funds first made their mark with Pax World Funds (now Impax Asset) and later became home to Athena Capital where Lisette Cooper empowers women by increasing their access to capital through gender inclusive investment strategies," says AUM Boston.
The magazine's "City of Champions" cover story celebrates the financial leaders who have contributed new and innovative ideas to the industry and who hold a long standing commitment to client understanding of capital markets. According to AUM Boston, Lisette Cooper was recognized for "her ability to find opportunities in social change, such as rising gender equality, her focus on mindful investing and giving back," all of which have made "Athena Capital a champion for the next generation."
AUM Boston's "City of Champions" feature can be read here.


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The Scottish Socialist Party was founded in 1999 and stands for an independent socialist Scotland, a modern democratic republic. We won 6 seats in the 2003 Holyrood elections where we won 130,000 votes for a red-blooded political manifesto. Our success was due in part to the prominent role we played in opposing Tony Blair's illegal war in Iraq and the unparalleled political support we gave to the striking firefighters and their families in the historic dispute of 2002/3.
Ours is a party that dares to be different. We stand up to the powerful Scottish establishment on behalf of this country's working class majority and we promote progressive, fair and just political change. We reject the neo-liberal economic model and brutal dog eat dog greedy politics so worshipped by the mainstream parties in Scotland.
What makes the SSP different?
The SSP is an anti-capitalist, pro-independence party, with a vision of a different kind of society. We aim to build a Scotland where no one is left behind, where the needs of all the people are catered for, young and old, men and women, gay and straight, black and white, able-bodied or those with special needs.
Our socialism is centred on today's world and the needs of everyone and is rooted not in the past but learns from the past in order to build a better tomorrow.
A future for all
We favour public ownership rather than private capitalism. So, for example, we want to see our gas and electricity industries returned to public ownership as part of a plan to eradicate the fuel poverty which now casts its cold and dreary shadow over one in three households in Scotland.
We want to see Scotland's oil industry publicly owned too just like in Norway. Across the North Sea our wealthy neighbours invested their oil riches in a Trust Fund for the people who now has £400billion in it. And it is no coincidence that country sits atop the UN's Index of Content Nations.
Fighting Poverty
For the Scottish Socialist Party the poverty which we see all around this wealthy country is a man-made outrage. We favour redistribution of Scotland's huge wealth by insisting the rich and powerful corporations and individuals pay their fair share of taxes.
We are building the Scottish Socialist Party into a broad-based mass party and we welcome new members every day. Why not join us?
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The Mercatus Center based its analysis on publicly available reports: "Using recipient report data from Recovery.gov and economic and political data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, GovTrack.us, and others, we have compiled a series of facts about stimulus spending." The data was drawn strictly from fourth-quarter, fiscal-year 2009 Recovery Act contracts and grants.
Reports from this time frame detail the distribution of approximately $157 billion in stimulus money. The Mercatus study states, "A total of 56,399 contracts and grants totaling $157,028,362,536 were awarded in this first quarter for which Recovery.gov reports are available. The number of jobs claimed as created or saved is 638,826.54 — an average of $245,807.51 per job." It is shocking that almost a quarter of a million dollars was spent to supposedly create or save one single job. Only big government spending of taxpayer dollars could be that inefficient.
All 435 congressional districts are represented in the study, as well as the District of Columbia. The study noted: "There are 177 districts represented by Republicans and 259 represented by Democrats. On average, Democratic districts received 1.6 times more awards than Republican ones. The average number of awards per Republican district is 94, while the average number of awards per Democratic district is 152."
Democratic districts also received "1.89 times more stimulus dollars than Republican districts," with Republican districts getting about $232 million on average and Democratic districts getting around $439 million. The study pointed out, "In total, Democratic districts received 73.47 percent of the total stimulus funds awarded. In terms of numbers of awards, Republican districts received 29.77 percent of the total, while Democratic districts received 70.22 percent."
Essentially, the Democratic districts were well rewarded while the Republican districts were slighted. Mercatus found that "having a Republican representative decreases a district's stimulus award by 24 percent." One would guess that economic hardship would be fairly evenly distributed throughout the nation, but this is not reflected in the distribution of "stimulus" money.
"You would think, right, that if the administration believes in its theory that government money can create jobs, they would spend a lot of money in districts that have high unemployment," said Veronique de Rugy, co-author of the study. "We found absolutely no relationship. It just kind of shows that the money is spent kind of randomly."
A strange fact emerged during analysis of the data. Stimulus money often went to districts with higher incomes when one would have thought it was more needed in those with lower incomes: "We found no correlation between economic indicators and stimulus funding. Preliminary results find no effect of unemployment, median income, or mean income on stimulus funds allocation."
The Mercatus study provides ammunition to those who are skeptical of how much good has been done by the Obama administration's $787-billion stimulus package. Unemployment is still in the 10 percent range, and the approximately 639,000 jobs supposedly saved cost about $246,000 a piece. Spending this amount of money for such high-priced jobs is doing more to stimulate the federal deficit than the American economy.


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I'm no stranger to the rain. There have been some significant periods of depression in my life. Most of them have been within the past eight to nine years. The first came after JBelle was born. PPD is really a most heinous thing. Unfortunately for us, the diagnosis came so late that by then it was just full on depression. Some counseling and some medication did wonders.
There was another significant depression for me in 2003. Then after GMan was born and I got through that round of PPD (with the aid of medication), I thought I was home free. But then bouts of it kept creeping back into my life. It finally hit me, recently, that my struggles were occurring in the winter time. I have friends and acquaintances who are profoundly affected by S.A.D. – Seasonal Affective Disorder and I remember studying it in college. However, I never thought I would be affected by it.
I've always enjoyed the winter season. It's not so much that I like being cold but I like the things that go with it: hot chocolate, warm sweaters and blankets, chili, the excuse to stay in and be cozy, Christmas, peppermint hot chocolate, New Year's, my birthday, have I mentioned hot chocolate? How could I ever be depressed by winter?
Yet it seems that that is just what has happened.
This past winter was especially hard. There were several reasons for it and even though I knew the train of thought was useless, I couldn't seem to help myself. Over and over again, "I have no reason to feel this way. I'm blessed beyond measure. What's wrong with me? I shouldn't feel this way. There are people who have real reasons to feel sad and depressed. Reasons to cry. Reasons to wish they could stay in bed all day long and hide from the world."
The one thing I do know about depression is that it's not about how things should be. Brain chemistry and the injustices of life don't always have anything to do with each other. Those thoughts really do nothing to bolster me, if anything, it just makes it all worse.
The past several weeks have been dark ones. My days were filled with a dense fog of sadness, anger and confusion. Everything was affected by it, most especially my sleep. Even though every morning I longed to stay in bed, I would deliberately stay up entirely too late at night not wanting to go to bed because that would just bring on the next fog filled day that much faster. Such a vicious cycle.
And I avoided as much socialness as I could. That's another vicious cycle. And I didn't write much here because I just didn't have anything that I truly wanted to say.
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An Indian diplomat was subjected to strip and cavity searches and treated like a "common criminal" by US authorities, it has been alleged.
Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, was arrested last Thursday on charges that she lied in a visa application. The row over her treatment while in custody has led to a cooling of relations between the two countries, with India revoking some privileges for US diplomats in retaliation.
"I broke down many times as the indignities of repeated handcuffing, stripping and cavity searches, swabbing, in a holdup with common criminals and drug addicts were all being imposed upon me despite my incessant assertions of immunity," Khobragade wrote in an email published in Indian media on Wednesday.
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has expressed his regret over what Indian officials called the "despicable and barbaric" treatment of their consul. State Department spokesman Marie Harf said that Kerry called India's national security adviser, Shivshankar Menon. She said Mr Kerry believed was important for foreign diplomats serving in the United States to be treated with respect, the Associated Press reported. Kerry, she added, expressed his hope the incident would not damage the close relationship betwee the US and India.
India's parliament has issued a statement condemning the United States over the affair.
Khobragade was arrested outside her daughter's Manhattan school over accusations of submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for her maid. Prosecutors allege she claimed to pay the maid $4,500 per month (£2,740), but that she actually paid her less than $3 per hour. Khobragade has pleaded not guilty and plans to challenge the arrest on grounds of diplomatic immunity.
The development is the latest in what has been reported as a long-running dispute between Khobragade and her maid. If convicted Khobragade faces a maximum sentence of 10 years for visa fraud and five years for making a false declaration.
Khobragade has now been transferred to India's mission to the United Nations, according to the Associated Press.
The case has sparked widespread outrage in India and damaged relations between the two nations, which have cooled in recent years despite a 2008 nuclear deal that was hailed as a high point.
The Indian government has demanded an apology. And, according to the Times of India, foreign minister Salman Khurshid told reporters in New Delhi: "We have put in motion what we believe would be an effective way of addressing the issue but also [put] in motion such steps that need to be taken to protect her dignity."
India also revoked diplomatic ID cards that brought certain privileges, demanded to know the salaries paid to Indian staff in US embassy households and withdrew some import licences.
In addition police removed the traffic barricades near the US embassy in New Delhi. The barriers were a safety measure but India said they clogged up traffic, the Associated Press reported.
The US Marshals Service confirmed it had strip-searched Khobragade and placed her in a cell with other female defendants. It described the measures as "standard arrestee intake procedures".
The White House spokesman Jay Carney said "this isolated episode is not indicative of the close and mutually respectful ties" between the US and India.
"We understand that this is a sensitive issue for many in India and we are looking into the intake procedures surrounding this arrest to ensure that all standard procedures were followed and that every opportunity for courtesy was extended," Carney said at a briefing on Wednesday.


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By Doug Logan
No, this isn't an article about dating. I'm afraid I wouldn't be much help there.
This article is about the relationships you have with your customers. More than anything, the key to keeping your customers (or clients) happy is by creating a meaningful relationship with them through a variety of good experiences.
Recently, I was issued a new credit card and so began the exciting process of updating all my subscriptions and accounts connected to my card. This experience, while annoying, is typically graceful as most sites will recognize there has been a payment decline and allow you a week or so to update your account information. Unfortunately, I did not experience the same level of care from each site.
Over the past three years, I have been a subscriber and daily listener of Rdio. I'm talking about 6+ hours of streaming each day. Whether you find that obsessive is not of my concern. As a creative person, I thrive on music.
When my measly $9.99 payment was declined, I got an email from Rdio reminding me to update my information. Since I did not immediately take care of it, within an hour my peaceful listening experience was interrupted by a Home Depot ad. Having just remodeled my house, the last thing I was wanted to hear was a man trying to sell me discounted paint.
After hearing the second ad, I could not listen to music the rest of the day. My groove had been disrupted, and I decided rather than updating my credit card, I thought I would check out some of Rdio's competitors.
Upon signing up for a trial of both iTunes Radio and Spotify, I found that I enjoyed some of the features Spotify had in their mobile app that Rdio did not offer. The abrupt ads irked me so much that I felt it necessary to sacrifice all of my curated playlists by switching to a competitor service. That's a big step. Anyone who spends a decent amount of time crafting mixtape quality playlists knows the effort and attachment you develop to them.
The cold reality was that the first time my card declined after three faithful years, I got kicked to ads with absolutely no grace period. Had I signed up for a trial that was declined after 30 days, things would have been different. To me, this was the equivalent of getting dumped via text message after a long-term relationship. (Did I mention how much I love music?)
To make matters worse, they showed no attempt at retaining me as a customer. No emails. No notifications. No nothing. In all likelihood, had they given me a week to update my credit card information, they would have had me for another year or more.
As someone who works in the digital space, I was shocked that a tech-based company didn't handle this situation with care. When Netflix flagged my card, I received several non-aggressive reminder emails over the course of a week. I did not get hassled on mobile but was instead prompted to update my account when I sat down in front of my Xbox. Whether that approach was intentional or not, I'm not sure, but let's just say I didn't go looking for other video streaming services.
Even my church, whose process is very manual minus checking in via a mobile app, does a better job of inviting me back by sending me a letter in the mail. There is no reason a digital company shouldn't have systems in place to keep up with retention. Although the marketing budget for acquisition typically trumps retention, there are a multitude of tools out there—many of them fully automated—to help keep the customer satisfied.
Think about the level of service you come to expect at a high-end hotel or a local shop that's earned your trust. I frequent Folklore, a beatnik-esque coffee shop down the street from our office, and have every reason to believe they would have my back if I forgot my wallet. In fact, they have!—because they care about nurturing and retaining their loyal customers. The same experience is not necessarily practiced online.
Yet, as far as successful nurturing goes, AT&T seems to have it down. When I got a text saying they were adding a free 5GB of data to our share plan each month I thought it was kind of random until I realized my recent behavior.
A few weeks prior I checked the status of our account and found we had been eligible for an upgrade. Usually, we rush to the Apple store (or rather, the Apple website) to buy the latest iPhone as soon as it's released. This time however, we did not.
Quite honestly, I had been considering switching to Verizon because I have heard they have better coverage in New York City—adequate 4G connection is a must when I'm communicating with clients in a pool of millions of mobile users. While AT&T cannot track my interest in their competitors, they can see that I looked at my account and did not upgrade. That red flag coupled with the fact that I had not yet bought the new iPhone was more than enough evidence for them to offer additional services in an effort to retain me.
Based on my behavior, it appears they may have used analytics to conclude I could be considering other carriers. It's highly likely a company such as AT&T has a team or systems in place to track customer behavior. While they can obviously afford to lose a few customers here and there, our loyalty means something to them and their data.
I have to give them credit on this one. After looking at other carriers and many months of paying overage fees, it was a nice surprise. Really though, who is going to complain about an extra 5 gigs each month?
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Adapting to climate change: Lessons from Mother Nature
I recently attended the South Asia Region Fulbright conference in Chennai, India, and spoke with Ulyana Horodyskyj, who is studying glaciers in Nepal. She is documenting changes in the lakes that sit atop one of Nepal's biggest glaciers, the Ngozumpa. At the front of this glacier sits a large lake — growing for decades — perched ominously above several Sherpa villages.
A University of Colorado PhD student and mountaineer, Horodyskyj is measuring the changes in this supraglacial lake and others because of the possibility of catastrophic down-glacier flooding. She is seeing first-hand the effects of higher temperatures and a very real local example of the threat it poses to people.
Keeping the public abreast of what we now know
The wider threat of climate change has been highlighted by several science groups in the past few weeks, and the U.S. White House has unveiled its new citizen information website.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest scientific organization, has come forth with a summary of current scientific data on the changing climate aptly called "What We Know."
The Royal Society and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences have produced a list of questions and answers that also summarize current findings, "Climate Change: Evidence and Causes."
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just met in Yokohama, Japan to issue their latest summary of the effects of climate change. Their 29-page installment of the Fifth Assessment report of the current state of the impact of climate change will serve as a basis for UN policy actions, particularly as formed at the Paris Summit in 2015.
Along with warming and acidifying oceans, crop loss, and food and water shortage possibilities, the authors note "irreversible regime shifts" in the arctic and in coral reefs, and (worst case scenario) as much as a 29% reduction in the Himalayan glaciers that Horodyskyj and her colleagues are studying. The waters from these glaciers supply millions of people in China and India, and melting ice is the main cause of coastal flooding (projected at as much as 3 feet by 2100). These prospects impact a world well beyond the Sherpa villages.
Categories of action within the bigger picture
Mother Nature has some answers for the species that didn't follow her rules in the first place, but let's not lose sight of the bigger picture: a spiral of ever-increasing consumption of finite resources and production of toxic waste by a geometrically increasing population. Clever technical solutions, whether bio-inspired or not, will be meaningless without the political will to curb overconsumption, pollution and population growth.
With the relevance of the word "prevention" long ago lost, the two salient words in climate change action are now "mitigation" and "adaptation." The ideal, of course, is to design adaptations to the changing atmosphere that also mitigate the effects or lessen the causes. It does not make sense, after all, to cool your building while warming the planet. This is where nature might have some suggestions.
Learning from animals and plants, the masters of adaptation
When ecologist Robert H. Whittaker (PDF) set about to categorize the planet's ecosystems in the 1960s, he used two abiotic factors to define his biomes: temperature and moisture. Whether it is the taiga or the tundra, the desert or the dry tropical forest, this pair of factors will ultimately determine the living sphere. The design of adaptive living spaces must control these two elements without the excessive use of energy and resources; the alternative means scarcity and pollution.
Temperature and moisture regulation are pressing concerns in the animal and plant world, where maintaining optimum internal conditions despite wide fluctuations outside is de rigueur. The range of strategies to respond to immoderate temperatures is wide. Take the cold, for instance; from flying south in the winter such as the snow goose, to having anti-freeze in your blood like the Antarctic fish called Notothenioids, to drying up and temporarily "dying" as does the tardigrade, animals have a stunning array of strategies to kill the chill.
One such strategy for conserving heat energy is called countercurrent heat exchange. You can see it in the blood vessels of wading sea birds like the gull. Arterial blood from the heart is pumped to the extremities and pre-warms cold, venous blood coming back to the heart. The warming is due to the close contact of the walls of the two vessels.
Another strategy captures and conserves both temperature and moisture by running air past condenser plates, called turbinates, in the noses of camels or elephant seals. These nasal plates absorb heat and moisture so that the animal may use it or lose it according to the temperature outside. Nasal plates cool the hot dry air from the camel's daytime atmosphere and add a little moisture to it before it enters the animal's lungs. Air going out is stripped of any moisture so as not to waste it.
The Namib Desert Beetle uses its entire shell as a condenser as it walks into the night, points itself toward the direction of the prevailing sea breeze, and waits. Hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas on its surface channel the condensed water into its mouth, and it waddles back to its home before the scorching sun rises.
The evaporative cooling on your skin is another good example of a so-called phase change's effect on temperature. The evaporation of the liquid sweat to a gaseous state releases heat energy and cools the body quickly. A complex signaling system sets the sweat glands to open when a summer walk or an embarrassing question makes us hot under the collar.
Plants have evolved a seemingly endless variety of shapes to regulate temperature and moisture, from the corrugations and needles of cacti, to leaves that fold up when cold or heat strikes, to the channeling of light underground by the desert plant Lithops. Leaves reflect heat with their gray color, or trap moist air with tiny hairs, or coat themselves with waxes.
Architecture's hot and cool lessons from nature
Many of these strategies can and have been applied to building design.
Buildings that use phase change apparatuses, such as Mick Pearce's Council House II building in Melbourne, Australia, expel unwanted heat by converting a frozen solid into a melted liquid. The cold liquid is piped through chill beams in the ceilings of this high-rise for radiant cooling during the hottest part of the day. The building also takes advantage of the same principle in employing so-called shower towers, with water directed down the façade that evaporates in the heat and cools the air drawn into the building.
The Seawater Greenhouse project and architect Michael Pawlyn's Sahara Forest Project use the desert beetle's condensing principle, employing greenhouses as giant stills with which to condense moist air from the ocean and in the process remove the salt from it.
The novel shade system Flectofin (PDF), based on the deformation of the Bird of Paradise flower, uses flexibility of form to manipulate vertically slotted screens on double curved surfaces. The screen can open and close, letting in light and air based on conditions, and has none of the hinged and expensively fabricated parts of traditional screens. It won the Schauenburg Foundation International Bionic Award in 2012 for its designers and collaborators at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), University of Stuttgart, the Plant Biomechanics Group of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the Institute of Textile Technology and Process Engineering ITV Denkendorf
A derivative of the Flectofin, designed by Soma Architecture of Vienna, Austria, was constructed on the Theme Pavilion at the Expo 2012 in Yeosu, South Korea. The designers used glass-fiber reinforced plastics, which combined high tensile strength with low bending stiffness. The 108 GRP slats, or lamella, are activated by a simple principle. They are compressed together from top and bottom, as you would a flexible ruler, and as they bend, the openings between get wider. A large reversible elastic deformation similar to those found in nature takes place. A system of sensors and servomotors control the lamella, and they are decked with LEDs for use as a continually changing media display.
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill designed the Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, China which they claim to be the most energy efficient super-tall building in the world. It is the largest radiant-cooled building in the world and uses chill beams as Council House II does.
The design also employs the manipulated flow of air through the building to generate power for itself. Openings in the flat façade funnel air through it and along the way the Venturi effect takes hold and powers a series of vertical axis wind turbines. The design also called for a daisy-chained array of multi-fueled micro-turbines, but a lack of a buy-back agreement with the local power company has postponed their installation. These turbines would provide enough additional power to make this massive 70-floor tower close to a zero net energy building.
These examples are a handful of positive steps toward the reduction of the energy load of our buildings and the resultant air pollution it entails. The designs are innovative and green in part because of their bio-inspired natures. We just need a lot more of them.
Ngozumpa glacier image by McKay Savage via Flickr


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