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Here’s Mitch taping his rails before hot coating.

Here’s the photograph.

The sketch{not traced}.

First coat of colour.

Some shading.

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Idag var jag en sväng på kontoret,  jobbar mycket just nu med bl.a. vårens kollektion. Lotta, min svägerska, kom förbi med sin väninna, Marie som ville se våra shapings. Visade min favorit-topp, Fatfree tank som satt som ett smäck på henne. Blev både en vit och en svart + lite annat.

Här är dagens outfit. Jojo blouse med Fat free tank under (superskönt), Elodie jeans (som jag just nu bor i…) och Noor scarf i blått.
Ikväll blir det tjejkväll hemma hos Lotta.

Today’s LOSR (c) – head high to maybe head and a half on the best ones.   Tide was getting a bit high but still breaking.  Light offshores and sunny.  Where were you all?  Other than a couple bozo visitors on longboards it was uncrowded.

Friday LOSR (c) update – surprisingly it was still fun very early this morning, despite rumors that it was dropping in size.   Head high offshore and sunny till the clouds rolled in (and then rolled on by).

Idag fick vi leveransen av fler storlekar på Maidenforms fantastiska shapings. Passa på och beställ innan de tar slut igen.

The Word of God has power in it. It is like fire, it is like a hammer, it is like fire and hammer combined, and it operates upon men’s hearts much in the way in which the fire and hammer of the smith operate upon the iron, fashioning and shaping it according to his design.

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Today’s LOSR (c) – smallish surf, say 2-4 to be generous.  Nice day though, sunny and warm, light breeze and uncrowded for most of the afternoon…

Tuesday LOSR (c) update – dinky, almost flat, 1 footish

Wednesday PM LOSR (c) update – definitely on the rise.  3-4 foot surf, maybe a bit better.

Varit helt matt idag, och fick dessutom världens huvudvärk vid lunch efter försök till uteaktivering av hund. Not to good! Medlet att tillfredsställa de små utan att jag behövde tänka nämnvärt eller vara så aktiv var att köra ett par shapingpass med dem!

Jag försöker shapa de flesta beteenden, och på jobbet finns inte så många andra val. Det är en rolig utmaning att fundera ut ett beteende, planera vilka steg mot beteendet som skall klickas och sedan se hur planen fungerar i verkligheten. Dessutom är det ypperligt att shapa när man är sjuk, eftersom de fyrfota får tänka väldigt mycket medan jag själv är passiv. Här gäller det att låta dem tänka själva och nå beteendet (målet) genom att pröva sig fram!

Idag bestämde jag mig för att få Charlie att buga. Detta är ett beteende han visat ett par gånger, så jag visste att jag kunde fånga det relativt lätt. Han fick jobba en stund med att backa; vilket jag ser som ett första steg i bugningen – de skall tänka bakåt. Plötsligt sänkte han huvudet yttepytte *klick*. Ah såg han ut att tänka och efter ett par klick bugade han *klick*. problemet kom snart att han även sänkte rumpan (ligg) – jag mitt nöt vart sen med klicket och klickade när rumpan var på väg ner… bara att klicka “tänket” (dvs när jag såg att han tänkte neråt med huvudet och framdelen) ett par gånger så fann han snart positionen jag var ute efter. Efter ett par erbjudna bjudningar så la jag till “buga” och snart bjöd han på signalen “buga”.

Ozelot fick jobba med “heta platsen” och Piraya fick träna lite allt möjligt. Så, idag är jag väldigt tacksam för att shaping är så mentalt stimulerande.

Sötast idag var Charlies blick – helt pillemarisk och full av jävlar anamma – shaping är kul!!

På bilden: Ozz plockar blåbär

Today’s LOSR (c) -  dawn patrol was fun, if you happened to be in the right place at the right time.  Mostly head high plus a foot or so, but there were a few leftover bigger ones too.   Started out clear (moon & stars) and a bit of fog rolled in later.  Not too crowded,  much better than the weekend!

FRIDAY THE 13th LOSR (c) update – sorry been sick so no surf reports for a few days… although today I drove by it mid-morning and it looked ok, about shoulder high and a bit disorganized from the wind last night, but still surfable, only 2 locals out.

They say your eyes are the windows to the soul…my eyebrow guru Eliza says, if that’s true, “then the eyebrows are the frames.” Eyebrow shaping has revived itself as the newest trend in the beauty industry. Sephora now carries over 100 eyebrow-grooming products, with more cosmetic lines adding their own versions each day. Is the industry just finding new ways to drain our wallets or are eyebrows really to be glamour-eyes-ed?

Media-dubbed “Queen of the Arch” Eliza Petrescu says, “The eyebrows are the only feature of your face that you can dramatically change without surgery.” She has a point (and it’s not just on the end of her perfectly sharpened tweezers). A round arch can make you look surprised, too dramatic of an arch can make you look severe; eyebrow customization seems like a logical answer, and luckily the spa industry has experts to help.

Suddenly your eyebrows are a work of art – with the price tag to go with it! Petrescu, along with other artists in the industry charge anywhere from $65 to $120, and while home maintenance is a must, the experts adv-eyes that initial shaping must be done by a professional, lest you over-pluck or under-shape.

A w-eyes man once said, “A picture’s frame captures all the beauty within its borders.” Shouldn’t yours?

Today’s LOSR (c) – two heads are better than one, but head and a half high ain’t bad.

More consistent than yesterday, still a few lulls but nothing terribly long.

I sure have been slacking on the updating of this page.  My Zero-G blog has been taking up all my time.

I have been making lots of progress on my 7′2″ fish of late.  It has been an enjoyable distraction from the hectic days this year.  I wish I had been more faithful to making progress so I could have tested it out already.  I imagine it will be a cold day, but I will feel good seeing it put through the paces no matter the weather (as long as there is some swell).

I will undertake the project of telling the full story on this project, over the next week or so.  It is looking very good and nearing completion.

Today’s LOSR (c) – a bit of knee high surf, just enough to get moving…maybe a couple of them were waist high… got buried by the high tide.

PM update – inconsistent but a few waves rolling through in the shoulder to almost head high range.

Saturday a.m. update – a bit bigger-maybe a foot overhead – but still long lulls.  Looks like it’s getting more consistent but the high tide is swamping it out…don’t need a longboard, though!!!

Saturday p.m. update – some good size sets – one was probably double overhead but way outside and nobody caught it.    Still some long lulls, and much more crowded than the morning (30 surfers?).   Set waves were fun although difficult to NOT run someone over.  Very much a slalom course out there!

Let this one think I am a tyrant.  And this one think I am a king.  This one will be afraid of me.  And this one worry I won’t live long enough to see her wed.  And that one never understands.  Which hurts me most.  I will name her Sea.  And she, the quiet one, is Flood.  My favorite I call Moon.  We pace the house.  Even when she is supposed to be asleep, she wakes and comes into my room.  Her flimsy gown almost invisible.  She must be cold, but she is good and, though I never believe such stories, she says she has bad dreams.  Come walk with me tonight, but only for tonight.  Tomorrow, the sun dispels the dark, and you have another hemisphere to light.  And so we lived as long as we could.  Then she went her way, and I went mine.  This will be the only kind of parenting I know.  The shaping of the moon in lines.

Today’s LOSR (c) – flat, aargh.   Good day for woodworking, or playing with razor blades – something other than surfing.

Todays LOSR (c) – very high tide and thick fog made dawn patrol a no-go.  A few waves at the beach but very crowded and breaking in very close.. not worth the bother.

Although I do not plan to publish the pattern for Ithilien Brocade Jacket, I did want to detail some of the construction ideas I experimented with.

Waist Shaping:
I wanted this to be a fitted garment; and with the detailed stitch pattern, I knew I’d need to plan the shaping to happen at ’seamlines’.  Since I knit it in the round, with a steek at the front opening, there were no actual seams, but I designated a ’seam’ stitch at each side to help me while knitting it, and to help with blocking later.  This stitch was purled in the background color, to disappear into the knitted fabric.  (You can just see it in the picture below.. the left gusset is pointing to it.)

Left side and back cabled gussets

I also wanted the cable to be more than just a front band decoration, so decided to create a triangular cable motif that would complement the original cable, and which would act as side and back gussets. The best tool for me in determining where and how much shaping to build in was the duct tape ‘dress form’ that my daughter helped me make.  That provided an excellent way for me to see, double-check, and even dissect my measurements, without having to wait for someone willing to measure various parts of me at odd hours.  I knew, then, that I would need the majority of hip shaping at the sides, and some, but not as much, at the center back.  Since that gusset flows into the center back cable, it does not add as much shaping as the side gussets – just what I needed.

With the gussets doing the work as far as hip shaping was concerned, I could just knit the patterned sections straight.  After a short straight section for the waist, I increased gradually in pattern at the side seams to reverse the taper… then on to the next problem.

Bust shaping:
Yes, for a fitted garment, even I need some bust shaping.  If not working a complex stitch pattern, I would have gone with short row shaping to mimic sewn darts.  But that wouldn’t work here.  After a fair amount of measuring and pencil-to-paper work, I decided to try something I haven’t seen elsewhere – increasing on the fronts at the side seams to add about an inch on each side.  Of course, that extra fabric would have to be decreased as well!  I incorporated the decreases in the armhole shaping, drastically decreasing on every round at the front to eat up the increases and still get the usual armhole shaping taken care of at the same rate as on the back.

Red lines indicate bust shaping increases

This photo shows the side seam at the right underarm; the red lines mark the additional increases to provide bust shaping, and end at the grafted underarm.

Seamless Set-in Sleeve:
I had been unable to find much in the way of instructions or examples of a bottom-up seamless sleeve with the traditional set-in shaping – but this type of sleeve is the most fitted and appropriate for the shape of the entire sweater, so I was determined to give it a shot.  At about this point, I did find that Ysolda Teague’s Little Birds pattern uses a similar technique, so I purchased and downloaded the pattern from Twist Collective, Fall 2008 issue.

Basically, I knit the sleeves up to the armhole (figuring background colors so they would match), and moved the appropriate number of underarm stitches – an equal number on both the sleeves and the body – to waste yarn for later grafting.  I then worked the first round of right front, right sleeve, back, left sleeve and left front.  I had already plotted standard armhole decreases and the sleeve cap shaping, taking into account the extra decreases required for the bust shaping.  From there, I simply proceeded to decrease each section as if I had been knitting the pieces separately.

Seamless set-in sleeve

There’s one thing I should have done differently; I kept up with the purl-stitch fake seam around the sleeve/body join.  As it turned out, it was loose and rather messy, so just before beginning the shoulder slope, I used a crochet hook to pick up a column of knit stitches to take up the slack.  That worked pretty well, but now I know to avoid that whole issue next time.  Also, I should mention that the photo above was taken before blocking… the shape of the sleeve cap really does look better now!

I would advise putting a stitch marker at each ’seam’ or joining point.  Then, when you decrease, be sure all decreases lean toward the marker.  In other words, do a left-leaning decrease, slip the marker, then do a right-leaning decrease.

The height of my sleeve cap was almost exactly 2/3 the height of the body from the beginning of the armhole to the outside shoulder, which seems to be standard for this particular sleeve configuration.

When I reached the point where one would normally bind off the stitches at the top of the sleeve, I carefully marked the center of those stitches, and stopped knitting in the round.  The remainder of the front was worked flat.  At the end of each row, I picked up one live stitch at the top of the sleeve, then turned to work back across and pick up the next live stitch at the top of the other sleeve.  When I got to the center sleeve markers on the front, I switched to the back and repeated the process.   (Not forgetting, of course, to do neck shaping where needed!)

The shoulder slope was done with short rows, again leaving live stitches.  The last bit, then, was a 3-needle bind-off of the shoulder seams, making sure the sleeve heads were neat and secure.

Shoulder seam 3-needle bind-off

Finished shoulder seam and sleeve

I would like to note that Elizabeth Zimmermann included a number of seamless sleeve options in her books… I believe Knitting Without Tears (scroll down on the page) is the one that spells out several variations.  In Vogue Knitting, Holiday 2009 issue, Jared Flood’s article also gives directions for seamless set-in sleeves.  However, the shaping in those techniques is slightly different; the sleeve and body decreases are not done simultaneously as with this sweater.  I’m not sure that even a careful observer would notice the difference between the techniques in a finished garment – it probably boils down to knitter’s preference!

Next installment: Color and finishing details.

การทำ Traffic Shaping เข้ามามีบทบาทกับชีวิต ก็ตอนที่ MPLS เข้ามานี่ล่ะ ปัญหาของผมคือเวลาจะทำ QoS จำเ็ป็นต้องทำแบบ Hierarchical หรือง่าย ๆ คือต้องทำ policy ซ้อน policy ไว้ทำสำเร็จก่อน แล้วจะเอาตัวอย่างมาครับ

วันนี้ขอ note best practice เกี่ยวกับการทำ shaping ไว้ก่อน ซึ่งสำคัญมาก เพราะถ้าทำ Shaping ไม่ดี ตัว QoS Child Policy ก็จะมีปัญหาด้วย

ต้องขอขอบคุณ Networkworld : Dennis Hartmann ที่ช่วยสรุปให้ชัดเจนเลย

เกริ่นมายาวแต่จริง ๆ สั้นนิดเดียวครับ คือ การทำ Shaping แล้วมีพวก voice / video ใช้งานด้วย ค่า Tc ที่ทาง cisco แนะนำคือ 10 msec (ผมก็จำได้คุ้นใน ๆ ใน ARCH / CQoS เคยบอกไว้) ดังนั้นเราต้องกำหนดค่า Bc เองครับ เพราะค่า Tc = Bc / CIR ซึ่งง่ายมาก ๆ ก็คือ เวลา config ใช้ัตัดเลขศูนย์ออก 2 ตัวจากค่า CIR (หรือค่า average ที่เราต้องการ = bandwidth ที่เรา้ิต้องการ)

สมมุติว่า เราต้องการ shape ที่ 10 mbps ก็ใช้

CIR = 10,000,000 bps

Bc = 100,000 bit (ตัดเลขศูนย์ออก 2 ตัว)

หาค่า Tc = Bc/CIR = 1/100 s= 1000/100 ms = 10 ms

ถ้าใึครงงอ่านของ cisco ด้วยครับช่วยได้มาก แล้วก็ไปต่อใน networkworld มีอะไรก็ post ถามได้ครับ

Comparing Traffic Policing and Traffic Shaping for Bandwidth Limiting

QoS Frequently Asked Questions

ทิ้งท้ายด้วยคำสั่ง “show traffic-shape” สำหรับดูว่าเรา set ถูกไหม รูปจาก cisco ชัดเจนมาก ๆ

จากรูป Tc = 8000/100,000 =  8/100 sec = 80 msec.

Todays LOSR (c) – too much water for the reefs, but the beach had some lumpy 1-3 foot waves that were rideable.  Glassy and nice conditions but a bit crowded (one or two wavehogs can ruin a morning for everybody, no?)

How do I get better results?

Here’s your Action plan!….

*DEMAND MORE from your body. When you’re grinding that bike or gunning up that hill – If your lungs scream at you, tell them to shut up!
Can you go higher?
Deeper? …  Harder? … Longer?
What limits are you placing on yourself? Are they genuine or are they just excuses?

Do you want to walk out of each session feeling like you’ve done your very best?
Only you know when that is…

*Remember – Pain is temporary – Quitting is forever. You don’t want any regrets.
Think back to what your goals were when you started your particular program. Are you on track? EVERY WORKOUT COUNTS! Each time you stop yourself short – whether it’s 1 bad attitude day, 1 workout, 1 rep, 1 min – you’re 1 step behind in your goal. Make every moment an opportunity to use wisely and not waste it!

Calculate what % of your time you’re devoting to your health and fitness.
We all have 168 hours in our week to ’spend’. How are you spending your 168? Is there any way you can sneak an extra hour or 2 in of activity somewhere?
Your mind will straight away come up with excuses why not to do things. Otherwise, you’d be doing them now. Get creative. Turn off the voice of doubt and starting thinking WHAT IF. Why not see how far you can go? Is it really that impossible?

Consider - Adding a 30 min brisk walk 3 mornings a week would rev your metabolism up for the day, give you some additional and probably well needed ‘you time’ and add up to an additional 6 hours of cardio in a month, just by making a simple and ‘do-able’ change in your lifestyle. Can you just for a minute take some time to really be honest with yourself. Adopt some WHY NOT thinking!

What have you been putting off?
When are you going to do it?
If not now, when?
Why not see what you can become or how much you can grow?

*Find at least 3 pictures from a magazine or the Internet that you will look at daily to help reinforce your goals.

Print out and put in at least 2 places – e.g. fridge, wallet, bedroom wall.

PICTURES ARE POWERFUL! This one task can literally change your thinking when you’re deciding what actions to take.
Focus on physiques that you would like to look like, or people that are doing things you’d like to do.

Every morning when I wake up, I look at a page of pictures I have stuck on the wall by my bed – they are of fantastic women sweating, boxing, running up hills and pumping weights – and they all look strong and toned. It makes me hurry to strap my Ipod on and head out for my run.

Enjoying your life through having the best health you can is a great reward for disciplined and consistent effort.

It pays off in numerous ways!

You feel energised, strong, alive and ready to take on the challenges of life!

Today’s LOSR (c) -  small waves today and the sand almost froze my feet?  knee high and pretty pointless.

Bild på mig och Ewa när vi var på Handelsklubbens Galakväll fredag kväll. Mobilkamerabild igen tyvärr, men bättre än ingen alls…
Jag hade på mig Celine dress i blå-svart. Tack och lov för Maidenform. Började att bygga upp formerna på någorlunda rätt ställen med den fantastiska bodyn från Maidenform. Därefter var det bara att glida i den figurnära bandageklänningen. Kände mig jättesnygg!

Ewa, min väninna, hade dagen till ära på sig en underbar taftklänning (Nikita dress) och en tillhörande liten kort bolerojacka (Nikita jacket) i en champagnefärg. Dessa plagg kommer in i shopen nästa vecka, håll utkik då.

Har idag lagt en ny beställning på Maidenforms shaping underkläder. Kul att så många har upptäckt vilken skillnad det gör för kroppen… Vår nya toppsäljare är bodyn med ben, Maidenform Firm Control.

Vi får in ny leverans v.48, så håll utkik ni som har tänkt att köpa innan jul för vissa storlekar och modeller tar snabbt slut.