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Lawrence Collins & Tim Bayliss In the context of geographical fieldwork Improved decision making Clear rationale of the need for fieldwork Confident understanding of the benefits of fieldwork within a department and across a whole school Ability to coherently argue for the place of fieldwork in the school curriculum Fieldwork is the gathering of information about something in a real, natural environment, rather than in a place of study such as a laboratory or classroom (English Collins Dictionary) Practical work conducted by a researcher in the field (Compact Oxford English Dictionary) Work done or firsthand observations made in the field as opposed to that done or observed in a controlled environment (TheFreeDictionary.com) Geography is all about the interaction of people and places. Fieldwork is central in helping us to explain this relationship and understand more fully the environment in which we live. Furthermore, fieldwork provides primary data for the core activity of coursework and/or controlled assessments reinforces classroom teaching and learning promotes extended and open-ended writing encourages social skills (for example, group-work and responsibility) affords practice of map work and drawing assists spatial reasoning and sense of place …is fun! Geography in schools is not doing enough to help children develop a picture of climate change, learn to lead sustainable lives and find their feet as global citizens of the 21st century (Geography in schools – changing practice, Ofsted) Geography is at a crucial period in its development. More needs to be done to make the subject relevant and more engaging for pupils, particularly at Key Stage 3 (Christine Gilbert, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector for Education, Children's Services and Skills) • "Enquiry-based fieldwork sharpens and deepens learners' understanding of geography and the progressive development of geographical skills" • "Well planned fieldwork in geography adds clear value to learning in the subject as well as providing a positive contribution to the wider curriculum." • "Follow up from fieldwork also provides very good support for extended writing, numeracy linked to the analysis of data, sketching, map work, formulating hypotheses and thinking skills." The integration and meaning of fieldwork Key Stage 1 Key Stage 5 Purpose Role Continuity Function Relevance For Against Geovisualisation Management • Identification of hazards • Ability to respond • Ability to appropriately • Controlled access dynamically assess • Local knowledge • No access • Adequate • Nature of activities supervision Awareness of Experience hazards Pre-fieldwork Fieldwork Analysis and Research phase activity evaluation Limited control High level of control Medium control The Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto was launched by the DfES on 28th November 2006 to promote the benefits of learning beyond the classroom. "Learning outside the classroom is about raising achievement through an organised, powerful approach to learning in which direct experience is of prime importance. This is not only about what we learn but importantly how and where we learn" (www.teachernet.gov.uk). Geography Teaching Today (website of the Action Plan for Geography) www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/fieldwork Geographical Association www.geography.org.uk/resources/fieldwork/ Growing Schools (Supports teachers in using the "outdoor classroom" as a resource across the curriculum for pupils of all ages) www.growingschools.org.uk/ Field Studies Council (an environmental education charity that runs fieldwork and cross-curricular courses at 17 centres across the UK) www.field-studies-council.org Health and safety of pupils on educational visits (Departments good practice guide (1998) and 3 part supplement (2002), including A Handbook for Group Leaders www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/healthandsafety
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A gentleman who has the tendency to hook up with significantly larger women. This is a less extreme form of a chubby chaser.
"Dude, Paul is such a fat blaster! This is the second weekend in a row he has gone home with a cow!"
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Posts: 1,329
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So several Fleet T5.5 ships are better than this ship? Say it ain't so! I guess we should all ragequit right now!
Which one are we talking about? Better than the T4 with the quad cannon? Or better than the T5 Retrofit?
I bought one yesterday, because its a beauty, and I had the zen sitting there that I'd bought on sale. I don't care that it doesn't pwn in PvP. Not all of us give a fig about PvP.
I am talking about the lvl 50 ship using both the Quads and its console. So basically using the full set on the end level ship.
Also I am not talking about just PvP. It also does not really shine in PvE by comparison to most of its realistic competition. (Not even getting into the Scimitar here...)
However, it is not "Bad" it just is not particularly "Good". Meaning that if you want the best ship that is reasonably affordable then this is not really it. If you already have the other ships then this still loses. If you are fine with it being a bit less than stellar but still functional and truly love the looks (which are beautiful) then it is fine.
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Given it's stats, I see the Ar'kiff being at least as durable as a non-Fleet T'Varo, and I don't hear many complaints about those,...
The Retrofit Ar'kiff has the same basic stats as the Dhelan Retrofit in strength and such, and no one bitches about it much either, so,... I think some people just like to complain.
The exception to the above is of course turn/inertia rates, and Boff layout which is expected.
It only suffers from Tank and Output issues when using its Quads and Console especially when compared to the Fleet T'Varo (Come on... They are one of the easiest to get), Fleet Dhelan (Nearly the same ease), and even the Vet Ship (Hard to get or easy depending).
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I swear there is a bug that allows the hull to take major hits and melt away even with full shields.
1) Low Shield power = Low Resistance
2) There is, discharge your shuttlecraft. If you don't you can sometimes end up taking damage to the shuttle's hull somehow and that really screws up your tank.


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Dad Charged With Groping Nurse During Childbirth
Updated: 10/25/2009 - Father-to-be misses birth of his son after being arrested for groping a nurse on the way to the delivery room in Utah.
Updated: 10/25/2009 - Father-to-be misses birth of his son after being arrested for groping a nurse on the way to the delivery room in Utah.
Updated: 10/26/2009 - What's President Barack Obama's most annoying habit? First lady Michelle Obama says its his tennis game.
Updated: 10/24/2009 - The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon told Colorado sheriff's deputies that the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents.
Posted: 10/24/2009 - The Cincinnati Bengals receiver is planning to form his own social news network on Twitter, using his player contacts around the league to develop news about other teams.
Posted: 10/24/2009 - A 17-year-old boy in western New York has been charged with a misdemeanor after police said he put ketchup on his arms and faked his suicide on a live video Web site.
Updated: 10/24/2009 - North Carolina's Work First welfare program will begin requiring adults to work before they receive monthly benefit checks.
Updated: 10/26/2009 - Burger King celebrated Windows 7, get ready for Balloon Boy this Halloween, and check out a story of a man and his oversized piano organ.
Posted: 10/23/2009 - Police in Arizona are looking for a father suspected of using his car to run over his daughter because she was becoming too "Westernized" and was not living according to their traditional Iraqi values.
Posted: 10/24/2009 - As the nation battles with the obesity crisis, ambulance crews are trying to improve how they transport extremely heavy patients.
Posted: 10/23/2009 - Congress is making it easier for members of the military and other Americans overseas to vote absentee.
Updated: 10/23/2009 - A special ceremony to honor fallen service members and survivors of the 1983 Beirut Bombing will be held Friday.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - The U.S. Census Bureau is making an unprecedented effort to include same-sex couples in next year's national population count, but counting the number of individuals who identify as gay, lesbian or transgender could be next.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - California's highest court is allowing the state to tell sunbathers they can be punished for enjoying public beaches in the buff -- even in areas informally designated as "clothing optional."
Posted: 10/22/2009 - A piece of pirate history is now anchored in Greenville at ECU's West Research campus.
Posted: 10/26/2009 - The largest single strike at the Mexican drug cartel is how Attorney General Eric Holder describes a nationwide raid the past two days, including here in eastern Carolina.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - A Giant Seagull?!? How bout a 1st repair call for a kitchen appliance bought in the 1950s. Plus a fruit cannon that can launch melon-like projectiles at 500 miles an hour. Its all in today's Take a Look at This
Updated: 10/22/2009 - The actors playing vampires in the highly anticipated sequel to "Twilight" were greeted Friday by a crowd of screaming fans at the Rome Film Festival, where scenes from "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" were screened.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - A homeless man was crushed to death while sleeping in a trash bin, according to Philadelphia Police.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - Two Ohio teenagers forced to sleep in cages have sued their adoptive parents and caseworkers who arranged the adoptions.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - A Kansas legislator who drew criticism for a "RedNeck Rap" against Barack Obama says he'll produce another YouTube video praising the president.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - The Cedar Island ferry to Ocracoke will have fewer runs Thursday.
Updated: 10/22/2009 - People in Greenville can start knocking about 20 percent off what they pay for their prescriptions.
Posted: 10/22/2009 - The proposal for a new entrance to Camp Lejeune goes before the people Thursday night.
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Phone 2 Google Chrome™ browser is a project to send links from Android device to Google Chrome™ browser, consisting of:
* Android App
* Chrome Extension
* Dropbox service
Project site: http://code.google.com/p/phone2chrome/
Contact me on twitter: @lgvalle
How does it works?
Android application will create a file in your Dropbox filesystem at:
It contains information about links in standard json format.
When you share a web link with Phone 2 Google Chrome™ browser app it will add a new entry to this file.
In your computer, you just need to open Google Chrome™ browser and click on Phone 2 Google Chrome™ browser extension button. It will open each link in a new tab.
Don't forget to install Phone 2 Google Chrome™ browser extension! Visit Google Chrome™ browser Extensions Store and search for "Phone 2 Google Chrome™ browser"
-- If you experience any problems after updating to 3.0 please consider clearing history and relink your account.
What's New
• Quickly search the web and your phone or tablet
• Use your voice to search and more
• Get personalized results based on your location
Plus: *Google Now* gets you just the right information at just the right time. It tells you today's weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, and more (Google Now is currently available on Android 4.1, Jelly Bean).
Use the Chromecast app to:
• Set up your Chromecast and connect it to your Wi-Fi network
• Set up backdrop and personalize your TV screen with art, personal photos, news and more.
• Manage your Chromecast settings (such as changing your device name, Wi-Fi password, etc.)
Google Chrome to Phone
Chrome Remote Desktop
• On each of your computers, set up remote access using the Chrome Remote Desktop app from Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop
• On your Android device, open the app and tap on any of your online computers to connect.
For information about privacy, please see the Google Privacy Policy (http://goo.gl/SyrVzj) and the Chrome Privacy Policy (http://goo.gl/0uXE5d).
Google Now Launcher
Available on all devices with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) or later.
Key features:
• Google Now on your home screen - it's easier than ever to get just the right information at just the right time.
• Just say "Ok Google" - when you're on your home screen, just say "Ok Google" to trigger voice input. Then say your search query. Or tell your phone what to do, like send a text message, get directions, or play a song.
• Faster search - tap the search box and you can enter your query immediately.
• Easy access to your favorite Google products and services, like Gmail, YouTube, and Maps.
• Larger viewing area - the status and navigation bars are now translucent, so your wallpaper pops from every pixel, and is even visible when you expand your apps drawer (when supported by device).
• Intuitive wallpaper picker - select any image that's stored on your device, or in the cloud. Position and preview your wallpaper before you set it.
Some features are unavailable in some areas.
Google Translate
• Translate between 90 languages
• Converse naturally and let Google translate
• Translate with your voice, camera, keyboard or handwriting
• Translate offline while traveling. No internet connection needed.
• Save your translations and access from any device
Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
Novosibirsk Metro image by Wikipedia user Sskz, used per the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
Google Text-to-Speech
• Google Play Books to "Read Aloud" your favourite book
• Google Translate to speak translations aloud so you can hear the pronunciation of a word
• TalkBack and accessibility applications for spoken feedback across your device
• ... and many other applications in Play Store
To use Google Text-to-speech on your Android device, go to Settings > Language & Input > Text-to-speech output. Select Google Text-to-speech Engine as your preferred engine. Note, on many Android devices, Google Text-to-Speech is already turned on, but you can update to the latest version here.
Languages supported: Dutch, English (India), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (United States).
Google Talkback
Talkback adds spoken, audible, and vibration feedback to your device. It is a system application that was pre-installed on most devices and is updated when the accessibility service is improved.
For help with Talkback, see: https://support.google.com/talkback/
This app is only activated if you explicitly turn on Accessibility.
Steps to activate Accessibility:
1. Go to Settings
2. Select Accessibility
(Android 3.2 and earlier)
3. Enable Accessibility checkbox
4. Enable TalkBack checkbox
(Android 4.0)
3. Select TalkBack and enable the switch
4. Select back and enable explore-by-touch
(Android 4.1 and above):
3. Select TalkBack and enable the switch
Google Keyboard
When you can't find the right thing to say, you don't have to write at all. The new Google Keyboard supports hundreds of emojis, so you can express yourself in any Android app (Android 4.4 and up).
Key features:
• Material design themes
• Personalized suggestions, corrections, and completions
• Keypress popup animations
• Emoji entry point and layouts (Android 4.4 and up)
• Gesture Typing with dynamic floating preview
• Space-aware Gesture Typing: just gesture through the space bar
• Voice Typing
• Dictionaries for more than 25 languages
• Advanced keyboard layouts
• Works across your Android devices (tablets and phones)
Google Authenticator
Enable 2-step verification to protect your account from hijacking by adding another layer of security. With 2-step verification signing in will require a code generated by the Google Authenticator app in addition to your account password.
Start by visiting accounts.google.com/SmsAuthConfig
* Generates codes even in airplane mode!
* Support for multiple accounts
* Support for multiple languages
Voice Search
Note: Voice Actions is only available in US English for now.
Android Device Manager
● Locate Android devices associated with your Google account
● Reset your device's screen lock PIN
● Erase all data on the phone
Tiny Flashlight + LED
Try the best flashlight on the market!
- No need for a real flashlight
- Insanely bright flashlight
- Bright screen light
- A flashlight, which is always available when you need it.
- Strobe / Blinking, Morse Code, Police Lights plugins
Google Pinyin Input
The app offers a variety of methods for fast and easy input of Chinese characters.
Key features:
- QWERTY Pinyin keyboard with gesture typing and intelligent correction
- 9 key Pinyin keyboard with gesture typing
- Stroke keyboard
- Full screen and half screen handwriting keyboard
- Latin keyboard
- Fuzzy pinyin
- Double pinyin
- Optimized UI for different screen sizes
- Voice input
The app supports both simplified and traditional Chinese characters, as well as punctuation, emoticons, Latin characters and digits. Voice input is network-based in order to provide highly accurate matches.
Note: To be used on your Android device, the input method must be enabled in "Settings" → "Language & Input".
For typing Cantonese, you could download the Google Cantonese Input:
For typing traditional Chinese by Zhuyin or Cangjie, you could download the Google Zhuyin Input:
Google Hindi Input
How can I enable it and set it as the default input method/keyboard on my Android phone?
- On Android 5.x and newer versions:
Open Settings -> Language & Input, under "KEYBOARD & INPUT METHODS" section, go to Current Keyboard -> Choose Keyboards -> Check "Google Hindi Input" -> back to "Language & input" -> Current Keyboard -> Select "Hinglish & Hindi Google Hindi Input"
When typing in an input box, you can also change the default input method by clicking the keyboard icon on the bottom right corner of the screen.
- On Android 4.x:
Open Settings -> Language & Input, under "KEYBOARD & INPUT METHODS" section, check Google Hindi Input, then click Default and select "Hindi" in the "Choose input method" dialog.
When typing in an input box, you can also change the default input method by selecting "Choose input method" in the Notification area.
How can I enable/disable Hinglish, Hindi or handwriting keyboard?
Go to Settings->Language & Input->Google Hindi Input->Keyboard, under "Select keyboard type" section, check the keyboard types you like.
How can I change keyboard theme?
Pick the theme you like at Settings->Language & Input->Google Hindi Input->Keyboard->Keyboard theme.
How can I use this application?
Hindi transliteration
- Toggle the button "a->अ" on English keyboard to turn on/off transliteration mode.
- In the transliteration mode, you can type Hindi word in English characters and the app will convert them to Hindi.
- For example, type "hindi" and then you will get the word हिंदी from a list.
- By turning off the transliteration mode on English keyboard (by pressing the button "a->अ" again), you can type in English.
Hindi keyboard
- Toggle the globe button to switch between English and Hindi keyboard
- Vowels are changed to matra automatically after typing consonants.
- Long press characters(vowels and consonants) to type variations of characters. For example, long press "ई" you can type "ई" or "ी", long press "क" you can type क, कं, क्र or र्क.
Clean Master (Speed Booster)
When Do You Need Us?
CM is perfect for you if your phone has become laggy or runs out of battery easily, if it's stopped playing games smoothly, if it becomes too hot to hold, or if you want to free up some space to store more photos or songs.
What We Can Do For You
We make it easy to free up more storage from your phone and SD card, boost games and device memory, enhance speed & extend battery life, stop overheating and protect your device against malicious apps and vulnerabilities.
Highlights of Clean Master - Phone Booster & Antivirus
☆ Accurate: The junk-creating behavior of millions of apps has been analyzed so that Clean Master can efficiently hone in on its targets (cache and residual files) with perfect accuracy.
☆ Fast & Intuitive: Simple to use, super-fast and smooth UI, plus cool transition effects
☆ Ranked #1 by AV-TEST for the seventh time! A professional quality antivirus service scans devices in just 8 seconds, 500% faster than other paid antivirus apps.
Features of Clean Master- Phone Booster & Antivirus
Cool off your device by finding and stopping the apps that are causing it to overheat and make your battery last longer!
Delete cache and residual files to reclaim storage, boost speed and improve the performance of your device and SD card.
Boost your games and apps, free up memory (RAM), speed up your device and save more battery. Our 1 Tap Boost and Game Boost features make it easy to optimize directly from your homescreen.
Scan the system, pre-installed and user-installed apps to keep your device safe from viruses, trojans, vulnerabilities, adware and spyware. Keep your privacy safe by scrubbing personal info from your device.
Uninstall unwanted apps or bloatware and back up important ones. Some rooted devices will be able to move apps to the SD card as well as uninstall pre-installed and system apps. Our own Picks section lets you find useful apps that match your interests.
Supported languages
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Malay
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Requested permissions
Camera permission: This permission is used for Clean Master's flashlight feature, which uses the camera flash from the device's rear camera. Clean Master does not use the device's microphone at all - Android lists both camera and microphone permissions together, even if only one is used.
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Hearts Deluxe Online Free
+ Challenges lost with 0 points bug should now be fixed. Everyone who had lost coins this way please contact me!
Hearts card game.
Hearts Deluxe Free brings this classic Hearts card game to your Android device.
Do you know how to play but need a refresher? You have never play Hearts before and want to learn? With our How to Play sheets Hearts is now available for everyone!
With smooth animations, custom game options and incredible easy game play Hearts card game has never been so fun to play
★ Scoreloop integration to compete with your friends
★ Online challenge play
★ Awards: unlock all awards and earn coins!
★ Challenge anyone in the world and become the nº #1
★ 5 background colors to choose
★ Custom game speed & points
★ Player gameplay statistics
★ In-game hints
★ Step by step rules
★ Beautiful minimalistic graphics
-- Why are this permissions requested? --
- READ_PHONE_STATE & READ_CONTACTS: This permissions allows Scoreloop to provide an unique identifier for you on the leaderboards and find friends to compete with
- INTERNET & ACCESS NETWORK STATE: This permissions are used to: 1. Post your scores to the leaderboards, 2. Collect game errors, 3. Allow AdMob to display ads
-- Game History --
Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although variations can accommodate 3–6 players. The game is also known as The Dirty, Black Lady, Slippery Anne, Chase the Lady, Crubs, and Black Maria, though any of these may refer to the similar but differently-scored game Black Lady. The game is regarded as a member of the Whist family of trick-taking games (which also includes Bridge and Spades), but the game is unique among Whist variants in that it is an evasion-type game.
Tilt and Push to Live
Playing Push to Live will test and improve your reflexes. Control your player by tilting your device, avoid contact with your enemies and use the weapons at your disposal to push them to their final death.
With two games modes in single player and worldwide leaderboards using Scoreloop, the addictive gameplay will keep you coming back for even higher scores. You can also unlock achievements and post scores to the online leaderboards with Scoreloop. No buttons or thumbsticks to fumble around with, just tilt. Tilt and Push for your life...
★ Smooth and responsive game play.
★ Responsive Tilt Controls.
★ Realistic physics.
★ Colorful glow graphics.
★ Challenge yourself with 2 difficulty levels (easy and hard).
★ 5 Unlockable Super-Weapons
★ 32 Award Challenges
★ Regular free updates!
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If you like games like 'Tilt to Live' you'd love this one!
Are you up to the challenge? Just follow the easy steps to play the game.
1. To start, tilt your device to avoid contact with red circles.
2. Use weapons to push your enemies against the walls to kill them.
3. Get higher scores to unlock new weapons and achievements.
Good Luck!
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Magic Alarm
Just move your hand over the phone when alarm is buzzing and it will be dismissed.
Warning! This application has only been tested hard in my Nexus One. However it may work in other models (read comments)
If you try and it works, please left a brief comment to let others know.
Tap on the widget to:
- Access settings.
- Open tweet original url or inside links
- Side left: prev, side right: next
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Tweedget (Donate)
Tap on the widget to:
- Access settings screen.
- Open tweet original url.
- Open inside links.
TweetLive Timeline WP
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+ Full features unlocked on free version in exchange of ads
+ Black background (users request!)
* Features
+ Choose speed and size.
+ Click over tweet, scroll stops. 2nd click, open it in browser.
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Integrated optoelectronic chips or collections of chips on a module that have both electrical as well as optical interconnects offer many advantages in speed, power consumption and heat generation. Mixed signal types, however, pose significant packaging challenges. This invention describes a land grid array (LGA) interposer which can simultaneously connect electrical and optical signals from a module to a printed circuit board.
1. An interposer device comprising: electrical and optical connecting components for providing electrical and optical interconnection between a first component containing both electrical and optical I/O to a second component with both electrical and optical I/O, wherein said interposer comprises a carrier plane having a plurality of electrical contacts and at least one opening to allow light transmission through free space.
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4. An interposer device comprising: a plurality of electrical contacts and at least one compliant optical window for providing electrical and optical interconnection between a first component containing both electrical and optical I/O to a second component with both electrical and optical I/O further including a compliant material surrounding the periphery of the window both above and below the interposer such that when the interposer is brought into contact with a first component above and a second component below said compliant material is disposed against said first and second components.
5. An interposer device of
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9. An interposer comprising: electrical and optical connecting components for providing electrical and optical interconnection between a first component containing both electrical and optical I/O to a second component with both electrical and optical I/O wherein said optical connection component comprises a window large enough to accommodate a plurality of optical I/O.
10. An interposer of
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13. An interposer comprising: a plurality of electrical contacts and at least one compliant optical window for providing electrical and optical interconnection between a first component containing both electrical and optical I/O to a second component with both electrical and optical I/O wherein said at least one compliant window has curvature in at least one dimension.
14. An interposer of
15. An interposer comprising a plurality of electrical connecting components and a plurality of optical connecting components for connecting a first component containing electrical and optical I/O with a second component having both electrical and optical I/O, wherein said plurality of optical connecting components comprise at least two of the following: an opening having a compliant seal about the periphery of the opening, a compliant window material having curvature, a compliant window material having at least one embedded lens, a window material having a compliant seal and a lens.
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Integrated optoelectronic chips or collections of chips on a module that have both electrical as well as optical interconnects offer many advantages in speed, power consumption and heat generation. Mixed signal types, however, pose significant packaging challenges. This invention describes a land grid array (LGA) interposer which can simultaneously connect electrical and optical signals from a module to a printed circuit board.
In a mixed optical electrical LGA interposer (OELGA) there are a plurality of electrical contacts which are constructed to have conducting elements extend in both directions perpendicular to the plane of the interposer with the purpose of connecting a BLM from a module above to the TLM of a PWB below. These conducting elements or contacts (aka buttons) can be composed of a variety of materials and geometries but always have both conducting and mechanical compliance (spring) functions. There are also one or more optical interconnects (windows) which have the dual functions of optical transparency and mechanical compliance. These compliant optical windows can be conveniently fabricated from silicone rubber injection molded directly into place in the desired form.
The proper combination of electrically conductive buttons and optical windows allow a chip module that has both electrical and optical chips to communicate through the LGA onto the circuit board.
An alternative to such spring-loaded windows might be simple openings in the LGA which would allow the optical signals to pass. However, the omission of a compliant window would allow introduction of dust which could block the optical path and lead to reliability concerns. Thus, the preferred embodiment of this patent utilizes such a compliant window to create a dust free, uninterrupted optical path.
There are a great variety of conceivable arrangements that would apply to different ratios of electrical to optical signals, to different laser and detector choices, different pitch, pin count, and so forth as would be obvious to those skilled in related arts.
An electronic package consisting of a chip or a plurality of chips mounted to a chip-carrier such as a multichip ceramic, glass ceramic or organic module and which also has embedded in this module arrays of vertical cavity Semiconductor Cavity Laser (VCSCL) and photodetectors (PD), is connected via the application of pressure from appropriate hardware to a printed wiring board via a land grid array interposer which can accommodate both electrical and optical signals. Some lens assemblies may also be required. In addition to the electrical signals which are passed from BLM to the LGA contacts and through to the PWB, as in an ordinary electrical LGA, optical signals are passed from the VCSCL and PD array in the module, through the optical window in the LGA to the corresponding VCSCL and PDs on the PWB.
The area intended for optical connection is the roughly square area 22 devoid of such electrical contacts in the center of the LGA in the figure. In the preferred embodiment, this area will be occupied by optically transparent, compliant material such as silicone rubber (polydimethylsiloxane or PDMS). (For reference, two VCSCL and PD linear arrays 24 embedded in the module are shown in this square).
Two Major Cases in Mixed Optical/Electrical LGAs
1) Free Space Transmission of Optical Signals with a Compliant Gasket Protecting Area from Dust Infiltration.
1.1) Single button area with dust collar
1.2) An area enclosing a plurality of optical paths through free space. Collectively protected from dust by a compliant gasket.
2) Compliant Optical Windows
2.1) Buttons as single windows. An LGA connector with a 2-dimentional array of electrical buttons could have certain button positions vacated and optical window put in their place. It is unlikely that individual VCSEL elements would be arranged on the same pitch as the buttons, (because they are usually on a tighter pitch like 250 um) but this hypothetical case provides a useful design reference point.
2.2) Optical windows accommodating a greater area or a different area than a single LGA button gridpoint. And example would be a rectilinear geometry to accommodate a linear array of VCSELs, as shown in
2.3) Multiple windows for different optical arrays. One could have more than one such window to accommodate more than one VCSEL array. Two VCSEL arrays placed side by side could utilize two windows fabricated in the LGA plane side by side. As shown in the accompanying diagram labeled
2.4) Windows to cover two dimensional array of optical elements (as opposed to the linear array of the previous example and as shown in figures).
2.5) Window Geometries, xy dimensions. The geometry of the window could vary in the xy plane as necessary to cover as many optical connections as necessary or convenient. It could accommodate a single optical IO path, or many. And a given LGA could have a plurality of such windows placed in optimal locations.
2.6) Window Geometries, z Dimensions.
Further, window geometry can have many different three dimensional shapes for different applications. This includes variation in the x, the y, and the z thickness independent of each other. And, the x, y, and z dimensions may vary in different parts of the same window as may be desirable.
If the x, y, and z dimensions of a window were kept constant, as illustrated in
2.7) Another option is to have a surface topology with features that correspond to the pitch of the optical elements themselves. Such as small bumps superimposed on the top and bottom surfaces of the large window such that each VCSEL and each PD would contact an small bump and thus insure elimination of bubbles. The downside to this option is the need for careful alignment. This should be included for completeness only as the global curvature options of 3 a-3 c are considered preferable.
2.8) In addition or instead of compliant optical window, light shaping or lens functions could be built into the LGA. This could be done in a number of ways including.
2.81) Static positioned lenses could be firmly affixed in various positions in the LGA. Examples of isolated lenses are shown in
2.82) Another method for including lenses would embed a lens with the desired shape and refractive index properties in a compliant transparent window. These can either be fixed in place relative to the carrier plane or can be made floating in the compliant optical window material as shown in
Self Alignment Capabilities
There are a number of ways that this technology can self align, which is an important feature in some applications.
1) As is already implied, the use of compliant (rubbery) materials as the optical window allows the optical elements (VCSEL/PD) to make intimate contact on both sides of the LGA. The amount of pressure applied to the LGA via actuation hardware will determine how far beyond point contact the optical elements travel farther toward each other.
2) Another way that this technology allows alignment is by facilitating xy movement of the compliant window independent of the rest of the LGA by the intrinsic elastomeric qualities of the window material. This can be tailored to allow significant amount of movement or very little to none relative to the rest of the LGA, as desired.
3) Another way this technology allows alignment is by allowing a lens embedded in an elastomeric window material to move in response to applied stresses. This can with proper design help the lens to steer the light from one optical element to another.
Fabrication of Optical Windows in LGA
Such optical windows in LGAs could be fabricated in a variety of ways and from a variety of materials.
Materials for CASE 1:
Where the function of the compliant material is as a dust gasket, leaving a freespace optical path, then the material does not need to be optically transparent. Only compliant. In this case many elastomer types such as PDMS, epoxy, polyurethane, acrylates, polyimides, etc may be used.
Materials for CASE 2:
Optical windows must be fabricated from compliant elastomer materials that are simultaneously transparent or significantly transparent to the wavelength of light utilized by the signaling semiconductor laser (VCSEL) and the photo detector (PD).
Polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) which is also known as silicone rubber, in certain chemical formulations of same, has a transparency in the optical and near infrared where such optical signaling is most often carried out. Other materials could also be used such as epoxies, polyurethanes, acrylates, esters, polyimides, and the like.
Fabrication Methods:
There are at least two methods for making such compliant optical windows for the OELGA by injection or transfer molding.
1) Injection molding of PDMS windows onto or into the LGA carrier plane as an integral part of the LGA.
2) Injection molding the PDMS windows into a frame, which would subsequently be fitted to the LGA carrier plane. This is shown in
3) Another method would be to form the windows by application of a liquid onto a flat optically transparent support structure and allowing surface tension to form the desired curvature.
4) Another method would be to laminate an optically transparent material as the compliant window.
5) Another method would be to dip or otherwise coat the substrate, before the electrical contacts had been formed, into a precursor solution of PDMS. The liquid would form a uniform film over the openings in the manner commonly seen in soap films across a child's toy bubble ring. The PDMS, or other material, would cure in place. This could be performed twice to accomplish slight positive relief. First dip to form the film, and then suspending the LGA carrier plane horizontally, allow the PDMS to cure. Gravity would pull the film slightly downward and it would have this shape permanently upon curing. Then, a second dip could be carried out, or otherwise coated, and the LGA could be suspended horizontally again, but this time with the original top side facing down. Again, a slight curvature would follow the gravitational pull. Upon curing, this would be permanent.
6) One skilled in the art of forming polymer films could easily find many other obvious ways to form films as windows.
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In the 2014 season, the Denver Broncos have caught a form of the injury bug. This season's viral mutation seems to attack linebackers. It started near the top of the lineup and has kept up.
It attacks all starting linebackers not named Von. While injuries from sprained ankles to concussions have been included, left leg and knee injuries have ended the season for standout Danny Trevathan. Brandon Marshall missed two games at the end of the season, forcing Denver to turn to the unknown Todd Davis out of powerhouse Sacramento State.
The fans and staff were looking forward to seeing Marshall and Trevathan together in the playoffs. Trevathan's third left leg injury of the year, a dislocated patella, has put paid to that dream. Happily, Marshall is due back for the playoffs.
Without warning, the outside door was suddenly flung open. Knowing what might happen, Brandon picked up the smallest child - one of his cousins - and fled to a bedroom.
He could hear his mother Barbara and his older brother Marcus yelling at a figure. It was his own father who was screaming and threatening them. Another younger cousin ran to a different bedroom. But Brandon's father chased the child down when it was heard dialing for help. He slapped the phone to the floor, knocking it from the child's hand.
From there, Barbara faced him down in the bathroom, where the adults' yelling turned to scuffling. Brandon crept to the doorway of the bathroom. He saw the furious look on his father's face as he left the residence. It has stayed with him over the years.
Marvin Austin was born to his single mother, Donna Johnson, on January 10, 1989, in Washington, DC. Athletic as a child, by the time he was in high school, Austin was already a rising star.
He began high school at Coolidge HS, although other, bigger schools had made a run at bringing him on. As a junior in 2005, he helped Coolidge to the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association title game for the first time since 1986. It ended badly, though, with a 43–14 loss to rival Dunbar.
Coolidge assistant coach Moses Ware moved over to Ballou HS in 2006 and took Austin with him. That turned out well, as Ballou met Dunbar in that year's title game. This time, Austin, Ware, and Ballou triumphed 34-33. Austin made the All-Metro HS First Team as chosen by the Washington Post, in both 2005 and 2006.
After having lost Rahim Moore to a lower leg compartment injury, with young Duke Ihenacho playing physically but erratically, and Mike Adams a better backup than starter, Denver recently found some help at safety in the form of T.J. Ward.
A former second-round pick of the Cleveland Browns, Ward was selected to his first Pro Bowl in 2013. The Broncos are betting that his physical playing style will benefit the way their defensive secondary holds off both passing and running games.
T.J. Ward was born Terrell Ray Williams Ward Jr. on December 12, 1986, in San Francisco. He's one of three children of Terrell and LaNeita Ward, and has a brother and a sister.
Roderick 'Rod' Smith was born in Texarkana, on May 15, back in 1970. He was all-league, all-area, all-state, and an all-state game choice as a senior at Texarkana High School in Texarkana, Arkansas. He earned two letters in football and basketball, and one in baseball while in high school. He attended college at Missouri Southern State, a Division II school.
While he was there, Rod set conference records with his 3,043 career receiving yards and 34 touchdowns. He broke his own school's receptions record with 153, and as a senior, he was voted All-American by the AP, Kodak, Football Gazette, and NCAA Division II sports information directors - in other words, nearly everyone who covered Division II. In his senior season alone, he caught 63 passes for 986 yards and 13 TDs. He was a finalist that year for the Harlon Hill Trophy, which is given annually to the top Division II football player.
In 1994, he completed his studies with three degrees - economics and finance, general business, and the third in marketing and management. He was ready for his post-football life, which has been as successful as he was on the field. I follow him on Twitter just for the pleasure of it, and have found him to be one of the most positive and supportive folks I've had the pleasure to read.
On Thursday, March 15 of 2012, Denver jumped into the free agent pool and came out clutching veteran free safety Mike Adams in its hooves. Was it the money or the atmosphere that brought him into the Broncos fold? According to Gray Caldwell, Michael 'Pops' Adams began by saying, "Nice to be here: the weather's nice."
It was your basic 70-degree March day in Denver. Happily, the Broncos signed him before the next traditional spring snowstorm rolled on in (and I'm sorry to hear about the late drought along the front range - all the best to those who were or are displaced by the forest fires that are plaguing that area). Regardless - one of the things that clinched his decision was the warmth within the facility, far more than the weather without. The coaching of John Fox went a long way toward greasing the wheels to a mutual agreement.
At this time of the year, a lot of the athletes who will compete at Combine are working out intensively at a variety of gym complexes that often house the athlete and will generally offer nutritional programs, a full kitchen for meals that are specifically designed to permit maximum performance, and a Star Wars workout facility. Machines for testing oxygen intake and CO2 exhalations sit alongside the treadmills that they will be used with. The cold pools that reduce muscle inflammation are filled with shivering, shaking prospects. There are machines for every muscle, and a wide range of other training devices as well.
I've written before on Charles Dimry, a one-time Broncos cornerback, and his facility, a franchise of Velocity Performance. There is a big fish in this growth-industry pond that used to be Athletes Performance Institute. Now it's just Athletes Performance, but nearly everyone still calls it API. Luke Richesson was with them for 10 years. API turns out top professional athletes on a consistent basis - they're booked solid during the predraft training cycle. Professional athletes from a variety of sports train there year-round.
New Broncos Defensive Coordinator Jack Del Rio was born in Castro Valley, CA on April 4, 1963 and attended Hayward High School, in California. Del Rio was active in sports from an early age, and he played football and baseball for the school, where he was a teammate of former Seattle Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu. Del Rio was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays right out of high school, but after some thought, he decided to attend college at USC. He was recruited by John Robinson, and history records that he made a very good decision.
He continued his sports career with the Trojans, playing both baseball and football for them. In football Jack was a linebacker - 6'2" and 246 lb by the end of his time there, he started for the Trojans for four straight years. During that time, he was a consensus All-American as a senior as well as runner-up for the Lombardi Award, but didn't wait for then to shine. USC went 30-15-1 while he was there, ranking in the top 20 teams in the country three of those four years. In addition to playing in the 1982 Fiesta Bowl, he was the MVP of the Rose Bowl in 1985.
Pro Football Weekly's All-Rookie Team came out this past week. Everyone knew that Von Miller would be on it. What people didn't expect was that undrafted nickelback Chris Harris would be joining him. I've talked a lot about Miller, so I'll pass for today - but what do you know about Chris Harris, other than his coming out of 'nowhere' and nailing down the starting nickel corner position after ripping it out of the hands of veteran Jonathan Wilhite?
The Broncos not only went from 4-12 to 8-8 and from the bottom of the division to the top this season, but they had a lot of players who got some well-deserved recognition for their play at season's end. There have been no shortage of awards and compliments, and it's been a while since that's been true. The one that I got the most enjoyment from is probably the one that no one saw coming, and that was Harris' honor. A supposedly too-short (at 5'9 and a quarter inch but 192 chiseled lb.) cornerback who has been talked about as a free safety out of Kansas, even a brief glance through his college record makes the fact that the Combine overlooked him even stranger.
Sometimes, living in a small town gives you things that you have to wrestle with. In Eaton, Colorado, population 2,690, life is pretty much what it's always been in small towns. They publish the school lunch menus in the local paper each week next to recipes from Eleanor's Kitchen, and the yearly Eaton Days of early July are named after a pioneer in irrigation who used the waters from the foot of the Rocky Mountains to turn the arid plains into abundant farms and agriculture and who settled in that region.
The Farmer's Market runs from June to early October and features all the normal events - sidewalk chalk art, foods both organic and otherwise and local musicians all are part of the annual happening. Not much changes, and little of it changes quickly. But the hard work ethic that permeates many of the small-town agricultural areas also infuses the young men who hail from there and the sports that provide much of the small town entertainment are as much a part of the landscape as the high-plains winds that scrub the fields and the crops that fill them in the summer and harvest seasons.


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CRPCA's Book Club gatherings are open to all who have read that month's book. Typically we start out discussing the book, and inevitably someone relates a theme in the book to their own experiences or other readings, so the conversation takes an interesting turn. Our Book Club discusses books of broad interest set in Peace Corps countries. We discuss fiction and nonfiction, books by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and authors from around the world, and works that incite emotions from fury to laughter. We also love author appearances! Between 2010 and 2014, we hosted 13 different authors – in person, by phone, or via Skype. In 2015, authors Gary Cornelius, Rajeev Goyal, Michael Heyn, and Stanley Meisler are joining our discussions of their books.
Book club books are announced about three months before the book club meeting date. A complete list of all scheduled books is available to CRPCA members from our book club coordinator using the contact form below. The next three books up for discussion will be:
April 2015 Book Club Selection
Kidjo, Angélique, with Rachel Wenrick: Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music (2014)
Discussion: Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 7:00-8:30 pm. Location at the home of Mike Waite, 7008 Kansas St in Vancouver WA, 360-314-4117. Note the change to our April book selection; it's to accommodate an author appearance in May. Feel free to bring snacks to share.
Review: © Library Journal: Kidjo's memoir brims with the same joy, exuberance, and wisdom exhibited in her music while adding depth and insight into her art and life and the triumph of making connections through music. She grew up in Benin (West Africa), with a family full of songs and love. In order to continue to create her music, Kidjo fled a dictatorship and moved to France, where she struggled to support herself and against the "coolness toward African immigrants." She studied music, got married, and built on her interest in human rights. Through many collaborations-with Carlos Santana, Ziggy Marley, and Branford Marsalis, to name only a few-across cultures, styles, and countries, she details how she combines the music of Africa with music from the diaspora, extracted through slavery, constructing unique combinations and blending modern and traditional, roots and technology, jazz, and more with drums and complex rhythms at the center. She outlines how she has used her notoriety, as well as her predilection to speak her mind, to visit and advocate for women and children through UNICEF and her own foundation.
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Libraries: Ft Vancouver | Multnomah Co | Washington Co
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May 2015 Book Club Selection
Goyal, Rajeev*: The Springs of Namje: A Ten-year Journey From the Villages of Nepal to the Halls of Congress (2012)
* RPCV Nepal (2001-2003)
Discussion: Friday, May 22, 2015, 7:00-8:30 pm. Location at the home of Don Messerschmidt, 1218 SE 121st Ave in Vancouver WA, 360-256-8596. Participating in our discussion–in person–will be Rajeev Goyal, the book's author! Feel free to bring snacks to share.
Review: © Booklist: Goyal, the son of Indian immigrants, joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to teach English in the small village of Namje in eastern Nepal. In this very frank memoir of the hardships, failures, and successes, he recalls dealing with the discomforts of the caste system and learning that supposedly ignorant villagers had skills and knowledge helpful to developing their communities and nations. He is brutally honest about the unintended consequences of well-meaning efforts, such as building a water pump system to pull water up the mountain, a project that likely brought the villagers into contact with Maoist rebels. When his service ended, Goyal remained involved in issues of development, including boosting funding for the Peace Corps. He tells the story of his 10-year journey as attorney and activist, walking the halls of Congress, shaking hands and securing promises for more funding at a time of budget cutting, eventually securing an additional $60 million for the Peace Corps. An honest and inspiring look at the hard work and reward of development efforts.
Where to find it:
Libraries: Multnomah Co | Washington Co
Vendors: Powell's | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
June 2015 Book Club Selection
Meisler, Stanley: When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years (2011)
Discussion: Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 6:00-8:00 pm. Location at the home of Lesly Sanocki, 2090 NW Overton Ct in Beaverton, 503-690-3391. Participating in our discussion–via Skype–will be Stanley Meisler, the book's author! Feel free to bring snacks to share.
Review: © Booklist: Few government programs enjoy the reputation of the Peace Corps, a political afterthought by President Kennedy that became one of the more enduring legacies of his administration. Succeeding administrations have had testy relations with the Peace Corps. Johnson railed against volunteers' opposition to his invasion of the Dominican Republic, and Reagan tried to use the program to advance his agenda in Central America. Since its 1961 inception, the Peace Corps has had to manage its mission to advance peace and provide development assistance, from teaching to building wells, against political onslaughts within the U.S. and host nations even as it managed its image as symbol of American idealism rather than tool of the CIA. Meisler, a deputy director during its early years, offers informed perspective from the turbulent years of the Vietnam War, when many volunteers were conflicted about their government, to the future direction of the Peace Corps. Drawing on his experience and interviews with former volunteers, he presents the fascinating characters, locales, and political background noise from a near-universally admired program's 50-year history.
Where to find it:
Libraries: Clackamas Co | Ft Vancouver | Multnomah Co | Washington Co
Vendors: Powell's | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Most of our books are selected by an annual survey; stay tuned for our next survey in mid-2015. We schedule additional books when an author offers to meet with us. If you are interested in learning more about CRPCA's book club, upcoming books or author events, please contact our book club coordinator, Bill Stein, at 503-830-0817 or bookclub AT crpca.org or through the form below:
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WANTED: Morning Glories
SmokyMist(7 East TN)February 19, 2008
Yes I have the morning glory bug. I would love to get some Japanese varieties. I know they are hard to come by so I am willing to trade several of my seeds for just the one type of MG. I also have a Japanese Blue Picotee MG, Kniola Black, Grandpa Otis, and a few others to trade if anyone is interested. Thanks !!!


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Magic 9-patch quilt
Here is another simple 9 patch I thought you all may like.
Here is a link that might be useful: Magic 9 patch
Well, that's sure different! I'm gonna try that today. Looks like the 4 position should stay in the same colorway and the center, too. It almost makes me dizzy to look at with all those colors but I like how it kind of resembles butterflies. @:)
I made a couple blocks this morning.....2 blocks from one 9-patch. I started with 4" squares (because that's what was at hand) and ended up with 2-9 1/2" butterfly blocks. I have to figure out in my mind how to keep a little continuity going for that effect. Pictures later.....
Can I pls. say 'ditto, ditto, ditto'.
To it's beautiful & clever, thanks for sharing it;
to will have to try it myself sometime; adding it to the list.
Am RESISTING trying it out now, as I've just realized I want to enter a Show in October & got to get working on the Show piece; a UFO, cut long ago, just needs to be assembled (a story in itself of antique fabrics into string diamonds). I will resist, I will resist (which I had not for the other recent variation of 9-4 w/ the 4 patch in the center, which I tried & posted results).
I will resist, I will resist ...
Sharon I like them!!!!
Bad girl Beverly, bad girl lol!!!!!!
Mine are wild, this block is so much fun!!! I'm making this for a 6 yo, family is going through a really ruff time. 2 out of 4 kids special needs and they are splitting up.
The center square is jean material and the bottom is going to be the backing. I am making the blocks QAYG.
LaFonda, And, just like the D9P, various layouts.
Rosa, Your natural side is coming out in this quilt pattern....WILD! LOL But I agree with you about that Beverly. I think she just wants more quilt tops so she can play.
I've had to set this aside for now as I need to get a few other things attended to. But that doesn't keep me from cutting squares as I go along. @:)


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A few Questions for bobinbaltimore, if you are still around
I saw your pool thread and your project turned out lovely. We are in Carroll Co, MD and are in the middle of our pool build. Back Yard Creations out of Frederick is doing the job. We, like you, will not be spending the extra money on PT, PF, PS, or Diamondbrite. We got quotes on Fina and it was over 9K, Tec was pushing 11K. We have 30 homes in my neighborhood and we will be the 16th in-ground pool and only 1 pool has an alternative finish. We decided that we would rather have a fire pit and some other extras over the expensive finish. Since we sort of have the same landscape I wanted to see if you were still liking the blue-grey color you added to your plaster. What do I ask my builder for if I want to get that color? It is hard to get an idea of what it looks like in say an Arizona pool b/c the landscape and designs are so different than what we have here. I saw the pics but sometimes it is hard to tell what things really look like in pics. Does that color make the water any shade of green? I am trying to avoid green water at all costs. I want blue water. Can you see things on the bottom? (I have 2 small children, so that is a worry). We are doing the LED color changing lights.
Where did you get your post lanterns? I love the idea. We will have a 32' dolphin slide built into a hill and I plan to have the builder run lights up the along the rock steps but I am not sure it will be enough light. As you know it is raining here today and they are supposed to come back out to begin the remainder of the work this week. We are getting really excited. I will post pics of my project progress on this site soon.
We have the same coping as you and are doing an exposed aggregate decking. The tile is grey with some shades of blue running through it and the slide will be medium grey. We also have grey stone on the spa.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


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Over the course of a journalism career that began in 1987, Cox has covered everything from the collapse of the financial system to presidential politics to local government battles in his native Pennsylvania.
Cox joined CNBC in 2007 just as the worst of the credit crisis was about to explode and as the website was still in the infancy of its new rollout.
He helped chronicle the collapse of Bear Stearns and then Lehman Brothers, writing insightful and important stories about the demise of some of Wall Street's leading names and how investors could navigate their way through the crisis. His articles are often picked up by other CNBC syndication partners such as Yahoo and AOL Money and have been cited in a number of national publications, including USA Today.
Prior to coming to CNBC, Cox worked at CNNMoney where he wrote a series of analyses, which were the first to tie the surging demand for ethanol to rising prices at the supermarket. He wrote extensively on alternative energy while at CNN and covered technology as well.
In his print career, Cox's writing and editing projects were honored on multiple occasions by the New Jersey Press Association and Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, which cited him twice for commentary, including a series of columns he wrote after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
He also served as lead editor for award-winning projects on gangs, child molestation and the cost of education, a project on which he spoke at Columbia University. The cost of education series was honored by the NJPA for public service journalism.
In all, Cox spent 18 years in print, including nine years in senior editing positions.
A graduate of Bloomsburg University, Cox lives in Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River, with his wife, Mary Ellen.
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- In the summer of 2027, POC Sports has decided to enter the personalised passenger vehicle market for the first time. POC has never been involved in the production or development of passenger vehicles, and sees a strategic opportunity to develop a niche product for a new and growing market segment. This vehicle will embrace the very essence of POC's identity, values, and image. It will encapsulate the ethos and aesthetic of the Swedish marque's appeal, and target a particular demographic of user that currently use POC's products, both in professional and consumer capacities. The vehicle will embrace new technology for propulsion, a type that has not been previously used in mass production.
- POC is a Swedish company, built on a strong mission; to do everything we can to possibly save lives and to reduce consequences of accidents, for gravity sports athletes, by developing and renewing what personal protection is all about. POC has in many ways already set a new standard when it comes to technical solutions, construction, material combinations and engineering, with patented solutions, to increase the degree of protection.
All of POC's products have been tested by top world gravity sport athletes and then further refined to perfection. Their athlete friends love to go flat out but without suffering cuts, bruises and headaches, or in the worst cases, risking back or brain damage as a result of crashes that sadly happens to even the best athletes due to the nature of the sport. The end result is a line of lightweight, high performance gear that offers the ultimate protection against injury thanks to superior impact absorption and penetration resistance.
From an aesthetic point of view, POC products all carry a distinct style that unifies them as a single entity. From their simple product design geometry, using soft oval shapes and offset surfaces to reflect their purpose of protection, to using ultra-bright colours in satin finishes to complement the high quality impact-absorbant materials and portray a sense of excitement. It is a truly unique style, with hints of authentic European contemporary design studios such as Alessi or Philippe Starck. Hence, each and every POC product (from their helmets to goggles) is instantly and undeniably recognisable as being 'POC' without even having to see the logo.
The move to develop RISTA (the Swedish word for carve) embodies POC's creed to produce high adrenaline products that have safety and protection in total awareness. Being able to sit inside a streamlined vessel and carve down ski slopes with the ultimate peace of mind for personal protection allows the target users to experience a whole new level of gravity fueled excitement; enabling them to accelerate to new speeds down steeper gradients than ever experienced before.
- POC are trying to make a move into the personal mobility market with a vehicle of some sort that embodies the values of their brand and remains appealing to their existing demographic. To truly explore the possibilities of what this vehicle could be, extensive sketching and ideation needs to be the starting point, using inspiration from themes derived from the current collection of products available. The vehicle type shouldn't be categorised, as it isn't neccessarily a 'car' at all, as there is ample depth to uncover a creative solution that may indeed form a completely unique style of personal transportation that hasn't yet been previously conceived.
As previously stated, the demographic for this vehicle is existing users of POC protection products; including skiers, snowboarders and moutain-bike riders. They are adrenaline junkies who are always looking for a way to go faster, harder or steeper, yet are experienced enough to know the risks and equip themselves accordingly to reduce their chance of inherent injury or death.
The specifications of the vehicle are as follows:
- Must be able to carry at least one person
- Ability to transport ski equipment
- Powered by a future method of propulsion that is symbolic of the brand and the vehicle
Ergonomics of the vehicle should be considered including appropriate packaging with sight and reach angles. This package should then be taken into a three dimensional digital modelling program such as Autodesk Alias, and modelled from orthogonal reference planes. Realistic renderings of the vehicle in its environment can then be developed and presented accordingly as the deliverables of this project.
- Tim Lindgren is a 25-year-old Swede. He has been skiing since before he could walk, so it's no surprise that he is one of today's key members of the Swedish National Alpine Ski Team, alongside some of the greats including Jon Olsson. Tim is concentrating on Slalom and Giant Slalom ski racing, currently training hard to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Tim was born is Stockholm, and today he splits his year between living in Östersund (October-May) and Melbourne (June-September) to make the most of both hemispheres' winters. It's easy to see why his skin is so pale. Tim's home mountain is Åre, which is where he lives and trains. During the winter season, he travels all over Europe to compete in FIS World Cup events (located in Germany, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Sweden, Austria and even Iceland just to name a few). Tim travels to Australia in the European Summer to continue to train and further compete in FIS events in Australia and NZ.
Due to his occupation, Tim uses POC products at a professional level, and requires the absolute best in impact protection from high speed slalom ski racing (it helps that he holds a sponsorship from the Swedish brand). He always wears a helmet paired with goggels, as well as shin braces and slalom guards during races. Being a true Swede, Tim is the ultimate ambassador for POC; endorsing the Swedish brand with as much effort as they do to reduce his risk of injury.
Like all Swedes, Tim is a huge fan of electronic music, particularly trance and hence Eric Prydz. In his own time, he makes his own tracks. And like all Swedes who ski, Tim is addicted to snus (Swedish powdered tobacco). You won't catch him without one under his top lip on the left side. He currently drives a white Subaru Outback and is in a relationship with the daughter of a well known Victorian politician.
- To create a style of personal transport that echoed POC's sense of protection coupled with a high degree of risk in speed and respective stability, a traditional skiing stance was revolutionized. The chosen theme was to sit on two straight skis, spread wide enough to offer a stable frame for a housing to be fitting and to hold the operator safely and securely. The skis mimicked an actual skier in terms of turning as they would camber to allow the vehicle to 'carve' through the snow.
The cockpit had room for only one person, making this vehicle all about the driving experience, and giving a single driver ultimate control over pushing the vehicle to and beyond the driver's comfort zone (without the presence of an anxious passenger holding them back). The driver would lie on their back, supported in carefully constructed harness seating to absorb any impacts, and to keep protection as the highest priority. Exterior styling akin with POC helmets and armour, such as using recessed surfaces with large draft angles, opened up the possibility of having multiple transperant areas supported between a skeletal frame, increasing the overall visibility and sight lines for the driver.
- RISTA is a single occupancy purpose built mobility vehicle for use in sub-zero climates. It is designed for short to medium range transport on snow-covered roads between alpine towns, which is acheived via the rugged tracks embedded in its skis to propel the user along flat and inlclined surfaces.
It also has the ability to go off-piste into the endless terrain of snow and ice. It uses the latest in impact absorbtion and penetration resistance in the construction of its body to keep the user protected during high speed collisions, and to evoke a higher sense of immunity to encourage the driver to reach new levels of gravity fuled excitement as they accelerate to higher speeds down steeper gradients that ever experienced before.
- The main propiulsion method is the use of potential energy or gravity from a relative change in height, only applicable in travelling downhill. However, some heat energy generated from the friction between the base of the skis and the surface of the snow is collected and stored to power the sets of tracks embedded in the skis.
Driving is acheived using dual grip handles to control the camber of the skis and the angle of a gyroscope located in the suspended driver capsule to adjust the weight distribution and keep the vehicle stable. Ingress and egress into the vehicle is acheived as shown.
- Most POC products come in array of bright colours, however their more flagship items are offered in a combination of black, white and orange. This identifiable colour selection was taking into consideration when chosing the exterior paint.
- RISTA is made using the latest in composite material technology. The suported capsule is fabricated from a carbon fibre with a porous foam core bwtween the layers and reinforced aluminium ribbed segments for high impact absorbtion, structural integrity and to help reduce the overall weight.
The final solution is a super lightweight, aerodynamic structure that can acheive terminal speeds down steep slopes, whilst maintaining a plausible safety margin for the driver thanks to its material composition and configuration.


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S�O PAULO, BRAZIL — Braskem SA, leading producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas and the world's largest biopolymers producer, is partnering with top technical schools from Brazil and Mexico to begin training new employees in May to work at the Braskem Idesa petrochemical complex, slated to open in Veracruz, Mexico, in 2015.
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Matthew Zajac's internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning play is a story of a son's search for his father, a story of 20th century Europe, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia (Eastern Poland) came to be a tailor in northern Scotland.
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April 2, 2015
- April 5, 2015
This is the first New York retrospective of Polish visual artist, musician, and poet Wojciech Bakowski, whose camera-less films and animated video works explore the disturbance, absurdity, and pathos of human existence.
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklanski Photographs at Met Museum
This Polish-born artist is known for working in a wide variety of media including installation, fiber art, resin paintings, and collage. Uklanski invests overlooked and exhausted styles with new meanings.
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March 17, 2015
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Jacek Malczewski's painting Melancholia at Gagosian Gallery: "In the Studio: Paintings"
The Exhibit spans from the mid-sixteenth through the late twentieth centuries and includes over 50 paintings and works on paper by nearly 40 artists. Melancholia has not previously been seen in New York.
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March 7, 2015
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The Other Mozart by Sylvia Milo
It is the true, untold story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus - a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history.
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"Horrible! So disappointed"
I do not know if I will listen all the way to the end. the first half was a discussion of other reviews of the book! Give me strength. Total waste of time so far.
Yes, I bought 2 of these series. I will try #2. IF it is as bad I will return them both. Really a great dissapointment
Absolutely! Malcolm Gladwell Narrates and he is wonderful to listen to. The content is excellent and thought provoking.
I am about half way through and can not wait for my next car ride to listen further. The section on college selection criteria and results was quite interesting. I would recommend this to any parent or child in college selection decision mode!
Yes, Very good. As stated above, I am so glad he does the narration. I love listening to him speak, and the content is always interesting.
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Yes I would. This was a simple, logical, easy to follow approach to becoming more productive. I teach and coach productivity and recommend this book to all. Very clear and easy to follow.
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