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Jack Kilby was born in Jefferson City, Missourion November 8, 1923 but his growing up years were spent in Great Bend, Kansas. Kilby's father was an electrical engineer and worked for the local electric company. In the winter of 1937 there was a blizzard and Jack Kilby witnessed his father use a ham radio to keep in contact with the power stations. This kindled his desire and he soon obtained his radio license from the FCC and even built his own radio from salvaged parts. He wanted to be an electrical engineer after finishing high school. But he failed the entrance exam to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He chose instead to attend the University of Illinois.
The semester he started college Pearl Harbor was attacked. He saw that soldiers who were deployed were issued huge radios that operated erratically and were very heavy to transport. He decided to provide a remedy and went to Calcuttato purchase a large number of black market radio parts. He used these to build smaller radios that were much more reliable. He learned that if a machine did not function adequately it could be rebuilt!
He obtained a B.S. in electrical engineering from theUniversityofIllinoisand his M.S. degree from theUniversityofWisconsin. His career really began inMilwaukeewhen he started working with the Centralab Division of Globe Union Inc. in 1947. His work involved developing silk-screen circuits that were ceramic based that were to be used in different types of consumer electronic products.
He joined Texas Instruments of Dallas in 1958 and conceived the idea for the first electronic circuit and then built it. He was able to invent a circuit which contained all the passive and active components in one single semiconductor that was about half the size of a paper clip. He demonstrated his first simple microchip onSeptember 12, 1958.
Furthering His Inventions
Kilby went on to become a pioneer microchip technology for industrial, commercial and military applications. He headed up teams which worked on the construction of the first military system as well as the first computer which incorporated integrated circuits. He also worked to co-invent the thermal printer which is used in portable data terminals as well as the hand-held calculator. In all, Kilby owns over 50 US patents as well as those patents which cover the monolithic integrated circuit.
In 1970, Jack Kilby took a leave of absence from Texas Instruments so that he could continue work as an independent inventor. He explored many subjects but focused on using silicon technology which could be used to generate electrical power by using sunlight. He was granted the position of the Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering atTexasA&MUniversityfrom 1978 to 1984. Although he continues to work with Texas Instruments as a consultant and serves as a director on several boards he officially retired from the company in the 80s.
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The simple circuit that was created by Jack Kilby back in the 50s has had a global impact. That small circuit totaled $177 billion in sales in just 2000 alone. These very small components actually support the worldwide use of various types of electronic equipment. This market alone was almost $1,150 billion in just 2000. His simple, seemingly small, idea has grown to change the entire world.
Jack Kilby Honors
Mr. Kilby has received two of the United State's most prestigious honors that can be given in science and engineering. In 1970 he received the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony. And in 1982 he took his place alongside such great inventors as Henry Ford, the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison in the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballentine Medal along with many other awards. In 2000 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Mr. Kilby passed away on June 20, 2005 in Dallas, Texas after a short battle with cancer.
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Willamette Heads to Idaho for Opening Weekend
Head Coach Gordie James' team opens 2006-07 with a difficult trip to Idaho. Awaiting the Bearcats in the Duane Wolfe Memorial Golden Rule Shootout are the Yotes of Albertson College and the Mountaineers of Eastern Oregon. Both squads have opened their seasons in impressive fashion, highlighted by both sweeping Montana Tech and Montana-Western in action last weekend.
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Coming off last year's 17-8 campaign, the Bearcats will be without both C.J. Stuvland and David Fife (projected starters) for much of the early season, and will lean heavily on Captain Josh Erickson and returning starter Ian Mansfield for guidance through a difficult non-conference schedule. Newcomer Danny Nugent, along with senior Robbie Andrus and sophomore Kyler McClary round out WU's initial lineup, with junior Michael Smith and a group of sophomores (Corey Costantino, Simon Currie, Tain Cantrell) providing quality depth off the bench. Willamette enters the season picked #3 in the Northwest Conference Preseason Coaches poll.
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The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays, by Arthur Koestler
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Like everybody else, Koestler is sick and tired of politics. "The errors are atoned for, the bitter passion has burnt itself out; Cassandra has gone hoarse, and is due for a vocational change." The language is apocalyptic, but the contents of this book are not. Koestler is not, as he would like to believe, the lone prophet crying in the wilderness; he is like the rest of us. His talent has always been to dramatize his own life as if it were the march of history. That is not a negligible talent and fulfills an important public function, but it has its limits. It puts the dramatist into the show; he is one of the actors—and not Cassandra who stood aloof and above the folly of her city.
Insofar as Koestler is one of us, it is easy for us to identify and sympathize; but it is also easy to see that his "insights and outlooks" are common property. The essays collected in the present volume Ça sequel to The Yogi and the Commissar) express current attitudes, sentiments, and ideas; they do not probe beneath the surface of political phenomena; they do not transcend the public forum. They are "timely" in that they are produced and consumed for a timely occasion—for the Sunday magazine of the New York Times, for Life or Look, or some less popular periodical. There is nothing wrong with this; but it is a mistake to believe that Koestler does more than write as an observer of the surface—that he is really the voice of history.
What makes the gesture of farewell so dramatic in Koestler's case is his long and passionate involvement in politics. Now, after having been so conspicuous a symbol of the political man in our age, he is abdicating in favor of private life. He has got nothing more to say and, even if he had, it wouldn't do much good anyway. One can sympathize with these two strains of thought which run through Koestler's essays, because we have seen them operate in ourselves.
After the disaster and disillusionment which followed the First World War, Koestler found himself and his political god in the Communist movement. But Communism turned into Stalinism, the Weimar democracy into the Nazi dictatorship, and the Spanish Civil War—which brought Koestler face to face with death—was but a prelude to more horrible things to come. After his break with Stalinism, Koestler re-entered the political arena with the same passionate intensity as of old, only with the passions now being discharged against "the God that failed"—and he made the most of this opportunity, as the political articles, speeches, and manifestoes collected in this volume testify.
But atonement and rehabilitation seem to have produced but another sense of disillusionment; for as Koestler puts it in defense of Whittaker Chambers: "It is not to be expected that the public should like the runaway priest—even if the church from which he has run away happens to be devoted to worshipping the devil." Yes, there is a great deal to be said for a spirit of resignation.
And there is a good deal to be said for silence—partly because one has earned the right to be silent, partly because the political vocabulary is exhausted. The deterioration or systematic destruction of political language is surely one of the most conspicuous phenomena of our age. The key terms of political discourse, "left" and "right," "capitalism" and "socialism," "democracy" and "totalitarianism," "freedom-loving" and "peace-loving," are "rapidly becoming . . . antiquated and meaningless." Communists defend property rights; reactionaries are staunch defenders of civil liberties—alas, it has become increasingly difficult to orient oneself in the maze and jungle of political verbiage. Words and concepts seem to be used to confuse, rather than to clarify, the issues; to cover, rather than discover, the facts; to conceal, rather than reveal, some truth about men and society.
Koestler is aware of this trend, but unlike Orwell (to whom he devotes an appreciative essay) he does not inquire into its deeper causes. If he had looked farther, I think, he might have discovered that bigger issues are at stake than emotive language and neurotic behavior patterns. Behind the failure of words—or the neurotic response to political symbols—lies a failure of theory. To be sure, politics has become a "science," but one whose theoretical as well as moral foundations have been in a bad way for quite a while. Political science has become a predominantly technical discipline that trains people for participation in the decision-making processes of government, but not for the questioning of the validity of the decisions themselves. This leaves considerable room for practical politics, but little for a theoretical analysis which would come to terms with the radical changes in the reality of the political situation.
The paucity of political theory is directly related to its distance from political reality. The preoccupation with short-range problems, or piecemeal engineering, may temporarily obscure this distance; but it cannot ultimately assuage the theoretical anxiety which stems from a recognition that one's whole frame of reference is out of joint. The basic political (or social) manifestations of our age—totalitarianism and terror, anxiety and the escape from freedom, authoritarianism and conformity, alienation and apathy, indoctrination and manipulation, violence, and the overriding desire for security, national, material, or emotional—these and other political phenomena are not, and cannot be, comprehended by traditional concepts. There are serious and searching studies which have shown that these characteristic aspects of the political situation make sense only if they are defined and understood within a context beyond politics. Koestler does not take cognizance of any serious efforts to bring political ideas closer to political reality. Hence his own insights and explanations remain invariably within the domain of persuasive or propagandistic discourse; in short, they do little to purge political language of its notorious deficiencies.
Koestler's withdrawal from the scene of action is a common phenomenon. Most everybody has kissed politics goodbye and turned to cultivate some sort of private garden. "What's the use?" is the prevailing mood in theory and practice. Koestler does not ask why, or what factors have contributed to this mood; he does not even attempt to go to the roots of his own withdrawal. He seems to be satisfied with the dramatic exit as such, for he concludes his farewell to politics (as he began) with an apocalyptic vision. It is the familiar specter of the giant mushroom clouds. They now pose, after the end of politics, the final alternative of either following "the trail of the dinosaurs," or going down on one's knees and praying for a "spiritual" mutation. "Once we hoped for Utopia; now, in a chastened mood, we can at best hope for a reprieve; pray for time and play for time; for had the dinosaur learned the art of prayer, the only sensible petition for him would have been to go down on his scaly knees and beg 'Lord give us another chance.'"
That may again be true; but if it is, it is surely time to close our books on politics and read something else. Or, as Freud put it more aptly: "If a man is willing to come to this, he could probably have arrived there by a shorter road."


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Until the boys basketball team's run to the state semifinals a year or two ago, Suburban hadn't had much success in sports. Its only state champs that I know of were in swimming and girls volleyball.
Josh, this was a mutual decision between the university and Paterno's daughter, who handles licensing for all Paterno items. I think it had more to do with the fact that Paterno is no longer a university employee -- thus no longer subject to university licensing regulations -- than the idea that Penn State wants to distance itself from him.
Vendors must get any Penn State item approved by the university's licensing office. Then they have to apply for a sticker from Collegiate Licensing Company in Atlanta, which takes a large chunk out of the profits. Penn State also takes a cut (15%?) from every item sold. Anything with Paterno's likeness must additionally be approved by Paterno's daughter, Mary Kay Hort, who gets another 10 percent of the royalties. Paterno then designates a different charity each month to which the vendor must send those extra royalties.
I wouldn't be surprised to see new Paterno items in the Penn State bookstore next year -- just not the ones that already have been approved by both the university and Mary Kay Hort.
Great list, Bruce, I can't argue with any of your picks.
I might substitute "Don't Throw Your Love Away" by the Searchers for "Every Time That You Walk in the Room." Better harmonies and a nice clean guitar riff throughout.
And I'll substitute "Uptown" by The Crystals for "And Then He Kissed Me." I read somewhere that Uptown's Wall of Sound arrangement greatly influenced Brian Wilson.
And I'd probably find room for the greatest Motown record ever -- "Needle in a Haystack" by the Velvelettes. And Del Shannon's "Keep Searchin'" and ... oh well.
There is no swimming pool in the Lasch Building. Only a whirlpool in the locker room.
Players from Northampton and Warren counties and most of Hunterdon County are eligible. The All-Area team is from The Express-Times' home delivery area.
If the Big Ten is looking to add five teams, it will most likely attempt to go into both Big 12 and Big East territory. I don't see the league adding four teams from the East.
The key is Texas. The Longhorns stand to make a lot more money from Big Ten Network than it would if it stays in the Big 12, which has no TV contract. But Texas will not make the first move.
Watch for Colorado to bolt to the Pac-10 later this summer, along with Utah. That would weaken the Big 12, giving Texas the excuse to join the Big Ten, if it indeed is interested. To get Texas, for political reasons, the Big Ten also would probably have to accept Texas A&M -- a very good academic school, though a little weird culturally.
If Notre Dame also joins, watch for either Nebraska or Missouri to quickly accept a Big Ten invite.
That leaves one spot -- probably Rutgers or Syracuse. Both are good academic fits, but the Big Ten might be more willing to take a chance on Rutgers, which does not guarantee bringing in whatever New York TV market exists for college football.
Anyway, I see no scenario in which Pitt is invited. The Big Ten Network already is in homes there, so the Panthers will not bring any additional cable subscribers.
Maryland would be a good fit for the Big Ten, bringing in the Baltimore-Washington TV market, but I'm not sure the Terps are interested in leaving the ACC.


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2012 Salomon Divine ski boots
By Dessy
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About Me Intermediate
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Sunset Speedway hosted their third practice of the season to allow teams to get ready for the 2012 season. Many drivers came out, prepared to put more laps on their cars to get them handling before the season started.
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Gallery News
Reunited: Renoir's two La Loges
It was an exciting night at Sotheby's Bond Street when, after feverish bidding, the hammer went down for £6.6 million on Renoir's little-known smaller version of his famous masterpiece La Loge, one of the highlights of The Courtauld collection. Having tried unsuccessfully over the previous year to borrow the painting for The Courtauld Gallery's current exhibition, Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at La Loge, this was a new chance for us. With the auction only three weeks before the opening of the exhibition the prospect seemed unlikely. However, thanks to the generosity of the painting's new owner, Diane B. Wilsey, and some quick footwork, the painting made it into the exhibition with only a day to spare.
The small painting seems to be a second version of The Courtauld's La
Loge rather than an oil sketch and Renoir may have painted it
following the critical success of the principal canvas at the first
Impressionist exhibition in 1874. This is the first time they have
been seen together since leaving Renoir's studio that year and
it is a unique opportunity to study them side-by-side. The inclusion
of the little La Loge completes the exhibition which brings
together all of Renoir's major loge paintings together
with other treatments of the subject
by his Impressionist contemporaries such as Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas.
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By Jim Sarkisian
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Coming off its second straight Patriot League Championship game appearance, the 2013-2014 Holy Cross women's basketball team looks to get over the hump to claim its 12th Patriot League Championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament this season. With an 18-14 overall record and an 8-6 mark in the conference a season ago, this year's team returns 11 letterwinners and four starters, while welcoming a pair of freshmen. The mix of experience and young talent will allow the Crusaders to remain a contender in the league this season.
Voted to finish fourth in the Patriot League preseason poll, Holy Cross will look to remain one of the top scoring teams in the conference. In 2012-2013, the Crusaders led the Patriot League in scoring offense (59.9 PPG), field goal percentage (.414 FG%) and assists (15.5 APG), while ranking second in three-point percentage (.332 3P%) and three-pointers made per game (5.7 3PM). If Holy Cross can improve on its league-worst 61.5 points allowed per game in 2012-2013, the Crusaders will be a strong candidate to claim the Patriot League crown.
The Crusaders depth in the frontcourt will be a strength to this year's squad, with all of the players having different roles. The frontcourt this season will be led by senior co-captain Christine Ganser who averaged 7.0 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game in 2012-2013. The versatility of Ganser to play multiple positions on the floor and her ability to shoot the three-ball will allow the Crusaders to have multiple lineups based on their opponents.
Returning healthy this season will be junior forward Emily Parker who was named to the 2011-2012 Patriot League All-Rookie team. Battling injuries last year, the 6-3 Parker averaged 5.7 points and 4.1 boards per game. Rotating with Parker at the five spot will be sophomore center Molly Hourigan who started 14 of Holy Cross' final 15 games and played well in the paint for the Crusaders down the stretch. Over the final 15 games, the 6-4 Hourigan averaged 5.0 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game.
Also returning will be sophomore forward Raquel Scott who led the 2012-2013 squad with 169 rebounds. In last year's Patriot League Tournament, Scott led the conference with 32 total rebounds and ranked second with 10.7 rebounds per contest. Last season, she appeared in all 32 contests and averaged 4.3 points and 5.3 caroms per game. Junior forward Clare Sullivan will also provide added depth to the frontcourt as she played in 28 games a season ago and averaged 2.4 points and 1.0 rebounds per game.
Freshmen Jenn Dynis and Madelyn Ganser will add versatility to the Crusaders, as both can play the three or four spot on the floor. The duo will compete for playing time right away with the graduation of 2012-2013 All-Patriot League second teamer Amy Lepley.
The Crusader backcourt, led by seniors Alex Smith and Brisje Malone, will look to continue to be the driving force this season for Holy Cross. A two-time member of the first team All-Patriot League and co-captain, Smith will lead the offensive output for Holy Cross. Coming off a campaign where she led the Patriot League with 14.5 points and 2.9 three-pointers made per game, the 1,000-point scorer will be the quarterback of the offense at the point guard position. Smith also put up 4.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists last season for Holy Cross.
Malone will look to build on her strong junior season where she led the Patriot League with 5.0 assists per game. In addition to her assists, she also recorded 9.4 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.8 steals per contest and earned the team's unsung hero award in 2012-2013.
Fourth-year guard Kelly Hamner will look to finish off her senior season on a strong note. She returns healthy this year and will give the Crusaders a spark on the defensive side of the ball with her athleticism and energy.
Sophomores Lisa Mifsud and Kate Gillespie both come back to this year's team stronger and better adapted to the college game. Mifsud played in 30 contests as a freshman and averaged 2.2 points per game and will give the Crusaders depth on the offensive and defensive side of the ball. Gillespie will look to improve as a second-year player, providing the Crusaders with a guard that can shoot the three-pointer and also drive the ball into the lane. Sophomore Jenn Walsh will also add depth to the backcourt this season.
Holy Cross will play a challenging and competitive 11-game non-conference schedule to begin the season. The non-conference slate includes four teams who had winning records in 2012-2013 and a pair of schools who competed in the NCAA Tournament. The Crusaders will begin the 2013-2014 campaign at home versus Dartmouth on Friday, Nov. 8 at 7:00 p.m.
After playing six of their first eight contests of the season at home, Holy Cross will travel to Ames, Iowa, on December 28-29 to compete in the Cyclone Classic hosted by Iowa State. The two-day event will kick off with the Crusaders versus the Cyclones on Dec. 28 followed by a contest either against Saint Louis or William & Mary.
Holy Cross will then begin its 2013-2014 Patriot League slate against new conference member Boston University on Jan. 2. The new 10-team Patriot League will include BU and Loyola (Md.) as well three other teams with winning records. The Crusaders take on three-time defending Patriot League champion, Navy, on Jan. 25 at home and also on Feb. 22 in Annapolis, Md.


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She's the incredible shrinking woman! Jersey Shore star Deena Nicole just keeps getting skinnier and skinnier, and she's decided to show off her new lean meatball figure in a sexy new photo.
Deena posted this photo of herself showing off her skinny, toned legs over the weekend. The reality star theoretically posted the photo to show some support for the New York Giants, but we think she posted the pic to show off her sexy body. No shame in that, Deena!
Deena's casual Sunday look included a Giants jersey, itty bitty jean shorts, and fluffy white boots.
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We're starting the new year by teaming up with Interweave Knits and Brenda K.B. Anderson to bring you a giveaway of monstrous proportions. Beastly Crochet is filled with "silly monsters, evil bunnies and killer robots" that you'll just love to add to your evergrowing project wishlist. Filled with everything from robot toys to monster slippers to skull-shaped totes and many more, you'll love to have this book on your coffee table for people to admire.
To celebrate Brenda's latest book, we have an exclusive pattern to share with you: the Robo-Blanky is perfect for that future engineer or science fiction writer. Check it out here.
We'll be picking ten lucky winners who will receive a copy of the book.
*Contest ends January 31st.
*Update 2/8/2014*: Congratulations to Eva Johannes, Tina Cole, Doris Ackman, Tina Sullivan, Sarah Friedman, Stephanie May, Carolyn Thai, Heather Vanderheiden, Claire Davidson, and Karen Burns! We'll be in touch shortly to get your prizes to you!
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:: Re-printed with permission, Craftsy writer Ashley — aka "The Feisty Redhead" — offers these tips for knitting your first sweater. If you'd like a little more help with the leap to sweater knitting, Lion Brand and Craftsy have partnered to bring you the online class: "My First Sweater". Keep reading … ::
The step from knitting a scarf to knitting a sweater is a big one, but it's necessary if you want to avoid knitting rectangles for the rest of your life. Knitting your first sweater can be frustrating, but it can also be a lot of fun. If you're looking for a winter project, why not knit a sweater? Here are a few things to keep in mind before you even start knitting that sweater.
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Photos via Craftsy instructor Amy Ross
No need to have a PhD in knitting (if only!) to knit a sweater. If you can knit and purl, you can knit a sweater. The cardigan above is one of the sweater patterns from Craftsy's My First Sweater class with Amy Ross. Enroll in the class and Amy will walk you through everything you need to know about knitting your first sweater, from body measurements to sleeves and seaming. You can even ask Amy questions if you get stuck!
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|Do you want a personalized gift for someone with an upcoming birthday?
How about a scarf that is designed for their sign of the Zodiac? The word Zodiac literally means "Circle of Life." The twelve signs of the Zodiac offer believers insights into their personalities, qualities, and talents. Whether you consider the traits of your Zodiac sign to be light entertainment or a determining force in your life, as a knitter or crocheter, you'll find that making a scarf designed with a specific birthday in mind is the perfect gift to create something made with them in mind.
Aquarius birthdays are from January 20th through February 18th, and are people who are both generous and known for their charity yarn crafting. If you're born during this period you have a drive to make the world a better place. You may be involved in your local community or a religious organization and you are a very social person, so knitting or crochet groups are probably part of your life. You love to engage others, so you most likely enjoy teaching people the craft that has given you so much satisfaction.
The symbol of Aquarius is the Water Bearer and Aquarians bring creativity and ideas into the world. As an Aquarius you like to make things your own. What a perfect way to start the year we've designated as "You Shine Through."
These creative people may be a bit quirky but that often goes along with being creative. The colors of the Aquarius scarf are the colors of water and creativity (purple).
We have both knit and crochet versions. Start now and you'll have the scarf for the late January to mid-February birthdays finished in time!
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Lion Brand Yarn Company Showcases "The 7 Wonders of the Yarn World" at CHA Winter Tradeshow
We're at the Craft Hobby Association (CHA) Winter 2014 tradeshow in Anaheim, CA this weekend and our big secret is now out! Keep watching here as we reveal "7 Wonders of the Yarn World" — a fiber art installation that includes large-scale yarn sculptures representing the 7 wonders of the world.
The 7 Wonders of The World sculptures were designed by fiber artist Nathan Vincent. Each sculpture represents a different technique found in knit or crochet. The installations that represent the "7 Wonders of the Yarn World" theme stand about 5 feet high or taller, and include marvels such as the Great Wall of China crocheted with granny squares, an embellished knit Taj Mahal, a lace crocheted Leaning Tower of Pisa, a crocheted Lion Sphinx, and more.
Keep watching here as more photos get added to our gallery.
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Come see us at Vogue Knitting Live NYC next weekend!! Stop by booth 518, say hi — and check out the great selection of yarns we'll be carrying at 20% off, including new yarns Keppi, Unique, Heartland, and LB Collection Silk.
Additionally, we'll be hosting signings from some of your favorite designers such as Franklin Habit, Lily Chin and Nicky Epstein!
|Franklin Habit, designer, illustrator and contributing author to Lion Brand's blog The Notebook, will be signing copies of select illustrations from posts he's written for us over the past two years on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at booth 518. Check out Franklin's witty posts here.
|Lily Chin, a master knitter and one of the world's fastest crocheters, will be at the Lion Brand booth signing copies of her book, "Crochet Tips & Tricks: Shortcuts and Techniques Every Crocheter Should Know" on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at booth 518
|Love our Bonbons and want more ideas for projects? Nicky Epstein will be at the Lion Brand booth signing copies of her adorable "Knits for Dolls and Crochet for Dolls (25 Fun, Fabulous Outfits for 18-Inch Dolls)" books which has some great patterns utilizing Bonbons and other Lion Brand yarns on Sunday at 1 p.m. at booth 518.
Vogue Knitting Live NYC takes place at the Marriott Marquis in the heart of Times Square from Friday, January 17th through to Sunday, January 19th.
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At the beginning of every year Pantone appoints one color to inspire world trends for the months ahead. A regular practice since 2000, Pantone recently announced this year's color: "Radiant Orchid." According to the leading color authority, Radiant Orchid "inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health," and was chosen to influence fashion, personal style and all creative matters in 2014.
Purple is a color that's often associated with encouraging individual creativity and used in meditation to help visualize a harmonious, spiritual balance. Expect to see this purple popping up on inspiration and mood boards everywhere—and of course yarn projects.
With personalization becoming a bigger aspect in fashion this year, we find that purple a great color to work with because of its complexity. While it is a simple combination of blue and red, the variety of shades you choose to use in a project can vary, depending on the mood you wish to reflect.
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in Homespun® Thick and Quick®
in Mixed Berries and Claret
|Knit Lace Beret
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I was sitting in an airport, waiting for the flight to a teaching engagement, winding yarn. Travel with a swift being sadly impractical, I was making do with the back of an empty chair. Without warning, a screeching ninny plunged into view and grabbed at the unwound skein.
"So cute!" she screamed, jangling a fistful of wool in one painted claw. "Are you, like, doing some crochet or something?"
"That was the plan," I said.
But it was too late. The skein had become a tangle so dense not even light could escape from it.
Working out occasional small snarls is part of knitting. There's no avoiding it. But really big messes like this? Forget it. I've always taken them as a sign that I wasn't supposed to knit with that yarn, anyway.
When I got to the guild I mentioned what had happened and displayed the ruined skein.
"It was so pretty, too," I said. "But now it's dead."
"No it's not," said the Chief Guild Lady. "Somebody get Eileen."
There was a general chorus of agreement: Eileen must be got.
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|The Zodiac Window Display at Lion Brand Yarn Studio, our flagship studio in NYC.
We are creators. In our everyday lives, we prepare our own version of recipes for our families, plant colorful or edible gardens to fit our outdoor spaces, and of course knit, crochet and craft with yarn. We start with some basic components—a washable or exotic fiber in a range of heathers or brights that we couldn't resist—and turn them into something completely our own.
With everything you make, you shine through.
From the colors you choose to the length of a scarf to the initials you embroidered on the baby blanket—the completely original way your knit or crochet creations unfold is how you share your own unique personality to the world.
In the coming year, we are going to celebrate your shining moments and share with you many ideas to customize and personalize everything you make so it perfectly suits the person you are making it for and in every way possible, you shine through in the finished piece.
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Cool binding, but needs time in the saddle
The Naxo is an engineering marvel, but I've been amazed that a binding that had a year in Europe for the Euros to beat on it would still have problems once it was imported. It sounds like the latest, to be sold for this winter of 04/05, might be the Fritschi killer, but we shall see.
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I love the fact that I can now watch conference from home by just getting on the internet. I don't care for having to hook the computer up to the TV, it's just a hassle. We, like many other families, have a wii/PS3 sitting under the TV that's connected 24/7. They both have a wireless access capability, yet the conference format from LDS.org or BYUTV doesn't work on either system. It just seems like it would be much easier to watch conference if I didn't have to hook up any extra stuff.
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The game maker's strong back catalog of sports games helps the company generate strong revenue even in the absence of new releases.
GameSpot's Justin Haywald, Chris Watters, and Mike Mahardy talk about the pros and cons from the latest Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, and who they think is currently coming out on top.
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By Michelle Casady : April 16, 2014 : Updated: April 17, 2014 6:52am
SAN ANTONIO — Both men arrested for the 2010 beating death of a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a relative of one attacker have now entered plea agreements that cap each man's possible punishment at 25 years in prison.
Kenneth Nelsen, 43, pleaded no contest Wednesday to the murder of Mark A. Gabler, 33. Co-defendant Shawn Phillips, 36, also pleaded no contest to the charge in February and is awaiting sentencing.
Nelsen, however, had the minimum range of punishment increased from five to 15 years in prison because he's a convicted felon. In 1996, he was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated sexual assault of a child, court records show.
Gabler's decapitated body, described as "mostly bones," was discovered a month after the killing by three men hunting hogs on a remote property in Southeast Bexar County.
Nelsen and Phillips both confessed to police their role in the killing, which they said was spurred by allegations a relative of Phillips' made against Gabler. They said Gabler was clubbed and stabbed to death.
The molestation accuser told police she saw Phillips put on his "killing gloves" and grab a stick before leaving the house to kill Gabler, according to court records. The pair was identified as suspects after police discovered they had been using Gabler's credit card.
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For some reason that cracked me up. :P
I also love that the Virgin Mary is great for cleaning behind your ears!
Biggest thing with store bought soaps though, is that most of them aren't soap anymore. Most of them are "deodorant bars" or "beauty bars" etc... very little (if any) soap is in them. Instead, many of them are synthetic detergents. Most of the ones that are actually soap (like Ivory) have the natural glycerin (which is a by product of the soap process/saponification) stripped out.
Long before I started making my own soap (rather recent, in fact... my first batch is curing right now) I was investing in hand made, cold processed soap. Even at $4 a bar, it was worth it.
Most of the glycerin soaps on the market have extra glycerin added, as well as sugar and sugar alcohols (for a translucent soap) added. I think that most, if not all, glycerin soaps on the market use either vegetable or animal fat based glycerin. That glycerin is usually produced, ironically enough, by mass market soap production where they skim off the glycerin during the cooking process (hot processed soap, much faster results since the saponification is completed by the time the cooking is done) and sell it for cosmetics. (Yes, there is a reason that Ivory soap is so very harsh...)


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I have health bar textures and a working health system but how do i make it into a bar? so how would i change between the images according to how much health is left out of 100??
asked May 13, 2010 at 01:31 PM
You can try this tutorial if you want to create a dynamic health bar that also changes color according to the amount of health left. This is all done with the new UI from UNITY 4.6: Health bar turorial
Oct 18, 2014 at 05:34 AM Artifactx
Have a look at this answer, which gives source code for display health bars using the new GUI system.
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works great thanks I had to change it a bit to make it for health and get rid of the box around it but otherwise it works perfectly!
May 14, 2010 at 04:25 AM Nallac
the link doesn't seem to work anymore. can you make a new one? Thanks!
Jun 16, 2011 at 10:49 PM cidmodder
duck's link probably went to this question: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/11892/how-would-you-make-an-energy-bar-loading-progress.html
Aug 07, 2011 at 09:10 PM SisterKy
fixed the link!
Jun 04, 2014 at 09:21 AM duck ♦♦
If you would like to use the new Unity UI system to create a Health bar. Go to this link
Sep 08, 2014 at 06:06 AM GluedBrain
There's plenty of tutorials with health bars in them. Take a look at the 3D platformer tutorial, it has a round health bar but I'm pretty sure you can work out how to make a straight one. Also take a look at UnityGUI guide.
answered May 13, 2010 at 02:10 PM
I know this has been answered a ton of times, but I thought I'd answer it :)
My way of doing this:
SliderVar being the slider type variable.
PlayerVar being the public GameObject you wrote in the health script, PlayerScript being the player's script, and HealthVar being the health variable in the player's script.
Hope this helps :-)
answered Jan 23 at 01:24 PM
Here is a way to set this up for the player's health in case anyone is looking for that solution in the future (in C#).
This will work perfectly if you have a script attached to your main character (in this example PlayerMoveScript) with two public static variables for the player's current health (playerHealth), and their maximum health (playerHealthTotal). Just make sure that their maximum health is a float or the division will not work properly.
You can create two textures in Photoshop and size them to be identical to the Vector 2 (size) variable. Once you import the textures into Unity (.PSD extension works fine) you can switch the texture type from Texture to GUI in the Inspector.
Hope this helps someone!
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And you know, you can use horizontal slider its just 1 line of code
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Humorist Jeanne Robertson stands true to her promises
A lot of women left the Foundation at Isothermal Community College Saturday afternoon with "aching jaws" and smiling faces after a performance by humorist Jeanne Robertson.
Robertson of Graham and Miss North Carolina in 1962, brought the house down with her performance at the 2013 "Live, Love, Laugh" Women Event hosted by Rutherford Regional Foundation.
When the audience audience left the auditorium after her 75 minute performance, they were still laughing. Robertson kept a promise she made in an interview prior to coming to Spindale. She promised the audience they would "laugh their heads off" and from comments from some of those attending, she delivered.
Robertson who stands 6-foot-2 shared stories of her life experiences.
She told stories about her husband, church, friends, senior citizens, her wardrobe and being 6-foot-2 and the challenges it brings.
She said her husband is 6-7 and their son is 6-8 She said the family is concerned "about the grandchildren."
Robertson told the audience she's on the Board of Trustees at Elon University in Burlington where she lives. "I say that in every speech I make," she said.
Dot Buchanan was standing outside the auditorium with her two daughters after the show was among one of those still laughing. She said it was one of the best things she'd seen in a long time.
Margie Andrews of Rutherfordton was treated to the performance by her daughter Karen Andrews and son-in-law Dan Mrozkowski. "She enjoyed every bit of it and it was well worth it, seeing her laughing like she did. She loved it," Karen said.
Paula McIntosh of Rutherfordton said, "I feel so much lighter than when I went in there . . .Just having been here. I laughed so much."
Robertson stayed after the show for more than an hour signing autographs and talking with every person who wanted to meet her.
"She wanted to meet the people before and after the show," said Jill Miracle, executive director of the Rutherford Regional Foundation.
Miracle said the theme of the event is meant for people to live, love and laugh at the annual events. "Jeanne Robertson certainly made us laugh," Miracle said.
For more than 45 years, Robertson has been speaking at conventions and theatres across the country.
Her next performance is in Denver, Colo. on Valentine's Day.
Her performances are available through Jeanne's Humor Store, satellite radio, YouTube and iTunes. www.itunes.com.


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WaPo Fact Checker: We Could Give Obama Four Pinocchios on His Abortion Record, But Won't
2:01 PM, Sep 11, 2012 • By MARK HEMINGWAY
Over at Red State, a blogger makes a note of an incredible Washington Post fact checker column yesterday. The column ostensibly fact checked a series of claims made by pro-life groups criticizing Obama on his abortion record. I don't want to get into all of the back and forth because it involves engaging a lot of argumentative nonsense. But in total, there are five pro-life claims evaluated and they award four of those claims one to three Pinocchios for being misleading, with four being the most Pinocchios the Washington Post fact checker hands out.
However, that fifth claim is interesting, because it centers on the most controversial aspect of Obama's record on abortion—his opposition to the the Born Alive Infant Protection act, a bill in the Illinois legislature which stated that "A live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate protection under the law." The fact checker quotes Obama's stated reason in the Illinois legislature for opposing the law, and sums it up this way:
So far, so good. And we get some more context about Obama's dishonest defense of his votes on the two different versions of the Born Alive Infant Protection act:
So let's sum things up: We have a "Fact Checker" column that is headlined, "Did Obama vote to deny rights to infant abortion survivors?" The column unearths enough evidence that a reasonable person would conclude he did vote to deny rights to abortion survivors. And if his record on this is in any way defensible, why did Obama feel the need not just to lie about his record but accuse others of lying about him in the process? I know what you're thinking. Obama must be off the Pinocchio scale here. Guess again:
They award him no Pinocchios. Unbelievable. Apparently, he lied about his record so long ago—all the way back in '08—that his dishonesty then isn't relevant to the current claim being made that Obama voted to deny rights to infant abortion survivors. Some facts are just too politically inconvenient to check, apparently.
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CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) - A man accused of killing an Iowa girl in 2005 is getting a new attorney.
A judge on Monday ordered that Casey Frederiksen be represented by the Waterloo public defender's office due to a conflict of interest by prior representation of potential witnesses by the Mason City public defender's office.
Because of the change, Frederiksen's arrangement is delayed until Nov. 19.
Frederiksen is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree sexual abuse in the death of Evelyn Miller, who vanished from her family's apartment in Floyd. Her body was found days later along the Cedar River.
Frederiksen, the live-in boyfriend of Evelyn's mother, was in federal prison on child pornography and drug charges when he was charged in the child's death in September.
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The president and 91 percent owner of 12 Dollarwise payday lending outlets in the Seattle area went to prison last summer but neglected to mention that to the state, the state Department of Financial Institutions said today. DFI began investigating after it got an anonymous tip that Charles Seil was running the operation from prison. [Read More]
Group pushes for interest rate cap on payday loans; says other measures don't work
Databases, payment plans, cooling-off periods and limits on the number of payday loans that a borrower can hold at one time haven't done much to prevent borrowers from taking out repeated payday loans that trap them in a cycle of debt, says the Center for Responsible Lending in a report released Thursday. [Read More]
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If you haven't already seen it, you have to check out the satirical Predatory Lending Association Web site. As my colleague John Cook blogged yesterday, the Onionesque site parodies the site of the Community Financial Services Association of America, the leading group representing payday lenders. [Read More]


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Indonesia's infamous firebrand cleric and convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir has been transferred to the high-security prison island of Nusa Kambangan, for a reason not yet disclosed by police.
Bashir's assistant Hasyim Abdullah, who visited the 74-year-old every day at the National Police headquarters' detention center in Jakarta to take care of his needs, said the transfer was sudden.
"He was moved at 10:45 p.m. on Friday but only got told of it at 9 p.m. I had already gone home, so I returned [to the detention center] to take care of Ustad [Bashir's] belongings after he called me using a cell phone owned by a member of the Densus 88 anti-terrorism unit," Hasyim said on Saturday morning.
He said Bashir, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison last year, would be incarcerated at Batu Penitentiary on Nusa Kambangan, dubbed the "Alcatraz of Indonesia" due to its high security. Convicted murderers, terrorists, drug dealers and those found guilty in high-profile corruption cases are commonly shipped to the island, off the southern coast of the Central Java town of Cilacap.
Batu Penitentiary hosted the infamous Bali bomber trio — Amrozi, Imam Samudera and Mukhlas — who were executed in 2008 for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings.
Hasyim said the Muslim Lawyers Team (TPM), which often represents defendants charged with terrorism at trial, would consider Bashir's sudden relocation a problem.
"The transfer was carried out without any letter; there was only a spoken notice. The Muslim Lawyers Team will question this," he said.
"I still don't know the reason for the transfer."
Meanwhile, Indonesian news portal detik.com reported that Bashir arrived at Wijayapura Port in Cilacap at about 9 a.m. on Saturday, with a heavy security presence in tow.
An entourage of five vehicles carrying heavily armed members of the National Police's anti-terror detachment, Densus 88, and a Mobile Brigade (Brimob) unit escorted Bashir to the port, where they immediately boarded a boat for Nusa Kambangan.
The head of Batu Penitentiary, Hermawan Yunianto, said Bashir would be placed in a cell already inhabited by three aging inmates.
"This is so that doctors can continually monitor his health, because he's already old," Hermawan said.
He added that along with Bashir, Nusa Kambangan received five other inmates transferred from Jakarta on Saturday.
The transfer was carried out just a few days after Bashir slammed Indonesian law enforcers' "lenient" action against members of the Papuan pro-independence group West Papua National Committee (KNPB), who allegedly planned a series of bombings in the restive province of West Papua last week.
Quoting Bashir, Hasyim said on Tuesday that Bashir was outraged at the "unfairness" of his treatment by authorities when compared with the handling of the KNPB members.
"If it was Muslims arrested plotting that kind of thing, they would be branded terrorists and charged under the Anti-Terrorism Law. But because they're not Muslims, they aren't called terrorists and they don't face terrorism charges," Bashir was quoted as saying.
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The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is looking for sponsors to feed low-income children this summer.
In 2012, the 177 sponsors in the food service program who contracted with DPI provided 2.4 million free meals to children during the summer months. The sponsors operated 728 sites statewide last year.
Sponsors include public and private nonprofit schools, camps, local governments and libraries. The DPI says interested sponsors will find more information and an online application on its website. New sponsors are required to attend a training session in Madison April 3.
The DPI has administered the federal program since it began in 1975.
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