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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A devastating tram crash and a violent explosion leaving major characters fighting for their lives are two of the nail-biting scenes marking the 50th birthday of television's longest-running soap opera.
"Coronation Street" -- affectionately known as "Corrie" -- celebrates half a century on the small screen in Britain and around the world with its 7,487th episode on Thursday.
The show has followed the ups and downs of life in the fictional northern English urban setting of Weatherfield since December 9, 1960 and will broadcast an hour-long live episode to mark the anniversary.
The characters who have captivated fans around the globe since Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell and Martha Longhurst first sat in Corrie's fictional Rovers Return pub, and complained about landlady Annie Walker's "airs and graces" have clocked up a total of 88 marriages, 39 births and 114 deaths.
"I have books, DVDs, I tape certain episodes that I want to keep... I own other memorabilia such as a set of flying ducks, a cross stitch I did, a few ornaments and I treasure the photos I took when I've visited the set," said one fan on the Coronation Street blog "Corrie Blog."
Since Annie Walker's first stood behind the bar, the Rovers Return has been staffed by 51 barmaids who have pulled 2 million pints of beer.
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If the commentator refers to these during a cycling race, he'll be wincing. Baby heads are smallish rocks, though bigger than 'death cookies', which mountain-bike riders often sample – usually with their teeth – when they have a crash.
The area between the rear boundary and the long service line on a badminton court. Sometimes rudely, and wrongly, defined as where badminton was played before legalisation in 1322.
Not the expression on the face of the gold medallist in the canoe sprint where he tries his best to look humble, but the width of the widest part of his boat.
Almost as nasty as it suggests: what happens when in BMX cycling your foot slips off the pedal so the other pedal whizzes round and smacks you in the shin.
See also 'no bird', since neither have anything to do with sex. To 'bonk' is when a triathlete runs out of puff, steam and oomph. Technically, it's actually the glycogen reserves in muscle and liver which run out, but either way it's a 'bonk', and you've 'hit the wall' and are going no further for a bit, certainly not at the rate you were.
Since almost every aspect of sailing is conducted in an otherwise-dead language based on the everyday speech of 8th-century gurning rustics, it's hard to know where to start, but this will do, and it's what the commentators will cry if a boat turns out of control, broadside to the wind (or waves). Unlikely but possible.
Oddly enough for a sporting term, brutality, in water polo, does actually refers to brutality, in which Player A tries deliberately to harm (maim, kill, disable) Player B, and is sent off for the rest of the game.
Naturally, the rough person in a hockey match with no front teeth who is responsible for lots of other players having no front teeth either. More formally, it's the call used to start play, when the players tap the 'flat' of their sticks three times, then just go for it.
Chagi is the Korean word for a kick in taekwondo. There are lots of kinds of chagi. 'Ap', 'yop', 'dwi', 'naeryo', 'bakat', 'cha chun bai', also 'horio'. These meaning: front, side, back, like axe, outer crescent, skipping, reverse turning. There are also many kinds of 'jireugi', which means punch. 'Jireugi ap', 'jireugi yop' – you begin to get the picture?
Term of praise in boxing, as in "The boy's got chin". Not the bit the other chap just punched, but the ability to stay upright despite it, even when seeing stars or indeed nothing at all. Allegedly 'chin' is born, not made. The opposite of 'glass jaw'.
"There's that chop block again", is nothing to do with butchery or Tower Hill; rather, a table-tennis stroke where the player just waits for the ball to come to his 'blade' (bat) which he then chops downwards to apply heavy spin to the ball as it returns.
The fencing stroke which parries and then forces through an attack. It's the opposite of 'parade insufficient' or 'Mal-parry' – a parry that doesn't work so that the attacker's blade makes contact.
In wrestling, a 'crotch lift' refers to that nasty moment in which one combatant locks his arms round the other's upper thigh and then attempts to perform a 'snatch' (qv) on the other poor sod. Everyone winces, which is odd since in the 16th century the phrase was part of a dance called La Volta, and it was generally considered rather sexy. How things have changed.
Drive face is normally the expression that people put on when they turn into the gravel driveway of someone who is much richer than they are. In slalom canoeing, though, the drive face is the curved, front bit of the paddle which is used to go forward. The rest is done by the back of the blade, which you may hear called by its technical term, 'back of the blade'.
A version of the popular indulgence, in volleyball a 'facial' is when a player raises her arm over her head and smashes the ball into the opponent's side of the court – and it hits someone smack in the face. Also invigorating, but in a different way.
What they call it when a handball player leaps into the air and while actually airborne twists to become horizontal in mid-air and sort of flies round the defender to take a shot at goal. Do not try this at home. Or if you do try this at home, make sure someone's filming you so that they can post it on YouTube.
Yes, yes. Well it's not. It's an athletics term of Swedish origin for a sort of practice running workout where the runner can vary the speed they, well, run at.
Is Agincourt quite forgotten? Fistmele is, in archery, the distance between the bow handle and string when the bow is drawn. (You may also hear references to a competitor's 'kisser' – a thing which shows the right vertical distance when drawing a bow.)
This is astonishing. In Artistic Gymnastics, what they call the floor is actually... the floor. But it's officially a piece of apparatus. And there's more: exercises performed on the floor are called... floor exercise. Whoever's in charge of gymnastics is really going to have to work on being a bit more obscure or where will it end?
A double somersault with a twist. One of those things in trampoline which, like everything else in trampoline, makes one feel as though one has shot over the edge, screaming, and smashed one's teeth out on the rim. Can I go now? I feel funny.
The tennis commentators will be yearning for this to happen. A golden set is a set won 6-0 without a point being lost. It has only ever been pulled off once, and that wasn't at an Olympics – by Bill Scanlon of the USA in 1983. Could this be the year? Almost certainly not.
You're thinking: an Australian person too old to be a groupie who hangs around road cyclists hoping for a bit of slap-and-gravel. But actually it's a set of drive components – brakes, cranks, gears and so on.
The centre of gravity of a judo combatant, and so one of its most crucial concepts. You may also hear the commentators speaking of 'kansetsuwaza', where the combatants lock limbs, and 'O-Goshi', which is a combatant's cry, the Japanese translation of 'O-Fuck'. (Actually it's not. It's a Major Hip Throw.)
Not what you watch ladies' basketball through, but the end part of the court, including the foul circle, the free-throw line and the foul lane. It's called the keyhole because it used to look like one in the old days, but doesn't any more.
The leade is the smooth section in the breech of a rifle, where you load the bullet, before the 'lands' – the ridges which make the bullet spin in flight. If you hear them refer to the 'throat', it's a not-quite-pukkah word for the same thing.
This is what happens when a shooting competitor spends all his time practising and never goes out. It is also an illegally-launched clay pigeon. (That's 'illegal' in that it's thrown before the player has called 'pull', or not thrown, or breaks – not 'illegal' as in being fired into someone's face round the back of Argos when he was well eyeing up your 'bird' innit.)
We must mention football, even though we'll be getting more than enough of it, so let's stick to the offside rule which is the thing a woman feigning interest in the game asks a man to explain just once more, thus spoiling his enjoyment of the match while adding nothing to hers.
It does makes you think, some of these sporting terms. Still. Rip entry is, in diving, when you enter the water almost imperceptibly, without making any splash. (Incompatible with 'lost move syndrome' where the diver suddenly finds that he or she can't do a sequence of moves which two minutes ago was only second nature.)
Well it's obviously another rowing term for gunwales, which are pronounced 'gunnels', while saxboard is pronounced 'saxboard'. In either case it's the top rail along the sides of the boat, which is sometimes called a shell, so that a shell's saxboard is the same thing as a boat's gunwales. Arrr harr so it be.
Scull is no relation of 'chin', 'kisser' or 'baby heads' (qqv) but instead it is a sort of paddling action of a synchronised swimmer's hands that is specifically designed to put a continuous pressure on the water in order to hold station (or indeed propel the swimmer forwards).
A slobber bar is where the equestrians gather after the event to commiserate with, and blame, each other. Also, or actually, it refers to a metal bar between the shanks of a curb bit.
Shh. Stop it. This is simply, in weightlifting, pulling the barbell to mid-chest, then flipping it overhead. The other one is called the 'jerk' – I warned you: stop it – which follows the 'clean', a rapid pull to the shoulders, then jerking the barbell overhead. There's also the famous though seldom seen 'prolapse' but it's usually left unmentioned apart from wincing by all involved.
The pits is a track cyclist's description for what he or she considers a particularly poor performance. Also fenced-off areas of the infield where mechanics work on the bikes.
Astoundingly, and rather disappointingly, an action in Rhythmic Gymnastics in which the athlete throws something into the air and catches it again. Cf 'trap', where the something is caught, but not with the hands. Minds: feel free to boggle.
A term of beach volleyball abuse (note the nautical imagery) for swiping wildly at the ball without any sense of tactics or real purpose. But for most male spectators, with those skimpy little outfits, who's looking for strategy or tactics?
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This is a discussion on Positive LEO encounter Saturday within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; First some background. Last week, my friend had a vehicle stolen off his property. He purchased this property last year and is in the process ...
First some background. Last week, my friend had a vehicle stolen off his property. He purchased this property last year and is in the process of clearing it, 25 ac, so he does not live on the property yet. Anyway he mentioned the theft to me during a conversation and described the vehicle: Old primered phone company truck with lift on it. Fast forward to Saturday. My sons and I were returning from work day at our hunting camp. I am about 10 miles from home, and I see a truck matching the description parked behind a convience store. I pull up behind the truck and call my friend. I asked him if the truck he was missing had a metal Coca-Cola sign in the back and he said "yes it does, how did you know?". I told him I found the vehicle. He was out of town, but said he would send someone to pick the vehicle up. I called the local PD. When the officer arrived, I handed him both my license and CWP. He looked at them, asked some questions ref the stolen vehicle and went back to his car. A few minutes later, he came back to me, haded me my license and CWP and asked if I had it on me now, I stated "yes, sir". That was it. I have only had my CWP for month and don't carry on a regular basis, although I will now. This was my first LEO contact while armed and I was kinda nervous. I was totally impressed with he hadled my being armed. I hung around until the guy showed up with the title to the truck, about 45 minutes, and then was on my way. In SC, we are required to notify LEO when they ask for identification. I chose to have it in my had when he first arrived and walked up to me because I knew he would need my info for the report and I had my sons with me and I don't make it a point to tell them when I am armed. I have read many posts here on when to present your CWP to LEO and always thought I would wait until asked. I guess you don't know until you are actually in the situation.
Strong work and good find.
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Good encounter...did the cops find the dirtbag who took the truck?
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I have not gotten an update from my friend. He was more concerned about the $6K in tools that were stolen than his truck. The tools belonged to his friends that were in the process of building a pole barn on his property for him. The tools were taken the day before the truck. One of his friends did find 2 ladders hidden on the property. I drive by and check the property for him on my way too and from work. He is the type of person that would give you the shirt off his back. I hope to hear from him today or tomorrow and will provide an update.
I think the fact that you simply presented your CCW permit to the officer and let him do what he needed to do with it contributed to this good encounter. Most of the problems with LE relative to concealed carry that I hear of seem to be preceeded by some speech, usually something canned, made by the CCW holder meant to inform the LEO that he's carrying a gun. You made your carry status known quietly and intelligently IMNSHO and allowed the officer to do whatever he needed with it. By the way, good job spotting that stolen vehicle.
+1... Glad your buddy got his truck back!
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That's how it should go with cop encounters. I too offer up knowledge that I'm carrying to LEO right away. Good job on finding the truck.
I let them know that way they aren't surprised and know what they are dealing with,If I was still an LEO and on scene I like to know where all the guns are, in an investigation they may disarm you until all the facts are clear and then return your weapon after they have finished
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Still no update yet. I assume my buddy and his fiance' are enjoying the rest of their vacation. Spotting the vehicle was kind of a fluke. I had never seen it before, but after passing the vehicle my gut told me there was something wrong. It was odd that the BG left it there on a street that busy. I am 100% sure I made the right decision to present my CWP upon inital contact. I am not ashamed of the fact that I carry. In fact, I am proud that I have the right to legally carry. I believe you lead by example, not words. My decision allowed the LEO to concentrate on the issue, the truck. And, my boys got a positive experience and a story to share with friends of how they helped fine a stolen vehicle.


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- Facebook does not and never will sell any member's information to anyone.
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Zuckerberg said yesterday in a blog posting that it would create a single privacy home page. Members presently need several web pages to set their privacy levels for profile information, contact information, search, applications and websites, as well as set up block lists. There are four or five standard levels of privacy, plus the ability to customise the privacy setting for data items.
Analysts, bloggers and Twitterati agree this is a step in the right direction. Many want Zuckerberg to go further. "Until all of the settings are set to 'opt out' by default, this is meaningless. You should choose to share, not choose to have privacy," wrote bceugene on the Cnet website.
Ben Kunz, director of strategic planning at Mediassociates, a media planning and internet strategy firm, argued the opposite. He wrote in BusinessWeek that Facebook should sell its members' data to marketers.
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Why land and water are 'planetary boundaries' – not population
When it comes to food production, humanity is on a collision course with the planet. Agriculture is one of the biggest drivers of global ecological degradation: farming displaces natural ecosystems, uses valuable freshwater, pollutes rivers and estuaries, and releases potent greenhouse gases. And yet we undeniably need more of it – 1 billion people are still starving or malnourished in today's world, surely one of the greatest moral outrages of our time. Looking to the future, we must feed more than 9 billion people by 2050, an increasing fraction of them on meat and dairy-heavy First World diets. To do that, agricultural production must be doubled, whilst the damaging environmental impacts of farming must be more than halved.
The challenge sounds like Mission Impossible. But it can be tackled effectively, according to a world-leading group of experts who have just published what may turn out to be one of the most important scientific papers this year. Entitled 'Solutions for a Cultivated Planet' (free PDF here), the article – by the University of Minnesota's Jonathan Foley and colleagues – demonstrates that land use ranks with climate change as a planet-scale problem – and may be much more difficult to solve. Whilst there is no fundamental shortage of energy – thanks to renewables, nuclear fission and other low-carbon options – land is absolutely limited, and ranks as a top-level 'planetary boundary' because of its importance in maintaining the resilience of the Earth system.
In my new book 'The God Species' I outline all nine proposed 'planetary boundaries' – which include biodiversity loss, climate change, land use, water use, nitrogen loading and various other global ecological threats – and conclude that all must be considered simultaneously if we are to avoid simply replacing one critical problem with another. There is no place for simplistic linear thinking in a complicated and globally-interdependent human society and environment.
The proposed 'planetary boundary' for land use is for cropland to be limited to 15% of the Earth's ice-free terrestrial surface. About 12% of this is already committed, so expansion alone cannot provide the needed increase in food. Moreover, agriculture has already destroyed 70% of grasslands, 50% of savannas, 45% of deciduous forests and more than a quarter of tropical forests. Agricultural expansion in the tropics emits more than a billion tonnes of carbon per year, and threatens biodiversity treasure troves in rainforests. What is needed instead is more efficient agricultural production elsewhere – getting more from less in land areas that are already used in cultivation. But doing this successfully will mean reassessing some of our most cherished notions about farming and the environment.
First off, organic farming is no silver-bullet solution. Whilst the organic movement has delivered valuable lessons about how to conserve soils and produce food in more wildlife-friendly ways, it is in general only half as productive as conventional farming and thereby – directly or indirectly – uses twice as much land for the same amount of food. Moreover, improving yields in highly unproductive agricultural areas in parts of Africa and Asia will mean using more not fewer artificial chemical fertilisers. The scientists estimate that closing 'yield gaps' could increase food production by a billion tonnes, or nearly 30% worldwide.
The organic movement has also erred by ruling out genetic modification as a critically-important technology to improve yields. Because of ill-considered public opposition, mainly in well-fed rich countries, very little genetic engineering effort has so far gone into key food crops like wheat, potato and rice, meaning big opportunities still exist to make these staples produce much more food for less water, nitrogen and land inputs. With both freshwater use and nitrogen capture ranked as 'planetary boundaries' in their own right, achieving much greater production efficiencies is a globally-important environmental goal.
In addition, my judgement is that very little can – or should – be done about global population growth. Populations are growing in developing countries largely because fewer people are dying, rather than because more children are being born, and this improvement in life expectancies can only be a good thing. Whilst I personally think access to family planning services is a human right in any civilised society, I do not think it is necessary to try to control population increase for the sake of the environment. In any case, the majority of people who will be alive in 2050 have either already been born or will be within the next decade, and they all have to be fed.
So what can we as consumers do? Whilst few people will be persuaded to embrace full vegetarianism, pressure on the land can be reduced by shifting away from grain-fed beef to grass-fed beef, as well as pork and poultry, which use land more efficiently. Subsidies which encourage food crops to be turned into biofuel must also be eliminated. We must also waste less: according to some analyses, as much as half of world food production is simply thrown away. Above all, solutions must be practical and pragmatic – there is no room for ideological narrow-mindedness in an age of ecological scarcity. We can certainly feed ourselves and reduce the ecological burden of agriculture simultaneously – but to do so we need to do things very differently, starting now.


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Submitted to: Biological Control
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/25/2009
Publication Date: 6/2/2009
Publication URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2009.05.014
Citation: Biddinger, D.J., Weber, D.C. Weber, and Hull, L.A. 2009. Coccinellidae as predators of mites: Stethorini in biological control. Biological Control. 51: 268-283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2009.05.014. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: The Stethorini are unique among the Coccinellidae in specializing on mites (principally Tetranychidae) as prey. Consisting of 90 species in two genera, Stethorus and Parasthethorus, the tribe is practically cosmopolitan, and found in diverse habitats, including many agricultural systems, as well as ornamental plantings, grasslands, forests, and heathlands. Tetranychid mite outbreaks became common in agriculture only after widespread use of broadspectrum insecticides after World War II. Stethorini were initially appreciated only for their ability to suppress severe outbreaks of tetranychid populations. However, research on their prey searching behaviors reveals that Stethorini use visual and olfactory stimuli to locate small mite colonies in patchy distributions, and can be very effective in regulating their prey at low densities. Key to the use of coccinellids in conservation biological control programs is the provision of overwintering habitats and refuges from pesticides in and near cropland. When these conditions are fulfilled, Stethorini often play important roles in maintaining suppression of tetranychid populations; examples of successful biological mite control include apple orchards in Pennsylvania, citrus in Asia, and the unintended disruption of a tetranychid-based biological control program for gorse, an invasive woody weed. The systematics and taxonomy of this group is challenging with many cryptic species, and molecular diagnostic tools are sorely needed. How best to utilize their mite-suppressive potential in diverse settings requires better knowledge of their requirements including utilization of alternative foods, refuges for dormancy and from nonselective pesticides, and host-finding mechanisms.


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There used to be a time, many moons ago, when one could afford Maya Complete at £1,500. But now at £3,200 its now out of the reach for most individuals. Saying that I hear there is this £130 3-month license one can pay for Maya, so I guess its not all doom and gloom...
Ok, i'm not sure how to phrase this without it sounding bad, but why should it be within the reach of most individuals?
Its very complex, specialised software people use to create expensive vfx. There is a plethora of free/cheap 3d software if you want to learn the ropes, but you don't hear people in other industries say that their expensive equipment designed for their industry should be within reach of most people. And although the initial cost is certainly high for a starting business, you should be able to pay off a licence fairly quickly as long as you don't under charge.
By the way, I'm not defending Autodesk solely here, as a 3dstudio user since DOS versions in 1993, they are slacking recently in my opinion, I'm just talking in general.


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We all love him, Gloria! :)
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Thanks for posting Mr Logan again Kelly.
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Arduino Robotics with the mBot
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What is this course about? (3:36)
Hardware and software that you will need (2:32)
Study guide (4:19)
Meet the mBot
Introduction (0:40)
Parts in the box (8:24)
Assembly: Chassis, motors, wheels, sensors (16:07)
Assembly: mCore tour, Bluetooth module (6:15)
Assembly: Wiring, batteries, controller (10:25)
Assembly: testing (3:48)
Additional hardware (10:30)
Software options (4:02)
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Programming the mBot using a tablet
Introduction (0:55)
Demonstration of MakeBlock (18:43)
Demonstration of mBlockly (11:09)
Demonstration of mBlock (6:52)
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Programming the mBot on the PC using mBlock
Introduction (0:44)
Install mBlock on your computer (5:40)
A quick look at Scratch, the graphical programming language
Create and upload your first program
Motor control (10:19)
Moving left, right, backwards
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Getting more out of the mBot: programming structures, more sensors
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The Loop
The distance/proximity sensor
More experimentation with the distance sensor
The "If" and "If...else" control structure
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" Brand: ELC / Age: 18 months / Type: Playsets "
* Prices may differ from that shown
The ELC Happyland emergency vehicle set was one of the first toys that I bought for my son when he was very young, and I have had the set for about 7 or 8 years. It is strange that this set remains unchanged from the set that I bought, and I still a really popular item in ELC stores today.
The set is part of the ELC Happyland range, which includes different playsets, figures and scenes. The little figures are just the right size for small hands, and made from soft plastic. The set contains 3 vehicles: A fire engine, An ambulance and a police car. The vehicles are each powered by 2 button cell batteries, which enable the vehicles to make siren sounds when banged or pressed, as well as activating the small lights on top of the vehicles. The battery does not control motion, and these are manual push along toys.
The drivers are each made from a single piece of moulded soft plastic, so there are no bits to pull or break off. They have happy smiling appealing faces, and would make excellent bath toys, or standalone toys without the need for the vehicles.
Each vehicle has a small round dip where you can seat the drivers. It is easy for even very young children to get the drivers in and out of the vehicles. Because there are 3 in the set, the child can use them in a variety of games, having interactivity between the characters, or racing the vehicles and making up stories. The vehicles are just a nice size to pop into a bag to take to a friend or family member's house for something to amuse the child.
There are no sharp bits or breakable bits on these toys, which are aimed at children from 12 months and up. If a 12 month old child put one of these in their mouth, there would be nothing to hurt them.
The fact that I have had these toys for 7 years is testimony to how good they are and how popular they have been with our family. As I had my 3 children close together, I never saw the need to get rid of these excellent toys, which have been popular with all 3 kids at some point.
I don't have many gripes about the toys, apart from the fact that the sounds and lights can be a bit tricky to activate and sometimes you have to bang the cars down really hard to get them to make a noise, which can be frustrating for young kids. Another down side is that a child wedged a large plastic figure into our fire engine and we couldn't get it unstuck, so now the fire engine has a permanent new driver!
For £10 from ELC, these toys are the high quality you would expect, and after 7 years look almost as good as new and have taken the constant bashing, smashing sucking and chewing in their stride. As part of a bigger range, you can expand your collection as much as you want, but I found these toys were great on their own. A lovely first car set for very young kids.
I bought these vehicles for my sons second christmas so he would have been 14 months old. He is now 5 and these vehicles are at my parents house where my son still plays with them, and his three younger cousins.
******** What you get *********
A pack of three emergency vehicles -
* Fire Engine - With a fire man
* Police Car - With a police man
* Ambulance - With a doctor
******* What they do ***********
Each has a siren - a wailing noise - not nearly as annoying as it could be.
Flashing lights
Both of these are activated by pushing them along although sometimes you may need to push down on the drivers head to activate these.
******** My opinion **********
My son has spent many hours playing with these vehicles as have his cousins. The batteries seem to last well, I actually can't remember changing them although I must have done. The battery compartment has a screwded on cover like most toys from there.
These are sturdy vehicles, they have survived a lot of rough and tumble over the years and have been used indoors and out. My son is desperate to be a fireman so over the year his play has progressed from simple pushing along for the noise to dashing to emergencies where he can be the hero.
****** The Happyland range *******
These are the first toys I bought in Happyland range from the early learning centre. Happyland is similar in style to the fisher price little people. It is quite an extensive range of toys of varying prices and sizes. You could build your own toy city and let your imagination run wild. The range is aimed at children from 18months to 4 years.
****** The Price *********
This set of three vehicles and driver is currently selling for £10 which I feel is a fair price. However, the other items in the Happyland range can be really expensive. Prices start at £8 for accesories and go up to £60 for the play village. For detailed prices see the Early Learning Centre Website
***** My conclusions ******
As vehicles they are great. Good Value for money and sturdy. If you are looking at them as part of a more extensive collection however check the prices and reviews on the other items. In my opinion there are cheaper and better quality playsets available. Also watch out for the packaging, as a christmas present my son was left impatiently waiting and growing increasingly frustrated as I wrestled with the plastic and wire coils found on so many toys.
Early Learning Centre's Happy Land is aimed at stimulating a child's imagination by letting the child participate in an imaginary world that in so many ways reflects the real world. There are a number of Happy Land packages with various themes that enable the child to create such a world. I remember playing with similar toys myself when I was a kid and always remember using my imagination and inventing stories with the help of small figures and other objects. The Happy Land range consists of different packaged items of different sizes and offering different contents from which a small town or village can be created. The contents of each package may include such items as houses, farms, fire stations, vehicles and people.
I recently bought the Happy Land Emergency Vehicle set as a Christmas present for my niece who is 18 months old. The package includes three brightly coloured four wheeled vehicles: an ambulance, a fire engine and a police car. Each vehicle is accompanied by their own individual figure: a fireman, a policeman and a very young looking doctor. These little people all have similar faces and seem to be from the same family (you can tell by the eyes). The figures can stand upright or can be securely placed inside their own vehicle. The vehicles all have pairs of flashing lights and make siren type noises that aren't as irritating as I first imagined they would be. The siren noises are activated by pressing down gently on top of the vehicles, although this is not as easy as it sounds; sometimes you press firmly and nothing happens, other times you just have to nudge them in the box and they all go berserk. The vehicle lights and sirens are powered by a small battery in the base secured by a screwed down cover. The individual pieces seem sturdy enough and should last well. I like the style of the vehicles except for the windows which are coloured light blue, they should be painted a dark colour to represent the shaded interior of the vehicle (even an 18 month old child would know that! :-)). Although the idea of Happy Land is to buy a range of items that you can add together and build into a little world, I do feel that the Happy Land Emergency Vehicle set is sufficient by itself to give to a child as a present and should provide hours of enjoyment.
The one thing I don't like about the product, nor for the at matter all the other products in the range, is that there is also a lot of unnecessary packaging including pieces of wire and small bits of plastic that are a nuisance to unravel. If you buy this as a present for a young child (it is recommended for kids between 18 months and 4 years) be sure to remove and bin all the packaging before wrapping it up.
The Happy Land Emergency Vehicle Set is one of the cheaper and smaller packages in the range that you can buy. It is currently on sale at ELC for £10.
The HappyLand Emergency Vehicle Set consists of a plastic police car, fire engine and ambulance, each with its own uniformed driver. This was a Christmas present for my daughter who also received other Happyland characters with Rose cottage. The characters do seem to be a good size for toddlers to get to grips with.
The characters - These are 2 - 3 inches high and all are white and probably meant to be male, (although we have decided our police officer is a wpc called Jenny). My daughter's current favourite is the fireman - don't ask me why. All the Happyland characters are similar looking, quite androgynous faces with black dots for eyes, a little button nose and a smiley indent for a mouth.
The vehicles - all the vehicles have flashing lights and make realistic sounding siren noises, although, thankfully, not too loud. It is a bit of a mystery to me exactly how the sirens work. They don't always go off if you push the toy along, but can go off if you gently pick the toy up and try not to set them off! They seem quite sensitive, my husband seems to think they work by pressing the back wheels, but whichever way they work, they go off easily and satisfactorily. The fire engine has a ladder on the back which can be pushed upright, apart from that the only moveable bits of the vehicles are the wheels.
They take small replaceable batteries, although I imagine they will last a while. They seem to be quite durable little toys - they have been chucked about a bit by my little one to no ill effects.
Price; currently £10 on the Early Learning Centre website. The given age range is 18 months - 4 years.
Each emergency vehicle comes with own driver.


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When Boris Johnson was last in Beijing he pulled off his usual feat of grabbing all the headlines — not for necessarily the right reasons.
In the balmy summer of 2008, he was feted in the world's most populous nation as he took on the honour of London hosting the Olympics. But he also raised eyebrows for accepting the Olympic flag with one hand, leaving his jacket buttons undone at the ceremony, and for his remarks about "whiff-whaff" coming home.
Now, ahead of a heavyweight week-long trade mission to China, he is determined to "stick to the matter in hand". And that matter is money. Lots of it.
Britain's exports to China have doubled to £10 billion in the past five years, making it the UK's seventh largest market. Inward investment has soared, with Britain ranked fourth behind Hong Kong, the US and Kazakhstan last year, according to official Chinese figures. London is getting the lion's share, with billions pouring into the "China business port" at Royal Docks, Battersea Nine Elms and the proposed rebuilding of the Crystal Palace. The Chinese are looking elsewhere in the UK: its biggest bank is investing in a £650 million business district at Manchester airport.
The Mayor says he will fight London's corner: "They're coming here in greater numbers than ever. I think we just remind them of the huge Chinese links with London."
He insists an "amazing relationship" is developing between Beijing and the capital, unaffected by the political "deep freeze" between Britain and China that ended with an agreement for David Cameron to visit later this autumn.
Ministerial contact was suspended by China after Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg met the Dalai Lama in May last year, in defiance of Beijing. Mr Johnson is determined not to be drawn into the row.
"The situation did become a bit frozen up but that didn't apply to us. There's no sense in which there's been a sudden thawing in relations with London. We're going, and I think we would have gone, under any circumstances."
He denies his trip is politically significant because he will be the first senior Tory to set foot in Beijing since the resumption of relations: "I'm a London politician and my job is to promote the city. It's been made very clear to us by our Chinese friends that we're very welcome and they want to build understanding and relationships."
He bats away questions about whether he would have met the Dalai Lama. "My job is not to have a foreign policy for London," he says, despite his thoughts on international affairs appearing regularly in his weekly newspaper column. He is equally reticent to explain why he will not be raising the subject of human rights. "Um, you know, we're out there, I certainly won't be doing anything that's inappropriate, you know, we're out there to sell the city.
"I want to stick to the matter in hand. That's the most productive thing."
Mr Johnson will not be able to sidestep all diplomatic issues. There are some concerns back home about the potential downside in courting Chinese cash, for example, fears that telecoms giant Huawei investing in the British market could open the door to spying.
The Mayor says he does not have "any inhibitions" on this. "Obviously you have to make sure if there are any security concerns that they're properly dealt with but you'd have to do that with any company." Instead, Londoners should recognise that with taxpayers "hard-pressed" and British firms "not really investing as much as they should" it has been left to international investors to put cash into the capital's economy.
He also wants to encourage more tourists to come to London. The Chinese are now the world's most valuable tourist market, spending a total of $102 billion on their global travels last year.
George Osborne, raising some eyebrows back home, will set foot in China within hours of the London delegation. The Mayor denies the Chancellor's presence might overshadow his mission. "It's a very clear signal to China of the strong commitment at every level of government to building the relationship. It's very good news," he says.
The pair will join forces at a speech at Peking University. Asked if he feels a tiny bit elbowed out, Mr Johnson jokes: "It's a question you might ask him."
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Roll-on, 60ish. Uh, I was wondering if my turbo had stuck or something. I walked him, but not in the fashion I would have expected. It wasn't stock for sure. Sounded mighty nice, and I think a 80-90 mph roll-on would have been a squeaker.
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While many of my colleagues wear a special pin indicating they're a Member of Congress, I wear something different on my lapel: a pin depicting a canary in cage.
Generations ago, miners took a canary into the mine to warn them of toxic gases. If the canary died, the miners knew they had to escape quickly. They were forced to provide for their own protection because there was no union strong enough or government who cared enough to protect them.
Wearing this pin reminds me why honoring our workers matter. The pin symbolizes more than the progress our nation has made over the past century in protecting the safety, health, and well-being of all workers.
On April 28, we observed Workers' Memorial Day, when we paused and remembered those who have lost their lives while on the job.
For generations, hardworking men and women have left their homes to earn an honest living, to provide for loved ones, and to ensure there was always food on the table. For generations, too many would never return home from work.
They died on the job – manning heavy machinery, working in dark coal mines, or building our roads and bridges. They died from lack of basic fire safety, ventilation systems, and lighting.
Workers' Memorial Day should also serve as a reminder that we must stay vigilant when it comes to workers' rights.
We're seeing ripples of change in today's workforce as more and more workers move to form a collective voice. Workers across the country and in different industries and occupations are coming together to draw attention to workers rights: fair wages, benefits, and workplace standards.
The Northwestern football team recently won the right to hold a union election, allowing college athletes to have a voice. The players held votes last week, and while the results have not been released yet, these players dedicate the same hours to their sport as fulltime employees and deserve the same protections as any other worker. When I met with students, not one mentioned wages. But they do want protections if they get injured and time to devote to their studies.
JetBlue pilots also recently voted to unionize, with more than 70 percent of the airline's eligible pilots voting to join the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA). This comes after the pilots voted against unionization twice before, so it's clear that attitudes are changing.
As Captain Lee Moak, ALPA's president said, "If you're not at the table, you're probably on the menu."
Workers deserve a seat at the table, no matter the job or venue.
Walter Reuther was one of the key leaders of the United Auto Workers, and he led actions like the famous sit-down strikes to unionize the Ford Motor Complex in Dearborn, MI. He is credited for negotiating innovative contracts and health and pension benefits, as well as fighting for civil rights programs and War on Poverty.
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American workers fought for a decent wage and retirement security. We follow a five-day work week and regulated working hours. Working mothers and fathers, teachers, nurses, and police officers receive health care and life insurance because of strong labor protections.
We've come a long way since miners carried canaries down into the mines for safety. But unions remain a critical catalyst for many of the worker safety protections that we sometimes take for granted today. It is a fundamental right that workers be treated with the respect and dignity that they deserve.
Good question though,why ARE you so easily manipulated by the left wing echo chamber buzzy?
And why did the Northwestern football player's decide to NOT unionize?
Selective denial is your strong suit,right buzzy?And no he did NOT say it was a terrorist attack the next day.Check your mainstream talking points again.
Ignorance is going up in buzzyland!
Does that make you young, black, and smart?
You're not nearly as upset by the 170 embassy killings under Bush. Selective outrage from old, white and stupid.
Obama called it a terrorist attack the very next morning. At the 2nd Presidential debate, Obama mopped the floor with Romney on this point without a teleprompter.
Why are you so easily manipulated by the right wing echo chamber?
Just a cute little copy of an e-mail that shows the White House was/is complicit in the Benghazi coverup.You say,no coverup,I say,what if it was your son who died?Think for yourself,for once!
And,of course,no mainipulation is done at dailykos,right unequalizer?Or NPR?Or mediamatters?And how about you apologize for your mistakes?Or in you own little bigot mind,do you actually think you are correct about everything?Ignorance can be cured,stupidity lasts a lifetime!
I wonder why MSNBC apologized for the Trayvon Martin lies they tried to spin.You do remember don't you unequalizer,when they spun the 911 call to make Zimmerman sound racist,when in fact he isn't?
And Obama has yet to apologize for the spin he put on Benghazi,you know,blaming it on a video,when in fact the CIA new it was a terror attack within 15 MINUTES!
No unequalizer,if you fail to acknowledge that the information you use is being manipulated,you are far more foolish than I would have believed.
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Buzz - L. Brent Bozell lll of Media Research Center is notorius for 'moving' paragraphs around to reconfigure meanings of content... Or just plain 'losing' text all together. He's done it to almost every big news paper in the country, including doctoring videos.... Then he broadcasts his misleading bull crap to low info dupes like bam the bigot who posts here as his "proof..."
Another RW editing fiasco is hotair. . . and recently - tea party news called Don Sterling a Democratic even tho' he's a registered Republican...
Bigotted folks like bam thrive on negativity, they feed on it. It's what keeps them going. It's a mental illness. Have you ever heard any of them apologize or accept a correction of their misleading posts? No, and you never will.
They cannot face the fact they've been manipulated for years; they'd rather put a gun to their heads than having to admit it. We can only pity them, and wait.
Another day, another conservative duping of the low info rubes. Why are conservatives against the working man speaking with one voice to teabagger's corporate master?
dailykos again unequalizer?And I'm sure that only RW spindoctors do this?I'm sure that left wing spin doctors don't ever misquote,or worse yet LIE,right unequalizer?like MSNBC editing a 911 call to make sure you think it is racist,when in fact it had NOTHING to do with race?Be careful what you pass off as fact,it has a way of slapping you in the face.
Strange that some always see what they want in the other side,but never seem to see it in themselves!
How desperate are RW spin doctors? Misquoting George Carlin, paste it all over FaceBook and have it 'Liked' by mislead Republican voters. . . . here's the proof. Make sure you check out the video link within.


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Microvision recently announced that it would unveil and demonstrate during CES in Las Vegas (January 8-11) an ultra-thin, miniature full-color projection display small enough to be embedded in handheld devices including mobile phones.
The company said the device enables projected image to be in the size of a notebook screen or a large-size PDP (plasma display panel) TV.
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Once the Chicago Bears' offense got warmed up in Sunday's 27-17 loss to the Packers, it worked just fine. But it took way too long to get going at the start of the game and after halftime.
The Bears were dead even with the Packers in the second quarter, when both teams scored 10 points; and in the fourth quarter, when they each had seven.
In the first and third quarters, the Bears' offense was atrocious. It had seven possessions, and six ended with punts, four of which came after just three plays. The other possession ended after just one play when Jay Cutler was intercepted.
While the Bears rolled up a total of 259 yards in the second and fourth quarters, they had just 26 yards in the first and third quarters combined, when they ran 25 plays.
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"We didn't start out fast," coach Lovie Smith said. "We got ourselves in a hole right away and weren't able to get out of it. When you play a great team, play the Super Bowl champs, you can't do that, and we're going to all, of course, take blame for it. We did have a good week of practice. I thought we were ready, but you have to show up on game day, and we didn't."
The third quarter was one of the Bears' worst offensive displays in recent memory. They ran 15 plays, which gained a total of two yards. Throw in Devin Hester's false-start penalty, and the Bears actually moved backward three yards in the third quarter.
The failure to generate any kind of offensive consistency in the first and third quarters was responsible for the huge discrepancy in time of possession, as the Packers controlled the ball for 37:29 to the Bears' 22:31, allowing Green Bay to run 69 plays to the Bears' 52.
There's no way to pinpoint the cause of the offensive impotency in the first and third quarters, only because the Bears did so many things poorly on Sunday.
"It's just not that simple," Smith said. "There are a lot of things that go into (it). Making plays on first down, second down, third down. I can't give you a simple answer to that. (We) just have to get positive plays to keep things going. I think we can figure it out from there."
Failures on first down would be a good place to start. The offense's production on nine first-down plays during those seven futile possessions in the first and third quarters produced a total of minus-3 yards and an interception. There was also a pair of false-start penalties on first down.
But no critique of the Bears' offense would be complete without mention of the continuing abandonment of the run game. In back-to-back losses the past two weeks, offensive coordinator Mike Martz has called for 97 passes and 20 runs. But Smith wasn't as displeased with the 45-9 pass-run ratio vs. the Packers because of the total failure of the run game.
"Of course, we didn't have a lot of balance," Smith said. "But we weren't able to run the football as well as we would like early on, and then, when you get behind ... We did what we needed to do on a day like that. (The) run is not working, (so) start throwing the football. I talked about protection being pretty good. (But) we had a couple drops, we missed a couple throws, but that's how that game went."
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We are back for our third week of our mini series of "Strategies for Designing Your Life". Each week, we'll discuss some basic design elements and give examples of how to utilize them. The series will help to add interest, harmony, and unity to your life. Last Thursday, we gave you a Lesson in shape. And check back next Thursday for another lesson!
Today's design element is Texture.
We present you with: A lesson in Texture.
Texture plays a huge part in the way we interact with our surroundings. Texture is all about touch and it is the only design element that entices you to reach out and touch something. Remember when you were a kid and you went into a store with your parents and they said "look with your eyes, not your hands"? Well maybe your parents didn't but mine sure did. I was always so curious about if that pillow was really as soft as it looked or if that glass vase was really as smooth as it looked.
The things you can touch and feel are examples of physical texture. The whole idea of looking with our eyes brings out another side to texture – which is visual texture. This is when you are looking at something on your computer or looking at a detailed drawing and think that looks so soft, rough, smooth etc.
One strategy for effectively using visual texture is to apply texture to something that wouldn't normally have that texture or to something that contradicts the texture. Typically when we think of something ceramic we think of smooth and polished. This cantaloupe bowl is a perfect example of "I just have to touch that". We see the texture of a cantaloupe on a ceramic bowl and can't help but wonder if the bowl feels the same as a cantaloupe (it really does by the way).
This is a burlap bag from our shop. It has a fantastic rough texture which emphasizes the raw nature of burlap.
This face pillow has one smooth side and one bumpy side. Texture is great to use on something that will be in contact with people such as a pillow on a couch. The more tactile something is the more interesting and fun it is.
The lush soft texture of the moss terrarium is a great way to add some natural and fresh texture to your life. Any nature inside is awesome! Potted plants, branches for decorations, flowers, etc.
Hair has such a great texture and everyone's hair varies. One way to really show off and emphasize your hair's texture is to braid it. Here's Lauren's hair braided in a FIVE-strand braid! That's intense.
Wood earrings with their amazing bark still in tact provide a much more interesting pair of earrings.
Go experiment with texture! There's so many great ways to include fun textures in your wardrobe and home… and even in your photos by capturing that visual texture (and those photos would look amazing on your walls)!
How do you use texture in your life? Feel free to comment with links to photos you have! We want to see!


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