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14 December 1950 555 The principal features of the Blackburn project for a seaplane fighter with a retractable planing bottom are depicted in this specially prepared "Flight" sketch. The engine was to have been a Napier Sabre. to another, but fully equipped for the maintenance, rearming and refuelling of her brood. Furthermore, it is not un- interesting to speculate on the possibilities of a flying-boat capable of operating not only from water but from a flexible deck of the type now under development by the Royal Navy. Vice-Admiral M. J. Mansergh, C.B., C.B.E., Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy-Chief of Naval Staff (Air), in his recent lecture on naval aircraft before the Royal United Service Institution, referred to the especial value of such aircraft in training, for, as he pointed out, flying could continue uninterrupted while a carrier was in harbour. The germ of the idea could be discerned in tests with Fairey IIIF and Flycatcher floatplanes which landed aboard H.M.S. Furious during 1927. The floats of the Flycatcher had been strengthened on the underside, but were neverthe- less, hardly strong enough for deliberate abuse. Take-off and landing runs, however, were well within the deck space of the Furious; the best take-off run was 91ft, and the shortest landing run, 170ft. Certainly the jet fighter boat appears to be an eminently desirable type, from numerous points of views, though its most ardent supporters do not suggest that it could—or should—oust its land-based counterpart entirely; they do, however, contend that any widespread war would present situations (especially in difficult terrains) which could best be met by the water-based machine. On the score of performance it is not everyone who sees eye-to-eye with those authorities who aver that aerodynamic and structural techniques already allow the construction of a transonic or supersonic flying-boat which would not be inferior in performance and fighting qualities to the finest contemporary land-based machines As a fighter the S.R./A.1 is already out of date, but trials with three proto- types have endowed Saunders-Roe, Ltd., with experience of unparalleled value which could certainly bring forth a machine capable of speeds far in excess of 600 m.p.h. Present indications are, however, that the flying-boat fighter is best suited to engage bombers and strike aircraft rather than specialized home-defence fighters. Certainly there are many people who would doubt that any fighter flying-boat capable of engaging the Hawker P.1081 or Supermarine 535 on equal terms, could be flying to-day, no matter what technical and financial resources had been brought to bear on its develop- ment. But fighters of the class under discussion are not restricted in application to air combat. By their very nature they are flexible not only in respect of bases, but in their operational employment also; numerous seaplane fighters of past years have been fitted to carry a light bomb load and the S.R/A.1 is a formidable ground-attack aircraft. A hypothetical fighter/attack flying-boat of the near future might have the following characteristics: gross weight, over 25,0001b; wing- and tail-surfaces, swept-back; power plants, two Rolls-Royce Avon or Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire (total thrust, say, 16,0001b); built-in armament, four 30 mm guns; external stores, four 1,0001b bombs, or sixteen 951b R.P.s, or four large-calibre R.P.S or drop-tanks; maximum speed, about 650 nxp.h.; ultimate range, over 2,000 miles. For later machines various configurations, including the delta-wing, can be envisaged. Difficulties attending the perfection and introduction into service of jet fighter flying-boats appear to be associated largely with water handling; but Sir Arthur Gouge, vice- chairman and chief executive, Saunders-Roe, Ltd., has ex- pressed his confidence that a suitable scheme can be evolved. Already the Saunders-Roe automatic mooring scheme enables the pilot to pick up moorings without leaving his cockpit and without external assistance. As already intimated, the only fighter flying-boat in exist- ence to-day is the Saunders-Roe S.R./A.l (to Specification E.6/44), originally intended for the war in the Pacific and, to that end, planned for immediate quantity production. The course of the Pacific war caused the production programme to be retarded and, eventually, only three " A.Is " were com- pleted. On July 16th, 1947, Mr. Geoffrey Tyson made the historic first flight. Though accidents to two of the three examples have interrupted the programme of trials, the re- maining machine is now flying, after detail modifications, at Cowes, Isle of Wight. Salient features of the S.R./A.1 are apparent in the Flight sectional drawing reproduced here. The turbojets at present installed are Metropolitan-Vickers Beryls, each of 4,000 lb thrust, but development work on this unit has been dis- continued and, should production of the S.R./A.l be ordered, new power units would have to be found. An order for the aircraft in its present form, however, is most unlikely, though a possible development of the " A.1 " theme is illus- trated on this page. It is emphasized that the aircraft depicted is merely a project and that it exists only in model form. Notable features are the swept wing and tail surfaces, faired step, and lateral stabilizing floats retracting on to the wing tips, as on the Princess flying-boat. No post-war Continental or Soviet designs for fighter flying-boats are known to exist, but at the Convair plant in America a team has been engaged for some years (under the cover-name Project Skate) on experimental work pre- paratory to the construction of an ultra-high speed flying- boat for the U.S. Navy. Design data on the S.R./A.1 are known to have been supplied to America and, writing in our contemporary, Aviation Week, Mr. Alexander McSurely considers that, barring a delay due to more pressing require- ments, a Convair prototype might be flying within two years. Already the Skate is said to have passed through at least nine major model changes and particulars of the latest of these are not disclosed. The American writer makes refer- ence to certain basic ideas which are soon expected to enable flying-boats to achieve parity in speed with even the fastest land-based machines. These include increased ratio of hull length to beam and the very careful blending of hull and wing. Retractable spray-suppression strips, or "dams," which obviate all flares and sharp chines, are among other features envisaged for the flying-boat fighters of the future. Sounders-Roe suggestion for a twin-jet flying-boat fighter—developed on the S.R.I A. I theme. Note the faired step and tail jet orific.
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The War At Home
By Harold Baranoff
Part of the United States strategy in Afghanistan involves changing the loyalties of the less ideological Taliban. The idea is that some, perhaps a significant number, can be convinced to switch to loyalties by the use of incentives. The term "Turning of Turbans" is being used to describe the change of perspective, focus and direction of an Afghan fighter.
The strategy certainly has merit. Generally, when possible, it is better to cut a deal than fight a long and UN winnable war. There are many examples worldwide where opposition forces, including obvious terrorists, have gained amnesty and have been integrated into government forces, their political wings becoming above ground political parties and their leaders entering into governing coalitions.
If we are willing to consider those sorts of options with the likes of the Taliban, certainly we should enter into negotiations much closer to home with an opposition force that is far less dangerous and one that is open to complete and completely peaceful reintegration now.
I speak of the Marijuana Underground which is a loose association of mostly non-ideological Americans who live in daily opposition to American law. Today millions of Americans are at some level of conflict with the American Legal System, since mere possession of any detectable amount of marijuana is a crime.
Close to 850,000 Americans were arrested last year on marijuana charges. That is approximately 3% of the population who have smoked marijuana in the last year. Tens of thousands of Americans sit in U.S. prisons on possession charges. In spite of the ongoing war on marijuana, no real dent has been made in the production, distribution, or consumption of this relatively harmless herb. The War on Marijuana is UN winnable.
As a prisoner in an American Federal Prison, I offer the following proposal in the name of the millions of Americans in the Marijuana Underground:
We are ready and willing to be fully integrated into the U.S. society at large. We offer our labors, our intellects and our financial resources. We commit to helping reverse global warming, end hunger, help make our cities safer, grow gardens, solarize houses, teach the children, care for the elderly, confront terrorism, improve medical care and reduce its costs, and pay our fair share of taxes while building new industries.
We are ready to serve and ask very little in return. We want to end the marijuana arrests and gain freedom and amnesty for marijuana prisoners. We are willing to do more than our share. We will be model citizens. It is time to end the War on Marijuana. We are quite willing to "Turn our Turbans" and do our part to help reunite the United States of America.
Mr. Baranoff is a P.O.W. held captive in a U.S. Federal; facility in rural Georgia, serving 41 months for marijuana possession.

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One Man Who Turned His Heirloom Tomato Hobby Into a Business
By Vanessa Richins
Keith Amelung, a landscaper by profession, started a heirloom tomato business after a hobby turned out to be profitable.
As the Boerne Star reports, "I wanted to go on a trip to Hawaii," he said, "and I needed $1,000.
So I thought I'd do something organic, eclectic, at the Cibolo Nature Center (Mostly Native Plant) sale.
I planted 1,000 heirloom tomato seeds and sold the plants for Read the rest of this entry »


text: I just moved to Stateline NV and got a surface 2. I really like it, except skydrive doesn't work. When I try to open a picture, it just shows the loading dots forever. I have saved stuff to the sky drive folder and it doesn't get onto the internet. It is stuck in pending. Here is what it looks like from the sky drive app: windows rt 8.1 skydrive pending Pictures, windows rt 8.1 skydrive pending Images, windows rt 8.1 skydrive pending Photos, windows rt 8.1 skydrive pending Videos - Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting It will sit as pending forever... I have left it overnight 3 nights now and there has been no progress at all. Any advice? I have updated via Windows Update all available updates. I am running windows 8.1. I haven't changed many settings on sky drive. I am not roaming or using a metered connection.


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My uncle is turning 78 on Sunday so I have made a quick card for him.
He and my aunty are driving 3 hrs to visit me and my DH.
I am still house bound and have not seen them for a few years and am really excited that they are making such an effort to see me.
I am not happy with the photos and will have to do something in the near future in order to take better photos but here it is anyhow.
We are having a cold luncheon.
Chook (I can't bring myself to say chicken), egg salad, coleslaw, warm potato/sweet potato salad and a green salad.
Home made icecream and fruit salad for dessert
chocolate cake with cream and strawberries as a birthday cake.
Everything home made by moi....looking forward to it.
Hope I don't get a phone call to say my daughter has gone into early labour,
she is due on the 10th February.
Even though I am house bound due to pain I am biting the bullet and plan to go there in a couple of weeks to be with her for the birth.
I have asked the Dr my best options for dosing up
have to just hope and pray for the best.
It's a nearly 3 hour car trip so I'm not looking forward to it at all.


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Air Force physicians' child was season's first Bexar flu death
In the wake of the Christmas Day death of 4-year-old Leon Robert Sidari, believed to be Bexar County's first child victim of the influenza A virus this season, local pediatricians and health experts are again urging parents to vaccinate their children, be vigilant about symptoms and keep sick kids at home.
National experts say the flu is on track to exceed the 2014-15 season — the worst in recent years — in severity. They also say that although this year's flu shot isn't as effective as in recent years, you should get one anyway.
"On Christmas morning," the child's grandfather, New York attorney Nathan Lyman, wrote on a GoFundMe webpage memorial, "our 4-year-old Leon died suddenly from influenza, in spite of the extraordinary efforts of the doctors and medical professionals to save him.
"Leon was a magical person. Whether you knew him for a lifetime, or mere moments trying to help save his life, Leon touched us all."
The site said more than $62,000 had been raised for a fund set up by Lyman to help sick children of military parents. The child's parents, Laura and Tony Sidari, are both physicians in the Air Force, and they referred questions about the circumstances of the death to Air Force public affairs.
The flu has killed five children across Texas this season, state health officials said. The most recent case, in January, involved a vaccinated 17-year-old from the Dallas-Fort Worth area who had an underlying health condition.
Air Force Sgt. William Blankenship, with the 59th Medical Wing, said Leon's parents confirmed that the boy had not been vaccinated for the current flu season before the virus hit him but that he had been vaccinated in previous years and that an appointment for immunization had been scheduled as part of an upcoming checkup.
"We do know that it came on very suddenly," Blankenship said, confirming that the child died at Brooke Army Medical Center.
The parents told Blankenship that on Christmas Eve their child was "feeling sick and doing soup and rest" but that it wasn't until the next day that they felt the he needed to go to the hospital. He rapidly deteriorated, and it became "the worst-case scenario at the hospital" later Christmas Day. Even then, the parents said, Leon's temperature "was still within typical elevated" levels for someone fighting the flu.
His parents also told Blankenship that Leon had a history of being healthy and had no underlying conditions.
Bexar County typically has "one or two" pediatric flu deaths each year, said Dr. Anita Kurian, assistant director for the communicable diseases division of the Metropolitan Health District. The strain of the virus, called H3N2, that is filling the nation's emergency rooms arrived in September, two or three weeks earlier than normal, and could stick around until May, she said.
Blankenship said "the sheer volume" of flu cases this season — 234 confirmed cases at BAMC since October — is the most that military doctors have seen in several years, with the majority of the patients either very young or older military retirees.
"We haven't yet reached the level of the 2014-15 season," Kurian said. "But the H3N2 strain causes more severe infections. It has more genetic diversity than other strains. … In 2014, we saw cases decline (by February), but we're not seeing that yet, either nationally or in Bexar County."
All children older than 6 months should be vaccinated, Kurian said, unless there are complicating medical conditions. She said that in Bexar County last year, children from 6 months to 12 years had nearly a 70 percent rate of immunization — the over-64 group is close behind at 60 percent — but that the least immunized are those between 18 and 64, at just 30 percent.
"I say if you won't get vaccinated yourself, as an adult, then why not do it for those around you? The herd immunity theory seems to work," Kurian said. "If you have a baby under 6 months at home, everyone around her should be vaccinated."
She stressed that children from 6 months to 8 years who have never been vaccinated will need two doses, at least 28 days a part.
For the week ending Feb. 3, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overall hospitalizations this season are running higher than the H3N2-heavy 2014-15 season and that pediatric flu deaths had climbed to 63 nationwide, with at least two more months of the season remaining.
In the 2014-15 flu season, 148 children died nationwide, followed by 93 the next year, and 110 in the season ending last year.
The CDC also said the national "influenza-like" rate of 7.7 percent was the highest in a decade, far outpacing the country's baseline rate of 2 percent. Texas health officials confirmed Monday that the rate of flu for all people, not just children, is still at a peak not seen since 2009 and that type B flu is rapidly overtaking type A cases, which so far have dominated national reporting.
Total adult flu and pneumonia deaths in Texas since Oct. 1 were at 2,897, said Lara Anton, spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services. But she cautioned that those numbers can be six to eight weeks behind actual totals. Of that total, 394 were reported in Bexar County.
In San Antonio, anecdotal reports indicate that hospital emergency rooms, urgent care clinics and pediatricians are seeing elevated numbers of children with the flu or similar ailments.
"I called Methodist Children's Hospital this week to admit a child for a gastro-intestinal problem," pediatrician Dr. Lindsay Irvin, with Alamo Heights Pediatrics, said Friday. "And they had a waiting list of 29 patients with respiratory problems. They were overwhelmed."
The flu is unpredictable and can endanger even a healthy, immunized child, Irvin said. She said her clinic is seeing dozens of children who have the rhinovirus, adenovirus, metapneumovirus and even pertussis, or whooping cough.
"Flu may be the media glamourpuss," she said, "but all these viruses can be dangerous. And some of them can overlap with the flu, so if the symptoms don't go away, ask your doctor to test you again."
Irvin compared the importance of vaccines to "fire and the invention of the wheel" and said every parent should get them, but she echoed health professionals across the country who have noted that the current flu vaccine has been less effective, with a lower coverage rate, than in previous years.
Scientists try to outwit the mutating flu virus every year, and some years the vaccines are better matched to their viral adversaries. "Flu vaccine absolutely cuts your odds of a child dying," Irvin said, "but I've had plenty of kids who got the vaccine and also got very sick."
Samantha Reeh, a pediatric nurse practitioner at Kid-Doc Pediatrics, 14351 Blanco Road, said her clinic uses a nasal swab test that takes about 15 minutes to confirm the flu and that the clinic doctors usually prescribe Tamiflu, an antiviral drug, within the first 48 hours of infection.
Reeh said all the common advice for defeating the flu — cover coughs with your elbow, wash hands frequently and stay home when you're sick — remains smart but that more people should consider acting like TV's germaphobe detective Adrian Monk and carry disinfectant wipes and sanitizers.
"Teachers should be wiping down their classrooms at the end of every day," Reeh said. "And think of places like grocery stores — the shopping carts, the dividers at the checkout line, all the produce people are handling — wipe them down. Or just don't go there if you're sick."
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August 8, 2006
Equinix to Present at 26th Annual Canaccord Adams Summer Seminar
Foster City, CA — August 3, 2006 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that it will present at the 26th Annual Canaccord Adams Summer Seminar on Wednesday, August 9th in Boston, MA.
Jason Starr, director of investor relations at Equinix, will present on August 9th at 2:00 P.M. (ET). The Canaccord Adams Summer Seminar will be held August 8th - 10th at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel in Boston, MA.
About Equinix
<>Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network services providers. Through the company's Internet Business Exchange™ (IBX®) centers in 11 markets in the U.S. and Asia, customers can directly interconnect with every major global network and ISP for their critical peering, transit and traffic exchange requirements. These interconnection points facilitate the highest performance and growth of the Internet by serving as neutral and open marketplaces for Internet infrastructure services, allowing customers to expand their businesses while reducing costs.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc. Internet Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.


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Medical questions & health advice by board certified doctors
"Are panic attacks common for those with anxiety?"
I have GAD. I am a 27 year old male. Recently I started having more and more panic attacks. What can I do to help?
As you know, generalized anxiety disorder is a condition of heightened anxiety that occurs through much of a person's day. This anxiety can be surrounding just about any aspect of their lives. Panic attacks can occur with generalized anxiety disorder, and when they do, a diagnosis of panic disorder is sometimes made. However, panic attacks are distinctly different symptoms than generalized anxiety. Panic attacks are sudden, unexplained times when someone feels trapped, out of breath, and out of control. Panic attacks can be so severe that they cause a person to not want to leave their house. When this happens, someone may get the diagnosis panic disorder with agoraphobia (agoraphobia being the fear of leaving the house). The best treatment for panic disorder is treatment with a medication from the SSRI class. SSRIs are medications such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Celexa that act as both anti-depressants and inhibitors of panic attacks. I suggest that you schedule an appointment with your primary care physician (I am assuming that is who you see for your GAD). The two of you can discuss a reasonable regimen that will can help you with both your GAD and your new panic attacks. Most likely, this regimen will involve an SSRI medication. Good luck.
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Well maintained by friendly staff. Quiet park like setting.
I have nothing but good things to say about this establishment. When anything is broken or not working and you contact them, they fix the problem right away. Anytime I called about a problem, they either fixed the issue that same day or the very next day. Management is very responsive. In addition, they provided the heat and my apartment was always a good temperature. I enjoyed my year stay here (2016 - 2017) and have nothing by praise!
ABC Estates is a well kept, safe and secure complex. The staff truly cares about the tenants and they do everything in their power to make people feel at home.
Are you looking for a clean, spacious apartment that you know is well taken care of? Then give ABC Estates a call to take a tour of one of our open apartments. Secure home for very affordable. You will never feel like you just live in a tiny apartment. Our units have standard size appliances along with a dishwasher. Most of our units have a dining room and balconies. We also supply you with a storage unit in the laundry room in every building. 24-hour emergency maintenance. Emergencies should never be an issue when you live in our complex. We provide 24-hour emergency maintenance. The property manager is also on-site to ensure that all your needs are met to your satisfaction.


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The first king of England was Egbert, who reigned from 827 to 839. He was the first monarch to create a stable rule over Anglo-Saxon England, some 25 years after he regained his kingdom of Wessex. He controlled the portion of England south of the Humber after conquering Mercia.
Egbert's son, Aethelwulf, took over as king when Egbert died at the age of 70. This was a year after Egbert was officially recognized as "Bretwalda," an Anglo-Saxon term meaning "Ruler of the British." Aethelwulf was the father of Alfred the Great and Althelstan, who fought the world's first naval battle against the Danes.


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I have pretty well decided that I am going to save up, and wait on getting a spotting scope until i can get the Swaro ATX. In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W2qGvIErMM (at 3:11) he says "If you do have a mirrorless camera though, a interchangeable lense camera..."
When he says mirrorless, I don't know what that means. I have a Canon DSLR (it is the Rebel xTi). I do not know if this will fit with the TLS-APO that he is talking about.
I have googled it and not found an answer, so I thought I would check with y'all.


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|NXP Radar Technology Accelerates ADAS Adoption
A photo accompanying this release is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/366758c3-6ef0-400a-a8bd-d87af3b5e62a.
The NXP chip enables a new generation of radar sensor assemblies, roughly the size of a postage stamp, that can be integrated "invisibly" practically anywhere in the car – a great advantage for vehicle designers as the number of sensors steadily increases on the road towards automated driving. Its power consumption is 40 percent lower than conventional radar ICs. Key safety applications include emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, cross-traffic alert and automated-parking.
"Building the world's smallest, fully integrated 77GHz chip will pave the way for self-driving cars and drive increased ADAS adoption in the volume market," said Torsten Lehmann, senior vice president infotainment and driver assistance at NXP. "In self-driving cars, a 'cocoon' of radar sensors is required to provide a robust high-resolution, 360 degree view of the environment. This is a real challenge using traditional, bulky radar hardware. Manufacturers are also eager to replace existing ultra-sonic based park distance control systems with "invisible" radar sensors and avoid unattractive holes in the bumper while improving performance and features."
Radar-based ADAS will have a steep penetration over the next years with
With the completion of its merger with Freescale Semiconductor on
Source: IHS, Advanced Driver Assistance Applications Semiconductor Market Tracker – H1 2015
Working prototypes are available to key customers.
Complementing radar data with automotive vision systems, NXP's S32V vision microprocessor.
About NXP Semiconductors
Forward-looking Statements
For more information, please contact: NXP Global Technology PR Tate Tran Tel: +1 408-802-0602 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com NXP Global Technology PR Jack Taylor Tel: +1 512-560-7143 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com NXP Global Automotive PR Birgit Ahlborn Tel: +49 170 5746124 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Note: Options have been confirmed as free agents as of 10:14 PM EST on Sunday, March 17. 🙂
In the last three days, the Redskins have agreed to a deal with three quality wideouts. Now that they've added weapons, they must carry their "free-agency momentum" into addressing other positions. Priority number one? Offensive Line.
The state of the current line is absolutely atrocious. Trent Williams has not panned out as hoped, and a drug suspension ended his year prematurely in 2011. Beyond Williams, there isn't much promise, and if probable 1st round pick Robert Griffin III is going to be an effective quarterback in Washington, they must give him some protection. So, who?
Marcus McNeill
I love the work McNeill has done in San Diego. He's proven to be one of the top tackles in football, and we've seen productive backs like LaDainian Tomlinson, Darren Sproles, and Ryan Matthews all benefit from his work. If nothing else, he proves to be a high-profile signing, and will instantly become the best lineman on the team. Hopefully signing him would convince other lineman to go to Washington, as they would have an anchor in McNeill and bounce back candidate Trent Williams. There's not much else to say other than that he'll give Robert Griffin III some confidence that the front office is trying to make sure he will get protection next season, and that he won't be on his [butt] almost every down.
Kraig Urbick
Urbick comes with a 3rd-round tender, so the challenge for the Skins here would be making an offer that the Bills could not match. The other challenge would be dealing with losing another draft pick, as they've already given up this year's second rounder (along with many other picks…) to the Rams in order to move up to second overall. However, if they're going to spend a pick, Urbick is the guy to do it on. Though he's primarily a guard, he's is one of the most versatile lineman available right now. He proved to be a very effective center in Buffalo last year when starter Eric Wood missed time due to injury. Since it is unrealistic to think Washington can build an entire offensive line through free agency, they might as well focus on players that can play multiple positions.
Demetrius Bell
The one concern with Bell is injury history. However, the Redskins must realize that they are still not an extremely desirable team to play for, and must target some of the lower-profile free agents out there. Bell already appears interested in signing with Washington, as Mike Jones of the Washington Jones reports that he visited the Redskins yesterday, which should give Bruce Allen and company even more of an incentive to go all-in here. Hopefully a Bell signing is in the near future, which would allow the Redskins Front Office to focus more on interior line help the rest of the offseason.
All of the moves that the Redskins have already made this offseason will be in vain if the offensive line doesn't improve, so hopefully one of these three is in Burgundy and Gold come August. With a quality receiving core combined with a competent offensive line, who knows what Robert Griffin III could become?


text: OK so once again with dramatic weather and raging rivers (see previous post) our resevoirs have been churned up and 'turbidity' levels are high. Fortunately this time no sewage works were compromised and despite the lack of clarity of our tap water apparently it is safe to drink. As you can see from our tap 'vs' bottled water picture we are using bottled to drink!!


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The modeling industry is a very special industry. It offers people the often sought after combination of fame, fortune, and prestige in a single package at a young age. With the chance to make dreams come true many young models enter the modeling world without the proper guidance, but the right agency has the ability to bring everything into perspective. The Brown Agency is giving people the chance to live out their modeling dreams whenever they choose to. Justin Brown has worked hard to bring his vision to life and he's now bringing it down to the South with his Austin office.
Justin Brown's Beginning
The Brown Agency started out as a way for models to get into runway modeling. The classic form of the profession, this gave the young and ambitious a way to break into one of the most difficult industries out there. Despite the difficulty of opening up a modeling agency, it appears that Justin Brown had no problem finding the talent or helping his talent find the right avenue to pursue their dreams. The Brown Agency even introduces clients to modeling options they have never considered.
Every Idea Is Present
The most amazing thing about the Brown Agency is that it gives so much more than runway modeling and the trappings usually associated with modeling. The Brown Agency helps models choose from an assortment of modeling types such as commercial modeling and print modeling. Models need to thin about how they're going to expand their opportunities into something more durable. They get the chance to do this in a way most modeling agencies would never consider. The limits of this kind of thinking are hard to reach. Models enjoy variety and they get this from the Brown Agency.
Where He Plans To Go
Justin Brown isn't done with his ambitions and he wants to do something even greater. His modeling agency has already gone further than most and continues to expand as more and more models decide they want to join in. The success of his models isn't something you would naturally find without his touch. He has gather connections through the fashion industry and he uses them to help bring other dreams to life. Serving as a buffer between the model and the world of success, he is making key decisions that will affect the direction modeling goes in the future.
The Austin office is only the latest example of what he plans to do. He's proven himself in the coastal world, but he wants to make sure the entire United States understands what he plans to do. This is the best way to make sure his dream comes true. You can follow their Instagram page


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Pure Heart
Let me tell you something about doing what's right. Not many people are capable of it, because sometimes doing what's right can cause conflict between your wants and needs, and that's the reason why doing the right thing can seem so inconvenient and uncomfortable.
People who are pure at heart do the right thing even when it may seem the most foolish thing to do. It can cause them hurt and pain, years of sacrifice, yet they cannot back away from such opportunities, big or small, because their conscience wouldn't allow them to.
I'm talking about random acts of kindness, helping a loved one or putting complete strangers first. Empathising with what another person is going through and risking your well-being so that that soul can find, even temporary, peace.
We live in a world that has lost its values.
We are surrounded by those who either claim they're doing good by others, or those who expect to learn about the "good people" populating our world through newspaper articles and tv shows (I honestly doubt that's where we find them).
A pure heart should be kept secret, it should never be turned into some sort of publicity stunt, news story or sympathy campaign among friends, as it never seeks approval or trophies.
That neighbour we criticise could be that someone, cause God forbid a disreputable soul should find out where that type of Soul resides.
… maybe what I'm saying isn't true, but I must admit I'd like to think they're just hiding.


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It's not too hard to tell which half of this pair is the professional athlete.
Carrie Underwood and her hubby, NHL player Mike Fisher, tried some Olympics-style leaps off some rocks onto a tropical beach, and it's safe to say that Fisher walked away with the gold medal.
The dueling Instagram videos, posted Thursday to Underwood's account, are alternately captioned "Bad landing…" and "Good landing", and show Underwood gracefully jumping through the air in slow motion (in a very cute swimsuit cover-up by the way), only to crash-land in a way that makes you relieved to see she's laughing and not hurt.
Fisher, on the other hand, is a little less elegant in the air, but pretty much sticks the finish. (He does touch the sand with his hands which is a .5 deduction.)
The couple, who have been married since 2010, appear to be going strong.


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Inspired by the Miraculous Ladybug series, this game allows users to customize their own Kwami, cute creatures that give characters in the show superpowers. I developed this game to challenge myself in Autodesk Maya and Unity.
In 2016, I designed and programmed a VR scavenger hunt game that was used as a model for a Virtual Reality Coding workshop for 7-14 year olds. It was developed with the Unity game engine, programmed with C# and built for Android/Google Cardboard.
As a long-time fan of the Harry Potter series, I pursued a passion project that took place in an alternate reality of the fictional universe I still adore to this day. I used the Unity game engine and Fungus SDK to put together this ambitious Choose Your Own Adventure game. Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk Maya were used to make visuals.
Squirrel Quest is a first-person-shooter where the player takes on the role of a red squirrel seeking to reconquer his home from invasive grey squirrels. This project was developed with the Unity game engine and programmed with C#. Game objects including enemy squirrels and collectibles were modeled, rigged and animated with Autodesk Maya.
The Pokémon Trainer Creator was my very first foray into indie game development. A Flash-based dressup game, it has garnered over a million views on Deviantart and was featured on its front page on 2 April 2018.
This app was designed for the 2015 mPathy project, a contest sponsored by Google NYC and non-profit ECPAT. It aims to help the hospitality industry combat child sex trafficking. The prototype was created with Adobe InDesign and inVision and is developed by non-profit technology organization WebServes.
Described by whatusersdo.com as "potentially the most idiot-proof ecommerce ever built," this website was coded with HTML/CSS, Javascript and PHP. I was commissioned to lay the groundwork for the front-end and back-end of the website for NYC- based guerilla art group AINT WET. It has also been featured on brutalistwebsites.com.
In 2016, I became a volunteer web developer for Womankind, a nonprofit organization that advocates for survivors of domestic violence. I use the CMS Wordpress to customize stylesheets, optimize SEO and create webpages that help raise awareness and funds for the organization.
A short animated film created as a final project for a 2D animation course, The Commute was nominated by my college to compete in the National Board of Review. It was created with Adobe Photoshop and AfterEffects and has accumulated almost 50,000 views on YouTube.
As an intern at the creative agency Hiker, I created and animated the user experience walkthrough seen from 1:10 - 1:30 of this personalized video road trip. I used Autodesk Maya and Adobe AfterEffects to complete that portion of the project.
A 2-minute opening for a fictional TV program called "Elementals." Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk Maya were used to create the visuals, and Adobe AfterEffects was used to assemble the animations.
This is the final project I created for my 3D animation course in college. I used Autodesk Maya to model, texture, rig and animate the character and terrain. Adobe AfterEffects was used for color correction and chroma keying.
Thank you for visiting my website. I hope you enjoyed looking at my work!
If you are interested in working with me, feel free to contact me via e-mail.


text: Sara Stieg, M.S., L.Ac is a California board licensed acupuncturist and herbalist. She received her Masters of Science degree from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. She has a Chinese Medical practice that incorporates acupuncture, herbs, therapeutic modalities, and nutritional counseling to provide individualized treatments in a supportive and nurturing environment. She has a strong belief in the value of Integrated Medicine and collaborates with medical doctors for continuity of care. Education is an important aspect of her practice, and her informative care offers her patients the opportunity to be active participants on the path to optimum health and wellness.


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The family and I took the day off and went down to the Brooklyn CT Fairgrounds on Route 169 today for the annual American Truck Historical Society Truck Show and Flea Market. Most of the trucks being shown are big rigs, but there were quite a few nice old pickups there as well (mostly Fords.)
There were a few really nice 1960's F-series pickups, like this 1960 F250.
It was a great day - sunny and warm and perfect for wandering around looking at nice old trucks and chatting with the owners. There was a flea market/swap meet as well, around the edges of the show area, but unfortunately not too many vendors showed up and the ones that were there didn't have very much stuff for 60's vintage trucks.
By next year, I should have the paint and exterior done on my truck, and I'll enter it to show it off.
I took about 40 pictures at the show of various trucks. I haven't labeled or edited many of them yet, but if you'd like to check them out, here's the link to the Flickr set: http://bit.ly/ATHS6-11


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On AUGUST 10, 2013, children's book author and artist K. Michael Crawford will be hosting a two-hour event at GAME ON! COMICS to teach kids how to create their own comics!
Crawford will teach kids
of all ages how to create their very own comic book Super Hero. They will
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with the four shapes on how to draw everything. Join us Saturday, August 10, 2013, from Noon to 2pm for this awesome, fun-filled adventure creation time!
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What Is Color in Poetry
It's more like a corkscrew than a path!
— Lewis Carroll
not a path, but a corkscrew: to begin
I cite Lewis Carroll from a book called The Rainbow Book: Being a Collection of Essays & Illustrations Devoted to Rainbows in Particular & Spectral Sequences in General, Focusing on the Meaning of Color (Physically & Metaphysically) from Ancient to Modern Times. This color compendium is devoted to thinking about the meaning behind our visible spectrum that has, in many ways, inspired this entire essay. It is an important book to me because I spied it once at Joshua Beckman's house several years ago and it was like a dormant light was turned on.
I think when Joshua saw me and my sleeping light all lit up, he was afraid I would steal his book, knowing how much I think about color and poetry. I must confess that I didn't steal it, but that I thought about it and after I left his house bought two copies for myself.
The quotation within the book begins a discussion of the gyre — the term Yeats used to assert that time is not a linear path but a swirling spectrum of events and occurrences. I think our idea that the color spectrum is a linear construct is just as faulty as our idea that time is. Poems know this, that neither time, nor visible color, nor being, falls down a straight path. What is meaning if not something you can't find in a neat set of steps? A poem is special because its logic is emotional and aesthetic and resists the traditional ways logic seeks to jail itself. Color is special because there is no way to pin it down. It has a live wire that illuminates its frequency. Of course, a poem does, too.
I digress already. I mean to tell you now before I totally begin that this essay will explore the relationships between color and poetry. It will delve into some ideas by color theorists, as well as discuss specific poems that use color "well." It will also give gentle suggestions for where future poetry can go in using color in new ways.
In the spirit of disclosure, I must tell you that this essay has taken many forms over the past year. I have written parts of it, abandoned it, taken it up again. I put my ideas on color in a future lecture called "On the Materiality of the Imagination." The topic is bigger than I could ever even begin today. And in throwing all my colors into the wind over several months, I wrote this simple couplet:
I love colorAnd that is all that I love.
It may be that this really is the truth. I have always loved color. I always forget that my mother is a painter and what that might mean for me and the way I read poetry. I recently told some friends casually that my mother was a painter and art historian, and one of them, a wonderful poet named Emily Pettit, said, "Well, it all makes sense — that's why you love color."
It's true that my house growing up was always ablaze with color, bright objects, and paint everywhere. Every vacation involved either purchasing an art object or visiting a museum. Color was our religion. My mother hung Navajo rugs in almost every room and when I close my eyes to this day I see the pulse of the bright red, orange, and teal triangles of our living room eye dazzler.
All families have big issues that they discuss constantly, but our big issue was color. Instead of baseball or politics, my mother and I talked a lot about what made a particular object come alive.
One lifelong family discussion was a wooden rocking chair my mother made and stained for me when I was two. She asked me what color I wanted it stained: red or blue. I chose blue clearly, but she thought to herself, What toddler has that kind of color preference? Growing up, being the pain in the ass that I was, this was always a point of contention for me and I always found reason to bring it up. "That tiny red rocking chair should have been blue!" I'd exclaim whenever I was in a bad mood. As a teenager, we had a choice between a red or blue lounge chair and, of course, blue finally won.
When I first started writing poems, around age seven, I would memorize them and recite them to anyone who would listen. One I would always recite was called "Blue dignity," so I will share it with you now, because hey, why not:
Blue dignityIs suddenly blackAnd brown and grayOther colors that cause flackA sapphire posesAmongst a bed of rosesAnd strength and triumph remainWhere graceful refrainOh copper-colored creamWhat did I dreamDon't replay the pastOr snakes will wrathViolets violets of the seaWhy did youLeave me
Perhaps because of this personal history, I can't help but see that color has a kind of bi-directional meaning making. Especially with art and everyday objects. One can chose what color they are. Choosing an object's color is much like naming a baby. You can find the right one, hopefully. You can paint, restain, reupholster. Color is a malleable thing, based on mood, on time. Color can change or can stay the same and react to people and its environment. In this way, color is a live wire. When poems get color right, there is a kind of color fate to the pairing between visible and energetic frequency and the word, and the sound of the word.
Perhaps Rimbaud got the connection between color and language best in his poem "Vowels," which sets out to illustrate a colored alphabet within a poem. A translation by Paul Schmidt and Peter Bauer goes like this:
Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O — vowels,Some day I will open your silent pregnancies:A, black belt, hairy with bursting flies,Bumbling and buzzing over stinking cruelties.Pits of night; E, candor of sand and pavilions,High glacial spears, white kings, trembling Queen-Anne's lace;I, bloody spittle, laughter dribbling from a faceIn wild denial or in anger, vermilions;U, ... divine movement of viridian seas,Peace of pastures animal-strewn, peace of calm linesDrawn on foreheads worn with heavy alchemies;O, supreme Trumpet, harsh with strange stridencies,Silences traced in angels and astral designs:O ... OMEGA ... the violet light of His Eyes!
In this poem, Rimbaud sends up the one-to-one correspondence that Edmond Jabès talks about in The Book of Questions between a progression of letters as a progression of time and a life, as Jabès writes:
The letters of the alphabet are contemporaries of death. They are stages of death turned into signs. Death of eternal death. But there are other signs which the letters covet, erased signs reproduced by gestures at the heart of what is named. Thus the bird's take-off contains all forms of flight.
Perhaps to name a letter is to name a color, too; is to set a finite progression of colors and letters and things that fold upon each other in the voraciously eating vortex of time. That is not a corkscrew but a path. That is all moments, all colors, letters, all forms of flight. That is the once-dormant light all lit up.
Perhaps when we connect color to language, to sound, in the space of a poem we reconnect and resist what Breton has named the tragic bifurcation of the so-called real and dream worlds that happens to all adults. Perhaps this is poetry's purpose in our lives, to reconnect the real and dream worlds to one's own dormant light. Of course,
I believe the easiest way to do this with language is through the perfect use of color.
what of image, what of color
I have always thought that H.D.'s poems are so perfect because they focus closely on images and make sure that her picture of whatever she mentions is shared completely with her reader. Take, for example, her poem "Sea Violet":
The white violetis scented on its stalk,the sea-violetfragile as agate,lies fronting all the windamong the torn shellson the sand-bank.The greater blue violetsflutter on the hill,but who would change for thesewho would change for theseone root of the white sort?Violetyour grasp is frailon the edge of the sand-hill,but you catch the light —frost, a star edges with its fire.
H.D. focuses on the image of the sea violet for all three stanzas. Even when she describes the "greater blue violets" in the second stanza, it is to compare them to the sea violet and to show their ultimate unworthiness.
The sea violet, described so well, over and over again, turned over again and again, to be peered at from many angles by the reader, becomes part of a shared imagination with the reader. By the end of the poem, H.D. and the reader share the image of the sea violet, its gorgeous white flower-body embodied as imaginative reality.
Part of H.D.'s achievement, I might argue, has to do with her keen use of color. It is the white of the sea violet and the blue of the other violets that serve to distinguish both so simply and so dramatically. Part of this is probably because of her beliefs as an Imagist and in keeping with Pound's dictum that a poem must give, "direct treatment of the 'thing' whether subjective or objective" and "absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation." It is the perfect choice of colors that gives direct treatment of a thing within a poem, makes sure no word does not contribute to the presentation, and makes the shared imagination (the shared imaginative space, in material) of the reader and the poet, at least for one second in communion. The violets in H.D.'s poem have been agreed upon between poet and reader, at least in part, because of their colors.
H.D. famously called herself the modern Sappho and part of her love of Sappho seems to be her love of Sappho's use of colors. If you have ever read Sappho, particularly Anne Carson's gorgeous translation, you know how vividly Sappho used the colors violet and yellow, and how they appear in constant vibration with each other due to their complementary natures. Sappho writes of the "one with violets in her lap," "having come from heaven wrapped in a purple cloak," a "bridegroom / her hair placing the lyre / Dawn with gold sandals."
In her essay, "The Wise Sappho," H.D. writes:
Impassioned roses are dead.
"Little, but all rose" — true there is a tint of rich color (invariably we find it), violets, purple woof of cloth, scarlet garments, dyed fastening of a sandal, the lurid, crushed and perished hyacinth, stains on cloth and flesh and parchment.
There is gold too. Was it a gold rose the poet meant?...
I think of the words of Sappho as these colors, or states rather, transcending color yet containing (as great heat the compass of the spectrum) all color.
Color is not simply a decorative element in a poem. Color creates an expanse; a field, a shared formal field, with which to plant more shared components of the material imagination, a poem. Color makes this space bigger, this imaginative space more specific and bigger, gives it weight, makes it solid.
Dorothea Lasky was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned a BA at Washington University and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has published three collections of poetry, AWE (2007), and Black Life (2010), and Thunderbird (2012), as well as several chapbooks, including the polemical...
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Todd the deckhand straightened his back for a brief stretch, then hunched again and pushed the brush across the deck. The ship tilted and he adjusted. He stretched again, weary, but then he crouched with a focus and determination, scrubbing. Todd ran on batteries, and they were wet. He was dying.
Captain waved me over, I knocked the rest of my pipe into the boiling sea, and resisting the urge to hold my hat, I tried to look casual walking across the see-sawing deck toward his great Wheel to hear him. I felt my hat fill with wind and start to lift…but I faked an itch and tugged it down firm as I reached him.
"That deckhand has a ripcord!" Captain yelled to me, whirling his wheel, holding his Captain's Storm-Hat to his head with one mighty arm that was highlighted each time the clouds crackled, as though a gathering of the press were already chronicling the Great Storm and the Great Ship. The Great Captain who steered her home…
The deck lurched, and a dark gurgling happened. The boat got heavy, and it felt horrible.
"Lifehead!?" I yelled, understanding him fully. The Captain towered at the wheel and nodded fire.
The boat was sinking now. But I could follow orders.
I knew.
The Captain was ready.
I walked, casually as if shopping, to the deckhand Todd and timed my strike with the lightning, the sound of the Captain leaping to follow, and the scrape of his Todd Brush.. I saw the ripcord, dangling from his temple, with a big red handle the said LIFEHEAD on it in bold white letters. Then Todd stopped scrubbing, because his battery was dead dead dead, I took the ripcord in my hand and I ripped it.
Todd the deckhand made a hollow "Whoomp!" in his last breath, his body was ejected like a shell casing. A cartridge of C02 in his brainstem unloaded into his skull, stretching his Todd-Face until it was a lifeboat with cold eyes, a long nose, and a grimace. At one end there was a fringe where the horseshoe of Todds pattern baldness was distributed in a decorative flourish.
I wondered how it might be to have a battery.
Captain and I made Todd the deckhand a hero in our stories.
We burned the lifehead on the surf, drinking bottles that washed ashore from the wreck, and agreed he really was a hero. Then we waited.
The homing pigeon saw the Captain's shoulder the next morning, and landed there. We were awakened, and the pigeon carried each of us from our island to the shore, leaving the Todd-Head-Ash to be licked away by the thousand tongues of the surf.


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We live in an age where social media postings become gospel and when a star casually posts up an image on their official account without explanation, people are going to jump to the conclusion the star is hinting that they are up for that role.
That's what happened today when "Beauty and the Beast" and "Frozen" star Josh Gad posted a picture of The Penguin from the "Batman" comics online.
This has led to speculation Gad might be playing the role in an upcoming DCEU film such as the soon to be retooled "The Batman" which Matt Reeves is about to get to work on re-writing, or the in the works "Gotham City Sirens" from David Ayer, "Batgirl" from Joss Whedon and "Nightwing" from Chris McKay.
This is hardly unprecedented – Deathstroke was announced as a villain for "The Batman" last year via a video that Ben Affleck posted on Twitter. With the film being redone though, whether the character and the currently cast Joe Manganiello will still be in place is unclear.
Alternatively, Gad could simply be lobbying for the role, or even teasing a casting in a straight-to-VOD DC Animated feature. For the moment though, it is simply a waiting game.
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) May 2, 2017


text: Hey everyone, Im new to the droid and I was just wondering if there is a certain point where I should stop downloading apps. I dont have a lot now, but what I am wondering is at which point will my droid begin to become slow? I have 748 mb storage with 696 free, only downloaded 4mb worth of apps since i got the device. I just would like to now what my limit is with apps before my incredible begins to slow in performance? Thanks!


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As I'm sure with many of you, I've had Mother's Day on my mind. It's only a couple weeks away and I'm in the middle of making something for my mom (with luck it'll be done in time!). Of course, I can't show or discuss what I'm making because my Mom reads this blog and I wouldn't want to give away the surprise. So that will have to wait for later. (Hi, Mom!)
The following are a gathering of what I would consider wonderful Mother's Day presents – of the lacy variety, of course!
You can find the pattern for the featured picture of 'Mother's Day Teacup' by Marjorie Jones at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mothers-day-teacup. Now it's back to present making for me….


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Replacement:KIT-10554. The new revision comes with a slightly different mix of parts to get your LilyPad project started. This page is for reference only.
The LilyPad e-sewing kit contains the bits to sew LEDs (light emitting diodes) into any piece of clothing. Add turn signals to a jacket, accentuate a t-shirt, or light-up your favorite pair of jeans with this simple to use kit. This kit contains the very basics to the LilyPad system. It's a great entry-level kit for people who want to experiment with wearable electronics.
Note: A portion of this sale is given back to Dr. Leah Buechley for continued development and education of e-textiles.
Once you use this kit, consider adding the LilyPad Pro Kit to extend control and use of the LilyPad system.
Just received my kit but didn't include batteries. Might want to update this if they're not included anymore (unless this was a mistake!)
Yep, this was a mistake, sorry! Contact email@example.com and they'll get you taken care of.
Just in case anyone's curious (like I was) the thread doesn't like to be soldered. ;)
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A study reveals the top 50 things people miss from their youth
School holidays, birthday parties, and having someone else cook your meals, are among the things adults miss most from their childhoods, a study has found.
A poll of 2,000 adults revealed 67 per cent yearn for their younger years with four in 10 admitting they consider them to be the best time of their lives.
Playing with Lego, the Sega Mega Drive and sitting down with a huge toy catalogue to write birthday and Christmas wish lists are also among the things people miss the most.
Interestingly, researchers found some differences between the generations too, with baby boomers admitting they long for the days of Enid Blyton books, Meccano and collecting stickers. Millennials, however, miss watching SMTV Live on a Saturday morning, playing on computer games consoles and being given party bags.
It also emerged 58 per cent of adults think it was better to be a child 'back in the day' as they had less of a reliance on technology to have fun.
Having weeks off school during the holidays was named the thing people miss most about their childhoods followed by hot summers, playing outside until the streetlights came on and not having to work.
Spending time with parents came fifth, along with family holidays and playing on the swings.
Having someone else to cook your meals for you, buying penny sweets which really did cost 1p and weekends with no chores or errands to run completed the top 10.
"For many of us, our childhood marks a time of lots of fun and little responsibility leaving us with plenty of things to miss now we are grown up and have adult lives to lead.
"And that's the beauty of having children – being a parent gives you an opportunity not only to relive some of the things you miss from your childhood, but also to watch as your own children experience them.
"Bowling is an ideal opportunity to create memories with your children doing something you loved as a child, and has the added benefit of meaning you don't miss it as an adult.
"Whilst bowling has been popular for many generations, we've totally modernised our centres and have something to keep everyone entertained, whether it be bowling, arcade games or even a meal at our American style diner."
Other aspects adults miss include celebrating childhood birthdays or going to birthday parties, having sleepovers and playing arcade games.
TV shows also feature in the list, with many looking back fondly on programmes such as 'Live and Kicking', 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' and 'Knight Rider'.
Going bowling, having inflatables in the swimming pool and ball pits are also among the top 50.
The results showed some differences between the genders though with men more likely to miss the days of playing Bulldog, arcade games and collecting stickers, with women more likely to long for the days of sleepovers, having friends around for tea and birthday parties.
The study, carried out via OnePoll.com, found 49 per cent would like to be able to relive their younger years, with the age of nine considered to be the best.
Almost half even plan to encourage their children to do some of their favourite things from when they were younger so they can share it with their offspring.
Liz Penney, added: "It's interesting to see that half of the respondents plan on sharing their favourite childhood experiences with their children.
"The good news is, at Hollywood Bowl, we pride ourselves on being a great place for the whole family to spend quality time together."


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List of Upgrades on Farm of Souls
Speed - Worker speed.
Life - Worker longevity, 1.5 seconds per point.
Sight - Range to spot resources, 1/4 tile per point.
Land - Tiles of land owned. Can't be sold.
List of Characters on Farm of Souls
Basic Person - 1x anything. Lv1
Scavenger - 1x anything. Lv 2
Farmer - 2x dirt and wood. Lv 6
Logger - 4x wood. Lv10
Miner - 1x all but wood and dirt. Resource upgraded. Lv4
Prospector - 2x stone and iron. Lv8
Smith - 3x iron. Lv12
Servant - 1x iron, silver, gold. Lv4
Investor - 1x iron, silver, gold. Resource upgraded. Lv7
Royal - 3x gold. Lv14
Peasant - 2x dirt, wood, clay. Lv3
Worker - 2x anything but silver, gold. Lv7
Engineer - 2x anything. Lv11
Scholar - 1x all but dirt. Lv5
Mage - 1x anything. Resource upgraded. Lv10
Wizard - 2x anything. Resource upgraded. Lv15
List of Buildings on Farm of Souls
1. Well - Makes resources worth 1% more.
2. Outhouse - Makes resources worth 2% more.
3. Store - Makes resources worth 3% more.
4. Skyscraper - Make resources worth 5% more.
1. Ditch - Slightly increases resources spawn rate.
2. Canal - Increases resource spawn rate.
3. Mill - Greatly increases resource spawn rate.
4. Mine - Hugely increases resource spawn rate.
1. Crops - Raises population limit by 5.
2. Orchard - Raises population limit by 10.
3. Farm - Raises population limit by 15.
4. Tree of Life - Raises population limit by 25.
1. Stash - Build simple things.
2. Crate - Builds basic buildings.
3. Storage - Builds most buildings.
4. Warehouse - Build everything.
1. Cottage - Spawns 1 person every in-game day.
2. House - Spawns 2 person every in-game day.
3. Large House - Spawns 3 person every in-game day.
4. Apartment - Spawns 5 people every in-game day.
1. Stone Tablet - Cause people to class-up slightly more often.
2. Library - Causes people to class-up a little more often.
3. School - Causes people to class-up more often.
4. University - Cause people to class-up a lot more often.
1. Garden - People stop here to take a long break. +1 Xp/5seconds
2. Park - People stop here to take a medium break. +1 Xp/3seconds
3. Zoo - People stop here to take a medium break. +1 Xp/2seconds
4. Theatre - People stop here to take a very short break. +1 XP/second
1. Statue - +1 soul per 100 levels.
2. Church - +2 soul per 100 levels.
3. Temple - +3 soul per 100 levels.
4. Cathredal - +5 souls per l00 levels.
List of Achievements on Farm of Souls
Dirt Farmer - Gather 100 dirt. Unlocks Scavenger.
Got Wood? - Gather 100 wood. Unlocks Farmer.
Why Are We Gathering This, Again? - Gather 1000 dirt. Unlocks Lumberjack.
The Clay Is Alive - Gather 100 Clay. Unlock Miner.
Gorgon - Gather 100 stone. Unlocks Prospector.
Iron Will - Gather 1,000 Iron. Unlock Blacksmith.
It's Siveran not Silveran - Gather 100 silver. Unlocks Servant.
All You Touched Turned Into Gold - Gather 100 gold. Unlock Investor.
Ooh, Shiny - Gather 1000 combined silver and gold. Unlock Royal.
I Can't Eat This - Gather one resource. Unlocks Peasant.
No Rest For Our Souls - Harvest 100 souls. Unlocks Worker.
Epic - Get a person to level 20. Unlocks Engineer.
Upgraded - Have 100 combined stats. Unlocks Scholar.
Forkbomb - Have 100 people at one time. Unlocks Apprentice.
Grim Keeper - Store 10,000 souls at once. Unlocks Wizard.
Why Would You Do This - Play for one in-game week. Unlocks Zoo.
The Moon Didn't Move - Play for one in-game month. Unlocks Theatre.
Dirty Hands - Gather 2,500 dirt. Unlocks Mill.
Size Enhancement - Have 100 land. Unlocks Mine.
Soul Farmer - Harvest 10,000 souls. Unlock Temple.
Dying Has a Burning Sensation - 10,000 souls burned on stats. Unlocks Cathedral.
Electrum - Gather 100 combined gold and silver. Unlock Store.
All the Better to See You With - 100 sight. Unlocks Skyscraper.
Paper - Gather 1,000 wood. Unlocks School.
Technology - Build 100 buildings. Unlocks University.
Phoenix - Reincarnate 1,000 people. Unlocks Large House.
Idle Game - 1,000 people spawned from houses. Unlock Apartment.
Gotta Build Em All - Build 20 buildings. Unlocks Farm.
Limit Breaker - 100 Speed. Unlocks Life Tree.
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day - Build 10 buildings. Unlocks Storage.
Metropolis - Build 50 buildings. Unlocks Warehouse.
Walkthrough Guide on Farm of Souls
For the newbies playing this game, you don't have to do anything but click space to summon people. The people will automatically do all the work. When they die, the green bar is life. You gain a soul to summon another person again. Upgrade the stats, speed, life, sight and land to further help the people improve the land. Speed affects how fast they build. Life affects how long they live. Sight affects how far they can see to detect items. Land affects how many blocks on the screen that can be searched for materials and built on. There is no one way to win this game, it how you experiment it to "win" the game.
First of all, place your workers until you are at population max. Wait for them work and die. Now max cap the people and this time, spend the leftover souls on upgrades you think are appropriate. It's hard to decide which upgrade you should up. So this is going to be a simple and brief guide on choosing your upgrades. If people are wandering in the middle, give them more sight. If the game is going slow for you, upgrade speed. And yes, life up is not a good thing in the early phase but highly useful in the later part. The odd flowers and trees make resources spawn much faster, and are automatically built when your guys build up enough resources. It'll make more sense when the other buildings are put in. They'll make a small town but won't venture out and become happy until you upgrade their sight. Sight does not suck for an upgrade, don't be fooled. By the time somewhere between 450 and 500 life, the buildings start spawning people faster than they die. At around 350 speed, you can see your people running at the speed of light. If you come to this point, you can stop adding life and speed. Your game went autopilot itself. You can now concentrate and focus on other upgrades especially land. An easy way to make souls is to place as many people as you can near resources.


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Earlier this year, I wrote a post about classical.com's selection of free music on my other music blog. I have continued to come back to that site each and every week since then, and I've downloaded quite a bit of excellent music from it. This week's free album is a collection of Christmas music performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vaughan Meakins, and featuring a mix of singers and choirs. There is a nice variety of music on the album, with some of my favourite songs like "Away in a Manger", "The First Noel", and "Good King Wenceslas", as well as some I've never heard before like "Shepherds Pipe Carol" and "Donkey Carol".
If you've never been to classical.com before, you will need to register for an account with the site before you can download anything; registration is free, and, among other things, it enables you to download free music from the site every week, so it is well worth doing. The free downloads are typically kept on the site for two weeks before they get replaced by something else (although I have noticed exceptions, such as Beethoven's 9th symphony, which is still available after more than two months), so it's best to grab it as soon as possible. Happy listening!


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Art Theatre & Whole Foods Partner to Present "Forks Over Knives"
2011-07-20 · By Editor
Art Theatre of Long Beach & Whole Foods Present Life-changing, New Documentary, "Forks Over Knives", Sunday, July 24, 2011 at The Art Theatre of Long Beach.
"A film that can save your life" —Roger Ebert
"Richly inspiring and informative documentary!" —LA Times
"A must-see movie!" —San Francisco Chronicle
Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country's three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to battle these very conditions. There is a solution so comprehensive, but so utterly straightforward, that it's mind-boggling that more of us haven't taken it seriously? Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called "diseases of affluence" that afflict us can be controlled with diet.
View the films trailer here.
Whole Foods host FREE light brunch preceding film with Chef Paul Buchanan in the lobby. Brunch: 11:15 am; Screening 11:45 am; at the Art Theatre of Long Beach 2025 East 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90814.
Tickets for the event are $11. Tickets available here.
About The Art Theatre:
Voted The Number One Independent Theatre in Long Beach by OC Weekly and District Weekly, the Art opened as a silent movie theatre and included a pipe organ and orchestra pit. It is the oldest operating single screen house in Long Beach in 1924. Our art deco, streamline moderne-style historical landmark is famous for its screening of the most imaginative and stimulating independent, documentary, animated, alternative lifestyle, and foreign language films. After one million dollars of loving restoration, and the addition of a wine bar and coffee bar to round out a full evening experience, we are proud to continue this long-running tradition.


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Charity Vs Vintage Shops - Charity Shop Haul
Uhh, I am so gonna start using Blind Lemon haha. Love that bag too:)
Thank you so much for following my blog, followed yours too, its awesome! xx
The bag and the gold box are so cute! xxx
I was exactly like you, I used to be a bit snobby about them and still to this day feel scared in case I get spotted which is stupid. The charity shops round where I live are not that great having said that, we have a Sue Ryder Music shop which is fantastic and mainly where I pick up my drum tab sheet music. I love your Shabby Chic/Rococo dressing table storage box! It's amazing!!!! xxxxReplyDelete
Love that storage box - so ornate and pretty!ReplyDelete
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That jewellery box is beautiful.
Lovely finds! I'm always in and out of charity shops and, like you, I have found people that would rather be seen dead than in a charity shop but then claim to love vintage clothing! I enjoy the 'hunt' when shopping second hand and my bank balance thanks me for it :)
It would be great to see you carry on your charity shop haul posts :)
Rachelle x
Love the dressing table box SO nice!!
The glassware items and the storage box are absolute gems. You are so lucky to have got them, I'm in home decor love!
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That storage box and glassware is amazing!
I've just started a blog so I'm a new follower :)
Samantha xo
Love the frame and box!ReplyDelete
I've recently started buying second-hand things via ebay, and it's great! I've received some items which aren't particularly clean(!) but after a good wash they're fine. I love getting bargains! I buy most of my things from sales.
I totally agree with the fact charity shops and vintage shops are basically the same thing. I need to go to charity shops more, but at the moment I'm loving ebay!
I'm interested to see your other charity shop hauls :) xx
You can get some bargains in charity shops! well done :) I am a new follower.
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I don't really know why people are amazed so much my the glasswares.. They've been in "Fashion" for a long time, charity shop or not people buy them. Agree that vintage shops are exactly the same as a charity shop, but charity shops wash the clothes and toys, and vintage places don't, they literally put on the shop floor as soon as they get stuff.
The only good thing about vintage v charity is that charity shops sell shit people dont need like toys and ugly curtains, vintage stores hand pick what they get and put out on display, although you do get some weird things from the vintage shop :)
I worked at a charity shop for 5 years and saw first hand all the "pickers" for vintage store. It is crazy how much they mark things up it is 100% worth your time to go and support a charity shop:) great post!! I love the tin for beauty sample.ReplyDelete
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