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Topic Page: Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
US painter, printmaker, and film-maker, innovator of pop art. Warhol achieved immediate fame with his stencil pictures of Campbell's soup cans and his sculptures of Brillo soap pad boxes (1962). In 1965, he gave up art to manage the rock group The Velvet Underground. He continued to make films, which often have a voyeuristic quality.
Artist Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 1928, to Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants Andrej and Julia Warhola. His father, a construction worker, died in 1942. Julia Warhola cleaned houses and sold flowers she made of tin. She taught her sons about Catholicism, their cultural heritage, and art. Andy drew and painted throughout childhood and began taking photographs at age nine.
Warhol finished high school in 1945, after skipping eleventh grade. With money his father had saved, Warhol attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (later, Carnegie Mellon University), becoming the family's first college student. Although he struggled in some classes, Warhol frequently exhibited his student work. After graduating in 1949 with a pictorial design degree, he moved to New York City with fellow student Philip Pearlstein.
Warhol began his career as a commercial illustrator. He published his first illustration in a 1949 Glamour magazine article and went on to win several awards for his work in various publications. Warhol's distinctive method shows his early interest in reproducing images: he blotted a sheet of paper over a wet ink drawing, transferring the lines. Repetition would later become a hallmark of his paintings.
In 1952 Warhol's first solo exhibition, Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote, opened at a New York gallery. That year Warhol's mother came to live with him. Julia worked with her son on a number of book projects, embellishing his stamped and stenciled artwork with decorative lettering.
During an international trip in 1956, Warhol made the decision to become a painter. For his first pop paintings (short for "popular"), he used a projector to enlarge comics and newspaper ads and transfer them to canvas. In 1962 Warhol's thirty-two Campbell's Soup Cans, one for each variety Campbell's made, became the quintessential pop art works. He used a stencil to duplicate the paintings, which the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles exhibited on a shelf, like a supermarket display. Soup Cans established Warhol in the art world.
Warhol's use of familiar images in pop art countered the intellectualism and elitism of 1950s abstract expressionism. Warhol challenged the traditional definition of art. While previous artists strove to create original works that were prized for their authenticity, he appropriated photographs, reproduced images, used assistants, and even signed works he had not created.
Warhol abandoned the hand-stenciling method in the early 1960s for the slick photo—silk screen, which became his signature technique. He based his first silk-screened works on publicity photographs of such celebrities as Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. Warhol's next series, nicknamed the "Disasters," revealed his interest in death and the macabre. He used media images of plane crashes, suicides, riots, and even an electric chair as source material.
In 1963 Warhol painted his East Forty-seventh Street studio silver and dubbed it "The Factory." The Factory became a gathering place for artists, actors, and other celebrities who appeared in Warhol's films and in portraits based on photo-booth snapshots. The tongue-in-cheek studio name referred both to Warhol's prolific production of silk-screened paintings and his use of assistants. He publicly emphasized the assembly-line nature of his work, saying, "I think everybody should be a machine."
In 1965 Warhol announced his retirement from painting to concentrate on filmmaking. His first films were silent, unedited, and showed one shot over an extended period. In Sleep the camera focused on Warhol's sleeping friend John Giorno for eight straight hours. As in his paintings, Warhol used film to elevate the ordinariness of everyday life to something noteworthy. He also examined the very nature of film by using a dynamic medium to show a static subject.
Despite his proclaimed retirement from painting, Warhol continued making art. In addition to paintings, he silk-screened wooden boxes with such commercial motifs as Brillo and Heinz. These sculptures almost exactly replicated cardboard packing cases. Warhol exhibited his sculptures on the gallery floor, without traditional pedestals, to evoke a warehouse setting.
In 1968 Valerie Solanis, founder of the obscure group SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) and occasional Factory visitor, shot and nearly killed Warhol in his Union Square studio. The experience changed Warhol profoundly. He emerged from two months' hospitalization less trusting, obsessed with death, and terrified of illness. The same year also brought his first retrospective exhibition, held in Stockholm, Sweden, and the publication of his book A: A Novel.
Always interested in the trappings of fame, Warhol became increasingly involved with elite society. In 1969 he founded Interview magazine, continuing his lifelong interest in Hollywood. Originally about film, Interview later encompassed more of popular culture and pioneered the practice of celebrities interviewing each other. During the 1970s Warhol produced commissioned portraits of society's privileged, using his silk screen technique that featured large areas of flat, bright color. Warhol also made political paintings in the 1970s. He produced a series of portraits of the Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong), used the Soviet Union's symbols in the Hammer and Sickle silk screens, and revealed his ironic sense of humor in garishly colored portraits of Richard Nixon bearing the slogan "Vote McGovern."
From 1974 until his death Warhol contributed almost daily to one of his personal "Time Capsules," approximately six hundred cardboard boxes containing a wide range of objects: original artwork, source material for paintings, press clippings, family heirlooms, letters, and ephemera. The Time Capsules show that, despite his status as a "superstar," Warhol also had a profoundly private side.
In 1975 he published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again), followed a year later by the Andy Warhol Diaries, which detailed his daily life for several years. In 1980 he produced a television show, Andy Warhol's TV. In 1983 he began collaborating with painters Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente. Warhol held his final exhibition in 1987 in Milan, Italy, where he hung his Last Supper paintings in a gallery directly across the street from Leonardo da Vinci's original, then under restoration. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City while recovering from gall bladder surgery.
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The Anatomy of a Restaurant Website
Much like the architectural or interior design of your establishment, your website serves as a digital first impression for all of your customers. The features, layout, and organization all affect how your site draws diners through the front door.
When people go out to eat, they all have three things on their mind: the food, the ambiance and a relaxing atmosphere they can enjoy with friends. Your website needs to incorporate these three aspects in its overall design to help make the website experience as welcoming and inviting as your physical location.
Examine our brief guide to the ideal anatomy of a restaurant website to help you make your establishment's digital experience both attractive and memorable.
Skip Flash Animation
It's 2017. That means flash-based sites are dead. They have been so overdone that they only create frustration in most restaurant website users. Adobe Flash clutters the interface and loads far too slowly. Focus on ease of access to necessary content, such as hours, menu, contact, reservations and online ordering.
Build your site using CSS3 or HTML5 for improved functionality and faster load times. Most coders use HTML5 as the basic structure of websites. Your images and design will be all the "flash" you need.
Don't do it. Nobody likes listening to canned muzak while browsing a site, especially if it slows down the loading the site. If a site doesn't load in two seconds, customers go elsewhere. Considering that most people access websites from mobile devices, no one wants to have to hastily shut off their medial audio volume while riding public transportation or sitting in an office or waiting room.
Make your Reservations section brief, easily identifiable and crystal clear. If possible, integrate online booking via an app or within the site itself. Do not write 48 lines of text about how to book a reservation with your contact information listed at the bottom in teensy-tiny font. Call-in reservation establishments should make that number large and easy to read, and any instructions about reservations should be kept to a bare minimum.
This one is huge. Keep updating your site with fresh content beyond menu updates, changing hours, or upcoming promotional events. Well-written copy is a good option to consider, but better still is a blog that updates at least weekly with information.
Design content to engage your customers. Write about the history of the dishes you serve, trends in the industry, how you source your ingredients, meet the staff and your newest seasonal dishes. As long as it is error-free, interesting and gives users a reason to visit the site every week, you are headed in the right direction.
If you are not confident in your blogging skills, there are numerous agencies available who will keep your content updated and exciting every week. Don't forget about video content. Post tours of your place, a 30-second spot or a behind-the-scenes video of a typical evening at your restaurant.
Details, Details
Spend most of your time designing your website while creating the most appealing user experience possible. Proof and reproof all of your content for typos. Refine your labels and sections. Play with different layouts to make your most important content the easiest to access. Access the site from multiple browsers and mobile web browsers to see how it functions across multiple platforms. The more you pay attention to detail, the better you can create a dynamic user experience.
The Landing Page
Do not, for the love of all that is good and holy, use a "click here to enter" button to greet visitors to your site. If your site includes this feature, you have already failed at creating a positive customer experience. The very first page your potential customers should see is your main landing page. No one wants to wait around for your site to load after staring at a fancy-but-useless welcome screen.
Nothing makes or breaks your website like high-quality, professional photography. Think of three words: spend the money. In the long term, investing in professional-quality photos, images and logos from a graphic designer pays for itself. Images are the foundation of every good website, and if yours aren't up to par, you set yourself up for failure in the long run.
Online Ordering
This is a must-have feature for all restaurants. Whether customers dining in or get some take out, they want to order right from the menu on the site using their smartphone or mobile device. A reliable, easy-to-use online ordering system saves you and your customers time and hassles, especially if you integrate it with a mobile app customized for your restaurant.
Best of all, online customers typically order $4 more than customers who order by phone or at the counter. Online ordering creates more opportunities to drive revenue and improve the overall customer experience.
All in all, as well-designed restaurant website depends on re-creating the feel of your establishment in the digital realm. The anatomy of that site should include instant access to the most important information and minimal text that gets right to the point. You website does not depend on flashy animation or audio features that drive customers to seek information, and often their meals, elsewhere.
Creating a functional and attractive website for your restaurant is key to long term success, so be sure to connect with an experienced web designer who can make sure you always put your best foot forward online. Let Orders2.me help you integrate online ordering into your high-quality restaurant website.

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This page is dedicated to Tina's Life, which has changed MINE in ways that are unexplainable!
Tina interview from GilligansIsland.com
Tina Louise Webpage
Tina Louise @ Brians Drive-In Theater
"Growing Down In Brooklyn" Tina's NEWEST Movies!
Pop Portraits! The artist in Tina!
Tina Louise has had such a wonderful life that there is far too much to be written! So in saying that Scattered around this page are some links with extensive info about Tina's life. Don't think I won't get my opinion about Tina and her life on this site! Because I will! Just check out the page Titled " Me and My Thoughts"
Tina with Rossano Brazzi in "Siege Of Syracuse"
Tina as Julie Grey on the TV series "Dallas"
At a Glance
Date of Birth: February 11,1934 Education:University of Miami in Ohio, UCLA reading programs, The Neighborhood Playhouse, The Actors Studio First Professional Leading Role: Appassionata Von Climax in the Broadway play "Li'l Abner"


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This is the Legendary Battle that ends the Phase I: The Ashes of Treachery for the Campaign we are playing.
This is a very complicated battle for the Loyalists, with several special rules and particular deployment. I will try to summarize it.
The Loyalists have 2,000 points and Traitors 3,000. The Traitors have the requirement that Angron must be included in their army.
Additionally, the whole Loyalist Army must be deployed on the field first, and then the Traitor decides how to deploy. The entire Traitor army either deploys via Deep Strike if able or moves onto the table in the Traitor's first turn. The Traitor automatically gets the first turn. The only advantage for the Loyalists is that they can set up the whole board, including their own Fortifications, without interference from the Traitors.
The Primary Objectives are 1 Victory point for each enemy unit completely destroyed, or falling back at the end of the game. Independent Characters and Dedicated Transports also give 1 VP. As Secondary Objective, destroying the Loyalist's Warlord grants and additional VP to the Traitor's, but killing Angron gives the Loyalist 4 VP.
There is one special rule for the mission that makes it even more difficult, Deadly Atmosphere, which reads, for the duration of the game, all armour saves of '6' must be re-rolled (invulnerable and cover saves are unaffected). Other saves are unaffected. In addition, Armour Penetration rolls of 1 must be re-rolled.
Here is a picture of the deployment zones. As you can see, to make things worse, the Loyalist need to deploy first in the middle of the board and then the Traitors can pick any side to enter. So it means you need to be able to defend from any side.
Traitor Army
The Traitor Army was composed of a single detachment, of 3,000 points.
- Angron
- 15 Tactical Squad Marines
- Sergeant with Artificer Armour and Melta Bombs
- Khârn
- 12 Tactical Squad Marines
- Dreadclaw drop pod
- 5 Cataphractii terminators
- Storm Eagle
- 16 Tactical Squad Marines with bolt pistol and Chainaxes
- Sergeant with Artificer Armour and Melta Bombs
- 1 Praetor with Paragon Blade and Power Fist
- 5 Red butchers Cataphractii Terminators
- Dreadnought Talon
- 3 Contemptor Dreadnought with Kheres Assault Cannon
- Deredeo Dreadnought
I think the plan was straight forward, unleash all of these meat-grinders into combat as fast as possible, while providing supressing fire with the Dreadnoughts.
|Traitor Army arranged for combat
Loyalist Army
The Loyalist Army was composed of two detachments, the main one were the Sons of Horus with 1,135 points, the second one were Emperor's Sons with 665 points and then 200 points for Fortifications, which the Loyalist must include.
Sons of Horus
- Centurion with Power Fist, Jump Pack, Melta Bombs and Artificer Armour
- 15 Tactical Squad Marines
- Sergeant with Melta Bombs
- Vexilla
- Apothecary with augury scanner and Artificer Armour
- 15 Tactical Squad Marines
- Sergeant with Melta Bombs
- Vexilla
- Apothecary with augury scanner and Artificer Armour
- 15 Tactical Squad Marines
- Sergeant with Melta Bombs
- Vexilla
- Apothecary with augury scanner and Artificer Armour
- 10 Tactical Squad Marines
- Sergeant with Melta Bombs
- Vexilla
- 10 Tactical Squad Marines
- Sergeant with Melta Bombs
- Vexilla
Emperor's Children
- Centurion with Power Fist, Jump Pack, Melta Bombs and Artificer Armour
- 10 Tactical Squad Marines
- Sergeant with Melta Bombs
- Vexilla
- 15 Tactical Squad Marines
- Sergeant with Melta Bombs
- Vexilla
- Apothecary with augury scanner and Artificer Armour
- 5 Heavy Support Squad with Autocannons
|Loyalist Army deployed inside the ruins of the Fortress
As you can see from the picture above, we placed the terrain with a bunker in the middle surrounded by an Aegis line, mostly. We put one squad behind each Aegis line, and the rest inside the ruins of the Fortification, the ones with Apothecaries, to benefit from the Feel no Pain. The idea was to react fast and concentrate massive amounts of fire by means of Fury of the Legion on any enemy. Of course we were aware of the fact that we had no Dreadnoughts and no Tanks, but they were simply too expensive to buy in a scenario like this.
DeploymentAs you have seen above, the Loyalist start the scenario with all troops in the middle.
The Traitors decided to enter the table from the side defended by the Emperor's Children, which is the bottom side of the picture above.
Turn #1On the first turn the complete Traitor Army entered the table.
There were two units making a Deep Strike attack, the first one was the Dreadclaw with the 5 Cataphractii inside that landed on the right side of the table, and the other one was the Storm Eagle, that came in from the right side as well, but next to the World Eaters Deployment Zone.
The Loyalists were able to destroy one weapon from the Storm Eagle and remove one Hull Point from the Dreadclaw, as a response to their arrival, but that had little effect on the game. In fact the landing of the Dreadclaw caused the first few loyalists to bite the dust.
|Enter the World Eaters!
|From the top of the Bunker the Emperor's Children oversee the arrival of Angron
The Deredeo targets the only unit that could make any significant damage to the Storm Eagle and manages to wipe all of them out, there are no more Heavy Weapons in the Loyalist Army!
Then there was the time for hand to hand combat. Even though we were behind the Aegis Line, all squads that tried to reach the combat managed to do so thanks to either Fleet, Move through Cover or both!
At the end of the traitor turn 1, all Emperor's Children units were destroyed save for Centurion with Jump Pack, that was running away from the combat!
|End of traitor turn #1: a third of the Army is gone!
All units that were now on the front line maintained the position to unleash a Fury of the Legion. The unit on the bunker on the back of the table rearranged itself to go to higher grounds and have more people available for shooting in the next phase.
On the right, the accumulated firepower of two units at very close range is enough to wipe out the whole unit including Khârn!
On the center of the table, despite all the bolter fire, Angron just gets a couple of wounds and a few marines are dead, but they are still standing.
In the hand to hand phase, the Centurion with Jump Pack and the last unit charged the Drop Pod and they managed to destroy it, without affecting the Terminators inside it, which are thrown out and get ready for their next turn.
|Khârn is dead!
|Angron is still standing, and he is not pleased with all of these shootings!
Turn #2
During the second turn of the Traitors, Angron charges the unit in the middle of the field while on the right side the Praetor with all the squad inside the Storm Eagle disembarks and get ready to charge.
One of the Dreadnoughts target the Consul with Jump Pack that was running away from the previous turn, and kills him, thus ending the participation of the Emperor's Children in this battle.
Again, all World Eaters units managed to reach their targets, and since most of the units could not fire as they did a Fury of the Legion in the previous turn, there are badly outnumbered.
|All units engaged in hand to hand!
At the end of the traitor turn #2 only one consul and about 16 loyalist marines are left.
During the loyalist second turn, all bolters are fired against Angron who is now with only one Wound left!
The Consul with Jump Pack and the last unit charged against the Cataphractii Terminators, managing to kill all of them.
|Angron is alone in the middle of the Battlefield, with just one Wound left
Turn #3During the shooting phase the Centurion with Jump Pack is killed, along with the remaining marine that survived the previous combat.
Having just one wound left, Angron decides that it is wise not to fire his Plasma pistol.
Then it is the turn to hand to hand combat, Angron and the Red Butchers charge against the last surviving unit and they wipe it out, whilst on the right flank, the last three loyalist marines are killed as well.
|Last combat of the game
|The last loyalists are killed
ResultIt was a clear victory for the Traitors, and absolute Massacre. I guess the scenario is designed exactly like that, to make you feel hopeless and that the destiny of all of the loyalist is to die... well in that case, well done! You really feel like that, we simply had no chance to survive!
Nevertheless I found it fun to play. It is quite all right to have some crazy scenarios like this from to time, unbalanced and with weird rules.
Campaign results
Victory for the Traitors on the first phase!
Emperor's Children (Loyalists) vs World Eaters (Traitors)
Scenario: Blood Feud
Result: Traitors 6, Loyalists 16
Emperor's Children (Loyalist) vs Emperor's Children (Traitors)
Scenario: Onslaught
Result: Traitors 10, Loyalists 1
Emperor's Children (Loyalist) vs Emperor's Children (Traitors)
Scenario: Shatter Strike
Result: Traitors 0, Loyalists 6
Sons of Horus (Loyalist) vs World Eaters (Traitors)
Scenario: Blood Feud
Result: Traitors 18, Loyalists 9
Emperor's Children (Loyalist) vs World Eaters (Traitors)
Scenario: Zone Mortalis
Result: Traitors 0, Loyalists 3
Iron Warriors (Loyalist) vs World Eaters (Traitors)
Scenario: Shatter Strike
Result: Traitors 1, Loyalists 2
Sons of Horus (Loyalist) and Emperor's Children (Loyalist) vs World Eaters (Traitors)
Scenario: Cometh the Red Angel
Result: Traitors 11, Loyalist 6


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1964 – Born Eddie Vedder
1964 – Born Eddie Vedder
On 23rd December 1964 was born Eddie Vedder, an American musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who is best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam.
With his powerful, baritone voice he has reached the No.7 on the Rolling Stone's list of Best Lead Singers of All Time.
Despite his career as a lead vocalist of Pearl Jam, he has released two solo albums: Into the Wild in 2007 and Ukulele Songs in 2011.


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Spotify today launched in Australia, with its base level offering delivering unlimited free music streaming for free. The internet-based service has struck deals with Warner Music Australia, EMI Music Australasia, Universal Music and Sony Music Entertainment to offer tracks from their catalogue of songs.
Spotify has also inked deals with the Australasian Performing Right Association and "a raft" of independent record labels, according to a statement from the company.
The free service offers ad-supported access to 16 million songs. For $6.99, Australian users get access to the same service sans ads. Spotify's premium service costs $11.99 and delivers offline playback as well as tracks at a bitrate up to 320kbps and mobile playback.
Spotify launched in Sweden in 2008. It now has 10 million active users, including more than 3 million customers of its paid 'Unlimited' and 'Premium' services. The service only launched in the US in July last year.
In December, Spotify launched a development platform that allowed the creation of third-party apps that integrate with the service. One of the first Australian apps for Spotify is based on the ABC's Triple J radio station, offering access to Hottest 100 compilations as well as news and featured albums.


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I love EPSON printers. If you are a follower of my blog, this news comes as no surprise to you. :) Other brands have been used by my family, but when it comes down to it, EPSON is our favorite. Simply, I have never experienced picture quality as amazing as EPSON's in any other brand.
Another fact about me you would know if you are a reader of my blog is that one of my favorite hobbies is scrapbooking. I began paper scrapbooking 13 years ago. I was a freelance artist for Memory Makers Magazine before they called it quits, and have been published in a score of other magazines and idea books throughout the years. Most of those layouts or mini books that made their way to print were created traditionally- that is, with paper products and other tangible elements.
Unfortunately, I was injured almost two years ago. The result of the injury after two surgeries is that I still have a tear in the cartilage in my wrist that will never be able to be repaired due to the type of tear and where it is located. Therefore, I cannot use my right hand to do simple tasks that most of us take for granted- writing, using scissors, lifting items heaver than a full coffee mug, etc. So, I cannot paper scrapbook anymore.
Not willing to give my hobby up entirely, with the help of some excellent tutorials and online classes, I learned how to scrapbook digitally. To tell you I am hooked is an understatement. I am head over heels in love with my computer now. :) Up until recently though, I was a little frustrated because all of my digital layouts were stored in the computer or on external hard drives because I had no way of getting them into a physical scrapbook.
EPSON changed all of that for me. :) (Have I mentioned that I love EPSON?)
When I was contacted about testing an Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Ink Jet Printer, I about freaked out in excitement!! I was thinking, NO WAY!!! This is THE BEST review EVER! :) This printer i a digital scrapbooker's dream!
A little information about the printer:
The Epson R1900 sets a new standard in glossy printing. This powerful, wide-format printer offers incredible versatility so you can explore all your creative aspirations. With Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss 2 pigment ink, the R1900 delivers vibrant photos up to 13 inches wide and up to 44 inches long. Offering the highest level of media versatility of any printer in its class, this remarkable performer prints on a wide variety of media types including glossy, luster, matte, canvas and fine art papers.
Key Features:
•Get superior glossy prints with Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss® 2 pigment ink
•Print photos with greater vibrancy and better facial tones with Epson's new Red and Orange ink cartridges
•Maximize the color gamut and achieve better print quality with Radiance™ technology
•Produce gallery-quality prints faster with improved print speeds
•Print and display your work on canvas and fine art media
•Create amazing panoramas with included roll paper support
•Print professional looking CDs and DVDs
•Achieve rich blacks on any media with auto-switching Photo and Matte Black ink
My review:
The minute I got home and saw the enormous box from EPSON, I was excited! I cleared my scrappy desk and set up the printer. Set-up was quite simple and was finished quickly. Once I got the software loaded onto my laptop, I printed one of my favorite layouts.
Seriously, WOW!
The print quality of my layout is perfect. The colors are crisp and vibrant. Honestly, the layout almost doesn't look digital. The ink was dry to the touch almost immediately, Even so, I waited an hour before I slipped it into a page protector. No smearing at all.
The next project we tackled was a newspaper for my son's school project. He used Microsoft Power Point to create a large format document, and was able to use the printer himself to print the resulting product. He said it was as simple as using his regular printer, but cooler because it was able to print a document that was 13 inches x 19 inches. He is looking forward to creating more posters and printing them with the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Ink Jet Printer.
Speaking of posters, hubby has used the printer many time since we got it to print band posters. He is impressed with the picture quality, but is more impressed with how he can print in larger formats than he can with our home printer.
Bottom line:
I am beyond pleased with the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Ink Jet Printer. I would recommend this printer to anyone who is a digital scrapbooker, someone who wants to print larger photographs, or for anyone in need of a large format printer or posters and such. The only drawback I have had with this printer is that it does go through the ink fairly quickly. Even so, having amazing frame-worthy large photos and scrapbook pages is worth it to me!
Buy It:
EPSON typically sells the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Ink Jet Printer for $549.99, but right now, you can pick it up for $399.99 with free shipping.
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Zoning is an important toolkit for the Town in shaping growth and development. It supports the goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan. Zoning is designed to protect property values and guide development in a harmonious fashion. In other words, it shapes the visual appearance and features reflecting the community's vision. That vision dictates what is appropriate or not, how existing and future development should complement one another, what is no longer acceptable, define land use patterns, influences street networks, and structures' orientation to the street. Zoning fundamental building block is the land uses. This refers to the primary use of a property. A land use survey and evaluation leads to patterns that translate into zoning districts. Zoning districts are a community's classifications of geographical areas which outline appropriate land uses and standards. Standards include building height, setbacks [distances from property lines], signs, and buffers between uses to name a few. Zoning districts and standards make up a zoning ordinance which is the legal document used to administer zoning. The ordinance is only half of the process. The other is the Official Zoning Map. The ordinance provides the text. The Official Zoning Map is the visual. Both substantiate the other. If a property is rezoned, the map must be updated as well. It is similar to a property's plat and deed. The deed is the text that describes the property; the plat is the visual description of the property. Both are legal references. The Official Zoning Map ensures the appropriate standards are applied. Zoning ordinances can include historic preservation, landscaping, signage criteria, and other standards seen relevant to a community.
There are three boards associated with zoning or land development standards. Each has a distinctive function that serves as bridges connecting the public and local government. It is a partnership. The boards are the Planning Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA), and Board of Architectural Review (BAR). These members are local residents, community leaders, and professionals appointed by the Mayor. They act as the pulse of the community by reflecting the community consensus and serving as an advocate. Briefly, below are their roles with the exception of the BAR which was discussed earlier.
Planning Commission is part of the legislative process. They affect policy. Their role is to:
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It's Carnival time in Panama, which – for us on a boat – doesn't mean much except for the fact that the places we usually visit will be over-run by Panamanian families hitting the beach for a good time over next several days. So instead of trying to muscle our way through the crowds to stake out a landing on shore, we've made a few adjustments to our itinerary. To me, this is a blessing, because if you read my last entry, you might have gathered that any deviation from our unvarying course from Costa Rica to Panama and back again is more than welcome. This morning we would normally be doing Zodiac cruises at a group of islands called Otoque and Bona (known for their abundant bird life), but instead we visited another group of islands in the Bay of Panama called the Pearl Islands. Also rich in bird life, we did two rounds of Zodiac cruises here and I managed to secure a spot on the last Zodiac on the second round. I'm not a birder, but I enjoyed spending an hour off the boat in the sunshine, bobbing around in a Zodiac. Here are a few pics that I took. We also saw a young frigate bird that had fallen into the water. Despite being a marine bird, frigate birds are pretty much doomed if they get their feathers wet. Their bodies are so light (less than two pounds!), they can't lift themselves out of the water if they happen to fall in. We came across him struggling to lift off out of the water while exploring one of the islands by Zodiac. Later one of our naturalists went back over to pull him out of the water, dry him off, and send him on his way, tired, but apparently fine.
After the Zodiac cruises, we repositioned the Sea Lion a short ways to a beautiful tiny island called Bartolome. One side of the islands consists of a large sandy beach peppered with broken bits of shell and coral and the other side of the island is formed of fascinating rock formations. I didn't walk around the island today, but I have in the past and it's quite beautiful. We spent about an hour and a half at Bartomole before we had to pick up anchor and commence our 205 mile run to Coiba National Park, where we'll visit some more new places and islands. On the way we spotted a few humpback whales, an army of feeding pelicans, a few dolphins, floating turtles, and eerie underwater waves of red algae.
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RIP Ravi Shankar.- almostaghost
This seems to be getting more difficult every year! 2011 was filled with so much great music and I feel like I had such little time to appreciate that. This year's rankings were truly the hardest ever to compile. Looking past the sheer volume of great new (and "newish") acts which have emerged, old favorites returned with new offerings, there's also the fact that my tastes have been diverging in two distinct directions.
My love for shoegaze has has come into the forefront this year, somewhat shattering the usual suspects for top 25 positions. Nevertheless, all those beautiful walls of noise simultaneously crashing down upon my ears couldn't ever make up for good song writing and talented vocalists. I think that's reflected in the mix of albums in this year's Top 25.
I had originally planned doing "reviews" for the top 10. However, I only had enough patience and focus to get the top spot for you. I have included a sample mp3 for each of the top 25 albums. If you would like to grab all of these at once (plus a few bonus tracks), click here.
[UPDATE DEC 26 2011] The honorable mentions have been updated after reading my colleague betweenthesound's amazing 2011 write up. If you haven't seen that, you should go read it now (or perhaps right after you finish this post). She managed to (once again) slam me with a gang load of records that were way beneath my radar, but that would definitely have put huge dents in my Top 25 list as it stands.
Without further ado, here they are…
25) Asobi Seksu – Fluorescence
24) The Mountain Goats – All Eternals Deck
The Mountain Goats – High Hawk Season
23) The Dodos – No Color
22) Radiohead The King Of Limbs
21) Brute Heart – Lonely Hunter
20) Future Islands – On The Water
Future Islands – Give Us The Wind
19) Dearling Physique – Deadeye Dealer
Dearling Physique – Oh This Currency
18) Neon Indian – Era Extraña
16) Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
Thurston Moore – Orchard Street
15) Screen Vinyl Image – Strange Behavior
Screen Vinyl Image – My Confession
14) The Vera Violets – In Between Fires
The Vera Violets – Down Tonight
13) The Horrors – Skying
12) Ladytron – Gravity The Seducer
11) The Antlers – Burst Apart
The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Failing Out
10) Active Child – You Are All I See
09) I Break Horses – Hearts
08) Atlas Sound – Parallax
Atlas Sound – My Angel is Broken
07) Laura Marling – A Creature I Don't Know
06) Zola Jesus – Conatus
05) PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
PJ Harvey – In The Dark Places
04) M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
M83 – Raconte-Moi Une Histoire
03) Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Anna Calvi – Love Won't Be Leaving
02) Brief Candles – Fractured Days
01) Ringo DeathStarr – Colour Trip
In nearly every review, interview, blurb, or blog post post you'll read about Ringo Deathstarr, you'll find three common elements.
1. Trio from Austin
They've actually gone through a couple lineup changes over the past 5 years, but have mostly stuck to this formula. The creative element is lead vocalist/guitarist Elliott Frazier. After bassist Alex found her way into the band (2007) by apparently just showing up for practice, things have mostly settled down, just finding the right drummer (as of this writing / hopefully "final" – that's Daniel Coborn).
2. These guys sound like My Bloody Valentine
Drownedinsound put it this way " If in the meantime you've lost your copy of Loveless, you could do far worse than listen to Colour Trip." Yeah, it's true. Too bad Loveless
3. The bassist (Alex Gehring) (now going by "galexy") is so hot
So there, that's out of the way. If it's a more recent post you might read about how these kids just toured the UK/Europe with The Smashing Pumpkins. I have to admit kind of hate those dudes, but ultimately it means more exposure for Ringo Deathstarr and so I guess it's not a bad thing. Moving beyond those tidbits, you get into a the music.
In case you haven't noticed I don't do traditional reviews. I leave it to others to finely dissect the record. Instead of telling you how it sounds (just listen for yourself), I offer you how the record felt. Colour Trip hit hard for me. This was probably my favorite record Fever Ray's 2009 debut, and going back further it would have to be Snowden's Anti-Anti (2006). Before I totaled my car, this record could very often be heard at extremely high decibels pulsing through the streets of Baltimore weekday evenings. Dark reverberation and the haunting fuzz draped chanting of Alex form the basis of my song of the year – Two Girls (stream/download below). For the life of me I can't tell you what the fuck she is saying, but she is saying it just right. Besides being the single most addicting track of 2011, there's an equally worthy video directed by Alex, which you can also find below. Be forewarned: One might say it's NSFW.
Austra – Feel It Break
Girls – Father Son Holy Ghost
Hunx & His Punx – Too Young To Be In Love
Metronomy – The English Riviera
Radical Face – The Family Tree – The Roots
Shad[]wb[]x – Lady Doome [EP]
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
Washed Out – Within & Without
Arc In Round – II [EP]
Apparat – The Devil's Walk
Battles – Gloss Drop
Björk – Biophilia
Big Black Delta – BBDLP1
Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind Of Fix
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Brazzaville – Jetlag Poetry
Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island
Class Actress – Rapprocher
Com Truise – Galactic Melt
Computers Want Me Dead – Computers Want Me Dead
Cut Copy – Zonoscope
Destroyer – Kaputt
Dolorean – The Unfazed
Ducktails III – Arcade Dynamics
East River Pipe – We Live in Rented Rooms
Echo Orbiter – More Batteries
Feist – Metals
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Grimes & d'Eon – Darkbloom [split ep]
Haley Bonar – Golder
Haujobb – New World March
Hercules & Love Affair – Blue Songs
High Places – Original Colors
IAMX – Volatile Times
Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow
LAKE R▲DIO – Delta
Little Insects – Brighter Than Darkness
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – On Welfare
Lumerians – Transmalinnia
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
Malajube – La Caverne
Morpheme – Infection
Niva – Feverish Dreams [EP]
Mogwai – Earth Division [EP]
Music for Headphones – Life.in.Mono
Niva – Feverish Dreams [EP]
ohGr – Undeveloped
Passwords – Passwords
Phantogram – Nightlife [EP]
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't – Lost in the Pancakes
Prefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters
Rachel Goodrich – Rachel Goodrich
Seapony – Go With Me
Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
Starfucker – Reptilians
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Mirror Traffic
Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams
Stumbleine – All for your smile
Taken By Cars – Dualist
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong
The Rosebuds – Loud Planes Fly Low
The Sea and Cake – The Moonlight Butterfly
Tropic of Cancer – The End of All Things
TV On The Radio – Nine Types Of Light
Tycho – Dive
Ume – Phantoms
Vondelpark – nyc stuff and nyc bags [EP]
Wagon Christ – Toomorrow
Warm Ghost – Uncut Diamond EP
Wooden Shjips – West
Woodsman – Mystic Places
Wire – Red Barked Tree
Young Galaxy – Shapeshifting
Yuck – Yuck
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This is my monthly mix of new music, stuff that was released this year that I checked out and liked over the month. I make one every month. It appears that my 2011 has begun with a lot of beautiful female songwriters. I'm a sucker for them! Also here are some great rock bands, a saucy Bob Dylan cover by a legend (and Jack White), and one of my top-10 all-time favorite musicians. Not a bad month!
Enjoy- almostaghost
I have been an avid fan of Asobi Seksu ever since I was introduced to them via a 2005 blog post in which David (or was it Chandler?) of Snowden outlined some bands he was listening to at the moment (Snowden had played Gothamist's Movable Hype show with them the previous November in NYC). In 2006, after having jammed their 2003 self titled debut full length probably tens of dozens of times, I was really excited to hear about a forthcoming follow-up, Citrus.
Citrus lived up to my every expectation, including a crushing combination of face-melting walls of distortion and Yuki's super-catchy vocal and keyboard harmonies I fell in love with on their first. Going one step further, the album featured a much improved audio quality, no doubt due to its being recorded at Gigantic Studios and featuring production by Chris Zane (by the way, it's worth mentioning that despite being a minor label release, the s/t features excellent production and sounds teriffic). Citrus still blows me away, and I placed it at #31 on my Best Albums of 2000-2009 list.
I was a bit worried when the band's next move was signing with Polyvinyl. While I generally think it's got a great lineup of bands, I feel there's been a "Polyvinyl Curse" on many bands I like. The curse was – after signing with the label, the band would put out something way less impressive than previous records. Just one week prior to the Asobi Seksu announcement, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin released their Polyvinyl debut, Pershing, a disappointing follow-up to their self-released Broom, which is an epic record (I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't heard it). My only comfort was in the fact that label mates of Montreal were putting out some of their best records one after another on Polyvinyl, namely a trilogy consisting of Satanic Panic in the Attic, The Sunlandic Twins, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? The last of which, by the way, is my #2 record of the last decade.
Anyway, Hush was released in 2009 and my reaction was mixed. I definitely felt the familiar Asobi vibe and was digging it, but the noticeable difference was the missing wall of sound. While the name Hush suggests something like an acoustic record or stripped down / intimate set, this wasn't quite "quiet," at least not in a traditional sense. Compared to their previous records, though, Hush definitely missed the mark in terms of the layers of distortion I had come to know and love (and expect). Still, with a batch of excellent songs and the solid production of Zane, the record left on me a favorable impression.
Asobi followed through with a tour only release of an acoustic set recorded at Olympic Studios (later reissued as Rewolf – and I would claim this would have more aptly been the release named "Hush"), and the Transparence EP whose title track was a glimmer of hope for the Asobi I was craving, but was otherwise mainly electro-leaning. While these were fantastic in their own right, I was beginning to wonder if the full sounds I had enjoyed so deeply on s/t and Citrus were gone for good. Signal 2011, and Fluorescence.
On their fourth full length, Asobi Seksu strikes a sweet balance between the supremely pleasing walls of noise found on Citrus, the evolved song-writing illustrated on Hush, and yes they have even honed that flirtation with the electro on tracks such as "Counterglow" (rounded out with a more trademark Asobi sound that leaves a more organic end result). The band also explores some new ground, including an almost Goblinesque "Deep Weird Sleep," and "Leave The Drummer Out There," which borders on the Pink Floyd inspired. Maybe the next record will be a full-out 70's prog rock revival? (let's hope its not!) :]
All of this coupled with excellent production (once again the work of Zane) and the result is: after only a few listens I am in love with this record! You can pre-order CD or 180g vinyl (two versions, one limited) here. And in the meantime, check out a preview track, "Leave The Drummer Out There."
Asobi Seksu – Leave The Drummer Out There
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Emmbi Industries Limited has won the "IPF Industrial Excellence Award" in the category Fastest Growing Manufacturing Company under the Plastic, Paper and Packaging segment. The prestigious award was initiated by Industrial Products Finder (IPF). Emmbi has passed all the stringent evaluation processes & criteria laid down by the Jury Board of the 2nd Edition of IPF Industrial Excellence Awards, 2017.
Emmbi Industries Ltd. got selected among the Top 20 Shining Stars of Indian SME Sector by the WASME Super SME Awards 2016. Mr. Makrand Appalwar, Chairman & Managing Director, Emmbi Industries Ltd received the award from Shri. Kalraj Mishra, Union Minister of MSME. It was a proud moment that Emmbi was one of the top 20 companies to get selected out of 3700 participants.
Emmbi Industries Ltd won India SME 100 Awards, 2016. Mrs. Rinku Appalwar Executive Director - Finance & CFO of Emmbi Industries Ltd received the award on 28th April 2016 at the India SME 100 Awards Evening.
Mrs. Rinku Appalwar Executive Director & CFO of Emmbi Industries Limited received the Prestigious award for "Leading Woman in Manufacturing" Category on 20th August 2015, For Fourth Time in a row. The award was initiated by iiGlobal Business Information (P) Ltd.


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Author Marketing Manager, Wiley
What advice would you give to early career researchers who are new to peer review? When we asked individuals from around the globe this question, their answers ranged from reading other reviews, to seeing how others interpret the paper, to review, review, review! Take a look at all the responses in the video below and share your tips with us in the comments below or tweet @WileyExchanges.


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I am in love with the adorable little craft that I am sharing today. This sweet snowman is made from a single white sock and a few other basic supplies. Adults and kids will enjoy making this spare sock snowman, and it is really simple to create using my step-by-step tutorial.
To make your own spare sock snowman, follow the pictures and instructions below.
1) Start with a plain white sock, and fill the toe with split peas (or something else that will give it some weight and keep it sturdy). Secure with an elastic.
2) Add some cotton filling for the head, and secure with an elastic.
3) Fold the top of the sock down to form a hat.
4) Use glue to add a pom pom to the hat, googly eyes, a felt carrot nose, and buttons. I used tacky glue that is suitable for use with fabric.
5) Draw a mouth with a permanent marker.
6) Cut a strip of felt to make a scarf, tie it around the snowman's neck, and use scissors to fringe the ends.
Don't you just love how cute this little guy is? He really was simple to make, and a spare sock has never looked so good!
Gina Bell (aka East Coast Mommy)
PS - You can find MORE simple snowman crafts and activities here.
Spare Sock Snowman
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Wow, so cute snowman, love your sharingReplyDelete
- Anonymous4 February 2016 at 20:21
So cute. Can't wait for my after-school bunch to make!!!!!ReplyDelete
Don't you just love how cute this little guy is? He really was simple to make, and a spare sock has never looked so good!ReplyDelete
Love this project for my sons 4th grade class. Can you tell me if its best to use kids or adult sized sock you used? Is it an ankle sock? I can't tell the scale in pics. Thanks heaps..ReplyDeleteReplies
I used a child's sock... a full size sock (not an ankle sock). Have fun!Delete
Adorable. Keep in mind thought that rubber bands dry out and break over time, so use something else.ReplyDelete
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The Sony Xperia T LT30p which was earlier spotted in as Xperia Mint in the rumours is official now available in United Kingdom from 24th October 2012 via the Carphone Warehouse, Phones4U. The O2 UK is selling this phone as the Bond Phone version available later this week and it's also available in Germany. Before the device makes its appearance in other countries, Sony has pushed firmware update to it.
Sony Xperia T owners in United Kingdom and Germany will see a new firmware available with version number 7.0.A.3.195 moving from 7.0.A.1.303. As expected this update includes some of the bugs' fixes of the version used at the launch event and other than that this is a decent firmware update introducing some of the new features like Wi Fi Miracast Screen mirroring and other new small useful applications. We will go through those applications right now here and as we see Media application too is revamped. But surprising thing is that the Power Save app has been disappeared.
Some of the improvements included in the version 7.0.A.3.195 are –
- Revamped Media Icons : The Sony's Media icon has been revamped but the functionalities behind the app remains still the same.
- Wi Fi Miracast Screen Monitoring : Under the Wireless and Network menu settings you will find new options of 'Media Server Settings' and this allows you to share your media content with other devices.
- Walkman app, Album app has the new option to 'throw' the music to another devices using the Wi Fi Miracast and while Throw option in the Album means you can easily view your pictures on a Television. Album app also includes the option for SensMe Slideshow with several options which includes music and theme changing.
- Users will see three new Small Apps available right now available for download exclusive to Xperia T handset named Mirror, Currency Converter and Unit Converter. Once these three apps are installed it will appear on the Small Apps ribbon when you hit the Recent Apps button as seen in the picture. These applications are self-explanatory and these can be used to convert currency with wide choices available. For converting from one to another, Unit Converter can be handy supporting various units like area, energy, length, mass, power, pressure, temperature, time, velocity and volume.
- App Icon Notification Menu: App icon thumbnails are now available in the notification screen which can be access by pulling down the top notification area.
- This update also includes the undisclosed bug fixes as well.
With so many advantages we at Android Advices recommend to update your phone right now so that you can take advantage of the above improvements. Updates are available via the Over the Air update and you should proceed with this once you have backup your device, have enough power atleast 50 % and you are connected to Wi Fi network. Also you can get this update via the Sony PC Companion tool.
Via | Image Credits : xperiablog.net
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Glad to see they're sorting some bugs out. Had this phone for a couple weeks now and the little things have been annoying me. Like the slideshow playing the photos in reverse; the walkman playing podcasts and small tones files when you ask it to shuffle all; the album showing every single picture on your phone including albumart saved in the music folders. And a tip, don't ask gracenote to sync your music. Takes hours and ruins all the art work. Very irritating. If any one knows a fix to any of these problems, please let me know!


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Apple announced that it sold two million iPads in less than sixty days since its launch on April 3. There are now over five thousand applications written specifically for the device, the company stressed. The demand is outstripping Apple's current manufacturing output, chief executive Steve Jobs indicated in a statement:
Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do. We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.
The multitouch gizmo took off to a strong start, selling an estimated 200,000+ units over the launch weekend. Four weeks later, the Cupertino firm announced sale of a one millionth iPad, beating the original iPhone which took 73 days to achieve the same milestone. The fact that iPad sells better in the US than the Mac (an average 200,000 iPads a week versus about 110,000 Macs a week) prompted analysts to re-ran their spreadsheets. The latest forecast calls for iPad sales in excess of five to eight million units by the end of calendar year 2010.
The company begun shipping WiFi and 3G iPad models in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK this past weekend and promised a July roll-out in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore.
Read more in Apple's press release
Christian's Opinion
This announcement comes as a surprise to those who underestimated Apple's ability to sell, meaning pretty much everyone. Let's face it, when Jobs announced iPad in January, the blogosphere thought Apple would ship two million units by the year's end, at best. With that target now behind us, and taking into account an ever-expanding global footprint, we should probably realign our expectations as to how successful this gadget could become.
Don't forget that Walmart, Amazon, and AT&T are expected to sell iPads later this year as well. If you ask me, sales of two million units of a new-class device that people really don't need is by any measure an astounding achievement. It also represents a significant installed base for app developers and a solid base for further growth. In my opinion, Apple could easily sell ten million iPads by the year's end.


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|Archived February 20, 2019
2004 Holiday SeasonUSGS Employees Donate Toys
Thank you to everyone at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Science Center in St. Petersburg, FL, who donated new unwrapped toys for Christmas gifts! Florida Congressman C.W. "Bill" Young was happy that we had collected a large box of toys to be part of a distribution to needy children on his behalf in celebration of his birthday, a yearly custom of the congressman's (see Sound Waves article, Season of GivingUSGS Employees Donate Toys for Holiday Distribution). Congressman Young asked his DC staffer, Harry Glenn, to visit the center on December 16 to retrieve the toys.
in this issue:
cover story:
Nearshore Impacts of Dam Removal
Pulley Ridge Deepest Known US Coral Reef
Climate Features Influenced 2004 Hurricane Landfall Count
USGS Employees Donate Toys
Carl Goodwin Honored at National Ecosystem Conference
Oceanographer Joins Western Coastal & Marine Geology Team
Netherlands Students Contribute to USGS Studies
Florida Integrated Science Center, Gainesville, FL
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The IIO Sensors HAL implements the Android Sensor API on top of the Linux Industrial I/O interface. It dynamically discovers available IIO sensors and exposes them to the Android sensors framework.
This HAL is used to drive sensors on IRDA (Intel Reference Devices for Android) for all Baytrail and SoFIA tablets. It is designed to drive a complete collection of sensors, the types and properties of which are dynamically discovered. It's meant to be small, simple, and have minimal CPU and memory overhead, and to allow quick sensor enabling on new hardware platforms.
Releasing the Android IIO Sensors HAL to the open source world is an important milestone for us. Our objective is to help develop the IIO ecosystem to better support sensors on Android.
The only HAL requirement is for the kernel to expose the sensors through the Industrial I/O interface as defined in the IIO ABI kernel.org documentation:
Happy Coding,
The Android OS Sensors team.


text: Love In The Air By Shane Taylor on February 16, 2015 in Aquarium News This Valentines Day love was definitely in the air at the Downtown Aquarium. Year after year this is one of our most popular weekends of the year! Aside from Valentines Day, taking your sweetheart snorkeling or diving is always a great surprise!


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fjrigjwwe9r1ContentsResources:HeaderExample:Finding Equation of Circle
Circle illustration showing a
radius, a diameter, the centre and the circumference
A circle is a simple shape of Euclidean
geometry consisting of the set of points in a plane that is a given distance from a given
point, the centre. The distance between any of the points and the centre is
called the radius.
Circles are simple closed curves which divide the plane into two regions: an interior and an exterior. In everyday use, the
term "circle" may be used interchangeably to refer to either the
boundary of the figure, or to the whole figure including its interior; in
strict technical usage, the circle is the former and the latter is called a disk.
A circle is a special ellipse in which the two foci are
coincident and the eccentricity is 0. Circles are conic sections attained when a right circular cone is intersected by a plane
perpendicular to the axis of the cone.
of radius r = 1,
centre (a, b) = (1.2,
In an x-y Cartesian coordinate system, the circle with centre coordinates (a, b) and radius r is the set of all points (x, y) such that
This equation of the circle follows from the Pythagorean theorem applied to any point on the circle: as
shown in the diagram to the right, the radius is the hypotenuse of a
right-angled triangle whose other sides are of length x − a and y − b. If the circle is centered
at the origin (0, 0), then the equation simplifies to
In homogeneous coordinates each conic section with equation of a circle is
of the form
(Our solved example in mathguru.com uses
this concept)
The above explanation is copied from Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia and is remixed as allowed under the Creative Commons Attribution-
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Alan Davie British, 1920 - 2014
Smoke Signals, No.2, 1960 by Alan Davie
Oil on canvas
183 x 152.5 cm / 72 x 60 inches
Signed, dated and inscribed with the title and opus number verso
Opus O.329
Private collection, Chicago, USA.
1961, Alan Davie, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
1982, Alan Davie, Arcade Gallery, Harrogate.
1982, Alan Davie: Retrospective, Pao Sui Loong Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong.
Exhibition catalogue, Alan Davie, Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (catalogued as: Smoke Signal No.2, 1961, 76 x 60 inches).
Alan BOWNESS (ed.). Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1967, cat.no.278.
Douglas HALL and Michael TUCKER. Alan Davie, Lund Humphries, London, 1992, cat.no.329.
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Trying to have a child free break is going to be harder once the new baby arrives, so Mr London Mum and I thought we'd escape the city and the clutches of our toddler to enjoy some time alone for quite possibly the last time for a good while.
Having someone babysit one child tends to work out ok, but the bigger the brood becomes the less volunteers there will be 😉
One Warwick Park seemed to tick all our boxes for what we were looking for in terms of an overnight stay, so we left the little one with my mum for the night and jumped in the car as fast as we could.
It wasn't a long drive at all to get there from London, perhaps at most you might be looking at a 50 minute journey if you live the wrong side of London for Kent. But it worked out perfectly for us, and in particular for me because long journeys are getting increasingly uncomfortable the bigger I become.
The hotel itself is highly rated and it was recently featured in The Sunday Times ultimate 100 British Hotels.
And if you take a look at their Instagram page and related tags, you'll notice a plethora of the Made in Chelsea cast have also called this hotel their home for a night or two.
Although the hotel occupies a once former Subbuteo factory, a Victorian brew house and a 19th century school, the decor inside is very modern and extremely contemporary with a grey palette used to decorate the rooms.
On arrival through the main doors and upon reaching the reception desk we were warmly greeted by the staff who prepared some fruit herbal tea for us and allowed us to indulge in the jelly bean selection they had on the desk, which we could scoop into black and white striped paper bags.
Little touches like this made our stay unique to other hotels we'd been too. Even the love hearts left on our pillows in our room were a lovely touch and different to the usual chocolate or biscuits that might normally grace a hotel pillow (of which I happily accept all of course).
With only 39 rooms and suites, the welcome is very guest focussed. And a lovely member of staff took her time to show us how the buildings are all unified and work together harmoniously, meaning if we didn't want to step foot outside the building we didn't have to.
She took us through a basement gallery which showcased art and jewellery for sale by local trades people, before bringing us to the section of the hotel where our room was located.
I loved the room we were in, and I can recommend it if you are looking to stay at One Warwick Park yourself. We were in room 212, and the view looked out onto the historic shopping side of Tunbridge Wells.
With shops selling rare books, lovely artisan Italian cafes and so many fabulous furniture boutiques it really was great people watching from our large windows.
The room itself was modern and luxurious. It was a particularly large room which made the stay all the more comfortable. With clearly defined areas in the room we were able to lounge, sleep, work and just relax which was exactly what we wanted to do.
And with robes provided and slippers we just spent pretty much the whole afternoon in our room enjoying the nothingness that we knew we probably wouldn't feel again for a long time.
Of course we did have to venture out eventually, after all dinner was calling. But not before heading to the hotel lounge bar for a few drinks.
Being pregnant and having gestational diabetes, I indulged in some sparkling water, but I certainly enjoyed smelling the amazing cocktails that Mr London Mum was ordering. We managed to hit the bar at the perfect time too- happy hour where there was a 2 for 1 offer on all drinks including the cocktail menu.
The key lime pie martini is the one if you love a sweet delicious drink.
There was a jealous fire in my eyes watching Mr London Mum drink it, but I'll make up for it all when the baby is out!
With glasses dry we headed over to the restaurant L'AMORE, also part of the hotel. Although it does of course also welcome outside guests too.
The food was sublime.
The Italian focused menu is made using the freshest ingredients and even for me, trying to pick meals that would be friendlier with the gestational diabetes seemingly was not a problem.
Although, I couldn't resist a naughty treat from the dessert menu so I did indulge in some crispy fried cinnamon zeppole (although I did give the raspberries to Mr London Mum in an attempt to not be so cruel on my sugar levels).
Surprisingly my post dinner reading was actually within limits, but I reckon that was more of a one time fluke and choosing my starter and main course wisely to make sure I had enough well paired foods to tolerate the sugar (something I'll discuss in a later post for anyone suffering with gestational diabetes).
Full and content and with Mr London Mum draining the rest of his bottle of red and finishing his affogato el cafe…
…we headed up to our room for a ridiculously comfortable night. With large beds I was able to enjoy my space and get some rest. I don't know what it is about being pregnant but space becomes a real luxury and when you get it you want to indulge in it!
The next morning we woke to the light beautifully filtering into our room. Something we've not woken up to in a while. Usually we get woken up by the toddler who demands to get out of bed, and through bleary eyes we tend to oblige.
So we took a moment to enjoy this unusual activity of waking up peacefully and decided to lounge in bed with teas, coffees and the papers.
Needing breakfast after a substantial alcoholic feast the night before for Mr London Mum, we headed down for breakfast and helped ourselves to the food that was part of the buffet.
You can order extra things off the breakfast menu of course, but we found everything on offer exactly what we both needed to kick-start our day.
Before heading home, we took a short drive to Scotney Castle and put our National Trust cards to good use.
Walking around the moated castle was beautiful, and romantic.
There was a very fairytale feel to the gardens and the castle, which I feel would be even more enhanced as the spring time progresses into summer.
All in all a great way to escape for the night for the couple that need a little luxury and good food, although next time we might bring the toddler because I think he'd fully appreciate the charms of One Warwick Park too- particularly the jelly beans on offer!


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Have you ever fancied owning a carved and painted peacock gondola...or even a ticket office and some ride animals?
Now could be your chance as East Anglian-based auctioneers, Cheffins, will sell a collection of fairground memorabilia on Saturday in New Bolingbroke.
The auction is on behalf of the Rundle family and will take place at the premises of John H Rundle in the village.
The Rundle Collection will comprise of over 800 lots in total including fairground memorabilia comprising of artwork, rounding boards, a ticket office and ride animals.
Also available will be steam engines, oil engines, enamel signs, models, headlamps, spares and bygones.
The collection was started by John Harness Rundle in 1913 with a brand new five ton Wellington steam tractor and has been amassed by three generations of the family over the past 105 years.
Other highlights of the sale are mainly among the fairground items which include memorabilia such as the carved and painted peacock gondola, dating back to c.1900 which is from the Tussauds Collection of Fairground Art and is estimated at £4,000 - £5,000.
In addition there is a 1909 Orton road/rail living van which was known to have been owned by a member of the famous Asplands Fair (£15,000 - £20,000) and a 1912 Brown & May portable engine which was bought by Alan Rundle in 1987 and could make £20,000.
Jeremy Curzon, Director, Cheffins said: "The biggest draw for this sale will be the fairground items, for which there are some serious collectors within the market.
"The Rundle family are a dynasty when it comes to fairground and steam memorabilia and their reputation as owners of a broad and varied collection of these items will help to attract buyers on the day.
"This sale will be one of the most unusual hosted within this niche market with pieces on offer from 1930s cinema projectors to steam engines and everything in between."
The sale will take place next Saturday, June 2, at the premises of John H Rundle, New Bolingbroke, Boston.
For more, click here or call Cheffins auctioneers on 01353 777767.


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At the Village Herb Farm, we grow and pack the finest quality culinary herbs for the supermarket trade. We present these herbs either as pre-packs in stay fresh plastic bags, or as bunches packed into sleeves.
The directors and staff of Village Herb Farm have a commitment to providing our customers with safe, high quality produce in accordance with the customer's specification and requirements.
We are "bee and butterfly friendly" and have minimised use of chemicals on the farm to substances with no residual effect. We employ 'Good' bugs to keep the 'Bad' under control, and regularly release predatory species. For example, we use microscopic Encarsia wasps to control whitefly.
Input into all quality and safety issues is welcomed from employees and customers. Recommendations are evaluated by the processing manager and the farm manager and incorporated into our program if deemed to be an improvement.
The Village Herb Farm implements three major standards:
- GAP (Good Agricultural Practices): this focuses on four basic components of production: soil, water, hands, and surfaces. By developing guidelines to address potential risks associated with each component, both quality and safety of harvested produce can be enhanced.
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices): the cornerstone of food quality and safety. GMP includes a food safety plan that incorporates water, product and facility testing.
- HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) – a systematic 7-step process that identifies "Critical Control Points" in the production process and seeks to eliminate risk posed at those points.
We have written procedures for all three processes, with monitoring and verification implemented to ensure procedures are carried out and achieve requirements. An audit every six months certifies we do as we say.
Our customers are our business and our business is our livelihood. Our total commitment is to our customers and their need to have confidence in our ability to supply safe, quality products.


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Kindness KAL Shawl Kit, ready to ship
$ 43.00
Jaala Spiro's beautiful Kindness KAL has been an inspiring shawl to knit while cultivating peace, love and understanding in the world. A little sparkle doesn't hurt either in this lovely topdown shawl, although we offer the kit in three of our luxurious bases.
This yarn is ready to ship from our studio to your favorite knitting chair.
Kindness KAL Shawl is designed by Jaala Spiro. This kit includes:
- Kindness KAL pattern (see below)
- 100g cake of yarn in colorway and base of your choice (use dropdown menu)
The kit includes enough yarn to make one shawl. Note: The photo in the listing uses the colorway Peace, Love and Understanding.
Colors Available: Dream a Little Dream, Mistress of Myself, The Knit Sky, Believe in Miracles, Peace Love and Understanding
Yarn Bases Available: Trampoline, Opulence, Sparkle
Is your favorite colorway sold out?
- Order here for a different dyed to order kit from our studio to your favorite knitting chair.
This kit includes a printed pattern, and the digital pattern is free and can be accessed on Ravelry.
Care for all of our yarns: Hand or machine wash cold (delicate cycle), dry flat. Our yarns are colored using professional-grade acid dyes.
We've made every effort to photograph the color accurately, but appearance may vary with your monitor settings.