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BAE Systems is in talks with Airbus aircraft manufacturer EADS to create the world's biggest aerospace and defence company.
BAE said a tie-up with European Aeronautic, Defence & Space (EADS) would form a "world class" firm in its sector, with combined sales of £60bn and around 220,000 staff. The merged group would employ around 48,000 in the UK alone.
BAE's statement initially sparked an 11 per cent jump in its share price but it has now pulled back to stand 6 per cent lower, as analysts raised concerns about the complexity of a potential deal. As well as the sensitive nature of national security work handled by the two firms, the success of the deal also hinges on various government approvals.
The UK government, which has a so-called golden share in BAE that allows it to veto deals that are seen to put the public interest at risk, has already said it will seek to ensure UK interests are "properly protected".
Andrew Gollan, analyst at brokers Investec, advised BAE investors to sell their shares in the wake of the announcement.
"We do not believe competition and approval issues are insurmountable. Practically, however, combination will be complex. Approvals will be required from multiple global governments.
"Perhaps of more significance, agreement by UK, French and German governments on ownership structures and protection of national interests, for example nuclear deterrent, will prove politically sensitive issues."
BAE said the proposed deal would be a merger, but would see BAE shareholders own 40 per cent of the combined group and EADS shareholders own 60 per cent.
The two groups are working on plans to create a combined firm that would retain its dual listing.
BAE said: "BAE Systems and EADS have a long history of collaboration and are currently partners in a number of important projects, including the Eurofighter."
It added: "The potential combination would create a world class international aerospace, defence and security group with substantial centres of manufacturing and technology excellence in France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the USA."
BAE said that the firms were in talks with governments worldwide about the implications of such a deal, given the sensitive and secure nature of their work.
Under City takeover rules, both firms have until 5pm on 10 October to announce a deal or walk away.
BAE is an expert in the field of defence, security and military, whereas the majority of EADS's work is in the commercial sector.
EADS, which is a consortium of aerospace and defence manufacturers from France, Germany and Spain, is headquartered in Paris and Berlin.
BAE produces Astute nuclear-powered submarines and is the largest supplier of land vehicles to the US army.
But BAE has been under pressure, reporting a 14 per cent fall in sales last year as military spending in the US and UK was cut. This saw 2011 profits fall 7 per cent to £2bn.
The group said defence spending had reduced in its largest markets – the UK and the US – while it was also hit last year by a delay in an order for Eurofighters to Saudi Arabia.
Keith Hazlewood, national officer of the GMB union said: "This is a worrying development as so much of our high-end engineering and manufacturing skills are embodied in this company.
"The UK government must play a proactive role as this company contains the skills vital to the defence of our nation. It is as important to our defence as the armed services which shows what is at stake here."
A government spokesman said: "We are aware of this proposal. The business benefits of any such arrangements are a matter for the companies involved. However, given the nature of the companies' activities we would of course want to ensure that the UK's public interest was properly protected."

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This journey to becoming a published author is nothing short of an agonizing, torturous road leading to nowhere…so, I quit.
Yep, that's right. You heard me.
I quit.
Writing is a lonely task filled with never-ending conversations with figments of the writer's imagination. The ongoing task of choosing precisely the right word, the word that's not too big or too small, but one that's just right. It's maddening.
And the time spent simply sitting and clacking away at the keyboard when you'd rather be doing anything but clacking away at the keyboard… it gets to you after a while.
The time spent isolated in a room by yourself while your family carries on around you.
The rejections. The critical remarks. The scoffing. The ridicule. At least that's what I told myself.
Being a writer is hard work folks. It's not for the faint hearted by any means. It's work–real work. And when it's something that you care deeply about, the pain you feel at being discouraged by it cuts to the quick.
But it calls to people like me. People who create entire worlds in their minds with characters so real we sob when they hurt and we feel the sting of rejection when they are torn apart by critics.
People who cannot help themselves. We have to write. We have to feel the keys beneath our fingers, hear the steady clattering of the keyboard, the cursor blinking and moving with each letter that pours from our heart.
So we continue to strive and beat our heads against our desks trying to make something from nothing while the world seems to pass us by. While we wait to be agented, or wait to be published, or wait for The Big Idea to finally hit us. We strive and strive to build platform, doing one thing and then another on social media, spending time we do not have on something that seems so trivial. But isn't.
It's pointless. All the striving. All the moments of panic when we realize that we are indeed, not good enough. That the publishing world is passing us by.
That is when we need to quit.
If we are only striving, if we are beating our heads and moaning. It's time to quit.
I'm not saying to throw in the towel on writing…I'm saying it's time to quit writing like that.
Two simple questions are all it takes to put it in perspective.
Why do you write?
For whom are you writing?
Are you writing to be the next JK Rowling or Stephen King? Or are you writing to be you?
Are you writing for fame and glory?
Are you writing for the money?
Are you writing because God called you to write?
Are you writing to show your kids what it looks like to go after a dream so big it seems impossible without God.
So, do you get where I'm going with this?
If you're striving and striving and bashing your head day in and out and moaning and groaning and panicking that all the good ideas have already been taken and you'll never get to 10,000 likes on your Facebook page let alone 500…it's time to stop. This is not what writing is about. I had to learn that the hard way and actually quit for a while until God got my head back on straight.
So when you find yourself in that place where all that's left is misery and striving in your writing…quit. Refocus yourself. Remind yourself why you write and whom you're writing for.
At the end of life, the only things that truly will matter were how much we loved God and how much we loved others. Striving, striving, striving, panicking, groaning, fearing…that's not the life God has called you to have.
So quit writing and start living. Start chasing that dream, but don't let your dream take control of you. And when those pesky doubts and naysayers threaten to overwhelm you, take a deep breath, say a prayer, and set your timer. You are the master of your own writing, not the other way around.
And listen, when it gets too much, when you're watching your kids growing from a distance instead of living life with them because you're too busy striving or your husband or friends haven't seen you in ages, stop. Please. That's not writing. That's letting it master you.
If you need to quit, it's ok. I won't judge you. I've been there.
But I encourage you not to stop. Keep pressing on. But stop striving. Stop trying to make it happen. Instead, find your joy again and let it unravel.
Blessings and joy to you today friends,
Have you ever had times when you were striving instead of living? How did you deal with it?


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Linda Caroleo-Jack
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Linda is the director of learning for ADI North America. In this role, she is responsible for the management of ADI's overall learning strategy for employee and customer learning, including leadership development. Linda has successfully built an award-winning learning culture for ADI's sales force. She has been in the education arena since 1990 holding an Adjunct Assistant Professor position as well teaching Oracle Application Development Tools, at New York University since 1998. She was VP of Technology on the Board of The Association for Talent Development - Long Island Chapter (formerly ASTD) and continues to be an active member. Linda graduated from New York University cum laude with a B.A. in Organizational Communications and Behavior.


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Monday, July 23, 2012
just when I need you most
"You are babying him, far too much." Aidan had to say. He couldn't keep it to himself, any longer. Audrey and Henry were inseparable, lately. True, they did work together. And they came to the barbecue place for lunch everyday, but it was all so giddy. What was really happening?
"That's not fair." Audrey didn't like what he was getting at, but she folded more towels while he separated her undies from his in the laundry.
"Don't say it." Aidan glared at her. "I'm not jealous. I'm not. Its just, you..you can not...I dunno." He shook his head.
She grabbed his cheek, practically his mouth and gave it a squeeze. "My poor little baby, is jealous." She puckered up to tease him.
"That's not it." He winced, and pulled away.
"Fine." She glared at him as if he was just being difficult, and she didn't have time for difficult. She snatched her bikini briefs from him. "You don't trust me? Is that it? Afraid I'll ruin that precious little brother of yours. I'll swipe his virginity or something." She loaded her clothes in the spare laundry basket, ready to go back to her little over the garage place that she called home, that wasn't even fifty feet from Aidan's window.
"I'm sorry. Don't go." He hadn't meant to make her mad. "Its just, you have to let him suffer, a little, you know, his breakup. OK." He looked at her wide-eyed. Thinking no one was there when Elaine left him. He was all on his own.
She finally put down the laundry basket. He was glad she was here. And they were friends. Still. After all this time. But a part of him wanted to change that. But had she really changed? Was this the girl he remembered his Freshman year at college? Did he really want to start up anything with her? Could he?
He took her hand. She only watched. Honestly, he didn't want to see her with anyone else. Maybe, his brother. They were.. after all co-workers. Aidan pulled her into him. He hugged her close. Home just wouldn't be home without Audrey.
6 comments:
- Cafe Fashionista said...
Such a complicated situation! :/
- July 23, 2012 at 7:42 AM
- MOSAMUSE said...
aww...love never dies!
- July 23, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- Sara said...
AW! I hope he is going to tell her how he feels soon :)
- July 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM
- lucy and sarah said...
I hope it works out.
- July 23, 2012 at 2:30 PM
- ivy's closet said...
Maybe she needs to know..how much he cares.
- July 23, 2012 at 3:34 PM
- Chris Ed said...
I feel sorry for him.
- July 23, 2012 at 5:18 PM
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You can even drive the robot into a charging station and re-power it remotely.
Telepresence robots have demonstrated their usefulness in the office, allowing people to work from home.
"I can actually just telepresence myself and navigate around the office, speaking to all the employees," says David Merel, the CEO of a small business that uses robots from the telepresence company Double Robotics.
The robots are proving helpful to businesses outside the office in for conferences and trade shows, as well: "Double allows us to actually bring out some of our staff through telepresence to engage with people at the booth, also [handling] overflow."
Telepresence recently helped Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem attend a Bitcoin conference in Chicago. The robot allowed him to appear at the event despite being under house arrest in New York for money laundering charges.
While impressive, these applications are just the tip of the iceberg for telepresence technology and its implications.
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Such robots could give home-bound people the opportunity to visit other places and perhaps even hold jobs in fields like sales, where face-to-face interactions could be conducted through screens.
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How can telepresence continue to develop? If the film Surrogates holds any shreds of accuracy, we will turn telepresence robots into humanoids that perform all of our daily tasks and interactions for us and live out our entire lives remotely, with Bruce Willis as our only saviour.
However, this grim view of the future seems unlikely, especially when you look at the distinctly non-human form of the current models.
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So the grand total for high pressure plumbing was $118.
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Version 7 of Angular — CLI Prompts, Virtual Scroll, Drag and Drop and more
Version 7 of Angular
The 7.0.0 release of Angular is here! This is a major release spanning the entire platform, including the core framework, Angular Material, and the CLI with synchronized major versions. This release contains new features for our tool chain, and has enabled several major partner launches.
Visit update.angular.io for detailed information and guidance on updating your application, but thanks to the work we did in v6, updating to v7 should be one command for most developers:
ng update @angular/cli @angular/core
Early adopters of v7 have reported that this update is faster than ever, and many apps take less than 10 minutes to update.... read the whole story at blog.angular.io.
Voice control engine running fully in the browser using WebAssembly
Picovoice - Embed private voice AI into any product instantly.
[August 26, 2018] Picovoice's speech to text repository ranks among top 10 open source machine learning projects. We are extremely excited to be on this list alongside names such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, Facebook Research, Airbnb, and Google. Read more here.
[July 23, 2018] Picovoice ranks among top 10 open source machine learning projects. We are extremely excited to be on this list alongside names such as Facebook Research, Salesforce, Baidu Research, and NVIDIA. Read more here.
The Solo JavaScript Developer Challenging Google and Facebook
The Solo JavaScript Developer Challenging Google and Facebook
It's hard to escape the gravity of internet giants like Facebook and Google. Not only do they offer an ever-growing number of apps and services that are hard to live without, many other popular websites and applications incorporate code written by these companies.
That's because today's web developers don't typically write all of their code themselves. Instead, they rely on open source "frameworks," which provide both a collection of reusable parts and an overall structure for building an application. Frameworks free developers from much grunt work, allowing them to focus on the newer, more interesting parts of an application.... read the whole story at www.wired.com.
The Solo JavaScript Developer Challenging Google and Facebook:
The Solo JavaScript Developer Challenging Google and Facebook
It's hard to escape the gravity of internet giants like Facebook and Google. Not only do they offer an ever-growing number of apps and services that are hard to live without, many other popular websites and applications incorporate code written by these companies.
That's because today's web developers don't typically write all of their code themselves. Instead, they rely on open source "frameworks," which provide both a collection of reusable parts and an overall structure for building an application. Frameworks free developers from much grunt work, allowing them to focus on the newer, more interesting parts of an application.... read the whole story at www.wired.com.
What's wrong with CSS-in-JS?
What's wrong with CSS-in-JS?
I have yet to dive deep into CSS-in-JS, but I'll admit I'm skeptical. This podcast by Chris Ferdinandi lays out a lot of the reasons why I'm a bit apprehensive.
Three other observations I've noticed as I encounter CSS-in-JS in my consulting clients' work and other projects I come across:
- Lack of portability: So much of my work involves helping gigantic organizations create and deploy design systems to a vast array of tech stacks. Even if CSS-in-JS is a more powerful, elegant solution, it only works for JS-driven environments. So what happens if an organization has some React projects in play, but also has some Drupal, WordPress, or [anything else] projects they need to unify under the same design system? Do they have to re-platform their whole technical architecture just to get updated button styles?
Job-ready JavaScript
p1xt-guides/job-ready-javascript-edition-2.0.md at master · P1xt/p1xt-guides · GitHub
A guide primarily focused on Frontend development, but including just enough of an introduction to Backend to enable an understanding of the "entire process" to prepare for productive entry to a Full Stack team as a confident and capable Frontend Developer.Tier 0 - Prep
Goal: Be comfortable with git by midway through Tier 1, and comfortable with Precalculus by midway through Tier 2.
Anything in Tier 0 can be studied before beginning Tier 1, or alongside the rest of the guide as you progress through the other Tiers.
- Book: College Algebra or Course: College Algebra and Problem Solving or thorough knowledge of Algebra.
Sharing Code Between Projects: Lessons Learned In The Trenches
Sharing Code Between Projects: Lessons Learned In The Trenches
Common Code In The Wild
While Git is great for collaborating on a single repository, sharing code between multiple projects can be more challenging than we think.
To get started, we looked into our own code base to learn how many times we duplicated our own integration to our user service. The unbelievable result was no less than 86 instances. After the initial shock, we started thinking that this must also be happening elsewhere.Using the same code in different places. (Large preview)
We asked some friends working in a few different organizations of various sizes to run a simple copy-and-paste detection on their code base, looking for duplicates of code longer than 100 lines. The result blew us away: On average, more than 30% of their code base was duplicated.... read the whole story at www.smashingmagazine.com.
Choosing a JavaScript Build Tool: To Config or Not Config -
Choosing a JavaScript build tool: to config or not config
Build tools have become a necessary component in the workflow for modern web applications. I have previously covered the basics of what build tools can do for you to show how builds help with scripting, automation, and eliminating complexity. Taking those into consideration, I'm going to provide a closer look at some of the more popular build tools and how they might make sense for your projects.
This post isn't meant to be an exhaustive list. Rather, it's meant to provide suggestions to help you get started in researching how different build tools improve the development workflow. While reading through this comparison on build tools you will gain some knowledge to better equip yourself for comparing how these tools line up with your specific needs.... read the whole story at dev.to.
"a list of Visual Studio Code extensions I can't live without"
Visual Studio Code treasures – Wehkamp-techblog – Medium
In a year lots have happened, I switched from doing PHP full time to doing JavaScript full time. With that change also came the change of editors professionally I mostly used WebStorm and in my spare time, I switched from Atom to Visual Studio Code.
@Microsoft did an exceptional job by creating a super performant and flexible editor. There's a big community behind it and it's constantly improving. Besides flexibility and performance, it also offers IntelliSense, interactive debugging and build-in GIT commands.
If you haven't switched yet, give it a try and let me know what you think about it.
Installing extensions in Visual Studio Code is a breeze! Launch Visual Studio Code Quick Open... read the whole story at medium.com.
8 Tips to Build Better Node.js Apps in 2018
8 Tips to Build Better Node.js Apps in 2018
In the previous two years we covered best practices for writing and operating Node.js applications (read the 2016 edition & 2017 edition). Another year has passed, so it's time to revisit the topic of becoming a better developer!
In this article, we collected a few tips that we think Node.js developers should follow in 2018. Feel free to pick some development related New Year's resolutions!
Async - await landed in Node.js 8 with a boom. It changed how we handle async events and simplified previously mind-boggling code bases. If you are not yet using
async -
await read our introductory blog post.
Open Source React Projects
22 Amazing open source React projects – Mybridge for Professionals
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This is a collection of open source apps built with React.JS library. In this observation, we compared nearly 1,000 popular React projects to pick the top 22. (React Native: 11, React: 11)
React is an open source JavaScript library built by Facebook, providing a view for data rendered as HTML.
To evaluate the quality, Mybridge AI considers a variety of factors to determine how useful the projects are for programmers. To give you an idea on the quality, the average number of Github stars from the 22 projects was 3,584.
Open source projects can be useful both for beginners to learn from reading the code and for advanced programmers to save time by using the existing code. The aim of this collection is to help you pick a great project right away without having to spend hours of searching.
GitHub Introduces Security Alerts for JS Projects
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Whether your projects are private or public, security alerts get vital vulnerability information to the right people on your team.... read the whole story at github.com.
Learn React JS and Redux - Build 4 Projects
Learn React JS and Redux
Learn React Js and Redux – Build 4 Projects is the best course for those students who know JavaScript, HTML and CSS. If they are interested in improving new web development framework skills, they can look at this course. This will help you to become professional and highly demanded web developer in the field of React Js and Redux and you can get highly paid jobs as a web developer. (view full details)
Here you can learn how to develop entire react js and redux application from beginning, make applications that deal with APIs and web requests, and create web applications with full authentication and real time databases. This course help you in making your choice react js and redux applications and building 4 projects as well.
Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js to MIT
Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js
Next week, we are going to relicense our open source projects React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js under the MIT license. We're relicensing these projects because React is the foundation of a broad ecosystem of open source software for the web, and we don't want to hold back forward progress for nontechnical reasons.
This decision comes after several weeks of disappointment and uncertainty for our community. Although we still believe our BSD + Patents license provides some benefits to users of our projects, we acknowledge that we failed to decisively convince this community.
In the wake of uncertainty about our license, we know that many teams went through the process of selecting an alternative library to React. We're sorry for the churn. We don't expect to win these teams back by making this change, but we do want to leave the door open. Friendly cooperation and competition in this space pushes us all forward, and we want to participate fully.... read the whole story at code.facebook.com.
Announcing Yarn 1.0
Announcing Yarn 1.0
Today, we are excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Yarn JavaScript package manager, a major step for the project. In the 11 months since its initial release, Yarn has generated a large following. Currently, there are more than 175,000 projects on GitHub with a
yarn.lock file in their root directory. In use by many large and small companies, and across the open source community, Yarn is now responsible for nearly 3 billion package downloads per month. Reduced install times are a big draw for many users. Twitter, as well as Microsoft on outlook.com, have seen improvements of 5x in install times.
JavaScript Studio publicly available
JavaScript Studio publicly available – JavaScript Studio – Medium
How about open source projects?
Allowing open source projects to use JavaScript Studio for free is still on the roadmap. As explained above, the priorities shifted from GitHub and npm integrations towards the CLI. Direct support for these platforms is a precondition to offer integrations for open source projects. This does not mean it's not going to happen, it just takes a little longer. In the meantime you can make use of the free tier to find runtime errors in your open source projects.
Paid subscription plan
If you exceeded the credits in the free tier, you can subscribe to the "Developer" plan for $9.90 per month. If you want to support the project, please consider subscribing right away!
How to Run a Front-End Infrastructure Team
How to Run a Front-End Infrastructure Team
Over the past years, AdRoll has grown from a humble startup built around a single feature to a global marketing platform with a diverse suite of products. Along with the growth of the company, we have put a lot of work into building a solid infrastructure for user interface development. In this post, we talk about the human aspects of front-end projects that are shared between multiple engineering teams.Every web application at AdRoll relies on multiple layers of front-end infrastructure
Our current front-end infrastructure consists of UI components, a UX pattern library and various JavaScript packages for internationalization (i18n), analytics and A/B testing. We consider all these projects "internally open sourced". This means we encourage our engineers to use contributions to these projects as a way of sharing their knowledge across team boundaries. Ultimately, we believe... read the whole story at tech.adroll.com.
Facebook explaining the React's license
Explaining React's license
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A few weeks ago, the Apache Software Foundation (the ASF) made a decision to list the BSD + Patents license as a Category-X license. This move affects users of much of Facebook's open source software, but especially the popular React project and the constellation of projects around it. As a result, many have asked us to consider relicensing React and all of our other open source projects. What has become clear through these discussions is that the ASF has very different considerations than Facebook does for how it maintains and distributes open source software.
I'd like to apologize for the amount of thrash, confusion, and uncertainty this has caused the React and open source communities. We know this is painful, especially for teams that feel like they're going to need to rewrite large parts of their project to remove React or other dependencies. We've been looking for ways around this and have reached out to ASF to see if we could try to work with them, but have come up empty.... read the whole story at code.facebook.com.
Interesting read 👀 "How to Open Source" - - Some company specific stuff, but still lots of…
GitHub - zalando/zalando-howto-open-source: Open Source guidance from Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion platform
A guide to releasing an open-source project at Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion platform. Please feel free to use this as a template for your own organization's open source planning, policymaking, and development efforts. If there's a topic we've missed, or if you have any suggestions for making this better, let us know via our Issues tracker.Table of Contents
Because it can: improve quality, mitigate risk, increase trust, save us money, expand our technology choices, be fun, enable us to give back to the community, strengthen our tech brand, and attract talent.
Vision: We strongly believe that open source software benefits the tech community, and that providing broadly useful code to the world is a virtue. We strive to work in an open source way to the betterment of Zalando and the world.... read the whole story at github.com.
Learn Projects In JavaScript And JQuery, Use coupon code EDUDEE for free subscription
Learn Javascript & Jquery online with actual projects in a practical manner :: Eduonix Learning Solutions
JavaScript is the world's most popular language and is widely used in almost all web projects. JQuery has also become hugely popular within few years of its launch. These two technologies are must for any web developer and in order to help you master them in a practical manner we have created this elite course where you will use these technologies to create actual projects and will learn the nuances of their usage in real world.
The following projects have been selected for this course
CH1: Simple JavaScript Quiz
Description: We will start with a fairly simple project of a one page, multiple choice JavaScript quiz. In this projct we will look at some of the essentials when it comes to HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. We will look at event handlers, variables and even 'for loops' and arrays... read the whole story at www.eduonix.tv.
CycleConf 2017. Blog Post + Videos Released
CycleConf 2017 attracted some very different cyclists to Stockholm this spring
Futurice Stockholm had the pleasure of hosting the second Cycle.js Conference to connect JavaScript developers from around the world for a three-day hackfest and conference. With the help of our generous sponsors, great speakers and awesome cyclists the conference was a great success.
There are two types of people: givers and takers . If you are looking for long term, sustainable success, be it in business or in life, trust us, you want to be a giver. In this day a serious amount of services, innovations and products built by companies rely on the expertise and software provided by people in the open source community. Futurice also relies heavily on those projects, but we realised utilising open source is not a one way street.... read the whole story at futurice.com.
20 Best Web Animation Tools You Should Start Using
20 Best Web Animation Tools You Should Start Using
Did you know there are some excellent web animation tools on the web, that can help you build vibrant websites with ease and also keep your users engaged? This article contains 20 of the best web animation tools you should start using right away!
You can easily set up an animation for any element from your site by using any of these web-based tools.
Use them to animate your websites and to make sure your online project will be remembered. You will be creating smooth animations that your users will absolutely enjoy. You will find text animations, multipurpose animations, rating systems, hamburger menus, and other types of animation effects that will inspire you.... read the whole story at www.webdesigndev.com.
Building High-Quality JavaScript Tools
Building High-Quality JavaScript Tools
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Yarn and Jest are popular and widely adopted open source projects. In this session, we'll present our roadmap for these projects and share our experiences – good and bad – in releasing and maintaining popular open source projects.
7 Angular Tools That You Should Consider
7 Angular Tools That You Should Consider – Minko Gechev's blog
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In this article we're going to quickly explore 7 Angular development tools which can make our everyday life easier. The purpose of the list is to not be opinionated architecture wise. This means that we're not going to discuss tooling which has impact over our choice of application state management, data layer, etc. For instance, although packages like ngrx/store devtools, universal, and others are amazing once we've chosen a specific architectural approach, we're going to keep them out of this article because they assume we're using a specific way of state management or application rendering.... read the whole story at blog.mgechev.com.
Choosing between React and Angular: An in-Depth Comparison
Choosing between React and Angular: An in-Depth Comparison — SitePoint
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Should I choose Angular, or React? Today's bipolar landscape of JavaScript frameworks has left many developers struggling to pick a side in this debate. Whether you're a newcomer trying to figure out where to start, a freelancer picking a framework for your next project or an enterprise-grade architect planning a strategic vision for your company, you're likely to benefit from having an educated view on this topic.
To save you some time, let me tell you something up front: this article won't give a clear answer on which framework is better. But neither will hundreds of other articles with similar titles. I can't tell you that because the answer depends on a wide range of factors which make a particular technology more or less suitable for your environment and use case.... read the whole story at www.sitepoint.com.
"The Frequently Asked Questions that got me more UX interviews (and ultimately my dream job)."
The FAQs that got me more UX interviews (and ultimately my dream job)
At the top of my FAQs I added links to my email, portfolio, Medium, and LinkedIn for convenience.
Design is strategic problem solving that improves people's lives. Empathy, pragmatism and creativity are applied to the adventure of hunting and validating ideas — a process that leads to intentional solutions. The results are intuitive, delightful and beautiful experiences. Good design benefits users without users ever having to think about it. Design is iterative, never giving up on the mission to guide people through life in a more effortless and more enjoyable way.
I have spent my whole life pursuing design professionally and personally. I love that my natural talents have led me to sharpening my skills as a successful designer. The future of design is inspiring and broad. It keeps me motivated as I continue to grow as a designer.... read the whole story at uxdesign.cc.
How to sometimes complete your side projects
How to sometimes complete your side projects – Frontend Mayhem
This blog post is a response to How to never complete anything by Ewan Valentine. I suggest that you head over and read his blog post first. 🙂
When I first read that blog post, the first thought that crossed my mind was that "Wow, this sounds utterly familiar". Almost every developer that I know has experienced this at some stage in their career. Honestly, the name of my blog "Frontend Mayhem" is also rooted in this problem. With new frameworks popping up left & right, it's easy to get distracted unless you treat your side projects with the same level of discipline as your code base at work.
Not all projects are equal... read the whole story at frontendmayhem.com.
Disabling projects on repositories
Disabling projects on repositories · GitHub
Not every team manages their work on GitHub in the same way. Now you can disable Projects on a repository if you're not using them.
Users with admin privileges can disable Projects by navigating to a repository's settings and unchecking the "Projects" box. This hides the Projects tab from the repository navigation and removes Projects from Issue and Pull request sidebars, as well as Issue timeline events. Disabled projects are also inaccessible via API requests. Projects can be re-enabled at any time, at which point all projects in the repository will be restored to the state they were in when disabled.
An Interview With Node.js's Matteo Collina
An Interview With Node.js's Matteo Collina
I maintain more than 200 open source modules on NPM, plus I am a collaborator on Node.js itself in the streams working group. My OSS modules range from highly downloaded utilities like split2 and cloneable-readable to protocol libraries like mqtt or mosca. I recently developed upring.
At the beginning of this year, my colleague David Mark Clements and myself wrote Pino, the fastest logger for Node.js (pino). You can see the full list at ~matteo.collina.
I create some of those because either myself, a colleague or a client (I am with nearForm, a consulting firm in the OSS space) needed them.
Both. I did my Ph.D. in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, and I developed Mosca as part of my thesis. In the process, I become the lead maintainer of MQTT.js because Adam did not want to be involved. I develop a lot of "small modules", little things I can reuse across modules.... read the whole story at theinitialcommit.com.
Wow @Codepen Projects is a fantastic new addition to the app! So many congrats to the @codepen team for shipping! 🎉
CodePen Projects Is Here!
What is CodePen Projects?
If you're familiar with the term, you can think of it as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for building websites. Like all of CodePen, you use it right in your web browser.
You have a sidebar with all your files. You can create new files and folders there (even by drag and dropping from your computer), as well as delete, duplicate, and rename them.
You can view, edit, and rearrange your files in separate tabs.
Files can be preprocessed and tidied.
There is debugging in that your code can be checked for errors and you will be notified of problems.
You can preview what you are building as you build it.... read the whole story at blog.codepen.io.


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Cat Mad - Shirts for Cat Lovers17:14:00, by Erika Agostino
Are you crazy about cats as I am?
I bet you are! Who doesn't love a cute furry ball?
If you're into everything-cat, look no further than Cat Mad, the shop that has amazing t-shirts with cat-related prints.
Based in the UK, James makes some of the designs and he also promotes a worldwide cat-loving design community.
Cat Mad ships internationally, from $4.99 in the US and everywhere else from $7.50.
All shirts are printed on demand from a third party in Pennsylvania as the shipping is cheaper over there, but you will have high quality materials!
You can decide which color you want for your t-shirts and find many styles too, from v-neck to tri-blend tees, as well as tank tops, hoodies and standard tees.
They also like to collaborate with cat charities to help cats in need (which is very noble!)
They've done this recently with SocialCATwork to support their website/app development to re-home homeless cats, and with @ProjectFeral, @little.c8 and @teamfancykitty on Instagram to support their various cat causes with approximately 20% of each relevant sale back to them.
My shirt is the Triangle Galaxy Cat V-Neck, size M, color graphite gray.
It's perfect with a pair of jeans and pretty much anything casual.
The cat is inside a triangle and filled with a galaxy print. I find it very adorable and interesting!
Do you like it?
Head over to Cat Mad and sign up with your email to be informed about offers and free shipping promos!
They now have free worldwide shipping running from today, 27th January till the 1st of February with code SHIP17 - don't miss it!
Visit their Instagram too: http://instagram.com/catmadshirts
Disclaimer: I received the product for free but the opinions I share are 100% my own.


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Clinton: How many apples do you see?
Everyone else: Uh, five.
Clinton: But what if you don't count three of the apples. Then how many do you see?
Everyone else: Two?
Clinton: That's right, there are two apples.
My ORSAS application didn't go through at Leeds which is really not a surprise, as I wasn't expecting that my GPA from Birmingham would carry me THAT far in an international scholarship race at a large UK university. Well, it was nice to have been nominated. I am hoping that all of my options fall away except one and then I can make an easy choice. Not that the Leeds option is not still there because I am more than welcome to go, I just have to come up with some way to feed the baby and my wife while I am going.
Onward, upward.
I have two classes left today and one tomorrow. Then we are getting into the Golden Week holiday where I am hoping to enjoy a five day weekend. Five days! I need a bicycle. Stat!


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Belk Silverworks
Flower Originality Bead
Details https://www.belk.com/p/belk-silverworks-flower-originality-bead/5800181PD1481.html
Orig. $75.00$18.75Clearance 18.75
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Make this special bead a gift for someone you love. Crafted from sterling silver, the oxidized flower design makes a cute addition to any charm bracelet.
- 11.5-mm. L
- Oxidized finish
- Sterling silver
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Woodruff in Oneida County, Wisconsin — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Veterans Memorial
World War I • World War II
This monument erected in memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice for their country.
Trapp-Gehrke Post 292 · 1946
In honor of all veterans who came to the aid of their country.
By the Trapp Gehrke American Legion Post No. 292 and Paquette Blackburn Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7898 · 1986
Erected 1946 by Trapp-Gehrke Post 292.
Location. 45° 53.498′ N, 89° 41.988′ W. Marker is in Woodruff, Wisconsin, in Oneida County. Marker is on Elm Street (U.S. 51) north of Townline Road (County Road J), on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Memorial is at Veterans Park in Evergreen Cemetery. Marker is in this post office area: Woodruff WI 54568, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 6 other markers are within 13 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. The Million Penny Parade (approx. ¼ mile away); Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb (approx. ¼ mile away); Snowmobile (approx. 10.4 miles away); Forest Restoration (approx. 11 miles away); Government Boarding School Boys Dormitory (approx. 11.2 miles away); First Forest Patrol Flight (approx. 12.2 miles away).
Also see . . . Evergreen Cemetery. (Submitted on September 22, 2010.)
Categories. • Military •
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on September 22, 2010, by Keith L of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. This page has been viewed 455 times since then and 19 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on September 22, 2010, by Keith L of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.


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Women's Golf Lessons
- Lessons for all levels of golfers from
total beginners to seasoned players
- Learn from certified CPGA golf professionals
- Improve your golf fundamentals and gain confidence to play any golf course
- Cultivate a love for this great game!
Golf Leagues for Women
- Play golf without the frustration of booking tee times or finding someone
to golf with
- Play with women of your skill level
- Network and socialize with other women
- Enjoy a welcoming environment where you can grow your game
Why Join Golfaround?
- Lessons with low student / teacher ratio
- Scheduled tee times at a variety of private and public golf courses
- Networking and camaraderie in a fun, non-intimidating atmosphere
- Creative winter programs, trips and practice sessions
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"The fact that you care about the individual and go above and beyond is just one of the things that makes Golfaround so special and unique!"
– Angela Bogdanski, Edmonton AB
"The fact that you care about the individual and go above and beyond is just one of the things that makes Golfaround so special and unique!"
– Angela Bogdanski, Edmonton AB
"Thank you for making it easy for me to golf – someone books my tee time, I have a choice of which evening/which course, someone arranges for other players for me to golf with, I simply show up!"
– Cheryl Inkster, Calgary AB
"Each time I go out I'm with such amazing ladies that are so much fun. It was a little intimidating at first being new to the city, and a ladies league, but you gals have taken care of making me feel so comfortable."
– Patty Stuber, Calgary AB
"I loved every minute of this season. The lessons were awesome, the courses are terrific, the camaraderie is great and most of all I love the game and improve every week."
– Mary Jardine, Calgary AB
"Joining Golfaround Edmonton was the best decision I made for my golf game."
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"Golfing different courses with different women has been absolutely GREAT! It's so organized and friendly. The lessons were very worthwhile and I have dropped at least 10 strokes off my game."
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This Elvish Tiara (also Elven) is one of our exclusive designs. Graceful flowing, inter-connecting lines accent the head and face. For Weddings as bridal tiaras, also great for ritual, costume, or fairs and festivals.
- Design is 1 1/2″ tall by 4 1/2″ wide
- Circlet adjusts with a chain and clasp in the back
- Cast in an alloy for added strength, heavy Sterling Silver plated
(Fitting – we recommend gently bending the circlet to fit the shape of your head, then attach the chain)


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If the data type is wrong, then the configuration will be misinterpreted, misused, ignored, or rejected.
Registry terminology is shown in the following dialog.
RegEdit Features
Windows 2000 and NT had two registry editor programs. All features have now been combined in one program. Some of the valuable features that were missing in old versions are as follows.
Keyboard Exercise
Caution! Inappropriate changes to the Registry will cause your system to behave in unexpected ways and my prevent it from starting.
Let's create a key and value in the Registry using RegEdit. Although these entries will be ignored, it will give us some experience with RegEdit. Start RegEdit and select the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE. Create a new key called MyOwnStuff. Select this key and create a new String Value called MyOwnConfiguration and set the data to "Hello".


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Leg warmers that originated several years ago are multipurpose. They are used by women while dancing, to keep them warm in winter and for the sake of fashion. While most women would pick one in the assumption that it will be a great add on to their fashion statement, they can really come in handy in the most frigid of weathers.
Buying leg warmers may look like an easy task that requires no planning and preparing beforehand. But, the fact of the matter is that they require a little thought and awareness about what is exactly that has to be purchased. If you are clueless, here is a short guide.
Know what they are
First, are you sure you know what leg warmers are, how they look like, etc? Well, leg warmers are coverings, especially made for women over the lower part of their legs in different occasions. These were initially used by dancers to keep their feet warm a few hours before their performance so they do not face any trouble in stretching them later. When you step into a store that specializes in leg warmers and try one on, you would see that they are knitted tubes that easily slip over the feet and settle comfortably just below the knees. Certain types of leg warmers cover up the entire feet and may not be available everywhere, but in places that are especially cold.
While a lot of women would prefer buying leg warmers, others would make it by themselves. If you want to make one for yourself, you could check out the different patterns online.
Now that you know what leg warmers are, let's learn how you can make your best purchase. The best part of this guide is that once you are done reading it, you would not even have to go to a store to buy them but find platforms for leg warmers buy online.
Measure your legs
Before you buy leggings or leg warmers, make sure you have measured your legs well; you do not want to land up with a plus or minus size leg warmer. Also, just because leg warmers are made with a stretchy material does not mean that just one size will fit everyone. They need to and must fit snuggly and by measuring the legs a woman can easily find the best suitable leg warmer that she had always wanted.
Look around for leg warmers in different stores
Do not settle with just one website or store. Make sure you look around at different stores before making a final purchase. This is because there are lots of kinds of leg warmers in the market and it is possible that what you like would not be where you are looking.
Prefer one that coordinates the outfit
One of the safest colours to pick is black but then wearing black leg warmers with every outfit would look boring and monotonous. So, keep a few of your outfits in mind and imagine yourself in those leg warmers.


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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq said yesterday that it had kidnapped two American soldiers who are being searched for by thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops in an area known as "the triangle of death."
Seven other U.S. soldiers were wounded during the search, the top military spokesman in Baghdad said. Details weren't immediately announced.
More than 8,000 American and Iraqi security personnel were looking for the soldiers, who disappeared Friday. Three teams of divers searched the nearby Euphrates River. The military used planes, boats, helicopters and unmanned drones "to ensure the most thorough search possible on the ground, in the air and in the water," Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV said. "We are using every means at our disposal."
The two soldiers disappeared after gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Yousifiya, southwest of the capital. They were identified as Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore.


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Many years ago when I got engaged, I was excited to start introducing my future husband to my friends and family.
My husband is introverted, as we discussed in yesterday's post.
What surprised me was the comments I got about the fact that he was quiet and reserved.
"You know," I was told, "it is the quiet ones you have to worry about: they are the dangerous ones."
If you look at research and statistics, you will see that nearly half of the population of people are introverts, but only a high estimate of 5% of men are pedophiles.
If you look at physiological diagnosis like the dark triad, you will see that more men with triad personality disorders are introverted than extroverted but that triad personality disorders are only 1% of the population.
Even then, most of those with triad end up as CEOs or politicians –not serial killers.
So that means that of 50 percent of the population that is introverted, but only 1% are pedophiles and 5% are triad, leaving approximately 44% of introverts who are just introverts.
They aren't stalking your kids.
They aren't serial killers.
They are just quiet.
They like to read books and watch movies instead of going to parties.
They have a few close friends and enjoy deep and meaningful relationships without the silly and pointless small talk that so many of us extroverts enjoy.
Even if an introverted person were inclined to certain behavior –and I am not saying they are– we all still have free will and a choice about our actions.
As I mentioned above, even many triad people just live their lives and don't become a danger to society.
So worst case –because the researcher cited above admitted that his estimates were high– is that 6 of every hundred people you meet has the potential to be dangerous.
A whopping 44 of those people are introverted but most likely not dangerous.
And the other 50 are extroverted, and absolutely not dangerous, right?
Because no extroverted person has ever been a pedophile or sociopath, right?
You know, it is the quiet ones who are dangerous!
That is what was implied to me about my future husband.
And, honestly, I resented that on his behalf.
I found it very disturbing that because he wasn't obnoxiously voicing his opinion all the time that somehow that made him deviant.
I have known 4 convicted pedophiles in my life: two were extroverted, and two were introverted.
Honestly, the extroverted ones were worse offenders.
I realize that that is just anecdotal evidence, but it came to mind when the assumptions were made.
These assumptions were made without the people even really knowing my husband.
It was just a repeated warning by people were concerned that maybe –because he was reserved– I shouldn't marry him.
Why do I bring this up?
Because my husband is amazing!
He is kind, gracious, loving, and sweet.
Look at what I would have missed out on if I had listened to the asinine advice of people who simply misjudging what they didn't understand.
I have introverted children, and my heart breaks to think that someday they will be misjudged for their personality types.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, understanding is the key to living with an introvert.
But never assume you know someone's character based on their personality type.
I wrote here about how misjudging people's character based on personality.
The quiet ones are the researchers, artists, thinkers, designers, writers, philosophers, scientists, and so many other things that contribute to our society.
We should value that.
We should value the differentness that they add instead of balking at the difference.
I noticed this prejudice against introvertedness most starkly at one church we attended where unless you were extremely outgoing –praying out loud eloquently, involved in door to door ministry, leading Sunday school, singing special music– you were not viewed as a "good" Christian.
I understand how unbelievers can come to various conclusions about personality and behavior.
They don't believe that everyone was created by a wonderful Creator.
It's all just chance –and that is a scary thing.
But for the Christian, not only is there order and a plan, but God gives us gifts when we become His children.
Spiritual gifts are varied.
Not everyone is the mouthpiece, as scripture explains.
Some people are the hands or the feet.
Some people are given the gift of helping or giving.
Some of my introverted friends have those gifts.
It is one of their strengths.
It is important to notice that in the list of spiritual gifts, there are gifts that are behind the scenes gifts or introvert-friendly gifts if you will.
I wholeheartedly reject the idea that once you become a believer you will suddenly be outgoing and go from reserved to standing on a street corner shouting about Jesus to everyone who walks by.
I have never understood people who said this– it is like they don't understand that it is not a sin to be shy or introverted.
God can and does use introverted people.
And He doesn't just use them by making them extroverted as some have said.
Just like we should value each other's spiritual gifts and appreciate the uniqueness, we should value our different personalities that keep life interesting by adding variety and distinctiveness.
"It's the quiet ones you have to worry about."
I wish we could put that saying to rest –where it belongs.
It is sullying the good names of half of our population.
It pre-judges.
Shouldn't they be judged by their character instead of how chatty they are?
Yes! They should –like everyone else.
Sarah Forbes


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Nationwide Resources
Workplaces That Thrive: A Resource for Creating Mental Health-Friendly Work Environments (Materials for Human Resources Personnel that outline policies, procedures, and examples of mentally health workplaces; from the ADS Center)
Partnership for Workplace Mental Health - Program from the American Psychiatric Association, which provides materials, resources, and an electronic newsletter to encourage businesses to make efforts to improve the mental health of their employees.
Supported Employment Evidence Based Practice Kit - provides practice principles about supported employment, an approach to vocational rehabilitation for people with serious mental illnesses. Promotes the belief that everyone with a serious mental illness is capable of working competitively in the community (SAMHSA)
A Manager's Guide to Suicide Postvention in the Workplace (American Association of Suicidology)


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The dog warden's primary function is to apprehend and deal with matters relating to stray, lost and found dogs.
Report a lost dog, found dog, or stray dog >
Stray dogs which are seized or collected are kenneled for a minimum of seven days during which time the dog may be reclaimed by the owner on payment of a release fee of £35 plus kenneling fees and any veterinary fees.
After this seven day period the dog may be sold, re-homed or destroyed.
In practice, very few dogs are destroyed although in some circumstances the animal's health or temperament may be such that it not considered suitable for re-homing.
Officers of the service enforce a number of Dog Control Orders made under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (see below for details). A number of prosecutions are taken each year against irresponsible dog owners who allow their dogs to foul public areas or otherwise contravene the orders.
Dog control orders
The Council has introduced a number of Dog Control Orders. These orders were made on 16 August 2012 and come into force on 1 October 2012.
The Dog Control Orders replace the previous system of byelaws and other orders for the control of dogs and designations needed under the Dog (Fouling of Land) Act 1996, which have been repealed.
Penalties for non-compliance with the Dog Control Orders is a fixed penalty notice of £75 payable within 14 days (£50 if paid within 7 days).
A person guilty of an offence is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £1000.
Environmental Services has responsibility for a range of animal welfare matters such as the inspection of licensed boarding kennels, pet shops, dangerous wild animals, zoos and riding establishments.
The council promotes responsible dog ownership and the service works with partners such as RSPCA, Dogs Trust, schools and town and parish councils to further this.


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Category: Mercedes
Mercedes Benz Pullman 600, seeing double
This article is on the luxury Limousine made by Mercedes back in the 60′s and represented by two of the large diecast toys makers of the time.
Corgi Toys produced the Mercedes Benz Pullman in 1964, No247 and was released in metallic maroon, the scale listed for this is 1:52.
Although it had no opening doors, bonnet or boot, the back side windows slid up and down, it also had a unique mechinism for operational windscreen wipers that was driven off the back wheels, you could turn this on and off by a switch on the base, this was withdrawn in 1969.
Most of the windscreen was stippled to give the effect of rain and as a young lad with one of these I would guess that is great fun, as with many of these the bonnet emblem is missing from the one in my picture and finding one complete is not so easy unless you have deep pockets.
Dinky on the other hand took a more conventional route with four opening doors, bonnet and boot, Dinky also released their version in 1964 but ran until 1979, ten years after Corgi withdrew their one.
The dinky version also came with a driver and two passenger figures and was available in either dark metallic maroon and metallic blue, Dinky numbered this car 128.
The Dinky version was scaled bigger at 1:43, a more standard size scale of the time.
So how different are they? Well lets see.
The scale is far more obvious with them together and I have seen the Corgi Mercedes listed as 1:43, seen together the colour is identical on both models, I wonder how that developed? Bearing in mind they were both released in 1964 by two independent diecast makers.
The other strangely similar thing about these is they are both four door long wheelbase versions, Mercedes also made a 6 door body and well as a short wheel base four door, again a coincidence?
Beyond that you can see the differences between them above, the Dinky has a rounder shape, whereas the Corgi one is squarer and flater, the grills look completely different too and imagine they were both modelled from different years, the dinky being the older model as far as Mercedes shape goes.
They have now both gone to new homes, the Dinky Mercedes was sold a few months back to a French collector and the Corgi version has since been refurbished for a customer and finished in black.
To see this car getting refurbished Click Here
For the ultimate model of this car, see the Autoart 1:18 scale Mercedes Pullman
The real car
The Mercedes-Benz 600 is a large luxury automobile offered in several variants worldwide. Introduced in September 1963, it had very few competitors, these being Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Cadillac Fleetwood 75, the stretched Lehmann-Peterson Lincoln, and the Chrysler Imperial Crown Ghia. Generally, the long-wheel-base (LWB) 600 was intended as chauffeur-driven; many featured a central divider incorporating a powered window between front and rear compartments. Short-wheel-base (SWB) 600 models were designed to be owner-driven.
Production began in 1964 and almost 600 variants were built until 1972. The oil crisis, as well as the introduction of new S-Class models, slowed demand. Modest production continued until 1981. During this time, 2,677 vehicles were made.
But the story doesn't end there, Mercedes still build a 600 Pullman, below is the 2010 Mercedes Pullman s600.
Matchbox Mercedes 230SL
This was another Matchbox lot from Ebay and really only bought it for the Mercedes 230SL, as the only one I have is a bit worse for wear and at the end of the day I only paid for this lot what I would normally pay for one car so well worth it.
Also in this lot was the Draguar hot rod, Mercury Cougar, the Mod Rod and the Baja buggy.
The Mercedes 230SL is another I remember having in my childhood collection and when the parcel arrived went to replace the existing one only to find they are different, this whole collecting thing with me has been a fantastic learning curve and still learning all the time, the Mercedes I already had, although in bad condition had red seating whereas the new one had black, after a bit of research found this car had a few variations mainly due to the Superfast wheel version change over as the regular wheeled version had red seats and a white paint finish.
The Superfast version was also available in white for a time and the picture below has been forwarded by one of our readers, Kevin.
There are many other variations with this model but rather than me go into great detail, there are people far more knowlegable than me that have already gone into great depths and Nick Jones was my source of information on this model, so Click Here to see more.
Model Details
Matchbox Mercedes 230SL
No, 27
Colour, yellow with black seats
Release date, 1966 as regular wheels, 1970 with Superfast wheels
Country of origin, UK
The remainder of the lot will either be re-sold or upgrade existing models, but then there is a twist, the Draguar is in fact slightly better than the one I had so is now part of the collection, the Mercury and Mod Rod will get resold but the Baja Buggy is also a variation of the one I have and has black exhaust pipes where the one I already have in the collection has red exhaust pipes.
The real Mercedes 230SL went into Production in 1963 with the 2.3 liter 230 SL. These models were commonly 4-speed manual transmission cars, but a 4-speed automatic transmission was also available and popular for U.S. market cars. The 230 SL sported front disc / rear drum power-assisted brakes. They quickly gained popularity in the U.S. market, and this eventually led to more and more cars being built with automatic transmissions. 19,831 copies of the 230SL were built, of which 11,726 cars were exported.
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Mercedes Benz 300SL
This was one of those finds I wasn't aware I had, after unpacking one lot of diecast models I had bought this was among them (although I was told they were all Matchbox) and is a Corgi Junior version of the Mercedes 300SL.
It has lost some of it's paint and the chrome from the bumpers and base has worn but it has become part of my collection, I've not seen many of these come up to upgrade this one so will hope for a better model sometime in the future.
Colour variations are red or silver and not yet aware of any others.
Model Details
Mercedes Benz 300SL
Make, Corgi Juniors
No, 47
Year of release, 1984
Colour, red/plated plastic base and bumpers
Country of origin, UK
The real car was introduced in 1954 as a two-seat, closed sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors. Later it was offered as an open roadster. It was the fastest production car of its day.
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It's so funny when we go different places, most of the time people say how much Claire looks like Trent. And I totally agree! I have said that since before she was born when we saw the 4D ultrasound. But sometimes when we see people that don't know Trent, they always say -"Oh my gosh - Claire looks JUST like her Momma!!!" I just kind of chuckle and say, "Well, you ought to see her Daddy!"
Anyways, since Claire turned one, I haven't posted a list of things that she likes, dislikes, or is doing. So to make it fun, I thought I would do a contest. So I will write something that Claire likes or dislikes or whatever and then tell which parent she is more like with that like/dislike. Ok, that doesn't really make sense, so I will just start...........
1. Claire likes ice cream. She doesn't care for cake (see her 1st birthday posts). Score one point for Trent. I love cake and would eat cake over anything else (other than french fries).
2. Claire is a morning person and is very happy in the mornings. She bounces in her crib and is all smiles when I get her out every morning. Score one point for me! I am definitely a morning person and Trent is more of a night owl.
3. Claire's hair is getting curly. I guess I will have to say score one point for me. Trent's hair was not curly and is not curly now. My hair was kind of curly/wavy when I was a baby and can still be wavy if it's humid.
4. Claire loves to be outside. If she is upset or if nothing else makes her happy, just take her outside and she is as happy as a lark. Score one point for Trent. I like it outside, but prefer to be inside. Trent would live outside if he could. And I think Claire would too.
5. Claire loves to ride in the car. Score one point for Trent. Trent loves to drive! Me, on the other hand, prefer not to drive. I would rather just ride. I believe Claire will be a driver and not a rider.
6. When Claire gets tired, she rubs her hair on the back of her head behind her ear. For those who know me, no explanation needed. Score one point for me.
7. Claire is still "feisty" and on the go all the time. She doesn't require much sleep. Score one for Trent. I need my sleep and I am not feisty. She gets her determination, independence, and strong will from her Daddy. I am more like a dependent wallflower. ;)
8. Claire likes bread. We ordered take out at Outback the other night and all Claire wanted was that brown bread they serve. She wouldn't eat anything else and would yell at me when I wouldn't give her any bread. Score one for me as I love bread! Although I will not yell when I don't get it (most of the time)!
9. Claire loves to watch the news and the weather. And Wheel of Fortune. Although WOF is not one of Trent's favorites, the news and weather is. So score one for Trent.
10. Claire loves spaghetti (and Elmo)! As you can see from the picture below from this weekend. Notice the spaghetti in her hair, face, and really everywhere. She ate a whole plate though before she started playing with it. I like spaghetti and Trent likes spaghetti, so not really sure who loves it the most. I think Fuzz would have won on this one because he LOVED all Italian food! So I guess we will split this one and we both get a point.
So once you really look at her personality, I guess Claire is a pretty good mix of both of us! :)
The Scott Family