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These appetizers are favorites all over Italy. Come springtime, menus are chockfull of regional variations. This is a classic filling, but other herbs and seasonings would work well, too. Use your imagination — and what's on hand.–Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
Stuffed Zucchini Flowers
- Quick Glance
- Serves 6
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- For the batter
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 egg whites, organic
- For the zucchini flowers
- 1 cup soft ricotta
- 20 zucchini flowers
- 4 tablespoons basil leaves
- 3 cups sunflower oil
- 2 lemons
- Make the batter
- 1. Sift the flour into a bowl, make a well in the center, pour in the olive oil, and stir to combine. Loosen this paste by slowly adding enough warm water, slightly less than 1 cup, to make a batter the consistency of heavy cream. Add 1 teaspoon salt, cover and leave for at least 1 hour.
- Prepare the zucchini flowers
- 2. Remove the stamens and the green bits at the base.
- 3. Season the ricotta. Push 1 teaspoon of ricotta and a basil leaf inside each flower. Press together.
- 4. Heat the oil to 350°F (175°C) in a deep skillet. Beat the egg whites until stiff, then fold into the batter.
- 5. Dip the flowers one at a time into the batter. Tap gently to knock off excess, and carefully place as many as you can without touching into the hot oil. Fry until light brown, then turn to crisp the other side.
- 6. Drain on paper towels. Serve warm with lemon.
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The batter on these fritters is extremely light thanks to the whipped egg whites. The filling is classic and is delicious as is or you can add some garlic paste or lemon zest for a little extra punch of flavor.
Stuffed Zucchini Flowers Recipe © 2004 Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers. Photo © 2004 dolphytv /123RF Stock Photo. All rights reserved. All materials used with permission.
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A slight cool down for the end of the week
We will start to see temps come down after the brief warm up we had for the first day of winter. Cloud cover will start to move in today. This will start to drop highs a few degrees. Many of us will get back into the upper 40s to low 50s. We stay dry today with a slight northwest breeze that also cools us.
We will see moisture build here today and more so tomorrow. That will cause some rain showers to develop thru the day on Friday. We aren't going to see anything major, however, with the showers temps will drop even a little bit more.
Big changes are in store for us over the holiday weekend. Temps bounce back with a warm front that lifts north of us. This will create some energy for showers and even some strong to severe storms to for by late week. Stay tuned for more details!

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by NAACAM | Feb 12, 2019 | Latest News
The NAACAM Show aims to play a pivotal role in galvanising the industry around the clear vision of the SA Automotive Masterplan (SAAM). The practical and growth-oriented Conference Programme, delivered by local industry leaders and global experts, will focus on unpacking the practicalities of the SAAM and how firm-level challenges and opportunities can be addressed. In line with the SAAM the Programme has been developed around the following 6 core themes:


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Region 8 Police is the police division overseeing Provincial Police in seven of the 14 Southern Thailand provinces: Phuket, Phang Nga, Krabi, Ranong, Chumporn, Surat Thani and Nakhon Sri Thammarat.
Present for yesterday's presentation, led by Region 8 Police Deputy Commander Maj Gen Wanchai Eaksorapit, were Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Wisan Panmanee, Krabi Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Sakchai Limjareon and Phang Nga Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Wimol Pitukburapa.
"The Royal Thai Police an order on Feb 1 titled 'Preparations to make a safe and peaceful election,", ordering the police to mobilise a crime suppression campaign on Feb 1- Mar 31, 2019," Gen Wanchai said.
During the 10 days from Feb 15-24, officers throughout the seven Region 8 provinces arrested 93 suspects with firearms, he added.
The weapons seized included two M16 rifles, 14 .38-calibre revolvers, two .357 revolvers, 15 .22-calibre pistols, 11 shotguns, 12 pump-action shotguns, 45 homemade guns ("Thai Pradit"), two .45-calibre semi-automatic pistols and 13 other firearms including seven air rifles.
The 10-day blitz also saw 559 drug suspects arrested in 538 cases, Gen Wanchai explained.
The drugs raids netted 91,650 pills of ya bah (methamphetamine) and 1,558.46 kilograms of crystal meth (ya ice), he said.
Also seized was 36.971kg of dried marijuana and 856.5kg of kratom, he added.
"In addition, we arrested 11 suspects wanted in 11 that had yet to be closed," Gen Wanchai said.
"Region 8 Police are dedicated to mobilising our officers to maintain order and protect the safety of people's lives and property," Gen Wanchai said.
"We would like to thank all the officers involved in this campaign for their dedication to the mission at hand and the results accomplished," he added.


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China's central bank injects liquidity into market in December
China's continued to pump cash into the money market in December to meet the demand for liquidity from financial institutions.
A total of 473.5 billion yuan (about US4 69 billion) was injected into the market via the medium-term lending facility (MLF) last month to maintain liquidity in the banking system at a reasonably sufficient level, according to the People's Bank of China (PBOC).
The funds will mature in one year at an interest rate of 3.3 percent.
Total outstanding MLF loans reached 4.93 trillion yuan as of the end of December.
The MLF tool was introduced in 2014 to help commercial and policy banks maintain liquidity by allowing them to borrow from the central bank using securities as collateral.
In December, the PBOC also injected 42.9 billion yuan of funds through pledged supplementary lending to the China Development Bank, the Export-Import Bank of China and the Agricultural Development Bank of China.
Another 92.9 billion yuan was lent to financial institutions through the standing lending facility to meet provisional liquidity demand.
The central bank has adopted open market operations more frequently to manage liquidity in a more flexible and targeted manner.
China will keep its prudent monetary policy "neither too tight nor too loose" while maintaining market liquidity at a reasonably ample level in 2019, according to the annual Central Economic Work Conference held last month.
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By Mayshad Mag
Mayshad Magazine is an advocacy platform for empowerment which mainly focuses on empowering women, raising awareness and exploring a contemporary lifestyle.
In a world of highly intelligent doctors and advanced medicine, it can be intimidating to go against their advice, to refuse to accept their diagnosis, but that's exactly what I had to do. At a young age, I had to learn to use my voice to speak up for myself because my health was at risk. When I was about 16 years old, I felt an overwhelming sense of pain starting from my lower stomach shooting down my legs around 10-12 days out the month. I did not think much of it as a teenager. I just took pain meds and worked through it, as I thought it was a normal thing that all females went through before their monthly cycle. My first appointment with my OBGYN resulted in a confident diagnosis of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). I was prescribed birth control and was told that after my hormones became balanced, the pain would decrease. After years of taking birth control, the pain increased. I gained 25-30lbs, bloated most days, felt depressed and was a nervous wreck. I needed a solution to this pain. All doctors gave the same diagnosis and even gave me anti-depression pills to calm me down. My gut feeling told me there was something more to my pain.
In 2005 I decided to move to California. Naturally, in California I adopted a healthier lifestyle and exercise became a ritual. After losing some weight and feeling in charge of my body again, I decided to see an OBGYN in Los Angeles. The first doctor I was referred to was a famous doctor in Beverly Hills who told me I was not having enough sex and that it was a hormonal thing. I felt disgusting and embarrassed leaving the office. I was then determined to find out what was wrong with me. I started to google my symptoms and I found information about endometriosis (when the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus). I wrote down a list of questions to ask my next doctor and educated myself about anything and everything to do with my reproductive system. My second visit was with a female doctor that I was referred to by a friend. I needed a doctor that would actually listen to my symptoms. I asked about endometriosis, and let the doctor know I felt all the symptoms. Endometriosis sometimes does not show on a vaginal ultrasound, and that was my case exactly. The doctor said the only way to really find endo lesions is through laparoscopy surgery. I was willing and ready.
After surgery, I was told that I indeed had endometriosis and the doctor took out as much as she could without causing damage. My gut feeling was right. I changed my lifestyle completely. I turned to exercise and started an anti-inflammation diet, low in sugar and gluten, high in fiber and healthy fats. My symptoms are now manageable and I have a beautiful daughter even though all of my past doctors told me it would be very hard to have children. I am lucky to say I had my baby girl with ease. Doctors will prescribe hormones/pain meds and tell you things are impossible when they are certainly possible. Your life and health are in your hands. Listen to yourself, your symptoms, and educate yourself. Believe in the power of change.
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CircuitPython driver for common low-cost FocalTech capacitive touch chips. Currently supports FT6206 & FT6236
This driver depends on:
Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.
Usage Example¶
import time
import busio
import board
import adafruit_focaltouch
# Create library object using our Bus I2C port
i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)
ft = adafruit_focaltouch.Adafruit_FocalTouch(i2c, debug=True)
while True:
n = ft.touched
if n:
Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.
Building locally¶
To build this library locally you'll need to install the circuitpython-build-tools package.
python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install circuitpython-build-tools
Once installed, make sure you are in the virtual environment:
source .env/bin/activate
Then run the build:
circuitpython-build-bundles --filename_prefix adafruit-circuitpython-focaltouch --library_location .
Sphinx documentation¶
Sphinx is used to build the documentation based on rST files and comments in the code. First, install dependencies (feel free to reuse the virtual environment from above):
python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install Sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme
Now, once you have the virtual environment activated:
cd docs
sphinx-build -E -W -b html . _build/html
This will output the documentation to
docs/_build/html. Open the index.html in your browser to
view them. It will also (due to -W) error out on any warning like Travis will. This is a good way to
locally verify it will pass.
Table of Contents¶
Simple tests¶
Ensure your device works with these simple tests.
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Example for getting touch data from an FT6206 or FT6236 capacitive
touch driver, over I2C
import busio
import board
import adafruit_focaltouch
# Create library object using our Bus I2C port
i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)
ft = adafruit_focaltouch.Adafruit_FocalTouch(i2c, debug=True)
while True:
n = ft.touched
if n:
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Simple painting demo that draws on an Adafruit capacitive touch shield with
ILI9341 display and FT6206 captouch driver
import busio
import board
import digitalio
import adafruit_focaltouch
from adafruit_rgb_display import ili9341, color565
# Create library object using our Bus I2C & SPI port
i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)
spi = busio.SPI(clock=board.SCK, MOSI=board.MOSI, MISO=board.MISO)
# Adafruit Metro M0 + 2.8" Capacitive touch shield
cs_pin = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D10)
dc_pin = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D9)
# Initialize display
display = ili9341.ILI9341(spi, cs=cs_pin, dc=dc_pin)
# Fill with black!
display.fill(color565(0, 0, 0))
ft = adafruit_focaltouch.Adafruit_FocalTouch(i2c)
while True:
if ft.touched:
ts = ft.touches
point = ts[0] # the shield only supports one point!
# perform transformation to get into display coordinate system!
y = 320 - point['y']
x = 240 - point['x']
display.fill_rectangle(x-2, y-2, 4, 4, color565(255, 255, 255))
CircuitPython driver for common low-cost FocalTech capacitive touch chips. Currently supports FT6206 & FT6236.
- Author(s): ladyada
Implementation Notes¶
- Adafruit 2.8" TFT LCD with Cap Touch Breakout Board w/MicroSD Socket (Product ID: 2090)
- Adafruit 2.8" TFT Touch Shield for Arduino w/Capacitive Touch (Product ID: 1947)
Software and Dependencies:
- Adafruit CircuitPython firmware for the ESP8622 and M0-based boards: https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/releases
- Adafruit's Bus Device library (when using I2C/SPI): https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_BusDevice
Adafruit_FocalTouch(i2c, address=56, debug=False)[source]¶
A driver for the FocalTech capacitive touch sensor.
Returns the number of touches currently detected
Returns a list of touchpoint dicts, with 'x' and 'y' containing the touch coordinates, and 'id' as the touch # for multitouch tracking


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An outstanding British primary school, located in the heart of Jumeirah
Guided by a strong and dynamic leadership team, the school is ambitious and driven by innovation.
Although Horizon English School was established 30 years ago, it has continued to be at the forefront of primary education by taking a progressive and child-centred approach to every aspect of school life. Led by a young Headmaster who has built his career at Horizon English School, and who has an inherent understanding of the school's DNA, the energetic leadership team are uniquely qualified and experienced in primary education. This knowledge and drive make them highly ambitious in their aspirations for our students and facilitates them in delivering an outstanding educational experience for every child.
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Outstanding educators deliver exceptional teaching in English, Maths and Science, developing stand out pupils.
We are one of the longest established schools in Dubai and all of our teaching staff are technical specialists in primary education, resulting in a depth of expertise that is unmatched in our field. We strongly believe that outstanding learning is not just about teaching lessons, it's about taking a holistic approach to the development of the individual child with a strong emphasis on personal growth. Our school is purposefully designed for young children, making the environment less daunting and conducive to a positive learning experience.
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A rich, imaginative and creative curriculum, that encourages and develops every child's natural curiosity and aspirations.
As specialists in EYFS education, the curriculum of the school has been specifically designed to stimulate each child's own progression both academically and emotionally. To further enhance our curriculum, we are opening a unique STEM facility in September 2019, which has been created with the express intent of exposing primary age child to advanced technology such as 3d printing and robotics. This purpose-built facility, with its specially designed creative learning zone, will enable us to deliver teaching in the STEM subjects in a way that will excite and encourage students to innovate and develop as they learn to cope with the demands of the modern world.
Extra-Curricular Programme
An exciting after-school programme that enables students to explore new activities and see what they are passionate about in arts, music and sports.
All of our children have the ability to excel outside of the classroom environment and our staff help each child to find their passion, be that on the sports field or in more creative areas such as the arts. To stimulate their growth, we offer an ever-expanding range of activities after school, allowing each child to expand their physical and mental skills. The addition of the new STEM lab at the school will allow us to provide more after-school activities that are focused on technology, allowing them to explore the themes of Expo 2020 and its future legacy.
A close and caring international community, which has thrived on an outstanding partnership for the past 30 years.
Our community is strongly focused on our children and delivering the best learning outcomes for them as individuals. A key part of the school community is our parents, who are closely involved in all aspects of school life and actively involved in making positive change through a lively and highly engaged PTA, with particular focus on social events and charity.
A nurturing and supportive environment, that enables all pupils to achieve their full potential.
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While I was visiting Patukae, the grade 6 students were taking a nation-wide exam. In order to ensure fairness, teachers from each school had to travel to a neighboring school to administer the exams–and stay there overnight. This was a two-day process, and as a result of it, everything was just a bit out-of-the-ordinary during my visit. I was fortunate to observe the students using their laptops in class, but I was observing them on a day where they weren't necessarily having their normal lessons.
The middle level students were using the XOs to do math problems (above and below).
The youngest students (below) were using the Talk function on the XOs, which pronounces words that they type in to the laptop in English—a very popular program for the younger students in both the Solomon Islands and PNG.
The oldest students (4th and 5th grade, I believe), were practicing their typing skills—copying what their teacher had written on the board. He was looking out to make sure that they were using correct punctuation, and paying close attention to detail.
These were not the most innovative or revelatory uses of the XOs that I was to witness on this trip, but as I explained previously, it was an unusual day for the students—in fact, it could have been a day off from classes for them, but for the fact that they knew a special visitor was coming.
The most amazing and wonderful part of the day for me came after observing the students: it was the opportunity I had to talk with a group of these children's parents (pictured above). The principal of the Patukae schools had announced my visit to the families of the Patukae primary school students, and I was very honored that about 20 of them showed up to talk with me, on an early Monday afternoon.
I was expecting that it would be a bit difficult to break the ice, so I asked each parent to tell me their names, how many children they had in school, and how many laptops were in their household. This certainly broke the ice!
My next question to them was how their children were using the laptops. The parents noted a number of ways, including painting, playing games—useful games, learning spelling, speaking, pronunciation, writing, taking photos of people and nature, and telling stories with these pictures, and chatting with their classmates. However, once one parent pointed out how much the child is teaching them about how to use computers, many others chimed in, giving personal stories or anecdotes to illustrate the same point: one child taught his parent how to do word processing; another taught a parent how to do research. None of these parents had seen a computer before, they told me, let alone had used one before the advent of this laptop program, and now they were all learning about computers from their kids—this was a real change from what they were expecting!
In general, the parents had an extremely positive view of the laptops, with many expressing their belief that their children's education has been improved in quality because of the technology, that they're learning faster and are more interested in learning because of the laptops, that they have skills they would never have without the laptops, that their children are learning how to work together in groups, to teach others (including both their parents and other children), and to disseminate knowledge generally, and that the benefits from the laptops have spread to the families that have them. It came up multiple times that the students are now excited and interested in going to school every day since the laptops were introduced. AND, the parents are quite happy when their children are doing homework at home on the XOs—something not the case prior to them having laptops.
A few of the parents were also teachers at the secondary school, and one of these parents pointed out that he can use the XO for word processing, and for doing research to enhance his own teaching—a real example of where the benefits are accruing to a wider circle than just to the primary students. Another parent mentioned that he had used the XO to talk with relatives in Australia and New Caledonia. The parents even suggested that the program would be better named OLPF (One Laptop per Family) than One Laptop per Child! This was further expounded upon by a number of parents who pointed out that the entire community was excited about the laptops, in support of them, and more in support of education in general because of them. Because the principal and the school had done such a fine job of involving the parents in this project from the beginning, and seeking their input on the project, community input on educational subjects in general had gone up. They said that the OLPC project here in Patukae has brought the students together, has brought parents together, and has brought the community together.
The parents were so enthusiastic to tell me these things, that after a while, language ceased to be a barrier. Even those who could speak only the local language, Marovo, or pidgin English, ended up chiming in, sharing their opinion with me. I could get most of the pidgin (thanks to learning some key words while in PNG) and the Marovo was translated for me by the primary school teachers.
I asked them what they would like to see in the future for this project. Their main concern was about charging: the first and overwhelmingly expressed response was that they'd like to have more generators to charge them (although someone pointed out that solar charging would be better). They'd like to raise funds to purchase a generator, or get one donated. And they'd like to raise money to improve school facilities. They pointed out that the battery charge doesn't last long enough, and that the keyboard was too soft—the children tear it far too often. They would also like the keyboard to have a light, as they can no longer use it once it gets too dark (and nightfall is about 6pm near the equator!) One grandparent pointed out that in areas where children have to take canoes to school across bodies of water, there is a real concern for children dropping the laptops in the water. She suggested that having a waterproof case for the laptops would be invaluable and greatly appreciated. Clearly these parents had done a lot of thinking about what they liked and didn't like so much, regarding the laptops, which sprang from their clear and enthusiastic involvement with the program. This made a lasting impression on me.
The parents were all very thankful for the primary school teachers, and believed that they're doing their best with the laptops (and I can attest to their efforts!)
Finally, the parents kept emphasizing to me that they wanted the program to continue. They didn't want to see it come to an end, and I knew that this was a very real concern for them, as the future of this particular program is very much in doubt, which raises another thorny OLPC-related "big issue"—what happens when a pilot program seems to be going very well, but the higher-up powers-that-be change their minds about priorities, either jeopardizing or canceling the program? These parents were clearly petitioning me to do whatever I could, speak to whomever possible, make the case far and wide, for the continuation of this project. They were grateful, supportive, involved, positive, enthusiastic…and so I'm pleading their case here.
Unfortunately, after speaking with the ICT Outreach coordinator at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), it appears to me that the decision of whether to continue supporting this program (or not) resides somewhere around the top of the Ministry of Education in The Solomon Islands, and also somewhere around the advisors from Australia to this Ministry, who provide quite a bit of the funding. So, once again, this is where politics enters the picture—never too hard to find if we do just a bit of scratching of the surface.
I don't necessarily think that Patukae needs to continue down the OLPC route. I do, however, think that once technology is introduced, there's no going back to the state of things before, and there needs to be a technology-in-the-schools program that continues in Patukae. The specific hardware, the operating system, the bright-color of the laptops—these things are negotiable. But this community, this school, these kids have now experienced a technology-in-education project that has changed their lives, and I'm confident they'll figure out a way to continue going forward with it, even if their government (or key funders) aren't leading the way.


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Combine RSS Feeds and Display Random Items
This code sample demonstrates how multiple RSS feeds can be combined, parsed, and displayed using the XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter classes in the .NET framework. It can display all items found in one or more RSS feeds or display only a few items in a random manner. Ben Miller (Microsoft MVP Lead for ASP.NET, IIS, and Web Services) and I briefly discussed doing this and I ended up with this code sample as a result.


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Water is of course, essential to human life and easy and equitable access to clean water greatly improves everyone's living conditions. We know that in the dry season, sometimes our reservoirs run almost dry and we have to ration water. Then you are only able to get water every other day or only for a few hours. That can make it hard to bathe and clean and cook every day and you don't get to water your plants. So we all recognise that conserving water is very important.You should try to make a difference in your home too!
We are a part of the great World Water Day project organised by Mr Graffin's class at West Leederville Primary School in Perth, Australia. Click on the picture above to visit it and leave a stickie to share how you feel about water co-operation and water conservation! And don't forget to check out 'Save it, share it!', our amazingly informative video (above) featuring the really fun song written by our own SJCPOS Young Leaders!


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Filmmaker Balaji Mohan has completed the shoot for his movie Vaai Moodi Pesavum. The movie has Dulqar Sulaiman and Nazriya in the lead.Sean Roldan has composed the songs.
It is again a rom-com from his stable like his earlier film Kadhalil Sodhapuvadhu Eppadi. The post production works are on at full go and plans are on to release the movie in April.
Meanwhile the audio was launched in Chennai in a grand manner in Chennai in which who's who of Tamil cinema including Mani Ratnam took part.


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International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities
Edited by Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox
Chapter 21: Highly Skilled International Labour Migration and World Cities: Expatriates, Executives and Entrepreneurs
Jonathan V. Beaverstock
Jonathan V. Beaverstock INTRODUCTION Highly skilled international labour migration is a pre-eminent process for world city growth, competitiveness and network building (Friedmann, 1986; Beaverstock and Boardwell, 2000). The burgeoning economies of world cities have created unprecedented conditions for the demand of highly skilled labour in both private and public sector employment (Sassen, 2006). For individuals, world cities have become the 'global elevators' for career development and wealth creation (Beaverstock, 2002). Over the last three decades, the highly concentrated, geo-economic reach and connectedness of world city corporate economies, particularly in banking, finance and professional services, have created the demand conditions for a new breed of highly skilled, talented and mobile worker who is required to engage in transnational working practices within the firm and its client relationships (Beaverstock, 2007a; Jones, 2008). For employers and policy-makers, in the race to be highly competitive on a global stage, the requirement to attract and retain highly skilled, transnational experienced labour has never been so important in the global 'war for talent' (Faulconbridge et al., 2009). Highly skilled labour is the conduit through which capital is accumulated, networks built, connections made and cosmopolitanism reproduced through its embodied knowledge systems, social relations and spatialities of 'cliquey-ness'. These workers are the 'dominant managerial elites' in the so-called third layer of the space of flows (Castells, 2000, p. 445). Following a brief discussion of the significance of highly skilled international labour migration and the firm in the (re)making of the world city, the remainder of the chapter...
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TCF for the general public
The TCF is a multiple-choice test with 80 items that cover reading comprehension, command of grammatical structures and listening comprehension (duration: 1h30). It also includes optional tests for written (1h45) and oral expressions (15 minutes).
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If you wish to apply, in France, as a first year undergraduate (L1) or as an architecture school student and you do not have the DELF B2 or DALF, you must apply for a TCF specific to the preliminary admission application, called "TCF for DAP".
The new 60-minute-long writing task is composed of 3 exercises. More information.
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Barbra Stokes and her husband established GSH of Alabama based in Huntsville. The company is currently working closely with the FEMA or Federal Emergency Management Agency as well as the private sector to provide safe and reliable housing solutions.
The company also offers commercial solutions using innovative design, and smart manufacturing and engineering techniques ranging from on-site to modular construction.
The company has also dome projects like utility installation, land planning, housing for school campuses and home improvements. Barbra also leads the company in doing projects with the military including bulletproof shacks. Read more about Barbara Stokes at The Cullman Times.
In 2001 Barbara Stokes graduated with a bachelor's degree major in biomedical engineering and physics at the Mercer University. She also studied thermodynamics, management, manufacturing, and properties and structures of materials. Prior to founding GSH, Barbara worked with Pisces Corporation and Boeing.
When asked about their business strategy, Barbra Stokes shared that GSH as a woman-owned business gained the advantage of a particular SBA program as one of their tools for growth. She said that this is how the company started working with the US government. The SBA provides various resources that small businesses can avail.
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The first pic that made Venus a star
More lovely pictures of Venus at home...
Venus's mom found her via facebook, when one of her friends posted pictures of a stray kitten litter at a dairy farm in North Carolina. She immediately took to Venus because she already had two cats -- an orange tabby and a black tuxedo cat -- and Venus looked like a perfect split between the two. She called the farm's owner immediately and her husband flew to NC to get her -- flying her back in a carrier sitting on his lap.
The family named Venus for the goddess of beauty and love. Her mom says that she is "as sweet as can be....gentle, loving, and has this little tiny kitten like meow even though she is 3 now."
Venus is very small -- she's fully grown, but she actually only weighs five pounds. Her owner wrote on facebook "She is such a wonderful cat and I'd be just as in love with her even if she wasn't so pretty. Her personality is as beautiful as her outside is." All together now: awwwww.
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CASAC is taking an active interest in the selection of seven members of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). In a media statement issued on 20 September, CASAC initially expressed concern about the way in which the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services was processing the nominations for filling the vacancies, saying the undue haste with which the process was unfolding would detract from any meaningful public participation in the selection process, as envisaged in section 59(1) of the Constitution.
Nominations had closed on Friday 16 September, and the Committee intended to meet on Thursday 22 September to shortlist candidates. The Committee intended to publish the list of nominees by Thursday 22 September. This would leave members of the public and civil society organisations with less than 48 hours in which to consider and comment on the nominees.
However, in a further media statement released today (22 September), CASAC welcomed an adjusted time frame agreed by the Portfolio Committee for filling the seven vacancies, as this would now provide a suitable opportunity for public participation.
The Committee had received 80 nominations for the seven vacancies. Their names were due to be released on the same day (22 September), and the public was invited to comment on their suitability. The deadline for comments would now be Friday 30 September. CASAC intended to make a submission to the Committee. The Committee would then meet on 5 October to shortlist between 15 and 21 candidates, and would interview them on 13 and 14 October.
The statement added: 'We are pleased that the Committee will engage with civil society and members of the public to ensure that the process is open and transparent, in much the same way that the process of appointing the Public Protector was conducted.'
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What a fantastic end to our first half term! Our students showcased their amazing talents during an afternoon of music, song and lots of competitive spirit.
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Winning Soloist – upper school: Elliot Robertson
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He originally created the channel Grande1899, which consisted mainly of Minecraft note block songs, and later created Grandayy in July 2014.
His YouTube channels have been the #1 and #2 most subscribed to YouTube channels in Malta. His Twitter account, grande1899, became one of the biggest in Malta as well.
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Yew Hedges
In our popular culture, the yew may play second fiddle to the oak, but when it comes to hedging, the yew stands supreme. It is the hedging plant. Perhaps the only truly native shrub, yew produces a handsome, longstanding screen, providing full privacy with a soft green backdrop. It is slower growing than other conifers, unless copiously watered in which case assume 25cm per annum when established. However, patience will be rewarded with an easily managed tight (and exceptionally robust) garden hedge – it can survive even the most severe pruning.
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Yew, though, will not tolerate waterlogging – its roots are liable to rot if there is poor drainage – but, other than this, it will thrive in most soils (even shallow chalk) and in sun or shade. In really deep shade, the foliage may be less dense.
It is found in the wild all the way up to Molde in southern Norway and in gardens further north. A further clue to its hardiness is its longevity – Taxus baccata is Europe's longest living plant with several specimens considered to be at least 2,000 years old. When ancient yews split under their own weight, the exposed wood remains immune to disease.
Soil and Situation: Any well-drained soil, sun or shade.
Maintenance: Clip in late summer. Once the desired height has been achieved, prune annually to maintain
Versatility: For the gardener, the yew has but one job (two if you include a specimen tree) – to provide the raw material for the finest possible hedge.
And Finally: Yew is the wood of choice for longbows. Once a stave has been fashioned, it is strung with the heartwood on the inside of the bow and the sapwood on the outside – this makes the bow phenomenally strong as heartwood resists compression while sapwood resists stretching. So, while we may owe our navy to the oak, for centuries the army relied on the yew.


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Does your team have what it takes to bring home the 2019 Nusantara Cup?
Come along and battle it out against other teams from around Asia and Australia in the 20th edition of our famous team tournament!
Join us for a two-day ultimate tournament in beautiful Bali, Indonesia.
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DATE: April 19 – 20, 2019
TIME: 7:00am – 6:00pm
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THEME: Y2K (homage to the first Nusantara Cup in 2000)
COST: 1,050,000 IDR per player for non-IUPA members
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PARTY THEME: Blast from the Past (Party like it's 1999)
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Dear Mr. Howard, I've been reading your biography of Henry Aaron and really emjoyed it. I will be proud to put it on my bookshelf with my collection of David Halberstam's books. I was especially impressed with the examination of Mr. Aaron's character, specifically his being quiet and thoughtful and how in modern day America, that is seen as being a "flaw." I too have had to put up with moronic comments because I am quiet by nature and am more than happy to spend a day by myself. I also liked the depiction of his family's history and how his grandfather and his father Herbert's character had such a huge positive effect on the family. Other than the "Hammering Hank" paperback I bought in grammar school and Henry Aaron's post Home Run record biography, there just isn't anything else out there that depicts Mr. Aaron's life. Thank you for filling that void.
Hi John, Thank you for the note, and I apologize for my access issues which prevented me from seeing this sooner. Henry is a real treasure, a great man I seriously came to admire.
Dear Mr. Bryant - Back in 1961 and '62, my friends would all be talking about who's best, Mantle or Mays. I was the one who said, "wait a second; this guy Aaron in Milwaukee hits .320 with 40 homers and 120 RBIs ever year. He's better!" At the time, we lacked National League baseball, so it was impossible to view Henry until the Mets came into being.
I remained a Henry Aaron fan throughout, and read any books on or by him, thinking I know about all there was to know.
Your book, "The Last Hero..." has been a revelation to me, as it digs deep into the background of this country's attitudes toward black people since the days of slavery, as well as the behind the scenes business dealings in baseball. Best of all is your depiction of Henry Aaron's transformation from uneducated 18 year old from the deep south, to the highly dignified, intelligent spokesman for civil rights he became. The articles on Jackie Robinson and the rivalry with Willie Mays also deepened the picture.
This is a great book. Thank you.
Rich Sigberman
Last comment: I just happened to pick up "The Last Hero..." in a bookstore (yes, there are still a few left) while I was killing time, waiting for my wife's appointment to end. The book totally drew me in. Every page I turned to was highly interesting, and very entertainingly written.
Hey Howard. You make your living from Baseball writing. Can you explain your 2015 HOF ballot. No Piazza? No Smoltz? In fact, according to ESPN you only voted for 3 candidates this year.
Mr. Howard - I agree with Matt's comment above. Your HOF Ballot needs some explanation and validation. The ballot is so stuffed this year that most writer's are having difficulty limiting themselves to 10 names, yet you only chose 3...with one of those votes going to Tim Raines, who's a borderline case at best.
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Murder Case Against Modi in England
A case has been filed against PM Narendra Modi in England by Muslim community activist Tareekh Mohammed alleging that he was responsible for death of three British citizens. Tareekh lodged complaint with Deptford Police in south London alleging that the then Chief Minister and present Prime Minister Narendra Modi are responsibe for the killing of three British citizens in Gujarat riots. Mohammed demanded Modi's arrest when he tours the UK. It is known that 59 persons were burnt alive when coach S6 of Godhra Sabarmati Express caught fire in 2002. Riots after the incident killed 1200 persons in the state.
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06 March 2012
AKB48 Breaks Guinness Record With WONDA CM
AKB48 has broken the Guinness World Record again, this time for having the "Most Versions of a TV Commercial for the Same Product Broadcast Within 24 hours – Free-to-air (Terrestrial TV)".
The CM in question is the WONDA x AKB48 [WONDA Morning Shot] series, which had all 90 versions, for all 90 members in AKB48, put on broadcast on 28 February 2012. This beat the previous record of 60 Android au commercials were broadcast on 27 January 2011 which starred the Arashi members.
When it comes down to sheer numbers, I guess no one can stand in AKB48's way. AKB48 also holds the record for the "Pop Group with the Most Amount of Members" last 2010.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Above is part of an illustration (still a work in progress) that also shows the benefits of my shamisen and also kimono research. This image is very dark and the only light is from a lantern held by the frog character. As always I will post the completed illustration (in approx 1 week).
I have also included a photo from the Oshima Museum of Picture Books in Toyama. This photo was taken after I had read a picture book (Where is the Green Sheep) to a small group (pictured) at the museum.
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Supercharge array operations using Set in JavaScript
August 29, 2019
Working with Arrays in JavaScript is sometimes painful as there aren't a lot of native functions/methods available to carry out common operations on arrays. For instance, an operation as simple as removing an element from an array takes a lot of amount of code. Check this.
A look into Getters and Setters in JavaScript
August 8, 2019
There are always multiple ways of doing things. Programming is no different. For instance, in JavaScript, what would you do if you want to get the property of an object running some operation before returning it? Take this example.
JavaScript functions' implementation inspired by PHP and Laravel
March 29, 2019
A sometime ago I tried my hands on implementing some of the PHP's native functions in native JavaScript. The result is quite interesting list of JavaScript functions you've never asked about.
TIL - How to fix embedded scripts in Progressive Web Apps
September 3, 2018
Progressive Web Apps are great when you need to achieve things like offline capabilities, push notifications, background-sync and to give your website an overall app-like experience. While, the PWAs are great at implementing all of the above things and are the obvious choice, there are certain things which can be broken when you use ServiceWorker(which are the building blocks of any PWA) to make your webaite a PWA.
TIL - Using "Box Model" of Chrome Dev Tools
March 21, 2017
We all know how good is Chrome Dev Tools when it comes to the web debugging capabilities. There are number of features in the Dev Tools which are very useful but we are unaware of.
Handling time intervals in JavaScript
March 15, 2017
While working on an Electron app Pomolectron, I needed to handle different time intervals through setInterval() function of JavaScript. I basically needed to implement three timers in my app:
Building a simple offline-capable Notepad app using ServiceWorker
November 15, 2016
Today, We are going to build a progressive Notepad app which can very well be used in offline mode, be responsive on all available devices and which saves the content locally on device. So, the core functionality of this Notepad here is to make it work offline. To fulfill this requirement, we'll use ServiceWorkers which I'm going to cover next.
Getting started with Electron
June 22, 2016
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Promax claims it has launched the world's smallest refrigerant recovery machine.
Said to be half the size of the company's previous Promax unit, with dimensions similar to a loaf of bread, the RG3000 weighs in at 8kg.
The unit also features a new vibration-isolating design, which claimed to be steadier and quieter than other models, together with improved internal cooling and space utilisation, which have helped improve packaging and efficiency.
Vern Klein, sales director at Promax distributor Advanced Engineering said: "It's not overstating things to say the RG3000 changes the game completely – and will revolutionise the way people choose their recovery machine.
"For years, we've been told 'biggest is best' – well, tell that to the engineer who has to drag it up a ladder, or carry it to the far end of a rooftop site on a cold morning.
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Trixie (Kathleen Barr) is an illusionist pony who resides in Ponyville, and is close friends with the reformed Starlight Glimmer (Kelly Sheridan). She acts as both a villain and a hero throughout My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, often falling victim to her own pride and ambition. She often dramatically refers to herself as "The Great and Powerful Trrrrrixie!"
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Located in Essendon and only 9km north-west from Melbourne's CBD, it is a popular suburb for families with good public transport, schools and extensive shopping options. Essendon is very community-focused, offering friendly hospitality and set amongst parklands, heritage streets and homes.
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Royals Hair & Beauty
Royals Hair & Beauty
Shop 1016
Westfield Shopping Centre
Hornsby, NSW 2077
Phone: 0294774441
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Royals Hair & Beauty was born out of passion for the art of hair. With an obssessive drive to bring the highest level of creativity and energy to their clientele; Royals is one of Sydney's premier hair salons. Conveniently located in Westfield Hornsby but with a stylish boutique environment that will have you enjoying every minute of your visit.
With colourists trained by L'Oreal and stylists trained by some of Australia's most renowned hairdressers, you can't but choose Royals.
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Visited the salon in Westfield Hornsby yesterday and was very impressed. A warm and friendly welcome, a white tea while I waited and then a great hair cut (possibly the best haircut I've had in a long time). I can't remember the name of the hairdresser though. Overall it was a very good experience.
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My water damaged phone will connect to iTunes but not turn on
Hi about 3 days ago I accidentally dropped my device into a toilet. It was in the toilet for about 5 seconds. When I plucked it I tried drying it and opened iTunes to see if its speakers would still work. I didnt know I was supposed to turn it off because Ive never dropped a iPhone in water. It worked but after a few seconds its screen started to glitch and shortly after it turned off. I was about to board a plane so there wasnt much I could do. I opened the phone by taking off the screen and I dried the phne as much as I could. I plugged it into a charger and just heard this sizzling. I took it off a little bit after. I tried turning it on once after and it turned on and then glitched and hasnt turned on since. I was in a city for most of the day so I couldnt take it to where I was staying. I got home about 10 hours later and I put it in some rice. I left it in there for a day and I ried turning it on several times throughout the day. I read that it was bad for the phone so I let it air dry after that. I let it dry for 3 days and today it didnt turn on so I just left it on the charger. I plugged it into my laptop and now it connects to iTunes but wont turn on or charge. What should I do
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Despite my previous two posts, downtown Des Moines could really learn a thing or two from downtown Atlanta. An entire mini-neighborhood of walkable, pedestrian-friendly streets remain in the older portions of the large downtown.
Broad Street NW is a gem of a street. What makes streets like this particularly friendly to pedestrians?
- Buildings primarily range between three and five stories tall. Taller buildings have a clear three-story "base" to maintain the pedestrian scale of the street.
- The street is about 30 feet wide - comfortable for a pedestrian to cross, thin enough to encourage drivers to slow down and pay attention.
- Both sides are lined with street-level retail/restaurants.
- Cars are allowed to park along one side of the street, separated from the pedestrians by a row of trees.
- Buildings have awnings for shade and protection from the weather.
- On the other side, pedestrians are screened from moving cars by trees in raised planting beds.
- The path of travel is wide enough to allow for sidewalk dining, without impinging on pedestrian movement.
- Pedestrian crossings are clearly marked.
Clearly, we know how to make comfortable and inviting pedestrian landscapes that also facilitate business. Removing pedestrians from this environment (skywalks) and removing necessary streetscape elements lead to spaces that nobody wants to inhabit.
The lesson for Des Moines is to capitalize on and expand the few pedestrian-friendly areas that remain in order to promote viable, sustainable mixed-use commercial districts. Adopt form-based zoning overlays that focus less on use, and more on the form of the built environment to encourage vital and organic redevelopment.


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What is Online Safety and why is it important?
Online Safety is the school's ability:
- to protect and educate pupils in their use of technology
- to have the appropriate mechanisms to intervene and support any incident where appropriate
Online Safety encompasses not only Internet technologies but also electronic communications via mobile phones, games consoles and wireless technology. It highlights the need to educate children and young people about the benefits, risks and responsibilities of using information technology.
- Online Safety concerns safeguarding children and young people in the digital world.
- Online Safety emphasises learning to understand and use new technologies in a positive way.
- Online Safety is less about restriction and more about education about the risks as well as the benefits so we can feel confident online.
- Online Safety is concerned with supporting children and young people to develop safer online behaviours both in and out of school.
Our local PCSO visited our school on Tuesday 6th June 2017 and gave an e-safety talk to children in Years 4, 5 and 6. Please find below some information she gave us which parents may find useful.
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Below is a useful information leaflet on e-safety for parents and carers of primary school children, as taken from the KCC website.
Always be careful when you are using the internet. It can help you to keep in touch with your friends and help your education – but it can also cause harm – to you and to others.
Remember help is always available at school if you are having any problems online.
Don't be afraid to talk to your teacher or another adult at school.
If you or anyone you know is worried about Child Exploitation, Online Protection or anything related to Internet safety please click the link below which will take you to the CEOP reporting website:
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· Make sure you keep new online friends strictly online. If someone you don't know asks to be your online friend you must ensure an adult knows about it.
· Know how to use the CEOP Button and how to report it to the CEOP Centre if you are concerned about someone's online behaviour towards you.


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Deep Web is a part of the World Wide Web, refers to Internet information that is inaccessible to conventional search engines. It includes all Web pages, websites, intranets, Restricted content, personal Cloud Services, Unlinked Addresses networks and online communities and other content that is accessible over the Internet but is not crawled and indexed by search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing or DuckDuckGo.
It is estimated that only 4 percent of the Web is visible and 96 percent of the Web is invisible or Deep Web. It may be a shadowland of untapped potential, but with a bit of skill and some luck, you can illuminate a lot of valuable information that many people worked to archive. It is also known as hidden Web, Undernet, Deepnet or Invisible Web.
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Is it illegal to access deep Web?
Illicit here indicates that you can't be jailed or convicted for being on the deep web, granted. But it's still something the govt. doesn't support or approve of, so if ever you're charged with any other cyber-related crime, the fact and proof of you being a Deep web stroller might serve as a serious blowback during your trials.


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SMARTFRAMES preschool toys
SMARTFRAMES preschool toys
When I started working for Smart in 1997, the development of SmartFrames was the first real design work I did after I graduated. Designing a real product was not only new for me, but also for the company I worked for (Smart Belgium). Until 1997 Smart was just a toy distributor in the Benelux and France. With SmartFrames they started to become a toy producer/ manufacturer.
Because they did no longer want to depend too much on suppliers, they wanted to start their own brand. For that reason they licensed the copyrights of an existing collection of toys with metal wires and beads. The idea was to start with the existing models and to add new products to it every year. And so we did. We started with 5 models and ended 7 years later with a collection of more than 35 different ones.
So I definitely did not "invent" any of these SmartFrames. And it was not exactly my favorite choice. But I was young and had no experience whatsoever, so I was happy to work on real products. It gave me the opportunity to learn everything about bringing a product to the market. After doing all kind of projects at school for 5 years, I really wanted to create something that would actually be made and sold.
from left to right: SmartFrame models named Julia, Othello and Romeo
For more than 5 years I spent most of my time to create and produce all kinds of models for the SmartFrames brand. At a certain moment, these toys were so popular that Smart decided to buy a German wire bending machine (WAFIOS). I was sent to Germany to learn how to program and maintain this machine. During this period all SmartFrames parts were produced and assembled in Belgium. Smart was not the only toy company making this kind of toys, but they claimed with success to make "the original" ones.
The first years these toys were high quality and quite expensive. After a while they became cheaper and cheaper, but also the quality went down, partly because most companies started producing them in China. It was also not very helpful that Ikea made something similar for a fraction of the price. But for me it was clear from the start that this kind of product was a dead end in terms of product development.
from left to right: SmartFrame models named Hannibal and Samba
The first versions looked great and offered some real educational benefits. But because of the high price, people often bought cheaper and smaller versions that lacked any real play value. The original idea was so simple and good, that there was no way to improve it. But in toy land, "new" is the magic word. And what do companies do, when there is no way to really improve something? They make all kinds of variations that only look new, but are much worse than the original version. That's what happened with this type of toy: it started as a real educational toy and ended as something that was only decorative.
I tried not to design anything like that, but it was hard to resist the pressure of "everybody is making this kind of things, so we should make them too". A lot of the models I created still look nice, but I personally don't consider them as "good" toys.
from left to right: SmartFrame models named Big Apple, Captain and Castello
I did like doing this kind of work. It is really basic designing in the sense that you try to create a nice shape using nothing more than a few metal wires. But I am more an inventor than a designer. For me the idea comes first (old school "form follows function"). And there is not much to add to this toy from a conceptual point of view, although I did make a few attempts.
The first toys that were more than classic SmartFrames were BeadBabies. This was a collection of 4 rattles, also made of metal wire. After all these years I still like the BeadBoy, although I have serious doubts now, if making rattles for babies from a metal wire was such a good idea. The BeadBabies first introduced the very simple "smiley head" that I later on also used for the Speedies and for most of the wooden toys of SmartWood.
from left to right: SmartFrame models named Bead Boy, Bead Girl, Bead Baby and Bead Butterfly
A much better attempt was the creation of 4 vehicles. Every time beech wood was cut into parts to make the bottom of the classic SmartFrames, a small piece at the end was left over. I designed a few vehicles that could make use of this wood. They all had a little metal wire, although the function of this wire was more to give the vehicles a handle. Each vehicle also had something special. The train had a whistle and the plane a propellor. The best one was the helicopter where you could rotate the rotors by spinning the head of the figure. Simple things, but things that young children like to do.
The also have a special place in my heart, because they are what I consider "my first real product designs". Smart sold a lot of them for more than 10 years. If you can find any today, they are probably Chinese copies, because Smart stopped producing them a few years ago.
from left to right: SmartFrame models named Speedy Car, Speedy Train, Speedy Plane and Speedy Copter
Animal Runners
After the success of the Speedies, Smart asked me to do something similar with animals. Although they looked OK, I preferred the Speedies, because animals with wheels seemed a bit strange. These animal figures are also more decorative and less functional.
from left to right: SmartFrame models named Elephant Runner, Croco Runner, Duck Runner and Zebra Runner
My personal favorite SmartFrame I designed is the one below. It was really big and is probably one of the few models that really catch the attention of a child for more than 5 minutes, named "King".
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Senate Democrats Target Homeschool Families in Last-Minute Tax Reform Tantrum
As the Republican Party edged closer to passing historic tax reform, Democrats in the U.S. Senate used a last-minute procedural protest to attack homeschool families. Their petty complaint struck the short title of the tax reform bill, one provision of the endowment tax, and the extension of college savings plans to homeschool expenses.
The homeschool attack proved particularly revealing. The Republican tax bill would extend the use of 529 tax-advantaged saving plans — originally intended to foster saving for college tuition — to K-12 public and private schools, as well as homeschooling. Rather than complaining that 529s should only be for college, the Democrats struck the homeschool provision, leaving the K-12 school extension in place.
Make no mistake: this was a disgusting attack on the families of approximately 1.5 million American children who are educated at home, perhaps in an attempt to privilege teacher's unions.
On Tuesday night, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) issued a joint statement in a last-ditch attempt to halt the passage of the tax reform bill. Ironically, they blamed Republicans for breaking the rules, in the very act of applying the rules as a bludgeon against homeschool families.
"In the mad dash to provide tax breaks for their billionaire campaign contributors, our Republican colleagues forgot to comply with the rules of the Senate," Sanders and Wyden said. "We applaud the parliamentarian for determining that three provisions in this disastrous bill are in violation of the Byrd rule."
The Byrd rule lays out six criteria deemed "extraneous" in any reconciliation bill. Presence of these "extraneous" parts of legislation would increase the threshold for a bill to pass the Senate — 60 senators, rather than just 50, would be required to vote for it.
Sanders and Wyden admitted their intent in pushing the Byrd rule: "It is our intention to raise a point of order to remove these provisions from the conference report and require the House to vote on this bill again."