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Shrinking Wormholes; Transferring Syllogism Twine

(page 134-137)

Homestuck is my worst enemy. These past couple days without updates left me time to transcribe the video on page 137, which took long enough that I never want to look at it again. Which is a shame, because it's a cool video, the shifting colors and the twisting spirograph are good to look at and I like the irregularity of the movement. And I do respect the attention to detail - the fact that Hussie took the time to write out 231 meaningless phrases about DIY and spread them unevenly throughout the video shows a real dedication to recreating the video game experience. It feels very real, I can sense the anticipation when the video gets stuck on a particular phrase for a full second, that feeling of just wanting to play the game but having to wait.

Below the cut at the end I've listed all the phrases in the video, but it's LONG, so be warned. I'm also not sure this was a good use of time, there's not loads here that seems relevant. We get a broad overall sense of the game, which seems to be a building/DIY simulator, maybe something like digital Lego, maybe something more like having to maintain a house day to day, perform repairs and give it 'upgrades' like new lighting or a new garage, as most of the nouns are tools you could buy in a Home Depot.

Here's a few exceptions that jumped out to me:

Observing Avenues, Analyzing Eyes - both of these relate to surveillance

Transferring Syllogism Twine, Auditing Nescience Passages - relate to knowledge/logic or the lack of it

Anticipating Gateways, Shrinking Wormholes, Referring Time Spools, Retrofitting Aesthetics Portals - these relate to time and space, perhaps to messing with the laws of physics

Transcribing Existence Rivets, Finalizing Atma Augers - relate to life and the soul

It's interesting to me how these phrases are hidden within a barrage of far more mundane ones. I think this game will seem on its surface to be very normal and simply a reflection of John's existing life, playing in a digital house not too different to his very real one, but that it has more and weirder stuff going on below the surface. The game will present opportunities to escape the trap of the suburbs in ways that John can't yet figure out in real life - but will be able to in the game, because he has experience with gaming and coding. It might take some mild hacking and exploiting loopholes in the mechanics, but these possibilities are clearly coded into the game, or they wouldn't be in the loading screen. It's a game that wants the players to push its limits and see what's possible, and rewards a player who tries to go beyond the mechanics as presented.

John's had a lot of practice messing with his sylladex for 130+ pages, and I think that's really going to pay off when he starts using a similar skillset in game. It's interesting, because most characters (or people) would have an arc of learning a skill in a game and then exporting it to real life, while I think John's going to have the opposite, with the supposed constraints of the game actually giving him freedom, and the supposed open world of real life just closing doors to him.

Anyway, no wonder TT is excited to play this game. I bet she's eating up all these long words.

Transcript of Flash animation, p.137. Spelling mistakes come from the original.

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Finally, Is ItThe End Of The Analyst/Consultant Spirograph Era?

Ask ChatGPT "How many different types of business graphs are there?" Then ask yourself, how many are useful to you.

“The Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy invented by British engineer Denys Fisher and first introduced to the market in 1965. It allows users to create intricate and hypnotic patterns resembling mathematical curves called hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. The toy became immensely popular and has been a favorite among children and adults for decades.” Over the past few months, I have tracked…

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How will the people of my world observe that they are actually on a moon?

Tex: If we define “moon” as “a natural satellite that orbits a planet”, then the people of your world would likely find that they’re orbiting a celestial body bigger than the one they’re currently on, in much the same way that we figured out that we orbit the Sun.

Constablewrites: Well, when we got to our own moon we took a bunch of pictures of what Earth looked like from there. And there have been plenty of artists renderings about how other planets in our solar system would look in our sky if they were as close as our moon. This page has some good examples, and also some discussion of how life might be different with that setup. So things like days and seasons potentially look very different on a moon than on a planet. The question then would be if they know what things look like on a planet to recognize how their setup is different.

Synth: The simplest answer is: they look at the stuff in the sky, watch how it moves relative to their vantage point, and extrapolate from there. Eventually the mathematics of orbital mechanics will bring them to the conclusion that they orbit a planet, which in turn orbits a sun (they may or may not have determined that their sun is also a star, just much closer than all the other stars).

You haven’t mentioned anything regarding their tech level -- specifically if they’ve invented the telescope yet -- but that’s okay! Our earliest (surviving) account of a heliocentric model is from all the way back in 300 BCE, but it wasn’t until Hans Lippershey built the first known telescope in 1608, and two years later both Galileo Galilei and Simon Mayr independently were the first to see and describe the four largest moons of Jupiter, that we finally had clear evidence that Earth was not the centre of the universe. Depending on the particulars of your planetary system, your moon-dwelling populace may not even need a telescope to figure things out.

Now a longer answer, possibly probably most definitely with some digressions and general meandering, but Synth Did Research, Dammit, and learned some cool shit, so now you all get to hear about it.Okay, so, the thing is that while it may have taken humanity a good long time to definitively conclude and prove that the Earth orbits the Sun and not the other way around, we’ve been really good at tracking and calculating the motions of astronomical bodies relative to us for a long time. Like, a ludicrously long time. In 1976 a mesolithic calendar was discovered at Warren Fields in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, though excavations didn’t begin until 2004. It tracks time based on solstices. Radiocarbon dating places its construction at around 8000 BCE, over ten thousand years ago. This is just the oldest calendar we know of and/or that has survived the millennia; there could well have been more out there that are no longer intact.

Architecture with archaeoastronomical significance has been around for ages. Stonehenge in England lines up with the solstices and possibly also lunar motion. Chaco Canyon in the USA tracks solstices and equinoxes. The Governor’s Palace at the ancient Maya city of Uxmal, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, aligns to the movement of Venus. There are hypotheses that some of the paintings in the Lascaux caves (which are somewhere around seventeen thousand years old) in France form a paleolithic star chart. The saros cycle, the repeating pattern of solar and lunar eclipses, was known to Babylonian astronomers way back in 3500 BCE.

We have been fascinated with outer space for probably the entirety of our existence. It just took us a little while to confirm heliocentrism because from our point of reference it does look like everything else is travelling around the Earth. If your moon inhabitants have a similar level of curiosity about their surroundings, it isn’t that far a stretch to think they might also excel at mapping the stuff up in the sky, even in their equivalent of the Stone Age. And once their tech hits the computer era, well, a recent example that we tossed out into the cosmos is New Horizons. It arrived pretty much almost exactly when we calculated it would, after travelling several billion kilometres over the course of almost a decade.

Yeah, humanity has become real good at space math over the ages.

Two potentially helpful terms to look into are eclipses and (apparent) retrograde motion.

From our vantage point the apparent diameter of the Moon and the Sun is almost identical -- 31 arcminutes, or half a degree, on average -- so prior to figuring out that the Sun is in truth some four hundred times wider than the Moon but looks way smaller than that because of the distance, how could we tell that the Moon was closer to us? By observing eclipses. Sometimes the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth (solar eclipse), and sometimes the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon (lunar eclipse), but the Sun never comes between the Earth and the Moon (...Armaggedon?), therefore the Sun must be farther away from us than the Moon.

Apparent retrograde motion is when a planet (or moon or other celestial body) appears to move in reverse from its usual path. AKA: why Mars* be Like That.

*All the other planets in our solar system also demonstrate retrograde motion, but Mars is the closest to us that doesn’t sometimes get lost in the glare of the Sun, so it’s the easiest to track.

Explaining retrograde motion was the biggest hurdle for geocentric systems. If everything orbits the Earth, why do the other planets sometimes just turn around and go the other way for a while? Enter epicycles, many smaller circles that the planet travelled around as it moved along its orbit. When it came to explaining planetary motion and plotting future astronomical positions, epicycles… did a surprisingly decent job at it, because math reasons.

This is an almost 250-year-old diagram of the apparent motions of Mercury, Venus and the Sun as seen from Earth, and it definitely looks very epicycle-y. It’s also complicated, looking less like a map of a solar system and more like someone had a bit of fun with a Spirograph™, and it doesn’t even include the Moon, or Mars or Jupiter or Saturn, the other three planets known in antiquity. But it held on for a good long while because it did work to describe how they moved. Even Copernicus’ new heliocentric model made use of epicycles, since the circular orbits he used in it couldn’t entirely account for the planets’ observed paths. It wasn’t until Kepler came along about a century after Copernicus and postulated elliptical orbits for the planets that everything fell into place as we know it now.

A few things to consider when building your solar system.

Ratio of moon-to-planet sizes. Saturn’s moons are quite small relative to their parent planet. Our moon is very large, as moons go, at ¼ Earth’s diameter. Pluto’s moon Charon is massive compared to Pluto, at over ½ Pluto’s diameter.

Distance between moon(s) and planet, and planet and sun. You don’t need exact measurements, but if there are multiple moons you should have at least a rough overview of what order they’re in. Is your inhabited moon the closest one to the planet, or the farthest out, or somewhere in the middle? This also ties back into the sizes of your astronomical bodies, since the closer things are to each other, the larger they will appear in the sky. Is the planet an absolutely massive presence in your moon’s sky, or does it only cover a few degrees? Or not even a whole degree? How big is the sun in the sky? What about the other planets, if there are other planets? Are they only differentiated from the background stars because they move more, or are they big enough and/or close enough to be Very Obviously Not Stars?

Number of moons. Is it like Earth, with its single moon? Maybe more like Pluto, with five moons, or Neptune, with fourteen. Or perhaps even Jupiter or Saturn, at over sixty moons each and possibly more yet to be found. How many of these other moons are visible from your inhabited moon, if any? Do they all orbit relatively close to the plane of the ecliptic, or are some of them off doing their own thing, zooming around on a highly eccentric, extremely inclined orbit?

Type of planet. Does your moon orbit a rocky planet (e.g. Earth, Mars), or a gas giant (e.g. Jupiter, Uranus)? Gas giants -- or rocky planets with extreme cloud cover, like Venus -- have a higher albedo than rocky planets, meaning they reflect a greater amount of any solar radiation that shines on them. If the parent planet is very reflective, there could be a lot of sunlight shining on your moon for very long stretches of time, depending on how things orbit each other. Perhaps the moon’s inhabitants get more of their light indirectly via planetary reflection, rather than directly from the sun?

Is this moon tidally locked to its planet? This means its rotational and orbital periods sync up -- i.e. the time it takes to spin once on its axis and the time it takes to travel once around its primary are identical -- thus the same face is always pointed toward the planet. Earth’s moon is tidally locked, so we never see the back of it from down here on the ground. A tidally locked moon could make things quite interesting for the inhabitants: people living on one hemisphere would always see the planet in the sky, and people on the other side would never see it. Potential for some interesting things there.

Not astronomy-related per se, but what’s going on with your moon’s populace in a religious sense? Here on Earth religion did play a big part in how long it took for certain astronomical theories to get off the ground. Do these people have any spiritual/religious beliefs that might help or hinder the general acceptance of: “Yo, we’re on a moon”?

It’s possible that some moons might have smaller moons of their own. They’re called submoons, grandmoons, or moonmoons, because sometimes scientists are not great at naming things. If your people have made it to the “flinging stuff into space via a chain of controlled explosions (i.e. rockets)” level of technology, their moon probably has at least a few artificial satellites.

Here is a neat chart of our solar system’s moons, which I am including for inspiration purposes and also because it’s cool.

...I could have probably condensed all of that down to “eclipses and retrograde motion” and been done with it, huh? Oh well. I hope everybody learned some interesting things today.

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mobliterated replied to your post “(Lumping some related asks together)”:

((Stellar parallax is definitely something you could measure in fs hyrule time if they’ve invented helioscopes (a 1700’s invention to measure the diameter of the sun). Of course it’d have to be measured over half a year but it’s still definitely something that can be done in hyrule time!))

((sry I really love astronomy but if stellar parallax seems a bit too advanced you could always measure retrograding, which is planets appear to be moving backwards in the sky due to the earth surpassing them in orbit. Takes much less tech to discover! It destroyed the theory of epicycles which basically was just “each planet has orbits on orbits on orbits.” Very messy, and made very ugly maps that made less and less sense as more observations found more eccentric planet movement. V cool stuff!)

No need to apologize!  Astronomy is fascinating, I love to hear about it! :D

I had the concept of parallax/binocular vision on the brain for unrelated Art Project Reasons (coming soon(ish) to an art blog near you, maybe) so that was what sprung to mind when I tried to think of something cool I could remember from the astronomy class I took once.  It’s really awesome how we can use our planet’s orbit like that!

I remember epicycle maps, too!  Crazy Homestuck-looking spirographs xD

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Toys From My Childhood:

Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.

The name has been a registered trademark of Hasbro Inc. since 1998 following purchase of the company that had acquired the Denys Fisher company. The Spirograph brand was relaunched worldwide with original product configurations in 2013 by Kahootz Toys.

In 1827 English architect and engineer Peter Hubert Desvignes developed his "Speiragraph",[1] a machine to create elaborate spiral drawings, intended to prevent bank note forgeries.[2]

The mathematician Bruno Abakanowicz invented the Spirograph between 1881 and 1900. It was used for calculating an area delimited by curves.[3] Drawing toys based on gears have been around since at least 1908, when The Marvelous Wondergraph was advertised in the Sears catalog.[4][5] An article describing how to make a Wondergraph drawing machine appeared in the Boys Mechanic publication in 1913.[6] The Spirograph itself was developed by the British engineer Denys Fisher, who exhibited at the 1965 Nuremberg International Toy Fair. It was subsequently produced by his company. US distribution rights were acquired by Kenner, Inc., which introduced it to the United States market in 1966 and promoted it as a creative children's toy.

In 2013 the Spirograph brand was re-launched worldwide by Kahootz Toys with products that returned to the use of the original gears and wheels. The modern products use removable putty in place of pins or are held down by hand to keep the stationary pieces in place on the paper. The Spirograph was a 2014 Toy of the Year finalist in two categories, over 45 years after the toy was named Toy of the Year in 1967. [Wikipedia]

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Tony Orrico “The Human Spirograph”

https://tonyorrico.com/biography/

Tony Orrico is a graphite artist who creates large scale geometric pieces. Orrico uses a two handed drawing technique to create symmetrical patterns around his body. 

“I commit my attention, rationally, to the sensitivity of my body at the receptive level— ready points and lines in space. I attain a sense of embodiment that is geometric and mechanical. With no dominating sense of axis or directional force, and find the ability to motor from invented traction. The course is non-objective; it is a continuation of pathway and response to stimuli.”

Lesley Halliwell

http://www.lesleyhalliwell.com/

Lesley Halliwell is an artist who uses spirographs on a very large scale to produce stunning geometric mandala style pieces of work. Unlike Orrico, Halliwell uses brightly coloured ball point pens which makes each part of her design stand out. She overlaps each spirograph which allows the colours to blend and transition smoothly. 

I chose to research spirographs as a lose link to cuboid because when I think of cuboid I think of geometric shapes and symmetry. I also chose Orrico because I wanted to include his two handed drawing technique in my zine.

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Atlanta: Officers are sharp forward with plans for some contemporary parks within the metropolis. The Atlanta-Journal Structure experiences that the City Council final week authorized the acquisition of land from The Conservation Fund for a park within the Dwelling Park neighborhood. The metropolis will resolve the land for moderately of extra than $200,000. City officers also authorized funding to resolve two properties for the $40 million Rodney Cook dinner Sr. Park for the time being below construction within the Vine City neighborhood. The AJC says the park will characteristic 18 sculptures memorializing civil rights heroes, including Martin Luther King Jr.

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Hilo: The Colossal Island neighborhood that was ravaged by the 2018 Kilauea volcano eruption has become a destination for tourists trying to procure a take into story on the injure prompted by one of basically the most spicy eruptions within the volcano’s recent historic previous. But the Hawaii Tribune Herald experiences residents of the Leilani Estates neighborhood receive in mind the mates a nuisance and are relieved to take into story hobby initiating to wane. Tourism elevated as residents had been trying to entire back to their properties and property after being pressured to evacuate. More than 700 properties had been destroyed. Leilani Estates Neighborhood Association president Andy Andrews says the collection of tourists has fallen very much since earlier this twelve months, and there are fewer confrontations between locals and mates, who he says ignore warning indicators and parking principles.

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Boise: Latino college students procure up 18% of the enrollment within the articulate’s public schools, however their success scores proceed to dawdle articulate averages. The Idaho Statesman experiences researchers and articulate officers articulate improving Latino college students’ outcomes is an pressing want thanks to their importance to the articulate’s personnel. The Idaho Division of Education has establish lengthy-term targets to toughen Latino outcomes. Nevertheless, the department has left plan for reaching these targets to districts and schools with puny success in two years. Latino college students are recording lower-than-common test scores and fewer postsecondary degrees. Rod Gramer, the CEO of Idaho Substitute for training, says if the Latino college students will not be worthwhile, Idaho just isn't very going to attain success.

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Chicago: The metropolis’s lecturers union voted to approve a tentative contract settlement with metropolis officers Wednesday however refused to quit a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes except the mayor adds faculty days to veil that misplaced time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot talked about Wednesday night that she wouldn't meet that question. Lightfoot accused the union’s top leadership of “sharp the target posts” by elevating the pronounce Wednesday in want to in a face-to-face meeting along with her Tuesday. “Not once correct thru that three-and-a-half-hour meeting did they elevate compensation for strike days,” Lightfoot talked about heatedly. Chicago Public Colleges CEO Janice Jackson talked about it would require lowering iciness or spring atomize days or including days to the quit of the twelve months. Union President Jesse Sharkey talked about the lecturers will not be asking to be paid for a strike however raise out credit ranking the walkout for forcing the district to compromise on some contract components.

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Seymour: John Mellencamp, the matter of a brand contemporary mural in his native land, instructed the challenge by including a few vital brushstrokes Tuesday afternoon. Indiana rock star Mellencamp painted his initials, “JJM,” on the exterior of a song retailer in Seymour, the personnel he immortalized in 1985 hit “Tiny City.” Artist Pamela Bliss says Mellencamp was reserved and appreciative correct thru his surprise talk over with, however he also flashed his signature ornery demeanor when Bliss offered a limited paintbrush after he agreed to signal the work. “He talked about, ‘You name that a (expletive) brush? Give me but every other one,’ ” Bliss talked about, laughing. “I got moderately of a part of the particular John lovely there.” Bliss says she’s a fan of Mellencamp’s artwork, a few of which are for the time being on display on the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts in Seymour and at ACA Galleries in Fresh York City.

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Waukee: Authorities are investigating but every other explosion at a gender present celebration that came about in some unspecified time in the future after a blast at a identical gathering killed a 56-twelve months-outdated woman in a nearby personnel. Authorities articulate no one was injured within the explosion Sunday in rural Waukee, a Des Moines suburb, however they're taking a take into story into unconfirmed claims that the blast broke a neighbor’s windows. Waukee Fire Capt. Tomme Tysdal says the Waukee explosion came from a commercially within the market gender present kit, not like the house made tool that killed Pamela Kreimeyer on Saturday finish to Knoxville, a town 45 miles away. Authorities articulate Kreimeyer died straight when her family’s tool exploded, hitting her within the highest from 45 toes away.

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Dodge City: A monkey that was injured final month trying to present protection to his offspring from being taken by an outsider correct thru an apparent atomize-in at a zoo has died. Officers on the Wright Park Zoo articulate the 32-twelve months-outdated tufted capuchin monkey was stumbled on unresponsive early Tuesday. City spokeswoman Abbey Martin says the zoo’s veterinarian was unable to revive the monkey, named Vern. The Hutchinson Recordsdata experiences a necropsy will likely be carried out to opt the establish off of demise. Vern underwent surgical plan for damaged bones after the Sept. 3 atomize-in. A youthful monkey named Pickett was stumbled on free correct thru the metropolis limits and returned to the zoo. Vern and a female monkey named Charro arrived on the zoo in 1988. Their two youngest sons, Jack and Pickett, are fragment of the zoo’s recent capuchin troop.

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Murray: Murray Sigh College college students are the usage of GPS devices to be aware field turtles and fetch out about the technology’s cost. Assistant wildlife biology professor Andrea Darracq says college students work within the college room to own the tracking devices and jog into the discipline at an off-campus university property to detect the turtles. The university says the turtles are tracked with the GPS devices and a transmitter, allowing the college students to opt a turtle’s diagram with a receiver and evaluate it to extra staunch GPS readings. The college says the taking pictures and marking of turtles was carried out with approval from its Institute on Animal Care and Utilize Committee and a articulate academic wildlife collection enable.

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Fresh Orleans: A $2.1 million evaluate challenge at Tulane College is geared toward helping participants of an American Indian tribe take care of climate change and economic inequality. In a info open, Tulane says the challenge objectives to learn the United Houma Nation. Challenges going thru the south Louisiana tribe embody coastal land loss that threatens fishing, trapping and even some properties. Segment of the challenge will procure inspecting how tribal residents switch interior and launch air the articulate to receive watch over these and other challenges. Tulane’s College of Public Health and Tropical Treatment was awarded the challenge by the Nationwide Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Treatment’s Gulf Be taught Program.

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Gardiner: It appears to be like be pleased a duck, quacks be pleased a duck, and – if it will get a prosthetic leg – will once extra stroll be pleased a duck. Loni Hamner, of Gardiner, not too lengthy within the past adopted a female Mallard duck that was left with one leg and a stump after being attacked by a fox final twelve months. Hamner says the duck she’s named Faith can hop and walk round, however she wants her “to procure a correct duck quality of lifestyles and raise out your entire things ducks attach to receive out.” The Bangor Each day Recordsdata experiences that a search info from on the Maine Poultry Connection Fb internet page led Hamner to the College of Maine Stepped forward Building and Composites Center. Lab manager Paul Bussiere says he’ll procure a prosthetic leg for Faith for free in his spare time.

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Annapolis: Exelon Corp., the energy firm that runs the Conowingo Dam, will make investments extra than $200 million in environmental projects, in accordance to an settlement launched Tuesday by Gov. Larry Hogan. Officers procure been focusing on easy how you potentially may well also take care of the environmental impression of trash and debris that has been swept downstream from Pennsylvania to Maryland thru the dam after heavy rains. Sigh officers also are appealing that sediment buildup within the back of the dam’s walls would be released and wreak havoc on the honest Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. The cash within the proposed settlement will likely be mature to toughen water quality within the Lower Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s most spicy estuary, Hogan talked about. Parts of the settlement will likely be submitted for approval to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as fragment of the licensing renewal for the dam.

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Carver: The cranberry industry is taking a take into story to photo voltaic energy for reduction because it struggles with plummeting fruit prices. Cranberry farmers in Massachusetts, the nation’s 2d-most spicy grower after Wisconsin, are proposing to own photo voltaic panels above their lavatories. Jordan Macknick, an analyst on the Nationwide Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, says the novel advance to blending photo voltaic production with sever cultivation is being researched however hasn’t been tried sooner than on a enormous scale anywhere on this planet. Michael Wainio, a Massachusetts cranberry farmer proposing one of many projects, says earnings from photo voltaic energy is well-known to striking forward his family’s farm finish to Cape Cod. College of Massachusetts researchers procure launched a take into story to spy the idea that. Opponents argue there would be lengthy-term environmental consequences.

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Detroit: The funeral for John Conyers, who served extra than 50 years in Congress, will likely be held Monday at a church within the metropolis. The public will procure a likelihood to display their admire for Conyers on Saturday and Sunday on the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Conyers died Sunday at age 90, two years after resigning from the U.S. Condominium. Monica Conyers tells The Detroit Recordsdata that her husband’s funeral will likely be held at Elevated Grace Temple. She anticipates dilapidated President Bill Clinton will abet, along with elected officers. On Twitter, Clinton called Conyers a “champion for justice & equality.” Conyers was a founding father of the Congressional Sunless Caucus and is credited with increasing the federal vacation honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Minneapolis: Recordsdata display that the College of Minnesota’s 2019 learners class is basically the most spicy in 50 years and comprises basically the most college students of colour within the college’s historic previous. The Minnesota Each day experiences the Sigh of job of Institutional Be taught’s numbers present that most learners – about 54% – are female. In 2010, 18% of the freshman class was college students of colour. Now, minority college students procure up extra than a quarter of this twelve months’s class. Vice provost and dean of the college’s Sigh of job of Undergraduate Education Bob McMaster says fragment of the upward thrust is thanks to adjustments in Minnesota excessive schools, which procure seen demographic shifts in recent years. Peaceful, the collection of murky college students stays moderately limited. About 5% of recent college students are murky, up moderately from over 4% a decade within the past.

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Jackson: With the nationwide closure of Fred’s Pharmacy, one county is taking it in actuality arduous. The residents of Kemper County in east-central Mississippi now fetch themselves without any pharmacy for your entire county. Residents will want to diagram and capture up prescriptions at pharmacies in Meridian or Philadelphia – a few 30-minute drive to every particular person. Mississippi Board of Pharmacy President Ryan Harper says that will more than likely be a challenge for some of the articulate’s most serious patients. He says patients on multiple prescriptions also on occasion procure an infinite hurdle of having procure correct of entry to to real transportation. Fred’s closed Oct. 18. It was positioned within the county seat, Dekalb, with a inhabitants of honest over 1,000 residents.

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Kansas City: The mayor is proposing an ordinance geared toward helping police receive firearms away from these with a historic previous of home violence. The Kansas Smartly-known particular person experiences that the ordinance Quinton Lucas unveiled Wednesday would enable police to receive firearms from home violence offenders or these who're the matter of restraining orders. A identical federal law exists, however backers articulate a local law would support police and prosecutors pursue the cases. Lucas and his employees wrote the proposal with support from the Rose Brooks Center, a refuge for victims of home violence. Safe haven sufferer advocate Annie Struby says extra than half of basically the most unhealthy home abusers in Kansas City procure procure correct of entry to to firearms.

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Helena: The articulate has spent extra than $2 million on snow plowing to this point this twelve months, surpassing what charges had been by this date for the previous two years. The Just Document experiences snow plowing charges for the articulate Division of Transportation elevated by extra than 250% since final twelve months. Division officers articulate they spent $575,577 from July 1 to Oct. 28 final twelve months and $544,872 correct thru the identical length in 2017. Officers articulate document snowstorms procure hit enormous areas honest days into the tumble season, breaking a protracted time­lengthy snowstorm records in cities be pleased Huge Falls. Officers articulate about 277,800 miles procure been plowed to this point this season. Only a quarter of that was plowed this time final twelve months. Officers articulate charges embody labor, working instruments and provides.

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North Platte: Officers procure begun the procedure to procure the metropolis’s downtown placed on the Nationwide Register of Historical Areas. City officers convened an launch home Monday to learn about the federal and articulate historic-district options with participants of an Omaha planning company and the Nebraska Sigh Historical Preservation Sigh of job. Omaha-basically basically based RDG will put together North Platte’s nomination papers. Stephanie Rose, an metropolis planner for the company, says residents are welcome to portion their options and historic knowledge along with her over the arriving months. If the U.S. Nationwide Park Carrier adds downtown North Platte to the register, structures which are on the least 50 years outdated correct thru the district may well qualify for federal and articulate historic tax credit ranking to support pay for rehabilitation projects.

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Las Vegas: The articulate’s casinos took in nearly $1.06 billion in winnings final month – a excessive for 2019 and a document for September in a key index of articulate fiscal effectively being. Nevada Gaming Administration Board analyst Michael Lawton attributes Wednesday’s healthy “gaming purchase” document to a upward push in slot machine play and outcomes from Las Vegas Strip and Clark County casinos. Lawton says a 6.8% elevate within the monthly figure compared with the identical month a twelve months within the past was the fourth straight elevate within the twelve months-to-twelve months comparability. The articulate took in nearly $66.4 million in taxes on the September 2019 figures. The $1.059 billion tally topped the earlier September exclusively of $1.058 billion in 2007 by honest $100,000. October 2007 was the exclusively month ever for on line casino winnings, at $1.165 billion.

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Durham: The College System of Fresh Hampshire has launched that tuition for in-articulate college students will likely be frozen in diagram for the 2020-2021 tutorial twelve months. The Harmony Video display experiences that the articulate board of trustees launched Tuesday that it had unanimously voted to freeze tuition for undergraduate college students. The freeze will jog into assemble for college students on the College of Fresh Hampshire, Plymouth Sigh College, Keene Sigh College and Granite Sigh College. The Fresh Hampshire Condominium not too lengthy within the past elevated the articulate’s appropriation to the university machine by $12 million over two years to freeze tuition. Gov. Chris Sununu called the announcement a “gargantuan purchase for Fresh Hampshire college students.” Here is the machine’s first tuition freeze since 2013.

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Woodbridge: A limited airplane crashed thru the roof of a home Tuesday, killing the pilot and causing an explosion that establish two homes ablaze in a Fresh Jersey suburb of Fresh York City. No one was within the house correct thru which the Cessna 414 crashed, however flames spread to but every other home, where a lady escaped atomize, Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac talked about. The airplane went down about 11 a.m. not removed from an elementary faculty, in accordance to Nationwide Transportation Safety Board investigator Adam Gerhardt. The wreck sent flames into the air, belched smoke for hours and left neighbors thinking the earth was shaking. Gerhardt talked about the pilot was flying the usage of instrument flight principles on occasion mature by skilled pilots when flying with diminished visibility. The weather within the residing was cloudy and misty on the time of the wreck.

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Albuquerque: The U.S. Condominium has authorized regulations that can prohibit oil and gas style on federal land surrounding a national park held sacred by moderately a few Native American tribes. The vote came Wednesday to procure eternal a buffer round Chaco Tradition Nationwide Historical Park. U.S. Gather. Ben Ray Lujan of Fresh Mexico says there are some areas where drilling should tranquil not happen, and the residing round Chaco is one of them. As antagonistic to prohibiting contemporary permits and canceling any recent nonproducing leases, the measure suggests further experiences and preserving measures has to be taken to address effectively being, security and environmental outcomes on nearby communities and tribal interests. The residing comprises land belonging to the Navajo Nation and person tribal participants. The regulations doesn't procure an impression on these parcels.

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Fresh York: City lawmakers on Wednesday handed a invoice that bans provocative locations and grocery stores from promoting foie gras, the fattened liver of a duck or goose, considered a culinary delicacy for hundreds of years. The invoice, anticipated to be signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, would forbid the sale of the French specialty initiating in 2022. Animal welfare activists had campaigned for a ban on the grounds that the options mature to make foie gras are merciless, spicy drive-feeding a chook a corn-basically basically based combination thru a tube slipped down its throat. Farmers who make foie gras – that methodology fatty liver in French – articulate the birds are treated humanely and don’t endure correct thru the fattening process. The council vote was 42-6 for the last model of the invoice that calls for an even of up to $2,000 for every violation. With about 1,000 Fresh York provocative locations offering foie gras, top cooks did not receive kindly to the details, including Momofuku’s David Chang, who called it “idiocracy.”

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Spencer: The articulate has bought a federal grant to renovate a 1920s rail vehicle that was built to conform with the racist Jim Crow authorized options of the 20th century. Sigh officers articulate the Nationwide Park Carrier awarded a grant of extra than $287,000 to renovate the railroad vehicle that’s now on the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer. The 44-seat coach hasn’t been mature since 1969. The vehicle has 22 seats within the rear that had been designated for African Americans so that it complied with segregation authorized options. It needs vast renovation, including asbestos elimination. The Division of Natural and Cultural Resources says it’s one of few such vehicles held by a museum for public viewing. One more one is on the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Tradition in Washington, D.C.

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Bismarck: The articulate auditor is retracting an audit serious of the metropolis of Williston after officers offered extra knowledge to the articulate. Auditor Josh Gallion issued the audit document Monday however retracted it late Tuesday. Gallion says the audit “highlighted several areas of pronounce,” including a violation of the articulate’s launch meetings law and $92 million in airport contracts that weren't disclosed in monetary statements. Gallion says the metropolis auditor signed off on the document final week. But Gallion says the metropolis has now offered extra knowledge for review. Gallion says auditors are reviewing the contemporary knowledge and can pronounce a revised audit later.

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Cleveland: A federal civil rights lawsuit says a 10-twelve months-outdated Muslim boy was wondered about his patriotism and non secular beliefs by a student instructor at a college launch air Cleveland and was ordered to undress to opt whether or not his oldsters had abused him. The lawsuit filed final week says the boy’s instructor, the student instructor and a nurse for the Lakeview Local College District in Cortland held him in opposition to his will in a room final November and coerced him into asserting he’d been disciplined by his mother with a belt. Family authorized real Matthew Abens says a county teens’s companies and products investigation hasty obvious there was no wrongdoing by his oldsters. The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, says the boy is being treated for trauma.

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Oklahoma City: Health officers articulate the frequency of congenital syphilis cases has risen sharply within the articulate correct thru the previous 5 years and continues to prolong. The Oklahoma Division of Health talked about Tuesday that the articulate has skilled a 283% elevate within the collection of congenital syphilis cases among females since 2014 and a 92% elevate since final twelve months. Adults transmit syphilis thru sexual contact, however effectively being officers articulate congenital syphilis would be transmitted by an contaminated mother to her toddler within the womb or thru the birthing process. The illness can establish off miscarriage, stillbirth, prematurity, initiating defects and demise. Officers articulate effectively being care suppliers should tranquil test pregnant females for the illness early in their being pregnant and again early within the third trimester.

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Salem: The collection of wolves within the articulate is rising, however not in particular hasty. Sigh biologists tallied on the least 124 wolves statewide final twelve months, in accordance to the annual wolf document released Wednesday. The amount represented an 11% elevate over the earlier twelve months, however exclusively a growth of 14 animals since 2015. Four wolves had been killed illegally in 2017, and but every other 5 had been killed on account of battle with farm animals. Wolves endured to prolong their territory. A pair of resident wolves had been documented within the Mount Hood residing for the first time, that methodology the apex predator has a foothold in every discipline of the articulate with the exception of the dawdle. Oregon is house to on the least 12 wolf packs, in accordance to the document, including 11 that procure a breeding male and female with on the least two pups that survived the iciness.

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Bethlehem: A prosecutor says he'll advocate dismissal of costs in opposition to a lady authorities articulate handed her 1-month-outdated toddler to a bus driver and walked away in tears. Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli talked about Wednesday that 26-twelve months-outdated Ashley Walters “clearly has some psychological effectively being components.” He talked about she had displayed combative and erratic habits and would be involuntarily dedicated for medication. Walters was charged with puny one endangerment after authorities talked about she boarded a bus in Bethlehem, placed her son on the farebox and knowledgeable the driver to name police due to the “this was her son that she will be able to’t receive care of.” Pennsylvania’s Safe Haven Legislation permits infants up to 28 days outdated to be left at a sanatorium or police attach of residing. Morganelli says Walters’ toddler was 32 days outdated.

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Windfall: The metropolis has near up with what it calls a “climate justice conception” to gash its carbon footprint while accounting for the needs of low-earnings and minority neighborhoods. The conception unveiled Friday by the metropolis’s Sigh of job of Sustainability and Racial and Environmental Justice Committee comprises getting 100% of municipal structures’ electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and making all metropolis vehicles and faculty buses trot on renewable energy by 2040. Priorities outlined within the 88-internet page conception embody planting extra bushes and expanding green spaces; investing in bike paths, trails and sidewalk enhancements; and striking off meals atomize. The conception says neighborhoods with basically the most spicy populations of of us of colour and lowest median incomes procure basically the most air pollution, the extreme effectively being outcomes from environmental causes, and the least quantity of green residing.

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Charleston: Environmental groups are taking steps toward suing a firm they articulate is accountable for polluting the articulate’s waters with diminutive plastic beads. Recordsdata shops document the groups represented by Southern Environmental Legislation Center sent Frontier Logistics a 60-day correct scrutinize Monday on grounds it violated the Shining Water Act. The articulate environmental adjust department cited Frontier in July after the plastic bits, called nurdles, had been stumbled on in its facility and considered the identical ones spilled onto Sullivan’s Island. Environmental groups articulate they’re tranquil washing up. But Frontier’s vice president contends the nurdles can’t be traced to it. An environmental adjust spokeswoman talked about Frontier installed preventative measures, so the company closed the matter. The pellets are became into plastic merchandise, and environmentalists articulate marine animals mistake them for meals.

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Sioux Falls: College leaders clarify articulate lawmakers they’re working to implement a brand contemporary law geared toward guaranteeing free speech and psychological diversity on campus. A legislative committee summoned regents and university presidents to a gathering Wednesday to detail their efforts to conform with the law. Its passage final spring came after controversy over a “Hawaiian Day” celebration theme on the College of South Dakota revived conservative lawmakers’ complaints about political correctness on campus. The university presidents talked about they’re keeping trainings for college students and faculty on preserving speech. They are saying they’re also working to gauge college students’ experiences on campus. The Board of Regents is required to present a written document on its implementation of the law by Dec. 1.

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Cleveland: You’ve heard of a pumpkin being became correct into a carriage, however what about correct into a boat? Justin Ownby has tried for years to develop the ultimate massive pumpkin, with runt success. This twelve months, though, he outdid himself. “We’ve pumpkin spiced every thing else; why not pumpkin spice a boat?” he talked about. Ownby, 36, owns a family farm in Cleveland along with his spouse, Christin, 32, and their four teens. A massive pumpkin in his patch grew to extra than 900 pounds and several toes across this twelve months, gargantuan enough to gash out residing for a grown man to sit down down interior it and trip across a pond – sooner than it sank below him. “It’s fish meals now,” Ownby talked about with fun. “There’s catfish in there. They’ll procure quick work of that thing.”

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Harlingen: The critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle had an offseason for nesting this twelve months along beaches within the articulate, with 190 nests recorded in Texas. The Valley Morning Smartly-known particular person experiences the quantity, which covers a geographic residing from the Bolivar Peninsula south to Boca Chica seaside, was down from 250 nests logged final twelve months and 353 in 2017. But this twelve months’s consuming tumble-off in Kemp’s ridley nesting in Mexico has establish off off yellow-flag indicators among scientists who be aware and take into story the species. The Texas nesting numbers weren't necessarily downhearted by the criteria of the previous decade, they assuredly're inclined to fluctuate due to the adult females don’t return to their house seaside yearly to attach a clutch of eggs. Most up-to-date experiences display female Kemp’s ridleys may well also near back to nest at three-plus-twelve months intervals.

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Salt Lake City: A articulate liquor commission has launched it is miles working out of bar licenses for likely business owners again after a identical shortage two years within the past. The Salt Lake Tribune experiences that the articulate Division of Alcoholic Beverage Administration handed out its final 2019 bar permits Tuesday to two institutions in Lehi and West Valley City. Division authorities articulate 5 other business had been placed on the ready listing, a few of them planning to launch in November and December. Officers articulate companies need to look forward to a inhabitants elevate after applying on account of a articulate law allowing one bar for every 10,200 of us. Officers articulate three permits are anticipated sooner than July 2020 following contemporary inhabitants knowledge. Some owners articulate the Legislature should tranquil review the inhabitants quota.

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Montpelier: The articulate has named a brand contemporary poet laureate. Republican Gov. Phil Scott appointed Mary Ruefle to the honorary attach of residing this week. WCAX-TV experiences she was instructed by a panel of judges. The poet laureate is picked every four years and serves because the articulate’s ambassador for the art of poetry, participating in ceremonies and readings in Vermont and nationwide. Ruefle talked about on the ceremony Monday that she was honored to be a part of the ranks of these who served sooner than her and was humbled and panicked. She talked about she’s mature to that and talked about that’s how she feels within the face of poetry and as “a member of that tribe.” Chard Deniord was the articulate’s final poet laureate. Robert Frost served as Vermont’s first in 1961.

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Richmond: Democrats hoping to pick out adjust of the Legislature in next month’s elections articulate passing the lengthy-stalled Equal Rights Modification will likely be a top priority next twelve months. Handed by Congress in 1972, the Equal Rights Modification would ban discrimination on the foundation of sex, explicitly enshrining equality for females within the U.S. Structure. Thirty-seven states procure ratified it, and advocates articulate having 38 would meet the constitutional threshold for approval, though it would also likely spark courtroom battles over a lengthy-handed ratification closing date and other correct questions. Different states are working toward ratification, however advocates articulate the once solidly conservative Virginia, where every seat is on the ballotin November, appears to be like closest. The measure has cleared Virginia’s GOP-managed Senate sooner than however stalled within the Condominium, which Republicans also narrowly adjust.

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Yakima: County officers procure launched a proposal to flip a detention heart correct into a homeless refuge and spend an further gross sales tax for funding. The Yakima Herald-Republic experiences the proposal would convert the 288-mattress detention heart correct into a multi-care facility named the Yakima County Care Campus. Yakima County commissioners articulate the 0.3% countywide gross sales tax that generates extra than $3.5 million a twelve months may well fund the care facility with commissioner approval. Officers articulate commissioners are anticipated to receive a metropolis hall meeting Oct. 29 to luxuriate in. Commissioners articulate the power would present psychological effectively being companies and products, substance abuse medication and lengthy-term housing. Officers articulate an 8,000-sq.-foot storage building on the detention heart’s property would be mature as eternal refuge. Commissioners request to completely convert the power by 2026.

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Richwood: An 11-foot python that was on the free was stumbled on Tuesday, a few month after it got out of its tank, broke thru a window screen and slithered launch air. Richwood Police Chief Charles Burkhamer says a letter carrier saw the snake laying out within the sun next to a roadway Tuesday, a few block away from where it escaped a month within the past. Authorities had been scouring the residing trying for the reptile, and Richwood residents had been notified to attach learn about over limited teens and home pets. Burkhamer talked about he faced a sparkling question as he regarded on the massive snake on the aspect of the avenue. “What am I going to receive out with it?” he puzzled. “We didn’t procure a dog crate gargantuan enough.” So Burkhamer stuck the snake in a trash can for safekeeping except it would be returned to its proprietor, who has been asked to register the animal with articulate officers and make stronger the reptile’s tank.

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Madison: The articulate has the widest success hole between murky and white college students of any articulate in accordance to outcomes of a test assuredly known because the nation’s document card. The Nationwide Overview of Academic Growth test outcomes released Wednesday display no vital change from statewide outcomes a decade within the past. Nevertheless, declining scores for the lowest-performing college students resulted in Wisconsin having the widest success hole of any articulate. Sigh superintendent of schools Carolyn Stanford Taylor says the success hole is a disaster, and shutting the gaps is “crucial for our articulate.” The test was given to varsity students in fourth and eighth grades final spring. Wisconsin’s scores had been elevated than the national averages in every grades and in every issues.

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Cody: Farmers within the articulate are wrapping up a not easy twelve months for sugar beets. A cool snap followed by per week of aloof temperatures is threatening the harvest within the Bighorn Basin. A freeze followed by a thaw causes liquids to trot out and ruin other beets after they’re stacked in piles. It also lowers the sugar lisp and cost for beets. The Cody Endeavor experiences a summer hailstorm and rainy weather also made for a not easy twelve months. Farmer Cody Easum says harvest dimension and sugar lisp are every low this twelve months. A local beet pile is rising by about 1,200 heaps per day, down from 3,000-4,000 heaps in a strange twelve months.

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Furthermore, talking about these little metal vehicles, recall dashing these along those little orange tracks? You'd construct them over the sofa and down the stairs to see who's vehicle could go the quickest? All things considered, they're still near, orange tracks what not! There are a large number of vehicles to browse, and they come in a wide range of multi-packs. Snatch some track sets and you're ready! 

Twister Classic Toys Twister 

Get you children's squirms out with this great game. Allow them to wander aimlessly until their prepared for bed! Furthermore, why not hop in and play, as well? Presently that you're greater, the hues are much simpler to reach! 

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Wooly Willy Classic Toys Wooly Willy 

Got a vehicle trip later on? Try not to need to hand over your telephone to keep the children involved. Toss two or three these in the vehicle and let your more youthful children have a great time giving Wooly Willy hair on his head, his jawline and ...in his nose? Please, you realize you did it, as well! 

Simon Says Classic Toys Simon Says 

Pursue the lights and sounds and do what Simon says! Correct, this game is still near. It's not just an extraordinary 80s great, it likewise shows hues, examples and dexterity. In this way, you're not simply getting a toy you can sneak after the children go bed. You're getting something instructive! 

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Tinker Toys Classic Toys Tinker Toys 

Discussion about a great toy! Tinker Toys were made in 1914. They've been utilized to make everything from basic structures to complex machines, and even a tic-tac-toe-playing PC. Think about the every one of the things your splendid child could make with these!

Operation Classic Toys Operation 

Keep in mind all the close cardiovascular failures you got when you contacted the edges and heard that buzz? Blessing your kid a similar endowment of complete stun! The organs have changed a piece from when you were a child, however the game is as yet the equivalent! 

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Spirograph Classic Toys Operation 

This is a fun, inventive toy that gives kids a chance to investigate shapes, examples and plan. They can utilize it to make cards for loved ones, or simply mess about with various spiraling shapes. You may even end up taking this one to remember your own adolescence.

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Just Because – The Best of Indie Watchmaking Seen Through the Casebacks – Part 2

Following Part 1 of this journey through the fascinating world of independent watchmaking, which we published last week, we continue today with the second part of this collection of superb watches… Instead of looking at the watches in the conventional way from the dial side, we’re looking at them from the reverse side.  And seeing what these independent, creative watchmakers are capable of when it comes to movement construction and decoration, we have to admit that in many cases, the view is even sexier.

The selection below is a composed of ‘small’ independent watchmakers without mentioning larger brands such as Patek Philippe, A. Lange & Söhne or Audemars Piguet. Naturally, this isn’t an exhaustive list, so do not hesitate to mention your favourite craftsmen or watches in the comment section below!

Haldimann H11

An absence of the unnecessary and a focus on the essential… That’s what Beat Haldimann has been striving for with the timepieces that he crafts by hand. Plus a high dose of spectacular finishing. His first stainless steel watches, the no-frill H11 & H12 radiate authentic, uncompromising craftsmanship. And despite a sleek look, the decoration is far from simplistic.

MB&F Legacy Machine Thunderdome

MB&F might be renowned for its out-of-this-world creativity but it also excels in beautifully crafted movements.The Legacy Machine Thunderdome is a spectacular triple-axis tourbillon developed with Eric Coudray… For the finishing of the movement, the brand engaged the talents of Kari Voutilainen resulting in a true feast for the eyes. 

Montres KF Spirograph Tourbillon Sport calibre 441

Karsten Frassdorf is, without a doubt, one of the most inventive watchmakers of his generation. After working behind the scene for several brands, he ended up creating his own brand, Montres KF. The movement of his Spirograph Sport is truly captivating. It is packed with innovation to create a tourbillon for proper daily use, 1,000-Gauss amagnetic and with 5,000G shock resistance… And the openwork honeycomb structure of his new calibre 441 is truly unique.

Moritz Grossman Hamatic

Although A. Lange & Söhne is not eligible for this list of independent watchmakers since it is a brand owned by the Richemont Group, we had to feature German watchmakers here as well! The movement of the Moritz Grossman Hamatic is finished in the pure Saxon tradition but is not your typical self-winding movement. An ode to the earliest automatic watches, it is fitted with a (fascinating) so-called ‘hammer’ winding mechanism.

Petermann Bedat Dead-beat Second

New kids on the block… Gaël Petermann and Florian Bédat are probably some of the lesser-known names in this article. Although they are not yet part of the Swiss Haute Horlogerie clique, the work of these young watchmaking talents truly deserves a closer look… Visible through the exhibition caseback of their Dead-Beat Second watch, the hand-wound calibre 171 is simply superb. From their time with A. Lange & Söhne, the two men developed a true sense of respect for Saxon watchmaking. This is evident with the large barrel bridge (reminiscent of a three-quarter plate), the cock with a swan-neck regulator and the use of untreated German silver, a.k.a maillechort.

Philippe Dufour Simplicity

Philippe Dufour is a living legend. The independent watchmaker is one of most (if not the most) revered craftsmen in the industry and his watches are regarded as the ultimate in traditional hand-finishing. His Simplicity is refined outside and a marvel of craftsmanship inside. The decoration of the movement, entirely done by hand respecting the Vallée de Joux tradition, is simply astonishing.

Romain Gauthier Insight Micro-Rotor

Romain Gauthier is one of the best representatives of the Vallée de Joux expertise. This means an exceptional level of finishing. For example, the Insight Micro-Rotor focuses on the essentials with a radical manufacturing ethos and master craftsmanship. The movement architecture, constructed on multiple levels, is magnificent with fluid curves for the bridge contours. The back looks splendid, with circular spoke wheels, bercé anglages and applied plaquettes.

Singer Reimagined Track 1

Singer Reimagined broke out on the indie watchmaking scene with Track 1, a magnificent central indication chronograph. This radical display is driven by the amazing Agengraphe. The brainchild of Jean-Marc Wiederrecht, this revolutionary chronograph is a true technical feast. Redefining fundamental principles that have remained unchanged for decades, this column-wheel mechanism incorporates a set of snail cams storing energy for an entire minute (or hour) before releasing it to generate an instant jump. It also includes a new clutch, the AgenClutch combining the best of the vertical and horizontal clutch. The coupling is made horizontally which requires less space. Yet the connection is made by friction between wheels with no teeth, just like with vertical clutches, thus avoiding the chronograph ‘stutter’.

Tutima Tempostopp

Tutima is known for crafting tough tool watches with ETA movements… Not really a name you’d expect in an article about magnificent casebacks. Still, the Patria collection with its in-house movement really deserves a closer look, for instance, the Tempostopp. Its Calibre T659 is based on the Glashütte UROFA Caliber 59 from the 1940s, which had to be completely re-engineered, as no plans could be found. It is a hand-wound column-wheel chronograph with a horizontal clutch and classic movement architecture.

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Almost everything You Want To Know About Arts And Crafts

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For me personally, I found the most interesting part of the workshop to be the creators, and their elaborate explanations as to how they had made their inventions, their creations, and all the time, and effort they actually spent into each of their creations. I found this to be highly interesting, because not only the amount of combined artistic skill, and hands on learning involved, but the collaboration of all of the members of the Generator.

I believe for my personal age group, this was probably one of the most informative trips i have ever taken, or experienced, and I definitely believe looking back to have learned quite a bit of information. The information was  admittedly difficult to remember because there was simply so much to be processed. I very much enjoyed the trip, and believe that others probably felt similarly in terms of the amount of information there was to not only intake, but to digest.