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Lead singer of the Kamikaze Queens, Trinity Sarratt, at the Backstage Bar & Grill in Tacoma, Washington
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Singer Island is located on the Atlantic coast of Palm Beach County, Florida in the South Florida metropolitan area. Most of it is in the city of Riviera Beach, but the town of Palm Beach Shores occupies its southern tip. Its latitude of is 26.784 N and its longitude is -80.037 W. The easternmost point of Florida is located there in Palm Beach Shores. Singer Island is actually a peninsula and not an island. Before the Palm Beach Inlet was created, it was connected to the island of Palm Beach to the south.[1]
Named after Palm Beach developer Paris Singer, a son of Isaac Singer, the Singer Sewing Machine magnate, Singer Island has parks, marinas, hiking and bike paths, as well as 47 miles (75.6 km) of sparkling white sand beaches[2] that has been considered one of the top five beaches in Palm Beach County.
"La paternidad de la Singer le llegó a Isaac Merrit por casualidad. Fue el empresario (y a la postre su socio Edward Clark) quien, en 1850, puso en sus manos una torpe máquina de coser para que la perfeccionara. Once días necesitó Isaac para catapultar a la historia aquel primitivo artilugio. Haciendo que la aguja se moviera de forma vertical solucionó el principal problema (los hilos se enredaban). Su prototipo, para uso industrial, daba 200 puntadas por minuto, siete veces más que la mano humana.
Un año después, reunía 40 dólares para registrar su invento; al poco, vendía su primera máquina por 100, y en 1858, el ambicioso Singer desarrollaba la primera máquina de coser doméstica. Sin embargo el éxito económico no llegó pronto. Los hogares norteamericanos le cerraron las puertas porque los maridos que eran quienes decidían en qué se gastaba el dinero no veían necesario invertir en una máquina extravagante, máxime cuando su mujer y su madre cosían la ropa gratis. Singer no cejó en su empeño de popularizar su criatura y, convertido en un showman, recorrió todo el país pedaleando en su máquina de coser y cantando las excelencias de la Singer.
Que en 1860 fuera ya el mayor fabricantes de máquinas de coser en el mundo, se debió, en gran parte, a su pericia como estratega de las ventas. De hecho, para muchos inventó el marketing. «Compre ahora y pague después», es una frase marca de la casa Singer.Isaac Merrit introdujo la financiación en cómodos plazos mensuales y la figura del vendedor que, armado de labia, visitaba a las posibles compradoras de puerta en puerta."
In 1926, Singer introduced the 848cc Singer Junior at the London Car Show. In stark contrast to its later years, it was initially only available in one body style as a three door, four seater Tourer painted blue with black wings. It was powered by an 8 horsepower, two bearing, overhead camshaft engine which developed a peak of 16.5 horsepower at 3250 R.P.M. Although diminutive, this engine would be the progenitor of Singer power units for the next three decades.
The Junior came with a three speed gear box and initially was fitted with rear brakes only, with four wheel braking to be introduced in 1928. A four speed transmission, which would boost top end speed to 50 m.p.h., would only become available for the 1931 model year. It was equipped with an inverted cone clutch, quarter-elliptic front springs, six volt electrics, gravity feed and disc wheels shod with 27 X 4 inch tires. Shock absorbers were not an option for 1926. A Tourer, weighing 1,288 pounds was capable of a speed of approximately forty-five m.p.h. and sold for 148 pounds ($740 at the exchange rate of the day).
The Junior was a very popular car, with Singer selling many thousands of units in various forms, with production after 1927 never dropping below 6000 units per year. By 1928, it was the mainstay of Singer’s product line and was mainly responsible for the company’s status as the number three manufacturer of private cars in England in 1928.
While the first Junior was an open touring class car, it was soon offered in an array of other body styles, including a Two Seater Tourer, a Four Seater Tourer, a Sunshine Saloon, a Coachbuilt Saloon, a Fabric Saloon, a two plus two called the Sportsman’s Coupe and a boat-tailed, wire wheeled Porlock Sports. The latter, which was originally built as a special two seater Junior 8, set up a curious automotive record under the supervision of the Royal Automobile Club by climbing the 1:4 gradient Porlock Hill 100 times in 15 hours.Thereafter this model was known as the Porlock Sports and as such, would be the pointer for the Singer image of the thirties.
For 1931, Singer undertook a re-design of the Junior engine. While the block remained virtually unchanged with a bore of 56mm and a stroke of 86mm, the dynamo and distributor were moved to the offside of the engine and driven by a secondary chain. The oil sump was deepened to give an additional two and a half pints capacity and the oil suction pipe and filter were moved to the rear to remain submerged during hill climbs.
The redesigned engine, with an output now increased to 9 horsepower, coupled with a new 4 speed gearbox, was installed in the Junior Special Saloon introduced at the 1931 Olympia Motor Show. However, not satisfied to rest on their laurels, Singer then replaced the aging Junior four months later with a new 1932 model called the Singer "9". The new Singer "9" was a sporty two seater which performed exceptionally well in local reliability trials and even competed in the international Monte Carlo Rally. Its modest successes in these competitions and the growing popularity of motorsport in Britain was enough to encourage Singer to develop a greatly improved sports model to be introduced in October 1932.
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These sisters were singing a great but truly obscure (to me) Beatles song at the Brockport Old Fashioned Fourth Of July Festival yesterday.
It starts with the word "Everybody...." but I can't remember the rest of the title. The singers sing "Everyboy........???" and the chorus is just the same thing repeated. One of the few real Beatles sing-alongs. Anyone know what the song might be? I checked all the "Everybody songs" on a Beatles site and that one was not there.
SEE MY REMARKS ON WHAT THE SONG REALLY WAS ..... BELOW!
NO INVITES OR ICONS PLEASE
Circa 1907 Singer cylinder darning machine, originally in use in the Endicott-Johnson shoe factories in Binghamton, NY.
09/05/2014 Ladies European Tour. Turkish Airlines Ladies Open 2014. National Golf Club, Belek Antalya. Turkey May 8-11 2014. Singer on stage during the Gala Dinner. Credit: LET/Tristan Jones
My grandma used to own and use this manual (rather pedal) singer sewing machine. I love this thing, it's way nicer and more precise to sew than any of the newer ones.
(Terrible background on the picture, but could not move it to a location where the background would have looked good for taking a photo).
A retry of the Beatsteaks singer.
What I find pretty amazing is that as a reference I used an absolutely blurry still of one of the Beatsteaks videos where you would not even recognise the eyes or much other facial features.
You just see this open smile and the headshape. And I feel the similarity is a lot better than in my first try.
Which leads me to a trick that Tom Richmond freely gave on his nice blog as an advice to his students. If you have problems of finding the main features of a face for a caricature, pinch your eyes. The things you keep seeing are the main-features.
And let me tell you... I tried this guy at least three times before and could not get him right in any way.
Anyhow, a friend had the chance to meet the singer Arnim and told him I was trying caricatures of him. He gave her his email and said she should send it.
Now I am pretty excited about the reaction ;=)
Lead singer of the Kamikaze Queens, Trinity Sarratt, at the Backstage Bar & Grill in Tacoma, Washington
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E meu tessellation foi parar lá no blog da Singer...
E juntinho da Vanessa Maurer.... que legal! : )
Lead singer of the Kamikaze Queens, Trinity Sarratt, at the Backstage Bar & Grill in Tacoma, Washington
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