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To be honest, if my own hair was long and full enough I would style it myself in a feminine manner. But it's not, so I must rely on the alternative. At least I have the option of changing the color/length/style on nothing more than a whim :)
Digitization changes family history, but still need for non-digital
Loretto Szucs was her own search engine back in 1985.
She interviewed relatives. She wrote letters because phone calls and photocopies were too expensive. She rented a microfilm reader, scanned through reel after reel of census records and even enlisted the help of her children -- giving them a quarter for every family name they found.
"A lot of writing, a lot of patience, interviewing anyone who would even know my family," she described.
Today, computer search engines pull family names out of the air.
As Szucs and some of the country's most ardent genealogists gathered in Salt Lake City from April 28 to May 1, Internet connections in and around the Salt Palace Convention Center were buzzing with family history activity.
A lot has changed since the National Genealogical Society last convened its annual conference in Salt Lake City 25 years ago. Online resources have taken years off genealogical research. Researchers, meanwhile, are getting started years earlier.
"They can learn and find in five years what it took me 30," said Jan Alpert, president of NGS
But be careful not to neglect good old-fashion research methods, she warns.
"If they think it's all on the Internet, they won't find as much as I found."
For longtime genealogists like Alpert and Szucs, family history work began with letter-writing to places like churches and vital records offices -- then waiting for clues. Szucs, now an executive editor for www,Ancestry.com got her big break when an order of nuns she wrote to in New York City sent back information about her aunt.
"Then I had a place to start and I could carry on," Szucs said.
That led her to the 1850 census for New York City, made up of 54 reels of microfilm -- each taking three hours to go through.
Barbara Vines Little was a little more fortunate. Her ancestors were from a less metropolitan area in Virginia.
"You were delighted if you ancestors were from the country because then you only had a county to look through -- page by page, and line by line," said Little, NGS board member and past president. "It was a labor-intensive process because you had none of this instant access."
For Little, research often meant leaving town for Salt Lake City, where the LDS Church archives are; Washington, D.C., home of the National Archives; or Ft. Wayne, Ind., which has a large family history library.
"Most people had to wait until they retired before they could do their family history, so they'd have time to travel," Little said. "Today, you can do it with a great deal of ease."
Online databases and search engines have altered the landscape. Szucs' company, Ancestry.com, and FamilySearch, a nonprofit division of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, have digitized large volumes of records and made them available on the Internet.
With today's technology, researchers can build online family trees and supplement them with photos and scanned documents. Websites and software offer research helps.
Message boards and social media sites connect researchers.
The "bells and whistles" of technology are appealing to youths, Alpert says. She hopes people become interested in genealogy at a younger age, seek out relatives, and share stories and photographs via e-mail or Facebook -- before they are lost.
"This used to be a gray-hair organization, because you either didn't have time to do (genealogy) until you retired, or you weren't interested in it until you retired," Alpert said. "Now because of the Internet, people can dabble in it with little spare time."
But it's important to realize, the genealogists say, that digitization is an ongoing process and that the bulk of records aren't searchable online.
Szucs once worked at the National Archives and saw stacks of records that "go on and on and on.
"There's a lifetime of digitization to be done," she said.
Vital records, such as birth certificates, are under state jurisdiction, and most aren't digitized -- in part because of privacy concerns.
Genealogists, however, see tremendous progress being made in the digitization effort. Szucs credits a collaborative network that includes commercial and nonprofit efforts; state and county governments; and everything from the Library of Congress to local genealogical societies.
"It's just a beautiful network," she said. "And that's something that I realized even in 1985."
Alpert hopes one other aspect of family history work won't be phased out.
She remembers visiting a tiny town in Ohio and standing in the very church her ancestors once attended. Alpert wants people to recognize the value in going back to the places one came from.
"I hope that doesn't change," she said.
I cashed in this change on 4/20/07. Some of the change in this jar
dates back five years or so. Can you guess how much it added up to?
Food products collected.
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A view shortly to change - the three blocks of flats off Crib Lane towards the right are to be demolished soon.
Si no ets tu, qui? Si no es aqui, on? Si no es ara, quan? / Si no eres tu , quien?, Si no es aqui, ¿donde?,Si no es ahora, ¿cuando? / if you´re not, who?, if not here, where? , if not now, when?
Following Storm Eleanor at Crosby Beach plastic waste washed up on the shoreline. Anyone else changed their plastic habits since watching #blueplanet2 ?
Opal is a color-change stone. When you spin the stone around, colours might appear or disappear, or change completely. It's quite magical. This is NOT a gem-quality opal, rather it's a boulder opal, because the opal veins are embedded in a brownstone called ironstone.
Had the entire stone displayed the colourful patches, this stone would have costed probably USD $8,000 and up!
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Of all the beautiful and expensive gemstones that I cannot afford, opal is the one that I like the most.
High-quality precious black opals from Australia can cost easily between USD $5,000 to $15,000 each. Opal is a natural amorphous silica with a water content varying from one to twenty percent, depending on the porosity and degree of hydration. Precious opal usually contains from six to ten percent water. The chemical formula for opal is SiO2·nH2O.
Thankfully I came across this boulder opal for only USD $14. I can afford that!
Basically, a boulder opal is an opal embedded in a brown rock called ironstone, like the one you see here. Had the entire gemstone displayed the colourful and colour-changing nature, this opal would have been worth probably around USD $8,000. But because only very few stripes (known as veins) display the colourful diffraction of light, this stone is not considered gem-quality, which is why it goes for less than USD $100. In my case, bidding ended at USD $14 so I was quite lucky.
Some interesting facts about opal:
1) Green and blue play of colour is most common, red less so.
2) Because of the unusual way opal is formed, and how light is diffracted from it, colour may appear or disappear under different light sources, or may change from one colour to another completely.
3) Depending on the play of colour, the value of an opal can vary significantly.
4) As a natural silica, opals are very fragile. Drop it on a hard surface and cracks can appear, or worse still, the whole piece might shatter.
Also remember, this opal only measures 17.2 mm x 12.1 mm, so the photos shown here have been magnified by 3 times, if not more.
The seller of the opals on eBay post videos of the stones. And this is a video of the stone I bought.
Nombre: Blitzwing
Afiliación: Decepticons
Línea: G1
Subgrupo: Triple Changers
Año: 1985
Número de adquisición: 18
Logré conseguir este Blitzwing en casi perfecto estado y con caja en una subasta a un precio increíble. Es para reemplazar mi antiguo Blitzwing incompleto que era mi adquisición número 18.
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Name: Blitzwing
Allegiance: Decepticons
Line: G1
Subgroup: Triple Changers
Year: 1985
Number in Collection: 18
I just got this Blitzwing in a near mint condition with box, in an auction at an incredible price. It's for replacing my old Blitzwing who was my adquisition number 18.
Reluctant about uploading this one, but I'm glad I did. Stepping out of the batters box on this one.
Used in: Los Angeles Loyolan Newspaper
LMU Baseball vs. USD
Shot with Canon 7D
1/3200 | f5.6 | 400ISO
Yerevan, Armenia Oct 10 2010
Environmental activists and cyclists gathered to display their bikes in the shape of 350 to promote alternative transportation as a solution to climate change and to urge politicians to pass clean energy policies.
This was one of over 7,000 climate action events taking place in in 188 countries around the world on 10/10/10 as part of “The Global Work Party.” This synchronized international event is organized by 350.org, and is expected to be the largest day of environmental activism in history.
Photo credit: 350.org
Copyright info: This photo is freely available for editorial use and may be reproduced under an Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Crap distribution sucks, and every, single, year, without fail, there's always hard to find figures. In the case of Transformers, there has not been a single line that I collected where everything went smooth.
In the Studio Series, it was SS 38 aka Bumblebee Movie Optimus Prime, though at least he was eventually easily found. For the Titans Returns, it was Slugslinger, and for Power of the Primes, it was the "blink and you miss it" Novastar, which apparently clogged up shelves over in Asia, but never appeared at retail in Canada at all.
Folks, allow me to introduce to you the 2019 War of Cybertron entry - Springer.
My Lord, what an epic quest it has been to find this figure. I've been trying since the beginning of July, when it first appeared at EB Games, with my search eventually expanding to all EB Games and Walmart stores I cam across in two Provinces.
Mercifully, my RNG finally paid off, and I was able to pick one up in early September.
So without further ado, here is my overview of the figure.
Springer, for the uninitiated, is a character that was introduced in the 1986 Transformers movie. One of the character that was never given a true Earth mode, Springer is a triple changer, transforming from robot to Cybertronian helicopter and car.
There have been multiple iterations of the character throughout the years of course, with several toys released, but as with Jetfire, none really capturing the G1 character model.
Well, that wait has finally come to an end with the release of this figure.. well, 99% of the wait has ended anyway.
Springer comes with the figure, pair of twin blades, a rotor handle, and a gun that separates into two smaller pieces. As with all other Siege figure, Springer is compatible with the C.O.M.B.A.T. system, though due to sheer laziness I didn't bother attaching any to the guy.
As mentioned above, the main selling point, at least for me, is the fact this guy IS G1 Springer. All other characters in this line have been a "What If" look at their pre G1 Cybertronian forms. Springer is the G1 toy we should have gotten in the first place, but, you know, engineering limitations and all that jazz.
Springer has his classic headsculpt, along with awesome mid 80's shoulder pads. Colour scheme is the classic green, grey, and yellow. I could live without the battle damage paint apps, but at worst they are a slight eyesore.
Articulation is again, pretty much what to expect from a Voyager sized figure, meaning some ankle articulation, knees, waist, shoulders, biceps, wrist, and of course, head. Not mindblowing, but enough for some pretty creative posing, that include the ability to facilitate some decent lower body limb placement.
Weapons are all based on the standard 5mm socket, so you just jam in your weapon of choice, and try not to break it when pulling the piece out.
Paint apps are, well, pretty typical for a mainline Hasbro release. Being a unified product, the eventual Takara item will be the same, which is why paint work is overall solid. Masking is competent, and is featured where there is yellow, as well as, *gasp* the painted wheels. Other painted areas would be the face, the dark green sections, including the rotor housing and robot waist, the light green of the vehicle canopy, and of course, the aforementioned battle damage.
Paint work on the face is a bit crude, and resembles heavily caked on make up, but considering it's Hasbro I'll let it slide.
Transformation is where this figure shines, and again, goes to show that at least I know where the extra bit of MSRP has gone. The last, most solid Springer toy would have been the one released for Generations, which featured very good modes, but overall you can kind of see how the magic happens without picking up the toy, because vehicle modes never really changed a whole lot in terms overall size.
Siege Springer here actually becomes longer in Helicopter mode, and shifts his shoulder a bit forward, very subtle things that visually create a new look without an over reliance on vehicle shell parts. The secret, much to the dislike of many a collector, is the above average number of hinges and panels used for the shoulders and the legs. I say dislike because you really have to have the legs in JUST the right place otherwise the pieces don't really fit together perfectly.
Personally, having adored the Car Robots 2000 line, welcome this additional difficulty for the purposes of having much better alt modes. It can be frustrating, but my hats off the designers for coming up with such a slick solution on a mainline figure.
So, basically, the figure is a loving homage to the G1 character. But, why did I say 99% there?
Well, my biggest gripe, as it were, has to do with the fact the rotor connection piece doesn't form the hilt of Springer's sword. I know, I know, a bit anal retentive, but it's how I feel.
Nit picking aside, this is truthfully a very impressive figure, and hopefully will be easier to find as the Fall 2019 retail resets approach. If not, I urge you to continue to seek him out, as you will be rewarded with a unique and worthwhile transformation experience.
A brand-new dendrochronology laboratory facility at the World Agroforestry Centre's Nairobi headquarters will allow World Agroforestry Centre scientists and partners to carry out exciting new research in Africa. Photo by K. Foster (ICRAF).
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BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 20: Audience member poses for a photo in the audience at the VALORANT Game Changers Championship Finals Stage on November 20, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Michal Konkol/Riot Games)
Bishkek, Krgyzstan Oct 10 2010
Students from the University of Economics in Kyrgyztans built rock art spelling out 350 to promote reducing emissions to 350ppm as a solution to climate change and to urge politicians to pass clean energy policies.
This was one of over 7,000 climate action events taking place in in 188 countries around the world on 10/10/10 as part of “The Global Work Party.” This synchronized international event is organized by 350.org, and is expected to be the largest day of environmental activism in history.
Photo credit: 350.org
Copyright info: This photo is freely available for editorial use and may be reproduced under an Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license
World Changers, change the city, change the world. This project was a christian gainless project to help people in lower class of towns. We repainted house and built a fence to Mr. Tucker. As a group of white people came to all afro-american neighbornhood we draw a big attention, so children are naturaly curious and came and helped us and played with us. It was great experience.
8154 and BL28 stop at Moss Vale for a crew change before heading back south with a Down empty grain service.