Even though this is a manual slicer that doesn’t come with thickness adjusting features, it has multiple advantages over mandolin-style models. This basic model allows you to easily slice potatoes as well as fruit, eggs, and other ingredients to create salads or healthy snacks. ![]() If you’re looking for a budget friendly potato slicer, the HIC Wavy Crinkle Cutting Tool Serrator is an excellent choice. You can easily adjust it by choosing from four thickness presets, and then lock it in place with a quick twist so it doesn’t move while you slice your potatoes or other vegetables and fruit. The thickness selector is the feature that makes the OXO Good Grips V-Blade Mandoline Slicer truly stand out from the crowd. Cleaning is a breeze with the OXO Good Grips V-Blade Mandoline Slicer, as both the body and the food holder are dishwasher safe. The turning knob that allows you to select your preferred thickness is soft to the touch and very easy to use. We liked that the textured runaway prevents the food from sticking, while the food holder does an excellent job at protecting your fingers and hands as you slice away. While the mandoline has a rather bulky design, you can clip in the blades underneath the runway, which means that the slicer is easy to store. Featuring two horizontal inserts (crinkle and straight) and two vertical inserts (thin julienne and thick baton), the OXO Good Grips V-Blade Mandoline Slicer offers excellent value for money while being a well-built and versatile slicer. This V-shape manual mandoline has everything you need to slice potatoes and other vegetables and fruit with ease, and it allows for lots of precision when it comes to selecting the thickness. It comes with a lifetime warranty, which is a guarantee of quality and gives you peace of mind. The Mueller Austria MU-MANDO is highly durable, featuring a base made from reinforced ABS plastic, which is nontoxic and BPA free. Because it is dishwasher safe, the slicer is easy to care for, and we also like that it has a collapsible design to make it easy to store between uses. The mandolin features a special guard with stainless steel prongs to keep your fingers safe when in use. Many of the users who tested the Mueller Austria MU-MANDO praised the professional-like results they got with this slicer and the well-thought design that makes this a very safe kitchen gadget. The interchangeable blades make it extra easy to control thickness, with options for grating, slicing and julienne. ![]() All blades are made from German surgical grade stainless steel, and their height is adjustable, so you can produce slices of different thicknesses. Suitable for use not only with potatoes, but also with vegetables, fruit and cheese, this slicer comes complete with five blades to make it easy to decide on the thickness and to offer more versatility when it comes to chopping. We featured the Mueller Austria MU-MANDO as our editor’s choice because we were impressed by both the build quality and the results you can get with this mandoline-style slicer.
0 Comments
![]() Rinse the screen thoroughly using low water pressure to remove any degreaser remaining on the screen. To achieve a good stencil, the mesh must be degreased with a commercial degreaser such as KIWO DEGREASER 1:20 or PREGAN A9 and must be free of dirt, dust, ink residues and ghost images. Keep the emulsion in a cool (68☏ / 20☌) and dark place during that time. Allow the mixed emulsion to settle after sensitizing to allow air bubbles to escape. Its outstanding resolution and mesh-bridging make it ideal for all high quality applications with most ink systems. KIWOCOL POLY PLUS SRX is a top quality Diazo-Photopolymer emulsion with great water and solvent resistance, yet remaining fully reclaimable. Similar to Poly-Plus S it has outstanding mechanical and solvent resistance but offers tha added benefit of excellent water resistance. As the industry's benchmark for top quality, the optimized formula of POLY-PLUS SRX offers unsurpassed excellence in resolution for close tolerance work such as halftone and finest detail reproduction. Similar to Poly-Plus S it has outstanding mechanical and solvent resistance but offers the added benefit of excellent water resistance. Only VIP and STH parking may turn right onto 71st Street and enter lots S1 and S2. GENERAL PARKING: STAY IN RIGHT LANE, veer right onto the Frontage Road beneath before the bridge (immediately north of 71st Street). Continue north on Harlem Avenue to parking lot entrances at 70th and Harlem. Use 79th, 87th or 95th Street to Harlem Avenue (IL Route 43) NORTH. ![]() GENERAL PARKING: enter right into “N” lots along Harlem. Proceed south about 2.4 miles and STAY IN RIGHT LANE. Take I-55 North and exit Harlem Avenue (IL Route 43) SOUTH. GENERAL PARKING: STAY IN RIGHT LANE, veer right onto the Frontage Road and beneath the bridge (immediately north of 71st Street). Proceed about a block, then take ramp to IL Route 43 (Harlem) NORTH. Take I-294 and exit at 95th Street EAST towards Harlem (IL Route 43). Proceed south about 2.4 miles to the stadium. Take I-55 South to the Harlem Avenue exit. While Banners that meet the above guidelines are permitted at most sporting events, SEATGEEK STADIUM reserves the right to modify or cancel this policy at any time without notice, if deemed necessary by management. For questions regarding particular events, please call the Chicago Red Stars at 31 prior to the event. ![]() ![]() Please note – some events may prohibit Banners of any type, such as concerts, selected family events and other sanctioned events. Stadium Management reserves the right to remove and confiscate any banner at any time for any reason. If approved, Banners may be hung only with rope, string or plastic ties and may not block any existing signage or vent, or damage any stadium walls, paint, railings, glass, etc. Accessible seating can be purchased online or by calling the Chicago Red Stars Box Office at 31.īanners, flags, and signs (collectively, “Banners”) are permitted within the stadium provided they comply with the following requirements:Īll banners, flags, and signage will be inspected before entry to the stadium to ensure there are no safety concerns and compliance with the below requirementsīanners must be event-related and may not be commercial or political in nature Banners may not include advertisements, logos or political endorsements/slogansīanners may not contain images, words or other information that is (or could be construed as being) derogatory, obscene, profane, indecent, vulgar, offensive, graphic, dangerous, inappropriate, objectionable or in “poor taste”īanners may not interfere with the view or enjoyment of othersīanners may not be attached to a pole or any other object that could cause harm to othersīanners may not be constructed of wood, metal or any other material that could cause harm to othersīanners may not be larger than 3 feet by 5 feet, if they are hung, or 3 feet by 3 feet, if they are held in hand, unless otherwise approved by stadium managementīanners (or parts thereof) may not be used as projectilesīanners may be hung only with the permission of stadium management. Seating for guests with disabilities is available in all price categories. Ramp- North of the ADA parking lot at Gate CĮlevator - South of the ADA parking lot at Gate D Accessible Stadium entrances are located : A state issued Persons with Disabilities license plate or an ADA hang tag placard must be visible to the police and parking attendants, and the person to whom the placard or license plate is registered must be an occupant of the vehicle in order to park in the ADA parking section. Guests with disabilities may park in the designated ADA parking section in Lot E3, just between Gates C and D. Guests may also access the stadium by using the ADA ramp located at Gate C in the Northeast corner of the stadium. ![]() Guests with disabilities requiring elevator assistance may enter Gate D. A state issued Persons with Disabilities license plate or an ADA hang tag placard must be visible to the police and parking attendants and the person to whom the placard or license plate is registered must be an occupant of the vehicle in order to access the Gate D drop off area. Guests with disabilities may be dropped off at the stadium arch in the east parking lot outside Gate D. G_pd3dDevice->CreateOffscreenPlainSurface(ScreenWidth, ScreenHeight,ĭ3DFMT_A8R8G8B8, D3DPOOL_SCRATCH, &pSurface, NULL) g_pd3dDevice is an IDirect3DDevice9 object, and has been assumed to be properly initialized Thus, the code to capture the screen looks as follows: extern IDirect3DDevice9* g_pd3dDevice Once the screen is captured onto the surface, you can use the function D3DXSaveSurfaceToFile() to save the surface directly to the disk in bitmap format. The IDirect3DSurfce9 object can be generated by using the method IDirect3DDevice8::CreateOffscreenPlainSurface(). The interface IDirect3DDevice9 provides the GetFrontBufferData() method that takes a IDirect3DSurface9 object pointer and copies the contents of the front buffer onto that surface. By accessing the front buffer from your application, you can capture the contents of the screen at that moment.Īccessing the front buffer from your application is pretty easy and straightforward. This one, the front buffer, holds the video memory related to the desktop contents, and so essentially is the screen image. And there is another buffer that every application can access by default - the front buffer. ![]() Some applications might have more than one back buffer. This is called the back buffer of the application. Every DirectX application contains a buffer, or a surface to hold the contents of the video memory related to that application. Probably the fastest way to do this is to use DirectX. Note : if this question is not related to stack-overflow or it's off-topic please tell me which stack category I can ask my question ? Return ms.ToArray() // Avarage Time : 3.032 msĪnybody knows which technology and method windows uses to process a screenshot to task bar live thumbnails ? I'm guessing the delay is because of bitmap processing or something but I don't know yet! Here's the way I process picture on server : private static byte capture()īitmap bmp = screenshot_DDAPI() // Avarage Time : 29.6566msīmp.Save(ms, ImageFormat.Jpeg) // Avarage Time : 1.7101 ms Note : This program is not processing over internet it's gonna work on local network. I tried to resize 1920 x 1080 from all methods to Task Bar Preview size but it didn't made any change ! I thought the progress is normal at this way till I checked out Windows 10/8 Task Bar Live Preview Thumbnails and It's fully-real time with out 1ms delay that means frame to frame ! I used C# Windows DirectXCapture with jpg encoder and delay was 16ms for 1920x1080.I used C++ Windows Desktop Duplication API with jpg encoder and delay was 9ms for 1920x1080.I used C# Windows Desktop Duplication API with jpg encoder and delay was 12ms for 1920x1080.I used C# Windows Desktop Duplication API and delay was 19ms for 1920x1080.I used Unit圓D screenCapture with jpg encoder and delay was 38ms for 1920x1080.I used C# copyfromscreen with jpg encoder and delay was 36ms for 1920x1080.I used C# copyfromscreen and the delay was 92ms for 1920x1080.I know the ways already is on internet but the problem is the delay. Okay, What I'm looking for and asking for is a way to capture windows screen at real time in fastest shape. To set your own Game bar screenshot keyboard shortcut, to Settings > Gaming > Game bar.I'm gonna create a very fast and real-time remote service with C# or C++, doesn't matter, but currently I'm using c#. From here, you can click the screenshot button in the Game bar or use the default keyboard shortcut Windows key + Alt + PrtScn to snap a full-screen screenshot. Once enabled, hit the Windows key + G key to call up the Game bar. First, you'll need to enable the Game bar from the settings page by making sure you've toggled on Record game clips, screenshots and broadcasts using Game bar. You can use the Game bar to snap a screenshot, whether you're in the middle of playing a game or not. It will then be saved to the Pictures > Screenshots folder. You can press Fn + Windows logo key + Space Bar to take a screenshot. If your computer doesn't have the PrtScn key, no worries, Microsoft has another keyboard shortcut for you. You'll need to open the shot in an image editor to save it. This will snap your currently active window and copy the screenshot to the clipboard. ![]() ![]() To take a quick screenshot of the active window, use the keyboard shortcut Alt + PrtScn. Your screen will briefly go dim to indicate you've just taken a screenshot, and the screenshot will be saved to the Pictures > Screenshots folder. To capture your entire screen and automatically save the screenshot, tap the Windows key + Print Screen key. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET Windows key + Print Screen You can adjust print screen settings in Windows. ![]() The city's Board of Public Works and Safety approved a filming permit for the movie at its meeting Wednesday. Update: Well the Gary rumor just got real with a report from Post-Tribune: Like the previous two films, it will be interesting to see how much turns out to be right and how much doesn't. One way or the other though, it seems the fun world of speculation, rumors, and more is about to officially kick off for Transformers 3. Decepticons with automobile alt modes is now a tradition of the movie franchise with Barricade in the first movie and Sideways in the sequel. ![]() April 12th is only a few weeks away so it will not take long to find out if this is true or not.Īs for the Dodge Charger, it could be the car of a diehard fan or it could be part of the movie. Michael Bay didn't mention the state in his update but I don't expect him to list all his locations. It sounds plausible but this is the first time Indiana has been mentioned as associated with Transformers 3. Sorry for the poor quality.I honestly don't know how to attempt to judge this new information. I managed to snap a couple of pics with my cell. The other (which wasn’t being guarded as heavily) is a decepticon. One is a autobot that I couldn’t get close enough to take a picture of because it was being guarded so that it would not be scratched/ damaged. All the stuff that you guys had reported SuperHeroHype had was there and more! The main Transformers cars are all there including 2 that I didn’t see in the previous movies. I was doing my normal rounds on the lot and came across the Transformers 3 work. The images were taken from Playa Vista, the same location as a previous set report. =( Maybe someone could get some shots:) The second bit of information comes from Realm Toys with a brief set report and pictures of a possible Decepticon judging by the logo on the front of the Dodge Charger. They said the autobots cars will be their and it will be a closed set. Their also going to start filming April 12 in Gary Indiana. The first piece is based on information from a tweet from Production Weekly:Ī pre-vis scene for "Transformers 3" will shoot at the Majestic Star Casino in Gary, Indiana on April 12th.This isn't the first time I saw a reference to Gary, Indiana as an anonymous comment in the Magnificent Mile post said something similar but was written two hours before the tweet: Maybe it’s an odd April Fool's prank or maybe it is real. ![]() One is about Transformers 3 shooting in Gary, Indiana while the other is the possibility of a Decepticon Dodge Charger being used in the film. Two pieces of information have popped up online regarding Transformers 3 via Slashfilm. ![]() You must also provide the former title with the assignment section on the back completed and signed by the previous owner. $110 for a financed vehicle with two liens.$85 for a financed vehicle with one lien.If you have any questions, please call the MVC’s Customer Support Line at (609)Ģ92-6500 prior to submitting your documents. Note: Each case is unique and handled on an individual basis. The MVC must be notified separately for assistance obtaining To lodge a formal complaint, contact the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.Mail all original documents (unless noted) to:ĪTTN: Special Titles/Dealer Out of Business.Gather all required documents download forms and.How to get a title when New Jersey Dealer goes out of businessįollow these instructions if you purchased a vehicle from a New Jersey car dealer that went out of business: For your convenience, the MVC accepts American Express® card, MasterCard®, Visa® card, Discover card®, checks, money orders and cash.If the vehicle qualifies for the Surcharge, you must calculate an additional 0.4% of the gross sales/lease price. New vehicles may be subject to New Jersey’s Luxury and Fuel.are required to meet California Low Emission Vehicle Program standards. 2009 model year and later passenger vehicles or light duty trucks weighing less than 8,500 lbs.The original title will be sent to the lien holder. Identification Number(EIN – formerly Corpcode) of the lien holder. If the vehicle is financed, you must provide the address and Entity.If the vehicle was purchased from an out-of-state dealer and the dealer is not authorized to collect New Jersey sales tax, sales tax will be due upon titling the vehicle.Certain vehicles are exempt from sales tax.Sales tax may be paid at a motor vehicle agency. However, if you did not pay sales tax at the time of purchase, you will need to pay the sales tax based on the actual amount paid for the vehicle.Is not collected at the agency for New Jersey dealers. New Jersey dealers are required to collect sales tax for New Jersey residents.If you purchase a vehicle in New Jersey, you must pay sales tax and complete the sales tax section stamped on the title.You need to pay sales tax on the actual vehicle price. ![]() ![]() You must show the Manufacturer's Certificate of Origin (MCO) displaying the sales tax-satisfied stamp.Schedule an appointment prior to your visit. Titles may be acquired at a MVC Vehicle Center.When purchasing a new vehicle from an out of state dealer, verify the New Jersey titling process with the dealership. If you did not receive a title from a dealer, you must title your vehicle within ten days of purchase or face a penaltyįee. Typically, if you purchase a vehicle from a New Jersey dealer, it will be titled as part of the sales process. ![]() The secondary team are also unsuccessful in locating Flect Turn. Clair uses her Voyance Quirk in order to find the bombs, but she informs Endeavor that there are none in the building. Once the operation begins, the heroes attack Humarises' forward operating bases in Otheon, as the heroes led by Endeavor raid the headquarters via HALO jump.Įndeavor himself leads the first team with Clair Voyance to locate the bombs, while a second team, in which the trainees are in, is charged with apprehending the members and their leader. The Heroes of the Endeavor Agency, including Work-Study trainees Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, and Shoto Todoroki, join a secret covert black-ops mission to the capital city of Otheon, where the main headquarters is presumably located and apprehend the leader, Flect Turn. ![]() Humarise members can't stand up against the Heroes. Hawks and Fumikage Tokoyami are sent to New York City, United States with Shishido and his trainees, Mashirao Ojiro, Rikido Sato, Nirengeki Shoda, and Jurota Shishida to apprehend the American branch. Momo Yaoyorozu and Setsuna Tokage were chosen by Majestic to assist Singapore's top hero, Big Red Dot. Fat Gum and his trainees, Eijiro Kirishima, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, and Tamaki Amajiki will assist with the Japanese operations. Gang Orca assembled a joint operation with Present Mic and Cementoss in Tokyo, Japan to raid a Humarise forward operating base with the trainees, Kyoka Jiro and Mezo Shoji. Ochaco Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui, and Nejire Hado were selected by Ryukyu to raid the Humarise base in Paris, France. The Lurkers recruited their trainees Minoru Mineta, Hanta Sero, Denki Kaminari, and Ibara Shiozaki to join Salaam in raiding the Humarise branch in Cairo, Egypt. ![]() Heroes Course were recruited to boost the number of the Heroes being deployed both at home and overseas. Various members from Class 1-A and Class 1-B from the U.A. Since the nature of the entire operation is strictly off-books clandestine, they must refrain from asking for help from local law enforcement. Their mission is to simultaneously raid the twenty-five known branches of Humarise in the world, aprehend all its members including the leaders, and seize the Trigger Bombs. While each team of heroes goes to their designated targets, the director of the association explains the situation as well as the main goals of the operation. In response to the act of terrorism, the All-Star World Heroes Association mobilizes the largest anti-terror joint task force made up of the top Heroes all over the globe, with All Might as the advisor. Heroes from all over the world get ready for the mission. Sometime after the devastation, Humarise broadcast to the world as the ones responsible for the bombing. The Humarise agents approach these terrified survivors to congratulate them for being granted by salvation. The only ones who survive this tragedy are a few Quirkless individuals, completely shocked by the death and devastation they had just witnessed. The city is destroyed by the uncontrolled Quirks.īoth civilians and heroes are unable to control their chemically-enhanced powers, being consumed by their overpowered Quirks and causing great destruction throughout the city, increasing the death toll. Such gas is made from a chemically enhanced substance known as Ideo Trigger, which causes the Quirks of anyone who breathes and inhales it to go berserk and lose control of their super-empowered Quirks that are highly toxic to the users themselves and destructive due to the enhancing properties of the chemicals. While this sermon is taking place, deep in a secret underground cavern facility, a lone defector, Alan Kay, flees from the terrorist organization.įlect Turn demonstrates their resolve by detonating one of the Trigger Bombs in a major city, releasing a large amount of green gas that quickly covers the entire city, while the terrified citizens try to escape. To ensure the salvation of the pure humans, those who are Quirkless, Flect says Humarise must take action, even if that means the deaths of millions of people. In the main sanctuary of the Humarise sect, the leader Flect Turn gives a speech to all his followers gathered there about how ever since the appearance of Quirks, they will eventually become so powerful they will lead to the extinction of humanity, as the Quirk Singularity Doomsday Theory assures. Summary Prologueįlect Turn sets in motion his plan to save humanity. ![]() Within hours until the collapse of civilization, Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki must work as a team, but there is one problem: Deku's on the run for murder. When a terrorist organization threatens to wipe out the superhuman society, the fate of the world hangs in the balance of the future heroes. ![]() It's a potential solution to the Q4 stampede that has made the closing months of the year so competitive for so long. On average there's gonna be new titles coming out every two weeks." "In fact I think it's one of the more popular times that I've seen. "You've got great titles coming out that entire time period," the GameStop exec says. This, Bright suggests, is why we've been seeing stronger Q1 slates in recent years - a trend set to continue with the likes of Kingdom Hearts 3, Crackdown 3, Anthem, Days Gone, Metro Exodus and Tom Clancy's The Division 2 all arriving between January and March 2019. He goes on to say that longer development cycles mean more and more publishers are willing to release titles when they're ready, rather than aiming for a pivotal selling period. "Publishers have recognised for a long time that if they launch so close to the holiday season, Black Friday in particular, they're not really properly positioned to take advantage of a key promotional time period" So this allows them to have a great period of fantastic sales when the game launches." Therefore you're not launching a brand new game that you can't be promotional with around the Black Friday time period. "You have to remember that game production starts years ahead of time, long before they know that RDR2 or anything else is coming, so they're looking at 'how do I maximise sales of my video game?' And the best way to do that is to move it up earlier in the year. "Part of it is that overall publishers have recognised for a long time that if they launch so close to the holiday season, Black Friday in particular, they're not really properly positioned to take advantage of a key promotional time period," he explains. Natually, no publisher has openly admitted they're avoiding head-on competition with Rockstar, but it's almost certainly a factor - although Bright offers another theory. Yet some publishers like EA and Bethesda have no fear in going up against Red Dead's October 26 arrival, with Battlefield launching a week before and Fallout 76 following just a fortnight later. Most notably, Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty are launching earlier than ever - by a full month, in the latter's case. Rockstar's presence was seemingly felt by the publishers who did attend E3, however, as more games announced release dates much earlier than their usual window. I mean, absolutely phenomenal interest in that game. "We had an exclusive Red Dead Collector's Edition that we put up for pre-order and it sold out in a day and a half. "Red Dead is going to be a top game of the year, hands down," Bright declares. ![]() Yet from the sounds of GameStop's experience with pre-orders, Rockstar's next epic hasn't exactly suffered from shunning the Los Angeles spotlight. Of course Red Dead Redemption 2, arguably the biggest release slated for 2018, was entirely absent from E3. I think when they introduced their battle royale mode that spurred a lot of consumer interest we're seeing pick-up from that." He continues: "Nintendo fans are definitely reacting, but we're also seeing an incredible reaction from the tried and true franchises like Call of Duty. We're also seeing great reaction from Pokémon Let's Go, both SKUs, and then of course people are trying to get their hands on the Pokéball as well. "Super Smash Bros is jumping right up to the top of the list. "Nothing beats Nintendo's overall announcements," he says. Nintendo, in particular, has benefitted from E3 2018 when it comes to grabbing the attention of GameStop customers, as Bright informs us that Switch sales doubled over the course of the week in the wake of the Smash Bros deep dive, plus ongoing enthusiasm for Pokémon. ![]() "You're kicking off with Call of Duty and going into Red Dead Redemption 2, then you have NBA and Assassin's Creed and Battlefield and then you're going all the way through December when you're ending up with Smash Bros and you've got Pokémon and Fallout 76 in November - that's a powerful holiday line-up." "I'm looking forward to an incredible Q4," he says. Vice president of merchandising Eric Bright tells us he's particularly pleased with the line-up for 2018's final quarter, in part because there is a solid spread of big and notable launches for the entire three month period. As usual, the bulk of the attention is on games due for release in the run-up to Christmas - the busiest time of the year for both the industry and the retailer. With that in mind, we caught up with GameStop in Los Angeles to gauge the company's reactions to the various revelations made towards the start the week. Amid the pomp and circumstance of E3, it's easy to forget one of the expo's oldest and perhaps more core functions: to inform retail about the biggest titles heading to market. ![]() The flamingo even made an appearance on the silver screen. He was forever humble about the flamingo, and in fact, his wife often brought it up in conversations with people they would meet, bringing a sheepish smile from her husband, she said. "People say they're tacky, but all great art began as tacky," Featherstone said in a 1997 interview. (Charles Krupa/AP)įeatherstone, who studied art at the Worcester Art Museum, created the ornamental flamingo in 1957 for plastics company Union Products Inc., of Leominster, modeling it after photos of the birds he saw in National Geographic.įeatherstone worked at Union for 43 years, inventing hundreds of products in that time and rising to the position of president before his retirement in 1999. He was funny and had a wonderful sense of humor and he made me so happy for 40 years." Artist Don Featherstone, with his wife Nancy, at Harvard University in 2012. "He didn't have a selfish bone in his body. "He was the nicest guy in the world," Nancy Featherstone said. He died at an elder care facility in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, after a long battle with Lewy body dementia, his wife of 40 years, Nancy, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. (Amy Sancetta/AP)ĭon Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist, who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo - the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch.įeatherstone, who died Monday at 79, embraced the fame the invention brought him. His autobiography, Brush, Camera and Memories, was published in 1985.Facebook Email In this Thursday, Jphoto, Don Featherstone, creator of the original plastic pink flamingo, sits surrounded by many of the plastic creatures at Union Products, Inc. Survived by his wife and their daughter, he died on at Toowoomba and was buried in the local cemetery. ![]() He handed over his film collection to the Heritage Building Society for preservation in 1982. In retirement he taught painting at adult education classes and introduced art therapy at Baillie Henderson Hospital. Infrequently irascible, Featherstone was noted for his enthusiasm, humility and charity, and his joy in the small pleasures of an `amateur’ artistic life. Widely acknowledged as the best amateur film-maker in Australia, he won several national and international prizes for his work. He was a foundation (1952) and life member (1961) of the Darling Downs Amateur Cine Society. By 1980 he had made fifty-five films including fictional stories, travelogues, and historical epics and documentaries-mainly about the Darling Downs, including the only surviving footage of the royal visit there in 1954. He had bought a second-hand 16-mm Kodascope camera in 1926 and had begun experimenting with home and holiday films. On 27 July 1966 he was awarded the insignia of the serving brother of the Order of St John.įeatherstone’s great love was film-making. From late 1961 to June 1968 he was a nurse and, from 1965, a first-aid instructor at Toowoomba Mental (Baillie Henderson) Hospital, Willowburn. In January 1946 he became an ambulance officer and honorary instructor at the Toowoomba station of the Queensland Ambulance Transport Brigade. Rejected in 1942 for active service in the Royal Australian Air Force, he worked as a medical orderly in the Civil Constructional Corps at Wallangarra, Drayton and Canungra, and at Truscott, Northern Territory. ![]() On 25 February 1933 at St James’s Church of England, Toowoomba, he married Emmie Gillam, a shop assistant.Īt the foundry Featherstone initiated a benevolent fund and started first-aid training under his father, gaining the St John Ambulance Association instructor’s certificate in 1939. An early member (1927) of the Toowoomba Art Society, he won prizes for his paintings at the Royal Adelaide Show and the Brisbane Exhibition. Tall and lanky, in his youth Featherstone had moderate local success at swimming, tennis and rifle-shooting and, learning to play the steel guitar, participated in two local entertainment groups, the Bohemian Club and the Merry Makers. He was self-employed until 1927, when he found work as a machinery painter at the Toowoomba Foundry. In 1924 he moved to a larger firm in Brisbane but, made redundant by the introduction of spray painting, returned to Toowoomba. He worked for a year as a boot delivery-boy before securing an apprenticeship as a coach-trimmer and signwriter in his uncle’s paint shop, where he was nicknamed `Don’ to avoid confusion with another apprentice. Educated at Harrowgate Hill School, Darlington, and Toowoomba East State School (1912-14), Sydney left aged 12. In 1911 the family migrated to Toowoomba, Queensland. Sydney (Don) Featherstone (1902-1984), ambulance officer and amateur cinematographer, was born on 16 November 1902 at Darlington, Durham, England, second of six sons of Joseph Featherstone, railway shunter and ambulanceman, and his wife Eliza Dorothy, née Moody. ![]() This game can be adapted to many different scenarios, for example, “I went on holidays and packed…” or “I went to school and took …” The winner is the last person who can correctly name all of the items in sequence. Players continue taking turns to remember the items purchased in order as the list gets longer and longer. The second player continues, “I went shopping and bought a (names the first player’s item) and a _ (adding a new item to the list).” The first player starts the game by saying, “I went shopping and bought a _,” identifying an item they would buy. ![]() The aim of the game is to remember as many items purchased at the shops as possible! Then cover them up and ask them to write a list or draw as many of the items that they can remember. Ask your child to close their eyes and as they do so remove one item from under the cloth.Īsk them to open their eyes, remove the cloth and tell you what’s missing!įor older children, use more items and allow them to look at them for a full minute. Name them together (the more you discuss the items the more likely your child is to remember them so you could ask them what colour or shape each item is or what it is used for).Ĭover the items with a tea towel. Tell your child to have a close look at the items on the tray. Place a number of household items onto a tray (the more items, the more challenging the game so for younger children start with just 3-4 items and increase from there). The winner is the first person to match all of the images on their base board. If the card matches an image on the players board they have made a match and get to take another turn. ![]() Players take it in turns to select a card. The matching cards are shuffled and spread out on a flat surface, face down. Similar to Memory but instead of matching pairs, players take turns to select a picture card to match to a baseboard.Įach player selects a base board. With younger children, play Memory by mixing up and placing face down the pieces to simple matching 2-piece puzzles, encouraging your child to find the two pieces that make up one puzzle. ![]() The winner is the person who has matched the most pairs. Success in Memory relies upon children remembering where they have seen each picture in previous turns – both those and those of the other players. No match, the cards are returned to their original position. Make a successful match and you get to take another turn. Players take it in turns to choose any two cards. Shuffle and spread all cards out on a flat surface, face down. Click through to find our collection of fifteen free, printable memory matching games.Įnsure your set of cards contains all matching pairs. Memory/ConcentrationĪ deck of children’s matching picture cards easily becomes the classic favourite game of Memory. You can also download and print a copy of these games for your resource file at the bottom of the post (be sure to jump over and grab a copy of our kids memory game ideas set 2 as well)ġ0 Kids Memory Games 1. There are ideas that can be used with preschoolers right through to kids in the later years of primary/elementary school (honestly, my ten year old still gets a kick from winning a round of Concentration!). These games and activities require them to stop, focus, think, plan and remember, and these are all great skills that we all need to use every single day. So today I am sharing a fun collection of kids memory games that are perfect for helping your child to s-t-r-e-t-c-h their brain! Which makes memory skills pretty important in the scheme of things! Throughout their school years, children are introduced to new, abstract concepts that require them to store information in both their short and long term memories – letter sounds, sight words, multiplication tables, historic dates, the periodic table and so much more. She’s been using mnemonics in her first grade class to remember tricky spelling words such as because (big elephants can always understand small elephants) and said (silly ants in dresses), so it didn’t take her long to master the rainbow! BIV as she was trying to remember the order of the colours of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. I recently introduced Miss 6 to Mr ROY G. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |