![]() ![]() In October 1871, Wallingford's railroad station was completed for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Over the years it evolved as a maker of brass ware, drapery hardware and armaments during World War II, until 1989 when it became a prominent industrial-to-residential conversion called Judd Square Condominiums. Judd Manufacturing Company began an almost hundred year dominance of the town's lower downtown with a sprawling metalware factory complex on South Cherry Street. It was also during this period that many of the small silver and Britannia plants were combined to form the International Silver Company with its headquarters in Meriden and several plants in Wallingford. Wallace & Company the forerunner of Wallace Silversmiths. By mid-century, Robert Wallace acquired the formula for nickel silver and established with Samuel Simpson, R. ĭuring the 19th century, Wallingford industry expanded with a considerable concentration of small pewter and Britannia ware manufacturers. While found innocent, they were compelled to leave Wallingford to settle in Staten Island, New York. Winifred King Benham, known as the "Witch of Wallingford", and her daughter Winifred were thrice tried for witchcraft. In the 1690s Wallingford was the site of one of the last Witch trials in New England. In 1775 and again in 1789, George Washington passed through Wallingford. Six acre lots were set out and by the year 1675 forty houses stretched along today's Main Street. On May 12, 1670, Wallingford was incorporated and about 126 people settled in the town. The "long highway" located on the ridge of the hill above the sandy plain along the Quinnipiac River is the present Main Street in Wallingford. Wallingford was established on October 10, 1667, when the Connecticut General Assembly authorized the "making of a village on the east river" to thirty-eight planters and freemen. 11 National Register of Historic Places.
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![]() The list does not stop here - we are looking to add more languages in the future. The nine languages ELSA Speak app is localized into include (alphabetical order): ELSA Speak is an AI-powered mobile app that aims to help users learn, improvise and better their English through narrative modules and sessions. ![]() This will help us make English learning more accessible to a wider range of English learners around the world. launched ELSA Speak: English Accent Coach application to work with Android mobile and even iOS however, you can even install ELSA Speak: English Accent Coach on PC or MAC. The potential of helping the billion of English language learners keeps us excited here at ELSA.Īnd today, we are happy to announce tha t the app is now localized in nine different languages including our latest addition, the Korean language. 1 rated English learning tool on iTunes and Google Play with over 2 million downloads worldwide. Download ELSA Speak: English Accent Coach for PC free at BrowserCam. Of the approximately 1.5 billion English speakers globally, the World Economic Forum estimates over 1 billion are non-native or learning English as a second language. ELSA Speak, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language app was designed to democratize English learning to English learners around the world. Hephaestus (Greek god of metalworking, blacksmithing, craftsmanship): Hammer, anvil, fire, donkey, and volcanoįacts: Hephaestus made all of the weapons and armor for Mount Olympus.Hera was among those who borrowed the belt. Aphrodite (Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure): golden apple, dove, swan, and scallop shellįacts: Aphrodite could make people fall in love by wearing her sacred belt.Poseidon (Greek god of the seas): tridentįacts: Poseidon plays a part in many Greek myths, including his relationship with Medusa and his anger with Odysseus.Even though his father was Zeus, having a mortal mother made Dionysus feel separated from the rest. Dionysus (Greek god of wine and the vine): grapes, ivy, thyrsus of ivy and pine coneįacts: Dionysus was considered an outsider to the Twelve Olympians because he had a mortal mother.She always kept the fire going at Mount Olympus, and food was always prepared in her name for her sacrifice. Hestia (Greek goddess of the hearth and home): hearthįacts: Hestia was one of three virgin goddesses.Her sacred animal was the peacock and cow. Hera (Greek goddess of marriage, queen of the gods): diadem/crown, pomegranate, peacock, and cowįacts: Hera was the queen of the gods and often was adorned with a diadem or crown.Hermes (Greek god of trade, merchants, travelers, sports, and athletes): Caduceus (rod staff with snakes entwined), winged shoes, a winged hat, and tortoise shellįacts: Hermes was the god of travel, so he was often related to transportation methods, such as winged shoes and a winged hat.The oak tree represents the great wisdom that Zeus possesses. He would also transform into various creatures, such as an eagle, swan, or bull. ![]() Zeus (Greek god of the skies): lightning bolt/thunderbolt, eagle, swan, clouds, bull, and oak treeįacts: Zeus would use a lightning bolt or thunderbolt to inflict pain or death upon his enemies.We will include both Hestia and Dionysus in the first portion of our list, as well as Hades. It is important to know that some versions of Greek mythology have Hestia as the 12th Olympian, while other versions have Dionysus. If you don’t know who the Twelve Olympians are, the Twelve Olympians are the major deities that resided on Mount Olympus. ![]() Fortunately, they ended up with Onyx and were totally happy. If you open up the link, you’ll see how I almost helped my clients make a big mistake. It was one of the last ones I did before stopping all of that a few months later. This window frame painted in Onyx was from a consultation I did in 2015. Lovely staircase make-over with a newel post painted in Benjamin Moore ONYX. Onyx is a tad softer and a touch warmer without looking brown. And actually, Benjamin Moore’s plain black is quite fine. There are several great shades of black in my curated paint collection. I wanted to include a black this time and so I chose is Benjamin Moore’s Onyx. That reminds me! Remember this open concept mess I wrote about four years ago? Plus, I would love to put the money for the apartment sale into fixing up and furnishing the new place. There is no point in shelling out over $800 a month if I’m not going to be here very often. ![]() I would like to sell it.įor times I need/want to come back to NY, I can stay someplace else. I am going to have to do a few things to this place. Oh, I so wish I could take this wallpaper with me to my new home! When I arrived home at 6:00PM on Thursday, the light in my bedroom was so lovely and the room looked magical to me. For more of this terrific kitchen, please go here.Īnd, the other white is another popular shade and the one I chose for my bedroom to go with my lovely Mural Sources wallpaper. It’s a terrific shade of white and I would say you probably can’t go wrong with it, either as a trim or wall color. SIMPLY WHITE – It’s not at all a stark white. I’ll begin with the four colors I just added. MY 20 FAVORITE BENJAMIN MOORE PAINT COLORS You can read more about the paint collection starting here. The Palette portion is when I take all of the colors and put them into palettes, 40 mood boards with furniture and much more. And, if you’d like to have a larger list and don’t have it yet, please consider purchasing the Laurel Home Essential Paint and Palette Collection. But, really, there are so many wonderful colors. I added two more shades of white, a cool gray and a black. So, now it’s my 20 favorite Benjamin Moore Paint Colors. ![]() However, instead of 16 colors, I added four more. So, this is a re-working of a post from 2016 about my favorite Benjamin Moore Paint Colors. But I thought I would take a break from that to provide some variety. I’m still reading them! If you missed the news about a big change coming my way, you can read about it here.Īnd, I do want to keep talking about my new home of course, I will. And, that’s why I need to move closer to a real one!īut, Guys! Thank you again for all of your kind notes. Good God! What an eccentric nutjob I’ve become! However, Joe has become a surrogate child. Honestly, the very thought makes me want to throw up. And so he had a little sadistic fun by telling me that Joe was crying when he showed up. (And, yes, I realize that he’s outgrown his pot.)Ĭale knows how attached I am to my dear plant. Here’s Joe shortly before we left New York last May.( you have to scroll down to see him) Imagine my panic on I-91 when I realized what I had done? I called Cale, who happily said, he’d go and fetch Joe and take care of him.įor those, who don’t know who Joe is, he’s my five and a half-year-old half-dead plant. What’s worse, I didn’t even realize until I was 2/3 of the way into my trip. In my worry about getting to the dentist on time, I did forget about poor Joe. I kept looking at my GPS, and it had me arriving at my dentist, 115 miles away about five minutes before my appointment, but I hadn’t left yet! And, then, a good hour to replace the battery. It took the guy from AAA a good 90 minutes to show up. And, I made a mental note not to forget him! I took Joe out of the hot car and sat him nearby in the shade. ![]() It was hot out, but I got the car packed, including Joe, in his little spot on the floor in the passenger seat next to me. ![]() Argon gas is wasted unless you are at a high altitude. Make sure the windows are vinyl, Low-E windows with welded corners.Contrary to what many believe, adding extra "straps" or anchors does not change the wind rating of a manufactured home. The shorter the overhang, generally the lower the wind rating. The width of the eave (roof overhang) is a quick indicator of the wind load construction of a manufactured home. There are specific requirements for construction regarding wind loads. No manufactured (or site-built) home is tornado or stormproof, but some of the better-built homes are built to withstand 140+ MPH straight winds.Wind Zone 3 (110 miles an hour) is in a very small area on the coastline. Wind Zone 2 (100 miles an hour) is within 90 miles of the coastline. ![]() Wind zone 1 (basically, winds of up to 70 miles an hour) covers most of the continental US. The Wind Zone of a house defines the wind that it is supposed to be built to withstand.If available, ask for the "crossover duct" to be built into the floor (on double and triple wide homes)-not flex duct under the home, which is potentially exposed to the elements and animals.There is one manufacturer based in Oklahoma that builds every double wide home Energy Star rated. Be careful when this is being pitched to you. They are allowed to keep their factory Energy Star rated as long as they build at least one qualifying home per year at that location. Some manufacturers have "Energy Star" construction or "Green" construction available, but very few actually build their homes to these standards. This label is usually found in the kitchen or utility room. You can see the energy rating on the HUD label that is posted (by law) in every home. Zone 3 energy rating is the highest available in the manufactured housing industry.Avoid polypropylene plumbing (the gray pipe found in older manufactured homes)! Approximately 1:10 homes with PVC or CPVC will have a water leak upon setup after transport, while the number is closer to 1:100 with Pex. It has a much better performance history than PVC or CPVC. Third-generation Pex plumbing is the best way to go for plumbing.Ceramic showers are fine but require more maintenance. Make sure that the connection "spread" is a standard residential size on all sinks and fixtures.Avoid plastic or fiberglass sinks in the bathroom and kitchen if possible. Request china, ceramic, or stainless steel sinks.They can be added later if not available at purchase. Ask for water shut-off valves at every sink and toilet.Avoid the non-mortising hinges if possible. All interior doors should be 1-3/8" thick.This will avoid very high replacement costs. Confirm that the exterior doors are 80" tall (residential height) and are 1-3/4" thick (residential thickness).Make sure the door trim and baseboards are real wood (not paper-coated MDF or plastic).Some Amish-built homes offer a smooth finished Sheetrock. Most manufacturers use a light to medium texture on the walls. Real Sheetrock allows for future maintenance, and you can paint or paper at will. Ask for 1/2" taped and textured Sheetrock throughout.Also, make sure the carpet runs wall to wall (is not stretched under the wall) and is secured with a tack strip (not stapled at the edge). Ask for a minimum of 5# rebond padding under the carpet. Make sure the carpet is 100% continuous loop nylon with stain resistance.Check to make sure that all of the floor joists and walls (interior and exterior) are framed 16" on center.Avoid particle board flooring (Nova Deck) at all costs! Plywood is the best flooring, and OSB or wafer board is acceptable.Oddly enough, some of the very cheaply made homes use longitudinal floor joists (running the length instead of the width of the home). Floor joists that run in the opposite direction of the structural I-beams.This will result in a flat plate-line while the home is in transit, avoiding much of the damage that occurs during transport. Here's a list of some things you should look for or request in a manufactured home. Manufactured Home Features You Should Look For or Request Here are things you need to look out for if you are considering a mobile home. ![]() Use with your favorite gel, lotion, ointment or cream. Gently moisturizes the most sensitive skin, improving skin health and vitality. 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This hand painted brush font has a cool and casual personality. If you want to give your designs a chic, contemporary look, Westfalia is a great font choice. Created by Vernon Adams who is no more, you can buy Vernon Adams font T-shirt on or donate there to support his family. It is available in both uppercase and lowercase allowing you to use it for headings or body text. I love to use this font personally in my quotation presentation slides. Each alphabet is so perfect in aesthetics and legibility that it can be used for any design. This beautiful, elegant brush script handwriting font is inspired by the 1950s American surf culture. People have used it to design their book covers, customized T-shirts, quotes, and a lot more. Pacifico is a very popular font amongst designers. The best part is that it is free for commercial use too allowing budding artists to create beautiful designs and give a kickstart to their career. ![]() ![]() It offers multilingual support including Latin, Russian, Spanish, Scandinavian, Greek, Swedish, Turkish and many more. Available in both uppercase and lowercase with numerals and glyphs, this font is perfect for creating quotes for social media, greeting cards, and posters. Made with a brush pen, it is “designed for everything vintage and grungy” as the author rightly puts it. The font is designed for uppercase only, so do make full use of it for display uses.īosk is a beautiful handmade brush font that instantly lends a warmth to every alphabet. The author rightly describes the personality of the font, “The font embodies the passion for travelling, surfing, nature, and everything else made with love.” Since this amazing font is free for commercial use, you can go ahead and make awesome travel brochures, product logos, packaging design, restaurant signs and promotional materials for any outdoor events. Contrast in thickness of letter formation, imperfect edges and rounded letters make it a happy-go-lucky font. Give a masculine, carefree touch to your design with the Hammock font. It is available in both uppercase and lowercase and is free for commercial use! Use this font to create a timeless, personal design. Because of this personality, this font is ideal to introduce your brand name, on the cover of your portfolio, branding materials like apparel, stationery, etc. The Woodlands is an artistic brush typeface that evokes the freedom, majesty and mystery of the woods. Licence: Free for Personal and Commercial Use Handwritten Fonts Free for Personal & Commercial Use You can share your designs with the author of the font (they’ll be happy to see their fonts in action), credit them and even donate some amount as a thank you gesture so they keep making creative fonts and life of a designer so much easier :) Check out our curated list of custom handmade fonts, download the ones you love and create beautiful designs. ![]() We have filtered out some amazing free handwritten fonts that are free for both personal and commercial use and some that are free for personal use only. Sure, you can download free handwritten fonts available in plenty on the web, but you mustn't forget to save the slides designed with custom fonts as an image before you mass distribute it.Īlso, you need to be careful whether you are using the font for personal or commercial use and the license of the font you are using. There are two or three decent fonts like Lucida Handwriting, Monotype Corsiva and Segoe Print but they have been used so much that they are an eyesore now. PowerPoint presentations are one medium where good handwritten fonts are badly missing. If it comes with swashes (the exaggerated flourishes at the beginning or end of an alphabet) it makes the design all the more exquisite! You need a gorgeous cursive typeface to warm the eyes and heart. Whether that design is a letter, a quotation slide, a quirky message on a T-shirt, a warm wish on an invitation card or your favorite phrase on your pillow. Nothing gives more personal touch to a design than a handwritten font. In November 1922, Saunders attempted a squeeze on the substantial short interest in the stock, running the share price up from 40 to 120 and profiting by millions on paper. At its peak in 1932 (see Clarence Saunders), the company operated 2,660 stores and posted annual sales in excess of $180 million. The success of Piggly Wiggly was phenomenal, and other independent and chain grocery stores changed to self-service in the 1920s and 1930s. provide shopping carts for customers, starting in 1937 in Oklahoma.The original Piggly Wiggly Store, Memphis, Tennessee, 1918 Instantly, packaging and brand recognition became important to companies and consumers alike. The customers selected merchandise as they continued through the maze to the cashier. Customers at Piggly Wiggly entered the store through a turnstile and walked through four aisles to view the 605 items sold in packages and organized into departments. The concept of the "self-serving store" was patented by Saunders in 1917. Piggly Wiggly Corporation secured the self-service format and issued franchises to hundreds of grocery retailers to operate its stores. Others were initially experimenting with this format, which came to be known as a "groceteria", reminding people of cafeterias, another relatively new, self-service idea. Losses due to easier shoplifting were more than offset by profits from increased impulse purchasing. Piggly Wiggly introduced the innovation of allowing customers to go through the store, gathering their goods, thus cutting costs and lowering prices. This created a greater cost and higher prices. Instead, a customer would give a list of items to a clerk, who would then collect them through the store. A replica of the original store has been constructed in the Memphis Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium, a mansion that Saunders built as his private residence, which was later sold to the city.Īt the time of its founding, grocery stores did not allow customers to gather their goods. ![]() It was founded on Septem (although it did not open until five days later due to delays in construction), at 79 Jefferson Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders. ![]() Piggly Wiggly was the first self-service grocery store. Historical marker near the site of the first Piggly Wiggly store in Memphis, Tennessee ![]() The practice of data fusion (a concept borrowed from Lev Manovich) has led to the production of a new media object useful for historical inquiry by systematically connecting visual archives and sound archives pertaining to the same event. Kramer conceives his methodology through three types of action: the use of digital sound design has made it possible to “amplify the meaning” of a historical event. By drawing on the contributions of the “auditory turn” and the possibilities offered by the processes of “sonification” of data, the historian does not only plan to change his outlook on the digital archive, but also to change its sensory comprehension in service of generating new interpretations of the past. As part of a research project on the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, the historian observes a digital photograph of the blues singer and guitarist Mance Lipscomb taken during a concert in July 1963 and questions the nature of the gaze directed by the historian on this “digital silhouette”. Kramer has laid the groundwork for a sonic analysis of images 1. Involved in both research in Digital History and in the field of Sound Studies, historian Michael J. ![]() ![]() Dans cet entretien, il explique ses expériences, sa méthodologie et les enjeux de la sonification des données en histoire culturelle. En s'appuyant sur les apports du « tournant acoustique » ( Acoustic Turn ) et sur les possibilités offertes par les processus de « sonification » des données, l ’ historien n ’ envisage pas seulement de changer son regard sur l ’ archive numérique, mais d’en faire évoluer sa compréhension sensible. Dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche sur le Berkeley Folk Music Festival, il observe une photographie numérique du chanteur et guitariste de blues Mance Lipscomb prise lors d'un concert en juillet 1963 et interroge la nature du regard porté par l'historien sur cette « silhouette numérique ». Kramer analyse les sources sonores numérisées dans leur dimension sociale et culturelle ainsi que dans leur dimension matérielle, les envisageant comme des objets encodés selon un protocole qu’il s’agit de documenter. Dans le sillage des travaux de Jonathan Sterne, l ’ historien américain Michael J. While traversing the levels, the player must fight Nazi guards and soldiers, dogs, and other enemies while managing supplies of ammunition and health. Levels-ten in the original episodes-are grouped together into named episodes, with the final level focusing on a boss fight with a particularly difficult enemy. To finish a level, the player must traverse through the area to reach an elevator. Each level is themed after Nazi bunkers and buildings. The game is broken up into levels, each of which is a flat plane divided into areas and rooms by a grid-based pattern of walls and doors, all of equal height. Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter presented with rudimentary 3D graphics. In-game screenshot of the DOS version, showing the player character firing a submachine gun at guards Id Software never returned to the series, but did license the engine to numerous other titles before releasing the source code for free in 1995, and multiple other games in the Wolfenstein series have been developed by other companies since 2001. FormGen developed an additional two episodes for the game, while Apogee released a pack of over 800 fan-created levels. It has been termed the "grandfather of 3D shooters", and is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre and establishing the standard of fast-paced action and technical prowess for many subsequent games in the genre, as well as showcasing the viability of the shareware publishing model at the time. Wolfenstein 3D was a critical and commercial success and widely considered to be one of the greatest video games ever made, garnering numerous awards and selling over 250,000 copies by the end of 1995. ![]() An additional episode, Spear of Destiny, was released as a stand-alone retail title through FormGen. The game was released through Apogee in two sets of three episodes under the shareware model, in which the first episode is released for free to drive interest in paying for the rest. Wolfenstein 3D features artwork by Adrian Carmack and sound effects and music by Bobby Prince. He and designer Tom Hall designed the game, built on Carmack's engine, to be fast and violent, unlike other computer games on the market at the time. After a design session prompted the company to shift from the family-friendly Keen to a more violent theme, programmer John Romero suggested remaking the 1981 stealth shooter Castle Wolfenstein as a fast-paced action game. ![]() In mid-1991, programmer John Carmack experimented with making a fast 3D game engine by restricting the gameplay and viewpoint to a single plane, producing Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3-D as prototypes. Wolfenstein 3D was the second major independent release by id Software, after the Commander Keen series of episodes. ![]() ![]() The player traverses each of the game's levels to find an elevator to the next level or kill a final boss, fighting Nazi soldiers, dogs, and other enemies with knives and a variety of guns. In Wolfenstein 3D, the player assumes the role of Allied spy William "B.J." Blazkowicz during World War II as he escapes from the Nazi German prison Castle Wolfenstein and carries out a series of crucial missions against the Nazis. Originally released on May 5, 1992, for DOS, it was inspired by the 1981 Muse Software video game Castle Wolfenstein, and is the third installment in the Wolfenstein series. Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen. |
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