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Another Dribbble recreation showing of the beautiful icon pack 'Feather', featured in the 184th editon of the CodePen Spark. |
Skeleton loading using only a few lines of CSS |
Skeleton or ghost loading is present in most applications today and here's an example of how you can create one with some CSS. |
Sliding Tabs Using Only CSS Transitions |
This Dribbble shot recreation landed the 62nd place in the Most Hearted Pens of 2020 and demonstrates how to create a tab component with a sliding focus effect on click. |
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Designed using my brain and eyes. Built with Eleventy. Deployed with Netlify and edited with Netlify CMS. Icons by Phosphor Icons. Code on GitHub.<eot>11 Alright, so here's the dealio: I'm working on a Ruby app that'll take data from a website, and aggregate that data into an XML file.<eot>Paul McCartney's Stab at a 9/11 Documentary | ROGER CATLIN |
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Paul McCartney's Stab at a 9/11 Documentary |
Of the avalanche of programming planned for the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the most entertaining may be "The Love You Make," the documentary of Paul McCartney's organization of the concert at Madison Square Garden for firefighters, debuting Saturday on Showtime. |
Shot in black and white by Albert Maysles, who had chronicled the Beatles first trip to the U.S. with his brother, it's been sitting on the shelf for most of the decade, unseen |
"There was no really particular reason why it took 10 years," McCartney told TV critics at press tour last month, via satellite from Cincinnati where he was performing. |
"We did not put it together and finish it till quite recently. I think the fact of the 10th anniversary spurred me into thinking, wait a minute, Albert took some great footage back then that we never did anything with. And it just seemed like it would be a good opportunity. So I got in touch with Albert and said, 'Is it still all around? You know, would it make into a film?' And he was very enthusiastic. He said, 'Yeah, it would.' So I said, 'Come on, let's do it, then.' So I think it was re awakened by the 10th anniversary." |
John Lennon is linked to New York, the city he lived before his death 30 years ago, but McCartney says "I have a lot of connections" to the city. Primarily, he says, "I married a New York girl, Linda. And I'm about to marry another one." |
It was his first girlfriend that brought him to the states first, apart from his big tours with The Beatles. |
"I had a girlfriend, Jane Asher, in the '60s, who was an actress, and she was touring with a Shakespeare company. And I got to come out to Denver and spent some time in Colorado, just hanging out, which was very nice. Used to just kind of go up in the mountains and hike. That was a very gentle pace. |
"And then later, I would come to New York a lot with Linda who was from there and whose relatives were there. So we would just go and hang out. And it was funny, really, because around that time, I'd grown this big, black beard. And the fashion was kind we were dressed in kind of, like, old army stuff from thrift shops and stuff. So I had complete anonymity. I could be on the streets of New York and people would say, 'Aren't you worried about someone mugging you?' I said, 'No, I look like the guy who's going to mug you.' |
But in those solo trips, he said, "I had a lot of fun. I would go up to Harlem, whereas with The Beatles we'd been warned you mustn't go up there, you know, it's dangerous. So I was able to go up there and go into record shops and talk to the guys, talk to the people there, and just generally hang out in New York. So that was another very sort of good restful time to just see America for what it was rather than the hysteria." |
And there was plenty of hysteria when the Beatles came to the U.S. in 1964. |
They were sort of prepared for it, he said. "We were very lucky because we had a kind of staircase of fame. Not like now where you're just overnight success and you've got to deal with it. We started in Liverpool and we had to sort of schlep around, trying to get some work, and trying to get a little bit more money, a bigger club. Went to Hamburg. Then we played all around England. So by the time we had the offer to come to America, we were now kind of famous in Europe and we had a little handle on how to behave and how to do it. |
" We'd met quite a lot of people who were likely to criticize us, and we kind of we felt like we had a way to deal with it. So we were very excited to come to America because this is where all the music that we loved came from. We had said to our manager, look, we're not going to America until we have a No. 1 record, which if you think about it, was really quite a sort of bold move. Because we'd seen other stars from Britain come to America and just fade into the general scene. |
"We got No. 1 with 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' And we just hit the roof. We said: 'Now we can go to America.' So we came in here on a bit of a wave of success. We kind of felt good about ourselves. But we were really, amazingly excited to come to the land of our music. And then we heard on the plane coming over I think the pilots, you know, radioed JFK, Idyllwild as it was then. And they said, 'Hey, there's millions of people, there's thousands of kids at the airport.' We're going, 'Oh, yeah? Quick, better have a shave.' And so we were very excited. We got off the plane to this amazing hysteria. |
"We went into a press conference, and I think this is what I'm talking about. The press would say, you know, 'How do you find America?' And we'd say, 'You turn left at Greenland.' |
"We kind of had it all down. We kind of knew what to expect. By then we were fairly sort of cocky kids, you know, which, I think, helped a lot. Instead of kind of saying, sorry, sir, we shouldn't be in your country. They said, 'Well, you know, what are you doing here?' We said, 'Well, check it out, we're No. 1,' which is a pretty good thing to be able to say, you know. |
"We did so many groundbreaking things. We didn't set out necessarily to do that, but as we got more popular, things came our way," McCartney says of the Fab Four. |
They were unaware of the legacy of their biggest U.S. TV showcase, for example. "We didn't actually know who Ed Sullivan was," McCartney says. "We'd say, 'Who is that?' 'He's very famous in America. Don't worry.' So, you know, and then we found ourselves on 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' and the guy who was holding the curtain for me as I was about to go on and sing 'Yesterday' solo with a string quartet he said, 'Are you nervous?' I said, 'No,' slightly bluffing. I said, 'No.' He said, 'Well, you should be. There's 73 million people watching.'" |
Later, when they played Shea Stadium, he said, "we didn't really understand the significance, that it was a big famous baseball park. To us in a way, it was just a huge gig." |
A huge gig with a kind of ungodly screaming. "You really couldn't hear anything. It was like a billion seagulls screaming, and we just looked at each other. You can see it if you look at the film. We're just in hysterics. John ends up doing a solo with his elbow." |
Years later, McCartney had just boarded a plane back to England at JFK, it was on tarmac, when "the pilot just suddenly said, 'We can't take off. We're going to have to go back to base.' And out of the window on the right hand side of the airplane, you could see the Twin Towers. First of all, you could see one plume of smoke, and then you could see two shortly thereafter. I said, 'Well, that's an optical illusion, you know. It's just the one, and it's probably, you know, just some sort of little fire or something, but, boy, it does look pretty serious.' And we were just looking at that for a while. Then suddenly one of the stewards actually, rather than the pilot, came to me and said, 'Look, there's been something really serious happened in New York, and we've got to get you out of here.' |
"So I was got out of ahead of the other passengers for some reason. But I ended up not being able to go into New York. I ended up in Long Island watching it on TV, watching the whole story unfold like everyone else in the world wanting to go into New York, but nobody was allowed back in. |
"So while I was kind of sitting out there twiddling my thumbs thinking of what to do, was there any role I could play in this, the idea came to me that maybe we could do a concert, maybe get something together. And that thing grew into a conversation with Harvey Weinstein, who said that MTV was putting one together and maybe we should all get together on that." |
The big concert included the Stones, the Who, Elton John, Billy Joel and just about everybody important in entertainment. And the audience needed the healing and assurance that familiar music provided. |
"The whole mood of the world, the country of America, and particularly the city of New York, had changed," McCartney says. "It was there was fear in the air, and I never experienced that in particularly in New York. So this was where the idea of doing a show came about." |
McCartney had recalled something about wartime rallying 'round. "My father's generation were in World War II. I was born in World War II in Liverpool, which was subjected to a lot of bombing. So I grew up with all these people who'd just recently survived a war, and I noticed how they dealt with it." |
Music was a big part of it, he says. 'It was, like, "Roll out the barrel. We'll have a barrel of fun,' boom, boom. You know, while they're getting bombed, they're singing. So I remembered that, and I thought that's maybe what I can bring to this. Maybe I can just get that kind of feeling, that kind of old courage that I'd seen my parents and their generation exhibit. Maybe I would be able to help America, New York, out of this fearfulness, and that really is what happened. And we were very kind of happy that so many British guys and so many artists anyway, but there were a lot of British guys who flew in especially for it when that was a time when people weren't flying. |
"It gave a great message. It said to people in America, 'Look, we don't even live here, and we're coming for you. So you guys who live here, you know, don't worry about it.' And I did have a woman who rang me up. She was from Boston, and she said, 'I said I was never going to fly again after these attacks, but I'm flying up to this concert.' |
"We were emerging from the fearfulness of the immediate impact, and now you were seeing the emotion releasing through music, which I always think is a great thing. It's one of the reasons I love music and I'm in it. You could see particularly the firefighters and the volunteers and their families and victims' families were able to release this emotion that had been sort of so pent up. So it was a great feeling. It was a really great feeling. We actually felt like we were doing a bit of good." |
Then as now, McCartney knew to mix his own recent songs with the Beatles classics people loved. "Let it Be" served as kind of a benediction. |
"The proportion of Beatles songs has grown," he says of his current concerts. "But I try and mix it with Wings, which is also very popular because there's kind of a younger generation out there that comes to our shows now. And then I mix that with stuff that is my kind of own solo stuff, but the largest proportion these days is Beatles stuff. Because, you know, I try and give audiences what they want, and a lot of that is Beatles stuff. |
Besides, he added, "It's not bad music." |
"The Love You Make" premieres Saturday Sept. 10 on Showtime. |
This entry was posted in Summer TV Press Tour 2010. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.<eot>Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore - Mr B's Emporium |
Publication Date: 27/02/2014 ISBN: 9781782391210 Category: Books |
Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore quantity |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 DEBUT CATEGORY – KITCHIES PRIZE |
A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops; it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new. |
Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a Web-design drone and serendipity coupled with sheer curiosity has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. And it doesn't take long for Clay to realize that the quiet, dusty book emporium is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few fanatically committed customers, but they never seem to actually buy anything, instead they simply borrow impossibly obscure volumes perched on dangerously high shelves, all according to some elaborate arrangement with the eccentric proprietor. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he has plugged in his laptop, roped in his friends (and a cute girl who works for Google) and embarked on a high-tech analysis of the customers' behaviour. What they discover is an ancient secret that can only be solved by modern means, and a global-conspiracy guarded by Mr. Penumbra himself… who has mysteriously disappeared. |
The story is gripping, the characters are terrific and the writing is clever and funny. As intelligent as it is enjoyable * Daily Mail * It's a proper novel. By which I mean, not that it has pages you actually turn – that is optional with novels nowadays – but pages that you actually want to turn, which is getting rarer and rarer…. Charming, gently comedic, sweetly nerdy and enthusiastic about media both old and new * Irish Times * Rollicking… an ode to the beauty of dead-tree books * New York Times * Delightful… Smart, hip and witty * Washington Post * The pages swell with Mr Sloan's nerdy affection and youthful enthusiasm for both tangible books and new media… A clever and whimsical tale with a big heart * The Economist *<eot>Made from Medium Density Polyethylene (MDPE) our 750 Litre water tank comes with an push down lid which is ideal for installing a submersible water pump for watering the garden or even washing the car. Also a 1" BSP outlet is pre-moulded in the tank. |
WAKEFIELD – ICAC has moved to dismiss suggestions that China’s aggressive cotton stockpiling policy poses a threat to identity cotton prices. However, Ecotextile News correspondent, Simon Ferrigno believes that the protectionist measure by China – which now sees it holding almost 60 per cent of world cotton stocks – will inevitably be having an impact on cotton prices from the likes of BCI, organic and CMIA which, he says, are “almost invariably based on conventional prices.” Brett Mathews reports. |
An Uber driver’s call to police lead to the rescue of a 16 year old girl from being trafficked in a California hotel. The Uber driver, Keith Avila, picked up on the situation that was taking place and knew he had to take action. |
He quickly called 9-1-1 after recognizing multiple signs that the girl was with her pimps and was about to be trafficked. To read more about the story, click here. |
Uber announced their partnership with ECPAT-USA in April of 2016. As part of its pledge, Uber said it would provide materials to drivers that describe physical and behavioral signs of trafficked children. |
“Uber is committed to safety in the communities we serve and we want to do our part to help put an end to the transportation of trafficked children,” said Niki Christoff head of federal affairs for Uber. “By partnering with ECPAT-USA, we are taking steps to promote awareness and educate drivers who sign up on our platform about this important issue.” |
“We are encouraged to see stories where people step up and respond to suspicious activity,” said Michelle Guelbart, director of private sector engagement for ECPAT-USA. “By sharing more resources we know that Uber drivers will have the right tools to respond moving forward.” |
The Code is an industry-driven responsible tourism initiative with a mission to provide awareness, tools and support to the tourism industry in order to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. |
Uber is one of the many companies that have signed The Code and partnered with ECPAT-USA. The private sector is in a unique position to help prevent child sexual exploitation. To learn more about ECPAT-USA’s work with the private sector, click here.<eot>Jaw crusher is a type of rock crusher. It can be divided into two major types according to its different working principle, Double-toggle jaw crusher and overhead eccentric jaw crusher. Of course, both of the two types of jaw crushers can be used to crush stones. You need to choose the right type when you need to use a jaw crusher. This article ...<eot>Natural light can have a major effect on day-to-day human health. Studies show that daily exposure minimizes many health risks, and actually bolsters the immune system. By improving occupant health, this can actually contribute to greater productivity, minimizing absenteeism and making the hours spent at work more productive. So how does your lighting affect employee health? |
Daily exposure to sunlight is invaluable in maintaining a healthy immune system. This is, in part, because sunlight helps your body produce and maintain vitamin C and D, which are fundamental to maintaining good health. Those deprived of sunlight experience a rapid decline in these vitamins, followed by a sharp decline in health. |
Natural light also aids in the maintenance of an important neurotransmitter, melatonin. This neurotransmitter controls the natural day-night sleep cycle, helping to ensure we rest for 6-8 hours each night. Artificial light, which is often oversaturated with blue spectrum light, can negatively affect melatonin production. This contributes to the development of insomnia, reducing the length of time the body has to recover, leading to poor health. |
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In addition to the benefits mentioned above, regular exposure to natural light has been shown to aid in the prevention of a wealth of ailments. Many of these are chronic conditions, including prediabetes, multiple sclerosis, and rickets. Providing this natural lighting can help to nullify the effects of over a dozen conditions, minimizing employee sick days |
Alongside absenteeism is the, arguably more dangerous, trend of presenteeism. Presenteeism is when workers continue to attend work despite being sick or injured, often due to economic necessity or to avoid falling behind on pressing work-related tasks. The issue is that in most cases, these employees are unable to work effectively, and actually waste the time they could be recovering. If they are sick, they also risk infecting co-workers, which could lead to an incapacitated workforce. In fact, studies show that the cost effect of presenteeism, in terms of lost productivity, is actually greater than that of absenteeism. Because of this, it is important to not only integrate natural lighting to improve employee health, but to create opportunities for employees who may be sick to recover. |
To learn more about the options for natural lighting currently available on the market, download our free eBook The Power Of Daylighting Systems In Building Design.<eot>One afternoon i spent a few hours walking up and down the beach enjoying the sun and blue skies. i was so preoccupied with taking photos of herons in the water that i had totally missed this giant, dark, storm cloud rolling in over the hill behind me! it wasn't until i turned around to head back that i saw it but at the same time a movement from in the trees caught my eye. this beautiful bald eagle emerged as it came soaring out from between the green branches and streaked across the stormy sky behind. |
It is with great joy and honor that the movement of the american indian solar culture (m.a.i.s.c.) and sacred arts research foundation (s.a.r.f.) present the 2018 winter solstice heart & mind festival: changing tides - a fundraiser for our underwater relatives and the salish sea 🌊 , featuring taino elder maestro manuel rufino, grandmother clara soaring hawk of the deer clan, theresa bear fox, kurt russo, peia, dream seed 🎶 and ecstatic dance🌟. in 1970, over 40 orcas were brutally captured from the salish sea in northwest washington and taken to marine parks around the world. during that capture, at least five of the orcas were killed. tokitae, who was just three years old at the time of capture, is the sole survivor, living alone in a small and isolated tank at miami seaquarium where she has been performing acts for food rewards for 48 years. tokitae has not seen another orca since 1980. the lummi nation intend to change this by returning her to her home pod at the eastsound, orcas island. |
this event will raise funds to support the lummi nation’s plight to return tokitae to the salish sea. |
be part of this amazing movement and join us 👍👍👍 on the 15th of december for more awareness 👁, more connection 🤗 , more wisdom ♾ 🙌 and more opportunities 🤲 to make a real difference in the world 🌎 and care for our beautiful mother earth. |
✨our✨ orca task force is at least 700,000 strong and if the governor’s orca task force thinks we are going to become silent just because they turned in their unreasonable orca recovery recommendations, they are wrong. |
we have never been so close to breaching the l4sr dams in history and we are at the cusp of breaching the dams because of you! |
politicians work for the people, and if governor inslee wants to keep his job, then it’s high time to breach the dams! . |
the governor’s orca task force is failing our southern resident orcas. with zero recommendations to sustainably increase chinook salmon (increasing spill is not the answer) our orcas simply cannot survive. the only responsible recommendation to save the last remaining 74 southern resident orcas from extinction is by breaching the lower four snake river dams as soon as humanly possible. within 14 months of breaching these dams there will be one million more chinook salmon per year! this is the only answer. and we all know it. . |
As i begin my journey east over the cascades to spend a day of thanks among friends i think of the things i am most grateful for, not the least of which are the whales that continue to inspire and captivate me. i am thankful they've connected me to a world wide community who are as fascinated by them as i am and who cherish their stories as much as i do. i am thankful for them and for you all. #orca #killerwhale #srkw #whale #dolphin #whalewatching #salishsea #nofishnoblackfish #pacificnorthwest #sanjuanislands #thankful |
Point atkinson lighthouse in lighthouse park, a national historic site of canada. the point was named by captain george vancouver in 1792, who was aboard the ship ‘discovery’. the current lighthouse dates from 1912. west vancouver can be seen in the background through the fog. #lighthousepark #pointatkinson #lighthouse #fog #evening #ocean #salishsea #georgiastrait #westvancouver #vancouver #bc #britishcolumbia #canada |
Orcasound.net has developed a fun way for us all to be citizen scientists and help the salish sea orcas. |
you can listen live to their hydrophones in the salish sea and report back what you hear. scientists will use this data locate and study the orcas, particularly at night or in bad weather. orcasound provides tools to help you recognize the different calls of j, k, and l pods and to log your observations. please check out orcasound.net for more information and happy listening. |
Found only in the north pacific, dall's porpoises are often mistaken as baby killer whales because of their similar markings and small size. these social and rapid swimmers are attracted to fast moving vessels and boats and can often be seen riding or surfing the wake of the bow (front of the boat). —— |
Less than 50 years ago, southern resident killer whales were captured and transported to marine parks around the world for our entertainment. it seems we've come a long way since then... but have we? in many ways, we still exploit killer whales for our fascination and viewing pleasure. and not only that, we've been unable to allocate them the space or resources they need to survive in their own home. it seems, generally speaking, we cannot simply admire nature from a distance. a culture founded on a respect for nature goes a long way... and that's what we need to foster and teach now. |
I never felt more alive than this summer. i met amazing people that share the same passion. i stop watching tv show, i try to learn something new every day, i kitesurf, read, write and hike more, i spend all my free time in or on the ocean, eat more local and organic. i feel more passionate and connected with my life. feel lucky to be able to live that crazy life :d <3 |
Captain mike and i are having so much fun putting together a christmas cruise offering for december. just thinking about all the things i would enjoy... beautiful scenery, wildlife, twinkly lights, hot chocolate and something to dunk in it ☺️ @haidagold |
Yesterday ellie and i turned a corner and just about ran into a blue heron. 💙 she didn’t even bark as the bird casually checked us out and then flew a few feet away where we could pass without bothering it. #livelifelikeellie #salishsea #pnwwonderland #vitaminsea |
This morning was never promised to any of us, and for that reason i am more than grateful for the gift of this moment, to witness another beautiful sunrise here at portage is something i’ll never take for granted... with that being said, good morning everyone. , it’s going to be a beautiful day \o/ #salishsea #lummi<eot>“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” is a ridiculously cheesy, yet painfully accurate lyric from 80’s hair band Cinderella. The statement is universally applicable and with some digital-only modern game stores closing (RIP Wii Shop) and storage media of older games reaching the end of their expected lifespan, it’s a statement that will apply to the gaming world sooner than we think. |
Luckily for the gaming community, groups of people are already taking this seriously. Some recent projects that come to mind are the x68000 disk image archive Artemio and mijet are working on, Frank Cifaldi’s Video Game History Foundation, the upcoming Video Game Archives hardware-centered wiki and of course, the Domesday duplicator project. |
While all preservation efforts are appreciated and will have a lasting effect on the game community, I think the Domesday project is one that needs more attention, help and discussions around adapting it to other mediums. Their ethos centers around a two-part archival method: |
Get a bit-for-bit (or pit-for-pit with Laserdiscs ;p) copy of original media, flaws and all. |
Run that media through software that converts it to a readable form. |
Both of those are crucial components to accurate preservation and part 1 is the most important for the short-term, as there is a limited lifespan to most media. In the long run, part 2 will play the bigger role, as it can take multiple backups of the same thing and compare them to each other. As long as each original media doesn’t have flaws in the exact same place, multiple copies can be composited together to create a near-perfect recreation of the original. Said differently, that means right now, you can have a situation where the last remaining copies of a laserdisc are completely unplayable, yet after all are scanned, you can end up with an accurate, working, 1:1 example of the original. |
With a lot of effort and more people forking the project, this archival process can be applied to anything from VHS tapes to floppy disks…and possibly most other analog media. Imagine if efforts were put forth to scan the analog masters that were all recently announced burned, forever lost to time without any chance of getting them back. Before the fire, I imagine the people in charge all thought things like: “They’re archived safely in a warehouse. We’ll get to it eventually. It’s fine.” |
Let’s not let another burning of the Library of Alexandria happen to the game community, either literally or digitally. It won’t be easy and will require people far smarter than me, but if you have the skills to help in any way, just take the first step and start. Once the tools are created, others like myself can help with the “grunt work” and start archiving. |
Let’s start this process now, before we look back, only realizing what we’ve lost after it’s gone. |
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UPDATE: Simon recently responded about this. Are there any video software engineers out there that can help? |
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