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Flash brief history and the end of the original Chinese Internet
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Since mid-2019, people may notice a pop-up window when they surf the Internet, announcing that flash player will stop supporting by the end of 2020.
It was a planned abandonment.
Apple was the first company to announce restrictions on Flash use, and the late Apple founder, Jobs, has repeatedly criticized Flash: in public
It's not just mobile devices. Safari, Apple's desktop browser, has also disabled flash by default since 2016, and Google Chrome has followed up in the same year. Adobe officially announced plans to phase out flash in 2017, fully embracing the new generation of HTML5 technology.
The year 2020 is the deadline, after which Adobe and major mainstream browser makers will eventually eliminate the Flash,'s annoying updates that may never be ⻅ again.
In fact, flash has accompanied the Internet for 25 years. In August 1995, Los Angeles had a high temperature of nearly 40 degrees in the summer of this year. The annual siggraph computer graphics annual meeting was held here. There is a meeting between traditional games and animation here. At that time, two things happened in the venue:
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Outside of this aura, an unremarkable young man, Jonathan Gay,, exhibits a graphic editing software called SmartSketch. Hopefully, he didn't even sell a copy of the ⻉, but those who came to try said:
So he did, and changed the name of the software: FutureSplash Animator, this is the predecessor of Flash. As the version iterates, Flash becomes available not only for animation, but also as a game development tool. Developers around the world use Flash to develop a variety of products, accompanied by the Internet's most vigorous period of time.
In the Chinese Internet, flash also left its mark.
China's access to the Internet was in 1994, but before the popularization of broadband, most of the websites were as streamlined as possible, mainly in words. Until the speed of the Internet increased, flash, which can provide online video playback and small game functions, came into people's view.
In 2003, a group of young people in their twenties in Guangzhou used flash 2D animation and 3d background to produce "Q version of Three Kingdoms", later renamed "Q version of Liu Guanzhang".
What's interesting is that the soundtrack author of this animation is ⻨ Zhenhong, who is also the music author of the TV version of "the legend of the immortal sword" and "the legend of the immortal sword". Different from the melodious soundtrack of "Xianjian", in order to match this nonsense animation, the music used is very happy and spoof, which makes people feel a little lovely unexpectedly.
Compared with the commercial production of "Q version of Three Kingdoms", the other flash animation "Kung Fu rabbit" has a shorter total number and time.
In the first release in 2005, it was called "Shaolin rabbit and Wudang dog". It was only after "Caibao dog counterattack" was made in 2009 that the director decided the name of "Kung Fu rabbit and Caibao dog". The animation draws on the spirit of "cat and mouse". The rabbit and the dog are rivals and friends, thus interweaving a chapter of love and killing each other.
However, what makes it stand out from many flash works is the visual effect that combines animation with real scenes. Such a production process needs to take photos of real scenes, and then use flash to complete the production of animation content. The content of animation involving interaction with real objects needs to be repeatedly debugged, with a large amount of work, so the length of time can also be understood.
After all, the animation was originally done by one person alone.
Its director, Li Zhiyong, was born in 82, graduated from Jilin University and now teaches at the School of Animation and Digital Art, Communication University of China. He did not come from a class, from undergraduate to graduate students studied seven years of transportation major, animation production is entirely out of hobbies and enthusiasm self-study.
Later, Li Zhiyong and his students continued to make the series, and the new animation spread on the Internet again in 2013. On January 14 this year, Li Zhiyong tweeted to share the second season of the animation. Now, the second season of Kung Fu rabbit and Caibao dog has also been launched.
In the ten years from 2003 to 2013, the production process of animation industry has changed a lot, but flash has always been one of the excellent tools for independent animators and commercial studios to exert their creativity.
If you take Flash animation and games together, we'll get an interesting result: a homemade video.
More than ten years ago, when CS was the most popular, my impression was that the local Internet bar ⻔ mouth was often pasted with the handsome face of Dr. Freeman, the owner of half-life, but when I went in, almost everyone chose to be a masked police bandit. People's love for this game is one thing. When players get flash, a relatively low threshold video production method, a large number of MTVs and home-made short films emerge.
The CS Ten-Year Confessions was produced by the ⻔ Home itdoor.net of Yitian Network. Its predecessor, Xiang ⻦ Hardware Information Station, was founded in late 1997 and was established in the same yea
⻔ user's website style Title naming habit
See these two screenshots, you should understand that this is a tribute to Chen Yixun "Ten years" MTV, content is mainly a magnetic voice CT while playing the piano while telling their own little bit of the game. The regret and unwillingness in the lyrics have a deep resonance.
"Save my girlfriend" takes place on the map of CS "Italy" to save the hostages. It tells the tragic story that CT people discussed to save the girlfriend who was kidnapped as a hostage. However, after the fight, with the music of Su huilun's "the color moon", CT found that the girlfriend had eloped with the handsome bandits.
I should, I should take good care not to waste / spring is a fleeting cloud / should not, should not fall into the mire again / real love will not guess so long
Familiar Strangers by
The Sequelae of CS tells about the lives of CS addicted players
Although the quality of these short films may be ⻬, they are undoubtedly full of enthusiasm of players. Players borrow Flash
As Flash creation becomes more and more
Apart from the video, MTV and advertising campaigns created by the players, it is true that
Maybe it's because the original name has no characteristics. This flash game has directly chosen the most characteristic game screen as its translation name in various game websites in China, which is called "beautiful robot world".
The game tells of the robot world's main generator in an accident and accidentally stopped, so that the whole city lost its power source. The robots were all in deep sleep, and ten thousand years later, a lightning bolt struck the No .2 robot working at the top of the tower, giving him enough energy for action. In order to restart the generator and save the robot world, the small robot embarked on the journey.
And the picture of the whole game is very clean, without the messy colors and exaggerated lines abused Flash the game at that time, the maker even made the blur effect of depth of field ingenious. Flash games are divided into regular ⻅
As a puzzle game, it has no comparable volume with the PC games of the same era, such as mechanical City, adventure of the galaxy and sticky world. Players only need to click the circle on the screen with the mouse to complete all the puzzles, the prompt is also very obvious, the whole process is about ten minutes. But I think the significance of its existence is to prove to the world that flash games can also have a Japanese style cabinet like delicacy.
So do domestic developers have any works?
Speaking of this, we can not but mention and "ancient artifact", "flash hit" and "flash Wing Fighter".
"Ancient artifact" was made by the studio of kunu. As one of the main creators, the spirit is now the father of a four-year-old. He was mentioned in the article "ancient artifact throughout 15 years" published by the travel and Research Institute last year.
As early as 2003, the player group where the elves belong completed the same work "demon star reappearance" of RPG game "Xuanyuan sword", which complemented the plot of yuwentuo carrying the demon pot to Europe, and filled in the gap between "Xuanyuan sword three: the other end of cloud and mountain" and its external biography "trace of heaven".
Different from "the trace of heaven" written in "the reappearance of the demon star", the ancient artifact is a rewriting of "the trace of heaven".
Screenshot of ancient artifact
By modifying the relationship between the main ⻆ of the original work, Chen Jingfu was set to be the reincarnation of Donghuangzhong, and the plot of Yuer and Zhang Li was deleted and a more complete ending was written. In a sense, it should be considered
Interestingly, the eggs that are often made in the Xuanyuan Sword series have also been
Another game "flash hit" can be said to run through the history of flash games.
Chen Aveo, the author of the "Flash Player" series, AndyLaw. name Graduated from chengdu stone room middle school in 2001, completed the development of life's first game while studying at chengdu university of technology, handle the operation of BBPlayer.net and crazyflasher.com these two small game websites, now visit the words will be directed to the "flash" game website.
Although 17 years have passed since the launch of the first generation of flash mob, the series is still launching new games. Compared with the early generation 17 years ago, its latest work "flash attack 8: armed action" has no resemblance in appearance or play.
"Flash 1" is a fixed scene horizontal scroll action game, the main name is AndyLaw. But Andy's looks may be different from what players remember. At that time, he was like this:
Since the release of flash mob 2 in 2005, Andy's modeling has evolved into a green coat that exaggerates to cover the lower half of his face. This modeling has not changed much since then.
As the game says, at first the series "flash hit" can not erase, is a stock
In 2004, Chen Cheng participated in the publication of a textbook called "amazing work: Flash MX 2004 game design and production", which is basically to teach some basic knowledge needed to make flash games. Andy in the book elaborated the production process of "flash hit", and also cited examples of traditional games such as "doom" and "soul service" (misprinted into temple soul in the book) to explain. In the CD-ROM attached with the book, the FLA source files of Chen Cheng's early flash games are included.
After the release of "flash hit 5: superhero" in march 2009, chen completed the production of "flash hit 6: in five months. These two works can be called
"Flash mob" has also joined the zombie fighting mode
After the "flash hit" gradually online games. After 2010, Chen Cheng founded Chengdu kuchuang Technology Co., Ltd. and successively developed "flash hit 7: mercenary Empire" and "flash hit 8: Armed travel". These two online game products are still in renewal and stable operation until now.
Screenshot of the Armed Forces
And it's hard to believe that in 2018, when all kinds of commercial game engines were improving, flash hit was still being developed using Flash. This somewhat worn-out development tool, which created the original glory of the flash hit, has gradually become a further constraint in the series, yet it can combine the flash hit with the flash hit
One user who was also keen on Flash game development added chen hao QQ, the ID's name
I contacted the dream traveler via microblogging, a native of jiangsu province, who was born in 1982, the director of kung fu rabbit.
It's life's destiny to trudge on and on
How many stars have been counted in the journey
Although it's hard to avoid hesitation
Still pursuing the star of destiny, the traveler of dreams
As a post-80s dream traveler, the number of generations across the host of the number of precious. Besides the favorite fighting game, MD famous "the successor of light" also has a special love. At primary school contact with the FC fight game "nine people street tyrants ", middle school began to play" boxing emperor "series, by 2001, the dream travelers who entered the university still addicted to" boxing emperor ". At this point, he came into contact with the Flash、 Evangelist Empire and the Flash Bar through the school computer room.
Because of the slow speed of the Internet, the majority of flash works on the Internet at that time were animation, and few people developed games. Seeing this, the dream traveler for the first time has the idea of becoming a flash version of the champion. However, for him who has no programming experience, at the beginning, he tried to do some art design work, and it will take three years before he really starts to develop.
In late 2004, after a short month of production, the dream traveler developed a playable version, named "the emperor of the chaos dance boxing ". His Demo's high degree of completion gave the dream traveler a great sense of accomplishment, and the speed at which the game was developed shocked him, which prompted him to decide to keep the game going.
Screenshot of "dancing with the fist emperor"
After graduation in 2005, dream travelers entered a mobile gaming company to work during the day, stay up late at night to continue to develop, and sleep five hours a day. Eventually, due to excessive pressure, after the completion of mobile game production resigned.
Meanwhile, he continued to polish "The Dirty Dancing Emperor ," and in September 2006, in the name of ATStudio, published in AS2 language ," The Battle of the King's Dreams ." A representative in the name of the studio
"The War of Dreams" is more complete, adding to "King 99"
The dream traveler resigned in September 2007 to set up the Flashing Wing FlashWing Studio, repackaging "The Battle of the Fist's Dreams" as "The Wing》 of the Fist ", the studio's main work, the new Fist King game with a fairly recognizable title interface and a cellular selection interface, later called by players
Screenshot of king of boxing 0.9
An update of the Wing》 continued until 2013. The game every update will add a new ⻆ color, the new color is not limited to ⻆ Emperor of the Boxing itself, but other combat games are full of genre features of the ⻆ color also added.
At the beginning of 2011, flash wings were transferred to corporatization operations
On the other hand, as SNK conduct business activities in China and authorize mobile games to go online one after another, the unauthorized Flash version of "The Emperor" is no longer suitable for further updates. Dream travelers also had some opportunities to engage informally SNK China in May 2017, and he said he hoped that one day the wings would be used in good faith
For various reasons, fighting game is not a hot type now, but in the first decade of this century, there are countless fans of fighting games who have developed a large number of people's fighting games using the Mugen and flash platform, which enlivened this world on the Internet, and made many players who have never been in contact with fighting games infatuated from then on.
After the arcade, before this generation, the original Chinese Internet is the most special stage for fighting games.
Residual sound
But you can use some words to describe that era to the maximum extent, there are some words that people can recall together, it may be
Some of them are personal memories. They may be the name of your first cat. They may be the smell of sweat and smoke in the Internet bar you often go to. They may be the smell of melted asphalt on the road in summer. These are treasure chests that can only be opened by oneself. All these things together define that era.
And only when you go to recall these things, recall the action itself constantly remind you that you have left it far behind.
I would like to end with a line from the ancient short film "li xianji adventure ", which also caused a sensation on the internet, when li xianji returned to the park ⺠ the people rebuilt after the demolition, where he and his ex-girlfriend wang qian had countless memories. Li Xianzhi said:
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Q: Declared MCU Clock Frequency vs oscillator frequency I am quite confused about the relationship between the declared MCU Clock frequency ( which we set from edit project window) and the oscillator frequency (which we set by codding). So for an example let's say I need 31 kHz frequency. Do I also need to set the MCU Clock frequency from edit project window? If yes, in case of I want to change the frequency during the process, how am I supposed to change the clock frequency during run time?( Since I will not be able to change declared clock frequency.)

A: If you are using MPLAB X, the Harmony Plug-In will create code from your settings in UI. So it's the same and initial frequency on startup. If you want to change the frequency during runtime, you have to set the registers accordingly - but this sounds somehow odd.

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One of the most misunderstood settings on your radio is the microphone gain. You'll often hear people talking about adjusting it up or down depending on what they hear and the results are often displeasing to the ear.
The very first thing to know is that the microphone gain is likely the single most audible setting on your radio, right after the tuning frequency. It's pretty much the first variable between your voice and your transmitter. Set it too low and you'll hear nothing, set it too high and you'll hear gibberish.
I said it's pretty much the first thing, but it's not the very first. That's your voice, unique in all its glory, loud, soft, happy, sad, funny or not, it's the thing that your microphone captures to transmit. Closely coupled to your voice is the distance between your mouth and your mike. The closer you are, the louder, the further, the softer and the more background noise creeps in.
As an aside, speaking of noise, there's background noise at play, but there's also the noise that comes from the audio circuitry itself, which can for example change depending on the temperature of your radio. I'm going to refer to both as noise here, even though they're slightly different.
So, starting with the ideal model where you always speak in the same way, at the same volume, at the same distance from the microphone, with a constant temperature in your radio, at all times, the next thing is the microphone gain, or gain.
Gain is an imperfect attempt at corralling your utterings into electrical signals without causing the audio circuit to distort or drown in noise. Distortion comes as a result of overloading of the audio circuit when the gain is too high, causing clipping, which essentially changes the audio waveform into something that no longer resembles your voice. At the low end of the gain range there is no difference between audio and noise which results in your voice being buried inside a hissing noise.
You might wonder why we don't just build transmitters that cannot clip and increase your volume. Well, we do. We use things like AGC, or Automatic Gain Control to attempt to prevent such things from happening, but this isn't perfect.
All this results in the microphone gain being a setting that you need to tune to your voice and adjust as things change. Overall, the best outcome is when you set the gain so the AGC just engages when you talk normally.
This gain setting also applies to computer generated signals, often fed into your radio via an audio or microphone input. If you set the gain too low, noise is the problem, set it too high and the Automatic Gain Control will distort the signal to the point where it no longer works and causes interference for everyone else including the station that you're trying to contact.
On older radios the output power was fixed. This is also true for Software Defined Radios. To reduce output power, you can change the microphone gain down and reduce the power. Change it to halfway and your output power is essentially reduced to half power. This works for a range of settings, but get too low and we're back to noise and audio fighting each other.
The opposite isn't true.
You cannot increase the microphone gain to increase power. The moment you exceed the audio circuit range your signal is distorted. On an SDR this means that you're exceeding the ability of the Analogue to Digital converter to represent your audio. In digital terms, zero means no sound and all on means 100%. If your audio is so loud as to only be 100% on, that's like sending a tone out the transmitter, resembling anything but your voice.
All of what I've talked about is related to SSB signals and to some extent AM. FM is a different animal entirely. For starters, output power on FM is fixed. The next difference is the signal or channel width. Without going into full detail, FM comes in different widths, WFM or Wideband FM, NFM, or Narrowband FM, and between the two, "normal" FM. To make things more fun, not everyone agrees on what each one means at any given time. Also, channel width and channel spacing are not the same thing, but that's for another day.
Gain aside for a moment, consider two matched FM radios using the same channel width. Your voice volume is determined by how much of the channel you use. Louder means wider, softer means narrower. Adjust the gain up, the signal gets wider, but the limit of the channel width remains, get too high and it clips at the channel width and distorts. At the other end, changing the gain down, you'll use less of the channel width and eventually the noise and your voice will be at the same level and you won't be heard.
Let's look at what happens when you use a normal FM signal to transmit to a narrowband FM receiver. Essentially your signal is too wide and the result is that your voice will be clipped unless you speak really softly or if you've set the gain really low, either way comes with more noise.
Similarly, if you transmit a narrowband FM signal to a normal FM receiver, then your voice will be very low, regardless of the microphone gain setting and turning it up will only distort it due to clipping inside your transmitter.
So, for FM, before fiddling with the gain, make sure that you're using the same FM mode as the other station. One thing to remember is when you use a repeater, if the audio is always too loud for everyone, your mode is probably too narrow. Similarly, if the audio is always too soft and you always need to turn up the volume on your radio, your mode is likely too wide. Check your radio specifications to determine what each mode means.
In broadcast audio this whole thing is managed by calibration using standard tones, but as amateurs we tend to rely on other people reporting their feelings on the quality of your voice with the often heard admonishment to adjust the microphone gain.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:23 am Post subject: Exchange table.
Yes, we plan on setting up an Exchange Table again in the Crop.
For those of you wondering what an Exchange Table is...we set up a table or two where you can put any unwanted scrapping items. And if you see something you like that someone else has left, then you can help yourself! Win-win all the way round!!


Ballyliffin Golf Club together with North & West Coast Links then visited with several Country Clubs in Massachusetts in September and attended the Claddagh Fund Golf Classic in Cape Cod.
Ann and Jon facilitated meetings and introductions which we believe will bring considerable numbers of golfers to our shores and together they have opened doors which would otherwise have been inaccessible to us.
These meetings proved invaluable and have resulted in considerable inbound golf bookings to the Donegal region and have introduced key contacts for the golf tourism sector with fantastic exposure of Donegal's unique golf product in Massachusetts.
They continue to promote the Donegal golf product and have become outstanding ambassadors for Donegal Tourism in the Greater Boston area where the Irish Community is so strong.
Donegal – "Ireland's Golf County" -There are only 150 links golf courses in the world and Donegal boasts 14 of these.
The quality of our links golf courses is widely acclaimed in the golfing world with Ballyliffin and Rosapenna in particular being regarded amongst the best in the world. Ballyliffin Golf Club was recently voted the best 36 Hole links complex in the world by the influential US Golf Magazine – Golf Odyssey.
International golf tourists come to Ireland to experience our unique links terrain and courses such as Ballyliffin, Rosapenna, Murvagh, Narin and Portnoo and Portsalon are key attractions for our region.
These clubs work closely with North & West Coast Links to attract visitors to Donegal and the local economy benefits to the tune of over €15 million each year as a direct result with visiting golfers spending an average €250 per day in the area.
The importance of golf tourism to Donegal cannot be over stated with local hotels, guesthouses, B&B's, bars and restaurants jointly benefiting from the spend in the local economy.
It is essential that we continue to actively market and promote Donegal's unique golf product on the international stage and there is no better advocacy of Donegal than our Diaspora who remain a relatively untapped resource in bringing the outstanding attractions of Donegal to a worldwide audience.
Namaste Nomad is offering unique Himalayan Style Wild Camping treks in Donegal. A qualified mountaineer with seventeen years experience leading treks, tours and expeditions in the Himalayas, Mohan Nepal, Co-founder of Namaste Nomad, is now based in Donegal, Ireland where he lives with his wife... Read more.
Paul McGinley (B. Dublin,1966) is a renowned golfer whose his roots lie in County Donegal. His mother is Julia Sheridan, from Rathmullan and his father is Mick McGinley from Dunfanaghy. Paul McGinley is unstinting in his support to Donegal, spending many happy childhood holidays in the county... Read more.
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Mademoiselles Bouchet et Tolo – très fierent de leurs cheveux magnifiques.
Yeah, the header's a cheap shot, but given the focus is two B-movies made between 1968-1969 – Stoney / Surabaya Conspiracy [M] (1969), and The Killer Likes Candy / Un killer per sua maestà [M] (1968) – which co-starred (respectively) Euro babes Barbara Bouchet and Marilu Tolo, why not highlight each film's most important actress?
The double-bills are part of a series released by Code Red, who've chosen to self-distribute their titles – a move that's created minor panic among the label's fans who fear the roster of rare horror, thriller, action, and Canuxploitation fare is wholly out of print, leaving just avaricious speculators, eBay flippers, and Amazon sellers.
Back February, the company's official blog site alerted fans of their decision to handle current and future product themselves, but as some have easily found out, in place of collector prices the alternative is to just contact the label directly (they also have a Twitter account) and ask what's still in stock, plus specific titles that are on sale.
A friend's ordered a batch, so for Canadians wary of collector prices, the answers are simple: yes, they ship to Canada, and yes there may be stock of titles listed as OOP on the company website. Just ask, is all that's required.
Anyhow, getting back to the double-bill, I've uploaded reviews, and will have a few more up in the coming weeks. Both Code Red and related company Scorpion Films have rescued a lot of Canadian exploitation films – horror, thrillers, action flicks – from oblivion, and Code Red certainly gets a hearty hat's off for releasing a special edition of Rituals (1977).
Thanks to their loaded DVD, I was able to write an essay on the forest slasher genre (which will appear in the University of Toronto textbook "Terror of the Soul: Essays on the Canadian Horror Film" in 2013), and in a classic Canadian conundrum, our native films are being released by American labels because a) no one cares to follow through as extensively up here; and b) major Canuckle studios see no interest in licensing rights to indie labels, preferring to let their back catalogue idle.
I'll have a longer Editor's Blog tomorrow, with some soundtrack reviews, hopefully a composer interview up & running, that promised Titanic (1943) review, and some thoughts on the two festivals I'll be covering at KQEK.com – HotDocs, and the Toronto Jewish Film Festival [TJFF] May 3-13 , plus some special screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
I'm also helping out with TJFF's sidebar series – "The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score" – and will be introducing two free screenings, and will conduct a post-screening Q&A which ought to be fun and thoroughly nerve-racking. Luckily, I like schnapps.
Both HotDocs and TJFF's schedules are up, and I'll soon detail some of the film's I'm covering here, and what kind of unique extras and related reviews will run on the site and Editor's Blog.


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Dr. Moreano is a Member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, The American Academy of Cosmetic Physicians, and The American Academy of Facial Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. He is board certified by the American Board of Facial Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery and by the American Board of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Moreano has dedicated his practice exclusively to cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.
Given his international reputation, Dr. Moreano is frequently interviewed for TV, radio and print media. He is also the founder and co-director of the "Moreano World Medical Mission" (part of the Non-profit "Middle of the World Foundation") which every year performs free reconstructive surgeries for impverished children in Latin America who are born with physical deformities. Additionally, Dr. Moreano is a clinical professor at the State University of New York School of Medicine, and past chief, Department of Facial Cosmetic Surgery of the Queens- Long Island Medical Group.


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Spud is a common nickname for the potato.

Spud(s) may also refer to: Tottenham Hotspur F.C. , Tottenham fans are often referred to as this by the superior Arsenal F.C. Fans

People
 Spud (nickname), a list of people nicknamed "Spud" or "Spuds"
 Spud Murphy (1908–2005), American jazz musician, bandleader and arranger Lyle Stephanovic
 Rockstar Spud (or Spud), ring name of British professional wrestler James Michael Curtin (born 1983), otherwise known as Drake Maverick
 Surfer Spud, former Operations Director at Live 105 and current vocalist/keyboardist for surf pop band Drifting Sand

Arts and entertainment

Characters
 Fred "Spud" Baker, in the British sitcom Cradle to Grave
 Spuds MacKenzie, a canine mascot in an advertising campaign for Bud Light beer
 Daniel "Spud" Murphy, in the 1993 novel Trainspotting and the 1996 film adaptation
 Arthur "Spud" P. Spudinski, in American Dragon: Jake Long
 Laurie "Spud" Odell, in Mary Renault's 1953 novel The Charioteer
 Spud the Scarecrow, in Bob the Builder
 Spud, in the Australian comic strip Beyond the Black Stump
 Spud, in The Ridonculous Race

Other
 Spud (game), a children's game
 Spud (novel), a 2005 novel by John Howard van de Ruit
 Spud (film), a 2010 adaptation of the novel
 Spuds (film), a 1927 American silent comedy film

Acronym
 Saint Paul Union Depot, a railroad station and transit hub in Saint Paul, Minnesota
 St. Paul University Dumaguete, Dumaguete City, Philippines, a private Catholic university
 Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery, a Canadian online grocery service

Other uses
 Spuds, a nickname of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. English football club and their supporters
 Spuds, Florida, United States, an unincorporated community
 Spud Drive-In Theater, near Driggs, Idaho, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places
 Bark spud (tool), a hand tool used for removing bark from logs
 CJRW-FM (102 Spud FM), a Canadian radio station broadcasting in Summerside, Prince Edward Island
 Spud, one of the Operation Bowline United States nuclear test series, detonated in July 1968
 Spuds, steel piles that can be lowered and raised to position a dredge - see Dredging#Clamshell

See also
 Idaho Spud, a candy bar
 Spud bar, a hand tool designed to deliver blows to a target
 Spud One, a Boeing 727 used by Jim Bolger


Join Chris Nodder for an in-depth discussion in this video People respect authoritative sources, part of Learning to Write for the Web.
People read differently online: they scan. They're trying to find information quickly. Writing with this goal in mind makes a website more appealing, and makes customers more likely to visit more often and buy products and services. In this course, Chris Nodder offers seven practical techniques for writing successfully on the web, including front-loading content, writing at the right grade level, avoiding jargon, and keeping content up to date. Test your knowledge as you complete each chapter, and make sure your writing is leading to a positive user experience.
Explain how people read differently on the web.
Name the reading level that body text should be written at.
Identify types of text that serve as signposts for readers on the web.
Give examples of how to make your target audience care about your text.
List documents that could be used to provide supporting evidence to an article.
Determine the expiration date on seasonal articles.
3. Don't Tease: What's in It for Me?


There is more to the art of photography than just a photo of a subject that is adequately lit. Creating beautiful photos with a camera is a form of art. It is a form of art that requires quite a few different techniques. You will want to look for things that are interesting and appealing to the eye, and pay attention to detail. Read the following tips to help improve your photographs.
You should use digital techniques in order to shoot pictures that look like graphic pencil sketches, oil paintings, watercolors, and more. There is a variety of digital software available on the market, but the standard is considered to be Adobe Photoshop. After choosing the medium you desire and hitting the filter button, you can instantly turn photographs into wonderful pieces of art.
When shooting a variety of scenarios, you should learn to adjust shutter speed to produce different effects. Photography lets you capture a single moment or show motion over time by adjusting shutter speed. For example, a fast shutter speed allows you to catch fast moving objects clearly.
Keep your arms in close to your body while holding your camera, and keep your hands on the bottom and sides of the camera. Much clearer photos will result, as the hand shaking will be minimized. Holding the camera from the bottom and underneath the lens also helps prevent dropping your camera accidentally.
Blur the background when shooting photos of people. A heavy focus on the background may draw your viewer's attention away from your subject. This is most easily accomplished by moving your subject further away from the backdrop.
When embarking on a journey, keep your camera handy from the very beginning. Trips provide a great place to shoot some very interesting photography. Do a photo journal of the journey; for example, the airport can offer a tremendous amount of inspiration for great pictures.
Keep your camera handy when you are on a trip. Use it often. Some details might not seem important when you take the picture, but when you reflect back on your trip, these pictures will recreate a particular ambiance or memory for you. Taking photos of things such as street signs, storefronts and other interesting objects will help trigger memories you would have forgotten otherwise.
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Home Home Frank Lloyd Wright? Wrong
The Magic of Mason's
A Collierville Classic
Frank Lloyd Wright? Wrong
The story of the house at 1803 Harbert Avenue.
by Vance Lauderdale
Dear Vance,Is it true that the modern-style house at 1803 Harbert is the only home in Memphis designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?— D.R., Memphis
Dear D.R.:
Not too long ago, I contacted the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, because over the years I have received several queries from readers who thought they detected the world-famous Prairie School architect's influence in various Memphis buildings. Why, I'll have you know that the Lauderdale Mansion itself has long been suspected of being a prototypical Wright design, but I have to confess that its most eye-catching features have nothing to do with Wright, and everything to do with, well, what's wrong. My own residence's "low-slung" architecture, a standard design element of many Frank Lloyd Wright homes, is the unfortunate result of the whole house settling because of termite-riddled beams, and the building's distinctive curves are nothing more than warped vinyl siding.
So I'm sorry to confess that my own home was not designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. And neither was the very unusual home (above) you've noticed on Harbert. In fact, the nice folks in Arizona, who keep careful track of these things, told me that Wright never designed any structures in Memphis.
The house you've noticed, D.R., is officially called the "Second Peter Grant Home" for the simple reason that this was the second house that Grant designed and built here. Perhaps I should say "apparently" designed, because the actual records are a bit skimpy regarding the architect of this home. In fact, from what little I've found about Grant, he's identified as a banker. But Eugene J. Johnson and Robert D. Russell Jr. give him credit for it, and his first home as well. In fact, the authors of Memphis: An Architectural Guide pretty much do most of my work here, so I might as well quote them:
"Four years after he built his traditional columned house at 1655 Harbert, Peter Grant built the closest thing Memphis has to a house by Frank Lloyd Wright."
His first house, which is decidedly more Colonial Revival in style, was constructed in Central Gardens in 1908; the "Second Peter Grant Home" was built in 1912, making it far older than many people suspect. In fact, because of its age, it's often left out of any discussions of "modern" architecture in Memphis, though it looks as futuristic as anything constructed decades later.
Johnson and Russell note, "The deep overhangs of the roof parallel the horizontal line of the ground and make this a fine example of the Prairie Style that Wright had invented the previous decade." And then the book authors touch on something that had puzzled me. While looking through city directories for this property, I noticed that Peter Grant didn't live in this house, or any of his others, very long. Every few years, he'd move somewhere else. They say, "Grant, however, was a restless man. In 1917 he bought the Mann House next door at 1785 Harbert, and then in 1925 he moved to Germantown, into a very large house designed … in the Mount Vernon manner." I guess Grant could never decide exactly what style suited him. At any rate, he died in Germantown in 1927.
The stone and stucco house on Harbert has had numerous owners in its 100-year-history, as you might expect, and I could name them here but they probably wish I wouldn't. At any rate, I'm glad to see that all of them have worked hard to maintain the distinctive architectural integrity of this unique home. I wish I could say the same about the Lauderdale Mansion.
Blake Grocery
Dear Vance,What do you think the age could be of this little memo pad for C.P. Blake, a grocer in Memphis?— B.E., Memphis
Dear B.E.: Oh, you have no idea how tedious simple questions like this can be. Grocery and dry-goods stores opened on almost every street corner in town, street names and addresses changed over the years, listings in city directories aren't as accurate as they should be, and — well, queries like these make me wonder whether this job is really worth the nickel a word I'm paid every month.
But I have to admit I liked the artwork on your little booklet, or memo pad, or whatever you want to call it. Christopher Blake — yes, you see I've already discovered his full name — was on the cutting edge of advertising. While other tradesmen of the day might have displayed an image of their products, or perhaps an illustration of their store, Blake went with the tried-and-true device of just putting a pretty woman on the cover. Works every time. So let's see what I can tell you. Blake was born in 1876 in Ireland. I can't say exactly how, when, or why he came to Memphis, but I do know that at the young age of 14 he was working as a clerk for a grocer named Duffy, and — this sounds sad, in a way — he even lived in the store, located downtown on Linden. In 1896, he teamed up with a fellow named Shea, and they opened Shea & Blake Grocers at the southeast corner of Linden and DeSoto (the latter street now known as South Fourth). It was a good location, I presume, right across the street from St. Patrick's Church, and in 1900, Blake must have either bought out his partner or kicked him out of the store, because old city directories from 1900 to 1918 show the sole proprietor of that establishment was C.P. Blake. Old ads, and even your memo pad, B.E., advertise that the store offered "Fine groceries, fresh vegetables, choice Western meats, fruits, poultry and eggs." Sometime around 1914, Blake must have decided to branch out, because old city directories show that he also owned and operated the Collins and Shea Coal Company, so maybe that's where the Shea fellow went. At any rate, that venture didn't last long, because just four years later, Blake was back in the grocery business exclusively, still at the corner of Fourth and Linden, but this time teamed up with a fellow named Ettore Bertasi.
The reason this complicated history is important, B.E., is because your memo pad just lists "C.P. Blake" on the cover, so if you're asking for a specific date for this item, all I can tell you is that it was printed between 1900 and 1918, because those are the years that Blake was the exclusive proprietor of the grocery at Linden and South Fourth.
He left the grocery business in the mid-1920s, and city directories show that afterwards he worked as a salesman for various real estate firms around town. By 1940 or so, he was apparently retired, living with his wife, Elizabeth, on Oliver in the Cooper-Young neighborhood. Christopher Blake passed away in 1956 at age 80 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery. The old grocery store changed owners and names over the years, but you won't find fine groceries or "choice Western meats" there today. It's a parking lot for FedExForum.
CORRECTION: In my October column on Julius Lewis, I mentioned other downtown department stores that "failed and closed" and included Goldsmith's in that sad list. Harry Goldsmith, a descendant of the store's founders, pointed out that wasn't quite correct:
"After its stock acquisition by Federated Department Stores in 1959, it continued to prosper. It continued to be operated as Goldsmith's until the name of all Federated Stores was changed a few years ago to Macy's. It continues to be so operated today." The name (and distinctive logo) has indeed come off the buildings, but the store itself is still part of the local retail landscape.
Got a question for Vance? Email: askvance@memphismagazine.com Mail: Vance Lauderdale, Memphis magazine, 460 Tennessee Street #200, Memphis, TN 38103
Home + Garden Memphis Magazine December 2014 December-2014
Vance Lauderdale
Vance Lauderdale is the history columnist for Memphis magazine and Inside Memphis Business. His dramatic life story (summarized at right) is so well-known that schoolchildren are taught to recite it for extra credit.
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Transfer gossip is back to bring you all the Premier League rumours from Tuesday's papers, analysing the biggest stories so that you don't have to.
Arsene Wenger is close to a return to football with France Football claiming the 69-year-old is set to take over from Gennaro Gattuso at AC Milan.
Wenger left Arsenal over the summer after 22 years in charge in which time he won 10 major trophies and also built the legendary 'Invincibles' team that went 49 games without defeat.
And the Frenchman hinted last month in a Sky Sports interview that he would be back in a managerial role in the new year because he 'missed' football.
According to France Football, Wenger has been in talks with Milan for several weeks because the US investment fund Elliott Management Corporation have far higher expectations for the club than their present fourth place, 10 points off top spot.
Milan will also hope that the chance to reunite with former Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis, who will start as chief executive at the Italian club at the beginning of December.
Love Sport verdict: Gazidis' new role was always going to create these rumours but FF are not the type to make any old stuff up. Wenger will doubtless command a hefty wage but the company that owns Milan is worth around $35billion - so that should not be too much of a problem.
Unai Emery or Arsene Wenger?
Manchester City are interested in signing Lille's Nicolas Pepe, according to a report in The Times.
Pepe is thought to be valued around the £44million mark and was the subject of a transfer deadline day bid from Olympique Lyonnais.
And interest has been driven up by his eight goals and five assists in 12 games so far in Ligue 1 this season.
City have no shortage of attacking options but Raheem Sterling has not yet put pent to paper on a new contract and Leroy Sane is thought to be unhappy with his situation at the club.
Love Sport verdict: Lyon bid around £25m for Pepe on deadline day and Lille look quite right to have turned it down. City would think nothing of dropping double that on a back-up forward and the winger would mitigate against any risk of losing Sterling or Sane.
ESPN claim AC Milan will put together a January bid for Eric Bailly.
The Manchester United defender was Jose Mourinho's signing at the club and cost the Red Devils £30m but has failed to impress and appears to have lost the faith of the Portuguese manager.
Bailly was taken off after just 19 minutes when United were 2-0 down to Newcastle United and the 24-year-old has not played for the club since.
Mourinho is said to be 'determined' to strengthen his defensive options in January after he was not backed in his pursuit of Tottenham's Toby Alderweireld over the summer.
Love Sport verdict: Mourinho is more than ready to give up on Bailly, at one point picking young midfielder Scott McTominay at centre-back instead of picking him. If Milan - and Arsene Wenger - want to offer him a way out, they might be fools to turn it down.


Presenting Sheeba: the dog, the problem and the solution.
The dog. Sheeba is a six-year-old Collie-Shepherd mix. She is described as being such a good girl, who is sweet and loves attention. She is docile and obedient. She is good with other dogs, and even cats. Click here to view more photos of Sheeba.
The problem. Sheeba and her two sisters were surrendered to the Darlington County Humane Society shelter in South Carolina on June 8th. Their owner's reason was that he had too many dogs. Sheeba not only lost her home, but also tested positive for heartworms. By mid-August, time was running out for Sheeba. When Peppertree Rescue in New York offered to take her on August 27th, there was still one obstacle: the cost of her heartworm treatment.
The Solution. RADAR's help! Susan Blakeney, RADAR's liaison with the Darlington County Humane Society Rescue, immediately sought our assistance. We agreed, and Sheeba was safe! She had her heartworm treatment done on September 11th.
RADAR paid all of Sheeba's heartworm treatment costs, which totaled $249.
UPDATE In mid-September, Sheeba wandered off from her foster home. She and her foster family were evacuated from the coastal area of South Carolina due to Hurricane Florence. They were staying in Simpsonville, SC when she found a way out of the yard. While she has been sighted numerous times, she has not yet been captured. Several people are actively working to get trap her, so that she can continue with her second chance.
UPDATE! Sheeba is safe and sound!!
UPDATE! All funds for Sheeba have been raised! Thank you!
If you are interested in adopting Sheeba, please contact Peppertree Rescue.


It is a special gift to be invited to link my words to the arts of the sculptor, the painter, the photographer, the musician. Here are some examples of these collaborations.
My poem, "Standard Plumbing," was featured on Garrison Keillor's WRITERS ALMANAC on January 3, 2006.
Welcome! Come on in and browse through my books of poetry, anthologies I've edited and in which my poems appear, and some essays and articles on subjects ranging from blue water sailing to New England farm stays to birding. You can also find photos of my collaborations with painters, sculptors, photographers and musicians. Listen to audio clips of a sampling of my voiceover work.
Basil Harris (pictured with sister Anne, summer 2016) He died today. Farewell, sweet singer.


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Bluefin and Alpine Security Consulting Release New White Paper on Payment and Data Security
The rules and regulations around protecting PII, PHI and payment data and how encryption and tokenization provide an omnichannel security strategy
Atlanta, GA – July 7th, 2021 – Bluefin, the recognized leader in encryption and tokenization technologies for payment and data security, has released a new white paper authored by Alpine Security Consulting on "Formulating a Complete Payment Data and Security Approach."
The white paper looks at the rules and regulations governing payment and sensitive data, considerations when choosing a data protection approach, and how tokenization can be combined with encryption to provide a single solution for securing cardholder data (CHD), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI) and ACH account data, regardless of how an organization captures or uses this data.
Topics covered in the white paper include:
Data Breaches, the Pandemic Effect, and the Shift to Online Commerce
Payment and Privacy Data – History and Trends
Protecting Financial Data – PCI DSS and Nacha
Protecting Privacy Data – HIPAA, GDPR, and Privacy Acts
The Roles of Encryption, Tokenization and Authentication in Protecting Data
Bluefin's Payment and Data Security Suite: PCI-validated P2PE and ShieldConex® Data Security
"With the continued rise of data compromises across all industries, understanding how to secure PII, PHI and payment data against cyberthreats is crucial," said Ruston Miles, Founder, Bluefin. "We felt it was important to publish a paper that looked at all channels where this type of data is submitted, how it is stored for future use, and what privacy, payment and international regulations govern this data. Today, breaches have larger ramifications than just brand damage – the fines and penalties for exposing consumer data can quickly rise into the hundreds of millions."
Bluefin specializes in omnichannel payment and data security solutions that protect all data, with the company's PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solutions for point-of-sale (POS) payments and ShieldConex data security platform for the encrypted tokenization of PII, PHI, CHD and ACH account data. Over 300 global partners serving 43 countries provide Bluefin's solutions to 20,000 organizations worldwide.
"Cybersecurity spending is on the rise, in part because the threats are constantly evolving and the regulations and compliance frameworks that secure our data need to change in step with those threats," said Daniel Fritsche, Founder, Alpine Security Consulting. "The ability to secure all the different data types that exist today, meet these changing requirements, and still have a single cost effective solution that is secure could make or break many organizations down the road."
The white paper is available for download on the Bluefin website.
About Alpine Security Consulting
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Pupils at The Hawthorns School in Bletchingley recently welcomed a very special visitor to their games lessons. Boys in years 5-8 were lucky enough to be coached by England women's national rugby team player, Kay Wilson, who was a member of the team who won the Women's Rugby World Cup in August 2014.
The 23-year old from Caterham, who has won 31 England Caps, used all her experience and skills to run three dynamic and inspiring training sessions with the Under 10, Under 11 and Under 13 teams. The focus was on game play introducing the key concepts of rucking and tackling as the game developed. Kay was very impressed with the basic skill levels of all the boys and the speed at which they developed and improved during the session.


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Journey Quilt Company
Written by Maria Veres in the May 2019 Issue
Trish Maxwell of Journey Quilt Company treasures the moments when customers first see their finished quilts. "Their mouths drop open, then they smile," says Trish. "They brought in a pile of old clothing, and now they have a visually balanced fabric scrapbook that they get to take home and use."
Trish and her team have been designing mosaic quilts for almost five years. They create three main styles of quilts—T-shirt quilts, Legacy quilts, and Shadowbox quilts that showcase military awards. Quilts can be made in a wide variety of sizes. Each design is completely original, and all quilts are crafted in-house by Trish and her talented staff.
If you thought of T-shirt quilts as a bunch of big, worn-out squares sewn into rows, a visit to Journey Quilt Company will change your mind. Their mosaic designs use only the logos and graphics of the shirts, creating blocks of different sizes that are shaped into a beautiful work of art. "Everything we do is about balancing colors and patterns," says Trish. "Having an artistic eye is a must."
Legacy quilts also use a mosaic style, but they include a wider variety of clothing items. Many legacy quilts are created as baby keepsakes, and others are made with favorite pieces of clothing from a loved one who has passed away. "We can put in anything that's fabric," says Trish. "I literally added in part of a shoe once."
Shadowbox quilts are the newest addition to Journey Quilt Company's lineup. Using a service member's discharge form as a reference, Trish and her team create digital images of the veteran's awards, medals, badges, and insignia. Then they print these images onto fabric and create a stunning quilted version of a shadowbox award display case.
Trish has been working on the shadowbox quilt concept ever since her own discharge from the Navy in 2000. "At first I was literally recreating those little ribbons out of fabric pieces," she recalls. Now the technology has caught up with her vision. "The response is mind blowing," she says.
She has already created numerous shadowbox quilts, with many more in progress.
It's been a long journey from Navy air traffic controller to quiltmaker, but Trish loves where she's landed. "This is the most fun job I've ever had," she says. "I'm very thankful to the Edmond community for their support. It's wonderful knowing that more than two thousand quilts have come through here." She plans on creating many more. "It doesn't matter who you are, this is something that works for everyone regardless of interest or age," she says. "It's a great way to protect memories."
To see samples of Journey Quilt Company's mosaic and shadowbox quilts, visit them at 16516 North Pennsylvania Avenue or online at www.journeyquiltco.com.
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I trust you are well. Who told you you cannot sell the property, as there is no Cedula? If you complete and a purchaser is found, the solicitors retain an agreed amount, until the cedula is issued, which is not if, but when. This is the way the Spanish purchase all the time.
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We have owned our apartment since 1st August, 2006. Our tenant has had no problems with any of the services provided by the developers.
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We are arranging the sales of the apartments in Xabiamar (Javea). As you know, we have started to arrange the mortgages for all the clients who want to take our mortgages.
CAM knows that the apartments do not yet have the CEDULA DE HABITABILIDAD, the special permission from the town hall. The reason for not having this permission is because the town hall is taking time, because we are in August and because the builder must change some things in the building (like entrances, plots, but nothing relating to the apartments themselves). This is a very usual process in all the new houses / apartments in Javea.
CAM has financed the building of these apartments and we have also controlled the process of the building. We have controlled the quality of the building, the 10 year insurance, which guarantees the quality of building process. We do not have any problem in going ahead with signing the different mortgages for all the clients. If there was a problem, WE WOULD NEVER SIGN THE MORTGAGES.
I would like also to inform you about the actual mortgages and the advantages in cost for all the clients who take our mortgage.
Bank commission : 0,50% of the amount to borrow.
NOTARY, LAND REGISTRY AND TAXES FOR THE MORTGAGE : 4,928 EUROS PURCHASE TAXES: 1,500 EUROS (1%) VALUATION (depending the cost of each bank) CANCEL THE ACTUAL MORTGAGE : 1,000 EUROS (NOTARY, LAND REGISTRY) Also, it is necesary to include the bank opening comission of each bank.
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Javea, from 26th July, 2006 the pool is now up and running, also electricity in every stairwell ensures no more power cuts. Snagging list is personally attended to by the developer, Rafael Sendra.
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I have created this web log as a centre point for Javea property owners and other people living, working or moving to Javea, to use as a discussion area and to keep everyone updated on news on the Xabiamar complex. Please feel free to add comments and news items on any subject. I have visited, lived and worked in Javea with my wife Dawn, for over 20 years. Please ask us any questions that you have and we will endeavour to answer them.
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What Spying Looked Like In The 1960s
Life magazine's cover story from 1966 gives us a glimpse of what privacy invasion used to mean.
By Shaunacy Ferro | Published Aug 5, 2013 6:00 PM
Covering Snoops
With all the depressing, worrisome news floating around this summer about the NSA, spying and metadata, sometimes it's good to take a break and indulge some nostalgia for the good old days, when spying seemed a little bit…sexier. A little more Bond-y, if you will.
Except that, even in 1966, the government had "been electronically spying on its citizens for years," as the author of this 1966 LIFE Magazine cover story writes. Except LIFE was talking about putting a bug in the olive of your martini, not cataloging every single phone conversation you've ever had.
The author goes on: "Despite the protections against invasion of privacy afforded by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, bugging is so shockingly widespread and so increasingly insidious that no one can be certain any longer that his home is his castle–free of intrusion." Sound familiar, Edward Snowden?
Though the fact that we all carry cell phones everywhere we go makes it even easier to listen in on someone nowadays, snooping was a novel, rapidly expanding trade in the '60s, as technology allowed smaller and smaller eavesdropping devices (sugar cube sized! LIFE gushed). Microphones in wristwatches and cuff-links, hidden transmitters in pens and innocuous-looking paintings of fruit–some labs were even experimenting with putting body-heat-powered FM transmitters in animals.
See more Bondtastic gadgets in the spreads below. Click the image captions to see the pictures in full screen mode–with a little squinting you can read most of the text.
The Eavesdropping Trade
Divorce Spy!
Ace Bugging


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Think about the people missing from your life, and how you feel about them. What we remember — and what we forget — may reveal more about ourselves than about them. We have photos, letters, souvenirs, and fragments of memory, but our powerful imagination takes over from there: We color in the blanks. And that's OK. Retouching old loves is a way of understanding what we want. It helps us find our way to new ones.
It's impossible to know whether the experiences below are about infatuation, true love, lust, or something else entirely. But we can be sure that each of these contributors learned about life and themselves in the process.
We lived across the hallway from one another in the same brownstone apartment building, in the same small Canadian town. I thought she was brilliant. She smoked, and her nearly black hair was cut in a bob like a 1920s movie star. In an attempt to force myself into her life, I pinned a note to her door. It worked. We became friends, and stayed that way, until we grew up and out of our prairie town.
A Canadian currently living and working in London, I am a writer, a photographer and a collector of interesting ideas.
Our love of the unknown took us through fifteen states and eight countries, but our playful intimacy made its home in the little-discovered paths, corners, shops, cafes, facades, and vistas of San Francisco. Once, near the top of Clayton Street, I gave her my hat, and for a brief moment she became a detective lurking through the cold night, seeking out mysteries to solve. In reality though, she was the mystery. When she left, it was incomprehensible, like an unsolved crime.
Russian-born bay area resident looking for purpose and new adventures. Equal opportunity adventure employer — but ones with hidden treasure are preferred! Apply within.
Though things didn't work out for us long term, our time in Asia left me with the fondest memories of life and love. I was standing in line at a bank in Bangkok, absentmindedly humming a BeeGees tune, when a young man next to me started humming the tune with me. He noticed my US passport and asked me where I was from. When I answered "Glenwood Springs, Colorado," he blinked and said "I live in Glenwood Springs." We muttered to each other how weird that was, then discovered we were both getting money to book the same flight to Burma six days later. We fell in love during our month-long journey through Asia. Finally, Beau had to leave, and I followed not far behind. Back home, we were practically neighbors, and continued our relationship for almost two years before eventually drifting apart. But we know we were meant to meet — it was as if we had already lived a life together.
I'm an artist, photographer, and sales rep for a fine art printing bureau in Los Angeles. My photographic practice is my therapy, my savior, and my ultimate passion.
Imagine studying abroad in a castle in Italy for three months, and falling in love with one of your friends while you were there. Locking eyes at the bar up the hill, sharing a tent in Verona because the hotels are full, hopping a train and heading south to the coast for a week with no itinerary at all, running around Venice in the rain. Imagine coming back home, and love fading back into friendship. Imagine what a disappointment that would be.
I live in Houston, Texas. I will receive my BFA in creative writing in May, and during this year I will eat at 495 local restaurants in honor of my father.
My first long distance relationship was fed on hand-written notes and midnight phone calls. This one subsisted on webcams and bad compression. "When you get here we're going to ——" The image froze. Snap. I'd been making portraits of her like this for a month, her features all lossy from dropped frames. In a few days I would move to China. It wouldn't be long before we both moved on. From time to time I gaze back — my memories lossy in their own way — at what was.
I'm a writer and filmmaker on an extended adventure in Shanghai.
We met in New Orleans after Katrina. Working in the disaster zone, life was surreal and visceral and urgent, all the time. We traveled across the country together before he got away, or I did. The peace we found was not sustainable. It comforts me to know he is out there somewhere, mercurial as when we met.
I live and work in Brooklyn, but my mind is in New Orleans.
Krasivaya: "pretty" in Russian. It was never hard to take a good photo of Lidia during our four years together — she smiled often, and she loved the camera. It was much harder to acknowledge that we were on different paths. But I wouldn't change a thing; we both grew into beautiful beings.
I live in Fresno, California.
The minute I stepped off the bus and into Washington Heights, we were no longer just close friends. We ran down the streets at night, drank wine in the park, took in musicals, and marvelled at museums. The city was alive all around us; I had never been so happy. This magical week turned into months of distance. Things had been easier when we were friends. I chastised myself: I never should have visited, and I never should have gone back. Sometimes you fall in love with a city instead of the person in it.
I noticed him sitting across from me in tenth grade English. My knees went weak when he passed me a homework assignment. We started dating soon after that, and I would get the biggest butterflies. But then senior year approached, and I had to pick a college. It came down to a school in Pittsburgh, where we lived, or another one several hours away. I was so afraid I'd choose for the wrong reasons that I broke things off with him. But I could only hold out a few months. We've been dating almost four years now even though we're at different schools. The stresses of a long distance relationship are worth it, because he's worth it. I could not picture life without him.
Brittany Harrington is currently a photography student at Point Park University in Pittsburgh.
Allie and I had been friends for a while, and I had the biggest crush on her ever. I took every opportunity I could to be with her, helping her with her homework or being ready if her other plans fell through. One magical day we spent ten hours exploring the forests around Toronto, finding hidden surprises and photographing them all.
Andrew is an advertising student in Brampton, Ontario, who spends his time photographing and playing music.
Every time it rains, I think of him. I remember the drizzling day before Christmas break when in a sudden graceful motion he kissed my cheek, and sprinted away. Months passed, the winter ended. He told me he thought I was amazing, that I was unlike any other girl, that I was special but: "It just isn't going to work anymore." It rained that day too. Summer. Fall. Winter. Spring. We became close friends. We grew up. Four years later, he's like a brother to me. My love never stopped, it just changed, like we did.
I'm a confused student in Los Angeles trying to understand this game called life.
On our first date, we drove out to the misty Oregon coast. The beach was wide and wet and luminous like glass. Suddenly, with scarcely a warning, she stripped down to nothing and plunged into the freezing Pacific. Emerging, she stood unfazed in the waves, arms akimbo, gazing out to sea. I snapped a photo from back on the beach, proud, sheepish, and awed by this woman I was about to fall madly in love with.
Daniel is a researcher, design educator, and musician in Palo Alto, California.
When we met I knew there was something nice about him that I couldn't put my finger on. He made me want to smile at inappropriate times, look at things differently, let him feel my love, and feel his love back. This photo almost captures it.
I am a Blackpool-based photographer working as my local council's official photographer, though I also have my own business. I have studied to degree level at the local college and have exhibited in New York, London, and my home town.
This photo documents the happiest I've ever been, but it's been two years now since we decided to see if we could be happier with other people. That's the thing about happiness; you never can tell when you've reached a peak. You can only compare where you are to where you've been. Now all I can think about is two years ago, when I began my descent, and let her float up, away, and out of my life.
He's an explorer disguised as a teacher, hiding out in Zhuhai, China until he finds something awesome to do. He normally lives near Minneapolis.
Jim animates to tell stories, but admits that sometimes a photograph is more convenient. He lives in Chicago.
My friend and I grew up together: went through big losses early, endured school, survived through everything. This is her writing her final essay for law school, in late summer. I used to love this photo because it meant that we made it, at last. Then, after she became a lawyer, she helped my neighbor sue my family. We just got the letter from her, no warning. If I try hard, I understand her point of view. Business is business. As another good friend said: Welcome to adult issues.
33, photographer, currently lives in Milan but about to move.
This isn't a photograph of her — it's too soon. This is someone else. I keep the real photos hidden, so I won't stumble upon them accidentally. But I keep them, because they are my story. I know that one day I'll start a new story with someone else, a better story, and I'll be able to revisit these images. When I do, it will heal more than hurt. May that time be soon.
I am a grad student studying at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle. This photograph was taken with a Hasselblad 500C/M and a little whiskey.
He was my best friend, my lover, and my mirror. When I left, I did so because I let my light go out — and because he was my mirror, there was no light left for us. Each subsequent trial of the heart has been a reminder that sometimes the one who gets away is the one who brings you closer to yourself.
I met a young man named Ani here in French Polynesia. Ani grew up with a girl named Marutea on a little island paradise called Ua Huka. They'd always loved each other, it seemed, always known they were meant to be together, and one day, start a family. Marutea was a very good student, interested in foreign language and culture. And so when she finished high school, she wanted to go to college in Papeete, on the big island, Tahiti, almost 1000 miles away. Ani had less use for books. His passion was for Ua Huka's wild horses. He had visited Papeete once, and was afraid of the big city — the crowds, the people, the noise. He couldn't wait to get home. Marutea has been gone for two years now, and Ani is worried. He saw her last over the summer, and she wasn't the same woman anymore, though she swore that her love for him hadn't changed. Today, he's not sure he made the right decision. What if she meets someone else? Perhaps he should have followed her to the city. He confessed to me that he rides to this vantage point every day, no matter the weather, to watch for boats or planes from the South. To watch for Marutea's return.
I'm a passionate lomographer living in French Polynesia, on a beautiful island called Raiatea. Living here is a great opportunity to travel all around the Pacific Ocean, and discover different islands and cultures, and meet a lot of interesting people.
We met, he was awesome, and I fell in love. And then ran away. I was a single mom, just divorced, trying to run my own business. Stressed — and not ready to feel that way for someone yet. We split up, but he said he would always think of me. More than a year later, he emailed me out of the blue to say hello, and that every time he heard a Jack Johnson song, he missed me. We met for dinner later that week and have been inseparable ever since. I can't believe I almost lost the love of my life.
I work for a commercial trucking company in Georgia, and I am a semi-pro photographer trying to build my business. I'm also celebrating two years of marriage to the one who might have gotten away.
This is a picture of someone hurt by me, and turning away. I took it on the last day of a long trip that was supposed to be a retreat from the labors of our long-distance relationship. Neither of us was willing to admit it, but at this point, we both sensed that this might be our last time together. The night our relationship ended we were 2100 miles apart, and it was my doing. For months, I embodied every soul searching cliché, as I drove aimlessly and often, eventually ending up in a desert very far from home. In the quiet of that desert, my regret was inescapable. I realized I had a choice. I could turn home, or I could go twice as far, to her, in San Francisco. I needed to tell her I was wrong, and that I loved her … It didn't work. For months I wrote her letters, sent her flowers, and continued to show up unannounced. Eventually, she told me to stop, and I did. Thankfully she has her own story. And for that reason, I'm the guy who gets to be married to the one who got away.
Robert is an artist living in Kansas City, America.
She called me to say that he doesn't call anymore. His absence overjoyed me, but it killed her. I took what remained of her to the Staten Island Ferry; she had once said it was her favorite thing to do in the city. As the ferry touched ground, and then turned back toward Manhattan, she placed her face against the glass and watched the city approach. For a brief second she turned to me, and her smile returned. When you fall in love with your best friend, and she doesn't share your feelings, you always wish for something more. But at that moment, I was happy to have back what I'd had all along.
Nick Jamison is a substitute teacher, marketer, and student of life in Astoria, New York.