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Rear-Admiral Montague George Bentinck Legge, D.S.O. (16 December, 1883 – 11 February, 1951) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
Legge was born in Paddington, the son of a Lieutenant Colonel E. H. Legge. He gained four months' time on passing out of Britannia. He was sent to join the Mars on 7 September, 1899.
Legge was specially recommended for advancement in April, 1905 and promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 September, 1905.
Legge was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 30 September, 1913.
Legge was appointed in command of the gunboat Forester on 14 November, 1913.
In 1915, Forester and Archer collided. Legge was admonished for allowing the Officer of the Watch to undertake such a large alteration in course.
Legge commanded the destroyer Nerissa at the Battle of Jutland, where she fought as part of the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla. Legge was gazetted on 15 September 1916, "Having defeated the enemy destroyers, gallantly pressed home attack with torpedoes on the enemy Battle Cruisers." A D.S.O. was invested upon him by the King at Buckingham Palace on 10 February, 1917.
On 5 March, 1917, Nerissa lost a Maxim gun overboard in heavy weather and Legge was told to be more careful in future. Legge became ill with measles on 11 March.
Legge was promoted to the rank of Commander on 31 December, 1917.
On 26 January, 1918, he left Nerissa when he was appointed in command of the destroyer Vesper. On 3 July he was hospitalised in Queensferry with influenza. He was found fit on 13 July.
Legge was appointed in command of the destroyer Tancred on 11 January, 1921.
Legge was appointed in command of the shallow draught steamer Widgeon on 8 November, 1921 (or 1922?) as Senior Naval Officer, Upper Yangtze. In January 1925, he was superseded in that command by Salisbury Hamilton Simpson.
Legge was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December, 1925.
On 20 February, 1930 Legge assumed duty as the Royal Naval Attaché, Tokyo.
Legge was appointed in command of the battleship Centurion in June, 1933. He grounded her on 11 September, 1934 and was chastised for having failed to see she was being safely navigated by her pilot and for failing to take action upon seeing her developing predicament.
Legge was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 17 July, 1936 and was placed on the Retired List the following day in accord with the provisions of the Order in Council of 9 March, 1914.
Legge worked with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Selection Board from June, 1939. In November however, he was in Jamaica and was reportedly medically unfit and returning to the U.K. with his staff. In 1940, he was commenced work as the Roof Lookout Control Officer with the Air Ministry, with the rank of Captain. Presumably, this involved civilian observers reporting from their roofs.
Legge died of myocardial degeneration and bronchial emphysema on 11 February, 1951.
↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 318.
↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 928.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 870.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 843.
↑ Simpson Service Records. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 151.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 380.
↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 300.
↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 394f.
↑ The Navy List. (August, 1920). p. 883.
↑ Superseded that day. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
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text: I put my characters into bad situations to let them find their way out. It is good training for their well-being. It only gives them more stamina and determination for the next challenge. The characters are whoever I want them to be. They could be people I once knew, standout people from the past, people I only knew for a short time, horrid people who bring out the worse in others, or a character put together a block at a time. This would resemble stacking blocks like a child. It is different each time. Most of the time these characters do not get along with each other. They each want something different or are fighting over the same resources, ie, conflict. They are perhaps like children in a normal family, fighting. They are under the book cover.

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Has your site ever been attacked by hackers? If this never happened it does not mean it will never happen in future. Hackers are weird folks, indeed. Some 15 y.o. genius may bring your site down just for fun, or simply because he does not like the design of your WP template. Today, cyber crimes are not only about breaking down IT systems. Probably, you have heard something about DDoS attacks.
Nobody will lay a finger on your site, but there will be so much traffic that your server will “turn red” and “flare up”. Hackers initiate so many network requests that the server lacks CPU and memory resources to handle them. Sure, if you are one of those IT geniuses, you can easily fend off the blow by yourself. Yet, what are you supposed to do if you are far from all that network stuff and terminology? Right! You should have someone else do it for you. Preferably, someone having enough experience. Preferably, a DDoS protection service having excellent reviews and reputation in the market. Here’s my choice of the best DDoS protection services in the market.
This company is among leaders in DDoS protection services mainly due to its experience and own infrastructure to protect against various cyber attacks. In fact, the company owns the largest DDoS mitigation network in the cloud! A variety of anti-DDoS services can fight against all known types of attacks. There are also traffic scrubbing centers in various parts of the world. Additional services include monitoring and prevention of attacks since it’s better to invest in prevention of problems than in solving them when they’re big. Prolexic is a transparent company as it provides stats on how many attacks have been mitigated over a certain period of time.
This company has been in the DDoS protection industry since 1999. GigeNET is known for its ProxyShield mitigation system. Yes, their services might be somewhat expensive. However, you will suffer more losses if your site remains down for 2-3 days. Loss of revenue is just a taste of what’s to come – spoiled reputation and bad publicity.
ProxyShield is a truly unique system that defends your site with a remote hosting. Your IP address will always stay the same and it will remain safe. ProxyShield automatically detects DDoS attacks, so once the traffic starts growing for no reason at all, it launches anti-DDoS measures. Tech personnel is available round the clock! They can handle even major attacks at 5 million PPS! There is no need to invest in expensive hardware! Guys from GigeNET will take care of everything!
Folks from Vistnet have already saved so many businesses from huge losses. The company owns a special anti-DDoS infrastructure to handle all kinds of attacks, even major ones. Moreover, tech personnel guarantees you that the problem will be identified and localized. Your site will never go offline (some guys simply move sites offline thinking this is the best solution). Vistnet has a flexible pricing model and 24/7 customer support (no “hello-girls” there, just tech experts!).
Aleksey used to work in similar services for quite a long time, now offering consultancy services in the realm of DDoS protection. http://www.vistnet.com/ is his personal choice based on experience and knowledge accumulated during the recent decade.

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text: The eurozone's economy will fall further behind that of the U.S. without a concerted effort to boost demand through increased government spending and lower taxes, make labor markets more flexible, and rid banks of bad loans, the International Monetary Fund said Monday. In its annual review of the currency area, the Fund said that while the situation in Greece is "fluid" and "a key source of uncertainty," the threat of contagion has eased since the early years of the currency area's debt crisis. However, the IMF warned that the eurozone faces longer-term speed limits to its economic growth that will see incomes fall further behind those in the U.S. over the coming five years unless governments take immediate action. "Given the weak medium-term outlook, a stronger collective push is urgently needed to consolidate the recovery, raise potential growth, and strengthen the union's resilience," the IMF's economists said. The eurozone economy returned to growth in mid-2013, but has advanced only modestly since then. In the first quarter of this year, it expanded by 0.4%, and most indicators suggest that pace was maintained in the three months to June. At that rate, the IMF said inflation will be below the European Central Bank's target of just under 2% through 2020, while unemployment will stay high. The gap between output per person in the U.S. and the eurozone is already at its greatest since the currency was launched in 1999, and will widen further if nothing is done boost growth, the Fund predicted. Its economists said the ECB should proceed with its stimulus program at least until September 2016, the date it has tentatively set for completing its bond purchases. "We think it is likely they will need to go beyond September 2016," said Mahmood Pradhan, deputy director of the IMF's European department. It also urged governments to take advantage of the "windfall" from the lower borrowing costs the ECB's program has delivered and other room for maneuver to increase spending and cut taxes, judging they could do so to the equivalent of 0.6% of the eurozone's combined gross domestic product without breaking the currency area's budget rules. In addition to those measures to stimulate demand, the IMF said governments should push ahead with reforms to labor markets that make it easier to hire and fire workers, and eliminate distinctions between those with very high and very low levels of job security. The Fund also urged the eurozone's new, shared bank supervisor to lead "a more aggressive, top-down strategy" that writes down or restructures bad--or nonperforming--loans held by banks. Figures released Monday showed banks raised their lending to businesses by just 0.1% in June from a year earlier. "Europe's experience contrasts sharply with that of the U.S. recently and Japan in the 2000s where, after their financial crises, aggressive NPL resolution helped support a faster recovery in credit," it said. Taken together, the Fund said those steps would raise economic growth to 2.7% and 3.0% for 2015 and 2016 respectively, from the 1.5% and 1.7% it now forecasts. The revival of the Greek crisis in 2015 has raised fresh questions about the way the eurozone's economy is managed. In an interview published Monday, ECB executive board member Benoît Cœuré criticized the current system in which individual nations bargain with each other, and called for more centralized governance. "The compromises reached are unlikely to be the best outcome for the euro area as a whole, but instead represent the greatest common denominator between the member countries," he told Le Monde. "There is an urgent need to abandon this intergovernmental process in favor of a process of shared decision-making based on votes and democratic legitimacy." The IMF didn't go quite that far, but called for policy-making that takes more account of the good of the eurozone as a whole, with simpler and more transparent ways of judging whether member nations are delivering promised reforms and sticking to budget rules. "Euro area governments should move faster toward more risk sharing, more fiscal integration, which would make the euro area more resilient to idiosyncratic events in individual countries," Mr. Pradhan said.

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President Nursultan Nazarbayev has ordered an unannounced inspection of the combat readiness of Kazakhstan’s Armed Forces.
According to Defense Minister, particular attention will be paid to units of the air assault troops and Air Defense Forces of Kazakhstan Armed Forces and the stocks of weapons and military equipment in storage.
In total, about 5,000 servicemen, more than 500 pieces of armament and military hardware, and more than 20 aircraft are involved in the combat readiness inspection.
The inspection will last until November 11.

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We're back! Welcome to the world of Morrissey's lyrics.
Alcune voci dicono che quest'album sia stato pubblicato, nel febbraio del 1995, per liberare Morrissey dagli obblighi contrattuali dell'epoca. La cover star � Cornelius Carr, un pugile. L'immagine � tratta dal video della canzone "Boxers", girato da James O'Brien.
Released in February 1995, this album is rumoured to have been published to rid Morrissey of that time's contractual obligations. Cover star Cornelius Carr, boxer, taken from the video for the song "Boxers", by James O'Brien.

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Crusader Kings II: CharlemagneRequires Crusader Kings II to play.
Crusader Kings II: Charlemagne is the seventh expansion for the much praised strategy/RPG Crusader Kings II.
Not the first DLC I would buy, but not the last one either. I bought it mostly for the earlier start, but it has some small improvements on top of that. I recommend buying it once its on sale.
Earlier start date is good, but means that the game easily becomes messy and blobby.
Definitely worth it, especially on sale.
So I have been picking this game up in pieces. It just keeps on hooking me. With this you get the new earliest book mark, forming of the HRE, some new events, and most importantly (in my personal opinion) the forming of custom kingdoms. Just a cherry on top of a beautiful game.

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After hearing Bishop Robert Schnase (Missouri Area, UMC) speak on missional strategies, United Methodist clergy in attendance at the Tending Our Lives retreat in Alexandria, La. listened to a presentation from Todd Rossnagel on social media and how to use it effectively for the church.
After a 15 year career in broadcast news, Rossnagel now manages a media services team for the state of Louisiana. As a church volunteer, he helped launch a successful social media plan for the contemporary worship service at First United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge.
The media professional--who is also a candidate for ministry in the Louisiana Conference--emphasized the growing importance of church use of social media, pointing out that three out of four Americans use social media (Forester, The Growth of Social Media 2008); visiting social sites is now the fourth most popular activity, ahead of checking personal email (Nielsen 2009); and two thirds of the global internet population visit social media networks (Nielsen 2009).
If Facebook were a country, it now surpasses the population of China, said Rossnagel. He also shared that Facebook claims that 1.39 billion people log in each month to scroll their news feeds, communicate with friends and look at photos.
10 posts of repackaged content - reposting an article from the Bishop, or an article from your favorite author.
4 posts that are unique content - this means a blog entry, a musical set list, a video, a photo, a word quote, etc.
A few helpful hints about Facebook posts will increase viewership, said Rossnagel. First, post your messages between the hours of 6-9 a.m. or 6-9 p.m. to avoid the posting traffic. Secondly, to get in the news feed, “boosting” posts is a good idea. “Any amount of money you can throw at ‘boosting’ your post will help. A good rule of thumb is to boost at least three postings per week,” said Rossnagel.
When dealing with negative comments on the Internet, as representatives of the church, we should remember that “there is likely a lot of pain behind that anger.” Remember to treat everyone with love in response to negative comments, said Rossnagel.
Following John Wesley’s “Three General Rules,” in using social media, Louisiana United Methodists should “do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God.” “Our character and faith is reflected in each post we make, so if we are not sure about something, don’t post it, the presenter cautioned.
BE PRESENT AND RESPONSIVE- Treat Facebook communication like a real relationship.
SUPPORT CREATIVITY BY EXPOSING IT- So many times we talk about how important creativity is, but the current construct of the church puts limits on that.
DEFEND YOUR COMMUNITY- Remember, this is God’s space. Defend it as Jesus would. If you don’t defend it, no one else will and people will think negativity is okay.


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Rent-A-Center Holiday Hours and General Hours of Operation.
What time does Rent-A-Center open? When does Rent-A-Center close?
Commonly, stores open later than normal and close earlier than normal on major holidays, such as Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving Day and New Years Day. The majority of stores close EARLY on Christmas Eve and close LATER than normal on Black Friday. We recommend that you call ahead to check the exact Rent-A-Center holiday hours of operation .
Rent-A-Center Holiday Hours ~ Closed/Open – 2018/2019.

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Writers within a community understand the importance of their writing community and work to maintain its existence. Because the students value their writing community, they also feel accepted and free to try new ideas, take risks, and push themselves to be their personal best. They feel encouraged internally and externally.
I’ve culled the TWT archives for posts you might want to read during the first month of the school year.
A list of beginning of the year read aloud books to set a positive climate and kick start your workshop.
Last week I wrote a post titled How To Plan A Minilesson From Scratch, and I outlined a very simple way to plan minilessons, based on the work of my wonderful colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Now, I am going to backtrack a bit and revisit just a teensy weensy bit of what I said. I wrote, “Every minilesson can pretty much go the same way.” And this is absolutely true, most of the time. Except for those times when it’s not true.
Fostering a nurturing writing community at the beginning of the school year means taking the time to build a community of writers. Here’s an artistic way you can have students introduce themselves, and their quirks, to their peers.
ICYMI: A look back at our blog series about sharpening workshop routines.
Are you looking to make the most out of your classroom’s meeting area? Find out how to create and maintain a meeting area that will function as the focal point of your writing workshop.

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Last Saturday morning, mother and son were excited to attend the LetzHop Sesame Street English Learning Program. My son attended the the branch in Damansara Utama Branch (Damansara Uptown) located at No. 64A, 1st Floor, Jalan SS21/56, Damansarara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor. For your info, the branch is located at corner lot, the PapaRich's upstair.
LetzHop Eduspace Sdn Bhd brings to Malaysia, Sesame Street English – a comprehensive learning platform that caters to teaching children English. Designed by the non-profit educational group behind the iconic children’s TV series Sesame Street; the Sesame Workshop goes beyond just academic learning by focusing on creating a curriculum that addresses learning by encompassing all aspects of your child’s growth.
Each child is greeted upon entering class in true Sesame Street style with a lot of laughter and a large dose of fun. My son and other children go into the class and learn, with the familiar faces of their favourite furry muppet characters. Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and the whole Sesame Street family are present in every aspect of the course from classrooms, from the wallpaper, the uniform, teaching exercises and even on the worksheets, everything has been officially licensed and comes directly imported from the Sesame Street Workshop.
The offered programs are suitable for children from age of 3 year to 12 years old.
The LetzHop Sesame Street branch is carpeted so children just need to remove their shoes to put in the colorful shoes rack that is near this wall of World map and 7 Continents.
Yeah there's a nice Ernie & Bert's Reading Area, below picture some reading material to show you.
I can say kids fall in love to reading their favourite characters of Sesame Street.
Wall of fame in one of the class, yeah it's all childrens' artwork.Can you spot the Cookie Monster?
Things that I believe parents will not have their children messing up with colors.
It's alright you can do it in LetzHop Sesame Street, look how each child is having great time with each other.
Above Puan Sarini Bujang, Principle of LetzHop, Damansara Uptown Branch. She explains of what color being used and also it is alright to be messy because they are having fun painting activities. The children were pointing on the right color to use? Hehe.. it's fun also to test the children to see if they are paying attention in the class.
Working together with like-minded foundations such as LetzHopTM has been the critical link in continuing the growth of the Sesame Workshop. LetzHopTM is set to bring the Malaysian edutainment market to the next level with the introduction of Sesame Street English; the class brings a new take on interactive entertainment so that children grow to learn that education and fun go hand in hand.
Pretty creative artwork activities done by the children.
The lessons covered from developing the foundation of English language through expose to language via songs, chants, videos and other fun, child friendly activities to complex content such as reading, writing, grammar and several relevant aspects via a smartboard. As above my son was looking for the book, it was fun for the children as they took turn to try finding the book. The smartboard is a touch screen device.
Can you guess the song they are going to sing? Scroll down this post to find the video clip of the song.
Group photo with fellow mommy Cynthia, Nannie, Ayu, and Rane.
The Sesame Street English: Goodbye Song that every kid enjoy.
Right now the Sesame Street Workshop has expanded around Asia to Japan, China, Taiwan and now Malaysia.


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This article is about the holiday. For the work by Ralph Ellison, see Juneteenth (novel).
Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is a holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, and more generally the emancipation of African-American slaves throughout the Confederate South. Celebrated on June 19, the word is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth. Juneteenth is recognized as a state holiday or special day of observance in most states.
The holiday is observed primarily in local celebrations. Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and readings by noted African-American writers such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou. Celebrations may include parades, rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, or Miss Juneteenth contests.
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, with an effective date of January 1, 1863. It declared all slaves to be freed in the Confederate States of America in rebellion and not in Union hands. This excluded the five states known later as border states, which were the four slave states that were not in rebellion -Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri-, and those counties of Virginia soon to form the state of West Virginia, and also the three zones under Union occupation: the state of Tennessee, lower Louisiana and Southeast Virginia.
More isolated geographically, Texas was not a battleground, and thus its slaves were not affected by the Emancipation Proclamation unless they escaped. Planters and other slaveholders had migrated into Texas from eastern states to escape the fighting, and many brought their slaves with them, increasing by the thousands the number of slaves in the state at the end of the Civil War.
Former slaves in Galveston rejoiced in the streets after the announcement, although in the years afterward many struggled to work through the changes against resistance of whites. But, the following year, freedmen organized the first of what became annual celebrations of Juneteenth in Texas. Barred in some cities from using public parks because of state-sponsored segregation of facilities, across parts of Texas, freed people pooled their funds to purchase land to hold their celebrations, such as Houston's Emancipation Park, Mexia's Booker T. Washington Park, and Emancipation Park in Austin.
Although the date is sometimes referred to as the "traditional end of slavery in Texas" it was given legal status in a series of Texas Supreme Court decisions between 1868 and 1874.
In the early 20th century, economic and political forces led to a decline in Juneteenth celebrations. From 1890 to 1908, Texas and all former Confederate states passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disenfranchised blacks, excluding them from the political process. White-dominated state legislatures passed Jim Crow laws imposing second-class status. The Great Depression forced many blacks off farms and into the cities to find work. In these urban environments, African Americans had difficulty taking the day off to celebrate. From 1940 through 1970, in the second wave of the Great Migration, more than 5 million blacks left Texas, Louisiana and other parts of the South for the North and West Coast, where jobs were available in the defense industry for World War II. As historian Isabel Wilkerson writes, "The people from Texas took Juneteenth Day to Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, and other places they went."
By the 1950s and 1960s, the Civil Rights movement focused the attention of African-American youth on the struggle for racial equality and the future. But, many linked these struggles to the historical struggles of their ancestors. Following the 1968 Poor People's Campaign to Washington, D.C. called by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, many attendees returned home and initiated Juneteenth celebrations in areas where the day was not previously celebrated.
Since the 1980s and 1990s, the holiday has been more widely celebrated among African-American communities. In 1994 a group of community leaders gathered at Christian Unity Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana to work for greater national celebration of Juneteenth. Paul Herring Chairman of The Juneteenth Committee credits Mrs. E. Hill Deloney (Community Matriarch) for starting the celebration in Flint, Michigan in the late 1980s; as he said, "… It's a time to Reflect & Rejoice, because we are the children of those who chose to survive." Juneteenth informal observance have spread to many other states, including Portland, Maine, in part carried by Texans. Expatriates have celebrated it in cities abroad, such as Paris. Some US military bases in other countries sponsor celebrations, in addition to those of private groups.
Organizations such as the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation are working toward gaining Congressional approval to designate Juneteenth as a national day of observance. Others are working to have its 150th anniversary celebrated worldwide.
In 1980, Texas was the first state to establish Juneteenth as a state holiday under legislation introduced by freshman Democratic state representative Al Edwards. Juneteenth is a "partial staffing holiday" in the state; government offices do not close but some employees use a "floating holiday" to take the day off.
By 2008, nearly half of US states observed the holiday as a ceremonial observance. As of May 2016, when the Maryland legislature approved official recognition of the holiday, 45 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have recognized Juneteenth as either a state holiday or ceremonial holiday, a day of observance. States that do not recognize it are Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota and South Dakota.
In 1996 the first legislation to recognize "Juneteenth Independence Day" was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.J. Res. 195, sponsored by Barbara-Rose Collins (D-MI). In 1997 Congress recognized the day through Senate Joint Resolution 11 and House Joint Resolution 56. In 2013 the U.S. Senate passed Senate Resolution 175, acknowledging Lula Briggs Galloway (late president of the National Association of Juneteenth Lineage) who "successfully worked to bring national recognition to Juneteenth Independence Day", and the continued leadership of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation.
↑ "Juneteenth Celebrated in Coachella". Black Voice News. June 22, 2011.
↑ "Juneteenth". Merriam Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
1 2 "Maryland". Retrieved 2016-07-19.
↑ Taylor, 2002. pp. 28–29.
↑ "How to Celebrate". Juneteenth.com. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
1 2 3 Cruz, Gilbert (2008-06-18). "A Brief History of Juneteenth". Time magazine. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
1 2 3 4 5 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. "What Is Juneteenth?". The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. PBS. Originally posted on The Root. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
↑ Barr (1996), p. 24.
1 2 3 "Juneteenth". Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Retrieved 2006-07-06.
↑ Campbell, Randolph (1984). "The End of Slavery in Texas: A Research Note". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 88 (1): 71–80.
↑ Wilkerson, Isabel (2010). The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. New York: Random House. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
↑ Chandler, D.L. (June 19, 2012). "Juneteenth: Celebrating The Early Moments Of Freedom Today". News One. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
1 2 3 Moskin, Julie (2004-06-18). "An Obscure Texas Celebration Makes Its Way Across the U.S.". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
↑ "The World Celebrates Freedom". Juneteenth.com. Retrieved 2006-06-19.
↑ Dingus, Anne (June 2001). "Once a Texas-only holiday marking the end of slavery, Juneteenth is now celebrated nationwide with high spirits and hot barbecue". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
↑ Brown, Stacy M. (30 May 2014). "Juneteenth officially recognized in Maryland". Baltimore Times. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
↑ "S.Res.175 - A resolution observing Juneteenth Independence Day, June 19, 1865, the day on which slavery finally came to an end in the United States". United States Congress. June 19, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
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If you’re looking for a quality new vehicle at an affordable price in Valencia, look no further than Repokar Car Auction’s selection of new Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep models. Browse our current stock of new cars in California, Valencia, including the Acura, BMW, Kia, Honda, Mercedes, Toyota, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Infiniti, Mazda, Suzuki, Subaru, Volkswagen, Volvo, and many other fine import vehicles. We also have a large selection of Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac, and Ford.
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The outdoors can contain a wealth of history and heritage, if you know where to look. Ordnance Survey Ireland Discovery maps contain a lot of information waiting to be discovered by you, your family and friends. It’s a great way to pass a few hours, it costs little and you are out and about in the great outdoors.
A good way to approach this activity is to choose an area and research it with your map, a visit to the library and the internet. Then plan a few hours out with the children, finding with the aid of map and compass the antiquities and heritage spots you have identified.
Remember to take all precautions to stay safe and you’ll have a very enjoyable and memorable day out with all the family.

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This week I'm going to be doing a color block challenge! As most of you know, I have always loved wearing color! However, I haven't tried this new color blocking trend yet... So, this week I will be doing my take on color blocking. Wish me luck!
Good luck! I only just attempted color blocking today, and it's so much fun. I love colors.
The thing that makes color blocking so hard for me is I need to feel "pulled together" all the time. Take for instance if I show a few different colors and my jacket is one of those main colors in my outfit, then I take it off because I'm warm, then I don't look/feel complete! Does anyone else have this problem?
you wear such colorful outfits already so i'm sure color blocking won't be a problem for you at all!
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This Tibbit is based on the PIC16F1824 microcontroller and takes advantage of the PWM channels available on this PIC device. The PIC micro has four PWM channels but one of the channels cannot be used because it shares I/O lines with the I2C interface. The I2C interface is utilized for communications with the main CPU of the TPP board and also for PIC firmware upgrades.
The frequency and the pulse width (duty cycle) are set independently for each PWM channel. The frequency is controlled through a divider and a period value. The divider allows you to select the base frequency applied to the divider. Available choices are 32MHz, 8MHz, 2MHz, and 500KHz. The output signal of the PWM can then be programmed to have the period equal to 4~1024 base frequency periods in 4-period steps (i.e. 4, 8, 12,...1020, 1024). This gives you the output range from 8MHz down to 488Hz. The PWM pulse width can be programmed to have the period equal to 1~1024 base frequency periods in 1-period steps (1, 2, 3,... 1023, 1024).
Each PWM channel uses one Singreat Electronics GT430PSB P-channel FET transistor which is rated for 4A continuous current at room temperature.
Combine this Tibbit with #20 (nine terminal blocks) or #19 (DB9M connector). It's not common but possible to use the latter for wiring into the PWM outputs. The Tibbit #21 (four terminal blocks) can also be used but you will have to steal the ground elsewhere, as #21 doesn't have its own ground line and the PWM Tibbit outputs voltages with respect to the system ground.
There are two red, one yellow, and one green LED. The first red LED is connected to the SCL line of the I2C interface, the second one -- to the -RST line of the PIC micro. The yellow LED is connected to the SDA line of the I2C interface. The green LED is on the -INT line.
Tibbit #16 ships with the GRA (general register access) firmware, which allows you to access internal PIC registers and memory through the I2C interface. The firmware implements a very simple communications protocol which essentially consists of two important commands -- address read and address write. These two commands are used to write to and read from PIC's internal RAM and registers. This facilitates a simple and versatile access to all microcontroller resources. The available Tibbo BASIC library sits on top of the GRA firmware and uses the communications protocol to access and set the PWM channels.
Since the GRA firmware does not do anything intelligent and all the setup work is essentially scripted in Tibbo BASIC, it is possible to modify PWM setup (and PIC behavior) without making any changes to the PIC firmware.
The GRA firmware can be updated or replaced using the pic_firmware_upgrade Tibbo BASIC project (see below). You can, therefore, create and run PIC applications that go far beyond providing simple register and memory access.
The use of this Tibbit is illustrated by a Tibbo BASIC test project. Yo can find it here: https://github.com/tibbotech/CA-Test-Tibbits-16-17-31.


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We have a beautiful house, The traditional housing of the city was inspired by the colonial model. They were houses that occupy almost a complete block. It is almost a fact that some materials and techniques used in the construction of the colonial houses of Salento no longer exist as a consequence of modernism and the elaboration of other products for the market.
We are located in the heart of Salento, one block from the square, on the real street, where all the commerce of the town is based, one block from the plaza, on the real street (shops and restaurants), near the Salento viewpoint, located in the heart of the town.
Our entrance is full of Colombian craft stands where everything is handmade by peasants of the region.
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The father of a British national said to have joined the radical Islamist group ISIL says he's devastated by his son's recruitment and urges his son to come home. Mana Rabiee reports.
This is said to be a jihadist recruitment video for the ISIL, the al Qaeda off-shoot that's now fighting for territory in Syria and Iraq. It's video that Reuters can't verify. But THIS young man talking now is said to be British citizen Abu Muthanna al Yemeni, from Cardiff, Wales. (SOUNDBITE) (English/Arabic) MAN PURPORTED TO BE BRITISH ISIL FIGHTER, ABU MUTHANNA AL YEMENI, SAYING: "We have brothers from Bangladesh, from Iraq, from Cambodia, Australia, UK..." His family call him Nasser. He's among five Australian and British nationals identified in the video who are calling on Muslims to join the war in Syria and Iraq. (SOUNDBITE) (English/Arabic) PURPORTED AUSTRALIAN ISIL FIGHTER, ABU NOUR AL IRAQI, SAYING: "You know, when it comes to jihad, there are two types of people: those who will find every single type of excuse to come to jihad, and those who will find every single excuse not to come to jihad." At Nasser's family home, his father, who doesn't want to be shown, says his son's recruitment into ISIL has been devastating. (SOUNDBITE) FATHER OF MAN PURPORTED TO BE BRITISH ISIL FIGHTER, WHO DOES NOT WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED, SAYING: "Sad, crying, I wish I could hold him, hold his hand, ask him to come back." With stunning speed, ISIL is taking control of large tracts of northern and central Iraq, to set up a Sunni caliphate. For at least one expert who studies radicalization and political violence, the recruitment video is a landmark moment for ISIL. Professor Peter Neuman of King's College in London. (SOUNDBITE) KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, PROFESSOR PETER NEUMANN, SAYING: "It signifies that they believe they have momentum right now, they want to capitalize on that momentum, they want to get people who are maybe on the brink of going, people in western countries like Britain who are saying maybe I should go but I'm not entirely sure, to get them to come." This father just wants his boy, and the other men, to lay down their arms and come home. (SOUNDBITE) FATHER OF MAN PURPORTED TO BE BRITISH ISIL FIGHTER, WHO DOES NOT WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED, SAYING: "Please stop, go back to Turkey and come back home. You are safe to go back to United Kingdom and to go into any other Arab country, or a Muslim country." ISIL includes thousands of foreign fighters. Western intelligence agencies say it's become a magnet for jihadi volunteers from Europe and North Africa.


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Super Eagles and Bursaspor defender, William Troost-Ekong has become the 43rd member of Common Goal, the movement powered by players and managers donating one percent of their salary to high impact football for good organisations around the world.
About 40 players and managers have allocated over €400,000 to football for good organisations in six months since starting with a single player, Manchester United and Spain midfielder Juan Mata. At the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this summer, Common Goal looks likely to be represented by at least eight players.
Ekong, 24, has had a busy past few years. He was a crucial part of the Nigeria national team as they won a Bronze Medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016, and was nominated for the 2017 African Player of the Year.
In the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification group stage, he played every match for the Super Eagles. He captained the team in their 1-0 friendly victory against Poland on Friday, March 23.
Born in the Netherlands in 1993 to a Dutch mother and Nigerian father, Troost-Ekong has already played in England, Holland, Belgium, Norway and Turkey and considers his commitment to Common Goal as a decisive career moment.
Troost-Ekong’s commitment to Common Goal comes just as the movement prepares to invest funds generated by player pledges for the first time. Next month will see €400,000 allocated to 27 football for good organisations tackling some of the toughest social issues of our time – ranging from HIV/AIDS to gender inequality and youth unemployment.
With new players from all levels of football joining the movement every week, Common Goal is racing towards the 100 player mark in 2018. In the coming weeks, Common Goal is set to announce how football fans, and other stakeholders in the game, from around the world can participate in the biggest movement in football.


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The next year's edition of Winter Music Conference will take place at the same Miami Beach in Miami, on 22 – 26 March, celebrating 20 years as the singular networking event in the dance music industry, attracting professionals from over 60 different countries. Like in every edition WMC will cover in seminars, panels, workshops, poolside performances and the International Dance Music every aspect of the industry including the top technological innovators, artists, DJs, producers, radio and video programmers, retailers, distributors, audio manufacturers and many more.
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The number of shares of common stock outstanding at July 14, 2017 was 694,689,883.
The consolidated condensed financial statements included herein have been prepared by Danaher Corporation (“Danaher” or the “Company”) without audit, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In this quarterly report, the terms “Danaher” or the “Company” refer to Danaher Corporation, Danaher Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries or the consolidated subsidiaries of Danaher Corporation, as the context requires. Unless otherwise indicated, all amounts in this quarterly report refer to continuing operations. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations; however, the Company believes that the disclosures are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. The consolidated condensed financial statements included herein should be read in conjunction with the financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 and the Notes thereto included in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 19, 2017 and the 2016 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 22, 2017 (collectively, the “2016 Annual Report”).
In the opinion of the Company, the accompanying financial statements contain all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring accruals) necessary to present fairly the financial position of the Company as of June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, its results of operations for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017 and July 1, 2016 and its cash flows for each of the six-month periods then ended.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)—The changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by component are summarized below ($ in millions). Foreign currency translation adjustments are generally not adjusted for income taxes as they relate to indefinite investments in non-U.S. subsidiaries.
(a) This accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) component is included in the computation of net periodic pension cost. Refer to Note 7 for additional details.
(b) Included in other income in the accompanying Consolidated Condensed Statement of Earnings. Refer to Note 10 for additional details.
New Accounting Standards—In May 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2017-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting, which provided clarity on which changes to the terms or conditions of share-based payment awards require an entity to apply the modification accounting provisions required in Topic 718. The standard is effective for all entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted, including adoption in any interim period for which financial statements have not yet been issued. The Company does not expect the adoption of this ASU will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-07, Compensation—Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost, which requires employers to disaggregate the service cost component from other components of net periodic benefit costs and to disclose the amounts of net periodic benefit costs that are included in each income statement line item. The standard requires employers to report the service cost component in the same line item as other compensation costs and to report the other components of net periodic benefit costs (which include interest costs, expected return on plan assets, amortization of prior service cost or credits and actuarial gains and losses) separately and outside a subtotal of operating income. The income statement guidance requires application on a retrospective basis. The ASU is effective for public entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods, with early adoption permitted. Management has not yet completed its assessment of the impact of the new standard on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which amends the impairment model by requiring entities to use a forward-looking approach based on expected losses to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments, including trade receivables. The ASU is effective for public entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. Management has not yet completed its assessment of the impact of the new standard on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718), simplifies several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including the income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, classification of certain items on the statement of cash flows and accounting for forfeitures. The Company has adopted this standard effective January 1, 2017. The ASU requires that the difference between the actual tax benefit realized upon exercise or vesting, as applicable, and the tax benefit recorded based on the fair value of the stock award at the time of grant (the “excess tax benefits”) be reflected as a reduction of the current period provision for income taxes with any shortfall recorded as an increase in the tax provision rather than as a component of changes to additional paid-in capital. The ASU also requires the excess tax benefit realized be reflected as operating cash flow rather than a financing cash flow. For the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017, the provision for income taxes from continuing operations was reduced and operating cash flow from continuing operations was increased by $7 million and $33 million, respectively, reflecting the impact of adopting this standard. Had this ASU been adopted at January 1, 2016, the provision for income taxes from continuing operations would have been reduced and operating cash flow from continuing operations would have been increased by $12 million and $26 million from the amounts reported for the three and six-month periods ended July 1, 2016, respectively. The actual benefit to be realized in future periods is inherently uncertain and will vary based on the price of the Company’s common stock as well as the timing of and relative value realized for future share-based transactions.
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which requires lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for all leases with terms greater than 12 months. The standard also requires disclosures by lessees and lessors about the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The accounting applied by a lessor is largely unchanged from that applied under the current standard. The standard must be adopted using a modified retrospective transition approach and provides for certain practical expedients. The ASU is effective for public entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. Management has not yet completed its assessment of the impact of the new standard on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
clarified the guidance on certain items such as reporting revenue as a principal versus agent, identifying performance obligations, accounting for intellectual property licenses, assessing collectability, presentation of sales taxes, impairment testing for contract costs and disclosure of performance obligations. The Company plans to adopt the new standard on January 1, 2018 and expects the impact of the new standard on the amount and timing of revenue recognition to be insignificant. The new standard will require certain costs, primarily commissions on contracts greater than one year in duration, to be capitalized rather than expensed currently. The new standard will also require additional disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows from customer contracts, including judgments and changes in judgments and assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain or fulfill a contract. The Company expects to use the modified retrospective method of adoption, reflecting the cumulative effect of initially applying the new standard to revenue recognition in the first quarter of 2018.
For a description of the Company’s acquisition activity for the year ended December 31, 2016 reference is made to the financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 and Note 2 thereto included in the Company’s 2016 Annual Report.
The Company continually evaluates potential acquisitions that either strategically fit with the Company’s existing portfolio or expand the Company’s portfolio into a new and attractive business area. The Company has completed a number of acquisitions that have been accounted for as purchases and have resulted in the recognition of goodwill in the Company’s financial statements. This goodwill arises because the purchase prices for these businesses reflect a number of factors including the future earnings and cash flow potential of these businesses, the multiple to earnings, cash flow and other factors at which similar businesses have been purchased by other acquirers, the competitive nature of the processes by which the Company acquired the businesses, avoidance of the time and costs which would be required (and the associated risks that would be encountered) to enhance the Company’s existing product offerings to key target markets and enter into new and profitable businesses, anticipated opportunities for synergies from the elimination of redundant facilities and staffing and use of each party’s respective, existing commercial infrastructure to cost-effectively expand sales of the other party’s products and services, and the complementary strategic fit and resulting synergies these businesses bring to existing operations.
The Company makes an initial allocation of the purchase price at the date of acquisition based upon its understanding of the fair value of the acquired assets and assumed liabilities. The Company obtains this information during due diligence and through other sources. In the months after closing, as the Company obtains additional information about these assets and liabilities, including through tangible and intangible asset appraisals, and learns more about the newly acquired business, it is able to refine the estimates of fair value and more accurately allocate the purchase price. Only items identified as of the acquisition date are considered for subsequent adjustment. The Company is continuing to evaluate certain pre-acquisition contingencies associated with certain of its 2017 and 2016 acquisitions and is also in the process of obtaining valuations of certain property, plant, and equipment, acquired intangible assets and certain acquisition-related liabilities in connection with these acquisitions. The Company will make appropriate adjustments to the purchase price allocation prior to completion of the measurement period, as required.
During the first six months of 2017, the Company acquired three businesses for total consideration of $94 million in cash, net of cash acquired. The businesses acquired complement existing units of the Life Sciences and Environmental & Applied Solutions segments. The aggregate annual sales of these three businesses at the time of their respective acquisitions, in each case based on the company’s revenues for its last completed fiscal year prior to the acquisition, were approximately $65 million. The Company preliminarily recorded an aggregate of $71 million of goodwill related to these acquisitions.
In the first quarter of 2017, Danaher acquired the remaining noncontrolling interest associated with one of its prior business combinations for consideration of $64 million. Danaher recorded the increase in ownership interests as a transaction within stockholders’ equity. As a result of this transaction, noncontrolling interests were reduced by $63 million reflecting the carrying value of the interest with the $1 million difference charged to additional paid-in capital.
In the six-month period ended July 1, 2016, unaudited pro forma earnings set forth above were adjusted to include the $23 million pretax impact of nonrecurring acquisition date fair value adjustments to inventory and deferred revenue primarily related to the 2016 acquisition of Cepheid.
On July 2, 2016 (the “Distribution Date”), Danaher completed the separation (the “Separation”) of Fortive Corporation (“Fortive”). For additional details on the Separation reference is made to the financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 and Note 3 thereto included in the Company’s 2016 Annual Report. The accounting requirements for reporting the Separation of Fortive as a discontinued operation were met when the Separation was completed. Accordingly, the accompanying consolidated condensed financial statements for all periods presented reflect this business as a discontinued operation.
In connection with the Separation, Danaher and Fortive entered into various agreements to effect the Separation and provide a framework for their relationship after the Separation, including a transition services agreement, an employee matters agreement, a tax matters agreement, an intellectual property matters agreement and a Danaher Business System (“DBS”) license agreement. These agreements provide for the allocation between Danaher and Fortive of assets, employees, liabilities and obligations (including investments, property and employee benefits and tax-related assets and liabilities) attributable to periods prior to, at and after Fortive’s separation from Danaher and govern certain relationships between Danaher and Fortive after the Separation. In addition, Danaher is party to various commercial agreements with Fortive entities. The amounts billed for transition services provided under the above agreements as well as commercial sales and purchases to and from Fortive were not material to the Company’s results of operations for the three or six-month periods ended June 30, 2017.
In the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, Danaher recorded a $22 million income tax benefit related to the release of previously provided reserves associated with uncertain tax positions on certain Danaher tax returns which were jointly filed with Fortive entities. These reserves were released due to the expiration of statutes of limitations for those returns. All Fortive entity-related balances were included in the income tax benefit related to discontinued operations.
The Company has not identified any “triggering” events which indicate a potential impairment of goodwill in the six-month period ended June 30, 2017.
Available-for-sale securities, which are included in other long-term assets in the accompanying Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets, are either measured at fair value using quoted market prices in an active market or if they are not traded on an active market are valued at quoted prices reported by investment brokers and dealers based on the underlying terms of the security and comparison to similar securities traded on an active market.
The Company has established nonqualified deferred compensation programs that permit officers, directors and certain management employees to defer a portion of their compensation, on a pretax basis, until at or after their termination of employment (or board service, as applicable). All amounts deferred under such plans are unfunded, unsecured obligations of the Company and are presented as a component of the Company’s compensation and benefits accrual included in other long-term liabilities in the accompanying Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets. Participants may choose among alternative earning rates for the amounts they defer, which are primarily based on investment options within the Company’s 401(k) program (except that the earnings rates for amounts deferred by the Company’s directors and amounts contributed unilaterally by the Company are entirely based on changes in the value of the Company’s common stock). Changes in the deferred compensation liability under these programs are recognized based on changes in the fair value of the participants’ accounts, which are based on the applicable earnings rates.
As of June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, available-for-sale securities were categorized as Level 1 and Level 2, as indicated above, and short and long-term borrowings were categorized as Level 1.
The fair value of long-term borrowings was based on quoted market prices. The difference between the fair value and the carrying amounts of long-term borrowings (other than the Company’s Liquid Yield Option Notes due 2021 (the “LYONs”)) is attributable to changes in market interest rates and/or the Company’s credit ratings subsequent to the incurrence of the borrowing. In the case of the LYONs, differences in the fair value from the carrying value are attributable to changes in the price of the Company’s common stock due to the LYONs’ conversion features. The fair values of borrowings with original maturities of one year or less, as well as cash and cash equivalents, trade accounts receivable, net and trade accounts payable approximate their carrying amounts due to the short-term maturities of these instruments.
For additional details regarding the Company’s debt financing, reference is made to Note 9 of the Company’s financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 included in the Company’s 2016 Annual Report.
Day Facility” and together with the Credit Facility, the “Credit Facilities”), to provide additional liquidity support for issuances under the Company’s U.S. dollar and euro-denominated commercial paper programs.
Effective April 21, 2017, the Company reduced the commitment amount under the 364-Day Facility from $3.0 billion to $2.3 billion, and effective June 23, 2017, the Company further reduced the commitment amount under the facility to $1.0 billion, as permitted by the facility. As of June 30, 2017, no borrowings were outstanding under the Credit Facilities, and the Company was in compliance with all covenants under the facility. In addition to the Credit Facilities, the Company has also entered into reimbursement agreements with various commercial banks to support the issuance of letters of credit.
As of June 30, 2017, borrowings outstanding under the Company’s U.S. dollar and euro-denominated commercial paper programs had a weighted average annual interest rate of negative 0.2% and a weighted average remaining maturity of approximately 55 days.
The Company has classified approximately $3.7 billion of its borrowings outstanding under the commercial paper programs as of June 30, 2017 as long-term debt in the accompanying Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheet as the Company had the intent and ability, as supported by availability under the Credit Facility, to refinance these borrowings for at least one year from the balance sheet date.
Debt discounts, premiums and debt issuance costs totaled $29 million and $25 million as of June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively, and have been netted against the aggregate principal amounts of the related debt in the components of debt table above.
On May 11, 2017, DH Japan Finance S.A. (“Danaher Japan”), a wholly-owned finance subsidiary of the Company, completed the private placement of ¥30.8 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.3% senior unsecured notes due May 11, 2027 (the “2027 Yen Notes”) and ¥53.2 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.65% senior unsecured notes due May 11, 2032 (the “2032 Yen Notes” and together with the 2027 Yen Notes, the “Yen Notes”). The 2027 and 2032 Yen Notes were issued at 100% of their principal amount.
The 2027 and 2032 Yen Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Company. The Company received net proceeds, after offering expenses, of approximately ¥83.6 billion (approximately $744 million based on currency exchange rates as of the date of the pricing of the notes) and used the net proceeds from the offering to partially repay commercial paper borrowings. Interest on the 2027 and 2032 Yen Notes is payable semiannually in arrears on May 11 and November 11 of each year, commencing on November 11, 2017.
On June 30, 2017, DH Europe Finance S.A. (“Danaher International”), a wholly-owned finance subsidiary of the Company, completed the underwritten public offering of €250 million aggregate principal amount of floating rate, senior unsecured notes due 2022 (the “2022 Floating Rate Euronotes”) and €600 million aggregate principal amount of 1.2% senior unsecured notes due 2027 (the “2027 Euronotes” and together with the 2022 Floating Rate Euronotes, the “Euronotes”). The 2022 Floating Rate Euronotes were issued at 100.147% of their principal amount, will mature on June 30, 2022 and bear interest at a floating rate equal to three-month EURIBOR plus 0.3% per year (provided that the minimum interest rate is zero). The 2027 Euronotes were issued at 99.682% of their principal amount, will mature on June 30, 2027 and bear interest at the rate of 1.2% per year.
The Euronotes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Company. The Company received net proceeds, after underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses, of €843 million (approximately $940 million based on currency exchange rates as of the date of the pricing of the notes) and used the net proceeds from the offering to repay the €500 million aggregate principal amount of floating rate senior unsecured notes which matured on June 30, 2017 as well as to repay commercial paper borrowings. Interest on the 2022 Floating Rate Euronotes is payable quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing on September 30, 2017. Interest on the 2027 Euronotes is payable annually in arrears on June 30 of each year, commencing on June 30, 2018.
The indenture under which the Euronotes were issued contains customary covenants, all of which the Company was in compliance with as of June 30, 2017.
principal amount of the notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest and certain swap-related losses as applicable, in certain circumstances whereby such holder comes into violation of economic sanctions laws as a result of holding such notes.
At any time and from time to time prior to March 30, 2027 (three months prior to the maturity date of the 2027 Notes), the Company may redeem the 2027 Notes, in whole or in part, by paying the principal amount and a “make-whole” premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest. In addition, on or after March 30, 2027, the Company will have the right, at its option, to redeem the 2027 Notes, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, by paying the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest. At any time and from time to time, the Company may redeem the Yen Notes, in whole or in part, by paying the principal amount and a “make-whole” premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest and net of certain swap-related gains or losses as applicable. The Company may also redeem the Euronotes and the Yen Notes upon the occurrence of specified, adverse changes in tax laws, or interpretations under such laws, at a redemption price equal to the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed.
The €500 million of floating rate senior unsecured notes due in 2017 were repaid upon their maturity in June 2017.
Danaher has guaranteed long-term debt and commercial paper issued by certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries. The 2017 Euronotes, 2019 Euronotes, 2022 Euronotes, 2022 Floating Rate Euronotes, 2025 Euronotes and 2027 Euronotes were issued by Danaher International. The 2017 CHF Bonds, 2023 CHF Bonds and 2028 CHF Bonds were issued by DH Switzerland Finance S.A. (“Danaher Switzerland”), a wholly-owned finance subsidiary of the Company. The 2021 Yen Notes, 2027 Yen Notes and 2032 Yen Notes were issued by Danaher Japan. All securities issued by each of Danaher International, Danaher Switzerland and Danaher Japan are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Company and these guarantees rank on parity with the Company’s unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.
During the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, holders of certain of the Company’s LYONs converted such LYONs into an aggregate of approximately two thousand shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share. The Company’s deferred tax liability associated with the book and tax basis difference in the converted LYONs was transferred to additional paid-in capital as a result of the conversions.
During 2017, the Company’s cash contribution requirements for its U.S. and non-U.S. defined benefit pension plans are expected to be approximately $35 million and $40 million, respectively. The ultimate amounts to be contributed depend upon, among other things, legal requirements, underlying asset returns, the plan’s funded status, the anticipated tax deductibility of the contribution, local practices, market conditions, interest rates and other factors.
The Company’s effective tax rate from continuing operations for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017 was 13.6% and 15.4%, respectively, as compared to 36.1% and 30.2% for the three and six-month periods ended July 1, 2016, respectively.
charges that are predominantly in the United States, which in aggregate decreased the reported tax rate by 6.9%. The effective tax rate for the six-month period ended June 30, 2017 reflects the aforementioned benefits recorded in the second quarter of 2017 and higher than expected benefits recorded in the first quarter of 2017 related to excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation, which in aggregate reduced the reported tax rate by 5.1%. The effective tax rate for the three-month period ended July 1, 2016 included charges related to repatriation of earnings and legal entity realignments associated with the Separation and other discrete items, which in aggregate increased the effective tax rate by 15.1%. The effective tax rate for the six-month period ended July 1, 2016 included these Separation charges in addition to the impact of a higher tax rate on the gain from the sale of marketable equity securities which in aggregate increased the effective tax rate by 9.6%.
Tax authorities in Denmark have raised significant issues related to interest accrued by certain of the Company’s subsidiaries. On December 10, 2013, the Company received assessments from the Danish tax authority (“SKAT”) totaling approximately DKK 1.4 billion including interest through June 30, 2017 (approximately $222 million based on the exchange rate as of June 30, 2017), imposing withholding tax relating to interest accrued in Denmark on borrowings from certain of the Company’s subsidiaries for the years 2004-2009. The Company is currently in discussions with SKAT and anticipates receiving an assessment for years 2010-2012 totaling approximately DKK 853 million including interest through June 30, 2017 (approximately $131 million based on the exchange rate as of June 30, 2017). Management believes the positions the Company has taken in Denmark are in accordance with the relevant tax laws and is vigorously defending its positions. The Company appealed these assessments with the National Tax Tribunal in 2014 and intends on pursuing this matter through the European Court of Justice should this appeal be unsuccessful. The ultimate resolution of this matter is uncertain, could take many years, and could result in a material adverse impact to the Company’s financial statements, including its effective tax rate.
Neither the Company nor any “affiliated purchaser” repurchased any shares of Company common stock during the six-month period ended June 30, 2017. On July 16, 2013, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a repurchase program (the “Repurchase Program”) authorizing the repurchase of up to 20 million shares of the Company’s common stock from time to time on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. As of June 30, 2017, 20 million shares remained available for repurchase pursuant to the Repurchase Program.
For a full description of the Company’s stock-based compensation programs, reference is made to Note 17 of the Company’s financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 included in the Company’s 2016 Annual Report. As of June 30, 2017, approximately 73 million shares of the Company’s common stock were reserved for issuance under the 2007 Omnibus Incentive Plan.
years. As of June 30, 2017, $145 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately three years. Future compensation amounts will be adjusted for any changes in estimated forfeitures.
The Company realized a tax benefit of $11 million and $49 million in the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017, respectively, related to the exercise of employee stock options and vesting of RSUs. As a result of the adoption of ASU 2016-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation, the excess tax benefit of $7 million and $33 million for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017, has been recorded as a reduction to the current income tax provision and is reflected as an operating cash inflow in the accompanying Consolidated Condensed Statement of Cash Flows. Prior to the adoption of ASU 2016-09, the excess tax benefit was recorded as an increase to additional paid-in capital and was reflected as a financing cash flow.
The Company received $265 million of cash proceeds from the sale of marketable equity securities during the first quarter of 2016. The Company recorded a pretax gain related to this sale of $223 million ($140 million after-tax or $0.20 per diluted share) during the six-month period ended July 1, 2016.
For additional details regarding the Company’s restructuring activities, reference is made to Note 14 of the Company’s financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 included in the Company’s 2016 Annual Report.
During the three-month period ended June 30, 2017, the Company made the strategic decision to discontinue a molecular diagnostic product line in its Diagnostics segment. As a result, the Company recorded $76 million of pretax restructuring, impairment and other related charges ($51 million after-tax or $0.07 per diluted share). These charges included $49 million of noncash charges for the impairment of certain technology-related intangible assets as well as related inventory and property, plant, and equipment with no further use. In addition, the Company incurred $27 million of cash restructuring costs primarily related to employee severance and related charges. Substantially all restructuring activities related to this discontinued product line were completed in the three-month period ended June 30, 2017.
For a description of the Company’s litigation and contingencies, reference is made to Note 16 of the Company’s financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 included in the Company’s 2016 Annual Report.
The Company generally accrues estimated warranty costs at the time of sale. In general, manufactured products are warranted against defects in material and workmanship when properly used for their intended purpose, installed correctly, and appropriately maintained. Warranty period terms depend on the nature of the product and range from 90 days up to the life of the product. The amount of the accrued warranty liability is determined based on historical information such as past experience, product failure rates or number of units repaired, estimated cost of material and labor, and in certain instances estimated property damage. The accrued warranty liability is reviewed on a quarterly basis and may be adjusted as additional information regarding expected warranty costs becomes known.
Basic net earnings per share (“EPS”) from continuing operations is calculated by dividing net earnings from continuing operations by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the applicable period. Diluted net EPS from continuing operations is computed based on the weighted average number of common shares outstanding increased by the number of additional shares that would have been outstanding had the potentially dilutive common shares been issued and reduced by the number of shares the Company could have repurchased with the proceeds from the issuance of the potentially dilutive shares. For the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017, approximately four million options to purchase shares were not included in the diluted EPS from continuing operations calculation as the impact of their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive. For both the three and six-month periods ended July 1, 2016 there were no anti-dilutive options to purchase shares excluded from the diluted EPS from continuing operations calculation.
The Company operates and reports its results in four separate business segments consisting of the Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Dental and Environmental & Applied Solutions segments. When determining the reportable segments, the Company aggregated operating segments based on their similar economic and operating characteristics. Operating profit represents total revenues less operating expenses, excluding nonoperating income and expense, interest and income taxes. Intersegment amounts are not significant and are eliminated to arrive at consolidated totals. There has been no material change in total assets or liabilities by segment since December 31, 2016.
You should read this discussion along with the Company’s MD&A and audited financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2016 and Notes thereto, included in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 19, 2017 and the 2016 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 22, 2017 (collectively, the “2016 Annual Report”) and the Company’s Consolidated Condensed Financial Statements and related Notes as of and for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017 included in this Report.
Unless otherwise indicated, all references in this report refer to continuing operations.
Certain statements included or incorporated by reference in this quarterly report, in other documents we file with or furnish to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), in our press releases, webcasts, conference calls, materials delivered to shareholders and other communications, are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the United States federal securities laws. All statements other than historical factual information are forward-looking statements, including without limitation statements regarding: projections of revenue, expenses, profit, profit margins, tax rates, tax provisions, cash flows, pension and benefit obligations and funding requirements, our liquidity position or other projected financial measures; management’s plans and strategies for future operations, including statements relating to anticipated operating performance, cost reductions, restructuring activities, new product and service developments, competitive strengths or market position, acquisitions and the integration thereof, divestitures, spin-offs, split-offs or other distributions, strategic opportunities, securities offerings, stock repurchases, dividends and executive compensation; growth, declines and other trends in markets we sell into; new or modified laws, regulations and accounting pronouncements; regulatory approvals; outstanding claims, legal proceedings, tax audits and assessments and other contingent liabilities; foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; general economic and capital markets conditions; the timing of any of the foregoing; assumptions underlying any of the foregoing; and any other statements that address events or developments that Danaher intends or believes will or may occur in the future. Terminology such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “should,” “could,” “intend,” “will,” “plan,” “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “target,” “may,” “possible,” “potential,” “forecast” and “positioned” and similar references to future periods are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements are accompanied by such words.
Our growth could suffer if the markets into which we sell our products and services (references to products and services in this report also include software) decline, do not grow as anticipated or experience cyclicality.
Certain of our businesses are subject to extensive regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and by comparable agencies of other countries, as well as laws regulating fraud and abuse in the health care industry and the privacy and security of health information. Failure to comply with those regulations could adversely affect our reputation and financial statements.
The health care industry and related industries that we serve have undergone, and are in the process of undergoing, significant changes in an effort to reduce costs, which could adversely affect our financial statements.
Our acquisition of businesses (including our recent acquisitions of Pall and Cepheid), joint ventures and strategic relationships could negatively impact our financial statements.
Divestitures and other dispositions could negatively impact our business, and contingent liabilities from businesses that we have disposed could adversely affect our financial statements.
We could incur significant liability if the 2016 spin-off of Fortive or the 2015 split-off of our communications business is determined to be a taxable transaction.
Potential indemnification liabilities related to the 2016 spin-off of Fortive and the 2015 split-off of our communications business could materially and adversely affect our business and financial statements.
A significant disruption in, or breach in security of, our information technology systems or violation of data privacy laws could adversely affect our business, reputation and financial statements.
Our businesses are subject to extensive regulation; failure to comply with those regulations could adversely affect our financial statements and our business, including our reputation.
Changes in tax law relating to multinational corporations could adversely affect our tax position.
We are subject to a variety of litigation and other legal and regulatory proceedings in the course of our business that could adversely affect our business and financial statements.
If we do not or cannot adequately protect our intellectual property, or if third-parties infringe our intellectual property rights, we may suffer competitive injury or expend significant resources enforcing our rights.
The United States government has certain rights to use and disclose some of the intellectual property that we license and could exclusively license it to a third-party if we fail to achieve practical application of the intellectual property.
Defects and unanticipated use or inadequate disclosure with respect to our products or services could adversely affect our business, reputation and financial statements.
Certain of our businesses rely on relationships with collaborative partners and other third-parties for development, supply and marketing of certain products and potential products, and such collaborative partners or other third-parties could fail to perform sufficiently.
Changes in laws or governmental regulations may reduce demand for our products or services or increase our expenses.
International economic, political, legal, compliance, trade and business factors could negatively affect our financial statements.
The results of the European Union membership referendum in the United Kingdom and their formal notice of withdrawal from the European Union could adversely affect customer demand, our relationships with customers and suppliers and our business and financial statements.
See Part I—Item 1A of the Company’s 2016 Annual Report for a further discussion regarding reasons that actual results may differ materially from the results, developments and business decisions contemplated by our forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the report, document, press release, webcast, call, materials or other communication in which they are made. Except to the extent required by applicable law, we do not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events and developments or otherwise.
consummate and integrate appropriate acquisitions, develop innovative and differentiated new products and services with higher gross profit margins, expand and improve the effectiveness of the Company’s sales force, continue to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency and quality, and effectively address the demands of an increasingly regulated environment. The Company is making significant investments, organically and through acquisitions, to address the rapid pace of technological change in its served markets and to globalize its manufacturing, research and development and customer-facing resources (particularly in high-growth markets) in order to be responsive to the Company’s customers throughout the world and improve the efficiency of the Company’s operations.
While differences exist among the Company’s businesses, on an overall basis, sales from existing businesses increased 2.0% during the second quarter of 2017 as compared to the comparable period of 2016. Increased demand for the Company’s products and services on an overall basis, together with the Company’s continued investments in sales growth initiatives and the other business-specific factors discussed below contributed to year-over-year sales growth. Geographically, year-over-year sales growth rates from existing businesses during the second quarter of 2017 were led by the high-growth markets. Sales from existing businesses in high-growth markets grew at a mid-single digit rate during the second quarter of 2017 as compared to the comparable period of 2016 led primarily by continued strength in China and India, partially offset by weakness in the Middle East. High-growth markets represented approximately 31% of the Company’s total sales in the second quarter of 2017. Sales from existing businesses in developed markets grew at a low-single digit rate during the second quarter of 2017 led primarily by growth in North America. The Company expects overall sales growth to continue for the remainder of 2017 and core growth rates to improve in the remainder of 2017 but remains cautious about challenges due to macro-economic and geopolitical uncertainties, including global uncertainties related to monetary, fiscal and trade policies.
The Company regularly evaluates market needs and conditions with the objective of positioning itself to provide superior products and services to its customers in a cost-efficient manner. Consistent with this approach, during the three-month period ended June 30, 2017, the Company made the strategic decision to discontinue a molecular diagnostic product line in its Diagnostics segment. As a result, the Company recorded $76 million of pretax restructuring, impairment and other related charges ($51 million after-tax or $0.07 per diluted share). These charges included $49 million of noncash charges for the impairment of certain technology-related intangible assets as well as related inventory and property, plant, and equipment with no further use. In addition, the Company incurred $27 million of cash restructuring costs primarily related to employee severance and related charges. These restructuring charges are expected to result in annual savings in 2018 of approximately $40 million.
On a year-over-year basis, currency exchange rates adversely impacted reported sales by approximately 1.5% for both the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017 primarily due to the strength of the U.S. dollar against several major currencies in the first six months of 2017 compared to 2016. If the currency exchange rates in effect as of June 30, 2017 were to prevail throughout the remainder of 2017, currency exchange rates would have a negligible impact on the Company’s estimated full year 2017 sales as the U.S. dollar is currently weaker in comparison with rates experienced in the second half of 2016 which would offset the negative sales impact reported in the first half of 2017. Any future strengthening of the U.S. dollar against major currencies would adversely impact the Company’s sales and results of operations, and any weakening of the U.S. dollar against major currencies would positively impact the Company’s sales and results of operations for the remainder of the year.
the impact of currency translation.
the period-to-period change in revenue (excluding sales from acquired businesses) after applying current period foreign exchange rates to the prior year period.
Sales from existing businesses should be considered in addition to, and not as a replacement for or superior to, sales, and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. Management believes that reporting the non-GAAP financial measure of sales from existing businesses provides useful information to investors by helping identify underlying growth trends in Danaher’s business and facilitating comparisons of Danaher’s revenue performance with its performance in prior and future periods and to Danaher’s peers. Management also uses sales from existing businesses to measure the Company’s operating and financial performance. The Company excludes the effect of currency translation from sales from existing businesses because currency translation is not under management’s control, is subject to volatility and can obscure underlying business trends, and excludes the effect of acquisitions and divestiture-related items because the nature, size, timing and number of acquisitions and divestitures can vary dramatically from period-to-period and between the Company and its peers and can also obscure underlying business trends and make comparisons of long-term performance difficult. Throughout this discussion, references to sales volume refer to the impact of both price and unit sales and references to productivity improvements generally refer to improved cost-efficiencies resulting from the ongoing application of the Danaher Business System.
% Change Six- Month Period Ended June 30, 2017 vs.
Operating profit margins were 15.2% for the three-month period ended June 30, 2017 as compared to 16.7% in the comparable period of 2016.
Operating profit margins were 15.0% for the six-month period ended June 30, 2017 as compared to 16.2% in the comparable period of 2016.
The Company’s Life Sciences segment offers a broad range of research tools that scientists use to study the basic building blocks of life, including genes, proteins, metabolites and cells, in order to understand the causes of disease, identify new therapies and test new drugs and vaccines. The segment, through its Pall business, is also a leading provider of filtration, separation and purification technologies to the biopharmaceutical, food and beverage, medical, aerospace, microelectronics and general industrial segments.
During the first quarter of 2017, a product line was transferred from the Life Sciences segment to the Environmental & Applied Solutions segment. While this change is not material to segment results in total, the resulting change in sales growth has been included in the “Acquisitions and other” line in the table above.
Price increases in the segment contributed 0.5% to sales growth on a year-over-year basis during both the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017, and are reflected as a component of the change in sales from existing businesses.
Sales of the business’ broad range of mass spectrometers grew on a year-over-year basis during both the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017, led by strong sales growth in China and Western Europe, across the food, pharmaceutical and academic end-markets, partially offset by declines in demand in the clinical end-market in the United States. Sales of microscopy products grew on a year-over-year basis during the six-month period ended June 30, 2017, due primarily to increased demand in the high-growth markets. For the three-month period ended June 30, 2017, increased microscopy demand in the high-growth markets was partially offset by lower demand in North America, primarily in the medical and life science research end-markets. Demand for the business’ flow cytometry and genomics products was strong across all major product lines in both the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017 as compared to the comparable periods in 2016, due to strong demand in North America and China, partially offset by declines in demand in Japan. Demand for filtration, separation and purification technologies increased in both the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2017 as compared to the comparable periods in 2016, primarily in the biopharmaceutical, medical and microelectronics end-markets. For these businesses, increased demand in the developed markets, particularly North America and Asia, was partially offset by declines in the Middle East, largely due to a major project in 2016 which did not repeat in 2017.
The Company’s Diagnostics segment offers analytical instruments, reagents, consumables, software and services that hospitals, physicians’ offices, reference laboratories and other critical care settings use to diagnose disease and make treatment decisions.


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My first foray into the world of yarn was when I discovered crochet toys. I loved the intricate construction and how intuitive crochet construction was. Hungry for new shapes and designs, I spent years making various amigurumi projects soaking up all I could to create my own patterns. I think my affinity for sea creatures was in part due to growing up near the ocean and the octopus quickly became my favorite.
After I learned how to knit I stumbled upon the designs of Hansi Singh, specifically her amazing Octopus pattern. The delicate intricacies in shape made this the most accurate of any I had seen. I created swarms of them giving them as presents to kids and adults alike.
While shopping for something else (I have no idea what, and I definitely didn't end up getting it) I found her book Amigurumi Knits and had to buy it. The book is broken down into 4 chapters; Five Servings a Day, Get Your Barnacle On, Garden Variety, and Revenge of the Cryptids. So now I bring one of my favorite designers to you as I knit straight through each chapter.
Hansi Singh lives in Seattle and has her background in both the Sciences and the Arts. When looking at her construction this makes so much sense. There is a sense of realism that is often absent from the world of knit or crochet toys. She is not afraid to use multiple techniques to get the shapes just right.
You can check out her interview on Makezine to learn more about how she came to the world of knitting and the ever evolving process that leads up to the publication of each pattern. Her knitting is more like an artist sketching with many attempts before the shape is just right. Hansi talks about her pregnancy being a catalyst to learning to knit and how her husbands career influenced her work as a designer. It's a great read.
While some of the Hansigurumi patterns are delightfully difficult there are amazing tutorials before the first chapter. Her pictures are clear and the technique instructions easy to follow. Ranging from intermediate to advanced her use of increases, decreases, and short rows make these patterns stand out from others. She's a bit of a toy genius.
Just as an aside: I used Cascade Pastaza for most of these projects. This yarn has been discontinued but all of the patterns in this book are written for Worsted weight yarn. Cascade 220 or any favorite worsted is perfect for these projects.
Join me next time as I dive in to the fabulously funky world of underwater creatures. I will begin with the Hermit Crab and might need to take a side trip through her many sea creature additions on her Ravelry page.
Do you have a favorite designer that is particularly inspiring? Or is there a pattern you have been thinking about but want someone else to be the guinea pig? Let me know, I'm happy to take on any challenge.