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Chesterfields Sundial Dress - 1940

This is the back cover of the May, 1940 issue of The Progressive Farmer and Southern Ruralist magazine. It shows the charming Miss Elaine Shepard in Chesterfield's Sundial Dress. It seems she went on to more important things, but she sure did right by this dress, imagine posing with this massive dress, that also massive hat, the huge bouquet and then smoking a Chesterfield and looking like you enjoy it! A model's life wasn't all glamour.

Apple Launches iPhone 5

Apple today announced iPhone 5, the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, completely redesigned to feature a stunning new 4-inch Retina display; an Apple-designed A6 chip for blazing fast performance; and ultrafast wireless technology—all while delivering even better battery life. iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features including: the all new Maps app with Apple-designed cartography and turn-by-turn navigation; Facebook integration; Passbook organization; and even more Siri features and languages.

“iPhone 5 is the most beautiful consumer device that we’ve ever created,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We’ve packed an amazing amount of innovation and advanced technology into a thin and light, jewel-like device with a stunning 4-inch Retina display, blazing fast A6 chip, ultrafast wireless, even longer battery life; and we think customers are going to love it.”

iPhone 5 is the thinnest smartphone in the world, with an all-new 7.6 mm anodized aluminum body that is 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than iPhone 4S. Designed with an unprecedented level of precision, iPhone 5 combines an anodized aluminum body with diamond cut chamfered edges and glass inlays for a truly incredible fit and finish.

The new 4-inch Retina display on iPhone 5 delivers even more pixels than iPhone 4S, making the already incredible Retina display even better. By making the screen taller, not wider, iPhone 5 is just as easy to use with one hand so you can tap, type and scroll the same way you always have, while enjoying even more of your content including amazing apps optimized for the larger Retina display, widescreen HD video, a full five days of your Calendar and more of every web page.

iPhone 5 supports ultrafast wireless standards including LTE and DC-HSDPA, so you can browse, download and stream content even faster. To support the latest LTE technology, Apple has pioneered a unique single-radio LTE solution that provides blazing fast speeds while fitting perfectly into the new remarkably thin design. iPhone 5 features dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi support for a wireless experience up to 150 Mbps.

The all-new A6 chip was designed by Apple to maximize performance and power efficiency to support all the incredible new features in iPhone 5, including the stunning new 4-inch Retina display—all while delivering even better battery life. With up to twice the CPU and graphics performance, almost everything you do on iPhone 5 is blazing fast for launching apps, loading web pages and downloading email attachments.

Pricing & Availability

iPhone 5 comes in either white & silver or black & slate, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the 64GB model. iPhone 5 will be available from the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores, and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 5 will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK on Friday, September 21, and customers can pre-order their iPhone 5 beginning Friday, September 14. iPhone 4S will also be available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 4 will be available for free with a two-year contract.iOS 6 software will be available on Wednesday, September 19 as a free software update.

Source:Yahoo.com

Mail Order Patterns from The Progressive Farmer - 1940

Here are some of the patterns you could order from The Progressive Farmer and Southern Ruralist in 1940. They range from baby clothes, to practical maternity dresses and even a truly lovely 'graduation frock'. There is an emphasis on cotton because this was basically a farmers magazine and cotton crops were very important, there are several mentions of the need for everyone to have a cotton mattress.
There is speculation that most of the mail order patterns all came from one company, but I don't think we really know. If you have more information please share. Also if anybody knows more about Lillian L. Keller who worked for the Tennessee Extension Service, she seems to have been a clever gal indeed!

High Speed Photography By Alan Sailer (30+)

High Speed photography is an art of taking amazing pictures of anything in very quick phenomena. Speaking officially, high speed digital photos is fairly taking the movement or reaction of a assured object/thing in a quick trend.

High Speed digital photography can be described as the science of capturing pictures of very quick phenomena. It permit photography lovers to “freeze time” and imprison amazing pictures.

Bubble Gummy Clay

Candy Lip Gloss

Childs Play

Christmas in July

Chromatic Spaghetti

Colored Water Slide

Dice Die

Fall House

Follow the Bouncing Ball

Frosty the Snow...Waaaahhh

Fun Failure

Globular Gribies

Hydro Shock

I Saw a Blasting Cap

JawBreaker

Jello Straws III

Koosh Croosh

Let Me Out

Letter_Bomb

Messing With the Background

Mucky Paintball Mess

No Wonder You Have Chapped Lips

Not Quite Kermit

Paintball Blast

Pastel M&Ms

Peace A Chance

Pellet Wire

Photography

Photography Portraits

Pineapple Express

Play Ball

Play Doh Globe

Play Doh

The Progressive Farmer and Southern Ruralist - 1940

This is the cover art from the May, 1940 issue of The Progressive Farmer and Southern Ruralist. The artist is Gari Melchers, who you can read more about here.

Wonderful Animal Bridges Around the World

Animals bridges, which may moreover be known as ecoductsor wildlife crossings, are components that permit animals to securely cross human-made obstacle like highways. A animals traversing is the largest phrase and can include: underpass tunnels, viaducts, overpasses and bridges, amphibian tunnels, fish ladders, culverts and natural rooftops.

They also assist in preventing mishaps between vehicles and animals, which moreover to killing or damaging animals may cause harm to people and property smash up. In the United States, a large number of animals crossings have been designed in the past 30 years, such as culverts, bridges, and overpasses.

The first animals crossings were designed in France during the 1950's. European countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, and France have been using a range of traversing components to decrease the issue between animals and streets for several years and use a wide range of overpasses and underpasses to secure and improve animals such as: amphibians, badgers, ungulates, invertebrates, and other small animals.

Wildlife crossings are suitable progressively common in North Canada and the United States. Identifiable wildlife crossings are found in Banff Nation Park in Alberta, where vegetated overpasses give safe passing over the Trans-Canada Highway for bears, moose, deer, wolves, elk, and many other range.