![]() ![]() ![]() Speed Build is one of many games usually played at BrickFair conventions. Some games and events are held every year due to high appeal and attendance. Each registrant receives a convention packet that includes a personalized name badge made from engraved LEGO bricks, as well as a program of activities, exclusive handouts, and coupons. Activities at the convention include presentations, seminars, round-table discussions, contests, games, door prizes, and many experiences unique to Lego conventions. The event brings together the online fan community, and helps them to explore and develop their Lego hobby. The function of the private convention is to provide a venue for adult fans of Lego to display their own Lego creations. At the 2013 Virginia event, 300 minifigures were handed out to raise money for the charity. In 2012, 275 minifigures were donated by BrickFair to SladeChild, and were offered at the 2012 Virginia BrickFair event. In 2011, 100 Lego minifigures were donated by Ben Spector to the SladeChild charity, and were offered at the 2011 BrickFair event. The Charity runs a Lego piece yard sale and auction at BrickFair Virginia for the exhibitors, with basic parts offered at the yard sale and more valuable items offered at the auction. The Foundation offers bags of donated, cleaned, and sorted Lego bricks and other items to support their cause. The Foundation has been supported by BrickFair since 2008, and has a booth at BrickFair Virginia each August. The charity provides food, shelter, clothing, and medicine to children around the world. The chosen charity is Maryland-based, named The SladeChild Foundation Charitable Trust. As a result, in 2018, only two conventions will take place: Alabama and Virginia.įrom the initial stages of planning, BrickFair was designed to be linked with a children's charity. Instead, one convention per year would visit different cities, starting with Charlotte NC in 2019. Then, in Summer of 2018, it was announced that the NJ convention was no longer going to happen. At the 2013 Virginia BrickFair event, it was announced that BrickFair would be opening an annual exhibition in New Jersey, with its first event being held in 2014 at the Garden State Expo Center in Somerset, New Jersey.Ī decision was made in late 2017 that the New England convention would no longer occur. In May 2013, the convention expanded to New England with an event in Manchester, New Hampshire. BrickFair increased the number of events each year by adding an event in Birmingham, Alabama in January 2012. The Virginia convention of BrickFair is still held annually at the Dulles Expo Center. In 2010, BrickFair was moved to the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, VA to make room for further expansion of the event. The location was partially chosen because it was the 2006 site of BrickFest, a now-defunct Lego convention. The first BrickFair convention, in 2008, was held as a four-day convention at the Sheraton Premiere Hotel near Tysons Corner in Vienna, Virginia. The Virginia convention has had up to 22,500 attendees in its public hours. BrickFair is believed to be the largest Lego convention in the United States and one of the largest in the world. BrickFair operates in every season and in four East Coast states. BrickFair conventions are also held in New England and the Southeastern United States, with the advent of BrickFair Alabama in 2012 and BrickFair New England in 2013. The convention displays Lego models, displays and trains, most often covering more than 100,000 square feet of convention space. BrickFair is a four-day event, operating generally Thursday through Sunday. It was first held in 2008 at Tysons Corner, Virginia by Todd Webb, and in subsequent years, the Virginia convention has been held in Chantilly, typically during the first weekend of August. Hilton Minneapolis St.BrickFair is a Lego convention and exhibition held annually in the Eastern United States. Greater Columbus Convention Center / Hyatt Regency Columbus Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention CenterĮmbassy Suites by Hilton East Peoria Riverfront Hotel & Conference CenterĭoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chattanooga DowntownĮmbassy Suites by Hilton Fort Lauderdale 17th Street Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center ![]()
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In the vast majority of cases I have seen, input isn't any different than what would be sent from a conventional keyboard (though the characters sent from the scanner are sent much faster, since there is no delay from the user actually pressing each key). This moderately-priced, high-performance handheld 1D barcode scanner is best suited to applications in retail and healthcare. ![]() If the scans are consistently unreliable with every sort of barcode, it's probably something wrong with the hardware itself, since barcode scanners usually decode the barcode internally, then pass a stream of plaintext to the computer they are hooked up to. Perhaps do some testing with various kinds of barcodes besides those that are normally scanned, just to see if it's possibly an issue with the barcodes you have been scanning?Īdditionally, are all the barcodes your users are scanning using the same barcode format? If you aren't sure, perhaps barcodes with formats that e scanner isn't configured to read are slipping into the workflow somewhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, this allows her to actually become the Wicked Wedgie Woman, as the juice had given her hair superpowers. Her powers, however, were not the same as Captain Underpants' as she had not directly drank the juice. That night she attacks George and Harold in their treehouse, where she accidentally slams into a shelf, toppling over a carton of Extra Strength Super Power Juice, making its content spill out onto her head and get soaked into her hair and brain. Ribble to think she was Wedgie Woman, prior to Harold messing around while they were hypnotising her. ![]() They tell her to stop everything and forget it ever happened, but they didn't count on the fact that the Hypno-Ring is only meant for males, and females will do the exact opposite of what you say. After the disaster at the wedding, George and Harold use the 3D Hypno-Ring – which they had previously used to turn Mr. Ribble goes on a rampage and throws food everywhere, yelling that she wants to kill George and Harold. Ribble that George and Harold were the ones who had pulled the prank on them. Krupp, stating that she didn't want to marry him because his nose looked piggish.Īfter Mr. Anthrope and the other teachers think it's serious and decide to throw a wedding ceremony in the school's auditorium during the upcoming weekend. Krupp has previously signed after being tricked by Harold. Krupp, who takes it from them to deliver to her on his own, but what was written on the card was a message asking her was asking her to marry him, which Mr. George uses a reverse psychology trick on Mr. Ribble sends them to detention, where they create a fake card for Ms. George and Harold make her a comic book instead, which she finds offensive. At the start of the book, she decides to retire, and she forces the class to create her retirement cards. Ribble is the primary antagonist in the fifth book. She is later seen when she reads The Pied Piper to the fourth grade class, which gives George and Harold the idea to create the comic book Captain Underpants and the Pied Pooper of Piqua.Ĭaptain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman When the rest of the school comes back from the trip, her and various teachers bully George and Harold, but eventually they get bored and go to the staff room, but they didn't count on the fact that George and Harold had set the place up with pranks. George and Harold are banned from the school field trip to Piqua Pizza Palace and are forced to clean the staff room instead. They are then rescued by George, Harold, and Captain Underpants.Ĭaptain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants She and almost the whole school get turned into Evil Zombie Nerds by Zorx, Klax, and Jennifer. She is later seen in the detention room writing repetitive sentences with the other teachers who were mean to George and Harold.Ĭaptain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) Once the talking toilets are defeated and everything is restored, she, along with the other teachers, are convinced it was all a dream. Meaner get eaten by a talking toilet, shortly before being eaten herself. Tara Ribble is among those of the teachers who bully George and Harold after they are suspended. Ribble in this book, instead being referred to as simply Teacher.Ĭaptain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets Krupp is walking by her class, inadvertently transforming him into Captain Underpants. Ribble appears snapping her fingers at George and Harold's pranks while Mr. 'I just know this is a dream,' she said." At the end of the book, Ms. Her sole speaking role is: "Their teacher kept pinching herself. Ribble only appears as a background character and has only one line of dialogue. History The Adventures of Captain Underpants ![]() 1.9 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.1.8 Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000.1.7 Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers.1.6 Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy - Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets.1.5 Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman.1.4 Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants.1.3 Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds).1.2 Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets.1.1 The Adventures of Captain Underpants. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amanda climbs up the wall behind the bar and finds a safe with a four-digit code. Each time the sequence is repeated, a portion of the floor falls away. Music begins to play followed by an ear-piercing dial-up sound. A telephone cord drops from the ceiling and the call warns the group to watch their steps. They notice a door without a doorknob Mike thinks the eight-ball missing from the pool table must be the doorknob hidden somewhere in the bar. ![]() ![]() As the group enter, they feel the entire room elevate to a new altitude. The third room is an inverted bar with pool tables. The group escape across the stream into a new door that opens just as all the remaining ice collapses beneath them. Once they retrieve the key Jason manages to turn the lock, but the door does not open. Fearing hypothermia, Jason convinces the group to huddle and use their collective body heat to melt the ice. The group are distraught at the loss of Danny and alarmed at how calculated his death was, noting he fell into the ice when he grabbed the lighter. Danny attempts to retrieve Ben's lighter to melt the cube but falls into the ice with the lighter and drowns. The group fish out a key encased in a cube of ice. Jason grows concerned when he recognizes a red parka the group find and take turns wearing to stay warm. Searching their surroundings, Jason locates a door needing a key and the others find a compass, fishing rod, magnet, and ice fishing hole. Ben gives RUDOLPH as the code and the group exit and enter frigid temperatures on a frozen stream just as the cabin doors and windows lock shut. Ben has a flashback where he was driving with friends singing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" just before a head-on collision. Jason seeks a seven-lettered name connected to "You'll Go Down in History" to unlock the cabin door. The cameras in each room do nothing when the group needs help. In a mountain cabin, the group, barring Danny, grow concerned at how real the game is becoming. Ben empties his flask into the final glass and the two escape just in time as the room engulfs in flames. Ben and Danny rush to cover all coasters with glasses until not enough water remains since Amanda drank a glass earlier. Jason escapes first, followed by Mike and Amanda while Zoey realizes filling a glass with water will hold down a coaster long enough for her to escape the room. Zoey sees a sign asking for coasters to be used for drinks and the group notice an escape vent to the next room opens when they simultaneously push down on six coasters. The group receive a phone-call advising them to follow posted rules. Zoey notices Amanda's uneasiness and tries to calm her with water from the water cooler. Embedded heat panels progressively turn on bringing the room to increasingly hot temperatures, causing panic among all except Danny who refuses to believe the heat is authentic. After Mike finds a copy of Fahrenheit 451, Zoey sets the temperature to 451☏. When Ben tries leaving the room to smoke, the door handle breaks off, locking the inside and revealing an oven temperature gauge. War veteran Amanda (Deborah Ann Woll), former miner Mike (Tyler Labine), and escape-room enthusiast Danny (Nik Dodani) arrive and join Zoey, Ben, and Jason in what appears to be a waiting area. After solving the puzzle, a clue invites them to the Minos Escape Room for a chance at $10,000 should they successfully escape. Zoey, Ben, and Jason are all gifted a puzzle box addressed from a trusted acquaintance: Zoey's professor, Ben's boss, and Jason's client. Jason (Jay Ellis) is a young stockbroker respected among his co-workers for his fast-paced and go-getter lifestyle. Ben (Logan Miller), seen earlier in the collapsing room, is a stock boy at a grocery store with a smoking habit frustrated at his boss' refusal to promote him to a better role and higher salary. Three days prior, shy physics student Zoey (Taylor Russell) attends a lecture on the Quantum Zeno Effect theory, which states "a system cannot change while you are watching it." Her professor challenges her to take a risk over the Thanksgiving break. A man (Logan Miller) is seen trying to escape a collapsing room by solving a puzzle. ![]() ![]() Thaw and drain the frozen chopped spinach. Step 1: Thaw and drain the frozen spinach Since this recipe can be a bit labor-intensive, it’s best to do it in stages. Click here for my Vegan Parmesan Cheese recipe made with cashews, nutritional yeast, and seasonings – or use one of your own. You will want to make it while your blender is dry, otherwise, you’ll have more of a cashew/parmesan paste. Either buy one, make your favorite, or you can make mine. ![]() You’ve got to have a vegan parmesan cheese of some type. ![]() I do take a few short-cuts in the recipe with the use of jarred marinara sauce and oven-ready lasagna noodles. The lasagna is oil-free (depending on the sauce you use), though it does contain healthy fat with the raw cashews. The recipe is somewhat labor-intensive but well worth the effort for its flavorful, creamy, saucy, plant-based goodness. Just a creamy smooth vegan white bechamel sauce we make from flour, plant milk, cashews…and a few other ingredients. This lasagna is made with fresh vegetables – no fake meats here! We don’t use vegan cheese either. Who doesn’t love a good lasagna?!? I would have been heartbroken if I hadn’t figured out how to make a really good vegan lasagna! It may look watery and separated but simply reheat in a saucepan, whisking all the while and it will come back to its full glory.This vegan lasagna with Cashew Bechamel (Vegan) is comfort food at its finest! This dish is what we always cook for homecomings and special occasions in my home. It’s also freezer friendly for up to 3 months. Keep leftovers stored in the fridge and enjoy within 4-5 days. If you want a cheese sauce to drizzle on your pizza, then you’re looking for a cashew cheese sauce! Or you can even grate up some hard sliceable cashew cheese and melt it on your pizza! Storing and Freezing It also makes a great sauce for a vegan mac and cheese. It’s what you want when you want a cheesy version of a white sauce to use in your lasagna! It’s also great as a pasta sauce or served over vegetables. Have you had a white sauce (bechamel) before? It’s exactly like that, just flavored to be cheesy! This isn’t the kind of cheese sauce you’re going to use on a pizza. ![]() To that you add some salt, black pepper, dijon mustard, great for adding a cheesy flavor don’t even ask me why but really it works, and some nutritional yeast.Īnd that might be as far as you need to go to get your perfect cheese sauce flavor! If you want to intensify the flavors a bit more, you can add in some optional onion powder and garlic powder too. ![]() There are just 3 basic ingredients – oil, flour and plant-based milk (I used soy milk) to make your basic white sauce. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos. You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. You start off with a basic vegan white sauce – also called bechamel sauce and then with just a few added extras, it magically turns into cheese sauce! How To Make Vegan Cheese Sauce Making a vegan cheese sauce really couldn’t be easier. Ideal for lasagnas, pastas, vegan mac and cheese or anywhere you would usually use a cheese sauce. 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The show was a month into production on the upcoming season when the pandemic hit the U.S. Netflix announced in October that Stranger Things had resumed production on season 4 after the pandemic halted filming earlier in the year. RELATED VIDEO: Maya Hawke Says it's an 'Incredible' Honor to be Part of Stranger Things "This season is my favorite because he really is going to show you some new colors and what he's really made up of," he said. ![]() Harbour also said that fans will "get to see an entirely other color" of Hopper in season 4. but you'll also see them twist it and turn it into other colors and other flavors." In an interview with PEOPLE, Harbour teased that in the new season, audiences will "see a lot of your favorite characters doing the thing that you love them for. Featuring a trip through the sterile world of the Hawkins Underground Laboratory, all while Matthew Modine’s Martin Brenner addresses the children he experiments on, you can take a look at the. RELATED: Everything We Know About Stranger Things Season 4 I’m back again How’s everyone feeling after that teaser Here’s season 1 El in the lab with the little plant Brenner gave her and her little lion stuffed animal. "Today, I have something very special planned for you," he tells the group as the camera pans down the hall to a room with the number 11 on it while a voiceover of someone taking deep breaths plays.Īs the background music becomes more and more intense, the teaser then ends with Modine's character saying, "Eleven, are you listening?" before a shot of Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven opens her eyes. Martin Brenner, also known as "Papa" in the series, is seen walking into the room, greeting the kids. Midway through the clip, Matthew Modine's Dr. Some play chess, while others ask questions of a Magic 8-Ball. Set in what appears to be the Hawkins National Laboratory in the past, the teaser opens with a group of children playing together in a room. On Thursday, the first official teaser for the upcoming fourth season of the hit Netflix series dropped, teasing what's to come when the Hawkins, Indiana, gang returns. ![]() Stranger Things fans, it's time to head back into the Upside Down. ![]() ![]() ![]() Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, FBI.Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division.Attorney, Northern District of California China Initiative Leadership and Steering Committee Members ![]() The China Initiative is led by the Department’s National Security Division (NSD), which is responsible for countering nation-state threats to the United States. In addition to identifying and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage, the Initiative focuses on protecting our critical infrastructure against external threats through foreign direct investment and supply chain compromises, as well as combatting covert efforts to influence the American public and policymakers without proper transparency. In June 2018, the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy issued a report on “How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World,” documenting “the two major strategies and various acts, policies, and practices Chinese industrial policy uses in seeking to acquire the intellectual property and technologies of the world and to capture the emerging high- technology industries that will drive future economic growth.” ![]() It concluded, among other things, that a combination of China’s practices are unreasonable, including its outbound investment policies and sponsorship of unauthorized computer intrusions, and that “ range of tools may be appropriate to address these serious matters.” Trade Representative announced the results of an investigation of China’s trade practices under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. The Initiative was launched against the background of previous findings by the Administration concerning China’s practices. The Department of Justice’s China Initiative reflects the strategic priority of countering Chinese national security threats and reinforces the President’s overall national security strategy. Department of Justice (DOJ) allege conduct that would benefit the Chinese state, and there is at least some nexus to China in around 60 percent of all trade secret theft cases. About 80 percent of all economic espionage prosecutions brought by the U.S. ![]() ![]() The spanking was hard enough to cause its anus to be permanently sealed. When it was found out, it was punished by a spanking from the Jade Emperor. One story of the Pixiu says that it violated a law of Heaven by defecating on the floor of Heaven. In the Eastern Han dynasty, pixiu were thought to be able to fly into the realm of immortals or xian by Daoists and a minority of Confucianists. Imperial Pixiu used during the Qing dynasty developed the physical characteristic of a fatter, more rotund body, indicating a stomach that could be loaded with unlimited amounts of gold and all forms of wealth and good fortune.ĭue to their similar appearances, Pixiu are often confused with stone lions and qilin, but they can easily be distinguished from those two animals by its pair of feathered wings with which it can fly between Heaven and Earth. ![]() Many have a bifurcated (split) tail that hangs low and downward that covers its rear, a representative metaphor that they hold gold inside their stomachs but will not let it out. There is one ancient stone sculpture variation found with hooves, but all Pixiu have wings. Pixiu have protruding eyes and sharp teeth. As with the Chinese phoenix, the common image today represents a single gender with one antler (male). Īncient Chinese descriptions, depictions and stone carvings of Pixiu from the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) show the male with a single antler and the female with two. In modern times, this legendary creature’s historical physical appearance has been somewhat lost, and is now more commonly depicted with only one antler. They have the head of a Chinese dragon, the body of a lion, and historically sport on their heads either one antler (male) or two antlers (female). Their legend has been passed down through 2,000 years of Chinese lore. Pixiu are auspicious, winged animals, written about in ancient Chinese history and heralded through the millennia by fantastic stories of powerful and grandiose feats of victory in battle. Today, Pixiu are a popular design on jade pendants. Statues of this creature are often used to attract wealth in feng shui. Pixiu crave the smell of gold and silver and like to bring their masters money in their mouth. Displaying Tiānlù at home or in the office is said to prevent wealth from flowing away. When it returns to its master's house, the Bìxié is then said to guard the riches. It is said to go out into the world to search for gold and other forms of wealth. ![]() ![]()
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