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George Wilhelmus Mancius Yates[1]
George Yates
|[1]February 26, 1843
Albany, New York[1]
|June 25, 1876[1] (aged 33)
Little Big Horn, Montana
|Place of Burial
|Years of service
|7th U.S. Cavalry[1]
George Wilhelmus Mancius Yates (February 26, 1843 – June 25, 1876) was an officer in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment. He was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.[1]
Yates was born in Albany, New York. He met Custer in Monroe, Michigan, and they became close personal friends. During the American Civil War, Yates was a second lieutenant in the 4th Michigan Infantry. Custer helped him secure a position on General Alfred Pleasonton's staff for Yates. Yates earned several brevet promotions in rank for his actions during the war. He fought at the First Battle of Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg.
After the Civil War, in 1866, Yates was appointed a captain in the 7th Cavalry. He served under Lt. Colonel Custer, commanding F Company. He was a member of the so-called "Custer Clan" or "Custer Gang" of close-knit friends and relatives of the General. Yates was killed during the Battle of the Little Bighorn and fell near Custer. According to some accounts, he is said to have taken command of the battalion after the initial fighting at Medicine Tail Coulee, where Custer may have been wounded. Other accounts suggest that he commanded a wing of Custer's battalion, composed of Companies E and F. He was initially buried on the battlefield, but was reinterred in Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.[2]
He left a widow and three children. His wife would spend many years as a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She would later be crushed to death in a New York City Subway accident in 1914. Yates' brother-in-law, Richard Roberts, had accompanied the Custer column as a civilian herder and part-time correspondent for the New York Sun, but had to drop out 70 miles from the Little Bighorn when his pony gave out, thereby perhaps sparing his life.
Fort Yates in the Dakota Territory was named in his memory and honor, as well as Battery Yates at Fort Baker in Marin County, California, overlooking San Francisco Bay.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hatch, Thom (2002). The Custer companion: a comprehensive guide to the life of George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indian wars. Stackpole Books. pp. 139–140. ISBN 0-8117-0477-7.
- ^ Fort Leavenworth
- Classic Battles: Little Big Horn 1876, Peter Panzieri, ISBN 1-85532-458-X
- Crazy Horse and Custer, Stephen E. Ambrose, 1975, ISBN 0-385-47966-2
- Cavalier in Buckskin, Robert M. Utley, 1988, ISBN 0-8061-2150-5
- Custer: A Soldier's Story, D.A. Kinsley, 1967, ISBN 0-88394-074-4
- The Custer Autograph Album, John M. Carroll, 1994, ISBN 0-932702-97-X


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And now for news of fresh Blue State disaster, both home and abroad.
But first, some background. Back in 2010, Theodore Dalrymple explored the revival of centralized economic planning in general, and the fortunes of its most prominent 20th proponent, John Kenneth Galbraith, specifically:
His books sold by the million and were available everywhere in cheap paperback editions; titles such as American Capitalism and The Affluent Society were known to almost all educated people. A teacher at Princeton, Cambridge, and Harvard, he was the editor for a time of Fortuneand the American ambassador to India. He was also the first economist to be widely known on television, not least through his sparring with William F. Buckley, Jr. (a close personal friend). His omnipresence as the voice of economics was both the result and the cause of a whole climate of opinion.
As is commonly the way, a reaction set in. Galbraith, who lived from 1908 to 2006, grew not only old, but old hat. His Keynesianism appeared outmoded in an era of unprecedented growth and prosperity apparently brought about by adherence to economic theories very different from his. No one believed any longer that demand management—the governmental regulation and, if necessary, provision of the demand for goods and services within the whole economy—was the way to combine prosperity with social justice. Rather, the market's invisible hand and unconscious wisdom would lead us into the sunny uplands of expanding wealth and diminishing poverty.
But recently, there has been a reaction to the reaction. No sooner had Lehman Brothers collapsed than the printing presses started to roll out copies of Galbraith's book on the debacle of 1929, The Great Crash. In fact, it couldn't be printed fast enough, paperback books being affordable even in times of crisis. Galbraith was the hero of a recent PBS documentary extolling the value of big government. And demand management à la Galbraith is now back with a vengeance, of course. If the improvidently indebted but now impecunious private citizen won't spend and thereby expand economic activity, the improvidently indebted but infinitely expandable government will do it for him.
So how's that working out? Pretty badly, if these recent stories are any indication. First up, at Big Peace, founded by the late Andrew Breitbart, John J. Xenakis has this news of fresh disaster from Europe: "Spain Unemployment Near 25%; Britain Enters Double-Dip Recession":
- Spain's economy keeps spiraling downward as unemployment rises to 25%
- Switzerland considers paying illegal aliens to leave Switzerland
- Britain's economy moves into a 'double-dip' recession
- Germany's Angela Merkel angrily repudiates François Hollande's campaign promises
- Greece's elections driven by anti-austerity, anti-immigrant fervor
- Romania's government collapses, Czech government survives, in anti-austerity anger
While President Reagan was working to expand entrepreneurship in the US in the 1980s, statist-oriented economists trumpeted the top-down economy of Japan as the better model -- recall '80s and early '90s era-films such as Gung Ho, Black Rain, and Rising Sun. Two decades later, Ross Douthat describes Japan as the "Incredible Shrinking Country," facing demographic, and presumably economic, collapse as well, in the New York Times, and living out a real-life version of The Children of Men, PD James' 1992 novel:
Japan is facing such swift demographic collapse, Eberstadt's essay suggests, because its culture combines liberalism and traditionalism in particularly disastrous ways. On the one hand, the old sexual culture, oriented around arranged marriage and family obligation, has largely collapsed. Japan is one of the world's least religious nations, the marriage rate has plunged and the divorce rate is higher than in Northern Europe.
Yet the traditional stigma around out-of-wedlock childbearing endures, which means that unmarried Japanese are more likely to embrace "voluntary childlessness" than the unwed parenting that's becoming an American norm. And the traditional Japanese suspicion of immigration (another possible source for demographic vitality) has endured into the 21st century as well. Eberstadt notes that "in 2009 Japan naturalized barely a third as many new citizens as Switzerland, a country with a population only 6 percent the size of Japan's and a reputation of its own for standoffishness."
These trends are forging a society that sometimes evokes the infertile Britain in James's dystopia. Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the developed world, and there were rashes of Internet-enabled group suicides in the last decade. Rental "relatives" are available for sparsely attended wedding parties; so-called "babyloids" — furry dolls that mimic infant sounds — are being developed for lonely seniors; and Japanese researchers are at the forefront of efforts to build robots that resemble human babies. The younger generation includes millions of so-called "parasite singles" who still live with (and off) their parents, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of the "hikikomori"—"young adults," Eberstadt writes, "who shut themselves off almost entirely by retreating into a friendless life of video games, the Internet and manga (comics) in their parents' home."
And speaking of Japan and Europe, "Europe faces Japan syndrome as credit demand implodes," Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes in the London Telegraph:
This slump in loan demand is more or less what happened during Japan's Lost Decade as Mr and Mrs Watanabe shunned debt. Zero interest rates did nothing. The Bank of Japan was "pushing on a string" (though it never really launched bond purchases with any serious determination).
It is true that banks have slowed the pace of credit tightening, but they are nevertheless still tightening. "A banking crisis remains very much in play for much of the region," said David Owen from Jefferies Fixed Income.
The credit squeeze is entirely predictable – and was widely predicted – given that banks must raise their core Tier 1 capital ratios to 9pc by July to meet EU rules, or face nationalisation. (The pro-cyclical folly of this beggars belief: by all means impose higher buffers, but not during a recession, and not by letting banks slash their balance sheets. The US at least forced its banks to raise capital, an entirely different policy since it does not lead to a lending crunch.)
The IMF said last week that Europe's banks would slash their balance sheets by €2 trillion – or 7pc – by next year. This amounts to an economic shock. The Fund said deleveraging on this scale at a time of sharp fiscal tightening risks a "bad equilibrium".
Indeed it does. It ensures hell for countries containing 200m people, or more. Judging by the rise of Sinn Fein, the Dutch Freedom Party, the Dutch Socialist Party (hard-Left), France's Front National, and some true fire-breathers in Greece, they victims will not readily put up with this.
Oh well, what's another potential "European Civil War" amongst friends and neighbors? Over on this side of the Atlantic, America's Bluest of Blue regions are undergoing similar demographic and economic convulsions, as we'll explore right after the page break.


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MS and Strategies for Family Planning
Family-planning decisions are never easy, especially when multiple sclerosis (MS) is present. All prospective moms and dads face some uncertainties in their future, but those with MS face even more because of the unpredictability of the disease. Everyone is faced with lots of uncertainties in life. However, the unpredictability of MS — from day to day and over the long haul — makes big life decisions (like whether to start a family) even more complicated.
Your best bet is to try and think through — individually and as a couple — what you would do if things got tough. Figure out how you would cope, what strategies you would use, and what resources you have available to you.
Thinking through the future possibilities — rosy and not so rosy — helps you make more informed decisions. And whatever you decide, you'll know that your choices have taken into account the complexities of living with MS.
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It's also important to remember that babies grow up pretty fast. In other words, you need to consider how you and your partner will manage your growing child. So, as you talk through your feelings and thoughts about baby-making, try to imagine your new baby turning into an active toddler and your active toddler turning into a busy preteen and then — gulp — a teen.
The odds are in your favor — but they aren't guaranteed. In other words, if you're one of the women who have a severe, disabling relapse following delivery, it won't matter to you that the vast majority of women do fine.
MS and family planning: Evaluate your financial situation
Even though financial considerations are important for any couple that's making family-planning decisions, the potential impact of MS on employment makes this a particularly important topic to discuss with your partner. You can implement strategies to keep your place in the workforce, but the bottom line is that you may not be able to work as long you had anticipated. The fact that you may not work as long as you would have hoped is important for a couple of reasons:
Your family income may not be as great as you would like it to be down the road, particularly given the fact that two-income families are pretty much the norm these days.
The partner without MS may need to take on a bigger share of the wage-earning responsibilities. For example, a mom who planned to stay home with school-age kids may find that she needs to work full-time because her partner with MS can't.
Money worries are no fun, so make sure that you and your partner sit down and discuss your financial situation. If you need some expert advice, call the National MS Society at (800) FIGHT-MS (800-344-4867) for a free consultation through its Financial Education Partners program.
Take a good look at your MS teamwork
Parenting under the best of circumstances takes a lot of flexibility, patience, creativity, and endurance. With MS in the picture, it can require even more. So, given how unpredictable MS can be, one of the most important things to consider in your family-planning discussion is your teamwork.
For instance, ask yourself the following questions: Can you roll with the punches? How rigid are your roles and responsibilities in the household? Can you picture yourself as a stay-at-home dad or a working mom? How's your sense of humor? Can you talk about tough stuff when you need to? The answers to questions like these give you a sense of how well-oiled your teamwork is — and better teamwork sure makes for easier parenting.
Check out your MS support network
Some couples live surrounded by family, friends, and neighbors while others are pretty much out there on their own. There's no reason to run right out and join a commune, but it's worthwhile to think about the resources that you have available in the event that you need some assistance now and then.
For example, you can find support people in all sorts of places: in your family, in your community, at work, at your church or synagogue, and through your local National MS Society chapter.
MS and family planning: Have a heart-to-heart with your partner
Decisions about if and when to have kids can be pretty emotional. People generally have strong feelings about this issue one way or another. And to top it all off, communicating about heavy stuff can sometimes be difficult. You don't want to upset your partner or give someone you love more to worry about than he or she is already dealing with.
But, the fact is, holding back feelings or concerns — particularly about hot topics like family-planning decisions, family finances, and relationship issues — can come back to bite you later on.
If you're scared to death about the future, about your partner's ability to take care of kids now that he or she has MS, or about your own ability to pick up the slack if you have to, now's the time to get those feelings out in the open.
Chances are, you both have some worries, and this is the time to share them. The notion that "two heads are better than one" has some merit because together you can think through the stuff that's worrying you and figure out how you can deal with it.
If you need help having this kind of discussion, your healthcare provider or the National MS society (800-FIGHT-MS) can refer you to a counselor who can help you talk through the issues.
Talk to other parents living with MS
No matter what your concerns are, sometimes it's reassuring to talk to others who are in your same boat. For example, you can read everything there is to know about parenting, but there's nothing better than a real-life chat.
Chatting with moms and dads with MS who live the daily joys and challenges of parenthood is by far your best way to get information about pregnancy, delivery, chasing energetic toddlers, or anything else that's on your mind.
If you don't know anyone in your community who has MS, the National MS Society (800-FIGHT-MS) can connect you with other couples to talk to. Or you can check out the Society's social networking sites.
MS and family planning: Remember that your plans can change
Many people arrive at adulthood with some preconceived ideas and dreams about parenthood. They know whether they want to have kids and they know exactly how many they want. And sometimes they have a detailed vision of what parenthood will be like.
If, for any reason, you decide to change your parenting plans — to not have kids, to have fewer than you originally planned, or to adopt rather than having your own, it's important to remember that this change of heart can feel kind of like a loss.
Even if you're comfortable with the decision, you're confident that it's the right one for you, and you're happy with the outcome, you may find that some grieving goes along with it. If you're feeling the need to grieve, let it happen! Grieving is part of coping with a disease that sometimes upsets the apple cart.
Whatever you decide about having children, the choices are yours and only yours — not your doctor's, not your parents', and not your friends'. You may get a lot of opinions about what you should or shouldn't do, but the only right decision is the one that you and your partner make together.


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First of all, thanks a lot for the IntraMaps Roam application. It is very useful! We used it last year to do field validation in our research project about pollination service and landscape composition. That tablet died, and a new one was bought with the only, but dramatic, problem it runs WINDOWS RT 8.1. I was wondering if it will be possible to implement Intramaps to be run with this OS, or it will take a long time.
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Roam is an awesome application. I've seen it work before and it's stellar.
It looks and works better than ArcPad, in my opinion.
Setting it up on a new tablet, however, has given us an issue recently.
On our Asus Transformer Book running windows 8.1, we've connected a Garmin Oregon GPS unit via a virtual serial COM port (created by GpsGate Splitter Express) to QGIS, and there the gps is tracked with no problem.
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GPS Nav&Maps 4.1 has permission for "Approximate location (network-based)" but isn't using it as it can't locate me without GPS. I'm pretty sure it worked in the previous version. Google Maps locates me without problem using the network. Anyone else find this? Using Android 4.4.2 on a Nexus 4.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Seven Random Things meme
Tracy at Outside tagged me yesterday for this meme. Monica tagged me for a similar meme a while back, yet that one highlighted the odd things about you; I believe I revealed a preference for eating popcorn with a fork, amongst other "tendencies." Tracy's was (thankfully) NOT odd: she chose some gardening things to reveal, and I shall follow her example.
1. My only sibling, my brother Tom, is autistic. (I am his big sister and have always been his prime defender, and many a kid who deigned to pick on him ended up getting pummeled by me.) Autism is not a disease of cute but odd children: it is a life-long disorder, and it annoys me to NO end that the only stories you hear about it pertain to cute but odd children. Autism has marked me profoundly, too: like most siblings of other-abled children, I cannot help but look at the world through the rainbow that is the Autism Spectrum Disorder. I think, frankly, that we are ALL a little bit autistic.
2. Knowing about autism, then, I understand well the need for order and habits. Regarding my gardening, there are things I ALWAYS do, in a certain order, or else I kind of run around out there like a chicken with its head cut off. (And YES I know that chickens don't really do that, but most gardeners, especially in early spring, know EXACTLY what I am talking about.)
3. I love to garden, but hate the sun. I'm Irish, and the sun and I don't play well together. So I am usually almost completely covered, and covered in sunscreen, if I am out there. Otherwise, I furtively do my gardening in the early morning or the evening.
4. Perhaps it's from all those years in parochial school, but I can definitely see the purpose of a uniform. As such, then, I don a particular uniform when I garden, and I end up looking like a game warden. The shirt is a Columbia fly-fishing number with fun pockets and the ability to air-dry. The pants (YES full pants even in 90* weather) are a pair of men's Carhartt carpenter pants that are purposely big on me. A girl doesn't want anything to bind while she's pulling weeds, you know. But I definitely need a belt after all the stuff I put in its 100 pockets. A big straw hat and some wonderful boots round it out.
5. Boots, you ask? Why, I could write a book about my Blunnies. Others have, but let me just say these Australian work boots are the bomb. They are lightweight, waterproof, breathable, and after 7 years they're a mess but they're quite recognizable as their true selves. Please note the double loop pull-on feature: this is KEY.
6. Garden tools. I feel nekkid without my hori-hori and my flat fork and my Felco. Thus, I need my belt to hold up the pants that hold the tools and keep me clean in the gaaar-den (sing with me now!).
7. Gloves. Must Wear Them. Lined in winter, the dipped washable kind in summer.
Okay. That got a little odd, but then, consider the source!
I would like to tag some other gardeners for this meme, and I will do so on your sites today... I apologize ahead of time if you've already played: I'm on extreme work overload here. OH AND DID I MENTION I HAVE PNEUMONIA? Maybe that'll be my 8th thing. I've felt sick for weeks and DING! the x-ray showed what I knew to be true. But I am not too sick to garden.
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- meresy_g said...
I hope you feel better soon. It seriously sucks to be sick in the summertime. And pants in 90 degree weather? Wow. I garden in orange crocs, a tank top, and stretchy cotton shorts that my husband lovingly refers to as 'bruce jenners'. And if you pulled in my driveway while I was gardening in this get-up, I would hit the dirt and hold my breath until you left again.
- Carol said...
I've also been tagged and will post later.
Get well soon! Being sick in the summer is wrong, just wrong.
And I almost always wear long pants (old jeans) in the garden unless I am just mowing, and lots of suncreen, as I high a number as I can get. So that doesn't seem odd to me.
- Tracy said...
Oh, no! I hope you're starting to feel better. I had pneumonia once, and it is not fun.
I really enjoyed your post - thanks so much for doing it. I've also checked out the Blundstone link and now must have those boots!
OMG...I thought that I was "tough" cleaning up on the weekend after the storms with a slight head cold. I hope you feel better soon. OMG, gardening with pneumonia!!!
Blunnies and a blue heeler....hmmm, that's very Australian country. As an alternative to the Blundstone, I can also recommend an RM Williams boot....worn by many a city and country farmer alike.
- LostRoses said...
Those parochial-school roots run deep, don't they? I have a garden uniform too, consisting of any of several pairs of very loose-fitting cotton crop pants paired with an assortment of motley shirts I no longer care about!
Yes, I think we're all a bit autistic in ways if you stop and think about it. And by the way, I did once see a chicken run around after its head was cut off!
Sorry about the pneumonia. It's happened to me in summertime too, but it's so unfair! Get healthy.
- Artemisia said...
Wow. 8 times with pneumonia?!? You poor thing! Do you have asthma as well? I have lung problems & live with supplemental O2, so I can sympathize. It sucks to not be able to breathe well.
- El said...
I realized, after I reread this, that my gardening habits sound terribly autistic!! Actually, I just appreciate good work clothes and good tools. I've spent years on construction sites so I have a great appreciation for both, frankly.
Meredith, I SO hear you. But when our UPS lady comes, I'm similarly attired, so I don't feel so bad.
Carol, good, I am glad to know I am not the only pants-clad gardener out there. But do you put on that cute hat and long dress when you push your mower?
Tracy, Must Have Boots. I got mine in Calhoun Square, if it helps you! Thanks for tagging me, this was fun.
Nada, I saw your snow! Wow winter came fast. I SO appreciate your boot link! I am so not a shopper any more (kind of like your 90% thing) but again, I do appreciate good work wear. And we just got a second blue heeler Sunday, so does that make me more Aussie yet?
Lostroses, uniforms are GOOD. At least I feel like I am Working if I am in the garb. I felt that way when I used to wear panty hose, too. (Gawd, I'm glad those days are behind me.) But I think you'll agree it's fairly important to be really comfortable, and unafraid of the dirt, when you're out there.
Artemisia, nope, this is only the 3rd time I've had pneumonia; it's just a 7 Things meme, and I felt like I should throw it in there.
Regarding the pneumonia, I am on the mend. Today I feel lots better, frankly. It really rendered me joyless (I didn't even like to make bread that's how sick I was) and unappreciative and just plain crabby. I will probably be back to normal in another week or two. But yuck. Bad microbes!!
- Liz said...
I wear Carhartts, too. Heavyweight green in fall/spring, Lightweight khaki in summer. It's because of those damn blackflies.
Hope you're feeling better. :)
- The County Clerk said...
woman... pneumonia is not to be triffled with. Rest. Really. Rest. The garden will always be there and the weeds grow fast whether you are there or not... so rest and be take care of it later.
I enjoyed the post immensely. I know nothing about autism but I suspect that your spectacular little girl is growing up within a special environment because geography AND perspective. Good. She should have wonderful life.
As for the uniform, I agree. I wear a different get-up but for the same reasons... except I never seem to remebver to PUT ON the gloves. I have 'em. And then, when I slice my hands open I think" I should have put on my gloves." You clearly smarter than I am.
As for the boots... I've ordered some. One cannot have enough good boots.
Finally, the egg. What a delight.
Now... here's what you need to do:
Turn off the computer. Heat up some soup. Sit down on a comfortable chair and doze. This is not the saem thing as a nap or "going to bed" - it is just dozing and it is good. Go do it.
The garden will wait for you.
Your Aussie rating is increasing exponentially. Here we had a long running cop show set in a country town- it was called "Blue Heelers"- that oz sense of wit!
Blue heelers are great around people and animals and really smart! They go a little crazy if people keep them in the city but give them space and they just thrive.
My father in law (ex-farmer and Agriculture bureaucrat) once wrote a book on training sheep/ working dogs. He was also a judge at the sheep dog trials.
- El said...
Liz, I'll have to investigate the khaki kind. I am so glad I left the blackflies back in Minnesota, so I feel for you!!
Hank, you're such a dear. I'm really feeling lots better. But, to tell you how "in denial" I really am about illness, I was sitting here drawing furiously a week ago Tuesday, and it occurred to me that I felt kind of hot. So I took my temperature. It was 103.5*. (Hello, doctor?)
Oh, and you will LOVE those boots.
Nada, herding dogs rule. Started with a sheltie as a kid, had a German shepherd when I got my first house, and now these two heelers. I guess I really understand the need to work, and have a job, if that's what you're bred to do. Yes indeed heelers go nuts if they're left in an apartment all day but damn, I'd go nuts, too! That's cool about your FIL. Were they border collies he worked with mostly? Those dogs are like Extreme Sports dogs in the herding category. Heelers don't have as much "eye," but they have an insatiable need to run around. I'm glad we can offer them the room, and the environment, to be happy dogs.
My FIL also was a judge of sheep. Yes to the border collies. They are in fact the dog of choice for rounding up sheep. Kelpies are a good choice too. Heelers are more for cattle and they love to run around.
This info (summarised) comes via my husband who was sent to work on a sheep station/ cropping farm when he was 17. His parents thought it would 'sort him out'. He was up there for about a year.
Not sure if the 'sorting' happened.


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Australian wildlife conservationist, Rhiannon, has a baking blog named Cakecrumbs, and she has posted fun globe cakes she made that even show the planet's inner core.
Earth CakeThis was made as a challenge from her sister, who teaches at elementary. Her sister wanted a fun way of teaching kids about the earth and what's inside it. At first Rhiannon thought she couldn't do it (she didn't have hemispheric tins of varying sizes), but she managed to solve the problem.
The result was the Earth Structural Layer Cake:
This edible world globe is just half of a sphere (the kids were too few to warrant a whole globe) but the degree of geographic detail is amazing for a cake. There are no latitude and longitude lines and no place names but, considering the cutting out of the fondant map, and painting in the details with gel paste took six hours, the cake would have been spoiled by the time she finished painting in the last place name and grid line. And I doubt a globe cake would look mouth-watering with black grid lines on it.
But the real beauty of Rhiannon's world globe cake is what's inside:
This globe cake is so anatomically correct that it even shows the inner core (vanilla buttercake), outer core (lemon Madeira sponge), mantle (orange Madeira sponge), and crust (chocolate buttercream) when you slice it. The oceans and landmasses were made of marshmallow fondant.
Compare that to the usual globe cake (picture from Liz Shim's blog):
Liz Shim says this cake was made for her friend Scott, who was to travel in 11 countries around the world. Globes are really great going-away presents – especially if you can eat them too.
Like Rhiannon's globe cake, the actual cake is just the top half, the lower half is just a haf-hemisphere base covered with the same fondant ocean as the cake.
But, lest you think you can only make half a globe out of cake, I'm proud to say Rhiannon succeeded with making a whole globe, this time it's of Jupiter:
Armed with her experience on the Earth Cake (and her penchant for accuracy), Rhiannon's Jupiter Cake is a marvel of painstaking patience. The painting of the surface with ivory marshmallow fondant and ivory, maroon and brown edible inks took 8 hours.
Just look at the Great Red Spot:
And even the layers are now more properly spaced than that of the Earth Cake (the outer core on that one tended to thin out at the top):
The Jupiter Cake's rocky core is of mudcake (chocolate, I hope), surrounded by almond butter cake (to represent the next layer of liquid metallic hydrogen), surrounded by blue-tinted vanilla Madeira sponge (representing the next layer of molecular hydrogen), followed by a thin layer of vanilla buttercream before the fondant surface.
All this talk of food makes me hungry, but there's no denying cakes are a fun way to learn about the earth and other planets.
MeanwhileAt Ultimate Globes, we also have cut-away globes and other classroom globes for learning about the earth and its structure. But you can't eat them:
|Physiographic Relief Globe 12-inch
We also have other planets in the Mova Planet Collection:
|Jupiter (and maybe Uranus) to come.
Cakes are a fun way to learn about planets but you can't store them for reuse and baking them would be time-consuming. But it's good to know you can have your globe and eat it too.


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24 Winnie The Pooh Quotes -Let's face it, at some point most of us have been really interested in cartoons. This was probably during the time when we were kids, if we were lucky enough to have a TV, or at least some magazines with cartoons. Nowadays most kids in the more developed countries have access to a TV, which makes it so much easier for them to have access to cartoons. But even with all these possibilities, the interest in the classic type of cartoons has drastically decreased during the past decade.
Many of us have had the amazing opportunity to experience some of the best cartoons ever, which have impacted our childhood in a very positive way. Perhaps we even had favourite cartoon characters too, and probably a lot of you remember the adorable teddy bear called Winnie the Pooh. Some of Winnie's traits include him being social, rather naïve, but in the same time very friendly and thoughtful. There are many memorable quotes from this character which are worth reading, so we'll look into some Winnie The Pooh Quotes in the next few paragraphs
24 Winnie The Pooh Quotes
"A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise." A. A. Milne
"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." A. A. Milne
"A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference." A. A. MilneA.
Inspirational Disney Quotes And Sayings
"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake." A. A. Milne
"Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day." A. A. Milne
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing." A. A. Milne
"For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me." A. A. Milne
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." A. A. Milne
"I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten." A. A. Milne
"I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true." A. A. Milne
"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too." A. A. Milne
"Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two." A. A. Milne
"Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." A. A. Milne
"Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred." A. A. Milne
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." A. A. Milne
"Some people care too much. I think it's called love." A. A. Milne
"Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." A. A. Milne
"The hardest part is what to leave behind, … It's time to let go!" A. A. Milne
"The things that make me different are the things that make me." A. A. Milne
"They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them." A. A. Milne
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered." A. A. Milne
"We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see." A. A. Milne
"What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh." A. A. Milne
"What I like doing best is Nothing." A. A. Milne
Although this quote is short, it definitely is right on point. It's very true that those of us who tend to care too much about someone, probably love that person. There is nothing wrong with this. On the contrary, it's beautiful thing to care about someone and to love someone, and Winnie knows really well the importance of spreading love.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day -Winnie The Pooh Quotes
You probably started laughing, chuckled or at least smiled after you read this quote. This is a rather funny one, but this time we are reminded that there are no limits to what we can do. The limits are only in our mind, because that is what we were told, but in fact limits do not exist. And of course, this is an amazing way to be reminded about that, through a funny quote from a cartoon character. And let's not forget that this is coming from Winnie, which makes it even better.
Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem -Winnie The Pooh Quotes
This is yet another quote which is supposed to teach us all an important lesson, as long as we're willing to listen and learn from it. The main lesson here is that most people like to talk, but they never listen to what those around them have to say. And that is a terrible thing to do, because it's always a good idea to be open minded and listen to other opinions or just have interesting conversations on different topics.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes -Winnie The Pooh Quotes
As a last quote, I chose to discuss a little bit about this one. There are people in general, even adults, who don't understand the true meaning of this quote, so they cannot learn anything from it, sadly enough. What Winnie wants to teach us is that we cannot stay in our comfort zone for the rest of our lives. Sometimes, we'll need to get out of it and go talk to some people, even if it might sound rather difficult at first. It's only a matter of having a bit of courage, and then amazing things can happen, it's so simple if we think really well about it.
This is the end of this article, and I honestly hope that these Winnie The Pooh Quotes have made you happier than you were before, and hopefully you could also learn some things from them. Sure, Winnie is a cartoon character, but that really doesn't mean that these quotes are only for children. On the contrary, many adults, and many of us in general could learn from them. Make sure to share this article with your friends and with the people around you, so that they can also smile or laugh and, why not, learn from them as well.


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Allan Asher
Allan James Asher is an Australian lawyer, consumer advocate and campaigner.
Allan Asher
Allan James Asher
16 February 1951
|Lawyer, consumer advocate, public servant and campaigner
|Joan Lennon (d. 2006), Lois Eagle
Early life, education and personal lifeEdit
Asher was born in Sydney on 16 February 1951, one of eight children.[citation needed] He grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney at Eastern Creek.[citation needed] He attended Eastern Creek Primary School and later Rooty Hill High School.[citation needed] After completing high school Asher attended Sydney Technical College (now Ultimo TAFE) to re-do his Higher School Certificate.[1]
He studied economics and accounting at the University of New South Wales, and then law at Sydney University.[citation needed]
Asher was married to Dr Joan Lennon until her death in London in 2006.[citation needed] He married Lois Eagle in Sydney in September 2010.[citation needed]
In 2012 Asher took up a post as a Visitor at the Australian National University, Canberra.[citation needed]
Early careerEdit
Asher's first job was as an audit clerk at an accounting firm.
From 1974 to 1984, Asher was a Senior Executive with the Australian Consumers Association (ACA). In 1984, Asher became the Director of Corporate Affairs with the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC).
Australian Competition and Consumer CommissionEdit
From 1988 to 2000 Asher was the Deputy Chairperson at the ACCC. This included a period at the Trade Practices Commission from 1988–2005.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is Australia's national competition and consumer regulatory agency. At the end of his term as Deputy chairman (November 2000), the Commission was engaged in around 53 civil and criminal prosecutions in the Federal Court of Australia. In addition around 30 enforceable undertakings or administrative settlements were under negotiation. Approximately half of the enforcement matters concerned competition law enforcement.
Asher was appointed as the Consumer Protection Commissioner in 1995 with special responsibility for consumer matters. This role involved extensive liaison with consumer interests both within Australia and internationally including representing Australia at the OECD, UNESCO and APEC. He was responsible for issues connected to e-commerce and global information technology matters.
While at the ACCC Asher played a significant role in the development of the OECD Guidelines for e-commerce and chaired the Policy Committee for 4 years. He represented the OECD at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)[2]
Work in the United KingdomEdit
Asher worked for Consumers International, which is a global NGO made up of 240 groups from 110 countries.[3] where he was the Global Policy and Campaigns Director from 2000 – 2001. Consumer's International is a global federation of 243 consumer organisations from 111 countries which promote a fairer society by advocacy of well-functioning market economies, and a rules-based global trading system. Asher was responsible for development advocacy and implementation of policies to promote the welfare of consumers at the global level. Consumers International defends the rights of all consumers including the poor, marginalised and disadvantaged.
Asher joined the UK Consumers' Association in 2001 where he was Director of Campaigns and Communication and a member of the senior management group until 2003. He took executive responsibility for consumer policy research, corporate and public relations, legal affairs and public affairs. Asher was the lead spokesperson for Which? and implemented a campaign to ensure consumer rights in the digital switchover.
From 2003 to 2008 Asher was a board member of the United Kingdom Office of Fair Trading. From 2001 to 2009 Asher was a Board member of British Standards (BSI), chairperson of the Consumer Policy Committee in BSI and member of the Strategic Policy Committee.
In 2003 Asher became the CEO of the consumer watchdog organisation EnergyWatch.[3] Energy Watch had 300 staff and 8 offices across the UK and was responsible for the efficient and effective planning, budgeting and implementation of Council and government agreed work plans. Key areas were systematic collection of consumer complaints in the energy sector and research on the underlying cause and systemic changes in industry practice needed to enhance consumer welfare.[4] Energy Watch played an active role in working with governments, industry and consumer groups throughout Europe on consumer protection issues in energy markets.[5] Asher conducted projects throughout Europe including the accession countries to the European Commission of Eastern Europe.[6][7]
After returning to Australia in 2009, Asher was CEO of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN).[8] ACCAN is a federation of 130 consumer groups with interests in information and communications technology.
In his time at ACCAN Asher confronted the issue of inadequate customer care and poorly developed customer complaint handling systems maintained by Australian telecommunications companies.[9]
Commonwealth OmbudsmanEdit
On 23 July 2010, the Australian Government announced Asher's appointment as Commonwealth Ombudsman from 30 August 2010.[10]
Asher established priorities in several areas. These included issues confronting immigration, in particular administrative problems and poor treatment of asylum seekers.[11]
Asher also encouraged all Commonwealth agencies to revise their written and spoken language to more closely communicate with the public. Another priority was the revision of agency complaint handling systems aimed at promoting social justice for members of the community with language or cognitive disabilities as well as those in remote areas or those suffering from poverty or alienation from the system.[12]
In his role as Ombudsman, Asher also managed development assistance programs through which funding, training and mentoring services are provided to eight Pacific Island States, Indonesia and Timor Leste.
On 20 October 2011, Asher resigned after it was revealed that he provided questions for Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young to ask him during a Senate committee hearing in May. The questions were intended to highlight inadequate funding for his office and problems with immigration detention centres.[13][14]
Refugee advocacyEdit
Asher was a participant in the television documentary series Go Back To Where You Came From which was screened on 28, 29 and 30 August 2012 on SBS.[15]
In February 2014, Asher participated in the inaugural event Who is My Neighbour, an information session about issues associated with refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, organised by St James' Church, Sydney.[16]
- ^ Ambassador interview for Sydney Institute 120 Years Anniversary, TAFE NSW Sydney Institute, 29 June 2011, retrieved 1 February 2012
- ^ Jones, Tony, ABC Lateline Program (6 November 2000) http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s209088.htm Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 30 January 2012
- ^ a b Thompson, Susan (21 May 2008). "Business big shot: Allan Asher". The Times. London, England. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ which? website (21 October 2005) http://www.which.co.uk/news/2005/10/guide-for-simple-bills-55702/ Retrieved 30 January 2012
- ^ Consumers International (CI) Congress Sydney (29 October 2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuRbgsR-aUo Interview with Allan Asher about developing a world energy charter. Retrieved 1 February 2012)
- ^ which? website (31 January 2008) http://www.which.co.uk/news/2008/01/energy-firms-criticised-over-complaints-130534/ Retrieved 30 January 2012
- ^ Wallop, Harry, The Telegraph (20 May 2008) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1997172/Energywatch-UK-energy-bills-rising-faster-than-rest-of-Europe.html Retrieved 30 January 2012
- ^ Corner, Stuart (17 April 2009) New consumer telecoms body scores Allan Asher as CEO
- ^ Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Seminar (4 November 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPP9iqp-s4s&playnext=1&list=PL5CAB2D60C50C9FCD Looking at responsive regulation, effective policy making, and engagement with consumers. Retrieved 1 February 2012
- ^ Schmidt, Lucinda, Sydney Morning Herald (18 August 2010) http://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/profile-allan-asher-20100818-12905.html Retrieved 29 January 2012
- ^ Barlow, Karen ABC Lateline (2 November 2011) http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3354731.htm – Growing Number of Refugees fail ASIO Assessment. Retrieved 1 February 2012
- ^ Blesing, Amanda; Society of Consumer Affairs (22 September 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDI6bFSMLQ Catching up with Allan Asher for a SOCAP Soundbyte. Retrieved 1 February 2012
- ^ SBS News – Ombudsman quits over script. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYPasB2vSho Retrieved 1 February 2012
- ^ Asher, Allan (2 November 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P9Er2S1EQs – Asher's response to Minister Gray's statement in the Australian Parliament regarding the recent resignation of the Commonwealth Ombudsman. Retrieved 1 February 2012
- ^ Official SBS Website http://www.sbs.com.au/goback/ Retrieved 13 August 2012
- ^ Dillon, Sarah (February–March 2014). "Understanding our Neighbours". St James' Parish Connections. St James' Church, Sydney: 1–2, 11.
|Government offices
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John McMillan
| Commonwealth Ombudsman
|Succeeded by
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A Woman's Place
Level 4 Costume students explore the Woman's Place in society in a contemporary, and often satirical, take on 1950's domestic adverts.
As part of the Exploring Interpretation unit, A Woman's Place is a collaboration between first-year BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design interpretation students, final-year scenographers and supervisors, and AUB Photography staff. The students made costumes for each other interpreted from designs based on early to mid-1950's dress, with a nod towards Horrockses, who famously utilised bold floral and stripe prints in their popular cotton dresses.
Advertising in the 1950s is iconic because of the highly cultured objects of the era portrayed in them, but also because of the often highly-gendered, stereotypical and sometimes sexist depiction of women in traditionally female roles. Women were frequently placed in domestic situations, dressed in glamorous costume with full hair and make-up. Some of the most well-known adverts feature a woman elated to receive a Hoover for Christmas, or kneeling down to her husband as she gives him a Van Heusen tie.
The final unit resolution for the project was a professional photoshoot, replicating adverts of the period. Scenography students staged period sets where costume students posed, imitating the original adverts. The spin was the contemporary slogans, which play on and satirise the 1950's ideal of a woman's place in society in the home.
Costume designer: Sarah Magill, Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design.
Costume Illustrator: Nicole Cuddihy, Level 6 BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design.
Scenographers: Lottie Kerry and Nicole Cuddihy, Level 6 BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design.
Supervisors: Alexandra Cooper, Rowena Mackintosh, Level 6 BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design.
Photography credits: Lucy Veale, Jarrod Thompson, Photography Technician Demonstrators and Stefano Naddeo, BA (Hons) Commercial Photography.
Ad copy: Tony Puerschel and Taran Knight, BA (Hons) Creative Writing.
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If you follow the blog, you know that my main source of exercise is Crossfit. So I stroll into Crossfit Carmel for the hopper workout this morning and I'm the first there. That means, I get to pick one random workout from a deck of cards. No matter what I pick, we do it. No pressure there. I pick the mother of all workouts. The granddaddy of them all. The creme de le creme; the mack daddy; the marathon mind bender of all Crossfit workouts............
MURPH! If you are not familiar with Crossfit, hero workouts are named for fallen soldiers who have served our country. Very fitting for the Memorial Day weekend.
This workout is the following:
1 mile run
100 pull ups
200 push ups
300 air squats
1 mile run
If you just keeled over and passed out, you are not alone. Now.....I've been at this Crossfit stuff coming up on one year this summer. I've radically changed the way I approach my fitness and my dietary habits. I've made the best gains I've ever made with any combination of exercise and eating ever. That being said, MURPH, just the idea of MURPH, put this image in my head....
I've not quit much in my life, but I must share with you the following: I have literally been S.C.A.R.E.D. of this workout for months. I used to tell myself that if it were ever posted ahead of time, I wouldn't go, and if it were pulled from the hopper deck, I'd find a way to leave the gym. It gave me anxiety mainly b/c of the pull ups let alone the high volume of other stuff. In plain words, it's a crazy workout. That was almost a year ago.
But today, on this Memorial Day Weekend, this WOD (Workout of the Day) just seemed fitting.
My goal alongside guys and gals half my size, some training for a full Ironman?
And be proud.
My strategy?
Pace myself
Piece things together in smaller reps
Visualize how good it will feel to just......finish.
I've learned a lot over the past year about my health, fitness, and my ego. It's not about what the person next to me is doing. It's not about what that guy over there looks like. It's my body. My life. My health. It's about me. And so........
69 minutes and 49 seconds later, over half an hour AFTER the first two guys finished, 13 minutes after the second to last person finished, I was the last one done, but.....I did it.
And I was proud.
Sometimes, last can feel like first.
Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
Happy Memorial Day Weekend!


text: SCULPTRA® is comprised of a powdered form of poly – L – lactic acid, the material that our absorbable sutures and bone plates are made out of. The substance itself has been around for decades, and it has a proven track record, but only recently has it been used as a filler. It was first used to restore volume to the faces of HIV patients who experienced severe wasting of their tissues because of their disease, and it worked so well that it was approved for general cosmetic use. Like RADIESSE®, SCULPTRA® is a "biostimulatory filler" meaning that it works by stimulating the body to create its own collagen to produce volume and thickening in the tissues. Unlike RADIESSE®, SCULPTRA® will not create as much mass fill, rather it produces a very nice, natural thickening of the tissues, and it has its best use in places with broader surface area, such as the temples, cheeks, and forehead. It will last well over a year, and in some people it has lasted over two years, thereby allowing us to call it "semi-permanent."


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An amateur video of a northern Nigerian film actress in a sex scene has caused a public outcry in the Muslim north, prompting a movie industry body to expel actors deemed "immoral", a local newspaper reported on Monday.
Leadership newspaper said the eight-minute video clip, recorded for private use on a mobile phone by the actress's boyfriend and showing the two of them naked, had circulated widely among mobile phone users across the north.
"This was the first time such exposure involving Hausa-Fulani persons was witnessed in the country," Leadership said, referring to the dominant ethnic groups in the generally conservative north.
Muslim clerics have condemned the clip and radio programs have been full of complaints about immorality in the film industry. The actress, who was not named by the paper, has gone into hiding, Leadership said.
Nigeria's hugely successful home video industry, known as Nollywood, is mostly based in the south of the country which is predominantly Christian and considered less conservative.
In the past few years a Hausa-language home video industry has sprung up in the north and has also become very popular.
Leadership said the Kano state Filmmakers' Association had reacted to the scandal over the sex video by expelling 17 actors deemed to have brought the industry into ill repute.
The 17 were not connected to the video clip but were "thought to be involved in immoral acts such as drunkenness and fornication", the newspaper reported.
Kano is among 12 northern states that started enforcing Islamic Sharia law in 2000, increasing tensions between the Muslim majority and sizeable Christian minorities all over the north. Thousands died in several bouts of sectarian violence.


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Enterprise/Mid Market Technical Services Manager
In this role you will provide direct operational leadership and oversight of the Enterprise and Mid-Market segments of the Implementation, Configuration and Services Delivery functions. This person will work with Restaurant Success, Customer Success, Sales and other company leaders to provide an exceptional customer experience across the Toast product suite from the close of the Sales Cycle to the handoff to Account Management. This person's teams will be tasked with providing strategic and consultative professional services delivery expertise to a portfolio of customers, while driving revenue growth, operational efficiency and quality initiatives to improve the customer experience and employee health.
The Manager of E/MM Technical Services will be responsible for driving the team's delivery and technical services success across the Toast product suite through exceptional people and operational leadership, and focus on customer empathy and success. The team is made up of Enterprise Implementation Consultants, Configuration Specialists and Enterprise Training Consultants. In addition to ensuring successful delivery of technical services, s/he will be responsible for developing, getting buy-in and rolling out new professional services across the portfolio (e.g. Menu Management, Premium Technical Support, Corporate Training). The ideal candidate will be a proven exceptional people manager adept at navigating a complex cross-functional landscape, demonstrate prior experience stabilizing and growing an Enterprise-level Technical Services Team at scale, possess a keen ability to empathize with and garner quick trust from customers, be a strong internal and external advocate for those customers and have a proven track record of leading customer-facing teams through rapid change and transition. In addition, developing, socializing, and gaining alignment on strategic approaches to solve and plan for customer success is paramount. S/he will have experience negotiating with and navigating third party vendor relationships, quality and performance. S/he is a hungry learner who gravitates towards issue ownership, accountability, creative revenue growth and leadership. Toast is a rapidly-evolving and growing technology company that demands high performance and quick thinking and action from its managers. This is a hands-on position that requires both strategic and tactical approaches and capabilities.
What you will do:
- Drive E/MM Technical service teams' productivity, including facilitating weekly meetings to review the queue and offering assistance where needed
- Lead consistent 1:1's with team, foster open communication, offer feedback and coach on challenges the team communicates
- Act as the escalation point for Technical Services
- Take an active role in training new team members during Orientation on best practices
- Motivate team members, recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments
- Picking up / managing reassignment during overflow or PTO / sick coverage
- Communicate and collaborate with Customer Success and Sales Managers on developing new services, developing playbooks, executing on-time with high quality and providing a culture of continual process improvement
- Work with Services, Support and Restaurant Success leaders to set clear and realistic team goals
- Monitor team performance and report on metrics
- Discover training needs and provide coaching and mentoring in day-to-day operations
- Manage relationships with third party vendors providing services on behalf of the Technical Support Team
- Follow Toast practices to manage and scale a team of 8 resources.
Do you have the right ingredients?
- 4+ years Management in a Technical Services environment with teams of varied responsibilities, preferably in a high growth technology company
- Experience driving efficiency through standardized process and metrics
- Strong communication skills
- Excellent follow up and problem solving skills
- Proficient computer skills
- Ability to multitask and thrive in a fast-past environment
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills required
- Ability to stay results-oriented and deliver an outstanding customer experience
- Experience with third party vendors in a professional services environment
- Experience in the Restaurant and/or Hospitality space is preferred
- Prior experience using Salesforce and/or other Professional Services and dispatching tools
- Prior experience implementing, training and configuring Toast is a strong plus
10-20% travel, primarily local during the business day, although some projects may require more out-of-the-area and overnight travel.


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Privacy Policy
What this is about
As an online/retail customer or newsletter sign-up, to ensure the personal data you provide whenever you make a transaction with us at Palmers Department Store Ltd is always used fairly and lawfully, this Privacy Policy is intended to detail precisely;
- Who we are
- Why we need your personal information
- How it is collected
- How it is and may be, used
- With whom it may be shared
- The rights you have to control the information we collect
In the process, we will endeavour to make the notice as clear and understandable as possible.
However, if you have any questions you can always contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or by writing to Online Customer Services, Palmers Department Store, 37-39 Market Place, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 1LU
And please note you are ultimately in control of your data If there is ever anything you wish to be deleted, amended, or changed you can do this using the details provided above. Further information about your specific rights are provided later in this document.
Who we are
Palmers Department Store is the trading name of Palmers (GT.Yarmouth) Limited. Our company is registered at 37/39 Market Place, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 1LU, United Kingdom under the company registration number 00349026. When referring to Palmers, Palmers Department Store (or to 'we', 'us', or 'our) we mean Palmers (GT. Yarmouth) Limited.
Why we need your personal information in the first place
This may seem obvious but we do need your personal details, e.g. name and address in order to fulfil any online purchases you may make and to talk to you about your order.
Plus, you may provide us with your communication preferences, post, email, phone, mobile, so we can keep you up to date with offers and promotions which could be of interest to you. This could be by registering for our newsletter or by entering a competition.
In certain cases, it is necessary to perform standard identity checks with a Credit Reference/Fraud Protection Agency to ensure your card is being used legitimately, or to confirm your age when purchasing an age restricted item.
We also collect information from you in order to improve the products and services that we provide and to offer protection to our customers and our business. We want to make sure that you receive the best possible customer experience at Palmers. More detailed information about how we use your data is provided below.
How it is collected:
Online sales
In the first instance, when making an online purchase all the personal data needed to complete the transaction is collected. This includes your full name and personal address, a delivery address if this is different, and the necessary information required to make payment of the purchase. Your payment is processed by a third party and we may pass your information to our suppliers in order to fulfil your order.
In addition, of course, we collect full details of the actual purchase itself.
You can choose to create an account after making your payment, this means you will not need to enter all of your personal details if you shop with us online again. We will store your personal data for this purpose including your delivery details and payment card details (which are stored by a third-party payment processing company). We will ask you to set up a password when you create your account to control access, it is entirely up to you up to you if you would like to set up an account.
You can also choose if you would like to receive emails from us about products, promotions and events. It's entirely up to you if you would like to take advantage of this service.
We also use different types of cookies on our website; session cookies, persistent cookies and traffic log cookies.
Session cookies, which are only temporary and erased when you leave the site, enable the website to remember important details such as whether you have logged in.
Persistent cookies are stored on your device until you erase them or they expire. They are used in certain areas of the site such as retaining the content of your basket between visits, or if you follow a link from one of our partner sites. They allow us to tailor any offer more specifically to you as a customer.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This includes cookies from Google to track how you use our site, which enables us to improve the site for our customers in the future. It helps us understand how easily you find what you are looking for. This information is passed to Google Analytics and bundled together, or aggregated, with data from our other users and presented back to us as statistics. Google also uses this information to improve their services. The data does not store your name, address or payment details.
Other times your data may be collected
- If you choose to provide your email address on our website so that you can receive news and information about us.
- When you engage with us on social media.
- When you contact us with a query or complaint.
- When you enter a prize draw or competition.
- When you choose to complete a survey or questionnaire that we send you.
- When you fill in any forms in one of our stores or online, including signing up for our newsletter.
- From CCTV systems operating in our stores and carparks.
- We may also collect data from publicly-available sources or from third parties where there is a legal basis for the sharing of this information.
How it is and may be, used
Initially, the data collected is used to complete the process when you purchase as an online customer.
It is then subsequently used to provide the appropriate levels of service you may reasonably expect as an existing customer.
Your privacy is protected by law, which says that we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason to do so. The reasons why we may process your personal information are:
- To fulfil a contract we have with you;
- When it is our legal duty;
- When it is in our legitimate interest; or
- When you consent to it.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, but this must not unfairly go against your rights or freedoms.
Below is a list of the ways that we may use your personal information, and which of the reasons listed above we rely on to do so. This is also where we tell you what our legitimate interests are.
As an online website customer
- To administer your payments for purchases made, this processing is required to fulfil the contract.
- To assist in fraud prevention and illegal activities. This processing might include monitoring transactions, website logins or browsing activities to protect our website, this processing is undertaken on the basis of legitimate business interest and to protect our customers.
- To process your order and fulfil our contractual obligations, if required we may send your delivery details to 3rd party suppliers.
- To assist in responding to queries about your purchase, which might include refunds. We may also keep a record of our responses. This processing is undertaken so that we can fulfil our contractual and legal obligations and our legitimate interest in providing excellent customer service.
- As an online account holder, we will store your name and address details so that you can order from us in the future without providing your details again. You can amend these details at any time. This processing is undertaken only when you consent to us creating an account for you after you make a purchase.
As an online customer or newsletter sign up
- To conduct analysis and research activities to improve and develop the products and services we can provide for you and to help inform business decisions. This processing is undertaken on the basis of legitimate business interest.
- To develop and carry out personalised postal marketing activities which might include information about products, events or promotions. We will undertake this processing on the basis of legitimate interest. We will not contact you by post when you have indicated that you do not want to receive this information.
- To telephone you about products, events and promotions using a mobile or landline number that you have provided to us. We will not contact any number that is TPS registered or when you have indicated that you do not want us to contact you via telephone. We will undertake this processing on the basis of legitimate interest.
- With your consent, we will use the personal data provided to us to keep you informed about promotions, events, products and services by email or SMS.
- Some of the communications that we send you may include specially tailored offers, we will use your transaction history and other information you have provided to tailor these communications, we might also combine information from third parties to whom you have given consent. We will process this data on the basis of legitimate business interest and in order to enhance your customer experience.
You can change your marketing contact permissions at any time, please see further details about how to do this below. We will also provide information about how to opt out of future communications on every marketing communication that we send to you.
Please be aware that if you opt out of communications it is possible that they will continue for a short period whilst this change is processed.
- To monitor and keep records of our communications with you so that we can respond to your requests for information, so that we can fulfil legal obligations and so that we can use this information in the tailoring of future offers on the basis of legitimate interest.
- To analyse your reaction to our marketing/advertising activity, so that we can improve how we communicate with customers and understand the success of promotions. This processing is undertaken on the basis of legitimate interest.
- To create anonymized customer profiles for marketing and buying purposes. For example, we may combine data collected from across our business along with third-party data and publicly available lists. This processing is undertaken on the basis of our legitimate business interest.
- To administer prize draws or competition entries where you have consented to this processing at the point of entry.
- To send surveys or feedback requests, these messages will not include direct marketing or promotional materials and will be undertaken on the basis of legitimate business interest.
- To develop, test and improve systems, services and products that we offer to you, on the basis of legitimate interest.
- We may use information collected by cookies to tailor messages on our website to you, we'll use information about your favourite products and brands where you have consented to the use of cookies by our website.
- To comply with our legal obligations and when required to share information with law enforcement.
As a customer or visitor to one of our stores
- To protect our customers, premises and assets we operate CCTV systems in our stores and car parks which record images for security, where we detect unlawful behaviour we may share images with law enforcement agencies, we may also share information from fraud prevention activities. We process this data on the basis of legitimate interest in protecting our business and our customers.
With whom may your data be shared
In the usual course of our business, we may use other third-party organisations known as 'data processors' under data protection law to support the essential delivery of our services. These organisations process your personal information on our behalf.
These types of organisations are:
- Mailing, email, SMS messaging, and/or print fulfilment organisations (to enable us to communicate with you efficiently).
- Providers of payment processing services (to enable us to process sales). These are;
- Sage Pay Europe Limited (The Sage Group)
- PayPal Europe (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
- Providers of delivery services (to enable you to receive the products). These are;
- Royal Mail (Royal Mail Group Ltd)
- DPD Local (DPDgroup)
- Hermes UK (Hermes Group)
- Providers of loyalty scheme management services.
- Customer service response managers.
- Providers of records management services such as secure disposal suppliers, and IT storage providers (to enable us to secure data efficiently).
- Providers of IT systems or services (to enable us to run Palmers efficiently).
- Market researchers (to help us to improve the services we offer).
- Providers of information management services (to help us learn about our customers).
When we share your information with our approved third-party providers, our contractual relationship with them prevents them from using your information for any other purpose outside of our instructions to them. They may use their own third-party data processors but are always required to meet the same legal requirements as Palmers does.
Palmers never share or sell your information to external companies for their own marketing purposes.
We will share your information with authorities where we are legally obliged to do so.
Third-Party Tracking Code
In this section, you will find information on what cookies may be set when you visit the Palmers website and how to reject or delete those cookies.
During your visit to our website, you may notice some cookies that are not related to Palmers. When you visit a page with embedded videos from YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Palmers does not control the dissemination of these cookies so you should check the third party websites for more information about these.
Google Analytics
The Palmers website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of the website and compile reports for us on activity on the Palmers website.
Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using the Palmers website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
To reject, delete or find out more about this cookie visit developer.google.com
The Palmers website uses Hotjar, a web analytics service used to gain insight as to how visitors experience our website. All data Hotjar collects is stored electronically in Ireland, Europe on the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, EU-West-1 datacenter. The database containing visitor and usage data is only accessible from the application servers and no outside sources are allowed to connect to the database. Their data retentions times never exceed 365 days.
By using the Palmers website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Hotjar in the manner and for the purposes set out above. To find out more about this cookie visit hotjar.com.
The Palmers website uses Trustpilot, an online review service we use to gather feedback and interact with customers.
By using the Palmers website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Trustpilot in the manner and for the purposes set out in their Privacy Policy, available here.
Security for your personal data
Palmers recognises the importance of protecting your personal information and we take care to meet our legal duties. We put in place all reasonable technical, security and procedural controls required to protect your personal information for the whole of its life, in whatever format we hold that information in.
Data protection law holds all countries in the European Economic Area ('EEA') to the same high standards. If we transfer information outside of the EEA, we will make sure that it is protected to these standards. We will only send your personal information to countries outside of the EEA if:
- Transfer is to a non-EEA country with privacy laws that give the same protection as the EEA or
- A contract with the recipient exists that means they must protect it to the same standards as within the EEA
How To Reject Cookies
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How long will we keep your personal data?
We will keep your personal information for as long as you are a customer of Palmer's or a recipient of our newsletter.
After you stop being a customer or recipient:
We may keep your personal information for up to 8 years for one of these reasons:
1. To respond to questions or complaints;
2. To show that we treated you fairly; or
3. To maintain records according to legal requirements.
The rights you have to control the information we collect
You have very specific rights which you are always entitled to exercise.
You can;
- Request a copy of all the information we hold including where and when it was collected
- Question the accuracy of any information you think may be incorrect
- Update any details you think may be out of date or incomplete
- Change your communication contact preferences or consent for contact
- Object to the use of your personal information and request it is stopped
- Ask us to delete or remove any or all of the information held that we do not need to retain for legal reasons
- Request a copy of the information we hold in a portable format, that can be easily reused
To request any of these actions contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or write to Online Customer Services, Palmers Department Store, 37-39 Market Place, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 1LU.
Your right to complain
If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy or about how we use personal data or if you wish to raise a complaint about how we have handled your personal data you can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or write to Online Customer Services, Palmers Department Store, 37-39 Market Place, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 1LU.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe that we are not processing your personal information in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):
1. By telephoning 0303 123 1113
2. or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
Additional contact methods are detailed on their website: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We regularly review our Privacy Policy. We will publish any updates on our website and we will inform members and customers of any changes within our regular communications. You can request a copy of our Privacy Policy by using the details above.


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From left: Stephen Poorten, Sarah Hein, and Kate Majerus wear makeup on their faces to give the impression of severe wounds during an Operation Prom event on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at Sycamore High School in Sycamore. The event showcased a mock drunk driving scene to teach students the dangers of driving under the influence.
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- Thursday 9th March 2017
- Supported by: Franklin + Auto Pilot
"In its short-lived spell Dance To The Radio managed to stamp out its own identity, leaving muddy footprints on the landscape of British music.
The Leeds-based label unearthed countless gems, with the team focussing on discovering and nurturing new talent.
Hosting the Dance To The Radio stage at Leeds festival, the imprint has ensured that even in fallow times its name is still out there, still attached to fresh music.
Well, they're back. Dance To The Radio will re-launch this Autumn, with a new single from old friends (and early signings) The Pigeon Detectives.
Working with Richard Formby, new single 'Lose Control' is one for the fans - crisp, biting songwriting, it's set to go down a storm in the band's live shows. Matt Bowman says:
"We wanted to work with someone that would challenge us in the studio and put us out of our comfort zone, not let us take any easy ways out with songs. Richard did this and made us change our approach completely from previous records. We ended up ditching a lot of tunes that had a sound that could have been on the first albums as a result.""
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Pac-12 Networks and Pac-12 Digital announce 2013 football signing day coverage plans
By Pac-12 Enterprises PR staff
Mike Yam, Rick Neuheisel and Yogi Roth Anchor 'Pac-12 Football Signing Day Special' on Pac-12 Networks Wednesday, February 6 at 5:00 PM PT
Signing Day Television Special Features Interviews with Pac-12 Football Coaches on Their Newest Commits
Pac-12.com Offers Special Signing Day 2013 Channel with Live Coverage and Up-to-the-Minute Content Starting at 6:00 AM PT
San Francisco, Calif. - February 1, 2013 - Only four weeks removed from the BCS Championship Game, college football programs across the country have been busy shaping their rosters for 2013 and beyond and Pac-12 Networks and Pac-12.com are the premiere destinations for the latest news surrounding Signing Day 2013 for Pac-12 Conference football programs.
Wednesday, February 6 at 5:00 PM PT, host Mike Yam will be joined by analysts Rick Neuheisel and Yogi Roth for the two-hour Pac-12 Football Signing Day Special. The trio will bring viewers full circle with all the latest signing and team class lists that were secured during the day. Additionally, the show will feature interviews with Pac-12 head coaches sharing their thoughts on their 2013 recruiting classes, as well as analysis surrounding what Pac-12 teams came out as the big winners in shaping their program for the future.
"Our conference football teams are excited to welcome in the newest class of talented student-athletes that will help build their programs for the next four years and we're going to bring that excitement to fans and viewers with our extensive signing day coverage on both Pac-12 Networks and Pac-12.com," said Lydia Murphy-Stephans, Pac-12 Networks Executive Vice President & General Manager. "Wednesday's programming is just a taste of what's to come with our robust spring football coverage plans. The Pac-12 Networks will bring fans live coverage of all 12 spring games, as well as interviews and updates from current and former Pac-12 stars."
Pac-12 Networks' Football Signing Day Special to include:
- Interviews with Pac-12 head coaches via Campus Cam technology on their signees
- Breakdown of which of the nation's top recruits committed to Pac-12 schools
- Neuheisel and Roth tell viewers how each team's recruiting class helped fill their needs
- A look at which signees will make an immediate impact on the field in 2013
Prior to the Football Signing Day Special on Pac-12 Networks, fans can follow their favorite teams' commitments on Pac-12.com starting at 6:00 AM PT Wednesday with senior correspondent Bryan Fischer providing text and video commentary as the letters come in. All the content online including live blog posts, video analysis and aggregated tweets will live within a dedicated signing day channel on Pac-12 Post.
Pac-12.com's Signing Day coverage to include:
- Fischer takes a look back at some of the best Pac-12 recruiting classes
- Links to live streams of head coach press conferences from various Pac-12 teams
- Aggregated tweets from Pac-12 football alumni, media and personalities on signing day
- Special signing day edition of Pac-12.com podcast with Yam, Neuheisel, Roth and Fischer recapping all the day's action and surprises
Wednesday's signing day coverage is a prelude to Pac-12 Networks and Pac-12.com's comprehensive spring football programming slate will include live telecasts of every Pac-12 spring football game, along with coach and player interviews.
About Pac-12 Enterprises
Headquartered in San Francisco's SOMA district, Pac-12 Enterprises is the new content and multiplatform media company for the Pac-12 Conference, a leader in collegiate athletics that includes 12 of the most prestigious universities in the world. Pac-12 Enterprises was created in 2011 to develop and launch the Pac-12 Networks and Pac-12 Digital and to control the distribution of the Pac-12 intellectual property rights in sports and other Conference initiatives.
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