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For any number of reasons, I've always felt a special connection to United States National Cemeteries. Usually referred to as "Military Cemeteries," these green spaces are the final resting places of millions of American veterans and their spouses. This is a brief photo tour of the one located in New Albany, Indiana.
|Aerial view, "courtesy" of Bing maps.
|These signs always get me. The irony is painful.
|Plaque from the New Albany Historical Society. They say it best.
|The cemetery's rostrum, an outdoor speaking platform for commemorations. All of the National Cemeteries that I have been to have one of these. The one in New Albany is better than most, honestly. Note the row of headstones in front of it....
|This is one of the stones located in front of the Rostrum, that of Col. Paul Johns, missing in action in Laos.
Paul Frederick Johns went missing in 1968 over Laos when his A-1H Skyraider plane was shot down. While the US is very dedicated to recovering the remains of the fallen, sometimes these efforts fail. Over 83,000 servicemembers are still missing from the "modern" US wars, World War Two to the present. JPAC, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is tasked with carrying our searches for those still unaccounted for, and their efforts have brought closure for hundreds of families.
|Mass grave of an aircrew shot down in World War Two.
|The grave of Edmond Webb, of the "United States Colored Troops," a segregated branch of the Union Army. The marble has worn away heavily over the years. The VA makes an effort to replaces heavily eroded stones, as seen below.
|The replacement stone of Andrew McNary, still noting his position in the segregated army of the time.
|Two civil war graves, showing the home state of each man.
Units were largely composed of men from a single state or area, and a truly devastating battle could have the unintended effect of killing most of the young men of a city or county. Perhaps the clearest example of this was the "University Grays," 135 men who enlisted from the University of Mississippi who enlisted together at the start of the war, nearly the entire school. During Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, the unit suffered almost 100% casualties, destroying a generation men in the process.
|One of two large coastal guns, placed upright in the cemetery. They appeared to be plugged with cannonballs.
|Cannon plaque, with (dated) information about the cemetery.
|The current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are represented in the cemetery as well. Spc. Wilcox was one of three men from the Minnesota National Guard killed when their outpost was hit by a rocket attack. He was 27 years old.
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text: Our first reading reminds us that it is God who gets all the credit, and he who deserves all the credit. God is responsible for all the good we have, all the good we do. St. Philip Neri: "Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if He wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength."

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Quatermass (TV serial)
|Science fiction
|Written by
|Nigel Kneale
|John Mills
Simon MacCorkindale
Barbara Kellerman
Brewster Mason
Margaret Tyzack
Ralph Arliss
|Theme music composer
|Nic Rowley
Marc Wilkinson
|Country of origin
|United Kingdom
|Original language(s)
|No. of episodes
|Executive producer(s)
|Verity Lambert
|Ted Childs
|Keith Palmer
|Camera setup
|Running time
|c. 50 minute episodes
|Production company(s)
|Euston Films
Thames Television
|Fremantle Media
|Original network
|Picture format
|Film PAL (576i)
|Audio format
|Original release
|24 October –
14 November 1979
|Preceded by
|Quatermass and the Pit
Quatermass (also known as The Quatermass Conclusion or Quatermass IV) is a British television science fiction serial produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network in October and November 1979. Like its three predecessors, Quatermass was written by Nigel Kneale. It is the fourth and final television serial to feature the character of Professor Bernard Quatermass. In this version, the character is played by John Mills.
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early 1970s and the hippie youth movement of the late 1960s, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the Planet People, and gathering at prehistoric sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet. The series begins with Professor Quatermass arriving in London to look for his granddaughter, Hettie Carlson, and witnessing the destruction of two spacecraft and the disappearance of a group of Planet People at a stone circle by an unknown force. He investigates this force, believing that Hettie may be in danger. As the series progresses, it becomes apparent that the Planet People are being harvested rather than transported.
Quatermass was originally conceived as a BBC production, but after the corporation lost faith in the project due to spiralling costs, work was halted. The scripts were taken by Euston Films and Kneale, then working for Independent Television, was commissioned to rewrite the scripts into two versions: a four-part television serial and The Quatermass Conclusion, a 100-minute film, intended for international theatrical release.
Professor Bernard Quatermass was created by Manx writer Nigel Kneale in 1953 for the serial The Quatermass Experiment. Its success led to two sequels, Quatermass II (1955) and Quatermass and the Pit (1958).[1] These three Quatermass serials are seen today as seminal 1950s television productions. Kneale, however, became disenchanted with the BBC and went freelance in the late 1950s, producing scripts for Hammer Films and Associated Television.[2]
The notion of bringing Professor Quatermass back for a fourth adventure dated back to at least 1965 when producer Irene Shubik asked Kneale to contribute a new Quatermass story for the first season of the science fiction anthology series, Out of the Unknown.[3] Nothing came of this but the prospect of Quatermass making a reappearance arose again when, following the success of the film version of Quatermass and the Pit in 1967, Hammer announced it was in discussions with Kneale for a new Quatermass adventure.[4] Again, this did not progress beyond the initial negotiation stage. In the meantime Kneale had been coaxed back to the BBC, writing plays such as The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968), Wine of India (1970) and The Stone Tape (1972).[2] Following completion of The Stone Tape, Kneale was commissioned on 21 November 1972 by BBC head of drama serials, Ronnie Marsh, to write a new four-part Quatermass serial.[5]
Kneale began writing the scripts, working to a delivery deadline of February 1973.[6] Much of the setting for the story was influenced by contemporary political events such as strikes, power cuts, the oil crisis and developments in the space race, especially the planned Apollo-Soyuz missions and Skylab.[7] Writing in the listings magazine TV Times to promote the serial, Kneale said, "Quatermass is a story of the future – but perhaps only a few years from now. There are some clues already in the most obvious places: the streets. Pavements littered with rubbish. Walls painted with angry graffiti. Belfast black with smoke and rage. Worst of all, the mindless violence".[8] Concerns about the state of society, especially the "dropout" culture of the youth movement, had been a theme of Kneale's writing for some time. This was seen in such works as The Big, Big Giggle, an unmade play about a teenage suicide cult; The Year of the Sex Olympics, about the consequences of a world with no censorship or inhibitions; and Bam! Pow! Zap! (1969), about teenage delinquents, all of which fed into the world depicted in the new Quatermass serial.[9][10] Kneale said, "I looked at the alarming aspects of contemporary trends. Since then, we'd seen 'flower power' and hippies, so all I did was bring them into the story. It was written in 1972 and it was about the sixties really".[4] Another theme that had crept into Kneale's writing at this time—as seen in Wine of India, about compulsory euthanasia for the elderly, and later the Beasts episode "During Barty's Party", about an elderly couple terrorised by rats—was the consequences of growing old.[9] Kneale later recalled, "The theme I was trying to get to was the old redressing the balance with the young, saving the young, which I thought a nice, paradoxical, ironic idea after the youth-oriented 60s".[11]
Assigned to produce the serial was Dixon of Dock Green producer Joe Waters.[12][13] Preliminary filming on Quatermass began in June 1973 at Ealing Studios where special effects designer Jack Wilkie and his assistant, Ian Scoones shot model footage for part one of the serial, of a space station with astronauts working on its hull.[14] At this point the BBC got cold feet about the project; it had become concerned about the cost of mounting the production and had been refused permission to film at Stonehenge, one of the locations at which Kneale had envisaged the Planet People would gather to be reaped by the alien force.[13] Kneale recalled that Stonehenge "had become Big Business and the place was like a factory with tourists there from dawn to dusk... they weren't going to let anyone go near it".[4] Kneale also felt that the BBC was unhappy with the script believing it "didn't suit their image at that time; it was too gloomy".[15] In the end, it was decided during summer 1973 that for financial reasons the BBC would not proceed with the production.[15] However the BBC still had an option on the script until 1975, and retained this until it expired.[13]
At this stage Kneale was working primarily at ITV, having written the play Murrain (screened in the anthology series Against The Crowd, 1975) and the anthology series Beasts (1976) for ATV.[2] In May 1977, Euston Films—a subsidiary of Thames Television best known for The Sweeney (1975–1978)—announced that it had picked up Kneale's unmade Quatermass scripts.[13] This new production, known either as Quatermass or Quatermass IV, would consist of a four-part serial to be broadcast by ITV which would be recut as a 100-minute film, titled The Quatermass Conclusion, for release in North America and Europe.[13][16] Kneale was dubious about having to craft both a television serial version and a film version of his tale, feeling that "in the end we had two versions, neither of which was the right length for the story".[17] During the rewrites, Kneale transplanted the action at the conclusion of part three from Stonehenge to the more easily available Wembley Stadium.[14] When asked about what differences there were between the Euston Films version and the version originally envisaged for the BBC, Kneale remarked that "the BBC version would have been much more in the studio, whereas the Euston Films version was entirely shot on 35mm film with a great deal of it outside. Much more lavish than either the BBC or I had contemplated".[18]
Filming took place between 26 August 1978 and 23 December 1978[3] at locations around Middlesex and Hertfordshire as well as London, including Wembley Stadium.[19] The budget was £1.25 million (£7.04 million in 2020), making it one of the most expensive undertakings Euston had attempted at that time.[4] Production designer Arnold Chapkis constructed several large and elaborate sets, including those for the megalithic standing stones at Ringstone Round, the Kapps' radio telescope and observatory, and the decaying urban landscape of London; Kneale quipped about the radio telescope set that "it probably would have worked if they'd just aimed it properly!".[9] Associate producer Norton Knatchbull noted that the serial "was the first 'art department' picture Euston has ever been involved in, in the sense that major sets had to be built on location".[19] This led Euston executive Johnny Goodman to joke, "Our biggest problem was finding someone who wanted the two giant telescope dishes after we finished filming. There's not much demand for such things".[8] One aspect where the budget was less than generous was with the model sequences made by Clearwater Films; Johnny Goodman remarked that the cost was less than James Bond producer Cubby Broccoli "would spend on cigars in a week".[20] Post-production was completed in mid-February 1979.[21] Unlike the original BBC Quatermass serials, which had used stock music tracks, the new serial had a specially composed soundtrack by Marc Wilkinson and Nic Rowley which made particular use of the nursery rhyme "Huffity, Puffity, Ringstone Round" devised by Kneale in his scripts.[21]
In the last quarter of the 20th century, the whole world seemed to sicken. Civilised institutions, whether old or new, fell ... as if some primal disorder was reasserting itself. And men asked themselves, "Why should this be?"— Opening narration (spoken by Gurov), Quatermass, Chapter One: Ringstone Round by Nigel Kneale.
|Directed by
|Written by
|Original air date
|U.K. viewers
|"Chapter One: Ringstone Round"
|Piers Haggard
|Nigel Kneale
|24 October 1979
|Quatermass (John Mills), now living in retirement in Scotland, travels to London in search of his granddaughter, Hettie Carlson (Rebecca Saire), who has gone missing. He is shocked by the scale of the urban collapse that has struck the city – law and order has broken down and marauding gangs terrorise the litter-strewn, decaying streets. The fall of civilization has been general across the world. Appearing as a guest on a television programme covering the "Hands in Space" project, a joint space mission between the United States and Russia, Quatermass is horrified when the two spacecraft are destroyed by some unknown force. Astronomer Joe Kapp (Simon MacCorkindale), another guest on the programme, invites Quatermass to join him at his home in the country where he and two friends have constructed two radio telescopes. At the radio telescope site, Kapp's colleagues report that they detected a powerful signal at the exact time of the incident in space. Quatermass is intrigued by the behaviour of a group of hippie-like youngsters known as the Planet People, who are travelling to various neolithic sites (about 5,000 years old) from where they believe they will be transported to a better life on another planet. Quatermass suspects Hettie has joined them. Along with Kapp's wife, Claire (Barbara Kellerman), Quatermass and Kapp follow a group of Planet People to a stone circle of megaliths, Ringstone Round. As they watch, the Planet People assembled inside the circle are bathed in a bright light and disappear, leaving only a residue of white dust behind.
|"Chapter Two: Lovely Lightning"
|Piers Haggard
|Nigel Kneale
|31 October 1979
|The Planet People's leader, Kickalong (Ralph Arliss), believes that the Planet People gathered at Ringstone Round have been transported—as promised—to "the planet", but it is clear to Quatermass and Kapp that they have been reduced to ashes. One badly burnt survivor – a girl called Isabel (Annabelle Lanyon) who deliriously talks about "lovely lightning" – is found and is brought back to the Kapps' cottage. Making contact with NASA scientist Chuck Marshall (Tony Sibbald), they learn that thousands of young people have disappeared in similar incidents at similar sites all around the world. Quatermass, aided by District Commissioner Annie Morgan (Margaret Tyzack), decides to bring Isabel to London for tests. As they make their journey, Quatermass speculates as to whether there is any connection between recent events and the decline in society. Reaching London, they are attacked by a gang. Quatermass is yanked from the car but Annie and Isabel manage to escape. Meanwhile, a large number of Planet People arrive at the radio telescope, congregating at the stone circle on its grounds. Working some distance away, Kapp is horrified to see the light strike the area where his home is and rushing home, he finds his family gone as it was caught in the radius of the deadly light. His two friends and dog died too.
|"Chapter Three: What Lies Beneath"
|Piers Haggard
|Nigel Kneale
|7 November 1979
|Quatermass is rescued by a group of elderly people living in a scrap yard who doctor his injuries. At the hospital, the doctors are shocked when Isabel levitates off her bed and explodes in a cloud of dust. Elsewhere, the devastated Kapp is left alone in the ruins of his cottage and observatory. More and more young people are joining the Planet People, including the gangs that have been terrorising the cities and the soldiers assigned to keep them away from the Megalithic sites. Contact is restored with Chuck Marshall and with the Russians in the form of Gurov (Brewster Mason). Quatermass theorises that this is not the first time this has happened; megalithic sites such as prehistoric stone circles are in fact markers where beacons have been left by the people living then as a sign that something terrible happened there, and that there are some kind of alien markers buried underground at these sites. Quatermass believes there is a sphere of energy surrounding the Earth. The Russians and the Americans send a space shuttle, commanded by Marshall, to make contact with the force. Quatermass is sceptical; he believes they are dealing not with an intelligence but with a machine constructed to harvest human protein. The space shuttle reports a giant beam of light stretching from somewhere in deep space to the Earth, just missing them. A second beam just afterwards destroys them. Meanwhile, the Planet People are gathering at Wembley Stadium in the tens of thousands. Annie and Quatermass travel to the stadium but are powerless to prevent the Planet People from gathering. When they are attacked, Annie drives their car into the underground car park beneath the stadium where she crashes the vehicle and is killed. The lightning strikes the stadium and Quatermass underground, huddles against the wall to try and survive.
|"Chapter Four: An Endangered Species"
|Piers Haggard
|Nigel Kneale
|14 November 1979
|Quatermass showing signs of his recent narrow escape emerges from the car park to find the stadium empty. An estimated 70,000 people died there. So many have now been harvested that the particles of dust in the air have turned the sky green. Kapp attempts to repair his equipment in order to contact the alien presence, but the Planet People destroy his efforts. They try to persuade him to join them but he refuses, convinced now that his family are dead. Quatermass, aided by Gurov, who has travelled to London from Moscow, assembles a team of scientists to find a solution. He deliberately selects old people for the task as they are immune to the call of the alien force. Quatermass decides to set a trap. He plans to fake the presence of a gathering of a million young people at Kapp's observatory and, when the force comes, to detonate a 35 kiloton nuclear weapon. It is a focused charge where most of the force will go upwards, causing little damage in the area. Quatermass does not believe this will be sufficient to destroy the alien machine but he hopes that it will shock it enough to make it go away. Kapp volunteers to stay behind with Quatermass to help detonate the bomb. The pair set up the trap and wait in darkness. Suddenly, Kickalong appears with a group of Planet People, including Quatermass' granddaughter, Hettie. Kapp tries to warn them away but is shot and killed by Kickalong. The light appears, indicating that the alien force beam has arrived, but the shock of seeing his granddaughter among the Planet People causes Quatermass to suffer a heart attack. She has recognised him too and struggling to reach the detonator button, Quatermass is aided by Hettie and together they detonate the bomb. Later in a world that is recovering from the recent fall of civilization, Gurov tells us: "The message was taken. It has not come again. We pray it will never come again".
Principal credits[edit]
Chosen to play Quatermass (the fourth different actor to play the role in four serials on television) was the distinguished actor John Mills, who had appeared in significant roles in many high-profile British films, including The Way to the Stars (1945), Great Expectations (1946) and Ice Cold in Alex (1958), and had won an Academy Award for his role in Ryan's Daughter (1970).[22] Mills, whose only previous television credit at the time was The Zoo Gang (1974), was reluctant to take the part but was persuaded by his wife, who liked the script.[4] Following Quatermass he appeared in Gandhi (1982), Martin Chuzzlewit (1994) and Hamlet (1996), working right up to his death in 2005.[22]
Joe Kapp was played by Simon MacCorkindale, who had previously appeared in "Baby", one of the episodes of Nigel Kneale's Beasts series.[23] MacCorkindale was delighted with the part of Joe Kapp, finding it a break from the typecast romantic roles he was used to playing.[4] Following Quatermass, MacCorkindale appeared in The Riddle of the Sands (1979), and subsequently moved to the United States where, after playing a few guest roles on television, he secured a part in Jaws 3 (1983) and the lead in the short-lived series Manimal (1983). He was then a series regular in Falcon Crest (1984–86), Counterstrike (1990–93) and Poltergeist: The Legacy (1999). He then returned to the United Kingdom, where he played the character of Harry Harper in Casualty between 2002 and 2008. MacCorkindale died in 2010.[23]
Barbara Kellerman, who played Claire Kapp, had previously had a regular role in 1990 (1977–78) and would later portray the White Witch in the BBC adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (1988).[24]
Quatermass also featured many familiar faces from British television and film in supporting roles, including Margaret Tyzack, Bruce Purchase, James Ottaway, Brenda Fricker, David Yip, Kevin Stoney, Gretchen Franklin, Brian Croucher and Chris Quinten, as well as the singer (and later television presenter) Toyah Willcox.[25]
Director Piers Haggard, who was the great-grand-nephew of author H. Rider Haggard,[17] had been directing since the 1960s. Prior to Quatermass, he had directed the acclaimed Dennis Potter drama serial Pennies from Heaven (1978).[26] Commenting on the script, Haggard described it as "a tremendous re-assertion of the importance of people, ordinary people, and how necessary they are in fighting evil".[17] Following Quatermass, he directed The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) and the Disney Channel TV series Return to Treasure Island (1985).[26]
Executive producer Verity Lambert had first made her mark as producer of the first two years of Doctor Who (1963). Since then she had carved out an impressive career, first at the BBC with programmes such as Adam Adamant Lives! (1966–67) and The Newcomers (1965–69), and then at Thames Television with productions such as The Naked Civil Servant (TV film; 1975) and the series Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–92).[27] She became Chief Executive of Euston Films in 1979; Quatermass was one of the first productions she oversaw in the role, seeing it as a project to make her mark on the company.[4] She had clashed with Nigel Kneale in 1965 on the BBC arts programme Late Night Line-Up, when he attacked her for making Doctor Who too frightening for children.[28] Despite this she held Kneale in high esteem, describing him as "a fantastic writer... hugely imaginative... considering the impact his work has had, I think he's undervalued".[16] Following Quatermass she produced such shows as Danger UXB (1979), Minder (1979–85; 1988–94) and Widows (1983) for Euston before in 1985 forming her own production company, Cinema Verity, which oversaw programmes including G.B.H. (1991), Eldorado (1992–93) and Jonathan Creek (1997–2004).[27] She was awarded the OBE in 2002.[29] She died in 2007.
Producer Ted Childs had begun his career with Euston on Special Branch (1969–74) and had produced episodes of The Sweeney and its film spin-offs Sweeney! (1977) and Sweeney 2 (1978).[30] Childs saw Quatermass as a big gamble for Euston, out of step with the company's usual fare.[4] Childs later remarked that Verity Lambert "didn't want to come in and just do the same old routine – the kick bollock and scramble action adventure stuff that made the early name of the company".[31] He continues to be one of British television's top producers, responsible for such shows as Chancer (1991), Inspector Morse (1987–2000), Sharpe (1993–2006), Kavanagh QC (1995–2001) and Lewis (2006–2015).[30]
Script editor Linda Agran has since acted as producer of such series as Widows, Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989–2013) and The Vanishing Man (1996).[32]
Following Quatermass, writer Nigel Kneale developed the sitcom Kinvig (1981) for London Weekend Television. During the 1980s he was courted for scripts by admiring Hollywood directors and producers such as John Carpenter, John Landis and Joe Dante, but with limited success. Returning to television, he adapted Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black (1989) and wrote episodes of Sharpe and Kavanagh QC. He died in 2006.[2]
Broadcast and critical reception[edit]
ITV intended Quatermass to air in September 1979 as the flagship of its autumn season; advertising posters announced, "Earth's dark ancestral forces awaken to a summons from beyond the stars. The legend returns on ITV – Wednesdays at 9 pm throughout September".[33] However, industrial action began at ITV on 3 August 1979 and escalated into a full-scale blackout from 10 August 1979, leaving the channel—and Quatermass—off the air for 11 weeks.[21] Transmissions were finally restored on Wednesday, 24 October 1979, and the first episode of Quatermass was duly broadcast that night at 9 pm.[21] Episode two was promoted in the TV Times with a full-page article by Kneale introducing the new series and looking back on the original 1950s serials, as well as a lifestyle piece with Barbara Kellerman moving house, while episode four was promoted with a full-page profile of John Mills.[8] Ratings, averaging 11 million viewers over the four-week run, were below expectations; the serial failed to crack the top 20 programmes in the weeks it was broadcast.[34]
Quatermass met with a generally unenthusiastic critical response. Sean Day-Lewis wrote, "Although Piers Haggard's direction achieves much verisimilitude and the story is certainly enough to command some addiction; I did not feel exactly grabbed; the genre has moved some way since the 1950s and the Professor moves a little slowly for the 1970s".[21] The reviewer in The Daily Telegraph found Professor Quatermass "far too unheroic and unresourceful to carry much interest" while The Times found the serial to be "a so-so affair".[8] More positive was the Daily Mail who thought the serial was "not the best of Nigel Kneale but it equalled any of his earliest Quatermass stories".[8] John Brosnan, writing in Starburst magazine, found the serial to be "a bitter reaction by a member of an older generation to the younger generation whose apparently irrational behaviour makes them appear to belong to a totally different species. Naturally in the traditions of sf, these failings are exaggerated to the nth degree. Thus muggers and juvenile delinquents become armed gangs and the hippy movement with its emphasis on mysticism, becomes the Planet Church. It's very much a story of Age versus Youth and significantly it's the older people who are impervious to the malign alien influence".[35] This view is echoed by filmmaker John Carpenter who said, "Nigel was very embittered about the way of the world, as was shown, I think, in The Quatermass Conclusion".[36]
Reflecting on the serial, Nigel Kneale said, "Frankly, I was never happy with the whole idea in the first place. The central idea was too ordinary".[9] Although Kneale was pleased with the high production values, he was dissatisfied with the casting, believing that John Mills "didn't have the authority for Quatermass".[37] He was similarly unimpressed with Simon MacCorkindale, noting that "We had him in Beasts playing an idiot and he was very good at that".[19] Kneale disliked the depiction of the Planet People, as his inspiration had been angry punks rather than hippies (as evidenced by his portrayal of Kickalong as a gun-toting lunatic who commits multiple motiveless murders).[8] Producer Ted Childs thinks that "the primary problems with it were (a) it was perhaps too depressing a story for a popular television audience and (b) the punters were used to a fairly high standard of technical presentation from American television... And we just couldn't afford that".[38] Executive producer Verity Lambert's opinion is that it "didn't have the staying power of the originals, but then that's almost inevitable when you try to bring something back in a slightly different form".[37]
Other media[edit]
From the outset, Euston intended to create two versions of the story; a four-part serial for broadcast on UK television and a 100-minute film, The Quatermass Conclusion, for distribution abroad. While writing the scripts, Kneale was "careful not to pad, because I knew that was the obvious thing, but to write in material which can be removed".[4] There is one major deviation between the two versions; in the film version, the scene where Quatermass, separated from Annie Morgan while transporting Isabel to London, encounters a band of elderly people living in a scrapyard is completely absent; this meant that two versions of the hospital scene where Isabel dies were shot—one with Quatermass present (the film version) and one without (the television version).[18] There was little interest among film distributors in The Quatermass Conclusion, and it received only a limited theatrical release.[39]
The story was novelised by Nigel Kneale, his first book since his Somerset Maugham Award-winning short story collection Tomato Cain was published in 1949. The novelisation expanded on the backgrounds of many of the characters seen in the story, and added a deeper, more physical, relationship between Quatermass and Annie Morgan. It was this version of the story with which Kneale was most pleased.[18]
The Quatermass Conclusion was released on VHS videotape in 1985 while the complete four-part Quatermass serial was released in 1994.[39] Quatermass, along with The Quatermass Conclusion was released on region 2 DVD in 2003 by Clearvision in a three disc boxset; extras included a Sci-Fi Channel interview with Nigel Kneale and extensive production notes.[40] A two disc region 1 DVD of the 1970's British sci-fi cult TV classic, released by A&E Home Entertainment, under license from THAMES International, talkbackTHAMES and FremantleMedia Ltd in 2005, also contained both the television and film versions as well as a History Channel documentary about Stonehenge.[41] In July 2015, Network Distributing released the series on Blu-ray disc for the first time, and simultaneously released the series as a remastered DVD set. Both sets (Region B/Region 2 respectively) also contain The Quatermass Conclusion film, also remastered and presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio.[42]
In January 2015, BBC Radio 2 broadcast an interview with Hammer Films CEO Simon Oaks, which included news of the development of a new Quatermass series for television.
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- ^ a b John Mills on IMDb
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- ^ Quatermass (1979) on IMDb
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- ^ Murray, Into the Unknown, p. 81.
- ^ "Honours: Film and broadcasting". BBC News Online. 31 January 2001. Retrieved 8 May 2007.
- ^ a b Ted Childs on IMDb
- ^ Alvarado & Stewart, Made for Television, p. 86.
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- ^ Network On Air (Quatermass blu-ray) Archived 27 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- Alvarado, Manuel; John Stewart (1985). Made for Television. Euston Films Limited. London: British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-423-01310-8.
- Brosnan, John (1991). The Primal Screen. A History of Science Fiction Film. London: Orbit. ISBN 978-0-356-20222-8.
- Das, John (producer & director) (2003). Time Shift: The Kneale Tapes (The Quatermass Collection DVD Special Feature). London: BBC Worldwide. BBCDVD1478.
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- Garrard, Ian; Houldsworth, Richard (February 1990). "Fantasy Flashback: Quatermass". TV Zone. No. 15. pp. 24–27. ISSN 0957-3844.
- Kneale, Nigel (writer); Haggard, Piers (director); Childs, Ted (producer); Lambert, Verity (executive producer) (1979). Quatermass (Television serial). London: Euston Films.
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- Quatermass (Serial) on IMDb
- Quatermass (Film) on IMDb
- Quatermass (Film) at Rotten Tomatoes
- Quatermass at TV.com
- Quatermass at the BFI's Screenonline
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- 1970s British drama television series
- Television series by Fremantle (company)
- Television programmes produced by Thames Television
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Happy Faces for the Fourth of July
No matter where a person lives these days, there is some uncertainty, whether it's economic woes, political turmoil or violence. It makes occasions to celebrate a nation's history, its beauty and accomplishments even more important.
And let's face it, a good time generally helps to put things in perspective and chase away worries and stresses — at least for a while anyway. You can't help but smile when you're enjoying yourself. And it always feels good to wear a smile.
So, if it's a smiley face you're looking for this Fourth of July, you'll love this collection of illustrations, replete with all the red, white and blue you need to mark this historic American event.
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When my hardcore brother Guigui (Coche Bomba) gave me a demo tape of his new band Silent Bones in 2013, it knocked me out. I was a huge fan and an instant believer. Silent Bones managed a short tour and, to my dismay, broke up.
In 2014 Guigui gave me another demo tape of his new band, Malokio. Lo and behold....it's Silent Bones with a new singer, same style but new songs. After seeing them live at Varning for Montreal, I immediately signed up to release their LP.
For me, this fits nicely with bands like Burning Kitchen, Life....But How to Live It?, and Signal Lost. Straight-forward melodic punk sound, mid-tempo riff-heavy songs with adept and hook-y singing. Exactly the kind of punk music I enjoy.


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The opening lead is the CJ. You are playing a regional swiss against an elderly husband and wife pair you do not know. At trick 2 you lead small heart from the closed hand toward the QT9xx and LHO plays small. Presumably you did so because you believed that from Kxx LHO would give away the position better than ~55+% of the time. (I was dummy. No I don't like the play.) Your judgment is rewarded as RHO wins the HK and plays back a small spade.
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Andrew travels to Uganda, known as the pearl of Africa, where the people are friendly and the food is simple. He hunts for a fish that lives on land, harvests flying ants, and sinks his teeth into the meat of a sugar cane rat.
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Welcome to Over The Waves Restaurant Ltd.
Over The Waves Restaurant Ltd is a family run business. The Managing Director is Charles Miller & he is assisted by his Wife Wendy & children, Claudia, Henry & Theo.
Charles has over 18 years experience of running successful businesses. For the last 4 years Charles has been involved in the Catering trade.
We purchased our first Hog Roast machine in May 2006 & now operate 4 Hog Roast & 2 Spit Roast machines.
We currently operate 6 commercial vehicles including 2 refrigerated vehicles.
We typically cater for parties having a minimum of 30 guests. The average sized party is around 80/100 guests, although we regularly cater for 500 guest corporate event.
During 2008, we have catered for many large well known organisations including:
Thames Valley Police – Sports & Social Club at Sulhampstead (227 guests)
Mouchel plc – West Byfleet (375 guests)
Alcatel Lucent – Maidenhead (330 guests)
Harley Davidson Members Club – Maidenhead (100 guests)
Stockton House School – Fleet (250 guests)
Oxford University – Dept of Psychiatry (83 guests)
Friends of Hartley Wintney Schools (270 guests)
Farnham Conservative Club (45 guests)
Whilst we have detailed the above clients with large numbers, we catered for significantly more, smaller parties & events.
We operate 24/7, 365 days a year & are often available at short notice (4/5 days notice is usually required).
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Please read our testimonials from various clients.
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What started as shipping pallets become out door furniture!Oct 14, 2015 | Reuse Ideas
When building there are a lot of items delivered on shipping pallets, some of the pallets are in great shape, while others look like they been around the world. The great thing is when you get pallets they are made with strong wood, that can easily be reused. Below is what a typical shipping pallet looks like (we already started the demo, but you get the idea)....
We made two projects with the pallets, the first was an outdoor dining table. This was real simple. We replaced some of the wood that was broken, with wood from other pallets we didn't need. Then used 4 x 4 for the legs.
We then sanded the wood down a bit using a palm sander and 120 grit paper. The top was painted with an exterior latex paint, and the legs were stained with an exterior stain with a cedar tint. The spacing between the boards is ideal for an outdoor table because it lets the water run through.
With the other pallets we made a hanging swing.
Depending on what you are planning on making, some deconstruction of the pallets may be needed. Using a crow bar and hammer you can take some of the wood off as needed. For seating in a swing you want 2' per person to sit, this swing is about 4' wide, comfortable for 2 people. Home Depot, sells heavy duty chain that they will cut to length, each strand is rated for 400lbs.
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As we are confident that God has called us to this ministry, we are also certain that he has called others to enable us to serve. We have been blessed beyond measure by the love, prayers, and partnership of our friends and church family who have rallied around us to confirm God's calling to the mission field and support us in so many ways. We are committed to regularly pray for and communicate with our senders and hope that their involvement with our ministry will be a blessing and a joy to each of them.
All donations through the Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders or the Reformed Episcopal Church's Board of Foreign Missions are tax deductible within the United States.
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Mr. V Ravichandar is Chairman of Feedback Consulting, a leading research and consulting firm in India. He was a key member of the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) from 2000-04. Ravichandar along with three others was instrumental in making the case of the US$12 bn JN NURM program for 63 cities.
Ravichandar evangelizes the idea of Corporates and Civil Society coming together on a City Connect platform to improve the quality of life in collaboration with Government. Ravichandar has a Mechanical Engineering degree from BITS, Pilani and an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad with over 34 years industry experience.
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Check out this SciAm article on using techniques proven to manipulate your dreams.... just like Leo in Inception!
Here's an excerpt from the fascinating article exploring how we can better understand and possibly change our dream experiences:
Techniques to control, or at least influence, our dreams have been shown to work in sleep experiments. We can strategize to dream about a particular subject, Inception's characters regularly slip into.


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Individual Therapy
Life can seem more difficult at certain times. This can happen during a significant transition, in the middle of or after a crisis, or due to a challenging childhood. In individual therapy, we focus on supporting our clients in increasing their self-esteem, accessing their inner strength and resilience, and helping them to understand themselves better by exploring their thoughts and feelings. All of this is done in order to promote personal growth and self-reliance.
Couples therapy provides a safe environment for partners to get beyond surface emotions and to express deeper feelings. The goals are for the couple to communicate effectively, to learn healthy conflict resolutions skills and to re-build intimacy and trust. Premarital counseling can be extremely helpful in reinforcing positive communication skills and setting a strong foundation for the marriage. For couples in long-term relationships, ongoing issues can be more safely discussed in the presence of a compassionate therapist.
Family Therapy
Often, family conflicts arise due to a breakdown in healthy communication. This can happen due to a change in the family's structure or a transition such as a new baby, a child starting school, a child's entry into adolescence, or a child launching. We can assist families in lowering their overall stress and regaining their ability to communicate effectively with one another.
Sometimes it is more helpful to see children or adolescents individually. With younger children, we primarily use play therapy woven in with talk therapy. With adolescents we use talk therapy; at times, we will utilize art therapy to help the clients express themselves non-verbally. We offer these clients a safe and compassionate place in which to explore their thoughts and feelings.
Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
The goal of PCIT is to enhance the relationship between the parent and the child. PCIT is a short-term, evidence-based program designed for children ages two to seven. Parents and children work together in a goal-oriented, positive environment. After completing PCIT, parents report better behavior at home, at school and on the playground. We have also seen measurable decreases in parental stress and greater feelings of connection among family members. Learn more.
Group Therapy
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Circuit City Stores Inc (CC.N), which is working to turn around its business, has approved cash awards designed to retain upper-level executives over the next few years, the electronics retailer said in a federal filing on Wednesday.
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing said the company's board approved the retention awards of $1 million for executive vice presidents and $600,000 for senior vice presidents. The awards are effective as of January 1, 2008, and vest over a three-year period.
In the filing, Circuit City said the awards were intended "to ensure the stability of the company's leadership team by providing an incentive" for the officers to stay.
Executives who will receive the awards include Bruce H. Besanko, chief financial officer; George D. Clark Jr., executive vice president for multi-channel sales; and general counsel Reginald D. Hedgebeth, according to the filing.
Awards were also approved for workers at the vice president and director levels.
Chairman and Chief Executive Philip Schoonover would not be participating in the retention plan, but would be able to receive long-term incentive awards along with other executives under a 2003 stock incentive plan, the company said.
Circuit City, based in Richmond, Virginia, has cut costs and overhauled its store procedures this year in a bid to improve its business, but faces intense competition from main rival Best Buy Co (BBY.N) and other chains.
In September, Circuit City reported a wider-than-expected second-quarter loss and forecast a loss for the current year. The retailer is expected to report another quarterly loss on Friday.
Circuit City announced in early November that David L. Mathews, executive vice president for merchandising, services and marketing, planned to leave the company to become president of Orchard Brands, a holding company owned by a private equity firm.
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Stress Symptoms & Warning Signs
Because stress warning signs and symptoms can easily blend in with the lifestyle of a person without affecting them, stress can creep up on a person without any real notification. Oftentimes, an affected individual won't realize how seriously stress is impacting his or her quality of life and surrounding friends and family until it has been relieved, or until someone else points it out. Signs of stress are generally categorized as cognitive, emotional, physical or behavioral. While the degree and symptom types affect everyone differently, below are some common indicators that an individual may be under extreme stress.
Cognitive stress symptom and warning signs appear when stress impacts the mind of an affected individual. They may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Increase in forgetfulness or problems with memory
- Increase difficulty in concentration and focus
- Poor judgment and decision-making
- Having a pessimistic and negative outlook on everything
- Increase in anxiety and racing thoughts that won't go away
- Constant worrying
Emotional symptoms and warning signs appear when stress affects a person psychologically. They may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Increased mood swings
- Irritation at small things that normally do not aggravate you
- Shorter tempers and increased agitation
- Inability to relax or enjoy things you usually find pleasure in
- Constant feeling of being overwhelmed
- New sense of loneliness and isolation
- General unhappiness, even depression
Physical symptoms and warning signs are usually an indicator that stress is impacting your physiological body in a negative way. They may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Development of aches and pains
- Irregular bowel movements, such as diarrhea or constipation
- Increased nausea and/or dizziness
- Development of chest pains and increased blood pressure
- Decrease in libido, or sex drive
- Frequent colds that do not seem to go away
- Unexplained skin inflammation or rashes that can be itchy, similar to an allergic reaction
Behavioral symptoms and warning signs are usually an indicator that stress could be impacting your daily routine and the way you normally do things. They may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Change in eating habits, either eating very little or a lot
- Change in sleeping habits, either too much, too little or not at all (insomnia)
- Isolation from other human interaction
- Procrastinating or neglecting duties and responsibilities
- Need or dependency of alcohol, cigarettes or drugs to relax
- Development of nervous habits, such as excessive pacing, nail biting or scratching
Another way to look for stress warning signs is through the way an individual responds to demanding events and schedules. Overly stressed individuals tend to respond to taxing situations in three common ways:
- Angry or agitated response: This can often be accompanied by heated, overly emotional speech or physical action.
- Withdrawn or depressed response: The individual may shut down, space out and seem apathetic toward the situation.
- Paralyzed or "frozen" response: The individual will be full of tension and feel extremely agitated internally, and seems to be petrified toward the situation.
Either way, all these symptoms and warning signs can seriously lower the quality of life for an individual, and that is no way to live. It is important to seek a medical professional, or a psychologists' opinion if you are undergoing few or many of these warning signs. If left untreated, chronic stress can become a precedent for numerous deadly diseases later in life. Sometimes, the signs of stress are caused by other psychological or medical problems, and fixing these existing troubles may, in turn, help alleviate stress and increase quality of life.


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Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library
The Stetson University College of Law libraries in Gulfport and Tampa support the research efforts of students, faculty, staff, bench and bar. The Gulfport campus library is open to the public.
For a dog's eye view of what the Hand Law Library has going on, watch this short video:
The libraries are a significant part of the Stetson University College of Law. The combined collections of statutes, court reports, journals and treatises, in a variety of formats, is above the median size of academic law libraries in the United States. The facilities and collections have been enhanced by major gifts by alumni and friends.
The libraries feature extensive electronic resources, abundant study space for individuals and small groups, and both wireless and network internet access.


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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Christmas Greetings
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Birds at My Window
See more of the photos I took this morning
I've been frustrated previously at trying to take good pictures of the birds at my window feeder
because I am not a savvy photographer and had trouble focusing through the glass window
at the feeder just a three feet away from where I sit. But this morning as I sat down at my computer, I saw a dozen finches, five on the feeder and the rest in the branches of the lavender
tree. I grabbed my camera and in desperation tried some different settings. By standing
further back and using the 6x zoom to the max and then partially pushing the button to let it
focus and then just waiting for the birds to land, I was able to complete pushing the button as
soon as I saw them. It worked! Within ten minutes I had the finches, chickadees, blue jays
Cardinals, and two other species that I'm unaware of the names for. It's an hour or so later as I write this and the snowfall is heavy. I can only imagine that they already knew this was coming and were filling up for the duration.
The still photo above is one of my favorite birds beside the chickadees. The white tummy and
solid gray above reminds me of a small child wearing a hoodie!
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This ongoing series by Prague-based 3D artist Filip Hodas takes pop culture icons such as Hello Kitty, Invaders, Pac Man, etc. and applies a dystopian, post-apocalyptic look to them. Similar to the work of Simon Stalenhag, the artist uses well-known cartoon characters, video games, fast food brands and other imagery to litter the landscape of his pop culture apocalypse, providing us with sense of nostalgia and foreboding. Using a variety of software, his main goal for creating this series was to learn how to use Substance Painter and how to implement it in his texturing workflow.
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BC: This will never END !! :)
1: I thought it mattered what I said or where I said it. But then I realized that all that matters is that you make me happier than I've ever been and if you let me, I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.
2: The best thing about me is you. | Me + You = LOVE
5: I love you for all that you are, and all that I am when I am with you. I love you because you have shown me hundreds of beautiful ways what love is.
6: never let it disappear. | Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, | once given, never forgotten,
7: You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
8: Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful.
9: I love life, because it is you. | I love you because you are my life.
10: My love for you is a journey. | Starting at forever and ending at never.
11: To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
12: In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
13: Love - as if to say: wonderful that you are.
14: If "nothing" last forever would you mind be my "nothing"?
15: I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
16: The day I met you, my life changed...the way you make me feel is hard to explain. You make me smile in a special kind of way...you make me fall deeper in love everyday.
17: We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.
18: You don't know what you do to me, you don't have a clue, you don't know what it's like to be me, looking at you.
19: When you are in love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
21: If I have to choose between loving you and breathing, I would use my last breath to say I LOVE YOU.
22: In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.
23: When I realize I want to spend the rest of MY life with YOU, I want the rest of MY life to start as soon as possible.
24: A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.
25: The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in. | If I know what love is, it is because of you.


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We spend most of our lives trying to win the approval of others. We constantly try to guess. We imitate our parents, teachers, and friends. How do I have to act in order to be accepted by others? What do I have to do in order to be appreciated in the society? We pretend, we mock, we are rude and we feel scared. The last thing we dare to do is to be ourselves. We are afraid to express our deepest desire – to love and be loved. And so we let quite a few chances go by.
A Moon for the Misbegotten (1942) can be considered to be a sequel to O'Neill's autobiographical work Long Day's Journey into Night. James Tyrone, who is present in both plays, refers to Eugene O'Neill's older brother James O'Neill. Merle Karusoo recently staged Long Day's Journey into Night in the Estonian Drama Theatre; the play was performed in Keila-Joa manor.
The events take place in a neglected farm in Connecticut in September of 1923. Tenant Phil Hogan is an intriguer, a man with a heart of stone and as miserly as the land that he tries hard to cultivate. His daughter Josie – an Irish woman with a sharp tongue and a steady hand – is a virgin, despite the vicious rumours going around in the village, and hopelessly in love with James. Landowner James Tyrone is a drinking buddy of Phil's, a cynical self-destructive man who is suffering from a spiritual trauma triggered by the death of his mother. The lives of all the characters change on a moonlit night. Hogan plans for a devious intrigue but for Josie and Tyrone this will become the night of love and truth.
Lavastaja ja muusikaline kujundaja Ingomar Vihmar
Kunstnik Riina Degtjarenko
Valguse kujundaja Raido Talvend
Tõlkinud Minni Nurme
Osades: Kersti Heinloo, Jaan Rekkor, Roland Laos, Märt Avandi, Taavi Teplenkov või Pääru Oja.
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No Hassles 30-Day Money Back Return Policy
With the Redfli Customer Guarantee, you are assured you will love your purchase in every way possible. We give our customers the peace of mind that you can return items for any reason, opened or unopened, within 30 days for mail order and web purchases & 14 day exchange/refund policy on retail store purchases. We'll be happy to give you an exchange or a refund for the full amount of the merchandise, not including original or return shipping. Just make sure the product is in new or like-new condition, pack it all (remote, manual, etc.) securely in the original packaging, and submit for a return authorization number (RA#) online with the link below or over the phone with one of our customer support staff in our showroom. Keep your purchase, accessories and all packing materials in new condition to avoid any restocking fees.
Refunds are issued to the same credit card, debit card, gift certificate, or other form of payment used in the original transaction. All retail store / showroom purchases require your Redfli itemized receipt for return or exchange. Purchases made through our website or by phone may also be returned to our Retail Store. Returns for purchases can be brought to our Fort Wayne showroom location.
Returns Terms & Conditions
For health reasons, in-ear headphones and other items of more personal nature that have been opened may only be exchanged if defective and for the same item. They are not open to return. Sale or discontinued items that are sold for less than full retail price are not subject to return. These sales are AS-IS. They still include a warranty if the item is new, but the ability to return the item is not available. These terms and conditions apply to website, phone and store purchases only. Third party marketplace sales are governed by their own terms and conditions and are therefore excluded. Unless specified otherwise, the customer is responsible for any and all costs associated with return shipping regardless of the reason for the return.
Steps for Returning an Item
- Receive a valid RA # through online submission or over the phone
- PLEASE NOTE: our Returns Receiving Department will refuse any package that does not have a valid RA#. There are no exceptions.
- Package up the contents of your item exactly as it came to you
- All returns must be packed in an outer shipping carton with valid RA # written on the outside of the shipping carton
- A copy of your original invoice must be included in your return package.
- Please ship your parcel back to us Freight Prepaid. We suggest that you use UPS Ground Service "Insured." Sorry, we cannot accept COD or freight-collect shipments. Unless specified otherwise, customer is responsible for any and all costs associated with return shipping regardless of the reason for the return.


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After graduating from King's College, London I joined BDO Stoy Hayward (as was) After qualifying I moved into industry, mainly working for SME's. I really enjoy the fast moving environment of smaller companies where what you do really counts and makes a difference.
I discovered the world of recruitment in 2007 when I joined Digby Morgan. There I met Nicola Grimshaw, and I was delighted to have the opportunity to work with her again here at Oakleaf Partnership. I am passionate about the recruitment business and am enjoying bringing my knowledge of the HR sector and my wider business experience to work with the Oakleaf management team.
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PV module suppliers to face intense competition in Europe as the MIP comes to an endAugust 29, 2018On 21 August, the majority of EU member states rejected the request for the initiation of expiry reviews with regards to the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures for crystalline solar PV modules and cells originated in or consigned from the People's Republic of China. As such, the undertaking on the minimum import price (MIP) expired on 3 September after almost five years in place.
UPDATE 14 August - Few clear winners and many questions as India imposes safeguard duty on solar PV importsAugust 14, 2018UPDATE: On 13 August India's Ministry of Finance released a statement, which directs All Principal Chief Commissioner/Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise & GST, not to charge Safeguard Duty for the time being. This statement has been released to be in compliance with interim directions issued by the High Court of Odisha in written petition number 12817 of 2018. This decision means that PV modules and cells can for the time being enter India without any safeguard duty. Importers are however requested to sign a letter that obliges them to retroactively pay if the government re-instates the duties. The temporary halt to the safeguard duties improves the outlook for those companies seeking tariff exemptions for awarded projects, and for manufacturing in SEZs (see below). Near-term it means that shipments already heading to India can be cleared without duty (for now). New orders will depend on the confidence that developers and manufacturers have in the government's ability to approve the requested exceptions. IHS Markit assesses that it will take at least a month for the issue to be settled.
China PV installations to boom in fourth quarter after grace period removalJanuary 31, 2018On 22 December 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in China confirmed the 2018 FiT rate and the anticipated grace period until June 2018 to obtain the 2017 FiT rate (for projects approved in 2017). The FiT tariff valid from 1 January 2018 is 0.55 yuan/kWh, 0.65 yuan/kWh, and 0.75 yuan/kWh for resource areas I, II and III, respectively. Distributed PV systems that sell surplus power to the grid will obtain 0.37 yuan/kWh for the excess power. The updated policy has removed the grace period in 2019, meaning that the 2019 FiT rate will apply for all projects as of 1 January 2019. The FiT deadlines for different policy segments, in parallel with events in PV markets outside China, will determine the quarterly module pricing and installation patterns. IHS Markit maintains its current annual 50 GW PV installation projection for China in 2018, but we are reviewing the quarterly distribution.Subscribers Only
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Solar Installations to Rise 20 Percent in 2014, Thanks to Strong Fourth QuarterOctober 08, 2014Global photovoltaic (PV) solar installations will rise to 45.4 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, with 32 percent of this total, or 14.4 GW, coming in the fourth quarter, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
[Display Dynamics] Is Xiaomi ready for going global?September 22, 2014Xiaomi Corp. made headlines in early August after it took the crown from Samsung Electronics Co. in sales of smartphones in China in the second quarter of 2014. The result might vary depending on estimates calculated in different ways, but it came as a large shock that this only four-year old Chinese company is threatening Samsung Electronics, which has been the largest smartphone seller in the Chinese market for years where it successfully beat rival Apple Inc.
Solar Microinverter and Power Optimizer Market to Break $1 Billion Barrier in 2018September 18, 2014The market for global photovoltaic (PV) solar microinverters and power optimizers is forecast to more than triple in the coming years, rising to more than $1 billion in 2018, as both established and new regions increase their adoption of the emerging technology, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
NEA's Lowered Target for Chinese Distributed Solar Helps Boost Market in H2'14August 19, 2014Whilst China's National Energy Administration (NEA) lowered its 2014 installation target from 14 GW to 13 GW and matched IHS' forecast from earlier in the year, it vowed to continue support for the PV industry and upcoming policy will help to remove barriers for distributed solar (DPV) and accelerate the build-out of new projects.
US and Chinese Solar EPC Companies Continue to Dominate in Global PV InstallationsAugust 06, 2014The world's 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies are set this year to install a combined 8 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, equivalent to 20 percent of the world's non-residential PV demand, according to a new report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
Domestic Suppliers Dominate Chinese Solar Inverter Market as Demand DoublesJuly 15, 2014The Chinese photovoltaic (PV) solar inverter market grew by more than 100 percent in 2013, providing a huge boost to the country's domestic supplier base, according to the latest report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).


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Spa time!
I decided it was way past time to have a 'pamper Teri' day. The stresses of everyday life, getting serious again with the weight loss thing, and the toll of working hard in the yard were starting to show a bit too much.
First activity on the agenda... a detox bath.
I did a bit of research to find a detox bath recipe that I was comfortable using. OK... I'm doing the opt out bit here -- I'm no expert and I am NOT saying you should do exactly as I did. You need to do your own research and decide what is best (if anything) for you personally.
There were a lot of cautions no matter where I researched. From 'make sure you drink a lot before as it is dehydrating' and 'you might feel very light-headed' all the way to 'you might have flu-like symptoms'. Because of those warnings, I made sure Himself was home when I did this.
This is the recipe I used for my bath waters:
2 cups Epsom salt
1 cup baking soda
1/4 cup sea salt (I had a lavender bath salt already and used that)
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon ground ginger
A few drops lavender oil
I filled the tub with the hottest water I could stand and started my soak in my own little personal Dead Sea. For a good 15 minutes I felt nothing different than a regular soak in the tub (other than slippery water). At 15 minutes my hands started reacting. It was a weird achy/itchy feeling that made me really want to rub them. I did so in the 'spa massage' sort of way... from from fingertips stroking up towards the heart. A few minutes later my feet and lower legs got that feeling and I rubbed them in the same way. Felt good.
At 20 minutes the sweating started. Sauna kind of sweating. Wow.
At 30 minutes the light-headed feeling started. And that is where I finished. I called Himself to start up a cool shower for me. Almost all of the instruction sites said that rinsing off the salt was "optional". Well, it wasn't optional for me...it was coming off! I rinsed without soap since my pores were wide open.
While rinsing, I did some smoothing of my feet to prepare for the pedicure portion of my spa day.
Time to chill out for a bit while sipping some hot tea. Ahhhhhhh... I was a noodle for several hours and slept great that night.
For my spa day facial, I used a Rodan & Fields sample gift from my friend Brenda Hagood ( http://brendahagood.myrandf.com ) Very nice stuff. Brightened my skin and didn't cause any issues for me (I have sensitive face skin).
Next up for pampering were the fingers and toes... mani/pedi time!
With continued yard work in my very near future (like tomorrow) I didn't waste too much effort with my hands.
I did try a whitening technique I found on Pinterest.
Soak your nails for a few minutes in very warm water, then give them a good washing. Spread over and under your nails a mixture of 2.5 TBS of baking soda and 1 TBS of hydrogen peroxide. Let sit for 3 minutes then rinse well.
It did make my nails look better but definitely NOT like the Pinterest photos show.
Note: Do not do this if you have any sort of cut on your finger tips! Ouch!!
Afterwards I deep conditioned the cuticles and slathered on cocoa butter.
Feet... they got more work. After all, we are heading into sandal season!
My dry heels were actually looking pretty good after my post-soak smoothing so my next step was to get some nail polish on. Hardest part of that was picking the color.
It was purple.
Didn't do anything with the hair today as I did a basic wash-and-go yesterday. My hair is fine and thin... oh joy. My short cut lets it lift a bit and I don't have to use a blow dryer. I rotate shampoo ... mostly a gentle wash that rinses clean and then every couple weeks a moisturizing shampoo and a conditioner. Any more than that weighs it down to limp strings. Bleh.
So there I'm done and feeling great!
BTW, here's my latest weight loss photo in my new power walking outfit. I am 2/3 of the way to my goal weight!!


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Bergsig Eco Estate is in a malaria free area 50km's from the town of Bela Bela (Warmbaths), in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. A 2 hour drive from the busy Johannesburg hub places you right at the heart of nature. The serene bushveld with its magnificent fauna and flora creates a beautiful setting next to the splendour of the Hoek Mountains. The classic unspoiled mixed bushveld atmosphere has been preserved and plays perfect host to the comfortable luxury accommodation with a bush theme. Bergsig covers 340 hectares of bushveld and the lodge is located on a high lying area close to the Vingerspruit dam, with a panoramic view of the Hoek Mountains and the sweeping valleys below. Magnificent bird life, and a wide selection of reptiles and insects create a lively atmosphere for grazing Zebra, Kudu, Waterbuck, Wildebeest, Red hartebeest, Giraffe and many more.
Relaxation is what we aim to deliver, whether it is in the sun next to the pool or gazing out over the vast bushveld surroundings, the unforgettable memories will remain with you long after you've returned home.
Between the bushes, or sometimes even right at your doorstep, groups of animals can be found grazing peacefully in the surrounding area. When you visit, be sure to bring your binoculars and camera as you get to share the estate with its most esteemed members ... the animals.
The staff at Bergsig Eco Estate are a dedicated hard working team of individuals that will make you feel at home and comfortable during your stay here with us. Each group has their area of expertise encouraging a high level of hospitality and helpfulness.
Bergsig Eco Estate started out as a game farm and was acquired in August 2001. The present owners started upgrading the facilities and by 2002 the first new lodge building was opened and the property development was initiated. Over the years additional accommodation units have been added, the conference centre built and facilities expanded. Bergsig's potential as a getaway for the weary executive was noted as the lodge owner also operates a business in the busy hub of Johannesburg and Pretoria.
More interesting than our past is our future and the plans we have to further develop and expand this remarkable place we call home. The sectional title was registered on 20 May 2009 and the future is dedicated to the development of an affordable investment for the executive, both financially and psychologically. Bergsig development is such that individuals or groups can invest in either multiple bush chalets with a shared entertainment lapa, or for the individual needing a getaway, an investment with payback of at least the outstanding bond if any.
"My family members really enjoyed the weekend and the superb accommodation that Bergsig offers. They all expressed their complete satisfaction with the venue and the facilities offered. We will definitely be coming back."
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Berks County's Technical Academy
Berks Career & Technology Center, Reading Area Community College, and Bloomsburg University have partnered to create the TECHNICAL ACADEMY. The TECHNICAL ACADEMY provides college-bound students with the opportunity to develop advanced technical skills and earn college credit toward an associate and/or bachelor's degree while still in high school. Students in the Technical Academy are expected to continue their study through an associate degree at Reading Area Community College.
After completing an associate degree, academy students my earn a Bachelor of Applied Science in Technical Leadership from Bloomsburg University by taking courses at the RACC Campus at a fraction of the total cost of a 4-year degree program.
The programs in the Academy are highly selective and have strict entrance criteria.
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Get a Jump on College!
How The Technical Academy Works:
- A pathway for developing advanced skills and college credits toward an associate degree at RACC and/or bachelor's degree on RACC's campus while still in high school!
- Students are enrolled at the CTC (Career & Technology Center) and RACC while in high school. Depending on the program selected, students may complete up to six college courses at the CTC during the first and second year of the program, earning up to 18 college credits.
- In the third year of the program, students may take an additional three courses on the RACC Campus, earning up to an additional 12 college credits while in high school (depending on the program selected).*
- All credits earned will appear as completed courses on a college transcript establishing the transferability of these courses.
- Students can enter the workforce at multiple points prior to earning a degree and have the opportunity to earn recognized industry certifications and prepare for jobs that are in high demand.
- After completing an associate degree, academy students may earn a Bachelor of Applied Science in Technical Leadership from Bloomsburg University by taking courses at the RACC Campus at a fraction of the total cost of a 4-year degree program.
- * Please talk to your school counselor about specific financial responsibility for Technical Academy courses.
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Bachelor of Applied Science in Technical Leadership
- Earn a bachelor's degree from Bloomsburg University by taking classes at the RACC campus at a fraction of the total cost of a 4-year degree program.
- BCTC & RMCTC Technical Academy students may dual enroll during their sophomore, junior & senior years, complete an Associate degree at RACC, then transfer seamlessly into Bloomsburg University's Technical Leadership B.A.S degree program with admission as a college junior.
- Full-Time and Part-Time options: Earn your Bachelor's degree in as little as 2 years after your associate degree or take courses at your own pace.
- Evening classes — some taught onsite at RACC and others online — to meet the needs of working professionals.
- Build on the foundation of your associate degree. Develop the leadership, communication, supervisory, management, & financial skills employers seek.
- Improve your chances to be hired and promoted, and increase your earning potential.
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Students must be in Grades 10 or 11 to
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Signed Letter of Understanding to attend RACC to earn an associate degree.
Students transitioning to RACC after graduation and completion of the Technical Academy courses will be required to complete RACC's placement assessment. SAT, ACT, and AP scores may be evaluated to determine the need to take RACC's placement assessment.
* With special permission a student may be accepted on a provisional basis with a 2.5 GPA or higher.
Please see the Technical Academy Brochure for additional information.


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May 18, 2012
A man suspected of robbing a bank in Fraser was apprehended in Dodge City last Friday.
Allen J. Foland, 46, a member of the Highwaymen Motorcycle Gang was arrested without incident by officers from the Clare County Sheriff Department, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and a Michigan State Police Swat team, who were executing a search warrant at the North Dodge Lake Road residence. The search warrant was for "a man wanted by the FBI for a bank robbery at a PNC Bank in Fraser, Michigan.
Foland, also known as GHOST, was believed to be armed and dangerous. The Swat team entered the home and located the suspect. He was turned over to the FBI and transported to the Federal Holding Facility in Bay City.
Sheriff John Wilson said members of the community helped with Foland's location and information that assisted them with the arrest. "We really appreciate their help," he said.


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Health benefits of lemons are amazing and so are lemon pith health benefits. Normally, the higher the metallic level (i.e. Gold and Platinum), the extra the plan pays in direction of your healthcare expenses, however the larger your month-to-month premiums will probably be. Greater tier plans can also provide further benefits that aren't considered important".
Offers a free on-line reference database of healing meals, phytonutrients and plant-based mostly medicines that stop or treat ailments and health conditions. If you are uninterested in the restricted info on the T.V and news, read up on our weblog, our favorite health and sweetness product reviews at this site. Good I had no concept Oregon oil had that many benefits and you definitely did a very good job in explaining the helpful factors. You can use an Health Financial savings Account (HSA) to assist pay for out-of-pocket prices on high deductible plans and may be eligible for Price Sharing Reduction subsidies on the marketplace to assist as effectively. I just read within the mayo clinic that there aren't any health advantages from kombucha, however there are several circumstances of negative results. It is India's premium organic health meals store which sells well known international brands of those merchandise.
It is a very refreshing tea that does lower levels of cholesterol, makes the mind calmer by lowering stress and brings on good sleep. With all the pros and cons of consuming coffee daily, one thing is clear – moderation is the important thing to reaping all the benefits java has to supply. At first the espresso might seem a bit bitter but as the week drags on your style bugs get used of it, till the beginning of the next week.
The researchers discovered that the members who elevated their coffee intake by a couple of cup a day (on common, a rise of 1.sixty nine cups per day) over a 4-year period had an eleven% decrease sort 2 diabetes risk over the following 4 years, compared with individuals who did not change their consumption.
Also included on this class are home health companies and hospice care (observe: some plans may restrict coverage to no more than 45 days). So I tried one thing I dont assume loads of other people have ever tried, I reduce my sugar for the espresso nearly half a spoon every week so after a month or so there isn't a extra sugar need for my espresso. It however, will not be as efficient in treating health conditions, as Origanum vulgare. I've this growing in my backyard so am wondering if I could make my own oil from the plant. However… correlation does not suggest causation and there is no assure that the avocados brought on these people to be in higher health. I believe for those who take espresso as a drink and never make it an addiction then it's superb on your health. Try to be – cautious should you suffer from heartburn, although purple ginger has many health benefits.


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The Rise and Fall of Occupy Wall Street
The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book "The Rise and Fall of Occupy Wall Street" by Alexander Cornswalled.
The book starts with a history of the "Occupy Wall street" movement and how it was infiltrated by criminal elements selling drugs to the protesters. The drug related crime that sparked the initial, disastrous, effort to clear the Oakland camp is discussed, as well as Mayor Quan's disastrous decision to send her police officers into battle with drug dealers armed only with rubber bullets. The book excerpt pick up with the onset of resistance by drug dealers:
The police made the decision to raid the SWAT vans, allowing them to retrieve a number of tear gas grenades. These were quickly used, the scant supply exhausted in an effort to disperse the crowd. The attempt was largely successful, as evidenced by the endless complaints by people who were exposed to tear gas but suffered no other violence to their persons. # # #
Unfortunately, the gang violence had not been dissuaded by the tear gas, and one group had decided to take out their frustration at being routed by attacking other protesters. One of those victims was Iraq war vet Scott Olsen.# To this day reports about exactly what happened to Scott have been conflicting and soaked in bias.# Initial sources claimed he had been hit whit a flash grenade by Oakland police. # # # Other reports claimed the same police officer had prevented rescuers from reaching him. How the identity of the officer could even had been discerned with all the tear gas in the air is debatable, if it even was a police office who attacked him.
Regardless of the source, Olsen experienced head trauma necessitating hospitalization. Despite making a full recovery, his injuries resulted in a significant, though temporary increase in war vet presence at the protests.# The temporary nature of this increase was due in part to Olsen being the founder of the anti-military web site IHateTheMarineCorps.com.# "a private user forum apparently dedicated to bashing the Marine Corps." He is also a member of the anti-military organization Iraq Veterans Against the War. His long standing hatred of the military is well documented online. For example, according to the verumserum.com article this was his reply to questions people were asking about the Marine Corps. His profanity has been replaced with asterisks for this publication.
The Marine Corps thrives on its image. They convince young men and women that they're joining a professional military organization. But that's not the case at all, every Marine knows it, and most have no problem downplaying the bull**** to outsiders so they can protect their "beloved corps". I noticed some of the other posters have told you not to pay any attention to my site because we're just a bunch of ********* who couldn't hack it, right? Maybe not hacking it means we saw through the bull**** and don't want to take it. Maybe the brainwashing didn't work on us. I'm not here to tell you if you should join or not. I'm here to advise you to take the people who visit my website just as seriously as anybody who tries to sell you the MC as a good thing.
He doesn't just hate the military, he's a drug user too.# He even proudly post photographs of his pot plants online.#
His history of drug use and advocacy raises some inserting questions about his motivation for being at the Occupy Oakland protest. Were his injuries really the result of police brutality as many claimed, or was he a drug dealer who was attacked by other dealers who were enacting vengeance for invading their turf? Was he a drug user who had tried to stiff a dealer?
Mayor Quan, horrified at the violence that resulted from her rushed plans to "peacefully" evict a refugee population infested with criminals, quickly crumpled, allowing the protesters back into the square and even giving all city officials other than the police a day off the participate in the protests. The police, who had been attacked and injured by her original plan, were not amused. #


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Smyth & Hollywood Roosevelt have teamed up with Phaidon to celebrate the release of their new book Wild Art with launch parties in NYC & LA, and a special package offered exclusively at Smyth.
From graffiti to extreme body art, ice sculpture, flash mobs, portraits made from bottle tops, dresses made from meat, paintings made by animals, light shows, carnivals, and giant artworks that can only truly be appreciated from the air, Wild Art celebrates art forms that are anything but typical.
The Wild Art package at Smyth includes a signed copy of the book and two Wild Art-themed cocktails in the lobby bar, with rates from $335. Copies of Wild Art will also be featured in Smyth's sixteen suites. To book, use the code WILDART.
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