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Windsor Star Reader Photos Vol. VII
Fire tears through a Monmouth Road garage on June 19, 2012.
My four-year-old daughter Nikki plays with the neighbourhood "wild" rabbit.
Jevique and Jevinelle wait for their first fireworks display.
story idea: These are pictures taken in LaSalle after the big storm Thursday night. My shed used to be in my backyard but it flew up and over my fence and is now beside my garage. There is also a picture of my neighbours tree, only one of many that are down in the neighbourhood across from Ambassador golf.
Lightning is pictured over the Ambassador Bridge on June 21, 2012.
Riverside Minor Baseball player Christian Morneau finds time during his Rookie Ball game on Friday June 15th to have some fun with his shadow. The game between Riverside and Essex was played at the Riverside Baseball Park in Windsor.
A hummingbird shoots through the garden.
A wild turkey hangs out at the Tecumseh Mall and has chosen the large sign to perch and dry his wings after a rain storm Sunday evening.
Fireworks explode over the Strawberry Festival in LaSalle.
Emergency crews respond to an accident on the EC Row.
My husband Richard is the king of recycling. We had an old ugly maple tree, stump in our back yard and he created a work of art to house our vegetable plants.
A mysterious species of moth is pictured in this backyard. Do you know what kind of moth this is?
A piece of equipment is pictured on its roof alongside the EC Row on June 6, 2012.
Lightning strikes over Harrow.
Windsor police officers surround on a home near Drouillard Road.
A baby bird is pictured in its nest.
Displaced deer run through a Windsor neighbourhood.
Transit of Venus with sunspots visible was taken from LaSalle Ontario. Used telescope image projected onto white paper, photographed and enhanced to enhance contrast.
Tecumseh firefighters respond to a reported car fire at 1316 Bedell St. two feet away from the home.
Robin's nest tucked in a blue spruce on May 27, 2012.
Photo of the super moon taken on May 5, 2012.
Yokie, Amy and Princess pose for a Christmas photo.
Some of the action from the 519ers versus the Hiram Stalkers Roller Derby match at "The Barn" in Windsor on May 12, 2012.
My daughter Samantha Cooper enjoying time at Fort Malden in Amherstburg, Ont with her two youngest children on May 10, 2012.
Doves are pictured nesting outside of an Emeryville home on May 8, 2012.
Doves are pictured nesting outside of an Emeryville home on May 8, 2012.
Fire crews work on Riverside Secondary School after it was struck by lighning on Monday, May 21,2012.
A hail storm is pictured on May 21, 2012.
Geese take a leisurely Sunday morning stroll across Patillo Road on Sunday, May 20, 2012.
A goose made it's nest in front of Sears about a month ago. On May 4, 2012, 7:45p.m. as I was picking my wife up from work the eggs hatched.
Seary, (yup, that's what we've called her) has hatched her first of 6 little ones that has caused quite a stir with employees and customers alike at Devonshire Mall. The others are named Simmons, Sealy, Serta, Temper, King "Downe" and finally Sterns.
Seary, (yup, that's what we've called her) has hatched her first of 6 little ones that has caused quite a stir with employees and customers alike at Devonshire Mall. The others are named Simmons, Sealy, Serta, Temper, King "Downe" and finally Sterns.
A picture of the fire on Memorial Drive on May 14, 2012.
A family of geese are seen at Windsor's riverfront on May 14, 2012.
A family of geese are seen at Windsor's riverfront on May 14, 2012.
A sick racoon made an appearance at our doorstep in Emeryville.
A photo of the super moon taken from Leamington on May 5, 2012.
A horse attempts to buck its rider while competing in bareback riding at Rock n' Rodeo at the at the Canadian Transportation Museum and Heritage Village in Essex, Saturday, May 19, 2012.
A bull bucks off its rider while competing in bareback riding at Rock n' Rodeo at the at the Canadian Transportation Museum and Heritage Village in Essex, Saturday, May 19, 2012.
This reader photo shows a garage fire about 1 a.m. on March 12, 2012.
Human trafficking charges follow Windsor police investigation
Police say a teenage girl who was roped into dancing at a local strip club, then taken to Toronto and forced into sex slavery, is likely just one of many such human trafficking victims in Windsor.
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Low/Martin house tour to benefit charity
Vern Myslichuk has been searching for Prohibition-era tunnels and parts to restore 1927 toilets in case gangster Al Capone once sat there.
Windsor police seek tips on downtown stash of guns and $36,000 in drugs
Windsor police are asking the public for tips about a cache of firearms and more than 3,500 ecstasy pills found in the apartment building at 511 Pelissier St.
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U.S. congressman wants answers on whether petcoke harmful to health
A Michigan congressman has raised concerns in Washington about the massive black piles of petroleum coke sitting on the riverfront in Detroit.
Windsor police launch new website
The Windsor Police Service's new website went live Thursday afternoon, replacing "deficiencies" in the former website, Deputy Chief Vince Power said.
Essex County
Amherstburg's junior C team named Admirals
The new Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League team in Essex County will be called the Amherstburg Admirals.
Teacher accused of stealing $33 charged with professional misconduct
A former Leamington elementary school teacher is being brought before a discliplinary hearing for allegedly stealing $33 from the office two years ago.
BOOM magazine, spring 2013
Boom Magazine Spring 2013: Articles of interest for readers 50+
Garden, Pool & Patio
How many homeowners dream of a thick, lush, golf course-worthy lawn? Is it possible for a homeowner to do to her property what a golf course superintendent can on his greens and fairways?
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You don't have to travel far this summer to get your fill of fun. Windsor-Essex is packed with festivals and events and so is our Summer Fun guide.
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Gabor Szabo (szabgab) wrote, @ 2009-08-20 07:21 am UTC |
Current location: | home |
Entry tags: | blogging, commenting, community, strangers |
But I feel uneasy commenting on blogs of total strangers and marking people quite randomly. Why them and not some others from the other 6 billion out there?
I don't know them personally. I don't even know them online. Maybe I read a few lines they wrote, but then what?
That does not really give me any right to just push my unwanted words on them.
I have my own blog elsewhere where I have been writing for 3 years or so but that was strictly professional. I was commenting on other peoples blogs but those were professional entries as well.
I guess I am uneasy with getting too personal with total strangers.


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LUMBERTON — As a parent, Dwayne Smith wants his son to attend Tanglewood Elementary School as a fourth-grader.
As a member of the Public Schools of Robeson County Board of Education, Smith says he will fight to make sure that happens.
Smith last week spoke out strongly about a plan he says is being floated by some board members that would result in fourth-grade students at Tanglewood and Rowland-Norment elementary schools attending classes at Gilbert Carroll Middle School.
Both Tanglewood and Rowland-Norment are currently overcrowded. Gilbert Carroll, which now houses 593 fifth- and sixth-grade students, reportedly has enough space to accommodate the fourth-graders from the two elementary schools.
This year, there are 125 fourth-grade students at Tanglewood. As of late Friday, the number of fourth-graders this year at Rowland-Norment was not available.
But Smith doesn't see this as a space issue. Instead, he said, the issue is one of "catering" to parents who wish to transfer their children from other Robeson County elementary schools to one of the Lumberton elementary schools.
"In my opinion, you can't justify moving kids out of a school in their district to make room for transfer students," Smith said. "It's just not fair. All you are doing is hurting the kids and the school."
According to public schools spokeswoman Tasha Oxendine, the issue of moving fourth-graders from the elementary schools to the middle school has not been discussed by the administration and school board at any meeting. She said the administration has no official position on the subject.
Oxendine also said the issue is not on the agenda for the board's next meeting Tuesday.
Board Chairman Mike Smith said the issue will be discussed during the board's annual retreat Friday and Saturday.
"We will get a better understanding of this at the retreat," Smith said. "We'll hear what the administration thinks. This is not something we will just jump into."
Smith said he personally doesn't think moving the fourth-graders to the middle school would be a big problem.
"These students would be moving to the middle school the next year anyway," he said. "This would just mean that they would move a year earlier."
The school system's transfer policy is liberal, allowing parents to move their children to schools near where the parents work so getting them to and from school and day care is more convenient.
Mike Smith agreed with his fellow board member Dwayne Smith that a lot of parents prefer their children attend Tanglewood because it is known for providing quality education. He added that Tanglewood is convenient to many parents because they hold jobs in Lumberton.
The chairman also said he does not believe the move from the elementary school to the middle school would be difficult for the students.
"I think if it comes to the change, the students will make the transition fairly easily," he said. "Kids adjust easily. They just want to go to school and get an education."
Mike Smith said he has received several calls from parents and others concerned about the possibility of fourth-graders moving to the middle school. Some of the calls, he said, were from friends.
"Some are apprehensive about the possibility of the change, and that's a natural thing," he said. "If I was a parent I might have a different opinion, but I don't think so."
While Tanglewood is currently overcrowded, it is expected that the school's population will decrease for the next school year with the opening of Southeastern Academy as a charter school. Southeastern, which has been a private school, is expected to take in about 100 new students in grades kindergarten through fourth grade.


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NILES – If you're ever at the Berrien County Courthouse in Niles, you may want to watch your language. One woman's cursing landed her in jail for contempt of court -- even though she wasn't in a courtroom.
LaRue Ford, 49, of northwest Indiana has a master's degree and no criminal record. She was in the county clerk's office inside the courthouse trying to get some traffic fees cleared up. It was a frustrating process...during which she muttered a few profanities. Now she's sitting in jail.
"This was basically what happens when you try to fix your life out so you're not a burden to society," said John Targowski, Ford's attorney, who's working with the ACLU on this case.
Ford was trying to get her Indiana driver's license so she could a job, but first she needed to take care of an unpaid Michigan traffic fine. She paid all $444 of it, but there was a $50 reinstatement fee that the Berrien County Clerk's Office in Niles overlooked and that led to a lot of confusion.
"She didn't really swear at anybody in particular, but as she was leaving she said 'f*** this f***ing s***,'" said Targowski.
Those words were heard in the clerk's office. Someone told Judge Dennis Wiley and he held her in contempt. This all happened back on December 4. She spent one night in jail, but had to go back on the 18th. That's when her bond was set to $5,000. Ford has been in jail since then.
"She's demure, she's positive, but she's realizing that this is dragging on for quite a long time and she's being deprived of liberty," said Targowski.
Ford's defense team says Wiley had no right to put Ford in jail in the first place since the judge didn't actually witness her curse.
"Normally criminal contempt is a crime you know you can't swear and use foul language in front of a judge in a courtroom, the judge has the power to hold you in contempt, that's lawful, but that has to happen in the judge's presence, the judge has to see what happened here wasn't those set of facts," Targowski said.
Ford's defense team will try to get charges of contempt dismissed tomorrow. They'll also ask for her immediate release. If that doesn't happen, the criminal contempt hearing will be held January 8th. Officials at the Berrien County Courthouse refused to comment on the case because it's ongoing.


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DataSpace can now be used to store papers and data. From the homepage:
"DataSpace is a digital repository meant for both archiving and publicly disseminating digital data which are the result of research, academic, or administrative work performed by members of the Princeton University community. DataSpace will promote awareness of the data and address concerns for ensuring the long-term availability of data in the repository."
There are papers from 2 groups or communities available so far:
Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs |
There is a useful "About" page, and the "Help" page gives you the mechanics of running searches using the Jakarta Lucerne search engine, which bears lots of similarities to Google.
Contact: Mark Ratliff, Digital Repository Architect, Phone: (609) 258‑0228.


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Deep Blue at Sedgwick Theater January 2013
ArcheDream for HUMANKIND brings Deep Blue to Philadelphia this January, with new scenes and music! For three weekends in a row, ADHK will perform at the Sedgwick Theater, home of Quintessence Theater group, January: 12th & 13th, 19th & 20th, 26th & 27th Sat. 2pm & 7:30pm Sun. 2pm & 7:30pm Tickets: $20 adult $15 Senior Citizens, dance pass and kids (10& under) Visit www.ADHK.org for more info about ArcheDream for HUMANKIND and to join the mailing list.ADHK Friend-Raiser THANK YOU!
ArcheDream for HUMANKIND would love to THANK all who came out to our new studio for our community and FRIEND-Raiser on Tuesday March 20th. Special thanks to ArcheDream members, volunteers, and Bob Santoro and Marsha Shiflet (our lovely landlords and friends) for helping to make the night happen! Please check out Burn After Reading Magazine article about the ADHK Friend-Raiser event, written by Jessi "Sprocket" Janusee, link here: http://burnafterreadingmag.com/archedream-for-humankind-friend-raiser-kicks-off-a-new-workspace/ We loved seeing all of you, meeting new artists and supportersWelcome to the Dream
ArcheDream for HUMANKIND is an internationally touring blacklight mask and dance theatre company that communicates universal ideas and emotions to promote understanding and compassion. Merging ancient ritual and magical storytelling with modern technology, ADHK unites, uplifts and enchants audiences through riveting performances and workshops.New Yorkers get Shpongled for Halloween
Psychedelic electronica conglomerate Shpongle packed thousands of costumed fans into Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday night, delighting the crowd with over two hours of throbbing music and a stunning stage show. Shpongle, a UK-based group, has only performed once before in the US, making the late night show a special opportunity for ecstatic trance fans who lined up around the block for hours before the performance. Like Tuesday's Insane Clown Posse show (read my review here), Hammerstein security was extraordinarily thorough, forcing attendees to throw out their lighters and turning pocketsShow Review: Shpongle Live Halloween Ball at the Fox Oakland, 10/29/2011
October 29th, 2011. Possibly one of the biggest party nights of the year, thanks to the world-recognized holiday celebrating the bizarre, the underworldly, and the otherwordly, just around its corner. We're speaking, of course, of Halloween, and in addition to being a fantastic occasion for costumes, candy, and chaotic parties, it's also one of the best opportunities for live shows, allowing artists to come out in a blaze of style and passion with something unique and special for the night when spirits walk and demons dance. The Fox Theater in Oakland is no stranger to guests of many col


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Monday, 04 January 2010
The Twilight Dare: Chapters 1-3
Okay, first off, here's proof that I'm actually reading the book. Also, while you're at it, it's proof that MySpace angles don't always work well for guys, particularly when the guy in question has post-donation hair.
(Yes, that is Xanga open in the background.)
Okay, thoughts so far: (circa page 7)
I have to say, the prose isn't as hideously Bulwer-Lytton as I was afraid it would be. I actually liked the description of Washington as "too green--an alien planet." However, I couldn't care less about the "sleeveless, white eyelet lace" shirt that she's wearing that is "her favorite," especially when I have no physical description of the girl herself to go on yet (other than that her hair is longer than her mother's). You'd think that hair color, height, some other definining characteristics would be more important to describe in detail than her clothing, for the purposes of affixing the character in my mind. As it is now, were it not for Kristen Stewart, my mental image of Bella would be a long-haired blur wearing a white lacey shirt. (And with a name like Bella Swan, you need clear defining characteristics to avoid the wrong mental associations.)
And the award for First Thing To Make Me Cringe goes to: the combination of the apple on the cover and the Genesis 2:17 quotation on the frontispiece. Okay, okay, I get it--Edward is the forbidden fruit. Dangerous, forbidden love. And a thousand Harlequin Romance cliches rise from their coffins once more to stalk the darkness.
The dialogue and character development are... well, let's just say that they remind me too much of stories I wrote when I was fifteen. We spent the whole of the first chapter thus far setting up Bella to be angsty: she insists on calling her dad "Charlie" instead of Dad except to his face, she's not happy about leaving Phoenix, she was going to buy a car but her dad went ahead and bought her a used Chevy truck from the '50s... we're all set up for her to basically be miserable here, especially about this car. Heck, we're set up for a proper teenager vs. parent brawl-out. I'm expecting tears, I'm expecting shouting, I'm expecting who-are-you-to-pick-out-a-clunker-for-me.
There, parked on the street in front of the house that never changed, was my new--well, new to me--truck... To my intense surprise, I loved it. I didn't know if it would run, but I could see myself in it... "Wow, Dad, I love it! Thanks!" Now my horrific day tomorrow would be just that much less dreadful... "I'm glad you like it," Charlie said gruffly, embarassed again.
Bella's not the only one feeling "intense surprise" that she loves the car--so am I, the reader. Her sudden turn-around is quite jarring considering the mood she was described as being in. I'd expect, if the author wanted the character to end up liking the car, that she'd grudgingly like it but only after trying to hate it just on principle--that would seem more natural.
By the next page, we're back to mild depression, the irritation at having to share a bathroom with her estranged father, anticipation of going on "a real crying jag" by bedtime. In short, we return to the mood of the rest of the chapter, thus making her suddenly sunny enthusiasm over the car seem all the more out-of-place.
...Okay, don't worry, I won't go into this much of a detailed critique of the whole book. Just of notable parts.
In short, by this point in the book I'm thinking Meyer would have benefited from a good creative writers' workshop. There are several sort of juvenile seams in her storytelling that would be easily repairable, but that stand out in a published work. In addition, the sheer...vagueness...when it comes to who Bella is, well, it worries me because I want Bella to be a character in her own right, not merely an author surrogate (which is what I've been told she is).
Imma gonna keep reading, finish the first chapter, and let you know what I see.
Chapter One:
Okay, other than what I already mentioned, two other things jumped out at me before the end of the chapter.
--First, about the Cullen family in general. I assume the Cullens attend High school to blend in, right? Because they're young-looking but will never age, so cannot hold down adult occupations, and thus must keep attending high school over and over. Yet they "...look like they could be in college, or even teachers here rather than students" What gives?
If they look old enough that they don't look like students, why be students? Why not at least attend college, if you look like you're in college? Endlessly attending college for a century would be far better (in my mind) than endlessly attending high school.
--Second: the miserableness of Bella's day. She doesn't want to be here in Forks, with her dad, attending a school with only three hundred students. Yet the second she goes to school she's an instant success. Shy kids flock to her, go out of their way to befriend her. She talks to them without even remembering their names. The only fly in the ointment of her day is that Edward Cullen made faces when sitting next to her in class--presumably he wants to eat her, though why she's getting this reaction and not every other kid in the class is beyond me. By the end of the day, she's still having a miserable day... but now it's solely because of Edward. Her nervousness about going to a new school was, in the most unlikely manner, groundless... (I went to a high school of only three hundred, and let me tell you, they could still be quite cruel to new kids--and even when they weren't, it took perhaps two to three weeks before they settled in and found a clique. People had to warm up to them. Nobody had a gaggle of admirers following them around on their first day.) ...Nevertheless, she stays at a stable rate of miserableness throughout. Because a boy she didn't know made a face at her. I don't know, it seems rather disconnected to me.
Alright, moving along...
Chapter Two
Oddly enough, the opening to Chapter Two spells out exactly what bothered me about Chapter One. Her next day goes better because she's surrounded by random friends competing for her attention, but at the same time it was "miserable" because
--she gave a wrong answer in Math
--she had to play volleyball
--Edward is not in school today
Beautiful or not, she hasn't even spoken with this guy yet. His absence is enough to be the third reason her day was miserable?
Interesting that they're reading Wuthering Heights in school, a story of obsessive love with a Byronic hero.
Interesting that Bella already has (normal, human) boys fighting over her--or at least throwing snowballs at each other over her. It kinda mirrors the next book. For all that this girl describes herself in self-deprecating terms, you wonder what's so special about her that every being that encounters her seems to want her.
Interesting that Steph Meyer seems to have such a thing for hair gel. Is this a common female attraction?
Chapter Three
Ho-kay, and now she's eager to get to school because she wants to see Edward Cullen. Granted, by this point she's spoken with him--once--but holy crap, someone you've even only seen two days in your life, and he's your life's high point?
Okay, okay, I know this is how a teenager in love thinks. I was a teenager in love, on multiple occasions. But still--Bella seems to have no hobbies, interests, or activities other than staring at Edward Cullen, cooking-and-cleaning-for-her-dad, and reading (which we are told she likes to do, but never actually see her doing). I guess I shouldn't marvel that Edward is her world--there IS nothing else interesting in her world. She doesn't go to movies, watch TV, go to the mall, or seem to do much for fun.
It seems a little scary in its obsessive nature.
On to the car accident: so far the defining characteristics of Meyer's vamps is that they are graceful, super-strong, super-fast, and pale. That seems more akin to the character Bizarro from Superman than to vampiric folklore. Sure, vampires are supposed to be strong, and fast, but they aren't defining characteristics. The defining characteristics are that they're dead, they don't breathe, they prey on humans... Even a vampire shouldn't be able to stop an out-of-control van. There's a lot of momentum involved there, and vampires are, if anything, more slender and slight than humans. Edward simply wouldn't have the mass, whatever his strength, to shoulder aside that van. Survive getting hit by it, yes--when Silas threw himself in front of a car in The Graveyard Book, he lived to talk about it. He was also rather hurt, more than a little shaky, afterwards.
My point being, the ability to stop-a-moving-vehicle isn't a way to discover if someone's a vampire--it's more of a way to discover if someone's from Krypton.
I'll continue to post thoughts as I go: only 21 more chapters to go. *snorts*
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- bandits and heroines and kidnapping
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- almost all 7th graders but possibly some range on the ages (downwards)
- lots of combat
- in the woods somewhere
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EDIT: cf. also Liz's report for details on the preparations and the puzzles.
The results were very chaotic, with lots of swordplay, lots of role-playing, and lots of fun. For a solid hour and a half, the woods rang with a lot of calls of "milady!" along with clashing arms.
After rejecting our original choice, we chose Edgewood Park in Redwood City as a balance of ease of getting to and facilities while still having a feeling of being in nature. We picked the area by campground #2 specifically (cf. Google Maps). Liz drew an excellent in-character map of the area:
Each of the three groups had a slightly different copy of this map.
I wrote up short character backgrounds for everyone. My principles were that the kids should fight each other mainly, but that by the end everyone should be able to set aside their differences and draw together. Also, especially given the limited time, it had to be a very simple premise.
My result was that I went with a premise much like Robin Hood -- a cruel regent ruling in place of the true queen who had disappeared. The characters were in three groups: the Royals (lead by the regent's daughter Carsa), the Druids (lead by the prophetess Alea), and the Bandits (lead by their leader Starling). All three really wanted the regent deposed and the true heir found, but that was not clear at the start.
Rather than making her the true heir, I set up the birthday girl as the prophetess, who knew almost all the background and would find the true heir. I told her that she could decide for herself which of the other characters was the true heir -- and made sure that their parentage was all in question.
Below are all the characters linked to the background I gave the player. In the end, there were only 6 seventh-graders with the main parts, plus 2 adults and 3 younger kids (ages 10, 9, and 6) playing who had less central roles -- plus myself acting mainly as organizer, observer, and referee. The gender balance was 5 girls and 1 boy among the older kids; 2 girls and 1 boy among the younger; and 1 man and 2 woman of the adults (since the parents and grandparents opted not to play). Characters not played below are marked with
The Royals
- Elaina as Carsa the Regent's Daughter
- Jake as Gareth the Knight
- Sarah as Magda the Servant-girl (younger)
Jolene, Carsa's Attendant(adult)
The Druids
- Ellie as Alea the Prophetess.
Regan the Forest Guardian - Liz as Lynet the Healer (adult)
The Bandits
- Sydney as Starling the Bandit Leader
- Julia as Bridget the Witch
- Rachel as Tana the Thief
- Danny as Dory the Beast-tamer (adult)
Wilem the Giant(adult) - Milo as Mardel the Archer (younger)
- Ada as Zyr the Tiger (younger)
These are all on a webpage of the Redwood Realms.
The basic plot was that the royals were stopping to rest at the druids' sanctuary in the woods for the night while on a secret mission. The bandits planned to kidnap the regent's daughter. They would eventually find that they were on the same side, and support the druid's ritual that would find the queen's true heir. However, a fae creature had stolen the druids' chalice and wand that would be needed. So there would be fighting, negotiation, and finding clues leading to two items hidden in the woods. Liz had prepared two puzzles written on mock scrolls, which I hung in plain sight. When solved, the puzzles gave a clue to the location of the hidden item near where the scroll was hung.
By design, the plot was all contained in the characters themselves and the clues. The adult roles were all supporting.
The rules were simple. I went over the Scandanavian traditions of "cut" and "break" -- meaning "emergency - stop the larp" and "give me a minute." In combat, hits to the limb disable that limb, while hits to the body incapacitate. The magical characters (the witch and the druids) had unlimited healing, taking to the count of ten for each wound. There was to be no killing. Also, I said that magical characters could give instructions if they declared a power or hit you with a spell packet.
The Results
This was organized on short notice, so only Ellie knew her character in advance. The kids dressed themselves in RenFair outfits that they already had, without being based on character. The outfits were great, with the drawback being that the dresses were sometimes tricky for getting around in the woods.
In practice, loyalties shifted over the course of the game. There were many negotiations during the game. The prophetess ended up alienating most of the others by insisting that she knew everything (which she nearly did), while refusing to tell even when captured and held at swordpoint. There were several attempts to kidnap the regent's daughter.
On a social level, I had split up three whom I knew were close into different groups: Ellie and her friends Julia and Jake. Eventually Ellie and Julia got together on the excuse of magical undertakings.
The youngest player, Ada, spotted the first scroll. The puzzles were difficult given the limited time and the distractions of going out to fight, so Danny mostly did the first one. The second Ellie and Julia mostly solved on their own, but as we were almost out of time, I helped them with it.


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I would agree that it's glass half full, which means half empty ... and so on a good day Harper looks good, on a bad day he looks bad.
Problem is, what the world community needs desperately right now is a conservative leader with the sort of stand-up-and-fight mentality of Vaclav Havel, but he was representing too small a player, it needs to be Harper or more ideally Cameron, or best case scenario Sarah Palin.
Somebody has to start swinging hard at the globalist lurching frankenstein monster, whether you view it from the Hubert Mitchell perspective or just see it as the mass-unconcsious synergy of millions of leftist-progressive dreams of socialist utopia randomly coalescing around opportunities such as climate change and gay rights, the conclusions are the same, we face the hell on earth of becoming Chinese colonies and wage slaves ever more squeezed and then placated by a new flood of cheap trinkets to make our situations tolerable.
We have to get off the globalist treadmill and overthrow political correctness, otherwise our societies will rot from within and something strong and energetic, whether Islam or Chinese communism, will take over the structure. In fact, I agree with those who say, we need to investigate very carefully the links between Chinese cash under the table and our political elites. Who is in the pay of the Beijing government even today? There have been suggestions that this includes cabinet ministers at various levels of government. With the steady flow of resources out to China at very favourable exchange rates vis-a-vis the flood of return trade, it can be argued that we are already more or less the crown jewel of the Chinese empire, with financing partly supplied by the co-operative friends in the Gulf states.
Liberals are only concerned about their entitlements. They neither notice these things, nor care about them. Among them, there is a great nostalgia for the hippie times when Chairman Mao was the icon of revolutionary change. The idea of becoming Chinese slaves probably appeals to most Canadian pot-smoking progressives. Harper says he's a conservative but increasingly, he thinks like a liberal -- "how do I get things really cushy for my faction, my tribe?" It may work well short-term in high-vote-yield areas but in the long term there is no strategic thinking about our place in the world, what if the Chinese decide to squeeze us harder for our resources?
Harper doesn't think in terms of personal freedom or cultural integrity, he's really more of a textbook economist and probably an asset in that limited sense, but if we lose our souls what good is the second car in the driveway? His attitude to abortion tells a lot, it would cost him nothing politically to say that he had personal misgivings about abortion but he makes it sound like he isn't going to let that "fringe issue of evangelicals" end his stay at 24 Sussex Drive -- I wonder what he says on Sundays about all that.


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Head of Technology
Location - London
Rapha is growing internationally, it is a true global brand and business. We have customers and staff all over the world. Being able to service and support them is crucial to our continued success. We have a business strategy that has created a unique customer experience via our website, retail network (Rapha Cycle Clubs) and our wholesale business.
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You will need to show us the following experience, skills and aptitudes:
- Extensive knowledge and experience of business and enterprise systems in a B2C e-commerce environment.
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Head of Retail Operations
The vision is for Rapha to be a leading edge multi-channel direct retailer, offering the most rewarding experience to cyclists whether interacting with the brand online, in store, at events or through mobile devices.
In addition to rapha.cc, Rapha operates fully owned retail outlets, known as 'Rapha Cycle Clubs' in London, San Francisco and Osaka. Conceived as meeting places for Rapha customers and like-minded cyclists, the cycle clubs as part café, part screening room and gallery and part shop. As well as performing a valuable brand building and service role, the cycle clubs also drive significant revenue and operate profitably. Rapha plans to open more permanent cycle clubs around the world in the next 4 years.
Rapha is now looking to appoint a Head of Retail Operations to drive and manage roll out of future Rapha cycle clubs and coordinate management of Rapha physical retail around the world, as well as standardising and integrating the customer experience across our physical and online stores.
The role
Rapha's Head of Retail Operations will be responsible for planning, coordinating and managing the roll out and operation of all Rapha Cycle clubs.
The Head of Retail Operations will sit on the Rapha management team and report to the CEO. The role will require close working with the Rapha regional Heads of Sales and Marketing (regional P&L owners) and the Rapha COO. The role is likely to be based in London, but will involve considerable international travel.
- Plan and lead the roll out of Cycle clubs internationally.
- Ensure that all Rapha cycle clubs deliver outstanding customer experience that connects all customers to the sport of road cycling through high touch service, content, events, Rapha products and the food and beverage offer. Standardise and integrate the customer experience across physical and online stores.
- Careful financial management to ensure that cycle clubs deliver an excellent return to the business. This includes full profit and loss responsibility across all stores.
- Responsibility for progress against agreed strategic objectives and key performance indicators (to include customer satisfaction and service metrics, density analysis, stock sell through etc).
- Overall responsibility for all Rapha retail staff especially Cycle Club managers.
- Build a central Retail Operations team to support the set up and operation of cycle clubs.
- Champion the cycle clubs internally. Work closely with the Rapha leadership team and other functions.
- Ensure that the culture, integrity and values of the Rapha brand and company underlie all activity
- Ensure the in store customer experience integrates seamlessly with Rapha online. Manage the online representation of the cycle clubs, events calendars etc on Rapha.cc and social media.
- Manage all cycle clubs to make them vibrant meeting places at the heart of the local cycling community. Coordinate events and content across the network of CCs and share best practice.
- Work with existing architects and contractors plus introduce new partners as needed.
Core competencies
- Understanding of and affinity for the Rapha brand and business model.
- Appreciation of design, luxury and leading edge retail practices.
- Strong understanding of hospitality and service-based retail.
- Knowledge and interest in food and beverage operations.
- Excellent retail operations and staff management skills.
- Preferably, some multi-channel and / or online experience, with a strong understanding of the operational requirements of a business with a significant online element.
- Energy, determination and ambition and the ability to succeed in a fast growing and fast paced business.
- A leader, with vision and understanding of strategic business issues.
- Ability to communicate effectively with suppliers and employees at home and overseas, and to inspire and motivate them.
- Understanding of risks, regulatory, insurance and compliance issues for retail operations internationally.
- A planning mentality with proven ability to manage projects effectively.
The ideal candidate for the role will have spent at least eight years working in a retail management or retail operations role, or in the hospitality industry. The candidate will have international experience and be used to considerable travel.
A competitive salary and benefits package is offered. To apply for this position please send your CV, in confidence, to: email@example.com
Head of Sales and Marketing: Asia-Pacific
Rapha has been present in the Asia Pacific region for over 5 years, starting with operations in Japan. Investment in the Australian market followed three years ago and for the last 12 months local marketing activity has started in Taiwan, Korea and SE Asian markets. Rapha has a head of sales and marketing and marketing team in Japan, plus marketing managers in Australia and Singapore.
The cycling market is growing rapidly in Asian markets and Rapha is expanding quickly. To manage this growth and drive the business further in the region, the company is now looking to appoint a Head of Sales and Marketing for the entire Asia Pacific region.
The role
The Head of Sales and Marketing for Asia Pacific will lead and coordinate all sales and marketing activity and drive business growth in the region.
We have ambitious growth plans for Rapha and believe that Asia Pacific sales can increase as a proportion of total sales as the overall business grows in the next few years. For this to happen we need to bolster the strategic and commercial management of Rapha operations in the region, pulling the team together under an experienced regional head who can drive brand awareness and customer acquisition and retention.
The Asia Pac Head will report to the Chief Executive and CMO and is likely to be based in a new Rapha office in Hong Kong or Singapore.
- Local customer insight and marketing planning.
- Asia Pacific Marketing communications planning and execution.
- Plan and drive regional expansion (especially in Taiwan, Korea and China).
- Drive and manage regional sales.
- Leading and coordinating the regional team (Australia, Japan, SE Asia, etc).
- Marketing measurement and weekly and monthly reporting to London.
Core competencies
- Understanding of and affinity for the Rapha brand and business model.
- Excellent grasp of leading edge marketing practices.
- Appreciation of luxury, quality and the high end consumer.
- Strong understanding of road cycling and road racing.
- Excellent marketing and communications management skills across the marketing mix.
- Excellent knowledge of Asia Pacific markets and Asian cyclists / cycling.
- Market entry Planning skills.
- Creativity to follow the Rapha approach and step outside established industry conventions.
- Ability to conceive and manage activities and campaigns that are based on story telling.
- Energy, determination and ambition.
- Self sufficient and able to build local infrastructure / office and systems as needed.
- A leader, with vision and understanding of strategic marketing issues.
- Team building and people management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers and employees and to inspire and motivate them.
- A planning mentality with proven ability to manage projects effectively.
The ideal candidate for the role will have spent at least ten years working in a senior marketing or communications role, either client or agency side. The candidate will have considerable experience in Asia Pacific markets and be used to considerable travel.
The candidate is more likely to come from an active-sports, luxury or fashion background than have deep experience in the cycling industry.
The ideal candidate will already be an active road cyclist and have empathy for core Rapha customers.
A competitive salary and benefits package is offered. To apply for this position please send your CV, in confidence, to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Logistics Manager
Location - London
Rapha is a luxury road cycling apparel brand. We sell our products through our website as well as through our Rapha Cycle Clubs and we have created a new range in partnership with Team SKY. The business continues to experience rapid growth and expansion. This newly created Logistics Manager role will be critical to our continued success and growth.
The Role
Reporting directly to the Supply Chain Director, and working closely with the production, customer service and merchandising teams, this role will manage all aspects of a third party warehousing and dispatch operation based in the UK and the US. The role will be responsible for all delivery of orders from the warehouses to customers via our global network. It will also involve the design, development and implementation of new overseas logistics hubs, to underpin our global expansion programme.
- Build the outbound logistics strategy – including global network design and aligning them with businesses requirements.
- Step change Rapha's outbound logistics capability based on leading methodology.
- Risk assess the outbound supply chain and devise mitigation plans to secure deliveries.
- Improve 3PL supplier flexibility and responsiveness to underpin Rapha's product and growth plans.
- Negotiate with carriers and implement new carrier services to suit out international and premium shipping offer.
- Troubleshoot delivery issues linking closely with the customer service team.
- Work with the merchandising team on seasonal stock planning.
- Set, manage and report 3PL KPIs.
- Ensure Rapha are always tax and duty compliant.
- Field customer related order queries related to parcel delivery.
- Map worldwide duties/freight costs and devise ways to make them cost efficient for customers.
- Review packaging formats and make improvements as appropriate.
Candidate Profile
- At least 5 years logistics expertise, ideally in managing some aspect of warehouse/ dispatch/ shipping operations of an eCommerce B2C business.
- Understanding of duties and taxes.
- Knowledgeable about global parcel carrier companies.
- Trained in logistics best practice.
- Experience in creating and delivering robust network design strategies.
- Adept at running and using logistics processes, tools, techniques and systems.
- Seasoned trouble-shooter with excellent judgement in manoeuvring through challenging situations.
- Commercially astute and savvy.
- Flexible in switching between big picture and detail, planned and reactive strategy.
- Strong communication skills.
- Dynamic, resilient and very sharp.
- Experience of the garment trade is beneficial but not a must.
- Ideally already a road cyclist, or have a love of active sports.
For further information please apply in confidence to email@example.com
Global Customer Relationship Manager
Rapha is growing internationally, it is a true global brand and business with customers all over the world. Being able to service and support them is crucial to our continued success. We have a business strategy that has created a unique customer experience via our website, retail network (Rapha Cycle Clubs) and our wholesale business. We have reached a position in our growth to appoint a Global Customer Relations Manager to lead and manage the global customer service function and ensure it meets world class best practice service levels.
- Advise on best practice methods of communication including new methods, e.g. social platforms, live chat.
- Coordinate international customer service teams to ensure a consistent customer experience of communication, returns and repairs process and shipping service levels, considering geography, time, and language differences.
- Ensure the customer experience is consistent across non-web sales channels such as physical retail stores.
- Provide reports to the business including regular customer feedback to the Product and Marketing teams and monthly statistics on productivity and adherence to service levels.
- Ensure efficiency of the international teams through staff training, preparation of guidance manuals and implementation of performance metrics.
- Coach, develop and train staff to ensure a single tone of voice and appropriate Rapha product and general cycling knowledge.
Skills and qualifications will ideally include:
- Experience of best practice customer service operations gained in a truly global operating environment.
- The ability to identify and initiate process improvement using the latest technology and innovations.
- Education to degree level and experience in the retail, distribution or logistics industries.
- An experienced customer service professional with a clear understanding and commitment to the importance of customer service, ideally in an online, multi channel retail business.
- Significant experience of a leading edge OMS, Warehouse Integration and Inventory Tracking systems and processes.
- Critical analysis/decision making ability.
- High level of self-motivation with a positive, solution focused attitude.
- Strong people management skills with a passion for learning and development.
- A passion for operations management and be process improvement.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and motivate across a global organization and throughout multiple departments.
- Proven management experience in a front line customer service team.
- A genuine appreciation of the impact of world class customer service, and the desire to deliver at an industry-best standard.
- Passion for cycling.
- Knowledge of technical, performance, or luxury products.
Could this be you? If so then please apply in confidence to email@example.com
Management Accountant
Rapha is continually growing its business internationally and across multiple retail channels. With rapid growth in the business we are looking to hire a skilled and experienced management accountant to add value to the monthly reporting process and assist in driving the development of key reporting to senior management.
The management accountant role will include producing monthly management accounts, preparing key analysis and reporting to heads of departments. Additionally the role will include controlling the processing of sales invoices and receipts, as well as maintaining the sales ledger. As Rapha continues to grow an important aspect of the role will be in assisting in the development of key financial reporting to senior management. Accordingly we are looking to recruit a skilled management accountant with experience in international, multi-channel financial analysis.
- Work with the Financial Accountant to produce the monthly management accounts.
- To effectively report actual spend against budget and analyse variances.
- To develop and report KPI's.
- To consolidate the regional and company accounts into group format.
- To reconcile all monthly prepayments and accruals.
- Ensure that all sales invoices are accurately and efficiently processed.
- Ensure the accurate and timely processing of all receipts.
- Ensure that all Debtor accounts are kept up to date and reconciled monthly.
- Assist in the annual and monthly reforecasting.
- Assist in developing new internal reporting Heads of departments.
Skills and experience
- Qualified or finalist CIMA accountant with a minimum of 4 years of experience in a management accounting role.
- Attention to detail with a good sense of commerciality and an analytical mind.
- Strong excel and presentation skills.
- Strong organisation and communication skills.
- Ability to communicate financial information to non-financial audiences.
- Preferably experience in an international, multi-channel retail business.
- An interest in cycling and the business culture is an advantage.
A competitive salary and benefits package is offered. To apply for this position please send your CV, in confidence, to email@example.com
Financial Accountant
Location: London
The Financial Accountant will report directly to the Finance Manager and will involve day to day management of two junior members of staff. The role will consist of managing the daily processing of financial information, payments to suppliers, controlling the financial ledgers and monthly reconciliation of accounts.
- Managing the financial accounts team
- Maintaining sales and purchase ledgers, overseeing payment to suppliers
- Preparing month end reconciliations, accruals and prepayments
- Ensuring the accurate costing of stock and reconciliation of stock accounts
- UK and EU VAT returns
- Managing financial relationships with suppliers
- Supporting finance manager with annual consolidation of financial accounts
- Seek to identify and implement improvement to controls and processes
Skills and experience
- Qualified Accountant (preferably ACCA)
- Experience in an international retail business with exposure to group accounting would be advantageous
- Previous experience in managing a team of accountants
- Strong organisation and communication skills
- Must have good attention to detail and strong excel skills
- Keen road cyclist would be ideal
A competitive salary and benefits package is offered. To apply for this position please send your CV, in confidence, to email@example.com
HR Manager
Location: London
Salary - competitive plus benefits
As Rapha expands both in the UK and abroad we are continually looking for new skills and expertise. We are recruiting for an experienced HR Manager to hire the best new people and to help our employees deliver to their full potential. This is a new position reporting to the COO. The individual will be skilled at the full range of HR disciplines including organisational design, resource planning, recruitment, induction, talent management, learning & development, reward & benefits and succession planning.
- Develop the HR strategy with the leadership team.
- Lead organisation design and implement a robust resourcing process.
- Run recruitment, finding excellent candidates quickly and cost effectively.
- Upgrade the induction process for new starters to ensure smooth on-boarding.
- Facilitate a fair and efficient appraisals process and ensure clear personal objectives are set.
- Set up a learning and development programme and run inspiring training modules.
- In time, set up coaching for The Leadership Team and Senior Managers.
- Upgrade succession planning to ensure our talent is nurtured and kept in the business.
- Review and upgrade the benefits package.
- Create a staff handbook for relevant HR information.
- Step change internal communication to employees.
- Manage staff records and payroll and oversee the staff budget.
- Advise the business on relevant employment law and best practice.
- Step change working efficiency as Rapha renovates their offices.
- 7+ years post graduate experience in a leading edge Human Resources environment.
- Skilled in each of the HR disciplines especially talent management and learning & development.
- The ability to flex between thinking strategically and acting hands-on.
- Confident, inspiring and proactive with the ability to influence at board level.
- Articulate with excellent writing skills and an eye for detail.
- Exceptionally well-organised with good communication skills.
- Experience of working in a similar high growth business would be beneficial.
- Understanding of international employment law.
- A CIPD is useful but not essential.
- An interest in cycling be a significant advantage.
To apply for this position please send your CV, in confidence, to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Customer Service Advisor
Location: London
Rapha has an excellent reputation for the highest standards of customer service. Our customers have grown to expect and demand a highly personalised "high touch" customer experience, whenever they interface with the customer service team on matters of product advice, returns and general enquiries. We are looking to grow the team and increase our language capability to respond to our growing European and international customer base.
- Salary: Competitive salary and benefits package, TBC
- Position: Full time
The Role
- Act as an initial point of contact and member of the CS Team while assisting with all customers.
- Maintain the Rapha ethos of providing exemplary customer service.
- Communicate with customers in a polite and professional manner.
- Provide timely communication with customers via email or phone, regarding returns, order processing, online registration and product enquiries.
- Identify cross-selling opportunities for related products or alternatives.
- Keep abreast of product characteristics, future stock deliveries, promotions and customer service policies.
- Maintain active use and knowledge of the Rapha website and back office systems.
- Liaise with the distribution, shipping and finance functions to resolve customer queries.
- Assist the distribution and shipping functions when required.
- Observe at all times customer confidentiality and company policy surrounding data protection and security.
The Candidate
- Written and spoken fluency in English is essential and other European languages are highly desirable (particularly French and German).
- A passion for cycling and ideally knowledge of cycling culture within Europe.
- Experience in delivering an excellent customer experience and resolving customer enquiries as a Customer Care Advisor, Sales Assistant or similar, ideally in an apparel retail environment.
- Ability to improve working processes in a fast growing company and develop ideas to improve the customer experience.
- Articulate with exceptional writing skills (including good spelling and grammar).
- Excellent eye for detail and organisational skills.
- Experience with Microsoft office applications.
- Previous experience of a back office web system or and content management system is desirable but not essential.
- Knowledge of Data Protection issues desirable but not essential.
- Ability to adapt to the changing structure of a growing company and team.
- Ability to manage time effectively with a diverse workload.
To apply for this position please send your CV, in confidence, to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Front End Developer
Location: London
As a result of exceptional sales growth in the last 12 months, Rapha is looking to expand its team by moving its front end website development in-house. Based in the London Head office, this position will support Rapha's wider Design and eCommerce functions, and be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the premium online shopping & content experience on the Rapha website.
The key tasks will include:
- Designing and producing standards-compliant hand-coded pages from wireframes, initial PSD mock-ups as well as original HTML designs.
- Effective prototyping of new page layouts to optimise the website user experience, minimise latency and maximise conversion.
- Optimising the website's design for various browsers and devices, including mobile and tablet.
- Liaising with other departments to gather requirements for new projects and ensure these are fully understood.
- Providing a creative edge to the existing team to support ongoing enhancements to the Rapha site.
- Working alongside the Heads of Design and eCommerce to identify areas of improvement.
- Creating campaign specific landing pages to optimise the performance of PPC & media campaigns.
- Project managing their time effectively to deliver continual improvements on the Rapha site.
- Debugging and fixing defects in existing code where these are detected.
Key skills and experience required:
- A great eye for design and a thorough understanding of how to improve user experience, with strong attention to detail, and a rigorous approach to testing.
- Proficient in front end development with demonstrable commercial experience.
- Extensive experience in HTML, HTML5, CSS 3, JavaScript and JQuery and the ability to write high-performance code. Prior experience with Blueprint CSS and a variety of other CSS frameworks is desirable.
- Extensive experience with Photoshop, Creative Suite and Imagery production / resizing / encoding.
- Ability to fit page designs into an inheriting WCMS component model. Prior work on the Hybris platform is an advantage.
- Proven experience in mobile site development and optimisation, as well as testing with mobile browsers.
- Creating responsive designs and using media queries to request appropriate images and media.
- Experience with international site development an advantage - notably using different character sets like Chinese and Japanese.
- Ability to rapidly-prototype, iterate and comfortably work with agile processes and Git-based version control systems.
- Solid knowledge of distributed systems and deployments and their effect on performance and user experience.
- Basic back-end development skills (e.g. Java, PHP, MySQL, Ruby-on-Rails)
- Proven experience with A/B and multivariate user-testing.
- Experience with social networking and third-party API integrations.
- Prior eCommerce site development and experience of user testing is beneficial.
- Preferably the candidate will be an active road cyclist.
To apply for this position please send your CV, in confidence, to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Marketing Internship
Rapha currently has a 6-12 month placement available for an intern in the marketing department at our London office, starting in May. You will gain first hand experience of many of our marketing and communications projects, including managing events, graphic design and website design. In addition there will be some specific projects to undertake such as the following:
Organising the seasonal photo shoot – Each season a team of riders and staff travels abroad to shoot new season clothing. All aspects of the trip have to be project managed within the constraints of the budget, including accommodation, flights, vehicle hire, riders (our models), sample clothing, and all other elements.
Adaptations – Co-ordinating and managing the process of translation across the Rapha website and literature. The company is global and currently translates website and printed content into a number of different languages. The Project Manager liaises with and co-ordinates everyone involved: copywriters, the translation agency, proof readers, implementation team, web and design teams.
You will gain experience through the following tasks:
- Developing practical solutions to marketing goals
- Be involved in the planning of projects and events
- Assisting in coordination and execution of events, design projects and daily tasks
Essential skills & requirements
- A passion for road cycling
- Hard working, driven and proven to be able to work to deadlines
- Likely to be studying or recently graduated in marketing, management or communications
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel is essential
- Ability to take initiative and follow through on tasks
- Must be reliable with excellent organisational skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong spoken and written English language
- A level of fluency in another European Language would be an advantage but not essential.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
The position will be competitively remunerated.
To apply please send us your CV and a covering letter explaining why you feel you are suited to Rapha and this internship. These should be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com
We'd welcome your ideas and feedback. Please use the contact details below.
For all questions about orders or general enquiries please contact:
+44 (0)20 7 485 5000
Rapha Racing Ltd
Imperial Works, Perren St.
London NW5 3ED
For US related enquiries and US returns please contact:
Rapha US
1915 NW Kearney St.
Portland, OR 97209


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Economics Department
Economics is the study of how people interact within their social and natural environments, and the constraints these environments impose, to provide goods and services for one another.
The Department of Economics at CSB/SJU offers students the opportunity to explore these interactions and to examine important economic issues and policies from the perspectives of various schools of economic thought.
Overview of Program
- Tier I of the program builds a foundation in economics, introducing the concepts and analytical tools economists use.
- Tier II courses call for students to apply the fundamentals in areas such as financial institutions, Asian economies, American economic history, international and environmental economics, economics of gender and race, and health care economics.
- Three Tier II courses (EC 332/333/332) provide the theoretical tools for advanced study.
- Tier III courses applying sophisticated economic tools to such topics as labor, industrial organization, economic growth and development, and monetary and welfare theories and policies.
- Tier III culminates with students completing an independent research project in economics (EC 384).
Program Highlights
- You will be exposed to many overlapping disciplines as the economics department branches out to form partnerships with Asian studies, environmental studies, gender and women's studies, philosophy, and theology.
- Our curriculum includes a required research seminar designed to give students the opportunity to take on real problems in the real world.
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Fedoras: Forever Alone
A compilation of the worst offenders in fashion: fedora wearers. Here we collect images of the men (mostly) of OkCupid who message us while wearing these horrible hats that are an instant deal breaker. A fedora speaks volumes about one's character. It implies that he is a basement dwelling, live action role playing, no social skills having, complete and utter geek in the worst sense of the word. Nobody looks good in a fedora, but these are the chumps that, not only look bad in them, but have single handedly brought the fedora so far out of fashion that we don't think that anything will bring them back. Shame on you geeks of America! Here is your wall of shame.
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County Republicans to open HQ tomorrow
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The Rockland County Republican Committee will hold a rally and open its 2009 campaign headquarters at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Clarkstown Plaza shopping mall in New City.
State Sen. Thomas Morahan, R-New City; County Sheriff James Kralik; and County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef will speak. They will outline their vision of Rockland's future and their plans for the campaign season, according to a party statement.
Vanderhoef is seeking re-election to a fifth four-year term. He is also running on the Conservative and Independence lines.
He is being challenged by Orangetown Town Supervisor Thom Kleiner on the Democratic line, and Andrew Spence on the Working Families line.
Election Day is Nov. 3.
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