text:
Today I'm going to show you how to do my Nails Of The Day (NOTD)!
This is my first post of this kind, but lets hope it's the first of many.
You can find my previous NOTD pics on my Instagram or Twitter feed, both visible in the sidebar.
Have fun!
What you need:
1 Base colour - I chose a bright pink but you can use any colour you want.
1 Glitter polish - I used a golden coloured glitter, but again you could use silver or any other glitter colour.
How to:
Paint your nails with 2 coats of your base colour
Leave to dry (~10 minutes)
Once it's dry, apply your glitter polish to the bottom of each nail
When you've done this, go over the bottom again to build up the density of the glitter
Do some small upwards strokes so the glitter appears to be settling gradually at the bottom of your nails
And you're done! You can mix up the colours however you like, and add your own flair to it.
|Final result :)
|This is another combination you could use!
I hope you enjoyed my first tutorial!! I'm planning on doing more, so keep an eye out. Make sure to check out my other online hangouts for updates and news - twitter, instagram & she said beauty, all of which are available in the sidebar!
Have you tried this out? What colours did you use? OR what colour combo would look good too? Let me know how I did with my first NOTD post in the comments below!
Ta-ta for now! xo


text:
As I am sure I wasn't the the first one to google 'What is 28ct linen in cm ?' I decided to look it up once-and-for-all, and keep the conversion chart handy.
Do remember when buying fabric for an embroidery project to calculate a large margin for both framing, and the occasional error. Beside, the fabric could fray and it would be a shame to reach the end of a project and realize you have too little fabric left for professional framing.
If perchance you do run out of fabric, don't panic ! You could always sew on an extra piece and hide the hem behind a pass partout.
Aida 11ct / 4.3pts cm
Aida 14ct / 5.5pts cm
Aida 16ct / 6.3pts cm
Aida 18ct / 7.1pts cm
Evenweave/ Linen 20ct / 8fils cm
Evenweave/ Linen 25ct / 10fils cm
Evenweave/ Linen 28ct / 11fils cm
Evenweave/ Linen 32ct / 12fils cm
Evenweave/ Linen 36ct / 14fils cm
Here are a few photos of a lovely antique Sajou pattern I just finished re-charting, I am not sure what type of rose it is, but it's beautiful.
|Signed 'Sajou'
|Lovely details
|Pattern available here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/221021200/old-rose-cross-stitch-pattern-instant?ref=shop_home_active_4
Not much garden news in February, but I did want to share a pic. of my cute little cactuses. Grown from seeds that came from Mexico, these tiny little prickly plants have very slowly grown and thrives in my living room.
|Tiny Mexican cactuses growing on a Norwegian window sill.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Hi all,
3 exciting new African coffees have gone on the website today, you should take a look and (of course) buy a bag of each too! If you fancy a bit of a sneaky CGP discount on these coffees head over to the Members Clubroom (that's my discounting face)
Ethiopia Shakiso Abyot Boru Washed
In the cup there's a fresh lemon, hot liquid lemon...tart, zingy, juicy and covered in lemon zest. Think of a hot summers day when you slice a lemon to put in a drink, you get that waft of lemonyness, it's that right there in a coffee. There's a little black tea in the finish but overall it's lemony lemon, deliciously different.
http://www.hasbean.co.uk/products/ethio ... oru-washed
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Gedeb Kurume Washed
In the cup it's all about the fruit, loads of apricot up front which is backed up by buckets of fruit sweetness. The acidity is lower than you might expect from a washed Ethiopian, I'd even go as far as to call it soft. In the finish it's super delicate, there's a real floral edge with hints of jasmine.
http://www.hasbean.co.uk/products/ethio ... ume-washed
Tanzania Burka Block D Bourbon / Kent Natural
In the cup expect sweet red liquorice mixed with a real hit of thick dried fruit, think juicy currants or a particularly big cluster of sultanas smushed together. There's a little smokiness to the cup but overall it's dominated by the sweet liquorice and dried fruit.
http://www.hasbean.co.uk/products/tanza ... nt-natural


text:
It is true. And I feel guilty about it. As an out-of-the-book-cupboard bibliophile it is only right that I should make this public confession.
I have been buying about three hundred books every year for at least the last two decades. Some years more, some less. In some years the money I spent was pretty close to my annual income, the money that I lived off coming from buying and selling more books. And living off apples that grew in the back yard of the house I lived in.
When I started collecting books, many of the books I bought were new. But it doesn't take long before you have all the ones that you want—at least, all the ones that you want that are available new at your local bookshops. So I came to rely on local second-hand bookshops, which have a much, much wider range than new bookshops. They also have older books obviously, and I liked old books, just for being old.
When I started travelling interstate, I started hunting out and visiting bookshops, which I would trawl on massive book-buying binges. Then I started buying from the catalogues from these bookshops, and others I heard of, but could never visit. Then catalogues from overseas. Then I joined societies like the Early English Text Society and the Malone Society, so I could get my hands on reprints of obscure titles I would never find or afford second-hand.
And then, may the techno-gods be praised, the internet was born! Tim Berners-Lee might have invented the World Wide Web in March 1989, but I first used a computer with internet access in the early 1990s—using Telnet and then Eudora for email. The first web browser didn't come into existence until 1993 either. Imagine, I had been using a Mac since 1987, but had to wait six or seven years before it was any more useful to me than a typewriter.
In 1996 AbeBooks.com started. Apparently, it went live and "immediately began to transform the world's used book business by making hard-to-find books easy to locate and purchase." It wasn't the only search-engine for books. BookFinder.com was launched in 1997 and Alibris was founded in 1997. So, by the end of 1997, online bookselling was everywhere.
Looking back over my journal of purchases, in 1996 I bought 225 books, but only three from overseas. In the following years the number slowly but steadily increased: 3, 8, 21, 15, 28, 36 etc. And since I was working at a large antiquarian bookshop and most of my money was spend at the shop I worked, this last figure represents a very significant proportion of the money I was spending on books outside of the shop.
And now, and for the last few years, almost all my book spending is overseas. And the books that I am buying locally tend to be less and less significant: these days it is pretty much only sci fi pulps with pretty covers. Stuff I could easily do without. Some are almost pity-purchases and nostalgic book-tourism.
Obviously, some of this change is the result of my increasing specialisation as a collector, but I have only been able to specialise as a collector because it has been possible to do so by buying from overseas dealers. After all, it wouldn't have mattered how many shops I visited in Australia, I would never have found a single book by Haywood. As so I have only been able to buy as many works by Haywood because I was able to buy from overseas dealers.
All of which means that, every time a local second-hand bookshop goes broke, or shuts its doors to go online only, I feel guilty. There was a time when my money was propping up these local bookshops, and there was a time when there were a lot of local bookshops for me to spread my money around. Now, there are few shops and those which are still open aren't getting any help from me.
And this is true of new books too. I probably buy more new books now than I have for years, decades even. Once I started lecturing I found that I needed a lot more new books—highly specialised academic titles which are not in any local bookshop—ones I could not simply wait to turn up at a good price. Books that I wouldn't find, even in academic bookshops like the old Oxford and Cambridge Bookshop in Sydney (now Abbeys). Some of these books I am still picking up second hand, but increasingly I am buying them new from Book Depository and Fishpond.
(For a while there, I was relying on Amazon, but their postage rates have become more and more painful—especially since there is no discount for multiple titles. Partly, I assume, because the whole system is automated. Now, it is Book Depository—which is post free—or, if I am in a hurry and they have it in stock, Fishpond.)
Not surprisingly, Book Depository was one of the sites mentioned recently as the reason why A&R and Boarders have gone belly-up. These big bookshops cannot compete with online sellers either on range or price—not by a long shot. And, for a specialist collector like me, places like A&R and Boarders had nothing to offer in terms of knowledge and advice either. Of course, I thought they were surviving on bestsellers and general-interest readers. It looks like they weren't! It looks like they needed me. Rats!
So, every other day a parcel arrived from overseas and every other day another local bookshop closed. And, once again, it was my fault and I feel guilty about it. But I won''t be changing my book-buying habits any time soon. Sorry.
Saturday, 26 February 2011
It is my fault that all the local bookshops are folding
Posted by Patrick Spedding at Saturday, February 26, 2011
Labels: Book Collecting, Online
1 comment:
- Doc-in-Boots said...
Although, I found the last few times I ventured into Borders, the books were disorganised, there were only random volumes from different series, books weren't shelved in logical places and when staff were approached, they'd simply stare at the space on the shelf I'd just been staring at, often telling me that obviously the book had arrived, but was still boxed up. Which is not to excuse the entire shift in my buying habits, but it didn't help.
- 4 March 2011 at 20:43
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
A rough draft of the Downtown Master Plan drawn up by consultants Goody-Clancy won't be presented to the public on Sept. 18, as was originally planned.
In a meeting on Sept. 8, the Downtown Master Plan Advisory Committee voted to push back the unveiling because of reservations with the current draft.
"Personally, I think it would be a very big mistake to take this draft to the public," said committee member and downtown developer Chuck Tessier.
At the meeting, several committee members aired issues with the current version of the plan. David Dixon and Benjamin Carlson of Goody-Clancy, who participated via conference call, said they would soon respond to those concerns, but the committee would have little time to consider those responses before the Sept. 18 date. Other members said they would like to see more consensus on the part of the committee before approaching the public with the draft.
Meanwhile, Dixon, Carlson and the city's project manager, Sasha Vrtunski, all mentioned that the consulting project is going over budget and that there may be a need to go back to Asheville City Council to ask for more money for the project.
A new date for the public presentation has not been announced.
— Brian Postelle, staff writer


text:
Our annual School Athletics Day is scheduled for Friday 6th November. The students are required to be in school PE Gear with a hat. There will be prizes for best lounging, best hat, best banner, chant etc. Parents and family more than welcome to attend. The day will run from 9am until 2:30pm. See you there!
Announcements >


text:
Hello, all!
Well, I made it safely to Israel in spite of travel delays. I am currently typing on my phone, so forgive the spelling and punctuation errors.
Anyway, I am just popping in to say that you can follow me on instagram to get updates on my trip. I am using instagram to keep my family updated, as well, so I will hopefully be posting every day.
I hope you have a wonderful day!


text:
Ditching What Doesn't Work and Finding What Does
When we began our first-grade spelling lessons last year, it took me a little while to figure out that what we were doing wasn't working for my daughter. Did she protest when I brought out her spelling book? No. Did she drag her heels and take forever to complete her work? No. Was she enjoying her lessons? Yes, she was. So what could possibly be the problem? While I want my children to enjoy their learning, a smiling face isn't always the best indication of a successful learning experience. You see, learning has to actually happen!
This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for details.
When choosing and planning our studies, I always consult my trusty copy of The Well Trained Mind. I've already mentioned that I love this book and it has greatly influenced my educational philosophy and material selection. I lean heavily toward the classical camp of homeschooling, but I also appreciate many of the other approaches especially Charlotte Mason. Anyways, I think that the WTM really misses the boat on this one. My copy, the newest edition available, recommends Spelling Workout. The problem we had using Spelling Workout was that there didn't appear to be much rhyme or reason to how it was teaching spelling. And that it wasn't really TEACHING anything actually. It seems to be your standard workbook and might work well for some kids who are already good spellers. But it failed to teach my daughter ANY spelling rules and suffice it to say that my daughter had zero retention of any of the material covered. I would hazard a guess that if the WTM is ever revised a fourth time it will recommend All About Spelling.
I must say that I was totally wrong in believing that a child who reads well, loves books and is exposed to quality literature will automatically spell well.
So after our SWO flop last winter, I started looking into other options. There is a lot of buzz in homeschool circles about All About Spelling. Everywhere I looked people were recommending it and All About Learning Press' reading curriculum All About Reading. I hesitated in purchasing the curriculum though, for two reasons: the first being that I had never seen or handled the curriculum myself; and second that it is a very costly program. Spelling Workout A can be purchased for $18, and each subsequent workbook is approximately the same cost. To get started with AAS in comparison, you need to plunk down $29 for a starter kit and then $38 for Level 1. Subsequent levels are in the ballpark of $50 each! And then you have to factor in shipping from a curriculum supplier as it is not available on Amazon.
So I spent the winter trying to do spelling on my own. I have zero knowledge of spelling rules and am myself not a great speller. There are graded spelling lists available online, and these I taught in the method commonly in use in public schools (according to a friend who is both a parent of young elementary children and a public school teacher). At the start of the week, I would do a pretest. My daughter would get approximately 5-7 out of 10 words correct. On day two she would copy the words. On day three she would alphabetize the list. On day four she would build the words with letter tiles. I was trying to add some multi-sensory experience to our learning a la AAS 😉 I used these tiles. On the final day, I would re-test her. And this is where it got interesting – she would get the same or almost the same score as she had on the first day BUT SHE DIDN'T ALWAYS SPELL THE SAME WORDS WRONG! She was often spelling words incorrectly that she had previously gotten right. And vice versa.
So after several months, we quit spelling altogether and I just kept thinking about AAS.
This fall I had the opportunity to purchase the AAS Basic Interactive Kit (starter kit) and Level 1 used. So I jumped on it and we have been enjoying it. And most importantly, my daughter is LEARNING from it. So am I, and that my friends, is what this learning mama is all about! We have cruised through Level 1 which I think is about a first-grade level, and are one lesson away from being finished. So without further ado, I will show you how we have been using our All About Spelling Level 1:
We begin each lesson by reviewing our Phonogram Cards, Sound Cards, and Key Cards. Then we review 10 spelling words from our cards in the "mastered" section. I try to shuffle them well so there is a good mix of all the recent rules we have learned.
Next, I demonstrate the new teaching using the letter tiles. The letter tiles are really great – read all about why they are so great on the All About Learning Press Blog. Then my daughter practices a few words using the tiles. The instructor's guide specifies that the student is to spell all 10 words in the list using the tiles before moving on to writing them by hand. Since my daughter is finding the words really easy and doesn't like using the tiles very much, I allow her to move along quite quickly to writing. She loves the dry erase markers!
The last step in each lesson is dictation. At this point I dictate to her a few of the phrases, she repeats it back to me and then writes them down. This is working really well for her as we have just begun dictation in both our writing and grammar programs. And when we are all done, my daughter enjoys making a picture out of the words! She decorates the board to her heart's content and then little sister has the fun of erasing the whole thing.And just in time, look what came in the mail this week! Level 2 & 3 which I ordered from The Learning House: Here is the whole Level 2, complete with all the cards I get to separate and assemble into my review box. I didn't get to do that last time as the previous owner had done it for me. My daughter is curious what the "jail" is for. Is it for words she keeps spelling wrong? Or is for words that break the spelling rules? We will soon find out!
And it is worth noting that this curriculum is quite popular and holds it's value well so I should be able to resell it when we are done. It is almost completely non-consumable as well, with the exception of the progress charts and certificates, which we don't use anyway. So the cost of the program will be spread out between my three girls. I would have had to re-purchase SWO workbooks for each child, so in the end, this one might actually be cheaper, and re-sellable!
Update: I've now been using AAS for several years and am midway through Level 4 with my oldest (fourth grade) and preparing to start my first grader. It's an excellent program — and it is now included in the recommended resources for the fourth edition of The Well-Trained Mind.
15 Comments
merryathope March 3, 2015 at 5:16 pm
My daughter used to love drawing pictures around the words too! Great job on the review and pictures–what a cutie!
Brandy March 27, 2015 at 8:45 pm
We use All About Spelling as well. My daughter finished level 7 in the middle of 4th grade last year, so we then ordered Spelling Workout for continued practice since I didn't want to stop working on spelling so early. She's a great speller, so it's working out for her. Like your daughter, she really enjoys it, but thankfully she has the skills mastered from All About Spelling.
My boys are currently in levels 4 and 2 and they enjoy it as well. All three of my kids dislike the letter tiles like your daughter. I will use them at times to introduce a concept (I actually use them not the kids), but when it comes to the child practicing spelling, out come the dry erase markers. They don't like how long it takes to use the tiles when writing is so much faster. I just thought it was my kids since everyone else seems to love them.
It was fun reading your review!
Bonnie June 1, 2015 at 1:38 pm
during this year DS 1st grade we did the same switch! We are doing SO much better with AAS and mastery is finally happening. Good to know I'm not alone, even though I love WTM recommendations AAS is a huge success for us.
Karen @ The Simply Blog June 11, 2015 at 1:16 pm
We used Spelling Workout this year but I think we're going to switch for next year. In addition to a standard phonics program we used in Kindergarten last year, I decided to use the ABEKA Handbook for Reading for phonics review. My daughter loves the ABEKA readers and the Handbook for Reading pairs up with those. I found that the Spelling Workout book approached some of the phonics differently than ABEKA. So I think that for next year we may either use ABEKA for spelling or use the Explode the Code workbooks that we have left to complete and just use each lesson's words for spelling too.
Adrienne May 17, 2016 at 8:16 am
We had the same experience, all the way from WTM to SWO to AAS. My DD is a strong reader, but her spelling was awful. We went through all of SWO and I don't think she learned a thing. We started AAS in February, and I think we might make it through Level 1 this year. If not, oh well, at least she is actually mastering the material. I am confident she will be on target by next year. Thanks for sharing!
Veronica May 26, 2016 at 1:36 pm
Thank you for sharing this! I'm in search of a spelling curriculum and was just about to go with Spelling Workout after consulting The Well-Trained Mind but then I came upon your post and am so glad I did. I'll have to look into AAS again. We have level 1, but I haven't worked through it yet. It looks like we have similar goals for our homeschool. I'll have to come and check out more of your blog soon.
Mid Year Homeschool Review: What's Working and What's Not - Learning Mama February 13, 2017 at 7:55 am
[…] writing, grammar, and spelling curriculum. We are chugging along making good progress through the lessons and the kids are […]
Bonnie Way aka the Koala Mom February 22, 2017 at 11:10 am
Hmm, interesting review. I think I've heard of this program from my friends here. I'll keep in mind what you've said about assessing what your child is learning not just whether they are enjoying it. 🙂
Jen February 22, 2017 at 9:08 pm
This was awesome as my kids love spelling workout. However you must find what teaches your child. 🙂 Thanks for sharing


text:
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Greater America?
That reminded me that a Pew survey from 2002 which I've written about before asked people for their views on the statement "There are parts of neighboring countries that really belong to [survey country]." The options were strongly agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree, and strongly disagree. About 13% said "don't know"; rather than treating those as missing values, I regarded them as a form of disagreement--in effect, "not as far as I know." To simplify things, I reduced the answers to agree and disagree plus don't know.
In the United States, 29% agreed. That was 38th of 42 nations in the sample--only Kenya, Ukraine, France, and Canada were lower. Still, it was higher than I expected--given the geographical location of the United States and its history of expansion, it's hard for me to imagine what "parts of neighboring countries" people could be referring to. None of the questions in the survey illuminate this point, but I looked at what kinds of people were more likely to say yes. Education was an important factor: over 40% of people who were not high school graduates agreed, but only 13% of those with a graduate degree. Agreement was higher among conservatives, people who said that religion was more important in their lives, and people who said the government controls too much of our daily lives.
So far, this is starting to sound like it fits into the usual right wing plus disaffected working class account of Trump supporters. Maybe they would respond to a call for "fifty-four forty or fight"? But there are some discordant findings. Racial/ethnic differences are small, but agreement is higher among blacks and Hispanics than among whites. People who agreed that the government had a responsibility to take care of poor people who couldn't take care of themselves were more likely to agree. Views on a couple of questions suggesting alienation from the government (when something is run by the government, it's usually inefficient and wasteful and the government is run for the benefit of all the people) had little or no relation to views on whether their were parts of other countries that really belonged to us.
Rather than a hidden reservoir of irredentist sentiment, I suspect that the "agrees" represent a combination of historical ignorance and idiosyncratic answers (for example, I could imagine someone treating Guantanomo Bay as a reason to say yes).
[Data from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research]
2 comments:
I am writing a piece on Trump. I am immersed in his books and have looked at some Roper polls on him. His portrayal of himself is fascinating. One example, NYC couldn't rebuild a skating rink in Central Park (Wolman Rink). Trump offered to do it for free (on heels of his rise to fame in the mid-1980s). The parks commissioner came by to see how construction was proceeding and Trump notes how he had his "security forces" keep the commissioner out of the building site. He is a dictatorial and manipulative NYC real estate developer. He often tries to get people angry at "racial" minorities (such as when he took out an ad in the NY Daily News to reinstate the death penalty after the Central Park jogger case).ReplyDelete
Robert Paxton seems to be the go-to expert on fascism in history. He provides this definition in his 2004 book:
"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
Trump started dabbling seriously in presidential politics in 1999. His books usually tell us that the USA is a victim of....the Chinese, Saudi Arabia, Mexico. Recently he has stated he would deport Mexicans en masse and has cited the precedent of Roosevelt in interning Muslims. Trump is an oligarch who cannot be disciplined by campaign contributions. Trump's ex-wife told Vanity Fair (in 1990) that he would keep a copy of "der Furher's" collected speeches on his nightstand. Either way, Trump is a very calculating and manipulative person (as are most politicians). But Trump does things and crosses lines others have not crossed and he takes great pride in "following through."
I know Paxton is a well-regarded historian, but that definition of fascism is pretty useless, since a movement can't qualify unless it actually takes power. I think the problem with "is X a fascist?" debates is that the historical fascist movements didn't really have an ideological core--they were just a number of authoritarian movements that occurred at about the same time and place. "Is X an authoritarian" would be a more meaningful question.ReplyDelete


text:
[Date] 2016/6/1 23:02:44 [Author] [Come From]www.minicase.net REALAN Font Size:Small Medium Large
In this June, Computex Taipei comes as always. On the theme of "Construction of the world's science and technology ecosystem ", Intel, ASUS, AMD, NVIDIA and other PC giants have come to join in this exhibition. At the annual gathering of the IT giants, we learn from the past and look at the present, see that the future is an eternal theme.
As one of the world's best exhibitions, new concepts and new products are always the stars of the show. In this exhibition, VR (Virtual Reality) and robots come to real application from concept, which are eye-catching. Even so, as the subject of this exhibition, the computer still occupies the most important role. Of course, conventional computers, in today's show, just brush sense of presence. The real attention is the new, extraordinary and special products. The mini M/B prompts the miniaturization of computers. Over the past year, Intel, AMD and other manufacturers have introduced public NUC products (Next UNIT of computing). Realan computer, is the first company to make this NUC products in Mainland. We believe that our Mr.NUC will still become the focus of attention.
As a frequent exhibitor of the Taipei Computer Show, after months of preparation, Realan computer, including Mr.NUC, barebones, small host, small chassis, power supply, motherboard and other variety of products are all ready to show, and our foreign team are prepared for this exhibition, to gain greater opportunities. Our booth area is 54 square meters. With spacious booth space and soft lighting effects, our Mr.NUC as well as our mini aluminum chassis are showing out their noble quality. Close to the pavilion main channel, and displayed by the beautiful young showgirls, our products attract many people and let visitors to learn more about our design ideas and concepts. More and more guests have strong interest in our products. Our team patiently explains Mr.NUC, mini-chassis, and the performance of other related products. The entire hall is full of visitors, which indicates that consumers have great interest and concern about our products, and our company's product direction and development strategies are in line with market demand.
With mute, mini, delicate, compact, high-performance and energy-saving and the wide use in office and home, Realan's Mr.NUC will become the vanguard in the market of computers. Wish a complete success for Realan great achievement again in this show and toast for our future.


text:
Download EBOOK The Marbury Lens PDF for free
Category: Children's Books
The author of the book: Andrew Smith
Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX
The size of the: 14.84 MB
Language: English
Edition: Square Fish
Date of issue: 2 October 2012
Description of the book "The Marbury Lens":Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury. There is war in Marbury. It is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys. Conner is there, too. But he's trying to kill them. Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with PDF an English girl, and afraid he's losing his mind. Conner tells Jack it's going to be okay.But it's not. Andrew Smith has written his most beautiful and personal novel yet, as he explores the nightmarish outer limits of what trauma can do to our bodies and our minds.
Reviews of the The Marbury LensUntil now regarding the guide we now have The Marbury Lens feedback users have never but eventually left the report on the action, or otherwise read it nevertheless. Although, in case you have by now look at this publication and you really are wanting to create their findings well request you to be tied to to leave a review on our site (we can submit equally bad and the good reviews). In other words, "freedom connected with speech" All of us totally backed. Your current comments to reserve The Marbury Lens : various other audience can determine in regards to guide. These support could make you far more U . s .!
Andrew SmithRegrettably, presently we really do not have info on the actual designer Andrew Smith. However, we'd take pleasure in when you have virtually any information about the idea, and therefore are ready to supply the idea. Mail this to all of us! We also have every one of the verify, and when everything are correct, we're going to submit on our website. It is crucial for people that every accurate in relation to Andrew Smith. All of us many thanks beforehand internet marketing prepared to check out match us all!
Download EBOOK The Marbury Lens for free
|Download PDF:
|Download ePUB:
|Download TXT:
|Download DOCX:


text:
Former WWE Superstar and current Lucha Underground competitor Rey Mysterio Jr. was recently a guest on The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast. You can check out some highlights form the conversation here:
On blending his mystique with the Lucha Underground vibe:
"If you really think about it with anybody that goes back to their roots one of the things that you get out of that is that it brings back good memories. It brings back the smiles so that really puts me back in the early days of my career and it just makes me want to keep going. It is only positive. It is positive thinking, positive vibes and just going out there and having a good match. The only thing I haven't done yet and my son is the one who told me to do this is to go back to my old wrestling attire, which I am really thinking about doing."
On comparisons between Lucha's vibe and ECW's:
"It is very similar to that old ECW vibe. I don't mention this enough publicly like I should but I am very thankful to Paul Heyman and Konnan. For Konnan it was for introducing me to Paul Heyman and for Paul it was giving me the opportunity and to all of the boys that were a part of that roster back then like Shane Douglas, Tommy Dreamer and even Stone Cold Steve Austin who was back there. The energy of "the temple" is so similar to the vibe in ECW but it is just a bit more intimate and more personal at the temple. It is more eye contact with the fans and if you like you can make that personal connection so it is that good vibe that I always forget to relate to."
On what to look forward to from him in season 3:
"It just gets crazier and crazier as we move on with the episodes in Season 3. Without giving anything away there is just so much talent that I still haven't faced that I am looking forward to getting to face off with in Season 3 or Season 4 or the next season after that. There is definitely such a wide variety on the roster that we can put out five star matches every night that we step into that temple."
(All transcribed quotes courtesy of Wrestling Inc.)


text:
Print -quality Images Available Online: http://www.artsmia.org/press
Georgia O'Keeffe:
Circling Around Abstraction
Minneapolis Institute of Art
October 7, 2007—January 6, 2008
Minneapolis, July 23, 2007—Masterworks by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe will be presented this fall at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The groundbreaking exhibition, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction" examines for the first time the artist's distinctive use of the circular motif. O'Keeffe's unique approach created highly energetic compositions that boldly distinguish her work from that of her Cubist-influenced peers. The forty-four works on display, including drawings, watercolors, paintings, pastels, and sculptures dating from 1915 to the 1970s, track the evolution of O'Keeffe's use of the circle. This exhibition will be on view at the MIA from October 7, 2007, through January 6, 2008.
The title of this exhibition, "Circling Around Abstraction," refers to the genre of forms that O'Keeffe often painted or sculpted and to which she returned repeatedly during the course of her artistic career: the circle, the oval, and the hypnotic swirl of the spiral. Such forms can be found in her earliest charcoal abstractions of the 1910s and in many of her innovative oil paintings that followed, such as the "Red Flower" (1919). In the 1920s, working in the more traditional genre of still life, O'Keeffe focused on the rounded forms of fruits and vegetables set within or upon baskets and plates inside cropped and flattened compositions, including "Green Apple on Black Plate" (1922).
In subsequent years, O'Keeffe expanded her range of subjects drawn from the natural world while continuing to explore new ways of depicting them. This exhibition features a variety of these paintings, many of which have never before been exhibited together. "A Piece of Wood" (1942), for example, is one of three works included in this exhibition in which O'Keeffe magnified the hypnotic whirls of a knot in wood. In other paintings, she turned her attention to the swirling forms of the clamshell, hidden pools nestled in the woods, and looping strands of fishing line, including "Fishhook From Hawaii – No. 1" (1939).
In the 1940s, O'Keeffe produced her haunting series of pelvis paintings. This exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of these works produced in the final decades of her life. Featured among them is "Pelvis IV" (1944) and "Pelvis with the Moon – New Mexico" (1943). Also on view are circle-motif abstractions from the 1960s, such as "Green, Yellow, and Orange" (1960); several works on paper, including "Untitled (Abstraction Blue Circle and Line)" (1976/77); and two versions of one of her little-known abstraction sculptures, "Abstraction" (1946).
This exhibition was organized by the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. National sponsorship has been generously provided by Mrs. Shelby Cullom Davis. Presentation at the MIA is sponsored by Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P., and the Friends of the Institute. Additional support is provided by Piper Jaffray. Local media sponsorship is provided by the Star Tribune.
Ticket Information
"Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction" is a special, ticketed exhibition. General admission is $8. To purchase tickets, call (612) 870-3000.
Public Programs
See Public Programs information sheet.
Exhibition Catalogue
"Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction" is accompanied by a fully illustrated hardcover catalogue with essays by Jonathan Stuhlman, curator of American Art at the Mint Museum of Art, and Barbara Buhler Lynes, the Emily Fisher Landau Director of Research Center and Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Lynes is a scholar of American Modernism and an expert on O'Keeffe. The catalogue is co-published by the Norton Museum of Art and Hudson Hills Press; it is available for purchase in the MIA Museum Shop for $35.
Tour Venues
The tour venues are the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (February 10–May 6, 2007), the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico (May 25–September 9, 2007), and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (October 7, 2007–January 6, 2008.)
About the Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), home to one of the finest encyclopedic art collections in the country, houses nearly 100,000 works of art representing more than 5,000 years of world history. Internationally renowned for its extensive collection of Chinese and Japanese art, other highlights of the permanent collection include European masterworks by Rembrandt, Poussin, and van Gogh; modern and contemporary paintings and sculpture by Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Stella, and Close; as well as internationally significant collections of decorative arts, Modernist design, photographs, prints and drawings, and Asian, African, and Native American art. General admission is always free. Some special exhibitions have a nominal admission fee. Museum hours: Sunday, 11 A.M.-5 P.M.; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 10 A.M.-5 P.M.; Thursday, 10 A.M.-9 P.M.; Closed Monday. For more information, call (612) 870-3131 or visit www.artsmia.org.


text:
Boss Asked Us To Improve Our Knowledge On Leaf Blowers So We Invented Leaf Blower Billiards
Community member
When our bosses tasked us with improving our knowledge of our leaf blower range, we could've spent hours looking through the various different product specs and codes – but we had a better idea.
We're the type of team who learn a lot quicker with a more hands-on approach and we felt we could get to know our tools better from the comforts of our office. Plus as it's winter right now, indoors was much more appealing than braving the cold. So, after some deliberation, we of course decided to host our own game of 'Leaf Blower Billiards'!
More info: sgs-engineering.com
We played a giant game of pool with leaf blowers
We needed a table big enough to host our game, and after few measurements we decided that our boardroom would be big enough (with some modifications)
Next up we started talking balls – ahem – more specifically what size and shape would work best getting blown (again, grow up) by our leaf blowers
After trying everything from miniature basketballs, to footballs and tennis balls, we came to the decision to have our balls made for us by The Precision Plastic Ball Company.
To bring our boardroom table up to size, we cut three sheets of mdf to make the playing surface
The cushions surrounding the edge of the table were made using cut-up cardboard boxes. To give them the nice wooden-edge finish we're used to seeing on a professional table we wrapped these in parcel paper
Next, we cut out the six pockets based on the circumference of the balls, and used cut-up soccer nets
We got to work assembling after booking the boardroom out for a day under the guise of an 'important business meeting'
To give the lush green finish you expect to see on a billiards table we bought two extra-large rolls of green felt
We cut this to size and intricately sealed with staples and a glue gun
With the top now finished, we secured all the cushions and pockets in place
Applying the final touches…
Finally, we straightened up the table, racked up the balls and this was the finished result
Game on!
Here's how we made it
5KviewsShare on Facebook
Popular on Bored Panda
What do you think ?
Looks like way more fun than the guys I see using them outside.
Looks like way more fun than the guys I see using them outside.


text:
This short-lived coin was authorized by the Act of March 3, 1875. Soon after the appearance of the first twenty-cent pieces, people complained about the similarity in design and size to the quarter dollar. The eagle is very similar to that used on the trade dollar, but the edge of this coin is plain. The mintmark is on the reverse below the eagle.
In the denomination's first year, more than one million pieces were struck at the San Francisco Mint; about 133,000 at the Carson City Mint; and roughly 37,000 at Philadelphia (not including about 2,800 Proofs struck there as well). These numbers dropped sharply in 1876. (Most of the Carson City coins of that year were melted at the mint and never released, a fate likely met by most of the Philadelphia twenty-cent pieces of 1876 as well.) In 1877 and 1878, only Proof examples were minted. None were struck for circulation.
Various factors caused the demise of the twenty-cent piece: the public was confused over the coin's similarity to the quarter dollar, which was better established as a foundation of American commerce; in the eastern United States, small-change transactions were largely satisfied by Fractional Currency notes; and the twenty-cent coin was essentially just a substitute for two dimes.


text:
Perfectly inheriting the glorious history of cheap Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry, the top jewelry brand in France, the Alhambra Clover Series has become the classic shape of the jewelry master since its inception in the 1960s. So if you want buy the Van Cleef & Arpels vintage alhambra necklace, please go to our shop: www.jewelifes.com
On the occasion of Mother's Day, Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry has prepared a limited edition vintage Alhambra diamond pendant for your Mother's Day gift. It is full of hope and romance and warmth. Share the joy and passion of Mother's Day together.
The Alhambra Clover Series has been one of Van Cleef & Arpels's timeless classics for over half a century. The series features elegant and beautiful designs and a wide variety of jewelry options (including replica Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet, necklaces, earrings, and rings, etc.) to provide the wearer with an overall look and style that adds to your gorgeous and innocent brilliance.
Today, Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry wholesale shop (www.jewelifes.com) believes in the continued continuation of the good fortune that clover naturally contains. The dazzling diamonds are embedded in the petals of the mother-of-pearl material to create another new piece in the Alhambra collection – Vintage Alhambra Diamond Pendant, is another lucky and beautiful new masterpiece after Lucky, Magic, Byzantine and Sweet Alhambra series.
At the front of the Van Cleef & Arpels Vintage Alhambra pendant replica, elegant mother-of-pearl and gold are presented in a noble and simple style. In the middle of the soft petals, a sinuous round diamond is embedded. The lucid and smooth lines of the clover, coupled with the faintly sparkling diamond radiance, warmth and romance are laid out in front of you.
The back of the fake Van Cleef & Arpels pendant, silky smooth gold material, presents harmonious lines and smooth touch. The entire pendant is a perfect combination of simplicity and luxury. Shown before us is the pure and elegant beauty of limited edition Van Cleef & Arpels Vintage Alhambra pendant. If you like it, buy in our shop: www.jewelifes.com


text:
Americans Ask White House For The Right To Unlock Their Cell Phones
Andrea Peterson, via Think Progress.
You probably don't have as much control over your cell phone as you think: Thanks to a bizarre enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that bars "circumventing digital locks", consumers don't have the right to unlock a phone they paid for — but a We The People petition that just passed the 100,000 signature response threshold asks the Obama administration to help fix this glaring consumer choice issue.
The petition provides a good summary of the situation:
The Librarian of Congress decided in October 2012 that unlocking of cell phones would be removed from the exceptions to the DMCA.
As of January 26, consumers will no longer be able unlock their phones for use on a different network without carrier permission, even after their contract has expired.
Consumers will be forced to pay exorbitant roaming fees to make calls while traveling abroad. It reduces consumer choice, and decreases the resale value of devices that consumers have paid for in full.
The Librarian noted that carriers are offering more unlocked phones at present, but the great majority of phones sold are still locked.
We ask that the White House ask the Librarian of Congress to rescind this decision, and failing that, champion a bill that makes unlocking permanently legal.
As the petition notes, the heart of the issue is what rights consumers have over a product they own and if the Librarian's decision protects the profits of big name wireless carriers at the expense of those rights. The Librarian's office has sided with consumers before on this issue: It granted exemptions for unlocking phones in 2006 and 2010, but following the implementation of the new decision consumers could face up to $2,500 per unlocked phone in a civil suit and $500,000 or five years in prison in a criminal case where the unlocking is done for "commercial advantage" if carriers take the unlocker to court and win.
Despite the popularity of the petition, there is a jurisdictional dispute as noted by Jon Healey at the Los Angeles Times: "The Library of Congress is a legislative branch agency, not one subject to presidential oversight" and "the law provides no avenue for appealing the librarian's decisions." And with the President's legislative plate already filled to the brim with immigration reform and the looming sequester, it seems unlikely the administration will expend political capital on this issue — even if the situation does effect the 85 percent of Americans who own mobile phones.
Comments on this article
By clicking and submitting a comment I acknowledge the Science Progress Privacy Policy and agree to the Science Progress Terms of Use. I understand that my comments are also being governed by Facebook's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.


text:
Tory Burch Navy Robinson Leather Convertible Shoulder Bag
- Navy Blue Leather Tory Burch Robinson Convertible Shoulder Bag
- Textured leather
- Magnetic flap closure
- Adjustable leather and chain strap
- 1 exterior slip pocket, 1 interior patch pocket, 1 zipper pocket
- Colour: Navy blue
- Composition: Leather
- Dimensions: Height: 6.37" inches/length: 8.57 inches/depth: 3.98 inches
ID no: 15878167
Delivery Information
Postage and packaging costs
No matter how many sales you shop from, you'll only pay £5.95 for postage and packaging shipments to Mainland UK or for postage and packing shipments to Ireland and the Channel Islands it costs £7.95.
Express delivery
Why not choose to upgrade your order to express delivery for items that are immediately available? Here's how it works:
- Place your order by 2pm Monday to Friday to get it the next day.
- Orders placed between 2pm on Friday and 2pm on Monday will be delivered on Tuesday.
Next day delivery costs £7.50 for deliveries to Mainland UK.
Sadly, we are unable to offer next day delivery to Ireland or the Channel Islands.
Delivery times
Our delivery dates vary depending on whether our suppliers need to deliver stock to our warehouse after you have purchased. You will find the delivery date for each sale displayed on the sale and product page, and at the checkout stage.
Items available to us right away will be delivered to you within 2-4 days and when it will take longer, the delivery dates are made clear throughout your order journey.
Please note that if you have ordered items from one or more of our sales, we will automatically split ship your order if certain items become available before others.


text:
Named after Kathy, my friend and creative team member, Kathy Springs is a lovely any time collection with unique elements and beautifully blended papers. For one day only, December 27, the full page kit is only $2 at both Gotta Pixel and at My Memories! On that day, you can also pick up the matching smaller packs for $1 each!
Kathy Springs
Free at My Memories:
Candy Claus is a sweet-as-candy page kit that I made to coordinate with Snow Sweet Village and Glitzen and Blitzen and the rest of my Winder Wonderland mega collection. At My Memories, you can get my Candy Claus page kit for FREE now through the end of 2016!
Remember, too, that all of my other designs are 50% off through the end of the year!


text:
The musings of a public relations professional (APR, Fellow PRSA) now a public relations professor on the state of the profession, higher education, and probably everything in between.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Your Career and You: "Speak Your Thoughts... Others Will Hear You"
Today has been one of those really cool days when I've come to realize that the things that I've been writing about in this blog are valid and meaningful.
First, the Boston Globe had an article in the "Money and Careers" section entitled "For the ambitious, entry-level jobs are far from a dead end." The advice, as provided by Globe staffer Katie Johnston Chase, was dead-center what I wrote about back in June.
Then, I received a tweet from Valerie Simon at BurrellesLuce about a blog ("Culpwrit") written by Ron Culp, a Ketchum PR exec who has some very keen insights into the quagmire known as "careers and job searching." Ron has provided some great observations on the importance of "passion," a topic I examined in August.
I can hear you asking: "So what? What does this have to do with my situation?"
Well, for one thing, it should reassure you that you're not in this all by yourself. If people are offering advice in national publications and on global social media platforms, there's a reason...and that reason is that others, just like you, are asking for advice and guidance.
Another more to-the-point reason is that Ron and I, and countless others, are writing blogs, articles, memos...you name it...putting in words our experiences and our opinions in the hope that we will offer some tidbit of advice that will help you.
I can't tell you how many times one of my students at Curry College or at Regis College has come to me asking for advice on how to better position him- or herself to stand out among the hordes of similar job seekers trying to get a toe in the door of a PR firm or in the PR department of a company or nonprofit organization.
Guess what? You've all taken the same courses....often studying the same texts! You've all done two or three (or more) internships. You've all excelled in your studies. And you've all been involved in a gazillion on- and off-campus activities to help flesh out your knowledge and experience.
So what's left? Well, here's a suggestion. Put your thoughts...your experiences...your observations...down in written form.
Blogging is one obvious way. Writing for your college newspaper or some other publication is another. Even updates on Facebook or Twitter...something besides the fact that you partied way too well last night and are paying the price today...can be valid. If you read (you do read, don't you?!?) something that catches your attention, post a link and a comment on Facebook. Or fire off a Tweet.
Why? Because professionals like Ron, Valerie, me and countless hundreds of others pay attention. You apply for a job; I'm going to pop your name into Google to see what bubbles up.
What would you rather have me see? Your most recent blog about your very cool trip, describing the scenery, the ambience, the excitement of visiting and learning about a new location/culture? Or a photo on Facebook of you getting up-close-and-personal with a trashcan after a party???
Read other people's blogs, and get a sense of how they're expressing themselves. Then think about it and decide what topic you might like to write about. Sports? Cooking? Travel? Art? It doesn't matter. Just put your thoughts down...demonstrate interest.
Set yourself a schedule. I do this blog weekly simply because I seem to encounter enough people and situations to always have at least one topic to sound off on weekly. Just try to be regular about it... demonstrate consistency.
And, finally, keep at it. Don't do one or two and stop, telling yourself, "Ok, I did what Kirk told me to do." Demonstrate dependability.
See what you've accomplished? In addition to having now established a written "picture" of you, the individual, you now have answered three of my top questions as a hiring manager!
So now you're a couple of notches up on the job search chain. Your resume looks good because of all the cool things you've accomplished. And now you and I have had a virtual mini-interview thanks to your having written your blog or whatever published form you choose. I've "heard" you!!
"'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there."
Ernest Hemingway, "A Moveable Feast" [1964]
2 comments:
Great advice as always, Kirk! Today's job market is tougher than ever and blogging is an excellent way for students to demonstrate interest, consistency and dependability. Blogging also gives students an opportunity to get creative... to reach out and meet professionals before they are seriously job hunting. Take the initiative to interview a pro at a PR agency you are interested in.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Valerie. It's all about finding your differentiator and, as you so rightly point out...being "creative," which is a big part of how we conduct the business of our profession!ReplyDelete


text:
There is no denying the impact that our social media rich environment has on us, or can have on us, but I've noticed something recently that I find quite intriguing. Apparent adult males that I know grew some of the most horrific looking moustaches that I've ever seen (and yes, I get the irony in that statement) outside of the police force or 70s porn. It was after all Movember and time to raise awareness for prostate something or other. Over the past few weeks on Facebook, our friends have been advising us to "Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday (Dec.6) there should be no human faces on Facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is for violence against children " or some other reasonable facsimile. As such, slowly at first but then rapidly gaining momentum, almost all of the profile pictures on your news feed are Popeye, or He-man, or Darkwing Duck or My Little Pony. In the case of a few very adventurous (or twisted) individuals, the occasional picture of Homer choking Bart, Family Guy's Herbert or famed Internet meme Pedobear (it is supposed to be about violence against children after all. Google them if you're unsure). So what of all this? Does it make a difference? Does it raise awareness?
I suppose in the strictest sense, it makes you think for a brief second about the topic while you read the original request to change your photo, but I really don't think it is given more than a passing thought and would be surprised if many took it further than changing their profile pic. Still though, no harm no foul, right?
I think there is the potential for something negative to emerge from this, and other like appeals. It is here that I wish I could lay claim to this term but I confess, I can't. I read it on twitter yesterday but it seemingly encapsulates the ideals I am talking about: Slacktivism! Think of it as slacker activism. While we generally conceive of activists as people who get out and protest, who get out and, whether we agree with their agendas or not, try to disrupt in order to question or change the status quo, slacktivists have no such requirement and therein lies the problem.
Is violence against children a social problem? Of course, I can't imagine anyone that would argue against that notion. Should we be doing something about it? If we want it to get better then we have to. This can range from writing a letter (or email) to your MLA or MP questioning current policy or funding of anti-child violence campaigns, or donating money to groups or projects that fight this at the ground level by providing safe havens or other assistance when needed. The problem as I see it as that we give ourselves a false sense of accomplishment when we change our Facebook profile. We grow a stache, laugh with our friends and family at how stupid we look and pride ourselves on our awareness to issues. We've done absolutely nothing to truly help the problem at hand but have created a smug sense of "I'm a socially conscious person". Since we already feel like we've met the requirement for activism by telling ourselves we've raised awareness to an evil, evil thing, our work here is done and we dust off our not too dusty hands. Since we're done, we can now concentrate on the things that really matter like hockey and Dexter (and don't get me wrong at all, those two things do matter) but have we really done anything at all other than tell everyone else what our cartoon era was? Slacktivism provides a false sense of accomplishment that obfuscates the continued existence of the problem while relieving our guilt about it. Grow your moustache and change your profile picture, but don't leave it there. Get out of your computer chair and hit the streets. Slacktivism is quaint and entertaining but activism can change the world.


text:
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ —
A useful file for parish cantors and readers — Prokeimena and Alleluia Verses of the Octoechos, General Menaion, Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion — formatted for 3″x5″ index cards, easily attached to the interior of Epistle books.
Care should be taken to test the paper feed of your own printers (if printing off at home or at the parish office) before committing the whole file to print. These settings vary from printer to printer, but can generally be managed through the Adobe Acrobat Print dialogue box.
Pray for us!


text:
Halloween 2016
" I Want the Willies! "
Halloween is finally finished! We hope all our students enjoyed our show and had a lot of fun in our Spooky Theater!
It was definitely a feast of spectacular lighting, staging and setting. Do you know how we created all these great effects? Do you remember who were the characters in the show? And do you all learn the proper manners in watching the theater play?
精彩有趣的萬聖節結束囉! 英文老師們希望每一位
小朋友都喜歡今年的鬼劇場! 劇場內的燈光、音樂、以及特殊效果是不是很令人嘆為觀止呢? 你知道這些特效都是怎麼做的嗎? 你還記得戲劇裡扮演各個角色的老師們嗎? 最後,同學們是否都學到了劇場觀賞的禮節呢?祝大家萬聖節快樂!


text:
MySpace casts ten for new Pegg film
- List.co.uk
- 29 October 2007
A £1 million movie, dubbed the UK's first user-generated feature film, has cast ten hopefuls after they auditioned on MySpace.
The romantic comedy Faintheart, which stars Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg, is based on the story of a sales assistant who takes part in Viking battle reenactments.
However, his passion for the Middles Ages gets him the boot from his wife – and he is forced to wage a war to win her back.
MySpace users also chose the film's director Vito Rocco, after they viewed a short film he submitted online.
He said: 'We've given cinema-goers and online users the first real opportunity to be part of the filmmaking process right the way through from script to seeing the results of their input up on the big screen.'
Actors Tim Healy, Paul Nichols and Anne Reid will star alongside Pegg.
Faintheart is being backed by Film4 and the UK Film Council and will be released next summer.


text:
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Fair Day - Take One
I loved the how the black sashing on this one set off the blocks...such pretty colors! :0)
This was a painting...It was so realistic that it looked more like a photo.I love the jars!
And I found this in the school art projects building. I think it would be great to make a quilt like this...this was just made out of paper squares.
This is a friend of my daughter. She did freestyle reining for 4-H today and got first in her class. I didn't know much about freestyle reining, but the they ride their horses to music and kind of choreograph their riding to it. It was really fun. :0)
9 comments:
Sounds like a fun place to be , lovely quilts and of course I love to watch horses :-)ReplyDelete
Those quilts and the other items were so neat to see. Glad you enjoyed the horse class. The outfit looked great.ReplyDelete
What a nice fair with such talented participants! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Beautiful quilts.ReplyDelete
Congrats to your daughter's friend on her win.
Looks like a fun county fair.
There is nothing like a good fair. That would make a spectacular quilt.ReplyDelete
Glad you enjoyed your day, lovely quilts to see tooReplyDelete
Some beautiful quilts and art at the fair.. Have fun.ReplyDelete
Our state fair is here in Kansas. I always spend a bit of time in the Domestic Arts building admiring things. I didn't take any pictures this year.ReplyDelete
Some day I will enter something that I make. I wish I had thought to put in my log cabin quilt and that I had finished my Goodnight Irene!
I just love country fairs...especially because they promote homemade, hand crafted, and home baked!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for visiting my blog and taking the time to leave a comment for me! If you don't have a blog or are a 'no-reply' blogger please leave your email address with your comment so I can reply to you. Enjoy your day! :0)


text:
Roasted Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad
Fluffy quinoa gets a fall makeover! This Roasted Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad is full of every fall ingredient I could get my hands on.
I love cooking with quinoa. Not only is it good for you–being a complex carb and all–but I find that it's much easier to prepare than regular long-grain rice. Here's the sad truth: I had to invest in a rice cooker.
Every time I try to make rice on the stove top, it ends up mushy in a pool of liquid, with the exception of this Cranberry Orange Rice Pilaf–the rice gods had my back with that day.
I've tried every trick in the book and followed every bit of advice from friends and family, but my rice skills refused to improve. So, I bought a rice cooker. Now life is one giant peach!
With quinoa, I don't have to travel to the depths of the basement pantry to dig out my rice cooker. I just rinse it, toast it, and simmer until light and fluffy. It turns out great every. single. time. Good-bye rice. Hello, quinoa!
I loaded this quinoa salad with every fall ingredient at my disposal. I even added a little something special: pomegranate seeds. I worked very hard to remove the pomegranate arils from my pomegranate, like, too hard. I tried breaking it apart, plucking each individual pomegranate–which resulted in a ruined shirt and splattered walls–and beating the pomegranate in order to loosen the arils, but nothing worked. Yes, they're POM Wonderful, but they're also a big POM pain in the booty. My suggestion: by the pre-seeded package of pomegranate seeds. Problem solved!
This quinoa salad screams fall! The roasted butternut squash gets folded into the fluffy quinoa with the addition of dried cranberries, roasted pumpkin seeds, fresh parsley, scallions, and salty feta cheese. I couldn't stop scooping forkfuls of this salad right into my face. If you love quinoa and fall squash, I highly recommend this Sausage & Quinoa Stuffed Acorn Squash.
Head on over to Food Fanatic to grab this Roasted Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad recipe.
Craving More? Give these recipes a try:
22 Responses to "Roasted Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad"
This recipe looks delicious! Love your blog, I am definitely inspired by your recipes :)
Hi! Making it as we speak :) Do you eat the leftovers cold? Or is it better to mix as you're ready to eat so quinoa and squash can be warmed up?
Hi Arica! I like this salad cold or at room temperature. It's really up to you. When I make it, I eat the leftovers for lunch straight from the fridge. Enjoy!
This is a great salad but i found the scallions too strong to go with the butternut squash so i would leave them out for sure next time.
To deseed pomegranates use a wooden spoon and smack the back of the skin of a half of pomegranate hard- you'll get most of the seeds out this way- takes about 2 minutes to do a whole pomegranate and so much nicer to eat fresh seeds than a packet!
Pingback: Roasted Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad: This fall salad is healthy, naturally glu…
Pingback: 21 Healthy + Cozy Winter Quinoa Salad Recipes - Simply Quinoa
Pingback: Haute & Healthy Living Butternut Squash, Pomegranate & Kale Quinoa Salad | Haute & Healthy Living
Pingback: 13 Fall Salads to Fall for This Autumn
Leave some love. It makes me happy!
Pingback: Roasted Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad: This fall salad is healthy, naturally glu…
Pingback: 21 Healthy + Cozy Winter Quinoa Salad Recipes - Simply Quinoa
Pingback: Haute & Healthy Living Butternut Squash, Pomegranate & Kale Quinoa Salad | Haute & Healthy Living
Pingback: 13 Fall Salads to Fall for This Autumn


text:
Jess Maurer
Project Manager
Jess Maurer began work as the Executive Director of the Maine Association of Area Agencies on Aging in 2011. She advocates for healthy aging at the national, state and local levels on behalf of Maine's five Area Agencies on Aging. She also assists the area agencies in strategic planning, program development & implementation. She provides leadership within Maine's aging network, including on the Maine Council on Aging and Maine Council for Elder Abuse Prevention, to advance public policy initiatives that support Maine's aging population. She is one of the lead authors of the 2012-16 Maine State Plan on Aging and of Building a Collaborative Community Response to Aging in Place. She was the primary organizer for the Speaker's Round Table Discussions on Aging and the Maine Summit in Aging and is helping to lead the Maine Aging Initiative.
A licensed Maine attorney, Jess worked for nearly 17 years in the Maine Office of the Attorney General. In her last 7 years in the Office, she served as a Special Assistant Attorney General, implementing public policy and legislative initiatives for the Attorney General. Aging related policy initiatives include elder abuse prevention, prescription drug pricing and end of life care. She is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Patty Kimball
Operations Director
In addition to her role as Operations Director for the Tri-State Learning Collaborative on Aging, Patty is the Executive Director of the Elder Abuse Institute of Maine, an organization dedicated to helping older individuals live their lives free from abuse and violence. She began her work with this organization in 2001 as a Board member and in 2009, she authored the federal grant that brought Maine's first transitional housing dedicated solely for older victims of abuse; this program is called Martha's Cottage and is one of only two such programs in the country.
Prior to her role as Executive Director with the Elder Abuse Institute, Patty was the first ED of the Restorative Justice Institute of Maine, the Director of Community Development for Volunteers of America Northern New England and the owner/founder of Ideactive Solutions, which offers consultation services to nonprofit agencies. In this role, Patty worked with Jess Maurer to author Building a Collaborative Community Response to Aging in Place and assisted Harpswell Aging at Home in conducting their focus groups and creating their action plan. Patricia has worked in the not-for-profit world for over 25 years, working in diverse capacities with a variety of populations. She has worked in special education classrooms with children with special needs, in the community mental health field with adolescents in treatment foster care, and with older adults residing in subsidized housing. Patty has an undergraduate degree in English, a Master's in Human Services Administration and a Master's degree in Community Economic Development.


text:
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Valentine's Cards
I've finally got my act together this year and have managed to produce a dedicated design for Valentine's Day. My cards arrived in the post today - very exciting! They're available to buy in my online shops in either Black or Red.
Posted by
Suzy Taylor
No comments:
Post a Comment
Newer Post
Older Post
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)


text:
From Matte Black to Shimmering Berry, the New Smoky Eye is Anything But Basic
After several seasons of a bold lip being de rigueur for an evening out, we're seeing a rise in smoky eyes. But the latest renditions are far from basic! From the runway to the red carpet, there are plenty of colours, shapes, and textures to get new defined eye inspiration. At Marc Jacobs' F/W 13 show, François Nars gave models a smudged, imperfect smoky eye, while models at Anna Sui rocked a dense, precise cat eye. Even Michael Kors, known for his sun-kissed, highlighter-ladden models went dark: makeup artist Dick Page applied a jet black, upturned version of the smoky eye. Fast forward to S/S 14 and you'll finder softer versions at Rochas and Jason Wu. Of course, Hollywood also loves this look. From Olivia Wilde's sooty shadow to Rooney Mara's berry pigments, click through to find nine styles to try.
Photo:John P. De Graeve/startraksphoto.com
Stewart wore a shimmery, cool-toned smoky cat eye to Chanel's F/W 13 couture show in Paris. Pick up a palette like Too Faced's Smokey Eye Shadow Collection ($36), brush the silver hue into the inner corners of your eyes, then, half way across your lid, blend the black color up and out.
Photo:Gregg DeGuire/WireImage
For the Los Angeles premiere of Thor: The Dark World, makeup artist Jeffrey Paul gave Alexander a sultry look inspired by screen sirens of the'30s. He smudged Votre Vu's Le Joli Crayon ($23) in Charbon onto the actress' lashline, then used the brand's Palette Play Quad ($42) in Violette: the shade Moiré to set the liner and Raw Silk on the center of her lids.
Photo:Karwai Tang/WireImage
The trick to pulling off a colorful smoky eye is picking a blush and lip hue in the same color family, like Kendrick did at her London premiere of Drinking Buddies last month.
Photo:Jason Merritt/Getty Images for LACMA
Makeup artist Debra Ferullo gave Barrymore a lighter version in Los Angeles this weekend using the actress' own line: Flower Beauty. Ferullo used the Shadow Play Eye Shadow Quad ($10) in Smoke and Mirrors, applying a mix of the taupe and brown for definition and the palest shade on the actress' brow bone and inner corners.
Barrymore wasn't the only one to rock a smoky eye at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Art + Film Gala this weekend. The soon to be 50 Shades of Grey star matched the gold accents on her Gucci dress with a metallic, shimmery shadow under her bottom lashline. Try Bare Minerals Ready Eyeshadow 4.0 ($30) in The Soundtrack.
Photo:Dave Allocca/Startraksphoto.com
One of our favorite renditions, Mara wore a shimmery berry eye to a screening of Her during the New York Film Festival. To make sure your eyes look rested, not red, line your waterline with a brightening, nude pencil like Tarte's EmphasEyes Inner Rim Brightener ($19) in Nude. (Visine doesn't hurt either!)
Never one to shy away from a sultry eye, Wilde rocked a matte dark lid courtesy of makeup artist Melanie Inglessis to a movie premiere in Los Angeles. She used Revlon's PhotoReady Kajal Intense Eye Liner ($8) under Chanel's Illusion D'Ombre Long Wear Luminous Shadow ($36) in Illusoire.
Photo:Steve Granitz/WireImage
Belle paired her rosy eyes with dark, defined brows and slicked back hair in Los Angeles. Try Sephora's Retractable Brow Pencil ($13) in Midnight Brown for similarly-defined arches.
Photo:Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Lighter, but just as dramatic as black, Palermo wore a charcoal gray hue on her eyes at the Christian Dior couture show during Paris Fashion Week. To cop the look pick up Maybelline's Stylish Smokes Eyeshadow Quad ($6) in Charcoal Smokes.


text:
COPPER CACTUS top. For those who have cactus and also copper mania…
White Ladies sleeveless top with cactus drawing in copper.
Great drape, silky and cool feel t-shirt / women's comfortable fit top.
Organic cotton and Tencel blend t-shirt, hand-painted with non-toxic fabric paint.
Colours are permanent, soft & item can be washed & treated like any other t-shirt.
These designs come as a "one of a kind" as printing is done by hand and it never comes out the same, so you can be pretty sure no one will have the same top.
Sizes M and L
(please refer to the size chart in the last photo).
Sizing suggestion: it is quite comfortable fit top, if you prefer a slimmer fit, go one size down.
EarthPositive® t-shirt.
50% Combed Organic Cotton 50% Tencel© Lyocel Jersey 140g
100% Organic Product in accordance with the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), produced from Indian Cotton, and certified by the Control Union and Soil Association Certifications
90% reduced Carbon Footprint (CO2e) according to the BSI PAS2050 and certified by the Carbon Trust
ETHICAL TRADE AND JUSTICE FOR WORKERS Audited by the Fair Wear Foundation
Love succulents?
Check out this t-shirt:
1-2 business days
Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 7 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 14 days of delivery
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
You can choose shipping method what suits you budget and needs from drop down menu under shipping options. Cheapest option is a regular postage and doesn't come with tracking number. Although my trust to postal service is high, you are welcome to purchase tracking service.


text:
Choice Financial Services is a Pennsylvania General Agency for The Ohio National Life Insurance Company and Ohio National Financial Services.
We are located in Harrisburg, PA and service the entire Central Pennsylvania area. Choice Financial Services is independently owned and operated. Meet the People that make our Company.
We offer a wide variety of financial services and insurance products. Our first and only obligation is to you the client, not a particular company. This is done by utilizing many different insurance and investment companies. Click to see our Insurance and Financial Service Carriers.
We explore different strategies and products to reduce taxes. We help clients grow their net worth and reduce their overall exposure to risk, while not affecting their current lifestyle. We are here to provide guidance for any stage of your life from college education planning to insurance protection or retirement planning. Make a Referral to Choice Financial.
Due to the unique financial challenges facing the Greater Harrisburg area's MDs and DOs, we provide a wide array of financial services and advice in every stage of a Physician's career, from Residency to Retirement. More info about our Services for Doctors.
Choice Financial Services is growing, and we need more people to join our team! We have openings available for Office Staff, Brokers, District Managers and even Summer Help. Get more info about the Jobs we are offering.
If you have any questions or would like more information about the services we can provide to you, Contact Us Today.


text: When customers pull up outside your lube shop, they're counting on your automobile expertise to get their cars in and tuned up and back on the road fast. Start with a small shop that only changes brake fluid. Get in the first car in line, drive it into the shop, park it in the indicated space and change the brake fluid. Don't crash the customer's car while you drive it. They're paying you to fix it up, not wreck it. As you earn money for a job well done, improve your shop by making it bigger, adding services and upgrading existing areas of the shop.


text:
Now I wouldn't normally use the phrase 'respect your elders' as I find the saying a little out-dated and biased to the specific generation. But from what I experienced today on the bus to work, I feel a little differently towards it.
Please note that I'm not going to blame the parents for bringing their children up the wrong way because A. I do not have children of my own so cannot fully judge someone's mistakes and B. it doesn't matter whether you come from a good or bad background, the decisions you make as an individual reflect on you and you alone. I believe that from a certain age you make your own decisions and whether they are influenced by others or what's around you, at the end of the day it's your choice, no one is holding a gun to your head.
So I was sitting on the bus minding my own business – I believe I was reading my latest book by Stephen King – when there appeared to be some commotion going on from the back of the bus. There were two 'kids' and I'll call them kids because they acted like kids, sitting at the back of the bus making comments and singing loudly. These boys were probably around 13-16 years old. A woman, who was sitting in front of them with her child had walked down to the front of the bus to speak to the driver. This is more or less what she said:
'There are two boys sat up there, making trouble and they seem to be burning something. Can you please do something, they're being very disrespectful and rude.'
The woman went back up and then continued to argue with the boys, after they made some inaudible comment that I didn't hear. Now from what I was hearing beforehand and seeing, the driver (albeit he was driving) must have clearly heard and seen this happening in the back. His handling of the situation, could not have been any worse. The driver pulls in at the next stop and walks up to the back of the bus and mumbles, with no sense of authority or confidence, that if they continue to misbehave then he'd call the police.
WAIT A MINUTE. Rewind. Threatening these boys with the police is probably not the best way of approaching them, considering from their reactions that the police station was one of their local hang outs. What he should have done, was kick those little inconsiderate and excuse my french, arseholes off the bus there and then. But no he didn't and in doing so he did nothing to aid the situation or to assist a commuter, who with her child, seemed very distressed.
This is the part where my blood boils and I was biting my tongue to not say something. Probably best because let's be honest, this is London and I'm a lot more street-wise now than I was in Aberystwyth.
One of the boys out of the two, starts mouthing off saying he can do what he wants, when he wants. The other boy was basically his personal hyena, laughing at everything he said. His response to singing on a bus, he said wasn't a crime either (personally he sounded flat, so I beg to differ).
There are so many things wrong with this boy. For one, the 'I can do what I want, when I want' statement is so stubborn and pathetic, that I wanted to go up to him and slap him with a wet fish (although I don't condone violence but a wet fish to the face seems acceptable in this situation) and tell him to mature a little. The boys were OBVIOUSLY burning something because the smell was so apparent. The driver however, didn't seem to notice and I don't think he would notice if they were burning whatever they were burning, right in front of the driver's face. Getting back to the boy mouthing off; his attitude and lack of respect towards the woman was appalling and I hope that my children make the right decisions in life and don't turn out like that boy. The driver, after making no attempt to send them off the bus, goes back to his seat and continues to drive to the next spot where the boys then get off. The boys snigger a sarcastic 'see ya later darling' to the woman as they leave the bus.
The scene I witnessed this afternoon is still making me reel just thinking about it now. Why is it that individuals choose to be like this? Not just the lack of respect to an elder, but to another human being. This woman had a child sitting next to her and these boys were making rude comments and burning something ON A BUS of all places, risking the lives of other people. If there's one thing I will teach my children, it's that of the old saying 'treat others how you would like to be treated'. That boy, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened, is one day going to mess with the wrong person.
I'm sorry to rant but this really annoyed me today. I think it's more disappointing though than anything to see a younger generation (and I'm not tarring everyone with the same brush here, just these two boys in particular) treat others like they're nothing. It was disgusting yet heart-breaking.
Anyway I'll stop now else I could go on all night. Have good sleeps and remember, treat others with respect. No matter who you are or what you do, no one should have to be subjected to disrespect by another person. No one.
Check out my YouTube Channel! Click here.


text:
Please come and visit my Society6 online store at www.society6.com/amyjeancreative
Society6.com is an international market place where independent designers can sell their art on a great selection of lifestyle product. If you have a minute come and check out my blog about Society6 which explains the 'Five Reasons why I think we should Support and Buy from Society6.com'.
I would love your support so please follow me on Instagram and/ or on Facebook where you can stay updated with what I'm up to and what product is available.
Thanks for visiting
This year I have had the chance to be super creative, think outside of the box and develop a style original to me.
As a member of The HeartSpeak Collective I proudly support Bridge The Gap Project which is a charitable trust that helps youth help themselves.
While working on creative projects to help raise awareness and funds for this trust I developed my own fun and quirky AJC Heart Faces. These faces are a collage created by up-cycling fabric, trims and beading that conjure a unique individuality, personality and mood.
I have truly become attached to my Heart Faces and now create these on a commission basis. I also have a range of printed Heart Faces available on a variety of product for sale through my Society6 webstore.
If you would like me to create your very own original AJC Heart Face, I would love to hear from you so please drop me a line via my contacts page!!


text:
Special controls apply to buildings in Conservation Areas. It is an offence to demolish, alter or extend a building in Conservation Areas without the appropriate consent. If the building is not listed then planning permission is required for all work and certain permitted development rights may have been removed.
Conservation Area Consent however, is required for the demolition, or part demolition, of an unlisted building within a conservation area. This provision seeks to preserve and enhance the character of the Borough's conservation areas by retaining buildings which make a positive contribution to the area. These controls relate to any 'building' that is situated within a conservation area as well as some gates, fences, walls and railings.
It is recommended that you contact the Council if you want clarification as to whether consent is required or if you wish to discuss your proposal before submission.
You will need to provide four sets of completed and signed forms together with fours sets of supporting plans and documents. No fees are payable for this type of application. Download the application form Conservation area consent for demolition Guidance Notes
If you choose to use an agent, any communications about the application and the decision notice will be sent to him or her.
Please note:
Conservation Area Consent is quite separate from Planning Permission or Building Regulations Approval, which may be required in addition.
If other proposed works require planning permission, you need to state whether you have already applied or are applying for consent and give the application number. However, please note that the granting of planning permission does not automatically guarantee the granting of this consent.
Please tell us if any grant aid has been made available to assist any works in connection with this application. However, again please do not assume that the offer of any grant aid in any way guarantees consent.
When you are making an application it is essential you tell us who owns the property so read the notes attached to the form and fill in the Certificates attached.
If the application site forms part of an agricultural holding, or you do not know the name of some or all of the owners, please discuss the matter with a Planning Officer who can advise you of what needs to be done in these circumstances.
Planning Policy Guidance Note 15 "Planning and the Historic Environment", published by the Department of Transport, Local Government offers helpful advice.
The following documents need to be submitted:
Location plan. To a scale of 1:1250 or 1:2500 with the application site edged red and any other land or buildings owned by the applicant edged blue. Private individuals making applications relating to their own properties can obtain Ordnance Survey extracts from the Council at a reasonable charge.
Block Plan. To a scale of 1:200 or 1:500 showing the siting of the building in relation to its site boundaries.
Survey drawing. To a scale no smaller than 1:200 showing the listed building before the proposed works. This should comprise floor plans, sections and elevations, where appropriate. Where any feature is affected (e.g. a window is to be altered) these should be shown at not less than 1:50 scale.
Photographs if possible. These are particularly helpful in assessing the effect of a proposal. Colour photocopies are a convenient and economical way to include photographs in your application.
A justification statement. In a Conservation Area the onus is on safeguarding the future of buildings. This statement should therefore explain why the proposed works are desirable or necessary and assist in understanding the reason for your application and increase its chance of approval. Remember that others, including local and national amenity societies are often consulted on your application and a justification statement will help them to reach a considered view.
Trees in Conservation Areas are treated in the same way as if they were protected by a Tree Preservation Order so it is necessary to obtain approval for works to trees in Conservation Areas before they are carried out.
There are certain exceptions (where a tree is dead or in a dangerous condition) but it is advisable to seek the opinion of the tree service to see if your works are acceptable. Notifying the Council also will save time if a neighbour contacts them to tell them about what you are doing.


text:
Always a helping hand in times of need, The Salvation Army offers a variety of free temporary shelters and feeding services to homeless people of all ages. Men, women, children, and families take refuge in Salvation Army Shelters throughout America. There are presently 618 such shelters worldwide.
These shelters offer spiritual and physical care, food, and shelter to people in need. They attend the total needs of the individual and are meant to be a kind resting place to help these individuals get back on their feet. Men and women living on pensions or social security have access to low-cost housing as well.
The Salvation Army also offers year-round food assistance through its many soup kitchens, providing over 63 million meals throughout the USA annually. These meals assist homeless people of all ages, as well as individuals and families who may be down on their luck and in need of some extra assistance. To meet the variety of needs that occur, The Salvation Army offers a variety of services:
Comprehensive Shelters – These shelters welcome all homeless who come to their door. Comprehensive services are available to single-parent families, single women, single men, married couples, children awaiting placement in a foster home, and dual-parent families.
Family Housing – These shelters offer strategic programming specifically geared to meet the many combined circumstances that perpetuate homelessness and struggle in families. Program assistance includes individual case work and education to address substance abuse issues, life and career skills enhancement, parenting skills education, and more.
Transitional Housing – Transitional Housing is available to individuals or families who have been in the care of our shelters at least 6 months and who need a little extra support before forging their own path. Life skills training and education are crucial to promoting the continued success of the inhabitants once they are again independent.
Housing for Troubled Teens – Troubled adolescents may take residence in a Salvation Army Shelter for a limited time to assist them in addressing life issues that may affect their future.
Soup Kitchens – Most corps (churches of The Salvation Army) offer food services to help the hungry. Those in need are welcome to come and take nourishment. In some areas, faithful members of The Salvation Army even seek out those who are homeless and bring them meals to ensure they remain fed.
Throughout the year, The Salvation Army is there to provide a warm meal and some comfort to those less fortunate to help them get back on their feet.


text:
Apple's vision has always been to create an iPhone that is entirely screen. One so immersive the device itself disappears into the experience. And so intelligent it can respond to a tap, your voice and even a glance. With iPhone X, that vision is now a reality. Say hello to the future.
Some features may not be available in all countries or all areas. The Sky app will be available in spring 2017. The Sky app may not be available on the App Store in all countries or regions.


text:
Webinar: CCO Liability (Part III): Managing Liability: Navigating Indemnities and Insurance Options
When: Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Schedule: 11:00am ET / 10:00am CT / 9:00am MT / 8:00am PT / 7:00am AT
Description of Webinar:
The National Society of Compliance Professionals is pleased to host this webinar on "CCO Liability (Part III): Managing Liability: Navigating Indemnities and Insurance Options" sponsored by SEC Compliance Consultants.
In this webinar, panelists will discuss indemnifications and insurance as potential remedies to address the direct financial risks to a CCO. Attendees will learn:
- What terms and conditions should Chief Compliance Officers be aware of with respect to insurance policies and riders?
- Are CCOs still covered once they leave a firm?
- What factors may a board wish to consider in connection with approving or renewing a D&O/E&O insurance policy?
- What are the protections/defenses in place for fund directors?Are CCOs afforded the same protections? Also, is outside counsel ever subject to potential liability?
- Are Fund Directors ever found personally liable or are they covered by fund assets and/or D&O/E&O insurance policies?
- What is the biggest misconception about cyber insurance?


text:
Your support is critical to our success.
Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 57(6): 246. 1985
Family: CACTACEAE
Accepted Scientific Name: Gymnocalycium kieslingii O.Ferrari
Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 57(6): 244, fig. 1985
Origin and Habitat: Gymnocalycium alboareolatum is known from only one population with an extent of occurrence of less than 100 km2 in La Rioja (area around Villa Bustos), Argentina. The species is locally abundant but there is a continuing decline of mature individuals.
Altitude range: 800-1,100 (-1,500?) metres above sea level.
Habitat and ecology: The species occurs in monte shrubland. It usually occurs buried in the ground making it very difficult to see when not in flower or fruit. It grows in gravelly slope. The major threat for the species is urban development, the only known populations grows at the edge of a town that is expanding. Parts of the population have been affected by urbanization already and this will not cease in the near future. Hence the species is listed as Critically Endangered. The species is not known to be used or traded.
Gymnocalycium kieslingii O.Ferrari
Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 57(6): 244, fig. 1985
Synonymy: 6
- Gymnocalycium kieslingii O.Ferrari
- Gymnocalycium baldianum var. albiflorum C.A.L.Bercht
- Gymnocalycium kieslingii f. alboareolatum O.Ferrari
- Gymnocalycium kieslingii f. castaneum O.Ferrari
- Gymnocalycium kieslingii subs. frankianum (Rausch ex H.Till & Amerh.) Slaba
- Gymnocalycium frankianum Rausch ex H.Till & Amerh.
Description: Gymnocalycium alboareolatum is a beautiful species, of modest size, particularly attractive for its beautiful solitary, gray-green, flattened stems less than 6 cm in diameter with very prominent white areoles. The flowers are silvery white often pink flushed usually in clusters from June to September.
Note: Gymnocalycium alboareolatum was published by Rausch, in Succulenta 64(10): 213-214, 1985. The name was published with the spelling "alboareolatum", but has been corrected into "albiareolatum" according to Art. 60.8 and Ree. 60G.
Derivation of specific name: The species name means 'white areoles' from Latin 'albus', white and Latin 'areola', areole.
Stem: Solitary, spherical-flattened, to 6 cm in diameter, gray-green, glaucous, barely rising above ground level with a swollen underground root system.
Ribs: 9-11, straight with well-defined chinlike protrusions to up to 1 cm in height.
Areoles: Quite large, 5 mm thick, with thick white hair.
Central spines: Absent.
Radial spines: 6-7, bent, curving back toward the body, hard, brown, 1 cm in length.
Flowers: Silver-white on the outside, pink inside, outer perianth segments with a green stripe to 6.5 cm long and 4.5 cm in diameter.
Fruits: Oval, to club shaped, blue-green, glaucous, 25-30 mm long.
|Your Actions
|Back to Gymnocalycium index
|Back to Cactaceae index
|Back to Cacti Encyclopedia index


text: Andalusia D12-14-1 - Lounge Chair W: 29.50 in D: 35 in H: 34 in Product Details Material Powder Coated Aluminum Throw Pillows (1) 13 x 22 Weight 75 lb Volume 27 cft COM 6.00 yrd COL 102 sq. ft. Customizable Authentic Spanish-Mediterranean styling. This lounge chair has a hand-made, sand-cast aluminum frame which has the look of hand wrought iron. It is finished with a weather-resistant, multi-step antique powder coat. Indoors or out, this will be a comfortable accent chair for any space. Documents Product Care Similar Items D12-14-1 - Lounge ChairD12-14-9 - Lounge Chair Certifications Resources Add Item to Wishlist Find a Dealer Print / Email Print this Page Email this Page Include Additional 'As Shown' Information? Yes No As Shown Finishes Dimensions


text:
I qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and since then I have spent my career advising Family Offices, sports people and wealthy UK and international individuals and their families on their wealth structuring, tax, trusts and estates. This involves advice on inheritance and capital gains tax planning and also helping to protect family assets by creating suitable structures for future generations. My clients include the owners of substantial businesses, internationally-renowned sports people, landowners, trusts and charities. I am a member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners and of Solicitors for the Elderly, and I often act as a trustee for my clients.
I really enjoy helping my clients to achieve their aims, be it minimising a tax liability or arranging their affairs to ensure effective succession planning. For example, I recently helped a top sportsman create a structure to receive income for the benefit of his future children in tax-efficient manner. I have also advised a large Family Office with a restructuring prior to a corporate sale. This not only helped to reduce the tax burden but also enabled members of the family to provide for future generations each in their own way. I also enjoy advising non-UK residents who are coming to the UK to work, in sectors such as technology and sport.
We are delighted that our team has been recognised at a number of industry awards, but I am most proud when our clients are positive about our contribution to their affairs. One client recently told me that he was grateful for the work we had done and that he "always trusted Mills & Reeve to get it right."
I have been recognised as a leading lawyer by Citywealth and Spears as well as being recommended in both Legal 500, where I am described as a leading individual who is "very meticulous in complex issues" (Legal 500, 2016) and Chambers, where I am a leading practitioner about whom clients say I am "an excellent lawyer" (Chambers, 2017).
I enjoy competing in duathlon and triathlon and have represented Great Britain at World and European Championships. I have recently been chair of local charity the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, and vice-chair of national charity The Silver Line. I like to keep up to date with social media and you can follow me on Twitter using the button below my photo on the right of this page or find me at www.twitter.com/pc_lawyer.
Our probate fees
Please follow the link below to find out more about our legal fees.