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Steps on what to do with your new brand and how to build a cohesive and beautiful identity.
When your brand identity goes live, the most important thing to do initially is to call attention to it. This will help transition your existing clients to the new look and feel, and encourage them to share your new brand identity! Here are some ways to consider getting the word out:
- Email Newsletter – if you have a newsletter or email list, be sure to let them know that your business has launched a new brand identity and even more importantly, how it can help add value to them by communicating and serving the market better. Mailchimp is an easy way to get started with communicating with your contacts.
- Social Media – use your network of Facebook friends, family or co-workers to get the word out. You'd be surprised how far one post can go when it's shared and liked. Also, if you're active on Linked In, Instagram or other socials, share away!!
- Word of Mouth – word of mouth is still the most powerful referral. If you're as excited as we are when your brand identity launches, tell those around you! Get their opinion and see what they think about your new look. That's valuable feedback that may come in handy when considering changes and additions to the identity moving forward.
After launching your new identity, we recommend protecting the integrity of the visual brand by adhering to the brand standards. Your brand identity needs to be managed to maintain consistency. Here are some suggestions:
- Use the Brand Style Guide – we recommend following the one-page brand report guidelines for logo format, colors, and fonts. This document should be sent to anyone who is working with your logo to produce marketing collateral, websites, social media, print, signs, apparel, or promotional items. Your logo needs to look the same no mater where it is used. If you need specific usage guidelines and logo do's and don'ts, we can create a detailed brand style guide to assist you with navigating all of you brand identity uses.
- Colors/Layout – if your logo has been sitting for more than five years or so, it's strongly recommended that you do something to spice it up. Whether it's refreshing the color palette, or even just adjusting the typography. Refreshing your visual brand fresh is a GREAT way to pump life back into you brand and keep people's attention.
- Employee and Vendor Training – if you have a lot of different people managing and creating branded items, keep them informed and up to date on the latest versions of the brand identity. It is also a great idea to archive any old logos, color, and fonts so there isn't any unfortunate and costly mistakes. There's nothing worse than having wrong colors on a website. Or have an outdated logo printed on 50,000 brochures. Make sure your team has easy access to the correct and current visual assets folder.
Your brand is valuable. Not only did you spend time and energy crafting your brand, you have placed a considerable investment in building and promoting your brand. You can research on your own by reading though all the valuable information at the United States Trademark and Patent office or hire a trademark attorney to start the registration process. It may take up to 18 months and several hundred dollars for the your registered trademark to be approved, but it is certainly worth the investment. Here is a quick breakdown of what you can do to protect your brand:
- Copyright. Think of this as proof of ownership over the content you create. For example, if you're running a WordPress website you can copyright your graphics and content. On top of proving you're the owner of your content, copyrights also govern how others can reproduce, imitate, and distribute it.
- Trademark, Wordmark, Logomark. Unlike copyrights, trademarking isn't about protecting your content, it's all about your brand. Using this method enables you to claim your name, domain, logo, and any other symbols representing your brand. That way, other people can't use them to deceive your visitors and customers without breaking the law.
- Patents. This type of protection is reserved for unique business processes, technologies, and intellectual property.
Your logo is NOT your brand, but your logo should allow your brand to be instantly recognized by those familiar with it. Your logo helps create and reinforce brand awareness.
Marketing and Promotion of your brand in addition to your products and service is how you establish your credibility and relevance to your target market. By pushing your brand while selling your products and services, your brand becomes synonymous with your products and services. And vice versa.
- Create a Business System – business cards, letter head, flyers, and other small business marketing collateral and promotional items.
- Create a Professional Website and Blog –today's business websites are much more than a digital brochure. They are a critical tool for converting casual viewers into paying customers. They create a user experience to your specific call to action and help you build qualified leads and an engaged audience. Blogging sounds a bit overrated and useless to a lot of people and I can understand that, but the facts are the facts – websites with blogs generally drive 30-40% more traffic to their sites than their competitors. Google will often pick up blog posts before picking up major website pages. If you can contribute good, lasting content that is well thought out and valuable to your customers, you will drive more traffic. Don't be afraid to use social media and use your network to get the word out. It's worth having someone maintain a solid website blog to drive your traffic and grow your online presence.
- Create Social Media Business Pages/Groups/Accounts –today's business communication channels circle around social media and client engagement. Get out there and get your brand noticed. Follow, likes, and comments are a powerful tool for growing your brand in specific markets.
- Set Up a Branded Email and Email Signature – it's generally good practice to not only setup and use a branded email, but also create a unique email signature with contact information and links to your website and social media pages.
- Update Brand Messaging – if things in your services change or your focus shifts, be sure to update your content accordingly. Your messaging is you voice. It is what clarifies, unifies, and compels your audience. Even adjusting content by a few words can refresh your message and keep you current.
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Chocolatapp vs Howl
When comparing Chocolatapp vs Howl, the Slant community recommends Howl for most people. In the question"What are the best programming text editors?" Howl is ranked 24th while Chocolatapp is ranked 47th. The most important reason people chose Howl is:
Howl is very intuitive and easy to use.
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Pro Split editing
Viewing two files at once is easy in Chocolatapp. Just select them both in the sidebar.
Pro Code completion
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Pro Multiple cursors and selections
Pro Live error checking
Chocolat constantly checks your code as you're writing it. That means no more interruptions from rude parse errors.
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Pro Built-in language documentation
Pro Live previewing of HTML and Markdown
Pro Light application
Pro Easy to use
Howl is very intuitive and easy to use.
Pro Fast startup
It's extremely lightweight, making it start up pretty quickly.
Pro Keyboard driven
You don't need the mouse to use Howl. Everything can be accomplished with commands and shortcuts.
Pro Language tooling
Has built-in functionality for completion, inline documentation and linting so IDE-like features can be added easily.
Pro Open source
Howl is an open source project and is actively developed on GitHub(howl-editor/howl). It has a MIT license.
Pro Command line palette
Search for your commands in an easy way and see in the list which key-strokes are mapped to which commands
Pro UI Focused on editting
Non distracted icons, toolbars, pannels, extra spacing, etc.
Pro Easy to extend
Plugins (bundles) can be written in Lua or MoonScript.
Pro Works on OpenBSD
Con Only available for Mac
It's only available for OSX.
Con Paid application
Chocolatapp is not a free application.
Although Howl can be extended in both Lua and MoonScript, almost all bundles are written in MoonScript. This means that it is a bit harder to find examples if you'd rather write your bundle in Lua. MoonScript can be compiled to Lua but the code won't be as clean and understandable as if it would've been written in Lua by hand.

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1975 Porsche 911 Carrera
Mileage: 51,407 miles
Body Style: Coupe with sunroof
Color: Gulf Blue - paint code 328-9-1
Transmission: 5-Speed 915 Gearbo
We have more pictures of the car on the website in the Gallery Section/Current Projects.
This car has been sitting since 1994. At that time the engine and gearbox were removed for inspection and to repair some oil leaks. For reasons unknown the owner never got around to finishing the work and when the car was received the drivetrain and some other exterior parts of the car were still off the car. After some cleaning and inspection what we have found is a very original car with no signs of collision damage or rust. This car has a 2.7 Liter CIS injected 911S USA specification engine with 175 HP, not the mechanically injected version for the European Market.
The mileage shows 51,407 and that is believed to be original.
Gulf Blue is a color the John Wyer Racing team painted the Gulf Oil Company sponsored Porsche 917's in the early 1970's - it is an iconic color. I do not know how many 911 Carreras were painted Gulf Blue in 1975 but there can not be very many, if I were to guess how many are still in original paint I would honestly say that I doubt you will find another. The front and rear bumpers, the rear decklid, and the side rocker covers will need to be painted - but the body of the car has cleaned up very nicely and I would not think that anybody would consider a repaint.
Mechanically the car needs everything. We have started the process by sending the brake calipers to Porsche specialists PMB to completely rebuild. The original fuel pump was sent out for rebuild and returned working and looking like new. The fuel tank was full of debris and is currently out with the intent to save it instead of replacing it with a tank that could never be original. We are selling the car as-is but we hope that we can find a buyer that will let us finish this project properly and get this car back on the road.
The engine has not been installed into the car. It would not be worthwhile to try and run the engine without taking it apart for an inspection. I would expect that the following parts would be replaced: all bearings, timing chains, chain tensioners, valve guides, valve springs, all gaskets and seals, and other misc items. For a proper rebuild it might also include new pistons and cylinders and new valves. The transmission was claimed to have been rebuilt buy a famous Porsche factory trained technician named Hans Mandt who worked with many Porsche racing teams in the 1970's-1990's. The transmission was overhauled in the early 1990's and never installed, it only makes sense to take the tranmission apart to inspect and verify the set-up and condition of the parts.
One area of the car that will need to be considered is the interior. The car was delivered with dark Navy blue carpets, at one point the second owner decided to change to black carpeting. Some of the original Navy blue carpets are still in the car while some pieces have been replaced with non-original black carpeting. The steering wheel is in good shape but some of the threads are split and the wheel will need to stitched up, personally I would replace it with another good used one. The seats are in very nice condition but they also have some stitching that will need to be repaired. Dash is perfect, which is the hardest and most expensive piece in the interior, a good thing since the aftermarket dashes do not look and feel like the originals.
In 1974 the USA version Carrera had the Ducktail that was identical to the 1973 2.7 RS Ducktail, in 1975 the USA version Carrera has the Carrera tail that is a fiberglass shell bonded to a steel frame with a rubber lip. This car has it's original 1975 spec Carrera tail and included is a New Old Stock (NOS) never mounted rubber lip for the rear spolier. Also included is a NOS, never mounted rubber front spoiler for the front bumper. This car has the correct 7 x 15 and 8 x 15 Fuchs wheels in original finish. I am very sympathetic to using every original part that I can for a car like this but even I would most likely end-up reconditioning the wheels. I call this type of project a Conservation Restoration, trying to use every original part or source other good orginal parts when possible. Of course for many soft parts: belts, hoses, rubber seals, etc. - replacement is the best option.
This car is not perfect. It is not a barn-find that was living under silk sheets in an air-conditioned chamber but it is an original 1975 911 Carrera with Gulf Blue paint.
Thank you for taking a look!
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Aerospace Equipment / Parts Packing, Crating and Shipping
At Craters & Freighters of Tulsa, we understand that protection and security are foremost in getting aerospace parts and equipment safely to their destination.
At Craters & Freighters of Tulsa, we understand that protection and security are foremost in getting aerospace parts and equipment safely to their destination.
Our engineers offer more than 30 years of experience, allowing us to tailor our services specifically to the detailed demands of commercial, general and military aviation. We build to exact specifications using Auto-CAD and cushioning software.
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SACAP has developed an online learning programme that retains our essence of a practical, engaging and applied study opportunity while still maintaining a work-life balance. In summary, our online programme offers:
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We make use of highly engaging, quality rich learning materials (such as video, study notes, activities, forum discussions and reflection journals) to encourage students to combine theory with their immediate environments to absorb, analyse, reflect on and internalise the requisite knowledge and skills.
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If you need to notify others when new files are added to Box, this Zapier integration send an email automatically when Box has a new file added. Optionally, you can even include the file in the message as an attachment, as long as it's small enough to include as an email attachment.
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Among the assortment of funeral supplies at Johnstown Hearse Rental, providing some of the most beautiful register and guest books for funerals has been a pride for us. Keeping track of the people who shared such an intense and powerful mourning time can be precious, and it's one of the few things that can be taken away from a funeral. Looking back at sign in and funeral registry books can often make someone smile at seeing just how many people cared for that loved one whom passed on.
Finding the right funeral-registry book can be difficult though, with generic designs common. However, we provide a collection of picturesque styles to browse in hopes of making sure everyone can find that perfect guest book to represent their loved one. Many of our books include designs for Veterans, Police officers, Firemen, devout worshippers, and nature lovers.
Any of these guest books and funeral prayer cards can be shipped anywhere in the United States despite being centrally located in Western Pennsylvania. Contact us if you'd like to know more about our funeral supplies, guest register books and services.


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The colours change from silver at the cockpit to gold at the tail and engines ~ mirrors the state of Russia ~ the leaders are still unreformed communists but the engine of commerce is capitalistic ~ and there is more silver then gold and then lets mention the flowers ~ couple of heads in there too ~ Russia (the bear) might surprise the whole of Europe yet !
Congratulations to Aeroflot on their first 90 years!
To the visitor from UK: what do you know about Russia?
Beautiful livery. The symbolism here is simple - the floral patterns are in that of the traditional Russian "Khokhloma" style, that's all there is to it. The rest is standard Aeroflot livery, metallic grey up front and colored engine pods, rear and fin.
What a wonderful livery!
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Still Procrastinating
I can't move off my couch. I am too sleepy. I am too comfy, and I am too lazy.
I have a bunch of stuff I need to clean up/pack. And I should give the house a solid clean because no one wants to move into a house that is filled of other peoples garbage.
I also need to shower and pack all my hair products and makeup and stuff... and figure out tomorrows clothes so I can maybe pack the rest or load them into the car.
Essentially I want tomorrow to go as smoothly as humanly possible because we have very few people actually helping us do the physical moving which is fine because Dave and I are fairly capable ourselves, I just want to make sure not to waste my short amount of time with the strong people coming on lifting stupid stuff. I can lift stupid stuff, but I cannot lift my desk with a granite top. I am actually not 100% sure how that will even get out of the room. I wan't here when Dave assembled it so I have no idea how many pieces it goes into.
Hopefully it doesn't get broken because its beautiful and fancy. I mean, its just from Costco so don't think that I am super high class or anything, but it is nice looking and I enjoy it. It is however, heavy as hell.
I think, I am slowly going to resort to only purchasing inflatable furniture so that the next time - if ever - I move again everything can just be deflated and loaded into one vehicle.
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Professional cyclist Ian Boswell is hosting the Peacham Fall Fondo, a "gravel grind" on the backroads around his home in Peacham, Vermont. Why would we promote this event? Well, we know and admire the family of the woman to whom Ian is engaged, and want to help spread the word for our friends. And...Peacham is a beautiful area of the state. And...it's pretty cool to ride with someone who completed the Tour de France this year and has excelled in the Giro d'Italia...Ian is the real deal. Visit the website at www.peachamfallfondo.com to register and get more information about the event.
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What's Happened to All The Pintails?
Article and photos by Todd Jay Steele
They came in endless goose-like waves from Matagorda Bay that one-bluebird-morning in the late 1970s. Flock after flock riding light southeast winds, all beelining for a single flooded field west of the obscure town of Francitas. At least 5,000, perhaps upwards of 10,000 strong seeking recently harvested second-cropped rice, a morning spectacle unmatched in all my years of pursuing ducks along the Texas coast.
I met my future wife Nancy that same morning, while lying on a muddied levee looking skyward at mind-boggling flights of sleek pintails spiraling tornado-like out of the heights above. The bag limit on pintails that day was 10 per hunter with close to one million birds wintering in Texas.
Fast-forward 40 years to this past year's duck season: Nancy and our two teenaged sons, Hunter and Forrest, watched in awe. A tableau for the first 30 minutes of rust-colored light as thousands of descending pintails fluttered 360 degrees around our blind, smothering our paltry decoy spread. Guns were idle that first 30 minutes of light, we just sat…and marveled. The bag limit on pintails this day was one per hunter with the mid-winter waterfowl survey counting only 176,871 birds, well below the 22-year Texas average of 600,000 birds.
Today any Texas waterfowler fortunate enough to be in the midst of thousands of pintails will often retort the same, "No shortage of pintails here, what's the problem?" My boys did that morning.
But waterfowl managers across the nation know there is a big problem with the Northern Pintail. Starting in the mid-1990s, precipitation returned to the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of southern Canada and the northern plains of America. Populations of all puddle ducks species escalated to some of their highest numbers since the 1950s, but pintails languished well below their long-term average, disappointing sportsmen with reduced bag limits and perplexing biologists with a population that should have rebounded with conditions.
Problems on the Nesting Grounds
These are troubling times for the Northern Pintail, the only dabbling duck that has been unsuccessful in responding positively to improvements to nesting conditions in the PPR. In the 1970s, western Canada had more than 20 million acres of fallow fields, but in 2017 there were just 1.77 million acres, a dramatic drop in nesting habitat for pintails.
Many wildlife species adapt to changes in the habitat and environment. Mid-continental Snow Geese, for example, have taken advantage of milder winters and abundant rice in Arkansas for wintering as opposed to coming to their historic wintering grounds of coastal Texas. Pintails, on the other hand, appear to not be as adaptable, especially hens that have very specific needs when it comes to nesting.
Pintail hens exercise a "nomadic" strategy, seeking early ephemeral wetlands often associated with fall harvested grain stubble. To a nesting hen, a sparse and short grain stubble field resembles the once abundant native short grass prairie, perfect nesting habitat in her eyes. Her preference to nest in the stubble creates two problems: First, the nest is more readily found by predators with the insufficient cover found in stubble; and second, farmers are tilling their stubble for spring crops about the same time early arriving pintails are nesting. Over the past couple of decades farmers have shifted tilling crops from immediately after harvest—to stop soil erosion—to leaving stubble in place until the spring, a deadly nesting trap for pintails by way of
disc and predator.
Lack of adequate nesting cover and pintails choosing poor stubble nesting cover in Canada are the biggest factors impacting nesting success. Of course, adequate shallow wetlands are needed as well, but they have had those conditions for more than a decade. Studies are also revealing that ongoing changes in wintering habitat and migrating stopovers are adversely impacting
pintail populations.
Problems on the Wintering Grounds
In years past, the Texas Gulf Coast has wintered upwards of 78 percent of the pintails in the Central Flyway. And as with the nesting grounds of the Canadian PPR, there have been intensive changes in agriculture along the Texas coast. Texas rice farmers have found, and still are finding, it increasingly difficult to maintain profitable operations with a surplus of world rice, depressed long-grain prices, increased costs of production and interruptions in water supplies due to drought conditions.
Many farmers have had to convert from rice farming to row crops to remain viable. The decline of rice, especially along the Texas Mid-Coast, has reduced an extremely important food source for wintering pintails. In the 1960s, an annual average of 486,500 acres of rice was planted in Texas. The yearly average from 2010 to 2017 was only 162,750 acres, a 67 percent decrease. Adding to the problem is a sprawling Houston with accelerated westward expansion swallowing rice farmlands such as the Katy prairie that were once waterfowl meccas.
Pintails love rice and for good reason. It is a high-energy, carb-packed source of energy that produces crucial fat reserves for sheer survival during the winter as well as fuel for migration to spring nesting grounds. Pintails exhibit high winter site fidelity, but as flooded rice fields have disappeared across the Texas landscape, they've had to rely more on coastal bays for food sources. While there is an abundance of coastal food sources such as shoalgrass rhizomes, wigeon grass seeds and various marine invertebrates, their coastal bay diet is more of a "weight-watchers" diet than a calorie packed, high-lipid (fat) diet essential for their spring "marathon" migration north.
Dr. Bart Ballard, professor and noted waterfowl scientist for Texas A&M University-Kingsville, and his colleagues have conducted numerous studies on Northern Pintails. One research study on 253 pintails feeding along the lower Texas coast showed that the metabolized energy from the coastal waters was half of the energy value obtained on inland wetlands. According to another Ballard study, Pintail hens were actually losing as much as 20 percent of their fall arrival weight while wintering on the coast. Lowered fat reserves from poor wintering habitat has been linked to a reduction in spring brood size and at other times no nesting attempt.
Additional research from Ballard shows evidence of significant physiologic stress on pintails from extracted blood metabolites from a third of the birds sampled on the wintering grounds. And yet another study showed alarmingly low survival rates of wintering hen pintails along the Texas coast as compared with other wintering areas across North America. All results are of great conservation concern.
With the loss of rice in Texas came the loss of geese and subsequent loss of sanctuary roost ponds established by hunting guides up and down the entire upper and middle coasts. These roosts, financed by outfitters, played a large role in giving pintails refuge. Dr. Todd Merendino, manager of conservation projects for Ducks Unlimited, observed that pintails often mimic geese not only in feeding but in roosting habitats as well, preferring shallow flooded fields and rice.
Merendino said, "At one time when rice was prevalent across Texas, the habitat was widespread and there was an abundance of food supporting a large population of waterfowl."
The Gulf Coast Joint Venture, a bird conservation partnership with numerous conservation and government groups, has calculated that for every 10,000 acres of rice agriculture not planted, the Texas coast loses the ability to support
120,000 waterfowl.
"With a drop in recent times of 58,000 acres of rice production in 1981 to less than 13,300 in 2015, we have lost the ability to support hundreds of thousands of waterfowl. DU is scrambling to make as much wintering habitat along the coast as possible," Merendino said. "It is costly to make wetlands compared to blocking drainage in a rice field and flooding it."
And as farmers were driven by economics to convert rice fields into row crops, the ability to effortlessly flood a rice field was lost.
Merendino also noted, "The landscape has changed across the Texas Mid-Coast. In just a short period of time, waterfowl habitat has become fragmented. There are still good pockets on the landscape, but now they're not all interconnected."
As high-quality food sources became less abundant on the Texas coast, pintails started to migrate out later, most likely trying to further build their fat reserves.
"As pintails stay longer in Texas during the spring, they are more likely to miss the shallow sheet waters of the PPR they are hardwired to nest near," Ballard said.
Pintails are also lousy re-nesters and will abandon nesting when conditions are not ideal. Added to the problem of pintails struggling to gain winter fat reserves is the drainage of many duck ponds immediately after duck season ends in late January. If there was a most crucial time for pintails in Texas, it's February and March, prior to their northern migration. Food sources late in the season are becoming scarce, and the drainage of ponds at the end of duck season only amplifies the problem.
Problems on the Migrating Corridors
Unlike many other duck species, Northern Pintails rely on fat reserves gained not only on the wintering grounds, but on migration stopovers as well—refueling stops on their marathon flight to the north. Unfortunately, like their nesting and wintering habitat, the pintail's migration corridor has undergone wide-ranging changes as well.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Waterfowl Program Leader Kevin Kraai coins the stopovers "Hourglass Bottlenecks." The Rainwater Basin in Nebraska, which hosts 30 percent of the continent's pintail population during migration, has gone from 11,400 basins to 400 basins today. These small migration "bottlenecks" are playing an ever disproportionately large role as refueling stops for pintails.
Although playa lakes or basins in the Central Flyway stretch from the Texas Panhandle through the Rainwater Basin and beyond, Kraai noted that the playa lakes of the Texas Panhandle have undergone a massive hydrology change. Playa lakes are filling in from erosion and are no longer effective clay "saucers" capable of holding shallow water as in the past.
During the '60s and through the '80s, farmers in the region artificially flooded playas for irrigation of crops resulting in great wintering and migrating habitat for waterfowl. However, with groundwater now becoming more limited and valuable, farmers are going to more efficient sub-surface irrigation to save water—meaning no more artificial flooding of playas as in the past. What's good for the aquifer is bad for waterfowl.
Solutions on the Horizon
Merendino noted that problems for pintails have occurred because of quantum changes and in all likelihood it will take grand scale solutions to return the much-needed balance. Part of the answer can be found in the conservation practices in North Dakota, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), where farmers are paid yearly in exchange for removing environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and the planting of species that will improve environmental quality for wildlife.
In 2016, North Dakota supported 378,000 breeding pintails, more than southern Alberta and Saskatchewan combined.
"The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has greatly aided nesting pintails in our state," said Mike Szymanski, North Dakota Game and Fish migratory game bird supervisor. "While we currently have only 1.5 million acres enrolled in the program as opposed to 3.4 million in 2007, it is still a substantial amount of acreage, and efforts are ongoing to be more selective in finding marginal farmland to enroll, specific to nesting waterfowl."
Canada does not have a CRP but there is a relatively new program called Greencover Canada that compensates farmers for conserving wetlands and grasslands under the nation's Agricultural Policy.
For years, Ducks Unlimited has recognized the importance of working with farmers to save ducks and has been focusing on fall-seeded cereal grains—winter wheat and rye—to provide higher-quality nesting habitat for pintails along with converting marginal land into optimum grass cover for ducks and cattle. DU's "Rescue Our Wetlands" is a $2 billion conservation campaign that includes conserving habitat up and down the flyways including their flagship Texas Prairies Wetlands Program that cost-shares with landowners in making crucial wintering habitat for wildlife. Also being discussed is setting up a network of sanctuaries for pintails much like goose roosts of the past.
The Lower Colorado River Authority is on fast track to build a new water storage reservoir north of Bay City designed to capture and store up to 90,000 acre-feet of water from the Colorado River as an additional source of irrigation water for rice and ducks.
One of the brightest spots in all the landscape is what Kraai called, "The largest wildlife refuge in the United States: the rolling plains and oak prairies of Texas where an unbelievable number of ponds now exist." Inconspicuously, one farm pond after another has been built over the past 40 to 60 years in the central part of the state and now number in the hundreds of thousands.
Ducks are wintering more and more in these areas per the mid-winter waterfowl surveys. Although these are not purposely built for waterfowl habitat, each pond dotted across a vast landscape represents a mini-oasis of food and shelter for ducks—including pintails. Kraai and other research biologists are currently conducting studies to further understand the impact these ponds are having on wintering waterfowl in Texas.
Whether one is hunting pintails along the Texas Gulf Coast or photographing their courtship flights in the Rainwater Basin, there is no denying they are one of North America's most spectacular ducks, worthy of all efforts to understand their complex ways and to restore their dwindling population.


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Soft Ethics and the Governance of the Digital and the General Data Protection Regulation
18 Pages Posted: 7 Nov 2018
Date Written: October 15, 2018
The article discusses the governance of the digital as the new challenge posed by technological innovation. It then introduces a new distinction between soft ethics, which applies after legal compliance with legislation, such as the General Data Protection regulation in the European Union, and hard ethics, which precedes and contributes to shape legislation. It concludes by developing an analysis of the role of digital ethics with respect to digital regulation and digital governance.
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A venerated place for many devotees in Nagpur and the rest of India, the Ganesh Tekdi temple is all set for a rejuvenation. With the old structure- built in 1975- approaching the end of its estimated life, a new construction, inspired by the BAPS Shri Swami Narayan temple in Wathoda, Nagpur will take its place.
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The work being carried out by PT Mase and Associates will ensure that none of the existing features, like the swayambhu idol, as well as the 125-year old peepal tree arching over it, suffer any damage during the reconstruction.
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The new temple complex, being constructed at a cost of Rs 10 crores will have a high shikhara, carved pillars and stone cladding, much like the peculiar style of the Swami Narayan temples around the globe.
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The stone for the carvings and cladding is a special variety of sandstone that will be sourced from Rajasthan.
We are certain the new temple complex will only add to the divine experience!
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"Flexible Desires", Alessandro Vena, piano
Karen Bogardus, flute, Orlando Wells, violin and viola and Matt Castle, piano play Le Pressioni del Passato by Davide Zannoni at Trinity Church
"Jikkai", for violin and violoncello, is titled after a principle in Nichiren's Buddhism. Jikkai literally means "The Ten Worlds", which are ten life-conditions that human beings experience. They are dynamic states, and each person constantly goes in and out of them daily, usually with a tendency to experience some more than others. [Jennifer Choi, violin, and Dorothy Lawson, half of Ethel Quartet]
Davide Zannoni, composer Claire Chan, violin Ching Chen Juhl, viola Marc Tagle, cello Concert at Zimmerll Art Museum, NJ February 2009. "Glimmers of Acceptance for String Trio (2005) is based on an ancient and haunting Chinese folk-song called "Little Bok-Choi", from the Northern Hebei province near Mongolia, in which a daughter mourns her mother's death.


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Below follows a presentation of the available laboratories at the Abisko Scientific Research Station. Please note that you always have to obtain permission from the research station or CIRC (see lab plans for details) to use any lab space or instrument. It is also necessary once permission has been obtained to sign-up for lab or instrument time. There is a sign-up sheet located outside of each lab and individual sign-up sheets located near each instrument. Each lab and instrument page lists the contact person.
Laboratory Safety
Safety is always your first priority when working in the lab or the field. The Abisko Scientific Research Station has developed a set of laboratory guidelines in collaboration with us and you must comply. In addition, Umeå University requires its researchers to conduct a "risk assessement". All researchers are required to read through these documents before using laboratory facilities at the research station.
These guidelines contain information believed to be reliable regarding the safe use and handling of chemicals in our laboratories. It is intended to serve only as a beginning point for information and should not be construed as containing all the necessary compliance, safety, or warning information.
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Dan 12:10 "Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand."
Who are these Wicked Fools?
Mat 7:26 "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand"
These are Christians who refuse to obey His words. These are rebellious children or unfaithful servants, who do not love the Lord.
John 14:24 "He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's, who sent Me."
Last days Christians
2Tim 3:1-5 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
Are you one of the above?
Repent and God will forgive you for we are living in the last days where faithless Christians have a form of godliness. They go to church (some don't), give an offering (not even tithe), share or preach a little and they think that they are doing God a great favour. There is no fear of God in endtime Christians for they just do not believe Him nor His words and promises.
2Tim 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
Endtime Christians do not read nor meditate on His words (the bible) because they reject the truth. Instead they read books which are pleasing to their itching eyes and ears and think they have done God a great favour. They are rebellious and think that they can deceive Him by the number of Christian books they read and the many selfish prayers they made. Brethren, God looks at our heart and judges us by our obedience to His words.
Those who are wicked
1. They willfully forget that God was made flesh, suffered for our infirmities and was crucified on the cross to save us from the eternal fire because He created us, loves us and try His best to prevent us from damnation.
2. They willfully forget that He is a righteous and just God, Who cannot sin but keeps His words and promises. He will reward those obedient and faithful to His words but punishes or judges the rebellious.
Rom 6:17-18 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
3. They willfully forget that He is a holy God and all those who wants to be with Him must be holy.
1Pet 1:15-16 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."
the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand
Brethren, this is the most serious warning. We must be free from worldliness, pride, pleasures, heresies, hypocrisy, or else we will be judged and killed during WW3. Let's love one another, and have complete faith and understanding in His words, promises and endtime prophecies.


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"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." Albert Einstein, American physicist (1879-1955)
Sunday, October 4, 2009
FIELD NOTES: A day for stones...
Sunday rest
…home doing nothing, (a rare occurrence only because I have a head cold) I am eating breakfast on the couch with the CBS Sunday Morning show. Bill Geist brings out a gentle segment about stone skipping and a competition in Franklin, PA. It looks so simple, so pleasantly old-fashioned and countrified, I wish I was there! I am fascinated not by the stone skipping as much as I am fascinated about how it relaxes me, takes me to the summery memory of my father showing off one of his 'dad skills' by demonstrating how to skip stones across our favorite swimming hole, a pastime he perfected during his Depression-era childhood. It may seem like a waste of time, to go around collecting potential skipping rocks like world record setter Russ Byars does, but what a refreshing step back from the world of business…&…it must be no coincidence that I chose river stones for wallpaper on my laptop because I find them soothing to look at…&...it must also be no coincidence that a card slipped out of the medicine cabinet today for Magic River Stones™, the ones I had purchased to arrange around the lucky bamboo plant in the green-glazed pot. I stopped to read the card: "These beautiful stones are jasper, quartz and agate. They were naturally shaped by an ancient river in China, which for more than 2,000 years has been a pilgrimage site for people collecting lucky stones. Beautiful stones have always held a fascination for people from every culture. They are wonderful to carry as personal talismans or for use in fountains or to put around plants to slow moisture evaporation and to add a bit of beauty, luck and magic to your life."…&…another non-coincidence must be the trail I followed from a blog comment that led me to wildramblings.com and an article about a stone wall in the woods adventure…&…might it be another coincidence that I created a "Zen rock bottle" for myself. On Labor Day, I quelled my impatience waiting for a family member by sitting on the front steps and counting the tiny pea gravel from the walkway as I dropped them one by one into a Soave Italia wine bottle. The wine was not particularly memorable – I had been persuaded by the bottle's balletic bend of the neck and its green tint with spare silvery gray graphics – but it was a calming, meditative physical action to wait by dropping stones into a bottle. I got up to 400 and when I picked up the bottle to put it back inside, the glass with the rocks was warm against by body. And I would remember that. Today, I needed some vitamin D for my cold, so I put 200 more stones into the bottle. It was a good day for stones….and all because I have a cold….
(Yes, this is what 600 tiny stones amount to!)
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Your post about stones makes me think of so many stone related things. I remembered the time I learned about skipping stones. I remember teaching my little sister about collecting rocks. She still does it to this day, and she has teenage kids. It annoys her husband to no end. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chuckle, Ratty! Which in turn reminds me of taking the kids to Florida to see their grandparents and having to bring back ALL the beach rocks they collected. Fortunately, it was before baggage needed to be weighed. Sometimes a bag of rocks is a small burden for the joy of where they came from.ReplyDelete
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By Nathan Young - Storytelling Consultant
You may have seen a recent viral video of a bear cub and it's mother struggling to climb up a snow covered cliff. It was a riveting two-and-a-half minute story as the cub, desperately trying to join it's mother atop the ridge, struggled to find footing, slipped numerous times in the loose snow, and at one point appeared in danger of sliding all the way off the mountain.
Yet the baby bear never gave up! With every set back it persevered in climbing up the cliff, and finally rejoined it's mother before the two off them ran off to a stand of trees.
The video got a lot of attention, with people seeing it as a story of tenacity, persistence, facing challenges, and overcoming adversity. But there was a darker side to the story too.
Wildlife biologists saw the whole situation differently.
As detailed in this article from the Atlantic, the footage was obviously shot with a drone, and both wildlife biologists and drone enthusiasts have lamented the irresponsible way in which the drone operator filmed the two bears. At one instance the drone appears to fly especially close to the bears, causing the mother to panic, and inadvertently knock her cub back down the cliff. It's also possible that the two bears found themselves forced into such a vulnerable position in the first place because they were frightened by the drone and trying to get away. The Atlantic article is also an important read on the effects drones have on wildlife in general.
I bring all this up because there is an important lesson about storytelling to be gleaned from this situation too.
As humans we perceive almost everything we observe through the lens of storytelling. We do this to interpret the meaning of a situation and better understand our world. It's a natural and almost unavoidable aspect of our nature. And sometimes it means we completely miss the reality of what's going on.
What's interesting to note that part of the reason the video became so popular is because of humans' anthropomorphizing their own stories on to the plight of these two brown bears. As I mentioned above, many people saw it as a story of persistence, tenacity, and overcoming adversity; but the stories we attach to this situation can also be highly informed by our own personal values and framing of the world.
For instance, if you're the type of person that values persistence, that's very much what you might have seen in the video. If you're a concerned parent, you might have focused your attention on the mother bear in the video and imagined her distress as she waited for her cub to reach the top of the ridge. If you're the type of person that believes in "tough love" or the inherent harshness of nature, you might have perceived the video through one of those lens. It's even true that those of us who see the video as an example of an irresponsible drone operator probably do so because of our own framing and values around preserving nature and protecting wildlife.
On a personal level, I caught myself getting especially anxious as I watched the bear cub taking the long slide down the mountain. I worried that there might be a cliff it would slide off. I couldn't help but think of my own current situation as I work to create a business around teaching storytelling. As I'm sure anybody who has ever attempted to start their own business can tell you, there are many times when it feels like you might slide off a financial cliff if you're not careful. It was fascinating to catch myself supplanting my own situation onto that of a baby bear somewhere off deep in Siberia.
I'd be curious to get your thoughts on this video too. Do you remember how you felt when you watched the original video and how you perceived the story? Did your perception of the story change when you read the critique from the Atlantic article? Leave a comment below, or in the original social media thread for the article.
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Saturday, 24 May 2014
Spring is in the Air
Spring has finally arrived, which equals whipping out bright colors. Spring also usually ends up with a visit to the tulip festival in Ottawa. We practically go every year, but it has never been as successful as this year. I have never really seem the tulip festival in it's full glory, until this year. One year the tulips bloomed early due to the warm winter, by the time the tulip festival officially kick off, they were practically all wilted. Another year it was so bloody cold and windy it practically felt like winter in the middle of May; as for all the other attempts usually by the time we visit the tulip beds, most of the tulips are either already fully bloomed or burnt to the crisp.
The weather is still little unpredictable so I opted to layer multiple thin layers just in case.
Sweater: Club Monaco
Top: Club Monaco
Jeans: Joe's
The best part of this year tulip festival, was that I finally spotted the giant clogs.
♥ Viv
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BKW Partners Helps Worldreader Express Ourselves Online.
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Paper is heavy, and that's just one reason why books can be a pretty scarce thing in poorer countries — shipping them is expensive, slow and hassle-heavy.Enter our client Worldreader.org. In partnership with e-reader companies, local publishers and telcos, Worldreader is helping schools and families in poorer nations bypass paper and move straight to e-books. They're is working hard (and smart) to solve the problems of distributing e-readers because once that problem is solved, delivering the books themselves is so so so much easier.
Co-founded by ex Amazonian David Risher and ex-ESADE marketing head Colin McElwee, Worldreader had a highly succesful early trial run in Ghana has now spread reading 80,000 people.
Team BKW helped rocketship Worldreader.org and set their brand messaging before they even applied for their 501c3 status. We began working with them in 2009, when we designed and built their first, ebookish, highly communicative website.
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Wordreader relies on community donation, and came to us looking for a strategy to make their donors feel valued. In response, we built Easter Eggs into their site, that called out those people who had made an impact on the organization.
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In 2012 Worldreader approached us again, looking to re-design their website with much greater publishing and communications flexibility. We built them a powerful site that gave them all that, plus incredible fundraising functionality. Not just traditional fundraising such as empowering people to donate or purchase gifts through the site — but the increasingly popular social fundraising in which anybody can run a fundraiser on behalf of the organization. And the organization can rally its community of supporters to fundraise.
This was done through an integration with Stayclassy.org (Now just classy.org). It took some serious "experience design" to get the two sites working together as one. StayClassy's tech team and customer lead Shanna Stuhmer were truly fantastic. They took our specs into their product design meetings and literally changed their product to meet our needs — knowing that other .orgs are going to have similar needs.
Stayclassy was a startup themselves, based in San Diego. Big thanks to Alex Bard, CEO of Rassak client Desk.com for introducing us. His description — which is quite apt — is that Stayclassy let's any young .org achieve the powerful fundraising ability of Charity Water.
*Note: Worldreader.org has evolved substantially since our work with them, but we are happy to say that their current website has retained the look & feel of our design.
Social Media Campaign
Next, BKW Partners created highly effective social media content to support Worldreader.org's entry in Chase Giving Awards. The content we created was designed to be shared by the Worldreader team across their tremendous community of friends and supporters. These included technology industry leaders like Bill Gates and authors like John Grisham and Margaret Atwood—just a few of those who shared Worldreader's content and message with their own social networks. Monster kudos to the Worldreader team who organized an absolutely killer "ground game" —organizing loads (and loads) of people to spread their message.
Worldreader was one of the youngest contenders in the 2012 American Giving Awards which aired on NBC in the US Dec. 8, 2012. The non-profit with the most Facebook votes would win a $1,000,000 nonrestricted grant to continue their good work. While the organization did not win the $1,000,000 grant, they increased their social media following DRAMATICALLY—and the follow-on benefit of that has been fantastic since the event.
For Facebook we created shareable images as well as templates from which the Worldreader team could create their own. Here is a screenshot of one of them in action. Check out the power of that little "Please Share" arrow—note the number of times this one image was shared off Grisham's wall.
We also wrote copy for Twitter. It was an odd and humbling sensation seeing writers such as these pass along the words we wrote.
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The Pfister Hotel – Milwaukee, WI
Friday, November 2 | 6:30 - 9:30 PM
The Tasting Gala is one of the most renowned tasting events in the Midwest, welcoming over 700 guests and features signature cocktails, craft beer, and premium wine tastings paired with decadent culinary samples from local 4 and 5 star restaurants. With over 30 select pairing stations, entertainment, and a silent auction, this unique Tasting Gala is one to remember.
Wine Brand/Beverage
Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurants
Enovation Brands
Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co. by Breakthru Beverage
Great Lakes Distillery
LoDuca Wines
Merchants DI Vino
Three Fat Guys Wine
Alexander Valley Vineyards by Breakthru Beverage
Craft Cocktails by Breakthru Beverage
Crimson Wine Group by Breakthru Beverage
Grgich Hills Estate by Breakthru Beverage
Guarachi Wine Partners by Breakthru Beverage
Gundlach Bundschu Winery by Breakthru Beverage
Kevin D. Chaney & Company by Breakthru Beverage
Klinker Brick Winery by Breakthru Beverage
Schramsberg Cellars by Breakthru Beverage
The Hess Collection by Breakthru Beverage
Treasury Wine Estates Group by Breakthru Beverage
Treasury Wine Estates Group by Breakthru Beverage
Subject to Change
The Fitz
Black Shoe Hospitality with Story Hill BKC and Maxie's
Kil@wat by Marcus Hotels & Resorts
Mason Street Grill by Marcus Hotels & Resorts
Miller Time Pub And Grill by Marcus Hotels & Resorts
Milwaukee Chophouse by Marcus Hotels & Resorts
Safe House by Marcus Hotels & Resorts
Atlas BBQ
Bartolotta Restaurants & Catering
Devon Seafood & Steak
Eddie Martini's
Maggiano's Little Italy
Mitchell's Fish Market
Sartori Cheese
SURG Restaurant Group
The Capital Grille
The Pizza Man Wine Bar & Kitchen
Subject to Change
Attire | Smart Casual
Complimentary coat check | 7th floor
Parking | Complimentary valet parking is available for guests at the Jefferson entrance of the Pfister Hotel.
All event details are subject to change without notice.
If you represent a restaurant or winery and are interested in participating in the 2018 event, please contact email@example.com or 262-696-5162.
If you are interested in sponsoring this year's event, please contact email@example.com or 262-696-5162.


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Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests Pawnee National Grassland
Contact Information
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grassland
Forest Supervisor's Office
2150 Centre Avenue, Building E
Fort Collins, CO 80526
Driving Directions
Boulder Ranger District
2140 Yarmouth Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301
Driving Directions
Canyon Lakes Ranger District
2150 Centre Avenue, Building E
Fort Collins, CO 80526
970-295-6700 (Visitor Info)
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Clear Creek Ranger District
@ Idaho Springs Visitors Center
2060 Miner Street
Idaho Springs, CO 80452
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Pawnee National Grassland
115 North 2nd Ave.
P.O. Box 386
Ault, CO 80610
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Sulphur Ranger District
9 Ten Mile Drive
P.O. Box 10
Granby, CO 80446
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Contact Us
This picnic area is situated next to County Road 63E (Pingree Park Road) where it crosses Bennett Creek. It is in an open coniferous forest with steep mountainous topography. There is a parking area, two picnic sites, with a table and fire grate, and a restroom available. There is no drinking water. Primary use of this area is picnicking and fishing in Bennett creek.
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Stepping stones just got seriously tricky! We've given the classic playground game a little team building twist.
In our version, the team is split into two even numbered groups and each group faces the other as they stand in a line of stepping stones hoops.
Between the groups is one middle empty hoop stones. The team's goal is for the two teams to switch sides following the below rules.
• You cannot move backward
• A person can only move forwards into an empty space
• Only one person can move at a time
• Only one person can stand in one hoop at a time
• If any rules are broken you must start from the beginning.
The only way to do it is to get communicating and working together. That's what makes it such a good ice breaker. Stepping Stones is a fast and fun way to get people to work together towards a common goal. They'll laugh, leap and learn a lot about each other in a short space of time.


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Where: West Smithfield, EC1
What: Memorial to Peasants Revolt of 1381; largescale triptych in slate on the side of St Bartholomews Hospital, opposite St Bartholomew the Great Church and Smithfield Market. The carving commemorates the site of the Peasants Revolt (Great Rising). On a bronze plaque to the side is the following information: "This memorial commemorating The Great Rising of 1381 was commissioned by Matthew Bell, carved by Emily Hoffnung and unveiled by Ken Loach on 15th July 2015. 'If the Barons merited a monument to be erected at Runnymede, Tyler merited one in Smithfield.' Thomas Paine, 1791." On either side of the lettering in slate are carved illustrations of medieval weaponry and farming tools.
The Peasant's Revolt, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion, was a major uprising of Kentish rebels which demanded social and economic reforms following the Black Death and the introduction of Poll Tax. They met with a 14-year old Richard II at Smithfield, violence erupted, the rebellion was subdued, the King revoked his concessions and Wat Tyler was murdered.
Text: Upper case lettering is alternated with lower case.
1_Lower case: At this place on 15th June 1381 Wat Tyler, John Ball and other representatives of the Great Rising met King Richard II to finalise terms for ending the Rebellion. The King had agreed to all the political reforms aimed at alleviating the plight of the people. However he and his advisors later reneged on that agreement, after killing Tyler in the process near this spot. John Ball and many others of the Revolt were also later executed.
2_Upper case: Things cannot go on go on well in England nor ever will until everything shall be in common when there shall be neither vassal nor Lord, and all distinctions levelled. John Ball
Material: Slate
Artist: Emily Hoffnung
Date: 2015
Further information:
- The plaque owes its existence to the efforts of local resident Matthew Bell, whose blog is here. Features images of the unveiling and background to the project. Also on Twitter W@TylerPlaque
- Article about the unveiling by Londonist
- Artist's portfolio
- Timeout article
- Islington Tribune
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When it comes to corporate gift giving, many people tell me they feel they are navigating a mine field. Spend too little and you risk seeming unappreciative; too much and you risk embarrassing both your client and yourself.
As the holidays approach, rather than feeling anxiety over what to give, look at this as an opportunity to strengthen the bond with your clients, and express how you appreciate working with them. It isn't hard if you follow few simple do's and don'ts.
Don't assume that the more expensive a gift, the better. Many companies will have a policy around the maximum value of gift employees are permitted to receive. It would be a disservice to put your client in the awkward position of having to return it.
Do think back to conversations you've had with your client about weekend hobbies, special activities with the kids, new homes, or favourite restaurants when deciding on a gift. They will be so much more impressed receiving something personal, than say, a generic gift such as a bottle of wine or a gift basket. It will reinforce their opinion of you as a good listener.
Do go for quality over quantity. Here is where I received some good advice from Isabelle Fish, owner of Rue Pigalle, a Yorkville boutique that carries elegant gifts and décor items. Isabelle had a career as a corporate lawyer before following her dream to open her boutique, so is well versed in the etiquette of corporate gift giving.
"I spend a lot of time searching for reasonably priced home and décor items of exceptional pedigree" explains Isabelle. "The Ercuis and Raynaud collections are a perfect examples: both family owned companies create exquisite decorative items in silver and Limoges porcelain. A set of silver place card holders, or a hand painted porcelain dish in a smart fitted case would impress anyone as a very tasteful and useful gift – pretty flower arrangement delivered in one of our vases that could be used again and again is another good example of a unique gift – it demonstrate the extra time and care put into the gift selection. Italian glass is another timeless gift – the kind where the quality won't go unnoticed."
Feel free to contact Isabelle for more advice and ideas at (647) 352-8115, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Don't forget to ensure your offering is gift wrapped elegantly, and that it is labelled such that it will reach its intended recipient – as in all other areas of presentation, first impressions matter. It would be equally embarrassing if it was discovered that a curious person opened it mistakenly, and worse still if the recipients never found out that it was you who gave the perfect gift!


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Jewellery & Watch Repair Services
Jewellery Repairs
We use trusted workshops to carry out jewellery repairs and we are able to do the following;
- Gold, silver and platinum repairs
- Fasteners supplied
- Chain repairs
- Replacement stones
- Chipped diamonds re-cut
- Ring cut off service
- Ring re-sizing
- Claws re-tipped
- Rhodium Plating
- Laser Soldering
Watch Repairs
We provide a total after sales service on all watches, most watch battery, bracelet shortening and strap changes are done on site the same day. A battery and seal or full service will be completed by our accredited watchmakers or we can return to the official service centres for most brands, and estimate to repair.
Add a personal touch by having a piece of jewellery or a gift engraved in a choice of modern or traditional fonts.
Whether you are celebrating an engagement, birthday, anniversary or simply saying thank you to a friend or your wedding guests, engraving adds an unforgettable personal touch to a gift.
Valuations for insurance replacement, sale or probate are carried out by our valuer who is trained by The National Association of Goldsmiths & The Gemological Association of Great Britain.
We can insure your diamonds, watches and jewellery against a wide range of circumstances, for example theft, losing a stone, or repairs to accidental damage. Cover includes 4 weeks abroad and is underwritten by Lloyds Insurance company with no excess to pay, contact us for details.
When an item of jewellery goes missing your insurance company will normally require you to provide them with a letter from a jeweller stating the current value of the missing items.Although we cannot see your missing jewellery we are able, with your help, to arrive at an accurate replacement figure.


text: Advertisement So yesterday night i noticed that my lasiodora parahybana looked like she was going to explode. I feed her more than all my other tarantulas not on a schedule but just when she will take them. The problem i have is she has a cave that she sits in and the way she does means i usually cant see her abdomen. She is about 4-5" give or take but my worry was what looked like a crack where her abdomen is alsmost like she was gonna pop. I am a bit worried and will definitely stop feeding her for a couple of weeks while she loses some weight. My main question was are there any significant dangers to a fat tarantula? I know about falling from a height but that should not be a problem as she does not climb and only has about 3" height to the top. And the molting situation, what can go wrong with a molt if the tarantula is to fat? Can a tarantulas abdomen just suddenly burst if its to fat? Just a run down of the real dangers would be appreciated. Impossible to get a photo unfortunately. She is definitely not in premolt btw as i stupidly fed her yesterday without seeing how fat she was and she took it which did not surprise me at all.