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Conversations are the crucible in which humans build shared understanding, engagement and intent around a problem space. And, particularly relevant to our present situation in the world, conversation brings to bear the highest human capacity for facing complexity in real time.
"The most essential responsibilities for managers…can be characterized as participation in conversations for possibilities that open new backgrounds for the conversations for action" (Winograd and Flores, Computers and Cognition)
"We know that even at the heart of production lies innovation. We know that enterprise, and societal competitive advantage is driven by knowledge. Not just in the design and delivery of products/services, but in day-to-day problem solving and decision-making processes (especially considering results and impact). We know that to mitigate the impact of complexity upon an organisation that there is a need for devolution and the empowerment of front-line personnel, the sensory receptors that enable fast reactions to the changing environment. We also know that the ability to network and collaborate is a vital component in becoming resilient against the effects of complexity. " http://theknowledgecore.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/complexity-and-integrated-reporting-a-new-opportunity-for-km/
These are the indicators that you need a capability in conversation. Only in the brilliance of what humans can be when they talk together – using patterns that are crafted wisely – can we really be resilient in the face of complexity.
Recommendations that are purely grounded in procedural control have an inevitable brittleness. They are as misdirected as this patented machine for the perfect golf swing….
Over the next series of posts I will introduce 10 reasons why conversation is vital for enterprises that face complexity – and how enterprises can become complex adaptive systems through unlocking the brilliance of human capability in the requisite conversations:
…in order to allow for the inevitable feature of emergence
…in order to bring the "organisation" into being
…in order to activate and apply our capacity for adaptive expertise
…in order to harness the power of fuzziness in language
…in order to access the multiple perspectives required to grasp the system
…in order to clarify and cultivate our values that will bound our system activity
…in order to access the requisite variety essential to leadership in the system
…in order that we can participate in forming the necessary shared context
…in order to take energy in from our operating environment
…in order to access the enduring DNA of narrative
David Jones
Changing the ways people talk to get work done.
New work? New conversation! Change Conversation.


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Please note: all imperial measurements are approximate and all our Grange Fencing are made from metric measurements.
|Product Name:
|3ft High (1000mm) Grange Elite Profiled Picket Fencing Packs - Pressure Treated
|Height at Highest Point:
|1.0m (3'3")
|Height at Lowest Point:
|Width of Panel:
|1.8m (5'10")
|Number of Batons:
|2 Batons
|Cladding Finish:
|16mm - Planed Timber
|Pressure Treated
|Manufacturer's Anti-Rot Guarantee:
|15 Years*
|FSC Timber:
|Matching Gate Available:
|3ft High (1000mm) Grange Elite Profiled Picket Gate - Pressure Treated - Optional
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* To qualify for the guarantee the product must be isolated from the ground.
Setting the precedence for picket fencing the 3ft High Grange Elite Profiled Picket panel comes with a lip around the panel to aid the run off of water helping to keep your fence panel drier.
The premium quality design has a sophisticated appearance for a classic look. Use to mark out boundaries and perimeters in either your front or back garden or use to create themed areas such as a vegetable patch.
Manufactured using specially selected pressure treated and planed timber, the pressure treatment the timber receives allows the natural colours of the wood to show through.
The planed finish on this product would benefit from the optional planed round top fence posts to optimise the appearance of your picket fence panel.
Advantages – Professional range of fencing, planed timber, profiled edging, pressure treated and each fencing panel comes completely pre-assembled allowing for easy installation.
Pressure Treated - Being pressure treated this fence panel provides protection against rot and fungal decay for many years with the added benefit of being low maintenance. You'll also save money in the long run as there's no need to add the extra cost of treating the panel when it's delivered. We guarantee all pressure treated products for 15 years against rot that are isolated from the ground.
Application of a semi-transparent stain or paint for pressure treated timber is recommended if you wish to maintain the colouring of the panel.
Timber – Planed timber means the timber provides a smooth, superior finish. If you wish to treat your fencing with a colour of your choice the process is much quicker and easier on planed timber. Fencing made from rough sawn timber does have a low manufacturing input which is why it is less expensive, this can be a false economy for when it comes to treating rough sawn timber it is much more labour intensive and requires more treatment.
All Grange fencing is manufactured from Pine timber sourced from sustainable forests.
FSC Certified (Certificate No SGS-COC-00100) - Grange has a policy to protect the environment wherever they operate or source material. By buying products with an FSC label you are supporting the growth of responsible forest management worldwide.
About Grange
Established in 1868, Grange has 140 years of experience and an established reputation for quality and excellence in the fencing industry. Grange is the No1 UK supplier of fencing panels and fencing accessories. By blending modern technology with traditional skills and by sourcing the best materials from all over the world Grange bring you products that will last.
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- 15 Year Anti-Rot Guarantee*
- Pressure treated provides protection against rot and fungal decay.
- Planed and profiled timber.
- Optional matching gate.
- Optional matching fence posts.
- FSC Certified
Booking Delivery
Between 3-4 working days after placing your order you will receive a text message or email message (the latter if a mobile number has not been supplied) from our manufacturer's delivery team confirming your delivery date.
Delivery Leadtimes
The estimated delivery lead time for this product is identified on the product page above. Lead times are in working days (Monday - Friday) excludes Bank Holidays. These estimated lead times are provided by the manufacturers and are not guaranteed - due to fluctuation in demand - but are provided in good faith and are representative of delivery at that time. Some remote areas will take a little longer.
The following postal codes in Scotland have an extended leadtime of up to 5 working days. These postal areas only will be contacted by the carrier company texspeed to confirm their delivery date: EH, TD, IV, DD, FK, KY, DG, KW, AB, G, PH, PA, ML
Delivery is not available to these postal codes: ZE, HS or KW (Orkney island)
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Delivery is between 7am to 7pm. Your order is delivered either kerbside or driveway and will be delivered on a 17 ton lorry (the size of a Refuse Cart). Unfortunately due to health and safety and insurance liabilities the driver will not be able to take your goods around to the back of your property but may upon request place the product at the side of the house if there are no access or restriction issues. We would not risk damaging your property whilst delivering a product to an un-safe location. Unfortunately we will not be able to go through your property.
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Hello, all, NBB here. Sharon's running off to her segment on Showcase Minnesota, but she wanted me to let you all know that as she was heading out the door, UPS delivered her advance copy of the Disapproving Rabbits Book!
I quote verbatim:
"It's soooooooo cool! I opened a page and, there's a picture of Latte (our first rabbit)!"
Sharon asked me to let you all know that. The book is being published in October, and the reason it's taken so long for us to get an advance copy is that as soon as they show up in the publisher's office, they disappear. Yay.


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A Trumbull doctor has been ordered to pay $25 million in a lawsuit
filed by a woman whose leg was amputated due to alleged malpractice.
Virginia Schneider, 23, sought medical treatment for pain in her left leg back in 2009, when she was 18 years old, WCBS 880's Fran Schneidau reported.
A jury found that Dr. Marsel Huribal failed to properly diagnose a blood clot in Schneider's leg when she came in for treatment.
The suit also alleges physicians at Griffin Hospital also failed to diagnose Schneider's blood clot properly when the pain got worse and she went back in for care.
"It was properly diagnosed in the sense that they diagnosed an arterial clot, but the acuteness of it, the seriousness of it, wasn't diagnosed — primarily because the on-call vascular surgeon, who is a specialist, didn't diagnose it," Josh Koskoff, Schneider's lawyer, said.
Koskoff says the jury has found that the lack of diagnosis in a timely manner led to Schneider's leg amputation.
"A daily putting on a prosthetic, just to get into the shower is a big production," Koskoff said. "A lot of pain, a lot of inability to fully enjoy herself, just as her life was really getting started."
Huribal's lawyers initially refused to settle the case for $1 million.


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Now thats different !
When it was built, Concorde changed the face of aviation forever. No longer would passengers have to travel slowly – you could be in New York in around three hours, travelling faster than the speed of sound, and in perfect comfort.
On November 29, 1952, all that became possible when an agreement was signed in London between the UK and France.
Julian Amery, Minister of Supply, and Geoffroy de Courcel, the French Ambassador to Britain, put pen to paper on a treaty which detailed the decision by the two countries to build Concorde.
the Concorde fleet was, at its height, 18 Supersonic aeroplanes. flown by Air France and British Airways. first commercial flights were, I think in 1976. the fleet was decommissioned in 2003, after a crash in Paris added to the commercial viability problems following 9/11/2001 reduced passengers on all trans Atlantic flights dramatically. However there are still 8n aircraft still in first class condition around the world, and we have one here in Manchester. I took a tour around the plane on my birthday a couple of weeks ago. for me it was nostalgia, as I flew Concorde in 1978 to and from Bahrain, and in the 90's to and from New York, both Air France from Paris and B.A. from London. seeing those airspeed signs going up to and passing Mach2 was indeed a special feeling. travelling at twice the speed of sound, faster than a bullet was quite amazing, as not a tremor or shake to advise you of the speed, just the read- out at the cabin front. I remember the captain announcing that " there are other planes that fly at this speed, but the R.A.F. don't serve caviar and champagne at 1,350 miles an hour ! enjoy! "
But, back to Manchester, I have a ttached a couple of photos showing the millions of dials the pilots had to contend with.


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Time for some more plugs. My wife, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, will be joining New York University professors and students at the Liberal Studies Program's Fall Faculty/Student Reading from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, at the Telephone Bar and Grill, 149 Second Avenue (between 9th and 10th Streets) in the East Village. Also, Jane's "After Voices" poetry chapbook -- published last month by Burning River of Cleveland -- is now available at the McNally Jackson Book Store in SoHo, one of the few remaining interesting indie bookstores left in Manhattan.
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Dec. 10: This week, the National Corn Growers Association's Corn Board, Action Teams and Committees will convene in St. Louis to delve into the issues and opportunities that will affect corn farmers across the country during the coming year.
Gaining information from presentations by leaders from industry and government, the team members will explore possible changes to team policies and activities that could help their respective programs improve efforts to create and maintain opportunities for growers. Additionally, they will help NCGA update the strategic plan that governs the association's policies and programs for the next several years.
"I am continually inspired by the dedication to agriculture that our farmer leaders show as a whole and by the depth of subject area knowledge they bring to team discussions," said NCGA President Martin Barbre. "By dividing the variety of issues facing our industry into subject areas, we allow growers to delve deeply into a single area and gain more nuanced insight. Together, our leadership can then tackle each subject with a full understanding of its intricacies and lend that perspective to policy development."
The NCGA's action teams and committees define, implement and measure program actions in their areas of expertise – trade policy and biotechnology, ethanol, public policy, production and stewardship, research and business development, and grower services. Each meets separately to listen to speakers pertinent to their charge and to discuss recommendations for fine tuning of their policies which designated team liaisons will report back to the Corn Board for consideration.


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- The victim, who battled the odds in Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, died at 2.15 AM IST.
- Mount Elizabeth Hospital confirmed demise of the 23-year-old medical student due to multile organ failure.
The 23-year-old girl was airlifted from Safdarjung Hospital to Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
- Indian High Commission and parents were at girl's side.
- The girl's vital signs were deteriorating with signs of severe organ failure.
Sonia Gandhi joined Manmohan Singh in promising quick justice for the 23-year-old girl on Friday.
- The 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist had been put on maximum artificial ventilation support, optimal antibiotic doses as well as stimulants which maximised her body's capability to fight infections.
- Mount Elizabeth Hospital chief executive officer Kelvin Loh told the Straits Times that the woman's condition has "taken a turn for the worse" as of 9 p.m. on Friday.
Police used water cannons and fired tear gas shells as protesters returned to India Gate.
- The headline-grabbing gangrape sparked outrage in India and has goaded the top leadership into action with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi promising quick justice.
- Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday announced that her government will launch a round-the-clock women's helpline on Monday which will be operational from her residence.
Gangrape protesters clash with Delhi Police near India Gate
- Amid questions over the decision to shift the victim to Singapore in an extremely critical condition, the government took pains to clarify that it was purely a medical decision and rejected any political intention behind it.
- As the victim battled the odds in the Mount Elizabeth Hospital, 12 days after being brutally tortured and raped in New Delhi on the night of Dec 16, she continued to occupy mindspace back home - for the people and the leadership.


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Unlike many imported trailers, we use UK standard components and sizes in the manufacture of the Caddy trailer. This means that, although we can of course supply all the spares you are ever likely to need - should you find yourself in need of an urgent spare part, you will be able to find what you need locally or from our network of caddy trailer stockists. Wheels are standard 4" PCD with standard sized tyres - no need to order an obscure size from overseas.
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Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
What is Carpal Tunnel?
Several nerves supply feeling and function to the hand. One of these nerves, the median nerve, passes through a small canal near the wrist called the "carpal tunnel" along with several tendons that go to the hand. When the median nerve gets pinched inside the tunnel, this condition is known as carpal tunnel syndrome.
The most common symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome is numbness and/or tingling in the hand, specifically in the thumb, index, middle and part of the ring finger. Patients with this condition often wake from sleep with tingling and the need to shake their hand to relieve the symptoms. Some patients also have pain that travels up the arm from the hand.
A variety of other conditions may also cause numbness and tingling in the hands, and a physical exam by a doctor along with nerve testing can help to determine what is causing your numbness and tingling.
Talk to your doctor if you suffer from the above symptoms regarding possible treatment options.
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The riverside path at Kangaroo Point is a great spot for an easy walk for all ages. Most of the time the track is pretty smooth so it's suitable for strollers and scooters.
There are views across the river to the city, and at the Kangaroo Point cliffs you might see climbers scaling the rock face. Keep an eye on the river for kayakers who've probably hired their boats from the Riverlife Centre not far from the cliffs.
At Captain John Burke park, right under the Story Bridge, there are picnic tables and a play ground. It's a good spot to stop and enjoy the city views and CityCat ferries gliding along the river. The green-domed roof across the river belongs to historic Customs House. Look out for steps that drop down from the park to a little sandy beach. The path continues right under Story Bridge and you might see climbers doing the Story Bridge Adventure Climb.


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I had the honor of second shooting for Warrior Wedding Project at the beautiful Catamaran hotel down in San Diego!
The Warrior Wedding Project is set up to help military families with all costs for wedding photography. Gil Cope and his wife, Andrea, help out couples from all over and I was lucky to be able to help out for this special wedding.
Here are a few favorites..enjoy!
I started out the day meeting up with Rachelle and her family at her sister's house to grab pictures of them getting all dolled up!


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Serra Capital III announced that it has invested in its 11th company, FarmLead. FarmLead is a digital marketplace that allows buyers and sellers to list, negotiate and finalize grain deals. Available online and as a mobile app, FarmLead increases market reach, provides 24-7 access and reduces brokerage fees. The FarmLead Marketplace facilitates greater efficiency in grain marketing. Farmers find more buyers and identify the best possible deal, while grain buyers easily identify the grain for sale in their desired location.
The investment is part of a $6.5M Series A round led by Monsanto, and also includes Canadian agtech venture capital firm Avrio Ventures and Canadian government-backed commercialization agent MaRS Innovation Accelerator Fund. With this round of funding, FarmLead is expanding to the US where 5% of its customer base are already based. It is opening a headquarters in Chicago and already starting to hire new personnel to fill it. The funding will also go towards building out new product capabilities such as enabling payments through the platform.
Source: https://agfundernews.com/breaking-farmlead-online-grain-marketplace-raises-6-5m-series-a-led-by-monsanto.html


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Laika pitch from Santiago López Jover on Vimeo.
This is one of my first flash animations, in the tima that i was working in Hampa Studio. It is a comercial pitch for a new cool that the studio was trying to push up, "Laika space adventures". I did this simple animation together with talented animator Guille Seguí (we splited the work in two), and the idea was to introduce the characters, which are inspired in the historic animals taht were sent into the space in spacial missions: in our show, they and their respective spacecrafts meets in the space and try together to go back home. The initial idea was a low cost Tv show in Flash (that is the reason of the static pose and limited animation in the characters), but finally it became a high quality 3d project that is actually in development; you can check it in Hampa Studio´s site.


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Unfortunately I did not take part in Movember this year. If for the last month you have been wondering what the hype has been about: Movember is an annual event run in November (surprisingly enough), involving the growing of moustaches. The event aims to bring light to men's health issues such as prostrate cancer and mental illness.
Prostate Cancer
Movember started in 2004, when 30 men decided for 30 days they would grow moustaches to raise awareness for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is reported to be one of the most common cancers found in men. It is also one of the leading causes of cancer death for men – with one in seven being diagnosed. The money raised is used in a number of ways, mainly for funding the Movember men's health program.
The supporters
The supporters otherwise known as Mo Bros range from the average Joe through to celebrities. In other words, any man taking part raising funds and increasing awareness – whilst trimming and waxing their moustaches to perfection. You can also find a number of multinational companies supporting the cause, for instance Google Chrome partnered with Movember in 2011. This year, Google UK offered their paid media partners an opportunity to win an office party at the Google HQ. The winner being the company whom had raised the most money.
Do you know your celebrities
It is likely that you will have noticed many celebrities supporting the Movember cause, including James Franco, Ashton Kutcher and Clive Owen. If you think you know your celebrities check out this awesome Buzzfeed quiz submitted by the guys over at Fashion Beans (a pretty cool men's fashion, styling and grooming magazine).
Thinking of supporting the cause
Though Movember and November may be officially over, next year join the cause and help fight men's health issues – I know I will be. There is only one definition of success; finding the breakthrough solution that produces tangible improvements to men's health.
Thank you for reading, and feel free to check out my other articles.


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Keeping up with all the changes happening with Clash Royale is starting to become a full time job, but I'm definitely not complaining about it because these changes are GREAT! Here's a recap of all the announcements that were just made, and my thoughts on each one:
– Legendary Arena: Unlocks at 3000 Trophies
– Seasons: Every two weeks, players above 3000 Trophies will be reset to 3000 and all deducted Trophies will be awarded as Legend Trophies!
MoEsport: As of now, there are only 29 players who have reached 3000 trophies, and this will give many players a lot more incentive to push for that magic number. I'm curious to find out more about what Legend Trophies will be for – are they just for bragging rights, or will the accumulation of them perhaps qualify you for a future World Tournament??
– Tournament Rules: Friendly Battles will use the all-new "Tournament Standard" level caps for truly fair-play matches! The level caps are: King & Crown Towers 8, Common Cards 8, Rares 6, Epics 3 and overtime lasts for 3 minutes. Have fun organizing your own tournaments!
– Why did we choose to cap cards, rather than normalizing everyone's cards for Friendly Battles? We still want people to feel the incentive to collect and upgrade all the cards they may want to use in a tournament.
– Why did we choose levels: Common 8, Rare 6 and Epic 3? It should take roughly 3 months of playing to get a bunch of cards to these levels without paying anything, and we thought that was a good amount of time for players to get a solid understanding of the game before thinking about moving into the realm of competitive tournaments.
MoEsport: I am PSYCHED about the tournaments, and can't wait to start organizing them! Once the details on how to organize tournaments become more clear, I will set up a tournament listing on this site on a dedicated Clash Royale tournaments page, so be sure to check back next week!
One interesting takeaway here is the Clash Royale team pointing out that it takes about 3 months to reach the newly assigned level caps without paying anything, which I think is more than fair considering that it takes about the same amount of time to accumulate enough cards for a competitive deck in Hearthstone.
– Battle Cost: We're removing the Gold cost for Battles and Friendly Battles (thanks for your feedback on this one!)
– Chest Gold: To keep the Gold economy intact and compensate for the free Battles, chests will give slightly less Gold
– Balance: We're re-balancing a bunch of cards, check out the Balance Changes in Context to find out more
MoEsport: I already talked about the Balance Changes here so check it out if you haven't already. One of the biggest complains about the game is the currency sink for friendly matches, so it's great that Clan members can now practice with each other without worrying about not having enough coins for cards/upgrades. Don't like that the Clash Royale team decided to go cheap on us in decreasing the Gold from chests though. I wonder how much "slightly less" actually is….
– Death Damage: Balloon, Giant Skeleton and Golem death damage will be shown on their card info screens
– Notifications: Classier in-game notification pop-ups
– Local Notifications: New card request available, Crown Chest available and second Free Chest available notifications
– Push Notifications: New "A Clanmate's battle is now featured in TV Royale!" notification
– Bugs: Stuck Witches, iMessage issues and many more fixes are incoming
MoEsport: Mostly just you standard stuff here. I hope that one day my clan members will get a push notification of me being featured on TV Royale (just another 1000 or so trophies!!)


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It is remarkable that a change of Prime Minister from one to another from the same party can cause so much confusion and uncertainty. Yet that is the position we face as we wait for the Government to get up and running after the summer break.
Partly, this is simply a result of changing personnel. Not one of the ministers who visited Calderdale in the aftermath of the Boxing Day floods is now in the same job, or indeed serving in the same department. (This is one reason why Mr Whittaker's sudden decision to break the cross party consensus on standing up for our communities with his poorly informed attack on the Council's actions recently is so ill-judged).
But it seems that many of the changes are more fundamental, representing a complete rejection of David Cameron and George Osborne's approach to Conservativism.
So perhaps this is a good time to set out the changes we would like to see, with three wishes from local government that could make a real difference for our area:
No back tracking on flood recovery
The first wish is for reassurance that there will be no back-tracking on the promised investment in flood resilience and recovery. That means firstly securing guarantees about the investment that has already been promised. But we also need to know that the national review of flood resilience will go ahead - identifying what has to be done to better protect communities against the likelihood of further severe weather events, and putting in the money needed to deliver.
Ending the uncertainty on devolution
Secondly, we need a clear statement from the Government about their intentions over devolution. There are two critical questions - will they continue to invest the resources needed to start to plug the gap in investment that presently exists between north and south, and from which we have suffered for too long; and do they understand that these decisions are best taken as close as possible to the regions that need the investment, rather than being dictated by ministers and civil servants in Whitehall? Arguments about elected mayors and the exact geography are entirely secondary.
End the squeeze on local services
Finally, we need the government to reverse the unfair and unequal cuts to local spending imposed by the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition and continued by George Osborne. Locally, we have found tens of millions of pounds in savings and cuts since 2010, and identified the need for millions more going forward. Yet the latest estimates are that Calderdale will need to cut another £13 million of spending by 2019, on top of everything done to date. At the same time, with more children nationally being admitted to care, and rising demographic pressures on social care services, we are rapidly reaching the point of no return for many of the services local people value the most.
These are not unrealistic wishes. The next few weeks will tell us which, if any, will be met.


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We heart Kansas City: All Star Game
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Yep, it's pretty much baseball fever in Kansas City! There is no escaping the excitement! Kansas City is hosting the All Star game TONIGHT!! If you're lucky enough to have tickets to the game, you better share your pictures with us! We'd love to be there, but we'll be cheering from home! Hope all of the visitors have fallen in love with our city!! Follow along on all the excitement on the official All Star Game site and on twitter with: #ASG and for Kansas City related comments or questions: @VisitKC and #KC!! We'll be doing the same.
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text: Home > Bookshop > Australian Children's Books > Australian Picture Books « Back Bertie Allen, Pamela Our Price Retail Price AUD$19.99 Your Price AUD$16.98 Minimum Order: 1 In Stock (1) Dispatch: 1 day Bertie/Allen, Pamela/Hardb/0670076953/S016-E AUD$16.98 QTY Gift Wrapping Add Gift Wrapping (click checkbox) If you would like a gift wrapping message, please add it in the Notes section on the checkout page, thank you. AUD$2.95 Publisher: Viking ISBN-13: 9780670076956 Series: Binding: Hardback Year Published: 2013 With all Pam's trademark simplicity of line and characterisation, this is the perfect book to share with the littleies in your life. Together you can choose... are you happy or grumpy? Will you cry or will you sing? Straightforward comparative text about feelings with clean, clear art. ID: 247221 Code: P103754


text: Previous Post Next Post Pinewood celebrate 5th Anniversary with dinner for original staff By Pinewood Hotel 6 December 2016 Caption: John Kershaw (Kitchen), Donna Melton (Housekeeping), Richard Walker (Food & Beverage), Joy Mulholland (Housekeeping) and GM John Scott. It was a very select dinner for five as the original members of staff met to celebrate the fifth anniversary of us taking over the Pinewood Hotel. In keeping with tradition set at Castle Green, those members of staff who have been with the company for five years or more are treated to dinner by the Hotel to thank them for their valued service. GM John Scott explains,' John Kershaw, Donna, Richard and Joy have many years of service at the Pinewood Hotel and I originally started at Castle Green, so there was more than 25 years service on show and it was great to reach the five year milestone and celebrate the changes we have made to the Hotel.'


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In 2014, life set a deadline for author Melinda Kucsera. Her sister, Carolyn, died at the age of 29. Carol's last words were a request - she made Melinda promise to publish her stories. At first, the prospect daunted Melinda as she had no idea how to make it a reality.
So she started a blog and put out the first chapter of Curse Breaker: Enchanted. Readers loved it and lobbied her to publish it.
On her late sister's birthday, Melinda published Curse Breaker: Enchanted in its entirety. In the Author's Note at the end of the book, she promises to never stop writing or publishing until she has no more stories left to tell.
Curse Breaker: Enchanted is an epic fantasy as it was meant to be. Fans of Anthony Ryan, Julliet Marillier, Michael J. Sullivan, Mercedes Lackey, Margaret Weis, and Tracy Hickman will enjoy Sarn's struggle against dark forces to save those he loves and find peace for a troubled ghost and himself.
Start No Fires. Carry No Weapons. Do No Harm
Those three rules safeguarded countless travelers through the enchanted forest—until they didn't. One boy's murder ripped open a gateway allowing evil to enter. Now no one is safe from corruption.
Enchanted trees take Sarn to where the forest failed to uphold its rules. Seeing a dead child gifted with the same magic as his son unhinges Sarn. He vows to find out the truth no matter what the cost. But his gift is untrained and finding answers won't be easy. Sarn must balance nights serving the Rangers with days dedicated to hiding his son from the dark forces stalking them both.
When Sarn's masters demand he abandon the quest, he faces an impossible choice—doom the ghost whose murder endangers them all or die from the backlash of breaking his word. With the odds stacked against him, can Sarn fix anything or will all be lost?
So who wants a book?! Melinda and I have partnered up to give away a signed paperback copy of Curse Breaker: Enchanted [The More Epic Version] to TWO lucky Giveaway Guy readers.
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Jason Whitman is a proud 4th generation Wyoming native from Cody. Throughout his life, he has lived and breathed the western lifestyle and the unique opportunities it provides.
His professional career did not take the typical path of a working photographer. Instead, he dedicated one part of his career to helping other see clearly. After earning a Doctor of Optometry Degree, he committed his energy to providing others the gift of sight and clear vision. This continues today alongside his developing photography career. The two paths intersect in a place that is centered around vision, visuals, and amazing scenes of western themes.
It might be no surprise based on his upbringing, but Jason continues to capture all things Western. His portfolio and client list clearly represent a deep understanding for the western lifestyle. This includes authentic western people, working ranches, real cowboys, guest ranches, and conceptual depictions of past days. Jason lives, breathes, and continues to appreciate life in the west, making Wyoming his home base.
His fine art work has been showcased in spaces such as Scarlow's Gallery in his "A Celebration of the American West" art show, Fox News "The Five", the William Shatner Charity Horse Auction, American Photographic Artists "Off the Clock", and Photoshop User Magazine.
When clients seek a comprehensive visual depiction of western lifestyle, they lean on Jason to capture that vision. He has worked for clients such as the State of Wyoming, Poison Spider Cattle Co., and the world famous Moosehead Ranch. He continues to shoot personal work on a regular basis to hone his vision and style. Jason is available for assignment work and fine art commissions.


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Some of you may know Michael Benabib for his corporate headshot work. What you might not know, is that he also has a history of photographing some of the biggest hip hop stars in history. This week, he has been featured for his hip hop photography in the New York Times Lens Blog. He captures an important part of history and has been recognized by the Smithsonian Museum for his efforts in this publication.
You can read more about his work below, in the New York Times.
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Fairtrade is a tool for development that ensures disadvantaged farmers and workers in developing countries get a better deal through the use of the international FAIRTRADE Mark. By complying with standards set by the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO) producers receive a guaranteed minimum price as well as the Fairtrade premium.
Producer Standards
- Social Development
- Socio-economic development
- Environmental development
- Labour conditions
Trade Standards - Companies trading Fairtrade products must:
- Pay a price to producers that aims to cover the costs of sustainable production: the Fairtrade Minimum Price
- Pay an additional sum that producers can invest in development: the Fairtrade Premium.
- Partially pay in advance, when producers ask for it.
- Sign contracts that allow for long-term planning and sustainable production practices
This premium is designed to be invested in social, environmental or economic development projects that are democratically decided on by producer organisations. The minimum prices and premium for all Fairtrade certified products are published separately. Consumers absorb some, if not all, of the costs of paying a premium to farmers and the minimum pricing. Global sales of Fairtrade products were estimated to be €2.9 billion in 2008.
Figures from the 2012 Fairtrade Monitoring Report show that a total of 1.24 million farmers and farm workers are part of the Fairtrade system, 60% of whom are located in Africa or the Middle East. For 2011 total sales revenue of Fairtrade products for producers was 673 million Euro, of which 61.3 million Euros is a fairtrade premium for producers. Around 1.3 million hectares of production area is under Fairtrade certification.
Fairtrade was originally created under the name 'Max Havelaar' in 1988 by the Dutch development agency, Solidaridad and the first 'Fairtrade' coffee from Mexico was sold into Dutch supermarkets. The initiative was then replicated across European and North American markets, though with differing brandnames (and hence different identities). Examples include: Transfair (in Germany, Austria, Luxemburg, Italy, the United States, Canada and Japan), Fairtrade Mark in the UK and Ireland, Rättvisemärkt in Sweden, and Reilu Kauppa in Finland.
In 1997, Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) was established in Bonn to bring together the various labelling initiatives. This was followed in 2002 by the creation of the International Fairtrade label. In 2004 FLO split into two seperate organsations - FLO International which sets Fairtrade standards and provides producer business support and FLO-CERT, which inspects and certifies producer organizations and audits traders.
Spending in 2012 for the Fairtrade Foundation (UK based) was approximately £10.6 million.
Each Fairtrade organisation has its own funding sources and is responsible for its own fundraising. For example the Fairtrade Foundation receives 85.6% of its funding from a licensee fee from Fairtrade certified products. The remainder comes from government grants (5.1%), other grants (5%), member agency grants (0.9%),
New products are increasingly being added to the certification line, however coffee remains its number one product in terms of volumes of sales and producers.Licensing capability has recently expanded into Africa with the creation of Fairtrade South Africa in 2009. As a Marketing Organisation it is a national organisation designed to market and promote Fairtrade in country. FLO directly licenses companies to use the Fairtrade Certification Mark.


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Gold purity is usually the last thing few people pay attention when buying jewelry. When looking for a nice affordable gift, they will go for the least expensive price. A 10K ring, 14K ring and 18K ring really do not look visually different from one another so why not take the 14K over the 18K or the 10K over the 14k. If it shines like gold, why take the trouble to pay a premium for something that few people will never know the difference. Why even have all the different gold purities to start with, why isn't a gold ring anything but gold?
Pure gold is very soft and even more expensive. So when it comes to consumer goods like jewelry, you want something that will actually last and is in the price range to actually warrant a demand. For this reason, many jewelry manufacturers mix other harder and less expensive base metals when casting the gold to add to it toughness, color, as well as bring down the cost of the finished good. Jewelry by law has to be marked for purity for the benefit of the customer to know what exactly they are paying for. This is why the karat scale is used and stamped on all jewelry made in the USA and abroad.A karat is 24 times the mass of gold in the jewelry divided by the whole mass of the jewelry.
A pure, non-mixed gold ring will have a stamp of 24K meaning that it is 100 percent gold.Here is the list of the most popular gold purities available to customers and crafted by manufacturers.
Gold purity might not be on a consideration for many jewelry buyers, but since gold is a commodity whose price is not fixed, it might be a worth it to buy a higher purity of gold if the needs comes when you have to resell it in the future if the price of gold goes up. I hope this small post helps you make a better decision when it comes to purchasing from us here at JewishCharms.com. Happy Shopping!
Hamsa is the right hand pendant found in the Middle East and North Africa. Although it has it origins in the Islamic faith, it is very present in other Abrahamic religions like Christianity and Judaism. The symbol has become very popular and trendy in the past few years. It was once a symbol of protection and security, now it [...]


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Read on for a list of conventional and uncoventional flower cards - they're all easy to make and there is a link through to the original post for more detailed instructions.
1. Gorgeously Simple Sunflower Card
Made with the Painted Harvest Stamp Set this sunflower set has been so popular since it was released a couple of months ago.
You can make your sunflowers as conventional or unconventional as you like depending on what colours you use.
This card featured on the 10 Gorgeous Stampin' Up! Sunflower Cards.
Read the complete instructions on how to make this card HERE
2. Use the Eastern Beauty Stamp Set to create pretty flower mandalas
The Eastern Beauty Stamp Set is another favourite amongst Stampin' Up! customers and demonstrators alike.
You can use it to create gorgeous flower centrepieces for modern cards.
Take a closer look at this project HERE.
3. Cheerful Daisy Card
This card uses the 'Congratulations' from our Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set but you can use any sentiment for a classy and cheerful card.
The daisies are a sheet of our Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper - of course you could create an entirely different looking card by using different paper.
Learn more HERE.
4. Use a Card Kit to create a beautiful floral card
This card took seconds to make.
I used the Soft Sayings Card Kit which comes with everything you need to make 20 gorgeous cards (except adhesive), plus it has pre-printed instructions so that you don't have to spend time thinking up designs.
Of course you can get creative and completely ignore the designs in the pack and create your own, the choice is yours.
5. Use subtle flowery backgrounds for cards with a strong focal point
This card is yet another Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper creation.
I think the gentle flowers offset the bold dragonfly from the Detailed Drangonfly Thinlits Dies perfectly. I used Night of Navy and Calypso Coral cardstocks.
You can view the original project HERE
6. Watercolor Words 'You're the Best' Sunflower Card
This beauty is a quick and easy make.
Create a bold statement with large sentiments from Watercolor Words.
Add a shock of Garden Green Cardstock at the edges for a cheery, garden-inspired card.
You can view this project in full and what you need to make it HERE.
7. Create opulent Mandala flowers with Gold Vinyl Stickers
This is another favourite project here at Crafty Hippy. The Gold Vinyl Stickers are part of our luxurious Eastern Palace Suite.
Not a conventional flower but thoroughly modern; and extra depth and dimension to your project.
See how to create this card HERE
8. Colourful Flowers
Layered colours create the feel of a summer country garden - packed full of blooming loveliness.
I used the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set and Sponge Daubers to create this dreamy card. Swap the sentiment out to suit your recipient.
Learn more HERE
9. Have a go at the Triple Stamp Flower Technique
This technique is something I came up with recently. Stamp three flower stamps in bright colours to create an eye-catching design.
I've used the Watercolor Words Stamp Set for the large sentiment which is fabulous for card making.
Take a closer look at the original post to see this card in another colour and how to create it HERE
10. Add a Doily and pearl to your flower cards
Embellishments always add extra depth and dimension to your projects, no matter the subject matter.
I have finished this card off with one of our Metal Rimmed Pearls and with a Delicate White Doily, which both add a bit of elegance to the card.
Of course you can change the Designer Series Paper and the sentiment to alter the look you are going for.
View this card HERE
There are so many variations and techniques you can use to make gorgeous flower cards. By clicking on the product names you will be taken through to the Official Stampin' Up! Store where you can view these products.
Please click on the link to the original project for a full list of supplies.
Back soon with more Stampin' Up! news and ideas,


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Mens Vintage Embroidered Western Shirt! Crisp white with bright rainbow colored (red, yellow, green,blue & black) embroidered flower design on each side of the chest. Pearly white snaps down the front with four more on each cuff. Smile pockets with black piping and arrow tips on either side of the chest. Round-tapered hem. Tag reads Sears Western Wear. No material tag but feels like a cotton blend.
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For example, one could have a dream in which they get a home run in baseball, which seems to be one of the more common fantasies surrounding baseball. One could also dream that they are stuck on a base and unable to move to the next one because the rest of their team keeps striking out. Another type of baseball dream that could potentially occur would be to be trying to catch a ball that someone on the other team hit. This will go through just a few of the dreams you might experience that are baseball related, and what each of them might mean.
If you have a dream in which you are about to catch a ball in baseball but then you miss it, this is most likely because you feel that you have lost an opportunity in waking life. Perhaps you feel like you messed up a job interview or maybe you feel like there was a certain choice that you should have made a different way that would have changed your future forever. No matter what the deal was, you have gotten yourself into a situation in which you can only regret past decisions that you've made, essentially crying over spilt milk. Don't put yourself in this situation. Try your best to get out of it because it will only lead to negative thoughts and down a road which does not lead to a profitable future.
If you have a dream where you hit a home run, this usually means the opposite of the above dream situation. There was an opportunity that you were given and you hit it out of the park so to speak. If this was a job interview, you impressed them fully and should expect to get the job. If it was a girlfriend or boyfriend you were trying to pick up on or impress, they most definitely got the message and are happy with your performance. If you were trying to get recognized by the community or something like that, then you probably will. All of this relies on the fact that you are doing some good work and should expect to see some real tangible results from all of the hard work that you've been putting in.
Another type of dream you might have is one where you are stuck on a base and wanting to run, but your team is unable to put you through to the next base because of all of the weak hits, or non-existent hits. You are going to want to make sure that you do the best that you can in life to maintain some forward motion, because what a dream like this suggests is that you are not trying hard enough to make sure that you get recognized for all of the work that you are doing.
Jason 2017-06-27 10:20:58
I had a dream where it I was up to bat, it was the last out of the final inning, runner in scoring position, if we score we win , if we don't we lose, and so I was batting and the person who's pitching is a guy who's been my competitor since I was a little kid, we would compete for positions in baseball, football, track, etc. anyways he ends up striking me out and I just feel devastated after the game because I know he's not better than me yet he stuck me out. I want to know what this means
Xavier 2015-10-24 08:46:38
Last night, I dremt about hitting a homerun against the hardest team in the league to beat for my age, and I feel like this has been happening a lot lately, but nothing seems to go right for me lately. Hopefully, this article will actually start being right.
Michael 2015-03-22 12:54:58
i have re-occurring dreams where I'm in the stands and i catch every foul ball hit. Or at least multiple ones. Last night i recognized this as a dream sign and turned it lucid. flying out of the stadium. What might the catching foul balls mean?
Melissa 2014-12-13 18:07:36
I had a dream that I was sitting in the stands behind the catcher and the hitter kept hitting foul balls and they came straight to me and I caught all of them and everyone around me was jealous so I had to give them away to people. But I kept one and had it autographed by the star player who happened to be sitting beside me.
Adam 2016-01-26 15:47:16
Please tell me youve found a meaning, i too have this dream
Leon 2014-10-18 14:00:38
I had a baseball dean where a normal game is going on and I'm on deck waiting to hit. The feel was that the situation was 2 outs and I soon begin to walk up to the batter's box. My friend ahead of me walks as if he's batting and realizes it's not his turn and turns around giving me his wood bat. I was really nervous as if the continuing of the game rested on my shoulders. As i got in the box a cement wall was apparent about 15 yards behind the pitcher. i hit a screaming line drive at the wall and the umpires says' its a dead ball and a strike" as if its kinda a foul ball and I had to continue batting. The situation seemed as if the game became more challenging and stricening upon me, but I overcame the ridiculous odds and golf swung the at the next pitch hitting it over the wall but it only counted as a single. I insulted the pitcher after and we began to brawl, he was holding my right arm with his left, and tried to land blows. He couldn't not as i dodge and evaded him, landing my own blows before the fight was broken up.
Chris 2013-02-06 20:11:51
I had a baseball dream that's somewhere in-between. I'm on base, and someone behind me hits it almost out of the park, but not quite. I hear someone say that it's a ground rule double. So I start running, but the guy behind me who hit the ball is running past me and gets ahead of me. Prior to him passing me, I had this feeling that he would do that. When he did, I yelled at him to go back because it would only be legal for me to be ahead of him on the basepaths. He goes back, touching the base and continuing to go back so I can touch the base first. Then I wake up.


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Some life transitions begin with a "bomb". These are the experiences that can usually be traced to an exact moment. The car accident that caused a head injury. The phone call announcing a death. The moment when your spouse announces out of the blue that she never loved you. The discovery of a deeply hidden family […]Continue Reading
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Late in January the robins swooped in and lifted the veil of winter, even as the frost still stepped on the brown grass and the skies were smeared with charcoal. On a chilly day in early March, the sky sang one brilliant blue note all day long and the wild cherry tree wore petals and perfume. The robins, still visiting in droves, attached themselves for minutes at a time to the cherry limbs and gave me time to wonder what they saw and smelled. How different was their world from mine?
Something worn and raw in me looked up, wanting something I couldn't define. Now, I stare at the image captured by my hungry camera and eye my unrest. It'd be too easy to say I'd like to know what it's like to fly. It's not the flying I crave. It's the courage to reach inside myself and find my bird-mind, the self in me that knows, instinctually, where to go, what to do. No this-ing and that-ing. No if-ing and what-if-ing. Just taking in, like breath, moving on, like breath, making life.


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REVIEW: Bahama Breeze, Duluth, Gwinnett
We avoid chain restaurants as a general rule. But when the folks at Bahama Breeze contacted us to experience ReggaeFest, it was too big of a temptation to pass up. ReggaeFest is a summer celebration featuring live music, Jamaican jerk, curry goat, and plenty of island refreshments to keep the
REVIEW: Drift Fish House & Oyster Bar , The Avenue East Cobb, Marietta
Drift Fish House & Oyster Bar is certainly of the most anticipated new restaurants openings of the year, and for good reason. When Chefs Brandon Keenan and Doug Turbush, of Seed [Read our review of Seed, Jan 15 2016], announced their intention to open another restaurant in fashionable East Cobb,
COOKING AT HOME: Jim Beam Beef Filets
When I saw the Jim Beam Beef Filets in Costco, I was really excited about them. Obviously, I am a sucker for marketing. They come in a box, so you cannot really see them. Yes, they show a picture, but does that really tell you what they look like? It's
COOKING AT HOME: Crab Cakes and Shrimp: A super meal that's healthy, nutritious and full of flavor
Meal preparation doesn't have to be elaborate or time-consuming for you to have a great meal. Yes, I know that foodie traditionalists will poo-poo prepared foods but in the real world every meal isn't a cornucopia with either an endless budget or schedule. I went to Costco to find Phillip's


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KOKOMO, Ind.- Indiana University Kokomo has been accepted to the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference beginning with the 2013-2014 academic year. All Cougar athletic teams immediately will be eligible for conference championships, as well as automatic bids to the NAIA Championships.
"The campus is honored to join the KIAC," said Interim Chancellor Susan Sciame-Giesecke. "It complements our entry into the NAIA and it was the next step in our campus plan to create a competitive athletic program. I know our athletes will excel and compete in this new arena."
The KIAC is an NAIA conference, founded in 1916. With the addition of IU Kokomo, the league's membership increases to 12 institutions this fall. The Cougars will be joining Alice Lloyd College (Pippa Passes, Ky.), Ashbury University (Wilmore, Ky.), Berea College (Berea, Ky.), Brescia University (Owensboro, Ky.), Carlow University (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Cincinnati Christian University (Cincinnati, Ohio), IU East (Richmond, Ind.), IU Southeast (New Albany, Ind.), Midway College (Midway, Ky.), Point Park University (Pittsburgh, Pa.), and St. Louis College of Pharmacy (St. Louis, Mo.).
"The KIAC is a great fit for us considering the quality of the member schools and the stability of the conference," said Todd Gambill, vice chancellor for student affairs and enrollment management. "We are excited about the platform that the NAIA and the KIAC provides for us to showcase our institution and our students. We look forward to developing partnerships and rivalries with our member schools."
The KIAC sponsors championships in 14 sports, including, baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track and field and volleyball.
In addition, the KIAC sponsors competition in baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. IU Kokomo competes in men's and women's cross country, women's volleyball, and men's basketball.
"By joining the KIAC, now we will have an opportunity to compare ourselves to conference competition at the end of the season when we are in peak shape," said Jason VanAlstine, head men's and women's cross country coach. "It will be very exciting next year with many new faces, new facilities, and a new conference."
IU Kokomo makes the move to the KIAC after having been a member of the Association of Independent Institutions for the 2012-2013 season. Visit www.kiacsports.com for more information.
Indiana University Kokomo serves north central Indiana.


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Think cardboard and the mind instantly conjures up images of that excruciatingly dull and rather horrid brown packing material. However, trust the design continuum to make cardboard cool. Don't believe us? Well then check out our list of the coolest examples of cardboard furniture which not only showcases the designer's imagination but also their design conscious.
Chic Cardboard Furniture by Fashion4Home
Cardboard Fluted Table by Giles Miller
Cardboard Lamp by Yano-Shiki
CORRUGATED CARDBOARD LAMP by Giles Miller
The Wiggle Chair by Frank Gehry
King Louis Cardboard Table by Gareth Neal
Recycled Cardboard 'Scrap Lamps
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The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Volume I. The Bastille
Book 1.VII. The Insurrection of Women
Chapter 1.7.III. Black Cockades
But fancy what effect this Thyestes Repast and trampling on the National Cockade, must have had in the Salle des Menus; in the famishing Bakers'- queues at Paris! Nay such Thyestes Repasts, it would seem, continue. Flandre has given its Counter-Dinner to the Swiss and Hundred Swiss; then on Saturday there has been another.
Yes, here with us is famine; but yonder at Versailles is food; enough and to spare! Patriotism stands in queue, shivering hungerstruck, insulted by Patrollotism; while bloodyminded Aristocrats, heated with excess of high living, trample on the National Cockade. Can the atrocity be true? Nay, look: green uniforms faced with red; black cockades,--the colour of Night! Are we to have military onfall; and death also by starvation? For behold the Corbeil Cornboat, which used to come twice a-day, with its Plaster-of- Paris meal, now comes only once. And the Townhall is deaf; and the men are laggard and dastard!--At the Cafe de Foy, this Saturday evening, a new thing is seen, not the last of its kind: a woman engaged in public speaking. Her poor man, she says, was put to silence by his District; their Presidents and Officials would not let him speak. Wherefore she here with her shrill tongue will speak; denouncing, while her breath endures, the Corbeil-Boat, the Plaster-of-Paris bread, sacrilegious Opera-dinners, green uniforms, Pirate Aristocrats, and those black cockades of theirs!--
Truly, it is time for the black cockades at least, to vanish. Them Patrollotism itself will not protect. Nay, sharp-tempered 'M. Tassin,' at the Tuileries parade on Sunday morning, forgets all National military rule; starts from the ranks, wrenches down one black cockade which is swashing ominous there; and tramples it fiercely into the soil of France. Patrollotism itself is not without suppressed fury. Also the Districts begin to stir; the voice of President Danton reverberates in the Cordeliers: People's-Friend Marat has flown to Versailles and back again;- -swart bird, not of the halcyon kind! (Camille's Newspaper, Revolutions de Paris et de Brabant (in Histoire Parlementaire, iii. 108.)
And so Patriot meets promenading Patriot, this Sunday; and sees his own grim care reflected on the face of another. Groups, in spite of Patrollotism, which is not so alert as usual, fluctuate deliberative: groups on the Bridges, on the Quais, at the patriotic Cafes. And ever as any black cockade may emerge, rises the many-voiced growl and bark: A bas, Down! All black cockades are ruthlessly plucked off: one individual picks his up again; kisses it, attempts to refix it; but a 'hundred canes start into the air,' and he desists. Still worse went it with another individual; doomed, by extempore Plebiscitum, to the Lanterne; saved, with difficulty, by some active Corps-de-Garde.--Lafayette sees signs of an effervescence; which he doubles his Patrols, doubles his diligence, to prevent. So passes Sunday, the 4th of October 1789.
Sullen is the male heart, repressed by Patrollotism; vehement is the female, irrepressible. The public-speaking woman at the Palais Royal was not the only speaking one:--Men know not what the pantry is, when it grows empty, only house-mothers know. O women, wives of men that will only calculate and not act! Patrollotism is strong; but Death, by starvation and military onfall, is stronger. Patrollotism represses male Patriotism: but female Patriotism? Will Guards named National thrust their bayonets into the bosoms of women? Such thought, or rather such dim unshaped raw- material of a thought, ferments universally under the female night-cap; and, by earliest daybreak, on slight hint, will explode.


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This Week's Haul: Before The Storm/
Just a quick announcement before I get started. You might not hear from me for a few days (which isn't too unusual these days). The reason is because we are scheduled to get slammed by Hurricane Noel tomorrow. Last time we got hit with a storm this size, we lost power for quite a while. So that's what I'm prepared for.
Now I am thinking that this tree-top level apartment with a glass front, while nice, might not be the best location for this storm.
But enough of this unpleasantness. At least I have plenty of comics to read.
And here's what I thought of some of the ones that came out this week!
Action Comics #858
I was really looking forward to this, and I was not disappointed. Gary Frank's artwork is beautiful and Geoff Johns' writing is, as always, stellar.
It's a little confusing, in that it is a story set in current continuity, but borrows a lot from the past. It feels like a Year One story, mostly due to the emphasis on Clark Kent's loner status, and inability to relate to humanity. Of course, this has to ignore the fact that he is happily married, which this comic does.
But I'm not complaining. Especially not if we get delightful pages like this one, with classic grouchy Perry, awkward Clark and enthusiastic Jimmy:
That panel of Clark examining his tie kills me.
We also get some great flashback scenes of Clark as a lonely kid, when he meets the Legion for the first time. This was pretty adorable and heartbreaking, as a friendless young Clark thinks he's found someone who understands lonliness:
I really liked this remark, as Superman faces who he believes is Brainiac, but is actually Brainiac 5 in an elaborate plot to get Superman's attention:
It's nice to see Superboy and the legion. Especially with art this nice.
Superman ends up traveling to the future, just like the good ol' days, and finds out the hard way that Earth has a red sun in the 31st century:
Looking forward to more of this!
Batman #670
Ra's Al Ghul is back and he's effing terrifying!
This, along with this week's Robin Annual, more or less begins the big Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul crossover, which will be continued in Batman and in Robin. I'm not super pumped about it, just because I've been enjoying the non-event issues of both Batman and Robin. But Grant Morrison is still writing, so it's not going to suck.
I am also liking Damien more and more:
On a similar note, the Batman and Son action figures were released this week, and they look great! There's a very awesome Tim Drake, and a sweet-looking Batman. If you want a Man-Bat figure, there's a nice one of those, and the Joker one is fun to pose. I'm surprised they didn't make a Talia figure. It would have made more sense than the Joker.
52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen #3
This entertaining Big Three story continues to roll along, with Giffen's inter-hero banter getting increasingly silly:
I have a hard time believing that Batman would ever say 'Hello' in that manner. He may as well have said "Ex-squeeze me?"
One thing this issue is really good for is Snapper Carr burns. Batman really hates that guy.
And no wonder. He really is an annoying twerp.
Superman still has that bite on his arm, and it's bothering him. It's like Harry Potter's scar. It burns when evil is near:
Still fun, still exciting. I recommend. If you read only one 52/Countdown tie-in, make it this one. Or Black Adam.
But Black Adam doesn't give you this:
Justice Society of America #10
I re-read Kingdom Come this week in preparation for this issue. Every time I read that thing I notice something new.
So Kingdom Come Superman shows up, and he's all "When Kingdom Come, you ready? Not only NYC, I'm hip-hop's saviour, so after this flow you might owe me a favour."
This was great. I loved Starman's interaction with Kingdom Come Superman:
Ha! All out of the colour yellow! Man, I love that guy.
This Superman likes to talk a lot about regret and failure and mistakes and tragedy. And he does, for a really long time. Then he decides to up and leave, which results in a JSA dogpile:
Superman impresses me by overcoming Starman's gravitational powers:
There's tough, and then there's that. Well done, sad Superman.
Daredevil Annual #1
Man, this was so fantastic. I love annuals, and I love Daredevil, so I was expecting greatness. This went above and beyond. Totally my pick of the week.
The thing about Annuals is that it usually involves a guest artist, and sometimes a guest writer. Or it's several short stories. This was a Brubaker story, with an Ande Parks script and Leandro Fernandez doing pencils. My only worry going into this was "Well, after all the Brubaker/Lark issues, this might be disappointing." NOPE.
This comic was amazing. It opens with Daredevil struggling to fight off some Yakuza boys. He's struggling because he has the flu, which he continues to have for the remainder of the issue.
Now the cool thing about giving Daredevil the flu is that it messes with his heightened senses. He can't smell anything, and his congested head and his high fever are making things very difficult. So he's making lots of mistakes. Painful mistakes:
The art is beautiful, as you can see. No need to miss Lark on this book.
I liked how Matt slinks off after the fight to go pass out:
That's not what that's for, Matt.
So yeah, sick Daredevil. Very interesting, and kind of cute:
Mainly, though, this is a story about Carlos LaMuerto, aka Black Tarantula. He has just been released from prison on parole. He got along well with Matt in jail, and he looks him up on the outside. Matt gives him a job at the firm, helping Dakota. Dakota is not into working with a violent ex-con. Carlos is not into her attitude:
LaMuerta gets frustrated by the uselessness of the legal process when it comes to actually helping people in the neighborhood. He takes things into his own hands, but with good intentions. Even so, Matt doesn't want to see Carlos go back to his old ways. He offers him a chance to suit up as Black Tarantula and help him fight the Yakuza. It works well, because Matt still isn't at 100%:
Unfortunately, Carlos can't restrain himself from using extreme violence, except now he wants to clean up Hell's Kitchen, rather than run it. He feels responsible for a lot of the damage done to the neighborhood, and sets about making things right. Which involves killing a lot of bad people.
Matt is, needless to say, disappointed.
Like I said, this is a great comic, and it's extra-long. Do read it.
Countdown to Adventure #3
This issue opens with Buddy's son, Cliff, going nuts and attacking Kory with a knife. It's pretty intense:
Cliff is just one of many people all over the place to be infected with something that makes them worship Lady Styx. People are trying to kill each other everywhere.
In the middle of all this, Ellen is concerned about her marriage. She asks Buddy the question that's been on her mind ever since the scantily-clad space princess arrived at their door:
Sadly, this is all Buddy has to say for himself:
The Adam Strange Pages are all really great. I like his narration. He's tough.
I can't read the Forerunner back-ups at all. They make me sleepy.
Death of the New Gods #2
I finally got to read #1 this week. The store sold out of it pretty quickly. It's a pretty good series so far, even if poor Barda has been killed off.
Here's the JLA at the murder scene:
Here's what I like about this page:
1. Red Arrow isn't doing anything. He's just chilling, and looking as cool as possible.
2. Superman is like "Uh, what's Vixen doing exactly? Looking for cookies?"
3. Barda's outline, while not supposed to be funny, kind of is.
In the next panel Red Arrow has apparently removed his shirt. I approve:
I like it when colouring errors work in my favour.
I also like that Hal is talking like Batman. And Black Lightning is being a little inappropriate. "Are you sure she's in here? It's kinda light. I mean, she is Big Barda, right?"
Mr Miracle changes his clothes:
Superman accompanies him back to New Genesis with Barda's body. Orion takes one look at Superman and loses it. Man, that guy is just angry all the time.
Ooooo...you did NOT go there, Superman.
Unfortunately, he did. And this means a pointless fight between the two of them for the next few pages:
It lasts until Metron shows up. Then Orion wants to fight him.
Orion, you have got to chill, bro. You can't just beat up everyone who stops by. In three successive panels Orion is like "I'm gonna kill you, Superman! No, I'm going to kill YOU, Metron! No! I'm going to kill Darkseid!" It's exhausting being Orion. "Milkman! I'll kill you!"
I'm going to wrap it up there. And other comics can be discussed in the comments. Like the giant heaps of comics that count down to various things. But not that X-Men Messiah stuff. I don't read that.


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Charlie Sheen keen on being in a 'barbecue coma'
Charlie Sheen has told how he wanted to go into a "barbecue coma".
The flame-grilled food fan and star of 'Two and a Half Men' dined out at Southern Hospitality in Hell's Kitchen on Sunday (10.04.11) – which was also visited by James Lipton and Darryl Strawberry – following his 'Violent Torpedo of Truth' show at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Charlie, who is infamous for being controversial, told onlookers: "I want to go into a barbecue coma."
The actor – who once called 'Two and a Half Men' co-creator Chuck Lorre a "clown" – stayed up until the early hours of this morning (12.04.11) to celebrate the end of his tour, enjoying lobster and donuts to eat.
He tweeted: "Epic farewell dinner @ City Island Lobster House The Bronx rocks! Thank you Chuck Zito & Jojo Mandarino… And Thank you New York! Winning."
Now that Charlie's tour is over, fans of the unpredictable actor will no doubt be waiting with baited breath to see what he gets up to next. Watch this space.


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Séminaire D2 : Boundary-layer evolution over wind farms
The recent growth of wind energy has boosted the development of many large wind farms where the clustering of the turbines helps reducing installation costs. However, the ambient turbulence is expected to grow substantially due to the turbines presence, and the turbines cannot be considered as individuals but have a global effect as a whole. Kinetic energy transfer from the region above the turbines is expected indeed to play a key role to replenish the energy content of the flow passing the turbines rotor.
In the present work, the flow over a large wind farm (composed by several freely-rotating wind-turbine models) is studied through a wind-tunnel campaign with hot-wire anemometry. 152 turbines were mounted with 19 subsequent rows, allowing to go beyond the adjustment region of the internal boundary layer located in the first rows. All the three velocity components were measured, providing a good characterisation of the Reynolds-stress tensor. The balance of advection, turbine thrust force and turbulence rules such a growth according to an integrated form of the Navier-Stokes equations. The possibility of a self-similar evolution of the velocity profile and of the Reynolds stresses will be further investigated.


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Turn Your Unhealthy Lifestyle to a Healthy One With the Help of Healthy Online Stores
What is great about the current world that you live in is the fact that you everything comes so easy and convenient that if you need something they will be there in a couple of minutes. Though this can bring you a great number of benefits, you have to know that this is also something that will put your health at great risk as one of the many fast paced things that the world offers include fast food. When it comes to your health, this is something that will really affect it in a bad light with the bad things that they are able to give you that will shorten your life in this world, unfortunately.
This goes to say that it is really the perfect time for any person to be able to get themselves involved in living a healthier and happier life that will just lead them to having a longer life. There is an increasing number of people that have made sure that they get to exercise daily and look into how they are doing as regards their physical fitness. You can simply see that the world is no longer having problems with providing people their much needed gym sessions with the aid of personal physical trainers.
Furthermore, there has been a conscious effort in ensuring that people get to not only exercise regularly but also be able to nourish their bodies with the right kind of food by eating them and ensuring that they do not leave themselves taking advantage of unhealthy food and drinks. This is why you can easily see a lot of food stores that make sure to only provide consumers the best food options that are healthy enough for them and the same thing goes for healthy online stores that are taking the world by storm.
People have become very conscious in buying food from stores even their local stores as the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides is rapidly becoming a trend. This has led to affecting the good quality that food items and products are able to provide to the person. When you take in any of these food options that contain this, then you will be putting your life at great danger and so does the other people out there.
It does not come as a surprise why you will be taking notice that a lot of people are now very picky as regards the food that they will be buying. This is why even healthy online stores will do their best to become certified in terms of the food options that they are selling to ensure that the health of their consumers is being kept in mind.
The best thing about healthy online stores is the fact that they can even be delivered straight to you without having to worry about where you live.
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Monday, May 26, 2014
Fixing the TFWP? Fuhgeddaboudit
The only problem is, the Harper Cons are too incompetent to do what she suggests:
Solutions to the abuse of temporary foreign worker programs ... should be to ensure that foreign workers don't serve as cheap labour, but only as labour of last resort....This makes a lot of sense.
This means proper enforcement. It means inspectors going undercover to verify that hotels and restaurants are actually unable to meet their needs from the pool of local domestic workers. It means unscheduled visits to check on farm workers' and nannies' living conditions. It means prosecuting employers who abuse their employees, and denying them access to the programs, while protecting affected workers so they do not fear retribution.
This type of enforcement, and fair treatment of employees, costs money. More, one suspects, than would be covered by the $275 fee now charged to bring in a temporary foreign worker. That cost should be borne by the employer, not the taxpayer. Those who complain such moves would destroy their business, or expand the nanny state, should remember that these programs are not a right. They're creatures of the state — and if the state can't run them properly, they should be shut down.
And its never going to happen, not as long as Harper and Kenny are fumbling around -- they think management is telling people to shut up.
As Ralph Goodale says, this government's policy is chaos.
In HofC-QP: Now HarperCons are suggesting TFWs working side-by-side with Canadians should be paid more -- govt's policy is in chaos (2/2)
— Ralph Goodale (@RalphGoodale) May 26, 2014
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I don't think the problem is incompetence. They know what they are doing.
One thing that would help is require the jobs businesses want TFWs for are posted on a central website from the beginning of the application process.
What an excellent idea!
By CathiefromCanada, at 11:19 am
its fine to post it on a website, but the employer will simply say, the candidates are not qualified, just like they did when they went looking for miners in B.C. None who applied were "qualified" because they didn't speak Mandarin.
If they want a TFW the employer ought to be required to PROVE, they can't find a Canadian and demonstrate their efforts to a real live federal government worker, like they once where required to do. But taxpayers thought it was grand to fire 10K federal government workers and this is part of the result.
Employers don't want Canadian workers. Canadian workers can not be threatened and bullied, because they can quit., A TFW can't quit, they will be deported. If employers are having problems finding workers, its usually because the employer is a jerk.
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North Carolina
What UNC's Roy Williams, Larry Fedora and others are saying about the NCAA's ruling
Roy Williams on NCAA allegations: I know we did nothing wrong
Here's the reaction from North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham, football coach Larry Fedora, men's basketball coach Roy Williams, women's basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell and ACC commissioner John Swofford on the NCAA's decision not to levy major sanctions against UNC:
Bubba Cunningham
"We are glad the case is over, and appreciate the time and effort the Committee members took in examining the complete record of the case. I want to thank Chancellor Folt and my colleagues in the administration and faculty, our student-athletes, coaches, staff and our tremendous Carolina community for their support. Carolina Athletics is an important and meaningful part of campus life, and we look forward to continuing to fulfill our mission of inspiring and educating through athletics."
Larry Fedora
"I want to thank Bubba Cunningham, Vince Ille and Chancellor Folt for their leadership throughout this process, I am glad that we will be able to put this behind us and move forward as a university and football program."
Roy Williams
"We're certainly thankful the case has been decided and this great University can move forward. We appreciate the hard work and effort from so many people in presenting the facts of the case to the Committee. I thank Chancellor Folt and Bubba (Cunningham) for their leadership. This is my alma mater and I love it deeply. We've all learned to be a better university from this case. Now we can focus completely on our mission of teaching and coaching our student-athletes and helping the university reach its dreams and goals."
Sylvia Hatchell
"We're just so excited to put this past us so we can concentrate on coaching these outstanding young ladies. I want to thank Chancellor Folt for her support and leadership. Everyone at the University, from Bubba Cunningham to the folks in compliance, worked together as a team to resolve this matter. Our basketball team is working hard in the preseason and we look forward to the start of the season."
ACC commissioner John Swofford
"Anytime one of our schools is addressing an NCAA issue, it's important that the appropriate changes are made, and the process is brought to a conclusion. With today's announcement, the University of North Carolina can put this case behind them, learn from it, and move forward.
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Exeter in Washington County, Rhode Island — The American Northeast (New England)
Armed Services Memorial
Erected 1989 by Amvets Department of Rhode Island and Auxiliary.
Location. 41° 32.717′ N, 71° 32.133′ W. Marker is in Exeter, Rhode Island, in Washington County. Marker is on South County Trail (Cemetery Entrance). This monument is located in the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Exeter RI 02822, United States of America. Touch for directions.
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Brinsop Court is an idyllic moat-surrounded venue in the Herefordshire countryside, and held host to Lucy and Rich's wedding day.
We had bridal prep in the morning with bacon rolls, the guys were ready and riding bikes around the grounds and before long we drive just down the track to Brinsop church, which is a stunning little church and was packed full of all the wedding guests.
Just after the super chilled out service we went outside into the warm sunshine then back down to Brinsop for drinks, canapés and wondering around the moat and grounds, Brinsop has some cracking rooms and the main hall was no exeception and looked awesome all decked out for the wedding breakfast.
The evening was home to a photo booth, ice cream machine and a great band, there were some awesome dance moves so head to the end of the blog to check those out.
Gear wise, it's my usual setup, find more about my wedding gear <here!
Venue: Brinsop Court
Flowers: The Herefordshire Flower Studio
Hope you enjoy the post feel free to comment at the bottom and get in touch if your planning a wedding at Brinsop Court and looking for a photographer!
Cheers, Col-