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Product information
1. Do Kewlox cabinets resist humidity ?
2. Can I add doors to a shelf?
Please contact our sales department for more information.
3. Is it is possible to hang Kewlox cabinets on the wall?
4. Can I change all the panels of a cabinet that I have already created?
5. Is it possible to create a cabinet that is composed of panels of different materials?
6. Can I add and remove the compartments of my cabinet?
7. Can I buy separate parts?
You can obtain them from your dealer or order them online.
8. What is the maximum weight that the cabinet can bear?
9. How can I calculate the total height of my cabinet?
Total height = usable height of the compartments + the number of rails*
E.g.: A cabinet with feet, 4 compartments of 37 cm each and 5 rails.
Total height = 10 + 37 + 37 + 37 + 37 + 5 * 4 = 168 cm in height.
Hauteur totale = 10 + 37 + 37 + 37 + 37 + 5*4= 168 cm de hauteur.
10. Can I print images/photos onto my furniture?
We also have a catalogue of images at your disposal free of charge.
11. Can I create made-to-measure cabinets?
12. Where can find the price of my cabinet?
13. What materials, dimensions and accessories are available?
You can also access them directly by clicking on these links: materials, dimensions, accessories.
14. How can I design my cabinet myself?
Your Kewlox store
15. What are the opening hours of Kewlox stores?
16. Where is my nearest Kewlox store?
17. Is it easy to park near Kewlox stores?
Means of payment and invoices
18. What means of payment are accepted at Kewlox?
For internet payments we accept bank transfers (Belgian or European) and payments via the e-banking solution of your bank. The following banks allow you to pay directly online: BNP PARIBAS-FORTIS, DEXIA, ING, the Post Office Bank, KBC, AXA and Fintro.
19. Can I make distance purchases?
20. Can I pay for my cabinet in several instalments?
21. Can I pay by bank transfer?
22. Can I pay after receipt of the invoice?
Our services
23. Can I get help with the planning and layout of a room?
24. Is the study of my project free of charge?
25. What is the warranty on my storage furniture?
26. Is there a home delivery service?
27. Is there an assembly service?
28. Is there a dedicated service for professional projects?
Spare parts
29. Is it possible to exchange an item which is not suitable?
30. Is it possible to exchange a worn part?
31. How long will it take to receive my spare parts?
32. Will I always be able to exchange parts which date back to 30 years ago?
33. What parts are guaranteed for life?
34. Is there a home delivery service?
35. Can I choose the day and time of my delivery?
36. How long will it take for home delivery?
37. Can I change the date of my delivery? How can I do it?
38. Can I choose which Kewlox store to pick up my order at?
39. What are the delivery times in the stores?
40. How long will my order remain in the store?
41. Are the cabinets delivered in kits or assembled?
If you want to have your cabinet assembled, please inform the seller when creating your project, or select it while placing your order online.
42. What is the approximate weight of the packages?
43. What is the cost for delivery in Belgium and abroad?
44. Is it possible to deliver to upper floors?
45. Can I cancel my order and my delivery?
46. Can I change an order in progress?
47. What should I do if parts are missing or have been damaged during delivery?
48. How can I assemble my cabinet myself? Is there an instructions manual?
49. I can't find what I'm looking for in the instructions manual. Who can help me?
50. What tools are needed for the assembly of a Kewlox cabinet?
51. Is there a home assembly service?
52. How much does it cost?
53. My articles are already on site, but I wish to have them assembled. How can I do it?
54. What height clearance is necessary to assemble my cabinet?
55. Is the wood used by Kewlox certified?
56. Can I recycle the packaging of my furniture?
57. Can I buy Kewlox furniture with my Eco-cheques or the Eco-pass?
58. How can I pay on your website?
59. I need a specific part for one of my existing cabinets but I can't find it in your online store.
60. How long does payment by bank transfer take?
61. Is it possible to order a made-to-measure cabinet?
62. I do not understand the height system of the different compartments, the measurements are not identical.
Compartments come in three different heights: the small compartment measures 27 cm of usable height, the medium compartment measures 37 cm, and the large compartment measures 47 cm of usable height.
Usable height is measured between the wooden rails of the compartment structure. These rails measure 4 cm each.
To know the total height of your cabinet, add the usable height of each compartment and then add 4 cm for each wooden rail.
Total height = usable height of the compartments + the number of rails*4
E.g.: A cabinet with 4 compartments of 37 cm each and 5 rails.
Total height = 10 + 37 + 37 + 37 + 37 + 5*4 = 168 cm in height.
63. I would like to obtain a paper catalogue.
64. Is it possible for you to come to my home to assemble my cabinets?
65. Can I order a cabinet with the exact floor-ceiling height?
You should always allow for 15 cm of clearance for the assembly of the last compartment.


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So I removed one side of my band to add a bPay loop to it... and instantly lost the screw.
I still have the bar, but I need to replace the screw itself and my local watch-repair shop has nothing that would fit.
I've tried emailing TicWatch support and had no response, does anyone know where I could get a replacement screw from, or even the screw and bar combo?
Replacement watch-band screw for TicWatch S
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Check the condition of with picture. The item "Hong Kong 1982-1983, 50 Dollars, P184h, PMG 66 EPQ GEM UNC" is in sale since Monday, September 17, 2018.
This item is in the category "Coins & Paper Money\Paper Money\ World\Asia\Hong Kong". The seller is "mbc2012" and is located in Seoul. This item can be shipped worldwide.


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'Days of Our Lives' Spoilers: Ben Spirals Out When He Can't Reach Ciara
Days of Our Lives spoilers reveal Ben Weston (Robert Scott Wilson) spirals when he can't contact Ciara Brady (Victoria Konefal). Ciara left town after a fight with Ben over a slew of things. She went to South Africa. She didn't tell Ben she was leaving and then doesn't answer his calls. What does this mean for Cin?
Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Ben Weston Spirals
Ciara Brady was the only person Ben had on his side since returning to Salem for a long time. Recently, he's been able to gain a friend in Stefan DiMera (Tyler Christopher), though Ciara continued to be the one thing special in Ben's life. So, now that they're not on speaking terms,
Ben Weston begins to freak out a little. DOOL spoilers reveal that he freaks out when he can't get in contact with Ciara. She's in South Africa visiting Theo Carver (Kyler Pettis). A worried Ben even visited Hope Brady (Kristian Alfonso) to try and find out where Ciara is right now.
Days of Our Lives spoilers predict if Ben Weston goes off the rails on DOOL, the residents of Salem may be in trouble. After all, he was a serial killer not too long ago, even though now now he's redeemed and supposedly safe to society. But if he can't get in contact with Ciara, there's no telling what an unstable Ben is capable of.
Relationships are heating up in Salem this winter. Watch #DAYS, weekdays on NBC. pic.twitter.com/ugatVG3VwF
— Days of our Lives (@nbcdays) January 11, 2019
DOOL Spoilers: Ciara Brady Back For February Sweeps
Luckily for Ben Weston and all fans who ship Cin, it's confirmed that Ciara Brady returns to Salem just in time for February sweeps. Evidently, her return starts a new storyline for the couple, as the two reportedly reunite. Hopefully he gets out all his stress before Ciara comes home.
As the two fought over his shady (and criminal) work for Stefan DiMera, the last thing Ciara wants to see is Ben unstable once again. After all, on Days of Our Lives, she left right after discovering that he kidnapped her stepsister Gabi Hernandez (Camila Banus).
Ben thinking about his first kiss with Ciara? #Cin #Days pic.twitter.com/fm6OdLOQrT
— Stephanie Gois (@Steph_11and78) January 10, 2019
DOOL Spoilers: Unhappy Future for Ben
At the moment, things couldn't get much worse for Ben Weston on Days of Our Lives. The one steady person in his life fled after arguing with him. Hope is still trying to put him behind bars, regardless of what she must do to get it done.
Plus, he lost his job when Chad DiMera (Billy Flynn) took over as CEO of DiMera Enterprises. If he had something else positive in his life, maybe he wouldn't flip out when he can't contact Ciara. However, with these recent losses, he may feel a bit more uncertain and need her to balance him.
Ben breaks up with Ciara #days #cin@MrRobertScott is amazing here! Wow.. pic.twitter.com/qIpXnVofkP
— ???????? (@4KimmieBee) January 10, 2019
Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Cin Looks Steady For the Future
While there are no new Days of Our Lives spoilers about Cin, it's safe to say they have a future as a couple. In the latest DOOL video promo, Ciara and Ben look pretty cozy. Obviously, this could mean a variety of things. Ciara could come back missing him and they quickly reunite.
Or, Ciara and Ben could talk out their issues, discuss the problems that triggered the fight. One thing NBC soap fans really love about this couple is their honesty. Compared to other couples on DOOL (or other soaps), it's refreshing to watch. Days of Our Lives spoilers point to a sweet Cin reconciliation for Valentine's Day?
Watch NBC weekdays to see Ben Weston struggle for self-control while Ciara Brady is gone.
Then head back to Soap Dirt daily for more Days of Our Lives spoilers and news.


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Incorrect Icon Size When Using New-CMApplication and Set-CMApplication
When using New-CMApplication or Set-CMApplication with the IconLocationFile parameter and an icon at least 128x128 in size, the application is created with a very small icon. I am not certain if smaller icons are effected.
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It appears when the cmdlet is used with the specified icon parameter, the 16x16 resolution is selected and other resolutions (if any) are removed from the icon file. When you view the icon in the application properties window in the SCCM console, the system attempts to "upscale" the icon to 32x32 rather than use the 32x32 resolution in the file ("stripped from file"?). This "lower" resolution is carried forward to other aspects of the SCCM environment like Software Center.


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19 Jan Gardening 365, Day 19.
Posted at 19:59h in Journal entries
My afternoon was spent sleuthing and rabble-rousing. I've gotten some phone calls about the "inappropriate" plant selections on the grounds of the newly renovated State Capitol. They are correct. But get this, of all the personal affronts to the citizens of Idaho, there is not ONE Philadelphus lewisii to be found. If there is, someone call me so I can come and photograph it.
Tomorrow and the next day and the next: Idaho Nursery and Landscape Conference. Go Green! Hundreds of plant geeks all in a huddle.


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You're all invited!
18 February 2018| Last updated on 27 February 2018
Join us on Wednesday, 14th March for a wonderful breakfast event in honour of Mother's Day with Palmer's.
Palmer's celebrates and empowers parenthood globally and at this Mother's Day event, discover the work Palmer's does with Happy Baby, a non-profit organisation that focuses on less privileged and impoverished communities of the world.
At the event
- Enjoy a delicious three-course breakfast with breath-taking views of the Burj Khalifa
- Kiddie corner for little ones to play whilst mum relaxes
- Fabulous prizes and giveaways
- Opportunity to support Happy Baby by purchasing baby carrier for AED 250
- Date: Wednesday, 14th March 2018
- Location: Serafina, Souk Al Bahar
- Timings: 9am start until 11:30am
For enquiries or to register please contact [email protected]
About Happy Baby
Happy Baby is a non-profit organisation that facilitates the bonding process of parent and child by designing and producing a comfortable, secure and easily made carrier.
From the production process to end use, Happy Baby offers women skills, entrepreneurial potential and income opportunities, generating locally sustainable organisations.
Happy Baby also educates families about the benefits of parent and child bonding and promotes increase involvement of fathers.
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This page is intended for students to access scholarship and post-secondary information.
High School Plus
A BRSD website for high school career counselling and planning and a single site for all those looking for more information on various careers, planning and other topics that are related.
Click here for the Career Counselling Newsletters!
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(Alis is the provincial gateway to career, learning, and employment information that helps Albertans achieve success.)
Math 30-2 Information: Be sure to double check the requirements for using Math 30-2 by looking at the individual instituation and applicable program.
Mount Royal, University of Lethbridge, University of Alberta accept Math 30-2 for Nursing. University of Calgary: Math 30-2 is preferred for Nursing.
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ApplyAlberta is an online application and transcript transfer system that anyone can use to apply to undergraduate programs at one or more of Alberta's post-secondary institutions
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Students, parents and families may also be interested in attending some of the post-secondary events throughout the province. Please review the poster link for important dates for each institution: open house, application deadlines, and a variety of other details. Pre-registration may be required for many of the events, so please check online with the individual institutions for details on how to participate.
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The Chinese version of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' eagerly awaited biography sold out in many book stores within hours of its launch this week, the publisher said Tuesday. The book, titled simply "Steve Jobs", went on sale in more than 20 cities in China on Monday, the same day it hit US bookstores and less than three weeks after Jobs died at the age of 56 following a long battle with cancer. "It sold extremely well. We sold the book in 21 cities with 30 stores and most of them sold out yesterday," said Kong Yan, director of marketing for CITIC Press in Beijing.
The Apple brand is hugely popular in China, where diehard fans queue for days to get their hands on the latest products. At Shanghai's largest bookstore, people stood in line for hours to get their hands on a copy with the entire stock of 1,000 books, priced at 68 yuan ($10.70) each, selling out by midday, the China Daily newspaper said. Bookstores in the capital Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou also reported brisk sales. Although the book paints a candid portrait of a technology visionary who could be as bruising as he was brilliant, Chinese readers expressed unstinting admiration for Jobs.
"I felt like he was talking to me face-to-face," said Da Peng Peng on China's most popular microblog service, Sina Weibo. "I've been touched by his astonishing honesty and absorbed in meditation over his ideas." Written by Walter Isaacson, a former managing editor of Time magazine, the book is the result of 40 interviews Isaacson conducted with Jobs since 2009 and with over 100 family members, friends, business rivals and colleagues. The authorised biography was initially scheduled for release in early 2012 but its publication date was moved up to November and then to October 24 following Jobs's death on October 5.


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Explore Scientific 3x Explore Scientific Focal Extender (with 2-inch Barrel) accepts both 1.25 inch and 2 inch eyepieces. It increases the magnification of your eyepieces, meaning that, for example, if you had 2 eyepieces, you now have 4!
Best of all, your eyepieces maintain their original eye-relief when using the focal extender, making viewing more comfortable, especially for eyeglass wearers.
All air-to-air lenses are fully EMD coated and all lens edges are blackened at the edge to maximize image contrast.
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The elk are putting on a show in northcentral Pennsylvania right now and they don't care if we watch.
Elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) are one of the largest members of the deer family. Males weigh up to half a ton(!) and can be five feet tall at the shoulder with antlers five feet across. The females, without antlers, are only 3/4 their size. The difference is due to their lifestyle.
From late August through mid-October the elk herd assembles for the mating season, called "the rut." The males sound off and fight to win females for their harems. Bigger is better. The strongest males have the most offspring.
Their bugling and sparring is fascinating to watch and you can get fairly close because the herd is distracted. Paul Staniszewski photographed these two locking antlers.
And here's a 6-minute video shot in Benezette, home of Pennsylvania's largest elk herd.
Visit Elk County, PA to watch the show. Click here for more information.
p.s. Wapiti were reintroduced in Pennsylvania in 1913 after we extirpated them in the late 1800s. Did you know white-tailed deer were reintroduced to Pennsylvania, too?
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Itinerary/Tour Highlights:
Day 1 – Arrive airport, transfer to hotel, free time, overnight
Day 2 – Breakfast outside hotel, start compulsory morning city tour to visit The Stars Avenue, the Mid-levels of Victoria Peak, Jewelry Factory & a Factory Outlet Store. Afternoon Disney day Tour. After fireworks, proceed to Shenzhen, Overnight Green Tree Hotel or similar.
Day 3 – Breakfast outside, start compulsory city tour visit Lutos Flower Mountain, The Mangrove Park, Windows of the World's main entrance for pictures only, shopping at Mineral Shop & Silk Factory and one hour own free time shopping at Lowu Shopping Mall before returning to HKG airport in the afternoon (FLIGHT MUST BE AFTER 6PM)
Roundtrip airport transfer
2 nights hotel accommodation
Breakfast outside hotel
Compulsory Hong Kong City Tour
Shenzhen Day Tour
Disneyland Day pass
Meals not mentioned
Rate minimum of 2 traveling together:
Rambler Garden / Rambler Oasis 3* – 9,500/pax
Silka Fareast 3* – 9,800/pax
Silka Seaview 4* – 10,200.00/pax
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Knowsley Business Park
Liverpool, Merseyside
On 6th November 2019, the Manufacturers Alliance will be launching the second of a series of free taster sessions for ambitious manufacturing leaders based in Merseyside. This will be the 7th peer support group run by the Manufacturers Alliance in the North, with 6 other groups based across Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire.
"Business support in the 21st century is changing and the Manufacturers Alliance is at the forefront of this change. Our approach is simple, practical and has been driving our members forward since 2013. We are now on a journey to roll this out across the North West" – Gary Sheader, Founder of the Manufacturers Alliance
The aim of this new peer support group will be focused on the collaborative growth and continuous improvement of manufacturing businesses based in the Merseyside area. Non competing business leaders openly sharing best practice each month. Manufacturers supporting other manufacturers.
The new group will be made up of 12 – 14 manufacturing leaders that are on a growth journey, and keen to learn from others on a similar path. People who want to avoid reinventing the wheel and share best practice to accelerate the growth of themselves and their businesses
Key Benefits
- Presentations from the Central Group team on their growth journey.
- Factory tour of the site to see how they approach improvements and their own growth challenges.
- A chance to share ideas with other local SME Manufacturing Leaders.
- A safe place to meet, share ideas and think strategically, with like minded manufacturing leaders like you.
- Solve your most challenging business issues with a peer to peer problem solving session.
- Develop new knowledge and leadership skills that will enable you to become a great decision maker and get the best from your business.
- Gain new insights on moving your business forward from our experienced Chair People facilitating this new group, Mark Rutherford & Paul Reynolds.
Want to hear the benefits of the Manufacturers Alliance from the horse's mouth? Here are a few words from our members on the benefits of being a member….


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The Secret Life of Fairies
The Real Truth about the Fairy Folk and the Little People
My great grandmother warned me about fairies. Some are kind, and beautiful, she said, while others are hostile to mortals.
Fairies are not little Tinkerbells at the bottom of your garden, they are spirits of nature, minor deities of the natural phenomena. They are the energies in earth, air, fire and water.
There are many facts that you should know about Fairies, that you must know about Fairies, including how to recognise the most common Fairies you may happen to meet in modern times.
Most especially, you should be aware of Changelings!
Are there Fairies in Australia?
My great grandmother would leave out a saucer of milk at night for the Brownie, but nothing more, in case he took offense.
For the fairy folk were capricious, willful and vengeful. They were quick to anger and easily insulted over trifles, therefore many little rituals had to be played out in the domestic chores to appease the watchful sprites, and my great grandmother knew them all.
How she actually knew all this is somewhat of a mystery. Did a Brownie accompany her father from the Hebrides back in 1845?
There was no need for such fairies to journey to Australia, for this ancient land has many Nature Spirits, there are Elementals in the rocks who are far older than the Celtic Sprites.
Whatever the reason, no matter how the journey was taken, some fairies arrived.
How to Summon a Fairy - Milk Magic
(If you feel you really must summon something fae)
There may be times when you wish the assistance of the fairies. There are various means of calling them, for example the next time you're churning the butter, you can repeat this simple summoning a few times.
"Come, butter, come, Come, butter, come, Peter stands at the gate, Waiting for a buttered cake, Come, butter, come!"
These days the opportunities to churn butter are becoming scarce. You may wish to try this while you make some yogurt, but I warn you that so far I've had no luck with it.
Please let me know if you have some success.
How to Summon a Fairy - Moon Magic
Take care!
You can also run around a fairy ring nine times on the first night of the New Moon, and keep listening for the sounds of music and laughter coming up from underground.
If all else fails, you can use this powerful summoning but please be very careful. Fairies are not always pleased to be rudely invoked in this way and, if you live in a densely populated area, neighbours are not too keen on the process either.
You need a night of the full moon, go out on the stroke of midnight, face east and chant as loudly as you can ...
Come in the stillness, Come in the night,
Come soon, And bring delight.
Beckoning, beckoning, Left hand and right,
Come now, Ah, come to-night!
Don't forget to let me know if you strike it lucky
Water Fairies
Sea Fairies, Elementals and Spirits in the Wells
Fairies can dwell in any element, but a great proportion of them are found in and around water.
The river gods of ancient Greece are fairies, as are the water Nymphs, the Naiads and Hydriads, and the Nymphs of the Fen, the Heleads. The sea fairies were ruled by Poisedon and included monstrous creatures, elementals of whirlpools and tidal races like Scylla and Charybdis, shape-shifting dolphins and the enticing Sirens.
In old places of Britain (and Brittany) you will find water horses and other spirits deep in the rivers and many are the wells in little-known places where a minor deity still reigns.
On moonless nights in Ireland you may yet meet the Phooka, and the seas are still home to mermen and merrows. The Gwragedd Annwn inhabit Welsh lakes and streams like their cousins, the Necks, in the wild woods of Norway.
Next time you pass a well, or spring, drop in a silver gift for the Fairy therein.
Tree and Forest Fairies
Nymphs of the Woods
These fairies were known as Dryads to the early Greeks. They are female spirits of nature,beautiful nymphs, who preside over the groves and forests.
They lived quietly (most Dryads are very shy) and they are still, to this day, terribly nervous of straying too far from the safety of their tree. But whenever Artemis comes along, they abandon all fears and join her hunting expeditions.
Each forest nymph is born connected to a certain tree which she will guard, either living in, or very close to it. Should the tree perish, she also dies.
Sadly, many dryads have been lost to the world in this manner, but the gods will punish thoughtless mortals who would harm the trees.
Garden Fairies
How to keep yours contented
Your garden is a miniature forest, and every flower, every tree, every plant, has its own fairy.
These benign and beneficial garden spirits need a spot to rest and relax in natural surroundings. If you want to attract fairies, keep a little wild part available, add a few beautiful beach shells and pretty stones to it, and a small earthenware bowl to collect fresh rainwater.
In some blessed parts of the world, a typical garden fairy can be a Leprechaun
Household Fairies
Benign Guardians
You doubtless know about Brownies, the small, hardworking fairies of houses and barns.
The Ancient Roman household brownie was one of the benign guardian spirits, the penates, lares and genii who kept watch over the family.
In Scotland the Brownies took on practical household management by spending the night finishing the housework that was left undone. (In the Brothers Grimm, it is the helpful Elves who finish the work of a poor shoemaker overnight, for there are no Brownies in Germany).
A Fairy Story for Everyone
A changeling is the offspring of a fairy, left secretly in exchange for a human child. The habit is widespread, children are stolen away from Japan to Skandinavia, and all across the British Isles.
It's especially rife in Ireland!
Changeling stories are folk legends in which mortals are the unwitting foster parents for faery children. The tales are set in an actual past of the same country as the teller.
They are told as true stories of the historical past, part of the ancient belief system in which fairies are not tiny delicate little sweeties, but very real, and very dangerous.
Why do Fairies steal human children?
There are many theories
Some believe that children are stolen to be servants to the fae folk. Or to be kept as curiosities, as superior pets, in the manner in which the Elizabetheans used to keep a dwarf.
Scandinavian trolls longed for the beautiful mortal babes, so much more appealing than their own hairy trollish brats, but aesthetics aside, there is a more compelling explanation.
Very little is known about the reproductive habits of fairies, the only evidence that they reproduce at all is the substitution of a changeling.
We are told that so many of these changelings were wizened creatures with yellow puckered parchment-like skin and stunted legs or crooked backs that it's no wonder the fairies are repelled by their own stunted and deformed young. Perhaps the need is seen to keep the race strong.
(There are tales enough of daemon lovers and lost nights among the hollow hills to lend credence to the possibility of interbreeding).
Five Ways to Recognise a Changeling
- Teeth
Always check the teeth. About two weeks after their arrival in the household, Changelings will grow a full set of teeth.
- Skin
Changelings have yellow, parchment-like skin which becomes progressively more yellow and more parchment-like as they grow older.
- Eyes
Changelings have very dark eyes which betray wisdom older than their supposed years. If you look into the eyes of a Changeling you will be struck by the depth of wisdom.
- BadTemper
Changelings are nasty and ill-tempered, screeching and shrieking in a voice as powerful as a grown man...
- Ravenous Hunger
A Changeling will eat as much as three men and one horse and then wail for more.
A Word of Advice
Never overtly admire a child, gushing over the little innocent will alert a prowling fairy, and before you know - it's too late!
Changelings Across the World
Pitiful stories of substitution
Changelings drain away all good fortune so the poor humans who nurture such a creature are cursed with ill luck and poverty.
In Germany bands of elves steal children and, in their place, leave behind greedy changelings called killcrops, wailing for food.
Nickerts and Water Nixies are fairies with an unenviable reputation for child theft, unwary human parents have no hope and they are doomed to raise a changeling forever.
In India, fairy spirits disguised as tigers (or vice versa) steal mortal children and leave behind disguised tiger cubs, while in Japan infants taken by fairies must be recovered before they eat any fairy food.
It's much the same in Ireland where a tiny morsel of a tiny crumb will condemn the child to 300 years in Fairyland.
The Irish are stoic however, and when their human child has gone forever, the positive attributes of the Changeling are encouraged. Perhaps it is the sweet soft air of Ireland that causes the Changeling, as it begins to grow, to take up an instrument, such as the fiddle or the uillean pipes, and to play with such beauty and grace that all who hear it are entranced forever.
Book : Black Pearls, A Faerie Strand - (Just when you thought it was safe to read fairy tales)
Compassionate and sophisticated, these dark, sensual fairy tale retellings will hold you spellbound.
What's your opinion on Fairies?
Do you believe in Fairies?
© 2008 Susanna Duffy
Leave a little note for the Fairies - (you may have a wish granted)
We have pixies who visit our house at the full moon closest to the solstices and equinoxes. They are very mischievous and have, amongst other things, terrified my Mother in law and one of our daughters, caused a pipe to burst, hidden peanuts in a closed wall ready to pour out when the wall was removed, laid claim to the dogs baskets etc etc Very funny Guys! :)
I think I once saw a fairy. They were flickering lights. I knew they were fairies because fireflies can't stay in very hot placed
I'm caucasian, but I was born with black-brown eyes. Nobody else in my family has dark eyes. I've always had a calling for Ireland...like I'm homesick for a place I've never been. The Changeling stories are spooky. I can't say that I believe, but there's something about it.
I have are little note that says,
I have not seen are fairy yet but I'm still looking for one
I wish that I could see are water fairy , sun fairy, animal fairy , garden fairy,
Oooh so much fairy wisdom! Very enjoyable and enlightening lens!
There sure are some very frightening tales of fairies. I am so happy that in our modern time we are a little more kind in our images of these creatures.
i would love really love to have a fairy friend i get lonely or board often. i think it would be nice to have a friend
Cleopatra had a fairy at the bottom of her garden. Or maybe it was a Pharoah
I've heard of fairies most associated with Celtic beliefs. Some are good and some are evil but most are benign creatures who are representative of nature.
I've heard of fairies most associated with Celtic beliefs. Some are good and some are evil but most are benign creatures who are representative of nature.
Great Lens :D
Inspired by Susanna's writings (of Strange and Norell) thought you might enjoy my short piece entitled How To Avoid (Or To Invite) Enchantment by Faries, Elves & Elementals; I have recorded soundfile (with music) at top page,
so settle back and enjoy.....
Who hasn't dreamt of spotting a fairy as a child? I don't much like the sound of those changelings though!
I always wonder if a fairy is the one who has hidden something when I can't find a particular item for ages and then it suddenly turns up, even though I turned the place upside down looking for it!
Wow, You sure know how to captivate your audience. Excellent lens.
Sock fairies.... where are the sock fairies? More to the point, where are the socks? Great lens!
Beautiful lens...I have always been interested in fairies and I love the information you have about them!
I guess Brownies don't like me because my housework is never finished, lol. I've heard that they will avoid a cluttered house, so I guess that is the real reason. Lensrolling to my fairy lens.
You have acquired some beautiful pictures of the Fairies. Thank you for sharing what you have learned - very interesting and eye opening.
A wonderful way to tell about the Fae wonderful lens and great read, I loved it going to lens roll to my fairy lens 5* wonderful!
I think I may have caught a glimpse of a fairy or two, although I'm not one hundred percent certain. I loved this lens! :-)
very well done, and a very interesting read, great job! 5*'s
Had to come back and revisit this one today. Blessings.
After chuckling my way through this gorgeous lens I could barely contain myself when I noticed the binge drinking ad that popped up on top of it...
Perhaps they're assuming fairies are related to pink elephants?
Great lens! I love the pictures.
I am fascinated with faries. So I enjoyed your lens very much.
I wonder how fairies choose who to help. My aunt Inge has to have the whole tribe of garden fairies (at least) to help her because every plant she's ever planted - not only grows, but Thrives! Every parrot she's ever owned, talked and her dog would never go into her house without having his paws wiped first...
Beautiful lens! :)
Another beautiful lens. I love it. You have inspired me to do a lens on magical creatures which will incorporate your lenses. Lensrolling to my fairytale lenses.
Loved it - I gave you 5 stars with wings
I do not know much about these. It was interesting.
I was never really into fairies, but your lens was really interesting, especially the part about changelings. I really enjoyed the artwork too.
Really like the graphics in this lens, didn't realise fairies were so interesting.
It's quite obvious I don't have a household fairy because anything I haven't done the day before still is there waiting to be done the next day. Where's a fairy when you really want one?


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It starts with painting over murals and removing mission bells. Where does it end?
"My fellow citizens," Abraham Lincoln said, "We cannot escape history."
Escaping history — painting it out, removing inconvenient reminders of the past, and revising unpleasant details — is exactly what is going on these days. And Northern California is leading the way.
One of the latest examples is the San Francisco school board's decision to paint over a mural at George Washington High School in the Richmond District because the piece shows African American slaves working on Washington's Mount Vernon estate and white settlers stepping over the body of a dead American Indian.
The argument was that the murals showed images from the country's racist past. They are offensive.
"It's always an issue when anyone wants to remove or cover or displace art," said Mark Sanchez, vice president of the school board. "But there are many countervailing issues we had to look to as well. We believe students shouldn't be exposed to violent imagery — that is degrading."
The mural — which covers over 1,600 feet on the walls of Washington High — was painted 81 years ago when the school was new. The mural is called "Life of Washington," and the artist was Victor Arnautoff, one of the noted muralists of his day. This was not the first time Arnautoff's work had caused problems.
One of his murals — this one called "City Life" — is on the ground floor of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. It shows life in San Francisco during the Great Depression, complete with economic troubles, even an armed robbery. Arnautoff painted himself in the mural, standing next to a newsstand. Instead of respectable papers, like The Chronicle, the stand displays leftist publications such as Masses and the Daily Worker, the Communist paper. In another panel, Arnautoff shows a patron in a public library reaching for a book — by Karl Marx.
Arnautoff was born in Russia and was a card-carrying Communist. Conservative San Franciscans were outraged. They wanted Arnautoff's murals destroyed or covered up. Arnautoff's work was offensive to the right. Now his work is offensive to the left.
Once again, this part of the world is on the cutting edge of a movement — removing the past.
In the same week San Francisco voted to paint out the George Washington mural, UC Santa Cruz decided to remove a mission bell from its campus because it represented the Roman Catholic missions that imposed Western culture on California's native people.
"It is shameful that these places where our ancestors were enslaved, whipped, raped, tortured and exposed to fatal diseases have been whitewashed and turned into tourist attractions," said Valentine Lopez, chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.
The university removed the bell "in support of efforts to be more inclusive," according to university Vice Chancellor Susan Latham.
Earlier this year, San Francisco took down a sculpture offensive to American Indians from the "Early Days" monument in Civic Center.
And this winter the Humboldt County college town of Arcata removed a statue of President William McKinley from the town square on grounds that McKinley was racist. His administration favored Western expansion, annexed Hawaii and colonized the Philippines.
If we follow these policies to their logical conclusion, UC Santa Cruz should change its name. Santa Cruz, which means "Holy Cross" in Spanish, was once a mission.
So was San Francisco. We should look into Mission Dolores. If a bell is offensive, what about Mission Street and the Mission District?
Don't forget McKinley. San Francisco not only has a McKinley statue in Golden Gate Park, but McKinley Square on Potrero Hill and McKinley Elementary School in the Mission.
As you can see, there is plenty of work to be done. There are other murals to be examined — like the work by Anton Refregier in the Rincon Center. One of them shows Chinese Americans being beaten up by white thugs. Another shows a man being hanged by vigilantes.
And what about Balboa High School? Wasn't he a conquistador?
We should appoint a commission — call it the Correctness Commission — to examine the backgrounds of the people who have streets named for them. Columbus Avenue is out, of course, and so are Washington and Jackson streets and Junipero Serra Boulevard.
But what about all those other streets with Spanish or Mexican names? Juan Bautista de Anza was an Indian fighter, so Anza Street will have to go. And who were Arguello, Ortega, Moraga, Rivera and Santiago? Who's behind Noe Valley and Bernal Heights?
You can see where this line of reasoning can take us. Lope Yap Jr., who is the vice president of the George Washington High School alumni association and opposes painting out the school murals, put it best.
"Are you going to change the name of Washington state?" he said. "Are they giving out explosives to blow up Mount Rushmore?"
Editor's note: This story has been revised since it originally appeared to correct the reference to the school board's decision on the mural.


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So far, there are Twenty-two confirmed defendants with open murder cases or those associated with a murder. Seven of the twenty-two have dates that are set on the calendar to be heard in Onslow County courts as early as August and the latest being September 2019.
This series will take each case and bring attention to the historical facts of each case, as the trials and verdicts unfold. Each individual victim deserves to have attention to justice in their name. Walk with The Onslow Beat through the Murder Mayhem Series for 2018, though the dates of these heinous crimes have occurred much prior. There will be more added as additional cases are added to the list and trials set.


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The Who's Who of business magnates in Gaborone will on Thursday start taking the witness box to give evidence when local tycoons clash in a bruising battle between friends-turned-foes and former business partners at Smart Partnership Enterprises. Former Business Botswana President Lokwalo Mosienyane is demanding payment of P15.8 million from Smart Partnership, an investment company owned by a group of local business tycoons, for the work he did on Lot 5439 at the Central Business District (CBD), Gaborone. Smart Partnership will start calling witnesses among them Sam Mpuchane, Kabelo Ebineng, Martin Mannathoko, Dennis Alexander, Seleka Mokama, Anjana Suresh and an architect Charles Cook to provide expert opinion to counter Mosienyane. The developments at the centre of the dispute are being rolled out on a piece of land to the northern side of the intersection where A12 Gaborone-Molepolole road connects Nelson Mandela highway in the city centre. The first office complex has just been completed on the site housing a hotel. Mosienyane's company Mosienyane & Partners International is suing for payment of architectural services provided in the pre-development stage of a mixed-use development for Lot 5439. Mosienyane & Partners were engaged as architects for the pre-development phase by project managers, JHI Property Services (Botswana) – a company Mosienyane also co-owns. Smart Partnership had on 12 October 2009 appointed JHI Property Services to engage the services of architects and quantity surveyors who would provide their services on a risk basis during the six months pre-development phase. Risk basis means that no payment of fees shall be made for the pre-development stage on the understanding that the same architects and quantity surveyors would be appointed for the final development phases of the project. Directors of Smart Partnership met in March 2012 where they confirmed recommendations to appoint Mosienyane & Partners International as architects and multi-national Quantity Surveyors Davis Langdon – a subsidiary of CCMI, for the final development phases. Sources close to the development said the relationship between some members of the syndicate (Smart) later soured leading to the two companies being dropped from the on-going final development, which is the centre of the current dispute. Consequently, Mosienyane & Partners is demanding full payment of P15 867 654.50 for work done during the pre-development stage. Mosienyane argues that it was the intention of both JHI and Smart Partnership that, by Mosienyane &Partners International accepting the benefit of the contract, they would become party to the contract and be entitled to claim from Smart Partnership. Mosienyane &Partners did accept the benefit by accepting their involvement and rendering their services as envisaged by the contract, he argues.
One of the Smart Partnership Directors, Martin Mannathoko, has deposed an affidavit, arguing that JHI violated an agreement they entered into by failing to compile a letter of appointment reflecting fully the terms of such an agreement for Mosienyane & Partners, for approval. Therefore, Mosienyane was never appointed in writing as per the agreement, he argues. But Mosienyane counters that Mannathoko is wrong because the section of the contract he refers to, which says appointment of architects should be in writing, was applicable if the project proceeded to the final development phase. Although Smart Partnership concedes that JHI involved Mosienyane & Partners as architects for an envisaged project as defined in their agreement and that the latter rendered some architectural services, they are adamant that they did not accept or implement his concepts and design in the final stages of the project. Smart Partnership also denies that JHI performed all its obligations in terms of their agreement and in particular failed to produce an acceptable tenant mix proposal. According to Mannathoko, Mosienyane & Partners did not perform all the work set out in the responsibility matrix of the agreement and for which it claims remuneration, citing failure to provide information on the environmental impact and statutory requirements of the project. As a result, Mannathoko submits that Mosienyane's concept and limited design was not economically viable and the initial project was abandoned, which later led to the appointment of different architects to undertake new concept and designs. For these reasons, among many others, Smart Partnership is refusing to pay Mosienyane the P15.8 million bill that he has slapped them with.
Mosienyane opposes suggestions that he did not perform all the work and that his concept and designs were abandoned, saying in preparing design sketches he followed recommendations of a market surveyor who was engaged independently by Smart Partnership. He argues that the pre-development architectural designs were intended to inform the Quantity Surveyor in preparation of the cost plan, which is required at the preliminary stage by financial consultants to prepare documents for raising finance. The architectural design sketches at pre-development stage are used by the Development Consultant for marketing the proposed development, Mosienyane further argues.He said even if Smart Partnership did not use the sketches prepared by Mosienyane & Partners International, any designs prepared by another architect or advancement of the project to the final phases would benefit from the parameters set out by consultants at the pre-development phase. To buttress the point, Mosienyane explained that the sketches (pre-development designs) therefore are part of a set of documents intended to establish the feasibility and commercial viability of development on the specific piece of land, thus setting out the parameters of the project. Witnesses will start giving oral evidence at Gaborone High Court on Thursday. In March, Smart Partnership suffered a setback when Justice Terrence Rannowane dismissed their application for dissolution of the lawsuit and ordered that they have a case to answer to oppose the claim and prove that indeed they do not owe Mosienyane.


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Saturday 21 April
Drop-in, All Ages
Join us in a day of English merriment to celebrate St George. Enjoy live song and dance traditions, storytelling, games, arts & craft activities.
11.30-12.00 The London Music Hall Choir
12.00-12.30 Hedgepigs and Ed Instrumental and Ceilidh
12.35-13.20 Tilbury Brass Band
13.25-13.50 Punch and Judy
13.55-14.20 Brass Ensemble (THAMES)
14.25-14.50 Women Sing East
14.50-15.35 Tilbury Brass Band
15.40-16.05 Punch and Judy
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Western area was the major supplier of condominium projects in the capital city of Hanoi, accounting for 77 percent of the total new units in the second quarter, said CBRE Vietnam, a provider of commercial real estate services, at a meeting in Hanoi on October 9.
According to Nguyen Hoai An, Director – Professional Services at CBRE Vietnam, the Hanoi residential market shows a clear trend of decentralisation with new projects in Thanh Tri and Hoai Duc districts, sparked by well-developed infrastructure in the localities.
During July-September, there were nearly 6,100 apartments put up for sale from 18 projects across the city, sliding 33 percent from the previous quarter. In total, around 26,800 units were launched in the first nine months of this year, a year-on-year surge of 37 percent.
In terms of sales performance, 4,800 units were sold in Q3, down 32 percent quarter-to-quarter.
Although there has been a decrease in the number of units sold in this quarter, the ratio of this group to launched volume was the same as previous quarters, An said, adding this means the market still remains stable.
CBRE experts believe that the Hanoi real estate market will welcome a plentiful supply from large-scale projects in Q4 and in the coming years. Notable projects are BRG & Sumitomo Smart City in Dong Anh district and Gamuda Lakes in Hoang Mai district.
Regarding the retail market, Aeon Mall Ha Dong and FLC Twin Towers, which will become operational in the end of this year, are expected to add over 88,000 square metres to the total retail space. With new designs and diversification in industries, the shopping malls are expected to bring more benefits to retailers who are seeking opportunities outside the CBD areas.
However, CBRE experts said the distribution of large shopping malls around the city will create real challenges as there is no concentrated area for shopping in the city.


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Beyonce & Jay Z More In Love Than Ever In 'On The Run' Tour Special
Jay Z and Beyonce proved the haters wrong as they stunned everyone with an amazing concert performance, captured by cameras and aired as a special called 'On The Run Tour: Beyonce and Jay Z' on HBO on September 20.
Taped in Paris on Sept. 12 and Sept. 13, Jay Z & Beyonce's first collaborative concert was filmed for the world to see. On The Run featured intimate, amazing performances, and we couldn't get enough!
'On The Run' Tour Movie — HBO Shows A New Side Of The Couple
We've seen Beyonce in concert and we've seen Jay Z in concert, but we've never seen them together, and we've definitely never seen them like this!
On The Run was the first time the couple had ever toured together. They performed 19 shows in the United States and two shows in Paris. The two Paris shows were filmed for the HBO documentary.
"This place is real special to us. We got engaged here. Our baby Blue was conceived here. It's a magical city," Jay told the crowd.
The documentary featured the duo performing over 40 songs, including their mega sexy hits "Crazy in Love" and "Drunk in Love." It goes without saying — their love is more powerful than ever!
The special kicked off with "Bonnie and Clyde" and quickly moved onto "Crazy In Love," featuring Beyonce's sexy dance moves.
After that came a few Jay Z songs followed by Beyonce's "Girls" and "Flawless" featuring Nicki Minaj. I woke up like this, thank you.
Throughout the two hour concert, the duo took turns on the stage, mainly so Beyonce could have multiple costume changes.
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Bey and Jay looked more in love than ever. During an "outlaw" video, the couple cuddled, kissed and even rolled around on a best together!
During "Drunk In Love," Jay cuddled up behind Bey and kissed her on the neck!
After the last song, "Forever Young," the couple both said how honored they were to share the stage with each other. Beyonce was about the cry!
We loved seeing the powerful couple on stage for this dynamic concert event!
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Pharmaceutical microbiology is the branch of microbiology that focuses on all aspects of pharmacy especially as it relates to the manufacture and quality control of pharmaceuticals such as drugs. Microbiological applications are tremendously applied in the pharmaceutical industry to produce a wide range of products including hormones, antibiotics, water for injections, steroids and so on which are used for the treatment and management of both infectious and non-communicable diseases. Irrespective of the suffering of patients due to infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganism, healthcare delivery has tremendously improved worldwide owing to the availability of effective medicines and vaccines with which to treat and prevent these diseases. Pharmaceutical companies around the world are investing heavily in research and development (R&D); and they are also in high demand for pharmaceutical microbiologists due to the relevance of this branch of microbiology in the manufacture of safe, effective and good-quality drugs.
Pharmaceutical microbiology also deals with the controlling of microorganisms that cause spoilage of pharmaceutical products, and this area of microbiology is also keenly interested in harnessing the metabolic activities of microorganisms to develop novel and potent medicines and other pharmaceuticals for the health sector. This branch of microbiology is a burgeoning area in the biological sciences due to its importance to not just the health and pharmaceutical sector, but also the central role that it plays in ensuring the improvement of world health and disease prevention. The production of novel drugs from herbal plants and other natural products are also the subject of pharmaceutical microbiologists.
Water microbiology is the branch of microbiology that ensures that the water supply to homes, industries, towns and local communities are of good quality and free from water-borne pathogens such as Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae amongst others. Water microbiologists work in water distribution and purification companies where they analyze water from reservoirs and river sources to check for their quality and microbial load before distribution to homes and industries. They also ensure that sewage and other industrial wastes are properly treated before release into water ways and that they are not potential causes of water-borne diseases. Another aspect of water microbiology is aquatic microbiology which deals with the study of microorganisms and how their metabolic activities could be exploited to improve the health of man and animals in the fresh, marine and estuarine habitat.
Water borne diseases such as cholera and dysentery are among the child killer diseases; and these infections are prevalent in places where environmental sanitation is poor. It is mainly the task of the water microbiologists to ensure that the water distribution channels are free from water-borne pathogens; and that water meant for domestic use and for other human purposes such as in the industry for manufacturing are free from pathogenic microorganisms. Water microbiologists examining and culturing water samples for detection and isolation of water-borne pathogens (e.g. Vibrio cholerae). Escherichia coli is an indicator of water contamination; and its presence in water meant for domestic usage especially drinking water and other sources of water is an indication of possible faecal contamination either from emptying of sewage into the water ways or from direct human defaecation in the water.
Immunology is an aspect of microbiology that concerns itself with the study of the immune system in man and animals. The immune system is made up of cells, tissues and organs that work together in a cooperative manner to protect human host's from or against the invasion of foreign substances and microbes. They also help to eliminate these foreign molecules and thus minimize their deleterious effects in the body. Immunologists study the immune system (composed of innate and acquired immunity) to better understand it and proffer practical explanation as to how these could be exploited to contain some infectious diseases and their causative agents as well as develop strong and sustainable preventive measures against the acquisition of infections e.g. the production of potent vaccines for various infectious diseases. Vaccines as shall be seen later in this textbook are vital tools in clinical medicine, and they are mainly used to prevent disease occurrence in susceptible human population through the process of immunization/vaccination. Immunologists work in the government, healthcare sector, research institutions and even ion the academia where their knowledge of the body's immune system are brought to bear to unravel some of the mysteries of infectious diseases especially in humans.
Molecular Microbiology and Genetics: Microbiologists in this area of molecular microbiology and genetics focus on the nature of genetic manipulation and how it regulates the development and function of cells and organisms. The use of microorganisms has been very helpful in understanding gene function. Microbial genetics play important role in applied microbiology by helping to produce new microbial strains that are more efficient in synthesizing useful products. With tools and techniques in molecular microbiology, microbiologists can detect pathogens more rapidly and accurately from clinical and/or environmental samples based on the genetic signatures of the organisms. Generally, this aspect of microbiology studies the genetic makeup of microorganisms (DNA and RNA inclusive), their heredity patterns and variations that occur among members of the same species.
Knowledge of the genetic makeup of microorganisms especially those that are multidrug resistant in nature (e.g. bacteria producing extended spectrum beta-lactamases and metallo beta-lactamases) will help to provide clues as to how the emergence and spread of disease-causing microbes particularly those that are drug resistant could be monitored and contained. Since the genome is mainly the control center of the cell, molecular microbiologists (in whose duty it is to study microbes at the molecular level) play critical role in helping the medical community to unravel the genetic basis of some infectious and non-infectious diseases that affect humanity.
Talaro, Kathleen P (2005). Foundations in Microbiology. 5th edition. McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., New York, USA.
Willey J.M, Sherwood L.M and Woolverton C.J (2008). Harley and Klein's Microbiology. 7th ed. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, USA.
Singleton P and Sainsbury D (1995). Dictionary of microbiology and molecular biology, 3d ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Salyers A.A and Whitt D.D (2001). Microbiology: diversity, disease, and the environment. Fitzgerald Science Press Inc. Maryland, USA.
Prescott L.M., Harley J.P and Klein D.A (2005). Microbiology. 6th ed. McGraw Hill Publishers, USA. Pp. 296-299.
Nester E.W, Anderson D.G, Roberts C.E and Nester M.T (2009). Microbiology: A Human Perspective. Sixth edition. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, New York, USA.
Madigan M.T., Martinko J.M., Dunlap P.V and Clark D.P (2009). Brock Biology of microorganisms. 12th edition. Pearson Benjamin Cummings Publishers. USA. Pp.795-796.
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Brooks G.F., Butel J.S and Morse S.A (2004). Medical Microbiology, 23rd edition. McGraw Hill Publishers. USA. Pp. 248-260.
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I hope you are doing ok and resting. I am taking the day to dig out of my many piles. One of which is to catch up here - this long forgotten evening of some store bought marinated flank steak, too crispy potatoes, and spaghetti squash.
And who won this game of Catan? or how poorly I did on Mama Mia! Fortunately, there will be more opportunities to make a better dinner, and chance to do better on whatever game we choose.
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A Woman Named Jackie
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Any excerpted version of this book, such as the tabloid newspapers run, barely scratches the surface of the wealth of information Heymann has gathered on Jackie Onassis. Not only the most scandalous aspects of her life, but even the mundane details that fill this book take the reader into a private world of thoughts and actions that only the subject herself could have known before they were compiled here. Heymann's account is an entertaining, gossipy look at the well-known people associated with Jackie: the black-sheep of the Bouvier family, the entire Kennedy clan, movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Gloria Swanson, political aides and cronies of John F. Kennedy, opera star Maria Callas, and of course Aristotle Onassis and his children.
Some items that were only speculated upon previously, such as President Kennedy's womanizing, are brought into the open. Behind-the-scene reports of a bomb scare, of Jackie's snubbing notable people, of dissension between famous in-laws, of Jackie's actions at the time of her husband's assassination, of every little facet of life, are related by the people involved. Jackie is part of history, and people are familiar with the skeletal outline of her life, but it is the fleshing out and filling in done by acquaintances that makes this book fascinating.
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Montréal possess an authentic replica from an original Moaï giant found on Easter Island, this island off Chili isolated in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, discovered by a Dutch explorer on Easter Sunday in 1722.
Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for its volcanic rock giants, some of which rise ten metres. The original head from the parc Jean-Drapeau's replica broke off from its body in a tsunami in 1960 and is about 2.5 metres tall.
The replica's history
In 1968, the archaeological site was threatened by a project to construct a runway. The International Fund for Monuments decided to alert public opinion by erecting one of the Moaï heads in front of the Seagram Building in New York City in order to raise awareness about the need to preserve these ancient indigenous sculptures. The sensitization initiative met its object and the construction project was cancelled. Lippincott Inc., an american company specializing in the manufacture, reproduction and installation of large-format public sculptures took advantage of the situation by signing a contract with Chilean authorities to create full-scale reproductions of the Head. The company received permission to create as many as 100 replicas, but in the end only created 11.
In 1970, one of them was on view in the "Strange, Strange World" pavilion, at Man and His World in Parc Jean-Drapeau. It was acquired by Montréal's municipal administration in 1973. In 2010,Tête Moaï was exhibited in front of Pointe-à-Callière, Musée d'archéologie et d'histoire de Montréal, as part of its exhibition on Easter Island, and Rapa Nui history and culture.


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Jonas Hawke's at the reins of his loaded wagon.
The easily worked sandy soil of the Parish Of Moorabbin was a source of an excellent food supply for the rapidly growing population of Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. Potatoes, cabbages, onions, lettuce, tomatoes and other vegetables grew in abundance. To get these crops to markets in Melbourne market gardeners initially used horse drawn wagons but with the coming of motorized vehicles in the 1910s they gradually adopted the new form of transport.
For many of the lorries, the coach work was provided by White Bros a blacksmith and body building operation on the corner of South Road and Nepean Highway at Moorabbin. Started in 1853 by Percival White the family business continued until 1973. [1]
White Bros Motor Body Builders and Repair Works, Moorabbin.
Some of the early trucks in the industry were noted in an article published in the Victorian Vegetable Grower of February 1973. George Brough of Cheltenham was credited with having the first truck in the market, a Ford Alston. Allan Daff recalled that at the time Ford had nothing larger than a one-ton truck but some engineer fitted the Ford engine and gear-box to a chassis (Alston) which had a longer wheel base and carried twice the load on solid rubber tyred rear wheels. [2] The front had pneumatic tyres. This particular truck had a left hand drive and was later purchased and used by Everest Le Page when George Brough began full time dairy farming.
T Ford owned by A. Davis of Cheltenham.
"Most of the earlier heavy duty trucks were fitted with solid rubber tyres of varying width. The wider the tyres the more carrying capacity and also the rougher the ride. Before the advent of successful heavy duty pneumatic tyres, many patent types were tried with varying success. One of those was the 'ball tube', a semi-solid tyre with rubber ball inserts. Another type was solid rubber with holes of about one inch diameter running cross-ways through the tyre at about two inch spacings." [3]
W Jarman of Red Hill was claimed to be the second person to employ a truck to transport his produce to market. Initially he used a T Ford but later changed to a Bullnose International. The Souters of Dingley used the same make of truck in their business. This particular truck had previously been a petrol delivery truck for the Neptune Oil Company, later to become part of the Shell.
"Bullnose" International.
The Vulcan was another popular make. Herb Baker of Clarinda, Jonas Hawkes of Mordialloc, Norm Burrows of Mulgrave, Charlie Marriott of Bentleigh all used a Vulcan at some time. The Mills Brothers of Dingley were credited with being the first to use a Vulcan to go to market. The Marriotts' Vulcan was the first in the market with wind up windows, designed and built by Dave Hughes of Moorabbin.
The story is told about Jack Holland's 'T' Ford. Driving from Dingley he was forced to reverse up St Kilda hill to allow petrol to flow to the carburettor. The truck had such small back wheels, shod with small diameter solid tyres that when loaded the gravity fed petrol failed to reach the carburettor. By reversing up the hill the problem was solved, a solution not possible in today's traffic.
Other makes of trucks used by local market gardeners were the Ruggles, the Traffic, the Berleit, the Adler, Capitol Chev 4, and the Republic.
Chevrolet '4'
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Well, this experiment didn't work, but it was worth a try I guess. Not awful, just not inviting. Last night I cooked an extra poblano quiche for tonight, wanting to see how it would be when cold. Answer: dense, not at all light and inviting. Did I use too much cheese? Or is this the way all quiches taste the next day, but usually you're distracted more by the crust? Anyway, it tasted good, but I almost didn't want all of it, unlike the fresh (warm) version when I am usually disappointed there is so little (same amount, of course).
Anyway, it was a good time to try this b/c I was busy through dinner with my online hosting, so all to the good, and I know not to do this again 🙂 This was also a good day to try this b/c it was scheduled to be the hottest day in years – cold dinner very inviting idea, and not using the stove: priceless!
I went to the Bowl – foolhardy, I know, on a Saturday, especially with its Monday holiday coming up – but I decided I needed a baguette and other stuff (below). The baguette up there is an Acme sweet.
Had the second half-bottle of the 2014 McIlroy Chardonnay, which was in the fridge in a small bottle. Given the heat of the evening, I tucked the half-bottle into ice water (in our pretty little white ceramic bin with pink flowers from D's late aunt E) so it would stay cold long enough for me to drink it, and I went up to the deck for dinner. This is a rare treat in this climate – usually by dinnertime it is chilly and windy, even in summer. OTOH we don't even own an air conditioner, which is great.
Lunch has all the pictures!
I realized that 1) I had a small bit of leftover feta to use up, 2) it was a hideously hot day, 3) I had a way to use up a green pepper later so ok to buy, and 4) a Greek salad would really be a GREAT lunch. So I bought an Acme sweet baguette, some more dry-farmed tomatoes (have to find out the name of the farm) a sweet green pepper, and an English cucumber. salad is tossed in red wine vinaigrette with oregano.
Also decided to try a "Grapefruit Radler" by Stiegl that the Bowl has been featuring by the 15-item checkouts, and had that for lunch. Turned out to be a pretty pleasant drink for a hot day.
Later I had the first half of a white peach that has been in the fridge since it ripened a couple days ago. White peaches aren't opinionated enough to fight back against Grape Nuts so it's been languishing, so I ate it as a treat, with some of R&E's extra cream.


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They did not remember His power: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy
We all come from diverse situations and backgrounds and in some cases our past lives are as different as day and night. Childhood memories can be warm and loving for one, but not so much for another. And growing up in the city may not compare to growing up in a rural community.
As Christians, we face the same trials and struggles as anyone living today. We have joy and heartache; peace and fear; abundance and lack. And sometimes our past can makes itself out to look pretty good when we face circumstances that are hard. When we thought we had no worries and could conquer the world, we lived a superficial care free life. And maybe we said, "I'm on top of the world." And then there are those times in the past where maybe life wasn't so good. When we made big mistakes or lived recklessly and had to pay a great price. And then maybe we said, "The past; it always comes back to haunt me."
We can let our past come back to haunt us. God has given each of us a mind that can make choices. The Children of Israel made a choice as they wandered in the desert hungry and thirsty. They thought that their captivity in Egypt may not have been so bad. As least, they thought, it was better than what they were facing. They had a flawed viewpoint. They took their eyes off of Almighty God, who rescued them from their long years of bondage.
And then, on the other hand, we can bring back into our minds the heartache that our past may have brought and allow us to be discouraged, defeated, chained, and back into a bondage of self-doubt and lack of worth. Again, it's a flawed viewpoint. Again, we allow our eyes to be torn away from the One, the Holy God, the Almighty Savior who took us out of the miry clay.
"He also brought me up out of a horrible pit. Out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps." Psalm 40:2 NKJV
My friend, Almighty God loves you so much; more than you can comprehend. God chose to send His Son, Jesus, to seek and save the lost. Jesus, the Rock of our Salvation. We can set our eyes on Jesus and know that no matter what we face, no matter what happened in the past, He remains. He loves us with an everlasting love and we never have to look back. We can look ahead to the Glory that He promises. We can rebuke the mistakes and heartache of the past that we might be tempted to recall and we can set our eyes on one thing. Jesus. The way, the truth, and the life.
Blessed Lord. Thank You for being the one thing that we can set our eyes upon and be saved, blessed, restored, renewed, delivered, and healed. Thank You God that You chose to send us Your Son, Jesus, to rescue us from our past and deliver us from the bondage of sin and heartache. Glory to Your Name. Help us Holy Spirit to set our eyes on Jesus and not be turned away in the midst of our struggles. For Jesus is our Rock. In Your Holy Name, Jesus, we pray. AMEN and AMEN.
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The total number of penalty point incidents fell last year compared to 2011. In all there were just over 239,000 cases, down by 7.2 per cent annually. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing depends on your point of view.
The official line from the Garda and the Road Safety Authority is that drivers are getting the message and behaving themselves better. That may well be true and of course the most important statistic of all – the number of road deaths – also fell which would tend to support it.
I don't think we should kid ourselves though. There are other factors at play. There has been a general reduction in traffic volumes because of the ongoing recession. This is visible on a daily basis when you look at traffic in the larger cities like Dublin and Cork, and also at the volumes on the motorways.
Last year was also the first full year with the network of speed cameras in operation and that may have had a significant influence.
I worry though that there might also be a general reduction in the visibility of Gardai on the roads. We know that Garda budgets are under pressure and there are not the same resources. While there are more cameras out there the number of traffic Gardai is down from a peak of 1,200 to just over 850 now.
Looking at what we are receiving points for is interesting in itself. Speeding is out on its own as our number one misdemeanour, accounting for 184,000 cases or 77 per cent of the total. Not a huge surprise.
For the first few years of the penalty points system the number two offence was not wearing a seatbelt, either by the driver or by a passenger under 18 years old (for which the driver, rightly, gets points ).
That still accounted for 8,858 offences last year but that only qualifies it for the number three spot. Number two, accounting for 25,640 cases, was the offence that seems to annoy other motorists more than all the others put together: using a mobile phone.
It really does drive people demented when they see other motorists doing it. Judging by the correspondence that we receive nothing pleases a motorist more than seeing someone else getting caught phone-handed.
It is hard to feel much sympathy and yet at the same time there are a huge number of us who have done it ourselves from time to time. Most people will tell you anecdotally that the problem seems to be getting worse, or at least is not getting any better.
Strangely though the Garda stats seem to say different. The number of people caught using a phone while driving actually fell by 5 per cent last year. It is one of those quirks in the data that makes me wonder if we are actually seeing an improvement in driver behaviour or a reduction in enforcement levels and hence more people getting away with it.
I can't be sure of the answer but again there might be other factors at play. Phones these days will connect to modern cars via Bluetooth, so you no longer need to invest in having a hands-free kit installed.
At the same time more people have smartphones, which are both a blessing and a curse. As a nation we seem to have a tremendous habit of fiddling with them when we are stuck in traffic. If you are jammed solid on the way home it is tempting to pick it up.
Start daydreaming and before you know it you can find yourself looking at a hilarious picture of a kitten when you are shocked back to reality by the sound of the driver's horn behind you or worse, the tapping of a Garda's knuckles on your driver's window.
Other offences that happen in reasonable numbers include failure to obey traffic lights (4,659 people last year ) and the catch-all provision that is used to cover all sorts of silly and careless things, from lipstick to shavers to bad manners, which is termed 'Driving without reasonable consideration'. That meant points for 3,757 drivers last year.


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Ahhhh, this interlude began in strange territory, but it ended up squarely in the familiar, right? For long-time readers, I hope this feels like the blast from the past that it is (we last saw Kalabari at the end of Book THREE)…and for relatively new readers, it still must feel like it's almost 500 pages ago…because that's pretty much what it is. Also note that Kalabari's guards are wearing the masks of the Unseen, but the massive prayer beads of The Serene.
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Starting tomorrow, Glamourpussnyc is having their first ever WAREHOUSE SALE! The company is known for its fashion flare and fabulous wardrobe pieces that take you from sea to ski and any destination in between. I am excited to pick up pieces for myself, family and friends at what is going to be a terrific sale. Think Christmas in June and make out your list for you are sure to find some great items at even better prices. And who doesn't need a bit of glamour in their life.
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So many things of note that have just been released, are imminent or that I had missed that a nice little round-up is in order. Who knows, maybe you'll order something!
HoZac "Hookup Klub" 7″ Single Club: I wasn't going to write about this for some reason, but then I was reading Seven Inches about how Jason missed the pre-order call, and I figured there were a few more of you who might have missed the very exciting news.
Essentially, HoZac has one of the best tracklists around. I just "completed" my collection with the addition of the Spider 7″ (HoZac 002), and I can say that I listen to every record on a regular basis, save for the White Savage 7″ and the Subtle Turnhips 7″ (though, I think Thomas from The Wicked Awesomes spoiled that one after a show we played with them, and a small group of us stayed up all night drinking and listening to records, and he went on an hour-long tyrade about how much he hated that record).
You're going to get 10 records in this club in three seperate mailings, a bunch of stuff that no-one has heard of yet, including: Teeth (a collaboration between Blank Dogs and Spider!!!), Dum Dum Girls (who also have a 12″ coming on Blank Dogs new record label Captured Tracks), TeePee (the cassette on Jerkwave is fucking great). Also, a new Box Elders 7″ (finally), and a band I've been recently turned on to – White Mystery. The rest – Idle Times, Woven Bones, Art Thieves, Flight, Mother of Tears – I don't know too much about, but I trust HoZac to do me right. Limited to 500 records each.
Vaticano "Mocosos Pateticos LP"
Out on the great Siltbreeze label, this has been best described as "The Mexican Spits", and that certainly sounds accurate to me. Sloppy, lofi garage punk, sung in Spanish. Limited to 700.
Dull Knife Records has announced the Dull Knife Songwriter Series which should be available in the next six weeks. The initial entries will be from Richard Youngs and Dan Melchior, with each 7″ in a hand-numbered edition of 300. They also have the RTFO Bandwagon LP coming soon!
Death …For the Whole World to See LP
This re-issue (recorded originally in 1974) has me v. excited. Drag City has pre-orders up now.
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I mean, every little girl should have a beautiful flower girl dress for her 1st Birthday, right? This birthday or flower girl dress is style 402 in Cerise and Baby Pink and layers of hot pink tulle.
Above featured flower girl dress is style 402 in Cerise and Baby Pink
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