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Poetry appreciation for us has been a somewhat haphazard affair to date. However, this term I have actually scheduled it into our week and so I am hopeful we will be able to spend more time on it. My girls loved the Brave Writer Poetry class that they participated in a few terms ago and so writing and reading poetry is something they've come to enjoy a great deal. My plan this term is to focus on a few common poetic devices and thus to choose poems that demonstrate those elements.
Last week's elements were Alliteration (something they are already familiar with) and Onomatopoeia. I printed off these colourful wall cards which define each term and I will stick it on our wall each week as I go through the different terms so that the girls can refer to them at any time.
I chose The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe which is an excellent example of both poetic terms. Before we delved into the poem, I introduced the definition of the two terms. We then looked at some simple examples of onomatopoeia from here. I found this fun interactive activity to help the kids form their own sounds and words to further enhance their understanding of the use onomatopoeia.
I think this poem is one that really needs to be heard. So instead of me reading the poem out loud, I let them listen to this fascinating rendition of The Bells.
We were very taken by the musicality and tone of the poem and the way it was read by the late Nelson Olmsted ( an American broadcaster and and actor from the 1950s) and this led the girls onto wanting to hear how other people had approached the reading of this poem. So we checked out some other youtube videos and also some choral renditions of the poem.
It is a very long poem and we did not spend a long time analyzing it (not this time round anyway). My goal was for them to experience the poem and the way it sounded when it was read. We did, however, spend some time talking about what the poem meant and the way the sounds enhanced what he was trying to say. You can find some helpful analysis of the poem here.


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We came across this interesting vinyl record rack over at Hard to Find Records. The metal unit attaches to your wall and keeps 80 records within reach. We like it as a secondary storage unit for keeping your favorites nearby. Here's a bit about it from the HTFR site:
This innovative vinyl set holder fixes to any flat wall and provides a perfect, and very stylish, storage solution for around 80 vinyl records. Six of the seven vertical tiers will hold approximately 10 records each, while the dual function top tier has adequate spacing for around 10 records in each of it's two spaces. This vinyl set holder is a very attractive storage method that will help protect your records while keeping them in perfect grasp for your mixing sessions.
HTFR is based in the UK but they can ship worldwide. Exchange rates put this unit at $49.85 in the US and it is available here.
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Dátiles con tocino – Dates in Bacon2 comments Jul 28th, 2011 | By Tobias | Category: Recipes, Starters
Dates in bacon are the ideal Tapa or Mezze. They go perfectly with wine. Ideally you serve them right out of the oven when the bacon is crispy and the dates are still warm inside.
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Baking time: 10 minutes
difficulty: very easy
Ingredients for 4 people:
- 18 dates
- 9 slices of bacon
Heat up the oven to 392 F.
Cut the dates up length wise with a small knife and remove the stone.
Cut the bacon slice into half's. Wrap a piece of bacon around a date and secure it with a tooth pick. Place on a baking tray. Repeat until all dates are warped.
Bake for 10 minutes until the bacon is crisp. (Air and broiler)
This recipe in German.


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In the same day that Dominion Resources (NYSE:D) acquired Tennessee's two largest solar projects, the Virginia-based utility received $47 million in government funding to help construct its first offshore wind pilot project. With giants like Dominion and General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) stepping up their wind investments, it may finally be time to make your own wind energy portfolio pick. Here's what you need to know.
No more drawing boards
The Department of Energy has awarded Dominion Resources $47 million to build two 6 MW offshore wind turbines that, when complete, should provide enough electricity to power 3,000 homes.
"This was a highly competitive process, and we thank DOE for recognizing this demonstration project is using innovative designs that will both lower the cost and lower the risk of future commercial scale offshore wind projects located in hurricane prone regions," said Mary Doswell, senior vice president of Dominion's retail and alternative energy solutions.
The project will be located around 24 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach and, if state approvals go as planned, will be up and running by 2018. Dominion Resources plans to take lessons learned from this pilot project and apply them to its own offshore commercial investments.
Why wind?
Dominion Resources and General Electric Company are constantly evolving and reinventing themselves. Dominion has recently shifted away from nuclear as it ramps up its natural gas investments, and offshore wind could be its next major move. The company's natural gas assets provide it with steady income, as well as major growth opportunity from its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export opportunities.
But wind is an entirely different ball game. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that offshore wind could eventually produce more electricity than every single power plant currently churns out. The massive untapped potential has essentially made its prophecy self-fulfilling -- for first movers like Dominion Resources, there's no way to not forge ahead into uncharted waters.
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Arthur G. Altschul, an art collector, investment banker and philanthropist, died on Sunday at his home in Centre Island, N.Y.. He was 81 and also lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
He had been in declining health for several months, his son Arthur G. Jr. said.
Mr. Altschul collected art for more than four decades, notably Neoimpressionist and Pointillist paintings as well as works by the Nabis and by the Ashcan School. In 1965 the Yale University Art Gallery had a major exhibition titled ''Neoimpressionists and Nabis in the collection of Arthur G. Altschul.''
At his death, he was a member of the chairman's council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had been a vice chairman of the Yale University Art Gallery's governing board, a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art and a member of the trustees' council of the National Gallery of Art.
Mr. Altschul was a general partner in the investment banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Company from 1959 to 1977 and a limited partner from 1977 to 1999. He was chairman of General American Investors, a closed-end investment concern in which his family has a substantial interest, from 1961 to 1995.
From 1977 to 1983 he was chairman of the board of Barnard College, a post his mother, a Barnard graduate, had also held. He was also a former president of the trustees of St. Bernard's School, in Manhattan, of which he was an alumnus.Continue reading the main story
When he died, he was chairman of the Overbrook Foundation, a charity founded by his parents. It has assets of more than $150 million and makes grants to groups including environmental, human rights and educational organizations. He was also its president from 1981 to 2001.
Arthur Goodhart Altschul was born in Manhattan to the former Helen Lehman Goodhart and Frank Altschul, an investment banker who was a senior partner at Lazard Frères until 1945 and chairman of General Investors Corporation until he retired in 1961.
Arthur G. Altschul graduated from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and in 1943 from Yale College. He served in the Marines from 1943 through 1945 and was a New York Times reporter in the late 1940's, writing about the early days of the United Nations and other topics.
He had family connections to the Lehmans, and he moved on to be an an analyst with Lehman Brothers before joining General American Investors for a time and then Goldman Sachs.
His first wife, the former Stephanie Wagner, died in a plane crash. His marriages to Siri von Reis and Diana Landreth Childs ended in divorce.
In addition to his son Arthur G. Jr., he is survived by his wife, the former Patricia Dey whom he married in 1996; two other sons, Charles, and Dr. Stephen; two daughters, Emily Helen Altschul and Serena von Reis Altschul, a former MTV News correspondent, now with CNN; a stepson, Whitney Sudler Smith; two grandsons; and a sister, Edith Graham.Continue reading the main story


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It's June 15 (unless you're in new Zealand...) which means it's getting close to the June 30 mailing deadline for finished quilts! I have photos of half of them, and a few have even made it home already.
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I'll be on vacation for a couple of weeks so I'll tally everything up at the end of the month and -- I hope -- be ready to post the BIG REVEAL early in July.


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ZAP Alias and Jonway SUV Enter Korea Electric Vehicle Challenge with Partner Samyang Optics
ZAP electric vehicles take to the road for the first time in a 200km rally
ZAP 100% Electric SUV Taxi in Korea EV Challenge
SEOUL, Korea (March 30, 2010) – The first-ever Korea Electric Vehicle Challenge took place this weekend outside Seoul with electric car pioneer ZAP (OTCBB: ZAAP) and distribution partner in Korea Samyang Optics (008080.KS) entering two vehicles under development, the Alias electric car and A380 electric SUV.
This was ZAP's first public demonstration of the Alias and SUV. ZAP's two 100 percent electric vehicles (EVs) drove along a 200km/124.3mi route at an average speed of 85kph (52.8mph) as part of the EV Challenge. Using a new lithium battery system, the ZAP SUV drove 195 km, on a single charge. The ZAP Alias concept car completed 50 miles on traditional lead acid batteries before requiring a recharge. ZAP will be using lithium batteries in a test this May. The three-day event included manufacturers of electric vehicles, batteries, chargers and components with parades and an exhibition.
Samyang Optics hosted ZAP as part of their ongoing partnership to distribute electric vehicles in Korea. The two companies have a partnership to distribute and potentially manufacture electric vehicles in Korea with ZAP providing electric vehicle expertise.
The Korean EV Challenge was sponsored by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, as well as the Ministry of Environment. The Korean government has announced support and investment in electric vehicles over the next few years. The event was launched by government and business leaders including Korean ministers, congressmen and a representative from the Korean Electric Vehicle Association. Samyang CEO Christopher Kang and ZAP CEO Steve Schneider also attended.
The ZAP electric SUV is being developed through a partnership between ZAP and auto manufacturer Zhejiang Jonway Automobile Co. Ltd. targeting the China fleet market. The ZAP Alias electric car is entered in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize taking place this year. For more information visit https://zapglobal.wordpress.com.
Samyang Optics Co., Ltd.
Samyang, located in Masan, Korea, is a developer of optical lenses and a range of applications for closed circuit television systems used extensively in highly important security settings such as casinos and banks, as well as government and commercial buildings. Founded in 1972, Samyang's securities are publicly traded on the Korean stock exchange. Samyang is an exclusive supplier for "Made in Korea" lenses to Sears and has made lenses for Nikon, Canon, Minolta and Yashica. In 2004 Samyang merged with Japanese optical device maker Seikou.
About ZAP
ZAP is one of the world's oldest electric vehicle providers, having delivered over 117,000 of a broad range of vehicles to more than 75 countries since 1994. ZAP supplies electric trucks and vans to military, government and corporate fleets and is an innovator of electric motorcycles, scooters and ATVs. The Santa Rosa, California based company offers some of the only electric city-speed cars and trucks in production today and is leveraging its accrued technology know-how in developing a cost effective high-speed electric car called the ZAP Alias. Further news and information is available at https://zapglobal.wordpress.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, continued acceptance of ZAP's products, increased levels of competition, new products and technological changes, ZAP's dependence upon third-party suppliers, intellectual property rights and other risks detailed from time to time in the ZAP's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Editors please note: Video shot at the Korea EV Challenge is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khEr1uLe0zo
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ZAP Alias and SUV Answer Korea Electric Vehicle Challenge
ZAP: Then and Now
A short history of history of a pioneering company and the development of the ZAP Alias
In order to understand the history of the ZAP Alias entry in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize (PIAXP), one needs to appreciate the origins of ZAP, which is a challenge unto itself since ZAP was founded in 1994, over 15 years ago, making it one of the earliest companies to enter the EV business. So, please be patient, this could take awhile.
ZAP was founded on September 23, 1994 as ZAP Power Systems in Sebastopol, California, a venture started by EV entrepreneur and ZAP PIAXP Team Captain Gary Starr, with his previous experience in electric vehicles, as well as other electric vehicle developers and advocates. Starr had previous experience with electric cars including Solar Electric Engineering and U.S. Electricar, which is currently known as Enova Systems . Starr was involved in more than 600 electric car conversions between 1989 and 1994 from Ford Escorts, GEO Prizms, Chevy S-10s, Toyota Paseos, S-10 Blazer SUVs, Pontiac Fieros and various kit cars, with subsequent sales to Hollywood celebrities, government agencies, military bases, the US Post Office, Ford and GM. He left that venture to start ZAP believing there was a growing opportunity in smaller bicycle and scooter EV designs that could be affordable for a greater number of people. Continued…
Putting the 'ZAP' in transportation for 15 years
ZAP was founded in 1994 to create an automotive company that stands for the environment and for the future. In an era when government and industry are debating how to solve our growing transportation problems, ZAP has been a pioneer in providing cost effective advanced transportation solutions and helping to create a paradigm shift in transportation. Indeed, ZAP has designed, manufactured and shipped over 117,000 electric vehicles, ranging from electric bikes to electric scooters, ATVs, cars, vans and trucLogo for electric vehicle pioneer ZAPks, to over 75 countries.
ZAP is a business opportunity at a pivotal moment in history when average people around the world are coming to grips with pollution, rising fuel prices, traffic congestion, parking shortages, noise pollution, endangered habitats and species—the list goes on. The technology is available and the timing is right for a small group of entrepreneurs to save the world that we all love, for our children, grandchildren and beyond.
ZAP stands for Zero Air Pollution®. Indeed, this ubiquitous word 'zap,' because of its active, succinct nature, has been a cultural icon since beyond reckoning, but we believe that now 'zap' has finally found a new positive meaning. In fact the word 'zap' has been defined as a small electrical charge. As a pioneer in electric vehicles, ZAP vehicles have become synonymous with electric vehicles. People often call electric bikes ZAP Bikes, or electric scooters a ZAPPY®.
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Shakedown date set for ZAP Alias in Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize at Michigan International Speedway
The stage is set for the ZAP Alias to kick up its heels in the shakedown stage of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, taking place from Sunday to Saturday, May 2-8, 2010. ZAP is booking its travel plans from Santa Rosa, California to Brooklyn, Michigan. Read more at the ZAP Alias Blog.
ZAP 100% Electric Car Delivers for Dominos Pizza in Aspen, CO
We're excited to see the idea of electric delivery vehicles expanding throughout the world. Summit Daily News featured our ZAP Xebra 100% electric sedan being used in Aspen, Colorado to delivery pizzas for Domino's.
Electric vehicles work better for urban deliveries than gas vehicles because they turn off when stopped, so there is no excess idling while parked or at traffic lights. Electric vehicles also have less emissions at their point of use, helping to fight urban smog.
ZAP has been selling more electric trucks and vans to companies and government agencies who manage large fleets of vehicles for transporting goods and personnel between buildings in a corporate campus or government installation. Customers report big savings in fuel expenses using electric vehicles over their traditional large diesel or gas trucks. Electric vehicles also require less maintenance than gas vehicles.
It's impressive to see electric vehicles like these succeeding in cold mountain regions. The use of a ZAP sedan for Domino's Pizza delivery dates back to 2007 in Las Vegas. Recently ZAP won a contract to engineer an electric mail truck conversion for the United States Postal Service.
High school principal patrols via Zappy3 electric scooter
We thought this television news story was fun because we use Zappy3's all over downtown Santa Rosa for work and play. ZAP has sold thousands of these great scooters because they're fun, easy, affordable and practical. The Chief Financial Officer was riding down the hallway today on one. The employees ride these back and forth between buildings and to go pick up lunch. I see people all over town using them. It's great to see that this idea is starting to take hold in a place like Texas with even police using them.
Scootin' around West Brook H.S.
Principal Bill Daniels is patrolling the halls like other authorities in BISD on his new ride
Kelly Gaston, KFWD News, March 4, 2010
Beaumont, Texas — Administrators at West Brook High School in Beaumont have a new way to get around campus quickly when security or medical issues come up. The high tech scooter even has the principal on a roll.
It's not the most common way a principal patrols a high school, but for Bill Daniels it's become a handy tool at West Brook.
"It provides us instant mobility places."
Administrators and police have been testing this Zappy Pro. Daniels says they have had it for about three weeks and they are thinking about buying two.
"If there's a problem somewhere on the campus or someone needs something, we use this; we can get right out there."
Daniels says the scooter is easy to use; it's versatile, and highly maneuverable.
"If you want turn to in one spot, it'll pull you around," said Daniels.
Seeing that West Brook sits on about 100 acres, the Zappy Pro is a great tool for police and administrators to overlook security and assist with medical issues. It can travel as fast as 15 mph and allows administrators to see above the students.
"West Brook's kind of like a small city," says Kristi Fuselier, WB Director of Student Activities. "We've got about 3000 people on campus at any given time between kids and administration and faculty, and anything can happen around here."
A tool that is helping administrators patrol campuses and get from one point to another in a timely manner; the principal wants to get more scooters in the next couple of weeks.
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The Place of the Novel in World History Courses: A "Summer Reading" Assignment based on Sophie's World: a Novel about the History of Philosophy
Jay Harmon
Teachers of World History at all levels of instruction employ novels to lend depth and perspective to their course content. Teachers of Advanced Placement World History often use novels as summer reading assignments to jump start essential skills their students will need for the rest of the academic year. This essay attempts to provide a general overview and set of student questions regarding a novel which is typical in its strengths and limitations. These materials are useful for wide application, but are specifically designed to serve new Advanced Placement World History teachers who are considering incorporating this or any novel in their class.
The Novel
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy, by Jostein Gaarder (the current English edition published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2007 can be purchased on-line for less than five dollars) is an excellent vehicle for introducing students to the kind of creative thinking necessary for success in Advanced Placement World History. I have used this novel and accompanying questions in 9th, 10th and 12th grade history classes, and can report very positive-even enthusiastic-feedback from most students. It is widely available in paperback for fewer than ten dollars.
Jostein Gaarder taught philosophy to high school students in Norway for many years and developed Sophie's World in an attempt to increase their interest in what they sometimes told him was a "dry" subject. Gaarder succeeded brilliantly in this effort. The book became an international sensation after its original release in 1991, and is now published in over forty languages.
Gaarder uses a very clever method to "hook" his teenage readers into turning the pages and learning, sometimes without realizing it, the basic tenants of Western Philosophy. The novel's protagonist is Sophie Amundsen, a fourteen year-old girl in Norway. She finds in her mailbox two questions written on some paper: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Those intriguing questions begin both the mystery (who wrote those questions and put them in her mailbox?) and the philosophy lessons found in the rest of the novel.
Why is this novel particularly useful in an AP History class? The short answer is that it "pushes" students into considering points of views other than their own. Developing students' abilities to find "POV" in documents or in the narrative of their history textbook is an integral part of the AP program. As does the widely used Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the reader is drawn into considering the world from different perspectives. Bingo.
I particularly like using Sophie's World as a summer reading assignment for incoming APWH students, i.e., students (usually 9th graders) who signed up for APWH for the next school year. I give them a print version because frankly, I think that this format cuts down on "sharing" of answers via the internet. You may consider developing multiple versions of the questions, including using the same questions, but in a different sequence within each set of chapter questions, to discourage rote copying of answers.
The questions I created and offered below run the gamut of Bloom's Taxonomy, as should any novel given students for analysis. Some are recall questions, while on the other end of the scale, others are designed to get the students to stop and reflect on their personal views of, well, the meaning of life. Feel free to add, alter or subtract questions to fit your students' needs.
Sophie's World Is not above criticism. It has been argued that it is not suitable for AP World History because it's Euro-or Western-centric. This concern usually comes from fellow APWH teachers. Indeed, very little is mentioned about non-Western philosophers, and then only near the beginning of the book. Further, Sophie's philosophy lessons can, at times, become a bit wordy and dry. This feedback usually comes from students who want to get on with the mystery aspect of the novel and by-pass the philosophers. Students also sometimes balk at the length of the book—over 400 pages in many editions.
However, I have found over the years I've used this book that these quite valid concerns do not detract from its overall value. Sophie's World is not a comprehensive World Philosophy course; but rather an engaging springboard that encourages young people to think in ways they had never…well, though of. As for its Western content, students in world history courses should have an opportunity to encounter Western as well as non-Western material that can rock their world. In any event, the use of only one novel rooted in any single tradition in a World History course seems short-sighted and, given the vast library of classroom-tested complimentary novels by non-Western writers, unnecessary.1
I count some of the book's occasional didacticism and length as a plus for two reasons: First, it brings home the point that AP World History is a challenging college-level course; second, when they finish the book, students frequently tell me that they have a sense of real accomplishment; that they did indeed "stretch their brains" more than they expected. What more could a high school teacher ask? I close with a final note: I do not have an answer key to the questions. You will have to read the novel yourself and, I hope, find it as engaging as I have.
The Template
Your summer assignment is the world-wide best seller Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. Bring both your questions and answers to the first day of classes. Impress me with your complete sentences.
1. Find out how much a Norwegian crown is worth, compared to the US dollar (this is outside research and not in the text).
2. Cite 3 elements (or examples) of a mystery novel in C. 1-6.
3. In ONE sentence each, summarize each chapter 1-6.
4. Who are YOU?
5. What is the origin of philosophy?
6. What was Sophie's mother's reaction to Sophie's questions/comments after she began receiving the packages?
7. What might philosophers and small children have in common?
8. After reading about the shift from a mythological to a natural view of philosophy, what class in school did Sophie especially want to forget?
9. What is the point of seeing what each philosopher's project is?
10. Define rationalism.
11. What does this mean: "we cannot step twice into the same river."?
12. Why is Lego the most ingenious toy in the world? Do you have any history with Lego?
13. Define fatalism.
14. What was the famous inscription at Delphi ("DEL-fee")?
15. Who were the best-know Greek historians?
16. Does anything about the Hippocratic Oath stand out to you?
17. Who are you…now?
The Major's Cabin
29. What did Aristotle say were the three forms of
Two Cultures
The Baroque
65. How does Sophie receive hints in this chapter that she
is not real?
74. Compare (similarities) Kant and Kierkegaard in regard to
81. How did Thomas Malthus' beliefs (what were they?)
influence Darwin?
Our Own Time
Jay Harmon teaches Advanced Placement World and European History at The Woodlands Christian Academy, The Woodlands, Texas. He is a former member of the AP World History Test Development Committee and a leader at the APWH exam reading since its inception in 2002. His website, http://www.harmonhistory.com is designed to assist new AP World and AP European History teachers. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
1 Guides for the classroom use of novels by many leading writers can be found in previous issues of World History Connected. See, for example, "The Graphic Novel in World History" 4, no. 2; 'The World in Miniature" 2, no.1; "Reading Africa 2, no.1, all searchable at
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Blast from the past
BN's were released in May 2000 and boy were they yummy, from their crunchy exterior, to their chocolate/strawberry innards.
Slap bracelets! I remember constantly playing with these bad boys throughout primary school, there were millions of them everywhere and if you didn't have a slap bracelet, or maybe a yoyo, you were a no-body. Last year sometime, I went to a gig in Manchester and got given a slap bracelet by the promoters; it was like Christmas in slap-'round-my-wrist form. To people who don't have slap bracelets, I can understand the sheer annoyance of others constantly playing with them, but hey, they don't care because they have a slap bracelet!
Remember the pop man? Maybe it was a Merseyside thing, but, every Tuesday (I think) he used to pay us a visit on Gorsedale Road with our order of cream soda and orange soda. Nicely delivered in unlabeled glass bottles, which we had to return, the cream soda came in a retro green colour which made it all the more fun to drink. Now we have to drink it colourless, from standard shaped, plastic, two litre bottles - colourless because E numbers are now 'bad for you' - the health standard agencies ruin it for everybody! Bummer.
I LOVE LEGO. Need there be any more said?
...well, I know Lego still exists, but old school Lego was the best. Even K'nex was awesome...but not quite Lego.
I like going into all those random gadget shops which often house retro products that have been forgotten about, I pretty much walk around the whole store playing with everything then leave purchase-less, making the majority of my visits totally pointless but uber fun and reminiscent non-the-less.


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Global Marine Systems and Visser & Smit have jettisoned their plans to jointly establish Seabed Power, a firm dedicated to offshore renewables, due to impending changes to EU anti-competition laws.
Global Marine says that EU authorities are growing more concerned about the prospect of overly dominant companies in the rapidly developing offshore wind sector.
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Elias' response: "I'm mopping my eyeballs. "
Monday, October 1, 2007
The other day Elias was rubbing his eyes for a long time. Finally, Chase asked him what he was doing.
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I LOVE HIM!!! I miss y'all!!! How do you not look one day older??? What a beautiful family! I am so happy for you all!
Much Love,
Rachel Maze
- October 2, 2007 at 8:01 PM
- shelly said...
now I will think of that when I rub my eyes
- October 3, 2007 at 11:48 AM
- Ashlee said...
Elias is too cute! I hear y'all are heading back to Texas. I haven't even gotten a chance to meet Elias yet, but I read your blogs every once in a while. I can't wait. Hope to see y'all soon!
Gig 'em
Ashlee Gray
- October 16, 2007 at 10:40 PM
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Doncaster Lawn Tennis Club have netted the Sheffield & District LTA Ladies' Division One title for the first time in more than 20 years, writes Steve Hossack.
The club has also made a flying start to their Yorkshire Ladies' League campaign, winning all four of their opening games following promotion to the Premier Division.
"The club is really flourishing at the moment," said joint club coach Liz Beaton.
"The title-winning team covers many age groups with the youngest being 14-year-old Elizabeth Morris and the oldest being in their fifties, but we have a great team spirit.
"We also introduced a second ladies team this year as there are so many ladies and junior girls who want to play team tennis.
"The second team won their league (Division Five) which is very pleasing as three junior girls were able to play senior competitive tennis for the first time. The club's under 12s team also won their league."


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Sustainability: Gagging on Green
Sustainability Must Mean Questioning and Developing Better Applications, Not Just Making Non-Green Processes More Efficient
By Jim Montague, Executive Editor
No, I'm not talking about mucus and phlegm. What I am talking about is that everyone now seems to have some solution for "going green" or improving sustainability; most seem to be rolling downhill at yours truly; and so I'm up to my eyeballs and getting a little congested. Cough! For instance, walking down the aisles at some recent control and automation-related tradeshows, I thought I was in downtown Chicago on St. Patrick's Day what with all the verdant, Kelly-hued placards on longstanding devices, extolling their suddenly environmentally conscious credentials. Of course, the Internet is awash in the same colors and come-ons. This type of white washing is called "green washing."
Many folks I interview quickly explain that sustainability goes beyond simple efficiency to also embrace reducing carbon footprints and to help users implement applications that make their end-products and consumers greener and more sustainable, too. This is a wonderful goal.
We should all lessen combustion and burning of all kinds to begin saving a planetary process control system that the famous Native American proverb says "we don't inherit from our ancestors, but borrow from our children." If not, it's a good bet our grandkids may soon wish they could have broken the lease and evicted such sloppy tenants as us.
So, yes, making more efficient motors, using regenerative drives, monitoring energy consumption and other reshufflings of existing technologies can all start to make a significant dent in CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Unfortunately, it's just a start, just a dent. It's nowhere near enough, and we all know it.
We need to make far, far bigger inroads into green manufacturing and sustainable living. We must take on the main job of fighting global warming now, and it's going to require more than feel-good baby steps that avoid the real struggle. It's way past time to wake up. Using less plastic in water bottles isn't really green. Drinking perfectly good tap water is green. Driving higher mileage cars isn't really green. Taking mass transit is green.
Likewise, using more efficient motors and energy monitoring to support dirtier fossil-based fuel sources, such as oil and tar sands, fracking for natural gas, coal-to-oil and even ethanol and other biomass processes, aren't really green either. In fact, one of the repeated criticisms against scrubbing sand and shale and biomass applications is that they consume more energy and natural resources, such as fresh water, than they produce. Sustainability must mean questioning and developing better applications, not just making non-green processes more efficient.
However, at $4 per gallon and above, producing gasoline is profitable no matter how inefficient and un-green extracting and refining it happens to be. Just make sure your balance sheet doesn't include the ice sheet continuing to slide off Greenland or the Antarctic ice collapsing in the next few years. Those ecological disasters will make Japan's recent tsunami look like my post-nasal drip. Sniffle.
Truly going green means going solar, assisted by wind, geothermal and, yes, nuclear too. It will also require developing better ways to store energy from alternative sources, but still going big enough on them to meet the bulk of our energy needs, and then using efficiency methods to reduce per capita use.
This will also mean driving a lot less. Similar to butter, cheese, mayonnaise, red meat, sugar and white flour and other artery cloggers, fossil fuels and other combustibles should only be used sparingly. They can no longer be the main dish—on your plate or in your transportation and manufacturing systems.
All this is not to say that more efficient motors, regenerative drives and energy monitoring aren't terrific. However, they'll look a lot better if they fit into the overall context of helping us address what's going on in the larger background. Every little bit helps, but we need a lot more little bits. Hack! Ptooey!
Sustainability must mean questioning and developing better
applications, not just making non-green processes more efficient.


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There's more to career and skills development than just 'leaning in'.
Your direct manager, the company culture and the broader economy all have a role to play, as you play your role seeking out and delivering profitable solutions to real customer problems. Enabling skill development takes resources. Amongst those resources are; your time and access to knowledge. In 2018 access to knowledge via ProductCamp Dublin 2018 is enabled by a hard working voluntary committee, and these organizations.
On behalf of the Product Management community, we thank our Product Camp Dublin 2018 headline supporters – DIT, Technology Ireland Software Skillnet, and Logi Analytics, and all our core sponsors, many of whom support ProductCamp Dublin year after year.
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The National Training Network For Companies in the Software Technology Sector
Technology Ireland Software Skillnet, the National Training Network for companies in the software technology sector, sponsor ProductCamp Dublin again in 2018. Avid supporters of product managers in the tech sector, their collaboration with DIT led to grant-aid available for this course for Software Skillnet member companies enabling them to save 25% on the fees. More on programmes and grant-support here.
Technology Ireland Software Skillnet is led by Technology Ireland within Ibec, it provides support for companies with software and technology functions to enhance skills and boost competitiveness.
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The Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Science Degree in Product Management have been designed specifically to meet the needs of organisations and drive best practice performance.. The programmes draw on the expertise of leading academics, international experts, recognised industry practitioners and the latest research to deliver a unique learning opportunity for software and digital technology companies.
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The programmes are aimed at product managers who have a number of years experience in the software and digital media sector. Candidates are likely to be in positions of significant responsibility. They will currently be engaged in a product management role and already competent in the technical aspects of software development processes and methods.
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Giving users the ability to create their own view of the world and see what's really important to them is a key strength.
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This year ProductCamp Dublin is using Feature Upvote for suggested sessions. Test drive it yourself and see how your customers experience suggesting and voting for features. There's more on why Feature Upvote is sponsoring Product Camp Dublin here.
Learn to build and market products people actually buy.
Pragmatic Marketing is a long term Product Camp Dublin support and has trained over 100,000 product management and marketing professionals, helping them tune into how to build, market and launch products. For more information, please visit pragmaticmarketing.com. And don't miss their annual product management survey which includes data about product management in Ireland.
At Nitro, they have a unique culture that believes in building the right thing, the right way. and we're delighted to have them as a returning sponsor of ProductCamp Dublin. In 2005, Nitro disrupted the PDF industry by offering the first and leading alternative to Adobe Acrobat. Today, they're an award-winning global leader in document productivity, digital transformation, and change management. And just getting started....
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Balsamiq Wireframes (formerly Balsamiq Mockups) are excited about the opportunity to sponsor the event! The maker of the industry-leading rapid wireframing software is a long term supporter of the community that is ProductCamp Dublin.
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Please accept my apologies for the delay in posting the Walgreens January monthly deals. We just got back from a nice Christmas road trip back to our home state of Wisconsin. Fifteen hours of driving straight through with three dogs sure does take its toll. It is a good thing that blogging does not require a voice…because mine is currently gone!
Anyway, there are some really nice Money Making deals at Walgreens this month! These promotions will run through 1/30/09. Please note that prices may vary depending on your location. Alyssa and I will let you know if we find any of these deals are not working in Colorado.
Check out the Walgreen's weekly deals HERE and the January Coupon Book HERE.
There are Bayer Meter Register Reward Deals that are crossing over this month…making for a really hot deal! The best part is each of these deals is a separate promotion so you can do them all in one transaction!
Update: This deal is working for short ad areas…including Colorado!
$5 RR wyb Bayer Contour Meter $14.99
$5 RR wyb Bayer Breeze 2 Meter $14.99
$3 RR wyb 2 Participating Bayer Products
$6 RR wyb 3 Participating Bayer Products
*It is important to note that not all Bayer monitors are working for this deal so make sure that you purchase the Meters referenced in the below scenario.
(1) Bayer contour Blood Glucose Meter (blue box) (UPC: 3 0193 715101 9) $14.99
(1) Bayer Breeze Meter Kit (green box) (UPC: 3 0193 144001 0) $14.99
(2) $30 MQ (10/25 RP)-Coupons will need to be adjusted down to $14.99 (they will beep)
=$0 Out Of Pocket! WooooHooo, gotta love those $0 oop deals!
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(2) $5 Register Rewards
(1) $3 Register Reward
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=2 for $4
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Buy 2 Curel Lotions (not sure of price?)
-$1 IVC frm the Diabetes and You Boolet (will deuct $2)
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=A great deal depending on the price of the lotion!
(Thanks Hip2Save!)
$3 RR wyb $10 worth of Progresso soup 4/$5 through 1/2/09
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Lipton Green Tea 40ct
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Join the artists at Amapola co-op Gallery in welcoming back one of our own, award-winning serigrapher Gwen Entz Peterson. Gwen was an original member in 1980, working to get us off the ground. After three years she moved on to other pastures. Now she's back! Her silkscreen prints range from a tiny Siamese cat to full-sheet Southwest landscapes.
"Serigraph "is the Latin term for "silkscreen print." Gwen's pieces exhibit the clean lines typical of silkscreen work, and her use of an oil-based medium results in particularly intense colors. The large size of many of her pieces is unusual for the technique. They would be a design focus for any room of your home or office.
Come check out our newest artist at Amapola Gallery, on the Plaza at 205 Romero, N.W., in Old Town. Open 10-5 daily.
I like to play with words almost as much as I love playing with paint, stone, ink … Lucky me to have a blog outlet with my gallery since 1980, Amapola artists' co-op Gallery. -Kristin Parrott, carver, painter and acorn stuffer


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Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Food Notes
- My latest Vue Weekly article was published this week, about a "Veggie Donair World Premiere" taking place at the Hydeaway All Ages Art Space on Wednesday.
- Vue reported on Thursday that Four Rooms in City Centre has closed: "Henry Song, owner/operator of the City Centre establishment, commented to Vue Weekly that he regrets closing on such short notice. He offered no explanation beyond that the timing was right. He regrets any difficulty caused to clientele, musicians and his staff. He has expressed a desire to continue to work in the food and entertainment industry." What's up with all of these recent closures?
- Lea told me about a new Thai restaurant on the north side called Stephanie's Thai and Lao Fusion Cuisine. It was reviewed this week in Vue as well.
- Mack sent me a link to Sassy Cakes, a new home-based cupcake business. They're also on Twitter.
- All eyes on the maple leaf: Susur Lee's debut in New York doesn't make him flinch at all. A NY blogger I read was lucky enough to go to the Gourmet media event alluded to in the article – her thoughts are here.
- Mack downloaded the Urban Spoon app to his iPod Touch last week, and I will admit that it was rather fun to play with (the columns can be flicked like a slot machine, but shaking of the iPod will yield a random result – too cool). I hope they add Edmonton to their list of cities soon!
- Does kids' cuisine reign supreme? It seems to be the trend, writes Misty Harris.
- Also on the subject of children – I am tempted to describe the 12 year old food critic in an NYT story as "precious", but something tells me he would bristle at that label.
- In a case of 'coulda, shoulda, woulda', had I known Starbucks would wholly change their line of mints – from the tiny, power-packed kind to large, money-grabbing tablets, I would have stocked up on the small boxes (pictured below on the right). While the larger case is sleek, it makes me feel a little like a dealer of some kind every time I slide it open.
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5 Tips Relationship Experts Give Teenage Boys to Get Girl
Magazines and columnists on websites chuck out relationship advice that is supposedly guaranteed to get you a female. The things they recommend might have worked 20 years ago. But nowadays you'll find pretty much everything a teenager is told to do doesn't work. Ignore everything you have been told so far and read on. (However you should probably not forget the how to breathe and not sh** yourself 101 you went to all those years ago.)
Writing a song or poem
Teenagers probably write a poem or a song more than anything else in attempt of winning over a lady. Sprouting anything from a simple paragraph ('I can't go on without you' or a variation of this is the most unoriginal thing ever said) to a 3000 word essay which as likely to work as carving her name in your penis using a razor blade. Written words don't work if you're not already in a relationship. And even when you are, it merely bumps up your status. It will never forward a relationship with her, or even start one, especially if she is blind. Then she can't see it.
How to avoid this:
Don't bother at all. If she's the type of girl who likes that sort of thing (which is unlikely) you will need to become friends with her first, and find out if she likes you as well. Then once you know she likes you, ask her out. If you start dating, you could then try to write something for her. But don't bother unless you're already in a relationship. If she's the right girl, this can do wonders for your relationship, and can increase the chances of getting laid. Which is always a plus, right guys?
Summary: Wait till you're already in a relationship and you will know if she likes this sort of stuff, before you give her any writing you dedicated to her. It's not a bad idea to write some stuff you can recycle with more than one girl, just don't be too specific. I think that she would be a bit unhappy if you said 'I love to caress your long, soft, blonde hair' if she was bald. I can't say you'll come across many bald women. But you get what I mean.
Have confidence
No matter where you go, an 'expert' will always include this tip as an advice.
Having confidence doesn't matter at all. Let assume you do have enough confidence to go up to a stranger and talk to her out of the blue. On the rare occasion she doesn't try to blank you and laugh at you or talk behind your back to her friends when you go away, if you're with a group of friends, she'll probably feel threatened by being surrounded, and if you're by yourself she'll think you're a loner and will not want to talk to you.
How to avoid this:
Unless you've stumbled upon a complete stranger, in which case you've pretty much got no chance no matter what you do, it's likely one of your friends knows her or one of her friends. Therefore you should ask around, and find one of your friends who knows the girl or the girls' friends, and go with them to hang around with the girl you like. This way you can become friends with her friends, and will have a much warmer relationship with her before you try to win her over. And she's less likely to make you look like an idiot in front of everyone else.
Summary: Don't ask her out the first time you see her. Become friends with her friends, and/or become friends with her before you ask her out on a date and then she will know you're an ok guy, not a weird stalker. Then you will have a better shot with her. You could end up finding out she's not the girl for you, so you won't spend a couple of useless years running after her, only to find out that she's not interested.
Learn to play an instrument
I'm not talking about the tambourine, or the triangle. Ones that take skill. The guitar is the most common one, unlike most instruments, it doesn't sound too bad.
This is supposed to show that a guy is creative, and is committed to something. However, she probably won't pay attention. Unless the answer to 'what do you like to do in your spare time' is 'masturbate all day' what you do won't matter that much. Think about it. You're not with her 24/7, so as long as you're not a completely useless being, you don't need to be the most interesting man in the world. Look at any talented melodic death metal band, or any bluegrass guitarist. Both types of play need incredible skill, and years of dedication, but do you see anyone in either category beating women off with a stick, probably not.
How to avoid this:
Just do fun things when you're with her. All you need to do is sound interesting. Make stuff up about your life, if you have to. As long as it's not something you'd have to show her you can do (so don't tell her you're an artist or something like that) you're good to go. As long as she has fun when she's with you (bring a friend with you if you have to, just to help boost up the conversation) it doesn't matter how creative you are.
Summary: Don't bother if you're doing it just to attract girls. If you're doing it because you want to, then by all means go for it.
Take an interest in what she's interested in
If you can do what she's doing, you'll both be able to connect quickly and soon she will be moving the sewing equipment aside (This is what girls like to do, right?) and will take more interest in you.
Not quite.
Think about something you are really good at. Take video games as an example.
Now imagine all the times when someone (probably your dad) has tried to play along with you. And imagine all the times you've told him 'no dad, for haven's sake, it's the green one to get behind cover. Annoying, isn't it? When a complete novice, who doesn't care at all about finishing the level, joins in and gets you killed. This is what it would be like if you tried to join in with her sewing. She'd be spending all her time telling you what to do whilst avoiding punching you in the face because she's getting annoyed at your lack of enthusiasm or skill.
How to avoid this:
You're both best off doing something together from scratch. Married couples tend to take up pottery so they can suppress the lack of sex by moulding penises out of the clay, and chuckle to themselves. But you're not married. However you are also not getting any sex. So do something that you've both never done together. Or if you've just started something, invite her to do it, and vice versa.
Summary: Do something you both have the same interest in and skill level at.
Act romantic
Writing songs or poetry does come into this, but there are also a million and one thing you can do that are 'romantic', but you may be surprised to know that most of them don't work. Some may even have the opposite effect.
Unfortunately, the majority of teenage girls in modern society only like as**oles. And if you're not an asshole, you're probably out of luck no matter what you try.
Think about which guys you know are getting all the girls at your school or college.
It's unlikely you're friends with any of them. They're nearly always ignorant, arrogant, cocky, and stupid. Yet they all lost their virginity when they were 13 and have had a girl on the end of their arm ever since. Why? Because they look attractive, that's why.
What are you talking about?
Looks are everything. No matter how many times you are told 'you shouldn't care about looks, it's what's inside that counts' it will never be true. It used to be somewhat true but not anymore. The first thing a girl will ever notice about you is how you look.
I spent the last two years of my life chasing a girl I thought I had a chance with. I tried every trick in the book; the romantic, the hard to get, the asshole, the quiet guy, but nothing worked, nor did anything get me an inch closer to her. Why? She just didn't like me in that way. I.e. I wasn't attractive in her eyes. On the opposite side of things, the only reason another girl still likes me is because of how I look. I tried the asshole tactic on her, and it worked, but only because it went in partnership with my appearance. I've now changed my ways to being a nice guy, and she still likes me. So it doesn't matter what you do. If you're not attractive in the eyes of the girl you want, you can just forget it.
As for getting into a relationship with someone who likes you, not just sex/flirting/groping/other thing relating to physical contact with the opposite sex, it all falls down to what subculture/stereotype you fit into. For example, it's pretty much certain that a Goth girl will not even be remotely interested in you unless you are also a Goth. A chav of the female variety wouldn't be interested in someone with an IQ of above 50, or an interest in doing anything other than laughing at the 'nerds' who invented their mobile phones and the alcohol they drink. I should know, I used to date one a few years back. And when I stopped being a d**k and started making something of my life, she pretty much stopped every contact.
So look at what stereotype you fit into, (if you're thinking 'I don't fit into one', you're most likely just unpopular that is also a stereotype. If you're good looking, this is probably the best stereotype to be in, because you don't have to keep up your appearance in the same way the ladies have to keep up their appearance by looking slutty, and if you do something that would otherwise cause you to loose all your friends and become the laughing stock of the school, most people won't give a s**t because they didn't know you in the first place.) And do what the guys who are getting girls are doing. If you're after an emo chick, wear clothing associated with this stereotype and get your hair fixed into an emo fringe. Your natural bone structure and skin complexion is very important, but the clothes and hairstyle that complete your appearance are what will make her have an interest in you.
Summary: Find the stereotype the sort of girl you like fits into, and join that stereotype.
There's no such thing as 'being yourself'. Remember that kid at the back of the class who would always smell really bad and not have any friends? He didn't care what anyone else thought. He was being himself. If you want to survive in the dating world until you're an adult, you'd better be ready to become what you had no interest in becoming otherwise. If you can't beat them, join them.
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Welcome to Alvin-Dennis!
Located in Historic Downtown
is owned by Alvin L. Carter. Our specialty clothing store carries traditional clothing for men and women.
We have been serving Washington and Lee University, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington and Rockbridge County
Communities Since 1963.
We pride ourselves on providing customers
with quality products and personal service. You can order from us over the phone, or visit our store. We take
pride in selecting our products, and hope that you will find something you like. We also special order items and hope
we can assist you in your clothing needs. We look forward to hearing from you and conducting business with you.
-Alvin Carter-
W&L Colonnade
and Lee Chapel
Ties $85 Bows $60
Made by Peter-Blair Ties
Green, Yellow and Light Blue
Hunter Boots
Original Tall $145
Navy, Green,
VMI Bracelets
made with
Uniform buttons
Scott McClintock
Employee Scott McClintock
Designer of the Alvin-Dennis
Alvin-Dennis short sleeve T-shirts $20
Alvin-Dennis T-shirts
White or Burgundy
Check out the photo albums!!!
Sub-menus of the Home page
102 W. Washington St.* Lexington, VA 24450*
540-463-5383 Monday-Friday 9-5:00
Saturday 9-5:00
Summer Hours Monday-Sat. 9-5:00
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This privacy policy describes the personal information that we, Smile Baby Shop and our subsidiaries and brands (collectively, "Smile Baby," "we," "us" and "our") collect about you, why we collect it, how we use it, and when we share it with third parties.
This privacy policy covers our our website. Our policy also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use your information.
Our Policy
If our information practices change, we will post an updated policy on our website. You can tell if the policy has changed by checking the "last reviewed" date that appears above. In the case of any substantive changes that affect how we handle or share personally identifiable information, we will give notice of the changes by posting the amended policy on the websites at least thirty days before the effective date of the change. If you have provided us with your email address, we will also notify you of any such substantive change by sending an email at least thirty days before the effective date of the change to the email address you most recently provided to us. We encourage you to keep the email address you provide to us current, and to promptly notify us of any changes to your email address, so that you may receive any notices we send to you regarding substantive changes to this privacy policy. If you do not agree to the new terms, you should stop using the websites or otherwise providing information to us. Otherwise, the new terms will take effect after thirty days.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us as described in the section entitled, "How do I contact you?" below.
- What information do we gather about you?
- How do we gather information?
- How do we use your information?
- Do we share your information?
- How do I access or change my information?
- How do I make choices about receiving promotional communications?
- How do we protect kids' privacy?
- How do we use browser and mobile-based cookies and other tracking technologies?
- How is my information used for behavioral or targeted advertising and what choices do I have?
- What if I share content on your websites?
- How do I know my personal information is secure?
- How do I contact you?
- Your California Privacy Rights?
What information do we gather about you?
We collect information directly from you. The following are a few examples of when we collect information from you:
We also collect information from you passively. We may use tracking tools like browser cookies, flash cookies, pixels, and web beacons. Please see "How do we use browser and mobile-based cookies and other tracking technologies?" for more information.
We also collect information about the device you use to access our websites , such as your computer's or model device's internet protocol address ("IP address"), your browser type, your operating system, media access control address ("MAC address"), received signal strength indicator ("RSSI"), and other technical information.
We may combine all of this information with information about you that we acquire from your activities in our stores, on our site, and/or information we receive from our joint marketing partners and unrelated third parties.
How do we gather information?
We collect information directly from you. The following are a few examples of when we collect information from you:
- During website or account registration
- In connection with an online
- If you upload or share a photo or other digital content through one of our websites
- If you enroll in our Rewarding MomentsTM loyalty program
- If you participate in a sweepstakes, contest, or promotion
- If you return a product or use a rebate
- In connection with your interactions with us as a registered user of our websites (for example, when you use the wish-list or "my hearts" feature)
We also collect information from you passively. We may use tracking tools like browser cookies, flash cookies, pixels, and web beacons. Please see "How do we use browser and mobile-based cookies and other tracking technologies?" for more information.
How do we use your information?
We may use your personal information in the following ways:
- To process and fulfill your order, including to send you emails to confirm your order status and shipment
- To communicate with you and to send you information by email, postal mail, telephone, text message, or other means about our products, services, contests, and promotions, unless you have directed us not to contact you with promotional communications
- To administer and fulfill our contests and other promotions
- To help us better understand your shopping needs and preferences and provide consistent, personalized services and experiences across our brands
- To help us address problems with and improve our site design, products and services
- To enhance your shopping experience
- To analyze trends and statistics
- To protect the security or integrity of our websites and our business
- To contact you if necessary
You always have the choice not to receive marketing information or calls. For instructions on opting out, please see the section entitled, "How do I make choices about receiving promotional communications?" below.
Do we share your information?
All information we collect about you may be shared with our affiliates and subsidiaries.
We may also share information about you with unaffiliated third parties for purposes of providing services to us. For example, when you complete a purchase, we may share information about you and your purchase with other companies for the purpose of processing your transaction and order processing and fulfillment. We may share your information with our other service providers who collect, manage, and analyze our customer information on our behalf and perform services on our behalf, such as sending promotions and other communications and conducting contests and surveys.
We may share information about you if necessary, in our good faith judgment, to comply with laws or regulations or in response to a valid subpoena, order, or government request, or to protect the rights of Smile Baby or others.
In the unlikely event of a sale or merger of Smile Baby Shop or any of our businesses, our customers' personal information and other information we have collected as described in this privacy policy may be among the transferred business assets.
How do I access or change my information?
You can review and change certain personal information related to your use of our online sites (such as your name and contact information). To access your information at a Smile Baby website, simply sign in to your account using your login and password, and you will be able to edit your personal information in your account profile.
You can also ask us to update your personal information by contacting us as described in the section entitled, "How do I contact you?" below. Please note that any request to update your personal information may take up to 10 days for your email request and 6-8 weeks for your postal mail request.
How do I make choices about receiving promotional communications?
We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. If you prefer not to receive promotional information, such as information about special offers and sales events, from one or more of our brands, you can let us know by contacting our customer service as described in the section entitled, "How do I contact you?" below or you can click on the self-service unsubscribe.
If contacting customer service, please be sure to include your full name and the email address you used when you registered with or made a purchase from us. If you ask us to remove your name and address from promotional lists, we will maintain your name in a "do not contact" file to ensure that we can honor your request. It may take up to 10 days to process your email request and 6-8 weeks to process your postal mail request, during which period you may continue to receive communications from us.
If you change your mind, you can start receiving promotional communications from us again by logging into your online account and changing your preferences, by signing up when you visit our websites or our stores or when you enter a sweepstakes or contest, or by contacting customer service.
Please note that when you make an online purchase from us, we will continue to confirm your order status and shipment by email. We may also need to contact you via telephone, email, or postal mail with questions or information regarding your order.
How do we protect kids' privacy?
We are concerned about the privacy and safety of children when they use the internet. We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information online from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. Our websites are general audience sites and are not targeted to or intended for use by children. However, if we learn that we have received information from a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information from our database.
How do we use browser and mobile-based cookies and other tracking technologies?
Our websites use cookies, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies, to help enable you to shop on our websites and may be used in a variety of ways to enhance or personalize your online browsing and shopping experience. These technologies may also be used to determine the ads you see on our sites and also on other sites. For information about targeted online advertising and your choices related to it please see the next section.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept it. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to access your account information or make purchases on our websites.
Cookies, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies help us better understand your shopping needs and preferences tell us which parts of our website you have visited and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of our advertisements, and provide consistent and personalized services and experiences.
These technologies may be used to collect "click-stream data," which includes information about your visit, including the pages you view, the features you use, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with the sites and our online ads.
Pixel tags in our emails may be used to track your interactions with those messages, such as when you receive, open, or click a link in an email message from us.
We may combine the information we collect through these technologies with other information we have collected from and about you and use it as described in this policy.
How is my information used for behavioral or targeted advertising and what choices do I have?
We use cookies to help determine which of our ads are shown to you on other websites. To opt out of this targeted online advertising by Smile Baby that utilizes our cookies, please click here.
We also work with third-party companies that use their tracking technologies (including cookies and pixel tags) on our websites in order to provide tailored advertisements on our behalf and on behalf of other advertisers across the internet. These companies may collect information about your activity on our sites and your interaction with our advertising and other communications and use this information to determine which ads you see on third-party websites and applications. For more information about this practice and to understand your options including how to opt out of receiving these tailored advertisements, please visit http://www.aboutads.info.
Please note that even if you opt-out, these tracking technologies may still collect data and you will still see ads, but they will not be targeted based upon the information collected through these tracking technologies.
What if I share content on your websites
If you choose to share certain content on our websites, such as pictures, Smile Baby will receive information about you and you will be bound by our "User-Generated Content Terms and Conditions," which can be found here. As such, we encourage you to review these terms whenever you share content on our websites. If you do not wish us to receive this information, you should share content on our websites.
How do I know my personal information is secure?
We do our best to provide you with a safe and convenient shopping experience. We have in place certain physical, electronic, contractual, and managerial safeguards to help protect the security and privacy of your personal information.
When you enter your personal information on our websites, we use encryption technology to protect your information as it is transmitted to us.
If for any reason you cannot access the secure server, or if you're not quite comfortable shopping online at any of our websites, please feel free to place your order with us by telephone at the number listed in the section entitled, "How do I contact you?", below.
How do I contact you?
For questions about our privacy policy, to make choices about receiving promotional communications, or to update your personal information you can contact us by email, at firstname.lastname@example.com, by telephone at 647-875-4420, or by dropping us a note at Smile Baby Consumer Affairs, 07-1215 Meyerside Dr , Mississauga , ON L5T 1H3 , Canada.
Your California Privacy Rights?
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of Smile Baby who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at Smile Baby Consumer Affairs, 07-1215 Meyerside Dr , Mississauga , ON L5T 1H3 , Canada.
California Do Not Track Disclosure
Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals. For information about Do Not Track, please visit: www.allaboutdnt.org. As described above, we deploy cookies, tracking pixels, web beacons and other technologies on our websites. . Those tools may be used by us to collect information about you and your internet activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal.


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I received this email from a young lady today in desperate need of a home or foster for her aging thoroughbred. If there is anyone in the South Texas area that could help this woman please contact me for her personal information.
Come on horse lovers. I need your help.
Early Hajji 23 yr old grey TB, good shape, thinning pasterns/light riding only. Pending legal costs with ex spouse mean I can no longer afford to maintain him after 13 years of ownership. Scheduled for euthanization Aug 30.
Desperately looking for alternatives before that date. If you can help, please call/email.
You can contact Donna Keen at Remember Me Rescue by calling 817-689-1214 or email at email@example.com
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
26 Year Old Horse, Rescue Update
On May 18th a skinny old grey thoroughbred was donated to our rescue program. He was severely underweight, drastically needed teeth work, and his hooves were actually starting to turn loose from his hoof wall. When his tail was lifted his anus was over a foot inside of him and his eyes were sunken into his head.
His owner said he bought the horse he called Sunny from a horse trader 8 years ago and he though he was about 15 years old. He said he couldn't afford to buy special feed for him anymore and that he had lost several hundred pounds in the last few months. He had tried to donate him to other rescues but with no luck. Then he informed me we were his last stop before heading to the public horse auction. A terrible ending for any horse story.
This big skinny horse had a bright eye despite his skeleton like appearance. I knew he didn't want to die and if he had any chance at all of making it I was going to give him every opportunity.
I offered him a flake of timothy hay only to notice Sunny had to picking up, chew, spit it out, and repeat this process several times before he could swallow a single bite but. Nearly in tears I made a phone call to Dr Gene White of Diamond W Equine. He drove through 6 o'clock Ft Worth traffic to work on his teeth that evening. It appeared he had been kicked in the mouth at some point in his life rearranging his front teeth and causing one of them to grow straight out like a tusk, which we pulled. The bottom molars had grown into the top gum where teeth were missing and completely prevented normal chewing. The old grey gelding fought us through his tranquilizer from the pain.
The next day I started attempting to research his tattoo. With help from Andrew at the Jockey Club we found him. He was 26 year old Yeah Me Do. I posted about him on the Alex Brown Forum and was contacted by people who knew Yammi and soon after was contacted by his breeder who wants to visit his old friend soon. His breeder lost track of him after he was claimed in California back in the 80's. Years after the claim he was told Yammi was dead by the trainer who had claimed him. He was so thankful to hear of his rescue.
In less than three months Yammi has fully and miraculously recovered. He is fat and healthy, his feet have grown out enough that he is out of danger of loosing them and we have even started riding him a little, bridle-less of course.
For more updates on our other rescues or to donate to the care of horses like Yammi please visit Remember Me Racehorse Rescue at www.teamkeen.com.
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