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Description of Optical Path
The fore-optics comprise the following elements:
- Entrance window
- Pick-off mirror
- Entrance fold mirror
- Offner relay (primary and secondary mirrors)
- Exit fold mirror
- Filter wheels
The entrance window also acts as a weak lens, in order to ensure that the telescope secondary is imaged on the Offner secondary mirror, which is where the cold stop is placed.
The pick-off mirror acts as a crude field stop, defining the field accessible to the spectrograph. Light from the rest of the instrument field (roughly 3 arcminutes diameter) is available in principle to the OIWFS. The unvignetted field defined by the pick-off mirror is basically a 10 x 100 arcsecond strip with a superposed half circular field 15 arcseconds in radius centered on the optical axis, as shown schematically below:.
The purpose of the semi-circle is to provide a somewhat larger field for target acquisition and identification, while at the same time allowing use of guide stars close to targets of interest. The pick-off mirror is tilted at 45 degrees, and is therefore exactly at the telescope focus only in the center of the slit. The mirror widens away from its center to ensure that the spectrograph field is unvignetted. The field available for guiding is discussed in section 2.1.3.
The Offner relay serves two functions: it produces an image of the telescope secondary on the Offner secondary, where a cold stop is located, and it re-images the telescope focal plane onto the spectrograph slit. The scale at the slit is the same as at the telescope focal plane.
The spectrograph contains two filter wheels. Each wheel can accommodate 9 filters, in addition to an "open" position. The first wheel uses several of the positions for focus masks, a dark position, and a lens used to view the telescope pupil during alignment (see below). These can be used in series with filters in the second wheel. The remaining positions in the first wheel can be used for back-up filters.
The current filter complement for the instrument is listed on the GNIRS filters page. The filters are slightly tilted (2.7 degrees) to reduce ghost images; this is also why the filters precede the slit.
Because the filters are located in a converging beam, they all have the same optical thickness in order to avoid refocusing the telescope each time a filter is changed. This also ensures that filter changes keep the object centered on the slit. Any user-supplied filters must have the same thickness (equivalent to 3 mm of BK7) in order to operate properly.
Spectrograph optics
The spectrograph entrance slit is defined by two mechanisms. The width of the slit is defined by the one of several slits in a photo-etched mask located in the slit slide, while the length of the slit is defined by one of several openings in the decker slide. The integral field unit (IFU) is also mounted in the slit slide; there is a location for a second IFU unit, currently occupied by a dummy module of similar mass.
The slit mask is located at the re-imaged focal plane, while the decker apertures are slightly ahead of it, and therefore somewhat out of focus (by a few pixels). The decker sizes are matched to the full width of the array in long slit mode, or to the minimum spacing between adjacent spectra when the prisms are used. The slit mask in the instrument can be changed, although it should not be considered a routine operation. The slit widths and lengths currently available are listed on the GNIRS slit properties page.
In addition, the slit slide can be positioned to use the integral field unit or to use the pupil viewer; for the latter a second lens is placed in the beam (used in series with the lens in filter wheel 1).
The next element after the slit and decker is the collimator, an off-axis paraboloid of 1500 mm focal length. The collimator mount includes a system of adjustable weights, which provide partial compensation for internal flexure in the instrument. This is a passive system, where gravity acts on a set of weights and levers to tilt the mirror slightly with varying orientation of the instrument. The largest corrective tilt of the mirror is less than 7 arcseconds.
After the collimator, a mirror can be inserted in the beam to direct the light into the spectrograph cameras, without being dispersed. This acquisition mirror allows the observer to identify, acquire, or re-center objects via broadband imaging, without the need to alter grating and prism tilts. This facilitates prolonged observing sequences on faint objects, since the dispersive settings remain stable even while target positions are checked.
If the acquisition mirror is out of the beam, light goes from the collimator to the prism turret. The prism turret has four possible positions.
- The mirror is used for work beyond 3um, or when one wants to work long-slit at shorter wavelengths.
- The two cross-dispersion prisms provide a cross-dispersed low resolution spectrum over the approximate range 0.9-2.4um, where the two prisms are matched to the two pixel scales produced by the cameras. A complete spectrum is produced at a resolution of ~1700 (2 pixels); use of higher spectral resolution results in more or less parallel portions of multiple orders but not a complete spectrum.
- The Wollaston prism separates the two linear polarization components of the light, and is usable through the L band. Because there is substantial internal polarization in the spectrograph itself, the Wollaston prism configurations must be used with GPOL on the telescope's up-looking port. Note that currently there are no plans to commission the polarization mode.
From the prism turret, light goes to the grating turret. The grating turret contains three gratings. All three gratings are blazed for 6.8um (first order Littrow), which provides an effective first order blaze wavelength of 6.6um in the configuration actually used (scattering angle of 27 degrees).
The different orders of the gratings then correspond fairly well to the atmospheric windows at 5, 3.5, 2.2, 1.6 and 1.2 um for orders 1 through 5 respectively; the order-sorting filters cover the free spectral range of the individual orders, with some allowance for filter roll-off. A filter for order 6 is also supplied; the orders above 5 don't match the atmosphere particularly well.
The resolutions provided by the gratings are tabulated on the GNIRS gratings page. The values given are with the gratings operated at the blaze peak. Tilts to longer wavelength provide somewhat higher resolution, while tilts to shorter wavelengths provide lower resolution. (The resolution in wavelength units is nearly constant for a given order, regardless of tilt.)
The quoted resolutions are all for 2 pixels at the detector, specified as l/Dl. The detector is 1024 x 1024 pixels, so there are roughly 512 resolution elements in the dispersion direction. For the R=1700 mode, this corresponds to coverage Dl/l of roughly 30%.
From the grating turret, light then passes to the camera turret. The camera turret contains four cameras.
The blue cameras will not work at longer wavelengths; the red cameras can be used at shorter wavelengths, but with somewhat degraded image quality and transmission. The main short wavelength use of the red cameras below 3um is for acquisition of targets in the K band (order-sorter 3).
All four cameras are close to parfocal; the longer focal lengths are achieved by folding the beam with a combination of mirrors in the camera barrel and external to the turret. The light path shown in the schematic diagram if for one of the long cameras, so one can see the folded light path.
The detector is mounted at the output of the cameras, on a focus stage. The focus stage provides correction for the small focus differences between the different cameras (and potentially other small focus changes produced by other changes in configuration). The detector is a 1K x 1K ALADDIN III InSb array, which is operated at a temperature of approximately 31K.
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One of the more subtle yet potentially frustrating changes in iOS 7.1 is how the state of the shift key is displayed. Not only isn't it intuitively obvious which state the shift key is in — lowercase, Upper Case, or CAPS LOCK — but it can be downright counter-intuitive to the point that you find yourself uncertain and guessing wrong more often than not. Granted, it could be a lot worse but it could also be a lot better. If you've installed iOS 7.1 and you're having trouble figuring out the shift key on your iPhone or iPad, here's a quick reference. (Share it with your friends. All your friends.)
How to tell lower case, Upper Case, and CAPS LOCK mode on iOS 7.1
- If the background is dark gray and the arrow is white, you're in lower case mode.
- If the background is white and the arrow is black, you're in Upper case mode.
- If the background is white and the arrow is dark, and there's a horizontal line beneath the arrow, you're in ALL CAPS mode.
I've been using iOS 7.1 since the first day of the first beta and while the implementation has changed considerably once and a while I still glance at it and can't remember immediately which state I'm in. Once you've had a chance to use iOS 7.1 a while let me know — how do you find the shift key?


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When I think of Valentine's Day, I think of greeting cards emblazoned with hearts, chocolates, and romantic dinners with a date. Chances are, corporate social responsibility would not be a topic for the evening. However, this year I can't help but think of the story of a company who had a very special Valentine's Day gift for its employees. This company realized that many of its workers in Mexico could not afford the costs of getting married. So, they started an annual Valentine's Day wedding party, hosting the ceremony and covering many of the costs for them, allowing their workers to marry their loved ones in dignity. Beyond the wedding party, the company also provides preventative health care and training and development opportunities, including subsidizing more than 2,300 employees to obtain master's degrees and other formal education. Additionally, they made a commitment to renewable energy by installing the largest rooftop solar facility in Latin America. The reason they did all these things these things was that they decided that investing in their workers and protecting the environment matched their corporate values. The company is Plantronics, and it is one of three U.S. companies (and the first-ever medium-sized company), which were chosen to receive the Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) this year.
The ACE is awarded to U.S. companies which have set examples of American leadership through their good corporate citizenship abroad. Over the past year, I became intimately familiar with these companies and their best practices regarding sustainable development, respect for human and labor rights, and environmental protection in their overseas operations. In Cameroon, Taylor Guitars, one of the world's leading guitar makers, stepped up to address a pressing environmental challenge– the serious depletion of biodiversity and other natural resources. Recognizing that the ebony wood trade in Africa has significantly diminished the supply of this beautiful tree, the company bought a mill in Cameroon and fundamentally changed the entire ebony trade. Ebony harvesters historically used only pure black ebony logs and left the multi-colored logs on the forest floor. Taylor, however, decided to make its most high-end guitars, used by famous musicians around the world, with multi-colored ebony. By actively increasing consumer awareness, they were able to change the market itself and simultaneously conserve Cameroon's ebony. They did so while raising the wages of local employees, advocating legal and policy reforms to improve the permitting process around the ebony trade, and protecting the environment and the rights of other forest users.
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Red Sox close deal for Bailey
Bullpen is bolstered as Reddick goes to Athletics in trade
Andrew Bailey grew up in New Jersey, went to college in New York City, and now lives in Connecticut. But a player who grew up following the heated rivalry between the Red Sox and Yankees was hidden away in Oakland, pitching before acres of empty seats.
Now he gets his chance to join the fun. The Red Sox obtained Bailey and outfielder Ryan Sweeney yesterday, sending the Athletics outfielder Josh Reddick and two Single A prospects.
Meet your new closer. Bailey is a 27-year-old who in three seasons has twice been an All-Star and has converted 86 percent of his save chances.
During a conference call last night, Bailey said several times how excited he was to be joining the Red Sox.
"I think every kid playing tee-ball out there strives to pitch in the postseason and meaningful games in September and ultimately the World Series,'' he said. "I'm going to welcome that with open arms. There is nothing like the atmosphere of running in from the bullpen at Fenway Park.''
In Bailey and righthander Mark Melancon, who was obtained from Houston two weeks ago, Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington has obtained two young, cost-effective late-inning relievers without giving up any top prospects.
"Andrew's a proven, top-quality closer in the American League,'' said Cherington. "He's done it for three years and had a lot of success. He's converted a very high percentage of his opportunities. We really like his makeup for Boston.
"He can fit very well into our team and into our clubhouse.''
Bailey has 75 career saves, a 2.07 earned run average, and a 0.95 WHIP. He has 174 strikeouts in 174 career innings.
Bailey had a rough 2011. He strained his forearm in spring training and did not come off the disabled list until May 29. He had a 1.85 ERA through Aug. 9 before allowing 11 earned runs in the 13 games that followed.
There are health issues. Bailey had Tommy John elbow surgery in 2005 while at Wagner College. He also had an elbow procedure in September 2010 and offseason knee surgery in 2009.
"We had a chance to look into Bailey's medical history and get to know a lot more about what he's gone through,'' Cherington said. "We're very confident that he will come into camp ready to go.''
"I'm feeling good,'' said Bailey. "This is the first healthy offseason I've had since I've been in the big leagues.
"I've been able to get after it from day one. Knock on wood, I'm healthy and strong.''
Oakland executives also had concerns about Bailey's weight, as he was over 250 pounds at times last season.
But the Red Sox needed a closer, and Bailey came at a far cheaper price than any of the free agents on the market. He is arbitration-eligible for the first time and stands to make approximately $3.5 million.
The deal had its roots in July when the Red Sox nearly obtained righthander Rich Harden from Oakland. Bailey's name came up then.
"It appeared Oakland would make him available this offseason based on the things they were doing,'' Cherington said. "We had a pretty consistent conversation with Oakland for several weeks now.''
One of the people who endorsed Bailey was new manager Bobby Valentine. The two have appeared at charity events together in Connecticut.
"Bobby and I are good friends,'' Bailey said. "Bobby and I have a good relationship. He's excited to have me on board and I'm excited to be there for him. We're both looking forward to it. It helps knowing someone going in.''
Bailey knows the stakes will be higher in Boston than Oakland. But he is confident in his ability.
"I'm not going to blow it by you at 98, 99 - I'm not that type of guy,'' he said. "I usually sit in the low 90s and rely on control and getting ahead of guys.
"There's a motto I live by - it's 'strike one is the best pitch in baseball.' If you stick with that, you'll be fine.
"Obviously, pitching - and closing, for that matter - is bigger in Boston. But I'll be fine with that.''
Reddick hit .280 with 7 home runs and 28 RBIs in 87 games last season. But he fell out of favor late in the year, the organization weary of his lack of discipline at the plate. The Sox also included first baseman Miles Head and righthander Raul Alcantara in the deal.
Head hit 22 home runs last season. Alcantara, 19, has a 2.72 ERA over two seasons.
Sweeney, who turns 27 in February, is a fourth outfielder type. He hit .265 with 1 homer and 25 RBIs in 299 plate appearances last season.
The Red Sox see the lefthanded-hitting Sweeney as an option in right field, believing his opposite-field approach at the plate and strong defensive skills will play well at Fenway Park.
"He's a guy we tried to acquire in the past, and think he fits well with our team,'' said Cherington. "So he'll be a big part of our outfield mix.''
The Red Sox also will have Ryan Kalish, Darnell McDonald, and Mike Aviles in camp as outfield options.
The acquisition of Bailey furthers cements the team's plan to shift Daniel Bard from the bullpen to the rotation.
"Bard is going to prepare for spring training as a starter, and we want to give him every chance to do that,'' said Cherington. "We just need to see how things go in spring training. We believe he can do it.''
The likelihood of Bard starting probably means the Sox will keep Alfredo Aceves in the bullpen. Using two converted relievers in the rotation would a difficult proposition. Cherington said the team remains interested in obtaining another starter.
"We haven't found one yet where we feel like the acquisition cost is the right one,'' he said. "That doesn't mean that it won't come. It just hasn't come yet.
"I do think our situation has been one where we can afford to be a little bit patient in the starting pitching market because of what we have at the front of the rotation.''
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Clarkson University's academic programs and the educational experience span boundaries and vary widely in content. At the heart of the institution's educational and operational processes are fundamental goals and values that define a common experience that shapes the growth of every Clarkson student. The University has articled its mission, vision and values and through its strategic planning process, uses these statements of purpose and identity to evaluate and affirm Clarkson's ongoing direction and evolution to excellence.


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The Cell Phone Rings Thrice for Trolltech
More Phonemakers Adopt Linux, Qtopia; 3G Device On Way
Beyond the announcement of Motorola's A760 smartphone last month, Qtopia-maker Trolltech has inked deals with three more manufacturers for Linux-based phones.
Trolltech isn't naming all the names just yet, but all three of Trolltech's new partners are Asian-based consumer electronics firms, and one of the forthcoming phones is for 3G networks, said Trolltech CEO Haarvard Nord. Nord also confirmed that at least one Linux phone will be released in North America during 2004.
In an interview with LinuxPlanet, Nord revealed that he signed the three Linux phone pacts during a recent two-week road trip to Asia.
Officially unveiled on October 31, the Motorola phone is decked out with bells and whistles that include a digital camera, Bluetooth, a video player, and an MP3 player. At this point, however, the A760 is only shipping to Asia.
The A760 runs embedded Linux in conjunction with Qtopia Phone Edition, a new application environment that uses the same kernel and libraries as Trolltech's Qtopia environment for PC desktops. Only the user interfaces (UIs) are different, according to Nord.
Citing NDA agreements, Nord declined to specifically identify the three Asian phonemakers that have signed on to use Qtopia Phone Edition.
In an earlier interview with LinuxPlanet, David Kipping, Trolltech's director of business development, noted that FoxCon has already announced a Linux smartphone that will use Qtopia. Several Asian-based companies have already unveiled broader plans to produce Linux phones, including Samsung, NEC, and CECT. FoxCon's phone is due out during the first quarter of next year.
In Nord's opinion, the North American smartphone market is about to step beyond its traditional "monochome, text-based" limitations. Carriers, he contended, are now well on their way toward solving wireless bandwidth issues, through an ongoing series of network upgrades.
At this point, interoperability is the major remaining challenge, according to Nord. One big reason why North America lags in smartphone adoption is the fact that wireless networks sprang up on this continent earlier than in Asia or Europe.
"The wave of innovation in Asia is now starting to hit the US. Two-and-a-half years ago, you didn't really see anyone in this country using a cell phone as a camera. Today, this is happening more and more. Still, though, we need phone technology that's more plug-and-play. The other day, I used a camera phone to take a picture. However, when I tried to send it over one wireless network to someone on another wireless network, this turned out to be impossible," he illustrated.
"It's only recently that you've been able to 'SMS' between different carriers in the US. This has held up SMS adoption here." Yet carriers will move much more quickly to the MMS multimedia messaging standard, he predicted. "Soon, there will be MMS everywhere."
Nord affirmed that Trolltech will remain in the PDA market, even though the Norwegian-based company perceives much greater market potential on the smartphone side. Long before last month's Motorola announcement, Trolltech's development environment had already appeared in Sharp's Zaurus PDA. Royal is another PDA customer for Trolltech.
Cell phones are way ahead of PDAs in terms of sheer numbers, Nord pointed out. "Also, manufacturers see Microsoft has having a firm grip on the PDA market."
Until recently, the cell phone market has been characterized by "proprietary OS, with very little opportunity for third-party development," he acknowledged. Yet now, manufacturers are starting to view Linux as an important development platform. "With Linux, you can get right at the source code," he said. Developers can then use Qtopia to "change the whole user interface, and to add and remove apps."
Linux's KDE desktop environment has included Qtopia from its beginnings. Qtopia applications can run in other Linux desktop environments, too, including Gnome, he observed.
Trolltech is currently working on a contact manager application, said Nord, adding that Trolltech's "synchronization framework" architecture also supports direct synchronization with non-Linux desktops through Microsoft Outlook.
For further down the road, Nord eyes synchronization between Linux smartphones and multivendor servers via SyncML, the emerging synchronization standard that's getting a push from IBM.


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Semi-Skimmed Democracy: Someone once said, "just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you." In the same way, referring dismissively to conspiracy theory doesn't mean there is no conspiracy.
There are different levels of conspiracy, of course. There may not be any aliens in control of our planet - who knows? - but it is a fair bet that there are all sorts of reptilian characters up to no good. Sometimes they meet in rooms. This is, by definition, a conspiracy.


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I'm afraid I can't remember exactly which blogger came up with the expression "Money? Oh that comes from Daddy, doesn't it?" But it's a wonderful encapsulation of the BBC's approach to the whole grubby subject.
BBC broadcasters routinely display both extreme distaste for, and woeful ignorance of, anything to do with making money. They seem to believe it's just there, to be spent on whatever enthusiasm they deem worthy.
And their big bosses- the ones who supposedly have direct responsibility for stewarding £3bn pa of taxpayers' funds- are no better.
This week the Public Accounts Committee reported on the outsourcing contract between the BBC and Siemens Business Service. That's a ten-year deal, signed in 2004, for the provision of a range of technology services provided previously by the BBC's commercial subsidiary BBC Technology.
What the PAC discovered (original NAO Report here) was an approach towards securing value for money that is at best shambolic, and at worst, downright dishonest.
In particular, the deal was originally sold to BBC governors on the basis "that savings were guaranteed at £35.2 million a year". Persuaded by such a large number, the governors agreed it.
But actual savings have turned out to be much less: in the first year they were a mere £22m pa, and it's by no means clear all of them are attributable to the deal itself.
The explanation from BBC executives?
The BBC Group Finance Director said:
"The use of the word "guaranteed" relating to the savings in the documentation put to the governors was inappropriate."
Sorry. Not good enough.
It was either intentionally misleading (ie A LIE), or grossly incompetent.
This is by no means the first instance of BBC execs getting the governors to make major financial decisions on the basis of grossly misleading information. When they approved the White City property deal in 2001, costs totalling £60 million were excluded from the approval submissions.
- The contract with Siemens does not provide for the BBC to share profits if Siemens's return exceeds a specified level- contrary to normal outsourcing practice
- The BBC has chosen not to exercise its rights of open book access to check how profitable the contract is for Siemens- even though they could have, they haven't bothered
- The BBC has been slow to introduce effective management of the contract- they just sort of muddled along
- 60% of the key technology projects commissioned directly from Siemens in the first year of the contract suffered delays or went over budget- Siemens picked up the cost, but the BBC suffered the delays
The BBC- like many other state bodies- simply does not take the stewardship of public money seriously. And the fundamental reason is that unlike commercial businesses, they don't have to earn it from customers.
It just comes from Daddy.
Who confiscates it from taxpayers.
Roll on privatisation (and before that, regular value audits of the BBC by the NAO).
(htp Keith at Telebusillis)


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Store of Yesteryear – T G & Y
August 19, 2008 at 12:14 pm 18 comments
Genea-Bloggers is hosting an event where we think of a store we went to that is no longer in business.
One of the first stores I thought of was one in Memphis called T G & Y. As a kid we always said we were going to the "turtles, girdles & yoyo" store. After a while we actually believed it. I just knew as a kid, Mom would always get us a toy when shopping there. LOL
I googled T G & Y and here is what wikipedia said: "TG&Y was a five and dime, or variety store, chain in the United States. The chain was named for its three founders: Rawdon E. Tomlinson, Enoch L. "Les" Gosselin, and Raymond A. Young. The initials were ordered according to the age of the three, with Tomlinson being the oldest. Founded in 1935, the chain was headquartered in Oklahoma City. At its peak, there were more than 900 stores.
In 2001, the chain filed bankruptcy and eventually all stores were closed. Among consumers, it often had the nickname of "Turtles, Girdles, and Yo-Yos" (alternately: "Tulsa, Garden & Yard"), referring to one of the first stores in which a consumer could get products of various varieties.
In the final years of the chain and as the stores deteriorated in both appearance and cleanliness, shoppers sometimes referred to the chain as "Tacky, Gross and Yucky." It was also known to kids as "Toys, Games, and Yo Yo's."
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Interesting. I went to college in OKC, and sure enough, there was a bit TG&Y right across the street–we furnished our first dorm room from that store. I miss them.
Yepo good ol TG&Y. I used to get my Halloween costume there every year. You know the kind that cane in a box and was a plastic outfit and has a severe tear in it by the time tricke or treating was over.
I remember going to the TG&Y store on Lamar Ave in the 60's. I was in elementary school. On Friday's after school my mom would sometimes take us up there. My brother liked model cars and planes and I usually got paper dolls or coloring books, jacks, Silly Putty etc. Always had to check out the"jewelry". The store was right by the Farmers Market and in front of Rainbow Skating Rink.
We used to have one in ATMORE,AL. We called it TOYS, GAMES AND YOYOS LOL. i DONT KNOW HOW LONG THE STORE WAS THERE. I WAS PRETTY YOUNG I DO KNOW IT WAS STILL THERE IN THE EARLY 80'S WHEN I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
I worked for T.G.&Y. for 13 years… started when I was in high school and stayed with them until things started going down hill. In the town I lived in; St. Cloud, FL, it started out as a 5 & dime and then became a Family Center similar to Target. It was enjoyable to work there and I must say I made friends that I still have to this day… some 30 years later.
I worked for T.G.&Y. for 23 1/2 years. I started in the small variety store in Lakeland, FL, then worked as an office trainer for the district and later the region…then moved to Oklahoma City where I worked at HQ office for the Aim for the Best stores. During the conversion to McCrory…I was on the conversion team for Florida Region. I sure do miss those days…I met a lot of wonderful people and made a lot of friends.
i worked at the T&Y,… St Pete Beach store in Florida.
ended up a DOLLAR TREE STORE…
The largest $ Tree store.
It was a fun trip
Larry in FL.
I worked for T.G.& Y from 1964 to 1970 at which time I was asked to transfer to the Ben Franklin Division to Manage the Crafts and Fabric section , and then transfered back to the Dallas Office and stayed till I left and went with A new Chain as in charge of Operations of Old America Stores which was Art,s and Crafts.
i worked for t.g.&y. stores in the 60's and 70's as a store manager in the tulsa, area. what a great compny!!!!
i use to work tgy i was there for six years it was in muskogee in the mall. it was in the early 80s . did i did every thing there. it had become aim at the time i was there. had good managers.
I am trying to locate bob turner,vp main office at time of shut down..I was vp of Dallas div. Anyone that worked with or in my div. Would like yo hear from you..
My first job was at the T.G.& Y in Lakeland Fl. in 1979. I worked there in the back office for 6 years until it closed. I loved that job! I woke up yesterday thinking about it – remembered everyone's name I worked with! It was a great store.
Laura, I remember that store. Actually, my first job was at the small store in Lakeland…I started in 1969 as a cashier. Later on, I worked in the office and then I started working for the District Manager as an office trainer. I helped with the training of personnel in the new family center in Lakeland. Later on, I went to the Regional Office and then Headquarters. It was the best job I had, ever!
Joyce or Laura, can you tell me where the store was in Lakeland, FL? I remember it being at Market Square with Winn Dixie at the corner of Griffin & 98N in the mid '80s. Do you recall it being anywhere else in that area?
Yes, the small store was located down the street, still on 98 (just south of the family center location) in the shopping center between Hwy 98 and N FL Ave., near Calvary Baptist Church. Winn Dixie was in the shopping center along with a beauty shop and there was a restaurant and a clothing store at the end. There is a car dealer next to the property. Hope this is helpful. The building still exists, I just don't recall the occupants now.
Laura T., Do you recall Pat C. That worked in the Moneyroom?
I feel bad im one reason tg&y went broke I stole a lot of stuff from them in my early teen years from one of there stores in Tulsa Oklahoma………………
T oys G ames & Y ou Name it.
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According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, "candidates" for the club's G.M. role "believed" Philbin would have the call on the roster.
Also, Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald reported that "several" candidates were informed that Philbin would have a role in personnel.
The Dolphins hired Buccaneers director of player personnel Dennis Hickey as general manager on Sunday, ending a search that lasted a little more than two weeks.
Just before the start of the search, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross seemingly defined the G.M's role in a public statement. Said Ross: "The new General Manager will have autonomous responsibility for the 53-man roster and selecting players during the draft and will report to me."
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Google Labs has launched a body browsing Web page, allowing anyone to look up an organ and find it in the human body. Sadly, it's a bit limited.
Today, the search company launched the Google Body Browser, a page that lets you view and search for, in three dimensions, any organ or organ system in the human body. Unfortunately, getting it to work is a bit difficult. Because it uses WebGL, a 3D graphics API that runs within a browser, you must install a beta version of the Google Chrome browser to try it out. After you install the beta, restart your browser and it should work.
"Body Browser is a detailed 3D model of the human body," said Google in the introduction. "You can peel back anatomical layers, zoom
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California Rim fire grows to nearly 150,000 acres, 15 percent contained
TUOLUMNE CITY — UPDATE: Updated stats from CalFire this morning show the blaze at 149,780 acres. Firefighters are gaining some ground: the fire is 15 percent contained. The fire has grown to be the 13th largest in state history, according to Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
A group of neighbors assembled Sunday afternoon in front of Susan Starr's home on Canyon Drive, watching while planes and helicopters assaulted the Rim fire a few miles away as it tried to scale Paper Cabin Ridge.
If the crews win — if the bulldozer lines atop the ridge and the aerial assault stop the flames there — these residents will breathe easier.
If not, resident and former firefighter Mike Sanders said, "I've got a 300-gallon (per minute) pump. I'm going to stay here and ride it out. I wouldn't miss this for anything."
Tuolumne City residents are hoping for the best while bracing for the worst, just as did people in Groveland and Pine Mountain Lake until their evacuation orders were lifted Saturday.
The Rim fire has consumed 143,980 acres since it began Aug. 17 in the Clavey River canyon and quickly jumped the Tuolumne River. It is only about 3,000 acres shy of the Stanislaus National Forest's largest fire on record — the Stanislaus Complex in 1987 — and with only 7 percent containment will certainly surpass it.
More than 3,400 firefighters and other personnel are trying to stop the blaze.
Bulldozer crews cut a wide swath along Paper Cabin Ridge on Saturday — five bulldozer blades in width and visible to the naked eye from the north rim of Tuolumne River's north fork canyon. The fire attacked the ridge in the late afternoon, but the line appeared to hold as the aircraft pounded away with retardant and water.
"The lines are a very effective way of dealing with the fire under our terms," fire spokesman Dick Fleishman said. "The fire needs fuel, and the only way to stop it is to break the fuel cycle."
Should it cross the ridge and burn its way down to Hunter Creek, the north fork canyon would become its next target. Residents of Canyon and Sunrise drives, though, have done this before.
"Once, (authorities) came by with bullhorns, yelling, 'You must leave. You must leave,' " Starr said.
And during the 1987 fire, flames crossed the north fork canyon before being extinguished when they reached Buchanan Road, the main road into the canyon.
"We didn't leave in '87, either," resident Rick Jerome said.
Sunday, though, officials worried about high winds — 25 mph or better — from the southwest that would fan the flames. Evacuation advisories remain in effect for Tuolumne City, the Ponderosa Hills, Soulsbyville and other communities along the Highway 108 corridot. The fire continued to move in a northeasterly direction toward Duckwall Mountain on Sunday.
On the fire's east side, crews are trying to stop it from reaching Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, which is the main power and water source for the city and county of San Francisco and is under a state of emergency.
The fire has burned 15,000 acres of Yosemite National Park. Much of that acreage burned in the 1996 Ackerson fire or from prescribed burns, park spokesman Tom Medema said.
Park officials evacuated White Wolf Lodge and the White Wolf Campgrounds because of the intense smoke, he said. Meanwhile, campgrounds at Yosemite Creek and Tamarack Flat weren't evacuated, but campers won't be allowed in when spaces become available until after the smoke subsides, he said.
"There's no imminent threat," Medema said.
Back in Tuolumne City, fire engines lined the park and were positioned strategically throughout the town in the event that the fire does head that way. And an incident command base took shape on the former West Side Lumber Co. property, now owned by the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians.
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Audi has opened a "digital" showroom on a major Berlin shopping street, part of a shift by luxury carmakers to display vehicles virtually as they move into smaller, pricier city centre locations to woo young affluent buyers.
The showroom, on Berlin's grand Kurfuerstendamm boulevard, is a quarter of the size of a conventional dealership and displays just four models. But it allows time-pressed customers to view and configure cars from Audi's full 49-model line-up on multi-media screens, without having to drive out of town.
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It's a strategy also being embraced by German rivals BMW and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz as, after a six-year European market slump, carmakers overhaul sales practices and look for new ways to attract customers.
"Staging the brand is becoming so much more important," Audi's head of Germany sales, Wayne Griffiths, told Reuters.
The digital showroom, opened on Tuesday, is Volkswagen-owned Audi's third worldwide after openings in London and Beijing, and is close to Apple Inc and BMW stores.
Like its two German rivals, Ingolstadt-based Audi is faced with the challenge of displaying an ever-growing model and technology portfolio in urban centres where space is scarce.
Hence the smaller 375-square-metre showroom and the focus on virtual demonstrations, which are combined with the personal touch of a car dealer and the comfort of a customer lounge.
Audi is attracting 8,000 visitors a week to its digital showroom in Beijing which opened in January 2013, and at the store in London, launched in July 2012, 60 percent of customers are new to the brand, according to Griffiths.
Audi has pledged to overtake BMW as the world's biggest luxury carmaker by the end of the decade and shrank the sales gap with its Munich-based rival to 80,000 cars in 2013 from 85,000 in 2012. BMW outsold third-ranked Mercedes by 193,000 autos last year, compared with 220,000 in 2012.
While Audi still shuns internet-based deals, BMW is selling its new all-electric i3 city car over the Web and will also take online orders on the new i8 electric sports car, due to hit dealerships this spring, spokeswoman Birgit Hiller said.
"We're paying heed to changing buying habits," she said. "Expanding online sales to other models is conceivable, but there are no such plans as yet."
BMW has a series of brand stores in major urban areas such as Paris and New York and employs so-called "product geniuses" to help customers configure models online, Hiller said.
Mercedes-Benz has a goal of more than doubling its approximate 20 urban brand stores by 2020, when it also aims to retake the premium car sales crown from BMW.
The Stuttgart-based carmaker started online sales of compact models through outlets in Germany and Poland last December


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[Verse One: Sean Price]
Botswana, Small time little league playa', Pop Warna'
Rock corners with hot blocks thats drug infested
Supply suppliers my money stay thug invested
No disrespect to Duck Down Records (Waddup)
After this go round a nigga lookin' for the exit, Peace!
Sincerely Pyrex Pot Sean, cook it, cut it and spit it on nahright.com
The Vet earner of stripes ta sket burna'
Tears in my eyes when thinking of Hex Murda (what up Hex)
I don't parlay with the crew nigga
I don't Wale and them new niggas
Hardcore rap and Mary J. Blige records
The god gone snap, I'm waving the 5 reckless
Sean Price the best rapper in Brownsville
Don't know me? By the time this song done you clowns will
[Pre Verse Two]
(hurt sumpin, na' mean
Fuck outta here, grown man rap. I'll get my son to fuck one
Of ya'll young rappers up, word to mother.)
[Verse Two: Sean Price]
Ah where was I, Oh yes
Shawn Carter is nice but Sean Price is the best
Sean gone, no Chandon, Sean is a don, I don't wear Sean John
Army suit blackberry brandy is long johns
Matching cheese tims, you separate weed stems
Weed carrier, bulletproof vest tester
Glock'll spray ya just'a left to Rockaway and Chester
Too old to rap to young to whack, 10 fingers, 2 hands my nigga
The guns clap
I don't like niggas no more
8 figure dreams nigga but the figure is 4
These are words from a thousandaire
Selling crack in the P's disguised in some housing gear
I fucked up somewhere down the line, but I got my shit in order
The crown is mine
One of the most significant Sean Price tracks because of the line
Sean Carter is nice but Sean Price is the best.
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Land/Zoning Administrator Schneider resigns
At its December 18 meeting at the Public Health Building in Sandstone, the Pine County Board of Commissioners accepted the resignation of Land/Zoning Administrator Kurt Schneider. Schneider had tendered his resignation to the County Personnel Committee on December 11. At that time, County Administrator David Minke recommended the board appoint County Engineer Mark LeBrun as temporary supervisor for Land and Zoning. This suggestion was approved by the commissioners at the regular meeting. Administrator Minke will review and revise the job description for land/zoning administrator and present it to the personnel committee in January.
The board considered the purchase of a new Computer Aided Dispatch System and Report Management System (CAD/RMS) for the Pine County Sheriff's Office. Commissioner Stephen Hallan, who was chairing the meeting and who has served on the technology committee for several years, told the board that when the county bought the present system, it was the best that money could buy. But that system is six years old, and that is no longer the case. Problems with the CAD system as stated by the Sheriff's department are: 1) The search functionality in the CAD system is cumbersome, 2) the CAD system does not offer dispatch decision support, 3) the CAD system does not integrate very well with the RMS, 4) there is a lack of quality analytical reports, and 5) the CAD is not portable for emergencies. Problems with the RMS include: 1) The RMS is not user-friendly for officers, 2) the system itself is not intuitive, and 3) it does not provide crime mapping or analysis reports. Hallan went on to say that the technology committee can make recommendations, but that the county has no money for a new system. The initial cost for a new system was said to be $80,000 with other payments of $25,000 to be met yearly. Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole told the board that his department could come up with the necessary funds by using several discretionary fund sources. One of those sources would be the gun permit funds, which builds up the fastest, according to Cole. He said that the gun permit funds have to be used for things that benefit the gun permitting process, and that this equipment would be allowable under that defiinition. One of the commissioners asked what would happen to the old data if a new system was incorporated. "That's a good question," Hallan answered. "It's not easy — they can't just hook up and — presto! — put old information into a new system. They don't interface." Progammers would have to take old information and feed it into a new system. Minke said that it makes sense to go to a new system, but there are a few things that need to be put in order before going ahead. Hallan said that the technology committee has spent 1 1/2 years kicking around the question of a new system. "I think we can take a few more weeks to get the facts straight," he added.
The board approved a request by Auditor-Treasurer Cathy Clemmer to increase the publication costs for delinquent property taxes. Currently, the cost collected by the county is $20 per parcel, while the actual publication cost to the county in 2011 was $37.25, and other taxpayers are making up the difference in costs. The board approved an increase from $20 to $35 to more closely recover the actual costs of publication.
The board heard from Tom Paull, a flood mitigation officer. Paull has been working with flood victims in Pine, Aitkin and south Carlton counties since the flooding in the area six months ago. The board approved of Paull's role as flood recovery coordinator, an intermediary between homeowners and the Federal Emergency Management Agency for county residents.
In other business: The board awarded a contract for snow removal for the Pine County Courthouse in Pine City and the John Wright Building in Sandstone to MPJ Enterprises of Sandstone.
The board approved the 2013 salary for county commissioners at $21,208 per year, with a per diem rate per meeting at $75 and a mileage reimbursement at the IRS rate.


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The Centerville Village Center area of the DCPC includes an existing business zoning district and residential parcels including the Main Street National Register Historic District. The DCPC has two purposes: an economic resource district and a cultural, historic, and architectural resource district. The town developed its implementing regulations for the Centerville Village Center area of the DCPC, and the Cape Cod Commission approved those regulations on August 6, 2009.
The Craigville Beach area of the DCPC includes a barrier beach along Nantucket Sound, an estuary system behind it, and freshwater ponds. It encompasses many summer homes and cottages and a former "Christian Camp Meeting" area, which is recognized within a National Register Historic District. The DCPC has five purposes: a natural and ecological resource district; a cultural, historic, and architectural resource district; a hazard district; a wastewater management district; and a waterfront management district. Rather than approved draft implementing regulations for this area of the district, in early September 2009, the Barnstable Town Council voted to have the town manager nominate the district again (see below).
Craigville Beach DCPC -- The Cape Cod Commission accepted the above renomination on October 1, 2009, and the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates redesignated the Craigville Beach DCPC on November 4, 2009. The town revised draft implementing regulations for the Craigville Beach area. The Barnstable Town Council did not adopt the regulations, but the Cape Cod Commission did on October 28, 2010, as did the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates on January 19, 2011.
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE DCPC: Barnstable County Ordinance 09-12
CCC CONTACT: Chief Planner Sharon Rooney
Fertilizer Management DCPC (Cape-wide) - The second Cape-wide DCPC to be designated was the first one nominated by the Cape Cod Commission itself. The Commission proposed the Cape-wide DCPC in response to state legislation that would remove the ability of individual communities to regulate fertilizers. If approved via the DCPC, Cape communities would have an opportunity to adopt local bylaws consistent with the implementing regulations, and town participation would be voluntary.
In July 2013, the Cape Cod Commission accepted for consideration a nomination form proposing a Fertilizer Management District of Critical Planning Concern (DCPC), pursuant to Sections 10 and 11 of the Cape Cod Commission Act. The Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates approved the designation as a county-wide ordinance (Barnstable County Ordinance 13-07) on September 18, 2013.
The Cape Cod Commission subsequently worked with towns and stakeholders to develop the DCPC "implementing regulations" (see below), which are the special rules that promote the purposes for which the DCPC was designated.
The towns of Barnstable, Brewster, Chatham, Eastham, Mashpee, and Provincetown adopted local nitrogen-oriented regulations in Fall 2014. The towns of Falmouth and Orleans had grandfathered nitrogen bylaws. Orleans added phosphorus to its nitrogen bylaw through the DCPC. While there were variations in each local rule, all were deemed consistent with the DCPC by the full Commission.
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE DCPC: Barnstable County Ordinance 13-07
CCC CONTACT: Chief Regulatory Officer Jon Idman


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Ford 7.3L Power Stroke Oil Pan Repair - Problem SolvedPosted in How To: Engine on April 14, 2014
Do you have a 7.3L Power Stroke-powered truck with a rusty, leaking oil pan? If so, welcome to the club. This is a common problem, especially in areas where road salt is used.
The oil pan on our northern Illinois-based '02 Ford F-250 4x4 had this problem. Oil was seeping from the bottom of the pan due to corrosion caused by 13 winters. It had actually been leaking for the past two years, which means we only got 11 years out of it before rot poked holes in it.
We wanted to replace the pan instead of using a kit or material to "repair" it. We were set to purchase a new pan from our local Ford dealer, but didn't relish the thought that the replacement pan would be made of the same material as the old pan, resulting in the same outcome. It was then we stumbled on the cool new oil pan from Moroso.
The Moroso 7.3L oil pan (PN 27336) fits '94-'03 Power Stroke turbodiesel engines, and it's made from quality 16-gauge steel, which is thicker than the factory pan. The pan has a triple coat finishing process of a zinc phosphate that creates a durable finish foundation and also neutralizes any corrosion caused by the welding process during manufacturing. On top of that are a black electrocoat and a gloss black epoxy powdercoat. Moroso says that this process has been fine-tuned from the company's years of oil pan building experience and from this oil pan being subjected to numerous salt spray testing. Compare these finishes to the factory pan only getting a black painted surface on top of its thinner construction, and it becomes clear that the Moroso unit is a vastly superior pan. Other features of the Moroso pan include a dipstick provision; internal OE-style anti-slosh baffle to keep oil contained in the oil pick up area; and a magnetic drain plug.
But that's not all. Moroso also offers an oil pan gasket (PN 27293) for the 7.3L Power Stroke. From the factory, the pan on these engines used a special sealant. The Moroso gasket is constructed from a high-temperature/oil-resistant material with a rigid core and built-in inserts at each bolt hole so the gasket cannot be over tightened. The gasket works with both styles of timing covers used on the 7.3L engine.
We chose to completely remove the engine in our '02 F-250 to install the pan. In the past, we replaced another rusty OE pan on a '99 F-250 by jacking up the engine just enough to remove the oil pan and sump as one unit (at the time, the transmission of said truck was removed for a rebuild, which made the job easier). In the case of this '02 F-250, it had 120,000 miles on the odometer and still was running the factory clutch, so we figured we could knock out both projects at the same time, without spending so much time on our back on the shop floor. In the end, it only took us about five hours to remove the engine and get the new oil pan installed. Along the way, we found rust damage to other components and at press time we were waiting for parts to arrive from our local Ford dealer before we can begin reinstalling the engine. We're anticipating that reinstalling the engine should take slightly longer than disassembly, so we're expecting it to be in the 5-6 hour range.
Here are some highlights of what we found while removing the engine and a detailed look at the Moroso oil pan and gasket.


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Double-dipping -- it's the gravest of party fouls. Well, if you don't count passing out on someone's front lawn, breaking a window or accidentally knocking over an entire bottle of liquor. But, it's up there with the worst things you can do. Dip once, you're good. Dip twice, you get the boot.
But if you've ever been at a party and thought you could sneak in a double-dip, you're not alone. In honor of National Chip and Dip Day, which happens to be Saturday, Tostitos commissioned Ketchum communications agency to conduct a survey about double-dipping. More than 1,000 Americans were asked about their chip-dipping habits.
According to the survey, 32% of women admitted to double-dipping at a party, while 46% of men said they double-dipped. Dudes, what's up with that?
Watching someone double-dip, then dipping after them is another story. Of the people surveyed, 54% said they would not dip after watching another partygoer double-dip, while 22% said they didn't care. A word to that 22%: gross.
After seeing someone double-dip, only 25% of the people surveyed said they would speak up and call the fellow partygoer out on their party foul. No one wants to be a party pooper, but as soon as that bowl of queso turns into a bowl of saliva, someone, please, say something!
There are so many ways to get around double-dipping. Got a big chip? Break it in half, then dig in. Getting the right ratio of dip to chip is important, just dip wisely and keep that salsa spit-free.
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Welcome to the Rodericks Dental privacy notice.
Rodericks respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
You can download a PDF version of this policy here. Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Rodericks collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter or make an enquiry.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children though our websites. See our Privacy notice for Patients here which will apply to data collected about children who are patients of one of our dental practices.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with the Privacy notice for Patients here so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
Rodericks is made up of different legal entities, details of which can be found at www.rodericksdental.co.uk/rodericks-entities/. This privacy notice is issued on behalf of the Rodericks Group so when we mention "Rodericks", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice, we are referring to the relevant company in the Roderick's Group responsible for processing your data. Rodericks Dental Limited (Company number 190237) of 15 Basset Court, Loake Close, Grange Park Northampton NN4 5EZ is the controller and responsible for this website.
We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the Privacy Manager using the details set out below.
Rodericks Dental Limited (Company number 190237)
15 Basset Court,
Loake Close,
Grange Park
Group Solicitor
Email address: email@example.com
Telephone number: 01604 602491
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about patients which is fully explained in our privacy notice for patients here. We may, however, collect personal data about you even if you are not a patient of one our dental practices in any of the following circumstances:
- Responding to invitation to sell your practice
- Seeking information about jobs
- General queries
In these cases the personal information we collect will be limited to only what is strictly necessary to process the purpose for which you have contacted us but this may include:
- Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender; professional qualifications and work history and application forms; right to work in the UK
- Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you without your consent (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences without your consent.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- Contact Form Submission – Acquisitions website Contact Us
- Contact Form Submission – Job Vacancies
- Contact Form Submission – Recruitment website contact us
- Contact Form Submission – Talent Pool
- Contact Form Submission – Acquisitions
- Contact Form Submission – General Contact Us Queries
- Request marketing to be sent to you
- Enter a competition, promotion or survey
- Give us some feedback
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please click here to view our cookie policy for further details.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
- Technical Data from the following parties:
- Analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU
- Advertising networks such as Google based outside the EU
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please Contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
|Type of data
|Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
|To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
|(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
|(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
|To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey
|(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
|(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
|To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
|(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
|(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
|To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
|(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) Technical
|Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
|To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
|(a) Technical
(b) Usage
|Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
|To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
|(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
|Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
If you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
We will not share your personal data with any company outside the Rodericks group of companies for marketing purposes.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by Contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please click here.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please Contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
If you are a patient of one of our dental practices then you can find out about the third parties with whom we may share your personal data by referring to the Privacy notice for Patients here.
If you are not a patient than we will not share your data with any third party without your consent unless such sharing is necessary to process the purpose for which you contacted us – examples include checking your GDC registration if you are a clinician.
We may, however, share your personal data within Rodericks with employees and managers who need to use the same in order to progress the purpose for which you contacted us.
We may have to share your personal data with third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We hold personal data on our computer systems some of which are cloud based. Please refer to our Privacy notice for Patients here which sets out in detail how we secure the personal data which we hold and these processes apply equally to non-patient data.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please Contact us.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within 40 days. Occasionally it may take us longer if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. To download a Subject Access Request please click here.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.