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The Wolfswood is a forest in the North. It is located just north of Winterfell and extends for some three hundred miles north and west to the Bay of Ice. Deepwood Motte is located north-west of Winterfell on the other side of the Wolfswood, close to the Bay of Ice.[1][2]
The area is controlled mostly by House Glover of Deepwood Motte, with their vassals such as House Forrester populating it.[3]
Along the northwestern edge of the Wolfswood lies the largest ironwood forest in Westeros.[4]
Season 1Bran Stark is attacked by wildlings (one of them being Osha) in the Wolfswood, before being rescued by Robb and Theon.[5]
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During the Battle of Winterfell Stannis' army retreats into the Wolfswood, where the Bolton Cavalry pursues and annihilates them.
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Wolfswood is so-named for the numerous wolves that live within its eaves. The forest is settled by crofters, foresters and hunters. House Glover of Deepwood Motte controls much of the territory of the Wolfswood. Sub-vassals of the Glovers who also live in the Wolfswood include House Forrester, House Woods, House Branch, and House Bole. Despite these woodsmen, overall the forest is thinly populated, wild and untamed.
See also
- Wolfswood on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (spoilers from the books)
|Regional Capital(s):
Bear Island · Last Hearth · Karhold · The Dreadfort · Winterfell (Winter town) · Deepwood Motte · Torrhen's Square · Castle Cerwyn · Hornwood · Ramsgate · Widow's Watch · Barrowton · White Harbor · Oldcastle · Moat Cailin · Flint's Finger · Greywater Watch · Rillwater Crossing · Ironrath · Highpoint
The Grey Cliffs · Sea Dragon Point · The Wolfswood · Stony Shore · The Rills · The Barrowlands · Cape Kraken · Lonely Hills · The Neck
|Coastal Areas:
Bay of Ice · Bay of Seals · Blazewater Bay · Saltspear · Ironman's Bay · The Bite
Bear Island · Skagos · Skane
|Rivers and Lakes:
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The self appointed Messiah of Brexit, Nigel Farage, may be back in UK politics. Did he ever leave in the first place...?
Didn't Farage go to America and wanted to make America great again. What's happened to that? Has Trump got bored of him. He hinted he was interested in gaining U.S. citizenship, has that changed?
Farage told John Humphrys on BBC radio this morning he has to "weigh up" what's best for Brexit. Staying in the European parliament or standing as a MP. Is he being altruistic, or is this all about himself?

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Via ferrata Vallon, Piz Boè
Informationen zur Tour Via ferrata Vallon, Piz Boè
Tour Hauptmerkmale
- Duration
- 4:15 h
- Distance
- 7.6km
- Altitude
- 600 m
- Altitude
- 600 m
- Max. height
- 3117 m
Characteristics of the via ferrata: Alpine climb that requires a steady foot in particular in the mountain range near the summit of Piz Boè. In case of fog of fresh snowfall, orientation may become difficult near the Piz Boè.
Difficulty: short via ferrata with steep and difficult mountain sides, however the supports are always wet due to the little cascade nearby.
Access to the via ferrata: from the chair-lift station at 2,357 metres, the route will be well sign-posted to reach the Vallon via ferrata; moreover the path is well marked with red marks.
Technical details: short access, short ferrata, but the climb is long and descent is relatively long. The first stretch of the steel cables is in a bad state; the steep, more difficult sections are well-secured however.
Path type: 100% steel cables, 3 metre-long suspension footbridge.
Complete gradient of the climb: 620 m, 2-3 hours
Complete gradient until the beginning of the via ferrata: 120 m, 30 minutes
Gradient of the ferrata: 100 m, 30 mins-1 hour
Exit from the summit: 400 m, 1:30-2:00 hours; Capanna Piz Fassa is on the summit where there is the possibility to stay overnight.
Descent: from the summit, path n. 638 does not pose any problems. Back to the starting point (directions from the summit), 1:30 hours.
Facing: North-East
Starting point
Target point
Parking near the Crep de Munt cable-car
Public transportation
Public bus from Bolzano or Brunico to Covara or by train from Bolzano to Valle Isarco – Waidbruck, then take the bus to Covara.
Reach Corvara by crossing Passo Gardena from Val Gardena, or if you are coming from Val Pusteria drive through Val Badia.
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Hello Design Dazzle fans! I'm Jen from Bakerette.com where I share daily recipes, gardening tidbits, and a smattering of fun crafts. Thank you, Toni, for having me share a fun craft with you today that I think the whole family will love and that will make a fun summer-time craft with kids. If you're looking to share memories, have a bonding moment, and make a fun craft, too, then this flower-pot craft is for you!
Make your own crafty flower pot with family pictures…OR…just to decorate and have fun. As a mom, I loved having my kids' pictures on the flower pot. It's something I can walk by in the house and look at and reminisce on some fun times. However, the kids loved smattering on as many doo-dads as they could, which also turned out so cute. Some got pretty darn creative. They had fun. And it was a great bonding moment, too!
Here's what you'll need to get started:
- Terra cotta flower pot (any size of choice)
- Acrylic paints (colors of choice)
- Modge podge (matte or shiny)
- 2 foam brushes (size is dependent on size of your pot. A small pot will require a smaller foam brush. A large pot, a larger one.)
- Small family pictures printed out on paper
- Embellishments of any kind
- Paper plates
Paint Your Pot:
Place your flower pot on a paper plate to get ready to paint. I turned mine upside down to paint, but having it right-side up is fine, too. Paint the outside of your pot with your choice of acrylic paint using a foam brush. Dip the foam brush in the paint and stroke it around the pot and not up and down. I painted the lip of the pot one color and the base another, but you can do whatever your heart desires. Apply at least 2-3 coats of paint allowing 15 mins in between to dry.
Add Embellishments and Decorate:
While your pot is drying, work on cutting out your embellishments. I wanted my pictures to be in the shapes of flowers, so I started by taking my pictures and cutting them into circles to make the center of the flower. I made a petal template and traced the desired number of petals I wanted to attach to my pictures. You can do this in any color of paper of your choice. Cut out your pictures and using Modge Podge, paste the petals to the back of the picture in a round. This will create a nice flower. When done, cover the whole back of the petals and picture and adhere anywhere on the pot you'd like.
If you prefer not to use pictures, then take any embellishments you'd like and creatively place them on your pot. Here are a few of the pots some of the kids made without pictures. One made a flying kite. Another took torn pieces of colored paper and wallpapered the pot. Another made it look like a garden with a fence, grass, and butterflies. Another child made a pot for her mom and put "Mom" on it. There are so many endless things you can do to decorate your pots.
Seal With Modge Podge:
Once you've painted and added the embellishments, then take a sponge brush and apply Modge Podge to the whole pot to seal. I would do two coats allowing it to dry in between. Do this by dipping your brush in Modge Podge and with a generous amount, paint it on the pot in the round and not up and down. If you use a shiny Modge Podge, it is even more important that you Modge Podge it in the same direction because your brush marks will be more prominent. Allow to dry an hour or more.
Pot a Plant:
Add a potted plant, or plant a seed and keep it watered, and watch your plant grow through the summer! So darn cute!
Thank you, Toni, for letting me share some summer fun! I'd love it if you stopped by Bakerette.com to say hello! You can also find me on the Web at Pinterest, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter, and Instagram.
– Jen
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So, you have an oval face and want a new look? Matching hairstyles and face shapes can sometimes be hard, but here is a video on how to select the best hairstyle that will flatter your oval face.
You Will Need:
• A mirror
• A hairstylist
Step 1: Determine that your face is oval
Pull your hair away from your face and examine its shape in the mirror. An oval face is narrower at the jaw than at the temples.
Step 2: Decide how short you want your hair to be
Decide how short you want your hair to be. Avoid super-short cuts that add volume to the top of your head. This will make your face look longer.
Step 3: Think about getting bangs and cheek-length layers
Think about getting long bangs and cheek-length layers. These styles will help balance your face.
Step 4: Use an off-center part
Avoid parting your hair in the center. The longer your face, the more off-center your part should be.
Step 5: Talk with your hairstylist
Talk with your hairstylist about the cut you want. Be honest about the amount of time you're willing to spend on daily styling. Work together and you will have the best look for you.
Trivia: The Guinness Record for longest hair belongs to a Chinese woman, whose locks in 2004 were over 18 feet long.
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This Swimming Pool Sits Comfortably In The Countryside Of Portugal
Mario Martins Atelier designed this swimming pool at a home in Portugal, where the design intention was described as "simple with a quiet presence, and where the natural vegetation, of almond and carob trees, typical of the Algarve countryside, predominates."
Photography by Fernando Guerra FG + SG
Casa Brutale, lyrical brutalism
Casa Brutale is a geometrical translation of the landscape. It is an unclad statement on the simplicity and harmony of contemporary architecture. It is a chameleonic living space, created to serve its owner and respect the environment. It is the inverted reference to Casa Malaparte, encased and protected by the tender earth that has hosted the human civilization for millennia. It is a complete study of aesthetics, structure, function and engineering, which thoroughly detailed, awaits solely its realisation.
Casa Brutale is OPA's challenging vision of innovative architecture, where innovation refers to long forgotten terms such as ambience and materiality. Its subtle form allows for the magnificent view and the game of light and shadow to take center stage. The residence is constructed with simple materials: wood, glass and concrete, the convergence of the surrounding earth and water. The landscape is integral to the underlying concept, since elements penetrate and prevail over the construction. The roof of Casa Brutale, a glazed bottom swimming pool, is a continuation of the poetic Aegean Sea and in perfect communication with the vast blue of the Greek sky.
In essential simplicity, Casa Brutale is defined by three thick concrete slabs with all the installations preformed. The crystalline pool, made by reinforced glass, is set between the walls to smoothen the hard materials and let the abundant natural light through, illuminating the residence. The enormous glass façade frames and extracts the beauty of the Aegean. And small details of black-coated steel and brown/red aged wood complete the composition.
In literal groundbreaking integration, Casa Brutale penetrates the landscape. The underground building benefits from a perfect homeostatic mechanism with thermal insulation from the surrounding ground, and the cooling properties of the swimming pool. The optical impact of the building on the landscape is minimal, with only one façade on the cliff side and no volume extruding from the ground level.
Light penetrates the transparent or semi-transparent surfaces of Casa Brutale, bringing it to life. The dynamic light patterns caress the bare concrete with refractions and shadows. Bare concrete, or beton brut, is the finishing technique that gave the name to both brutalism and Casa Brutale. Raw, unpretentious, monolithic, marked by the wooden planks used to mold the casting.
After descending 50 stairs to the Aegean, under the shadows of epic concrete beams, you reach the entrance (also accessible by elevator). The tall, rotating door of aged wood (with the axis at ¾ lengths) opens to a breathtaking sea view, through the glass façade. The remaining space is bare, pure and simple; minimalism at its best. A concrete cast dining table is combined with concrete benches, clad with warm wood. Smooth curves sculpture the fireplace on the wall next to the bench. Behind the dining table, the guest room is formed under an old-fashioned Zoellner slab with a glass corner. Next to the guest room, there is a small passage to the utility rooms (storage room, bathroom and WC).
An inner staircase consists of thin, steel steps that allow the optical continuity from the kitchen to the glass façade. The staircase leads you to the mezzanine floor, where the master bedroom is exposed to the same overpowering vision of the Aegean. The bed is cast of concrete with wood finishing, while the walls are covered with mirror to enhance the play between light and shadows.
Casa Brutale redefines the harmonious coexistence of human and nature in a poetic homage to pure Brutalism.
Farmhouse by A.D.D. Concept + Design
Photography courtesy of A.D.D. Concept + Design
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A Louvered Beach House on the Arabian Sea
Built on a coconut plantation outside of Mumbai, India, on the Arabian Sea, Studio Mumbai's Palmyra House is a place of refuge, not only from the city but also from people (houseguests possibly included). The 3,000-square-foot setup is split into two wooden louvered structures, each constructed using local traditional methods and wood. One building contains the living room, study, and master bedroom; the other houses the kitchen, dining room, and guest bedrooms. And should the occupants be feeling convivial, there's a long, thin pool, perfect for swims together while sharing the expansive views out to the sea.
Photography by Helene Binet via ArchDaily, unless otherwise noted.
Hanway, C. (2015, May 27). Architect Visit: A Louvered Beach House on the Arabian Sea: Remodelista. Retrieved June 3, 2015, from http://www.remodelista.com/posts/architect-visit-a-louvered-beach-house-on-the-arabian-sea-studio-mumbai-palmyra-house
"God's Window"
This new residential dwelling is situated in Swellendam at the door-step of the breathtaking mountains and valleys of Langeberg Mountains – a view so magnificent that the locals have named it "God's Window." It was because of this exquisite setting that simple forms and materials were chosen for the architecture, in order to facilitate a subtle intervention – to "lie gently" on the landscape. The buildings were constructed using largely local textures and materials reminiscent of its distinctly Southern African origins. In addition to the architecture itself, efforts were made to make the house and the land itself more sustainable. For example, the land was cleared of non-native invading species, like the black wattle. Also, all the water used in the house is harvested from the site itself, and as a result there is no connection to the municipal water supply line, making the house self-sustaining from a water perspective.
The buildings that comprise the house, while simple in form and texture, are intentionally oriented on the site to engage the surroundings. The house is composed of three discrete box structures forming three edges of a private courtyard. The largest box form contains the public areas – the entertainment, living, and kitchen spaces. This box, with its glass façade and uplifted roof, opens itself up completely to its surrounding. In contrast, the smaller boxes, flanking to form either side of the courtyard, include the private domains of the bedroom and bathrooms, and on one side, a movie room. These buildings are made of thick masonry walls and concrete roofs, which form cave-like, intimate spaces where one can retreat for solitary quietude. The purposeful orientation of these three buildings as perimeters to a courtyard creates a spatial relationship with the mountains, which, in essence, form the last perimeter of the courtyard. Moreover, the structural and material qualities of these buildings, accentuated even further with the line of the main roof structure ascending towards the sky, is in direct dialogue with "God's Window" – as if the earth were communing with the heavens. (GASS)
GASS, . (n.d.). Swellendam. Retrieved from http://www.gass.co.za/index.php/portfolio/swellendam/16


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I just used up all my exclamation points for the month.
A friend once made me an icon, for unknown reasons. I've given up asking questions about human motivation. This is how it was made:
1. Make a copy of your favorite holy intercessor on a transparency. If you're unsure of your patron saint, there's an app for it.
2. Back the transparency with slightly crumpled aluminum foil.
3. Frame it. This frame is from Ikea.
I'm a little disturbed that this icon features Adam and Eve. They aren't actually saints, and the whole point of their story is that their excuses were ineffective. It was a sweet present, though.


text: … Where does life begin? At conception, or at consciousness? That's a valid argument to be carefully considered by both sides. Another valid argument: Which matters more? The 50,000 conscious women who, according to the World Health Organization, die each year from illegal and unsafe abortions, or the yet-to-be-conscious fetuses in the womb that cannot… Read more »


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According to Josh Klapow, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham "a relationship is doomed if the communication is not there"." learning to make decisions together is critical for the survival of your relationship," he adds.
"Keeping the love in a relationship is about understanding who the other partner is and working extremely hard to keep the lines of communication open," said Josh Klapow.
Here are the few things Klapow recommends for making decisions together:
Set a specific goal
"What exactly do each of you want ? Specifying the exact is important. Make sure you are very specific. Eating dinner out is not a specific goal. Going to a restaurant where you can get a steak, your partner can get grilled something and you both can relax is specific. The more specific you are the better."
Arrange the situation for success
"Decision making doesn't work well when someone is tired, hungry, short for time or pre-occupied with other activities. Before you start the discussion, make sure each of you is in the right frame of mind and you have the time."
Monitor your discussion
"As you are discussing the decision at hand, make sure you are staying on track. Often couples start discussing a goal and stray to some other topic, which can lead to frustration. So, if you notice yourself or your spouse getting off the subject, come back to the specific goal."
Recruit support from one another
"A collective decision means that sometimes there will be compromise. If you are going into the discussion to win, then you are not making a collective decision; you are fighting a battle. " Try to understand you need to win the WAR not the battle. It's a TEAM WORK not Individual Army.
Treat yourselves
"Celebrate the success of a decision together. Reward, anything that acknowledges the success."
Hope you all already implementing this… If anything else do let me know and do share these.
You can advance more from this book The Courage to Love Again: Creating Happy, Healthy Relationships After Divorce
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Remove "Powered by WordPress" Footer Links to make your site professional
You may have wished to make WordPress more personal and unique but because of the presence of certain links or icons, you may not have been able to do so. One link that many WordPress users wish to remove from their site is the footer link that says 'powered by WordPress'. When you are having your own blog or a website (especially a business corporate website) on WordPress, you would want it to be just yours and remove anything that lends the credit of your website to anybody else.
The footer links can be removed as WordPress does not impose the obligation of using the link on its users. Since WordPress is a free site, it allows its users to use the site as they wish to and allows users to even modify its source codes. That is the advantage of the GPL license. The same way, you can use the wordpress themes, plugins, etc and customize them as per your needs
Methods to remove "Powered by WordPress" Footer Links
You will find numerous ways with which you can remove the footnote links but there are two ways that are easier and fast.
Theme settings method:
Most professional developers who create or build a wordpress theme understand the importance of having an option to remove footer links. For these WordPress themes, all you have to do is go to the theme customizer of WordPress.
Go to 'Appearance' and then go to 'Customize'.
Some themes may also have an option to remove the footer links either using Theme Options or Widgets Section
Footer.php Code method:
Using the php code method is not difficult. It is quite easy in fact. First, go to the footer.php code area and edit it. Here is how it is done. First, look for this file 'content/themes/yourtheme/footer.php'.
Once you get this file, simply open in the text editor and search for 'powered by'. You will then know what part needs to be removed from the code to enable the deletion of powered link.
If you skim through the twenty sixteen theme which is the default theme, the codes would look something like

* Fires before the twentysixteen footer text for footer customization.
* @since Twenty Sixteen 1.0
do_action( 'twentysixteen_credits' );
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?>
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'https://wordpress.org/', 'twentysixteen' ) ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentysixteen' ), 'WordPress' ); ?>

You may remove the entire section or may customize the same based on your requirements
What method to avoid to remove "Powered by WordPress" Footer Links
Most wordpress tutorial websites advocate and encourage the use of CSS method to remove powered by link in WordPress. This is likely to risk your website's SEO. Google, in particular, dislikes those websites which use 'display:none' option as spammers have been known to use it to hide links from Google primarily to achive higher search rankings
It is highly recommend to not use the below CSS code to remove powered by link in WordPress
#site-info {display:none}
While this method looks simple and easy to use, it will definitely hurt your SEO efforts
The above two methods are quite easy and are the recommended ways to remove the footnote link from your WordPress site.
There is also another point to remember. If you are unable to use any of the methods or if you are not too confident about coding (2nd method), then it is better to seek the help of someone who has done it or who knows how to remove the link.
We hope that you will successfully be able to remove "Powered by WordPress" Footer Links after going through this article
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My beautiful colicky baby, aka, the "अंग्रेज़ बच्चा" was born after a long wait as you may have read in my earlier blog ( https://myhumerousbone.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/the-pre-natal-era/ )
From the day he was born he was tuned to US timings, sleep in the day, play in the night. I remember my days in a haze, get up after a sleepless night, go to office, sleep whenever possible, especially if there was a presentation ( sorry boss). I figured quite early that lectures and meetings are a great place to take a nap. Came home tired to a more tired mom or mil who had been looking after my baby and now needed a break, so played with kiddo, while the man of the house watched TV. His diet was small, he would eat very little, sleep for an hour, then was refreshed enough to want to play. At 11 pm in the night, all I wanted was a bed and a pillow, and my baby used to be wide awake. In wee hours after midnight, I would be irritated enough to wake up the husband sleeping like a baby to help the baby sleep. I had this fundamental issue of not being able to sleep while my son was awake ( which occurred till he was almost 18), and after catching a few winks, it was time to take my tired bones to the next grueling day.
One night he started crying and just would not stop. With no prior experience we had no idea what was wrong, tried walking him around on the shoulder, taking turns, but he refused to cease his howling. Hungry, stomach ache, rashes, no. Finally we were out on the road in front of the house along with the startled dogs who till then had एकछत्र राज of the lonely streets. The dogs and the baby wailed in unison, till the opera reached its crescendo and we knocked on the friendly neighborhood doctors home at 2 am in the night. He diagnosed the problem as an aching ear, a few drops of the magic potion and he was fit as a fiddle, went off to sleep and we left the sleepy dogs lie.
We actually had two babies growing up together, my son and my sil's daughter who was a few months junior. With both kids in the same pram, looking almost twin-like since my son, though was older, was thinner. All ladies coochie-cood the babies and would invariably ask whether they were twins. We had fun answering, no, 4 months apart, and leaving them with their open mouths and feverishly working brains on how that was scientifically possible.
90's was pre diaper era when American products were not so easily available and of course the moms and mils were firmly against the use of any such contraption. Delhi being pretty cold in winters, and without diapers and no central heating, all we did through the night was change pants. By the time it was morning, there wasn't a place to walk at home where a wet pant wasn't unsuccessfully trying to dry.
Coming home from office, he would be on the bed mostly wearing nothing more than a shirt on, feverishly cycling away with his hands and feet and giggling away only to gurgle when food was stuffed in his mouth, breathe, swallow and giggle again. I can close my eyes and see the sight again, that made my days so wonderful, despite wet pants and tired bones and sleep deprivation.
As he learnt walking, the world developed a different set of problems. He walked with his head held high and invariably tripped over every obstacle in his path and his chin, knees and palms were constantly grazed and red. Till I decided to get him a helmet and knee pads.
My baby did not like meeting strangers. Once I took him to office and as expected everyone wanted to carry him and he responded by shouting at the top of his voice for the rest of the day. At home he marked his boundaries. If we had visitors, he would remain in the bedroom and not venture out while he stared unblinking at the aliens who dared set foot in his space. No amount of cajoling would pull him out of his लक्ष्मण रेखा. Strong attempts just resulted in further howling so.. Take him to any crowded place, and he would cling to me or his Dad and cry.
He learnt his tantrums from his parents. When he wanted a toy or book in the shop, ( this was once or twice), and I said no, he lay down on the road and raised hell in order to get me to buy it. But me being me, I would pull him back home, gave him a strong lecture on how a child should behave and generally pulled him up for the childish behaviour that a child should not be doing. He would stare at me with big doleful teary eyes during such sessions or व्यथित eyes as my dad would say. Needless to say, he did not repeat it too often, who wants a hiding from a strict parent. He soon learnt that the way to get anything is via his dad, who would melt easily.
His first day at the creche, he was flabbergasted to be left alone and cried for the whole 3 hrs, he at the creche and my mom at home. When she went back to pick him up, he was standing precisely where she had left him, with a teary wet face, holding his bag and bottle firmly. Both laughed and cried after the reunion and held on to each other tightly. Next day, when he was being left, the look on his face said- what you are betraying me again? and turned his back to my mom and slowly started adjusting. It took my mom more time to adjust than him. The first new slang he learnt from his toddler friends was "कुत्ते का पित्ता" as he proudly kept repeating at home.
The love, the hugs, the playing with almost everything, be it vegetable peels, waste papers, clothes in the cupboard or while washing, kitchen utensils, the jumping to the lap, pulling my ears, learning to walk and then run, falling down, crying, picking himself up and walking again. The hiding in the clothes cupboard or in the washing machine tub and the "boo" on being discovered, the forever unkempt house with nothing at its designated place. The first words, "dadadada" and then the अनर्गल प्रलाप at the top of his voice. His own created vocabulary, spoon was "tinta" and curd was "din-din", camel- ऊँट being टून्, and Aarti, my sil, was "तेते". The sicknesses, the cough and the vomiting, the looking at me with "when will I feel better" expression, but being brave during the injections. I can go on and on, but I have crossed my self imposed word limit, so more later..


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New integration with IDeaS G3 RMS allows hotels using Guestline to build a more powerful revenue strategy by analytically pricing and controlling inventory by room type.
Robert Vogt caught up with Charles Cowley co-founder of Impala earlier this week to discuss the new connectivity partnership and look into what this means for customers across the globe. In a world of connections and, with new technologies emerging on a daily basis, it is key for us at Guestline, to offer a quick and easy (although always secure!) integration for the solutions our hoteliers want and need.
Hi Charles, what is you role within Impala, in a nutshell?
I'm the Chief Commercial Officer at Impala, which in practice means I spend my time travelling the world meeting everyone who currently works in the hospitality tech space. It's my job to get out there, bang the drum and tell everyone that the days of difficult, expensive, time-consuming integrations are coming to an end.
Why did you want to collaborate with Guestline?
Our core business is connecting developers and hospitality tech companies with hotel data by helping them integrate with PMS. So linking-up with Guestline was a no-brainer for us as they are one of Europe's leading Property Management Systems. We've been very impressed by the big moves the Guestline team have been making outside of the UK for some time and want to help them grow into new regions like Germany, Benelux and beyond.
How will this connectivity partnership benefit mutual clients?
Our service will allow Guestline to connect to multiple hotel tech vendors through one simple, secure integration. In essence, this will provide Guestline clients with full use of a much larger range of technology services, without having to wait an outrageous amount of time for individual integrations to be completed or pay a premium for each one.
How long has Impala been in the industry?
We started the business in early 2017 and launched the service officially in February this year. We released Impala Version 2 earlier this week and are really excited to see how our partnership with Guestline can help take our user offering to the next level.
Are you global player? ... Or which markets do you work in?
Going by the amount of new stamps in my passport over the last 18 months, I'd say we were an international company! In all seriousness though, while our team is primarily based in the UK, the very nature of what we do means that ours is very much a global product because hotels and tech are such ubiquitous industries. It's very much one of the things that drew us to the hotel tech space to begin with. We want to be facilitators for the industry. We think UK businesses like Guestline should be free and able to sell their products to hotels in Germany or integrate with third party services in the States, Sweden or Swaziland. A global industry should be globally connected. We think that sounds pretty cool.
What does your typical customer look like?
There's actually no straightforward answer to that because we have always made a point of engaging with hotel brands of all shapes and sizes. The problem we are trying to solve is felt just as acutely by family-run B&Bs as massive hotel chains. We want to make it incredibly easy for any brand of hotel to reap the benefits of the software and hardware available to them, without having to worry about how they connect with it all.
What sets Impala apart from the rest?
I'd probably have to say 'focus'. Our team build hospitality PMS integrations and help hoteliers connect with third party apps and services. That's basically it. We haven't spent the last two years building a million different things and taking on a whole laundry list of challenges, nor do we really plan on ever doing so. We identified a problem in the PMS integration sector that we believe that, as infrastructure engineers, we could deliver an effective, secure solution to. So we went for it and that is what we'll continue to do.
What challenges/ common issues does your solution resolve for hoteliers?
At the risk of sounding a bit like a broken record, our business is all about greater, more effective connectivity. Hoteliers have been well aware of the benefits of third-party integration for years, the problem has always been that integrations have previously been expensive, complicated and time-consuming. Impala negates the need for manual data transfer on the part of hotels and seeks to identify and eliminate any friction points within the integration process. We want hoteliers to be able to use any service that can make their lives easier through greater connectivity.
What should hoteliers be focusing on for the next 12 months?
I'm a big believer in learning from your peers and staying abreast of the up-and-comers in your chosen field, hotels and hotel tech, more specifically, is no different. There are too many companies making strides in this sector to name, but I guess my advice would be to check Hotel Tech Report regularly and stay on top of the movers and shakers. It could end up saving you a huge amount of time and money in the long run. I would also definitely suggest updating and expanding their software use around their PMS. Mind you, I would say that, wouldn't I?
Other than Impala of course, What is the most exciting technology within the industry at the moment?
One of the areas which we're noticing a lot of movement in right now is guest experience, which has seen a huge number of new entrants in the last 12 months alone. Of course, it would be optimistic to claim that all of them will definitely succeed, but I think the current surge in interest will reveal much about how guests will be interacting with the hotel in years to come.
Any future tech trend predictions?
That's the million dollar question, isn't it? I think it's really interesting to look at the rest of travel and to see where hotel tech is maybe a step behind. For me, upselling will be the next niche that really takes hold of the industry and we are already seeing the first shoots of it. If you take airlines as an example, and you see how effective Ryanair/easyjet are in their upselling strategies, just imagine that being deployed in hotels across the world. I dread to think how much of my hard-earned cash would be coming their way.
One piece of advice for newcomers to the hospitality industry?
Honestly? Don't build PMS integrations! It's damn hard work, but we love it.
Here's what our clients have to say...
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St Pancras Group, London
"We're all about re-introducing real hospitality and providing a unique guest experience and the Guestline systems allow us to do this by automating as much as possible." Read more about the success of this London hotel group here. Read more
Best Western Hotel Lamm, Germany
"Faster processes give us more time for our guests and the improved reports provide us with better data and insights for our revenue management." Read more about how this hotel transformed operations. Read more
Shannon Springs Hotel, Ireland
Thanks to live availability, the four-star Shannon Springs Hotel never misses an opportunity to sell a room. Their own website and OTA's all receive live availability and best prices which in turn has allowed the hotel to grow its ARR by €14. Read more
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Par vernellnalty le 29 Mars 2015 à 13:53Overview
Adults with an acquired flatfoot deformity may present not with foot deformity but almost uniformly with medial foot pain and decreased function of the affected foot. Patients whose acquired flatfoot is associated with a more generalised medical problem tend to receive their diagnosis and are referred appropriately. However, in patients whose ?adult acquired flatfoot deformity? is a result of damage to the structures supporting the medial longitudinal arch, the diagnosis is often not made early. These patients are often otherwise healthier and tend to be relatively more affected by the loss of function resulting from an acquired flatfoot deformity. The most common cause of an acquired flatfoot deformity in an otherwise healthy adult is dysfunction of the tibialis posterior tendon, and this review provides an outline to its diagnosis and treatment.
Flat footedness, most people who develop the condition already have flat feet. With overuse or continuous loading, a change occurs where the arch begins to flatten more than before, with pain and swelling developing on the inside of the ankle. Inadequate support from footwear may occasionally be a contributing factor. Trauma or injury, occasionally this condition may be due to fracture, sprain or direct blow to the tendon. Age, the risk of developing Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction increases with age and research has suggested that middle aged women are more commonly affected. Other possible contributing factors - being overweight and inflammatory arthritis.
The symptoms of PTTD may include pain, swelling, a flattening of the arch, and an inward rolling of the ankle. As the condition progresses, the symptoms will change. For example, when PTTD initially develops, there is pain on the inside of the foot and ankle (along the course of the tendon). In addition, the area may be red, warm, and swollen. Later, as the arch begins to flatten, there may still be pain on the inside of the foot and ankle. But at this point, the foot and toes begin to turn outward and the ankle rolls inward. As PTTD becomes more advanced, the arch flattens even more and the pain often shifts to the outside of the foot, below the ankle. The tendon has deteriorated considerably and arthritis often develops in the foot. In more severe cases, arthritis may also develop in the ankle.
Clinicians need to recognize the early stage of this syndrome which includes pain, swelling, tendonitis and disability. The musculoskeletal portion of the clinical exam can help determine the stage of the disease. It is important to palpate the posterior tibial tendon and test its muscle strength. This is tested by asking patient to plantarflex and invert the foot. Joint range of motion is should be assessed as well. Stiffness of the joints may indicate longstanding disease causing a rigid deformity. A weightbearing examination should be performed as well. A complete absence of the medial longitudinal arch is often seen. In later stages the head of the talus bone projects outward to the point of a large "lump" in the arch. Observing the patient's feet from behind shows a significant valgus rotation of the heel. From behind, the "too many toes" sign may be seen as well. This is when there is abducution of the forefoot in the transverse plane allowing the toes to be seen from behind. Dysfunction of the posterior tibial tendon can be assessed by asking the patient to stand on his/her toes on the affected foot. If they are unable to, this indicates the disease is in a more advanced stage with the tendon possibly completely ruptured.
Non surgical Treatment
Treatment will vary depending on the degree of your symptoms. Generally, we would use a combination of rest, immobilization, orthotics, braces, and physical therapy to start. The goal is to keep swelling and inflammation under control and limit the stress on the tendon while it heals. Avoidance of activities that stress the tendon will be necessary. Once the tendon heals and you resume activity, physical therapy will further strengthen the injured tendon and help restore flexibility. Surgery may be necessary if the tendon is torn or does not respond to these conservative treatment methods. Your posterior tibial tendon is vital for normal walking. When it is injured in any way, you risk losing independence and mobility. Keep your foot health a top priority and address any pain or problems quickly. Even minor symptoms could progress into chronic problems, so don?t ignore your foot pain.
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In cases of PTTD that have progressed substantially or have failed to improve with non-surgical treatment, surgery may be required. For some advanced cases, surgery may be the only option. Surgical treatment may include repairing the tendon, tendon transfers, realigning the bones of the foot, joint fusions, or both. Dr. Piccarelli will determine the best approach for your specific case. A variety of surgical techniques is available to correct flexible flatfoot. Your case may require one procedure or a combination of procedures. All of these surgical techniques are aimed at relieving the symptoms and improving foot function. Among these procedures are tendon transfers or tendon lengthening procedures, realignment of one or more bones, or insertion of implant devices. Whether you have flexible flatfoot or PTTD, to select the procedure or combination of procedures for your particular case, Dr. Piccarelli will take into consideration the extent of your deformity based on the x-ray findings, your age, your activity level, and other factors. The length of the recovery period will vary, depending on the procedure or procedures performed.
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Par vernellnalty le 28 Mars 2015 à 18:27Overview
Heel pain is a common symptom that has many possible causes. Although Heel Pain sometimes is caused by a systemic (body-wide) illness, such as rheumatoid arthritis or gout, it usually is a local condition that affects only the foot. The most common local causes of heel pain includePlantar fasciitis, Heel spur, Calcaneal apophysitis, Bursitis, Pump bump, Local bruises, Achilles tendonitis,Trapped nerve.
Near the inflamed plantar fascia attachment, but not in it, some extra bone may form, producing a small "spur". In fact, it is a shelf of bone, not a sharp spur. These "heel spurs" are commoner in people with plantar fascitis, but they can be found in people with no heel pain. The heel spur is caused by the same process as the heel pain, but the spur is not itself the cause of the pain.
The primary symptom is pain in the heel area that varies in severity and location. The pain is commonly intense when getting out of bed or a chair. The pain often lessens when walking.
Your doctor will listen to your complaints about your heel and examine you to see what is causing the pain, and whether anything else has started it off. If the cause of your pain seems obvious, your doctor may be happy to start treatment straight away. However, some tests may be helpful in ruling out other problems. Blood tests may be done for arthritis. An Xray will show any arthritis in the ankle or subtalar joint, as well as any fracture or cyst in the calcaneum. (It will also show a spur if you have one, but as we know this is not the cause of the pain.) Occasionally a scan may be used to help spot arthritis or a stress fracture.
Non Surgical Treatment
Most heel pain is caused by a combination of poor biomechanics, or muscle weakness or tightness. The good news is that heel pain can be effectively managed once the cause is identified. Most heel pain can be successfully treated via pain and pressure relief techniques, biomechanical correction eg orthotics, taping, foot posture exercises, muscle stretches and massage, lower limb muscle strengthening, proprioceptive and balance exercises to stimulate your foot intrinsic muscles. If you feel that your footwear or sports training schedule are potentially causing your heel pain, then we recommend that you seek the advice of a sports physiotherapist, podiatrist or trained footwear specialist (not just a shop assistant) to see if your shoe is a match for your foot; or discuss your training regime to see if you are doing too much. Heel pain and injury are extremely common. With accurate assessment and early treatment most heel pain injuries respond extremely quickly to physiotherapy allowing you to quickly resume pain-free and normal activities of daily living. Please ask you physiotherapist for their professional treatment advice.
Surgical Treatment
Surgery is a last resort in the treatment of heel pain. Physicians have developed many procedures in the last 100 years to try to cure heel pain. Most procedures that are commonly used today focus on several areas, remove the bone spur (if one is present), release the plantar fascia (plantar fasciotomy), release pressure on the small nerves in the area. Usually the procedure is done through a small incision on the inside edge of the foot, although some surgeons now perform this type of surgery using an endoscope. An endoscope is a tiny TV camera that can be inserted into a joint or under the skin to allow the surgeon to see the structures involved in the surgery. By using the endoscope, a surgeon can complete the surgery with a smaller incision and presumably less damage to normal tissues. It is unclear whether an endoscopic procedure for this condition is better than the traditional small incision. Surgery usually involves identifying the area where the plantar fascia attaches to the heel and releasing the fascia partially from the bone. If a small spur is present this is removed. The small nerves that travel under the plantar fascia are identified and released from anything that seems to be causing pressure on the nerves. This surgery can usually be done on an outpatient basis. This means you can leave the hospital the same day.
Wearing real good, supportive shoes are a great way to avoid heel pain. Usually, New Balance is a good shoe to wear, just for everyday shoe gear. By wearing proper footwear and performing thorough stretches, athletes can help prevent frequent heel pain. If you are starting to get a little discomfort or pain in the feet or heel, know that pain is not normal. So if you are having pain, you should be proactive and visit our office. If you let heel pain get out of control you could run into several other problems. It is always suggested to visit a podiatrist whenever you are experiencing pain.
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Par vernellnalty le 9 Juin 2014 à 10:18
Eczema is a very common skin condition that generally causes dryness, itchiness and redness anywhere on the body. It can result in a lot of discomfort and even pain in some cases. Typically there is no cure for eczema all though their are treatments that are successful and work very well to get rid of some of the symptoms. Their is a condition known as dishidrotic eczema and this effects your hands and feet. As people grow older, their health begins to decline – many physical issues surface and they become really complicated when they are not treated immediately or if a recommended lifestyle change is not implemented. While these conditions are the primary triggers of pain, other symptoms may also go together with foot pain. We've put together a review of Ideal Feet stretches that can help relieve mild aches. Skin tenderness is one of the initial signs that your foot may be suffering from internal bruising and typically preludes pain. To isolate the precise area that is impacted by the pain, you need to move your feet and identify which specific region triggers the pain. Also assess if it affects the way you walk and if it increases with weight. As you can see, many factors go into the identification and treatment of flat feet. Usually only a simple prescription devise is needed in the shoes to counteract the foot's tendency to collapse the arch, which helps to prevent many of the foot problems associated with flat feet. Surgery is needed in advanced cases, which is generally very successful. Although many people with flat feet have no problems, it is simply a matter of time before they eventually develop, as our western feet are not well conditioned to function with flat feet overall. When your tendons, the bands that connect your bones to your muscles, become inflamed, you have tendonitis. Basically, you'll feel localized pain near a joint. There are plenty of places you could experience this condition all over your feet. Achilles tendonitis is a common example. It's often a result of sudden changes in exercise habits, or footwear changes such as heel heights. Orthotics are ideal in treating or preventing this condition. Morton's Neuroma If you have pain around the ball of your foot, this could be metatarsalgia. It occurs due to inflammation of the metatarsal joints, and can usually be relieved with orthotic footwear. Turf Toe Most of us love our pets so that no matter how stained, unclean, or discolored our carpet becomes, we still let our pets stay in the house. After all, they are part of our family, correct? There are definitely carpet cleaning companies that you may turn to whenever you want to get your carpet cleaned. However listed below are some carpet cleaning tricks and tips that will help you keep your carpet clean in the meantime. Corns are the often painful buildup of hard tissue on the top or tips of the toes. They can develop as a result of hammer toes or knuckle toes. They can develop as a result of hammer toes or knuckle toes with resultant irritation and rubbing in shoes. Podiatrists can often painlessly trim these areas with great relief every month or two, but sometimes surgically straightening the offending toes is done to permanently solve the problem. Bunions are an enlargement of the joint at the base of the big toe—the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint—that forms when the bone or tissue at the big toe joint moves out of place.
Par vernellnalty le 24 Mai 2014 à 18:54
Eczema is a skin disease that causes dry itchy skin on your body and can cause a great deal of distress and discomfort. There is no cure for eczema, unfortunately although there are treatments you can practice that can help eliminate some of the symptoms. While eczema usually affects many parts of your body, a condition called dishidrotic eczema affects the hands and feet. read more Sometime, things just get so darn boring. It makes you see life like a 1950s movie without a touch of color to brighten up the day. But if you thought that there's no way you can perk up, think again. read more When looking for a way to add elegance to a sleek restroom you need to make sure that you choose the proper bathroom vanity. The most important feature of the entire restroom is the bathroom mirror which is the center of your whole bathroom if you didn't discover that already. The reason that the mirror is one of the major elements in the restroom is because your guests appreciate being able to look in it before walking out of the door. Helmets are very important in preventing head injury as it is common for snowboarders to fall and injure their heads. There are different types of helmets from lightweight to heavyweight, with venting or no venting, with or without ear flaps, as well as different styles. It is important to choose a helmet that fits you snuggly, is comfortable and not too heavy. There are three kinds of snowboarding boots that differ in the support they give to the ankle and foot. Soft boots are used by most snowboarders and offer sufficient stability and flexibility. Hard boots are usually worn by racers and provide ample ankle support. Triathlon training season is approaching fast and if there is one thing that I know as a trainer, it is that long periods of time off can be devastating to your body. Imagine one of those commercials with a car slamming into a wall going 60 mph. The crash test dummy inside usually (hopefully) slams into the airbag and is jerked back by the seat belt. read more Use shorts made of lightweight and quick drying fabric. Some styles have zippered pockets to keep your keys, cell phone and other valuables secure. Coolmax is a popular polyester type fabric that is lightweight, soft and keeps moisture away from the skin. Generally it triggered by exterior violence or perhaps very long walks. Regarding the signs and symptoms the feet are going to be unpleasant whenever you walk particularly for your first step on the early morning. It's primarily due to the fact that there's absolutely no weight bearing on plantar fascia in your resting which means the fascia will be in the curtate condition. Walking in the morning hours may cause quick and a great pull for the plantar fascia leading to soreness. It is not necessary to spend a large sum of money on shoes because the main purpose of shoes is to protect the child's bottom of the feet.
Par vernellnalty le 22 Mai 2014 à 17:19
Diabetic and elderly people frequently need assistance with foot care, because of circulatory problems or because they just can't bend over to scrub the rough spots. Also, the foot calluses may not be just the result of friction, but could be forming because of a foot misalignment problem, which would need to be treated. Short Description Foot calluses are extremely common particularly amongst women. They are basically an accumulation of hard skin that harden and thicken over an area of the foot, usually in response to some form of pressure. The following four simple rules should be followed to help prevent foot calluses from forming. With warm weather finally here, I've started wearing sandals, but my feet are extremely dry and rough, especially my heels. Does anyone have any good ideas on how to soften feet and get them ready for summer? I've also got some calluses that need some attention! I can't afford a pedicure so have to do it myself. Thrifty Fun has been around so long that many of our pages have been reset several times. Archives are older versions of the page and the feedback that was provided then. Oct 31, 2010 By Kay Ireland Photo Caption Get softer smoother feet with an exfoliating treatment. Photo Credit Buena Vista Images/Stockbyte/Getty Images The callus foot tissue should continue to receive extra care once the patient has returned home. Very little stress should be put on the affected areas for the next couple of days. Avoid adhesive bandages and pads that may further injure the foot upon their removal. Where soft shoes and socks without seams to avoid unnecessary friction on your feet Wear comfortable, well-fitting shoes that will not only allow your feet to heal but also reduce the chance of corns, scaled tissue, fissured tissue, lesions or any other callus foot tissue forming in the future. When was the last time when you saw your old album, when you were so slim and young? Certainly it would have been a long time ago. In all those years you have come up with life and so much weight on your legs. Either you were clumsy by birth or with the passage of time you attained this shape, whatever is the reason, I suggest staying and stopping here and just going through this post. I'm just not going to deliver a long lecture on overweight individuals and bore you. The last therapy in the second level of wart treatment is injections of Candida antigen into the lesion. Approximately 0.3cc of the antigen is injected directly into the wart. This works by initiating a local allergic response. When the patient's body reacts to the allergen, antibodies are sent to the area and will try to destroy the Candida particles. These same immune cells will also attack the wart tissue. This procedure is done in the doctor's office every other week and could take up to seven treatments. The down side to this treatment is the patient may occasionally feel flu like symptoms the day after the procedure. We compared the types of distribution of increased skin temperature between the group with osteomyelitis and the group without osteomyelitis. Fisher's exact test revealed that the ankle pattern was significantly more common in the group with osteomyelitis than in the group without osteomyelitis (Table 4 ). The sensitivity of the positive ankle pattern to recognize osteomyelitis was 60.0%, the specificity was 100%, the positive predictive value was 100%, and the negative predictive value was 71.4%. Table 5 shows the site of osteomyelitis and the types of distribution of increased skin temperature in each case. When the blood sugar level of a person remains increased then the person suffers from diabetes. Diabetes is mainly of two types. Type-1 diabetes is causes when insulin hormone is not at all formed by the pancreas and type-2 diabetes occurs when the insulin hormone is produced but cannot be utilized by the body in a proper way. read more Feet problems are a big risk in diabetics. Constant monitoring of a person's feet with diabetes will help in preventing severe problems, including amputation. Through good foot hygiene, inspections, protection and regular exams, diabetic foot problems can be prevented and controlled. Keep reading to learn more. read more
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Applications from 1 Kings
This next section of 1 Kings is very interesting. We'll get to read of 7 kings within 2 chapters. Maybe I shouldn't say interesting, if these were more interesting kings we would have more recorded history of them!
Nonetheless, chapter 15 and 16 are very unique chapters. This text tells about King Abijam. King Abijam reigns in Judah. He is Solomon's grandson, Rehoboam's son. He reigned for 3 years. The majority of what we learn about him here is that he did not do right in the eyes of God.
What can you and I learn from the small amount of information we have here about Abijam? Interestingly enough, in just 8 verses here, we get reference to 3 generations of David's family. For this post, let us consider the grandparents.
Nevertheless for David's sake! Great-grandfather David was still impacting his family years after his death. Solomon, Rehoboam, and now Abijam have failed and God still gives them a place. Why? Because David did right. David never turned away from the commandments of God all the days of his life.
Whether you are a Grandparent or some day will be, take a page out of David's book. Know that how you live today will impact your family for the rest of history. Have you ever wanted to change the past? We know that we can't, but we can change today what we will look back on in 5 years. Thus, we change the past….and the future.
Does God expect us to be perfect? No, "save only, in the matter of Uriah the Hittite." David was not perfect and we are reminded of this here. Essentially David died with an asterisk next to his name. Neverless, he is given credit for God's generational blessing.
Pastor Chanc Strickland
Harpeth Baptist Church
Kingston Springs, TN 37082
This blog post was created from a sermon preached at Harpeth Baptist Church in the summer of 2012.


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Meanwhile in North Yorkshire, in the lovely town of Easingwold, producers have been putting together a selection of small gifts. These are not for sale! These are for their regular customers to pull one out of the tombola, as a thank you for the year round support! How splendid is that?
Jam Quest goes national!
An email received at CM Chesterfield office went something like this…
Comment: Last Christmas a friend gave us a jar of Cowbridge Country Market, Blackcurrant and Rhubarb Jam, labelled as, "TXXXX 41, XXX yyy".
The jam is absolutely superb. I wanted to arrange to send jars of it to some friends and although we did pop along to the Cowbridge market, I couldn't see this particular jam. Also, our friends live in Scotland and England so of course this particular jam would not be available to them by the hamper scheme.
If possible, I would like to purchase several jars and send it myself to our friends in our Christmas parcels, so would appreciate the following information.
We suddenly found this year, a blackcurrant bush fruiting in our garden and we also have a rhubarb plant so of course, I'm tempted to try and make this jam combo.
I cannot emphasise enough how nice this jam is. I like blackcurrant jam anyway, but it is often a bit too sweet. The tartness of the rhubarb, tempers it perfectly. It really is a stunning product and as frugal as we've been in using it, sadly we used the last of it today.
I look forward to your reply.
Many thanks and best regards. Jean
So Publicity Director Suzie put her CID hat on and after a few phone calls found the creator of this sublime confection- Mavis from Cowbridge! Mavis was thrilled to hear her jam was being held in such regards. Permission was given for the seeker to contact Mavis direct.
Two weeks later this email arrived!
Just to let you know that Mavis made us a whole batch of her sublime, Blackcurrant & Rhubarb jam. Mavis kindly offered to deliver it but we were on a brutal garden schedule so instead, picked up the 12 jars yesterday from, Cowbridge Country Market. It was lovely to meet the Alchemist in person. We told Mavis our plans for sending some of the jam as Christmas presents. Immediately, the distribution will be Nationwide, but we're hoping to expand the distribution.
As we brought the precious cargo home, Michael suggested that we open a jar straightaway. I was not so sure as I thought that as with pickles, maybe jam needs time to "mature", and this batch was less than a week old.
Michael persevered and so we opened a jar, and have to say, it was absolutely superb. Taste, smell, texture, everything about it was exactly the same as the initial jar we tried. It's just as well we bought extra jars for our own pleasure! We know full well that to achieve such consistency in a product is a manufacturer's Holy Grail. To deliver the goods with such consistent quality is laudable.
Please pass on our deepest thanks to Mavis, not just for fulfilling the order so promptly, but also our sincere congratulations on a job that has been very well executed! Jean
Mavis was duly informed of the email and was very happy to hear it passed muster!
Jean is going to mention Country Markets to the recipients of the jam so that they can experience the wonderful home made products we produce all round the country!
Well done Mavis! And thanks Jean for taking the time to find the source of your pleasure!
If they cant get to us, we will go to them!
Following the lead of several markets, Chew Valley recently took the plunge and took a basket of their fabulous goodies around the town! Two weeks running they sold over £30s worth of cakes and bakes! Whats more they even sold a pie to the local butcher!
Way to go Chew Valley!
Please contact Suzie Cliff if you want to discuss trying this in your markets!
Look what Ware have done!
Ware Country Market recently contacted Publicity to ask for a suitable sized logo for their new banner as the logos they had were pixilating when they were blown up!
The right logo was duly dispatched and their new banner can be seen here!
Wowzer! That will bring the punters in!
Make sure you have a big enough jpeg or PNG if you are developing your marketing materials. It makes all the difference.
Watch out Ware- the market is in town!
Chobham gets help for helping!
A fantastic story about a successful collaboration between the community and a Country Market!
Marietta writes:-
Chobham has a carnival on the May Bank Holiday every year and we hold a special market that day. For many years we have entered the carnival procession with costumes made for next to nothing by our very inventive producer, Jill Parker. We carry collecting buckets for the Carnival Association and they are always very appreciative of what we manage to get for them. When all their expenses are paid they give what is left to worthy causes in the village. Over the years they have been very generous to the market and helped us buy such things as new banners. This year we told them we needed to replace our aprons and that we wanted to buy a card reader so they gave us £150. With their generosity we will be able to update our image and also soon be able to take payments by card.
One of their committee came into the market this week and was shown the aprons and your's truly was asked to put it on so he could take a photo of it to show his committee what we had done with some of the donation.
Well done all!
Tamworth has success at local business awards
Congratulations to Tamworth Country Market for being Highly Commended at the Tamworth Business awards recently! They were in the Retail Business category, up against shops and businesses that open full time- not one morning a week! I am told four people involved in the market had a splendid evening all dressed up in their finery to receive the award! Keep up the good work Tamworth!
A Summer of fun at Bentley Heath!
Louise from Bentley Heath Country Market reports:
For the third year running, a bunch of producers (who enthusiastically call themselves the 'Marketing Committee') at Bentley Heath Country Market decided to organise a craft activity for children each week over the school holidays. We were a bit late in our planning this year, holding the all important brainstorming conflab only a week before the schools broke up!
The summer kicked off with a seasoned favourite- one of Charlye's treasure hunts. These are always well received by the children (although we have a sneaking suspicion that their parents and grandparents perhaps enjoy it more- there are often cases where the child is quite happy to sit down for a drink and a biscuit but is prevented from doing so by their more competitive older accompaniment, who 'just has to find the last picture'.)
For the first week, Karen also organised some fabric printing: small linen jute bags that the children could decorate with fabric paint and potato stamps. Perfect for keeping their summer holidays bits and pieces in.
Jenny organised week two and was inspired by the theme of Art in the Park, Leamington 2018 (which the market was attending that weekend): trees! We were all a bit apprehensive of paint spattered jumpers and floors when Jenny first said she was going to do 'tree painting with a stick' but it worked really well. Our budding artistic younger guests were neat and tidy with their paintings, eager to use palette knives and the blunt end of a paint brush to make their works of art, rather than the conventional way.
Susan is one of the very talented artists at the market. She regularly does water colour and acrylic painting for cards and frames and takes custom orders. For week three, Susan very kindly offered to design her own 'spot the difference' sheets. It was a very busy morning, with the children not wanting to leave until they had coloured in the drawing as well as finding all the differences.
Week four was Louise's upcycling craft. Armed with painted yogurt pots, toilet rolls, bottle tops, buttons and lots of bits and pieces she came up with the idea of either making bird feeders or wind chimes. All yogurt pots were duly prepped with a hole in the bottom for threading. The best made plans are always there for being turned upside down! It seemed that day that everyone wanted to make a boat from their yogurt pot! (Only problem being the leaky hole in the bottom!)
Kim stepped in at the last minute to help us with week five. Kim used to run a local Beaver group and she bubbles over with crafty inspiration and ideas. Inspired by some colouring sheets she found when out shopping the week before, Kim helped the younger guests make themselves a wall plaque from a paper plate, toilet roll and more.
Our summer finale was the 'Sunflower competition'. Open to all- customers and producers alike- the idea was to cook, craft or grow something along the 'sunflower' theme. Entries were put on the front table and customers and producers were able to vote for their favourite during the morning. When all the votes were counted, M won the under 5's (with a sunflower crafted from a paper plate), C won the under 16s (with sunflower iced homemade fairy cakes) and Penny won the adults (with a water colour sunflower painting).
Having little events and crafts for children certainly gave the market a 'buzz' over the summer. This year our activities were much better attended than those in 2017. It is really encouraging to see the children's smiles when they proudly walk out of the market clutching what they made. The grandparents, especially, were very appreciative of our efforts- six weeks is a long time to look after an under 10 for when you are not used to it and so to have something already organised (no shopping/prep/cleaning up to do) for an hour a week is a bonus.
We'd certainly encourage other markets to follow suite, even if it is just some colouring pages and pencils for school holiday weeks. Our next children's event is October half term week (2nd Nov), when we are planning a 'Fireworks competition' and Halloween craft 😊


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I received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. The scheduled publication date for this book is October 4, 2016.
Before her older sister, Ginny, died, Carrie was a science nerd, obsessively tracking her beloved Vira comet. But now that Ginny is gone, sixteen-year-old Carrie finds herself within the orbit of Ginny's friends, a close-knit group of seniors who skip school, obsess over bands (not science), and party hard. Fed up with Carrie's behavior, her father enrolls her in a summer work camp at a local state park. Carrie actually likes the days spent in nature. And when she meets Dean, a guy who likes the real Carrie—astrophysics obsessions and all—she starts to get to the heart of who she is and who she wants to be.
Okay, I kind of tolerated this book for most of it and then it just went downhill. I swear this book was average for most of it and then towards the end, I just became annoyed. So Carrie is upset at the death of her older sister, Ginny. Ginny drank and did drugs and of course, Carrie picked up the role of "rebellious child" after her death. Carrie uses Ginny's death as an excuse to push people away and act selfish and generally just act mean towards everyone. But I guess it's okay that she does that because she's grieving, right? She doesn't even acknowledge the feelings of Ginny's two friends who were actually in the car with her when she died. Nope, Carrie is the only one hurting.
Carrie's mom left soon after Ginny's death because that's apparently what you do: one kid dies and instead of dealing with it, you leave your other two children alone. Makes sense. Carrie's dad was a hard one. I alternated between liking him and hating him, but then I realized that he was kind of realistic. He stuck around, unlike Carrie's mom and he did the best he could to take care of both Carrie and Rosie (Carrie's sister). He got frustrated with Carrie because she stayed out all night and did drugs and made everyone around her miserable. There were times when I thought he could have reached out a little bit more, but he was doing the best he could. The problem was that Carrie did NOT make it easy. I did like that her father was not willing to give up on her and he was willing to set boundaries with her and he tried his best to discipline her.
Okay, so there is a reason why I thought this book was a bit better than it was for a majority of the book: there was an interesting twist on the whole "acting like a bitch because I'm sad" thing. The author alluded to the fact that Carrie had been diagnosed by a therapist as having impulse control disorder. That got my attention. How often is THAT mental illness talked about? Never. The way Carrie was out of control and the way she would totally overreact to stuff emotionally seemed to fit with that. And I got the feeling that her issues started before Ginny's death, but they just became so much worse after the fact. I was so interested in how that part of the storyline would play out.
The problem though was that, aside from that one mention by the shrink, there was no other mention of it. With impulse control disorder, the patient needs therapy and medication. Well Carrie had stopped her therapy and there was no talk of medication. There were times when I wasn't sure if the author was trying to portray Carrie as mentally ill or if she was just throwing a temper tantrum. But the worst part, the absolute worst, was that the author made it seem as if Carrie's relationship with Dean was the answer to her problems. Carrie was desperate for a boyfriend; she got one. And once, Carrie felt herself start to overreact and have a "fit," as she called it. But guess what happened? One conversation with Dean and it was gone. Poof. Just like that. So freaking annoying. And she never had another episode again. Okay, I don't know that for sure, but that's definitely the direction the author was going with it. Sorry, but people who actually have impulse control disorder need a bit more help than a boyfriend can provide.
Buy/Borrow/Skip: I would just recommend skipping this one.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
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"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Be one with the Tao. Act without forcing. Teach by showing. Things come, let them come. Things go, let them go. Give birth without possessing…" Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
I have been going through some transitions in my life lately, which have been a little hard for me emotionally. My kids are moving on with their own lives, as they should naturally do. I am happy for them, but I feel sad at the same time as we have turned some corners here in our relationships, as we each go on with our separate lives, and I am trying to learn the skill of letting go. It is harder than it sounds, but I am working on it. It is definitely a "work in progress" but isn't everything we do a "work in progress?" I take comfort in knowing that "nature never hurries, but accomplishes all things in due time." Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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of Jayadev Ranade's Xi Jinping's China (New Delhi: Knowledge World Publishers). pp. xi+394. Rs. 1,400. ISBN: 978-93-86288-90-5
This work is a collection of pieces written by the author in various online platforms and as part of other edited volumes. The reader does not have the benefit of an introduction that ties in all the chapters together but the fact that the book releases right after the conclusion of 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing in October certainly helps provide context.
All the big issues are covered here – from Xi Jinping's rise to power as General Secretary of the CPC and his consolidation of power over the past five years, the murky details of the fall of Xi's rival Bo Xilai, and China's military reforms and reorganization. Alongside, a host of relatively arcane issues such as China's annual sessions of its equivalent of a national parliament and Xi's new rules for propaganda, media control – thought control, no less (the infamous Document No. 9) – are also examined.
Ranade also discusses Chinese foreign policy with respect to India. He covers China's boundary transgressions, its policies towards Tibet, and Xi's major foreign policy initiatives such as the 'belt and road' project, which India has unequivocally opposed, especially the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
Ranade does not believe that the direction of Chinese foreign and security policies have much by way of positive implications for India-China relations. One might disagree with the assumptions he uses or the reasons he offers but no observer of Chinese words and actions on the South China Sea or as part of its 'belt and road' initiative can fail to come away with a sense of unease about Chinese regional and global intentions and ambitions.
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