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Beyond green business, social entrepreneurship, and triple-bottom-line profits lies a new kind of venture: the Regenerative Enterprise. In the context of global ecological and cultural degradation, creating financial capital profits alone is no longer acceptable. Regenerative Enterprise articulates the a new economic model and redefines the concepts of sustainability and regeneration. It then develops the theoretical and practical requirements for regenerative enterprises, entrepreneurs, and enterprise ecologies. The book concludes with three global imperatives and a clear set of principles that invite well-designed and effective action.
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May 24, 2013Regenerative Enterprise is exactly the book the world needs at this moment. It is a simple, clear articulation of how businesses can be a primary vehicle to nurture social and environmental health. It is critical for anyone involved in "social entrepreneurship" to understand that there is a fundamental difference between doing less harm and actual nurturing life. This book will serve as a powerful tool for any entrepreneur or intra-preneur looking to re-imagine and demonstrate what's possible in the world of responsible business.
May 2, 2013"Regenerative Enterprise" is phenomenal for two reasons: it's emphasis on (1) enterprise ecosystems and (2) personal maturation. Read my full review here: http://willszal.tumblr.com/post/49455962014/regenerative-enterprise
Apr 22, 2013Regenerative Enterprise proposes we upgrade traditional laissez faire capitalism to get to the next plateau, which is more compassionate, steady-state and earth-restorative. There is a lot of fine detail needed to separate the work of ecological repair from Ponzi-the-Clown traditional business models common to shark-tank TV shows, weekend webinars and MBA-mills. The line between the monopolistic robber baron model pioneered by Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Westinghouse and the alternative promoted by "green business" triple-bottom-line eco-entrepreneurs has been muddied by the human profit motive and capitalism's ROI imperative. Roland and Landua have significantly advanced the discussion by creating a bright line formula for marking the distinction: "Stop buying, selling, and trading in degenerative goods and services." Today I'll post a fuller review to http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com.
Apr 21, 2013The systems approach taken by Roland and Landua in their highly commendable new book "Regenerative Enterprise" is an important contribution to those engaged in business, regeneration, investment, and personal growth. Their vision of the transformation of financial capital using their 8 Forms of Capital model is both innovative and inspirational. Kudos to both of you. We are proud of your connections to Gaia University and look forward to further excellent work.
Apr 19, 2013It's obvious that Ethan and Gregory have invested a lot of thinking and doing into this book. Regenerative Enterprise is helping to fertilize the new and growing eco-social paradigm. I look forward to strengthening my relationship with this inspiring network of people who are transforming our world with good.
Apr 19, 2013This book is an important contribution to the conversation on how to shift to a healthier, happier, more abundant planet. By looking deeply at our economic systems and recontextualizing the concept of capital, Regenerative Enterprise show us how we as individuals as well as society can "include and transcend" capitalism as we know it. It's time for positive change on this planet, and the authors demonstrate that it is already happening. I highly recommend this read to all who are interested in what role enterprise can take in the global shift toward holistic health. Regenerative Enterpise is also an important addition to the permaculture movement.
Apr 18, 2013This book offers a clear, powerful, holistic response to global degradation and crisis. It builds on the idea of a "triple bottom line" for socially responsible business and takes it much further. A lot of food for thought and action here - the authors map out some really exciting new territory that individuals, businesses, and communities can (and I hope will) spend many years exploring. Very highly recommended!
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The latest row between the Lib Dems and the Conservatives, over Steve Hilton's report on employment law, has not only emphasised cracks in the coalition, but also reminded us of the confusion over where these laws come from. Many will assume that the right to claim unfair dismissal is based on another one of those EU directives that "holds back growth in Britain".
Well, prepare to be surprised. In fact it was the Conservatives who first introduced the right to claim unfair dismissal back in 1971, as part of the Industrial Relations Act. That small provision, the act was hated by the unions – when Labour came to power in 1974 one of the first things they did was repeal it, re-enacting merely the unfair dismissal provisions, so those have been part of our system for 40 years now. Indeed, there can be few people still working in this country who remember a time when employers were free to dismiss people at will.
Why is this right under attack now? Because a range of rightwing and business lobby groups have got the ear of government and want it to limit their exposure to employment tribunal claims. And why this right in particular? Because unlike, for example, laws against discrimination, which are mandatory within the EU, unfair dismissal laws are homegrown and therefore could, at least in theory, be abolished or replaced with a different system.
I recently wrote about Adrian Beecroft's proposal to abolish unfair dismissal wholesale and replace it with no-fault compensation. It is not clear how such a proposal would ever be palatable to 29 million employees who also happen to be voters. Please the business lobby, but upset 29 million voters? It doesn't make sense. The Mail ran a piece welcoming the Beecroft proposal, but the readers' comments were interesting. Even Mail readers don't seem to support this particular piece of blue-sky thinking.
I am not even sure the proposal would be welcomed by business, if the full report is ever published. Beecroft noted that there would be an increased cost to business, presumably because every dismissal has to be compensated and not just those that are the subject of a successful claim.
Legal costs, meanwhile, would still be incurred in many cases because a whole range of dismissals could still be the subject of tribunal claims. Indeed, if you take away the right to claim "ordinary" unfair dismissal, it is safe to assume that there would be an increase in the number of people alleging discriminatory dismissal.
So, the Beecroft proposal is not viable and never was, but that won't stop the Conservatives horse-trading around it. The Lib Dems are already claiming credit for Nick Clegg and Vince Cable "vetoing" the Beecroft proposal. But they appear to have caved in on other significant changes, such as raising the qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims from one year's service to two, announced at Tory party conference, coming into effect from next April. That alone will remove 3 million employees from the unfair dismissal provisions. The Lib Dems also appear to have accepted proposals to charge all claimants fees to bring their claims to a tribunal, effective from April 2013. The Lib Dems will try to portray themselves as protecting workers rights, while in reality they are signing up to a major attack on those rights at the behest of the business lobby.
As for Labour, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna called the Beecroft proposal "ludicrous", but if Labour is opposed to the other proposed reforms it has yet to say so. Indeed Umunna specifically stated that Labour is not opposed to employment tribunal reform.
And there may be more to come. The government is rumoured to be considering a proposal that small businesses employing fewer than 10 people be exempt from unfair dismissal claims. That would remove protection from some of the most vulnerable workers, who are least likely to be in a union. The Telegraph last week called for a suspension of workplace protections for new, or even existing, employees under the age of 25.
The government is due to announce its proposals for employment law reform in December. Let's hope that by then Labour have decided to act like an opposition on this one, because I can't think what else might make the Lib Dems reconsider.

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All applications for grant aid under the Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme shall be assessed on the basis of household means. The maximum grant of €30,000, which will cover 95% of the cost of works, will be available to applicants whose gross household income is less than €30,000 per annum, tapering to 30% for applicants with gross household incomes of between €50,001 to €60,000 per annum.
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text: Gingold Theatrical Group will conclude its 12th season of Project Shaw at 7 p.m. on Dec. 18 with a rare staging of Oscar Wilde's comedy A Woman of No Importance. Directed by the award-winning Charlotte Moore, the cast features Reed Birney, Cynthia Darlow, Andrea Lynn Green, Tim Jerome, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Robert Langdon Lloyd, Martha Plimpton, Margaret Loesser Robinson, Thom Sesma, and Jennifer Van Dyke The performance will be at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre (2537 Broadway at 95th Street). Tickets are $35 and are available by calling (212) 864-5400 or online at www.symphonyspace.org.


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For decades, East Africa has served as the "Cradle of Civilization," but it may be time to look further south.
For over 50 years, East Africa has represented the the birthplace of humanity. But exciting new archaeological finds further from the equator, in South Africa, suggest our roots may lie there. The open country near the Malapa site (pictured) in the northeast corner of South Africa, where Australopitecus sediba, a hominin fossil, was found.
Check out the other sites in South Africa that are causing us to rethink our roots.
Christine Steininger, a paleoanthroplogist at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, points out fossils sticking out of one of the excavation sites at Cooper's Cave in the Cradle of Humankind.
The walls of such excavation sites are so thick with fossils that they protrude in an almost comical abundance. Also visible in the image is Lukas Friedl, a visiting researcher from the Czech Republic.
Photographer Russ Juskalian holds a discarded piece of breccia he found with a well preserved primate fossil lodged in it.
The Cradle of Humankind is so rich with fossils that even well-picked-over material sometimes yield fossils that were missed on the first or second passes. This fossil was found by Juskalian at a long, informal stonewall of discarded material known jokingly as The Great Wall of Cooper's. Steininger took the fossil back to the lab to evaluate it.
Dominic Stratford, a researcher in the Archeology department at Wits University, works on an excavation site within one of Sterkfontein's massive caverns.
On the left side of the frame we see Stratford working, and in the background (center, rear), we see a tour group. Though the cave is littered with active excavation sites, it is open to public tours of some of its main passageways.
Stratford, a researcher in the Archeology department at Wits University, stands along the route to the Silberberg Grotto, the location where the fossil now known as Little Foot was excavated.
Nearby is another excavation site, the Jacovec Cavern, which some expect may come from an even older deposit than the one the 3.67-million year old Little Foot was found within.
Lukas Friedl, a Czech researcher visiting Wits University to study its early hominin fossil collection, looks out from one of the many entrances of Sterkfontein Cave, the quintessential complex cave system in The Cradle of Humankind.
About 25 miles from Johannesburg, South Africa, Sterkfontein is one of the most productive early homin archaeological sites in the world. Its deposits include an Australopithecus africanus skull found in 1947 that came to be known as Ms. Ples, and, more recently, the most complete early Australopithecus ever found, called Little Foot.
Lee Berger stands above the Malapa excavation site, in The Cradle of Humankind, from a viewing platform. The site is where Lee Berger's young son discovered the first fossil fragments that would come to be known as Australopithecus sediba — and shake up the world of paleoanthropology.
With two relatively complete skeletons, and fragments from four others, the Malapa discovery is one of the most puzzling, and extensive, early hominin finds in recent decades. The mosaic anatomy of Australopithecus sediba raises serious questions about our understanding of early human evolution.
At the University of Witwatersrand, Phillip V. Tobias Fossil Primate and Hominid Laboratory, the reconstructed fossil skeleton of MH2, a female Australopithecus sediba found at the Malapa cave complex in The Cradle of Humankind.
The skeleton, along with others of the species found so far only at Malapa, are responsible for setting off a new golden age of early hominin fossil discovery in South Africa. Its mosaic of old and new anatomical features, and its 2 million year old age, raise troubling questions about our understanding of the human evolutionary tree's various branches.
A view from the back of Wonderwerk Cave of natural light streaming in through the relatively narrow entrance.
The cave has yielded evidence of early hominin use of fire dating back around 1.1 million years. Standing in the back of the cave, with the lights off is almost a transcendental experience. At once it recalls the experience of our earliest ancestors — some of whom may have created rudimentary paintings on these walls — peering into the light. But it also recalls Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and the understanding that what makes us human is as much our behavior — and our thoughts — as it is our anatomy.
Cave wall paintings, of unknown age, on the entrance of Wonderwerk Cave near the edge of the Kalahari Desert.
Wonderwerk is one of the earliest sites of evidence for early hominin use of fire — dating back at least around 1 to 1.1-million years ago. Some researchers excavating the cave, like Michael Chazan, from the University of Toronto, expect to find evidence of fire dating back even further. Chazan hopes such a discovery would reveal clues about the role fire, cave dwelling and behavior played in making us the humans we are today.
The cave is one of the oldest sites of human habitation, being used in some manner almost continuously for over 1 million years.
The team lays out fossils of H. naledi at the University of the Witwatersrand's Evolutionary Studies Institute. The new species of human relative was discovered by a team led by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand deep inside a cave located outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
The find was announced by the University of the Witwatersrand, the National Geographic Society and the South African National Research Foundation and published in the journal eLife.
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text: For those of us living in any one of America's large cities (New York, Washington, etc.), gentrification is likely a term we are familiar with. Over the last decade or so, these cities—many of which had become known for their high levels of poverty and crime—have experienced an influx of wealthy, educated residents.


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John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe was CityLab's Bay Area bureau chief, covering climate change and the science of cities.
Scientists who probe the atmosphere is search of tomorrow's weather have already picked up signs of major heat waves looming for American cities, particularly eastern 'burgs like Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
Now NASA is giving us a heads-up that residents of yet more cities might soon face increased risks of getting frizzled by lightning or charley-horsed by walnut-sized hailstones. The space agency has released new weather models based on a 2007 study by Purdue University's Robert Trapp, who examined what might happen if the concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gas were to continue increasing until the end of the century. Trapp's evidence suggested that by the late 21st century the United States (and no doubt other places) will have many more days with ideal conditions for severe thunderstorms – you know, the ones with towering convective clouds and associated "high-impact weather such as destructive surface winds, hail and tornadoes."
These models of the projected summer climate from 2072 to 2099 illustrate how Trapp and other climatologists are reaching their worrisome conclusion. They're basically comparing how two atmospheric phenomena that determine how strong a storm gets might change in a globally warmer world. The first is called "convective available potential energy" or CAPE, which is a measure of how much energy a storm is packing based on things like air temperature and moistness. With emissions causing hotter days and more water evaporation, the net CAPE over the U.S. is likely to increase. The swell in potential energy looks like it'll be particularly intense in the southeast region:
The researchers also looked at vertical wind shear, the profile of the speed and direction of winds in the atmospheric column. Strong shear can "pull and twist weak storms into strong, windy ones," as one NOAA meteorologist puts it, potentially setting the stage for the arrival of vicious tornadoes. The good news is that climate change is likely to make the Arctic nice and toasty, which in turn will reduce the wind shear over much of the U.S. The wussiest winds will probably blow over the Rocky Mountain area:
The bad news is that the sheer amount of energy in the atmosphere will likely overpower the altered winds, making our thunderstorms more frequent, window-shattering affairs. This bounce in CAPE could prompt even more storms than we currently expect: Trapp's research indicated that many of the contemporary climate models put out "significant" underestimates of future severe-weather events, and that cities from Atlanta to New York could see a 100 percent increase in the number of days with mega-nasty storms:
The ratcheted-up storm threat looks like it will develop most ripely over the east-southeastern U.S., and "especially in Missouri and coastal North and South Carolina," says NASA. Commence preemptively nailing plywood over windows... now? (Here's a fuller discussion of the models.)
Top photo of a thunderstorm by John Kerstholt on Wikipedia
People in different regions of the U.S. have measurably different psychological profiles.
U.K. restaurateur Oliver Peyton's newest project, a style-forward funeral home called Exit Here, aims to shake up a very traditional industry.
According to a new analysis, places away from the coasts in the Sunbelt and West are pulling ahead when it comes to attracting talented workers.
A life-threatening encounter with AI technology convinced me that the needs of people with disabilities need to be engineered into our autonomous future.
While the American public broadly favors expanding renewable energy, that support doesn't always extend to the photovoltaic panels next door.


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She's a thief and he wants to save her instead of the other way around.
GH: To ground your readers, I've started out with the blurb for Lady Runaway:
Fleeing arrest by a spurned suitor, Lady Riana Travistock heads for London where she is knifed in a street brawl when she helps a man attacked by footpads. Luckily for Lady Riana, the victim of the attack is army surgeon Captain Devlin Carrington who takes her home to tend her injury.
When Dev cuts off her blood-soaked chemise to stitch the knife wound, a fortune in jewels spill out. Has he saved a lovely jewel thief only to watch her hang?
Why did you switch and was writing this story as much fun as it sounds?
GH: The idea that Lady Riana is a thief lies more in Dev's imagination than reality. Although Riana quickly devises a plausible reason for having hidden the jewels on her person, Dev isn't sure what to believe.
And yes, writing this story was a lot of fun. Especially writing about Riana, because she's a feisty female who has decided to take control of her life. Circumstances put her into several dangerous situations, but in dealing with them, she gains self-confidence.
Once Dev enters the story, Riana must hide behind a persona she invents to protect both herself and Dev from society's censure. My one sorrow is that most of the research I did on early 19th century medicine ended up on the cutting room floor. On the plus side, the information helped me create Dev.
Can you share with us how Lady Runaway came to fruition?
GH: Lady Runaway originated in a dream scene that lodged itself firmly in my brain. I couldn't forget it. The scene involved a young woman hiding in a London alley. She is pulling her hand, sticky with her own blood, away from her chest. The scene captivated me and I started a file, worked out an outline and sketched out possible characters and motivations.
At the time, I was trying to get a Civil War-era romance published. An editor at Harlequin had that manuscript almost a year. She returned it with a note that apologized for its scruffy condition, but added it had been passed around the office and everyone loved it. But (isn't there always a but?), the senior editor didn't really care for the Civil War era. She already had a writer who wrote that type of romance and wasn't interested in adding another. This editor wondered if I had any Regency romances because they were popular.
In a telephone conversation with the editor, I pitched the idea for Lady Runaway and she loved the idea of a Regency era doctor. (I did, too, until I realized what little esteem they had in those days!) We agreed I should write the manuscript and submit it. Thus, I wrote Lady Runaway for an editor at Harlequin. My publishing luck held true and the editor went on maternity leave about the time I finished and submitted the manuscript. Lady Runaway was shuffled through the system and received a form rejection.
It's quite a blow to go from discussing a project with an editor to a form rejection! Alas, it has happened to me several times in my quest to be published.
I was still trying to find a home for my Civil War romance but decided to revise Lady Runaway and use it as an agent submission. Agents don't want to see a manuscript you've shopped everywhere and I figured I'd just tell anyone who signed me that this one had been to Harlequin but no other editor had seen it. My plan worked. One agent was reviewing the manuscript and a second had requested it when I received an offer for a two book contract for my Civil War romances.
Although my agent wasn't able to place Lady Runaway while we were a team, the editor at Twilight Times Books offered me a contract two weeks after I submitted it to her. When I got an offer on a second book from another editor within a few weeks, I realized what a wonderful opportunity small publishers offer writers. It opens the door to more editors whose taste vary. Face it, book publishing is subjective. What one editor loves, another may well despise.
Today's mega-publishing companies shut out a lot of writers because as they consolidated smaller companies, opportunities for getting published shrank. It makes finding an editor who loves your writing more difficult because there aren't as many of them. Agents became the clearing house for the publishing companies, putting yet another obstacle between the writer and the reading public. That's what I love about small and digital publishers as well as self-publishing. They offer more ways for a writer to reach readers and I think that benefits us all.
Whoops, let me push my soap box aside....
And now I'd like to thank Reader Girls for inviting me to visit their blog!
- Ginger
Thank you Ginger. And without any hesitation, here is an excerpt from Lady Runaway:
London, 1811
Dev ran the damp cloth along a pert nose, then spread cooling relief along the dark auburn eyebrows.
In the still hour before dawn, the fever broke.
Looking down at the woman, satisfaction rippled through Dev's tired body. He had saved a life.
At the name, his satisfaction diminished and Dev silently damned the man for the hundredth time that night. Leaning down, he whispered the lie. "I am here."
Her tongue slipped out to lick at lips cracked from the heat of the fever. He dipped his finger into the water pitcher and ran his damp finger over parted lips that beckoned him as no others had ever done.
"Hold me. I am frightened."
Without another word, he took her in his arms and nestled her head against his chest. When her rich brown eyes finally opened, they stared through him and saw Nicky.
His mystery woman from the alley gazed up at him, the soft love in her eyes pulling him into the fantasy of being a man who had every right to lean over and kiss the waiting mouth. Once again, the response warming the pit of his stomach caught him by surprise. He could not figure out why she evoked these feelings of passion mingled with protectiveness even as he damned Nicky to hell for having captured such a prize only to let her go.
Yet who was the true scoundrel? Nicky? Or himself for lusting after a wounded, delirious woman who thought he was her lover–or husband.
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Ginger also has two published contemporary romance novels set in the fictional small town of Tassanoxie, Alabama. The series slid into ebook only format with a 2011 Christmas short story, A Christmas Diamond for Merry.
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Kinder Morgan picks IPO route to fund Trans Mountain Expansion
Houston-based Kinder Morgan has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of its Canadian subsidiary, Kinder Morgan Canada. The company had hoped to find a joint-venture partner to help fund 50% of its Trans Mountain expansion but now says spinning off its Canadian subsidiary provides the "best opportunity for obtaining acceptable financing terms for the project."
Besides the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Kinder Morgan Canada includes:
- the Puget Sound pipeline, which transports approximately 180,000 bbl/day of products from the Trans Mountain line into the Anacortes, Cherry Point and Ferndale refineries located in Washington State
- the Jet Fuel pipeline system, which transports 45,000 bbl/day of jet fuel from the Burnaby Refinery and Westridge terminal to the Vancouver Airport
- the Canadian portion of the Cochin pipeline system, which transports about 95,000 bbl/day of condensate from Illinois to Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta
- the North 40 Terminal in Sherwood Park which includes 2.1 million barrels of storage capacity
- the Vancouver Wharves bulk materials terminal
- the Edmonton South Rail Terminal, owned jointly with Imperial Oil
- the Alberta Crude Terminal, another rail loading terminal owned jointly with Keyera
- the Base Line Terminal, a 4.8 million barrel crude oil storage terminal located in Sherwood Park, also owned jointly with Keyera.
The Trans Mountain pipeline currently transports 300,000 bbl/day of crude oil and refined petroleum products from the Edmonton area to Vancouver, BC and Washington State. The system has received all regulatory approvals to expand capacity to 890,000 bbl/day for an estimated cost of $7.4 billion.
If all goes according to plan, the expansion is expected to be completed sometime in 2019. Timing of the IPO was not disclosed.


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LDC-backed ChargePoint Technology and Team17 have been recognised for exceptional profit growth in The Sunday Times Profit Track 100.
ChargePoint, the manufacturer and innovator of specialist high containment and sterile transfer valves, places 27th on the list. This marks the company's debut in the league table, which ranks Britain's privately owned companies with the fastest-growing profits over three years.
The Liverpool-based business has seen considerable growth in recent years and in its latest financial results recorded profits of £3.4m, driven by an expanding customer base and increased sales. In January 2017, ChargePoint secured a multi-million-pound investment from LDC to help drive further expansion overseas, into markets such as North America.
Team17, the market-leading games developer and publisher best known for the popular Worms franchise also picked up the 'Ones to Recognise' award at the annual Profit Track 100 awards dinner, after it was listed as one of the top ten set to grow rapidly in the future.
The business secured a £16.5m investment from LDC in September 2016 to help expand its existing games portfolio through a number of new releases, develop its publication model, and support its growth overseas. It is expecting profits to double to this year.
Further information about this year's Sunday Times Profit Track 100 can be found here: http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/profit-track-100/league-table/
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I wanted to call this post "New Ways to Use a Feather Boa" but I figured that might get some strange inquiries from googlers. :)
So as you might have imagined, I used a feather boa to dress up the banister for our Halloween party… In keeping with the purple and black theme, I had to look beyond our traditional railing decor… harvest tinsel, orange and black lights, leaf garland, etc. and find something new and creative to use…
Then I had a "flash of an idea" as my mother likes to say. Only it wasn't just a flash, but the whole idea! Wrap a black feather boa around the banister railing to punch up the wow factor and also coordinate with the black and purple color scheme!
And of course, I didn't stop there. Mama bought black and purple tinsel and two strands of purple LED lights! And I raided the Halloween boxes and discovered some purple beads that I repurposed as a swag garland beneath the boa. The tinsel and lights were woven in front of the boa to add fullness and glitter to the display. And to finish off the spooky scene, I carved out a hole in the bottom of one of my spray painted dollar store pumpkins and stuck it on top of the banister finial! Genius! :) A raven perched on top of the pumpkin echoes the feathers in the boa.
What do you think?? Isn't the pumpkin finial super clever?
Perhaps I shall make fill-in-the-blank comments just to make it easy for you: "I think your Halloween banister looks _________. I especially love the ___________. Way to go, Sarah! You are so _________. XOX, Your Name Here."
Aww, thanks! :)
P.S. Only 26 days until our big soiree! Check back soon for more Halloween decor as we continue haunting the halls at Fort Guthrie!
P.P.S. If you are coming to our Halloween party, you must still act surprised/awestruck/amazed by all the decor when you see it in person! It's all gonna look so much better at night! :)


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This post is a collection of my barbie doll, Sofia the first and Dora the Explorer cakes. These cakes are always delicate to handle but they always come out stunning. Every baby girl loves a barbie......... won't you make one for yours?
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By Bill Anderson (posted with permission).
As an American evangelical who is a member of a theologically-conservative church, I tend to be very observant when the U.S. Government trashes religious rights. I say this also believing that American evangelicals have wrongly embraced the State and especially its military wing, and now that Obama and the Democrats control the U.S. Armed Forces, the days of military support for evangelicals is over.
To me, the armed forces' new hostility toward Christians is not exactly unwelcome, as perhaps now evangelicals will end their ridiculous and wrong worship of all things military. (Laurence Vance has done heroic work in pointing out that same thing.) That being said, however, I also will say that this particular administration is openly hostile toward Christians in a way I never have seen in my lifetime, and it only will get worse.
Although evangelicals tended to be ridiculous in their support of the George W. Bush administration, in truth the Neocon Bushies also were hostile toward Christians and that hostility clearly was demonstrated in Bush's support for Islamic groups in Iraq that either murdered Christians outright or drove them from the country. Today, we see the same thing with the Syrian rebels for whom Obama is giving arms and financial support.
At a recent Congressional hearing, Syrian Christians asked why the USA is "at war" with them. There have been many atrocities that the rebels have committed, but Washington ignores them (and I suppose even supports them). It is instructive that there was no media coverage of that hearing of which to speak, except for some religious press outlets.
The fact that the American media is ignoring what is happening speaks volumes about where this country is headed. The Obama administration clearly despises Christians and at every turn has made its hostility very clear, and I believe that we are seeing only the beginning of what Washington is capable of doing when it comes to religious freedom.
My guess is that we are going to see coalitions such as the Neocons and the Left-Libertarians joining together, as both of those groups are united in their absolute hatred for Christians and Christianity. We also will see Christian-Left groups such as Sojourners joining that coalition.
Why? People like Jim Wallis (who came to Washington 40 years ago to protest against the governing culture and now has become a pillar of the Washington establishment) not only despise conservative evangelicals but also would like to see them eliminated from society altogether. Wallis was absolutely enthusiastic about communist movements that specifically targeted Christians, using torture, imprisonment, and summary executions to promote their will. After a while, it becomes easy to connect the dots, as Wallis simply wants to get rid of the competition and is willing to encourage the government to do just that.
The answer for evangelicals like me is NOT more political involvement, however. I do support Christians seeking their rights, just as St. Paul appealed to Caesar, but the last thing Christians should want is any control of the apparatus of government. We are going to have to face the hard fact that in the future, as government expands its power, we will be shut out of many lines of work and will face outright government hostility and discrimination.
That is not necessarily a bad thing; our Christian brothers and sisters throughout history and in many places even now have been facing the same restrictions and persecution and try as it might, no government has been able to wipe out Christianity. The greater weapon government has used has been the co-opting of Christians, as Laurence Vance many times has noted in his writings. It is time for Christians to reject the dreams of political power and to start living a life as demonstrated in the Gospels.
It also is time for American Christians to reject the false religion of Progressivism. For more than a century, Christians on both the right and the left have embraced American Progressivism, and we see where it leads: to idolatry. Progressivism is a false religion and America is a false god and no amount of political involvement and the "electing of the 'right' people" will change that hard fact.


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William specialises in providing property advice to charities. His knowledge and experience brings together estate strategy, valuation and purchase and disposal on a wide range of properties including convents, care homes, schools and churches as well as more traditional property assets such as residential and development land.
As part of a wider team, he provides specialist valuation advice to for-profit providers as well as not-for profit organisations, including trading valuations of operational assets, valuations for accounts, secured lending, purchase and disposal and Charities Act Reports.
Recent projects
The sale of a religious charity owned independent school for development in Buckinghamshire, including liaising with the in-house Planning and Development team and receiving planning consent for circa 200 residential units, a care home and a community building.
Advice on value of over 200 properties owned by the Samaritans as part of their proposed incorporation of a number of branches into a Combined Central Charity.
Valuation of a charity owned trading care home in Bournemouth and estate strategy which led to a transfer of the home to another charity as a trading entity.
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When Stephen Jackson and Matt Bonner were planning their joint birthday party, it can't have been easy to agree on a theme. But if there's one thing everybody can agree on, it's that Anchorman is a classic of American cinema. So the San Antonio Spurs teammates decided to have a viewing party, and act along with the film. In a great video interview with Spurs.com (which is absolutely worth four and a half minutes of your day to watch and you should do so right now), Captain Jack recounts his starring role as Ron Burgundy. He even played the jazz-flute solo, if he is to be believed. "I co-wrote 'Afternoon Delight,'" he says at one point. "I don't know if you knew that."
It's difficult to fathom just how awesome it must have been to be a guest at this party. Any excuse to watch Anchorman again is worth taking, but watching it with Matt Bonner and Stephen Jackson and acting out the parts? That must be heaven.


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Today we wanted to talk about what adult patients can do about teeth that have settled into less than desirable positions. So, if your smile is crooked, crowded, or gapped, you will want to keep reading! Even though conventional wisdom says that the time to wear braces is during your teen years, we are here to tell you that you don't have to put up with a sore jaw, discomfort when chewing, or a less-than-perfect smile just because your school days are so far behind you that they seem merely like a hazy collection of good times and bad decisions! That said, in order for those kind of issues to improve, the alignment of your teeth must be addressed. Fortunately, in this day and age we have an easy way for you to solve your orthodontic woes: ClearCorrect. ClearCorrect is radically different than anything that has come before in the world of "braces." You could scarcely call this system braces, in fact. That's because ClearCorrect lets you skip the awkward metal brackets and wires. This method takes a more subtle approach, as you shall see. When are are finished with today's post, be sure to schedule your clear orthodontic aligner consultation with Dr. Roeder or Dr. Kulp!
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There's more good news about ClearCorrect. You won't have to request time off of work every month of your treatment. Unlike traditional braces, ClearCorrect won't require any in-office tune-ups to keep things on schedule. You will simply trade out your aligners every two weeks for the next appropriate set in the series.
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Date: May 12, 2014
Press Release Number: 100-2014
Program means investment in future of maritime issues by helping students
The Port Authority announced today that it will join with regional maritime educational institutions to celebrate the May 12 launch of "Two States, One Port,' a campaign to promote the study of harbor and port issues for regional maritime students while also providing financing for studies aboard the 121-year-old Lettie G. Howard fishing vessel.
The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, New York Harbor Foundation and South Street Seaport Museum took part in an event today at Pier 25 in Lower Manhattan to highlight the work of high school students on the Lettie and provide guests with vessel tours.
The Port Authority, which operates the region's vast port network in New York and New Jersey, awarded $50,000 to the New York Harbor Foundation to help fund the return of Lettie G. Howard to the harbor as a hands-on educational institution for maritime students.
"The future and resiliency of our port operations depend on the expertise of our next generation of maritime managers and leaders,' said Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye. "That's why we've chosen to support this worthwhile program for students so they can serve as future ambassadors for the East Coast's busiest port."
Harbor School opened in September 2003 as New York City's only maritime high school and seeks to graduate students equipped with the skills and experience to become tomorrow's port industry managers. The school's students cultivated skills in managing the Lettie, as they seek to restore the vessel as an integral curriculum component.
Students played a major role in the restorations to the Lettie that took place in 2013, including repainting cabins, re-rigging the masts following a critical professional overhaul of the ship's main mast and keelson -- a below-water beam that fastens to the keel for added strength and rigidity.
"New York Harbor Foundation is proud to lead the re-launch of Lettie G. Howard, an 1893 fishing schooner owned and operated by the South Street Seaport Museum," said Murray Fisher, president of the foundation, which supports regional harbor programs. "With the support of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Lettie will be a powerful symbol promoting New York Harbor's role as a working port, productive estuary and recreational destination for the entire metropolitan area."
"Lettie G. Howard is a very special historic vessel with a very important role to play in the lives of these young people. There are lessons learned aboard a sail training vessel that are not easily learned anywhere else: unique teamwork and leadership lessons. It's a good program for the students, a good one for the vessel, and exemplifies the very best in maritime education, a critical theme for the Seaport Museum," said South Street Seaport Museum Interim President Captain Jonathan Boulware.
Purchased by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968, Lettie -- a 125-foot-long Gloucester fishing schooner -- was designated a national historic landmark in 1989 and served as the sail-training vessel of Harbor School, traveling throughout the Port of New York and New Jersey and along the East Coast from 2003 to 2010.
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Founded in 1921, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency's network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities is among the busiest in the country, supports more than 550,000 regional jobs, and generates more than $23 billion in annual wages and $80 billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where construction crews are building the iconic One World Trade Center, which is now the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. The Port Authority receives no tax revenue from either the State of New York or New Jersey or from the City of New York. The agency raises the necessary funds for the improvement, construction or acquisition of its facilities primarily on its own credit. For more information, please visit http://www.panynj.gov.
The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School is a public high school located on Governors Island, serving 430 students from all five boroughs of New York City. Harbor School offers a college-preparatory education built upon the city's maritime experience that instills in students the ethic of environmental stewardship and the skills associated with careers on the water. In addition to studying core academic content areas, students train in one of six career and technical education programs: Aquaculture, Marine Biology Research, Marine Systems Technology, Ocean Engineering, Professional Scuba Diving, and Vessel Operations.
The New York Harbor Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that prepares New York City students for careers in marine science and technology through the restoration of New York Harbor. Specifically, the Harbor Foundation funds and manages mission-critical programs for Harbor School students to prepare them for success in college and careers through the restoration of their local marine environment. Through these efforts we cultivate and extend the ethic of maritime stewardship embodied in the Harbor School to the wider community.
South Street Seaport Museum is a non-profit cultural institution preserving and promoting the historic district of South Street Seaport in New York City. Founded on May 22, 1967, the South Street Seaport Museum (SSSM) is dedicated to telling the vital story of the foundation of New York and its link to its great natural harbor.


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Really looking forward to this. Adding floor and ceiling/sky textures is already such a considerable improvement, it really feels like the transition from Wolf3D to ROTT (which was probably intended).
If you ever plan for another sequel (to get a trilogy), I suggest that Scott and Rebecca BOTH get abducted this time and you play a third (new) character that comes after them for the rescue. Would be a consequent and kinda logical plot development... ^^


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"Scones, a tea shop in England, a kitty & a murder – yes, please!"
When an American tourist is murdered with a scone in Gemma Rose's quaint Oxfordshire tearoom, she suddenly finds herself apron-deep in a mystery involving long-buried secrets from Oxford's past.
Armed with her insider knowledge of the University and with the help of four nosy old ladies from the village (not to mention a cheeky little tabby cat named Muesli), Gemma sets out to solve the mystery–all while looking for her mother's iPad password and dealing with the return of her old college love, Devlin O'Connor, now a dashing CID detective.
But with the body count rising and her business going bust, can Gemma find the killer before things turn to custard?
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Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.
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Take a look at the Special Interest Group websites. For more information, contact the Group Coordinators listed below. Membership price is £20.00 for individual members and £33.00 for institutional members.
Many of the SIGs produce publications specific to that area of interest in ELT. Check out our online shop for more information and to purchase. If you are after a specific back copy of a SIG newsletter please contact the IATEFL Head Office ([email protected]). Please note that there is a charge per issue.
BESIG represents the interests and needs of the international business English teaching community. We offer - both online and offline - a stimulating annual conference as well as other face-to-face events, regular newsletters, webinars and weekend online workshops. We also offer an expanding list of high quality members-only resources including awards and scholarships.
The focus of this group is on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), also known as English as a Second Language (ESL). Our main interest is language learners, including refugees, asylum seekers or migrant workers, who have come to settle in a country where English is the major or predominant language. Our aim is to promote effective language learning opportunities and to exchange ideas for best practice across different countries and educational systems.
The ESPSIG focuses on English for Specific Purposes, English for Academic Purposes and English for Occupational/Professional Purposes/English for Work. Its main objective is to disseminate good practice and promote models of excellence in ESP to ELT professionals in the UK and abroad. Our coverage of ESP includes not only the teaching of this area of ELT, but also teacher training and materials design.
GISIG provides a forum among ELT practitioners to stimulate awareness and understanding of global issues to exchange ideas on integrating peace education, human rights education, development education, and environmental education into English language teaching. It is for teachers who see themselves as educators in addition to teaching the language and who are keen to bring real-world issues into the classroom, instil a sense of social responsibility and develop critical thinking skills.
IPSENSIG promotes genuinely inclusive practices, that lead to a sense of belonging and full participation for all within the ELT community. We share good practice and experience, and disseminate information about inclusive teaching methods, materials and resources which help to identify and dismantle all barriers to inclusion and raise awareness of the challenges facing learners whose specific needs and identities may be unidentified or not acknowledged.
The ELT Leadership & Management SIG aims to raise awareness among the ELT profession of management issues; contribute to the development of good management practices within ELT; provide a forum for the discussion of management issues that affect our profession; provide opportunities for, and information about, relevant management training, and, help improve quality standards in ELT.
LASIG aims to raise awareness among language advisers, teachers and researchers of the issues related to developing and implementing autonomy in language learning. Provides forums for discussion of ideas through its webinars, events and publications and also creates opportunities for networking at local, national and international levels.
LTSIG has been focusing on the use of technology in language teaching for over 30 years. It focuses on all aspects of technology used by teachers and students from online tools, computer-mediated communication, corpora and mobile technologies.
It aims to: raise awareness among ELT professionals of the power of learning technologies to assist with language learning; contribute to the knowledge base as to how learning technologies can be used for English language learning; develop members' expertise in the myriad of uses of technologies with their language learners and encourage networking and online collaboration among SIG members including a weekly Facebook discussion.
LTSIG has been focusing on the use of technology in language teaching for over 30 years. It focuses on all aspects of technology used by teachers and students from online tools, computer-mediated communication, corpora and mobile technologies.
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Our events, teacher training courses, and publications are aimed at teachers, teacher trainers, researchers and trainee teachers who are interested in working with prose fiction, poetry, extensive reading, film, drama, interactive media, music, the visual arts and creative writing to promote language learning.
MaWSIG is for teachers who create their own classroom materials; aspiring writers who would like to get their work published; published authors and ELT editors, publishers & designers. It aims to share & promote best practice in ELT materials writing; offer professional development to writers & editors and connect our members with other writers & publishers.
PronSIG has been at the forefront of the practice & theory of pronunciation teaching for more than 20 years. We give teachers the opportunity to: exchange ideas about methodology and materials; discuss theoretical matters and, work on the interdependence of pronunciation and other areas of language learning.
PronSIG has been at the forefront of the practice & theory of pronunciation teaching for more than 20 years. We give teachers the opportunity to: exchange ideas about methodology and materials; discuss theoretical matters and, work on the interdependence of pronunciation and other areas of language learning.
ReSIG brings together teachers, teacher-researchers, early-career and established researchers from around the world. We share our experiences of and findings from research in print through our annual publication, ELT Research and also network face-to-face at regular events' and online via social media.
The TDSIG provides a forum for anyone interested in development paths to share their own and learn from the experiences of others. We aim to enable and encourage all categories of teacher to take more responsibility for professional and personal evolution throughout their careers, promote individual and institutional awareness of the importance of teacher development, and encourage the provision of facilities for teacher development which do not already exist.
The TTEdSIG aims to support English language teachers, teacher trainers and teacher educators on the aspects of pre and in-service teacher education, as well as professional development through talks and workshops at the annual IATEFL conference in the UK and around the world.
TEASIG is for everyone interested and involved in testing, evaluation and assessment in ELT. Core areas of interest include classroom assessment and tests, external standardised examinations, progress, achievement and proficiency testing and assessment, teacher evaluation, self-assessment and evaluation of institutions and learning programmes.
YLTSIG leads, drives change and sets standards in Teaching English to Young Learners and Teenagers (2 - 17 years old) for training and development, classroom practice and assessment. We provide advice regarding models of YL ELT (e.g. EFL, EMI, CLIL), age-appropriate pedagogy, child-safe recruitment as well as ELT qualifications for young learner teachers. Our members include classroom practitioners, teacher trainers, researchers, academic managers and materials / content developers worldwide.
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Earlier this year, Oregon amended its whistleblower law to expand the law's protections to employees working in the nonprofit or public sectors. Beginning on January 1, 2017, it is an unlawful employment practice for a covered nonprofit or public employer to discharge or otherwise discipline an employee for making disclosure of information to a regulatory or law enforcement agency, manager, or attorney. A "nonprofit employer" is broadly defined as an organization or group of organizations that receives public funds by way of grant or contract and is exempt from income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The types of disclosures that qualify for whistleblower protections include reports of:
(1) Violations of any federal, state or local law; or
(2) Mismanagement, gross waste of funds, or abuse of authority by the nonprofit.
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2012 has been a busy year, and road.cc has reviewed more products than ever before. Our team is out riding all year round in all weathers, logging thousand of miles to put the latest products through a thorough test.
There have been some really excellent products this year, and here are the ones that top scored across a wide variety of categories, we've selected our pick of the year to reflect the wide range of cycing we try to cover - so there should be something of interest no matter what type of road riding you do.
Some of our top picks were run very close indeed where that's happened we've counted back the scores and argued about it - product testing at the end of the day also being a matter of opinion… That being the case we also asked our reviewers to tell us what their favourite cycling products of the year were not just the ones they reviewed. You can read their choices straight after the main event first though let's read about some winners…
If you're looking for a saddle for life, or at least a very long time. One to mould to your er, personal countours that'll only get better over time and that'll look great on a touring bike, or a retro steed, or indeed whatever you want to put it on. Then look no further than the phenomenally good value Aire Leather saddle. Give it time and it'll be your friend for life, or at least a very long time.
If you were watching closely, you may have spotted a pair of natty yellow Bont's gracing the feet of a certain B Wiggins in July this year. Wiggins no doubt likes their customisability and stiffness, and these less expensive Bont A-Three road shoes perform just as well as his top end ones, albeit for a few grams more.
The Prologo Scratch saddle is the most comfortable saddle I have ever tested. It has a traditional rounded profile that proves to be comfortable no matter how long the ride. And it's the same saddle that Sir Chris Hoy uses, too. If it's good enough for him...
Lezyne make some excellent workshop tools and this CNC chain whip is certainly a first-class option.
It's the law in the world of cycling that you have to like Chris King stuff. If you don't, you're not In The Know. That's the way it works. Unlike lots of the nonsense that masquerades as truth, this one is grounded in reality. In my experience, Chris King components are superbly engineered, better still they work too.
Ride are a new brand, but going by these bib-tights they do darn good kit at a very reasonable price.
Multi tools that are genuinely capable of fettling the entire fleet are rare. Cue the Tern Tool. Originally conceived for the brand's own range of bikes, it's comprehensive enough for road, tourer, mountain bike, tandem - the list goes on.
Active turbo trainers are becoming more widespread; trainers which provide data feedback to the user. Minoura have approached things slightly differently, with their Live Training System that integrates via iPhone with their existing trainers to provide power readings.
The Ortlieb Office Bag QL3 is the latest incarnation of Ortlieb's waterproof briefcase pannier. What's changed from the QL2 bag is the attachment system: it's still quick-release but the hooks are recessed, so the briefcase looks more businesslike when you're off the bike. Or as Ortlieb put it: 'Flat mounting elements ensure smooth back side.' Yep.
The Castelli Diluvio 16 overshoes are warm and a touch taller than usual, and they do a good job of keeping water out.
Bontrager's shallowest Aeolus D3 wheels combine impressive aerodynamics with a reasonable weight and predictable handling, making them an excellent all-conditions option.
The posterior is right up there when it comes to bits you want to keep dry, yet there's a certain type of cyclist that doesn't want to burden their bike with a proper mudguard. Enter the Ass Saver. It's a tiny little bit of folding plastic that slots in underneath your saddle. When it's dry, it hides away underneath; when it's wet, it unfolds to provide a wedge-shaped bit of bum protection from spray arcing from the top of your back wheel.
Vulpine's Merino Button Jersey - there's men's and women's versions fall in to that growing category of tops with cycling specfic features that work off the bike too mainly because they don't look like cycling tops. Most of them of them like the Vulpine are made from merino wool it's niff neutralising properties helping avoid any embarrassing social situations. withis soft and comfy with good cycle-specific features, although it's subtle enough not to look too out of place off the bike. When it came to merino tops Vulpine scored a 1, 2 with the men's Vulpine Merino Button Jersey coming in behind the women's version
We tested a farir few road tyres this year and although there wasn't one outstanding one there were some definite good 'uns, two make our year end list and first up is Schwalbe's Durano, grippy, durable and fairly light, a very good all-round performance training tyre. Our fave race tyre (just) coming up, in the meantime honourable mentions also go to the Bontrager R3 a race day tyre for less then the price of the Duranos, the Schwalbe Ultremo ZX (Mat liked them), and if your'e of the tubular persuasion the Kenda Super Domestiques.
Well priced, hard wearing minimalist saddle bag that you can look at as an extra jersey pocket.
The Prendas Ciclismo Belgian-style Winter Hat is exactly what it says: a Belgian-style hat, made in Italy, designed to protect your head from the elements with a soft and insulating fabric.
If you're the kind of person that likes to log your miles, but you're not the kind of person that analyses their heart rate zones after every ride, then the Garmin Edge 200 is for you. It's a super-simple GPS unit that has a fairly basic data set but makes keeping track of your mileage totals a piece of cake.
Very comfortable merino wool base layer that's good for winter touring or commuting, and for faster training rides as long as you don't stop for long. We were also big fans of dhb's Corefit Long Sleeve Base Layer a superb bit of kit for £27.99.
Respro Hi-viz ankle bands are just brilliantly simple safety aids made from dual sided, washable neoprene that fit in a flash around the ankles, doubling as handy trouser-clips into the bargain.
The name might suggest a cyclocross tyre but the the Vittoria's Open Corsa isn actually a cracking road tyre with a supple feel and good all-round grip. It's not the hardiest through a thorny winter but it's definitely one to consider for you good bike reckoned Dave when he tested them earlier this year.
Two of our three top scoring jackets this year came from the higher ends of the on/of the bike stylish technical jacket for the man about town although both are easily good enough for trips further afield too. In the cycling but smart category new kids on the block Vulpine, walks off with honours - just - for their Vulpine Softshell that just pips the very lovely indeed Rapha City Rain Jacket. The Vulpine boasts, lots of clever design details, an excellent cut for on the bike… and magnets, it got more points overall from Vecchiojo who tested them both but it's got to be said the Rapha got a 10 for performance. Mind you, it does cost £60 more… it does look cool though.
The Moon Meteor front light might only have half the output of the Moon XP500 we reviewed recently, but it punches well above its weight and costs half as much - it came out top of the pile in our commuter lights, a gnat's whisker ahead of the Lezyne Macro Drive front light - which also got an overall 9 out of 10 rating is super-versatile and costs just a fiver more… we had a lot of arguments about this one.
WD40 Specialist fact acting degreaser will gobble through anything remotely lube based it comes into contact with.
The Saris Bones 2 isn't just the best looking bike carrier, it's also one of the best at actually doing the job. It's the kind of rack that braces on the back of your car and secures with a strap and hook arrangement. As a rack for transportation to events or holidays, it's ideal. Fitting the rack is dead easy with barely any need to glance at the instructions. Once fitted you just drop your bike onto the struts and secure it with a couple of straps over the top tube. A third strap goes round the seat tube and prevents the bike from swaying back and forth. It's an innovative design that looks cool and works brilliantly.
Saving the best 'til last, the item that scored more highly than any other this year. Indeed it got only the second ever five star review in the entire history road.cc…( and we're pretty sure the first one lost half a star with the passage of time). Time will be kinder to this collection of stories by 14 of the world's best cycling journalists, edited by Ellis Bacon and Lionel Birnie, thoroughly deserved its top rating.
Here's some of the products we've enjoyed using this year, some we've reviewed, some are are our own, and some we just found in the office cupboard…
Mat Brett - tech ed
I'll go with the Bont Vaypor shoes I tested back in February. They're lightweight, the soles are mega stiff and the fit is excellent.
Vecchiojo - head of whimsy
Because it was the most worn item of the year; the Vulpine Softshell Jacket (check it out above in our awards selection). Smart enough to be worn just like a normal jacket but technical enough and cut well enough to happily be worn on the bike, and then worn once you get there without looking like a bikey twat. (Sniffs) Could really do with a wash now.
And again, not tested, but on the basis of being worn more than anything else, blame the weather, some Mavic Cyclone gloves, lightweight, well fitting softshell gloves that seem to keep my hands warm and comfortable in this permanent wet Autumn we're living in. A surprise hit.
Leonie Jennings
The Specialized Ruby for being an excellent all rounder and superbly comfortable sportive bike. Gore's Bike Wear Path Active Convertible Trousers for comfort and everyday wearability. Anything by Dashing Tweeds or Vespertine (review coming soon) for sheer creative use of reflective technology. Dhb's bib tights for value for money and cold weather performance.
Rob Simmonds
The Moon Meteor (see our awards list) is probably what's impressed me most. Considering the price it puts out a huge amount of usable light and is very reassuring to ride with.
Otherwise, I was impressed with the new Minoura Spacegrip. It's a sad thing to get excited about, but the original was a complete horror to fit and could reduce grown men to tears. The new version offers all the benefits of the old one, but has a simple adjustable clip that means it's dead easy to fit and remove.
Stu Kerton
Hope District + rear light - super bright, up to 200 hours battery life and top notch build quality. Expensive but works day after day without fail, oh yeah- its British too.
Dave Atkinson - web guy
Tern multi tool: packs a surprising amount of functions – including a usable pedal and axle nut spanner – into a tiny package. My tool of choice now for when I don't have a bag.
Supernova E3 Pro 2 dynamo lighting system – if you want to fit lights and never worry about them ever again, these are the ones to go for. Okay they ain't cheap, but feel the quality.
Minoura RS5000 workstand – this has been out in the garden in all weathers for four years now and it's still going strong. A great piece of kit.
Tony Farrelly - editor
Muc off Dirty Work Wipes, not the most glamorous product, but if you've got lots of dirty bikes to clean (or just the one) indoors where you can't use water then these are a godsend. I love 'em. You can give a properly dirty bike a decent clean with one little wipe and make it sparkling with two.
They cut through road grime and are small enough so that you can use them to floss less accessible bits of your bike like the insides of chainstays. Shaun reckoned they were hard on your hands when he tested them way back when but I find them pretty good for hand cleaning too.
Look out for road.cc's Bikes of the Year coming soon
David has worked on the road.cc tech team since July 2012. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds.
I know... you don't have to ay anything...
Does this earn me a pair of socks?
Thanks si4star - good spot, drop us a line to info [at] road.cc and we'll fire some socks your way.
Interesting too cos at least one of those items should have 5 stars. It's a big deal in these parts if one of our reviewers wants to give something full marks so I'm slightly surprised that I don't remember the S3 or the Rapha Shorts - neither are the item I was thinking of.
Basically the S3 verdict breaks the rules for a 5 star review cos it has the word 'but' in it if there's any sort of qualification then whatever is being reviewed isn't perfect… it's 4.5 stars now.
Those Rapha women's shorts though… they are expensive, but they're not off the scale for the quality of what you're getting and Rapha stuff is built to last so I can't really argue with Leonie on that one.


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How Does Sweet Oil Help Earaches?
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An earache doesn't have to mean an expensive trip to the doctor. Sweet oil is a proven home remedy for the pain and discomfort associated with ear aches, providing quick, affordable relief.
An earache doesn't have to mean an expensive trip to the doctor. Sweet oil is a proven home remedy for the pain and discomfort associated with ear aches, providing quick, affordable relief.
Sweet oil is simply another name for olive oil. Even the sweet oils sold at pharmacies have olive oil as their lone ingredient.
Place two to three drops of sweet oil in the painful ear. To prevent the oil from running out, insert a small piece of cotton into the ear and lie down on the opposite side, with the troublesome ear pointed up. The pain should ease in a matter of minutes.
Although it is commonly accepted that sweet oil has antibacterial properties to help reduce inflammation and infection, W. Steven Pray, PhD, DPh of Southwestern Oklahoma State University explained that the source of common infection is beyond the tympanic membrane and that olive oil is not able to pass through an intact tympanic membrane.
The oil also helps soften and dissolve painful earwax, as do many other types of oil.
Warming the sweet oil can provide added benefit. Of course, always test the temperature to make sure it isn't too hot before inserting it in the ear.
According to Dr. Douglas Hoffman, a California otolaryngologist, sweet oil can cause serious infection in the case of a perforated ear drum. The oil can leak into the middle ear and carry with it harmful bacteria with it, possibly leading to a more serious infection.
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How To Spot Fake Cuban Cigars [INFOGRAPHIC] Cohibas, Beware!
Straight from Reddit thanks to mattrox217
The legend of the Cuban cigar seems to grow stronger every year and it only helps to feed the bootleggers. The infograph below, WHILE NOT 100% ACCURATE, provides a great starting point in determining if you're looking at a fake Cuban or a real Cuban.


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Accused was 'in control most of the time' but sometimes grumpy
Pat Quirke was "in control most of the time, grumpy some of the time", Mary Lowry's middle son has told the Tipperary murder trial.
Jack Lowry claimed the farmer who leased his mother's land "went around the farm as if he sort of owned the place".
However he also told the jury he had got on with Mr Quirke when he was younger and he had "nothing against him".
He knew all three of his children and got on well with them, he said.
Jack, now 19, was 11 when his mother's partner Bobby Ryan went missing in June 2011.
Patrick Quirke (50), of Breanshamore, Co Tipperary, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Ryan (52), a part-time DJ known as Mr Moonlight, on a date between June 3, 2011, and April 2013.
Mr Quirke would be on the farm most days and Jack would spend time with Pat and his son, Alan, who died in a tragic farm accident in 2012.
Jack recalled holidays abroad together, when their two families had travelled to Portugal and to Spain, staying in two villas with a private pool.
Asked how he had found Mr Quirke, he said: "I found him to be in control most of the time, grumpy some of the time."
He recalled Mr Quirke spreading fertiliser on the land but couldn't remember him spreading slurry.
Asked what age he was when his mother met Bobby Ryan, he said he was around 11.
He had felt "weird" about the relationship at first, he said.
"I used to slag Bobby about being bald. I thought he was taking over my father's role, really," he told the court.
Bobby had taken the family to Tramore for a day out, bringing them to the carnival rides and arcades.
His mother and Bobby seemed "very happy", he said.
Asked how was his mother, in particular, when Bobby was around, Jack again replied: "Happy."
He was asked how an old Toyota Corolla came to be on the farm, and he said Bobby and his mother had bought the car "for Tommy, my older brother, to practise driving".
Asked whether he was ever in the car, he said only when Tommy was driving it and he didn't drive it himself until he was 14 or 15.
Tommy would disconnect the battery so the car wouldn't go dead, he said.
Asked about the day Mr Ryan went missing, Jack said he came home from school on the bus with his eight-year-old brother and they went into their grandmother Rita's house for dinner.
Their uncle, Eddie, was there "which was strange", he said, adding: "We didn't have a clue what was going on."
Under cross-questioning by Lorcan Staines SC for the defence, he was asked why he told the gardaí the car was for "us".
"I meant to say 'us' when I was older," said Mr Lowry, adding: "I could barely reach the pedals.
"I didn't even know how to start a car at that age, to be honest."
Mr Staines put it to him that his brother, Tommy, gave evidence suggesting both of them were driving the car.
Asked whether he was at the court previously, Jack said he came to support his brother Tommy but he wasn't called that day so did not hear him speak. Asked whether he was in court for any of the days, he said he was not.
Questioned whether he had met his brother after he had given evidence, he replied: "No, I was in college so I didn't get to meet him until the Friday I was home." His brother had not wanted to talk about it when he came back from court, he said.
Asked whether they had discussed his being called to give evidence, he said: "We just discussed how to come up here and be strong."
Mr Staines asked him whether he could recall going to his grandmother expressing concern because his mother was not there and in the course of this conversation, his mother had driven into the yard.
Mr Lowry said he had no recollection of that.
Later asked by David Humphries BL, for the prosecution, whether he had ever remembered being on his own in the house "when he should have been minded", he said: "Rita was always in the house."
A deposition for Rita Lowry was read into the record, taken at Nenagh District Court on September 28 last.
She told how she had spent more than 60 years at Fawnagowan, having lived happily there with her husband, John, a dairy farmer.
When her son Martin married Mary, they built on an extension to the house.
Asked how Mary was when Martin passed away, she said: "She was upset, really upset, she was grieving."
She said Pat had helped out on the farm and she later added that he and Mary were "always great friends".
After Mary met Bobby Ryan, Rita was happy she had met someone because she had been very upset.
The night before Mr Ryan went missing she was out playing cards and arrived home about 11.30pm.
It was a normal night and she went to bed and slept soundly.
The following morning was also normal. Mary Lowry dropped her into town to meet her daughter as she did every Friday.
She got home about 3pm and saw Mary crying and "very, very upset".
Under cross-examination, she recalled telling gardaí that Jack, her grandson, came to her one morning to say his mother wasn't home. A short time later Mary drove in.
Michael Bowman, SC for the prosecution, told the jury the prosecution evidence is likely to finish today, with the case formally closing on Friday.
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I-99 opening pushed to mid-December
PATTON TOWNSHIP — Interstate 99 between Bald Eagle and Skytop will not open as expected by Tuesday because signs for the temporary roadway and ramp at the Skytop section still need to be installed, the state Department of Transportation said Friday.
PennDOT said it has set a new target date of between Dec. 12 and Dec. 19 to open the northbound lanes of I-99 from Bald Eagle to Skytop, and the southbound lanes from Port Matilda to Bald Ealge.
The announcement means that commuters, truckers and local residents will have to wait a little longer before about $200 million in new highway assets, much of it long completed, will be put to use.
For a complete story, see Saturday's Centre Daily Times.