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Who Should Attend? All persons involved in leasing at all levels. Realty Technicians, Realty Specialists, Realty Officers must understand the basics in leasing to provide the required service to the landowners. Superintendents, Deputy Superintendents, Tribal Council members should all have a basic understanding of leasing and lease compliance to make necessary decisions in granting or approving the lease and not only protecting the interest of the landowner but providing a source of economic development.
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The annual NBAA corporate flight attendants conference has grown steadily, and on June 24 through 26 celebrated its 15th year and a new name and focus as the NBAA flight attendants/flight technicians conference.
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The future that Brazilians have awaited for so long is at last kicking at the door. But the question now, says Francisco Lyra, the blunt-spoken CEO of the Associação Brasileira de Aviação Geral (ABAG, Brazilian Association of General Aviation), is whether Brazil is ready for it?
Boeing is deep into preparations for its first "green" 787 BBJ delivery in 2012 and is confident it can avoid the myriad early completion problems that plagued the first 737-based BBJs more than a decade ago.
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With the rancor over business jet use now receding in Congress's rear-view mirror, House and Senate lawmakers are jumping in line to extend accelerated depreciation for major equipment purchases– including general aviation aircraft–in 2010.
Surrounded by historic aircraft tracing the history of manned flight, NBAA received the prestigious National Aviation Hall of Fame 2010 Milton Caniff "Spirit of Flight Award" on July 16 in Dayton, Ohio, honoring the association for its significant contribution to America's aviation heritage.
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A magician, which may also be known in various regions as a magic-user, mage, magister, archmage, sorcerer/sorceress, shugenja, witch, wizard, warlock, wu jen, enchanter/enchantress, illusionist, diviner, conjurer, or thaumaturge; depending on the broad contextual range of occult practices or cultural beliefs, is someone who uses or practices magic that derives from supernatural or occult sources.[2] Magicians are common figures in works of fantasy, such as fantasy literature and role-playing games; they draw on a history of such people in mythology, legends, and folklore.
Fantasy magicians usually gain their ability through innate talent or study. Most fantasy wizards are depicted as having a special gift which sets them apart from the vast majority of characters in fantasy worlds who are unable to learn magic. Magicians, sorcerers, wizards, and practitioners of magic by other titles have appeared in myths, folktales and literature throughout recorded history, and fantasy draws on this background. They commonly appear in fantasy as mentors and villains, as they did in older works, and more recently as heroes themselves. Although they are often portrayed as wielding great powers, their role in shaping the fantasy world they inhabit varies; much of fantasy literature writes of medieval worlds with wizards in a fairly limited role as guardians or advisers.
In medieval chivalric romance, the wizard often appears as a wise old man and acts as a mentor, with Merlin from the King Arthur stories representing a prime example.[3] Other magicians can appear as villains, hostile to the hero.[4]
Both these roles have been used in fantasy. Wizards such as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter books are featured as mentors, and Merlin remains prominent as both an educative force and mentor in modern works of Arthuriana.[5] Evil sorcerers, acting as villains, were so crucial to pulp fantasy that the genre in which they appeared was dubbed "sword and sorcery".[6]
Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea explored the question of how wizards learned their art, introducing to modern fantasy the role of the wizard as protagonist.[7] This theme has been further developed in modern fantasy, often leading to wizards as heroes on their own quests.[8] A work with a wizard hero may give him a wizard mentor as well, as in Earthsea.[5]
Wizards can act the part of the absent-minded professor, being foolish, prone to misconjuring, and generally less than dangerous; they can also be terrible forces, capable of great magics that work good or evil.[9] Even comic wizards are often capable of great feats, such as those of Miracle Max in The Princess Bride; although a washed-up wizard fired by the villain, he saves the mostly-dead hero.[10]
The appearance of wizards in fantasy art, and description in literature, is uniform to a great extent, from the appearance of Merlin in Arthurian-related texts to those of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings. The association with age means that wizards, both men and women, are often depicted as old, white-haired, and (for men) with long white beards. It predates the modern fantasy genre, being derived from the traditional image of wizards such as Merlin.[11] Some theorize the look of the wizard is modeled after the Germanic god Wōden or Odin as he was described in his wanderer guise as being an old man with a long gray beard, baggy robes, a wide-brimmed hat and walking with a staff; he has been postulated as the main influence for Tolkien's Gandalf.[12] Women, especially those termed "enchantresses" are the more likely to appear young, though that is often the effect of magic.[13]
Their clothing is often typical as well. Wizards commonly wear robes or cloaks and pointed hats. These are often brightly colored and spangled with stars and moons, astrological symbols, or with magical sigils. They may also be of gold.[14][dead link] The coloring may have significance within the fantasy worlds; in The Lord of the Rings, the wizards have colors assigned to them, indicative of rank. When Gandalf the Grey becomes Gandalf the White, it is a major ascension of status;[citation needed] whereas in the Dragonlance: Dungeons and Dragons setting, the wizards show their moral alignment by their robes.[citation needed] When wizards and witches are distinct groups, witches may dress in the same clothing but in black.[citation needed] Terry Pratchett described this common attire as a way of establishing to those they meet that the person is capable of practicing magic.[15] A notable variant of the generic wizard archetype is the Wizard in the Conan the Barbarian film, whose clothes are heavily based on the sea, as he lives there.
Wizards may accessorize their wardrobe with magical props, such as crystal balls, wands, staves, books, potions, scrolls or tinkling bells, while often rounding out their appearance with ever-present animal companions, which may act as familiars. Stories in contemporary settings resembling the real world, such as those of Harry Potter, sometimes eschew some or all of these trappings for more conventional attire.
To introduce conflict, the writers of fantasy fiction place limits on the magical abilities of wizards to prevent them from solving problems too easily via arbitrary magic.[16]
The most common technique is that the character has only a limited amount of magical ability, often determined by the magician's internal reserves of life energy.[citation needed] In The Magic Goes Away, Larry Niven made it a factor of environment: once the mana is exhausted in an area, no one can use magic.[17] A common limit in role-playing games is that a person can only cast so many spells in a day.[18]
Magic can also require various sacrifices or the use of certain materials. Blood or a life sacrifice can be required, and even if the magician has no scruples, obtaining the material may be difficult.[19] Harmless substances can also limit the magician if they are rare, such as gemstones. Many fictional magic-users must speak spells aloud or gesture with their hands in order to cast a spell.
The need for learning may also limit what spells a wizard knows and can cast. When magic is learned from rare and exotic books, the wizard's ability can be limited, temporarily, by his access to these books. In A Wizard of Earthsea, the changing of names weakens wizards as they travel; they must learn the true names of things in their new location to be powerful again.[20]
Magic may also be limited, not so much inherently, but by its danger. If a powerful spell can cause equally grave harm if miscast, wizards are likely to be wary of using it.[21]
People who work magic are called by several names in fantasy works, and the terminology differs widely from one fantasy world to another. While derived from real world vocabulary, the terms "wizard", "witch", "warlock", "enchanter/enchantress", "sorcerer/sorceress", "magician", "mage", and "magus" have different meanings depending on the story in question.[22]
The term archmage, with "arch" (from the Greek arché, "first") indicating "preeminent", may be used for a powerful magician, or a leader of magicians.[23] One of the first uses of the word in modern fantasy was in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea fantasy setting (1964).[citation needed]
When a writer uses more than one term for reasons other than sex-based titles, it is to sharply distinguish between two types of magic. The precise nature of what the distinction is differs from writer to writer, and the usage can vary between works. In the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia Wrede depicts wizards who use magic based on their staves, and magicians who practice several kinds of magic, including wizard magic; in the Regency fantasies she and Caroline Stevermer depict magicians as identical to wizards except for being inferior in skill and training.
Within a given work, such distinctions are important, depending on how the writer defines them. Steve Pemberton's The Times & Life of Lucifer Jones describes the distinction thus: "The difference between a wizard and a sorcerer is comparable to that between, say, a lion and a tiger, but wizards are acutely status-conscious, and to them, it's more like the difference between a lion and a dead kitten." In David Eddings's The Belgariad and The Malloreon series, several protagonists refer to their abilities powered by sheer will as "sorcery" and look down on "magicians" which specifically refers to the summoners of demonic agents.
In role-playing games, the types of magic-users are far more clearly delineated and named, in order that the players and game masters may know the rules by which they are played.[18] In the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson invented the term "magic-user" as a generic term for a practitioner of magic (in order to avoid cultural connotations of terms such as "wizard" or "warlock"); this lasted until the second edition of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, where it was replaced with "mage" (later to become "wizard"). The exact rules vary from game to game.
In Dungeons and Dragons, a wizard or mage is a character class, distinguished by their ability to cast certain kinds of magic and their weak combat skills; subclasses are distinguished by their strength in some areas of magic and their weaknesses in others.[24] Sorcerers are distinguished from wizards as having an innate gift with magic, as well as possessing blood of a mystical or magical origin.[25] In GURPS, magic is a skill that can be combined with others, such as combat, though in most campaigns, the ability "magery" is required to cast spells.[26]
Some names, distinctions, or aspects may have more of a negative connotation than others, depending on the setting and the context. (See also Magic and Magic and religion, for some examples).
The term "wizard" is more often applied to a male magic-user, as in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, just as a "witch" is more often female, as in Andre Norton's Witch World. In Witch World, a man who, anomalously, showed the same abilities as the witches was termed a warlock. The term "warlock" is sometimes used to indicate a male witch in fiction.
However, either term may be used in a unisex manner, in which case there will be members of both sexes bearing that title. If both terms are used in the same setting, this can indicate a gender-based title for practitioners of identical magic, such as in Harry Potter, or it can indicate that the two sexes practice different types of magic, as in Discworld.[23]
While "enchantress" is the feminine of "enchanter", "sorceress" may be the feminine equivalent, not only of "sorcerer" but of "magician", which term has no precise feminine equivalent. Piers Anthony, in the comedic Xanth series, describes "sorceress" as "sexist for magician."
While the terms are used loosely, some patterns of naming are more common than others.
Enchanters often practice a type of magic that produces no physical effects on objects or people, but rather deceives the observer or target by creating and using illusions. Enchantresses, in particular, practice this form of magic, often to seduce.[13] For instance, the Lady of the Green Kirtle in C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair has enchanted Rilian into forgetting his father and Narnia; when that enchantment is broken, she attempts further enchantments, with a sweet-smelling smoke and a thrumming musical instrument, to baffle him and his rescuers into forgetting them again.[27]
Sorcerer is more frequently used when the magician in question is evil. This may derive from its use in sword and sorcery, where the hero would be the sword-wielder, leaving the sorcery for his opponent.[28]
Witch also carries evil connotations. Indeed, L. Frank Baum, having named Glinda the "Good Witch of the South" in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, merely titled her "Glinda the Good" in The Marvelous Land of Oz and referred to her there and in all books after as a sorceress rather than a witch, apparently to avoid the term that was more regarded as evil.[29]
Hedge wizard or hedge witch is a widely used contemptuous term for a magician whose magic is unable to win him enough of a living to keep him from poverty or even vagrancy. Herb witch is less contemptuous, and generally indicates skill with plants (whether magically making them grow or using them magically), but generally also indicates a low level of education, and possibly skill. Such characters are often taught informally, by another hedge wizard, rather than receive a formal apprenticeship or education at a school.[30]
Terms derived from more specific magics, such as voodoo, alchemy, or necromancy, generally remain closer to their real-world inspirations. Fantasy necromancers often work magic that has something to do with death, although the exact connections vary widely from work to work.
In certain Asian fantasies, the practice of wuxia is used to achieve superhuman feats, as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.[31] Such martial artists attain these abilities through practice as much as, if not more than, studying to gain knowledge, making them in some respects like magicians, and in others not.
A common motif in fictional magic is that the ability to use it is innate and often rare.[16] In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, it was limited to non-humans (wizards were actually powerful spirits, the Maiar, sent by the gods, the Valar, to assist the good races of Middle-earth) — even Aragorn, whose hands heal, has some elven blood — but in many writers' works, it is reserved for a select group of humans, as in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels, or Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy universe. Magicians are often a secretive or persecuted group.[citation needed] In these settings, non-magician characters, no matter how learned, cannot cast spells.[citation needed] In such instances, magic is either inherited, is a random ability appearing in some people, or is the result of some other unique effect or situation.[citation needed] Inherited powers may be a simple genetic trait — such as a sex-linked trait in Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels — or appear at random in various bloodlines, as in Patricia A. McKillip's The Riddle Master trilogy, where the shapeshifting Earthmasters attempt to get their blood into the royal houses, but fail because although one succeeds in getting the king's wife pregnant, the child's descendants rarely have the powers.[citation needed]
In worlds where Alchemy exists as a form of working magic, Alchemists are more likely than most magicians to have their powers be the result of study.[citation needed] For them, and most other practitioners of magic that is not innate, the study is long and hard.[citation needed] This can produce a lack of magicians even in worlds where anyone could in theory learn the art.[citation needed]
Magical practitioners on the Disc (of the Discworld series) are rare, and often innate (with exceptions - the eighth son of an eighth son must become a wizard, even if the son is a daughter), and do require some form of training (again, with exceptions - see Sourcery). Also, magical practitioners on the Disc treat the use of magic not unlike the use of nuclear weaponry; it is acceptable for people to know that you possess such powers, but everyone will be in trouble if it is utilised.[citation needed]
In David Eddings' Elenium and Tamuli series, spells must be performed in the language of the Styric people.[citation needed] The Styrics are highly secretive and distrustful of outsiders, and only a few non-Styrics, such as the Church Knights, are permitted to be trained in magic. Theoretically, any person who knew the spell, correctly pronounced the Styric language and performed the gestures correctly could work magic (as demonstrated by Stragen in The Hidden City) so it is not exclusive by being an innate ability but rather a cultural phenomenon.[citation needed] However, most people in the worlds of Eosia and Daresia cannot speak the Styric language.[citation needed]
A common trait of magicians is that, no matter how spontaneously their abilities manifest, they must learn to use them.[citation needed] Occasionally this is reserved for people with innate abilities, but the typical magician is surrounded by books in his tower owing to his studies.[citation needed] Fictionally, it provides a way for the writer to ensure that his wizard characters can not do everything, thus eliminating conflict from the story.[20]
When the magician is not the main character, this may not be visible, but magician protagonists including Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged in A Wizard of Earthsea and Harry Potter have gone to wizardry schools. Others have taken on the roles of apprentices, such as Haku in the movie Spirited Away. In the movie Willow, Willow receives a magical wand but has great difficulty learning to use it; only with the tutoring of Fin Raziel is he able to master magic. Harry Potter, like many young wizards in his universe, accidentally casts spells before he is taught to do so properly.[32]
Another means of learning can be books; weighty, ancient tomes, often called grimoires, which may have magical properties of their own.[33] Conan the Barbarian's sorcerer foes often gained powers from such books, whose strangeness was often underscored by their strange bindings. In worlds where wizardry is not an innate trait, the scarcity of these strange books may be a factor; in Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest, Prince Rupert seeks out the books of the magician Prospero to learn magic. The same occurs in the Dungeons and Dragons-based novel series Dragonlance Chronicles, wherein Raistlin Majere seeks out the books of the sorcerer Fistandantilus.
Some wizards, even after training, continue to learn new and/or invent spells and items/beings/objects or rediscover old ones that were lost to time, such as in the case of Marvel Comics' Dr. Strange, who continued to learn about magic in the Marvel Universe even after being named Sorcerer Supreme. He often encountered creatures that hadn't been seen in the world for centuries or longer. Likewise, Dr. Doom, who would combine magic with science, also continued to pursue magical knowledge long after becoming an accomplished master of the magical arts. Fred and George Weasley, of the Harry Potter universe, were notorious pranksters, but also had the capability of inventing new items based on the education they received during their tenure in Hogwarts, with so much success that by the time of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince they have created a line of defensive items that was being bought in bulk by the Ministry of Magic, foremost among other clients.
It may be impossible, in a given work, to determine whether a given practice of magic is innate, because the length of time needed for the study, the scarcity of the books or teachers, or the preciousness of the materials required mean that most characters are necessarily excluded.[citation needed] In some fictional worlds, such as David Eddings' The Belgariad, magic is inherently dangerous, and many of those who develop the talent for magic destroy themselves in learning how to use it, thus limiting their numbers even further.
Historically, many magicians have required rare and precious materials for their spells. Crystal balls, rare herbs (often picked by prescribed rituals), and chemicals such as mercury are common.
This is less common in fantasy. Many magicians require no materials at all;[34] those that do may require only simple and easily obtained materials. Role-playing games are more likely to require such material for at least some spells, to prevent characters from casting them too easily.
One factor in this development has been that wizards in fantasy more frequently go on quests; the wizard who is merely consulted in his tower may be surrounded by useful equipment and substances, even in a fantasy work, but the questing wizard must carry what he needs. Wizards who remain in one place, such as those a hero consults, often own many magical items. One who lives in a cottage may have it filled with drying herbs for their magical properties, fantasy herbs being particularly noted for their healing powers;[35] richer ones may own more valuable materials, such as crystal balls for scrying purposes.[36]
Wands and staves are a common piece of property, long used in tales involving wizards.[37] The first magical wand featured in the Odyssey: that of Circe, who used it to transform Odysseus's men into animals. Italian fairy tales put them into the hands of the powerful fairies by the late Middle Ages.[38] These were transmitted to modern fantasy. Gandalf refused to surrender his staff in The Lord of the Rings, and breaking Saruman's staff broke his power. Magical wands are used from Andre Norton's Witch World to Harry Potter. One element of this is the need to limit a wizard, so that opposition to him (necessary for a story) is feasible; if the wizard loses his staff or wand (or other magic item on which he is dependent), he is weakened if not magically helpless.[20] In the Harry Potter universe, a wizard can only perform weaker magic without a wand and only a few can control their wandless magic, and in battle taking away a wizard's wand disarms him.[39] Wands can come in many shapes and sizes. They can be made of wood, plastic (not recommended), metal, or other types of materials. Generally a wizard used a wand that he felt he was most comfortable with, and one that could become an extension of himself.[40] One of the main functions of the magic wand for a wizard or witch is to channel magical energy.
Larry Niven once urged, in a twist on Clarke's third law, that "any sufficiently rigorously defined magic is indistinguishable from technology",[citation needed]. Many other writers have observed that functional magic could replace technology in many situations - several of them, (Robert Heinlein in Magic, Inc., Poul Anderson in Operation Chaos and Harry Turtledove in The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump), depicting a recognizable modern society (specifically, a recognizable contemporary United States) in which various extensively-used forms of magic largely or wholly replace modern technology.
Nevertheless, many magicians live in pseudo-medieval setting in which their magic is not put to practical use in society; they may serve as mentors (especially if they are wise old men), or act as quest companions, or even go on a quest themselves,[23] but their magic does not build roads or buildings, or provide immunizations, or construct indoor plumbing or printing presses, or any of the other functions served by machinery; their worlds remain at a medieval level of technology.[41] In many, perhaps most, high fantasy works, this is treated as an intrinsic feature of the world, requiring no explanation.
Sometimes this is justified by the use of magic bringing about worse things than it can alleviate, and the need of wizards to learn restraint.[42] In Barbara Hambley's Windrose Chronicles, the wizards are precisely pledged not to interfere because of the terrible damage they can do. In Terry Pratchett's Discworld, the importance of wizards is that they actively do not do magic, because when wizards have access to lots of "thaumaturgic energy" they develop many psychotic attributes, and would eventually destroy the world. This may be direct effect, or the danger of a miscast spell wreaking terrible harm.[21]
Also, sometimes they are in hiding, with normal people having no idea about them, because the wizards and witches feel that if they revealed themselves, regular people would persecute them, a justified fear, or they would want them to fix all of their problems instead of doing it themselves. An example of this is when Hagrid explains the latter to Harry in Philosopher's Stone.[43]
In other works, developing magic is difficult. In Rick Cook's Wizardry series, the extreme danger of missteps with magic and the difficulty of analyzing the magic has stymied magic, and left humanity at the mercy of the dangerous elves, until a wizard summons a computer programmer from a parallel world — ours — to apply the skills he learned here to magic.
At other times, a parallel development of magic does occur. This is commonest in alternate history genre. Patricia Wrede's Regency fantasies include a Royal Society of Wizards, and a technological level equivalent to the actual Regency; Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy series, Robert A. Heinlein's Magic, Incorporated, and Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos all depicted modern societies with magic equivalent to twentieth-century technology. In Harry Potter, the wizards have magic equivalent or superior to Muggle technology; sometimes they duplicate it, as in the train that brings students to Hogwarts.
In the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Eberron, masses of relatively weak wizards mass-produce spells and magical items for public consumption.
The power ascribed to wizards often affects their role in society. In practical terms, their powers may give them authority in the social structure; wizards may advise kings, such as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, or Belgarath and Polgara the Sorceress in David Eddings's The Belgariad, or even be rulers themselves as in E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros where both the heroes and the villains, although kings and lords, supplement their physical power with magical knowledge, or Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy, where magicians are the governing class.[23] On the other hand, magicians often live like hermits, isolated in their towers and often in the wilderness, bringing no change to society. In some works, such as many of Barbara Hambly's, wizards are despised and outcast specially because of their knowledge and powers.[44]
In the magic-noir world of the Dresden Files, although wizards generally keep a low profile, there is no specific prohibition against interacting openly with non-magical humanity. The protagonist of the series, Harry Dresden, openly advertises in the Yellow Pages under the heading "Wizard", as well as maintaining a business office. His main source of income in the series is derived from acting as a "special consultant" to the Chicago Police Department in cases involving the supernatural. Dresden primarily uses his magic to make a living finding lost items and people, performing exorcisms, and providing protection against the supernatural to ordinary humanity.[45]


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All-over Satin Tea-Length Ball Gown Style H1227
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All-over satin tea-length ball gown featuring bodice with wide spaghetti straps.
Skinny straps that attach at the front and back of the dress or tie at the neck, often detachable. The best of both worlds, they offer some support but also create a bare look.
The ball gown is a classic shape with a fitted bodice and very full skirt that brushes the floor. The pick-up skirt is a modern interpretation of this silhouette.
A smooth fabric often used in bridal gown design because of its exquisite drape.
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Great Flowergirl dress My daughter wore this to my wedding on August 27 of this year. She wore watermelon with a marine blue bow, she was adorable. She loved the dress, calls it her princess dress. She wore it all day, never slowed her down from all the dancing she did. It is now a for dress up outfit. The sizes run just about dead on, the bow was more the issue, we ended up having to stitch it on a little in the front to keep it from riding up. September 18, 2011
So cute! I purchased 2 of those gowns for my nieces. Since they couldn't try it on I took their measurements but the dresses were still a little big. I would recommend to get them at least one size smaller then your kids size. I got them the ivory color dress, matching my gown, with the Canary color sash. The girls loved their dress and everyone said they were to cute. It was just the perfect flower girl dress!!! September 7, 2011
So cute!! My daughter chose this dress for her little Flower Girl, Lilly, 2 years old. She chose it in the white with the clover green sash to match the wedding party. This was an outdoor wedding, 7-16-11 to which the ring bearer wore a black tux, with the clover green vest & tie. The green headpiece was a great accent to the whole outfit! August 24, 2011
Poorly Made My daughter is a flower girl in a wedding on July 23. The bride picked this dress for her to wear in clover. When my daughter got her dress and tried it on it seemed okay to me except for the one strap kept falling down so my cousin who sews said she could fix it for her. When she tried the dress on for my cousin to fix, it wasn't the strap that was too big but it was too big around so she had to take it in. That was the least of the problems. The lining in the dress didn't fit correctly in the dress and was coming out of the top of the dress. Also the zipper was sewn too high up in the dress making it nearly impossible to hook the eye hook. I'm so glad that my cousin could fix this dress for me otherwise it would have cost me a fortune in alterations. July 12, 2011
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Rika Herbst: Ou Lettere
Rika Herbst: Into the forest #2
Rika Herbst: Deep forest side
Rika Herbst: Bowl of leaves
Nishikata Ryota, Yozutsumi (Nightfall) (via Collect 2010: May 14-17, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK: Toku Art -Contemporary Japanese Ceramics & Applied Arts)
I saw this piece at Collect in May and it's beautiful, definitely worth clicking through to see at high resolution. This bowl is made of copper and the inside is gilded with silver. The outside has this beautiful bluey indigo patina where Nishikata has accentuated the texture on the copper by applying liver of sulphur then rubbing it back, then boiled in a solution to create the beautiful blue colour (via).
Margrieta Jeltema: Treasure Bowls
Margrieta Jeltema: Flower bowls
David Roberts: Erroded Bowl
Blaine Avery: Mess of bowls
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Clicks Group Ltd.
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Clicks Group Ltd. is an investment holding company. It focuses on retail and healthcare market, which provides health and beauty merchandise. The company operates through four segments: Clicks, Musica, United Pharmaceutical Distributors and The Body Shop. The Clicks segment specialists in health, beauty and home ware retailer with stores within South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland and Botswana. The Musica segment retails entertainment-related merchandise with stores in the Republic of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. The United Pharmaceutical Distributors segment provides pharmaceutical and distributes capability for the Clicks Group. The Body Shop segment specialises in naturally inspired luxury toiletries, cosmetics, gifting and grooming with stores in the Republic of South Africa and Namibia. Clicks Group was founded by Jack Goldin in August 1968 and is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.
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March 13, 2001
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Dear Ms. Connor:
The purpose of this correspondence is to comment on the 2/13/2001 Federal Register Notice (Pages 10021-10022), seeking comment on a proposed project titled: Evaluating Toolbox Training Safety Program for Construction and Mining. CDC/NIOSH, no-doubt so we hope, is already well aware of ASSE since we have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship. We will pass on a long introduction of ASSE, but have enclosed a Fact Sheet on the Society to provide current information on our membership numbers, chapters, practice specialties (technical divisions), and standards development activities.
We learned of the upcoming evaluation pilot program through the Federal Register announcement, and do have considerable interest in this issue. In the future ASSE would request that we be contacted earlier in such a process to assist in shaping the Federal Register Notice. Earlier contact could help enhance acceptance and recognition of the pilot program and study. It is important to point out that ASSE does not speak either for or against the program/study, but we do want to ensure our members are aware of this initiative and will have the opportunity to participate.
This announcement was circulated to the Construction and Mining Practice Specialties (technical divisions), with a request for feedback and comments. Insight from construction safety professionals should be of value to NIOSH in structuring such a study. Toolbox sessions generally, are held weekly, and are considered to be an "all hands meeting". The attendees are briefed on an important safety message and the impact it has on them, their associates, and the worksite. The average session runs from 10-20 minutes depending on the message that needs to be conveyed. Topics pertinent to the current work activities and environment are chosen for discussion.
The construction and mining industries are fast-paced, performance-oriented environments. Since these environments are dynamic, and constantly changing, the use of toolbox talks is an innovative and effective way to impart important occupational safety and health messages to those on-site. The key issue is to ensure that the session is effective in imparting important information. The intention of a toolbox talk is not to replace OSHA required training. Given the short timeframe of the sessions, they are a good tool to use in raising awareness reviewing a specific hazardous condition or an incident on the site.
The use of these toolbox talks have become very commonplace in the industry, but the overriding concern of many ASSE members in the construction and mining industries is that those workers on-site may perhaps not receive additional detailed training needed to prevent injuries, illnesses, and fatalities from hazards, which they could face on a daily basis. The other concern raised by members in the construction and mining industries is that some small to medium range firms may not use toolbox sessions at all. When NIOSH launches this study it will be very important to strike the appropriate balance to ensure small, medium, and large firms are encouraged to participate.
Most significantly to this proposal is that ASSE serves as secretariat of the accredited Z490 American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Committee, which produced the Z490.1 draft standard, Accepted Best Practices in Safety, Health, and Environmental Training. The ANSI Z490.1 project was accredited by ANSI on 4/1/98 grew out of the recognized need for improvement in safety, health, and environmental training. Quality training is required to ensure that workers and safety, health, and environmental professionals have the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to protect themselves and others in the workplace. Regulatory agencies such as OSHA have continued to wrestle with training issues on both an internal and external basis for many years. This includes everything from training requirements for specific standards to the potential accreditation of specific training programs. We would also like to point out that NIOSH has two outstanding representatives on the ANSI Z490 Committee, Dr. Michael Colligan and John Palassis, in addition to representation from other government agencies, (Dr. Chip Hughes, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIEHS).
The rationale we offered ANSI in filing the application for establishing the project was that these safety, health, and environmental training standards would improve areas of competence, quality and effectiveness. Their potential is to obtain standards of quality, which ensure that safety and health-training providers meet such standards. These standards can help employers and consumers of training services select quality safety and health training materials, instructors, and other program components. Once established, and we are only weeks away from approval, these standards can be used to audit, monitor, evaluate, analyze, etc. national, industry-wide training of large and small training service providers as well as corporations and government entities seeking third-party review of their employee training activities. Accordingly the Z490.1 Standard:
We specifically request that NIOSH review the draft standard and then use it as one of the review tools to evaluate the training in this proposed pilot program. A copy of the draft standard is enclosed for the use of NIOSH in completing this project. In addition, we respectfully request to work with your office in recognizing the draft standard and include it in any publications addressing the general issue of training.
We thank you for your attention to this matter and look forward to working with you in the future. A favorable response to our request will benefit your agency, safety professionals, and most importantly the workforce and the general public whom we all are dedicated to protect.
Samuel J. Gualardo, CSP
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Mazes are part of the Renaissance garden tradition, becoming part of formal garden design throughout Europe. This became unpopular in the eighteenth century and was revived in Victorian times. A number of wealthy people created mazes for their own enjoyment and William Waldorf Astor was following in this tradition when he planted the maze at Hever Castle in 1906.
The maze measures eighty feet by eighty feet. The hedges reach eight feet in height and there is almost a quarter of a mile of pathways inside. It is one of only a few traditionally designed mazes in the country.
The Yew Maze will be open March - October (weather permitting).
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After an overwhelming response in August to its offer of free haircuts for kids, J.C. Penney has decided to keep cutting kids' hair for free every Sunday, beginning Nov. 4.
Penney said 1.6 million children got the free cuts in August.
The chain, which is grappling with two straight quarters of losses and severe sales drops, is hoping the free hair cuts program will bring in new customers and regain old ones who were turned off by a new pricing strategy the chain started in February. That's when the chain eliminated sales in favor of every day prices that are 40 percent lower than last year. The strategy didn't seem to go over too well with customers. So in August, Penney decided to add more clearance events and to educate shoppers about the pricing strategy.
Penney also will be offering free haircuts to breast cancer survivors in October, which is breast cancer awareness month, the company said. Penney offers hair salon services in 949 of its 1,100 stores.
Are you a Penney shopper? Why or why not? Will you take advantage of this freebie?
September 10th, 2012
4:43 pm
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September 10th, 2012
4:58 pm
Anyone who owned JCP common stock already received their haircut.
September 11th, 2012
8:23 am
People stopped shopping at Pennys because of their pro homosexual,anti family advertising.Why should I spend my money to support that when I have so many other options? Businesses that take sides in social debates are always going to lose, no matter what side they chose.
September 11th, 2012
8:34 am
Oooh, that's creepy. All the hair stylists at my local JCPenney are gay men. Don't think I would let my kid within a mile of that cesspool.
September 11th, 2012
8:41 am
They have taken a side in the culture wars and I am on the other side.
September 11th, 2012
8:52 am
I don't shop at Penney's. I am not homosexual.
September 11th, 2012
8:52 am
Penny's didn't have to enter the social issues controversy, nor does any other major business. But, if they do, they deserve what they get — boycott from those whom they've offended by their support for social pathology.
September 13th, 2012
6:47 am
all the bosses must be gay, why take sides when it doesnt matter. what happened to real sales people helping people, even wal-mart has better sales people.