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The Weston Front Celebrate!
Weston Front Meeting Sept 09
The Weston Front held a celbration get-together for the announcement that the choice of Eco-town is likely to be North Bicester and NOT Weston Otmoor.
We will continue to support the Bicester campain to defeat this "silly" idea....
The Weston Front Meeting
The Campaign to Protect Weston...
Fierce opposition forces Brown to shorten eco-towns shortlist. (The Independent, 13 January 2009.
and From The Telegraph, same date:
'Eco-towns' will fall victim to economics.
Eighty per cent opposed to eco town says developer's own survey Published on: 16 Dec 2008
Victory so nearly is ours. Weston placed at the BOTTOM of the league table. See the Government report (4th Nov 08).
The 15 locations shortlisted for the first new towns in England in 40 years have been revealed by the government. It included the site by Weston On The Green known as Weston Otmoor.
Here is a link to
the Official Weston Front site
Follow the going on with the Weston Militia blog.
See What We Are Protecting (short Video)
The Weston Front Rally
500 OR MORE ATTENDED THE PROTEST RALLY on Sunday 22nd June at Weston on the Green Playing Field. Speeches by Tony Baldry MP, Phillipa Lyons of BBOWT and others were heard by the crowd in sunshine. And then the Human NO was created.
"Consultation" at Weston
Parkridge have run a series of roadshows around the area. These were jokingly termed 'consultations' but people were very angry that only the PR company manned the stand...
and this is the Oxford Mail's view of how chicken they were.
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Tee- shirt for the Eco Town Protests!
Only £6.00 each.
The Tshirts are available in Large, and X-Large.
Note: Limited number left
Any Questions please email!
Show your support, do not let these environmental disasters happen!!
For every Tshirt sold I will place 50p into the fund towards the Weston Otmoor fight against the government's Eco-town plan
Several meetings of the Weston Front have been held in the Weston On The Green Memorial Hall. Attendance at every meeting hasbeen strong -- 170+ people including District and County Councillors and members of the media.
Get your 'No to Weston Otmoor' Car or window Sticker here.
The campaign has attracted a Wikipedia site. There is also a forthright contribution by our MP Tony Baldry slamming the plan for an Eco Town.
Other eco-towns have attracted the support of local celebrities, John Nettles and Dame Judy Dench, who have come out strongly against the whole idea.
Minister confirms eco-towns will count towards housing targets -- The Government has given the clearest signal yet that the housing development expected in its eco-town programme will count towards local authority future housing targets. This is a damaging sop toward County Councils to persuade them to support these eco-con towns.
This Weston Otmoor development could be a disaster for wild life say Wildlife Extra.
One Millionaire is supporting the campaign in Long Marston with £100,000...Oh that Weston could find an Angel such as this..
Comment from West Sussex about their Eco-town -- "This is a new town in disguise. There's nothing 'eco' about building 5,000 houses on a green field site. Weston couldn't agree more!
The Telegraph has a good report (4th April) and
The Guardian (also 4th April) has a very satirical article on the issue and morality of Eco-towns. Click here.
Eco-Town features in The Sunday Times for 23rd March, and the Telegraph on 24 March. Full Story.
Get your 'No to Weston Otmoor' Car or window Sticker here.
For the Car or window
The threat is for a "Eco-town" or major development on farmland near Weston.
The Local Bicester Advertiser ran an article on 11th April 2008 on how the Residents Vow to Fight On.
BBONT object to the destruction of a valuable SSSI if Weston Otmoor is allowed to go ahead. See their 'Hot-Topics'.
If you wish to support the campaign, a practical step you can take is to sign the e-petition on the number 10 Downing Street website to petition the PM 'to remove the Weston Otmoor site proposal from the shortlist forthwith'.
You can find the e-petition at
The QUANGO that will oversee the 'recommendations' for the next stage of the decision making process appears to have been appointed. See article
The Government announcement of this Quango is written up here.
We now have a name and address to write to...
John Walker, Chairman,
The Eco-town Challenge panel,
Dept. for Communities and Local Government,
Eland House,
Bressenden Place,
London, SW1E 5DU
See the Latest stories from national press and BBC, 3rd April.
'ECO Town shortlist revealed',
By a bizarre twist of fate, early April also has seen the notification to the Local Parish Council of the re-application for over 1000 dwellings on the nearby Upper Heyford ex USAF and RAF base, on what could be termed a brownfield site.
See the Eco-town story (4th April) from the Local Oxford Mail
Henman spearheads eco-town protest story
See the story from the local newspaper, the Oxford Times:-
The Eco-Town Story.
Rather unusual take on the Eco-Towns by Building Design Magazine
There have been a series of meetings of the Weston Front . All these meetings were very well attended by the local inhabitants and people from surrounding villages.
The meetings were chaired by Anthony Henman and Norman Machin.
In the document called "the Bicester and Central Oxfordshire Site Allocations Development Plan Document, issues and options paper June 2007", around 800 acres are identified as a possible development site. Area Map. (basically, Beecrofts farm, Godwins farm, and the airfield).
In the maps shown to Anthony Henman of the Developer's plan the area is two to three times larger, enough space for up to 20,000 houses! It extends to the other side of A34 so there is access to the railway line for a new station.....
Click here for a map
See the press articles and letters
County 'likely to be on eco-town shortlist'
Eco-town fight
For contact email to (robinsallen "at" gmail.com). Last Update 13th January 2009
Link to Weston On The Green Village Hall Website.
Link to the "Weston Front", the Weston On The Green Campaign site
Link to ' NO Weston Otmoor'. Get your Car-sticker here....
Link to the Oxford Green Belt Network protection site
This is an important link to the Campaign to Protect Rural England
Link to the story of Weston Eco-town in the Oxford Mail
And if you want a copy of the government's position it can be obtained from
Government Eco-town prospectus


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Looking for stylish ladies, clothes but don't want to pay full price? Sadie's Sister women's consignment shop could add a little pizazz to your wardrobe without breaking the bank.
Sadie's Sister co-owner Terri Hartbarger said she opened the shop because customers at her antique store in Olde Town Conyers, located a few doors down from her newly opened clothing store, kept asking for recommendations on where to go for upscale women's consignment items.
"I said 'I need to open one of those,'" Hartbarger said of her consignment shop.
Hartbarger and her husband Steve Hartbarger own both Sadie's Sister, located at 923 Commercial St. in Olde Town Conyers, and Sadie's Antiques and Uniques at 902 Center St., also in Olde Town.
Opened in June, Sadie's Sister carries almost-new coats, suits, dresses, skirts, tops, jeans, dress pants, shoes, purses, scarves and jewelry.
Hartbarger said she contributed a portion of the inventory from her own closet and collected other pieces from dealers she knows. Sizes range from 2 to 16.
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Although studies ended for ISU students in December, the Bloomington-Normal area became the subject of study for a team of filmmakers who are working on a biographical film about the life of David Foster Wallace.
Wallace was a writer and English professor who taught at ISU from 1993 to 2002, while also working on several pieces of literature. These included his 1100 page novel "Infinite Jest," which was published in 1996.
Wallace received several awards on his writing, and gave a commencement speech, "This is Water," at Kenyon College in 2005.
Wallace committed suicide in 2008 at the age of 46, after a lifelong struggle with depression; his final novel, "The Pale King," was posthumously published in 2011.
The film, titled "End of the Tour," is set to be released mid-2015 and will star "How I Met Your Mother" actor Jason Segel as Wallace.
The movie's producer, Louise Lovegrove and director, James Ponsoldt, came to Bloomington-Normal before Christmas.
They stopped in classrooms where Wallace taught, spoke with those who knew him, and visited Babbitt's Books.
Babbitt's Books' owner, Brian Simpson, knew Wallace as a regular patron.
"He was always a really generous person, both in terms of conversation and in services to the book store," Simpson said.
Wallace often ordered books for his classes from Babbitt's Books; he also did readings and signings of his own work at Babbitt's.
His article in Conde Nast Traveler about Babbitt's, which he called his favorite book store, also brought in new customers.
Robert McLaughlin, English professor, worked with Wallace for over 10 years
"He was a very good teacher," McLaughlin said. "He worked hard to make himself available to students almost 24/7."
Wallace taught classes on creative writing and prose, both on the graduate and undergraduate level. He preferred teaching undergraduate students because they didn't know who he was.
"When he came to ISU, he was definitely on a lot of people's radars as an up-and-coming writer," McLaughlin explained.
Wallace was always very modest about his achievements, and often embarrassed by the attention he received.
For this reason, McLaughlin expressed discomfort at the idea of a movie about Wallace's life.
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2010 RY 2SS/RS For Sale - Tons of Mods! 30,000 OBO
With twins on the way, the Camaro just isn't practical for me anymore. I've had my fun, met some great people and so it is with much regret that I announce that I am looking to sell my "Bee".
Car was originally delivered on November 7th 2009 - Vin# 52325,
Has 31,500 Miles It's a Florida car and has never been smoked in, never had food inside of it, and has been maintained since day one. It has won numerous trophies from best in show to best audio
Pics can be found here:http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198163
More pics can be found via facebook - if you're serious PM me and I will send you a link
KBB has a value stock of $28,400
NADA has a stock value of $30,475
I'm looking to get $30,000 with all the mods...
Here's a complete list of mods:
AirAid Intake
Ported Throttle Body
Stainless Works LT Headers (no Cats)
Edelbrock X-Pipe
Muffler Delete
Rotated Fuel lines
Heater Hose Relocation
Mike Norris Catch Can
3200 FTI Stall Converter
Custom Dyno Tune via Mike Norris
20x9 & 20x10 Savini Avarus V2 Wheels - Black Face/Color Matched Lip
Continental DWS 275/40 fronts 315/35 rears
Bumblebee Style Stripes
20% Ceramic Tint
Transformers side emblems
Plasma Fog Light Bulbs
DRL Harness
Gloss Black Fog Light Bezels
AAC LED V2 RGB Scanner
JDM Colored Halos
Upper Grill Blackout
Lower Grill Blackout
Black CAMARO side lettering
Black Tail light Bezels
Painted front and rear Bowties
Side Gill Inserts
Tinted Tailligts
Tinted Front and Rear Side Markers
Trunk Blackout
Tinted Reverse Lights
Painted Rear Diffuser
Painted Calipers (Yellow)
Complete Exterior lighting - grill, undercarriage, engine bay (Red)
*Have Street Scene Splitter and Side skirts not installed but will include - Splitter is painted gloss black, sides are painted white and will need to be painted or you could sell the set for a quick $500
EmblemPros Plaque with Vin/build date
Scorch Yellow Interior Trim
Painted Speedo Bezel (yellow)
Painted Steering wheel trim (yellow)
Dyed stitching (yellow)
Painted Shifter Surround (black/yellow)
Painted 4pack (yellow)
Custom Yellow floormats
Footwell Lighting (red)
LED Dome light (red)
Manual Shift Boot
Lighted Glove box
Transformers Door Sills
Black Custom Pedals
Switch Panel cup holder (controls lighting)
Fatmat 80ml throughout the ENTIRE car (see build thread)
15 yards of ensolite closed cell foam on top of the Fatmat
Audio Control LC6i
MB Quart Component 6.5 Door Speakers
MB Quart rear 6x9s
JL Audio 300.4
JL Audio 500.1
(2) 12" PowerBass DVC subs
Kicker 1/0 Power/Ground Wires
Stinger "Twisted" 14ga Speaker Wire
(2) Kicker 1/0 to 4ga Distro Blocks
LED lighting throughout (blue)
Custom Trunk enclosure (self built)
PM me with offers
:( If I had the $$ I'd do it in a heartbeat. Congratulations on the twins.
Congrats on the new babies they are truly a blessing and glws
That's a nice ride someone is going to get. Wish I could afford the dynamat and foam top for mine lol
wow tony those audio mods are intense great work you did there! Congrats on the twins! def a great car for the price
great deal and well kept car
Thanks for the kind words guys...
Gonna give it a couple weeks on here and then bring it into the dealership to get an estimate on a trade in value...
Don't really want to let it go, even the wife is telling me to keep it.... I just know I can get something much more practical for twins and probably at half the price.....
I'm open to offers..... let me know!
It's a badass ride Tony. Too bad you're letting it go. I get it though. Rear facing seats in and out regularly would suck ass. The latch connectors in the Camaro are really nice and really easy to use vs many other cars. Front passenger legroom should be ok as i had some pretty big seats in mine. Wife was fine and i was a little squished but, i'm 6ft tall also. The negatives are the tether isn't the easiest due to the angle of the back window. Next is a car seat that does not fold in half is a bit of a pain to get out as you have to move the front seats all the way up and undo the front seat belts from the straps to get it in or out. Not a big deal just adds more time. The biggest issue for you is the only double stroller you could probably use is the foldable umbrella type. That will fit in the trunk but, aren't the greatest for also lugging diapers, bottles toys blah blah.
If you can deal with the added hassle for say 18 months. Your golden after that. No more removing car seats all the time. No need for bottles and crap. Just a light umbrella stroller.
So, a little extra time and a bit of a PIA for 18 months or move on to something more practical but way less fun :). Good luck bro.
Tips on car seats. I have owned 4 different sets of Britax seats. All were excellent, held up well and were some of the easiest to get in and out. also ranked very highly for safety. usually in the top 2. Very expensive but, worth it. Also if you did not know. When buying car seats almost every place offers an unadvertised TWINS discount. You have to ask for it to get it though.
Thanks for the info dave!
Gonna see if anyones interested.. if not I still may keep it - who knows....
Got your pm, its still available, let me know
Price Reduction - 28K
Thought this would be gone by now
Nope :iono:
Let me know if you know anyone interested.....
Might be able to provide a "Finder's Fee" if someone helps me....
Bump :Bump: Price Reduced...
please pm or email me - firstname.lastname@example.com
Bring it up to the rally and slap a F/S sign on it Tony. Let her go out with a bang.
that is a great idea!
Man you just can't let that car go for that price. Isn't there any other way to keep it and still get something safe & economical for the twins. God I don't even know you & this is making me sick too my stomach. Good luck in what ever choice to decide.
DONT SELL IT KEEP IT lol
That is a one of a kind car right there...
Congrats on the twins :D
Ok guys.... been selling/giving away some parts but here's a complete list of whats left on the car:
Stainless Works LT Headers (no Cats)
Edelbrock X-Pipe
Muffler Delete
Rotated Fuel lines
Heater Hose Relocation
3200 FTI Stall Converter
Custom Dyno Tune via Mike Norris
20x9 & 20x10 Savini Avarus V2 Wheels - Black Face/Color Matched Lip
Continental DWS 275/40 fronts 315/35 rears
Bumblebee Style Stripes
20% Ceramic Tint
DRL Harness
Upper Grill Blackout
Lower Grill Blackout
Black CAMARO side lettering
Side Gill Inserts
Tinted Front and Rear Side Markers
Tinted Reverse Lights
Painted Rear Diffuser
Painted Calipers (Yellow)
EmblemPros Plaque with Vin/build date
Scorch Yellow Interior Trim
Painted Speedo Bezel (yellow)
Painted Steering wheel trim (yellow)
Dyed stitching (yellow)
Painted Shifter Surround (black/yellow)
Painted 4pack (yellow)
Custom Yellow floormats
Manual Shift Boot
Transformers Door Sills
Black Custom Pedals
Willing to let her go for $25K - thats my bottom line... not a penny less...
If not then Im putting the stock exhaust on and bringing it to the dealership...
If anyone is interested PM me
Holy shit that thing is nice... if it had a stickshift and I hadnt already bought a Camaro I would've taken it for 25k.
You've put some hard work in that ride. Looks sweet, be proud of it! Good luck with the fam and finding someone to buy it!
[QUOTE=Camero5;6448942]Definitely a steal. KBB as of today is 28k on trade and 31k private
Thanks for the :bump: guys...
Can't figure out why no one is interested....
Headers are for sale - for free.... just have to provide a stock setup and do the work (or have a shop do it)
See the local for sale thread...
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French Perspectives - A Peasant Hero Of Provence
( Originally Published 1916 )
ANY one who has made a long stay in Arles knows Charloun, the old peasant poet of Le Paradou. When he fails to come in from his village to the Wednesday market, the cronies and farmer-folk on the promenade des Lices find bargaining dull, and the Fķlibres, who had hoped to get a song out of their brother bard, sit gloomily at the cafķ tables in the place du Forum, and declare that the morning has been wasted. As for popular festivals at the Arena or at Saint-Trophime, they are never complete without Charloun. Sometimes he reluctantly occupies a place of honor near M. Mistral and the other celebrities; but you can always find him afterwards in the midst of the crowd, leaning with sagging knees on his almond stick, his rusty hat jauntily set on his white head, and his keen, sagacious old face vividly reflecting all the humor and significance of the scene.
Pilgrims to the ruined stronghold of Les Baux are even more likely to encounter him Ś "There goes our poet," whispers the guide respectfully Ś and do not soon forget the look of his thickset figure as he strides off over the wild spurs of the Alpilles. There is something immemorial about him, and he seems as much a part of the hills as the tufts of holly and juniper and evergreen oak whose roots cling so fast to the solid rock. He is, in fact, a sort of genius loci, and his native village of Le Paradou, once a part of the terre Baussenque, lies just below the height where the splendid marauding Seigneurs ruled and their lovely Queens held Court of Love.
It was in Le Paradou itself that I first made his acquaintance. We had started on our expedition from Arles, Soeur Colombe and I, by a grass-grown railway that wanders out through level fields and vines toward the jagged chain of the Alpilles. We passed below the great gray pile of the Abbey of Montmajour, paused at Fontveille, with its thin old wraiths of flour-mills, dear to readers of Daudet, and found ourselves in rolling country, violet with flowering thyme and rosemary. As we drew nearer to the Alpilles the slopes on the left grew steeper, more rugged, scarred with limestone, burned with sunlight, and we came into the midst of almond and olive trees Ś gnarled, red-soiled orchards climbing up to meet the strange, sharp crags that made the skyline.
The neat little white box of a station where we descended, with its neat little rose-hung trellises, looks like a toy forgotten by a child in the rough-hewn landscape. It stands on a white road at some distance from the village, and the chef de gare, his chair tilted against the wall, seemed lost in contemplation of the fantastic peaks that loomed before him.
"Charloun?" Ś down scraped the chair, and he was at our side with one bound, proving himself no exception to the rule that every Provenńal loves a lover of poetry. Charloun, pardi! lived at the very end of the village street, the very last house. "You are perhaps the ladies he is expecting, friends of his Avignon friends? A fine moral character, our Fķlibre, ma Soeur, much respected in the community; a good Catholic, too," he assured my companion. "And as for his gifts, Mesdames, Ś well, our Charloun may have seventy-odd years of hard work behind him, but he's as full of sap as one of his own olive trees," continued the station-keeper admiringly. "He's not what you might call a sentimental poet Ś does n't sing of the great ladies up there at Les Baux; Alix and Queen Jeanne" Ś there was a shade of regret in the admission. "He's written with the sweat of his brow, has Charloun. An old friend of mine, of course, Ś even a collaborator, as you might say. Many a poetic evening have we spent in my station Ś" Bursting with village pride and devoured with curiosity, he started us on our way.
Le Paradou is shaded by the usual double row of plane trees; in the radiant April sunlight the roof the delicate, fluttering leaves spread over our heads was so transparent as to be almost impalpable. Yet the village had a very serious air; the iron tables in front of the cafķ were deserted; no gossips stood in the baker's red-curtained door-way. We walked on, past a scattering row of brownish stone cottages, and were just reaching the garden of the last one, which had a fig tree against the wall, when the sound of quick foot-steps behind us made us turn around; a square-built, vigorous old man with a stubbly white beard was swinging after us, stick in hand. He walked as men do who have faced the sun and wind all their lives, and driven a plough through many a tough bit of soil. A long black cape hung from his shoulders over his rough clothes; a rusty sombrero added a dash of gallantry; and the keen look he gave us under the puckered wrinkles between his eyes left us in no doubt as to his identity.
"This is well thought!" Ś It was a kindly greeting, and he unlocked the door with haste and ushered us into the whitewashed kitchen.
"The house of an old bachelor, Madamisello," he explained, with a vaguely apologetic gesture which included the huge fireplace, where a pot hung on a crane beside a pile of twigs, and a clutter of dishes and papers on the table. "Such as you see me, I do for myself since my old mother is gone. The other room is better Ś come in there, then. Remettez-vous, remettez-vous," he continued, in the odd idiom of the Midi, setting some chairs with jerky courtesy before the hearth, which was here well swept and hung with a chintz smoke-ruffle. His French halted a little, as if he had to think it out as he went along, and he wandered about his best kitchen a shade uneasily. He was obviously worried lest he might not play the part of Fķlibre for a foreign lady in just the proper way.
" What have I to show you? " he began. "Here is my translation of Homer into Provenńal. It was a long work; I did it for the glory of our language " Ś his clear blue eyes, one of which turns a little, searched my face for understanding. "Not from the Greek, from the French," he added. "I never had but six months' schooling in my life. What more have I to show you? Tenez" Ś he returned from a doubtful tour of the other room with a notebook which he opened on my knee Ś "here is a drama in four acts I have just finished." The pages were covered with an exquisitely careful, slender handwriting which one would not have believed of peasant origin. Next he brought me a German translation of his poems. He was getting a certain satisfaction out of acting his r¶le, yet he was too sincerely modest really to enjoy it. You should have seen the warm change that came over him when I spread out my copy of his "Cant dou Terraire" (" Songs of the Soil") and asked him to explain a phrase in the "Moulin d'įli," the song of the olive press.
"Madamisello! Ś you understand Provenńal?" His old brown face grew into friendly wrinkles and his eyes shone obliquely at me as he drew up a chair, comfortably crossed his baggy knees and took the thin, paper-bound volume from my hand.
"Suppose you sing it for us, M. Charloun?"
"Que," said he, tilting his head and looking at me between narrowed lids with an expressive smile, half-mockery, half-observant kindliness, that seemed to reveal much of his character. "So you have heard that Charloun sings? It is quite true, since God willed it; and all my verses, as you see from the music printed with the text, are meant to be sung. Where do I get the airs? To tell you perhaps would n't be easy. I pick them up here and there Ś songs of the good old time that were oftener heard in field and farm fifty years ago than they are to-day -- some, look you, have an echo of the religious wars, or come down from church music Ś bits I hear in cafķs and arrange after my own idea. But you do well to ask for the `Moulin d'įli.' That is a very old air. And in this village, we live, as you may say, by our olives. It has a native note Ś vouz allez voir":
"At the olive mill Ś of the Mas d'Escanin Ś we eat aiolli, every single morning Ś then when we've had our fill we go to tend the press --with the bailiff of the mill Ś who sets the pace for us."
He gave the rhythm, as popular chansonniers traditionally do, a sort of plodding monotony of emphasis, and now and then raised his right arm and lifted his chin at the same time, with his witty slanting look, as if to drive the measure and meaning of his song into our ears. His voice had a full, mellow quality that was nearer to the richness of Spain than to the sentimental Italian quaver, and struck in deeper than the senses. It blended with the soft cadences of the Provencal and made the traditional rite of olive-pressing very vivid to us.
We saw the men of Le Paradou gathered at the "great farm" of the village, and in lusty spirit pushing together at the bar of the olive press when the bailiff gave the word. How the oil sparkled, and what a jolly spluttering noise it made as it flowed down into the stone trough, to the tune of the bells of a strong pair of turning mules! And how brave was the shout that went up when, at last, after all the careful processes were done, the chaland was seen appearing over the hill, with a bottle of fine crusty wine in which old and young joined in a health to next year!
"That, certainly," Ś Charloun scratched his beard, savoring our appreciation, "is one of the best of the `songs of work and trade." He read out the titles lingeringly: there were songs of harvesters and reapers, of vine-tenders, and ox-herds, and wagoners, and quarriers, and many other laborers in the farms, and vineyards, and grazing lands of the neighboring Crau and Camargue. "Geography is a queer thing, eh, Madamisello? here austere, there bountiful. Just a few miles to the north of us, in Saint-Remy, in Vaucluse, life is rich, full of ease. We of Le Paradou have a hardier lot. You've been to Les Baux? You've seen from the hills the wide moors and marshes that stretch from our olive orchards to the salt lakes and the Mediterranean? Ś a melancholy expanse, to your eye. But what would you? Śwe belong to it. There's something sober in our bone and sinew."
One song led to the next. "I ought, pardi! to save my voice for Sunday," Charloun would re-mind himself, "but here's just one more." So we had love-songs with pathetic minor harmonies that took us over the stony hill-paths and into the shepherds' huts; we heard the gay swing of farandole and mazurka in the villages on Sunday afternoons; we listened to the story of "Ma Galino" (" My Hen ") and "The Broken Plough," an epic of the revolt of Robin, his faithful mule. Charloun has a witty and affectionate understanding of animal psychology, and his friends and comrades of the barnyard have played an important part in his life. He even took us into the confidence of his difficulties with the sheriff's officer, in a song called "Ma Sesido" ("The Seizure of my Goods").
" This," he told us, with something of the ruse of the peasant kindling his eye, "is a humorous tale Ś perhaps the most popular of all my songs in the department." The turns of phrase have, indeed, all the racy expressiveness of popular speech; Blanchard, the pompous huissier, is inimitably characterized, and Charloun does not spare the meager contents of his own poor little house. "Oh, friend Blanchard," pleads the chorus Ś Charloun had escaped to the attic when the enemy entered, with his two gardes-champĻtres. "It's true I'm a bit late with my taxes; but this is such a bad year! Go, pray, and tell the collector that he be not so zealous; in three or four days I'll step around to see him!" Blanchard, however, "straight as a poplar," only bends his neck stiffly to note everything in his inventory: a pot with beans beginning to boil; a picture of St. Peter and the cock, "which you would say was just ready to crow"; a bread-trough; a warming-pan; a bed, two pairs of old trousers, full of holes... .
"Allons! will you have for the very last the `Return of the Mountain Shepherds'? You know, Madamisello, all our flocks have to go to the Alps in summer, and when we see them streaming back over the dusty road it is a great emotion Ś or the Carol I sing up there at Les Baux, at the midnight mass of the shepherds on Christmas Eve Ś ah, ah, ma Soeur, it's beautiful" ŚSoeur Colombe's eyes were bright Ś "when the dark old church is alight, and the youngest of the flock is laid on the altar of the sheepshearers."
I believe the old man would be singing yet if I had n't asked him what first led him to write verses.
"Ah, ma brave Demoiselle" Ś I saw that the question brought us nearer Ś "it was `Mireille.' And why not? The village schoolmaster lent it to my father. `Thou must read it to thy children,' he told him. My father did n't, mon Dieu, care about it. To say truth, at first on me, too, it made little impression; the beautiful language of Mistral was n't the rude patois we of Le Paradou spoke. But, as I used to work at my olives, the rhythm began to sound in my head. And I said to myself I would try to make verses, too, in the Provenńal tongue, according to my own idea, for my Provence, for my comrades. How many little birds on the sumac bushes, when one is young, Madamisello!" He sighed and rubbed his bristly chin.
"Look you," he began again, with some little hesitation, "I believe you understand? I am talking of intimate and sacred things. Poetry just comes, like a spring. You don't know why Ś or why it sometimes stops coming. One must be willing to say only a little, if need be. Above all, never invent Ś say only what one knows and feels. That 's the only virtue I have, moi qui vous parle. Try for an effect and it's lost. Look at those Parisians. They go on because they have once begun. Ah, ah, pressure, fame Ś we have no Lamartines now. And then, there is commerce, parbleu! It is industry that prevents you from having great poets in America now, is n't it so? I read of Pittsburg in my newspaper; it sounds like as two pebbles to Salon, Ś eh? You know Salon, that large manufacturing town not far from here? There are, I'm told, as many as thirteen thousand inhabitants! Well, there is n't a writer in the place. In a village dose by live two or three poets. I thank the belle Sainte Vierge that I was born in a village."
"Yet as to time," I objected, "you can't have had much more than the Salonais."
"For writing? I believe you, my poor young lady! Only, till my old age, when the other laborers were resting in the heat of the day; I was the oldest of a sizable family, so it was n' t merely our olives I had to tend. In bad years or idle seasons I had to hire out, here and there Ś turn reaper and shearer and vintager. For that mat-ter, work is the common lot; only the sickest will die of it, as my mother used to say. She had a tongue of her own, and no patience with versifying; a poet to her was a badaud, a songe-creux Ś some sort of lazy loon." He shook his head rue-fully. "She was right in her way; it is n't sous one gets out of it, to be sure. But sometimes, Madamisello, it seems hard, do you know, that nobody in one's family understands? I have one brother left Ś but when he comes to see me, can I talk to him as I do to you? Nenni ! he would only laugh. If I 'd had a wife and children to keep, even my siestas would have been lost to poetry. So I've stayed single. It's lonely, I don't say to the contrary Ś but one must make sacrifices in this life, Madamisello. Tenez, when I'm going to give an evening of singing anywhere, to the guardians of the wild Camargue cattle, or at Beaucaire on a Sunday, I can't touch wine during the week. Everything has its cost. But poetry, as for that, comes while you 're working," ended Charloun. "I have dug my best rhymes out of a field at the foot of the Alpilles. That's why I still keep a piece of land. I wake at three in the morning, nowadays, and things begin Ś God be praised Ś to sing in my head. If the verse does n't come, I say my prayers again Ś in this life one must have faith. But if the bon Dieu does n't happen to send a rhyme, I get up and take my spade and go out."
When we returned to the station, we found the chef de gare watching for us, and eager to hear our impressions of his "collaborator." He, also, was a Fķlibre, he confided, and gave a rhapsodic description of his station at four in the morning Ś the silence, the nightingales at dawn! But the duties of his profession were very severe; he was not, like Charloun, able "to live his life." " Charloun has a few thousand francs, but what does he make of them? He cares nothing for money. When he is composing he forgets to eat, peca're! He might not have had a comfortable roof to his head if we of Le Paradou had n't united to buy him his house. All the same he is right Ś he lives his life, and for everything he has his idea, pardi ! "
"Did you ever hear how he tried the stone-mason's trade?" By this time the station keeper had pressed us to accept chairs by his trellis. "No? That was when I was a little boy, years ago: Our great Mistral relates it in the preface to the `Cant dou Terraire.' Well, then, at Le Paradou they decided to build a new cemetery; Charloun, to every one's surprise, Ś for he was no mason, Ś took the contract at the lowest bidding, and slaved early and late with old Robin, his mule, hauling the stone and building the walls. What for? Ś he did n't make water to drink! It was, if you'll credit it," Ś our companion was fluttering the pages in haste and turned a deaf ear to the whistle of our approaching train, Ś "for the pleasure of writing on the cross that stands in the middle of the enclosure a patriotic verse in our native tongue; `So that in one hundred years,' he said, `in five hundred years, Ś in perhaps one thou-sand years, Ś those who read this carved stone will know that at Le Paradou they spoke Provenńal!' "
In spite of Charloun's devotion to the cause of the Provenńal renaissance, he was for many years unable, for lack of time and means, to make an actual part of the Felibrige. Now, in the increasing ease of his advancing years, it is delightful to find him one of the most popular members of the brotherhood of Provenńal poets. When, a month after my excursion to Le Paradou, I saw them all gathered together at Aix-en-Provence for the great septennial fĻtes of Sainte-Estelle, Charloun seemed one of the most genuinely representative members of their happy poetic democracy. His homely songs were very much in demand; at the Cour d'Amour the crowd joined, thousands strong, in the chorus to "Ma Sesido," and his compeers split their sides laughing at his tale of his "Voyage Ó Paris."
Who would not have liked to meet him in front of the Pantheon, leaning on his almond staff! The journey to Paris was the great adventure of his old age Ś perhaps, indeed of his whole humble life. For to travel even so far as Aix is a tremendous affair for Charloun. Arles is familiar ground, but it is difficult to induce him to visit Avignon, and he is never so much himself as in his native village.
Charloun's own fĻte, thanks to the efforts of his "collaborator," was celebrated at Le Paradou in June; a charming family festival on traditional lines, it proved, such as every true lover of the "province of provinces" most appreciates. Imagine the Fķlibres and the groups of poetical friends from Arles, and Avignon, and Tarascon descending from the toy train on, a hot Sunday morning, mopping their faces with red bandanas, opening their green umbrellas, Ś for the June sun was merciless, Ś and blinking as they emerged into the white glare. The Fķlibre station-keeper, proud and joyously perspiring, marshalled us all into line: the entire population of the country had gathered to receive us. There were pretty girls in white coiffes and kerchiefs, handsome youths in white trousers and red sashes, shepherds, farmers and their women-folk, sunburnt "gardians" from the Camargue, children, and village gossips, and important civic authorities.
Headed by two bands of musicians Ś the Lyre de Beaucaire and the Tambourinaires de Maillane had kindly offered their services Ś our procession advanced under the plane trees. The far end of the village was soon reached, the drums and flutes sounded their loudest flourishes; and Charloun appeared, a fine, clumsy, touching figure, at the door of the little brown cottage. His eyes were sparkling, but he did n't know quite where to look.
There was, however, no resisting the ardent tribute of popular admiration. He was embraced, slapped on the back, swept on into the "order of the day," which continued according to precedent. First came a speech overflowing with "regionalism" from M. le Maire at the Town Hall. He did not fail to recall that Charloun had built the Town Hall, as he had the cemetery, for the sole profit and glory of writing a Provenńal verse over the door. When the State had had its say, we proceeded to the village church to hear a solemn mass, with old Provenńal canticles, and a sermon on the "Cult of our native church-tower."
The lunch that followed at the cafķ, and in the fields, unloosed tongues and set the farandole whirling down the dusty shade of the road. And the afternoon ended with a programme of music and poetry before the old fańade of the Mas d'Escanin, which dates from the time of the Seigneurs of Les Baux.
A pair of Charloun's friends stole away from the festivities in the late afternoon, and striking in through one of the red-soiled valleys, where the olive trees roll in soft gray lines to the foot of the Alpilles, scrambled up through sliding pebbles and close-growing patches of thyme and gorse to the top of the nearest mountain spur. The hour had diffused an intense purity of light over the wastes of timeless stone; the strange, silent peaks seemed burning with an austere radiance; and the acrid sweetness of herbs, steeped all day in the hot Provenńal sunshine, rose to the wide blue vault above.
The Alpilles must have had as somber a beauty, we reflected, when the Romans were encamped up there on the tortured heights between Les Baux and Glanum (Saint-Remy), waiting and watching for the Barbarians. In those days Charloun would have scouted for Marius in these same rocky solitudes, and heard the same pebbles dropping down into the valley, beneath his cautious foot. I saw him hunting partridges among the prickly juniper bushes for the Counts of Les Baux, in the fierce days when the hills ran with blood, and feasting was heavy after battle in the halls that now make so grim and riddled an out-line against the sky. Yes, we agreed, Charloun was a genius loci; the guardian of this admirable desolation; the very spirit of the fruitful olive orchards that cling to its lower slopes. He could no more utterly perish, one felt, than the characteristic tree of his Midi, which carries immortality in its heart.
" Just look at that hoary old olive," said my companion, as we climbed down again into the orchard; "the tree, I mean, all twisted and bent with age, that has its branches propped up, and its trunk full of plaster. It must be a thousand years old. If you'd seen it last autumn you'd have called it dead, I'll wager, Ś hollow trunk, withered branches, dropping leaves! But a Provenńal farmer will never admit that one of his ancestral olives can die. He just nurses it a little, puts a patch here and a crutch there and a good warm blanket of rich earth about the roots. And see how right he is! With the first spring sunshine all these slim green shoots begin to feather out " Śmy friend laid an affectionate hand on the crabbed bark. "I can feel the sap flowing! And look at the newly budding leaves; the old tree is born again and will outlive another century, another thousand years, perhaps!"
At this moment a sudden wave of music and a long sound of cheering rose from the homely cluster of roofs at our feet to remind us that Charloun's festival must be nearly at an end. Soon a lively mass of tiny figures began to emerge from the village onto the ribbon of white road: the hero, flanked by the tambourins and galoubets, which were striking up a last aubade, was escorting his admirers to the evening train. The sunset light made a bright halo about the dusty procession, drew long, slanting rays across the wide blue haze of the plain beyond, and touched the distant salt lakes with a red gleam.
"Ah!" said my Provenńal friend, as we made our way through the valley toward the station, "is it not good to know, in this practical century of ours, Ś good especially for an American to know that there is still one country where poets are sages, and poetry gets almost more than its due? "


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PINCKNEY, JOHN M. (1845–1905). John McPherson Pinckney, United States congressman, the son of Carolene (Finney) and Thomas Shulrick Pinckney, was born on May 4, 1845, near Fields Store in what was then Grimes County but is now Waller County. When the Civil War began in 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army. As a member of Company G, Fourth Regiment of Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade, Pinckney fought at the battles of Eltham's Landing, Gaines' Mill, Second Manassas, Antietam, Wilderness, Chickamauga, and Gettysburg and was present at the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in 1865. Pinckney joined the Confederates as a private and left the army as a lieutenant.
After the war he returned to Fields Store and worked as a cotton weigher and justice of the peace while he studied law. After admission to the bar in 1875, Pinckney moved to the county seat, Hempstead, where he was district attorney for the Twenty-third Judicial District of Texas from 1890 until 1900. From 1900 to 1903 he served as Waller county judge. He won election to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1903 and filled a seat vacated by Thomas H. Ballqv. Pinckney represented the First Congressional District of Texas in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth congresses. He was a prohibitionist. On April 24, 1905, he died from gunshot wounds received while attempting to stop a fight at the Waller County Courthouse, where he and members of the Prohibition League were considering a petition calling for the Texas Rangersqv to enforce a recently enacted prohibition law. Pinckney, who was unarmed, his brother Thomas D., and two other men died. His accused murderer, Roland Brown, was acquitted. Pinckney, a bachelor, was survived by his sister, Susanna S. Pinckneyqv, and a brother, Robert Pinckney. After a funeral conducted by a Baptist minister and members of the Masonic lodge, Pinckney was buried in the Hempstead City Cemetery. As a result of the publicity surrounding his death, the town of Hempstead became known as "Six-Shooter Junction."
Biographical Directory of the American Congress. C. L. Sonnichsen, Ten Texas Feuds (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1957; rpt. 1971). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
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Using geographically specific language on-site is critical. Having a physical address, large city names, and state locations on-page remains vital and valuable, but it also matters in link building.
Sure, having a good geographical title tag may be enough to get you to rank somewhere near the top, but if you back that up with some off-site work you may get the extra boost to push you forward.
It's fairly common knowledge that backlink anchor text is one of the most important factors when it comes to ranking. We use that power often enough when it comes to ranking for major keywords, but it can also be a useful ally in getting to the top of location-based searches.
When we can affect the anchor text being used to link to our sites it's easy enough to add a state or city name in conjunction with a target keyword or phrase. But we don't live in an ideal link world. Often we can't control what words are used to link to us, so we sometimes need to incorporate geographically themed goals into the planning process.
Creating content that centers on a particular area may appeal to a more a limited market, but it can be useful in obtaining links from websites dedicated to that specific region. While the audience is smaller, the chances of the location you want to rank for being incorporated into your anchor text is much higher.
Another commonly acknowledged factor of ranking is related to the context of the link. In this case it has less to do with the placement or formatting of a link on a page and more to do with the language that surrounds it.
Aside from the anchor text, the words and topics on the linking page send strong messages about the topic of the site being linked to. Use web pages that are dedicated to a specific place to your advantage.
Whether it's a single page or an entire site devoted to a particular locale, if it's your locale, it's a good place for a link. The indicators on the linking page or site that are geographical can help enforce your local relevance.
That's why articles in local papers, local directories and review sites can be effective. Sure, a mention in the Hometown Daily Herald isn't a citation from the New York Times, but it's certainly valuable in its own right.
If a physical address on your site is influential, imagine the geographical relevance that you can get by acquiring links on other websites with similar addresses? OK, maybe the businesses in your neighborhood aren't directly related to your business, but their addresses are definitely related to your local goals.
And the fact that you probably aren't a competitor of everyone in your business district is also helpful. In fact, it creates opportunities to can work out partnerships, and mutually beneficial agreements.
Perhaps the best part is that you can physically walk in and meet with a business owner face to face. E-mail requests are easily ignored. It's much harder to delete someone who is standing in front of you.
It's not just other local businesses that offer opportunities either. Communities are filled with institutions that are looking to build relationships. From a chamber of commerce to community groups, there is potential for symbiosis all around you.
Whether it's getting a link for sponsoring a local charity walk, or getting a bio link as a member of a not-for-profit theater board, a link is a link.
Another good way to find local citation opportunities is with tools like this one, which can help you identify key contacts in your area. By going the extra mile to get links in these places, the location-based indicators surrounding your link can add crucial support to your geo-targeting efforts.
TLDs and Servers
From an international perspective, there's something to be said for getting links with country specific top-level domains (TLDs) and server locations.
When it comes to on-site geo-targeting, most SEOs believe that a country specific domain is one of the strongest ways to target that particular country. If it's true for building your own site, it seems logical that it would be at least somewhat true for building links.
You may not always get all of your links on sites which also target your primary region, but it may be worth putting some effort into. Certainly, a link on a strong .com can be as useful or more so, than a .uk or a .ca in terms of raw power.
There are strong geographical benefits to going after a link on a site with a TLD that matches your target country. If you want to dig really deep for the ultimate geo-targeting factor, have a quick look at where a site's domain is hosted. Getting links from websites hosted on servers and IP addresses in the location you're targeting can add additional power to your geographically focused efforts.
Yes, building links is hard and sometimes it's a challenge to earn good, honest citations at all, without shooting for location specific goals.
We often treat link building with an over-burdened mother's approach to dinner -- "You'll get what I give you and you'll like it."
Sometimes we should be happy we get fed at all, but that doesn't mean we can't get what we really want once in a while.
In this case, it's additional support for geo-targeting efforts. It may be difficult, sure, and it certainly isn't an every link endeavor. But when the opportunities arise or when they can be created, there is a lot value in ranking well for searches that are close to home.


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Grain-free Pizza Bites
- By Lindsay Tupper
- 3 January, 2014
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OMG, these grain-free pizza bites are so yummy! They do have some dairy in them, which we indulge in occasionally, but they definitely make a better alternative to a big doughy pizza that will probably make you feel like crap later. Everyone gets a craving for pizza every now and then, and I have to say that these totally satisfy that craving for me and my family. Give them a try and let me know what you think!
- 1 zucchini
- 2 tbsps. tomato paste (approximately)
- some sliced pepperoni
- slices of Monterey jack cheese
- sprinkle of oregano
- Heat oven to 400
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper
- Slice the zucchini into 1/4 inch pieces
- Top with just a little bit of tomato paste, about 1/4 tsp.
- Place one pepperoni on each slice
- Top with a piece of cheese
- Bake for 10-12 minutes
Let cool for a few minutes before eating because they will be super hot!
These would make a great appetizer for guests because they are so pretty and taste delicious!
Lindsay Tupper
I love being a mom, eating delicious Paleo foods to stay healthy and fit, and blogging to share tips with other moms!
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Ooh these sound (and look) great! I'm adding them to the menu this week Just found your blog through a Facebook comment (on Primally Inspired I think??)


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Chanel Levres Scintillantes Glossimer Reviews
My favorites!I do not care how much these things cost, they are so worth it! I also have a tube in my makeup bag. The best thing about this gloss (besides the color) is how long it lasts. I have worn it during dinner, and it stayed on for the whole time. Like I said, it is worth the money!!! — 7 years, 5 months agominervaspsyche | 15 reviews
Go out and buy Sirop and Seashell!I ADORE these lipglosses! They can be worn alone or on top of lipstick. They come in the most beautiful shades and feel great on your lips — 7 years, 5 months agoLyoness126 | 22 reviews
"Spark" is the greatestI have fair skin and usually shy away from anything except a little pink on my lips. This color is the ultimate way to dress up your face. It's the perfect sheer/red/subtly-golden-flecked lipgloss I have ever bought. It's not gooey or waxy or flavored. It even works on the apples of your cheeks for a healthy glow. I never leave home without it. — 7 years, 5 months agoKaralyn | 4 reviews
PerfectThis gloss is worth every penny. Unlike most others, there is no waxy taste or scent. With a huge selection of colors, there is one for every season. Looks great on lips, leaving them shiny, light and looking more full. Lasts quite long for a gloss and does not dry out lips. A bonus is the packaging with applicator, so you don't end up with any on your fingers — 7 years, 5 months agoDaintree | 3 reviews
Beyond just lipglossChanel has outdone themselves with these amazing glosses. The new colors from the Galaxy collection are unbelievable. I have found the perfect colors, and textures in these glosses! Glossimer gives you intense shine and shimmer, without becoming sticky. I have searched forever for the perfect shade of pink with a punch, and found it in the color" Astral". These are truly unbeatable! — 7 years, 5 months agojennifer24 | 1 reviews
The only lip gloss I ownI have been using this lip gloss (in Spark) for years. I always have a tube in my purse, my car and my make-up drawer. It stays on, doesn't dry my lips out and I can apply it without a mirror. Perfect. — 7 years, 5 months agostablesitter | 7 reviews
TwinkleI always carry Chanel Glossimer's Twinkle. It is the most amazing lip gloss that I have ever used. It feels like you are wearing almost nothing and looks great! — 7 years, 5 months agoLeahB718 | 3 reviews
perfect lipglossthe glossimer in Spark is in my bag at all times. its not to sticky, its not to shiny, its the perfect color. it is so worth the $25 every time. — 7 years, 5 months agoeyelaviewtwo | 3 reviews
Didn't want to love it but I do!It really is a terrific lip gloss: it lasts pretty well even though it isn't one of those long-lasting types, and it isn't tacky or sticky. — 7 years, 5 months agoATXWendy | 8 reviews
Leave it to ChanelThis is my favorite lip gloss. I tend to use lipstick but, when I do prefer lip gloss, this is the one for me. It's not tacky and goes on smooth. It gives your lips a sexy smile. It's worth every penny and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes lip gloss over lipstick. My favorite color is brilliant. — 7 years, 5 months agoCarolynD13 | 3 reviews
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What is a birth doula
A birth doula supports a woman or couple through pregnancy and labour.
Her role is very much focused on emotional and practical support. She is not there to advise on medical questions. Her role is NEVER to replace a midwife but to work positively alongside all medical professionals.
She will be sensitive to the couple's relationship and will discuss with them how she can best support them ensuring not to exclude the woman's partner.
Most birth doulas offer a package of at least 2 antenatal visits, as many calls/e-mails as necessary, the labour (for as long as needed) and 1 or 2 visits after the birth. For this she will charge a package fee. A doula is self-employed and her fee will reflect the services she offers, the experience she brings to her role and geographical location. It may be a good idea to ask several doulas what they charge if you are unsure. Usually you can expect to pay anything from £150 to £800 for a birth package.
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'My tears when I wave my daughter off to school for the first time will be for me' says one Gloucestershire mum
Posted: September 03, 2014|
THE big day is here. Wearing the shiniest shoes she has ever owned, my little girl, Mirissa, is about to skip through the school gates.
I'll be helping her find her coat peg and trying very hard not to cry.
And that is how we will begin the daily routine set to last the next 14 years.
For me this is the second time round. Four years ago my son started school, and I remember it felt like 'my first day' too. Walking into the playground I felt just as nervous and shy as my son might have felt at starting 'big school'.
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In fact my son actually coped better than me.
He skipped out a couple of hours later saying; "Mummy I didn't learn anything."
It was me who was emotionally fragile. I felt the 'big wide world' encroaching on our family.
Up until then, I had been the centre of his world, making all the decisions about his day-to-day life, friendships and experiences.
Now I was about to hand my precious child over to the 'system.'
His teacher seemed great and professional, the school is lovely, but still I felt apprehensive.
He was about to spend six hours a day, five days a week in this classroom with 30 other children. And even though he'd been going to childcare since he was a baby, it felt extreme.
Now my daughter, Mirissa is about to follow in his footsteps.
My little girl is going to 'big school' and I'll be wrestling with my emotions all over again.
But it's a bit different this time.
I've learnt a few lessons.
I still feel that the school system in the UK is; "too much, too soon".
I'd like a gentler start for these little four-year-olds.
It seems wrong that the only choice is to send her to school for 30 hours a week.
The system is designed for the benefits of working parents not the needs of young children. A more gradual start would give her the time to enjoy a little more childhood freedom and family time.
But I know that's a radical thought, and we have to accept the circumstances of the time.
And my son has thrived at a good community school. I can see the huge benefits he's gained from broadening horizons. He has good friends and a sense of community. He has learnt about all kinds of things, from ancient Egypt to tropical rainforests, as well as how to be a good team player.
And I know my little girl will enjoy all those opportunities too.
So I am less fearful of school than when my first-born started.
No, my teary eyes will be for me.
I'll have to fight very hard not to be overwhelmed with nostalgia. As a part-time journalist I have been lucky enough to enjoy days at home with her each week. So school marks the end of toddler groups, play dates and spontaneous picnics.
But realistically I know that I also spent much of that pre-school time going to the supermarket and getting housework done while keeping a toddler occupied. I'm not going to fall into a rose-tinted reverie.
No, my plan is to look forward and after eight years of motherhood to pre-school children, I'm focussing on the next chapter. With a bit more time on my hands, new opportunities beckon.
And I've given myself a list of jobs, starting with some much-needed DIY to fill the little bit of extra time I'll have on my hands.
School is simply the next phase, for all of us. My role as mum isn't diminished, it will simply be slightly different.


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Off latest hamstring "slight tear," Hayward started running 2 weeks ago. Is targeting a full return for Day 1 of #Packers OTA's.
McCarthy says second-year CB Casey Hayward (@show_case29) will be out "multiple weeks" after reinjuring his hamstring last week. #Packers
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The "Round Robin" guidelines were as follows: "One musician starts a solo improvisation, another musician then joins for a duo improvisation. After that, musician #1 leaves the stage and musician #3 joins musician #2 for another round. This continues until everyone has performed." This was the second year the Round Robin was part of the Red Bull Music Academy series and like the prior incarnation, this night included a variety of musicians who excel across different genres including jazz, rock, electronic and blues. The free-form event saw over 15 musicians grace the Town Hall stage to take part in the funky shenanigans.
Although most of the night, save the crowded-stage finale, followed the format mentioned above, there was a brief break in continuity when Jamie Lidell's equipment didn't work initially, which left one of the musicians to plug in the space with an extended set. Fortunately, it was Allen Toussaint who had to bear that burden and his dexterous piano chops showcased a bunch of musical styles, like Vince Guaraldi and a few jokes including a bit of "Taps". Lidell was in good spirits though when he finally got his gear working. By the climax, Kaki King was playing on someone else's guitar and the musicians played off each other's jams. The show hadn't been sold out, but it was quite a unique experience.


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MUNCIE - Claudell Connell, 76, departed this life to begin his heavenly life with our Lord and Savior on October 13, 2013 after a brief illness. He passed away to glory surrounded by his daughter, Dana; sisters, Shirley, Dorothy, Jeanette; his brother, Larry; and his niece, Katrina.
He was born on December 27, 1936 to his proud parents, Eddie and Minnie Lee Connell, in Tigrett, TN, on November 15, 1968 he married his soul mate, Clara Mae (Athalone) Connell.
Claudell was employed and retired from Delco Battery. He attended True Vine Heart of God Ministry. Claudell was an example that it is never to late to Chose Ye This Day, Whom you will serve. Accepting Christ late in life, was eminent he could no longer run from what the Lords will was for him.
Claudell leaves to cherish his memory but mourn his passing his eldest daughter, Claudia Jean English; his caregiver and youngest daughter, Dana Lynn Connell; two sons, Jerald Connell and Larry Joe Connell; his step daughters, Sheryl Kirksey, Wardetta Davis (Ernest); his step daughter-in-law, Velvest Roberts; his only granddaughter, Kylah (Tweeter) Moore; and his only grand-son, Dorian (Punchin Man) Wilford II (DJ); six step-grandchildren, Denise Hunter, Charles Roberts Jr., Tiffany Blair, Ryan Jabali Davis (Shayla), Jamal Roberts, and Justin Davis; three sisters, Shirley Gillum (Charles), Dorothy Ivy and Jeanette Connell; one brother, Larry Connell (Pauletta); several nieces, special niece, Betty Brooks; several nephews; special nephews, Mike Hopgood (who preceded him in death), Carlos "Mendozas" Smith and Danny Connell; several great and great-great nieces; several great and great-great nephews; several aunts, uncles in the extended Boykin family; special friends, Willie Gholar Jr., James Woodgett, Elmer "Fudd" Ashley, Ananias Thompson, Rev. W.C. Edwards, Ola Tate and Jean Carol Anthony with a host of dear friends that will miss him dearly.
He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 43 years, Clara Mae Connell; his parents, Eddie and Minnie Lee Connell; a sister, Eddy Mae Hopgood; three brothers, James "Pin-Point" Connell, Leroy Connell and Chester Holmes; two nephews, Michael Hopgood and Christopher Smith.
Funeral Service will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, October 19, 2013 at True Vine Heart of God Ministry. Calling hours will be Friday October 18, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Gholar & Gholar Funeral Services, 900 East Kirby Avenue.
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Google faces class action suit over unauthorized in-app purchases
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Class-action filing mirrors similar $32.5M suit against Apple
A class action lawsuit against Google has been filed, accusing the search company of enabling unauthorized in-app purchases. The suit, filed by law firm Berger & Montague in San Francisco, accuses Google of failing to protect device owners from such purchases, and mirrors an earlier case against Apple over the same matter, one which led to a settlement of $32.5 million.
The new lawsuit stems from a parent of a five-year-old child in New York, reports GigaOM. The son spent $65.95 on "Crystals," an in-game item used in Marvel Run Jump Smash! that was used on an unidentified Samsung Galaxy tablet. While Google Play purchases typically require a password to be entered, both in-app and in the store itself, a password is not required for subsequent purchases in a thirty-minute window, something the suit alleges is "designed to enable children to purchase in-game currency without parental permission and without having to enter a password."
Shanon J. Carson of Berger & Montague claims "Google has unfairly profited by marketing free or low-cost games to children and by permitting them to easily rack up charges for worthless in-game currency, by failing to incorporate reasonable controls such as simply requiring the entry of a password. Google is certainly aware that its primary competitor, Apple, has taken steps to end this unfair practice, and Google should do the same."
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Apple had a smaller 15-minute password-free window of opportunity, something it has already closed. This has not stopped some families from being caught out, with Apple being pressured to refund over $2,500 in in-app purchases for one child's spending spree last year.
In-app purchases have received considerable attention from law makers in Europe, with both Apple and Google expected to discuss with the European Commission over the issue, with the UK's Office of Fair Trading setting principles for in-game advertising and purchases, rules which developers have until April 1st to abide by.


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Phrae is renowned in northern Thailand for its fine teak houses. There are many to admire all over the city, but none to match what is claimed to be the world's largest teak structure, the Ban Prathap Chai, in the hamlet of Tambon Pa Maet near the southern edge of Phrae. Like many such houses, it's actually a reconstruction of several older houses—in this case, nine of them supported on 130 huge centuries-old teak posts. The result is remarkably harmonious. A tour of the rooms open to public view gives a fascinating picture of bourgeois life in the region. The space between the teak poles on the ground floor of the building is taken up by stalls selling a variety of handicrafts, including much carved teak.
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Two months ago, Davon House was zeroing in on the Green Bay Packers starting cornerback spot across from Tramon Williams.
Today, the second-year cornerback is fighting his way back up the depth chart and onto the teams game-day roster after being inactive for the first five games of this season.
As the 6-foot, 195-pound cornerback appeared to be closing in on the starting job during training camp, House sustained a shoulder subluxation in the Packers preseason-opener against San Diego. He avoided surgery, but was forced to miss the remainder of the preseason while he recovered.
Now wearing a shoulder harness, House has been a full participant in practice for the past couple weeks, but remains questionable for todays game against the Texans in part because of the production of the cornerbacks in front of him.
Since Houses injury, Sam Shields recovered from a slow start to his third NFL season to become a dependable option as the teams No. 2 cornerback.
With Casey Hayward settling into the dime package and Jarrett Bushs continued special-teams contributions, theres been no reason to risk rushing House back onto the field.
House is coming, Packers cornerback coach Joe Whitt said. I think Sams played, especially in the pass game, really well. He was targeted, what, seven times last game (with) three completions for 22 yards. He had one game that, the New Orleans game, where he gave up the explosive but, other than that, the first three games he didnt give up a completion. Ive been very pleased with his covering.
Tramon is Tramon, so and Casey, hes getting better. I think hes given up maybe six completions (and) four came in that New Orleans game. To answer your question, theyre playing better, so House is going to have to play better to get on the field.
Although House still sits, Whitt has said at various points this season that no player hes coached has improved more in one year than House, who showed increased physicality to start his second NFL season after being limited to only two games last season due to hamstring and ankle injuries.
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