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So you want a cleaner, clearer pond? ... Of
course you do. Then make it easy on yourself. Treat
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bottom. This unsightly mess comes from windborne
dust, leaves, garden run off and fish faeces. Any
food that remains uneaten also finds its way to the
pond bottom. This latter source can be reduced
enormously by feeding high quality
low ash floating pond food pellets and by making
sure you do not overfeed your fish (one of the
leading causes of all pond problems).
In large koi ponds expensive bottom drain
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fish ponds the pond vacuum (often called pond-vac or
pondvacs) is perfect. They are used like indoor
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dead vegetation by suction or vacuum.
Bradshaws carry a complete range of pond vacuums
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You simply attach the Tensor pond vacuum to your
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Water is forced through a narrow opening which
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the water flow from the tap forcing the dirty and
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the water flows back into the pond through the
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[Kanpani] April 27, 2018 Maintenance
▼ Event
Kanpani☆Fly Fly! Mini Carp Streamers and the Rain Clearing Mikos
Duration: 4/27 (Fri) maintenance to 5/18 (Fri) maintenance
※ See this post for more details
▼ Campaign
[Shinestone Purchasing Campaign 8] begins
Duration: 4/27 (Fri) maintenance to 5/18 (Fri) maintenance
※ See this post for more details
▼ New Content
New Employees added
☆☆☆☆☆ Florence Rain (CV: Kurosawa Tomoyo)
☆☆☆☆ Rossana Prada (CV: Sairenji Aki)
☆☆☆ Lucy Ruutu (CV: Tanaka Nami)
☆☆☆☆ Koharu Sakuya (CV: Ootsu Airi)
☆☆☆☆ Chinatsu Sakuya (CV: Ariga Yurie)
※Until the 5/11 (Fri) maintenance, [Florence Rain], [Roseanna Prada], and [Lucy Ruutu] will have increased resume rates
※ [Koharu Sakuya] and [Chinatsu Sakuya] only appear during the event [Kanpani☆Fly Fly! Mini Carp Streamers and the Rain Clearing Mikos] and have further increased resume rates during this period.
※ They can appear from the daily draw as well
※ [Koharu Sakuya] and [Chinatsu Sakuya] appear as rewards from the [Sakuya Miko Envelope] that can be obtained from the event [Kanpani☆Fly Fly! Mini Carp Streamers and the Rain Clearing Mikos].
※ These two employees may appear again in the future.
※ [Koharu Sakuya] and [Chinatsu Sakuya]'s exclusive weapon recipes appear as a first clear reward from the event quests.
(Their Character Stories will appear at a later date, where you will also be able to obtain these recipes)
New [Memento] Achievement added
※ The newly added [Memento] can only be earned during the event [Kanpani☆Fly Fly! Mini Carp Streamers and the Rain Clearing Mikos]
※ The required scenario quests to earn this achievement will be added at the latter half of the event.
After earning the [Memento], it will remain even after the event has ended.
▼ Changes and Fixes
Game Guide has had [Evasion Up] added under [Buffs].
Game Guide has had [Debuffs] added with certain explanations adjusted.
[Invitation Ticket] type items can now automatically move you to the quest selection screen
▼ Other
The following employees have had their resume rates returned to normal.
☆☆☆☆☆ Siegrid Ende
☆☆☆☆☆ Michaela Zaccardo
☆☆☆☆ [Phantom] Elmi Leino
The following campaigns have ended
Official Fanbook 2 Sale Commemoration Campaign
Official Fanbook 2 Sale Commemoration! Follow and Retweet Campaign
There is maintenance for an update planned for the following time frame.
While maintenance is occurring, [Kanpani☆Girls] will be unavailable.
Maintenance Time: 4/27 (Fri) 13:00 ~ 17:00 JST
※Maintenance ending time is subject to change.

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Washington Family Magazine Reviews eeBoo's Double-Sided Pencils!
This month, Washington Family Magazine reviewed eeBoo's new Double-Sided Pencils!
eeBoo produces 2 styles of JUMBO Double-Sided Pencils, including the 6 JUMBO Dinosaur Double-Sided Pencils above. The illustration for this pencil set was done by Winsor McCay, the illustrator for one of the first ever animated films, Gertie the Dinosaur. eeBoo's other jumbo pencil set, 6 JUMBO Girl In Stars Double-Sided Pencils, is illustrated by classic Australian children's book illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Every eeBoo Double-Sided Pencil has a different color on each side!
If you like eeBoo's 6 JUMBO Double-Sided Pencils, you may also like eeBoo's 12 Set Double-Sided Pencils. The beautiful artwork on the Sun & Moon 12 Double-Sided Pencils was taken from an old wood cut.
eeBoo's best seller of the new pencils is the Owl & Racoon 12 Double-Sided Pencils, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.
You may also like to see eeBoo's newest Sketchbooks! Each new pencil set, has a sketchbook cover to match!


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Out of Time: A Time Travel Mystery
Author: Monique Martin
Category: Romance/Supernatural
Suitable for: 17+
My Rating: 3.5 Stars
Format Read for Review: Kindle
Pages: 296
Description: A college professor and his aide accidentally travel back in time. Haunted by disturbing nightmares the professor fears for their safety as they wait for their chance to come back home.
In Short: This book has a pretty interesting story. The majority of it is set in the 1920s and it has a suspenseful plot. There is a sweet love story but if you aren't into romances you will find the middle part of the book to be boring and drug out. I thought the title was a little bit misleading because there wasn't a mystery to be solved and very little time traveling.
Pros: The character development in this book is wonderful. The characters are also unique and even though the main characters are opposites they compliment each other well and work together well. This book has a decent love story that will appeal to romance junkies.I thought the narrative was really great. It switched between characters to give you a broader picture of the story and also a better impression of the characters but without being redundant and repeating scenes.
Cons: I thought the middle of this book was very slow and not a lot of exciting stuff happened until the end. This definitely wasn't one of those books that I just can't put down. Because of all the little hints throughout the book you pretty much know what is going to happen. I thought the story had a lot of potential but I was disappointed by how it all played out. I don't want to give any spoilers so I'll just say I thought there could have been more time traveling, action and sleuthing.


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Harbert College's Supply Chain program was ranked No. 8 nationally among undergraduate programs and No. 11 for overall reputation
Decorated Army general, former White House cabinet member to offer insight on leadership
Troy Johnson
November 16, 2017
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey will offer "Lessons on Leadership" during an open lecture hosted by the Harbert College
Dean Hardgrave named Auburn University Provost
November 10, 2017
Bill Hardgrave has been dean of the Harbert College of Business for more than seven years, and will assume the duties of university provost on Jan. 1.
Online MBA program moves up in Princeton Review ranking
Troy Johnson
November 7, 2017
The Harbert College's online MBA program received a No. 13 national ranking in Princeton Review's most recent assessment of the nation's top 25 programs


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AW11 Trends: '70s
August 15, 2011
This may be sad but hey, I do like to plan these things! I'm thinking about what I want to wear this autumn as I want to buy things for a reason rather than ending up with a bunch of mismatching things, which is what I have done in past years. I used to be confused by buying lovely things but only having lectures to wear them to! But now I have to look decent at least five days a week so clothes need to be wearable, well fitting/good quality, and feel a bit special so I feel nice!
I'm flicking through Cosmo and Company right now as I don't buy Vogue and the past few issues of Elle UK have been a snooze fest! I took my subscriber copy on the train home and didn't read it, and even left it in Birmingham unread because one flick and I was tired and bored. Everything in there is just a bit heavy and long. However I love a good all round mag with embarrassing moments and problem pages and tips so I bought these two when I thought I was going to be without internet for the week (thanks again Sarah!).
They both funnily enough have the same autumn trend breakdowns, although I find my purchases always fall into the categories of: On Trend, Personal Style, Definite Wear, and Welcome Addition. On Trend things are of course the items that haven't been on the high street before and are key pieces for the season that will filter all the way down to a Primark copy; Personal Style items are ones that you see and you just love no matter what; Definite Wear things can be hard to pinpoint but they are things you will end up wearing loads with everything; and Welcome Additions are fun injections to freshen up your wardrobe. Welcome Additions can often be impulses for me though and things I move on from quickly, so I don't end up exploring all the different ways they can be worn.
After looking at the autumn fashion trends, I can see a few where I can adapt what I already own and can see a few items to add to my shopping list. The end result is to have a wardrobe where you don't find yourself stuck five minutes before you leave the house because you don't have the right belt/shoes/cardigan, but you end up getting good wear out of everything. It also has to feel fresh and exciting. Very tricky!!
So a major trend is '70s because it flows nicely from Spring/Summer stock. Flared palazzo trousers seem to be on the sale racks and the new racks but I won't be buying heavily into this trend as I fear it is soon to die a death!
First I already have a few furry coats that could certainly nod to the trend but I will be most likely wearing an open knit black poncho I got in the Topshop sale. It's not exactly an Ugly Betty poncho as it's more like a shawl, where you throw it around your shoulders, but it's super warm and can be thrown over all my maxi dresses and skirts when it starts to get cold, and thrown off quickly again if I'm going shopping or indoors. There's something quite luxurious about a draped coat/shawl and a long maxi skirt as they both wrap around the body but have lots of material to them, so I think that's a bit '70s luxe!
I have bright maxi skirts which, when paired with a soft curly blow dry, a felt hat, and maybe a gold belt, could definitely nod to the trend; especially as I just bought a felt hat! It's from H&M and I'm not sure I'll feel too normal wearing it as it seems pointless to wear a hat so it is just a showy item! But I will test it one day on the walk to work when I'm feeling brave. I'll take it off when I get there so wearing it for 20 minutes of the day definitely seems posey. I'm worried the wind would blow it off my head!
And of course I have my flared jeans! There is a rare day about once a month that I feel the urge to wear heels or wedges so I will get those out then. Apart from that, I'm not going to buy anything new with a '70s outfit in mind! I don't like wearing blouses and don't fancy a bright pair of trousers or a bright fur as they're a bit too much for me. A bright maxi skirt is easy to wear as it's one block colour but it would take a while to find a well fitting pair of trousers. Plus there are so many other new trends to check out!
P.S. Thank you for your interesting comments on my last post! I'm not on that pill anymore so I think I'll just have a break and let mother nature do her thing! With trying to feel better and healthier, I had a gym induction today but the huge machines, sweaty doors and many, many people were damn scary! I joined for the classes though so I'll maybe brave a machine or bike at a quiet time. When is a gym quiet?! I'm guessing in the middle of the day but I can't go then, damn!


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Fine Details for the Best Options Now for You in Images
We have already said several times recently: in digital photography, we find ourselves easily with hundreds of clichés that must be managed. Besides reducing the number of photos at the source, and using software to organize your photos, it is often difficult to choose the best photograph (s) within the same series, and one would be tempted to do "on instinct". Let's see together the objective criteria that will help you choose them.
When we do a series of photos, we can tend to take a lot of shots to have more chances to do justice to it. And even limiting the number of shots we take, we can easily end up with 5, 10 or 20 shots more or less identical, between which we must choose. From the abbey images you can get the best ones.
What are the different stages that will allow you to sort the wheat from the chaff?
- Identify duplicates
The first step is to identify which images can be considered as duplicates or not. It is of course quite subjective, and everything depends on what you wanted to express when making shots. It's up to you to know which element separates one series from another.
It is in any case essential to first define the series in which we will choose, it seems obvious. But the boundary between two sets can sometimes be blurry, and you may want to redefine that step later by refining your choices.
- Eliminate technically bad photos
Once this step is over, the most obvious thing to do is to eliminate all images that have purely technical defects. In the forefront of which a bad focus, or in general any lack of unintentional sharpness. But too much under-exposure or over-exposure, for example.
If not, it is better to be a little optimistic: at worst, if what you thought was not catching up, you will have learned something.
- Eliminate the troublesome elements
Normally it must already be much less clichés. Last rather objective element to eliminate clichés: the annoying elements of the image. It is obviously desirable to remove as much as possible from the shot, but it can still remain on some photos, for lack of attention or simply because you had no choice. These elements can be:
Objects or people in the background often cut at the edge of the frame
Things that seem to " come out " of people's heads or bodies, usually because you have not seen them go beyond shootingof distracting elements in a picture , anything that can go into competition with your topichorizontals or verticals that are not straight and that you cannot straighten in post-processing without cutting your subject
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This month's bag is the Miss Maven Ruffled Handbag.
I have to admit, not being a super girly-girl, I'm not crazy about the ruffles. Please tell me I'm not the only one! I'm not saying I don't like the bag with the ruffles, but the ruffles just aren't for me. Much like the Fringed Hobo, there's a ton of room for customization with this bag! If you love the ruffles, go crazy! But if they're not your thing, just leave them off. Either way, I think it will look fantastic.
Unfortunately I won't have time again this month to make this bag (sooo much going on!), but I'm thinking it's one I need to come back to when I have the time. It's kind of funny, really, since last September was my favorite bag from the entire book (the Blossom Handbag - which I still haven't had a chance to make), and I really like this bag a lot as well. Well, without the ruffles. ;)
Just as a heads up - we'll be taking a break from the sew along again next month (I know, I know, we just got started again!), and will pick up again in November. I promise you though, it's going to be worth the wait! I'll share more about the huge event that's taking up October (other than my -ahem- big birthday...gah...let's not talk about that!) in the next couple weeks. I promise it's worth the wait!
Do you have your fabrics picked out for your Miss Maven Ruffled Handbag? Share them in the Flickr group, and don't forget you can still link up your Everything Wristlet. I'd love to see yours!
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On this morning's dog walk, I saw lots of tiny white Privet flowers scattered on the pavement and they reminded me of the acres of white crosses in France. I then discovered, that the memorial in Thiepval (where grandfather fought) was designed by Lutyens. Good ol' Wikipedia! Not madly surprising, or even significant, 'cept we'll be staying in a hotel designed (as a house, originally) by Mr L. for our 20th wedding anniversary! Ahhh
Anyway, today I only had time to read one essay:
P.C. M1345, Special Constable, Jan 1915
in which TMP outlines the cold, dull, unexciting realities of his duties in this voluntary civic role, poldding round the city streets at night. It's full of lots of interesting social notes (including that he and his mate smoking in the street was 'winked at' by his superiors!) and wry comments, but he also frets that the drills, marching etc are not in preparation for fighting the Germans. Little did he know that just over a year later, he would be.
Wow – just looked up the quote: 'They also serve who only stand and wait' – hadn't realised it was Milton (I thought it was Churchill – oops!).


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Working Life of an Offshore Oil Rig Worker
Today we live in a fast world with increasing challenges every day. We all are in a constant competition for improvement of our living standard as we all consider settling for nothing less than the best. In such circumstances we all find shortcuts to success which can be defined as opportunities offering more accomplishment in less time. While considering such opportunities offshore jobs do come in mind. These jobs are famous for less pain and more gain in comparison to the local jobs. We all consider this option before moving on to other options. The question is why we move on and leave such a golden opportunity? Most of time it is in fact lack of proper knowledge or ignorance towards the real benefits being offered by offshore jobs and to be honest no one truly informs us the real comforting picture behind the curtain.
Oil rig working is one of the most attractive options available because of the large amount of benefits being offered in this career. First and foremost this is indeed an adventurous job. Thrilling and exciting. People who work in this field never get tired of the job as for most of the people this career requires implementation of practical skills and the true sense of a job is fulfilled.
One finds a vocation to earn or in other words earning can be defined as a primary purpose of a job if it's not volunteering. Working in an Oil rig can be considered as among a few jobs which offer much more money in comparison to the required work. Handsome salary is an essential part of this job. Working load is less and money being offered is more.
Apart from the money involved one distinctive feature of this job is the facilities being offered which add to the luxury of this job. Living conditions are terrific. Best food, cloth and residence is provided to the workers and it is kept under strict check that they have no complaint in this regard as if they are not happy with the place where they live they can't work comfortably and they can't produce the required results in the job so the companies make sure to provide the best facilities to the staff.
More career progression opportunities are available to grab in this field. Many a times it is seen that promotions are fast and increments are common. Moreover unlike other fields the entry to this profession is also comparatively easy and simple. Moreover availability of entry level jobs is much more in number as compared to other professions.
One of the many benefits being provided; one gets the golden opportunity to travel and explore the beautiful world we live in. Working hours are less for the same salary in comparison to other professions and one finds more time to spend on his areas of interest. More recreational opportunities are available in this profession than one can imagine. Your vocation becomes a vacation if you desire.
Lastly this profession is very beneficial for the world as more exploration will provide more oil and oil market would come out of a handful of Middle East countries. This will create not only more job opportunities for the local people but will also stabilize petroleum prices worldwide and contribute to the turnaround of the global economy.
In short numerous benefits are waiting for the interested individuals in the oil rig offshore companies and this career can be best defined as more gain in less time with a reasonable amount of work in addition to the luxury life style being offered.


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September 15, 2016 – September 20, 2016
Sign Up Now For Your Opportunity To Become Certified To Teach The First And Only Form of Aerial Yoga Accredited By The Yoga Alliance
Ebb n' Flow Yoga is offering current yoga instructors the opportunity to take their careers to another level by hosting a special 50-hour AIReal Yoga™ Teacher Training beginning on September 15, 2016 and running throughSeptember 20, 2016. AIReal Yoga™ is the first and only form of aerial yoga teacher training accredited by The Yoga Alliance.
Led by in-demand traveling Yogi and founder of AIReal Yoga™, Carmen Curtis, the extensive program is an opportunity to explore the asana with an aerial dynamic by using a hammock as a prop. Workshop hours are from 9:00am to 5:30pm; with each day beginning with an AIReal Yoga™ class taught by Carmen. Among its many distinctions, the practice and philosophy of AIReal Yoga™ inspires the art of teaching and truly finding one's voice as a teacher.
Participants also receive a comprehensive, detailed AIReal Yoga™ manual with 108 postures plus variations on each posture along with lesson plans for all levels of classes; including introductory, restorative/gentle, Level 2/advanced, power/fitness, vinyasa flow, kids/teens, elders and therapeutic massage.
Attendees who complete the training will become Certified AIReal Yoga™ instructors.
The cost of the AIReal Yoga™ Teacher Training is $1600.00 and payment plans are available. Early bird pricing is $1400.00 with payment due in full two weeks prior to the start of training.
Ebb n' Flow Yoga is located at 265 Main Street, Northborough, MA, 01532.
To register, contact 805.340.3412 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
About Carmen Curtis
A zealous practitioner for more than two decades, Carmen Curtis first found yoga as a way to heal her body from the extreme sport of gymnastics and professional Cirque performing, and has been teaching it ever since. A testament to the masterful-blending of athlete, art and yoga, Carmen, who is deeply influenced by the teachings of Shiva Rae, Gurmukh and Bryan Kest, has garnered a reputation as the go-to guide for self-love and healing through yoga and the aerial arts.
Hailed as a "teacher's teacher" who guides practices with great empathy, compassion and a desire to help serve, Carmen travels the world teaching workshops, retreats, conferences and teacher trainings.
When not traveling, Carmen can most likely be found hanging around at The Aerial Studio, in Ventura, CA, a certified RYS that she opened in 2012 along with her husband and fellow former Cirque performer and creative, Gregg Curtis. A production company that creates shows and live events, The Aerial Studio is also a training studio that offers classes in the aerial arts and theatre, acrobatics, dance, AIReal Yoga™, parkour, trampoline and yoga. A unique and inspirational space, The Aerial Studio is both a place to enjoy a fun form of fitness and a place to train to become a professional cirque performer.
Also an accomplished professional aerialist and choreographer, most recently Carmen trained Beyoncé and her dancers, in the art of aerial dancing, including harness and AIReal Yoga™, for the superstar's current Formation World Tour.
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The advantage of air yoga is not only bodybuilding, but also the relaxation of the mind, which is what modern urban people need.
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India's Biggest Startup Conference is Here!
In the 13 th edition of Unpluggd we aim to Create more Startup Superheroes.
Day 1(may 6th):We bring to you great insights by founders and product geeks. Talks range from scaling up (without spending a lot of cash), to cracking growth engine. We will cover B2C as well as B2B space. Some of the topics include : Product Marketing, Growth Hacking, Lean startup principles applied in real world scenario, Insights on product positioning / GTM
Networking Evening (May 6th): At the networking evening, expect a combo of founders, investors, accelerators and well, beer !
Day 2(May 7th): Meet the Guardians of our Startup Galaxy!
This is when you get to listen to a lot of real startup stories . This time around, we are focusing on bootstrapping, cockroach startups and #BraveTalks a lot!
You wouldn't want to miss this if you've got your startup gene activated or if you want to get great insights on Product management, growth hacking & Marketing!
Fun Facts:
More than 100+ Startups have been launched at Unpluggd and have raised more than $450mn in Funding!
Speakers & Topics:
> Sumit Jain, Co-Founder & CEO, CommonFloor.com on going from a garage startup to making it big
> Ankit Nagori, Ex- Flipkart Chief Business Officer On Growing Organically
> Sujayath Ali, CEO & Co-founder at Voonik on How They Scaled Voonik
> Aloke Bajpai , CEO & Co-Founder, Ixigo on Growth Hacking At A Minimal Budget
> Anirudh Narayan, Ex- Growth Hacker at Shutterstock on Product Marketing Fundamentals- What Founders Really Need To Know!
> Aditi Kulkarni, VP of Design at Postman on Scaling from 1 million to 3 million with Zero Marketing Budget
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I look forward to many years of skin that is smoother, firmer and tighter.
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The Ageless Secret GOLD Formula has benefited Dr. Perry because it makes his patients look younger and that supports his mission, which is to make his patients look good and feel good. Dr. Perry is so impressed with the product that he and his wife Dr. Barbara Guillette M.D., ear, nose and throat specialist, now personally use The Ageless Secret GOLD Formula as a way to naturally reverse the signs of aging.
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Dr. Richard Parlee, RPh, DC
"I have been utilizing The Ageless Secret in my practice for the past 3 years. Both my clients and I have noticed remarkable results in the diminishment of wrinkles, a general tightening of the skin, and the hydrating effect it has on the areas of application. We also see great results from the de-stressing and rejuvenating aspects of The Ageless Secret as well. I continue to see the daily improvements The Ageless Secret has on my clients."
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"I was skeptical at first, but right after I started using The Ageless Secret spray, I noticed a definite difference in my skin. Since using it, my skin hasn't stopped glowing and the tone, texture, and firmness is unbelievable. I use it all the time now because people always compliment me on my skin. This is truly a must-have product for any woman who wants to look and feel her best!â€
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Not only do I use The Ageless Secret GOLD myself, twice or more a day, but I also use it regularly on my clients during DermaSound Ultrasonic treatments. The DermaSound allows me to penetrate The Ageless Secret even deeper into the skin with amazing results. No wonder it is the most requested treatment I offer. The remarkable enhancing effects of The Ageless Secret GOLD and the priceless pleasure and glowing skin it gives my clients, makes this high-performance product worth every penny!"
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"I have evaluated and been disappointed by so many skin care products I have lost count. For me to present a product to the doctor it must be special and definitely work. The Ageless Secret GOLD formula totally amazed me. I love that it is quick and I can use it over make-up. We have seen good results in my jaw area. The skin is tighter, firmer and smoother. My skin also is now wonderfully dewy with a healthy vibrant tone and color. We now offer The Ageless Secret GOLD formula at our state of the art cosmetic surgery center." Claire is in her late 50s.
Claire, Office Manager
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Artistic Surgical Center, East Greenwich, RI
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This relatively flat,sandy,blow lug laden,snag free beach is situated about 1/2 mile north of Crosby Baths. It is very much a Jeckyll and Hyde venue,as it can give some excellent bass and cod fishing,but you can also run up a lot of blanks.Other species present include flounder,eels,rockling and in autumn dogs and whiting,though not in great numbers.
Fishing is from a spacious railed promenade situated just 10yds from the ample parking.It can get pretty busy during spring/summer,and is very popular with walkers e.t.c.
Best fished from 2 hours before high water on tides in excess of 28ft.In winter fresh black lug takes some beating for the codling.Summer bass will also take black or the local blow lug.Fresh peeler will take more flounders,but you`ll be better to save such a bait for elsewhere. Though it`s mainly fished from the prom,you will often get the best of the cod n bass action by starting off the beach around 3 hours before high water.
You will find toilets on site,and in spring/summer there`s usually an ice cream van plus a burger van
From Liverpool head towards Crosby,picking up the A565....go over the flyover..keep going ahead....go past the lights with the Liver pub on the corner...at the next main lights,turn left onto College rd (Merchant Taylor school on corner)...follow to roundabout and turn left on to Mersey rd...follow to next roundabout and turn right on to Warren Road..follow to the end then turn left on to the Serpentine North... after the right bend this road becomes Burbo Bank Road North..follow this along the sea front til you come to a sharp right bend..turn in left here (coastguard station) and bob`s your uncle.
Merseyside----Hall Rd (High water mark)
This section gives info on venues which are suitable for anglers who don`t like to,or can`t walk too far.They are also suitable/safe for eldery,disabled or young anglers
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"For My people have done two evil things: They have forsaken Me - the fountain of Living Water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all." Jeremiah 2:13......"If we've believed and trusted Him for full healing and wholeness, the 'cracks' in our lives will always allow our strength and confidence to 'leak' out.' " Beth Moore
Have you ever noticed how a crack in a plate or cup collects dirt, and no matter how hard you try to get it out, there remains a darkness over and in that crack? All our efforts to make it clean and whole fail, and while we can do some cosmetic things to cover it up, the crack, and the dirt, remain. It's a good picture I believe, of how many in the church today, and many churches as well, are living out their lives.
I don't think a lot of us would feel we should be included in the harsh and cutting words of the Father in Jeremiah 2. We probably don't feel that we've forsaken Him, or that we are rejecting His Living Water. But are we willing to submit to the searching of His Spirit in order to discover to what degree we really might be doing so? What unhealed cracks continue to exist in our lives, our families, and our church fellowships that we have succeeded in "covering up" so they are not visible, at least on the surface? How much "dirt" continues to find a home there, affecting every aspect of those lives, families and fellowships?
Pastor's think that moving to a new church will make everything better. But they take their wounds, their cracks there with them, and are dismayed when what happened before happens again. Churches rid themselves of one pastor, and then believe that all will be better when they get a new one. And it is, until the same problems they had with the last leader emerge with the new one. The cracks, and the dirt within remain. And the water of His strength and Life leak out. It's the same with relationships, marriages, jobs, and our walk with Him. The cracks remain, and they continue to allow His Life to steadily drain out, and a people and Church that is to be marked by His healing wholeness, isn't. We're cracked and broken cisterns and we can never hold the water of His Life for very long until we come face to face, our face to His, with this truth.
All our efforts to make it better are doomed to failure. There is only One who can take the cracked cup of our lives, our families, marriages, and fellowships, and make the cup anew and cleanse the dirt within. It starts and ends with face to face honesty with Him. We confess. We repent. We are forgiven and cleansed. There is no person, relationship or fellowship that will not find this to be true, or Him to be faithful. And when it happens, we are no longer cisterns, but deep wells of His Living Water. The woman who was marked as unclean by society by her ongoing bleeding, was willing to come out of the shadows and into the open in order to be whole. Are we?
Isn't it time that this were so in our lives, our families, and our fellowships? It surely can be. The question for us is, will it be? Remember the famous line from the movie "A Few Good Men?" Jack Nicholson's character stated flatly, "You can't handle the truth." Can we? Until we can, the cracks and the dirt remain.
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After forced evacuation, Central Valley Hmong fear for their families in Laos
firstname.lastname@example.com Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009
Vaming Xiong's cell phone rang all day with calls from members of Sacramento's sprawling Hmong community, seeking news about their family members half a world away.
On Monday, the Thai military loaded more than 4,300 Hmong asylum seekers – residents of one of that country's largest refugee camps – into trucks and sent them home to their native Laos, forcibly repatriating them to a country many of them fear.
And in the Central Valley, their relatives worried.
"It's a dark day for the Hmong community," said Xiong, chairman of Sacramento's Hmong American Ad Hoc Committee. "We hope that the Lao government will allow international monitoring of the situation.
"But we have to wait and see, and we have to pray for people's safety. We have to pray they won't be persecuted."
Recruited as American allies in the so-called "secret war" in Laos during the Vietnam era, the Hmong fled Laos by the thousands beginning in the mid-1970s. More than 150,000 Hmong refugees have settled in America – roughly 8,000 of them in the Merced County – with another 150,000 finding homes in Canada, Australia and France.
Thousands more have subsisted for decades in Thai holding camps, dreaming of asylum overseas and fearing retribution if they returned to Laos.
"People here are very concerned," said Laura Leonelli, executive director of Sacramento's Southeast Asian Assistance Center. "In Laos, they're very intolerant of the Hmong minority."
Another group of ethnic Hmong – estimated at as many as 8,000 – lives in threadbare conditions in the jungles of Laos, still on the run from the communist government.
Thailand's government said Laos has promised the refugees will be treated well, but the forced repatriation has prompted protests from human rights groups and the U.S. State Department.
"All of us feel the United States should have intervened much earlier," said Xiong. "Now these people are going back to Laos, and there's no accountability, no international monitoring. I hope Laos allows them to have a normal life."
Atari Xiong, who produces Crossings TV, a Hmong cable program, said he was trying to reach refugees who live outside the Thai camp for news about what was happening.
"People are not going to be safe in Laos," he said. "We'll be able to contact them there, but they won't be able to tell us what's happening to them. They'll get in trouble if they tell us the truth."
According to Thai government accounts, 5,000 Thai soldiers armed with shields and batons cleared the holding camp without violence and transported the refugees by bus to Thailand's border with Laos.
The government kept independent observers at a press center miles from the camp, the Associated Press reported.
"It's very emotional for people here who have relatives there," said Vaming Xiong. "They don't know what to do."
His own relatives live outside the camp, he said.
"I have someone who escaped to Thailand, but they're not in the camp," he said. "They're in hiding. They're considered illegal, but at least we know they're safe."


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it bit me! i was waiting for it to happen and i think it hit a little later this year because we've had it so hot and dry but i wandered into a tj maxx today - which is becoming a store i shop at more than i care to admit - and found two amazing pieces for fall. and as the fashion bloggers like to say, they are both wear now and later pieces - a black lace top and torn denim. and yes i laid this stuff out on a rug and took a pic lol. #whatamidoing
the top is by guest editor which is a brand i've never heard of but that means absolutely nothing these days. i tried finding it online but i literally can't find a thing about this brand so maybe that says something. but i took two pics because i wanted to show the back of the shirt which has this cool seam detail down the back.
the jeans are joe's keagan (find them here, here and here) and i especially love them because they're a high-er rise (not high rise like that terrible 80s jean trend that's made a come back). as a mom i just appreciate not having to tug at my jeans all day. they run true to size, if anything a little small. i'm often between sizes and went up and they're perfect. p.s. to anyone who clicked on the saks link - how awful is that picture?! i promise they don't look like that on!!
some more black lace to try...
joie always does it right.
a pretty one from rebecca minkoff.
the classic dress version from DVF.
August 17, 2016
2 comments:
- Kelly@Bungalow Blue said...
Great finds! I can't wait to wear non-pregnancy clothing again and black lace tops are all over my radar!
- August 17, 2016 at 11:18 PM
- meredith said...
I'm excited for you too haha! When are you due?
- August 26, 2016 at 8:31 PM
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The key research question is "What is a strategic decision for a museum?" This is relevant because it may elucidate the tension between 'collections' and 'publics', so often written about in museum journals and even more often discussed amongst museum professionals.
What museums say they can do for society is a very long list of high-minded things. The graphic below (Hatton, 1995) represents some of the processes and purposes alleged to drive museum decision-making from the museum worlds' own literature. I have set them out in a production chain schema, indicating where performance measures might be applied.
What museums actually do is another matter, for mostly, this is not measured in any consistent way. The UK's only ever national museum survey (Prince & Higgins-McLoughlin 1987, 132) found that few museums had actually bothered to find out who was using them by market research methods. This was worrying. Even more alarming, the Audit Commission's Quality Exchange (Audit Commission 1994, 13) seven years later, indicated less than a third of respondents had surveyed visitors for exhibition interest, content, presentation, educational value, or attractiveness, whether at all sites or some. The Museums Association's own survey (Davies, 1994) found that only 33% of museums (of all types) reported monitoring customer satisfaction. This is clearly Middleton's "marketing deficit" (1998, 44). Kawashima found that three quarters of museums were without a marketing policy (1998, 44).
There is, however, currently a government backed drive to establish performance measurement in UK museums (DCMS, 1999 - see various). The specific study on visitor information (1999, 11) revealed that though 85% of museums in one sector – those nationally-funded – had conducted user research. The sector as a whole compared unfavourably with only 48% having user research to draw on.
In some senses, museums are their own worst enemies, in that they have responded over time to a series of pressures to be all sorts of things to all sorts of audiences. Some of this may be seen as "flexibility", a still current management buzz word. Some of it has been an inability to focus on one or perhaps two "outcomes", at the expense of leaving others aside: a lack of strategic focus in all but a few.
The research undertaken to elucidate this situation was ethnomethodological, qualitative and interpretive. This approach was adopted in deliberate contrast to almost all previous work on museum management from a "classical" stance, i.e. a Taylorist perspective, itself consistent with a majority of management literature. A recent and highly relevant example is Abraham, Griffin and Crawford (1999), who undertook a survey involving museums in the UK, Canada, the USA, and Australia. It is hoped that as the work continues, a different perspective will be revealed, either complementary to, or contradictory of, the "received wisdom" on decision-making, at least from the standard managerialist perspective.
Most museums in the UK may be classed as "small to medium sized enterprises" (SMEs), by size of operational budget and/or staff numbers. This is significant since the majority of management theory derives from a large organisational model, often with manufacturing as the basis. This theory's roots go back to Alfred Sloan's pre-World War II reorganisation of General Motors. As "theory" it was introduced into the UK public sector in the 1970s.
I also adopted an ethnological stance because "I have lived with this tribe" twice before, the longest between 1972 and 1986. I revisited them during 1992 and 1994, and once again mid-1999 to mid-2000. I am convinced they are a "tribe": they share a common dialect of English, if not an altogether separate language. Over the intervening 28 years since my first "visit", when I first learned their dialect, things have changed little. They still speak of the same things, have the same rituals, carefully preserving their particular culture. This is especially so in the face of increasing attempts to drive a foreign culture onto their everyday existence: managerialism with its attendant rituals of accountability, performance measurement, strategy, business plans, and so on.
Thus, this work is "new paradigm", objectively subjective, rather than either "naive inquiry" – subjective, or the more traditional "old paradigm" objective (Reason and Rowan, 1981; Reason, 1988). It draws on areas such as interpretivism, phenomenology, cognition, and in particular representation.
The methodology was firstly to pilot a sample of my own decisions as an ex-practitioner from when I visited the tribe. Secondly, I undertook external referencing of my assumptions with a small number of interviews from governmental and quasi-governmental agencies concerned with museums. Then finally I undertook a second "pilot", interviewing a number of ex-practitioners turned academics. This was followed by formal field work.
The actual data were collected in twenty-seven one to one interviews, creating a sample of 116 decisions, with a mean of 4.296 per interviewee, a high of seven and a low of two. Each decision consists of between seven and thirty-five individual concepts, with a mean or twenty-three of twenty-four per decision, giving a total of some three thousand concepts, or units of meaning, to be analysed.
The interviewees were drawn from Area Museum Councils
(semi-independent governmental agencies servicing museums in the UK), National
Museums, large Local Authority Museums, and independent museums. This last
category is the most recent, developing from the late 1970s onwards, and operate
as charitable trusts in most cases, dependent in large measure on public sector
grants and admissions charges and other income sources for their survival.
What became immediately interesting during the first stages of analysis, was that although all the decisions communicated to me were presented as "strategic", the "content" of them was not at all dominated by the expected discourse of either management or strategy, as defined by the literature.
The graphic below illustrates that only a quarter of all decisions could be defined as strategy, and only 16% were about the usual aspects of "objective setting", "staff restructuring", and so on. A further 14% were about creating and maintaining political alliances. These three categories total 55%, so just over half can be seen as the expected topics of decision-making under a managerialist regime.
Surprisingly, only 14% were about collections, odd considering the rhetoric about museums' primary purpose being to preserve things. Perhaps it merely reflects the times and the imposition of managerialist discourse on museums. Even more surprising, especially given the public rhetoric of museums, only 8% consisted of discourse about finance!
To explain this consistency, there seems to be a phenomenon of 'shared meanings' and 'shared understandings'. This might be the:
· organizational culture of management and organizational change/development literatures
· professionalization of the institutional literature
· acculturation of sociology and social anthropology
· socialization of cultural studies
As a phenomenon, it has also been described in a variety of ways, from a variety of perspectives:
· scientific communities (Kuhn, 1970)
· interpretive communities (Fish, 1980)
· cognitive social structures (Krackhardt, 1987)
· cognitive communities (Porac, Thomas, and Baden-Fuller, 1989)
· epistemic communities (Haas, 1992)
· autonomous vs. espoused values, norms, and beliefs (Heron, 1981)
· cognitive groups (Dunbar, 1993)
That is to say, there is a constituency of meaning which binds all museum decision-makers together, a professional orthodoxy. This is perhaps not all that surprising: one might expect the daily business of like organisations to look, sound and feel the alike, or at least very similar. What makes schools "schools", law firms "law firms", or hospitals "hospitals", and factories "factories" is a common set of experiences, challenges and opportunities. Attributing similar meanings to this shared experience, though maybe even in different parts of the world, solving challenges using similar strategies, and attempting to seize opportunities using similar tactics, is probably only to be expected.
The problem is that "strategy" contains implicitly, and often explicitly, the management of change. Whilst this shared meaning phenomenon binds museum workers together as a group, and thus operates as a positive heuristic, it also operates as a negative heuristic in terms of strategy (Lakatos, 1978). That is to say, the very thing which binds museums and their professional workers together, their museum-ness, and delivers what we as customers see, hear and feel when we visit, also makes them resistant to change.
Change, according to Lakatos, only works when a critical mass of influences or evidence from the auxiliary hypotheses breaks through to the core concepts themselves. Much evidence and influence can be absorbed before this "break through" occurs, and without changing these core beliefs at all. This is why museum decision-making is internally consistent and why radical change is at any rate very unlikely.
Governments and publics are demanding ever-increasing standards of service, and changes in services offered, from all public, nonprofit, voluntary and profit-making organisations. This seems to be a sine qua non of the Third Millenium. Our UK museums, as institutions however, would still need to learn the art of strategic change, even if in an evolutionary as opposed to a revolutionary form, but certainly not at an evolutionary pace!
Alf Hatton, 10th October 2000.
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