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Aston Villa are searching for a new shirt sponsor after their record-breaking deal with FX Pro came to an end by mutual consent.
The Russian-owned currency traders who are also sponsors for Fulham, had an option in the contracts to withdraw from either deal at the end of the season.
When the three-year deal was struck in July 2010, a clause was added, allowing both sides to assess the situation after a year.
FX Pro have now decided not to continue sponsoring the club and Villa will look elsewhere from the start of next season.
At present, their Premier League status is still in the balance as they sit just three points above the drop zone and face the unlikely prospect of playing Championship football next season.
But, despite the on-field troubles, the club's current position has had no effect in the deal ending.
The Birmingham Mail understands that FX Pro were trying to get Villa to drive down prices for two years although the club were not willing to re-negotiate, and now expect to have a new partner at full value from next season.
It hasn't gone as smoothly as planned for the sponsors though after the replica shirt mix-up at the start of the season.
Despite Villa's kit being unveiled in July, it did not go on sale until three months into the season.
Quality issues with manufacturer Nike meant fans were forced to wait until November 2010 before they could get their hands on the latest Villa strip.
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The groundbreaking association between the two remained, as Acorns became the club's official charity, and FxPro made a strong commitment to supporting the charity in joint endeavours.
When the deal was agreed Villa confirmed it was more than the previous record £10 million three-year deal with Nike. At the time they refused to talk figures but agreed that the partnership marked the biggest commercial deal since the club's foundation in 1874
It is believed that the Cyprus-based sponsors, who have their name on top of a stand at Craven Cottage which lies under the Heathrow Airport flight path, will continue their close relationship with Fulham next season.


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Saint-Raphaël, a diverse market
More than just a seaside resort, Saint-Raphaël is a town in Le Var on a human scale (almost 35,000 residents) where business and tourism form a successful combination. Between the Mediterranean and Provence, at the entrance to the Estérel mountain range, this commune benefiting from five sailing harbours, sandy beaches and three golf-courses offers diverse accommodation in all price brackets.
This contemporary villa in Valescure offers 6 main rooms including a lounge of 57 m2 extended by a terrace with a pleasant open view. The grounds of 1,667 m2 benefit from a lovely pool. 1.250.000 €. WF King Immobilier (04 94 95 79 55).
Well-connected thanks to its TGV station, access to motorways, and less than an hour from Nice's international airport, Saint-Raphaël is now the largest economic, administrative and cultural hub in the eastern part of Le Var.
"Our property market has shown more vitality over the past six months," says Sylvain Chaugne of the Solvimo agency, specializing in the town centre, Les Plaines and the Boulouris neighbourhood. "In the area we cover, all types of properties are currently finding takers. Our clientele mainly consists of retirees : mostly from Grenoble, Lille, Strasbourg and the Parisian region, they are looking for pleasant apartments near beaches, shops and restaurants. A property offering a practical life-style has every chance of selling within a few months, if it is correctly estimated." And therein lies the rub. Over the past two years, the market has seen a decline of 15 to 20 % in the prices of older properties. A pill which is still particularly hard to swallow for the majority of sellers. "It is almost always the same story. When a seller sticks to his price, he realises after a few months that if he really wants to sell, he will have to accept offers that come his way." 2-bedroomed apartments with terraces in recent residences with lifts are the most highly-prized properties in the town centre. You can now expect to pay from 250,000 to 280,000 € for a good example of this type of home. As an example representing today's market, Sylvain Chaugne mentions an apartment of 73 m2 prolonged by a terrace of 14 m2. On the 1st floor of a recent residence in the Clémenceau neighbourhood, it sold within three months for 250,000 €.
Set further back from the coast, the up-market area of Valescure is laid out around the golf-courses. Here, substantial villas in neo-Provençal style rub shoulders with a few high-end residences and private estates bearing some of the commune's most desirable addresses : Domaine de la Tour and Domaine du Golf Esterel. "We are seeing a rise in the number of serious buyers, set on treating themselves to year-round homes in this neighbourhood. From all over France, many active seniors are drawn by this quiet, green environment, the quality of the properties, their high security, easy access and, for most of them, the bonus of a golf-course," explains Philippe Fonteneau of WF King, an independent company founded in 1906, with five agencies in Le Var including one in Valescure. "Seventy per cent of our transactions involve year-round homes with buyers from Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, and a few Swiss, Belgian and Russian clients attracted by an art of living that blends sunshine and golf." Villas built in the 1970's in the loveliest grounds are presented at prices ranging from 600,000 to 700,000 €. A budget of 150,000 to 200,000 € is then often necessary to bring them up to date. More recent houses, built in the years 2000, fetch around 1 million euros, depending on their size and appointments. High-class apartments in residences with 20 to 80 units at most cost from 4,000 to 8,000 € per sq. metre. One example, a luxury 2 bedroomed apartment with a terrace of 27 m2 offers an elevated view of the sea. Surrounded by golf-courses and benefiting from a garage, it is currently up for sale at 490,000 €.


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Philippines: Right to adequate food of 500 farmers threatened
Beginning of Action 17 April 2014 ; End of Action 17 June 2014
Since 2004, the tenant-farmers in Hacienda Matias have been demanding the distribution of the 1,716 hectare landholding under the national agrarian reform program. Agrarian reform, however, is still not implemented on Hacienda Matias and the tenant-farmers and their families continue suffering food insecurity and harassment. This is due to the resistance of the landowner, but also to delays in the Office of the President, and the slow implementation of a land survey on the ground by the Department of Agrarian Reform.
This case needs your URGENT ACTION, by requesting to the respective authorities in the Philippines to fast-track the land redistribution process in order to guarantee the right to food of the tenant-farmers and their families and to put an end to the harassment of the tenants
Please write to the President of the Republic of the Philippines, with a copy to the Office of the President of the Philippines, the Department of Agrarian Reform, and the Provincial Agrarian Reform Office-Quezon II, requesting them to fast-track the land redistribution process in order to guarantee the right to food of the tenant-farmers and their families and to put an end to the harassment of the tenants.
Please inform FIAN if you receive a response to your letters.
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Further Information
Hacienda Matias is a coconut plantation located in the municipality of San Francisco in Bondoc Peninsula, Quezon Province. There are around 500 tenant-farmers and their families living on the hacienda which encompasses 1,716 hectares. In 2004, the tenant-farmers petitioned for the coverage of the land under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The CARP was enacted in 1988.
Soon after, the landowner filed a Petition for Exclusion of the said landholdings from the CARP. The petition was, however, denied by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) twice. Subsequently the landowner elevated the case and applied for a petition before the Office of the President (OP). The OP denied the petition, thus reaffirmed the previous decisions of the DAR. However, immediately after, the landowner filed a Motion for Reconsideration before the OP, which is currently pending. Additionally, the issuance of the DAR Administration Order 7 (A.O. 7 Series 2011), which restrains the DAR from taking possession of the land unless the protest or exemption application, has become final and executory. In the light of these developments the process of the land distribution has come to a stalemate in Hacienda Matias.
Several attempts of the DAR in the past to initiate the land distribution to the tenant-farmers of Hacienda Matias were met with strong opposition by the landowner. In December 2010, the DAR started the land surveying process, whereby five out of seven lots of Hacienda Matias have been surveyed, and in addition, the payment for three lots was made by the Land Bank of the Philippines. The land survey for the remaining lots, nevertheless, has yet to be completed. The DAR's last attempt to enter the hacienda in August 2013 was not successful, despite the presence of the police and the military personnel. The failure of the DAR to survey the outstanding parts puts in question the rule of law. The tenant-farmers and their families continue to live in fear due to systematic harassment, intimidation and criminalisation (i.e. physical harassments and fabricated charges against the tenant-workers). They are denied their right to have peaceful access to land to feed themselves.
In addition, due to the prevailing share tenancy agreement (in which tenant-farmers receive a 30 percent share of the net income), many of the farmers have applied for a leasehold system with the DAR, which, if implemented, would allow the tenant-farmers to receive a 75 percent share of the net income. However, the implementation is being delayed due to the landowner's resistance to the new sharing agreement. Presently, the income that tenant-farmers and their families receive via the old share tenancy agreement is so minimal that they are unable to feed themselves adequately.
Why FIAN calls for your intervention:
By delaying the implementation of the CARP due to negligence of the DAR in the past, and by the issuance of the A.O. No. 7 Series 2011 Philippines fail to fulfil the right to adequate food of the tenant-farmers on Hacienda Matias. Furthermore, the government of the Philippines has failed to protect the tenant-farmers and their families from harassment, criminalisation and violence. The failure to meet these obligations amounts to violations of their human rights.


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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Reform need for police behaving badly
TENSIONS between the state crimefighting bodies over how to discipline wayward police are bubbling again on the eve of the appointment of a new Police Commissioner.
The Newman Government has reopened Queensland Police Service's internal disciplinary review, scrapping recommendations from the previous government despite concern not enough is being done to improve bad behaviour.
It comes as the Crime and Misconduct Commission slams a decision by one of the candidates for commissioner, Deputy Commissioner Ross Barnett, for being too soft on the main culprit exposed during Operation Tesco - the investigation into criminal and improper activities involving Gold Coast police.
Other concerns have been raised by police afraid to dob in their colleagues because traditionally they're labelled "dogs", with one saying he feared for his life as a result.
CMC Assistant Commissioner Misconduct Warren Strange said progress had been made since Tesco but they were now waiting for the Government to decide how issues could be addressed. "The new Government is now going to consider its direction on these issues," he said.
He said reform needed to be ongoing and expected the new commissioner to have a commitment to the higher standards of professional conduct, but didn't expect the two organisations to always get along.
"We are never going to agree on everything, we will have different views about issues at times, different views about particular cases and outcomes and actions that should result, but I think that's healthy," Mr Strange said.
Under the previous government reforms, QPS would be banned from investigating its own officers, investigation timeframes would be shorter and the CMC would have the power to change disciplinary decisions by the QPS if they deemed them too lenient.
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers said he has already had positive discussions with the Government, the CMC and the police service hierarchy about a way forward.
"Neither the police, the CMC, nor the public have faith in the current police disciplinary system," he said. "I believe we are on the cusp of achieving a better model."
Mr Leavers said the appointment of Commissioner Bob Atkinson's successor was crucial to ensure they maintained the momentum for change.
Almost half of complaints to the CMC are about police officers and in the 2011-12 financial year, 2305 involving more than 6000 allegations were received - a 5 per cent reduction on the year before.
Police Minister Jack Dempsey said the Government wanted to find "balance" to the discipline process.
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WSP Structures is excited and proud to be part of DESTINATION BRISBANE CONSORTIUM's team for the landmark QUEEN'S WHARF PROJECT which was unveiled on December 23, 2014.
Group Chairman John O'Neil from Echo Entertainment Group, one of the three main components of the Consortium, promises this redevelopment is set to become the best integrated resort in Australia. It has been described as "arguably the most significant redevelopment project in the history of Brisbane CBD".
Among many exciting components of the "quintessentially Brisbane" public realm landmark, the transformation of the heritage Treasury casino buildings, into a premium six-star Ritz Carlton hotel and shopping experience, along with the new pedestrian bridge that provides a vital link and connects the whole precinct, activating the Queen Street Mall, CBD and Southbank, ensuring Queen's Wharf will become the new heart of the CBD. Development details can be viewed here.


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Alfred Stevens in his studio ca 1885
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Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) was born in Brussels. He came from a family involved with the visual arts: his older brother Joseph (1816-1892) and his son Léopold (1866–1935) were painters, while another brother Arthur (1825–99) was an art dealer and critic. His father, who had fought in the Napoleonic wars in the army of William I of the Netherlands, was an art collector who owned several watercolors by Eugène Delacroix, among other artists. His mother's parents ran Café de l'Amitié in Brussels, a meeting place for politicians, writers, and artists. All the Stevens children benefited from the people they met there, and the social skills they acquired in growing up around important people. In 1843, Stevens went to Paris, joining his brother Joseph who already was there. He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, the most important art school in Paris. Although it is said that he became a student of its director Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, this is likely not true. An early picture by Stevens, The Pardon or Absolution (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), signed and dated 1849, shows his mastery of a conventional naturalistic style which owes much to 17th-century Dutch genre painting. Like the Belgian painter and friend with whom he stayed in Paris, Florent Joseph Marie Willems (1823-1905), Stevens carefully studied works by painters such as Gerard ter Borch and Gabriel Metsu.
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In 19th-century Paris Alfred Stevens was more in demand than his friend Edouard Manet. King Leopold II of his native Belgium was a patron, the Vanderbilts snapped up his sumptuous oils of ladies in haute-couture dresses, and William Merritt Chase sought the artist's advice. "He was kind of a bridge painter between the 19th century and Impressionism," says the New York dealer Lisa Schiller, of Schiller & Bodo European Paintings, pointing to Stevens's occasionally loose brushwork. But according to Peter Mitchell, of John Mitchell Fine Paintings, in London, this transitional role has been largely overlooked. "When the Impressionists came along and swept everyone else away, he was forgotten," Mitchell says. As a result, many dealers and auction house specialists believe Stevens's work is still an extremely good value. "There's an opportunity to buy at a quality level that's higher than the price level," says Schiller. She adds that artists born in one country but popular in another tend to be plagued by lower prices. Mitchell concurs: "The artist has suffered from not being born French."
What Is Called Vagrancy
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What Is Called Vagrancy is representative of the early part of his career, when he was keen to represent the squalor of the time in realist paintings. This Parisian street is the setting for an urban drama. Soldiers lead a mother and her ragged children away to prison for the crime of vagrancy. An elegant woman is trying to intercede with the soldiers, while an old, invalid workman has already given up. The attempt is doomed to failure as shown by the soldier's gesture of refusal. A similar scene can be found in Victor Hugo's Things Seen. On the long grey wall, posters referring to property sales ("sale by auction") and the pleasures of high society ("ball"), contrast with the poverty described in the painting. The different social groups who occupy the same urban space find themselves side by side here in a moving composition, and the role of the State, purely repressive, does not come out well. Stevens' objective was to denounce the poor living conditions in the towns and the cruel treatment meted out to those who lived there. The message struck a chord with Napoleon III who, on seeing this painting at the 1855 Universal Exhibition, supposedly said: "That will not happen again". As a consequence of this, the Emperor ordered that any vagrants should henceforth be taken to the Conciergerie, not on foot, but hidden away in a closed carriage.
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Aspiring to join the ranks of Parisian high society, in the mid 1850s he hit upon a subject that would capture this elite's interest: upper-class ladies and their outfits. For the salons in Antwerp, Brussels, and Paris, he turned out anecdotal scenes of modern women garbed in crinoline and crumpled silk. He raided the closet of his friend Pauline von Metternich, an Austrian royal and Parisian society fixture, to outfit his models in up-to-the-minute fashions. "You can date the paintings by the dresses," says Polly Sartori, the senior vice president of 19th-century European paintings, drawings, and sculpture at Sotheby's New York.
His exhibits at the Salons in Paris and Brussels attracted favorable critical attention and buyers. In 1863, he received the Legion of Honor (Chevalier) from the Belgian government. In 1867, he won a first-class medal at the Universal Exposition in Paris, where he and Jan August Hendrik Leys were the stars of the Belgian section, and was promoted to Officer of the Legion of Honor. His friends included Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Charles Baudelaire, Berthe Morisot, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Frédéric Bazille, and Puvis de Chavannes, and he was a regular in the group that gathered at the Café Guerbois in Paris.
In 1895, a large exhibition of his work was held in Brussels. In 1900, Stevens was honored by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the first retrospective exhibition ever given to a living artist. Supported by patrons led by the Comtesse de Greffulhe, it achieved social cachet as well as popular success.
In 1905, he was the only living artist allowed to exhibit in a retrospective show of Belgian art in Brussels. Despite these exhibitions, he was not able to sell enough of his work to manage well financially. Having outlived his brothers and most of his friends, he died in Paris in 1906, living alone in modest rooms.
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Offensive coordinator Rick Dennison gets his "revenge" game a week after McDermott (OK, maybe revenge is a stretch). The Broncos will have a new look under new coach Vance Joseph. Who will be a quarterback for them? And will their defense be the championship caliber unit it was under old friend Wade Phillips? The thinking here is it won't. Prediction: Bills.
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Richard Sherman, Seattle's three time All Pro cornerback, missed practice on Wednesday and Thursday and was a limited participant in Friday's workout because of a hamstring problem. Sherman has never failed to answer the bell in his 97 game NFL career, but he's listed as questionable on the Seahawks' injury report.
The rest, including almost 40 with connections to the state of Alabama, are left to wonder about their football futures. Should they keep working out and hope to get a call when the NFL's inevitable injuries start? Try to catch on with the Canadian Football League, already halfway through its season and with limited opportunities for Americans? Turn their attention to the Arena Football League? Give up and get real job?
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In spite of the Silver and Black finishing a distant third to the Rams and Chargers in the NFL race back to Los Angeles two years ago an outcome that eventually pointed the Raiders to Las Vegas, where they, the state of Nevada and ultimately the NFL formulated and approved a $1.9 billion stadium deal the Raiders remain hugely popular in Los Angeles.
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Two Oregon State Beavers players picked, but not a single Oregon Ducks player was selected in the 2017 NFL draft. It was a tough year for local players. However, after the draft wrapped up, several players from local schools and former Oregon high school athletes signed with teams as undrafted free agents.
In 2009, Levy was drafted by the Lions in the third round. He since earned a rep as one of the league top defenders, notching one of the highest tackle frequency ratings in the game. But hip surgery cost him virtually the entire 2015 season, while quad and knee injuries have taken him out of the 2016 lineup.
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The Packers allowed him to run wild in the NFC title game, giving up nine catches for 180 yards and two touchdowns, but that was with the cornerback position ravaged by injuries. Green Bay is healthy again and added two key players, Davon House and rookie Kevin King. The strengthened unit shut down Russell Wilson and the Seahawks' passing game in Week 1.
FILE In this Sept. 24, 2016, file photo, UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen throws basketball singlets online against Stanford during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Pasadena, Calif. Oregon running back Royce Freeman, USC quarterback Sam Darnold and UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen are among the Pac 12 players to keep an eye on coming out of spring practice. They retreat to the privacy of the weight room and classroom for three months. The next time they emerge will be inside their multimillion dollar football fortress; the Wasserman Football Center is scheduled to open in time for the team summer training camp in August before UCLA opens its season at the Rose Bowl against Texas A on Sept. 4.
Nick Foles hasn't played a snap of preseason football. He missed a couple weeks of training camp with a sore elbow, participated in the join practices with the Dolphins earlier in the week and then was out again. PhillyVoice's Jimmy Kempski thinks this is bad for the Eagles. Bleeding Green Nation's Brandon Lee Gowton thinks it's a flaw that's flying under the radar right now. And yeah, while Carson Wentz started every game last season, it wouldn't hurt for Philadelphia to have a healthy backup.
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Safety Andrew Sendejo will miss Sunday game with the groin injury that kept him out of two practices and limited him in a third last week. The Vikings will turn to Anthony Harris in relief of Sendejo, though cornerback Terence Newman who started a game at safety in 2015 could be there in a pinch.
The memories I have good and bad I wouldn't trade them for nothing. Moss credited both his favorite Vikings memory and his NFL career to the late Dennis Green, who coached Moss for four seasons after drafting him with the 21st overall pick in 1998. Moss became emotional discussing Green, who passed away last summer. He was 67.
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But, there's something far more pernicious here. Both the NFL and the NBA are sports in which the vast majority of the players are black and the vast majority of owners are white. In the NFL, there are 0 black owners of the 32 teams. In the NBA, Michael Jordan is the lone black owner of a team.
The Titans figure to get a much better pass rush in the regular season with Pro Bowlers Jurrell Casey and Brian Orakpo back to lead the charge, but the defense on the back end has to be better before Derek Carr, Amari Cooper and the Raiders come to town in 10 days.
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Disfigured Girl Kicked Out of KFC a Hoax
The sad tale of a 3-year-old girl who was disfigured in a pit bull attack being asked to leave a KFC in Mississippi was a hoax, sources with knowledge of the investigation told a local newspaper. According to the grandmother of Victoria Wilcher, the family sat down to eat at a local KFC and were told that the young girl's face was scary to customers. The story, which has resulted in $135,000 in donations and nationwide outrage against KFC, cannot be corroborated by surveillance footage or transaction records, according to a source. The family has not commented yet on the allegations.


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Welcome to Perimeter
We are pleased that you have chosen to visit our web site and we hope you will come and visit us in person as well. As you explore our site you'll notice that we have a lot to offer the families and individuals in our community, including things for children of all ages as well as adults, no matter what their age or stage of life (single, married, divorced, widowed, whatever). Perimeter is a truly a come as you are church. It's a safe place to explore the truths of Christianity and it's a great place to experience growth and community.
Our services feature a blend of traditional hymns with contemporary praise songs, and will often feature drama, personal testimonies, and dance - providing a dynamic and impacting time of worship. We were all created to worship and at Perimeter Church our desire is to help you worship well.
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The Church Planting and Discipleship Internship of Perimeter Church is a two year period of focused training.
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50% of the Intern's time will be spent in "on the job training", serving in one of several ministry settings, such as Young Adults, Life-on-Life Missional Discipleship, Connect Groups, Youth Ministry or the launching of new worshipping communities within Perimeter Church. This will involve team meetings/relationships, pastoral care, evangelism, discipleship, preaching/teaching and ministry planning and coordination.
The other 50% of his time will be spent learning "Perimeter Best Practices". This will focus on both Perimeter's "way of doing ministry" (principles, not programs) as well as essential skills needed for successful church planting and pastoral ministry. Perimeter's Director of Church Planting will guide the Intern through challenging and informative learning experiences. Guided reading, team meetings, seminars and conferences are just some of the avenues for exposure to key areas of understanding for successful church leadership.
Specific competencies will be developed in the areas of Evangelism, Discipleship, Ministry Design, Leadership, Management, and Preaching/Teaching. A focus on contextualization of ministry will be emphasized and the training will be highly relational and personal.
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80% of his time will be spent helping a Church Planter or young and developing church "in the field" in a way that is mutually beneficial to both the Church and the Intern. This may include more opportunities to preach, plan and lead worship, develop new ministries and/or lead ministry team leaders. This will give the Resident a better "feel" for what it will be like to plant.
The other 20% of his time will be spent in the pursuit of his next calling; and, if he will receive a call to plant from another church, presbytery or network, in doing demographics and spending time in the target area, developing a Ministry Plan, raising funds and preparing his first few months of preaching.
Interns will participate in the monthly gatherings of the North Georgia Church Planting Network. This exciting and fruitful network will provide the intern with ongoing training, gospel centered renewal and prayer, supportive relationships and Kingdom networking.
Interns will be part of two ongoing discipleship groups. One will be under the direction of Perimeter's LOLMD staff and leaders, who have a combined experience of over 60 years of discipleship ministry. The other will be as part of the personal discipleship group of Perimeter's Director of Church Planting, Bob Cargo. Bob has been involved in personal discipleship since his teen years, has planted three churches and has pastored two large / multi-staff churches. Bob has served as Perimeter's Director of Church Planting and on Perimeter's Teaching Team since 2003.
Please note: Following the CP/D Internship, the Intern is free to pursue a calling to plant, lead, serve, preach and shepherd as the Lord leads. It is our hope that churches in major cities throughout the US will be blessed by planters who have been trained, in part, at Perimeter Church. Likewise, if this internship leads pastors to serve as the Discipleship Pastor for new or established churches, we will celebrate what is being accomplished for the glory of Christ and the spread of His Kingdom.


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Sadly, many Smithsonian staff over the years have been forgotten and relegated to the index of history. One man deserves to be resurrected for his vast contributions to the institution and that man is Richard Rathbun. Rathbun is perhaps the most important employee in the history of the National Museum of Natural History that you have never heard of. He, more than anyone, exemplifies the phrase in government job descriptions "other duties as assigned."
Rathbun was born in 1852 in Buffalo, New York. His interest in geology and paleontology stemmed from visiting local stone quarries to detect fossils. At age 16 the young Rathbun went to work at his father's stone quarry as a financial clerk. He read everything he could on the subject, and his favorite book was "The Old Red Sandstone: New Walks in an Old Field" published in 1841 by Scottish geologist Hugh Miller and still used as a reference book today.
Shortly before his 19th birthday he began the collections of paleontology in the Buffalo Museum of Natural Sciences and was made its curator. He pursued his studies of paleontology at Cornell and later Harvard and during that time, worked at the Boston Society of Natural History. His predilection towards multi-tasking was becoming a life-long trait.
For a brief time, Rathbun's interest turned away from paleontology when he volunteered as a scientific assistant with the U.S. Fish Commission (at the time a division of the Smithsonian). He traveled to Brazil several times in the 1870s and wrote papers on coal deposits and coral reefs. This work, as often happens with volunteers, turned into a full-time job with the Fish Commission as a scientific assistant, where he studied dredging expeditions off the eastern and southern coasts of the United States among other things. Many of his notebooks from these expeditions are now in the Smithsonian Archives.
For a time, he was detailed to Yale University's Zoology Department and left there in 1881 when he was appointed curator of the Department of Marine Invertebrates of the new U.S. National Museum at the Smithsonian. He prepared numerous catalogues on scientific investigations in sea and salt waters, sponges and their trade, methods of fisheries, lobster culture, and reviews of fisheries in the Pacific Northwest. He was an early advocate of the preservation of food fish and from 1891-1896 served as the United States representative on the "Joint Commission with Great Britain Relative to the Preservation of the Fisheries in Waters Contiguous to the United States and Canada."
Rathbun's ease with people, his organizational skills and his knowledge of Smithsonian collections and research made him a prime candidate for the job of Assistant Secretary of the institution in charge of offices and exchanges. His 1897 appointment led to the directorship of the U.S. National Museum in 1901. He also served as acting secretary in 1899 during which time he received an inquiry from Wilbur Wright asking for information from the Smithsonian on the possibility of aerial flight. Rathbun quickly responded, sending Wright a package of information which Wilbur and his brother Orville used in their studies on aerodynamics ...
Stay tuned next week for part two of my post!
Amy Ballard, Senior Historic Preservation Specialist, Architectural History and Historic Preservation Division.


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With only a month to deliver something the team in Leeds could use to start organising their data, we had to be practical and pick something that already existed to work with. After some pretty intensive research we settled on AirTable; a new kid on the block and a spreadsheet-database hybrid with some awesome superpowers. For over a year, AirTable did the job but as more BIDs joined Solomon, and the volume of data they collected began to swell, cracks appeared. By the end of December 2016, we decided "enough is enough" and began planning something that would eventually replace AirTable, native to the Solomon platform and accessible within the same interface as our other great features. We decided to call it Directory.
We also had a backlog of feature requests and suggested improvements that we wanted to deliver along side the launch of the Directory.
In January 2017, our team of four engineers (Nate, Ste, Michal and Jack) and one designer (Joel) started work on what became our biggest development project so far. For nine months, they have poured everything they've got into their work and the result is Solomon V2, which we are pleased to be launching today.
It would be too much to list all the improvements we're rolling with V2, so I'm going to summarise some of the major changes:
New Layout
We pride ourselves on Solomon's usability and the new and better-organised layout makes it easier than ever for users to find their way around.
The ultimate transparency tool: add activities to each business's timeline, giving them visibility on all the value you are adding.
Total control of your data, right inside Solomon. Manage, tag, sort, filter and export your data on-demand. Log everything you do to benefit your members.
Votes and Ballot Insights
Our new Vote records mean you can track voting intentions and the Ballot Insights report helps you to forecast the outcome.
What next?
You'd think that, after nine-months working at full steam, we'd be ready for a long break. Wrong answer! We've got loads of ideas for great new features and we're diving right back in.
We're ALWAYS open to new ideas! Please use the live chat facility to feedback your suggestions and feature requests.
We'll spend the next fortnight reviewing all the options, and listening to our customers' priorities. After that, we will be publishing a public roadmap detailing what we're working on and when you should expect to see new features landing. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter (below) for the latest news.


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|Byzantine: The Betrayal (1997)
|(Technology and Development Group Manager (for Discovery Channel Multimedia))
|Pirates: Captain's Quest (1997)
|(Technology & Development Group Manager)
|Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life (1997)
|(Technology Group Manager, Installer)
|Team Xtreme: Operation Weather Disaster (1995)
|(Manager, Technology)
|Operation: Eco-Nightmare (1997)
|(Manager, Technology)
|Invention Studio (1996)
|Savage: The Ultimate Quest for Survival (1996)
|(Manager, Technology)
|Connections (1995)
|(Technology Manager)
|Nile: Passage to Egypt (1995)
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It's that time again. The weather's getting nice on the East coast, and out comes my modding spirit.
Here are some of the inspirations for this project:
Seeing these projects made me remember the time before the iPad/iPhone and tablet boom, where tablet projects on full size laptops were all the rage. The dynamic of those projects were to fill a gap in a companies offerings, to suit your needs. Apple hadn't released anything truly handheld oriented since the Newton MessagePad. (Where I decided to pull my project name from.) Every year, there were rumors of the next iTablet. At the time, it was fairly difficult (though, far from impossible) to procure OS X/9 compatible touch overlays for cheap. This project is sort of a "Unicorn" for me. It's been on the list for ages. And, now… finally finished!
There certainly is a giant continuum of portable, touch-oriented devices that have existed over the years, and where this one fits in, I'm not sure.
Resistive 13 Inch Screen
User Facing iSight Camera
Rear Facing iSight Camera with Colored Flash
Teensy 2.0 (Built In)
Sleep Switch
mDVI Port
USB 2.0 Port
Firewire Port
Gigabit Ethernet Port
Line In
Built-In Speakers
Want to skip my ranting and go to the pictures? Head down to the bottom, Chief.
Once you start cutting into your Macbook's lid, there's no going back. Measure everything roughly 4,000 times before you make your cuts. There is some tolerance for error on the viewport for the LCD, so don't let it bother you if it's slightly off. Do your absolute best to make it straight, and the Sugru will do the rest. That last part will make sense later, the point is… measure 1,000,000, cut once.
This project entails doing a lot of (nearly) irreversible things to your expensive computer. Going back to stock is going to require replacement of a nice pile of parts. Know this going in.
The touch screen is not a perfect fit, there is a ~25px cutoff on the bottom of the screen. I've tried to mitigate this using forced resolutions in OS X, but the LCD's firmware is programmed to crop to available area, so my efforts have been fruitless. That said, if you position the overlay so the blackout area is on the bottom, there is very little loss to screen real estate. The touch screen is also resistive. (Here for a quick comparison of touchscreen types. iPhones/iPads are capacitive.) Resistive has a couple major drawbacks. It can only accept input from a single point of touch at the time (No multi-touch), it's affected by heat, it cannot be bent or crushed, and most times, it will have low resolution. Take your expectations for that overlay and take them down a couple of notches. It's relatively difficult to do precision work (Kiss those dreams of doing Photoshop, or using this as a serious drawing tablet goodbye.) but it's well suited for day to day work and games. (Plants Versus Zombies on here is awesome.)
Don't try and use the Bluetooth's USB port directly. This port, and the bluetooth board itself are both 3.3V. It will not properly power any of the hubs, or devices commonly available.
Parts are very easy to crack or deform. Take time disassembling the computer. Let me be absolutely clear: You can remove EVERY part on this computer without major force. If you're forcing something, it's likely you've forgotten a screw. Adhesive is used on some parts, which require a slight bit of force to remove. The Apple logo, for example. You should use a heatgun to loosen the adhesive and pop it out. Don't try and force it out. You WILL crack the lid. I speak from experience.
It's important to remember that just because computers have the same model number and name does not mean they share parts. Core Duo Macbooks have a completely different motherboard mount and fan vent strut. Core 2 Duos were the advent of ZIF low rise sockets for a half of the connectors on the board. 2009 Core 2 Duos changed the optical drive connector, and who knows what else. Point is, they're all different, damn it. Get parts specific to your Apple Order Number or Design Year. Mactracker is a wonderful resource for this. Couldn't recommend it enough.
While this project is nowhere near as dangerous as my Macbook Dye Project, it still is dangerous. Working with Dremels, sharp cutting tools, drills, routers, and other equipment can be very hazardous. In no way do I cover all of the safety steps here, but – goggles, dust masks, gloves, clamps and an apron help A LOT. BE CAREFUL OUT THERE. These things can hurt you/people around you. I'm not responsible if you drill through your favorite desk, your pinky toe, your cat, your laptop, your brand new TV, or anything else that may happen based on what you read here. You CAN ALSO ruin your laptop, if you're not careful (Which is more important than that life and limb stuff right? Who needs limbs.) Do as I say, and not as I do.
If none of that scared you, then you are an enterprising individual (And also, INSANE) and, you should high five yourself.
With all of that out of the way… Let's get started!
White Macbook Pre-Unibody (I used the Macbook 3,1 – Core 2 Duo, GMA X1300 – 2007)
eGalax Touch Overlay 13.3″ 16:9
Normally Open Pushbutton
Normally Open SPST Toggle Switch
iMac G5/Intel iSight Board
"Thin" USB Hub – (Try to find a hub that supports high-power devices. These usually have nice sized capacitors on them.)
8GB Flash Drive
22 AWG Multi-Strand Wire
28 AWG Single-Strand Wire
Spare Set Of Macbook Lid Magnets (or any flat Neodymium magnet that will fit)
Electrical Tape
Gorilla Glue
Any Dremel with Cutting, Buffing and Smoothing Discs
Cake! (To eat in stupendous celebration when you're done!)
(For the Rear Facing Camera Flash Only)
ShiftBrite Module (I used a 1.0 module, but I'm sure a 2.0 module would work just fine.)
First off, remove your Macbook's display and optical drive. I'm not going to detail taking apart the computer here, I'll leave that to the mages at iFixit. Their take-apart guides are the absolute best on the interwho. Follow them and you'll never lose your way.
Set the bottom case, battery, and their assorted counterparts aside for now. Focus on the display. So, the basic idea behind this, is that we turn the LCD around in the lid, and use the lid as our new display bezel. Remove all of the guts from the display housing. But, leave the lid magnets alone, and save the sleep magnet for another project or your fridge. Once you've got the LCD out with it's mounting frame – Remove the mounting frame from the LCD by unscrewing the handful of small screws around the edge. Remove the iSight from it's aluminum frame, but leave it's plastic bezel attached. Remove the hinges from the lid. Where we're going WE DON'T NEED HINGES. Your lid should now be (mostly) empty.
Place the frame back into the lid, but don't screw it in. Use the frame as your guide for marking where you have to make the cuts in the lid. The end goal, is that we turn the LCD around and reattach it to it's normal frame, giving it a nice stable mount, and relieving us of some fabrication work. Once you've made the markings, triple check that it looks right. If so, cut the lid where you marked. Check fitment of the LCD in the new hole. Using the frame as the cutting guide will actually leave a small boarder of dead LCD space (Black boarder + LCD's frame). Later on we'll use the Sugru to fill this gap and add stability to the touch overlay.
Choose the orientation of your touch overlay, and ascertain where the ribbon cable will have to surface. Use your Dremel to remove any plastic standoffs that may be in the way. Make sure you smooth it out, as those ribbons are very fragile. You may have to make a small notch in the LCD mounting frame to allow the ribbon to pass through. Once that's done, attach your LCD to it's original mounting frame in the reverse direction, so it faces the new hole in the lid. There are a couple ways of doing this part. You can drill holes in the LCD's mounting frame and use the LCD's original screws to reattach it (None of the original holes will match up in the reverse direction, have to make your own.) Or you can Gorilla Glue it to the frame in the reverse direction. I chose the latter, but I recommend the former.
Now, while your glue is drying (or you're reveling in your frame drilling powers) use your smoothing wheel to thin out the plastic around the inside of your new bezelid (Awesome word, yeah? Bezel + Lid.) The touch overlay cannot be smooshed between the bezel and the LCD, and presently there isn't enough clearance to fit it in there. Shave 1mm or so off of that bezelid around the overlay, and you should be good to go. If in doubt, test your overlay and LCD in place, once your glue is dry. If the touch seems to be wonky, or sticking to one side, there's likely to be a crease. Test and test again.
Once there seems to be enough clearance, tape your overlay to your LCD+Frame. Run tape around the edges, and I ran a strip over the "dead" area on the bottom of the LCD to protect it. Make sure the overlay is stable and in the right position on your LCD. (This is where the overlay's short comings become apparent, it is too short vertically to fill in.) Mount the LCD inside the bezelid with the taped on overlay. From the front of the bezelid, you can see the electrical tape boarder now. These are the areas where you should apply your (White or whatever color you want) Sugru. It creates a nice soft boarder, and you can taper the boarder so that you can reach the very edges of the LCD to touch. It's a hard thing to describe, but just use your best judgement. Sugru is a lot like Playdoh, only it hardens into a permanent rubber-like form. It will hold the touch overlay in place inside the bezelid firmly, and be nice and soft on the user's fingers.
Test your overlay again! Looking good? Try the 25pt Calibration inside the eGalax Touch menu. Better? Awesome. Hard part is almost done. Give yourself a second to be proud of your work there. NOW! Let's mount the user facing iSight. The iSight cannot fit in it's previous position due to the framing change. So, instead, we'll use the part of the frame where the hinges were previously mounted, as it has ample space. Use your Dremel to smooth out a surface dead center of the "bottom" of the bezelid. Find a drill bit the size of the iSight lens, again, drill dead center. This is going to take a little trial and error. Remove the plastic bezel from the iSight. The lens can float freely attached to it's PCB, or be disconnected as well, the Microphone will stay attached to the bezel. Align the bezel in the smoothed area with the hole you drilled for the lens, and glue it in place. When it's dry, pop in the iSight and you're good to go! You should probably tack down the iSight PCB with some tape, screws or glue. But, I'll leave that up to you.
One last part for the new top case, and then you're done! Take your spare set of lid (neodymium) magnets, and glue them in place in the two magnet-less corners of your lid. Try to align them against the other two ones mounted in the bezelid's frame. We're going to use these later on to attach the top case to the bottom case! Magnets make it easier to do maintenance in the future, but also provide a strong bond for carrying around. The aluminum iMacs are held together by magnets! Kinda neat, huh?
Top case – Done! Time for some cake! Not too much. Don't want to go into a sugar-coma. YET.
Now, set your awesome new top case/bezelid/thingy aside. Bottom case time. I'd take this opportunity to take off your heatsink, replace your thermal grease, and clean out your fans. Remove the logic board from the bottom case. Place it on a soft surface (Foam works well) until you're ready to do your soldering. Now, I attached my power button and sleep toggle to the solid metal area in the fan vent, near the Bluetooth board. It's notable because air cannot pass through it. Use your Dremel/Drill to cut holes in this area the right size for the switches you chose. Screw your button and switch in, and fill in any gaps with white Sugru. Take care not the bend the metal strut that's build into the bottom case. After cutting this, make sure to thoroughly clean the bottom case. This cut produces aluminum dust, which is very bad for the logic board/electronic components.
We will not be re-using the optical drive. Chances are your's doesn't work anymore anyway. (They've got a shelf life of 2 years in these machines. :/) Now, if you're looking to save weight, and don't care about the rear facing camera, 8GB recovery drive, or Teensy, you can skip the hub installation, tie your touch driver board into your Trackpad/Keyboard USB port, route the power and sleep buttons, and you're done! But, that way isn't anywhere near as much fun.
Now, by far the hardest part of this, is soldering onto the Trackpad USB connector. There we'll pull signals for the power button, and the USB hub to host our other add-on devices. Use a fine soldering tip, watch a bunch of soldering YouTube videos and take your time. Here's the pinout. The power button is active when it's pulled LOW to ground. So, whenever you ground that pin, the computer will boot. Attach the power signal wire to one side of your power button. Attach the other side of the button to a grounded area. USB ground works just fine. Test! The other 4 pins listed are an internal USB port used by the MacBook's trackpad and keyboard. We're going to take that and attach it to a hub to add some devices. Solder your hub onto those pins and place it into your empty optical drive bay. Use small wires so you can route them in the lanes on the logic board. Make sure to double check the pins to be sure they're matched properly. Now! Boot it up and test. Hub works? Rock on. [An alternative method for this part, is to use one of the external USB ports. I won't detail it here, but those pins are a lot easier to solder onto.]
Strip your 8GB flash drive of it's casing, wrap it in tape or heatshrink and attach it to the hub. Glue your hub down in the corner of your empty optical drive bay out of the way. Take this time to tape your touchscreen controller to the bottom of your LCD panel. Keep it out of the way, shorten the USB cable that attaches to the hub to the shortest length possible without making it ballshard to connect when you're reattaching the top case.
Now's the time to install your rear-facing camera! For this part, I used an iSight from an Intel iMac 17 inch. You can use an iSight from any iMac G5 (15, 17) or (White) Intel iMac (17, 20) using this guide. But, you can use just about any iSight (or even just a USB webcam, using something like Maccam.) where the pinout is available. Since almost all iSights are just USB, it's fairly easy to ascertain the pinout. Go crazy. The world is yours. I won't be covering that here though. Grab your iMac iSight, and pop the clips out for the plastic bezel holding the lens. Detach the lens from the bezel (It may be glued. Some I've encountered were not, but some were.) gently. The lens and ribbon can be damaged very easily. Cut the bezel using snips so it can be turned down at a 90 degree angle, instead of forward. Drill a hole in your optical bay roughly the size of the glass lens protector (This piece does no image modulation, just protects the lens from debris/dust.) and pop the bezel/lens protector in. Check your orientation and then glue the bezel in place. Since the glass is a cube shape, rather than round, there may be some space in between the two. If so, use a little Sugru and neaten it up. I used a couple of foam pads to lift up the board to the right height, use your best judgement to determine that. Once everything is dry, attach the board! Now, it's time to wire it up.
I know it's tempting to plug that iSight into an iLink (Firewire) cable and fire it up, but DON'T DO IT. The board is not actually Firewire, despite that connector, it's USB. Check the wire colors if you don't believe me! You can actually just snip off that end, since we're not going to use it. Get a male USB A end, and solder it onto the iMac iSight, matching the wire colors. Done! For sanity, you should boot up your system (or another) and plug your iSight in to double check. If everything's good, tack your lens to the plastic bezel, tack the board down and clean up those wires!
I cover the ShiftBrite flash module in another article.
Just a tip, I seal all of my solder connections with hot glue, just to prevent shorts and give the wires some strain relief. I use a full size hub to make components/wires easy to change, but it does occupy a significantly larger amount of space. You could do better by removing all of the USB female A ports, and just soldering directly to the hub PCB.
Now, I'm sure you're thinking right now… Where are we putting this inverter? YOU CALL YOURSELF THE BRAIN? YOU ARE NOT. Well, gee. Calm down. I'm getting to that. I moved my inverter to the empty optical drive bay with the rest of the components. It's a four wire connection, and can be extended without knowing the pinout. Cut a single wire at a time, and attach it to your extension. Seal the connections with heat-shrink tubing. IDE/Floppy (40 pin. 80 pin don't work very well.) ribbon cables are the perfect form factor for these extensions. Quite easy to deal with, as well.
Now, we need to make sure the top case has 4 magnetic objects to attach itself to when we go to close the case. I took a water damaged scrap top case I had, and popped the two metal alloy pads that the lid uses to grip the bottom case off. I glued them in their respective places on the bottom case. That covers the lower area. Now, the top… I used razor blades with tape over the blade. I don't recommend you use these. Any rectangular piece of metal (preferably not sharp) will work, but not all alloys are magnetic! Glue them in place (corners of the fan strut). Done!
Home stretch here. Solder two wires onto the pins of your sleep switch. I have a picture of which pins here. Run these two wires to your toggle switch. Now, when the switch is in the on position, the system will "think" the lid is closed, and go into sleep mode. Open the switch, and the computer wakes up.
I used Sugru to seal the optical drive slot, and smooth out the side of the system, as well as seal the areas where the hinges previously were. You can also protect the bottom of the user-facing iSight with a bit of Sugru. It really works wonders.
Install your SSD (Install OS X on here, if you haven't already.), RAM cover and battery… Attach all of the cables for your top case, route the cables so they aren't stressed when the bezelid is shut… Let the magnets hold the two pieces together and… you're done! Boot it up. Revel in the glory and wonders of your own Mac OS X tablet, install some software that'll make using this thing easier (and possible.)
Now for some neat software!
MacFlip (Accerometer-based Screen Orientation App, Made for the Axiotron Modbook.)
Enable On-Screen Keyboard for OS X (10.4, 10.5) – (Note: In 10.6 Snow Leopard: The System Preferences Item is called Language And Text, then Input Sources, then check the Keyboard & Character Viewer Textbox at the top.)
SmcFanControl – (Use this to tweak the speed of the fans to vary based on power state.)
What I Learned:
Pecking at the on-screen keyboard is a bit of a bother. The touch overlay doesn't support multiple touch points at the same time, so using modifier keys is impossible. The tablet's battery life is about 4 hours or so under load. Later generations have better sleep-power consumption, and should be able to sleep for long periods of time. The generation I used does not, but can sleep for a week or so before depleting it's battery. The system is surprisingly light, definitely comfortable to hold. It's large, but nice. I enjoy using it. Tap to click is an absolute must, double clicking on things is tiresome using the touchscreen. The LCD should be protected under a layer of lexan. Right now, pressing on the overlay is pressing on the physical screen glass. Very bad for the screen. It works in this configuration, but could be much better with some protection. Could even be made waterproof with a significant amount of work. Speakers don't quite reflect sound towards the user without the lid. When placed on a surface though, very loud, good.
It gets moderately warm, but nothing uncomfortable. MacFlip is not able to do vertical screen orientation… Just scrambles everything. It will also bury the menubar in the deadzone if it's flipped the opposite direction. A higher quality overlay would make this even more awesome. Using Photobooth to switch between the cameras (and controlling the flash by sending characters to a ttyUSB) was so cumbersome I wrote an app in Processing to do it for me. It's not quite done yet, but I'll update when it's complete.
Software Projects Inspired By This Work:
Shake To Exposé
Camera.app (Built-In Processing – Allows easy switching between Front/Back Cameras, Flash duration/Color)
PriTunes (Processing implementation of iTunes API. Allows quick song searching, play/pause, visualizer. Good for Carputers.)
Future Features:
SD Card Reader (In Optical Drive Slot)
Portrait Mode
ALL DONE! Hug pandas. Eat cake. INITIATE SUGAR COMA. Enjoy your MessagePad's big brother. And, hey… This runs Adobe Flash. 😉


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One of the most exciting things I have ever done is to become a board member of the Westerly Historical Society. Recruited as the new treasurer, I never knew how absorbing the topic of our local history would become. Later I took over the publication of our newsletter and it was there that I found out I could actually write with a modicum of proficiency.
As a means of letting you know more of who I am as a person, the Westerly Historical Society has graciously allowed me to re-run a few of my research pieces from the last couple of seasons. I hope you will find them enjoyable!


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Game of Thrones is over, Winter is too ! Now, Summer is coming, and it was high time !
My big departure date is approaching at a fast pace now, I just can't wait to leave Paris for my step parents house in the South, and to meet again their amazing pool… It has to be the most relaxing place on Earth, especially during summer !
Also, I am dying to try my brand new bathing suit ! Do you girls buy yourself at least one new bathing suit each year ?! I can't help it, every year when it starts getting warmer I just have to buy myself a new one !!
So, to make the time go by while I wait for my actual vacations, I felt like showing you what's inside my summer bag, my survival kit for the pale Parisian girl I am !!
Hope you like it, and be sure to check out the pieces you like because most of them are on sale !