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As of October 1st 2018 there will be a price change for treatments.We appreciate your continued s...
Cranial Waves is a home based clinic, brought to life by the love and support of family, friends and our community.
Since opening our doors to clients many years ago we have watched families grow as our family has grown. We are very grateful to be a part of the lives and healing journeys of all the people we know and treat.
Cranial Waves symbolizes the awakening of potential charge within us all. Like a wave in the ocean, the ability to be one thing that changes into another, creating limitless opportunities and possibilities.
Cranial Waves clinic was established with family in mind. We treat all ages for a variety of conditions ranging from acute to chronic. Some examples include; latching difficulties in newborns; Physical and emotional post traumatic stress; Back and neck pain; headaches and post surgery; and acute injuries to mention only a few.


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Watch Four Tet Detail His Live Set-Up
Not unlike yesterday's lengthy pictorial feature in which Mount Kimbie explained how its studio set-up was transformed for live performance, a video of UK producer Kieran Hebden (a.k.a. Four Tet) detailing the inner workings of his own stage rig to a small class at Red Bull Music Academy has hit the internet today. Come to find out, the basics of his onstage gear are rather straightforward. Hebden is essentially splitting up his Ableton set into various channels, sending them into his mixer, and adding his own nuanced tweaks on the fly with FX processors, controllers, and even a second computer. Despite the relative simplicity, it's an interesting and informative session with one of the strongest producers and performers working in electronic music today.

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From Wiki
Creating SSH Keys for rsync or ssh etc.
Create keys on local machine
ssh-keygen -t dsa
Copy Public Key (id_dsa.pub) to PC you want to log into
scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub username@host:
On the PC you want to log into go to the .ssh folder in the home dir and add the key in to the authorised keys file
cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys
Thats it. The pub key can be deleted off the server. Job Done.
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- n. Easter, the most important Christian religious feast
- n. Orthodox Christian church services during the week preceding Easter
- adj. pertaining to Easter. (e.g. in the Orthodox Christian church, Pascha week refers to the week preceding Easter)
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Sicut et nos pro eadem causa ante tempus nonnunquam parvulos baptizamus, cum tamen sit constitutum ab apostolicis patribus, ut vel in Pascha, vel in Pentecoste baptizemus.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Paul adds in that Easter hymn of the early church we call the Pascha Nostrum: Christ being raised from the dead can never die again; death has no more power over him.
Because every great feast was in some way a remembrance of the resurrection of Christ and was in consequence called Pascha, we find the names Pascha floridum, in French Pâques fleuries, in Spanish Pascua florida, and it was from this day of 1512 that our State of Florida received its name (Nilles, II, 205).
"The Resurrection icon that we use for Easter Sunday, which is also called Pascha, shows Jesus pulling Adam and Eve out of hell, or Hades," Webb said.
And in Latin the celebration of the Resurrection is referred to as Pascha, based on the rendering into Latin of the Jewish word for Passover Pesach.
Easter Sunday is this weekend, April 12th, and the Orthodox church's Easter Sunday (often called Pascha) is next Sunday, April 19th.
The very feast itself puts us in mind of as much; it is the Pascha, that is, the Passover, not a coming back to the same land of Egypt, but a passing over to a better, the Land of Promise, whither 'Christ our Passover' is passed before us, and will in good time give us passage after Him.
This is Holy Week in the ancient Orthodox churches of the East, which means that today is Good Friday and, just before midnight on Saturday, we will begin the lengthy and glorious rites of Pascha, which is called Easter in the West.
The celebration of Easter, otherwise known as Pascha, is tied to the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, by both the date and the symbolism.
Also, our holiday of Easter was traditionally called 'Pascha', and still is in many languages, named after the Jewish festival of 'Pesach' or Passover.
Valerie Tarico: Ancient Sumerian Origins of the Easter Story


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This summer's musical "Phantom of the Opera," written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, was a tremendous success. The team of Jan and Brian Knutson, Jim Tropp, and Michael Stanek surpassed expectations as they brought to life "Phantom of the Opera."
Comments from the audience included the following:
"You don't need to go to Broadway to see 'Phantom' when Broadway is at Parker High School."
"The elaborate set design, special effects, costumes and the hard work of many people made this a spectacular show that deserved the resounding standing ovation from the audience."
"The music by Andrew Lloyd Webber was done to perfection by high school students who sounded like seasoned adults." WOW! These quotes in the paper were right on point.
The musical was also mentioned on Broadway World.com under the title "Sing For Me! Incredible Video of High School Production of The Phantom of the Opera" by Pat Cerasaro. Pat states, "A high school excels with The Phantom of the Opera!"
This was the last time this musical will be seen at the high school or college level. The production company from Rodgers and Hammerstein will no longer license the musical at these levels. We are glad we had the opportunity to perform the musical one last time.
Hats off to Mr. Jim Tropp, Director; Mrs. Jan Knutson and Mr. Brian Knutson, Musical Directors; Mr. Michael Stanek, Choreographer; and the cast, crew and musicians for their hard work. They did an AWESOME job!


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Wild Seed was produced by Universal as part of the studio's short-lived "new talent" policy, which permitted untried actors and/or directors a low-cost opportunity to prove themselves with a theatrical feature. Director Brian G. Hutton was no newcomer, having been a TV actor and director for several years, but Wild Seed was his first big-screen directorial effort. Michael Parksmore
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A bar worker crashed into a woman's car on Blackpool Promenade and then fled from the scene.
A woman witness followed Jessica Richie and brought her back to the crash site.
Richie, 24, of Church Road, Thornton, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.
Pam Smith, prosecuting, said Richie was driving a Ford Focus on the Promenade when she veered into the opposite lane and collided with a Citroen on July 26 at 6.35am.
Richie ran off and the other driver was taken to hospital with chest pain.
A breath test showed 80 microgrammes of alcohol in Richie's body – 35 is the limit.
When interviewed, Richie said she had gone for drinks with colleagues after she finished work at about 2.45am.
She felt merry, but not drunk. She took a taxi to a friend's then later got in her own car.
She had little recollection.
Mitch Sarangi, defending, said his client, who had no previous convictions, had not been driving for a long time. She was a personal licence holder for a hostelry in Wyre. Richie was extremely sorry.
She was banned from the road for 20 months, fined £335 with £85 costs and ordered to pay a £150 court charge plus £35 victims' surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.


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UK artist Abigail Brown designs and creates magical little scrap fabric creatures and sells them online. While all of her creatures are enchanting, her birds are especially appealing, perhaps because she considers birds one of the most beautiful and accessible of creatures.
She is able to capture the joyful chirping and lightness of being that birds express. Each of her creatures has a unique character and are presented in delightful ways. The little Matchbox Tweeters seem perfect for Twitterers and are especially endearing, though I confess, her little foxes are also very sweet.
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Director Spotlight takes a look at an auteur, shines some light on the director's body of work, points out what makes them an artist, and shows why some of their films work and some don't. This edition's director is the eternally enthusiastic Martin Scorsese.
NOTE: Look, I'm tired of typing it out for pretty much every entry, so here it is in the opening: there's going to be spoilers in this thing, and in almost every entry of Director Spotlight. There's a lot more to a film than the basic plotting, which is only a small part of the enjoyment as far as I'm concerned. Still, if it's going to bother you, I'd highly suggest not reading ahead until you've seen the film in question.
Grade: 96/A
Martin Scorsese thought Raging Bull might end up being his final film, but the film's critical success saved his career as a filmmaker. Scorsese wanted to move on to his pet project, The Last Temptation of Christ, but Robert De Niro was not interested, and he pushed Scorsese to direct The King of Comedy, an odd little script about an aspiring comedian's love-hate relationship with fame. Scorsese didn't know what to make of the script, and has admitted that he had to push himself to be interested during the shoot. When the film bombed on its release, it looked like it might end Scorsese's film career. But a funny thing happened over the past thirty years, as The King of Comedy developed a fervent cult following. It's well-deserved: Scorsese's odd, deeply uncomfortable (yet hilarious) black comedy is one of Scorsese's very best films.
Rupert Pupkin (De Niro) is a nobody. An aspiring comedian, Rupert is an obsessive autograph hound, and an encounter with the Johnny Carson-like Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) gives him hope that if he can just get a tape of his act to Jerry, he'll hit the big time. Jerry, who's sacrificed privacy for fame, isn't terribly keen on having his life invaded by some schlub. But Rupert is a desperate man willing to do whatever it takes to hit the top, and with the help of his equally unhinged and Jerry-obsessed friend Masha (Sandra Bernhard), that willingness extends to kidnapping.
The King of Comedy is one of Scorsese's most unconventional films- it boasts little of the gritty realism of Kazan or Scorsese's Italian neorealist influences, and the more formalistic elements feel removed from his usual wheelhouse as well. But Scorsese's willingness to experiment is what keeps the film fresh in spite of the filmmaker's waning interest. The film pays tribute to the heightened fantasy worlds of Michael Powell and Max Ophuls, as well as the precise compositions and sets of Jacques Tati (not to mention Jerry Lewis's directorial works). Scorsese combines these formal elements with his Cassavetes-influenced gift for improv. The results are as striking as they are odd- a film that combines the meticulously planned comedy of Lewis and Tati with the uncomfortable soul baring of Cassavetes.
Of course, Scorsese needs performers who are adept at this kind of riffing. Sandra Bernhard hadn't acted much before, but she takes to Scorsese's style perfectly, playing an obsessive whose unpredictability makes her every move deeply unnerving. The last third of the film has a long sequence in which Jerry Langford sits silently, tied to a chair with a hilarious amount of masking tape, as Bernhard comes on to him like the worst psychotic fan imaginable- throwing a wine-glass because she thinks he might dislike the glass, babbling about thinking about him while she's in the bath, singing "Come Rain or Come Shine" in an ostensibly seductive but actually quite creepy way. It's a shame Bernhard hasn't had much of a career since.
I'm more of a Jerry Lewis fan than some (he's an acquired taste, to say the least), but even his most ardent admirers would admit that there's a boyish desperation for attention to his comedic performances. But Lewis had a reputation for being a controlling, self-absorbed prick behind the scenes, and his performance here is a welcome bit of self-parody that's simultaneously empathetic, however difficult. Sure, Jerry's a pompous asshole much of the time- he treats his staff badly, and he barely hides his contempt for Rupert the first time he meets him, bullshitting him in a way only a truly oblivious man like Rupert wouldn't pick up on. But he's also a man who's clearly had his normality eaten away at by fame, who can't walk down the street without being hounded (or give an autograph without being told "I hope you get cancer!" when he can't give more), and who's lonely in the big bubble fame has made for him.
Scorsese has said that he believes Rupert Pupkin is Robert De Niro's very best performance. It's hard to put it above Jake La Motta and Travis Bickle, but it's certainly rank as one of De Niro's most offbeat and uncharacteristic performances. De Niro had shown vulnerability within inarticulate, ultra-masculine men before, but here he plays one of the most pathetic characters in the history of cinema. De Niro plays Rupert as an obnoxiously unctuous wannabe in a tacky suit, a man who seemingly has no idea that he doesn't have a shot in hell (his dates with Diahnne Abbott, then De Niro's real wife, are brutal).
But De Niro also empathizes with the poor schmuck, which keeps the film from falling into a mean-spirited chuckle at some poor bastard. A key line that shows just how sad Rupert's existence is: "I see the awful, terrible things in my life, and turn it into something funny." Rupert's delusions of grandeur clash with his unremarkable life, not to mention with his obliviousness to his lack of talent or connection with others. There are at least five or six scenes of Pupkin rushing into an office (or Jerry's home) to see his hero, only to fail to pick up on signals that Jerry is never going to see him ("I'll wait." "It'd be a waste of your time." "Oh, no it wouldn't, I'd be happy to do it").
It's incredibly painful to watch, made more so by the way Scorsese frames De Niro to look either diminutive (as when he's framed in distant doorways) or like he's isolated in the center of the room. Even more painful- the overlit fantasy sequences in Rupert's head, where the world is candy-colored and he's a calm man in the face of Jerry's fawning. And then there's a great shot in which Pupkin records his act for Jerry to listen to, and the sound of prerecorded laughter drowns him out as the camera pull back through an impossibly long, white space, the pictures of a laughing crowd serving as Rupert's fantasy audience. The notion is clear: the world is laughing at Rupert, not with him (we, meanwhile, don't laugh so much as we wince).
The film has been called a blackly comic version of Taxi Driver: where Travis Bickle is rejected by society and decides to violently turn on it, Rupert Pupkin is rejected by the famous man he worships and decides to become infamous. But there's a deeper connection to Taxi Driver, which is likely Scorsese's connection to the film. Where De Niro and Lewis knew the price of fame, Scorsese at this point wasn't recognizable on the street. But when John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan and said he was influenced by Taxi Driver, Scorsese knew the price of having an insane fan take art way too seriously, and that discomfort translates perfectly to The King of Comedy.
There's a lot of great comedic material in the kidnapping business, including De Niro dropping his gun when he first gets out a car to kidnap Jerry, or a hilarious scene in which Jerry is forced to read off of cue cards that have been mixed up (*heavy sigh* "You've got it upside down"). But De Niro's real tour de force is when he does get a chance to go on Jerry's show (sans Jerry, who's being held at Masha's place) and deliver his terrible stand-up material. Scorsese shot these segments on video, both for realism and because it gives us a long, unblinking gaze at Rupert's uncomfortably bad work. But Rupert's made it, even if he had to kidnap his idol to do it.
There's debate over whether the final sequence, in which Rupert becomes a sensation while in jail, releases an autobiography (that's getting movie deals!), and gets his own show. Given how much the sequence resembles the overlit, heightened worlds of Rupert's other fantasies (complete with an announcer fawning over his entrance) and Scorsese's pronounced influence by Michael Powell's Black Narcissus, I'm willing to bet that it's fantasy. On the other hand, does it matter? The whole world is laughing at Rupert on primetime now, as a freakshow rather than as a loser (or perhaps both), and he either doesn't get it or doesn't care. He's made it big. "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime!"
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Does that number by the grade confuse you? Go over to this link, where I explain my idiotically specific 100-point system and how it corresponds to the grades.
Curious about my favorite films from various years? Check out my account on Letterboxd.
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Curious about my favorite films from various years? Check out my account on Letterboxd.


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Arrest report: Feb. 7
11 months 2 weeks ago
CULLMAN - Below are the arrests reported for Feb. 7. All persons are innocent until proven guilty.
Cullman County Sheriff's Office
Brown, Cody Weston, 26
- probation violation- second-degree theft of lost property
Fairbanks, Jeffery Dwight, 52
- failure to appear- negotiating a worthless negotiable instrument
Jones, Kevin Doyle, 32
- possession of drug paraphernalia
Jones, Rachel Elizabeth, 27
- possession of drug paraphernalia
- failure to appear- possession of prescription medicine
- second-degree theft of property
Morris, Matthew Cambron, 32
- failure to appear- possession of drug paraphernalia (2 counts)
- failure to appear- resisting arrest
Willingham, Joshua Joe, 34
- failure to appear- third-degree domestic violence- harassment
Cullman Police Department
Goings, John E., 50
- unlawful distribution of a controlled substance
Hanceville Police Department
No arrests reported.
Find arrest reports online Monday-Friday at www.CullmanTribune.com.


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Service centre locations, opening hours and contact details
Opening hours and contact details
Send an enquiry about any of the services we provide and we'll respond within five business days.
- Registration and driver's licences - 13 10 84 (8.00 am to 6.00 pm)
- Overseas callers - +61 8 8463 3490
Service centre opening hours
Most centres have the same opening hours:
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
- Wednesday - 9.30 am to 5.00 pm.
The Marion and Elizabeth centres are open until 6.00 pm.
Postal address
Service SA
GPO Box 1533
Adelaide SA 5001
Customer service centre locations
Service SA customer service centres
Map showing all customer service centres
Each Service SA customer service centre has a hearing assistance device and is accessible for mobility-impaired customers.
EDS Centre
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29 Vaughan Terrace
Shop 42 North Mall
Northern Market Shopping Centre
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10 Digby Street
1 Milham Street
15-17 Princes Road
116 Reservoir Road
Mount Gambier
11 Helen Street
Murray Bridge
19 Seventh St
Naracoorte14 Butler Terrace
Naracoorte 5271
Port Adelaide
64 Dale Street
Port Augusta
9 Mackay Street
Port Lincoln
73-75 Tasman Terrace
Port Pirie
Shop 7-8, 72-80 Ellen St
Northpark Shopping Centre
Regency Park
Kateena Street
Seaford Meadows
760 Grand Boulevard
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172 Glynburn Road
171 Nicolson Ave
Service agents and Australia Post
Service Agents
Services available include:
- driver licence and boat operator licence theory tests - bookings essential
- motor vehicle registration renewals, cancellations and transfers replacement of motor vehicle plates
- ordering motor vehicle special plates
- change of addresses
- new owner registration
- notice of disposal of a motor vehicle
- renewal and replacement of drivers licence and learner's permits
- registration of a motorboat
- SA Government information and forms
- sale of power of attorney and guardianship kits, driver's handbook and 'Now You Are a Guardian' booklet
- SA Water payments
- commercial fishing licence fees
- recreational rock lobster registration
- aquaculture lease and licence renewal.
Shop 7, 25 Old North Road, Clare SA 5453
Opening hours: Monday to Friday - 9.30 am to 2.30 pm
Anglican Community Care
57-59 George St, Millicent, SA 5280
Opening hours: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
Southern Yorke Peninsula (SYP) Community Telecentre Inc.
33 Stansbury Rd, Yorketown, SA 5576
Opening hours: 9.00 am to 2.00 pm
Tatiara District Council
34 Hender Street
Keith SA 5267
Rural Agent Service Centre
209 Main Street
Peterborough SA 5422
Port MacDonnell
Rural Transaction Centre
District Council of Grant
5 Charles Street
Port MacDonnell SA 5291
Roxby Downs
Roxby Downs Council Office
Richardson Place
Roxby Downs SA 5725
Wudinna and Districts Telecentre
44 Eyre Highway
Wudinna SA 5652
Rural Service Agents
Services available include:
- driver licence and boat operator licence theory tests - bookings essential
- SA government information and forms
- sale of power of attorney and guardianship kits, driver's handbook and 'Now You Are a Guardian' booklet
- SA Water payments
- commercial fishing licence fees
- recreational rock lobster registration
- aquaculture lease and licence renewal
- PIRSA corporate finance invoices.
Port Broughton
Rural Transaction Centre
District Council of Barunga West
Port Broughton SA 5522
Commissioned Agents
Services available include:
- cancel a registration
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- change of addresses
- check registration expiry date
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- make a vehicle inspection
- obtain a replacement label/certificate
- obtain a replacement registration details certificate
- order a special plate
- order replacement plates
- register a used vehicle in a new owner's name
- remove a concession from a vehicle
- renew a number plate agreement
- renewal fees enquiry
- reprint a registration receipt (tax invoice)
- transfer a registration
- vehicle inspection booking enquiry
- verifying and processing evidence of identity
Ceduna Post Office
18 McKenzie Street
Ceduna SA 5690
Coober Pedy Post Office
Hutchison Street
Coober Pedy SA 5723
Goolwa Post Office
3/31 Hutchinson Street
Goolwa SA 5214
Kingscote Post Office
39 Dauncey Street
Kingscote SA 5223
Australia Post
At your local Australia Post Office you can:
- renew your registration
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Posted in Press Releases on 14 May 2013
The news is exploding like a meteorite on the nightlife skies: Cocoon Ibiza is flying straight into the 14th Season!
Deeply rooted in the party island's happenings, the Frankfurt based gang around Sven V"th will pull out all the stops to bring you a season unlike any other before. Cocoon at Amnesia - as simple as this motto may sound, the fusion of Sven V"th's vision and the consistent evolution thereof, will turn over a new leaf on Ibiza. The organically grown experience stemming from many party nights and the return to the essence of what's been drawing us to Ibiza time and again, will be celebrated in an optimised fashion on 17 nights, from Monday 10th June - 30th September
Above all, tradition commits us to quality and the focus on the essential. A playful interior concept, formed by the unity of architecture, light, video and installation, creates a cozy setting for a musically arresting night. All night long sets by Sven V"th, Ricardo Villalobos and Loco Dice, never more than two DJs plus one live act on each floor: longer sets from the DJs; we want to emphasize the artist's work. Alongside the leading artists Sven V"th and Ricardo Villalobos, you'll find in Amnesia all the thriving protagonists of the international techno and house scene: handpicked and recruited from the Cocoon family.
Welcome to the dancefloor in Ibiza's most ecstatic boiling pot, when unique moments will lead to blissful happiness!
Cocoon @ Amnesia Ibiza - full line-ups 2013:
Monday 10/06 Grand Opening:
Main Room: Sven V"th, Sascha Dive, Guy Gerber live
Terrace: Ricardo Villalobos, Dorian Paic, Julien Bracht live
Monday 17/06:
Main Room: Adam Beyer, Dubfire
Terrace: Luciano, Mathias Kaden, Matt John
Monday 24/06:
Main Room: Chris Liebing, Daniel Stefanik
Terrace: Sven V"th, Seth Troxler
Monday 01/07:
Main Room: Sven V"th all night long, Henrik Schwarz live
Terrace: Ricardo Villalobos all night long, Makam live
Monday 08/07:
Main Room: Chris Liebing, Ben Klock
Terrace: Sven V"th, Luciano
Monday 15/07:
Main Room: Marcel Dettmann, Ilario Alicante, Mathew Jonson Live
Terrace: Sven V"th all night long, Kink live
Monday 22/07:
Main Room: Dubfire, Daniel Stefanik & Mathias Kaden b2b
Terrace: Loco Dice, Guti live
Monday 29/07:
Main Room: Sven V"th all night long, Planetary Assault Systems live
Terrace: Ricardo Villalobos, Ar:pia:r
Monday 05/08:
Main Room: Chris Liebing, Adam Beyer
Terrace: Sven V"th, Ricardo Villalobos
Monday 12/08:
Main Room: Sven V"th, Mathias Kaden
Terrace: Loco Dice, Carl Craig, tINI
Monday 19/08:
Main Room: Adam Beyer, Ellen Allien, Christian Burkhardt live
Terrace: Sven V"th, Richie Hawtin
Monday 26/08:
Main Room: Chris Liebing, Ben Klock
Terrace: Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Felipe Valenzuela
Monday 02/09:
Main Room: Mathias Kaden, Ilario Alicante, Martinez
Terrace: Raresh, Dorian Paic, Onur Tzer
Monday 09/09:
Main Room: Sven V"th, Marcel Dettmann
Terrace: Loco Dice, Dixon, ¶me live
Monday 16/09:
Main Room: DJ Koze, DJ W!ld, Roman Fl_gel
Terrace: Sven V"th, Alejandro Mosso live
Monday 23/09:
Main Room: Adam Beyer, Gaiser live, special guest tbc
Terrace: Ricardo Villalobos all night long
Monday 30/09 Grand Closing:
Sven V"th, Ricardo Villalobos, Raresh, more acts tbc
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It's the 2nd December already, can you believe it? I have got SO much to do I think my brain is going to pop. One thing I wanted to make was an advent calendar, and so we managed to get it done last night (the 1st). I got the idea from a picture on Pinterest I found, of paper parcels sewn up on the sewing machine. I thought that would be perfect for containing choccies to open each day, why not?
I used my stash of vintage wall papers and some brown parcel paper, and some gold glitter paint. (please note that the felt tips are not relevant, just left there by toddler.)
even a very ill Mister joined in, he made a sledge, a bowler hat, a moustache, a stocking and a bell. Very impressed.
I stuffed them with chocolate coins and Quality Streets (I bought these lovely Santas but I forgot to put them in!!)
I used a branch from our apple tree. It was a covered in green algae type stuff which I scrubbed off in the bath!
It was a bit more cramped than I had anticipated, so ideally I should have used a bigger branch (or smaller parcels) but who cares? not me.
'woooowwww whhaaaaaat'sss thaaaattt???? ....is all we get these days.
Last week, I was cutting out more numbers. I wanted to have a clock in little'uns room as we usually have to get up in the night if she cries out, and have no idea if its night or morning. I found a cheapo clock (£10) which had a nice wooden frame. I took it all apart and used wallpaper and cut out some numbers from some felt, then put it all back together.
I had a big picture frame above her cot, but I was feeling stupidly worried that it would one night fall off the wall onto a sleeping bub, so I put the clock there instead and I quite like how it seems to go with her whale mobile.
Gosh and blimey, I have a long list of things to make and do, but before ANY of that, I have to clean the house.
Beware of many festive posts coming up! ...you'll be sick of it in a few weeks time ; )


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I was not anticipating a win in the Quiet Time Box department today. I felt that I did not have enough in today's box to occupy Eden, and even took an eleventh hour trip to the local Op Shop to see if I could find anything to pad it out. I couldn't. As I said, I was not anticipating a win.
I was wrong.
Apparently, the few items that I provided amounted to "the best box ever, Mummy! Apart from the other boxes, too!" Well said Eden, as only a four-year-old could phrase it. So, what was in Wednesday's box?
Theme: Numeracy
- Laminated number tracing page, from Eden's curriculum (Confessions of a Homeschooler, if you want to read more about the curriculum itself, see this post)
- Dry erase crayon, for use with the tracing page
- 'Clothes pin number match' wheel, and numbered clothes pegs (the wheel is also from the curriculum at Confessions of a Homeschooler)
- Barbie jigsaw puzzle (70 cents)
- A tin of dominoes to play with, picked up from a local shop for $6
- A mini magnadoodle board
- Kaleidoscope
- Interlocking discs
- Calculator
- Tangram blocks
- Tangram board
- Patterning tangram cards (also from the curriculum from Confessions of a Homeschooler)
- A Mickey Mouse stationary set ($2 from Sam's Warehouse) which consisted of a notebook, a pencil, an eraser and a sharpener
Quiet Time: I had to cut Eden's Quiet Time short today after an hour and a half, and I was surprised to find her still busily exploring the contents of her tub. She had sharpened her pencil - a lot - and was very proud of how pointy it was! She had also taken many 'notes' in her notebook based on her "calerations" [calculations] on the calculator, and had completed the peg wheel and jigsaw puzzle. She said her favourite item in the tub was the sharpener! Go figure!
If you would like to check out the other posts in this series, look no further than here:
Monday's Box
Tuesday's Box
Thursday's Box
Thanks for reading, happy Quiet Time-ing! ~ L.


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Seasonal Pet Safety Tips from Good Nature Organic Lawn Care Fall/Winter 2018 Safe Storage of Lawn Garden Products Its time to put many summer items away for winter, including all those fertilizers, pesticides and other lawn garden products we didnt use up. Safe storage of lawn care products is extremely important to safeguard your household pets. If moving lawn care products inside your garage for the winter, please double check they are securely and safely sealed and out of reach. Some products may be hazardous chemicals that are unsafe for nosey petsand children. Consider replacing any toxic chemicals or pesticides with safer, healthier alternatives. Make sure that any bagged or boxed products are not accessible to rodents. They could chew an opening and leave materials all over your garage or shed. Speaking of Rodents! Organic Rodent Control As the temperature continues to drop, rodents move inside to find warmth and nesting locations. Please be very careful with any rodenticides.
There are a variety of critters who sometimes frequent our lawns and can cause issues while theyre looking for food. Moles tunnel under the ground and can create a mess, especially in the Spring. Skunks and Racoons are more of an issue in the Fall as they work to fatten up for winter. Why are Animals Digging In My Lawn? Animals will dig because theyre hungry. Moles, Skunks, and Racoons all eat a variety of worms, insects, and grubs. Just because you have Animals Digging, it does not mean that you have a grub problem. Animals will dig in search of food and return to places where theyve found food in the past. How Many Grubs is too Many? A healthy lawn can tolerate up to 5 grubs per square foot. An average size lawn is 5000 square feet, so that is 25,000 grubs! Its not possible to kill all the grubs, even if you resort to using a chemical that sits on the lawn for months. Using a natural grub suppression treatment like beneficial nematodes is a good idea to minimize one of the food sources
Conventional lawn maintenance includes regular use of synthetic lawn chemicals, such as fertilizers and pesticides, which are typically applied repeatedly throughout the season. After every application a portion of the chemical is taken up by the soil and plants, but the remainder may be washed away during rainstorms where it can make its way into streams and lakes. This type of pollution is known as runoff. There is already clear evidence that links runoff from roads and farms to pollution in rivers and lakes, but, more recently, research indicates that the contribution from urban lawns is also significant. These chemicals dont discriminate they act as fertilizers and pesticides wherever they go. Nutrient pollution from fertilizer is essentially a too much of a good thing type of problem. In lawns and on farms they are intended to help grow desired plants, but when this fertilizer reaches a lake it spurs the growth of aquatic plants and algae and may have negative effects. For example,
If your family is looking to reduce the weight of the trash can you pull to the curb every week, composting your organic waste could cut your landfill trash by up to 30%, according to the US EPA. By composting your kitchen scraps and garden waste instead of landfilling, youll also help reduce greenhouse gases produced by landfills and end up with a locally made plant fertilizer (local, as in your own backyard!). We like natural fertilizer here at Good Nature Organic Lawn Care and are here to help you with some steps to start your familys first compost project. Choosing Your Location There are lots of options of where to let your compost decompose. Ideally, you need a spot where the compost will get a bit wet but not saturated so under a tree or behind a shed are optimal spots. Youll also need to have your compost contained in some way. A rotating drum is a popular alternative. These models often have wheels which makes for easy dispersal of compost when ready but they can be on the pricier
What is Hybrid Organic Lawn Care? (Spoiler Alert: Its a wolf in sheeps clothing) It seems that choosing an organic lawn care company is getting more difficult. Back in 1999, when Good Nature Organic Lawn Care was founded, there was one type of lawn care company and they all used the same lawn care chemicals. Nobody really questioned whether using chemicals on their lawn was a good idea or not. People assumed that since the chemicals are approved by the government, they must be safe. Truth is, lawn care chemicals are not safe and any lawn care company that tells you that they use safe lawn care chemicals is breaking the law. At Good Nature, we use vegetable meals, proteins, sea plant extracts, humus containing products, plant oils, and micronutrients to keep grass and plants healthy so that they can defend themselves from insects and disease while defending their territory against weed invasion.It might surprise you to know that youll find many of our ingredients in the food you eat and
This guest post is from Leigh Marcos, a lover of all animals, especially cats. You can read more about how to care for your pets at the Shield My Pets website. This article is personal to me. As a cat lover, I have seen first hand what going all out to have the perfect lawn can do to your cat. In my case this was the piratic Mr. Spot. The great wanderer and mischief maker supreme. This is a summary of what Ive learned the hard way about how our lawns can affect our cats if we are not careful. How Pesticides Affect Cats In short, the fertilizers and pesticides we use on our lawns are poisonous to cats. As cats spend a large chunk of their time outdoors, this puts them at a higher risk of interacting with these toxic substances. Cats often nibble at grass and plants for medicinal reasons, but even if they do not, they step in the fertilizer and brush against plants sprayed with pesticides then they lick their fur and their paws while cleaning themselves. If ingested in large enough
Conditions This Bad Not Seen In A Decade! What a summer! Drought-like conditions in July followed by rain, rain and more rain in August. Unfortunately, those are perfect conditions for infectious lawn diseases. Honestly, we havent seen this type of disease-favorable weather in 10 years! Think of it as the perfect storm for lawn disease. Diseases like brown patch, dollar spot, Pythium blight, leaf spot diseases and the appearance of symptoms of summer patch and necrotic ring spot. While temperature and moisture can bring on these diseases, there are other factors that take over once the disease becomes established. Also, some grasses are more affected than others by lawn disease...but all lawns are affected... Kentucky Bluegrass * Less prone to brown patch, dollar spot, gray leaf spot and Pythium blight * Very susceptible to root diseases such as necrotic ring spot and summer patch * Can tolerate some infection * During periods like is past summer, infection-impaired plants cannot
Theyre baaaack! This year, cicada bugs (a.k.a. 17-year locusts) will emerge in Northeast Ohio. Cicadas live almost all of their 17 year life underground before emerging. When they emerge, cicada nymphs climb trees, shed their skin and fly. The one goal of the flying adult cicada is to mate and produce more cicadas. The good news is that these adult cicadas will live only four to six weeks (males die shortly after mating). But its going to be a noisy four to six weeks. From sunrise to sunset we will be hearing the high pitched and shrill mating song of the males. Where a lot of these insects are present their singing can be quite annoying. Because so many of them (think millions) will descend on us all at once, they can harm your young trees and shrubs. When the female lays her eggs, she looks for the small branches of deciduous trees (not pine trees). This applies to trees like Apple, Cherry, Dogwood, Japanese Maple, Hickory, Oak, Maple, Ash, Holly, Willow, etc. They will even plant
What is Aeration? More often than not when people have aeration in mind, it is the kind where a machine is used to poke holes in the ground or pull soil-core plugs out of the ground. There are more ways than one to aerate the soil though and, believe it or not, the molehill you may detest so much is actually a sign nature is aerating your lawn for free! Why Your Lawn May Need Aeration? - The soil in your yard is compacted. - Pools of water can be found in spots or all over the lawn after irrigation or rainfall. - Water retention is low and it seems like most of the water is just running straight off when you try to water the lawn. - There are many worn areas in your lawn, maybe where there is high foot traffic. - Your lawn has a lot of thatch built up. No reason: aerating once annually even if you have none of these problems is seeing as air is just as vital for the soil and your lawns root *system as it is for you and me! Proper coring also leaves the plugs on the lawn (little
Spring is here and youre wondering what to do with the lawn? Should you hire a Traditional Lawn care company? Hire a Natural Lawn Care Company? Hire an Organic Lawn Care Company? Or, should you just buy lawn fertilizer and treat the lawn yourself? What is the difference between a Natural Lawn Care Company and an Organic Lawn Care Company? Well do the best we can to answer these questions in the blog post below. What is Traditional Lawn Care? When we talk about traditional lawn care, were referring to a program that uses synthetic fertilizers to feed the grass and then uses synthetic pesticides to treat insects, diseases, weeds, and other issues that come up. These synthetic fertilizers and pesticides became popular after World War II and havent been in existence for very long in human history, but long enough to become traditional. Synthetic fertilizers contain water soluble nutrient salts in a form that the plants can readily absorb. The benefit of a water soluble lawn fertilizer
If youre going to the store trying to decide what is the best organic lawn fertilizer this season, one of the organic product lines youll run into is Espoma Espoma has been around a long time and have been authentically involved in producing organic fertilizers since before it became a hot field. Some of their products are bridge or organic based lawn fertilizers and not truly organic, but they do offer truly organic lawn fertilizers as well. Espoma Organic Lawn Food is a 9-0-0 analysis and is designed for use on your lawn at any time of the year. If youre going to use Espoma Organic Lawn Food, youll probably want to do 4 treatments per year using 5-10 lbs per thousand square feet with each treatment. In the Midwest, you can follow the Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving schedule of applications. Id put down the heavier rate on Easter and Labor Day while leaning towards the lower rate on Memorial Day and Thanksgiving. Espoma Organic Lawn Food is made from 2 organic fertilizer
Its true. With our warmer than normal winter, mice and moles have been very active...above and below ground. With our recent thaw, you might have seen evidence of tunnels in your yard from field mice and moles burrowing under the snow. In fact, many of them will breed during this time of year, which means more of these critters in the spring. So why do moles and mice burrow on your property? Theres food nearby. If you have an abundance of insects in your soil, the mice and moles are more likely to stay put. You may have sandy or soft soil around your yard or foundation. They can still burrow below the snow and get underground. But, with our milder winter, the ground did not freeze very far down. Your neighbor made his property unfriendly to these critters The good news is that they can help create a healthy yard by aerating your lawn and getting rid of many pests in the ground. But, if you want them gone, heres a few things you can do: They dont like to locate where the lawn is
Winter can be an ideal time to prune most tree and shrubs Correct pruning is a landscape practice that can enhance the health, vigor and aesthetics of your trees and shrubs. Below are Five advantages to pruning in the winter: 1. During the winter, most woody plants are dormant and so are the many diseases and insects that can potentially invade pruning cuts. 2. After leaves have fallen, it is much easier to see the plants overall form and structure. Damaged and diseased branches are more readily apparent when not obscured by foliage. 3. Pruning in the late summer or early fall can stimulate new growth that may not harden off before the cold weather. This is not a concern during the winter. 4. Winter pruning is good for your plants, leaving them with extra root and energy reserves to quickly heal wounds and support vigorous spring growth that will obscure the pruning cuts. 5. Winter pruning is also good for you, giving you a reason to go outside on a mild winter day to enjoy your
Did you know that there could be hazardous chemicals in your garage? Many people unknowingly stock their garages with toxic landscape care chemicals. We would like to make it easy for you to replace your old chemicals with safer, healthier alternatives. Just visit our online store at store.whygoodnature.com. There you can order the gardening products you'll need for all the season. So, make 2016 the year that you get the harmful chemicals out of your garage and replace them with healthier alternatives. Here are a few of our favorite products for spring (there are a lot more online): Pro Mix Spot Seed Patch Mix - One of the best ways to prevent weeds from entering your lawn is to continually seed any areas that are bare. Early spring is a great time to do this! 5lb Bag is Just $14.99 Adios -A semi-selective product to kill weeds but not grass. You can supplement our applications if you wish with this all natural product. Burnout Organic Grass and Weed Killer - If you'd like
Seeding Options in the late fall and early winter - Slice or Broadcast Seeding? When you think about planting grass, spring comes to mind as the best time. But, can you believe that it's not only not the best time, it isn't even the second best time. The best time to seed your lawn is in the late summer when the soil is warm and there isn't much weed competition.The second best time to seed your lawn isnt the spring though, it's the winter. That's right, it is not too late to get a jump on your new spring lawn.As long as the ground is not frozen, Good Nature can use a Slice Seeder to get those hardy seeds into the ground so they're ready to germinate come warmer spring weather. In fact, there are some benefits to Dormant Seeding in the late fall and early winter: *Winter Seedings are less reliant on watering because the soil is typically wet coming out of winter and spring rains are likely. Watering come spring however will improve the odds of a successful seeding, especially if we
The icy cold weather is on its way! Its time to think about how to keep your walkways clear of slippery ice without harming your walkways, plants, lawn, and pets. We have listed a few tips to help this winter when applying de-icers! Step 1: Remove the top layer of snow using a shovel or snow blower. This will help the salt get directly to the ice. Step 2: Apply the ice melt correctly. Using either a hand sifter or cup spread the ice melt thin and evenly. You dont need a lot of salt to get the desired results. You will need to wear gloves if you decide to toss the ice melt, some products can irritate or burn your hands. Step 3: Protect your driveway, plants and lawn. Again, use ice melt in moderation. Products containing salt, although natural, in large amounts is not good for your walkways and vegetation. Try to keep the products off your lawn and plants.If you are concerned, water them when you get a break from the weather. You can also cover larger shrubs and bushes around the bases
GOOD NATURE HAS A FEW GIFT IDEAS FOR YOU! The holiday season is just around the corner, and what could be more thoughtful gift than the gift of a healthier, heartier, more robust lawn...the natural way? Speedy Weedy - Fun and Easy to Use! The Speedy Weedy is literally addictive - once you start plucking out the weeds its difficult to stop. Microclover - Add some more green to your holiday decor! Adding clover, especially our special Microgreen microclover to your lawn will keep it greener during the summer with less water than your neighbors use, reduce fertilizer use, and eliminate the need for chemical weed killers because over time the clover will thicken up and crowd out weeds like dandelions....and its cute! We have some smaller items that would be great Holiday Stocking Stuffers! Dog Rocks -For those who love their dogs and their lawn An effective, innovative, convenient and 100% natural product used to stop urine burn patches appearing on the lawn when the
Once the mowing stops you should tune it up and sharpen the blade so that its at peak performance for the Spring. A sharp blade and a smooth running engine will actually make your grass healthier and greenerMowing with a sharp blade will help your lawn look better! Take the time to prepare your mower for a long winter hibernation Follow the steps below each fall or Contact Good Nature,if you are in our service area, to have us pickup your mower, give it the TLC described below and then return it to you in the spring. Step 1: Drain The Gasoline All the ethanol in our gasoline attracts condensation and causes your gasoline to become mixed with water when it sits for along time (like over the winter). The Ethanol in your gasoline is also corrosive and can damage the carburetor. To keep your lawn mower in good shape over the winter, you need to drain the gas. Note: Weve found that fuel stabilizers do NOT work at preserving fuel over the winter. In many cases, they can make the situation
The leaves are falling so its time to start thinking about what you need to do to get your lawn ready for winter. Mowing is an important job that, if done correctly, can help reduce the amount of snow mold (brown spots) you have in your lawn when the snow melts next spring. How to Mow Your Lawn to Prepare it for Winter Once the grass growth slows down, continue to mow your lawn each week like you normally would . Each week youll be able to lower your cutting height a little bit so that youre always removing 1/4 - 1/3 of the grass blade. Do this until the lawn is about 2 - 2.5 inche tall and continue to mow at that height for as long as the grass is actively growing. Continuing to mow your lawn so that it is short (but not scalped) over the winter, will help prevent snow mold come spring time. How to Adjust Your Lawn Mower Cutting Height Most mowers allow you to adjust the height of each wheel. If you raise the wheel, you lower the cutting deck and as a result, get a shorter cutting
Do You Have Brown Spots on Your Lawn? Your Yard May Have Brown Patch Fungus Disease! Brown spots in your grass are unsightly and very discouraging to proud yard owners. Believe it or not, this phenomenon is not normally from dried-out grass that you forgot to water.Indeed, the culprit youre most likely encountering is Brown Patch fungus, a lawn disease that can start for several reasons and tends to be prolific in the hot, humid months of summertime. The resulting irregular brown patches all over your lawn make it look like your yard is dying, when in fact most lawns recover completely when fall returns with cooler weather. A fungal organism is the culprit behind Brown Patch disease. An illustration of what Brown Patch fungus does to grass blades. Improper watering, heavy thatch and poor grasses can all allow Brown Patch disease to thrive on your lawn. Remember, most often your brown spots in grasses are not due to under-watering but instead to the Brown Patch fungus! Contact


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Why Is Falun Gong Persecuted? Part 1 | China Uncensored
To understand why the persecution of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa began in China, we need to take a look at how former Chinese leader and the man who started the persecution Jiang Zemin came to power. Jiang came to power following the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the ousting of two important leaders in the Chinese Communist Party, and Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang, who's death sparked the Tiananmen Protests. But Jiang Zemin's position was shaky. He would need something to cement his power…
Why is Falun Gong Persecuted? Part 2 | China Uncensored
It was the largest gathering in Beijing since the Tiananmen Square Massacre. 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners peacefully gathered around the central appeals office next to Zhongnanhai on April 25, 1999 to appeal for their right to freely practice Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa. Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin used this as a pretext to launch a nationwide crackdown that lead to a brutal persecution that continues to this day, and allowed the creation of the gestapo-like 610 Office. But what was behind Jiang Zemin's actions? And how would it affect China? On this episode of China Uncensored, Chris Chappell lays out why the persecution of happened and what it means for China.
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Oklahoma's 2016 recruiting class came to a somewhat disappointing finale after a great final weekend made it seem like OU would finish with a great close. Still, two Rivals 100 players signed on signing day, including OU's first five-star defender since Gerald McCoy and OU's best receiver signee since a certain five-star receiver who had some off-the-field issues.
OU only signed 19 kids, but there are two more players technically in this class: Kyler Murray (transfer quarterback) and Geno Lewis (graduate transfer wide receiver).
Position Grades
Austin Kendall – 6-2, 210, 4.8
The most important recruit in the class. As we saw with Baker Mayfield, QB play makes the difference maker for the majority of college football teams. Lincoln Riley picked Kendall pretty much right after he started coaching at OU. Kendall passed on Tennessee and Auburn for the Sooners, and he never wavered.
He's already on campus, and in light of Cody Thomas' baseball sabbatical, Kendall will get a lot of work.
Quantity Grade: A (factoring in the trade of Trevor Knight for Murray.)
Quality Grade: A+ (two Rivals 100 QBs)
Running Back
Abdul Adams – 6-0, 205. 4.45
If only all positions could be like the RB spot.
Basically, OU wanted Adams all year long. The Sooners waited out his early verbal to Michigan State. After he decommitted, instead of going to Alabama or Ohio State, Adams visited OU and recruiting was really done. Despite being a four-star recruit by most services, Adams is woefully underrated and looks more like a top 100 player. Demarco Murray, Part Two to me.
Some will lament the loss of Joshua Jacobs out of Tulsa, but Adams is as good or better.
Quantity grade: A (OU will need two RBs in 2017, though, with the loss of four RBs looming.)
Quality Grade: A (Adams really should be in the top 100.)
Wide Receiver
Mykel Jones – 6-0, 180, 4.45
Zach Farrar – 6-3, 210, 4.45
Adrian Hardy – 6-2, 185, 4.5
OU changed up their WR coaching staff in last January, and it showed in recruiting. Cale Gundy and Dennis Simmons were never quite able to click with some of the elite Texas kids. They were playing catch-up nationally as well.
However, OU kept involved with Zach Farrar all fall. When Ryan Parker, OU's JUCO verbal, fell behind academically and Velus Jones committed back to USC, Farrar wasted no time choosing OU following a great senior year. The upside on Farrar is high, which he showed in dominating higher-rated defensive backs at the ESPN's The Opening. He only started playing football the last two years of high school.
Riley kept talking to Mykel Jones from Louisiana. When Ole Miss and Alabama filled their WR spots, OU quickly engaged Jones and got him on campus. Jones will be an awesome slot weapon.
Adrian Hardy is your classic best athlete on his HS team who played QB. The only question is how does the transition to wideout go. Riley raves about Hardy, and one of the QB-to-WR transitions he coached at Texas Tech was Michael Crabtree.
Quantity Grade: A- (We can argue that OU needed one more player, but factor in Geno Lewis and the Sooners met their needs. It's a great WR class in Texas for 2017, and OU is off to a hot start.)
Quality Grade: A- (Hardy being a projection at WR is the only reason for the lower grade.)
Tight End
Incomplete – No real targets. Couple of offers that went nowhere. OU just kind of sat out the position.
OU is going to hit this position next year and leverage the recent play of Mark Andrews, who looks poised for a bigger sophomore year. (I hope.)
Offensive Line
Johncarlo Valentin – 6-4, 330
Erik Swenson – 6-6, 300
Logan Roberson – 6-3, 320
Ben Powers – 6-4, 315
Ashton Julious – 6-6, 330
Bill Bedenbaugh has been carefully rebuilding OU's numbers on the OL since he took over, and now OU has 14 linemen this spring. The two JUCO OLs were key to provide depth and competition for the two guard spots flanking Jonathan Alvarez as he moves to center. Bedenbaugh expressed a desire to get bigger and more physical in the interior, and this class certainly accomplishes that.
Julious will be tried at left guard next Orlando Brown. Powers will get a look at right guard and Roberson will be given a look at center.
Valentin is the star of the group. His film is very impressive – he could play as a freshman.
Finally, Bedenbaugh managed to land a four-star offensive tackle recruit in Erik Swenson from Illinois. Swenson will probably stick at right tackle.
Quality Grade: B (Two four-stars, three three-stars.)
Quantity Grade: A (OU's OL depth is becoming a strength of the roster.)
Defensive Tackle
Just a weird ending. Dirion Reynolds did a great job connecting with kids, but in year one, he just could not find a fit. Have to think OU's large DL class last year was heavily used against the Sooners.
OU will need to sign at least three DLs next year.
Defensive End
Amani Bledsoe – 6-5, 270, 4.8
Much better news here. Bledsoe could end up being an elite defender for OU, a real difference maker in the 3-4 scheme at DE.
If he had played ball in Texas or Georgia, Bledsoe would likely have been a top 100 player. He's big, rangy and physical with speed. His frame can easily support 280-plus pounds while not losing speed.
Bledsoe had a huge list of offers, so this was a very good recruiting job by Diron Reynolds. OU really needs to sign two kids like this every year to have the depth/talent in the 3-4 to be a consistent College Football Playoff contender.
Quality Grade: A
Quantity Grade: B-
3-4 Rush Outside Linebacker
Mark Jackson – 6-3, 235, 4.6
The second big piece OU upgrading front seven's talent is Jackson, who will fill Devante Bond's OLB spot. If OU ever goes with a four-man front on third-and-long situations, then Jackson can easily line up as a 4-3 DE as well.
OU beat Texas A&M for his signature. Diron Reynolds did a good job taking over his recruitment after Jerry Montgomery left.
Quality Grade: A
Quantity Grade: C (OU really needed two players at this spot.)
3-4 Strongside Outside Linebacker
Emmanuel Beal – 6-2, 215, 4.55
Caleb Kelly – 6-3, 220, 4.65
The six-million-dollar question: Who is replacing Eric Striker?
How Mike Stoops adjusts the defense to the loss of Striker will be fascinating to watch. Let's assume the role calls for a fast LB with pass rushing and some coverage skills.
If that's the case, then JUCO LB Emmanuel Beal might be one of the players in line to help fill the void. Beal was a sleeper pickup for OU after OU got involved with his more heralded teammate Kapri Doucet. Beal was very productive last year at that OLB spot and looks pretty good on film. At a minimum, he provides depth.
Caleb Kelly is probably the most complete, impactful LB signed by the Sooners since Lance Mitchell. Kelly is a complete, every-down LB who could change how Mike runs this defense. Kelly compares with former Notre Dame LB Jaylon Smith. Kelly can play the run, he drop back in coverage and he shows excellent instincts in pass rushing.
Quality Grade: B+ (Kelly is that good.)
Quantity Grade: B+ (Two bodies to add to the mix at LB. I can see Curtis Bolton in spring getting getting the first shot.)
Inside Linebacker
John-Michael Terry – 6-3, 235, 4.6
Kapri Doucet – 6-2, 235, 4.6
OU's LB numbers were already down with four seniors and Dom Alexander leaving for the NFL, and efforts at ILB were derailed when Bryce Youngquist did not sign.
Terry is a big, physical, fast LB who had a great senior season dominating for Tulsa Victory Christian and topped it off with a great game in the Semper Fi All-Star game. Bob Stoops could not stop raving about him at the signing day press conference.
Once OU was down two ILBs, Doucet had an offer. I'm somewhat confused by comments wondering if he's big enough to play inside. Kid has a big frame, and according to Bob, he's 240 pounds. I think his film is excellent, demonstrating coverage skills when he drops back. He plays physical and fast against the run. I think he will push Tay Evans and Arthur McGinnis for playing time.
Quality Grade: B+
Quantity Grade: B+
Parnell Motley – 6-1, 175, 4.5
Jordan Parker – 6-1, 170, 4.45
Sadly, the CB class is always going to be judged on what might have been (as in keeping Parrish Cobb and landing Jared Mayden). That's going to take away from OU adding two excellent athletes to a rapidly upgraded talent base in the secondary.
Jordan Parker is the most ignored player in this class. He dominated West Coast WRs at camp sessions and is probably the best CB from California this year. Depending on how the replacement for Zack Sanchez works out, you could see Parker find the field early as the backup nickel behind Will Johnson.
OU kept working Motley and pulled him in for a visit after Maryland's meltdown season. Once he decommited from Maryland, he found himself with a host of offers, including Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan and Michigan State. Motley's senior year footage is impressive as he is making plays at both CB and WR. A Sooner comparison might be Andre Woolfolk.
Quality Grade: B+ (This was an A with Cobb.)
Quantity Grade: B+ (See above.)
Chanse Sylvie – 6-0, 185, 4.5
After taking three great safeties last year, safety was a not a big priority for OU in 2016 recruiting. OU did offer a number of prospects, but there was definitely a ceiling on how many safeties the Sooners were going to take, one.
The winner in the safety category was Sylvie, who would become a key recruiter inside the class as a verbal and early enrollee. On the field, Sylvie is a physical presence in the run game and is excellent in coverage. By way of comparison, the name Brandon Everage has been thrown around.
Quality Grade: A (Sylvie could be a real team leader and chemistry guy, along with a playmaker at safety.)
Quantity Grade: B+ (Did OU need two safeties? Hard to say, but 2017 could be very good to OU at the safety spot. Maybe having a free opening will be a good idea.)
Overall Grades
The class is missing:
- One DT/DE;
- One more LB – the Youngquist impact;
- A mid-term JUCO WR – Geno Lewis going through spring lessens that gap); and
- One more DB – OU played four freshman DBs last year and probably should have redshirted one safety.
Factoring in the return of Dalton Wood and the transfer of Kyler Murray makes the quantity of this class look better.
The class consists of five OLs, three WRs, two QBs, five LBs and three DBs, so it's a broad class that hit the major need at LB. OU may have a free scholarship or two later in the year around May/June if a player becomes available from either JUCO or high school. I don't have anyone in mind, but Lacoltan Bester, Lane Johnson and Du'Vonta Lampkin are past examples of how that flexibility has worked in OU's favor.
Grade: B (85/100)
Of the 19 players signed, 13 received a grade of four stars or higher by at least one recruiting service – Bledsoe, Jackson, Farrar, Jones, Kelly, Valentin, Powers, Sylvie, JMT, Kendall, Adams, Swenson and Parker. The other six signees all were rated three stars by at least one service. OU signed its highest-rated defensive recruit since Gerald McCoy and the best high school LB recruit since Chris Patterson. (Yeah, it's been that long, and Kelly is actually going to show up on campus.)
There are some notable reaches/evaluations in this class. OU took players early in recruiting over a chance at some heralded prospects, but those evaluations were early in the process, and OU never moved off them. They were not panic offers at the 11th hour. The much-maligned JUCO LBs have good grades from several services.
Overall, there are potential difference makers in this class at QB, RB, WR, OG, DE, OLB, ILB, CB, S. Kelly, Jackson, Bledsoe and Parker are the clear stars on defense, continuing the process of significantly upgrading the Sooners' talent. Adams, Jones, Valentin and Kendall are the stars on offense – Jones, in particular, could shine in year one.
Grade: B+ (Call it an 89 percent.)


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Action secured on speeding and noisy vehicles
Following a petition initiated by the Blackheath Westcombe Conservative Action Team that attracted nearly 400 signatures, Greenwich Police have proposed a series of measures to tackle the issue of noisy vehicles speeding on Kidbrooke Park Road and Shooters Hill Road.
On 19th October, Blackheath Westcombe Conservative councillor Geoff Brighty presented the petition to the Borough's Police Commander and, together with local residents, discussed the issues with the Commander and police colleagues. A number of possible actions were proposed that included increased patrols, extending current traffic operations to include checking for illegal exhausts and working with the local authority on speed cameras for a section of Shooters Hill Road. Bikers meeting at the tea hut on Blackheath will also be reminded about noise and speeds when they arrive and when they leave.
Welcoming the proposals, Councillor Geoff Brighty said: "I would like to thank the residents who helped collect signatures for the petition and the police for responding so quickly after our meeting. Speed and the noise generated by some motorbikes and modified cars are a big issue with residents and local schools. I look forward to a similar constructive response from Greenwich Council and Transport for London."
Kidbrooke Park Road resident Thomas Turrell said: "The fact the petition reached nearly 400 signatures shows that this issue needs to be dealt with as a priority and I am pleased to see the police are taking it seriously. While I was loading the petition online, about five or six vehicles sped past my flat, which illustrates how regularly this occurs."
Road safety campaigner Roger Tester added: "All motorists should be considerate of both other road users and those who live in the area. It is disappointing that not everyone is and that this petition was needed in the first place. I am pleased to see the issue is now considered a priority by the local policing ward panel and that appropriate action is planned."
Councillor Brighty also presented the petition to Greenwich Council on 26th October and a Conservative member of the London Assembly will be presenting the petition to Transport for London shortly.


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So last year I was absolutely FLABBERGASTED that Black Friday turned into an 8pm Thursday thing. If you remember, I boycotted it then too. But now? NOW they want to start at 6pm on Thursday night. And this, my friends, is where I wish I had BlogHer behind me to spread the outrage.
Does anyone else agree with me that there should be some sacred preservation of one of the last family holidays on the calendar?
For the record, I am not outraged at trying to protect shopping rights of every American on the traditional "Black Friday" holiday. But, dear friends, I ask of you, when did "Black Friday" turn into "Thanksgiving Thursday"???
What makes me sad is the fact that our state of economy has turned us into money-grubbing fools over &6.92 Tupperware. It makes me sad that unfortunately, there are many that will forsake their family dinner time so they can score a 50" tv for less than $300. At 6pm on Thanksgiving Thursday.
Maybe what makes me the saddest is that I used to really look forward to Black Friday. It used to be a "sport" for me. And now, the ads are leaked (by the actual retailers) well in advance of the holiday. And they start their sales at ridiculous hours that not only drag their own employees away from their family tables but drag us away from our tables as well.
And while I would love to "score" a deal just like the rest of America, I have decided that a $29 bicycle or a $197 television (while they are a good deal) just don't mean enough in my life for me to abdicate my family dinner table to beat off crowds of other shoppers.
The sad thing is, there will be those that absolutely have to hit these deals for it to make sense in their budget. And for those, I wish all the best. But for the rest of us that can make our budgets stretch a little farther or perhaps don't really NEED those luxuries.... I say..... BOYCOTT. Stay home with your family. Hit up the big retailers on Black Friday as you normally would.
If you want to know how my boycott went last year, I will tell you, I got every single thing I really wanted by waiting until roughly 6am Friday morning, even though the items went on sale at 8pm Friday night. I don't know whether that was because we were still in an economic slump or not but let me say one thing - do not be fooled. Just because commentary states that the economy is on the rebound does not mean that you can replace the cost of time spent with family.
Right now there are more people that have abdicated their job search to simply stay home with their family... keep in mind the the jobless numbers do not reflect this. And that the economic numbers do not ever reflect the value of "family time".
For those that have no economical choice, know that I do not judge you if you have to cave to the demands of the retailers on Grey Thursday. But I beg of you, if you have a choice, please, PLEASE, do not let yourself become a statistic that supports the retailers decision to continue moving up the opening times of "Black Friday". Right now, there is nothing "Friday" about this.
As for me, I plan to cook an enormous meal, open multiple bottles of wine, and enjoy every single MINUTE of time that I would not otherwise get with my family. While I have the luxury of paying full price for a bicycle or a TV (but would prefer not to) I will do so if I must, because preservation of one of the very last family holidays is important to me.
If it is important to you, please pass this along. Please send a message to our retailers. Their bottom line is important to them, and we understand that, but we are not willing to compromise ourselves and the value of the time with our family to enhance their bottom lines. So sorry that the number of shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas is shortened but hey, we didn't create the calendar. Retailers should plan ahead for that. Perhaps put things on sale BEFORE Black Friday.
If there are others like me, we are shopping in advance of this "holiday" that used to be a HOLIDAY so that we can reasonably forgo the madness and ridiculousness that comes with a "Black Friday" shopping sale that begins on Thanksgiving Thursday.
I just have one last thing to say and I don't really care if this angers people. This wouldn't happen in Canada. Protect the few last holidays we have as Americans. There really aren't many of them left. What, Thanksgiving. Maybe Christmas? We don't even observe Easter as a United Nation anymore.
Come on citizens of the US. Be greater than your pocketbook. Stand together. I know you can....


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Beautiful Bouquet Sorry You're Hurting Card
August 17, 2017
Hello Friends,
Don't you just hate it when bad things happen to good people. A handmade card won't make the bad things go away, but hopefully it will brighten their day. With these colors and the whimsical stamps from the Beautiful Bouquet Bundle, it hard not to smile.
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Even though the Beautiful Bouquet has lots and lots of terrific sentiments, they were not what I wanted to say today. But the Here For You Stamp Set had just the right sentiments for a bad situation.
Thanks to Color Throwdown for today's bright and cheerful color challenge. I chose Melon Mambo, Lemon Lime Twist and Daffodil Delight for today's card.
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Our home insurance policy focuses on what matters to you. With Aviva Home Insurance you get a full range of benefits at no extra cost, to keep you protected when you need it most.
The following is only an overview of the features and benefits available to you at Aviva. Please download our HomeCare Policy Document for the complete details on all our benefits. It also sets out the terms and conditions of cover. If you already have Aviva home insurance, then your policy schedule will show your exact cover and any extra benefits or amendments that may apply.
Help in a Home Emergency
Help in a home emergency provides:
- Cover for storm or accidental damage to roof, windows and doors.
- Cover for the cost of callout, labour and materials for emergency repair (up to €250 per incident or €260 for broken window glass).
- Access to a 24-hour comprehensive emergency service.
If you cannot live in your home, we will provide:
- Overnight accommodation for up to four people (at a place we choose), with transport from your home.
- Up to 7 days' furniture storage with transport to and from the storage facility (up to 50km).
- We can also relay an urgent message to a family member in Ireland or abroad in the event of an emergency.
Reinstating Your Buildings or Contents Cover
If you make any claim under your policy, we'll automatically continue to insure you for the same amount we provided cover for before the claim.
Legal Expenses
The area of legal matters can be confusing and off-putting. Our 'legal expenses' cover gives you a number of useful services to help you with any legal questions you may have.
With this cover you have access to a legal advice helpline, which you can use to get advice on any personal legal matter, no matter how big or small. The helpline advice is absolutely confidential between you and your legal advisor.
Home legal expenses: 1890 253 064
Legal expenses is provided by DAS.
DAS is a member of the Insurance Ireland and the Financial Services Ombudsman Bureau of Ireland.
Fire Brigade Charges
If the Fire Brigade is called in to put out a fire affecting - or likely to affect - your home, we will pay up to €1,500 to cover the charges.
Replacing Door Locks
If the keys to your home are stolen in a personal assault or break-in, we'll pay up to €400 to cover the cost of replacing:
- Outside door locks
- Locks on domestic safes
- Alarm keys
Frozen Food
We'll pay up to €650 to cover the cost of replacing frozen food lost or damaged in your domestic freezer. The loss or damage must have been caused by a rise or fall in temperature, refrigerant fumes or refrigerant leaks.
Credit and Debit Cards
If your credit or debit cards are lost or stolen and you have to pay a bill as a result, we'll refund you up to €650. Were you on holiday? No problem; this cover applies anywhere in Europe. If you're travelling outside of Europe you're covered for the first 30 days.
Visitors' Belongings
At Aviva, we do not just cover you and your immediate family, but also visitors. We'll pay up to €400 for loss of or damage to a guest's personal belongings, as long as the accident happened while they were in your home.
Title Deeds
We'll pay up to €1,000 to replace title deeds to your home, as long as they were lost or damaged while in your home or lodged with a bank, building society or solicitor.
Christmas and Weddings
Christmas and weddings should be a wonderful and carefree time. At Aviva we understand that. That's why we automatically increase your contents cover for free over Christmas or when there's a wedding in your immediate family.
Your sum insured increases by 10% for the month of December as well as for 30 days before and after the wedding of any immediate family member.
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Should you or your partner be called up for jury service, we will pay a benefit of €40 per day or part day up to a total of €650. Claiming for Jury Service Benefit will not affect your no-claims bonus.
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We will pay a death benefit of €3,300 if either you or your partner dies from an injury received in your home caused by a fire, accident or violence related to a theft. If your cat or dog is killed by an insured fire or break-in, we'll pay up to €260 for the loss of your pet.
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If fire, damage or another insured event means you cannot live in your home for a while, we'll pay for the cost of other accommodation for you and your family until you can safely return. This includes putting pets in kennels. We'll pay up to 15% of the buildings and contents sums insured on your policy.


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Nicole Richie Loves Mariah Carey's 'Glitter'!
Nicole Richie is seen leaving a gym after a work out on Wednesday (August 15) in Studio City, Calif.
The day before, the 30-year-old fashion designer also dropped by the gym, looking fit in a black tank top with black tights and a denim jacket slung over her shoulder. After her workout, Nicole left the gym covering her face with a skull scarf as she walked to her car.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Nicole Richie
Nicole recently showed her love for the movie Glitter when she tweeted, "I just yelled at @JoelMadden for turning off Glitter, so yes I am a horrible person."
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Minty Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae
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- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 4 tbs unsalted butter
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 12 ounces chocolate fudge topping
- 56 ounces mint chocolate ice cream
- Preheat oven to 350°. Spray bottom of 9x9-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. In small microwave-safe bowl, heat chocolate chips and butter in microwave oven on high 1 minute or until mixture is smooth, stirring every 30 seconds. Let stand a
- In large bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, vanilla extract and salt for 1 minute. Stir in cooled chocolate mixture, then fold in flour. Spread batter evenly into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Co
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Producing mass marketable pop culture content is not easy, but Pepsi rocks at it
Pepsi, the brand best known for being the main competitor to Coke, is bold and still in the spotlight. We found an interested behind the scenes video for one of pepsi's new commercials called Crowd Surfing. It features Calvin Harris along with other notable individuals kicking soccer balls to each other on top of a crowd while trying to get to a Pepsi vending machine.
We also attached another video, which is where the image above comes from, it is a snapshot of the coliseum fight commercial where a Julius Ceaser looking character watches as super diva's battle it out and he drinks cold pepsi's. It is very hot in northern california right now in the Silicon Valley making this commercial make me think of a cold drink right now.
I really want a cold Pepsi right now, and that is a testament to how good there marketing is. Often times I will see a coke commercial and want a coke as well. This is not a sponsored advertisement for either brand, for it it was we would disclose it here or at the bottom.
Pepsi has a huge budget and spends millions of dollars to rope in celebs, but hey, there is ROI in that seeing as they sell Pepsi worldwide to tens of millions of people a day, if not hundreds of millions.
signed, Josh Bois
Behind The Scenes Of Pepsi's New 2012 Commercial — "Crowd Surfing"
Published on Mar 27, 2012 by Pepsi
Take a look behind the scenes of the new Pepsi Football commercial, starring Lionel Messi, Didier Drogba, Sergio Agüero, Jack Wilshere, Frank Lampard, Fernando Torres and superstar DJ and producer Calvin Harris.
To view the full ad, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TzgAmBhdt0
Pepsi Commercial HD – We Will Rock You (feat. Britney Spears,
The commercial is set in the Roman Coliseum. A gladiatorial combat between 3 lady gladiators is about to occur. They come out to chants from the crowd but refuse to fight. They drink Pepsi instead and sing We will rock you by Queen.
The challenge was to recreate the Coliseum and a crowd of 50,000 in the computer. The first 5 rows of the coliseum and associated people were shot for real and the rest is CG.
What made this slightly more difficult than the usual crowd replication scenario was the fact that we were going to be relatively close, at film resolution and with a panning camera creating a fair degree of parallax. We shot about 50 extras against a green screen and with some inhouse software scattered them around the auditorium randomly with random offsets and colour correction. The auditorium itself was built conventionally in the computer with textures from the set and other pictures shot on location in Rome. Final Gathering was used in the rendering of it.
Advertising Agency: BBDO Paris Production Co: Radical Media Director: Tarsem Compositor: Tom Sparks @ Play
Glassworks Team: 3D Lead: Alastair Hearsum 3D: Daniel Jahnel, James Mann, Mikko Martikkinen R&D: Robin Carlisle Producer: Jay Lichtman
Britney Spears Banned Pepsi Commercial with Bob Dole [High Quality]
Not sure if Brit actually banned this video or not as I remember seeing it, but anyways here is another great example of Pepsi. They even show Coca-Cola employees staring at Brit as she sings with the Pepsi in amazement.


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Henri Fayol (1841 – 1925) was a French mining engineer and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration broadly compatible with scientific management of Frederick Winslow Taylor. These two gentlemen are widely acknowledged to have been foundational to modern management theory but, unlike his North American contemporary, Fayol was more concerned with strategy and macro-management. Consequently, he did not devote as much attention to measurement, control and other aspects of scientific management as Taylor did, recognizing instead that organizations consist of people who need to be led and whose activities must be coordinated and organized. Fayol foreshadowed 'soft' concepts of management such as esprit de corps, employee initiative and feedback. In contrast to Taylor's belief that the design and organization of work were the exclusive province of the technically educated (engineers mainly), Fayol wrote that authority and responsibility derived from one's position in the organization and not purely technical knowledge. He decried the way engineers were educated at the time, arguing that too much emphasis was placed on mathematics and technical skill that he thought were of limited use managing people. Henri Fayol is best known for his contribution to articulating and establishing the theory of management as we know it today.
For this episode, we are reading part of his central 1916 work, General and Industrial Management (first translated into English in 1929, but not published in the United States until 1949). In this work Fayol clearly outlined the five distinct elements of management and the fourteen principles that he believed should guide managers in administering those elements. In Episode 2 we are concerned with Fayol's articulation of the 14 principles presented in Chapter 4. Fayol's description of the principles and their interdependence was one of the earliest formal theories of management and is still one of the most comprehensive. While many of them may seem like common sense, this was not the case 100 years ago, so Fayol is really a prominent figure whom we are keen to discuss. And, as the title for this episode suggests, he repeatedly emphasized that his principles were to guide and not to prescribe (which, let's face it, is very contemporary!).
Like Chester Barnard (1938) who followed him, Fayol synthesized his theories of management in organizations from his personal experience working in and eventually becoming the director of a mining company that employed around 10,000 people. Fayol believed it was possible to improve efficiency in organizations through better managerial practices. The profundity of his thinking is reflected in that in the Foreword to the 1949 English translation for publication in the U.S., Urwick lamented that the translators used "management" in lieu of Fayol's term "administration" because of the multiple meanings of the word "management" versus the more precise meaning of "administration," at least in 1949.
Similar to Taylor, Fayol argued that his flexible approach to management based on general principles could be applied to all kinds of business concerns. Accordingly he stressed the importance (and the practice) of forecasting and planning as key to adapting his ideas and techniques in any sort of situation. Like Taylor, Fayol's 14 Principles are now considered to be common sense because they are part of a common practice of management. A practice that he was instrumental in establishing. At the time Fayol wrote, they were revolutionary concepts for organizational management. We will explore this further during the Episode.
As noted in the Foreword to the 1949 edition of General and Industrial Management, Fayol was a successful turnaround specialist of his day. When he became the Director of Commentry-Fourchambault in 1888, the company was in serious financial decline. Through application of his ideas and the help of people he had previously trained, Fayol executed a series of restructuring and the company experienced a dramatic reversal of fortune. Because of this success, there was much interest in his ideas in France. Alas, his contributions were largely unknown in the English-speaking countries until 1949, at which point principles such as these were no longer new (33 years later!), which probably explains why he is not as well known as his U.S. counterpart – F.W. Taylor. We hope to rectify that in this, and possibly, another future episode on Henri Fayol.
You may also download the audio files here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Read with us:
Fayol, H. (1949). General and Industrial Management, trans. Constance Storrs. Pitman: London.
We read Part 2, Chapter IV: General Principles of Management. Note: The linked document is of a reprint and therefore the chapter name and pagination differs from the original text.
To Learn More:
Wren, D.A. and Bedeian, A.G. (2009). The Evolution of Management Thought (6th Ed.), Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ.
See Chapter 10, The Emergence of Management Process and Organization Theory (pp. 211-227).


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Trainees of BERA GmbH renovate at the city and district youth ring in Heilbronn Cologne, June 25, 2012 – the day local volunteers of the international relief organization Habitat for humanity takes place as a pilot project in Heilbronn: 19 trainees and students working for BERA GmbH, based in Heilbronn, with this social usage indicate that just anyone – whether in the distance or right next door – can – engage socially and must! On June 28, 2012 move 19 young people in the city and district youth ring Heilbronn"on and renovate there actively three spaces, the non-profit organisation for youth organisations and youth organisations is available in and around Heilbronn. If you would like to know more then you should visit Dr. Neal Barnard. The rehearsal room for young musicians and the dance room are urgently need of renovation in addition to other facilities, also lacks a kitchenette. At 8:30 it starts this Thursday with the unfamiliar work: the volunteers are divided into groups and within one day three rooms completely renovated. It is not the first Times, socially that engage employees of BERA GmbH and for Habitat for humanity in use are: already responsible staff at Habitat engaged in Romania and Ethiopia for humanity help projects for poor families. The use in Germany is new, however, because typically volunteers are used in international projects. With the ABR, Habitat for humanity Germany is breaking new ground in the local commitment. We very pleased that a company's social responsibility extends from the Managing Director to the trainees and is expressed on that day by energetic and practical help.
That youth help other youth through volunteer work, is just worth emulating", so Katrin Kaufmann by Habitat for humanity Germany. About Habitat for humanity, Habitat for humanity builds safe and adequate housing for poor families in over 90 countries with the help of donations and volunteers and organized the reconstruction of disaster areas. Since its inception in 1976, which has Charity worldwide more than 500,000 homes built and renovated, more than 2.5 million people received a future as a result. The most prominent supporters of Habitat for humanity include such as Jimmy Carter, Jon Bon Jovi, Brad Pitt, as well as in Germany, Hans Eichel, Daniel Libeskind, and Alexandra Neldel. You want to see the hard-working volunteers at work or conduct interviews? Date: 28.06.2012 city and district youth ring Heilbronn, rifle str. 16 74072 Heilbronn e.V.
contact person: Katrin Kaufmann and Miriam Pfeiffer you want photos of the usage of young people? Printable image material, see.


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