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Product Recall: Asda and Wilko 20 Washable Brush Pens and 12 Washable Colouring Pens
Have you bought 20 Washable Brush Pens for the kids? Or did you buy 12 Washable Colouring Pens from Asda? Well, you'll need to know that there's a product recall on them, thanks to safety concerns.
Basically, Asda have noticed that there's a potential choking hazard with these pens, and no-one wants to choke on a pen do they? There's more fun things to choke on, basically.
The packets concerned will have been bought from January 2014 and will have cost you £1.50/£1.60 a pack.
If you have either the 20 Washable Brush Pens or the 12 Washable Colouring Pens, and bought them any time since January 2014, then you are advised to take them back to your local Asda store immediately.
Don't let the kids use them again, obviously. Asda don't require a receipt for the return, but, should you have any questions, feel free to ring Asda Customer Relations on 0800 952 0101.
The full recall is over at the Trading Standards page.
Update 06/11/2015 - Wilko's fibre tip pens have also now been recalled. This update affects packets featuring item code: 0414902, 0417499, 0316425 and 0414900
If you need to speak to Wilko's customer service team, their number is 08000 329 329
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Today August 31, 2008 falls on Sunday and all Malaysians are on holiday to celebrate the 51st National Day. Many people are gathered early the morning here at the Dataran Merdeka to celebrate the great occasion.
The theme of this 51st National day is Perpaduan Teras Kejayaan (unity is the pillar of success), which began on Aug 16 and ends on Oct 18. The closing ceremony will be held in Sabah.
The mood of celebration for this 51st National Day has dismissed from previous years. There are too many quarrels among the politicians nowaday and this has caused many Malaysians difficult to forgive their arrogant remarks.The current political situation from Barison Nasional (BN) has disrupted many activities when the attention should be focused on other more important things.
The government has to bring back the true spirit of Merdeka as proclaimed by the first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, our nation's founding father.
On this 51st National day, I hope Peace and Progress will continue to prevail in Malaysia-my home country. Malaysians with different backgrounds should be more united and maintained harmonious relations among people that include Malay, Chinese, Indian, and people from Sabah and Sarawak.

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On Wednesday 20 April 2016 the Court of Appeal (Moore-Bick, Longmore and Macfarlane LJJ) handed down judgment in Shipowners' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association (Luxembourg) v Containerships Denizcilik Nakliyat Ve Ticaret AS (The "Yusuf Cepnioglu") [2016] EWCA Civ 386.
Led by David Lewis QC also at 20 Essex Street, I appeared for the appellant charterers (the "Charterers") against whom an anti-suit injunction had been ordered, first by Cooke J (ex parte) and then maintained by Teare J at the return date ([2015] EWHC 258 (Comm), [2015] 1 All ER (Comm) 966).
The decision gives a clear signal that the English courts will fiercely protect against the infringement of a party's English law rights – even to the detriment of comity (which the court held was not a relevant consideration). Thus, recognising its two previous decisions in The Hari Bhum [2005] 1 All ER Comm (715) and The Jay Bola [1997] 2 Lloyd's Rep 279 were irreconcilable, the Court preferred the latter. Continue reading


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DIY Moms Paper Plate Baskets
Looking for a inexpensive treat basket or party favor for your next celebration or a simple container to deliver fresh baked cookies to your child's teacher in? This weeks DIY Moms comes from Sarah Hearts who shares a simple and inexpensive idea creating baskets out of paper plates. Click here to get complete how to instructions.
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We took Lucy to see the ocean for the first time. If you go to Lighthouse Field State Beach after 4 p.m., you'll see an amazing array of dogs because this is when the beach becomes a leash-free-zone. Lucy was a little confused about this water thing, but got right into the rhythm, moving up to the water then scurrying as fast as she could back to dry land. Walter dug a long river and Kayla spent most of her time dancing in the surf. It was a great day.
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Our team is looking for a freelance architect designer for one of our large scale project.
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Some small changes on FTC
Hi All!
It's been a few years since we've done a server upgrade and in case things were getting a little sluggish here, we've upgraded today. You may have noticed the website was down for a while today while we made the move. We're all settled in and things seem to be going smoothly.
If you notice any issues, please do let me know.
Plus, being a little tired of the colors, I made some simple changes to the color scheme as well.
We're planning some bigger changes for later this year, so stay tuned for more news...
Scott and the FTC team.
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Scott Jangro is the owner of FamilyTreeCircles.com and has documented roots back to Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and William Brewster. If you're wondering what he's doing when he's mysteriously absent, here's some links to other stuff he's responsible for: about.me/jangro.


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1st October 2010: Belgium-EU Pavilion - Expo Shanghai 2010
An "agency of the year" special prize awarded to the agency that has won the most Pentawards in the last three years was awarded to DesignBridge. The group was rewarded by the international panel of judges with 12 Pentawards, including 1 Platinum and 1 Gold.
DesignBridge is present in London, Amsterdam and Singapore.
Mark Budden, Marketing Director of DesignBridge Singapore and Graham Shearby came to collect their trophies, handed out by Brigitte Evrard, founder of the Pentawards.
Founded in 1986, Design Bridge is an independent brand design agency, blending creative passion, strategic insight and a firm belief in the power of great ideas .
The company has grown from a handful of people to over 200, across 3 studios in London, Amsterdam and Singapore, with a portfolio of diverse projects spanning 40 different countries.
Working with Clients such as Pernod Ricard, Mars, Panasonic and Akzo Nobel, Design Bridge creates and develops enduring and memorable brand experiences .
The agency has won numerous international creative awards including Pentawards, D&AD, Clio and Mobius.
Graham Shearsby is Group Creative Director of branding agency, Design Bridge. Based in Clerkenwell, he oversees the three studios in London, Amsterdam and Singapore with his team of creative directors.
Born in East London, Graham entered the creative world, unusually, straight from school back in 1979. Joining the John Blackburn Partnership as a studio junior, he received the accolade of a D&AD Yellow Pencil for Typography for Cockburns Ports in 1985.Joining Allied International Designers in 1986, he met his future partners in what would become the fledging Design Bridge later that year. The company has grown from a handful of people to 200+ across the offices and a wealth of international awards.
Committed to design education, Graham is a member of the D&AD Education Council and a representative of the Design Advisory Panel for Creative and Cultural Skills.


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The Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!: Healthy Solutions Exposed with Co-hosts Dr.H and LetyM: Transforming Your Bubble - One Blow At A Time
10/20/2014 10:00 am PST
Do you embrace or reject change in your life? The ability to change your perspective and awareness in your life can be a metamorphic simile to the development of a butterfly. The process of change is not attractive, but as you develop and are able to arrive at your best self you are able to transform into a better version of yourself. Metamorphosis of a butterfly is a similar analogy to the development of your inner beingwe were born with a purpose that we then have to discover, nurture and develop so that we may reach a deeper level of inner consciousness. This is only something that can transpire like the air of blowing a bubble...something on the inside reflecting out through the force of pressure and expansion creating change along the way.It cannot be something on the outside feeding the inside; this will only cause your bubble to burst, once we can own this part of our divine soul and line up with our purest we can create an inner flame that will fuel the fire and nothing can stop you and you can and you will expand one layer at a time by creating change along the way and then allowing adversity to be the creative force for a brighter future, the choice is yours
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Whether up in a blind, or hiding behind a tree, there are several different ways to stalk your prey when you take to the woods to go hunting. At Alexandria Otolaryngology Associates, several of our employees are avid hunters, and we are big fans of safe, legal hunting. But did you know that the people of Louisiana might soon be able to hunt from a helicopter? Continue reading
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Stay Hydrated This Summer
Summertime is officially here, and we all know what that means – it's time for fun in the sun and hanging out by the pool- lake- or beach-side. We here at Alexandria Otolaryngology Associates want you to have a good time this summer, but we also want you to stay safe and healthy. Continue reading
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Alexandria Otolaryngology Associates is extremely excited to announce that it is one of the first ENT clinics to offer Halo™, a made for iPhone hearing aid. Created by Starkey, a privately held, global hearing technology company headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Halo is engineered to be compatible with all iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. Continue reading


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In order to make healthy choices and achieve a balanced diet, consumers need clear nutritional information about the food and drink products available to them.
As a major food manufacturer, we have a responsibility to address serious public health issues such as obesity and poor diet. One way we do this is by providing nutritional information on our product labels, in line with government guidelines and recommendations.
Consumers able to make more informed, diet choices.
Be a trusted brand by acting above and beyond compliance.
Globally, we are committed to providing nutrition information and advice on all our labels, in line with health authority guidelines and applicable labelling regulations.
In the UK, we have been an industry leader in product labelling for many years. In 2005, we were the first confectionery company in the UK to display calorie information on the front of all of our products. In 2006, we added full Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) information across most of the Nestlé UK & Ireland product range.
More recently, as part of our commitment under the Public Health Responsibility Deal, we have adopted the government's front-of-pack colour coded nutrition labelling system, which provides a nationwide standard for food and drink product labelling. Alongside this, we have been providing more on-pack guidance about sharing and portions on relevant products.
Research has shown that consistent front-of-pack labelling across the food and drink market helps consumers become more familiar with the format of the labels, which in turn makes it more likely that they will use the information provided to improve their diets. Consistency also makes it easier for us to raise consumer awareness of how to use the label information.
In June 2013, the UK government launched a new voluntary front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme. The scheme combines guideline daily amount information (now known as reference intake information) with an at-a-glance traffic light colour-coding system. By setting a consistent standard for labelling across the UK, the scheme makes it easier for consumers to compare products and make healthy choices.
As part of our commitments as signatories of the Public Health Responsibility Deal, we have adopted the new labelling scheme across relevant products sold by Nestlé's fully owned businesses. We also work with the Department of Health, health organisations, retailers and other manufacturers to raise public awareness of the scheme, making sure that consumers understand the labels and how to use them in their shopping and diet decisions.
To help consumers enjoy our confectionery in moderation, we display on-pack messages on relevant confectionery products encouraging them to share or save some for later. This includes 'Love to Share' messages on confectionery sold in pouch bags and sharing bags or blocks.
We have also introduced a reseal feature so our packs can be resealed to save for later. This will be rolled-out across confectionery products that contain more than one single serve by the end of 2016. To further encourage sharing and saving, we have designed many of our products to be easily divided into portions, and provide on-pack serving recommendations.
From 2014 onwards, all relevant confectionery products in the UK have displayed messages about sharing and portions.
Read more about our portion guidance.
As well as improving the nutritional value of our products, we also want to make sure that we communicate nutritional information in a way that's easy to understand.
Our Nestlé Nutritional Compass is an on-package communication tool that not only provides standard nutritional information, but also practical advice about how to include the food as part of a balanced diet.
We are committed to the government's front-of-pack labelling scheme, and will continue to apply it to our products in the UK. We will also continue to work with health authorities, industry groups, consumers and government to achieve greater awareness and understanding of the labels among consumers, and explore new ways to make nutritional labelling on our products as clear and intuitive as possible.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – As of October 1, the National Park Service (NPS) will end the sale of federal lands passes at the Santa Monica Mountains Visitor Center. The federal lands passes, including versions for seniors, active military and the disabled, cover entrance fees at national parks and other federal lands.
There is no fee to enter federal lands in the Santa Monica Mountains, but NPS has been selling the passes as a courtesy to visitors traveling to other locations.
Although some national parks sell hundreds of passes per day and invest a percentage of sales into the park, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area averages just over one sale per day and is not generating any funds for park improvement projects.
Superintendent David Szymanski explains that selling federal lands passes requires an NPS ranger to be on duty at all times. "Running a well-managed fee or pass program requires training, inventories, audits and oversight," said Szymanski. "Discontinuing the sale of these passes gives us greater flexibility to put our staff where the demand for programs and public services are greatest."
NPS will still maintain a strong presence at the visitor center, but rangers from partner agencies and from the volunteer program will now be able to fill in gaps as needed.
Most passes can be purchased either online, by phone or by mail – more information is available at www.nps.gov/findapark/passes.htm. Military passes must be purchased in person and are available at Channel Islands National Park's visitor center in Ventura or at Angeles National Forest headquarters in Arcadia.
For more information, please contact 805-370-2301.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) is the largest urban national park in the country, encompassing more than 150,000 acres of mountains and coastline in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. It comprises a seamless network of local, state and federal parks interwoven with private lands and communities. As one of only five Mediterranean ecosystems in the world, SMMNRA preserves the rich biological diversity of more than 450 animal species and 26 distinct plant communities. Learn more at www.nps.gov/samo.


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'The art world hungers for success like a vampire for blood,
and it doesn't matter whose neck gets bitten, it's
nothing personal. With success becoming so common,
the only way to remain unique is to fail...Obviously,
this takes more guts than being a success does, but it
does have its advantages - the IRS won't bother you,
for instance, and you won't have to listen to rich
people talk...To fail is, of course, to be outside,
and to be so is to suggest the possibility of
preserving the vitality of the avant-garde.'
- Walter Robinson, 1986
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Blurb: Artemis Fowl receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. Now, instead of battling the fairies, Artemis must join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.
Review by Dale: St Patricks Day is a fitting day to publish a review of an Irish Author and the second book in the Artemis Fowl series is a cracking good choice. This book picks up not long after the events of the first book. The same old friends are back, that outrageous dwarf with the impressive bowl motions is again gracing the pages. He is a personal favorite character of mine.
All the goodies are back only this time some goodies are badies and some badies are goodies and some badies become goodies and some goodies seem bad but are really good or bad maybe? Confused yet? It will all make sense when you start reading. If you, like me, loved the first book then you wont be wanting in book two. I dont want to give away the plot but let's just say it thickens..
Best for ages 10+
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Because water doesn't follow political boundaries, addressing the water quality issues identified by CRWD is best solved using a watershed approach and cooperatively working with local partners across municipal boundaries. CRWD strives to protect, manage and improve the District's water resources by installing permanent stormwater best management practices (BMPs) that reduce stormwater runoff and remove pollutants. Below are links to selected CRWD BMP projects.
Arlington Pascal Stormwater Improvement Project
Central High School Project
Clean water projects at CHS Field
Cleveland Randolph Groundwater Study
Curtiss Pond Improvements
East Kittsondale Stormwater Retrofits
Green Line Green Infrastructure Practices
Hamline-Midway Boulevard Curb Cub Rain Gardens
Highland Ravine Stabilization Project
Lake McCarrons Shoreline Restoration Project
Sustainable Stormwater Management on the Ford Site
Trout Brook Nature Sanctuary
Trout Brook Storm Sewer Interceptor Repair Projects
Urban Lake Renewal Project
Upper Villa Stormwater Reuse Project
Villa Park Improvement Project
William Street Pond
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With the way Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) not only straddles the burgeoning tablet and smartphone markets but also holds sway across the computer, home-entertainment, and media fields, the moves it makes can have an impact on the future of hundreds of companies. With that in mind, we're taking a look at the week in Apple news to see how the latest activity affects the Cupertino giant, its suppliers, and even its competitors.
Apple and Verizon back in the news
After a brief lull, the iPhone-to-Verizon (NYSE: VZ) rumors came back to life this week, after The Wall Street Journal reported that Big Red will start carrying the phone early in 2011. With the need for a long lead time to produce the new components for a Verizon-capable iPhone, we can expect leaks about suppliers across the coming weeks. The obvious supplier to watch is Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) because of its expertise creating chipsets for Verizon's CDMA network.
An interesting subplot in the iPhone-to-Verizon saga is that other CDMA networks could benefit from Apple's creation of CDMA-compatible phones. Sprint (NYSE: S) would also enter the picture, and there are already rumors that China Telecom is in talks to get a CDMA-powered iPhone.
Read more analysis on the reports that Apple will hook up with Verizon.
The iPad's unstoppable momentum continues
Earlier this week, aspiring tablet rival LG announced that it's pushing back plans to release a tablet this holiday season and is now focusing on a 2011 release. The main culprit is a buggy Android operating system that's not optimized for tablets. To address the problem, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) plans on releasing separate versions of Android for tablets and smartphones early next year.
Apple's decision to port its iOS from a smartphone to the iPad initially encountered a mixed reaction, but this news once again highlights how smooth the company's execution was. Apple's ability to release a largely bug-free tablet stands in stark contrast to the apparent difficulties Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) has had getting its PlayBook tablet to the market. Earlier this week, reports trickled out that because of problems with an initial design, RIM had to pull forward a second-generation tablet design. That move caused the company to miss out on releasing a tablet in time for the crucial holiday season.
LG's decision to hold off on its tablet debut because of Android bugs is bad news for Samsung, which still plans to roll out an Android-powered tablet in time for this holiday season. It's also bad news for chip companies such as NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), which was counting on strong tablet sales to perk up its bottom line.
It looks as though the rush of competitive Android tablets will have to wait until the first quarter of next year. Meanwhile, Apple gets more time to continue building up a content advantage, as the number of iPad-specific apps exceeds 30,000 and the company gains more control and better pricing power over the supplies that tablet manufacturers provide. Semiconductor suppliers such as Cirrus Logic (Nasdaq: CRUS), which has a long relationship with Apple and scores a design win with the iPad, should continue to benefit as the tablet's momentum continues unabated through the holidays.
Read more about Android's tablet woes.
iPhone supplies appear healthy
After persistent shortages that threatened to crimp holiday-season sales, it appears that iPhone production is catching up with demand. Fool analyst Rex Moore checked with several stores and found wide availability. In addition, Apple's online store now lists a wait of just five to seven business days, down from a 21-day wait after the iPhone 4 launched.
Read more about iPhone availability.
Looking ahead
In the week ahead, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will unveil its completely revamped Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. But even though the company is spending around $1 billion on the launch, it has quite a bit of catching up to do. Not only have handset makers rallied around Android's free operating system, but Microsoft will also be in a deep content hole, with Android and Apple both sporting app stores with more than 100,000 applications. Watch for the strength of handset-manufacturer and wireless-provider support as an indicator of Microsoft's ability to gain a foothold here. (See the Droid as an example of how a targeted campaign from a wireless company can make a product.) Without sufficient help on those fronts, Microsoft's own national campaign will struggle to make a dent in the share of the current market leaders.
That's it for this week's Apple news. If you're searching for other opportunities in the mobile world, we've created a special report featuring a mobile giant that The Motley Fool has put its own money behind. Get instant access to this report.
Editor's note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet runs on the Android operating system. The PlayBook uses RIM's QNX operating system. The Fool regrets the error.
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So good to be back in Norway!
Miller has recovered well and is back to his cheeky self I am pleased to report. What a trip that was. 4 days in and one by one the family fell ill, we picked up the bug that has spread across the uk causing hospitals to close wards, a huge gap in the workplace etc. All the grandparents had it, all our friends had it, there was simply no escape! We had to wait until we were all clear before flying home so we were stuck in the UK for an extra week, making us miss the film festival here in Tromsø, yoga classes cancelled, Miller was due to start nursery school and we have had to delay that etc etc.. But it is soooo good to be home. The children slept better than they had in three weeks, I feel the difference in the air quality and missed our peaceful little house in our small village nestled in the mountains. I've had enough of smog, advertising hoardings, traffic jams, run down, uncared for places, constant noise and negative attitudes to last me some time!
As for the vegan life, well, I think it is easier here! I never thought I would say that but the options are so limited in the UK, maybe there are more actual foods to buy but you cannot find them. In a supermarket the size of our village here, how do you find the one or two items you are looking for, especially when the staff don't even know what the word vegan means? Even buying a vegan burger proved impossible, you say you are vegan and ask for a burger without cheese so they bring you one with mayo on instead, most sandwiches are pre-made so you cannot get a vegan sandwich made up for you, I didn't find one health shop to buy simple things like tofu, it was just very difficult.
Yet, yesterday I went to the local stores here and came back with everything I wanted. I guess what I am saying is that I have been ungrateful in my previous comments and take them all back! I don't mind driving to the health shop here, at least I am not stuck in traffic looking at boarded up buildings and miserable pedestrians! I also realised I can buy most whole foods here and that is what is important to keeping myself and my family healthy. All I found in supermarkets in the UK was veggie junk food. I tried certain things thinking I was treating myself and I found the majority were quite horrible, I had heard that Sheese was great...um, sorry Sheese but I felt sick after eating it and can't talk about it any more as making me feel ill again at the memory. Maybe it is just that I do not like the taste of anything close to dairy now, who knows.
Being here in Norway makes me feel more alive and what could be better than that.
Saturday, 19 January 2008
So good to be back in Norway!
Posted by Jill Forrest at 11:07
Labels: negativity, norovirus, nortern norway, traffic, uk, vegan food availability
1 comments:
- vegatee said...
Glad everything turned out alright and you have a new found appreciation for your local health food shop. :o)
- 24 January 2008 at 01:00


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New this month! Discover Skateboard Party, the second book in the Carver Chronicles series by Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning author Karen English and illustrated by Laura Freeman. Pitch perfect for younger elementary school boys, these books boast African American protagonists and relateable story-lines.
Richard can't wait to show off his flat-ground Ollies at a friend's birthday party at the skate park, but a note home from his teacher threatens to ruin his plans. He really meant to finish his assignment on howler monkeys, but he just got . . . distracted. If only he could focus on his schoolwork, he wouldn't get into this kind of trouble! Can Richard manage to put off getting the note signed (and facing the consequences) until after the party, or will the deception make things even worse?
Read about Book One, Dog Days, on our previous post about the series. And learn more about the Carver Chronicles's sister series, Nikki and Deja, here!
Praise for Skateboard Party:
"A welcome series addition that emphasizes familiarity instead of difference and treats its message with an affectionately light hand."—Kirkus
"Lots of kids will recognize themselves in this book…and teachers and librarians will be happy to have a series to recommend that stars a realistic, likable boy of color."—Horn Book Magazine
"This is a consistently fun read, complete with endearing characters, charming spot illustrations, and satisfying resolutions. Furthermore, it is a much needed story in which African American boys can see themselves visually and textually reflected in a positive light, completely free of the usual tropes of multicultural literature."—Booklist


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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Jan. 25 it has temporarily withdrawn a recordkeeping proposal on musculoskeletal disorders from review by the White House Office of Management and Budget, citing a need for "greater input from small businesses."
The proposed rule would add a separate column for musculoskeletal disorders to the 300 form, which employers use to record injuries and illnesses. A similar requirement was in place from the onset of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970 until 2003, when it was stricken under the George W. Bush administration.
"Work-related musculoskeletal disorders remain the leading cause of workplace injury and illness in this country, and this proposal is an effort to assist employers and OSHA in better identifying problems in workplaces," David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, said in a Jan. 25 statement. "However, it is clear that the proposal has raised concern among small businesses, so OSHA is facilitating an active dialogue between the agency and the small business community."
The announcement marks the second time an OSHA initiative that has drawn broad opposition from industry groups has been withdrawn within a week.
On Jan. 19, the agency announced the withdrawal of its proposed reinterpretation of the occupational noise exposure standard in response to concerns raised by the regulated community and the "possible costs" of the measure, Michaels said (29 HRR 68, 1/24/11).
He added that OSHA will continue to try to protect workers from noise hazards, including holding a stakeholder meeting and beginning a "robust" outreach and compliance assistance effort.
Joe Trauger, vice president of human resources policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, hailed the announcement Jan. 25.
"Manufacturers welcome OSHA's withdrawal of this unnecessary proposal, and we view it as a positive sign that the agency is listening to the concerns of employers," he told BNA. "We hope to continue to see steps like this taken to take concerns of business into account."
Trauger also acknowledged, however, that NAM is concerned that the withdrawal of the proposal is temporary only. "We want to make sure [OSHA is] taking our concerns into account in a substantive manner, rather than symbolically," he said.
"I'm stunned," Peg Seminario, safety and health director at AFL-CIO, said. "The Obama administration is caving to the cries of the business community."
Seminario said the rule would not have been overly burdensome, because OSHA recordkeeping requirements do not apply to employers with 10 or fewer workers or in low-hazard industries, such as schools and many retail establishments.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
chevron painted glass
This time in glass form. These little guys used to be candles that I got from the grocery store. Once the wax had melted away I cleaned them up and repurposed them into these chevron gems by using dishwasher safe glass paint. I like the elementary look. The lines aren't straight and the paint is uneven. For these I set my perfectionism aside.
They look cute with a tealight. The flame projects the pattern beautifully. I also think they would make great drinking glasses. Though they are on the small side. Portion control right?
They could also be jewelry catch alls, office supply storage, Q-tip or toothpick dispensaries... You know, a general holder of things.
Happy March by the way!
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Title : Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus
Publisher : Raya Systems
Developer : Wave Quest
Genre : Educational Platformer
Players : 1 Player
Release Date : 1995
Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $70-$100
A dinomite ASTHMA adventure. YUP! A game about a dinosaur who has asthma. What will they think of next? Here you have Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus (oh, wow...BRONCHIA...like bronchitis..or bronchial tubes. CLEVER!), on a quest to teach you all there is to know about how it's like to live with Asthma. You have to give these type of games credit. They're games with a purpose, but unfortunately they weren't trying to win any "game of the year awards". Instead, it feels like a game you'd play in middle school during computer class. Sort of like Oregon Trail.
But this wasn't the only educational game that Raya Systems pumped out. There were quite a few others that I'll unfortunately run into while reviewing all these damn games. It's certainly going to be interesting.
I have one problem already though - Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus? Sounds like he'd be a herbivore. Why does he look like a little t-rex or something. I OBJECT!
Like most educational games, they force feed knowledge and shove it right down your throat. Objectives are traditional platforming ones, but you'll be thrown to the side just so you get your little book of knowledge on the topic at hand.
Funny part is - I can't stop coughing while I write this. Go figure. How appropriate to be playing a game about asthmatic dinos.
The story behind Bronkie is actually a pretty clever one. I'm guessing it's a twist on the extinction of dinosaurs. The world was once a paradise, until a meteor slammed into the earth and sent dust everywhere...making all the dinosaurs asthmatic. Clever girl....but wait, it gets better. The dinosaurs make a wind machine to clear out the dust, but some damn TREX stole the machine and spread it's pieces all over the place. Now you have to find the pieces and start up the machine.
Why are T-Rexes always the bad guy?
You take on the role of Bronkie and his pal Trackie to clear the world of dust, and kill other dinos and learn about inhalers in the process. All while jumping around and collecting prescriptions. Yup, you collect Rx blocks. There's going to be a lot of shake my head moments.
The funny part is, the game is actually quite frustrating. Maybe it's the lack of a control scheme, or the horrible gameplay in general, or maybe it's the fact that everything seems to kill you. Not sure what it is, but at least if you're giving me an educational game, make it somewhat easy so I can find out all these facts. Why are you making me die!?
If I may be honest, the gameplay is bad..but it's not as bad as some other platformers I've played for the SNES. And you know there are a lot of horrendous ones out there. You've got your standard jump / climb / stomp / collect mechanics, with a few puzzles mixed in, but you also have special abilities for your 'ol pal Bronkie. That's right, he has a special breath attack.
Let me get this straight. You're a dinosaur...who has asthma..and you're giving him a specialized breath attack to use? How does that make sense? Maybe now we know what caused his asthma, don't you think? He's got to stop breathing weird fire breath on enemies. No wonder he needs an inhaler, it's worse than smoking.
Better yet, just boost up your powers by collecting lungs. Yup, fill up your damn lung meter so you can make your condition worse. Thankfully, everyone you run into will give you info on how to survive with critical lung issues. THANKS DINOSAUR LAND!
Like most educational games, the production value is quite limited. Visually it's pretty unappealing with pooryl designed characters, and an even worse color scheme. They chose approx three or four colors per level, and that doesn't really do much to hold my interest.
Music and sound? Meh, don't even bother. Sounds like they grabbed clips off random games and smudged them together.
One crazy thing about this game, is its value. Got to love the limited release games that are for some reason fetching crazy prices for collectors. I've seen this game go complete in the box for almost $200. What...the?!
Maybe I'm being too hard on this game. It's decent for a platformer, and saying it's decent is still a stretch. But it is meant to be educational, and it is meant for young kids to have a better understanding of a condition. So you know what, props to this company for trying to make kids learn something because it's not an easy thing to do.
And every kid loves dinosaurs..even ones with asthma.
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My older two are four days apart...and two years. The oldest is turning fifteen in a couple days, the middle one thirteen (officially a teenager.)
Which gets any mother thinking about that day, fifteen and thirteen years ago, when they came into this world.
|Me and Princess, 15 yrs ago
Needless to say, back to the store he went and when he returned with said juice, I chugged the whole gallon. No one had explained thoroughly to me pregnancy hormones so...uh...good times, those.
When I went into labor, I was very determined NOT to do any drugs. I wanted it to be as natural as it was possible to be...I had some seventies bullshit idea that it was going to be beautiful or some crap like that.
It hurt like hell. I asked the nurse at one point if I could cry. "You can do whatever you want, Sweetie." I didn't cry but dammit it hurt like a bitch. They finally said I could push. I discovered, about one push in, that WHILE PUSHING it didn't hurt. It was like some magical internal light switch. Push-no pain. Not pushing-deargodmygutsarebeingrippedout. Uh, I pushed. I pushed really hard. It only took one or two and there was a little kid there. She was sooooo pretty. I can still remember being shocked because I thought she was supposed to be icky or something. I mean, she came from INSIDE me. But she was perfect, looking like someone had taken a baby, dipped it in water and handed it to me...coincidentally at my crotch.
|Me and Deej, 13 yrs ago
He is the lump
He, like her, decided to be two weeks late. Unlike her, the water did not break naturally in the nick of time. They broke it. They then put me on the drip from hell. I call it the drip from hell because it accomplished nothing but pain and no progress. Then they had the firey lotion from hell. This was applied directly to the cervix and immediately dilated me to ten centimeters.
So they said I could push. Dandy. I remembered pushing. Pushing meant the pain would stop, remember?
When I tried to push with him, a feeling like bone crunching fire shot through me. I stopped. That wasn't right.
I told the nice nurses and doctors this. "Uh, it hurts when I push."
"It is supposed to hurt. It is labor."
No one ever listens to the woman on the table.
After awhile of trying to convince them that something was rotten in the state of Denmark (or my hoohah, depending on how specific you want to get with the geography lesson), I gave up.
"I quit. Seriously. The show is not going on without me. You can't make me do it. I quit."
I laid back and refused to give birth. I cried. I moaned. I hollered. I refused to cooperate further.
After an hour of this, the baby was in distress, I was going into cardiac arrest and they decided to check my progress...because even if I 'quit' my body should have been shoving the baby out with its contractions...and it wasn't moving.
Suddenly, it dawned on the docs that the baby was stuck in my pelvis and that was why I was saying it hurt.
No shit, assholes.
So, they toss me up and try to put in an epidural. They couldn't get it in.
When they flip me back onto the table, there is talk of just slashing me open like a ripe fruit to get the baby out without drugs.
I notice something. I can push now. They shifted something in all their tossing me about like a limp bag of clothes.
When I try to tell them THAT, they aren't interested in listening. My mom ends up kind of pinning the doc to the wall and telling him off and I end up delivering my son myself.
When he comes out he does NOT look like he was dipped in water. He is all greyish bluey and covered in muck and goo and my first words upon seeing him are, "What is it?"
A cooing nurse answers, "It is your son."
I looked at her confused. I was pretty sure I broke it.
After they cleaned him up and got some air to him, he looked much better. After thirteen years, I gotta say, he is a very handsome fellow and very undeserving of my initial assessment.
My youngest was the easiest to deliver of the three. They had told me, after the delivery debacle with my middle kid, that having another child would kill me. (The doctors, I have noticed, are often wrong. So I kind of hid that pregnancy until it was too late for them to do a thing about it...and then kind of sprung it on everyone in my 7th month..."Guess what? I have been taking prenatal vitamins and probably am going to need a ride to the hospital soon!")
So, when they asked when I wanted the epidural, I asked if I could have it the moment I got to the hospital. "Don't you want to experience any of the joy of childbirth?" a daft twit of a nurse asked me.
|Me and Derf, 10 and a half years ago (he is the prized fish)
Epidural safely in place...I was chatting with the doctor, legs in the stirrups, about another delivery he had done earlier that week. I had tons of research type questions for him. I mean, how often can an author question an actual delivery room doctor?
My sister pointed at the piece of paper charting my contractions, "Uh, she is having one...aren't we supposed to be having a baby here?"
The doc waved a hand at her to shush her. "We'll catch the next one. Anyway, as I was saying..."
So when my son was finally delivered, there are shots of me holding him, huge grin on my face (very unlike the worn and exhausted delivery room shots from my first two kids) like a prize fish for the camera. If you look closely at the shot, just past my bent knee, you can see a bit of umbilical cord...still attached to me. I was chipper as hell that birth. So was he, surprisingly. I thought that the drugs would make him groggy but he was a perky guy.
All in all, for three kids that came out of the same place, they were as individual in their ways of coming into this world as they have been each and every day since.
Any of you ladies out there have a good birth story you want to share? Mother's Day is coming up (the day after my daughter's fifteenth, actually) so for all you moms who went through this and more to bring us into the world...thanks. You guys rock.
For me, I am off to snuggle one of my brood.
Goodnight, and happy writing!!


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One of Europe's oldest and biggest street markets, in the northern French city of Lille, has been cancelled over security fears, mayor Martine Aubry said Friday.
The annual market, which dates back to the twelfth century, is a huge tourism draw and attracted 2.5 million visitors to the city in 2015. Aubry said that the decision to cancel the event – known as the 'La Braderie de Lille' - was prompted by "risks we cannot address".
The Socialist mayor of Lille said, "It's heart wrenching to make this decision."
"But to have sharpshooters on roofs at the market, riot police on each street corner and helicopters and drones flying overhead would not be in the spirit of the market," explained Aubrey, who sought to run for president of France in 2012.Source
Aubry was formerly the leader of the French Socialist party and was current president Hollande's main rival for the Socialist nomination. She wrote a book called "To change civilisation". Well, this is what a change of civilisation looks like. Do you still like it, dear?


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Rock Shen needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 204 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
Rock Shen Consulting
We are a consulting company for businesses. The Rock and Shen are the combination of 2 concepts. Rock – earth, form, analytical, foundation, grounded, detailed. Shen (Chinese word for spirit) – heaven, formless, spatial thinking, creative, big picture. Since Rock is English and Shen is Chinese, it is also a contrast of East & West. There are 2 main partners in the company. One of us represents Rock, the other is Shen, and that is why it becomes such a powerful complimentary combination. Both forces keep the other in check, and also let the other do what they do best (through trust). The business is about contrast that is 100% in synchrony, creating massive synergy.
Other attributes of the company: Young/Hip/Edgy, Sophisticated/Professional, we are results and performance focused, care about giving back, into personal development, all about win/win.
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EP 19 - Using Twitter to build relationships that benefit business, with Steve Vallas, The Honey Bar
Steve Vallas is the social media-savvy owner of the popular Honey Bar & Restaurant in the inner Melbourne suburb of South Melbourne.
In this interview with Trevor Young, Steve chats about using Twitter to build relationships with people as well as a sense of community around the Honey Bar brand. And while that works for him personally, it's also a highly effective strategy in growing the Honey business.
He says how participating on the social web has underpinned the business "in a way that I wouldn't have expected when we opened the front doors".
"It's allowed me to build a really strong base…allowed me to build a community around the business, that's constantly talking about the business … constantly bringing in business," Steve says.


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Hannah does cocaine for the sake of an article she plans to write; Marnie runs into an artist friend
"Here's your comfort zone. This (you know, over to the side) is where the magic happens." Or so says the editor of an online magazine who's just promised Hannah a freelance rate of $200 an article. She suggests that Hannah could write about having a threesome with some people that she met on Craigslist. Or about doing cocaine. Hannah takes both suggestions seriously. Neither is actually that shocking in the world of confessional personal essays. It was probably only a matter of time before Hannah started orchestrating experiences for her writing. What if the entire arc of Girls was the story of Hannah becoming the next Cat Marnell? In "Bad Friend," Hannah gets halfway there, but whether she actually manages to write about her crazy night is another question entirely.
First Hannah has to figure where one procures cocaine. She goes to Jessa first, obviously, explaining that she needs some "to snort for work because I'm planning to write an article that exposes all of my vulnerabilities to the entire internet." Marnie suggests that she ask the creepy guy who lives on the ground floor of Hannah's building. Laird is a junkie, she says, he told her that once by the mailboxes. So, like a woman who knows what she wants, Hannah goes and knocks on the junkie's door.
Laird's (Jon Glaser of Human Giant and Parks and Rec) apartment is perfect. It's messy and dark, and lit only by the glow from cartoons on the television and the sunlight peeking through the mismatched sheets haphazardly bolted to the walls. Everything looks a little musty. Laird and Hannah make small talk about Wi-Fi network names and his pet turtle who can be a real a—— sometimes. He asks about Marnie, and wonders why they were friends, referencing their different tastes in magazines. He offers her pomegranate juice, and tells her he's really glad she made the first move. He also says that he's an addict. Undismayed, Hannah still manages to ask him for cocaine. Laird is clean, but offers to get her some anyway. Someone's got a crush on Hannah.
At Marnie's new job as a server an older man grabs her hip, calls her sweetheart, and orders a bottle of their best Sauvignon Blanc (seems like an odd choice for a group of men, right?). But before she can place the order, Booth Jonathan (Jorma Taccone) spots her from across the room. He immediately condescends to her for giving up on her dream so soon (as if no artist has ever had to work a service job). Marnie fights back and tells him that he's basically a con who convinces people to pay too much for his derivative art. Booth asks her when the last time she had sex was, and with basically no effort or charm at all, gets her to just leave the club and go back to his studio/home. "Want to see the best thing I've ever made?" he asks, before locking her in a prison of televisions stacked up from the floor to the ceiling, broadcasting horrific, stressful images all to the tune of Duncan Sheik's "Barely Breathing." Marnie tells him he's really talented. And then they have sex. He's into it. She's…hard to read.
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|Little Buddy Doyle
|Charley Doyle
|March 20, 1911
Cordova, Tennessee, United States
|c. 1960
Bolivar, Tennessee, United States
|Country blues, Memphis blues[1]
|Guitarist, singer, songwriter
|Vocals, guitar
|Okeh, Vocalion
|Big Walter Horton, Hammie Nixon
Little Buddy Doyle (born March 20, 1911; died c. 1960)[2] was an American Memphis blues and country blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.[1] He was a working associate of the harmonica players Big Walter Horton and Hammie Nixon, the guitarist David "Honeyboy" Edwards, and the pianist Sunnyland Slim.
He was born Charley Doyle in Cordova, Tennessee. During the 1930s, he performed regularly on Beale Street, in Memphis, Tennessee.[2][3]
It is generally accepted that Horton made his first recording backing Doyle on eight songs recorded in Memphis for Okeh Records and Vocalion Records in 1939.[4] Doyle also recorded with Nixon around the same time; some of their recorded work remains unissued.[5]
Most of what else is known about Doyle derives from the autobiography of Edwards, who met him in Memphis in 1935, where Doyle regularly performed in Handy Park. He was still performing in Handy Park when Edwards returned to Memphis in 1943, at which time Edwards sometimes performed in the park with Doyle, Horton and the young Little Walter. Edwards remembered Doyle clearly and described him as a charismatic figure. According to Edwards, Doyle was a red-eyed alcoholic, was drunk all the time and had two or three gold teeth. No photos of Doyle are known. His nickname, Little Buddy, was likely due to his diminutive stature; according to Edwards, Doyle "was a midget. His legs was so short that when he sat on the bench to play the guitar he couldnt pat his feet. He had to just bump against the seat, his feet would be that far off the ground. Hed get to playing the blues and just bump, bump, bump."[6]
When Edwards met him in 1935, Doyle was married to Hedda, who was six feet tall.[] According to Edwards, Hedda too was "a good guitar player in the key of G." She sometimes performed with Doyle.
Little else is known of Doyle's life apart from his recorded work. Details of his death seem to be undocumented, but it is known he died in Bolivar, Tennessee, around 1960.[7]
Doyle's known tracks include "Bad in Mind Blues"; "Grief Will Kill You", "Hard Scufflin' Blues", "Lost Baby Blues", "Renewed Love Blues", "She's Got Good Dry Goods", "Slick Caper Blues", "Sweet Man Blues" and "Three Sixty Nine Blues". Several are featured on the following compilation albums.
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|Sounds of Memphis (1933-1939)
|Story of the Blues Records
|Roots 'n Blues: The Retrospective 1925-1950
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Custom Outlook toolbar's location
Default Outlook toolbars save their location in the Outlook configuration file outcmd.dat, part of the roaming profile (in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook to be precise). This data is remembered when Outlook restarts, even after logging off and on again.
Non-default (custom) Outlook toolbars however are "temporary" in nature (in the sense of they're not part of Outlook itself and are considered to be initialized/loaded separately each time Outlook loads). Those toolbars don't save their location data in outcmd.dat, but have to provide their own mechanism. Microsoft offers a default way for such a mechanism, i.e. through a configuration file called user.config in the local part of a user profile (more precisely in %LOCALAPPDATA%\[company]\[application]\[version]). This means custom Outlook toolbar location changes can be saved and reused (even after logging off and on again) if the toolbar is programmed to do so and if so, it can be done through this default mechanism Microsoft provides. Read the rest of this entry »
Load Test Report Addin causes an error when you start Excel
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If you have installed Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, an Excel add-in called "Load Test Report Addin" is installed. This add-in makes it possible to create load test performance reports in Excel and loads when you start Excel. The add-in is meant for Excel 2010 and works perfectly if you have installed and started Excel 2010. Excel 2007 on the other hand sees an inconsistency, i.e. the VSTO file (which is an XML file) related to the add-in (Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.LoadTestExcelAddIn.vsto) doesn't contain the "addIn" XML element Excel 2007 is expecting. This element isn't available in the VSTO file and is not needed for Excel 2010. The result is an error message from Excel 2007 at start (see the screenshot below, after clicking the "Details" button, showing more detailed information about what's going on). Read the rest of this entry »
Install BCM 2007 on Windows 7
When you install Bussiness Contact Manager (BCM) 2007 on Windows 7 a dialog box warns you about compatibility issues. The problem isn't related to BCM itself, but to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. SQL Server 2005 Express is only supported on Windows 7 if SP3 of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is installed. Follow one of the following 2 procedures:
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Anyone have experience with OEM mats / carpets for j11/j11b models. Making an assumption that there's not much difference between the j11 and the newer j11b floorpan. I'm looking for a set for my j11b and am interested to know if there are any particular suppliers / retailers that people would recommend. All help greatfully appreciated.
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Hello beauties!!! First of all ,please do accept my apologies for abandoning my blog forever! A lot of things happened . There are personal, family and health issues that I seriously need to give attention to. And I am really sorry for that. You don't have any idea how much I miss blogging and chatting with you guys to share and talk about beauty related stuffs. I am not promising but will try my very best to keep in touch with you again.;) I hope you're all doing fine and remember that "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world not even our troubles." Have faith and believe in yourself;)
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Website owners are sending out increasingly huge web pages through a pipeline whose ability has not grown in the same proportion.
Web page objects, then and now:
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PARIS (Reuters) - World number seven Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina has pulled out of next week's French Open tennis after failing to recover from a virus, organizers said on Wednesday.
Del Potro, who reached the quarter-finals at the claycourt grand-slam event last year, flew home after losing to Frenchman Benoit Paire in the Rome Masters last 16 last week.
"He has withdrawn," a French Federation spokesman told Reuters, confirming Argentine media reports.
"I am sad to miss such an important tournament, one that you always dream of winning," Del Potro was quoted as saying by the daily Ultima Hora's website (www.ultimahora.com).
Del Potro is the second top-10 player to withdraw from the French Open, which starts on Sunday at Roland Garros, after Briton Andy Murray announced he would miss the tournament because of a back injury.
Former world number seven Mardy Fish, 41st in the ATP rankings, and his fellow American Brian Baker, 71st, have also pulled out.
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Information on working terriers, dogs, natural history, hunting, and the environment, with occasional political commentary as I see fit. This web log is associated with the Terrierman.com web site.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
A Brief History of the Patterdale Terrier
It's amazing how mixed up and convoluted a breed history can become, and even more amazing that it can be confounded so quickly.
Consider, for example, the Patterdale.
First, there is the question of whether it is a breed at all, or simply a black smooth-coated Fell Terrier.
If one wants to argue that a Patterdale is simply a smooth coated black Fell Terrier, that's fine. We could also say that a Jack Russell is a white Fell Terrier, couldn't we? In any case, people who know Patterdales know one when they see one. Is there any other meaningful definition of a terrier breed ?
The use of the Patterdale name for a type of terrier goes back to at least the 1930s. Jocelyn Lucas notes that the United Hunt said it preferred to use Lakeland Terriers and "Patterdales from J. Boroman's strain at the Ullswater Kennels".
The characteristics of these 1930s Patterdales is not known, but it is worth noting that the Ullswater Kennels were famous for Border Terriers and the Patterdale breed, as we know it today, first sprang up in the 1950s in the breeding program of Cyril Breay who had been a Border Terrier breeder.
While the 1930s Patterdales are reported to have been shaggy black Fells, Breay's early dogs are described as slape-coated black-ticked dogs with massive heads. Could these "Patterdale Terriers" have been genetic sports descended from a "blue and tan" Border Terrier? We will never know, as Cyril Breay kept no records, though he swore there was no Bull Terrier in his dogs.
Breay was a slight man and did not work his dogs himself, leaving that part of the job to his friend Frank Buck. Buck's own line of dogs were descended from the Ullswater terriers kept by Joe Bowman (no doubt the "J. Boroman" noted by Lucas), and the dogs of the two men began to devolve to a type as lines were crossed and condensed.
Whatever their origin, the dog that showed up in the field in the 1960s, and continuing today, is a smooth, hard-coated dog of variable size and looks, and with a good track record of honest work. Patterdales have a reputation as being enthusiastic self-starters.
Though still a pure working dog, the future of the Patterdale is precarious. On one side are the show ring pretenders who value looks over utility, while on the other side are young fools crossing Patterdales with Bull Terriers and Pit Bulls, resulting in dogs that are too big and overly hard.
The good news is that there are a handful of breeders trying to keep the dogs right-sized and well-balanced between the ears. Some of these breeders have been breeding good dogs for decades, but it is a tough job and it is not clear that the next generation of terriermen is up to the task. Time will surely tell.
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- urbanprophet777 said...
i wanted to post to first just give a hats off to this site and its creators i find it awsome and imformative....but secondly want to ask anyone on there opinion on bsl and hunting terriers? or wiether anyone feels that bsl would hinder terrierman in the states? walk in it.... urbanprophet
- Dan said...
To be honest with a few dog types you do wonder; the breeder might be completely sincere in saying that he never knowingly crossed in a bulldog, but there's no telling if a bulldog cross terrier might not have had his wicked way with an in-season bitch somewhere in that breeder's set-up.
A similar thing can be seen in the world of horses. Connemara ponies are purported to be pure-bred natives, yet a hell of a lot of 'em show quite a few characteristics more typical of Arab horses (flighty temperament, dodgy feet and so on). That rather gives rise to the suspicion that somewhere back in their ancestry someone might've crossed in an Arab stallion just to put a bit of extra pep into their breeding strain, which pep has now spread right across the gene pool of that breed type.
Bulldog x greyhounds are, as a previous commentator said, becoming more common in Britain. Mostly they're being used as lurchers for lamping foxes and (possibly, I have no knowledge here) also badgers. The UK's Hunting Act was a spectacularly crap piece of legislation which convinced many a countryman that the government here was stark, staring bonkers (recent "protect the badger" protests over a cull of diseased animals also argues that quite a big section of the public is similarly lacking in wit) and that anything went.
Bulldogs are also seen in inner cities as "status dogs", and most of these animals are dangerously unstable nut-jobs which think that they are alpha in their family and behave accordingly if slighted. As we all know, a dog which thinks it is alpha in a human family is a dangerous beast indeed, as although it thinks it is boss, it doesn't understand about 80% of the human social cues.
As to retrieverman, were he a dog he'd be on course for a trip to the vet for castrating to see if that calmed him down any; if it didn't then a life as a farmyard bark-dog would beckon.
- Gary Man said...
The patterdale is a fantastic dog but any moron that breeds bull dogs and Staffis into this breed are totally unhinged as are both these breeds of dogs. They both have so many problems you could covr 4 pages. so why breed then into a beautiful terrier line. Or is it just a man macho thing. Make it hard. God what morons
- Rusty Boyd said...
I dont see much sense in using bull lurchers for Badger.
Badgers dont exactly run fast and it would be a poor Bull that couldnt catch one.
Plummer and others have stated that the old Combat Bulldog in Britain was one of the types used to create working Terriers.
So Bull blood is in them all.
Working Jack Russell men here add in a bit of Working Staff every now and then.
Most always have.
Not all Staffs are the KC type or the wannabe Gangster muscle bound Bull type.
There are still old types about.
Even KC breeders will throw up the odd good one simply cause the genes are still floating around in there and will appear even when they dont want them.
I would doubt there is a Kerry Blue around that hasnt got EBT in its history.
When they were still a working dog the boys liked adding a bit of EBT for Teastos Mor.
If you dog is doing its job, why worry.
- Brock Ritchie said...
We use Patterdale x APBT with great success on Coyotes decoy, Bear work and Ground work. When bred right from the right dog they loose nothing.
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- PBurns said...
Breay was a very slightly built man and an asthmatic and he never digged. He walked a bit, but not too far (a few miles at most). He may have met Buck at a dig where his dog was being used and got stuck, but he's not likely to have been the one shifting dirt. Breay mostly bred and showed dogs, and he and Buck had a very nice friendship with dogs going back and forth between then. But Breay was no digging man and depended on others to tell him if the dogs were up to it in the field.