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DRAGONSâ€™ DEN BLAZES INTO A NEW SEASON WITH A BRAND NEW DEN
- A new season of Dragonsâ€™ Den premieres on CBC Television on Wednesday, October 2 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT)
DRAGONSâ€™ DEN returns on Wednesday, October 2 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) with 20 all-new, exciting episodes. A whole new crop of aspiring Canadian entrepreneurs lay it all on the line in front of five intimidating, multi-millionaire venture capitalists. The Dragons each have individual strengths, expertise, knowledge and connections necessary to turn great ideas into unimaginable fortunes.
The season premiere reveals a brand new Den, which is bigger, bolder and more ominous than ever before. Entering the Den this season are entrepreneurs from big cities like Vancouver and Montreal, and small towns like Carcross, Yukon and Salt Spring Island, BC as well as everywhere in between. Viewers will get a chance to see the Dragons take on sideshow entertainers, seasoned food manufacturers, and even brave board game enthusiasts.
This season features five special episodes, including a fan-favourite Student Special, a Holiday Special, a Second Chance Show, an Update Special, and an all-new Canadian-themed episode, Only in Canada, showcasing products that could only have been conjured by Canucks.
The five well-loved â€“ and feared â€“ Dragons in the Den this season are:
David Chilton, publishing powerhouse â€“ Chilton is a former stock broker and author of the personal finance book The Wealthy Barber, ranked as Canadaâ€™s all-time best-selling book, having reached 10 per cent of Canadian households. Heâ€™s also had incredible success as publisher and president of a series of low-fat cookbooks under the Looneyspoons brand.
- Bruce Croxon, internet mogul â€“ Croxon is an active investor with his company Round 13 Capital, advisor and start-up champ who co-founded one of the best-known online dating websites in the world, Lavalife.
- Arlene Dickinson, marketing maven â€“ One of Canada’s most renowned independent communications entrepreneurs and sought after speakers, Dickinson is CEO of marketing firm Venture Communications, a creative powerhouse with a blue-chip client list. Arlene recently founded an online network exclusively for entrepreneurs, called YouInc.com.
- Kevin Oâ€™Leary, investment guru â€“ The Bay Street Bigmouth and television pundit started his fortune selling educational software and is now Chairman of Oâ€™Leary Funds, his own mutual-fund company and also helms Oâ€™Leary Mortgages.
- Jim Treliving, franchise baron â€“ This former RCMP officer has 40 years of franchising experience with both Boston Pizza and Mr. Lube. He also manages a portfolio of multi-million dollar sports and real-estate investments.
DRAGONSâ€™ DEN is the highest-rated Canadian unscripted program on during the regular television season, with an average audience of more than 1.2 million Canadians each week. In addition to its success on-air, DRAGONSâ€™ DEN is also a hit online, boasting an active and engaged online community averaging more than 650,000 page views per month. Full episodes and exclusive behind-the-scenes content can be viewed at cbc.ca/dragonsden. DRAGONSâ€™ DEN is filmed at CBC Headquarters in Toronto, ON and airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) and Sundays at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC Television. Tracie Tighe is executive producer and Molly Middleton is senior producer. Dianne Buckner hosts.


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Washing a pet in your home can be a cumbersome process for both you and your animal. You may have insufficient space to perform a proper bath, there may be too many distractions in your home or any number of other things keeping the experience from being optimal. In fact, home-bathing can take several hours and raise an animal’s stress level.
Bathing your pet does not have to be an inconvenience for you or your furry family member. In fact, it is one of the best bonding activities an owner can perform. Bark Avenue Pet Resort has everything you need to provide self-wash. Your home bathroom is meant for people, but since we are committed to a pet-friendly environment, we have thought of everything when it comes to self-wash. Wash your pet in our provided areas, and ensure a nurturing experience, with all sizes and breeds welcome.
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At Bark Avenue Pet Resort, we remove the inconvenience and stress of bathing an animal at home. Ask your local store for assistance and details.

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WIld carrots appear throughout Europe and well into Asia. The exact origin of domestic carrots is obscure. They probably originated in the countries of the eastern Mediterranean, possibly even Afghanistan. The original ones were various colors, including white, yellow, purple and red. These colors are slowly being rebred and reintroduced to the culinary world and even some supermarkets. The orange carrots were developed in Holland and France at a much later date.
Although carrots bought in supermarkets are more or less identical, there is a lot of variety available to the Culinarian. Not only are there early carrots (often grown in frames) that are round, almost like radishes, there are others that are long and tapered. Others are just long but are cylindrical, with parallel sides and round ends. Shorter varieties are best for immediate use in the kitchen, while the longer ones store better.
As any rabbit knows, carrots are a fun, delicious and nutritious food.
A single serving of carrots is about 1 cup and contains 52 calories. Carrots have no fat and no cholesterol. As a low-calorie, low-fat food, carrots are a good choice for people watching their weight.
Carrots are mostly carbohydrates, with 12 grams per serving. Of the carbs in carrots, 4 grams are fiber. Carrots contain 1 gram of protein. They are also a low sodium food, containing 88 milligrams of this nutrient in 1 cup, an amount equal to only 4 percent of the recommended daily allowance.
Where carrots really shine is as a source of vitamin A. Other micronutrients found in carrots include calcium, thiamin, niacin, iron, vitamin B-6, vitamin E, riboflavin, folate, manganese, vitamin C, vitamin K, choline, phosphorus and potassium. A 1-cup serving of raw carrots also provides 4 grams of fiber. Adults need 20 to 35 grams of fiber per day, but the National Institutes of Health reports that most get roughly half that amount.
Research and Health Highlights…
The high levels of antioxidants in carrots, especially vitamin A, help promote good health overall and reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Carrots’ big claim to fame in the health department, however, is their effect on vision. The high doses of vitamin A, a type of carotenoid, work synergistically with other components in carrots to improve vision overall, but are especially beneficial to night vision. Another phytonutrient in carrots, falcarinol, has been linked to protection from colon cancer.
One medium carrot contains 204 percent of your daily recommended value of vitamin A, a vitamin found in animal and plant-based foods. In plant-based foods, this vitamin is produced by your body from the nutritional compound beta-carotene. This vitamin, also known as retinol, is responsible for maintaining the health of your eyes. Vitamin A helps your eyes retain their ability to adjust to changes in light and maintains necessary moisture and mucus levels of your eyes.
Vitamins K and C
Carrots are also a good source of vitamins K and C.
If you are hoping to raise your potassium intake, consider eating more carrots. One carrot contains 400 mg of potassium. The Institute of Medicine recommends that all adults consume 4,700 milligrams of potassium a day. According to the health website Organic Facts, potassium is the third-most-abundant mineral in your body. It may help reduce your risk of stroke, high blood pressure and anxiety. It helps to control your metabolism and improves the health of your muscles, heart and nervous system. Potassium also regulates electrolyte absorption and is necessary for proper hydration.

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Saturday, December 08, 2007
I have a bad feeling that I will be watching the show on Christmas Day muttering "no, it wasn't like that" every five seconds. I'm already disappointed to see that there is a character called Captain Hardaker in it. Unfortunately, the Titanic's captain was called Smith.
There are details and there are details. Getting worked up because the rivets on C deck are the wrong size is one thing but if the writer's haven't bothered to research something as basic as the name of the Captain then that's something else. No matter what happens with the fantastical elements of the story, the Titanic was a real ship, crewed by real people and they should be named correctly in the story.
Getting names wrong is sloppy.
There are a countless ways in which the writer(s) could have a Captain Hardaker commanding the Titanic. The Doctor could unmask some meddling by realising that the Captain should be Smith, for instance. It could be a recreation of the Titanic or some sort of simulation. Or there could be a Captain Hardaker as a passenger.
Or, they could have got the captain's name wrong. If they have, I won't be impressed.
We will find out on Christmas Day.

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Kobe Bryant – New Autopsy Reports Show Helicopter Crash Pilot Tested Negative For Drugs
On Friday (May 15th), the Los Angeles County coroner’s office released the autopsy reports for the victims of the helicopter crash that took place in January that killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and the 7 other people who were on board.
According to the reports, the pilot, 50-year-old Ara Zobayan was sober at the time of the accident. He tested negative for having any alcohol or drugs in his system. The senior deputy medical examiner said that Kobe Bryant and the other passengers more than likely died instantly upon impact due to blunt trauma.
As previously reported, Kobe Bryant’s wife, Vanessa Bryant, filed a lawsuit against the helicopter company that the former Laker’s player and the other victims were flying with that day. She claimed that on the day of the crash (January 26) the company ignored certain safety conditions that should have been in place in order to take flight that day. Vanessa Bryant also alleged that Ara Zobayan was a reckless pilot by claiming he was flying at 180 miles per hour and failed to check the weather before liftoff.
Ara Zobayan’s wife, Berge Zobayan, has responded to Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit and claimed that the passengers are responsible for their own deaths because they knew the risk involved with flying.
“Any injuries or damages to plaintiffs and/or their decedent were directly caused in full or in part by the negligence or fault of plaintiffs and/or their decedent, including their knowing and voluntary encounter with the risks involved, and that this negligence was a substantial factor in causing their purported damages, for which this answering defendant bears no responsibility.”
The investigation for the crash is still taking place and the National Transportation and Safety Board is reviewing what took place.
What are your thoughts on this entire situation? Let us know in the comments.

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The Other, Too, Is You (Auch der andre, der bist du)
What once Earth to me presented
she's already asking back;
comes to take what she had granted,
grasping tender speck by speck.
Strange: the more of hurts I carried
the more beauty showed the land;
What I fought for, gains of merit,
softly falling from my hand.
And the lighter I am getting,
the more heavily I walk:
"Can't you, from your moistened setting,
spare me, Earth? I beg you, talk!"
"No, I cannot spare you, Brother,
need you for the other one;
out of you I'll feed the other:
let him also see the sun.
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SOP/SOPP for RD/RDNs in Diabetes Care
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Revised 2017 Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (Competent, Proficient, and Expert) in Diabetes Care
PDFs, sites and book resources on diabetes.
Reputable obesity resources.
Resources related to cardiovascular health.
Dietetics Career Development Guide
Created by the Council on Future Practice to illustrate how a practitioner can attain increasing levels of knowledge and skill through out a career
Medical Searching Resources
Reputable medical search resources.
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SBVS302 November 2016 TPS3852
The TPS3852 is a precision voltage supervisor with an integrated window watchdog timer. The TPS3852 includes a precision undervoltage supervisor with an undervoltage threshold (VITN) that achieves 0.8% accuracy over the specified temperature range of –40°C to +125°C. In addition, the TPS3852 includes accurate hysteresis making the device ideal for use with tight tolerance systems. The supervisor RESET delay features a 15% accuracy, high-precision delay timer.
The TPS3852 includes a programmable window watchdog timer for a wide variety of applications. The dedicated watchdog output (WDO) enables increased resolution to help determine the nature of fault conditions. The watchdog timeouts can be programmed either by an external capacitor, or by factory-programmed default delay settings. The watchdog can be disabled to avoid undesired watchdog timeouts during the development process.
The TPS3852 is available in a small 3.00-mm × 3.00-mm, 8-pin VSON package.
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Growing gourmet garlic for profitadmin - February 1, 2022
Small-scale garlic production can be profitable if you grow gourmet garlic, and preferably also add additional perks for discerning consumers, such as pesticide-free, locally grown, organic, etcetera. Trying to out-compete China on price for run-of-the-mill cheap garlic is not advisable.
Growing garlic in your backyard
If you focus on high-end garlic for the local market, you don´t need acres of farmland to turn a profit. Instead of quitting your day job and moving to the country, you can utilize your own backyard or allotment to earn a very nice little side-profit without much effort.
Many successful producers of gourmet garlic have plots as small as 1/8 of an acre. You can start even smaller if you want to, which means you don´t have to make a big investment, and you can learn gradually before you scale up. Or don´t scale up – simply keep your small garlic plot as it is and be satisfied with the extra income it brings.
Growing gourmet garlic
If you want to learn how grow gourment garlic, a good starting point for your investigations is the hardneck garlic variants named Rocambole, Purplestripe and Porcelain. Garlic aficionados are prepared to pay a premium for their taste. In parts of the United States, a price of $10 per lbs is not unusual when selling to end-consumers.
Purple stripe garlic
This garlic develops an interesting sweet flavour when baked and has become a popular addition to oven dishes. As an added bonus, the cloves of purple stripe garlic grow medium large and are very easy to peel. As the name indicates, this garlic is purple striped which makes it stand out from the crowd.
For us growers, it is nice to know it has a very long storage life – it makes the whole process of storing and transporting it less of a worry.
Examples of popular purple stripe garlic variants are Persian Star, Chesnok Red and Red Grain.
Purple stripe garlic grows best in rich soil. It is an early-harvest garlic.
Rocambole has become a chef favourite for its full-bodied and complex flavour. Examples of popular varieties are Carpathian, Killarney Red and Spanish Roja. The cloves are easy to peel.
This garlic grows best in rich soil, and is a mid-season harvest.
Rocambole garlic is trickier to store than Purple stripe garlic, but will do okay up to four months if conditions are right.
The garlic that is not a garlic
Another option worth exploring is Elephant garlic, renowned for it large cloves and milder taste. In the United States, they typically retail for $6 per lbs or more. An advantage with the Elephant garlic is its yield. If you provide it with good conditions, including suitable soil, one acre of land can produce a harvest of 15,000 lbs.
The Elephant garlic is actually not a true garlic, but just like the true garlics it is a member of the genus Allium. With its milder flavour, the Elephant garlic is sometimes marketed as “garlic for those who don´t like garlic”, and it can be used in delicate dishes to provide a hint of garlicky-ness without overpowering the other ingredients.
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By Richa Naidu, Elisa Anzolin, Christoph Steitz and Jessica DiNapoli
LONDON/MILAN/FRANKFURT/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The world’s top rated client and luxury products providers have found product sales of every little thing from cosmetics to condoms improve in China since Beijing ended rigorous COVID-19 curbs, a different indicator that the world’s No. 2 financial state is reviving just after the pandemic.
Upbeat remarks on Wednesday from Reckitt Benckiser, Nivea-maker Beiersdorf, Moncler and Puma came soon after data demonstrating China’s factory sector grew in February at the swiftest pace in additional than a decade.
Beiersdorf Main Govt Vincent Warnery reported the corporation had seen the 1st indications of recovery in China and the global travel retail business, fuelled by the country’s reopening.
“Soon after a really volatile January, with traffic even now intensely impacted by the release of COVID constraints in December, we see a crystal clear turnaround in retail sales commencing in February,” he reported in a briefing for analysts.
“China is back to expansion, not only on the web but also in brick and mortar.”
U.S. toothpaste-maker Colgate-Palmolive Co executives explained past 7 days at an marketplace convention that vacation in China is back again to pre-pandemic levels and that it expects sturdy improvement in coming months. Colgate lately released new premium whitening toothpastes in China focusing on affluent city dwellers.
“The second 50 % of the yr will be much much better,” mentioned Yves Briantais, a marketing and advertising executive for Colgate’s Asia-Pacific region.
Procter & Gamble Co, whose second-biggest market is China, is meticulously viewing its substantial-finish SK-II skincare line as China reopens, explained finance main Andre Schulten at the conference.
Beiersdorf’s Warnery said progress in its premium La Prairie and more cost-effective Eucerin and Nivea skincare ranges was very likely to be driven by Chinese need. Tourism from China was helping revenue in neighbouring Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Japan, he added.
Reckitt Benckiser, which tends to make Nurofen tablets, chilly cure Lemsip and Durex, observed a select-up in China immediately after a decline in volumes mainly because of lockdowns.
“I have no question that the intimate wellness (business enterprise) in China is heading to perform properly,” explained interim CEO Nicandro Durante, referring to the division which contains KY Jelly and Durex condoms.
The upbeat remarks echo those of other executives through earnings season, particularly from luxury labels which are banking on a sturdy rebound fuelled by Chinese shoppers drawing on personal savings constructed up in the course of pandemic lockdowns.
Upmarket U.S. organizations together with Coach handbag maker Tapestry Inc and Ralph Lauren Corp last thirty day period not too long ago explained desire experienced begun picking up in China.
“We surely have seen a meaningful trend alter in Higher China,” Tapestry Main Economical Officer Scott Roe stated final month, when Ralph Lauren executives said they had been looking at traffic at its brick-and-mortar retailers surge.
“We count on China to occur back again resiliently in the quarter,” Ralph Lauren’s operating chief Jane Nielsen stated.
Resilient product sales in China would be a aid for corporations struggling with increased electrical power and wage prices, especially in Europe, at the same time as mounting costs of meals, vitality and rents are forcing people to be pickier about what they invest in.
Much better signs that Chinese factories are rebounding right after COVID constraints had been lifted late past yr could also temper an anticipated downturn in the world wide financial system, as the U.S. Federal Reserve stays on its increased-for-extended curiosity amount path.
U.S. retailer Walmart Inc, which operates virtually 400 retail and wholesale stores in China, claimed strong site visitors in its outlets considering the fact that reopening.
“We have witnessed people today returning more to shops, which is what you would assume, and also wanting to rejoice situations,” Judith McKenna, CEO of Walmart International, reported on a call very last week.
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Retailer shares rose across world-wide fairness markets on Wednesday, even as broader indexes gave back gains on more issues about inflation.
Reckitt shares rose 1.5% in London, when shares in Moncler rose 3.3% soon after the Italian luxurious group, recognized for its heat puffer jackets, noted a robust commence to the yr.
Chief internet marketing and functioning officer Roberto Eggs instructed a call with analysts on Tuesday evening the company saw double-digit product sales development in China right before and following the Lunar New Calendar year holiday getaway in January.
“We usually appear at the success two months before and one particular 7 days after the Chinese New 12 months and the impression is seriously favourable,” he mentioned.
Introducing to increasing self-assurance in the luxurious sector, the enterprise reported it had observed no adverse outcomes on need from a 10% price increase at the start of the winter season year.
Reuters reported in February LVMH’s top rated style brand Louis Vuitton was anticipated to increase rates in China by as a great deal as 20%.
(Reporting by Christoph Steitz in Frankfurt and Jan Schwartz in Hamburg, Elisa Anzolin in Milan, Richa Naidu in London and Siddharth Cavale and Jessica DiNapoli in New York and Aishwarya Venugopal in Bengaluru Composing by Josephine Mason in London Enhancing by Catherine Evans and Richard Chang)


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For the safety of workers and other motorists, please Slow for the Cone Zone.
All work below is scheduled to begin as listed but is subject to change due to traffic incidents, weather, availability of equipment/materials, and construction-related issues.
The City of Stockton Public Works Department will be completing road repairs on Brookside Road and Shadowbrook Drive. The next stage of this project is scheduled to begin October 28, 2023, and is estimated to take approximately two weeks to complete. This project was made possible through Measure K funding and will address high traffic streets with poor pavement conditions on:
As construction progresses signs will be placed to notify drivers of changing construction conditions in the area. Speed limits will be reduced to 30 mph during construction. During the day, only one lane in each direction will remain open. Access to all adjacent businesses and residences will remain open during construction.
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2 hour Paddle Surf course in MalcesineSKU: 48316
Description of 2 hour Paddle Surf course in MalcesineLearn in Malcesine to move in total safety on the Paddle Surf !
Our Paddle Surf course for beginners is the perfect starting point to approach this activity, ideal for spending fun days outdoors, among the splashes of water of the wonderful Lake of Garda.
The meeting will be at our facility, where we will deliver the necessary equipment to carry out this activity and where you will meet our highly qualified instructors.
In the water you can quickly learn the basics of this aquatic discipline, also known as SUP . You will learn the techniques necessary to move safely and the basic rules.
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New Zealand Q1 BoP Current Account data
BoP Current Account Balance for Q1, 662 mln
- expected 282mln, prior was -3.194bn
Current account to GDP ratio (YTD) for Q1, -3.6 %
- expected -3.8%, prior was -3.3%
A much wider than expected kiwi current account surplus
More from Statistics New Zealand:
- "Imports of petroleum products fell to their lowest value in just over nine years, as prices plummeted in the latest quarter, to their lowest level in over a decade," international statistics manager Jason Attewell said.
- Lower oil prices at the start of 2015 drove a decrease in New Zealand's overseas expenditure in the March 2015 quarter
- New Zealand's annual current account deficit was $8.6 billion (3.6 percent of GDP) for the year ended March 2015. This compares with a deficit of $7.8 billion (3.3 percent of GDP) for the year ended December 2014.
- The larger annual current account balance was mainly due to a fall in exports of goods, which was driven by falling dairy prices over the past year.
- "Increased spending by overseas visitors in New Zealand, our second-largest source of export revenue, partly offset the fall in exports of dairy products over the past year," Mr Attewell said.
NZD is trading a few tics higher in the wake of the release:

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Anyone who’s taken a U.S. history course knows about Raleigh, North Carolina. Whether you associate the city as the namesake of Sir Walter Raleigh or the birthplace of Clay Aiken, local blogger Erika of Fashion Chalet has us convinced that Raleigh is a definitely a place to stop by.
Now, let’s start our tour!
1. North Carolina Museum of Art. “When I first moved from Miami to Raleigh, I was excited to explore everything in this modern building. My grandmother came to visit last Christmas and also had a ball. We tend to like Impressionism best. This place also boasts a great cafÃ© and modern art wing.”
2. Carino’s Italian Restaurant. “This place holds many happy memories, from tantalizing my taste buds with mushroom linguine to quiet meals with my family. This is also a great place to celebrate good news. They have the most decadent desserts and tasty appetizers.”
3. Bahama Breeze. “The second I step inside this chain, regardless of location (I’ve frequented the ones in Miami and Fort Lauderdale too often to count), I am transported to island vacations and mouthwatering food. The ambiance and music create the feeling of a Disney World ride or restaurant – enchanting and fun all at once. I highly recommend their portobello sandwich and chicken pineapple salad. Don’t forget to try a side of their sweet potatoes. DE-LI-CIOUS!”
4. Downtown Raleigh. “I work downtown, so it’s always great to meet up with friends afterwards. So many restaurants, boutiques, and fun things to do. I love taking photographs here.”
5. Natty Greene’s. “I don’t drink, and although this is a pub, I like how quiet it can be inside. During off-hours, I can stop in with my laptop and work on my blog. I also tend to meet people here; [it’s] a great place to talk and catch up. I always stop in for the Carolina Burger!”
6. Ice Cream Shoppe. “I highly recommend banana as a topping to any chocolate ice cream sundae, cone, or scoop.”
Thanks for the tour, Erika! Any other Raleigh residents out there? What would you recommend?

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Eni strikes oil and gas exploration deal with Total
Pubblicato il: 29/10/2018 18:47
Italy's energy giant Eni said on Monday it had signed an agreement with French major Total to look for oil and gas in Algeria, consolidating its position as the main international player in the north African country.
“Together with Sonatrach and Total, we will have the opportunity to explore the deep waters of the Algerian offshore, a virtually unexplored geological province where Eni will be able to contribute by leveraging its experience in the Eastern Mediterranean and its inventory of advanced exploration technologies,” Eni's chief executive officer Claudio Descalzi said in a statement.
Descalzi, Algeria's state-owned giant Sonatrach's chairman and director Abdelmoumem Ould Kaddour, and Total's CEO Patrick Pouyanne, signed two accords during the Algeria Future Energy Summit in Algiers, Eni said.
The accords include an exclusive partnership for offshore exploration in Algeria, while working together to obtain exploration permits Eni said.
Eni has been operating in Algeria since 1981 and has strategic contracts with Sonatrach, importing 27 percent of Italy’s gas last year.


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It’s been a few weeks since I got back and I’ve not done a lot. Skye has been doing ‘misty isle’ again, just this last day or so turning colder and brighter. The tree field does have some autumn colour. Particularly down by the pond where it is a bit sheltered, the birch and willow have a few more leaves holding on. There is a lovely clumping grass turning a golden shade by the pedestrian gate to the river.
While the winds in the north we should have some fine weather, but I need to tuck some fleece or similar round the tea bushes to protect them from the winter cold. We actually had our first frost this weekend, which was a bit of a surprise. The green manures I sowed in the orchard just before the holiday have been a resounding failure. The field beans were eaten by crows, no sign of the vetch or clover, and the remaining fodder radish is going to be too small and sparse to create any coverage! I should have sown about a month earlier….I do have a nice crop of grass and buttercups coming, so I guess I’ll just have to sheet mulch in the spring, but this will kill off the desireable seeds I put in as well.
The tea garden extension is still looking quite green and lush. I’ll tidy this up a bit when we get some frosts, since I’ll need to think about harvesting the outside yacon, oca and mashua then. The oca has had some tiny yellow flowers, rather bashed by the wet winds.
Neither the oca or mashua really like the exposed position. Of the mixed selection of plants that went in, the self seeding kale has done well, and I have a few nice looking carrots along the edge. The fodder radish has some good size roots, so I may pull some of these over the winter. I think there will still be enough to give coverage. Phacelia and borage are still blooming lovely! In the original tea garden unfortunately I have a lawn of grass growing under the blackcurrant bushes, I’ll try mulching that in the spring also. The himalayan strawberries had a second flush of flowers, but none have set this time.
The experimental sheet mulching with combined paper and cardboard has not been a great success. I think that the cardboard really does need two layers. It seems to have disintegrated more quickly, and then does not keep the newspapers protected. I do have some more cardboard, and have re-mulched the bit by the tea garden, I’ll need to try and do the orchard as well whilst we’ve got this nice weather. The cardboard alone double layers have also suffered a bit, but some of this is definately dog damage, so I still think this is the better way to go.
I managed to just about finish clearing the section of orchard I was aiming to. The weather has turned a bit damp now – so I’ve lost this years’ window for weeding. The soil just gets too claggy when it’s wet. I’ve left a nice sorrel plant there, and I may transplant some more in there. I have found some with lovely large leaves in various places round the field.
I have also planted a few of my seedling heath pea plants along the border which I plan to keep digging up, and a marsh woundwort plant as well. I haven’t got round to tasting the roots of this yet. It is related to crosnes (stachys affinis) and like crosnes the roots are edible. This plant was rather pot bound. It had been sitting in a puddle next to the polytunnel all year – an offset from the bought in plant. I’m hoping it will be damp enough for it at the side of the orchard there. We can get quite a bit of water coming down the track at times, as well as being generally damp climate wise. The roots certainly look like they could be quite productive – long and tender. I did snap a few bits off and popped them in the fridge, but forgot they were there when I cooked dinner yesterday. I also put a couple of seedling lathyrus tuberosa (earthnut pea) seedlings. These are from seed that I was sent (thanks Anni). Unfortunately with one thing and another (weather and neglect!) I only have four seedlings and one of these looks a bit poorly. I’ve put plant pot collars on them, since I have read that slugs really like these plants. I’m thinking that they can climb up the apple tree. Not the ideal spot for a root crop, but if they grow and like it there I can maybe propagate more plants from these.
I also spread around loads of seed: firstly some of the green manure seeds I obtained recently. I spread field beans and fodder radish fairly generally over the whole area and red clover selectively around the bases of the honeyberries and apple tree. It may be a bit late for the fodder radish, but I’m hoping that it will stay mild for long enough for them to put on a bit of growth before the winter (I can already see shoots coming on the field beans just a couple of days later!). I also sowed some other legume seeds that I collected: birds foot trefoil and bush vetch (vicia sepium). I have been enjoying the odd nibble on the latter as it has reappeared around the tree field (see here for a little foraging guide). The birds foot trefoil makes a nice low growing ground cover – it should be nitrogen fixing, but I’m not sure how well it will keep down the weeds. This is the first time I’ve tried sowing it direct. I did sow some in the spring in pots, but didn’t get a good success rate (again weather and neglect…): one plant. I also spread some sweet cicely seed and good king henry which both have done well for me in the tea garden a little up the hill. They both seeded themselves a bit up there, but I want to transplant those seedlings elsewhere.
I started trying to dig out couch grass and docken from the rest of the orchard on the north side of the track. There is a fair amount of both and I haven’t quite finished that. It’s only a rough going over. I will mulch it with newspaper and card and try and give it another go during next summer depending on priorities. I did get out some of the silver weed I planted there in the spring this year. It is still a bit early – they are in full leaf, and the roots look very white. Generally they are up to 6 inches long and up to one quarter inch diameter. I’m going to transfer some to the track border. I may see if I can use them for pathways in the orchard area. They have made a reasonable coverage after a bit of editing in the tea garden and certainly spread like mad!
It’s starting to feel a little autumnal now. The first trees to lose their leaves are the Wych elm, but some of the rowans are turning colour, and one of the beech is rather a nice yellow. I’m a bit worried by how red this apple tree is. Last year it was the best for growth, this year it looks a bit strained – the others are all still quite green. We don’t tend to get much autumn colour here – the winds strip the leaves off the trees before they can put on much of a show. It looks like it will be a bumper year for hazelnuts – I spotted the first nuts on our own trees (planted 2010), but the ones along the river bank seem quite laden. I did go along and pick up a fair few from underneath the trees, but they all seem to be empty (either shed by the tree or discarded in disgust by hopeful birds!). It’s still a bit early. Usually the birds get the nuts, which is fair enough. I would quite like to get a harvest off our own trees in due time. Although they weren’t bought as nutting cultivars, the seeds they apparently came from seemed a fair size.
The local outside brambles are starting to ripen. Funnily enough these don’t seem to be bothered by those horrid flies! There was a new bush that has seeded in at the corner of the river above the pond, which seems to have quite nice quality berries.
Saving the best till last – in the polytunnel this week!
There was a little mildew or possibly blight on some of the leaves so I’ve pulled a few off the tomato plants. I’m hoping that I will get more tomatoes ripening over the next month or so before I have to rescue them. Some comfrey leaves are soaking in a bucket of water at the moment to add some extra tomato feed to try and give them a late boost.
Things seem to have been a bit slow in the polytunnel – It’s been a bit cooler and damper but I haven’t been out there much – just a bit of watering and thinning out the grapes. The main excitement is the number of happy caterpillars I seem to have. There are several large ones that I see in there: A bright green one, a dull browny coloured one, a dotty one with a waist stripe and one with stripes that match the stalks on the fat hen as it goes to seed. I think most of them belong to the silver y moth which I do see in there quite often. They don’t seem to be doing too much damage: They quite like the Yacon, but prefer the fat hen to the olive tree. There are a few holes in the squash leaves but nothing the plants can’t shake off.
Something has eaten part through one of my dahlia stalks – I think it is probably a slug. they don’t tend to be too much a problem these days for established plants, but I do get a few helping themselves to my seedlings in pots by the polytunnel door. The dahlia I grew from seed, which I am quite proud of myself for. They have lovely dark coloured leaves, and are just starting to form buds. The seeds are some of those that came from the Hardy Plant Society annual selection. I had pretty good germination from most of those – probably because they were so fresh. Dahlia tubers are theoretically edible, although apparently they vary a great deal as to tastiness! I’m tempted to get some from Lubera who have selected a range of better tasting ones. You get the flowers and then the tubers to eat, and can replant again for next year. I have tried some raw a while ago now, and wasn’t particularly impressed, but then you wouldn’t eat a potato raw either would you? I’ve mounded up the soil around the stem in the hope that it will re-root like a cutting. There does seem to be another shoot coming from below the damage, but I may lose the flowers of that plant.
My fuchsia berry plant is looking a lot more happy now. It is in the ground and has a fairly respectable shoot. Hopefully it is getting it’s roots down to survive there overwinter. I have pinched off the tip, since in it’s pot last year it grew a bit leggy and tended to droop down with the weight of the fruit – yes they were quite sweet and nice. My outside fuchsia that came with the house also has quite nice berries. You have to get them when they are ripe, or they taste more peppery than sweet. The downside is that they tend to ripen gradually, so there are a few for a nibble but not enough for much of a meal. I should propagate the bush a bit though, since it would be quite good as a boundary shrub. It’s a bit late this year – maybe I’ll take some hardwood cuttings overwinter and see how they get on. The fuchsia berry is supposed to be a bit more tender. I did try taking some softwood cutting last year, but none of them took – I’ll maybe try again next year, assuming it survives the winter again.
The Yacon seem to be doing pretty well. I haven’t fed them barring the initial planting with compost, but have tried to give them plenty of water – probably still not as much as they want. The single plant I put outside in the tea garden extension is also looking pretty good – the warmer start to the summer was probably to it’s liking. I’m growing Oca for the first time this year (thanks Frances!) I’ve put two in the polytunnel and one outside. So far I would say that they don’t like it too hot. The one outside seemed to do much better than the ones in the tunnel initially when we had all that hot weather. More recently it’s been a bit cooler and less sunny, and the ones inside have cheered up a bit – a little leggy perhaps. All three plants look lush and green at the moment. Apparently they don’t make tubers until the days get shorter, which for us will be at the end of September or so. At that point the extra protection of the tunnel may pay off, since it should hold off a light frost or two. I’ve never eaten them so I won’t comment on that yet.
There are flowers starting to develop on my physalis – golden berry, and a few flowers on the courgette. Those really haven’t done so well this year, but then I generally don’t have gluts to complain of! The sharks fin melon is climbing well – almost to the roof with buds forming. The japanese squash has delightful silver splashed leaves which are quite pretty, and again shows promise of buds. The mashua isn’t looking too good still. I think the hot weather was definitely not to it’s liking. They are still really small and hardly starting to climb at all. Some of the other plants will probably be too late to come to anything. For example the achocha, which I said last year needed a longer season didn’t get planted out early enough again. Tomatillo and peppers I sowed for the sake of it, but really didn’t look after them enough to get much from them. The plants are alive, but that’s about all one can say about them. My sweet potato plants seem to be doing well. I hope I’ve given them enough water. When I grew them in our polytunnel in Solihull I think that was the main problem there. They do have lovely dark coloured leaves, a bit like an ornamental bindweed. I’ve just let them scramble over the ground, although they would climb given a framework.
The bramble has not done so well this year as previous years. As I mentioned in a previous post I’ve had a lot of flies eating the berries (Alice outside remains a complete wash out!). The flies get so drunk that you can put your finger right next to them without them all flying off. I’ve still had quite a few berries – enough to make a batch of bramble and apple jelly (clear jelly not jam with bits in), but nowhere as many as previous years. The bramble and kiwi look very precarious also. I had to cut some of the support ties for the kiwi at the start of the year, and haven’t got round to replacing them properly. I had used old tights – the legs make pretty good strong soft bindings. unfortunately the weight of the vine had made them go thin, and they were cutting in to the trunk quite a lot. It was actually difficult to extract them as the kiwi was growing around them. I have started to use strips of pond liner (plenty of that left from around the mice holes!) This seems to stay more ribbon-like so doesn’t cut in. It’s a bit more difficult to tie in a knot (especially when supporting a heavy trunk with your third hand!), but seems to be kind to the plants and lasts pretty well. Tyre inner tubes are also pretty good, but I’m not sure whether they will have the same light resistance as pond liner.
The tomatoes have done really well – lots of lovely trusses have set nicely. None are ripening yet, but I remain hopeful for a reasonable harvest in the end – so far looking like my best yet here. Some of the plants have dark spots developing on the older leaves, which I think is a sign of nutrient deficiency. I probably haven’t fed them enough – just a bucket of comfrey tea between them when I can remember to do it! It’s actually also the same comfrey residue – so there’s probably not much nutrient left in it. I should have some time off later this week so will try and cut some fresh comfrey leaves then.
Summer is, as yet, the fruit season for me. The orchard is a dream for the future; not a single apple this year, despite the good weather. I have been picking currants and raspberries however over the past couple of weeks. The original Ben Sarek black currants did pretty well, over 13 pounds in total. Not up to their usual quality however: quite a few split, and smaller than usual. It’s been a slightly odd year due to a relatively hot and dry early summer, and I think this affected the berries. Maybe the skins hardened too soon, since the Ben Gairn currant, which had a really good crop, had a lot split, which made the picking over quite difficult. I like to remove the remains of the petals as well as the stalks, but it was a slow messy job. I’ve made two batches of jam and still have some in the freezer. The Belorussian sweet currant I didn’t even bother picking. The fruit was the first to ripen, but was really tiny and split. Hopefully in a more normal summer it will do better. So far the Ben Sarek wins hands down. It’s only the first year for the other two to fruit properly however, so we’ll see how they do next year. The black currant bushes in the front garden didn’t have many berries. I haven’t been pruning them, and they are getting a bit leggy. I’ll try and make a point of pruning them hard this year. The cuttings in the fruit garden are now quite productive bushes. I’ve decided that the other currant next to the original Ben Sarek black currant bush must be what my friend calls the ‘nancyberry’. It grew as a seedling in my garden in Solihull (originally between the paving stones of the path as they do!), I think it is a blackcurrant-gooseberry cross. There it had lovely large sweet berries, but here it sets hardly any. I have been gradually removing the bushes again, since they obviously don’t like Skye. By removing this last bush it will give me a suitable space for my Charlotte Russe mulberry bush. That was a present from my Mum when she came up this spring. I am quite excited about this. The garden is still pretty exposed, but I’m hopeful that the fruit garden is starting to get a bit more sheltered.
The raspberries looked really promising, but the initial picking was a bit disappointing. I had a awful lot that were wormy. I have had this to a certain extent in previous years, but probably more than half were wormy to some extent. I’m not one to be too fussy about a few insects, but this was ridiculous! It’s been a bit damp to pick the berries this last week. The second picking was a bit better than the first: not so many ripe ones, but fewer with worm problems. I’ve made a big batch of strawberry and raspberry jam (strawberries from the shop as yet, although I now have some plants getting established so watch this space!). I have about four different sorts of summer raspberries, I was given a load of canes of an unknown variety from someone locally. They fruit well, but have been worst affected by the worms and have a slightly watery taste. I have another which does pretty well, some of the berries have a tendency to be slightly double, but good cosmetic quality generally. Malling Jewel is in the tea garden, struggling in a still rather exposed position. One that came with the house: Glen Prosen, which is starting to do quite well in the dog resistant garden but took a long while to get established, this is the best tasting fresh I think. I’ve found that neither of the autumn fruiting raspberries do very well in our short summers. They are too late getting started in the spring to flower in time before the weather gets colder and the days shorter.
Talking of strawberries, just a note on the himalayan strawberries in the tea garden. It looks like getting some other plants from different sources was the right thing to do, since despite being set back by my weeding at a time of hot dry weather a few fruit did set. Unexpectedly they have turned out to be white. They are like large alpine strawberries, difficult to remove from the stem, with a pleasant citrussy resinous flavour when fully ripe. They become very soft, so easy to crush. Hopefully they will fruit better next year if I can avoid digging them up at the wrong time! They do seem to make a very dense ground cover, which was their primary purpose.
I’ve now picked the last of the Haskap/honeyberries. It is impossible to tell whether they are ripe or not, until you bite into them. When ripe, they have a quite plummy sweet/sour flavour and are coloured right through. Before fully ripe they are sharper and less pleasant. I’m very pleased with how well they fruited, considering this is their first year. I’m pretty sure they will make a rather nice jam when I get a few more fruit. They should be pruned by removing about a quarter of the mature branches to avoid overcrowding and should live for decades. I need to try and not let them get taken over by weeds in the orchard area. So far they are a successful experiment I think. I’ve saved a few seeds so I can try to propagate them, they should germinate well when fresh, so I may try sowing some straight away. They also propagate by cuttings, better from summer cuttings apparently, but I may try some of the prunings this winter since that is easier for me.
I’ve not harvested the grapes in the tunnel, but have thoroughly thinned them out. I don’t think I thinned them enough last year, so I have been a bit more brutal this year. I collected the thinnings as much as possible, and had enough to make a small batch of green grape jelly. I had contemplated making verjuice, but I may try that next year. The new vine (a white, Zalagyongye, which for some reason I thought would be seedless but apparently isn’t) has just one bunch of grapes, but they are not so far along as the Boskoop glory, so I’m not sure whether they will ripen off. The vine is growing well, so I’m hoping that it will do better next year.
I still have redcurrants and gooseberries to harvest. The invicta has done quite well. The new red gooseberries, Pax, have mostly dropped, and are rather small. I have two new red currants in the tea garden: redcurrant cherry and rovada. I don’t think any of the redcurrants from Solihull survived, but I have a couple of small plants in the fruit garden. These were grown from cuttings taken from a tough little plant growing in a dry stone wall in full force of the sea winds. I’d like to take cuttings from a plant I pass going to the shop which blooms profusely, but the berries seem to either nor set or quickly get picked by birds. It is such a dwarfed plant that finding a decent bit of stem will be difficult.
The blackberry in the polytunnel is just starting to ripen, as is the new one ‘Helen’ outdoors. It looks like this may be a disappointment, as I have yet to try the berries! They are quite prolific and large but seem to be very attractive to blue flies which destroy the drops and make them discoloured and unappetising! It may be they are ripening too slowly due to the damp weather this week and may do better in drier weather. They certainly have been early, but I am at a bit of a loss about what to do about this. It looks like I will have to move the vine pretty soon anyway, since we are intending to extend the barn to where this is currently planted now. Maybe I should try it in the polytunnel? But that wasn’t the point!
This week I’ve been sorting my seeds out. This includes the various seed packets that I have accumulated over the years, and also seeds that I have saved from some interesting plants around the holding.
I no longer grow much in the way of annual vegetables, so have put to one side quite a few seed packets that are in date (or not much out of date) to swap or give away. I’ll put a list at the end of this post for anyone that may be interested. There are a few flower seed packets as well that I have accumulated somehow – probably on the front of gardening magazines from the shop, that haven’t sold.
I also have quite a few seed packets that are so old that I doubt that there will be a very good germination rate. Sometimes these can surprise (I had good germination from rather old courgette seed this year) but more often even rather new seed fails, and I’m sure it’s not always me (i.e. dry compost, too cold etc.). The oldest seed I have is some chinese bean sprouts or mung beans that were supposed to be sown by 2001! I always meant to get round to that stir fry, but I just can’t think three days ahead when it comes to cooking! I also have a pack of “rose de berne” tomato seed, and some late purple sprouting broccoli to be sown by 2004. These and others that are less ancient, but still well out of date I have put to be used as a green manure / ground cover next spring. Probably most won’t germinate, but where I did the same around my blackcurrant bushes in the fruit area this year, I have some recognisable cabbages, rocket (going to seed, because I don’t like the taste), and leaf beet. These have grown amongst the existing seed bank of nettles, docken, chickweed and other ‘weeds’ that have been edited as I feel like. Before I mix the seed packs together, I will give my friend who is coming for a visit next week, a chance to grab any that she fancies (along with the newer seed for swaps). Actually, I gather the technique for sowing a mixture of plants is to sow each seed separately, then you get a more even distribution of each seed.
I have managed to save quite a few seeds from various plants this year. Mainly from local native plants which I hope will also prove desirable as swaps. This year I have tried something slightly different. As well as drying as best I could in a warmish dry place for a few days (usually on a windowsill, although I gather too hot and light is not a good idea), I have sealed the dry seeds in a foil ziplock packet together with some rice grains that have been oven dried. The rice is supposed to act as a non toxic dessicant (like silica gel – which is now considered a baddie I gather) which will hopefully give the seeds a longer shelf life. The advantage of the foil bags is that they keep the seeds dark as well as dry. The disadvantage is that you can’t see the contents without opening the bag. I’ve run out of the foil bags now anyway, so the some of my saved seeds will go into normal polythene ziplock bags.
I’ve crossed out the seed which has already been spoken for.
Seed for swaps:
Various commercial packets. Some opened. I haven’t put details against them, since with the power of the internet, you should be able to find out what the makers say:
Asparagus “argenteuil early”
Asparagus “connovers collossal”
Beta vulgaris – “sea beet”. British native, seems to grow OK for me, but I think I have enough seedlings now
Carrot “nantes 5”
Radish “kulata cema”
Rocket “wild rocket”
Lettuce “little gem”
Swiss chard “bright lights” – pretty colours, but I get loads of self sown perpetual spinach, and I don’t like the stems of chard.
Tomatillo – I wasn’t that keen on them to be honest, and I don’t think I’ll get round to trying them before the seed gets old again
Physalis peruviana: cape gooseberry “golden berry” I seem to have two packs, so one spare.
Coriander “cilantro” for leaf production
Kale “curly scarlet”
Kale “nero di toscana”
Broccoli “autumn green calabrese”
Mustard spinach “komatsuna tarasan”
Cauliflower “all the year round”
Cauliflower “romanesco natalino”
Saved seed from Skye:
Plain leaved parsley – went to seed in polytunnel.
Conopodium majus – pignut. Native forage food – grows happily here in grass like a miniature cow parsley.
Rumex acetosa subsp. acetosa – common sorrel. Native forage food, acid refreshing leaves. Beware can be a nuisance weed, but I love it. Seed gathered from the holding.
Lathyrus pratensis – meadow vetchling. Yellow flowered perennial vetch. Seed gathered from the holding.
Vicia cracca – tufted vetch. Vetch with plumes of blue flowers. Seed gathered from the holding.
Lathyrus linifolius – heath pea see previous post here. Seed gathered from the holding.
Rubus fructicosus – bramble: polytunnel blackberry. I don’t know what variety this is. Probably a seedling off a Solihull plant, but it appears to be an early fruiter since it also will crop outside in a good year. Seed may not come true, but there is no other bramble close, so it must be a self cross. Prickly and vigorous and delicious!
Stellaria media – chickweed. We eat it raw in salads, or sometimes wilted as a hot vegetable. It is often quite large and lush in leaf, I’m not sure whether this is unusual, but if you fancy some weed seeds let me know.
You can email me at nancy at p6resthome dot co dot uk. First come first served, no guarantees, but I’ve done my best at identification and cleaning. I’ll try and update this list as the seed goes. UK enquiries only at this stage (unless you have some astragalus crassicarpus – ground plum seeds for my perennial poytunnel project, in which case we might come to an agreement…).
I blame Martin Crawford! I’ve got over excited again planning new plants for next year already. I know it’s too early, but I recieved an e-mail from the Agroforestry Research Trust saying that they are open for plant orders. I need to try and remember whether I’ve got some plants reserved. I think I wanted Toona sinensis (a tree that grows onion flavoured leaves) but they had run out last year. I know that I fancied some Stachys palustris – marsh woundwort. Since there was an article in agroforestry news about it, I expect I won’t be alone.
What I’m really getting excited about at the moment is the idea of growing more perennial plants in the polytunnel. I’ve got on quite well with the fruiting vines. I have a kiwi (Jenny SF) and a bramble (unknown) which came with the kiwi. I was growing the kiwi in Solihull and it was one of the few plants I brought with us. When planted in the tunnel the bramble grew too. I tried digging it out several times, but it kept growing back, so the third year I left it, trained it along some overhead wires and was astounded by the fruit it produced. They are lush and sweet-tart, just like blackberries should be, but are also of a good size. The vine is not thornless unfortunately, which makes for an anti-social plant in a confined space. The roots I dug out, have fruited outside in a good summer. They may do better with a bit more shelter as well, since the local brambles have so far been pretty similar in timing for me (but much smaller). I also have a grapevine – boskoops glory, which I grew from a cutting of the vine I had on the veranda in Solihull. I don’t think it would crop to any extent outside here, unlike in Solihull, but is doing pretty well in the tunnel. I have a white grape vine also, which has yet to fruit for me. It seems to be growing well this year, so maybe next year I might get some fruit. I have also planted a couple of pineapple guava: Feijoa Sellowiana. As well as the reputed delicious fruit, which need a hot summer to ripen hence the polytunnel positioning, they also have edible flowers. I’ve not been able to try them yet, but they seem to be establishing OK near the lower doors in the tunnel.
In the polytunnel when we moved in was a globe artichoke, which has produced some lovely flowers/buds. It hasn’t done so well this year. I did divide it this spring, so it may be that it is suffering from the damage and will take a while to recover, although being eaten by several hungry caterpillars probably isn’t helping! The offsets I planted outside in the fruit garden and at least two of them seem to be growing away quite well so far – we’ll see whether they survive overwinter. Also in the tunnel was an olive tree in a tub. I neglected it and thought it had died of drought, but when moved outside, it sprouted again from the base. I thought it was a privet seedling at first, and only realised the olive was alive when I tried to dig it out of the tub. Anyway, although planted in the tunnel soil this spring, I think that the tree is finally dead now. There are also a couple of marjoram plants as well, which I cut for leaves every now and then and seem to tolerate my neglect remarkably well. An aloe vera which had been on the window sill in the house, gradually getting taller and taller, is now also in the tunnel – not sure whether it will survive the winter however.
This year I planted my new apricot, which is doing well so far, and some kind of citrus, which was given to me as a rather spindly plant needing a good home. It has been grown from seed, and we are not sure what kind of citrus it is – will have to wait til it flowers!
I quite enjoy this kind of structure in the polytunnel, and outside come to that. I am very keen on plants that provide me with food year after year with only a little attention. Annual plants are far too liable to succumb to juvenile death due to overcrowding, slugs or lack of germination. So having been started off by Martin Crawford, I have been going through my various lists, books and getting distracted on the internet to try and come up with more perennials that will benefit from the shelter of the tunnel, and yet survive the winter and create a food forest. So far I’ve deselected again tree tomato / tamarillo: solanum betacea, pepino: solanum muricatum, Taro: colocasia esculenta var. esculenta and Eddoe: c. Esculenta var. antiquorum as being just too tender, although they all sound fascinating. I don’t (at the moment anyway) want something that will need moving indoors during the winter, and although we don’t generally get hard frosts we do get frosts that would penetrate the polytunnel’s protection.
So on my list of perennials to grow in the polytunnel are (in no particular order):
Kiwi (got – but might like a kiwi berry – one of the small hairless ones)
Apios Americana (got – maybe if it survives the slugs this year)
Chinese yam: Dioscorea batatas (got – ditto re. slugs!)
Globe artichoke (got – but might fancy a different variety)
Chilli (got – survived one year on windowsill)
Passionfruit (need to source)
Ground plum: astragalus crassicarpus (need to source)
Aloe vera (got)
Runner beans (got – growing some heritage seeds library ones. I guess a few different ones would be required to see which over winter the best)
Fuchsia (got – fuchsia berry from my mum currently in a pot in the tunnel looking for a home)
Five flavour berry: Schisandra chinensis (got – but only one of the three plants seems to have survived, and you need a male + female for berries)
Korean mint (got – seedlings from a neighbour)
Sage (need to source)
Rosemary (need to source)
Licorice (need to source)
Blue sausage fruit: Decaisnea fargesii (need to source)
Honey berry: Lonicera caerulea (need to source)

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We were just about to sign contracts for a leasehold flat in Kentish Town. We have hit a problem. Our loan offer with Nationwide Building Society expires on 27/8/2020 but the owners are insisting on a completion date of 1/9/2020. Can one extend the mortgage offer?
The best person to address this question is your conveyancer who should calculate if they better off negotiating with the mortgage company, vendor’s conveyancers, estate agents or possibly all three given the history of your house move as of today.
Why is leasehold purchase conveyancing in Kentish Town is more expensive?
Kentish Town leasehold conveyancing transactions usually involve additional investigations than freeholds including investigating the Lease, liaising with the Landlord such as serving appropriate notices on the Landlord or managing agent, obtaining up-to-date service charge and management information, obtaining Landlord’s consents and reviewing management accounts and formation documents.
When it comes to mortgage companies such as HSBC, do Kentish Town solicitors have to pay a fee to be on the conveyancing panel?
We are unaware of any bank fees to register on their panel, although some do levy an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
We had appointed solicitors based in Kentish Town on the Kent Reliance solicitor panel. They have just billed me an additional fee for handling the Kent Reliance mortgage. Is this an additional conveyancing fee set by Kent Reliance?
As unfair as it may seem, as long as it’s in their Terms and Conditions or estimate then yes your property lawyer can levy a fee for this. This charge is not set by Kent Reliance but by your Kentish Town conveyancer. Some firms on the Kent Reliance panel will charge an ‘acting for lender’ fee but plenty of practices include it on their overall fee.
My sealed bid on a detached house in Kentish Town has been accepted, but there is a chain. The vendors have offered on somewhere, but it’s not been accepted yet, and are looking at other apartments in the pipeline. I have chosen a high street conveyancing solicitor in Kentish Town. What do I do now? When should I get the mortgage application with Skipton going?
It is understandable to have concerns where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to be too out of pocket prematurely (home loan application is in the region of one thousand pounds, then valuation, Kentish Town conveyancing search fees, etc). The first course of action is to ensure that your conveyancer is on the Skipton approved list. As to the next stages this very much dictated by the circumstances of your transaction, attraction to the property and on the state of the market. During a hot market many purchasers will apply for the mortgage with Skipton and pay for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their lawyer to press on with searches.
Despite weeks of looking the Title Certificate and documents to my home can not be found. The lawyers who dealt with the conveyancing in Kentish Town 5 years ago are no longer around. Will I be able to sell the house?
Nowadays there are duplicates made of almost everything, and your lawyer should be aware precisely where to look for all the suitable documentation so you may buy or sell your house without a hitch. If copies are not available, your lawyer can arrange cover in the form of insurance or indemnities protecting you against possible claims on the property.
How does the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 affect my business property in Kentish Town and how can you help?
The particular law that you refer to gives security of tenure to commercial leaseholders, giving them the dueness to make a request to court for a new tenancy and continue in occupation at the end of an expired lease. There are limited grounds where a landlord can refuse a lease renewal and the rules are involved. We are happy to direct you to commercial conveyancing practices who use the act for protection and help with commercial conveyancing in Kentish Town
I am using a search engine for the words conveyancing in Kentish Town it brings up many property lawyerslocally. With so much choice what is the best way to find the right conveyancing solicitor for my move?
The ideal way of finding a suitable conveyancer is via personal recommendation, so ask friends and relatives who have bought a property in Kentish Town or a local estate agent or financial adviser. Costs for conveyancing in Kentish Town differ, so it's a good idea to request at least three quotes from varying types of conveyancers. Be sure to obtain confirmation that the charges are assured not to to be inflated.

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Wine stains: Spots caused by wine can be removed from 100 percent cotton, cotton polyester and permanent press fabrics if done so within 24 hours. To do it, sponge white distilled vinegar directly onto the stain and rub away the spots. Then clean according to the directions on the manufacturer's care tag.
Freshen baby clothes: The addition of 1 cup of white distilled vinegar to each load of baby clothes during the rinse cycle will naturally break down uric acid and soapy residue leaving the clothes soft and fresh.
Clothes washing magic: Clothes will rinse better if 1 cup of white distilled vinegar is added to the last rinse water. The acid in vinegar is too mild to harm fabrics, but strong enough to dissolve the alkalies in soaps and detergents.
Blanket renewal: Cotton and wool blankets become soft, fluffy and free of soap odor if 2 cups of white distilled vinegar are added to the rinse cycle of the wash.
Deodorant stains: Deodorant and antiperspirant stains may be removed from clothing by lightly rubbing with white distilled vinegar and laundering as usual.
Hole removal: After a hem or seam is removed, there are often unsightly holes left in the fabric. These holes can be removed by placing a cloth, moistened with white distilled vinegar, under the fabric and ironing.
Keeping colors fast: To hold colors in fabrics, which tend to run, soak them for a few minutes in white distilled vinegar before washing.
Leather cleaning: Leather articles can be cleaned with a mixture of white distilled vinegar and linseed oil. Rub the mixture into the leather and then polish with a soft cloth.
Lightly rub white distilled vinegar on fabric that has been slightly scorched. Wipe with a clean cloth.
Setting colors: When you are color dyeing, add about a cupful of white distilled vinegar to the last rinse water to help set the color.
Shower curtains: Add 1 cup of white distilled vinegar to the rinse water when you launder your shower curtain. Do not spin dry or wash out. Just hang immediately to dry.
Unclog steam iron: Pour equal amounts of white distilled vinegar and water into the iron's water chamber. Turn to steam and leave the iron on for 5 minutes in an upright position. Then unplug and allow to cool. Any loose particles should come out when you empty the water.
Clean a scorched iron plate: Heat equal parts white distilled vinegar and salt in a small pan. Rub solution on the cooled iron surface to remove dark or burned stains.
Cleaning Vintage Lace: Soak the lace in cold water, rinsing it several times. Next, hand-wash the lace gently with a wool detergent, such as Woolite. If rust spots are a problem, try removing them with a mixture of white vinegar and hot water.
I hope you have enjoyed this list as much as I did. Do you have any other way to use vinegar in your laundry?


Two boys, one elderly 10 and the opposite 23 months, have died in a automotive crash.
The collision came about on Birmingham New Highway in Wolverhampton, on the junction with Lawnswood Street, at about eight.45pm on Thursday, West Midlands police mentioned.
The kids have been in a BMW automotive with their mom, who used to be significantly injured and stays in sanatorium.
The motive force of an Audi A3 which struck the BMW left the scene, whilst a 31-year-old guy using a 3rd automotive, a Bentley, used to be arrested on suspicion of inflicting demise by means of bad using, mentioned the pressure.
Medics handled the badly injured kids, however not anything might be performed to avoid wasting them and so they have been pronounced useless on the scene, West Midlands ambulance provider mentioned.
Coincidence investigators have been on the incident in a single day, the place a blue Audi A3 might be observed with a crumpled entrance finish in addition to a white BMW which had additionally been broadly broken.
The BMW’s offside airbags had deployed and the automobile had come to a prevent, having long gone thru roadside steel pedestrian limitations.
A witness who noticed the aftermath mentioned it have been a “large” coincidence and he heard “a lady screaming”.
The person, who lives in the neighborhood and declined to be named, mentioned: “It’s very unhappy to listen to that kids were killed.”


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6 families make tough harvest easier
They drove in with one mission Monday: to make a tough harvest a little easier.
AMJ reported on KCCI's ulocal page that six families pitched in to help bring in the harvest southeast of Indianola Monday.
Some brought combines, others tractors and trailers.
They came to help a neighboring family that had recently lost both a brother and a mother.
The families cut, carted and trucked the family's beans to make the long harvest season a bit easier, AMJ reported.
If you have a story or even just pictures to share, upload them now on KCCI.com.


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Filman History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
- Origins Available:
The origins of the Filman name lie with England's ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. It comes from when the family lived in Kent, where they took their name from some spot no longer known. However, the etymology of the name can be determined. Further research revealed that the name is derived from the Old English roots fille, which means full or fertile, and mere, a word which meant lake.
"This family formerly wrote their name Finmere, Fylmere, Filmour, and Filmor, temp. Edw. III., but of late, Filmer, and were seated at Otterinden in Kent, at a place called Finmore."
Early Origins of the Filman family
The surname Filman was first found in Kent where they held a family seat from very ancient times at the manor of Herst, in the parish of Otterden, since the rteign of Edward II."
"Filmers belong to a distinguished Kentish family that had its home at East Sutton during the 17th century; some of its members were baronets, and others were sheriffs of the county."
Early History of the Filman family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Filman research. Another 114 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1632, 1688, 1588, 1653, 1622, 1676, 1657, 1707, 1648, 1720, 1689, 1683 and 1755 are included under the topic Early Filman History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Filman Spelling Variations
Before the last few hundred years, the English language had no fast system of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations are commonly found in early Anglo-Saxon surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name Filman were recorded, including Fillmore, Filmore, Filmer, Filmere, Filmour and others.
Early Notables of the Filman family (pre 1700)
Distinguished members of the family include Henry Filmer, a 16th-century English Protestant martyr, one of the Windsor Martyrs, during the reign of Henry VIII; William Fulman (1632-1688), an English antiquary 'the son of a sufficient carpenter'; Sir Robert Filmer (c. 1588-1653), an English political theorist who defended the divine right of...
Another 50 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Filman Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
| Filman migration to the United States ||+|
To escape oppression and starvation at that time, many English families left for the "open frontiers" of the New World with all its perceived opportunities. In droves people migrated to the many British colonies, those in North America in particular, paying high rates for passages in cramped, unsafe ships. Although many of the settlers did not make the long passage alive, those who did see the shores of North America perceived great opportunities before them. Many of the families that came from England went on to make essential contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. Research into various historical records revealed some of first members of the Filman family emigrate to North America:
Filman Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
- Philip Filman, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1763
| Filman migration to Canada ||+|
Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Filman Settlers in Canada in the 19th Century
- William Filman, who landed in Canada in 1829
- ^ Charnock, Richard, Stephen, Ludus Patronymicus of The Etymology of Curious Surnames. London: Trubner & Co., 60 Paternoster Row, 1868. Print.
- ^ Lower, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print.
- ^ Shirley, Evelyn Philip, The Noble and Gentle Men of England; The Arms and Descents. Westminster: John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1866, Print.
- ^ Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
- ^ Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

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In the spring of 2021, St. Mary’s SCD added a new piece of rental equipment to our inventory. The new equipment is a 16′ Endurance pull type poultry litter spreader. Funding to purchase this new spreader came from a grant provided by the Southern Maryland Agriculture Development Commission (SMADC). This is a 10 ton hydraulic spreader designed for poultry litter, compost, and lime.
This is a tandem axle spreader that should be pulled using a minimum 70 horse power tractor. The spreader is hydraulically driven by pump off of the tractor 540 RPM or 1000 RPM PTO.
To rent the manure spreader or any of the District equipment, please visit the Equipment Rental Program tab at the top of this page.

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Strike ends at Chignecto-Central School Board
School board and CUPE Local 3890 agree to move to mediation
The Chignecto-Central Regional School Board and the union representing nearly 500 school bus drivers, custodians and other tradespeople have agreed to move to mediation, effectively ending a strike that began early Monday morning.
The school board released a statement on Tuesday afternoon and said members of CUPE Local 3890 had been called back to work for evening shifts and to retrieve buses. The union agreed to go back to work while mediation is underway.
Buses will return to normal routes and services will resume Wednesday morning. About 17,000 students were left scrambling for alternative ways to school when the buses stopped.
Kelly Regan, the Minister of Labour and Advanced Education, named Bruce Outhouse as the mediator to help resolve the contract negotiations.
"A mediator will provide support to the parties and bring fresh perspective to the negotiations," said Regan.
"Mr. Outhouse has extensive experience dealing with these types of disputes at both the regional and national levels, and I'm pleased he's able to help the parties."
Negotiations stalled over the school board's decision to contract out some work.
The school district covers a large area including Truro, Stellarton and New Glasgow.

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LATEST SENATOR DONNELLY
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly released the following statement after President Trump signed Section 232 proclamations regarding steel and aluminum.
Donnelly said, “Trade is critical for Indiana’s economy—from our manufacturers to our farmers—but it must be fair. For too long Hoosier workers have fought unfair competition from countries like China. I’m pleased that President Trump is taking action, and I plan to carefully review the details of his proclamations. It’s important that we get this policy right, so that American steel and aluminum producers and their workers can compete on a level playing field and continue to support good-paying jobs.”


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On October 30, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg said something very intelligent. "Our biggest competitor by far is iMessage," he told investors on a call announcing Facebook’s quarterly earnings.
Fast forward three months and you would be forgiven for thinking Facebook – despite all its problems – doesn’t have competitors. The company beat all Wall Street expectations in the fourth quarter of 2018, with revenues soaring to $16.91 billion, marking year-over-year growth of 30.4 per cent. A net income of $6.88 billion for the quarter was Facebook’s best ever result. So much for a company in crisis.
But there’s something more significant going on amongst the soaring dollar signs. For some time, an uncomfortable truth has been lurking in Facebook’s financial results: the company has pretty much stopped growing in the United States and Europe, its two largest and most profitable markets.
At a glance, Facebook continues to grow. Monthly active users jumped 1.8 per cent in the last quarter of 2018 alone, but the majority of that growth was driven by people signing up for Facebook in Asia. Throughout 2018, US monthly active users remained almost flat at around 242 million. In Europe, that number crept up from 377 million in the first quarter to 381 million in the fourth.
The Asia-Pacific region, by contrast, jumped from 873 million monthly active users at the start of 2018 to 947 million by the end. To put it another way, with 2.32 billion monthly active users, more than 30 per cent of all the people in the world are regular Facebook users.
The markets, as they have since Facebook suffered the largest one-day drop in US stock market history in July 2018, responded with glee. Shares shot up more than 12 per cent in extended trading. All is rosy. For now.
But with Facebook barely growing in markets where it makes the most money, the very core of its business risks being hollowed out in front of Zuckerberg’s eyes. In simple terms, a Facebook user in the US or Canada generates more than twice as much revenue as a user in Europe and three times as much as someone from Asia. In Africa, each user is worth more than five times less to Facebook than an American.
Bolstered by a surge in users that advertisers pay less money to reach, Facebook is having to rethink how it milks its trusted cash cows.
As a result, the company has warned that its next quarterly report could be less encouraging. Full year expenses are likely to jump by as much as 50 per cent from 2018 as Zuckerberg and his team plough more and more money into Instagram TV, Facebook Watch and Marketplace. As ever, Facebook is desperate for you to spend more time on Facebook. Not WhatsApp. Not Messenger. But Facebook. And this is where things start to get tricky.
You can likely see hints of this problem unfolding in your own social media use. You’ve still got a Facebook account, but when was the last time you posted anything? That wedding you went to a couple of months ago likely had its own WhatsApp group. Photos from your family Christmas were probably shared on Messages or in a private photo album. It’s a slow change – but Facebook is losing people to a different kind of sharing. In the past, that wedding would have been accompanied by a #specialhashtag and those festive family photos and videos would have been happily uploaded onto Facebook for all to see. No more.
Facebook the social network, despite all the scandal, remains hugely successful. But slowly but surely, habits are changing. Why put your life online to chopped up and monetised when you can send an end-to-end encrypted message to the only people you really want to share it with? And it’s here that a Tim Cook-shaped spanner is thrown into Zuckerberg’s plans.
As the Apple CEO said during a keynote address at the European Parliament in October last year, these “scraps of data” about our lives are harmless enough on their own, but Apple’s big tech rivals have made a killing by hoovering them up and selling them to the highest bidder.
As Zuckerberg notes, in countries where the iPhone is strong, Apple’s Messages app remains ahead of Facebook. It’s the social network for people who want to socialise without having their privacy compromised. And there are no ads. And no Russian bots. And no LADBible. Heck, it’s just like WhatsApp. It’s the battle of the chat apps and Facebook is terrified that it’s going to lose.
In the US alone, more than 90 million people use iPhones – accounting for a little over 40 per cent of the total market. And it’s here, amongst Facebook’s most valuable users, that a new race is unfolding. If Americans are spending less time on Facebook and more time on private messaging apps, then Zuckerberg is horrified by the prospect of them ditching Facebook’s family of apps altogether.
While Apple makes money (albeit less money than it used to) by selling iPhones for $1,000 a pop, Facebook makes money by collecting data on its users. And collecting data on your users is really hard when everything they share is protected by end-to-end encryption. (Side note: Apple and Facebook have some fairly long-running beef).
Make no mistake, Facebook is nowhere close to losing this one. Around 110 million Americans use Facebook Messenger every month, with a further 20 million using WhatsApp. Worldwide, the two apps have a combined user base of 2.7 billion monthly active users. While Facebook has invested heavily in combining user data across its platforms – reportedly a key reason behind the founders of Instagram and WhatsApp quitting last year – it’s clearly panicked by the prospect of people sharing more and more of their lives on end-to-end encrypted chat apps.
Amongst a myriad of tough questions, perhaps the key head-scratcher for Facebook is this: if you no longer use Facebook, why do you need to chat to people on Facebook-owned apps?
For Apple, this isn’t a problem. For Facebook, it’s a crisis. Zuckerberg’s pet project to merge the technology behind Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram is a bold response to this emerging problem – if the company can get it past regulators. And if Messenger and WhatsApp aren’t successfully hooked into the Facebook mainframe, then the company has a devilish problem: with people sharing less and less with Facebook, how does it cash in on the millions of eyeballs who would rather share their lives in private? For Facebook, the numbers could soon no longer add up.
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If I was going to set up a permanent site, I would begin with a good solid foundation to support the trailer like concrete pilings or pier blocks. The camper would be blocked up and the tires would be off the ground.
Next a vapor barrier and a layer of fine gravel, like crusher chips. Crusher chips are easier to level and will compact down to a fairly solid surface. One of the most important things is a good perimeter drain, you don't want water pooling under the camper.
Next comes a raised treated wood deck for storage under the trailer, then a 2X stub wall with foam insulation. If I remember my WA state geography, your still on the wet side of the state, so you won't need much heat down there.
The finish can be just about anything you want, once you have the stub walls in place.
What I've described is pretty much what you would find a manufactured home setting on. If snow birding is in the cards down the road using the 5er, I would change the foundation to a concrete slab and make the stub wallls in sections to allow for removal.
When I was a kid I was going nowhere fast, now I'm an old man I'm going everywhere slow.

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'MOT' check for builders
Gilbert & Goode staff and subcontractors are having a free ‘MOT’ check at the Prince Charles House site.
Around 40 employees, from office workers to carpenters and masons, are taking up the offer of health screening by qualified occupational health nurse, Nicky Pauncefort RGN OHND BSc Hons.
Managing Director, Simon Caklais, is delighted that Gilbert & Goode can offer this free health check to its staff and also to subcontractors: “We expect the highest standard of health and safety on our sites and we’re now taking this a step further and looking at the health and wellbeing of our workforce. “We want as many of our staff as possible to take advantage of this check-up and the best way to ensure this is to arrange the health sessions on site as part of their working day.
The take up has been brilliant and we’ve also set up a drop in centre for anyone who hasn’t booked a session but who wants free and confidential health advice.” As part of the MOT employees have their blood pressure and cholesterol tested, as well as being weighed and measured so their BMI can be calculated. Individuals are then offered advice on their general well-being and a healthy lifestyle.
“The first screening sessions were held two weeks ago and they proved their worth by identifying a small number of staff with high blood pressure or high levels of cholesterol,” says Simon. “These colleagues took Nicky’s advice and the follow-up checks today have already shown a marked improvement. A few people have also been advised to eat less mince pies this Christmas!”

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Have fun creating your own poetry posters - glogsters - using traditional text, wallpaper, artwork and embedded audio and video.
See examples of traditional text poems put on glogsters here:
- Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ozymandius
- Emily Dickinson's Hope is the thing with feathers...
- Sylvia Plath's Daddy
- John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale. How does this compare to the video poem of Keats' When I have fears?
- Walt Whitman, O Captain, my Captain
- Wallace Stevens, The Snowman
Maya Angelou, A Woman Should Have Compare this
text-based glogster with the reading and text glogster of Angelou's Alone. Which do you find more effective and
What issues of copyright and citation are involved in creating glogsters? Have these glogster creators addressed these issues?


The Oscar’s may not have a host… but the Grammys do. Alicia Keys is hosting this year’s Grammy Awards. She posted a video on Twitter this morning, which shows the moment she found out she got the gig. Alicia Keys has won 15 Grammys herself so she’s familiar with the show. The 61st Annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 10th at Staples Center in Los Angeles.


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Dirk may be in the tail-end of his incredible NBA career, but that doesn't mean he's given up his will to win
The Dallas Mavericks, just two years removed from a NBA Finals win, have not had the most successful of seasons.
Injuries have plagued the team in a turnover that has many new faces on it that were not there just a few years ago. Many Mavs have been deeply affected by the injury bug, with a lot missing significant amounts of games.
But maybe the most important guy on Dallas' roster to be out for a good part of the year is none other than future Hall-of-Famer Dirk Nowitzki, who has made the long trek back from knee surgery to play in 48 of the Mavs' 77 games.
Having your best player play in just over 62 percent of your games in any season, disregarding any other circumstances, is never optimal for NBA teams, especially the Mavericks, who are in one of the Association's toughest divisions. And when that star is at the ripe ol...
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This isn’t the first time Dirk Nowitzki has aired his grievances about his surrounding cast in Dallas, and if the organization fails to improve in the off-season it won’t be the last.
Nowitzki, is about to complete his 15th season in the NBA, and realizes that he won’t be able to maintain his All-Star level production forever, so its important to him that the team is in...
DALLAS (AP) -- Dirk Nowitzki was a baby-faced kid barely old enough to drink the last time the Dallas Mavericks missed the playoffs.
Now he's a bearded veteran who can't shave because he and others vowed not to until the team got back to .500.
Dallas still has a shot at a break-even record, but will be watching the playoffs for the first time since 2000.
“I have to go to the army.” — Dirk Nowitzki, age 18 Its the gift and the curse of living in the day and age where Youtube, camera phones and TMZ exist. Its a gift because we get to see so much, so fast by just stroking a few keys on the keyboard or just [...]The post The Day An 18-Year Old Dirk Nowitzki Gave Scottie Pippen 52 Points, As Told By Charles Barkley appeared first...
Will the Dallas Mavericks Finally Get to Shave?
It’s been a long time coming, and highly unlikely that anyone thought for a moment that when the ‘No Shaving’ pledge was made that it would take the team this long to actually get back to .500 again.
However, with the season winding down and just a few games left it looks like the Dallas Mavericks will be able...
With the New York Knicks securing the Atlantic Division for the first time since 1994, plenty of speculation has surfaced regarding their capability of winning a NBA Championship. Carmelo Anthony has once again placed himself in the Most Valuable Player discussion in the midst of the Knicks impressive 13-game winning streak. Carmelo actually missed the Knicks first win against the...
Mark Cuban told reporters that the Dallas Mavericks would consider drafting Brittney Griner with a second round pick in the upcoming draft. Many people have spoke out against this idea including, Geno Auriema and several analysts among the basketball hierarchy. Now as a fan I’d love if my team had a forward thinking owner like Cuban, plus you have to respect his passion for his...
Nikola Mirotic has drawn comparison to Dirk Nowitzki.
The Mavericks will miss the playoffs for the first time during a full season in which Mark Cuban has had ownership of the franchise.
Could Brittney Griner play in the NBA? That has been a debated topic since Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said last week that he would consider taking the former Baylor star in the NBA draft, or at least giving her a shot to try out for the roster.
Lisa Leslie is one of the best women’s basketball players of all time. Even though playing in the NBA was never a goal for her,...
It wasn't a special game. But it's a special Mavs Quoteboard from Phoenix 102, Dallas 91, what turns out to be the Mavs' playoff-race ouster night. We're in the locker room with Video Visits with Dirk, Carlisle, Vince Carter and Shawn Marion, who says, 'We lose as a team. We're all at fault.'
DALLAS (AP) -- P.J. Tucker scored 17 points, including two key baskets in the closing minutes, and the Phoenix Suns pushed the Dallas Mavericks to the brink of playoff elimination for the first time since 2000 with a 102-91 victory Wednesday night.
The Suns blew a 14-point lead in the second quarter and almost did it again in the fourth before hanging on to snap a 10-game losing...
While the odds are against them, the Dallas Mavericks are still alive in the Western Conference playoff race.
A matchup against the struggling Phoenix Suns should only help their chances.
The Mavericks go for a four-game season sweep and 11th consecutive home win over the Suns, who try to avoid an 11th straight loss Wednesday night.
Occupying 10th place in the West, Dallas (38...
Dallas Mavericks Out of the Playoffs for First Time This Millennium:
The only bad thing about a good run is that eventually it has to come to an end—like it did for the Dallas Mavericks Wednesday night.
It was not the plan to bring in a bunch of talented players on short term deals in hopes of creating a playoff team. The team did not want to play the first 27 games...


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