Gayle and Matt got in touch to tell me about their clothing brand Rusks & Rebels. There's tons of stuff in the range that caught my eye – including some monochrome letter t-shirts – a perfect excuse for a bit of twinning.
What really touched me was the story behind the brand. Rusks & Rebels was inspired by their son Ryan who has William Syndrome. Though I have heard of William Syndrome I hadn't really got a clue what it involved and how it would effect a families.
Even though my son Dylan is 14 I have never been asked "What is it like raising a child with Williams Syndrome" Williams Syndrome is a rare chromosome disorder. The Syndrome effects all areas of Dylan's development, he is a 14 year old boy living with the height, weight and educational and emotional development of a 6 year old. With one hand on a rather large piece of wood however, I am happy to say that all the medical conditions related to the Syndrome have so far past Dylan by, with only a few minor issues. So, his future health looks very positive, however his lack of development promises for an uncertain future in terms of employment. This is why Rusks & Rebels was born!
Children with Williams Syndrome are very happy, kind and friendly people! This has given us so many lovely moments and laughs along the way.
Raising Dylan has been the biggest challenge I have ever faced but a challenge I have loved. We have a very handsome and loving young man to show for it.
Choosing the correct school for your child. This consumed me for 3 years as Dylan prepared to leave first school and head to middle school. Should I take him out of main stream and into a specialist school? The answer eventually was yes and after countless visits to different schools he made the move two years ago. His reading, writing and social life has taken a massive leap forward and I would suggest that anybody with a child that has special needs, both educational and physical should look at local special schools as they are an absolute godsend!
PUBITY!! This is a rollercoaster ride for children without Williams Syndrome but is only heightened with stress and confusion for Dylan. Many questions have been raised during the last 12-18 months and sometimes out of the blue and in the most inappropriate of places haha. As Dylan's Educational and emotional age is around 6 his understanding in changes to his body have been extremely confusing for him and even harder to understand when being taught about what is happening to his body. We have had to use some 'interesting' techniques and explanations to demonstrate. My personal favourite was the "washing a car is just like washing in the shower" which seemed to have worked in keeping his hygiene levels acceptable. Does mean I have to wash the car more often to prove our point!
Turn it down a little. Children with Williams Syndrome have a heightened sense of hearing. Sharp, loud and high pitched sounds effect Dylan a lot more than anybody else we know. This is something that has been a real challenge to combat as Dylan does not like to wear ear protectors. He has become a master at reading situations around sound and always seems prepared to cover his ears to protect himself from a loud noise. Music also plays a huge part in Dylan's life along with many young adults with Williams Syndrome. Music can effect his emotional state very easily and something as simple as a piece of music in a film can cause floods of tears.
Friends. Dylan does find it very difficult to create friendship groups at school and youth club. This is solely down to his Williams Syndrome and is probably the thing I have found the hardest to deal with. I used to watch him go into school disco's and events and play on his own in the corner. This have never really bothered Dylan to much as he tends to enjoy his own space and playing in his own fantasy world. As parents I am sure you understand when I say it was utterly heart-breaking for me and on many an occasion brought me to tears. As Dylan has grown up into his grumpy teenage phase we have noticed more of a willingness to join in with social groups so fingers crossed there will be no more boogying to Gangnam Style on his own.
Over friendly is a word often used with Williams Syndrome children and young adults. The need to hug, play with hair, stand very close, hold hands and snuggle up to you are all things we have witnessed, not only from our own son but also other children we have met at Williams Syndrome meets. WS children have no fear when it comes to strangers and a huge lesson in their early years is stranger danger! We quickly incorporated what is appropriate and what is not appropriate with strangers and friends and family. This seems to have worked well for us but there is, and probably always will be a part of Dylan that is over friendly.
As Dylan gets older he realises more and more the challenges he faces and how different his life is to a lot of the other children he goes to school with. The next chapter of our life living with Williams Syndrome awaits us as he develops into his teenage life and the last few years of school.
We may need a lot of luck going forward but we still beliEve that we are the luckiest people alive to have such a special boy.
Thanks for sharing, admittedly I've never heard of Williams Syndrome, it must be challenging at times- but I'm sure there's so much love that doesn't make it a problem!
Before I even read the story, I looked at the picture and thought what a handsome boy – I genuinely assumed he was the child model for the brand!!
He's gorgeous isn't it he?!


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Sarsfields Players shine under lights in Omagh
Well done to Dermot Earley and league debutants Alan Smith and Gary White who were impressive in Kildare's draw with Tyrone in Healey Park, Omagh on Saturday last. Dermot's move to midfield was undoubtedly a big factor in Kildare's second half dominance in which Kildare could have taken both points had they been a little more accurate in front of the posts. However conditions were very poor with a tricky cross wind, which had an equally advers effect on Tyrone's first half shooting. Kildare will play Laois in the O' Byrne Shield on Saturday night in Portlaoise and Galway in Newbridge in the league on Sunday week.
Leinster GAA News
Pure madness
EACH year a beleaguered GAA board officer stares grimly at the annual balance sheet, points to the section covering county team expenditure and warns
of some financial Armageddon unless Croke Park steps in to arrest the trend
. Costs are soaring, even in unsuccessful counties. In the last couple of years spending on county teams teetered on the brink of a cool €20m.
Fundraising is a championship event in itself.
No surprise, then, that a two-month closed season, endorsed at Special Congress last weekend, will be warmly greeted by county boards as much as the intended beneficiaries — over-worked players. But in controlling the escalating spend on county teams, the battle is far from won. Some boards are budgeting for over €1m a year, the biggest expense being their county
teams, and there have been calls for more central intervention and a bigger
stake in the rising annual profits of Central Council.
Over a year ago, the then Kerry chairman Sean Walsh was looking to meet with Croke Park officials to demand more financial assistance. 'There has
to be a complete rethink,' he stated. In 2006, Cork had the biggest spend
— over €1.3m — and it is perhaps no great surprise that relations
between the county board and the two squads who create much of the financial headaches are not entirely harmonious.
Last year's Central Council accounts contained a report from the National Financial Management Committee (NFMC) which found that county boards showed
increased team costs, notably in the area of medical expenses. The NFMC's role is to monitor finances, advise on cash management, revenue-earning schemes and ensure 'good financial practice' at all levels. Counties are expect
ed to submit an annual budget by January 31 each year and their annual audited accounts by December 31 for review. It reports directly to the Management Committee and is chaired by Gene Duffy of Armagh.
Duffy says more county boards are now in the black and their financial affa
irs are more transparent and regulated than five years ago. He also outlines where the GAA's annual income, around €60m, according to the latest estimates for 2008, is going. By their calculations, there will be a bud
get surplus of less than €300,000 at the end of this year.
Higher expenditure on county teams won't surprise anyone who has seen the G
AA expand in every direction over the last ten years. In 1997, the GAA announced that 40 per cent of county boards were living beyond their means. Along with the 40 per cent found to be 'technically insolvent', 25 county boards were spending more than twice their total sponsorship income on county teams. It has got a lot more serious since then.
In 2006, GAA president Nickey Brennan said the cost of running the 32 counties' teams would be close to €20m. 'That's at least a 50-60 per cent increase on five years ago,' he noted. 'The costs are continuing to rise
while the level of income has levelled off to some degree. It is becoming more difficult for county officers to run things within the available income
they have. They get a certain amount of income from Croke Park in grants and help, but they can't be looking to Croke Park as a primary source of income. We should be a secondary source of income to counties and will continue to help them.'
The €11m being spent by county boards on their teams in 2002 represented a 25 per cent increase on the previous year but the costs have almost
doubled since then. None of these amounts takes stock of the funds raised
separately by supporters' clubs and other benefactors. A factor in that startling increase was the decision taken in 2002 to allow county panels expand from 24 to 30.
Despite the claims that last weekend's Special Congress has tilted the balance back in favour of club concerns over county, former GAA president Sean McCague remains unsure. 'I think there is a shift in perception tha
t this is necessary but how that impacts on the one person pulling the strings, the manager, remains to be seen. I am not optimistic but I sincerely hope it will be policed by the provincial councils. If that is the case, then I think a reality check might set in alright.
'I saw that Dublin had reconvened training but their players had been working individually on weight programmes. It's like children looking at the next plate; they see more goodies on the other child's plate. I think there is
a fallacy out there that if you have 120 training sessions it is twice as
good as having 60. I don't think counties will flaunt the closed season rule in the short term but they may find ways of getting around the ban on training holidays before the Championship. They might sell them as a holiday rather than a hardship break.'
The two-month sabbatical could save counties up to €40,000 in prepa
ration costs. The saving on foreign training holidays, which have been curt
ailed as a result of a separate motion, is likely to be less pronounced as
they are usually funded outside of the normal county board budget. Duffy said there might be a saving as a result of the decision to restrict development squad training sessions.
Around €6m will be distributed to the counties this year to help them meet the cost of running county teams which can run up to several hundred thousand euros. That contribution equates to between €140-160,000
for each county, depending on various criteria. Twelve counties have been
identified as being 'developmental' and in need of more funds. Counties that go further in the Championship will stand to gain more than €160,000.
Duffy stressed that there were other outlays, which needed to be factored in.
Over €10m is being spent on games development in all counties. Player welfare accounts for a further €3m. Up to €26m will be
spent on capital grants, covering county, club, regional and overseas projects. 'It's not all about giving monies to counties. Successful counties have to raise a lot of additional finance themselves. We have to balance it out, so that all counties get good treatment. We must be shown to be spending money in other ways as well.'
In 2005, when annual spending by county boards reached almost €17m,
former GAA president Peter Quinn described the rate of increase as 'pure madness'.
'Counties are stretching themselves to the very limit,' Quinn declared. 'As
well as allowing team costs to soar, many are committing themselves to establishing Centres of Excellence and other capital expenditures. The demographics don't always support those plans.'
The Strategic Review Committee report earlier in the decade called for a 'new, strong, regulatory environment' emanating from Central Council that should be accompanied by 'an effort to convince counties that they must accept
responsibility for their own operational affairs and that they should not
anticipate being 'bailed out' by higher units.'
But while Gene Duffy says county boards are performing more in tandem with
the GAA's wishes, there are always exceptions. The debt-ridden Westmeath football board was recently relieved of its financial independence after creating massive debts of €584, 492. The board chairman Des Maguire criticised Croke Park for insufficient funding, but Westmeath got almost €213,000.
Roscommon declared itself €1.5m in debt in 2005 and the chairman of
the county board departed, leaving Croke Park to pick up the pieces. A loc
al businessman and benefactor stepped in with a €1m interest-free l
oan to ease the burden. A similar tale of financial compassion unfolded in
Limerick in the same year, with JP McManus coming to the aid of a cash-stra
pped county board that had spent €747,000 on their county teams at
all levels. The previous year McManus donated €5m to the redevelopment of the Gaelic Grounds.
Wexford County Board overspent by €108,000 in 2007, with increased
team expenses contributing largely. Figures presented by outgoing treasurer
Jim Ferguson to the recent county convention showed county team expenses h
ad risen dramatically from €511,177 in 2006 to €679,974 this year. Players' travelling expenses were €174,498, almost €80,000 was spent on catering and over €48,000 on hotel expenses.
The convention was also told that the recent holiday to Miami for the senior squads cost €82,000, while in 2006 a figure of less than €5,000 was spent on a holiday in Ireland.
Cork's financial report for 2007 showed inter-county team expenses rose to
€1.42m, up from €1.32m the previous year. Players' travelling expenses amounted to €210,000, up from €176,000, while other expenses such as team travel and accommodation also increased.
With the economy in slow-down it seems unlikely that the money spent on county teams can continue rising. And in light of last weekend's Special Congress, perhaps the tide is beginning to turn for the much put-upon county treasurer.
Warring factions remember: games belong to the people
By Eugune McGee
NO individual person or committee owns the GAA. Not the Central Council, the Provincial Councils, county boards, not even the Cork county board. Nor do inter-county players, no matter how important they believe themselves to
be. The GAA belongs to the people who are members of the organisation as well as the huge number of non-members who follow the games at all levels.
Indeed, that is the greatest single reason why the GAA has been so successful for the past 124 years, the fact that it draws its sources from the ordinary people of Ireland on whom it can always depend on for support. That iswhy the GAA is as strong and potent a force of everyday life in counties like Carlow, Longford and Fermanagh, who rarely achieve success at inter-county level, as it is in powerful counties like Cork, Kerry, Tyrone, Kilkennyor Meath.
Staunch GAA supporters believe they have a tiny share in the ownership of t
he organisation — and they are correct in that. Of all the sports organisations in this country it is the GAA that is first and foremost the sport of
the people.
A lot has been written and spoken in recent weeks about the fracas in Cork
GAA with the emphasis on the two main factions, the senior county players a
nd the Cork county board. However, hardly any attention has been given to t
he most important component of Cork GAA, the ordinary followers of football
and hurling throughout the length and breath of Ireland's largest county.
For over a century GAA games have thrived because of the enormous loyalty o
f followers of the games at club and county level. Nowhere has that been mo
re obvious than in Cork and particularly in hurling. Gaelic games belong to
the people and that is what all sides in Cork would do well to remember.
Cork county board or the senior hurlers and footballers DO NOT OWN the Cork
county teams. The teams belong to the general membership of the GAA in Cork. Therefore both the county board and the players can rightly be said to have behaved in a disgraceful manner in recent weeks.
They are treating the senior teams as if they were their personal property
and are using them as weapons in an ongoing civil war which has simmered aw
ay in Cork for decades, occasionally bursting out into open warfare as in 2
002 and now. Most of us can remember a string of controversies in Cork going back to the 'Three Stripes Affair' in the 1970s which centred on a row over Cork players wearing Adidas boots.
What the two parties are now doing is hijacking the good name of Cork county GAA teams for their own selfish reasons. The famous blood-and-bandage jersey of the county, which has so often been worn with pride by some of the greatest hurlers and footballers we have ever seen, is being dragged in the
gutter by people who would probably swear that they would be prepared to la
y down their lives for the Cork jersey. But on the evidence of recent weeks
they would be total hypocrites to say so. How can the Cork hurlers who have achieved such fame, popularity and personal satisfaction from their magnificent achievement in recent years now be party to making Cork GAA a laughing stock all over Ireland?
And how can the members of the Cork county board executive come out and say
they are running the GAA in Cork for the betterment of ALL GAA members whe
n their behaviour is besmirching the whole ethos of Cork GAA. Current count
y players, or county board officers in any county, are not owners of the GA
A who can use or abuse it as they see fit. They are merely temporary custodians of the organisation for a short period. Their duty is to abide by and
build on the traditions of the county built-up over the years by former players and officers. And no county in Ireland has a greater store of tradition or such a collection of former great players as Cork. Do the present Cork
county board officers or the present players really believe that they are
fulfilling their responsibility in this regard?
As far as I, and most people outside of Cork are concerned, both sides are
equally to blame for the present fiasco which, by the way, is doing serious
damage to the GAA as a whole and not just to Cork. The matters in dispute
are not of earth-shattering, life-or-death importance to either side.
In most other counties both parties would be put sitting down at two sides
of a long table and a chairman would insist they remain there until they hammered out a solution.
This is what happened when Offaly's football team had a major bust-up with
the county board a few years ago and I happened to be the person in the chair. The meetings were rough, very rough at times, but a solution was worked
out. But then Offaly GAA egos may not be as big as Cork egos!
Because they have been elected to run GAA affairs in the county to the highest possible standard there is a greater onus on the county board to stop this nonsense.
Apart from the damage being done to the proud tradition of Cork GAA, the matter is now beginning to affect the wider GAA scene. Meath footballers were
left without a game on the opening weekend of the National League and thereby deprived of revenue from the home match they were scheduled to have wit
h Cork. If the footballers and hurlers do not take part in this year's Leagues there will be further problems.
In football it will mean that only one county will be relegated from Division 2 while two from the other three divisions will face the drop. That can
hardly be fair. In hurling, if Cork are relegated from Division 1 it make a
dogs dinner of Division 2 next season.
The amount of negative coverage the GAA as a whole is receiving from this Cork debacle is grossly unfair to the other 31 counties at a time when the G
AA had been doing well in the media business. As an important constituent o
f the overall GAA family, Cork GAA has a duty to stop this collateral damage to the parent body and to do so they must set aside their own selfish positions for the overall good.
In particular, the ordinary GAA follower in Cork, of which there must be up
to 100,000, should not be embarrassed by their own leading officers and players in this manner.
These people are the real owners of the GAA and it is their voluntary work
at club and schools level which provides both county players and board officials with the material and resources to produce the many glorious Cork tea
ms over the years.
Neither party in this dispute has any moral right to refuse to swallow their pride in order to stop it. All they need is the moral courage to do so and it is a sad reflection on both parties in our greatest GAA county that they seem to lack that.
Public are sick and tired of the shambles in Cork
By Slán go Fóill Saturday February 2nd, 2008
http://www.southernstar.ie/article.php?id=554
I SAT down on Saturday night to watch the Derry v. Down McKenna Cup final on television and within ten minutes had switched over to watch a film about
the late Bobby Kennedy. Why? Because the standard of football being produced by the two teams, who are supposed to be in flying form, was absolutely
appalling.
A single point scored in the opening ten minutes because of some terrible s
hooting on both sides prompted the question, do players practice that skill
anymore? I was almost speechless as I watched so-called stars, with clear
chances of scores on their weak side, trying to turn onto their strong foot
to shoot and being easily blocked down.
Has Gaelic football now come to this, that the intercounty stars can't even
perform the most basic of skills? Has running and hand-passing completely
taken over to the detriment of skills like shooting or being equally adept
at kicking with both feet? The very same thing happened in Dunmanway on Sun
day when the Carbery All-Star footballers showed what fine footballers they
are, in the first half, but could only score a single point in half an hour.
These were the cream of West Cork football failing miserably to do the basic skill of putting the ball over the crossbar. If this is what we are going
to see in Gaelic football this season, then roll on the hurling where mastery of the basic skills really does make the difference between winning and
losing, and not how fast you can run or how far.
While that was going on special Congress was deciding not to interfere with
the minor and under-21 grades. The suggestion that they should be replaced
by a single under-19 grade was well defeated and maybe just as well. The proposal was aimed at preventing burn-out of young players but once again what was left unsaid was that the burn-out is only happening with the elite p
layers and the ordinary Joe-soap relying on games with his club is not even
considered. It's not burn-out that is affecting the majority of players but lack of regular games during the best months of the year. That is the issue that should be worrying Croke Park, not burn-out among the elite.
That said, we do have a tendency to overuse our young minors just because t
hey are living at home and are always available to fill slots in league games, etc. I have seen older players left on the sideline while good young minors are played and that surely is not right. Adult grades should be for adult players, especially in leagues, secondary competitions and challenge games. I was delighted to see that Congress also decided that adult league games cannot be postponed because the good minor is not available.
The suggestion that minor and under-21 should be replaced by a single under
-19 grade was never a runner. It would mean that you would have three years
of players, after under-16, competing for places on a single minor team. Imagine the drop-out rate of seventeen year-olds who wouldn't get a single gamfor the season? Likewise, there would be nowhere to go for the average
20 year old who wouldn't be good enough for the adult grades.
Of course the spotlight was also on Cork over the weekend with Kieran Mulvey doing his best to broker a deal in the players' strike. I still can't get
my mind around how amateur players, playing our games for the love of it,
can actually go on strike. To say the public is sick and tired of the whole
thing at this stage is a huge under-statement, especially the actions and
statements of the players.
Sean Óg Ó hAilpín is a hero with every Cork supporter but that he even dare suggest that the removal of Frank Murphy might facilitate a settlement beggars belief. The cheek of him to even suggest such a course of action
against one of Cork's greatest GAA men and the cheek of the players who are suggesting that this is not a personality issue but still want Teddy Holland removed as manager. The players are now becoming so ludicrous, it is embarrassing.
Having been granted the concessions of having a representative on the Count
y Board and a special selector of their own, they then demanded that they g
et a rep on the executive. Where will it all stop and how far will the Boar
d have to go in future years to satisfy the players? I can honestly and tru
thfully say that I have yet to meet a single person who supports the player
s in their demands. They have absolutely no support from the public and the
ir latest statements and actions means whatever credibility they might have
had, is now gone.
It is shameful that Cork GAA has to bring in a neutral to solve its problem
s. They have now bestowed union status on the players by doing this and the
GPA officials must be smiling all the way to the bank. Don't think for one
second that a solution to this crisis will be the end of the matter. The b
ad feeling created, especially by the actions of the players, will linger and the respect that these players have built up in recent years, especially
the hurlers, is fast disappearing.
What will the relationship between the players and the County Board be like
when the players go back to playing? What respect will the players show to
Teddy Holland if he stays on? The whole affair is now so sad. It's a sad time for the GAA in Cork and it makes us sad to think that the good name of
the county is being dragged in the mud like this. Cork has been to the fore
front of the GAA for over a hundred years but now we are in the news for al
l the wrong reasons.
It was most interesting to hear Waterford hurler, big Dan Shanahan, commenting on the issue when he stated he wasn't sure what the Cork players were a
bout as they were very well looked after and that there was no shortage of
sponsored cars, etc, available to them. Spot on, Dan. What we now have is a
bunch of players who, having won the strike issue in 2002, think they can
run GAA affairs in the county and dictate their terms to all and sundry.
They claim they are taking this action for the future of all Cork, players
but what they are really achieving is a destruction of the pride that should go with the wearing of the red jersey. I have been involved in the GAA in
many areas for more years than I care to remember and in all that time I have had to follow the rules to achieve anything. Threatening to strike never came into the equation when we failed to get what we were looking for. The Cork players have introduced an unwanted element into the GAA in Cork and
the association is poorer for it.
When will the clubs, so miserably treated by the Board at times, go on strike? When will the club players, who have been treated with disdain by all and sundry, go on strike? When will the under age mentors, who often have to
put their hands in their own pockets to finance their teams, go on strike?
When will the schoolteachers, who are still waiting endlessly for coaching
help in the schools, go on strike?
What the county players are doing now is unacceptable and is little short o
f blackmail. The Board has given enough, it is time to call the players' bluff and if Cork has to forego a year's competitions, so what? This is a struggle for power in Cork GAA, pure and blatant, and at present the Board is
doing all the giving. I, for one, would seriously consider my membership of
the GAA if the Cork County Board gives in to the players any further.
We all know what the solution to this problem will eventually be. Teddy Hol
land will step down because he won't have any team to train and his positio
n will be untenable and so the players will win again. Whether Holland was
foolish or otherwise in accepting the position is irrelevant. It was done legally and according to the rules and the players have to accept that. Forcing Holland and his co-selectors out now is merely backing down to the players again and the County Board, i.e., the clubs of the county, will have lost more ground. Holland will end up the fall guy in all this.
What will the next demand be? We all know that pay for play is like a train
roaring down the tracks at us and will another strike force the County Boa
rd to give in on that issue too? This is not the GAA I joined, the association in which all were equal partners. It is now becoming an elite association and one only has to look at the luxury available to some in Croke Park on big match days to realise this. Now we have the intercounty players endeavouring to set themselves above the rules that all the rest of us have to follow and to become an elite group within the association. Arrogance, and not pride, now seems to be the emotion that accompanies wearing the county jersey.
There can be no winners in this ugly dispute. We are all losers from what has been allowed to happen, no matter what solution is reached.
With the West Cork leagues imminent, starting with the football on February
17th, clubs will be praying that the bad weather we experienced in January
will relent and that pitches will be playable. Hard to believe it's all systems go again for 2008, despite what is happening at County Board level, and some clubs are still finding it hard to put mentors in place for the new
season. The whole thing has become so serious now, with the Celtic Tiger philosophy of success and more success now pervading all aspects of life including sport.
If a team fails to achieve in any season who shoulders the blame at the end? The manager/coach is the fall guy and who wants that burden on his shoulders? Too much is now expected of mentors, from players and supporters alike
, and it's not surprising that clubs are finding it so difficult to fill those positions. Over the coming months we'll be looking at the various people in charge of the top teams in the division and talking to some of them to
find out what the pressures are and why they make themselves available for
those thankless positions.
They tell us that the Congress last week was a victory for the clubs but ho
w do you equate that with the fact that before a ball is ever kicked in league or championship this season, there is already a problem with fixtures.
Attempts to start the under-21 A football championship on the first weekend
in March, to meet unrealistic county deadlines, have run into trouble because of possible college matches and any efforts to go later in March will r
un foul of the county under-21 team. The more we try to solve our problems
the more problems we seem to create. Who would want to be a Board officer?
The great thing is that there never seems to be a shortage of candidates for those positions.
For that matter, who would want to step into Teddy Holland's position if he
is forced to step down? Guaranteed, there is somebody out there willing to
take on the job and the GAA will continue on when all these players, and t
he rest of us, are well past our sell-by dates. If only we could all realise that we are mere temporary caretakers of a great association and that the
re is an onus on all of us to pass it on to the next generation in at least
as good a state as it was handed on to us.
FOR THE GLORY OF IRELAND
Paddy the Englishman, Paddy the Irishman, Paddy the Scotsman, and Paddy the Welshman were all flying together in an airliner. The captain announced that they were losing altitude rapidly and that one of them would have to jump out to save the others.
'I do this for the glory of Scotland,' said Paddy the Scotsman and he jumped out.
'We need to lose more weight,' said the captain, so Paddy the Welshman shouted, 'I do this for the glory of Wales,' and jumped out.
'Sorry,' said the captain. 'I'm afraid we need to lose the weight of just one more person.'
'I do this for the glory of Ireland,' said Paddy the Irishman and threw out Paddy the Englishman.
An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car. He says, 'Sir, have you been drinking?'
'Just water,' says the priest. The trooper says, 'Then why do I smell wine?'
The priest looks at the bottle and says, 'Good Lord! He's done it again!'
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The symbol shows the location of the Keelylang Hill transmitter which serves 9,400 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Keelylang Hill transmitter.
Which Freeview channels does the Keelylang Hill transmitter broadcast?
The Keelylang Hill mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: 4seven HD, 5STAR +1, 5USA +1, Aljazeera English HD, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, CBeebies HD, CBS Reality +1, Channel 4+1 HD, Forces TV, Freesports, NOW 80s, Now 90s, PBS America, Pick +1, Quest HD, Quest Red +1, RT HD, Smithsonian Channel HD, Together.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Keelylang Hill transmitter?
How will the Keelylang Hill transmission frequencies change over time?
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 12 May 10 and 26 May 10.
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Keelylang Hill was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.
Please can you tell me why when I'm visiting my daughter in Glasgow she has channels such as pbs America and keep it country but when I return to Orkney I dont get these channels?
Williamina Flett: Because there is no transmitter that broadcasts PBS America anywhere near the Orkney Islands. If you want more channels look at getting Freesat.
StevensOnln1: Thank you very much for your help and advice.
Looking to get Paramount chnnel from Keelylang on Orkney, half the info I can find says it's on there half says not.
Wonder if you could clear this up for me, many thanks.
Norman Brooks: Keelylang Hill is a full service transmitter (I'm not sure what information you've seen to suggest that is isn't) broadcasting all six main multiplexes, including COM4 where Paramount Network can be found. If you already receive Drama on Freeview channel 20 then just retune and Paramount should appear on 57.


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Please go to the SRVUSD website to register as a volunteer . If you think you are already registered as a SRVUSD volunteer, please email CWMS Attendance Secretary, Debbie Gilfillan to confirm your volunteer clearance status.
It is a Charlotte Wood tradition that 6th and 7th grade parents volunteer to set up, run and take down the 8th Grade Promotion Party. Please help to make this year's Promotion Party another great success. We welcome help from the 8th grade parents as well primarily for set up.


This thread is for live updates and comments regarding The Rolling Stones Abu Dhabi February 21, 2014 show. Please tell us your pre- and post-show thoughts and comments here.
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At what time are we excepting the show to start in Abu Dhabi? Anybody opening for the stones tonight? I'll be seated in front of my laptop following your posts. Thank you!
Just learned that Abu Dahbi is 9 hours ahead of Washington DC, USA.
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At what time are we excepting the show to start in Abu Dhabi?
I am in a limo about to meet the Stones!!!!!!!!!!
Hope everyone going tonight has a fantastic time!
I've had so much other stuff going on recently I haven't really been able to think about this - so today has come so soon... The Rolling Stones are back on tour! So excited and can't wait for Europe.
There is nothing like the feeling in the air just before the Stones take the stage. Gold Rings on all of you in Abu Dhabi and safe travels to BV!
Can you drink alcoholic beverages in Abu Dhabi?
This is very usefull for knowing how much time it is now.
Yes, although I'm pretty sure you have to own a licence to purchase it.
WOW, this is exciting! Have a great time and please post your reports. Enjoy the concert.
It's 7:12pm in Abu Dhabi now, I think the concert will begin in about 2 hours.
Any news about the support act?
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watching this picture of the stones caught during rehearsal in abu dhabi makes me really feelin' lucky to be a fan.
My 1st Stones concert was in 1982.. 34 years later I am still here planning my next Stones concert.
Huge stage it seems, is that true????
Wow what a huge stage! And very nice designed!
Thanks for all the photos and updates!
Is Mick Taylor there already?


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Q: How to change extended windows file attributes via Powershell without using attrib.exe? This seems to be a quite simple question, yet googling gave me nothing.
Here is the error (PS 5.1, win 10.0.14393 x64):
Set-ItemProperty $myFileInfo -Name Attributes -Value ([System.IO.FileAttributes]::Temporary)
The attribute cannot be set because attributes are not supported. Only the following attributes can be set: Archive, Hidden, Normal, ReadOnly, or System.

attrib.exe seems to support most of System.IO.FileAttributes. Unfortunately is does not seem to work with files referenced using FileSystem PSDrives. That is what I am using extensively.
Making wrapper for SetFileAttributes kernel API call would be the last resort.
Am I missing any other [more simple] ways setting these extended file attributes?
PS. Apart from [System.IO.FileAttributes]::Temporary I am interested in setting [System.IO.FileAttributes]::NotContentIndexed.

A: You can edit the Attributes property of a [FileInfo] object directly. For example, if you wanted to exclude all files in the C:\Temp folder from being content indexed, you could do this:
Get-ChildItem C:\Temp | ForEach{
    $_.Attributes = $_.Attributes + [System.IO.FileAttributes]::NotContentIndexed
}

That would get each file, and then add the [System.IO.FileAttributes]::NotContentIndexed attribute to the existing attributes. You could probably filter the files to make sure that the attribute doesn't already exist before trying to add it, since that may throw errors (I don't know, I didn't try).
Edit: As noted by @grunge this does not work in Windows Server 2012 R2. Instead what you have to do is reference the value__ property, which is the bitwise flag value, and add the bitwise flag for NotContentIndexed. This should work for you on any Windows OS:
Get-ChildItem C:\Temp | ForEach{
    $_.Attributes = [System.IO.FileAttributes]($_.Attributes.value__ + 8192)
}

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Beautiful Nissan is a moon cycle filled with promises and miracles. No matter how challenging or shocking or devastating life is sometimes, the waxing Nissan moon is a symbolic assurance that nothing is relentlessly difficult forever. Our experiences shift. Whether we are "ready" or not, spring comes again. And it has. Officially, spring has arrived.
Even with lingering downpours and colder weather, we have arrived in the season of new birth, new beginnings, and fresh starts. Life is moving on. Dreams are breaking from their hardened shells of confinement, and blossoming into reality. It's time to exhale, sigh, and relax a little.
Every moon cycle, according to the oldest book of Jewish mysticism, the Sefer Yetzirah, has a Hebrew letter associated with it. For the moon cycle of Nissan, it is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the hey.
Hebrew is a gender-based language. When hey is added to the end of a Hebrew word, it turns that word into feminine form. In the Jewish tradition, four letters—two of which are hey— represent the name of God. Therefore, the letter hey is a symbol of divinity, and specifically, feminine divinity.
Take a moment to exhale. While you are reading this, right now, actually breathe in through your noise and then exhale with a sigh through your mouth. That whispered whoosh—"haaaaaaaaaa"—is the sound of the letter hey. It is your breath moving from within you and within the Universe. There is no utterance you can make without your breath, which means the letter hey —"haaaaaaaaaa"—is the beginning of every spoken sound.
Modern and alternative medicine has proven that making time to exhale is good for you. Intentional breathing provides moments of pause, of respite. It calms your parasympathetic nervous system. Halts the "fight or flight" impulse. Delays reactions. And, truth be told, just feels good. So, sigh. Whenever you remember, take a sweet inhalation through your noise and exhale with the hey—"haaaaaaaaaa." Do this frequently, whenever you remember, and especially during these next few weeks under the Nissan moon.


So Toronto is in its final hours, and after three indieWIRE articles (#1, #2, and #3) surveying my thoughts on this year's films, I still have more to say.
Because of limited time, space, and sanity, I was barely able to touch upon the few docs I saw at Toronto in the indieWIRE stories. But first, I just want to join the chorus of voices applauding "Borat" — the mad rush of excitement at the film's calamitous midnight world premiere is justified: The movie is Jackass crossed with Michael Moore, and I can't wait to see how America responds to it. If Rush Limbaugh thinks he has an easy target in "Death of a President," wait until he gets a load of this Kazakh reporter exposing the anti-Semitism, racism and sexism in ordinary Americans.
Speaking of "Death of a President," I only saw the first half hour of the much ballyhooed film because of a prior committment, but from what I saw intrigued me. But most of all, I've been surprised at the timidity with which the film has been praised and criticized: say what you will about the film, but it's not appalling to think of President Bush's assassination; it's completely logical.
If I had thought of it before, Lucy Walker's documentary "Blindsight" would have fit nicely into my discussion of films in the festival dealing with American values (i.e. "Rescue Dawn," "Golden Door"). The film is a chronicle of a famous blind American rock climber who leads an expedition of shunned and blind Tibetan orphans up one of the tallest mountains in the Himalayas (which sounds riveting enough, as it is), but the most interesting facet of the documentary is the clash between cultures. The American and his team are all obssessed with reaching the top, with a clear sense of victory, while the children and their keeper, a sympathetic blind German woman, want to relish in the experience of the climb. It's a classic conflict between result and process-oriented thinking.
Macky Alston's "The Killer Within" is another fascinating document of the clash between perspectives: When we first see Bob Bechtel, he comes across as a folksy, wholesome middle-aged guy. But the relevalation that he murdered a fellow student when he was in college, and kept it a secret from friends, family and the college at which he teaches for years is a startling starting point for the documentary. As the film progresses, what's most fascinating is Bechtel's surprising lack of affect — all the more shocking since he's a beloved psychology professor. While one might expect some cathartic moment of guilt, the film's trump card is its very refusal to succumb to such a cliche: Bechtel remains an enigmatic figure, lacking in remorse, a loving father, a kindly old man, and yet stlll, somehow a killer unable to face his conscience.


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Writing the New Seattle
This writing class will be about how we can write about the major changes happening in Seattle. We have reached, as it were, a point where the sharp increases in our city's buildings, human activity, and economic volume are significantly separating the city we have known from the city we are becoming. With the most recent boom in construction and inflows of capital, the third such boom in under fifteen years, we must see ourselves in a phase of transition. Let's think and write about this transition. Let's remember the old city and attempt to describe the one just around the corner.
Instructor: Charles Tonderai Mudede
Class Type: 6 Sessions
Fiction, Nonfiction, Prose
No Class On: November 23
Charles Tonderai Mudede
Charles Tonderai Mudede is a Zimbabwean-born writer, filmmaker, and cultural critic. He writes about film, books, music, crime, art, economics, and urban theory for The Stranger. Mudede has made three films, two of which, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one, Zoo, was screened at Cannes. Mudede has written for the New York Times, Arcade Journal, Cinema Scope, Ars Electronica, The Village Voice, Radical Urban Theory, and C Theory. Mudede is also on the editorial board for the Black Scholar, which is based at the University of Washington, and between 1999 and 2005, lectured on post-colonial theory at Pacific Lutheran University, and in 2003 published a short book, Last Seen, with Diana George. Mudede has lived in Seattle since 1989.


Taylor Media Film and Television Production Perth, Western Australia - The Tree receives seven AFI Award nominations!
The Tree receives seven AFI Award nominations!
The 2010 AFI Awards nominees were announced today. The Tree received nominations in six different categories: Best Film (Sue Taylor and Yael Fogiel), Best Direction (Julie Bertuccelli), Best Adapted Screenplay (Julie Bertuccelli), Best Lead Actress (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies), the AFI Young Actor Award (Morgana Davies), and the AFI Visual Effects Award (Dave Morley, Felix Crawshaw, Claudia Lecaros, Tim Walker).
Congratulations to Morgana Davies, who is not only the youngest nominee for this year's AFI Young Actor Award, but is also competing for the Best Lead Actress award alongside such established talents as Abbie Cornish, Jacki Weaver, and her Tree co-star Charlotte Gainsbourg.


Rollesby Broad from the Waterside. Photo by John Paul.
Five anglers caught fishing illegally on the Norfolk Broads have been fined a total of almost £2,500.
The four men and one woman were convicted at Luton Magistrates' Court last month of fishing without a licence on rivers in the region.
Alan Waters, 52, and Rebecca Louise Brock, 30, both of Yarmouth Way in Great Yarmouth, were caught on Rollesby Broad on August 30 last year.
They were each fined £440.
Simon Wright, 59, from Clacton-on-Sea, and John Roberts, 51, from Westcliff-on-Sea, were caught fishing without licences on the River Bure on August 22 last year.
Each man was also fined £440.
A fifth angler, Paul Cairns, 52, from Nottingham, was caught on Womack Water on September 19 last year.
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The majority of offences were identified during routine patrols and partnership patrols, where Fisheries Enforcement Officers were joined by colleagues from partner agencies such as Norfolk Police and the Broads Authority.


According to a recent survey by KPMG, executives believe the lending environment will continue to improve for businesses in 2013, with more than 60% anticipating that their businesses will be able to readily access credit throughout the remainder of the year.
"Supply and demand imbalance has set off a wave of opportunistic deals – primarily refinancing, re-pricing, and dividend recap deals. Issuers and private equity sponsors, especially, continue to take advantage of strong liquidity in the market," said Ray Kane, co-head for Capital Advisory, KPMG Corporate Finance.
Seventy-three percent of respondents plan to increase their business' capital, with a quarter planning to refinance their current loans on more favorable terms by the end of 2013. Additionally, more than half of the executives anticipate that refinancing could drive activity in the credit markets this year. Corporate transaction activity (18%), private equity funded leveraged buyouts (13%), and restructurings (12%) could also serve as catalysts for increased activity.
"Historic levels of cash in credit fund managers' portfolios, as a result of both individual and institutional searches for yield, are driving bank and bond prices lower. Although companies are taking advantage of low rates and focusing on efficiently refinancing their current portfolio, those considering M&A remain reserved and continue to hold onto their assets," added Kane.
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According to respondents, the biggest risk to the credit environment for the remainder of 2013 would be a bubble-like environment resulting from a potential demand for yield (28%), with geopolitical instability (23%), inflation (23%), and a loosening of credit standards (14%) also cited as potential credit market risk factors.
Industry executives had conflicting opinions on whether ongoing regulatory reforms in the banking industry would impact the credit markets. Forty-six percent expect little to no change, but 42% expect the cost of raising capital to increase, causing businesses to move capital overseas. Only 12% of respondents expect a decrease in the cost of raising capital throughout the remainder of the year.


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Home » Rock , Staff Picks » The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue (1984) ☠
The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue (1984) ☠
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© 1984 Artista Records
AllMusic Review by Mike DeGagne
One of the most interesting aspects about the Alan Parsons Project is the band's ability to forge a main theme with each of its songs, while at the same time sounding extremely sharp and polished. Much of this formula is used in Ammonia Avenue, only this time the songs rise above Parsons' overall message due to the sheer beauty of the lyrics partnered with the luster of the instruments. The album touches upon how the lines of communication between people are diminishing, and how we as a society grow more spiritually isolated and antisocial. But aside from the philosophical concepts prevalent in the lyrics, it is the music on this album that comes to the forefront. The enchanting saxophone of Mel Collins on "Don't Answer Me" adds to its lonely atmosphere, while the briskness of Eric Woolfson's wording throughout "Prime Time" makes it one of the Project's best singles. On "You Don't Believe," the seriousness of the lyrics works well with the song's energetic pace. The subtlety of the ballad comes to life on the elegant "Since the Last Goodbye," which focuses on a failed attempt at a relationship. With Ammonia Avenue, the sum of the parts is greater than the whole product, which can't be said for all of the Alan Parsons Project's albums. Vocalists Eric Woolfson, Chris Rainbow, Lenny Zakatek, and Colin Blunstone equally shine, placing their talents above and beyond the album's main idea.
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It seems like every week a new study comes out either against or in favor of the most significant meal of the day." But even though the should really-you-or-should not-you debate rages on amongst nutrition scientists, those of us who opt to eat when we rise are normally on the lookout for healthy breakfast tips that fit their weekday schedule. Throw with each other this wholesome oatmeal the night before and get pleasure from it the subsequent morning. For those who have food allergies, there are so quite a few far more flours accessible in the grocery store to replace wheat. Cheesestick: If we are really rushing, grabbing a cheese stick (with or without the need of pizza dipping sauce, which is a favorite in our property), along with a box of raisins or a banana fulfills our breakfast dash needs. I am certain you could tinker around with a recipe working with bits & pieces of all 3 cookies & could come up with a truly tasty cookie.
Try Jimmy Dean Delights' Canadian Bacon Honey Wheat Muffin Pop a frozen muffin in the microwave and your breakfast will be ready to eat in significantly less than five minutes. Oats porridge is an easy-to- make meals and youngsters would enjoy eating it. Being busy going to college they would favor a uncomplicated breakfast like oats porridge. Try integrating some of the following suggestions into your everyday diet plan, and particularly try preparing and consuming them for breakfast. Scoop and fill an ice-cream cone with this pure banana concoction for a speedy and healthy breakfast on the go. There are 4 items that you will need to make positive to involve in your child's breakfast: grains, protein, fruits and vegetables and dairy.
Without the need of very good healthier foods at the beginning of your day your body will be searching for the nutritious foods it requirements until it gets them. Starting your day with a healthy breakfast can maintain your energy as well concentration levels up. Skipping breakfast will not only make you feel fatigued through the day but also lead to untimely cravings and overeating in the course of other meals. If you continue to skip breakfast and never consume healthy breakfast foods, you may well soon discover that you are really gaining weight despite skipping an whole meal each day. Studies show that these who skip breakfast normally eat much more for the duration of the day than these who start their day with a healthy breakfast.
A smaller investment in breakfast planning time will reap huge rewards by creating happy bellies and prepared to study minds. With the school morning breakfast suggestions below and some planning, you are going to come across ways to conquer those challenges and pave the way for a productive, mastering-filled day.
He was a 'cookie must be a cookie' type of guy in the previous ~ but now he is wholeheartedly on the breakfast cookie bandwagon. For the vegetarian cook, there are several recipes and concepts for healthier muffins that the loved ones (and your self) will really like. Zucchini requires the spot of the usual potatoes in this healthful remake of hash browns that's accompanied by fried eggs and whole-wheat toast. Breakfast aids you start out the day with good feelings, the mood is definitely going to continue to carry all day.


Take a look at this photo... It's rush hour on the Connecticut Turnpike approaching Exit 27A, Trumbull, Waterbury.
Most people living on the fast lane in America get stuck in this rush hour day in and day out, going to work, going home, going about their business.
According to a study done by the Harvard Health Watch, an average American spends 101 minutes per day driving. How many hours is that for you since you'be been at it?


Here is the old Heller / Airfix DeHavilland Vampire FB.5 kit built to represent A78-3 of the Aircraft Research and Development Unit RAAF in 1949.
The model is finished in Model Master Aluminium enamel with some Airfix and other decals - mainly Aussie Decals - used.
A top coat of Tamiya clear enamel finished the job.
This model was photographed at the NSW Scale Model Expo in May 2004 at Koonawarra south of Wollongong.


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Rekowski X (Gynz-Rekowski, Gynz odmienny) − kaszubski herb szlachecki, odmiana herbu Gynz.

Opis herbu
Opis z wykorzystaniem zasad blazonowania, zaproponowanych przez Alfreda Znamierowskiego:

W polu błękitnym z podstawą srebrną miecz srebrny, na prawo od miecza półksiężyc srebrny z twarzą w lewo, na lewo od miecza dwie gwiazdy srebrne w słup, w podstawie rak czerwony w prawo. Klejnot: nad hełmem w koronie pięć piór pawich. Labry błękitne, podbite srebrem.

Najwcześniejsze wzmianki
Herb znany z prac badacza dziejów rodu, Wilhelma von Rekowskiego (Mitteilungen des Familienverbandes derer v. Rekowski (v. Rekowsky)).

Rodzina Rekowskich
Rekowski to jedno z najbardziej znanych nazwisk kaszubskich. Pochodzi od wsi Rekowo. Wieś ta była od początku własnością odrębnych rodzin, które przyjmowały następnie wspólne nazwisko odmiejscowe. Wedle dokumentu z 1638, powołującego się na przywilej z 1528, w Rekowie siedziały rody: Wotoch, Stip, Dorzik, Mrozik oraz Fritz (Fritze, Friz). W XVIII-XIX wieku dzielili się na linie: Wantochów (Wotochów), Stypów, Wryczów (Wrycza) i Gynzów (Günz). Herb Rekowski X to jeden z czterech herbów skojarzonych z Rekowskimi-Gynzami, należał do drugiej linii rodziny, wywodzącej się od jednego z synów założyciela rodu.

Rodzina Rekowskich-Gynzów

Herbowni
Rekowski (Reckowski, Reckowsky, Rekoskie, Rekowsky) z przydomkiem Gynz (Ginz, Güntz, Günz).

Zarówno Rekowscy bez przydomka jak i z przydomkami, notowani byli z szeregiem innych herbów. Pełna lista w haśle Rekowski.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Kaszubskie herby szlacheckie

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Air Ambulance Anniversary
12 months ago Robin Jaques suffered a near fatal crash while out riding his bike in the Forest of Dean. Breaking four of his ribs on impact, suffering a punctured lung and a burst femoral artery – Robin was losing a lot of blood and was in a critical state. Fortunately for Robin, the Great Western Air Ambulance was scramlbed to attend his accident, and on arrival were able to stabalise his condition, and get him to theatre quickly.
Ever since his accident, Robin has been a huge champion of the charity and their critical service, speaking at public events across North Somerset to raise awareness of our charitable status. Recently Robin and his daughter Yaz paid them a visit to present a cheque for £1,000 to the charity from S A Partners where he is a partner in the business.
Ian Cantoni, Community Coordinator for Bath and North East Somerset said: "Robin has been a real asset to the charity. He is a wonderful ambassador for our cause in North Somerset and beyond. Robin's story really is incredible and a testament to the impact our Critical Care Team has on lives across the region."
Other sources include:
https://greatwesternairambulance.com/former-patient-marks-anniversary/
https://www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/clevedon-father-volunteers-for-great-western-air-ambulance-charity-1-6510646


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Exhibit & Sell at NY NOW
17-Oct-2018 1:10 PM | Kimberley White
Apply to exhibit and sell your work at the Handmade Designer Maker section of NY NOW, an international trade fair in February 2019.
NY NOW is a four-day wholesale / trade event held twice annually in New York. In February 2019, Craft Scotland will be participating in the show, taking a group of UK-based makers to New York to exhibit and sell their work to international trade buyers.
Craft Scotland is now an accredited Trade Challenge Partner (TCP) of the Department for International Trade and through this partnership, will lead the group of makers to NY NOW within the Handmade Designer Maker section of the show. This part of the show showcases around 350 exhibitors. NY NOW has been established for 30+ years, and is the leading market for contemporary design across home, lifestyle, handmade and gift products. It will be open from Sunday 3 to Wednesday 6 February 2019, taking place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Craft Scotland will take twelve makers to the show and has secured twelve Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP) grants of £2,000 for each successful maker (providing they meet the eligibility criteria). Each maker will have their own space at the show which will be part of a larger Craft Scotland presence.
Applications are invited from makers working across all craft disciplines: ceramics, wood, jewellery, glass, textiles, furniture, lighting, leather, basketry, bookbinding, millinery, mosaics and more.
This opportunity is suitable for both established and emerging makers who produce affordable, high-quality craft and are wholesale ready. Craft Scotland welcome applications from talented makers at all stages of their career. This is a great opportunity for makers wishing to wholesale their work to an international audience.
Follow the link for more information and to apply via the online application form.
Please submit your TAP Grant application form via email to Jo Scott, Project Manager, jo@craftscotland.org
Deadline: 5pm, Monday 29 October 2019
Scottish textile start-up among 11 finalists for WTO international business award
Crùbag are pleased to be among 11 finalists from around the world who were chosen to pitch in Geneva at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for the Open to Export International Business Awards.
The Scottish textile design start-up is the only company representing the UK in Geneva this week. Crùbag create designs and sustainable luxury accessories based on unseen aspects of our oceans which they print on textiles, such as scarves, pocket squares, bow-ties, cushions and napkins.
The ocean-inspired inspirational luxury products are sustainably made using natural fabrics like silk and cashmere. Collections are developed in collaboration with marine scientists, showing aspects of their work and products are accompanied by science outreach information. They are based on algae and pathogens interactions, phytoplankton seen under the microscope, hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the deep sea and the Arctic amongst others.
The "Open to Export" International Business Awards will be presented on 4th October 2018, where 11 inspiring SMEs will travel to Geneva to pitch their businesses at a showcase final event for the chance to win $5000 towards their export strategies.
The competition invited companies from anywhere in the world to enter their completed 'Export Action Plans'. The 'Export Action Plan' tool allows SMEs to take ownership of their export strategies in a systematic way, encouraging them to take decisions along each step of their international trade journey – from selecting a market to delivering products or services to new customers.
The final is taking place at the World Trade Organisation's Public Forum – a gathering of thousands of senior figures from international business, governments and media. The Awards have been run as part of the 'WTO-ICC Small Business Champions' initiative, showing that The Institute of Export & International Trade – our backers – are leading the way in encouraging SMEs to enter world trade.
The finalists are a varied collection, coming from multiple sectors and hailing from all corners, including St Kitts, Zambia, Mongolia, Armenia and Peru.
For more information about the award please visit:
https://opentoexport.com/blog/finalists-announced-for-the-open-to-export-international-business-awards/
For more info about Crùbag please visit:
www.crubag.co.uk
Can Fashion Do Good?
24-Sep-2018 3:08 PM | Kimberley White
"If a T-shirt threatens to be cheaper than a croissant, it's time to act."
- Lidewij Edelkoort
Lidewij Edelkoort is one of the world's most famous trends forecasters and has been calling for human and environmentally friendly fashion production for some time.
Edelkoort believes that the drive for ever-leaner supply chains in manufacturing has led to a "rapid and sordid restructuring process, which has seen production leave the western world to profit from and exploit low-wage countries."
At recent yarn fairs, (Pitti Filati, Filo and Premiere Vision yarns) sustainability was the most talked of subjects; with spinners reporting customers are increasingly asking for more sustainable and responsible yarns.
The launch of the Circular Fibres Initiative at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit in 2017, aims to encourage the collaboration needed from fashion-industry heavyweights such as Inditex to reform the textile supply chain, so everything is reused in a continuous cycle.
The initiative brings together stakeholders from across the industry including brands, cities, philanthropists, NGOs, and innovators to collaborate and create a new textiles economy, aligned with the principles of the circular economy.
In October this year, a new sustainable fashion experience called Fashion for Good will open in Amsterdam. This will be an interactive technology driven museum focusing on sustainable and circular fashion innovation. The museum aims to change the hearts and minds of visitors by helping them discover the stories behind their clothes, learn how they can take action and explore how they can have an impact on both an industry and at international level.
Fashion for Good believes that changing the fashion industry is only possible when both the the industry and consumers change. The museum aims to showcase both sides of the story, looking at innovations within the industry on both a supply chain and a product level. It aims to provide visitors with a new outlook on fashion, empowering them with information on tangible actions that they can take to help affect change.
Raising awareness both at industry and consumer level, the creation of the museum highlights the increasing importance of sustainability within a globalised fashion industry which has been supported by international corporate partners including Adidas, C&A and PVH Corp.
Here in the UK, a new inquiry has been launched by the House of Commons environmental audit committee, which will explore the carbon impact, resource use and water footprint of clothing throughout its lifecycle and supply chain.
MPs are to investigate the environmental impact of throwaway "fast fashion" in the UK amid growing concerns that the multi-billion pound industry is wasting valuable resources and contributing to climate change.
A woman photographs French artist Christian Boltanski's 'No Man's Land', made up of around 30 tonnes of discarded clothing. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images
Inviting evidence on how the influential sector should remodel itself to be both "thriving and sustainable", it will look at how improved recycling rates of clothing could slash waste and pollution.
"Fashion shouldn't cost the Earth" said Mary Creagh MP, chair of the committee. "But the way we design, make and discard clothes has a huge environmental impact. Producing clothes requires climate-changing emissions. Every time we put on a wash, thousands of plastic fibres wash down the drain into the oceans. We don't know where or how to recycle end-of-life clothing."
The raw materials used to manufacture clothes require land and water, or extraction of fossil fuels, while carbon dioxide is emitted throughout the clothing supply chain and some chemical dyes, finishes and coatings may be toxic. Research has found that plastic microfibres in clothing are released when they are washed, and enter rivers, the ocean and even the food chain.
Recent negative publicity revealing how luxury brand, Burberry, burnt £28.6m ($37.2m in U.S. dollars) worth of bags, clothes and perfume to protect its brand has illustrated what most consumers and even fashion professionals don't realise is that this is a common practise in the fashion industry and not just consigned to Burberry. Every year the fashion industry burns billions of dollars worth of unsold clothes, footwear, and accessories in order to protect their brand.
Last year the fashion designer Stella McCartney condemned her own industry as "incredibly wasteful and harmful to the environment."
A Stella McCartney campaign shot in a Scottish landfill site to raise awareness of waste and over-consumption. Photograph: Harley Weir and Urs Fischer for Stella McCartney
Key to the government inquiry will be how consumers could be encouraged to buy fewer clothes, reuse clothes and think about how best to dispose of clothes when they are no longer wanted. An estimated 300,000 tonnes of fashion waste goes straight into landfill each year, despite growing efforts to encourage consumers to recycle their worn and unwanted clothing.
There is no doubt that there is a growing challenge to find ways of balancing consumerism with environmental concerns which will require creative solutions both in materials and construction in the future.
Words by Fiona Chautard
About the author: Fiona is a qualified business coach, experienced mentor and advisor to the creative industries with a specialism in fashion, textiles and design.
Contact: hello@fionachautard.com
Twitter: @FionaChautard
Instagram: @fionachautard
Linked-in: fionachautard
Fashion Foundry Announce New £2K Award
30-Aug-2018 12:32 PM | Kimberley White
Fashion Foundry have this week announced a brand new award for the Scottish fashion industry.
Attending an international trade show or showroom at one of the major events in the international fashion calendar is still considered one of the best ways to gain exposure for your brand and connect with international buyers.
The first Fashion Foundry Award supports fashion businesses attending an international trade show by providing funding and industry expertise before, during and after the show.
- £2000 Grant to attend an International Trade Show between January 2019 and March 2019. The grant will be paid following acceptance and attendance at a supported show or showroom.
- Travel grant of £150 to visit UKFT in London for a pre-show application meeting.
- Brand Consultancy session with Kevin Harding, Brand Consultant.
- Focused business development session with the team at Johnstons of Elgin or Alex Begg to review your international strategy and show preparation.
- Pre and post show support from Fashion Foundry Director & Producer and Industry Experts.
- You are a Sole Trader, Partnership or Company registered in Scotland.
- You have a minimum of three stockists, UK or International.
-Turnover of £25K +
- Significant online sales and press interest.
- You must have been accepted or intend to apply for a UKFT- supported trade show.
- You must be eligible for a TAP grant.
- You must be able to attend a pre-show support meeting with our brand consultants to review your international strategy and help you prepare between September 2018 and January 2019.
- Agree to submit a show report, to be completed 1 month after the show, that will be shared on the Fashion Foundry website.
- Agree to press and promotion of the award.
Deadline for applications Fridays 5th October 2018.
Telephone Interviews will be on Wednesday 10th or Thursday 11th October 2018
Requests for fabric and sewing machines
29-Aug-2018 3:45 PM | Kimberley White
As the industry body passionately supporting the design and manufacture of textiles in Scotland, we pride ourselves on our vast network of contacts.
We are on the hunt to help out a couple of organisations in need of materials and machines; Rosemount Lifelong Learning Centre, and the Salisbury Centre.
Rosemount Lifelong Learning Centre
Rosemount Lifelong Learning Centre is a community based charity in Royston, Glasgow with the mission to increase life chances through learning for children, young people and adults living in Royston and wider North Glasgow. Rosemount operate various services in the community including children and family services, addictions, activities, volunteering opportunities, community learning and education. They are interested in starting up their own community sewing group at the centre.
Can you donate?
Old fabric stock
Offcuts
Please contact: Christine Towers.
Salisbury Centre
The Salisbury Centre are a Mind, Body and Spirit Centre promoting meditation, well being, and therapies. They are looking to offer daytime sewing and cushion making courses.
Please contact: Sarah Gardener.
Emerging Designers Applications Now Open
24-Aug-2018 10:39 AM | Kimberley White
Fashion Foundry is launching the 4th season of the successful emerging designer programme, this time offering three creatives a 7-month residency in the Glasgow studio, with support and mentoring from industry experts.
Each designer awarded a place on the programme is paired with a creative mentor and coach chosen to help provide a tailored programme of support allowing the designer time, space and industry expertise to develop their brand and build their business.
- Desk Space in Fashion Foundry Studio - Located in South Block, Glasgow.
- 24/7 Access to Studio & Sampling Room - Allowing you to design, develop and make prototypes and small production runs.
- Go See Grant - £250 to attend a trade show or visit a showroom.
- Maker Grant - £200 to spend with a manufacturer to assist with prototyping and range development.
- Brand photography - Worth £500.
- Coaching Sessions - Access to a performance coach who will help you take your next steps, and help to plan your personal and brand's development. Worth £500.
- Creative Mentor Sessions - Regular individual sessions to look at areas such as range planning, brand positioning, quality & finish. Worth £500.
- Group Business Workshops - Hosted by a range of business experts in areas such as branding, audience development, social media, e-commerce, crowdfunding & finance. Worth £500.
- Individual / Bespoke Business Advice - from experts in areas such as Intellectual Property, Company structure, VAT, Exporting. Worth £500.
- Networking opportunities.
- You must be a fashion or fashion accessories designer
- Your business must be registered in Scotland as a Sole Trader, Partnership, Social Enterprise or Limited Company.
- You must be able to dedicate a minimum of 3 full days a week in the Studio in Glasgow.
- You must be able to attend all coaching, mentor and business sessions.
- Agree to complete a progress report, an end of program survey and follow-up surveys.
- Agree to press and promotion of your brand linked to fashion foundry.
- Deadline for applications Monday 10 September 2018.
- Interviews will be on Wednesday 19 September 2018 Fashion Foundry Studio, South Block Glasgow.
- Studio residency begins 25 September 2018 and runs until April 2019.
Latest Round of Visual Artist & Craft Maker Awards Now Open
The Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards (VACMA) provide an important opportunity for the development of contemporary art and craft practice at a local level. The VACMA programme has been developed by Creative Scotland in collaboration with local partners over several years and it now reaches artists and craft makers in 21 local authorities across Scotland.
Following a positive evaluation, Creative Scotland is delighted to confirm the programme for 2018/19 and announce the deadlines for funding. The programme offers grants from £500 to £1,500 to support the creative and professional development of artists and craft makers at all stages in their career.
The scheme is administered locally by partners across 21 local authority areas – Aberdeen; Aberdeenshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Lothian; Edinburgh; Fife; Glasgow; Highland; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar; Orkney Islands; Scottish Borders; Shetland Islands; North, South and East Ayrshire; Perth and Kinross; Stirling; Clackmannanshire and Falkirk.
The awards are made possible by support from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and through the resources of the local partners.
Amanda Catto, Head of Visual Arts at Creative Scotland said: "The VACMA programme has been extremely important in providing opportunities for the creative and professional development of artists and craft makers across Scotland. The evaluation shows the significant value of these relatively small awards in terms of increasing confidence and opportunity; the generation of new ideas and skills; the extension of professional networks and outlooks. The success of the scheme lies in the strength of the partnerships that make it possible. We look forward to building on the work achieved to date and exploring new opportunities to extend the reach of the scheme into the future"
Deadlines for 2018/19 programme are Tuesday 2 October 2018 and Tuesday 5 February 2019. Each delivery partner is holding drop-in information sessions ahead of the October deadline.
For further information please click here.
Forward Planning For Customised Reality
30-Jul-2018 4:06 PM | Kimberley White
In a keynote presentation at the 91st Textile Institute Conference held this week at the University of Leeds in the UK, the sheer scale of the issues facing high street fashion retailers was laid out by Nick Chiarelli of the Foresight Factory.
By way of an extremely positive response from a major brand, came a second keynote, the Peter Dinsdale Memorial Lecture, from Dave Mallinson, head of product technology at John Lewis.
Following an introduction by new Textile Institute World President Katie Greenyer laying out the conference theme of integrating design with sustainable technology, Chiarelli spoke of consumer trends being responses to pressures.
VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity – has become the buzz word for the general consumer mood in the face of political instability, reinforced by a shift in working practices for many people, with 162 million people in North America and Europe now part of the 'gigging economy'.
Trends identified in response to this include 'Cruise Control' – the use of technology to micro-manage and provide a sense of personal control which is driving the rise of both fitness activity trackers and AI-driven visual fashion purchasing. In parallel is 'Mechanised Trust' – the need to check all facts, as well as the provenance of goods, in order to establish transparency – something Chiarelli noted brands should endeavour to respond to.
Environmental change and the war on waste, he said, were without doubt big drivers for new material developments, while societies were becoming increasingly both more urban and at the same time more fluid, demanding new marketing approaches.
The biggest change, however, will without doubt come from technology, Chiarelli said, pointing out that by as early as 2020, 80% of businesses will be using chatbots and there will be seven million drones in the air. Further big changes will come from robotised pharmacists, corporate audits performed by AI, and electric and driverless vehicles.
"We are entering the age of customised reality and life on demand, and trying on clothes via virtual mirror technologies will become commonplace," he said. "With this will come a new level of personalisation and despite the negative aspects of shared data, there is a major appetite for all of its benefits. Consumers are very quickly becoming acclimatised to this."
Amazon, he added, was now filing patents on systems for on-demand clothing.
So where does all this leave a major high street retailer like John Lewis?
"We have a bold ambition to reinvent our business while remaining true to our principles," said Dave Mallinson. "There is no doubt the retail environment is the hardest ever, with much disruption and many closures."
For the first time since World War 2, he added, employee-owned John Lewis would not post a profit for the first half of 2018.
"Due to the growth of online there is more retail space than demand, consumer confidence is low and costs are growing," Mallinson said. "This is not a passing phase but the new normal. The High Street, however, has evolved before and our plan is to differentiate entirely on product, both via human and digital channels. More than ever it's about not just being different, but better, or otherwise all we are competing on is price.
"If we don't do this, we will be carried away by the online retailers who have no fixed costs, and by brands selling directly to the consumer. In the next three years we plan to make 50% of all of the products we make exclusive to John Lewis. We've made a good start in home ware and our challenge now is to replicate that in fashion, beginning with our new women's wear collection which will be launched in every store nationwide in September. Next year it will be all about menswear. Our aim is to establish credibility in fashion and we are investing in better design, with 50% more designers and also more technologists.
"We are carrying out deep benchmarking to assess the quality of our products against the competition and pursuing innovation through new manufacturing techniques and more sustainable materials," Mallinson concluded. "This is entirely in keeping with the John Lewis constitution established over 100 years ago – 'to wholly and solely make the world a bit happier and a bit more decent.'"
Original article here.
Knockando Competition Design Now On The Loom
Launched in 2017, the Knockando Woolmill New Woven Textile Designer Award sought to uncover the best of new textile design talent by inviting current students and recent graduates to submit innovative and contemporary designs that pushed boundaries.
From a shortlist of six designs, the winning design was chosen by a top judging panel as part of Edinburgh International Fashion Festival - Fleet Bigwood, Alistair O'Neill, Fabio Piras, Clements Ribeiro, and Rachel Meddowes.
Jessica Cutler, who studied Textiles in Practice at Manchester School of Art and graduated in July 2017, was presented the award for her design 'Devon Seasons'.
Jessica visited the Woolmill this week to see her design in production. Jessica said "It has been amazing to come up here and see it being woven… Knowing my name is going to be on the label and people all over the country are going to be buying the products is really exciting!"
The design is being produced as a limited edition run of only 150 scarves and 35 blankets. The items are now available for pre order on the Knockando Woolmill website.
Pre-order here.
Bernat Klein Foundation: call for papers
23-Jul-2018 11:01 AM | Kimberley White
In 1965, the renowned textile designer, Bernat Klein, launched a series of Personal Colour Guides, designed to help customers choose clothes for themselves based on what colours suited them rather than by following fashion trends.
Klein analysed the colours of six iris types in paint and based on this, produced a general guide to the colours and tones which he thought would be most complimentary to them when worn. In doing so, he was at the forefront of the consumer 'colour analysis' industry, advocating his approach to choosing colours some 15 years before Carole Jackson published Colour Me Beautiful (1980) or Bernice Kentner published A Rainbow in Your Eyes (1981).
Klein's semi-autobiographical work, Eye for Colour (1965), accompanied the launch of the Personal Colour Guides and in it he explains that 'the main purpose of the colour guides is to help people, men as well as women, to dress better – in the broad, permanent, non-fashion sense of the word; to add good colour sense to their fashion sense; to develop their colour sense – to make them more aware of colours in themselves and in cloths, garments and accessories, to enable them to analyse their own colouring and then enjoy the harmonies and discords that they themselves can create and achieve if they wish to use their sense of colour actively.' (Klein, 1965. p104)
In 2017, Klein's family gifted his stock of Personal Colour Guides to the Bernat Klein Foundation, which was established the same year to promote the legacy of Klein's work and thought. It is the Foundation's hope that Klein's Colour Guides can inspire future designers and have an application in everyday life as he intended.
To celebrate the release of these original Colour Guides for sale in support of the Foundation's aims, the Bernat Klein Foundation is hosting a symposium devoted to exploring the role that colour might play in changing models of fashion consumption and promoting 'slow' textiles: how can the colour forecasting industry work towards supporting sustainable production through its narratives? How do personal colour choices intersect with cultural and commercial determinations? How is the colour of clothing used to create distinctive identities or signature styles? Cultural explorations and personal accounts of emotional attachments to particular colours are welcomed.
Proposals are being invited for 20 minute papers and presentations from practitioners; business professionals; early, established and independent researchers on this theme, including, but not limited to:
Colour forecasting and its influence on the fashion industry
Sustainable production linked to these supporting narratives and colour trends Personal colour choice and its intersection with cultural and commercial determinations
Colour and clothing, and its use in the creation of distinctive identities or signature styles
Colour in slow fashion and the increasing use of archive references Personal attachment to colour and cloth that promotes meaning and social histories
Please direct any queries and submit abstracts and short biographies of up to 250 words each to: Dr. Fiona Jardine f.jardine@gsa.ac.uk or Professor Alison Harley info@bernatkleinfoundation.org.