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Saturday, November 14, 2020 is the big day! After seven long months, Knight Foundry, 81 Eureka Street in Sutter Creek, plans to be open to the public on this month's regularly scheduled Tour Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Come back to visit and explore Sutter Creek's historic industrial crown jewel, Amador County's own [...]
September 4, 2020 in the Amador Ledger Dispatch, page B7.Written by Jack Mitchell. Photos by Ed Arata.What better time for a little love and care than during a pandemic. We should have known that Ed Arata and the volunteers at Knight Foundry would be busy. What's been accomplished is amazing, some would even say — [...]
Knight Foundry themed exhibit wins Best of Show at California State Fair
LEDGER DISPATCH July 16, 2018. The 165th California State Fair in Sacramento kicked off over the weekend, and Amador County was well represented. The Amador County booth this year featured a Knight Foundry theme, and took home Best of Show. Amador County also received a Gold Award for the booth, Best Marketing Presentation award, and [...]
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The last of its kind: Restoring Knight Foundry
Watch ABC10 Special about Sutter Creek's Knight Foundry Author: John Bartell March 19, 2018. It's the last of its kind and it was almost lost. Knight Foundry built the machines that helped build California. The water powered machine shop was turning to rust until a group of volunteers restored it. "This is the last [...]
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The Native Son of the Golden West Newsletter – Featuring Knight Foundry
THE NATIVE SON OF THE GOLDEN WEST: Historic Knight Foundry the Last Water-Powered Machine Foundry in the United States. By Kimberly Wooten. (09-30-17)
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SACRAMENTO VALLEY: Knight Foundry: A Window into the Industrial Technology of the 1800s
By: Carl Gwyn (9-19-17) Nestled in a corner of the beautiful Gold Rush town of Sutter Creek, you'll find the only remaining water-powered foundry in the United States. Established in 1873 to supply equipment for the Gold Rush and other developing industries of the new state of California, Knight Foundry operated continuously, with little technological [...]
Christine Gustafson2017-09-19T18:56:50-07:00September 19th, 2017|california gold country, city of sutter creek, historic preservation, knight foundry, knight foundry press|Comments Off on SACRAMENTO VALLEY: Knight Foundry: A Window into the Industrial Technology of the 1800s
Mercury News: California's newest historic site is pure gold for families
Built in 1873 at the height of the Gold Rush's second wave, Sutter Creek's Knight Foundry was one of the nation's first hydroelectric foundries. Today it's the last of its kind. (Photo: Jackie Burrell/Bay Area News Group) SUTTER CREEK — Long narrow belts whir across the ceiling of the cavernous structure, the sound buzzing, thrumming [...]
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Native Sons of the Golden West – Sutter Creek Retro Ramblings
By: Douglas Love, Grand Historian. Tucked in the golden foothills of the Mother Lode is a jewel of a town. As a matter of fact, it is known as "The Jewel of The Mother Lode" and it is Sutter Creek. Sutter Creek was founded by John Sutter in 1846 as a lumber camp. The [...]
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The American Foundry Society features Knight's Foundry – May 2017
Efforts to Preserve Historic Knight Foundry Get a Boost May 2, 2017 The Knight Foundry facility (Sutter Creek, California) was recently donated to Sutter Creek, California. The facility made its last casting in 1996, and there was concern about its future. It was placed on a list of endangered historic places by the National Trust [...]
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Vestiges of Amador-The Annals of Knight Foundry, Part 2
Amador Ledger Dispatch article by Deborah Cook on April 9 (updated April 27), 2017. "Sutter Creek is home to many historic treasures, but none so unique as Knight Foundry. This engineering marvel was the product of the dreams and imagination of Samuel Newman Knight, a native of Maine, who came to California in 1862. Before [...]
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Liz Gelnette began as an intern in 2011 before assisting as overnight staff support. With unwavering dedication to the mission and tireless service to Bethlehem House residents, Liz grew into the role of full-time aftercare specialist.
Liz assists our residents' transition out of Bethlehem House and into their own place. She works to foster a sense of family togetherness and community for each woman and child by continuing to engage them in healthy family activities and educational classes. Liz makes home visits and challenges all graduates to reach new goals and overcome challenges.
In addition to her support to women in crisis, Liz gifts of her time to volunteer bi-weekly at a local nursing home where she enjoys the opportunity to connect with those most in need of love and compassion.
Liz earned her associates of applied science degree in human services from Metropolitan Community College.
Liz is married to John and together they have three children. They attend Church of Freedom.
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This afternoon we decided to go to Seiyu to pick up a few things, most notably a new hat for Tiny Dog (TD) after his awesome Domo-kun hat was lost at Haneda airport, and some toys to keep him occupied at the house.
For a little background, in 2002 Walmart acquired a majority stake in Seiyu, a Japanese department store company. In 2003 they opened their first big box, Walmart style store in Numazu.
I lived in Numazu from 2004 – 2006 about 5 minutes away from the big box Seiyu on foot. It was incredibly convenient to be able to buy groceries and pretty much anything else 24 hours a day.
Overall, Walmart's expansion in Japan has not been a success. There are a lot of very good articles explaining the reasons, but long story short Walmart was trying to provide something that people didn't want.
Sometime since our last visit to Japan, Seiyu Numazu got a pretty serious remodel. The groceries were still there, but the housewares and most importantly the toys were all gone, replaced by a new clothing store and a 100 yen shop. We didn't know this before we left, and had promised TD some new toys. That was a mistake.
There are few things on planet Earth more persistent than a 3 year old who has been promised something fun but has not received it yet. After a few laps around the store, we decided to occupy him with the huge selection of Gatcha machines near the store entrance. Gatcha machines are the ones with cheap toys inside little plastic capsules.
The cheap toys he got were fun, but not nearly as fun as putting money into the machines and turning the handle.
Lessons learned: things change when you are away for a few years, and never promise something to a kid unless you can get it to them in a reasonable period of time.
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By bringing desperation to so many, Hurricane Irma is revealing a sad fact about many American companies, and not just airlines: that they have come in recent years to embrace taking advantage of desperate consumers as a central part of their business models.
The practice, called dynamic pricing, is intended to ration scarce goods and services, yet, as I show in a recent paper, it primarily harms consumers by making it easier for companies to fleece them.
Until recently, American businesses rationed access to goods or services that are in limited supply on a first-come, first-served basis. A company would make a product and then choose a price that covers its costs, including a reasonable return for investors. The price wouldn't change, even if that meant the product might sell out from time to time.
Apple, for one, follows this traditional approach. If demand for its new $999 iPhone X exceeds supply after the phone goes on sale in November, Apple likely won't raise the price in response.
Instead, it'll just tell consumers it's temporarily sold out and increase production as quickly as it can.
Dynamic pricing works differently, and more and more companies are doing it. Examples include Uber's surge pricing, Disney World's decision to increase prices when more kids show up to see Mickey and plans in the works at brick-and-mortar supermarkets to vary prices thousands of times per day, just like Amazon does online.
Some economists and company executives seem to believe that this approach to pricing, also known as "price discrimination," is the best way to ration, because higher prices reduce the number of consumers who are willing to pay for a product or service, ensuring that the number of willing buyers is equal to available supply.
If Apple were to embrace dynamic pricing, instead of simply letting the iPhone X sell out, the company would keep raising the price as the supply dwindled: first to $1,050, then $1,100 and, who knows, perhaps $1,499 or more – to whatever price would be necessary to ensure that the number of consumers who can actually afford the phone equals the stock available.
Is dynamic pricing a better way to ration access than first come, first served?
Before the internet, the answer might have been yes. Back then, "first come, first served" meant wasting a lot of time standing in line. Die-hard Apple fans still do this (some were already lining up ahead of the iPhone X announcement).
But the internet is swiftly eliminating this problem. Every time you make a purchase online, or try but fail because the item is sold out, you have waited in an instantaneous virtual line. Indeed, Apple will allow enthusiasts to preorder the iPhone on Apple's website without wasting time on a street corner. Buyers who take this route will use virtual lines.
So then why have companies been embracing dynamic pricing instead? The answer is just what you think: Raising prices is more profitable, and by making it easier for companies to change prices in real time, the internet has made dynamic pricing easier to execute as well.
The flip side of more profits for companies is less money in the pockets of consumers. But so what? Isn't the economy healthy as long as supply meets demand, no matter how that is achieved?
In my paper, I argue that how we ration matters. An economy in which only consumers who are able to pay very high prices get access to products in scarce supply is not an economy worth living in, for two reasons.
First, dynamic pricing will tend to ration access to goods based on wealth. Of course, a company must charge enough to cover costs and make money, and, in market economies, that means wealthier people, who can pay higher prices, get access to more stuff.
But dynamic pricing goes beyond this, giving priority to the wealthy even when their extra dollars aren't needed to call forth production. Companies make enough to cover the costs of production – bringing forth the greatest possible supply – under both dynamic pricing and first come, first served – just look at Apple. When companies opt for dynamic pricing, they are choosing to raise prices above the price that is already high enough to cover those costs but at which the product would sell out.
Incidentally, that's why the argument made by some companies, that dynamic pricing benefits consumers by creating incentives to increase supply, does not hold water.
Second, companies are not going to stop here. Their end goal is to be able to charge each individual consumer the highest price that consumer is willing to pay. Indeed, Uber is trying to do just that.
In such a world, the economy has little value to consumers. You might be willing to give up your life savings to flee Irma, but what a price to pay to simply get out of harm's way.
That margin between what you get – safety, for a flight out of Irma – and what you pay is the entire value of the economy to you. The goal of dynamic pricing is to squeeze that value right down to zero.
The airlines responded to public pressure during Irma by temporarily reverting to first come, first served. But the problems with dynamic pricing won't clear with the weather.
Ramsi Woodcock is professor of Legal Studies at Georgia State University.


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Meeting with India's Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Pierre Arcand, Minister of International Relations and Minister Responsible for La Francophonie, met with Kamal Nath, India's Minister of Road Transport and Highways, in Montréal on March 26. They discussed follow-up action stemming from the Premier's mission to India in February, in addition to enhanced cooperation in areas such as research and innovation.
Mr. Nath and Mr. Arcand in Montréal. Photo: Philippe Renault
"India offers enormous potential for Québec companies and institutions. During the mission last February, a total of 31 agreements were signed. Our government is determined to support Québec companies and institutions in their efforts to tap into this vast market. In this regard, it is essential that we continue to forge stronger ties," said Mr. Arcand.
During his visit to Québec, Mr. Nath also met with representatives of various Québec companies whose expertise is of interest to India.
India has the world's second-largest road network, totalling 3.3 million kilometres. However, 40% of the country's villages are still not connected to it. According to the Indian government, required network investments are estimated at US$75.3 billion by 2012, with the private sector accounting for approximately one-third of that figure.
The meeting between Mr. Arcand and Mr. Nath also focused on how Québec companies can benefit from these business opportunities.
Québec-India relations
Challenges and perspectives for the future in Haiti
Strong Québec participation in 7th UNESCO Youth Forum
Québec and China step up cooperation in science and technology
Jean Charest presents Plan Nord for former Mexican President Vicente Fox
Premier Jean Charest wraps up his European mission in Germany


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City of London Academy, Highgate Hill helps to reduce the use of plastic with new water bottles
the City of London Corporation	July 19, 2018
Staff and students from the City of London Academy, Highgate Hill will play their part in reducing the use of plastic by giving away water bottles, which will form part of the school's uniform.
At the start of the new term in September all staff and students at the Archway school will be handed water bottles reducing single use of plastic and their carbon footprint.
Prince Gennuh, Principal of City of London Academy, Highgate Hill, said:
"The impact of plastic bottles on the environment is clear and it's time for us all to play our part.
"We want all staff and students to do their bit in reducing the amount of plastic that we use and to reduce our carbon footprint.
"The water bottle will form part of every student's uniform and they will be able to fill their bottles with water from the water fountains in the school."
Andrew McMurtrie, Chair of City of London Academies Trust, said:
"This is a fantastic move from the staff and pupils at Highgate Hill.
"We all know the impact the use of plastic is having on our planet and on our marine life.
"It is encouraging to see that the next generation doing their part in reducing their carbon footprint and being more responsible around the use of plastic."
The recently launched Plastic Free City initiative will see the City of London Corporation lead by example by reducing the provision of single-use plastics across all buildings it owns and also increase the number of drinking fountains in the Square Mile.
The City of London Corporation is the governing body of the Square Mile dedicated to a vibrant and thriving City, supporting a diverse and sustainable London within a globally-successful UK.
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Enjoy the Harford Community College music faculty in their annual concert in the Chesapeake Theater. Following the music performances, stroll over to the Student Center and admire the Fine Arts faculty's annual exhibit of painting, sculpture, photographs, digital art, and ceramics in the Chesapeake Gallery. Join the HCC Artists in Residence "After Hours" at a reception featuring hot jazz, cool drinks, and tasty treats.


Continue to add ordering abilities i.e online payments, request for delivery, bulk orders, etc.
As of the 2017 census, it was recorded that the total number of people using Facebook in Fiji is 380 000. This is 43% of the total population and 90% of all internet user in Fiji. In the January handover document it was expressed that using Facebook to both gain interest among villagers and produce sales was a potential option. This was trialed by creating a Facebook page where potential customers could access information on the product as well as express interest in purchasing one. Currently this process is manual with a Project Everest member engaging in conversation over Messenger with the interested customer. In order to achieve autonomy in Fiji, it was suggested by SoCon TL Olivia that the ordering process should be automated through the use of a ChatBot Similar to the one used by African Farmers Club. Eventually, customers will be directly linked to the stove. The Fuel team validated the 8 customer archetypes that we hope to connect with throughout this experiment. See Customer Archetypes Experiment for more.
See attached spreadsheet for preliminary cost analysis including amount each stove needs to make to justify a $41FJD/month ChatBot program. In summary if a projected 20 stove sales are made in a month, each stove is required to make $2.05 to cover this.
Sorry for the delay, but we've made changes accordingly and put in some justification for the chatbot subscription fee metric.
Thanks for the feedback, please send through any other questions/concerns.


Erectile dysfunction is very common. 52% of men suffer from it in one form or another and 57% of those who report dealing with it are between the ages of 40-60. What's worse, 80% of it goes unreported because men aren't comfortable discussing it.
While various medical and health conditions may contribute to Erectile Dysfunction, what keeps you from achieving and/or maintaining an erection is a lack of blood flow.
As we age and deal with any number of medical or health conditions, blood vessels lose their elasticity and become smaller, preventing blood from flowing in and forming or maintaining an erection. So even if you're mentally aroused, it's like trying to blow up a tire made out of steel instead of rubber. There's no flexibility, so the blood vessels can't expand.
Most pharmaceutical treatments work by interacting with proteins that help your blood vessels relax, allowing blood to flow more easily. The problem is that you need to keep taking the pills because your blood vessels go back to their original, constricted state once the pill has worn off.
Supplements are great but are not well standardized. They may work for some but won't work for all. Those that have an effect operate in the same, short term way as prescription medications. Once the nutrient or chemical has worn off, you are back to square one.
There are some men who are reliant on injections in order to have and maintain an erection. If you had another option to improve this wouldn't you? Suppositories, no thank you.


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SCK•CEN » News » The very best in the world gather for the MYRRHA World Days in Mol
The very best in the world gather for the MYRRHA World Days in Mol
The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) organises the MYRRHA World Days this week. 220 policymakers, scientists and investors from 23 countries will participate in the event, among whom Carlo Rubbia, Nobel prize winner in Physics and father of the technology on which the MYRRHA project is based.
In 1993, Nobel laureate and former CERN director Carlo Rubbia hit upon the idea of the 'Energy amplifier': a nuclear reactor which produces electricity and burns almost all of its own nuclear waste as well as that of other reactors. A unique feature of this concept is its lead-cooled core. The core does not have enough fissile material to spontaneously maintain a chain reaction. That is the reason why Rubbia coupled it with a particle accelerator. This particle accelerator shoots protons into a target and in doing so produces neutrons which will maintain the fission reactions in the reactor. This concept (Accelerator Driven Systems - ADS) has been acclaimed worldwide and research in this field has never stopped to this day.
"The research into ADS was given a strong boost last year when the government decided to build the innovative research infrastructure MYRRHA", states Eric van Walle, Director-General of SCK•CEN. "MYRRHA is the world's first prototype of a high-power ADS research reactor. We are in fact realising, on a semi-industrial scale, the theories to which Rubbia has made a great contribution. It is unseen!"
First agreement worth 7,6 million euros
A year after the decision was made, MYRRHA is slowly being implemented. This Tuesday, a first contract is signed for the design of buildings and utilities (cooling, water and electricity) of the first phase of the accelerator. The main building is a tunnel that will be housing the first part of the accelerator and will be 150 meters long, 7.5 meters wide with a height of 3.5 meters. "We are delighted to announce that, today, we have signed an agreement with the Belgian company Tractebel and the Spanish company Empresarios Agrupados. It is the first major contribution of MYRRHA to the Belgian economy", concludes Hamid Aït Abderrahim (SCK•CEN).
Today, on Tuesday 5 November 2019, the very best in the world in the field of accelerator driven systems (ADS) gather at SCK•CEN in Mol in presence of the Belgian minister of Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, Mrs Marie-Christine Marghem, who stresses the importance of maintaining nuclear expertise, knowledge but also know-how by investing in an ambitious and innovative nuclear project such as MYRRHA. "We come together to display the progress MYRRHA has made and to highlight its social value for the next generations. Accelerator driven systems, of which MYRRHA is the front runner, pave the way to new applications", explains Hamid Aït Abderrahim, Deputy Director-General of SCK•CEN and Director of the MYRRHA project. "MYRRHA will contribute to developing new radioisotopes for innovative cancer treatments. Thanks to MYRRHA, we are also developing the technology to drastically reduce the volume and radiotoxicity of high-level radioactive waste through the process of transmutation. We are therefore investigating a solution to optimize geological disposal."
"It is our duty as scientists to find solutions to today's global challenges. We will not find solutions by repeating the past, but by pushing the frontiers of knowledge and, in doing so, making new discoveries. MYRRHA is a remarkable Large Research Infrastructure to address some of the most fundamental challenges. This project will fuel the world's approach on treating nuclear waste and paves the road for the development of sustainable nuclear energy", says Carlo Rubbia. Beside him, many notable international speakers will have the floor, among whom Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero (Deputy Head of Unit Euratom Research, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission), the French Jean-Luc Biarrotte (Scientific Director, IN2P3/CNRS), the German Walter Tromm (Director, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and the Japanese Yukitoshi Miura (Executive Director, Japan Atomic Energy Agency).
MYRRHA is supported by the Belgian government as the project can boast a great social and economic value added. Its value added is estimated to approximately 7 billion euros. "The project will also create jobs", points out Hamid Aït Abderrahim (SCK•CEN). "At the moment, our team comprises 135 people but on average some 700 people will work on MYRRHA every year, both during the construction phase and the operation of the infrastructure. In 2015, MYRRHA was included in the list of the European Commission Investment Plan (known as the Juncker Plan)."
The facility will be built on SCK•CEN's site in Mol. Preparations for construction are already in full swing. His Majesty the King of Belgium was also able to witness it during an official visit in June of this year. The goal is to commission MINERVA - phase 1 of the MYRRHA project - in 2027 and to start with the development of innovative medical radioisotopes.


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Science and technology expansions at Oxford Science Park's innovation centre
Magdalen Centre at The Oxford Science Park Cafe Magdalen the bridge innovation centre
Since the start of 2016, the science and technology expansions and new lettings have totalled an additional 21 people across 2,550 sq ft
Five companies have expanded and a new organisation has joined The Oxford Science Park's Magdalen Centre, the innovation building located at the centre of the Park, and divided into office and laboratory suites of flexible sizes and lease terms.
The companies that have expanded are: Blue Earth Diagnostics, a privately held diagnostics company focused on the development and commercialisation of molecular imaging technologies; Corriculo, a specialist and comprehensive IT recruitment services company; devolo UK Ltd, the leading German powerline manufacturer which has expanded into the smart home market with the launch of Home Control which can adjust light settings, monitor temperatures and provide automated security alerts; OrganOx, which has developed a groundbreaking technology to help with the transplantation of organs; and OxSonics that is developing novel approaches to the treatment of cancer and chronic low back pain. Precision Medicine Catapult, an organisation established to make the UK the best place in the world for developing and implementing precision medicine, has joined the Park.
Rory Maw, bursar, Magdalen College said: "We warmly welcome Precision Medicine Catapult and wish them many years of success, and also offer our congratulations to Blue Earth, Corriculo, Devolo, OrganOx and OxSonics which are clearly thriving. 25 years ago we built the Magdalen Centre, our very first building on the Park. Today it is established as Oxford's leading creative innovation centre, where companies have the opportunity to grow and develop in an inspiring space, and be part of a community where the ideas and businesses of the future begin. We are committed to supporting discovery and entrepreneurship and attract businesses of all sizes from start-ups to multinationals to locate to the Park where they flourish."
Graham Bruce, director, Corriculo which has just expanded his space, said: "We started trading in November 2013, with just two of us in an office in the Hub – a collection of micro-offices in the Magdalen Centre. We have since moved offices three times, taking a larger space each time, as demand for our services has increased, resulting in growth in staff numbers to our current total of 10. "The Magdalen Centre has been ideal for us as a start-up: the amount of available shared space, such as the Magdalen Café, has meant that we haven't needed to take an office with meeting rooms, which at this stage in our growth, would be expensive, largely unused space.
"Such areas have also provided us with an excellent place to meet informally with candidates and clients. There is a real buzz about the Magdalen Centre and the Park in general, which is really important to a small company, as it is hard to replicate and create that environment on your own when you only have a handful of staff. "The flexibility to be able to move offices at short notice as we've needed extra space has been invaluable to us, as elsewhere, we may have needed to take a long-term lease on a space far bigger than we need, to allow room for growth, paying all the time for that extra space whilst it goes unused.
"The Park has proved an excellent location, being easily accessible from the ring road and A4074, making it easy for candidates and clients to visit us and vice versa. This location, coupled with plenty of parking and good facilities – both onsite and nearby – has also certainly helped us in staff attraction and retention. "The Park is home to some very prestigious companies, which have become clients of ours, with both sides benefiting from the proximity. These clients have helped our growth and I am not confident we would have had the opportunity to work with them if we were based elsewhere."
The Magdalen Centre totals 65,000 sq ft of net lettable office and lab space and is currently 91% let with 6,300 sq ft remaining. The Oxford Science Park is owned and managed by Magdalen College, Oxford. Created in 1991, the Park upholds the College's heritage and provides one of the most influential science & technology environments in the UK. Over 450,000 sq ft of net lettable space and the Park is now home to more than 2,400 people and over 60 businesses, ranging from start-ups based in the Magdalen Centre innovation hub to major international companies. Following the successful acquisition of M&G Real Estate's 50% share in December 2015, Magdalen College now has 100% ownership and control of The Oxford Science Park. In addition to being a key property investment, the Park is at the heart of the College's strategy to support discovery, innovation and entrepreneurship. Magdalen College will continue to develop The Oxford Science Park as a long-term strategic asset, with ambitious plans to create an additional 300,000 sq ft of office and laboratory space on the remaining 12.8 acres of land over the next 10 years. This additional capacity will support the growth of businesses already based on the Park, providing flexibility with their space requirements, and enabling new companies to enjoy the Park's beautiful character and atmosphere. The Oxford Science Park is located approximately four miles south east of Oxford city centre, just off the City's southern ring road. It has easy access to the M40 and A34, as well as to Heathrow Airport and mainline train services.
Visit The Oxford Science Park's new website: www.oxfordsp.com
For more information on any of the companies listed, please visit:
Blue Earth Diagnostics
http://www.blueearthdiagnostics.com/
http://www.devolo.co.uk/
Corriculo
www.corriculo.co.uk
OrganOx
http://www.organox.com
OxSonics
http://www.oxsonics.com/
Precision Medicine Catapult
https://pm.catapult.org.uk/


Springtime is close, and the time is near for the Native Plant Sale!! Make sure you come up for a visit on 3rd September at Wilson Botanic Park, Princes Highway, Berwick. We open at 9am, and close around 3.30pm.
There will be something for everyone- plants to buy in tubes and pots ready to go straight into your garden. As usual a book stall specialising in Australian plants, wildlife, insects, gardens and other odd topics. There will be a great raffle with some unusual prizes, including a bee hotel. Our member's gardens will be pruned to show off in a floral display. There is also food and drink available so you can make a day of it and explore the park as well.
The Wilson Park group will also have a plant crèche set up so you can leave your plants while hunting for more. A limited supply of boxes will be available.
We also have a special offer! This year anyone becoming a new member of the group will receive a free potted plant. Have a chat with the Wilson Park APS members in the tent crèche to find out more.
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