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Pixieland Privacy Notice

In accordance with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into effect 25th May 2018.  Please note our policy is likely to evolve and have numerous revisions and you are welcome to come back and check these at any time.

If you are in any way worried by anything you read here, in the first instance contact us via email, enquiries@pixieland.co.uk  If you feel that your data has not been handled correctly, or you are unhappy with our response to any requests you have made to us regarding the use of your personal data, UK customers have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

You can contact them by calling 0303 123 1113

If you are live outside of the UK, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection regulator in your country of residence.

Last Updated: 20th June 2018

This Privacy Notice details the type of personal data we may collect about you, how we’ll store and handle that data, and keep how we keep it safe.  Below there is a lot of detail but we want you to be fully informed about your rights and we hope the following sections will answer any questions you have.  If not, please feel free to get in touch with us.  However, the over-arching summary of everything contained below is simply this:

  • We use cookies on our website but only those that help the site to work better for the customer (you are free to manage this via your browser setting at any time.).
  • We use Google Analytics, however our code anomylises your IP address
  • The safety and security of your details is paramount to us and our SSL certificate protects & encrypts communication between your web browser and our website / server (you'll notice the padlock in the address bar).
  • Your name, address and telephone number is only ever used by us to be able to process your order and never given to any 3rd party (other than the courier to be able to deliver your order).
  • Your email address is only ever used by us to provide updates on the status of your order or to keep you informed with a newsletter (but only if you have opted in to receive them).  It is never passed onto a 3rd party to be used for their own marketing purposes.
  • We never store any of your payment details as when you purchase goods from us, you are taken through a secure gateway directly onto the site of the payment processor, and therefore no credit card details are even entered by you on our site.

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The Legal Bases

The law on data protection sets out a number of different reasons for which a company may collect and process your personal data, including:

In certain situations, we can collect your data with your consent.

For example, if you select the option to receive newsletters from us.

Contractual obligations
We would need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations.

For example, if you order an item from us for home delivery, we’ll collect your address details to deliver your purchase, and pass them to our courier.

Legal compliance
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect your data.

For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity affecting the our website to law enforcement.

Legitimate interest

In specific situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests.

For example, we will use your purchase history to send you or make available personalised offers.

When do we collect your personal data?

  • When you visit any of our websites, and use your account to buy our products online.
  • When you make an online purchase and check out as a guest.
  • When you create an account with us.
  • When you purchase a product by phone but don’t have (or don’t use) an account.
  • When you engage with us on social media.
  • When you contact us by any means with queries, complaints etc.
  • When you comment on or review our products.
  • When you fill in any forms. For example, your email address would be collected in the contact us form

. What sort of personal data do we collect?

  • If you have a web account with us: your name, billing/delivery address, orders and receipts, email and telephone number. For your security, we’ll also keep an encrypted record of your login password.
  • Details of your interactions with us by phone or email.
  • Details of your product preferences, for instance items in your wish lists.
  • Information gathered by the use of cookies in your web browser. Learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies.
  • Your comments and product reviews.
  • To deliver the best possible web experience, we collect technical information about your internet connection and browser as well as the country where your computer is located, the web pages viewed during your visit, the route you took to get to us, and any search terms you entered.
  • Your social media username, if you interact with us through those channels, to help us respond to your comments, questions or feedback.

The security of your information

The safety and security of your details is paramount to us and our SSL certificate protects & encrypts communication between your web browser and our website / server as you enter your data and what is collected is stored on secure servers.  This is evident to customers as when you land on our website you will notice a padlock displayed in the address bar of the browser.  When you purchase goods from us, you are taken through a secure gateway directly onto the site of the payment processor, therefore no credit card details are ever taken or stored by us.

How long will we keep your personal data?

Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we’ll only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.  When you place an order, we’ll keep the personal data you give us for five years so we can comply with our legal and contractual obligations.

If you create an account with us but don't place an order, your account will be deleted or anonymised after twelve months of inactivity.

If you make an account with us and place an order, your account will be deleted or anonymised after five years of inactivity from the date of your last order.

How and why do we use your personal data?

Here’s how we’ll use your personal data and why:

  • To process any orders that you make using our website. If we don’t collect your personal data during checkout, we won’t be able to process your order and comply with our legal obligations.

For example, your details may need to be passed to a third party to supply or deliver the product or service that you ordered, and we may keep your details for a reasonable period afterwards in order to fulfil any contractual obligations such as refunds, guarantees and so on.

  • To respond to your queries, refund requests and complaints. Handling the information you sent enables us to respond. We may also keep a record of these to inform any future communication with us and to demonstrate how we communicated with you throughout. We do this on the basis of our contractual obligations to you, our legal obligations and our legitimate interests in providing you with the best service and understanding how we can improve our service based on your experience.
  • To protect our business and your account from fraud and other illegal activities. This includes using your personal data to maintain, update and safeguard your account. We’ll also monitor your browsing activity with us to quickly identify and resolve any problems and protect the integrity of our websites. We’ll do all of this as part of our legitimate interest.
  • With your consent, we may use your personal data, preferences and details of your transactions to keep you informed by email, about relevant products, special offers, discounts or promotions.  Of course, you are free to opt out of hearing from us at any time just by unsubscribing from our newsletter if you have opted in to receive one.
  • To send you communications required by law for service messages.  For example, updates to this Privacy Notice and legally required information relating to your orders. These service messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. If we do not use your personal data for these purposes, we would be unable to comply with our legal obligations.

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This cookie policy sets out how Pixieland uses and protects any information that you give Pixieland when you use this website. Pixieland is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with our privacy statement. Pixieland may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • name
  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

For the exhaustive list of cookies we collect see the list of cookies we collect section below.

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. But only if you have given us permission to do so

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

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Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at enquiries@pixieland.co.uk

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Pixieland Dartmeet Dartmoor Devon UK PL20 6SG.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

List of cookies we collect

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

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The association with your shopping cart.

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The items that you have in the Compare Products list.

Your preferred currency

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An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.

Stores the Customer Segment ID

A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.

You sesssion ID on the server.

Allows guests to edit their orders.

The last category you visited.

The most recent product you have viewed.

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Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.

A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.

The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.

Information on what polls you have voted on.

The items that you have recently compared.

Information on products you have emailed to friends.

The store view or language you have selected.

Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.

The products that you have recently viewed.

An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.

The number of items in your Wishlist.


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Compartmentalization of production was marked by separate metal-manufacture companies specializing in lead piping, plumbing fixtures, and other nonporcelain components. Nowadays, international toilet companies such as Armitage Shanks, Ideal Standard, and Geberit have diversified to offer a wide range of toilet technologies and materials. Synthetic materials now predominate; piping is made of plastic and the “porcelain” is more likely to be polymer. Old and widely used lead piping has been condemned as a potential cause of poisoning. (Plumbing gets its name from plomb, the medieval word for lead, as plumbers were essentially lead workers.)
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The Pocket Watch Database has compiled data covering the major American pocket watch manufacturers and created an easy way to find information using the serial number on the watch movement. Here are a few tips to find information about your pocket watch:

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Manufacturer Location: Jersey City, New Jersey
Movement Serial Number: 2015361
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Model: 390
Estimated Production Year: 1900
Size: 18s
Jewels: 7j
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Movement Finish: Nickel
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Leaky faucets can cost you a lot of water usage on your monthly utility bill! Want to know how much? We did too!  According to the United States Geological Survey Center, here’s the data.

The average faucet leaks about 10 drips/minute. Let’s say you only have 2 faucets in your home that are dripping at the average rate.

That’s 28,800 drops per day OR 694 gallons wasted PER YEAR! That’s a lot of water wasted!  That’s an average drip, remember. What if you have a fairly fast drip? Those same two faucets now waste 3 gallons per day.

What about a running toilet? Think that’s not a big deal? Wrong, that’s even worse than a faucet. A running toilet can waste on average about 200 gallons a day. That’s 6,000 gallons per month literally, down the drain.  That’s also $20/month that you just wasted or $240/ year that you’re throwing away. Think about applying that to your car payment every year and how much faster your car could be paid off.

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Dr. Anderson's book, PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America, incorporates and reflects his past experiences: his academic research, business experience, both as an owner and a capital provider, and his varied political positions. He has held the highest positions in federal and state government and politics. He was State Coordinator of Education for Florida under Governor Reubin Askew during the tumultuous period of the 1970s. After successful social reform projects in Florida and leading President Jimmy Carter's Florida campaign to a win in the state, Carter appointed Anderson as the Federal Co-Chairman for a Commission of governors in the southeast states. In that position (rank of assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Commerce), he chaired the commission, funded and directed economic development projects for the governors in those states. The projects he funded created jobs and businesses in those states. As executive director of two economic development corporations for the city of Miami, Florida, he oversaw funding of more than 30 businesses. Although he has been a political independent for many years, he was a major planner and coordinator for the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta and has taught at all levels of education

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If you’ve ever worked with  Oracle you are familiar with Oracle’s TNSNAMES file. This file describes how to get to a database.   With ODP.Net it doesn’t provide a means to parse the TNSNAMES.ora file and then in turn use it with ODP.Net.  From everything I’ve read you must just copy from the Description() and put Data Source = Description(). Then you can use that as a means to connect to your Oracle Database server.    With that in mind I set out to write some scripting to help with this problem.

The first thing I did was to follow this great article by the Scripting Guys about how to use ODP.NET.  After reading that article I found a great module on the Gallery that implemented much of what is spoken about there and I’ll be using that module here in this posting (SimplySQL)

Now I know where my  TNSNAMES.ora file is located so I’ll bring it into my session with:

$tnsnamesPath = 'c:\tns\tnsnames.ora'
$tn = get-content $tnsnamesPath -raw

I brought the file in -raw so that I knew I would have a full object.  Now with some REGEX I can get this file in to the fashion I want.  First to look for the common string in my TNSNAMES.ora file somename = (Description = .

$parsedTN = $tn -replace '(.*\=.*|\n.*\=)(.*|\n.*)\(DESCRIPTION*.\=' ,'Data Source = (DESCRIPTION ='

Now that I have the connection Name replaced with Data Source = I can now split it into an array and then select my connection based on that array:

$splitTN = $parsedTN -split '(?=.*Data Source = \(DESCRIPTION \=)'

Data Source = (DESCRIPTION =
 (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = server3)(PORT = 1521))
 (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = server58)(PORT = 1521)))

Now that  I have the connections split into an array I can now select the one I want using Where-Object -like “myconnectionName“.  Then with this handy commandlet Open-OracleConnection From this module (simplySQL) , all i have to do next is pass in my username and password and that should open My oracle connection.

$tnsnames = $splitTN |?{$_ -like "*$connectionName*"}
$connstring = "$tnsnames;User Id=$username;Password=$password"
Open-OracleConnection -ConnectionString $connstring -ConnectionName $connectionName

Below is the full script in a GitHub Gist:

I hope this helps someone.

Until then

Keep scripting


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Women in Elected Office Challenges and Opportunities in Erie County

Date: Jul 26, 2018
Author(s): Erie County Commission on the Status of Women
Topic(s): Equality / Civil Rights: General, Government: General
Type: Report

"This report offers a snapshot of the political landscape in Erie County with a focus on women in elected office. Women comprise 52% of Erie County's total population , 49.5% of its labor force, and 53% of the county's registered voters. Women current comprise nearly 33% of elected government officials with men comprising nearly 68%."

"This report does not attempt to answer this complex question; rather we offer a snapshot of the landscape here in Erie County and nationally with the intention that it will offer some new insights into what women have achieved, and the challenges that we continue to confront. We also hope that it will spark further discussion as well as action with regard to women seeking elected office in greater numbers."


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This is the section that needs an explanation because I want to make sure my readers know what this section on my blog really means to me. So, why did I name this section P.S.? To me postscripts (better known as p.s.) are not always thoughts that we forget to mention and remember after we sign. Postscripts often carry the strongest message or the message of the entire letter. The letter is the warm-up, you want to make sure your reader is attentive and engaged before you hit them with the bang!

That’s what this section is. Here I want to share my thoughts on many things I see and live day to day and have an opinion on or simply don’t fully understand. This is the space in my blog to just write and figure things out–to think out loud. Just because I love beauty, hair, fashion and fitness, doesn’t mean the things happening in the world aren’t important because they are and we all need to start talking about it and fueling the conversations that are starting to form around these issues but aren’t loud enough to make the impact needed.

Hey I’m all about happy world, I live in the clouds, I’m a mermaid princess and all that jazz…but from time to time I come down from my clouds and think about the world. Just for a bit…

This isn’t a hard news section either! Sometimes I’ll share some silly and hilarious experiences I’ve had, a good article to share, but sometimes I’ll also vent and say what I think. I should have named this section, “Michelle can talk forever so here is where she’ll do it” hahah but that’s too long and I like P.S.

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Dumfries House artists’ residency

The Dumfries House Royal Drawing School artists’ residency opens up to Scottish artists

The Royal Drawing School at Dumfries House is expanding its application pool from just Royal Drawing School alumni to include Scottish artists who use drawing in their practice.

The Dumfries House residency will include ten, two week long residencies between January – May 2019 and is open to Scottish Artists, artists who are an alumni of a Scottish Art School or who are a practising artist currently living and working in Scotland. It will be a productive and creative period for artists to work in a tranquil environment, whilst enjoying Dumfries House, its ground and the surrounding countryside.

A unique opportunity for painters, textile and furniture designers, illustrators, practice-based researchers and applied artists who use drawing in their practice – the emphasis is on working from observation and the development of new work.

This will be a funded residency that offers each artist with a private studio, shared self-catering accommodation and daily lunch. Breakfast, dinner, travel to and from Dumfries House and materials are at the artists own cost.

Applications are now open for the Dumfries House Scottish Artist Residency session between January – May 2019. The application deadline is 5pm Sunday 21st October 2018. Artists will be selected at the end of October by a jury of distinguished artists and curators, artists will be notified at the start of November if their application has been successful. If you have any questions regarding your application please contact

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This Privacy Notice sets out how PRIVILEGE RENT A CAR LIMITED (the “Company”) processes data, whether on individuals (including personal data in respect of individuals who are clients, agents, intermediaries or other third parties that the Company interacts with, or any individual who is connected to those parties) or otherwise. Where the data held are on individuals, this document also sets out the rights of those individuals in respect of that personal data.

This Privacy Notice has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

If you have any questions or you need any clarifications in respect of your personal data, please email us at [email protected].

Who we are

Our Company started to operate in 1992. We are one of the most well established car hire companies on the island. Since this date we have been dedicated to building a fleet of vehicles which meets the demands of the modern day traveller whether they are in Cyprus for business or pleasure.

Our offices are located in Limassol in the following address:

Lordos Kantara Village II,

Shop 1, Onissilou street. Amathus Area,

Limassol – 4532, Cyprus

Your personal data

When you visit our offices in Limassol or our website or upon delivery of a car to you we may ask you to provide us with certain information in the context of providing our services to you and/or in order for us to be able to communicate with you about various offers or updates on our services and news about our Company. You are not obliged to provide us with such information, but if you choose not to, we will not be able to provide our services to you and/or you may miss out on special offers and certain services may not be available to you.

The Company processes data in the context of hiring a car to its clients. The categories of data it may collect and process, according to the particulars of each case and for each driver, include:

  • Contact details (including title, names, postal addresses, email addresses, telephone number(s)).
  • Passport numbers and family information appeared therein.
  • Any sort of identification documents and family information appeared therein.
  • Driving license.
  • Financial information such as payment related information.
  • Signature(s).
  • Meetings attended and visits to our offices.
  • Information on a person’s race, ethnic origin and other related information.
  • Video, audio, photos.
  • Any other information you may provide to the Company (including apart from personal information, technological and rental information).

How we use it

The Company takes your privacy seriously and we will only use your personal information in accordance with our Personal Data Protection Policy, in order to communicate with you about various offers or updates on our services and news about our Company and to improve the quality of our services. The Company does not collect or process more or less data than what is reasonably required for achieving the purposes for which were collected.

You are not obliged to supply such data, but if you do not, we will not be able to provide our services to you and/or keep in touch with you and keep you updated on various offers or updates on our services and news about our Company and as such these may not be made available to you.

The purposes for which we collect your personal information are as follows:-

  1. In the context of hiring a car to you as a customer.
  2. To comply with a legal obligation to which we may be subject.
  3. To keep you updated about various offers or updates on our services and news about our Company.
  4. To receive feedback and follow up on any comments, enquiries and complaints you may have and to resolve any disputes and problems which may have arisen with respect to the use of our services.
  5. To obtain feedback from you that will help us to promote, improve and/or further the provision of our services.
  6. To enable us to perform our duties and obligations towards you.
  7. For marketing purposes.
  8. Any other purpose(s) which has been agreed by or notified to you.

Your personal data are safely stored in our offices in Limassol. No third party may have access to your data, unless required by law. Your personal data will only be accessed by the employees of the Company who are trained to handle personal data promptly and in accordance with the laws. The employees are authorized to access your data under a duty of confidentiality and only for the purposes stated above. The Company strives to protect your personal data by applying high standards of conduct and professionalism for any privacy related matters.

Retention of data

The Company retains personal data for a period of 6 years in accordance with its Data Retention Policy.  After this period, your personal data will be destroyed, unless destruction is prohibited for legal, regulatory or technical reasons.

Any personal data held by us for marketing and service update notifications will be kept by us until such time that you notify us that you no longer wish to receive this information.

For further information on the retention and destruction processes of the Company, please visit the Company’s Data retention policy at

Use of personal Data in Legal Proceedings

If it becomes necessary that the Company has to take action against you for any reason whatsoever, including but not limited to recovering from you any money you owe to the Company, you expressly agree that the personal data provided by you can be relied upon in identifying and taking legal action against you.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

The Company keeps this Privacy Notice under review in order to ensure that it is in line with any changes to the laws relating to privacy and personal data. Any updates will appear on the Company’s website at

Your rights

All enquiries in respect of this Privacy Notice or any requests to exercise any of the rights set out above should be sent via email at [email protected] or by post to our offices in Limassol. We will then look at your request or complaint and work with you to resolve the matter.

You may at any time request to see the information you provided and have the ability to rectify it (in case you believe that the information we hold is incomplete or incorrect) or have it deleted by contacting us at [email protected].

If you still feel that your personal data has not been handled appropriately according to the law, you can contact the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, at:

1 Iasonos Str., 1082, Nicosia

P.O. Box 23378, 1682 Nicosia

Tel: +357 22818456

Fax: +357 22304565

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Zodiac Vortex Pool Cleaner

Zodiac cybernaut NT is the one name which stands nchallenged with its pristine online presence as well as excellent performance. A clean pool is not only a happy place for your kids but it sure makes your loved ones to enjoy their full sunny afternoon times in it. Jumping and splashing water in the pool might make you the home maker feel just NICE.

The Zodiac cybernaut NT

This Zodiac cybernaut NT is made up with a revolutionary technology and this can perform a custom cleaning of any pool. Well what is the result of owning this sleek pool robot? This one allows the pool to have a clean bottom as well as sides. This 9.1 kg weighed equipment which absorbs up to 150 W is supplied with the trolley and this makes the ease of moving the equipment where ever it is needful to be moved.

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The professional makers of swim pool cleaners is the Zodiac and the new Zodiac Vortex 4 Robotic cleaners takes up cleaning to any level you opt to seek for your perfect clean pool. Unlike any classic wired pool cleaners this has a wireless remote for ultimate control of the cleaner. It has a preprogrammed arrangement of a customary cleaning mode fitted well which itself allows anyone to clean the hustle stubborn dust in your pool in a quick turnaround time. All people have to be compelled to or request to end work in an exceedingly short time. the additional wide suction intakes al the forms of debris and therefore the aggressive solid blade contact of this pool cleaner guarantees to relinquish you the additional bit of cleanliness to your pool. High speed brushes permits you to urge the most brushing done and when your tile studded pool gets that additional scrub then your pool will get rid of the small dark lines studded in your pristine pool. The Zodiac leaders are proud to compete their pool cleaning robots that is certain to scrub faster aggressively than the other cleaners of its category. While comparing each the higher than said pool cleaners one will pick the higher than said Zodiac suction pool cleaners who have the solid commitment to quality in addition as style ingenuity to any or all pool cleaners. The parameters of each pool isn’t constant and accords to your pool dimensions you would like to effectively invest your hard-earned cash with a pool cleaner that has the fundamental enhanced coverage providing you with the simplest safety performance that is absolutely compliant with all the quality electrical standards!!

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Sarah Royce, MD, MPH

TitleAssistant Clinical Professor
InstitutionUniversity of California San Francisco
DepartmentEpidemiology & Biostatistics
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    University of California, San Francisco Occupational Medicine Residency and Fellowship1990School of Medicine
    University of California, BerkeleyMasters in Public Health1988School of Public Health
    Kaiser PermanenteInternal Medicine Residency1987
    University of California, San FranciscoM.D.1984 School of Medicine
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    UCSF-Clinical and Translational Science Institute2012  - 2013Pilot T2 (Bedside to Community) Translational Science grant (Co-investigator)

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    Dr. Royce is Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco (without salary). She currently works for the California Department of Health Care Services where she is Chief, Medical Quality Oversight Section of the Managed Care Quality and Monitoring Division. Before this position in Medi-Cal managed care, her career focused on tuberculosis (TB) control, from 1992-2008 as chief of the TB control branch, California Department of Public Health and then as an global TB consultant in 19 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.

    With the Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group, she led a systematic review on integration of tuberculosis and HIV services to inform the 2013 World Health Organization (WHO) consolidated guidelines on antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Royce was the lead consultant for the development of the WHO Treatment of TB guidelines. In her WHO guidelines work, she used the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach to rate the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.

    Dr. Royce also conducted a mixed methods study of barriers and facilitators of multidrug resistant TB case finding in Cambodia supported by a UCSF Pilot T2 (Bedside to Community) Translational Science grant. Guidelines for National Programmes.

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    1. Ehman M, Shaw T, Cass A, Lawton E, Westenhouse J, Young J, Royce S, Barry P. Developing and using performance measures based on surveillance data for program improvement in tuberculosis control. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2013 Sep-Oct; 19(5):E29-37. PMID: 23263627.
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    2. Cass A, Shaw T, Ehman M, Young J, Flood J, Royce S. Improved outcomes found after implementing a systematic evaluation and program improvement process for tuberculosis. Public Health Rep. 2013 Sep-Oct; 128(5):367-76. PMID: 23997283; PMCID: PMC3743285.
    3. Arentz M, Pavlinac P, Kimerling ME, Horne DJ, Falzon D, Schünemann HJ, Royce S, Dheda K, Walson JL. Use of anti-retroviral therapy in tuberculosis patients on second-line anti-TB regimens: a systematic review. PLoS One. 2012; 7(11):e47370. PMID: 23144818; PMCID: PMC3489892.
    4. Ahuja SD, Ashkin D, Avendano M, Banerjee R, Bauer M, Bayona JN, Becerra MC, Benedetti A, Burgos M, Centis R, Chan ED, Chiang CY, Cox H, D'Ambrosio L, DeRiemer K, Dung NH, Enarson D, Falzon D, Flanagan K, Flood J, Garcia-Garcia ML, Gandhi N, Granich RM, Hollm-Delgado MG, Holtz TH, Iseman MD, Jarlsberg LG, Keshavjee S, Kim HR, Koh WJ, Lancaster J, Lange C, de Lange WC, Leimane V, Leung CC, Li J, Menzies D, Migliori GB, Mishustin SP, Mitnick CD, Narita M, O'Riordan P, Pai M, Palmero D, Park SK, Pasvol G, Peña J, Pérez-Guzmán C, Quelapio MI, Ponce-de-Leon A, Riekstina V, Robert J, Royce S, Schaaf HS, Seung KJ, Shah L, Shim TS, Shin SS, Shiraishi Y, Sifuentes-Osornio J, Sotgiu G, Strand MJ, Tabarsi P, Tupasi TE, van Altena R, Van der Walt M, Van der Werf TS, Vargas MH, Viiklepp P, Westenhouse J, Yew WW, Yim JJ. Multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treatment regimens and patient outcomes: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 9,153 patients. PLoS Med. 2012; 9(8):e1001300. PMID: 22952439; PMCID: PMC3429397.
    5. Horne DJ, Royce SE, Gooze L, Narita M, Hopewell PC, Nahid P, Steingart KR. Sputum monitoring during tuberculosis treatment for predicting outcome: systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2010 Jun; 10(6):387-94. PMID: 20510279; PMCID: PMC3046810.
    6. Khan FA, Minion J, Pai M, Royce S, Burman W, Harries AD, Menzies D. Treatment of active tuberculosis in HIV-coinfected patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2010 May 01; 50(9):1288-99. PMID: 20353364.
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    7. Menzies D, Benedetti A, Paydar A, Martin I, Royce S, Pai M, Vernon A, Lienhardt C, Burman W. Effect of duration and intermittency of rifampin on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med. 2009 Sep; 6(9):e1000146. PMID: 19753109; PMCID: PMC2736385.
    8. Menzies D, Benedetti A, Paydar A, Royce S, Madhukar P, Burman W, Vernon A, Lienhardt C. Standardized treatment of active tuberculosis in patients with previous treatment and/or with mono-resistance to isoniazid: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med. 2009 Sep; 6(9):e1000150. PMID: 20101802; PMCID: PMC2736403.
    9. Banerjee R, Allen J, Westenhouse J, Oh P, Elms W, Desmond E, Nitta A, Royce S, Flood J. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in california, 1993-2006. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Aug 15; 47(4):450-7. PMID: 18616396.
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    10. Flaherman VJ, Porco TC, Marseille E, Royce SE. Cost-effectiveness of alternative strategies for tuberculosis screening before kindergarten entry. Pediatrics. 2007 Jul; 120(1):90-9. PMID: 17606566.
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    11. Porco TC, Lewis B, Marseille E, Grinsdale J, Flood JM, Royce SE. Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis evaluation and treatment of newly-arrived immigrants. BMC Public Health. 2006 Jun 19; 6:157. PMID: 16784541; PMCID: PMC1559699.
    12. Pascopella L, Kellam S, Ridderhof J, Chin DP, Reingold A, Desmond E, Flood J, Royce S. Laboratory reporting of tuberculosis test results and patient treatment initiation in California. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Sep; 42(9):4209-13. PMID: 15365013; PMCID: PMC516353.


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USED Profoto Acute 1200R Power Pack

$1,995.00 $1,095.00

Acute 1200R (3 head capacity, built-in Pocket Wizard receiver)

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The Acute 1200r has a 3 Head Capacity that has separate controls for the power output and model lamp. The unit also has a built-In Pocket Wizard Receiver. The used unit comes with a 90 Day Warranty.

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OG14 Reservoir Engineering and Management Dubai - UAE, 20190217 17 - 21 Feb 2019 $3,750 Register
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A reservoir’s life begins with exploration that leads to discovery, which is followed by delineation of the reservoir, development of the field, production by primary, secondary, and tertiary means, and finally to abandonment. Integrated, sound reservoir management is the key to a successful operation throughout a reservoir’s life. Further, the need to enhance recovery from the vast amount of remaining oil and gas-in-place, plus the global competition, requires better reservoir management practices. Reservoir management is the application of scientific principles to solve issues arising during the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs.

This course is designed to provide many tools and techniques to help address the challenges of providing a more reliable and sound reservoir engineering & management. Participants can learn a wealth of classic information on the concepts and processes involved in reservoir engineering and management. The course presents insights about data acquisition, reservoir performance analysis & forecast, field development planning, reservoir management economics and improved recovery processes.

Upon the successful completion of the course, participants will know the following:

  • Use appropriate approaches in reservoir engineering and management
  • Be familiar with the appropriate data collection, analysis, validation and integration process
  • Illustrate the points of integration between the different disciplines (geoscience, engineering etc.) during the applications of the reservoir management concepts
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  • Ensure the appropriate execution of the reservoir management process
  • Use the Interdisciplinary Synergistic approach to efficient reservoir management
  • Include each reservoir management component and the importance of timing and cost/benefit analysis
  • Apply the different methods of reservoir performance analysis and forecast & give emphasis on the integration of production/injection data, pressure data and any subsurface data
  • Acquire an up to date knowledge on the improved recovery processes related to water flooding, thermal methods, chemical methods and EOR screening guidelines

Reservoir, Petroleum Operation and Production Engineers, Geologists, Geophysicists, field operation staffs, managers, government officials, and others involved with reservoir operations and management.

Our highly practical experiential learning method is results-oriented; based on an adult learning concept. The Reservoir Engineering and Management is designed as a blended environment of presentation; workshops; group work; practical exercises; field application/ case studies, analysis and several industry videos showing all processes; and general discussions. The course will include real case studies in the oil and gas industry. Most of the cases studies have been presented in international journals by the instructor.

Pre & Post course assessments will be used to measure the effectiveness of this training and measure the skill and ability of participants.

DAY 1 - Reservoir management process, components and plan

  • KeyTopics:

    • Reservoir Management Concepts
    • Definition of reservoir management: an integrated, interdisciplinary team effort
    • Reservoir life cycle
    • Scope and objective for integrated reservoir management
    • Fundamentals and resources of reservoir management
    • Reservoir management concepts and processes
    • Reservoir management plans
    • Synergy and team
    • Responsibilities for team members
    • Integration of geoscience and engineering
    • Setting goals: goal setting, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating reservoir performance
    • Developing plan and economics (scenarios): field development and field operating plans to optimise profitability
    • Why integrated reservoir studies
    • Revision of plan & strategies
    • Reasons for failure of reservoir management programs
    • Economics for Reservoir Management

DAY 2 - Reservoir engineering data

  • KeyTopics:

    • Data needed for integrated study
    • Data types: reservoir rock & fluids properties
    • Data acquisition, validation, analysis and management
    • Integration of production/injection data, log data, pressure data and any subsurface data for analysis
    • Efficient monitoring of reservoir performance
    • Identifying and acquiring critical data, data acquisition, and analysis
    • Reservoir performance analysis and forecast
    • Static geological model and reservoir simulation
    • When simulation models are required
    • History matching and identification of by-passed oil
    • Total integration of surface and sub-surface

DAY 3 - Reserves estimation and classification/ reservoir drive mechanisms and producing characteristics

  • KeyTopics:

    • Induction of new technologies to maximizing economic recovery and minimizing capital investment, risk and operating expenses.
    • The timing of field implementation of reservoir management plan: during the primary recovery, pressure maintenance, and secondary and tertiary recovery
    • Reservoir management plans and scenarios
    • The economic model, uncertainties and risks
    • Maximizing economic recovery and minimizing capital investment, risk and operating expenses
    • Oil reserves types and classification & reservoir engineering and evaluation
    • Natural producing mechanisms
    • Reservoir performance analysis and forecast
    • Estimation of reserves and prediction of reservoir performance
    • Determination of hydrocarbon in place (volumetric method, decline curve method, material balance method, and mathematical simulation

DAY 4 - Water flood monitoring and management

  • KeyTopics:

    • Secondary recovery and pressure maintenance process
    • Water flood management in mature fields: surface as well as subsurface issues.
    • Describing water flooding definition and objectives, candidates, patterns, factors affecting pattern selection, well spacing, fractional flow, performance measures, practices and problems
    • Design aspects of the water injection system
    • Water injection systems: water sources (produced water, aquifers and seawater), water compatibilities and scale, and basic water treatment
    • Water quality: quality issues and associated risks, the effect of injection water quality on infectivity
    • Water flood monitoring and management
    • Reservoir performance with water flooding projects
    • Effects of water injection on the recovery factor and reserves

DAY 5 - Oil recovery enhancement techniques

  • KeyTopics:

    • Introduction to enhanced oil recovery techniques
    • Conventional and none conventional EOR processes
    • Chemical, thermal, and miscible EOR methods
    • EOR processes concepts and mechanisms
    • Screening criteria guidelines of the EOR processes
    • Performance of the EOR processes and expected recovery factors
    • Development plans of the EOR processes
    • Stages of the EOR projects
    • Role of the reservoir management for the application of the EOR processes
    • Reservoir management case studies of mature fields: several development plans for water floods and EOR projects.

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Most popular Melbourne suburbs for owner occupiers by distance from the CBD

The suburbs with the highest proportion of owner occupiers differ in value and tend to have one thing in common – they are well established and in contrast to those proving popular for investors.

Last week’s blog post revealed that many of the most popular suburbs for investors were those that are more recently developed.

In the inner city the suburbs within a 10km of the CBD such as Aberfeldie, has the highest proportion of houses with 90 per cent of these owner occupied.House owner/real estate agent giving away the keys

Aberfeldie recently became the first million dollar suburb in the city’s west. Strathmore ranked second with owner occupiers accounting for 88.6 per cent of houses. The top five is rounded out by Kew East, Ivanhoe and Malvern.

In the middle ring of suburbs, those between 10 and 20km of the CBD, there is greater disparity in the prices of suburbs popular with owner occupiers.

Eltham North recorded 94.3 per cent of houses as being owned by their occupiers and second on the list, Campbellfield, had 91.4 per cent. Campbellfield is much more affordable with a median house value of $334,601 compared to $646,869 in Eltham North.

Finally, in the outer suburbs the highest proportion of owner occupiers at 95.2 per cent can be found in Montose. Four of the top five suburbs are in fact are in or near-to the Dandenongs.

Second on the list, Mount Evelyn, has 94.1 per cent of houses owned by their occupiers and Warranwood has 93.8 per cent. Fifth on the list, The Basin, recorded 93.7 per cent.

Melbourne suburbs ranked by proportion of owner occupiers | RP Data

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Author: Michael O. Garvey

Rev. Daniel G. Groody, C.S.C.

Rev. Daniel G. Groody, C.S.C., associate professor of theology and director of the Center for Latino Spirituality and Culture at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, has received the 2012 Touchstone Award from the National Federation of Priests’ Councils (NFPC).

The NFPC annually gives the Touchstone Award to a Catholic priest “whose service in the Gospel of Jesus Christ exemplifies the purposes and goals of the Federation.”

In announcing the award, the NFPC, which represents 26,000 priests nationwide, praised Father Groody’s work in the Latino community and his scholarship in migration issues and theology.

Father Groody spent many years doing pastoral work and research in Latin America and along the U.S.- Mexican border, particularly in the Coachella Valley of California, where he worked from 1997 to 1999. In addition to the numerous books and articles he has written on U.S. Latino spirituality, globalization and the relationship of Christian spirituality to social justice, he has produced documentary films including “One Border, One Body: Immigration and the Eucharist” and “Dying to Live: A Migrant’s Journey.”

Founded in 1968, the NFPC supports member organizations and priests through collaboration, communication, ongoing formation, research and advocacy.

Originally published by Michael O. Garvey at newsinfo.nd.edu on May 03, 2012.


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Beauty of a Woman

Hi folks, this is the day we celebrate the beauty of a woman. Cool! Be sure to check out August McLaughlin’s blog tomorrow for lots more stories about the beauty of a woman. This was her idea after all. You can find it here: Check it out for a chance to win some awesome prizes.

 I thought long and hard about what to do here.

For today’s post I eventually decided I would rework an older post to demonstrate the true beauty of a woman. So here’s the story.
I love people watching. I love the sheer variety of shapes, sizes, and colors that we humans come in. I will now describe a few I saw from my car window that day so you can share the experience with me. Let’s get in my car and have a look.
There are several small groups of men standing around, smoking or with hands in pockets, shoulders slouched, drinking coffee from Styrofoam cups and complaining about life in general. Grey cloudy mornings can do that to you.
There stands an older man, quite bald, absentmindedly smoothing his comb-over down in the breeze. His younger companion has a small goatee and shaven head. Go figure. That has to be a generational thing.
Here comes an interesting fellow. He’s a big man, heavy, wearing loose clothing. His clothes are worn, but clean, his boots run down and old. He wears his graying hair cut short, mostly hidden beneath a cap with some sort of logo. His face has seen many years in the sun; deep lines surround his eyes and line his face.
It would be easy to dismiss this man as an old fat guy who was down on his luck. Let’s take a second look, for I have an idea his appearance is deceptive. Yes he has some fat on him, but that could just be a side effect of good living. His back is too straight, his shoulders too wide, his hands look like they could crush stone, and there is an easy grace to his stride.
I smile as he walks past the car. With a wink and a nod he returns the smile, and now I can see where all those lines in his face came from. That is a face that has smiled a lot over the years.
He’s gone past now, but there comes an old truck, a working man’s truck, but that’s not who is driving. The door opens and a young woman steps out. She is well dressed, in heels, tall, slim, blonde, and beautiful. All eyes are on her as she alights. She smiles and calls a greeting to one of the men, who waves and smiles back.
All the men are standing taller now, their backs straighter, tummies pulled in, cigarettes cast aside, and their scowls gone. She stops to chat with different groups as she makes her way to the coffee shop, and again on her way back. She has a smile and a good word for everybody she meets on her way back.
By the time she reaches the truck again everyone is smiling. Conversations have gone from complaints to idle chat about more pleasant subjects. I’m not sure if she is aware of the effect she had on everybody, but I do hope she is. I’d like to think this woman used her youth and beauty to brighten the day for everyone she encountered.
For that is exactly what she has done. Through her a goddess came and lifted the gloom from the hearts of all the people scattered about this parking lot. Because of her a number of people, men and women alike, are facing the day with a much brighter outlook. That ability to brighten other people’s lives with just a smile is true beauty.
Now, is it just the young and slim who can do this? Heck no. Yesterday I saw an older woman, stooped and walking with difficulty as she leaned on her cane. She smiled brightly at everyone she met and they smiled back. She is still beautiful and she still shares that beauty with those around her. Beauty truly does shine from within.

So, remember to check in at August McLaughlin’s blog today and tomorrow for lots more on the beauty of a woman. here’s that URL again.

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  1. What a fantastic idea for a post. The Beauty of a Woman. You are so right. Whenever I'm out in public, if someone smiles at me, and I can see it's a real smile, I can't help but smile. And you get that little lift in your chest, in your heart. It doesn't matter whether the smile belongs to a child, to a woman, man, old, young, black, white…to see someone else happy and his/her kindness shining through…literally makes me light and giddy.

  2. Genuine smiles are one of those things that can make everyone more beautiful too. There are been studies done that showed moving your lips into the position of a smile actually does have an effect one your mood. (The researchers artificially produced it by making one population of their study hold a pencil in their teeth.) We all need to smile a little more and give beauty and joy to the people around us.

  3. That's right, the age, race, creed, color, or infirmity of the smiler does not matter. Only the beauty of their smile has value. Through a person's smile we can see their true spirit shine through.

  4. The smile is one of the best features in a person. It lights up their eyes and gives their face a glow. I love it when a total stranger passes me by and smiles. It totally makes my day to smile back. 🙂

  5. Prudence, you've done it again. I adore your people watching posts, this one in particular (gee, not that I'm biased for any reason… ;)). This line gave me crazy chills: "Through her a goddess came and lifted the gloom from the hearts of all the people scattered about this parking lot."

    Thank you for expressing this important message in a way only you can.

  6. Thanks for taking me along on your people watching:) It's amazing how someone can just automatically brighten the space they are in. And I agree, you don't have to be young or look a certain way to do this.

  7. A smile can make all the difference! What a great reminder Prudence. Wonderful that she let hers shine the way she did. I love it when all people smile, young and old. I bet the elderly lady with the cane got a ton of smiles in return like you said, brightened everyone’s day.

  8. Everyone has such lovely stories today! Thanks for being part of this awesome blogfest!

    It's so nice to see that so many women are able to find the beauty that surrounds us every day!

    You are beautiful, Prudence.

    Patricia Rickrode
    w/a Jansen Schmidt

  9. Oh, I'm going to have to do a people watching post. GREAT idea and I love to people watch and imagine the story of their lives.

    I really loved this: That ability to brighten other people’s lives with just a smile is true beauty.

    I totally agree!!

  10. People watching is one of my favorite pastimes! You set the scene up beautifully, I loved reading this. Beauty really does come from within, and has nothing to do with skin, eyes or hair.

  11. I am such a people watcher and, I admit it, and eavesdropper. But I mean no harm to those I observe. As a writer I am more of a watcher and a listener. If those I observe wind up as characters in my novel, I treat them kindly.

    But Prudence, you have made me aware that I should also be participating in the world and, hopefully, adding some joy to others lives. I plan to smile more, speak more often to those around me, and take more than a literary interest in their lives.

  12. I'm loving these people watching stories almost as much as your novels! I know when a pretty girl smiles at me it sure brightens up my day;-) I love the reactions you describe for the audience. I can almost see it all now as they suck in their bellies and straighten their backs. A moment later she meets another woman, and oh crap! She's gay! Well, that's okay because guys don't seem to mind lesbians nearly as much as they do gay men;-))

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Paul Kelly

According to Paul, in his earlier days he was a part time footballer with ‘delusions of adequacy’. In his other career, however Paul has been a passionate advocate for communities in need throughout Scotland.

Paul has thirty years of experience working in regeneration throughout Scotland, from Drumchapel in North West Glasgow to the coastal town of Ardrossan in Ayrshire, with many stops in between. In all his time “doing the day job” as Paul puts it he has always identified the power of sport to engage people and help them change their lives.

As the Trust Manager with Partick Thistle Charitable Trust Paul is keen to use the name and resources of the Premiership club to facilitate positive change in the North Glasgow community for young and old alike.

Diane Scott

Development Officer

A Thistle fan from an early age, Diane’s involvement with the Trust began in 2011 as a volunteer coach assisting at the Soccer Camps, while studying for her degree in Sports Coaching. After graduating from UWS, her role within the Trust developed tremendously where she has been involved in the development of all our programmes, as well as overseeing the delivery of our Soccer Camps and delivering Football Fans in Training.

Diane is also the initial point of contact for all administrative management matters connected with the Trust, as well as overseeing all social media and marketing communications related to the organisation.

David Galt

Programme Coordinator

David has been with the Trust from the beginning, initially as a sessional coach delivering a variety of sessions. After becoming heavily involved in our Diversionary activities he then went on to help develop and create our very successful North West Youth Programme – which he still delivers to this day. He has been influential in various employability and disability programmes we have delivered, which lead to his full time role as Programme Coordinator. David now over-sees all of the Trust’s programme activity.

David’s has an extensive background in Sports Coaching, stemming from his time at City of Glasgow College. In his 10 years David has achieved all of his coaching qualifications, worked for other SPL clubs, coached overseas (America, Italy & Germany), and has now become a role model for a lot of our coaches and participants.

Rebecca Richardson

Social Enterprise Development Officer

One of our most recent recruits is Becca who joined the Trust in August of 2018 with the responsibility of growing our projects and generating more revenue for the Trust. You may recognise Becca as she has been the Captain of Thistle Weir Ladies for the past 3 years and has been a Jags fan since she was just a wain!

Becca started and successfully exited her first social enterprise while at university and since then has worked within some of the most successful social enterprise start-ups in Glasgow. For the past 18 months Rebecca has boosted her marketing experience as a Social Media and Content Creation Executive for the largest independent marketing agency in the UK, and has led projects for Rangers FC and UEFA just to name a few! Welcome aboard Becca!

Community Coaches

Kevin Kelly

Community Coach

Kevin began coaching with the Trust in 2015 after he was invited to one of our Vocational Trips to Italy. Since then he has been involved with the North West Youth Programme, Amputee Football and Frame Football, he also delivered our first ever Frame Football Camp!

In 2009 Kevin started his first coaching role with Sidekix, working on a project called “Operation Reclaim”, which allowed him to achieve all his coaching qualifications up to SFA Level 3.

Ryan Murray

Community Coach

Ryan has been involved with us since 2013 were he was part of a school vocational programme, he then went on to volunteer at our Soccer Camps and grew a real passion for coaching. Since achieving his coaching qualifications, Ryan started coaching for the Trust as well as continuing to volunteer for the Thistle Weir Youth Academy. He has now been in our coaching team for over 3 years delivering many different sessions from Frame and Amputee football to the North West Youth Programme, as well as coaching within the local schools, and bringing a fun experience to the Soccer Camps for many age groups.

Ryan is currently studying for his HND in Games and Sports at Springburn college and his ambition is to continue working with the Trust to help us grow and deliver a great service to the community.

Paul Brennan

Community Coach

Paul's coaching role within the Trust began with the Junior Amputee's back in January 2016, now he is heavily involved within the North West Youth Programme and is a Soccer Camp favorite with the younger groups. Although in his 3rd year at UWS studying Sports Coaching, Paul's passion for coaching started 5 years ago when he started coaching with Celtic Soccer Academy, allowing him the opportunity to coach in the U.S.

Not only is Paul extremely busy with university and coaching, he also runs the national PAN Disability League on behalf of the SFA, as well as playing for his own team - Bellshill Juniors.

Kieran Robb

Community Coach

Kieran’s first interaction with the Trust was in 2015 as a participant in the North West Youth Programme, during this time he grow closer to the staff, and was keen to volunteer for us at the October Camp. After this Kieran became a regular volunteer at the Soccer Camps which led to him being selected to go away with the Trust on a trip to Italy, this is when Kieran’s ambitions to follow a career in coaching developed.

We are extremely happy to have Kieran on board as one of our paid sessional coaches as he continues to grow as a coach and gain experience, while studying Football Development full time at NL College.

Dean Thornton

Dean’s role within the Trust has evolved from volunteer to coach at our Frame Football session, and now also volunteers within our Soccer Camps. Having only just finished with school in the summer, he is now progressing on to further education at Glasgow Clyde College to pursue a career in Sports Coaching.

Dean has cerebral palsy and has been involved with the Scotland CP Team, played in the U19’s World Cup, and is a true inspiration to our Frame kids.


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Thoughtful Thursday #230 – Wholeness

We look for emotional wholeness all the time whether we are aware of it or not. The dark side of finding wholeness is through addictions, busy work, false beliefs about ourselves, looking outside of ourselves for answers to our emptiness just to name a few.

Life can send us confusing curves, our self-esteem is crushed more than once, and none of us is whole all the time, this is the bad news.

The good news is achieving wholeness is a process. As Carl Jung states wholeness is a process of letting go, change and growth.

Your mental health requires that you find your own balance of physical, spiritual and mental health.

Is it an easy or linear process? Nope. The process is one day at a time, one moment at a time, all as you live your life with tons of distractions.

The benefit you get from finding a way to be balanced in your physical, spiritual and mental health is priceless. You create the life that is exclusively for you. How cool is that. Way Cool.

Carry on…………………..


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The ‘Universal Soldier’ Paradox: When a Bad Franchise Produces a Great Film

CITY ON FIRE  (10.28.12)  by HK FANATIC

“Director John Hyams isn’t content to merely serve up your typical action movie dreck. He’s made it his mission to challenge audiences and their expectations of what a film like “Universal Soldier” can do… and it might take more than one viewing of “Day” to truly appreciate it…”

“…intense, brutal and beautiful all at once.”

DEN OF GEEK  (12.26.12)  by GABE TORO

“…easily the best action film of the year.”

New Universal Soldier has Van Damme, Lundgren, Facepaint, and Face Punching

“…Day of Reckoning is a film so intense and dark of tone that, as a Unisol movie, it really shouldn’t work. Hyams though keeps such a tight grip of proceedings, with a good script and engrossing direction, that he never lets the ball drop… it’s actually one of the ballsiest movies out there.”

“I love Reckoning’s formal audacity, its pretensions, and its willingness to throw backstory out the window…  I wish there were more movies like it, and I can’t recall ever thinking that about a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie.”

IGN  (9.25.12)  by CHRIS TILLY

“It may not always be successful, but in an age when filmmakers seem happy to churn out the same movie over-and-over again, credit should go to Hyams for mixing up the tried-and-tested formula.”

INDIEWIRE  (9.23.12)  by ERIC KOHN

Fast and Furious ‘Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning’ Is One of the Best Action Movies of the Year

INDIEWIRE  (10.24.12)  by ERIC KOHN

Why the Latest ‘Universal Soldier,’ Now On VOD, Is Better Than ‘Skyfall’

INDIEWIRE  (11.28.12)  by GABE TORO

‘Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning’ Combines Art House Intentions & Strong Action In A Franchise Return To Form

“I relished its off the wall and deep storyline, its trippy audio/visual style, strong acting, insane action scenes and its ‘take no prisoners’ attitude.”

L.A. TIMES  (11.29.12)  by MARK OLSEN

“…the movie creates something of the sensation of huffing industrial solvents — in a good way! — a waking-sleep zombification that can’t exactly be described as pleasurable but definitely has an odd, distinct power.”

“…a complex, thought-provoking film, words not usually used to describe a balls-to-the-wall action genre film. In fact, it may be impossible to define it by any one genre as, if anything, it is genre-bending in some of the most unexpected ways.”

8 Reasons Why ‘Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning’ Is Among the Weirdest Movies Ever

“It’s no stretch to say this is the best Universal Soldier movie – better to say it’s the biggest cinematic boner your inner (or outer, depending) 17 year-old boy is likely to have this season.”

NY TIMES  (11.29.12)  by ANDY WEBSTER

Technologically Enhanced Strongman vs. Government Evildoers

“…muscular, atmospheric and surprisingly scary… John Hyams has resuscitated a long-dead franchise and restored it to its former glory…”

TWITCH  (9.23.12)  by JAMES MARSH

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning Will Take Your Head Off!

John Hyams Is the Best Action Director Working Today

“The melee fight scenes are seemingly conjured into this dark, poo-encrusted world from some other, happier film containing sunshine and magic, in which muscley men grapple and put one another’s heads through walls.”

VARIETY  (9.23.12)  by JOE LEYDON

“Hyams and co-scripters Doug Magnuson and Jon Greenhalgh reference a wide range of sources throughout…  To their credit, however, the filmmakers make mostly clever use of their borrowings, and they play fair: that surprise twist is signaled early on by clues hidden in plain sight.”

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING”  2012  directed by John Hyams; written by John Hyams & Doug Magnuson and Jon Greenhalgh; starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins, Andrei Arlovski, Mariah Bonner, Craig Walker and Andrew Sikking

and look for the Blu-ray release 1.22.13 including the documentary “DAYS OF RECKONING: THE MAKING OF US4“…

the premiere…

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING” has it’s U.S. Premiere this Saturday 9.22.12 in 3D at FANTASTIC FEST, Austin, TX…

it will also be screening at the TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FESTIVAL in October and opening in theaters 11.30.12…

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING”  2012  directed by John Hyams; written by John Hyams & Doug Magnuson and Jon Greenhalgh; starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins, Andrei Arlovski, and Mariah Bonner

and look for the Blu-ray release 1.22.13 including the documentary “DAYS OF RECKONING: THE MAKING OF US4“…

the much anticipated release of UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 3 is just around the corner, hitting and kicking the shelves February 2nd…

JCVD on set with Violetta Markovska  2009

The screener had been sitting around my apartment for about a month. I was excited that Dolph Lundgren was in it, but didn’t expect much. When I finally got around to putting it in it seemed like the wrong disc. The trailers were for classy foreign films, and the opening was a quiet scene in an art museum. But then ski masked commandos nab a young man and woman and take them on a kill crazy high speed chase through security, police, a road block and away in a helicopter.

On the surface you have your usual DTV qualities: masked gunmen from some vaguely defined radical faction, dreary European locations, car crashes, and no sign of the stars on the cover yet. But the weird thing is this is a — great — action sequence. Cameras attached to the cars, putting you right inside the mayhem, you feel like you’re getting knocked around and dragged away but (get this) you can tell exactly what’s going on. It’s fast, brutal and unfashionably comprehensible. It had my heart beating. You don’t expect that in the opening of a DTV action movie or, let’s be honest, any modern American action movie.

Unlike most DTV this gets straight to business. The fights are raw and brutal – people punched 8-10 times in the face, thrown through walls, covered in blood, expertly knifed or surgically machine gunned. Andrei “The Pitbull” Arlovski is a legitimately scary Terminator, the fights are perfectly staged and the movie cuts effectively between the breathing and grunting of the fights in quiet Chernobyl and the panicked war room where the military brass shout at each other while watching everything go to hell through the POV of the UniSol eyepieces.

Jean-Claude Van Damme is still Luc Devereaux. Van Damme is in “I actually get to act in this one” mode, a quiet, sad performance more like UNTIL DEATH and JCVD than UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, more quick and brutally effective than we’ve seen him in a while. Dolph looks like – and basically is – Frankenstein’s monster. I won’t give away his interaction with Van Damme, but what he says to him is haunting, somehow almost poetic. In a UNIVERSAL SOLDIER movie.

Part of the genius of the movie is that it doesn’t try to humanize them more as it goes along. It doesn’t try to explain their history or even mention which war it was they fought in. All that matters is that they’re leftover weapons, unable to be useful in peace time. In fact, the human villains who instigate this conflict die early, and their demands are already met. But the Universal Soldiers continue the war. They don’t know how to shut off. They’re like perpetual war in human shape.

The characters are just right – they’re not real developed, but they don’t have to be. They’re mostly people of action, not words. They’re pieces in a game moved around just right for you to worry about what happens to them. For example there’s a great scene where a badass special ops type guy (another MMA fighter, Mike Pyle) is sent in to do recon but accidentally engages The Pitbull. By this point it’s been established that this guy is merely super at being a soldier, not a super soldier. We have seen the work of both him and his opponent, and it’s clear to everyone what must go down. This guy will die, but first he’ll put up way more of a fight than any other regular non zombie soldier would put up. He’s not supernatural, he’s just highly trained, but you can’t turn him off either.

The look, feel and whole mentality of this one are completely different from any of the previous five UNIVERSAL SOLDIER pictures. To me it seems more influenced by ALIEN, THE TERMINATOR and CHILDREN OF MEN than its own series. The story is perfectly streamlined, just setting the characters in motion and crashing them into each other, the type of elegant simplicity so many of these convoluted DTVs need as a role model in their lives. The tone is deadly serious, quiet, tense. The score is a nice John Carpenter/Brad Fiedel type keyboard droner. The sound design is really good too, lots of weird buzzes and distorted voices over radios creating atmosphere.

What I’m telling you is that this is a real fucking good movie, made with care and skill. I can’t believe how much I liked it. It joins UNDISPUTED II as the rare DTV sequel better than its theatrical originator. It’s also probly the first ever part 5 that’s better than its part 1. Unless you count porn. This is that you-would-think-mythical-but-it-turns-out-it’s-a-real-thing movie I’ve been naively waiting for all these years watching crappy DTV sequels. Sure, it’s unlikely that somebody would pour everything they got into something like a UNIVERSAL SOLDIER sequel. They probly wouldn’t do that. But they could. And for once, they did!

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“UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 3: REGENERATION” 2009  directed by John Hyams

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