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Pet shops must be extra accountable about educating their customers on the right care of the animals and not promote gear unsuitable to pets. Pet Pantry & Canine Wash in Colorado Springs, Co has two handy locations to serve you. Pet shops normally have a wide range of puppies of various breeds and thus provide an opportunity to compare, contrast, and choose.
Despite the fact that nobody wants one more reason not to purchase canines from a pet retailer, a new motive has hit the information this week. This launch of the Java Pet Store Demo application is an incremental release fixing reported bugs. Twenty-9 of the infected individuals were pet retailer employees. Established in 2008, you can see that Pet X is not only another bizarre pet supply store, our mission to enlighten and educate pet lovers everywhere.Capabilities of Outstanding Organizations include: problem solving, continuous improvement, and resilience.
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“The Westward Ho! and North Devon Ladies were very early pioneers in the history of Ladies Golf. The Reverend Isaac Gosset, Vicar of the Parish of Northam and a founder of the Royal North Devon Golf Club has to take most of the credit for the formation of the Ladies Club. On May 28th 1868 the Reverend Gosset extended an invitation, by way of a letter, to ladies living in the locality suggesting the formation of a Ladies Golf Club.
The first meeting took place at Northam Vicarage on the 8th June 1868 when it was formally resolved to form a Ladies Golf Club. At a further meeting just one week later, a committee were elected and a number of letters of intent were read from prospective members. There were forty seven original Lady Members and twenty three Male Associate Members – most of these Lady members were the wives and daughters of existing members of the men’s Club”. (The opening lines from a booklet published last month to celebrate 150 years of their existence.) More extracts below.
The ‘ladies meeting’ (see above) has some artistic licence and is seemingly more like a fashion show where dress is more important than a good golf swing (although with a putter it is unlikely that a lady would need to make a full swing.) The tent was purchased for £6 in May 1871 and in that year a Mr. Hearn was paid 1/6d (7.5 pence) every time it was erected – usually once a week from May to September.
The original course was of eighteen holes, but could only be played with a wooden putter and the early scores reflect a certain prowess amongst the ladies, with scores of about fifty four (level threes) required to win any sort of prize. During this early time the Men’s Club Professional, Johnny Allan, is named as the custodian of the links and responsible for maintaining the course.
The ‘new’ Ladies course was formally opened at 2.30 pm on January 2nd 1894 and the men could use it!
Interestingly in August 1895 it is reported that the Ladies’ course has ‘Molesworth’s Permanent Tee Boards made of three inch planks, six foot square, bolted with cross pieces and then covered with matting and sprinkled with sand to give a firm grip’; this area of ground on which the Ladies’ course was located is still notoriously wet today – especially in winter.
Although this course originally measured just 1,500 yards there were major improvements – mostly extending the length, due to the new Haskell golf ball. In the Ladies Golf Union Year Book of 1904 the course then measured 2,242 yards.
Want to read more? Copies of the booklet are obtainable from the North Devon Club House via the manager Mark Evans. Celebrations took place in June.
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This collection of information is the heart and soul of Berner-Garde... It started almost from the beginning of Bernese Mountain Dogs in America. From its onset in the 60's the BMDCA collected health information. By the early 70's Martin Packard who had an interest and affinity for new age technology, decided to convert the information stored on index cards to a "computer".
In 1974, a group of people led by Barbara and Martin Packard formed the San Francisco Bay Berners. It was a group of Berner lovers who recognized the high incidence of hip dysplasia in the breed. They embraced the idea of the computerized database to more easily track the incidence of hip dysplasia. From there it expanded to include tracking all issues that might be considered "genetic". The term genetic was not widely accepted in those days. Hip dysplasia was thought to be caused by anything but genetics and the idea that it might be an inherited disease was radical at the time. This was pioneering ideology!
In the early 80's the first PC was introduced to the world and Martin had one. In 1984 the collection of health information finally got a name - The International Bernese Mountain Dog Database. It was introduced to the fancy in 1986 at the Fort Mason National Specialty. Some of you may remember Martin and Barbara in their Swiss garb working tirelessly at their computers for many National Specialties thereafter. These were not the lovely little laptops we know today, but rather big cumbersome PCs, CRTS, printers and miles of wire. It was truly a labor of love to haul this equipment across the country every year, but they believed in it and shared it with anyone who would come by to watch information on their dogs light up the screens.
Sometime in the early 90's a Steering Committee headed up by Barbara Packard and Margrit Baertschi was formed to determine the future of the database. The name Berner-Garde was born. The mission of ensuring a long and healthy lifespan was crafted. Others were called to flush out the goals and structure of an organization that could truly impact the lives of Berners. Martin and Barbara Packard, Teresa Glen Godfrey, Anne Gause, Lori Jodar, Stephanie Merchant, Susan Muick, Marsha Queer, Jerry Uhl and Nell Ward came together to study the best course of action.
In 1994, an organization was created, by-laws were drafted. The Berner-Garde Foundation, Inc. was incorporated in 1995. The IRS approved the 501 c 3 status in 1996.
For many years Barbara was the only data operator. She spent hours at her computer with her Berner Lucki at her side. Margrit Kitchen became the first File Manager. But what a cumbersome job it was to enter and send out information.
In 1998 Roxanne Bortnick with the help of Randy Karl introduced a new platform for the database converting Martin's dBase5 to the cutting edge Microsoft Access. Immense improvement but still tedious compared to today's standards.
By 2000, the Internet was exploding. The goal became to provide a web based database that anyone could access from anywhere in the world through the Internet. Roxanne put out a call for help and Gary Galunas answered. On February 22, 2004, he took us live with the conversion to a server based system using Microsoft SQL Server.
As the database caught on, Pat Long, File Manager, guided us through the intricacies of how to submit and verify data.
In this 6th decade we hope this expansive collection of data compels you to include your dogs as part of our rich history. Every dog has a story to tell...leave a legacy for yours by telling it in the database.
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Nicholasa Mohr's "Nilda" Is In The Running To Be New York City’s Summer Book. Read An Excerpt Here.
"Pushing open the door, Nilda yelled, 'They are doing it; they’re going to open the hydrant! Hurry up before the cops come.'"
Summers in New York City’s Barrio were unbearable.
Even when there was a cool spell, it seemed a long time before the dry fresh air could find a way past the concrete and asphalt, into the crowded buildings which had become blazing furn