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We can’t wait to join our girls tomorrow night as they celebrate a year of incredible textile design. Our U5, L6, and U6 pupils have dedicated themselves to crafting an unforgettable evening.
Join us tomorrow night at 7.30pm in The Gransden Hall! https://t.co/64ivlQNcfj pic.twitter.com/u8B65MQVC7
— Sherborne Girls (@SherborneGirls) May 2, 2024
And that's a wrap on the 2024 Annual Fashion Show! ✨
This year's show featured 171 looks from 42 designers, and with 24 students on the production team, a total of 215 students were involved in the show.
Watch the recording of the Saturday Show: https://t.co/HZdDwKzBHh
— Kent State Fashion (@KSUFashion) May 3, 2024
“Patrik Aspers shines a bright light on how markets come to seem orderly to producers and consumers, so they can strive to enact the script of rational actors. His astute and subtle account of all aspects of branded garment retailing sets a high bar for future studies of industry.”―Mark Granovetter, Stanford University
“This fine book makes an original contribution to our understanding of fashion, markets, and social theory. While there do exist books on each of these topics, none of them tie everything together in such a convincing manner. Orderly Fashion is a fine merger of Aspers’ substantive theoretical research interests, and is his best work so far.”―Richard Swedberg, author of Principles of Economic Sociology
“This book delivers on a huge promise to advance our knowledge of both order and markets through sociological concepts and insights. The book demonstrates with lucid reasoning why order in markets is best understood through the social construction of meaning. An impressive accomplishment.”―Shyon Baumann, University of Toronto
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Speaking of storms…Photo of an apple orchard in Ireland after a storm.
by Tony Egan pic.twitter.com/EFWQzCtUkz— Edward Elderman (@edwereddie) October 10, 2024
Selected Quotes:
…”The climate is always changing. It has never been stable…It is not going to stop changing if we stop changing CO2…“
…”CO2, far from being a pollutant is actually making the world a better place…”
“…Advice for Chicken Little: If the sky seems to be falling, look for the fox!…”
“…If you are being panicked and all you are panicky stories seeing in the media you ought to stop and think is it to somebody’s benefit? Cui Bono as they say in the law…”
“…Politics to slow CO2 emissions are based on flawed computer models which exaggerate warming by factors of 2 or 3. More CO2 is an overall benefit so costly “mitigation” schemes are harmful…”
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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