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Jason & I go to Holland about once a month to check out what's available, to find new varieties, to source new growers, to keep in touch with new trends and to generally emerse ourselves in fresh flowers and plants.

We visit the wholesale market at the world famous auctions in Aalsmeer near to Amsterdam, the flowers are shown in height/size & colour order by varietal name.

We don't actually bring any fresh flowers or foliages back with us though we do place orders for future dates and take pictures of the products we're most interested in so we can place orders with our buyer on the auctions This Week's Trip to Holland Christmas Sourcing & Ordering

There are a huge number of aspirational designs to inspire weary florists This Week's Trip to Holland Christmas Sourcing & Ordering

And a vast quantity of florist sundries and dried articles

This is literally just red berries including Ilex, Rose hips, Skimmia, Hypericum, Crab apples & Pyracanthus.

A festive bowl of Amaryllis

Foliages as far as the eye can see

Some brand new garden style Roses

Jason measuring up some frosted Salix

Just a few of the gorgeous array of winter Hydrangeas

I love these Green Roses the colour is so vivid.

Jason & I go on the ferry from Hull to Rotterdam and then drive over land to Aalsmeer, the ship sails through the night so we arrive all fresh and raring to go! (If you say this often enough you do start to believe it!)

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Title: This Week in iPad - Akshay Kothari Co-founder, Alphonso Labs (Makers of Pulse news reader)

This week we have Akshay Kothari, Co-founder, Alphonso Labs (Makers of Pulse news reader). For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.

Sponsor #1 -- Gazelle (3:00)

Gazelle is a service which will purchase your old or gadgets, video games, cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, PDAs, gaming consoles and cell phones.

News (8:15)

iPad Today -- Leo Laporte's TWIT.TV network will be launching a new iPad-centric show today which will be streamed live at 1:30 PM PT with co-host Sarah Lane. The show will be available later for download on TWIT.TV

Corporations Love the iPad -- Wells Fargo, SAP and Mercedes Benz are increasingly adopting the iPad as a business device.

iPad Cam Case -- A designer has developed a concept case for the iPad which would feature a rotating camera.

Mac Sales -- NPD data showed that Mac sales remained strong, despite concerns that the iPad would cannibalize sales of Mac computers.

Geeks Hate the iPad -- Andrew McAfee wrote an article on Forbes saying that geeks hate the iPad because Apple doesn't, as he believes, allow for open innovation on the device.

Sponsor #2 -- Print Magic (31:00)

"Print Magic" Wellala is also a sponsor of This Week in iPad. The application allows users to print to any Wi-Fi connected printer directly from an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Users can copy and paste text into the application for printing and users can also print images from the iOS photo library directly. Print Magic and Print Magic HD are available from the App Store. Host Lon Harris said on This Week in iPad that the app is "incredibly fast" and "works like a dream."

Guest - Akshay Kothari (36:00)

Kothari shared that when developing Pulse Reader, Alphonso labs, aimed at building news in a visual manner without focusing on providing the maximum amount of content. Kothari said the biggest pain point for users is the 20 feed limitations, which is done for memory management purposes. He added that Pulse News Reader would allow for more feeds in the next update and providing better organization for feeds.

Kothari said that in the future, news readers would likely no longer sort stories via source and instead users would perhaps share stories in social news clouds in which users could read news that their friends are reading. Kothari said that in the last several weeks that the further development of Pulse has been focused on improving performance of the application.

Harris mentioned the New York Times takedown request which got Pulse News Reader removed from the App Store temporarily. Kothari shared that Pulse included popular reads which many people were adding and that he thought the New York Times got upset because the application was pre-loading their feed. Kothari expressed disappointment that the New York Times went to apple instead of directly to Alphonso Labs and said that his company had a good working relationship with Apple.

Planet of the Apps and Closing Remarks (52:00)

Harris showed off his pencil and rubber band iPad stand and said that he would discuss how to build the iPad stand on next week's show.

Harris thanked the show's technical staff for their hard work on the show.

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To close the show, Harris thanked Gazelle and Wellala for sponsoring the show and Matthew Paulson of iPad Weekly for being the show's official blogger.

Title: Achievement Hunter Weekly Update #34 (Week of October 25th, 2010)

Jack and Geoff go futuristic this week with a green screen AHWU! Come on folks, join us as we talk about this weeks' releases such as Fable 3, Force Unleashed 2 and much much more.

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This is one of those weddings that I just love, Jane & Matthew are great friends of ours and we felt very honoured and privileged to be asked to create “The Flower Design Look” for their big day, the “Lovely Jane” from Pure Beauty has sensational taste, she is also totally gorgeous and Matthew is the archetypal tall dark and handsome groom everyone dreams of so here are some of the details, they were married at The Grand Hotel in St Annes and had their wedding breakfast there too.

Their much loved Spaniel Poppy was not allowed, which caused an element of disappointment, therefore in homage to the absent Poppy we included lots of Poppy Seed Heads to make up for it….

"Poppy Love" Flower Design Wedding of The Lovely Jane & Matthew Shaw at The Grand Hotel St Annes

The ceremony space at The Grand is huge, the chair dressings by Creative Cover Hire look so classy and really add to the bridal feel.

The back of some of the chairs were dressed with Poppy seed heads, Amnesia Roses & Chocco Anthuriums.

These are my prelimnary thoughts and inspiration sent to Jane & Matthew…
Poppy Love
The most important aspects we want to bring out of your day are those of difference, fashion, independence, personality and Sparkiness. All part of your character and relationship that when brought together produce a truly beautiful and unique picture.

· Conveying the fashionable nature of both of you is an integral feature and focuses in on all aspects of your day. In order to create such an image we will use new and unique shapes and styles. Funky, fresh flowers of unusual origin and aesthetics – proteas and anthuriums. Using complimentary yet contemporary colour schemes.

· The independent side of your character will be represented in each individual flower; each member of each arrangement ought to be able, in terms of boldness, beauty and all in between, to stand on its own as you do or to be co-joined to other beautiful flowers as you and Matthew will do. Ensuring that the details are just as gorgeous as the overall picture, in turn, creating that difference.

· Difference, in that it is something unique and special both to and for you. For the most part, the flowers have got to suggest sharpness, the designs will be unexpected and thought provoking, we do need to have a mixture of very tall and very low designs on the tables (height differentials between you and Matthew).

· As such, we will arrange them in quite an angular manner. This is the Sparkiness and sense of ambition and will continue the contemporary theme whilst ensuring elegance. However, this is where a paradox occurs, in that; each of the flowers themselves will be delicate, with soft, round edges, curls and swirls. Such a paradox is evident in the venue itself, its external tradition of The Grand and its internal modernity.

· Finally, personality, which is prominent in all the included themes, but is more so in each individual flower, specifically in your wedding bouquet. For instance, the ginger for passion and heat, the calla lilies for elegance and purity and of course the poppy seed head to represent Poppy herself.

We really hope you will love the thoughts behind the designs….. Essentially they are to represent you and Matthew and your love for each other and of course your Poppy.

The Flower Design Seating Plan

Table Name
“Love”
“Ambition”
“Independence”
“Sparky”
“Personality”
“Vogue”
“Dreams”
“Passion”
“Elegance”
“Beauty”
“Poppy”

Jane & Matthew's Mini got dressed up too, Matthew arrived bright and early "Poppy Love" Flower Design Wedding of The Lovely Jane & Matthew Shaw at The Grand Hotel St Annes

Guests taking in the seating plan, Matthew looking quite nervous

We'd dressed the posseur tables with small Martini glasses

The utterly beautiful Jane looking so relaxed and happy

Jane wore a Suzanne Neville gown from Dreamcatcher Bridal in Kirkham, the design was so perfect for Jane she does have seriously great taste.

The Bridesmaid's were just perfect Daniella 13, Lucy 13, Melissa 10, Monique 10 and Little Olivia only 18 months old we made her a little teddy bear with the fresh flowers stiched on.

Huge congratulations to two of the nicest people we know!

The Bridesmaid's Bouquets included Paphiopedilum Orchids, Poppy Seed Heads, Callas, Roses & Lily of the Valley.

The Girls hair was done by our very dear friend Stewart from S & P Hair and what a fabulous job he did, Jane's looked particularly exquisite.

We made tiny boutonnieres of rose buds for the little people

Stewart had put a few rose buds in the girld hair

Matthew's Poppy Buttonhole with fresh Lily of the Valley and rolled Rose Petals

Jane's Bridal Bouquet included a plethora of magnificent autumnal flowers and textures including Lotus, Chocolate Anemones, Xanadu, Rosehips, Paphiopedilum Orchids, Roses, Proteas, Anthuriums & Gerbera Centres.