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Erwin’s 10-and-under softball team trailed Western Harnett 1-0 in the Tar Heel District IV final when play was halted due to rain and lightning on Thursday. But the home team rallied to win 4-1 when play resumed on Friday.
Sydney Bradham got the win in the circle for Erwin. She pitched the entire tournament, earning wins in all three outings. After struggling a bit on Thursday, allowing one run on three hits in two innings, she didn’t allow a single batter to reach base in four innings on Friday, racking up nine strikeouts in the contest.
Though Western fell short, the team’s performance improved considerably after a 10-1 loss to Erwin in the opening game. They bounced back with a 9-5 win over Parkwood on Wednesday.
Play resumed with two outs in the bottom of the second and Erwin up to bat. Charlie Beasley reached with a base hit and came around to score to tie the game.
Erwin took the lead in the third after Megan Harrold led off with a hit and came around to make it 2-1.
Beasley delivered again in the fourth with a home run to make it 3-1. Leigha Roberts tacked on the final run later in the inning after being hit by a pitch.
Erwin will have a short turnaround to prepare for the state tournament, which begins on Thursday in Currituck. Members of the team are: Charley Beasley, Adison Bowden, Sydney Bradham, Peyton Dunn, Grace Foisy, Megan Harrold, Mackenzie Lucas, Pasleigh Lucas, Leigha Roberts and Bryleigh Smith.
The 10-and-under baseball tournament suspended play until Monday. Erwin athletic director Don Wilson had workers focus on preparing one field to ensure that the softball tournament got done in plenty of time.
Erwin baseball was leading Western Harnett American 10-1 in the bottom of the first in an elimination game. The winner will advance to play Sandhills in the final, needing a pair of wins to win the district championship and advance to the state tournament, which will be played in Clayton and Smithfield.
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Quinn, Kristi, Lila, Ruby and Edison
I took you by the hand and we stood tall.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
We headed to cornbelly's for some fall fun
Ruby loved the corn beach and her princess dress. .
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- British Sherman Firefly metal barrel for Asuka 1/35 kit
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We have a programme on the BBC called 'Who do you think you are?' in which various public figures look at where they came from and who their ancestors were. I love it because instead of being the history of the rich and royal, it is the history of everyone, of people in all their rich variety. Social history at it's most illuminating and I love the way it digs away at the reasons for things. Migrations, politics, crime, scandal, adventure, love... It's all been shown on this series at some time or another.
I have it series linked and am slowly watching and enjoying the current series...
One day in my teens I was digging through boxes at home when I came across a family tree of my fathers side. Having bought it to my parents attention, it was whisked from my hands with glee and my parents started to trace back even further. I look at this grand tree as it is now and it feels to me so one sided. All these women! Where did they come from? Who were they? Where did they go? Half of me comes from my mothers side but there always seems to be so much focus on the paternal side, why?
My paternal line extends back, from London most recently but my Great-grandfather migrated from the edge of the fens. My family extends back and back in this land. They moved from village to village with each marriage but they remained here for generations on the edge of the marshy wilderness that was eventually drained. They were poor: rat catchers, rag and bone men, labourers. Some were found in the poorhouses and others spent time in the clink.
What of all the women? My paternal grandmother? No idea. I believe her family came from Liverpool. My maternal side is a little different because it is my maternal grandfather who is the most miysterious. He was half Welsh and he and his brother spent time in a children's home whenever their parents couldn't afford to feed them. I suspect my Grandfather was abused in the home and that this affected him in many ways. He was a deeply creative person and even though he has been dead a long time, people still approached my Uncle with the family resemblance when he lived in the last town my Grandfather had lived in. He was fondly remembered by many and they bore testament to this. There are little sparks of controversy hinted at my Grandmother that make him even more intriguing to me and all the more sad for him. She certainly didn't feel the same way towards him as everyone else did as they eventually divorced.
My maternal line is one I know a little more about, up to a point. Long ago an ancestor left Scotland and married a farmers daughter in East Anglia. He had a good job and was obviously well educated but it is almost as if he didn't exist before the move. His line included an uncle that went to India with the East India Company (I have his battered trunk that accompanied him). There was a whole gaggle of spinster headmistresses (we have their letters to each other in which they discussed their gardens).
I wish I could know all these people better. Their blood flows through my veins. I am a result of the choices they made. I can never touch them or really know anything beyond a few bare facts about them. Some of their characteristics will have been lost over the years but some of them would have looked like me, would have had my personality traits, my skills. What an earth would they have made of me? of my life? of my choices?
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Concerns on Caritas deal
This isn’t the most efficient way to get a memo across town, but I’m counting on it getting to the right desk.
To: Attorney General Martha Coakley
From: Boston Capital
Re: Caritas Christi
Hello, Martha. I’m sure you’ve already heard from lots of people on the proposed sale of Caritas Christi to the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, since you are the public’s primary advocate when charities seek to convert to for-profit businesses.
That’s an important role to play in the conversion of six Massachusetts hospitals with long, charitable histories in the service of so many poor patients. We’re also talking about the most dramatic advance ever by for-profit hospital care in Massachusetts, a huge cultural issue.
But it’s also a confusing story, or at least an incomplete one, so far. It’s ultimately up to you to untangle the story and tell it in public.
Do you wonder how a hospital chain that has struggled on and off for so long as a nonprofit organization will be better off serving its patients and the financial interests of new private investors with a relatively high risk-high return slant to their portfolio? I do.
I know the people at Cerberus say much of the turnaround at Caritas has already happened and the organization’s biggest remaining problem is all about capital. Give it some money to relieve the pressure from debts and pension liabilities, not to mention invest in physical improvements, and the business will flourish. Win-win!
I suspect the investment calculation has something to do with the fact that Caritas hospitals are generally low-cost operations in a field that is going to become increasingly focused on expenses soon. Sounds like the right place for an investor to be.
But all that falls short of explaining how investors will make the kind of money they want while Caritas continues to serve patients the way it has in the past.
So here are a few questions worth asking:
Does the for-profit Caritas plan depend on attracting more patients? This is a basic business goal but admissions at Caritas hospitals have been headed in the wrong direction. Gaining hospital patients in Massachusetts usually means taking them from someone else. Caritas is competing from behind.
Will Caritas ever borrow money in the future to pay dividends to Cerberus investors? Cerberus promises not to take money out of Caritas for three years, but expect the hospital operations to start paying dividends to investors after that. How Caritas funds payments to investors will be critical to the operation of its hospitals.
What are the possible exit strategies? Private equity firms don’t stay forever, though Cerberus executives consider themselves long-term investors. I bet Caritas would eventually be sold to a bigger hospital company but a public stock exit is possible. The long-term ownership implications for Caritas are up in the air.
What happens if the Caritas investment doesn’t work out? No one will give you a straight answer on this question. But I think Caritas would be broken into pieces if the Cerberus acquisition turns out to be a mistake. A few hospitals would attract interested bidders; others would not. A breakup would probably raise the most money.
The most important question of all: How do for-profit hospitals that serve the poor do justice to their investors and their patients at the same time?
Steven Syre is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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FAIRFIELD - Students at Fairfield University imprisoned their friends in a mock jail Friday to raise money for charity.
It was the school's eighth "Jail N' Bail" event. Proceeds will go to benefit Special Olympics athletes in Connecticut.
Participants raise money by charging fees for "arrest warrants," and then the "arrested" students raise more money to bail themselves out.
"It's all in good fun," says Todd Pelazza, of the school's public safety department. "The main purpose of this is to not only raise funds but raise awareness for Special Olympics."
Officials say last year's event raised $16,000.
Officials also say that officers did not take students out of class in order to participate.
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Our family really enjoyed our stay. The two bed apartment was roomy and clean. Plenty of restaurants of various budgets close and a supermarket within five minutes. Breakfast adequate with many options but lacked some usual choices for a western diet. Lots of facilities for under eights but could have maybe some options for older children eg. Games room. MRT is about ten minutes walk away. Staff were very helpful and friendly. A great holiday!
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Obstructive sleep apnoea or OSA is one of the most disruptive reasons why a person experiences interrupted sleep. A person with undiagnosed OSA wakes up several times per hour during sleep as he stops breathing. These episodes of interruption deprive him (and his bed partner) of a good night’s sleep. However, cause for worry is unnecessary because OSA is very manageable through CPAP therapy.
A CPAP machine will keep a person’s upper airway open as he sleeps, eliminating episodes of breathing cessation thus allowing the patient and bed partner to enjoy a restful night’s sleep. A CPAP machine also effectively reduces snoring.
The three basic components of a CPAP machine are the air pump, a mask that covers the face or nose or both, and a flexible tube that links the mask to the machine. Included in a standard CPAP machine is a small water tank with filter to purify and humidify air.
There are CPAP machines that employ prongs to the nose instead of a mask. Some models have chinstraps to ensure that the mouth of the user stays closed while undergoing therapy as breathing must be through the nose and not the mouth.
A qualified doctor recommends the air pressure produced by the CPAP machine to ensure that the patient’s upper airway is prevented from collapsing for uninterrupted breathing while he sleeps. Getting used to the pressurized air takes time; but if it’s too strong, the patient can ask his doctor to adjust the air pressure.
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Surveys indicate that majority of CPAP users do not encounter problems when using the device. However, there are some who do run into some difficulty when using the machine.
The number one concern when using a CPAP is the mask as it prevents the user from easily falling asleep. There are some users who feel claustrophobic when wearing a CPAP mask. Such user should wear the mask only for short periods while he is awake. With constant usage, he will eventually get used to wearing the mask. At this stage, attaching the hose and flipping the CPAP machine on is the next stage. The patient will get eventually get used to the machine.
If a patient finds it uncomfortable to take in the pressurized air, he should start with a lower air pressure then gradually increase the pressure until in level with the recommended air pressure.
Some patients develop stuffy or dry nose due to usage of CPAP machine. The condition is easily remedied by adjusting the humidity level of the device. There are those who use nasal saline spray instead. Before using the machine, one should check for correct fit of the mask to ensure that there is no leak.
Minor irritants such as facial skin irritations due to the mask, dry mouth, and unintentional mask removal when one is asleep are common. Cause for alarm is unnecessary as all of these can be easily resolved.
Initial use of a CPAP machine could be quite trying until one gets used to it. The important thing is to stick to the therapy for the efficient management of OSA.
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Appearing in "Death Throws"Edit
- Annie Brennan
- Michele March
- Jeannie Rosenthal
- Arthur Bennett
- Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal
What's Cap doing with Hawkeye's weapons? And what is Hawkeye doing with Cap's shield?
- Steve Rogers and Bernie Rosenthal both move out of 569 Leaman Place and Brooklyn Heights this issue.
- No trivia.
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Captain America Vol 1 317 on the forums
- Cover gallery for the Captain America series
- Images from Captain America Vol 1 317
Links and ReferencesEdit
- The Grand Comics Database: Captain America #317
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Publication day for debut author Bill Clinton hasn’t exactly been a celebratory occasion.
The former U.S. President, who co-authored the thriller The President Is Missing with best-selling writer James Patterson, began work on the media circuit Monday morning but repeatedly found conversation around the book put to the side, as questions of his past moved to the fore.
With Patterson awkwardly by his side, Clinton was grilled, particularly, by NBC News on Today, about his affair with Monica Lewinsky while he was in office. Lewinsky has emerged in recent months as an anti-bullying advocate, writing essays for Vanity Fair which have placed her former relationship with Clinton in the context of the #MeToo movement, and whether his behavior constituted misconduct. “Now, at 44, I’m beginning (just beginning) to consider the implications of power differentials that were so vast between a president and a White House intern,” she wrote. “I’m beginning to entertain the notion that in such a circumstance the idea of consent might well be rendered moot.”
When NBC News asked Clinton about this, however, the former president bullishly defended his conduct. “I don’t think it would be an issue,” he said, as to whether he would have “approached the accusations differently” in a climate similar to our current one. “Because people would be using the facts instead of the imagined facts. If the facts were the same today, I wouldn’t … A lot of the facts have been conveniently omitted to make the story work.” He also added, intently, “I did the right thing,” and that he doesn’t owe Lewinsky an apology, nor has he ever apologized to her directly. (He claims she was included in his apologies to “everyone.”)
It’s not surprising that questions about Clinton’s past are dominating headlines about the book, given Lewinsky’s Vanity Fair pieces and the reconsiderations that have been brought about by #MeToo. But it’s also a result of the story Clinton and Patterson have written: a portrait of a noble commander-in-chief who has the country’s best interests at heart, who stands up to Russia, and whose enemies are the craven and calculating ones. It is meant, at times strikingly, to contrast with the Trump presidency; the entire plot of Missing keeps readers in suspense, in part, because they know where their president’s loyalties lie. But Clinton himself was a controversial president, and as his fictitious hero weathers potential impeachment early on, it draws parallels to his own life as well.
Indeed, that’s the frame CBS News used to corner Clinton into revisiting past scandals, asking him, “Because the fictional president … is under threat of impeachment, how do you look back at your impeachment?” When prodded to respond to Senator Kristen Gillibrand’s comment that Clinton “should have resigned,” the former president said, “You have to really ignore what the context was. But you know, [Gillibrand is] living in a different context. And she did it for different reasons. So, I just disagree with her.”
Follow-up pieces on Clinton’s comments to NBC and CBS have already been published, especially regarding Clinton’s belief that he doesn’t need to apologize to Lewinsky for anything. (The President Is Missing has also generated criticism for its thinly drawn female characters.) The conversation around the book, at least for now, has been set. With Patterson’s help and expertise, Clinton clearly set out to write an escapist thriller with obvious real-world parallels. The consequence, seemingly not anticipated by Clinton, is the fact that the most compelling real-world discussion point would be himself.
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Turning Archive 2005
>This is sort of my version of what I call a tape chuck for reverse turning. This is just a photo of a made up scenario because I didn't have a bowl that might fit this size wasteblock chuck.
What I do is take a scrap of wood and mount it to a faceplate and then turn it true. Then I will turn a raised tenon or possibly a just a groove to accept the shape of the bowl. This centers it and helps hold it in place.
You may be able to turn the bottom using just the tailstock to hold every thing but sometimes the bowl slips and you always risk the possibility that the little tenon that is cut as you turn the bottom will break and the bowl goes flying.
That's why a started using blue painters masking tape. It won't leave a mark on the bowl and holds pretty well. If you need extra security put some nylon strapping tape over it. This stuff won't break but will leave glue on the bowl. If you put it over the masking tape it won't.
I started using rubber inner tube slices and they work quite well. Don Russel in Atlanta got me started using stretch wrap. This stuff won't mark the bowl and really holds.
I've never had a bowl come off. You can't take heavy cuts and I usually try to make sure that the bevel rubbing pushes the work onto the faceplate as I'm cutting. Scraping can create a lot of vibration that might loosen the bowl.
This will also work with a natural edge piece or a vase. Simply turn a small hole in the middle of the faceplate. Then turn a log so it will fit in this hole and stick out far enough to fit into your natural edge piece or into your vase. Put rubber on the tip. put the vase in place and tape it so it will be held tight. I always use the tailstock until it gets in the way. This is just plain old security.
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ayne Salmon is a writer and a photographer. Born in Jamaica, he immigrated to Canada in the early 1980s. After studying English Literature at York University he developed a passion for photography upon discovering the works of Roy DeCarava. Concerned with issues of culture, identity and representation, his work is focused on people who live outside of western culture, especially those throughout the diaspora. Wayne was the founding editor of Umoja Urban Culture Magazine, co-founder and curator at Brickhouse Studio & Gallery, and is one of the founding members of SEEN, a collective of Black Canadian artists. He presently lives in Toronto.
Salmon’s writings have appeared in various publications including The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Canada and the US. Recent exhibitions include Reflections on Black, at Heritage Canada; Bearing Witness, at XEXE Gallery; and Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
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Majdool dates are considered the diamond of dates and referred as “nature’s power fruit”. they are prized for their large size, extraordinary sweetness and chewy texture. They make great natural sweeteners and sugar alternatives. They’ve also been proven to decrease cholesterol and boost bone health.
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You should sign a Cremation Authorization if you want to be cremated.
Cremation or burial authorization
A lot of people know for sure if they want to be cremated or buried. Here are the reasons I hear most often:
- I want to be cremated/buried for religious reasons.
- I want to be cremated because I am claustrophobic.
- I want to be buried because I want my loved ones to visit me.
- I want to do whatever is cheapest and easiest.
- I will do whatever my spouse or partner is doing.
If you know for sure that you want to be cremated or buried, it is very helpful to put that in writing. This is especially true regarding cremation. Arizona law says that you should put your desire to be cremated in a notarized statement. I can’t stress enough how important this document can be. I had a client who passed away. He had an ex-wife, a current wife, and 4 kids from his first marriage. This group of 6 was split evenly on whether the client wanted to be cremated or buried. They were finally able to resolve their conflict, but incurred a major bill for storing the client’s body for 3 weeks while they debated the issue. (Facts altered).
If you want to be buried, it is not quite as important to put that wish in writing, but it does alleviate possible confusion.
Whether you want to be buried or cremated, you certainly do not want your loved ones to get ripped off by funeral homes or cremation facilities. Let your loved ones know the following information so that they are protected when the time comes.
There is a federal law called the Funeral Rule, which regulates the funeral and cremation industry. Consumers are entitled to price quotes, over the phone, for all of a funeral home’s services. A consumer wants what is called the “General Price List”. Several consumer groups re: funerals and cremations encourage consumers to shop around. Although a death is a very difficult time emotionally for everyone, no one wants their loved ones to get gouged.
Consumers can purchase caskets and urns at a funeral home or believe it or not, at a store like Costco. Costco caskets and urns can be to a funeral home. This is an acceptable arrangement.
There are certain things a consumer should focus on specifically dealing with cremation. A consumer wants to be sure to know 1) how long is the average time between receiving someone’s body and completing the cremation and 2) how does the cremation provider track the body and verify the identity of the remains.
Many of my clients have shared with me that it is a real gift when funeral and cremation plans have been prepaid and all of the difficult decisions have been made in advance. If you wish to prepay your funeral or cremation services, just quadruple check the stability, longevity, honesty and reliability of the company you have contacted.
Some of my clients who have chosen instead to leave cash in a home safe to assist family members with the initial costs of a funeral or cremation. Most of the funeral homes are very willing to work with families regarding payment since they understand that a death certificate is needed to release funds for the payment of the funeral or cremation. The lag time for death certificates is usually 2-3 weeks. This can mean a lag of 2-3 weeks before the funeral home can be paid in full.
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Flood Zones- What Are They and How to Prepare
With hurricane and monsoon season fast approaching, it’s important to understand the dangers that come with living in a flood zone. A recent article from the Washington Post revealed that last summer alone, nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced some form of weather disaster- including severe storms, floods, and hurricanes. In this blog post, we’ll tell you how to determine if your home resides in a flood zone and some steps you can take to protect your family and assets.
Using the FEMA Flood Map, you can enter your home address and determine if you are in a high, moderate, or low risk area for flooding. Risk of flood is generally categorized by 5 flood zones, including A, B, C, D, and V. On some modern maps zones B and C are grouped together as zone X.
Know Your Zone
Zone A is the most common flood zone, encompassing areas at high risk of flooding that are not on the coast. If your home falls in Zone B, you are at moderate risk, while homes in Zone C are at minimal risk. Zone D is a possible risk with an undetermined threat level and Zone V is a flood hazard area at high risk for coastal flooding. Determine which flood zone your home lies in to take the appropriate precautions.
Stay Up to Date with your Zone
Now that you can identify what flood zone your home is in, stay up to date with the map. Weather is often hard to predict with accuracy, but with the FEMA map you have access to the latest and most accurate info.
If you determine that you are at a moderate to serious risk for flooding, the best thing you can do is buy flood insurance. Believe it or not, damage caused by a flood is usually not covered by standard homeowners or renters’ insurance policies, and only 27% of Americans have flood insurance. It’s a good idea to consider purchasing flood sensors or a home security system that will notify you when water starts to creep in.
Remember- regardless of where you live there will always be a risk of flooding. Depending on your risk, many mortgage lenders even require flood insurance. Varying weather can influence the location and time your city might be vulnerable to a severe flood, so keep current on your FEMA map. The more knowledge you have the better you can prepare and protect your family!
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Both widowed as newlyweds, Jessica and Jordan found love and hope again in each other. Watch as they tell their powerful story.
Both widowed as newlyweds, Jessica and Jordan found love and hope again in each other. Their touching story is a reminder why you should never stop believing in the power of love.
Jessica’s husband was killed in a motorcycle accident only two months after their wedding day. He died on July 30, 2009.
Ten months after their wedding, Jordan’s wife became very ill and was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Ten months later, on April 23, 2011, she passed away.
A mutual friend mentioned Jessica to Jordan professionally, so he looked her up online and sent her a friend request. They checked each other out and realized they had a lot in common — including the fact that they were both widowed.
“I think Jordan and I clicked so quickly because we could both be very vulnerable with each other so very early on in a way that only people who’ve gone through what we’ve gone through can understand,” says Jessica.
Watch as the newlyweds intimately share their story.
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Sunday, December 20, 2015
Solo show by artist Lacey Bryant
A new series of paintings focused on memory and place.
November 14 - December 31, 2015
Opening reception: Saturday, November 14, 2015 * 6p-9p
See the show online and purchase your favorite piece:
Lacey Bryant has been a Cactus Gallery favorite for over 6 years. Please join us for the reception, as Lacey will be coming down from Northern California that day!
As always, we are open to installment plans to help you grow your collection. Contact Sandra at firstname.lastname@example.org for more info.
In my most recent series I've been working to create haunting and beautiful environments layered together from fragments of real and imagined places. Abandoned buildings, vacant lots and the rolling hills of California are pulled from my meandering excursions in the Bay area and form the atmosphere of the series. Within these settings are common objects, trash and treasure. These are haphazardly littered along the ground or carefully arranged like holy relics placed in contradiction with the settings.
Marbles are suspended in air like small worlds to create a sense of movement and stillness at once, as if the motion of the scene is paused as you observe a moment outside of time. This bending of the rules of perspective and scale causes a dissonance within the picture plane that is intended to imbue the objects with special importance as well as to embrace the inherently false nature of art.
Figures are occasionally present in these scenes, although they take on a more anonymous and ghostly role than in my earlier works. Frequently shadowy, distant or turned away from the viewer, or with wild manes of hair obscuring their faces, these figures appear blind to the scenes that they are wandering through reenacting forgotten memories, trapped in repetition.
"Tiny Treasures X"
Runs November 14 - December 31, 2015
See the show online and purchase your favorite piece: http://cactusgalleryla.com/collections/tiny-treasures-x-small-works-group-show
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Every business owner will be aware of the old adage, ‘the customer is always right.’ In a day and age when competition is par for the course across all industries, and client reviews play an increasingly integral role, customer service has never been more important. If you’re keen to preserve a 5-star rating, here’s a failsafe guide to keeping customer complaints at bay.
Customer engagement and communication
We all have experience of trying to contact a business as a consumer. The one thing that customers don’t want is to feel like they’re wasting time. Many of us live hectic lives, and people don’t have the time or the patience to hang around, waiting for you to get back to them. There’s nothing more frustrating than listening to the same jingle over and over again when a phone line is busy, or waiting for an email response to arrive to a query you submitted hours ago. As a company director, it pays to ensure you keep channels of communication open at all times and that it’s simple and stress-free to get in touch. If you don’t want to man phones 24-hours-a-day, investigate options like an answering service company or use online features like live chat and social media messaging. If you keep existing or potential customers waiting, or you don’t get back to them at all, there’s every chance that they will choose a competitor.
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Promotion and development of microcredit in Québec.
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Last August, I realized that my heart burns about the topic of marriage. At the time of my realization, I thought it was just for my photography business, that my goal was, more client marriages that last until ‘death do us part.’ It fueled my passion for work for a little while, but that thought has morphed beyond my photography business and extends to my friendships as well as YOU, my online reader. I realize I’m only 5 years young in the topic of marriage; I’m in no way an expert, at all. But I will do everything in my power to lift up marriages that last. I will share articles, stories, whatever I can to help others in their marriage. (If you’re a friend of mine on Facebook, you know I share a lot!)
While I think I have the perfect marriage, I really don’t. We hurt each other, we let the other down, we fail, we are far from perfect. But one of our “secrets” is this, we realize that we are both just two big, fat sinners. We have used the phrase countless times after a fight, an outburst, a cold brush off or an obscene amount of tears.
The phrase came from a very special book, When Sinners Say I Do (this is an affiliate link to purchase the book on Amazon. I have read the whole book myself and I highly recommend it! If you do purchase it or something else on Amazon using this link, we will get a small percentage of the purchase). Basically, it lays out that marriage is hard and recognizing that we are sinners helps SO much.
I’m currently rereading it because I do want to be “more of an expert” on this topic of marriage. I want to give sound advice when a friend has a marriage falling apart or when there is a fight that seems like the worst or they just want to make a good thing even better. Another reason for my deeper passion is I have seen so many marriages fall apart over the last 5 years…I guess it’s one of those things you pay closer attention to when you’re thinking about it….I’m sure there were other marriages that fell apart before I got married, but I don’t think I paid much heed.
Dear readers, know that I pray for your marriages. Know that I hope to bring encouragement and biblical truth. I desire to do all that I can to help marriages last until death. If you ever have a topic you want to me ramble about, comment below. Otherwise, I’ll ramble on my own….
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Science bends to social science
Science is never objective. It passes through a system of checks and balances by authority and the mob to come out. If a discovery doesn’t pass through these checks, it never sees the light of the day. Ideally one would expect scientific research to be devoid of social constructs, just cold hard facts. We have progressed better than other species because of facing difficult facts. Let’s look at a few cases where civil constructs have dictated science:
There are two theories, interbreeding theory and replacement theory, to explain modern humans, us 1. According to the interbreeding theory , when Homo Sapiens spread into Neanderthal lands, Sapiens bred with Neanderthals until the two populations merged. According to the replacement theory , Sapiens replaced all the previous human populations in a mass genocide without merging with them. For a long time, the repacement theory was the accepted theory, for two reasons - there was very little to no evidence for interbreeding theory, and, interbreeding theory opens up a pandoras box for racial superiority. Some might start comparing gene percentage to rank people. While this is bad, this should not be a deterrant to research more on interbreeding theory, until there is solid evidence to reject it. In 2010, a few researchers were able to find that 2% of DNA of modern populations in Europe and Asia is Neanderthal DNA. This feels like breakthrough moment in the field, but hardly reached the mainstream. Also, 6% of modern Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians came from Denisovan ancestors. The interbreeding theory is hence not completely wrong, different races are just a teeny tiny bit different.
Covid-19 lab leak theory. This is the most dynamite theory of current times. The possibilty that Covid-19 virus might have been leaked from a lab in Wuhan had been, until now, rejected as a fringe theory. The fact that this was first raised by the most controversial figure of modern times did not help. But today, a bunch of independent researchers, some anonymous, have gathered proof enough to not discard the lab leak theory 2. Imagine how much we would have progressed if there was a co-ordinated effort between the scientific community, backed by governments. Some countries would not be happy, but do we not have the right to know what killed our loved ones and how it started ? Also, we learn that any theory supported by someone considered outcast by the mob (the woke liberal mob in this case) is going to be refused. How bad is that ? Update: Scientists are now changing their minds on lab leak theory
Mobs and governments dictating science is not something new. The Church had a lot of control over what could be discovered. Galileo’s championing of Copernican heliocentrism (Earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun) was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. They concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted Holy Scripture. In Nazi Germany, bogus science was approved by the government, the “Aryan Supremacy” theory, the stupid theory which categorized humans based on who the Nazis like. According to them, the much closer to home Jews were subhumans but the Japanese were “honorary Aryans”. It just suited their narrative, the same thing that is happening today, science which suits social narrative comes out through proper channels, the other science has to somehow make it through anonymous researchers and nonmainstream people.3
We cannot bend discoveries to fit social constructs, we have to change social constructs to fit science. We aren’t doing any good hiding the truth from people.
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This is a tough one to review. The challenge with discussing The Plan is not because it is a complicated game, but rather, because it isn’t. Taking all of ten minutes to complete if you take your time, this brief but well-made little gem is a quickly-completed but interesting look at fate, or death, or maybe even the meaningless nature of gaming in general. I’m not entirely sure what the real “point” is, or if there’s supposed to be one, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
The Plan is extremely simplistic, though the art and music are wonderfully done and create an engrossing ambiance. You take control of a fly, floating ever upward in a short journey. Along the way, gusts of wind and spiderwebs complicate your path, but not for terribly long. The game’s most intriguing piece is the ending, which I’m not going to spoil — since it’s a free download from Krillbite’s website or Steam, there’s no reason not to jump in and find out yourself. Suffice it to say, while it’s got a “lifespan” that’s shorter than most insects, it’s worth at least one run-through for those who enjoy interesting takes on games and nice, simple, beautiful diversions from all the glitz and glitter of the modern gaming landscape. I’m not going to give this a breakdown or score, but if you’re in to experimental things, give it a shot – you just might find that you like the journey as much as I did.
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What most merchants shouldn't realize is that these types of people are significantly overpaying just for their existing account. A few merchants may even provide a good idea which will they are overpaying, regrettably don't realize how convenient it is to purchasing a their account. The a good deal volume you are processing as a merchant, the more you'll save all by switching to a less expensive merchant account for CBD account.
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South Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries
has received a letter of intent from Australia's New Castle Heavy Industry expressing interest in taking a stake in its shipbuilding unit. While exact terms of the potential deal are not yet available, it is believed that DHI would be willing to sell up to a 30 percent stake.
The world's second largest shipbuilder is one of 12 debt-laden Daewoo Group firms that creditors hope to reform and sell off. Daewoo Heavy is expected to be split into three units covering shipbuilding, machinery and a company to manage its debts.
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Patent application title: Elastomeric paint with protective coating upon styrenic block copolymer articles
Yuh-Jye Uang (Chesterfield, MO, US)
IPC8 Class: AB05D500FI
Class name: Coating processes nonuniform coating applying superposed diverse coatings or coating a coated base
Publication date: 2010-12-16
Patent application number: 20100316803
A solvent based elastomeric paint coating composition contains styrenic
block copolymer, mineral oil, solvents, pigments, and additives. The
paint coating composition dries to form a layer on a substrate. The paint
layer has high elongation, tensile strength, and excellent shape
retention after high velocity impact stress conditions. The elastomeric
protective coating contains styrenic block copolymer, alkyl
cyanoacrylate, mineral oil, solvents and additives. The protective
coating composition dries to form a layer on the paint area. Beside the
properties of protective layer have moderate elongation, tensile
strength, the protective layer provides unexpectedly good scratch
resistance on the paint coating area. The coating process can be applied
by various methods including pad printing, screen printing, brushing, and
1. A process for forming an elastomeric paint and/or elastomeric
protective coating upon a thermoplastic elastomeric substrate having
surface structure receptive to receiving at least one elastomeric paint
coating, said process including:applying a paint coating composition to
the surface structure; and,applying a top coat treatment of an
elastomeric protective coating thereon.
2. The process of claim 1 wherein said thermoplastic elastomeric substrate comprises a styrenic block copolymer.
3. The process of claim 1 wherein said elastomeric paint coating composition comprises:(a) one or more copolymer resins selected from the group consisting of a tailback, radical block and multiblock copolymer, and optionally diblock copolymer;(b) mineral oil;(c) solvents;(d) colorants; and,(e) additives.
4. The process of claim 3, wherein each of said copolymers contains at least two thermodynamically incompatible segments, from the group consisting of:(a) styrene-butadiene-styrene polymers;(b) styrene-isoprene-styrene polymers;(c) styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene polymers;(d) styrene-ethylene-propylene-styrene polymers;(e) styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene polymers;(f) styrene-butadiene polymers; and,(g) styrene-isoprene polymers.
5. The process of claim 4 wherein said copolymers comprise between about 1% to about 15% by weight, preferably from about 5% to about 10% by weight.
6. The process of claim 3 wherein said mineral oil comprises between from about 1% to about to 30% by weight, preferably from about 5% to about 15% by weight.
7. The process of claim 3 wherein said solvent comprises between from about 75% to about to 95% by weight, preferably from about 80% to about 90% by weight.
8. The process of claim 3 wherein said pigments comprise between from about 1% to about to 15% by weight, preferably from about 3% to about 8% by weight.
9. The process of claim 8 wherein said pigments further comprise one of luminescent pigment, fluorescent pigment, and thermochromic pigment.
10. The process of claim 3 further comprising:at least one additive selected from the group consisting of adhesion modifier, mafting powder, antistatic agent, defamer, wetting agent, antioxidant, anti-ultraviolet agent, and a fragrance.
11. The process of claim 1 wherein said elastomeric protective coating comprises:(a) one or more copolymer resins selected from the group consisting of a tailback, radical block and multiblock copolymer, and optionally diblock copolymer;(b) an alpha cyanoacrylate;(c) mineral oil;(d) solvents; and,(e) additives.
12. The process of claim 11, wherein each of said copolymers contains at least two thermodynamically incompatible segments, and is selected from the group consisting of styrene-butadiene-styrene polymers, styrene-isoprene-styrene polymers, styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene polymers, styrene-ethylene-propylene-styrene polymers, and styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene polymers.
13. The process of claim 11 wherein said copolymers comprise between about 1% to about 20% by weight, preferably from about 5% to about 15% by weight.
14. The process of claim 11 wherein said alkyl cyanoacrylate is selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl cyanoacrylate, or mixtures thereof.
15. The process of claim 11 wherein the amount of alkyl cyanoacrylate comprises between about 1% to about 10% by weight, preferably from about 2% to about 6% by weight.
16. The process of claim 11 further comprising aromatic and aliphatic solvents:said aromatic solvents including toluene, xylene, aromatic 150 and aromatic 100; and,said aliphatic solvents including heptane, cyclohexane, mineral sprits and VM & P.
17. The applying coating process of claim 1 wherein the elastomeric paint and elastomeric protective coating applied either by pad printing, screen printing, hand brushing, and spraying.
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to a novel solvent based of elastomeric paints and protective coating composition including a major amount of mixture of solvents and minor amount of polymers, cyanoacrylate, mineral oils, pigments, and additives. The coating process can be applied by pad printing, screen printing, brush, and spray. The solvent based elastomeric protective coating composition provides scratch resistance between top coat treatment and painted surface of styrenic block copolymer articles.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In recent years, more and more commercial thermoplastic elastomeric products in power tools, electronic and telecommunication equipment, personal care, housewares and appliances, sporting goods, medical devices, industrial machines, packaging, food and beverages, and toys and games. The key features of a thermoplastic elastomer include softness, flexibility, and elasticity, excellent grip characteristics, and good weatherability. These features attract the interest of users and consumers. However, the styrenic block copolymer of thermoplastic compounds contains mineral oil and non-polar polypropylene which have little surface energy. Because the surface of compounds is non-polar, permanent marking becomes difficult to achieve by conventional application methods such as pad printing, screen printing, hot foiling, hand painting and spray coating. The styrenic block copolymer can be commercial grade as soft as 30 shore 00 (near 0 shore A) and as hard as 90 shore A. In general, the composition of the softer grade styrenic block copolymer contains higher amounts of mineral oil only. However, the composition of the harder grade styrenic block copolymer contains more propylene and less mineral oil. The high oil absorbent styrenic block copolymer products have excellent elasticity and elongation but high sensitivity to solvents. If the elongation of elastomeric paint film is much lower than that of the decorated substrate, the applied decorated image will rub off after stretching the substrate.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
In the prior art, some have approached the paint coating at the surface of styrenic block copolymer. However, the prior art provides limited information regarding the solvent corrosion effect at the substrate surface. Also, no prior art described the scratch resistance of the paint coating when protected by a top coat treatment at the surface of styrenic block copolymer.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,519,466 to Akamatsu, et al., discloses a process for printing on molded articles of a thermoplastic resin or a rubber. This process heats an ink containing a benzene-soluble reactive dye and a wetting agent soluble in benzene in contact with the surface of the molded article of an organo-metallic compound. When the article reaches a temperature over 50° C., but lower than the softening point of the article, the dye will permeate the article and react with the organo-metallic compound to become fixed therein.
The U.S. Pat. No. 6,367,384 to Cass reveals a process for printing a four-color image directly onto a fishing lure. The process begins by preparing the soft bait fishing lure to receive the ink. By employing a-four-color pad printing machine, the process prints a four-color image on one side of the fishing lure and may turn over the lure to print on the other side. This process requires pretreatment of the printing articles and an optional clear top coat application upon the lure.
The U.S. Pat. No. 3,991,002 to Sadlo discloses that oily or other difficult-to-adhere surfaces become receptive to a pressure-sensitive adhesive when sprayed, or coated, with an organic solvent solution or dispersion of a certain rubbery styrenic block copolymer and large amount of thermoplastic resin.
The U.S. Pat. No. 5,334,646 to Chen discloses a gelatinous composition and articles formed from an admixture of styrenic block copolymer and plasticizing oil. The gelatinous articles have high elongation, tensile strength, and excellent shape retention under extreme deformation. These properties become essential for the gelatinous composition when used as toys, therapeutic hand exercising grip, shock absorbers, and the like.
The European Patent Application EP0239890 to Blomquist discloses an opaque cyanoacrylate adhesive or coating composition that has a monomeric ester of 2-cyanoacrylic acid and 5% to 50% by weight, based on the monomeric ester, of semi-compatible plasticizers. Plasticizers, useful as opacifiers, come from a non-hydrogen bonding solvent or a moderately hydrogen bonding solvent.
The U.S. Pat. No. 6,503,569 to Sneddon reveals an invention directed to resin coating, adhesives, and cement compositions of styrenic copolymers and terpene solvents. The composition form has high adhesion bonding with molded elastomeric styrene copolymer surface substrates. The invention also has a method of applying the instant coating to substrate surfaces.
The U.S. Pat. No. 7,001,947 to Cordova shows a cyanoacrylate adhesive composition having high shear bond strength, peeling bond strength, tensile strength, impact bond strength, and superior wear characteristics particularly in toy applications. The cyanoacrylate adhesive composition contains (a) up to 20% by weight of cyanoacrylate monomer, (b) a styrene-based elastomeric block copolymer, and (c) a specific solvent which is selected to effect the solution of both components.
The currently available methods to apply images onto thermoplastic rubber compounds include either hand painting or spray coating. Because the composition of thermoplastic rubber compounds contains up to 80% mineral oil, a formed coating film has extreme difficulty sticking to the surface of the substrate due to the non-polar oily substance surface. The prior art thermoplastic elastomer gel articles have good tensile strength and elongation. The prior art make paints by dissolving styrene polymers with solvents alone. Commercial thermoplastic elastomer products have the different durameter from shore 00 to 80 durameter A produced by varying the ratio between styrenic copolymer and mineral oil. With a different amount of mineral oil in the coating composition, the strength of a formed elastomeric gel film varies depending on the elongation of the coating substrate substance. Currently the composition of commercial molded products contains a styrenic block copolymer and mineral oil. Most problems occur when attempting to apply the protective coating to the painting surface of substance and where the cracking and melting of the surface substrate risks the compatibility between the coating film and the molded products. The mineral oil, though, must be in the coating composition which will have more compatibility with molded products. During application of the paint coating, the high polar solvents such as ester and ketone should be avoided. Those solvents will dissolve the surface substrate of molded soft styrenic copolymer products and cause the cracking or melting of the substrate surface. The formed painting film will stretch, strain, and impact much like its substrate under layer and show no splitting. However, the painting film easily scratches off the substrate substance.
The present invention overcomes the difficulties of the prior art. The present invention solves these problems by using the various coating methods such as pad printing, screen printing, hand painting, and spray with an elastomeric gel protective coating to protect the painting image of surface of substance.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A durable and stretchable painting film allows a designated image upon the substrate of thermoplastic elastomeric articles. The film also provides a top coating to form a durable and scratch resistant elastomeric gel with a designated image upon the substrate of the thermoplastic elastomeric articles. The coating adheres to an article with pad printing, screen printing, hand painting, and spraying. The elastomeric gel paint coating contains resins, pigments, solvents, plasticizers, and additives. Furthermore, the elastomeric gel protective coating contains resins, cyanoacrylate, solvents, plasticizers and additives. The paint coating can have other interesting colors and effects provided by fluorescent ink, glitter powder, thermochromic ink, and glow-in-the-dark pigments. There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood and that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. Additional features of the invention will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims attached.
It is an object of the present invention to provide the elastomeric paint coating by varying the ingredients of formula to form the soft, flexible and stretchable painted image on the surface of elastomeric compounds. It is another object of the present invention to use top coat treatment to provide an elastomeric protective coating by varying the ingredients of formula to form a soft, flexible and scratch resistant protective layer on a painted image on the surface of elastomeric compounds. It is an additional object of the present invention to provide the elastomeric paint and protective coating by pad printing, screen printing, brushing and spraying.
It is an object of the present invention to provide the elastomeric paint coating by varying the ingredients of a formula to form the soft, flexible and stretchable painted image on the surface of elastomeric substrates.
It is another object of the present invention to use a top coating to provide an elastomeric protective coating by varying the ingredients of formula to form a soft, flexible, and scratch resistant protective layer upon a painted image on the surface of an elastomeric substrate.
A further object of the present invention is to provide the elastomeric paint and protective coating by pad printing, screen printing, brushing, and spraying.
Numerous objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon a reading of the following detailed description of the presently preferred, but nonetheless illustrative, embodiment of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Before explaining the current embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
Further objects and advantages of the subject invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art. These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty that characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention includes an elastomeric paint applied on the surface substrate, and followed by a top coat treatment of an elastomeric gel protective coating. The composition of the elastomeric paint contains styrenic block copolymer, mineral oil, solvents, pigments, and additives. However, the composition of elastomeric protective coating has additional alkyl cyanoacrylate for scratch resistance. The coating applies upon the gel paint by pad printing, screen printing, and spraying methods.
Styrenic Block Copolymer
The coating composition is composed of one or more resins, mostly as pellets or crumbs. The resins must dissolve in a suitable solvent or a mixture of solvents. As a main component of the invention, the resins form the elastic film and serve as the carrier for the coloring material used in the coating composition. The selection and combination of the resins determine the utilization of the coating area and the resulting properties: adhesion to various substrates, grades of gloss, and scratch resistance. With the present invention, varying the amount and types of polymers affects the features of coating composition. For example, preferably using triblock, radical block and/or multiblock copolymers, and optionally a diblock copolymer, the printing ink, which has desirable rheological properties, will produce a durable and stretchable elastic film. The polymers used comprise at least one copolymer selected from the radical block and multiblock copolymers. This invention contains at least two thermodynamically incompatible segments, one hard and one soft. In general, in a triblock polymer, the ratio of the segments is one hard, one soft, and one hard or an A-B-A copolymer. The multiblock and radical block copolymer can contain any combination of hard and soft segments. In the optional diblock copolymer, the blocks are sequential with respect to hard and soft segments.
Commercially available thermoplastic rubber type polymers are especially useful in forming the compositions of the present invention. Kraton Chemical Company and Septon Company of America sell commonly used polymers. The most common structure is the linear ABA block type such as styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) and styrene-isoprene-styrene (SIS) which is the Kraton D rubber series. Kraton G is another type of polymer preferred for this invention. The copolymer includes a styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (S-EB-S) structure. The optionally blended diblock polymers include the AB type such as styrene-ethylene-propylene (S-EP) and styrene-ethylene-butylene (S-EB), styrene-butadiene (SB) and styrene-isoprene (SI). Septon resins are available in either diblock (A-B) or the more common triblock (A-B-A) types. These include a hydrogenated poly-isoprene (S-EP, S-EP-S), a hydrogenated poly-isoprene/butadiene (S-EEP-S) polymer or a hydrogenated poly-butadiene (SEBS) polymer. Depending on the hardness of the surface of elastomeric substrate, various combinations of triblock and radical block in the paint composition are necessary.
Another polymer is chlorinated polyolefin. Commercially available chlorinated polymers are especially useful in forming the compositions of the present invention. Du Pont Company and Nippon Paper Chemicals sell commonly used chlorinated polyolefin. The preferred chlorinated polyolefin compounds are Hypalon CP 826 and Superchlon 830 mws.
The paint and protective coating compositions preferably include resins from about 1% to 12% by weight, more preferably from about 5% to 10% by weight, and still preferably from about 6% to 8% by weight.
Cyanoacrylates are typically clear, high shear strength adhesives that form an instant bond to a wide variety of surfaces. Cyanoacrylates also form clear, tough, plastic coatings. These coatings provide gloss, scratch resistance, chemical resistance, electrical resistance, and improved structural performance. Cyanoacrylate coatings are generally methyl or ethyl cyanoacrylate-base. Other cyanoacrylates of commercial importance include 2-propyl, n-butyl, and allyl esters. All of these monomers are clear, colorless, low viscosity liquids with pungent odors. The relative benefits and limitation of various types of cyanoacrylate monomers make them appropriate for different applications. Formulation of the protective elastomeric gel coating containing cyanoacrylate causes difficulty because of 1) the sensitivity of cyanoacrylate to contaminants, 2) the extreme reactivity of the cyanoacrylate curing mechanism, 3) compatibility between elastomeric gel and cyanoacrylate, 4) solubility parameter between elastomeric gel, solvent and cyanoacrylate, and 5) the dissolving effect of solvent and cyanoacrylate on the surface substrate.
Mineral oil is a highly refined, colorless, and odorless petroleum oil. A preferred mineral oil to mix with thermoplastic rubber of the invention is white mineral oil, generally recognized as safe for contact with human skin. Mineral oil, characterized in terms of its density and viscosity, has a light mineral oil of relatively less viscous than heavy mineral oil.
Light mineral oils are preferred for the invention. Mineral oils are available commercially in both USP and NF grades. USP mineral oils have viscosities that range from 35 to 125 cSt and pour points that range from -12° C. to -20° C. NF light mineral oils have lower viscosities, typically 3 to 30 cSt, and pour points as low as -40° C. The mineral oil may be of technical grade, having a viscosity ranging from 4-90 cSt and a pour point ranging from -12° C. to 2° C. Examples of commercially available suitable mineral oils include Sonneborn® and Carnation® white oils from Witco, Isopar® K and Isopar® H from ExxonMobil, and Drakeol®, Draketex®, Parol® white mineral oils from Penreco Company. The amount of mineral oil in the paint and protective coating should range from about 10% to about 30% by weight based on the total weight of pad printing ink components, preferably from about 15% to about 25% by weight.
Solvents differ in their evaporation rates and strengths. The amount of solvent in paints has a major effect on its solvency, drying rate, spraying speed, and adhesion to a substrate. Solvents function as retarders and thinners. Retarders serve when printing speed is slow and when a paint system dries extremely fast. Functioning as diluents in the corresponding paints system, thinners are a mixture of solvents. Mixing paints with thinners in the correct ratio to achieve the desired viscosity is extremely important. The viscosity of the final mixture determines the effectiveness of the elastic coating film transfer. The type and amount of solvents will depend on the resins and pigment used in the paint system. In some cases, the surface substrates also play a role in determining the solvent to be used. The physical evaporation process of the paint induces the drying of elastomeric film on substrate. At the same time the surface substrate of thermoplastic rubber compound partially dissolves, the slight dissolution of the coating surface results in a direct bond between the paints and the substrate.
In general, the commercial styrenic thermoplastic elastomer article has a blend of styrenic copolymer and mineral oil. In the present invention, both the base coat and the top coat use aromatic solvents to increase the adhesion between the elastomeric gel film and the substrate of thermoplastic elastomer products. The very low evaporation rate of glycol ether acetate also reduces the volatility of aromatic solvents. The solvents used include these chemical groups: aromatic hydrocarbons, aliphatic solvent, ester, glycol ether acetate and ketone. For aromatic hydrocarbon solvents, toluene, xylenes, aromatic 100, and aromatic 150 are preferred. In aliphatic solvents, heptane, cyclohexane, hexane, mineral spirits, VM & P are preferred. From the ester group, isopropyl acetate and amyl acetate are preferred. In the glycol ether acetate group, propylene glycol methyl ether acetate, ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate and ethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate are preferred. Lastly, cyclohexanone, diacetone alcohol, and isophorone are preferred from the ketone group.
Preferably compositions of the present invention utilize a combination of aromatic hydrocarbon, aliphatic hydrocarbon, glycol ether acetate and ketone. The paint and protective coating preferably includes solvents from about 80% to about 95% by weight, more preferably from about 85% to about 90% by weight.
Colorants provide the color tone of the ink and determine its hiding power. Colorants, either organic pigments or inorganic pigments, color a substrate by altering its reflective characteristics. Hundreds of different types of pigment exist. Nature forms some by mineral or vegetable means, but most are synthetic materials. When ink is applied to a substrate, colorants either remain on the surface or tend to fill voids in irregular surfaces. The present invention contains a coloring agent that produces a desired color, preferably organic pigments. The pigments may include those suitable for use in printing ink as is known in the art. Examples of such pigments include: pigment yellow 83 (C.I. 21108), pigment orange 34 (C.I. 21115), pigment red 48:3 (C.I. 15865:3), pigment violet 23 (C.I. 51319), pigment blue 15:2 (C.I. 74160), pigment green 7 (C.I. 74260), pigment white 6 (C.I. 77891), and pigment 7 (C.I. 77266). In this invention, pigment constitutes about 10% to about 30% by weight, preferably in an amount of about 15% to about 25% by weight.
The additives, normally used in small quantities, adjust the coating compositions for flow, viscosity, or surface characteristics. Adhesion modifiers, matting powder, anti-foam agent, wetting agent, antioxidant, antistatic agents, and flow control agents are a few examples. However, solvents have the most profound effect on coating performance.
A 3% by weight of styrenic block copolymer elastomer, known as Kraton 1652, and 7% by weight of mineral oil are dissolved in an 87% by weight solution of an aromatic 150 in a beaker. After a clear solution was obtained, 3% by weight of blue pigment was added to a paint coating solution, and kept stirring until the pigment dispersed homogeneously. A molded, or hot & melt, styrenic thermoplastic elastomer article was provided. The hardness of molded articles varies from shore 00 to 15 shore A. The paints were applied at the surface substrate by spray applicator.
The protective coating was prepared by mixing a 3% by weight of styrenic block copolymer elastomer, known as Kraton 1652, and 7% by weight of mineral oil then dissolving both in an 87% by weight solution of an aromatic 150 in a beaker. After a clear solution was obtained, 3% by weight of ethyl cyanoacrylate was added and kept stirring until the solution dispersed homogeneously. The protective coating was applied at the painted surface of a substrate by a spray applicator, and after waiting 24 hours a hard film forms with good scratch resistance. The applied paints and protective coating film are then subjected to an Eraser Abrasion Test, a surface coating adhesion test, and stretch tests to determine the adhesion, stretch and scratch resistance features of present paint and protective coating compositions, pursuant to ASTM standards.
From the aforementioned description, an elastomeric paint with protective coating upon styrenic block copolymer articles has been described. The elastomeric paint is uniquely capable of applying and coating an image upon a styrenic substrate without the coating fragmenting upon stretching the substrate. The elastomeric paint and its various components may be manufactured from many materials, including but not limited to, polymers, polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, and composites.
The invention has been described herein with the reference to certain preferred embodiments. It is understood that obvious variants thereon will become apparent to those skilled in the art. The invention is not to be considered as limited thereto.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the design of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. Therefore, the claims include such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and the scope of the present invention.
Patent applications by Yuh-Jye Uang, Chesterfield, MO US
Patent applications in class Applying superposed diverse coatings or coating a coated base
Patent applications in all subclasses Applying superposed diverse coatings or coating a coated base
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By now, most of us are familiar with the story of Marcus Luttrell and “Lone Rescue” but sometimes the story is best told through the words of those who were there.
The History Channel did a small feature and reenactment of the mission to rescue Luttrell as he was held in an Afghan village.
The video features commentary by those who went on the mission to find the heroic SEAL.
Check it out:
Do you know of any other tales like this that don’t get enough coverage? Tell us about them in the comments below!
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9," a low-budget movie in which the biggest stars were space aliens treated
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Peter Jacksons District 9' Crosses $200M
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That enabled Block to organize the funding from Comerica back in 2007, well before the financial crsis.
"I wonder if in the current climate those institutions would have stepped up," one of my insiders questioned.
"On the other hand, every time something like this happens, it makes indieprods more attractive to institutional financiers.
" The alien apartheid
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Who is ALEX , the modern day satyr from Greek legend who dances and frolics chasing nymphs all day living in a tropical jungle version of the playboy mansion? Jah (starring world rock artist shadawmon) doubles as the wacky Alex The Alley Cat, his licentious evil twin in a new rock fantasy adventure love saga HD feature film
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Intellectual properties contained herein © (p) copyright 2001-2011 worldwide rights reserved
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Ambient is a premier provider of Event Production solutions for government, corporate, and educational organizations. Over two decades of experience in event production, design, and installation. Ambient is the in-house audio visual vendor for the Rhode Island Convention Center.
We also rent out our conference room, it has an instruction/speaker/trainer podium, videoconferencing capability with Dual 60” LCD displays, an all in one SBX885ix wall mounted Smart board, as well as an integrated audio system. Room uses: conferences, video conferences, training, remote interviews.
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Oxford-based Sunwise was awarded the Best of British Export by UK Trade and Investment, recognising its focus on ethical and environmental factors. These sporty shades are robust, with three sets of interchangeable lenses so you can wear them all year round. They allow great airflow and stay put even during fast running. A steal for £30.
Funky looks and great for year-round wear.
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Friday Night Dances
Dances are held in the West-Mackenzie Hall at the Aurora Seniors Centre from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm.
Dances feature a wide range of recorded music from the volunteer DJ’s – waltz, jive, quick-step, foxtrot, cha-cha, samba. We also have line dances with everyone joining in, some with skill, others learning the steps.
Non-members and singles are always welcome. There is a small charge but we include snacks. Also, at 9:30 pm, we serve a buffet of pizza, cake/cookies and tea/coffee. Cash Bar available.
See our calendar for scheduled days and times.
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Free Lilting in High QualityNow you can watch full Lilting in HD video with duration 91 Min and has been aired on 2014-08-07 with MPAA rating is 18.
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In this digital age, smartphones have become an essentail part of our lives. We use them for communication, entertainment, and accessing information on the internet. However, with the increasing number of online threats and intrusive advertisements, it’s crucial to protect our privacy and enhance our browsing experience. One tool that can help in achieving this is Blokada APK 2023. In this article, we will explore what blokada 6 mod apk is, its features, and how it can benefit users in safeguarding their online activities.
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As thrilled as we were, possums, to discover this little tidbit in Dale's "hometown" newspaper, the Daily Herald (hailed, by itself, as "Suburban Chicago's Information Source"), we were also a little disheartened, because such "hometown paper" stories usually mean the cheftestant is getting pykagged that very night.
(The Judges' Table dressing-down in the preview about scented candles, which Dale appears to be guilty of placing on the tables, also feeds our misgivings.) As much as we would love the opportunity for a "top to bottom" headline pun about last week's victor in the "Win a Date with Govind Armstrong!" contest, the pun would be poor consolation for losing Dale.
Let us, instead, be optimistic, and focus on what else "Suburban Chicago's Information Source" can tell us besides the fact that Dale "flipped burgers in college" (which, as Miss XaXa points out, should give us hope, since tonight's Quickfire Challenge is about burgers, and judged by the creator of the "World's Most Expensive Burger," Daniel Boulud).
So, what other hard news is there? Well:
* Dale attended Prospect High School in Mt. Prospect, Illinois (the same school that graduated Bruce Boxleitner), and was in the Russian Club.
* The University of Iowa was where Dale "flipped burgers," which, as Miss XaXa helpfully explained, makes him a Hawkeye Dale's other activity at Iowa? "[B]eing a varsity diver." "Dale in a Speedo?!" shrieked Miss XaXa. "How come we haven't seen that at the hot tub? Now that's sexist."
We certainly hope we're wrong, but we fear that Nguyendy City might be one step closer to reality after tonight.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is the target of an investigation into his alleged drug use, nearly six months after an alleged video of him smoking crack surfaced.
“The video files depict images that are consistent with what has previously been reported,” Police Chief Bill Blair said at a Thursday news conference. “It's safe to say the mayor does appear in the video.”
Ford was combative with reporters camped outside his residence Thursday morning. A video on the Star website shows the Toronto mayor screaming at reporters and photographers to get off his driveway.
At a news conference shortly after the crack smoking allegations surfaced in May, Ford said he does not use crack cocaine, but did not clarify whether he previously smoked the illegal drug.
Authorities said it was the crack video that spurred their investigation into Ford’s alleged drug use, according to the CBC.
Toronto police said Ford was meeting with drug dealer Alexandro “Sandro” Lisi and that Lisi used counter-surveillance measures, including meeting in a forest, to derail the investigation, the Star reported.
Howard Koplowitz reports on crime and breaking news events for International Business Times. Howard formerly worked on IBT's continuous news desk, where he covered trending...
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This is it. The humankind’s last fight! And it doesn’t come simple-packaged. Race
against time, outsmart path options, challenge your vehicular skills and slaughter
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? Claim the top spot: Global and Friends Leader Boards let gamers compete against each other
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A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1913.
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The original ecclesiastical parish of Kidderminster covered all the land lying in the angle between the Severn and the Stour, with the exception of Over Mitton, a hamlet of Hartlebury situated in a bend of the latter river. An arm of the parish also extended castwards, taking in the districts about Hurcott and Comberton. The northern boundary was formed by a chain of pools connected by a tributary of the Severn. The area of this triangular district is nearly 11,000 acres, of which 173 acres are covered with water, over 4,000 are arable land, 4,000 meadow and pasture and nearly 1,000 are covered with wood. (fn. 1)
MANORS AND BOROUGH
The present town of Kidderminster has developed from a settlement on the left bank of the Stour. (fn. 2) There is, however, evidence pointing to still earlier settlements elsewhere in the parish. In Mill Street, on the right bank of the river, there are caves in the sandstone cliff resembling the rock dwellings found in other parts of the country. The exact nature of the camps at Warshill near Trimpley (fn. 3) and of a tumulus near the Severn below the railway bridge is as yet undetermined.
Local tradition places at Broadwaters, on the northern boundary of the parish, the site of a Saxon monastery. It is at least certain that the 10 cassates of land in the province of Usmere near the River Stour granted in 736 by Ethelbald, King of the Mercians, to his companion (comes) Cyniberht for the purpose of founding a monastery were near to Kidderminster. This land lay on both sides of the Stour and touched on the north 'Cynibre' wood (? Kinver), and on the west another wood called 'Moerheb,' part of which was also granted to Cyniberht. (fn. 4) Nothing is known of the monastery which Cyniberht was to have built. He had power to bequeath or alienate the land. It was certainly included in the 13 cassates at Stour-in-Usmere which his son, the Abbot Ceolfrith, gave to the Bishop and Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Worcester. (fn. 5)
In 781 Bishop Heathored, in consideration of the restoration of certain disputed lands, is stated to have obtained from King Offa a confirmation of the rights of the bishopric in 14 'mansae' at Stour-in-Usmere. (fn. 6) This document, however, is not certainly authentic, as are both the charters previously cited. There is no question as to the charter by which in 816 Denebert, then bishop, gave 14 cassates in two portions (fn. 7) at Stour to Coenwulf, King of the Mercians, in return for certain privilages to be enjoyed upon the lands of his see. (fn. 8)
The identification of Kidderminster with a part of the land at Stour-in-Usmere rests upon the fact that the name 'Ismere' is now applied to the series of pools at 'Broadwaters,' (fn. 9) and that Usmere was in 964 a part of the boundary between Kidderminster and Cookley in Wolverley. (fn. 10) The identification is supported by the fact that both Wolverley and Kidderminster were after 816 lands of the Crown.
No other record of Kidderminster is known before the Domesday Survey, in which it is described as a central 'manor' with sixteen outlying farms or 'berewicks.' These were Wannerton, Trimpley, Hurcott, 'Bristitune,' Habberley, 'Fastochesfeld,' Wribbenhall, Sutton, Oldington, Mitton, 'Teulesberge' and 'Sudwale,' and two berewicks each at Franche and Ribbesford. (fn. 11) In the time of Edward the Confessor the whole vill was possibly held by the king. In 1086 it was held by William I, but most of it lay waste and the king had added the woodland to his forest (of Feckenham). It had probably suffered from depredations by the Danes, who certainly ravaged Ribbesford, one of its berewicks. (fn. 12) Three small estates in the manor were separately held. The land of one 'radknight' was held by the reeve of the manor; the land of another 'radknight' was held by a certain William, and Aiulf held a virgate of land. Moreover, two houses, one at Droitwich, the other at Worcester, belonged to the manor. (fn. 13)
The sheriff accounted to the king for the proceeds of the manor (fn. 14) until Henry II alienated it to his 'dapifer' or steward, Manasser Biset, (fn. 15) some time between 1156 and 1162. (fn. 16) Manasser had witnessed many of the king's charters, (fn. 17) and was present at Clarendon in 1164. (fn. 18) He died in or shortly before 1186. (fn. 19) The manor was to be held by knights' service, but the exact amount of the service is uncertain. In 1431, after its division into three portions, Lady Bergavenny, who held two portions, owed service for two-thirds of one half-fee. (fn. 20) The service from the whole manor was possibly that of half a fee. The statement made in 1428 that 'Hugh Cokesey, the Lady of Bergavenny and the Prior of Maiden Bradley hold one-third of a fee severally and none of them holds as much as a quarter' (fn. 21) should clearly read 'one-third of half a fee.'
In 1187 livery of Kidderminster was given to Manasser's heir, (fn. 22) who seems to have been his son Henry. (fn. 23) Henry Biset paid £8 as the farm of the town for one quarter in 1194. (fn. 24) In 1201, however, Geoffrey Fitz Piers was holding the manor at farm from King John, (fn. 25) but Henry Biset the dapifer received a new grant from the king (fn. 26) of this and other manors, and agreed (May 1199) to pay 500 marks in instalments for the vills of Kidderminster and Sandhurst (co. Hants). (fn. 27)
Two suggestions may be made to account for this. One is that there were two Henry Bisets, (fn. 28) but this is weakened by the evidence of pedigrees produced in 13th-century pleas concerning the manor. More probably the manor was held in pledge for a debt due by Biset; he still owed £100 14s. 8d. (? of the 500 marks) in 1201 when Geoffrey Fitz Piers accounted for a year's farm. (fn. 29) Shortly afterwards Henry Biset evidently recovered his lands, and upon his death the wardship of his heir was given to William of Huntingfield. (fn. 30)
Huntingfield was a prominent member of the baronial opposition to John. (fn. 31) Upon the outbreak of war the sheriff seized Kidderminster for the king. At Runnimede 21 June 1215, when Huntingfield had been appointed one of the 'conservators' of the Great Charter, the king restored the lands of which he had been dispossessed (fn. 32); but in the following November Kidderminster was delivered to Roger la Zouche 'during pleasure,' (fn. 33) and in 1216, when Huntingfield was subduing the eastern counties on behalf of Louis of France, John made a new grant of the town to his 'beloved and loyal' follower John L'Estrange. (fn. 34)
Kidderminster appears to have been restored to the Bisets after King John's death. It does not appear whether Henry Biset's heir, his son William, (fn. 35) ever actually held the manor. William's widow, Sarah, married Richard Keynes (de Cahannis), (fn. 36) and in 1223 failed to defend her claim to dower in Kidderminster against her daughter-in-law Isolde, widow of William Biset the younger, and her second husband, Aumary St. Amand. (fn. 37) Under an exchange with John Biset, brother and heir of the younger William, Aumary held the whole manor instead of the third which was his wife's dower. (fn. 38) In 1228 he had grant of free warren and a yearly fair. (fn. 39)
This grant was renewed to John Biset in 1238. (fn. 40) He also came to an agreement (1240) with the Prior and convent of Worcester as to the bounds of their respective lands on the heath between Wolverley and Kidderminster. (fn. 41) A year later (1241) he died, (fn. 42) leaving three daughters as co-heirs, of whom the eldest, Margery, was the wife of Robert Rivers, while Ela married firstly Ralph Nevill and afterwards John Wotton; Isabel, the third daughter, became the wife of Hugh Ploseys, (fn. 43) probably the son of John Pleseys, who in 1241 had a grant of the custody and marriage of the two younger daughters. (fn. 44)
The division of the inheritance among the co-heirs caused some dissension. (fn. 45) The manor of Kidderminster was apportioned in three parts.
The share of the one daughter, Ela Wotton (second by birth), was known later as the manor of KIDDERMINSTER BISET. (fn. 46) John Wotton survived his wife, and settled her inheritance on their son John, who took the name of Biset, and on his wife Katharine. (fn. 47) John Biset died shortly before 1307, leaving a son John. (fn. 48) The latter alienated a messuage and certain of his lands in Kidderminster to Hugh Cooksoy c. 1330. (fn. 49) Shortly afterwards Biset died, and the manor passed to his sister Margaret wife of Robert Martin of Yeovilton ('Yevelton'), co. Somers. (fn. 50) She and her husband granted a lease of the manor to Hugh Cooksey and his wife Denise for their lives. (fn. 51) Denise Cooksey lived till 1376, when, owing to the fact that Robert Martin and his two sons Robert and William, to whom the manor should have reverted, were already dead, (fn. 52) Kidderminster Biset passed to the surviving heir of Margaret, Sir Walter Romsey, kt., her son by a second husband. (fn. 53) In 1380 Sir Walter settled the manor in tail-male on his son John and the latter's wife Alice, (fn. 54) but John Romsey died in his father's lifetime. His widow apparently married Malcolm de la Mare, for in 1385–6 Sir Walter sold the reversion of the manor contingent upon the death of Alice wife of Malcolm de la Mare to Sir John Beauchamp of Holt. (fn. 55)
Beauchamp also acquired a second share of the main manor, viz. the portion known as Burnells (q.v.). He had been knighted during the Scottish expedition (1385) (fn. 56) of Richard II, and rose rapidly in the king's favour. In 1386 he had grant of free chase 'in vert and venison,' infangtheof, utfangtheof and the chattels of felons and fugitives in Kidderminster. (fn. 57) In October 1387 he was created Lord Beauchamp of Kidderminster 'in consideration of his good and gratuitous services, the trusty family from which he was descended and his great sense and circumspection.' (fn. 58) In the following May he fell a victim to the 'Merciless' Parliament, and in consequence of his attainder Kidderminster Burnell and the reversion of Kidderminster Biset were forfeited to the Crown. (fn. 59)
In 1389 his rights in Kidderminster were purchased by Thomas Earl of Warwick on behalf of John de Hermesthorpe and others, (fn. 60) who shortly afterwards conveyed to Nicholas Lilling and others as trustees for a reconveyance. (fn. 61) In June 1400, on the death of Alice widow of Malcolm de la Mare, (fn. 62) Lilling and his co-feoffees entered upon Kidderminster Biset, and settled it with Kidderminster Burnell on Warwick's younger brother, Sir William Beauchamp Lord Bergavenny. (fn. 63) His widow, Joan Lady Bergavenny, held both manors in dower (fn. 64) until her death, which took place 14 November 1435. (fn. 65) Kidderminster, apart from Bergavenny Castle and her other entailed estates, descended to her granddaughter Elizabeth wife of Sir Edward Nevill and daughter of Richard Earl of Worcester. Sir Edward was summoned by writ as Lord Bergavenny in 1450. (fn. 66) His son and heir George Lord Bergavenny (d. 1492) instructed his bailiff to allow the Priors of Maiden Bradley to take their part of the waifs and strays within their third of the manor and to avoid summoning the priors' tenants to Bergavenny's court. (fn. 67)
George Nevill Lord Bergavenny, a favourite with Henry VII and son of the first-named George, entailed all his estates upon himself and the heirs male of his body. (fn. 68) He died in 1535, and during the minority of his son Henry the king appointed John Avery to be bailiff of the lordship of Kidderminster Foreign. (fn. 69) Upon the death of Henry Lord Bergavenny in February 1586–7 the heir male to the estate was Edward Nevill of Newton St. Loe, Somerset, sometimes styled Lord Bergavenny. (fn. 70) His son Edward disputed the barony with the heir general and received a writ of summons as Lord Nevill of Bergavenny in 1604. (fn. 71) He died in London 1 December 1622, and was succeeded by his son Henry. (fn. 72) It was his son John Lord Bergavenny who in 1663 leased the manor and market tolls to William Dike for three lives. (fn. 73)
He was succeeded in the barony by his brother George, whose son and heir George Lord Bergavenny died without issue in 1695. Thereupon his estates passed to his kinsman, George Nevill, descendant and heir male of Sir Christopher Nevill, younger son of that Edward Lord Bergavenny who died in 1622. He died in 1721. His sons George and William died of smallpox in 1723 and 1724 respectively, whereupon their first cousin, William Nevill, inherited the entailed property and barony of Bergavenny. (fn. 74)
In 1733, under Act of Parliament, he sold his manorial rights in Kidderminster in order to purchase an estate in East Grinstead. (fn. 75) Conveyance was made to Edward Harley, (fn. 76) possibly in trust. Within the next forty years the manors were acquired by Thomas Foley, created Lord Foley of Kidderminster, 1776. (fn. 77)
Thenceforward these manors, with the remainder of Lord Foley's estate in Kidderminster, became entitled the manors of Kidderminster Borough and Foreign, and their history is coincident with that of the Great Witley estate (q.v.). The present owner of both is the Earl of Dudley.
The portion of the main manor assigned to Isabel Pleseys, the youngest daughter of John Biset, was known after 1476 by the name of KIDDERMINSTER BURNELL. It was evidently alienated before the death of Hugh Pleseys to Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, the great chancellor of Edward I, who purchased other lands in the county. He held one-third of Kidderminster at his death in 1292, 'doing for it to the king reasonable service with arms and horses in time of war, as the king may desire.' (fn. 78) He was succeeded by his nephew Philip Burnell of Holdgate, co. Salop, who rapidly wasted his estate. (fn. 79) His son Edward, left heir to his father in 1294, (fn. 80) was summoned to Parliament as Lord Burnell in 1314, (fn. 81) but died without issue in the following year. (fn. 82) His sister and heir married firstly John Lovel, secondly John Handlo. In 1321 this portion of Kidderminster was entailed upon John and Maud Handlo and their heirs male (fn. 83); in 1339 a new settlement was made upon their son Nicholas (afterwards called Burnell) and his wife Mary. (fn. 84) He entered upon the estate after his father's death in 1346, (fn. 85) served in the wars in France, and was summoned to Parliament as Lord Burnell in 1350. (fn. 86) In January 1382–3, upon the death of Nicholas Burnell, Kidderminster Burnell descended to his son Hugh. (fn. 87) Having no sons, he alienated it to his friend Sir John Beauchamp of Holt, (fn. 88) who also acquired the reversion of Kidderminster Biset. Thus two divisions of the original manor were re-united.
The third share, that of Margery Rivers, was inherited by her son John Rivers of Burgate. (fn. 89) He gave it to the Prior of Maiden Bradley, co. Wilts., and the leprous sisters in that house, which was of the foundation of Manasser Biset, receiving in exchange land in Burgate. (fn. 90) In confirming to the priory the possession of the church of Kidderminster (fn. 91) he further granted the land and person of his villein, Hugh 'in la Grava.' (fn. 92) In 1270 Queen Eleanor confirmed to the priory the lands thus received, (fn. 93) and this portion of Kidderminster became merged in the priory's manor of Comberton. (fn. 94)
In the partition of the manor after John Biset's death the hall or manor-house seems to have been assigned to the lord of Kidderminster Biset. (fn. 95) It is said that a portion of the hall, including the kitchens, was converted into a Brussels carpet factory, which still existed in the last century. (fn. 96) The foundations of the old building were discovered when the savings bank was being built. (fn. 97) It lay in close proximity to the church on the sloping ground which rises from the left bank of the Stour. Hall Street, Dudley Street (formerly known as Barn Street), (fn. 98) and Orchard Street occupy the site of the demesne.
From early times the River Stour with its tributaries has been a source of industry. Two corn-mills were attached to the manor in 1086, while the reeve held another. The demesne mill, known as the Great Mill, (fn. 99) was burnt down late in the 14th century. (fn. 100) The Heathy mill south-east of the town was known as 'Walkmill,' and belonged to Bordesley Abbey. (fn. 101) In 1272 the Prior of Maiden Bradley had in view the building of a mill, probably Comberton Mill. (fn. 102) The mill at (Over) Mitton was known as 'le kylemilne.' (fn. 103)
To the south of the site of the hall already referred to, and on the same bank of the Stour, was the old market-house, with the town hall and gaol, the last being a cellar which acquired, not without reason, the ill-omened name of the 'Blackhole.' (fn. 104)
The roads from Birmingham and Dudley meet in the old market-place and are crossed at their junction by a third road. This last is continued across the river by the curve of the 'Bull Ring'; on the right bank it branches into the main roads to Bewdley and Bridgnorth, on the left, but beyond the area of the old market, it leads to Worcester and to Bromsgrove. The old Worcester road formerly joined the Bromsgrove road at a point more distant from the market than at present. The new road was brought into the centre of the town about 1835. (fn. 105) In the immediate proximity of the old market-place the Dudley road is known as Blakewell Street, the Birmingham road as the High Street.
Standing at the bottom of the High Street is a small 16th-century inn, now known as the 'Three Tuns,' but formerly as the 'King's Head.' (fn. 106) It is a two-storied gabled building, of half-timber and brick construction, though many of the uprights have been taken out and solid brickwork inserted, while the front to the ground floor is modern. On the east an archway through to the yard at the back divides the inn from another building of the same date, the front of which is entirely modern. The backs of both buildings overhang on the first floor.
On the south side of Church Street (no. 12) stands a small half-timber building, roofed with tiles, of early 17th-century date. It is rectangular on plan with a central stack, and is divided on the ground floor into four rooms, each having an angle fireplace, only one of which remains in its original state, the others having been blocked up. The front elevation is of symmetrical design, and it is in an excellent state of preservation. The upper floor projects over the street with small shaped brackets beneath the main beam. In the front are four windows of four lights each, with ovolo-moulded transoms. The timber framing to the walls is composed solely of vertical and horizontal members, there being no braces. The panels are all plastered.
The parish has from time immemorial been divided into the borough and the foreign. (fn. 107) The exact origin of the distinction is not clear. The earliest known record of the foreign as distinct from the borough is the 'Custom of the Lords of Kidderminster,' (fn. 108) which probably belongs to the fourth decade of the 14th century. Here it is stated that the profits of strays within the borough ought to be shared by the 'two lords' (possibly of Kidderminster Biset and Burnell), while strays on the commons or roads of the foreign belonged to the three lords (including the Prior of Maiden Bradley) and each lord ought to have those on his own lordship within the foreign.
The borough evidently centred round the marketplace. The lord had toll on all sales within certain bounds: 'Dakebroke in Blakestanstrete (? Blakewell Street), the Cross in Worcester Street, the Cross in Milstrete (? Proud Cross) or the barriers in Churchstrete.' (fn. 109) Leland, who visited the town about 1540, remarked that the 'fair and chief' part lay on the left side of the Stour; and in the centre of the market was a pretty cross with six pillars and arches of stone, with the seventh pillar in the middle to bear up the fornix. (fn. 110)
It remains uncertain whether the bounds given above were those of the original borough or only of the market. They were considerably smaller than those of the borough in 1837. (fn. 111) The borough and the foreign were distinct also for poor-law purposes and each had its own churchwardens. In 1616 the inhabitants of the borough petitioned that those of the foreign should contribute to the support of the poor of the whole parish. (fn. 112) The jealousy between the two districts was aggravated in the 18th century by the growth of considerable hamlets just outside the limits of the borough. (fn. 113) It was only partially allayed by a Boundary Act of 1841, (fn. 114) but is at last settled in 1912 by the incorporation into the borough of most of the outlying districts.
The division into two wards apparently dates only from the division of the borough for parlimentary purposes in 1832. (fn. 115)
Henry II in granting the manor to Manasser Biset gave him also full jurisdiction over his tenants, 'soke and sake, toll and theam, infangtheof and utfangtheof with all liberties and free customs whereof any of my Barons of England holds best.' (fn. 116) John Beauchamp had a further grant of the goods and chattels of felons and fugitives within his manors (of Kidderminster Burnell and Biset). (fn. 117)
The men of Kidderminster were slow to acquire any degree of independence. The possession of the manor by William I in 1086 gave them the position of tenants on ancient demesne of the Crown, rendering them free from toll, stallage, murage, &c., throughout the kingdom and exempting them from contributing to the expenses of knights of the shire or from sitting on juries outside the manor court. These privileges were confirmed to them in 1386, 1427, 1530 and in 1586. (fn. 118) The town was regularly tallaged by the king from 1177 onwards. (fn. 119)
The town was governed in the early period by a prepositus or reeve appointed by the lord. In 1086 he held the land of one radknight. (fn. 120) The reeve is again mentioned in 1221, when he with other freemen of the town 'testified that Robert Patrick's son had confessed himself a thief.' (fn. 121) Burgage tenure is frequently recorded. In the early 13th century Wulfric gave to Maiden Bradley a 'burgage' held of the lord by 12d. rent yearly, (fn. 122) and in 1254 Richard of Trimpley enfeoffed Hugh Attwood (de Bosco) of another burgage. (fn. 123)
The extent of Kidderminster Biset drawn up in 1300 mentions only the rents of free tenants (40s.) and services of customary tenants (fn. 124); but seven years later the rent of thirteen free tenants was 104s. 11d., toll of market was worth 53s. 4d., and there were sixty-three burgesses in addition to the free and customary tenants. (fn. 125)
Before the time of William de Cauntelow, who first took office as sheriff in 1200, the town was free from the sheriff's jurisdiction. In consideration of 16 marks of silver Walter Beauchamp (between 1237 and 1241) gave to John Biset and his heirs written acknowledgement of this exemption. (fn. 126) In 1275 it was recorded that the 'commonalty' of the borough had distraint save in cases of debt. (fn. 127) In 1305 the 'commonalty' joined the lord of Kidderminster Biset in presenting a chaplain to the chantry of St. Mary, (fn. 128) but what right they had to do so does not appear.
Two representatives, Walter Caldigan and Walter Lihtfot, were sent by Kidderminster to the 'Model' Parliament of 1295, but the burgesses were probably deterred by the contingent expense from returning a member to any other Parliament, until they sent a single member to the reformed Parliament of 1833. (fn. 129) The borough is still represented by one member.
The town probably owed its development during the 13th century to the valuable properties of the Stour water, which had already been recognized. In 1280 William the Dyer (tinctore) was assessed towards the payment of a subsidy, (fn. 130) and in 1292 a fulling-mill was standing. (fn. 131)
The town also received frequent visits from the king. Henry III was there in July 1221, when an expedition was proceeding against Llewelyn ap Iorwerth; the Welsh war brought him thither again in October 1223. He was there in September 1224 and 1226, August 1228, May 1231, August 1232, when there were renewed troubles with the Welsh and his visit seems to have been prolonged for at least ten days, and in June and September 1233. (fn. 132) He seems to have been entertained at the Hall (fn. 133) either by Aumary St. Amand, who took an active part in the Welsh negotiations in 1231, (fn. 134) or by John Biset, whose kinswoman Margaret saved him from an assassin when at her midnight devotions. (fn. 135)
The division of the manor between the three co-heirs of John Biset about the middle of the 12th century probably facilitated the growth of autonomy. Each of the three lords had the amercements from his own free and customary tenants. They shared the waifs found on the highway or common lands of the foreign. They divided with the rector (fn. 136) the fines from burgesses who imperilled the town by stacking brushwood near the houses, and from buyers and sellers who did business without the prescribed limits. (fn. 137)
In 1333 the steward of the lord of Kidderminster Biset held an inquiry into the claims of the 'community of the burgesses.' From this it appears that they elected their own bailiff or reeve, and twice yearly sent six representatives chosen by the bailiff to the lord's view of frankpledge held on the hill. The bailiff also collected the lords' toll, placing it in a box without rendering any account, after deducting the payment for his own dinner. These customs were from time immemorial, and were held for law. The burgesses were also free from relief and heriot. (fn. 138)
To about the same date evidently belongs another account of the customs of the town known as the 'Composition of the manor and borough of Kidderminster,' which adds that the bailiff was to be chosen by twenty-four of the burgesses the Monday after Michaelmas. The bailiff was to choose an assistant (the 'low' bailiff) to make attachments and serve distraints, and two catchpolls 'to see the market in order.' Two honest burgesses were to walk the fairs and the markets, which were probably prescriptive in origin (see below) with the bailiff, and the three eldest burgesses were to aid him in keeping the peace.
The bailiff acted as clerk of the market, giving bread that fell short in weight and 'misselled' (measled) pork or brawn to the poor. He appointed a borough herdsman to keep the cattle on the lord's waste, and took half the fines from offenders against the regulations of the cloth trade, the lord taking the other half. Aided by six burgesses he appraised waifs and strays, and he 'took the advisament' of at least three of the elder burgesses in 'redressing of all matters for the prince (fn. 139) and the lord.' His gaoler handed over prisoners to the constable of the manor at Worcester Cross. He was allowed to hunt a couple of rabbits in the lord's warren three days in each week, whereas the ordinary burgess might only shoot one without going out of the highway, and the 'tenter' might not kill any.
Twice yearly at the great courts leet the town clerk, his wife and his man, the twelve men (of the jury) and their wives, the low bailiff and his wife dined at the expense of the bailiff. The officers were bound to present their accounts on these occasions. (fn. 140)
The 'Twelve and the Twenty-four' presented to the lord's officers the man who desired to become a burgess, and if he could not pay the fine 'they ought to make him able.' (fn. 141)
In 1332, the year in which he took steps to introduce Flemish weavers into England, Edward III spent three days at Kidderminster. (fn. 142) The townsmen were then making broad and narrow cloths and kerseys and the trade of the 'tenters' (stretchers or dyers of cloth) was strictly regulated. (fn. 143)
There were at that time sixty-six men rated for the subsidy in the town itself, as opposed to fifty-eight in 1280. (fn. 144)
The commercial part of the town centred about the High Street, where the Prior of Maiden Bradley let land on a building lease in 1414. (fn. 145) The trades included those of draper, goldsmith, ironmonger and glover. (fn. 146)
A newly-built house in 'Blaxter Street' (? Blakewell Street) was owned by Sir Humphrey Stafford, a supporter of Richard III, attainted and executed at Tyburn, 17 November 1485. He also possessed a two-storied tavern, cottages in Worcester Street and Mill Street and the 'Courthouse' Tavern. (fn. 147) The rents of tenements in Shop Row were subsequently devoted to supporting obits, (fn. 148) while Sir Edward Blount bequeathed a tenement 'behind the shops' for the maintenance of his almshouses. (fn. 149)
Trade disputes arose between Kidderminster and Bewdley in the 15th century, and in January 1493–4 Prince Arthur of Wales is said to have made peace between the towns, commanding them 'to eschew all manner of debates and discords' and apply in future to himself and his council to settle all differences. (fn. 150) The quarrel apparently related to the toll on wool brought out of Wales across Bewdley Bridge. (fn. 151)
The cloth industry continued to flourish, and in 1533–4 an Act was passed limiting the industry to certain towns, (fn. 152) including Kidderminster. There were then in the town fifty-two men able to bear arms, and in the outlying hamlets forty-three. (fn. 153)
'By reason of the confluence of many thither daily' the town grew populous. In February 1632–3 the inhabitants petitioned for a royal charter. (fn. 154) They were probably influenced by disputes as to market-rights recently settled in favour of the lord of the borough. The charter was granted 4 August 1636. The town was incorporated under the name of 'the bailiff and burgesses of the borough of Kidderminster.' The bailiff (fn. 155) was to be chosen on the Monday after Michaelmas from the twelve capital burgesses, election being made by the whole of the burgesses. The capital burgesses were to hold office for life and join the bailiff in filling up vacancies in their number. The bailiff and burgesses chose a steward (Sir Ralph Clare of Caldwell being named in the charter). He was assisted by an under steward learned in the law.
The bailiff and capital burgesses were to assemble in the gildhall or elsewhere to make by-laws for the government of the borough, and they might claim the advice of twenty-five assistant burgesses appointed by themselves from the more honest and upright inhabitants. The bailiff, his immediate predecessor and the under steward were to be justices of the peace within the borough, but the rights of the lords of the manor to court leet, &c., were reserved. To the bailiff and burgesses were granted fairs and markets 'as they had lawfully held the same.' (fn. 156) The twelve capital, and twenty five assistant, burgesses may be compared with the 'Twelve and the Twenty-four' mentioned above.
The bailiff and capital burgesses aided by the 'assistants' proceeded to make by-laws at the 'courthouse,' the junior of the assistants speaking first. They provided themselves with 'comely and decent black gowns' in which to attend the bailiff to church on the Sabbath and festivals, and without which the bailiff might not walk the streets. They appointed a constable to keep order and bade every burgess keep at hand a club, bill or halbert. Innkeepers were forbidden to give entertainment on Sunday or holiday save 'due repose to strangers passengers and travellers'; and the churchwardens and constables left the church at the Second Lesson to make diligent search for such offenders. They ordered the cleansing of the streets on Saturday afternoons and the removal of standings from the street and market-place at night. Trading by any 'foreigner' not a burgess was prohibited unless he had been apprenticed seven years in the town or had gained permission from the burgesses and paid scot and lot. (fn. 157)
In 1642 Essex, expecting that the king would advance on London by the Worcester road, sent a regiment to Kidderminster under Lord Brooke. He withdrew before a feigned advance on the part of Prince Rupert (fn. 158) with the loss of one soldier who fell down the steep cliff into Bewdley Street. (fn. 159) 'From haste or fear' some wagons and three or four pieces of ordnance were left behind, (fn. 160) and the townsmen hastened to deliver these to the Royalists. (fn. 161)
Many of the townsmen declared that they would have lived peaceably at home, but that they were driven by the 'rage of soldiers and drunkards' (who persisted in identifying the sober-minded with the rebellious) to take refuge with the Parliamentary garrison at Coventry. (fn. 162)
Early in June 1644 the men of Kidderminster were threatened with ruin by a troop of Royalist horse if they should send provisions to the Parliamentary army, while an order was issued to Parliamentary commanders to forbear from plundering the fulling-mills of Robert Wilmot, treasurer to the County Committee of Stafford, in Mitton. (fn. 163) A week later a Royalist force for the relief of Dudley marched through from Bewdley, (fn. 164) and when Waller arrived in the town next day he found it 'little better than an empty farm.' He took prisoner Lieut.-Col. Stamford and a captain of foot with 'some poor soldiers' and the French agent M. de Sabran, (fn. 165) and moved to Stourbridge next day.
In the following June Charles passed through the town on his way from Naseby to Bewdley, leaving behind a poor woman who had been wounded in the late battle. (fn. 166) Shortly afterwards there was skirmishing at Trimpley, and in November 1645 Sir Thomas Aston with a Royalist force encamped there, probably on the site of the ancient camp at Warshill. Attacked by the Parliamentarians under Captain Stone, Aston made a stout resistance, but was taken prisoner, his troops being routed.
A skirmish in the town itself, in which Captain Denham and two soldiers were killed, (fn. 167) may be that in which tradition relates that the beaten party were driven from Clensmore to take refuge in St. Mary's chantry. (fn. 168) In December the town was again molested by 'the most rude and ill-governed [Royalist] horse that . . . ever trod upon earth.'
Sir Ralph Clare of Caldwall and other residents at Kidderminster favoured the king's cause. Edward Broad of Dunclent was assisted in preparing guns to be used against the 'Roundhead rogues' by a Kidderminster man. (fn. 169) It was said, too, that Thomas Crane of Kidderminster sent horses and arms to Hartlebury Castle and to Bristol. (fn. 170)
In 1651 Charles II and his Scottish army, marching southwards, 'passed most by Kidderminster a field's breadth off.' (fn. 171) After their defeat at Worcester the fugitives fled back along the same road, although Charles himself turned off at Hartlebury. (fn. 172) Some of Cromwell's men, stationed at Bewdley Bridge, entered Kidderminster to cut off the retreat of the Royalists. Thirty troopers stationed in the market-place shot at many hundreds, who, 'not knowing in the dark what number it was that charged them, either hasted away or cried quarter.' (fn. 173) Subsequently the bailiffs were eager to show their zeal for the Commonwealth in searching for plots against Cromwell, (fn. 174) but they were backward in collecting the excise on ale. (fn. 175)
Though the name of 'gildhall' is applied by the charter of King Charles to the town hall or courthouse, no trace has been found of a gild-merchant in Kidderminster, but there is some later record of craft gilds. In 1650 the bailiff and capital burgesses drew up ordinances for the craft gilds which then existed in the town. There were companies of weavers, tailors, smiths and shoemakers. Each fraternity was governed by two wardens elected yearly. The annual assembly of each gild took place on the Monday after Midsummer, and the last man to arrive before 11 a.m. was made beadle or messenger to his company. There were strict rules against trading by non-members, half the fines being paid to the bailiff and burgesses, half to the fraternity. The wardens supervised the appointment of apprentices and journeymen, while the bailiff and capital burgesses could fine negligent wardens and control their expenses. (fn. 176)
Shortly after the Restoration the prosperity of the town was much increased through the completion of Andrew Yarranton's scheme for making the Stour navigable from Stourbridge to Kidderminster. Coal was first brought thither by water in 1665. (fn. 177) The construction of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal brought not only a more satisfactory connexion with the Severn, but also a continuous stream of through traffic. (fn. 178)
The cloth trade, falling into decay early in the 18th century, was replaced by the manufacture of fancy materials, silk and woollen. (fn. 179) Carpet-weaving, introduced early in the 18th century by Pearsall and Broom, rapidly became the staple trade of the town. (fn. 180) New streets were built by Lord Foley within five years of the introduction of the first Brussels loom, (fn. 181) and the old streets were widened and improved. (fn. 182) Four-loomed shops were established in Dudley Street, Queen Street, Union Street and Broad Street. (fn. 183) With the rise of a new and important body of traders in the town, discontent at the exclusiveness of the governing body increased. (fn. 184) During the 18th century municipal elections were riotous. The mob threw cabbage-stalks at each other and respectable inhabitants were invited to pelt the bailiff-elect with apples. (fn. 185) In 1766 the high price of butter gave rise to serious disturbances, and the rioters visited neighbouring towns, forcing farmers to lower their prices. (fn. 186)
The capital burgesses were drawn chiefly from a single family; the assistant burgesses were not invited to vote in the common council, and, even after the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, it was long before a Dissenter was admitted as assistant. (fn. 187)
Ill-feeling was increased when, 6 August 1827, the corporation succeeded in gaining a new charter confirming their old constitution, save that the twelve capital burgesses gained the title of 'aldermen,' instituting the office of recorder and increasing the number of magistrates by creating the three senior aldermen ex officio justices of the peace. (fn. 188)
During the rioting which accompanied the great weavers' strike of 1828 the impartiality of the high bailiff was called into question. (fn. 189)
The local government was extended and reformed by the Municipal Reform Act of 1835, (fn. 190) which divided the borough into three wards represented by six aldermen and eighteen councillors. (fn. 191) The number of wards was doubled in 1880.
Previous to 1835 the sole jurisdiction possessed by the corporation was due to the charter of 1632–3, which constituted the bailiff, his predecessor and the under steward justices of the peace. Petty sessions had thenceforward been held weekly, but quarter sessions were regularly dismissed at once, owing to the lack of a sufficient gaol. (fn. 192) The Court of Requests established in 1772 was held by a commission distinct from the borough magistrates. (fn. 193)
The corporation insignia include a silver-gilt mace, a Jubilee gift of Mr. George Houldsworth (mayor 1886–7), and the mayoral badge and chain purchased in 1875. The common seal given in 1775 bears an ornate cartouche with the town arms: Azure two cheveronels or, between three bezants, and each charged with four roundels, and the legend 'Deo iuvante arte et industria floret.'
The corporation also possesses a beautiful Elizabethan loving-cup of silver-gilt with elaborately chased bowl and cover. Round the top is inscribed 'Given formerly p[er] Thomas Jennens of Kitterminster and inlarged p[er] his grandchild Thomas Jenens of the Citty of London Grocer A° D[omini]. 1623.' Hall-marks: London, 1611–12. (fn. 194)
A period of depression from 1851 to 1861 was ended by the development of the railway, which had been constructed in 1852. Power loom machines were introduced 1860–5 and hand looms were entirely superseded. Not only was an impetus given to the carpet manufacture, which has since increased threefold, but also the town has expanded in all directions and especially upon the rising ground in the neighbourhood of the station. Much of the new town was built with bricks made near the Stour Vale Works, on the canal side and at Caldwall. (fn. 195)
The canal was almost superseded by the railway. The former donkey traffic (fn. 196) has quite disappeared and a system of electric tramways has been established. Moreover, the condition of the town has been immensely improved since the 17th century, when every burgess and innholder set a lantern before his door on dark nights. (fn. 197) Steps were taken for better lighting and paving in 1813, (fn. 198) and gas was introduced in 1818. (fn. 199) The old watch, consisting of about eight householders, (fn. 200) was replaced by professional watchmen before 1835. (fn. 201)
The town hall in High Street was replaced in 1877 by the present more spacious and commodious building in Vicar Street. It was erected on the site of the vicarage (fn. 202) and its frontage is adorned by a statue of Sir Rowland Hill, the great reorganizer of the postal system, who was born at Kidderminster 3 December 1795. (fn. 203) Near the town hall are the Corporation Buildings with the Corn Exchange, purchased in 1853. (fn. 204) At the corner of Market Street, near by, are the Science and Art Schools and the Borough Free Library, removed to its present position in 1894.
The town owes a part of this prosperity to the market, which was probably prescriptive in origin or due to the grant of toll made to Manasser Biset. (fn. 205)
The lord of the manor had a grant of a three days' fair at St. Bartholomewtide in 1228. (fn. 206) The (undated) 'Customs of the Lords of Kidderminster,' (fn. 207) which may probably be assigned to the 14th century, show that it was usual for each burgess to set up stalls before his tenement, but for the lord to receive 1d. as toll from strangers and the low bailiff ½d. as stallage on fair and market days. The ambiguity of the charter of Charles I and the unsettled state of the town during the Civil War aggravated disputes between the burgesses and Lord Bergavenny's agent for the collection of tolls. About 1620 Lord Bergavenny offered the burgesses a lease of the tolls, but they refused, being under the impression that the high bailiff ought to receive the whole of the tolls towards his charges incurred in dining the lord's officers at the courts leet and baron and supping the low bailiff and the constable on market days. (fn. 208) The dispute was brought before the court of Exchequer and decrees given in favour of the lord, (fn. 209) who subsequently leased his rights to William Dike of Font, co. Sussex. (fn. 210) The latter sublet the tolls and court-house to the corporation, (fn. 211) who finally obtained from the lord a lease for 1,000 years. (fn. 212)
The general market is now held on Thursdays and Saturdays in a covered hall built by the corporation in 1822. (fn. 213) The cattle market, held fortnightly on Saturdays, was similarly moved from the streets to an inclosed space between Backmarket and Market Streets, (fn. 214) the new market being opened 26 October 1871. (fn. 215)
In 1694 there were three fairs yearly—one at Ascensiontide, one on Corpus Christi Day (Thursday after Trinity Sunday), and the third the chartered fair of St. Bartholomew. (fn. 216) The origin of the first two is unknown. The only existing fair is that which was formerly held in the town at Ascensiontide. It is now purely a pleasure fair, has been transferred to the third week in June, and is held in the suburbs. (fn. 217)
The cattle and cheese fair, held on 4 September until the middle of the last century, was probably a survival of the St. Bartholomew fair. (fn. 218) Early in the 19th century an additional fair was held on the Monday after Palm Sunday, and another, held on 29 June, may have been the original Corpus Christi fair, but these were all abolished before 1872, when a hiring fair was held the second Tuesday in each month and the pleasure fair was established in June. At Stourport the markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays, said to have been established in 1768, were at first well attended, especially in the hop season, but they are now almost extinct. There were also fairs on the first Tuesdays in April, July and October. (fn. 219)
The Grammar School was founded by charter, 1636; but it may have originated in the school held in St. Mary's Chantry. (fn. 220)
Pearsall's Endowed Grammar School, founded in 1795, is now merged in the 'New Meeting' Schools. There is a High School for Girls in the Chester Road. In addition to the Science and Art Schools there are seventeen elementary schools in Kidderminster and its hamlets, while Stourport has five and Wribbenhall three.
Beyond the town itself lies the extensive parish of which it is the centre. Numerous outlying hamlets and farms represent the sixteen berewicks of the Domesday Survey. Two of these lay at Ribbesford across the Severn; the sites of three others—Bristitune, Fastochesfeld and Teulesberge—remain unknown.
The eastern arm of the parish contains Wannerton, still (as in 1086) no more than an isolated farm, and Hurcott, a hall with manorial rights of its own. (fn. 221) Near Hurcott, in a commanding position, stands Park Hall, the residence of Mr. G. E. Wilson, J.P.
South of Hurcott and Park Hall the parish is traversed by the Birmingham road and the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton branch of the Great Western railway, and beyond these are the fertile fields and pasture-lands of the Little Dunclent, Offmoor and Comberton Farms.
Comberton itself is a residential district of Kidderminster which lies along the main road to Bromsgrove. Comberton Hall (fn. 222) is in the occupation of Mr. R. Howard Krause. It dates from about the year 1600. The house has been much altered by the removal of its curvilinear gables and the addition of bay windows, but retains generally its original plan of central hall with rooms on both sides, its old heavy beams, some of which are encased, and at the top of the stairway a moulded handrail and turned balusters of the early 18th century. At the back are the original brick stables with curvilinear gables.
The low lands near the Worcester road, and indeed the whole valley of the Stour, are liable to floods, except in the town itself, where the stream is for the most part walled in. Such inundations frequently gave rise to 'malignant fevers' in the 18th century, (fn. 223) when many of the Kidderminster weavers lived in 'small nasty' houses along the river-side; but the townspeople declared that the high death-rate was due to smallpox. (fn. 224) The town, however, was thoroughly drained in 1872–3.
The road to Stourport following the river skirts Sutton Common, the 'Sudtone' of Domesday, near which is said to have been 'Sudwale,' (fn. 225) and, leaving on the left Brinton Park, given to the town in 1887 by Mr. John Brinton, D.L., J.P., formerly M.P., leads through Foley Park, a rapidly growing suburb of substantial houses, villas and small shops.
Beyond lies Oldington, another berewick; its woods extend from the road to the river-side. Oldington Farm, the probable site of the manor-house, stands back from the road. It has been converted into a sewage farm.
Stourport lies about the junction of the Stour and Severn, and is approached through Upper Mitton, formerly a part of Hartlebury parish. It is a town consisting mostly of modern houses, grouping generally on the road from the iron bridge over the Severn, which passes northward through Bridge Street, High Street and Lombard Street, and reaches the north end of the town in Foundry Street. In Lombard Street there is a fine square brick chimney, which rises to a great height, with perfectly plain sides, gradually diminishing in size. In 1863 Lower Mitton with Stourport adopted the Local Government Act of 1858, (fn. 226) uniting to form a local board of health, and in 1894 Lower and Upper Mitton were combined in the single urban district of Stourport. (fn. 227)
The town of Stourport grew up in consequence of Brindley's choice of the junction of the two rivers for the basin of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. The three great basins of the canal are the main feature of the town. There are large iron and carpet works built on the banks of the Stour. Green meadows sloping down to the left bank of the Severn form a pleasant contrast to the crowded shops and warehouses of the High Street and Bridge Street. The iron bridge was erected about 1870 to replace one which dated from about 1806. (fn. 228)
Lower Mitton is of older date than Stourport. It consists of a few scattered houses on the Wribbenhall road parallel with the Severn. Overlooking the river are Moor Hall, the residence of Mr. J. Brinton, and Lickhill Manor House, the seat of the ancient family of Folliott until the early part of the last century, when it became the property of the Craven family. (fn. 229)
Wribbenhall, another of the Domesday berewicks, a picturesque village on the Birmingham and Coventry road, is clustered about the bridge of Bewdley, where the main road to Birmingham crosses the Severn. The men of Kidderminster Foreign had to repair Wribbenhall bridge. (fn. 230) The older cottages with terraced gardens on the high banks of the Kidderminster road and the gabled houses facing the river are fast being replaced by modern villas, for Wribbenhall is practically a suburb of Bewdley, and since the construction of the Severn Valley Line about 1859 (fn. 231) it has afforded the only approach to that town by rail.
Wribbenhall was constituted a separate civil parish in 1901. (fn. 232)
On the outskirts of Wribbenhall is the small hamlet of Catchem's End, which is said to have been the limit of the sanctuary of Bewdley. (fn. 233) Beyond is the large park of Spring Grove, the residence of Mr. Thomas Wakefield Binyon, J.P.
When the high ground on the left bank of the Severn above Wribbenhall is reached the Bunter Pebble Beds, upon which lies the greater part of the parish, give way to a portion of the Forest of Wyre coalfield. The Coal Measures are covered by North Wood and Eymore Wood, east of which is a sill of basalt extending to Warshill Wood, where a ridge of breccia occurs. (fn. 234)
At North Wood a house with land was acquired by the Prior of Great Malvern about 1318. (fn. 235) Park Attwood, long the property of the Attwood family, (fn. 236) lies in the northern part of the parish. Local legend relates that a crusading member of the family, miraculously brought back from prison in a trance, delayed the fulfilment of a vow to devote his life to the protection of the Holy Sepulchre. He returned from a second imprisonment ragged and in chains, and was recognized by a faithful dog just in time to prevent the re-marriage of his despairing wife. The galloping of his horse and rattling of his chains are said to be still heard near Park Attwood. (fn. 237)
The chapelry of Trimpley marks the site of another of the Domesday berewicks. It consists of scattered farms and a few cottages lying near the road from Park Attwood to Kidderminster. The open common upon which the tenants of Trimpley Manor have common of pasture lies on either side of the road. During the last century it was planted with fine poplars by members of the Chillingworth family, (fn. 238) and in the midst are the grounds of Trimpley House, the residence of Mr. Arnold Crane Rogers.
The road leads eastwards over Ridgstone Rock about 400 ft. above sea level. Thence is obtained a perfect panorama of the county, stretching eastwards to the Clent and the Lickey Hills and southwards to Worcester and Great Malvern. The steep incline below descends by the rough natural steps of 'Jacob's Ladder' into the wood and heathland of Habberley Valley, broken by a quaint peak called the Pekket Rock.
Low Habberley is a hamlet on the left of the road facing the present manor-house, while High Habberley lies on the cross-road leading to Catchem's End. The existence of one Habberley only is recorded in 1086, unless either hamlet is to be identified with one of the neighbouring berewicks of Franche.
Franche is a village 1 mile from the town of Kidderminster, and with its church, schools and club lies on either side of the Bewdley to Stourbridge road, extending from the cross-roads at Honeybrook Terrace to Franche Hall, built by Mr. Michael Tomkinson.
The lepers of Maiden Bradley acquired the manors of COMBERTON (Cumbrintun, xiii cent.; Comerton, Cumberton, xiii–xix cent.) and OLDINGTON (Aldintone, xi cent.; Oldinton, xiii–xiv cent.; Oldington, xv cent.) in the 13th century. Manasser Biset (d. about 1186) had enfeoffed Sir Ralph de Auxeville of these, together with Mitton Mill, and a rent-charge on the great mill of the manor, (fn. 239) and Sir Ralph had granted them piecemeal to the priory, partly in consideration of the payment of his ransom of 100 marks, (fn. 240) and partly for the welfare of his own soul and that of his lord, Henry Biset. (fn. 241) Already the prior had rights in Kidderminster Church (q.v.) of the gift of Manasser Biset.
From others the priory acquired various houses and pieces of land in the town, (fn. 242) and Margaret sister of Henry Biset, who built herself a house within the priory court in order to live a life of contemplation, gave rents in Kidderminster, assigned to her by her brother. (fn. 243) John Rivers of Burgate subsequently exchanged one-third of Kidderminster Manor with the same priory.
The prior's reeve had charge of the whole estate during the 13th and 14th centuries. (fn. 244) He collected rents and enforced services, kept the houses in repair, supervised the sale of wood (which in one year included as many as fifty-one oaks), provided for the wants of the prior when he visited the 'halls' of Oldington or Comberton, presided over the courts with the aid of a clerk, and disbursed liberal alms to the poor.
In 1390, however, the prior leased the third part of the manor of Kidderminster, with Oldington and Comberton and the tithes of Kidderminster, to Thomas Mal, chaplain, and John Mal for thirty-four years, subject to a rent, which was to be increased later unless 'great pestilence came to those parts.' Other tenements were also let out on lease. (fn. 245)
It became customary to let the estate for considerable terms of years. (fn. 246) John Blount was collector of rents, and held the rectory on lease in 1455–6, (fn. 247) and in 1522 Sir Thomas Blount and his son Edward had a lease of the whole estate for ninety-seven years. (fn. 248) Thus the property was little affected by the dissolution of Maiden Bradley Priory in 1535, (fn. 249) or by the subsequent grant of the rights of the priory to John Dudley, the Great Admiral of England, Viscount Lisle, and afterwards Duke of Northumberland, (fn. 250) then embarrassed by debts incurred in the king's service at Boulogne (fn. 251) (1544).
When in 1553 Northumberland was attainted and executed for his attempt to secure the throne for his daughter-in-law, the Lady Jane Grey, his lands were forfeited to the Crown, and in February 1559–60 Thomas Blount (said to be the grandson of the former lessee of 1522) (fn. 252) purchased all the property in Kidderminster which had formerly belonged to Maiden Bradley Priory. (fn. 253)
Thomas Blount died on 28 November 1568, (fn. 254) and was buried in the parish church. His son, Sir Edward Blount, kt., married (firstly) Mary Nevill, sister of Edward Lord Bergavenny, (fn. 255) and from him obtained a lease of the remainder of the original manor of Kidderminster. (fn. 256) In 1603 Sir Edward settled the reversion of his portion of the manor contingent upon his death on his kinsman Charles (Blount) Lord Mountjoy, who bequeathed his rights to his wife Penelope and her son Mountjoy Blount, afterwards created Earl of Newport. (fn. 257)
Sir Edward Blount died in 1630. In 1634 the Earl of Newport, then Master of the Ordnance, sold his estate at Kidderminster to Edmund Waller (fn. 258) the poet, who (either to raise money for the fine which purchased his safety after the discovery of his 'plot' against the Long Parliament, or to provide funds during his exile in France) split up the estate, selling it in three portions.
Daniel Dobbyns, a merchant of London, who was related to Waller by marriage, (fn. 259) purchased the 'fair house next the church' (fn. 260) and the manorial rights, apparently including Comberton. Dobbyns's house was pulled down shortly before 1782. (fn. 261) The site is now the property of the vicar. (fn. 262) Dobbyns reconveyed the 'moiety of the manor,' and possibly the manor of Comberton, to Waller, who sold it about 1652 with Comberton to Adam Hough and Thomas Hunt. (fn. 263) Adam Hough's descendant of the same name sold the 'manor of Comberton' to Samuel Steward c. 1772. (fn. 264) In this family it remained until about 1832. (fn. 265) It was bequeathed by two sisters and co-heirs, Mary Anne wife of Henry Evans and Charlotte Elizabeth Steward, to their kinsman Henry Steward Oldnall-Russell in tail. His son John Edwin took the name of Russell-Oldnall. Comberton is now the property of his brother Captain Roger William Oldnall of Stone (fn. 266) (q.v.).
It is not clear whether Oldington was sold to Daniel Dobbyns or not. It was certainly severed from Comberton by 1656, when William Bromhall and his wife Anne, Thomas Cowett and his wife Anne, John Somers (probably the father of the great chancellor) (fn. 267) and his wife Catherine, Francis Walker and Richard Whettall conveyed it to Thomas Foley, who was then sheriff of the county. (fn. 268)
It was thus among the first acquisitions of Thomas Foley in Kidderminster. It descended with the Foley estate till its purchase by the trustees of Lord Ward. (fn. 269) It is still the property of the Earl of Dudley.
The 'hall' at Oldington appears to have been the principal dwelling-house attached to the estate of Maiden Bradley Priory in Kidderminster. In 1281 a lock was bought for the door of a room in the hall, and thirty cuttings (inserti) for the lord's garden. (fn. 270) It was at Oldington that the vicar paid his yearly rent. (fn. 271)
In 1281 the prior had another hall at Kidderminster which may have been on the site either of Comberton Hall or of the house near the churchyard. (fn. 272)
The manor of CALDWALL (Caldewell, xiii cent.; Caldewall, xv cent.; or Cawdewall, xvi cent.) was held of the Prior of Maiden Bradley (fn. 273) in the 14th century. Possibly it was included in the lands given to the priory by John Rivers, for Henry 'of Caldwall' was one of the witnesses of his grants. (fn. 274)
Of its subinfeudation nothing is known. Henry of Caldwall settled a life interest in two messuages and land in Kidderminster, Caldwall and Franche upon William de Verdun and his wife Margery in 1248–9. (fn. 275) A Henry of Caldwall was a tenant of the prior in 1283–4. (fn. 276) The tenant in 1327 was evidently Hugh Cooksey of Cooksey in Upton Warren (fn. 277) (q.v.). In 1330 he acquired the services of a bondman of the lord of Kidderminster Biset, (fn. 278) and in 1335 he had a grant of free warren at Caldwall. (fn. 279) He also held the manor of Kidderminster Biset (q.v.) on lease. About 1376 Caldwall was the property of Denise widow of Hugh Cooksey. (fn. 280)
For two centuries the history of this manor was identical with that of Cooksey, being inherited by Roger Winter, kinsman of Joyce Beauchamp, sister and heir of the Sir Hugh Cooksey, kt., who had died in 1445. (fn. 281) Roger Winter's grandson George Winter sold Caldwall in 1589 to Francis Clare, (fn. 282) son of Simon Clare, lord of Over Mitton. Francis Clare died at Caldwall, 8 June 1608. (fn. 283) His son and heir, Sir Ralph Clare, kt., was a zealous supporter of the king and the most bitter opponent of Baxter. He took a prominent part in the defence of Worcester, 1642, but his presence there in 1651 is doubtful. (fn. 284) Baxter describes him as a courtier noted for his eminent civility and a churchman very zealous for conformity, the ruler of the vicar and of all business at Kidderminster. (fn. 285) His brother and heir Francis Clare was a captain of foot in the service of Charles I, and died in 1680. (fn. 286) His son Francis evidently succeeded to the manor. (fn. 287) It seems to have remained in the Clare family until 1777, when Antony Deane the younger, nephew of Francis Clare of Henwick in Hallow, sold it to Matthew Jeffries of Kidderminster and Thomas Jeffries of London, goldsmith. (fn. 288)
In 1897 the estate was purchased by the corporation from the trustees of George Turton. (fn. 289)
Caldwall Castle stands on the low-lying land at the south end of the town. The site is bounded on the north-east and south-east by the Stour, which here takes a small bend. Of the mediaeval building only one octagonal tower remains, but this was added to in the latter part of the 17th century by the erection of a three-story brick building on the north-west. Beyond this a low castellated extension was built in the 19th century, containing a few offices. The original tower is built of red sandstone, is three stories high with an embattled parapet, and appears to have been erected early in the 15th century. The stonework on the outside is much decayed and greatly overgrown with ivy, while the interior of the two upper floors has been considerably modernized. In the north corner is a vice going the full height of the tower and crowned with an embattled parapet and a stone roof. The ground floor-now a basement—retains its original stone vault, the ribs springing from small moulded corbels and meeting in a boss carved with a lion's face. In the north-west wall is a pointed doorway, now leading up a few steps into the 17th-century addition. The vice opens, by an ogee-headed door, from the north side of the opening cut through the wall to this doorway. In the north-east wall are the jambs and pointed rear arch of an original opening, through which a modern doorway has been cut, while in the south wall is a three-centred opening in which are three steps leading up to the outside, but externally this is blocked up. In the west wall is a square-headed cupboard, divided in front by a central stone post, the jambs, head and sill being rebated for doors.
The road which runs along the north side of the castle is only a little below the level of the first floor and comes right up to the tower walls. (fn. 290)
The staircase of the 17th-century addition was erected immediately against the tower and has moulded handrails and strings and heavy twisted balusters. The newels are square and have moulded cappings crowned with spherical finials and large acorn-shaped drops. Sash windows have been inserted throughout the addition, with the exception of the two upper floors fronting the road, where the original wooden transomed and mullioned window frames, fitted with iron casements, have been retained. Two chimney stacks have been carried up on the north-west wall through the centres of two stepped gables. The roof is tiled.
The reputed manor of EYMORE (Eymer, xvii cent.) evidently originated in Edward Burnell's gift of 160 acres of wood, parcel of the manor of Kidderminster Burnell, to the Prior and convent of Worcester (circa 1312). (fn. 291) Shortly afterwards the prior had licence to impark his land at Kidderminster. (fn. 292) When the endowment of the priory was bestowed upon the dean and chapter (fn. 293) in January 1541–2 the lands in Eymore and Kidderminster were included. (fn. 294)
After the abolition of the chapter by the Long Parliament, Eymore was purchased (1649) by John Corbyn, the dean's lessee, for over £3,000. (fn. 295) The dean and chapter recovered their lands at the Restoration, and Eymore remained in their possession until 1861, when it was purchased by Mr. Edward Crane of Broom, who bequeathed it to his nephew, Mr. Arnold Crane Rogers of Trimple) House. (fn. 296)
HABBERLEY (Haburgelei, x cent.; Haberlegh, xiii cent. Haburley, xvi cent.), (fn. 297) a Domesday 'berewick' of Kidderminster, lay at least in part within the main manor of Kidderminster (fn. 298); but Francis Clare is recorded to have possessed a separate 'manor' of Habberley in 1606, (fn. 299) part of which may have been the land in Habberley which formerly belonged to the chantry of St. Katherine in Kidderminster Church and was granted to Simon Clare after its suppression. (fn. 300) It subsequently descended with Caldwall Manor (q.v.) to Matthew and Thomas Jeffries Reversionary rights were purchased by Thomas Crane of Habberley and Bewdley, who died 12 December 1824. Shortly before his death he made over the property to his nephew John Crane, who died in 1866, leaving Habberley to his youngest brother Henry Crane. Upon the latter's death in 1882 it descended to his son, Mr. John Henry Crane, of 'Oakhampton,' Stourport, the present owner.
The original manor-house was burnt down in 1718; it stood on the site of the present Low Habberley Farm and had been occupied by the Crane family since or before 1563. Of late years the tenant of Habberley House has called it the 'Manor House.' There seems no basis for a local tradition that an old house occupied by Mrs. Miller was at one time the manor-house. (fn. 301)
The reputed manor of HEATHY (Hetheye, xiii cent.; Dunclent Hethey, xiv cent.) lies near Dunclent on the borders of the parish of Stone. In 1275 Thomas Attwood granted a messuage, carucate of land and 2 marks rent in Heathy to Robert Attwood for life. (fn. 302) This was possibly identical with the quarter of a knight's fee in Dunclent which was held by Stephen Attwood (de Bosco) and subsequently passed to Avice Dunclent, 1346. (fn. 303)
The manor was held of Lord Bergavenny, 1544, (fn. 304) and therefore was doubtless a sub-manor of Kidderminster Biset or Burnell.
In 1524 John Hore and his wife Margaret conveyed the manor of Heathy to Gilbert Clare, Simon Rice and others with warrant against the heirs of Margaret. (fn. 305) Two-thirds of the manor subsequently came into the possession of Thomas Hey, and after his death in 1543 was divided between his three daughters, Elizabeth wife of Thomas Browne, Margaret wife of Peter Romney, and Joan Hey. (fn. 306)
The portion assigned to Elizabeth Browne descended to her son William, (fn. 307) who in 1574 conveyed it to Humphrey Doolittle of Stone. (fn. 308) His son John Doolittle had livery of it in 1583, (fn. 309) but died in January 1585–6, leaving an infant son John. (fn. 310) In 1607 this John had livery of his father's estate. (fn. 311) Its later history is unknown.
The portion of Heathy assigned to Margaret Romney was held after her death by her husband, and descended in 1577 to their son William. (fn. 312) In 1627 William and Paul Romney conveyed their interest in the manor of Heathy to Edward Broad of Dunclent, (fn. 313) who sold it with Dunclent (fn. 314) to Thomas Foley. (fn. 315)
HURCOTT (Worcote, xi cent.; Hurecot, xiii cent.; Hurcott or Huthcott, xvii cent.) was a berewick of Kidderminster in 1086. (fn. 316)
The manor appears to have belonged for a considerable time to the successive incumbents, possibly since the time of Robert of Hurcott, who was rector when Manasser Biset (d. circa 1186) gave the church to Maiden Bradley Priory. (fn. 317)
In 1211, when Adam of Hurcott was vicar, Thomas Esturmi quitclaimed to the Prior of Maiden Bradley and to the church of Kidderminster all his rights in 2 virgates at Hurcott. (fn. 318) Robert son of Adam of Hurcott released his rights in the whole 'vill' to the vicar of Kidderminster and his successors in 1235. (fn. 319)
In the 14th century Hurcott Hall was the dwelling-place of the vicars. Their house with the demesne lands and fish-ponds was worth 40s., the rent from bond tenants 58s. 3d., the mill 20s. and pleas of court 18d. (fn. 320)
When in 1335 the vicarage was re-ordained Hurcott was not included in the vicar's portion, but was assigned to the Prior of Maiden Bradley. In 1340, however, Sir John de la Doune, the newly inducted vicar, obtained from the bishop an appropriation more favourable to himself, especially stipulating that the vicar should enjoy 'the manor of Hurcott where the rectors were formerly accustomed to reside.' (fn. 321) Subsequent ordinances (fn. 322) seem to have again deprived the vicar of the manor of Hurcott. About 1449 the Prior of Maiden Bradley let it to farm to the mother of Thomas Everdon. (fn. 323)
It remained in the possession of the prior and passed with his other estates in Kidderminster to Edmund Waller the poet. He sold Hurcott to William Walsh of Abberley. (fn. 324) It appears to have been purchased by George Evelyn, brother of the diarist, John Evelyn. The latter bought it from his brother 27 June 1648, and sold it six months later at a profit of £100 to Colonel John Bridges, (fn. 325) who also purchased the jointure of Lady Mary widow of Sir Edward Blount in Kidderminster. (fn. 326)
Colonel Bridges was 'a prudent pious gentleman' who lived at Kidderminster and supported Baxter's work there. (fn. 327) In 1662 he sold the manor to Thomas Foley, (fn. 328) with whose estate at Great Witley it has since descended.
LOWER MITTON (fn. 329) was a berewick of Kidderminster in 1086. (fn. 330) Its early history is obscure; but it was clearly separate from Over Mitton by 1280, when the one township was styled Mitton was the other Mitton Walter. (fn. 331) Lower Mitton was the property of the Lygon family during the 16th century, and probably at an earlier date. Thomas Lygon died in 1507 holding two messuages in Lickhill and Lower Mitton. (fn. 332) He left a son Richard. A Richard Lygon died seised of the 'manor of Mitton' in 1556. (fn. 333) His son William Lygon held the manor of 'Nethermytton' in 1560. (fn. 334) He was evidently succeeded by Richard Lygon, whose son William ultimately inherited the manor. (fn. 335) Sir William Lygon, kt., is said to have sold to every tenant the inheritance of his tenement. (fn. 336) This was probably the Sir William Lygon who in 1616 with his wife Elizabeth sold the manor to James Clent or Clint. (fn. 337)
Miles Clent and his wife Dorothy conveyed it to Thomas the second Lord Folliott, governor of Londonderry in 1662. (fn. 338) In March 1716–17 the barony of Folliott became extinct by the death of Henry the third Lord Folliott, only son and heir of the above Thomas. (fn. 339) Lower Mitton and Lickhill were inherited by his niece Rebecca wife of Arthur Lugg (who died at Lickhill in 1726) and daughter of Anne Soley, sister of Henry Lord Folliott. (fn. 340) In 1740 Rebecca Lugg, then a widow, made over the property to her 'kinsman John Folliott in consideration of her natural love and affection . . . and for his advancement in point of fortune,' reserving to herself for life the occupancy of Lickhill Manor House. He was lieutenant-colonel of the regiment of horse commanded by Lord Cathcart, and in 1750 devised his Worcestershire estates to Captain John Folliott of the Royal Hospital, near Dublin, with successive remainders to the latter's second son John, and eldest son Francis, in tail. Captain John Folliott entered upon the estate in 1762, and was succeeded by John his second son, who died at Lickhill unmarried in January 1814. The estate then descended to John Folliott of Sligo, grandson of Francis Folliott, and a minor. He resided mostly in Ireland, and represented the county of Sligo in Parliament. In 1822 he barred the entail on the Worcestershire property, and subsequently sold the Lickhill Estate with its manors of Lower Mitton and Lickhill to Joseph Craven, J.P., of Steeton in Craven, co. Yorks.
Joseph Craven died 30 March 1867, having devised his Worcestershire property to his younger son John William Craven. The latter died in Scotland 12 October 1871, and the estate is now the property of his posthumous son, Mr. Campbell J. Craven. (fn. 341)
LICKHILL, also the property of Mr. Campbell J. Craven, has been accounted parcel of the Lower Mitton estate at least since 1429, when Robert Nelme of Worcester, who had in right of his wife Agnes the reversion of two messuages, a carucate of land, 6 acres of meadow and 11 marks rent in 'Leykhill,' Kidderminster, and Lower Mitton upon the death of Margaret wife of Walter Corbet, conveyed his title to Thomas Lygon, Thomas Heuster and others. (fn. 342) In 1507 Thomas Lygon's holding at Lower Mitton included a messuage at Lickhill. (fn. 343) Lickhill Manor House has long been the capital mansion of the Lower Mitton and Lickhill estate, and has been successively occupied by the Folliott and Craven families and their tenants. The house is of red brick, and is situated on the banks of the Severn between Stourport and Bewdley. It contains a fine oak staircase and some panelled rooms. During the time the Folliotts occupied it some choice tapestry covered the walls of the drawing-room. John Folliott, M.P., before referred to, removed the tapestry and Folliott family portraits to Hollybrook House, Sligo, his Irish seat, where they can still be seen.
At WRIBBENHALL the monks of Worcester had a small estate, which they asserted had been given to their monastery by King Offa. (fn. 344) It was assigned to the cellarer towards providing firewood for the use of the monks. (fn. 345) Its subsequent history is uncertain; possibly it was included in the land at Kidderminster and Eymore with which the dean and chapter was endowed in 1542. (fn. 346)
PARK ATTWOOD evidently originated in the licence granted in 1362 to John Attwood of Wolverley, the king's yeoman, to inclose 600 acres in his demesne lands at Kidderminster and Wolverley. (fn. 347) The reputed manor of Park Attwood remained in the Attwood family at least till 1595. (fn. 348) In 1661 John Attwood had rights in a considerable estate in Wolverley and Park Attwood, (fn. 349) and a John Attwood seems to have dealt with the manor in 1685. (fn. 350) The greater part of Park Attwood was purchased about 1797 by Henry Chillingworth of Holt Castle, and remained in the family until its recent sale by Lieut.-Col. William Henry Chillingworth. Thomas Hessin Charles, barrister-at-law, purchased the manor and lands of Park Attwood in 1912. (fn. 351)
TRIMPLEY (Trinpelei, xi cent.; Trimpelei, xiv cent.) was a berewick of Kidderminster in 1086, (fn. 352) and was probably the fee in Kidderminster granted by Manasser Biset to Stephen Attwood. (fn. 353) It descended to his grandson John Attwood in 1294, (fn. 354) and land at Trimpley remained in the Attwood family until the end of the 16th century. (fn. 355) The manorial rights were probably absorbed in those of Park Attwood.
Henry Chillingworth bought the bulk of the Trimpley estates about 1797. They remained with his descendants until recent times, when William Henry Chillingworth sold Trimpley to Mr. Mills, whose daughter Mrs. Hudson is the present owner.
WANNERTON (Wenuerton, xi cent.; Wenfertone, xiii cent.; Wenforton or Wannerton, xvi cent.) is a reputed manor. It was one of the berewicks of Kidderminster in 1086, (fn. 356) and appeared as a separate hamlet on the Subsidy Roll of 1280. (fn. 357)
Three generations of the Wannerton family are said to have been lords of Wannerton during the 15th century. (fn. 358) John Wannerton, whose father and grandfather lived here, had a son John Wannerton of Worfield, co. Salop, whose daughter and heir Jane married Sir George Bromley, kt., justiciar of Chester. (fn. 359)
The manor of Wannerton apparently formed her marriage portion. (fn. 360) She outlived her husband and settled Wannerton upon her grandson Thomas Bromley of Bridgnorth, who died without issue 20 February 1609–10. (fn. 361) He had settled the manor on his widow Eleanor, but it afterwards reverted to Sir Edward Bromley of Sheriff Hales, son of Sir George and Dame Jane, in accordance with the will of Thomas Bromley. (fn. 362) In 1677 William Bromley was in possession, (fn. 363) and in 1683 he conveyed Wannerton to Thomas Foley. (fn. 364) The manor has since descended with the Great Witley estate (q.v.).
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AllNewTB, thanks,that's good to know but I paid for it with a debit card. I've just looked again at the Nano's User manaual...
'Avoiding water and wet locations Do not use iPod nano in rain, or near washbasins or other wet locations. Take care not to spill any food or liquid on iPod nano. In case iPod nano gets wet, unplug all cables, press the Sleep/Wake button to turn the iPod nano screen off before cleaning, and allow it to dry thoroughly before turning the screen on again or connecting it to a computer. Do not attempt to dry iPod nano with an external heat source such as a microwave oven or hair dryer. Damage to iPod nano caused by contact with liquid is not covered under the warranty'
Ok it says avoid wet locations but there's no mention of avoiding sweating! How are you supposed to run and not sweat? Surely they are miss-selling this thing?
I thought I would bring my recent experience with this item to everyone's attention, and in particular warn those of you thinking of buying this to run with! I bought it on Monday this week and took it out for it's first run this morning (Wednesday) It was clipped to the left collar of my tshirt and I went out for about 50 minutes. The music played fine but when I got home the screen had misted up with condensation to the point that nothing could be seen on it plus the actual touch screen had stopped working. I took it down to the retailer straight away and was told that they could do nothing for me as the water sensor indicated water damage. I was told to contact Apple directly. This I did and was told that because the fault was due to water damage it could not be repaired or replaced under the manufacturer's warranty. They have offered to replace it out of warranty but this will cost me a further £62 - obviously I'm not best pleased!! As the new Nano is being marketed as a fitness device - built-in clip, Nike+ compatibility, pedometer, No more camera/video etc I'm astounded that it couldn't stand up to a simple 50 minute run. I't not like I dropped it in the toilet and I wouldn't say I sweat particularly more than anyone else!! Has anyone else had a similar experience? If you're thinking of buying a new Nano then just be warned - the thing seems to absorb sweat! Apple have brought out a product that doesn't do what it says on the tin and I would be very careful if you're thinking of buying one to run with because it's obviously not up for the job! Perhaps they think that your typical ipod buyer would be far too hip sweat much! Fran
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Yesterday my blog featured a few words and a picture of Joel Campbell, speculating that it’s a clean slate for many and that players like Joel might think they have a chance with the new man at the helm, but having watched him in bits and pieces of yesterday’s Costa Rica game against England I know I’ve clearly cursed him.
To be fair to him Costa Rica we’re always going to have less of the ball and when that happens the attacking players always suffer. But even when I did see him with the ball at his feet he seemed to either just lay it off or dribble into a crowd. If Unai had made the schlep up to Yorkshire I’m sure he’d have been heading down wondering what Campbell could offer the first team.
Not a lot on that showing.
One person who did offer a bit, however, was Wele, who chipped in with yet another goal in the most Welbeckian of styles. At first when I saw his header I thought it was a fine finish from our forward. But when you watch the replays it looks to me like it hits the side of his head and only just goes in.
Good ol’ Danny, he loves a scrappy goal, does our Welbz.
His record at international level is baffling though. He is prolific. Eight goals in 13 games and if he had that kind of form domestically we’d all be loving it. Sadly though he’s been hampered by so many injuries that it feels like his Arsenal time has – not quite been and gone – but been reduced to being more of a squad player.
Which interestingly enough is what he’ll be at this World Cup. I can’t see him starting any games in Russia unless there are injury problems and I suspect he’ll be used exactly as he was last night, an impact sub, which is also how I suspect his Arsenal career will go from now on. That is unless he doesn’t sign a new deal and is sold in the pursuit of first team football next season.
It’s a decision that Emery and co will need to make quickly on Welbeck because they’ll only have until mid August to get a deal done or risk losing out on any kind of meaningful return on the player himself. Then you’ve got to factor in a replacement being sought and it underlines just how fine a balance needs to be struck at this time of the year.
If the club make moves now to bring in a replacement and Welbeck doesn’t move on, they’ve got an expensive player who’s running down his contract that they’ll lose for nothing next summer. If they don’t make decisions on his future and let it play out without signing anybody then they risk being in a difficult bargaining position in January or next summer.
The World Cup is done by mid July and then players will have a couple of week’s off. That brings you to the beginning of August and a couple of weeks in which to sort everything out. So my hope is that agent talks with the club get a wriggle on and we don’t have yet another saga, as we seem to perpetually be involved in all summer.
It’s the same for Ramsey. The benefit with him is that the club can discuss during the World Cup as he isn’t going with Wales, so if he isn’t signing then they have an extra month to find a suitor and try to get top dollar. But again we’re hardly playing with the deck loaded in our favour.
When you look at how Liverpool have played the Coutinho exit and subsequent replacements it’s hard not to be impressed. They’re about to sign Fekir and with that they have a very impressive wealth of options. They’ve just lost Caan on a free but nobodies talking about that because of other deals they’ve been doing. It’s clever, it’s swift, it’s what we want to see if Arsenal.
There is still plenty of time this summer though and we also need to appreciate that Liverpool feel like they’re about three years ahead of us in their ‘project’. Our new structure is brand spanking new and we need to give it time for it to bed in. It might be a bit of choppy waters for a season or two, but I’m convinced this is the right structure we’ve got in place, it’s just whether the men in the positions of power are the right ones. Time will give us that answer.
It’s Friday, Arsenal love a bit of good news on a Friday (Auba was done on a Friday don’t forget), so I suspect we might have our confirmation of Sokratis today, which means we’re a ‘keeper and midfielder away from having done our business.
And it isn’t even July yet.
Catch you all tomorrow.
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15 Core Principles Modern FengShui Discover a set of guidelines for the sound practice of FengShui
The Chinese have been using FengShui for the past 6000 years, yet we are still debating whether it is a science or a superstition worth preserving. it is far more productive to study it seriously and see what it can offer us, otherwise FengShui will always remain a puzzle to us and open to continual fraud and further corruption.
These principles came about because the Chinese have used FengShui to manage their environment over hundreds and thousands of years, and this allowed them to collect many valuable experiences and insights. By examining what are the core principles, we can work towards establishing a set of guidelines for the sound practice of FengShui :
Principle 1 : An Integrated and Holistic System Our environment is considered to be an integral system as a whole, with Man at the center, including all things “under Heaven and on Earth”. 1) Man is part of Nature; therefore we are responsible to each other. 2) Nature has its universal laws and Man should follow them. 3) Human nature and the Dao are the same, so we should be “Ziran” in our behavior.
“The terrain is the body, the spring is the blood, the soil is the skin, the grasses are the hairs, the house is the clothing, and the doors are the accessories. If they are properly related to each other in a dignified way, then it is considered most auspicious.”
Principle 2 : Being Suitable and Appropriate to the Restriction and Limitation of the Site Every site has its limitation and advantages. Some places are only suitable for residential use while others are more suitable for commerce or manufacturing, so there is a need to determine what a site is best suitable for, to allow the resultant development to be “Ziran” and not forced or out of balance with its neighbor.
“Site selection is not easy because the “wind” and the “earth” of the four directions are all different and the terrain of the land is not the same. One can locate the “Xue” half way up the mountain or deep into the valley, or on a flat ground or between rock formations, or even under water…”
Principle 3 : Bound by Mountains and Near Water Mountains are the “skeletons” of the land, they not only provide us with protection from the weather and from our predators; they also provide us with food and resources. Water is the source of life and means of transportation, without water we cannot survive, so the wise people have preferred to live in a place, which is “bound by mountains and near water”.
“Whenever we locate a capital, it is either at the front of a mountain range or on a broad plain. It must be elevated and near a sufficient source of water supply. The drainage must be clean and respond to the natural conditions of the site and the terrain of the land. Therefore, the layout of the city need not be too regular, and the roads need not to be too straight.”
Principle 4 : Carry the Yin and Embrace the Yang A FengShui house should be protected from the cold wind and facing the warm sun. The phrase “Hide from the Wind and Gather the Qi” is often used in conjunction with the phrase “Carry the Yin and Embrace the Yang” because both aim to find an ideal FengShui spot (Xue) where the Yin and Yang are balanced and where the ShengQi is assembled.
“Wind cannot be avoided in the flat plain, but it has Yin Yang difference. Those that face east and south will receive the warm and hot wind (and) we called it the Yang Wind; those that face west and north will receive the cool and cold wind (and) we called it the Yin Wind. If there is no protection nearby, then the wind will penetrate the bones, and bring the owners increasing defeat and fewer off-springs.”
Principle 5 : Observe the Form and Examine the Configuration Observation and investigation of the landform to locate the correct site for a dwelling is one of the core principles of FengShui, because it is beneficial to health and well being.By examining the Configuration (Shi) in their various layers of relationship, we can begin to understand the “Original Character” of a site, and thus be able to create a building that will fit in naturally, and in a holistic way.
The ‘Six Internal Matters” are gate and door, Ming Tang or light well and courtyard, living space, sleeping area, the kitchen and stove and the rice-grinder. Again, we do not have a rice-grinder any more and we are more concerned with our study and working from home. Moreover, the toilet and urinal with the utilities area have become an internal concern rather than an external one.
Principle 6 : Examine the Geology of the Land The Chinese had a means of examining the geology of the land that was called “The Method to Test the Suitability of the Soil”. “Use the method of ”Tu Yi” to distinguish the 12 types of soil, in order to know their advantage and harmfulness, so as to benefit the people and the domesticated animals, the plants and the vegetables.”
“The soil should be firm and not loose; the ShengQi will not return to a soil that is stubbornly hard and the True Yang (the essential ingredients) will not reside in a soil that is loose and dispersed.”
Principle 7 : Analyze the Quality of Water The quality of water (especially drinking water) often determines the quality of life because plants need to be watered and humans need to drink constantly. Water can also bring disease and sickness, as well as being used for defense and transportation. The quality of water can also have a curative benefit because of the trace elements and the mineral content in it.
Different kinds of sickness are often associated with the different qualities of drinking water available and when the quality is good and free flowing, then the inhabitants will tend to be healthy and well. Hot springs and health spas often attract human settlements nearby and they are considered to be places with good FengShui.
Principle 8 : Determine the Amount and the Standard The population density of a place should be in proportion to the capacity it can sustain. In FengShui, where the water comes in and goes out is called the “Shui Kou”, and there is a standard and a guideline we can adhere to so the resource can keep up with the population growth. Many of the traditional towns and villages kept to this standard to survive.
The wealth of a place is determined by the distance (of an open space) and the amount of water (that is available). We should not waste the land or the resource, nor should we allow an insufficient land size to create unnecessary pressure on the occupants.
Principle 9 : Take Advantage of the ShengQi (Mother of Water) The aim of FengShui is to locate a building or a tomb in places where there is ShengQi so the occupants can take advantage of it. Thus we can see the ShengQi is the life force that makes things grows and ShaQi is the negative opposite that halts the growth of life. ShengQi can be cultivated by adjusting the Yin and Yang balance of a situation, so they are in harmony and mutually supports each other.
“Qi is the mother of water, when water stops, Qistops. Water in turn follows the Qi flow and when water stops flowing, Qi also. Whenever the mountain air is full, the smoke rises, the cloud is steamy and the rocks moist and shining, then the (Sheng) Qi is present. When the cloud and the air are lifeless, the colors dark and dull, the rocks broken and fallen, the soil parched, the earth withered, there is little growth and the water courses all dried up, then the (Sheng) Qi has gone elsewhere’.
Principle 10 : Suitably Located in the Middle and Residing in the Middle “Residing in the middle” in this case does not mean the building is located dead in the middle of a planning arrangement, but it is “centrally located” at the most beneficial position, so it can take advantage of its surrounding. The location should neither be too Yang nor too Yin, neither too high nor too low, and neither too large nor too small.
“An Emperor is given the mandate to establish a new kingdom. To site a capital it must be located in the center of the land, so it can control the peace of the world, stabilize the Yin and Yang and control the 4 directions to rule the country properly”. The same idea dictates that an urban business center is always located in the middle of a modern city and the best shops are always located in the middle of a shopping mall.
Principle 11 : Aesthetic Appreciations Since we perceive both the Qi of the Form and the Qi of the Formless with our five senses and our mind, an aesthetic appreciation of a built form in its environment becomes an important part of FengShui. Because Qi can exist in the Form and the Formless, there is also the beauty of the Form and the beauty of the Formless.
If it is to be located high, then it should not be too dangerously high,If it is to be located low, then it should not be too inconveniently low.If it is to be exposed, then it should not be too blatantly exposed.If it is to be concealed, then it should not be too concealed that it becomes invisible.If it is to be special, then it should not be too special that it becomes strange.If it is to be artful, then it should not be too artful that it becomes cheap looking.
Principle 12 : Greening the Environment The amount of trees and wood can give an indication of the quality of the FengShui of a site. The general guideline is not to plant them too close to the house; the distance should be proportional to the size and the height of a tree. On the sunny side it is more desirable to have deciduous varieties while on the shady side they can be evergreens
The soil is thick and the water deep,The grass is lush and the forest full.The honored guests take advantage (of the site), It is worth million ounces of gold.
Principle 13 : FengShui can be Transformed and Improved. Nature does not arbitrary set out to fool us humans, nor should we humans set out deliberately to defeat Nature by our will and our prejudices. We should use our knowledge and our know how to mutually respond to Nature to ensure that any improvement is long term and viable.If we cannot take out more than what the situation requires and destroy nature in the process!!!
“The forging and the blending of the mountains and valleys are done by Heaven, but the tailoring and the fashioning of the landscape are done by Man.”
Principle 14 : Yin Yang Dialectics to Achieve Harmony The Yin Yang Dialectics are the soul of FengShui because without Yin and Yang contrast there is no potential for the Qi to flow and therefore no FengShui to speak about. To find the balance and harmony in our environment we first need to distinguish what is Yin and what is Yang in a given situation before we can adjust and integrate them to transform the situation.
By using the Yin Yang dialectics, we can find an appropriate solution lying somewhere within the bound of the two poles. Confucius referred to this idea as being “the Golden Mean” The Golden Mean does not lay dead in the middle but is appropriately situated so the Yin and Yang are balanced and in harmony with each other.
Principle 15 : Being Timely (Shi) and Affectionate (Qing) It is also the one principle that unifies all of the previous ones we have mentioned. FengShui is human feelings and affections, which enabled us to connect our body and soul to the environment we live and work in. FengShui in essence, examines and contemplates this intimate relationship between Man and Nature.
Everything has the two poles of opposite and one of unity, from the mutual transformation of Yin and Yang, from the beginning and the end of a life, from being and non-being, from difficulties to achievements, from the front to the back, from the extreme to being overturned, they all have their quality of auspicious and harmfulness. Hasten the auspicious and avoid the harmful. Being affectionate and timely is considered to be fortunate!!!
If we have to reduce the core principles of FengShui into just one word, then we cannot avoid the “Affection” word as well. Without a mutual response between man and his environment - that is without “Qing”, there is no FengShui to speak about. “There is Affection in the Natural Environment and Love in the Human World”
If architecture cannot get entangled with human feelings and affections, then it loses its life force, its enchantment and its meaning, as well as its reason for being; it becomes just an empty space of pure physics and geometry”. Thank You Very Much Sompong Yusoontorn
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Fife officers have come under fire on social media after breaking social distancing rules during a "clap for carers" tribute.
The officers joined crowds gathered outside Victoria Hospital, in Kirkcaldy, on Thursday night in support of NHS staff and frontline workers.
However, the force have been blasted online after footage revealed dozens of officers and members of the public failed to maintain the Government's two metre distancing guidance - which is designed to limit the spread of coronavirus.
Sharing a clip from the event on Twitter, Glenrothes Police said: "Big thanks to all the NHS workers across the UK from all the Emergency Services who came together tonight at Victoria Hospital to show our appreciation. #OurNHS #COVID19."
The post has seen an outpouring of criticism, with one user pointing out that it shouldn't have been allowed to happen, especially while people can't attend the funerals of loved ones.
"This is ridiculous, social distancing applies to absolutely everyone, what were you thinking?", asked one Twitter user.
"Totally get it and a great gesture but where is the social distancing from your officers and in fact everyone else there," noted another.
One person asked: "So much for public gatherings of more than two people currently being banned. I’m pretty certain these lockdown rules apply to everyone?"
While some defended the move, one user even praised their "appreciation" but admitted "this was not your smartest effort".
The Local Area Commander for Central Division, Fife, Chief Inspector Tom Brown says advice was given to those taking part.
He told The Herald: "This event was arranged with the best intentions to provide visibility and recognition to all staff who are caring for us during this difficult time in line with the national #clapforcarers campaign.
"Unfortunately during this event there were breaches of social distancing guidelines.
"Advice was given to those taking part about the importance of social distancing to prevent future breaches and no further action was required."
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Warm Gospel 16: KM/MC/TR/RC/BBJr // Juxwl Split - Live at Zeitgeist 2012 (c47, label collaboration with Personal Archivces)
KM/MC/TR/RC/BBJr // Juxwl Split c47
Label collaboration split with Personal Archives.
Recorded live at Zeitgeiest 2012, a noise festival in Boone, IA, this split contains the entire Juxwl set plus 5-way noise jam session wherein aspects of 4 different local noise and drone bands were combined to achieve something larger than the sum of its parts, which included synthesizers, drums, a saxophone, and various electronics. Recording by Matt Dake.
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UT Physicians adds two new clinics devoted to post-stroke care and education
UT Physicians' Anjail Z. Sharrief, M.D., left, and nurse practitioner Munachi Okpala, R.N., M.S.N., will care for patients who have suffered from a stroke or TIA
HOUSTON – (July 16, 2014) – Two new clinics devoted to treatment and education for patients who have suffered a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) have opened at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
The Stroke, Transitions, Education and Prevention (STEP) Clinic and the Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) Clinic are part of UT Physicians, the medical practice group of the UTHealth Medical School.
The STEP clinic will take an integrated approach for patients who have suffered a stroke or TIA, including managing common risk factors and assessing for complications such as depression, fatigue and cognitive impairment. The clinic team will counsel patients about their personal risk factors and develop a treatment plan that includes lifestyle changes.
“We want to get them the help they need in the most comprehensive way,” said Anjail Z. Sharrief, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of neurology and director of the two clinics.
A TIA, sometimes called a mini-stroke, occurs when blood flow in an artery in the brain is temporarily halted by a clot, narrowing of the artery or plaque build-up. Symptoms generally disappear within 24 hours.
After assessment by a UTHealth neurologist, low-risk TIA patients who would have automatically been admitted into Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, can instead have a follow-up visit at the TIA clinic.
“It will decrease the transition to care and we can begin to manage their risk factors almost immediately in order to try to prevent a stroke,” said Sharrief, who is also affiliated with the Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. “We can make the appointment and order their scans and blood work, with the goal that everything is done within 48 hours.”
Up to 40 percent of patients who have suffered a TIA will go on to have a stroke, according to the National Stroke Association.
“These two specialized clinics build on UTHealth’s groundbreaking research and clinical expertise in the treatment of stroke,” said Sean I. Savitz, M.D., the Frank M. Yatsu, M.D., Chair in Neurology and the director of the Vascular Neurology Program and Fellowship at the UTHealth Medical School. Savitz is also director of the Stroke Program at the Mischer Neuroscience Institute.
UTHealth is one of 25 regional stroke centers established by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is the only one in Texas.
The clinics are located at the University of Texas Professional Building, 6410 Fannin. To make an appointment, call 832-325-7080.
Deborah Mann Lake
Media Contact: 713-500-3030
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Brownsburg and the surrounding community have a lot to offer, including excellent parks. One recent addition to local community amenities is Cardinal Bark Park.
You’ll find Cardinal Bark Park located near the B&O Trail at 3432 Hornaday Road in Brownsburg. This two-acre area of Cardinal Park is separated into two areas: one for large dogs and one for dogs under 30 pounds.
The dog park is open from 5:00 a.m. to dusk every day except Thursday, when it is closed for maintenance from 7:00 a.m. to noon. The park may be closed at any time for maintenance purposes as needed.
Each area features plenty of room for your dog to run and play off leash. There are benches and shade for pet owners in addition to a walking path that winds around the play area so you can get some steps in while supervising your pet’s play time. There is also a wash station available for cleaning those muddy paws!
In order to visit the bark park, dogs must have current vaccinations for rabies, bordetella, distemper, and parvo. You can register for a membership online or at the Brownsburg Parks tent at the Brownsburg Farmers Market through the month of July 2020.
Members must be at least 18 years of age. The membership includes a collar tag for each dog and a key fob for the owner to use to enter the dog park gates. The collar tag must be visible on the dog while at the park.
All members must be at least 18 years of age. All applications must be accompanied by current vaccination records for rabies, parvo, distemper and bordetella.
You can learn more about Cardinal Bark Park and fill out an online application here.
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FERN Talks & Eats • Nov. 3, 2014
I was honored to take part in a live storytelling event hosted by the wonderful Food and Environment Reporting Network. Below is the text of the story I performed.
Rosalinda is fourteen when I meet her. She has brown skin and black hair and eyes so pretty that even when she wears bandanas over her face in the field, you can tell she is beautiful.
Inez is fourteen, too, with the same brown skin and black hair that Rosalinda has, but her eyes aren’t as big, her smile not as wide.
They both change my life forever.
I meet Inez at her house, because I live there, along with Inez, her parents, her two brothers, her two sisters; a family of two parents, one infant and one toddler in the second bedroom and the four or five men who sleep in the garage. I think there are seventeen of us sharing one bathroom and one kitchen, which are both shockingly clean. Most nights I eat with them and I can’t believe my good luck because the home cooking that comes out of the kitchen is relentless: sopas with fish and chile, Mexican rice, and, OK, dona maria store-bought moles. (even farmworkers have limits). I’m in love with the homemade flour tortillas that come with every meal. I am grateful for the meals, because I am always hungry after a day in the fields.
I meet Rosalinda there, in the garlic fields, she sets her buckets up next to me in the dirt and starts asking me questions. What is your name and where are you from and why are you here and don’t you want to work in a store instead (everyone always starts with this, working in a tienda).
And I say “No, yo tengo muchas problemas and no quiero hablar de eso.”
No, I have a lot of problems, I don’t want to talk about it.
There’s a pause and I try to think of the last time I talked to a teenager and what do you ask them. I’m 32, so it’s been a while. And the only thing I can come up with is a question that feels like it is part of a really bad, ‘how to go on a first date’ article. I ask her: So, what kind of music do you listen to?
And she looks at me like I am a little crazy, which frankly she probably already thinks anyway because I’m a white girl with papers working in farm fields, and she says primly, Christian music. We go back to cutting garlic.
The garlic has long, papery stalks, the kind that dry out and bleach to white and then you could, if you wanted, braid them together. That’s what farmers do in places that may see rain. When farmers began to grow garlic in America, they were out in the green hills of the east, and you harvested the garlic and braided its stalks and hung it to dry in a barn and let it cure. If it gets wet it will rot.
But we are in the Salinas Valley and nobody worries about too much rain in California, which is why all the big garlic farms are here. It is 2009, a year before the big drought begins, and here when the garlic is finished growing they just turn off the water in the field and let it sit. Farmers come in and cut the soil beneath it loose with machines, and then men walk through the fields that are a half-mile by half-mile, one row every fifteen or twenty feet, waking 65 miles of rows of garlic, bent at the waist, uprooting the garlic and laying it out to dry.
Rosalinda and I and the other pickers come later. Some workers are fast, but Rosalinda and I work slowly because she is young and weak and I am not so young but I am still weak. We cut off the thatch of root at the base, and then the stalks, snipping them into five gallon buckets, one dollar sixty for each one we fill. When I finish my first day, I have ten buckets. Rosalinda, I think, had seven. We were there for nine hours.
I work the math out later and since each bucket weighs about 25 pounds, I know that while I earned $1.80 an hour, and Rosalinda earned about $1.25 an hour, we each earned the same six cents for every pound we picked. When I see the same company’s garlic sold in a Walmart six months later, it costs $3.39 a pound.
I don’t know that on my first day, though, when Rosalinda sits down next to me. Mostly what I know is that she likes Christian music.
I go home and I tell Inez that I met another girl her age, and her eyes widen with interest. Her job is to cook and clean, and as she puts a stack of those flour tortillas on the table, she tells me she wishes she could go to work in the fields instead.
I meet Rosalinda’s parents, who are picking garlic, too, and we become friends. Some days I give them rides to the fields, and they help me with directions. We share food at lunch. Rosalinda tells me about how she wants to go to college and be a translator, and her parents want her to be a nurse. Inez’s parents aren’t like that; her job is to cook and clean and, I figure out, get married soon. She doesn’t go to school. She’s been learning how to make tortillas since she was ten.
This realization makes me feel many things. I feel angry. I feel humbled. I feel grateful. I feel sad. And while I can tell you that it made me realize that not just my life in the fields, but my life in general, is possible because of people like Inez, who work to feed people like me, that’s almost incidental.
Most of all I feel alone, because I am suddenly conscious of the vast chasm that separates the experience of my friends from my own.
This persists for a few days. And then something happens to help me level out. I can’t say snap out of it, because that wouldn’t be right; I didn’t, and probably won’t ever, forget what I learned from Inez.
So lunch hour comes one day in the field and Rosalinda’s dad decides to work through lunch. I’m walking to my car to get my food and as I pass Rosalinda’s family’s, she is sitting there and eating her lunch. And I hear something unmistakable coming from the radio.
It is Jay Z, rhyming, “If you got girl problems, I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one.”
I stop. I say to Rosalinda, “That doesn’t sound like Christian music.”
She looks down at her food, like any kid who’s been caught in a white lie. You know, you didn’t LIE LIE, but you kind of fibbed, like the dog ate my homework? It’s that look.
“I tell my parents this is Christian music,” Rosalinda says. For a moment I picture her dad, full-cheeked and smiling, driving down the highway with Jay Z blaring.
“Your dad thinks this is Christian music?” I start to giggle.
She nods. “Yeah. But he’s taking English classes,” she says, starting to giggle, too. Now I am moving into full-on laughter, tears welling up in my eyes.
“I have to figure something else out soon,” she says.
When we are done laughing, that chasm is still there. There’s no way to make it disappear. But it feels like, for a moment at least, I got to meet my friend in the middle.
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Give us a call to get our secret deals 800-468-3578
Located in Ho Chi Minh City (Pham Ngu Lao), Nguyen Khang Hotel is minutes from September 23 Park and Zen Plaza. This hotel is within close proximity of Saigon Culinary Arts Centre and Mariamman Temple.
Make yourself at home in one of the 2 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and slippers. Conveniences include phones with free local calls, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take in the views from a terrace and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access and concierge services.
Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Nguyen Khang Hotel.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a business center, and express check-in. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
You must present a photo ID when checking in. Your credit card is charged at the time you book. Bed type and smoking preferences are not guaranteed.Your reservation is prepaid and is guaranteed for late arrival. The total charge includes all room charges and taxes, as well as fees for access and booking. Any incidental charges such as parking, phone calls, and room service will be handled directly between you and the property.
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Hedge Privacy Fencing
With Forevergreen Privacy Hedge you can transform your boring chainlink fence into a stylish hedge privacy fence for cheap. You can't beat the quality and value of Forevergreen when you're looking to upgrade your fence. You can add both extra privacy and extra style to your fence by turning it into a hedge privacy fence.
Natural hedge walls are much harder to maintain than hedge style privacy fencing. With hedge style privacy fencing you don't have to worry about trimming, watering, or taking care of your natural privacy hedges for hours a week. Forevergreen Privacy Hedge fencing add ons are made to last the ages with their UV protection and flame retardant materials, and our hedge privacy fencing comes with a 10 year warranty so you know your investment is protected.
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When water starts to leak through your basement walls or floors, it can quickly lead to a very serious flood in your home. It's important to waterproof your basement to prevent these complications before they occur.
Water can enter your home at any point where there is an opening in the foundation. This includes not only cracks in the walls and floors, but around pipes as well. These pipe penetrations and gaps around basement windows are also susceptible to leaking.
We provide patented, warrantee methods for repairing cracks in foundation walls.
Our solutions provide lasting results that are compatible with your perimeter drainage system and will not crumble, flake off your walls, or fail due to the natural expansion and shrinking of the concrete.
We service Long Island, including Brookhaven, Manhasset, Huntington, and nearby areas. Contact us today for a free wall crack repair quote!
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In April, we live-streamed and documented events at New York Live Arts’ first annual Live Ideas Festival, and it was an incredible experience. Before we set up for live-streaming, we created a short video to share the amazing programs New York Live Arts has to offer:
This promotional dance video, narrated by the always-eloquent Bill T. Jones, played before each event. It really calls attention to how much the organization does for the dance community in New York City and beyond. My team and I love filming performances and events at such an important institution in our dance world.
New York Live Arts’ 2013-14 season looks just as exciting as ever – can’t wait!
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Drew Pearce Writing 'Iron Man 3' Screenplay Instead of Shane Black
After we got official word that Shane Black would sit in the director's chair for Iron Man 3, we also learned that he would be scripting the anticipated sequel as well. However, it sounds like Disney has decided to bring in someone else to work with Black on the script as Deadline reports the studio has hired Drew Pearce to write the flick. Apparently his script for Runaways, another Marvel adaptation based on the comic of the same name by Brian K. Vaughn, was good enough to land him the gig. He'll start the script from scratch, but before anyone gets bent out of shape, please note he will work closely with Black on the script.
If you need more convincing about Pearce's talents, you might be interested in checking out a show from across the pond. Pearce is responsible for writing a UK TV comedy series called "No Heroics" which follows a group of superheroes, the normal lives they lead outside of fighting crime, and the conversations they have at the The Fortress (the bar they hang out at). Back when the series was supposed to be remade for U.S. television, I checked it out, and Pearce has the right amount of dry wit and humor to make the Iron Man 3 script really pop. Combine that with his reportedly stellar work on Runaways, and it sounds like we'll have a good script. What do you think?
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Bullying is now bigger issue than ever before.Kids of all age groups are being bullied every day in school and over the Internet. Worst of all, parents are not aware that this even happening sometimes. There is a solution that schools need to be aware of and take advantage of: The Bullying Academy. The bullying Academy is a web - based interactive program created to help students and educators recognize the dangers of bullying and cyber bullying. This program is made for 4th through 8th grade kids and has been implanted in over 500 schools nationwide. The Bullying Academy teaches them about bullying in order to help prevent, avoid, and stop bullying. Bullying affects kids and adults of all ages, however The Bullying Academy give kids the chance to end bullying before it begins. Visit http://www.bullyingacademy.org/ for more information.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
It's a worry you shouldn't have - Does your housekeeper have a criminal background? Is you plumber on the sex offender registry? Does your contractor really have the licenses he clams he has?
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From home builders to doctors, it performs full background checks on professionals from nearly every industry. When you use My Verified Pro you can feel confident that whoever you hire is exactly who they say they are. Find out more by visiting
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Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus can cause a yield loss of more than 80 percent, costing Kansas farmers up to $75 Million every year. If we stop the spread now, future yields will improve exponentially.
Methods of Control:
- Remove volunteer wheat with herbicides or tillage
- Avoid early planting
- Plant wheat varieties with moderate or high levels of resistance
For more information, visit the Kansas Wheat website.
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HARNESS JACKET - TAN by Charlie's Backyard
Winter is coming. (Sorry for the Game of Thrones reference, but since we’re here, we’re going to pause momentarily and think of Jon Snow...) And we’re back. When it’s cold and windy and you need to bundle up your beast, Charlie’s Backyard has given us the perfect solution with their stylish HARNESS JACKET. Much like Jon Snow, it’s hard to look beneath the beautiful exterior, but if you do you’ll find a waterproof exterior and a super soft fabric adding incredible warmth to this padded jacket. The D-ring on the back of the jacket - on both sides of the zipper - becomes your harness, alleviating the need for your harness fitting over a jacket.Please note size chart below.
Care: Spot clean. Air dry. Lint roll to remove hair.
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In linkurl:__Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine__,;http://www.amazon.com/Where-Our-Food-Comes-Retracing/dp/1597263990 noted ethnobiologist and writer linkurl:Gary Nabhan;http://www.garynabhan.com/ sets out to determine what, if anything, persists of traditional seeds and farmer knowledge; this in a time when what we designate as "modern agriculture" and "development" are displacing both traditional crop varieties and their protectors. In this absorbing book, the author conducts his search by consulting the field notebooks of the late linkurl:Nikolay Vavilov,;http://www.vir.nw.ru/ one of the world's great traveling botanists, and following his footsteps back to nine of "the nursery grounds of the world's ancient seeds."
The story begins in 1941 with Russia's emergency evacuation of the Hermitage Museum in the face of an imminent German invasion, then reveals the Soviet Union's simultaneous failure to secure what was perhaps an even more precious treasure. Only a few blocks from the Hermitage was a collection of more than 380,000 "living,...
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The best time to, er, seduce a man is between 6 and 8 a.m. A woman? 8 and 10 a.m. Something's wrong with that picture.
This might be hard for you to hear, but you likely have been spending your days all wrong.
Science says so.
Using the biological clock like a stopwatch, chronologists have structured activities throughout the day with the same science-based detail of a Chip Kelly practice. ...
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Printing with PLA is pretty easy (or at least it’s supposed to be) – apparently it’s even possible to print on a cold printer bed. It’s easy for experienced users of 3d printers – but for beginners, there’s a big learning curve where everything is hard before it is easy.
Printing the first layer
The big thing everyone struggles with is trying to get the first layer to correctly stick to the print bed. I found that 185C was the best temperature for the printer hot-end.
One technique commonly recommended is to stick a layer of painter’s tape on the print bed. (I used masking tape – this is slightly different but it’s cheap and widely available.) This makes it easier for the molten PLA to stick to the slightly rough surface.
I found this technique to be ok for small prints – for example, for objects that are a few cm wide. But for objects bigger than that, I found it either didn’t stick well, or it warped.
Also, I need to change the tape after every one or two prints.
Heated bed at 60C
Using the heated bed helped a lot to reduce warping for larger pieces – but I still found that once the height of the piece got above 10mm or so, the part still warped away from the heated bed.
A brim is an extra band of plastic which is printed around the bottom layer of the object being printed. (It’s called a brim because it looks like the brim around a hat.) The reason for printing this extra band is to increase the amount of surface area in contact with the bed, and therefore increase how well it’s attached to the bed.
Sheet of glass clipped to the heated bed
A lot of people find that this helps with PLA adhesion – I didn’t find that it helped or hindered me that much. However, it was useful to have something which was easy to clean and remove from the heated bed.
BuildTak Print Surface
I bought some BuildTak adhesive surface from Amazon and attached it to my glass plate. My experience is that the first layer sticks unbelieveably well to this. One thing that caught me out on the first print was that my print head was too close to the bed (despite warnings on the packet that it was better to start too far away and lower the head). The printed part stuck much better than expected, and basically I really struggled to detach it after the print finished. The solution was to put the part (still attached to the glass) in the freezer for 15 minutes, and because of the different rates of contraction of glass and PLA, this made it pretty easy to remove the printed part.
Printing with PLA is easier once you have some experience of working with 3d printers, but for a beginner it can still be difficult. I found useful ways of making the first layer to stick are:
- BuildTak surface;
- Heated bed at 60C;
- 10mm brim around the printed object.
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Many of you have been hearing me say for quite awhile now that I am retiring. In fact I retired a few years back from kitchen and bath design, only to re-emerge a year or two later with a new business emphasis in 3D illustration of interiors. While I enjoyed the notion and activity of creating beautiful renderings, it never developed into anything more than a hobby. I came to the conclusion that I was tired of clients (and potential clients) who wanted me to work on their projects on contingency (I don’t get paid unless they sell the job to their clients), or for less than minimum wage. One guy even wanted me to do a project (or two) for free just to prove to him I could do it even though I sent him ‘sample projects’ that he raved about. I politely declined. Others couldn’t be bothered with signing an agreement ~ Yet these same people wouldn’t lift a finger for their own clients without one. While I know that times have been tough on everybody in the design and construction business, I think it is only fair to ask for reasonable compensation for my work. Work that I did because they couldn’t. Adios Bitchachos!
There have been tell-tell signs that I’ve been moving in this direction. I haven’t updated my website for some time and my software is now two versions behind. I didn’t renew my business license or inform the powers that be of my new address when I moved. My computer is becoming something of a dinosaur and I’m not going to replace it until it absolutely will not surf the net anymore. (I had to restart it once while in the process of writing this post because it gets stuck.)
So I did all of the things today that one does to “close shop”. I closed my business bank account, ditched the business phone and virtual fax machine. In the near future, my website, pamdesigns.net wil be coming down. I sent letters to recent clients informing them and thanking them for their business. Feels rather strange as there are no lights to turn off nor a door to lock for the last time. Sadly, it just is. Because my business has been online for the past several years, it is going away with a silent breath that probably only I will hear.
I like being retired. Not a financially savvy move, but one that I am content with. I am not destitute nor am I wealthy (or ever will be) in either case. I am enjoying doing the things I would never be able to do if I were tied to a job and hope to be able to get back into creating art as I did many years ago. One thing you can count on, I and this blog are not going away. I may not be making a living at it, but I am and will always identify myself as a designer and an artist. Just passing a milestone in my life like many others that are life changing (like graduating from school, taking a first job, getting married or kicking the last birdy out of the nest).
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Workplace discrimination and harassment is one aspect that has been in existence for the longest time in society and has prompted various legislations to be made in order to protect the oppressed. Title VII of the Civil rights Act of 1964 was the primary basis set to protect any form of discrimination in such circumstances as stipulated by Elinfonet (2011). This analysis is going to embark on an employer known as Marwan who has been reported to the authorities by a fellow colleague who is opposite sex for inappropriate conduct and stopped from working. He has appealed the decision of sacking him in court on grounds of disability. We are therefore going to shed light on the possible crimes that Marwan committed, the studio five expected response towards response on professional and ethical grounds, the role that the law will play in this circumstance as well recommend the appropriate policies, procedures that the studio has to put in place and prevent such circumstances.
As amended today, Title VII of the civil rights Act squarely prohibits an employer who has control over workers to use his or her authority to sexually harass them. However, this circumstance is a bit tricky because Marwan himself, an individual with a minor physical challenge, is involved. He may present his case in court by claiming that he is being targeted because of his present condition. This in light with the act may not hold water because the seniority that Marwan holds in the company must have taken some time to be realized and thus indicates that the disability did not play a big role before in his success. If at all the case is going to succeed against Marwan, there must be prove beyond reasonable doubt that the action really happened and the reason for the firing is actually due to the disability.
The main question that one may ask is whether Marwan will actually succeed against his former employee on basis of termination on the basis of discrimination of disability. This circumstance is a fifty-fifty situation because he may win or lose. He may win because sexual harassment is very difficult to prove and unless there was a third party that was at the scene and be a witness it may be a case that cannot be continued. This act explicitly shows that in matters of discrimination and other social behaviors there must be prove beyond reasonable doubt (Gwen, 2005). Another aspect that may make the complainant win is the fact that his dismissal was immediate without further investigations. This is likely to be the basis of his argument the led him to conclude that the sole reason was because of his condition. However, he may lose because of the fact the title VII provides that the complainant must seek the direction of the EEOC or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission first before filing for the case in court (Elinfonet, 2011). The fact that he may not be able to prove his claims beyond reasonable doubt may also be detrimental for his side.
Mr. Marwan committed a sexual harassment action on two aspects. The first one being that he inappropriately made bodily contact with an unwilling female individual by touching her breasts. But the most serious one is the fact that he used threats and conditioned of getting her fired if she does not go on a date with him. The second allegation is clearly captured in Title VII where it provides that unfair treatment of any employees must be severely punished as the EEOC (2011) suggests. This is because it is not only unprofessional but also unethical and has a likelihood of causing psychological trauma.
The employer of Mr. Marwan who is Studio Five Theme Park can take appropriate action towards him if the charges that are leveled against him by the female employee are proved. In case of first time charges, the companies may delete or withhold fringe benefits in terms of monetary value. In addition to that several allowances may be deducted from the general earnings that the employee is used to get per month.
Furthermore the employer, if wins, may make the employee meet the legal fees that was used in defense of the case. Although the title Vii of this act stipulates the damages that may be forwarded to the accused that range from approximately 50, 000 dollars to approximately 300, 000, the terms and conditions are likely to vary. Lastly the damages for the reputation of the company being compromised may be leveled to the employee .This are because of the circumstances that surround each case. The ultimate action that can be taken by the employer is the demotion or complete termination of the contract that was signed by the two parties. This is the action that most companies take in order to safeguard their names and reputation in the public.
But suppose the female employee sues the company for the damages that one of its employees caused her? This will be a tricky affair for both the employee and the company because on e of the senior actors in the company caused this. However, the company in its defense id likely to challenge that it did not approve the action and neither did it prove beyond reasonable doubt that the action actually took place or not. In addition to that the law stipulates that ‘before filing a claim to the court, the complainant must exhaust all the necessary remedies that are put in place by the employer as Findlaw (2010) clearly shows. The court will not accept on the first encounter, direct action against the employer because of such circumstances. In addition to that the EEOC is set up by the law to carry out primary investigation concerning such matters and are expected show direction for the female employee what is to be done in terms of the cases (Elinfonet, 2011).
Having said all that there are procedures policies and actions that each company has to have in place that ought to protect the individuals working for the companies to follow and the article on Findlaw(2010) testifies this. Such policies should include the policy of openness and transparency in such situations. These are important because most of these actions happen in the dark and must be able put to light in order for actions to be taken. However the policy should also have clauses that provide for confidentiality in such occurrences Gwen, (2005).
The employers must also have procedures that are to be followed in the action against this vice. There should be clear and easy to follow steps that each employee is able to follow when in need for redress for sexual harassment. For the case if Marwan, the female employee should be able to confide on a neutral senior manager who is in charge of such matter. To make the procedures and policies function appropriate actions must be taken in order to provide for justice and equity when such matters arise. These actions may include demotions transfer or complete sacking of the involved parties
In conclusion, it is clear that in a group of individuals inappropriate behaviors are inevitable this is more so concerning the sexual harassment and discrimination actions by employers and employees. In the case of Marwan, the action is unethical and unprofessional. Ultimately, this should be adequately proved and necessary action taken as set per the procedures policies and actions set by the Studio Five Park and the authorities.
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Ms. Sierra-Halla grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut with her mother, father, 3 sisters and 3 brothers. She attended Central Connecticut State University, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees in special education. Ms. Sierra-Halla always knew she was going to be a teacher. She proudly followed in her father's footsteps, who was the first Latino professor at CCSU. She began her teaching career 27 years ago in the Hartford Public Schools and has taught pre-kindergarten and kindergarten. She quickly realized that early childhood was her passion, and has been teaching the youngest learners ever since! She was named Teacher of the Year at McDonough School in 2011. Ms. Sierra Halla believes that the school is a perfect match for early childhood learning, as there are many opportunities for hands-on experiences. She lives in Wethersfield, Connecticut with her husband and two teenage boys. She enjoys reading, camping, cooking for family and friends, as well as gardening.
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Core Nutrition and Fitness Program
Diets. We're told that if we just find the perfect program -- and were just a little more disciplined, had just a little more willpower -- we'd finally be successful.
That's the great falsehood of the fitness and nutrition industry.
Yes, it sells more diet books. And yes, it helps fitness gurus get more attention.
But it does nothing to help you figure out what works for you and how to stick to it.
That is where we at Core Studios come in.
Here's the truth: If you repeatedly struggle with diet programs, jumping on another diet program can't be the answer.
What you need instead is guidance. Someone who can help you figure out the few important things you should be doing differently, someone who can walk alongside you, troubleshooting the inevitable challenges and difficulties that come up.
At Core, our Precision Nutrition Certified Coaches will:
· Teach you the 5 nutrition principles you must follow to lose fat and gain muscle
· Listen to your needs and what you really want to accomplish
· Work together to create the right nutrition and exercise approach; personal and unique
· Teach you the best exercises to lose fat and gain lean muscle
· Then coach you through the process; helping with the inevitable roadblocks along the way to success
That's right, coach you through the entire process.
Email us to schedule an appointment to meet with a Nutrition and Fitness specialist
At CORE, we offer a variety of Pilates programs for all levels including private training on the Reformer/Tower total body system, Cadillac, Barrel and Stability Chair.
At CORE, we offer private Gyrotonic sessions with expertly trained instructors. Exercises are performed on the Gryotonic Pulley Tower system and are designed to meet the needs of all participants with varying levels of fitness.
At CORE, your training program begins with a comprehensive joint mobility screen and neuromuscular evaluation. Using a specific group of movements, CORE trainers will identify muscular and structural imbalances that hamper the body's ability to move efficiently.
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The Cops, The Kids, The Bigamist & Her Lover
Cole and Asher met with Sergi at Angel Square Park. When Cole and Asher complained about not receiving their long-awaited drug supply, Sergi told his employees that the new shipment had been delayed. After relating that someone had alerted the police about the expected drug shipment, Sergi explained that his associates had determined that it was necessary to cancel the merchandise.
Grabbing Asher by the collar, a suspicious Sergi accused the teen of being a police informant, but Asher denied tipping the police off. Releasing his grip on Asher, Sergi turned to Cole and asked, "Have you been talking to the police?" Asher questioned if Sergi had leaked the information to the authorities. In an attempt to divert the attention from himself, a nervous Cole also alleged that Sergi was on the police payroll. Displaying an evil grin, Sergi declared, "I don't need to work for the cops, they work for me!"
Hoping to extract more information from Sergi, Cole stated that it was crucial that he received a drug supply before the school semester began. Cole demanded to know when the next shipment was due to arrive in Llanview. Unfazed by Cole's claims, Sergi advised him to be patient.
At the police station, Nora was stunned when Bo and John informed her that their investigation revealed that Mayor Lowell was operating a drug ring in Llanview. After Bo and John disclosed that they had illegally taped the mayor's conversation, Nora reminded the seasoned officers that a warrant was needed to record conversations. Stating that they didn't intend to use the information that had already been obtained, Bo and John asked Nora to help them obtain a warrant to record the mayor with a legal listening devise. Insisting that a cooperating judge would have to sign off on the warrant, Nora stated that practically every judge was on vacation at that time -- only Judge Runyon was available. Nora related that Judge Runyon was a close friend of Mayor Lowell.
After listening to the damaging tape recording, Judge Runyon wasn't convinced that the voice on the tape belonged to Mayor Lowell, and demanded more evidence. The judge questioned exactly what Cole had accomplished during his undercover stint. Determined to convince the judge to sign off on the warrant, John disclosed that Cole's undercover work had provided John with an enormous amount of information. John revealed that Cole was responsible for circulating marked bills on the street, and the money had been traced back to accounts that belonged to Mayor Lowell. Appalled by the evidence, the judge provided John with a search warrant.
Later, Nora advised John and Bo that the judge had placed a time limit on the warrant. Anxious to terminate Cole's undercover work, John stated that he would personally place the listening devise inside Mayor Lowell's campaign office. Alone, Bo and Nora worried about the possible outcome of Matthew's court case.
At Mayor Lowell's campaign headquarters, the mayor panicked when Dorian advised him that Viki had decided to run against him. Mayor Lowell was convinced that Viki was the only candidate who could possibly defeat him, but Dorian reminded him that she was his campaign manager, and that she was aware of all of Viki's secrets. Hopeful that Dorian might expose damaging information concerning Viki, the mayor was anxious to start brainstorming, but Dorian suggested that they wait until Mayor Lowell was in the perfect position to successfully exploit Viki's weaknesses.
Instead of focusing on Viki's problems right away, Dorian thought it was necessary for the mayor to convince the public that he had a loving relationship with his son. Appearing uncomfortable at the mention of his son, May or Lowell immediately changed the subject and insisted that his campaign focus on the issues. Insisting that his son was a crucial part of their strategy, Dorian announced, "We need your son right away!"
Later, as Dorian briefed the mayor on ideas about possible publicity opportunities, she became enraged when she noticed a teenage boy and girl vandalizing one of Mayor Lowell's campaign posters. Dorian was horrified when the mayor introduced the young vandals as his son, Justin, and Justin's girlfriend, Becca. After dressing Justin in a suit and tie, Dorian directed the mayor and his son as they posed for the camera. In between shoots, Justin told his dad that Justin had been selected as a member of Llanview High School's football team, and suggested that his father visit one of his games. Claiming that he was busy, the mayor declined his son's request. Justin appeared disappointed.
As the commercial wrapped up, Dorian suggested that the mayor attend Justin's football game and allow cameras to be present. As Dorian and the mayor squabbled, John appeared and announced that he wanted to speak with the mayor. Mayor Lowell demanded to know if John had made any progress in curtailing the drug trafficking problem that plagued Llanview. Hoping to avoid any negative publicity, Dorian reminded Mayor Lowell of his last confrontation with John, in which the mayor had been forced to retract the negative statements that he had directed toward John. Dorian urged the mayor to offer John his full support in rounding up every single drug dealer in Llanview.
For the sake of the campaign, Dorian convinced Mayor Lowell to bury the hatchet. In front of the cameras, John and Mayor Lowell shook hands and made amends. After Dorian and the mayor exited campaign headquarters, John hid the listening devise inside a paperweight on the mayor's desk.
At the apartment, Fish apologized to Layla and Cristian for lying about the fact that he was gay. Realizing that Fish was in a desperate state, Layla felt compassion for him. Recalling the terrible night he had experienced, Fish explained that he felt the need to fix the mistakes that he had made in his life. Fish admitted that he was ashamed of his sexuality, but Layla and Cristian informed their roommate that there wasn't anything wrong with being gay. When Fish expressed his fear that his fellow officers would reject him, Layla and Cristian assured him that John wouldn't think any less of him.
Layla and Cristian listened as Fish explained the strong opinions that his father had regarding homosexuality. Layla wondered how Fish had managed to deal with the pain of hiding his secret for so long. Fish explained that he had always pretended that he was attracted to women. Recounting how he had attended a college far away from his hometown and joined a popular fraternity in an attempt to hide his sexuality, Kyle appeared happy as he relived the amazing, secret relationship that he had shared with Kyle in college.
Fish offered to move out of the apartment, but Layla and Cristian refused to terminate his lease. As Layla and Cristian assured Fish that they didn't want to lose him as a roommate, Fish received a call from his father. After the call had ended, Layla and Cristian wondered if Fish had received bad news. Fish informed his roommates that his parents were on their way to Llanview to meet his girlfriend.
At Todd's house, Téa questioned why Todd wanted to marry her. After Téa accused him of having an ulterior motive, Todd insisted that he wanted to marry Téa her because he loved her. Unconvinced that Todd was ready for marriage, Téa reminded Todd that he had claimed to love Marty a few months before, and suggested that they live together. Frustrated, Todd declared, "If you love me, why are you stalling?" Téa wondered why Todd was in such a hurry to get married. Téa sensed that Todd was afraid of something. Todd admitted that he was afraid of losing her. Téa assured Todd that she loved him, but stated that she couldn't marry him.
When Todd announced that no one would ever interfere in their relationship again, Téa became alarmed. Realizing that Todd was referring to Blair, Téa demanded to know if Blair was plotting against her. Téa nearly panicked when Todd revealed that Blair was investigating Téa's lost years. Todd admitted that Blair had presented him with a file on Téa. When Téa inquired about the contents of the file, Todd explained that he had destroyed the papers because he had no reason to believe that he would discover any incriminating information about her. Consumed with anger, Téa yelled, "That bitch! Why can't she leave me alone?"
Attempting to calm her nerves, Todd stated, "There isn't a problem if there's nothing to hide." Lashing out at Todd, Téa said that she couldn't marry him because he didn't trust her. A concerned Todd replied, "There's no secret that you can tell me that I can't handle!" Declaring his love for her, Todd wondered why she was holding back her feelings. Near tears, Téa proclaimed her love for Todd but insisted that she couldn't marry him. As Todd continued to pressure her for an answer to his proposal, Téa begged him for a few moments alone to gather her thoughts. Walking towards the door, Todd agreed to take a walk, but promised that he would return. As Todd exited the house, a desperate Téa reached for the phone.
At Ross Rayburn's Tahiti residence, Blair was stunned to learn that Ross and Téa were married. As Blair listened, Ross confessed that his relationship with Téa began after Todd left them stranded on the island. Ross stated that their relationship was beautiful in the beginning, but problems arose when Téa realized that she was still in love with Todd. Ross wondered why Blair wanted to dig up dirt on Téa. Blair teased Ross about loving a woman who was in love with Todd. Claiming that his relationship with Téa was magical, Ross stated that he would've had a wonderful life with Téa if Todd had stayed with Blair.
Determined to get the answers she sought, Blair questioned why Ross had decided to give up on Téa. Suggesting that Ross fight for Téa, Blair offered to provide him with a ticket to Llanview, and promised to make the kidnapping charges against him disappear. Reminding Blair that she had enough information to destroy Téa and Todd's relationship, Ross challenged Blair's motives. Blair insisted that she wanted assurance.
Realizing that Blair expected him to drag Téa away from Todd, Ross asked Blair if she was positive that his actions could reunite her with Todd. A confident Blair exclaimed, "You want to be a free man, come back to Llanview with me?" Before Ross could respond, he received a call from Téa. As Blair listened, Ross announced, "Téa, I was just talking about you!"
Back at Angel Square Park, as Sergi instructed Cole and Asher to be patient, Justin called out to Asher. Asher identified Justin as a loyal customer. Relating that his drug supply was empty, Asher informed Sergi that he couldn't provide Justin with any narcotics until Sergi replenished Asher's drug supply. Sergi ordered Cole to service Asher's customer. Uneasy about actually dealing drugs, Cole insisted that it was unprofessional to steal someone else's customer, and refused to sell to Justin. Fed up with Cole's behavior, Sergi demanded that Cole sell to Justin.
Nearby, Todd sat on a park bench. While he entertained happy thoughts about Téa, Todd noticed Cole in the park. As he watched Cole sell drugs to Justin, Todd mumbled to himself, "What the hell are you up to?"
Inside Bo's office, Bo and Nora were enraged when they viewed Mayor Lowell's campaign commercial. Realizing that the mayor's son, Justin, was the same kid who had wrecked Matthew's prom, Bo insisted that Justin was responsible for Matthew's accident. Nora was horrified to think that Justin might help his father win the election. Bo assured Nora that the mayor would be behind bars before the election took place.
Some Enchanted Dealing
At the apartment, Fish ended a call with his father. Cris immediately sensed that Fish was troubled. Fish revealed that his parents were eager to meet his girlfriend, so they had decided to drive from Des Moines to Llanview. Fish had no idea what he was going to do when his parents arrived in a few days. Cris and Layla urged Fish to be truthful with his parents.
Fish explained that he loved his parents, but they weren't tolerant of the homosexual lifestyle. Fish's parents belonged to a church that supported an organization dedicated to helping gay people live a heterosexual lifestyle. According to Fish, admitting their son was gay would be like his parents denying the existence of God. Fish insisted that he had to hide his sexuality from his parents.
While Fish went to take a shower, Cris and Layla went to the kitchen to cook. Layla wondered if she had been too hard on Fish. Cris reminded Layla that Fish had hurt her. Layla admitted that she was angry and hurt, but she believed it was nothing compared to what Fish was going through. Layla shifted the focus off of her by thanking Cris for being a good friend. She hugged him and then promised that he would never have to deal with her boyfriend troubles again. Layla had decided that she was through with men.
At Mayor Lowell's campaign headquarters, Dorian advised the mayor to keep a low profile about his stance on gay issues. She suggested that the mayor focus on spearheading an anti-drug campaign. Dorian thought it would be a great idea if the mayor's son became involved in the cause. Neither Dorian nor the mayor realized that their every word was being monitored by Bo and Nora, thanks to the listening device that John had planted in the paperweight on the mayor's desk.
At the park, Sergei questioned Cole's reluctance sell drugs to Justin Lowell. Cole realized that he could compromise his cover if he continued to refuse Justin's request, so Cole took Justin to a secluded area. After Cole sold Justin some marijuana, they parted ways. Sergei questioned Cole about his hesitation to sell the pot to Justin. Cole admitted that he didn't like dealing to kids.
They were unaware that Todd had been lurking nearby. Todd had taken a picture with his cell phone of the drug transaction between Justin and Cole.
After Sergei and Cole parted ways, Cole called John. Cole was upset because he feared something terrible would happen to Justin as a result of the drugs that Cole had sold to him. John assured Cole that the drug deal had been necessary in order to protect Cole's cover. However, John did promise to try to keep Justin from using the drugs.
Starr approached Cole as he ended his call with John. Cole was uncomfortable talking to Starr, but she insisted that it wouldn't raise suspicion, since they shared a daughter. Cole argued that it was too dangerous to risk being seen together. Starr refused to walk away while Cole was upset. Eventually, Starr persuaded Cole to reveal that he'd been forced to sell drugs to Justin.
When John tracked down Justin, the drugs were in plain view. John promptly arrested Justin and then took him to the police station. Bo and Nora were surprised that John had handcuffed the teenager. John explained that Justin had made several attempts to escape. Nora was reluctant to charge Justin because of his age, but John insisted that it was necessary. John hoped that Mayor Lowell would be distracted by his son's troubles enough to drop his guard.
Justin called his father, asking for help. A short time later, Dorian and the mayor arrived at the police station. The mayor was furious when Nora informed him that Justin had been arrested for drug possession. Dorian accused Nora and Bo of trying to discredit the mayor. Nora ignored Dorian's comments; instead she advised the mayor that she would release Justin if the mayor paid a fine and Justin agreed to enter a drug counseling program.
Mayor Lowell accused John of planting the drugs on Justin. The mayor denied that his son used drugs, but no one appeared to believe him. Nora repeated her offer, while Justin pleaded with his father to help him. The mayor snapped "shut up" at his son and then demanded that Justin be released from police custody.
John called Cole to let him know that he had found Justin. John assured Cole that things would be over soon.
Later, in Bo's office, Nora worried that they had been too hard on Justin. Bo reminded Nora that Justin had been one of the kids who had bullied Matthew on the night that Matthew had been paralyzed. Moments later, they heard the mayor, Justin, and Dorian return to the campaign headquarters.
Dorian advised the mayor to be truthful with his constituents. She was confident that it would be the most effective way to prevent the scandal from ruining the mayor's re-election campaign. They mayor agreed to Dorian's suggestion and then asked to have a moment alone with his son. After everyone cleared out, the mayor backhanded his son.
Justin began crying as he cradled his injured head. The mayor didn't show any remorse for hurting his son. He berated Justin and then demanded to know if his son had bought the drugs. Justin told the truth and revealed that Cole had sold the marijuana to him. The mayor handed his son some money, instructed him to get something to eat, and then ordered him to return afterwards because they had more to discuss.
After Justin left, the mayor called Sergei. The mayor was livid; he told Sergei that Cole had sold drugs to his son. The mayor insisted that it could not happen again or heads would roll. In Bo's office, John, Bo, and Nora looked at each other with concern when they heard the mayor's ominous threat.
In Tahiti, Blair listened to Ross's side of his conversation with Téa. Ross was curious how Téa managed to attract so many enemies wherever she went. Téa ignored the question; she demanded that Ross sign the divorce papers. Ross wanted to know why Téa was so eager for a divorce. Téa claimed that she was moving on and then confessed that Todd had proposed marriage to her.
When Ross refused to comply with her demands, Téa threatened to send a bounty hunter after him. Todd entered the room moments later. Téa phrased her words carefully, so that Todd would assume that she was on the phone with a client. In Tahiti, Ross hadn't been intimidated by Téa's threat. He dared her to send anyone, including Todd, after him and then chuckled because he knew Téa would never risk Todd crossing paths with Ross.
After Ross disconnected the call, Téa scolded Todd for not respecting her privacy. She resented his interruption while she was working. Todd dismissed the call, pointing out that it couldn't have been important if she had been willing to hang up on the person. Luckily for Téa, Todd wasn't interested in whom she had been speaking to. He had other things on his mind.
Todd held up his phone to show Téa the picture that he had taken of Cole. He asked her what she thought of it. Téa agreed that it looked like a drug buy; she advised him to tell Marty that her son was using again. Todd clarified that Cole hadn't purchased the drugs, he had sold them. Téa was surprised that Todd had only snapped the picture. She confessed that she would have expected him to have had a more violent reaction to the situation. Todd admitted that there might be more to the picture than met the eye. He was also reluctant to alienate Starr.
Téa suggested that Todd talk to Starr about the incident. Todd didn't want to rock the boat, but he promised that he would consider Téa's advice. He then switched gears to discuss the wedding proposal. Téa was uncomfortable with the topic, but Todd pushed for an answer. He promised that Téa had nothing to fear in regards to Blair; he insisted that he would never sleep with Blair again.
Téa wanted another day to think about the proposal. Todd admitted that her reluctance to agree to marry him might be a sign. Téa was surprised; she asked if Todd was withdrawing his proposal. Todd made it clear that he wanted to marry Téa, but he didn't want her to feel as if she had been forced into the marriage.
In Tahiti, Ross revealed that Todd had asked Téa to marry him. Blair was stunned. She hadn't realized that things had moved quite so rapidly between Todd and Téa. Ross suggested that Téa wouldn't be involved with Todd if there were any chance that Todd and Blair would reconcile. However, Ross intended to remain married to Téa until Téa gave him what he wanted.
Blair wondered what it was that Ross wanted from Téa, but Ross kept the information to himself. He would only say that Téa alone could provide him with what he wanted. Blair urged Ross to give Téa the divorce. Ross was surprised by Blair's suggestion. He was curious why he should give up his one bargaining chip. Blair was secretive about her plans, but she promised that she knew what she was doing.
Téa was surprised when Ross called her back to announce that he would sign the divorce papers and then have Elijah drop them off to Téa. According to Ross, he realized that Téa would never cave in. When Téa disconnected the call she told Todd to buy her the "damn" ring, so that she could accept his proposal.
In Tahiti, Blair was delighted that Ross had decided to go along with her plans. She hoped that Téa was busy planning her wedding to Todd.
The Big Kahuna
At the Buchanan mansion, Matthew greeted Destiny in the foyer. Destiny explained she'd had to walk from the bus stop because Greg hadn't picked her up. Matthew was surprised Destiny was standing by his side throughout his lawsuit, but Destiny gushed that she'd always make time for him. Embarrassed, she awkwardly backtracked from her adoration. Matthew told her he just wanted the case over and his family back to normal. The doorbell rang, and Destiny answered it to find Shaun, who was equally surprised to see her.
In the drawing room, Rachel prepared for her court date, while David nagged her about signing a release for his reality show. Rachel refused to be a part of the spectacle, even as David gushed about the supposed fireworks between her and Greg. As he replayed the video of Rachel and Greg's "dance match," Greg arrived. Rachel launched into another attack on Greg for taking Matthew's side in the lawsuit, and was outraged to learn Greg had already signed a consent form for his likeness to appear on David's show. Greg told Rachel he had nothing to be ashamed of, making light of it by claiming that she did, since he'd "whupped her ass" in their video game duel.
Rachel and Greg bickered about their gaming skills, as David refereed. Greg admitted Rachel had some natural dancing ability. "Baby's got back," David agreed, raising his hand for a high-five. "Up top, right?" "Shut up, David!" Rachel snapped.
As the good-natured argument over the game continued, Shaun entered, staring at the videotape of Greg and Rachel falling over one another. Shaun asked the trio to explain the tape. Greg and Rachel insisted their game had only been harmless fun, ignoring David's attempts to film the sibling rivalry. Flustered, Greg hurried out to prepare for his day in court, followed by David.
In the foyer, Greg exchanged words with Destiny and Matthew about the lawsuit. His curiosity piqued, David listened in.
At the courthouse, May or Lowell and Justin prepared for the boy's arraignment on drug charges, while John met with Nora at the opposing counsel table. Nora was confused as to why Lowell hadn't taken the police department's simple plea bargain agreement for a first offender. John assured her he was still several steps ahead of Lowell.
Across the aisle, Dorian rushed in, anxious to spin the public relations catastrophe for her candidate. She told Lowell that they'd sell Justin's run-in with the law to the voters as "normal parental challenges." Justin suggested giving up Cole's name to the police in order to make the charges go away, but Lowell said no. He wanted to wait to use Cole against John. As the arraignment began, the judge asked Justin for his plea. Lowell stood up and began to grandstand, declaring that his son was not guilty. As he pontificated, he told the gallery that his son had been set up by John McBain.
After the court adjourned, Lowell ordered Justin to wait in the corridor. Dorian asked him why he'd openly attacked John yet again, but Lowell was insistent that McBain had framed Justin. Dorian found his claims hard to believe.
Across the aisle, Nora and John put their heads together. Nora wondered if the mayor knew Cole was undercover, and John said he had to make sure Lowell didn't, then made a quick exit.
At the Buenos Dias Cafe, Starr and Hope shared breakfast with Marty. Marty asked how parenthood was treating her, and Starr admitted that she was missing Blair and Cole. She was pleased that John had told her Cole's work would soon be done. Cole arrived, eager to reunite with his loved ones. After some face time, Starr and Hope said goodbye, leaving Marty to talk to her son. Cole told Marty that he worried about his family's safety during his undercover work, but Marty promised him they were well cared for. Cole congratulated Marty on getting her job back, and Marty explained she'd already been faced with new challenges.
At Todd's, Téa awoke to find Todd greeting her with breakfast in bed, complete with a beautiful engagement ring hidden in her grapefruit. "Way to change my mind about grapefruit!" she exclaimed, overjoyed. As Todd slipped the ring onto her finger, he told her it was official, they were engaged. Todd wanted to marry that day, but Téa refused, saying they could afford to wait and have a big wedding. She reminded him that he hadn't even told his kids.
Todd was surprised Téa wanted pomp and circumstance since he was "the only husband you've ever had." He asked if she was purposely stalling, then apologized for becoming suspicious and paranoid. Téa was touched by Todd's newfound patience. He assured her that nothing could stop their marriage, not even Blair. Kissing her goodbye, Todd left to go tell his family the good news.
In Tahiti, Blair continued to rant and rave to Ross Rayburn about Todd proposing to Téa. Ross told Blair that he'd overnight-mailed the fake divorce papers to Téa, and assured her that Téa would think she was free and clear to marry Todd. Blair delighted in the thought of Téa's new life blowing up in her face. Ross was surprised by Blair's level of vengeance, and suggested she relax in their tropical settings. He accused her of targeting Téa in order to get Todd back, but Blair continued to deny it, lamely insisting that it was Téa's lies that made her a danger not only to Todd but to Blair's children. Blair wanted Ross to return to Llanview with her under an assumed name, and promised him she'd drop the charges against him once they arrived. Ross agreed, and said he couldn't wait to see Téa's face when she was reunited with her not-quite-ex-husband.
As the duo packed to leave Tahiti, Blair wanted to strategize, but Ross had a better idea, tossing Blair a swimsuit and shedding his shirt. Blair thought Ross had designs on her, but Ross explained that he wanted to teach her how to surf before they left their island hideaway. Blair reluctantly donned the bikini as Ross gawked at her figure. He explained that she looked even better in the bikini than Téa had, which grossed Blair out.
Before they could head for the beach, however, a rainstorm descended on the island. Ross wanted to hit the waves anyway, urging Blair to live a little. "I wanna live a lot!" Blair retorted. Ross suggested that he could teach her to surf from the comfort of his living room, and laid out his surfboards on the carpet, taking Blair through a series of balancing exercises. Ross held Blair close, helping her keep balance before she fell into his arms. After a tense moment, Blair suggested they get back to business.
Back at the courthouse, Dorian said goodbye to Mayor Lowell and Justin in the corridor, just as Matthew, Destiny, Greg, and David exited the elevator. Matthew and Justin locked eyes as the boy wheeled himself towards the courtroom. David followed the action with his camera, continuing to badger Greg about the tension between himself, his brother, and Rachel. Téa ushered Matthew and the Evanses into the courtroom, but shut the doors in David's face, ordering him to keep out.
At the Buchanan mansion, Rachel laughed to Shaun about her video game tournament with Greg, and David's annoying presence. She continued to insist there was nothing between her and Greg, but Shaun disagreed, and suggested the only reason she hadn't explored anything with his brother was because of loyalty to him. Rachel admitted that Greg pushed her buttons and made her crazy. "And I don't," Shaun replied. Softening his tone, he said he knew they weren't moving forward, and asked Rachel to be straight with him if she didn't want to.
Shaun said he knew Greg was making a move on her, even if he didn't realize it himself or mean any harm. He said that women, games, and medical school were all the same thing to Greg, something he had to win at all costs. Shaun said he wasn't like his brother, that he was all heart, not looks. He said he was "straight up," not a player, and that for him, Rachel was the only woman in the room at any given moment. He asked Rachel to give him time to prove that he was the right Evans man for her. Touched, Rachel agreed.
At the Buenos Dias, John arrived to meet Marty and Cole. Marty asked John if the drug case was close to being solved, and if he knew who was behind it. Suddenly, the Lowells entered. Sending Justin to the counter, May or Lowell made a beeline for John and the Thornharts, dropping veiled comments about the three of them. Marty and Lowell traded barbs about her medical license, while Lowell needled Cole about his "community service," and began to talk about the scourge of drug dealing in Llanview. After he left, John assured Marty and Cole that Lowell was only toying with them. Marty kissed John and Cole goodbye, asking them to be safe.
Alone, John and Cole retreated to the men's room to talk in private. Cole asked if Lowell was on to them, and said he was scared for Starr and Hope after Serg i's comments about them. John said Lowell didn't know the truth, and decided to speed things up by publicly "arresting" Cole, dragging him out of the restaurant.
At La Boulaie, Starr returned home with Hope to find Todd waiting for her. Todd said he had good news and bad news, and opened with the bad as he revealed that Cole was a "drug dealer." Starr took Todd's news in stride, and diplomatically explained that he hadn't seen what he thought he'd saw. Todd was amazed that Starr wasn't shocked or upset.
In the foyer, Dorian arrived, yelling into her phone as she ordered Blair to return home immediately. Overhearing voices in the drawing room, she listened in just in time to hear Starr tell Todd that Cole was not a drug dealer, but an undercover agent working for John.
In the courtroom for Matthew's civil case, David crept in, continuing to nag Greg about Rachel. Infuriated, Greg told David to leave him alone, and stormed off. David turned his lens onto Destiny and Matthew, asking why she hated his father. Destiny said she didn't hate anyone, but supported Matthew's choice. As David grew giddy at the possibility of a filmed courtroom drama, Nora stalked over and ordered him to get out. As David slithered away, Nora told Matthew she'd love him no matter what the verdict in their case. Matthew agreed.
At the plaintiff's table, Téa was preparing Matthew's case as Elijah walked up, handing her an envelope. Téa was thrilled to realize her "divorce papers" had arrived. Elijah and Téa were both surprised Ross had finally given in to her demands, but Téa said she knew Ross would do anything for the right amount of cash. Blissfully happy, Téa slipped her engagement ring off her finger and onto her necklace.
In Tahiti, Blair and Ross prepared to leave for Llanview. Ross wanted to stay awhile and catch more waves, but Blair refused. "I'm through hanging ten," she said. "Now it's time to hang Téa."
Law & Ardor
As Matthew's case was about to resume in court, he asked Destiny if she thought he was doing the wrong thing. She answered truthfully, and advised him that his parents would be thrilled if, someday, they were able to see him doing the things that he used to do. Greg wondered if Shaun was angry when he saw the tape of Greg and Rachel together. Rachel assured him that it was only a "silly dance-off," and Shaun was not angry. Elijah was surprised to learn that Ross was giving Téa an unconditional divorce.
Once the judge called the court to order, Téa summoned her first witness to the stand. Elijah objected to Loretta Hogan, who entered the courtroom in her wheelchair. He maintained that he had not been notified of the witness, though Téa insisted she had followed all of the proper channels. The judge allowed the witness to take the stand, and the young woman recounted her life as a gymnast and the freak accident that caused her life, as she knew it, to be over. She confessed that Dr. Evans had performed her surgery and, to everyone's surprise, she suddenly stood up and walked around.
Nora and Bo looked at their son with horror on their faces as Rachel, and then Nora, decried the use of Téa's theatrics. Ms. Hogan prattled on about Dr. Evans as Elijah objected to the stunt. His objection was denied. He pointed out that the woman had made her decision for surgery at the age of 18, not 15, as Matthew was.
Greg Evans was the next to take the stand. He confirmed that he had been practicing for twelve years and had performed hundreds of surgeries. Téa pointed out that there had been many magazine articles lauding the doctor and his technique. He agreed that he had received a consulting fee from Clint Buchanan to examine Matthew, and that he had never lost a patient. Elijah pointed out that Matthew's parents had been pushed into the consultation, because it wasn't either of them who had requested it.
Elijah continued to question Greg, asking about the risks of the surgery, if a patient could become a quadriplegic or if they could die. He balked at Greg when the doctor tried to clarify his answers. He would only allow Greg to answer with a yes. Greg added that he felt that Matthew was old enough and mature enough to decide his fate, even if he hadn't made some wise decisions the night of his accident. He believed that Matthew had more time to consider his options regarding his surgery.
Téa resumed questioning, wondering what would happen if Matthew waited until he was 18 to pursue the surgery. Greg felt that the teen would develop infections or lesions. He wondered why the boy's parents were so resistant to the surgery. He thought they were afraid of losing their control. As Greg continued to elaborate on his true feelings for Matthew's parents and his opinion that they were taking the safe choice out of fear, among other things, Rachel jumped up. "That's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard," she shouted.
At the café, Carlotta confessed that she had a dream about Cristian and his old studio. While they both agreed that they missed it, Cris assured her that his new apartment living was fine. Carlotta hoped that Fish settled down with a nice girl.
At the police station, Layla attempted to find out how Fish was going to tell his parents the truth about being gay, but he brushed her off and cited his concern with the case he was working on. He headed for John's office and resumed listening to the tracking device, planted at Lowell's headquarters. John delivered Cole to a cell. He apologized but explained that it had to be done to throw people off if they were suspicious. He worried that Cole's cover had been blown, and deemed Cole finished with his undercover work after selling drugs to the mayor's son.
John promised that both Lowell and Keaton, the dirty cop, would be taken care of, and that the police would take over where Cole had left off. Upstairs, Keaton looked for John, and Layla informed him that Fish was in John's office. Demanding to know why Fish was in there without him, Keaton burst in as Fish listened to Lowell. Quickly making up an excuse that he was fixing John's computer, Fish gasped as Keaton began to grab at the equipment.
Cole berated himself for selling drugs to the mayor's son, but John assured him that he had to do what Serg i had wanted him to do. John needed to find out if Lowell knew about Cole selling the drugs. He figured that if Cole's cover was indeed blown, that he'd be safest in the jail cell. Cole asked that John fill in Starr and Marty on the latest. John headed off to check in with Fish.
Charlie and Viki arrived at Mayor Lowell's campaign headquarters and invited the mayor to Viki's upcoming press conference. Lowell was surprised to hear that Viki planned on throwing her hat into the ring for the mayoral race. She felt that Lowell should show up at her conference, in order to support her quest for a clean campaign, one without negativity. She thought his appearance would be a "show of confidence" for himself.
As Dorian eavesdropped on a conversation between Starr and Todd at La Boulaie, she was amazed to hear that Cole was not a drug dealer, but merely working undercover for the cops. Todd refused to believe it at first, though Starr did her best to convince him otherwise. She swore that Cole was not using drugs, or selling them, and implored her father to accept it as fact. "I'll be damned," Todd finally uttered, trusting that his daughter was telling him the truth. She begged him to be quiet about it as he showed concern for the safety and welfare of his daughter and granddaughter. Having heard enough, Dorian took flight, heading straight for Mayor Lowell's headquarters.
Todd felt that he should have been advised of Cole's work, and stressed that John had gone too far. Starr assured him that John was protecting both her and Hope. Todd thought that Cole should stop his work right away, but Starr was afraid that her father would do something to get Cole killed. She implored him to keep quiet and not let anyone know what she had confided to him. Todd consented to his daughter's request to remain silent.
Arriving at Lowell's, Dorian was surprised to find Viki and Charlie there. Even more surprised to hear why, she criticized Charlie's qualifications as Viki's campaign manager. Viki turned the tables quickly, assessing Dorian's own skills in the same position for Lowell. As soon as the couple left, Dorian eagerly advised Lowell that she had a plan for clearing his son of drug charges, citing the fact that the seller, Cole, had been working undercover.
Dorian soothed the mayor, explaining that he and John were really after the same thing, to see the drug dealers in the town put away. She only wanted to see Justin Lowell free of charges and protect Cole at the same time. Lowell praised Dorian, advising her she had "saved the day." He asked her to get him out of having to go to Viki's press conference.
As a confused Keaton wondered about the equipment on John's desk, Keaton received a phone call from Lowell, which saved Fish. The mayor informed the cop that one of their dealers was an informant. He was angry with Keaton for not knowing who it was, and thought it possible that John was aware of both Keaton and Lowell being involved with the drug scene. Lowell worried that he would be "fried" if John found out about him.
Lowell informed Keaton that the spy was Cole. He wanted to know if Cole was aware that the mayor was involved. He ordered Keaton to kill Cole if he knew anything. Keaton returned to the office and told Fish he needed to leave early.
Layla arrived at the café and sat down with Cris, as Carlotta lingered, happy to see the couple together. Once Carlotta was gone, Cris showed Layla a book he had purchased for Fish, How to Tell Your Parents You're Gay. Layla praised Cris for buying it and, in answer to Cris' questioning, she admitted to trying to find some good in her experience. She thought that if she hadn't sworn off men, she would have kissed Cris for buying the book and being so thoughtful. They passed the book back and forth, each thinking the other should present it to Fish.
Viki and Charlie arrived, and Carlotta readily agreed to support Viki for mayor. Dorian walked in and expressed her regrets for Lowell's inability to attend Viki's press conference. Viki stressed that she wanted a positive and clean campaign, and couldn't believe that Lowell would pass up the opportunity to show his face. She wondered if that meant his take on local issues was weak and he needed to fight a dirty campaign. Dorian denied that the mayor was fearful, and was confident her man would win. She accepted a challenge on his behalf for a debate with Viki.
Walking by her son's table, Carlotta spotted the book that Cris and Layla were pushing around. Cris tried to cover up the title, but it was too late.
Todd showed up at Lowell Headquarters with a favor to ask in return for his newspaper's support of the mayor. He reported that he had learned that Cole was working undercover in a drug sting, and he was concerned for Starr and Hope. "Yank Cole off the operation," he demanded. He was afraid of retaliation on his family members.
John returned to his office and learned that part of the feed from Lowell's office was missing due to Keaton's interference. Luckily, the conversations had been recorded on the computer. As he and Fish heard Lowell speaking about Cole, John cringed. There was a disturbing jolt to his operation and Cole's welfare. They heard the threat to Cole and realized the mayor was talking on the phone to Keaton.
Making a frantic call to Cole that went unanswered, Starr expressed worry for "messing up." As Cole remained in his cell, he received a visitor. It was Keaton.
Blood in The Water
At the Buenos Dias Café, Cristian nearly panicked when Carlotta noticed the title of the book that was intended for Fish. To Cristian's surprise, Carlotta appeared thrilled to learn that her son was gay. Citing Cristian's failed relationships with women, Carlotta stated that she wasn't surprised to learn that Cristian was gay. As Cristian tried to explain that he wasn't gay, Carlotta continued to offer him her support. Amused by Carlotta's reaction, Layla hesitated before informing Carlotta that Cristian was a straight male and that the book was meant for a friend. Upon learning that her son wasn't gay, Carlotta assured him that he would find the right girl to settle down with some day.
Afterward, Layla wondered why Cristian didn't feel comfortable presenting Fish with the book. Commenting that Cristian was a great guy, Layla was certain that Fish would benefit more if he received the book from Cristian, rather than from Layla . At Layla's urging, Cris agreed to present Fish with the book, and encourage Fish to reveal the truth about his sexuality to his parents. Cristian couldn't believe that Carlotta had been receptive to the idea of his being gay. Layla and Cris joked about Cristian finding the right girl some day, and the fact that Layla had sworn off men.
In the courtroom, Rachel fumed as Greg testified on the witness stand. Convinced that Greg wasn't concerned about Matthew's well-being, Rachel blurted out that Greg was only helping Matthew because Greg had an agenda, and she pleaded with the judge to allow her to testify. While Téa welcomed Rachel's testimony, Nora, who was well aware of Téa's underhanded tactics, asked her daughter to reconsider.
On the stand, Rachel told the court that Greg wasn't fighting for Matthew's cause. Rachel believed that Greg's actions were meant to cause her grief. Téa questioned if Rachel's outburst was an attempt to discredit Greg and help her mother's case. Denying that she had an ulterior motive, Rachel related that Greg had accused her of being afraid to lose control. Téa encouraged Rachel to continue informing the court of her past conversations with Greg.
Consumed by her anger with Greg, Rachel announced that she knew Greg very well. Téa questioned if Greg was aware of Rachel's past. In response to Téa's badgering, Rachel admitted that she had informed Greg that she was a recovering drug addict. Sensing a prime opportunity to attack, Téa asked if Greg knew that Rachel had turned to a life of prostitution to support her drug habit. Greg was stunned when Rachel admitted that she was once a prostitute.
As Nora, Matthew, Bo, and Greg looked on in horror, Téa reminded Rachel of her past involvement with Georgie Phillips. The mention of Georgie Phillips caused Rachel's face to drop. Téa ordered Rachel to inform the court of what happened to Georgie Phillips. As Matthew ordered Téa to stop interrogating his sister, Rachel blurted out that she had killed Georgie in self defense. A relentless Téa, maintained that Rachel had been sober when she killed Georgie. Téa claimed that Rachel had murdered Georgie because Rachel feared that Georgie would cause the breakup of Nora and Bo.
Humiliated, Rachel fled the courtroom, and Greg ran after her. A livid Nora referred to Téa as a monster. Amazed that Téa would attempt to destroy Rachel on the stand, Nora reminded Téa that Rachel was once her friend. Admitting that her cross-examination of Rachel had been difficult, Téa contended that Rachel had attacked her witness, and that Téa did what was necessary to prevent Rachel from discrediting Greg. As Téa declared that she was trying to protect her client, Matthew yelled, "You're fired!" Pleased by Matthew's concern for his sister, a smile crossed the face of both Nora and Bo.
Téa tried to convince Matthew to reconsider, but Nora intervened. Reminding Téa that Matthew was capable of making his own decisions, Nora advised Téa that she had been fired. As Nora continued to lash out at her, Téa shocked Nora when Téa announced that Rachel would eventually get over the attack. An angered Nora exclaimed, "I wish you had a child, maybe then you would know how it feels when someone goes after your child!" Téa insisted that she would allow her children to make their own decisions, if she had any.
After blaming Nora for Rachel's drug abuse, Téa also forewarned that Nora would be the cause of Matthew's confinement to a wheelchair. Téa stated that Nora was incapable of ever admitting that she was wrong. Realizing that she had struck a nerve, Téa shouted, "When it comes to your kids, you are their worst enemy!" Nora responded by slapping Téa. Fed up with their courtroom antics, the judge ordered the bailiff to place both Téa and Nora under arrest. Matthew, Bo, and Destiny watched as Nora and Téa were carted off to jail.
At La Boulaie, as Starr placed a frantic call to Cole, Shaun arrived and informed her that Todd had instructed him to guard Starr and Hope with his life. When Starr expressed her fear that Todd's actions might cause harm to Cole, Shaun insisted upon knowing what was going on. Unwilling to place Cole in further danger, Starr refused to provide Shaun with any answers.
Realizing that Shaun was consumed with thoughts of Rachel, Starr wondered what had taken place between them. Admitting that he was aware that there was a special connection between Greg and Rachel, Shaun confided in Starr that he found it difficult to compete with his brother. Starr advised Shaun that he didn't need to compete with Greg because Shaun was a great person. Starr suggested that Shaun find someone else, if Rachel didn't appreciate his wonderful qualities.
Pouring out his heart to Starr, Shaun exclaimed, I don't want anyone else. I want Rachel!" Mentioning that he had a date with Rachel that night, Shaun stated that he wanted to charm her on their date. Shaun said that he thought he was falling in love with Rachel, and he wanted her to feel the same way about him. A supportive Starr told Shaun that Rachel should feel lucky to have found someone like him.
Greg found Rachel weeping in Angel Square Park. As Greg tried to console her, Rachel ordered him to stay away and exclaimed,"You had me figured out, I am a scared little girl! I am afraid of losing control,. When I lose control, people die!"
Apologizing for provoking Rachel, Greg said he had no idea about her past and didn't judge her for it. Relating that Georgie had been a sick individual, Rachel expressed guilt over murdering her. Stating that his behavior had been a game, Greg insisted that he had only hoped to see the real Rachel. As Rachel continued to condemn herself, Greg reminded her of the help that she had provided others. A terrified Rachel acknowledged that she had tried to avoid her own life by interfering in the lives of those around her.
Rachel admitted that she actually wanted Matthew to stay confined to the wheelchair, in hopes that he would remain safe. Racked with guilt, Rachel declared, "You wanted to see the real Rachel, well here she is! If you were smart, you'd stay away from her!" When Greg refused to leave her side, Rachel questioned what he wanted from her. Greg surprised her with a kiss.
Outside the courtroom, Matt blamed himself and worried about Rachel's state of mind. Destiny assured Matthew that Greg would help Rachel deal with the events that had transpired in court. Reminding Destiny that Rachel hated Greg, Matthew was certain that Greg's interference would only make the situation worse.
Inside their jail cells, Téa and Nora glared at each other.
At Mayor Lowell's campaign headquarters, Todd pleaded with the mayor to intervene in John's drug operation. Todd feared that Cole's involvement might place Starr and Hope in danger. Refusing to give Todd any information, the mayor assured Todd that he was aware of the situation and promised to handle it. Frustrated, Todd announced that he was headed to La Boulaie to protect his family.
Dorian arrived at the campaign headquarters and questioned if the mayor had placed Starr in danger by blowing Cole's cover to anyone other than John. Mayor Lowell denied leaking the information to anyone. When Dorian asked if the mayor had spoken to John about the revelation that Justin's arrest had been the result of entrapment, the mayor changed the subject and began plotting against Viki.
Inside John's office at the police station, John and Fish listened to the tape in which Mayor Lowell ordered an unknown person to kill Cole. Realizing that Officer Keaton was the unidentified person, John and Fish raced downstairs to save Cole.
Downstairs, in Cole's cell, Keaton approached Cole and attempted to discover if Cole was aware of the mayor's involvement in the drug trafficking ring. Explaining that he was a member of John's task force, Keaton questioned Cole about the operation. Convinced that Keaton was one of John's men, Cole turned his back on Keaton and sighed, "I still can't believe that Mayor Lowell is behind this!" Pointing a gun at Cole, Keaton stated, "That's all I needed to hear!"
As Keaton prepared to kill Cole, John appeared and shot Keaton. As Keaton released his grip on Cole and fell to the ground, Cole exhaled.
After determining that Keaton was still alive, John called for an ambulance to transport him to the hospital. When John revealed to Cole that the mayor had ordered Keaton to kill him, Cole expressed his desire to protect Starr and Hope, but John prevented him from leaving. John told Cole that he was to remain at the station until the mayor had been arrested. Fish agreed to protect Cole, but John related that he had a better idea.
Inside John's office, Cole listened as John briefed Brody about the situation. John regretted that he had involved Cole in the dangerous plan. John instructed Brody to guard Cole. Handing Brody a loaded revolver, John instructed Brody to lock the office door, and use the weapon if needed. Afterward, John and Fish headed to Mayor Lowell's office to place the mayor under arrest. Brody assured Cole that the situation would soon be over.
Back at campaign headquarters, upon noticing Sergei, May or Lowell asked Dorian for a moment alone with the stranger. As Sergei approached the mayor, Dorian watched the interaction between the two men. The mayor was alarmed when Sergei related that Keaton was unsuccessful in performing the hit on Cole, because John had shot Keaton. While Mayor Lowell worried that Cole was aware of his involvement in the drug cartel, Sergei was more concerned that the mayor had placed Sergei in the middle of the situation.
When Lowell ordered Sergei to do something, Sergei commented that he had plans to silence Cole by going after Starr and Hope. Advising Sergei that Starr and Hope were related to his campaign manager, Lowell told Sergei that they were guarded by private security, and that Todd was also at the home. Unfazed by Lowell's warning, Sergei had no intention of diverting from his plan. As an intense argument ensued between the two men, Dorian interrupted and questioned if there was a problem.
Claiming that Sergei was a campaign worker, May or Lowell sent Dorian on a campaign errand. While Lowell worried that Keaton might cut a deal and expose him, Sergei was only concerned with Cole, and insisted that it was necessary to send Cole a message. A nervous Mayor Lowell instructed Sergei not to involve him in any further developments. In a confident tone, Sergei, warned, "Keaton failed, but I won't!"
In a frantic state, Todd arrived at La Boulaie and questioned if Starr and Hope were okay. Realizing that her father was in an anxious mood, Starr demanded to know what he had done. Shaun left after Todd dismissed him . Moments later, John phoned Todd and asked if Starr was okay. Before John could warn him of the impending danger, Todd blamed John for placing Starr in harm's way, and hung up the phone. When Starr asked if Todd had told anyone about Cole, Todd replied, "I took care of it Starr, that's what I do!"
John and Fish stood outside Mayor Lowell's office. John advised Fish to go strictly by the book when they placed the mayor under arrest. With guns drawn, John and Fish entered the office and discovered Lowell was nowhere in sight.
Back at La Boulaie, as Starr demanded answers from Todd, they were both startled when Sergei entered the room. Holding them at gunpoint, Sergei revealed that he was Cole's boss and had discovered that Cole wasn't who he had claimed to be.
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Peruvian Andean women victims of affected sterilizations during the administering of Peru’s above President Alberto Fujimori beef in Lima Feb. 13, 2014. (Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images)
The ashamed above Peruvian dictator’s bribery and added human-rights abuses are well-known, but little absorption is paid to how his administration abused aboriginal women — with U.S. and U.N. assistance.
In an age aback the #MeToo movement has added the acuteness adjoin the rights of women, abounding would be abashed to apprehend that a U.S. government bureau and the U.N. Population Fund encouraged and financed a affairs of affected sterilizations in Peru during the 1990s.
Alberto Fujimori, the above Peruvian dictator, was afresh ordered aback to bastille this ages afterwards a cloister chaotic his pardon. Imprisoned for human-rights abuses and bribery aback 2007, he was pardoned aftermost year by then-president of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
The accessible knows that Fujimori’s crimes accommodate embezzling millions of dollars from the government and operating afterlife squads, but what abounding bodies alfresco of Peru do not apperceive is that Fujimori additionally oversaw a affairs of affected sterilizations, as The New Republic acclaimed in an October 2018 article.
The affairs began in 1993 and assured in 2000. The affliction years were 1996 and 1997, aback some 200,000 women were forcibly sterilized.
Steve Mosher, arch of the Population Research Institute (PRI) in Virginia, aboriginal began to apprehend letters of what was accident in the mid-1990s.
“We got letters that aboriginal Peruvian women — birth of the Incas — were actuality antibacterial and that Chinese ‘technical advisers’ had been brought into the country. Any cold eyewitness would apperceive appropriate abroad that if you accompany in Chinese population-control advisers, you are activity to see callous measures,” said Mosher.
The Peruvian government anon set targets and quotas for how abounding women had to be sterilized.
“Any time this happens, government admiral will try to accommodated them. Peruvian doctors and nurses would get account quotas on the affliction of accident their jobs,” said Mosher.
Government admiral would go door-to-door, cogent women that a auto would appear to aces them up for the procedures.
“There was a absolute mobilization, with announcements actuality fabricated on the radio and banners set up announcement tubal ligations. Women were told that they and their accouchement would not get medical affliction unless they did it,” said Mosher.
The sterilization campaigns mostly took abode in the highlands of the Andes. Catholic bishops — abnormally Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani — were the aboriginal to active the apple about what was accident and to protest. At the time of the sterilization campaigns, Cipriani was the abbey of Ayacucho, one of the atomic areas of Peru.
From 1993 to 2000, added than 300,000 poor Incan women were sterilized. Added than 24,000 men were affected to accept vasectomies. Fourteen women died. Others suffered astringent infections, and none would anytime accept accouchement again. Some women were antibacterial afterwards their ability or consent.
Pro-family and pro-life groups accept alleged this a targeted genocide.
“As anon as we begin out, we assassin a assembly crew, and I beatific out an investigator in 1998, David Morrison. He spent a ages interviewing men and women. We saw and filmed the clinics area the sterilizations were occurring in assembly-line fashion. These places were acutely unhygienic,” said Mosher.
Morrison additionally interviewed doctors and nurses who were pressured to backpack out the campaign, as able-bodied as admiral from the Peruvian Ministry of Bloom — who denied that there had been any coercion.
Mosher set up a account appointment at the Civic Press Club in 1996, bringing in Peruvian victims to speak.
“One woman said that afterwards her sterilization she had become acutely ill. Another woman batten about how government admiral would not booty ‘No’ for an acknowledgment and kept advancing aback to the house. Aback you are poor and government admiral acquaint you that you accept to address to a dispensary for a procedure, it is actual adamantine to say No. This is an corruption of power. It’s coercion,” said Mosher.
A sad aftereffect of the sterilization attack was that health-care assets were absent that could accept been acclimated to advice Peruvians with added health-care problems, such as angry malaria, which became catching there amid 1993 and 1999.
“The advice baldheaded by PRI in Peru led anon to the access of the Tiahrt Amendment. Named for Congressman Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., the alteration was active into law on Oct. 22, 1998,” said Carlos Polo, administrator of the PRI appointment for Latin America.
“The Tiahrt Alteration authentic browbeating to accommodate those actual abuses which were aggressive in the Peru sterilization attack — quotas, targets, bribery and abridgement of a consent.”
An abashing aspect of the absolute Peruvian attack is the captivation of the U.S. government. The specific agencies that were complex in Peru’s sterilization attack were the U.S. Bureau for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the NIPPON Foundation (a Japanese nonprofit). It is accepted that UNFPA donated $10 actor for the forced-sterilization campaign.
“An important certificate was appear by E. Liagin with the appellation ‘USAID and Involuntary Sterilization in Peru,’ in which she analyzes the action[s] fabricated amid 1995 and 1997,” said Polo. “According to her, ‘the centralized athenaeum of USAID appearance that in 1993 the United States basically took allegation of the civic bloom arrangement of Peru. … The mutual accordance of 1993 that put the United States in such advantageous position, accepted as Project 2000, was active by the Peruvian and American authorities in September 1993 and was able for seven years, catastrophe in 2000. An assay of this certificate shows that USAID-PERU, the appointment in Lima of USAID, was in any believable anatomy in ascendancy of the Peruvian bloom sector, afore and during the years that the abuses took part.’”
In 1999, David Morrison alternate to Peru to actuate whether the abuses had stopped. Despite promises fabricated by USAID and the Peruvian government that the abuses would cease, Morrison appear that actual little had changed.
“Then, in 2000, a new government came to ability in Peru. The Congress of this anew adopted government accustomed the accumulation of an absolute agency to investigate the abuses that occurred during Fujimori’s reign. The address of the Peruvian aldermanic commission, alleged the Anticoncepcion Quirurgica Voluntaria, or AQV, Commission, acclaimed that Fujimori’s arrogant population-control attack ‘established demographicstrategies and methods absolutely akin and controlling.’ The address assured that Fujimori should be accusable for genocide,” said Polo.
In 2002, the Peruvian Minister of Health, Dr. Fernando Carbone, apologized about in the name of the Peruvian nation to all the women who had been sterilized. Unfortunately, the accusations adjoin Fujimori and admiral from the Ministry of Bloom were absolved by the Peruvian Congress.
With Fujimori aback in bastille again, Peru’s aphotic history of affected sterilization needs to be captivated up to accessible scrutiny, according to pro-life advocates.
“We did a abundant accord of investigations into Peru’s affected sterilizations during the 1990s decade, abnormally in 1996,” said Marlene Gillete-Ibern, Human Life International’s Latin American adviser. “We brought in victims from Peru, who gave their claimed testimony. Definitely, the government of Peru was anon involved, but they were acerb afflicted by the U.N. and the U.S.”
Register correspondent Sabrina Arena Ferrisi writes from New York.
“In Piura, Jaime Monzón Tejeda complained that his wife died afterwards a sterilization. She was consistently pressured by the nurses, who said that the operation was quick and painless. She died 22 canicule after of amazement in the brain. (Newspaper El Comercio, 1/24/98.)”
“G.H.C., 28 years old, from Totora … farmer, with three children, illiterate, was operated on in August 1997 in the dispensary of Izcuchaca. According to her testimony, the bloom workers came to her abode and affected her to abide the operation. She said, ‘I did not appetite it because my bedmate was not at home, but they took me by force at seven in the morning. I capital to escape from the hospital, but they did not let me go.’ They told her that she was activity to accept some food. She did not assurance anything.”
“Testimony of H.H.H., a Quechua agriculturalist from Anta who was antibacterial afterwards her consent, who stated: ‘I cried in advanced of my husband. Why did they do this to me? What if I become sick? Seeing me so, my bedmate asked the nurse, ‘Miss, aback you did this to my wife, what should I do in case she becomes ill?’ Then the assistant said: ‘You had bigger be beholden that the government of Fujimori has ordered this advice so that you stop bearing accouchement afterwards number. President Fujimori has ordered this advice to 300 mothers of the Pampa Anta. Are we aggravating to cut the throats of people? Any clandestine doctor would accept answerable you added than 300 soles.’ Saying that, they beatific us away.”
Source: Population Research Institute in Lima, Peru
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When Can Police Search Your Automobile?
The Fourth Modification within the Structure of america protects residents towards illegal searches from any authorities brokers. This modification additionally protects any illegal police search of vehicles. Nonetheless, if within the technique of a prison case, the courtroom finds out that any proof was found throughout an illegal police search of your car, the proof will probably be thrown out and the prosecution is not going to be allowed to make use of any proof that was discovered throughout the illegal police search. A search happens when a authorities agent invades an space the place there’s affordable expectation of private privateness.Consent To Search
Legislation enforcement can ask on your consent to look your automobile if they don’t have sufficient possible trigger. It’s as much as you to present the consent or deny it, simply understand that the agent isn’t required to tell you that you’ve got the suitable to refuse the consent. Agreeing to the consent for brokers to look your automobile signifies that it was self-voluntary and that you weren’t pressured. You even have the suitable to present the consent to the agent however to restrict the place the agent it is allowed to look, and at any given time that you really want the agent to cease, you simply have to say it and the agent should cease the search.Can Police Search Your Trunk With out Consent?If authorities brokers have sufficient possible trigger, she or he can search your automobile with out your consent. If you’re unsure of what possible trigger stands for, it’s when the brokers have a motive to imagine that the automobile has proof associated to against the law. Throughout a routine visitors cease the officer can develop possible trigger to look a automobile. For instance, after pulling over a automobile for any visitors violation, the police officer conducting the cease may discover that the driving force of the car matches the outline given of somebody suspected of stealing jewellery at a retailer. If the officer sees jewellery everywhere in the automobile, it signifies that the officer has sufficient possible trigger to detain the driving force whereas he/she conducts an investigation and searches the automobile.
Search Incident To Arrest (SITA) Or Chimel RuleAfter a police officer conducts a lawful arrest, the legislation enforcement officer has the suitable to carry out a warrant search on the person who is being arrested and the rapid space across the arrested particular person earlier than being arrested, for instance, the automobile by which the particular person was touring simply earlier than the arrest was made.
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2022-11-26T22:54:33Z
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He's one of country music’s hottest young stars
One of country music’s hottest young stars — and an Eastern North Carolina native — will soon be making an appearance in Kinston.
Tony Denton, director of sales for New Bern-based country station WRNS, said Scotty McCreery will be coming to town next month.
“Scotty McCreery will be in Kinston on Dec. 5,” he said. “He will be performing at the Woodmen Community Center, and is being brought there by WRNS.”
Denton said further details about the show and how area fans can obtain tickets will be released next Thursday.
McCreery burst onto the country music scene in 2011, when he won the 10th season of “American Idol.” Since his victory, McCreery has released three albums with sales topping 1.6 million.
His first album “Clear as Day” was the top selling solo country album in 2011, and saw him become the youngest man in history to debut atop the all-genre Billboard Top 200 albums chart.
According to his website, the Garner native is currently a sophomore at N.C. State majoring in Communications.
He has 150 shows under his belt so far and has performed for crowds in the U.S., Canada and the Philippines, in addition to making appearances at the World Series, and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Area fans are ecstatic about the news of McCreery coming to Kinston.
Alaina Seachris of Kinston said she is flying to Texas next week to see McCreery perform in Austin. She will be meeting the country music star, thanks to a friend securing her backstage VIP passes to the show.
Seachris said she has followed McCreery’s career since his first audition on “American Idol.”
“I was watching the show with my mom and she said, ‘he’s going to win,’ ” she said. “It was funny because my mom is such a big Josh Turner fan, and he sang a Josh Turner song. I’ve been watching since Day 1 when he tried out, and I’ve been a fan of his music ever since.”
Agnes O’Neal said she has also been a McCreery fan for a long time.
“I watched him when he was ‘American Idol,’” the Kinston resident said. “I’ve downloaded a lot of his songs onto my iPod and I would love to see him.”
Noah Clark can be reached at 252-559-1073 or Noah.Clark@Kinston.com. Follow him on Twitter at @nclark763.
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2019-05-19T21:29:05Z
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1 package frozen puff pastry sheets, thawed
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan
2 tablespoons pesto (store bought, homemade… whatever you got)
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 cup butter, melted
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare a cookie sheet with silpat or parchment paper.
In a small mixing bowl, combine cheese, pesto, garlic powder and melted butter.
On a lightly floured surface, unfold the first pastry sheet and roll out slightly. Cut each sheet into 12-13 strips, about 3/4 by 10-inches apiece. Brush pastry sticks with melted butter-pesto-cheese mixture, lightly coating each side. Gently twist pastry sticks, and place on a prepared baking sheet. Repeat with other sheet of puff pastry
Bake for 12 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.
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A thought-provoking and dynamic speaker, Kate O’Neill has spoken at 100s of events and meetings on digital transformation and the impact of technology on humanity, delivering thought-provoking, energizing, high-concept ideas about topics at the intersection of data, emerging tech, strategy, meaning, and human experience. She appears frequently at industry conferences and private events, providing galvanizing keynotes, moderating and participating in lively panel discussions, and facilitating transformative executive workshops and retreats.
- THOUGHT LEADERSHIP / LECTURES such as the Talks at Google speaker series, described as “the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers and doers;” featured session at Institute of Directors Digital Summit in London; etc
- CITIES / CIVIC ORGs, like the keynote for the city of Amsterdam as part of future-readiness initiative to prepare for their 750th birthday in 2025
- CORPORATE EVENTS, such as the keynote at Cisco Partners global corporate event in Barcelona as well as strategy workshop exclusively available to Cisco top partner executives; other clients such as McDonald’s, Coca Cola, and more
- CORPORATE KICKOFFS such as a keynote for Kelly Services corporate leadership annual summit
- BRAND-SPONSORED EVENTS, like a digital transformation keynote at event hosted by Charles Schwab
- ORGANIZATION & ASSOCIATION EVENTS, such as the keynote for Public Radio Program Directors association annual conference; keynote for Franchise Business Network annual meeting; CIVSA, others
- INDUSTRY CONFERENCES, such as a closing session at O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World in London
- EXECUTIVE BOARD STRATEGY SESSIONS, such as with Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America in Washington D.C.
- with audiences including senior leaders and doers from IBM, GE, Apple, Google, Ford, Intel, etc
“I definitely recommend Kate as a keynote speaker at any type of professional event. Her experience creates an arsenal of expert subjects she can share to inspire a variety of audiences.” — event organizer
Each of these talks blends forward thinking, an overall optimistic outlook, and insightful takeaways for the audience through Kate O’Neill‘s breadth of experience and bleeding-edge thinking.
- Tech Humanism: Automation, Integration, AI, and the Future of Meaningful Human Experience
- Pixels and Place: Connected Experiences and Integrated Human Experience Design
- Humanity At Scale: Data, Emerging Tech, and the Future of Meaningful Human Experience
- Human-Centric Digital Transformation: Organizational Purpose, Cultural Alignment, Meaningful Experiences
Contact us through the email form below and give us a little background and let’s discuss how we can help.
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2019-10-21T08:27:58Z
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Enabling IT Modernization with VMware Cloud on AWS
Cloud and virtualization technologies offer a broad range of platform and infrastructure options to help organizations address their operational needs, no matter how complex or unique, and reduce their dependence on traditional data centers.
As the demand for cloud and cloud-compatible services continues to grow across departments within organizations, cloud adoption rates are steadily rising and IT decision makers are realizing that they no longer need to be solely reliant on physical data centers. This has led countless organizations to shrink their data center footprints.
The benefits unlocked by VMC on AWS can have significant impacts on your organization…including the impressive performance of a VMware environment sitting on top of the AWS backbone.
VMware Cloud on AWS is unique in bridging this gap, as it utilizes the same skill sets many organizations have in-house to manage their existing VMware environments. Sure, there are considerations when migrating, but ultimately the biggest change in moving to VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS is the underlying location of the software defined data center (SDDC) within vCenter. The benefits unlocked by VMC on AWS can have significant impacts on your organization – eliminating the need to worry about the security and maintenance of physical infrastructure (and the associated hands on hardware to address device failure) as well as the impressive performance of a VMware environment sitting on top of the AWS backbone.
Technology That Suits Your Needs
Full and partial data center evacuations are becoming increasingly common and, while there are instances of repatriation (organizations moving workloads from the cloud back to the data center), the majority of organizations are sticking with “cloud-first” policies to gain and maintain business agility. Sometimes, however, even a company that’s begun their IT modernization efforts may still have systems and applications hosted on-premises or in a data center.
This may seem to indicate some hesitance to fully adopt the cloud, but it’s usually due to long-term strategy, technical barriers to native cloud adoption, or misconceptions about cloud security and compliance requirements. It’s rare to find an organization that isn’t loaded with technical debt, fully committed to specific software, tied to lengthy data center commitments – or all of the above.
Mission-critical legacy applications may not be compatible with the cloud, and organizations lack the resources or expertise to refactor those applications so that they can properly function in a native cloud environment. Or perhaps there’s a long-term digital strategy to eventually move all systems and applications to the cloud but, in the meantime, they’re still leashed to the data center. Scenarios like these, and many more, are ideal for VMware Cloud on AWS, which allows organizations to easily migrate legacy VMware workloads with minimal refactoring or rearchitecting, or extend their existing data center systems to the cloud.
New, But Familiar
VMware Cloud on AWS was developed in collaboration between VMware, a pioneer and global leader in server virtualization, and AWS, the leading public cloud provider, to seamlessly extend on-premises vSphere environments to SDDCs built on AWS. VMC on AWS makes it easier for organizations to begin or expand their public cloud adoption by enabling lift and shift migration capabilities for applications running in the data center or on-premises VMware environments.
VMC on AWS also has a relatively minimal learning curve for in-house operations staff because, despite being hosted on AWS, it’s still VMware vSphere at its core and the environments are managed using the vCenter management console. This familiar toolset allows IT teams to begin utilizing the cloud without any major workforce retraining and upskilling initiatives because they can still use VMware’s suite of server virtualization and management tools.
The Right Tools for the Job
The vSphere suite of server virtualization products and vCenter management console may be familiar, but they’re far from outdated or limited. VMware continues to invest in the future, strengthening its cloud and virtualization portfolio by enhancing their existing offerings and developing additional services and tools to further enable IT modernization and data center evacuations.
These efforts mean we can expect VMware to continue playing a major role in helping organizations achieve and maintain agility by ensuring secure workload mobility across platforms, from public cloud to private cloud to hardware.
HCX, which essentially consists of a series of integrations that establish connectivity across systems and platforms and allows workloads to be migrated without any code or configuration changes, is regularly updated to enhance its functionality. VMware HCX can be used to perform live migrations using vMotion and bulk migration for up to 100 VMs at a time. VMware HCX can also provide a secure, accelerated network extension which, beyond providing a seamless migration experience and minimizing operational impacts usually associated with migrating workloads, helps improve the environment’s resiliency through workload rebalancing. This same functionality plays a critical role in disaster recovery and business continuity by replicating data across multiple locations.
A Thoughtful Approach to Modernization
Whether an organization is prioritizing the optimization of spend, revenue growth, streamlining operations, or revitalizing and engaging their workforce, a mature and robust digital strategy should be at the heart of the “how.” Cloud adoption will not solve these business challenges on its own – that requires forethought, planning, and expertise.
It can be challenging to make the right determinations about what’s best for your own unique business needs without a clear understanding of those needs. And for organizations still relying on old school hardware-based systems, the decision to remain with on-premises deployments, move to the cloud, or lift and shift to a platform like VMC on AWS requires a comprehensive assessment of their applications, hardware, and any existing data center/real estate commitments.
Internal teams may not have the specific technical expertise, experience, or availability to develop suitable digital strategies or perform effective assessments, especially as they focus on their primary day to day responsibilities. As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner with the VMware Master Services Competency in VMware Cloud on AWS, Effectual has established its expertise in VMware Cloud on AWS, making us an ideal partner to help ease that burden.
Cloud adoption doesn’t happen overnight, and organizations have to ensure disparate technologies, which may be at very different stages of their respective lifecycles, mesh well. They need to develop an appropriate modernization strategy and determine the best fit for each application and workload. The right partner can play a critical role in successfully overcoming these challenges.
Hetal Patel is a Senior VMware Technical Lead and co-founder at Effectual, Inc.
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2023-05-30T11:13:22Z
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Sunday, November 26, 2017
Build your own Master Class!
I'll be starting my 2018 Masterclass on January 1st.
It's a yearlong commitment to improving your quilt designs (or other fiber media for that matter, I have had weavers, stitchers and embroiderers in the class).
Each month I issue a new assignment which addresses a key design concept such as the importance of good value patterns, how to achieve the illusion of depth or motion, how to work from a photograph, how to develop good color schemes and so on. Each assignment can be interpreted by representational or abstract work and if you veer off the assignment a little, I won't mind! (Recently I took an online course where pretty much the only feedback I got was "you didn't follow the instructions"! - very hard for an iconoclast to do that!).
My principal interest is helping you make stronger work, and in avoiding the many pitfalls there are in designing and creating art. I'm fortunate in that I have many art friends here and we can help each other with critiques but many don't have that. Research in improving one's performance rests on two things: the amount of time you give to it PLUS informed help along the way. It's not just the 10,000 hours....it's the hours plus the personal help.
I think it's important to give critiques that focus on the strengths, but also address any weaknesses and suggest solutions. I've always enjoyed problem solving and this is a great way to help others. I used to do a lot of traveling and teaching, but (as I'm sure you know) travel is just not much fun anymore...plus I was frustrated by not being able to follow through with the students for a significant period of time to help them move forward. Having decided to get piano lessons after having failed to teach myself (for some time! ), I realize the huge importance of the regular contact with the teacher and mentor over a period of time.
I offer a year long Master Class with a blog and 10 assignments. I critique these at three stages: design sketches (need not be fancy!), blocking out, and finished work.
If you're at all interested please email me at firstname.lastname@example.org and I'll send you full details, feel free to ask any questions.
Also, since I have more time now as I'm not travelling very much, I would like to offer a "Build Your Own MasterClass" - write and tell me what you personally would like: suggested assignments, or self-chosen ones, frequency of assignments, amount of responses from me and I can see what I can arrange and what the cost would be. A "personalized" course!
For the year long Master Class with the Master Class blog where you can view other students' work and my comments (this is as anonymous as you wish), please email me by mid December.
The strength of this class is twofold: the timetable helps to keep you on target! And secondly, you can learn a great deal vicariously from seeing how I respond to other students' work.
For a Build Your Own Class - just email me any time! Let me know what you are interested in....and I'll see what I can do.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
If you have been, thanks for reading!! Elizabeth
NOTE: I've had several queries about more details for the Build Your Own class...
please go to the special blog for more information! Thank you. Elizabeth
or write to me directly: elizabethmasterclass AT gmail for details of my regular master class.
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2018-09-25T01:16:04Z
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Introduction to Software Engineering/Process/Rapid Application Development
Rapid application development (RAD) refers to a type of software development methodology that uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping. The "planning" of software developed using RAD is interleaved with writing the software itself. The lack of extensive pre-planning generally allows software to be written much faster, and makes it easier to change requirements.
Rapid application development is a software development methodology that involves methods like iterative development and software prototyping. According to Whitten (2004), it is a merger of various structured techniques, especially data-driven Information Engineering, with prototyping techniques to accelerate software systems development.
In rapid application development, structured techniques and prototyping are especially used to define users' requirements and to design the final system. The development process starts with the development of preliminary data models and business process models using structured techniques. In the next stage, requirements are verified using prototyping, eventually to refine the data and process models. These stages are repeated iteratively; further development results in "a combined business requirements and technical design statement to be used for constructing new systems".
RAD approaches may entail compromises in functionality and performance in exchange for enabling faster development and facilitating application maintenance.
Rapid application development is a term originally used to describe a software development process introduced by James Martin in 1981. Martin's methodology involves iterative development and the construction of prototypes. More recently, the term and its acronym have come to be used in a broader, general sense that encompasses a variety of methods aimed at speeding application development, such as the use of software frameworks of varied types, such as web application frameworks.
Rapid application development was a response to non-agile processes developed in the 1970s and 1980s, such as the Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method and other Waterfall models. One problem with previous methodologies was that applications took so long to build that requirements had changed before the system was complete, resulting in inadequate or even unusable systems. Another problem was the assumption that a methodical requirements analysis phase alone would identify all the critical requirements. Ample evidence attests to the fact that this is seldom the case, even for projects with highly experienced professionals at all levels.
Starting with the ideas of Brian Gallagher, Alex Balchin, Barry Boehm and Scott Shultz, James Martin developed the rapid application development approach during the 1980s at IBM and finally formalized it by publishing a book in 1991, Rapid Application Development.
The shift from traditional session-based client/server development to open sessionless and collaborative development like Web 2.0 has increased the need for faster iterations through the phases of the SDLC. This, coupled with the growing use of open source frameworks and products in core commercial development, has, for many developers, rekindled interest in finding a silver bullet RAD methodology.
Although most RAD methodologies foster software re-use, small team structure and distributed system development, most RAD practitioners recognize that, ultimately, no one “rapid” methodology can provide an order of magnitude improvement over any other development methodology.
All types of RAD have the potential for providing a good framework for faster product development with improved software quality, but successful implementation and benefits often hinge on project type, schedule, software release cycle and corporate culture. It may also be of interest that some of the largest software vendors such as Microsoft and IBM do not extensively use RAD in the development of their flagship products and for the most part, they still primarily rely on traditional waterfall methodologies with some degree of spiraling.
This table contains a high-level summary of some of the major types of RAD and their relative strengths and weaknesses.
|Agile software development (Agile)|
|Pros||Minimizes feature creep by developing in short intervals resulting in miniature software projects and releasing the product in mini-increments.|
|Cons||Short iteration may add too little functionality, leading to significant delays in final iterations. Since Agile emphasizes real-time communication (preferably face-to-face), using it is problematic for large multi-team distributed system development. Agile methods produce very little written documentation and require a significant amount of post-project documentation.|
|Extreme Programming (XP)|
|Pros||Lowers the cost of changes through quick spirals of new requirements. Most design activity occurs incrementally and on the fly.|
|Cons||Programmers must work in pairs, which is difficult for some people. No up-front “detailed design” occurs, which can result in more redesign effort in the long term. The business champion attached to the project full time can potentially become a single point of failure for the project and a major source of stress for a team.|
|Joint application design (JAD)|
|Pros||Captures the voice of the customer by involving them in the design and development of the application through a series of collaborative workshops called JAD sessions.|
|Cons||The client may create an unrealistic product vision and request extensive gold-plating, leading a team to over- or under-develop functionality.|
|Lean software development (LD)|
Creates minimalist solutions (i.e., needs determine technology) and delivers less functionality earlier; per the policy that 80% today is better than 100% tomorrow.
|Cons||Product may lose its competitive edge because of insufficient core functionality and may exhibit poor overall quality.|
|Rapid application development (RAD)|
|Pros||Promotes strong collaborative atmosphere and dynamic gathering of requirements. Business owner actively participates in prototyping, writing test cases and performing unit testing.|
|Cons||Dependence on strong cohesive teams and individual commitment to the project. Decision making relies on the feature functionality team and a communal decision-making process with lesser degree of centralized PM and engineering authority.|
|Pros||Improved productivity in teams previously paralyzed by heavy “process”, ability to prioritize work, use of backlog for completing items in a series of short iterations or sprints, daily measured progress and communications.|
|Cons||Reliance on facilitation by a master who may lack the political skills to remove impediments and deliver the sprint goal. Due to relying on self-organizing teams and rejecting traditional centralized "process control", internal power struggles can paralyze a team.|
Since rapid application development is an iterative and incremental process, it can lead to a succession of prototypes that never culminate in a satisfactory production application. Such failures may be avoided if the application development tools are robust, flexible, and put to proper use. This is addressed in methods such as the 2080 Development method or other post-agile variants.
When organizations adopt rapid development methodologies, care must be taken to avoid role and responsibility confusion and communication breakdown within a development team, and between team and client. In addition, especially in cases where the client is absent or not able to participate with authority in the development process, the system analyst should be endowed with this authority on behalf of the client to ensure appropriate prioritisation of non-functional requirements. Furthermore, no increment of the system should be developed without a thorough and formally documented design phase.
- Whitten, Jeffrey L.; Lonnie D. Bentley, Kevin C. Dittman. (2004). Systems Analysis and Design Methods. 6th edition. ISBN 025619906X.
- Maurer and S. Martel. (2002). "Extreme Programming: Rapid Development for Web-Based Applications". IEEE Internet Computing, 6(1) pp 86-91 January/February 2002.
- Andrew Begel, Nachiappan Nagappan. "Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study, Microsoft Research". http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/56015/AgileDevatMS-ESEM07.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-15.
- E. M. Maximilien and L. Williams. (2003). "Assessing Test-driven Development at IBM". Proceedings of International Conference of Software Engineering, Portland, OR, pp. 564-569, 2003.
- M. Stephens, Rosenberg, D. (2003). "Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP". Apress, 2003.
- Gerber, Aurona; Van der Merwe, Alta; Alberts, Ronell; (2007), Implications of Rapid Development Methodologies, CSITEd 2007, Mauritius, November 2007
- Steve McConnell (1996). Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, Microsoft Press Books, ISBN 978-1556159008
- Kerr, James M.; Hunter, Richard (1993). Inside RAD: How to Build a Fully-Functional System in 90 Days or Less. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0070342237.
- Ellen Gottesdiener (1995). "RAD Realities: Beyond the Hype to How RAD Really Works" Application Development Trends
- Ken Schwaber (1996). Agile Project Management with Scrum, Microsoft Press Books, ISBN 978-0735619937
- Steve McConnell (2003). Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced Careers, Microsoft Prese s Books, ISBN 978-0321193674
- Dean Leffingwell (2007). Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0321458193
- Download Free Staff Scheduling App For Trial Version EworksManager
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Sky has announced its intention to open a brand new technology hub in the north of England, and expand of its dedicated technology training schemes.
The new technology hub, which will create up to 400 highly-skilled jobs, will open later this year in Leeds. It will be focused on designing and developing Sky’s next generation of websites and apps across its offering.
Based at Allied London’s Leeds Dock, in the heart of the city, the hub will provide a site for Sky’s tech teams to continue to develop new ways of watching content on multiple devices, in and out of the home.
Sky is also creating its second Software Engineering Academy, also in Leeds, which will offer opportunities for young people across the north of England to gain skills and build a career in technology. In addition, Sky has increased the number of places on offer at its Software Engineering Academy in London.
The Software Engineering Academy offers graduates a hands-on, accelerated learning programme, providing practical, on-the-job training including opportunities to develop and support software for teams across Sky, including Sky Sports.
In London, the number of places available at the Academy annually has increased from 24 to 36. The company aims to emulate the success of the London Software Engineering Academy in Leeds, initially recruiting 24 graduates and eight apprentices a year. These will join the 118 young people who’ve gone through the Software Engineering Academy since launch four years ago.
“With our investment in Leeds, we’re creating one of the largest digital communities in the UK,” said Jeremy Darroch, group chief executive, Sky . “We are looking forward to bringing hundreds of new jobs to the city and giving young people the opportunity to build their skills and help shape the digital services of the future.“
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VPLAYER will help you to quickly set up overrides for linetype and lineweight of layers on viewports.
With JTB_VPLAYER, the command set viewport overrides for linetype and lineweight of selected layers to preferences. Preferences are set by JTB_VPSETTINGS command.
With JTB_VPMA, the command match overrides the linetype and lineweight of a selected layer to other selected layers or match the overrides of the linetype and lineweight of all layers in a selected viewport to all layers in other selected viewports. You can also use the "Previous" option to match previous selected override linetype and lineweight properties to target layers or viewports.
With JTB_VPCLEAR the command clear VPLAYER overrides of the linetype and lineweight of selected layers, or all layers in selected viewports.
With JTB_VPSETTINGS, the command set preference for viewport overrides of linetype and lineweight properties.
30-day trial is available here.
JTB VPLayer Tools app page on JTB World's website.
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Demographics of Students on USIEA Study Abroad Programs
With the increasing number of study abroad students, the source of the students are more diverse. In order to have a better understanding of the demographics of students choosing Study Abroad programs, USIEA conducted a research by sending questionnaires to students who joined Study Abroad programs from Year 2012 to Year 2014. This summary is based on analysis of 854 valid samples.
Keywords: Female students
According to the data, the number of female visiting students is significantly higher than the number of male, and this gap between genders is widening. (From 2012 to 2014, the number of female students is 2.2, 2.6, and 2.7 times the number of the male students respectively.)This tendency is consistent with the overall gender mix of Chinese students who are studying overseas. Coincidentally, the proportion of girls in Chinese colleges has been on rise over the last 20 years. Girls tend to be more adaptable to the current educational system and their academic performance is generally quite good. On the other hand, parents are willing to provide their only child with opportunities to study abroad due to the One—Child Policy.
Keywords: Junior Grades,Postgraduate Students
Data statistics show that the sophomore and the junior students make the largest portion of all visiting students. More than 70% of the visiting students come from these two groups.In 2014, the number of freshman in visiting study program is 2 timesthe number of freshman in 2013 and 3 times the number of freshman in 2012. Freshmen benefit more from participating study programs at junior grades as it leaves more time for students to make future study plans by experiencing American education earlier; and students have less pressure on credit transfer as there is more time for them to make up missed lessons when they return to home universities.It is believed that this trend will be maintained the next few years.
At the same time, the number of postgraduate students joining Study Abroad programs is increasing rapidly these years. The number of the first year postgraduate students in visiting programs has been doubled, and the number of second year postgraduate students hasbeen tripled from 2012 to 2014.
Keywords: Diversity, Science and Engineering
A large number of students’ academic background on Study Abroad programs includes five majors: Economics and Finance, Foreign Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering, Computer and IT. Most visiting students continue to study these majors in American universities.The statistics shows a large diversity of majors which students have chosen to study abroad.
With the speeding up of higher education globalization process in Chinese universities, there is an obvious demand on STEM majors apart from business and arts majors which hadalready been mainstream choices of most international programs. Especially in line with the overall “Study Overseas Wave” and “Immigration Wave”, Chinese students with science and engineering majors have enjoyed more obvious advantages, which havefacilitated the increase of students with STEM backgrounds. According to the collected data, the number of visiting students from Engineering and Science in 2014 is double the number of those in 2013. And students’ choices of majors are more diverse, some students even choose very professional majors such as nuclear physics.
4. Place of Origin
Keywords: Widely Distributed
The number of visiting students across the country is growing steadily every year. In addition to the eastern and southern China whichhas always been the economically relatively developed area, we are very pleased to find that the number of students in other areas is increasing rapidly. In the southwest of China, the number of visiting students has been increased by 487% from 2012 to 2014, 290% in northwest China, 180% in north China and 130% in northeast China.
The awareness of Study Abroad programs has been increased among Chinese universities students with the development of higher education internationalization in Chinese universities. Students who had joined study abroad programs earlier have returned to their home universities, and they share their experience and improvements with potential students, which has encouraged more students to join the programs. We predict that this increasing momentum will be maintained in the next few years.
5. Family Economic Condition
Key words: Mid-Income Family
Nearly 50% of the visiting students come from the families whose annual income is RMB200K to RMB500K. In 2014, thenumber of families with annual income RMB100K to RMB200K doubled comparing the number in 2013.
With the development of Chinese economy, more and more families are willing to increase investment in education, especially the middle class families. In these families, at least one parent hasgood education background and relatively high income, which makes them more open to study overseas opportunities.
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United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Northern Division
REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
F. KEITH BALL, Magistrate Judge.
This cause is before the Court regarding the appeal by Margaret Jones of the Commissioner of Social Security's final decision denying Jones's request for a period of disability and disability insurance benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 423(d)(1)(A). In rendering this Report and Recommendation, the Court has carefully reviewed the Administrative Record regarding Jones's claims (including the administrative decision, the medical records and a transcript of the hearing before the Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ")), Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and supporting Memorandum, Defendant's Motion for an Order Affirming the Commissioner's Decision , Defendant's Memorandum in Support of the Commissioner's Decision , and Plaintiff's Rebuttal Brief .
For the reasons discussed in this Report and Recommendation, the Court finds that the Commissioner's decision is supported by substantial evidence and hereby recommends that the decision be upheld.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Plaintiff Jones, age 53 at the time of the hearing decision, appeals the Social Security Administration's denial of benefits. On November 30, 2010, Jones filed a Title II application for disability insurance benefits alleging an onset date of October 1, 2009, and alleging that she is unable to work due to bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and migraine headaches. at 145. Jones also complained of weakness on her right side that causes her to fall three times a week and depression. Id. at 34-35. Jones formerly worked as a certified nurse assistant for nineteen years, and she last worked on June 2, 2007. Id. at 84. The Commissioner denied her request initially and on reconsideration. Id. at 14. After holding a hearing on October 11, 2012, during which she was represented by counsel, the ALJ issued an unfavorable decision on November 13, 2012. Id. at 14, 22, and 30. The Appeals Council denied her request for review of the ALJ's decision on November 29, 2013, and this appeal followed. Id. at 1.
In the ALJ's November 2012 decision, he worked through the familiar sequential evaluation process for determining disability. With regard to Jones's disability insured status, the ALJ found that Jones's earnings record demonstrated that she was insured through December 31, 2012. Id. at 14, 16. The ALJ found that Jones had not engaged in substantial gainful activity since October 1, 2009, the alleged onset date. Id. at 16. He concluded that Jones has the severe impairments of a "history of prior carpal tunnel release procedures, occasional headaches and mild obesity." Id. Nevertheless, the ALJ found that Jones did not have an impairment or combination of impairments of Listing severity. Id. Considering the record, the ALJ determined that Jones has the "residual functional capacity to perform light work as defined in 20 CFR 404.1567(b) except with no climbing of ladders, ropes, or scaffolds, occasional climbing of ramps or stairs, and occasional balancing, stooping, crouching, kneeling and crawling." Id. With that in mind, and after consulting a vocational expert, the ALJ concluded that Jones is capable of making a successful adjustment to other work, such as a cleaner, a poultry worker, and a fast food worker. Id. at 22. Accordingly, the ALJ found that Jones was not disabled from October 1, 2009, through the date of the decision, November 13, 2012. Id.
II. MEDICAL HISTORY
The Court has determined that a detailed recitation of the medical records is not necessary because the parties summarized Jones's records in their briefs, and the ALJ provided a thorough summary of the records in his decision.
Nevertheless, the observations and evaluations of a some of the medical professionals are worth noting. Dr. Azhar Pasha performed a consultative examination of Jones on May 10, 2010, at Riley Hospital in Meridian, Mississippi. Id. at 197. Dr. Pasha observed that Jones had undergone bilateral carpal tunnel release surgery on her right hand in 2007 and on her left hand in 1995. Id. Dr. Pasha found that Jones had a negative Tinel's sign and a negative Phalen's test. Id. at 198. The doctor observed that Jones had good grip and dexterity in both hands, with a full range of motion in all the extremity joints of the body. Id. The doctor observed that Jones's gait was normal. Id. The doctor also stated that the "patient is unable to squat due to severe pain; however, the patient can walk without using a cane and cane is not felt to be medically necessary to prevent falls." Id. at 199. The doctor also found that Jones has "5/5 motor strength in all extremities." Id. The exam was "negative for significant anxiety, depression, or suicidal ideation, " but the doctor did find "[m]ild anxiety and depression, " as well as migraine headaches and lower back pain. Id.
The ALJ referenced Jones's history of treatment by Dr. Rafique Ahmad in neurology at Rush Medical Group, Meridian, Mississippi. Id. at 18, 331. The record contains treatment notes from 2007 to 2011. Id. at 313-338. The ALJ observed that the treatment notes in 2010 and 2011 indicate treatment for headaches, but "do not indicate complaints of carpal tunnel syndrome residuals or any problems involving the right side of the body or the right knee." Id. at 18.
Plaintiff's treatment records from Dr. Razee A. Ahmad, of the East Mississippi Medical Clinic, Newton, Mississippi, are also in the record. Id. at 365-367. At Jones's latest visit on May 18, 2012, the doctor observed that she had not visited the clinic for eleven months, and that she admitted that she had not been taking medicines as prescribed. Id. at 365. At that time, the doctor commented that Tinel's sign was negative, and that she had normal gait and ambulation. Id. at 366. He also observed that she had "no anxiety, no depression, " and "normal behavior." Id. Jones also denied headaches and migraines at that visit, as well as loss of balance. Id. She did, however, complain of numbness or tingling in her right hand and right arm. Id.
Also in the record is an October 24, 2012, Medical Source Statement from Dawn Kiker, F.N.P, with East Mississippi Medical Center in Newton, Mississippi. Id. at 410-411. In that statement, Nurse Practitioner Kiker evaluated Jones's ability to perform certain work activities on a regular and continuing basis for eight hours a day, five days a week, or an equivalent work schedule. Id. Kiker indicated that Jones could occasionally lift and carry one to ten pounds, but could rarely lift and carry eleven to fifty pounds. Id. at 410. Kiker found that Jones could rarely reach with her right hand/arm, but could occasionally reach with her left hand/arm. Id. As to handling, the nurse practitioner stated that Jones should rarely handle with her right hand and should occasionally handle with her left hand. Id. Kiker concluded that Jones could rarely finger with her right hand and could occasionally finger with her left hand. Id. at 411. Characterized as persisting since July 2010, these restrictions were based on Kiker's diagnoses of chronic pain, pain in joint involving shoulder region, pain in joint involving lower leg, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Id.
III. STANDARD OF REVIEW
This Court's review is limited to an inquiry into whether there is substantial evidence to support the Commissioner's findings, Richardson v. Perales, 402 U.S. 389, 390, 401 (1971), and whether the correct legal standards were applied. 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) (2006); accord Falco v. Shalala, 27 F.3d 160, 163 (5th Cir. 1994); Villa v. Sullivan, 895 F.2d 1019, 1021 ...
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Yes, communication is important between parent and child.
Today parent should be effective and should have good parenting skills.
Today parent need to communicate with children.
Practice listening! As a today parent, you need to practice listening and talking to your child.
When your children are young, you can learn to talk and listen and be prepared with communication skills. As they get older it is harder to communicate with them.
Communicating! Communicating with your kids is not a natural activity but it is a learned activity. As a today parent, you have to keep communication lines open between you and your child for better parenting when your child grows into teen.
Ask yourself that “are you listening to your children”. You are busy cooking dinner, mowing the lawn and cleaning home, but do you continue to listen what your child is saying? This is an important part of communication.
As a today parent, take time to listen to your children as you will not find time and opportunities when they grow older. Stop doing your work and listen to your child by looking into your child’s eyes. Let your child know that whatever he is saying is important to you.
Control your emotions! Listen with open mind. Control your emotions while listening. Unburden your child from problems. If your child stops in between the discussion, encourage him to continue and keep talking.
Don’t discourage! Do not use statements your parent has used when you are young. Today parent should behave as a friend with their children to allow them to share their problems with you.
Today parent should be always ready to communicate whenever the child wants to share his feelings with the parent.
Encourage! You can use encouraging and soothing words like “how did you feel when that incident happened?” Do not interrupt your child and do not show your emotions on your face. Keep the communication lines open by using simple and tension relieving phrases.
“What a great question you have asked?”
“How did you feel at that moment?”
Do you understand what it means?”
“Tell me what you think about it openly.”
These phrases can allow your child to continue his conversation and keep the communication lines open.
But there are some things that will close the communication with your child. Those are not giving eye contact with your child or not paying full attention to your child.
As a today parent, you should avoid negative comments. Avoid using phrases which will close communication of your child with you.
“You are too young to understand the situation”
”It is none of your business to talk about the family matters”
“I don’t care what other children are doing”
These phrases hurt your child. Respect their feelings and allow your child to ask questions when they are in trouble. Become a today parent and avoid negative comments.
As a today parent practice listening and encourage your child to talk and share with you when they are young. If they are comfortable with you, they will come to you faster and listen closely to your advice.
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Baseball's an unpredictable game. A batter can go 5-5 one game, and 0-4 the next. He can hit three homers, then do nothing but strike out or hit groundballs. Pitchers can run up a lengthy scoreless inning streak, then give up five runs in a single inning. That's all a part of the fun. With 162 game seasons (in the majors, minors have slightly shorter go-rounds), there are plenty of ups and downs to be had for nearly every player and team. It's a game where discipline and intelligence meets raw talent and sheer luck, and despite losing the aura of being America's Pastime to football (let's be honest, the torch has been passed in recent years), there is no sport as mesmerizing, awe inspiring, and capable of creating legends and villains than ol' stickball.
On a night when the second perfect game this season, and only the twentieth ever thrown in major league history, was thrown by Roy Halladay, erasing our memories of Dallas Braden's feat early this year, it felt like a great night to visit a Kevin Costner baseball film. Ideally, that would be 'For Love of the Game,' where Costner's character was in pursuit of perfection, but it just so happened 'Bull Durham' was on the slate instead.
It's the 1987 baseball season in the Single A Durham Bulls organization, and already newcomer Ebby Calvin LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) is making history. With his first game consisting of records for strikeouts, walks allowed, wild pitches, and mascots hit, it's somewhat obvious the talented youth needs discipline, and as such, the contract of "Crash" Davis (Costner) is bought, to create a battery capable of winning games and teaching LaLoosh how to refine his talent. Their relationship is rocky at best, with the mentor/student mentalities being bucked from the start. It will take the "teachings" of Annie Savoy (Susan Surandon), a groupie of sorts who beds down with one player a year, to try to rein in the youngster who's aiming to make a name for himself (a name that would become "Nuke"). But from the start of her relationship with "Nuke," the presence of "Crash" creates tension, as his demeanor and intelligence matches hers blow for blow. As the Durham Bulls go on both losing and winning streaks, Davis and LaLoosh soon come to not only trust in each other, but teach the other a thing or two.
'Bull Durham' is highly regarded as one of the greatest sporting films ever made, with both Sports Illustrated and Rotten Tomatoes giving it the top honors. The thing is, I can't even say that I'd consider it the best baseball film starring Costner, despite all its strengths, and no, I'm not referring to 'Field of Dreams,' as I've honestly had a hard time even appreciating that one. The mixture of past and present (and future) in 'For Love of the Game' has always struck me, and helped create truly three dimensional characters that are both memorable and relatable, despite their positions in life. While 'Bull Durham' boasts relatable characters, and a superior love story, it's somewhat lacking in the developed characters department.
The film is a great mixture of themes, from the romantic main story arc, with the baseball subplot (any great sports movie uses the sport itself as the background, not the foreground!), alongside some scene stealing humor, internal drama, and a story of self importantance and accepting one's place in the world. It can be simplified by being called a mixture of sex and baseball, which is phallic enough on a good day, but there's so much going on at any given time that this is the kind of film that can take a few viewings to fully realize the intricacies of.
Costner is solid as the voice of reason and experience, and his place in the film is also quite interesting and, honestly, perfectly crafted. As the "player to be named later," a designator for a future "favor" between ball clubs making a trade, you can tell he's played for almost as many cities as he's played at as a visitor. He's a solid hitter, who is just 20 home runs away from holding the somewhat dubious record for most in the minor leagues, but only lasted 21 days in the majors in his ten year career. He tries to outthink his opponents when he's at the plate, playing like a statistician more than an arrogant baller. And while he plays games for a living, he isn't about to be playing Annie's games when it comes to her pitting him against "Nuke" for her "affections," to put it politely. As he states that he's "too old for this shit," when referring to going back to Single A, it also fits his mentality concerning relationship drama and courting.
Of course, even with "Crash" turning down Annie's advances, "Nuke" ends up in a competitive rivalry with his mentor, as the two spar on the field, in the clubhouse, on the road, and in each other's minds, a particular battle in which "Nuke" has no chance, as he goes into that one unarmed. He's wild, not only at the mound, but in his personal life, putting him more in line for Annie's talents and attention. But he is no match for her in any other way. His cockiness on the mound, and unintellectual demeanor put him at the losing end of nearly every battle he faces, as his mental predisposition is one that opens him up to being taken advantage of. Honestly, he's so damn stupid he thinks aloud at times. But young kids capable of throwing 96 mile an hour fastballs not only at the start of a game, but at the end are in short supply. He's on the fast track, even if he's not ready, but he's too damn stupid and/or arrogant to realize he needs to listen. Robbins does a good job with the character, but I couldn't stop thinking about him in other roles, as he doesn't stand out and truly blend into the role, and a few horrible line readings drew me away from "Nuke" the character and back to Robbins the actor.
Sarandon, well, much like "Crash," she seems a bit too old for this shit. Just 42 when the film was made, she seems much older, and I'm not referring to mentally, so her mentality to pick up the "boys" is somewhat disturbing at first. She's a baseball fanatic and student of the game, but she's also a black widow of sorts, even if she improves the people she is with. The most important piece in this puzzle, she does a pretty decent job of tying the pieces together, though, much like Robbins, I had a hard time accepting her in the role. Costner I can accept as a baseball player, manager, anything like that. It's kind of who he is (he sure as hell ain't Robin Hood).
'Bull Durham' pokes fun at the rituals and superstitions of the game, as well as the politics and realities of the cold and harsh climate the players face. Sorry to wander into spoiler territory, but any catcher capable of hitting 20 dingers, regardless of age, would never be set loose by a baseball team, regardless of who they have at the same position. The position is responsible for handling pitchers, is the backbone of any defense, and requires the most thinking capabilities, so when a true hitter is also in the position, like Johnny Bench or Mike Piazza, the rare complete package doesn't ever get shit on in such a way. Perhaps that's just the baseball fanatic in me speaking. In the scope of the film, in my eyes, it doesn't even make a lick of sense, but perhaps others will see change as a catalyst in the film. 'Bull Durham' isn't a perfect baseball film or romantic drama, but it is a great blend of the two elements, creating a film enjoyable by anyone with patience. I know many people find baseball boring, so combined with a character study/romance, it could seem like torture. The payoff is there, though, for anyone willing to step to the plate.
The Disc: Vital Stats
'Bull Durham' is slated to arrive on Blu-ray on August 3, 2010, but on May 25, Best Buy stores released the film early, most probably as a timed store exclusive. Strangely enough, the other Fox combo releases (DVD + Blu-ray) slated for August were also found. They are re-releases of the existing Blu-ray Discs, with the addition of their previous DVD editions. This release is housed on a BD25, and is housed in a standard thickness two disc eco-case. Hooray, environment. Boo to the fact that I could literally bend this case in half when it was still shrinkwrapped.
'Bull Durham' is given a 1080p MPEG-2 encode at 1.85:1 that I wish I could say "is kinda radical in a tubular way," to quote "Nuke." Thing is, I can't really say that, despite the fact it's not bad by any means. The transfer is solid, but it's a little too shaky and inconsistent for its own good. The first thing anyone will notice will be the thick, hearty grain, which is fairly busy, and keeps its vibrancy throughout the entire film, and the second would be the amount of dirt in the early part of the film, which clears up over time nicely. Colors are natural, though blacks aren't too deep, though nothing really stands out. Skin tones are accurate and natural, and are only off in some harsher lighting environments. Extreme closeups sport great detail, though on more than a handful of occasions the picture finds itself blurry and flat. There is a small amount of color bleed here and there, but thankfully, no aliasing, banding, or even artifacting issues. Detail isn't all that strong, honestly, but this transfer is no lollygagger.
The audio for 'Bull Durham' is given a default DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix, with a backup Stereo track and a few dubs, with a small load of subtitle options that differ in language from the dubs. While the video is slightly troubled but overall enjoyable, the audio is a bit more unremarkable. Forgettable. Dynamic range is solid, from the very opening bit of soundtrack, and volume jumps from time to time appropriately, instead of being stuck in place. Dialogue has no problem prioritizing itself, and the only times a few words were difficult to discern were caused by the combination of rushed speaking and bad accents. There is no bass presence to speak of, but I can't imagine any place it would be appropriate. Rears get a little bit of activity, from soundtrack bleed anytime music plays, to the occasional crowd ambiance. Unfortunately, the crowds don't always find their way to the rears, so it can seem a tad awkward at times. There were a few moments that dialogue came off as hollow, in the same areas/rooms where dialogue had no problems before, but that's somewhat of a minor gripe.
MGM, ya did it again. There is not a single extra on this release. None. Instead, they are all found on the second disc, a repackaging of the 2008 Collector's Edition re-release of the film on DVD. Sure, there's plenty there to discuss, with two audio commentaries, interviews, a making of feature, a feature on the minor leagues, and a few throwaway featurettes. But since they're not on the Blu-ray itself, they hold no weight in the score of the Blu-ray itself.
'Bull Durham' is a good, if not great, film. It's got good baseball action, as well as an immersive romantic storyline to keep both sexes interested. That said, there are a few less than stellar performances. MGM's Blu-ray release has average audio and video, and a complete void in the place of extras. Die hard fans will want to pick this up right away at Best Buy, but it's sure to be cheaper down the road when the official release day hits.
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When I was a director of a large childcare center one of my 3 year old classes had a cutting bucket. It was a huge bucket with piles of scrap paper in it and three pairs of scissors tied to it. Kids loved it. It allowed them to cut and for the teacher to supervise them while not having to worry that anyone was running away with scissors. Cutting isn’t just about being able to make clean lines for gift wrapping ( although that is a nice bonus) cutting is about hand and wrist strength, fine motor skills, and hand eye coordination. All of these are important for writing. Children are expected to write even earlier than we were and while there is no rush for preschoolers to form every letter perfectly working on these fine motor skills is really worthwhile. I used that teacher’s idea and made it perfectly sized for one child. It took 3 minutes and she sat cutting for more than 4 times that!
Start by punching a hole in the bowl. This took some serious muscle but I have freakishly small hands ( pumping my own gas is painful my hands are so little), I am sure it won’t be so hard for y’all with normal sized hands.
Tie the other end to scissors. Do not make the rope too long. I am kinda a worry wart and never make any rope too long when young kids are handling it. Of course like all our activities this is not meant to be used without adult supervision. That said making it as safe as possible from the get go is always a great plan.
What I like about this is that it’s portable. She can use it at the kitchen table if I am cooking, in the family room if I am cleaning, even outside if you want to cut with nature like we did last year! It also helps to contain the cuttings and you can make sure that they are cutting things they should by saying ” If it’s in the bowl you may cut it.” If you aren’t ready for the sharper scissors yet try plastic ones and pop playdough in the bowl.
Need more simple but worthwhile ideas like this ? Check out our BRAND new eBook – Playful Preschool ! It’s only $6.99 until 5-25-2014 so get it before the price jumps. Click on the image below to buy.
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MOUNT MICHAEL BENEDICTINE SCHOOL
1. NO SCHOOL DUE TO LABOR DAY! Enjoy your three day weekend.
2. BOOKSTORE NEWS: Kick off the school year in style!
Visit http://mmbookstore.itemorder.com to order Mount Michael apparel. This special order website will be available through September 4. All items will be available for pick up at the bookstore at the end of September.
3. HOMECOMING WEEK: Mount Michael’s Homecoming Week begins Tuesday, September 6th-10th. There will be homecoming activities daily throughout the week concluding with the Homecoming Dance on Saturday, September 10th from 8:00-11:00 p.m. in the gym. The activities are as follows:
Tuesday, September 6th Student Dress: On the Farm
(Dress as your favorite farmer or farm animal)
Wednesday, September 7th Student Dress: Camouflage
7:00-8:00 p.m. – “SpiritFire” Bonfire
(Located southeast of the building site for the DJ Sokol Learning
for Life Building)
Thursday, September 8th Student Dress: Summer Olympics
(Dress as your favorite Olympian or in your favorite summer
Olympics sports attire)
All School Voting for “First Knight”
Cross Country at Wahoo
Tennis vs Elkhorn
Freshmen Football at Bennington
Friday, September 9th Student Dress: Spirit Day
(Dress in Mount Michael shirt or colors)
Pep Rally – 2:39 p.m.
Football – MM vs Nebraska City – 7:30 p.m.
First Knight Winner Announced at Halftime
Saturday, September 10th Homecoming Dance in the gym – 8:00-11:00 p.m.
4. FRESHMEN RETREAT: On Wednesday, September 7th, the freshmen will be on retreat at Boys Town. The bus will leave Mount Michael at 8:00 a.m. The boys can wear casual clothes and sneakers. No flip flops or sandals can be worn. Parents, we do need volunteers that day to help serve food or donate items. If you can help out, please click on the sign up genius below.
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0549acaf2a1-freshmen1 If you have any questions please contact Christy Crnkovich at email@example.com
5. CURRICULUM MEETING: A curriculum meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, September 7th at 10:01 a.m. All department chairs meet in the library.
6. SCHOOL MASS: On Wednesday, September 7th we will have our first school Mass at 10:01 a.m. All students report to the chapel for Mass.
7. WASHINGTON DC TRIP: Mrs. Toft will be leading a group of sophomore and junior students to Washington D.C. this summer through the Close Up Program. A parent informational meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 7th at 7:30 p.m. in the armory. An enrollment/information sheet is also attached.
Trip Dates: May 28-June 2, 2017
Trip Cost: $1787
What’s Included: Airfare, transportation in D.C., hotels, all meals, admission to all events, security
What’s Not Included: Snacks and souvenirs
What We’ll Do: Visit monuments, museums, and cultural events in D.C., meet members of Congress and explore Capitol Hill, participate in government debates and forums, and much more!
8. HOMECOMING T-SHIRTS & GLASSES: Items will be available for pick-up during Wednesday night visits on September 7th from 6:00 - 6:30 p.m. in the student dining room. Payment MUST be received PRIOR to delivery. Checks can be dropped off in Mrs. Raabe's office on Tuesday or brought to the t-shirt pick-up on Wednesday. Any items not picked up on Wednesday will be available in Mrs. Raabe's office on Thursday, September 8th. There are a LIMITED number of extra t-shirts and glasses available and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. DON'T MISS OUT!!
9. HOMECOMING DANCE: Mount Michael’s Homecoming Dance will be Saturday, September 10th from 8-11:00 p.m. in the Mount Michael gym and armory. This semi-formal event will cost $10 per individual or $15 per couple.
Parent volunteers are still needed to make the dance a success. If you can help out, please use the sign-up genius link. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0549acaf2a1-mount1?1471618202448
10. SAVE THE DATE: Mount Michael’s annual Grandparent’s Mass is set for Wednesday, Oct. 5th with Mass at 8:15 a.m. in the Mount Michael gym with refreshments to follow. All grandparents are invited to attend.
11. BOOK AND LAB FEES: All Mount Michael students have book and lab fees. If you have not made payment to the bookstore for book and lab fees, please do so at your earliest convenience. The link on the parent page of the Mount Michael website has an itemized list of fees at the end of the Textbook 2016-2017 document. Fees can also be paid online through the link on the parent page. If you have further questions, please contact Lisa Frank at firstname.lastname@example.org. A special thanks to the classes of 2019 and 2020! Nearly everyone in these 2 classes is paid in full!
12. CONCESSIONS SIGN UP: There are a few open slots yet to fill for concessions in October. If you are available, please use the link below to help support your MOUNT MICHAEL KNIGHTS! This is a great way to meet other parents, give back to the school, and meet your service requirement for the fall season! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090a4ca4a82da57-mount1?1471573793598
13. FALL FESTIVAL: Thanks to all who have signed up for the volunteer shift at Fall Festival! We are still in need of many volunteers to make the Festival happen! Visit http://bit.ly/2bUibBP to sign up for your slot ASAP!
14. YOU ARE INVITED: The Mount Michael Benedictine Community and Class of 2017 are sponsoring a presentation by Omar F. A. Gutiérrez, M.A., Manager, Office of Missions & Justice
Archdiocese of Omaha on the USCCB document "Faithful Citizenship." The presentation will be at 7:30 p.m. on September 21st in the armory.
15. HY-VEE RECEIPTS: We will be collecting Hy-Vee receipts again this year. The program runs September 1 through December 31, so save your receipts and send them to Christy Crnkovich for Cash 4 Students. If you have questions contact Christy at email@example.com.
16. CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Mon., September 5
LABOR DAY – NO SCHOOL
Tues., September 6
Prayer and Announcements in the Chapel – 7:45 a.m.
Wed., September 7
Freshmen Retreat at Boys Town – 8:00 a.m.
Curriculum Meeting at 10:01 a.m. in the library
School Mass in the chapel – 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday Night Visits – 6:15 p.m.
Bonfire – 7:00 p.m.
Parent Information Meeting for Close Up Washington DC trip – 7:30 p.m. in the armory
Thurs., September 8
JV Tennis at Elkhorn – 4:00 p.m.
Varsity Tennis vs Elkhorn at Mount Michael – 4:00 p.m.
JV/V Cross Country at Wahoo – 4:15 p.m.
Freshman Football at Bennington – 6:30 p.m.
Friday, September 9
Pep Rally in the gym – 2:39 p.m.
Varsity Football vs Nebraska City at Mount Michael – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 10
Varsity Tennis at Fremont – 8:30 a.m.
Homecoming Dance in the gym/armory – 8:00-11:00 p.m.
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Leprecon is Ireland’s oldest tabletop gaming convention, held annually in Trinity College Dublin. This year marks its 40th year and if you know your Roman numerals, that means it’s going to be XL. So, what’s in store for you at Leprecon? Why, an exciting weekend of board games, card games, war games, and tabletop and live action roleplaying games.
If that wasn’t enough, they also have some very special guests gracing the con with their presence. They include Matthew Dawkins, a game writing veteran who will be speaking on “how to run the perfect game”, Conor Kostick, designer of one of the first LARPs in the world, Treasure Trap, And last but certainly not least, writer for Onyx Path Publishing, Klara Horskjær Herbøl.
Boardgames more your style? There will be an XL boardgame library to be patronised by con-goers. For would-be global saviours, there is the Pandemic Legacy event: All weekend, there will be a mega game running, with consequences carrying over from one game to the next. Can you stop the spread of disease or is humanity doomed to fall to plague?
Maybe you’re more story-minded. Then prepare to have your socks knocked off by a wide range of amazing RPGs and LARPs. From brave mice to superpowered teens, to exploring the depths of space, they have something for everyone.
If you are looking for card games or wargames, there will be Magic: the Gathering events, the Warhammer 40K tournament, and Guildball, and even some painting competitions with fabulous prizes!
Fancy yourself a trivia master? Then there’s the Leprecon: The XL Reunion Show and Pub Quiz Night. An evening of fiendish questions and epic choons, not to mention craic in Kennedy’s Station on Westmoreland Street from 7.30pm. Geek Ireland may even be fielding a team…
Leprecon 40 is this weekend, with the first games starting at 6 pm on Friday evening, and starting 10 am Saturday and Sunday morning. You can find more details at Leprecon.ie. All aboard The Midlife Crisis Express!
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Rain Sensing Windshield Wiper Controls
Whether you are driving in rain, snow or your windshield just got soaked by that semi truck that passed you, the Rain Tracker automatically senses the water on the windshield, and activates the wipers at just the right speed. When the weather is clear, the Rain Tracker keeps the wipers off, ready for the next raindrop or snowflake. Your wiper blades last longer, and gone is that annoying "dry wipe smear." Get the convenience and safety of automatic windshield wipers for your car truck or van!
Think of the Rain Tracker as cruise control for your wipers. The Rain Tracker senses water hitting your windshield and runs the wipers at just the right speed. You never have to reach for the knob to adjust for changing conditions. Once you get used to this feature, you will never want to be without it.
The new 2009 RT-50A offers even better rain sensing performance than our previous model RT-50. Further, our new rain sensor is compatible with thick windshields, such as those found on some RV's and heavy trucks, and includes available headlamp control relay output and CAM feedback input.
- Exceptional rain sensing performance. Detects all kinds of precipitation- rain, mist, snow, or sleet.
- Get the same convenient feature found on millions of modern cars.
- One model fits most cars, trucks, and vans. Compatible with over 5000 different vehicles.
- Perfect for original equipment, chassis-builder, RV, or other volume applications.
- Manual wiper control is not affected.
- Full range for operation from off through intermittent, slow, and fast speeds.
- Installs easily -- control module ties into the existing wiper system with just a few wires.
- Tiny rain sensor (1.75"x1.75", 45mmx45mm) on inside surface of windshield.
Remarkable. Better performance at a lower cost.
The Rain Tracker control module works in parallel with the existing wiper system. Manual modes are not affected, which means you don't give up any features. For most installations, the Rain Tracker ties into a few wires coming off the wiper switch. We provide detailed wiring diagrams for over 5000 different vehicles.
A dash-mounted switch activates the Rain Tracker. Simply leave the switch off when it is not raining, or when cleaning the windshield or going through a car wash.
How Rain Tracker Works
All optical rain sensors used in cars and trucks use the same underlying principle. They bounce beams of light through the windshield, and look for disturbances in the beams caused by raindrops. Typically, a rain sensor will have an emitter that emits pulses of light, coupled into the windshield with a lens.
The beams travel through the windshield at about 45°. The beams are infrared thus invisible to humans. The beams are totally internally reflected by the outside surface of the windshield, so they bounce back into the sensor. A detector picks up the beams and measures them.
If rain drops are present on the outside surface of the windshield, some of the beams escape. This reduces the intensity of the beams. The detector senses this, and circuitry measures the reduction in intensity and figures out that it must be raining. The rest of the control system then runs the wipers.
It's Not Really That Simple
That's the idea in theory. To make a real rain sensor that works really well is complicated. The first problem is ambient light from the sun. The sun is hitting the windshield at about a thousand watts of intensity per square meter. The emitters are putting out a few thousandths of a watt. How does the detector know the difference between the light from the emitter and the light from the sun?
To start with, the Rain Tracker picks out only the color of light that is used by the emitters. That is, it uses optical filtering. That's a start (the easy part, actually), but the energy from the sun is broadband, and will have plenty of energy at whatever detector color you choose, including infrared. And to make matters worse, some very smart people at the windshield companies are working diligently to make their products pass as little infrared energy as possible. So, Rain Tracker uses clever circuit techniques that are able to tell the difference between the pulses from the emitter and sharp shadows cast by telephone poles.
Clever optics and clever circuits are still not enough. Sensing sub-millimeter drops in the harsh automotive environment is a truly formidable engineering problem. The Rain Tracker also uses Digital Signal Processing to be able to sense amazingly tiny drops (a fifth of a millimeter in diameter!) even in the presence of strong ambient light. Truly amazing is that the Rain Tracker can sense these drops even when deployed on high performance solar-absorbing glass -- when roughly 1% of the infrared energy makes its way through the round-trip of the windshield.
But it is not enough to just accurately sense rain. Where the system to simply "run the wipers when hit", the control would be subjectively erratic. If the control were to average out the hits over a long period of time, it would appear subjectively sluggish. The Rain Tracker control module uses a patented technique that is designed to mimic human perception, and actuate the wipers just as a driver would. The result is both smooth and responsive.
The Rain Tracker packs an amazing amount of technology into a tiny package. The sensor snaps into a coupler that bonds permanently to the windshield. Field service is greatly simplified: if the windshield should break, the sensor can be put on a new windshield with a new coupler. The simple, one-piece, single material design discourages the formation of air-bubbles.
The Rain Tracker sensor communicates with the vehicle wiper system using a simple three-wire interface, consisting of ground, digital signal, and power.
Rain Tracker RT-50A
Hands-free wipers for almost any vehicle
- Even better rain sensing performance than our previous model RT-50
- Compatible with thick windshields, such as those found on some RV's and heavy trucks
- Light Sensing, Headlamp control output (please see below paragraph)
- Rain-sensing wiper control system controls wipers off through steady high speed in most applications.
- An inconspicuous switch activates or deactivates the system
- The Rain Tracker operates in parallel with the existing wiper system
- Works with the most new digitally controlled (CAN bus) wiper systems
- Proven reliable optical infrared sensing technology
- Unconditionally Guaranteed. Three year warranty.
Headlamp Control Relay Output
Rain Tracker RT-40A
The RT-50A includes a headlamp control relay output that can be used to control the vehicle headlamps. The lights come on when it is raining, or when it is dark. We developed a smart headlamp control algorithm that does and excellent job of turning on the lights just when you would-- a lot like the rain sensor that turns on the wipers just when you would. The lights come on rapidly in a tunnel, yet do not make annoying rapid on/off changes. The performance of our headlamp control system exceeded that of the original-equipment system we benchmarked.
Now the catch: wiring the vehicle for headlamp control is trickier than controlling the wipers. It often involves external relays. So, while we emphasize how straightforward the wiper control wiring is, we make no such claims for the headlamp control. We provide the feature more for the for the professional installer, the OE / Chassis builder applications (e.g. RV's), and the advanced DIY. We advise against its deployment for most non-professionals. We do not offer any technical support or design assistance for the headlamp control feature. The headlamp control works great, but you are on your own to use it.
CAM Feedback Input
Many newer vehicles send digital data from the wiper switch to control the windshield wipers, so you cannot tap into the wiper system coming from the switch. In most of these cases, you can tie into the wiper motor windings at the motor, and use the CAM feedback input of the RT-50A to insure that the wipers properly return home at the end of each cycle.
Same great rain sensing performance through steady slow speed
The RT-40A controls the wipers from off through steady slow -- it will not automatically run the wipers at high speed. There is no headlamp control output. It also does not work with the new digital wiper systems that may need a CAM feedback signal. Use the RT-50A for those applications.
What about car washes?
Turn the Rain Tracker OFF before cleaning the windshield, servicing the wipers, or entering a car wash.
What if a bug hits my windshield?
If you leave your Rain Tracker in rain sensing mode all of the time, once in awhile a bug will hit your windshield right at the sensor. This will trigger the wipers. It can be months between such times. Still, we recommend that drivers leave the Rain Tracker off on dry days, to prevent any unexpected wipes.
Will snow trigger the Rain Tracker?
The Rain Tracker sensor will detect wet snow that sticks to the windshield, and run the wipers appropriately. Cold, dry snow will blow off the windshield without sticking to it. This does not need to be cleared, and will not trigger the sensor.
Will the Rain Tracker automatically run my washer motor?
No. The washer is left under manual control.
What about road spray?
The Rain Tracker will sense road spray, just as it senses a light mist. The sensor does not, however, have any way of knowing how dirty the water is. If you are getting a lot of muddy road spray, you may want to turn the sensitivity down to keep the Rain Tracker from wiping too much and smearing the windshield. With the RT-50A, your intermittent wipers still work, too.
What if my windshield breaks?
The sensor snaps into a coupler that bonds permanently to your windshield. If your windshield should break, you can put the sensor on a new windshield with a new coupler.
Is the Rain Tracker hard to install?
No. An experienced Do-It-Yourselfer or your favorite qualified service technician will find installing the Rain Tracker a straightforward task. See pictures from a typical installation get an idea of what is involved.
This sounds like a great idea. Why aren't rain sensors commonplace?
Actually, they are. About 9% of all new vehicles sold worldwide in 2002 have rain sensing wipers. Shouldn't you be enjoying the safety of hands-free wipers?
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Require Cash Fast? The Legitimate How To Get Money Fast
You ought to get money fast. You’re currently broke, as well as your car simply conked away. Or maybe you’re cash-strapped until next week’s payday, but you’re short on rent, can’t result in the payment that is minimum on the charge card bill, or simply just forgot you want to chip set for a birthday celebration present.
Look At Your Personal Loan Rates
Answer a couple of concerns to see which signature loans you pre-qualify for. The procedure is fast and simple, also it will maybe maybe perhaps not affect your credit rating.
Take to the most obvious: browse around your home.
We must understand this from the real method first, and besides, perhaps you have hadn’t idea for this because you’re in complete panic mode. Check out the settee cushions, your jeans pouches, old coats when you look at the cabinet, as well as your automobile, where change that is spare have dropped involving the seats. For those who haven’t ransacked your property recently and cleaned your self down, there’s surely got to be some cash lying around.
Okay, and that means you’ve tried that. Next, you might go onto…
Just simply just Take down a cash loan.
Your charge card may provide the choice of a advance loan, that allows you to definitely sign up for money (from an ATM) against your card’s credit restriction.
The drawback listed here is that you’ll pay through the nose with this privilege: Between advance loan charges and higher-than-usual interest charges that start accruing the second you place both hands regarding the cash, it is simple to end up spending $1,000 to gain access to $800, for instance.
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|Images of Calrad Hardware & xLobby Systems
This area will be for xLobby users and Installers to show off there systems or installations as well as what they are doing with Calrad & xLobby hardware and xLobby software. Anyone interested in sending me images of there job with details on the installation, please E-Mail me directly so I can post them here. E-Mail: email@example.com
Company: Custom Castle
Installer: Samson Lov
Installation: Installed in a home in excess of 10,00 sq. ft., 4 xLobby clients, 1 xLobby server. Multi-Room audio distribution with xLobby and russound, WACI IP control system, (2) 8 x 8 Component Video Matrix Switchers for multi-zone video distribution for (4) xLobby clients and (4) Satellite Receivers. The xLobby client chassis are not the typical xLobby units but cases the installer wanted to use for this installation, the xLobby server is shown as we sell it, with hot swappable drives, removable from the front with each drive having its own digital readout for temperature, hours of use, fan status.
One of three racks in the complete system, 2 of the midatlantic racks are on wheels and can move as needed.
Shown with 1-3/4" pull out style drawer with 15" monitor, keyboard and mouse for service and maintenance.
Calrad single Cat5e HDTV active Transmitter Balun distribution system for sending content out to all the displays in the system.
Additional Custom Castle Installations
Misc Picures of xLobby Home theater Installations
Hidden Motorized Calrad 10.4" touch screen for complete home theater control.
xLobby Server Images
Samsung Wireless Q1 Tablet running xLobby used to command the xLobby control interface.
Company: Kandel Media Group
Installation: Installation of several pieces of Audio-Video equipment and a single client xLobby system displayed on a 50" plasma located in the living room with a full 5.1 surround sound system.
3 Additional Kandel Media Installations
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The Memorial Day weekend is upon us, marking the customary start of the summer season. And several East Bay regional parks are observing the occasion with open houses and other activities.
Let's start with Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont. Normally, Ardenwood charges an admission fee, but on Memorial Day, the farm will host a free open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Activities will include helping with the morning chores from 11 a.m. to noon, rides on the unique horse-drawn train, tours of the historic Patterson House, cookies at the Country Kitchen from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and old-time games on the house lawn from noon to 1 p.m.
From 2 to 3 p.m. you can stroll around with a naturalist and learn what life was like on the farm a century ago. The animals get their afternoon feed at 3 p.m. Ardenwood is at 34600 Ardenwood Blvd., just north of Highway 84. Parking is free. For more information, call 510-544-2797.
Up the shoreline in Alameda, Crab Cove Visitor Center will hold open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Memorial Day. There's a self-guided history walk available all day. Family bird watching is from 10 to 10:45 a.m., there's a pond walk from 2 to 2:45 p.m., a fish feeding program from 3 to 3:30 p.m. and bring your mud boots for a low-tide exploration of the cove from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. Or stop in to meet the center's turtle and snake, make a nature craft and more. It's fun for the family all day long.
Crab Cove is at 1252 McKay Ave. off Central Avenue in Alameda. If the McKay Avenue lot is full, you can park at the Crown Beach lot, with its entrance at the intersection of Otis and Shore Line Drives. For information, call 510-544-3187.
There's also an open house in Berkeley from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Memorial Day Monday at the Environmental Education Center in Tilden Nature Area. Highlights will include farm activities, crafts, nature exploration and homemade ice cream samples.
Naturalist James Wilson will lead two other programs at Tilden on Sunday. One is "The Truth About Bees" from 10:30 a.m. to noon. It's about the importance to the environment of our six-legged friends. The other is "Green House Giveaway" from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Learn about edible plants from seeds to sprouts. To get to the center, park at the end of Lone Oak Road off Tilden's Central Park Drive and follow the signs. It's about a quarter-mile walk. For information, call 510-544-2233.
At Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve in Antioch, there's an early morning walk to Rose Hill Cemetery from 8 to 10 a.m. Sunday led by naturalist Ashley Elliott. Rose Hill is the burial site for many of the miners and their families who lived and worked in the 19th century mining towns. It's about a half-mile, uphill walk to the cemetery. Meet Ashley at the uppermost parking lot on Somersville Road, five miles south of Highway 4.
Black Diamond Mines doesn't normally offer tours of the underground mining museum on Mondays, but on Memorial Day Monday tours are scheduled at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased for $5 per person, first-come-first-served at the underground Greathouse Visitor Center starting at 10 a.m. For safety reasons, mine tours are open only to ages 7 and older.
Black Diamond Mines has a parking fee of $5 per vehicle. For more information, call 888-327-2757, ext. 2750.
HOLIDAY TIPS: Just in general, Memorial Day tends to be one of the busiest days of the year in the regional parks, especially at parks that have swim facilities. Picnic tables and barbecue stands are available on a first-come-first-served basis, so it's advisable to arrive early in your favorite park.
If all the picnic areas are full, it's fine to spread a blanket and picnic on the lawns. Portable barbecues are permissible on lawns but not on adjacent dry grasslands. Fire is a major concern, especially because of the ongoing drought. Dispose of barbecue coals only in the concrete receptacles designed for that purpose, not in the regular trash barrels. If you're out hiking on the trails, be sure to carry an ample supply of water. Protect yourself against sunburn, and pick up a park map at the trailhead.
In the last column I offered some safety hints for swimming in the regional parks. Complete information on locations, hours of operation and fees is available at the park district website, www.ebparks.org. You can also download park maps from that site. In the event of an emergency, be sure to follow any and all instructions from police, firefighters, lifeguards and park rangers.
CHABOT REGIONAL: There's a family-friendly Saturday Stroll scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon May 24 at Anthony Chabot Regional Park. This one is a bit longer -- it's a moderate 4-miler to the edge of Lake Chabot in hopes of spotting the bald eagles that are nesting there.
Meet at the Clyde Woolridge Staging Area in Oakland. It's located at the intersection of Skyline Boulevard and Grass Valley Road in the Oakland hills. For information, call 510-544-3187.
HUMP DAY HIKING: The Wednesday Walkers will hit the trails at Brushy Peak Regional Preserve near Livermore in a moderate-to-strenuous 4.25-mile hike starting at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Brushy Peak is a frequent hangout for birds of prey including golden eagles. I've seen an eagle almost every time I've been there. They like to feed on the abundant population of ground squirrels in the grasslands.
Meet at the trailhead at the end of Laughlin Road. To get there, exit Interstate 580 at Vasco Road and head north toward Brentwood. But almost immediately, turn right onto Northfront Road. In a mile, turn left on Laughlin Road and drive to the end. For information, call 888-327-2757, ext. 3212.
member benefits: By the way, if you are a frequent visitor to the regional parks, becoming a park member is a really good deal. Memberships are available at the individual and family level.
Benefits include unlimited day use parking, one annual dog pass, free swimming during the swim season, free admission to Ardenwood Historic Farm on nonevent days and free mine tours at Black Diamond Mines. For information about fees and benefits, visit www.regionalparksfoundation.org.
Ned MacKay writes a regular column about East Bay Regional Park District sites and activities. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Hey Publishers, Your Push Notifications Suck. Here’s How To Improve Them
You may have gotten a push notification when this article was published. Were you in the mood to read it right now? Or were you standing in the supermarket, juggling three bars of chocolate, six eggs and a package of toast? Did you pick up your phone, rolled your eyes, thinking “I really have to switch off these notifications next time!”? I hope, your eggs are fine (if not, I’m sorry).
That’s how we receive push notifications these days. Hardly at times we need them, often with content, that we don’t find interesting. We asked in our Slack community of digital journalists what annoyes them most when it comes to notifications — and gathered ideas how we can improve them.
This article is part of the weekly challenge in our Slack Community “Digital Journalism Rocks”. We started a Slack team for all those who love digital journalism and love to share their knowledge. Interested in joining us? It’s free. And it rocks. digital-journalism.rocks. Follow the conversation on Twitter: #djrocks.
Why your push notifications are so annoying right now
- If you use a lot of different news apps, you can be flooded by (sometimes) irrelevant notifications. (Quote by Christoph Schlemmer)
- Many different apps, much nonsense — and usually minutes behind Twitter (Mario Geisenhanslüke)
- I don’t need to know who is dead. In 50% of the cases I don’t know those people and in the other 50% it really doesn’t matter to me in this moment. (Lina Timm)
- Mobile news notifications aren’t important to me. That says something about me as a power user of social media than the need for updates. (Andrew Nelson)
Here’s what we would love to have instead
Push your content to those who care
Let’s start with the basic, most annoying thing: Not every topic is important to everyone. We really need a solution to filter out the unimportant stuff. An even fancier idea: “I would like a content-based filter for avoiding redundance if I have subscribed to more than one push service (idea by Katharina Krueger).
Push with better access to the whole content
Why do we just get a small bit of text and have to click us through the phone if we want to know more?
Thomas Weyres designed the screen above: “I always liked the idea of push notifications I can consume the way it feels native when I am on the train: via my headphones.”
Why don’t you make it easier for users to get the news from their lock screens? Just swipe down and you get the whole article. As an audio piece or text — let users choose.
To go even further: “What if the lockscreen or the homescreen of your smartphone would look like Facebooks newsfeed (meaning ordered, weighted, personalized) with rich cards and way more interactive notifications? No need to dive down into apps — you could interact with a notification right on the first screen of your smartphone.” (Martin Hoffmann)
Rich cards, that provide a photo, a graph, text or video, right from my lock screen. That would be easy access!
Push when a bomb hits…
We don’t want to be bothered — but real breaking news we’d love to have fast. Before they are on Twitter. Or like this: Pre-sorted by relevance from your friends. “You get a push notification when 10 of your Twitter Followers retweet a story.” (Christoph Schlemmer)
… and it’s only a few blocks away
Old rule: news that happen next to you are more important than on the other side of the earth.
“Since we operate in the local news space at Cox Media Group, we’ve been experimenting more with geo-targeted segments to avoid overwhelming all news app users with alerts that might not be relevant. It’s also allowing us to personalize the language a bit more. WSB-TV in Atlanta has seen some great success with open rates above 40%. We target usually just within a county, unless it’s a city-specific story, but that’s rare. (For some context, Atlanta news is very county-based.) Users only get the alert if they have location services on and have previously opened the news app alert in that specific county.”
But is location the solution? Or do you have to go further? Think about the context a user is in right now, his personal preferences (Martin Hoffmann).
Push when we had chosen to get pushed
Well, we couldn’t really agree on that one…
- I want to create my own homescreen or decide which topics I am interested in… as well as I want the machine to learn from my behavior. (Mario Geisenhanslüke)
Or don’t personalize?
- I recently visited the SmartNews app guys, who are using algorithms, but to choose the most important news. They are very careful about personalization, it is only the powerusers who want this, regular folks want something functional and ready to use. (davidtvron)
Maybe the clue is — again — to add some context:
- I always wonder why I get ALL news in the morning. When I sit in the train in the morning I want to read what happens in politics, maybe weather or traffic. In lunchtime bigger background stories and in the evening culture, sports and events. So let’s called a scheduled notification but customized for my needs. (Jan Oczenasek)
Let us follow stories
We can help the machines learn. We know what we want — so just give us the opportunity to tell that to your super-clever software, so it remembers next time. Like these two ideas:
- A button on every news article, similar to a like-button, which enables or deactivates push notifications. So you’d give the user 100% control about the notifications he wants to receive. (Johannes Klingebiel)
- A mobile push alert that take you to the story, but also notifies a user of the writer’s relevant follow-up tweets. I often see reporters sharing tidbits about a story they wrote that didn’t make it into the article, or even elaborating on a point they made. (kmattio)
Actually, there was one app that had this kind of notification implemented. The former Editor-in-Chief of Circa shared his insights in our Community:
At Circa, we were extremely conservative with push notifications, we mostly left it to the user to choose stories to “follow” to receive notifications on and even then we only pushed when the story had a significant update…..for those who preferred a morning/evening digest, you could open the Wire section for a quick rundown of 50% editor chosen “need to know stories” and 50% inbox of updates to your followed stories. That 50/50 split was intended to break the “filter bubble”. Another innovation of ours was when we pushed a notification, we jumped you to the section of the story where that update fit, so you didn’t have to read redundant background information on a story you’ve already read. (Antony de Rosa)
Let me opt out of pushs — intelligently
There isn’t just On and Off. Give some power to the user and let him limit the amount of notifications. If he can choose, how many he want to receive, he’d rather choose some than none and your app is still in the game (and on his homescreen). (Johannes Klingebiel and Christoph Schlemmer)
Push on the right medium
When we talk about notifications — why does it always have to be a news app? Teens hardly use “oldschool news apps”, but Messenger like WhatsApp. And when it should be an App — make sure, that it works synchronized on every device we use. (Mario Geisenhanslüke and davidtvron).
And, for the nerds among us, another feature: “Implement Google news alerts in news apps. So an app could send me every article, which matches the keywords I’ve entered previously.” (Johannes Klingebiel)
So, dear publishers, can we maybe have some of these features? We love being informed, really. We don’t want to turn off push notifications. But you can do better. So could you start improving in this area? Please?
Best, your Digital Journalism Rocks Community
found by Christoph Schlemmer
Nieman Lab has a series of great articles on push notifications, one story on the “Breaking News”-App and one story about the New York Times using notifications:
On Push Notifications
found by Jan Koenig
Betaworks is at it again. They organized a whole event called Notification Summit in October. You can find summaries and videos of all sessions here.
more thoughts by Melody Kramer
Want to geek out about digital journalism? Join our Slack Community! It’s free. And it rocks. digital-journalism.rocks
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George R. R. Martin – A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Audiobooktext
I have actually frequently intended to review the A Tune of Ice and Fire books on this site but, really, there’s absolutely nothing I could perhaps claim about them which various other internet sites have not stated and also far better. Furthermore, there’s no factor in bringing more interest to the novels because they’re currently some of one of the most famous in fantasy. It’s pretty much the very same with the spin-offs as there’s not much factor in speaking about Game of Thrones given that everyone as well as their sibling is viewing that show.
I’ve made an exemption for Telltale’s Game of Thrones because that’s a side-story but this is the initial book I really feel comfy recommending which might have slid under fans’ radars. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Audiobook Free. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a collection of three novellas (The Bush Knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Secret Knight) written by George R.R. Martin for various anthologies.
The facility is a young hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall (a self-granted title given that his master never ever knighted him), handles a squire named Egg after the death of his mentor Ser Arlan. A bush knight is a knight without eminence or lineage but has the training along with devices to be a placed soldier in the Seven Kingdoms. At the absolute bottom of the social hierarchy’s warrior class however still part of it, Duncan has an unique perspective on occasions occurring in the century prior to A Video game of Thrones.
The three novellas happen in a really different Westeros from the one explained in the books because the Targaryens are still at, if not the elevation of the guideline after that some range from their twilight. The lands have been at tranquility for a decade and the nobility, otherwise following the example of chivalry in spirit, is at least trying to emulate chivalry in look. In an extremely genuine method, guide functions as an argument for a Targaryen Restoration because it shows everybody basically getting on and also the peasants able to live moderately protected lives.
George R.R. Martin, the father of grimdark, still deals with the Medieval romance with a bargain of ridicule yet it’s not nearly as negative in several aspects. Ser Duncan’s standard decency makes him a much better knight than those born into the duty yet the absence of Gregor Cleganes, Boltons, Bloody Mummers, and even Lannisters make the villains of a distinctly more considerate bent. They’re still extremely reasonable dream with just the periodic prophetic dream keeping it from being missing magic with each other yet the heart of the tales is a peasant-born warrior trying to browse the complicated social dynamics of Westeros’ knightly class.
The Bush Knight is, in an odd way, not that dissimilar from Health Ledger’s A Knight’s Tale. Duncan is a peasant knight from Fleabottom that has a vision of ending up being a famous warrior after Ser Arlan’s death. However, Ser Duncan lacks William Thatcher’s godlike ability with a lance as well as promptly locates himself in hot water with a Targaryen prince. In an extremely real way, this is a sporting activities tale and also the lethal stakes of the occasion make it even more amusing to review. Of the three, The Hedge Knight is my least preferred as I never ever really located that much interest in jousting as well as its central role in peacetime Middle ages life.
The Sworn Sword is a follow up to The Hedge Knight where Duncan has taken care of to discover himself as an actual correct vowed knight to a lord– type of. Having actually occupied solution to a lord of something which barely certifies as a tower, Duncan ends up caught up in a dispute between his lord and also the attractive widow across the river. The central conflict ends up being not one of excellent and also wicked however the heritage of a war which had, to price estimate George Lucas, heroes on both sides. I like just how it managed to take an extremely Middle ages idea of defending a women’ honor and play it right while also highlighting exactly how unreasonable it was.
The Secret Knight is, candidly, one of my favored stories in fantasy. I’ve re-read this novella five times and am most likely going to do so once more. It’s a story with a great deal of alongside Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rebellion and also is essentially a Middle ages spy book set against the backdrop of a competition. George R. R. Martin – A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Audio Book Download. I like the characters of Lord Butterwell, the Fiddler, and also Fireball’s bastard. They are eccentric, larger than life, as well as yet credible. I additionally loved lastly getting a chance to meet
These tales are, obviously, mosting likely to be enjoyed much more by fans of the books than by the show. Besides the possible partnership in between Duncan and Brienne, much of the details of the background will fly by television viewers.
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Love makes us do crazy things, and this infographic is an attempt at the impossible — to quantify just how fortunate I am to have Stacy Green in my life.
She calls us "soulmates" — the perfect match. And I didn't realize how rare that fit actually is — not until I ran the numbers, at least. Some of the infographic math is super-factual, some just good fun, but the truth underneath stands out just fine.
I hope you enjoy it (especially the end).
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I love buying new things for my home. I’m a sucker for anything pretty and vintage in style- i’ll always make room for them. I really like the quirky items on sale at Oliver Bonas, so I thought I would share my current wishlist with you.
Blue Jewelled Photo Frame | Helena Jewellery Dish | Wooden Suitcase Storage Boxes | Wooden Dressing Table Mirror | Heather Cotton Button Stool | Oxford Street Selfridges London Bus Sign
By Laura Pearson-Smith
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[typo] 2.5.3 RSS behind a proxy
rasputnik at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 11:01:43 EDT 2005
Hmm, good plan... can't get into webmin on davie to check,
but that sounds like a fix to me - thanks.
On 11/08/05, Scott Laird <scott at sigkill.org> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Dick Davies wrote:
> > I've just jumped to 2.5.3 on TextDrive (apache -> lighty proxy) and
> > found that
> > the RSS feed links are pointing to the 'proxied' url i.e.
> > links in RSS feeds on http://number9.hellooperator.net point to
> > http://number9.hellooperator.net:8059
> > This isn't a showstopper as Textdrive don't appear to filter odd
> > ports, though I guess it would bite anyone with a firewall, or who's
> > proxying to an internal lighttpd instance on a private LAN.
> > Fix I was given on IRC was to patch application.rb
> Out of curiosity, does ProxyPreserveHost (http://httpd.apache.org/
> docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypreservehost) on the Apache proxy
> fix this?
> Typo-list mailing list
> Typo-list at rubyforge.org
More information about the Typo-list
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David Hill Custom Homes has been a custom home builder for over 30 years and has served the Ellis County area for the last ten years. David Hill Custom Homes currently builds new homes in Waxahachie, Palmer, Ovilla, Red Oak and Midlothian areas. Northern Ellis County is only 20 minutes from Dallas
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Sir Richard's Control High Performance Silicone C-ring
Switch gears withthe Sir Richard's Control High-Performance Silicone C-ring!Crafted with the power to influence, the control offers measured restriction for harder, stronger, longer erections and intense orgasms. Creating the world’s most comfortable cock ring demanded the best material available. Extremely stretchy silicone with a non-pinching surface provides even pressure and greater results.
Versatile Design Can be worn on the shaft or testicles. Caution: Prolonged and frequent use of penis enhancing devices may cause ruptured blood vessels, hemorrhage, and hematoma formation. This device can also aggravate existing medical conditions such as Peyronie’s disease, priapism, and urethral stricture. Penis enhancing devices should always be used with discretion.
Stretchy silicone provides even pressure and non-pitching comfortable wear
Unique tire design offers fun feels
Versatile cock ring can be worn on the shaft or testicles
Made of soft silicone for hypoallergenic play
CARE & TIPS
Want to make it super wet? Please ONLY use water-based lubricant to prolong the life of the toy
Clean it up with mild soap and water
We care about your privacy here at Femi Toys.EVERY package is shipped discreetly in a plain box or padded envelope.
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Vinyl Gazebos - Building with Gazebo Kits
Protect your gazebo investment by selecting a vinyl gazebo for your backyard. Vinyl will keep its strength and beauty for years to come.
A vinyl gazebo can be your garden focal point, an outdoor retreat or provide a shelter for your spa. Why select a vinyl gazebo instead of wood gazebo?
Here are a few reasons to help you decide:
If you live in a cold weather climate, the gazebo will handle the bitter cold of winter. The vinyl with expand and contract with the temperature changes normally. When exposed to wet weather, it will not rot, mildew or attract insects.
In a hot climate, the intense sun will not cause the vinyl to become brittle, peel, fade or turn yellow. If the foundation posts are anchored correctly, the gazebo will withstand strong winds. Manufacturers boast a lifetime warrantee for their vinyl gazebo products.
Vinyl gazebos are available for purchase in a pre-fabricated gazebo kit. Available in a standard or custom package, the all-inclusive kit, included detailed assembly instructions, is delivered to your door. Normally, you are able to select desired options and customize features for your garden gazebo.
Common options for a vinyl gazebo are:
- Tan or stone instead of classic white
- Seating – benches or swings
- Mounted bar and stools
- Decorative spindles
- Stairs and rails
- Flooring options
- Roofing selections, including canvas
- Shapes – round, square, octagon, hexagon, etc.
- Plumbing and electrical accommodations for spa gazebo
The gazebo kit requires concrete footings to be poured for each post. Assembly instructions can be followed by the average homeowner, usually only requiring commonly owned tools. A licensed contractor is a recommended alternative to building it yourself.
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NATALIE Turner was in the form of her life as she headed a star-studded line-up for the 200m butterfly in Monaco.
The 19-year-old Stockport Metro swimmer, a bronze medallist from the British Championships in April, built on her success in the previous round of the prestigious Mare Nostrum series.
Moving out of the searing heat of Rome, the series went indoors to Monte Carlo's impressive Stade Louise II Complex.
And this suited Natalie as she easily qualified for the 100m butterfly on the opening day, won by Johanna Sjoberg (Sweden) ahead of Mandy Loots (South Africa) and Sophis Skou (Denmark) while Natalie had a battle just off this pace to clock 1.03.65 for 6th place.
This served to warm up Natalie for the following day when she put in her best-ever qualifying time in her specialist 200m butterfly event to top an international field - a copy of which she kept as a great souvenir.
From pole position in the evening final, Natalie was surrounded by the Dane Mete Jacobsen, Italy's Paola Cavallino and Japanese teenager Kozue Watanabe plus the ominous surprise qualifier Yana Klochkova (Ukraine) - the Olympic individual medley champion - and the diminutive South African Mandy Loots.
After the first 75 metres, this field settled down before Jacobsen, Klochkova, Loots and Cavallino matched each other across the pool stroke for stroke with Turner just a couple of strokes back heading the chasing bunch.
Going into the second half, the leading four pulled away, but Natalie's strong finish secured a fine fourth place in 2.14.72 as Yana Klochkova took gold.
Turner returned to Grand Central full of tales and experiences gained as the best English performer in this year's series and treasuring the photographs picturing herself along side of three great Olympic champions in Australian Ian Thorpe, Russian Alexander Popov and American Lenny Krayzelburg.
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