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Sedevacantism
The Last Things
Pornocracy and the Coming Reign of Antichrist
Timothy Flanders	December 23, 2021 0 Comments
In our first essay we discussed some of the horrors of the three pornocracies of the Church, and suggested the term "Third Pornocracy" to be an accurate historical description of our own epoch. It is helpful, I believe, because the term truly describes the reality of how bad the corruption is, but it also reminds us that the Church has been through two other times of at least similar corruption and ultimately prevailed.
Further, each of these two pornocracies in the past were unprecedented at the time and worse than the last. So we should not be surprised that the Church crisis is now unprecedented in certain ways but also the worst that it's ever been. Practically every Church crisis in history is the worst crisis it's ever been up to that point. That is why our fathers wondered during these crises if the end of the world was upon them, and maybe it truly was – if not for the saints.
It is also a dogma of the faith that there will be one final crisis – the reign of Antichrist himself (CCC, 675) and this will definitely be the worst crisis up to that point.
So if your faith is failing now, what will you do when Antichrist comes?
But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Lk. xviii. 8). But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved (Mt. xxiv. 13).
How can we persevere?
Our Lord consoles us about the end times: when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand (Lk. xxi. 28). Thus even under the reign of Antichrist, we will rejoice. Why? That wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth (II Thess. ii. 8). The reign of Antichrist is a sign of the coming triumph of the Lord who will destroy Antichrist.
This is the reality of every Church crisis, every pornocracy – it is a sign of a coming triumph of Christ. We will discuss this in further detail in our next installment. But here we can consider how this is shown gloriously in the prophecy of the Apocalypse.
The Church understands the book of the Apocalypse as having a threefold depth: 1.) it was written to the early Church to encourage our fathers against "666" (the gematria of "Caesar Nero" in two languages); 2.) a prophecy about the whole history of the Church and 3.) a prophecy about the end of time.[1] (Only the infallible Holy Scriptures can say three things at once – being present, as it were, in three different times in the chronology of history!)
The Apocalypse helps us consider the relationship between these three time periods in the history of the Church. Reading it in Advent – and especially during our time, the Third Pornocracy – helps us remember the end of time and strengthens our faith and hope in Christ against the greatest evil. If we don't have faith now, we will fail in our faith at the time of Antichrist, should we be chosen to live during that horror. This is why Our Lord says In your patience you shall possess your souls (Lk. xxi. 19). The virtue of patience means to suffer evils well (II-II q136). The saints of the Apocalypse – and of all time – suffer the evils of their days with great patience, in union with the Passion of Jesus Christ and His triumph against His enemies.
Pornocracies Include Doctrinal Corruption
Now we further suggested that all pornocracies include a corruption of doctrine and scandal to the faith coming from the papacy itself. It is historically absurd to suggest that the first two pornocracies were orthodox in their teaching, since the most common Magisterial teaching act of a pope – throughout history – is to give sermons and addresses orally. The vast majority of these are not written down – especially if a pope is hated for his wickedness!
It is foolish to assume that every other part of a given pope's life was wicked (like John XII) but when he happened to publicly address the faithful somehow he could speak – like Balaam's ass – the words of doctrinal orthodoxy.
Outside of miraculous talking donkies and the Church's own infallibility, God does not prevent error, ambiguity and scandal to the faith coming from the words and deeds of men.
Nevertheless our own Third Pornocracy does present a particularly unprecedented problem (again, as we might expect) due to the false spirit of Vatican One, where the papal office has become a universal teaching office that Catholics focus on daily. It de facto replaces the Scripture, Tradition, and the Catechisms for the faithful. But we also should not underestimate the influence of technology – from newspapers in the 19th century to the Twitter feed and airplane-shoot-from-the-hip speculative theology in the 21st century. Ultimately, the practice of the papacy as a universal teaching office is an innovation of the 19th century with both good and bad effects on the Church.
But we will treat all this in greater detail in its proper place.
The Sacramental Spotlessness
Here we need to emphasize the critical theological truth which we began to unpack in our last essay: Christ loves His Church and makes her pure, no matter what.
Pornocracy is a historical term which merely describes the state of corruption in the hierarchy at a given time. It is in the realm of history that the Holy Spirit calls Israel "adulterous." It is a historical term derived from individual sinners within the Church.
But on a deeper, spiritual and theological level, the Church as such is always the pure and spotless Bride of Christ. This is the "deep mystery" which is mystically shown in Matrimony, according to St. Paul. The Church exists truly as the Bride and Jesus Christ is the Groom. I will espouse thee to me forever (Os. ii. 19).
Forever. No matter what.
This is the reality that we must put our faith and hope in, for this is what animated our fathers to fight for the Church even in the darkest times. It is the love of Christ which vindicates His Bride at the end of time against Antichrist. Yet this love of Christ begins with every soul.
Each one of us must accept this love of Christ which is most perfectly expressed in the Blessed Sacrament of His Sacred Heart. Or again in the Sacrament of Penance, in which we are cleansed from our sins.
Our Lord "forgets," as it were, all the pornocracy in your soul.
Because He loves you. As He loves the Church, His Bride.
In an instant the evil is swallowed and disappears in the Precious Blood of Jesus, and the soul returns to the beauty and purity of the state of grace. It is impossible to overestimate the glory and the spotless character of sanctifying grace. Thus does the prophet express the mystery: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow (Ps. l. 9).
Every soul which is joined to the Church by the Sacraments of initiation is whiter than snow at least in potency. Christ has loved every member of the Church, no matter how evil one may be, and has held out to them His own Precious Blood to wash them immediately upon true repentance (which itself is a work of His grace).
This washing of the eternal punishment then gives every soul the divine help to take on the temporal punishment – that healing and transforming life of penance – which binds up the wounds of sin which still remain, so that grace can make a saint out of a sinner.
This possibility is literally present in every member of the Church by virtue of their Baptism and Confirmation. This is present in the Church no matter how evil the tares are that the devil has planted among the wheat.
Thus from the first reason we discussed last week, we see a spiritual reality in the Sacraments that makes the Church totally spotless at least in potency for every member, and for an unknown number of souls, a reality. Therefore the love of Christ for His Church causes Him to cleanse her and ultimately defend His bride at the end of time.
The Pornocracy, then, is a historical reality which can be present in any soul, or widespread in the Church at a given time. But this can never efface or destroy the mystical reality of the Spotless Church by baptism and, further in the world to come, glory.
The reality of the purity of the Church is mystical, Sacramental and eternal. The historical reality of a Pornocracy – whether in mortal sin or the reign of Antichrist – is passing and ephemeral in the eyes of God.
Let us not lose hope if we have the misfortune to fall into mortal sin, but run to confession. Let us not lose hope if the Pornocracy is widespread in the Church, but return in faith and hope to the mystical reality in the Scriptures. Let us love the Church as Christ does, even while we hate the sin which has corrupted some of her members.
Indeed once again when we read the Apocalypse, the saints and angels show us this mystical reality of Christ's love for His Church, fighting and triumphing over Antichrist.
The Accuser Will Be Cast Out
For the pornocracy and the reign of Antichrist are ultimately an accusation against every soul and against the Church herself. The concrete reality of evil individuals in the Church hierarchy becomes an accusation against the Church as a mystical, spotless reality.
It is a confusion about the fact that something can be true in a historical, shallow sense yet false in a spiritual, deeper sense.
It is a reaction to actual evil but is motivated by a loss of faith. It is an effort to cover over your wounds by taking refuge in irrational heresies and fantasies which lead to hell.
The Protestants dared to attack the mercy of Christ in the Sacraments. They dared to attack the honor due to Our Lady, and the honor due to the Bride of Christ. They failed to see how Christ could make a spotless Bride out of adulterous Israel. They lost faith in the Church and thus accused her and her purity.
This accusation by the Protestants against the purity of the Church was no doubt a result of wounds endured by spiritually abusive fathers, especially the papacy, which was occupied by the Second Pornocracy at that time. It was so bad that they called the pope himself the Antichrist.
We too, who suffer under the Third Pornocracy may be tempted to make an accusation against the purity of the Roman Church, the Spotless Bride, the Mystical Body of Christ. We may be tempted to lose our Catholic faith in the face of the mystery of iniquity (II Thess. ii. 7).
And we also know that the reign of Antichrist is coming at some time. In that day, no doubt, many will accuse the purity of the Church, for the power of Antichrist will create the most convincing proof that the Church has fallen and her mystical purity has finally been lost. How many schisms and heresies will tempt the faithful at that time?
Spiritually abusive fathers make an accusation against fatherhood itself. They tempt us to believe that we should do without fatherhood at all – whether that means invent a new mode of family without fatherhood, or a new Church without the papacy. We are tempted to take refuge from an abusive father in a fantasy Church which is headless. Sedevacantism and the Greek schisms both offer us a headless Body in response to the Third Pornocracy.
But this is ultimately the work of the Devil, for it is an accusation against the love of Christ Himself for His Bride. It is an act of distrust in His promises. The Devil wants to use bad fathers to cut deep wounds in your heart, then use those wounds to accuse fatherhood itself and ultimately destroy it, because he knows that when it is good, it leads to God – for God is our Father.
Therefore the Holy Ghost says that when a woman clothed with the sun (Apoc. xii. 1) appears:
That great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world; and he was cast unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night (Apoc. xii. 9-10).
Just as the Angel armies (Lk. ii. 13) announce the birth of Christ the King at Christmas, so too the armies of heaven announce His triumph against Antichrist at the end of time.[2] The reign of Antichrist makes it look like all is lost. Many lose faith and hope and fall away from the Church. Yet when there is the greatest darkness, then there is a vision of Our Lady, clothed with the sun, which also typifies the Church in all her purity, dispelling all the darkness.
Just as at Christmas it was the height of the Roman Empire's power, all seemed lost and there was no hope; but then Our Lady appeared who gave birth to the newborn King. So too at the reign of Antichrist, all will seem lost and the purity of the Church compromised. But then there will be a vision of Our Lady (and the Church), before the Second Advent and the triumph of Christ. This vision may only be in the hearts of the saints at that time who have persevered in faith and hope. But it is this vision of Our Lady and the Church, with the spotless purity of mystical virginity, that Our Lord sees when He sees the Church. For this vision is the effect of His love. Not just "covering over our sin" as the Protestant heresies said, but transforming our sin into holiness.
Only Christ can love His adulterous Israel enough to transform her into a spotless virgin and a mystical bride.
In this infinite love of Christ – beyond all human understanding – we find the answer that our wounded hearts need. Here in His love, we find the purity of the Church; we find the strength of fatherhood; we find the Sacraments to cleanse our souls.
Let us beseech Our Lady to obtain the grace of an increased faith and hope in the face of the Third Pornocracy and the coming reign of Antichrist at the end of time. As His Excellency Bishop Schneider says in his prayer for the Crusade of Eucharistic reparation:
The more violently the gates of hell storm against your Church and the rock of Peter in Rome, the more we believe in the indestructibility of your Church, O Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation, who do not abandon your church and the rock of Peter even in the heaviest storms!
In our next installment we will review in greater detail the power of God to bring good out of evil, even in the darkness of pornocracy. We will discuss in history how God did bring good out of the evil in the First and Second Pornocracies, then contemplate what might be coming for the Third.
For now, let us finish the journey to the newborn King, worship Him, and remember that in the greatest darkness, there will surely come the light of Christ, for He has promised it.
O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan's tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save,
And give them victory o'er the grave.
Photo: Þingvellir national park, Iceland by Kym Ellis on Unsplash
[1] For an introduction to the Catholic understanding of the Book of the Apocalypse, see Antonio Fuentes, A Guide to the Bible (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), 235ff; Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, eds. The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament (Ignatius: 2010), 489-492; Taylor R. Marshall, The Eternal City: Rome & the Origins of Catholic Christianity (St. John Press, 2012), 151-167; see also Dr. Marshall's audio series.
[2] Lk. ii. 13: πλῆθος στρατιᾶς οὐρανίου.
Timothy Flanders
Timothy Flanders is the editor of OnePeterFive. He is the author of City of God versus City of Man: The Battles of the Church from Antiquity to the Present and Introduction to the Holy Bible for Traditional Catholics. His writings have appeared at OnePeterFive and Crisis, as well as in Catholic Family News. In 2019 he founded The Meaning of Catholic, a lay apostolate dedicated to uniting Catholics against the enemies of Holy Church. He holds a degree in classical languages from Grand Valley State University and has done graduate work with the Catholic University of Ukraine. He lives in the Midwest with his wife and four children.
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Steve Songs with little readers at the 13th annual Hawaii Book and Music Festival on the grounds of Honolulu Hale, May 2018. Workshops, activities, and discussions around community issues, are a big part of the Festival.
The book sale was one popular feature of HBMF 2017.
"Literature is something that's meant to be experienced. Literature is an immersive experience, personalized, and can be shared," says David DeLuca, Chair of the Board of the Hawai'i Book and Music Festival.
DeLuca is also Director of Publishing and Development at Bess Press, and we're meeting at his new place, Da Shop, a store for books and curiosities in Kaimukī.
It's the joy of sharing a reading experience that propels dozens of book fairs around the globe, including the Hawai'i Book and Music Festival, or HBMF. Roger Jellinek is HBMF's Executive Director, and has been since its founding 13 years ago.
Jellinek: (2018) It was terrific, it was the best yet. We had a lot more people and every venue seemed to be almost full, all the time. And we were very lucky with the weather.
It was overcast Saturday, but beautiful on Sunday there on the grounds of Honolulu Hale, with events taking place under white tents, or in the Mission Memorial Auditorium. Jellinek says it's rough estimating attendance.
Jellinek: First, it's free admission, people can come from any direction. Some people stay for an hour, some people stay for 2 days, so how do you count? We say 20-30 thousand.
That's a lot! You see people with strollers bumping along all over the place, you can buy books, talk to authors from here and abroad, attend workshops. There are lots of music and dance performances, and the whimsically added plant sale has been fun. Chair of the HBMF board, David DeLuca, says they're shooting for more, with the amazing Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, called the Coachella of books, as their model.
DeLuca: There's a lot of institutional support for HBMF. One of the things we're looking at as a board is just how to attract a broader array of people, from young children all the way up to our kūpuna who can engage with what the Festival has to offer.
DeLuca says things take time, but they may try expanding the arts component.
Da Shop Bookstore and Curiosities on Harding also has an event space in the warehouse.
DeLuca: I think another element of it is looking at it not necessarily having the dependency that people are going to physically come down to the festival location. If there's a way for us to take that content and move it around so that it's happening in different places around the island, over a longer period of time, then you're going to have people engaging in what they're interested in because it oftentimes can be hosted or presented in a place that is going to promote that or is beneficial for having that.
DeLuca: Yes, on Moloka'i, or on Kaua'i. There's a lot of interest from folks on the other islands, even County governments that want to bring that offering to people there. I don't think there's any reason not to. There's not a reason why elements of that festival can't exist in a year-round capacity.
David DeLuca, Director of Publishing and Development at Bess Press, in their warehouse on Harding Avenue in Kaimuki. Da Shop is on the same property in front of the warehouse.
DeLuca: What's cool, not just on O'ahu but all around Hawai'i, is that we have people who have left, they've gone to school, they've worked elsewhere. They've travelled, they've gained a lot of these immersive experiences, and they're coming back here and they're trying to take those "outside-Hawai'i" experiences and provide the opportunity in a local context for people to engage in something that's a little bit different.
DeLuca: What's great about it is, there's that passion and that empathy of making it local, putting that local spin on it, which is great! It's what we need here.
DeLuca: We are creating a new unique identity for Hawai'i today and what a modern Hawai'i looks like that still has a very strong and growing root in its past.
DeLuca says there is tremendous readership for content about "place" here. As people get older, he says, they become more curious about what shaped them. Genealogies, the etymology of things, interest people, and today, the quality of book design makes books more desirable.
Da Shop warehouse is also an event space where a Micronesian film series, handmade book panels, and other events have already found a home.
HBMF, and this bookstore/event space we're in, are about reading, then sharing.
DeLuca: Now, I think more so than ever, with the current politics of the time, it's even more necessary to showcase why the arts, why engagement in public spaces is necessary. Gathering in spots like bookstores is important. It's because of those fibers that connect us as humans, we're able to come together and have these discussions.
DeLuca: We believe in the concept that children who learn to read become adults who think. And adults who think are people who become engaged. And not engaged with themselves and other people, but within the community locally, nationally and internationally.
A wall at Da Shop, just to whet your appetite.
DeLuca's saying that reading provides experiences that encourage civic life. Hmm. He's got films and classes going on here at Da Shop, he's getting a barista too.
DeLuca: I think there's a lot of potential as to what could be offered, it's a matter of seeking out engagement, right?
Oh right, it still comes down to us, getting off the couch after reading that book.


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FLORES DE ABREGO, JOSÉ SALVADOR RAMON [SALVADOR FLORES] (ca. 1806–1855). Salvador Flores, military figure of the Texas Revolution and Republic of Texas, son of José Antonio Flores de Abrego and María Antonia Rodríguez, was born José Salvador Ramon Flores de Abrego in San Fernando de Béxar (modern San Antonio) circa 1806. The Flores de Abrego family, which arrived in the region during the 1700s, grew to be a very important ranching family, and Flores was a direct descendant of early rancher José Flores, who provided cattle and horses to Gen. Bernardo de Gálvez for the American Revolutionary cause. Salvador Flores had three other brothers—Manuel, Nepomuceno, and José María—all of whom fought on the Texan side during the war for independence from Mexico. His sister, María Gertrudis, married Juan N. Seguín, one of the most influential Tejanos of the Texas Revolution.
During the earliest stages of the Texas Revolution, Salvador Flores served under his brother-in-law, Juan Seguín. While the Mexican army advanced towards Gonzales, Flores hosted a meeting at his ranch for Seguín to raise a force of volunteers from among local Tejano ranchers. Flores himself helped raise another company of approximately forty volunteers. He was involved in the battle of Concepción and served as second lieutenant of Seguín's company at the siege of Béxar in late 1835. On November 14, 1835, Stephen F. Austin dispatched Flores and his riders to deny the Mexican cavalry supplies for their horses by burning off any forage throughout the countryside between the Nueces and Medina rivers. Flores also had additional orders to monitor the river crossings along the Rio Grande and report any Mexican advances towards Béxar. Early in 1836 Sam Houston ordered Flores, along with twenty-five men from Sequín's company, to the ranches along the lower San Antonio River to protect the inhabitants from depredations perpetrated by American Indian groups. During April 1836 Flores again took command of part of Seguín's company and protected the fleeing families during the Runaway Scrape. By December 31, 1836, he had been promoted to captain of Company C of Seguín's regiment, and the following year Flores was captain of the First Regiment of Cavalry in the Regular Army of Texas. He also served in the 1839 campaign against the Comanches.
Salvador Flores was a firm believer in the federalist cause and a proponent of independence from Mexico. He was honored in a letter, dated November 24, 1835, to Seguín from Stephen F. Austin, who commended Flores's patriotism. Seguín himself later praised Flores as a "great lover of the cause of Texas" in a letter to Sam Houston on June 25, 1838.
On May 24, 1841, Flores married María Clara Elena Maximiliana Flores in San Antonio. Following her death, he married Concepción Rojo (or Roxo) Seguín on September 30, 1848. Flores had five children with his first wife and two with his second. He lived in the San Antonio area until his death on January 17, 1855. According to a descendant, he died at his home which was twenty-one miles from San Antonio. Following his death, Juan Seguín became executor of his estate and guardian of his family. In 1867 Flores's niece, Josefa Agustina Flores de Abrego, donated 200 acres of land for the creation of Wilson County's new county seat, which was named Floresville. A Texas Historical Marker was dedicated in honor of the Flores de Abrego family in 1986 in Floresville.
Jesús F. de la Teja, ed., A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín (Austin: State House Press, 1991). Steve Gibson, "Descendants of Juan Jose Flores de Abrego y Valdés," Bexar Genealogy (bexargenealogy.com/archives/familyfiles/floresabrego.rtf), accessed April 11, 2015. Historical Marker Files, Texas Historical Commission, Austin (Flores de Abrego Family and Floresville). Gerald E. Poyo, ed., Tejano Journey, 1770–1850 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996). The Sons of the Republic of Texas (Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Co., 2001).
Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas Woods, "FLORES DE ABREGO, JOSÉ SALVADOR RAMON [SALVADOR FLORES] ," accessed April 20, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffl48.
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The Lotus Effect Fashion Fabric
LOT 'O' DRY™ is the product of hard work from a performance-obsessed development team operating in the Research and Development Department of Tessitura Taiana Virgilio.
"LOT" 'O' DRY™" is a proprietary technology from Taiana with quite exceptional hydrophobic characteristics. It came to light a few years ago but has been in a state of continuous development and improvement since its inception since we can be regarded as having been experts in superhydrophobia for more than 20 years now.
LOT 'O' DRY™ is not just a hydrophobic application product, but a genuinely integrated system that takes account of all the factors that affect final performance, starting from raw materials, the textile structure of the material and the finishing and testing processes.
It is only be integrating all of these elements, in what amounts to a holistic technological vision, are we able to deliver great performance that is repeated over time.
LOT 'O' DRY™ is a technology that provides consumers with products of the highest perceived value"
Matteo Taiana
Head of Research and Development
LOT 'O' DRY™ is the brand for the technology able to produce the Lotus Effect
Nature can be seen as the project par excellence, the fruit of evolutionary processes that have been ongoing for over 3 billion years, producing the continuous optimisation of organisms to generate incredibly effective materials, structures and mechanisms, whose performance often exceeds that of corresponding human inventions.
LOT 'O' DRY™ is the result of research and development efforts rooted in a biomimetic approach to design. This approach draws inspiration from natural organisms that have evolved over millions of years, as we seek to produce the most advanced products and processes possible.
LOT 'O' DRY™ imitates the peculiarities of the lotus, whose leaf never gets wet and seems to be entirely "self-cleaning".
LOT 'O' DRY™ is an integrated system that draws on all the elements that contribute to water repellence, starting from the raw materials, addressing the question of textile structure and through to the finishing and testing processes.
Only by bringing together and integrating each of these elements, with a technologically holistic vision, are we able to ensure excellence of performance in terms of Water Pick Up, Water Glide and Life Span.
Unlike the water-repellent products commonly encountered on the market, which tend to develop one or two of these features, LOT 'O' DRY™ succeeds in maximising all three aspects.
Super Hydrophobic Surface (Contact angle over 150°)
High breathability (99% transpiration capacity of the starting tissue remains unchanged)
Limited Water Pick-Up (less than 20% weight gain after an hour's immersion in water)
Water Glide (very low friction of the water on the surface of the fabric, with very low surface tension)
Long Life Performance (Life Span optimised to endure for up to 50 washing and drying cycles)
Notable ability to handle body humidity levels
Respect for health and the environment (compliant with REACH EC Regulation 1907/2006)
These features mean that Taiana LOT 'O' DRY™ technology products are truly superhydrophobic, when measured with contact angles greater than 150°.
The performance is the result of very low fabric surface tension, observable by the speed at which water droplets slide over the surface of the fabric.
Fabrics made using LOT 'O' DRY™ technology thus have very limited water absorption even under extreme conditions, while at the same time they are able to breathe with a facility that is wholly comparable with the capacity of untreated fabrics.
The performance is also permanent, due to the highly sophisticated application methods used that mean every single strand of the fabric is rendered hydrophobic.
All fabrics in the TAIANA range can be treated with LOT 'O' DRY™ technology. The treatment is not applied simply during the finishing process but is involved at each and every stage in production to ensure the most effective final result possible.
The fact is that because of the thorough study of raw materials, fabric structure and production process, LOT 'O' DRY™ technology can also be applied to rigid polyamide and polyester fabrics.
This is not all, the special manner of application also ensures that stretch fabrics using Polyurethane-Elastane and Polyester-Elastane perform well even if subject to tension and stretching when in use, even under the most extreme conditions.


This rare and gorgeous fluted Gold Nugget Crystal comes from the jungles of Venezuela. Fluted gold nuggets are rare and hard to find for sale. I have the largest selection that I have seen anywhere. To see gold crystals with such incredible fluting detail is unusual. It is 1/4" (7 mm) long and the weight is 6.3 Grains (0.41 Gram). It comes in a round plastic gem jar for display.


Measuring the success of your public relations (PR) activities will help you identify tools and tactics that work and avoid activities that do not produce results.
the set of key messages you chose to profile your business.
Stay focused on your target audiences. This not only helps you direct your PR efforts, it also helps you measure changes in their awareness, attitudes and behaviours as a result of your PR activities.
You may find it helpful to use a table or simple database to list your PR objectives and the outcomes achieved.
how their awareness, attitudes and behaviour has changed as the result of key messages or PR activity.
Businesses are increasingly using social media to measure their online PR. Taking your PR online makes it easier than ever to track communication about your business. Following online media, blog posts, tweets and e-newsletters - for example - allows you to track what consumers and journalists are saying about your business.
Many businesses communicating with state or national audiences use media monitoring services. This may be unnecessary if you are mainly engaged in local public relations activities and can simply record electronic coverage or obtain copies of newspapers or industry newsletters.
To measure website traffic generated by their public relations activities, many businesses use internet statistics or analysis tools. Your website hosting company may offer a simple tool. Alternatively you can track via a search engine alert service. Businesses often use third-party solutions. Learn more about measuring online performance.
Keep in mind that you are not just looking for outputs (the quantity of media you produce) but for outcomes (the quality of relevant messages you produce that meet your PR objectives).
Did we reach our target audiences?
Which of our key messages are reaching our audiences?
How often are they reaching our audiences?
Which tools and activities are we reaching them through?
How many times are those tools and activities successful?
Which material was taken up by our media channels?
Did they reproduce our photo, footage or sound bytes?
What tangible responses to the PR did we receive from our customers?
Your answers to the above questions will help you identify which of your PR activities produced the results you wanted. Keep records about what worked.
Be careful to evaluate whether the tools, activities and material you used met your goals for building your business's reputation. If your activities generated positive media but did not reach your customer base, you still have work to do.
Review your market research. The information you have gathered about your customer segments will help you look for ways to better target your audiences. Objectives you've identified in your marketing plan may also suit PR tools and approaches. Consider whether it is a PR objective about promoting awareness, attitudes or behaviour change.
Good PR is an ongoing creative process. Be persistent, stay positive and continue looking for opportunities to position your business and encourage consumers to trust, like and use your business.
Learn more about researching customers.
Use our market research kit to hone your market research.
Find the competitive advantage that sets your business apart from competition.


Thom Micro Systems (TMS) understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used and shared online. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.tms-scotland.co.uk ("our site") and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a manner that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.
means Thom Micro Systems (TMS) , a limited company registered in Scotland under company number SC075023, whose registered address and main trading address is 7 Central Park Avenue, Central Park, Larbert FK5 4RX.
2.1 Our site is owned and operated by Thom Micro Systems Ltd, a limited company registered in Scotland under company number SC075023, whose registered address and whose main trading address is 7 Central Park Avenue, Central Park, Larbert FK5 4RX.
2.3 Our Data Protection Officer is Rebecca Thom and can be contacted by email at privacy@tms-scotland.com or by telephone on 01324 550760, or by post at 7 Central Park Avenue, Central Park, Larbert, FK5 4RX.
6.5.1 Personal data obtained for the purposes of buying one of our products or services will be retained for no longer than one year after you cease to become a customer of TMS.
6.5.2 Personal data will be retained for marketing purposes for as long as we have your consent to hold such data. You can remove permission for this at any time.
7.2 Your data will only be stored by TMS in the UK.
8.1 We may sometimes contract with third parties to supply products and services to you on our behalf. These may include payment processing, delivery of goods or services, search engine facilities, advertising, and marketing. In some cases, the third parties may require access to some or all of your data. Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under the law.
8.2 We may sometimes use third party data processors that are located outside of the European Economic Area ("the EEA") The EEA consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. Where we transfer any personal data outside the EEA, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR.
You have the right to ask for a copy of any of your personal data held by us (where such data is held). Under the GDPR, no fee is payable and we will provide any and all information in response to your request free of charge. Please contact us for more details at rebecca.thom@tms-scotland.com, or using the contact details below in section 14.


708-355-1772 / 7083551772 - Who call from Oak Park, IL, United States?
This location [Chicago Heights, IL,United States] just probably in map.This 7163322965 phone number also may be located anywhere in the United States or Canada.
Post by jackie Toronto 2 years ago !
Whoever is using this phone is an absolute nut case.Avoid him at all costs. He is a dangerous person.
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Had Got a call or message from 708-355-1772?
Report us as much as you can without sharing any personal information. How many calls or texts did you get from 7083551772 and what did they say? Please don't use any insulting vocabulary. Otherwise we will remove your report.
Received a text message saying my Google account had been hacked.
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Have you ever wondered what your aura looks like?
An Aura photo is a colourful snapshot of your energy field of thoughts and emotions. As your Aura is expressed in colours, a photo can tell you what is happening in your life, revealing your strengths and lessons.
An Aura photo is a great memento and regular photos can show your wisdom and experience gained over time.
With every photo, you will receive a detailed explanation of what it shows you.
How can I book an Aura photo?
At this time (Nov 2018), the film for the Progen system that I use has become so scarce that it is unaffordable. Therefore, I will now only be offering Aura photos at the following events: Psychic Fair in Muswellbrook (Dec 2), Aura Photo day in Cobar (Dec 7) and the Swansea Wellbeing & Psychic Fair (Jan 20-21). See the calendar page for more details.
However, if you are looking for an intuitive energy reading with Jo, I am available to conduct Crystal and Tarot readings. Please contact me on 0414 775 612 to arrange or alternatively, book an email reading here.
I look forward to seeing what your colours say about you!


We have shared a large amount of initial, rough ideation sketches last weeks. For our coachbuilding activities of course the initial ideas are very important. Making a bespoke car is all about questioning the question the patron asks. What are the wishes behind the wish? Can the designers do something to make a suitable car design? Which vision does the client truly has in mind?
These rough sketches and drawings are made with a simple black BIC pen on a white sheet of A4 paper. They are also often referred to as doodles. These doodles are the experiment, the search which is very broad and open. In one of these many 100's of sketches, the key sketch will appear: it is the sketch that will define the project. The starting point for another loop of selection and improving. In fact the design process goes from funnel to funnel. After a strong and fierce selection procedure – the funnel – another funnel appears. And again, and again.
For the eventual clay modelling the coachbuilder needs a whole lot more visual information. The coachbuilding be based on the custom metal frame work we showed last week. However the first sketches do not shown most information. First the key sketch has to be chosen. Its design will then be more and more refined in the sketches that follow. The second step is to fit the design precisely over the actual packaging of the base car. The packaging is wheelbase, track, and other main external and internal dimensions. It represents the technical input for the overall vehicle. It houses everything from the powertrain, chassis and mechanical components. Also the placement of seats and other interior components are part of the packaging.
To present the car in a more refined way, and to develop all volumes, shapes and surfacing the renderings are made to a higher resolution. This is done with more precision in Photoshop. The shapes are now easier to read. In this specific case the renderings will be printed full size. As such they can be used for the measurements taken by the coachbuilder. These are applied to the synthetic automotive clay. Concepts conceived on the boards with ideation sketches are brought to life in the renderings. They truly show the bespoke, unique lines. But even at this phase the experiment has not yet ended. Based on the more finalised design, a new funnel, another chapter of refinement and experiment opens. This is a tailor-made, personalised car. Our Breadvan Hommage should truly reflect the owners wishes. Only through a journey of inspiration and selection can make sure this is achieved.


There is a propensity among radio engineers to save old equipment. Sometimes I look at something and think, "Man, that cost a lot of money ten or twenty years ago." Truth be told, much of what is saved will never be used again. This equipment should be scraped or donated to someone who might find it useful. One thing that is most appreciated by Amateur Radio (AKA Ham) operators are old 1 KW tube type AM transmitters. Ham operators love these things, and with good reason.
A fair amount of repair work, some cleaning and a bit of reworking will turn what might have been a useless dust collector into a 160 or 80 meter AM rig and with a good story to boot.
Personally, I'd rather see a Gates BC1T or RCA BTA1R off to a new home than off to the scrap yard. To that end, today we unloaded the BC1T at WLNA to a willing ham. This particular transmitter had last run in 2001 or so and was used as a spare parts supply for other BC1T transmitters owned by the same company. There was no way it would ever work again and truth be told, it really wasn't needed any longer anyway. Since the Harris MW5B was replaced as the main transmitter by a BE AM6A, the backup transmitter was never used.
John Aegerter, a frequent commenter on this blog, drove all the way from Madison, Wisconsin to pick it up. Prior to pick up, I removed all of the tubes, transformers, crystals and glass envelope time delay relays. I packed up the glass objects in a box.
There were several spare tubes and parts which are no longer needed. These went with the rig, along with what ever manuals I could find.
The transmitter was then loaded into the back of a Dodge Ram 2500 pickup truck and tarped for it's trip back to Wisconsin.


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Thank t' heavens, Pirate Bay be back online!
After a two month hiatus, The Pirate Bay is back online. Does it still have a future?
If you've been going through torrent withdrawals since your favorite file-sharing website went offline two months ago, the good news is that it's back. The site came back online early Saturday morning, rising from the ashes to the sun like a phoenix. Literally, they have a phoenix right on their homepage to commemorate the return of their highly-visited site.
Everything about the site works just like it did the day it went offline. It's on the same domain as it was before, and torrents seem to be uploading just fine. The only thing that's acting a little buggy is their RSS feeder, reports The Next Web. Other than that, everything works as if they never went offline.
It's no surprise that a revitalization was due, as the site was previously displaying a countdown clock to February 1. However, it seems like they were trigger happy and launched it a day sooner.
At this point, it's unclear how the site was resurrected or who the people were behind the revival efforts. Either way, the site is back up and fully functional. Download responsibly.
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Home » Should Your Family-Owned Business Include a Forum Selection Clause in its Agreements?
Should Your Family-Owned Business Include a Forum Selection Clause in its Agreements?
By Michael P. Connolly on August 20, 2019
Posted in Family Business Law, Family Owned Business
A forum selection clause is often included in an agreement in order to specify where any later dispute regarding the agreement must be litigated. In a recent decision, a federal magistrate judge in Ohio denied a defendant's motion to transfer the venue of a lawsuit from Ohio to California based, in part, on the existence of a forum selection clause identifying Ohio as the venue for any dispute. See Down-Lite International, Inc. v. Chad Altbaier, No. 1:19cv627, United States District Court, S.D. Ohio, Western Division (August 6, 2019).
According to the court's decision, Down-Lite is a family owned corporation founded by Bob Altbaier and others, with its principal place of business located in Ohio. Defendant Chad Altbaier, one of Bob's three children, was an employee at Down-Lite who worked principally from his home in California. Chad allegedly was the founder and head of Down-Lite's outdoor division. Down-Lite claimed that Chad signed an "Employee Agreement" that contained non-compete and non-solicitation provisions and a "Shareholder Agreement" that also contained restrictive covenants. The Shareholder Agreement also contained a forum selection clause providing that claims be exclusively brought in a court located in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Down-Lite alleged that Chad formed his own company in California, resigned from Down-Lite and began competing with Down-Lite. As a result, Down-Lite sued Chad in Ohio, claiming that he misappropriated trade secrets and violated his agreements by competing with Down-Lite. In response, Chad filed his own lawsuit against Down-Lite in California, seeking damages and injunctive relief.
Chad also filed a motion in the Ohio court requesting a transfer of the Ohio lawsuit to California. He argued, among other things, that the Shareholder Agreement was unenforceable because it violated a California law prohibiting employers from requiring an employee "as a condition of employment, to agree to a provision that would require the employee to adjudicate outside of California a claim arising in California." On the record before it, the court rejected this argument, determining that the Shareholder Agreement was not required as a condition of Chad's employment, particularly where several of Down-Lite's non-employee shareholders, including Chad's sisters, had also signed the agreement. The court then noted that "a valid forum-selection clause almost always controls the outcome of a motion to transfer venue."
The court also rejected Chad's additional arguments in favor of a transfer of venue, including that it would be too expensive and disruptive to his business to force him to travel to Ohio. The court noted that while travel from the West Coast to Ohio "is not ideal" for Chad, that inconvenience and expense did not "tip the scale" in favor of a venue transfer, particularly where Down-Lite's principal place of business, its over 300 employees, its CEO and most of its officers and shareholders are all in Ohio. The court then entered an order denying Chad's motion to transfer the Ohio case to California, thus requiring the parties to continue to litigate the claims Down-Lite asserted against Chad in Ohio.
As the decision in the Down-Lite case illustrates, courts will typically enforce a valid forum selection clause, absent a compelling showing of prejudice to the party opposing a lawsuit in the agreed-to forum.
When negotiating and drafting stockholder and other agreements, family-owned businesses and their owners should consider including mandatory forum selection clauses.
These clauses are particularly useful when business operations and owners are spread across multiple states or even countries. Such clauses often set the venue for any litigation as the state, or even the county, where the business, its management or the majority of its owners are principally located. And while substantive disputes under an agreement may still arise, a forum selection clause at least may provide a measure of certainty from the outset as to the location of any future legal action. Without such a clause, a party to an agreement may be forced to litigate in a distant, inconvenient or otherwise unwanted location, which may ultimately increase the expense, disruption and risk in connection with any future lawsuit.
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Warts on your hands are caused by one of the many different wart viruses. They start by being little fleshy lumps anywhere on your hands, which gradually grow larger. If you bite your nails they particularly occur around the bottom of your nails. Most them will go away if you do nothing - in about three months - or you can 'paint' them with special wart paint that you can get over the counter at the chemists. If they still don't go away - getting them frozen with liquid nitrogen at the doctor's surgery can help get rid of them.


Specify all fees and compensations for leasing or residential property sales.
You are resigning and binding the manager to act on your behalf and in your benefit concerning the management of the property.
You should go and require a current license to explore your state dept. Of Residential property to see if it prevails and also there have not been any suspensions or complaints or cancellations of real estate property management contract license.
You should also consult your local Better Business Bureau and request for recommendations. 3. Ask to see the general liability insurance policy and if the principals have omissions and errors insurance.
The duration of the: Often this is a couple of years. Because they need to get the tenants into the rent roll and their system, property Managers don't like a month to month property management service contract. They also need a little time to learn the property. One year should be a minimum.
The Takeaway: Be sure that the contract can be voided, without needing to provide reason and scot-free with a written 30-day notice to end the arrangement. Make sure that your printed discontinuation date complement the hire date or you may have a rebate for early termination. If the hire date was on the first, terminate on the.
Upkeep and Evaluations: In a general feeling they should carry out all the responsibilities required to manage the property and maintain. You may specify that specific tasks or procedures remain the owners to perform. Many owners prefer to do their maintenance.
The Takeaway: Property management companies often have their handyman, and you should be very clear about how this works. There is seemed a minimum one hour charge if a light bulb is out and the handyman has to travel back and forth and change the bulbs. It could cost you $45.00 to replace a light bulb.
Major Repairs: you should expect that significant repairs be completed with three independent bids and receipts to support the billing.
Takeaway: To protect yourself, you should establish limits on how much might be spent without needing to get your approval. We think you should have the right to bid it out yourself if the bids all seem high. If you do, you would then supervise the outcome, and if it was specific code, the management firm might not intend to represent you. For those they are doing, this might be a cost secure option for big jobs.
Inspections: The manager should sympathize all city inspections and with no charge. This belongs to the management of the property.
Take away: you should invite writing that the company will also provide annual inspections and a written report.
24 Hour Emergency Service: This belongs to essential management. There must be a 24 by seven response team, and there should be no extra charge for this. It's component of the primary control of a property. Fill the landlord and property management contract form.


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Why holiday gift-giving between adults is the worst
By Jake Flanagin with NBC News • Updated: 21/12/2017
So many packages, so little time. - Copyright Keith Bedford Boston Globe via Getty Images
Every year, starting in mid- to late-November, I begin to suffer a very particular strain of anxiety. It coincides with the raising of tinsel-y displays in storefront windows. And by the time every YouTube video is prompted by a bow-wearing Lexus plowing through snowdrifts, I find myself besieged by an unrelenting state of low-grade panic. The gift-giving season, in other words, makes me want to drive a Lexus through a snowdrift — and over the side of a cliff.
I despise holiday gift-giving between adults for a number of reasons. I hate that it makes us feel justified in what would surely qualify as obscene shows of consumption at any other time of year. I hate how it appropriates some quite beautiful and poetic faith traditions in the service of retail profits.
But most of all, I hate how the economic powers that be, the robber-barons of e-commerce, have managed to convince us, en masse, that December is the time to demonstrate our affection for one and other by way of sundries we are perfectly capable of buying for ourselves. Fitness watches, "New York Times" bestsellers, cotton-cashmere blends — all are more than likely destined to join a growing detritus of holidays past, archived in the back of closets.
I am, of course, a complete hypocrite on this front as an extremely active participant in our yearly capitalistic frenzy. A berserker of gift-giving, you might say. On any given Saturday in the month of December, you can find me furtively scuttling around the nearest shopping mall, like the self-contradictory rat that I am. I snap up books and sweaters and ironically designed coffee mugs with the crazy-eyed, manic energy of a Doomsday prepper in the canned-foods aisle at Costco. And when the holidays finally arrive, I sling these oddments on bemused friends and family with all the panache of Emeril Lagasse seasoning a batch of gumbo. BAM! Behold my largesse, loved one.
Though I detest the cultural pressures buttressing our American tradition of gift-giving, boy, do I love how it makes me feel.
And here we have the central contradiction of my holiday rantings: Though I detest the cultural pressures buttressing our American tradition of gift-giving, boy, do I love how it makes me feel.
I know I am not alone in this. In pre-Reformation Europe, holiday gift-giving was a decidedly lower-key affair. For the most part, we can attribute this to the majority of people being dirt poor, if not borderline starving in winter months. Yet, in some places, even the poorest of the poor were expected to present a trinket or two to the reigning feudal lord. These were tokens of appreciation — I suppose for the privilege of, I don't know, avoiding Huns while farming rocks on a rich man's land. (The story of King Wenceslas is essentially about the reversal of this tradition.)
Point being, from day one, and long before the advent Amazon Prime's two-day shipping guarantee, holiday gift-giving has been a demonstration of one's worth to a significant person in one's life. That lambswool cardigan says less about how much someone means to us, than how much we should mean to them.
Because if we were truly concerned with what the recipients of our gifts wanted, we would acknowledge the awkwardness of the whole process. How many of us struggle, year after year, to outline items missing from our lives for well-meaning friends, parents, siblings, and in-laws? Because anything remotely affordable-enough to qualify as a potential gift is something you could have surely bought for yourself (in June).
As a result, these queries almost always devolve into supply lists for daily existence — black socks, fresh bedsheets, cookware, a new vacuum — all things you would ordinarily pick up on a weekend errand if they weren't such easily-forgettable non-essentials. And in sending out these lists of quotidian trifles, you're asking your loved ones to value their place in your life at the level of yoga mats. Shoe trees. Magnetic chip clips.
I distinctly remember the profound sense of sadness I felt a few Decembers ago when I first realized the truth about gifts post-childhood. I was waiting in a Best Buy checkout line with a pair of Fitbits selected for my parents who, though known to play an inordinate amount of weekly racquet sports, have zero practical need to track the number of stairs they've climbed in their two-story suburban Colonial.
It was my second year of full-time, salaried work after college. I had a disposable income. I wanted to show my folks how much their unyielding love and support in those financially-dependent college years meant to me. But as I considered the two bubbles of plastic packaging in my hands, I knew I wasn't making this purchase for them. I was trying assuage that familiar sense of middle-class guilt— the worry that we don't deserve the love and stability we are so fortunate to have. It is a debt to be repaid, I hoped, in overpriced gadgetry.
Perhaps we are too deeply ensnared in the holiday ecologies — commercial and psychological — to find our way out.
I bought the Fitbits anyway. My parents received them graciously. I doubt they were ever removed from their packaging.
What a tangled web of oppressive obligation and reciprocity we weave. Perhaps we are too deeply ensnared in the holiday ecologies — commercial and psychological — to find our way out. And that's a shame, because there really is so much to do that doesn't involve online wish lists, like the chance to return to farflung hometowns, recommit to our dearest relationships and enjoy the brief respite from work, eat food, avoid exercise.
I know I am unlikely to stop giving gifts any time in the near future. But I suppose if reprieve from the daily bustle of life is indeed the greatest gift of all, perhaps something that lightens the to-do list on a Saturday in the New Year isn't such a bad idea. Though not a Lexus, one really can never have enough chip clips.
Jake Flanagin is a writer and law student at Georgetown University.


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Q: Forcing an empty div to take up full page height I am trying to put a blue bar on the left side of my page.  It should take up the full height from top to bottom of the page.  It will not necessarily have content, however.
On the advice of another member I've edited this to contain all my HTML and CSS.
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The 1881 world tour of King Kalākaua of the Kingdom of Hawaii was his attempt to save the Hawaiian culture and population from extinction through the importation of a labor force from Asia-Pacific nations. His efforts brought the small island nation to the attention of world leaders, but sparked rumors that the kingdom was for sale. In Hawaii there were critics who believed the labor negotiations were just his excuse to see the world. The 281-day trip gave him the distinction of being the first monarch to circumnavigate the globe, just as his 1874 travels had made him the first reigning monarch to visit America and the first honoree of a state dinner at the White House.

Kalākaua met with heads of state in Asia, the Mideast and Europe, to encourage an influx of sugar plantation labor in family groups, as well as unmarried women as potential brides for Hawaii's existing contract laborers. While in Asia, he tried to forestall American ambitions by offering a plan to Emperor Meiji for putting Hawaii under the protection of the Empire of Japan with an arranged marriage between his niece Kaiulani and a Japanese prince. On his visit to Portugal, he negotiated a treaty of friendship and commerce with Hawaii that would provide a legal framework for the emigration of Portuguese laborers to Hawaii. The King had an audience in Rome with Pope Leo XIII and met with many of the crowned heads of Europe. Britain's Queen Victoria and the splendor of her royal life impressed him more than any other monarchy; having been greatly affected by the ornate trappings of European sovereigns, he would soon have Hawaii's monarchy mirror that grandeur.

The King traveled with no security guards; only a small group of personal friends made the journey with him. Except for land transportation in cities, and two loaned ships in China and the US, his modes of transportation were seldom reserved exclusively for him. He shared regularly scheduled steamships and rail transport with fare-paying passengers. On the Red Sea, he played cards and danced with other passengers. Like other tourists, he visited the white elephants of Siam, the Giza pyramid complex in Egypt, tourist sites in India, and museums in Europe. Along the way, he exceeded his original budget, went shopping anyway, and sent letters back home.

President James A. Garfield died four days before they arrived back in the United States, and Kalākaua paid a courtesy call to newly inaugurated President Chester A. Arthur at the White House in Washington, D.C. There were no public or private appearances for the King in New York, only a day at Coney Island. Before leaving the eastern US, the King met with Thomas Edison to have a demonstration of electric lights, and visited Virginia's Fort Monroe. He toured Hampton Normal and Agricultural School, and shopped for horses in Kentucky. The royal party boarded a train to California, where they were house guests of Claus Spreckels at his estate in Aptos (near Santa Cruz), and had a few days of seeing the sights in the area before sailing back to Hawaii. Kalākaua was successful in jump-starting new immigration, with the first transplants arriving in Hawaii less than a year later. In the years that followed, he began emulating the lifestyles of European royalty with expensive furnishings in Iolani Palace, a public coronation of himself, and a two-week public celebration of his birthday.

And the full CSS:
* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

html, body{
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
}
html{
  height: 100%;
}
body{

  height: 100%;
  min-height: 100%;
}

.wrapper {

    width: 75%;
    height: 100%;
    margin: auto;
    border: 1px solid black;
}

.headerImage {
    width: 80%;
    height: 15em;
    background-image: url("skyline.jpg");
    margin: auto;
    background-size: 100% 400px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;

    box-sizing: border-box;

}

.globalNav {
    margin: auto;
    background-color: blue;
    width: 80%;
    text-align: center;
    top: 0;

}

.globalNavItem {
    display: inline-block;
    color: white;
    font-size: 1.0em;
    padding: 0.5em 6%;
    margin: 0;
}

.sideBar {
    width: 10%;
    min-height: 100%;
    background-color: blue;
    float: left;

    margin: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

p {
    font-size: 72px;
    text-align: justify;

}

.sideBarText {
    width: 100%;
    font-size: 12pt;
    color: white;
    display: inline-block;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 3px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    text-align: center;
}

Here is a JSFiddle of the whole thing: https://jsfiddle.net/d7vdkp4c/
As you can see, what I have right now does indeed cause the div to take up 100% of the height - of what's visible.  The wrapper div collapses to be equal to what I believe is known as the "viewport height" (I am new to web development; trying to teach myself).  This means that if I scroll down, the bar does not continue.
I've been researching this a ton on Google, and many of the answers I've read have been here on StackOverflow, but none of them seem to account for this problem - making that 100% height stretch all the way to the bottom of the entire webpage, not just the visible screen.
Any help with this is greatly appreciated.  While I will be very grateful for any answer, I would, since I am new to this, really appreciate it if any solutions could be kept simple - or if that is not possible, that they could be either explained in detail, or some external resource included which will explain in detail.  I want to learn!
Thank you!

A: Since .wrapper wraps all of your content, add position: relative; padding-left: 10%, then position the .sidebar with position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; width: 10%; so it will stretch from the top to bottom of .wrapper

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html {
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body {
  height: 100%;
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.wrapper {
  width: 75%;
  margin: auto;
  border: 1px solid black;
  position: relative;
  padding-left: 10%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

.logoLink {
  font-family: 'Russo One', sans-serif;
  color: white;
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  width: 80%;
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  margin: auto;
  background-size: 100% 400px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
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.globalNav {
  margin: auto;
  background-color: blue;
  width: 80%;
  text-align: center;
  top: 0;
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The 1881 world tour of King Kalākaua of the Kingdom of Hawaii was his attempt to save the Hawaiian culture and population from extinction through the importation of a labor force from Asia-Pacific nations. His efforts brought the small island nation
      to the attention of world leaders, but sparked rumors that the kingdom was for sale. In Hawaii there were critics who believed the labor negotiations were just his excuse to see the world. The 281-day trip gave him the distinction of being the first
      monarch to circumnavigate the globe, just as his 1874 travels had made him the first reigning monarch to visit America and the first honoree of a state dinner at the White House. Kalākaua met with heads of state in Asia, the Mideast and Europe,
      to encourage an influx of sugar plantation labor in family groups, as well as unmarried women as potential brides for Hawaii's existing contract laborers. While in Asia, he tried to forestall American ambitions by offering a plan to Emperor Meiji
      for putting Hawaii under the protection of the Empire of Japan with an arranged marriage between his niece Kaiulani and a Japanese prince. On his visit to Portugal, he negotiated a treaty of friendship and commerce with Hawaii that would provide
      a legal framework for the emigration of Portuguese laborers to Hawaii. The King had an audience in Rome with Pope Leo XIII and met with many of the crowned heads of Europe. Britain's Queen Victoria and the splendor of her royal life impressed him
      more than any other monarchy; having been greatly affected by the ornate trappings of European sovereigns, he would soon have Hawaii's monarchy mirror that grandeur. The King traveled with no security guards; only a small group of personal friends
      made the journey with him. Except for land transportation in cities, and two loaned ships in China and the US, his modes of transportation were seldom reserved exclusively for him. He shared regularly scheduled steamships and rail transport with
      fare-paying passengers. On the Red Sea, he played cards and danced with other passengers. Like other tourists, he visited the white elephants of Siam, the Giza pyramid complex in Egypt, tourist sites in India, and museums in Europe. Along the way,
      he exceeded his original budget, went shopping anyway, and sent letters back home. President James A. Garfield died four days before they arrived back in the United States, and Kalākaua paid a courtesy call to newly inaugurated President Chester
      A. Arthur at the White House in Washington, D.C. There were no public or private appearances for the King in New York, only a day at Coney Island. Before leaving the eastern US, the King met with Thomas Edison to have a demonstration of electric
      lights, and visited Virginia's Fort Monroe. He toured Hampton Normal and Agricultural School, and shopped for horses in Kentucky. The royal party boarded a train to California, where they were house guests of Claus Spreckels at his estate in Aptos
      (near Santa Cruz), and had a few days of seeing the sights in the area before sailing back to Hawaii. Kalākaua was successful in jump-starting new immigration, with the first transplants arriving in Hawaii less than a year later. In the years that
      followed, he began emulating the lifestyles of European royalty with expensive furnishings in Iolani Palace, a public coronation of himself, and a two-week public celebration of his birthday.


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This is a lighted sign that is 14 inches high, 11 inches wide, and 4 inches deep. the box is metal with a plastic material on the front which is black when the light is off. When the light is on, the picture appears to be sticking out of the box in a 3 dimensional manner.This is why the picture looks wavy. It was made by the Paddington corporation as a promotonial item for the sale of Rumple Minze liquor in the late 1980's.
Paddington Corp began in 1937 in the US. and later almagamted with Pelican Brands which is now known as Paddington Brands LLC. Based in Camel IN and is a major importer of wine and spirits to US markets. They import from Chase UK distillary.
Rumple Mintze alo known as "Lingus" is a German style liqure brand. It is a pepperment schnaps. It has a high alchol content from 50% per volume or 100 proof. This has become one of there best selling products and they have recently release a few new flavors in the US.
Circa 1980 - 1990 - origin from American company with possible UK . German connection at time or release.
Although I have not seen any lights like this in my research. I have seen posters with a valuation (including shipping) of $20 - $40 US.
I would estimate this piece is worth from $100 - $150 US based on its size, uniqueness and limited production. I would encourage you to hold on to this piece to allow it to increase in value. Because of its source / nature it will become highly collectable in all likelyhood.
I share with you my example. I have a guy I deal with regularly and he has a habit of returning stuff that is junk to me, with stuff he had to sell of mine. A few yrs ago he threw in an old rusted out O'keef beer tray he figured was garbage. I took it to a different market and this rusted tray sold for almost $200 ... cha ching : ). Another example is old beer ashtrays that are glass. I have seen them go for $20 - $30 a piece in todays market as they are now in demand.


In 1977, a dispute between New Hampshire and Maine over lobster fishing rights resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court entering a consent judgment setting the precise location of the States' "lateral marine boundary," or the boundary in the marine waters off the coast. Utilizing a 1740 decree of King George II, the States agreed that the decree's words "Middle of the River" referred to the middle of the Piscataqua River's main navigable channel. Ultimately, the 1997 consent judgment defined "Middle of the River" as "the middle of the main channel of navigation of the Piscataqua River." The consent judgment did not fix the inland Piscataqua River boundary. In 2000, New Hampshire brought an original action against Maine, claiming that the inland river boundary runs along the Maine shore and that the entire Piscataqua River and all of Portsmouth Harbor belong to New Hampshire. In response, Maine filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the 1740 boundary determination by King George II and the 1977 consent judgment barred the complaint.
Is New Hampshire's original suit against Maine, which disputes the Piscataqua River boundary, barred by earlier proceedings?
The second case I have to announce is New Hampshire against Maine, No. 130 original.
This case in which we served as a Court of first and last resort, involves a boundary dispute between New Hampshire and Maine that originated in the 1700's.
At the southeastern end of the Miane New Hampshire boarder, the eastern most point of New Hampshire meets the southern most point of Maine.
The boundary in this region follows the Piscataqua River eastward into Portsmouth Harbor from there it extends southeastwards into the sea.
If you don't get the picture, aid is at hand an illustrative map is appended to the Court's opinion.
24 years ago, in a lobster fishing dispute between the two states this Court entered a consent judgment fixing the Maine-New Hampshire boundary in the coastal waters from Portsmouth Harbor five miles seaward to Gosport Harbor in the Isle of Shoals.
The location of that boundary required a determination of where in Portsmouth Harbor the boundary should end.
That in turn required a determination of where the boundary along the Piscataqua River crosses the closing line of Portsmouth Harbor.
The parties agreed and we held that it is positive 1740 decree of King George II fixed the Piscataqua River boundary at the Middle of the River and that those words mean, 'the middle of the river's main channel of navigation'.
The 1977 consent judgment determined only the Maine-New Hampshire boundary, from Portsmouth Harbor southeastward into the sea.
It did not fix the boundary from Portsmouth Harbor westward up the Piscataqua River.
This case initiated by New Hampshire last term concerns the boundary along the inland stretch of the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth Harbor westward.
New Hampshire now claims that the inland river boundary runs along the Maine shore and that the entire river and all of Portsmouth Harbor belong to New Hampshire.
Maine has moved to dismiss the case, urging that earlier proceedings bar New Hampshire's current complaint.
In today's decision we grant Maine's motion, applying a doctrine know as 'judicial estoppel' we hold that New Hampshire is prohibited from maintaining that the Piscataqua River boundary runs along the Maine shore.
Judicial estoppel is a doctrine distinct from the res judicata doctrines of claim and issue preclusion.
Its object is to stop a party who has relied on an argument to prevail in one legal proceeding for relying on a conflicting argument to prevail in another legal proceeding.
The doctrine aims to protect the integrity of the judicial process.
Several practice presented here combine to warrant application of the judicial estoppel doctrine.
First, New Hampshire's current reading of "middle of the river" conflicts with its agreement in the 1970's litigation that those words mean "either the middle of the Maine navigable channel or as the 1970's Special Master had suggested, the geographic middle of the river.
Either construction located at the middle of the river, somewhere other than the Maine shore.
Second, as the record of the 1970's case shows this Court accepted New Hampshire's agreement with Maine, that middle of the river means middle of the Maine navigable channel; and third, New Hampshire benefited from that interpretation; it was a compromise that enabled New Hampshire to settle the case on terms beneficial to both States.
New Hampshire cannot tenably assert that the 1977 interpretation of 'middle of the river' to which it subscribed was arbitrary unemployment or inadvertent.
New Hampshire had ample opportunity prior to the entry of the 1977 consent decree closely to examine the history of the river boundary and this Court determined that the interpretation in the consent decree was consistent with historical evidence.
New Hampshire now tenders additional evidence which it interprets as placing Piscataqua River boundary along the Maine shore, but that evidence was available 25 years ago and New Hampshire had every reason to consult it in locating whether seaward boundary terminated in Portsmouth Harbor.
New Hampshire further urges that its status as a "State" shielded from judicial estoppel, that might be so where New Hampshire seeking to give effect to a duly adopted change in its own policies, but this case does not fit that bill, rather it is a case between two states in which each owes the other a full measure of respect.
The opinion detailing why we refuse to allow New Hampshire to construed 'middle of the river' differently today than it did in 1977 is joined by all members of the Court except Justice Souter who took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.


The prompt for today's Blogtober is Education, which is highly appropriate for me as I have some exciting news.
However, I used Education as my word of the week just a few weeks ago so this week I'm using School!
Yesterday we went to visit a new school for the Little Man and he will be starting on Monday! It's a little bit further away than I'd hoped, but it's a really good school and it seems perfect for the Little Man. The distance is no problem in the car, but if I had to fetch him for any reason I'd have to catch the bus. A scary prospect, but not impossible. I also have a friend who lives nearby with a child in the same school, so we could travel together.
I know it will be best for him but a part of me is feeling sad. I've really enjoyed teaching him, we've had so much one to one time together. I also like learning and teaching so it's been really enjoyable for me. It'll be sad waving him off again in the morning and not seeing him all day. He is my baby after all.
Star was sent home from school after falling up the stairs again. She really need to be more careful. She was okay, just a little sore, but she hurt her shoulder, which then caused her neck to hurt.
On the morning she'd been complaining about her neck being sore so hurting it more was not good. She also complained about her jaw (she has TMJ disorder) so I'd given her a couple of ibuprofen. I'd guessed it wasn't going to be a good day at school, but I didn't expect another fall.
Thankfully, Star's school is really good with her and they know it's best to send her home rather than make her stay at school with any issues like this. With her EDS and surgery, it's always better to be safe than sorry. Thankfully, we didn't think it necessary for a trip to A&E.
So that's my week, what have you been up to?
That is fantastic news about the new school for your little man! He sounds very happy about it.
That is great news for the little guy, I'm so glad it worked out and it's nice to know someone lives close by and there are kids from his old school there. Can't wait to hear about his new adventures.
Exciting times for Little Man! it's a big plus that there are children at the school that he knows.
Hi Anne, that is such good news about Little Man and I hope your pranged car doesn't put too much of a damper on things. Will you get a car to use whilst yours is being fixed? What a difference between Stars school and Little Mans old school, it must be a relief knowing that they know what's best for her. I hope she recovers quickly.
I saw this new in FB! A real lovely news to get.