OK, it looks as if major health care reform is actually going to happen. Democrats have agreed that if Republicans try to block reform in the Senate, they will use the reconciliation process to bypass a filibuster.
Republicans will, of course, scream that this is a terrible, terrible thing – something they themselves would never have done – except, of course, to cut food stamps, pass both major Bush tax cuts, and more.
We'll still have to see what the reform looks like – especially whether the public plan survives. But kudos to the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership: this is the big one, and so far it looks very, very good.
This is extremely good news for the growing millions who have no health insurance. I have written to Sen. Baucus several times urging him to move his plan forward. The Republicans will of course blow tons of steam in outrage and consternation, but the historical opportunity to create a health care system that essentially establishes a right to medical care has to be made law.
And here is the Great Irony: Every single Republican who objects to the legislation will now be covered by the new national plans. Every Republican who has lost his or her job because of the Recession and now has no health insurance or is working but can't afford it will be covered. Every Republican who has been denied treatment due to pre-existing conditions will be treated. Every Republican will have access to all the medical services and programs provided by the new system. Every Republican will benefit from the elimination of billions, dare we say trillions, of dollars, of waste currently generated by the current non-system.
Even Rush Limbaugh, despite his vitriolic howling objections, will be covered.
Let's get this health care legislation passed.
And, I want to add: Go, Max, go!
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Getting Down to the Root of It: What Exactly is a Cavity?
Everyone knows about cavities; you may unfortunately know what a bummer cavities can be from personal experience. But other than an uncomfortable reason to have to make an extra dentist appointment, do you really know exactly what a cavity is?
Essentially, cavities are tooth decay — damage to the tooth. Tooth decay can be caused when foods with carbohydrates and sugars like breads, soda, candy, and fruit stay on your teeth. When these particles get stuck on or between teeth, the bacteria in your mouth combines with them and turns them into acids. These acids form plaque, and plaque sits on the teeth and can dissolve the enamel of the tooth, which then creates holes — called cavities.
To treat cavities, the dentist will first give you local anesthesia to numb the area surrounding the tooth. Then, the dentist removes the decay with a drill and shapes the space to get it ready for a filling. They then use one of several materials to close off and fill the place where the decay was — this prevents bacteria from entering that space and causing further decay.
There are several different types of materials used for cavity fillings. Resin bonded composite fillings are the standard of care in dentistry today for several reasons. Composite fillings nicely match the color of your teeth, rarely chip, and provide a much stronger seal around the drilled hole. Gold fillings can last over 20 years, but are also usually the most expensive type of filling and require multiple visits to the dentist, since these fillings are made to order in a lab. Amalgam fillings, or silver fillings, last for a long time as well and are less expensive than gold fillings, but since they're darker in color, they are more noticeable and typically not used for visible areas such as your front teeth. Porcelain fillings are matched to your tooth color and resist staining, but are more expensive and are made to order in a lab.
To prevent cavities, make sure to follow good oral health practices: brushing, flossing, and making regular dentist appointments. Find out more about Dakota Dental's no-fuss fillings. The dentists at Dakota Dental strive to make getting a filling as easy and pain-free as possible. And Dakota Dental's Preventative Care Program can help you avoid getting future fillings.
Contact Dakota Dental today for more information about treating or preventing cavities today!


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United Nations General Assembly commences with world crisis at hand
Beau Jones
The 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. Headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 70) opened at the United Nations (U.N.) Headquarters in New York City on Sept. 15, followed by the Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda from Sept. 25-27, which was addressed by Pope Francis. The general session opened Sept. 28 and convened Oct. 3, featuring world leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Cuban President Raúl Castro, President Obama and more.
Given the wide range of leaders and opinions, the world should expect a wide range of contentions, such as strained relations between the U.S. and Russia over the annexation of Ukraine and movement in Syria, to the rise of ISIS in the Middle East and the impact of global climate change.
"I'm not sure we can expect much to change, as far as policy is concerned," said BYU political science professor Richard Davis. "Primarily because the U.N. does not have any enforcement power. However, these assemblies are a great way to avoid conflict."
Each day is expected to be packed with speakers, but the following is a rundown —in order of appearance — of the main ones and highlights of their remarks:
His Holiness Pope Francis – He addressed the assembly Sept. 25 on the importance of protecting the environment, overcoming inequality and conflict. "The ecological crisis, and the large-scale destruction of biodiversity, can threaten the very existence of the human species," he said, according to a translated version of the speech released by the Holy See.
The Pope then tied environmental concerns to inequality and the pursuit of power and wealth. "Economic and social exclusion is a complete denial of human fraternity and a grave offense against human rights and the environment. The poorest are those who suffer most from such offenses," His Holiness said. In conclusion, the Pope spoke out against war and conflict, specifically citing the Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, South Sudan and parts of Africa.
United States President Barack Obama – Obama was the first of the featured speakers to address the general session on opening day (Sept. 28). He said the United States would work with any nation, including Russia and Iran, to solve the four-year-old Syrian civil war, but Syrian President Bashar Assad cannot stay in office. In reference to Ukraine, he said the world cannot stand by while Russia violates Ukraine's integrity and sovereignty. If there are no consequences for Russia's annexation of Crimea, it could happen to any other country in the United Nations, he added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin – Putin called for a global fight against Islamic extremism akin to a third World War, but Putin said such an effort in Syria should be fought alongside Assad's government forces. "We think it is an enormous mistake to refuse to work with the Syrian government and its armed forces," Putin said. "No one but the Syrian forces and Kurdish militia are seriously fighting against the Islamic state." The alternative is to arm terrorists who threaten Europe, Russia and other countries, he said.
Cuban President Raúl Castro – In his first U.N. speech since reestablishing diplomatic relations with the United States, he said the "long and complicated" process will not be complete until the U.S. ends its economic embargo and relinquishes its Naval base in Guantanamo Bay. Castro expressed "eternal gratitude" to the 188 member nations who voted last year to condemn the American "blockade" against his island nation. The U.S. Congress is unwilling to end the embargo until Cuba ends political repression.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko – His address was the most notable to come out of the Sept. 29 debate. Poroshenko told world leaders that Ukraine is suffering from a brutal violation of the fundamental norms and principles of the United Nations Charter. "The aggressor is Russia – a neighboring country, former strategic partner that legally pledged to respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of the borders of Ukraine," President Poroshenko said. Poroshenko's accusation came with a plea for help in pressuring Russia to stop such aggression, while thanking world leaders that have helped the country so far.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – President Abbas shocked the Sept. 30 assembly by claiming that Palestinians are no longer bound by the Oslo accords. The Oslo accords are agreements signed by Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the '90s designed to set the foundation for a "two-state solution." Palestinians say Israel has violated the agreements by doing things like building too many settlements and has called them 'occupiers' of the West Bank. Israel has responded by saying the allegations are 'not true' and that it has upheld its end of the agreements. While some see Abbas' announcement as an empty gesture, designed to drum up political support, others see it as the biggest threat to the status quo in the region in 20 years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – He harshly condemned the Iranian nuclear deal, describing the widespread international praise for it as a grave misjudgment. "I wish I could take comfort in the claim that this deal blocks Iran's path to nuclear weapons," he said on Oct. 1. "But I can't, because it doesn't." After his denunciations of the Iran deal and criticism of Iran, Mr. Netanyahu said he still saw the United States as Israel's best friend and ally. Then, turning to the Palestinians, Mr. Netanyahu reiterated his readiness to return "immediately, immediately" to peace talks. Mr. Netanyahu did not directly address Mr. Abbas's declaration, in his own United Nations speech on Wednesday, that the Palestinians would no longer consider themselves bound by signed agreements with Israel, including the Oslo Peace Accords, if Israel continued to violate them.
Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft – He closed the United Nations 70th General Assembly on Oct. 3 by calling it a "historic" event crowned by the "truly seminal commitment" to achieving ambitious new development goals by 2030. "As we commemorate the 70th anniversary [of the founding of the UN], it was fitting and reassuring that leaders recalled and reaffirmed the spirit and the principles of the Charter and confirmed their faith in the central role of UN in international cooperation," declared Lykketoft. In summary, he noted the consistent plight from diverse leaders for refugee aid, attaining peace in areas of conflict and the need to reform the Security Council.
This session of the General Assembly was attended by the highest number of Heads of State and Governments to date and covered multifaceted issues raised at the six-day General Debate and the three-day summit on the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that preceded it.
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MatchMove provides digital entertainment, social enterprise and e-commerce solutions for many global telecom, media and entertainment companies through the strategic use of its sophisticated games, social networking and site gamification platforms. Established in 2009 as a game platform provider for companies like Yahoo! Games Southeast Asia, MatchMove quickly evolved to include a variety of services via its secure and customisable, cloud-based platform. Headquartered in Singapore with offices across Asia and the US, MatchMove's customer network currently has a combined base of more than 250 million users globally.
Realising the potential of the e-commerce business, MatchMove sought to reach out to more customers across the region by launching its virtual card, the MatchMove Wallet. This prepaid virtual currency helps customers shop online anywhere, safely and easily. Licensed through AmEx in Southeast Asia, the MatchMove Wallet is touted as the first of its kind in the region, targeting markets where a card is difficult to procure.
Currently, MatchMove's IT infrastructure runs on 14 instances hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). To ensure secure financial transactions over its network, MatchMove needed an enterprise-class security solution that will enable them to meet PCI DSS compliance and at the same time protect, secure and optimise the performance of its instances.
"It was an easy decision to work with Trend Micro as it is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. Its compatibility with Amazon is important to us, because Amazon is more mature and offers us the flexibility we need for our virtualisation, compared to other cloud providers. Moreover, it has the ability to have a master-slave relationship when handling updates, which was good for us," said Hidalgo.
"At first, we were cautious about how Trend Micro might mitigate data breach issues. But during the pen test, we were impressed with how the Deep Security Integrity Monitoring feature screens for potential breaches. It lets us know if there is an unauthorised access or modifications to the source codes. With this, we can oversee the servers' health and manage everything seamlessly. At the same time, we can ensure that everyone in our team gets updates on the instances' security status," explained Gian Ebao, Software Architect.
Moreover, the flexibility and support for AWS allowed MatchMove's instances to run on optimum performance. This ensured that MatchMove continued to operate without any business disruptions, while ensuring the protection of its virtualised environment.
With the reliable security offered by Trend Micro Deep Security, the company not only benefited from full protection for its instances hosted in AWS and PCI DSS compliance, but also met its need for scalability. As Deep Security is tightly integrated with AWS's Auto-Scaling feature, security is instant-on which meant that when instances spin up, security can be automatically initiated, and managed efficiently based on cloud deployment configurations. All these were done achieved with Deep Security's centralised policy capability. When instances spin down, Deep Security can keep the instances completely in tune with MatchMove's cloud deployment and fully log everything that happens in compliance with the PCI DSS requirement and audit purposes.
"Our systems are all virtualised, and this enables us to widen our reach. Not having any complexities in our security setup is vital to our expansion plans. Instead of taking two years to develop, launch and acquire PCI DSS-certification for a new platform, we can now replicate our existing environment in just three months. Deep Security in AWS helped us get to where we want to be fast," said Hidalgo.


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Govt to introduce new law to curb 'excessive salaries' in public entities – Mboweni
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The government will introduce a new law to curb "excessive salaries" in public institutions, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has announced.
In his budget speech in Parliament on Wednesday, Mboweni said this is among several measures government is taking to reduce wasteful expenditure and corruption.
He said, "We are moving forward with reforms to the procurement system with a focus on value for money and maximising the quality and quantity of services. Cabinet approved the publication of a new Public Procurement Bill."
'Wasteful subsistence and travel system'
"We will accelerate merging and consolidating public entities. We will propose a new law to stop excessive salaries in these public entities," Mboweni added.
Other measures include reducing the high costs of leasing government buildings and abolishing the current "wasteful" subsistence and travel system.
In addition, government will replace its cell phone policy and require public officials to use economy class travel for all domestic flights, except for exceptional circumstances.
Mboweni also said some of South Africa's diplomatic missions abroad will be closed, merged or downgraded. The number of officials posted abroad will also be reduced.
More funding for NPA
President Cyril Ramaphosa has repeatedly stated his commitment to strengthening the law enforcement agencies to fight corruption.
To this end, Mboweni said, "The NPA [National Prosecuting Authority], Special Investigating Unit and Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation get an additional R2.4 billion in this Budget.
"This will enable the appointment of approximately 800 investigators and 277 prosecutors who will assist with, among other things, the clearing the backlog of cases such as those emanating from the [Deputy Chief Justice Raymond] Zondo commission [into state capture]."
This is a huge win for the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shamila Batohi, who called on Ramaphosa in October last year to address staffing issues at the NPA and the Hawks.
The NPA is facing increasing pressure from the public to prosecute alleged high profile state capture and corruption perpetrators.
Some analysts have touted the lack of prosecutions as a major weakness in Ramaphosa's anti-corruption and anti-state capture clean-up campaign.
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New Salem, also known as York New Salem, is a borough located in York County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the borough had a total population of 724.
New Salem is located at 39°54'9" North, 76°47'35" West (39.902526, -76.793162).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2), of which, 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. New Salem lies near North Codorus township. It is a sleepy town with two streets, two pizza shops, a gas station, bar, and post office.
As of the census of 2000, there are 648 people, 258 households, and 198 families residing in the borough. The population density is 1,427.6 people per square mile (556.0/km²). There are 266 housing units at an average density of 586.0 per square mile (228.2/km²). The racial makeup of the borough is 97.69% White, 0.31% African American, 0.00% Native American, 1.85% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.15% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.31% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.


A gradual transformation has occurred over my trip to the central group. I no longer feel like a tourist in Ponta Delgada. This weekend, a planeload of Swedes have dropped into the city. I watch them, a large family asking my neighborhood cafe owner for a toy store to calm a wailing kid. A couple walking up and down the streets towards the Carlos Macado museum, consulting their maps, unaware that it is closed on Sunday. Later that afternoon at the free swimming pool in the harbor a young man tells his girlfriend in accented English that she cannot change in the municipal bathrooms without paying a fee. I listen to all of them, without getting involved. I could tell the family to head to the commercial centre near the Santa Ana palace, stop the couple in their useless trudging through the streets, or correct the misinformed young man. But I remain silent. I am not longer a tourist, but neither am I an inhabitant of the city yet. I occupy some nebulous in-between space. I have my daily routine: the library in the morning, a walk about the city to the harbor for my afternoon swim, an evening in a cafe. The people on my route know me, the librarians expect me to be among the first to arrive, the old timers in the harbor keep an eye on my bag when I am in the water. But they are curious about this man who speaks so little Portuguese and who smiles through their attempts at conversation but lingers unlike any tourist. I know how they feel for I feel the same way.


I know that Christmas is not that far away and most of you probably have all of your shopping completed (unless you are like me). I tend to wait until the last minute to complete my shopping, because of the business of basketball season.
With Christmas break upon my family, I have more time to complete my holiday gift shopping and even find more time to write. Here are 19 ways that you can save this holiday season, not only on shopping.
After purchasing an item if you see that it's on sale a few days later ask for a price adjustment. A price adjustment is basically a refund on an item that you already purchased. To receive this refund, the item must go on sale or drop its price within two weeks of your purchase (This works all year round)!
When you're shopping online and buying multiple gifts try to shop from the same store. This helps you save on shipping charges. Most online stores require a certain amount purchased before they will offer free shipping.
For example, I was getting a gift for one of my uncles online. The item cost somewhere in the $20 range and they were requiring a minimum purchase of $40 to receive free shipping and a 20% discount. My wife had my other uncle in our gift exchange and I decided that I should just purchase his gift from the same store. This one decision allowed me to save 20% on the item and receive free shipping!
There are some retailers who provide exclusive discounts to individuals who like their page on Facebook or follow them on Instagram and Twitter. My wife has received multiple discounts by just following a store on facebook.
You tend to overspend when you know that something is on sale or given at discounted price. The truth is that retailers use promotional emails as a strategy to attract consumers.
If you need a serving dish, a dinner set, a fancy tablecloth, a party dress or wine glasses, for the holiday party consider borrowing them from friends and relatives. Purchasing items for a one time use is a waste of money. We used this strategy last year when we hosted Christmas eve at our house. My mother-in-law let us borrow Christmas themed table cloths and placemats.
Frozen turkey costs less than a fresh one. Purchasing two 8 pounds turkey costs less than one 16 pound bird.
You don't have to bear all expenses since you're hosting a holiday party at your place. Ask your invitees to bring their best dishes and drinks along with them.
Don't spend most of your money on holiday transportation. Do your research and find out the best dates and cheaper fares to fly before finalizing your trip. It'll help you free up more money to enjoy your holiday.
You can also opt for buses instead of flights for cheaper travels. Megabus provides you cheap intercity travel for a dollar each way. A full circle trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco costs you $50, which is much cheaper than a $200 flight ticket.
Megabus is a good option for people traveling within close proximity (Houston to Dallas, LA to San Fran), not a very good option for somebody traveling from a big city to a small town (I did not find any options from Houston to Omaha).
Cut down your gift giving list this year. If it's too late to start cutting down your Christmas list this year, then start talking to families about gift exchanges and finding ways to cut down holiday expenses.
If you don't wish to use a gift, you can always regift it. This holds the same for gift cards. You can also sell gift cards on Raise, CardCash or CardPool for cash. You can purchase new gift cards of your favorite retailers too. Regifting unwanted gifts is a great way to save money.
Sending Christmas cards can put a big dent in your budget. on this is to send E-cards. Moreover, E-cards can be really fun.
Instead of shedding dollars on costly activities opt for the free and low-cost ones like caroling, building a snowman, decorating cookies, etc.
Check local newspaper and find out free local events happening near you like holiday parade, Santa's workshop, tree lighting ceremony, Christmas light display, and so on.
Boost your regular income by picking up a seasonal side job such as become a store assistant, shelf packer or a security staff at any retail store, or give SAT tutoring sessions to high school students, shovel snow, sell baked goods or crafts, or tidy up rain gutters, and the list can go on.
If you'll be traveling for some time or you have some extra space in your house consider renting that empty space right away. And if your home is in an area with seasonal attractions then this is the best way to grab some extra cash.
Don't wait for spring cleaning. Take some time off from your busy schedule and clean your closet. It helps you bring out the unused or unwanted items. Sell those goods and make room for some extra dollars and extra space in your closet.
If you're going to travel this festive season and won't be able to hit the gym regularly, cancel your gym membership for the time being and save some bucks. In the same way, cancel other monthly expenses for some time. You can always resume it later once you come back.
For example, I canceled our Netflix membership for December, because we are out of town for two weeks of the month. I figured we really did need Netflix if we were going to be gone for half the month.
The holiday season makes us spend a little more, which eventually crashes our budget. So, avoid little extras which can turn your finances upside down. Though little, these little extras can make a big difference at the end of the day.
With the holidays, we can always find ways to spend too much money. There are lots of tips and strategy that we can use to save money, but the best way to save is to set a budget and a limit for each gift you give. My wife and I always set a budget and that budget keeps us from overspending on the holiday season.
Have a Merry Christmas spent with family!


AACW presents the 15th annual Blues and Jazz festival. The festival will begin August 23 at 7:00 pm at Peach's Grill 104 Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs, Ohio featuring Blooz 'n' Pomes. This will be a poetry open mic open to the public. Poets will be backed by a blues band featuring headliners from the festival. Blooz 'n' Pomes will continue until the poets and musicians run out of words and music.
On Friday, August 24, the festival will move to the Antioch College Amphitheater on Corry Street in Yellow Springs. There will be a variety of vendors as well as the following performers: Audio Show Band, The Carl Schumacher Band, Karen Patterson and the 5 YZMen, The Larry Humphrey Band and Preston Shannon.
Saturday, August 25 will begin at 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm with a blues workshop hosted by Festival Performing Artists. This will be followed by Innovation Stage performances by a variety of area musicians from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Evening performers include: Dean Sims Hot Notes Band, Preston Shannon, Veronica Jackson, Nerak Roth Patterson Band and the 5YZMen.
The festival will culminate on Sunday August 26 with a Gospel Fest and Basket Meeting. The Gospel Fest will consist of live performances from local, national and international gospel artists. The Basket Meeting is basically an old time community tradition similar to a community potluck where participants are encouraged to pack a picnic lunch and socialize.


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VA Accountability Bill Passes Major Hurdle In The Senate
Written by: Jonah Bennett
Published on: May 26, 2017
The Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs (SVAC) cleared a bill Wednesday that would make it much easier for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary David Shulkin to fire bad employees, moving the legislation one step closer to law.
Now that the VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 has passed the hurdle of SVAC by a voice, it will move to the floor of the Senate for further consideration. It's not clear exactly when the bill will reach the full chamber, but if the Senate passes the bill, it will be sent to the House for a vote.
The idea of the bill is to decrease the amount of time it takes to fire bad employees. The legislation also grants Shulkin the authority to take back ill-gotten bonuses provided to employees. He can also reduce the pensions of VA employees who engaged in felonies related to their work.
Employees who are kicked out, moreover, would not receive payment while appealing their terminations.
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Veterans' advocacy and policy organization Concerned Veterans for America applauded SVAC clearing the bill.
"We're pleased to see that the VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act was moved to the Senate floor with no changes and that committee members voted down amendments that would have undermined the intent of the bill," CVA policy director Dan Caldwell said in a statement. "The Senate will now vote on strong, meaningful reform that will finally give Secretary Shulkin the power he needs to fire bad employees quickly. Senator Isakson should be commended for his hard work getting this measure passed. Veterans are now one step closer to receiving the quality of care they earned and deserve from the Department of Veterans Affairs, but the fight isn't over yet."
The Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively reported that senior interior designer Brittney Lowe was allowed to return to employment at the Memphis VA without issue after serving a 60-day jail sentence for driving under the influence. After the reporting, Shulkin issued a statement citing Lowe's case and urged the Senate to pass accountability legislation as soon as possible.
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My Daily Struggles
~ I am going to make my way in this blog on a metaphorical bridge of thoughts and perceptions from day to day to try to connect the known with the yet unknown. My bridge is like a single plank which will require the supplement of others.
Significant Moments Addition: Recreating a Powerful Scene in the Theater of Your Memory
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The art of memory, with its rhetorical antecedents and its magical burgeonings, is very much an affair of imaginary places, or real places transmuted into visual images. Since childhood, I have enjoyed an uncanny memory for literature, but that memory is purely verbal, without anything in the way of a visual component. Only recently, past the age of sixty, have I come to understand that my literary memory has relied upon the Canon as a memory system. If I am a special case, it is only in the sense that my experience is a more extreme version of what I believe to be the principal pragmatic function of the Canon: the remembering and ordering of a lifetime's reading.
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.
A lesson in . . .
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Modern English Version).
. . . the deliberate exercise of recall in a well-furnished mind[:] . . .
Anthony Storr, Solitude: A Return to the Self.
. . . thoughts and remembrance aptly placed.
The greatest authors take over the role of "places" in the Canon's theater of memory, and their masterworks occupy the position filled by "images" in the art of memory. Shakespeare and Hamlet, central author and universal drama, compel us to remember not only what happens in Hamlet, but more crucially what happens in literature that makes it memorable and thus prolongs the life of the author.
These thoughts recreate a powerful scene in the theater of your memory, and . . .
Clifford Notarius and Howard Markman, We Can Work It Out: How to
Solve Conflicts, Save Your Marriage, and Strengthen Your Love
for Each Other.
And suddenly you realize that the house of your own inside has wonderful furniture. Most of us don't create very much. So, to be able to find in our own house a company of the master spirits, the great spirits, Milton called them "the lifeblood of the master spirits," means you come home to a very full house, a very full house. Well, we've got to quote. We've got to quote. We've got to quote. We've got to tell a great story.
George Steiner Interview.
Significant Moments: Old Folks
A clock tower strikes eight times in the distance.
Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams.
I stood . . .
Miguel Serrano, Jung & Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships.
. . . in the shadow of an arcade . . .
. . . quietly contemplating the clock tower, the low balcony and the tiny square. No one else was there, and it seemed as though time had stopped. Then a cat appeared and walked slowly and deliberately towards the balcony; it then stopped and lay down beneath it. A few moments later, I heard the sound of footsteps and a man . . .
. . . already advanced in years . . .
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha.
. . . emerged from one of the narrow streets and came into the square; his presence there seemed to increase the stasis of the scene, and he stood out alone against his surroundings, seemingly isolated from them.
A person in old age knows no one. He talks to people, but he does not know them. His life is scattered in fragments of conversation, forgotten by fragments of people. His life is divided into hasty episodes, witnessed by few.
The man, with his hands in his overcoat pockets, was disconnected from everything, standing apart from his own landscape. He was the very image of the forlorn; he represented the persona and its fear of death. He was like a scrap from the morning newspaper which by noon was already out of date.
What a cruel practical joke old Nature played when she flung so many . . .
Somerset Maugham, Moon and Sixpence.
. . . scattered fragments . . .
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ethan Brand.
. . . so many contradictory elements together, and left the man face to face with the perplexing callousness of the universe.
Life is . . .
. . . full of hope, of brutality, misery, sickness and death; nevertheless, it has completeness, a satisfaction and an emotional beauty which is unfathomable.
Life is a vessel of sadness, but it is noble to live life, and without time there is no life.
Thoughts of August 31, 1939
The Day I Met My Future Brother-in-Law
Moth Angst
28 Thursday Aug 2014
From childhood to at least the age of 30 my sister had a fear of moths. If my sister encountered a moth she would be aroused to a state of uncontrolled panic. I know my sister says I exaggerate, but there is independent confirmation for her reaction. I remember my parents used to say, before my sister reached the age of 16: "What will she do when she drives a car? What if a moth flies into the car while she's driving? How will she maintain control of the car? (A symbolic reference to out-of-control sexuality?)
My father even concocted a "scientific" explanation for my sister's reaction. My father served in the South Pacific in World War II, where he contracted malaria, an insect-born illness. My father used to say, "It is because I contracted malaria that she has a fear of moths. A mosquito infected my blood with malaria, and I passed down my reaction to the mosquito to my daughter. She inherited her fear of moths from me."
(Insects are vermin. Freud interpreted associations to vermin as symbolic references to the hated siblings. My father was the next-to-youngest child among seven brothers and sisters.
I see my father's "theory" as evidence of parental favoritism, and the fact that my father viewed my sister as the "good object" while he viewed me as the "bad object." My father blamed my mother for any character or behavioral flaws in me. "It's your fault he acts this way," my father used to say to my mother about me — "you raised him." In the case of my sister's disturbed behavior, at least in this one instance, my father took complete responsibility. My sister's reaction to moths had nothing to do with my mother, nothing to do with my sister's own development — but had everything to do with my father. In dysfunctional families we find "Lack of empathy, understanding, and sensitivity towards certain family members, while expressing extreme empathy towards one or more members (or even pets) who have real or perceived 'special needs'. In other words, one family member continuously receives far more than he or she deserves, while another is marginalized.")
In a book on child abuse — Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts About Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory — the psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold includes a brief section on the psychoanalytical meaning of associations to moths.
http://books.google.com/books?id=W5R6bdbn8bkC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210&dq=%22the+moth+is+defined+by+webster%27s+dictionary%22&source=bl&ots=5cQKM73hLx&sig=dASjbpgO2fCYI5W0o85IM5Gu9wY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wy__U9KVJ8HLgwTz9YDYBg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20moth%20is%20defined%20by%20webster%27s%20dictionary%22&f=false
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I won't be going to Atlantic City this summer. I'm all tapped out. I stayed at my sister's condo in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. I didn't go to Atlantic City in 2012 due to unfortunate circumstances involving my apartment in Washington, DC. In 2013 I stayed at the Tropicana Hotel for two weeks. That was great.
I hope to go to Atlantic City next year. It will be all the sweeter because I didn't go this year. I think I'll enjoy it more because I am taking a sabbatical this year. Yes, this is my sabbatical year.
According to Brett Willis I Punched My Mother in the Face
No, Brett, I did not punch my mother in the face.
Letters to Brian and Shakespeare's Tempest
In Shakespeare's play, The Tempest Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, who (with his young daughter, Miranda) was put to sea on "a rotten carcass of a butt (boat)" to die by his usurping brother, Antonio, twelve years before the play begins. Prospero and Miranda survived, and found exile on a small island. He has learned sorcery from books secretly given to him (referred to as his "Art" in the play), and uses it while on the island to protect Miranda and control the other characters. On the island, he becomes master of the monster Caliban (the son of Sycorax, a malevolent witch) and forces Caliban into submission by torturing him with magic if he does not obey him, and Ariel, an elemental who is beholden to Prospero after he is freed from his prison inside a tree.
However, at the end of the play, Prospero intends to drown his book and renounce magic. In the view of the audience, this may have been required to make the ending unambiguously happy, as magic smacked too much of diabolical works; he will drown his books for the same reason that Doctor Faust, in an earlier play by Christopher Marlowe, promised in vain to burn his books.
Be that as it may.
In April 2004 I was banned from my local library by the Branch Librarian. Like Shakespeare's Prospero I found exile in my apartment, rarely venturing out the front door, but nourishing my soul by reading and letter writing. I ruled over a world of inferior spirits who inhabited my desolate island, far from the madding crowd of the human world. I later collected the letters I wrote during my exile and published them in a book titled Letters to Brian.
The content of the letters clearly establishes that during my year in exile from the library I identified with Prospero, who, somewhat like I, had been banished by his brother to live alone to practice the magic arts.
In the opening letter of the book, "Return of the Native", I wrote:
For the last year I had arrayed myself as comfortably as possible like Robinson Crusoe on my lonely island. When I look back at that lonely year from the perplexities and pressure of the present, it seems to me like a beautiful and heroic era, oddly enough. The splendid isolation was not lacking in advantages and in charms; I was free to do as I chose; I read what I fancied in bare feet; and I didn't have to put up with the blare of screaming children, as one must in the library. I was subject to no influences, and no pressure was brought to bear on me. I learned to feast on my solitude and I honed my skills as a letter writer.
If the truth be told I am not suited for the practicalities of life; my mind floats in otherworldly dreams, more preoccupied with the potential of the spirit than with everyday vicissitudes. I love language, books, and music, and the most splendid moments of my uneventful existence have been the few operas I have attended, or the books I have perused in isolation from my fellows. I treasure every detail of the times I have spent in isolation. As I read I imagine every sentence, every page and every chapter as a mirror of my life, my passions and my afflictions. I take refuge in this extravagant, romantic atmosphere whenever I feel weighed down by the vulgarity of life.
Another one of the letters is titled: "A Tempest Without Miranda," which makes explicit my identification with the play and the character Prospero.
Perhaps, I might be said to have a Prospero Complex. The world has wronged me, so I believe, and I live alone in a narcissistic paradise of my own making.
Significant Moments Addition: Soul Murder Revisisted
But then he did a most astonishing thing—he added the following sentence: "And now I no longer believe in repression or the unconscious." This was as if in a meeting of senior Vatican officials, one of the cardinals were to announce that he no longer believed in the Holy Trinity, . . .
J. Moussaieff Masson, Final Analysis.
. . . the Virgin . . .
The New Cassell's German Dictionary (entry for German word "rein").
. . . Father and Son . . .
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 8 (Part I: Veni, Creator Spiritus).
. . . or even the existence of God. When there was a murmur of disapproval I had to object. "But I never wrote those lines. They are not in the article at all. You have simply invented them."
"Yes," he said, . . .
. . . like the Queen in "Alice [in Wonderland]" . . .
Bradley F. Smith, Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg (quoting Francis Biddle, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal).
. . . "they are here in black and white."
I leaned over to see what he was quoting, and noted that he had penciled in the lines he was citing. I said so.
"This is sheer nonsense!"
Franz Kafka, The Trial.
"You have added those lines. They are not part of the article."
Naturally I . . .
. . . protested, grew indignant.
Jean-Denis Bredin, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus.
I could barely contain my rage.
Zoltán Kövecses, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction.
So absurd was . . .
Daniel M. Harrell, How to Be Perfect: One Church's Audacious Experiment in Living the Old Testament Book of Leviticus.
. . . the clamorous but ultimately unsubstantiated claim of overt . . .
Leonard Shengold, Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts About Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory.
. . . treachery to the cause . . .
Francis Wayland, Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist Churches.
. . . that I was certain I had . . .
Constantine Sult, Confident.
. . . been brought up on false or greatly exaggerated charges
At this moment . . .
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
. . . the chief advocate . . .
Bradley F. Smith, Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg.
. . . who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook, called out "Silence!", and read out from his book, "Rule Forty-two. . . . "
"Whosoever will have engaged in machinations or shared information with foreign powers . . . will be punished by death."
. . . by death?
William Shakespeare, King Lear.
(I'm imagining this)
Don Delillo, The Names.
On Beating Children
Overstimulation (the result of sexual abuse and perhaps also beatings) evokes traumatic anxiety and rage in the relatively helpless child. With neglect and understimulation, the frustration of basic needs also results in rage and intense sexual craving; this is reactive overstimulation. In either instance, overstimulation requires massive defensive efforts by the mind (attempts to deaden emotion and impulse), which usually do not work well or consistently. Furthermore, children who are beside themselves with overexcitement, rage, and anxiety have an imperative need for external help. When the tormentor-seducer is a parent, it is frequently necessary for the child to turn for rescue to the very person who abused—a mind-splitting operation. The other parent is absent or an unconscious (frequently masochistic) abettor or both. If the adult abuser is not a parent, the child's rage is still directed at the parents—generally the mother—for having allowed the abuse to occur.
Leonard Shengold, Soul Murder Revisisted.
Eddie Lischin Speaks his Mind
Ken Levy's Summary of What Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis are all About
The Problem is — I Don't Feel Deeply Understood . . .
Things are Starting to Add Up
FINAL VERSION OF THERAPY SUMMARY — July 9, 2019


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Earlier this week, Oxford hosted a conference of college librarians from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The theme of the day was 'co-operation, collaboration and competition': we had speakers on this topic in the morning, followed by a choice of library/archive visits in the afternoon and time for networking.
The college libraries combine providing information for students and academics like a higher education library; within a physical environment which is part museum, part den; and an atmosphere which is generally more permissive and accommodating than the faculty libraries. I think our college libraries are quite unique in this way, and it is a great help for us to get together to share ideas in a context that recognises our peculiar situations.
The Bodleian Libraries group is a large organisation (some 750 employees, full-time-equivalent) and I enjoyed the big community aspect of working there. By contrast, working in a college can be quite lonely, and I'm glad that I came to my current role with experience of working in Oxford libraries, so I have professional contacts close by.
On the negative side, because the Bodleian Libraries group is so large and has so many layers of management, the process for making decisions can be cumbersome and slow. Also, there have recently been many staff changes at a high level in the organisation, which can bring problems such as a lack of continuity and stability if not handled very carefully.
In the college environment, I enjoy the budget freedom that I have from being the head of my department. There is top-level support for personal and professional development, which I find very encouraging. When a decision is made, for example at Library Committee, the decision will generally be backed up and not challenged further after it has been made, which is a great spur to getting things done. Although colleges and their libraries vary considerably in many respects, we can benchmark against each other. Bodleian Libraries do not really have any comparable organisations (not even Cambridge, as their libraries as less integrated than at Oxford), but it should not be assumed that this means they are automatically the best at everything.
The working environment in a college is much nicer, especially as college staff have a free lunch every day, and tea and coffee are provided in the mornings and afternoons. We also have all-staff social occasions at least once a year.
However, colleges are very hierarchical places to work, and I find that social differences such as separate common rooms and lunch arrangements for staff of different status reinforce the divisions between us and can act as an obstacle to everyone working together effectively. It can also take a long time to become accepted in an organisation that is by nature conservative and resistant to change.
Another interesting point is that as a college librarian, you have to be multi-skilled because you need to cover a great range of skills in a very small team. I think it would be interesting to develop more skills-sharing between colleges, and if anyone wants me to come and show them how to navigate SFX/OUeJournals or MetaLib/OxLIP+ more effectively, I would be glad to!
I have now had three different jobs at the University of Oxford, and I have sometimes been surprised at how low the expectations can be. Broadly speaking, the expectations seem to be that keeping a service running is sufficient; not improving or developing it.
Before I moved to Oxford, I expected that the libraries here would be leading the way in user education, resource discovery and the use of space in libraries, but I often worry that we are in fact falling behind other UK higher education libraries.
The Bodleian has very strict cataloguing standards for adding records to OLIS. This is because much of their material is in closed stacks, so readers need detailed records in order to judge if the item is what they require, as they cannot browse the shelves; and as a legal deposit library, OLIS catalogue records are regularly exported to other databases so the standard needs to be high as other institutions will be copying these records. However, this standard is rather over-the-top for a college library such as mine, where students can access the vast majority of our books on open shelves, and are usually looking for items from a reading list, so a simple author and title search will normally suffice. I would be keen to develop a system whereby I could create simpler catalogue records for items unique to my library, and have a filter applied so that these records are excluded from the exporting pool.
Note: 'the other place' is a term used by people at Oxford or Cambridge to describe those at the other; and perhaps from now on, to be used in the same way by people at Bodleian Libraries or colleges!
Today, I am preparing for Library Committee which meets in 3rd Week of each term*.
Representatives from a variety of groups in the college sit on this committee, including the Junior, Middle and Senior Common Rooms (JCR, MCR and SCR = undergraduate, postgraduate and academic bodies respectively), the Principal, the Senior Tutor and the Librarian.
The procedures for Library Committee are quite formal: I have to prepare a set of papers which includes the agenda and a variety of supporting paperwork for the committee to consider in the week before the meeting.
This term, the agenda items include a plan for tackling the conservation and cataloguing of the Rare Books collection, matters relating to staffing, circulation statistics showing rates of borrowing and returning items during the last 3 terms and the impact of switching library management systems from GEAC Advance to Aleph in July 2011.
Agenda items are discussed in the meeting with input from JCR, MCR and SCR representatives. If all goes well, my proposals will be passed and I can then begin work on implementing them.


It is widely used as an element in aromatherapy for its many health benefits, including its ability to balance hormones, relieve stress and depression, reduce inflammation and irritation, improve the health of the skin, alleviate the effects of menopause, and improve circulation.
The Essential Oil of Rose Geranium is extracted through steam distillation of stems and leaves of the Rose Geranium plant, bearing the scientific name Pelargonium Graveolens. The main components of this oil are Isomenthone, Linalool, Guaiadiene 6.9, Citronellyl Formate, Geranyl Formate, Citronellol, Geraniol.
The main function of an astringent is to induce contractions in various parts of the body. Accordingly, Rose Geranium Oil makes the gums, muscles, intestines, skin, tissues and blood vessels to contract.
Rose Geranium essential oil can also prevent muscles and skin from sagging.
Lastly, it can reduce the presence of wrinkles by tightening the facial skin, thereby delaying some of the effects of premature aging.
Rose Geranium Oil speeds up the healing process of wounds, cuts and surgical incisions. This property makes it a vulnerary and it is due to its other qualities as a hemostatic, styptic, antibacterial, antimicrobial and cytophylactic substance that also make it a vulnerary.
They could have avoided a waste of time and money had they tried Rose Geranium Oil first. It is a powerful cicatrisant, so it helps the scars and other spots on the skin to fade and vanish.
It facilitates blood circulation just below the surface of skin and also helps promote a uniform distribution of melanin.
Rose Geranium essential oil can stop hemorrhaging in two ways.
First, as an astringent (more specifically, a styptic), it causes the contraction of blood vessels and helps to stop blood flow, as discussed above.
Second, as a hemostatic agent, it speeds up coagulation and the clotting of blood, which aids in the healing of wounds and the prevention of toxins from entering the bloodstream through open or unclotted wounds.
Rose Geranium Oil promotes cell health, encourages the recycling of dead cells, and the regeneration of new cells. This helps in the growth of the body cells as well as the gametes, by making the body metabolize things efficiently.
Rose Geranium essential oil is very beneficial in the treatment of acne, dermatitis and other skin diseases like eczema and Psoriasis.
Furthermore, it has powerful effects to uplift spirits and mental functioning, which makes it useful in the treatment of depression, chronic anxiety, and anger issues.
Rose Geranium oil can have sensitizing effects in rare cases. Since it influences certain hormone secretions, Rose geranium essential oil is therefore not advised for use by pregnant women or for those women who are breast-feeding, since it is unclear whether those same effects transfer through breast milk.


A grey, rainy and dreary day was the main reason we decided to wipe our schedule clean of the overground hikes and explorations, and instead spend the day underground. We had heard remarkable reviews of the Waitomo Glowworm Caves, and after doing a bit of research we decided to go and see the glowworms up close and personal. Here is some more information on the caves and tours available, if you want to know more about them before reading on.
To go into the cave you must go as part of guided groups, which aside from the price is wonderful because the cave is owned and operated by the Maoris, the native settlers of New Zealand. Our guide was hilarious and was able to tell us a lot of history as we walked through. My favorite part of the walking portion of the tour was stepping into the Cathedral cave and having our Maori guide sing a native song to show off the impressive acoustics of the cave.
After completing the walking part of the tour, we had explored a lot of the cave, but had not seen too many glow worms. For that, we all boarded a boat in the dark, but to be honest it was no scarier than hopping on a gondola in Venice! Once on the boat, our guide asked everyone to remain completely silent and just enjoy the ride and the serenity of the cave. We were all completely mesmerized as we looked up and watched the thousands upon thousands of dazzling tiny blue dots on the cave's ceiling, like being in space while underground. I was actually surprised at how quiet Kian and Hannah remained the entire time. Usually they have to ask a ton of questions, but I think they were just as awed. The boats were "steered", or rather dragged forward, by our guide using a series of ropes hanging between the walls!
Unfortunately, photography was not allowed in the cave at all. The pictures you see below are the only ones we were able to 'sneak' that are somewhat decent to share, the rest ended up being too dark or blurry.
The most fascinating thing we learned during our tour was that the glow worms are actually not worms at all, but rather the larvae of an insect called Fungus Gnat, and they glow through bioluminescence. They feed themselves in a similar manner to spiders in that they "weave" a web. The difference is that their net is really no more than a series of sticky strings hanging from the cave's ceiling. Insects that fly towards the luminescent light are caught on the net and are promptly eaten by the glowworm. The glowworm then spends a lot of time repairing the net for its next prey. This larvae stage is the only time that the Fungus Gnat can eat, as the adult actually does not have a mouth!! I don't know about you, but the thought of a glowing larvae grosses me out a lot more than a glowing worm.
After the glowworm caves, we had a few hours before our next underground tour at the Ruakuri Cave. We grabbed lunch at the nearby Big Apple Cafe, which made us chuckle a little bit as it was a fun reminder of New York City, all the way on the other side of the globe! After lunch we went back to the tourist center where we had originally bought the cave tickets, as it had a small Cave Discovery Center that was included in the price of the cave tickets. The center was fun for the kids, they enjoyed crawling through a tiny "cave" from one side of a wall and coming out the other. They also have a small movie theater where we watched a short film about the glowworms and the history of the cave.
Minutes ticked by, but we still had some time before our guide was expected to show up for the next tour. We went to a cafe across the street from the Discovery Center called The General Store, where we sipped on some coffee while the kids busied themselves with dominos. We loved the atmosphere here and would recommend it if you are in the area and need to kill some time.
Alas, it was finally time to visit the Ruakuri Cave, which according to a Maori legend was discovered about 400-500 years ago by a young Maori hunting for birds.
The cave entrance is newly built and it is very cool! We descended into the cave via a long spiral ramp that illuminates the path down into the darkness. Once all the way at the bottom, a door opened to allow us into the cave. The formations in the cave were remarkable and so white! Before we walked into the cave, we were told that we must refrain from touching anything inside, as the oil on the human skin can alter and damage the natural formations. I really really really wanted to touch the curtain formation (third picture below)...which to me actually looked a bit like an elephant's ear. As we walked, we could hear and caught a glimpse of a few black water rafters in the river below us. These guys and gals jump down from a cliff into the waters down below in the cave. Once there, they can hop in a tube and travel through the cave, getting a different perspective than the land tours. Definitely a daring activity, but since for obvious reasons 5 and 3 year olds are not allowed to participate, we were exempt...sigh of relief for me...I will sooner skydive than black water raft!
Alas, our day of caves exploration came to an end upon the conclusion of the Ruakuri Cave tour. We hopped into our car and headed for our next destination, Taupo. We checked into our teenie tiny room for the night and went out to look for a restaurant. We ended up at Taco Taco, a Mexican restaurant with awesome decorations and delicious food!
We are really hoping for warm sunshine tomorrow as we want to explore the Spa Thermal Park and hike to Huka Falls! Lights out!
Elmer found us no problem at the Top 10 Holiday Park in Waitomo. We woke up to find him hanging upside down from Hannah's bunkbed. We thought that probably just as he was pulling himself up all the way to sit on the bed, he must have noticed us waking up and said to himself, "well, I guess I'll just hang out."
See you in Taupo Elmer!


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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
SVS Ultra Speaker System Page 2
The Sound of Pi
Great speakers get out of the way. The Ultras did it fast and consistently, ducking below the parapet at the start of the movie sessions and rarely peeping above it afterward with anything resembling an easy-to-describe personality. The sealed sub had enough output for my midsized room, though I had to increase the surround processor's LFE setting a few decibels above the customary setting. The sub traded brute force for extension and evenness, behaving more like a musician than a blowhard. The crossover from sub to speakers was imperceptible except when I listened for it. I hesitate to apply any adjectives to the Bookshelf's midrange because it provided such an unsmudged window into whatever the content and source component were offering at any given moment. The highs grew out of the mids naturally and transparently, and the net effect of all this was a kind of wholeness, a sense of unity and continuity, as opposed to just a bunch of drivers in wooden boxes.
The sonically eventful Life of Pi threw a variety of challenges at the Ultras. The opening music was lush and sweet—in fact, the Ultra monitor's tweeter sounded more like I'm accustomed to from fabric domes, gentle and non-resonant, than can be the case with some aluminum domes. Satellites and sub worked together to make the storm-tossed ship a shockingly intense and violent event. They operated so seamlessly that I might have been listening to full-range towers and a multichannel muscle amp, as opposed to a monitors-and-sub system powered by a receiver. Later on, with the swirling all-channel music that accompanies Pi's visions-at-sea experience, the system produced an almost hallucinogenic effect, a feeling continued in the subsequent scene of meerkat flocks in the jungle. Thanks to the Ultras, the movie's soundtrack was as moving as its visuals.
The Ultra Center took the leading role in Silver Linings Playbook. Dialogue at every possible level came through with a natural feeling and a lack of obvious coloration. Again, the monitors and sub dovetailed beautifully, with localization of male voices in the sub as minimal as possible. Voices remained intelligible as I moved off axis. In the diner scene, the system handled the multichannel room ambience as well as it did the tumultuous dialogue (with Jennifer Lawrence memorably providing most of the tumult). The Ultra Surround blended well with the Bookshelf and Center. The soundtrack is studded with great musical moments from the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Alabama Shakes, and others, and the Ultras invariably made them pleasurable to hear.
The Expendables 2—which fits more action stars into one movie than anything in Hollywood history: Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, blah, blah, blah—gave the Ultras their most action-rich workout. The speakers and sub couldn't have done a better job with the barrage of shots, crashes, clatters, vrooms, collisions, slams, bams, pows, booms, biffs, etc. The sealed sub's low-frequency treatment may not have been as aggressive as some, but I liked the way it reproduced controlled explosions, and its inherent musicality came in even handier during the subsequent music demos. The surround channels were ideally mated with the front channels. Surround effects didn't call attention to themselves, but when the soundtrack called for all-channel ambience or a lateral surround pan, the surround speakers delivered.
From 5.1 to 2.0
Neil Young: Journeys, the Jonathan Demme film of a solo stand at Toronto's Massey Hall, made the most of 5.1 as a music medium, and here the Ultra's unity was at its most impressive. Young's high, lonesome whine—still a young man's voice in an old man's body—was recorded from a mid-hall perspective with loads of surround ambience. The surround channels were also critical for spatial reproduction of roiling fuzztones and interestingly processed acoustic guitars. The Ultras worked as a single unit to reproduce this busy soundfield in a manner that was rich, immersive, and very un-speaker-bound. It was like being lost in a warm, churning ocean of sound (perhaps I was still visualizing Pi). What might have been sludge became magic, as the artist intended.
A system this good demanded vinyl, and the Ultra Bookshelf had enough bass to operate by itself, in the receiver's 2.0 pure mode, most of the time. My pressing of Telemann's Tafelmusik ("table music") wears the gold-on-black Telefunken label from the 1960s, around the time of original release. The Concerto Amsterdam recording features Gustav Leonhardt on harpsichord, an instrument often rendered as a faint metallic tinkle. But through the Ultras, it was transformed (or restored) to a more spatially precise and timbrally rich sound, each note and chord wedded to its decay. The tonal balance of the strings was warm and woody. I love this record, and this reproduction of it was the best-case scenario.
Not for the first time recently, I turned to the Atlantic Records compilation The Jazz Years: 1948–1973, this time concentrating on the second of the two LPs. String bass is a good test of any monitor, and in this wide variety of recordings, the Ultras handled the instrument's weight and proportioning well. Switching the receiver out of pure mode to the sub-enhanced stereo mode did little to diminish the basses: These speakers can do a lot without help from a sub. But from track to track, the basses did shift position from a spot smack between the speakers to a spot farther back, once again illustrating the Ultra's ability to get out of the way and let the recording make its own spatial arrangements. The Bookshelf also brought out the ringing harmonics of Dwike Mitchell's pounding repetitive piano solo in "The Catbird Seat" by the Mitchell-Ruff Trio.
I have the deepest respect for what SVS has done with the Ultra line, and for this listener, where respect treads, pleasure and relaxation are rarely far behind. These speakers do everything well, and the more time I spent with them, the more I appreciated the way they could get the best out of any content in my library—free of gross flaws, too-obvious subjectivity, or little niggling quirks that grow tiresome in the long term. The Ultra's price/performance ratio is through the roof, and I recommend the line not only to those planning a purchase in this price category, but even to those who were planning to pay more. I don't say this often, but I'll say it now: I could live with these.
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Victorin de Feltre, en italien Vittorino da Feltre, de son nom de naissance Vittore Ramboldini (1378-1446) fut un humaniste et éducateur italien.

Biographie
Né à Feltre de parents pauvres, Victorin de Feltre enseigna la rhétorique et la philosophie à l'université de Padoue.

Il est appelé en 1423 à Mantoue par Jean-François Gonzague qui lui confia l'éducation de ses enfants, et fonda dans cette ville une école modèle, qui fut longtemps florissante. Sa réputation tenait à ce qu'il ne s'attachait pas moins à cultiver le cœur que l'esprit de ses élèves. Il était réputé lui-même être un modèle de vertu.

Pisanello le désigne comme un grand mathématicien et humaniste.

Il demeure à Mantoue jusqu'à sa mort en 1446.

Enseignement
Dans son école, la Ca' Zoiosa ou Ca' Zocosa, située au cœur de la ville, entre la cathédrale et le Palazzo del Capitano, il faisait alterner l'étude des auteurs classiques et de la philosophie grecque avec les jeux et l'exercice physique, recherchant ainsi le bien-être entre le corps et l'esprit.

Parmi ses élèves, on cite Georges de Trébizonde, Théodore de Gaza, Jean-François Gonzague, Frédéric de Montefeltre, Francesco Calcagnini, Gregorio Correr et Omnibonus Leonicenus, qui continua à Vicence l'enseignement de Victorin.

Sa biographie a été écrite par Francesco Prendilacqua, qui fut son élève et lui succéda dans la direction de son école, sous le titre de Dialogus de Vita Victorini Feltrensis (1474). En 1460, Bartolomeo Sacchi, dit Le Platina, écrivit un Commentariolus de Vita Victorini Feltrensis.

Notes et références

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Naissance à Feltre
Écrivain italien du XVe siècle
Écrivain italien de langue latine
Humaniste italien de la Renaissance
Naissance en 1378
Décès en février 1446
Décès à Mantoue

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Victoria County History - Worcestershire
A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3
Parishes: Frankley
A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1913.
ADVOWSON
Franchelie (xi cent.); Frangelce (xii cent.); Frankeleg, Francele, Fraunkel (xiii cent.).
The parish of Frankley is situated on high ground 3 miles south-east of Halesowen, the lowest part being in the north-west about 500 ft. above the ordnance datum, near the brook which divides the parish from Hunnington. The parish is situated on the east side of a continuation of the Clent and Lickey Hills. Frankley Beeches, a high point in the parish, is one of the great landmarks. The ridge from thence to Frankley Hill commands fine views, extending from the Cotswolds, Edge Hill, and the Leicestershire Hills by Barr Beacon and Dudley to the Wrekin and North Clee, and on a clear day as far as the Berwyn range, 70 miles away. The principal roads are a branch from Scotland Lane in Northfield, which cuts through the parish from east to west and then turns south towards Bromsgrove, and a road from Rubery station, which runs northward through the parish. This station, which is just within Frankley parish, is on a branch line of the Midland railway and was opened in 1881. There are reservoirs here for the storage of the water conveyed from Wales for the supply of Birmingham.
The village of Frankley, in the north-east of the parish, is very small and consists of the church, a farm called Westminster Farm, and a few cottages. The site of the old manor-house lies to the west of the church. It was formerly the chief seat of the Lyttelton family, but during the Civil War was occupied by Prince Rupert, who, on leaving it, burnt it to the ground to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy. In 1601 the house was described as 'a very fair brick house and in good repair, and hath large and sufficient barns, stables, and outhouses.' (fn. 1) The tower of the present church was built out of the ruins of Frankley Hall. (fn. 2) The rectory is about a quarter of a mile further west, where the two principal roads intersect. The National school was built in 1865 and has since been enlarged.
Frankley Green (fn. 3) was formerly common land running on each side of the roadway now bearing the name. The irregular line of its boundaries can still be traced.
The parish, which is entirely agricultural, has an area of 1,934 acres, of which the greater part is pasture land, 682 acres being arable land and 112 wood. (fn. 4) The soil is chiefly clay and the subsoil sandstone and marl. A bed of running sand is found on Frankley Lower Hill Farm, near the railway, where it has caused landslips. A red stone from a quarry at Holly Hill has been used for many years for road-making in the parish. The best of it has been taken by the Birmingham Corporation to make concrete for their reservoir.
The chief crops are oats, wheat, clover, roots, and recently potatoes. Certain old field-names such as the 'Hopyard,' now part of the station yard, and a 'Hop Leasowe' at Egg Hill suggest a former cultivation of this plant. There is a tradition of flax having been grown, as at the 'Whitening Ground,' and old women forty years ago used to talk of 'hurdening,' i.e. making hurden in their younger days. Some nail-making used to be carried on some thirty years ago. (fn. 5)
Among the place-names are Grandynneslone Road, (fn. 6) Whickeweye, (fn. 7) Bynghameslond, Berghenlond, Slowlond, Hullefeldes, (fn. 8) Brande Ground, (fn. 9) Hoblets, (fn. 10) Jounax, Hobacre, Sling, Welsh Meadow, Sollycroft, Kettles, Grumbling Leasowe, Price's Wood, or Priests' Wood, Ravenhays Wood, Scotland Lane, and California.
The manor of FRANKLEY belonged before the Conquest to a certain Wulfwine, but in 1086 was held by Baldwin of William Fitz Ansculf. (fn. 11) The overlordship followed the same descent as the barony of Dudley (q.v.) until 1323, (fn. 12) when on the division of John de Somery's lands it was assigned to his younger sister Joan de Botetourt. (fn. 13) The representatives of Joan de Botetourt held the overlordship until early in the 15th century. (fn. 14) The Bishop of Worcester was said to be overlord in 1481, (fn. 15) 1508, (fn. 16) and in 1599, (fn. 17) after which date the overlordship seems to have lapsed. Of these lords the manor was held by knight service. The amount of service said to be due for it varies in different deeds.
See of Worcester. Argent ten roundels gules.
The names of Baldwin's successors as underlords are not known before 1166, when Bernard de Frankley is mentioned as holding four knights' fees of Gervase Paynel. (fn. 18) This Bernard is known to have held the manor of Trysull, co. Stafford, at the same time and occurs about 1160 under the name of Bernard son of Giles de Trysull. (fn. 19) In 1196 Miles Pichard conveyed half a hide of land in Frankley to Stephen de Every and his wife Constance. (fn. 20) Nash mentions a grant in the reign of Richard I by Philip de Frankley, son of Philip de Worcester, of land in Frankley to Simon de Heyles. (fn. 21) Philip was succeeded by Simon de Frankley, (fn. 22) who early in the 13th century gave a rent of 4s. to the Abbot and monks of Halesowen to pray for the souls of Rose his wife and of 'Elicia' his mother. (fn. 23) He is mentioned early in the 13th century as holding a quarter of a knight's fee in Frankley, (fn. 24) and was living in 1232, (fn. 25) but he must have died before 1233, when his son and heir is mentioned as having been given by Roger de Somery as a hostage to Walter de Beauchamp. (fn. 26) Simon's heir is generally supposed to have been a daughter Emma, (fn. 27) but the above entry shows that he had a son. Further, the Lyttelton charters show that the son's name was Philip and that Simon also had a daughter Margery. (fn. 28) Philip is called lord of Frankley in several charters, (fn. 29) and Emma lady of Frankley, who married Thomas de Lyttelton, (fn. 30) was evidently his heir, whether as his sister or daughter is not known. She too left an only daughter Emma, who married firstly Anger de Talton, who died before 1276, (fn. 31) and secondly Nicholas de Wheathampstead. In 1276 Emma, then a widow, gave to the Abbot and convent of Halesowen a rent of 2s. yearly from the land of Hugh de la Ruding in Frankley, for the soul of Anger de Talton, her late husband. (fn. 32) In 1280–1 she and her second husband settled the manor on themselves and the heirs of their bodies with remainders to Nicholas son of Emma (fn. 33) and to Emma's brother Edmund son of Thomas. (fn. 34) In 1286, under an agreement between Nicholas de Wheathampstead and Nicholas de Talton (called de Frankley) son of Emma by her first husband, (fn. 35) it was provided that Nicholas de Wheathampstead was to hold the manor for his life, and that Nicholas de Frankley was to receive yearly from the manor of Frankley 5 marks until the should come of age, and afterwards all the rents of the manor. (fn. 36) Emma died in 1298, her son Nicholas being then twenty-eight years of age. (fn. 37)
He as Nicholas de Frankley sold the manor in 1299 to Sir Nicholas de Wymale, (fn. 38) to whom he also granted the wardship and marriage of his eldest son Thomas, (fn. 39) together with certain rents in Frankley which Christine, lady of Frankley (possibly the wife of Philip de Frankley), had held in dower. (fn. 40) These conveyances extended over the years 1299 to 1302, but before 1305 Sir Nicholas de Wymale must have exchanged the actual possession of the manor for a life estate in a rent of £25 from it, for in that year Nicholas de Frankley released to Sir John de Benstede, clerk, his right in the manor and the reversion of a yearly rent of £25 which Sir Nicholas de Wymale held for life of his grant. (fn. 41) At the same time Richard de Capenore granted to Sir John a yearly rent of £5 15s. which Nicholas de Frankley had given him. (fn. 42)
John de Benstede, who was chief justice of the Common Pleas, received a grant of free warren at Frankley in 1305, (fn. 43) and sold the manor in 1308 to Adam de Harvington, (fn. 44) whose right in it was confirmed in 1319 by Thomas son of Nicholas de Frankley. In 1323–4 Adam granted the reversion of the manor after his death to Edmund de Grafton and his heirs, (fn. 45) and in 1344 Thomas son of Nicholas de Frankley confirmed the manor to Adam de Harvington and John de Grafton, who was presumably the successor of Edmund de Grafton. (fn. 46) John son of John de Grafton gave the manor to John Seers, Richard de Doverdale and other clerks, who were probably trustees, and they conveyed it in 1350 to Gilbert Chasteleyn, (fn. 47) who in the same year obtained a grant of free warren there. (fn. 48) Gilbert and his wife Margaret sold the manor in 1354 to Sir John Beauchamp, (fn. 49) who died seised of it in 1360. (fn. 50) His brother and heir, Thomas Earl of Warwick, must have sold it to Sir Richard Fitton, for in 1383 the executors of the will of Sir Richard were released by the overlord John de Botetourt from all claims in respect of the manor of Frankley. (fn. 51) Joan widow of Sir Richard Fitton in 1384 sold her right to William de Spernall, (fn. 52) who in 1399–1400 settled the manor on himself and his wife Alice and their issue male, with contingent remainder to his right heirs. (fn. 53) William died without issue male, leaving two daughters, Margaret, who married firstly Henry Hervyle, and secondly William Wybbe, and Joyce, who married William Swynfen. (fn. 54) Alice widow of William married Sir Thomas Stafford, and afterwards John Mulsho. (fn. 55) She apparently held the manor for life, and made various settlements of it, conveying it to William Sulney and John Alrewich as trustees, and in 1401–2 it was confirmed to them by Edward son of Thomas de Frankley. (fn. 56) Later Alice conveyed her claim in the manor to Cornelius de Wirleye, who reconveyed it to Sir Thomas Burdet, Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Exeter, and others, who were probably trustees for Alice's daughters. (fn. 57)
In 1405 the manor was claimed from these trustees by Thomas Lyttelton grandson of the first Thomas Lyttelton of Frankley by his second wife Acelina, daughter of Warin Fitz William de Upton. (fn. 58) He based his claim on the fine levied in 1281 by which Nicholas de Wheathampstead and Emma his wife had settled Frankley on her son Nicholas de Frankley and his heirs, with contingent remainders to her half-brother Edmund Lyttelton. Lyttelton stated that Thomas son of Nicholas de Frankley and the said Edmund had both died without issue, though it has been seen above that Thomas had a son Edward, who was alive in 1401–2, and the defendants stated was still alive at the time of the suit. Thomas Lyttelton, the claimant, was nephew and heir of Edmund Lyttelton, (fn. 59) and, in spite of the numerous sales that had taken place, he recovered seisin of the manor, and in 1410 settled it on his wife Maud. (fn. 60) He is said to have died in 1422, (fn. 61) leaving an only daughter Elizabeth, who married Thomas Westcote alias Heuster. (fn. 62) His widow Maud granted the manor in 1429 to John Massy, (fn. 63) whom she is said to have married as her second husband. (fn. 64) John was holding the manor in 1431, (fn. 65) and granted it in that year to Thomas and Nicholas Burdet and others. (fn. 66) Possibly they were trustees for Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Lyttelton, for in 1461–2 the manor was settled upon her and her heirs, (fn. 67) and in 1476 Thomas Burdet gave up the manor to Elizabeth and her son Sir Thomas Lyttelton, (fn. 68) who was known by his mother's name on account of the importance of the property he inherited from her. (fn. 69)
He was made justice of the Common Pleas in 1466, and is famous for his book on Tenures, which he wrote for his son Richard, who was a barrister. (fn. 70) In 1476 he obtained an inspeximus from Edward IV confirming his right to the manor of Frankley. (fn. 71) He died seised of it in 1481 and was succeeded by his eldest son William, (fn. 72) who was knighted by Henry VII after the battle of Stoke in 1487. (fn. 73) Sir William died in 1507, having left the manor of Frankley to his wife Mary for her life. (fn. 74) His son John married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Gilbert Talbot, and settled the manor on her in 1531. (fn. 75) He died in the following year, and was succeeded by a son John, (fn. 76) who obtained livery of the manor in 1541. (fn. 77) The manor of Hagley was purchased by this John in 1565, (fn. 78) and the further descent of Frankley is identical with that of Hagley, (fn. 79) Viscount Cobham being at present lord of both manors.
A tenement called OLDENHULL in Frankley belonged to a family of that name in the 13th and 14th centuries. (fn. 80) John son of John de Oldenhull was outlawed in 1353 or 1363, (fn. 81) and his property was taken into the king's hands. In 1382 Oldenhull was claimed and recovered by Sir Richard Fitton as lord of Frankley, (fn. 82) and continued to be held with the manor. (fn. 83)
A deer park existed at Frankley in 1360, and it was then worth nothing beyond the keep of the deer. (fn. 84) At the beginning of the 17th century it is said to have contained twenty red deer and 200 fallow deer. (fn. 85) It seems to have been disparked after the house was burnt down during the Civil War.
A wood called Bromwich Wood containing 'seaven acres wherein are some few timber trees, some fire wood [and] oak trees, the underwood [being] for the most part alder trees,' (fn. 86) is mentioned in the 17th century.
The church of ST. LEONARD consists of a chancel 24 ft. 7 in. by 13 ft. 2 in., a nave 41 ft. 6 in. by 21 ft. 6 in., a south porch and west tower about 8 ft. 6 in. square. These measurements are all internal.
The earliest details in the building date from the 15th century. The modern east window of the chancel is of three lights with old jambs, the stops to the external label being carved with butterflies. The five windows in the side walls are all modern, as is the chancel arch.
The nave is lit by three two-light windows with square heads in the north wall, with two similar windows and one single light in the south wall, but except for the jambs of the south-eastern window all are modern. The south door and porch are also modern. The modern tower opens with a round arch on to the nave with smaller arches on the north and south, the nave being prolonged on each side to the western face. The west window is of 15th-century date, of two lights, with a four-centred head. Both roofs are old, with arched braces to the principal rafters and moulded wall-plates. The chancel roof has two cambered tie-beams with braces.
The external facing of the church is of red and grey sandstone, and the tower is finished with a plain parapet with pinnacles at the angles.
There were formerly two bells; one being cracked was exchanged for a school bell about 1865. The remaining bell bears the inscription 'Sir Iohn Littilton 1588.'
The plate includes a large cup with cover paten of the Puritan type, hall mark 1707. On the foot of the cup is the inscription 'This belongs to Frankley in the County of Worcester and Chappel of St. Kenellum 1708.' The flagon is plated.
The registers before 1812 are as follows: (i) and (iA) bound together, containing baptisms 1598 to 1697, burials 1642 to 1695, marriages 1604 to 1695; baptisms and burials 1701 to 1748, marriages 1701 to 1745; (ii) baptisms and burials 1748 to 1812, marriages 1748 to 1794. The marriages overlap with volume iii, which includes marriages 1754 to 1812.
Frankley was formerly a chapelry annexed to the church of Halesowen. The chapel is first mentioned at the end of the 12th century, when Simon, lord of Frankley, granted to it certain lands in 'Cleilond in Frankley.' (fn. 87) Evidently the right of burial belonged to the mother church of Halesowen, since in 1236 Ralph, chaplain of Frankley, was accused of burying a dead body there to the detriment of the mother church, and was obliged to restore the mortuaries then made. (fn. 88) Nash mentions a confirmation of the chapel of Frankley to the monastery of Halesowen by Emma de Frankley in 1275–6. (fn. 89) This was probably in consequence of a claim by the prior and monks of Dudley to the advowson of Frankley as part of the church of Northfield, but they gave up their claim in 1297 to the Abbot and convent of Halesowen. (fn. 90) The advowson of the chapel has always followed the same descent as that of the church of Halesowen (fn. 91) (q.v.), and now belongs to Viscount Cobham. The chapelry was declared a rectory in 1866. (fn. 92)
By licence of Bishop Polton dated 1427 Maud Lyttelton had an oratory where mass was celebrated at Frankley. (fn. 93) A similar licence was granted to Thomas Lyttelton in 1443. (fn. 94) This chapel is mentioned in the will of Thomas Lyttelton in 1481 as Trinity chapel, Frankley. He bequeathed to it his 'gode litel massbook and gode vestment with the apparyl to an auter of the same sort of vestments which were my moder's,' while to the chapel of St. Leonard he left his 'great antiphoner.' (fn. 95) The Trinity chapel was probably destroyed with the manor-house.
In 1471–2 the Abbot of Halesowen was summoned to answer Sir Thomas Lyttelton why he did not find a priest during all the time Sir Thomas was at Frankley, (fn. 96) the reference probably being to the chapel of St. Leonard, as it appears from an earlier suit between the Abbot of Halesowen and the Archdeacon of Worcester that the abbot was bound to find a priest three days a week to perform divine service in St. Leonard's chapel. (fn. 97)
After the Dissolution Frankley was served by a perpetual curate, who was provided with a stipend of £10 by the Lytteltons. Sir Henry Lyttelton in the time of Charles II endowed the chapel with tithes amounting to about £40 a year, in lieu of this stipend. (fn. 98)
In 1738 Sir Thomas Lyttelton, bart., inclosed a plot of ground round the chapel for a cemetery, and with the bishop's permission it was used as a common burial-ground for the parishioners of Frankley. (fn. 99)
The vill of Frankley being in the county of Worcester, but owning Halesowen, which was in Shropshire, as its parish church, was occasionally assessed for ninths in both counties. The inhabitants complained that this had happened in 1341, and prayed the king for a remedy. (fn. 100)
During the 15th century the inhabitants of Frankley subscribed 7d. yearly for the 'hye light. (fn. 101) The church ale at Frankley is mentioned in churchwardens' accounts of Halesowen in 1497. (fn. 102)
There are no endowed charities.
1. Exch. Spec. Com. 44 Eliz. no. 2519.
2. Noake, Guide to Worc. 168.
3. Inform. from Rev. J. H. Bourlay.
4. Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905).
5. Inform. from Rev. J. H. Bourlay, late rector of Frankley.
6. Jeayes, Lyttelton Chart. no. 67.
7. Ibid. no. 131.
8. Ibid. no. 265, 314.
10. Inform. from Rev. J. H. Bourlay.
11. V.C.H. Worcs. i, 316a.
12. Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 269, 567; Worc. Inq. p.m. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.), pt. i, 58; Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Edw. II, no. 72.
13. Cal. Close, 1318–23, p. 631.
14. Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. III, pt. i, no. 34; Fend. Aids, v, 323.
15. Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. IV, no. 55.
16. Ibid. (Ser. 2), xxii, 48.
17. Ibid. cclvii, 71.
18. Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 269.
19. Will. Salt Arch. Soc. Coll. i, 200.
20. a Family of Picard, 14.
21. Nash, Hist. of Worc. i, 458.
23. Jeayes, op. cit. no. 6. Rose was the daughter of Ralph de Chenduit and Elicia, who is probably the Elicia here mentioned (Wrottesley, Ped. from the Plea R. 480; Cur. Reg. R. Trin. 8 Hen. III, m. 11 d.).
24. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 40b.
25. Cal. Pat. 1225–32, p. 523.
26. Cal. Close, 1231–4, p. 247.
27. Burke, Extinct Peerage, under Lyttleton of Mownslow.
28. Jeayes, op. cit. no. 21.
29. Ibid. no. 19, 20, 21, 22.
30. Burke, Extinct Peerage, loc. cit.
31. Jeayes, op. cit. no. 37; Burke, Peerage, under Cobham; Nash, Hist. of Worc. i, 493.
33. By her first husband.
34. a Feet of F. Worcs. case 259, file 10, no. 21. Edmund was half-brother of Emma.
36. Ibid. 1279–88, p. 410.
37. Worc. Inq. p.m. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.), pt. i, 58.
38. Jeayes, op. cit. no. 47, 46.
39. Ibid. no. 48.
43. Cal. Chart. R. 1300–26, p. 59.
44. Feet of F. Worcs. 2 Edw. II, no. 4.
45. Ibid. Mich. 17 Edw. II, no. 8.
46. Jeayes, op. cit. no. 126.
47. Ibid. no. 144.
48. Chart. R. 24 Edw. III, m. 4, no. 13.
50. Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. III (pt. i), no. 34.
52. Ibid. 225.
53. De Banco R. East. 6 Hen. IV. m. 192; Trin. 9 Hen. IV, m. 319.
56. Close, 4 Hen. IV, m. 39 d.
57. De Banco R. East. 6 Hen. IV, m. 192.
58. Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. lxi, fol. 29; Burke, Exttnct Pecrage, under Lyttleton of Mownslow.
59. Wrottesley, Ped. from the Plea R. 237–8.
61. Burke, loc. cit.
62. Elizabeth is generally supposed to have married Thomas Heuster as a second husband. The truth, however, appears to be that Thomas Westcote was known also as Thomas Heuster. Elizabeth is spoken of as Thomas Heuster's wife in 1417 (Jeayes, op. cit. no. 274) and as his widow in 1461 (Feet of F. Worcs. Mich. 1 Edw. IV, no. 1), while her son Thomas by Thomas Westcote was born in 1422 (Dict. Nat. Biog.). Moreover in 1436 Thomas Westcote alias Heuster is mentioned in a Lyttelton charter (no. 326), and in 1440 'Thomas Littulton son of Thomas Heuster' occurs (Jeayes, op. cit. no. 337).
64. Ibid. Introd. p. viii.
65. Feud. Aids, v, 330.
67. Feet of F. Worcs. Mich. 1 Edw. IV, no. 1.
69. Her other children retained the name Westcote.
70. Dict. Nat. Biog.
72. Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. IV, no. 55. William was married about 1469 to Ellen daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Walsh (Jeayes, op. cit. no. 391b).
73. Dict. Nat. Biog. under Thomas Littleton.
74. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxii, 48.
76. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), liv, 137.
78. Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 7 Eliz.
79. For references see Hagley.
80. Add. Chart. 17390; Jeayes, op. cit. no. 29, 72, 165; Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 Ric. II, no. 45; 2 Ric. II, no. 37.
81. The inquisitions vary as to the date of his outlawry (Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Ric. II, no. 37; 1 Ric. II, no. 45).
83. Ibid. no. 223, 265, 314.
84. Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. III, pt. i, no. 34.
85. Exch. Spec. Com. 44 Eliz. no. 2519.
87. Jeayes, op. cit. no. 2. The bounds of the land are given in the charter. Being included in the church of Halesowen, Frankley is not mentioned in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas or the Valor Ecclesiasticus.
89. op. cit. i, 462.
91. See Halesowen.
92. Lond. Gaz. 14 Dec. 1866, p. 6942.
93. Worc. Epis. Reg. Polton (1425–33), fol. 26.
94. Nash, op. cit. i, 463.
95. Dict. Nat. Biog.; Nicolas, Test. Vetusta, 365.
100. Cal. Close, 1341–3, p. 105.
101. Nash, op. cit. ii, App. xxix.