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Q: Javafx Unable to attach contextmenu due to separate thread I have a Listener in my class. It looks it gets activated when a Belgian ID card is inserted and places the name in a textField. Now when this happens the program should also look if this name has already been inserted in the database, if it has not it should attach a contextmenu that is styled as a warning.
It goes wrong when im trying to attach the contextmenu, i know the code works as i have been using it in multiple places in my code. I get the following error:
Error
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not on FX application thread; currentThread = Thread-4
    at com.sun.javafx.tk.Toolkit.checkFxUserThread(Toolkit.java:236)
    at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.checkFxUserThread(QuantumToolkit.java:423)
    at javafx.stage.Window.setShowing(Window.java:921)
    at javafx.stage.Window.show(Window.java:937)
    at javafx.stage.PopupWindow.showImpl(PopupWindow.java:454)
    at javafx.stage.PopupWindow.show(PopupWindow.java:399)
    at javafx.scene.control.ContextMenu.doShow(ContextMenu.java:287)
    at javafx.scene.control.ContextMenu.show(ContextMenu.java:262)
    at util.Validation.attachNotFound(Validation.java:140)
    at paginas.CheckOut$1.cardInserted(CheckOut.java:105)
    at be.belgium.eid.event.CardAlivePromptTask.run(CardAlivePromptTask.java:79)

Listener
private final CardListener cl = new CardListener() {
        @Override
        public void cardInserted() {
            //de laadcirkel wordt zichtbaar wanneer het programma begint met een kaart te lezen.
            String fullName;
            System.out.println("card connected.");
            try {
                laadcirkel.setVisible(true);
                IDData data = id.getIDData();
                //voornaam ophalen, de format is nodig aangezien de reader de eerste naam en de tweede naam geeft.
                fullName = StringUtilities.format(data.get1stFirstname());

                //achternaam ophalen
                fullName = fullName + " " + data.getName();

                text_id.setText(fullName);
                text_id.autosize();

                CheckInOut c = lijst.getByCheckInName(text_id.getText());
                if (c != null) {
                    checkOut(c);
                } else {
                    Validation.attachNotFound(text_id);
                }
                laadcirkel.setVisible(false);

                //reset de layout om een visuele bug op te van in javafx.
                laadcirkel.getParent().getParent().setStyle("-fx-font: " + font + "px Tahoma;");

            } catch (EIDException ex) {
                Logger.getLogger(AanmeldPagina.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            }
        }

It goes wrong when i call Validation.attachNotFound(text_id);
Attach not found
public static void attachNotFound(TextField field) {
        field.setStyle("-fx-text-box-border: red ;-fx-focus-color: red ;");
        MenuItem item = new MenuItem("Not found");
        ContextMenu menu = new ContextMenu();
        menu.getStyleClass().add("error");
        menu.setAutoHide(true);
        menu.getItems().add(item);
        menu.show(field, Side.RIGHT, 10, 0);
        field.focusedProperty().addListener((ObservableValue<? extends Boolean> observable, Boolean oldValue, Boolean newValue) -> {
            if (newValue) {
                menu.show(field, Side.RIGHT, 10, 0);
            }
        });
    }

I hope this is solvable with a small piece of code and that i dont have to rewrite a large portion of my program, thanks in advance.

A: If you wrap the body of attachNotFound it like ...
Platform.runLater(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        ...
    }
});

... everything will be fine.
This ensures that the code placed to the "..." will be executed on the JavaFX Thread. (The code from attachNotFound goes to the place of "...")


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Rust College will welcome alumnus and Grammy-nominated artist Anita Ward Richardson, '78, as keynote speaker during the 147th Founders' Convocation. The convocation will be held Sunday, November 10 at 11:00 a.m. in Morehouse Auditorium of the Doxey Alumni Fine Arts-Communication Building.
skyrocketed to the top of the charts at age 22 with disco hit "Ring My Bell." Born in Memphis, Tennessee, the oldest of five children, Richardson says singing came naturally to her. She grew up singing in her local church, as well as various other churches.
While attending Rust College, she was a member of the Rust College A'Cappella choir, where she quickly became a featured vocalist. Her first professional recording was with the choir as they accompanied opera singer Leontyne Price.
With the success of "Ring My Bell," Richardson went on to extensive tours in the United States and Europe, including Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. She has also toured and performed in Central and South America, Mexico and Brazil. Her television appearances include: "The Midnight Special," "The Merv Griffin Show," "American Bandstand" and "Top of the Pop in England."
During the 1990s, she chose to resume teaching, a career she began prior to her worldwide hit. She says although she is a full-time wife and mother, music has never ceased to be a part of her life. Richardson's hit "Ring My Bell" is still popular around the world. It was featured on Wii's Gameplay "Just Dance (November 2009) and has been featured on the soundtracks of 14 movies over the past three decades; as recently as 2010 in "The Book of Eli."
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Gintaisi (Manchu: ; died September 29, 1619), known as Jintaishi () or Jintaiji () in Chinese, was a Jurchen beile (chieftain) of the Yehe tribal confederation.

He was the younger brother of Narimbulu, and became one of the two beile of the Yehe tribe after the death of his brother which took place sometime before 1613. In 1613, Bujantai the beile of the Ula tribe had fled to the Yehe after the defeat of his forces at the hands of Nurhaci. Gintaisi gave him protection and when attacked by Nurhaci, he appealed to the Ming Chinese for help.
In 1615, he attempted to appease the Mongols on the west by marrying his cousin (who had eighteen years before been promised to Nurhaci) to the Khalka beile. The alliance with the Chinese in the end proved to be a futile arrangement, for in 1619 Nurhaci defeated a large Chinese army, together with its Yehe auxiliaries at the Battle of Sarhu and then proceeded to besiege Gintaisi in his own stronghold. Despite attempts at a settlement by Nurhaci's son, Hong Taiji the future emperor who was also Gintaisi's nephew, the fighting continued until both Gintaisi and his cousin Buyanggu (布揚古) had been captured. Gintaisi was either executed by hanging or he committed suicide, but not before he allegedly cursed Nurhaci that as long as one of his descendants lived, even a female one, he or she would remember the clan's vendetta and bring down the Aisin Gioro.

With his death, the independent existence of the Yehe tribe came to an end and the last of the Jurchen tribes under the Hūlun (alliance) were brought under the control of Nurhaci, but many of its members, including his descendants, became prominent in the service of Nurhaci and of the succeeding Manchu emperors. Even the Empress Dowager Cixi traced her descent back to the Yehe division of the Nara clan, and recognized Yangginu, the father of Gintaisi, as her great ancestor.

References

 Veit, Veronika (2007). The Role of Women in the Altaic World. Harrassowitz Verlag.

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Population: 1911, 252; 1921, 245; 1931, 233.
The parish, which adjoins Oxfordshire on the east and south, is hilly, most of the land lying between 400 ft. in the north and 600 ft. in the south. The soil is rich corn-land, but much of it is pasture. There are several small streams, of which one forms the parish boundary for some distance on the east and north; and there are many trees in the hedgerows, as well as one or two shaws in the south. The road from Banbury to Warwick runs through the parish from south to north and then north-west, sending off a branch to the hamlet of Arlescote, which lies in the west of the parish on the slopes of Edge Hill where it is crowned by Nadbury Camp in Ratley (q.v.).
The church stands directly on the east side of the main road from Banbury to Warwick at the top of a steep gradient and the village lies mostly to the northeast of it at a lower level. It is one of the few in this district that has a spacious village green (almost rectangular), with the houses on three sides of it and with a slope upwards to the south. Most of the buildings are of local stone with thatched or stone-tiled roofs. One of the houses at the south-east angle, facing west, has 17th-century windows with mullions and labels and an arched and square-headed doorway also with a label. Grove Farm, in a side turning just off the south-east of the green, is mainly an 18th-century ashlar stone house with a central front door and plain square-headed windows, but is of earlier origin, having mullioned windows surviving in the basement walls, moulded ceiling-beams, and a staircase with turned balusters and newels of the 17th century.
The Manor House, of two stories and attics, faces the green at its higher south end and is built of coursed rough ashlar. It dates from the second half of the 16th century and is of half-H-shaped plan: the gabled wings project to the south and have gables also on the north front, which is all in one plane. They have moulded copings and tall pinnacles at the apexes. The west side of the west wing has a tall flush dormer (over the staircase) with a similar gable. A similar dormer on the east side of the house (to the east staircase) became dilapidated and was taken down a few years ago. All the windows have moulded mullions and labels; some have been restored. The north and south doorways have moulded jambs with base-stops and four-centred arches in square heads with labels and with plain shields carved in the spandrels. They open into a crosspassage west of the middle hall, which is entered from it by another arched doorway. The hall has a moulded north fire-place with four-centred arch, set in a chimney-stack that projects on the north front and has a plain shaft. There are similar fire-places in the southeast wing and in the upper story. The kitchen in the south-west wing has a plain wide fire-place. The hall has fine moulded ceiling-beams and exposed joists. Both east and west staircases wind round a central framed square newel in which are cupboards, &c., and the eastern retains a few pierced flat-shaped balusters against the wall of the lowest flight. The window masonry throughout has a large number of masons' marks, a W, an R, and another. The roofs have tall queen-posts, between which are the attic-chambers. They are mostly covered with stone tiles.
The Abbey of Préaux established a cell at Warmington, (fn. 8) the prior of which was holding Arlescote as half a knight's fee of Edmund, brother of Edward I, as of the earldom of Leicester in 1299. (fn. 9) During the 14th century, however, the 'priory' seems to have lapsed, and the manor of Warmington, which was worth about £30 in 1380, was under the control of the Prior of Toft Monks (Norfolk), the abbey's representative in England. (fn. 10) With other possessions of alien houses it was constantly being seized into the king's hands during the war with France, and in 1390 Lewis Clifford and his son Lewis obtained a grant of the English estates of Préaux for their lives. (fn. 11) . (fn. 12) Sir Lewis in 1403 transferred his interest to Sir Thomas Erpingham, who in turn made it over to the Carthusian Priory of Witham in Somerset. (fn. 13) After the death of Sir Thomas the priory received further confirmations of the manors from Henry VI (fn. 14) and Edward IV. (fn. 15) The manor of Warmington, which in 1291 had produced £13 17s. 8d. yearly, (fn. 16) in 1535 was worth £25 10s. 2d. clear. (fn. 17) After the Dissolution the priory's tenements in Arlescote were granted in 1542 to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlain, (fn. 18) who promptly alienated them to John Lecke of Astrop (Northants) and Edward his son. (fn. 19) In 1548 Edward Lecke had licence to grant them to John Croker, (fn. 20) of Hook Norton (Oxon.), who in 1551 settled the manor of Warmington (which he had presumably acquired from William and Francis Sheldon, grantees in 1544) (fn. 21) and lands in Arlescote on himself for life, with remainder to his son Gerard. (fn. 22) By Gerard the manors of Warmington and Arlescote were sold in 1572 to Richard and Thomas Cupper. (fn. 23) Richard died in or before 1605, when his son Henry Cupper had livery of the manors. (fn. 24) In 1622 Henry Cooper (as the name had now become) conveyed the manor of Warmington to his second son Thomas Cooper, (fn. 25) who, with Mary Cooper, widow, was dealing with it in 1628. (fn. 26) Henry Cooper had died seised of the manor in 1626, (fn. 27) and there seems to have been a division of the manor, as his eldest son Richard in 1633 had livery of one-third of the manor of Warmington. (fn. 28) Presumably Thomas's share passed to Mannasseh Cooper, who died in 1640 seised of Arlescote manor and other lands in Warmington, leaving a son Richard. (fn. 29) Meanwhile, in 1637, one Simon Davis had livery of the manor of Warmington, late of his father Richard. (fn. 30) Simon Davis was dealing with the manor in 1659, (fn. 31) as were Thomas Knight and Alice his wife (probably Simon's daughter) in 1671. (fn. 32) In 1702 the same Thomas and Alice with Richard Davis Knight, (fn. 33) and in 1736 the latter with Mary his wife and John Knight, (fn. 34) dealt with the manor. It is next found in 1743 in the hands of William Bumpstead, (fn. 35) who with his wife Mary dealt with it in 1752. (fn. 36) In 1758 William Bumpstead (no doubt his son), (fn. 37) John Boyd and Mary his wife (probably widow of the elder William), and Francis Kemp and Martha conveyed the manor to Francis Child. (fn. 38) Robert Child, the wealthy banker, held it in 1764 (fn. 39) and was succeeded by his daughter Sarah, who in 1787 with her husband John, Earl of Westmorland, was dealing with the manor. (fn. 40) Their daughter Sarah Sophia married George, Earl of Jersey, who was lord of the manor from about 1806 until his death in 1859. (fn. 41) Mrs. Bennett was lady in 1889, (fn. 42) and Mr. H. F. Bennett is named as lord of the manor in 1900, (fn. 43) and in 1924, (fn. 44) but the manorial rights appear to have lapsed.
The parish church of ST. MICHAEL, (fn. 45) or ST. NICHOLAS, (fn. 46) consists of a chancel, north chapel with a priest's chamber above it, nave, north and south aisles and porches and a west tower.
Although there is a general sameness in the Hornton stone ashlar walling throughout, all the various parts—chancel, chapel, aisles, and tower—have different plinths, &c., and there is a great variation in the elevations and details of the windows, showing constant changes from the 14th century, when there was much activity, onwards, probably because of decay and need for repair caused by the church's exposed position on the brow of a hill.
The south aisle was widened to its present limits about 1290, on the evidence of the wide splays and other details of its windows; but an early-13th-century doorway was re-used. It is possible that the east part of the north aisle followed soon afterwards, c. 1300, as a kind of transeptal chapel, on the evidence of its east window, which differs from the other aisle windows. From c. 1330–40 much was done. The chancel arch was widened, new bays to match were inserted in the east lengths of the nave walls, making both arcades now of four bays, (fn. 47) the widening of the whole of the north aisle was completed with the addition of the north porch. The 12th-century north arcade, which seems to have lost its inner order, was probably rebuilt. There is a curious distortion about both aisles, perhaps only explained by the widenings being made in more than one period; the north aisle tapers from west to east and the south aisle tapers from east to west, about a foot each, as compared with the lines of the arcades. The south porch was probably added about 1330.
About 1340 came also the addition of the chapel with the priest's chamber above it. The north wall of the chancel, probably of the 13th century and thinner than any of the other walls, was kept to form the south wall of the chapel, but the other walls were made unusually thick, as though it was at first intended to raise a higher superstructure than was actually carried out, perhaps even a tower. If such was the intention it was quickly abandoned and the west tower was begun about 1340–5 and carried up to some two-thirds of its present height. There was not much room above the road-side and it had to encroach 2 or 3 ft. into the west end of the nave. The top stage was added or completed in the 15th century.
The chancel (about 30½ ft. by 16½ ft.) has an east window of four trefoiled pointed lights and modern tracery of 14th-century character in a two-centred head with an external hood-mould having head-stops. The jambs and arch, of two moulded orders, and the hood-mould are early-14th-century. In the north wall is a 14th-century doorway into the chapel with jambs and ogee head of three moulded orders and a hoodmould with head-stops, the eastern a cowled man's, the western a woman's. It contains an ancient oak door, with stout diagonal framing at the back and hung with plain strap-hinges. At the west end of the wall are two windows close together; the eastern, of c. 1340, of two trefoiled ogee-headed lights and cusped piercings in a square head with an external label having decayed head-stops. It has a shouldered internal lintel which is carved with grotesque faces. The western is a narrower and earlier 14th-century window of two trefoiled ogee-headed lights and a quatrefoil, &c., in a square head with an external label.
The 14th-century priest's doorway has jambs and two-centred ogee head of two ovolo-moulded orders and a cambered internal lintel; it has no hood-mould.
Below the south-east window is a 15th-century piscina with small side pilasters that have embattled heads, and a trefoiled ogee head enriched with crockets. The sill, which projects partly as a moulded corbel, has a round basin. West of it are three sedilia of the same character with cinquefoiled ogee heads also crocketed and with finials. At the springing level are carved human-head corbels: the cusp-points are variously carved, an acorn, a snake's head, a skull, and foliage. The two outer are surmounted by crocketed and finialled gables and all are flanked and divided by pilasters with embattled heads and crocketed pinnacles.
The north chapel (about 12 ft. east to west by 17 ft. deep) is now used as the vestry, and dates from c. 1340. In its south wall, the thin north wall of the chancel, is a straight joint 3¼ ft. from the east wall probably marking the east jamb of a former 13th-century window, and below it is the remnant of an early stringcourse that is chamfered on its upper edge. The east wall is 3 ft. 10 in. thick and the north wall 4 ft. 6 in. In the middle of each is a rectangular one-light window with moulded jambs and head of two orders and an external label; the internal reveals are half splayed and part squared at the inner edges and have a flat stone lintel. The lights were probably cusped originally. In the west wall is a filled-in square-headed fire-place, perhaps original. Partly in the recess of the east window and partly projecting is an ancient thick stone altarslab showing four of the original five crosses cut in the top. It has a hollow-chamfered lower edge and is supported by moulded stone corbels. South of it in the east wall is a piscina with a trefoiled ogee-head and hood-mould and a quatrefoil basin.
The upper priest's chamber has an east window of two plain square-headed lights, probably altered. In the north wall is a rectangular window that was of two lights but has lost its mullion. Outside it has a false pointed head of two trefoiled ogee-headed lights and leaf tracery, all of it blank, and a hood-mould with human-head stops, one cowled. Apparently this treatment was purely for decorative purposes, like the square-headed windows at Shotteswell and elsewhere. The south wall is pierced by a watching-hole into the chancel, which is fitted with an iron grill and oak shutter: it has been reduced from a larger opening that had an ogee head and hood-mould. There is a square-headed fire-place in the west wall and in the splayed north-west angle is the entrance to a garderobe or latrine, which is lighted by a north loop.
The walls are of yellow ashlar and have a plinth of two courses, the upper moulded, a moulded stringcourse at first-floor level, and moulded eaves-courses at the sides. The north wall is gabled and has a parapet with string-course and coping. At the angles are diagonal buttresses of two stages; the lower stage is 2½ ft. broad up to the first-floor level, above this the upper stage is reduced to about half the breadth. They support square diagonal pinnacles with restored crocketed finials. The west wall is unpierced but above it is a plain square chimney-shaft with an open-side hood on top. Internally the walls are faced with whitish-brown ashlar. The gabled roof is modern and of two bays.
The nave (about 41½ ft. by 16½ ft.) has north and south arcades of four bays. The easternmost bay on each side, with the first pillar, is of the same detail and date as the chancel arch. They vary in span, the north being about 9 ft. and the south about 10 ft., and in both cases the span is less than those of the older bays. Those on the north side are of 11–12 ft. span and date from the middle of the 12th century. The pillars are circular, the west respond a half-circle, with scalloped capitals, 6 in. high and square in the deep-browed upper part and with a 4½ in. grooved and hollowchamfered abacus. The bases are chamfered and stand on square sub-bases. The arches are pointed and of one square order with a plain square hood-mould, The voussoirs are small. The middle parts of the soffits are plastered between the flush inner ends of the voussoirs, suggesting a former inner order, abolished perhaps in a rebuilding of the heads.
The north aisle (11½ ft. wide at the east end and 12½ ft. at the west) has an uncommon east window of c. 1300. It is of three plain-pointed rather narrow lights; above the middle light, which has a shorter pointed head than the others, is a circle enclosing a pierced five-pointed star, all in a two-centred head with an external hood-mould having defaced head-stops, and with a chamfered rear-arch.
The west tower (about 9½ ft. square) is of three stages divided by projecting splayed string-courses: it has a high plinth, with a moulded upper member and chamfered lower course, and a plain parapet. The walls are of yellow ashlar, that of the two upper stages being of rather rougher facing and in smaller courses than the lowest stage. At the west angles are diagonal buttresses reaching to the top of the second stage. There are no east buttresses but in the angle of the north wall with the end of the nave is a shallow buttress against the nave-wall. In the south-west angle, but not projecting, is a stair-vice with a pointed doorway in a splay, and lighted by a west loop. The archway to the nave has a two-centred head of two chamfered orders, the inner dying on the reveals, the outer mitring with the single chamfered order of the responds. It has large voussoirs. The wall on either side of the archway is of squared rough-tooled ashlar.
The church was valued at £8 6s. 8d. in 1291, (fn. 48) and at £16 3s. 10d., in addition to a pension of 13s. 4d. payable to Witham Priory, in 1535. (fn. 49) The advowson passed with the manor until 1602, when the patron was Richard Cooper. (fn. 50) In 1628 William Hall and Edward Wotton, by concession of — Hill, the patron, presented Richard Wotton, (fn. 51) who at the time of his wife's death in 1637 was 'rector and patron, of the church'. (fn. 52) In 1681 and 1694 presentations were made by Thomas Farrer, and from 1726 till his death in 1764 the patronage was held by his son Thomas Farrer. (fn. 53) His widow Alice held it in 1766, (fn. 54) but by 1773 it had been divided between their two daughters, Mary wife of John Adams, and Elizabeth Farrer (1782) who afterwards married Hamlyn Harris. (fn. 55) In 1802 Henry Bagshaw Harrison was patron and rector. (fn. 56) He died in 1830, and by 1850 the advowson had been acquired by Hulme's Trustees, (fn. 57) in whose hands it has continued, so that they now present on two out of three turns to the combined living of Warmington and Shotteswell, which was annexed to it in 1927.
Robert Gardner by will proved 30 April 1727 charged each of three several pieces of land in the parish with an annual payment of 2s. to be expended in bread and distributed to the poor of the parish. It is known that these annuities were distributed according to the directions in the will until the year 1892 and it is assumed that they have so continued.
1. V.C.H. Warw. i. 310.
3. Ibid. 317, 'Orlavescote'. There seems no reason to identify Arlescote also with the 3 virgates in 'Werlauescote' (ibid. 314), which were afterwards given by Geoffrey de Clinton to the Abbey of Stoneleigh when it was founded at Red Moor: Cal. Chart. R. iii, 486.
4. Cal. Docs. France, 108.
8. V.C.H. Warw. ii, 131. Ralph was Prior in 1206, and Nicholas in 1273: Feet of F. (Dugd. Soc. xi), 157, 910.
9. Cal. Inq. p.m. iii, 320. The overlordship of Arlescote had evidently passed to the Count of Meulan's son Robert, Earl of Leicester.
10. V.C.H. Warw. ii, 132.
11. Cal. Pat. 1388–92, pp. 306, 355.
12. Ibid. 1401–5, p. 263; 1405–8, pp. 18, 295.
13. Ibid. 1413–16, p. 91.
14. Ibid. 1422–9, p. 529; 1436–41, p. 490.
15. Ibid. 1461–7, p. 125.
16. Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 256.
17. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 157.
18. L. and P. Hen. VIII, xvii, 443 (39).
20. Cal. Pat. 1547–8, p. 372.
21. L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (1), 80 (50); Dugd. 536.
22. Cal. Pat. 1550–3, p. 63.
23. Feet of F. Warw. Trin. 14 Eliz.; Recov. R. Trin. 15 Eliz. ro. 729.
24. Fine R. 3 Jas. I, pt. 2, no. 34.
25. Feet of F. Warw. Mich. 20 Jas. I.
26. Ibid. East. 4 Chas. I.
27. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxvi, 77.
28. Fine R. 9 Chas. I, pt. 2, no. 33.
29. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxciii, 47.
30. Fine R. 13 Chas. I, pt. 2, no. 36.
31. Feet of F. Warw. Hil. 1658(–9).
32. Ibid. East. 23 Chas. II.
33. Ibid. Trin. 1 Anne.
34. a Recov. R. 10 Geo. II, ro. 126.
35. Gamekeepers' Deputations, Shire Hall, Warwick.
36. Feet of F. Warw. East. 25 Geo. II.
37. William Bumpsted of Upton, Warws., died 28 Dec. 1757: Musgrave's Obituary (Harl. Soc.), i, 299.
38. Feet of F. (K.S.B.) Mich. 32 Geo. II.
40. Feet of F. Warw. Trin. 27 Geo. III.
41. Ibid. Trin. 46 Geo. III; Gamekeepers' Deputations; G.E.C. Complete Peerage (2nd ed.), vii, 92.
42. G. Miller, Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, i, 92.
43. Kelly, Directory of Warws. (1900).
46. Ecton, Thesaurus (1763), 96.
47. If the insertion of these extra arches had coincided with the lengthening of the nave and rebuilding of the chancel there is little doubt that they would have been made of equal span instead of differing as they do by about a foot. Both arches are narrower than those of the 12th-century arcades.
49. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 69.
51. Ibid.; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.).
52. M.I.: Dugd. 537. Cf. Chan. Proc. 1613–1714, vol. 415, no. 148 (1658).
53. Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.); Ecton, Thesaurus (1763), 96.
54. Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.); Bacon, Liber Regis (1786), 222.
55. Feet of F. Warw. East. 13 Geo. III; Mich. 22 Geo. III; H. I. Longdon, Northants Clergy, v, 17.
56. Ibid. vi, 171; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.).
57. F. White, Directory of Warws.


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California State University Anticipates Return to In-Person Coursework for Fall 2021 Term
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In keeping with previous efforts to provide current and prospective students and families with information, clarity and time to plan, the California State University (CSU) has announced that it is planning for an anticipated return to delivering courses primarily in-person starting with the fall 2021 term.
"It's critical that we provide as much advance notice as possible to students and their families, as we have done previously in announcing our moves toward primarily virtual instruction," said CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White. "While we are currently going through a very difficult surge in the pandemic, there is light at the end of the tunnel with the promising progress on vaccines."
"We are approaching planning for the 2021 fall term with the goal of having the majority of our on-campus experiences returning," said CSU Chancellor-select Joseph I. Castro. "This decision comes at a good time as high school and transfer students have until December 15 to complete their applications for fall admission. I urge eligible students across the Golden State to apply for admission to one or more CSU campuses."
Prospective students apply to CSU campuses online through the Cal State Apply website. Application fee waivers are available, and there are robust financial aid programs for eligible students with need.
The CSU remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring the health and safety of all members of its 23 campus communities throughout California. This is why CSU necessarily is conducting the current 2020-21 academic year primarily in the virtual space. The emerging evidence provides optimism that the upcoming 2021-22 academic year can be conducted much more in person. It is too soon to determine what the science will allow for the 2021 summer term. That determination will be made closer to the deadlines for summer 2021 student registration.
About the California State University
The California State University is the largest system of four-year higher education in the country, with 23 campuses, 53,000 faculty and staff and 486,000 students. Half of the CSU's students transfer from California community colleges. Created in 1960, the mission of the CSU is to provide high-quality, affordable education to meet the ever-changing needs of California. With its commitment to quality, opportunity, and student success, the CSU is renowned for superb teaching, innovative research and for producing job-ready graduates. Each year, the CSU awards nearly 129,000 degrees. One in every 20 Americans holding a college degree is a graduate of the CSU and our alumni are 3.8 million strong. Connect with and learn more about the CSU in the CSU NewsCenter.
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Want An Awesome Job? Then Follow These Steps To A Great Proposal!
Just a few short years ago, I was struggling to bring on new clients for my freelance content marketing business. I had a great portfolio of relevant work, I knew who my ideal clients were, and where I could find them, but something wasn't clicking.
But it's what I hadn't been investing time in that was really dragging my business down.
I wasn't putting in the effort to seriously research potential clients, understand their businesses, and come to the table with recommendations already in place. Happily, once I began experimenting and developing a system for effectively pitching clients, my freelance business started to very quickly take off. Now, because I approach all of my potential clients with an incredible amount of value (before we even sign a contract), I land almost every freelance gig I apply to—at the price I want to charge.
Whether you're new to the world of freelancing with your tech skills, or you're easing into it while working full-time, convincing a new client that you're the best fit for the job is always going to be a hurdle.
With that in mind, pulled straight from my own freelance business (and online course), here are 8 proven steps to writing the best proposal you're capable of.
The trick to creating your own client-snagging proposal? Always strive to put together a proposal that provides tangible solutions for your potential client, not one that simply lists out your service offerings like a menu for them to choose from.
Your potential client is looking to hire an expert who can tell them what they need, otherwise they'd likely be doing the work themselves. So make sure that your proposal is a customized plan for what you can do to solve their most pressing problems, not just a buffet of services.
For example, instead of listing out all the functionality and features you can build for a new restaurant's website, show the restaurateur exactly what features she needs on her new website.
2. Speak the client's language.
Just as importantly, you need to communicate your personalized solutions in the way that makes sense for your potential client. Whether that's in the body of an email, through online proposal software, or via snail mail, you need to have a strong understanding of who your client is before you even get the ball rolling. Do they do all their business via mobile phone? Or do they still have a fax machine? Make sure you're speaking their language before you send a proposal their way.
And exactly how you can deliver the most value.
By the time you actually reach out to a new client with a proposal, your goal is to have her needs figured out to the best of your ability.
Considering that more people than ever are going it alone as freelancers (54 million in the US alone) and with the rapidly increasing demand for contract developers, your proposal needs to do an incredible job of formulating your value propositions and selling your services.
Anything less than your absolute best won't get you very far.
4. Make a Strong Entrance.
Once you've done all your research, it's time to actually deliver the proposal that knocks the others out of the water.
So what are you doing to wow your potential client straight out of the gates? What will you write in your email that separates you from everyone else throwing their hat into the ring for this gig?
To kindle immediate interest in your potential client's mind, you want to start with a captivating entrance that excites, shows you did your research, and delivers actual value.
For example, if you're a wordpress developer sending a cold email to open up a line of communication with a potential client for building a custom theme, start with a subject line like, "Custom Theme Wireframe for [Company Name]." This gives them the instant recognition that you've already spent some time laying out a proposed structure based on their job posting, and that you've likely done your homework on their business.
In this initial email (a couple hundred words maximum), you'll touch lightly on your wireframe concept, whether you've physically created it yet or not, and weave in how your proven experience and strengths in building themes like this in the past will make you the obvious choice for this job.
Making a strong entrance means demonstrating your commitment towards the project. You want to show you've already got some skin in the game with a quick wireframe or an outline of the core features you'd recommend for their site redesign, or at least point them toward some portfolio examples and highlight what you'd recommend them implementing as well.
Sound like too much work up front? Well, the reality is, this approach is how I consistently win nearly every project I bid on.
What you lose in uncompensated time researching, you make up for by demonstrating your creativity and desire to work with the client, which will only increase your chances of nailing the bid.
And if you want to shave a little time off the process, take advantage of a done-for-you email template!
Whatever the specific project you're applying to do for a potential client, it's your job to tailor your strengths to that particular job.
If you're targeting a web design project, you'll probably want to lead with your ability to design for a great user experience. Show them that your previous work aligns with the design aesthetic you think they're going for with their project.
Don't make the mistake of focusing on unrelated or irrelevant strengths and always keep your proposals as short as possible. Attempting to cram everything you know about HTML or CSS into your proposal is an easy shortcut to landing in the reject pile. Consider listing two or three of your best qualities in terms of how they relate to this particular job, and elaborate on them one by one.
6. Anticipate and Answer Questions.
Unfortunately, not every client provides a thorough list of expectations or questions for you about their project.
While vague project descriptions can be a bit confusing, you should capitalize on these opportunities by demonstrating your knowledge and experience right off the bat. For example, a common question that I was frequently asked when applying for new projects was if I had done this exact type of job in the past. Now, I anticipate and answer this question before they even have the chance to ask me directly.
In my initial reach out email, I'll include a link or two over to examples of successful campaigns I've ran in the past (demonstrating my ability to replicate these results in the future).
To help anticipate what your potential client may ask of you, try and imagine yourself in their shoes. What sort of unspoken problems or issues might they have experienced up to this point? If you're seeking to help with a UX facelift, take careful note of existing disjointed branding, poor quality images or logos, and offer up your quick thoughts on the direction you'd want to take, if you're hired on to help.
Nothing will make a potential client feel more at ease than hearing concerns (and advice) from a well-versed developer who's been there and done that. If you craft your answers with your experience in mind, it will place you squarely ahead of the pack.
7. Select and Include Relevant Samples.
It's essential that your portfolio and work samples speak for themselves. Make sure you cherry-pick only the best and most relevant examples to include with your proposal.
Employers are eager to see that you have formerly worked on something similar to their project. It makes sense. If you've done this exact type of job in the past, they can trust that you'll be able to replicate or exceed the work you did before. Pick a couple of great samples and link to them in your initial email and within your proposal. Briefly explain, in a sentence or two, how your contribution helped the previous client accomplish their goals.
If you're new to freelancing with your tech skills and don't have any relevant samples to send over, then the best you can do is create some of your own. You can also include projects you've worked on at your full-time job.
8. Use a Visually Appealing Layout.
First impressions are everything, which is why a successful freelance proposal should be aesthetically pleasing, crisp, and well-organized. Even before potential clients start reading your proposal, they'll form an attitude towards the quality of your work, solely by the looks of it.
Depending on what you're proposing, you might need nothing more than an outline in the body of an email, a simple Microsoft Word document to state your case, or something snazzier in order to sell your services. Consider using apps like Bidsketch or Proposify, which give my proposals a visual edge above the competition.
If you use these 8 steps to create well-rounded proposals, it'll ensure you're doing all you can to set yourself apart from your competition and land the freelance jobs you want.


Ella Rothschild's new piece leaves viewers feeling anything but high and dry.
For centuries, mankind has grappled with the concept of the apocalypse. In films, literature and art, people have explored what it would mean to survive a massive cataclysm. Who would survive, how they would manage to do so, and what life after the fact would mean are some of the infinite questions associated with this somehow unrealistic yet ever-present nag at existence.
In her newest work, choreographer and performer Ella Rothschild teamed up with visual artist Nivi Alroy to take on the idea of the day after a major disaster.
Their work, Flood, premiered last month at the Tmuna Theater's Intimadance Festival and will now be presented at the Kelim Choreography Center in Bat Yam. The performance will be shown as a site-specific event for the Kelim space, where Rothschild and Alroy received an artists' residency to create Flood.
Rothschild is one of the most thrilling voices in Israeli dance today.
She was born and raised in Israel. As a young dancer, she performed with the Batsheva Ensemble and Inbal Pinto and the Avshalom Pollack Dance Company, with which she collaborated for many years.
Upon striking out on her own, Rothschild began by creating solos, which she performed. The work Acord in which Rothschild invites audiences to a type of new-wave cabaret, was presented dozens of times throughout Tel Aviv and farther afield. In the solo, Rothschild not only dances but also sings, plays a number of instruments and recites text. Originally created for the Hanut Theater Gallery, Acord has a minimalist yet intricate set designed by Zohar Shoef.
From Acord, Rothschild took a major step forward with 12 Postdated Checks.
The work, which premiered as part of the 2015 Curtain Up Festival, featured ployed a cast of 20 student dancers from the Maslool Professional Dance Program, as well as Rothschild and the formidable Ariel Freedman.
With Flood, Rothschild expanded her circle of collaborators to include Alroy.
After graduating from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Alroy relocated to New York City, where she pursued a master's degree at the School of Visual Arts.
She has received a host of awards and grants, including the Ahuvi Most Promising Artist Award, as well as a number of grants from the National Lottery Association and the Rabinovich Foundation. Alroy's work has been seen throughout Israel and abroad.
Her esthetic is defined by an outstanding attention to detail, making her connection with Rothschild a natural fit.
The meeting of these two voices has raised both artists to new heights. To complete the picture, Rothschild drew on longtime collaborators Matan Daskal for music and Zohar Shoef for set and art design.
Flood presents a world that is rife with rich images, evoking a reality that is both frightful and full of possibility.
The woman at the center of this world is faced with a number of questions: What does it mean to be the only one left standing? Is loneliness the only feeling one is meant to feel or can there also be freedom in finding oneself alone?
'Flood' will be presented on August 5 at 1:30 p.m. and August 6 at 9 p.m. at the Kelim Choreography Center in Bat Yam.


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Patrick Mahomes Among Five NFL Figures To Watch In Divisional Playoffs
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I write all things NFL.
The NFL playoffs are down to eight teams as we head to the Divisional Playoff round. Here are five key figures to watch during the round this weekend:
Dennis Allen: The New Orleans Saints' defense has quietly been a big reason why this team has a chance to win the Super Bowl. Allen's unit has been playing at a high level for most of the season. It has gotten Allen noticed. He has interviewed for the Miami Dolphins' head-coaching job. If the Saints can shut down Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles' offense, it could get Allen more interest. Five of the eight head-coaching jobs remain open. Allen had a rough first go-round as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders for 36 games, spanning 2012-14. But he is re-energizing his coaching career with the Saints.
Tom Brady: Sorry, we're not getting more exotic with this pick. But how can Brady be denied? The most accomplished NFL player is site difference maker at 41 years old. This is the ninth straight year that Brady and the New England Patriots' are hosting a Divisional round playoff game. They are 7-1 in this stretch. Brady is 7-0, including 2-0 in the playoffs, with his quarterback counterpart, Philip Rivers. The Chargers, though, will challenge Brady. The Patriots are not quite as good as they have been in recent years. But it's Tom Brady in the playoffs. He has to be watched closely.
Aaron Donald: The Los Angeles Rams are an offense-first outfit. If they win their second Super Bowl and first in 19 years and first as the Los Angeles Rams, it will likely because of Sean McVay's offense. However, the Rams have the best defensive player in the NFL in Donald. The defensive tackle ended a long contract stalemate by signing a six-year, $135 million deal with the Rams in late August. Less than two days later, Oakland traded pass-rusher Khalil Mack to the Chicago Bears and they paid him $141 to become the richest defensive player in the NFL. However, Donald played like a satisfied man. He had 20.5 sacks this season and he is expected to win the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award for the second straight year. Don't be shocked if Donald takes over against the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday night.
Ezekiel Elliott: One of Donald's main tasks against Dallas will be to keep Elliott in check. He is the engine of the Dallas offense; Elliott led the NFL in rushing this season. He had 137 yards in a Wild Card win over Seattle. The Cowboys will need to control the clock against the Rams' strong offense So, Elliott will be a key component of this game.
Patrick Mahomes: He is the most dynamic player in the league right now. At the age of 23, and in his first season as a starter (he started one game as a rookie in 2017), Mahomes took the NFL over in 2018. The Kansas City quarterback threw for 50 touchdowns and he is the leading candidate to be the NFL MVP. Mahomes is a massive bargain with a base salary of $555,000 this season. Mahomes will likely be the NFL's highest paid player in a couple of years. His playoff legacy starts Saturday against the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts also have a strong offense, but with a better defense. The No.1 seed Chiefs have pressure on them. They haven't won a home playoff game in 25 seasons. Yes, that was before Mahomes was born. Kansas City's hopes for its first Super Bowl title in 49 years rides on Mahomes' special arm. The journey starts this weekend.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) celebrates with tight end Travis Kelce (87) after throwing a 67-yard touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill during the first quarter of an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018. Mahomes threw for 281 yards in the game, joining Peyton Manning as the only two QB's to reach over 5,000 passing yards and 50 touchdowns from the air in the same season. (AP Photo/Colin E. Braley)
I have been a professional sports journalist for almost 29 years. I have been covering the NFL for the past 22 years. I have covered the Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Pack...


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Shakira Says Her Vocal Cord Injury Turned Her Into a "Depressed" and "Bitter" Person
Shakira opens up about the grueling emotional pain she went through recovering from her vocal cord injury.
By Vannessa Jackson 12 Nov, 2019 12:01 AMTags
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She's come a long way.
In 2017, Shakira shocked the world when she had to postpone her El Dorado World Tour due to a vocal hemorrhage. What the world saw during that time was only a fraction of the real life turmoil the singer was going through behind the scenes. In a new interview with The Guardian, the mom of two is opening up about what she went through and her journey back to super-stardom.
"I always thought there were going to be things in my life that would go away, like beauty, youth, all of that stuff," she told the publication. "But I never thought that my voice would leave me, because it's so inherent to my nature. It was my identity. So when I couldn't sing, that was unbearable. There were times I couldn't even get out of bed–I was so depressed."
Beyond being hard on her career for obvious reasons, Shakira also explained the toll it took on her relationship with long-time partner Gerard Pique.
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"He jokes that you would think you would want your wife to shut up–but when I had to remain quiet, he felt like one of those ex-convicts who are given their freedom and don't know what to do with it," she shared. "I was not positive. I was so pessimistic. I was a bitter person to be around. Gerard saw the worst of me."
Although things looked grim and she was told she needed to have surgery, the singer stayed strong and instead let her vocal cords heal on their own. Something most people would call a miracle, and Shakira would call faith. Fans will get a first-hand look at the experience when a film about her El Dorado tour hits select theaters on Nov. 13.
While she's undoubtedly one of the queen's of pop with no plans of stopping anytime soon, she does imagine that someday she'll settle down for a quiet farm life. Yes, you read that right.
"Like one day waking up on a farm and being able to just mow the lawn, and milk some cows," she revealed of her plans for the future. "One day I want to have a farm life. I don't think I could ever be bored of being in nature. Eat all I want. Sometimes I think there's going to be more to life than my actual life."
Until then, keep on doing you, Shakira!
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Coppertone Clearly Sheer Sunscreen Lotion * ($10) - If I'm going to be out and about in the hot blazing sun, I need to make sure that my body is protected from harmful UV rays. This Coppertone sunscreen is great because it has a lightweight formula, dries into the skin quickly, and doesn't have the strong "sunscreen-y" scent that most others have. With SPF-30 broad spectrum UV protection, it's a great one to throw on before a long day outside. It's designed and made to meet HER needs with sunscreens, another cool aspect of this new line!
Nature Garden Cucumber Soothing Mask - Your skin can get irritated after being out in the sun for a long time. My face gets all red and it simply feels uncomfortable. I use face masks like this soothing cucumber one to rejuvenate and soothe my irritated skin. The redness dies down fast and my face gets hydrated again.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit in Sun Dipped ($52) - We want to have a nice tanned glow from within when it comes to a summer makeup look, and this does the job! I had the privilege of meeting with Anastasia Soare herself and she was kind enough to sign my glow kit! I was able to get this one in "Sun-Dipped" exclusively before it hit the shelves permanently at Sephora and I love it. I'm just starting to get myself into highlighters but when these beautiful shimmers are added to the high points of the face, it gives dimension and creates a glow that looks so natural. It can also be used as bronzer and eyeshadow as well so the palette is definitely multi-purpose!
MAC x Zac Posen Haute Bronzer & Powder Blush Duo - This was a kind gift to me from fellow Canadian beauty blogger Julie (check out her blog here!). What more can I ask for than a warm bronzer that's not too orange-y to add some tan to the face and a peachy gold blush to complement it? This duo has undertones that's perfect for me to use in the summer and it makes travelling easy since it has the two products in one.
L'Oreal Infallible Pro-Matte Foundation ($15) - I've already introduced and used it in a previous post here but I have to mention it especially as a summer essential. With my oily skin type this helps keep the greasy shine away. It goes on as a true matte but throughout the day it turns into a demi-matte finish so it still looks put-together, even with the usual oil production as the day progresses.
Revlon Colorburst Matte Balm in Unapologetic ($9) - Summer is the time to bust out the beautiful and bright lip colours, and this is one of my faves for the season. It's a hot coral that's not over the top bug still flattering on me. The chubby pencil form is awesome.
What are some of your summer skincare/beauty essentials?
*Each product is either a PR sample sent for consideration, purchased myself or gifted. PR samples are noted with an asterisk. Everything written is my own true opinion.
Love the infallible foundation! Just out of curiosity - what shade do you wear? I have one that's too dark for me (I mix it) and I feel like I'd be the same or slightly deeper than you!
Try the Maybelline Matte and Poreless. Or the MAC Pro-long wear. Other summer essentials for me are the Urban Decay allnighter, blotting papers, Rimmel Matte Primer and Make Up Forever Aqua eye pencil!


Keeping up with our new tradition of a monthly product pick blog to help you keep up with our constantly updating site inventory, we asked the ACK merchandising team which products to spotlight for August.
Introducing the 360° Angler, a pedal-driven watercraft designed and built for those seeking the convenience and stability of a big boat with the exploration possibilities of a kayak or canoe. Its hull system was designed for stability, speed and maneuverability.
Walk right off the dock onto the deck. Experience the freedom of movement on the wide open deck. Bring along all your gear, your dog or even one of the little ones. You will be amazed at the comfort and adjustability of the swivel seat, and how quickly the craft gets up to speed and stays there with very little effort.
You'll be surrounded by gear tracks, rod holders and storage areas for all your gear. Personalize your fishing experience with flexible storage for your tackle and equipment. With every fishing style comes the need to customize your watercraft and the Blue Sky 360 Angler allows to do so!
The all-new Topwater series offers large fishing kayak performance in a compact, lightweight package. A marriage of stability and performance, the Topwater, with the all-new ultra-stable DoubleU Hull, quietly glides through any water condition while providing a stable, comfortable stand-up fishing platform.
Equipped with thoughtful on-board tackle and rod management features and a revolutionary universal transducer mount, even the saltiest of anglers will be impressed by the overall fishability of the new Topwater series. The PDL uses Old Town's slide-lock system, which slides forward or backward to dial your leg length for pedaling.
Additionally, it comes equipped with multiple rod holders, a front storage hatch, and tracks for customization. Order before October and get a free Humminbird Fishfinder with your purchase of a Topwater kayak through mail-in rebate. Rebate form below. Preorder now- shipping in August.
Have a blast atop the newest members of Ocean Kayak's Malibu series! This kayak is all about fun and comfort. And if you like to control your own destiny, you've got options. These compact, stackable, easy-to-paddle, straight-tracking solo kayaks will turn heads as you master the waves with ease on Ocean Kayak's super-stable 11.5 sit-on-top hull designs.
Comfort comes easily on the Malibu thanks to a new AirGoTM molded-in seat and seat pad with an adjustable AirComfortTM backrest. No matter your size, enjoy lots of leg room with calf rests and molded-on foot wells. And don't forget your fishing rods or your beverages! The new Malibu comes equipped with two molded-in rod holders and three cup holders.
Why cut and splice when you can just plug-and-play? Yak-Power has completely revolutionized LED lighting for kayaks. Using their patent pending Through Hull 12v connectors and Yak-Power plug-and-play wiring, adding LED lights to your kayak has never been easier. Simply drill a hole, screw in the Through Hull connector, plug them in, and power them up! No wires to cut, no splicing, no caulking, and most importantly no LEAKS!
All Yak-Power LED lights are designed for maximum performance, ease of installation, and reliability. Yak-Power's LED light strips feature Super Bright LEDS that are fully encapsulated and compression molded with a silicone encased connector plug that plugs directly into Yak-Power's Through Hull connector. All wiring is complete with Yak-Power plug-and-play SAE connectors for easy integration into any Yak-Power system.
Bundling their top of the line Clipper cart frame with the Rover all-terrain wheels, Malone created a rock solid cart with an unmatched price and exceptional quality. It features an aluminum frame with 200 lb capacity and 8″ wide "Never-Go-Flat" tires that glide effortlessly over mud and irregular terrain. Great for long distance rough portage. It's so durable, it even comes with a lifetime warranty.
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Making sense of ASTM C1731 -- When selecting a paver manufacturer it's important to ask them to provide ASTM C1731 testing results to ensure you are getting a high quality product.
ASTM is an international standards organization that develops technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems and services worldwide. Their standards are voluntary, however they are often used by government regulators and cited in laws.
Read on for more information regarding the 7 tests that are part of the ASTM C1731 standard and how FireRock Pavers stand up.
Compressive strength – Compressive strength measures the amount of force and weight load a paver can handle before breaking. ASTM C1731 requires the average compressive strength shall equal or exceed 4,000 psi. FireRock's pavers far exceed these requirements with an average psi of nearly 8,000.
Absorption resistance – Absorption tests measure the increase in weight a paver experiences when immersed in water. The more absorbant a paver is, the more susceptible it is to damage during freeze/thaw cycles. The average water absorption shall not exceed 12% per requirements of ASTM C1731.
Flexural strength – Flexural strength tests a paver's ability to resist breaking when stress is applied at multiple points. Per ASTM C1731, the minimum average flexural load shall be greater than or equal to 300 lbs.
Slip resistance – Slip tests measure the wet dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF). Interior paver tiles should meet a minimum 0.6 DCOF in accordance with ASTM C1028.
Bond strength – Bond strength tests measure how the paver bonds to the floor beneath it. Units shall develop a shear bond strength with the mortar substrate of at least 50 psi (0.34 MPa) per requirements of ASTM C1731.
Abrasion resistance – Abrasian resistance measures the loss of volume resulting from abrasian of dimension stone. For each unit, wear index should be 20 or greater per requirements of ASTM C1731.
Dimensional tolerances – Dimensional tolerances measure the length, width, and thickness of pavers. For standard units, no dimension should differ by more than +/- 0.125 inches per requirements of ASTM C1731.
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Jay Scott is the Co-Executive Director of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation and proud father to three sons, Patrick, Eddie and Joey and daughter Alex. ALSF emerged from the front yard lemonade stand of Jay's daughter, Alexandra "Alex" Scott (1996-2004) who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, when she was just an infant. In 2000, 4-year-old Alex announced that she wanted to hold a lemonade stand to raise money to help find a cure for other children with cancer. In her lifetime, Alex would go on to raise over $1 million before she passed away in 2004 at the age of 8. Today, Jay works alongside his wife Liz and the dedicated staff, board of directors, sponsors and supporters to continue the fight against childhood cancer, one cup at a time. Jay serves on many committees and boards examining pediatric cancer treatments and inroads to cures.


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I've been more absent from this blog, this month, than I'd intended. Life… you know? It's been very busy at work, and things are shifting with my role. I've had some additional training and workshops, and I'm still trying to figure out where I fit in.
Fortunately, I have help. There are a lot of folks at work who are eager to step in and pull people up to the level they need to be at. I'm not the only one who's having some challenges navigating the new organizational structure, but fortunately, the expectation is that each and every one of us is going to have challenges and struggle somewhat.
Getting support at work frees me up to get back to my mission: To write about long-term recovery from concussion / mild traumatic brain injury, and show that it is possible to restore your life after you've sustained a brain injury. There is a real dearth of information about this out in the world, and I'm (still) on a mission to do something about that.
I realize that all my … "gyrations" at work have distracted me from this mission. It's been siphoning off all my energy and distracting me, which is the opposite of what I want and need. So, I'm settling down in my job, chilling out, and looking to my long-term future… 10… 15… 20… 30 years in the future.
And that frees me up to concentrate on the here-and-now with greater focus. It lets me get back to my mission.
When young athletes sustain concussions, they are typically told to rest until all symptoms disappear. That means no physical activity, reading, screen time or friends, and little light exposure, for multiple days and, in severe cases, weeks.
Restricting all forms of activity after a concussion is known as "cocooning." But now new guidelines, written by an international panel of concussion experts and published this month in The British Journal of Sports Medicine, question that practice. Instead of cocooning, the new guidelines suggest that most young athletes should be encouraged to start being physically active within a day or two after the injury.
"The brain benefits from movement and exercise, including after a concussion," says Dr. John Leddy, a professor of orthopedics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, and one of the co-authors of the new guidelines.
And it makes sense to me. Because when you think about concussion / TBI in terms of what it is (an injury that disrupts connections and releases a bunch of "gunk" into the brain that shouldn't be there), and you think about the brain in terms of what it does (processes information based on connections and makes new connections where none existed before), and you think about how the body works (moves all of that information through – mentally and physically), then cocooning probably isn't the thing to do for long periods of time.
TBI is a tricky thing. It's different for everyone, of course, and something that works for one person might not work for another. But we're all walking around in human bodies, and those human bodies function pretty much the same way.
So, if we use the principles of how the body and brain work, and we understand the nature of concussion, and we understand the dynamics of the whole scenario, new treatment approaches become clearer.
It surprises me a little bit that it took till May, 2017, to figure out how to better treat concussions. Then again, until the past 10-15 years or so, people didn't really take "mild" traumatic brain injury that seriously. Everybody just laughed it off like it was no big deal.
Then we started to realize that onetime football players were ending up in a bad way — worse than the general public. And football players and their families started going public about their struggles. And people started talking — out loud — about stuff that used to be a source of terrible shame and embarrassment. The kinds of stuff that "you just didn't talk about", back in the day.
A lot has changed, thanks to research and increased awareness.
And we're making progress in many areas.
But still, it surprises me, how much we don't know… how much we still overlook… and how many people continue to struggle, months and years after a concussion or mTBI.
I have my own struggles, sure. A lot of the problems I had haven't gone away completely. But after all these years of actively working on solutions, I'm doing a whole lot better at managing them, and that's made all the difference. Maybe it's true that brain injury can never be reversed, but then, life can never be reversed, and if we treat concussion issues as just another aspect of life that needs to be taken seriously and managed appropriately, it is very possible to have a "regular" life afterwards.
Sure, you'll have to change some things. You'll have to adjust. But life is full of those kinds of requirements. We don't get a "pass" when we get injured, and the world jumps in to protect us. We just get a different set of challenges and difficulties and benefits to work with.
That being said, mental rigidity is probably one of the biggest hurdles to TBI recovery. The very black-and-white thinking that takes over when your brain gets injured can cause the injury to become even worse. Because you're locked in a straitjacket of limited thinking. Getting your mindset out of the box and trying different things, living differently, getting on with your life, and being mindful about stuff… that can help hugely. I know it helped me more than I can say.
So, there are just a few more days left in Brain Injury Awareness Month. I've fallen far short of my stated plan to focus on brain injury recovery for the duration. I had such great plans… But of course… life. And my limits.
Turns out, what I'm taking away from Brain Injury Awareness Month is a reminder of how — yet again — I need to adjust my commitments and expectations and go a bit easier on myself. The thing to remember is that life goes on. And while I didn't live up to my own expectations, the world keeps turning, the sun rises and sets, it snows and the snow melts, and the songbirds return to my bird feeder.
For today, that's enough. It's more than enough.
I've been in a kind of a funk, for the past few days. I just haven't felt very energized.
I had a very busy weekend, with a lot going on, and I know I'm a bit behind on my sleep. But even when I do get some rest, I feel blah and slightly disconnected from my life.
I'm settling into my job, and that feels good. I'm settling into my routine, and that feels good, too. I'm working out or going for a swim, 3-4 times a week, and I feel pretty good, other than the aches and pains that come with the changing barometric pressure. My bank account is not at $0 anymore, and that feels great. I'm working through changing over my insurance, with a couple of different hoops to jump through, thanks to various insurance plans I've had over the years that I can now let go of. I'm fitting right in at the office, connecting with people and learning the lay of the land.
I just haven't had the energy or felt the same engagement that I felt in the past.
Everything now is kind of "flat". It's solid and it's stable, and it's all wide open with a lot of possibilities. And it's disorienting. A little disconcerting. Like I'm walking across a prairie with long rolling hills,as far as the eye can see. Off in the distance, I can see proverbial mountains, but they never seem to get any closer. I just keep walking and walking and walking… hoping that eventually I'll reach whatever destination I'm supposed to be at.
This is how it feels when I'm not going a million miles an hour in damage-control mode. When I'm not constantly reacting to problems and not on a perpetual hamster wheel of crisis, everything feels flat and featureless. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. Going from constant stress to having almost no stress at all, is a biochemical let-down, and the prompts that kept me alert, when everything was sh*ttier than sh*t, just aren't there anymore to keep me charged up.
I know that life is good, the problems I thought would never disappear have faded into the background, and I am hugely grateful for it.
But I feel like I've got no gas in my tank, and everything just feels gray and bleary.
And that makes me feel even stranger. Like I'm a blank.
I know where this comes from. It's a by-product of PTSD. I had a lot of trauma growing up, and I spent the first half of my childhood in a pretty dangerous environment, so my system has been wired for stress from the start. I was bullied as a kid on a number of occasions — all through 5th grade and 7th grade (I got a "year off" in between), bunches of kids ganged up on me and really punished me for being "weird". And all the TBIs certainly didn't help. That's all the more trauma to add to the mix. Not much fun.
My adult life has been spent living pretty much on the edge. I have no idea what it's like to be able to plan for retirement, because I've never had enough money in the bank for long enough to ever think that would be possible. The most I have hoped for, is not ending up crazy, on the streets, eating dog food.
It sounds a little nuts to me, as I sit here in my nice house (not palatial, but nice enough), with a good job, two cars in the driveway, and a respectable resume. But beneath the surface of this respectable life, there is no financial safety net, a declining spouse with encroaching cognitive impairment, parents who are also declining and expect me to care for them, and an uncertain job market that could take yet another hit from stock market fluctuations.
So, it would be fair and accurate to say my life has its share of stress — especially if I dwell on all of the above, which I choose not to.
I'm coming out of a number of years of intense pressure and trauma and post-traumatic stress. Workplace changes, health changes, my spouse getting more marginal by the month, and watching people around me make genuinely unhelpful choices with their lives… it all takes a toll. Add to that a lack of job stability and the ongoing feeling that I'm hung out on a limb and being played for a fool by the overlords at work, and it adds to the challenge.
The intensity gave me energy for the fight. It kept me going. It felt like it kept me sharp. Over time, existential stress wears you down and wrecks your system, but when it's at full-speed, it makes you feel like you're really alive. Traumatic stress is tricky like that – it promises you one thing, but delivers another… and ultimately, that lie can kill. I had a level of intensity that put people off for as long as I can remember. Only my bosses, who knew how to harness it, didn't have a problem with it — unless, of course, I directed it against them. Then they weren't so pleased.
Now that things aren't intense like that anymore, that source of "energy" is gone, and I'm feeling deflated and a little depressed. It's taking my system time to get used to it, and all the while it is disorienting — and a little stressful in its own right.
So, what to do? I can't go back to that old level of traumatic stress. Not only is it not good for me, but I'm hip to its lies — it's not the source of energy my system thinks it is. It's making me more stupid with each passing day, not smarter, like it tells me. I'm onto it. It can't fool me, anymore.
What's there in the details?
Mainly… Focus. Keep my focus trained on the little things around me, and keep myself engaged and active in some way or another.
My patience is short with people who fritter their time away on whatever-ness and get overly busy and overly riled about every little thing, so I need to keep from even thinking about them. There are so many of them, and I don't share the love of drama. Not anymore.
This kind of focus and letting go of all the imaginary recreational drama can be lonely. Social media is full of people who are "in it for the fight", while my chief objective is to back off the whole fight thing and give my system a chance to right itself. When you aren't all caught up in the push-pull, what can you talk about with people? If you don't want to fight, and you don't want to constantly promote your "personal brand" and take a stand on this, that, or the other thing… what can you do in the everyday world?
There's not much draw for me, frankly. And I feel myself pulling away from a lot of the discussions and interactions from before. I understand it, and I know it's important to people, but I just can't be bothered with it, any longer.
I have what I need. I am what I need. There's no need to fight, because I understand how things work around me, and it's no longer necessary to constantly push and pull and drive and strive, to get where I'm going.
And stepping away from that drama, that boiling cauldron… it takes practice. It can be lonely.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. I'm sure there are others I can connect with who are experiencing the same thing. I'm getting away from the old milieu I've worked and lived in for so many, many years… just part of maturing and growing up and out, perhaps? And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I guess it's just going to take some time for me to find another "ecosystem" to blend in with. Because the old one isn't doing it for me.
Study this image for a few minutes, then read the post below… and then draw it afterwards.
So, I'm starting my new job tomorrow, taking it easy today, catching up on my rest, and not going too crazy with everything. I had some errands I intended to run, but I went to bed, instead.
Just as well. Those errands can wait.
I'm pretty excited about my new role, and I can't wait to find out how it's going to go.
I got myself some really nice, fresh food for dinner, and I'll start cooking that up in a little bit. I need to get my things together — make sure I have clean socks, as well as a formal suit to wear. It's my first day. I want to look my best. I'm sure it will prove to be a lot less formal than I'm dressing for, but I'll just take off my jacket. Roll up my sleeves.
I'm trying to drink a lot of water, so I'm clear for tomorrow. The last few weeks were pretty action-packed, and I need to settle my system. Yesterday I ended up being pretty busy and active, which wasn't my ideal. I really wanted to have yesterday off, but that's not what happened. Oh, well. That's what Sunday's for, right?
I spent a lot of time, this afternoon, relaxing and stretching and breathing. I did that after my nap, while I was lying in my warm bed, feeling comfortable and easy. I am having more trouble with my upper back, shoulders, neck, and trapezius muscle. I'm really stiff and sore, and not feeling great. All that lifting and moving yesterday didn't help. Oh, well. I stretched, rolled on a tennis ball to work out the knots, and I "breathed into it " as my chiropractor tells me to do. In the end, I felt better than when I started, but it's still tight and painful to move at times.
The main thing for me is to work on clearing out the stress sludge from my last job. Let by-gones be by-gones, and also help my body clear out the biochemical leftovers from all the ridiculous dramas and conflicts that people seemed to dream up to keep themselves entertained. It's not a small thing, clearing out the sludge. We have to do it, in today's world, because nobody else will do it for us. We live in very stressful times (especially as the new political season picks up), and our systems are deluged with all kinds of conflict and strife and perceived threats.
If we allow it to build up and stay there, it takes a toll. It puts additional stress on our systems, and it drags us down. I dunno about you, but I don't need anything else dragging me down. Especially if I know how to clear it out.
So, I'm breathing – steady as she goes – count of 5 in… count of 5 out… nice and even, relaxing all the while. It balances my autonomic nervous system and gets me out of fight-flight mode. It backs down the stress response and makes it possible for me to clear my head, so I can think properly.
This is important. This is critical. I know how to do this, and I must do it. It's no longer optional for me. Not just some interesting thing to try out, here and there, but a discipline I need to regularly do.
Like the image memory exercises.
Both help. In different ways. They really help.
And now, get your pencil and paper and draw the image you just looked at above. No peeking. It's important to see where you come up short. If you succeed each and every time, you've learned nothing. Good luck.
Trauma from traumatic brain injury is about more than what caused the injury.
Life after TBI (or other brain injuries) is traumatic all around. And the stress of living with yourself after TBI, can be like a river cutting a canyon into the earth, one bad experience at a time.
If you really want to help, you have to factor in the stresses that come with TBI.
You need to understand how traumatic it is to deal with the changes of a brain injury — the changes to how you process information, how you react to that information, how you interact with others, and how that compares with who you knew yourself to be, before.
You also need to understand how traumatic those changes are — what a threat they pose to your identity, your sense of self.
You need to "get" that the trauma builds up and can overwhelm an already taxed system. And if it is not cleared by things like exercise, good nutrition, some sort of self-help routine like meditation or mindfulness, and regular interaction with strong social supports, it can — and will — erode a person's ability to function over time.
The other thing it's important to realize is that while the Grand Canyon may always be there, you don't have to stay in the bottom. The effect of the damage is fixable — it's even reversible. No matter how far down a person has gone, it is always possible to help them rise back up. They don't have to stay at the bottom of that gulch. They can climb out of that canyon and find firm footing again.
The human system is built to rise from the ashes, to re-wire its circuits, and find ways to become fully human… even if your sense of human-ness seemed to be long gone.
I have been caught in my own canyons many times. And I have climbed out of them, repeatedly. I have rebuilt my system, seemingly from the ground up, many times over in the course of my 50 years on earth, and I know from personal experience how impossible it can feel.
I also know from personal experience, how possible it really is to get up and out of The Pit.
But before you can do that, you need to understand that what's pulling you down is very, very real, and it needs to be accepted as "a thing" and addressed directly.
Avoiding the trauma aspects of traumatic brain injury is a mistake. But it's also reversible. And you have to do it in the right way, in the right sequence, with much sensitivity and intuition, not to mention common sense.
More on this later. Must get to work. But this is important. For all of us.
So, the upheaval over the accident a week ago has begun to settle down. I truly cannot imagine a worse time for life to be disrupted. It's been a roller coaster of tears and anger and frustration and confusion, with some pretty intense extremes.
I really don't have time for this sh*t.
I'm not being selfish and insensitive. I really feel for my spouse and all they are going through. It was a really traumatic experience, and I totally understand the reasons for the tears and the anger and all the emotional upheaval. I truly do understand. And I'm there for them to support them as they heal. And I have to deal with my own emotional stuff, too.
The thing is, life goes on, and I have a lot going on with me, just to keep the ship sailing in the right direction. I have to keep functional at work. And I have to finish my own personal projects which are a way for me to A) earn some extra money now, and B) set me up for future income in the years to come, when I cannot do this 9-5 work thing anymore.
I'm feeling less and less capable of dealing with the workaday world, each day, and I know I need a change. I'm not happy with how my brain functions at work – I'm forgetful and distracted and I am not functioning at the level I want to be at. I feel so marginal. I think it's a combination of brain injury stuff and motivation and the general environment. When you're dealing with TBI, you have to put in a lot of extra effort and find the "special sauce" that keeps you actively engaged in your life. Then things can go relatively smoothly (on a good day).
But if you take away the motivation and the joy, the sense of purpose and connection, everything gets harder. A lot harder. People at work are very nice, and I've had worse jobs, but they're cliquish and petty and we have very, very little in common.
It becomes more obvious to me, every day, that I cannot continue to make a living, doing what I do the way I do it now. I am wearing so thin, it's a challenge just to keep my head in the game and show up 100% each day. I really friggin' hate the 9-5 scene, with the cubicles, the pettiness, being stuck inside all the time, and being in an artificial environment. It also makes me nuts that the people running the show don't seem to be interested in actually running the business for profit, so when they come up short, people get cut, and it leaves me feeling quite vulnerable and exposed.
That will never do. Someone else who can't run their business is going to dictate how my life develops? Oh, I don't think so. It's really wearing thin with me, and I need to get out. I've started counting down to when I can leave — not sure when that is, but I've got this countdown going in my head.
So I've been putting a lot of my time and energy into developing concepts and projects that can get me out of that environment. I continue to get up each day and go through the process of living my life and building the pieces I need in place for myself in the future. I'm very clear about my ongoing direction — there's a lot of writing and publishing and "information marketing" in the cards for me — and I'm very clear about how to get there. Plus, there are a lot of resources online to help me get where I am going. So, I'm fairly confident these ideas will take flight.
It just takes a lot of work and a lot of focus. Every extra hour I have, when I'm not eating or sleeping or trying to relax for just a few hours, gets funnelled into my Great Escape. And having this car accident intrude on my focus and having to process all the drama around this event has really been sucking the life out of my activities.
I'm not feeling like I have the wherewithal to go through this whole post-traumatic process with my spouse, and deal with it along with the rest of my life. It was traumatic for me, too, because whatever happens to my spouse, happens to me, and it was pretty intense, being at the hospital and not knowing what the hell was going on. And the car being wrecked… that's not so great, either. Working through it all… it takes time, and time is something I just don't have much of.
The thing is, in the back of my mind, I am absolutely certain that things are going to turn around for us. My personal projects are solid and valuable, and I know a number of businesses which have a real need for them. It's only a matter of time, till I can break free of where I'm at.
It's the getting there that takes so much time and energy. So, I'm just keeping steady… slowly returning to normal… sitting through the tears and anger and fear and anxiety… looking for every opportunity to change and improve, picking and choosing how I spend my time.
I'm also continuing to grow and expand and develop. Getting new ideas. Following through on them. Testing and seeing what works and what doesn't, and just staying steady. There's none of that old haphazard approach, where I would just throw something out there and hope for the best. I've got plans in place, and it makes all the difference in the world.
And so it goes. I have to keep current with my sleep, as well as my nutrition. I need to keep on with the everyday, as well as reach beyond to what's yet to come. I'm feeling really positive about the direction I'm taking.
I just need to get through the fallout from this accident in one piece.


#DeathToAutoPlay—No More Audio and Video That Plays Automatically!
It's time to take a stand. We're sick and tired of apps (Netflix!) and Web sites (CNN!) assaulting our ears and eyes with audio and video that starts playing on its own, without so much as a by your leave. Let's fight back.


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The Sultan Murad Mosque (; ; ) is an Ottoman-era mosque in Skopje, North Macedonia. It was built in the 15th century on top of the Monastery of Saint George which was destroyed when Ottoman commander Pasha Yiğit Bey captured Skopje from Vuk Branković in 1392.

History
It was built with Sultan Murad's money donation. The mosque was built in 1436.

The Sultan Murat Mosque complex, the only Sultan endowment in Skopje, stands on a low hill in the central part of Skopje's Old Bazaar. It was burnt down and heavily damaged a number of times during its existence, events and changes to which the three inscriptions above the entrance refer. The first time of the fire was 1537, after which it was reconstructed by Sultan Suleyman in 1539. The second time, it was burnt down by the Austrian armies led by their military leader Piccolomini, who set the whole city on fire. It was renewed after twenty three years in 1711 by decree of Ahmed III. The mosque underwent repair work for the last time in 1912, decreed by Mehmed V.

In terms of its architectural features, as one of the largest mosques in Skopje, it belongs among the most significant specimens of Ottoman building in the Balkans. It has a basilica architectural form and is covered with a four-ridged roof. This is similar to the Early Constantinople style in Ottoman architecture. The interior is partitioned into three naves with rows of three columns, while the ceiling is made of a flat wooden coffered ceiling. The mihrab, minber and mahvil date from the 1910s.

The Türbe of Ali Pasha of Dagestan stands next to the east facade of the Sultan Murad Mosque. It houses two stone sarcophagi, the burial site of Ali Pasha's wife and daughter. The Türbe of Bikiy Han stands on the south side of the mosque. In the interior, there are five tombs without inscriptions. With its grand monument, the Türbe of Bikiy Han is the largest among this type of edifices which survive in North Macedonia. There is a necropolis in the area surrounding the two türbe, with several grave markers.

Sultan Murad Mosque stands on a plateau next to the clock tower. The main architect of the mosque was Husein from Debar. The mosque has remained mostly undamaged through the fires and earthquakes Skopje has sustained.

The Sultan Murad Mosque is rectangular in shape, with a porch including four columns with decorated caplets, connected by arcades.

References

Ottoman mosques in North Macedonia
Buildings and structures in Skopje
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1436
Old Bazaar, Skopje


Mat Franco loves to try out new tricks, especially tricks that you've never seen before. He spends a lot of time inventing new ways to surprise people and he did just that on his latest performance on 'America's Got Talent'.
He started off with a milk carton and poured out some milk, but when he went it fill the next glass, it was juice! It kept changing and it had everyone surprised!


Members of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation will be returning to the gate of the Robertsville mine site on June 28, two years after the start of an occupation that lasted almost 4 months.
But the Pray for the Land event will take place entirely on the road allowance, according to Bob Lovelace, and will not involve blocking access to the site.
The Ardoch Algonquins are inviting members of all faith communities to join with them in the day of prayer, and are hoping there will be a Mass as well as a Muslim call to prayer as part of the event, in addition to the planned sweat lodge ceremonies.
"Pray for the Land is an expression of our connection to all of the people that are concerned about the environment. Every spiritual faith has a belief that the earth is a sacred place, that it's a gift from the creator, and we are given directions to preserve it and look after it. That's the message of the day," Lovelace said.
A lot has happened in the two years since the occupation, which featured the coming together of the Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations in common cause after years of acrimony over the respective communities' approach to the Algonquin Land Claims process.
The Shabot Obaadjiwan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) late last fall with Frontenac Ventures Corporation, the company that is pursuing uranium exploration on a site that is accessed through the Robertsville mine, where they lease office space. The MOU allows for drilling on the site, which is something that the Ardoch Algonquins continue to oppose.
On February 26, 2009 in an article published in Reuters, Frontenac Ventures claimed to have found a large "Alaskite type uranium deposit", based on samples that were gathered in the fall.
"The discovery of a large new zone was made during late fall 2008. Forty bags (500 lb.) of bedrock samples, ranged from a high of 8.05 lb./ton to 0.25 lb./ton, with an average grade of 1.77 lb./ton," said the article.
Exploration, including repeated drilling programs, has taken place in the vicinity since the 1960s, but has never before yielded enough of a uranium resource to tempt a mining company to buy into the property.
Uranium was mined at both Elliott Lake and in the Bancroft region, until the 1990s. Talk of re-opening mines in those locations has heated up over the past two years, although the worldwide recession has had an impact.
Pele Mountain Resources, for example, slowed down its plans at its proposed Eco Ridge mine near Elliott Lake late last year.
"Pele announced the postponement of its pre-feasibility study and certain components of the permitting process as cost-cutting measures, in response to difficult market conditions," said a Pele news release in February.
The spot uranium price is hovering at around $50 per pound, well under $90, where it stood when Frontenac Ventures Corporation began staking claims in North and Central Frontenac in the spring of 2006.
The Robertsville protest has had an impact on mining and aboriginal politics in Ontario, leading to provisions for consultation with aboriginal communities in the revamped Ontario Mining Act, which was tabled in the Ontario Legislature just weeks ago.
Pray for the Land will take place during the day on June 28.