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Dispute Resolution
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- Chadwick Nott
- Location
- Oxfordshire, England, Oxford
- Salary
- £45000 - £65000 per annum
- Posted
- 14 Feb 2019
- Closes
- 14 Mar 2019
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- Sector/Practice Area
- Dispute Resolution
- Vacancy Type
- Lawyers, Private Practice
- Contract/hours
- Full time
Dispute Resolution
3 to 10 years PQE
Excellent opening for a commercial litigator to join the Oxford office of this progressive, forward moving law firm.
Our client has a strong reputation for litigation and is home to a team which handles high quality work acting for a fantastic spread of quality clients.
In line with the firm's business plan, which is to invest in growing their national offices through 2018 and beyond, the firm is keen to appoint a dispute resolution lawyer who has ambition and drive. As an experienced commercial litigator, you'll bring proven technical skills including a solid track record of running your own files with minimal supervision and indeed will be ready and able to supervise and mentor those more junior than you. You'll have demonstrable networking, marketing and business development skills as well as the ability to build strong relationships with new and existing clients. The ability to help drive incremental growth in the litigation team would be of particular interest to this firm.
This is a key role offering a strong platform for professional development, high levels of autonomy and client focus as well as an excellent competitive rewards structure.
For further information about this exciting role please contact Penny Heighway at Chadwick Nott for a confidential discussion
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The story in itself is fairly amusing – Judge leaves barbie to mercy of artist. But the highlight is using the word "menaced" to describe the carnal acts with kitchen implements. Full points for ingenuity.
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Matchbox Twenty are a band that have "spawned more No. 1 songs and spent more weeks atop the … adult top 40 charts than any artist" (Neilson); who are the only pop-rock band in the American top 10, whose current single Unwell "has occupied the No. 1 spot on the adult top 40 chart for 18 weeks" (USAToday). Their profile at Yahoo give you everything from videos to reviews. Well worth a visit.
There's a reason I'm telling you all this? Because they came to visit us at Wembley Arena last night. It was amazing. When you hear a band and like their music, it's one thing. When you go to their concert and get doubly blown away by their enthusiasm, personality and musical ability… well, that's another. 9 of us trooped up to the Arena last night and got some of the best seating in the almost full arena. After the supporting band, Maroon5, limbered us up, out Matchbox Twenty came to the cries of "Bring on the box!" from Jac. And so began what must rate as the best moment of the year so far for me. Rob Thomas, the lead singer, always manages to sound amazed that people like his band, and that he'd always wanted to play at Wembley Arena. True, he may just be saying that, but I think he means it. He also made a memorable quote about time being a currency, which I'm sure Jac will pick up and play with on his site.
The net result of all this? Well, confirmation that in our eyes Matchbox Twenty are a collection of gods (a gaggle? a herd…?). Simply Superb.

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The line started 10 feet away from a table in the back of the store, snaked around long rows of wine, out the front doors, all the way to the back of the building, then past another building and into a parking lot, which was so jam-packed with cars tow trucks were called out to tidy up. The dark sky overhead was either an approaching storm or God's wrath for the absurdity of it all.
Five minutes after the event started the fat clouds opened up, but wind gusts and driving rain didn't even put a dent in the crowd. A security guard worked the front door like a bouncer at a club, allowing only a few soaked people in at a time. One lady waited in line for more than an hour and got drenched even though her foot was in a walking cast. And, that's not all. She was also pushing a baby stroller. And, yes, a real baby was in the stroller -- although she did somehow manage to keep baby and stroller completely dry.
So, what's all this hoopla? Was Paul McCartney in town? The pope? Robert Plant? Heck, I'll even throw out Miley Cyrus? Maybe Troy Aikman was giving out autographs? No, wait! I got it. J.K. Rowling was doing a book signing? The Queen of England? Nope, none of that.
It was Bethenny Frankel.
Who, you ask? My. Point. Exactly.
Frankel was on The Real Housewives of New York City, which I never really got into. All that hostility and tension was uncomfortable to me. I prefer the Real Housewives of Oak Cliff (if you haven't Facebook friended them yet, then do so immediately.) Anyway, now she has her own show, Bethenny Ever After. She's also written a few books, and the reason for her Dallas visit on Friday was to promote her Skinnygirl Margarita at a few Majestic and Sigel's liquor stores. Basically it was just a chance to take some pictures with people and sign bottles. That's it. That's why the line was the length of two buildings in the pouring rain (or God's wrath).
Whitney McCumber of Dallas arrived at the Majestic liquor store in Addison at 7 a.m. Friday so she could be the first person in line to see Frankel. Whitney, why, why, why? You're a cute, smart girl. Please, sell me on this.
And, well, actually she did. See, she bought Bethenny's book, Naturally Thin, on February 18 and has dropped 20 pounds since that day. Losing that much weight is hard work and something to be proud of. Her waiting in line was, as her mother, Barbara, put it, "An affirmation of sorts."
Barbara added, "Although It did feel a little weird dropping my daughter off at a liquor store at 7 o'clock this morning." But, don't we all do that at some point?
Frankel's traveling circus was almost as mind-boggling as the crowd. Ferried around the city in a stretch limo, she had about five handlers and a ton of security. All these guys would stand around the table where she was signing and every now and then one would put their arms in the air and with stern face boom, "Everyone needs to move back," or, "Have your book open to the page you want signed!" Sheese. Really?
What I found most astounding was the process of getting Frankel's autograph. First of all, no one was allowed to take pictures. Instead there was a professional photographer taking shots that would later be posted on Facebook. So, people, many of whom were soaked, were allowed to walk up to Frankel, hand her their pre-bought bottle of Skinnygirl Margarita, smile for the camera, and then, they didn't have to go home, but they sho-tha-fakowi couldn't stay there. Once at the front of the line, it was all instantly over. I watched as mom Barbara tried to tell Frankel about her daughter's weight loss and a handler physically pulled her away after maybe 15 seconds. They were in line for 10 hours.
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No one seemed to mind even though plenty admitted that they felt rushed through. Maybe it's a New York-minute thing. I would like to see the New Jersey Housewives get hustled through a line the same way. I'd pay money to watch that.
After observing all the hoopla, the menacing clouds outside reminded me of the Mayan doomsday prediction. Man, what if I'm here when the world ends? That would SUCK!
So, I bought a bottle and left. I never found out if the name "Skinnygirl" was a self-reflection for Frankel or a message of hope to overweight drinkers. Regardless, the margaritas taste fine. (Yes, just fine. Not great. Not bad. Fine.) And at 100-calories per serving they leave plenty of room for a plate of enchiladas.


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Everything was perfection - warm hospitality, professional safari drives, rooms, meals, comfort, ....you name it
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Eastern Cape, South Africa
Kwandwe Great Fish River Lodge
- Here, the vastness of this wild continent is truly all around
- Watch animals at the river from your expansive viewing deck
- Attention to detail will keep you returning year after year
Facilities include
Activities include
- Spa
- Fishing
- Game Drives
- Walking Safari
- Community Visit
- Children Safari
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About Kwandwe Great Fish River Lodge
Featuring a classic-contemporary style of understated elegance and earthy tones, Great Fish River Lodge is all about tranquility and solitude. Watch majestic kudu meander down to the river from the Lodge's expansive viewing decks, or soak in the views from the privacy of your suite's own plunge pool.
The nine luxurious suites have been designed to take full advantage of the spectacular scenery. Floor-to-ceiling framed glass doors fold back to reveal an uninterrupted wilderness, and the en-suite bathrooms, complete with bath and indoor and outdoor showers, separate w.c and twin basins offer unmatched views over the sweeping landscape beyond. Keep cool with overhead fans and air conditioning, and enjoy a spacious thatched veranda and private plunge pool with terrace in every suite.
Delicious African-inspired meals are served on private decks, in the candlelit dining room, or in the cosy boma under a magnificent starlit sky. Rugged natural materials like rock, stone and thatch combine with soft-light lanterns, deep overstuffed sofas featuring clean contemporary lines and natural linens with plenty of texture to provide a simple but sophisticated atmosphere, inviting guests to linger and chat in friendly tranquil spaces.
Practical info
Great Fish River Lodge is in Kwandwe Private Game Reserve. Kwandwe is located in the malaria-free Eastern Cape near Grahamstown and lies approximately 65 km from the coast and is located in close proximity to the renowned Garden Route.
How to get there
There is a daily scheduled flight from Port Elizabeth directly to the Kwandwe airstrip. It departs at 13h15 and takes approximately 45 minutes. The return scheduled flight departs Kwandwe at 10h00. Charter flights can also be organised. For both options please note that luggage is generally limited to 12 kg per person in soft travel bags.
Road Transfers
Numerous car rental agencies are located at Port Elizabeth Airport, however should you prefer a chauffeured transfer we will gladly organise this. Please enquire upon making your accommodation reservation. Guests who self-drive will leave their vehicle at our car park at Heatherton Towers and will be transferred to their lodge by open safari vehicle.
When to go
The lodge is open all year round.
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Work with us to advance sports-based youth development! We offer Up2Us Sports member organizations the opportunity to host Coach Across America coaches or AmeriCorps VISTAs to work with youth and increase program capacity. In addition, we offer onsite training and program-level consulting for organizations. Up2Us Sports is pleased to announce its 2016-2017 Call For Partnerships (CFP)! Up2Us Sports is launching a new process for member organizations to designate ways they might like to interact with us from our growing menu of offerings, which include:
- Hosting a coach through Coach Across America (CAA)
- Training coaches
- Receiving program-level consulting
- Hosting a capacity-building AmeriCorps VISTA Member (VISTA)
In past years, we have managed each of these initiatives separately; in 2016-17, we are streamlining the process!
The CFP is a short screening form where you will indicate your interest in any of these Up2Us Sports initiatives. Once you've submitted the form, a member of our staff will reach out to you about next steps.
The CFP can be submitted at any time. We will send out a call for submissions twice throughout each calendar year, though we encourage updates at any time.
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Santa Fe Independent Film Festival announces 2018 Indigenous Film Programme
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The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will honour the city's rich history, as a centre for Native American arts and culture, by announcing its Indigenous Film Programme, which aims to highlight the best new short film projects by indigenous filmmakers, and feature films, including indigenous themes, and subjects.
The 10th edition of the festival will run from 17 October to 21 October.
Indian Horse
Directed by Stephen Campanelli
Adapted from the gripping novel by Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse depicts the dark history of Canadian Residential Schools through the celebration of hockey--main character Saul Indian Horse's refuge from racism and abuse--and the horrific realities of these essential prisons. Executive produced, Clint Eastwood, and starring Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), and newcomers Sladen Peltier, and Ajuawak Kapashesit (son of Winona LaDuke), this striking drama follows Saul as he tries to overcome his past, and pursue his passion for Canada's favourite sport.
The Blessing
Directed by Hunter Robert Baker and Jordan Fein
A documentary capturing the life and trials of Lawrence, a Native American coal miner, The Blessing illustrates inner conflicts. Lawrence provides for his daughter, Caitlin, by working for the very coal mining company that continues to destroy his tribe's sacred mountain, and Caitlin explores contemporary life as a young woman while assuaging a traditional Navajo father's expectations. The subjects, both directors, producer, and executive producer, renowned Native American actor Raoul Max Trujillo, will be in attendance.
White Ravens: A Legacy of Resistance
Directed by Georg Koszulinski
In the wake of the forced relocation of indigenous youth to Canadian Residential Schools, the headstrong inhabitants of the Haida Gwaii islands (also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, an archipelago off British Columbia's west coast, Canada) remained resilient against their oppressors, continuing to speak their native language and attempting to prevent deforestation in their lands. The insightful documentary, White Ravens: A Legacy of Resistance, reveals the longstanding abuses, addictions, and endless cycles of violence that resulted from these schools, as well as the importance of mending, and maintaining cultural roots through the voices of the Haida people.
Indigenous shorts programme
The documentary, Cedar Tree of Life, interviews three indigenous women to discover the ancient powers, and uses for this sacred tree. Junction, another non-fiction flick, depicts life surrounding a passion for basketball on the Navajo Nation. Told through the perspective of two young Lakota sisters, the Wounded Knee massacre, deadly conditions upon the two young girls who are disastrously separated during the slaughter, in Myrton Running Wolf's film Solider. Devon's Forrest may be a fictional tale of heartbreak, but it reflects the astounding real numbers of indigenous women that are tragically reported missing each year. Filmed in Albuquerque, Captivity Narrative follows a man's hunt for his outrageous doppelganger. Centred around a woman's addiction and its hindrance of her relationship with her son, Mud is directed by Albuquerque filmmaker Shaandiin Tome.
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Client request cookies and I'm never one to pass up a good cookie baking (and eating) moment… so I did a mashup of two of my favorite cookies.
Levain Bakery's Chocolate chip Walnut and Momofuku's Milk Bar Bakery Cornflake Chocolate chips and Marshmallow. New York is in my kitchen!!
Ingredients: makes 1 dozen-ish
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
2 cups cornflakes
1 cup mini marshmallows
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. I know it may seem like a high temp, but the idea is to blast the large dense cookies to caramelize the outside and keep the inside moist. Also if you know me you know I hate the word "moist"… but you can't escape it when baking. So preheat the oven and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or Sil-Pat (silicon baking liner)
- In a stand mixer ( or bowl with hand mixer) begin creaming your butter along with the brown sugar and granulated. Cream until light and fluffy. One at a time add the eggs…one at a time, mixing thoroughly after added.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and kosher salt. Stir together to combine evenly.
- In separate batches and without over-mixing add in the dry mixture to the "wet" mixture. Mix just enough to combine then add in another batch. After all the flour has been mixed in start stirring in the good parts.
- Good Parts: Stir, fold, press in the chocolate chips and the walnuts. Sprinkle in a bit of the cornflakes and stir/fold in. Do this until all the cornflakes are in. Finally, stir in the marshmallows.
- Some cookie connoisseurs will suggest refrigerating cookie dough a few hours or overnight. I get it! I do that with some cookie doughs.. it makes a better tasting and structural cookie. But not with this recipe. The cornflakes (on my first attempt) got chewy… even after cooling. Mix, scoop, and bake.
- Scoop out dough about the size of a large lemon; Bigger is better with these cookies. Ball the dough and place on a cookie sheet. 6-9 balls per sheet depending on the size of your pan. Bake 10-12 minutes or until you cant stand it now because they look and smell so good.
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Healthcare Reform News Update for October 11, 2017
Iowa Seeks to Leave Federal Health Insurance Marketplace
Iowa is seeking to move out of the federal marketplace system and set up a state-run exchange instead. If approved, the state would be allowed to eliminate key Obamacare features, including its federally run exchange, subsidy structure, and providing affordable coverage for low-income individuals.
Iowa's proposed plan creates a single healthcare option for customers with a deductible of $7,350 for a single person and $14,700 for families. It would redirect federal money dedicated to people with lower incomes and use it for premium assistance for all customers, regardless of income.
President Donald Trump has requested that the plan be rejected. It currently remains under review.
Acting HHS Secretary Appointed
Eric Hargen has been appointed the acting secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He fills the position after the resignation of Tom Price last month.
Hargen, a former corporate lawyer, served under former President George W. Bush and was part of President Donald Trump's HHS transition team.
Trump Executive Healthcare Order to Come This Week
President Donald Trump will sign his healthcare executive order by the end of the week, according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
On Tuesday, the president tweeted that "Since Congress can't get its act together on HealthCare, I will be using the power of the pen to give great HealthCare to many people — FAST." The order is expected to allow more businesses and individuals to buy association health plans that can cross state lines, extend short-term health plans, and encourage health savings accounts.
Healthcare Reform News Update for October 10, 2017
California Governor Signs Drug Transparency Bill
California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday signed the country's most comprehensive legislation that addresses rising drug prices. The new law will require drug companies to give 60 days' notice to state agencies and health insurers anytime they plan to raise the price of a drug by 16 percent over a 2-year period. The legislation also ramps up annual disclosure requirements on overall pricing.
"The essence of this bill is pretty simple," Brown said. "Californians have a right to know why their medical costs are out of control, especially when the pharmaceutical profits are soaring."
Trump Could Sign Healthcare Executive Order This Week
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order later this week that would allow small businesses or other groups to join together to purchase health insurance across state lines. The order would change existing association health plan (AHP) regulations, including loosening Obamacare protections to consumers with pre-existing conditions.
Proponents of AHPs say the order could help lower prices and grow the free market. Others say that it would cause insurance companies to leave the exchanges and increase instability in the marketplace.
Healthcare Reform News Update for October 9, 2017
Call Center for ACA Enrollment Will Stay Fully Staffed
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will not cut the number of employees at a call center that helps individuals enroll for Obamacare health coverage.
Last year, the center staffed 11,000 phone representatives during the open enrollment period; CMS anticipates having a similar number this year.
Healthcare Reform News Update for October 6, 2017
Trump Administration to Dismantle Contraception Mandate
President Donald Trump issued new rules Friday that will allow more employers be exempt from covering birth controlfor moral or religious reasons. The move could affect hundreds of thousands of women who currently receive contraception coverage at no charge under the Affordable Care Act.
"Application of the mandate to entities with sincerely held religious objections to it does not serve a compelling governmental interest," according to the new rules administered by the Trump administration.
The new rules would take effect immediately, according to the Trump administration. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the roll back. Several women's advocacy and public health groups have promised to file lawsuits against the action.


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We have two fantastic musicians appearing for the first time as a duo at the EIHF. Please welcome Scottish harp player Ailie Robertson and Cape Breton fiddle player Mairi Rankin, otherwise known as Rankin Robertson.
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The International Development (ID) Society has newly launched in November 2018. Run by Students on the MSc International Development course, it aims to create a space for holding events related to themes within International Development. You do not have to study a development-based subject to join. We welcome ALL students (undergraduate, postgraduate, PHD) and staff who have an interest in current development issues.
Members who have new ideas for events are encouraged to share!
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South Africa shows support for Semenya
Thousands of people welcomed South African athlete Caster Semenya on her return to Johannesburg airport on Tuesday, despite the controversy over her gender that marred her victory in the women's 800 metres at the world athletics championships in Berlin last week.
People sang and danced in the corridors, as Semenya worked her way through the arrivals terminal.
Fans hung over railings and crowded around windows hoping to glimpse her as she cleared immigration.
Supporters waved home-made placards that read "Our first lady of sport" and "100 per cent female woman".
South Africans have rallied behind Semenya in a national show of support sparked by an announcement last week by track and field's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), that she would have to undergo a battery of tests to verify her gender.
The IAAF made the announcement shortly before the 18-year-old claimed gold in the women's 800m final in a time of 1 minute and 55.45 seconds, the world's leading time this year.


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In Chhattisgarh's Balrampur area, residents are complaining of several health problems due to the dearth of safe drinking water. 'Red water' is what the residents are getting through handpumps in the village, which they claim is responsible for the multiple skin diseases and aches that they are suffering from.
Due to the contaminated water, the residents of Aamtahi village in Balrampur are complaining of several health issues such as herpes and itching. Despite knowing that the water is unsafe, these residents still drink it. For them, there is no other option but to live on this 'red water' to quench their thirst.
Narrating her woes, a class 10 student explained how she is suffering from a severe backache which she claims is due to the unsafe water. She recounted her ordeal of how not just her but several other people in the locality are suffering from similar body aches. Even the handpumps in the school premises are giving out the same 'red water'.
The women in the family are also desperate for any respite. They have to cook food, wash utensils, wash clothes but due to this contaminated water, they have to walk to a nearby farm, which is over a kilometer away, to get safe water even for the basic needs. The women are now urging authorities for a well to be dug in the locality which might bring an end to their troubles.
After villagers complained of the issue, the authorities have ordered for the sampling of water for analysis. However, it remains to be seen that how much time will the investigation take and when will the due action be taken.


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Securis adds more CSDS expertise
After NAID's March 18th CSDS exam in Orlando, Florida, another Certified Secure Destruction Specialist has emerged from the ranks of PC Recycler. Stephan Koblos is the newest addition to professionals who have achieved the designation of Certified Secure Destruction Specialist® (CSDS).
"Becoming a CSDS is a major accomplishment and something each of these individuals and their colleagues should be proud of," says NAID CEO Bob Johnson. "The rapid growth of the program shows that this industry consists of committed professionals eager to demonstrate their expertise and knowledge to the consumer. We expect the number of Certified Secure Destruction Specialists to continue to grow, and the consumer as well as the public at large will benefit from accredited, recognized experts protecting their data."
Storage & Destruction Business also highlighted NAID's second industry accreditation exam. To read the full story, please visit SDB Magazine.
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This is Pingsta ICE- 101 In the past, in order to build, operate and optimize internet networks, companies had to hire network engineers or consultants. This is the old way! BOO! Today, companies subscribe to Pingsta ICE and leverage network expertise as a service, on a pay-per-use basis. This is the 21st century way. YAY! To explain how Pingsta ICE works, lets look at something you're already familiar with…Milk. When you want milk, you don't go out and buy a cow. Instead, you go to your local grocer and purchase the quantity you need, when you need it. Similarly, when you require network engineering expertise, you no longer have to carry the extra expense of hiring engineers or consultants. Instead, simply subscribe to Pingsta ICE and purchase the specific network engineering expertise that you need, when you need it and only pay for what you use. Since Pingsta ICE supports all Internet Protocol technologies for the 50 leading equipment vendors e.g. Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade, and more You get to pick and choose the amount and type of network expertise you need when you need it for example, you can purchase say 12 support tasks of Cisco MPLS traffic engineering or 25 consulting hours on Juniper IP security or 33 R&D tasks on Brocade vs Cisco storage networking, just like you get to pick and choose the quantity and type of milk at the grocer- 1 gallon, 1 pint, or a single serving Low fat, soy, or vanilla. So let's review. Pingsta ICE is like the store you go to to purchase milk. It has all the network engineering expertise you need to build, maintain and optimize your Internet networks. Pingsta ICE expertise covers all Internet Protocol technologies for the leading fifty equipment vendors and can be utilized for break-fix support, consulting and R&D tasks. With Pingsta ICE, you purchase the specific networking expertise you need it, rather than hiring under-utilized engineers and consultants, thereby saving over 50% in your operational expenditure. Yaay! Pingsta ICE- Network Expertise-in-the-Cloud
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(A rare evening when the child is asleep by 8, and I'm done with dinner and twiddling thumbs and hey, it's not even 8.30pm!)
About six weeks back, I decided to get a haircut and went with a really short style (boy-cut, short bob, whatever it's called). And as I'm re-learning, with short hair, you need haircuts far more frequently that your average once in 3-4 months affair you'd otherwise go for. And this means they're heavier on the pocket.
And so it came to be that I decided to ditch the fancyass salon where I got the haircut paying over a thousand bucks. And also the Lakme and the Naturals salons which have been my go-to places for the last few years, and a basic hair trim costs about 500 bucks upwards. And I decided to check out the no-frills parlour beside the apartment I live in.
I went in expecting the usual question about getting hair coloured (I have a lot of grey, suffice to say). And well, the girl exclaimed and remarked that's it all black at the back and grey in top. How? I shrugged. And then she said your hair is healthy, has it been grey for a while? I said yeah, for a while now. And then to my great relief, she did not proceed to hard sell any brand of colour that would turn my hair black and yet keep it soft and healthy. Or specific shampoo or conditioner or hair spa, all of which the fancy places do and annoy the bejesus out of me. In fact she said please don't try any colour and spoil your hair, keep it the way it is. Why thank you, that's nice to hear, for a change, I thought.
And then of course, the questions came. Which are less likely in a more professional, swanky gleaming setup (or so I'd imagine). About your personal life. Who you live with etc.
I was slightly skeptical about her ability to do a good job, but I figured even if it was bad, it'll grow back. At one point she brought out an electric shaver, the kind S uses, and after going to town with it at the back of my neck, she was about to tackle my sideburns. 'No!' I shrieked.
'Just a little shorter here, near my ears,' I said. And then she brought the really sharp pair of scissors really close to my ears. And I REALLY panicked as she began trimming away, the sharp end of the scissors occasionally touching my ear. And I got goosebumps purely out of fear I think. When there was a lull in the trimming, I nervously said, 'I'm a little scared.'
To which she laughed and replied, 'Me too, my hands actually shiver when I'm doing this part.'
(Insert the classic emoji 😒)
Apart from being more personal, less hygienic, less pushy and up-selling and wayy cheaper, I wonder if this is what differentiates the ₹200/- haircut from the ₹1000++ ones. The disarming, almost uncalled for honesty, versus the ability at least look cool and unshakeable, and well, the professionalism.
I'm still deciding whether to go back there for my next haircut. Oh wait, the girl's getting married around then. Now I'm curious to see if she'll be around.


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"Emily, meet Emily."
My former boss was the one to introduce Emily and I to each other. Emily (not me) was fortunate to work with Kim at her new place of employment (I was SO envious!) and so when Emily and Matt got engaged, Kim so kindly referred Emily to me! (Keeping it all straight yet?)
We exchanged emails back and forth for a few weeks before finally meeting at one of my favorite local coffee shops, Stella's on South Pearl. It was a beautiful evening. Emily, Matt and I sat outside on the patio and talked for well over an hour about their upcoming wedding. It was such easy conversation and I could see why the two of them are perfect for each other.
When we first started talking about engagement session, one thing was certain; they both wanted quintessential fall in the Colorado mountains. Gorgeous dreamy light playing off the changing aspen leaves paired with the rich jewel tones of the evergreens and the cool September weather. I'd say we were able to achieve their vision perfectly!
I cannot wait for their March wedding at La Foret in Colorado Springs, but until then, enjoy these two lovebirds!


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How interesting — editors of the Small Homes Guide in 1948 declared that this was the first house they had ever seen "especially designed for television." Architect Rudolph A. Matern created the home with a special television alcove where folks could watch "prize fights and ball games" without filling the center of the living room with furniture.
Television was introduced as early as 1928, but it took a while to get the technology right. It was gearing up, just as World War II started. After a delay, TV took off bigtime so that by 1948, you can see why "where to put the TV" started becoming an issue. Hmmm. I think it's a pretty good guess that Matern's T-V alcove grew to be – the Family Room!
Some TV history
According to Wikipedia: The FCC issued the first commercial television licenses to NBC and CBS owned stations in New York on July 1, 1941, followed by Philco's station in Philadelphia, then licensed as WPTZ and eventually licensed again as the present-day KYW-TV. After the U.S. entry into World War II, the FCC reduced the required minimum air time for commercial television stations from 15 hours per week to 4 hours. Most TV stations suspended broadcasting. On the few that remained, programs included entertainment such as boxing and plays, events at Madison Square Garden, and illustrated war news as well as training for air raid wardens and first aid providers. In 1942, there were 5,000 sets in operation, but production of new TVs, radios, and other broadcasting equipment for civilian purposes was suspended from April 1942 to August 1945.
I am looking for a house plan that was designed by Rudolph A Matern. It was Design T-504 Ranch House. It was shown as the House of the week in the Wichita Beacon in late Feb. 1956.."A Quality Plan Selected by AP News Features.
Thank You
Still looking for a Matern 504 House Plan
I am looking for Plan P658 designed by Rudolph A. Matern in the 1940s.
We have this house! I have that same article/plan from the original owners. I have never seen it anywhere else! Amazing.
I have the book 50 House Plans for 1950 by Rudolph A. Matern, Architect. It has Design A-1 – A-50 – if ever anyone wanted a particular design. I can scan and send to you.
My parents built Design A-8 from "50 House Plans for 1950" in a Syracuse, NY, suburb in 1949. They worked w/ Rudolph Matern's office to tweak the plan — the dining room was enlarged, and they asked for a two-car garage. Otherwise, the house looked just as it appears in the book. I grew up in that house, which stayed in our family until 1984. The current owners remodeled it out of recognition about five years ago. At least one other version of the same design was built in the Syracuse area. Also, a similar but larger house from the same book, Design A-22, was built in Berwick, PA. I recognized it when I was driving by on US Route 11 — it's hard to miss a Matern house.
I grew up in a house built from these plans in Tiffin, OH! Model A-5. My family doesn't own it any more. There's another outside of Bellevue, OH. Mine is on Zillow at https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/80-Gibson-St-Tiffin-OH-44883/2131898363_zpid/


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Happy Monday! Hope you all had a lovely weekend?
I am so delighted to tell you all that we have won our very first business award.
After only one year of being in business all the hard work is starting to pay off. I am so excited to see what the future holds for Doll's Closet!


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By: Addi Rogers
This week's #poolread is about search engine optimization. Disclaimer: I'm not here today to tell you search engine optimization is easy, or that you should even know what it is. To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure myself.
I'm kidding (mostly), but I am telling the truth in that SEO is confusing, and it seems pointless and redundant if you don't know all of its benefits.
According to Google, search engine optimization is "the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a particular website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine." SEO is an important strategy in growing your business because the higher it is on the list of returned results, the more likely it is to be seen. Here are a few essentials of maximizing traffic to your website using search engine optimization.
As much as I hate to say it (because I hate to do it) backlinking is one of the most straightforward and easy ways to increase SEO. Backlinking is the process of sharing the link to your website or one of your blogs on a similar blog or website's comment box. Make sure to leave a relevant comment and attach your link so that people who see it will click on it and drive more traffic to your website.
SEO No-no: Don't backlink too much and make sure to leave original comments. Backlinks are annoying if they're not relevant.
Keywords are crucial. Add specific and relevant key words to every page and image of your website to increase site traffic. If you're building your home page, you might use your company name, CEO's name and type of business as keywords. For instance, "Verge Pipe Media", "Don Crow" and "media marketing" would all be great keywords for our website.
SEO No-no: Be careful not to include too many keywords on your website or Google will assume that you are a spam-bot, and it will ignore your website.
Let me just say this – content is key. You should be posting new content to your website on a regular basis. One great way to do this is by integrating a blog (hint, hint – why Verge Pipe Media posts at least two blogs a week). Not only will it increase site traffic, but it's a great way to connect with customers, to share relevant links from your website, and make your site more personal
SEO No-no: If you're going to start a blog, make sure you keep up with it. Nothing is worse than looking at company whose last blog post was in 2012. Frequency is a must.
As I mentioned before, these are just the bare bones of search engine optimization. Check out our #beachread on Thursday for a more in-depth look.
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I love January. Other than September, it's my favourite month. This might be surprising considering there's only 7 hours of daylight, the temperature is well below zero (Celsius) and there's a good chance of suffering from holiday hangover.
But I love it because of the bright, shiny fresh start that it offers. Arbitrary though it may be, January 1st feels like a giant, sparkling reset button that makes the world spring into sharper focus. I always enjoy the lightness of relief when the holiday season is over and life offers up a sense of stillness. I feel ridiculously hopeful and ready to let my biggest dreams and desires loose upon the world.
This year, I feel even better than most since I was able to spend the better part of a week extricating myself from the thicket of stress that I fell into for most of the fall. I spent hours listening to soothing music on my new noise-cancelling headphones (best invention ever!) reviewing what went right and what went wrong, and dreaming about how to make things better this year.
I realized that while I accomplished a lot more than I had expected in the past 12 months, the overarching theme for the year was constriction -- a feeling of being caught in a prison of my own making. I weighed myself down heavily with unnecessary obligations, adding more and more tasks to an unstable pile. While this definitely helped me take my art business further than it's ever been before, it also left me with a sour taste in my mouth. This - burned out, worried, stressed, exhausted - is NOT how I want to feel.
And so, I thought about what I DO want to feel. And the answer floated up like a feather on the breeze: freedom.
I want to break free my imaginary prison. I want my mind to be full of "I get to do this?!" instead of "I have to do this." I want to be free from expectations, constraints, worrying about what everyone will think, comparisons, pointless burdens, responsibility that is not mine, and needing all the answers. I want to be free to explore, adventure, connect, create, and feel everything.
Last year I pushed myself really hard and though it was painful, I'm glad I did it. Now I know what too far feels like. And I have a better idea of what works and what doesn't.
This year I will be making some changes:
- I will not pack in as many things as I possibly can. I will leave some space for the unexpected.
- I will not rigidly cling to an idea of where I need to be in 12 months. I will hold my dreams closely, but loosely.
- I will not throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. I will put my energy into projects and plans that light me up the most and have the greatest potential for impact.
- I will not keep pushing myself to do just one more thing. I will stop before I get to my breaking point.
- I will not attempt to do battle with my fear, hide from it or ignore it. I will hold it gently, show it kindness and compassion.
- I will not accept that the future is closed, decided, or determined. I will remember that I am creating it moment by moment.
I also have plans to overcome some more practical challenges:
A lot of fear and stress this year came from my lack of building skill. I want large-scale installations to be a core part of my artistic practice, but I'm getting stuck in my limited experience. This year I'm going to actively pursue knowledge and develop skill in two ways. First, by attending my very first artist residency (!!!), during which I will spend two weeks working with a group to build a wood pavilion. And second, by designing and building six small projects to help me learn different sets of skills. The first - a birdhouse to hang outside the studio window - is almost finished!
Despite all the progress I've made in terms of finding my voice and building connections, I still feel like there's a big piece of the puzzle missing when it comes to community and networking. I burned out in 2017 partially because I was trying to do everything by myself and didn't have the particular support that comes from people who've been there. This year I'm making a focused, strategic (but also introvert-friendly!) networking plan to help me get more connected.
Most of last year's art-making was reactive, meaning that I produced it for specific events. This year, I want to take a more generative approach by experimenting a little more and seeing what bubbles up naturally. I'm still not really sure how to do this, since I tend to get hemmed in by deadlines, but I'm excited to work on figuring it out.
This year I will continue to take risks, to push my boundaries, to do scary things every day. But I will also focus on connection and learning and make play a priority. And I will continue to deepen my mindfulness practice in order to spend more time in the present.
No dream is worth getting crushed by. I still want to be a full-time artist, but I want to enjoy the journey to get there. Because all we really have is the journey. And I want my journey to feel like freedom.


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The Door to Sicily
By Linda Tancs
The Greeks founded the Sicilian city of Messina and named it "Zancle," a reference to its sickle-shaped natural harbor that provides a main point of entry for visitors. Just three miles across the Strait of Messina, its most famous attraction is likely the astronomical clock. Be there at noon for the movement that lasts about 12 minutes. The clock's figures include a roaring lion and crowing rooster. Afterwards you can visit the tower for amazing views of the city.
Valley of the Temples
By Linda Tancs
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Valley of the Temples is a testament to Magna Graecia (Great Greece) in Agrigento, Sicily. It boasts remarkable temple ruins dedicated to the gods and built by the rulers of Akragas (now Agrigento), one of the largest Greek cities on the Mediterranean in the sixth century B.C. Now in ruins, the colossal Temple to Zeus was one of the biggest Greek temples in antiquity. The oldest temple is Hercules, but the best preserved is Concordia. Most city buses leave from Piazzale Rosselli and ride by the site.
Sicily's White Elephant
By Linda Tancs
The Grande Hotel San Calogero in Sicily has been waiting for guests for over 60 years. Dubbed the ghost hotel, it stands vacant for decades now thanks to governmental gaffes and design flaws. The 300-bed, five-story hotel was intended to showcase southern Sicily's Sciacca, a pretty seaside town built on rocky heights that overlook the Mediterranean. Sicily's white elephant stands atop a rocky outcrop on Monte Kronio, within walking distance of the thermal springs and basilica.
Palace of the Normans
By Linda Tancs
A stronghold of Palermo, Sicily, the Palace of the Normans is a testament to the cultural, historical and religious influence of the region's invaders over the centuries. The palace was begun in the 9th century when Sicily was under Islamic rule and still retains Arabian vaults in the basement. When the Normans conquered Sicily in 1072, the building was transformed into an administrative and residential compound marked by arcades and exquisitely designed gardens, an appropriate dwelling for the Sicilian kingdom established under Norman rule. King Roger II added the stunning Cappella Palatina, a chapel boasting Byzantine, Islamic and Norman styles that is highly prized for its elegant mosaics. Following additional reconstruction by the Spanish and Bourbons, the palace ultimately became, and remains, the seat of Sicily's regional parliament.


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I have two boys that are completely and utterly addicted to Basketball. Now I must say AGAIN!!!! I do not mind feeding this addiction at all. It's a great, healthy sport that gets my kids off of the couch and outside working out! So, I have devised a plan to get them to help out around the house and to offer immediate, short term and long term incentives.
We have a strict schedule that we adhere to every day. The boys have a morning routine, an after school routine, and a bedtime routine. Each of these routines are made up of four items. For example--the morning routine begins at 8 am with them waking up, making their beds and getting dressed. 8:10 brings breakfast and clean up. 8:20 brings teeth brushed, shoes/coats/backpacks on--and they are out the door for school. Now hidden in this routine is 1 chore. Making their bed. The afternoon has 1 chore hidden in it as well, and so does the evening schedule. Everyday at the end of the day we sit down for family scripture study, family prayer and rewards. The end of the day reward brings the opportunity to choose a pack of basketball cards. If they do all of their routines for the week, they get PS2 on Saturday or some time at a park for some B-ball. If they complete their routines for a month--they get a new jersey of their choice or a new PS2 game.
Well, let me just say...it is amazing! We had a neighbor boy over for an hour after school today. He was busily looking through my boys cards. I mentioned to the boys, that they could earn their cards for the day by getting their routines done. The neighbor immediately piped up wanting to help get the straightening done. Let me tell you-those three boys whipped my living room and kitchen into shape in no time flat! They were rewarded with a pack of basketball cards each. You would have thought it was Christmas. They then spent the next half hour working on trades--too funny! Now my plan is to compensate with incentives for the first month while we are getting the habits into place, and then begin cutting back. Even if they don't let me cut back--my boys will be learning to be upstanding members of their community--and I'm happy to pay any price for that!!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Chores & The Incentive To Get Them Done!!
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Aerobility Ballooning 2014
As you will no doubt all know, Aerobility have been increasing the availability of Ballooning for its members over the last few years with a number of exploratory events, using the Breitling Academy Balloon and others kindly loaned for the events. We are now pleased to announce that Aerobility's own Balloon is nearing the end of a modification program and should shortly be inspected and approved ready for flight.
Balloon Pilot Training
For those who wish to learn to fly Balloons, we aim to offer Pilot training to PPL(B) utilising what is known as a Duo Chariot. The Chariot is a two person gondolier suspended beneath the Balloon envelope. This has a number of advantages for aspiring pilots compared to the traditional basket including: access from the front is at the same level as many wheelchairs thus facilitating easier transfer and, all controls can be accessed from a sitting position. Add to this the amazing view that flying this combination affords, and you will appreciate this is a truly amazing experience.
To get a better idea of what is on offer take a look at this footage of Aerobility member Tim Ellison who recently became Europe's first disabled balloon pilot. The chair Tim uses in the clip is very similar to the Aerobility Duo Chariot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sz_uTyGTiU
If you would like to learn to fly a balloon, now is the time to let us know. We are offering training to any disabled person who can safely access the Chariot. The exact format and location of lessons has yet to be decided, but first of all we need to assess demand. So to be part of this exciting development, please email email@example.com
Wheelchair Accessible Flights
Of course it may be that although you may want to fly a balloon, the idea of the Duo Chariot does not appeal and maybe you don't wish to obtain a licence. For those of you perhaps looking for this slightly more passive experience, we do hope to obtain the use of a traditional wheelchair accessible basket later on in the year. We can't promise or commit to a specific date at the moment, but again, register your interest and if and when this becomes available, we will be in touch.
Ground Crew
Finally a message to our able bodied friends; would you consider volunteering as ground crew? This crucial work is not only great fun, but also an essential ingredient to enable our disabled members to participate and we will be offering training for those of you happy to volunteer your time and energy.


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Niamh Clarke is originally from Dundalk, Co.Louth. She received her BA in English and Philosophy from NUI, Galway. She is currently studying a Diploma in Journalism from The Irish Academy of Public Relations and has a FETAC certificate in Print Journalism from Dún Laoghaire Further Education Institute. She is the writer at the blog The Essay Yeti. She has edited several books and has an ITEC certificate in Proofreading and Editing. Niamh is based in Louth and is working as a freelance journalist. She is also editor and writer for the newsletter at National Leing Network, Dundalk branch.
Are Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Clerk's performances opposed or aligned?
By Niamh Clarke
Geoffrey Chaucer was writing in the middle ages and is known as the Father of English Literature. He wrote many works including The Legend of Good Women, Trolius and Criseyde and, most famously, The Canterbury Tales. He wrote in middle English vernacular which was an unusual move at the time, moving away from the dominant French and Latin verse of writers at the time.
The literary historical context of Chaucer feeds nicely into contemporary literature. His poetry and themes are as relevant today as they were in the middle ages. He reaches out to readers with his humour, his succinct language and his marvellous plots. His poetry is timeless in this respect. Whether you're new to literature or a well-seasoned reader, Chaucer holds appeal for all. His relevance today is felt – he is fresh, funny, profound and thought-provoking.
The Canterbury Tales tells of a group of people on pilgrimage from London to Canterbury, who provide tales as part of a story-telling contest. On the journey, two pilgrims - the studious Clerk and the garrulous Wife of Bath offer their tales. The relationship between the two characters and their stories has been highlighted by many readers. The two characters are seemingly opposed – as people they could not be more different: the Clerk is reserved, precise and learns from books – the Wife is unreserved, outgoing and claims to learn from experience. Both tales are a justification of their approaches to life.
Because the pair contrast so much on the surface of things, the question of their performances being opposed or aligned is one that is worth examining. What is the nature of their performances that make them so connected? Are the Wife and Clerk's performances opposed or aligned?
I come from a long line of men,
who saw words not as decorations
but weapons, knives with which to cut
others down to size.
Kevin Higgins[1].
'Keep your mind in hell, and despair not', urges Staretz Silouan[2]. That the mind will protect against experience and all its adversity is still a commonplace place idea. And Chaucer's Clerk certainly embodies the mind: books, learning and teaching are not just his livelihood – they make up who he is; books are his life (GP, 300). What the Clerk reads becomes what he is; Chaucer fuses activity with ontology in his tale. Books keep the Clerk's identity protected even as he sleeps at night (GP, 293). Like a sailor or a young man drowning for the first time in oceanic experience, the patristic clerk clings to his books like a buoy. We glean, in the description of him in the General Prologue, how book-learning assimilates itself into the Clerk's being. While it might be hard or even a mock-able offense nowadays to sleep with books instead of women, the General Prologue signals to us the grave, if not extreme, importance of books to the very essence of the ideal Clerk. He lives for nothing else than deciphering other people's words. He has committed himself to his own mind, or in terms of the Arcade Fire song _My Body is a Cage_:
'My mind holds the key'.
In a dualistic sense, the Clerk's identity is centred on that of mind over matter. He thinks, therefore he is. In ontological contrast – there is the elemental Wife of Bath - lover of experience, lover of herself. She is, therefore she makes us think. Books inseminate the Clerk's life with sacred meaning, but, within the Canterbury Tales, the Wife germinates the Clerk's response to her in the first place[3]. The Wife is by virtue of her being an explosive and deeply paradoxical terrain. She is paradox of both water and fire[4]. She is paradox of natural elements (for example, she embodies water, she embodies the material, and explicitly promotes the sexual) and artificial elements: we meet with her synthetic identity (for example, she is a hotchpotch of man-made ideas and words, she is heavily clothed). She paradox of both surface and depth (her being is very superficial but the level of her reference creates a sense of depth, however confusing). She is paradox of meaning and meaninglessness. In terms of semantics, the Wife could be summed up in the words of Yogi Berra:
'I never said most of the things I said[5]'.
But what does it really mean to 'say what you mean' via other people's words? The Wife through her over-exaggerated reference to other people's words causes us to question both her identity and her autonomy. But the situation is still muddy: when one uses the words of others, as the Wife does, is one a puppet or a puppet master? Moreover, does the paper-thin Wife of Bath even have a human voice? - Because even her 'love' of all that is sexual is forced and ruthless: sex is economical; sex is a Darwinian debt owed to her: 'for my profit' (WP, 214). She flirts with meaning and other authors' texts so much so that she reaches the point of committing hermeneutic sadomasochism: 'For myn entente nis but for to pleye' (WP, 192). And we instinctively do not believe a word she says, because of her over the top performance, and because she openly confesses that she is a liar[6]: no-body can believe a liar even when he is telling the truth. Furthermore, what do we make of how her devious ambiguity stimulates the lyrical growth of the Clerk[7]? Is her threat to meaning the ideal-landscape where a Clerk must enter, and attempt to keep his mind against her hellish ways? It certainly seems so.
The Wife's prologue is a wasteland of human voices, mocking the very act of men who 'devyne and glosen up and doun' (WP, 26). She spits upon the scholar's gabardine:
'For truseth wel it is an impossible
That any clerk wol speke good of wyves' (WP 688 – 689).
She 'maugree'[8] not only the moral integrity of clerks, but also she sullies their pursuits of meaning, preferring experience, notably sexual experience, above and beyond book-learning. And the fervent debate over her status as a feminist or misogynist is further testimony to the hermeneutic difficulty she displays. That the Wife oscillates between misogynistic as well as feminist positions[9] heralds her profound ambiguity. The flirtatious nature of her affair with stable meaning causes me to seriously question my reading of her. Within the text she is not just a Wife or a female character. She functions as a metaphoric entity. She is inherently standoffish, and her instance in the text entices us to go beyond her speech, to not trust her, and to interrogate gender, discourse, relationships, identity, experience, intellectualisation[10], and reading. This is achieved through her seductive language games, her openness, her unavailability, and her body. Her flits between aggression for her own female gender and for masculine intellect are disorienting and evasive. She is, of course, readable as an all-too-human comic character, but the Wife's over-arching embodiment of sexuality, materiality, her demand for absolute power, and how she is a consumer of so many human voices – this all transfigures her being and her behaviour. In many ways she thus becomes a garrulous landscape within the Tales rather than a believable human being. And while Chaucer's Clerk is an ideal template of a good Clerk, he still maintains a sense of grounding in his humanity. The Wife is completely out of touch with her own humanity. She neither displays nor betrays any reasonable reality to her person or levels with us as readers. The Wife journeys beyond 'wife' or 'human', not because she is a victim of patriarchy, but because she defies even our ideal expectations of any single person. Her general dearth of genuine, human affection[11] for her husbands, the wide-ranging extent of her travels, her inexhaustible appetite for sex and for marriage, and her aggressively Darwinian attitude towards relationships causes the mind to blank at the glare. All of this causes serious doubts over the believability of the Wife as representing an individual with a gripe against scholars. The Wife is a metaphorical landscape[12]. When we observes the contours of her Prologue especially we realise she has seduced us into a metaphor of 'Wife' itself. She becomes the allegorical vehicle in which to As Lee Patterson states, 'The Wife's analogy between her "joly body" and the corpus of her text invokes a powerful medieval connection between sexuality and reading' (Patterson, p.6). The Wife is a hellish experience for the Clerk's chaste mind[13]. She represents a threat to his very being, and poses a profound possibility for his mental anguish. She tries to provoke his despair, to burn his books in her fire, and to abandon all hope in his mind. She is the hell he must keep his mind in. The performance of the Clerk is in total response to the Wife, and in the reading of their relationship I witness how both performances oppose and align at different points. To further analyse how the characters oppose we focus on the Wife's overuse of glossing:
At first, the mind is in danger of drowning in her sound-bath. The Wife's Prologue stitches together echoes of other human voices[14]. She lays down scholarly sound-bites in order to impose her 'own' views on them and persuade that experience trumps intellectualization, that her being trumps the Clerk's being. The Wife de-familiarises well-known biblical stories through her immediate naturalisation of them. She places her own sexualised interpretation on religious works as she attempts to penetrate the clerical sphere:
'And certes, if ther were no seed y-sowe,
Virginitee, thanne wherof sholde it grow?
Poul dorste nat comanden, atte leste,
A thing of which his maister yaf noon heste. (WP, 71-74).
Her attempt to interpret authority marks her rejection of exegesis in favour of her immediate, self-serving ethos: experience is 'right ynough for me', she says (WP, 2). She draws on a multitude of religious and patristic writings. She ambiguously floats once sacred and meaningful phrases upon the flood of her garrulous performance. Her Prologue is fragmented, a textual wasteland. Her speech is impregnated with patriarchal teachings plucked out of their respective contexts. The Wife attempts to pour cold water over the endeavour of glossing, and clerical voices are tossed about so exhaustively that they drown in her diatribe. No-one could ultimately know what she was doing. In opposition to this, the Clerk by his very being stands for precision and for the integrity of reference. He is intellect and love of coherent meaning. He initially honours his sources:
'I wol yow telle a tale which that I
Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk.
As preved by his words and his werk' (CP, 26-28).
The Clerk values proof, meaning and work. All good clerks desire this pinpointing, accurateness, and scholarly integrity. The Wife eschews authority, and this positions her as his archenemy. By feigning glossing through her own exaggerated 'referential mania'[15], the Wife irresponsibly bandies about other people's words so as to undercut the Clerk and disorientate him. Doing this isolates herself and the Clerk[16]. Their different use of referencing destines them to be rivals. Her referential mimicry is a direct attack on the Clerk's way of life. Caroline Dinshaw describes her mimicry of clerical glossing:
The woman's desire must be merely mimetic; the Wife chronicles her own busy "purveyance/ Of marriage"(570-571). The gloss undertakes to speak (for) the text; the Wife maintains that the literal text – her body – can speak for itself (Dinshaw, p. 571).
The Wife, a 'knower manqué' (Carney, p.61), situates herself in favour of the literal reading of the feminine text[17]. The challenge is as follows: Experience is feminine, and unless the male Clerk burns his books, his sense of self, and submits to the Wife's experience then he is living in ignorance. Her mimicry signals to her sense of higher, metaphorical consciousness and didactic purposiveness, and 'embedded deep in this story is the untraditional idea that men must learn from women (Knappe, p.127).
In terms of the performances' opposition, there is a fundamental power-struggle between the Clerk and the Wife. The Wife ties her all husbands to her kitchen chair – and from their lips she draws their masculine powers:
'Upon his flesh, whyl that I am his wyf,
I have the power during al my lyf
Upon his proper body and noght he' (WP, 157 -159).
Here the Wife's demand for her husband's sovereignty, his body, his 'lyf', is stated in non-negotiable language. She does not phrase herself in the hypothetical. 'I have the power' (WP, 158): this is an unequivocal statement about the pattern of every one of her marriage arrangements. She is confident of her ability. All of her husbands submit their complete power to her even if it pains them: 'How pitously a-night I made hem swinke' (WP, 203), says the Wife unfeelingly. Hellish Experience herself displays nothing but callousness; she has no real emotions. In darkness, in martial hell, she induces her husbands' suffering. She ignores their voices, as she exploits their bodies. They labour defencelessly in her marriage bed:
'I sette hem do a-werke, by my fey,
That many a night they songen weilawey!' (WP, 215-216)
The Wife's self-description here is important: she sets men to work as though she were a landscape to slave on. And it is significant that she causes men to sing. Man's response to her is nothing but a desperate song in her night-time. All her husbands inevitably die. She describes her relationship to men in diurnal and nocturnal language': Myn housbond shal have it bothe eve and morwe' (WP, 151-152). This places her in the role of Mother Earth as opposed to an intimate human Wife[18]. And even though they are as near to her as they physically can be -- there is no sense of intimacy: her husbands obtain no pleasure. Still men sing, and Alisoun has ears in vain.
We need to seriously ask who are the Wife and the Clerk? J.A Alford looks to the General Prologue as providing the best insight by virtue of the ontological description there. Alford posits that 'From the very start, not because of what they say but because of what they are, these two are destined to clash. Look at their portraits side by side. They are mirror opposites' (Alford, p.108). Alford's point that they are destined to clash is correct, but his idea that the two characters are exact mirror opposites fails to capture the wider relationship they share within the text. Alford's mirror opposites rigidly play out 'the recurrent tension between two modes of discourse, rhetorical and philosophical' (Alford, p.110). While his argument begins with a focus on their very being, Alford's reading goes on to silence the wider dramatic context of the tales. This drama is essential to furthering our understanding of Wife and Clerk. That they are precise mirrored historical rivals is attractive, but merely viewing the Wife as the Clerk's opposite number ignores the ontological clues that she offers us in her overall performance. It also ignores the unfolding nature of their dialogue from within the organ of the text. To not move outside their opposition binds the two characters together in a misleading way. It is misleading because crucial to the relationship between the Wife and the Clerk is their imbalance and not their exact ontological mirroring. The Wife teaches us to not view her solely in human terms when we examine the contours of her Prologue especially.
The Wife comes first; the Wife's speech dominants. Her Prologue and Tale is a thicket through which any Clerk must wade. She brambles out wildly and inaccurately to other texts. Her performance grows over the Canterbury Tales like ivy. Her aggression, her sexuality and her vulgarity is wide ranging and domineering. The Wife is the biggest personality in the Canterbury Tales, and her experience creates an imbalance between herself and the Clerk in particular. Her scope is seismic, far reaching and geographical[19]. Her swallowing of scholars' language reminds of Spenser's monster, Errour. Like Errour, the Wife also consumes books and regurgitates them, but whether the Wife is correct or erroneous is not the topic. The point is that she is depicted both as being monstrous or larger than life. She is not realistic; no-one could marry that many men, or unconsciously consume so many books. Viewed from the wider perspective of her function within the text as a whole, the Clerk's performance is an attempt to penetrate the verbal landscape of the Wife. In this sense he is dependent on her for his response, his tale and his lyrical transformation. Like Redcrosse, the Clerk enters the cavern of the Wife and tries to keep his mind in the midst of her experience.
The ultimate deciding factor in the relationship between the Clerk and the Wife lies not only in the Clerk's envoy but in his account of Petrarch's Griselda and Walter. 'God is to Man, as Griselda is to Walter' (Condren, p.125.). Edward. I. Condren, in his interpretation of the Clerk's Tale, rejects the critical reading that 'Walter equals God, Griselda equals human being' (Condren, p.125). Instead, Condren highlights evidence from the text that supports how the opposite is the case in Chaucer's appropriation of Petrarch's tale. Chaucer changes details from both Petrarch's and the French version, and achieves a transformation of 'Griselda from merely a heavenly creature into a figure of Christ' (Condren, p.128). Condren's argument positions Walter in a postlapsarian quagmire, and explores the equivalences that Chaucer's text makes between Griselda and Christ. In particular, Chaucer's emphasis on Griselda's place of birth, according to Condren, echoes the Nativity; her willingness to die for Walter and her constant, perfect love for her material husband, her community and her children alike transcends the boundaries of Walter's human infallibility, and elevates Griselda's identity to that of Christ:
'If Grisleda's humble birth in a stable, her description as a saviour and a lamb, as well as her perfect love all suggest parallels with Christ, her career as Walter's wife also follows a pattern similar to Christ's life on earth'(Condren, p.129).
Condren is correct to equate Griselda with Christ. But although Condren recognises the dramatic context of the Wife and the Clerk, he prefers to emphasize the Clerk's response in relation to the Host and by doing this misses a vital point in the necessity of the Wife. While the host is the prime mover of the tales, the specific impetus of the Clerk's performance is the Wife. The dynamic of the two characters is of crucial importance. The Clerk's equation of Grisleda with Christ has implications on his wider relationship to the Wife of Bath. Seen in this light, Walter's relationship to Griselda thus mirrors the relationship of the Knight to the Old Woman in the Wife's Tale. Griselda transfigures Walter just as the Old Woman transfigures the Knight. Therefore in the telling of his tale, both Clerk and Wife's performances align. Both tell of the transformation of lusty bachelors (WT, p.883) who must undergo a process of personal change in relation to their patient Wife. The female guides the sinful, power-hungry male to willingly submit all sovereignty to her. In making Griselda Christ, the Clerk admits something crucial to the Wife of Bath: that ultimately he is in subjugation to her experience, and although his sect forbids him to openly admit it, a husband must always hand over his trust, his intellect, and his worldly power to his Wife. Often the Wife is explained as being trapped within patriarchal discourse but when one considers Chaucer's change of Petrarch's material that subtly places a Wife in the Christ position, then we get the suspicion that it is the Clerk who is really the one trapped with his discourse. His sect demands coherency, and his lyrical transformation[20] is a move away from the ideal, serious clerk and an acknowledgement the Wife's experience. The Clerk is transformed by the experience of the Wife.
The Clerk then encourages 'archewyves' who undergo marital hell to stand strong against abusive husbands; in other words - to 'despair not' in marriage: 'Ye archewyves, stondeth at defence –' (CE, 1195). It is worthwhile to interrogate the meaning of his sentence. In light of Grisleda transfigured into Christ by the Clerk, this can be read not just in straightforward terms of patronising advice to archeswyves, but rather as a statement about archewyves –they stand defensive, mysterious, and unknown. In the end, the Clerk recognises the impenetrability of archewyves, and admits to the defensive nature of them through his song. Similar to the way the Wife's husbands sing 'weilaway', the lyric is sung by the clerk in the aftermath the wife penetrating his clerical domain. The Clerk signals to the fundamental impenetrability of experience itself at this point. His lyric is an extended 'weliaway' in this sense. He is changed by his encounter with the Wife but he by no means understands her. The Wife of Bath is the ultimate and impregnable archewyve who stands defensive. And because of her defensive nature the performances will always oppose: the Clerk embodies intellectualisation, the Wife consumes male intelligence. But their performances align in the sense that the Clerk still enters into a necessary dialogue with the Wife, and ultimately his tale bequeaths her the sovereignty she craves. The Wife is often read as the strict polar opposite of the Clerk. This reading places the two characters on the same playing field, whereas as stated the Wife is not only a character but she is also a landscape within the Canterbury Tales. She is the oppositional field upon which the experience between herself and the Clerk takes place. That the duo is forever conjoined is true, but that they are equally weighted opposites needs questioning. It is not just a straightforward battle of one tale in mortal combat with another, or of two characters at symmetrical loggerheads. The two tales both reciprocally inject each other with deeper meaning, as well as eternally deprive each other of semantic fixity.
The performances oppose and align at various points – they cloud, eclipse, and illuminate each other. The relationship of Clerk and Wife teases out a tension between a frustrating and a fascinating reading-experience, and this is precisely because they are not only 'mirror opposites' as Alford argues (Alford, p.108). Their relationship within the text goes further than one of binary oppositions. Their relationship is of course contrapuntal in many superficial ways, but it is an infinitely more far-reaching relationship than simply being one of opposition. In terms of the performances theirs is a necessary connection. Imagine if the Wife of Bath's tale did not exist in the Canterbury Tales – if this were the case, then the Clerk's tale would mean very little. The Clerk's tale is to the Wife's tale, as man is to landscape. The fruition of his lyrical maturation is forever determined by her performance. The Clerk is always in relation to the Wife. She always has sovereignty over him in this respect. The Clerk's Tale is completely dependent on the Wife's Tale. Although they may be rivals on some levels, the Wife ultimately transfigures the Clerk into song-bird. Experience herself, primarily the Wife of Bath, sets the very climate in which their dialogue occurs. Finally, to give the final word to the scholar Gillian Rose who embodies the best of both the Wife and the Clerk:, because she embraces both the validity of experience and the reflection of the mind:
'I will stay in the fray, in the revel of ideas and risk; learning, failing, wooing, grieving, trusting, working, reposing – in this sin of language and lips' (Rose, p.135).
Alford, J. A. "The Wife of Bath versus the Clerk of Oxford: what their rivalry means". Chaucer Review 21 (1986), 108-32.
Carney, Clíodhna. 'How to Say "I": the Clerk, the Wife and Petrarch', in Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin, 2013), pp. 61-74.
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Dinshaw, Carolyn. Chaucer's Sexual Poetics. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Print.
Higgins,Kevin. The Boy With No Face. Clare: Salmon Poetry, 2005.Print.
Knappe, Peggy. Chaucer and The Social Contest. London: Routledge, 1990. Print.
Miller, Mark. Philosophical Chaucer Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Print.
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Patterson, Lee. "For the Wyves love of Bathe": Feminine Rhetoric and Poetic Resolution in the Roman de la Rose and the Canterbury Tales". Medieval Academy of America 58.3(1983) 656-695
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[1] From the poem 'Knives' by Kevin Higgins, p.15.
[2] Quote taken from the inscription at beginning of Gillian Rose's book Love's Work
[3] As the course description by Dr.Carney's seminar states: 'The Wife's performance stings the Clerk into telling a tale about a submissive wife'. The Wife is also discussed in terms of her 'ambivalent encroachment on the clerical discipline (which earns her the rebuke that is the Clerk's Tale) brings up the whole question of limits, in How to say I: The Clerk, the Wife and Petrarch, Clíodhna Carney, p.64.
[4] Timothy O'Brien explores the idea of the source of the Wife of Bath name in his article 'Troubling Waters: The Feminine and The Wife of Bath's Performance'. But although her name signifies water, she paradoxically imposes fire and burning on her husband at once: 'And made him brenne his book anon right tho' (WP, 816); she also has earthy material elements composing her being, if we appeal to her material dress in the General Prologue, for example, (GP, 445), as well as her actual profession as practiced cloth maker. She spins her tale; she marries all sorts of men – young and old; she spins her wheel like lady fortune.
[5] Quote taken from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/paradox
[6] 'And by my fey, I tolde of it no stoor' (WP, 203).
[7] Clíodhna Carney treats the Clerk's lyric in her How to say I: The Clerk, the Wife and Petrarch.
[8] 'Of which mayde anon, maugree hir heed' (WT, 887).
[9] As Elaine Tuttle states, 'The Wife, both consciously and unconsciously, endorses the antifeminist stereotypes she cites' (Tuttle, p.6)
[10] Many commentators have explored fruitfully the two tales in terms of their gender. See Chaucer's Sexual Poetics, by Carolyn Dinshaw, who posits how the wife 'represents independent feminine will and desire, the literal body of the text that itself has signifying value and leads to the spirit without its necessarily being devalued or destroyed in the process. The woman traded must be silent; the Wife talks. The woman's desire must be merely mimetic; the Wife chronicles her own busy "purveyance/ Of marriage", Dinshaw p.570-571. See also Peggy Knape in Chaucer and The Social Contest. London; Mark Miller in Philosophical Chaucer Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales; Chaucer's Women by ; "The Mark of Adam" by Elaine Tuttle Discusses the sexual as does Chaucer's Women and The Mark of Bath. Lee Patterson's article "For the Wyves love of Bathe": Feminine Rhetoric and Poetic Resolution in the Roman de la Rose and the Canterbury Tales".
[11] She does express 'love' for Jankin the Clerk, but I don't believe that she loves him. Her 'love' comes at the expense of his intellectual happiness, and she only has affection for him because he does exactly what she desires. He is a mouse that she played with for a bit, but he is none other than another cog in her cavalcade of disposable partners. She is more than ready for her sixth husband: 'Welcome the sixth, whan that evere he shall' (WP, 45).
[12] As Peggy Knappe says of the Wife: Her "self" is also a demonstration of and figure for the garrulous, incongrible, inexplicable text, always, "wandrynge by the weye", always escaping from any centralizing authority which attempts to take over her story. She wants to be glossed and gives out a wealth of clues to reading her enigma, but no-one reading will master the rest. Like the plenitude of Mother Earth herself (and Father Logos) she offers too much rather than too little (Knappe, 128)
[13] Patterson goes on to say: 'The locus classicus for this connection is Augustine's misreading of the Aeneid, when he was seduced into weeping for the death of Dido while remaining unmoved by the dying of his own soul. This monitory scene recurs through- out the later Middle Ages: Paolo and Francesca (and Dante) relive it, Boccaccio anxiously argues against it, Chaucer - in the House of Fame and in the Troilus - reenacts it. For each of these writers the relationship between the lovers in the text becomes a warning figure for the relationship that might develop between the reader and the text. What Dido did to Aeneas the Aeneid did to Augustine: how can the reader protect himself against the "joly body" of the text?" (Patterson, p.6); or, in my words: 'how can you "keep your mind in hell and despair not"?'
[14] The idea of the Wife being stitched together or made from 'old bits of clothes' is taken from the Wife of Bath seminar by Dr. C. Carney.
[15] 'Referential Mania' is a diagnostic term from Nabokov's Signs and Symbols.
[16] Dr.C. Carney, speaks of the 'secondariness' of both the Clerk and Wife p.62. They both are similar in how they are composed of other people's words, but the way they are composes differs radically.
[17] Miller, Mark in Philosophical Chaucer Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales states that"Experience" is a more reliable source of knowledge than "glossing", it would seem, because, like "the body", it constitutes a realm of authenticity free of the idealizing and prudish distortions that attach to a supposedly authoritative clerical hermeneutics. What is more, not only does the Wife claim that experience has an epistemic privilege over glossing, in the first words of her prologue she declares that experience would be a reliable source of knowledge even in the absence of any public authority…In imagining a world with no authoritative discourse, but in which experience would still authorize her to speak, the Wife indicates the conceptual center of her attempt to carve out a space for feminine agency, p. 198/199.
[18] To repeat Knappe: 'Like the plenitude of Mother Earth herself (and Father Logos) she offers too much rather than too little' (Knappe, 128).
[19] Timothy O'Brien explores the symbolism of her elemental name in "Troubling Waters the Feminine and The Wife's Performance".
[20] Lyric of the Envoy explored in 'How to say I: The Clerk, the Wife and Petrarch' by Dr. Carney.


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