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Lemon, Rhubarb and Rose Cupcakes
I decided to make some cookies (more on those tomorrow) and then try out a recipe from my head, I went to the supermarket intending to just make the cookies but then as I was walking around decided on different flavours and things to make cupcakes. I opted for lemon, rhubarb and roses for summery little cupcakes.
I thought I'd post the recipe as they look ever so pretty, they'd be perfect for a Summer party!
- 3 eggs (weigh the eggs first and then use that weight for the sugar, flour and butter)
- Caster Sugar
- Self Raising Flour
- Butter
- Juice of a lemon
- Rhubarb (I used tinned as I am a lazy girl)
- 1 tsp of Baking Powder
- 140g Butter
- 280g Icing Sugar
- Juice of half a lemon
- Crystallised rose petals (I'd make these first as they take a while to dry! Method below)
Makes 14 large cupcakes
This is a super simple basic sponge recipe that is based on the one my Auntie taught me when we used to bake when I was little, all you have to do is weigh the eggs (I used 3 but you can reduce the amount if you want to makes less) and then use that weight for the sugar, flour and butter.
The lemon flavour is very subtle and the rhubarb helps to keep the sponge nice and moist, but you can always switch the rhubarb for raspberries or other fruits if you're not a rhubarb fan.
To make the cupcakes
1. Cream together the butter and caster sugar until it's smooth and creamy
2. Add the eggs one at a time and beat until smooth, then add the lemon juice
3. Sieve in the flour and add the baking powder
4. Add in the rhubarb (don't forget to drain it if you're using tinned and lightly sugar and stew if you're using fresh)
5. Spoon into cupcake cases (I used muffin cases because I like cake!) and bake in the oven at around 180 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden. Stick a knife in to check if they're done, if it comes out clean then they're cooked!
6. Leave them to cool and get started on the buttercream!
To make the buttercream
1. Sieve the icing sugar and mix in the butter until it's super smooth
2. Add in the lemon juice and leave to chill in the fridge for at least 10 minutes
3. Spoon or pipe it onto the cupcakes when they're completely cooled
4. Add a crystallised rose petal to show off!
This makes a pretty sweet buttercream (what other kind is there though really...) so if you want a less sweet version, use dark chocolate or just plain icing to stick on the rose petal.
To make the crystallised rose petals
These look super fancy but are actually really easy to make, just treat yourself to a bunch of roses and take all the petals off one. Get the white of an egg in a small bowl, I added a little lemon juice for a bit of a kick, and dip in the petals. Then place them on a sheet of greaseproof paper and sprinkle caster sugar all over them. Leave them for around three hours somewhere warm and dry, then they'll be brittle, like little rose sweets!
What do you think about the summery cupcakes? Tweet me a photo if you have a go at making them yourself!


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The emission gradesheets, which are accessible through hyperlinks below, consider county-by-county air emission densities, in tons per square mile per year, of the following pollutants: carbon monoxide (CO), lead and lead compounds (Pb), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOC), particulate matter less than or equal to 10 micrometers (PM10), particulate matter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5), ammonia (NH3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), total hazardous air pollutants (HAP), and two particular HAP's, namely diesel emissions and acrolein emissions. For the first eight pollutants except lead and its compounds, (CO through SO2, except Pb), emissions are based on 1999 data from "Emissions: Criteria Air Pollutants" in the EPA online database AIRData at http://www.epa.gov/air/data/. Lead, total HAP and acrolein are 1996 data, also from AIRData but under "Emissions: Hazardous Air Pollutants." Emission details for NTI area and mobile sources are directly from the NTI Web site
at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/nti/
with data sets located specifically at ftp://ftp.epa.gov/pub/EmisInventory/nti_96/.
Diesel emissions are 1996 data from the EPA Air Toxics Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/nata/
For each US county, assign grade levels to emission densities, in tons per square mile per year, according to the following table:
The grade "A" represents the Best/Cleanest emission densities in the US, and "F" the Worst/Dirtiest in the US. The grades reflect the statistical distribution
of base-10 logarithms of the measured emission densities for all US counties, as in the following tables:
The shift of the bell curve by one standard deviation for
lead reflects a cleaner national average for this pollutant. The statistical
procedure makes each grade limit a common
multiple of the next lower limit. For example, the upper grade A limit for
VOC before "rounding up" is 0.505 tons per square mile per year, and the common multipler
for the VOC distribution is 3.87
The unrounded upper limit for
When applied individually to the 11 emissions, the procedure results in the following percentages of measured counties in the grade levels:
[N = Number of US counties with emissions data for the pollutant. Example: Grade D for CO means at least 72.2% of 3143 US counties have smaller CO emission densities (72.2% = 6.7% A's + 21.4% B's + 44.1% C's).]
The hyperlinks below bring up sheets showing grades for each type of emission, the overall ambient grade, and the resultant county grades. There are two county grades, "self" for the county as determined by its own emission and ambient grades, and "map" for the county as affected by neighboring counties. (See "Maps" for more discussion on map grades.) One can use the grade sheets to determine which individual grades caused a county to be at the level it is. These are highlighted in bold
italics. If the cause is a neighboring county, the "map" grade is highlighted. If the cause is ambient monitoring, one can further look in "Ambient Grade Sheets" to determine the specific pollutant measurement that determined the county's ambient grade.
Click on a state, county-range combination to bring up that grade sheet. After viewing, click the browser's back button/arrow to return to this index page.
Alabama, Autauga-Monroe Montgomery-Winston
Alaska (emissions all 1999)
Arkansas, Arkansas-Nevada Newton-Yell
California, Alameda-Stanislaus Sutter-Yuba
Colorado, Adams-Prowers Pueblo-Yuma
Florida, Alachua-Palm Beach Pasco-Washington
Georgia, Appling-Echols Effingham-Miller Mitchell-Washington
Illinois, Adams-Lake Lawrence-Williamson Winnebago-Woodford
Indiana, Adams-Marshall Martin-Whitley
Iowa, Adair-Jasper Jefferson-Wright
Kansas, Allen-Labette Lane-Wallace Washington-Wyandotte
Kentucky, Adair-Hart Henderson-Pulaski Robertson-Woodford
Louisiana, Acadia-St. Martin St. Mary-Winn
Michigan, Alcona-Macomb Manistee-Wexford
Minnesota, Aitkin-Mower Murray-Yellow Medicine
Mississippi, Adams-Neshoba Newton-Yazoo
Missouri, Adair-Jefferson Johnson-St. Francois St. Louis-Wright
Montana, Beaverhead-Teton Toole-Yellowstone
Nebraska, Adams-Kearney Keith-York
New York, Albany-St. Lawrence Steuben-Yates
North Carolina, Alamance-Jackson Johnston-Yancey
North Dakota, Adams-Walsh Ward-Williams
Ohio, Adams-Mahoning Marion-Wyandot
Oklahoma, Adair-Murray Muskogee-Woodward
Pennsylvania, Adams-Perry Philadelphia-York
Puerto Rico, Adjuntas-Mayaguez Moca-Yauco
South Dakota, Aurora-Moody Pennington-Ziebach
Tennessee, Anderson-Lawrence Lewis-Wilson
Texas, Anderson-Coryell Cottle-Hardin Harris-Llano
Texas, Loving-Runnels Rusk-Wood Yoakum-Zavala
Virginia, Accomack-Galax (City) Giles-Powhatan Prince Edward-York
West Virginia, Barbour-Wayne Webster-Wyoming
Wisconsin, Adams-Portage Price-Wood
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By Keith Savino on 3/21/2016 8:00 AM | Filed Under Home Ownership , Tips for Personal Safety
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I know that you read the headline to my blog and thought, "who is he kidding? He's just another insurance agent trying to get me to purchase something that I absolutely do not need. Next he will try to sell me space travel insurance."
But before you snicker, here are some truly alarming, very recent facts that support the statement above:
According to geologist Alexander Gates of Rutgers University, the seismic activity in this region has been increasing steadily over the decades and he has predicted that the trend will strengthen to more numerous quakes at a higher seismic level. A March 2nd, Wall Street Journal article highlighted the following fact: "Earthquakes tend to come in cycles, and activity in the region started growing in 2001 as tracked by the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Rutgers." To be sure, geologists and other earthquake experts have long warned about the possibility of a significant earthquake in the region.
According to the New Jersey State Department of Banking and Insurance, very few property owners have Earthquake Insurance. Christine O'Brien, President of the Insurance Council of New Jersey has recently stated that residents should discuss Earthquake Insurance Options with their insurance agents.
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There are several ways to do this. Using code wheels (or encoder discs) with photoelectric or Hall effect detectors seems to be the easiest way, in a software point of view, but requires mechanical adaptations to include the code wheels. This would affect the design of the bot, and would be too invasive to include in a "hacked toy" (such as a tank rc, this is what I plan to do, the mechanical parts on the tank cannot be modified, and shouldn't be). Anyway…
Another way to do this is measuring the back-emf feedback. This is well described here. Basically, voltage coming from the motor, while it's turned off (not powered), must be measured using ADC. The value is proportional to the speed of the motor. Compared to the voltage applied, it's possible to know if the motor is turning as expected or not (too fast, or more plausible, too slow). And possibly to adjust the applied voltage to correct the speed.
I found this nice page on back-emf using control feedback, with the same parts I use (16F88, L293D). This is what I'm currently trying to implement. Master Patrick also helped me a lof, with advices, suggestions and patience…
After several tries, first results are quite interresting. Here's a series of screenshots from an experiment. There's one DC motor. Its speed is increased at each step, using PWM. One step consists in activating the motor for 2 seconds, then shutdown the motor for 1 second. When PWM is turned off, an ADC measure is acquired and sent through serial link. This gives…
Lot's of noise (more on this later), but we can clearly see how the motor is accelerating, step by step. As expected, while the PWM increase step is constant, acceleration is not linear.
Also note, during the very steps, PWM is not high enough to make the motor rotates. There's a voltage applied to it, but none generated…
Zooming on a step show interesting things… First, each step looks the same:
- n is the current step,
- An is the current average being computed
- An-1Â is the average at previous step
- an is the new measure for current step
- k is a coefficient used to balance the average with the new measure. 0 < k < 1
During this last experiment, I voluntarily slow down the motor several times. The green line is the sliding average, using k = 0.98 (the new measure has only 2% weight in the average). More readable, heh ?
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Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, 2nd Edition by Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe
English | August 31st, 2009 (2010 Edition) | ISBN: 0321637550, 9780321637550 | 361 Pages | True PDF | 26.29 MB
Just about every digital image requires sharpening since softness is inevitably introduced during the image digitizing process, and oftentimes with digital photography, images are sharpened badly. This second edition of the definitive book by the late Bruce Fraser teaches readers all they need to know about sharpening, including when to use it, why it's needed, how to use the camera's features, how to recognize an image that needs sharpening, how much to use, what's bad sharpening, and how to fix oversharpening.
Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, Second Edition is written by Fraser's friend and renowned photographer Jeff Schewe. It adds essential coverage of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw, since many of the key sharpening functions have migrated from Photoshop to those tools since the first edition of the book was published.
The book shows readers how to: recognize the kind of sharpening that each image needs; become acquainted with the full arsenal of sharpening tools built into Photoshop, Lightroom, and Camera Raw; sharpen part of an image selectively; create a complete sharpening workflow that allows sharpening images optimally for different uses; balance the contradictory demands of sharpening and noise reduction; and more.


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Stirling Residences was a new launch condo at Stirling Road by Nanshan Group and Logan Property, which will launch after Margaret Ville. It is constructed to have three standing tall towers resembles Marina Bay Sands, crafting on a huge land size of 21,109.5 sqm with full complete facilities.
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Born in a storefront on College Avenue, Berkeley Rep has moved to the forefront of American theater by telling unforgettable stories. Founded in 1968 by Michael Leibert, BRT quickly earned respect far and wide for presenting the finest plays, performed by the finest actors. In 1980, with the support of the local community, Berkeley Rep built the 400-seat Thrust Stage where its reputation has grown steadily since. Gaining renown for presenting an adventurous combination of theatrical works, it presents important new dramatic voices alongside refreshing adaptations of seldom-seen classics.
In recognition of its place on the national stage, Berkeley Rep was honored with the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater in 1997. In 2001, the company unveiled their new 600-seat proscenium stage, the state-of-the-art Roda Theatre. In the past few years, Berkeley Rep has helped send several hit shows to New York City including Eurydice, Taking Over, Passing Strange, and the Tony Award-winning American Idiot.


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Earth and Fire
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© Sue Wookey
This is a newish painting that I've been meaning to post for a while, but I wanted to wait until I'd made giclee prints. Getting the colours right have been a nightmare, but I'm finally satisfied with them and they are now available at Galley Hill Art. The painting represents the Elements of Earth and Fire, with the stag representing fire. Stags have a longstanding relationship with the Sun in many cultures and have been regarded as a sacred animal since neolithic times. This fiery stag popped up (or, more specifically, bounded up) in a half-waking dream and was so vivid I had to capture him in paint. Needless to say he doesn't now look anything like what I saw. Such is the gap between our imagination and what happens when you get your jam jar of water out. Never mind, he still looks pretty hot. The words around the outside are attributed to St Patrick and describe his imaginative vision of all that is staggy:
Light of sun, radiance of moon, splendour of fire, speed of lightening, swiftness of wind, depth of sea, stablility of earth, firmness of rock..


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This is a 1971 Nova which has undergone a complete frame-off restoration. This car is a driver and built to do about anything. It can be a daily driver with exceptional gasmileage for a muscle car. This car will take corners at 70 mph with ease. If any of you have ever beenthrougha build of this magnitude, you will know that it's being sold at a fraction of the price to build.
Vehicle HistoryThe car started as a 1971 base Nova model. It was a green in color and rust free which made it an excellent candidate for a resto-mod.
Body & PaintTwo-stage metallic graphite silver with clear coat color sanded and buffed to a beautiful shine. Front/Rear bumper and grill have all been powder coated black. The front bumper has a few custom touches such as an angled damper in the center along with the 2 LED lights added. The rear bumper also has some custom work with the exhaust mounting to rear bumper. All the trim and emblems have been painted black.
Power PlantThe LS1 engine came from a corvette (C5) base model producing 350 hp from factory. The intake was replaced with a FAST LSX Multi-port Black Intake and a FAST Big Mouth throttle body was installed. It has a BeCool Aluminum Radiator with electric fans keeping this animal cooled off. The coils were upgraded to MSD. Computer was professional tuned by Ed Wright, developer of FastChip, of Sand Springs, OK. The transmission was professionally rebuilt GM 4L60E with high torque gears. A Vintage Air system was added to keep the ladies cool while cruising down the interstate at 80 mph in the hot summer sun.
Frame & SuspensionThe frame holding this beast to the ground originated in a 1968 Camaro SS. It was used because it already had 4-wheel disc brakes with new lines, power-washed, primed, and painted black. It has tubular upper and lower control arms, lowering springs, viking shocks, and front sway bar. The rear end is pro built 12 bolt 3.73 posi backed up with a sweet Aluminum Ultra Support Differential Cover. Cragar S/S Direct Drill Gray wheels were added to keep that classic muscle car look. This car hugs the road like a new sports car.
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I don't remember where I first heard it, but growing up it seemed to be just common knowledge that American Indian "Squaws" followed their husbands a respectful ten paces behind. Today, I doubt that this was a practice by any Native American culture. But, there is no question, that in the Cherokee culture, women were not subservient to men.
The Cherokee were a matriarchal society. The woman was the head of the household and the children were born into her clan. My father's last name is Miller and my mother's maiden name is McDaniel. So, my last name is Miller. But, had we been living in a Cherokee system when I was born, my last name would be McDaniel and I would've been taught the ways of the McDaniel clan by my mother's uncles.
The Cherokee had seven clans and each clan usually had a woman, called Ghigau, or Blessed Woman. The Ghigau were women who had earned the respect of their clan and represented their clan in Council meetings and were in on decisions. The Beloved women were also responsible for deciding the fate of prisoners.
|Nanyehi, Cherokee Ghigau
Women could be chiefs, Uku's, priests, virtually any position men could have and women often fought in wars beside the men. About 1751, a young girl named Nanyehi married the Cherokee "Tsu-la". In the Battle of Taliwa against the Creeks , Nanyehi lay behind a log in order to chew his bullets so that the resulting jagged edges might create more damage. When Tsu-la was killed, Nanyehi picked up his rifle and continued the fight leading her people to victory.
In 1776, after the Cherokee attacked Fort Watauga, Nanyehi used her power as a Ghigau to spare the life of captured Lydia Russell Bean. Mrs. Bean taught Nanyehi a new loom weaving technique that revolutionized Cherokee garments and dairy farming.
[Burial tribute to Nanyehi]
[To learn more about Nanyehi, read "When Women Ruled" from the archives of Native American Antiquity]
"The European culture viewed the role of women in Cherokee government with disdain. In the early 1700's, the trader Adair coined the phrase 'petticoat government' to describe the prominence of the women's role."
In an article published January, 2011 in the online e-zine "Indian Country" the following was quoted from Wilma Dunaway, professor of sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and author of "Rethinking Cherokee Acculturation; Agrarian Capitalism and Women's Resistance to Cult of Domesticity, 1800-1838:
"By the 1800s the Cherokees had lost their independence and had become dominated by white Americans," said Johnston. "At this time white Americans did not believe that it was proper for women to fight wars, vote, speak in public, work outside the home or even control their own children. The Cherokees began to imitate whites, and Cherokee women lost much of their power and prestige. In the 20th century, they had to struggle along with other women to acquire many of the rights that Cherokee women once freely enjoyed."
I am pretty sure that had a Cherokee husband commanded his "squaw" to walk ten paces behind him prior to the arrival of Europeans, he would have found his stuff piled up outside the front door of the house. That was how a Cherokee woman divorced her husband.
Author of the Cherokee Chronicles
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Corruption redefined as tourism in Czech Republic
In Prague's maze-like Franciscan Garden, an urban oasis hidden away in the heart of the Czech capital, a curious ceremony is unfolding.
A man and a woman in smart black uniforms, pale blue and orange sashes draped over their shoulders, are preparing to grant their organisation's highest academic honour to a bunch of nervous novices.
Tourists and office workers struggle to suppress their curiosity, squinting to read the ornate letters slowly being etched on large scrolls of paper in beautiful calligraphy.
The words being formed read "Masters in Corruption Administration".
"Corruption is not just money spent in the wrong way. Corruption is trust misused, and the web of power that's built with this very money," says Petr Sourek, founder of what he says is the world's first corruption tour agency.
For a few dozen euros, Petr and his colleagues will take you on a tour of the landmarks of corruption and cronyism that have so blighted the Czech transformation from a socialist planned economy to a capitalist free market.
"I perceive it as a threat to our freedoms, because if these mafia-like structures are strong enough, they are able to intimidate citizens," he tells the BBC.
The tours - of which there are several - give visitors a glimpse of what happened to the huge sums of taxpayers' money that have disappeared into the pockets of crooked civil servants and shady businessmen.
It's a whistle-stop excursion past ostentatious villas, massively over-budget public construction projects and the echoey corridors of local government offices.
And at the end of the tour, members of the group are handed a unique souvenir - a joke "degree" in corruption administration - a nod at the many officials and politicians accused of buying or fast-tracking their academic qualifications, including - the ultimate irony - law degrees.
Petr Sourek sees no problem in profiting from corruption. Quite the opposite.
"It is exactly this contradiction that I set up Corrupt Tour to highlight," he says. "Corruption tourism is a business that feeds on what feeds on business. We recycle corruption."
At one point we pause under the offices of Roman Janousek, a billionaire businessman whose influence in Prague was once deemed so great he was regarded as the city's "shadow mayor", and nicknamed "Voldemort", for allegedly selling city property, rigging public tenders and overseeing huge development projects - accusations he denies.
On 30 April Mr Janousek was sentenced to three years in prison for grievous bodily harm following a minor traffic accident, after which - prosecutors alleged - he deliberately rammed his luxury Porsche Cayenne into the other driver, who had emerged from her car to remonstrate with him. Mr Janousek protests his innocence and is likely to appeal.
So how big is corruption in the Czech Republic? Big enough to bring down governments certainly.
In June last year, police in balaclavas raided the government headquarters, in a sex, spying and bribery scandal that spelled the end for the country's Prime Minister, Petr Necas. The offices of several businessmen - including Mr Janousek - were also raided.
It was a bitterly ironic end for a government that had done more than any other to free the hands of the detectives and prosecutors tasked with cracking down on high-level corruption.
But corruption is notoriously difficult to measure with any accuracy.
The global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International ranked the Czech Republic 57th out of 177 countries surveyed for its 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures how corrupt a country's public sector is perceived to be by its citizens.
It was down from its 2012 ranking of 48th place, but was still ahead of neighbouring Slovakia (61st) and did considerably better than Italy (69th), Bulgaria (77th) and Greece (80th).
"It's the same problem as in many other countries which emerged from a communist past," says Adriana Krnacova, who headed the Czech branch of Transparency International from 2001 to 2007 and is now deputy interior minister.
"We're a very young country. We've existed for only 20 years, and it would be very naive to think that after 20 years - actually one generation - everything would change," Ms Krnacova says.
"Most of the talented people from the Czech Republic and Slovakia left in the 1990s. Actually, politics was taken over by people who are not much friends of transparency," she adds.
But there are tales that inspire hope.
In 2010 a blind lawyer named Ondrej Zavodsky was fired from his job as head of the Interior Ministry's legal service. He claims it was in retaliation for repeatedly raising the alarm over a number of suspicious contracts he had been tasked with scrutinising.
Following his dismissal he sent copies of the documents to the police and even the interior minister himself - to no avail. Instead, he and his family began to receive threatening phone calls.
The case began to attract coverage in the media. Public pressure led to an internal audit which revealed serious shortcomings.
Today, Ondrej Zavodsky is deputy finance minister.
"Things have moved forward of course. That's visible even just looking at my own case," Mr Zavodsky tells the BBC, as his guide dog eyes a peacock strutting through the baroque splendour of the Waldstein Garden.
"I was recently appointed deputy minister of finance for state property and the national lottery - i.e. a post that carries with it perhaps the greatest risk of corruption in the state administration, and the minister has given me a completely free rein to ensure transparency of the various flows of money."
It is, certainly, a sign that things are beginning to change.


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1 CUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (CCCD) HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAM PO DRAWER EXECUTIVE PLACE FAYETTEVILLE, NC CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS: REHABILITATION CONTRACTOR'S HANDBOOK 1. Application: CCCD will solicit and accept applications from Contractors that are interested in participating in the Housing Rehabilitation Program throughout the year. Contractors who are interested in participating in the Program, must obtain and complete an application from the above office. Contractors will be required to display in the application the ability to perform the construction work required of a rehabilitation contractor as well as the ability to follow the procedures and guidelines contained in this document. Based upon the information contained in that application, the CD Staff will determine whether the Contractor is eligible to participate in the Program. If the Contractor is approved, he/she will be notified, added to the Contractor s Register, and permitted to participate in the Housing Rehabilitation Program. The Contractor s Register will be provided to each homeowner in the Program to select the Contractors that will be allowed to bid on their project. If the Contractor is disapproved, he/she will be notified in writing of the reason(s) for the decision. Applications may be submitted to the CCCD office by mail, fax, or . The contractor must complete all sections of the application and provide completed job references. 2. Certificate of Insurance: When submitting the application, the Contractor must furnish CCCD with evidence of insurance coverage as follows: *General Liability Insurance $300, *Workmen's Compensation Coverage of all employees and subcontractors. (Regardless of the number of employees in the company). 3. Guaranty/Surety Deposit: The Contractor will guarantee the work performed for a period of one year and three years on all roof work from the date of final approval of all work required by the Contract. Any defect which may become evident during that period of time shall be corrected at the Contractor's expense, and all labor and materials shall be furnished free of cost for any damage to other work resulting therefrom. This provision applies to all work done by Sub-Contractors, as well as to the work done by the Contractor's employees. 4. Equal Opportunity Requirements: The Contractor is required to abide by Federal Equal Opportunity Requirements and hiring practices. 5. Standards of Work/Performance Criteria: Contractors approved for participation in the program are expected to maintain satisfactory credit records, to conduct and complete work free 1
2 of liens, to maintain continuous insurance coverage and to perform rehabilitation work that is satisfactory to the program. Specific performance standards are set out later in this section and should be reviewed carefully by the Contractor. Violation of any of these standards may be cause of rejection of bids, suspension from contracts and/or removal from the Contractors Register. REHABILITATION WORK WRITE-UP The work write-up constitutes the basis for each job. Floor plans and other drawings are diagrammatic only. They will illustrate the general scope of the work and do not necessarily show all of the work required, except dimensions of construction detail. Rehabilitation specifications shall be followed without variation except as allowed in the "Change Order" section of this document. No changes in the scope of the write-up will be considered valid without an executed Housing Rehabilitation Contract and a signed and approved change order. BID PROCEDURES The property owner will be responsible for selecting contractors to bid on their project. Invitations to Bid along with bid packets will be sent via fax, mail, or to the Contractors selected to bid on the project. Contractors receiving an invitation to bid will be mailed bid packets from Cumberland County Community Development, 707 Executive Place, Fayetteville, NC Bid packets will consist of Invitation to Bid, Bid Form, and Work Write-Ups. Each job will be bid separately through the sealed bid process. All bids to be submitted must be typed or in ink. Illegible bids may be rejected. The Contractor must identify on the outside of the envelope the address of the project. Unless otherwise specified, the Contractor should be prepared to guarantee the bids for a period of sixty (60) days after the bid opening date. At the end of sixty (60) days, the Contractor has the option of withdrawing the bid. 1. Pre-bid Walk Through Conference: A pre-bid walk through conference will be held when possible after contractors have been selected by the Owner. Attendance at the walk through is required of the Contractors before submitting a bid. The Work Write-Up will be discussed in detail. Pre-bid walk through conference announcements will be sent with the Invitation to Bid forms. 2. Bid Openings: A time and place will be stated for each bid opening. Contractors are welcome to attend the openings but are not required to be present. At the openings, bids will be opened and recorded. Bid openings will be attended by two CD Staff. One person will open the bids and the other person will tally the bids. They both will sign the Bid Tally Sheet. The CD Staff will tabulate the bids, review each for content and price, determine which bids are acceptable or non-acceptable and the reasons therefore and make a recommendation to the Owner for the award of each project. The Owner reserves the right to reject all bids should there be less than three qualified bids of any project. 2
3 3. Award of Bids: Bids will generally be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. The Program does, however, reserve the right to reject low bids based upon the bidder's inability to meet the performance standards outlined in the Handbook or to maintain sufficient job progress. Should your bid be disqualified, it is the Contractor's right to obtain the reasons for the disqualifications. The CD Staff will prepare cost estimates using the Work Write-Ups for each project. If the low and responsible bid is below 10% or more than 15% above this estimate, CCCD reserves the right to do the following: 1) meet with the low and responsible bidder in an effort to resolve the difference; 2) negotiate with the next highest bidder, or 3) rebid the project in question. It will be the policy of CCCD that no more than three (3) contracts can be awarded concurrently to any one contractor. As projects are completed new awards may be sought. Additionally, no more than two (2) contracts can be in progress at the same time by the same contractor. As contracts are completed new projects may commence. The CCCD reserves the right to waive this policy should there be circumstances that arise that may adversely affect the progress of rehabilitation work within the community. 4. Contractual Agreement: The bidder is advised that CCCD will receive the bids solely on behalf of the Owner and that any contractual arrangement for performance of the work will be between the Contractor and the Owner. The County will neither be a party to the contract, nor liable under the contract. On behalf of the Owner, CCCD staff will conduct inspections of work in progress, final inspections, and assist the Owner with compliance with the warranty provisions. Warranty provisions are for one (1) year on all work performed except for roof shingling, flashing and sheathing which is warranted for three (3) years. The acceptance of the bid and awarding of the contract, may in some instances, be subject to the Owner receiving adequate financing. PRE-CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE A Pre-construction conference will normally be held at the CCCD Office with the Contractor, Owner, and CD Staff present. During this conference, the following items will be accomplished: 1. The contract documents including method of payments will be reviewed and executed; 2. The Notice to Proceed will be reviewed and executed. The completion date of the Contract will be reviewed; and 3. Color and material selections will be made by the Owner and the Color Selection Form executed. 4. Review and sign the Housing Rehabilitation Contract PROGRESS INSPECTIONS The CD Staff will make frequent inspection visits to the job during the course of construction. It is expected that the Contractor will cooperate with the CD Staff during these inspections. If the Contractor is not on the job, the person who is regularly on the job should be designated as the responsible person to discuss conditions with the CD Staff and such a designee should be documented and included in the project file. 3
4 The Contractor will be expected to furnish the CD Staff for the project with every reasonable opportunity to determine if the work performed is in accordance with the contract, particularly in cases where interior plumbing and electrical wiring are to be installed. If the CD Staff so requests, the Contractor will remove or uncover such portions of the finished work as directed. After examination, the Contractor will restore the portions of the work exposed and replace any unacceptable work at his expense. If the Contractor removes or uncovers finished work at the request of the CD Staff or other authorized representative, and the inspected work is found acceptable, the CD Staff will execute a Change Order to the contract to cover the Contractor's additional expense only if the CD Staff has been notified and given at least two (2) working days' notice to inspect the work prior to it being covered and finished. PAYMENTS 1. Requests for Payments: Contractors wishing to receive a progress payment must request the payment from the CD Staff handling the project. Contractors should submit to the CD Staff a written statement of work completed on a company bill or letterhead. The CD Staff will then conduct an inspection of the work in place to determine what percentage of work has been performed. Provided that the work has been completed, the CD Staff will then execute a Certification of Work Completed on behalf of the Contractor to the Owner. Checks will be made payable to the Contractor. The Owner's signature on the Certification form signifies the Owner's approval and authorization of the payment due the Contractor under the terms of the Rehabilitation Contract. 2. Probationary Periods: A probationary period may be instated upon a Contractor who is not performing to standard. This probationary period will allow CD Staff to reevaluate the Contractor's continued participation in the Program. If put on probation, the Contractor will be notified in writing of the reasons for the action and the expectations for improvements as well as a deadline for the implementation of the improvements. Failure to bring performance up to standard may result in removal from the Contractor's Register. During the probationary period, at the request of either the County, a building supply company, or a subcontractor, checks may be made co-payable to the Contractor and the Supplier/Subcontractor. This shall be done at the agreement of CCCD and the Supplier/Subcontractor and shall be executed to protect the Owner and the Program and the Contractor from problems arising from non-payment of supply bills and liens that may arise. 3. Payment Schedule: Four (4) payments will be allowed per project; three interim payments and one (1) final payment. Final payment will be made upon all inspections being successfully performed and the Owner issuing a Certificate of Satisfaction. The Contractor will submit all necessary warranty information on all appliances or equipment installed, termite treatment certificate, Minorities/Women Business Enterprise, Employee Status, the finalized Building Permit card, final invoice, and a completed, notarized Release of Lien form with the Request for Final Payment. The Contractor will submit other forms as necessary for finalizing the project as required by the Cumberland County Community Development. 4
5 Payments will be made for work in place at the time of the request for payment. A retainage of 10% will be held on each payment and the total of the three (3) interim payments are not to exceed 90% of the entire contract amount. The retainage will be paid with the final payment. 4. Change Orders: No variation in the Work Write-Up shall be made without a duly approved Change Order regardless of whether or not any cost is involved. The Change Order will be prepared by the Contractor and signed by the Owner and the Contractor with the Housing Services Manager's approval. No work covered by the Change Order shall be done until the Order is executed and fully approved. Any additional work completed without written authorization shall be considered unauthorized work done at the Contractor's expense. Such work may be ordered removed and replaced by the CD Staff at the Contractor's expense. Any approved Change Order request will become an amendment to the executed Rehabilitation Contract. No Change Order(s) will be accepted or approved prior to an executed Rehabilitation Contract and no Change Orders will be accepted after the Certificate of Occupancy has been issued by the Cumberland County Inspection Department. NOTE: If a Change Order is requested by the owner, CCCD will in no way be held responsible for cost, damages, repairs, or other liabilities. However, the contractor must provide a written Change Order request, signed by the contractor and owner, and given to the CD Staff to become a permanent part of that file. 5
6 The CD Staff may grant a time extension to the Contractor for reasons beyond the control of the Contractor and without fault or negligence of the Contractor if deemed necessary by the Rehabilitation Inspector. This will include, but not limited to, the following: 1. Inclement weather which prohibits construction; 2. Wars, floods, fires, epidemics, embargoes, quarantine restrictions; and 3. Acts of nature. Requests for time extensions must be made in writing to the CD Staff 10 days prior to the scheduled completion date detailing the reasons for the delay. Should the CD Staff determine that there is not sufficient grounds for extension of the contract time, the CD Staff shall enforce the liquidated damages clause of the contract after the completion date (see below). LIQUIDATED DAMAGES After the expiration of the contract time and any extensions of time granted to the contract if the work is not complete, the Contractor shall be charged by the Program on behalf of the Owner with liquidated damages in the amount of $75.00 per day. The liquidated damages will continue to accrue until the CD Staff has completed a Final Inspection on the project or deems it necessary to remove the Contractor from the job in writing. Should a Contractor need to be removed from a project, funds remaining in the contract will be used to hire another Contractor to complete the project. If these funds are insufficient, legal action may be taken against the Contractor. Contractors that are late in completion of a project will not be allowed to submit bids on future projects or given a Notice to Proceed on any new projects until all late projects are completed. If a Contractor is late on a project, yet has been awarded a new contract that is ready to begin construction, the CD Staff may disqualify the late Contractor for the new project. Failure to complete the job within the specified time period or within a time extension granted is sufficient grounds for termination of the Contract and can be sufficient reason to remove the Contractor from the Contractors Register. If a Contractor has to be removed from the project for any reason, that Company will be removed from the Contractors Register also. FINAL INSPECTIONS AND PUNCH LISTS Upon completion of the work, the Contractor shall request a final inspection from the CD Staff. The CD Staff and the Owner will conduct the final inspection to determine if the contractual obligations have been met. A Punch List will be prepared at this time, if necessary, and given to the Contractor for prompt attention. Punch List items will be completed in a timely manner. Final payment will not be processed until all items have been satisfactorily completed. A final inspection will be conducted by the Owner and the CD Staff. If the project is complete in accordance with the contract documents, a 6
7 Certificate of Satisfaction will be issued by the CD Staff and signed by the Owner. At the Contractor's Request for Final Payment, the following items must be submitted to the CD Staff: 1. Final Invoice; 2. Manufacturers' Warranties; 3. Certificate and Release of Liens Form completed; 4. Minority/Women Business Enterprise Form completed; 5. Employee Status Form completed; 6. Finalized Building Card; 7. Tax Statement (if applicable); and 8. Termite Treatment Certificate The CD Staff and the Owner will then execute a Final Payment Request and the balance due the Contractor will be made available. WARRANTY OF WORK AND MATERIALS All work performed by the Contractor shall be warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one (1) year from the date of final acceptance of all work required by the Contract or any Change Orders to the contract, excluding roof shingling, sheathing and flashing work which shall be warranted for a period of three (3) years. The Contractor will be expected to furnish the manufacturers' and suppliers' written guarantees and warranties covering materials and equipment furnished under the contract. Whenever the Contractor fails to respond to a complaint within a reasonable amount of time or by a deadline specified by the Housing Services Manager, the Contractor will not be allowed to return to the job and the County will secure another Contractor to make the necessary repairs. Failure to execute warranty work may be considered grounds for termination of the contract as stated above and removal of the Contractor from the Contractors Register. PERFORMANCE CRITERIA The County has established the following performance criteria to assist both the Contractor and the CD Program Staff in managing a program that is established to benefit the residents of Cumberland County. Failure of the Contractor to comply with these criteria may result in the rejection of bids, awards, contract termination and/or removal from the Contractors Register. The Contractor is required to: 1. Meet the time requirements for start and completion of the job as set forth in the contract; 2. Perform top quality work, to provide workmen, equipment, and materials adequate to perform the work in accordance with the Work Write-Up, the General Specifications and The North Carolina State Building Code; 3. Comply with the Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Requirements as set forth in this Handbook and contained in the Rehabilitation Contract; 4. Maintain continuous insurance coverage at the levels required by Cumberland County Community Development; 5. Complete warranty work in a prompt and satisfactory manner; 7
8 6. Maintain a solvent business and to secure adequate financing to perform the work; pay all suppliers, subcontractors, and employees all monies due; remain lien and judgment free; 7. Maintain professional decorum from all workmen while on the job site; 8. Not willfully misrepresent, defraud or attempt to deceive the Owner or Cumberland County; 9. Submit valid bids on a regular basis; and 10. Comply with all applicable State, Federal and Local regulations. The Contractor will receive notification from CCCD whenever removed from the Contractors Register. The Contractor may be reinstated provided that he/she can demonstrate that corrective action has been taken to avoid reoccurrence of the deficient act. The decision as to whether or not the corrective action is sufficient enough is solely up to the Housing Services Manager. If the Contractor is reinstated and removed from the bid process a second time, there will be no further reinstatement. 8
9 General Requirements: CUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (CCCD) HOUSING REHABILITATION BIDDING INSTRUCTIONS 1. The Contractor must meet all County licensing requirements as well as any licensing requirements of the municipality in which the work is to be performed. This also requires that continuous adequate liability insurance and workmen's compensation coverage be maintained. (Proof of coverage will be required to be listed on Approved Contractors Register.) 2. The Contractor must be pre-approved by CCCD for the Housing Rehabilitation Program. This requires that the Contractor has completed an application for the Contractors Register and has been accepted into the program. 3. All workmanship and materials must conform to the program's guidelines as stated in the work write-up, the General Specifications, the N.C. State Building Codes and be of acceptable quality. 4. The Contractor and/or his approved representative must be familiar with the project site and the work write-up, and must be present at the Pre-Bid Walk Through/Conference. NOTE: A contractor must have written authorization on file declaring his representative is legally authorized to operate on his behalf in the pursuit of bids. Documents: The following documents are necessary in the preparation of a bid: 1. Work Write-Up - This report is prepared by the Rehab staff. It identifies eligible work items to be bid upon in a general scope. Any floor plans are diagrammatic only. 2. Bid Form - Obtained with the work write-up. Includes signature area for the Contractor and an area for the bid amount. 3. General Specifications - Issued to each Contractor at the time application is made for the Contractors Register. Defines materials and workmanship quality required for the project. Instructions: 1. All bids must be submitted in ink or typed. Illegible bids may be rejected. Bids must be complete with the Bid Form and Work Write-Up included in the submitted package. The address of the project is to be noted on the outside of the envelope. The envelope must be sealed. 9
10 2. Bids are submitted to Cumberland County Community Development, 707 Executive Place, Fayetteville, NC during normal business hours. Contractors are invited to witness the bid opening but attendance is not required to be awarded a project. Bids are accepted on behalf of the Property Owner(s). Late bids will not be accepted. 3. The Contractor must guarantee the bid price for a period of sixty (60) days after the bid opening date. If, after sixty (60) days, this office has not received a Notice to Proceed on the project from the Property Owner(s), the Contractor has the option of withdrawing the bid. 4. Authorization to begin work is given with the Execution of a Notice to Proceed on the project, but not at any time prior to that execution. Project Award: Projects will generally be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. CCCD reserves the right to reject a bid deemed to be too low for the bidder to maintain the performance standards outlined in the Handbook or to maintain sufficient job progress. CCCD has established that a low of (10%) ten percent and a high of (15%) above the CCCD staff cost estimate will disqualify the bid. Should your bid be disqualified, it is your right to obtain the reason(s) for disqualification. Contractors who are late in the completion of a project will not be allowed to submit bids on new projects until the late project is completed. CCCD may, levy a charge of $75.00 per day against the Contractor for the inconvenience to the applicant. In the event of inclement weather, with dates documented, this charge may be waived at the discretion of the CCCD. If a Contractor has two (2) projects currently under construction with CCCD, and it is not foreseeable that either of them will be completed before the project being bid upon will be issuing a Notice to Proceed, CCCD may determine, based upon the past performance of the Contractor, that the Contractor will be unable to undertake an additional project. If a Contractor is deemed unable to manage more than three (3) projects, the bid will be awarded to the next lowest responsible bidder. 10
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When we give our lives to Jesus, much more happens than we are aware of. In some ways, we spend the rest of our lives learning about everything God has already done for us in our salvation. This sermon vividly reminds us of the vast number of incredible changes that occur when we move from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light.
Before and After: What God Has Done for Us in Christ
When we accept Jesus into our hearts, a lot happens–more than we could ever understand right then. It takes the rest of our lives to understand what transpires spiritually when we come to Christ and start to follow Him.
Let's take a look at our situation before and after we come to Christ:
We were estranged (alienated, separated) from God because of our sin. That would result in eternal death if not taken care of.
We had a natural disposition to sin. Romans 3:10 Sinning was easy and natural.
We were powerless to overcome sin in our lives. God's power wasn't yet available to us.
We couldn't understand the things of God or could not know God experientially. I Corinthians 2:14 says the things of God are spiritually discerned.
We were not just separated from God–we were His enemies.
We were an object of His wrath. (John 3:36)
We were dead in our sins, and actually slaves of sin.
We become spiritually alive. Sometimes it's an emotional experience, sometimes not.
Our sins are forgiven, and we are redeemed.
We are justified and are at peace with Him. JUSTIFIED….just as if we had never sinned. When we say that, we mean in terms of how God looks at us, and deals with us.
God doesn't wave away the just demands of the law or the sentence of death upon lawbreakers when He forgives us. God will always condemn sin–the issue is where the condemnation will take place. He doesn't set the condemnation aside; it takes place in Christ.
"God would never be so unjust as to make us serve a sentence that He had already completed for us."
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is ours because of our faith in Him. Jesus kept the OT law perfectly, right up until His death on the cross. His perfect law-keeping gets credited to our account when we come to Christ, and we are DECLARED righteous!
We have eternal life. We enjoy in this life the life of the world to come.
We have the Holy Spirit living inside of us.
We can understand God's truth and can make application of that truth to our lives. Most of the New Testament is designed to increase our understanding of what God has done for us and how He has saved us.
We can grow spiritually through many different means (living in real Christian community with others, hearing God's word preached and applying it, reading God's word and letting the Holy Spirit make application to us).
We are new creatures in God's sight. We have new hearts.
Trials and sufferings can be used by God to develop Christlikeness in our lives. (Romans 8:28)
We are victors, not victims.
Nothing can come between us and His love. Romans 8:38-39.
We are adopted, and made joint heirs with Christ. Romans 8:15
We have been transferred out of the dominion of darkness into the kingdom of light.
God wants us to experience the full joy of being converted! What we experience is greatly determined by what we know about our miracle of conversion! God ordained your salvation just by His Holy Spirit's working. Now God wants to continue to shape our lives as we read His word and apply it!


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Up to 10cm is expected to fall in some areas with the bad weather continuing throughout the day and into tonight – prompting fears of travel chaos.
The first wave of snow has already hit most of the country and some eastern parts of Wales, and a second heavier band will fall over central and eastern England later today.
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The Met Office has upgraded its "cold weather action" warning to level three - one underneath a national emergency - for all of England, urging social and healthcare services to target specific actions at high-risk groups.
It said: "This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services."
A number of yellow and amber warnings are also in place across the country to highlight the hazardous conditions and likelihood of disruption to travel services caused by the ice, snow and freezing temperatures.
Mark Seltzer, a forecaster for the Met Office, said: "We have got a plethora of weather warnings out and there is a band of rain sleet and snow making its way across the country."
London and the South East has already had a light dusting with wintery showers expected to continue throughout the day before a heavier snowfall overnight which will bring several centimetres of snow to most areas.
Two border collie dogs enjoy playing in the snow in Bingham, Nottinghamshire (PA)
The South West is set for rain, sleet and snow throughout the day which will clear overnight leaving "a big risk of ice", Mr Seltzer said.
A second, more significant, band of snow will begin making its way westward from Wales and the North West this morning and is expected to bring 10cm of snow to high ground and up to 5cm elsewhere by this afternoon.
Areas east of the Pennines are likely to be the worst hit.
Snow which fell over the weekend in Scotland is also expected to linger, with the possibility of a light fresh dusting today.
Temperatures will hover at around three or four degrees for large swathes of the country throughout the day.
Mr Seltzer added: "It is going to be pretty chilly overnight, especially in areas with clear skies in the west which will see temperatures of minus four degrees."
The AA has warned that 75% of drivers are not prepared for conditions on the roads, and urged drivers to carry an essential winter kit and check their cars before getting behind the wheel.
The RAC is expecting up to 56,000 breakdowns and widespread disruption. It has placed extra patrols on stand-by to help stranded motorists and said call-outs are expected to rise by 20 per cent or more.
The Highways Agency has said it is "well prepared" for winter conditions but warned drivers to take extra care.
A spokeswoman said: "We have a fleet of 500 state-of-the-art winter vehicles on standby, supported by tried-and-tested winter resilience plans.
"We have reviewed salt stock levels and taken action where needed to enhance our resilience and we have again established a reserve salt stock to help ensure that there is enough salt to deal with severe winter."
A cyclist heads down a snow-covered hill in the Scottish Borders (PA)
While the rail networks were said to be coping well with the conditions a serious crash involving at least ten vehicles caused massive delays on the M4 across the Berkshire Downs, which was blanketed by snow and freezing rain this morning.
The London-bound carriageway between Membury Services near Lambourn and junction 14 is the same stretch which saw Britain's worst-ever motorway tragedy in March 1991, when ten people died and dozens were injured in a 51-vehicle pile-up in dense fog which saw many of the cars, lorries and coaches burnt out in a fireball.
Four lorries were also stuck fast and unable to gain traction in snow on a hill in the Cotswolds, blocking the busy A44 near Bourton-on-the-Hill.
There were major delays for drivers on one of Britain's busiest motorways when an accident shut the M1 for an hour-and-a-half in both directions at junction 34 around Sheffield.
South Yorkshire Police said the incident, in which a pedestrian was serious injured after being hit by a vehicle on the northbound carriageway, was not thought to be weather-related.
A British Airways plane is de-iced at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport (PA)
The cold snap could be bad news for those already struggling to pay their energy bills which have more than doubled since 2004 to more than £1,300 a year per household, largely due to rising gas prices.
Save the Children's head of UK policy, Chris Wellings, said: "The poorest families will struggle to cope with this cold snap. Parents on low incomes are already struggling to afford even basic essentials such as warm winter clothing and a hot meal every day for their children as living costs continue to rise.
"As temperatures plummet many simply don't have the money to heat their homes. The Government must ensure that the poorest families can afford to keep warm."
Heathrow Airport could face severe disruption and Leeds Bradford Airport warned this morning that severe weather may cause disruption to its flight schedule.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the worst of the weather will be in the east of the country with further flurries of snow expected. Temperatures could fall to -9C in remote rural areas.
Online retailer Amazon said sales of sledges had surged by 600 per cent, and customers were also investing in snow shovels.
But the cold temperatures was not bad news for everyone as four rescued Arctic wolves were settling in on a Lincolnshire farm after they were saved from a fighting pack in Wuppertal Zoo in Germany.
The eight-month-old Hudson Bay Wolves, which can survive temperatures of minus 20, are making themselves at home at Woodside Wildlife and Falconry Park, in Newball, near Langworth, Linconshire.
Owner Neil Mumby said "This endangered species originates from Canada and the wolves have a stunningly beautiful white coat to keep out the Arctic winter, so Lincolnshire will be no problem - even in this weather."