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Apertured sidewall (e.g., hole, slot, etc.)
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220 - Receptacles
Patent class list (only not empty are listed)
Deeper subclasses:
|Class / Patent application number
|Number of patent applications / Date published
|Apertured sidewall (e.g., hole, slot, etc.)
|RECEPTACLE HAVING LOCKING HANDLES - A receptacle including a wall portion extending from a bottom surface to a rim, the rim having an internal lip extending around the rim, wherein the wall portion includes at least one recessed area to accommodate a side of a user when the user is carrying the receptacle, a first handle operably attached to the receptacle, and a second handle operably attached to the receptacle, wherein the first handle and the second handle releasably engage each other to form a single carrying handle, is provided. Furthermore, an associated method is also provided.
|ASSEMBLY FOR SEALING A ROUND TUBULAR OPENING THROUGH WHICH A TUBE DUCT OR CABLE EXTENDS - An assembly of at least one pair of longitudinal plug segments for forming in an assembled condition at least a part of a rubber sealing plug for a round tubular opening such that each of the at least one pair of plug segments encloses at least one cylindrical recess for sealing occupation of at least one tube, duct or cable which extends through the opening in a longitudinal direction thereof.
|CASE, MAGNETIC TAPE LIBRARY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PREVENTING HOUSED OBJECT FROM FALLING - A case includes a case wall, a locking member and a moving member. The case wall has an opening so as to connect inside and outside of the case. The locking member can move to a locking position set inside the case and to an unlocking position different from the locking position. The moving member can move the locking member from the unlocking position to the locking position when a housed object housed in the case goes outside of the case through the opening.
|HANDHELD DEVICE - A handheld device includes a body and a back cover. The body has a back portion covered by the back cover. The back cover includes a yielding layer and a rigid layer. The yielding layer has an outer surface and an inner surface opposite to each other. The inner surface faces the back portion. The rigid layer is formed on the inner surface and locked to the body. The rigid layer has a hole exposing the back portion and covered by the yielding layer. When a portion of the yielding layer corresponding to the hole is pressed, the portion of the yielding layer is elastically deformed to closely lean on the back portion, and the locked body and rigid layer are released due to a force between the portion of the yielding layer and the back portion, such that the back cover may depart from the body.
|PROTECTING COAT - A protecting coat includes an upper cover (
|COVERING TO EXTEND THE USEFUL LIFE AND REGULATE THE POTENCY OF AIR FRESHENING PRODUCTS - A covering for an air freshener includes one or more walls including one or more apertures. The covering also includes a first opening configured to permit insertion of an air freshener and a second opening configured to permit passage of a hanger attached to the air freshener. The covering is configured to house the air freshener while hanging from a support member via the hanger.
|ENCLOSURE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An enclosure of an electronic device includes a bottom wall and a sidewall. The sidewall includes at least two non-coplanar portions. Each of the non-coplanar portions defines a plurality of through holes for heat dissipation.
|BOX-SHAPED DEVICE FOR HOLDING WATER, SUCH AS A RAINWATER BOX, AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - A box-shaped device for holding water, such as a rainwater box, comprising at least four partially open side walls and a panel extending between the side walls and having a rectangular shape, the width of which is half the length. The panel is provided with an inspection passage which is positioned centrally in one of the two square panel halves of the panel defined by the rectangular shape, so that whenever the rainwater boxes are stacked, a vertical passage is always provided for passing through, for example, an inspection camera.
|COMBINATION CONTAINER HOLDER AND STORAGE RECEPTACLE - The combination container holder and storage receptacle provides a holder for a beverage container and further provides a storage receptacle for personal items, as well as providing a waste-receiving chamber. The combination container holder and storage receptacle includes a central hollow support adapted for grasping by a user's hand, a base portion, and an upper mouth portion. The base portion includes at least one sidewall, a lower wall and an upper wall. A waste-receiving chamber is defined between a lower portion of the sidewall, the upper wall and the lower wall. An upper portion of the sidewall extends above the upper wall to define the storage receptacle. The upper mouth portion is secured to an upper end of the central hollow support and is adapted for receiving a container. The mouth portion and the central hollow support form a channel for transporting waste into the waste-receiving chamber.
|Food-protective apparatus for use in cooking and food-serving environments - Related embodiments of self-supporting permanently-formed, or foldable and quick-setup, food-protective apparatus are disclosed, each for safely storing and protecting, serving and/or transporting food-products in or to one or more, food-preparation or food-serving settings. The apparatus include one or more openable and closeable openings or apertures each having a positionable door or covering that can quickly and easily be moved to an opened or closed position. The apparatus may optionally incorporate see-through ventilative screened or meshed material and may be made of a rigid or flexible insulative material. The Enclosure embodiments also include stackable and/or side-by-side quick alignment elements, optional one or more trays or shelves having one or more receptacles for retaining a heating or chilling material, or having receptacles for one or more garnishes, herbs, spices, enclosures having various shapes, and the option to make a barbeque with one or more integrally-incorporated food-protective enclosures.
|STORAGE BOX - A storage box includes a box body that includes a bottom wall and plural side walls including a pair of side walls that oppose each other, the box body having an opening at the top and containing an object, and a pair of lid walls that extend upward from top edges of the pair of side walls and are bent along the top edges so as to cover the opening of the box body. A pair of first lines are formed on the pair of lid walls and the pair of side walls, each first line extending at least partway from a top edge of the corresponding lid wall to a bottom edge of the corresponding side wall and facilitating outward bending of the corresponding side wall when an arm is inserted between the object contained in the box body and the corresponding side wall.
|DUMPSTER - Several embodiments of plastic dumpsters with improved strength and durability are disclosed. In one embodiment, gussets connect pockets to bevel walls, connecting the side walls to front and rear walls of the dumpster. The bevel walls are stronger than the side walls of the dumpster. Other embodiments disclose gussets integral with front and rear walls of the dumpster for improved strength. Other embodiments disclose removable, separately formed sleeves that are secured to the sides of the dumpster to form pockets for receiving the forks of a truck.
|Ergonomic Vented Waste Container Apparatus - An ergonomic vented waste container apparatus comprising a continuous substantially vertical side with a front, left, right and rear surface of the side wall, one or more vertical vents and a left foot well with a bottom foot surface, right surface, rear surface and an upper surface whereby the bottom foot surface forms an acute angle with the right surface and rear surface and an obtuse angle formed between the junction of the upper surface and the right and rear surfaces, and a right foot well with a bottom foot surface, left surface, rear surface and whereby the bottom foot surface forms an acute angle with the left surface and rear surface and an obtuse angle formed between the upper surface of the right foot well and the left and rear surface. The apparatus is provided with protruding knobs and traction pads on the foot well surfaces.
|ERGONOMIC LAUNDRY BASKET - A basket for carrying an item, the basket comprising:
|FUEL PORT AND METHOD - The present application discloses a fuel port and methods of installing a fuel port. In certain embodiments, the fuel port comprises a fuel receptacle, a body portion that forms a cavity for the fuel receptacle, and one or more securing portions movably coupled to the body portion. The body portion comprises a first end, a second end, at least one sidewall extending between the first end and the second end, and at least one flange extending from the sidewall. The one or more securing portions are configured to hold a portion of a device between the flange of the body portion and the one or more securing portions to secure the fuel port to the device.
|Bungee Tube - A device for storing bungee cords comprising: a tube; the tube comprising notches cut into each end along with slots cut into its length. The notches and slots providing connection points for bungee cords to the tube.
|PROTECTIVE COVER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A protective cover for an electronic device includes a bottom plate and a sidewall. The sidewall extends from an edge of the bottom plate. The protective cover defines a signal transmission opening, thereby exposing an antenna assembly portion of the electronic device. An inner surface of the protective cover is smooth, and an outer surface is rough.
|Biodegradable Produce Enclosure - A mesh basket (
|DEVICE WITH STRUCTURE ENHANCING MECHANISM - A device with a structure enhancing mechanism includes: a housing including a sidewall, the sidewall defining a first through hole; a retaining member formed on an inner surface of the sidewall, the retaining member including a first protruding tab substantially parallel to the sidewall; two first resisting members extending from the first protruding tab toward the sidewall, an edge of each first resisting member spaced from and parallel to the sidewall; two second resisting members extending from the inner surface of the sidewall, the two second resisting members facing the respective first resisting members and two gaps being respectively formed between the first resisting members and the second resisting members; a fixing plate engaged in the gap and being firmly sandwiched between the first resisting members and the second resisting members, the fixing plate defining a second through hole aligned with the first through hole.
|LAMINATED, BLOW-MOLDED CONTAINER AND PROCESS FOR FORMING ONE OR MORE AIR INTAKE HOLES - Disclosed is a process for forming one or more air intake holes wherein the punch-cutter to be used has a cylindrical blade at the tip, and also has a hooking portion or portions, which is/are disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical blade and which performs a function of hooking into a portion of the outer layer that has come inside the cylindrical blade to prevent the cylindrical blade from slipping out of that portion of the outer layer at a time when the cylindrical blade is moved backward, the cylindrical blade is pressed forward until the blade edge comes to a position close to the outer layer, and at this position, the outer layer is not yet cut out completely, but there remains a circular uncut portion ahead of the blade edge, then, the cylindrical blade is moved backward.
|METHODS, SYSTEMS AND PACKAGING FOR ENGRAVING PRODUCTS - Engraving an article of manufacture by receiving the article of manufacture contained in packaging having a removable portion which covers a targeted engraving area of the article contained therein, removing the removable portion of the packaging to expose the targeted engraving area of the article of manufacture for engraving the exposed targeted engraving area of the article of manufacture.
|Medicinial Vial Protector and Identifier System - A medicinal vial protector and identifier system has a holding vessel, an interior cavity designed to hold a medicinal vial, an exterior sidewall that can be easily identified by a person, a plurality of retaining ribs designed to retain the vial within the holding vessel and facilitate insertion and removal of the vial, and at least one contents porthole to allow an easy determination of the amount of materials contained in the vial while the vial remains safely ensconced within the holding vessel. Additionally, a bottom port can be incorporated which facilitates the easy removal of the vial from the holding vessel. In order to facilitate identification of the medicine within a vial stored inside the holding vessel, the exterior sidewall of the holding vessel can be distinctly shaped and colored. The system can include a plurality of vessels to distinguish multiple medicinal vials from one another.
|ORGANIZER SYSTEM - An organizer is presented including a front portion including a bag compartment, a rear portion is connected to the front portion with a hand grip and a first side portion and a second portion each connected to the front portion and the rear portion. The first side portion and the second side portion each including a number of slots each adapted to connect to a holder having a slide portion. The bag compartment includes an opening surrounded with a soft and flexible material.
|Container having handling hole for transportation and opening and closing member for handling hole and manufacturing method for the same - A main body of an opening and closing member is arranged so as to cover a handling hole from one side of a wall, such as a container wall. The opening and closing member is mounted to the container by engaging an engagement portion with a flange formed at the periphery of the handling hole. When a user inserts a hand into the handling hole and pushes the main body, the main body moves away from the wall, and the handling hole is uncovered. By so doing, the user can insert his or her hand into the handling hole and carry the container or other object. Then, when the user removes his or her hand from the handling hole, the main body moves toward the wall, and an outer periphery of the main body contacts the wall at the periphery of the handling hole and returns to the original position. Thus, the handling hole is covered from one side of the wall. By so doing, dirt, water and/or the like can be suppressed from passing through the handling hole. Thus, the container or other object can easily be carried by using the handling hole, and dirt, water and/or the like can be suppressed from passing through the handling hole without requiring a special operation or task.
Patent applications in class Apertured sidewall (e.g., hole, slot, etc.)


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The Taymor Shoe building on Montello Street once drew crowds seeking the company�s footwear.
The Taymor Shoe Co. started in 1911 as a small store in one-quarter of a building at 53 Montello St.
It is ending under the blows of demolition equipment as the now-vacant Taymor building is razed to make room for a large condo complex.
The landmark shoe business flourished for eight decades before the venerable Taymor name and the company�s full-service footwear stores disappeared from the city.
Now, the site of the original store and warehouse, which in its heyday helped make downtown Brockton a shopping mecca, will be transformed into a residential complex, which is hoped will revitalize the struggling core of the city.
The shoe business was founded by Aaron Taymor, who had emigrated from Russia. He died in 1978.
His company grew to occupy the rest of the Montello Street building, and two more floors were added to house Taymor�s expanding operation.
The Montello Street (Route 28) location was a plus, as the road at that time was a main route from Boston to Cape Cod and was across from a busy train station.
Taymor also could boast that his business was headquartered in the �Shoe City,� the moniker adopted by Brockton when it was a top shoe manufacturer.
When downtown was thriving, lines 30 customers deep would form at the Taymor retail outlet.
And the business continued to expand to become a retail chain of six stores, in Brockton, Burlington, Danvers, Natick, Warwick, R.I., and an outlet in Avon.
Taymor Shoe Co. sold footwear to such notable figures as Michael Dukakis and Ronald Reagan when they were candidates for governor and president, respectively. Earlier, President Eisenhower would send his agents to Brockton to buy Taymor shoes when he was vacationing in Newport, R.I.
At one time, the company stocked 300,000 pairs of shoes in more than 2,000 styles and widths.
In 1990, the company was sold and by the mid-1990s, Taymor�s full-service, name-brand retail operation struggled to compete amid self-service shoe outlets and imported footwear.
Now, the Economic Development Finance Corp., a Dedham-based real estate development company, is razing the Taymor building to make room for a condo building. It also planned to restore the adjacent four-story, brick Gardner Building at Montello and Centre streets into 33 housing units and first-floor retail units. The new condo complex will include 188 two-bedroom units and 53 one-bedroom units.
In addition, the developer will build two 2-story duplex units and additional duplexes �within the periphery of the proposed City Hall Parking facility,� according to a company press release.
�Renaissance Village,� as the development is being called, will also offer ground-level commercial and retail space under an �urban village� theme.
Sixty surface parking spaces have already been allocated to the project by the city, the developer said.
The site is near the downtown MBTA commuter rail station and the Brockton Area Transit bus terminal � a location consistent with the �smart growth� development approach favored by state leaders.
Proponents hope the development will boost the beleaguered downtown.


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Series 27639
Provo (Utah). Community Development Department capital improvement
Dates: 1967-1976.
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Scope and Content
Utah County Improvements program for the years 1967, 1975 and 1976. The 1967 records include the economic base study for Utah County and the Planning and Goals Policies. The 1975 and 1976 are focused on the capital improvements programs for the city of Provo and projected projects.
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This series is available on microfilm.
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It is 2 days before Christmas, and like most everyone else, I have lots to do. The best I can do today is a post of random thoughts on the holiday, my own preparations, and various observations.
- The number of days remaining until Christmas is inversely proportional to the number of hours your cat wants to spend in your lap. That was for the math-y types out there. Here's how it works: As the number of days until Christmas decreases, the hours with kitty in lap increases.
- If you are loaded up with inspiration but lack motivation, avoid home decorating blogs in the week prior to Christmas. Yes, it's fun to see what incredibly creative people do with greens from their own back yards or coffee filters or feathers. However, those of us who have spent the last several weeks focused on surviving through Christmas concerts and college applications only feel like slackers when they compare this creativity to their own meager attempts to deck the halls.
- Since when has the classification of Christmas carols become so broad? If a song mentions a gift or winter, is it Christmas Carol worthy? Joni Mitchell's "River" is a huge downer that has nothing to do with Christmas. "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music mentions snowflakes and mittens, so it must be about Christmas, right?
- I'm pleasantly surprised to see an abundance of Nativity Scenes as part of outdoor Christmas decorations in my neighborhood. I don't recall seeing so many last year. I wonder if it's due to the impending societal collapse that's sure to come in the New Year, or if people are just finding Jesus now in anticipation of the Mayan End-of-the-World prediction for 2012. Whatever the case, I say, keep them coming!
- Midnight Mass is at 11 pm. I know midnight is late, but come on.
Wishing you joy and true peace as you celebrate the birth of the Savior.


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The Servant Heart
Christ's entire life was one of a Servant.
The great messianic passages in the Bible prophesied Jesus as the Servant:
Isaiah 42:1
"Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations."
Isaiah 53:11
After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities."
Many people in the Bible were called servants and assumed a deliberate servant role. The list includes Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Samuel, David, Job, Simeon, Paul, Peter, Timothy, James, Jude and others. They were servants because they chose to worship the one true God.
In today's world, servanthood has increasingly become a lost concept. We have difficulty understanding the real meaning of servanthood.
With domestic servants, the aspects of servanthood are more evident. Domestic servants are to display characteristics like humility, submission to authority and obedience.
Even though employees in the workplace are also servants, the understanding of servanthood often is missing as employees are more often concerned with their rights than responsibilities and submission.
Refusal to submit ourselves to others often carries over in our refusal to submit to other believers, the pastor, the church, or sometimes even to God.
Many Christians are more concerned with their privileges and personal rights as members of the church than the joy of serving one another and God.
The Bible gives two reasons why we should be a servant.
1) It is a command.
Philippians 2:7 tells us to think like Jesus, who "took upon Him the form of a servant". We are to think like a servant. Many of Jesus' parables describe the relationships in God's kingdom as that of servants with a king or master. One truth of the parables is that servants will be called to give an account of their servanthood. In the same manner, Jesus will call His servants to give account of their servanthood. He expects and desires us to be His servant.
How would Jesus evaluate your servanthood today? Are you an obedient and hardworking servant or are you a lazy or disobedient one?
2) Jesus is our model.
We are to become like Christ. Jesus washed the disciples' feet before the Lord's Supper. Then He told them in John 13:14-15: "14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you." Jesus was not as interested in the disicples' clean feet as He was in the disciples assuming servant roles.
God does not need our service. He does not need anything – not our talent, our intelligence, our money, or our service. If God wants something, He is very able to supply it. God demands service not out of His need, but out of our need.
If God were preparing a list of His faithful and true servants today, would you want to be included on that list?
Let us pray.
Thank you Jesus, for showing me through Your life, how You came to earth to serve and not to be served. Help me to live likewise. Dear Lord, make me a servant, faithful and true. Help me to be willing to be humble and to obey You as Your servant. Thank You for giving me the opportunities to serve others. With Your strength, help me to serve others with dedication and joy as I am aware that in serving them, I am actually serving You. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.


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Before heading back to Ken Muir, Beitris nic Tormod laid out several choker snares around the small cave that was the wolf's lair. She laid one down at the mouth of the cave and four more in the woods around the place where she suspected the wolves might go. She planned to go back on the following day to check on them in case any had been tripped. Then William of Furness led the grogs back to the covenant grounds.
On the way back to the covenant, Éovan Auditore da Firenze fell back behind the others and climbed a tree, obscuring himself in the branches above. He hoped to see if the rest of the party was being followed by the wolves, and so waited for quite some time to see if any wolf passed beneath. He did see one wolf come sniffing along. The wolf did not notice him for a few moments, but then it looked up and, seeing Éovan
watching, it fled quickly and cowardly into the woods. After the wolf was gone, Éovan jumped down from the tree and caught up to the others with haste. He informed William that he felt one of the wolves was following, or at least tracking, the group. William, in turn, found himself disturbed by their precociousness.
The rest of the party returned to the Ken Muir community by early afternoon. They were just in time to witness the visit by the villager Barra of Bogue, who confirmed the identity of his daughter Eileen (see the adventure saint lasar 2). William and Éovan sought what council they could with the more learned brethren of the covenant:
They bent the ear of Brother Erlend Svensson enough to describe the partially buried cross to him, but Erlend wasn't familiar enough with the local church history to offer any insight.
They gave the rusty old sword to Medigas of Florence, who was wise in the ways of metal. The mage held the sword for a moment, eyes closed and concentrating, but then shook his head. "I can read nothing immediate from this implement," he said, "but leave it with me and I will examine it more closely over the coming weeks between my other duties." [GM NOTE: Medigas used his premonitions special talent on the sword and was successful in reading it, but detected no immediate threat from the ancient blade.]
Since the magi seemed preoccupied with other things at the moment, William decided to use what resources he had available to deliver the wolves a decisive blow himself. That night, he and Éovan and several of the grogs slept in the sheep's grange so as to mask their scents. Then they gathered up a fleece carpet from one of the covenant chambers, which would act as a visual disguise, and in the morning the wolf posse set out once more to try to lure and trap the wolf pack. They brought three of their oldest and most decrepit sheep with them to act as sacrificial lambs and to draw the wolves in.
When they arrived at the field on the Rig of Drumbuie William looked up smugly at the head of the wolf that he had placed on the pole the day before. "We'll let the sheep graze here, again, only this time…" he fluttered the fleece he was carrying in the air before him, "…I'll be hiding amongst them, and if a wolf should come by to try to snatch one of my woolly friends, it'll be sorry it did. The rest of you hide about – make yourselves scarce, but keep an eye open. Éovan and Beitris, I suggest you two go and check on those snares you put out yesterday, just in case we got lucky."
Beitris and Éovan went to the glen of the wolf cave and examined their snares. The four snares in the woods were found exactly as they had been left, but the snare by the entrance to the cave had been chewed through, and the noose portion was missing. It seemed likely, judging by the tracks, that a wolf had caught itself in the snare and had either chewed itself free or been chewed free by others. The fresh wolf tracks then led into the woods in a confusing variety of directions and neither Éovan nor Beitris was able to follow them effectively. They went back and reported to William.
William, meanwhile, had spent the better part of the morning in the field to no avail. It had been a good opportunity to clear his mind of the daily nuisances of the covenant, but at 35 years of age he was starting to feel that maybe he was getting to old for this. Still, his father had always said that a good leader always leads by example and those were words William lived by. Eventually, he stood up, scratched his damp and itchy rear end, and said, 'well, this has been fruitless. Let us at least go and collect that old cross. There are enough of us to carry it. We'll take it back to the covenant and see if any of the magi have anything to say about it.'
By the time they got back the entire covenant was a-buzz with the news of the vill of Bogue and the demonic revenant that had appeared the night before to terrorize the church. This news was the talk of the covenant for days, and in all the excitement of this the issue of the wolves was largely ignored by most covenfolk. The large and heavy cross was hard to ignore, though. Medigas took one look at it and declared it 'dead stone'. After that he cared little. Raderic mac Gillolaine also looked at it and asked where it came from.
Now, Raderic had grown up in the Glen Ken and spent many a day wandering its woods, listening to the local stories, and studying its geography, so when he was told where exactly the cross had been found, he nodded his head and said sagely:
RADERIC: 'It sounds like you were up in the Altibeastie Glen, the glen of the old beast. It's an old Northumbrian name, for this land was once ruled and settled by the Angles of that country. There are stories of there having been several battles between the Northumbrians and either the Cruithne folk or the Picts in these hills. One such battle, I know, happened on one of the holms by the river just north of here. It's possible there was another such battle further west in the Altibeastie glen. Certainly, this cross is of Northumbrian design, and the sword appears to be one of theirs as well. Why the cross would have been buried upside down I cannot say, but it doesn't bode well. An upside down cross is one of the signs of deviltry.'
After it was checked to be sure there was no lingering infernal aura on the cross it was was erected upright outside Erlend's small chapel. The bones from the cave were then buried near that cross beside the remains of the young girl from Bogue.
The following morning William was away on covenant business delivering a letter for Thomas Magus to his uncle Hugh, so Éovan performed the morning rounds in his place. The first thing he noticed on his walk out to the sheep grange was that the gate was open and the sheep were all over the place! He raised the alarm and roused the covenant quickly, getting all hands out to round up the sheep. There was no explanation for why the gate was open, but most eyes were cast accusingly at poor Peadar, for he had a reputation as a day-dreamer, it was generally thought that he had forgotten to close the gate.
There was also much grumbling amongst the covenant staff, for it was Easter Sunday and a holiday. People were supposed to be resting and rolling eggs down hills, not chasing stray sheep.
Matters were only made worse for Peadar when the fresh carcass of a plump young sheep was found in the woods nearby. This discovery prompted a more thorough search of the area and the tracks of several wolves were found in the area, both outside and inside the pen.
ÉOVAN: 'Hmm. The score is now two for the wolves and only one for us. We must track these beasts to their den and deal with them once and for all.'
A (grumbing) posse was organized and sent out into the woods to try to discover where the wolves had gone. Unfortunately, the wolves apparently split up and went in many directions, and their tracks were lost. Worrying now that such clever wolves might be werewolves, Raderic mac Gillolaine offered to cast a spell on the eyes of the wolf they had killed to try to detect it's true form. He cast Sight of the True Form on the wolf eyes and discovered that, in fact, the wolf had always been just that – a wolf. Lycanthrope was ruled out as a threat for the time being.
Éovan then dismissed the covenfolk to their holiday – all except for Beitris. The two of them followed one set of wolf tracks as far as they could, then climbed a tree and waited to see if any wolf should pass. After several hours, none did. Next, they returned to the Altibeastie glen to see if the wolves had returned to their lair, but there were no fresh wolf tracks to be seen at all. It seemed that the lair had been abandoned. They then followed the Altibeastie burn northward until it joined the Polharrow burn, and then followed this back down toward the water of Ken and eventually returned home again. This circuit revealed no new wolf tracks.
They returned to Ken Muir to find that William had returned from his errand. Éovan filled him in on what had happened in his absence. William was at first quite angry that someone had left the gate open. He was also angry that the wolves had followed them back to take a sheep from under their very noses! He inspected the gate and insisted that it be double checked each night to make sure it was closed, then ordered that a bell be placed on it so that it would sound in the night should it be opened again.
The next day Éovan went hunting again with Beitris. They returned to the De'il's Dyke and followed that southward this time to the river Dee. Here they found a few odd tracks, but nothing significant. Éovan knew that wolves hunted over huge areas and so surmised that these tracks belonged to one of the wolves of the pack they were looking for, but felt that this information helped little.
Over the next few days, it was decided that protection was the best defence. William decreed first that there would be a change of the pasture that the sheep spent their days in. The new pasture was to be located further south, close to the Dee. An armed escort of grogs was also sent with the sheep each day to ensure their safety. William then oversaw the improvement in the defence of their sheep paddocks. He had a new clasp made and had the carpenter erect a small tower with a platform near the paddocks so that a night watchman could watch over them discretely. He even took some of the first night watches over the sheep himself. A good leader always lead from the front.
Their plan seemed to be working – there were no signs of wolves for several nights. However, on the third night, when Beitris and Éovan were keeping watch from the platform, a wolf was seen. It happened while Beitris was off using a nearby bush to relive herself. Éovan, looking over the side of the high hide they had erected, was surprised to see the flock of sheep suddenly scurrying to one side of the paddock in a panic. On the other side of the paddock a large wolf had appeared inside the enclosure, as if from nowhere! It was standing stock still and looking at the sheep. It did not seem to have noticed Éovan. Surprised, Éovan glanced over at the gate to see if it was open, but it wasn't. The gate was still closed!
Beitris scurried back from the bushes at the edge of the woods at the sound of the sheep's alarmed bleating. She approached the wattle fence of the enclosure carefully and peered over. The wolf sensed her and turned it's lamp-like eyes in her direction to stare balefully at her. She tried to cry out to Éovan but found that she couldn't! She had been struck dumb by the sight of the wolf!
Éovan was watching from above. He had an arrow knocked in his bow, but was hesitant to shoot. He wanted to study the wolf for as long as he could to understand it's tactics and abilities. He watched as Beitris approached the enclosure and the wolf turned to look at her. Then he observed as she turned and began to walk slowly around the enclosure toward the gate. Still Éovan held his shot. When she reached it, she put one hand on the bell, silencing it by preventing the clapper from ringing. With the other she reached out to open the latch of the gate.
'Beitris!!' Éovan yelled in surprise. He finally loosed his arrow at the wolf, but it missed! The arrow hissed into the ground next to it! Startled, the wolf glanced up at Éovan for a split second, then turned to run. It ran away from Éovan and toward the far side of the enclosure, then, with a great leap, it jumped over the wattle fence and off into the night. Éovan had just enough time to launch a second arrow as it fled, but he didn't think he hit it.
Beitris now found herself standing by the gate with one hand on the bell. She didn't remember walking over to the gate and was momentarily confused.
BEITRIS: 'Hunh? What foul magic brings me here?'
ÉOVAN: (shouting down to her) 'You were about to open the gate!'
BEITRIS: 'Not me!'
ÉOVAN: 'Yes! And you dropped your axe over there by the fence. Go and pick it up, lest there be more wolves.'
The rest of the night was without event, and in the morning Éovan made his report to William.
WILLIAM: 'Well, that's bizarre. I've not heard of such a wolf as can direct the minds of others. Clearly this was the lead wolf, and presumably it controls the other wolves, as well. I've often suspected, these past few days, that there was something more than an animal intelligence at work here. My fears are now confirmed!
ÉOVAN: 'We must obviously increase the defensibility of our grange. I propose we build two more watch towers so that the wolves will not know which one to look for. We should also extend the height of paddock fence so the the alpha wolf cannot jump over. Perhaps we can make and install netting between tall posts.'
WILLIAM: 'That sounds logical. What about the gate? How can we stop the wolf from mesmerizing one of the servants in the future and having them open the gate?'
ÉOVAN: 'Perhaps we can place a large stone in front of it – large enough so that it can only be moved with the help of two people. That would surely do the trick.'
WILLIAM: 'Alright, agreed. See to it.'
Peadar then approached. He had been inspecting the sheep to make sure all was well with them.
WILLIAM: 'Well?'
PEADAR: 'It seems that one is missing, sarjeant, though I could find no carcass nor any tracks outside the pen.'
ÉOVAN: 'Then the score is now three for the wolves and still only one for us. At least we can now ensure that we do not fall any further behind by increasing our defences and keeping up the daytime escorts. Perhaps if we frustrate them enough, the wolves will leave to find easier pickings.
A week later it seemed as though William's plan to thwart the wolves through increasing the protections on the sheep seemed to be working. There had been no sign of wolves in any location, and as each day passed there was less grumbling about the increased watch routines. By the time a week had gone by, the tense, seige-like, atmosphere of the Easter holiday had more or less gone. The mood at Ken Muir was returning to normal.
It was then that the stranger arrived. He strode confidently from the woods and approached the covenant with purpose. He was tall for an old man, and had a silvery beard that looked rather awkwardly interrupted, as if it had accidentally gotten caught in the equipment during sheep shearing season. He wore a rather shapeless black hat which drooped down over one shoulder like a sack. On the other shoulder was perched a small black thrush. Its shiny black eyes darted about in curiosity as it took in its new surroundings. The man had a long, hooked, staff which he used as a walking stick, and as he approached the gate he hooked it under a whin (gorse bush) and bent down to peer underneath.
Corwynn mac Murchan was on watch at the gate of the motte when the man appeared and watched the man approach with interest. Ken Muir did not often get strangers, and when they did they so often seemed relieved to have stumbled out of the magical wood and into civilization that they could barely contain their good humour. This man, however, looked quite serious, and, furthermore, was unperturbed by his sojourn in the Ken Muir forest. What's more, he had a magical look about him, and so must surely be here on important mage's business. And so Corwynn ran down to meet the man on the lawn of the bailey, as was his duty.
CORWYNN: (running up) 'Can I help you… um… magister?'
OLD MAN: (clearing his throat with a cough) 'Maybe. Do you have a fellow named Raderic here? I'm here to see him.'
CORWYNN: 'Why, yes, of course, Magister.' He gestured to the wooden tower on the motte. 'I believe he is within. Why don't I show you to a seat while I go and tell him that he has a visitor?'
OLD MAN: 'Yes, good. You have a motte, I see. It looks new.'
CORWYNN: 'Well, it's built on an older structure, but the buildings are new, yes.'
OLD MAN: 'That's a formula for disaster if I've ever heard of one. Mark my words! The old and the new do not mix. Anyway, lead on.'
Corwynn ran to the tower and rang the mage's bell twice to attract Raderic's attention. The mage appeared in the window swathed in blankets. Raderic, though not old, was decrepit thanks to a magical mishap, and he appeared frail. He leaned wearily out the window and waved the grog up. They met in the mage's common room and Corwynn described the old man. Raderic looked perplexed, for he could not fathom why this person might be looking for him. He went to the window and looked outside at the man but did not recognize him. He had no idea who it was who might be looking for him. He decided to go down with Corwynn, then, to question the man for himself. Raderic took hold of Corwynn's arm and the two descended slowly together.
In time the mage and the grog emerged from the Motte. Corwynn led Raderic across the grounds of the bailey and between the buildings. The sounds of hammering came from their right. Joseph the carpenter was building a scaffold, helped by some of the grogs. When they reached the place where the old man had been waiting, he was nowhere to be seen.
CORWYNN: 'He's gone.'
RADERIC: (somewhat gruffly) 'I walked all the way down those stairs for nothing, and now I have to walk all the way back up. I in no shape for this kind of tomfoolery, Corwynn.
CORWYNN: 'I'm very sorry, magister, but I left him right here!
RADERIC: (sighing) 'No, it's my fault, lad. Maybe I was too slow and he grew impatient.'
CORWYNN: 'I'm sorry, magister. Should I bring him up if he reappears?'
RADERIC: 'Oh, I don't know. I'm down now and a walk will do me good, I suppose. Let us survey the grounds together. (cough-cough) He is surely here somewhere.
CORWYNN: 'Take my arm, magister.'
RADERIC: 'No, I'll use my staff, thank you.
They walked slowly together around to the west side of the bailey mound until they were in the shadow of the tower. In the distance to the south they could see the newly constructed defences and towers of the grange rising above the huts of the covenfolk. Off to the right was the old stranger. He stared at the ground as he plodded slowly along the edge of the woods. Every so often he paused and thrust his staff into a bush, or batted some branches aside as if he was looking for something. Raderic turned to Corwynn and nodded an instruction to hang back while he approached the stranger.
RADERIC: (clearing his throat loudly) 'Ahem! Excuse me.'
OLD MAN: (turning to Raderic) 'Ah! Who in hell are you?'
RADERIC: 'I'm Raderic mac Gillolaine and I hear you might be looking for me.'
OLD MAN: 'You're Raderic?! You look old!'
RADERIC: 'Why, I've only seen 29 winters, though I admit that some days I feel like I've seen many more.'
OLD MAN: 'Are you ill?'
RADERIC: 'Yes, something in the water perhaps, or something I ate.'
OLD MAN: 'Well, you should be more careful. Stay away from the towns and burghs! Unhealthy places, and bad for the soul'
The old man then crossed his arms and cocked his head. He looked at Raderic expectantly, but Raderic didn't know what to say.
OLD MAN: 'You don't remember me, do you?'
RADERIC: (thinking) 'I've seen many new faces these past years since we established Ken Muir, so you'll forgive me if I've forgotten one…'
OLD MAN: 'I knew your master – does that jog your memory?'
RADERINC: (quizzically) 'Were you a member of his covenant?'
OLD MAN: (scoffingly) 'Great heavens, no! I won't soil myself with covenants if I don't have to. I heard that he died at the hands of one. What exactly happened to him in the end I never heard.'
RADERIC: 'He saw the stake, unfortunately, and I would have, too, were it not for the help of some kind local souls.'
OLD MAN: 'I see. I warned him he was getting into bed with the wrong people. What is this place you've got here, anyway?'
RADERIC: 'It's called Ken Muir, and it is our community.'
OLD MAN: 'I know the name. It's an old one! I used to come walking here before you built this mess!'
RADERIC: 'Have you? I'm surprised I've never seen you before. I spent many years walking these parts before establishing our community here, you know.'
OLD MAN: 'Eh, I keep to myself mostly. Most probably think I'm dead, if they ever knew I existed to begin with.'
RADERIC: 'I see. I'm sorry, but I missed your name…'
OLD MAN: 'You didn't miss it. I didn't tell it to you. But they call me Bodach mac Beitha. Your master and I, we used to dabble. But he chose to go one way and I went the other. He aligned himself with this 'Order' of yours – Disorder I would call it – and he paid the price for it, didn't he.
RADERIC: 'Well, his mistake was that he wanted play politics and also be a wizard. Gille Brigte mac Fergusa was the man behind his downfall.
BODACH: 'Aya, Gille Brigte is a slippery figure, and no mistake. But a loyal one – loyal to his roots, anyway, which is more than I can say for Uchtred. That lad has fallen far from the tree, laying in bed with these Normans and that king who calls himself a Scot. Why anyone would want to engage with those people is beyond me.
RADERIC: 'Uchtred has been very generous to us. This is his land!'
BODACH: (sputtering) 'What!? You're here by his grace?!'
RADERIC: (laughing) yes, this is his land. I'm not sure he's ever set foot on it mind you…'
BODACH: 'Have you allied yourself with him, then?!'
RADERIC: 'I wouldn't go that far…'
BODACH: 'Well, watch where you step! And what about this Order of Roman meddlers? Are you in with them, too?'
RADERIC: 'Order of Hermes? (cough) Well, I suppose I am. Let's just say that I'm here to see that they don't make the same mistake twice. That is why I joined the house of Jerbiton.'
BODACH: 'They will make the same mistake a hundred times over! You watch where you step. Mark my words, you cannot have one foot in the old world and another in the new world! You must decide which of the two worlds you want to be a part of. And if it's the new world that you want to be a part of, don't be surprised if in the end the world doesn't really look like what you expected!'
RADERIC: 'You may be right. At least we are well positioned here such that, if the necessity arises, we can withdraw from the broader world and live as hermits.'
BODACH: 'Do not be so sure. A young man who carries only his clothes on his back is free to travel where he will, but a young man who has built a house, sown a field, married a wife and borne a child will find himself tied to his efforts. And a man that has sold his soul to the devil is bound even beyond the grave. Do you think this 'Order' will let you retreat?'
RADERIC: 'Do they have a say in the matter? They can't for us to stay… can they?'
BODACH: 'They can and will hunt for those who do not see eye to eye with their ways. That is why your master joined to begin with, to avoid being persecuted. It is why I choose to hide my activities.'
RADERIC: 'You speak sense. I will heed my step as far as they are concerned. So far, though, I'm under the impression they've forgotten all about us. We haven't seen a single redcap..er, messenger… yet. My master did mention that he was betrayed by another covenant. Would you happen to know who what was?'
BODACH: 'I washed my hands of those people. Stay true to your roots – good Gaelic roots – and you'll live longer and happier.'
RADERIC: 'You make it sound like my choices are to either adopt the ways of the Order, or live in a cave in the woods!'
BODACH: 'What's wrong with a cave?'
RADERIC: (sighing) 'I just don't have the stamina for that any more. My health is not what it was when I was younger. I once lived in a cave, but could not do it another year. That's why we set this place up to begin with.'
BODACH: (starting to walk) 'I see your point. Well, since it's here and I'm here you might as well show me around.'
RADERIC: 'Yes, of course. Up there, as you can see, is the tower in which we magi live. Over there is the root cellar, and here is the future site of our blacksmith.'
BODACH: (shaking his staff at the fortified sheep grange) 'And what in hell is that?'
RADERIC: (mumbling) 'Oh, that it our sheep grange. It looks so substantial because we have recently had a wolf problem, but our, er, factor has taken car of it.'
BODACH : (snorting) 'Wolves?'
RADERIC: 'Aye, and strange ones. They seem to have telepathic abilities.'
BODACH: (snorting again) 'Well, of course they do – they're pack animals!'
RADERIC: 'No, I mean they can communicate telepathically with humans!'
BODACH: 'Oh come now. It's well known that they can strike you dumb if they see you first, but still. Why didn't you just track them down and kill them?'
RADERIC: 'We tried. Too crafty.'
BODACH: (spitting) 'Phhht! Too crafty? What are they teaching you in this Order of yours, anyway?'
RADERIC: (making excuses) 'Well, not to be killers at least. We're men of peace and learning here, not killers!'
BODACH: 'You're like those monks.'
RADERIC: (smiling proudly) 'Why yes, we are rather like monks!'
BODACH: 'Mice!!'
RADERIC: 'What?!'
BODACH: 'You're mice, living in holes in the walls and only venturing forth when its safe to steal a few grains. A real wizard should grab life by the balls!'
RADERIC: (mumbling something about vulgarity) 'I say…'
BODACH: 'What about Wolf's Bane? Did you try that?'
RADERIC: (thinking) 'Er, no, though I have heard that it's an effective antidote to werewolves. I hadn't hear that it works on normal wolves as well…'
BODACH: 'Of course it does!'
RADERIC: 'Ep. Ok. Well…I shall have to seek some out, I guess. In fact, I would have done so before if I hadn't been so busy and then become ill…'
BODACH: 'Bah! I can give you some. Which brings me to the reason I'm here. I'm looking for a particular herb which used to grow around here. I used to know the exact spot, but now you've chopped down part of the damned forest and uprooted the earth to build this mess of a castle. I need the herb, but now I can't find it anymore!'
RADERIC: 'Herbs? Why the only herbs of note that we've found around here are the mandrake roots…'
BODACH: 'Yes, those are the ones! If you would direct me to some, I would pick them. In exchange, I will give you some of that wolf's bane. How does that sound?' The bird on his shoulder squawked.
By now they had rounded the southern end of the motte and were walking back up the east side.
BODACH: 'What's that over there?'
RADERIC: 'It is our small chapel. Good Brother Erlend maintains it for the covenfolk.'
BODACH: 'That cross… is that an old Northumbrian cross? I don't remember seeing that here before.'
RADERIC: 'Yes, it is Northumbrian. We're rather traditional here.'
BODACH: 'Son, you don't know the first thing about tradition.'
Raderic offered to lead the old hedge wizard into the wood to the place where the mage, Thomas fitz Roy, collected his mandrake roots. He cautioned the old man not to take them all but to leave some for Thomas. Bodach seemed reluctant, but agreed to leave some. Raderic, however, received an earful of warning about the hazards of consorting with Normans such as this 'Thomas' and in particular about adopting the Norman method of settling the land.
BODACH: 'These hills are full of people enough already! Why is Uchtred giving the land away to foreigners? He's a traitor to his own people! You're a good Galloway lad – can't you see it?!'
RADERIC: (stumbling over his words) 'I…I…don't pay much attention to politics east of here, I'm afraid…I'm more concerned with the village where my family lives in the west.'
BODACH: 'You're village will be next! Remember what I said – if you lie with the devil don't be surprised if you wake up in hell!'
In order to find the mandrake, Raderic paused to cast the formulaic spell Intuition of the Forest. Bodach watched with a frown, shaking his head and muttering under his breath.
BODACH: (muttering) 'Unbelievable…' (then out loud) 'Son, magic is something that comes from the heart! It's not something you learn from a book and memorize with gestures!'
RADERIC: 'Really? This is how I was taught. It has more than kept me alive a few times…'
BODACH: 'It should more than keep you alive! It should be your very life itself! Your blood should flow with the essence!'
RADERIC: (flustered) 'Yes, but…my blood does…I mean…otherwise I would have been a wheelwright like my father!'
BODACH: 'The 'Order' or a wheelwright? Do you think those were your only choices? Nonsense! There's a third choice – to become a true mage, one who performs magic from the inside – real magic! Not this mummery from a book!'
RADERIC: 'How is one supposed to learn magic without books?! Spontaneous magic takes such a toll, and my lungs are not what they used to be. Besides, I find it just as efficacious to cast from the book! I have colleagues who cast from the heart and frankly, I haven't seen any advantage.'
BODACH: (sighing) 'Well, never mind, it's probably too late now, anyway. I fear you've already been ruined for that kind of learning and in your state of health you may not survive the schooling, anyway.
RADERIC: 'I will think on your words, but let us first go to the mandrake. Only remember to leave most for Thomas.'
BODACH: 'Very well.'
Raderic led Bodach to the mandrake patch. The old man seemed most excited. He jammed the tip of his staff into the ground and used it to pry up the roots, while Raderic hovered about nervously. The roots did not come up easily, so there was much grunting on the part of the old hedge wizard.
BODACH: (between grunts) 'Kind of small…my fault, I suppose, given the time of year.'
RADERIC: 'Not too many, now. These are really Thomas' roots and I did not yet ask his permission.'
BODACH: 'Nonsense, they'll re-sprout from any old bit of root that breaks off.'
RADERIC: 'Still, I think that's enough now, don't you think?'
BODACH: (bending down to harvest another) 'Bah, the woods will be full of them before you know it.'
RADERIC: 'Ah, if you say so. But, oh, you seem to have taken all of them!'
BODACH: 'You know, once upon a time it was possible for an old man to wander through these woods at will collecting whatever herbs he chose. Now you've got this mess of a place, uprooted the ground for your castle, your soldiers and pigs are tromping all over the place eating and shitting in the woods. This could be the last time I collect mandrake roots for a very long time, and you want to deprive an old son of the land what has always been his to collect?! I've been using mandrake since before you were born…'
RADERIC: 'I see what you are saying. Anyway, as I said, we should leave some for Thomas. Let me have at least two of those that you picked for him.
BODACH: 'Oh, very well. You are obviously a most nervous and insistent young man.'
Having finished picking the mandrake, Raderic led Bodach back to the bailey of the covenant. He was still adamant about introducing the old hedge wizard to his two sodali. Raderic led the old man across the bailey and to the foot of the motte, where he called out to his fellow magi, augmenting his voice magically.
RADERIC: (shouting) 'Thomas! Oh Thomas! Look, I have brought you some mandrake that we found in the woods!'
THOMAS: (emerging from the tower, confused by the summoning) 'Oh! That…uh… is kind, I suppose, though it is rather early for the harvesting of mandrake, I must say.'
RADERIC: 'Oh, ah, is it? I'm afraid I'm no expert in such matters, but there you have it. Here, I have two roots for you. And let me introduce you to my new friend, Bodach mac Beitha.'
THOMAS: (speaking in atrocious Gaelic) 'Greeting, Bodach. Thomas am I.'
BODACH: (nodding curtly) 'Norman.'
THOMAS: 'I am only half Norman, and half Northumbrian. I have a foot in both worlds, so to speak.'
BODACH: (muttering sarcastically) 'Oh, perfect…' (then out loud) Are you a gossock or a fingaul?'
THOMAS: 'Gossock. Tell me, Bodach, where do you hail from?'
BODACH: 'From right here.'
THOMAS: 'Yes…I meant, which part of here?'
BODACH: 'I live in the hills to the west.'
RADERIC: 'He knew my master!'
THOMAS: 'Oh yes? So which part of the hills, exactly….?
MEDIGAS: (intruding on the scene with an armful of glassware) 'If I've told you two once I've said it a thousand times: this is no way to clean an alembic! Who is responsible for this?' (then, seeing Bodach) 'Er, who is this?'
RADERIC: 'Bodach, this is my other fellow mage, Medigas of Florence. Medigas, this is Bodach.'
BODACH: 'Florence? Where is that?'
MEDIGAS: 'Italy.'
BODACH: 'Where?'
RADERIC: 'Uh, Rome.'
BODACH: (spitting) 'A Roman now? This place is really going to the dogs.'
RADERIC: (interrupting) 'He doesn't like Romans.'
MEDIGAS: (smiling) 'Neither do I, the interfering busybodies!'
BODACH: 'Well, you at least have a good beard.'
RADERIC: 'Bodach here thinks we have made a grave mistake aligning ourselves with the Order and with Uchtred. He feels we would have been better off living closer to nature and ancestors of Galloway, as he does.'
BODACH: 'Yes, mark my words – the old world will return one day to take its revenge on all of us.'
THOMAS: 'I feel that that is pessimistic and outmoded thinking. We're into a new age with much hope and promise! Both the Order of Hermes and Uchtred represent the relentless march of civilization. And we, a quiet and gentle community of scholars with the blessing of both Uchtred and The Order, are in the vanguard!'
RADERIC: 'Why yes, we have already exposed a devilish sorcery not far from here, in the village of Bogue. Why, Thomas himself went up there and exercised the place.'
BODACH: 'Oh yes?'
RADERIC: 'Yes. The churchyard has been de-sanctified, though Uchtred is right now in the process of having that taken care of.'
BODACH: 'Interesting! Hard to believe. Bogue, you say, eh? Well, it is getting late and I'm afraid I'm not used to chit-chat. I must be off.'
RADERIC: 'And the wolf's bane?'
BODACH: 'Yes, worry not. I'll have someone bring it to you within a few days. But now I must go.'
THOMAS: 'Please know that, although we may have some differences in opinion, we wish you well and would like to foster an attitude of neighbourliness. Please feel free to come by again if you should need anything.
BODACH: (nodding) 'Thank you. Raderic, despite my misgivings about your short-sightedness, I find I still like you. Take care.'
They watched in silence as Bodach as he walked across the open bailey and into the woods to the west. Only pounding of the hammer on the new bailey palisade works could be heard. The three mages glanced at each other and then each turned to return to their duties.
A few days later a short man with dark hair arrived with a sack of dried wolf's bane. He neither lingered nor spoke, but the grog who accepted the delivery thought that he looked like a pict. Soon every spare hand was turned toward making small pouches of wolf's bane to hang around the necks of the sheep.
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As a provider of outsourced IT resources, CenterBeam's key value proposition to prospective customers is that it can provide superior IT services for a lower overall cost. As a result, CenterBeam's sales efforts focus on a very specific target: the CFO. The company's marketing challenge was to build credibility and relay its key messages to this target while, at the same time, recognizing the sensitivity around the issue of "outsourcing" for many CFOs and their organizations.
In addition, because CFOs as a group are notoriously difficult to get hold of and engage in a conversion that might lead to a sale, CenterBeam needed to engage these CFO targets immediately by demonstrating value.
"CFOs have very tight schedules and only respond to information that they can translate to their specific needs," said Kirstin Burke, director-marketing at CenterBeam. "Our approach had to respect their time and deliver a crisp, relevant message."
CenterBeam also needed to build its sales pipeline smartly—devoting resources to the best-fit targets. "We had a sense of urgency to bring in qualified prospects and drive revenue," said Burke. "We needed to be smart about targeting our resources to reach those CFOs with the highest probability of becoming clients."
Solution: CenterBeam believed an outbound calling program was the best means to target CFO prospects, build relationships and put CenterBeam's services into context. The company spent more than a year verifying an approach and identifying critical success factors, which helped ensure that the lead-generation partner it selected would be the best fit and could meet its top objectives.
In August 2003, CenterBeam chose Atlanta-based PointClear to provide lead generation and prospect qualification services. Six-year-old PointClear has about 20 clients in the software, services and healthcare industries. After a three-month trial, CenterBeam signed with PointClear for a year. (PointClear is paid on a project basis that includes a service-level agreement guaranteeing its client a certain volume of qualified leads.)
PointClear helped develop a comprehensive plan, including the overall approach and specific messaging that would lead to executive conversations, with a goal of qualifying prospects and setting up a time for CenterBeam field personnel to follow up.
PointClear also helped CenterBeam create its prospect database, whittling down a potential universe of prospects by half. In addition to the outbound telemarketing, PointClear handled CenterBeam's e-mail and direct mailings.
"The leads are kicked over primarily in real time," said PointClear President Dan McDade. "We immediately send a confirming e-mail to the prospect and copy the assigned [CenterBeam] account manager." The initial follow-up by the account manager is generally a phone call, he said.
McDade noted there is close collaboration between the CenterBeam and PointClear staffs. "We recently sent some of our people to attend their sales meeting on the West Coast, and we have weekly conference calls," he said.
Results: To date, CenterBeam projects a greater than 14:1 return on their investment in PointClear. Throughout 2004, the PointClear team made 113,000 dials and 13,957 dispositions—a determination of qualification of the prospect—on CenterBeam's behalf.
"That was quite simply coverage we could not have achieved on our own," said Burke. "It is not our core competency, and we wanted someone who knew how to do it, was staffed and resourced to do it. We didn't want to take the time to have to learn the best practices ourselves."
Because of PointClear's rigorous list inspection and tracking, CenterBeam has also been able to work with PointClear to identify areas that are working well and areas that need a different strategy or message. The team can then quickly make adjustments and refocus on stronger markets.
For example, PointClear worked on a healthcare industry blitz. CenterBeam saw a very strong early response rate and was able to close a number of deals. "We were able to fully coach the team on healthcare-related scripting, strengthen our list around healthcare organizations and drive positive results that are still today paying off," Burke said.
PointClear and CenterBeam's teams continue to work in partnership on sales initiatives and generating qualified opportunities. Over the course of the partnership, CenterBeam has continued to see increases, both in qualified leads in its sales pipeline and in its revenue numbers as a result of the joint effort. Underscoring the success of the relationship is the fact that PointClear has been CenterBeam's Partner of the Year for two years running.
"In many cases, the PointClear team is our prospect's first experience with CenterBeam, and we have a high level of trust that they will represent our brand well," said Burke. "You know it's working when you receive feedback, not only from the field sales team but from the prospects themselves, about the strength and quality of the team on the phones. Their customer first-focus mirrors ours, and I believe contributes to our ongoing mutual success."


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Do you have any liberal friends who do that dramatic eye-roll anytime you mention the fact that the main stream media is hopelessly biased toward liberal policies and personalities? I do. I can even feel them doing the eye-roll thing when I am talking to them on the phone, or conversing with them over the internet. They always get that preachy and patronizing tone, "Oh you silly conservative. Of course the media isn't biased. You're ideas are just super wrong!"
It doesn't really make me mad anymore, my psychiatrist gave me one of those stress ball things and I am really much calmer now. No, it doesn't make me mad so much as it disappoints me. Most of the people are relatively intelligent beings who simply seem to be blinded to the fact that they could very well be wrong about some of their ideas. It disappoints me that they so blindly trust the people feeding them this slanted information on the way they believe life to really be. Well, I have some new ammo for them the next time we discuss the bias in media.
Two recent studies done about our media's recent coverage of the Shutdown and the Obamacare Rollout show that our main stream media ain't doing such a good job.
In a new report from the Media Research Center we learn that the major network media blamed Republicans 41 times in their stories about the shutdown. In another 17 stories, the media blamed both parties. But there is not one instance of the media running a story that only blamed the Democrat Party. Not a single one.
How about an example of the pain caused by the shutdown?
NBC correspondent Miguel Almaguer profiled another out-of-work federal employee: "Wendy Robinson has been furloughed. A single mom with three mouths to feed, today she got her last paycheck. Robinson blames Congress." Moments later, NBC viewers heard Robinson complaining: "I'm at a loss for words, really, about it because I'm not used to not giving my kids a Christmas."
Four days out of work, and Christmas is cancelled?
Apparently, someone forgot to tell both Almaguer and Ms. Robinson that all of the furloughed federal workers will be receiving back pay for the time they missed. Methinks maybe NBC was being a little dramatic with Ms. Robinson's story.
Meanwhile, in a second study undertaken by the good people at the Truth Report, we learn that over the last few weeks, media coverage of the Obamacare rollout was less than ideal. In fact, the media chose to cover "victims" of the government shutdown more than victims of the Obamacare rollout disaster… by more than 100 to 1!
The Washington Post was a key offender in its bias. Between October 1 and October 16, the Washington Post website published over 220 stories both from its own writers and the wires focusing on the supposedly horrible effects of the government shutdown… it apparently ran a grand total of 3 that focused mainly on the individuals and small businesses victimized by Obamacare itself.
So, how did The New York Times stack up in its coverage of victims of the government shutdown versus victims of Obamacare? It ran well over 80 stories about victims of the government shutdown, ranging from general takes on the economic situation to lamentations about a new FEMA employee losing her job; from automakers taking a hit to Native Americans suffering; from foreign policy to restaurants; from a Tyrannosaurus Rex not entering a museum to furloughed employees having shutdown parties. The Times ran zero stories about those negatively affected by Obamacare itself.
Overall, the Washington Post and New York Times covered victims of the government shutdown over victims of Obamacare by a margin of 100 to 1; ABC, NBC, and CBS News all covered victims of the government shutdown over victims of Obamacare by a margin of over 78 minutes to zero.
The media has become so obviously biased that they don't even mind admitting it anymore (here and here are two recent examples). In fact, Media fairness defenders have become so obstinately blinded to truth that they may as well be viewed with the same sort of desperation that we look upon conspiracy crackpots sitting in their mother's basements playing video games. Yep, it's that bad.
So the next time a liberal tries to tell you that the main stream media isn't biased, just roll your eyes and hand them a tin-foil hat.
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- kevin sellers
- 1/10/16
George Cukor's last good film, from Graham Greene's second to last good novel, this charming movie (with a properly witty screenplay by Jay Presson Allen) serves to remind the present generation, who knows her as a wrinkled old bat on "Downton Abbey," that Maggie Smith was once sexy as hell. Give it a B plus.
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- john
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I thought I saw Shirley (of Laverne & Shirley). In this. They must have missed her.
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- Joseph
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I saw the movie today and Maggie Smith's performance is excellent. I just love Maggie.
Travels With Henry
- greatmaggieday
- 8/23/13
Have to admit,didn't expect to be interested to see it,after having seen some of film before and turning it off.Loved it,esp Mags and Louis Gossett.Didn't like Alec 1st viewing,but he was perfect opposite Dame Maggie.And there was never more perfect casting than with Dame Maggie as Augusta.Hope Stephens wasn't as big a rat during their marriage as Visconti.Bravo,TCM!
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- 8/22/13
A dazzling comedy adapted from Graham Greene's novel from director Cukor. Smith was nominated for an Oscar as an eccentric aunt determined to rescue lover Stephens with help from Gossett, Jr. and McCowen, the latter was nominated for a Golden Globe. Won an Oscar for costume design, which is part of the candy-coloured world of Smith's character; however, although funny, there's too little in actual plot and development that viewers can loose interest easily. The premise of the film was good, but the film can use improvement. I give it a 2.5/5.
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Our first single, Under My Skin was released in 2011.
We made a music video to the single, to lure the audience in; to enter the world of an old man pole dancing in an ecstasy of domination to the thundering sounds of his captive hard rock band.
We wanted the experience to be a cold and jarring reflection of the ugly nature of human trafficking.
The music video was censored by YouTube on the day of the launch, but still Under My Skin actually went on to win Best Music Video 2011 at the Miami Short Film Festival in the USA.
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Moss discusses decision for ECU
Elizabeth City (N.C.) Northeastern linebacker Jamieon Moss landed his first offer on Friday. The 6-foot-3, 217-pounder promptly committed to the Pirates despite other interest. Moss sat down to discuss his choice further.
"I got the offer and verballed to East Carolina," he said. "Basically, I was familiar with their environment. I knew most of the players going there and most of the people at my high school transfer there. So, it's an easy transition from here to there.
"Then, I've seen the play and formations. On top of that, it's not that far of a location for my family."
With regards to East Carolina specifically, Moss liked a few things from his most recent trip last week.
"The thing that sticks out about East Carolina's coaches is that they were really excited and in your face," he said. "They are enthusiastic and really welcoming. The head coach came and when I told him I was going to be an East Carolina Pirate, he bear hugged me like I was his own son. I felt welcome there."
Despite the decision, Moss confirmed that he isn't closing the door on other schools.
"I am considering other schools like NC State, North Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech. They are all interested in me," he said. "I think I will be attending NC State this weekend for a visit. I also have to see what North Carolina has in store."
Moss posted 107 tackles, eight for loss and three sacks as he earned all-conference honors as a junior.


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The Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett found Lenovo seems to think that the world is only Two operating system, called Windows, called Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
He found check Lenovo ThinkCentre M92P desktop machine, descriptive string UEFI firmware will check your computer's operating system to prevent not included in the operating system starts.
Listed in the Windows Boot Manager and Fedora Linux firmware allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux running if the operating system does not match, it will return an error message. Garrett speculated that RHEL is added later, some people may test RHEL can not start, so developers Riga firmware RHEL. Lenovo official Twitter account said it is investigating the issue.


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Far away from the conference's usual home base, Campania in Southern Italy, LSDM came to New York for the second year to celebrate Italian culture and gastronomy on June 28 and 29. On day two, Matilda Cuomo was pulled from the crowd and took the chance to talk about the New York State Mentoring Program, a cause very close to her heart.
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Art & CultureLibraryIn honor of the 150th anniversary of the maestro's birth, music historian, Harvey Sachs, published "Toscanini: Musician of Conscience," his second biography on one of the greatest conductors of all time.
EventsThe world-class festival, most famous for its 80-foot tower topped with a Neapolitan Saint and carried by a 125-man platoon while a brass band plays, is not to miss from July 5—16.
Art & CultureExcavations for Rome's new subway lead to the discovery of two 3rd century edifices near the Aurelian Walls, with archaeologists hailing the find as a "mini Pompeii" in reference to its well-preserved nature.
Dining in & outAttention, foodies! On Friday, June 23, a panel of food experts at the James Beard House will select the winner of this year's Primo di New York competition, i.e. the pasta dish you're going to have to try stat!
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