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He was known as "the man with the gold guitar." Tampa Red picked up a National Tricone as soon as they hit the market in 1928. And was it ever a guitar—the other Nationals were nickel-silver. His was gold.
And on that guitar Red summoned up a new bottleneck style. Single-string solos with a unique, polished sound. And those solos were loud. With the power of three resonator cones in his National Tricone he cut through the poor recording quality of the day.
Tampa's playing is on records by Ma Rainey, Lil Johnson and Georgia Tom Dorsey. Big names with big sounds.
And his originals went on to be favorites too. Tampa Red wrote both the bawdy My Black Angel, and the tender It Hurts Me Too, made famous by Elmore James and inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame as a critical track in music history.
Here it is. The first black studio guitarist on his own. Tampa Red from 1938. Check out how modern this sounds. Can't believe it was recorded before the war. Love Her With a Feeling—
Tampa Red was born Hudson Woodbridge on January 8, 1904 in Smithville, Georgia. After his parents died when he was a young child, he moved to Tampa, Florida with his aunt and took her last name, Whittaker.
Tampa perfected a bottleneck slide technique, and moved to Chicago, Illinois to begin his career as a blues musician. He changed his name to Tampa Red—Tampa after his hometown in Florida, and Red after the light color of his skin.
Tampa was hired to accompany Ma Rainey, and he fell in with a group of hokum players, including gospel guitarist Georgia Tom Dorsey. In 1928, Tampa became the first African-American to record on a National Guitar, a gold-plated Tricone that earned him the nickname "The Man with the Gold Guitar."
Tampa Red played in juke-joints, vaudeville theaters, street corners and clubs. He cut over 90 sides with Georgia Tom as the Hokum Boys, and with Frankie Jaxon as Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band. When his partnership with Dorsey ended in 1932, he remained in high-demand as a session musician, before hitting it big with Tampa Red and the Chicago Five. Working with Victor records, he and his band developed what is known as "the Bluebird Sound"—a precursor to jump blues and rock n' roll. While living in Chicago, he formed a lasting friendship with Big Bill Broonzy. According to Broonzy, Tampa Red helped a number of country bluesmen transition to life in Chicago, opening up his home to musicians new to the city.
By 1942, he had begun to play an electric guitar, and had written countless blues standards. He wrote the classics, often attributed to Elmore James, "It Hurts Me Too" and "My Black Angel"—songwriting skills to stand the test of time. He continued to record throughout the forties and early fifties. But then his wife died in 1953, and he was unable to recover from the loss. He slipped into a depression fueled by alcoholism. Though he returned briefly to the stage in the '60's for the folk revival, it was short lived. He died in 1981 in Chicago.


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We would like to take a moment to wish Master John Ozuna a very happy birthday! Master Ozuna is a first generation disciple of Grandmaster Lee, a 5th degree black belt in Bok Fu Do and the founder of John Ozuna's KO Kung Fu Karate in San Jose. Master Ozuna's martial arts accomplishments are numerous (you can read more from his extensive bio on his website HERE), but what many of us admire most about him is his caring and compassionate spirit and his passion for passing on the invaluable lessons that his teacher, Grandmaster Lee, taught to him. Master Ozuna always has time to give his students, and many of our students at East West, a word of encouragement or a helping hand. We thank you, Master Ozuna, for being such an integral part of Bok Fu Do and helping to spread its teaching to all those willing to learn!
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Hong Kong (OP) - With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas, OP Director Christopher Ebe met with Indonesian Orthodox clergy and a Europe-based International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) representative in Medan last week to identify gaps in the current relief efforts and find ways to forge partnerships with existing efforts.
Hong Kong (OP) - Now that the devastation from the incredible earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in Asia has become more transparent, the OMHKSEA is actively pursuing ways to help even more people affected by this terrible disaster.
Immediately following the events of December 26, 2004, His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas requested that the Office of Philanthropy set up an "Orthodox Asian Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund". At the time of the fund's creation, there were no casualties and only minor damage to report.
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Today arguably more than ever it is important to stay up to date with the news. Newswatch is helping people to do just that. Since debuting in 1989 the company has grown with more than 1,200 episodes being aired. It is a weekly show airing for 30-minutes in more than 200 markets across the United States. There is not a… Read more »


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what is a manuscript review?
I read your writing, be it a short story or a novel, and I tell you what I think. That really is it. I will read your work twice over then compose a lengthy, informed critique (with chapter-by-chapter breakdowns for larger pieces) along with suggestions for improvement. Unless it's good, in which case I'll steal it.
why do you need it?
Literary agents receive hundreds of manuscripts each week, and most are nowhere near the standard of publishable work- I used to be the person who would read, then more often than not reject, the manuscripts that came in to a major London agency. Of those which were vaguely original, an even smaller percentage were actually handed to real agents to read. Most just didn't 'click'. A smaller percentage clicked with the agents, who would contact the writer to ask for the completed manuscript. Then maybe that full manuscript was just… eeh. Perhaps the ending didn't really wrap up the story, perhaps the second act meandered. For one reason or another most those manuscripts end up in the same garbage pile. The odds of your manuscript ever making it in front of a publisher are vanishingly small, and they, for their own obscure reasons, may not pick the book up. Perhaps they have another work on the same theme by a higher profile author coming out soon, perhaps they think that the dinosaur-erotica trend has peaked.
Every book that has been released to the public via a reputable publishing company in the last century has been edited. Not just for spelling and grammar, but plot consistency, the strength of its characters, the overall snappiness of its dialogue. It doesn't matter if you're E.L James or Cormac McCarthy, one or more editors will have been through your work before it sees print, asking themselves 'is this any good?' One apparently thought that line in Fifty Shades' about an inner goddess doing the meringue was a keeper.
Having other people read your work and offer constructive, actionable feedback is the absolute only way of improving your odds of publication.
Why me?
I have a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from one of the best courses of its kind in the world (not the one in Girls, the other one.) I've worked with Random House, Bloomsbury and a kind-of-massive London-based literary agency, as well as putting together two writing anthologies. My writing that hasn't been published elsewhere is here if you want to make sure that I can string a sentence together.
More importantly, for you at least, is the fact that I'm not doing this for a living, I don't rent an office and I don't pay a staff, so I can offer prices that are substantially lower than other manuscript reviewers out there.
How much does this cost?
- I'll read what you would send to a literary agent: a synopsis and the the first fifty pages
- Get in-depth feedback on your book's plot and theme, plus the first fifty pages, focusing on whether your book's opening pages will hook the reader
- 2000 word synopsis plus the first fifty pages
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- From the overall plot and character arcs down to individual sentences, you'll get a full, in-depth review of your work.
- 7500 words max
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- Focusing on readability, themes, pacing, plot and market appeal. In addition to a full reader's report you'll receive a chapter-by-chapter breakdown and recommendations for improvement.
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Do you need something that you don't see here? E-mail me with a full description and I'll get back to you with a quote.
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Dehradun is a tiny hill station on the foothills of Himalayas and just about 250 km away from the capital of India - Delhi. At times, it is an underrated romantic destination, but you shall surely add it to your bucket list for your next romantic holiday. Have a look to some of the romantic resorts when you plan your next romantic vacation in Dehradun.
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Plainville High School and Linden Street School were put on lockdown Wednesday afternoon after a resident reported hearing gunshots near the high school.
After searching the high school's grounds, police determined there were no gunshots fired there.
Plainville police received the call at about 12:25 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
Linden Street School, less than a mile away, was put on lockdown as well.
Nothing related to the reported gunshots was found and police don't know where the suspected gunshots were fired from, authorities said.
Police had been told a Plainville High School student had fired the shots, but the department determined that report to be false, officials said.


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The way I froze in anticipation of my project decision was not unfamiliar to others in the cohort. I heard the following theories and thoughts as we problem-solved and tried to name what we were experiencing.
Karen and Julie, some of my Lakewood High fellows, recalled Carol Dweck's Mindset theory as Morgan, our special ed colleague, tried to describe her current discomfort with the project and its place in her life. Morgan owned the fixed mindset, identifying with her inability to get outside of a box that told her she just can't do this. Though I am familiar with Dweck's theory, they articulated the growth mindset in language that helped me as well. The growth mindset is outside of the dichotomy of being good or bad at something. We are just practiced or unpracticed. Time spent in practice improves our competency.
I recalled my experiences as a parent of my son Jonah. He is seven, a second-grader, early in the human stages of having to get over "inertia" to grow, making a choice to engage with something despite strong oppositional feelings. It is very difficult for him to try something new if he isn't sure that he will get it right and be good at it. Risk-taking is a challenge for him. Frustration runs high once he does engage and makes what he perceives to be a mistake.
I learned recently that we can tend to approach all of our decisions in one of three ways: flight, fight, or freeze. My mother-in-law, a healer by gift, has been treating us with an energy work recently that the whole family has found beneficial. It's called Jin Shin. I offered one of the techniques to the group. If you hold your pointer finger as firmly as you can with the opposite hand, the nerves in that finger are triggered to send signals to your brain to calm your fears or resistance to do something. If you do the same to your thumb, it calms worry.
What struck me is our shared frozen (perhaps with a sprinkle of flight) impulses. And then shared language brought new meaning and understanding of the situation. I'm not sure anyone else took something away from my "energy" story, but I used that technique while Pete instructed us on the properties of wood. Did my tightly held finger help to free my willingness to participate and thereby inspire my creativity? It was not long after that I felt that this project was in fact something I could tackle. It begs alternate considerations of the "whole child" doesn't it... body and mindfulness included?


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Angie Farrell is a worried woman. Her daughter didn't come home last night. She then opens a parcel and finds a bottle of blood stopped with a toe wearing a distinctive pale orange nail varnish. Pretty soon a body is found, minus a toe and grasping a mirror. It's like something from a particularly grim fairy tale. The CID team looking for clues are stumped, but PC Cate Corbin makes the connection and brings literature professor Alice Hyland into the investigation.
Alice's observations reveal a disturbing similarity to an obscure Italian version of Snow White. Then another body turns up, one wearing a red cape and Alice finds herself the object of the investigation…
This second novel by Alison Littlewood is a cracking police procedural, with just a hint of the supernatural. Littlewood strikes up a believable narrative between the two main characters of Cate and Alice and her painstaking research into police procedures has paid off with some pretty convincing descriptions of behaviour at crime scenes and incident rooms. The idea of serial killer working to a theme isn't exactly new, but there is something quite fun about taking fairy tales as the killer's choice, especially when you learn just how gruesome some of the source material is (thinks: must look into that further).
A well written taut thriller, with good characterisation, believable plot and the odd red herring to keep you on your toes I give it a 666.
Path of Needles is available now from Jo Fletcher Books.
Littlewood's first novel A Cold Season was selected as a 2012 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick
Follow Alison Littlewood on twitter at @Ali_L. Read her blog.
I think my favourite thematic serial killer has to be Edward Lionheart played by a marvellously camp Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood (1973): his performances savaged by a circle of critics Lionheart sets about murdering them in many creative ways derived from the plays of Shakespeare. A very funny film with a stellar supporting cast including: Harry Andrews, Coral Browne (later Mrs Price) , Diana Dors, Jack Hawkins, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley, Diana Rigg and Eric Sykes plus Hothouse Editor's teenage crush Madeline Smith.
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My name is Gabriel, and I am an aspiring voice actor. I first discovered LibriVox while I was attending college back in 2011. I was looking for a free audio book for The Odyssey by Homer for my Intro to Philosophy class. I was excited to see that there was complete website dedicated to creating audio books out of books that are in the public domain. Since then, I have used several audio books that were created by the volunteer readers and LibriVox.
Now that I'm older, one thing has become more clear to me what I would like to do in life, and that is to be a voice actor. I believe volunteering to read public domain books will help push me in that direction, and get familiar with using my voice and all the steps needed to complete projects. I have purchased a good quality microphone ($200) and I have a drive to do the thing that I have a passion for.
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How to Give a Sensational Scientific Talk
Posted on February 22, 2006
Janet B. W. Williams (bio) provides tips for presenting your research at a scientific meeting.
Know your audience. Who will be there? Mainly researchers or mainly clinicians? All professionals of the same type, or a mix of mental health professionals? How familiar are they with the topic to be covered? What is of interest to them? The failure of many talks to hit home is due to the speaker's failure to gear the lecture to the interests and backgrounds of that particular audience.
Outline the main ideas you want to cover. Initially these can be listed as broad statements, not necessarily yet in logical order. Once this list is completed, cut the number of ideas in half. The biggest mistake made by beginning public speakers is to overload their talk with too many main ideas. Once you have determined the final list of ideas, organize them into a logical sequence for presentation. Do not overestimate the audience's background or ability to absorb new ideas.
If at all possible, don't read. When reading a paper, the presenter keeps his or her eyes cast down and is not free to gesture with the arms and hands, since they must be ready to turn the page. The speaker who is not tied to a sheaf of papers is free to move out from behind the podium to be in closer contact with the audience. In normal speech our rate and inflection vary greatly, whereas reading tends to be steady in pace and monotonous in tone. In addition, spoken language differs in its sentence construction from written language, and it is easier for an audience to follow the generally shorter, more simply constructed and more emphatic sentences of spoken language.
Many presenters, however, still read their papers. Fortunately, there are techniques you can use to organize your presentation so that you can talk from notes, and still minimize the chances of a disaster. One conservative strategy is to have your written paper in a notebook on the left-hand pages. On each right-hand page, outline corresponding points you would like to make. With this approach, you can feel confident speaking from the notes, knowing that if you panic, the proper place in the written text is right there to fall back on. Many lecturers find that slides can provide an outline for their talk. One or more slides can be presented for each main idea introduced, ensuring proper sequencing of the flow of the talk. This helps the audience follow along, and allows the speaker to be less dependent on written notes.
- Tell a joke or show a cartoon.
- Begin with a bold, challenging statement.
- Ask the audience a question.
- Recount a personal experience.
- Relate the lecture subject to a topical event.
- Use a quote.
- State an informative but little-known fact that is of special relevance to the topic.
- Relate your topic to a well-known research study or program.
When the purpose of a talk is to present the results of a study, the speaker should begin with the initial hypotheses, follow with a description of the observations, and then present a summary of the conclusions. Unlike a published paper, in most cases methods should be described only briefly, with the talk concentrating instead on the results. The audience can always ask questions about details of the method during the discussion period.
If you're using slides, the first slide you show should be simple and relate to your introduction. It should appeal to your audience, being neither too complicated nor over anyone's head. As a general rule, during the talk itself, the more complex the data represented on the slide, the simpler the slide should be. In presenting straightforward demographic data, for example, several rows and columns are acceptable, whereas in discussing the three-way interaction of biochemical variables, a simpler approach will be more helpful in getting your point across. With very rare exceptions, tables from journal articles should never be copied onto slides. They are not only difficult to see, but are far too complex to be grasped quickly during the course of an hour-long talk.
All slides should be as simple as possible. Each time you work out a slide you think is good, try to make two slides from it to see if it can be simplified further. Don't challenge audiences to read lengthy text and listen to your lecture at the same time. Either read aloud a long statement on a slide, or pause long enough for the audience to read it themselves. A useful rule of thumb is to limit slides to seven (double-spaced) lines with no more than thirty letters or seven words per line. Use lower case letters rather than all upper case, because they are much easier to read.
The next best thing to a live patient is a video. In general, for an hour-long lecture, 15 minutes of video is the limit. This may be divided into two or three "clips" for intermittent discussion of key points. Careful editing of the footage must be done to focus on the issues you are illustrating. When determining the length of each clip, remember that the audience won't know the context of each section of the interview, so the clip may have to run longer than you would like in order to orient your listeners. In addition, if the subject has an unusual way of speaking, or a strong accent, listeners may need some extra time to get used to the dialogue. Whatever technology you use, make sure the audio track is clear and loud enough to be heard in a room the size of your lecture hall.
- Change the tempo of delivery by slowing down your speech or by pausing before you make your final comments.
- Use signal words such as "finally" or "in conclusion," or refer to the audience as you move to your final statements ("And so, as I've tried to show you..."). This helps the audience keep in tune with the pace of the talk, and prepares them to pay a different kind of attention to the ending.
- Summarize what you have said, enumerating your conclusions. If you have been using slides, you should continue with a few phrases after the lights have been turned on, as your listeners readjust to the light.
- Return to the opening statement. If your opener was a controversial fact or quote, you can now readdress it in light of the new information that you have presented.
- Introduce a quotation that confirms your conclusions or sheds new light on the issue now that you have presented relevant data.
Never interrupt the questioner, even if you are certain you know what is being asked. Besides being perceived as rude, such interruptions rob the audience of the opportunity to hear the full question, and of course, you will be embarrassed if you have wrongly anticipated its content.
Repeat each question, unless the question is asked from a microphone or can be very clearly heard. This also ensures that you have understood the question, and gives you a bit more time to organize your response. When answering, pay tribute to the question if it is deserved ("That's a very good question..."). This is also useful in disarming a questioner if the question is challenging or critical. If possible, reply with the questioner's name, and look at him or her as you answer.
Be brief and to the point in your replies, but not abrupt. If the answer to a question is lengthy and not of interest to the general audience, provide a brief response and invite the questioner to discuss it with you after the talk.
A good non-antagonistic reply to an obviously irrelevant question can begin with "I think your question relates to..." and then you can discuss in greater depth the part of your lecture that is most relevant to the question.
- 3-4 weeks before: You should have a provisional outline or script of your lecture, along with drafts of the slides (and other audiovisual aids) that you plan to use. Practice alone or with a significant other. Use a tape recorder to listen to yourself, and a clock to time the talk. The purpose of this early practice is to smooth out the outline of the talk and revise the audiovisual materials, and to work on your grammar, the coordination of the verbal and visual components of the presentation, your timing and body gestures, and voice intonation. During this stage you should ensure that your talk fits within the necessary time limit. If you are using written text at this stage, it is helpful to know that one double-spaced written page takes about one and a half to two minutes to read.
- 2-3 weeks before: Rehearse with family, friends, or colleagues. Some academic departments require rehearsals within their own groups, each followed by critiques from the audience on the text, audiovisual aids, and manner of presentation. Put your ego aside during this stage and accept criticism on any aspect of the talk, remembering that it is best to have deficiencies exposed by this small familiar group and have a chance to correct them, before presenting to a large audience of relative strangers. The ability to accept and make use of such critiques is a true strength. At the end of this phase of practice, the slides should be finalized.
- 1-2 weeks before: Practice in private, referring to notes only minimally, and concentrating on the introduction and conclusion to get them just right. The last week before the talk, if not before, the final speaking notes should be prepared.
Based on presentation at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Antonio, TX, January 2006, and personal communication with the researcher in February 2006.
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A Second Look At Casta/
May 6, 2017
8pm Julia C Butridge Gallery
Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT) announces A Second Look at Casta by playwright Adrienne Dawes. Directed by Jenny Larson and in collaboration with visual artist Beth Consetta Rubel and composer Graham Reynolds, Casta is a new performance piece inspired by the casta paintings of Nueva España (Mexico).
This series of portraits grew in popularity over the 18th century, and were a unique genre of portraiture, depicting different racial mixtures arranged according to a hierarchy of race and status, as determined by Spanish elites.
The complexities of contemporary racial identity are echoed in this distant mirror of casta paintings. How do Old World anxieties about ambiguous identities reflect contemporary biases? How can the interaction between performance and visual art, specifically portraiture, open a window for a unique audience experience about racial identity?
Salvage Vanguard presents "a second look" workshop of this exciting new piece-in-progress that will experiment with a museum format for a public performance at the Dougherty Arts Center.
Casta will be performed by Florinda Bryant, Marina De-Yoe Pedraza, Noel Gaulin, Lori Navarrete, khattieq, and Kriston Woodreaux.
Salvage Vanguard is a Resident Artist Organization of the Dougherty Arts Center through the Museums and Cultural Programs Division of the Austin Parks and Recreation Department.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Saturday, May 6, 2017 from 8pm to 10pm
PERFORMANCE LOCATION: Julia C. Butridge Gallery at the Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd.
TICKETS: FREE online or at the door. Reservations can be made at salvagevanguard.org/tickets/
**MAY 25th at 7:30pm we will have a public workshop performance of Casta in NY at the Drama League Theater Center. Tickets and information can be found here: http://tickets.dramaleague.org/
This project received developmental support as part of the 2017 Artist Residency Program of The Drama League of New York (Gabriel Stelian-Shanks, Executive Artistic Director; Travis LeMont Ballenger, Associate Producer; Sherri Eden Barber, Program Director). The Drama League Artist Residency Program is funded in part by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the Howard Gilman Foundation.


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Honda has updated its predecessor's boxy brawn and its huge protruding nose with a curvy silhouette and a front end look which is actually pleasing to the eye. It has taken the front end design cues from the CR-V and in an ever expanding crossover market, the Pilot has shed its earlier shape to a more user friendly and less intimidating approach.
2016 Honda Pilot Touring Review
It works well, because now it actually is pleasing to look at. This beautifully sedated from end look is working for us. It screams family utility car from every angle possible without overwhelming one's visual senses and that is a good thing. The 2016 Honda Pilot comes in a 7-seater format (Touring package) and 8-seater options for the lesser models. There is a 2WD format on the base but the rest gets the new improved AWD terrain management system which can toggle between road, rain, snow and sand.
The 2016 Honda Pilot is powered by the current Accord's V6 with 3.5-litre pushing 280hp, that's around 30hp more than its predecessor and with a curb weight of 300lbs less it sprints quicker off the line as well; but we would like to thank Honda for not going the CVT route and keeping a regular 6 speed automatic transmission. In reality however, the new Pilot reminiscences the design language and perception of the outgoing Odyssey with a flair to venture off the beaten path.
Let's have a look at the new Pilot. Families these days are opting to go for the crossover variant which offers basic off-roading capabilities like a run to the beach while hauling their families and baggage with ease. The Pilot meets these criteria with ease. It has a voluminous cabin, two captain's chair occupying the second row of the Touring package. The AC has extra heat exchangers for more efficiency in cooling, a perfect ingredient for the scorching summers we face in the UAE. We were not able to test that out as the weather in November was actually cooler. It event rained when we had the car.
Conveniences like a single button on both sides of the second row seats to release and move the middle row seats forward for ease of access to the Pilot's third row are a nice everyday user friendliness which helps out. The driver also benefits from such gimmicks as the camera which shows the car on the right hand side's blind spot when the turn signals are flicked but we prefer the normal blind spot warning on the side mirrors. Our only grievance was the sound system which seemed to be slow in changing songs or displaying the various playlist on the ipod, it worked well but you need to wait for it to respond.
Other than these two issues, which we really cannot call them issues as such, the Pilot is a great vehicle to drive around in the city and on the highways. The silky smooth V6 never lags on its power delivery and commuting around town or to different Emirates is a smooth and pleasurable experience. You can push the car around turns as well, it does hold its own thanks primarily to the excellent AWD system it employs but you would need to expect understeer as the turn narrows down. It's an AWD trademark that we all know about but the balance of the Pilot is there to make safe spirited driving. You can grow some devil horns while driving and not retire completely into running family errands and dropping and picking up kids from school.
If you were to take the Pilot off-roading, we would advise to take on the lesser trimmed EXL variant which would have an extra 15mm of ground clearance and a slightly higher approach angle. The Touring edition is better left for the commercial jungle of our everyday lives.
Versatility, space, build quality and the promise of Honda is what makes this new Pilot the one to look for in its segment. Its biggest rival would be the Nissan Pathfinder but then again the latter has CVT transmission. Our Pilot Touring edition did manage 10.8L/100km and gave us almost 550kms on a full tank of gas. The 2016 Honda Pilot does tick many of the boxes for the next family vehicle.
2016 Honda Pilot
|3.5 Litre 6 Cylinder
|Rated Output
|280hp @ 600 rpm
|Rated Torque
|355Nm @ 4700 rpm
|Transmission – type of gearshift
|6 speed automatic transmission
|Fuel Consumption
|10.8 L/100kms – As tested
|Overall Length
|4964 mm
|Overall Width
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Is anyone familiar with the drop rate of the Viator Cape? I'm with someone now who has killed this NM before with his ls. and is 4/4 on this cape. I REALLY WANT IT! Lol! Anyway, I didn't quite understand it at first and I died along with the RDM/BST on my SMN/WHM. 2nd death, I died catching a FiragaIII which killed me in one hit on my tarutaru SMN/WHM. 3rd death, I was resting next to one of those Gnole things that stand up. It destroyed me. LOL. I want this cape and I won't give up.
The NM, apparently spawns at e-10. Method of pulling: RDM/BST uses pet to attack and catch agro. At this point he takes off running like @#%^ing hell, winding up @ the bridge in position (F-8). He jumps down from the, and goes east each time, *IN* the river. He then drops his Pugil that he had charmed, and ALL the links disapear except the main NM. This is where I come in. I jump into play and attack Carby at the NOW NON-AGROING Notorious monster. We could've killed it, I have no doubt. The pugils were kicking butt and so was Carbuncle. Only problem is that we can't withstand the Status ailments. They are way too harsh for us to handle. The NM spawns 3 little things that have HP that are around 100 or something. They cause Poison, Silence, and Paralyze when you get next to them. I hate it...
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Desire For Degree, One Last Taste of Death Valley Leads Adams To Return
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CLEMSON - After consulting with everyone from his parents to head coach Tommy Bowden to teammate Tye Hill, Clemson defensive end Gaines Adams announced Saturday that he will bypass the NFL Draft in April and return to school for his senior season.
Adams was especially effective in the last three games of the season when he had 17 tackles, eight tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks.
Adams has 27 career tackles for loss and 15.5 sacks to go
Adams, speaking to reporters in the press room at Littlejohn Coliseum two hours before the Tiger basketball team hosted No. 1 Duke, said after all the talk and long hours of consideration, his decision came down to one key issue.
"I want to get my degree," he said. "That, and get one more chance to play in Death Valley. That's the main thing."
Adams, whose stock soared as his play rapidly improved over the second half of the season, found himself having to deal with conflicting opinions as to how high he may be drafted.
While some NFL projections had him as a third or fourth round pick, ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. listed Adams as the No. 17 overall pick in the first round. But conversations with his parents, high school coach Steve Tanneyhill, teammates - including Hill - and a meeting with Bowden all produced the same advice:
Stay in school.
And, after a few sleepless nights, Adams himself reached the same conclusion.
"My parents want what's best for me. They looked at a lot of information," Adams said. "I met with coach Bowden back on Thursday and he gave me a lot of good information...I came out of that meeting feeling like I would come back."
It was Kiper's opinion that Adams could go as high as 17th in the draft that apparently caused the most confusion for the junior sports management major.
"Kiper's a great guy, but never played football before," Adams said. Still, "He's a great guy and I respect him a lot. And I was looking at that, and it was like 'If Mel Kiper's got me here, I'm going there.'...I'm glad he's got me there. I hope he has me there next year, or higher."
Adams said the example of Hill also played a role in his decision.
Hill, who returned for his senior season in 2005, saw his status for the upcoming draft skyrocket. Adams is hoping for similar returns if he can continue to improve himself as the 2006 season approaches.
"I didn't want to make the wrong decision," Adams said. "If I had made the decision to leave, then went in the third or fourth round, I'd be selling myself short. I couldn't live with that.
"By me staying I think I made the right decision. I can graduate, and if I still fall in the third or fourth round I'll have my degree. I think that will go a long way...because football is not for long."
Adams return, along with that of linebacker Anthony Waters, should mean good things for a Clemson defense which was outstanding in the last month of the 2005 season.
With most of that unit back, plus the entire offensive line and a wealth of skill position players returning, Adams has high expectations for the 2006 Clemson football team.
"I think we can win the ACC championship," he said.
dams finished the 2005 season with 56 tackles, sixth on Clemson's defense that ranked 11th best in the nation in scoring defense. He had a team best 15 tackles for loss for 83 lost yards and a team best 9.5 sacks for 64 loss yards. He ranked fifth in the ACC in sacks for the season. Adams also led the Tigers in passes broken up with nine, the first Clemson defensive lineman to lead the team in that area in 28 years, and paced the club in quarterback pressures with a record 29.
He had a pair of sacks and seven tackles in the win over Colorado.
He was named the ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week for his 2.5 sacks and eight tackles in the win over Maryland in the second week of the season.
with his 15 passes broken up and 41 quarterback pressures. He
started all 12 games in 2005 and came off the bench in 2003 and 2004.
Adams was especially effective in the last three games of the season when he had 17 tackles, eight tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks.
Adams has 27 career tackles for loss and 15.5 sacks to go
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We have addressed in a preliminary way Mr. Ferrara's concerns that a market principle might "fix the moral limits of public authority as to all spheres of social interaction, even if 'private' morals might be Christian." There is no cause for alarm, we argued, provided we interpret the market in terms of persons, that is, mutually respecting divine image-bearers, the living sources or "principles" of all social phenomena.
Consider this scenario: both (a) the dominant (not necessarily universal) ethos of a given territory (as large or small as you please) is Christian and (b) its several classes of guardians of peaceful cooperation* understand economics more or less as Austrians do and, in accordance with that understanding, deal with the violent non-cooperators in their midst.
Expanding our hypothetical scenario: occurring with some unwelcome regularity on that territory are several instances of non-violent moral evil (as a Christian ethos defines moral evil). What are Christian guardians of the framework of peaceful cooperation to do?
One answer is obvious: use every means at one's disposal to suppress the immoral behavior by imposing penal sanctions on the miscreants. To tolerate the evil is to give one's sanction to it, which God forbid.
Is this Mr. Ferrara's position? We cannot validly infer that it is from those words of his that we have so far quoted. We do, however, have his so-far implicit disapproval of the idea that Christian morals might fall outside the scope of "public authority," but because it is implicit, it is also without nuance. He may reject libertarian strictures on public authority when it comes to the suppression of immoral activity, but he apparently did not feel it necessary, at least here, to suggest what limits he would favor.
We will, of course, charitably assume that Mr. Ferrara is as anti-totalitarian as he is anti-liberal unless and until we have evidence that defeats that assumption. A writer for whom historic Christendom is a model for future social reconstruction, however, should not leave his readers guessing about those limits. To avoid any misunderstanding he should spell them out soon and as explicitly as he can.
A different answer may be found in the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas: some evils tear at the fabric of the common good of the framework of peaceful cooperation, which is an absolutely impermissible evil and therefore must not be tolerated; other evils do not rend it and therefore ought to be tolerated. Why? Because active suppression, would rend it. A policy of non-toleration would benignly intend the common good while unintentionally harming it. We shall charitably assume that this is not what Mr. Ferrara had in mind when he referred to the "morally invalid consequentialist and utilitarian ethic the Church condemns." (8)
A socially intolerable evil: murder; a socially tolerable evil: prostitution. Prostitution is not any less evil for being socially tolerable, but it does not fall to the public authority to suppress it, for it does not have a virtue-instilling function. Its office is solely directed to protecting the framework within which persons peacefully, cooperatively pursue their diverse ends (including virtue). As Thomas put it:
Human laws leave certain things unpunished, on account of the condition of those who are imperfect, and who would be deprived of many advantages, if all sins were strictly forbidden and punishments appointed for them.
Summa Theologiae, 2-2, q. 78, reply to Obj. 3.
(Thomas is here arguing against the moral licitness of charging interest on a loan, a matter that will occupy us considerably in future posts. In this instance we are agreeing with him only on the narrow point of the office of human law.)
. . . it suffices for it [human law] to prohibit whatever is destructive of human intercourse, while it treats other matters as though they were lawful, not by approving of them, but by not punishing them. Summa Theologiae, 2-2, q. 77, reply to Obj. 1. [Emphasis added: A.F.]
Professor Richard Symanski summarized Thomas on this point as follows:
The aim of the criminal justice system is not to impose public standards of morality upon the private acts of consenting adults, immoral though they may be by widely held social standards, but rather to protect people and property from the harmful effects of others.
Symanski, The Immoral Landscape: Female Prostitution in Western Societies. Toronto, 1981, p. 228. As quoted in Vincent M. Dever, rich with citations from Aquinas' writings, which I urge upon my readers:
"Aquinas on the Practice of Prostitution." Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol. 13, 1996.**
To Be Continued
* Even anarchist territories must have guardians of the consensus of the non-initiation of force, the framework of peaceful cooperation. They include the parents of a nuclear family, the elders of an extended one, and property owners who contract for the services of private suppliers of defense and courts. It does not follow from this "must" that the persons who carry out these guardianship functions devolve into criminals, macro-parasites who live off of the wealth they systematically confiscate by force or the threat thereof. Anarcho-Catholics will be in the vanguard of efforts to demystify, and keep demystified, that function by withholding from those who perform it the symbolic trappings and incantations that communicate and reinforce the suggestion of permanent monopoly and divine right. (Especially when the demos plays theos.)
** "Given this strong condemnation of fornication and prostitution," Professor Dever writes after documenting the condemnation, "it would seem obvious that Aquinas would want to engage every force against them, especially civil law. Oddly enough he does not. Instead he notes that the state should allow fornication and prostitution to exist for the sake of the common good. Relying on the well-known passage from Augustine's De ordine, Aquinas advocates tolerance of prostitution by noting: 'Accordingly in human government also, those who are in authority rightly tolerate certain evils, lest certain goods be lost, or certain evils be incurred: thus Augustine says [De ordine 2.4]: "If you do away with harlots, the world will be convulsed with lust."' If these social practices were to be suppressed, the public reaction might be such as to threaten the peace of society. Remember, Aquinas already maintains (1) that prostitution is a species of lust that is one of the capital vices that wreak the greatest havoc on the human soul and leads to other sins; (2) that it is a mortal sin that threatens the proper rearing of children and by extension threatens the common good of society; and (3) that it violates the natural law and matrimonial union. How then could one tolerate such an evil, particularly a natural law thinker such as Aquinas? Is Aquinas compromising on his principles or playing utilitarian?" If the reader finds the suspense is intolerable, he or she should read Professor Dever's paper.


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What of the Ocean?
What of the ocean
were it not for the rocks?
A bunch of salt & fishes?
What of man,
goddamn him?
..."I Think You Dropped Something".
It Doesn't matter from whence you came,
or how by who for what you're named,
how cool you look, or sharp you dress
in tidy order or uncouth mess.
In the know, without a clue
with hearts in love with what we do,
no wrong is wrought, or life untrue.
dear friends I bid you all adieu.
"Oh yeah, all right
Are you going to be in my dreams
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make."-P.M.
Gratitude for Growing Things
The sun is setting here now. I was just hanging out in the garden here at Casa Libre where there is a newly constructed arbor covered in a grape vine. The sky is less pink tonight than it has been in recent weeks, but no less beautiful. I was thinking of how I wanted to end this project for myself and for you.
I am thinking about the cycle of things. I am thinking about the sun rising and setting, the grape vine that grew from a 3 foot seedling into a massive cape of green, about the dark that tuns into light and back into dark. About coming together and pulling apart of people and lives and bodies, of chances, changing seasons, what papa used to say, smooth flights, heartmind music, drifting, gold coins, trains, glove boxes, prisoner of war camps, car wrecks, other selves, lovers, Alchemy, Mexico, birthdays, dancing, elk hyde drums, "beast" pumps, psychography, job hunting, making out in orchards, teeth, hobos, exile, witnesses, daydreams, good news, language, sacrifice, naming animals, bike rides, hot dogs, days, nights, sunsets, memories of house parties, sex, irish whiskey, libraries, poetry, warriors, classes, dancing again, wolves, excess, overflow, promises, bumper stickers, kids, tough girls, apples, houses, parks, music, babies, questions, suffering, burning embers, 20 dollar bills, ice, kitchens, power, the Miss Fantastics, Lacey, black books, wind, wanderlust, cans of fresca, breakfast, dads, godparents, migrations, boardwalks, work, perros, set lists, excerpts, earth, apologies, notes, fiber, fish, birds, pleases and squeezes, death, bedrooms, villages, here, magic stuff, luminous events, haircuts, lottery, motorcycles, bike lanes, Clairvoyance, Logic, summer nights, eavesdropping, rising creeks, truth, mornings, dismemberment, teasing, Alabama, references, hearts, bangs, paint, rabbits, missives...
Beginnings and Endings. All of the things that have made up our last twenty days together. I am grateful to have shared this space with all of you. I appreciate the attempts to push how this shared community exists in space. To seek/destroy definition. To collaborate/communicate/connect. To balance rawness and craft.
Thank you, Bo.
Thank you, Camille.
Thank you, Malcolm.
Thank you, Melissa.
Thank you, Selah.
Thank you, Kristen.
Thank you, Mickey.
Thank you, Thirza.
Thank you, Sharon.
Thank you, Logan.
Thank you, Deborah.
Thank you, Adam.
Thank you, JenMarie.
Thank you, me.
Thank you, Travis.
Thank you, Angela.
Thank you, Kate.
Thank you, Soham.
Thank you, Rick.
"We have come into the presence of the one
who was never apart from us. When someone chews
sugarcane, he is wanting this sweetness.
Inside the globe the sound roars like thunder.
And now silence, my strict tutor." ~Rumi (from Meadowsounds)
With Love in All Directions,
This space will remain private for a few more weeks. On October 1st, I will send you an email to let you know that it is going public again. Feel free to delete anything you've shared here, that you don't want to go public. Then I hope you visit this space like a photo album. A memory of a shared journey. For me, my people, this has been one fantastic ride.
a chance blindness
just looked the sun right in the sunset and stared until it was gone. I still have spots where my sight should be. Gold and fuchsia ringlets.
We were really here, weren't we?
(gratitude and blessings to Kristen for organizing and contributing and all of you for sharing)
changing seasons
thanks, everyone, for screaming into the chasm and bridging the divide and having discourse.
Are your seasons changing, too?
papa used to say "dream i love you princess"
so many, so long
I lift
I drift
drip I drift
I drift in
gold coins
Digital Drugs
yo! where can I score some I-Dose?
You have to download that shit!
How do I take it?
Put it in your ear!
....Just rocked I-doser "hand of God" and um.... well... I took some aspirin. and I feel numb to the world.
hmmmm. ..kids getting high on music...hmmm...what a novel idea...
WTF---- the new gateway drug! "How my second life high became a real world drug problem"
That's right folks!..DIGITAL DRUGS!!!!!!
He imagines or remembers the train.
In the tiny upstate city where we lived, no businesses were shuttered, including her and I's. The war-boom left no empty windows. His house situated at the back of the thriving shoe shop we ran when he was away. The store front near brand new. Still some broken glass. Through the angled windows, coming back from the market, I saw them reunited. First dusk, he came to me on the couch. He held one arm around me, the other across the front of me. This hand innocently tucked in skirt's waistband. We slept like siblings, sitting up. In his sleep, he moaned in what seemed another language. We never asked what he saw from the sea. I slipped back into dreams. Just above my knee, a worm the color of my skin, mouth like a lamprey. Or was the worm simply my skin? Mouth a quarter inch wide. I was afraid but started to pull. Round balls of skin, connected like little sausages, one after another after another after another. The strand seemed endless. Finally what I pulled out was a string of beads on fishing line. I woke again, they stood at the bedroom door. Her blue dress with wide skirt, a pinafore, covered in white polka dots. Why was she dressed like this in the middle of the night? Call me The Sailor, he said. Do you know how many times I got on that ship?
Note: point of departure: http://flashfiction.net/2010/09/friday-flash-prompt-carol-guess.php.


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I went to an author event yesterday for Jacqueline Lynch's new book Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain:70 Years of Summer Theater on Mt. Tom. The theater at Mt. Tom was originally simply called Casino. Later the name was changed to the Mt. Tom Playhouse.
During the course of the book discussion the question was asked why was the theater called Casino when there was no gambling done there, only plays put on. We didn't have an answer, so when I got home I asked Google and discovered this- The word Casino is Italian and dates back a long time to when cottages and small villas were called casinos. Over time the word casino evolved to mean a place of entertainment- such as billiards, bowling, musical events, dancing, and theatrical productions. In the mid-1800's during the Victorian Era the word Casino was used as a rather exotic sounding name for theaters. In the late 1800's many theaters were called Casino- hence when the then open air theater at Mt. Tom was opened in July 1895 and then later enclosed it was called Casino.
Nowadays, we only think of casinos as places lined with slot machines and filled with games of chance.
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There used to be a nice sit down restaurant down there in the 70's.
The only Black Forest Inn that I remember was On Hwy 30 between Carlos and Roans Prairie but I could be mistaken.happyinBCS said:
Black Forest Inn
I think you are transposing your memories of the BFI to that location. Nothing like that @ Harvey Rd. from 1984 or later......but that's exactly how the BFI looked as I recall.......woodiewood1 said:
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Site of medieval nunnery, post-Dissolution house and gardens
Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number: 1014454
Date first listed: 20-Dec-1979
Date of most recent amendment: 01-Jul-1996
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The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Lincolnshire
District: West Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish: Stainfield
National Grid Reference: TF 11153 73227
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Reasons for Designation
A nunnery was a settlement built to sustain a community of religious women.
Its main buildings were constructed to provide facilities for worship,
accommodation and subsistence. The main elements are the church and domestic
buildings arranged around a cloister. This central enclosure may be
accompanied by an outer court and gatehouse, the whole bounded by a precinct
wall, earthworks or moat. Outside the enclosure, fishponds, mills, field
systems, stock enclosures and barns may occur. The earliest English nunneries
were founded in the seventh century AD but most of these had fallen out of use
by the ninth century. A small number of these were later refounded. The tenth
century witnessed the foundation of some new houses but the majority of
medieval nunneries were established from the late 11th century onwards.
Nunneries were established by most of the major religious orders of the time,
including the Benedictines, Cistercians, Augustinians, Franciscans and
Dominicans. It is known from documentary sources that at least 153 nunneries
existed in England, of which the precise locations of only around 100 sites
are known. Few sites have been examined in detail and as a rare and poorly
understood medieval monument type all examples exhibiting survival of
archaeological remains are worthy of protection.
The priory of St Mary at Stainfield was the only nunnery of the Benedictine order in the old county of Lincolnshire. The remains of the priory, together with those of the post-Dissolution house and gardens which overlie it, have never been excavated. Later activity on the site has been of limited impact, overlying rather than destroying earlier remains. Substantial surviving earthworks in the present park, and finds made in the raised area where both the post-Dissolution house and conventual buildings stood, indicate a good state of preservation below ground.
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The monument includes the remains of the Benedictine nunnery of Stainfield,
founded in the mid 12th century and dissolved in 1536. In 1538 it was granted
to Sir Robert Tyrwhitt whose descendants constructed a large house, park and
formal gardens on the site. The remains of the nunnery, including most of the
precinct, the site of the conventual buildings and a group of fishponds, are
therefore partly overlain by the remains of a post-Dissolution house with
associated buildings, gardens and other landscape features.
The conventual precinct originally occupied a roughly rectangular area approximately 420m by 250m around the present Stainfield Hall. The precinct boundary is represented on the north by Stainfield Beck, on the east by a water-filled ditch and on the west by the course of the present road. Near the centre of the precinct is a slightly raised area on which the present church, dwellings and outbuildings stand. Finds of sculptural and architectural fragments, including reticulated tracery of the 14th century, indicate that this is the site of the priory church and other conventual buildings.
In the northern half of the precinct is a group of fishponds, the largest of which is over 200m long, relatively shallow and contains a small island. Immediately to the north are three smaller ponds of rectangular shape representing sorting or breeding tanks. To the west, three further ponds are grouped around the foundations of a large rectangular building. These ponds are interconnected and drain into the stream via an outlet channel on the west. To the south of the main fishpond are the earth-covered foundations of three rectangular buildings, the easternmost of which is interpreted as the remains of a tower built in the early 18th century as a landscape feature in the park of Stainfield Hall.
Overlying the site of the conventual buildings are the remains of a secular mansion, first constructed in the 16th century and repeatedly altered throughout the succeeding centuries. Immediately north of the present Stainfield Hall, which is 19th century in date and Listed Grade II, lie above ground, remain, including an 18th century stable block and a farm building, both Listed Grade II, St Andrew's Church, Listed Grade II* and a gate pier, Listed Grade II. Of these remains only the gate pier is included in the scheduling, although the ground beneath all these features is included in the scheduling. To the south of the Hall are the remains of part of the early 17th century formal gardens, including a brick wall on the edge of a former kitchen garden and bowling greens. Immediately to the east of the hall complex are the remains of an early 18th century walled garden, including a brick wall on the north and east, and an ornamental pond, now filled in, on the south. To the east of the walled garden, in a small area of woodland, is a further ornamental pond, still water-filled.
To the west of the present Hall is a double avenue of mature trees in an area of pasture, bounded on the north and west by broad banks. The avenue is traversed by a further bank running parallel to and approximately 50m from that on the west. This is interpreted as an early 18th century landscape feature, formed to create a vista from the Hall towards Barlings Abbey and Lincoln Cathedral.
Stainfield priory was founded in the mid 12th century by Henry or William Percy and was the only Benedictine nunnery in the old county of Lincolnshire. It was a small, poor establishment intended to house up to 20 nuns. At its dissolution in 1536 the last remaining nuns were transferred to Stixwould priory. The house of the Tyrwhitt family, who occupied the site from 1538 to the mid 18th century, was first completed in the 1580s and refurbished in 1611 and again in the early 18th century. It was largely dismantled in 1773 and finally destroyed by fire in 1855. The present Stainfield Hall represents the surviving half of a rebuilding of 1856.
All fences, road surfaces and standing walls and buildings are excluded from the scheduling, apart from the brick walls to the east of the Hall surviving from the 17th and 18th century gardens, and the gate pier. The ground beneath the excluded features is, however, included in the scheduling.
MAP EXTRACT The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 22608
Legacy System: RSM
Books and journals
Binnall, P, Stainfield and the Tyrwhitt Family, (1971)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Lincolnshire: Volume II, (1906), 131-132
'White's Directory' in White's Directory, (1856)
'White's Directory' in White's Directory, (1872), 168-169
engraving, Buck, Samuel , Stainfield Hall, (1726)
Penny, J.A., Notes on the Monasteries . . . near the River Witham, 1918,
RCHM(E), Everson, P L and Taylor C C and Dunn, C J, Change And Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire, (1991)
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
End of official listing


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