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The Home Oxygen Program (HOP) helps people with low blood oxygen levels get oxygen in their homes.

Oxygen is used to help people when their blood is not able to get enough oxygen from breathing only air. There are many diseases that can cause this problem, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer.

What services are provided?

Once you qualify for the program, respiratory therapists from one of our contracted suppliers will come into your home to set up equipment and show you how to use it, as well as provide ongoing service.

They are also there to talk to you about your blood oxygen levels, help answer your questions, discuss your needs and provide ongoing assessment as long as you need it.

How much does this service cost?

If you are eligible for this service, we will cover the cost of your oxygen. If you have extended health benefits, the HOP will pay for the cost that is not covered by your plan.

I've just been approved as a home oxygen program (HOP) client.

What can I expect?

A designated oxygen company will perform a detailed initial respiratory assessment in your home. The company's representative will check the equipment and home environment and explain how to use the equipment properly and safely.

Some people will need arespiratory assessment. The company will provide ongoing support including responding to equipment malfunction, and maintenance, and providing oxygen deliveries.

Oxygen may be a temporary treatment or a longer term treatment. You will be assessed by the health authority's respiratory therapist a month or so after you are set up by the oxygen company. The assessment is to assure that you continue to receive the correct levels of oxygen and if you need to remain on the program and will involve repeat testing of your blood oxygen levels while at home.

You will also be provided with education about your disease, medications, and oxygen safety.

The HOP will inform physicians, clients, and oxygen supplier of your assessment, any adjustments to the subsidy or supply system if needed, and other recommendations.

If you still require oxygen, your next appointment will be discussed with you at the time.

I was just reevaluated and I no longer need home oxygen. What happens next?

Once it has been decided you no longer need oxygen, your respiratory therapist will contact you.

The oxygen company will also contact you to set up a time for pick up. If you want to continue to get oxygen you can contact the oxygen company and pay privately.

Some people will be reassessed within 1-2 months following funding discontinuation.

What kind of safety precautions do I need to take when using Home Oxygen?

Every person will be told about safety precautions. Smoking related incidents are most common; however cooking, open fires, and candles also present a risk.

If you smoke we prefer you to quit, however, if you do smoke, you need to stay at least 5 feet away from oxygen equipment and tubing. It is not safe to just take off the tubing from your nose and put it on your lap and smoke right there- you need to step away from the oxygen first.

Other smokers must also remain at least five feet away from you if you are not smoking or are a non smoker. Unfortunately, we have experienced too many avoidable fires and burns from people who do not follow safe practices; the danger is very real.

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Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

You must be referred through your doctor.

A Guide for the Person on Home Oxygen

Application - Home Oxygen Program

Medical Eligibility - Home Oxygen

Oxygen Saturation Study – Home Oxygen Program

What medical criteria do I have to meet?

There are some basic tests that are required for approval that will be administered by your physician or health care provider.

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Mike DeWine's checks and balances: if a Senator attempts to check the adminstration's power, he spends the balance of his life behind bars
Update on the disclosure penalties for Mike DeWine's Congressional Capitulation Act of 2006. Section 8 makes a felony out of disclosing any information about the warrantless domestic spying, with penalties of up to a one million dollar fine and up to a fifteen year prison sentence; and this is for any person who is authorized to receive information under the Congressional Capitulation Act or the old-fashioned FISA. This appears to mean not only staffers to the Congressional Capitulation Subcommittees, but judges, House members, Senators; they are all authorized to receive information by one of the two acts. So the oversight consists of a few members of Congress occasionally listening to some form of briefing - but if they communicate to anyone else what anything they learn in these briefings - say, that the administration is flagrantly violating criminal law, which is true now - your person you voted to represent you in Congress could be locked away for fifteen years. That is the "oversight" authority Mike DeWine proposes to give Congress.
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I usually stay away from the "preppy" look but I do love soft white shirts. Splendid makes wonderful cotton/jersey shirts like the one I'm wearing. I've another in blue. Love them. \\ Outfit // Top: Splendid (short sleeve version here) Bottom: Forever21 (similar here) Shoes: Alexander Wang (similar here) Accessories: Chloe sunglasses (similar here), Chanel bag, … Continue reading
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I work right across the street from an outdoor shopping area by the beach. The close proximity to prime retail real estate often results in impromptu "coffee breaks" that leads to running into either JCREW, Club Monaco, or Zara for a quick retail fix. Last Wednesday, I walked out to "refill my Starbucks coffee" and … Continue reading
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Cobalt blue is currently my favorite color. I'm actually on the search for the perfect pair of cobalt blue suede pumps. If anyone has any recommendations, please comment!! I got this lovely cobalt dress from theoutnet.com not too long ago. I fell in love with the vibrant color and form fitting material. I was hesitant … Continue reading
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As promised in the distressed shorts, I am dedicating today's lookbook post to the perfect chambray shirt. Chambray/denim shorts have become extremely popular this past year. Most popular retailers have come out with various versions of the iconic shirt. To be honest, I didn't use to like denim shirts much. I found them tough and … Continue reading
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And how much would one man--say, one curious plastic surgeon--have to alter so that a youthful heart might acquire a countenance to match it, or so that beauty might always greet the eye of the beholder? And then what would it take to erase the hand of the doctor as well? In a career spent troubling over these questions, Bruce Connell quietly has become one of the preeminent gurus of an American obsession: the face-lift.
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Since is the Pamela's Baking and Pancake Mix Giveaway Week, I thought maybe I should post a few of my favorite Pamela Mix recipes.
Today we made Banana Muffins (with or without nuts, your choice)
1 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter or margarine
4 slightly beaten eggs
5 mashed bananas (a frugal side note: I freeze my bananas as soon as they start to look dark. I leave them in the skins. Take them out of the freezer to thaw for about an hour. Simply cut the tops and let the banana slide out. Doesn't take much to mash them.)
3 1/2 c. Pamela's Baking and Pancake Mix or our fake mix recipe.
1/2 teas salt
2 teas vanilla
1 teas cinnamon
optional: 1 c. chopped nuts
Mix all the wet ingredients together until well mixed. Add the dry ingredients and mix until well combined. Scoop into paper lined muffin pans or well greased muffin tins. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. Makes 3 dozen muffins.
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I do love a little fur number. From coats to scarves, I think a faux fur item can look really expensive if you choose well, which these photos below show perfectly. I love the range of colours but my favourite inspo pic below has to be the cow print clutch, I LOVE it!
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I even have a little comparison snap for you all. Who wore is better... 6 year old me or 23 year old me?! Don't answer that...
There is so much faux fur to choose from on the high street these days and lots of the items are fun and colourful too. These few pieces are my favourites, I'm dying to get the ASOS navy bomber jacket!
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Here we tried to depict the importance to organizations need to process a huge amount of information and how can a data entry and information processing worker help ensure the smooth and efficient handling of information and how by keying the text, entering data into a computer, operating a variety of office machines, and performing other clerical duties, these workers help organizations keep up with the rapid changes that are characteristic of today's Information Age.
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At the end of 2014 one of our clients from the financial industry launched a project – the idea was to offer a unified interface to manage a user's investment portfolio. And from that moment onward, we started discovering the amount of nonsense and outdated ways of working in the financial industry.
My client wanted to clear this non-sense and finally offer what clients have been expecting for years – a singular interface for investments of financial providers and products (Life Insurance, Bonds, Stock Market, …). Furthermore, since knowledge is power, they wanted to educate the client to have more control on his investment strategy. I understood that this could be the silver arrow for the financial industry if we could execute it well.
Time passed and we discovered the inconsistency in this industry that generates billions per year but relies on decades old solution or fully outsourced average IT department. Aggregating information from all stakeholders became a nightmare, often talking to an entire organization to merely get a step or two ahead.
Since these financial institutions seems so outdated and lack agility to make required changes, it made me think of the future of that industry.
Will the current financial institution be a part of the future of personal and investment banking?
What is my problem with Institutional personal banking
Lack of personalized service
When is the last time you faced a bank teller, a "dedicated" account manager or even spoke over the phone with one of these overseas banking phone platform? I look at my interactions with banks like the last thing on my to-do list.
- It's a confusing experience
- It lacks workflows or straight forward process:
- The person on the other side is often under-trained or unable to answer all the range of questions at once.
- You end up having to talk to X amount of departments and people to get the information required.
If I had to choose, I would put my visit to the dentist before my visit to the bank to deposit cheques or call my bank for questions about my credit card renewal or other services. Furthermore, I can't stand anymore to be called several times a month by random sales agents from my bank trying to sell me additional services, often service that I already subscribed too (travel insurance, online banking, additional credit card).
Poor online experience
Online banking experience is one of the most striking proofs of the lack of modernism. As a security consultant, I do understand the restrains banks have when it comes to offering online access to clients. But putting aside complex integration with third parties and focusing solely on the user front end experience currently available, online and mobile app often offer poor security while bothering you with endless amount of security questions and RSA token but miss to offer a highly secure connection via a 2048 Bits or above SSL certificates – CNN Money article – Banks are skimping on website security
And let's face it, the online experience is poor to say the less, why can't I cancel my credit card online and request a new one to be sent? How difficult it is to have a knowledge center Wikipedia-like with terms related to the banking world to understand the forms/contracts they request you to fill? Online tools to calculate your income/expenses and manage your mortgage budget?
What I am looking in Personal Banking
My vision of personal banking, for the average consumer like myself, would be a fully online and mobile. A solution that would emulate a personal experience without the need of the workforce to manage medium income clients. A solution between the mobility of Paypal and the understanding of clients needs of Google, Mobile UX of an apple product.
I would like a bank that would offer me more than just being interested in me for my future loan requirements, a one-stop solution to cover all my financial needs:
- Being able to see my balance across all my accounts, including oversea account within the same bank
- The possibility to send or receive money instantly – no more overseas transactions that requires days to clear out
- An interface like Mint to forecast my personal budget with online storage like Dropbox to store my invoices, bills, client contracts
- Operate simple tasks without having to talk to several people – cancel my credit card, request a new bank account, subscribe to new services
- Connect and grant access to third parties and automated bill payment – Water & Electricity company could have access to your main account or credit card to automate your bill payment, thirds parties electronic wallet (Paypal, Google wallet,,) could have access to your bank account to withdraw money when a threshold has been reach on your electronic wallet.
Type of access
Mobile access is vital across most industries, now more than ever users access via a mobile device (browser or mobile). Why would banking institutions refuse to be a part of that trend?
In early 2014, the landscape in which businesses operate changed forever when Internet usage on mobile devices exceeded PC usage. It's just a fact, end-users require mobile access now more than ever – and for the personal banking industry this means offering secured mobile application.
Cross frontier
I tend to travel a lot and I can't count the amount of time my credit card ended up being block as soon as I land in a new country because my bank believed it was stolen. On the other hand, I had to cancel my credit card 3 times over the past 5 years due internet purchases from various parts of the world I never did.
This makes me think that the algorithm and human workflow behind the credit card compliance and fraud process is broken. With mobile localization, couldn't we mix mobile payment (RFID or QRCode) and localization to know where the end-user is located when processing a payment and block a transaction accordingly?
Who will be the one
Over the weekend, I read a well written article from Pieter levels (Levels.io) about how technology is shaping our future, one of his point is on the obsolescence of Personal Banking services. I do suggest everyone to have a look at the article as he makes many fair points on the ongoing automation revolution.
The institutional banks will most probably not be a part of the future, I foresee a battle between online banks, tech giants and disruptive startups. It will be a glorious fight, and the result will be a tech giant absorbing disruptive banking startups to produce a global online payment solution that offer banks services as well as bring the startup unconventional approach to a rigid industry. I am looking forward for the time when I do not have to carry a wallet or credit cards, a world where my expenses and payments is managed by one central device.
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No. 34: Bagg's/Goodwin's/Seal's Coffee House
The large and handsome building used to stand on the corner of Catte Street and Holywell Street, but was numbered 34 Broad Street.
Philip Bliss, writing in 1848, said that it was built "out of the surplus material from Blenheim by sir John Vanburgh [sic]", which had already been stated in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1835. Memorials of Oxford (1837) said: "The house at the corner of Broad street, known for many years as Seal's Coffee House, was built by sir John Vanburgh [sic], the architect of the Clarendon, which on a small scale it closely resembles in style. It was erected on the site of a previous one; which, with two or three others adjoining to it, was built by the university on land granted to them for the purpose by Merton college."
It is not however certain that Vanbrugh, who completed Blenheim Palace in 1734, designed this coffee house.
Left: Drawing of Seal's coffee house published in 1837 in Memorials of Oxford. A photograph of the building taken in 1880 just before it was demolished can be found here on the English Heritage website.
This house (which was in Holywell parish until the 1870s, when it came under St Peter-in-the-East)) is believed to have been built in the 1730s for Alderman John Knibb. He died on 17 February 1754 and was buried at St Cross/Holywell Church (now Balliol Historic Collections Centre) three days later. Jackson's Oxford Journal announced that his house "near the printing-house [the present Clarendon Building]" would be sold.
In about 1762 this corner building became a well-known Oxford coffee house serving Hertford, Wadham, and New Colleges. It was first known as Baggs's, then Goodwin's, and finally Seal's. The last leaseholder, Charles James Adams, retained the name of Seal's, and following his bankruptcy in 1843 it reverted to being a private house.
The building continued to be known as "Seal's former coffee house" for another 39 years until 1882, when it was demolished (along with No. 33, the adjoining shop to the south) to make way for the first phase of the Indian Institute.
The precursor in New College Lane:
Johnson's/Hadley's/Kinnersley's/Baggs's Coffee House (c.1730–c.1862)
Johnson's Coffee House was already in existence in New College Lane in the 1730s. By 1753 the eponymous Johnson had been succeeded by Thomas Hadley, who remained its proprietor until he moved to Henley in 1759.
It was then taken over by Mrs Martha Kinnersley. Jackson's Oxford Journal of 13 October 1759 reports that Mrs Kinnersley, having dissolved her partnership at the King's Arms with John Young, had taken a coffee house (formerly Hadley's) in New College Lane. It appears that Mrs Kinnersley had worked at the King's Arms with her husband but had been recently widowed, as the will of a George Kinnersley, victualler of Oxford, was proved that same year.
On 18 November 1760 Mrs Martha Kinnersley married again at St Mary Magdalen church: her new husband was the breeches maker John Baggs of that parish. She was still at the New College Lane coffee house at the time of the marriage (and was thus described as a widow of St Peter-in-the-East parish rather than Holywell).
After Mrs Kinnersley's marriage the coffee house in New College Lane changed its name from Kinnersley's to Baggs's. On 27 March 1761 Parson Woodforde describes Baggs's as being "in our lane", showing that Mr & Mrs Baggs had not yet moved to the new premises on the corner of Holywell and Catte Street.
Baggs's Coffee House at 34 Broad Street (c.1762–1781)
Parson Woodforde records numerous bills that he paid at Baggs's coffee house, mostly for wine sent round to his rooms. The last entry in Woodforde's diary on 26 July 1763 reads, "Paid Baggs at the Coff: House (a very impudent fellow)…. NB I do not intend dealing with him again very soon for his Impudence to me yesterday morning."
On 1 November 1763 (just three months after his "impudence", and three years after his marriage to Mrs Kinnersley), John Baggs died. He was buried at Holywell Church the next day, and his death notice in Jackson's Oxford Journal describes him as a "breeches maker and keeper of the coffee house at the corner of Holywell". This shows that John Baggs and his wife Martha (formerly Mrs Kinnersley) must have transferred their business from New College Lane to 34 Broad Street at some point between Woodforde's diary entry of 27 March 1761 and Baggs's death on 1 November 1763.
Baggs left the leasehold coffee house at 34 Broad Street to his wife, Mrs Martha Baggs, and thereafter to his cousin Eleanor. The 1772 Survey of Oxford (taken in consequence of the Mileways Act of 1771) gives the measurement of the Broad Street frontage of the coffee house (described as being in the possession of Mrs Baggs) as 9 yards 0 feet and 3 inches, and its longer side-length along Holywell Street as 14 yards 1 foot and 11 inches.
Martha Baggs appears to have died at some time between 1772 and 1781: there is no one of that name buried at Holywell Church, but one buried at Nettlebed on 19 February 1778/9.
On 30 June 1781 "Mrs Baggs" (probably Miss Eleanor Baggs) put an advertisement inserted in Jackson's Oxford Journal stating that Baggs's "old-accustomed coffee house" on the corner of Holywell was to let. Miss Eleanor Baggs's death at the age of 83 was announced seven years later in the edition of 15 October 1788: she was then living opposite Balliol College.
Master Goodwin's Coffee House at 34 Broad Street (1781–1805)
On 23 October 1781 Benjamin Goodwin married Mary Rooke, both of Holywell parish, and it is likely that he was the man who bought the lease of the coffee house from Eleanor Baggs earlier that year.
Twelve years later Benjamin Goodwin died, and was buried at Holywell Church on 24 November 1793. Hence in 1794 the Universal British Directory lists Mary Goodwin as the coffee-house keeper here.
Mary Goodwin's died on 20 April 1805 and was buried at Holywell Church four days later. Her death was announced in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 27 April 1805: "On Saturday last died, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Goodwin, who has been for several years [in fact at least eleven] Mistress of the Coffee House, in Holywell." An announcement in that newspaper on 24 August 1805, headed "Goodwin's Coffee House", refers to the estate of the late Mrs Goodwin.
Seal's Coffee House at 34 Broad Street (1805–1840)
In April 1805 William Seal, who had been a waiter at Goodwin's Coffee House, took the business over. He is likely to be the fourth son of Stephen Seal, who was admitted free on 26 September 1800. He inserted the following notice in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 27 April 1805:
On 23 July 1805 Seal married Miss Mary Tuckey (the youngest daughter of the late Mr William Tuckey of Standlake) in the bride's parish church of St Peter-in-the-East. The marriage was announced in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 27 July 1805. Just three years after the marriage, on 22 August 1808, William Seal died: the notice in the newspaper of 27 August 1808 reads: "On Monday last died, aged 30, Mr. William Seal, Coffee-house keeper, in Broad-street." He was buried at Holywell Church.
On 15 October 1808, Mrs Mary Seal inserted an announcement in the newspaper that she intended to carry on business as usual at Seal's Coffee House in Holywell, and she ran it on her own for sixteen years.
In 1824 Mrs Seal married again at the age of 44: the announcement in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 11 September that year reads: "On the 22d of August was married, in London, Mr. Giles, upholder and auctioneer, to Mrs. Seal, both of this city".
Mrs Seal's new husband, the upholsterer James Giles, is henceforth listed in directories as the proprietor of the coffee house, but it retained its old name of Seal's. He held auctions on the premises from 1830, and by 1839 had opened a wine & spirit shop in it.
Mrs Seal does not appear to have had any children. James Giles, however, had a son of the same name who on 19 January 1833 married Charlotte Seal, at Holywell Church. (Charlotte, who had been baptised at Holywell Church on 1 August 1806, was the daughter of Thomas Seal – who was probably Mrs Mary Giles's brother-in-law – and his wife Mary). James & Charlotte Giles had two children baptised at St Martin's Church: James Seal Giles on 20 November 1833 (buried at Holywell church the next year) and Charlotte on 7 October 1835 (buried at Holywell Church on 24 June 1841). James Giles junior is variously described as an upholsterer and an auctioneer. They then moved the High Street, and had four children baptised at All Saints Church: Edward and Mary on 13 February 1838 (Edward died after one day), Elizabeth in 1840 (died at the age of three months), and Emma in 1841. James died at the age of 33 and Charlotte at the age of 38, and they were buried at Holywell Church on 23 December 1841 and 2 December 1844 respectively.
Mrs Mary Giles, formerly Mrs Seal, died at the age of 60 and was buried at Holywell Church on 18 May 1840. Her husband appears to have gone to live with his son, as when he died four years later at the age of 67 he was buried at All Saints parish; but he actually died in Reading.
Adam's Coffee House at 34 Broad Street (1841–1843)
By 1841 the premises had a new lessee, Charles James Adams, who according to directories appears to have let out part of the premises to the surgeon John Freeman Wood. The 1841 census shows Charles Adams, who was then aged 54 and described as an innkeeper, living on the premises with his wife Sarah and a young unmarried lady of about 20 called Sarah Knibbs.
Jackson's Oxford Journal of 9 September 1843 describes a lottery held at "Mr. Adams's (late Seale's [sic] Coffee-house)". Later that same year Adams went bankrupt, and the following advertisement appeared in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 16 December:
By the time of the 1851 census, Charles James Adams, at the age of 64, was Master of the Oxford Workhouse. He still however describes himself as an upholsterer and auctioneer, and although he states he is married, his wife is not present on census night. He was in the same situation at the age of 74 in 1861.
Private house at 34 Broad Street (c.1843–1882)
John Freeman & Juliana Lisetta Wood (1840s to c.1861)
John Freeman Wood was born in the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral on 19 November 1797, the son of John George Wood and Margaretta Maria, nee Freeman. He was a boy at the King's School, Canterbury from May 1806.
He appears to have started practising medicine in London, as his eldest son, John George, was baptised at St Pancras in London in 1827. The family then moved to Oxford, where Wood was matriculated at the University as a surgeon and apothecary on 13 June 1828. They first lived in Oriel Street (then known as St Mary Hall Lane), and his next five children were baptised at St Mary the Virgin Church: Martha (1829), Juliana Lisetta (1830), Margaretta Maria (1831), Rosa (1832, buried there seven months later), and Harvey (1833).
Wood then moved his practice to 26 Holywell Street, and his next six children were baptised at Holywell Church: Anne Rosa (1835, buried there six months later), Frederick (1836), Frances (1837), Emma (1839), Thomas James (1841), and Charles (1846).
In 1841 he took over part of 34 Broad Street for his surgery, and by the mid-1840s he was in complete occupation, using it both as his private residence and surgery. The 1851 census shows him living here at the age of 53 with his wife Juliana Lisetta Wood, eight of his ten surviving children, a young assistant doctor (Henry Leman), and two servants.
Wood died at the age of 60 and was buried at Holywell Church on 31 December 1857. His daughter Frances died at Madeira on 5 February 1865, and his widow died at Belvedere, London at the home of her son, the Revd J. G. Wood (an eminent naturalist), on 24 January 1870.
William Fishburn Donkin and wife (c.1861 to 1872)
Donkin (born 1814),had been a Fellow of University College from 1836 to 1843 and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford since 1842. The Donkins had five children: William Fishburn (born 1845), Arthur Edward (1847), Alice (1849), Alfred (1850), and Edward Hawtrey (1853).
In about 1861 he moved from New College Lane around the corner to 34 Broad Street. The 1861 census records "All gone away" next to No. 34, but it is unclear whether Donkin was just on holiday with his wife and three sons, or the house was between the two tenancies.
Donkin died of consumption at the age of 55 and his funeral was at Holywell Church on 9 November 1869. He is buried at Holywell Cemetery. His widow remained in the house. At the time of the 1871 census Mrs Donkin was away and the only person at home was her eldest son, William (25), a Bachelor of Arts who was teaching chemistry, and two servants (a nursemaid and cook). Mrs Donkin ceased to live in the house in about 1872.
After being empty in the mid-1870s, in 1880 it was let out (presumably on a very short lease) to Joseph Prestwich, Professor of Geology. He and his wife were there on census night 1881, together with a cook, parlourmaid, and housemaid.
The house was demolished in 1882.
Occupants of 34 Broad Street listed in directories
Mary Goodwin
Coffee House: Mrs Seales
1830, 1839
Seal's Coffee House: James Giles (listed under "Inns and Hotels" in 1830)
James Giles (Listed under "Wine & Spirit merchants" in 1839)
Seal's Coffee House: Charles James Adams
1841, 1846,
John Freeman Wood, Surgeon
William F. Donkin, Professor of Astronomy (Mrs Donkin from 1869)
Apparently vacant
J. Prestwich, FRS, FGS, Professor of Geology
Demolished in 1882 (along with No. 33 to the south)
See also:
- Norma Aubertin-Potter and Alyx Bennett, Oxford Coffee Houses 1651–1800 (Kidlington, Oxford: Hampden Press, 1987), pp. 28–30 (includes an illustration of a watercolour of the building in 1823)
- Philip Bliss (ed.), Athenae Oxonienses by Anthony A. Wood, M.A., Vol. I, Life of Wood (Oxford, for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1848), pp. 48 fn.
- John Baggs's will of October 1763: MS Wills Oxon 118/3/23.
- George Kinnersley's will of 1759: MS Wills Oxon 96.672; 40/2/23


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Neridah Haworth opened a boutique in Whangarei in 1978, where she sold her designs under the label Neridah until the mid 1990s. This gown was entered in the After 5 Section of the 1987 Benson & Hedges Fashion Design Awards where it was described as: "Evocative baroque. A gold and black flocked taffeta evening gown with a fitted velvet bodice and puffed sleeves." It has a close fitted bodice with deep cut V neckline, leg-of-mutton sleeves and peplum over a full gathered skirt. The front and sleeves are closed with loops and buttons. Tulle and lining have been used to create volume in the skirt.


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I've really slacked on blog posts lately. But I do have two articles that were published recently. In November, I wrote an article on "Current Class-Action Issues." And today my article on "Cleaning Up Quotations in Legal Writing" appeared in the ABA's Appellate Practice newsletter. Hope they're helpful!
ICYMI: Twitter Threads
Decided to post links to some of my Twitter threads, because most of these threads could (and maybe should) have been blog posts.
[listed in reverse chronological order]
On the Gorsuch nomination & whether the Democrats should filibuster: 3/20/17
Explaining the legal/policy issue of selling insurance "across state lines": 3/7/17
A primer on class actions and why we have them: 2/16/17
On the case challenging the scope of Obergefell at SCOTX: 2/13/17
On federalism: 1/30/17
On work-life "balance": 1/11/17
On appeals, standards of review, and reversal rates: 12/20/16
Some post-election thoughts about the Electoral College: 11/21/16
On judicial vacancies left unfilled: 11/18/16
On court-packing, reverse-court-packing, and constitutional norms: 10/26/16
The thread that launched the #AppellateTwitter coffee mugs: 10/22/16
On Flannery O'Connor & wanting to be an appellate lawyer: 9/14/16
Remembering where I was on 9/11: 9/11/16
On alternative-fee arrangements for appellate work: 9/6/16
On doing pro bono to get appellate experience: 8/23/16
The now-(in)famous thread on the social function of humor: 8/9/16
On RBG expressing political opinions: 7/13/16
On whether current SCOTUS can be called a "liberal" court: 6/28/16
And last but not least, the Twitter version of my life story: 10/23/16
Proposed Changes to SCOTX Jurisdiction
A bill (HB 1761) has been proposed in the Texas Legislature to change the Texas Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction. Below is my explanation (and first impression) of what the bill would do.
Sullivan v. Abraham
The text matters. Words matter. Punctuation matters. But we have to ask ourselves: At what point does a devotion to strict textualism become an elaborate game of pretend?
Here, the Texas Legislature clearly stated the meaning it meant to convey in this particular provision of the Texas Citizens Participation Act. But the majority has decided that the most reliable indicator of the Legislature's intended meaning is not what the Legislature said about its intended meaning. Instead, under the guise of textualism, the majority has decided that the clearest indicator of the statute's intended meaning is the Legislature's comma usage.
I cannot bring myself to join the majority in pretending that the Texas Legislature was so purposed and precise in its punctuation that it meant to undo its stated intentions by omitting a comma. Therefore, I must respectfully dissent.


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Celebrations in the Workplace
Workplace celebration: waste of time or time well spent?
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For the small business owner, there's not enough time in the day to get everything done. Can we really justify taking half a day off to "celebrate" someone's great idea or cheer the half-way point of the fundraising mark? Yes! Even in businesses with only a handful of employees and an overflowing work load, celebrations are "critical" says Malinda Lowery, co-founder of Multiple Choice, Inc., a leadership development company.
"Anything great that's ever been accomplished had a team attached to it. Celebrating success gives people an adrenalin rush," she says. "They think, 'Wow, I'm part of this!' It's about knowing that you're a piece of something bigger than yourself." Celebrations create energy and engagement, the lack of which seems to be a growing issue in the workforce. "Employees 'show up' but they're not energized," says Lowery, "It's the level of employee engagement that differentiates companies, and the research says only 52 percent of the workforce feels engaged." An employee's connectivity to a task or goal is vital, and it's even more critical that the small business person pay attention to this.
To the complaint that there's no time or money to adequately celebrate, Lowery responds, "By making celebrations a regular event, you're buying more time to spend on growing your business," she says. "You can spend your time cheering success or you can spend it dealing with issues that wouldn't be issues if people were excited by what they're doing."
The Pay-offs of Office Blowouts: Celebrations in the workplace can take different forms but they all have a positive impact on: building a sense of team strengthening employee engagement, reducing negative behaviors like tardiness and absenteeism, elevating a company from mediocre to good—or even good to great Even celebrating mistakes can strengthen a small team and therefore the company. Kyle Zimmer, CEO and co-founder of the non-profit First Book, Inc., believes that if you're not making mistakes, you're not trying enough new ideas. Within her organization of fewer than 20 employees Zimmer says, "We want people who have tried things and have failed and have risen above it." Zimmer values going full throttle on ideas even if there's a chance they might fall short. "We give out a Brick Wall Award for an idea that should have gone really well but ended up crashing into a brick wall. It's a way of saying 'It's OK, you did the thinking, you gave it your best shot and it crashed, but it was an honorable step.'" Celebrations have another benefit, according to Zimmer, "I have grown to respect the importance of spending time with people. There is no substitute for [it]. All the technology in the world doesn't replace [people spending time together]."
Celebrating on A Dime: Philip Maung started a supermarket sushi business at his kitchen table. Initially, his focus was almost entirely on making money to support his family and to keep his small business afloat, but after Maung read Jim Collins' book Good to Great, he realized that "it shouldn't just be about money." Still, Maung didn't have a lot of discretionary cash so he improvised on work motivation ideas. Employee picnics were pot-luck affairs. Low-cost or no-cost employee celebrations took the form of outdoor kickball or honoring a birthday with everyone singing around a $20.00 birthday cake from Costco.
Maung did something else that cost him nothing but gained him everything: He invited his staff to help him visualize, articulate and adopt 11 core values that would form the foundation for everything the company would ever do. Those core values – which include mottos such as "Work Hard, Play Hard," and "Compassionate & Humble" – give employees a reason to celebrate their workplace every day. Maung's kitchen table enterprise – Hissho Sushi – has since grown into a veritable empire, but Maung stays strongly connected to the humble roots that first grew around that kitchen table. "Employees are people, not just workers," he says. "Changing your perspective on that can change everything."
Making it your own: We asked small business owners about their best ideas for low-cost, high pay-off celebrations to help with motivation in the workplace:
–A Segway tour of the city cost us only $35 per employee. We got to spend quality time together, do something that none of us had ever done, learn about each other and had a mini lesson in overcoming fear of the unknown.–E.W., Baltimore
-We keep a ping-pong table in the warehouse. Once a month we have a contest where teams picked randomly have to play backwards, with one hand tied behind their back, or partially blind-folded. Winners get to choose where we order lunch once a month. So everyone benefits. Time at the ping-pong table takes an hour; lunch is about $7.00 per person. Everyone loves It, and it costs the company virtually nothing. – J.L., Charlotte
-Employees didn't want me deciding what our team building activity schedule would be. I told them they could make the decision as long as a) it stretched them as people and b) they could prove to me that by doing the exercise they would grow as employees and we would grow as a team. They have come up with some of the most amazing ideas and they love being empowered to do so. – R.B., NYC
Although workplace festivities can be as elaborate as a tropical cruise or as simple as a sing-a-long, Lowery points out that the idea of celebrating the team is nothing new. "Maslow was talking about it way back in 1943 when he identified the human 'hierarchy of needs'," she says. "All of us want to be part of something larger than we are. We keep searching for it."
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Nebraska Looks Strong in Spurts, Snaps Washington's Winning Streak
The Nebraska Cornhuskers, arguably the most highly scrutinized 2-0 team in recent memory, wanted to accomplish two feats in Saturday's game against the Washington Huskies.
First, obviously, they wanted to win and, in the process, solidify themselves as a program capable of meeting a team with a six-game winning streak head on, and ending said streak. Next, they wanted to make a certain statement with the win – one that would silence all of the college football pundits who have maintained that the Huskers haven't been dominating their weaker opponents sufficiently in their last two outings.
Nebraska definitely accomplished the first goal, beating Washington 51-38 in a shootout. The second goal, though, is where things get a little murky.
For the third time in as many games, Martinez found just about every way imaginable other than through a "traditional" quarterbacking effort to get the offense rolling. Now, to be fair, Martinez did rack up two touchdowns through the air and only one on the ground this time around, and he did so on 10-of-21 passing for 151 yards and 83 yards rushing on 17 carries. However, there's just something about Martinez's style, from the way he surveys the opposing defense to the way he beautifully -- but sort of unorthodoxly -- throws the ball, to the way he flips it to running back Rex Burkhead that screams different.
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Speaking of which, the much maligned offensive line -- particularly Mike Caputo, Spencer Long and Seung Hoon Choi -- put forth another adequate effort on Saturday, as the 51 points that Nebraska threw on the board clearly indicates. For all of the talk about how they're not the marquee protection you need for this fast-paced Tim Beck offense, this line, with their third straight 40+ point outing, accomplished a feat that hadn't been achieved by Nebraska since 1995's championship run.
As the offense continued to do what they needed to do en route to this victory, the defense, once again, was not as consistent as Husker fans may have grown accustomed to them being. Washington quarterback, Keith Price, threw for 275 yards on 21-of-37 passing, racking up four touchdowns and two interceptions along the way. Then there was running back, Chris Polk, who rushed for 130 yards on 22 carries.
But the worst part of the defense's performance, though, was the strange way that they just couldn't take the life out Washington. For much of the first half, it was a tit-for-tat battle between these two teams with a Huskers score, Huskies score, and so on and so forth. Then, in the third quarter, Nebraska exploded to the tune of 17 points and seemingly had the victory completely in hand. Yet, somehow, in the fourth quarter, Washington continuously found a way to claw their way back.
And once again, it felt like it was the offense carrying the defense to the finish line, not vice versa, as most have gotten accustomed to seeing.
Nevertheless, a win is a win, and the Huskers won this one by a final 13-point margin. In three games, they have yet to win by anything less than 13 points, despite the topsy-turvy nature of the showings.
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My first morning back in Australia I woke up to the feel of a warm breeze on my skin, the sound of magpies warbling, the scent of eucalyptus on the air and the sight of the hazy purple of jacaranda flowers smudging the skyline. And I suddenly realized that engaging all the senses at once like this is unusual for a life spent on the 32nd floor in a vast, concrete, South East Asian city where wildlife is almost non-existent. While I occasionally watch an Olympic team of pigeons doing looping laps around the apartment building opposite, a selection of stray cats in the streets, or the neighbours' pocket-sized dogs dressed in jackets and bootees, there is little evidence of the animal kingdom in Rockwell. So I have been overwhelmed by the myriad birds and beasts we have encountered since touching down at Tullamarine.
Stumpy lizards, with their heavily armoured, thick-set bodies, hide their eyes and pretend to be invisible amongst the rocks on Granite island. Woolly seals show off their circus tricks on the barrage at Goolwa. Koalas slump drunkenly in the gum trees at Brownhill Creek, oblivious to passing spectators. Multi-coloured rosellas swoop through suburban gardens, pink-chested galahs gather for an early morning chat on the football pitches in the parklands, while bossy Major Mitchells shriek and nag, dipping and diving over the lake at the back of Port Elliot, tossed about on the stiff wind circling up the coast. A solitary kookaburra contemplates its navel and round-shouldered ibis stalk possessively across the deck at a cafe on the Murray River. Tiny honey eaters, with their flash of golden-yellow feathers, sip briefly at the bottle brush flowers and dart away. And of course the magpies warble throatily at the dawn.
And with the sighting of each unique Australian bird or animal comes the memory of so many special Australian children's books I have given the kids over the years (Wombat Divine and the Twelve Days of Christmas, Aussie style, to name just two), providing images of a wombat curled up in a manger, or an emu up a gum tree, Santa in boardies on a surfboard, or in his sleigh pulled by Six White Boomers, and of course the Brolgas dancing out on the plains (or down at Cockle Bay in Sydney)…
Yet there are still a plethora of images, songs and festive dishes reminiscent of a wintry European Christmas, rather than our own dry, dusty, hot, summer one by the beach with surf boards and bikinis, or on the back lawn with barbecues and swimming pools. I have snowflakes and snowmen hanging on our traditional Germanic Christmas pine tree, and despite the fact that we cooked up the Christmas roast on the barbie, it was still English winter fare with gallons of baked root vegetables and hot plum pudding. Amusingly, I have also found that many shops are still sprinkled with fake snow, and Santa still refuses to unbuckle his heavy red suit or take his fur-lined boots off in favour of shorts and thongs despite forty degrees and a north wind.
Christmas lights may not work be as effective in the southern hemisphere (where the sun does not set till after 9pm) as they are in Regent Street, where the sun ducks below Buckingham Palace before four in the afternoon, but fairy lights are delightfully festive wherever you are. And there is something especially Australian and nostalgic about skipping over burning sand under a deep blue sky, and feeling the bone-warming-summer-afternoon-sun, while watching hoards of giggling kids scrambling down the beach to ride the waves on their new boogie boards from Father Christmas.
A small seaside town at the southern end of the Fleurieu Peninsula is where we have chosen to spend Christmas this year: an old-fashioned Christmas by the beach, armed with cricket bats and footballs, suncream and hats. One beach, stretching away in a long lean line, brow-beaten by boisterous surf, is empty and footprint-free in the early morning calm, ideal for long walks. The other beach is curved and gentle, wrapping its arms around the young family groups polka-dotting the sand and running the gamut of waves that are inclined to dump them unceremoniously back on the beach as they try enthusiastically to body surf.
Neat and pretty, stone, century-old houses with galvanized iron roofs and wrap-around verandas are tucked in behind imaginative modern structures boasting wide expanses of glass and wooden decks that overlook the sea from the edge of the sandy cliffs. A short, friendly high street is scattered with gift shops and coffee shops, bakeries and butchers, a dainty little Anglican church and an impressive town hall, cut in half by a railway line that meanders gently along the coast to the River Murray. Norfolk pines stand like sentinels at the back of the beach, once providing ship builders with instant masts for sailing ships broken and battered by storms off the rugged south coast of Australia.
Our first few days in town are quiet, and as we familiarize ourselves with our temporary home, we start – as we always do – to imagine a permanent base here, or a simple holiday home, fantasizing about regular visits and family gatherings at the beach. Gradually, as Christmas approaches, the beach houses and car parks fill with other holiday-makers keen to break free from mundane routines of school and work in the city, and escape to the sea. Now we fight for a table at 'our' coffee shop and queue half way down the street for pasties for lunch at the popular bakery on the main road.
Lamb chops on the barbie, salads and sunshine, beer, wine and bubbles, bare feet and bathers, family and friends, carols, candles and stars shining brightly in the clear, unpolluted heavens: it's a glorious way to celebrate Christmas.
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*Book source ~ NetGalley
10 December 2013
Historical | Mystery
232 Pages
My Rating ~ 4 bites
WWII is over and Europe is trying to rebuild. Painter Francis Bacon and his lover witness a shooting while leaving a gambling hall and then, a few days later, he's asked to take a packet to the widow of the man he tried to save. In exchange, the owner will forgive his losses from that night. Finding this a strange request, he decides to do it since he's heading to France on vacation anyway. But a task that should have been simple turns out to not be and Francis soon finds himself neck deep in post-war intrigue.
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Springsteen found fame was not all he'd dreamt of it being. Most of the money he made was tied up in bills, lawyers' fees and back taxes. He and the E Street Band couldn't enter a recording studio without approval of his manager Mike Appel, who Springsteen was suing to get out of contracts.
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Trent Bridge climax attracts record TV audience
The climax of the fourth Test at Trent Bridge on Sunday attracted a record television audience of more than eight million.
At around 6.15pm, as England clawed their way to victory, the audience peaked at 8.4 million, almost 50% of people watching television in the UK at the time. Across the day, the average was 4.3 million viewers, the best in the six years Channel 4 have been televising cricket.
The previous peak was the 7.7 million who tuned in for the final overs of the Old Trafford Test and, coincidently, the same figure that watched the final of Big Brother. "The figures show the popularity of Channel 4's coverage and this series is a fitting climax to our coverage of the England Test team," a Channel 4 spokesman said.
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Even before the mystifying Kim Jong Il took power in 1993, the outside world has tried mightily to figure out how the North Korean regime works. Spy satellites are trained on suspected nuclear sites 24 hours a day. The U.S.'s "Big Ear" the National Security Agency eavesdrops on communications. Defectors from the North have been thoroughly scrubbed and spies have been recruited. During the presidency of George W. Bush, diplomats from the U.S. and four other countries talked, on and off, for years with their counterparts from Pyongyang.
For all that, days like today make it clear just how much the outside world doesn't know and how dangerously unpredictable North Korea can be. On Monday morning, Pyongyang tested a nuclear bomb for the second time in three years. "We just didn't see this coming," a usually very well-informed intelligence source in east Asia told TIME today. The magnitude of the explosion in North Hamgyong Province, in the northeastern part of the country nead the Chinese and Russian borders, was four times greater than the last test in the autumn of 2006, analysts in Seoul said. North Korea's KCNA news agency said the blast showed that "both the explosive power and technical control have increased," and the intelligence source didn't disagree with that assessment. The test came less than two months after North Korea launched a long-range missile into the Pacific on the same day U.S. President Barack Obama was making a lofty speech in Prague calling on the world to move toward eliminating all nuclear weapons. Monday's test might be considered part two of Pyongyang's dismissive response to that idea.
The international community struck the usual poses that follow North Korea's periodic outrages. Obama said in a statement that the test would "serve to deepen North Korea's isolation." South Korea called for an "emergency meeting" of the United Nation Security Council . The Japanese government said it would "not tolerate" such actions. Russia expressed its "concern." Even the Chinese, North Korea's alleged ally, said they were "firmly opposed" to the test.
None of that offered much hope for change. North Korea is already the world's most isolated country. The only thing that would meaningfully "deepen" that isolation would be for China to shut down trade entirely across its border something Beijing has never given any indication that it's prepared to do. The idea that Kim Jong Il's regime even cares if its isolation "deepens" is dubious at best. As for the U.N., it met in emergency session just after the long-range missile launch in April, and gently tightened sanctions that were already having no demonstrable effect on North Korea's behavior on key security issues. Will another "emergency session" really produce painful sanctions that could conceivably make a difference That, after all, is presumably what Tokyo has in mind when it talks about "not tolerating" the North's behavior.
For a hint as to how effective the U.N. might be, talk to the Russians. Moscow is "concerned" not outraged by today's test. Don't expect much, in other words, from the Security Council, even if the test is as direct a violation as possible of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1718, which calls on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program. The Chinese, like Obama, desperately want the North Koreans to return to the negotiating table in Beijing, where the so-called six party talks were held during the Bush years. But Beijing may be coming to the reluctant conclusion, if they haven't already, that North Korea means what it says: it intends to be a state armed with nuclear weapons, whether the rest of the world likes it or not.
The fundamental notion underlying U.S. diplomacy with Pyongyang, going back to Bill Clinton's first term, is that North Korea can be bribed. In this view, everything that Kim's regime says or does is meant simply to up the ante in negotiations and get the U.S. and its negotiating partners to sweeten their offerings. This conviction is widely shared among career diplomats in Seoul as well, and they joined their State Department colleagues in being outraged when the Bush administration at first took a confrontational approach to the DPRK. Bush's hardline stance, the critics believe, prompted Pyongyang to kick-start nuclear weapon production. Intelligence analysts in Washington and Seoul believe North Korea increased its total arsenal from one or two nukes to seven or eight during Bush's time in office.
Bush eventually overhauled his approach to the North entirely, and even after the launch of the long-range missile early last month, the Obama administration was still dangling the possibility of eventual direct talks with the North if Kim would first return to the multilateral six-party format in Beijing. On Korea, Obama heads the most openly dovish administration in Washington since Jimmy Carter. Yet the North's rhetoric since he was inaugurated has been vitriolic. It says it believes the U.S.'s "hostile policy toward the DPRK remains unchanged."
If it remains "unchanged," it's because the North hasn't given Obama even the slimmest reed on which to hang an alteration in policy. Is it possible that today's nuclear test will finally convince diplomats that the North Korea they see is the one they get: that perhaps, on the question of nukes, it simply can't be bribed North Korean leaders have long cited the year 2012 as being particularly significant for their country. It will mark the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder and Kim Jong Il's father and predecessor. Jong Il, now 67 and ailing after suffering a stroke last summer, is thought to be arranging a succession now: foreign intelligence analysts believe he wants to pass power onto to his youngest son, 26-year-old Kim Jong Un, with Kim's trusted brother-in-law guiding the young man from behind.
In this febrile environment, the military is said to have stepped up its influence in Pyongyang. A group of North Korean exiles today circulated a report saying that after the missile launch last month, Kim visited a group of generals and assured them that by 2012, the North would have achieved the status of "a nuclear state," one with the ability to fit a warhead on a long-range missile.
Reports from defector groups in Seoul are, to be sure, not always reliable. But the assumption that North Korea is ultimately willing to negotiate away its nuclear program will come under new scrutiny after today's test. Baek Seung-joo, director of the Security Strategy Research Center at the Korea Institute of Defense Analysis, acknowledges that North Korea appears to have advanced its nuclear program, and that the "ultimate goal now is to be a full nuclear state." If that's true and it's a big 'if' the outside world's diplomacy with Pyongyang will need to change, starting in Washington. Now that the tremors of what South Korea's geological service today called the "man-made earthquake" in the North have died down, that's one issue President Obama will have to confront head on. with reporting from Stephen Kim in Seoul
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