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Very convenient stop off for travelling from UK to South France
Ease of access from motorway and the room was quiet. The staff were friendly The wifi system was hopeless - they need to replace it
Only stayed one night on en route to South West France. Ideal stop over hotel, rooms clean and breakfast good value!
Easily located from the motorway. The facilities are excellent and its lacation next to a really nice restraunt an added bonus. I and my friends would be very happy to recommend it to others needing overnight accommodation or a longer stay.
Welcoming, efficient and friendly
Is clean and tidy with a fresh look
friendly staff.
Often use this hotel as it is ideally located for a stop-over en route to other parts of France. Good restaurant next door. Staff always very friendly and helpful.
Good facilities,pool,spacious reception,clean,easy check in. Rooms OK but a little basic.
Weekend reception staff rather indifferent.
Easy to find, good buffet supper and breakfast Nothing
Clean and cheap for a single traveller. Very convenient location at the intersection of the A13 and A28. Ideal stop-over when travelling from the Channel Tunnel to the South-West of France. Nothing
It was away from traffic sounds, very comfortable, and the restaurant had a wonderful buffet after a long day of sight seeing We would have enjoyed having a room with 2 double beds as we were traveling as a family
convenient just off motorway basic
Friendly helpful and cheerful staff. Free WiFi Hotel corridor doors were very noisy and needed oiling.
Very close to motorway and yet quiet. The heating had not been switched on in the room so it was cold when I arrived and took a while to get warmer.
Restaurant and value for money
Meals were very good Nothing
Easy of finding, excellent and helpful staff, good place to stop on a long journey when travelling further, restaurant was reasonable/good, all parts of the hotel were spotlessly clean, there is a large car park at the hotel, a local town is 5-10 minutes walk away where there are some good bars and restaurants if you want to use/visit them
Proximity to motorway
Though it is a lovely hotel and the staff were very helpful, our stay was spoilt by the fact that a film shoot that was being done there had overrun. This meant we could not check in on time and parking was very awkward. The clean up from the shoot was still underway when we had breakfast the next morning and then left.We had not received any notice of this situation. However we were given an upgrade and a very modest price reduction for the inconvenience.
perfect ambiance, perfect service and perfect food
We thought the meals were excellent. The Hotel had an indoor and outside pool which was nice for our children.
The hotel, room and food were fabulous and sited well for the surrounding area. Although we considered we had excellent value for money it seemed that our 'package price' for half board (3 nights), through booking.com, was actually the room only price, the hotel did however honour our package price. The hotel would have been very expensive if a package price had not been available.
Excellent service when we had a difficult booking experience. Friendly and attentive staff The hotel is a little tired and could do with some painting and updating in the social areas.
Astonishing old manor house in a beautiful garden. Charming room, comfortable bed, absolutely silent - we really slept well here. The staff was friendly and helpful. Breakfast was a little bit too expensive as there was nothing special about it.
The care and attention given by all the staff was exceptionally good. We were supposed to be staying in an attic room but as soon as we walked in ,Madame noticed that my husband is tall so she upgraded us. We stayed for 4 nights and slept in 3 different rooms and the staff moved all our belongings and clothes for us, so it was no trouble to us. All rooms lovely. The food was also really good
Friendly staff and happy to arrange a travel cot for the bedroom No air-con which makes the rooms very hot in summer months. Bathroom very dated.
Welcoming staff; pleasant surroundings; delightful dining room Although food delicious perhaps rather overpriced
The location just off the Toll Road was good ,the Town quiet,parking provided and the food and service excellent.
Location, Hospitality of owners and quality of food Dated bedroom decor and inadequate shower in the bathroom
Clean, quiet room. Very pleasant staff. The food was good but the menu was somewhat restricted and fairly expensive. Least expensive menu was 55euros which did not compare favourably with prices we had been paying elsewhere during our month's sojourn.
Food not very good. Quite expensive @ £90
Good sized room. The restaurant was too expensive and the food somewhat pretentious. 35 euros was more than we would wish to pay for a main course. 95 euros for three courses is too much. The 29 euro menu was better value but here could have been more choice.Position of the hotel is not very appealing and the parking facilities limited.
Staff/owners were very friendly and the dog was not charged for. Room was short on comfort but the price was reasonable.
Location, free private car parking The room was fine, but maybe in need of a freshen up
It was only a stoppover but was in a good position for parking and a good choice of eating out nearby. Breakfast was excellent best croissants of the holiday!! No
Very comfortable, benefitting from a town centre location. the staff were very friendly and made you very welcome. The market on saturday morning made it awkward to depart.
The hotel was situated in the heart of a beautiful town, with easy parking. Fairly clean, comfortable beds. Extractor fan of Chinese restaurant outside window; blankets old & a bit dusty; shower scruffy and pooled; no drinks available in hotel.
staff attitude, original paintings, close to shops etc Willing to listen to comments to improve service.Very friendly. limited parking space, we had a small modern bath in one room this time, next time prefer shower.don't know about rest of rooms.
Is was basic but ok for a short stay The rooms all smelt quite strongly of cigarettes. Opening the windows in the children room was a problem as there was a lot of noise from cars. We ask to be close to the children but were at the opposite end of the corridor.
Locality close to shops etc. Bed a little uncomfortable and sleeping on mattress waterproof protector.
A perfectly adequate inexpensive room. Pleasant staff. Good breakfast. Bare walls - no bedhead - needed another pillow or two.
wifi access / off street parking cleanliness in general was poor / no tea making facilities / room was just basic box with bed and tv / hotel was dirty and unkept / no warning ref: street market blocking you in on saturday morning / staff spoke no english /
Very friendly, warm welcome on arrival. Accomodation full of character in lovely countryside. The owners were very helpful giving lots of information on local places of interest for us to visit. None.
The owners were very welcoming, friendly and provided lots of advice about local attractions. Table d'hote meals were very enjoyable and gave the opportunity to engage with the other guests, and sample the local cider, calvados and cheese.
Very quiet setting. Owners of the inn asked if we'd like to stay for dinner for 20 Euros a person. Good meal and good value. Owner ate with us, as did others who were staying for the night. Very cute cottage with two separate bedrooms and a futon that comfortably slept 6 people. Cozy setting. Glad we stayed here. A really intimate feel.
Much has been said about the breakfast, and it is all true! We didn't try the evening dinners, but heard very positive things about that from other guests as well. The location is quiet and very nice with the animals on the grounds of the farm. Nice places like Etretat and Honfleur are within easy reach, and other places like Le Mont St Michel are just a 2 hour drive away. The room was simple, but the bed very comfortable. The owners do everything they can to make your stay a pleasant one.
The family atmosphere our hosts created amongst the international guests at meal times was a delight and the quality of the breakfast and dinner menus was outstanding.
The hospitality and friendliness of the owners was great and the fact that English was spoken if necessary was extremely useful. The accommadation clean, comfortable and unique. As a centre to explore the area this hotel is in a great position for both countryside and seaside.
Excellent service - Stayed overnight on the way to Calais with Family. We checked in late and requested an early breakfast. Breakfast was therefore provided in our room and was excellent. The room actually turned out to be a small gite with 2 bedrooms, lounge/diner & kitchen etc, with a rural outlook onto a farm. Would highly recommend for anyone travelling with a young family - Watch out for the turkey though!!!!!
The courtesy and warmth of the owners, the food, both at breakfast and dinner (when possible), the quietness of the location, the size of the family suite.
Very good breakfasts and a very nice dinner for additional payment. Very friendly owners. Excellent environment - clean air and picturesgue surroundings in a village style. Interesting room decoration. Maybe, it would be better to improve a little heating system in a room. It was a bit unusual to do everything very quickly not to be frozen in the evenings.:)))
This second visit to La Ferme Saint Nicolas was as good as the first if not better as we had superb dinners in the evening this time. Our hosts were charming and friendly.
Comfortable, friendly, excellent breakfast. Restaurant closed on a Weds and long drive to nearest one. No tea/coffee in room
Easy to find, convenient stopover. Comfy, clean, just what we wanted.
clean,quiet and polite friendly staff. The restaurant is closed during August to "solo" visitors as the hotel and facilities are taken over by coaches and tourist groups. The web site should have known this.Price was a little high without B/fst.
Easy to find. Clean. Pleasant staff. Very uncomfortable beds. Didn't seem to be much for breakfast - there were 5 of us and we paid 40 euros for a roll and drink each.
Noisy exhaust fan in bathroom.
Wonderful comfortable beds. Friendly welcome.
The pleasant welcome we received from your staff. The room smelt of smoke when we arrived. I realise this is as much a problem of your other guests.
Given we were only staying one night,the helpful and pleasant attitude of the staff and the excellent self-service breakfast
Good reception service Restaurants and Bars Breakfast is served from 07:00 until 10:00. Dinner is served from 19:30 until 21:00. is the description included on the web site. This is not the case and we booked specifically to avail ourselves of this facility.
We messed up our booking and the staff were very accomodating Not very comfortable
Very good breakfast. Good access to the town and to through routes whilst, at the same time, quiet location with good parking. Good as an overnight stop on the way to and from Channel ports. Just round the corner from famous Calvados producer with free guided visits and tastings. 'Interesting' room arrangement resulting from the incorporation of en-suite facilities into what had been a not terribly big bedroom originally.
Ideal location for an overnight stay enroute to destination in Maine et Loire, good standard of room, nice decoration and cleanliness. Staff pleasant and efficient.Good for acess to local town and restaurants, nice shops. Will definitely use it again Rooom quite small, so good for one or two nights only, bathroom toilet facility also quite small.Window at front opened on to corridor so difficult to leave open, rear window looked on to back view of hotel, not attractive.
Countryside lovely. Convenient parking. Pleasant(ish) staff. Shower did not work - the "switch" to shower kept reversing. Bath absolutely tiny and impossible to lie in and soak. Because shower not working I tried to wash hair in bath but almost impossible to submerge in such an absolutely tiny bath - more like a basin than a bath. No hairdryer. Very expensive menu. Window in room too high to look out of. Felt claustrophobic.
we had been there last year and wanted to go back with friends; we enjoyed the surroundings and it's like being home in the hotel there were works going on, but it did not really disturb our stay; it's kind of dark inside; last time it was summer and we could stay on the terrace
A very comprehensive breakfast and attentive staff, did not eat dinner in the reasturant but judging from the breakfast, and the people coming to the hotel to eat I have no doubt it would have been exceptional. Was led to believe there was a garden over looking stream this was not so, but could have very easily been achieved , instead the bins had the best view
the hotel was very clean and comfortable and the fact we were able to have a spacious family room (one double bed and two singles) was ideal for our family. the only negative thing was that there were'nt any restaurants nearby so we'd hoped to eat at the hotel but the menu on the front of the hotel only had a very limited range of dishes so we had to drive out to find food.
Restaurant food was nice but limited. Rooms were very small and a bit tired.Hotel restaurant was closed the evening we stayed and there was nowhere else to eat in the town, they did however agree to cook us a meal which was very nice.
It was ideal as a stopover on the journey to Western France. We only stayed one night but really enjoyed our stay. It was a traditional style hotel in lovely surroundings which made a pleasant change to the usual cheap stopover hotels. Breakfast was lovely, it would have been nice to have stayed for an evening meal too!
La Bonne Auberge is run by Jan who is the 'most perfect' host, the breakfasts were delicious, breads, jams, eggs, wonderful cheeses and a homemade dish of fromage blanc and chestnut, the best by far on our tour of France this year. Our accommodation was lovely and situated in the most wonderful setting in a beautiful garden filled with magnificent trees and flowers and with a view of boats sailing past on the river.
Splendid setting, fantastic views of the Seine. An absolutely perfect weekend. The owners treated us wonderfully. We were greated uopn our arrival and treated to a tour of the property and some refreshing cider. The owners even antecipated us wanting to go out for dinner and booked a table at a lovely restaurant in a town nearby. Delicious breakfast in the garden the following morning. We will definetely come back!


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Institutional investors are not enthusiastic over current market valuations
The market sentiment was subdued today, dragging the indices lower. The Sensex ended at 17,368, down 172 points (1%) and the Nifty ended at 5,222, down 55 points (1%). The market started the day with a deep plunge. It rebounded from there and traded at a low range till the morning session. However, it again took a dip and touched the intraday low during the afternoon session.
Asian stocks declined on Monday on China's announcement on 2nd May, raising the proportion of deposits that lenders must keep in reserve with the central bank. Key benchmark indices in Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore and Taiwan fell by 0.36% to 1.41%. The stock markets in China and Japan were closed for holidays. US stocks tumbled on Friday, (30th April) as news of a criminal probe into US investment bank Goldman Sachs dampened the sentiment of investors who are already worried about the prospects of heavy banking regulation. The Dow fell 158.71 points (1.4%) to 11,008. The S&P 500 lost 20 points, (1.6%) to 1,186. The Nasdaq dropped 50 points, (2%) to 2,461. Maruti Suzuki India's (up 0.2%) total sales rose almost 30% to 93,058 units in April 2010 over April 2009. Domestic sales rose 23.4% to 80,034 units. China has raised the lenders' reserve requirement ratio by 50 basis points, effective 10th May, its third increase of that magnitude this year. That will take the bank reserve ratio for big lenders to 17%. This is to reduce inflation and tame liquidity. Chinese consumer prices rose 2.4% in the year to March, surpassing the 2.25% rate on one-year certificates of deposit.
Closer home, output growth in India eased a little in April. However, it still held near a 20-month high touched in February while factory activity in South Korea picked up after a dip, surveys by HSBC/Markit showed on Monday. India's PMI was seasonally adjusted after input prices remained near multi-year peaks, suggesting official wholesale price inflation could pick up from a 17-month-high of 9.9% in the latest data for March. The output price index rose for a second month in a row to 55.8 from 54.6. It has risen nearly four points since February. Foreign institutional investors were net buyers of Rs355 crore. Domestic institutional investors also bought stocks worth Rs217 crore. The rupee dropped due to the decline in the equity market and strength in the dollar against other currencies.
Tata Motors' (down 2%) total sales including exports of commercial and passenger vehicles jumped 52% to 57,202 vehicles in April 2010 over April 2009. Domestic sales rose 49% to 54,065 units. Commercial vehicle sales in the domestic market rose 36% to 30,963 units. Passenger vehicle sales jumped 70% to 24,902 units. Passenger vehicle sales include distribution of Fiat cars by Tata Motors. Sales of the ultra-cheap car Tata Nano totaled 3,525 units in April 2010. Jyoti Limited (up 4.9%) has received an order worth Rs125.50 crore from the director general of the Mumbai Naval Dockyard through Hindustan Construction Company for Rs 85 crore for the reconstruction and dry docking at the city. The order includes supply, erection and commissioning of complete electro-mechanical works and pumps. The board of Kotak Mahindra Bank (down 0.1%) will consider a stock-split proposal along with the year ended March 2010 results on 11 May 2010. Sugar stocks fell after sugar prices were in steady decline after the government imposed various restrictions, including introduction of fortnightly non-levy sugar sale. Titan Industries (up 2.8%) has posted a growth of 49% and 81% in sales and operating profit respectively for the March quarter over the year-ago period.
In order to provide customised life insurance solutions to customers via the bank's network, Max New York Life Insurance and Axis Bank have signed a 10-year bancassurance relationship
Max New York Life Insurance (MNYL), the seventh-largest life insurance company in India and the third-largest Indian private bank, Axis Bank, have signed a 10-year strategic bancassurance relationship to provide customised life insurance solutions to customers via the bank's network.
"We are confident of making this bancassurance partnership with Axis Bank a great success. Our partnership with Axis Bank—one of the most admired banks with a strong countrywide distribution, is another step towards creating a top-of-the-rung balanced multi-channel distribution," Analjit Singh, chairman, Max New York Life Insurance, said.
"Having built a strong customer-centric franchise, we believe that our new bancassurance tie-up with a trusted brand like Max New York Life Insurance will enhance our product bouquet,'' said Shikha Sharma, managing director & chief executive officer, Axis Bank.
The bancassurance tie-up will help Max New York Life Insurance business to strengthen its distribution while Axis Bank will enhance its insurance product bouquet.
Operations will begin from today. It will also provide life insurance solutions to bank customers in 650 cities through more than 1,000 Axis Bank branches and intends to serve 20 lakh customers in five years.
"We also believe, given India's geographical diversity and low life insurance penetration level, multi-channel distribution is the most effective way to connect with new customers," Mr Singh said.
Max New York Life already has a tie-up with 54 other banks which include Yes Bank and Barclays Finance. According to Rajesh Sud, managing director of Max New York Life Insurance, the company is selling 65% of its insurance products through its own distribution agencies while only 35% of its insurance is sold through other agencies like banks.
In an interaction with NGOs working for senior citizens, Susan B Somers, General Secretary of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) highlighted financial issues prevalent in the US and how they have been dealt with Moneylife Digital team
Susan B Somers, General Secretary of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, Inc (INPEA) highlighted some financial issues that the elderly face in an interaction with other NGOs working for senior citizens. The interaction was organised by Silver Innings and Moneylife Foundation.
"There is a need to raise financial awareness among senior citizens, especially women. They do not understand wills, tax issues and transfers. This leaves them completely vulnerable to financial issues," said Somers who is also United Nations NGO Coordinator for INPEA. She is associated with the Somers Law Firm, New York.
Highlighting instances of financial exploitation in the United States, she said, "There have been various cases of financial exploitation of the elderly like fraudulent selling of expensive security systems under the pretext of safety or charging exorbitant fees for simple day-to-day jobs like repairing a car."
Among other financial exploitation cases were repeated mis-selling of insurance policies to the elderly. "There were insurance agents or brokers, who convinced the elderly to flip their current insurance policy with another one, stating that the existing was no more useful to them. In reality, every time the elderly person changed his insurance policy the broker earned a commission. It was in the benefit of the broker and the not the elderly person," stated Ms Somers.
While the elderly are highly susceptible and gullible to financial exploitation at the hands of their own family members and relatives, certain groups also reportedly took advantage of the same. "There was a rampant selling of living trusts which promised wealth protection for the elderly from the Government, from paying taxes, from family and relatives. This was in the form of a document. They charged a huge amount of fees for this document. Most times, one did not even need such a protection," Ms Somers said.
On being asked on what steps have been taken or should be taken to address such issues which are equally applicable to Indian senior citizens, she said, "The government should issue information. To take reverse mortgage as an example, the government should provide information stating these are the good points about the product and these are the bad points of the product, this helps the senior citizen take an informed decision."
"Another significant step taken in the US was a law stating a cooling-in period of three days. If the seller or agent approaches the elderly, he cannot be forced to sign or agree to buy the product or service right away, a cooling-in period of three days has to be practised. This avoids the elderly from taking any hasty decision while under pressure," she added.

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I'm writing this from De Palma Inn Sepang. I'm at room 219 on the bed. And around me are about a dozen black ants. I've killed about a hundred of these small insects, but they seem infinite in numbers here.
I had no intention of staying here. It was an ad-hoc booking mostly due to the fact that KLIA LCCT was not as near to my sis-in-law's house than initially thought. So I was glad that out of nowhere I saw De Palma Inn Sepang by the road.
Before I even entered the room, I can see black ants near the entrance door; didn't thought much about it though. But when I entered the room, there were ants almost everywhere! Even on the beds there are at least 50 dead black ants along with a few live ones.
Therefore, I can only recommend that you stay away from De Palma Inn Sepang… unless you're a black ant.
They're on the bed!
They're on the floor!
They're at the door!
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Review on Kinloch Lodge
Lady Claire Macdonald ('the cook for all seasons') has made quite a name for herself with a string of recipe books, newspaper columns, demonstrations and TV appearances, but still finds time to run this 300-year-old lodge overlooking Loch Na Dal with her husband and children. Kinloch is a real family affair.
She puts her ideas into practice with bags of infectious enthusiasm when it comes to cooking for her guests at the hotel. 'Local' and 'seasonal' are her watchwords, and it shows. The restaurant is now open for lunch, as well as dinner, and meals always kick off with 'today's bread' (perhaps roast onion or Kinloch granary).
First courses steer clear of elaborate fancywork, so expect things like Isle of Skye smoked haddock and leek au gratin or roast red pepper mousse with black olive pâté before main courses ranging from roast leg of Highland-bred lamb with apricot relish and red wine gravy spiked with garlic and rosemary to a ragoût of local seafood on a bed of garlicky sauté leeks plus big helpings of vegetables. Rounding thing off are straightforward desserts such as dark chocolate mousse cake with bitter orange sauce.
Kinloch Lodge is also featured in: Michelin Guide, AA GuideRate this Restaurant
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Restaurant Opening Times
Lunch: 12.30 - 2.30pm
Dinner: 6.30 - 9.00pm
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Sail Date: October 01, 2008
Reviewed: 8 years ago
Traveled As: Large Group
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Hull pottery began production in 1905 in Crooksville, Ohio, under the leadership of Addis Emmet (A.E.) Hull (later succeeded by Ralph W. Hull). The Hull Pottery Company's early lines consisted of common utilitarian stoneware, semi-porcelain dinnerware and decorative tile. The company quickly established a firm market and enjoyed an excellent reputation for producing quality ceramics.[1]
Early successes[edit]
The company's success continued and, over the next several years, the business expanded. In the 1920s, the A.E. Hull Pottery Company maintained its general offices and factories in Crooksville and had an office and a showroom located in New York, offices in Chicago and Detroit and a large warehouse in New Jersey.[1] It was also during the 1920s that Hull began expanding the variety of his company's product line to art pottery. The company also began using a broader variety of colors and glazing techniques with its products.
A.E. Hull died in 1930. Addis E. Hull, Jr. succeeded his father in the management of the business. Hull, Jr. left the company in 1937 to become the General Manager of the Shawnee Pottery company. Gerald F. Watts became the new manager of Hull Pottery.[2] Also in 1937, the company contracted with Shulton Inc. (mostly known for the Old Spice product line) to manufacture pottery cosmetic containers.[2] By the late 1930s through 1950s, Hull was making some its best work. By far the most popular line to come from the factory was "Red Riding Hood", produced in 1943.[3] Hull developed art pottery lines primarily along floral themes: Orchid, Magnolia, Calla Lily, Rose and Tulip to name a few. The trendy pastel matte lines of Hull Pottery were in high demand. Hull's product line had expanded to include piggy banks, liquor bottles, and lamps.[1] The company's Floristware line was one of Hull Pottery's most successful lines. From the 1940s through the 1960s, a plant or flower bouquet delivered from a florist was often contained in a Hull pot or figural planter.[3]
Destruction, recovery and closure[edit]
On June 19, 1950, the plant was destroyed in a flood and resulting fire. Primarily because of Hull's excellent reputation with its customers and buyers, the company was able to quickly rebuild and re-opened on January 1, 1952, as "The Hull Pottery Company". J.B. Hull became General Manager.[2] Through the 1950s and 1960s the company continued to expand and diversify its product lines to coincide with the times. New artistic lines such as Ebb Tide, Tropicana, Continental, Parchment and Pine, and Tokay were introduced.[1] In the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, the company changed its production from artistic lines to predominately "House 'n' Garden" serving ware and Imperial florist ware.[2] J.B. Hull died in 1978.[1] Henry Sulens and, later, Larry Taylor succeed Hull as President of the company. In the mid-1980s the company was hit with multiple union strikes and foreign competition. In March, 1986 the company ceased operations and closed the plant.[2]
Numerous collectors clubs exist which specialize in collecting Hull Pottery. One such organization, "The Hull Pottery Association" is headquartered in Crooksville, Ohio. This association's goal is to "preserve, educate, and promote Hull Pottery, its collectors, and its heritage."[4] Numerous collectors' books exist as well. Examples of Hull Pottery can be found for sale on numerous web sites.
Prices for Hull Pottery pieces of all ages have continued to increase substantially. The supply of pieces in mint condition has fallen while demand from collectors has grown.[citation needed]
Collector's guide[edit]
- Warman's Hull Pottery: Identification and Value Guide, by David Doyle. Krause (2006) ISBN 0-896893-67-7
- ^ a b c d e Roberts, Brenda. The Collector's Encyclopedia of Hull Pottery. Collier (1980) ISBN 0-89145-149-8
- ^ a b c d e Hull, Joan Gray. Hull - The Heavenly Pottery. self-published, Eighth Edition (2000) ISBN 1-893759-02-4
- ^ a b My Antique Mall: Hull art pottery
- ^ Hull Pottery Association website


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This is an antique/vintage paper mache bunny with wheel barrow. It is in very good vintage condition with rubs on the tips of the ears (picture 4) and the nose (picture 3). He measures 10.25" in height to the top of the ears, 9" in length, and 4.5" in width. The bunny is painted in matte ivory, pastel pink and pastel blue. He is in very good vintage condition. I have noted the ear rubs on the front and the nose, and in picture 9, you can see the tips of the ears on the backside. There are 2 other chips on the back side at the base (picture 7). I have filled the wheel barrow with pink cellophane grass (new), and a ceramic pastel blue egg (also new). The egg measures 1.5" in length and 1" in diameter.... and, it will break! Picture 12 shows the egg and grass. Picture 10 shows the bottom of the piece, and picture 11 is looking down into the wheel barrow. This is a very sweet piece! I am offering it at a reasonable Starting Price with No Reserve. I always combine shipping for multiple purchases. International bidders are welcome. I ship Worldwide. Feel free to email me with any questions.


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Kenneth Tynan's brilliance gave the theatre a huge boost but did it some bad turns. One of them was persuading people that the dramatist Bertolt Brecht was a good thing. For much of the time, Brecht is a bludgeoner and toter of patronising parables; his few words are too many: he keeps spelling things out but his arguments aren't clear.
And yet. The Young Vic are doing such a good job at dusting off the old brute that you begin to see how his plays could have dramatic life. Last year its Big Brecht Fest season made him look funny, and interested in human beings rather than confluences of social and economic circumstance. Now comes Richard Jones's vivid production of The Good Soul of Szechuan. The usually welcoming Young Vic has been transformed by the designer Miriam Buether into a hard-edged, mercantile place, an image of Brecht's view of a corrupt (ie capitalist) world. The walls are covered in plyboard; a village is a row of metal doors that might have been wrenched from filing cabinets; a shop is a lime-green swivelling Portakabin. The lighting wizard Paule Constable irradiates everything with a blue-tinged glare: there are no hiding places; the isolated hero/ heroine is often trapped in a bright spotlight.
Into this arena marches a trio of mechanical bourgeois, who are actually (it's a difficulty of staging the play) gods. In search of a good person, they light on a prostitute. Beset by money-grabbers, she finds she can't stay good on her own: she invents and impersonates a ruthless male alter ego to do her dirty work.
It's a sound enough point: in a rotten world, goodness is often going to depend on bad practices. And it's given a lively translation by David Harrower, who uses an unfamiliar version of the play written in Santa Monica in 1943. This adds heroin to the action (John Marquez is an excellent wheedling and ravaged dealer-lover); one of its good wheezes is to substitute 'soul' for the more usual 'woman' in the title. But the point never becomes an argument. And even without the Brechtian apparatus of placards, there are clomping underlinings: 'Don't tell me you're an addict; it only brings misery.' Where is the powerful Brecht of 'Alabama Song'?
A tremendous cast pulls off extraordinary feats. Adam Gillen makes an idiot-savant convincing; Linda Dobell - who also directs the movement - is essence of sad sack. Jane Horrocks brings to the hero/heroine her compelling cat-like quality. She shifts from one persona to another with a change of hat and a drop in voice, as if she were in Music Hall. She's never ingratiating, and yet she pulls the audience to her. Brecht, of course, wouldn't have liked that. He thought spectators should be alienated: another of his mistakes.
Tynan thought Brecht was great and The Birthday Party a flop. He wasn't alone. Fifty years ago, the young Pinter slipped into the near-empty Lyric Hammersmith explaining he was the play's author. An usherette exclaimed: 'Oh you poor chap.' Half a century of critical deference later, no one's likely to back that first disdainful chorus. The Birthday Party has the fingerprints of the later, greater Pinter all over it: seedy b&b, glorious riffs on unexpected words, sleek thugs, gaps where most dramatists would put explanations. It deserves something more incisive than David Farr's production, which is lethargic, though full of knowing drollery. Sheila Hancock, naturally sardonic, should be perfect as the seaside landlady with dreams of glamour. Yet here she is in duster headscarf and whiney voice doing a Mrs Mop impersonation. And here's the born-to-be-wily Justin Salinger doing too comic a turn as the ambiguous lodger. Pinter's plays are Möbius strips, seamless twists of the ordinary into the terrifying: this production is like a Peter Cook-Dudley Moore sketch where as soon as someone says 'brain surgeon' in an estuary accent, everyone wets themselves laughing.
The startling thing about Peter Hall's production of Pygmalion, first seen at the Theatre Royal Bath, is that it makes Shaw looks entirely human. The sweet aspects of My Fair Lady come up looking tart, not least because the relationship between Higgins and Eliza isn't allowed to turn romantic: the prof's smug declarations of confirmed bachelordom look like edicts from the closet.
The production purrs along without the customary Shavian look-at-me quality, although Higgins is really one aspect of the philology-obsessed, sexually ambiguous dramatist. Tim Pigott-Smith incarnates the monster-creating monster with relaxed brio. He has to a T that disengagement from other humans ; he behaves like a talented six-year-old, running over the sofa in his socks. Michelle Dockery is a fetching flower-girl and touching as the polished-off genteel product, but she's spectacular as the thing in-between: shown off with her vowel-mangling accent, she trundles around like a dressmaker's dummy - proof that perfection often looks deranged, and that derangement can be passed off as a new trend.
It's unusual to think of physical movement while watching Shaw but this production is full of expressive gesture. As the housekeeper, Una Stubbs's dance training shows in every shrewd ripple of reproval. Majestic Barbara Jefford tells you all you need to know about herself and her son by the imperious way she snatches his hat from his head.
Shaw was one of Ibsen's early advocates. He would have thrilled to Hannah Eidinow's fine production of The Lady from the Sea: a big thought in a small space. Lia Williams is magnificent: she starts out looking like a feral fawn and ends up as a hesitant human.


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Feelin Kinda Free is The Drones seventh studio album. It was recorded in January 2015 at Tropical Fuck Storm Studios in Melbourne Australia with Aaron Cupples who recorded their 2006 album Gala Mill. It is also the first album original drummer Christian Strybosch has played on since 2005s Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By. He is joined by long time members Gareth Liddiard, Fiona Kitschin, Dan Luscombe and Steve Hesketh. Feelin Kinda Free is a bad trip you can dance to. Its a punch in the brain summed up by the first line of the albums opener Private Execution: The best songs are like bad dreams. It is not like other music. It is not your stock jock modern retro rehash, rather an avant avalanche of everything coming back to haunt. It has been described by Australias premier Right wing tabloid superstar and Richard Wagner fanboy Andrew Bolt as stamping on the ashes of the Wests musical traditions. Lyrically, it explores themes such as koro syndrome, the fruits of western imperialism, ISIS, celebrity chefs, seaside statecraft, beach-bum race riots, Rupert Murdoch, the new middle eastern/european diaspora, the spectre of neofascism, Hugo Boss, Luftwaffe psychological warfare techniques, girls, sweet revenge, capitalist consumer psychosis, body image dysmorphia/mania, Gertrude Bell, eating people and selling yourself, having great skin, leftist utopianism, scientific triumphalism, E.T. and the mindless assumption that alien lifeforms would be nicer than us simply because of their technological superiority. Feelin Kinda Free will be released on the 18th of March
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The PAP has tried to dump our old in Batam, Johore,... without success.
Imprisoning medisheld defaulters is a good idea for the thousands of "lesser mortals" because the PAP will finally be forced to build old folks home to take care of poor & elderly of Spore. They can call them prisons or whatever, but the net result is that the PAP will be responsible for their security, medical, room & board
Health care has shown that the PAP is full of self serving idiots. If medishield is that great then they wouldn't have to force people to sign up. I wonder how they are going to force foreigners to sign up
Compulsory National Service is a privilege reserved for Singaporeans. Compulsory Medishield Life is another privilege reserved for Singaporeans.
Now PAP is considering giving Singaporeans the privilege to compulsorily pay for Eldershield Life premiums. I hope Singaporeans wake up to these pap abuses
If it make money, how can it call fail? TS talking rubbish again.
If you are a PR in Spore you will have to pay for Medishield Life but not Eldershield life.
nothing to hide. eldershield.org already mentioned that basic eldershield coverage will not be enough. thus the solution is to either upgrade it or use medisave. like that so simple also don't know. oppo truly hopeless.
6.9 k's of sinkies: kopi, kaya toast, kueh kueh, kio kway, ktv, kpkb.
isn't that a waste of resources?
If that is cater for the poor people, then let people have the freedom to opt out of it. why make it compulsory?
It is very clear that the govt is trying to take advantage of the situation to benefit themselves. so as to save themselves tons of work to deal with later on. This is not helping the people. They are lazy to do the hard jobs that comes with taking care of the people.
6.9 k's of sinkies: kopi, kaya toast, kueh kueh, kio kway, ktv, kpkb.
like henry kissinger once said "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," and "The elderly are useless eaters".
the elderly can only consume and they contribute little to this world,even the wealthy ones are net consumers,they exchange their accumulated wealth in return for the younger population's work and labour and goods and services,in return the young receive their wealth or "money" which is essentially "debt paid forward" or owed to them.they are exchanging their hard work and labour merely for pieces of "IOUs" that they hope to exchange in future.a country's economy or standard of living is determined by its younger population to generate goods and services and be economically productive,since the elderly are mostly unable to work or are of little economic value,a country with a growing aging population will face a increasing number of consumers and decreasing number of producers.
thus a "soylent green" option or voluntary euthanasia should be offered by the government in order to solve the problem of medisave and medishield and cpf.elderly who are unable to fund their retirement or are economically unviable should be encourage to go for euthanasia.
the theory of overpopulation has been around since the 1790s when Thomas Malthus wrote the theory of population.there will always be more people in the world than can be fed, hence the need for wars and diseases. Felix D. was a Polish aristocrat, Bolshevik and creator of the "Cheka" "Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish."
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
This philosophy is a mixture of Freud, Plato, Aristotle, Darwin, Marx and many others.
Man has no natural enemies so he breeds uncontrollably. The artificially created, industrialized world has developed to the stage where it can support the meek of society; cripples, chronically sick, blind and deaf people, etc. Further these people are allowed to breed more cripples, chronically sick, blind and deaf "Useless Eaters" who would have died out in a natural environment and because of this situation, the human race is systematically weakened through enlarging numbers of useless eaters across the world. It has therefore become necessary to control the numbers of the so called "useless eaters" in order for the human race to remain strong and survive. It is important to note that one finds "Useless Eaters" amongst all nations. Race and nationality is of little importance here.
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
SGP needs more of this dong dong chiang not CPF or medishield.
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Every bass angler dreams about that "magic spot" where each cast seems to result in yet another fish caught. No matter how long you've been bass fishing, chances are that if you've found one of those spots, you can vividly remember exactly where it is located on your favorite lake.
But do you know why your "magic spot" is so good? And if you don't have an an ace-in-the-hole hot spot, what should you be looking for? Elite Series pro Mark Tyler explains that finding your own "magic spot" need not involve the supernatural. "The real key to finding that special place is that it's isolated," he says. "Anytime I can find a piece of structure that's isolated, with a lot of special characteristics that you can't find for some distance, I think I've found something special."
Tyler explains that isolated cover often produces best because it is the only area that the bass can relate to. "With pieces of cover or structure that are isolated, you've basically narrowed down the options a bass has," he points out. "For that reason, I love to find and fish isolated cover, particularly laydowns, because I'm a shallow-water flipping guy. I'm always looking for wood."
What makes a certain isolated piece of cover better than another? "Basically, it needs to have some deeper water nearby, like on a steep point," Tyler explains. "It generally has a secondary feature to it that we may not understand at first glance. There's usually something else going on under the surface of the water that really makes it unique and most often that has to do with topography.
"A lot of times you won't just look at a piece of isolated cover and say, 'Wow, this is it,' " Tyler adds. "Most often, you have to fish it for some time before it starts to show its true colors. After a little while you can start to see a trend develop where you're catching multiple fish." It is one thing to find a piece of isolated cover that produces a single keeper, but it's quite another to find a spot that continues to cough up bass after bass.
Tyler is often asked by weekend anglers about the correct amount of time to let a spot rest before fishing it again. "I'm not a believer in giving fish a break to replenish," he says. "Those special spots, sometimes all the time they need to replenish is for me to walk back to the livewell and drop a fish in. I've had many special spots where I've caught two or three keepers consecutively." When the bite finally slows for Tyler, he will then give the area a rest period ranging from an hour to two hours. "If what you've found is truly something special, the fish will continually replenish," he says. "You want to let it calm down after the initial flurry, then return and be very subtle and careful not to disturb the area with a boat wake or prop wash. "Generally fish will have repositioned on that spot within an hour or two, so you're going to want to continually return to it throughout the day."
When the action slows, Tyler picks up a few extra bites by rotating through several baits. "I'm a big believer in rotating baits anyway," he explains. "You want to give them a different look and keep things fresh in order to keep the school active." Tyler often throws a jig, soft plastic or small crankbait at the piece of cover to give remaining bass a different look before surrendering to the fact that the area may be cashed for the day.
Tyler stresses that after catching the first bass, it is critical to pay attention to boat positioning and noise. "I see so many guys that will catch a fish off a key piece of cover and then they'll tromp around the boat and let their boat bang into the cover while they're releasing the fish or putting it into the livewell," he says. "They may even fire their next cast 10 yards further down the bank without realizing what they may have just found. If one good fish thought that was a good place to set up, chances are another one did, too."


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I mention all of this only because the Daily Mail is reporting that Emily Blunt and "Luther's" Ruth Wilson are up for the role, which is great even for those of us who know dupe about the comics, but appreciate that our Avengers films have lots of talented people involved. Both Blunt and Wilson fit that bill, and would make excellent people for Whedon to eventually kill off, although if Ms. Wilson were to get the role, I might be more afraid for Whedon.
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Cons: Leaving Bermuda early because of Hurricane Leasley.
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|Staff was very friendly and numerous. They were all over the place greeting you and asking if you needed anything.
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|The ship was really nice and kept clean. The only thing that would put it over the top would be a rock-wall.
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|Food was really good in the dining rooms and the buffet. We hit the Buffet for breakfast\, lunch and dinner and only hit the 2 free dining rooms for dinner. The buffet tables were a little close to each other. Trying to get in and out of you seat without disturbing the person sitting behind you was difficult at times.
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"Look, my mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain and I grew up in Miami," says Eddy Cue with a playful smile. "So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types."
Specifically, the senior vice-president of Apple, 51, is talking about his penchant for the extravagantly lined and patterned shirts that have made him the chief exponent of a dressing style internet wags are calling "Apple dad". But you could apply that statement more generally to this 27-year-veteran of the Cupertino tech colossus. Cue, whether he's discussing his Springsteen obsession or taking a few mid-interview selfies, is perhaps not what you'd expect from the dour tech executive. And he's clearly not big on Zuckerbergian hoodies.
Cue's flair and genial manner is in high demand at the moment. The day we meet in a penthouse-style room in Apple's Hanover Street HQ (Boogie Nights shag-pile, tastefully adorned bookshelves), coincides with a frantically busy time for the company. The new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus handsets land in shops the next day (and will go on to sell in record global numbers — about 3,000 a minute), the iOS 9 system update has just launched (coinciding with an unfortunate malware attack on the App Store) and the revamped Apple Music Festival is well under way.
That final bit of activity, Apple's autumn gig series in Camden featuring acts including Pharrell and Florence + The Machine, is the main reason for our chat today. The absence of The Boss on the line-up notwithstanding — "One of these years we're gonna get him" — it's fair to say Cue is pretty excited about the event. And its host city.
"The acts we get are really the best of the best," he says, nodding to a nearby flatscreen that's showing Ellie Goulding's 2015 performance. "And you're never going to see them in such a small, great venue like The Roundhouse. Also, the festival has gotten to be a much bigger thing globally. The London crowd is really good and I don't think if you did this in New York or LA it would be as much of a global thing."
International reach aside, the festival, which used to run under the iTunes banner, has clearly been engineered to provide a boost to Apple's long-brewing music streaming service. Cue, who was the man Steve Jobs tasked with securing media partnerships for iTunes, has taken a lead role on Apple CEO Tim Cook's Spotify-killer and spearheaded its march to more than 11 million users.
However, with the first batch of free three-month trials expiring this week, is he worried about subscribers drastically falling? "Ultimately, you never know until it happens," he reasons. "But we're pleased with the number of people who have tried. Everybody gets fixated on the short term but we're in this for the long haul."
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This attitude seems to have been crystallised by those early years trying to convince the grand old superpowers of the record industry that the future of music was digital — "I have a lot of grey hairs because of that."
Cue is, of course, a consummate salesman and conversation with him can occasionally feel like an extended appointment at the Genius Bar. He demos devices, wants to know if I've updated to iOS 9 and when I tell him in passing that my son is two years old, his mischievous response is, "Awesome. He's ready for an iPad."
There's steel (or maybe brushed aluminium) behind the joking though. When I risk a ticking off/tranquilliser dart from the nearby publicist and stray off topic to ask about user complaints surrounding the iPhone's undeletable apps, he's friendly but firm. "A lot of our apps you can't just delete because they're embedded into the operating system," he says.
Can customer feedback be something of a minefield? "There are things people can tell us and there are things they can't," he continues. "Both are really important but one of the dangers is to only do things people tell you to do. You would never do [new iPhone features] Live Photos or 3D Touch if you only listened to people. To innovate you have to look beyond. We used to say that we get paid to look around corners."
In terms of Apple Music and its showpiece festival, Cue wants the view around the corner to remain obscured. "Will it be the same next year? I hope not. I hope we keep evolving and coming up with cool things."
Our time comes to an end but Cue isn't about to let me leave. He wants to show me footage of soulful warm-up act, Andra Day's Apple Music Festival set and, in defiance of that publicist, walk me through how they've retooled Siri on the new iPhone ("I know I'm not allowed to talk about the phone but what the hell — he can't fire me").
He taps his phone and makes an offhand comment about "trying not to get roaming charges" while in London which, I note, proves how insanely expensive phone calls and data can be abroad. "It's sad, it's another problem," says Cue. "We're trying to fix it and we're making a little bit of progress but you've got to convince a lot of people." It sounds like an impossible task. But that, you would imagine, is where the famous flair will come in.
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I had lived with my family in Birmingham through part of the Blitz in the Second World War. In January 1941, the firm for which my dad worked moved their head office to Appleby and I well remember the snow was falling as we approached our new home in Bongate Hall where several families lived in the rooms above the offices. The times were both exciting and daunting. I was aged 11 and was starting at a new school, Appleby Grammar - an all boys school in those times. There were many boys from Birmingham and I well remember our First Year Form Master, Mr Boulton trying very hard to understand our 'Brummie' accent, just as we were having problems understanding the Westmerian accent of the local boys. As there were so many evacuees we were housed in almost every hall or room that had space in the town including, The Sands Methodist Hall, the Oddfellows Hall, as well as the Institute etc. We got to know the walk between the school and these halls very well and the bread shop on Battlebarrow called Edmudsons.
I joined the school choir and later played cello in the school orchestra where I remember some very happy days enjoying music.
I was a lazy pupil, but I am deeply grateful for the experience and the patience of a wonderful staff.
As I write these words it is hard to remember that I am now over eighty and much has happened between then and now.
Thank you Appleby - you will always stand out in my memory.
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The Bay Stage Live team was asked, "What are you most thankful for?" This is what they said…
Brian Justo: I am thankful for a healthy life and for all the wonderful things it allows me to appreciate. Things like my ability to enjoy my wife, daughters 'n husbands, grandchildren, brother and 89 year old mother; still in good health, as well as my fantastic family in Spain. With all of these gifts I get to spend time with my Bay Stage Live family, who I thoroughly enjoy and respect. I also appreciate the great opportunity I have to eat and drink my way through the U.S. and Europe.
Yvonne Justo: In business, I am thankful for all of our BSL employees. They are dedicated, loyal, and treat our company as though it were their own.
Personally I am thankful for having a healthy family; immediate and extended. I am also thankful for the miracle of birth for giving me my granddaughter Elle and my future grandson Jake.
Nicole Justo Idziak: I am thankful for my husband Scott, my sweet Luke, my family, all of the wonderful people in my life that I learn from every day and most of all I am thankful for the little miracle that is growing inside of me.
Danielle Justo Sherwin: I am so very thankful for my husband Mike, our doggie Max and our new little miracle baby, Elle. I am thankful for modern medicine, which allowed our dream of a family to come true. I am thankful for my amazing parents and sister, and for our growing family. I am thankful for a wonderful family business that I get to be a part of everyday. And finally, I am thankful for all of my family, friends, our health, happiness and love that we share.
Greg Utley: I am thankful for waking up on the topside of the dirt everyday! I am thankful for my Mom, Sister and a special core of friends for always loving me and laying the law down when needed. I am also very thankful for this amazing country that we live in! Most of all for Baby Jesus and his dad….. God! (Alien or not)
Michele Tunstall: I'm thankful for my wonderful family and friends. As well as being able to wake up every day and I'm healthy.
Chris Hardt: Modern medicine/drugs, my Manx, my house, my sister's pregnancy going well, my disgustingly cute niece and nephew, and clients like Anna Lucia. I am also thankful that Danielle finally got knocked up and had such a ridiculously cute and sweet baby. Everyone playing with her makes me very happy… especially Yvonne talking about her fat legs… I would be more thankful if there were puppies around here more!
Patrick Robert: I am thankful for my family, my friends, and for the return of the production season… It's been a long hot summer!
Kelley Gifford: I am thankful for stepper motors. Stepper motors made the birth of intelligent lighting possible. I am thankful for the DMX protocol. DMX made it possible for us to tell our intelligent lights what to do. I am thankful for Q-tips. I enjoy a good eargasm.
Cody Barden: I am thankful for running water, power, and a roof over my head. I am thankful that I have an amazing job I can go to everyday. I am thankful for my awesome family and friends always being there for me.
David Robert: I am thankful for all of my friends, family, and the people around me that make life worth living. I am astonished by the quality of people that I am lucky enough to have around me.
Matt White: I'm thankful for finding my passion and career early in life and sticking to it. I'm thankful for a supportive and amazing group of friends and family who love and support my ambitions. I'm thankful for art in all its forms, and its ability to affect us on a level words and emotions can't explain. I'm thankful to bear witness to our accomplishments in art and production over the many years of human evolution.


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Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
William E. Hemple, 85, an educator and probation officer who served from 1977 to 1985 as director of management information and research at the probation office of the U.S. District Court in Washington, died June 21 at a health-care center in Bayside, Wis. The cause was sepsis, said a daughter, Katherine Prown.
Dr. Hemple, a native Washingtonian, moved to Wisconsin from Silver Spring, Md., two months before his death. He was a former adjunct professor at American University and director of its Institute of Correctional Administration. From 1988 to 1990, he taught sociology and criminal justice to U.S. military personnel in Okinawa, Japan, and the Marshall Islands.
Joseph Conway, 76, owner and operator of the Irish Corner at the Threepenny Bit, a now-defunct Irish import shop on M Street in Georgetown, died June 21 at a hospital in Washington. The cause was aspiration pneumonia, said a niece, Pamela Maskey.
Mr. Conway, a District resident, was born in Springfield, Ill. He moved to Washington in 1956 and worked for the old real estate firm Shannon & Luchs. He bought the Threepenny Bit on Wisconsin Avenue in the late 1960s and opened a location on M Street in 1971. The store closed in 1995. He was a member of the Catholic Church of the Annunciation in Washington and acted with the American Light Opera Co.
Margaret Stewart, 97, who owned and co-operated the Stewart Funeral Home, a venerable African American business in Washington, died June 24 at her home in Washington. The cause was Alzheimer's disease, said a daughter-in-law, Norma Jenkins Stewart.
Mrs. Stewart was born Margaret Hill in Capitol Heights, Md. She taught elementary school in Prince George's County before joining the funeral business in 1969; it had been owned by her husband's family since 1900. After being widowed in 1981, Mrs. Stewart became the sole owner and then ran the business with her two sons and later a granddaughter until retiring in the late 1990s. She was a past president of the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce and a past national treasurer of the National Council of Negro Women.
Lisa M. Carpenter, 43, a senior policy analyst for six years at America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade organization, died June 18 at her home in Washington. The cause was breast cancer, said a sister, Margo Mims.
Mrs. Carpenter was born Lisa Mims in Boston and moved to Washington in 1996. She worked at AHIP in Washington intermittently between 2003 and 2010. At one point, she managed the National Program of Cancer Registries technical assistance and audit program for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was an annual attendee of Key to the Cure, a breast cancer awareness event sponsored by Suburban Hospital in Bethesda and hosted by Saks Fifth Avenue in Chevy Chase.
Fred S. Hudson, 83, a retired Air Force colonel who became vice president of Washington operations for International Executive Service Corps, a nonprofit economic development organization, died June 10 at a nursing center in Alexandria. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, said his wife, Cornelia Hudson.
Col. Hudson, an Alexandria resident, was a native Washingtonian. He was in the Air Force from 1955 to 1979, during which time he served as a fighter pilot and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He then helped grow and sell his family's Baltimore-based oil company, Penn Dower Petroleum Co., which became one of Citgo Petroleum's largest packagers and distributors of lubricant products. Starting in the early 1990s, he served in executive roles at IESC before retiring in 2000.
Philip C. Kearney, 81, a biochemist who became a U.S. Department of Agriculture research scientist specializing in pesticide behavior in soils, died June 8 at an assisted-living center Melbourne, Fla. The cause was complications from Alzheimer's disease, said his wife, Rita R. Kearney.
Dr. Kearney, a resident of Laurel, Md., was born in Baltimore and worked at USDA from 1962 to 1995. He headed the Agricultural Research Service's pesticide degradation laboratory from 1965 to 1988 and then served as deputy area director of the ARS's Natural Resources Institute in Beltsville; he was named ARS scientist of the year in 1986. He was adjunct professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland from 1995 to 2010 and wrote more than 200 scientific publications and several books on herbicide chemistry and degradation.
Kathleen Rand Reed, 67, who spent decades working in promotion and target-marketing aimed at minority communities and in recent years was a "sociopolitical strategist" for Lew Frederick (D), a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, died July 3 at a hospital in Washington. The cause was cancer, said a niece, Andrea Cathey.
Mrs. Reed, a Washington resident, was born Kathleen Rand in Chicago. Since 1991, she was chief executive and president of the Rand Reed Group, a consultancy specializing in what she called "culturally competent social marketing." Earlier, she ran a Palo Alto, Calif., company that tried to increase organ donations among minority groups and sat on an institutional review board of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. For many years, she was a partner in a leather goods store in San Francisco.
Joyce Fitz, 84, who taught at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Md., from 1962 to 1987, died June 30 at her home in Silver Spring. The cause was Alzheimer's disease, said her husband, Norman Fitz.
Mrs. Fitz was born Joyce Mayes in Washington. She taught at middle schools in New York and Washington early in her career. In retirement, she spent a decade as a substitute teacher at Rosemary Hills and Woodlin elementary schools in Silver Spring.
Walter B. Kennedy, 73, who was a basketball coach at McKinley Technical High School in Washington from 1966 to 1980, died June 15 at a nursing center in North Bethesda, Md., where he had lived since 1999. The cause was complications from multiple sclerosis, said a niece, Yolonda Harris.
Mr. Kennedy, a native of Mount Sterling, Ala., was a star college basketball player at Florida A&M University and played professionally with the Pittsburgh Rens and Harlem Globetrotters before starting his coaching career at McKinley. He became the school's head coach in 1975 and led McKinley to the D.C. public school championship in 1977. He moved to Alabama in 1981 and coached at St. Jude Educational Institute in Montgomery, where his team finished second in the state in 1994. He was featured in a 1997 article in Reader's Digest magazine.
John J. Ford, 87, a staff director of the House Armed Services Committee from 1975 until 1984, serving mostly under Chairman Melvin Price (D-Ind), died July 3 at his home in Fairfax County. The cause was prostate cancer, said a son, Sean Ford.
Mr. Ford was born in Archbald, Pa. He was an associate editor and chief Capitol Hill correspondent for the Army Times publishing company before joining the House committee staff in 1964. After leaving government, Mr. Ford became vice president of governmental affairs for Avco, a defense contractor subsequently purchased by Textron. He remained with Textron until 1987, and then ran his own consulting firm until the mid-1990s.
Kathleen H. Wach, 77, a past director of residence hall operations at Georgetown University and a past member of the board of education for the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, died June 30 at a daughter's home in Springfield, Va. The cause was Alzheimer's disease, said a daughter, Kathleen H. "Kitty" Wach.
Dr. Wach, a former District resident, was born Kathleen Heffernan in Long Beach, Calif., and accompanied her husband on Foreign Service assignments to Europe and Africa for many years. She joined Georgetown as a secretary in 1980. She retired in 1998 as director of residence hall operations, responsible for operating student dormitories. She was also a member of the university's choir. She was a certified foster parent.
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Most skating sessions during the winter months are on the outside rink, which can be cold. Be sure to wear socks, gloves and a coat to ensure an enjoyable experience. Though not required, we recommend wearing a helmet (hockey, bike or ski helmets work) because ice is hard! We have a limited number of free helmets available for kids to borrow.
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Admission: $2; Skate rentals: $1
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Homeschool Skate
2nd Thursday of every month, 9:30 to 10:30 am
Special skating session for homeschoolers and their families. Youth admission and skate rental: $3; adult admission and skate rental: $6
Young Skaters
Skating time for young children (around 3-6 years old) to try ice skating or practice their skating skills in a safe, uncrowded environment. Walkers are available for use during these sessions and pucks/sticks are allowed in designated areas, when space permits.
Wednesdays, 10:45 to 11:45 am and Thursdays, 10:30 to 11:30 am. Skating assistance is available Wednesday mornings free of charge from a volunteer ambassador!
Young Skater admission and skate rental: $2; Chaperone (one per child) admission and skate rental: $3
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The Philharmonic Gets Dressed (Children's Book)
In these pages award-winning writer Karla Kuskin and acclaimed illustrator Marc Simont combine their talents to give us a delightful, insightful and unusual inside view of how one orchestra prepares.
About the Author
Karla Kuskin wrote more than fifty books for children, including the Philharmonic Gets Dressed, Green as a Bean, and Moon, Have You Met My Mother She was the winner of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry, among other honors.
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Cognizant enables global enterprises to address a dual mandate: to make their current operations as efficient and cost-effective as possible and to invest in innovation to unleash new potential across their organizations.What makes Cognizant unique is our ability to help clients meet both challenges. We help them enhance productivity by ensuring that vital business functions work faster, cheaper and better. And, our ability to conceptualize, architect and implement new and expanded capabilities allows clients to transform legacy models to take their business to the next level.
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