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She almost fell asleep when she heard cat's mating concert – and honouring her, the old maid!
»Who am I, not to obey the call of destiny!« Mrs. Norris thought, following the model of crystal ball Trelawney and crept silently towards the conqueror of her heart.
Soon there was two-voiced mewing heard on the coridors.
Hermione was rolling on the bed angrily, listening to Parvati's and Lavender's giggling. The gossip-girls were shrieking that loudly that she couldn't hear what was going on with her kitty. Lucky him, though his task wasn't easy. He had to try hard to gain Mrs. Noriss' favours. Apparently he cared lots for that scrawny, old, vicious and sneaky cat with bloodshot eyes.
She woke up because of high-pitched squealing. This time it was Crookshanks, not her two childish room-mates. He was totally beaten-up, with frayed ear, bitten neck and bloody snout.
Hermione took him to her arms and went to the hospital wing: 'Good day, Madam Pomfrey ...'
'You should have better said good morning! What is again?'
'My kitty got into a fight,' Hermione misinterpreted love-bites, 'look at the poor thing, how he looks like ...'
'Show! Ah, that's nothing.' Crookshanks didn't agree with the matron, for he wanted to jump out of his (frayed) skin already when she was disinfecting.
Madam Pomfrey healed his war-wounds in a minute and inculcate in Hermione's mind not to leave her cat unsupervised. Hermione obeyed that advice. She borrowed the Sneakoscope from Harry, but for the night she switched off the whistling.
Shaking woke her up and she undertook Crookshank's path, who sneaked out of warm and safe bed in desire fot Mrs. Norris. This time Hermione caught him mewing on the roof together with Filch's monster.
For the life of her, Hermione couldn't understand why Crookshanks was competing for such a scarecrow. Hermione didn't know how elegantly this excuse for a cat can lick her fur.
As always she respected privacy and drew back. But the retire to Gryffindor tower was unlucky. On the corridor she met Professor Snape, who as by design always appeared there, where he could make Gryffindors' life most miserable. He didn't even let her speak: 'Silence, Granger! Have you got no shame to roam the school – I shall take twenty points from Gryffindor! No, I shall not tolerate no excuse-'
'But I only went to fetch my kitty-'
'I know perfectly well what your kitty is doing! Your monster shall be punished, you too, of course, only more severely! How dare you let out this rascal so he can prowl the school at night and attack innocent little animals!'
'Mrs. Norris is no innocent little animal but a real butcher! Madam Pomfrey will tell you what mess she made out of my kitty yesterday!'
'If so, off to the hospital wing!' he let Hermione go first, but this gentleman-like gesture was accompanied with a sinister swish of his cloak.
Madam Pomfrey kindly explained to Snape: 'Severus, but this is the very nature of cats, now it's yet their mating season – such accidents are perfectly normal.'
'I SHALL RIP OFF HIS EARS, TAIL AND EVERYTHING ELSE!' Filch stormed into the Great Hall. In between tears he was roaring with rage: 'That criminal bastard has made my kitty bear young! When he gets into my hands, I will beat him like doormat! Cursed, wicked, scabby, foul creature! That brat shall be responsible for it! I shall hang her by ankles under the ceiling-' Students were roaring with laughter and everyone thought in their own way Filch and his cat deserved such punishment.
'Argus, calm down, will you,' the Headmaster interrupted his howling.
'What – to calm down! Do you know, what that criminal cat has done! He's after my kitty!' The Hall would explode with laughter. Only the Headmaster, his assistant McGonagall, the always-dark-looking Snape and of course the criminal cat's owner could remain serious. Snape, however, whispered something into Filch's ear and smiled cruelly.
In the middle of confusion McGonagall fired some explosions to establish silence. Dumbledore asked the caretaker: 'Argus, have you seen precisely which cat is guilty of that catastrophe?'
'Noooo, there's always murky in my office,' he whined and added combatively: 'Anyways, I managed to kick him!' When Hermione heard the word kick, she jumped up and crashed her head into the table (before she was very busy with her shoelace). She repeated indignantly: 'You kicked him? That's animal torture ...!' Filch pointed his finger at her and yelled: 'Now I know! This brat has set her monster upon my kitty!'
'I haven't set him upon anything,' she defended herself energetically but it wasn't enough. She looked defiantly at Snape and muttered offendedly: 'This should be denouced – as for me, anyone who kicks a kitty, deserves ...' From this mantra McGonagall interrupted her: 'Hermione! Where is your cat? Go check immediatelly!'
'I'm on my way, Professor!'
When there was heard the calling: 'Crookshanks, my kitty, come to mummy!' the students started laughing again, but Hermione didn't hear them. She was so absorbed in searching for her kitty that she didn't notice even the advancing poltergeist: 'Mister Filch is, as one may hear, pretty upset,' he giggled contentedly but enviously at the same time, for to enrage Filch was his domain. 'Do you have a hand in this crime?' Peeves imitated McGonagall.
'I could have a chat with Baron about your attitude,' she threatened him. A mention of Bloody baron was enough that Peeves whistled away. He made a few loopings in the air and mewed cat's mating concert from safe distance.
Although enraged, Hermione ignored him because she wanted to find Crookshanks as soon as possible and to whitewash him of any guilt.
Apart from a few scratches he looked in perfect health, capable of criminal deed, as Filch would have said. She shut him in her room and reported in the Hall that Crookshanks has been in her room for whole night but poor kitty was so quiet she didn't notice him at all.
During her report the vividly orange cat was sharpening his claws. He's made quite a mess out of crimson rug. As long as everything was in Gryffindor shiny colours, it was allright!
In words of her favourite student McGonagall subtly perceived traces of guilt so she decided to investigate further. When the time is convenient, she shall interrogate Crookshanks – in kittystyle, of course.
Her schoolmates congratulated to Hermione because her Crookshanks has made so much trouble and drove Filch to the brink of despair. She was advocating him fervently, although silently she suspected him, too. He's always been a true Casanova-cat.
Also the happy father of the coming kittens was very proud of himself and his achievment. But he better didn't show it in public for every day he was being more terrorized, proportionally with the growth of Mrs. Norris' belly (a neccessary note for the not informed: cat pregnancy lasts approximatelly nine weeks).
In staffroom Professors mostly tried to inspire Filch with optimism: 'Think how joyful your office will be! Little kitties will turn it upside down!' squealed Professor Flitwick enthusiastically.
'Cats' tomboyishness increases to the third power of their number,' Professor Vector agreed, 'I read it in the last issue of Numerological Journal.'
'You won't find a single rat in your dungeon anymore,' McGonagall was pragmatic.
'I shall personally inscribe this joyful event into Hogwarts: A History,' Dumbledore earnestly nodded at him and winked at McGonagall. He wanted to add also in golden letters but he took pity on Filch.
Espacially Hagrid, fancier of monsters of any kind, was very glad to hear the news: 'Twas bout time! Her bio-clock is ticking, 'ts good that Mrs. Norris still could be tha' fit …!' Filch did not have any comment to such insolence, but Hagrid didn't mind. Monsters (a category that undoubtedly included Mrs. Norris) were his favourite animals and he was looking forward to the youngsters. At the beginning it was possible for Snape to console his low-spirited friend that it was all about false alarm but Snape's mouth were shut by Mrs. Norris corpulence. He also tried with a thesis about fake pregnancy but Madam Pomfrey quickly overthrew this thesis. All the ado about the coming litter couldn't possibly cheer Filch up.
Out of sympathy for Filch, Snapa was in even worse mood than usually. During Potions he was consequently enraged and pedantic, but yet, Hermione's both theoretical and experimental work was always flawless!
Cheerful Hufflepuff gang in the corner was guessing, if Mrs. Norris shall be named Mrs. Crookshanks from now on. They were even collecting bets. Hermione marched up to them and explained: 'I don't know why are you interested in such nonsense guessing. Not it's the cats' mating season and I'm very much aware of that. I've been shutting up my Crookshanks all this time and I'd never let him tramp around the school. One must discipline oneself ...'
'It's cool,' Ron dragged her away from Hufflepuff gamblers, 'they've got it. Just you don't get a joke.' All the same, Hermione was still worried, what discredit Filch has brought upon her good kitty.


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1927. June A. P. KELLER v SPRAY DISK AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME Filed June 28. 1926 2 Sheqts-Sheet 1 f @@@z@ a Q agv m June 1927.
A A. P. KELLER SPRAY DISK AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME Filed June 28. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 7717552111 EMF/X55 @441;
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' SPRAY DISK AND METHbD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE EAME.
Application filed June 28, 1926. Serial No. 118,908.
sirable that the-spray apertures be so dis posed with relation to each other as to provide a divergence of the streams of water from the axis of'the head, so that a Wide shower may be caused to flow from a head of comparatively small size, and heretofore the common practice for obtaining this effect has been to mold the spray disk without apertures therein and subsequently to drill cylindrical holes through it at the proper angles to each other to provide the desired divergence of their respective streams.
My chief objects are to provide an improved spray head and to provide improved procedure and apparatus for making it whereby the apertures conveniently may. be formed in the disk Icy-molding and yet may be so disposed as to provide the desired divergent spray effect. A further object is to provide for giving the spray disk its ge'n eral shape and forming the divergent apertures therein in the same moldin operation. A still further. object is to provi efor forming the divergent apertures b means of a unitary molding structure" which may be withdrawn from'the mol'ded product by movement as afwliole inxan axial direction, without movement"of its parts with relation to'each other. .Another object is to provide for conveniently; removin mold fins from the mouths of the molde apertures.
Of the accompanying drawings: Figfl isa vertical section of a showerbaths'pray head embodying and made bfy the use oflm'y invention inits preferred orm. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary top face' view of the apertured member or spray disk of the head. Eigfl3isa 'ver ficalsectionof' the apparatus for molding the sprayapertured member.
Referring tothe drawings, the head as here shown comprises an'upper bell portion 10 su i'tably'secured. and sealed to the usual downwardly-projecting supply pipe 11 by meansof a yoke 12 screwed onto the end of the pipe, a gasket 13 interposed between an external flange 14, formed on theyoke'and an internal flange 15 formed on the bell, and a gasket 16 interposed between the flange 15 and a nut 17 screwed onto the upper end of the yoke.
The spray and disk 18 of the head is formed with an annular gasket-seating recess 19 around the margin of its upper face in which is seated an annular gasket 20 sealing the said member to the bell 10, the apertured member 18 being sup orted and drawn up to compress the gasket y ascrewbolt 21 mounted in a central hole 22 in the member 18 and screwed into the yoke 12.
The spray apertures in the member 18 are shown at 23, 23, and instead of being cylindrical, as in such prior devices as I am aware of, they are of downwardly tapered, frusto-conical shape, but with tlieir axes downwardly diverging with respect to the axis of the head, the axes of the apertures more remote from the center of the head being more divergent than those of the apertures closer the center, as I find that with the apertures so shaped and so disposed the desired divergent sprayeffect may be plication of full molding pressure to the" stock, and without interlocking of the mold ing means with the stock, such as'would cause breakage of the molded stock upon the withdrawal of the molding means.
This form of the spray bottom permits the molding thereof in asingle molding operation by means of the apparatus shown' in Fi 3, which comprises an annular, female mol ing member 24 rising from and secured by screw bolts 25, 25 to a suitable bed plate 26,"and a pair of opposed male molding members 27, 28 telescoped therein, the upper'male member, 28, being'secured-by screw bolts 29, 29 to a movable press-head30 and provided with dowels such as the dowel 31 adapted to run in suitable apertures in the upper edge face of the female member 24 to' which slidably extend through suitable apertures in the bed-plate 26 and have their lower ends secured to a yoke 33 provided with an actuating rod 34 for raising and lowering the lower molding member 27, which is thus adapted'to act as an ejector for lifting the work out of the press after it is molded. Stop pins such as the pin 34 are mounted in the bed-plate and are adapted to limit the downward movement of the lower male member 27.
A molding pin 35 having its base secured in the bed-plate 26 projects upward through a central aperture in the lower male member 27 and into a central aperture 36 in the upper male member 28, and is adapted to mold the central aperture in the spra disk 18 to receive the clampin bolt 21 ig. 1).
Secured in suitabfie apertures in the upper male molding member 28 are molding. pins 37, 37 having frusto-conical, downwardly tapered end-portions 37 37 projecting from the lower or molding face of the member 28, the said pins being so disposed that their axes downwardly diverge from each other and preferably are disposed radially with respect to a common imaginary center above the assembly, but the diver ence of the pins is so small with relation to 516 angle of t e apex of their tapered portions 37 .that the latter may be embedded in the clay or the like of which the spray disk 18 is formed without interlocking therewith against free withdrawal, which requires that the angle of divergence of any pin with respect to the axis of the mold shall not be more than half the apex angle of its tapered endortion.
A ter themolding operation, which will .be ,obvious from the foregoing, thin mold fins usually are present at the lower mouths of the apertures molded by thepins 37, possibly because of imperfect fitting of the ends of the ins against the lower mold member 27 and. ause of the resistance to extrusion of the last thin layer of material under the end of the in, but I find that such fins may be remov readily and without marring the surface of the work, so that the apertures willbe of full size and regular form, by the simple step of lightly washing the lower face of the spray disk, as by passing a soft, water-saturated sponge over it, the fins freely melting or washing out, while the more substantial walls of the apertures are not appreciably affected. i
The bell portion 10 of the head is of such form that it readily may be molded by the use of well-lmown a paratus. After the molding operations the parts 10 and 18, when made of clay, for example, are finished and hardened by the usual procedure, which may include glazing of the walls of the apertures as well as the 5th? surfaces, and they are then assembled as s own in Fig. 1.
By reason of the tapered form of the apertures they readily may be cleaned in case of clogging, although their outlets are suitably small.
My invention thus provides the several advantages set out in the above statement of objects, and it is susceptible of modification without sacrifice of all of the said 'advantages and without departure from the scope of the appended claims.
I claim:
1. A molded spray head comprising a art formed with molded apertures tapered rom the inner entirely to the outer surface of said part and having their axes outwardly divergin from each other.
2. Tie method of making a spray disk which comprises molding it with-outwardly tapered spray apertures having their axes outwardly diverging from each other, by forcing against a mass of stock, in an axial direction with relation to the disk, a set of outwardly tapered molding pins while holding the said pins with their axes outwardly divergin from the axis of the disk, and while so olding the pins withdrawing them from the molded mass of stock.
3. The method of making an apertured disk which comprises so forcing a set of molding pins through a mass of plastic stock against a molding member as to produce a disk substantially through-apertured but having mold pins within the apertures, the pins being so stopped by the said member that they do not project from the adjacent face of the mass, and washing the surface of the product to remove mold fins from the mouths of the apertures molded by the pins.
4. Apparatus for molding a spray disk, the said apparatus com rising a mold member adapted to shape t e outer face of the disk and molding means including outwardly diver g aperturemolding projections for molding the inner face and the apertures ,of the disk, the said mold member and the said molding means being so constructed and arran ed as to permit the said pins to be force so far through the disk as substantially to make it throu h-apertured.
5. Apparatus as defined in claim 4 in which the means for molding the inner face of the disk consists of a rigid, unitary structure and in which the axes of the projections outwardly diverge, each of the saidr projections being of such tapered form that the molding means may be withdrawn in an axial direction from the molded disk without interlocking with the material thereof.
6. Molding apparatus com rising a facemolding member and a set 0 outwardly tapered mold pins projecting from the moldmg face of said member, fixed in relation thereto and having their axes outwardly diverging from each other, the pins being so tapered with relation to their divergence as to permit them to be forced in fixed relation as a. group into a mass of stock without recession of their surfaces from the stock contacted thereby and to be withdrawn from the molded mass without interlocking therewith.
7. The method of makin a spray disk which. comprises relatively orcing a set of molding pins so far through a mass of stock as substantially to form through-apertures therein while so su porting the ins that in 10 a. direction towar the stock t ey diverge from each other.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of June, 1926.
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BYU, Utah gameday glance Sept. 21
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Injury report - This article states Utah does not report injuries during the season. Is it also a team policy that players cannot get injured? If an injury occurs it will not be acknowledged. Same with a loss.
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That whole thing with injuries not being reported is a bit odd. I guess it is just to be secretive about the whole affair. Who knows, Travis Wilson may be nursing a broken leg as we speak. You never know when Whit himself might suit up to go out and take a few snaps. They are tricky like that. If Bronco has a hang nail though, DO NOT expect any work until game time about it. Two can play that game.
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Who is up for a good old 1989 style win in Royal Blue? I am.
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"Taysom Hill will need an even more prominent performance than his 259
rushing yards against Texas"...? You mean the performance that shattered
former records both at BYU and Texas? Seriously? Hyperbole much?
I think Taysom could "fall short" of his Texas superman performance and still BYU could handily beat the U.
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Offensive line is key for Cougars...I wish to know more about who they are, who plays where and how many get into a game, who is best, is developing, etc...come on Des News, give us some info on positions that really make a difference, the O-Line, and give them some kudos for BYU's rushing success!
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A guide to problems, costs, maintenance and repair for your 2007 Hyundai Veracruz
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- ENGINE HESITATES BUT AFTER 1500 RPM RUNS GOOD. wE JUST PUT A NEW ENGINE IN.
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We have had the VeraCruz since 12/07, today we replaced the third alternator and battery. Solution=replace with another junk Hyundai alternator.
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on Oct 1, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Ahhhnold is a disaster. The economy is a train wreck and now these business need to shell out additional expense for a non-value-added "feel good" law. Maybe a socialist "buy out" of the banks is going to help them get a loan for this. Thank goodness there are laws keeping this guy out of the White House.
Quit eating so much food and get off your rears, fat people.
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This is ridiculous. People should take responsibility for their own health. If they want the info, it is usually available, they just need to ask. If you can't make the effort to find out, then it's your own choice to eat unhealthy food.
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A Festival of Music
A Festival of Music
Now in its 24th season, First Presbyterian sponsors this concert series that is free and open to the public. The offerings have included soloists, both instrumental and vocal, instrumental ensembles, and dramatizations. The music offered has ranged from classical and sacred to popular song. All concerts are Sundays at 4 p.m. We also sponsor a series of Lenten Organ Concerts on five Wednesdays from 12:15 to 12:45 beginning the second Wednesday of Lent.
2014-2015 Season
- October 12, 2014 - Denis Evstuhin, pianist, Minneapolis MN
Russian-American pianist, Denis Evstuhin has been hailed as "one of the finest pianists in the young generation" and has earned international acclaim for his vibrant artistry, remarkable sound quality and brilliant virtuosity by audiences and critics alike.
Schooled in Russia and the United States, Denis holds a B.M and M.M. from the St. Petersburg Conservatory (studio of Professor Eduard Bazanov), an Artist Diploma from Hamline University in St. Paul as well as M.M. and DMA degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Professor Alexander Braginsky.
A semifinalist at the 2007 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, Denis has earned prizes in a number of international competitions and made his New York debut at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in July 2011. He has performed in major cities throughout Europe, Russia, the USA and appeared on stages of the world's most prestigious venues–Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff Halls in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theater and Philharmonic Halls in St. Petersburg, as well as Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. In May 2014, he presented a recital at the Great Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia.
From Russian National Television and Radio to Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" he has performed works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. Besides his solo career, he enjoys collaboration with both Russian and American opera singers and serves as Artistic Director of "Music at the Museum" for The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis
- November 9, 2014 - Stiletto Brass Quintet, Central Illinois
Stiletto Brass Quintet, formed in 2010, gained exposure as a leading ensemble with performances that the audience greeted with rousing ovations with Doc Severinsen and the Heartland Festival Orchestra, at the International Women's Brass Conference, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, the National Trumpet Competition, the Great American Brass Band Festival and concerts throughout the United States. The group released their first CD with guest artist Doc Severinsen in April 2013.
Stiletto features five highly accomplished women with careers spanning the fields of orchestral, wind band, and brass chamber music: Amy Gilreath and Cathy Leach, trumpets; Misty Tolle, horn; Nicole Abissi, trombone; and Velvet Brown, tuba.
The group, as highlighted in the August 2012 international brass magazine "The Brass Herald", reflects timely changes in the music scene. Its energetic and diversified repertoire includes avant-garde compositions written by leading composers of our time, as well as classical and popular works from the Baroque period to Gershwin. In 2013 Stiletto released their first CD with guest artist Doc Severinsen. Audiences agree that their concerts are fun, serious, heart-warming and emotionally intense.
"The Stiletto Brass Quintet is a group of five superb musicians whose technique and ensemble work is simply unmatched. Joyousness, melodic introspection, tenderness, excitement—the full range of emotions is in every note they play. The fact that they are beautiful women in red stilettos…well that's just icing on the cake. If they give the impression of owning the stage, it's because they do. I've seen a lot of brass quintets in my day. But the Stiletto Brass Quintet is truly a breath of fresh air and a wonderful evening's entertainment." - Doc Severinsen
- February 8, 2015 - Lee J. Afdahl and Friends-Rochester, MN Annual organ-Plus program
The Festival of Music Concert Series delights in presenting our own Lee Afdahl in his annual "Lee and Friends" program. A graduate of Luther College, Lee has been our Director of Music and Organist since 1991. Currently he and additional music staff are responsible for leading four vocal and four handbell choirs, an elementary instrumental program, a church orchestra and serving as advisor to this Festival of Music concert series. With forty years of experience in leading active programs of choral and handbell ensembles in Michigan and Minnesota, Lee is an active organ recitalist and published composer and arranger of handbell, instrumental, and choral music with over seventy compositions and arrangements in print.
Lee is frequently a conductor and clinician for handbell conferences, choral workshops, and church music conferences nationally and internationally. He has conducted festival conferences for the Handbell Musicians of America, handbell classes for American Guild of Organists events, and international handbell events inEngland, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. Having served the Handbell Musicians of America in various capacities, he is now the immediate Past President of the national board of the organization. He represented the organization as a conductor at the International Handbell Symposia in Liverpool,UK in 2012 and Jeju, South Korea in 2014.
Joining Lee for this season's " Lee and Friends" program will be Jennifer Taylor Bleckiner, oboe; Michael Bostwick, clarinet; Christopher Boswell, handbells; the Jubilate Deo Handbell Choir; Ashley Hall, trumpet and Paul Kosower, cello. The program will feature both traditional and contemporary composers from Bach to Andrew Carter and will conclude with Lee's performance of the thrilling Toccata composed by John Weaver, organist emeritus, Julliard School of Music, New York City, and a Festival of Music artist in 2009.
- March 8, 2015 - Columbia Handbell Ensemble-Columbia MO , Ed Rollins conductor
We are delighted to have The Columbia Handbell Ensemble (CHE) return to our Festival of Music concert series. This national recognized group is one of the longest running community based handbell organizations in the country. Organized in 1988 by Tom Brintnall, Deb Carr, and Ed Rollins, this auditioned choir's mission is to promote the art of handbell ringing through education and performance. Active in assisting beginning groups, ringers and conductors, the CHE has trained ringers across Missouri and the mid-west, with several members having taught handbell classes and seminars on regional and national levels. The ensemble also focuses efforts on introducing new audiences to the art of handbells.
Since its inception, the CHE has placed a priority on promoting musical excellence and artistry—substantiated by this ensemble being invited to be the featured guest choir at four national conferences/seminars of the Handbell Musicians of America. In addition to national performances, the group has performed at numerous area events. Response to the ensemble's performance at the National Seminar of the Handbell Musicians of America in Minneapolis in 2011 included "an example of perfect technique" and "in 30 years of handbell experience, this was the most musical concert I have ever experienced"
- April 19, 2015 - Isabelle Demers, Concert organist, Baylor University, Waco TX
Isabelle Demers is Organ Professor and Head of the Organ Program at Baylor University in Texas, where she teaches applied organ and courses in the organ curriculum. A native of Québec, she is rapidly becoming recognized as one of North America's most virtuosic organists. Her concert at the 2010 national convention of the American Guild of Organists, in Washington, D.C., was received with great acclaim not only by critics, who deemed it "one of the most outstanding events of the convention" (The American Organist), but also by the standing-room-only audience, which called her back five times. A review of her concert for the joint ISO-AIO convention in 2010 said that "she enchanted the entire audience with her virtuoso performance," leaving the entire congress in an atmosphere of "Demers fever."
She began piano and organ study at age eleven at the Montréal Conservatory of Music. After graduation in 2003 she studied on scholarship for a year in Paris at the École Normale de Paris-Alfred Cortot. She received her Master's and Doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School in New York City, where she studied with Paul Jacobs.
Recent engagements include the cathedrals of Cologne and Regensburg in Germany, St. Paul's Cathedral in London, the Royal Opera House of Muscat, Oman, as well as major universities and concert halls in the United States. Highlights of her 2013-2014 season include the rededication of the Royal Festival Hall organ (London, UK).
Her debut recording on British label Acis was met with critical acclaim. Thjis was followed by discs featuring the organ works of Rachel Laurin and Max Reger's Seven Chorale-Fantasias. Her most recent CD, "Bach, Bull, and Bombardes (Pro Organo)", was released in May 2013, and includes works of Bach, Bull, Reger, Widor, Tremblay, Mendelssohn, Daveluy, and Thalben-Ball. Michael Barone of MPR's Pipedreams has referred to Isabelle Demers as "definitely a talent to watch, to hear."


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LED recessed lighting questions
We are in the middle of a kitchen remodel (well, for a while now). Due to other reasons, we decided to open up the ceiling and replace with drywall, which affords us the opportunity to put in recessed lighting quite easily.
My wife likes the size of 4" recessed lights and doesn't want to go any bigger. We were originally going to use 50W GU10 halogen fixtures (Lithonia, HD), which put out 400 lumens each and can easily be used as new construction. These would cost approx. $25 per fixture. The downside to converting to LED bulbs on the GU10 fixtures in the future seems to be that the LED bulbs currently available for GU10 only put out 200 lumens. Is this true?
Although we were aware of LED and specifically Cree, it seemed out of the budget at $150+ per fixture. However, HD has begun offering 3, 4, and 5" LED kits from Lithonia, which run $60 per fixture. That cost is more tolerable. The 4" put out 400 lumens. I am wondering if anyone has experience with these? Or, alternative products that put out a similar amount of light?
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The housing could be something like the HI99CAT. However, according to T24, the HI99CAT will not qualify as a high efficiency housing since it has the E26 base connector.
Nora Lighting has a 4" recessed housing with the GU24 base. To use that housing, you need to get the GU24 whip adapter.
Two things - both at Home Depot: First, if you are on a very tight budget and need a lot of them, the Edison screw base CR-6 has recently dropped to $25 (at least in our neck of the woods). This is one heck of a deal. The GU24 version is still at $40.
Second, the Ecosmart GU10 lamp is rated at 320 lumens. I have not tried one yet, so can't vouch for its performance. However you might want to check it out. (Has anyone else here tried it?)
I have recently been looking at the eco4 and Nora housing combo. Just saw that Nora now offers a Cree based led solution,their diamond series. The Nora led runs triple the cost of the eco4. Anyone have an idea what you get with the Nora diamond led vs the eco4 other than a larger bill?


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