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#75. Welcome to Open City, with Steve Enniss
Welcome to Open City: London, 1500-1700. I am Steve Enniss, Eric Weinmann Librarian here at the Folger. In this year, when the world's eyes are turned towards London, host city of the 2012 Olympic Games, we explore the city's early history through rare books, manuscripts, and art. The exhibition you are about to see has been curated by Dr. Kathleen Lynch, Director of the Folger Institute, with Betsy Walsh, Head of Reader Services. Welcome. I hope you enjoy this exhibition and that you will return for the accompanying lectures and readings which we have planned—details of which may be found online at www.folger.edu.
#76. Survey of London, with Kathleen Lynch
We know a lot about late sixteenth-century London thanks to John Stow's Survey of London. But what we may not know is that Stow was not as interested in producing a description of the London of his time as he was in recovering or preserving the London of an earlier era — the London that was passing out of memory and away from the cityscape. Stow's Survey is a systematic description of the city, figuratively moving through it around the walls, through the gates, and into the wards. But the movement of Stow's narrative is not just oriented around topographical or geographical features of the landscape. Stow is as interested in a temporal movement — in a movement back in time through the layers of history. He was particularly interested in place names that promised an association with some activity or trade, but where there was no longer evidence of that activity. Why no poulterers in Poultry Lane? No chandlers in Candlewright Street? Why no Jews in the Jewry? Stow's Survey was first published in 1598 — almost immediately he was revising it and the second edition was published in 1603. The work continued to be edited and revised by others even after his death until, by the end of the seventeenth-century, it had grown into a two-volume folio, richly illustrated, and one of those volumes is on view directly across the hall.
#77. Repurposed Religious Properties, with Kathleen Lynch
You're looking at an engraving of St. John's Hospital in Clerkenwell. The Knights Hospitallers were one of two crusading orders that established their English headquarters in London in the twelfth century. They were originally founded to aide pilgrims to Jerusalem. By the mid-sixteenth century, they were fighting the Ottoman Turks from their island stronghold of Rhodes and, then later, Malta. London was filled with the large compounds that served as headquarters for religious orders. Their closure by King Henry VIII set off a redistribution of wealth and a large scale building boom. Their closures also shifted the responsibility for social services onto the parishes and the city government. Just as these religious orders had very different histories, they also had different fates after their closures. St. Mary's Bethlehem was run as an insane asylum. The Crutched Friars became a glassworks factory. Charter House was rebuilt as an aristocratic home. St. John's Hospital was turned into a warehouse for the Office of the King's Tents and Revels, for a time. Then, during Edward VI's reign, the Lord Protector Somerset took some marble stones from the priory and added then to the building site of his new home on the Strand.
#78. Shakespeare's Blackfriars deed, with Betsy Walsh
By 1613, lodging at Blackfriars was becoming fashionable, so it's really not surprising that Shakespeare decided to invest in property there. The gate house stood only a few hundred yards from the Blackfriars Theatre, the winter home of Shakespeare's acting company, the King's Men. It was also near the Thames, which provided easy water access to the Globe Theatre on the south bank. Fellow actors, including Richard Burbage, already owned property at Blackfriars. There is no evidence that Shakespeare ever intended to make this his home. Note the wavy edge at the top of the document. This is a standard form of contract at this time. Two identical copies of an agreement would be written out on a sheet of vellum or paper. The two copies would then be cut apart with one edge indented or serrated. It's from this practice that we derive the term "indenture". In the event there was ever a contractual dispute between the principal parties or their heirs, the two documents would be brought back together. If the edges match, the contract was valid. This is Shakespeare's own copy of the deed of purchase. As the purchaser, he was not required to sign his portion. You can see the seller, Henry Walker's signature, at the bottom of the deed. Walker's half, signed by William Shakespeare and several of his trustees, is currently in London's Guild Hall Library.
#79. Trade company shields, with Ian Gadd
Hello. I'm Professor Ian Gadd of Bath Spa University and I'm delighted to be able to introduce you to one of my favorite items in the Folger collection, an engraving from 1596. You're looking at dozens of compartments, each containing a single coat of arms. The main body consists of the arms of London's sixty trade or craft companies, around which of the arms are the crown, the city, four merchant companies, and England's twenty-six cathedral cities. The engraver, Benjamin Wright, is obscure, but if you look at the top left you'll see that he describes this as the first fruits of his labors. Take a moment to examine the companies. You'll see familiar crafts and trades—grocers, shoemakers, goldsmiths, plumbers, brewers—alongside more obscure ones—girdlers, couriers, loriners. My own interest is the stationer's company which regulated London's book trade. Its coat of arms can be found in the sixth row, ninth from the left. If you look closely, you can see a number—48—which indicates its ranking for city events while its coat of arms shows three books, two Tudor roses, an eagle, and, at the top, the Holy Spirit. At the bottom is the company motto. The arms of the companies must have been familiar to many in London. They were not only on display in their halls and during city parades, but also appeared on everything from buttons to guns, from snuffboxes to funeral palls. What this engraving did was to bring all of them together on a single page. And, in fact, you can still buy similar posters of the companies in London to this day.
#80. Cheapside market, with Natasha Korda
Hugh Alley's Caveat for the City of London of 1598 presents us with a very orderly depiction of Cheapside Market, in which male and female vendors sell a variety of foodstuffs underneath labeled "pillars" which are labeled for their home counties. It's important to remember though, when we look at this image, that it's a highly idealized image of Cheapside that's showing us the market as Hugh Alley would like it to be, including the reforms that he is proposing to the Lord Mayor of London. In fact, Cheapside Market and the other formal marketplaces in London during the late sixteenth-century were quite disorderly places as a result of the city's exponential population growth. You had swarms of people migrating into the city to sell their wares and, as a result of this, the formal marketplaces were overrun with street hawkers and hagglers. Alley complains about them in the text of his manuscript and, in particular, about market women known as hawkers and hucksters and regrater, who bought up wares and sold them elsewhere. So, the image that Hugh Alley presents us with is one of the marketplace as he would like it to be, an idealized image rather than showing us what Cheapside Market actually was in the late 16th century.
#81. Parish pew chart, with Ken Fincham
We're looking at a pew plan of the church of St. Margaret's Westminster. In 1615, the church wardens purchased a large piece of vellum, or animal skin, and paid a scrivener to write in what they called a map of the pews. If we look closely, we can see that some names have been scratched out and new ones written in over them. This is because this is vellum which is quite tough and can cope with such reworking, unlike paper. The pew plan gives us a wonderful insight into the parish community of St. Margaret's Westminster. If you were to wander into any church on a Sunday morning in the spirit, you could tell at a glance who was important and who wasn't. People were ranked or seated according to their status—the wealthy and the influential at the front, the poor, the servants, and the young at the back. But this pew plan also demonstrates that men and women sat separately from one another even within the same families. When new pews were added or old ones altered, some people need to be reseated and this could cause a good deal of argument within the parish for some families claim they deserve to be promoted and others should be demoted. And that's exactly why this sort of document was drawn up. It was the fruit of some serious negotiations by the church wardens and other senior members of the parish. Such pew plans exist elsewhere in seventeenth-century England and each of them represent an attempt to maintain peace within the parish. Everyone knows where they sit.
#82. Imagining a new St. Paul's, with Kathleen Lynch
One unsung hero of what might now be called the Friends of St. Paul's was Henry Farley. Farley was a scrivener or a legal clerk. He thought that the decrepit state of the Cathedral after its spire was struck by lightning in 1561 was a public disgrace and he spent the better part of a decade trying to secure commitments to save the Cathedral. In 1616, Farley commissioned the painter John Gipkyn to visualize his dream of a splendidly revitalized cathedral in this diptych or two-paneled painting. When the diptych is closed, one sees a royal procession moving across the London Bridge and into the city. The piece opens to reveal a scene of perfect social order. All of those dignitaries—clergymen and civic leaders and above all the king, James, in his royal balcony box—are assembled at the outdoor Paul's Cross pulpit for a sermon. The final panel shows a gleamingly-restored cathedral. Indeed, King James did come to St. Paul's in 1620 to hear Bishop King preach a sermon and he did set up a commission. The next Bishop of London, George Montaigne, brought in lots of Portland marble at his own expense. But as William Dugdale later reported, when the work stalled, the Duke of Buckingham took some of the marble for his watergate at York House, thus the value of building materials. It would not be until after the Great Fire that Sir Christopher Wren's new cathedral would be built.
#83. Royal Exchange, with Linda Levy Peck
The Royal Exchange was built by Sir Thomas Gresham and opened in 1570. He built it, modeled it on the Antwerp Bourse and he needed to build it so that there would be a gathering place for international merchants in London. This was a place where international merchants could come together, could speak together, exchange news of ships that were coming in, and could buy and sell goods. They gathered together in the courtyard as you can see in Wenceslaus Hollar's print, but upstairs he also added boutiques. Now this was new. There had of course been shops before, but those shops were shops that were in the front of workshops. What was new in the Royal Exchange were that these were retail shops. One of the first shoppers was Queen Elizabeth herself, who opened the Royal Exchange. At the time, there weren't enough shops that were ready to go — and so Sir Thomas Gresham had to keep moving the goods in the Royal Exchange around to make it appear that there were sufficient shops because there just weren't enough shops fully prepared for the Queen to see. But that did not matter. The Queen was so pleased with the new set of boutiques that she allowed Sir Thomas to name the new space the Royal Exchange.
#84. Hollar's Long View, with Kathleen Lynch
If you stand right in the middle of this six-sheet engraving, you can take in the whole of London from almost the same observation point that Wenceslaus Hollar used for his preliminary sketches. That's the tower of St. Mary Overy on the south bank of the Thames. Hollar's eye takes in everything – from the countryside west of Parliament to the tidal waters east of the city. His panoramic view is remarkably accurate. Not only are individual buildings portrayed from life, but the picture rewards close study of such details as the ships, the gardens, and the courtyards. Theater historians have always been interested in this view for its prominent depiction of the Bankside playhouses. Unfortunately, the theaters are misidentified and the building labeled "Beere bayting" is in fact the Globe Theater. And the building closer to the river labeled "The Globe" is the Hope Theater, which was also known as the Bear Garden. The rhetoric of presentation is curious in a different way. The sky is emblazoned with classical cherubs, mythological figures, and contemporary exotica – a parrot, a Peruvian Indian, an ostrich feather. A monumental Nympha Britannorum guards the left flank of the picture with examples of the land's bounty and she is matched on the right by a river god with fish and water pouring from his vessel. This view is deeply unsettled by an uncertain national fate, however. The map is dedicated to Princess Mary, Charles I's eldest daughter. She was married to William, Prince of Orange. But in 1647, England was embroiled in a civil war, King Charles was being held prisoner, and London was almost a Parliamentary garrison. Hollar may have been prescient—Mary did play an important role in unifying the country when her son—also a William—married his cousin—another Mary—and the two brought in the glorious revolution of 1688.
#85. Pericles and the Globe, with Betsy Walsh
Pericles, Prince of Tyre enjoyed great popular success to the point that it stirred the envy of Ben Jonson, who dismissed it as a moldy tale. Indeed, the episodic plot is a series of highly improbable twists and turns that has a prince engaged in adventures all around the Eastern Mediterranean and ends with his reunion with Thaisa, the wife he believed had died in a shipwreck more than a decade earlier, and Marina, the daughter he had abandoned. It is the stuff of fable and a storyline that can be traced back at least to the fifth-century A.D. Pericles first appeared in print in this 1609 quarto which, as you can see, notes on the title page that it has "diverse and sundry times, been acted by the King's Men at the Globe on the Bankside." With its many shifts in locale, Pericles was brilliantly suited to performance at the Globe Theater. Despite only minimal scenery and props, Shakespeare excelled in taking his audiences around the world and through time using his own scene-setting words to set the stage. Most scholars now agree that Pericles, like many other dramatic works of the period, was a collaborative effort between William Shakespeare and others and, perhaps for that reason, it was not included in the first folio in 1623.
#86. Bartholomew Fair, with Kathleen Lynch
Bartholomew Fair was London's annual cloth fair, held around the feast of St. Bartholomew, on August 25th. It was such an important event for the cloth trade that John Stow noted that the clothiers of all England joined the drapers of London to rent booths for the event. The fair's origins reach back to the twelfth century when King Henry II granted the organizing rights to the priory of St. Bartholomew and it continued into well into the nineteenth century when it included rides and stages for entertainment, as depicted in this hand-colored illustration from the beginning of that century. For seven hundred years then, Bartholomew Fair played a central role in the festive lives of Londoners for it was a festive event as well as a trade show. Early on, such activities as puppet shows, bull and bear baiting, and wrestling matches provided entertainment. Such a gathering also required the presence of an itinerant court—a dedicated Court of the Piepowders, which is a corrupted English translation of pieds poutrés, or "dusty feet," who ruled over any disputes concerning contracts as well as disorderly conduct. No one captured the quality of that festivity better than Ben Jonson in his play, Bartholomew Fair. With over thirty named characters, Jonson filled the stage of the Hope Theater with as great a spread of humanity as he could muster. To punctuate the similarities between play-going and fair-going, Jonson also fished for laughs out of the fact that the bear-baiting that also took place at the Hope left the theater "as dirty and stinking every whit as Smithfield"—that was London's largest open market, the great field just outside the gates of St. Bartholomew's priory, into which the fair spilled.
#87. Cockpit Theatre, with Richard Schoch
With the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II in 1660, theater, although it had been heavily suppressed but not destroyed during the interregnum, became once again an important part of the city's cultural life. The king quickly issued patents for two new theatre companies—the Duke's Company, led by Sir William D'Avenant, and the King's Company, led by Thomas Killigrew. D'Avenant and Killigrew were effectively starting from scratch and this actually was a great opportunity and they made two important decisions that still today define the shape of London theater. First, they changed the location in London where theaters were built. Because the theater was identified with the Crown and with an elite audience, theaters were built in Westminster—the new, fashionable heart of London. Second, they changed the shape of theater buildings. Because a small elite audience was attracted, theater buildings were kept small and intimate, seating between 500 and 800 people. Shakespeare's Globe, by contrast, could have accommodated several thousand people. It took time to build new theaters, but the companies were under pressure to start performing quickly. D'Avenant's company decided to perform at the Cockpit Theater, also known as the Phoenix because it had been rebuilt after a fire.
#88. Gangraena, with David Como
Gangraena by Thomas Edwards was published in 1646 at the end of the English Civil War. That war pitted the followers of King Charles I against the supporters of Parliament. The conflict tore England into pieces, not least by fomenting religious divisions—divisions that were occasioned by the rise of new religious ideas and novel religious sectarian groupings that rose up in the wake of the chaos of the civil wars. Nowhere were those divisions more pronounced than in the city of London, the epicenter of English religious, political, and cultural life. Now it was to try to contain those religious divisions that Thomas Edwards, a London minister, took up his pen to write Gangraena. Gangraena was an impassioned attack on these religious sects and these novel religious opinions, which Edwards saw as being a kind of cancer or a gangrene, spreading through the body politic. The pages you see here show Edwards attacking a fellow London minister, a prominent clergyman named John Goodwin. Now although Edwards earned enormous notoriety through his attack on the sects and his book Gangraena was tremendously popular, his attempt to contain these religious divisions ultimately proved futile. Even after the reestablishment of peace in 1660 and the reestablishment of order, religious division persisted. Now this legacy of religious pluralism was one of the chief and most pronounced consequences of the English Civil War and the upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century.
#89. Plague and Fire, with Betsy Walsh
By the 1660s, London was by far the largest city in Britain. Overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions, and poorly-constructed houses, especially among the lower classes, made the people particularly vulnerable to the disastrous events that were to befall them in 1665 and 1666. In February of 1665, plague broke out on the outskirts of the city. By July, it had entered the city proper, causing King Charles II, his court, and most wealthy Londoners to flee in search of a healthier environment. In September, the death toll from the plague peaked at about 7,000 per week. Each week, London parishes recorded the number and causes of death within the parish. These statistics were printed up in lists called mortality bills, such as the one you see here. You can see by the end of December 1665, more than 68,000 in London had succumbed to the plague, although there were undoubtedly many more whose deaths were never recorded. It is estimated that as much as one-fifth of London's population was lost during this outbreak. By February 1666, the danger had subsided enough that the king and his court returned to the city and life slowly began to return to normal or, at least that is, until the evening of September 2nd, when the Great Fire of London began in a bakery on Pudding Lane. Over the next three days, it consumed a major portion of the medieval city. Details of the fire's progress and devastation were recorded not only by notables, such as Samuel Pepys and Wenceslaus Hollar, but also by ordinary citizens, such as young Samuel Wiseman, whose poem on the fire is displayed here. The Great Fire is often credited with ending the threat of plague in London because it did encourage the city to be rebuilt in stone. With more generous open spaces and less overcrowding, it might be said to have had a positive effect on London's future development.
#90. Locke on toleration, with Kathleen Lynch
"The only business of the church is salvation of souls and it is of no concern to the commonwealth or any member in it whether this ceremony or that is part of that celebration." These are strong words from John Locke's letter concerning toleration. The letter was written in 1685, when Locke was in exile. The exclusion crisis is the immediate context for Locke's letter concerning toleration, but we get a better understanding of this work when we think about the 150 year history of religious persecution and retribution and in-fighting that is one of the motifs that this exhibition has documented. Locke had come to the conclusion that persecution and punishment would never secure consent to the state religion and so it was in the best interest of the state to let people worship as they pleased. Now, Locke was very much a person of his own time—by that I mean he was not willing to extend these privileges to Catholics or to atheists or to certain other religious groups. We also have to understand that while Locke was composing his observations from abroad, there were lots and lots of religious non-conformists on the streets, especially the streets of London. So you really have to put together Locke's observations in a kind of philosophical mode with the activity on the street to get a sense of what movements were forcing open the question of religious toleration.
#91. London ca. 1700, with Kathleen Lynch
After the Great Fire, there were calls for a new, more orderly, more impressive street plan for London. Sir Christopher Wren produced one that was a marvel of broad boulevards radiating out from central hubs—but there were too many complications, too many individual property owners, too few records, and too great a need to get going. For the most part, the footprint of London's streets remained the same, though it was at this time that a new skyline emerged, dominated by Wren's dome of St. Paul's and the spires of the rebuilt and newly-built churches. When a call for subscriptions to a new addition of John Stow's survey went out at the end of the seventeenth century, London was described as "the great mart and metropolis of the kingdom and the largest as well as noblest city of the world." The keys to the administrative offices, public services, and prominent landmarks that range along the bottom margin of this map are making the same point—that London had reached a level of cosmopolitanism that put it in the first rank of European cities.


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Food Retail Management
The Food Retail Management program combines the building blocks of merchandising, marketing and management with the practical tools that individuals need in the business world. The program is based on concepts of adult education, which include an interactive classroom or online setting, limited lectures, and a focus on practical, hands-on learning. The Food Retail Management program will:
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I have two champagne currant bushes that I have had zero luck with. For two years they have produced fruit - looking very promising and the next thing you know they are dried up and crusty looking.
They are planted on the north side of the house and they are well composted. Can anyone give me an idea? |
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I grow 'Champagne' currants as well. Mine are planted in full sun on the south side of my orchard. Too much shade? They really 'sweeten-up' in full sun. They also look as if they need water. |
Thanks. They are watered well and get quite a bit of sun. I may have to transplant them elsewhere. |
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Mine planted along the fence to the east. Got plenty of morning and afternoon sun. Berries are sweet. |
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text: Gravity will be your friend, as you descend deep into the Oregon back country. Only here will you discover the grandeur of the Paulina mountains and the secrets of Chief Paulina's waterside. Along the way you will learn the legends of the ancient indigenous people and the saga of Chief Paulina. Be assured you'll be traveling in his foot steps, even though they're the impressions of your guide. During the length of the trip, you will descend over 2,500 vertical feet on your mountain bike. That translates into four 1-1/2 mile biking segments to each waterfall stop. While coasting down the smooth dirt forest trail, you will be close to the shimmering waterfalls of the stream. The group will visit up to 6 pristine waterfalls, ranging in height from 10 to 40 feet, as well as 2 safe natural watersides to explore and play in. Two short energetic nature hikes, at a distance of 1/2 mile each, will be required to reach the enchanting waterfalls and slides below. This safe, fun family excursion is attractive for all active age groups, 4 to 70 years young and possibly beyond. Our guides will fill you in on local history, geology and archaeology which makes this area so unique. This region is considered by archaeologists to be one of the richest sights in the Northwest. Native Americans have lived in the shadow of this dynamic volcano for at least 10,000 years.


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The Canadian Music Centre calls out to new ears
Recognition is a relative thing in the arcane world of modern composition. "You could be the most famous contemporary-music composer in Canada," says Kelly-Marie Murphy, "and you'd still only be known by, like, 120 people."
She's exaggerating, of course. Hundreds more must know of the Ottawan's work: she's had her pieces performed by symphony orchestras from coast to coast, as well as by such luminaries as cellist Shauna Rolston, clarinetist James Campbell, and the Borealis String Quartet. Millions who might enjoy her relatively accessible music have yet to hear it, however, which makes her suggestion that Canadian composers "have to band together" all the more pressing.
Fortunately, there's an organization that's fostering exactly that kind of shared purpose: the Canadian Music Centre. Born in 1959 as a specialized music library, it's now expanding, thanks to digital technology, into distance education and live webcasts. The CMC's Vancouver office launches its new B.C. Creative Hub this week with Lunar Tunes, a fundraising concert that will feature the Vancouver Bach Choir's Leslie Dala conducting a chamber ensemble in performances of Murphy's Sur les pas de la lune and early modernist legend Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
"What we're doing is a whole new initiative, basically to try and reach new audiences," says CMC regional director Bob Baker, in a separate telephone interview from the organization's Vancouver office. A composer himself, he adds that the Creative Hub is in part a response to CBC Radio's near-total abandonment of noncommercial music. And while the centre's webcasts will fill some of that gap, Baker says that the key to winning the public's interest is getting its attention at an early age.
"We've started this program called Composer in the Classroom, and it's been a huge success," he says. "It's literally sending composers to work with kids in schools on the process of creating new works. Unfortunately, we could only send composers to schools around the major urban centres, 'cause that's where most composers tend to live. But now, with this distance-learning initiative, we're starting to 'send' composers all around B.C.—and with that same equipment, we're able to start webcasting different concerts from our space here, and also remotely."
Although the CMC—which recently remodelled its space to incorporate a small performance venue—hosts dozens of concerts, seminars, and score-reading workshops throughout the year, Lunar Tunes is the brainchild of soprano Heather Pawsey, a strong supporter of the centre's efforts. And the way she put the concert together exemplifies how useful the organization's 22,000 archived scores and 12,000 online audio clips can be to the resourceful musician. Initially, she wanted to sing Pierrot Lunaire, to mark the 100th anniversary of this epochal work's debut. When Baker suggested Pawsey pair it with something Canadian, she searched the CMC database for scores with the same instrumentation and came up with Sur les pas de la lune.
Any other similarities between the two pieces are unintentional, says Murphy. "Even the moon reference is completely coincidental," she explains, adding that although she knows the Schoenberg piece well, she was more inspired by the poetry of Philippe Jaccottet. "I was drawn to this particular poem because of its symbolism, with all of the elements of moon and water and earth and grass. The two pieces will work very well together, but it was not my master plan. That's the story of my career: happy accidents!"
And, of course, she's also benefited from the help of the Canadian Music Centre, which is striving harder than ever to ensure that Canada's musical culture remains vital.
Checking out the CMC, says Murphy, is "the first step for anybody who is interested in learning about Canadian music.
"I think we're really lucky in Canada that we have such a wonderful resource," she adds. "I've travelled a lot, and I realize that not every country is as lucky as we are."
Lunar Tunes takes place at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward's Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre next Thursday (September 13), and will be streamed live at the Music Centre website.


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Atrial Septal Defect Repair in Children—Transcatheter Procedure
An atrial septal defect is a hole in the wall between the two upper chambers (right and left atriums) of the heart. A transcatheter procedure is a minimally-invasive way to repair the hole. During this procedure, a device is implanted to seal the hole. As your child recovers, the device will trigger the heart tissue to grow. The tissue will slowly grow over the hole.
If a child is born with a hole between the upper chambers of the heart, the blood can flow backward into the right side of the heart and into the lungs. This triggers the heart to work harder. Over time, this can lead to damage to blood vessels in the lungs and congestive heart failure. The procedure is done to fix the hole.
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Most children who have this procedure will have good outcomes.
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Has anyone had experience with the Rustoleum or the Supercoat (sold at samsclub.com) garage floor finish? Any comments on how well these epoxies hold up in a residential garage? Any advice or hints on applying too would be appreciated. Thanks, Terry |
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- Posted by mikepagetdfw (My Page) on Sat, May 19, 07 at 20:54
Yes..that's should be a good epoxy..the key is a good stripping agent to remove all the dirt and oils, then a good etcher and primer..also there's the option to add a pouch of Non-skid to the epoxy..it's kind of a big job..what brand do you have? i used "Behr" and it's works pretty well altogether..anyway..just my 2 cents..mike DFW |
Ilive in the northeats, and when you park your car in the winter (which is when the garage is used) the melting snow goes onto the floor and water is "soaked" through the concrete. NOW, if putting a poxy or sealeant on it, that would prevent the water form soaking through, right? Does anyone have a painted floor who lives in a snowbelt region? |
I live in Michigan and I know a few people with epoxy coatings in their garages. I am fairly sure it stops the water from soaking though. In fact one of my friends had to put his down on wet concrete to begin with. I don't recall what brand it was though. |
I would stay away from bargin coatings from Home Depot and alike. It wont last and if your going to take the time to do the proper prep, only to have it fail, you've wasted you're time and money. Buy a quality epoxy, do the proper prep and it will look great for many years. |
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:26 AM
I am writing to let you know that I am canceling my DirecTV service. We first signed up for DirecTV when we lived in(omitted from Reddit post) . We were looking to save money on our cable TV package. It worked out wonderfully for us and we loved the service.
We actually put our account on hold when we moved from (omitted from Reddit post) as we loved the service and wanted to continue with what we thought was excellent service for a good monthly fee.
When we moved back to Austin and bought our house we quickly called DirecTV to resume our service in April of 2012 at (omitted from Reddit post). When we spoke with the representative they informed us that for the price point that we wanted to pay the best package for us was the ChoiceExtra package. At the time the cost was going to be around $55 a month with a HD DVR box and HD receiver with whole home viewing. After taxes our monthly total was to be $77.89 a month. We were getting this price by signing a 2 year agreement and having the auto-bill pay service feature enabled as well.
Alas our time with DirecTV this go around was a nightmare. The service was installed on time, our promised rebates we were guaranteed for being returning customers were submitted on time, and the service was wonderful for the first 3 months. Our bill was what it was supposed to be.
Month 4 started. When month 4 started our bill quickly skyrocketed to over $100 a month. When I called DirecTV to inquire about this, I was quickly informed that our "3 month promotion" was over and this was to be our regular rate. After numerous escalations during the course of this call, I was informed that our rebates were never properly processed in time so we would not be getting them. I pulled up my email account and was able to verify the date that they were sent in and the representative that I spoke with stated that yes they were finally able to find my rebates and would make sure that they were submitted and proceeded to credit our account for the overage to get our bill back down to $77.89 a month. We were apologized to for the oversight and informed that this issue was now resolved and that we should be receiving our rebates shortly. I spent 2 hours on the phone trying to get this issue resolved so I was happy...or so I thought.
Three days after this, I received an automated call from the DirecTV accounts escalation department stating that our rebates were not processed on time and we would not be receiving them. This is after I had verbal confirmation from a DirecTV supervisor that they saw that the rebates were submitted on time and that they would be contacting the rebate department to ensure we would be receiving them.
At this point I really did not care about the rebates as I really only wanted our monthly rate that we signed up for.
Month 5 we were charged our correct amount.
Month 6, our bill once again skyrocketed. Our charges were well over $100 again!!! I called DirecTV once again to inquire about the charges. I was again informed that our 3 month promotion was over and that this was to be our regular rate. Once again I escalated the call. Once speaking with a supervisor, they were able to see the previous calls and previous credits. They were not sure why they were not being applied and stated that they would correct the situation immediately and get our bill adjusted back to our normal monthly rate and as a side note, this representative informed me that they saw we had some rebates on our account that were never applied. They stated that they would address this issue for us and that we should be receiving them shortly. The total length of this call was 1.5 hours.
This time DirecTV waited about 4 days before using the automated system to contact me and state that my rebates were not processed on time and we would not be receiving them. Once again this is after 2 DirecTV supervisors stated to me that they saw the rebates on my account, saw that they were entered on time, and that I had not received them. I still did not really care about the rebates but if I get them, hooray for me. I just want my monthly rate of $77.89.
Month 7 - November, our bill was incorrect. Our issue was not resolved. Our charges were over $100 again. I am starting to see a trend here.....I contact DirectTV again and went through all escalations and once again I was promised that this issue was to be resolved. I was also informed in the course of this call that this was the last time DirectTV could issue any credits to the account as this would be the 3rd time they have done so. I informed the representative that this was ok, AS LONG AS MY MONTHLY BILL WAS TO BE $77.89 GOING FORWARD. I was once again promised that this issue would be fixed.
Month 8, December. Our bill was incorrect. Due to a death in the family I did not feel up to battling DirecTV but I knew if I did not call we would be stuck with high monthly bills for ever for a service at this point that we do not even really want any longer as it has never saved us the money we were promised.
I was informed by the representative this time that I had charges for adult movies on the account. I don't rent pay per view, and I certainly do not pay for adult movies when the content is available online for free. I inquired as to when these charges took place, the charges were made to my account when no one was in the house. We were out of town for the aforementioned funeral and there was no way they could have been charged to the account as no one was in the house to charge them. The DirecTV representative stated that they could remove these charges as a one time courtesy for me and that this was the last time that my account would be credited. We should not have these charges any longer, our monthly bill should return to normal.
January 2013, our monthly bill this month is only $90, so it is slightly lower but still not what we were originally promised. So I called to cancel my account. I am done DirecTV, you win, you have worn me down to past the point of caring. I will no longer be using your service. I was informed that there was a cancelation fee of $280 on the account since I was terminating my service early.
This is an unjust fee. I do not feel that I should have to pay for this cancelation fee. The retention "specialist" that I spoke with stated that yes she can see all the issues that I have had with my account but that there is nothing she can do to waive the fee. I do not think that it is right for DirecTV to not honor their contracts that customers agreed to. It appears to me that DirecTV reserves the right to change the monthly fees at their whim and when customers call to address these issues, their representatives are trained to say or do whatever they can to keep the customer. All they care about is my money and how to take more of it. It does not matter to DirecTV that they have a once happy customer that returned to them for service when there are many alternatives available.
As a result of your horrible customer service throughout this whole ordeal, I am canceling my service. I am becoming a member of the vast cordcutting armada. I am standing up and saying no to service providers not giving a care in the world to their subscribers.
I might have to pay your unjust cancelation fee but I am also sending this email to consumerist.com and posting it to reddit.com. If you have not heard of either of those sites I suggest looking them up. They are quite large and MANY MANY people visit them on a daily basis. If by sharing my story with the public I can convince just 10 people to not sign up for your service, then the cancelation fee will have been well worth it.
A very disgusted formerly happy DirecTV subscriber
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:30 AM
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:33 AM
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:37 AM
Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:42 AM
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:47 AM
Posted 20 January 2013 - 10:56 AM
That the address you used?
Tivo Premier XL4, Tivo Premier, Tivo HD whole home on Xfinity HD, DirecTv Whole Home with 39" high gain KaKu dish, Roku3,SageTv 8 TB Win8 Server -> DVDO Edge-> Denon AVR, Klipsch KB15's/Panasonic 55ST60 plasma"
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:05 AM
email@example.com, email@example.com: EVP
firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com: SVP, Controller, CAO
email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com: SVP, CFO
firstname.lastname@example.com: Heywot Bitew
firstname.lastname@example.com: Ellen Filipiak
Chase Carey, email email@example.com.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:07 AM
this is a copy of the email that I sent their executive customer relations. I have not heard anything back from them, that is why I am posting a copy here and on Reddit.
Shame you didn't come here before you cancelled,someone might have been able to help or given you Ellen Filipiak's e-mail address sooner.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:14 AM
I do feel for them and a problem like this.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:19 AM
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:21 AM
You mean because he left DirecTV over 3 years ago?hmmm. I wonder why Chase didnt reply.
I wonder the validity of his other email addresses.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:24 AM
Waaaaa. Goodbye.
Agreed. When you come here and register with a username like "DirecTVSucks", you pretty much lose all sympathy and credibility from my point of view.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:28 AM
I could be wrong but I think the OP thought that the price promotion was for the length of the 2 year contract when in fact it was for the 3 months that he was correctly billed.
I do feel for them and a problem like this.
Even if that was the case, he should have been offered one of the cheaper retention only SELECT packages to lower his bill down for the remainder of the contract, and rather than giving him a one time credit, it should have been explained to him that the offer was only for three months.
From reading his post, it would appear DirecTv is agreeing with him there is a problem, offering to correct it, and them it recurs the next month. Someone needs to pull up his contract, read it, explain what was offered, make sure all rebates were applied, list out the monthly charges from this point on, and allow the OP to make changes to the package to keep it in line with his budget.
It shouldnt take monthly 2 hour calls to remedy.
Tivo Premier XL4, Tivo Premier, Tivo HD whole home on Xfinity HD, DirecTv Whole Home with 39" high gain KaKu dish, Roku3,SageTv 8 TB Win8 Server -> DVDO Edge-> Denon AVR, Klipsch KB15's/Panasonic 55ST60 plasma"
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:38 AM
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:41 AM
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:49 AM
When I originally signed up for the service I was guaranteed the rate of $77.89 a month for 2 years. I specifically signed up for a specific package at this rate with the channels that I wanted. I also specifically declined all movie packages and premium channels as I did not want to have to remember to call and cancel them at the end of the trial. I do not want a lower priced package. I wanted the service that I was promised. DirecTV was never willing to honor this, that is why I cancelled my service with them.
You were not guaranteed that rate for two years. Goodbye.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:50 AM
Personally, I would pull out the contract I signed, read it, and if it indeed shows you have a locked in price of $77 and change after taxes, take it to arbitration and try to get your termination fee refunded, as they would have been the ones to break the contract by raising your rates mid-contract.
Tivo Premier XL4, Tivo Premier, Tivo HD whole home on Xfinity HD, DirecTv Whole Home with 39" high gain KaKu dish, Roku3,SageTv 8 TB Win8 Server -> DVDO Edge-> Denon AVR, Klipsch KB15's/Panasonic 55ST60 plasma"
Posted 20 January 2013 - 11:56 AM
This is the kind of letter that I am sure made the op feel better by getting his anger out, which I believe is real. Writing the letter did serve a real purpose for the Op, but it should not have been sent, it should have been rewritten.
The letter was not clear and concise at the very beginning as to the nature of the issue, and what an acceptable response would be. Most of this letter should have been an addendum as it is important information but gets in the way of clearly getting to the point.
Finally, picking the user name he did in this forum IMHO is not appropriate. What if they did resolve the issue for you and gave you a sweet deal. I'd be interesting in knowing but I don't think I'd ever again read a post with this user name because it is prejudiced.
Sorry for your troubles.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 12:06 PM
You were not guaranteed that rate for two years. Goodbye.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation spurred public debate over how organs are allocated underwent a successful double-lung transplant on Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said.
Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, received new lungs from an adult donor at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Tracy Simon said.
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Sarah's relatives, who are from Newtown Square, just west of Philadelphia, were "beyond excited" about her new lungs but were "keeping in mind that someone had to lose a family member and they're very aware of that and very appreciative," family spokeswoman Maureen Garrity said earlier Wednesday.
The Murnaghan family received word about the donor lungs Tuesday night, Garrity said. The surgery began just after 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and had been expected to take at least six hours, she said.
Sarah's mother, Janet Murnaghan, said in a Facebook post that the family was "overwhelmed with emotions" and thanked all her supporters. She said the donor's family "has experienced a tremendous loss, may God grant them a peace that surpasses understanding."
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Palliative care at the Cancer Center at Metro Health Village is designed to focus on the relief of suffering and improving the quality of life for patients with chronic or life-threatening illnesses. We also offer support services for the patient's family.
While our focus is on pain and symptom management, palliative care is different than hospice care, in that patients do not have to have a terminal diagnosis. Patients receiving palliative care may continue with curative treatments, and there is no limitation related to life expectancy.
Some of the benefits of palliative care include:
- Relief of problematic symptoms, including pain, nausea, difficulty breathing, anxiety, depression and fatigue
- Help navigating the medical system
- Helping you have a better understanding of your plan of care
Our palliative care services are provided by John Mulder, MD. Dr. Mulder has many years of experience in palliative care. He is currently the Vice President of Medical Services for Faith Hospice and directs Holland Home Palliative Care Services.


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Sega has released the first trailer and batch of screens for the Wii U edition of Yakuza 1 & 2 HD.
At Friday's Nintendo Direct conference, Nintendo confirmed that the HD pack would hit its latest console on August 8 in Japan. International Wii U launch plans for the release haven't been announced.
The first two entries in the Yakuza series were released exclusively for PS2, with Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5 subsequently appearing on PS3. A HD re-release of the first two games launched on PS3 in 2012.
The Wii U release will mark the first time the series has appeared on a non-Sony platform. The Wii U edition will support GamePad features such as a touch screen map and off-screen play.
PS3 exclusive Yakuza 5 released in Japan last December and sold 357,000 copies in its debut week, which was more than the combined total of the top three Wii U launch games. Western launch plans for the title haven't been confirmed.


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Pets at the Kentucky Humane Society need YOU!
Each year KHS takes in over a 1,000 pets who need a little time in a home before they can be adopted. Typically pets that need temporary homes are too young to be spayed/neutered and adopted, or pets who are recovering from illness, injury or surgery.
You can help KHS "expand its shelter walls" by providing a temporary home to these needy animals. By doing so, you'll help socialize a younger pet, or provide a comfortable, secure place for an older pet to recover. And you'll help KHS save more lives, as the most foster homes we have, the more needy pets we can take in.
Most of our foster caregivers work full time and have other pets at home. Many families enjoy fostering, as the experience teaches children how to care for young or injured pets and how they can personally make a difference in an animal's life.
If you haven't fostered an animal before, give it a try! You'll find it to be a rewarding experience, and you will have the assurance that you are helping KHS save more lives.
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"Improvement and growth."
Simply put, those two words best characterize Linfield women's basketball in 2013-14. Playing with perhaps the youngest roster in one of one of the most competitive leagues in the nation, the Wildcats made significant strides, both in terms of tangible statistics and palpable competitiveness from night to night.
Vaulting from tied for last place to sixth in the Northwest Conference, Linfield tripled its overall win total from all of last season and claimed five league victories, including a signature, 11-point road victory over Lewis & Clark, a regular conference postseason tournament participant in recent years. Perhaps most encouraging is how strong the Wildcats finished the year, winning two of their last three games.
"I'm very excited about the foundation that we finally have for the program," said head coach Robin Potera-Haskins. "It takes a while to get the type of student-athletes that are able to excel not just in the classroom but also on the basketball court, and I felt that we did a really good job being exceptionally competitive."
Statistically, one of the Wildcats' greatest improvements came in the form of 3-point shooting. In an about-face, Linfield went from being the second-worst performing NWC team beyond the arc in 2012-13 (25.6 percent) to the best in 2013-14 (35 percent). Much of the team's success from long range can be attributed to freshman Quincey Gibson and sophomore Taylor Solomon. Both ranked among the top 3-point threats in the conference, Gibson second at 41 percent and Solomon sixth at 39.2 percent. Defensively, Linfield boasted the league's third best defense in terms of overall field goal and 3-point shooting percentage allowed.
But with as much progress as the Wildcats made this year, the goal remains to turn the program into a tournament team. Only the top four squads in the league make the season-ending tournament, which this year produced three NCAA playoff teams.
To do that, Linfield must continue to improve in several areas of the game, but mainly free throw shooting and offensive rebounding. The Wildcats cashed in on a conference-low 57.7 percent of their opportunities at the stripe, and ranked near the bottom of the league in most rebounding statistics, including a -4.8 margin on the glass. Potera-Haskins specifically cited her team's need to convert free throws under pressure and after drawing significant contact, and simply being more aggressive in going after balls that follow missed shots.
But overall, really the most significant factor limiting Linfield's success this year was inexperience.
"You can't explain how prepared you have to be to compete at this level, Potera-Haskins said.
The 2013-14 Wildcat roster featured just one senior, though her presence was certainly felt. Kaely Maltman, a four-year starter, departs as the program's third all-time leading scorer and rebounder after averaging 15.6 points and 9.1 rebounds per night in her final season en route to second team all-NWC honors.
Linfield will undoubtedly miss this all-time great next year. But the good news about graduating just one senior, then, is the rest of the team returns.
Solomon, Katelyn Henson and Kaleigh Phillips constitute the veteran core, along with rising juniors Catie Mets and Jessica McMillan. Now with a full year of experience under their belts, players like Riley Graham – who "brought toughness and tenacity to the table on a daily basis" – and Annalise Beshears – who "made great strides to be an impact player and significantly help the team in the middle" – should assume greater roles in their sophomore seasons.
As Linfield continues to gain respect as a team to be reckoned with on a nightly basis, it should only be a matter of time before the team achieves greater success in the win column.
"It seems like we're finally making the turn to change the culture of having athletes that really want to focus on the details of becoming a great basketball player," Potera-Haskins said, "those that are really committed to the program, to each other, to the school and to really building a foundation."