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The strings of a musical instrument, e.g., a guitar, are individually supported on an instrument body by webs of a hard but elastic polymeric material which are free to vibrate in the longitudinal direction of the strings and carry respective strain gauges whose direction of maximum sensitivity includes an acute angle with that longitudinal direction and with the underlying body surface. The webs may be integral with or bonded onto a more massive bridge or bridge section and have gable-shaped tops carrying the strain gauges.
1. A musical instrument comprising:
an instrument body;
a plurality of strings anchored under tension to said body while extending with major portions of their length in a plane generally parallel to a surface of said body;
support means on said surface holding said strings separated from said body, said support means including a plurality of webs of hard elastic material engaged by respective strings under a pressure transverse to said plane, said webs being free to vibrate in a direction parallel to said major portions in response to changes in the effective lengths of the respective strings; and
transducer means for converting vibrations of said strings into electrical signals, said transducer means including a plurality of strain gauges respectively disposed on said webs with a direction of maximum sensitivity inclined to said plane at an acute angle.
2. An instrument as defined in claim 1 wherein said webs are provided with gabled tops having sloping front and back faces separated by ridges in contact with said strings, each of said strain gauges being mounted on one of said sloping faces.
3. An instrument as defined in claim 2 wherein said strings have anchor portions in contact with said back faces, and bent at an obtuse angle about rear edges of the latter, said strain gauges being mounted on said front faces.
4. An instrument as defined in claim 3 wherein the supplement of said obtuse angle is less than the slope angle included between said back faces and said plane whereby said ridges are more strongly loaded than said rear edges by the respective strings.
5. An instrument as defined in claim 2 wherein said ridges are concave to form shallow grooves receiving said strings.
6. An instrument as defined in claim 2, 3, 4 or 5 wherein said webs have bases rigidly joined to a bridge member resting on said surface, said bridge member having wings flanking said webs with narrow lateral clearances.
7. An instrument as defined in claim 6 wherein the width of said clearances exceeds the thickness of a string, said wings being provided with projections overhanging said grooves with intervening gaps less than a string thickness.
8. An instrument as defined in claim 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 wherein said acute angle lies between substantially 30� and 60�.
9. An instrument as defined in claim 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 wherein said elastic material is a synthetic polymer.
This is a continuation-in-part of my copending application Ser. No. 935,916 filed Aug. 23, 1978, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,228,715.
My present invention relates to a musical instrument of the stringed type and, more particularly, to a sound pickup designed to convert the vibrations of its strings into electrical signals.
The instruments here contemplated, in which the strings have major vibratory portions in a plane generally parallel to the surface of a body such as a soundboard to which they are anchored under tension, include not only those of the neck type (guitars, violins etc.) but also pianos and the like. In such instruments it has already been proposed to provide electroacoustic pickups of the piezoelectric type (see, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,712,951, 3,530,228 and 3,049,958) as well as photoelectric transducers (U.S. Pat. No. 3,733,953). The use of a strain gauge in a vibraphone, xylophone or marimba has also been suggested (U.S. Pat. No. 3,684,814).
As disclosed in my above-identified copending application, a bridge member separating a set of strings from a resonant instrument body can be divided by slots into a number of sections each individually supporting a single string or a group of strings whose vibrations are to be picked up by one or two strain gauges carried on the respective section, the direction of maximum sensitivity of these strain gauges being perpendicular to the body surface and to the longitudinal direction of the strings. Such a strain gauge is highly sensitive to transverse vibrations of the strings but will not respond to oscillations of the resonant body at its various natural frequencies as induced in that body by the impinging sound waves. In another copending application, Ser. No. 123,443 filed Feb. 21, 1980 and now abandoned, I have disclosed circuitry particularly designed for the faithful reproduction of the resonance frequencies of such a body which generally lie in a range of up to about 5 KHz.
Aside from the periodically varying pressures exerted by a vibrating string upon a bridge or a section thereof perpendicular to the supporting body surface, however, there are also generated shear stresses parallel to that surface which result from the periodic changes in the effective length of the string (referred to in the art as "speaking length"). Since each transverse excursion of the string from its normal position foreshortens that effective length, these longitudinally oriented shear stresses have a periodicity which is twice that of the transverse vibrations giving rise thereto. Thus, the spectrum of the shear stresses is rich in even harmonics of the fundamental string frequency and its harmonics which, however, are not picked up by transversely oriented strain gauges. Theoretically, these even harmonics could be sensed by differentially connecting the outputs of a pair of strain gauges disposed on opposite parallel faces of a bridge section as disclosed in my prior application Ser. No. 935,916, yet this would require a careful balancing of the transverse forces acting upon these two faces.
An important object of my present invention, therefore, is to provide simple means for electromechanically picking up the various frequency components generated by the strings of a musical instrument with avoidance of objectionable cross-coupling.
A related object is to provide an effective mounting for a set of strain gauges serving as the pickup means.
In accordance with my present invention, the strings are supported on the instrument body by respective webs of hard elastic material, preferably a synthetic polymer, these webs being free to vibrate in a direction parallel to the major string portions in response to changes in effective length as discussed above. Each web is provided with a strain gauge whose direction of maximum sensitivity is inclined to the plane of the strings (and thus also to the confronting body surface) at an acute angle which preferably lies between about 30� and 60� and which at least approximates the angle of inclination of one of two planes of maximum shear stress in the web, namely a plane of maximum elongation and a plane of maximum compression.
As more fully disclosed hereinafter, these two planes intersect each other with opposite slopes, with the plane of elongation rising forwardly (i.e. in the direction of the speaking lengths of the strings) with each string resting on a ridge of a gable-shaped top of the associated web; the strain gauge could thus be mounted on either of the two sloping gable faces. For reasons that will become apparent hereinafter, however, it is generally more convenient to mount the strain gauge on the front face of the gable, thus at an angle of inclination approaching that of the plane of maximum compression.
The above and other features of my invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a somewhat diagrammatic side-elevational view serving to explain the principles underlying the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of a musical instrument provided with a bridge according to my invention;
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view of a slightly modified bridge according to the invention;
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary front view of the bridge shown in FIG. 2;
FIG. 4A is a cross-sectional view taken on the line IVA--IVA of FIG. 4;
FIG. 4B is a cross-sectional view similar to FIG. 4A, showing another modification;
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view, similar to FIG. 2, illustrating another bridge structure embodying my invention;
FIG. 6 is a front view of a detail of the bridge structure of FIG. 5, drawn to a larger scale; and
FIG. 7 is a top view of the bridge detail shown in FIG. 6.
In FIG. 1 I have diagrammatically illustrated a soundboard 1, which may be part of the body of a neck-type string instrument such as a guitar, together with a string 4 anchored to that soundboard at a point O. A bridge section 8, firmly resting on the soundboard, supports the string 4 and divides it into a major, vibratory portion 4' and a minor, restrained portion 4". The major portion 4', substantially paralleling the surface of board 1, defines the speaking length of the string.
The bridge section 8 is a web individual to string 4 (although, in principle, it could also support a group of strings tuned to the same fundamental frequency) and is provided with a gable-shaped top having sloping back and front faces 6 and 7 meeting at a ridge 18. The slope of rear face 6 is steeper than that of string section 4" which is therefore separated from that face by a rake angle. The string 4 bears upon the ridge 18 under a pressure p1 varying with the natural frequency f0 of the string when the latter is set in vibration. This vibration also varies the longitudinal tension p2 of string portion 4' but, as explained above, at a fundamental frequency 2f0 ; the higher harmonics of frequency f0 also appear doubled in the variations of tension p2. A part of these variations is absorbed by the tensile strength of string portion 4", the remainder being translated into an alternating shear force p3 acting upon the web 8. This web, accordingly, oscillates in the longitudinal direction of string portion 4' and thus undergoes a certain periodic deformation as indicated in phantom lines.
As the generally rectangular cross-section of web 8 assumes a substantially parallelogrammatic shape, its diagonals define two planes of maximum shear stress, namely a plane A-B of maximum elongation and a plane C-D of maximum compression. These stress planes include opposite angles of roughly 45� with the surface of board 1 and with the string plane substantially parallel thereto.
If the instrument body represented by soundboard 1 is of the usual hollow type, the shear stresses p3 transmitted to it by the web 8 (and by similar bridge sections supporting the remaining strings) give rise to forced body oscillations termed camber-rocking vibrations. In view of the frequency doubling referred to above, these camber-rocking vibrations contain a higher proportion of even harmonics than corresponds to the frequency spectrum of the transversely vibrating string. The sound emitted by the instrument body, therefore, contains frequency components that can be acoustically perceived but that have no significant influence upon the conductivity of a strain gauge whose direction of maximum sensitivity is perpendicular to the board surface.
Thus, a strain gauge designed to detect these even harmonics for a faithful electronic reproduction of the sound pattern of the instrument must have a direction of sensitivity angularly offset from the bisectors of planes A-B and C-D, i.e. from the transverse and longitudinal stress directions p1 and p2. A choice of its angle of inclination, relative to board 1, determines the extent to which the variations of pressure p1 and shear force p3 are respectively translated into electrical oscillations, i.e. the ratio of the corresponding frequency components in the strain-gauge output. This angle will generally lie between about 30� and 60�.
Although a strain gauge could be mounted on a lateral face of web 8 in a manner satisfying this requirement, this would require a relatively wide spacing of adjacent bridge sections from one another. A more compact bridge structure, therefore, can be achieved by placing such a gauge 5 on one of the two sloping faces 6 and 7 of the web which roughly parallel the two stress planes A-B and C-D. With an arrangement as shown in FIG. 1, either one of these faces would be available for that purpose. In many instances, however, it will be desirable to provide more than point support for the string by eliminating the rake angle existing between its anchor portion 4" and the back face 6, especially when the string consists of steel and is thus liable to cut into the ridge 18 in the presence of such a rake angle. The front face 7 then provides the most convenient location for the strain gauge 5 as illustrated in FIG. 1.
For proper operation it is, of course, necessary to guard against relative shifts of the string, the bridge and the soundboard. For this purpose it may be desirable to use a relatively massive bridge mount 2, FIG. 2, as conventionally employed with concert or "western" guitars. In this case the several strings 4 (only one shown) are anchored to the underlying instrument body 1 not directly but through the intermediary of a retaining ledge integral with that bridge mount. The bridge itself is formed as an insert 13 received in a groove of mount 2, this insert being formed with a number of cutouts 17 (FIG. 4) accommodating respective string-supporting webs 8a. If the insert 13 is molded from a suitable plastic material, e.g. a polyamide or a polycarbonate, the webs 8a may be integral therewith. Where the insert is metallic, I prefer to use a plastic web of a lower modulus of elasticity (e.g. about one hundredth that of metal) which is adhesively or otherwise secured at its base to the bottom of the respective cutout 17. The lateral clearances left between the web 8a and the sides of the cutout 17 may be somewhat wider than the string diameter, in which case the wings of insert 13 flanking the web 8a should be provided with overlying strips 12 forming projections 11 which closely approach the ridge 18a of the web to prevent the string 4 from accidentally entering either of these clearances. In order to facilitate the formation of the cutouts 17, the strips 12 should be separately produced and bonded to the upper edge of the insert.
The web 8a shown in FIGS. 2, 4 and 4A has a gabled top with sloping back and front faces 6a and 7a, the latter carrying a strain gauge 5 whose direction of sensitivity includes an angle γ of roughly 45� with the string plane. The back face 6a is inclined to that plane at an angle α and in turn includes an angle β<α with the anchored string portion 4". This string portion, accordingly, is bent at an obtuse supplemental angle 180�-β about the rear edge of face 6a and thus exerts less pressure upon that edge than is sustained by the ridge 18a about which the string is bent at a less obtuse angle 180�-α. This is desirable in order to transmit the greater part of the pressure changes to the gauge-carrying front face 7a which, it will be noted, is substantially larger in this instance than the string-supporting back face 6a. Leads 9 extending from strain gauge 5 are accommodated in channels 10 of insert 13 and, like the gauge 5 itself, are advantageously covered by a protective coating of epoxy resin or the like.
For firmer adherence of the string to the web face 6a, the latter may be provided with a friction-increasing layer of rosin, for example. Furthermore, face 6a is advantageously made slightly concave to form a groove designed to hold the string 4 in a centered position.
Whereas the insert 13 of FIGS. 2, 4 and 4A has a beveled front surface substantially in line with the web faces 7a, I may also use an insert 13' of rectangular cross-section as shown in FIG. 3. In that instance the protective strips 12' cemented to the insert have broader extremities 11' which, as shown in FIG. 4B, are coextensive in width with the several webs. The web 8b particularly illustrated in FIG. 4B differs from the aforedescribed web 8a by having a smaller front face 7b adjoining its back face 6b and by further having an inclined shelf 27 supporting the string gauge 5 at a suitable distance from the anchored strain portion 4". In this instance it may be desirable to make the angle β between string portion 4" and face 6b somewhat larger than the angle of inclination α of that face. The slope of shelf 27 is of the same magnitude as angle γ, i.e. between about 30� and 60�.
In FIGS. 5-7 I have illustrated, by way of further example, a bridge construction of a type used with some electric guitars in which a frame 20 has cutouts accommodating respective bridge sections 22 whose positions relative to the frame are adjustable with the aid of bolts 21 for the tuning of the corresponding strings 4. The rear ends of string portions 4" are anchored to the instrument body 1 by being received in slots 16 of a mounting strip 14 which is secured to that body by screws 15 (only one shown). The frame 20 is provided with rotatable feet 25 having threaded stems 19 engaged by locking nuts 26 to facilitate adjustment of the effective height of the bridge sections above the body surface. Each bridge section 22, as seen in FIG. 6, is provided with an internally threaded metal sleeve 24 engaged by the respective tuning bolt 21. FIG. 6 also shows that the frame 20 may be made of metal whereas the bridge element 22, overlain by protective strips 23, could consist either of synthetic resin or of metal; thus, the string-supporting webs 8a of suitable polymeric material may be either integral with these bridge sections or adhesively secured thereto, as discussed above. Leads 9 extending from each strain gauge 5 are again received in channels 10 here formed in the individual bridge sections 22.
It will be understood that my present invention, though particularly illustrated for a variety of guitars, is applicable to string instruments in general including violins, violas, cellos, pianos, harpsichords and the like.
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I read somewhere that they don't like peppermint, so I bought some peppermint tea and sprinkled the contents of the teabags all around my crops. That got expensive, so I bought bulk dried peppermint leaves. I don't know if it was that or the squirrels finally got tired of my dogs, but for the most part they left the garden alone.
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My first Samsung Galaxy Tab was so useful that I locked it up twice in the first 4 days with Google Navigate, speach to text with my bluetooth headset to enter web addresses, answer emails, etc. My second one crashed apps like the browser when I overloaded it by multi-tasking.
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The next step was to sideload the Vlingo app to get around Google Voice Search's lack of Bluetooth support. I paired five different bluetooth headsets to The HTC EVO View. Two of them connected to Media Audio, but none would connect the to the bluetooth headset microphone.
Sprint's Technical Support tried to be helpful. But all they could do was suggest taking it back to the Sprint store. The guy at HTC's Technical Support was able to round-up an EVO View, a HTC Flyer, and several bluetooth headsets. He called me back to tell me he got the same results I got.
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It's that time of year - - - earlier and earlier!
I got my 2014 Pinetree catalog today! Almost fell over when I saw it! I still remember when you didn't start getting catalogs until January!
Now I'm wondering if the companies might be starting to send the catalogs SO early that people lay them aside and forget about them while they're busy with the holidays, and then the companies that send them a little later get most of the business when people are more likely to sit down and look thru them right away when they have little to do in the Dark of Winter!
Anybody else receive any yet?
I think you are partly right, Skybird.
Two catalogs have shown up in my mailbox - Stokes and HPS came today. I'm happy to see these because I can take some time to look thru them before the holidays. A problem with that is that I tend to forget what I looked at after a couple of months.
Ordering from the later ones? Yes, that is what I think may well happen. However, the early ones ARE the later ones!
For years, I appreciated that Stokes only sent out one catalog. I felt they were doing their part to conserve resources and I didn't really appreciate those companies that would send 3, or more! Well, last year or the year before - Stokes also sent out a 2nd copy. I'm not sure if there are any of the larger seed companies that send only one copy these days!
Now, don't get weird and toss your early copies because Steve said you'd get another by Ground Hog's Day. Just find a place to start stacking them and when the pile tips over late in the winter - go back to see what duplicates you have and get those in the recycle bin . . . please.
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Cabbage! Yeah, lots of new cabbage this year. Oriental veggies . . . which Stokes lists alphabetically in the "c's" so you know they are thinking "Chinese." Funny, there's actually a link between the old Stokes and a Japanese seed company (Sakata, was it?), I read in a history of the company. You'd think they'd pay more attention to Asia these days . . . hmm . . . always the new sweet corn . . . Stokes worried me a few years ago by having so few new "anything." I guess that was the recession. . . got a new Beit Alpha cucumber and it doesn't seem to be a hybrid. Good that they've got one - I wonder if it can take cool springs. Rockstar cantaloupe, well we all want to be a rockstar. Goosebumps pumpkins. Lunch Lady!! Ornamental gourds - warted! Well, how rude!
Skipping over the accessories for now . . . Indigo Rose "cocktail size" tomato. Black tops to rose red . . . hmmm.
For the folks who can grow impatiens, Stokes always has a nice selection! You'd think they'd do well here but the hot, dry weather hits just about the time they want to bloom and you've got shriveled flowers the rest of the year . . . Jade sunflowers. I wonder if that is too much like the whites and doesn't hold its petals well. Sure doesn't look jade green to me but it is kind of green. Oh look at those pansies!! Yeah, this is petunia country. Should start them again in the greenhouse. They've got a new grandiflora, Limbo. Can't decide if I want petunia bedding plants, kind of in as state of . . . maybe I'll give that some more thought! Got that new shed-attached tunnel! Some of those shorter snaps . . . dwarf delphiniums? Oops, I must have missed the salvia . . . Where did I get those big salvia in 2012?
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Posting a pic of the tree and the potting mix will help with the questions about watering.
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The light levels now are almost at their lowest....(Dec 21) so you can give it increased direct light indoors.
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Thanks so much, and no, I'm not in zone 10. That is the default for posting and I didn't bother changing it.
Sorry I did not give enough information. I am pretty sure it's not getting too much water as I notice the leaves curling every so often so it must be more dry than optimal. I usually give it at least a gallon/week (very large pot).
It is in a full wall-height south-facing window so gets as much as possible. It definitely did experience a big change coming from outside as it was pretty chilly by the time I moved it.
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The equipment company Eriez, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, has promoted Mike Shattuck to the position of market manager, metals recycling, while Christopher Ramsdell has been named product manager, metals recycling.
In his new role, Shattuck will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies designed to expand the sales of Eriez products into scrap metals markets.
Shattuck joined Eriez in 2006 as a technical sales representative. Most recently, he served as recycling equipment product manager.
"Mike has excelled at developing business throughout his tenure at Eriez," says Charlie Ingram, Eriez vice president of sales and marketing. "His efforts have led to the release of many breakthrough products for the recycling industry, including the RevX-E eccentric eddy current separator, P-Rex scrap drum and FinesSort fines metal recovery system."
Shattuck will report to Dave Heubel, Eriez director of North American sales.
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Eriez also promoted Christopher Ramsdell to the position of product manager of recycling equipment. In the position, Ramsdell will develop and implement strategies to expand the sales of Eriez recycling products into all Eriez markets.
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Posted by avvesione in 2015 Winter, Anime on February 23, 2015
For Week 5: analyzing the role of the 'colorless' background characters in Durarara!!x2 Shou, a tribute to the border security girls running the checkpoints in The Rolling Girls, issues with how the fights end in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders – Egypt Arc, and wondering about a future business opportunity for Shinku and the others in Dog Days''.
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Art books are arguably my favorite item of anime merchandise (of which, I own 18). And Imai Kami is undoubtedly my favorite manga artist. So when the Imai Kami Visual Collection, Nirai Kanai, was announced to be sold in June 2014, I was positively ecstatic. For the first time, there would be a printed compilation of his various works from both Needless and Shirasunamura, as well as other works in magazines and online sources. However, there was a major bonus to this art book that made it even more unique and exceptional among its peers. Since its completion as a doujinshi in 1999, Imai Kami's first printed work, the 330 page BLACK SPOT, was being reprinted and bundled with the art book. After 15 years, the work that originated Imai Kami's career and was the foundation and basis for my favorite manga, Needless, was finally available to the public. Without a doubt, the Imai Kami Visual Collection is the best thing to happen to me in 2014.


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2013 (as Lloyds Bank)
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London EC2V 7HN, United Kingdom
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Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail bank with branches across England and Wales. It has traditionally been considered one of the "Big Four" clearing banks.[2] Originally founded in Birmingham in 1765, the bank expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies. In 1995 it merged with the Trustee Savings Bank and traded as Lloyds TSB Bank plc between 1999 and 2013.
The bank is the principal subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, which was formed in January 2009 by the acquisition of HBOS by the then-Lloyds TSB Group.[3] That year, following the UK bank rescue package, the British Government took a 43.4% stake in Lloyds Banking Group. As a condition imposed by the European Commission regarding state aid,[4] the group later announced that it would create a new standalone retail banking business, made up of a number of Lloyds TSB branches and those of Cheltenham & Gloucester. The new business began operations on 9 September 2013 under the TSB brand. Lloyds TSB was subsequently renamed Lloyds Bank on 23 September 2013.[5]
Lloyds Bank has an extensive network of branches and ATM in England and Wales and offers 24-hour telephone and online banking services. As of 2012[update] it has 16 million personal customers and small business accounts.[6]
By automation and many consumers use electronic banking, in October 2014 Lloyds Bank announced to cut 9,000 employees and also to close some branches.[7]
The origins of Lloyds Bank date from 1765, when button maker John Taylor and iron producer and dealer Sampson Lloyd II set up a private banking business in Dale End, Birmingham. The first branch office opened in Oldbury, some six miles (10 km) west of Birmingham, in 1864. The symbol adopted by Taylors and Lloyds was the beehive, representing industry and hard work. The black horse device dates from 1677, when Humphrey Stokes adopted it as sign for his shop. Stokes was a goldsmith and "keeper of the running cashes" (an early term for banker) and the business became part of Barnett, Hoares & Co. When the bank took over that bank in 1884, it retained the black horse as its symbol.[8]
The association with the Taylor family ended in 1852 and, in 1865, Lloyds & Co. converted into a joint-stock company known as Lloyds Banking Company Ltd.
"LLOYDS BANKING COMPANY LIMITED - Authorized Capital £2,000,000. FOUNDED ON The Private Banks of Messrs. Lloyds & Co. and Messrs. Moilliet and Sons, with-which have subsequently been amalgamated the Banks of Messrs. P. H. Williams, Wednesbury, and Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, & Co., Stafford and Lichfield. {They had an office at 20 Lombard St., London}
Your Directors have the satisfaction to report that they have concluded an agreement with the well-known and old-established firm of Messrs. Stevenson, Salt & Company for the amalgamation with this Company of their Banking Business at Stafford, Lichfield, Rugeley, and Eccleshall, and that this agreement has had the unanimous approval of the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 31st January last. It will be again submitted to you for final confirmation after the close of the Ordinary General Meeting.
TIMOTHY KENRICK, Chairman. BIRMINGHAM, 9th February 1866. [First Report of the Company - 1865]"
Two sons of the original partners followed in their footsteps by joining the established merchant bank Barnett, Hoares & Co. which later became Barnetts, Hoares, Hanbury and Lloyd— based in Lombard Street, London. Eventually, this became absorbed into the original Lloyds Banking Company, which became Lloyds, Barnetts and Bosenquets Bank Ltd. in 1884, and, finally, Lloyds Bank Limited in 1889.
Through a series of mergers, including Cunliffe, Brooks in 1900, the Wilts. and Dorset Bank in 1914 and, by far the largest, the Capital and Counties Bank in 1918, Lloyds emerged to become one of the "Big Four" clearing banks in the United Kingdom. By 1923, Lloyds Bank had made some 50 takeovers, one of which was the last private firm to issue its own banknotes—Fox, Fowler and Company of Wellington, Somerset. Today, the Bank of England has a monopoly of banknote issue in England and Wales.[9] In 2011, the company founded SGH Martineau LLP.
In 1968, a failed attempt at merger with Barclays and Martins Bank was deemed to be against the public interest by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Barclays finally acquired Martins the following year.[10] In 1972, Lloyds Bank was a founding member of the Joint Credit Card Company (with National Westminster Bank, Midland Bank and Williams & Glyn's Bank) which launched the Access credit card (now MasterCard). That same year it introduced Cashpoint, the first online cash machine to use plastic cards with a magnetic stripe.[11] In popular use, the Cashpoint trademark has become a generic term for an ATM in the United Kingdom.
Under the leadership of Sir Brian Pitman between 1984 and 1997, the bank's business focus was narrowed and it reacted to disastrous lending to South American states by trimming its overseas businesses and seeking growth through mergers with other UK banks. During this period, Pitman tried unsuccessfully to acquire The Royal Bank of Scotland in 1984, Standard Chartered in 1986,[12] and Midland Bank in 1992. Lloyds Bank International merged into Lloyds Bank in 1986, since there was no longer an advantage in operating separately.[13] In 1988, Lloyds merged five of its businesses with the Abbey Life Insurance Company to create Lloyds Abbey Life.
The bank merged first with the newly demutualised Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society (C&G), then with the TSB Group in 1995.[14][15] The C&G acquisition gave Lloyds a large stake in the UK mortgage lending market.[16] The TSB merger was structured as a reverse takeover; Lloyds Bank Plc was delisted from the London Stock Exchange and TSB Group plc was renamed Lloyds TSB Group plc on 28 December, with former Lloyds Bank shareholders owning a 70% equity interest in the share capital, effected through a scheme of arrangement. The new bank commenced trading in 1999, after the statutory process of integration was completed.[17] On 28 June, TSB Bank plc transferred engagements to Lloyds Bank Plc which then changed its name to Lloyds TSB Bank plc; at the same time, TSB Bank Scotland plc absorbed Lloyds' three Scottish branches becoming Lloyds TSB Scotland plc. The combined business formed the largest bank in the UK by market share and the second-largest to Midland Bank (now HSBC) by market capitalisation.
Lloyds Abbey Life became a wholly owned subsidiary of the group in 1996, absorbing Hill Samuel in 1997, before closing to new business in 2000. In 2007, Abbey Life was sold to Deutsche Bank for £977 million.[18]
In 1999, the group agreed to buy the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society for £7 billion.[19] The society demutualised in 2000, shortly before the acquisition was completed.[20] In 2001, Lloyds TSB made a bid to acquire Abbey National; however, the bid was blocked by the Competition Commission, who ruled that a merger would be against the public interest.[21]
In October 2011, Lloyds TSB's credit rating was reduced by Moody's from Aa3 to A1.[22] The action was taken in the light of a shift in government policy to move risk from taxpayers to creditors by reducing the level of support offered to financial institutions.
Lloyds TSB was the first Official Partner for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[23]
After the 2008 rescue of HBOS,[24] Lloyds TSB Group was renamed Lloyds Banking Group.[25] In 2009, following the liquidity crisis, HM Government took a 43.4% stake in Lloyds Banking Group. The European Commission ruled that the group must sell a portion of its business by November 2013, as it categorised the stake purchase as state aid.[26]
On 24 April 2013, it was confirmed that a number of Lloyds TSB branches in England and Wales would be combined with the branches of Cheltenham & Gloucester and the business of Lloyds TSB Scotland to form a new bank operating under the TSB brand and divested by the group.[27] The selected Lloyds TSB branches and those of Cheltenham & Gloucester were transferred to Lloyds TSB Scotland plc, which was renamed TSB Bank plc and is due to be divested through an initial public offering in 2014.[28] The new bank began operating on 9 September 2013 as a separate division within Lloyds Banking Group.[29] The remaining business of Lloyds TSB returned to the Lloyds Bank name on 23 September 2013.[5]
The bank offers a full range of banking and financial services, through a network of 1,300 branches in England and Wales.[31] Branches in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are operated by Lloyds Bank International Limited, while Lloyds Bank (Gibraltar) Limited operates in Gibraltar; both are wholly owned subsidiaries and trade under the Lloyds Bank brand.[32] Lloyds Bank is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by both the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.[33] It is a member of the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, UK Payments Administration and of the British Bankers' Association. The bank uses the following series of sort codes:—
|30 to 39
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|77-00 to 77-44
77-46 to 77-99
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The Lloyds TSB Foundation funds local, regional and national charities working to tackle disadvantage across England and Wales.[34] There are separate foundations covering Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands.
By the early 1990s, Lloyds Bank had offices in 30 countries, from Argentina to the United States of America.
1911 saw the formation of Lloyds Bank (France) when Lloyds Bank acquired Armstrong and Co., based in Paris and Le Havre. From 1917 it was run jointly as Lloyds and National Provincial Bank. In 1955, Lloyds Bank bought full ownership and it became Lloyds Bank (Foreign) and later Lloyds Bank Europe.[35]
A strong connection with South America began in 1918 with the acquisition of the London and River Plate Bank. The later merger with the London and Brazilian Bank resulted in the Bank of London and South America. The Bank of London and Montreal was a joint venture between the Bank of London and South America and the Bank of Montreal. In 1971, Lloyds Bank bought the controlling interest in BOLSA and merged it with Lloyds Bank Europe to form Lloyds and Bolsa International Bank. This became Lloyds Bank International in 1974 and was merged into Lloyds Bank in 1986.[13]
In 1872, the National Bank of New Zealand was founded in London as an overseas bank and shared many directors with Lloyds Bank. In 1919, Lloyds Bank acquired a small interest in the National Bank and in 1966, purchased it outright. In 1978, the National Bank moved its head office from London to Wellington.[36]
An already commanding presence as the National Bank of New Zealand was further strengthened in 1994 by the takeover of the Rural Bank, the former New Zealand government owned bank, from Fletcher Challenge, making it the leading provider of agricultural finance in the country.
In 2003, Lloyds TSB sold the National Bank to the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. In 2013, ANZ announced that the National Bank brand (including the black horse and colour green) would be phased out.
In 1961, Lloyds Bank transferred its Eastern Division to National and Grindlays Bank in exchange for a 25 per cent share in National and Grindlays Bank (renamed Grindlays Bank in 1975). The bank retained its interest in Grindlays until 1984, when it was sold to the ANZ Banking Group.
The Bank of London and Montreal was a joint venture between the Bank of London and South America and Canadian Bank of Montreal established in 1958 and headquartered in Nassau, Bahamas. In 1970, BOLSA fully acquired BOLAM.
Lloyds Bank of Canada was formed in 1986, when the bank purchased the Continental Bank of Canada. In 1990, after several years of losses, Lloyds Bank sold its Canadian operations to the Hong Kong Bank of Canada, a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc.
In November 2005 an investigation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) highlighted a lack of compliance controls surrounding payment protection insurance (PPI). A second investigation in October 2006 identified further evidence of poor compliance and major PPI providers including Lloyds were fined for not treating customers fairly. In January 2011 a High Court case began which in the following April ruled against the banks, on 5 May 2011 Lloyds withdrew from the legal challenge. In 2012, Lloyds announced that they had set aside £3.6 billion to cover the cost of compensating customers who were mis-sold PPI.[38]
In March 2014 it was reported that Lloyds had been reducing the compensation they offered by using a regulatory provision called "alternative redress" to assume that customers wrongly sold single-premium PPI policies would have bought a cheaper, regular premium PPI policy instead.[39]
In December 2008 the British anti-poverty charity War on Want released a report documenting the extent to which the UK high street banks invest in, provide banking services for and lend to arms companies. The report stated that Lloyds TSB is the only high street bank whose corporate social responsibility policy does not mention the arms industry, yet is that industry's second largest shareholder among high street banks.[40]
In 2009, the BBC's Panorama alleged that Lloyds TSB Offshore in Jersey, Channel Islands was encouraging wealthy customers to evade tax. An employee of Lloyds was filmed telling a customer how several mechanisms could be used to make their transactions invisible to the UK tax authorities.[41] This action is also in breach of money laundering regulations in Jersey.[42] Lloyds subsequently claimed that this was an isolated incident which they were investigating.[43]
In December 2013, Lloyds Banking Group had been fined £28m for "serious failings" in relation to bonus schemes for sales staff. The Financial Conduct Authority said it was the largest fine that it or the former Financial Services Authority had imposed for retail conduct failings. The bonus scheme pressured staff to hit sales targets or risk being demoted and have their pay cut, the FCA said. Lloyds Bank has accepted the regulator's findings and apologised to its customers.[44] In February 2014, the Twitter profile @LloydsBankHell began tracking disquiet with consumers towards the bank. [45]
Based on figures from the National Audit Office, George Osborne's sale of a 6% tranche of Lloyds shares in autumn 2013—despite his claims that the sale had netted a profit—worked out at a loss of at least £230m for UK taxpayers.[46]
In July 2014, U.S. and UK regulators slapped a combined £218 million ($370 million) in fines on Lloyds and a number of subsidiaries over the bank's part in the global Libor rate fixing scandal, and other rate manipulations and false reporting.[47]
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Anyone have Cambria in Sutton? If so, could you please post pictures? I'm trying to narrow down all the beautiful colors. Thanks!
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Welcome to GHFF
The Georgia Hunting and Fishing Federation is a grassroots organization that is committed to promoting the outdoor sports. Founded in September 2003 hunters and fishermen from all over Georgia organized and held a rally in Blackshear, GA. with nearly 5000 folks in attendance. From this start GHFF has formed local chapters all over the state. The GHFF has worked with the legislation and DNR to preserve and protect some age old hunting traditions and to implement some changes to improve hunting and encourage kids to get involved in outdoor sports. The GHFF Expo is held each year to promote awareness of our organization and expose the public to the latest equipment and opportunities available in the great outdoors.
Welcome to the Newest Chapter of the Georgia Hunting & Fishing Federation
Effingham Chapter Catfish Tournament March 7th 2015 - Puppy Hunt March 21st 2015
Effingham Chapters March Events 2015
Ben Hill - Irwin Chapters 1st Annual Youth Fish Rodeo Saturday April 11th, 2015
Ben Hill - Irwin Chapters 1st Annual Youth Fish Rodeo Saturday April 11th, 2015
To keep dog hunting legal and restore the right to have fox pens in Florida
Keep Dog Hunting Legal
To help protect our right to dog hunt in southern states this will be shared. Florida lost the right on fox pens and this is a chance to regain the ability dismiss this rule. (68A-24.002 and 68A-9.002, F.A.C.,) that allowed for chasing foxes/coyotes in an enclosure.
That's why I signed a petition to Florida wildlife commission and Florida state legislature, which says:
"To keep dog hunting legal and restore the right to have fox pens in Florida"
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Special Youth Turkey Season for Private Land Hunters Opens before Statewide Season - March 14-15, 2015
For the second year in Georgia, youth and mobility-impaired hunters will have a chance to turkey hunt the weekend before the statewide turkey season opens. This special opportunity season is March 14-15, 2015.
"This sneak preview opportunity gives youth a chance to get in the woods before the season opens to everyone the following weekend," said John Bowers, chief of the Game Management Section. "But, we want hunters to be sure to note that this special opportunity hunt is only available on private lands."
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If you are interested in learning to control potential nuisance wildlife through trapping, sign up for this FREE workshop. Staff from the Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division and members of the Georgia Trappers Association will provide instruction on trapping coyotes, beaver, raccoons and opossums.
This workshop will take place at a private farm in Lumpkin County on March 20th, 9:30 am - 3 pm. The event is free, but you must pre-register (deadline to register is March 16). Lunch will be provided to all participants.
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Okefenokee 2015 Expo - Hunters Safety Education Course Information
Hunters Safety Education Course Information
The Georgia Hunting And Fishing Federation, The Ware County Chapter of the GHFF, and the Georgia DNR will be providing an opportunity to those young hunters needing to complete a Hunters Safety Education Course. Testing will be conducted in the Exchange Club Building located on the Fair Grounds on Saturday Morning, April 18th, 2015 from 10:00 am until 12:00 Noon.
I have got the class set up for April 18th, 2015 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Each student will need to register for the on-line class prior to Thursday April 16th, 2015 at www.gohuntgeorgia.com. Also, prior to attending the class each student will have to take and complete the online Hunter Education Class. Taking an online hunter education course is a convenient alternative to the 10-hour classroom course. There are four courses currently available, all are approved by the State of Georgia. Courses are available for varying fees. Fees for these courses are charged by and collected by the course developer. These classes are located at http://www.gohuntgeorgia.com/Hunting/HunterEdCourse.
Once the student has successfully finished any of the online courses, they will need to attend a local, scheduled 2-hour review and test to complete course certification (which will be offered on April 18th, 2015).
Learn more about the NEW Three Month Range Pass for New Hunter Education Graduates. When you pass the Hunter Education Course, your certification card doubles as a free three month pass at any Department of Natural Resources shooting range.
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Our mission is to enrich the lives of special needs children by providing life-changing outdoor experiences that are exciting, fun and empowering, in a safe and accommodating environment. Our desire is to foster the development of self confidence and self-reliance through the provision of outdoor adventures including hunting, fishing and camping.
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Hunters Helping Farmers is a new private lands initiative opportunity that seeks to match up hog hunters in the same county with farmers that need assistance with hog removal. This initiative is a partnership effort between the Georgia Department of Agriculture and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in order to help landowners manage the damaging impact of feral hogs.
This initiative is a partnership effort between the Georgia Department of Agriculture and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in order to help landowners manage the damaging impact of feral hogs.
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Georgia Outdoor Map
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has unveiled an interactive map that identifies DNR-managed lands and outdoor recreation opportunities. The "Georgia Outdoor Map" includes state parks, wildlife management areas, public fishing areas, boat ramps, and historic sites.
Use GeorgiaOutdoorMap.com with any device with a web browser including desktops, phones and tablets. By checking criteria fields, users can find recreational opportunities, directions, handicap accessibility, telephone numbers and website links for more details.The tool also offers a "near me" function to help users determine which recreational opportunities are closest to them.
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Donate A Deer And Feed The Hungry
Its as easy as that. Step up and make a difference.
There is a program that now, in its fourth season, is beginning to gain real traction and it is a winner for sportsmen processors and our communities.
The program is called Sportsman's Pantry, and it functions under the oversight of four sportsman's groups, GON Network, Georgia Hunting & Fishing Federation, SafariClub International, and Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry.
But the groups are not the important story here. The real story is sportsmen like you finding a way to do what we all want done, and doing it better than it has ever been done before in Georgia, and doing it where you live and hunt.
The aim of the program is to bring together three groups at the local level. Those groups are:
hunters willing do donate a deer to those in need, processors will do the work at a reduced price, and local approved charities who can accept the processed venison.
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Hey really need more hunters from the southern portion of your region. Cook, Berrien, Lanier, Clinch, Charlton, Pierce, Bacon, Appling, Atkinson, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Montgomery, Toombs, Tattnall are all low on number of hunters.
Please Contact Me: Greg Nelms Natural Resources Biologist DNR-WRD-GM Waycross, GA Phone: 912-285-6485 Fax: 912-285-6115
Got a hunting trip planned? Bridge closures at two south Georgia WMAs are a good reason to remind hunters to check information (such as road closures, etc.) on the wildlife management area you are planning to visit before you go.
Alphabetical WMA Index
Hunting Maps
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Habitat Food Plot Seed
Pioneer Hybrid corn seed arrived today!
Georgia Hunting & Fishing Federation has food plot seed available to it's members, we have grain sorghum $12 per bag, corn and soybeans $15 per bag.
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Sure, if you're willing to sell out just like he did...
Submitted by crakkerjak on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 12:32. Permalink
"A citizen of the United States captured or arrested in the United States and detained by the Armed Forces..." He might as well be supporting "colonization" of African Americans. The national military has no right to capture or arrest citizens of the US in the US. It is settling for the scraps to argue about what they do with innocent people while they have them in prison. So, yeah, why not sell out? What's the right to walk the streets innocent of crime anyway? Some silly construct of that ridiculous constitution, I tell you!
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