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As a professor of English literature at Mississippi State University, Herschell Gordon Lewis was very, very bored in the mid-1950s. That was going nowhere, he was young and already stagnant, and at the same time he was good at publicity. He knew how to shoot commercials, he understood the power of communication, he sniffed shrewdly at the audiovisual business and a hunch predicted a great future for him. Luckily for him, at the end of that decade, two events radically changed his life: he met producer David Friedman, who put Lewis (Pittsburgh, 1926-Fort Laudesdale, 2016) to direct films with naked girls, the nudie cutie, that in spite of their low quality they obtained benefits in the neighborhood cinemas; and one day in 1960 he saw Psychosis, and decided that he would shoot what Hitchcock did not show. Thus the cinema was born gore, films of viscera, blood and dismembered bodies, a genre that stars in the tenth edition of the Film Festival Lo + Forbidden, which is being held at the Artistic Metropol cinema in Madrid starting this Thursday. It opens with The Gore Gore Girls, by Lewis, which is now half a century after its premiere.
Without knowing it, Lewis invented the cinema gory (a verb translatable from English as to dismember with a knife or even gore), although the passion for the dismemberment of human bodies or their evisceration already existed in some religions 2,000 years ago. Bloody shows triumphed in ancient Rome and in the Middle Ages. And in 1897 in Paris he opened Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, which specialized in ultranaturalistic horror shows. But for Lewis the flame lit with Psychosis. “For me, the film cheated,” he would say years later. “Hitchcock was showing the results, but not the action, because he couldn’t risk being turned away from theaters. We didn’t care.” To the cinema of his naked torsos he added blood, stab wounds, torn legs and arms, wounds through which the intestines or the brain escaped. And he swept.
Three years after Hitchcock’s walk through the Bates Motel, in 1963, Lewis and Friedman premiered Blood Feast, the first film gore. Shot in Miami for $25,000 in nine days, Stephen King calls it the “worst horror movie” he’s ever seen. Lewis was not interested in acting, or the camera, nor did he really have any artistic talent. But it did harbor a vision for the aesthetics that should be underlined on screen: liters of blood, a sequence with a tongue torn from the mouth of a woman for whom they used a lamb’s tongue. And of course, no black and white: his films would be in color so that the blood would shine in all its splendor.
That type of cinema had no place in traditional theaters, and for this reason Friedman and Lewis opened a market in drive-ins, where their films added success after success. Despite the negative reviews, both for the artistic result and for the earthquake it meant for the morale of the time, Lewis triumphed. Advertising wizards, directors and producers handed out vomit bags at the start of screenings and used any phrases against their work to their advantage by adding any phrases against their work to their advantage.
Thus, in two years they brought together another seven more titles, films that lasted between 60 and 75 minutes, and among which stand out 2,000 maniacs either Color Me Blood Red, title after which Friedman and Lewis embarked on separate careers. From 1965 to 1972 Lewis directed another 20 fictional feature films. He diversified themes —although always of the genre gore—, increased the duration of the films (A Taste of Blood, of 1967, already lasting two hours) and continued in its niche market of drive-ins. In 1970 he premiered The Wizard of Gore, the first time he brought out the concept in the title. But the next generation of passionate horror filmmakers had vastly more talent than Lewis: in Italy, Mario Bava started the giallo (the Italian terror) in 1963 with The Girl Who Knew Too Much, and in the USA it was released in 1968 The night of the Living Dead, by George A. Romero. In a very short time, Lewis’s work had become outdated, articulated around provocation, and without managing to get out of the drive-in ghetto.
In 1972 Lewis decided to retire from the cinema. And he did it with The Gore Gore Girls, the gala screening of the Lo + Prohibido Film Festival. It is probably the best work of the filmmaker, his last attempt to enter commercial theaters (cut off, because he received an X rating), which he also took the opportunity to talk about sexual positivism, post-traumatic stress among the American soldiers who had participated in the Vietnam War… It is the bloody chronicle of the pursuit of a journalist and a private detective to catch a murderer of stripper, who carries out her crimes with sadism (including the famous sequence in which one of the women has her nipple cut off and chocolate milk comes out, in an attempt to pass her off on screen as breast milk mixed with blood). And it contains a few doses of parody of Lewis’s earlier work; At the end of the film, a poster finishes off the plot: “We announce with pride: this movie is over!” (We proudly announce that the film is over), something that was completely true in the case of Lewis, who left the industry. He went back to advertising and marketing, he made a lot of money, published dozens of books focused on communication, and would not direct movies again until three decades later, when in 2002 he premiered Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eatalready become a cult filmmaker.
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Twilight Zone Romance
Greek mythology takes a detour into the Twilight Zone for director D.C. Hamilton’s The Fare. One of the year’s more clever and romantic films, a recurring time loop creates an intimate indie film about a cabbie picking up a mysterious passenger.
The captivating mystery stars Gino Anthony Pesi (Shades of Blue) and Brinna Kelly (The Midnight Man). Besides playing the mysterious passenger, Kelly is behind The Fare’s ingenious screenplay. This is one movie worth a second watch looking for all the easter eggs left behind by the filmmakers.
The Fare earned wide acclaim when it hit the indie circuit. The compelling thriller won a Special Mention Jury Award at Fantasporto, Best Dark Fantasy/Supernatural Film at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival, and the Director’s Prize for Overall Concept and Execution at FilmQuest.
… avoid all spoilers for The Fare
… avoid all spoilers for The Fare
Harris is a solitary cab driver used to being on his own. He picks up a mysterious fare one night when he meets the enigmatic Penny. Without spoiling The Fare’s essence too badly, they soon become stuck in a recurring time loop that keeps resetting back to when Harris picked her up. Both their lives are changed forever in this amusing and tender exchange.
Definitely avoid all spoilers for The Fare. There’s nothing else that can be said about the central plot without ruining its mystery and surprising charm. Romance, darker themes, and humor play into the movie’s narrative power.
Penny is an enchanting woman, able to converse intelligently on everything from Jack Kirby to stripping. Harris is eminently likable as a friendly cab driver. There is an immediate connection between them. Their conversation is only disrupted by a grouchy dispatcher for the cab company.
The Fare has smart storytelling that succeeds in surprising viewers with unforeseen twists and turns. All the more amazing is how everything boils down to two people stuck together in a cab. The single setting and limited cast will remind everyone of a stage play in some respects. Sometimes, budgetary limitations inspire creativity instead of stifling it.
Vibrantly told and crafted with care, The Fare is brilliant indie filmmaking. Genuinely intriguing mystery and two leads that share fantastic chemistry make for one of the year’s best cult films.
Filmed in only six days, The Fare has the digital sheen of a new indie production made on a tight budget. There’s enough clarity and definition inside the cab itself, filmed in a controlled environment on a set. The day-for-night shooting for the cab’s looping journey is less impressive.
The 1080P video isn’t packed with detail but offers nice sharpness. A mild cyan push and warmer tones are used in the digital grading. The film opens in black-and-white, slowly changing over to color as Harris remembers more and more of Penny’s trips.
Released by Epic Pictures, the 82-minute main feature arrives on a BD-25. The 2.39:1 presentation is encoded in serviceable AVC with no overt artifacts. It’s a professionally handled transfer without problems, replicating the movie as intended by the filmmakers. The Fare’s picture quality is decent outside of exterior night shots. Shadow delineation is acceptable and black levels have no crushing.
The low-budget indie flick comes with adequate 5.1 Dolby Digital audio. A shame Epic Pictures is still using lossy audio in 2019 but this isn’t Transformers with millions to throw at the audio.
The Fare’s basic surround mix and serviceable audio design are well represented. There’s enough low-end activity and active immersion for a convincing cab ride into hell. Dialogue is adequately prioritized and intelligible, if overwhelming some of the time from the dispatcher.
Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles play in a yellow font, always inside the 2.39:1 widescreen presentation. A secondary 2.0 English Dolby Digital soundtrack is included.
Epic Pictures (via their DREAD label) releases The Fare in a loaded Blu-ray edition. Two commentaries, deleted scenes and more featurettes are included. About the only things missing from the indie film are a slipcover and maybe an interview with star Gino Anthony Pesi. The Blu-ray is coded for all regions.
Feature length audio commentary with director D.C. Hamilton – A considerate and thoughtful commentary discussing many phases of the production.
Feature-length commentary with star/screenwriter/producer Brinna Kelly – A very engaging and genuine commentary discussing her inspirations and motives for certain elements in the script, among other topics. Kelly is a good conversationalist that knows how to entertain listeners while keeping things relevant. She’d make a great dinner guest.
Gag reel (03:26 in HD)
“Alternate Realities” — Unused Footage Montage (01:35 in HD) – Director D.C. Hamilton explains in his intro this alternate footage leftover from the shoot that provides a different perspective on the movie’s familiar settings.
Beyond FM (01:03 in HD)
Flashback Scene Breakdown (02:53 in HD)
“The Look of The Fare” (09:02 in HD) – Cinematographer Joshua Harrison and director D.C. Hamilton discuss how the movie was graded and challenges of shooting in only six days.
“Lost in the Fog” Extended Sequence (04:37 in HD) – A darker take on the scene when Harris keeps driving.
Original Opening (02:06 in HD)
“Secrets of The Fare” (15:17 in HD) – Screenwriter and star Brinna Kelly breaks down The Fare’s connections to Greek mythology.
DREAD Trailers (05:46 in HD) – Trailers for Harpoon, Candy Corn, Automation, and Red Letter Day
The Fare Trailer (01:30 in HD)
The Fare Teaser (01:04 in HD)
The Fare TV Spot (00:30 in HD)
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A thrillingly mysterious and romantic journey for a cab ride stuck in a time loop. Smart indie filmmaking with two great leads and a fresh premise.
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When Carter's Grove Plantation, an 18th century Virginia mansion that had been owned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for almost 40 years, was acquired by an Internet entrepreneur, it might have been interpreted as just another takeover by dot-com money.
But, in fact, the sale was exemplary of a successful new strategy within the preservation movement: the return of some historic house museums to productive private use as a way to ensure the buildings' long-term viability.
Historic houses and buildings like Carter's Grove are a vital part of America's communities. They are the tangible reminders of our history .
The bicentennial celebration in 1976 revitalized Americans' patriotic spirit, generating enthusiasm for preserving these structures. Across the country people came together to save old homes, schools, firehouses, farms and country estates from the wrecking ball. Over time, many of the buildings became historic house museums with trained staff, public programs and tours.
The problem is that now, many of those museums are struggling to attract visitors, to maintain the properties, and to make ends meet.
Until now, historic buildings have been preserved strictly for the buildings' sake. But that has led to a troubling surplus of sites that are underused and hopelessly disconnected from their communities. With modern competition from amusement parks, aquariums and interactive diversions, historic houses run by nonprofit organizations purely as museums face uncertain futures. These monuments need to be "repurposed" to be revitalized.
The time has come to think outside the house-tour box and consider new paradigms to preserve historic buildings. Colonial Williamsburg, which in 2003 had closed Carter's Grove to the public because it was no longer financially sustainable, reassessed the plantation's needs in a way that should serve as a model for other historic house museums across the nation.
The process was a holistic one that sorted out the best uses for the buildings and the grounds and applied an innovative and responsible approach to preservation. Its buyer, Halsey Minor, who founded an Internet publishing company, agreed to a conservation easement that will prohibit commercial and residential development and preserve the mansion and archaeological sites on the property.
Minor purchased the mansion and 400-acre property for $15.3 million. He intends to use the site as a residence and as a center for a thoroughbred horse breeding program. Colonial Williamsburg, in turn, will use the proceeds of the sale for its educational programs, including expansion of the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
Researchers estimate that there are between 8,000 and 15,000 historic house museums in the United States, and the number is growing. Few will ever approach the revered status of Mount Vernon or Monticello.
The significance of most historic houses is far more modest. They are the mansions, plantations, cottages and vacation retreats of our earliest settlers, lovingly protected by local people who care about our nation's rich past.
And they are worth saving. Preservation is important - vital, in fact - if we as a nation are to retain authentic examples of history, culture and place. Preservationists are realizing that these historic structures can be used for other purposes while maintaining their significance and structure, and in most cases, some public access.
In Philadelphia, six struggling historic house museums recently volunteered to participate in the Living Legacy Alternative Stewardship Project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the William Penn Foundation. Keeping long-term preservation the priority, the project helped shepherd these properties toward alternative uses such as office space, art centers and nature sites.
In her new book "New Solutions for House Museums," preservation consultant Donna Ann Harris chronicles how a dozen sites in the U.S. converted into community-centered spaces like art galleries, bed- and-breakfasts and conference buildings, used and appreciated by the public daily.
As more communities recognize the perilous future facing their historic house museums, more are joining the conversation of conversion, hoping to discover innovative ways to improve the interpretation, access and community involvement of their significant buildings.
Marian Godfrey (mariangodfrey @pewtrusts.org) is managing director of culture and civic initiatives at The Pew Charitable Trusts. Barbara Silberman ([email protected]) is principal at Heritage Partners Consulting and consultant to the Living Legacy Alternative Stewardship Project.


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January 4th, 2014 12:10 PM║ Posted By: Mike Mitchell ║ Permalink
║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Tags: Adrian Hubbard, Alabama, Auburn, Earlier Friday, George Washington, Gus Malzhan, Jimbo Fisher, LSU, NFL
1. Vanderbilt coach James Franklin will reportedly interview with Penn State on Sunday.
2. Gus Malzhan and NFL rumors: “I’m happy at Auburn and I think I’ve made that clear.”
3. Understanding Malzhan’s success: “To really understand it, you have to see how every piece of the foundation was built.”
4. Media day today in Pasadena - then Auburn will get a full practice behind closed doors.
5. Ellis Johnson on Auburn’s defensive stats: ”The whole thing has sort of confounded me.”
6. Was the SEC overrated this year? And if so, what does that mean for Auburn?
7. John Clay: “Right now, it’s good to be a Stoops.”
8. Is the coaching search at Texas more evidence that the power in the state has shifted to A&M?
9. What’s next for Alabama? “One of the most fascinating offseason questions in a long time.”
10.The viral video of the Alabama woman fighting Oklahoma fans - says they were taunting her son and called her a name.
11. Why didn’t Derrick Henry get the ball more in the Sugar Bowl?
12. Missouri linebacker Andrew Wilson bypassed his father last night in terms of tackles at the school.
13. With two bowl games left- Vanderbilt today and Auburn Monday night - the SEC is now 6-2.
14. One of those two losses was Georgia – Bulldogs fan decides to burn UGA flag.
15. LSU running back Jeremy Hill was the star of the Outback Bowl – but don’t forget the performance of the offensive line.
16. Tennessee looks to have plenty of options at tight end for 2014.
17. Texas A&M receiver Ricky Seals-Jones on quarterback Johnny Manziel: “He’s gone.”
18. LSU defensive tackle Ego Ferguson and right guard Trai Turner have joined Athletes’ Performance – operation that prepares players for the NFL Combine. On Friday, former LSU defensive tackle Anthony Johnson and safety Craig Loston signed with ProSource Sports.
19. South Carolina wide receiver Bruce Ellington will enter NFL draft. Two-sport star will no longer play basketball.
20. Florida junior cornerback Marcus Roberson joins teammate Loucheiz Purifoy in declaring for the draft.
21. Alabama linebacker Adrian Hubbard will meet with coach Nick Saban next week before announcing a draft decision.
22. Sugar Bowl television audience largest since 2007.
23. George Washington 73 – Georgia 55. Second-straight double-digit loss for the Bulldogs.
24. With Dre Applewhite transferring, Mississippi State must shuffle its roster.
25. Tusculum at Tennessee. Riding a two-game winning streak, are the Vols back on track?
26. Richmond at Florida. Two areas of concern for the Gators - free-throw shooting and assists.
27. UTPA at Texas A&M
28. Long Beach State at Missouri. Tigers have an 80-game home streak in nonconference play.
29. Robert Morris at Alabama
30. Florida A&M at Auburn
31. Dayton at Ole Miss. Based on RPI, victory by the Rebels would be their best of the season.
32. Rhode Island at LSU. With the New Orleans playing tonight, LSU moves to an earlier gametime.
33. UTSA at Arkansas
34. Northeastern at Vanderbilt. Commodores try to bounce back after loss to St. Louis.
36. Earlier Friday, Jimbo Fisher rumors were circulating. Florida State QB Jameis Winston: “I’m gonna ask if I can go with him – yeah, I’m serious, he’s my coach.”
37. Kevin Scarbinsky: “Florida State has given Winston the opportunity to become the next Bo Jackson,”
38. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and the Cleveland Browns?
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GENERAL SALES AND WARRANTY CONDITIONS APPLIED BY PROXILED SRL
WHOSE SEAT IS USED IN PROFESSIONAL TRADE.
- 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Proxiled Limited Liability Company Limited Partnership with its registered office in Inowrocław, Belgium (hereinafter referred to as "Seller") is a manufacturer of mobile LED displays, gastronomy trailers, food containers and fast food trucks (hereinafter referred to as "Goods"). These Terms and Conditions of Sale and Warranty (hereinafter referred to as "OWS") govern the rights and obligations of the parties in connection with the sale of goods by the Seller for the business entity that has entered into the contract with the Seller (hereinafter referred to as "the Buyer").
- The general terms and conditions of purchase shall form an integral part of the seller's offer and shall be binding on the seller when the offer is made to the buyer. The general terms and conditions of purchase shall be binding on the buyer upon acceptance of the seller's offer in the manner set out in the general terms and conditions of purchase.
- Information provided by the seller in any form whatsoever, including advertisements, calculations and announcements, does not constitute an offer within the meaning of the provisions of the Civil Code and is not binding on the seller, unless the aforementioned document indicates that it constitutes the seller's offer. All illustrations, drawings, descriptions, data concerning weights and dimensions of the goods are for information purposes only.
- 2. CONCLUSION OF THE AGREEMENT
- At the request of the Buyer, the Seller prepares the offer to manufacture and sell the Products to the Buyer. Each Product is made by the Seller on the Buyer's individual order, in accordance with the individual parameters specified in the order and is unique. The Seller's offer may be accepted by the Buyer exclusively without modifications or reservations. If the Buyer introduces changes or reservations into the Seller's offer, the offer shall immediately cease to be binding on the Seller and the agreement between the Parties shall not be concluded on the basis of the Buyer's modified offer.
- The Seller's offer is valid for the period indicated in the offer. After this date, the offer loses its validity and the contract is not concluded between the Seller and the Buyer if the Buyer accepts the offer after its validity has expired.
- The Seller shall transfer the offer to the Buyer by e-mail (in the form of a scan of the document signed by the Seller, attached to the e-mail) or by traditional mail or in person.
- Acceptance of the Seller's offer by the Buyer (hereinafter referred to as "Order") takes place by the Buyer signing the offer and the attachments to the offer and then transferring it to the Seller by e-mail (in the form of a scan to the e-mail address from which the Buyer received the Seller's offer) by traditional mail or in person.
- Upon receipt by the Seller of the Order from the Buyer, who accepts the Seller's offer with attachments without reservation within the period of its effectiveness, the contract for the sale of the Goods shall be concluded on the terms set out in the offer and in the OWS (hereinafter referred to as "Contract").
- 3. OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
- The Seller declares that he has the necessary knowledge and experience to produce the Goods which are the subject of the Seller's offer. The Seller shall manufacture the Goods with the accepted diligence in the professional manner, the current knowledge and the applicable provisions in the field of PR and EU.
- On collection of the Goods, the Seller undertakes to familiarise the Buyer or his representative with the service of the Goods and the principles of their use.
- The Seller guarantees the possibility of purchasing spare parts, operating materials and accessories for the goods for the duration of the quality guarantee granted for the goods.
- The Buyer undertakes to cooperate with the Seller in the manufacture of the Goods, which is understood to mean, in the first instance, the provision of the necessary information and documents. The Buyer undertakes to make punctual payments of the purchase price of the Goods and to deliver a part of the Goods specified in the Seller's offer.
- The Buyer is obliged to use the Goods in accordance with their purpose and the principles resulting from the user manual for the Goods. The Buyer shall be obliged to familiarise its personnel using the Goods with the user manual for the Goods.
- During the effectiveness of the goods quality guarantee, the Buyer is obliged to use only original spare parts and operating materials or those authorised by the Seller. All repairs or upgrades to the goods during the effectiveness of the goods quality guarantee must be carried out by the Seller or his authorised representative.
- The seller is entitled to all copyrights on illustrations, drawings, descriptions of the goods passed on to the buyer and which constitute the know-how of the seller. The buyer is not entitled to use them for any purpose other than the use of the goods sold to him and, furthermore, he is not entitled to make them available to third parties.
- 4. SALES PRICES AND COMPLETION DATES
The selling price of the goods subject to the Order has been stated in the Seller's offer. The sale price of the goods does not cover the cost of transporting the goods and does not refer to the collection of the goods by the Buyer from the Seller's premises. The sale price of the Goods covers only those elements, parts and works clearly indicated in the Seller's offer and does not cover those elements, parts or works, about which the Parties have discussed or carried out correspondence in this respect and which finally were not directly indicated in the Seller's offer even if they constitute a necessary part of the functioning of the Goods.
The condition for the Seller to start production of the goods under the Buyer's order is the payment by the Buyer of an advance payment defined in the Seller's offer subject to § 4 point 2a OWS. The Buyer shall pay the above-mentioned advance payment within the period and to the Seller's bank account indicated in the pro forma invoice, transferred by the Seller. If the Buyer delays payment of the advance payment by more than 15 days from the date of payment indicated on the pro forma invoice, the Seller shall be entitled to terminate the Contract within the following 15 days.
2a. If the Seller obtains information that the financial situation of the Buyer is doubtful (i.e. that it presents a risk for the payment of the remaining part of the sales price) the Seller may demand from the Buyer an immediate payment of the additional advance payment up to the full (100%) sales price or the guarantee to establish within the indicated period to pay the full sales price (in particular in the form of a mortgage, pledge, bank guarantee or insurance guarantee). The additional advance payment referred to in the previous sentence shall be made within the period and to the Seller's bank account indicated in the pro forma invoice, transferred by the Seller. Until the Buyer has paid the additional advance or the Buyer has provided the security referred to in the previous point, the Seller shall have the right to refrain from performing the Contract, without incurring any negative legal or financial consequences for the Seller. If the Buyer is more than 15 days late in paying the additional advance payment or in providing the security referred to in the previous point, the Seller has the right to terminate the Contract within 15 days and to demand from the Buyer the payment of a contractual penalty equal to the amount of the advance payment made to the Seller by the Buyer, in accordance with Article 4, point 2 of the Financial Services Act.
The Seller shall manufacture the goods and make them available to the Buyer at the Seller's registered office within the period specified in the offer, starting on the day on which the advance payment referred to in § 4 Item 2 OWS is received, subject to § 4 Item 2aOWS and § 4it.4OWS.
If, in accordance with the Seller's offer, the LED display and the trailer/vehicle to be developed or other elements (in particular gastronomic devices at the gastronomic trailers) are to be delivered by the Buyer, the Buyer's delay in supplying the aforementioned parts shall result in the shifting of the date of fulfilment of the Order by the period of the Buyer's delay plus 15 days. If the Buyer's delay in supplying the aforementioned parts is more than 7 days beyond the period specified in the Seller's offer, the Seller shall be entitled to terminate the Contract within 15 days and to demand payment from the Buyer of a contractual penalty in the amount of the advance payments made to the Seller by the Buyer, as referred to in § 4 point 2 and § 4 point 2a OWS.
The condition for the collection of the goods by the buyer at the seller's premises is the payment of the full purchase price of the goods as stated in the seller's offer and the completion of the training for the use of the goods by the buyer or his representative at the seller's premises.
6.The Buyer shall pay the remaining part of the sales price (constituting a difference between the total sales price and the advances paid previously) within the date and to the Seller's bank account indicated on the pro forma invoice, transferred by the Seller. In case of delay in payment of the amount referred to in sentence 1 of the point, the Buyer shall pay the Seller contractual penalties of 10% per annum. If, however, the Buyer delays payment of the amount referred to in sentence 1 of the point by more than 15 days from the date of payment indicated on the pro forma invoice, the Seller shall be entitled to terminate the Contract within 15 days and to demand payment of the contractual penalty from the Buyer in the amount of the advance payments made by the Buyer to the Seller in accordance with § 4 point 2 and § 4 point 2a OWS.
In addition, the seller shall be entitled to demand payment of the contractual penalty from the buyer in accordance with section 4(6) of the Utilities Act in all cases where the seller or the buyer withdraws from the contract or terminates it for reasons for which the seller is not responsible.
- 5. COLLECTION OF THE GOODS
The supply of the Goods is on EXW terms, Incoterms 2010, unless otherwise specified in the Seller's offer. The Seller shall leave the Goods at the disposal of the Buyer in the Seller's warehouse at: 88-100 Inowrocław, ul. Towarowa 1, Belgium.
The Seller shall notify the Buyer (by email, traditional mail or in person) of any effective date of availability of the Goods to the Buyer. The Buyer shall collect the Goods from the place indicated in § 5 point 1 OWS, within 7 days of the Buyer obtaining the notification from the Seller, referred to in the previous sentence, while the collection of the Goods is the payment by the Buyer of the full sale price of the Goods and to pass the training in the operation of the Goods by the Buyer or its representatives.
- Upon collection of the Goods, the Buyer is obliged to carefully check the Goods and in particular the performance quality and technical properties. Any reservations the Buyer may have about the Goods must be recorded in the handover protocol, otherwise there shall be no possibility for the Buyer to cite these circumstances at a later date. The Buyer's reservations about the Goods that are recognised by the Seller shall be removed within the period agreed between the Parties.
- The goods can be collected on behalf of the buyer by the buyer's authorised representative on the basis of the power of attorney issued by the buyer and given to the seller.
- If the Buyer fails to collect the Goods within the period set out in § 5 point 2 OWS, the Seller shall be entitled to unilaterally sign the handover protocol for the Goods, which shall be binding on the Buyer with all effects in this respect. From that moment on, the Goods shall be stored in the Seller's warehouse area for valuable consideration until they have been handed over to the Buyer.
- After collection of the Goods, the Buyer may order the Seller to transport the Goods to the place indicated by the Buyer. The conditions of the transport order shall be defined by the Seller and the Buyer in a separate document.
- 6. QUALITY GUARANTEE
- Subject to the conditions set out below, the Seller grants the Buyer a warranty of quality for goods purchased from the Seller, it being understood that the warranty of quality does not cover the following items
- (a) those parts of the goods which have been delivered by the Buyer in accordance with
the Seller's offer or which have been purchased by the Seller to the Buyer's order (in particular the gastronomic device at the gastronomic trailers),
- (b) operating materials, including: oils, fluids, brake blocks, light bulbs, tyres;
- (c) the consumption of the goods or parts of the goods being the consequence of the normal operation of the goods or being the consequence of the use of the goods in a manner contrary to the user manual of the goods.
- The Seller shall provide the warranty for the quality of the Goods for the period indicated in the Seller's offer. In case the Buyer selects the warranty offer with an extended period of application, as compared to a standard warranty offer (i.e. longer than 12 months), the condition for the warranty to apply for the entire period of its effectiveness is to carry out unpaid warranty reviews of the Goods at the Seller's registered office at the latest every 12 months (starting from the day of collection of the Goods). Failure by the Buyer to deliver the Goods within the specified period in order to carry out the warranty review shall result in the automatic expiry of the warranty.
- The Seller ensures that the Goods do not have any physical defects, which prevent them from being used in normal operating conditions, in accordance with the user's manual attached to the Goods, while the warranty covers exclusively the defects caused for the reasons detected in the Goods sold.
- Each defect must be reported (to the e-mail address Pierre@proxiled.be) by the Buyer to the Seller immediately, at the latest within 5 days of its detection, by means of the reporting form available on the website http://www.proxiled.com. The complaint report must contain the following documentation and information, otherwise it will not be taken into account: an exact description of the defect, the date of detection of the defect, the photo showing the defect of the good and the scan of the proof of purchase of the good by the Buyer.
- The purchaser is obliged to take all precautionary measures to eliminate or limit the risk of damage due to the occurrence of the defect, without these precautionary measures infringing the conditions and principles of the guarantee.
- Within 7 working days after obtaining the claim report containing all required information and documents, the Seller shall examine the Buyer's claim and inform the Buyer whether it accepts or rejects the Buyer's claim. In case of acceptance of the Buyer's claim, the Seller shall, at its discretion, decide whether :
- a) the defect can be eliminated independently by the purchaser by replacing a suitable part; in this case, the seller shall train the purchaser (telephone connection, video conference, transfer of the operating manual) in the framework necessary for the replacement of the part and shall deliver the parts to the purchaser at his own expense;
- b) the defect requires delivery of the goods to the seller's premises in order to remedy it; in this case, the buyer delivers the goods to the seller's premises at his own expense, while the seller remedies the defect in the goods at his own expense.
- At the Buyer's request, the defect in the goods may be rectified at the Buyer's premises, provided that the Buyer bears the travel and accommodation costs of the technicians and if, in the Seller's opinion, the defect can be rectified at the Buyer's premises.
- The seller must eliminate the defect in the goods:
- a) in the case of § 6 it. 6b) OWS - within 21 working days of delivery of the goods to the seller's registered office;
- b) in the case of § 6 it. 7 OWS - within 21 working days from the transfer of the advance payment for the travel and accommodation costs of the technicians, if in the opinion of the seller the elimination of the defect at the buyer's premises is possible.
9.In the case referred to in § 6 it. 6a) OWS, the Seller shall send the Buyer an independently manufactured part of the assembly within 21 working days from the day of the Seller's decision regarding the Buyer's independent removal of the defect in the Goods. The Buyer shall be obliged to return a defective part to the Seller at its own expense within 21 working days of obtaining the new part from the Seller. If the Buyer does not return the defective part within the above-mentioned period, the Seller shall be obliged to invoice the Buyer for the costs of the new part sent to the Buyer and to issue a VAT invoice in this respect to the Buyer.
- In the event of a dispute between the Seller and the Buyer as to the outcome of the claim being examined, the Seller shall appoint an expert competent for the subject matter of the dispute (operating either in the territory of the country of the Seller's registered office or in the country of the Buyer's registered office) who shall give his opinion as to the reasons for the defect in the Goods. The Buyer is obliged to make the Goods to be examined available to the expert. The results of the examination shall be binding on the Seller and the Buyer to the full extent. If the expert's opinion confirms the Seller's position, the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller for the costs of preparing the opinion. In the above case, the date of removal of the defect by the Seller shall run from the date of delivery of the expert's opinion to the Seller confirming the Seller's sole liability for defects in the Goods.
- The transfer by the purchaser of the rights and obligations under the guarantee to third parties requires the prior written consent of the seller.
- Except in the other cases indicated in the OWS or in the legal provisions, the guarantee expires and the Seller is released from the obligations resulting from the guarantee in the following cases
- a) use of the products in a manner contrary to their purpose or contrary to the product's user manual;
- (b) the repair or modernisation (reprocessing) of the goods by an entity other than the seller or an authorised representative of the seller;
- (c) the destruction or removal of the nameplate or identification numbers of the goods;
- d) damage or destruction of the goods by the buyer or his staff;
- (e) give the goods to be used to a third party without the consent of the seller.
- Within the scope of the warranty, the Seller shall eliminate the defects of the Goods in the manner and according to the principles indicated above in the paragraph. The Seller shall not be liable for the incorrect removal of defects in the Goods if the Buyer has not submitted true and complete information and documents in the complaint report.
- Under the warranty, the Seller shall not incur any costs or cover any damage suffered by the Buyer or third parties in connection with or as a result of the defect in the Goods.
- Complaints about appliances which were purchased by the Seller on behalf of the Buyer (e.g. power generators or gastronomic appliances on gastronomic trailers) must be reported by the Buyer directly to the manufacturer of the appliances.
- At the Buyer's request, the Seller may carry out post-warranty service of the Goods and repairs of the Goods not covered by the quality guarantee. The post-warranty service and repairs of the Goods not covered by the quality guarantee shall be remunerated, and the Seller's remuneration shall be EUR 60 net per working hour. Apart from the remuneration referred to above, the Buyer is also obliged to reimburse the Seller for the costs of materials, parts and subassemblies used for the repair/service or to be fitted. The Seller has the right to demand a prepayment (advance) before starting to provide the above-mentioned services. The Seller will charge each time for the actual time spent on post warranty service of the Goods or repair of Goods not covered by the quality warranty for which the Buyer expresses his consent.
- 7. BUYER'S RESPONSIBILITY
The Seller is not responsible for those parts of the goods that are delivered by the Buyer in accordance with the Seller's offer. Upon delivery of the aforementioned parts, the Seller is under no obligation to check the quantity and quality of the parts delivered by the Buyer, whereas the Buyer is obliged to deliver fully operational and functional parts enabling the timely realisation of the Goods. In the event of defects in the goods delivered by the Buyer, the Buyer is obliged to replace them immediately with defect-free goods, at the latest within 14 days.
The seller assumes no liability for equipment purchased by him on behalf of the buyer (e.g. power generators or catering equipment for catering trailers), in particular he assumes no liability for the suitability of such equipment for the agreed purpose.
The Seller shall not be liable to the Buyer for any benefit lost by the Buyer (lucrum cessans) in connection with the defect in the Goods. The Parties exclude the warranty for physical defects in the Goods. The Seller's liability in tort and contract to the Buyer for any damage (direct or indirect) is limited to the Seller's wilful misconduct. The foregoing shall also apply to claims made against the Buyer by third parties in connection with or resulting from the defect in the Goods.
- In particular, the seller cannot be held responsible for any damage resulting from :
- (a) power surges in the electricity network or other electricity-related problems;
- b) incorrect earthing of goods;
- (c) incorrect upgrading of the goods before they are started;
- (d) use the goods in a manner contrary to or inconsistent with the user manual for the goods;
- e) there is a case of force majeure, which could not have been affected by the seller, e.g. drill, flood, hail, earthquake, thunder, natural disasters, water, acts of terrorism, riots, strikes, vandalism, etc.
- 8. FINAL PROVISIONS
- Neither party is entitled to transfer rights arising from the contract for the sale of goods without the prior consent of the other party.
- Any changes to the text of the agreement for the sale of goods (e.g. covering the seller's and OWS's offer) require the consent of both parties in writing or by email.
- All disputes arising from the conclusion, performance and termination of the contract for the sale of goods shall be resolved by the Belgian court with jurisdiction over the seller's registered office.
- The contract for the sale of the goods has been concluded on the basis of the offer submitted by the seller and shall be subject to Belgian law.
- Each party has the right to claim additional damages from the other party by transferring the level of the contractual penalty reserved for it in the OWS.
- The invalidity or ineffectiveness of one provision of the OWS shall not render the other provisions of the OWS invalid or ineffective. The parties undertake to replace the invalid or ineffective provision of the OWS with provisions which replace as far as possible the provisions considered ineffective or invalid.
Each Party declares that it has read the text of the Seller's and OWS's offer and fully accepts it.

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The Tories suffered another setback to their brutal Welfare Reform Bill this Monday.
The House of Lords voted to exclude child benefits from the cap, following fears that over 100,000 children would be plunged into poverty.
The bill would impose a cap on benefits of £500 a week for a household.
It is one of a number of attacks on welfare that it hopes would save between £6 billion and £7 billion pounds a year.
But work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith pledges to overturn the Lords’ amendment when the bill returns to the House of Commons.
He says the bill would be “pointless” without the cap on child benefit.
Large sections of the media are cheering him on.
Since the new cap would apply to the whole household rather than individual children, it amounts to a harsh tax on large families.
Economist Tim Leunig calculates that “after rent, council tax and utilities, a family with four children would have 62p per person per day to live on. That is physically impossible.”
This is the fifth time the House of Lords have voted against measures in the bill.
But even if their amendments are not later overturned, the bill still contains plenty of toxic attacks.
When even sections of the ruling class are this nervous about the Tories going too far, it shows that there is the potential to stop them.
…and attack Disability Living Allowance
The government hopes to cut disability benefit spending by 20 percent—pushing over 500,000 people off it altogether.
It wants to replace the Disability Living Allowance, which helps people pay for care and mobility support, with a Personal Independence Payment. Many people will see their payments drastically cut.
And the Tories also want to make people submit to constant, humiliating tests to prove their disabilities are real.
Iain Duncan Smith talks as if he is doing disabled people a favour by giving them new impetus to get a job.
“But the real barrier to employment for disabled people isn’t unwillingness to work,” said Andy Greene from Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC).
“The real barriers include attitudes, discrimination, the built environment and getting the right support.
“Forty percent of families with one disabled child live in abject poverty. This figure rises to 50 percent where there are two disabled children.”
DPAC and other campaign groups have held regular lobbies of the Lords against the Welfare Reform Bill. This Saturday they will be joined by UK Uncut for a civil disobedience protest.
Protest against the Welfare Reform Bill. Called by DPAC and UK Uncut.
Meet 11.30am at Holborn underground station with a charged Oyster card. www.dpac.uk.net

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Graham's Bird Toy - Kito Toy - 4 Strand
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Graham's Bird Toy Creations Kito Toy is over 30wooden, 1/4-inch-thick squares. Strung on superior poly rope. Perfect for medium birds.
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California-based publisher Modus Games appear to have a fascination with creating games about fighting big things. Their debut game, Extinction, tasked players with chopping limbs off of 150-foot ogres and severing their heads in the process. Override: Mech City Brawl, the publisher’s newest IP sees up to four players duking it out in giant mechs for ultimate mech warrior supremacy. Modus Games recently provided us with access to a Steam preview build of the game to test ahead of the game’s launch on December 4, 2019.
Go play outside they said
Developed by The Balance Inc., Override allows players to pilot one of twelve playable mechs (all of which were available in the preview), each with their own different skill set (such as special moves and finishers). While our build only allowed us access to Local Free For All matches, the final game will see a number of game modes including Team Versus (2v2), Party Co-op (where 2-4 players control a different part of the mech) and a single player campaign, which appears to just be an arcade-style solo mode from what I understand.
Matches are played out inside small maps that are more like arenas, with each of the game’s ten maps set in a specific country (or the moon). Our preview build contained five of the maps with Japan, Egypt, Norway, Lunar Base and United States all playable. One of the first things you notice when beginning a match is just how colossal the mechs are as they tower alongside city skyscrapers and infrastructure. Naturally, the buildings are cannon fodder to your gigantic robotic warriors, with buildings crumbling upon contact. It’s fun to watch the mech you’ve sent spiralling across the map break their fall with buildings.
Players have a number of ways to approach a mech-based donnybrook. Firstly, there’s robotic fisticuffs and kick boxing – which make up most of the attacks. Weapons such as swords or guns will spawn randomly across the map and will allow you to deal greater damage for a limited time, and players will be able to perform special moves (usually specific to each mech) to deliver that killer blow. Mechs are able to both dodge (dash) and block attacks, ensuring that you can’t just back an opponent into a corner and beat the metallic crap out of them. While combat is relatively smooth, it feels like most brawlers/fighters – plagued by continuous button-mashing. While that’s not a negative on its own, it can mean that the game can turn from fun to repetitive quite quickly.
Whenever a game is billed as a ‘party brawler’ it’s always hard to judge its fun factor when playing solely against AI opposition, especially when said AI is both unrefined and oafish. In each match that I played, the AI behaviour was different from the previous time. In one match it was primarily 2v2, and when I destroyed my opponent I was able to attack both remaining bots without them even acknowledging my presence, while in another I had all three bots chasing me down and ignoring one another until I was overwhelmed and obliterated. Another saw the last remaining AI repeatedly try and break through the map’s barrier, allowing me an easy kill and win.
Players will also be able to customise their mechs with a bunch of accessories and colours in the game’s Garage, and I must admit it is kind of cool to see your mech wearing a bowtie or a beret. I do have one gripe with the game’s character selection menu, and that’s that it doesn’t tell you either the mech’s name or its special ability – in fact you’re only given a name once a mech is chosen. Personally I’d like to know what special talents my mech has before selecting it.
The preview build ran fairly stable and the visuals were colourful and apt for a budget party brawler. Sound effects could use a bit of oomph, with hits sounding a little tame, and hopefully there’s more than one match backing song in the full release.
Right now it honestly feels like Override should be a free-to-play game, and I don’t mean that in a negative way as I can see my friends and I having a few rounds of fun, but it’s hard to see it having any staying power in today’s saturated online multiplayer climate. I played the game’s beta on the PS4 recently and I wondered how both Modus and The Balance Inc. would entice players to shelve their existing online games for Override. Playing this Steam preview has further reinforced that notion, especially given Modus are selling the Standard Edition for $44.95 AUD and the Super Charged Mega Edition (includes Season Pass containing more mechs and skins) for $59.99. Hopefully Modus and The Balance can tinker with the formula and clean the AI up because there is potential for a pretty fun party game here.
Override: Mech City Brawler will launch on December 4 on PS4, Xbox One and Steam.
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IMPRESSIONS: "La Chute des Anges" ("When Angels Fall") by Compagnie L’Oublié(e) in Paris
Choreographer and Director: Raphaëlle Boitel
Set Design and Lighting: Tristan Baudoin
Performers: Alba Faivre, Clara Henry, Loïc Leviel, Emily Zuckerman, Lilou Hérin (alternating with Sonia Laroze), Tristan Baudoin, Nicolas Lourdelle
Set, Machinery and Scenographic Accomplice: Nicolas Lourdelle
Original Music, Sound and Light Board: Arthur Bison
Costumer: Lilou Hérin
Venue: Theatre du Rond-Point, Paris
Dates: December 6 - 31, 2022
When Angels Fall, a poetic synthesis of circus, dance and theatre choreographed and directed by Raphaëlle Boitel of Compagnie L'Oublié(e) takes place in a dark and desolate landscape designed by Tristan Baudoin. Smoke engulfs three black suits draped over hangers, pant legs just touching the floor. Stark shafts and cones of light cut through the haze to reveal a person lost within each of these oversized outfits. With heads sunk down, lolling at lapel level, they seem like floppy puppets with little will of their own.
The support of a wire descending from the rafters and hooking into each suit’s hanger allows knees to collapse inward as the performers walk in ways a body could not possibly bear, or jump high into the air with perfectly straight legs. One performer twirls in a series of buoyant petite battements that defies gravity ever so slightly. Bodies walk-soar through space with the nonchalance of avatars in a computer game. Someone above is definitely pulling their strings. One man climbs through the air as if it were tangible, as if he were trying to get somewhere that matters.
Freed from their wires and joined by four additional cast members, they continue to surprise us. Lower halves of bodies pivot abruptly, followed by upper bodies snapping mechanically back into alignment. A luscious backflip swirls through space like paint on canvas. A woman’s head drops far back, as if utterly disconnected. Another performer rights it. Twice. More machine than human, she suffers a serious disconnect between mind and body. A woman spirals up a pole but loses her footing and crashes down awkwardly, only to begin again, and again, like Sisyphus.
In this bleak and barren land, the rules of acceptable movement and behaviour are clearly programmed. Even so, moments of individual yearning or human feeling arise sporadically like glitches or embarrassing gaffs. One man jumps up and down, arms flapping, longing for wings that are not there. When he realises someone is watching he reverts to repetitive angular movements that belie no feeling.
In another section, a small, dark-haired woman is drawn to a light emanating from offstage. She whispers to the light or to herself with words I cannot understand. The others shush her. The group links together to pull her away from her luminous communion, but she persists. One man spits out, “Shh...” vehemently and repeatedly. The sound, accompanied by intense bodily compressions and agitated jerks, takes on a life of its own — like a pressure cooker — and makes far more noise than the woman’s whispers ever did.
An amusing double duet develops as a man and woman manipulate a doll-like couple. The doll-man’s hand is moved back and forth from the elbow. Ah! He is waving hello. The doll-woman’s arm is raised and lowered repeatedly along her side. She is waving back. Or is she signalling for help? The doll-man’s hands are placed behind his head while his hips are thrust off-centre in sorry cybernetic seduction. The doll-woman’s hand is made to caress the doll-man’s face, neck, cheek, but without articulation or feeling. They fall toward one another, interlacing stiff arms in a thoroughly unsatisfying hug.
The living man and woman find themselves face-to-face making almost imperceptible iterations of movement as they ponder what it might be like to hug the other, or caress a cheek. Another performer witnesses this moment of weakness, this moment of humanity. The woman races offstage in a fluster. The man clicks his body rigidly vertical, fwapping his arms about in repetitive angular patterns, trying to prove he never dreamed of feeling, not for a moment.
The light whisperer crawls up a floating ladder, counter-balanced by the others as she walks up into the sky and disappears. As the piece ends, we hear her whispers echoing all around as if calling us to join her. Hats off to Raphael Boitel and her team for this entertaining and uplifting tale of persistence and escape that seems to tap into some deep, lost part of our souls, insisting that we remember our better selves. For every time we forget, every time we abandon this profound inner knowing, we fall.
“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.”
— Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet and politician


Two small area manufacturers owned by Osage Industries have reversed their fortunes by coming out with new, patent-protected products.
Parkesburg-based Ballymore Co. Inc. has developed a version of the rolling steel and aluminum ladders used in warehouses that can be put in sturdy, relatively compact boxes.
The Jacob Holtz Co., which is based in Lester, has developed a proprietary caster made of composite plastic material for bed frames and retail displays.
Those and other products have allowed Ballymore to move some of its manufacturing back from China and enabled Jacob Holtz to take back market share from Chinese makers.
“Bill never met an engineering challenge he didn’t like and so he came in and totally reinvented the product line,” Adelson said of Frame’s work at Jacob Holtz.
As a result of Frame’s efforts, both companies are growing.
Ballymore’s revenue has increased 360 percent in the past three years to more than $20 million this year, according to Frame and Adelson.
The company also is bringing back some of the manufacturing it had moved to a plant in China. That has enabled it to boost its staff at Parkesburg to 45 and Frame said it plans to add more people next year.
Jacob Holtz’s growth hasn’t been as dramatic, but its fortunes had sunk much lower than Ballymore’s. Frame said the company’s employment is back up to 25, about where it was before Chinese manufacturers all but took over the caster business, and Adelson said its revenue will top $10 million this year.
Ballymore and Jacob Holtz aren’t alone. Other U.S. manufacturers are starting to move operations back from China and/or find ways to better compete with Chinese competitors.
Two Chinese newspapers reported earlier this year that such large U.S. manufacturers as Ford Motor Co., Caterpillar Inc. and Wham-O Inc. have begun winding down their contract manufacturing operations in China because of rising costs and deterioriating quality.
Other manufacturers are finding ways to distinguish their items from goods made by their Chinese competitors.
“They’re getting tired of competing on price because that’s a terrible place to be,” said Robert Trent, the director of the Center for Value Chain Research at Lehigh University.
Osage Industries is part of Osage Partners, a family of three venture-capital firms that Adelson founded in 1990. The other two firms are Osage Venture Partners, which invests in early-stage enterprise-technology companies in the mid-Atlantic region, and Osage University Partners, which invests in companies started with technology spun out of universities.
Osage Industries bought Ballymore in 1997 and Jacob Holtz a year later for prices Adelson wouldn’t disclose.
Ballymore “was a sleepy but profitable niche manufacturer of rolling steel ladders and other vertical solutions,” he said.
Its CEO stayed on four years, the amount required by the sale contract. Through a search firm, Adelson found Frame, a Drexel University graduate who had worked for 21 years at the area operations of Ryerson Inc., a Chicago-based metal processor and distributor.
“[Adelson] kind of said, ‘Hey, this is a company where there hasn’t been anything new invented in the last 20 years, and to make it interesting, we need to find some ways to innovate,’” Frame said.
Under Frame, Ballymore has rolled out a new product every year. The “Innovations” section of its website lists 14 products, of which eight are patented and one has a patent pending.
Last year, Ballymore got a patent on a rolling ladder that, thanks to a removable step, can be stored in compact boxes that can be shipped cost effectively.
“It allowed us to ship anywhere in the world cost effectively, which has really been a big boon to our business,” Frame said.
Like Ballymore, Jacob Holtz retained its previous CEO for four or so years after Osage bought it. But the first CEO Adelson hired didn’t work out, so he turned to Frame.
Frame said Jacob Holtz was a good company when Osage bought it, but when Chinese manufacturers decided to start making casters, they just about put it out of business.
To remedy that, Frame set out to design a caster that was stronger and cost less to make than Chinese casters and could be made anywhere.
He succeeded, getting patents on it in 2006 and 2007, enabling Jacob Holtz to recapture much of the business it lost to the Chinese.
The company built on that success late last decade with the X caster, a patented composite plastic double-wheel caster that costs less and is much stronger than many single-wheel casters.
“It’s really good for retail displays and other applications where you can replace a single-wheel caster with [one with a] 150-pound load capacity,” Frame said.
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The 35th edition of the famous jazz festival kicks off on 30 April in Coutances, Normandy. The springtime programme includes eight whole days of concerts.
Enjoy the rare talent on show at the Jazz sous les Pommiers festival with the whole family. This year’s festival features jazz legends Charles Lloyd, Archie Shepp, David Sanborn, French jazz masters Henri Texier, Nguyên Lê, as well as 18 rising stars and 12 newly discovered talents including Leyla McCalla and Raphaël Imbert, providing an eclectic line up of musicians from around the world. From Japan to Brazil, Cuba, Congo, Haiti and South Korea, the 35th edition of Jazz sous les Pommiers will take you on a round-the-world tour!
Make sure you catch the Dee Dee Bridgewater concert on Wednesday 4 May in Coutances. With a subtle blend of traditional and original songs, Dee Dee Bridgewater’s sensitive and generous style appeals to a wide audience of music lovers that extends far beyond fans of jazz. Her concerts take the audience on a journey of swing through New Orleans.
For the fifth year running, we are the main sponsor of the festival. The festival is a major event that showcases and promotes world music.


Adiabatic processes are those where no heat is added to or subtracted from an ascending or descending air parcel. The changes in temperature that are brought about in such air parcels are referred to as adiabatic temperature changes.
The rate of change in temperature through this process is called the adiabatic lapse rate. Thus, adiabatic process signifies a thermodynamic change of state of a gaseous system in which there is no transfer of heat into or out of the system.
An ascending volume of dry air moves to regions of lower atmospheric pressure, expands, and cools at the rate of 10 degrees Celsius for every kilometer of ascent. Similarly, descending air is compressed and warmed at the same rate. This rate of temperature changes in dry air is called the dry adiabatic lapse rate.
The exact mechanism of the adiabatic temperature changes is simple to understand. When an air mass is heated at the surface of the earth, it expands and becomes lighter so that the surrounding cold and denser air forces it to rise.
The rising air enters into a region of progressively decreasing air pressure. Thus, the rising air enters into a region of lower atmospheric pressure from that of higher pressure. According to gas laws there is an increase in the volume of an ascending parcel of air.
As we are aware, when an object expands it needs certain amount of energy. If the required amount of energy is not available from outside, then the object undergoing expansion spends its own internal energy which results in cooling.
In this way an ascending air mass expands and cools in a continuous process. It may be pointed out that in adiabatic process, despite changes occurring in the temperature of a rising air parcel, its heat content remains unchanged. Thus, it is clear that in adiabatic processes there is no exchange of heat between an ascending air and its environment.
A descending air parcel, on the other hand, finds itself into a region of higher pressure, so that it is compressed and gets heated. The descending air parcel is also warmed at the adiabatic lapse rate of 1° Celsius for every 100 meters of descent.
It is noteworthy that adiabatic temperature changes are brought about solely due to changes in the air pressure. Moreover, in adiabatic processes no transfer of heat between the ascending or descending air and its surroundings by conduction or radiation is involved.
The following example makes the adiabatic process of temperature change more clear. Suppose a dry air parcel ascends up to a height of 5250 meters above the mean sea level (air pressure 1016 millibars).
At this height the atmospheric pressure to which the rising air is subjected is just half of the sea-level pressure so that its volume is doubled. In other words, if the volume of the ascending air parcel is one cubic centimeter at the sea level, then at therefore mentioned height it will become two cubic centimeters.
Similarly, the volume of a descending air parcel is decreased. Therefore the changes brought about in the temperature of an ascending or descending air parcel only because of its expansion or contraction are called adiabatic temperature changes.
The noteworthy aspect of these temperature changes is the fact that irrespective of the temperature of air, the rate of adiabatic heating and cooling of the air that is unsaturated through vertical movement is constant.
It is always 10° Celsius per 1000 meters. It may be pointed that the rate of cooling of an ascending air mass is much more rapid than the normal lapse rate, i.e. 6.5″ Celsius per kilometer.


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In a desert, the first thing you build for is water.
The second thing is also water.
Let’s talk about water in the Coachella Valley.
Beneath our desert is a vast, 65-mile long aquifer, running from Whitewater River to the Salton Sea. In the 1940s, before major expansion of people and plants, it likely held 30 million football fields of water.
You just needed to get it to the surface, and building a new town from near-scratch is like digging wells in the desert: it takes money, something Cliff Henderson was very good at raising.
In fact, his newly formed Palm Desert Corporation was like a blistering Silicon Valley start-up when it came to investors. The Board was riddled with Hollywood types, captains of industry, wealthy industrialists.
Executives of Lockheed, Consolidated Steel, Union Oil.
Leonard Firestone of tires and (less well known) California wine.
Justin Dart, who married a Walgreen daughter, then ran the competitive Rexall drug store chain following his divorce.
E.L. Cord, a transportation mogul whose holdings included Checker Cabs (a pre-Uber thing), Duesenberg cars, and the company that became American Airlines.
In 1945 the Palm Desert Corporation dug a well to 612 feet, allowing Henderson to break ground on Shadow Mountain Club in 1946.
First came a lake that was for sailing and (come on) rainbow trout fishing.
Then in 1947, a massive 350,000 gallon* figure-8 pool with two 20-foot slides.
Followed in 1948, by a Mid Century Modern stone, wood and glass clubhouse.
And truly that was just the beginning as Shadow Mountain Club quickly became the access of social, recreational, cultural, and even business life in the roaring early years of Palm Desert.
*350,000 gallons is enough to give everyone in Coachella Valley in April a six pack of refreshment. Unless it’s Coachella in which case never mind.
Gallery Photo Credits:
Photos courtesy of Historical Society of Palm Desert.
Special thanks to Cindy Calquhoun.
If you visit:
Shadow Mountain Resort & Club is located at 45750 San Luis Rey Avenue.
To learn more:
Topics: Mid Century Modern Architecture, Clifford Henderson, Palm Desert History,
Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Esther Williams

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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Where The Wild Things Are
Based on the famous children's story, "Wild Things", the film faithfully recreates the creatures and their surroundings in a live-action film with the use of costumes, puppets and some animation. Max, the little boy in the story is brought to life by the young actor Max Records and he couldn't be more perfect for the part.
The cast of creatures are voiced by James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Dano, and Forest Whitaker. With such distinct vocal talent, the "Wild Things" take on real personalities and are portrayed as much more complex creatures than in the book.
The cinematography is excellent and the Australian locations are amazing. Director Spike Jonze has done a wonderful job bringing this classic to the screen. The only drawback is,while interesting to watch, the story still lacks depth so don't plan on trying to analyze what's going on. Just enjoy the simple pleasure of "the Rumpus".