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This maybe be trivial and easy for some, but it was my first time barking the rear trucks on real coping. So I was and still am stoked!
For the NHS 'do what you can' challenge where I was joined by my daughter Kaitlyn and her boyfriend George (all same household) on my 'Attack the Attack' walk (keeping a safe distance from the few others out and about).
This is the 11.4km walk I did around the Radnage area in Dec 2016 that led to my heart attack on the final climb back to Bledlow Ridge [peterjemmett.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-year-that-was-part-...], I have since dubbed subsequent walks and runs 'attack the attack'.
Blog relating to this story ...... peterjemmett.blogspot.com/2020/04/coping-with-covid-19.html
Sun Fiberglass Pool installed by Beach Town Pools of Virginia Beach, Virginia using VASTEC USA's Coping For Fiberglass Pools and waterline tile.
Alaska Army National Guardsmen teach drug awareness and coping strategies classes to Colony High School Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets in Palmer Nov. 4.
Dr Navarro describes how El Salvador is coping with climate change and how it is looking to the future
Acocks Green Police Station.
The view from the railway station.
Built in 1909 for Yardley Rural District Council. It includes a Courthouse. Made of red brick and terracotta with a tile roof. Two-storeys. Almost symmetrical elevation to Yardley Road. Central section with rusticated ground floor, above which is a central pedimented bay with flanking projecting bays with segmental pediments. To either side are two-storey canted bays. Sliding sash windows throughout. On corner with Alexander Road is an octagonal turret with lead dome and keyed ocular windows. Low boundary wall with mould terracotta coping.
Grade II Listed Building
Acocks Green Police Station and former courthouse
Summary
A police station and incorporated court house for Worcestershire Police, constructed in 1909 to designs by Alfred Vernon Rowe (1881-1940), County Architect.
Description
A police station and incorporated courthouse for Worcestershire Police, constructed in 1909 to designs by Alfred Vernon Rowe (1881-1940), County Architect.
MATERIALS: red brick, laid in English bond, and terracotta; brick and terracotta stacks, and plain clay tile roofs.
PLAN: the building forms a rough T-plan, with some small additions; the main range runs north-south along Yardley Road. The long rear wing was formerly the court house and cells, the branch of the main range to the centre and south was occupied by the police station, and the northern end was occupied by three police houses, all now incorporated into the police station.
EXTERIOR: the buildings, of two storeys, are in a Queen Anne domestic revival style; there is extensive terracotta detailing articulating the principal elevations, including moulded window and door surrounds, keystones, pediments, aprons, pilasters, dentils and moulded cartouches. The windows have all been replaced in uPVC, their design attempting to echo the original multi-paned sashes . The long, main range to Yardley Road is broadly symmetrical, with an additional corner turret to the right. The five-bay entrance has a central, three-windowed pedimented bay with paired Ionic pilasters and a large, segmental-arched window opening; the pediment has a cartouche containing the coat of arms for Worcestershire. The flanking projecting entrance bays – one giving access to the police station, the other to the former courthouse – have rusticated brickwork to the ground floor, semi-circular arched doorways with double, panelled doors, moulded cill band and broken semi-circular pediments with finials, and cartouches with AD and 1909. To either side are three bays, the central one a full-height canted bay with parapet projecting above the eaves, all clad in terracotta with depressed panels between floors; the bays to either side have central triangular pediments breaking above the dentilled eaves and forming part of window surrounds, with segmental-arched pediments to the corresponding ground-floor windows. The left-hand end has no doorways; the right-hand has a recessed entrance porch to paired doorways giving access to two of the former police houses. The right-hand end returns around the corner into Alexander Road; the corner is marked by an octagonal corner turret of three storeys, the upper storey breaking above the eaves, with keyed oculi to each face, and a dome above. The three-bay right return has an entrance to the third former police house, with elaborately-moulded overdoor. The left return continues the dentil eaves over three first-floor windows and a single more elaborate window to the ground floor. Terracotta cill bands extend across the main elevation and both returns. The roofs are hipped, with ridge finials.
The rear of the building is much plainer, and built in a less even, red-buff brick. There are simply-moulded eaves details, and the windows mainly have rubbed-brick voussoirs, with some stone lintels with chamfers to the openings. The rear of the paired police houses have projecting wings, each with a ground-floor canted bay window under stone lintels, with paired rectangular windows above. The north side has its original lean-to extension housing three openings; the other side has a second-storey addition. The rear of the southern range has a projecting two-storey wing including a subsidiary doorway, which continues parallel to the mind range as a single storey with a flat roof.
The two-storey courthouse wing projects to the rear, forming a T-plan with the main range; the cells occupied the ground floor, and the court room and associated functions above. The final two bays are set slightly lower, with a half-hipped roof. The range terminates on the south side with a projecting flat-roofed bay with an external doorway leading to a stair rising directly to the suite of court rooms. The segmental-arched doorway with a rubbed-brick arch has a brick and terracotta pedimented surround with brick pilasters and terracotta Ionic capitals with egg and dart mouldings. The first floor has high, paired windows to the former court room, and smaller windows to the ancillary rooms. The ground floor has smaller, segmental-arched openings to the cells, housing glass-brick windows in thick-barred matrices. A lean-to car port of corrugated metal on metal posts stands against the southern elevation. The northern elevation is similar, but terminates with a large stack rising from a lean-to boiler house.
INTERIOR: the former police station is laid out on a corridor plan, with rooms to front and rear off a central passageway. The rooms are plain, with skirtings the only historic joinery; all have inserted, suspended ceilings. Behind the entrance porch is the stair hall; the stair a closed-string open-well flight with turned newel, ball finial and turned balusters; the area beneath the stair is panelled. The reception lobby to which the porch leads has a late-C20 counter and associated fittings. The first floor has similar layout, with some later subdivisions.
The second ground-floor entrance in the main range, for the court house, gives access into a porch and self-contained stair hall; the open-string, dog-leg stair has a slender, turned newel post, with two spiral, iron balusters to each tread. The toadsback handrail is ramped as the stair turns. The first-floor landing has been modified. The first-floor rooms above the entrance bay, and the court house wing extending to the rear, retain more elaborate joinery. A wide opening off the landing has a moulded, eared doorcase with panelling, and a ramped cornice above. Ancillary rooms have bolection moulded architraves. The former court room has been subdivided with lightweight partitions. At the western end of the former courtroom, two steps rise into the rear rooms, via an eared, pedimented doorcase with panelling, into a retiring room, formerly with a corner fireplace (since removed). Adjoining this is a small lobby with access into a former lavatory, with walls tiled to picture rail height. The lobby gives access to a stone stair which turns through 90 degrees and rises from the external entrance in the southern elevation, giving direct access from the street to the retiring room. The staircase has spiral iron balusters and a wreathed curtail. The lobby in which it emerges has fitted cupboards. The stair from the cells to the court room has been removed, but may have been sited along the northern side of the range. The ground floor is now accessed from the ground floor of the police station range. The cells retain their layout, though some have been adopted for other uses.
The former police houses largely retain their historic plan form. The paired houses entered from Yardley Road form a mirror pair, with two rooms to the front range, each formerly with a corner fireplace (since removed), a stair hall to the rear and a former larder and good room in the rear wing. One of the pair has had its stair removed, though the location is legible, and a single doorway has been opened up between the hallways of the two houses on the ground floor. The other house retains its stair, and its larder is still fitted out with shelving on moulded brackets and a low, slate shelf for cold goods. The third house is accessed from Alexander Road; the interior was not accessible at the time of inspection, but plans show that the layout remains, with a central entrance hall giving access to each of four rooms on the ground floor. To the first floor, the paired houses have been opened up in the rear wing, removing the wall between the two rear bedrooms. The first floor of the third house appears largely unaltered.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the plot is bounded to Yardley Road is bounded by low brick WALLS with triangular section terracotta coping; the walls return to bound paths to the doorways in the main elevation, ramping up alongside the steps to the entrances. These have been modified by the addition of a gently-sloping ramp to the police station entrance in the later C20. The walls curve around the corner with Alexander Road to provide a similar entrance to the house on the return.
History
The police station and incorporated courthouse on Yardley Road was constructed in 1909, to designs by the county architect, Alfred Vernon Rowe. The previous police station, designed by Rowe’s father Alfred Burnett Rowe during his own time as county architect, was no longer adequate; but the primary driver was the fact that the closest court house, in Sparkhill, was not sufficient to cover the needs of the Yardley area in addition. By March 1908, Worcestershire Police had instructed the county architect to draw up plans for a new, combined police station and court house. The building was constructed on a prominent site at the corner of Yardley Road and Alexander Road, the corner marked by a polygonal turret rising above the height of the building; it incorporated the police station, three police houses at the Alexander Road end, and a wing to the rear including the courthouse and cells. In about 1921, a small, detached fire station (not part of this assessment) was erected on an adjacent plot in Alexander Road, which remained in use until 1993, after which it was sold and its use changed to offices.
Acock’s Green Police Station continued in its original use until 2018, though the police houses had by that time since been incorporated into the main building; the former courthouse had been converted to offices, and the former cells to ancillary uses, with some limited reordering.
Reasons for Listing
Acock’s Green Police Station and former courthouse, built in 1909 to designs by the county architect, Alfred Vernon Rowe, is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* for its interesting and dignified Queen Anne style composition, with well-articulated elevations, which are deftly handled and well executed; the building responds well to its site with an impressive octagonal corner turret;
* the principal elevations have extensive, well-detailed brick and terracotta work, including the arms of the county of Worcestershire, for whom it was erected;
* the plan of police station, cells, court rooms and houses, with their separate entrances, remains clearly legible, as does the circulation between the various functions;
* the interior retains its custody area with cells, police offices and lobby, and the layout of the former houses;
* although the court room fittings have been removed, the details of the doorcases, external entrances, stair and wall treatments clearly mark the former rooms associated with the court functions, including the court room and retiring room.
Historic interest:
* as an example of a complex municipal building which housed the functions of police station, magistrates’ court and police residences.
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/ a weekend in vermont, the posse reunited, to meet and love and care for our newest member, only three weeks old.
Sun Fiberglass Pool installed by Beach Town Pools of Virginia Beach, Virginia using VASTEC USA's Coping For Fiberglass Pools and waterline tile.
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Het is die dag (dinsdag 11 november) te laat om nog naar Monrovia te gaan – een rit van 5 uur. De meisjes worden die nacht opgevangen in het lokale voetbalstadion, waar naasten van ebola patiënten in quarantaine worden geplaatst. De volgende ochtend vertrekken ze, begeleidt door 2 mensen van de sociale dienst, in een auto van Save the Children naar Monrovia. In het Interim Care Center (ICC) worden ze opgevangen door een groep vrouwen, zelf allemaal ebola overlevenden. Zij zijn immuun voor de variant van het virus dat heerst. Andere varianten kunnen zij nog wel krijgen, dus er is voor deze vrouwen nog wel een risico.
Well, when I first moved in I had an idea to mosaic these bland looking coping stones. The idea is to add some much needed colour to a dark area of the garden. Rather than attach them straight to them I've decided to use a backer first. This way I can work on them as much as I like without having to worry about wet weather.
Fiberglass pool by Blue Hawaiian, installation done by Seasonal Solutions of Lewes, Delaware, using VASTEC USA's Coping For Fiberglass Pools.
This maybe be trivial and easy for some, but it was my first time barking the rear trucks on real coping. So I was and still am stoked!
Sun Fiberglass Pool installed by Beach Town Pools of Virginia Beach, Virginia using VASTEC USA's Coping For Fiberglass Pools and waterline tile.
TITLE: "Coping with Triggers"
PHOTOGRAPHER: Gordon Matthews
SECOND PLACE
2005 Downtown Eastside Photography Contest
DESCRIPTION: “This is in my mirror because I look at the mirror every morning and it is a constant reminder of my struggles: addiction.” Gordon is going through treatment at home and is seeing a counsellor. “Thank you for not mugging me” is a badge he wears when he goes out. The Coping with Triggers brochure is from his drug counsellor at the clinic.
PHOTOGRAPHER BIO: Gordon Matthews came to the Downtown Eastside from Surrey in early 2005. He is currently one of the licensed street sellers of the 2006 Pivot calendar.
Original limited number print on acid-free paper, 8 x 12 inches, $195 custom framed. Fifty percent of sale revenue goes to the photographer.
From the Hope in Shadows collection
COPYRIGHT: Pivot Legal Society, 2005
Theun Hinboun Expansion Project Affected Village, Downstream on the Hinboun River and still to be relocated. Khammouane, Laos. Credit: Tania Lee
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Entrance features using Royal Forest Pennant sandstone; steps inlaid with DDA compliant visibility strips & lighting, coping, paving stones and setts
Mixed colour paving with inset light box.
Anti-skate-board studs have been fitted into alternate sides of the low-rise wall/coping.
This maybe be trivial and easy for some, but it was my first time barking the rear trucks on real coping. So I was and still am stoked!
Coping with Depression (September 14, 2008)
(listen to our public radio episode "Yoga. Meditation in Action." at speakingofaith.org/programs/2008/yoga/)
I was blessed to be introduced to Yoga forty years ago, by one of the first gurus to bring the Eastern teachers to the West. I met Swami Satchidananda when I was 15 years old. I started teaching Hatha classes at the Integral Yoga Institute in NY a year later.
I began the practice as a way of controlling my body — I had been taking a lot of modern dance classes. But while I was in Yoga class, I had a profound experience of peace during the Deep Relaxation. I realized that this was unlike anything I had been taught and that it would profoundly change my outlook on life and the lives of others. It was a prophetic notion.
I started attending talks by Swami Satchidananda and found that he directly addressed issues with which I had been struggling as an adolescent. He clearly expressed answers to my questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Is there a God? What is life about? How can I find peace?
I learned that the physical practices of Hatha Yoga was like the tip of an iceberg. Yoga was so much more. Integral Yoga, as taught by Swami Satchidananda, could be approached through many paths: For someone of who was intellectual in nature, there is Jnana Yoga (the study of self-analysis and scripture); for someone of action there is Karma Yoga (doing selfless service as a way of righting wrong action); for someone drawn to self discipline there is Raja Yoga (which contains Hatha Yoga, meditation and breathing techniques), and for the person with an emotional persuasion there is Bhakti Yoga (a devotional practice, which encompasses all religions). I enjoyed learning a blend of all these paths, but found that I leaned toward Bhakti, for it helped me to direct my emotional nature in a positive direction.
Yoga helped me cope with a life-long tendency toward depression. It taught me that happiness is my true nature and that it is the mind that misidentifies with my thoughts and with material possessions that causes distress and stress.
I had been born in a Jewish family that was minimally observant and that approached religion as a tradition more than a faith. I never found spiritual balm from religion — until I learned a Yoga.
Swami Satchidananda taught that "truth is one, paths are many." Through Yoga, I was introduced to other religions: Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and more — and I found a deeply spiritual balance that sustains me to this day. His teachings of interfaith are epitomized in a temple he designed called LOTUS, which stands for the Light Of Truth Universal Shrine.
(The image is of me driving Swami Satchidananda in my car.)