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Hill, Dan – The Fifty Flip Experiment #22
The Fifty Flip Experiment
I've officially been reviewing these comics for so long that I've completely forgotten what the title was supposed to mean. Seems like there was an explanation in the early days, but we're talking over a decade here, so it's apparently left my brain. Obviously to make room for more important stuff and not just because I'm gradually losing my marbles, right? Right. This is the rare issue of The Fifty Flip Experiment that actually looks simple on first glance. The basic story is that there's a card game going on (in an old timey saloon, naturally), one of players wins the game in a suspicious fashion, and another player calls him out, leading to the prospect of some inevitable gunplay. But this is Dan we're talking about, so obviously things aren't going to be that easy. His missive on the front and back inside cover details the allegorical nature of each of the participants (I'd recommend reading it after finishing the story; I split the difference by reading the inside front cover, the story and then the inside back cover. Do not do this!), and each of them has a lot more going on than you may have guessed. There's also the nature of the angry confrontation after the cheating has been discovered; I abhor spoilers but I will say no guns are fired during this comic. And that ending… well, you haven't lived a full life until you've seen the final panel of this story. In case that somehow wasn't enough for you, there's also a short bonus piece with 14 different science fiction ideas, and if you know anything about this comic, 14 new ideas about anything coming from this brain are always welcome. Buy it, love it, be it! $7
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The Fifty Flip Experiment #23
More and more, Dan's books defy any sort of conventional analysis and, more and more, reading them makes me want to sit in a corner and think about whether or not reality is really how I see it or how Dan sees it, and what it means if it's more like Dan's version. So I'd like to start with a quote from the letter Dan sent me along with this comic; the only background you need to know is that in 2018 I spent some time away from reviewing comics because my back was in excruciating pain pretty much constantly over a few months. "It is too bad that we have to carry around heavy brains wiggling around on top of a frail super-extended spine." Yes… yes it is. Dan starts off with a long text piece that is on both inside covers, in which he describes the contents of the comic. Sort of, while also leaving plenty of room for your own interpretations, and mentioning several things that don't seem to happen in the comic itself. Maybe I shouldn't have read that first, but it was right there on the inside front cover! I had to read that first, right? Anyway, I'll give this is a shot, fraught with peril though it may be. This is the story of Gerard, who's an average dude. He gets ice cream with sprinkles, then decides that he wants rainbow tears. A Rascal is brought into the mix, then burnt orange wax. Suddenly, a ramp and a crash! Mortality sets in, and is begrudgingly welcomed. All that is needed after that is a golden coin. Huh. It's only with Dan's comics that I'm genuinely not sure if I spoiled the ending, or how much it would matter if I did. His comics are about the journey, not necessarily the destination, except that's probably not what they're about, and I'll never know fully what they're about, as I'm me and not Dan. Sometimes I hope that Dan's comics are all that survives after the (choose your own favorite type of) apocalypse happens. I'd love to see the world that aliens would put together using only the information contained in these 23 issues. $5
Now that is one old timey website. Granted, given my lack of skills is designing (or even maintaining) a website, I shouldn't be making comments, but there's some real Geocities-like flashing graphics on that link above. Click it and see! Anyway, it's been a few years since I've seen a comic from Dan, and each time I review an issue I come away from it feeling like I've failed to convey just how unique and bizarre it was. Maybe I'm referring to the man, but I'm definitely referring to the experience of reading the comics, complete with the introduction this time around. He mentions in his intro that he put the it in the front of the comic because it was more important to him that the words be on the first page "so that the book looks like a comic book… I take it on faith that things that look like comic books will, given enough time, more or less actually become comic books." Welcome to the world according to Dan Hill! If you're alarmed by that #21 on the cover and feel like you'll never catch up on the story, don't fret, this issue stands all by itself. Dan explains the real story in his intro, but on a surface level this is the story of a time traveler in a spacesuit who wreaks havoc and death on what appears to be a peaceful alien race who play Jenga as a mating ritual. His sidekick only communicates by little lines of paper that come out of her head and, as there's rarely time to read them in the heat of battle, he usually reads them while putting together the mission in his head, trying to figure out where the comments belong and what they refer to. Naturally there's also a final battle with a big boss and something ends up getting thrown into the sun. Once again I feel like I failed to give an accurate summation of this comic, but maybe it's just impossible. Reading a Dan Hill comic is a singular experience, and everybody should try it at least once. If you're cheap he has a lot of samples up on his website, possibly even full comics. $5
Hill, Dan – The 50 Flip Experiment #19
The 50 Flip Experiment #19
I wonder sometimes how many people are still here from the early days of this website (it goes back to 2001, in case you were curious). I wonder that today because I started reviewing this series way back in 2003 (or was it 2004?), and here it is, 2017, and a new issue is available. And, remarkably, it's only gotten weirder over the years, and I obviously mean that only in the best possible sense. Things start off here with three naked people who are stuck on a lifeboat. One of the naked people has what appears to be a brain in a jar on her head, another is asking the other people on the boat to imagine that he's a bear, and the second woman is getting her hair brushed by an invisible force while also wearing what appears to be chickens on her head. And that right there is the first panel, to give you some idea of what you're in for. Our heroes chat about their predicament, they seem to free themselves… and then we're moving on to the next story. Yes, I left out the bit about them possibly being time travelers, I have to leave some mystery for you to uncover. From there we get a group of students who are at the beach for their last summer together. Also a seabeast. And hot dogs in a fanny pack. And the Queen. And the fact that whoever touches the dead Queen first becomes the next Queen. This is a delightful array of philosophy, nihilism, hijinx and beach horniness. If you can't imagine how all those things could possibly go together, well boy howdy are you in for a treat! $6
Dan has been doing this comic for 15 issues now (obviously, and huzzah) and he's clearly getting tired of this one particular view of reality. This time around he's mixing it up even more, throwing himself in a few times (and not obnoxiously; Dave Sim, take note), and generally treating the stories and panels as his playground. And why not? I'd say he's been doing this long enough to have earned it. The very first strip with a drunken Pinocchio talking to Gepetto (I'm not giving away the punchline) should have been your first clue, as it's always a good sign when the opening strip is fucking with you. From there we get a single page image of an attacking helicopter, Darth Vader getting blown/cut with an axe, somebody fleeing from a burning building, a giraffe, and a viking holding a bong. Next is the strip I sampled below, and from there it's best if you peel the layers of this particular onion yourself. Subjects in some of these stories include funnies about Diogenes, a funny (in a New Yorker-ish kind of way) joke about slavery, pirate humor, a night at Perkin's (this one may only make sense to people who live in Champaign, unless that place is a chain of some kind), creepy Dan and a woman trapped in her bed, the soul destroying powers of TGI Friday's, and happily ever after. Dan seems to be taking more time between comics these days (no human could keep up the pace he was on when he started), but if the result is books like this then I'm all for it. Not that I hated his older comics by any stretch, but I'm all for packing as many layers in as possible. $4
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Hill, Dan – The Fifty Flip Experiment #3
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The Fifty Flip Experiment #3
Ah, a comic from back when this comic was funny. For those of you who are sarcasm-challenged, well, the comic is STILL funny (as of #14 anyway), but wow was the format different back when this issue came out. By the time Dan got to #14 the stories were getting longer and the art was getting better, but it's hard to compare to an issue like this in terms of sheer content. This is mostly a series of comic strips, usually four to a page, along with some single page strips. As a result of all that content I'll just briefly mention what you could find in the first half of the book: mistaken unicorn identity, screaming dad, some unfortunate third world care packages, the moral superiority of jogging, stupid Simba, the secret of Abraham Lincoln's hat, medical experiments on slaves (in an odd change of pace for an otherwise jovial book), fucking crows, streamlining the mate selection process, "fake" wrestling, and a suicidal tackle box. And that's just chunks of the first half! If you've never heard of Dan Hill and want to see what exactly he's capable of, chances are that you're going to want to start with one of his more recent work comics and work your way back. If you're already a fan, or if you're obsessed with getting value for your comics dollar, it's hard to go wrong with this one. As for those websites, the first one is Dan's official website (as far as I know), but it's not working at the moment. The second one lists several of Dan's old comics, including many of them from this issue, but that's not working at the moment either. Too bad, but here's hoping it's just a temporary thing. If I remember correctly these were generally $2, although maybe the earlier ones were cheaper.
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Oh copying problems, you are the bane of the existence of mini comics. I'll get to the content in a minute, but the fact that roughly half of the pages in here have dark copy lines either partially or mostly covering the pages is more than a bit annoying. Dan printed up a hundred of these things and I'm guessing he didn't want to bother with the trouble and expense of copying a new bunch, which makes sense when you think how much the average mini comic producer makes (hint: breaking even is often a welcome surprise). Still, it's a mess, and it detracts from a few stories. Ah well, at least this time around he upped the total of naked women considerably. Stories in here include baby as bomb, hobo wisdom, David Lynch making a Hostess snack cake commercial (that I would have loved to sample if the pages weren't such a mess), the fact that deaf people are essentially always in a sensory deprivation tank and thus are constantly tripping balls, Spoons for Hands Man gradually running out of steam as Dan clearly loses interest, the location of a tumor, a strip that flew right over my head (at least one guaranteed per issue!), is the cat really in the box, and why Shamu doesn't sleep. Oh, and the inevitable disappointment of the symphony. Dan also had an interesting introduction about comedy in general, and I'm completely on board with finding fewer and fewer genuinely funny comedians out there. A CD is also included that contains over an hour of something or other, but I popped it in, lasted a few minutes and then started searching around it. Didn't find anything that really held my interest, but there could very well be nuggets of genius on it somewhere, my attention span is simply too short to try and find it. He says it'll be less of a gap between issues this time around (this one came out about a year after #13), and here's hoping he sticks to it. He's gradually carving out his own niche, so it would be nice if enough people manage to notice before he inevitably runs away from comics and turns to drink. $1
Hill, Dan – The Fifty-Flip Experiment #11
The Fifty-Flip Experiment #11
In case you're curious, yes, the back cover does show the end result from the pose depicted on the front cover. No, I am not going to show it to you. Buy the damned book! Although at the moment Dan's website appears to be down, and this has also followed a prolonged period of inactivity for the man, so the signs are ominous. Still, I heard it from the man himself that he will put out another issue, so that's settled, and I'm sure the site will be up and humming again soon, along with all of humanity learning to love each other. In "I have to complain at least a little bit" news, the unerased pencil lines are fewer this time around, but the copy smudges and dark spots more than make up for it. Nothing to be done about it now, so on to the content! Stories in here include a running fake newscast gag (involving the horrors of kids reading "e-texts" that are meant for adults and a commercial for a slinky de-tangler), sorting out some angst, the dangers of Garden State addiction, getting a body mod for the kermit face, and a series of strips with the same punchline that somehow got funnier each time, leading up to a grotesquery of funny.  And here's a fun fact for your Optical Sloth trivia game: I bought a bookcase off Craigslist from Dan Hill. If you live in town and find something he's willing to sell, he may even drive it to your house. I'm mentioning this to point out what a swell guy he is and that maybe you should buy his comics. Just as soon as he gets his website up and running again…
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You can tell it's going to be a great comic when you're already laughing at the introduction. Of course, I was laughing more at my own level of cynicism than anything else, as Dan apologized for being three weeks late with this issue. Three weeks! That's a man who's dedicated to putting his bi-monthly comic out on a bi-monthly basis. Does anybody remember why Drawn & Quarterly was named Drawn & Quarterly? Hint: it has to do with putting comics of a series out on a quarterly basis. I think they kept to that for maybe the first year or so, or at least tried to, before abandoning all pretense of that being the case. Of course, according to Dan's website this is the last issue he's put out (in September 2009), so maybe regularly putting out comics got to him. So how about the comic? It seems… fluffier than usual, like he was trying to burn up page space by dragging stories out for pages that could have ended far sooner. Not that they're actively bad stories, but I can see why the man maybe took a break after this one. The first half of the comic is a story about an alien coming to earth, something that felt more like a movie of the week than anything else, but he did manage to spice things up a bit, and the fact that schmaltz can be funny helped him out a bit. Other stories include a mildly pointless piece about lounging in space, a shortie about a psychiatrist with a good punchline, Spoons for Handsman eats too many Rolos (hey wait a minute, how did he open all those Rolos with spoons for hands?) and a meandering piece about the national conspiracy to hide any evidence of queefs. Kids, ask your parents. On second thought just use the internet, as asking your parents would be the most uncomfortable conversation of your life. Overall there's still good to be found here, but if he is taking a break from his grueling schedule (and in the context of small press comics I mean that sincerely), I hope he's working on tightening his game up a bit. That and deciding that it's OK not to have at least one page per comic where you can still see the unerased pencil lines… $2
It seems like only yesterday (because it was) when I was wishing for a complete collection of John Porcellino's early, long since out-of-print issues of King Cat. Today I grabbed the first issue of a series I've really come to enjoy to see what it was like in the early days, and man, it's not pretty. It looks like he pulled every halfway funny piece out of his sketchbook, no matter how old it was, and threw in a few strips where he seems to have drastically improved his drawing skills, with the end result being a mish mash of nonsense. He still managed to put together a few funny strips, and I loved his little asides during the strips about how he wasted space on certain strips, but overall this was a timely reminder that it's often best to go with the later work when trying to form an opinion about something. If this was the only issue of this series I'd have a significantly more negative reaction to it than I do knowing he got a lot better as he went on, but it would take a real fan of this series/artist to get a whole lot out of this issue. Stories in here include an astronaut with his co-pilot/blow-up doll, poor table manners, being tortured by sasquatch, a few tales of spoons for hands man (with varying degrees of artistic proficiency, as I think one of these was drawn with magic marker), an awful care package, I Miss Shel Silverstein, pick which contestant has scorpions under his skin, bat erections, new stilts, action hero Jesus, fat man trying to get back in shape, and a number of things that don't make even a tiny bit of sense but are still somehow at least mildly amusing. That's the one thing that keeps this from being a total stinker: the fact that it's so strange that it's usually at least a little bit funny. Still, I'd go with one of the later issues if you just wanted to check out his stuff. Just sayin'… $1
There's a lot to be said for simple consistency, the continued ability to put out funny, interesting comics on a regular basis. Dan, at the very least, has that down. He managed to put out one of these every 2 months for a couple of years there, no small feat in the mini comic community. This issue was done a little over a year ago and it looks like he's only put out three issues since, which means that he slipped up a little bit. Or you could look at it another way: how many small press people do you know that managed to put out three issues of anything in the last year? It's a much smaller list than it should be. On to the comic, as I sure can meander off topic. This starts off with a pretty funny text piece based on This American Life, Ira Glass and David Sedaris. Well, I thought it was funny; your mileage may vary based on your familiarity with those people and/or that show. The comics end up dealing with utter randomness, including the shortest friendship ever, a married couple completing each others' sentences, some hyper-literary nonsense that has to be read to be believed (I tried summing it up but it's impossible), apology lines, a unicorn who thinks we need a strong Israel, and Spoons For Hands Man crapping all over everything. There's also the chunkiest part of the comic in the middle, and it's all about a zombie waking up his dinosaur steed, shooting an alcoholic owl and running over Hunter S. Thompson. All of that only scratches the surface of the nonsensical hilarity of the comic, and it's only nonsensical for the parts I didn't understand, but they probably had a deeper significance that flew right over my head. These random piles of funny have really grown on my over the last couple of years, you should think about getting a few of these so you can see where I'm coming from. $2
Damn, and this one got off to such a good start. This comic starts off with a funny strip (sampled, you can make up your own minds), then a mildly funny strip about the nature of art and pretension, then things went off the rails. See, if you're going to have one long story in a comic that's usually about short funny pieces, it really has to be able to hold your attention, and this one just went on and on and on… and even promises that it'll be continued in the next issue! Blech. What's so awful? It's really not that bad of an idea for a strip, and you can tell the theme for the cover. Things start with it being a parody of an infomercial, with everybody over-excited to be drinking tears and wondering where they come from.  Then it goes on to give rejected criers, uses for the tears and a reaction from an art snob. Unless he's planning on making this into a continuing story and somehow manages to make it funny and interesting again after running it into the ground, it's safe to say I'm skipping #10. Not that the whole issue is a wash, there are still four single page strips after the long piece, but it's not enough to save the comic. Check out some of the other issues for some genuine funny, but unless your sense of humor is entirely different from mine (that's entirely possible), skip this one. $2
Here's a note for aspiring cartoonists everywhere: if the character on your cover can touch the inside of his wrist with his index finger, you might still need a little work drawing hands. I'm crapping on this to start the review because there's plenty here to like, so why not get the bad stuff out of the way first? Dan is doing a bimonthly comic (he's up to #9), is engaging the local comics community of Champaign-Urbana Illinois to help out with various panels and gags, and has an excellent sense of humor. The trouble is that it's absurdist humor, and that sort of thing takes some work before a person is going to get it down. He lists Tim & Eric as an influence and they're damned near brilliant, so that's a good place to start, but this issue is uneven at best. Future issues look more coherent (he samples 2/3 of every issue on his website), which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your perspective. I tend to subscribe to the Picasso theory of comics: learn everything there is to learn, then feel free to fuck around with the concepts. So, by that theory, if later issues are more coherent, once he gets the hang of that he'll have a better grasp of the absurd. So what's in the actual comic? There's the man on the cover getting into a philosophical discussion with a hobo, an anime joke (I think) that is lost on me, a hilarious bit with snakes getting their own parachutes, how to interpret a sneeze, the inspired mundaneness of Yelena, a philosophical discussion in an asylum, dead Zorro, the memory of elephants, clown sex, air guitar and a hill of beans. Some of the pages are sideways (these are the ones that always seem to be "too busy" and look fainter than the others for some reason) and some of the jokes go nowhere at all, but the funny bits still make this worthwhile for a buck, and for the sake of supporting someone who seems committed to sticking to a schedule. Good behavior like that should be rewarded. Oh, and an early contender for the non-existent "title of the year" category would have to go to "Slice of Life Strips are Very Lazy". $1
Dan passes a crucial test with this issue: is it better than the last one? In every way, and it's not like the last issue was awful. Of course, it is possible to pass that test too often and become like Dan Clowes. Dan kept making every issue of Eightball better and better for years until eventually he lost the ability to make comics, as he eventually reached a critical mass of awesomeness. As long as this Dan can avoid that, he should be fine. Stories in this issue include the tale of Albrecht Durer (and Dan gets bonus points both for using the umlaut and for saying that Albrecht can use them every time they're printed in his name "like a periscope from hell"), a studious and curious boy who's also mildly homicidal, a young man who tunes out the cartoon villain who's come to kill him, Neat Pete looking for cash, an unfortunate usage of a blender, a bad babysitter, the sternum and the awful, awful pun. It made me chuckle more than a few times, what more can you ask for? $2 (or $1 if you get it from Dan's hands).


A creamy semi-matte highly pigmented lipstick blended with hydrating castor seed oil and cocoa seed oil. Leaves a stain as it wears off for a lasting look.
Layer over Balmy Days or under the Ilia Beauty lip gloss for a more glamorous look.
Ingredients: Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil*, Sesamum Indicum (Sesame) Seed Oil*, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil*, Beeswax (Cera Alba)*, Triisostearyl Citrate, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter*, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch*, Linum Usitatissimum (Linseed) Flax Seed*, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil*, Rosa Canina (Rosehip) Seed Oil*, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf*, Tocopherol. May contain: Mica, Titanium Dioxide CI77891, Black Oxide CI77499, Yellow Oxide CI77492, Red Oxide CI77491, Red 7 CI15850, Red 28 CI45410, Yellow 5 CI19140. *Certified Organic Ingredients. Ingrédients Certifiés Biologiques.


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package com.sem4ikt.uni.recipefinderchatbot.model;

import com.sem4ikt.uni.recipefinderchatbot.model.interfaces.ILoginUserModel;

/**
 * Created by mathiaslykkepedersen on 16/03/2017.
 */

public class LoginUserModel implements ILoginUserModel {

    private String email;
    private String password;
    private String confirmPassword;

    public LoginUserModel(){
    }

    @Override
    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    @Override
    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    @Override
    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    @Override
    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }

    @Override
    public String getConfirmPassword() {
        return this.confirmPassword;
    }

    @Override
    public void setConfirmPassword(String confirmPassword) {this.confirmPassword = confirmPassword;}

    @Override
    public boolean checkPasswordsMatches() {return confirmPassword.equals(password);}

    @Override
    public boolean checkUserValidity() {

        String EMAIL_REGEX = "^[\\w!#$%&'*+/=?`{|}~^-]+(?:\\.[\\w!#$%&'*+/=?`{|}~^-]+)*@(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$";
        String PASS_REGEX = "((?=.*\\d)(?=.*[a-z]).{6,20})";

        /*
                (			    # Start of group
                (?=.*\d)	    #   must contains one digit from 0-9
                (?=.*[a-z])		#   must contains one lowercase characters
                .		        #   match anything with previous condition checking
                {6,20}	        #   length at least 6 characters and maximum of 20
                )			    # End of group

                ?= – means apply the assertion condition, meaningless by itself, always work with other combination
        */

        return password.matches(PASS_REGEX) && email.matches(EMAIL_REGEX);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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package ndm.miniwms.controller;

import java.util.List;

import javax.annotation.Resource;

import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

import ndm.miniwms.pojo.CompanyUser;
import ndm.miniwms.service.UserService;
import ndm.miniwms.vo.Message;

@Controller
public class UserController {

	@Resource
	private UserService userService;

	@RequestMapping(value="/user/all",method = RequestMethod.GET)
	@ResponseBody
	public List<CompanyUser> all(){
		return userService.all();
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/user/add",method = RequestMethod.POST)
	@ResponseBody
	public ResponseEntity<Message> insert(CompanyUser user){
		userService.add(user);
		return new ResponseEntity<Message>(new Message(), HttpStatus.OK);
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/user/upt",method = RequestMethod.PUT)
	@ResponseBody
	public ResponseEntity<Message> update(CompanyUser user){
		userService.update(user);
		return new ResponseEntity<Message>(new Message(), HttpStatus.OK);
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/user/del",method = RequestMethod.DELETE)
	@ResponseBody
	public ResponseEntity<Message> delete(Integer id){
		userService.delete(id);
		return new ResponseEntity<Message>(new Message(), HttpStatus.OK);
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/user/{id}",method = RequestMethod.GET)
	@ResponseBody
	public ResponseEntity<Message> selectById(@PathVariable ("id") Integer id){
		userService.selectById(id);
		return new ResponseEntity<Message>(new Message(), HttpStatus.OK);
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/user/page",method = RequestMethod.GET)
	@ResponseBody
	public ResponseEntity<Message> selectTab(){
		userService.selectTab();
		return new ResponseEntity<Message>(new Message(), HttpStatus.OK);
	}
}


British Prime Minister Tony Blair's promised dossier on Iraq is to reveal that Saddam Hussein trained some of Osama bin Laden's key lieutenants, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
The dossier is also expected to disclose that the Iraqi leader has reconstructed three plants to manufacture biological and chemical weapons, it said.
Blair, facing opposition from within his own Labour Party over going to war with Iraq without U.N. backing, has recalled parliament to discuss the issue later this month and promised to publish a dossier detailing evidence against Saddam Hussein.
The Sunday Telegraph said a draft version of the dossier contains detailed information on how two alleged leading al Qaeda members, Abu Zubair and Rafid Fatah, underwent training in Iraq and are still linked to the Baghdad government.
It said Abu Zubair was an Iraqi intelligence officer trained in using terror against the Kurds in Northern Iraq. Rafid Fatah also worked with him against the Kurds, the paper added.
They were then said to have joined ranks with Osama bin Laden, accused by Washington of being the mastermind behind last year's September 11 hijack attacks.
On reports that Saddam Hussein has reconstructed three weapons plants, the paper said evidence was based on "worrying activity" captured by American satellite photographs.
One security official, quoted by the Sunday Telegraph, said the photos "clearly show very worrying activity of rebuilding work at these plants which we already knew were being used for developing chemical and biological weapons. That is what Saddam is doing again."


International House Davis and Senses Cultural are combining forces to offer a very special FREE film festival in Davis on Tuesday, Oct. 23 showing films made by 16-year-olds in Mozambiqe and India.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for Davis and Yolo County residents to see a unique and creative way that children are being empowered," said Elisabeth Sherwin, executive director of I-House.
The international film project is the work of Holly Carter, a New York-based journalist, filmmaker and founder of the nonprofit BYkids. BYkids pairs teens in Third World countries with professional filmmakers to produce kid-centered documentaries about their lives.
Senses Cultural is a Sacramento-based nonprofit that promotes the work of BYkids and organizations like it dedicated to improving the lives of women and children across the globe.
Tata Monfared, CEO of Senses Cultural, will introduce Carter, who is currently planning a documentary made by a teen in Afghanistan.
The evening is free and open to the public.


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Joint Dinner for ABFER & AMPF
Keynote Speech by Sir Paul Tucker
We are entering a period of history when the architecture of the international monetary and financial system is liable to become entangled with geopolitical shifts and contests. Paul Tucker will unpack what is at stake, offering illustrative scenarios for how things might change over the coming decades, from the role of reserve currencies to the regulation of internationally active banks and the IFIs.
Venue: Horizon Pavilion, Level 5
Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort, Singapore
101 Siloso Road, Sentosa, Singapore 098970
Joint Dinner for ABFER and AMPF
Welcome Remarks by Professor Tan Eng Chye
President of National University of Singapore and Council Member of ABFER
Chair of the Systemic Risk Council, Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
"The International Monetary and Financial System in the face of Shifting Geopolitics"
Q&A Session Chaired by Professor Bernard Yeung
Dean and Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor, National University of Singapore and President of ABFER
Dinner commence
Speakers (in chronological order)
Professor Tan Eng Chye
Professor Tan Eng Chye was appointed President of the National University of Singapore (NUS) on 1 January 2018. He is the University's 5th president, and the 23rd leader to head Singapore's oldest higher education institution. Prof Tan, who attended Raffles Institution (1974 to 1979), obtained his Bachelor in Mathematics (First Class Honours, 1985) at NUS and his PhD (1989) at Yale University. He joined NUS as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics in 1985, as a Senior Tutor, and has held visiting positions at various universities overseas such as the Rutgers University, University of Washington at Seattle, University of California at Berkeley and University of Maryland, USA; Universities of Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan; as well as the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prof Tan's research interests are in the Representation Theory of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras; and Invariant Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics. He has been invited to speak in numerous top conferences overseas, and has published more than 20 articles in top internationally-refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has co-authored three books on mathematics, including a well-known graduate text on non-Abelian harmonic analysis. Prof Tan is a passionate and award-winning educator. He was a pioneer architect of the current academic system in NUS, and has seeded many initiatives such as the Special Programme in Science, University Scholars Programme, University Town Residential College Programme, Grade-free Year, and Technology-enhanced Education. He was recognised with the University Teaching Award for Innovative Teaching in 1998, and was President of the Singapore Mathematical Society (2001 to 2005) as well as the South East Asian Mathematical Society (2004 to 2005). Prof Tan sits on the International Advisory Council of the Southern University of Science and Technology in China. He is a member of Singapore's Future Economy Council, which is tasked with driving the growth and transformation of the country's future economy. Prof Tan is on the boards of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR); National Research Foundation; and NUS High School of Mathematics and Science. He is a past board member of the Defence Science Organisation (DSO) Laboratories, National Institute of Education, and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. Prof Tan received the Public Administration Medal (Gold) at Singapore's National Day Awards in 2014 for his outstanding contributions to education. He was awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, which honours exceptional alumni in the areas of scholarship, teaching, academic administration and public service, by Yale University in 2018. Prof Tan was also conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton in 2018 in recognition of his achievements as "an innovative and exceptional teacher, and then as a distinguished and respected leader in academia".
Sir Paul Tucker
Chair of the Systemic Risk Council, Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Sir Paul Tucker is chair of the Systemic Risk Council, a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and author of Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State (Princeton University Press, 2018).
His other activities include being a director at Swiss Re, President of the UK's National Institute for Economic and Social Research, a senior fellow at the Harvard Center for European Studies, a member of the Advisory Board of the Yale Program on Financial Stability, and a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
Previously, he was Deputy Governor at the Bank of England, sitting on its monetary policy, financial stability, and prudential policy committees. Internationally, he was a member of the G20 Financial Stability Board, chairing its group on resolving too-big-to-fail groups; and a director of the Bank for International Settlements, chairing its Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems.
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Vorpanzer study, visualised by Liejon's 1/35 model.
During an early Tiger study, Liejon Schoot encountered remains of the Vorpanzer. It's working was not clear. This resulted in him building a model of a prototype VK 45.01(H), specifically chassis V1.
The Vorpanzer was an extra armour plate that was carried on the Tiger's glacis plate. When going into battle, this plate could be lowered for extra protection. The first prototype and one shooting range test target vehicle were equipped with it. Obviously, it did not meet criteria since it was immediately rejected. On early production Tigers, remains of the Vorpanzer design can still be found.
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Regarding the Vorpanzer there is not much data available. The table below mentions data sources for the pictures we used during our research. Higher quality of these pictures will not be provided here.
Note that the Vorpanzer already seems deleted, though the glacis extensions are still there.
1) The cut-out at the top has straight edges. It's not circular.
3) Plugged towing hole - It was used on V1.
4) Unknown plugged hole. Possibly this was used for positioning the new circular armour for the final drive.
5) This stopper edge for the lower Vorpanzer arm is clearly placed at a different angle as the lower side plate's front. If my drawing below is correct, it's at 7° from vertical.
I (Rob) started with a sketch that was continuously updated to the drawing on the left. Things proved to be far more complex then thought at first sight. This because altering just one dimension in the mechanics meant reconstructing the lot.
There are only a few known dimensions to work from, the rest had to be obtained by logic and comparing the pictures.
The resulting drawing shows a realistic Vorpanzer of which the mechanics would actually work.
Please keep in mind that these dimensions may not be 100% accurate, whilst there are also small differences with Liejon's model.
The model of the Vorpanzer is an as accurate as possible reproduction of the real thing. All dimensions are estimated from the few existing pictures, and made to fit a 1/35 model (Dragon 6600) By making the mechanism workable, and the shield fitting in a similar position in both raised and lowered position as in the pictures, I could determine the height of the shield, the length of the arms and position of the hinges.
The front ends of the lower side plates are different from production vehicles.
On the right is the front side of a prototype chassis. It has no semi circular armour to protect the final drives, the "extensions" end lower, and there are two holes drilled, one for the lower Vorpanzer arm, and the top one for fitting a towing shackle.
On the left is a front end of an early production vehicle. The "extension" is cut shorter just above the hole for the lower Vorpanzer arm. The hole for the towing shackle is plugged and relocated to a higher position because of the semi circular final drive armour which was added after the Vorpanzer was rejected.
The notch in the top of the "extension" is still present on the early production chassis.
Another difference with production hulls is the glacis plate.
Originally the glacis plate was wider, extended over the tracks. There were two cut-outs to allow the upper arms to rotate.
There are a few theories about why there are holes in the corners of the glacis plate, for camo poles or a small crane.
Pictures show the holes were not present yet on the prototype. My theory about the holes is as follows; When the Vorpanzer was rejected the corners of the glacis were cut from all already produced glacis plates. This possibly was done because easy access to sprockets and final drives with a crane was required. At the same time, or maybe little later, the holes for the "sprocket crane" were drilled, so the need for a motorized crane was no longer needed in the field. Rings to provide a level base for the crane were than added in Dec. 1942.
This together with the fact that headlight brackets could be welded on more easily, and something which can be seen on this location in pictures of the prototype, made me realize it could be for something that needs a firm fixture on the glacis.
These wartime pictures show a part on which the Vorpanzer shield rests on when in transport position.
Most logical would be a rubber block on a metal plate which is bolted to the glacis.
The shield in the transport position. The shield rests on rubber blocks which are bolted to glacis and shield. The four rubber blocks would carry some of the plates weight and relieve the hinges in transport position, possibly they also would secure the plate against sideways movement.
Note; It's not known how the hinges, that connect upper arm with the shield, looked like, or if there were rubber blocks, the model shows how it could have been, it's not fact.
The shield between transport and lowered position. For a period during movement of the shield, the drivers view through the vision block will be obstructed, and the driver would need to use the K.F.F.2. twin drivers periscope.
In lowered position the angled strips which are bolted to the top of the shield rest into the cut-outs of the side armour "extensions", relieving the upper arms from the weight of the shield. The lower arms are locked against the hull.
On the underside, the glacis plates were recessed, possibly to have little more clearance with the tracks and prevent dirt to build up.
On the APG Tiger the recess can be partially seen, unknown is how far it stretched to the front.
A view on how the upper arm rotates through the cut-out in the glacis plate.
In lowered position the angled strips on the shield close the gap between shield and glacis.
Next to the angled strips is something of which I think are lifting eyes for installing the shield to the hull.
This is how the shield could have looked like on the rear. The exact shape of the hinges is not known, and the "rubber" blocks are only a theory. With the shield in this position the lifting eyes could be explained. For fitting the shield first the lower arms would be fixed to the hull, than with the aid of the lifting eyes the shield could be lifted against the hull and the upper arms fitted in place, again just a theory.
During movement of the shield, and in raised and lowered position, there are only small tolerances. A bend arm or deformed shield could cause problems with operating and positioning the shield.
In lowered position the shield and glacis protect the tracks against frontal hits. What effect would the lowered shield have during cross country manoeuvring, or obstacle filled terrain.
The shooting range photos suggest the shield was blown of during testing, seemingly the hinges were the weakest parts.
According to DW to Tiger 1, the Vorpanzer mechanism was raised and lowered by a high pressure system consisting of hydraulic cylinders, geared supports, geared segments, levers and shafts.
It is unknown how this system looked inside the hull, but a possible remainder of this system still can be found on all later Tigers.
Behind the radio operator and in front of the turret is a selection lever.
The turret PTO (Power Take Off) is powered by the vehicles transmission, and the selector shifts gears inside the PTO.
The first three positions are clear, but the last position raised a question, oil pressure, for what?
Not for the turret, the turret could be traversed hydraulically, but the hydraulic traverse pump was on the turret floor and mechanically driven by the PTO.
The fourth position was possibly for hydraulic power to the Vorpanzer mechanism, and for the hydraulic operated cooling fan grids.
An illustration shows that inside the PTO was a hydraulic pump, which possibly was removed from the PTO's on production Tigers.
Bilge pump turret - Mainly used during fording operations.
Still present on all production Tigers this position would possibly only select "Turret".


Gutter Helmet® is made from 99% recycled scrapped metal, of which 80% of the 99% is post consumer, meaning that the majority of the scrap metal used is recycled from products originally manufactured and sold to consumers in the form of products like gutters, siding, soffit, rain ware, etc. The remaining 19% is scrap generated during the manufacturing process that never makes it out our plant to the consumer market.
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Village Blend Helps Celebrate MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET's 1,000th Performance Tonight
BroadwayWorld.com Aug. 4, 2015
In celebration of the smash-hit musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET's 1,000th performance on the Las Vegas Strip this August, local non-profit Opportunity Village's Village Blend vocal group will join the cast onstage for a special encore performance tonight, Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Harrah's Las Vegas Showroom. Members of Village Blend will take the stage for a one-night-only performance of Carl Perkins' legendary tune "Blue Suede Shoes" alongside the talented cast during the finale. Tickets are available at the Showroom box office, by visiting MDQVegas.com or by calling (702) 777-2782.
The Village Blend is Opportunity Village's version of a stage choir, combining both vocals and choreography to perform a dynamic show. This is Opportunity Village's newest performance group to hit the stage. Featuring talented individuals with intellectual and related disabilities, Village Blend is one of many programs within Opportunity Village's Fine and Performing Arts division that allow the OVIPs' creative skills to soar.
A significant connection between the past and the present, Opportunity Village was the original manufacturer of the scarves of one of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET's famed icons, Elvis Presley, which he tossed to his adoring fans during his record-setting run at the International Hotel in the '70s. In true MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET fashion, the cast is thrilled to welcome this organization to the stage in celebration of this outstanding milestone.
The TonyAward-Winning musical, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET takes place on December 4, 1956, when Sam Phillips, the "Father of Rock 'n' Roll," brought iconic musicians Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins together at the Sun Records storefront studio in Memphis for the first and only time.
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET brings that legendary December night to life with the extraordinary story of secrets, betrayal, and the once in a lifetime celebration of four friends that is both poignant and funny. Relive the era with the smash-hit sensation featuring an incredible score of rock 'n' roll, gospel, R&B and country hits, performed live onstage by world-class actors and musicians. Showcased hit songs include: "Blue Suede Shoes," "I Walk the Line," "Great Balls of Fire,""Sixteen Tons," "Who Do You Love?," "Fever," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Whole LottaShakin' Goin' On," "Hound Dog," and more. For more information on MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, visit www.MDQVegas.com.
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET performs Monday and Thursday at 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., Tuesday, Friday and Sunday at 7 p.m., 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday; dark Saturday. Ticket prices range from $62.70 - 86.90 plus all applicable fees and are available at the Harrah's Showroom box office, by visiting Ticketmaster.com or by calling (702) 777-2782. For groups of 10 or more, call (866) 633-0195 or (702) 853-5950.
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I want to thank everyone for their love, sympathy and prayers during the last few months after losing my daughter. We still have many trails and court dates to face so I ask you to please kept us in your thoughts. At the same time I want everyone here to know that I still receive messages of Ashleigh's story changing and saving lives. That is my prayer and I know it is what Ashleigh wants as well.... I encourage you all to not be afraid to use my daughters story to save those you love. That is partly why this page was created. Feel free to share it with anyone who is in a situation of Family Violence. Share it with your daughters as an example of what love is not so they have a reference to make good choices in relationships. Lastly for those who have been abused in Domestic Violence let your story be heard. Make a difference and don't be ashamed. Now I have to be my daughters voice and if I can speak out during the worst pain I can imagine with losing a child let alone a grandchild how much more do you have inside of you? Raise Awareness! I love you Ashleigh and Patience!
I never shared this picture because the dress is suppose to be not seen till the wedding day. Tomorrow was the day she should have worn this. She was so excited to be getting married.


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Watch the Final Trailer for 'Jackass Forever' [VIDEO]
HOLLYWOOD, CA – OCTOBER 25: Actor Johnny Knoxville arrives at the Premiere of Paramount Pictures' "Fun Size" at Paramount Theater on the Paramount Studios lot on October 25, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
What do you get when you combine the classic Jackass guys, like Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O, with a new generation of jackasses? Jackass Forever, obviously.
Paramount Pictures just dropped the final trailer for Jackass Forever, which will arrive in theaters on February 4th, 2022.
The film stars the previously mentioned Knoxville and Steve-O alongside other classic jackasses, like Chris Pontius, Wee Man, and Ehren McGhehey. Plus, we'll be introduced to new jackasses and there are plenty of special guests in the film, like Tony Hawk and Machine Gun Kelly.
You can watch the final trailer for Jackass Forever below:
[Paramount Pictures via YouTube]
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i forgot only the tahoe's were supercharged of these.
you really think it does "75 all day on the highway" comfortably.?
cuz wouldn't that 4 speed be like a granny gear and then 3?
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too much mula for me but this would be a neat daily.
if this thing is as clean as it appears, i feel like it's a really really solid deal.
Yea it's a granny + 3 speed but it's 1:1 final drive. I really want that exact setup though. Every once in a while they pop up for a decent price.
and it has a trailer brake controller.
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6.2L Twin Turbo! Great Shape! Low Miles! Perfect Condition! CLEAN!
2010 Ford F150 Raptor Super Cab with a Twin Turbo system installed.
Raptor has about 52,800 miles on it and will go up as it is driven still.
Factory installed options include. Luxury package, back up camera, bed extender. Also has a spray in bed liner.
Twin Turbo system installed approximately 5,000 miles ago. Makes 520 RWHP/537 RWTQ.
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Fill in the application and submit along with the required documents. Pay the fees and confirm your seat. The bonafide certificate will be issued from the University on payment of the tuition fees for the first year
Pre Arrival Requisites:
Immunization record
Medical fitness
FRRO registration
Registration with the police:
All International Students (except those from Nepal and Bhutan) have to register with the police within 14 days (in case of Afghanistan and Bangladesh within 7 days) of their arrival in India along with their student's visa, a bonafide certificate from the university, and residential address proof at the following address:
Foreigners Regional Registration Officer:
Bureau of Immigration (MHA), Govt. of India, Sardar Vallabhai Patel BoI OCR Complex, Shamshabad-Pahadishareef Road near GMR Township (CISF Residential Quarters), Mamidipally Shamshabad Telangana, PIN-501218
frrohyd@nic.in (040-29880374, 040-29880375)
International students should pay the fees in US dollars. In special cases, payment of fees in the equivalent Indian Rupees may be considered.
The student should pay the Application and Processing Fee US$ 200 while applying online.
The course fee and the other fee for the selected programs should be paid immediately after receiving the conditional letter of selection. The provisional admission letter will be sent only after verifying the payment of the fee.
All the fee can be made by Demand Drafts in USD in favor of BESTIU, AP
Discipline: International students should follow the Academic Calendar and have to complete the course as per the prescribed deadline. All the students should abide by all the rules and regulations and the code of conduct of BESTIU.
Examination & Award of Degrees: The procedure for examinations, payment of examination fee, issue of mark statements and passing certificates, and award of degrees remains same for all the students of BESTIU.
Regulation of Admissions
The procedure of admission shall be approved by the Board of Management from time to time and shall be published in the prospectus.
The University will publish an admission advertisement in national / local' newspapers and / or other media and also upload a detailed admission notification on the University website. The admission notification shall clearly specify the admission/enrolment criteria for each program as prescribed by the University.
Save otherwise provided, all the admissions shall be made by the Admissions Officer through Admission Committee constituted for the said purpose per the eligibility conditions prescribed for the courses offered by the University,
The candidates seeking admission to a course of study in the University must fulfil the laid down eligibility criteria in terms of educational qualification, age restrictions or any other conditions as may be prescribed for it, and published in the prospectus from time to time.
The maximum number of seats in each course shall be determined by the Board of Management from time to time
No candidate shall be entitled to claim admission as a matter of right. At the time of admission, every student shall be required to sign a declaration to the effect that he/she submits himself to the disciplinary jurisdiction and rules of the University.
Restrictions for admission on certain grounds
No student shall be admitted in two regular Programs concurrently within or outside the University except that a student pursuing a degree program in the University ,may be permitted to take admission in a part-time certificate/ diploma/ advanced diploma courses or in a program/course under the 'distance learning mode' approved by the UGC ;provided further that the student shall have to obtain prior permission of the University for taking admission in the additional programs under the 'distance mode' subject to the provisions as laid down by UGC.
Unless otherwise provided, a student may join part-time courses provided he/she fulfils the eligibility requirements as per procedure laid down for the purpose.
A student who has completed a Postgraduate/ Undergraduate /Certificate program/Course shall not be allowed to be admitted again in the same program/course in the same discipline.
Anyone who has been suspended, rusticated, debarred, expelled etc. by a competent authority of the University shall be prohibited from claiming admission in any other course whatsoever. Similarly, no person, who is under sentence or expulsion or rustication from another institution/university, shall be admitted to any course of study during the period for which the sentence is in operation.
Admission to any course of the University can be cancelled, at any time, if any material information furnished by the student is found to be false /incorrect.
A student who has taken admission to any course as a full time regular student will forfeit his/her right if he becomes an ex-student of the University and will not be allowed to appear at any Examination of the University as an ex-student, except in the case of improvement, if the rules so permit.
Admission Review Committee
Queries/complaints regarding the admissions shall be considered by the Admission Review Committee.
The decision of the Admission Review Committee shall be final and binding.
The Admission Review Committee shall consist of the following members:
Vice-Chancellor – Chairman
DS – Dean of Student Affairs
Dean of the School concerned
Head of the Department concerned
Admission Officer (Convener)
Director Admissions
A student of the 1st Year/1st Term/semester of any course who is detained due to not meeting the academic requirements/ dropped out, may be allowed to continue in another course of studies as a fresh student after fulfilling the requirements and as per rules for such programs.
University will abide by the rules and regulations of respective course Statutory bodies for migration, transfers cases.
Enrolment/Registration of Students
No person shall be admitted to any examination of the University, unless he/she has been duly admitted/enrolled/ registered as a student of the University.
If a student takes a Migration Certificate to join another University, his/her enrolment to the University shall lapse until such time as he/she may subsequently return with a Migration Certificate from that University, to take admission in another program of this University. Fresh enrolment in such cases shall be necessary
The Controller of Examinations and the Deans/Heads of Schools shall maintain a record of all enrolled students studying in the various Schools /Centers of the University or carrying on research work in the University.
The student shall be given a unique and permanent enrolment number and issued with an identity card bearing enrolment number, and same must be quoted by the student in all communications with the University and in subsequent applications for admission to an examination of the University.
A student applying for change of his/her name in the record of students, shall submit his/her application to the Registrar accompanied by
The prescribed fee
An Affidavit relating to his/her present and proposed name, duly sworn in the presence of a Magistrate by himself/herself
A publication from a newspaper in which the proposed change of name has been advertised. However, the provision relating to publication shall not be applicable in case where a woman student wants to change in her name following her marriage in which case marriage certificate indicating the new name shall be valid
Late Admission
Late admissions may be accepted purely at the discretion of the Vice-Chancellor in accordance with the recommendations of the Academic Council on the subject.
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Oriole Birding leaders are carefully chosen for their ability to convey their knowledge in a friendly and informative manner. We believe that this is as important as knowing the best sites to visit and being able to identify the wildlife that we see. When not leading tours, they are all active field naturalists, who contribute important work for our respective local bird clubs and Natural History societies. They all have many years experience in watching wildlife worldwide. The company ethos is that these are holidays that people have previously or still are working hard to be able to afford and therefore should be entitled to expect a high level of professionalism from their guides, whilst not forgetting that holidays are supposed to be about fun too. Our leaders come from a variety of different backgrounds, but all have one thing in common: - a love of birds and their environment.
Ashley has been watching birds since a very young age and has lived in North Norfolk all his life. At 34 he is one of the youngest in the business but with seven years of running his own company before helping to form Oriole Birding, and vast experience in tour leading in the UK and abroad, there is no-one more skilled and enthusiastic to lead your birding holiday. Ashley leads many of our Norfolk tours, plus the majority of our UK based holidays as well as several trips overseas. Conservation and bird ringing are his other passions when not tour leading, and he has also written occasionally for the UK birding magazines, not to mention TV and radio appearances! Ashley has birded in France, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Greece, Mallorca, South Africa, Costa Rica, Florida, Israel, Cyprus, Panama,The Gambia, Holland, Romania, Morocco, Cuba, Honduras and Trinidad. Finding rare birds is Ashley's great passion, developed through a lifetime of birding remote east coast locations during the spring and autumn migration. This has resulted in the discovery of such gems as Pine, Little and Ortolan Buntings, Little Bittern, European Bee-eater, Short-toed Lark, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Black Kite, Red-flanked Bluetail, Red-rumped Swallow, Surf Scoter, Gull-billed Tern, White-billed Diver, Greenish, Pallas's, Subalpine and Radde's Warblers, Siberian Stonechat, Pallid Swift, American Golden Plover, Swainson's Thrush, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Wilson's Storm-petrel. Ashley joins the Norfolk Rarities Committee in July 2017, an accolade which arrives as a result of many years of high quality rarity submissions at both county and national level. Being a 50% shareholder in the company, Ashley oversees tour logistics and itineraries, and runs our website and marketing alongside other administrative duties. Ashley lives in the Norfolk market town of Fakenham with his fiancée Lucy and 6 year-old daughter Lily and enjoys supporting Norwich City in his spare time.
Nick came on board as a 50% shareholder and Director of Oriole in 2017, giving him the opportunity to combine his business background with his love of the natural world. His role within the company includes working alongside Ashley on general management of the business and marketing, but also involves acting as a second leader when required. Nick's interest in birds started as a child, but like for so many others until recently his career diverted him from his love of birding. Nick and his family now live in Norfolk, where their Great Ryburgh home will become the centre of operations for Oriole Birding. Nick is a firm believer in putting something back when it comes to nature and he has been a trustee of the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and the Sherwood Forest Trust for many years. Locally, he is also an active committee member of the Ryburgh Wildlife Group. When work and family commitments allow Nick is usually to be found out in the field in Norfolk putting in the effort to find his own birds, ever hopeful of unearthing something impossibly rare. He is a seasoned birder overseas and has birded in China, the United States, Spain, Mallorca, Morocco, Canary Islands, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa. His other interests are cricket ( Yorkshire CCC), football ( Liverpool FC ), history and archaeology.
Jason started in a full time role for Oriole in January 2018. He has immediately impressed us with his people and birding skills, the two most important aspects of being a tour leader! Jason has had a passion for birds and nature conservation for as long as he can remember. However the hobby became more of a profession after completing an undergraduate degree in Biology at Portsmouth University, when he began working as a warden on a wide variety of UK nature reserves, beginning with Blakeney Point in Norfolk. Working closely with both sea and migrant birds led to a strong passion for both, and a keen interest in bird ringing, leading to further work on similar seabird and migration hotspots, such as the Farne Islands in Northumberland, Fair Isle in Shetland and Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, where he recently worked as seabird warden. Living in these remote hubs of bird migration has meant that Jason has been fortunate to witness many stunning days of migrant arrivals and falls, whilst also finding numerous rarities and scarcities including Britain's second Magnolia Warbler and Europe's first Siberian White Wagtail. Jason has also travelled extensively on birding trips, including Argentina, Israel, Southern Africa, mainland Spain and Mallorca, where he spends much of his spare time with his partner Elisa.
Poland tours, where he now resides with his partner Dorota. He has travelled independently worldwide and has worked and lived in France and Germany. It is this love of travel and birds that finally convinced him to take the long desired step of combining the two. Neil has three sons – Sam, Billy and Andrew. His birding travels so far for have taken him to Texas,Finland and Norway, Iceland, Russia, Hungary,Turkey, Florida, New York, Morocco, Poland, Austria, Ireland, Lesvos, Madeira, Speyside, Andalucia, Mallorca, China, Israel, Romania, Bavaria, Holland, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, France, Norfolk and Fair Isle and Shetland. He has also written articles for Birdwatch magazine, Welsh Birding and The Birds of Bridgend, which was published in February 2001. He has been fortunate enough to find a good number of rare and uncommon species while birding his patch at Kenfig Pool, which he does on an almost daily basis when not away leading. Away form birding and travel he is a passionate Cardiff City supporter, enjoys family life, cooking a variety of cuisines, wine, landscape photography and reading.
We are delighted to welcome Paul on board as a staff leader at Oriole Birding in 2019, having spent the last decade working for us as a freelance guide. Paul is an excellent naturalist, and guides overseas tours to a variety of destinations as well as our summer wildlife tours in South Wales and Northern Italy. Hailing originally from the north west of England, Paul is now lives with his wife and children in South Wales, and after two decades there reckons that he almost qualifies as a native! Paul is very active on the local birding scene, serving on various committees, including the Welsh Records Panel, and is involved in a number of biodiversity projects. He is a dedicated patch worker, never happier than when finding his own birds. He has had a curiosity with the natural world for as long as he can remember, but only caught the birding bug relatively late, following an earlier passion for plants. Paul also enjoys studying dragonflies and butterflies, but has yet to succumb to the allure of moths! Photography has been a long-standing interest, expressed previously through an interest digiscoping, but more recently using a Sony RX10 iv, which has been proving a great travel camera. Having worked as an ecological surveyor, Paul is now excited to be joining our team full time and we are sure you will enjoy his company on our tours - if you are lucky, he might even bring his ukulele!
Originally from Wolverhampton, Steve is now based in Norfolk and leads our holidays to Bulgaria, Finland, Falsterbo plus occasional Norfolk tours and second leader roles.
He is an extremely talented bird artist and gives demonstrations of his skills when guiding. His work has been exhibited worldwide and we are pleased to use Steve's Golden Oriole image as our company logo. Steve was heavily involved in the creation of a small nature reserve in Great Ryburgh, base for our Norfolk tours, and along with Ashley is a committe member of the Ryburgh Wildlife Group that manages it. He has a tireless enthusiasm for birds and his outgoing and friendly manner have proved very popular on previous tours. Steve has one daughter.
Dave is known to many British birdwatchers as the face and voice on most of the products made by Bird Guides including the DVD Video Guide to British Birds, the DVD-ROM Guide to All the Birds of Europe and all the videos in the Birding in… series. Prior to cofounding Bird Guides he travelled widely throughout Europe, guiding tours and researching his ever-popular series of books 'Finding Birds in…' which have, for many years, been invaluable aids to travelling birders wanting to find the rarest species throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. With Bird Guides he has continued to travel on many filming trips in Asia and North America but mostly in the Western Palearctic, to generate many of the film clips you can see on the definitive BWPi (BWP on DVD-ROM). His interest in identifying birds by songs and calls led to him writing and recording the commentaries for the new iDentify guides, helping birdwatchers to learn bird songs via their MP3 players. Dave is helping to devise and lead our series of short tours targeting Western Palearctic specialities and we re delighted to welcome him on board.
Adrian was born in Birmingham but spent his formative years amongst the Shropshire countryside, where he developed an interest in natural history at an early age. After moving to Hertfordshire in 1979, he became the supervisor and chief taxonomist of the light-trap network of Rothamsted Research, Harpenden. By 2001, he had written over 150 scientific papers and articles and three books with 'British and Irish Pug Moths' still considered the standard work on the subject. Many will know Adrian for his foray into competitive year listing in 2002, when his effort to take on the World was documented in his book 'Arrivals and Rivals: A birding oddity', but it is his knowledge of Butterflies, Dragonflies and Moths for which we make the use of his services. Adrian will be guiding our Norfolk Summer Wildlife and Butterfly tours, as well as the New Forest in July. His newest book, 'British and Irish Butterflies' is an essential reference for anyone joining these tours!
Bob is a Doctor of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy. He has been an active and enthusiastic birder since the age of twelve when his parents, recognizing a zeal for birdlife, bought his first pair of binoculars. Subsequently, Bob has pursued his avian passion from the tropics to Antarctica, across all continents and in very many countries. More recently, Bob has semi-retired and focused his energies on his two core ornithological interests, birds of the Isles of Scilly and seabirds across the world. Bob has become well known in the UK for pioneering pelagic trips off the Isles of Scilly and for the many extremely rare birds he has found in the Isles of Scilly. Bob's name hit the international press in 2003 when he and friend Bryan Thomas became the first people to positively identify and locate a population of the thought to be extinct New Zealand Storm-petrel in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf. Bob leads our Scilly pelagic tours as well as Madeira.
Birds of Hungary, Birding in Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European Wildlife.
woodpeckers: he is author of the handbook Woodpeckers of Europe, the monograph The Black Woodpecker and is author of the acclaimed Woodpeckers of The World - The Complete Guide. We are delighted to retain his services for our Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and Romania tours.
Javi Elorriaga (pronounced "habee") Born in Bilbao, northern Spain, in 1978. Javi has worked on the conservation of the Cinereous Vulture in Dadia National Park (WWF-Greece), the Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenees and Picos de Europa National Park (FCQ), the monitoring of bird migration in the Strait of Gibraltar (Migres Foundation), the study of the migration geography of the Turkey Vulture (Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Pennsylvania, USA) and the Osprey reintroduction in Andalucía and Basque Country (Urdaibai Bird Center). He has also been a member of the Spanish Committee of Rare Birds and has participated in over 30 scientific papers, book chapters and articles in birding journals. Wildlife photography is another of his great passions and a powerful tool he uses to raise awareness of conservation issues through social networking and lectures. Javi lives in Tarifa, the Strait of Gibraltar, where he is birding on a daily basis and works as a full time bird guide in Andalucía and Morocco. Javi leads our Straits of Gibraltar and Northern Morocco tours, plus our new Iberian Lynx itinerary.
Andy Mitchell was a career civil servant before realising that the outdoor life was calling him. He moved from Leeds to North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory in Orkney for a year's training and ended up staying for nearly five years, as well as falling in love with Orkney. A spell of various expeditions abroad and jobs in conservation followed which gave him a breadth of knowledge and experience. He then joined the RSPB working on research into Song Thrush declines before moving back to Orkney to manage the reserves on Egilsay and Rousay. After ten years with RSPB he left to set up his own business advising on wildlife tourism and doing environmental assessment work based at his home on South Ronaldsay. Birds and their conservation is his main interest but he has a passion for natural history in general . His other interests are all things Cuban, music (he plays the fiddle) and seeing the delight on people's faces when they see those special wildlife moments.
Originally from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Dave is now based in East Yorkshire and works as a freelance ornithologist undertaking bird surveys, monitoring and research for several ecological consultancies, from northern Scotland to Kent, Wales to Norfolk and many points in-between. Since 2009 he has also been involved in the conservation and monitoring of upland breeding waders and other bird species in the Peak District and has recently co-edited a breeding bird atlas covering a large part of South Yorkshire. Birding since the early 1970's he has travelled widely throughout Britain in search of birds and has also spent time birding in Europe, the Middle East, North America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Caribbean. Outside birding, his interests include music, playing the drums and football. We are pleased to welcome Dave onto our team to lead our 2017 tour to Norway and we are looking forward to introducing him to a few more trips in due course.