When you are facing criminal charges in the Grand Rapids area and you made statements to the police about teh alleged crime, it is important to have the representation of a good criminal defense lawyer. Krupp Law Offices P.C. has been providing quality criminal defense for over 85 years. If you are facing serious criminal charges or are being investigated for a crime, call the criminal defense attorneys at Krupp Law Offices for a free phone consultation. During your phone consultation, our attorneys will provide you with immediate answers to your questions and schedule an appointment with one of our criminal defense attorneys.
There are two elements required for Miranda Warnings to apply. First, the Defendant must be in custody (not free to leave). Second, there must be interrogation (asking questions).
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People v. Roark, 214 Mich.App. 421, 543 N.W.2d 23 (1995). To determine whether a defendant was "in custody" at the time of the interrogation, we look at the totality of the circumstances, with the key question being whether the defendant *383 reasonably believed that he was not free to leave.
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Interview: Don Letts on Punk
Launched on 08 November 2013
To celebrate the deconstructed aesthetic of Stussy X SHOWstudio's collaboration and to go alongside our long running Punk project, we're proud to present Talking Punk, an exclusive interview with Don Letts. Letts is a DJ, filmmaker and musician credited with introducing the influential sounds of dub and reggae to the punk scene. He is interviewed here by Jonh Ingham, one of the first music journalists to champion the punk movement.
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Nick Knight took to the streets with stylist Alister Mackie to shoot an editorial for the Winter 2011 issue of AnOther Magazine.
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Death of Paul Edward Hartman
Paul Edward Hartman, 76, of Culloden, passed away Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at the home of his daughter.
Born June 12, 1937, in South Charleston, he was a son of the late Fred C. and Mildred Robinson Hartman.
He was also preceded in death by his wife, Margaret; his son, P.J.; and his siblings, Don, Margaret, Naoma, Fred, Jr. "Whitey," Robert "Red," Jerry "Ike," Suzanne and Bobby Jack.
Paul was retired from Union Carbide with 27 years of service and was co-owner/operator of Hartman & Kirkhart Electric. Following his retirement from Carbide, he worked as a civilian consultant with the West Virginia State Police. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Hurricane, where he also served on the usher committee and was a board member of the former Teays Valley Association Church Camp. Paul also was a member of Putnam Masonic Lodge #139, AF & AM and was a former equipment manager for the Charleston Rockets in the 60's.
Surviving are his daughters, Barbara Jean Collins (Monk) of Hurricane, Jenny Hartman of Atlanta, Ga.; sister, Susan Wiseman of Winfield; brother, George Hartman of St. Albans; grandchildren, Derek, Maggie and Anna Collins.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m., Monday, June 24, at First Baptist Church, Main Street, Hurricane with Rev. Jerry Losh and Rev. Mark Kilburn officiating. Burial with Masonic rites will follow in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Sunday, June 23, at Chapman Funeral Home, 3941 Teays Valley Road, Hurricane.
Online condolences may also be shared by visiting www.chapmanfuneralhomes.com.
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Through our diverse membership, the Consortium has access to a wide variety of community organizations and care providers in the Bronx. We hear about the challenges and needs on the ground and elevate those concerns through our relationships with City and State government agencies. We have engaged in several research projects to better understand the prevalence and needs of homeless and unstably housed individuals who also have complicated medical and behavioral health needs.
Below are a few of the research projects and advocacy work we have initiated or been a part of. Visit our Hospital Homeless Count page and Bronx Respite Needs Assessment page for more information on these initiatives.
Working with the Corporation for Supportive Housing, the Consortium is undertaking a research study to identify and analyze high utilizers of hospitals systems and how Health Homes, PPSs, hospitals, Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and others may develop interventions and investments to strategically align available housing resources with the needs of homeless people with complex health care needs. With this hard-to-reach population, simple referrals do not work; a more intensive outreach and engagement approach is required for the costliest frequent users that current systems are unable to reach. Stay tuned for more information as we carry out this pilot initiative.
The Consortium has signed on to a series of recommended guiding principles to Mayor de Blasio's Supportive Housing Task Force to support their efforts to advance healthy aging-in-place for New York City's extremely vulnerable aging and elderly homeless. CSH has been leading an Aging in Supportive Housing Learning Collaborative for the past year to determine best practices for serving an aging population in supportive housing. "Aging" is not a specific supportive housing population, but there are unique service needs and programs that best serve older people who are formerly homeless and/or leaving institutions. To that end, and on behalf of New York's best minds in this field, CSH has developed a brief compilation of key recommendations they recently made to the New York City Supportive Housing Task Force. A dozen organizations, including the Consortium, dedicated to promoting health and stability for our most vulnerable residents believe these recommendations support promising, healthy aging-in-place practices for future supportive housing initiatives. Also, a Core Competencies Toolkit will be released this spring and it will provide more detail on program models for aging in supportive housing.
In 2014, in collaboration with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), the Consortium conducted a research study of the Health Homes in the Bronx, which included quantitative and qualitative analysis of 428 unstably housed Health Home members. The Consortium and CSH gathered and analyzed information from the Bronx Health Homes to determine the number and demographic makeup of health home members who identified themselves as homeless and found that 25% of Bronx Health Home members self-identified as homeless. This highlights the need for more supportive housing options for high Medicaid resource utilizers. Other key findings included the need for more MRT units for families and more support for people who have been justice system-involved. These two groups are very difficult to house and no MRT housing for families is being built.
The findings of this study were published in Behavioral Health News, and presented to state government officials as testimony of the need for more housing options for people with complex medical needs.
The Consortium's written testimony at a New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Planning Forum in 2014.


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Actor, Ojo Arowosafe, aka Fadeyi Oloro who has been battling with a 'strange' ailment for a long time, revealed at lenght, the genesis of the sickness.
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Lubrican's "Flossie's Revenge" is very similar to this description but not exact.
Na know that one is good but Flossie is a school teacher among a bunch of aholes in one local district. These leave the old south and he becomes involved with trains, she becomes a lady of mercy and help to the local people . Both become loved and rich in Canada. They never return to the south.


As many of you may know, this past week I spent at the The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in Anaheim, California. It is organized by the The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, spearheaded by Jeffrey Zeig, PhD.
This was the fifth time I have attended this conference, the biggest and most influential psychotherapy conference in the world. Originally, the conference would be held every five years, then shifted to every four years. The next one is now slated to take place in three years. With mental health professionals travelling from every corner of the globe, it really is impossible to describe the privilege of being a part of the event.
The growing challenges currently facing our human experience, from social to environmental to political energized an intensity and intentionality that permeated the event. Society's growing need for the expertise and guidance of psychologists and other mental health professionals to step up and offer leadership has never been so great.
One of the most pronounced themes of many of the speakers was not only the call-to-action for all of us to inspire and compassionately educate the public more widely about human behaviour and potential, but also to deepen the universal appreciation of our interconnectedness. Indeed, even one of Dr. Daniel J. Siegel's talks ended with what felt like a Nobel Prize for Peace speech (which I sincerely hope will be awarded him in the near future, given the incredible work he's doing to help the human condition).
I will be featuring many of the insights gleaned from the conference in the coming while and hopefully will be able to share many of them with you as guests on my radio show.
In the meantime, I'd like to introduce you to one of the most influential psychologists of our time for his ground-breaking and disturbing discoveries of what has become known as the Stanford Prison Study, Dr. Phillip Zimbardo. What his research project, along with Dr. Stanley Milgram's electric shock obedience experiment unveiled about the potential of human behaviour associated with unquestioned obedience to authority was and continues to be a wake-up call, as the news story video above reveals.
There is one particular piece of information from the Milgram study that I'd like leave you with that I learned at the conference. While the 90% of the participants in the study brutally escalated the level of shock from 15 volts to 450 volts, when even just one participant in the study refused to carry through the orders and left the study, only 10% of the remaining participants in those conditions escalated to the 450 volt level. Standing up for the right thing really does make a difference!
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According to the case papers, Hamad Al Naqi posted, between February 5 and March 27, comments and tweets that insulted Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), his companions Abu Baqer, the first Caliph, and Othman, the second caliph, and his wife Aisha. The insults were likely to stoke sedition within the community and mobilise segments alongside sectarian lines, the prosecutor said.
The tweets, on two different accounts, denigrated and insulted the political regimes in two Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and could undermine Kuwait's national interests, the court heard, Al Aan news site reported.
Al Naqi was also charged with posting remarks that denigrated Islam as a religion, ridiculed its beliefs and teachings and scorned its iconic figures.
The 26-year-old defendant who was also accused of using his mobile to post abusive remarks, has pleaded not guilty to the charges and that his account had been hacked.
Al Naqi was arrested in March and his case deeply divided the nation's views on the use of social networks.
Several lawmakers have called for his death for insulting God, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and the prophet's wife and companions while others defended him as someone who expressed his views freely.
Comments posted after the announcement of the verdict indicated that the debate would gain in intensity as religious and non-religious arguments seemed to stiffen.
The parliament, dominated by Islamist and tribal representatives, has passed an anti-blasphemy draft law that stipulates the death penalty for anyone found guilty of insulting God, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) or his companions or relatives. However, the draft has not been endorsed by the Emir and reports have emerged that it could be returned to the lawmakers.


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Gateshead Harriers & AC is an athletics club based at Gateshead International Stadium, Gateshead, England, UK.

History
Gateshead Harriers was founded in 1904 as Gateshead St. Mary's Church Running Club. Originally for men only, ladies were permitted to join from 1951 onwards. The club moved to its present site at Gateshead International Stadium in 1956. Today Gateshead Harriers & AC cater for all athletes from ages 8+ to veterans in all track, field, road and cross country disciplines through winter and summer.

Notable Athletes
Brendan Foster C.B.E- Achieved fame in the 10,000m and the 5000m
Jonathan Edwards C.B.E -Achieved fame in the triple jump
Richard Kilty -Well known for 60m, 100m and 200m
Colin Walker - Known for 3000m steeplechase

Training
Historically Gateshead Harriers & AC have trained on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This allows for competition to be commonly held on Sundays. Some athletes and training groups do however train on other days.

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Athletics clubs in England
Sports organizations established in 1904
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At the foot of the Eiffel Tower, in distinctly autumnal weather for August, the one of the world's largest international football events took place. Despite only having three 22 by 16 meter AstroTurf pitches, a total of just 12 event organisers and a budget of £3 million, the Homeless World Cup welcomed 64 teams from different countries, making a total of more than 600 participants - all of them without a home - to play football.
After week of intensive match play, the final saw Scotland beat Mexico 4-3 to lift the world cup for the second time in the tournament's nine year history. A 500-strong crowd from all over the world waved flags, sounded vuvuzelas and chanted throughout the match. There was undoubtedly talent on the pitch, and rumour has it that scouts were among the 500 watching, and had been all week.
It's a plausible rumour. In total 12 of the players have gone on to become professional or semi-professional footballers. Bébé, the Portuguese player signed to Manchester United last year for £7.2 million, also started his career in a team with the Homeless World Cup's Portuguese partners CAIS.
But according to Mel Young, 58, the founder of the event and internationally recognised as a leading social entrepreneur, the Homeless World Cup is not a about being a quick root to footballing stardom for the players.
"Really, it's not about creating these huge international stars, it's about integrating back into society, at least for some people who take part," he says in his soft Edinburgh accent, with one eye on the Russia v. Portugal game being played behind him.
"We do have some players who become professional footballers. It's true and it's brilliant, but to me that's the kind of like, Walt Disney kind of story.
"The Homeless World Cup, it's all about impact and change, it's all about using football as the front door, so to speak, for making change.
And this 'oh, yeah!' factor seems to reverberate through the whole tournament. Ask any of the players from the UK, and they will tell you this homeless scheme has re-energised and motivated them the most out of all the (often numerous) projects in which they have participated.
The figures back it up too. In-house surveys, asking participants their status before the tournament and again six months after, show 77% of players went on to change their lives by gaining employment, accommodation or attending addiction treatment programs. Nearly all players, 94%, say the experience had a positive impact on their lives.
"It's a very simple barometer," says Young, who sounds as if he has over-whelmed even himself with the success of the event.
One unmistakable success story comes from the manager of this year's winning team, David Duke. At the age of just 31, Duke is founder and CEO of Street Soccer, a Scottish foundation promoting positive change through football for the socially excluded. As well as running a national league and organising the Scotland team for the Homeless World Cup, Street Soccer also offers educational facilities and drop in programs. It helps about 1500 homeless people in Scotland per year, and is going from strength to strength.
But just eight years ago, Duke was homeless and unemployed himself. Following the death of his father, he lost his job and his house, and found himself in a homeless project shelter in Glasgow, drinking all day to pass the time. It was only when he was picked to play in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2004, that his life changed for the better.
"When you're in a homeless project your whole health goes. Your sleeping pattern, your eating habits are nae the best. Getting involved with the football meant I started to look after myself," said Duke.
For the 2005 and 2006 Homeless World Cup events, Duke was invited back to be assistant coach. He was made team manager in 2007 - the first year Scotland won the World Cup, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His real baby, Street Soccer, was established in 2009, off the back of attending the event in Australia.
Why is The Beautiful Game so effective?
So, just what is it about The Beautiful Game that helps so successfully men and women who, up until about three months before the start of the tournament, were homeless, unemployed or had some kind of addiction?
Mel Young believes it is the simplicity of the event that differentiates it from other homeless schemes. Working in a team, meeting new people, seeing a foreign country - the whole experience puts in place essential life skills and builds self esteem in a non-academic environment. Playing football is not patronising and does not judge your background.
"A key area which I always go on about is: if you want solutions to these type of issues, like poverty and homelessness, put the homeless person at the center of the solution," said Young. Being philosophical about the big issue comes easily to him.
For some of the players it is hard for them to imagine any situation being solely about them. Jade Morrison, a 20-year-old midfielder for the Scotland women's team, and also this year's winner of the esteemed Woman of the Tournament medal, was depressed, drinking and unemployed just a few weeks before she started training for Paris.
Jade left the high school she was attending in Maryhill, Glasgow at the age of 15 with no qualifications. Since then, she has had only one job as a chamber maid at the local Novotel, where she stayed for just three months, and has been applying for 10 to 15 jobs per day ever since, all without success.
"I just basically left it [the Novotel], purely through sheer depression. I couldn't get out of my bed some days, I wasn't feeling up to it at all. I didn't feel like I wanted to leave the house at all sometimes, to be honest. And I felt like that up until recently, up until I started all this really," admitted Jade.
After her own personal success in the Homeless World Cup this year, going back to Edinburgh could have been a harsh bump back into her old life. But Jade is determined to join a football team and complete a coaching scheme with Street Soccer.
For her, the pride that comes with playing internationally for her country has boosted her confidence and self esteem for good.
With organisation for the 2012 Homeless World Cup in Mexico already underway, 2013's event planned for Poland and bids for the 2014 tournament coming in at an astonishing rate (23 countries have put their names forward so far), Mel Young and his staff look set to help 600 homeless people, like Jade, per year for a very long time.
Young's outlook is idealistic and ambitious, but for the past nine years he has proved that his ultimate goal is almost achievable: "I believe in a world where we shouldn't have any homelessness, we all have to do something.


KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia will host the most sombre race in its 15-year Formula One history this weekend as the mystifying MH370 plane tragedy overshadows an incident-packed start to the season.
With aggrieved champions Red Bull this week issuing a veiled threat to quit, and new rules prompting an immediate shift in the pecking order, Formula One has rarely been so eventful.
But the initial focus will be off the track as Malaysia mourns the 239 people aboard ill-fated Flight MH370, with planes and ships scouring the treacherous Indian Ocean for wreckage.
The Sepang racetrack is geographically close to Kuala Lumpur's international airport, where the Malaysia Airlines flight took off on March 8 and vanished from radar screens shortly afterwards.
And its proximity to the unfolding drama was illustrated when more than 30 relatives of missing passengers had to shift to other hotels to make way for F1-related bookings made in advance.
A major F1-related concert featuring Christina Aguilera at Kuala Lumpur's Twin Towers has been cancelled as a mark of respect, and organisers may also call off an air show at the track.
Sepang CEO Razlan Razali told AFP that despite the tragedy, attendance numbers looked set to be on track, with about 30 per cent of race-day tickets already sold.
But Ram Sithambaram, owner of an F1 outlet at the airport, said sales of tickets and merchandise had been poor for the race, first staged in 1999.
"In the past one week we sold only about 50 tickets. In comparison last year around the same period we sold about 1,000 tickets," he said.
"We are paying a high price for the MH370 tragedy... we hope for a miracle that ticket sales will surge in the next few days." Drivers will pay their own tributes, with Mercedes' early championship leader Nico Rosberg tweeting: "all my prayers go to friends & families of the passengers on # MH370".
But mostly their thoughts will remain on the tough job at hand as all teams absorb widespread changes involving hybrid power, fuel limits and the new, and controversially quiet, turbocharged V6 engines.
Red Bull were incensed after a wipe-out in the opening race in Australia when four-time defending world champion Sebastian Vettel retired early and Daniel Ricciardo was stripped of second place over the new fuel rules.
Team owner Dietrich Mateschitz told an Austrian newspaper "there is a clear limit to what we can accept" when asked under what circumstances Red Bull would quit F1.
The quiet new engines, criticised by F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone among many others, will hardly lift the mood at the track as a sedate hum compared to vacuum cleaners replaces the previous deafening shriek.
Rosberg's Mercedes made all the running in Melbourne but his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, starting from pole position, lasted just a few laps, underlining the unpredictability of the new cars.
McLaren were one of the big winners in Australia. Denmark's Kevin Magnussen finished second in his first F1 race and Jenson Button was third, putting the team on top of the constructors standings.
But Vettel, seeking to emulate the stricken Michael Schumacher's five consecutive world championships, will want to recover quickly from his forgettable outing.
"We still have a lot of work to do with the car but it was encouraging to see that our pace was better than expected in Australia," said the 26-year-old German.
"Hopefully we can build on that and start collecting some strong points in the next two races."


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namespace cast_streaming {
namespace {

constexpr uint32_t kDefaultDataPipeCapacityBytes = 512;

class MockClient
    : public DecoderBufferProviderImpl<media::AudioDecoderConfig>::Client {
 public:
  MOCK_METHOD1(RequestBufferAsync,
               void(base::OnceCallback<void(media::mojom::DecoderBufferPtr)>));
  MOCK_METHOD0(OnDelete, void());
};

}  // namespace

class DecoderBufferProviderImplTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  DecoderBufferProviderImplTest() {
    populated_buffer_ = media::DecoderBuffer::CopyFrom(kSerializedData.data(),
                                                       kSerializedData.size());
  }

  ~DecoderBufferProviderImplTest() override = default;

  void OnBufferRead(scoped_refptr<media::DecoderBuffer> buffer) {
    EXPECT_TRUE(buffer->MatchesForTesting(*populated_buffer_));
  }

 protected:
  void CreateProvider() {
    mojo::ScopedDataPipeProducerHandle producer_handle;
    mojo::ScopedDataPipeConsumerHandle consumer_handle;
    ASSERT_EQ(mojo::CreateDataPipe(kDefaultDataPipeCapacityBytes,
                                   producer_handle, consumer_handle),
              MOJO_RESULT_OK);

    writer_ =
        std::make_unique<media::MojoDataPipeWriter>(std::move(producer_handle));
    provider_ =
        std::make_unique<DecoderBufferProviderImpl<media::AudioDecoderConfig>>(
            config_, std::move(consumer_handle), &client_,
            task_environment_.GetMainThreadTaskRunner());
  }

  void WriteBufferData() {
    writer_->Write(kSerializedData.data(), kSerializedData.size(),
                   base::BindOnce(&DecoderBufferProviderImplTest::OnWriteDone,
                                  base::Unretained(this)));
  }

  void OnWriteDone(bool succeeded) { ASSERT_TRUE(succeeded); }

  base::test::SingleThreadTaskEnvironment task_environment_{
      base::test::TaskEnvironment::TimeSource::MOCK_TIME};

  std::unique_ptr<media::MojoDataPipeWriter> writer_;
  media::AudioDecoderConfig config_{};
  testing::StrictMock<MockClient> client_;

  std::unique_ptr<DecoderBufferProviderImpl<media::AudioDecoderConfig>>
      provider_;

  std::array<uint8_t, 3> kSerializedData = {42, 43, 44};
  scoped_refptr<media::DecoderBuffer> populated_buffer_;
};

TEST_F(DecoderBufferProviderImplTest, CreationTest) {
  CreateProvider();
  EXPECT_TRUE(provider_->IsValid());
}

TEST_F(DecoderBufferProviderImplTest, InvalidationCallbackTest) {
  CreateProvider();
  EXPECT_TRUE(provider_->IsValid());
  provider_->SetInvalidationCallback(
      base::BindOnce(&MockClient::OnDelete, base::Unretained(&client_)));
  EXPECT_TRUE(provider_->IsValid());
  EXPECT_CALL(client_, OnDelete());
  provider_.reset();
}

TEST_F(DecoderBufferProviderImplTest, ReadTest) {
  CreateProvider();

  EXPECT_CALL(client_, RequestBufferAsync(testing::_))
      .WillOnce(
          [this](base::OnceCallback<void(media::mojom::DecoderBufferPtr)> cb) {
            auto buffer = media::mojom::DecoderBuffer::From(*populated_buffer_);
            std::move(cb).Run(std::move(buffer));
          });
  WriteBufferData();

  provider_->ReadBufferAsync(base::BindOnce(
      &DecoderBufferProviderImplTest::OnBufferRead, base::Unretained(this)));
  task_environment_.RunUntilIdle();
}

}  // namespace cast_streaming

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RPF Constable Application Form 2019 | Railway Protection Force has announced recent recruitment for the post of RPF Constable (Ancillary) for 798 vacancies on the official website. The candidates who wish to apply for the post must know all the details of RPF Constable Recruitment before they initiate filling the RPF Constable Application Form 2019. RPF & RPSF announced its latest recruitment for the post of Constable Ancillary. The candidates have to simply visit the website and select the link of Online Registration and submit details to apply.
Applying for the post of Railway Protection Force for the Constable Ancillary you must be wondering how to apply for the post. RPF Constable Application Form requires one to register themselves first. RPF Constable Application Form is available on the official website. The candidates can check the steps mentioned below and apply for RPF Constable Online Form 2018 -19.
Go through all the important instructions and information given in the official notification above.
Check which RPF Zonal Group the candidate belongs to before they apply.
Select only one group as duplicate applications found will encounter to reject all the application of the applicant.
You have to register yourself. That is to submit the Registration Number and Password.
Once the application fee is submitted, you can modify your details except for the RPF Zone, Email ID and Phone Number.
Submit your Valid Email ID and Phone Number during Registration.
You will receive the OTP on your Registered Email ID & Phone Number.
The Email ID and Phone Number will thus be verified.
Registration Number will be generated and sent on the Registered Email ID and Phone Number.
Submit the Applying Trade that you wish to appear in.
Fill in Educational Qualification and other details along with the documents.
Submit the Bank Details, and register all the bank account information for the fee refund.
Payment can be done by net banking, debit card, credit card, SBI bank challan, Postal Challan.
Upload the Scanned Photograph and other documents as given in the official notice.
Remember to keep the specification of your documents as mentioned in the official notification.
And Submit. Print the Confirmation Page of RPF Constable Recruitment 2019.
RPF Constable Online Application Form will be available online from 1st June 2018 on its Official Website. The Last date to apply online is 30th June 2018. RPF Notification for Constable Recruitment 2018 has released on the Employment Newspaper. Candidates have to fill in the Online Application Form with correct details.
RPF invites over 9500+ online vacancies for the RPF Sub-inspector and Constable and Drivers Posts out of which 50% of the vacancies are reserved for Female candidates. The candidates who are interested and satisfy the eligibility criteria can go through this article, to get the complete details.
RPF has declared the Notification of the Constable Recruitment on 19th May 2018. The Online Application Form has to fill online. Railway Protection Force will release RPF Constable Online Application Form from 1st June. The Official Advertisement has published in the Employment News dated on 19th May to 25th May 2018.
Also Check Here for – RPF Sub-Inspector Recruitment 2018.
This is the first step of the Application Process. Candidates need to register themselves first on the webConstablete.
For doing the registration, click on the Online Application Link for the recruitment of the Constable.
Then enter the baConstablec details such as Name, Date of Birth, Father's Name, Mother's Name, Aadhaar Number, State/UT, Community, Education Board, SSLC/Matric Roll Number, Year of PasConstableng SSLC/Matric, Mobile Number, and E-mail ID and click on Submit for registration.
After the successful registration, the candidates will receive an OTP to log in. this OTP will be required for the SubmisConstableon of fees.
After the completion of the Registration process, candidates will be automatically redirected to the Payment window.
The Payment can be done either online or offline. The Online Payment can be done through Net Banking/ Credit Card/ Debit Card. The Offline Payment can be done through Bank Branch/ Challan/ Post Office Challan.
After making the payment, the candidate has to fill in the other details such as the Category, Educational Qualification, Experience, and other details.
Make sure that you fill in the information correctly.
Click on the Next to proceed.
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The dimenConstableon of the photograph must be 35 mm X 45 mm with the name and date printed on it.
The file Constable must be 15-40 Kb.
Candidates are advised to keep 12 photograph copies.
Candidates who come under the Reserved Category have to submit their Community Certificate.
After completing all the details, confirm the declaration and submit the Online Application Form. Download and take the printout of the Online Application Form. Keep the printout of the Online Application Form.
Before starting to fill in the RPF Constable Online Form 2018, candidates must keep ready all the important documents and certificates that can be required while filling the Online Application Form.
Some of the important documents and certificates are- Scanned Photograph and Constablegnature in mentioned specifications, mark sheets, caste certificates (optional) etc.
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Go through all the Instructions that are displayed before proceeding to fill in the Online Online Application Form.
Candidates are advised to keep the same details in the Online Application Form as in their matriculation or any other certificate. Producing wrong information can lead to rejection of the Online Application Form.
Candidates are advised to give the active mobile number and valid e-mail ID while filling the online Online Application Form. Change of mobile number and e-mail ID will not be entertained.
The Online Application Forms will be sent online only, no other mediums are supported.
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HOME / BLOG / Uncategorized / Six Steps to a Flawless Fake Tan!
It's time to get summer tan ready! There is no better way to kick start summer than already having a beautiful, bronzed glow. If you want to flaunt that 'I've just been on a luxurious island holiday' look without the sun damage, and credit card bill, just follow these simple tips.
Make sure to wax or shave at least 24-48 hours before applying tanning products. This will give you a smooth base to work with, helping your tan last that little bit longer before you potentially damage it by waxing or shaving too soon after.
The next step in preparing the skin is exfoliation. You'll love Revive's Coffee Body Scrub for this vital step – the ground coffee base removes any dry and dead skin that will compromise an even and streak-free tan. Your soft, smooth skin will make application a breeze, and increase the life of that beautiful tan glow even more.
Revive's Coffee Body Scrub combines coffee and brown sugar exfoliants, and moisturising Jojoba and Coconut oils, so you shouldn't need to worry about this step. But, don't forget to target your wrists, knuckles, elbows, ankles, knees and feet – this is where you usually need that extra moisture, to prevent patches of dry skin and fake tan build up that will compromise a fabulous, flawless tan. Make sure to do this the day before applying tan, giving your skin time to absorb the moisture, not leaving a layer between your skin and the product.
Right before applying your tan, cleanse the skin of oil, deodorant, moisturiser, makeup – anything that will react with or prevent the tanning product from reaching your skin. This will mean you don't end up with a visibly streaky tan.
Wear rubber gloves or a tanning mitt when applying to protect your hands from becoming much darker than the rest of your body. You'll be able to protect your beauty secrets, and have everyone asking how your holiday was.
This is especially important for those with lighter hair. Dab some Vaseline or an Aloe Vera based moisturiser (anything oil free!) on your eyebrows and hair-line. This will act as a barrier to prevent staining. Some clear nail polish on your finger and toe nails will protect that mani and pedi you treated yourself with. Take some time out and allow yourself a pamper day. You will instantly feel revived, and get summer and tan ready at the same time with Revive Coffee Body Scrub.


The Oncofertility Consortium addresses the complex health care and quality-of-life issues that concern young cancer patients whose fertility may be threatened by their disease or its treatment. Providing comprehensive oncofertility services for cancer patients across their reproductive lifespan requires an interdisciplinary team of urologists, reproductive endocrinologists and oncologists. The purpose of the course is to educate fellows on fertility preservation and survivorship care for cancer patients across the reproductive life cycle. The course will also model a team approach to fertility preservation care.
This course is primarily targeted towards first and second year fellows in the specialties of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Andrology and Male Infertility, as well as Pediatric and Adult Hematology/Oncology. Residents in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Urology, or Internal Medicine with a particular interest in oncofertility are also welcome to attend.
Fellows attending this course should leave with a more comprehensive understanding of current options for fertility preservation and survivorship care as well as a working knowledge of how to counsel male and female patients at varying points in the reproductive life cycle.
The course will be comprised of didactic lectures given by leaders in the field interspersed with complex clinical cases that will be reviewed in interdisciplinary teams. Participants will be provided supplementary materials for review prior to course attendance in order to facilitate an interactive "flipped classroom" approach to team based learning.


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Set on the corner of Mentmore and Morley avenues, this bright cafe, run by Connor Canham (ex-Bondi's Best, The Corner House and Porch and Parlour), offers mostly health-focused breakfast and lunches, with a few not-so-clean options too.
The kitchen serves up a dish of bolognese mince on Iggy's sourdough toast, parmesan cheese and poached eggs. Other favourites include the "sprouted avocado" – a plate of avocado, hummus, labneh and turmeric olive oil on sprouted bread. There's also spanner crab linguine with chilli, coriander and shallots.
There's a liquor license, which means breakfast Margaritas with homemade marmalade and Bloody Mary's.
Urban Future designed the interior, which is lofty and clean with large timber tables, brass light fittings and pale grey hexagonal tiles.


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Instagram plans charity donation feature
08 February 2019 by Liam Kay
The social media platform is working on a 'donation sticker' that would enable users to donate
The social media platform Instagram is working on a new feature that will allow users to donate to charity, the company has said.
A spokesman for Instagram told Third Sector it was working on a new "donation sticker" in its Instagram Stories feature that would enable users to donate to charitable causes of their choice.
Instagram is one of the world's most popular social media platforms and is owned by Facebook.
Instagram Stories is a feature that allows users to post pictures and videos to their followers that disappear after 24 hours.
The move to allowing donations on Instagram Stories is expected later this year, but is still in the early stages of development, Third Sector understands.
It is not yet known how the new feature will look or how widely it will be deployed in the Instagram app.
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A spokesman for Instagram said: "Instagram is all about bringing you closer to the people and things you love, and a big part of that is showing support for and bringing awareness to meaningful communities and causes.
"Later this year, people will be able to raise money and help support non-profits that are important to them through a donation sticker in Instagram Stories. We will share more updates on this feature in the coming months."
Facebook and Twitter are among other social media platforms that have allowed users to donate to charities and good causes through their apps.
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British outsourcers cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of pounds. Yesterday they said sorry. So that's all right, then.
Yesterday, senior executives from Britain's four largest public services outsourcing firms, G4S, Atos, Serco and Capita, appeared before the people's watchdog — Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
All eyes were on the representatives for G4S and Serco, companies that charged taxpayers tens of millions of pounds for doing absolutely nothing.
Both had billed the Ministry of Justice for applying electronic tags to ex-offenders who were no longer being tagged, who were in prison, or dead. G4S and Serco remain under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.
In a gesture of corporate cleansing, both companies sent freshly minted ambassadors to Committee Room 15 yesterday. G4S, having parted from its chief executive Nick Buckles in May, despatched Ashley Almanza, a man who joined as chief financial officer in May, and found himself instantly propelled into the top job. Serco's chief Chris Hyman walked the plank last month. Facing the committee instead was Serco's part-time non-executive chairman, Alastair Lyons.
Despite rather disorganised and timid questioning from MPs, the session did teach us a few things about privatisation in the UK.
The witnesses emphasised how crucial transparency was. They stated their beliefs in open-book accounting, the necessity of third-party auditors and even suggested there was a duty upon corporations to be transparent when providing public services. One would be forgiven for assuming that reams of data and financial information about these companies and the public services they provide is easily accessible – but this is far from the case.
The National Audit Office noted on Monday that Serco in particular failed to disclose all the information requested for the purposes of their audit, and that the information they did receive relied on the companies' co-operation – they had no legal right to access it.
Indeed, Serco is currently in dispute with PriceWaterhouseCoopers over access to information regarding an audit of health services Serco provided (or rather, didn't) in Cornwall.
For the ultimate client, the taxpayer, transparency is even worse. The publicly available annual accounts provide little or no information about contracts with the public sector. Access to the contracts themselves is denied to the public (and in many cases also denied to the MPs who are tasked with holding G4S, Serco et al to account). Companies providing public services are not subject to Freedom of Information legislation.
Ashley Almanza conceded that it was obvious that "historically G4S have not had proper controls in place", and Alastair Lyons repeatedly insisted that Serco were working on strengthening its control structures. However, neither was able to explain why it had taken more than twenty years of public service outsourcing, a handful of third-party audits and an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for them to realise the inadequacy of internal management and oversight. The message appeared to be, we had no control over quality of delivery before, but we promise we do now.
Both G4S and Serco argued that technically charging for electronic monitoring for people who were in prison, no longer under supervision or who had died was not breach of contract (the Ministry of Justice disputes this).
Almanza and Lyons admitted that their companies had charged for services for years after they had ceased to provide them. Both denied that this amounted to dishonesty. They claimed that during third-party audits no dishonest behaviour had been found.
"It's not appropriate to bill before you've fitted the equipment and carry on billing after it's been removed. It was flawed . . . I don't think we did correctly tell the difference between right and wrong."
PAC's Chair, Margaret Hodge MP, challenged Alastair Lyons about Serco's practice of "charging an arm and a leg" for hardware provided to Serco from a subsidiary called Serco Geografix, "pretending to the taxpayer that the costs were reasonable when in fact they were excessive".
Lyons claimed the practice was "known to the Ministry of Justice", and had since been abandoned.
Hodge said: "What you're really saying is we ripped you off in the past but we won't do so in the future."
Lyons replied: "I don't believe that as you say we ripped the taxpayer off. I think it was totally transparent. Clearly contract management has changed materially since 2005."
Although couched in polite and positive language, the session confirmed what many had already noticed – central government departments are not very good at contracting out services. The witnesses reported that outsourcing competency varied widely from department to department, relatively junior civil servants were tasked with negotiating complex and high value contracts, and key performance indicators were sometimes poorly defined. Many government departments were only beginning to flex their buying power and drive a harder bargain.
Contract management was as bad, if not worse, than procurement and commissioning. Again, government departments assigned fairly junior civil servants, without the necessary skills, experience or confidence, the task of managing enormous contracts. We heard that there is some improvement in this area – but such poor management suggests the tagging scandal might not be the last of its kind.
The session revealed a bleak picture of privatisation in Britain today. Billions of pounds of taxpayer money has been spent by government departments who are neither particularly good at commissioning nor managing services, and most of this money has been given to companies who admit to exercising bad judgment and not really knowing the difference between right and wrong . . . while denying that anybody has behaved dishonestly!
The PAC's stated purpose is to scrutinise the public accounts, focussing keenly on "value-for-money criteria based on economy, effectiveness and efficiency". Members' general lack of acuity and punch yesterday was not reassuring.
Perhaps most worrying was Margaret Hodge's acknowledgement that it was as good as inevitable that the involvement of G4S, Serco, Atos and Capita in public services would grow in the coming years and that G4S and Serco had not ruled out bidding for the Ministry of Justice's £500 million per year probation contracts.


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Hands-Free Driving Coming to 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E
The feature is designed to seamlessly take over highway driving.
Alisa PriddleWordsManufacturerPhotosMotorTrend StaffPhotos
Tesla's Autopilot is the best-known (thought-to-be) hands-free highway driving system out there, followed by Super Cruise, which General Motors introduced on the 2018 Cadillac CT6. Of course, only the Caddy system is truly hands-free—the Tesla setup, despite popular assumptions, requires periodic hand-to-steering-wheel contact to keep the driver-assist going, otherwise it deactivates.
Ford has studied these (and other self-steering lane-keep and adaptive cruise functions) closely and thinks it can do better. When the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E electric crossover SUV goes on sale by the end of the year, customers can get the crossover with the hardware needed for many miles of hands-free driving, self-parking, and other enhancements coming for the ever-evolving Ford Co-Pilot360 collection of driver-assist features. It's worth noting, though, that none of these systems promises to make the autonomous or self-driving, but rather will automate steering, throttle, and brakes in certain conditions while the driver continues to carefully monitor the road and the car.
In a call with reporters, Ford officials explained why they think their system will be the best yet for customers. For starters: The name. Taking a dig at Tesla, which has been criticized for calling its system Autopilot and then being surprised when drivers treat it like autopilot (resulting in some disastrous accidents), Ford is being careful with its words. "We carefully select names for features that don't overpromise that they can do more than they can," Chris Billman, a Ford driver-assist engineer, said. The automaker feels its system, called Active Drive Assist, is more accurately named.
The other difference that Ford thinks will separate Active Drive Assist from the pack, is the ease with which drivers will be able to engage and disengage the system, Darren Palmer, Ford's global director for battery-electric vehicles, said. Some systems force the driver to almost wrestle back control of the vehicle and the transition can be abrupt. In the Mach-E, Palmer said, the transition from man to machine and back is barely perceptible as Active Drive Assist smoothly adjusts steering or braking during system switchover.
Hands-Free Mode
A new Hands-Free mode allows drivers to take their hands off the wheel on pre-mapped, divided highways as long as the person behind the wheel continues to pay attention to the road ahead. An advanced driver-facing infrared camera tracks the driver's eyes and head position in Hands-Free mode, as well as when hands-on Lane Centering mode is engaged, which works on any road with lane lines. The addition of this new camera is key, Billman said. It is in addition to the cameras and radar already dotting the car.
Palmer said much time and effort went into graphics and messaging that informs the driver of the state of the technology, with animated pictures, such as a graphical protective bubble around the car that denotes the computers are at the wheel. Warnings will be clear when the driver must pay better attention or assume control, otherwise, the vehicle will slow down until the driver is re-engaged. Billman said the screens will also alert drivers when they have entered a hands-free zone, with animations showing it is alright to let go of the steering wheel. The graphics were well received in customer clinics, he said, which was important because some competitive systems have been criticized for being confusing.
To be fair, Ford has the benefit of time. Tesla's system has been on the road for many years, and it has continually worked to perfect it and introduce new features, including the ability to handle freeway interchanges and navigate intersections, the latter of which is still in its beta stage. GM has also enhanced Super Cruise and is working on Ultra Cruise, which will add hands-free driving in the city.
Phased Rollout on the Mach-E
The Ford timeline is to roll out Active Drive Assist on the Mach-E in two phases: Customers can first opt for the Prep package at the time of purchase. The Co-Pilot360 Active 2.0 Prep package includes all camera and radar hardware. The advanced infrared driver-facing camera even monitors those in the driver's seat with sunglasses on.
In summer 2021, customers will have a menu of software options they can purchase, including Active Drive Assist, which would be sent to the Mach-E as an over-the-air update. This follows the lead of Tesla, which sends over-the-air updates to its customers' cars. Palmer said every module in the Ford system was designed for over-the-air upgrades in order to ensure Mach-E customers always have access to the latest tech.
Mapped Miles Will Grow
Initially, Ford will offer hands-free driving on more than 100,000 miles of divided highways in all 50 states and Canada. By comparison, GM's Super Cruise system works on more than 200,000 miles of highway across North America, with GM continuing to expand the feature's geofenced area.
Ford engineers and test drivers have accumulated more than 650,000 miles testing tech such as adaptive cruise control and blind-spot information systems with cross-traffic alert to ensure these radar- and camera-based features work in as many real-world scenarios as possible. The idea is to keep improving and be able to recognize and handle roads under construction. In time, the company plans to offer hands-free driving on far more than the initial 100,000 miles of highway it's currently greenlit.
May I Park That for You?
The other enhancement that Ford announced relates to its parking assist system. The Prep package also includes Active Park Assist 2.0, which allows the owner to simply hold a button to get the car in and out of tight parking spaces.
Even Mach-Es without the Prep package boasts a number of enhancements. The Co-Pilot360 2.0 standard package adds a road edge detection feature to the car's lane-keeping system. The feature is designed to work in rural areas lacking visible road lines and alerts the driver if the vehicle drifts toward the edge of the road. Meanwhile, the Mach-E's blind-spot assist will nudge the crossover back into its lane if it detects a vehicle in the blind spot during a lane-change maneuver.
These additions are on top of the features Ford already puts in its Co-Pilot safety system, which includes automatic high-beam headlights, blind-spot detection with cross-traffic alert, automatic emergency braking, post-collision braking, and more. Ford also improved its adaptive cruise control system, which features stop-and-go functionality. While the driver once had to reactivate the function once the car came to a stop for three seconds, the person in the left seat now can let the car do the work of restarting if it's been stopped for less than 30 seconds. The system also recognizes speed signs now, and it's capable of applying the brakes when making a left turn at an intersection if the various sensors determine another vehicle has ignored a red light.
Ford is not releasing pricing yet for its latest additions to its Co-Pilot360 safety system, but Palmer said it will be highly competitive.
And while Ford is not sharing plans past the Mach-E debut, it's safe to assume the features will be rolled out to other future Ford vehicles. For now, Ford will only note that Active Drive Assist is due to roll out on select 2021 model year Ford vehicles and that the feature will be available across the Mustang Mach-E lineup. We'd guess the next-generation F-150, as well as the 2021 Ford Bronco and 2021 Bronco Sport, is a strong candidate for the feature.
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> Bison's 'Man of Steel' Rob Wells Named Volvo-CTA Driver of the Year
Bison's 'Man of Steel' Rob Wells Named Volvo-CTA Driver of the Year
Posted Tuesday May 20, 2014, in Image/PR, News Releases
Robert Wells – dedicated Albertan truck driver, family man, community leader, and superhero to those who know him – was recently named the 2013 national Volvo Canada/Canadian Trucking Alliance Driver of the Year.
Wells, a driver for Bison Transport who lives in Calgary, was officially handed the award and honored with the title at the recent Alberta Motor Transport Association's annual general meeting.
The winner of the national award is selected from existing recipients of the Volvo Truck Driver of the Year in each of the Canadian provinces. The award is presented annually to a Canadian professional transport driver who holds a collision-free driving record, demonstrates a high level of professionalism both on and off the road and demonstrates courtesy within the industry and the public arena.
Wells, 63, is a 40-year veteran of the trucking industry, spending his last 15 years with Bison as both a company driver and lease operator. He has logged about 6-million collision-free miles in his career.
During that time he has racked up several safe driving awards at the companies he's worked for. More recently at Bison, Wells has trained and mentored new drivers as an in-cab instructor and has served on Bison's driver advisory board, where he makes recommendations to the company on driver issues, equipment and safety. He also served on the 2011-2012 AMTA Road Knights team, where he travelled the province educating students about traffic safety and careers in the trucking industry.
Although he loves trucking, Wells' greatest passion is his family – his wife Marlene, his five children, 13 grandkids and five great-grandkids – who see first-hand Wells' strength and dedication. Several years ago Wells was diagnosed with cancer. Instead of taking a break and giving up his seat, he continued to work throughout his chemo treatments and other therapies and eventually beat the disease.
"He is a man made of steel and accomplished what few other men could," says Bison's Garth Pitzel, director of safety and driver development. "Diligent, ethical, moral and valiant are just a few words to describe Rob. I never met a driver with more commitment than this man."
Throughout his life, Wells has been extremely active in the community. He's been involved with his local Cub Scouts and is a long-time member of the Lion's Club in Calgary, where he has received many accolades. He has also assisted several charities, including raising funds to supply villages in South Africa.
"Through his actions both on and off the road, Robert personifies what this highly coveted award represents and it is an honour to recognize him as the nation's professional Driver of the Year," says CTA president David Bradley. "It is drivers like Robert that make this industry proud and show Canadians just how great trucking is."
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Solo Concertina Vs Member Of The Band
By Patrick Scannell
February 8, 2016 in Teaching and Learning
Patrick Scannell
Location:Schodack Landing, NY, USA
Inspired by Jody's current thread but from a different angle, could experienced players give advice to a newbie on contributing to a band with a concertina.
When practicing contradance tunes, I usually play an um-pa (1st-3rd&5th) chordal left hand to fill out the sound. But in a group that seems messy. A sharp block chord chop, perhaps on the up beat seems better.
Does that seem right? Any other tips on how to make everyone happy that a concertina joined the group?
I'm struggling, so I'd like to be practicing the same way I'm going to perform.
Your ear is your best guide, and it sounds as if your ear is already guiding you very well.
The trick in playing with others is to avoid redundancy--unless redundancy is the particular effect you're after. Find an acoustical space that isn't occupied by another instrument, and make your home there.
And less really is more. Freddie Green, Count Basie's indispensable rhythm guitarist, famously simplified his style over time, stripping away everything he didn't *have* to play, until he was mostly playing two-note "chords." But they were exactly the right notes every time--and in perfect time.
As far as practice goes, when I'm playing by myself I tend mostly to play like a soloist. Then when I join a group I subtract whatever I can. Alternatively, practice playing along with recordings until you have a sense of what enhances the sound and what muddies it up. Another useful approach is to record yourself and overdub individual parts, whether on concertina or on another instrument, if you play one. This can be a great way to attune your ear to what does and doesn't work in a group setting.
JimLucas
Most important: Pay attention to what the others are playing, and don't interfere with it. If you can assist, all the better.
What you contribute and what you leave out must depend on what the others are doing. E.g., if nobody is playing chords, you might try doing some chordal backup... and nothing else. If more than one are already playing chords, you probably shouldn't... or do so only sparsely, rather than all the time. Then you could try harmony, or even just melody if others are doing harmonies.
You should also be asking the others in the band what they might like you to do. They should have a much better idea than we do of the sound they want to share. Different players/instruments taking turns with different roles helps keep the music interesting. If the band is willing, you could take turns playing harmonies, or playing chords, or even sitting our for a while, so that there's variety in how the band sounds
Does that seem right?
I would say no, but let me be more specific in order to help you find something that's "right":
The first thing that seems "wrong" to me is the implication that you -- or anyone -- should be doing the same thing all the time. Variety is important.
Since a band includes other instruments, it shouldn't be necessary for you to be playing both melody and chords or other "accompaniment"... certainly not all the time. (That shouldn't necessarily be totally forbidden, though. For short stretches it can provide a contrasting change in the sound.) As Jody described in his thread, it's important to learn how to improve the music by not trying to include too much.
Similarly, if you are playing chords, it shouldn't necessarily be the same all the time. E.g., either um-pa or chop may be fine for a while, but then do a bit with the other, or maybe chop for a while on the beat, then off the beat, or do only the basses without the full chords.
Similarly, greater variety in chord inversions, or use of incomplete chords can be used to keep the music interesting, whether that's done by yourself or by one or more of the other musicians.
Any other tips on how to make everyone happy that a concertina joined the group?
Not "other", but repeating what I already said. (An old Russian proverb translates as, "Repetition is the mother of learning." ) Discuss it with and work it out with the group. You can try to work up something at home, but it's only when you try to fit it into the group that you'll be able to tell whether it works.
A good idea, but the best way for that to work is to record the band and then practice along with the recording.
Thanks for the input Bob and Jim.
Don't forget about drones, either just a single note or an open 5th. And once you've got that down, see if you can expand it to what I call "DADGAD Concertina."
I just noticed your sig, Patrick: Pressabimus Diem
I love it. Literally laughed out loud.
Edited February 13, 2016 by David Barnert
Jim Besser
Location:Washington DC metro area
Bob's answer pretty much reflects my own experience. Let your ear be your guide, and less is often more.
For contra dance playing, I spend a lot of time practicing to recordings. I don't have much trouble taking leads except on the very fast and very notey tunes, but I'm not as skilled at playing a backup role, and that's what I work on the most.
I do a lot of drones and bass lines. Sometimes countermelodies and harmonies. I try to mix it up a lot. Sometimes just rhythmic pulses.
And while I mostly play melody plus left hand accompaniment, I don't do much of that in a band situation, especially when there are strong rhythm players; on a 30 button Anglo, I can't possibly match the chordal richness of the piano, the piano accordion or the guitar.
It seems to me that one of the most important skills to learn is what to leave OUT in a band situation.
StuartEstell
Very much agreed, Jim. Learning when to play nothing is a valuable skill -- musical absinence, if you like, versus being over-keen and plastering oneself liberally all over everything. (I've been guilty of this myself, so I'm not throwing stones from a glass house )
Even if you're not playing jazz it can be instructive to listen to what some of the really great jazz pianists (e.g. McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans) do when 'comping (accompanying), either in the left hand while soloing with the right, or with both hands while filling in the sandwich between the bass and soloist. Unless you're aiming specifically for thickness of texture from duplicated parts, less is emphatically more, especially if there are rhythm instruments whacking out the pulse alongside you.
Edited February 16, 2016 by StuartEstell
Jody Kruskal
Hi David, care to elaborate? What is DADGAD Concertina? Is this something you play? Examples we can hear?
Edited February 16, 2016 by Jody Kruskal
A Google search on DADGAD found this https://www.guitarlessonworld.com/lessons/dadgad/, which describes an alternative guitar tuning suitable for chords with lots of open strings. Maybe he means a style using simple 2-button chords and open 5ths?
Perhaps you are right!
Hey Dave, do you retune your concertina to play this style?
That's pretty much it. No retuning necessary (unlike on guitar). What DADGAD guitar is to chordal guitar playing (heavy emphasis on open harmonies and unresolved suspensions) I try to imitate on the Hayden Duet Concertina, and ironically call "DADGAD Concertina." A simple example would be a row of parallel fifths moving up the scale. Sometimes (in a 32-bar tune) I'll play two measures each of I/V, II/VI, and III/VII and then one bar each of IV/I and V/II to harmonize the first 8 bars, pretty much no matter what the melody is doing. Then repeat for A2 and then switch to a chordal accompaniment for the B section.
Don Taylor
Do you already have an example in one of your Youtube or Soundcloud recordings?
Thx. Don.
Examples we can hear?
Well, I didn't until just now, when I whipped this together. A simple, familiar tune, Jamie Allen. Twice through, once straight and once in DADGAD Concertina style (I would never begin playing a tune in that style—it's something to use after the tune has been heard in a more traditional vein first).
Notice that when I play the V/II in the accompaniment (bar 8), implying a dominant chord, the melody has already resolved to the tonic and it doesn't matter: the progression is so strong it just rolls over the melody and creates its own space.
Oh wow! I am not sure what to make of that.
The first 3 full measures of the DADGAB section sound good, but then the next two measures sound, well, weird. Almost like a recording artifact - sort of out of phase. Then I hear two measures that are OK before another measure that is strange, almost muted, before another normal sounding measure, one more strange measure, one more OK and then another strange one.
I am going to have to listen a few times to see if the strangeness goes away but the amplitude of the strange measures seems to be less than the normal measures. Is this psycho-acoustical or are you muting those measures?
Added the following day after a few more listens and some time has elapsed:
It does not seem so weird now and it is an interesting sound. I am still a bit bothered by the apparent changes in volume.
Edited February 18, 2016 by Don Taylor
Interesting issue David, although I'm widely sharing Don's impressions...
My first thoughts on this matter: To my knowledge the guitar chords in question are way richer, and the appeal comes widely from those with a minor third (particularly on the third level which is also quite prominent with the "Celtic" harp).
Maybe just open fifths don't do the trick anyway (you all know how much I myself use to rely on open fifths, but in a different manner, harmonically complementary to either bass or melody notes, as I tried to demonstrate at last year's SSI).
However, regarding "Jamie Allen" the scheme as applied here doesn't work to my ears (and I wouldn't expect it to work in any more adapted way either at the points desribed as "weird" by Don).
Best wishes - Wolf
Randy Stein
Location:Washington, DC
Cool topic.
I am a member of a 10 piece Folk Band, Ein Lanu Z'man (CD available on CD Baby). The leader and I do most of the arranging but we are fortunate that the members are all accomplished musicians so much how a song finally sounds sometimes happens organically.
In playing with the band we have several instruments that only play single lines so often we build on their accompaniment by arranging as a sort of "orchestral background" in chording and interwoven counter melody.
With the EC I blend chordal patterns and rhythm as much as possible often using as my guide what the bass is doing (he is usually play the root note of a chord). While I have the advantage to do full chording I usually play the dominant pattern so as not to impinge on what the vocalists are doing. Rhythm and chording allows me to not only increase the sound and feel of a song but also helps me lead the band's instruments in making definite the chord changes. An example is a piece we play that has a chord pattern of Am, Bm, Cdim, C#. with the beginning of each phrase happening on the 3rd of the 4/4 beat.
Hope this sort of makes sense.
the progression is so strong it just rolls over the melody and creates its own space.
Great description. A little tension between the two spaces too, I like it.
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This thread had been wonderfully fruitful. Thanks everyone for your contributions.
First visit back to c.net since posting the above. I will try to respond to Don's comments.
The first 3 full measures of the DADGAB section sound good,...
The first three (four, actually) measures don't introduce anything unfamiliar. A G chord and an A minor chord (5ths in the accompaniment, 3rds in the melody) against a tune that fits well with those chords. I don't know if your "DADGAB" was a slip of the finger or a misunderstanding. It's DADGAD. I call it DADGAD Concertina because I've heard pianists call a similar technique on the piano "DADGAD Piano," and they are both attempts to emulate the kind of playing you can do on a guitar with the strings tuned to D2 A2 D3 G3 A3 D4 instead of E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.
...but then the next two measures sound, well, weird. Almost like a recording artifact - sort of out of phase.
This is where the strength of the progression overpowers the implied progression in the tune. The melody has G's in both octaves while the B minor chord in the accompaniment has an F#. The uncomfortable stress is intentional. That's the whole point. What is music but a progression of stresses and releases?
Then I hear two measures that are OK before another measure that is strange, almost muted, before another normal sounding measure, one more strange measure, one more OK and then another strange one.
Stress, release, stress, release.
...the amplitude of the strange measures seems to be less than the normal measures. Is this psycho-acoustical or are you muting those measures?
It's not intentional, and to be honest, I'm not sure I hear what you mean. The volume drops a bit at the 9th measure (the beginning of the A repeat) and that may have been intuitive if not intentional. But I don't hear the other amplitude variations that seem to bother you.
But I did all this because Jody first asked for an example. Jody, you're not usually one to be shy. Let's hear from you. Be honest. You've no doubt heard your share of "DADGAD Piano" at contradances.


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1 Kings 17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
HAZOR
ha'-zor (chatsor; Nasor; Codex Sinaiticus, Asor, 1 Maccabees 11:67):
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(2) A town, unidentified, in the South of Judah (Joshua 15:23).
(3) A town in the South of Judah (Joshua 15:25).
See KERIOTH-HEZRON.
(4) A town in Benjamin (Nehemiah 11:33) now represented by Khirbet Chazzar, not far to the East of Neby Samwil.
(5) A place in Arabia, smitten by Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 49:28, 33).


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