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'Lady Macbeth' Review: Lusty Period Drama Becomes Muddled and Mean-Spirited
Florence Pugh is incandescent as a Victorian-era neglected farm wife, but motivation goes out the window once she goes on a rampage
Claudia Puig | July 13, 2017 @ 3:20 PM	Last Updated: July 13, 2017 @ 4:12 PM
"Lady Macbeth"
"Lady Macbeth" is neither a Shakespearean re-working nor a bodice-and-bonnets drama in the vein of Merchant-Ivory fare. It features a striking lead performance, but it ultimately leaves the viewer unmoved, and possibly confounded.
Based on the 1865 novella "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk" by Nikolai Leskov, the sensibility is far more modern than the period it's set in. The book was adapted into a 1934 Shostakovich opera that Stalin banned for being too subversive. Adapted by screenwriter Alice Birch and director William Oldroyd, both of whom have stage backgrounds, the film has an austere, theatrical quality, confined mostly to one location: a rather plain, airless house and its stables.
It's not set in Russia, as the novel was, nor Scotland, as in Shakespeare's "Macbeth," but rather in a remote, desolate corner of northern England that somehow manages to feel both expansively windswept and claustrophobic. The time frame is the mid-1860s.
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Lead character Katherine (an incandescent Florence Pugh) has the ruthlessness and determination of the titular Shakespearean character: Stuck in an emotionally abusive marriage to Alexander (Paul Hilton from Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Heights"), an abrasive and dour landowner twice her age, and under the nasty watchful gaze of her geezer father-in-law Boris (Christopher Fairbank, "Wolf Hall"), Katherine is the downtrodden soul who instantly gains the viewer's sympathy. But she is likely to lose it as she gains power over those who sought to keep her down, as well as others who simply get in her way.
Instructed not to leave the house by her curmudgeonly husband, Katherine spends her days corseted and bored, a stifled prisoner in a creaky old house. She is ignored by Alexander, who goes off on vague business, leaving her in the care of her maid, Anna (Naomi Ackie). The two women share few words. Soon, Katherine embarks on a torrid affair with lusty farmhand Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis). Her sexual obsession kicks her innate boldness into high gear. Carnal desire animates and drives her.
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At first, Katherine seems to be acting out of defiance against her oppressive role in life. But soon we see that Katherine will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Pugh was only 19 during shooting, but she carries the film beautifully. Her placid face subtly conveys determination, fascination, disdain and desire — sometimes all at once.
But for a film about an unstoppable force, fueled by illicit passion, "Lady Macbeth" is surprisingly dull and tedious. Part of that stems from the lack of chemistry between Pugh and Jarvis. Another problem is that, good as Pugh is — and she can be mesmerizing — her character feels jarringly modern, in sharp contrast to everyone else in the film. She seems more like a Millennial than a Victorian. (This brings to mind the trio of nuns in "The Little Hours" who are decidedly contemporary, but featuring a single anachronistic character works better in comedy.)
We meet Katherine at her wedding. It's a dry and joyless affair, no doubt because she was purchased in a land deal. Immediately thereafter, she dully acts the part of the respectable, well-to-do rural wife. Then, in almost no time, she has tossed off all chafing restrictions, dallying with her boy-toy anywhere and everywhere. She very quickly moves on to far less defensible behavior and criminality. A character that originally felt like an unfortunate figure constrained by the era becomes a raging sociopath in a matter of days. This jarring transformation is hard to buy.
Also, Oldroyd shows us not a glimmer of her interior life, nor does he give us any sense of her existence prior to marrying Alexander. Has she suffered oppression prior to this? She speaks glancingly of happier times as a young girl, but then she's unspeakably cruel to an innocent child. All this makes for an unknowable and unlikable homicidal heroine. Consequently, it's increasingly hard to care what happens to her as the carnage mounts.
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Katherine is unwavering in her quest to get what she wants, but unlike the Shakespearean queen, she shows no remorse. In fact, she seems to lack any emotions whatsoever apart from vengeance and lust.
At times the film flirts with being a commentary, if clouded, on issues of race and class. Anna, Katherine's maid, is black, and while both are initially sisters in servitude, Katherine eventually treats her callously. She blames her own misdeeds on Anna and thinks nothing of it. Her lover Sebastian is also a person of color, and she is powerfully drawn to him physically. Her increasingly manipulative treatment of him raises questions of whether she sees him in a servile capacity, and ultimately disposable.
Katherine manipulates and hideously mistreats a young boy of mixed race, her husband's ward. It's one thing when a privileged, albeit oppressed, white woman turns her vengeance on her nasty white father-in-law; it's quite another when her scheming brutality takes aim at innocent and darker-skinned people, especially a young child. It's unclear whether these issues of race are deliberate on the part of the filmmakers, but Birch and Oldroyd show little willingness to delve too deeply into them.
The look of the low-budget period thriller is spare, with a muted soundtrack and a heroine who is almost spookily calm, throughout all the mayhem she creates, some of which seems to be fueled by boredom. Katherine grows less plausible, and her motivations seem murkier as her cruelty escalates. She stars out as an avenging angel and then devolves into almost campy serial-killer criminality, the mixed tones leaving us insufficiently moved. Ultimately, we feel like bystanders, rather than engaged viewers watching this unnecessarily mean-spirited tale.
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"Crashing" (Netflix)
Created by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Crashing" follows seven people who live together as the "property guardians" of an abandoned hospital. "Being Human's" Damien Molony, "Broadchurch's" Jonathan Bailey and Louise Ford also star.
"Fresh Meat" (Hulu)
"Peep Show" creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain launched their follow-up series "Fresh Meat" in 2011. The hangout comedy, which ran for four seasons on Channel 4, follows six first-years at a fictional university who all live together in off-campus housing.
"Chewing Gum" (Netflix)
Based on her play "Chewing Gum Dreams," E4's comedy stars Michaela Coel as 24-year-old virgin Tracey Gordon, who wants to have sex and learn about the world to avoid becoming like her uptight older sister.
"Absolutely Fabulous" (Netflix, Hulu)
Based on a sketch written by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, "Absolutely Fabulous" stars Saunders and Joanna Lumley as a pair of self-destructive trend-chasers desperate to stay young. The classic '90s comedy has been revived for a series of specials that aired in 2004, 2011 and 2012, as well as a movie in 2016.
"Crazyhead" (Netflix)
A horror-comedy series from "Misfits" creator Howard Overman, E4's "Crazyhead" stars Cara Theobold and Susan Wokoma as a pair of 20-something seers who fight demons only they can see. The series was picked up for international distribution by Netflix in 2016.
"W1A" (Netflix)
A follow-up to the series "Twenty Twelve," a comedy about the production of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, "W1A" saw Hugh Bonneville's Ian Fletcher taking on a new role at the BBC. "Spaced" star Jessica Hynes also reprised her role from the original on the new series (named after the BBC's post code), as did narrator David Tennant.
"Gavin & Stacey" (Hulu)
Matthew Horne and Joanna Page star in the romantic comedy series "Gavin & Stacey" as a couple struggling to maintain their long-distance relationship. The show's writing duo James Corden and Ruth Jones also star as the pair's best friends. In 2013, Fox attempted a U.S. adaptation of the series titled "Us & Them," which never aired.
"The IT Crowd" (Netflix, Hulu)
Graham Linehan's cult favorite "The IT Crowd" follows three employees of a fictional corporation's IT department. Chris O'Dowd and Richard Ayoade star as a pair of tech experts overseen by a manager played by Katherine Parkinson. A U.S. adaptation, led by Ayoade reprising his role, failed to make it to air on NBC.
"Fleabag" (Amazon)
In her follow-up to "Crashing," Phoebe Waller-Bridge stars as an aimless young woman, identified only as "Fleabag," who is mourning her best friend. The series, which aired on BBC Three and Amazon, was adapted from Waller-Bridge's award-winning 2013 play of the same name.
"Peep Show" (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon)
Comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb star as a mismatched pair of roommates -- a neurotic loan manager and a slacker musician -- in Channel 4's long-running hit comedy. The beloved series aired for an unprecedented nine seasons before finally concluding in December 2015.
"Spaced" (Hulu)
Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright, who would later go on to collaborate on "Shaun of the Dead," first teamed on the Channel 4 series "Spaced" in 1999. The slacker comedy starred Pegg and co-creator Jessica Stevenson as two strangers who pretend to be a couple in order to meet the requirements to rent a cheap apartment.
"Catastrophe" (Amazon)
Created by and starring Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, "Catastrophe" follows a couple as their one-night stand blossoms into a real relationship due to an unexpected pregnancy. The acclaimed series has been nominated for multiple awards including a Primetime Emmy for writing.
"The Thick of It" (Hulu)
Before creating HBO's Emmy-winning "Veep" in the U.S., Armando Iannucci satirized the inner-workings of the British government on the BBC's "The Thick of It," which ran for four seasons between 2005 and 2012. "Doctor Who's" Peter Capaldi stars as the government's no-nonsense director of communications.
"Lovesick" (Netflix)
Formerly known as "Scrotal Recall," Tom Edge's "Lovesick" follows a single young man (Johnny Flynn) who must contact all of his past sexual partners when he's diagnosed with an STD. Daniel Ings and "Misfits" alum Antonia Thomas also star as Dylan's two best friends.
"Doll & Em" (HBO)
Created by and starring Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells, "Doll & Em" revolves around a successful actress (Mortimer) who hires her down-on-her-luck best friend (Wells) as her assistant. The show premiered in 2013 on Sky Living in the U.K., and was later acquired by HBO, which aired the show in the U.S.
"The Office" (Netflix, Hulu)
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's original version of the mockumentary series "The Office" ran for just two seasons, but the show has since been adapted in a number of other countries, including a long-running and hugely successful NBC adaptation starring Steve Carell.
"Black Books" (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon)
Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan's "Black Books" stars Moran as the misanthropic bookstore owner Bernard Black, whose only friends are neighboring shop owner Fran Katzenjammer (Tamsin Greig) and his accountant Manny Bianco (Bill Bailey). The BAFTA-winning comedy ran for three seasons on Channel 4.
"Coupling" (Hulu)
Steven Moffat's "Coupling," an attempt to replicate the success of NBC's "Friends" overseas, centered on a group of six friends, three men and three women, and their sexual misadventures. The show was received well enough in the U.K. that NBC attempted its own short-lived adaptation in 2003.
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Smart Card minidrivers are implemented according to the Windows Smart Card Minidriver Specification. The following specifications prescribe the version and related capabilities to which a minidriver will conform.
Smart card vendors can write card minidrivers to present a consistent interface to their smart card type to the Microsoft Smart Card Base Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) or Crypto Next Generation (CNG) Key Storage Provider (KSP) and to the Smart Card Management Interface. These card minidrivers plug in to Windows operating system code. The functionality in a card minidriver is narrowly scoped and carefully defined so that the card-dependent code is simple to implement and easy to verify functionally.
This specification provides implementation guidelines for Base CSP and KSP card minidrivers. This is the latest specification which applies to Windows 8 and later operating systems.
For information about our Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), see Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) – Process Guidance.
For information about how to develop card minidrivers for Windows, see Smart Card Reader Devices Design Guide and Smart Card Minidrivers.
Support for RSA padding removal operations in the smart card.
Overview of smart card Plug and Play.
New card container property for ECDSA/ECDH key association.
Overview of the generic inbox minidriver that supports PIV.
This specification applies to Windows 7.
Section 3.14: Clarify registry requirement.
Section 3.2.3.1: Clarify supported padding algorithm.
Section 4.2.2: Clarify CardAuthenticatePin behavior regarding EXTERNAL PIN and empty PIN.
Section 4.2.8: Clarify CardDeAuthentcateEx behavior.
Correct certain card property names so that they are consistent with cardmod.h.
Section 7.3: Clarify the refcount behavior of session PIN.
This specification applies to Windows Vista.
This specification applies to Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP.


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Chicago Trainer Profile: Carla Primero
Tamara Rosin
The Köhler effect — the phenomenon that occurs when a person works harder as a member of a group than when working on their own — is always recognizable in group workouts. Carla Primero, a Chicago trainer at The Barre Code and Core Power Yoga, understands the degree to which group fitness classes influence motivation, intensity and create better results.
Whether she is teaching or participating in a group fitness class, for Carla, the key is community. As a competitive cheerleader from elementary school through college, Carla has always been a team player, and it was her team mentality that drove her to becoming an instructor. Now, she shares the benefits of group fitness with each client who shows up for class.
"I missed the team dynamic after college," Carla said. It wasn't long after she started taking group classes like The Barre Code and Core Power Yoga that the team feeling she had in college was restored. "The same people would keep coming to the same classes so we all got to know each other."
Carla took her first yoga class in 2009 and first barre class in 2012, and was immediately hooked on both. Not only did the exercises help her develop strength and flexibility in new ways, she also felt a strong connection to her instructors. "When I would take a yoga or barre class, I was so inspired by the instructor. They were sharing something they were passionate about, and I wanted to do the same," she said.
Now, it's Carla who gets to help others get inspired. "Clients get so excited when they discover what their bodies are capable of doing, and that makes me excited. It's pretty awesome when a client can finally reach for their toes or lose those last few pounds they're struggling with. I'm grateful to have a job that really never feels like 'work,'" she said.
Carla knows results are possible, because she sees them in her regular clients, but they don't come easy. "It's up to you to put in the hard work to discover your strength. Find a workout or activity that you love and that is challenging, and despite the sweat or struggle, your mind and body will be thankful for it," Carla said.
As the saying goes, easier said than done. Finding the drive to really push oneself physically and establish a regular routine doesn't come easily to all, but Carla has some recommendations for those who may need some extra motivation. "Start small. Get your body used to moving more, like taking the stairs or walking. Find a workout or activity that's challenging but enjoyable, and invite a friend. Most people won't cancel on their friends, so get a workout buddy to keep you accountable. Also, write down why working out would benefit your life. Really think about how those reasons will improve your health and wellbeing."
The first step is up to you, Carla emphasized, but once you show up, she has some strategies to set the tone for a successful class. Changing the music on her playlists on a daily basis, the sequence of exercises and intention of class each day are all strategies intended to help clients stay motivated while also having fun.
Finding a friend to go to classes with or reaching out to new friends during the classes themselves can transform your experience, Carla explained, but attending classes likes The Barre Code and Core Power Yoga regularly will ultimately yield a personal reward: confidence. "When you accomplish something physically, you become stronger mentally. Not only will you look stronger, but you will feel it too. You'll radiate confidence."
In addition to teaching at The Barre Code and Core Power Yoga, Carla is also a health coach. She guides clients by helping them design and implement a healthier lifestyle that also fits with their daily lives and goals. With a focus on nutrition and fitness, Carla tailors each client's regimen to the individual. She's coached a variety of clients, including cheerleaders, brides-to-be and busy moms. Her website, launching in January, will include more details.
To see Carla's workout tips on Instagram, click here.
To check out her yoga and fitness Facebook page, click here.
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About Tamara Rosin
Tamara Rosin is a native Chicagoan but a Wisconsin Badger at heart with a degree in English literature and creative writing. In addition to her six years practicing yoga, Tamara loves biking, running outdoors and trying out different group workout classes. By day, Tamara is a writer/reporter for a healthcare publication. In her spare time, you can find her cooking, reading, or upside down in a headstand.
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Donald Trump is planning an expansion of his Miami resort, one of his biggest properties.
China's property sector shrank at a faster pace in the final three months of last year as the country's housing slump continues to take its toll on the economy.
China's debt-saddled property developers have seen their offshore bonds lose $82 billion in value, and more losses and defaults are likely, analysts at Bloomberg Intelligence said.
An unprecedented real-estate frenzy has left Canada with the fewest houses for sale in at least a quarter century.
Manhattan Condo Owners Are Cutting Deals as Their Tax Breaks End
Oshrat Carmiel, Bloomberg News
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(Bloomberg) -- Manhattan condo owners who've enjoyed property-tax reductions are heading for the exits of their posh buildings as their breaks are set to expire.
At a sampling of five buildings where the city's 421-a tax abatement will end this year or next, owners are listing a greater share of apartments for resale compared with other large Manhattan condo towers, according to StreetEasy. Often, they're not finding takers until the price drops close to -- or less than -- what the seller paid years ago.
"People aren't willing to pay the same amount for something that's going to cost them more on a monthly basis," said Grant Long, senior economist with the listings website. "Figuring out what the right price is, given the expiring abatements, is going to be a challenge over time."
Manhattan's would-be buyers are weighing potential purchases cautiously these days, refusing to overpay for homes and causing years of rapid price increases to come to a halt. They're also tax-sensitive, thanks to new rules that limit how much of their property levies can get written off on federal returns.
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Thousands of Manhattan condos built before the 2008 downturn benefited from the now-defunct 421-a, in which developers received property-tax breaks and passed them along to buyers as a way to promote sales in their pricey buildings. Under the program, an apartment's property-tax burden would be phased in over 10 or 15 years, with the first few years fully exempt. The abatement's expiration means the unit is subject to the full tax bill.
Top Dollar
Buyers -- owners who live in the units and investors who rent them out -- paid top dollar for condos with low carrying costs, probably reasoning they'd recoup their investments by selling at a big profit before their abatements ended, Long said. That strategy won't work in today's saturated market.
"The difference between a building with a tax abatement and a building without is probably an additional $400,000 on the purchase price," said Alon Chadad, broker and co-founder of Blu Real Estate, which is marketing listings at Upper West Side properties with expiring abatements.
At the Avery, a tower at 100 Riverside Blvd. where the breaks will end this year, about 11% of the building's 266 units were offered for sale at some point between last May and mid-May of this year, according to StreetEasy. By comparison, condo properties across Manhattan with 50 or more units had a median of 4.8% of their units listed in the same time period.
Next door at the Rushmore, where abatements expire in 2020, 8.9% of the units were listed for sale within the past year. That's about the same share as at the Caledonia in Chelsea, where the breaks also expire in 2020, and Sky House, at 11 E. 29th St., where they end this year.
'Less Attractive'
The apartments are "becoming less attractive for the investors to hold onto, which is why you see so many listed, and they're also becoming less attractive to buy," Long said.
At the Avery, a two-bedroom unit on the 19th floor purchased for $2.05 million in 2014 is still seeking a buyer at $1.795 million, after a year on the market. On the 10th floor of the same tower, a one-bedroom marketed by Chadad, for which the seller paid $936,790 in 2008, is in contract after three price cuts, according to StreetEasy. The deal will close this month at $952,750, he said.
"It's one of those buildings where anybody who bought in '08 or '09 would be lucky to break even," Chadad said. "That's what we've been seeing these last few months."
To contact the reporter on this story: Oshrat Carmiel in New York at ocarmiel1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Debarati Roy at droy5@bloomberg.net, Christine Maurus, Daniel Taub
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Q: toast output, float decimal formatting? the only way I know how to output float into 3 decimal places goes something like this...
DecimalFormat var = new DecimalFormat("#.###");
Toast.makeText(this,"number equals"+var.format(number),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

could i put something like the %.3f or %3f in Toast
i tried "number equals"+number%3f and "number equals"+number%.3f
which messes up the value

A: I think the only other real way you could do this is something like this:
float number = (float)Math.round(oldNumber * 1000) / 1000;
string formattedNumber = Float.toString(number);

That will round to 3 decimal places. However I can't see why this would help you, what you've got is more than adequate.

A: there is no notation like %.3f supported into android, so whereever, you need formatting you need to use DecimalFormat.

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Metabolites and metals in Metazoa – what role do phytochelatins play in animals?
Bundy, J. G. and Kille, Peter 2014. Metabolites and metals in Metazoa – what role do phytochelatins play in animals? Metallomics 6 (9) , pp. 1576-1582. 10.1039/C4MT00078A
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4MT00078A
Phytochelatins are sulfur-rich metal-binding peptides, and phytochelatin synthesis is one of the key mechanisms by which plants protect themselves against toxic soft metal ions such as cadmium. It has been known for a while now that some invertebrates also possess functional phytochelatin synthase (PCS) enzymes, and that at least one species, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, produces phytochelatins to help detoxify cadmium, and probably also other metal and metalloid ions including arsenic, zinc, selenium, silver, and copper. Here, we review recent studies on the occurrence, utilization, and regulation of phytochelatin synthesis in invertebrates. The phytochelatin synthase gene has a wide phylogenetic distribution, and can be found in species that cover almost all of the animal tree of life. The evidence to date, though, suggests that the occurrence is patchy, and even though some members of particular taxonomic groups may contain PCS genes, there are also many species without these genes. For animal species that do possess PCS genes, some of them (e.g. earthworms) do synthesize phytochelatins in response to potentially toxic elements, whereas others (e.g. Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic helminth) do not appear to do so. Just how (and if) phytochelatins in invertebrates complement the function of metallothioneins remains to be elucidated, and the temporal, spatial, and metal specificity of the two systems is still unknown.
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Bengals Sign Willis To Roster, Place Tate On Reserve/Injured
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The Bengals today signed WR Damion Willis to the active roster from the practice squad, and placed WR Auden Tate on the Reserve/Injured list.
Willis, a rookie out of Troy University, originally was a college free agent signee of the Bengals in May. He has played in 10 games (two starts) for Cincinnati this season, with nine catches for 82 yards.
Tate, a second-year player out of Florida State University, suffered a left knee injury during Sunday's game at Cleveland. He had played in 12 games (10 starts) for the Bengals this season, and had 40 catches for 575 yards and a TD.


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Time Limits And Third-Party Proceedings
Author: Mr Gearóid Carey
Introduction The High Court recently considered the question of timing in bringing third-party proceedings. In related proceedings,1 a third party to both proceedings sought to challenge the third-party notices by which it was joined to the proceedings. Having reviewed the authorities applicable to delay and third-party notices, and notwithstanding that he found there was delay in this case, Judge Murphy refused to set the notices aside given the facts of the case and the objective of the third-party procedure to have all matters dealt with in one set of proceedings. Third-party proceedings Under Irish procedure, a plaintiff is free to include in its claim those it wishes as defendant(s). However, depending on the nature of the claim, the defendant(s) may think that another party bears some responsibility and should contribute to whatever the defendant might ultimately be ordered to pay the plaintiff. In order to ensure that all matters are dealt with in one set of proceedings and to avoid duplicating court time and resources, the third-party procedure permits a defendant to bring that other party into the original proceedings. As Judge Morris noted in Ward v O'Callaghan,2 it is desirable for all issues about indemnity or contribution as between third parties and defendants to be disposed of at the same time as the issues relating to the defendant(s)' liability to the plaintiff. The law Under Section 27(1)(b) of the Civil Liability Act 1961, a defendant that wishes to make a claim for contribution shall serve the third-party notice as soon as is reasonably possible. Ostensibly, under the Rules of the Superior Courts, an application to issue a third-party notice shall be made within 28 days of the time limit for delivering the defence. However, this time stipulation is honoured more in breach than in observance. Case law has determined that the whole circumstances of the case and its general progress must be considered in determining whether the notice was served "as soon as is reasonably possible". As the High Court noted in this case, it is a "relative concept". The Supreme Court had examined the term in Molloy v Dublin Corporation3 and noted that: "The statute is not concerned with physical possibilities but legal and perhaps commercial judgments. Proceedings cannot and should not be instituted or contributions sought against any party without assembling and examining the relevant evidence and obtaining appropriate advice thereon. It is in that...
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We also want to show young people how to concretely apply the competencies acquired with #PlayEurope project in everyday life and for the common good, thanks to the Manual of Success Stories on Social Entrepreneurship, that will explore real cases of successful businesses.
Finally, we promote the adoption of alternative methods in schools, training institutions and NGOs that work closely with young people, inviting teachers and youth leaders to use #PlayEurope informal learning approach to promote civic participation among their students.
To learn more about the project, visit the #PlayEurope website.


Sunday mornings should always be for slow starts, sweet little cafes, good coffee and eggs benedict.
Le Magasin in Lewes is always a favourite – a cosy spot with rustic decor entwined with fairy lights, and really good eggs.
A wander around the town never goes amiss, take a peek in the Needlemakers for handmade bits and pieces, or just stick to the streets for winding pathways and curious windows.
You always manage to find the loveliest little nooks, Carrie! Looks like a perfect way to spend your morning!
What a lovely place, perfect way to start the day there.
What a lovely little place.
It looks like a cute and lovely, little place! I wish I could visit.
So pretty! I've been through Lewes numerous times, maybe the next time I am passing…I should actually stop there.
Love your photos! This cafe looks lovely.


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Man Outraged Over Gym Goers Without Masks Pulls Gun, Is Subsequently Tackled By Army Vet
What do you think is more deadly—COVID-19 or fear of it?
This has been one of the primary philosophical questions discussed among those who are at least still intellectually honest enough to see what's going on to our society post-pandemic.
And in the case of a recent incident at a Minnesota gym, a potentially very deadly situation was quickly averted not by the wearing of masks, but by an everyday hero forced to tackle a guy so triggered by a lack of adherence to Minnesota mask mandates that he busted out a firearm.
Yup—this is where we're at.
I'm thinking right about now, self-defense skills are more important than masks, if this dude's meltdown is any indication.
The Daily Caller reports that an LA Fitness club manager in Maplewood, Minnesota was forced to tackle a man who pointed a gun at his chest while complaining about gym goers who failed to comply with local mask mandates.
33-year-old Army veteran Mike Olson took down 64-year-old Michael Florhaug after the older man brandished a firearm and turned away from him, as the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Florhaug was not a member of the club at the time of the incident, apparently, but was in possession of a state-issued permit to carry a firearm.
"I just kind of knew it had to be done. It didn't take much thinking. It was more of a reaction," Olson told the Anchorage Daily News.
Florhaug was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, which is definitely a lot more serious than not wearing a mask during a media-hyped pandemic, believe you me. But then again who knows. The world is upside down right now.
The Daily Caller noted that "He reportedly complained to an employee at the front desk about people exercising without masks and threatened to take photographs of club members who weren't complying with the state mandate."
We can blame the state for this as they have set up hotlines that implore residents to turn in their fellow residents when they see them violating COVID mandates.
Olson raised his hands to prevent the irate man from entering the club, at which point Florhaug produced his firearm.
All jokes aside, it's pretty disturbing to think of what could have happened had Olson not acted quickly. For his part, he "thought Florhaug was going to shoot members who didn't have masks on."
Florhaug, however, says he merely "flashed the gun" which is of course what totally sane and sensible people do when they're upset about something and not at all criminally violent, right?
"[While] we definitely recommend that people call the police and try not to take matters in their own hands, it appears that the manager didn't really have a choice. He felt like people's lives were at risk. … He did a great job," Maplewood Police Sgt. Joe Steiner said, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
I don't necessarily agree with calling the police as your best first option. When seconds count, police are usually minutes away if not longer due to defunding efforts. This ironically, is why Americans should take their Second Amendment rights seriously.
Of course, it's important to note that being triggered by people in a gym who aren't wearing a scrap of fabric over their face like Dear Leader Walz tells you to is not actually considered a justifiable means of deploying a firearm, as this dude just learned the hard way.
Fortunately for this goof, Mike Olson wasn't himself armed with a gun. I doubt that Olson would have just "flashed" Florhaug back.
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Un gremlin es una criatura mitológica de naturaleza malévola, popular en la tradición de países de habla inglesa y surgida probablemente a comienzos del siglo XV.

La historia popular describe a los gremlins como capaces de sabotear todo tipo de maquinaria. Esta percepción de las criaturas dio origen, por ejemplo, a que los pilotos ingleses de la Royal Air Force (RAF) de servicio en Oriente Medio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial narraran un cuento que intentaba atribuir los accidentes frecuentes que sucedían en sus vuelos a la acción de estos seres fantásticos. Se comentaba que debido a que los gremlins eran animales que destruían todo, su existencia podía explicar las caídas de aviones, sin necesidad de que fuesen atacados. Aludiendo a la misma historia, pero con signo exactamente inverso, también se utilizó como mascota para traer buena suerte a la tripulación de la fuerza aérea en sus misiones sobre Alemania.

Existen narraciones de gremlins que son previas a la segunda guerra y algunas datan, por ejemplo, de los años 1920, tras la Primera Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, se atribuye al autor Roald Dahl, quien estuvo en la RAF en el Oriente Medio durante la guerra, la popularización del gremlin, al haber escrito sobre estas criaturas en su primer libro infantil, titulado precisamente Los gremlins (1943), y que fue publicado por Walt Disney Productions.

Por otra parte, las películas Gremlins (1984) y Gremlins 2 (1990), ambas dirigidas por Joe Dante, muestran otra versión de unas criaturas malévolas.

Además, han tenido apariciones en caricaturas de la compañía Warner Bros., como en los cortos animados de Merrie Melodies: "Falling Hare" (1943), con Bugs Bunny de protagonista, o "Russian Rhapsody" (1944), y en la película The Twilight Zone, también de la misma compañía, la cual presenta una criatura más aterradora y letal.

Otros usos
Por extensión, el término gremlin se ha incorporado, asimismo, a la jerga de otras esferas.

Fórmula 1
En la jerga de la Fórmula 1, el término gremlin se refiere a los problemas que surgen en algunos de los componentes de los monoplazas, tanto mecánicos como electrónicos, como son el motor, los neumáticos o las cajas de cambios.

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En el mundo editorial, las editoriales e imprentas y los correctores de textos utilizan el término sobre todo para referirse a aquellas faltas de ortografía, de gramática, o errores tipográficos y similares que aparecen en un texto publicado, aun después de haberlo repasado en varias ocasiones antes de su publicación. Se supone que dichos gremlins aparecen en el camino entre el corrector de textos y la imprenta.

Se trata de otra versión del demonio medieval Titivillus, que era la excusa que sistemáticamente aducían los monjes de los scriptoria cuando el revisor advertía cualquier error en la copia de los manuscritos o, más tarde, la que los cajistas esgrimían ante las quejas de los correctores en la imprenta.

Véase también
Blooper
Gazapo (error)

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The GLCM squad got an early start today for their last full day in Cape Town, rolling out of the Westin Hotel at 4:30 am for a brisk, early morning hike. The team set out to conquer Lion's Head Mountain, a 4.5 mile round trip hike, and take in the awesome sunrise 2,195 more feet atop this beautiful city. After 45 minutes of climbing along rugged trails, we found ourselves looking out upon some of the most breath taking views we'll ever see in our lifetimes. The group was weary and our muscles screamed, but not so much as to render us unable to muster up several hundred selfies, videos, new profile pictures, flawless renditions of Shakira's Waka Waka, and definitely more than a few smiles.
After returning back to the hotel and eating breakfast, the GLCM crew set out to continue our South African construction education at PRDW's South African headquarters in Cape Town where we were met by our gracious host: Engineer Ryan Abrey. PRDW is a firm of consulting port and coastal engineers that specializes in conducting feasibility studies and carrying out designs for structures along ports and coastal regions. This includes performing site investigations; simulations; building models; and devising systems for dredging, land reclamation, sea walls, and breakwaters. Ryan informed us of the incredible precision, accuracy, and foresight required for these systems. PRDW undertook one project that utilized 7-ton Core-Loc units and 30-ton Block Well units that needed to be placed underwater ever so carefully, with several divers conducting surveying and placement of the interlocking units underwater, so the system would distribute the energy and flow from waves as intended. This particular project involved constructing a breakwater that was 100 feet deep in places, spanned nearly 2 miles, and has a design life of 100 years. The entire project costs hundreds of millions of US dollars and took 8 years to design and construct. Needless to say, as a group from the University of Illinois, over 600 miles from the nearest ocean, these projects were absolutely mind-boggling to us. Ryan went on to share with us his personal experiences as an engineer working on project sites throughout Africa, including his work at the Konkola North Copper Mine in Zambia. It was nothing short of fantastic to discuss with Ryan the similarities and differences in construction management practices between the United States and Africa.
After thanking Ryan for his hospitality, we proceeded to trek up the western coast of Africa to Saldanha Bay to visit PRDW's General Maintenance Quay Upgrade job-site. The GLCM crew was granted access to tour the job-site after completing extensive safety and security protocols that included receiving access permits, camera permits, passing a Breathalyzer test, and finishing a safety orientation.
We were then introduced to the Resident Engineer for PRDW on site: Leon, who gave us background on the project and showed us around the site. The project involves building a quay wall for the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) that will allow larger tankers, transporting greater amounts of material, to dock in the Port of Saldanha Bay.
PRDW is acting as the consultant to TNPA for this project, and the general contractor on site is Basil Read. Leon shared with us some of the challenges on this project and walked us through the process of building this quay wall. First they embed large piles 16 feet into the seafloor, and as deep as 52 feet from sea level, to create the quay wall. Then the construction team sets concrete blocks underground, behind the current embankment, and connects the blocks to the quay wall via thick tie rods. Finally soil is loaded into the ocean, displacing the water and creating the new embankment.
This project currently has approximately 150 workers on site, and is slated to be completed on May 11 of this year, with nearly $7,000 in penalties for every day the project is late.
Upon returning to Cape Town, the GLCM crew ventured to a delicious pizzeria called ColíCacchio for dinner, and savored their final full day in the city. Johannesburg certainly has a tough act to follow, but we're incredibly excited to continue onto the final leg of our South African adventure. Thank you to PRDW for hosting us today, as well as everyone else who's helped make our stay in Cape Town so great over the past week, and a special thank you to our jack of all trades tour guide/driver Brian Cookson for helping us receive a true Cape Town experience. Johannesburg here we come!


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The unprecedented dual choice was revealed at the end of Sunday's special edition of the paper's FX show "The Weekly."
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It sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, but according to Venezuelan government officials, recently deceased President Hugo Chávez could have been purposefully infected with cancer—and the world's best scientists will investigate the potential poisoning. "We have this intuition that our commander Chávez was poisoned by dark forces that wanted to be rid of him," President Nicolás Maduro said in an interview. He explained that the U.S. had labs creating cancer in the '40s and '50s, and thinks they could have advanced—though stressed he wasn't blaming America. "An assertion that the United States was somehow involved in causing President Chávez's illness is absurd, and we definitively reject it," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell last week.
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Island Photo and Camera and the Coastal Discovery Museum will offer a children's photo walk from 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 2 at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn. Children ages 9 to 14 are invited to attend with their parents or grandparents (one adult per child required). Participants will attend a 40-minute, indoor class with professional photographer Jerry Griffin, followed by an outdoor, hands-on field trip around Honey Horn. Participants should bring their own digital cameras. Cost is $25. Snacks will be available. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 843-689-6767, extension 223. Class size is limited to 25 children.


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Zach Johnson was a sports fanatic at an early age playing basketball, baseball and football. The 32-year old took up golf at age ten developing his game at the Elmcrest Country Club in Cedar Rapids. He was on the high school golf team and even participated in an Iowa 3A championship in 1992. Johnson went to the Drake University in Des Moines and was #2 on the golf team. During the time that he was in the team, they won three NCAA regional meets and two Missouri Valley Championships.
He turned professional in 1998 first playing in Prairie Golf Tour, the Nationwide Tour and the Hooters Tour. He was the highest paid golfer on the 2003 Nationwide Tour with record earnings of $494, 882. He won the BellSouth Classic in 2004 in a 1 stroke win over Mark Hensby. In 2007, he won two major PGA Tour Championships, the first a major win over Tiger Woods, Rory Sabbatini and Retief Goosen in the Masters Tournament. This pulled his ranking from #56 to #15. He also earned the AT&T Classic the same year with a birdie over the first hole defeating Ryuji Imada.
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Zach Johnson is the first player in the history of the PGA to go over the $400,000 mark in earnings. He also led the Tour's records with a scoring average of 68.97. He opened 2008 with a T9 finish in the World Golf Championships-Ca Championship and T20 finishes in the Mercedes Benz Championship and the Masters Tournament. He averaged T25 in the Wachovia Championship and T30 in the Honda Classic. In 2009, Johnson was successful in winning the Sony Open in Hawaii as well as defending his title by winning the Valero Texas Open that same year. Armed with more successful runs, Johnson ended on fourth place of the money list. His 2010 season got up to a rather slow start but he was able to win at the Crown Plaza Invitational at Colonial before the year ended. The victory marked his 7th PGA Tour win.
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SmartCan Gen2, Universal O-Level Aircraft Armament Tester for Smart & Legacy Weapons Systems | Marvin Test Solutions, Inc.
The MTS-3060A SmartCan™ Gen2 builds on the features and capabilities of the MTS-3060 SmartCan™, offering advanced flightline test capabilities for suspension and Alternate Mission Equipment (AME) including pylons, launchers, bomb racks, and pods. A high-performance, hand-held device with a shape of a "beercan", the MTS-3060A offers advanced flightline test capabilities as well as providing test capabilities associated with traditional "beercan" test sets. The state-of-the-art MTS-3060A SmartCan Gen2 is unlike any other Beercan tester and provides measurement, loading and stimuli functions that are typically associated with large O-Level testers such as the SERD-75501 and the A/E241-199. With multiple measurement channels, dedicated and continuous squib circuit monitoring, multiple load channels, audio and video simulation, and MIL-STD-1760 support, the MTS-3060A can support any platform and any "smart" and legacy armament system, without updating the OFP.
The MTS-3060A SmartCan Gen2 delivers advanced flightline test capabilities and is an ideal O-Level tester for AME and other aircraft systems as well as providing comprehensive test capabilities for both legacy and 5th generation platforms. The MTS-3060 and MTS-3060A are deployed in 10 countries on multiple platforms and the MTS-3060 is in use by the U.S. Air Force as a smart weapon simulator for JDAM and AMRAAM.
While providing advanced capabilities to support new and complex weapons systems, the MTS-3060A maintains full compatibility with legacy Beercan testers such as the SERD-75060 and A/E241-199, preserving the substantial investment in cables and adapters associated with both of these testers. New adapters and cables that offer a substantial cost reduction and improved reliability provide a path forward once the current legacy adapters and cables require repair or replacement.
The MTS-3060A SmartCan Gen2 can generate audio and video signals required to simulate missile functions when testing AGM-65 and AIM-9 systems, providing a more robust test. Three channels of audio and one channel of video can be simultaneously generated.
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The MTS-3060A SmartCan Gen2 contains a Built-In-Test (BIT) that provides verification of major circuits. A comprehensive Self-Test verifies the MTS-3060's performance including the cables and adapters using a self-test adapter. BIT and Self-Test can be performed at the flight line or at the back shop, no special external test equipment is required other than the self-test adapter.
The MTS-3060A SmartCan™ Gen2 employs an innovative calibration technique that further simplifies maintenance and reduces scheduled maintenance down-time and associated logistics. Multiple NIST-traceable, high-precision references have been incorporated into the design of the SmartCan Gen2, and the MTS-3060A verifies its calibration status against these references every time the self-test is performed. In the event the MTS-3060A is out of calibration, the test set initiates an automated calibration procedure that calibrates the MTS-3060A's measurement and stimuli circuits against the built-in references. The references have to be checked once every 4 years using standard PMEL equipment that can be brought to the field and does not require removal of the test set to the depot or the PMEL facility.
The rugged construction of the MTS-3060A SmartCan Gen2 facilitates field operation anywhere in the world. The MTS-3060A's ability to operate in adverse weather conditions makes it the ultimate tool for testing. Additional protection has been included in the MTS-3060A to minimize equipment damage if the SmartCan is dropped by the user. The MTS-3060A is ergonomically designed for ease of use and will not roll when placed on angled surfaces.
While the MTS-3060A supports legacy SERD 75060 and A/E241-199 adapters, the MTS-3060A can also be provided with new adapters and cables that are more reliable and cost-effective. The design of the MTS-3060A SmartCan Gen2 "relocates" the majority of switching and loads into the SmartCan Gen2, resulting in a streamlined and simplified adapter design for increased reliability.
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Goodyers End Primary judged 'good' by Ofsted
STAFF, pupils and governors at Goodyers End Primary school are celebrating after Ofsted inspectors judged their school to be 'good' in all categories.
Ruth Ison, chair of the governors at the school in Bowling Green Lane, Bedworth, said: "I am convinced that this outcome is a direct result of the hard work, determination, teamwork and commitment of the management team, the teachers, support staff, governors, children and their families alike, and I congratulate everyone on the part they have played in the achievement of this outcome."
Pupils were judged to be learning well and making good progress, and feel safe and happy at school.
Headteacher Rose Daniels said: "I am extremely proud of what the whole team has achieved. Everyone has worked together to create this happy, successful school community."
The areas identified in the school's report for further development are already part of its development plan. The school now has its sights set on an 'outstanding' report.


So far when I am able to do sales calls, I have a great time. I love nothing more than talking about books with other book lovers. And Penguin publishes some great stuff. I'm reading more variety than I normally would so I can confidently talk about the titles to buyers. All in all I'm digging this new job, no pun intended.
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Can anyone tell me if this is something ducks do instinctively? Facing into the wind suggests a desire or need to reduce wind resistance, but considering there are plenty of places on Hemlington Lake in Middlesbrough, that they could shelter, why not make use of them rather than facing into the wind?
I suppose they might just not want their feathers ruffled – due to a sense of style?!
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The student led anti-smoking organization "Just Eliminate Lies" (JEL) held a rally today as part of their annual summit to celebrate the state's new anti-smoking law. JEL members gathered in downtown Des Moines for a rally to celebrate the new law that takes effect July 1st and will ban smoking in most restaurants and bars.
The students in JEL also visited restaurants in downtown Des Moines to deliver flowers and cards saying "Congratulations on going smoke free." Outgoing JEL president, Melissa Nelson of Sioux City, says the law is the culmination of a lot of hard work.
JEL does a variety of smoking prevention activities that're funded in part by the state tobacco settlement money. Nelson say a big part of what they have done is pounding the pavement and talking to legislators and writing letters to the editor and doing marketing to show how important the smoking ban is to the health of all Iowans.
Nelson says implementation of the smoking ban does not mean the group's work is over. "There's so much more that we're going to be doing, big tobacco is still out there you know, targeting youth, targeting other people," Nelson says. She says one of their main goals is to help people understand and follow the law so they don't break it.
Nelson says they will also be working on stopping the tobacco companies sponsorship of family events, and their point of sale marketing efforts. During the rally, the group recognized state legislators who supported the law and saw it through to passage
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The Helix Phaser has finally landed and it's ready to take your tone to new inspiring heights with all the massive mind-bending swooshes and swirly goodness you could possibly desire. But be warned! Once you turn this pedal on, you may never want to turn it off again.
The original Shin-Ei Uni-Vibe is a highly unique, complex and gorgeous-sounding analog unit, so when we set out to recreate it digitally we knew it wasn't going to be easy. Through countless hours of meticulous side-by- side testing with the real thing and by pushing the insanely powerful DSP to its very limits, TC have been able to recreate this legendary effect to a tee. You'll get all the lush, syrupy vibe tones heard on countless tracks by Pink Floyd, Robin Trower and Jimi Hendrix.
Our new K210 bass cabinet doesn't just look the part, it also sounds it. Behind the awesome vintage- vibed exterior you'll find two custom-made 10" drivers and a 1" ceramic tweeter that are sure to bring all the punch, clarity and low-end roar you could ever want for your bass tone. With an 8 Ohm impedance, 400W power handling and a weight of only 20 kg/44 lbs, this cabinet is truly built with the modern bass player in mind.
The new K212 bass cabinet doesn't just look the part, it also sounds it. Behind the elegant tolex exterior you'll find two brilliant custom-made 12" drivers and a 1" ceramic tweeter that are sure to bring your tone to life with a quick and punchy response, crisp clarity and commanding low-end. Combine that with 8 Ohm impedance, 400W power handling and a weight of only 23 kg/50 lbs and you have a cab that's ready to rule every stage around the world!
Our new K410 bass cabinet doesn't just look the part, it also sounds it.
So if you're looking for massive amounts of low-end power and impeccable tone, K410's four custom-made 10" drivers and 1" ceramic tweeter are sure to deliver. The K410 is an 8 Ohm, 600W cabinet which ensures a loud and tight response on its own, but pair it with another K410 or one of the other K-series cabs you'll achieve an even richer and deeper tone, for a world of sonic options.


Dan Phillips plays in True Widow, but his true passion is woodworking.
True Widow has garnered international acclaim for their glacially paced drum section, haunting, reverb-soaked vocals and shoegazey brand of stoner rock. But behind the smoke and mirrors is guitarist Dan Phillips, a pivotal force in the three-piece's wall of sound, who actually only moonlights as a musician.
"The band is something we just do for fun," says Phillips with a little laugh, referring to himself along with bassist Nicole Estill and drummer Slim TX. That's because Phillips' true passion is the fine art of furniture making.
Dan has a friendly demeanor, is clean-shaven and wears a button-up that covers most of his tattoos. As he sits in front of his workbench filled with century-old woodworking tools, the casual observer might be hard pressed to guess that "D.H. Phillips" is also the guitarist in a sludge band. But woodworking is something Phillips was fascinated with even as a kid who loved problem-solving and building things.
A dresser and chair that Phillips built in his workshop.
"There was this artist H.C. Westerman that made dovetail boxes and I really wanted to know how to do that," Phillips explains about his earlier influences. Another influence was his father Harvey, both an architect and a carpenter, who taught him how to be handy at a young age. "We would go to houses to do cabinet work, but I always preferred being at the shop."
In 2005, Phillips enrolled at The North Bennet Street School in Boston to study in the Cabinet and Furniture Making program. "I chose that school because they taught traditional woodworking and how to make 18th-century furniture," he explains. When he got back to Dallas in 2007, with that experience and formal education under his belt, Phillips started working on his own commissioned pieces.
Like with any independent contractor, business was slow at first, but Dan always had faith and never stressed about it. "My personal history has shown me that things just have a way of happening," he reveals. Since then he's had steady work handcrafting his unique designs, and depending on the scale of the project each piece could take a month or two after drafting to complete.
In terms of quality, the furniture Phillips builds feels like it could belong in a collection from some high-end European catalog, but it all has a very classic, timeless look as well. He admits to borrowing stylistic elements from Danish mid-century, Federal Period and Art Deco furniture. "The way I make furniture is like a big puzzle that has to go together in a certain sequence," he points out. "And there are no screws holding anything together. It's all joints." With his traditional discipline, Phillips builds furniture that is not only aesthetically pleasing but also built to last.
Behind Phillips' solid-wood workbench in their own unique bins are an assortment of mostly antique tools like Stanley planes, chisels and dovetail saws. In his trade, the respect for a sturdy, late-1800s tool that could easily be tuned up is just as important as its history. One particular bundle of molding planes Phillips acquired from someone's grandfather who worked fitting-out captain's quarters on ships in Maine during the early 1900s.
"I like working with old tools and knowing that someone before me used them. I feel like it's just my turn with these tools," Phillips admits. "I hope people keep using all of this stuff to keep making things after me." Some of the tools Dan needs, however, are still being produced on a small scale, so he does have newer planes and saws in his inventory as well.
"I want to be able to make nice things for people on any realistic budget," Phillips insists. He says that someone may be in love with his designs but too afraid to inquire about the price tag. His past commissioned designs can be seen online, but don't expect to be able to find his work in a furniture gallery. Each piece is handcrafted to suit the specific needs of each client.
Besides his woodwork, Phillips also balances family life, band practice and painting in his busy schedule. For those interested in his art, which can also be seen gracing the cover of True Widow's sophomore album, his next show will be sometime in March at The Webb Gallery in Waxahachie alongside Austin artist Rich Cali. Otherwise, visit Dan's website at www.dhphillips.com or his Instagram at instagram.com/dhphillips to peruse his portfolio of furniture and art while you wait for the new True Widow album to drop.


Hi Martin, just wanted to say huge thanks for the amazing service we received on Saturday. I had an Irish/London group and John was brilliant. So much so they want to make it an annual thing…….. Again many thanks it made the whole weekend really special.
Many thanks for providing an excellent coach service for our trip today to Liverpool. The coach was on time and well driven by a helpful and considerate driver – we could not ask for more. I gave the driver the money and thanks for the invoice. I have put you on our list of approved suppliers and look forward to being in touch in the future when we organise another trip.
Thanks a lot for taking us to and from airport. Great service and nice mini buses.


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The 'Alexia' Planter was hand made by Cat in her studio in Wales. She is finished in textured and raw charcoal clay, and her inside is glazed in a shiny clear glaze. Alexia is no one trick plant-storing pony, she is also perfect for storing trinkets, nibbles, candles etc... Each of Cat's pieces are made entirely by hand, and without a potter's wheel or moulds. The 'Alexia' planter was fired using a kiln powered by 100% eco friendly green energy.
*Please note that as each item is handmade without moulds, there may be slight variation in exact size and shape.
Matt black with textured white dash pattern.
Hand crafted in the UK using 100% eco friendly energy.
All pieces are made from superior quality stoneware clay and high fired to stoneware temperatures. This means they are strong, durable and built to last lifetimes. Hand wash.


We blew it. Except we didn't know we were blowing it.
Here's the story – we put the nestbox in with our doe. We waited. She pulled fur and had one baby. All evidence pointed to the fact that this was a singleton litter and our temperatures are still below freezing many nights, so we fostered the little loner in with another litter to better its odds of survival, then removed the nestbox from mama.
And walked out the next morning to six more babies on the wire of mama's cage, frozen solid.
All of our rabbit husbandry experience has taught us that rabbits give birth within a span of about 15 minutes. But in this case, I can say absolutely without question, that there was at least a 36 hour break between that first little bunny being born and the other six!
I don't know how often this is, and without having personally experienced it we would have pooh-poohed the possibility of rabbits giving birth at different spaces. However, it does make me wonder about the few times we have counted babies, then a week later discovered our count was wrong and there is another baby in the box. Did the mama have another while we weren't looking?
The only explanation I can figure for this behavior is if both of the uterine horns were impregnated. Since we occasionally leave our rabbits in with the bucks overnight (in the winter they typically don't want to breed immediately so we've found making them roommates for a time works better) perhaps the doe was impregnated in different uterine horns, hours apart, and that caused a different delivery schedule?
Who knows, but I was shocked enough I felt it was worth noting on the blog that it can happen.
And we're so bummed about the babies who didn't make it because we blew it.


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Fiona Glascott Married Tom Brooke and Has a Child!
Fiona Glascott
Waterford, Ireland
Tom Brooke
All you Harry Potter fans out there surely know Fiona Glascott for playing the role of the legendary Harry Potter character, Minerva McGonagall, the head of the Gryffindor House in Crimes of Grindelwald.
But is that all there is to Fiona? Definitely not! This Irish actress has appeared in so many movies that are hard to keep track of. Her fans are eager to know more about her earnings and her personal life. So, today we are going to answer all your questions. Let's jump right in!
Blissfully Wedded
Motherhood Changed Her Life
Was a Potterhead Before Acting in Fantastic Beasts
Interesting Trivia About Fiona Glascott
Fiona Glascott is married to actor Tom Brooke. Tom who's an actor from England and Glascott walked down the aisle on New Year's Eve of 2014. The marriage became a huge celebration as they celebrated both New Year's Eve and their special day. Both of them were friends for a long time before their marriage.
They first met in London in 2011 during a theatre production which also aired on Television. The Ireland-born actress later moved to London which was a great opportunity for both of them to get closer.
Fiona Glascott with husband Tom Brooke during the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: Crime of Grindelwald.
The 36-year-old actress said that she smiled every time she laid her eyes on Tom and used to think about him all the time. Brooke asked her out one day after the job and that is when their life turned around.
That day Tom planned a picnic and brought out some candles in as London became darker. They drank some champagne and had some food. Fiona recently recalled that it was the night they became really closer and the two have been together ever since.
Fiona Glascott made her movie debut in 1998 and now has more than 50 acting credits under her belt. (Source: IMDB)
After a few years of friendship, they started dating and when Brooke proposed Fiona, she just could not say no. They exchanged vows in a private ceremony where only the closest of friends and family were invited.
Their bundle of joy, Ruby Brooke came into this world after a year of marriage. Glascott said that giving birth was a huge risk with their careers. Furthermore, she added that having a husband who is also an actor was really a big help at the time.
The Brooklyn hitmaker said that having a daughter changed her life. From focusing on her goals to doing more in life, her daughter inspired her to succeed more and work harder than ever. She wants to become the role model for her children and also wants her daughter to be proud of her mother.
Like any other great actor, Fiona started in theatre. After making her movie debut in 1998, she went on to play some notable roles. Her most notable role and the biggest break ever in her career came with the role of Professor McGonagall in Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald alongside notable actors like Jhonny Depp, Eddie Redmayne, Zoe Kravitz, Katherine Waterston and many more.
Fiona Glascott appears in Fantastic Beasts: Crime of Grindelwald as Minerva McGonagall. (Source: People)
Being a huge Harry Potter fan, she did not even think twice about taking on the role. Plus she did not even audition for the role which shows that her acting is wholly on another level.
Randall & Aubin in Soho, London is Fiona's favorite restaurant.
Fiona Glascott's favorite place to live in is London.
Her favorite actor is also her husband, Tom Brooke.
Horror is her favorite movie genre.
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I have fond memories of Stresa. I was 13 and it was the first stop on my first trip abroad. Beautiful.
Usually some form of chocolate.
My favorite is to mix the chocolate and fruit. Strawberry or wild berry. So good!


Home > Entertain Us > How to select the perfect jeans | Care manual 411!
To find a perfect pair of jeans that glorifies your body type, you first need to find the right fit. All jeans are not created equal so make sure to pick a size that truly fits – when trying on jeans don't let going up a size or down a size scare you.
You're now ready to select your style. Take the time to evaluate your body type and assess what will praise your body frame to show your best assets. Balance and proportion is key to making your body look good in anything you wear.
2. Unwashed jeans (ie. True Religion): Left unwashed, the indigo dye in the denim fades in areas of stress. Raw denim enthusiasts will wear their denim jeans for as long as possible before the first wash. Some will go as far as using air fresheners to reduce odours!
Note: Shrinkage will be a concern for raw jeans up to at least the third wash and each jean brand will shrink to a different degree.
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You choose! Highland Perthshire is rightly world famous for things to do and places to see at all times of the year. Having been visiting the area for more years than they care to remember, Adrian and Sheila know that there's never enough time to see it all in Perthshire!
From historic sites to distinctly 21st century visitor attractions and sporting opportunities there are activities for all the family. Golfers will relax on friendly local 'nine holers' or take up the challenge of the area's championship courses. It's a fisherman's dream too with world class salmon fishing on the River Tay or brown trout in the hill lochs. Other sports available include rafting canoeing, clay pigeon shooting, off-roading, or simply a quiet stroll or bike ride.
With the historic town of Dunkeld and the A9 about 4 miles away, this is the ideal base for touring Scotland although with Scone Palace, Pitlochry, Blair Castle and Perth all within easy reach it won't be necessary to go far!
Loch Tay - The 6th largest loch in Scotland, Loch Tay stretches 15 miles between the villages of Killin and Kenmore.
The Loch of the Lowes - Large freshwater loch with a diverse aquatic flora. A famous pair of breeding ospreys nest close to the observation hides.
Distillery Tours - Enjoy our local distilleries: Famous Grouse at Glenturret Distillery, Edradour, Dewar's Aberfeldy Distillery and Bell's Blair Athol Distillery.
Killiecrankie - The Pass of Killiecrankie is a magnificent wooded gorge with the River Garry flowing along its base.
Queen's View Loch Tummel - Queen's View lies at the heart of Highland Perthshire, and it's the area's most popular visitor attraction.
Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve - An iconic mountain in a beautiful location.
Highland Safaris - Winner of the 'Best Visitor Experience in Scotland'.
Blair Castle - Ancient seat of the Dukes and Earls of Atholl.
Beatrix Potter's Garden - visit Mrs Tiggy Winkle in her house, Jeremy fishing, Mr. Fox and the shed where he lured silly Jemima Puddle Duck to lay her eggs.
Highland Perthshire Tourist Information - Discover an area famed for dramatic mountains, glens and lochs, ancient castles, unspoilt nature, distinctive cultural venues and exciting events.
Strathbraan, The Secret Strath - Amulree, Strathbraan and Glen Quaich lie within a golden triangle, between Dunkeld, Aberfeldy and the Sma Glen. Peaceful, secluded, and off the beaten path, but only minutes from the A9.
If you'd like to find out more about something that you're particularly interested in seeing or doing let Adrian or Sheila know (click here to email us). They may be able to help - or find someone that can! If you can let us know in advance, we can try and have the information ready for when you arrive.


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AG warns maker on hepatitis drug costs
By Robert Weisman Globe Staff,January 27, 2016, 8:28 a.m.
Gilead Sciences Inc. is based in Foster City, Calif.(AP/file 2015)
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, opening a new front in the push to boost access to life-saving drugs, has warned the country's biggest biotech company that it faces possible legal action unless it lowers the price of two popular hepatitis C medicines.
In a letter to Gilead Sciences Inc., made public Wednesday, the attorney general wrote that the high price of the company's Sovaldi drug, $84,000 for a full 12-week course of treatment, and its Harvoni regimen, at $94,500, "may constitute an unfair trade practice in violation of Massachusetts law" because they are too expensive for many patients.
Healey's letter said her office was looking into bringing a complaint against the Foster City, Calif., company. While other state attorneys general have sued drug makers to seek larger Medicaid rebates or discounts, her office is believed to be the first to consider using a state consumer protection law to charge a company with overpricing its products.
Gilead spokeswoman Amy Flood said the company has received Healey's letter and requested a meeting to discuss the issues it raises.
"We look forward to working with [Healey's] office to address questions and concerns and ensure a mutual understanding of the work we are doing to deliver a cure for hepatitis C to as many patients as possible in Massachusetts and around the world," she said in a statement.
In an interview, Healey said that her letter targets Gilead because it is the dominant seller of hepatitis C drugs and because they treat a low-income population heavily insured by state agencies. Infection rates for hepatitis C, a liver-ravaging virus, are believed to have increased in recent years because the national heroin epidemic has led to more exposure through needle sharing.
The attorney general said she also wanted to open a broader discussion about the responsibility of drug makers to ensure access to their products, as well as about the impact of rising drug prices on health care spending.
"This drug is priced in a way that puts it out of reach of people who need it," Healey said after addressing a breakfast meeting of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, which represents the state's drug makers. "Look, companies are entitled to recover for their costs and are entitled to reap profits. But we need to make sure these drugs are available to people."
MassBio president Robert Coughlin said his organization has formed a working group with representatives of health insurers and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, a Boston-based watchdog group, to advise public officials on new ways to price prescription drugs. He said the current model of paying to manage chronic diseases is outdated, and new health care payment models should recognize the long-term cost savings of therapies like those for hepatitis C, which prevent costly liver transplants and hospitalization.
In other words, the industry argues, expensive drugs save money by curing costly diseases.
"Here in Massachusetts, we're inventing cures,'' Coughlin said. "We need to track for costs that are avoided because of new therapies."
Gilead's treatments have cured more than 95 percent of the hundreds of thousands of hepatitis C patients who have taken the drug. But fewer than 10 percent of the estimated 2.7 million to 3.9 million Americans infected by the virus have been treated.
The drugs' high price tags have placed a burden on state agencies across the nation that pay for care of a large share of patients suffering from the virus. That includes prisons and state Medicaid programs, which collectively spent $1.3 billion on Sovaldi alone in 2014.
In Massachusetts, the Medicaid program, known as MassHealth, and the managed care plans it contracts with paid about $160 million in the fiscal year ended in June for thousands of members who took hepititis C drugs, according to the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Commercial insurers in the state have also paid more than $100 million over the past two years.
"Because Gilead's drugs offer a cure for the serious and life-threatening infectious disease, pricing the treatment in a manner that effectively allows [hepatitis C] to continue spreading through vulnerable populations, as opposed to eradicating the disease altogether, results in massive public harm," Healey wrote in her letter to Gilead.
Govenor Charlie Baker, who had promised to "jawbone" Gilead to reduce its prices last year, conceded Wednesday that those efforts had failed. He said Healey's letter appeared to make a "compelling case" and said he would reach out to see if his administration could help.
"There are very few people who have had luck to date in jawboning [Gilead]," Baker said at a State House press conference to discuss the state's budget. The governor is proposing a 5 percent increase, to $15.4 billion, next year in the state's budget for MassHealth.
Some critics saw a political motivation in Healey's action as a national backlash against rising drug prices — fueled in part by Democratic presidential candidates — intensifies.
Healey's letter is "part of Democrats' political efforts to make drug pricing a political issue in 2016," suggested Terry Haines, managing director and head of political analysis at the New York investment firm Evercore ISI. He said the letter is also "a silent attempt to get other state AGs on a bandwagon that she would lead to build pressure on Gilead and by extension other drug manufacturers to drop prices using state unfair trade practices law and other laws."
Lora Pellegrini, president of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, a trade group for health insurers, said she welcomed Healey's action. Prescription drugs, Pellegrini said, account for about 16 percent of the state's total health care spending and are a particular burden for insurers.
"This is an important moment," Pellegrini said. "Sovaldi is the tip of the iceberg. The attorney general is sending a strong message to the entire pharmaceutical industry: There's no blank check."
Gilead shares fell 2.8 percent to $89.63, on a day when many biotech stocks were down.
Healey said an unfair business practice complaint against Gilead would be warranted under the state consumer protection law if her lawyers concluded the company had priced its drugs to boost profits even if some patients couldn't afford the drugs.
A recently published investigation by the US Senate Finance Committee found that Gilead "pursued an aggressive pricing strategy aimed at maximizing revenue — not fostering access" to all patients needing the drug, Healey's letter said.
It said Gilead had revenue of $20.6 billion from the drugs, after rebates to insurers, in the first 21 months after they went on the market.
Robert Weisman can be reached at robert.weisman@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeRobW.


No doubt that as with any surreal, subjective creation, Angel Duque has a need for expression that moves him over the years to paint non-stop, using a figurative technique, invented by vanguard painters years ago, in order to cultivate a voluntary introspection regarding painting resulting in amalgamated spaces, indistinguishable, which result in figurative images that are a product of his need for expression, worries and obsessions. Solitary figures waiting to be helped, anthropomorphic silhouettes or only separate volumes accompanied by zoomorphic figures that try to bring forth some kind of order in brilliant constellations, claustrophobic ambiances, communicating among themselves, relating to each other and provoking the spectator.
The skilled technique used to paint brings forth all that was forgotten in the recesses of the mind. Abstraction with incredible colors, bold artistic dares, stylized figures that take leave of the real world and become involved in the recesses of consciousness, avoiding stasis and bringing forth an internal dialogue. Duque positions himself, rightfully so, on the verge of classical traditions and artistic trends in style at the turn of the century.
Those impossible backgrounds with disturbing figures reveal a dramatic story that the author did not intend to tell, transforming the world and reality. His style shows the inherent poetry of each tragedy suffered by the world's inhabitants, full of horror and injustice but, alto, organized by a superior ruling consciousness. The trick, typical of the creator, through which we can be conscious of our banishment from Paradise, but also of our only salvation: Art and its enjoyment in life. Thus, the sometimes horrified and others in awe, the observer must take a stand or fall forever into senselessness and, thus, abandon his trip. His work is to build reality, orient it and give it a new, worthy, sense.
No doubt his love of art and passion for painting will never be accommodating and restful. He does not conform with what he has already done. The final explanation of Angel Duque's paintings is "Myself and what you understand". Let us open our understanding and join, for a moment, a restless and curious mind.


Spencer Locke (born September 20, 1991) is an American actress who recently appeared in a guest role on ABC's Love Bites. She's had various appearances as "Kylie" on ABC's Cougar Town. She also has appeared as 'Amber Bradley' on The Vampire Diaries.
Spencer is famous for her long lush blonde strands that feature graduated hues from the roots down to the ends.
Her base color is a buttery blonde which is highlighted and low lighted with complementary hues. Historically Spencer parts her hair down the middle and her very long tresses have loose beachy waves interwoven throughout the edges.
1. Cleanse hair in lukewarm water with a product designed for your hair type, texture, length and current condition. If your hair is chemically treated, colored highlighted or low-lighted you may wish to deploy a moisture enhancing cleansing formula such as Diluted Shampoo (DS), Low Poo, Conditioner Only (CO), No Poo, Water Only (WO) or a combination.
2. After cleansing, rinse hair well, and apply a rinse-out conditioner from the ears from the down to ends of the hair. Once rinse-out conditioner is applied detangle hair in the shower using fingers or a wide tooth comb.
3. Rinse out leave-in conditioner and then finish with a cool or cold water rinse.
4. Towel blot with a hair friendly towel.
5. Apply leave-in styling cocktail including, but not limited to, a leave-in conditioner, defrisant and a mousse or wave enhancing product.
6. Separate hair into 8-10 horizontal sections.
7. Work on only one section at a time.
8. Blow dry hair with a round boar bristle brush to encourage wave enhanced strands. Use a long finger diffuser to amp up natural waves or soften natural curls into wave.
9. After hair is dry, part hair down the side with a long tail comb.
10. Use a 1 1/2-inch hot curling iron and curl individual 2″ sections of hair away from your face starting about 1/4 of the length off the roots so. Alternate the direction the curls are created.
11. Once each section is hot ironed roll the newly created curls loosely around your fingers into a loose barrel style curl and pin it to your scalp to cool and set. Work around the rest of the head curling and pinning all the sections.
12. After hair is curled and pinned to the scalp, spritz all of the invisible pinned sections with a light hold hairspray.
13. Once hair has completely cooled and set, unpin each curled section.
14. Bend over at waist and gently shake. Use fingers to pick and fluff. Don't brush hair unless you wish to deconstruct the curls into looser waves. If you decide to brush use a boar bristle paddle style brush.
15. If you wish you can apply 1-2 drops of shine serum into the palms of your hands and massage them together. Lightly brush your serum infused hands over the top of your finished style.
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