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Dreamy Miniature Scenery Tattoos by Eva
By minervaTattoo Artists
Scenic tattoos slightly bigger than a dime.
Tattoo artist Eva has seriously mastered the art of packing a punch of detail into a small space. Her scenic tattoos are tiny, intricate, and absolutely moving. She manages to tell an entire story in a single, small image, leaving room for interpretation while also being incredibly specific. Working out of Bang Bang in NYC, Eva fits right in with the tiny but mighty crew.
"I'm a big fan of children's book and fairy tales," Eva says on Bang Bang's website. "Everyone has a story to tell; I love to fit these stories into miniature pieces."
Swing by Eva's Instagram for booking and more.
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ACEs is a term developed by researchers Dr Vincent Felitti & Dr Robert Anda to describe specific experiences of childhood trauma, defined as 'intra-familial events or conditions causing chronic stress responses in the child's immediate environment. These include notions of maltreatment and deviation from societal norms'.
These damaging traumatic experiences include (but are not limited to): physical abuse; sexual abuse; emotional abuse; physical neglect; emotional neglect; witnessing domestic violence; substance abuse in the home; separation or divorce of parents; household member suffering mental illness; household member (usually parent) being incarcerated.
Trauma in childhood can lead to toxic stress. Toxic stress refers to very high levels of stress with no buffer - nobody to turn to for support or understanding.
Resilience is the ability to suffer setbacks, recover from them, and weather the trials of life.
Often when a child/adult has resilience one finds that there was a special person or persons in their life who gave them hope or made them feel safe, understood and supported; someone that he or she trusted to be there.
Why is it important to understand ACEs?
Childhood trauma is the root of many of our social problems and many physical health problems. The UK and US ACEs studies show clearly that ACEs can lead to over 80 negative life outcomes including heart disease, liver and lung disease, obesity, diabetes, criminality, educational failure, welfare dependency and mental ill-health.
It's only by understanding ACEs that we can effectively heal the hurt and thereby give everyone the power and freedom to transform their lives.
Healing ACEs will stop the transmission of trauma to subsequent generations and the hefty costs of picking up the pieces of damaged lives.
Implementing trauma-informed understanding in our local support systems and promoting the prevention of ACEs is the ultimate goal.
Only 3-5% of public spending is spent on prevention. At least 40% of local authority spending is incurred because prevention is on the back burner.
Where ACEs have occurred we can heal the trauma most effectively using a trauma-informed approach. WAVE developed the Trauma-informed Communities (TiC) project to do this throughout communities with 'experts by experience' leading the way.
N.B Trauma can affect individuals as well as entire communities. Treating trauma can take many forms depending on the needs of the individual. For example, some severely traumatised people require specific interventions such as intensive PTSD treatment (e.g. George Hosking's 'End to Violence' programme for (i) violent offenders; (ii) children who suffered extreme abuse and/or neglect), CBT, EMDR, etc.


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New Vocational Peterbilt
by Today's Trucking Staff April 26, 2016
Pete's Model 567 with new aluminum cab
Peterbilt unveiled its all-new vocational Model 567 during the recent Mid-America Trucking Show, said to be the result of the most extensive product research and development in the company's line-up.
At the core of the 567, says Peterbilt, is the new aluminum cab that meets severe-service requirements in standard trim. Strategically-placed steel reinforcements were designed to increase strength and optimize rigidity. For additional strength and cab stability, steel upper A-pillars and rear corner reinforcements were added. The large cast-aluminum front cab mounts distribute road stresses evenly, reducing road-induced wear and improving ride quality, Pete says.
The new Metton hood is said to be highly resilient, absorbing many impacts that would shatter or crack other materials. The hood pivot system has a protection feature that directs energy around the cooling module in the event of an impact.
The Model 567 is available in two BBC configurations – 121 and 115 in. – in a daycab or with a selection of detachable sleeper configurations in three sizes – 44, 70, and 80 in.
The 567 can be spec'd with a wide variety of heavy-duty components and in a number of configurations for increased payloads and optimized weight distribution. It's available with a set-back front axle and with steer-axle ratings up to 22,000 lb. An angled steering-gear installation further improves maneuverability by increasing wheel cut by up to 9 degrees over other designs, reducing curb-to-curb turning diameter by up to 9 ft.
Pete says its "optimized" steering geometry reduces bump steer by up to 25%, minimizing steering wheel feedback over rough, uneven surfaces, and reducing driver fatigue.
The 567 is also available with single, tandem or tridem drive axles and a variety of lift axles. It's standard with front air disc brakes and an electronic stability control system.
The 567 features a chassis that's 10 to 15% stiffer than comparable products, says Pete, improving ride and handling while reducing in-cab noise. It was designed with service technicians and body manufacturers in mind. Chassis system routing improvements include new air and fuel hard lines and the separation of key air, fuel, diesel exhaust fluid, and electrical systems routings which are said to simplify service, repair, and body installation significantly.
The electrical system features angled dress covers, providing added protection for electrical connections, and several routing 'troughs' have been incorporated to define harness placements and ensure reliability.
Electric-over-air rocker switches enable valuable electronic interlocks and remove complex air plumbing from the dash.
The hood opens a full 90 degrees for easier access to key service points so technicians can reach the cab electrical and air connections, air intake filter, A/C service ports, and cab fresh air filter, which are all firewall-mounted for convenient access.
The 567 is available with the PACCAR MX-13 engine, in expanded power offerings up to 500 hp with 1850 lb ft of torque. The Cummins ISX15 is also offered, providing up to 600 hp for heavy-haul applications.

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The Race: Do you have what it takes to compete against 5 teams in a worldwide contest that spans over the globe?
The Mystery of the Crystal Portal: Help Nicole to find her father and discover the truth behind the Crystal Portal.
Enchanted Fairy Friends: Secret of the Fairy Queen: Grab your fairy dust and get ready for a woodland quest!
Little Shop — Road Trip: Hit the road and search hidden object on stunning scenes from Seattle to South Beach!
Hawaiian Explorer: Lost Island: It's a whirlwind adventure from the towers of Manhattan to the beaches of Hawaii!
Wild West Quest: Transported in time, you'll scour gold mines, stagecoaches, and saloons in search of hidden objects.


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FIFA Points Will No Longer Be Sold in Belgium to Stay Clear of Gambling Laws: EA Sports
By Pranay Parab | Updated: 30 January 2019 12:00 IST
FIFA Points will not be sold in Belgium anymore
Belgium Gaming Commission and EA have been in discussions for months
Loot boxes in video games are at the heart of this controversy
EA Sports will not sell FIFA Points in Belgium any more. The move comes after months of discussions with the Belgium Gaming Commission, which had declared video game loot boxes to be in violation of gambling rules in the country. While EA obviously doesn't agree with this interpretation of the law, it appears that the game developer doesn't have a choice in the matter any more. This means that people can use their existing FIFA Points in Belgium but not purchase them officially in the country. FIFA Points are a core component of FIFA Ultimate Team, the extremely popular online mode in FIFA.
You can buy FIFA Points with real money and use these to open card packs to get better players in the game. The catch is that very rarely do card packs feature players worthy of making it to the Team of the Year. Most people start off with average players and if they keep on grinding for months without paying, they have a small chance of assembling a decent squad in FIFA Ultimate Team.
EA's decision to shutter loot boxes in Belgium comes a few months we wrote that it's risking being on the wrong side of law in the country. If more countries ban loot boxes as Belgium has, then EA will have to reconsider how it implements these in FIFA. EA's statement reads: "After further discussions with the Belgian authorities, we have decided to stop offering FIFA Points for sale in Belgium. We're working to make these changes effective in our FIFA console and PC games by January 31, 2019."
Effectively this means that FIFA Ultimate Team is going to become a long grind for all players in Belgium because no one can pay to speed up the progress. While EA does claim that all content can be earned through gameplay, it takes way too long to do so for most people and that may impact its player base in Belgium. "We apologise to our players in Belgium for any inconvenience caused by this change," EA said.
EA does feel that by showing the probability of finding certain types of players in packs, it has created a fair system that's not akin to gambling. "While we are taking this action, we do not agree with Belgian authorities' interpretation of the law, and we will continue to seek more clarity on the matter as we go forward. The impact of this change to FIFA Ultimate Team in Belgium is not material to our financial performance," EA's statement read.
However, that remains up for debate because the Belgium Gaming Commission clearly doesn't agree with EA. Perhaps taking a leaf out of Fortnite's book could help EA as Fortnite now clearly shows which weapons are in loot boxes thanks to newly introduced X-Ray Llamas.
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The scanner is certified for use in Safety Category 3, Performance Level d (PLd), Safety Integrity Level 2 (SIL2) applications. It is housed in an IP65 enclosure. In addition to performing its certified safety functions, the scanner can also be used to make highly accurate distance measurements, communicating this information through its Ethernet port to a controller or a PC. It can also be used to measure speed through its incremental encoder input which measures pulses.


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Any volunteer who needs to record community service hours must print out the "Community Service Tracking Form." This is the only form that can be used as proof of hours- the Habitat offices do not keep records of these hours. All individuals looking to complete community service must contact our office prior to coming in to volunteer. It is the responsibility of the volunteer to sign-in everyday, introduce themselves to the House Captain, and get the form initialed by the House Captain or the Senior Site Coordinator each week.
We welcome groups of 5-12 volunteers to join us for a Team Builds day! Bring your corporate team, your school group (ages 16+), your faith group, or your friends and family and experience the fun and rewarding hard work of a Habitat build day!
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One of my missions in life is to be the example for embracing our bodies and changing the way we look at body image! It's time NOW for all of us to overcome our struggles with hating our bodies. There's more depth to each of us than what we look like. Underneath our appearance is our soul, our truth.
In this video I share my passion to support you around this topic, and I invite you all to LOVE yourself unconditionally and start respecting your incredible body. When we focus on our HEALTH, compliment our inner qualities AND radiate authenticity from the inside out, everything begins to fall into place! Come on this journey with me and together lets create body acceptance and LOVE for ourselves, each other and for our younger generation.
Here is the link to the 'Embrace' trailer.
It's a great movie, so when you're watching it, and more importantly, when looking at your own body please remember this:If you've been hating yourself for years, try approving of yourself and see what happens. WHAT YOU BELIEVE you will SEE!! So, when you stand in front of the mirror telling yourself how fat, ugly and disgusting you are, then that is what you will see. Using positive affirmations really transformed the way I looked at myself. I know it can be hard (I have been there) BUT it's also rewarding. Try it, come up with a few different affirmations you can tell yourself e.g. I am lovable, I am worthy, I am beautiful, I am radiating happiness… repeating them either to yourself, in the mirror or just inside your head and you'll begin to re-wire your brain and have a profound impact on how you look at yourself. Give it a go. Trust me – over time your beliefs will change.
The Louise Hay book- "You can heal your life," is great if you're interested in learning more.
Remember too, the more you are grateful for something, the more you attract things to be grateful for. Having an attitude of GRATITUDE for how incredible your body functions will also shift the way you look at your body from fear to LOVE. You would have to agree, our bodies are amazing, what they do on a daily basis is powerful and how they overcome illness is profound. Give your body the love, support and appreciation it deserves.
Louise Hay also talks a lot about how our physical bodies often hold a build up of emotions, for example unreleased anger can be stored as fat which results in cellulite! For me putting on the 15kg in one year was very much a protective mechanism, I was young and worked at a gym so I got a lot of male attention and I wanted it to stop, I thought that if I put on weight they would leave me alone. I was wrong though because the men were also attracted to my personality, my inner confidence and this is when I realised that I needed to stop running away from my emotions and instead of "eating them" I needed to deal with them. This is when I began to see my own personal development coach, to do the deeper work, because to wasn't about the male attention or the food, it was about who I felt within myself. When I started my inner journey, I instantly began to feel a lot of my physical discomfort fall away.
And if you do have a daughter or nieces I advise you to read the book "Raising girls" by Steve Biddulph. It's a book for parents who love their daughters deeply, whether they are newborns, teenagers, young women – or anywhere in between. Supporting our girls to feel secure, becoming an explorer, getting along with others, finding her soul, and becoming a woman – Raising Girls gives you a clear map of girls' minds that accepts no limitations, narrow roles or selling-out of your daughter's potential or uniqueness. All the hazards are signposted – bullying, eating disorders, body image and depression, social media harms and helps – as are concrete and simple measures for both mums and dads to help prevent their daughters from becoming victims.
I'm super passionate about this topic. Leave your comments below, or on my youtube channel. I'm really looking forward to hearing your comments around body image, so together we can make a bigger impact and stop the self hate war that so many of us battle every single day.


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Thomas Bell, Rector of the Vale Church, Dean of Guernsey, and Canon of Winchester Cathedral, was an eminent Anglican priest in the latter part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th centuries.

Biography
He was born on 5 November 1820 and educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and subsequently at Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1840 and gained a First Class degree in Classics.
He subsequently won the Denyer Prize Theological Essay in 1848, after being ordained in 1845 by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce at Christ Church, Oxford.  He began his career with a curacy at Finstock, near Oxford.  After this he held incumbencies at St Matthew's, City Road, in the East End of London, and St Mary's, Burston, near Diss in Norfolk.  He then returned to Guernsey, where for more than 50 years he was Rector of the Church of St Michel du Valle.  Every Sunday he used to conduct the service in French and preached the sermon without notes.  And twice a year he journeyed by sea and train
to Winchester in order to preach in the cathedral of which he was a canon.
He was Dean of Guernsey from 1892 until his death on Halloween 31 October 1917.
He married Blanche Henrietta Lihou, the daughter of Thomas Lihou of Union Street, St Peter Port, at St Martin's Church,
Guernsey, on 11 April 1849.  In 1891 the Dean and his wife presented to the Vale Church a peal of six fine-toned
bells in memory of their doctor son, Thomas Arthur Bell, who had died in Exeter three years previously.
On his death the Archbishop of Canterbury telegraphed to the Dean's daughter "I thank God for the long and devoted life of him who was for more than a generation the Chief Minister of Christ in Guernsey", whilst the head of the Église Catholique on the island wrote "Il vient de mourir un homme qui faisait honneur à l'homme".

1820 births
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
Church of England deans
Deans of Guernsey
1917 deaths
People educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey
20th-century Anglican priests
19th-century Anglican priests

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In Una lama di luce we left Montalbano and Livia stunned by the death of François, the central character in Il Ladro di merendine, the little boy that Livia had wanted to adopt. Livia is still in Boccadasse and pours out her sorrows in long phone conversations with Salvo. Then one gloomy morning a call from Fazio interrupts Montalbano's nightmare and draws him into a new investigation. It has been raining hard in Vigàta for several days. The storms have caused floods that have swamped houses and land, creating a sea of mud. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead on a building site. He is half naked and has been shot in the back. He had fled into a kind of tunnel formed by some large pipes meant for the water mains. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of building sites and public contracts. A world just as slimy and impenetrable as the mud on the building sites. As he wades through this muddy world in which builders, construction firms and public officials thrive, Montalbano is obsessed by one thought: that by going to die in the tunnel Nicotra had been trying to communicate something.


TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - Dec. 21, 2006) - Vena Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:VEM)(OTCBB:VNARF)(FRANKFURT:V1R)(LIMA:VEM) announces that it has acquired a group of concessions in the Pucara area of southern Peru. Subject to regulatory approval, the Company has agreed to grant 100,000 shares of Vena to the owners of these concessions plus an upfront payment of US$75,000. Additional shares and cash payments will be granted if key milestones are reached annually, and a US$1/tonne cash payment up to 10 million tones as defined by a future feasibility study will be granted.
The Pucara project has been mined for 12 years by a small miner. Most recently, Pucara has been explored by CVRD of Brazil, completing 1,600 meters in 8 diamond drilled holes. The mineralization is mainly veins with widths varying from 1 to 5 meters and disseminated structures containing gold and copper. The principal veins are Santo Tomas and Esperanza; both outcrop for more than 2 kilometers. The Gladys disseminated structure located in the center portion of the project outcrops for at least 90 meters by 17 meters, containing chalcopyrite and gold with some galena and sphalerite. Several structures with disseminated mineralization are also present along the northern boundary of the project. Vena plans to retain a metallurgical consultant to test the oxide mineralized portion of the Gladys structure for a possible flotation recovery scheme. If successful, this would be followed by a standard flotation recovery system for the sulfide portion of the Gladys mineralized body.
After a review of the property by Vena personnel as well as a consulting geologist, the Company is applying for permits to drill 4,200 meters in 14 targets. The depth of the holes will range from 150 and 300 meters. This will expand on the work done by CVRD of Brazil and lead to a 43-101 report on the prospect.
William R. Henkle, Jr. P.Geo., Vena's Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101, a Professional Geologist will visit the property in early January. Vena expects to provide a more in-depth update of the Pucara gold/copper project in January when Vena's Qualified Person and field crews complete their visits and provide a current assessment and a short term development plan.
Vena Resources is dedicated to building capital appreciation and creating long term shareholder value by developing the mineral resources and social welfare of Peru. Vena Resources commitment will be demonstrated by deploying its financial resources to aggressively acquire and advance high quality people and assets throughout the country.


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Everest Transmission started manufacturing Twin Lobe Rotary Air Blowers way back in 1980. Over the years the company has expanded its technological base, bringing a wide range of products. Our Quality Management System confirms to the Quality Management System Standard ISO 9001:2008. Facilities include in-house design, production, manufacturing, quality control, inspection and after sales services. We are importing from USA, Europe and exporting in USA, UK, Singapore, Far East,Thailand, Korea, China, Europe, Vietnam, Middle East, Sri Lanka, etc.
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Provider of Innovative engineering solutions in entire range of pressure vacuum systems by having state of art technology, optimized designs, excellence in R&D, manufacturing and thrust on training & development of employees, continuously expanding our operations.
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1980: Set up 'EVEREST TRANSMISSION' to manufacture Twin Lobe Rotary Air Blowers/Compressors for industries related to cement, chemicals, water & waste water treatment, effluent treatment, electroplating, aqua culture etc.
1985: Chosen as a priority vendor by BHEL and entire Quality Management System designed and implemented with the help of Vendor Development Cell of BHEL.
1985-1995: Bagged prestigious orders from Industry giants like NTPC, Ion Exchange (India) Ltd., Thermax, Bechtel, Daelim, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, BHEL, Tata Projects, Toyo Engineering, ONGC, Holtec Consultants, IPCL, SGS, Degremont, Driplex, Development Consultants, Grindwell Norton, Triveni Engineering, VA Tech Wabag etc.
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1995: Set up 'Everest Blower Pvt Ltd' to cater to the growing demand of small roots blowers upto 15 HP.
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When the Golden Finger Lands in the Hands of the Villain-Chapter 75
by Azo May 24, 2021 May 17, 2021
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Kneel down
Kong Wuying: "…"
He feels sorry for the soul puppet who was sacrificed to kill Chu Liying at the time. Such a waste.
The system does not feel the hostile disappointment at all, but instead chatters away. "This tests focus and attention. You don't see it because it's so small, but there are many different places that are different. There are very few people who can find them all, but this system is not the same. You can rest assured, I will definitely help you."
Kong Wuying: "Shut up."
System: "…"
At this time, on the high platform, the Sword King stands high and looks at the game below with interest, more precisely, watching Kong Wuying play. He says to the elder of Huang Tang Mountain who is accompanying him: "This game is a bit interesting. There should be one hundred and… thirty-two differences?"
The elder wiping away sweat beside him can't help but double-take. With only a glance, all the details are clear! This control and mental power are simply amazing!
Because of the inner admiration, the Huang Tang Mountain elder can't help but praise a bit. "Sword King, this level is carefully designed by us. Generally speaking, if you can find five places, you will be qualified, and if you can find twenty, you will be excellent. If you can find fifteen places you are extraordinary. I don't know how many places the players this time can find."
The Sword King looks at Kong Wuying and smiles softly. "I'm very optimistic about him, but if there is no strong spiritual power he can use to focus, he won't be able to find any."
The elder laughs and says, "But how can anyone be as powerful as the Sword King?"
"It's 1,508 in total," Kong Wuying says.
Elder: "…"
Sword King: "…"
The Sword King asked the elder somewhat uncertainly. "He shouldn't be able to find that many, right?"
The elder says angrily, "Of course it's nonsense! This boy dares to speculate trying to fool us!"
Another judge calls down, "You bullshit! Where are there so many? Do you want to be disqualified?"
Frowning, Kong Wuying is getting pissed off. This is your game! What do you mean disqualify me?
"Don't believe it?" Kong Wuying asks.
"Fine. The fluff of the rabbit ears, the 72nd hair root of the rabbit ear on the left is slightly curled compared to the right by one millimeter. The one hundred and seventy-eighth piece of gravel on the left is 0.5 millimeters smaller than the right. The woman's clothes, although the two materials have the same color and pattern, they have different textures on the body. Then there's… "
After another 182 differences are pointed out, Kong Wuying hears a shriek that can pierce the eardrum! The whole array starts trembling.
Honestly, this feels quite familiar, a bit like when he was assessed in Danta.
Then… no!
The facts tell him, yes, really. This is happening.
After shaking the mountain for a while, the whole formation shatters and the graphics on the ground crack. The black floor tiles underneath are exposed, as if laughing at Kong Wuying.
After a period of being speechless, an old man doesn't know where to jump out, and frantically holds his neckline. "What did you do?!"
Kong Wuying puts on an innocent expression. "Aren't those my lines? Why is your test like this? That could have hurt someone."
Only ghosts know why that formation is so fragile!
The old man's heart seems to fluctuate. "Will the matrix be damaged by answering the questions as usual? This is left by Chu Liying. Tell me, how will you pay for it?"
The contestants present at the scene watch the old man quietly. At this time, hearing the name of Chu Liying could not help but cast an abomination on the sky.
For an alchemist, Emperor Chu is their god. Even though the Lord Lin Jingying is more famous now, it is not as good as the Emperor Chu in their minds.
Now this kid has broken Chu Huang Competition's relic, how can this be tolerated?!
As the true murderer of Chu Liying, Kong Wuying feels no pressure from these kinds of eyes. "But why are you blaming me?"
"Well, in my opinion, although the matrix method has collapsed, it is also being repaired. It can be used again after a few hundred years. No one wanted this to happen, you don't have to be too harsh." A second elder comes up to the field, his temper obviously much milder than No. 1.
Elder No. 1 exclaims, "Regardless, the matrix still broke! Today's people are all qualified. As for you…" His gaze is cast on Kong Wuying. "Disqualified, leave the testing."
The elder has been tolerant enough, Chu Huang left the formation, and it is a priceless treasure that is now broken, being disqualified as a punishment is very light. He personally thought that he was very magnanimous, but obviously the contestant did not think so.
Although Kong Wuying was reluctant to come here to participate in this broken game from the beginning, that unwillingness to participate is one thing, and his inexplicable expulsion is another.
Kong Wuying looks at the elder with a displeased expression and says, "Why? I just answered the question. It's because your formation is too shit to bear the true correct answer, and it collapsed. You can't reflect on your shortcomings? Oh, it's no wonder that nowadays, Huang Tang Mountain is fading, and your enlightenment is like a shame to the truly bright alchemists!"
1st Elder: "…"
2nd Elder: "…"
Elder No. 3, 4567, "…"
Contestants: "…"
It was not that his words are too powerful, just that everyone thinks; this kid, this kid dares to abuse the elders of Huang Tang! Is he… is he crazy?
When these words come out, it is not just being eliminated that will follow, it is more likely to be resented by the entire Huang Tang, and it may even affect its own country.
Everyone is stunned.
For a long time, the most irritable Elder No. 1, reacts, and is furious. "What did you say, boy?!"
Elder No. 2, who has more of a temper, is also really angry. "You just don't know what to do, talking like that!"
Elder No. 1 glares. "You, which country do you belong to? From now on, your country will be disqualified from participating in the Chu Huang Competition!"
Quietly blank, Kong Wuying asks subconsciously, "Can this competition still run anyway?"
Elders: "…" I really want to kill him!
Elder No. 1 sneers. "Everyone who insults me is the enemy of Huang Tang Mountain. From now on, all alchemists in Ru country will not be recognized by my Huang Tang!"
After listening to this sentence, all the contestants cast their eyes with various sympathy, compassion, gloating, and apathy. This kid dares to mess with Huang Tang, now he's being punished.
You know that this is not an ordinary punishment. Without the recognition of Huang Tang, the name of an alchemist isn't recognised. From now on, there will be no more alchemists in his country, which is a huge blow to the strength of a country.
This kid who pretends to be a fool, I am afraid that he will be run down by the angry people in their country!
No one knows how the people of the Daqing Empire will react, but Pill Master Qin who was watching from the audience almost felt dizzy. At this time, he didn't care about the principle that none other than contestants must enter the competition platform.
Pill Master Qin squeezes in hard and apologises to the elders again and again. "Elders, forgive his sins, this person has a problem in his mind, he is not from our country. He pretended to be our contestant, our competitor had diarrhea and was eventually replaced by this madman! Please don't take it seriously, this person must have been sent to trouble us by another country, and they must be punished. I just ask you not to be angry at us in Daqing, our country is innocent!"
The elders sneer. They didn't believe what Pill Master Qin said. If something goes wrong, it means that this person is not ours, they are all temporary workers. It's an old routine!
Elder No. 1 says, "Not yours? Why did you come out when he took the first place? I don't care if he is yours, but since he is competing in your name, then if something happens, you will be held accountable to the end! What I have said will never be taken back!"
When Pill Master Qin hears it, he's anxious, and quickly glares in anger at Kong Wuying. "Kneel down and plead guilty to the elders! Let them let our country off!" He thinks that the emperor might really have a bit of a brain issue.
Kong Wuying: "… Crazy."
Elder No. 1 scoffs. "Even if he kneels down and asks for forgiveness, it is useless. Whoever insults me, I will never forgive him!"
At this time, everyone hears a chuckle. "But this contestant is telling the truth? The test really is rubbish."
Another one wants to be thrown out of the alchemy world!
Everyone looks for the owner of that voice and sees a silver-haired beauty coming out of nowhere.
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"I want to crawl head first into a small cave and curl up into a fetal position."
-From Tanya Corrin's journal, February 7, 2001
Tanya Corrin and I are having brunch in Little Italy and discussing reality TV shows like 'Survivor' and 'The Real World.' She's saying that she doesn't think that they're real at all, that they're almost comletely insincere, manipulated even. "I think what we did is much more real than 'Temptation Island'," she says.
"Temptation Island, forget about it," I reply.
She says she stopped watching after the first episode, and asks me if I had kept watching. I admit that I started in the middle and watched till the end, to which she excitedly demands to know how it all turned out.
"The end was crazy," I say, "you totally thought these couples were ill-suited for one another in the first place. There's no point in feeling sorry for them anyway because the idea was that people stupid enough to…subject themselves to this…(Tanya says this part in unison with me) deserve to break up and be laughed at."
She chuckles for a moment, and then pauses, and then says, "Wait…wait a minute, what you just said applies to Josh and I!"
She starts laughing again, tentatively at first, and then picks up momentum. Her laughter is infectious and I can't help joining her, in part because her comment is my favorite combination of razor sharp and self-mocking, and in part because I'm slightly embarrassed for her.
We laugh together for a few more prolonged minutes, and then Tanya speaks again and I try to compose myself.
"It's true," she says, "we subjected ourselves to 32 cameras. In the throes of a four year relationship, we subjected ourselves to viewers, we broke up, and I don't think we're getting back together. And I think people are making fun of us."
"At night when you lie helpless on the bed little hands reach out of the lens and attach strings to your soul." – From Tanya Corrin's journal, February 7, 2001
The 32 cameras Tanya Corrin is referring to constitute the We Live In Public Experiment, an artistic installation/ internet venture/ sociological investigation which has granted her a minor celebrity status in some media circles. The Experiment www.weliveinpublic.com is, or was, (depending on how vitally you view Tanya's involvement) composed of: Tanya Corrin; her currently ex-boyfriend, internet entrepreneur Josh Harris; 32 cameras; and a 4000 sq. ft. Soho loft.
For a 100 days, Josh and Tanya were to live in an entirely public environment where cameras and audio recorders were trained on them and their cats for 24 hours a day. The footage was streamed live and unedited onto their website, where the viewer could choose which camera and perspective he or she would like to explore.
Josh had high hopes for the Experiment when it was introduced, writing in a statement to the New York Post late last year: "Generations of future New Yorkers will be able to see how we live at the turn of the millennium. The We Live in Public Experiment archives our daily life in the world's most important city at the dawn of a new era for man. Future generations of intelligent life will use this record of NYC to better understand the time and space that we all now occupy."
Josh was also quoted as saying that he and Tanya would conceive their first child in public.
As for Josh's first prophecy, only time will tell. But unfortunately the second did not come to fruition, and instead of having a baby with Harris, Tanya moved out of the loft on Day 78, ending her four-year relationship with him. As she writes in her now notorious New York Observer piece, "Josh would say anything to get attention, even if it meant betraying me. I didn't know if it was living in cyberspace that has caused him to lose his bearings, but it was too dangerous to stick around."
The precise reasons behind the breakup are still unclear, even to Tanya and Josh themselves. Tanya comments that, "we became polarized and responded very differently [to the experiment]…Josh pulled away and stopped communicating, and I needed to communicate and really needed to understand and feel comfortable…A lot of people say they're not surprised that we broke up, but then on the other hand, a really good couple would have bonded, and would have really supported each other and probably created a more powerful relationship."
Josh is still living in public, even though the 100 days are up, because a licensing agreement promised the technology in the loft to one of the site's producers through May, and though he'd like to move out, Josh still hasn't found another place yet.
"I awoke and saw the devil hovering 2 feet over my head. He looked like a little kiddie cartoon, but breathed pure evil through and through." -from Tanya Corrin's journal entry dated February 7, 2001
"If I were Josh and I were living there right now, I wouldn't turn the cameras off either," Tanya says. "I'm glad to be out of there and I wouldn't trade it for anything, but you were there, didn't you experience that heightened sense of reality, you know, aliveness?"
I was there, for a night, at a party thrown by another website, and I'm not sure 'aliveness' is exactly the word I'd use to describe it. The experience was memorable, certainly, but memorable more in the way losing your virginity is memorable; you're glad you only have to go through it once.
Getting into the place was a vaguely Orwellian experience—lots of checkpoints and many security guards, and watching your image move from one closed circuit view screen to the next. My immediate response to the aesthetics of the place was favorable. It was a gorgeous, extremely expensive looking space, complete with light hardwood floors, impossibliy high ceilings, and too much stainless steel kitchen equipment to take in in one view. But it was hard to imagine anyone living there; the place seemed like a movie set, or a futuristic museum installation.
I sat at the Broadway end of the loft for most of the night, a couple of feet below a tiny camera installed in the wall behind me. To my right was a rather large projection screen suspended from tracks along the ceiling, matching the three other screens hanging about 25 feet apart down the length of the room.
I glanced from time to time at the producers and editors, cloistered away in an Oz-like office in the upstairs part of the loft, controlling which images from the 32 cameras would appear on a given screen at a given time. From the vantage point of the blue leather chair I was occupying, I had a clear view two of the four screens, and was able to watch what was going on at the far end of the room, as well as a splice between the scene in the bedroom and the bathroom.
Whenever the bathroom cameras were displayed, a complex wave of excitement moved through the crowd. The giddiness was a combination of the childish amusement of seeing unaware bare asses, but also an uncomfortable vicarious embarrassment for those same bare asses.
To me, the view from the bathroom cam reminded me of being in a car going up a steep hill: seeing more and more of the curvilinear horizon emerge as you move closer to it, until finally you're atop it. There was also a tiny camera drilled into the toilet bowl, but that was a different story that invariably ended with a flush.
Halfway into the night, a friend I ran into at the party began to express anxiety over her own inevitable visit to the bathroom.
"Stop drinking then," I told her, but alas, she persisted.
Finally, when she couldn't hold it any longer, she ordered me to go into the bathroom with her and block the camera while she attended to herself, but at that moment I felt like staying exactly where I was. "Come on!" she whined, practically hopping on one leg.
"No," I said, "Just go by yourself. If both of us were in there at the same time we'd never know if you were on camera anyway, so it wouldn't matter if I blocked it or not."
This logic made perfect sense to me at the time that I said it, probably because I wasn't the one that had to go.
"But what about the Internet?" she cried.
"Who cares about the Internet!" I replied.
But she continued to beg and plead, and after a few more seconds I took pity on her, and reluctantly gave up my seat to follow her to the bathroom line.
The camera was easy to obscure, I could eclipse the entire lens with my thumb, which is what I did as my back was to the toilet.
Later, at the bar, I remarked to the woman next to me that we could see an image of ourselves projected on the screen on the far end of the loft projected on the screen in front of us.
"It's all very meta, isn't it," she replied as she turned on her heel, and I had to agree.
Tanya is interested in hearing about my experience at the loft, and really the most novel thing I have to report to her is the bathroom fiasco. Being at one isolated party for only a few hours, the internet and its thousands of viewers were never really on my mind. I was more concerned with the insular community of the few hundred people at the loft, and who was seeing what of whom strictly within the room.
"Living in public was like having your home filled with 130,000 strangers and friends, constantly," Tanya is saying, "and every one of them was asking questions, had needs and demands, you were never alone and you always felt obliged to be doing something," She said.
"You can go and change, you can use the bathroom, you can fall apart in tears, and everyone will have some perspective of you…people will always have an opinion on what you do, and when you put yourself out there, there will be more opinions."
"The truth is the truth, whether it's virtual or real." -from Tanya Corrin's journal entry dated February 10, 2001
For someone who only a month ago suffered from a self-described breakdown in front of 130,000 viewers, Tanya Corrin seems to exhibit a preternatural resilience.
She speaks optimistically with a tinge of wistfullness as she finishes her eggs with salmon, speaking on all that she has learned from her experiences.
"I know what it is like to really give up myself and my identity, and now I'm on the outside again and I am finding my identity and myself again, and I know the value of my identity and I won't be giving it away so easily again."
When she says this I have to admit I believe her, and as she stares out the window, I ask her about her plans for the future and she can't stop smiling, her words brimming with confidence.
"Josh feels New York has kind of drained him," she says very deliberately, "and that the city has lost luster for him. I think I'm just starting to feel the luster, I'm starting to feel it feeding me. I feel like I'm at a launching point, and I understand that power is something you possess. That seems like one of the number one rules of New York. I really think I've found a path."
And on this we are silent, both of us looking out the window now.
I can't help but feel almost proud of Tanya, even though I've just met her today. I feel most people would still be huddling in a dark corner somewhere after going through what Tanya has, but she's not. She's here, at this table, wearing a bright orange mohair coat and continuing to reveal herself to me, and to everyone for that matter.
As we're getting ready to leave, I ask Tanya about her own personal map of New York, the one in her mind, her memory, her emotional landmarks. I ask her what it feels like to walk down the street where she used to live in public.
She pauses for many moments, and when she speaks again, her words are fragmented, broken, and her voice approaches an almost poetic cadence.
"When I walk by I will sometimes look up and I feel this cloud, I experience this static, like TV static, and many voices…air: thick…confusion…questions…many, many questions and not very many answers…answers coming back garbled. And it makes me feel like the air of Broadway and Lower Manhattan is pure and fresh, in comparison. I'm glad I'm not in there. I'm glad I'm breathing this air, rather than that air."
This image came from http://www.weliveinthefridge.com/, a WeLiveInPublic.com fan site.
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The GDPR has a global territorial reach.
Article 3 states that the GDPR applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment (e.g. office, site) of an organization in the European Economic Area (EEA, which constitutes the 28 EU Member States as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway), regardless of whether the processing takes place in the EEA or not.
the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the EEA.
Subject to a few exceptions, under Article 27, organizations subject to the GDPR's long-arm jurisdictional reach have to appoint a "representative" in the EEA to act as their Europe-facing point of contact for individuals and local data protection authorities. The representative must be in one of the EEA Member States where the data subjects, whose data are being processed, are situated. If an organization conducts, for example, clinical trials in different Member States at different times, it may need to change its representative from time to time.
Under the "offering goods or services" test, it must be apparent that the organization intends to reach individuals in the EEA – e.g. by targeting through localized websites in an EEA language (not also an international language), with localized URLs or which have local examples. This could apply to a university in the US offering genomic testing to people in the EEA via localized websites.
If an organization monitors individuals in the EEA, then it is subject to the GDPR under the second limb. This would apply to data collected via wearables. In this case, the GDPR always applies – there is no need for the organization to be targeting individuals in the EEA.
It remains unclear if the GDPR will apply in a context where consumers, customers, or research participants of non-EEA-based organizations temporarily reside in the EEA (on holiday, work, or otherwise) and have some (incidental transmissions) of their data collected through digital technology, such as wearables, mobile phones, or other personal electronic devices.
Edward Dove is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh. His primary research interests are in the areas of regulation of biomedical research, research ethics oversight, health-related data access and sharing, and governance of international research collaboration.


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Epigraph and Chapters One–Two
Chapters Three–Seven
Chapters Eight–Thirteen
Chapters Fourteen–Seventeen
Chapters Eighteen–Twenty
Chapters Twenty-one–Twenty-six
Chapters Twenty-seven–Twenty-nine
Chapters Thirty–Thirty-three
Chapters Thirty-four–Thirty-nine
Chapters Forty–Forty-two
Chapter Forty-three
Epigraph and Chapters One-Two
Chapters Three-Seven
Chapters Eight-Thirteen
Chapters Fourteen-Seventeen
Chapters Eighteen-Twenty
Chapters Twenty-one-Twenty-six
Chapters Twenty-seven-Twenty-nine
Chapters Thirty-Thirty-three
Chapters Thirty-four-Thirty-nine
Chapters Forty-Forty-two
Themes, Motifs & Symbols
Ernest Hemingway and For Whom The Bell Tolls Background
Summary Chapters Eighteen–Twenty
Summary: Chapter Eighteen
You felt that you were taking part in a crusade. . . . It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely.
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Robert Jordan feels that his confrontations with Pablo recur as though they were on a merry-go-round. He finishes drawing up plans for blowing up the bridge. He imagines going to Madrid after blowing up the bridge, staying at the Florida Hotel, and dining at Gaylord's, the gathering place for important Russian expatriates in Madrid. It was at Gaylord's that Robert Jordan began to learn insider information, such as the fact that many Spanish Republican leaders had been trained in Russia or came from more privileged backgrounds than they let on. Although these deceptions and the opulence at Gaylord's initially made Robert Jordan uncomfortable, he has come to understand that the deceptions are necessary and that the opulence is nice.
At Gaylord's, Robert Jordan met Karkov, an intelligent journalist for the Russian newspaper Pravda with great taste in women. The two men became friends. Robert Jordan remembers that Karkov was at one point responsible for three wounded Russians who were being held captive in the city. If Madrid were taken by the Fascists, Karkov was to poison the three men so that no evidence of Russian involvement would remain. Karkov said that it was not a difficult task to poison someone if you were used to always carrying poison you might have to use on yourself.
Thinking of Karkov, Robert Jordan remembers another scene. During an attack on Madrid, Robert Jordan dragged a dead man out of a car only to abandon him in the street as the dead man's partner wanted. He abandoned the body in order to go assist a third man who was dying of an arm wound nearby. Moments afterward, Robert Jordan was stopped by a well-known British economist named Mitchell, whom Robert Jordan recognized but had never met before. Mitchell offered a cigarette and asked for information about the war, but Robert Jordan swore at him, disgusted with his academic airs. Robert Jordan remembers discussing Mitchell with Karkov. Karkov suggested that Robert Jordan read up on philosophy. Karkov also said that he read Robert Jordan's one published academic book and said that he liked its writing style. Robert Jordan resolves to write another book about the things he knows now, the things he has come to learn in the war, which are "not so simple."
Summary: Chapter Nineteen
Maria interrupts Robert Jordan's musings. In front of everyone, Pilar says that Robert Jordan shot Kashkin. Pilar claims that Kashkin had a premonition that he would die, and that he smelled of death. Robert Jordan, who claims that he does not believe in superstitions, says it was more of a self-fulfilling prophecy for the nervous Kashkin.
Pilar describes the smell of death, which has four main components: the brass on a ship in danger of sinking, the taste of the kiss of an old woman who has drunk the blood of a slaughtered animal, dead flowers in the trash, and dirty water from a brothel. The snowstorm ends.
Summary: Chapter Twenty
Outside, Robert Jordan makes a bed out of a spruce tree. He lies in the bed, thinking about soul-calming smells, and waits for Maria. She comes barefoot through the snow wearing her nightgown, which she calls her "wedding shirt." Their pillow-talk revolves around the idea that they are one and share the same heart. They make love, and Maria says that this coupling was different from the afternoon's. In the middle of the night, Robert Jordan wakes up and embraces her, then moves away and thinks.
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2009 proved an eventful and challenging year for the global economy. With notable upward trends, the financial markets began to show signs of recovery from the financial crisis. Investor and consumer trust is also starting slowly to return. Yet, it would be a mistake to think we can just go back to business as usual. The financial market crisis has raised some fundamental global questions for which there are no simple answers. It has left its mark – on politics and on the economy – but also on our everyday lives. It is to be expected that, after the turbulence of recent years, calls for dramatic change are increasingly being heard. It is also perfectly understandable that the general public has become more mistrustful of the business world. But we must keep a sense of proportion and not jeopardise the achievements of a dynamic free market economy with over-regulation or allow fear and risk aversion to threaten economic and technological progress.
As a provider of life and pensions solutions for private individuals and companies, Swiss Life contributes to the stability of pension systems in the markets in which it operates. Our core business for over 150 years of creating a financially secure future for our clients is one of the central themes guiding our society. Demographic trends and the limits on state pensions are forcing governments and their citizens to take action. Ensuring our financial security is becoming the personal responsibility of each and every one of us. Life insurance, with its secure and flexible pensions solutions, will therefore gain in importance.
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Learning the Lingo in Egypt!
The best bits of the courses that I took were for me the very thorough drilling of sounds/letters, controlled oral practice 'chains' around the class, the slightly freer oral/aural pair work information gap activities we had from time to time, the use of visual aids to reinforce meaning, the use of very targeted task-based simple listening on audio CD, the very targeted letter recognition and copying exercises, and the relaxed concentration of trying to copy exactly the flowing pen strokes of my calligraphy teacher, Ahmed, who was a really neat and exact scribe.
'Don't cross the road unless you have life insurance' – that was my sister's piece of advice before I went to Cairo, and I soon realised that she wasn't kidding!
When I arrived, my airport transfer driver pulled out of the car-park and set off the wrong way down a one-way street. Amazingly, the locals are apparently unaware of their mortality and step out in front of the cars, inching their way 'lane by lane' across the road (the roads are far too busy for you to ever get all the way across in one go). That said, lane markings seem to be considered merely decorative – coming off the ring-road there were two lanes marked but there were five rows of cars trying to squeeze onto the slip road!
The traffic in Cairo means that it is impossible to estimate how long it will take you to get somewhere. It is 'rush hour' all day long, with traffic jams everywhere. To get to the pyramids from the school, it can take you half an hour or it can take you over an hour – you have to adopt the Egyptian mentality and not worry about schedules!


Brixham is a small fishing town on the southeast coast of Devon. It is at the southern end of Tor Bay and of the little Torbay conurbation. Brixham stands across the bay from Torquay. It and all these towns are within the Haytor Hundred.
The town is a fishing port and its main occupations are fishing and tourism. At the time of the 2001 Census it had a population of 17,457.
Brixham is most famous as the spot at which William of Orange landed on 5 November 1688 to begin the Glorious Revolution, to cast his father-in-law James II off the throne. It led in just a few weeks to almost bloodless victory and William's own accession as King William III.
It is thought that the name 'Brixham' came from "Brioc's homestead", and that Brioc was an Old English or Old Welsh personal name otherwise unattested.
The town is hilly, and built around the harbour which remains in use as a dock for fishing trawlers. It has a focal tourist attraction in the replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hind that is permanently moored there.
In summer the Cowtown carnival is held, a reminder of when Brixham was two separate communities with only a marshy lane to connect them. Cowtown was the area on top of the hill where the farmers lived, while a mile away in the harbour was Fishtown, where the seamen lived. Cowtown, the St Mary's Square area, is on the road leaving Brixham to the south west, in the direction of Kingswear, upon which stands a church built on the site of a Saxon original. The local Royal British Legion club is also here. The main summer attraction in Cowtown is the Hap'nin in St. Mary's Park, an annual music event, with local bands, that takes place in mid July.
The main parish church is St Mary's, about a mile from the sea. It is the third to have been on the site (which was an ancient burial ground). The original wooden Saxon church was replaced by a stone Norman church that was in its turn built over in about 1360. Many of the important townspeople are buried in the churchyard.
The tower of All Saints' Church, founded in 1815, stands guard over the town. The composer of Abide With Me, Rev Francis Lyte was a vicar at the church. He lived at Berry Head House, now a hotel, and when he was a very sick man, near to dying, he looked out from his garden as dusk fell over Torbay, and the words of that hymn came into his mind.
Near the harbour is the famous Coffin House, which reflects Brixham humour. The house is coffin-shaped and when a father was asked for the hand in marriage of his daughter, he said he would 'see her in a coffin, before she wed'. The future son-in-law bought the coffin-shaped property, called it the Coffin House, and went back to the father and said 'Your wishes will be met, you will see your daughter in a coffin, the Coffin House'. Amazed by this, the father gave his blessing.
The first evidence of a town here comes from the Anglo-Saxon period.
The population of Brixham was recorded as was 3,671 in 1801 and 8,092 in 1901. In 1334, the town's value was assessed at one pound, twelve shillings and eightpence; by 1524, the valuation had risen to £24 and sixteen shillings. It is recorded as a borough from 1536, and a market is recorded from 1822.
William Prince of Orange (afterwards King William III of Great Britain & Ireland) landed in Brixham with his mainly Dutch army, on 5 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution, and issued his famous declaration "The Liberties of England and The Protestant Religion I Will Maintain". Many local people still have Dutch surnames, being direct descendants of soldiers in that army. A road leading from the harbour up a steep hill to where the Dutch made their camp, is still called Overgang, meaning 'passage' in Dutch.
The street names reflect the town's history. Pump Street is where the village pump stood. Monksbridge was a bridge built by the monks of Totnes Priory. Lichfield Drive was the route that the dead (from 'lich' meaning a corpse) were taken for burial at St Mary's churchyard. Salutation Mews, near the church, dates from before the Reformation of the English Church, and the salutation was to the Virgin Mary. Similarly, Laywell Road recalls Our Lady's Well. The first building seen when coming into Brixham from Paignton is the old white-boarded Toll House where all travellers had to pay a fee to keep the roads repaired.
The British Seaman's Boys' Home was founded in 1863 by William Gibbs of Tyntesfield for the orphan sons of deceased British seamen.It was famous for the only marching drum and bugle band of its kind and was finally closed in 1988 after 125 years.
Many of the dwellings towards Higher Brixham were built largely between the 1930s to 1970s. Several holiday camps were built in this area, for example Pontin's Wall Park and Dolphin. The Dolphin was one of the company's biggest camps. The camp closed in 1991 after fire destroyed the main entertainments building.
Brixham is also notable for being the town where the fishing trawler was improved in the 19th century; their distinctive sails inspired the song "Red Sails in the Sunset", which was written aboard a Brixham sailing trawler called the Torbay Lass.
In the Middle Ages, Brixham was the largest fishing port in the south-western shires. Known as the 'Mother of Deep-Sea Fisheries', its boats helped to establish the fishing industries of Kingston-upon-Hull, Grimsby and Lowestoft. In the 1890s, there were about 300 trawling vessels in Brixham, most individually owned. The trawlers can still be seen coming in and out of the harbour, followed by flocks of seagulls. The fish market is open to the public on two special days in the summer, when the finer points of catching and cooking fish are explained. The modern boats are diesel-driven, but several of the old sailing trawlers have been preserved.
Hearing of the tragedy, the citizens of Exeter gave money to set up what became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Brixham Lifeboat in 1866. Now known as Torbay Lifeboat Station, it operates a Severn all-weather lifeboat and an IB1 inshore lifeboat. The crews have a history of bravery, with 52 awards for gallantry. The boathouse can be visited and memorials to the brave deeds seen; on special occasions visitors can go on board the boat. Two maroons (bangs) are the signal for the lifeboat to be launched.
The town's outer harbour is protected by a long breakwater, useful for sea angling. In winter this is a site for purple sandpipers. During the Second World War, a ramp and piers were built from which American servicemen left for the D-Day landings.
Since the days of Henry VIII Brixham has played a part in the defence of the nation. The headland known as Berry Head is now a National Nature Reserve, but it is also a military site where guns were once positioned to defend the naval ships that were re-victualling at Brixham. Twelve guns were put there during the War of American Independence, but were removed when peace came in 1783. Just ten years later, during a war with France, guns were again deployed around the town. The major position was at Berry Head, but this time fortifications were built to defend the gun positions. These can still be seen, and are now some of the best preserved Napoleonic Age forts in the country.
During the long series of wars against the French that began in 1689 and lasted until 1815, the Royal Navy came into Brixham to get supplies of fresh vegetables, beef and water. There might have been twenty or so of the big men-o'-war lying at anchor in Tor Bay. On the harbourside towards the marina there is a grey stone building which today is the Coastguard headquarters; then, it was the King's Quay where His Majesty's vessels were provisioned. Local farmers brought vegetables to ward off scurvy, and cattle were slaughtered and their meat packed into barrels. The water came from a big reservoir situated near the crossroads in the middle of town; from there a pipeline carried it under the streets and under the harbour to the King's Quay.
Many of the well-known admirals of the day visited Brixham. Not only Nelson, but also Lord St Vincent, Cornwallis, Hood, Rodney and Hawke. There was also Earl Howe, who earned the nickname of Lord Torbay because he spent so much time ashore in Brixham. A notorious visitor was Napoleon Bonaparte, who, as a prisoner on HMS Bellerophon, spent several days off Brixham waiting to be taken to exile on St Helena.
Battery Gardens have a military history leading back to the Napoleonic wars and the time of the Spanish Armada. The emplacements and features seen here today are those of the Second World War and are of national importance. The site, listed by English Heritage, is recognised as one of the best preserved of its kind in Britain. Of the 116 'Emergency Coastal Defence Batteries' set up in the UK in 1940, only seven remain intact.
↑ "Brixham archive". The National Archives. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7575092&queryType=1&resultcount=1. Retrieved 2008-07-17.
↑ Nicholls, Richard. "Torquay, Paignton and Brixham". A History of Devonshire. Adamant Media Corporation. p. 302. ISBN 0-543-92000-3.
↑ "Brixham community page". Devon County Council. http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/100459/1.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
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