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James Nesbitt MBE (29 September 1934 – 27 August 2014) was a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Detective Chief Inspector who was best known for having headed the Murder Squad team investigating the notorious Shankill Butchers' killings in the mid-1970s. Working from the C Division headquarters at Tennent Street off Shankill Road, Belfast, he eventually caught most of the "Butchers" which led to their convictions. Having received a total of 67 commendations throughout his career, this is the highest number for any policeman in the history of the United Kingdom. In 1980, he was given the MBE "in recognition of his courage and success in combating terrorism".

Early years

Nesbitt was born in 1934 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of James, an electrician, and Ellen. He was brought up in the Church of Ireland religion and lived with his parents and elder sister, Maureen in a terraced house in Cavehill Road, North Belfast which was considered to have been a middle-class area at the time. Having first attended the Model Primary School in Ballysillan Road, in 1946 he moved on to Belfast Technical High School where he excelled as a pupil. From an early age Nesbitt was fascinated by detective stories and dreamed about becoming a detective himself.

As a child he avidly read all the celebrated murder trials in the newspapers. At the age of 16, he opted to leave school and went to work as a sales representative for a linen company where he remained for seven years.

Royal Ulster Constabulary
At the age of 23, Nesbitt sought a more exciting career and realised his childhood dream by joining the Royal Ulster Constabulary as a uniformed constable. He applied at the York Road station in Belfast and passed his entry exams. His first duty station was at Swatragh, County Londonderry . During this period the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign was being waged. Nesbitt earned two commendations during the 12 months he spent at the Swatragh station, having fought off two separate IRA gun attacks which had seen a B Specials man shot. In 1958 he was transferred to Coleraine RUC station where his superiors granted him the opportunity to assist in detective work, and three years later was promoted to the rank of detective.

He married Marion Wilson in 1967 and began to raise a family. By 1971 he was back in his native Belfast and held the rank of Detective Sergeant. He had entered the RUC's CID section and was based at Musgrave Street station.
Many members of the RUC found themselves targeted by both republican and loyalist paramilitaries as the conflict known as The Troubles grew in intensity during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

C Division

In September 1973 he was promoted to Detective Inspector and moved to head up the RUC's C or "Charlie" Division based in Tennent Street, off the Shankill Road, the heartland of loyalism and home of many loyalist paramilitaries. C Division covered not only the Shankill but also the republican Ardoyne and "The Bone" areas. The area had already been subjected to bombing attacks, rioting, home-burnings, vigilante patrols, street barricades, random sectarian murders and killings as part of sporadic loyalist feuds. Nesbitt's responsibilities were immense as C Division covered an entire fifteen square mile district which contained a population of 150,000 and more sectarian killer gangs than any other district in Northern Ireland. Furthermore, the majority of the violence committed within an area of just three square miles contained every paramilitary group – loyalist and republican – which existed in Northern Ireland at that time. The UVF Brigade Staff (Belfast leadership) was based on the Shankill Road.

Shortly before he was sent to C Division his policing abilities were highly praised in this assessment,

He stimulates interest among his colleagues, often drawing on his personal experiences marrying theory with practice. He is thoroughly sound and reliable and upholds the best traditions of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. He brings great credit to the Force.

Although he encountered considerable suspicion from his subordinates when he arrived at Tennent Street, he managed to eventually create much camaraderie within the ranks of those under his command when before there had been rivalry and discord. C Division would lose a total of 12 men as a result of IRA attacks. Described by Martin Dillon as a controlled man, he was also friendly, generous and displayed a "black" sense of humour. Moreover, he was a devoted family man and highly respected by his subordinates, who typically addressed him as "Boss" or "Sir". Belfast News Letter journalist Bobbie Hanvey who interviewed him, described him as "gentle in manner, extremely soft-spoken and a dapper dresser.

During his tenure as Detective Chief Inspector at Tennent Street, Nesbitt and his team investigated a total of 311 killings and solved around 250 of the cases. Over one weekend in the 1970s, there were a total of nine murders committed in his district. He personally conducted interviews with some of the most ruthless and dangerous killers in Northern Ireland.

Two of the three cars used in the May 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings which had been carried out by the UVF's Belfast and Mid-Ulster brigades, were hijacked in Agnes Street and Torrens Road, both within Nesbitt's jurisdiction.

Shankill Butchers' killings

By 1975, Nesbitt was encountering death and serious injury on a daily basis as the violence in Northern Ireland showed no signs of abating; however towards the end of that year, he was faced with the first of a series of brutal killings that added a new dimension to the relentless tit-for-tat killings between Catholics and Protestants that had already made 1975 "one of the bloodiest years of the conflict". By this time he had already earned
48 commendations for his excellent detective work.

On the morning of 25 November after the body of Francis Crossan, a 34-year-old Catholic, was discovered in an entry between Silvio Street and Ambleside Street in the vicinity of Tennent Street station, Nesbitt and his Murder Squad which consisted of ten CID detectives, including himself, immediately launched an investigation into the savage killing. He had been in bed when he received a telephone call from the duty officer at the station advising him about the body "dumped on his patch". He arrived at the murder scene as the victim's body was being taken away by mortuary personnel. Nesbitt addressed his nine-man murder squad on 26 November with the following statement: "We're looking for somebody more brutal than the average terrorist and we'd better get to him". Crossan had had his throat slashed so deeply by his assailant that he was almost decapitated with just a tissue of flesh connecting the head to the trunk. When his corpse was found the head was lying almost at right angles to his body. Later Nesbitt's team of ten would be augmented by men from the Belfast Regional Crime Squad and an undercover surveillance team.

Less than three months later there was another killing. Following a telephone call to a Belfast newspaper made by a male caller using the pseudonym "Major Long of the Young Militants" on 7 February 1976, Nesbitt and his team found the body of Catholic man Joseph Quinn (55) lying facedown on a grass bank off Forthriver Way, in the Glencairn estate near the Upper Shankill as instructed by the caller. He had been badly beaten about the head and face and his throat deeply cut. The man calling himself "Major Long" had claimed Quinn was a "militant Republican" who had been killed in retaliation for the fatal shooting of two Protestant policemen by the IRA the day before.
 The name "Major Long" derived from "The Long Bar", one of the Shankill Road pubs the "Butchers" frequented and often set out from to carry out their killings as they had done on the night of 6/7 February. Nesbitt did not connect the name "Long" to the Shankill pub which was a known haunt by loyalist paramilitaries.
On the morning of 23 February a woman who was putting out her rubbish in an entry that ran between Mayo Street and Esmond Street in the Shankill Road area discovered the body of Francis Rice (24). Rice, an unemployed Catholic road labourer, had his throat hacked through almost to the spine. Nesbitt concluded the latest killings were perpetrated by the same person or persons that killed Crossen. By this stage the media was already using the term "the Butchers" to describe the killings. Despite Nesbitt and his men often working 18 hours a day, seven days a week in an attempt to apprehend the culprits, Nesbitt's major obstacles in solving the crime was the lack of manpower, resources and the reluctance of the local population to come forward out of fear of reprisals from paramilitaries. Furthermore, the killers left behind no witnesses or evidence which provided clues as to their identity.

When a paramilitary killing took place, Nesbitt and his Murder Squad were aided by other members of CID for at least three days. The detectives attempted to cover every patch of ground in the area where it was believed the paramilitaries operated. When the period of time terminated, the squad went back to teamwork and the other members of the force resumed their handling of crimes unconnected with paramilitary activity. Nesbitt and his men viewed all paramilitaries as criminals no matter from which community they originated.

He received his first lead in the "Butchers"' killings when the woman who found Francis Rice's body said that on the previous night she heard voices with Belfast accents in the entry off Esmond Street and the chugging noise of a taxi. Her home overlooked the entry and the sounds had been clearly audible. Black London-style taxis were frequently used in Belfast as a means of transportation and over 200 plied up and down the Shankill Road every day. As a result, Nesbitt ordered that all the taxis in the Shankill were to be taken in and forensically tested, including a black taxi belonging to one of the gang, William Moore, a former meat packer. However, as the vehicle had been thoroughly cleaned, no evidence remained to incriminate Moore in the attacks. Moore subsequently destroyed his taxi.

Lenny Murphy

Nesbitt did not know at the time that William Moore was part of the murderous gang led by Brookmount Street resident Lenny Murphy, who commanded a UVF platoon that operated mainly from the "Brown Bear" pub, located on the corner of Mountjoy Street and the Shankill Road, not far from the Tennent Street station. Murphy had a pathological hatred of Catholics, and as a means of manifesting this hatred on the Catholic community at large, had formed a murder gang with like-minded friends from his "Brown Bear" platoon. The gang's modus operandi involved the abduction of innocent men walking home at night from areas that were overwhelmingly Catholic due to the sectarian geography of Belfast. Once the victims were hit over the head with a wheel brace and dragged into Moore's taxi, they were driven away to be subjected to a beating and torture session that ended with their being dumped, usually into a Shankill alleyway, where their throats were then sliced with butcher's knives. On the night Francis Rice was killed, Murphy had brought along two female acquaintances to observe the beating and murder. In addition to the cut-throat killings, Murphy and the Shankill Butchers also carried out sectarian shootings of random Catholics and punishment killings against their loyalist rivals, the most notable being that of Noel "Nogi" Shaw on 30 November 1975 as part of an internal UVF feud. Inside the "Lawnbrook Social Club", in full view of his unit, Murphy savagely beat, pistol-whipped and then repeatedly shot Shaw in the head; afterwards he ordered his body to be placed in a laundry basket. Shaw was a part of the UVF "Windsor Bar" platoon which was commanded by Anthony "Chuck" Berry and its members were rivals of the "Brown Bear" gang controlled by Murphy. The two pubs were a quarter of a mile apart from one another. Police from Nesbitt's C Division found Shaw's body in a back street off the Shankill several hours after he'd been killed.

After the examination of the Shankill taxis failed to obtain results, Nesbitt called in all the informers C Division used in West Belfast and even arrested a senior UVF member on false pretexts to offer him a deal in exchange for information; but nobody was able to tell him anything about the perpetrators. He then launched a potentially risky plan to entrap the killers which he codenamed "Operation Knife Edge". The plan involved putting plainclothes RUC men on the streets at night and having them behave as if they were drunk in the hope of luring the murderers. Although the policemen were placed in streets where the "Butchers" usually abducted their victims and were closely observed by detectives in nearby cars, the "Butchers" gang never approached them.

Despite Murphy being taken into police custody after attempting to kill two Catholic women in a drive-by shooting in March 1976, the killings continued with Murphy issuing orders to the other gang members on their visits to Crumlin Road Prison. He would later (11 October 1977) be sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment at the Maze on a firearms charge. On 1 August 1976 Cornelius Neeson (49) was fatally stabbed to death; on 30 October Queens University student Stephen McCann (20) fell victim to the gang and in February and March 1977 two more Catholic men (Joseph Morrissey and Francis Cassidy) were slain. As Moore had earlier been ordered by Murphy to dispose of his black taxi, he subsequently bought a yellow Ford Cortina which was used in lieu of the taxi to abduct the victims.

Breakthrough
Nesbitt finally received his first breakthrough in cracking the case when their last victim, Gerard McLaverty survived a "Butchers" attack. On 10 May 1977, he was abducted and taken to a disused doctor's surgery on the corner of Emerson Street and the Shankill. Once inside, he was subjected to a vicious beating, and was stabbed, partially strangled and had his wrists cut. Although his assailants dumped him in an alleyway  – believing him to be dead – he had in fact survived and Nesbitt was notified of this crime which bore all of the hallmarks of the Shankill Butchers, save for the remarkable fact that he was left alive. At first sceptical of this new attack being the work of the "Butchers", upon being apprised of the details he became convinced that McLaverty was indeed a victim of the gang. He then quickly came up with a plan that would lead to the capture and subsequent imprisonment of most of the "Butchers" gang members.

He instructed police to drive a well-disguised McLaverty around the Shankill in an unmarked car in the hope that he would be able to recognise some of his assailants outside some of the pubs and drinking clubs the loyalist paramilitaries were known to frequent. This took place on 19 May, the day of local government elections which meant the Shankill Road was even more crowded than usual. Nesbitt's plan bore fruit when McLaverty identified Sam McAllister and Benjamin Edwards as his attackers. The former was easily spotted by McLaverty as he stood in a small group of men outside the "Berlin Arms", a popular UVF haunt in the Middle Shankill Road, due to his girth. McLaverty upon recognising McAllister had shouted out to the detectives in the car: "See that big fat fucker in the middle? That's one of them". A search of McAllister's home by police uncovered the knives used in the "Butchers"' killings which had been hidden under his bed beneath the floorboards. Under Nesbitt's intense questioning, the two arrested men broke down and confessed, providing more names leading to the arrest of Moore, Robert "Basher" Bates" and seven others. They were all charged and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Although Murphy was named as the gang's ringleader by Moore who also added those of two others (Murphy's lieutenants, "Mr. A" and "Mr. B"), the names were later retracted out of fear of retribution from the UVF Brigade Staff. Moore had actually confessed to Nesbitt in regards to the cut-throat killings that "Murphy done the first three and I done the rest". However, as Moore had retracted his statement, there wasn't sufficient corroborative or forensic evidence for the state prosecution to charge Murphy (named in court as the "Master Butcher"), "Mr. A", or "Mr. B" with the murders. Lenny Murphy was already well known to Nesbitt as having been one of the hardest members within the UVF, as he had interviewed him a number of times on previous occasions. Following the trial which was held in February 1979, William Moore's mother personally thanked Nesbitt for taking her son off the streets and putting him into jail. Nesbitt later ruefully commented that "the big fish got away" which was a reference to Murphy and Messrs "A" and "B". He later visited Moore in prison in a futile attempt to persuade him to name those who had escaped being charged with the murders.

Years later when Nesbitt was asked by journalist Peter Taylor how much the UVF Brigade Staff had actually known about the Shankill Butchers, he replied that their actions were not punished by the Brigade Staff because its members were afraid of them.

The Committee investigation
In 1991, after Channel 4 broadcast a documentary claiming that the Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committee had been reorganised as an alliance between loyalist paramilitaries, senior RUC members and leader figures in Northern Irish business and finance, Nesbitt and Detective Inspector Chris Webster were appointed by Chief Constable Hugh Annesley to head up an internal inquiry into the collusion allegations.

The investigation delivered its verdict in February 1993 and exonerated all those named as Committee members who did not have previous terrorist convictions arguing that they were "respectable members of the community" and in some cases "the aristocracy of the country". He added further that all bar one of the RUC officers named in the programme as having been involved in Committee's "Inner Force" did not actually exist and exonerated the sole real officer, Trevor Forbes. The report claimed that the show had been a hoax perpetrated by a disreputable, unnamed witness, and Nesbitt added that this witness had been active since 1985 when he sold false information about the Inner Force to Martin O'Hagan, who subsequently published it in the Sunday World.

McPhilemy denied the veracity of Nesbitt's argument and published a book in 1998 in which he discussed the investigation and also offered further evidence for the existence of the Committee and the Inner Force. McPhilemy argued Nesbitt's investigations had been perfunctory at best, failing for instance to uncover the fact that Jim Sands, the Ulster Independence Committee member who was the chief source for the documentary, was not unknown to one of the Committee's alleged two leading hit-men Billy Wright as Nesbitt had claimed but that rather the two had known each other since school. McPhilemy added that Sands, who had been questioned at some length during the Nesbitt Inquiries, had effectively been coached by the RUC as part of a whitewash. The book also reproduced the full transcript of a conversation between Sunday Express journalist Barrie Penrose and Nesbitt, in which Penrose made it clear that he was opposed to the initial programme whether it was true or not. Amongst the controversial statements made, Nesbitt was quoted as telling Penrose that he was aware of a UVF internal inquiry into the show which, he told Penrose, had pointed the finger at UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade members Jackie Whitten and Graham Long as possible sources for the documentary makers.

Awards and later years
Prior to his retirement, Nesbitt had received a total of 67 commendations, which is the highest number ever given to a policeman in the history of the United Kingdom. In 1980, he was awarded the MBE "in recognition of his courage and success in combating terrorism".

When he was asked by journalist Bobbie Hanvey his own opinion on how criminals were able to live with themselves after committing their crimes, his response was that he'd once interviewed a murderer who had killed more than once and admitted to him that, "he had been advised by a leading UVF man from Mid-Ulster that the best thing to do was to keep on committing murders. This way, you would forget them because you always remember your first victim and if you kept killing they would all eventually disappear – become jumbled up and none would stand out in your mind".

He was the subject of a series of interviews by Stephen Nolan in his 2011 televised documentary on the Shankill Butchers. Nolan posed tough questions to Nesbitt as to why it had taken the RUC so long to catch the killers and whether or not the UVF leadership had knowledge of the Butchers' identity. Nesbitt defended his actions by pointing out he had put "every effort" into catching the culprits but that Lenny Murphy was a cunning and sadistic psychopath who "operated a tight circle" leaving no evidence behind after his brutal, sectarian killings. Murphy was already dead at the time of the interview having been fatally shot by the Provisional IRA on 16 November 1982.

Nesbitt died on 27 August 2014 after a brief illness.

In his book The Shankill Butchers: the real story of cold-booded mass murder, Martin Dillon summed Nesbitt up as "undoubtedly the most professional detective in Northern Ireland". Journalist Chris Ryder described Nesbitt as "one of the most experienced and painstaking of the RUC's detectives".

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I know this isn't the most healthy alternative of muesli bars, but it's great for a special treat or even cut into little squares for a party. My kids have grown up not eating commercial muesli bars since they are not failsafe, and in the past when I have tried to make something like them or made the baked versions, they were not very impressed. So just telling them that there were marshmallows in it I had their attention. Another reason I like this one is because it is a no bake slice. When my oven is playing up or in the middle of summer when I really don't want my oven on, it's perfect!
Lightly grease a slice pan and line with baking paper.
Put cashews to Thermomix bowl. Chop on speed 5 for 2 sec. Set aside in a mixing bowl.
Add rice bubbles, puffed quinoa, rye flakes and psyllium husks to the nuts.Put the carob powder, nuttelex and marshmallows into Thermomix bowl. Melt at 60° for 2 minutes on speed 3.
OR put into a saucepan and melt over a low heat stirring for 5-6 minuntes, until melted and smooth.Pour marshmallow mixture over the dry mix and stir well to combine.
Tip into tray and use a wet spatula to press down firmly into the tray.
Chill for 3 hours or until firm. Cut into bars.
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I don't have Rye flakes – can I just leave out?
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Q: What type of languages are accepted by a PDA in which stack size is limited? What type(s) of languages are accepted by a PDA in which stack size is limited to, say 20 items?
In my view it should still be CFL, because there is a temporary memory to store.

A: A PDA with a stack limited to containing 20 items is equivalent to a DFA. Here's the proof.

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*Take any PDA-20, and you can make it into an equivalent DFA. Let's say the stack alphabet S where |S| = N. You also have the bottom-of-stack symbol Z. We imagine an additional symbol, -, which we can also have on the stack, which stands for "unused". The stack is now equivalent to a string of the form x = -* S* Z where |x| = 20, in all cases. Pushing onto the stack consists in replacing occurrences of -, whereas popping consists in replacing other symbols with -, in a LIFO manner. There are now (N+2)^20 possible configurations of the stack for any PDA-20. To construct the DFA, simply replicate each state of the DFA by this factor, and have transitions to states of the DFA reflect the new configuration of the stack. This way, the information contained in the configuration of the stack in the PDA-20 is contained in the current state of the DFA.

*Take any DFA, and you can make it into an equivalent PDA-20. Simply don't use the stack, and you have a PDA-20 which accepts the same language as the DFA.
Just to illustrate the first part of the proof, consider a PDA-5 with states A, B, C, ..., Z, and a lot of transitions. Let's say the input alphabet is {0, 1}. Then there are 2^5 = 32 different stack configurations, say. The DFA equivalent to this PDA-5 might have states A1, B1, ..., Z1, A2, B2, ..., Z2, ..., A32, B32, ..., Z32, though it will have the same number of transitions as the original. If a transition in the original PDA-5 would have taken the stack from configuration #2 in state R to configuration #17 and the machine to state F, the DFA will go from state R2 to state F17.

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Humans are destroying major elements of their planet's life. At the same time, they are also doing some things to preserve and even improve it. What role has the law, including but not only that which fifty years ago began to be known as environmental law, played in the story of Earth's health? In this essay with recognition of the immensity of the task I describe how and where the law has made a positive difference, nationally and internationally. And I point out where it has failed. I lay out an overall view of the challenges that have faced the efforts of environmental law and indicate which means have been and can be effective and under what circumstances. Finally, I offer a few lessons that we have learned.
In the United States, the overwhelming majority of environmental violations are committed by businesses, which raises questions about when corporations should be prosecuted for environmental crimes. I argue that both corporations and individuals should be held accountable for environmental crimes but that prosecutors should exercise their discretion to ensure that criminal prosecution is reserved for the most egregious environmental violations. In this article, I review the broad doctrine of corporate criminal liability in the United States, which allows corporations to be held vicariously responsible for the acts of their employees or agents, if committed within the scope of the employment or agency and for the benefit of the corporation. I address how prosecutors exercise their discretion to narrow the broad scope of corporate criminal liability and why reliance on prosecutorial discretion makes more sense than proposed reforms to corporate criminal law that would focus on the role of senior management and/or a compliance program defense. I explain why prosecuting corporations is essential to environmental protection through law, even though corporations cannot be jailed, because corporate criminal prosecution serves retributive, utilitarian, and expressive purposes of punishment.
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You will ALWAYS be number one (inspirational tribute to Robbie Rotten)
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Stefan would have wanted us to be happy, not sad, so we arranged an inspiring version of We Are Number One in remembrance of him as the character we all knew: Robbie Rotten. Some of our viewers pointed out that perhaps we named our other tribute "You were number one" incorrectly, so we have given this one a more fitting title.
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TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS (John Denver) – Piano Tutorial
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Take Me Home, Country Roads is a song by John Denver. Released in 1971, the song reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold and then Platinum. Many consider Take Me Home, Country Roads to be John Denver's signature song, and its popularity continues to this day, where it has sold over a million copies on digital platforms. It has appeared in several films and series, including Whisper of the Heart (Studio Ghibli), The Office, Alien: Covenant, Kingsman: The Golden Circle and it was recently featured in the trailer for Fallout 76, which is set in West Virginia. This piano tutorial of Take Me Home, Country Roads is perfect for anyone gearing up for the new Fallout 76 game, or just for any of the fans of the song!
Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
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And now you're out of sight, yeah
Show me how you want it to be
Tell me, baby,
'Cause I need to know now, oh, because…
My loneliness
Is killing me and I
I must confess
I still believe, still believe
When I'm not with you I lose my mind
Give me a sign
Hit me, baby, one more time
The reason I breathe is you
Boy, you got me blinded
Oh, pretty baby,
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
It's not the way I planned it
Ah, yeah, yeah
How was I supposed to know?
That my loneliness
Is killing me now
Don't you know I still believe
That you will be here
And give me a sign?
WHAT THE HECK IS THIS CALLED?!! (99.99% of people have played this!)
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ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE (Monty Python's Life of Brian) – Piano Tutorial
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Learn Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Eric Idle on piano with this tutorial! Please enjoy!
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is a song written by Eric Idle for the British comedy group Monty Python. It was first featured in Month Python's Life of Brian and has become a staple song for various public events such as sporting matches and even funerals.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is about keeping your head up in bad times, which at the time of release resonated highly with the British sentiment of the "stiff upper lip" and subsequently resulted in immense popularity, with the single reaching number 3 on the UK Singles Charts in 1991.
This piano tutorial of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is professionally arranged to be playable by intermediate level players. You will have heaps of fun learning how to play this great sing-along track on the piano!
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life
If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing
Always look on the right side of life
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow
Forget about your sin
Give the audience a grin
Enjoy it, it's your last chance anyhow
So, always look on the bright side of death
A-just before you draw your terminal breath
Life's a piece of sh*t
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you
C'mon Brian, cheer up!
Always look on the bright side of life
Worse things happen at sea, you know
I mean, what have you got to lose
You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing
What have you lost? Nothing!
Nothing will come from nothing, you know what they say?
Cheer up you old bugger, c'mon give us a grin!
There you are, see, it's the end of the film
Incidentally, this record is available in the foyer
Some of us have to got live as well, you know
Who do you think pays for all this rubbish
They're not gonna make their money back, you know
I told them, I said to them, Bernie, I said they'll never make their money back
STACY'S MOM (Fountains of Wayne) – Piano Tutorial
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Learn Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne on piano with this tutorial! Please enjoy!
Stacy's Mom is a song by Fountains of Wayne, released on their third album. The song is about someone who has a crush on their friend's mother. It mixes tongue-in-cheek humour with pop-punk elements and catchy melodies. Stacy's Mom was Fountains of Wayne's only mainstream hit, reaching number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100. This piano tutorial will show you how to play Stacy's Mom on piano. It works very well on piano, with great harmonies that fit well under the fingers! If you are an intermediate level player, you should have no problems learning this arrangement! Enjoy.
Stacy's mom has got it goin' on
Stacy, can I come over after school? (after school)
We can hang around by the pool (hang by the pool)
Did your mom get back from her business trip? (business trip)
Is she there, or is she trying to give me the slip? (give me the slip)
You know, I'm not the little boy that I used to be
I'm all grown up now, baby can't you see
She's all I want and I've waited for so long
Stacy, can't you see you're just not the girl for me
I know it might be wrong but I'm in love with Stacy's mom
Stacy, do you remember when I mowed your lawn? (mowed your lawn)
Your mom came out with just a towel on (towel on)
I could tell she liked me from the way she stared (way she stared)
And the way she said, "you missed a spot over there" (a spot over there)
And I know that you think it's just a fantasy
But since your dad walked out, your mom could use a guy like me
She's all I want, and I've waited so long
I know it might be wrong
But I'm in love with Stacy's mom
Stacy can't you see you're just not the girl for me
I'm in love with (Stacy's mom oh oh)
I know it might be wrong, but
Songwriters: Adam Schlesinger / Christopher B Collingwood
Stacy's Mom lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
PAPERS, PLEASE THEME SONG – Piano Tutorial
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Learn the Papers, Please theme by Lucas Pope on piano with this tutorial! Please enjoy!
Papers, Please is a puzzle game by Lucas Pope. In the game you must act as an immigration officer and approve or detain potential migrants. The theme is a curious and plodding melody that develops over a couple of minutes, increasing in complexity, but never becoming difficult. This easy piano arrangement takes everything that you love about the Papers, Please theme and re-imagines it for beginning or lower intermediate pianists. You'll enjoy playing the Papers, Please theme with our piano tutorial!
State Anthem of Ukraine (Державний Гімн України)- Piano Tutorial
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Learn Державний Гімн України by Mykhailo Verbytsky on piano with this tutorial! Please enjoy!
Державний Гімн України is the state anthem of Ukraine. When Ukraine was not yet a state, the song was used for the anthem of the Ukrainian People's Republic, West Ukrainian People's Republic and Carpatho-Ukraine. We hope that you enjoy this piano arrangement of the state anthem of Ukraine, released on Ukraine's national day!
Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля,
Ще нам, браття молодії, усміхнеться доля.
English lyrics:
Nay, thou art not dead, Ukraine, see, thy glory's born again,
And the skies, O brethren, upon us smile once more!
As in Springtime melts the snow, so shall melt away the foe,
And we shall be masters in our own home.
Soul and body, yea, our all, offer we at freedom's call
We, whose forebears, and ourselves, proud Cossacks are!
U.N. OWEN WAS HER? (Flandre's Theme) – Piano Tutorial
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Learn U.N. Owen Was Her? (Flandre's Theme) by ZUN on piano with this tutorial! Please enjoy!
U.N. Owen Was Her? (Flandre's Theme) is the theme dedicated to the character Flandre Scarlet from the series Touhou Project. The track has been re-arranged and turned into Black MIDI countless times, so we thought we ought to give you our own playable version!
This piano arrangement of Flandre's Theme is very energetic, hard and fast. If you manage to get this under your fingers, you will be a certified legend!
You were number one… R.I.P. Stefán Karl Stefánsson
R.I.P. Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975-2018)
You brought joy to countless people, both on your show and through the internet community.
Here is a tribute for Robbie Rotten: You Were Number One.

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Interview: Kids In Glass Houses
"I don't think there's any crowd like a Welsh crowd."
With a successful fourth album out and a gig on home turf as part of their headline tour, Hannah Embleton-Smith spoke to Cardiff's own Kids In Glass Houses guitarist, Iain Mahanty, ahead of the performance at Cardiff Student Union's Solus.
This is your first headline tour in two years. How does it feel to be back on the road?
It's really cool actually because, even though we've been doing support shows, it's not the same as getting out there and doing our own headline shows. Those people are there specifically to see you and that feeling can't be paralleled, really.
Are you looking forward to playing for your home crowd?
Really excited. Cardiff's always the one for us, it's the one we look forward to the most. I don't think there's any crowd like a Welsh crowd, so it's gonna be good.
This time last year you played in the Taf, our student pub. Do you miss the more intimate venues now that you're getting bigger?
Nah, the more people the better, like! No, it's a completely different thing, I think. When you're doing a small, intimate acoustic show, it's better when there are fewer people because less people are talking over you playing and it's more personal, I guess. But we enjoy the big shows, really.
Your third album In Gold Blood was nominated for last year's Welsh Music Prize. What do you think of the Welsh music scene at the moment?
Yeah, it's good. It seemed to be a lot more concise a couple of years ago, but I think it's definitely spread out a lot more now. You've got progressive punk and bands like Chain Of Flowers who are in shoegaze world, and then you've got Straight Lines who are more our world of music. I think it's good that everyone's branched out and are finding their own feet.
Swn festival is coming up in just a few weeks. Will you be checking that out?
If I'm around, definitely. I think it's a great festival and a great idea to do something like that in Cardiff. We were missing something like that before it was set up three years ago.
How integral has the Welsh support been to your own success?
Oh, it's completely integral. The Welsh music scene is where we grew up, it's what we were a part of. If we hadn't grown up in that music scene we wouldn't be the band we are now. You've got bands like the Manics and the 'Phonics, and then after them Funeral For A Friend and 'Prophets, then we and The Blackout [from Merthyr Tydfil] came after that.
And how was it performing with the likes of Funeral For A Friend earlier on in your career?
It was insane for us, because they were the bands that we grew up listening to. We'd go and watch them when we were younger and be like, "That's class, the boys down the road are doing it; why shouldn't we start a band?"
Back in 2007 you recorded your debut album Smart Casual in Cardiff at Long Wave Studios, but follow-up Dirt was recorded in Texas. What was the reason for leaving home and how did it affect the record?
So we did the first album with Romesh Dodangoda who runs Long Wave – it's a great studio and he's a really good friend of ours, and then we decided to go with the producer Jason Perry for the second record. He'd worked with McFly [on their upcoming album] in Texas, and he suggested we go to a studio that's away from home so we'd have no distractions. I think he suggested this place because he wanted to show us a good time more than the studio being great!
Do you have any good stories to share?
None that I'm willing to share! No it was cool, though: we closed off recording the album by slugging back a bottle of tequila, sat on top of a water tower and watching storms coming in across the desert, so it was pretty mind-blowing. It definitely helped the sound become more focused than when we wrote Smart Casual, because it wasn't a case of, "Let's finish early so we can go to the pub", you know, we were in the middle of the desert.
From then, you moved slightly further away from your pop rock vibe and experimented with 2011's concept album In Gold Blood. What inspired you to construct a record around one idea?
It was Aled's story and the concept is about a boy and a girl. It's basically their journey through a post-apocalyptic world, but the whole story is a metaphor for our journey through life as people. I think that Al has always been a creative like person and he wanted to push himself lyrically.
Was it hard to stick to those constraints?
Yeah it was, and I think that it pushed us musically as well because we had to set the tone for the words, rather than just concentrate on writing pop songs. Aled just really wanted to push himself, I guess, so in turn we all our pushed ourselves and we all loved it.
Going for such a contained idea in your third album probably didn't give an obvious direction for the fourth. How did you decide where to go with Peace?
I think that by the end of the In Gold Blood tour, we had pushed ourselves so much that we just felt like we weren't having fun anymore. It felt like playing was a chore rather than an enjoyment, which it never should be. Having gone so far in that direction we realised where our strengths were, and on this album we decided to go back to our roots of writing pop songs while using everything we'd learnt from recording the third album. We kept that creative edge and became more 'studio-savvy'.
The record has only just been released, on 30 September. How has the reception been so far?
It's been amazing. We put the album out to stream before it came out and people seemed to respond pretty well to that. Because we've been on the road as the album has officially come out, it's been great seeing people's reactions to new songs, getting to meet the fans and hearing what they think; it's been wicked.
You can get your hands on Kids In Glass Houses' fourth album Peace on Itunes now.
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Is a Corvette Worth it? I'd buy one!
Written by John Cunningham in Buying advice,Supercars
The 2023 C8 Corvette Z06 is set to be the wildest Corvette yet, ready to shake the world with the most powerful naturally-aspirated V8 engine seen in a production vehicle to date. The claimed sub-3 second 0-60mph time and a top speed of over 200mph are about to take the Corvette brand to uncharted territory, in the realm of luxury supercars.
The base model C8, released in 2020, brought a refreshing visual redesign to the Corvette family, while simultaneously announcing major new changes like aluminum chassis, a rear mid-mounted engine, and Coilover suspension.
The evolution of the C7 to the C8 may divide buyers in search of a specific experience offered by a particular generation of Corvette. The pleasure of Corvette ownership lies in the generous choice of models spanning nearly 70 years, with scores of different trim levels and special edition cars to choose from.
The Corvette Philosophy
Corvette has blessed driving enthusiasts with stylish and affordable 2-seater sportscars that welcome the driver into a visceral experience. The evocative Chevy V8 which has appeared as a small block, and big block throughout the years, breathes life into the lightweight platform, singing every crisp note directly to the driver, while close communication to the road is felt with a comfortable ride and responsive handling.
Corvettes were driven by NASA astronauts, movie stars, and everyday people; their excellent value as part of the charm, demonstrating that rare, luxurious materials and overcomplicated design feature served no real purpose on a sports car aimed at a broad audience of driving enthusiasts from all backgrounds.
Notable features of the Corvette included a lightweight composite body, a naturally-aspirated V8, and a host of subtle practicalities and optional trim extras that proved the 'Vette could be enjoyed on a regular basis.
The timeless lines of any Corvette are gorgeous to admire, and the subtle visual enhancements that have crept in over the generations have succeeded in retaining the signature silhouette, which has become increasingly sleek and aerodynamic with the introduction of the C4 and C5 Corvette.
Birth of a star
Today, the Corvette is a globally-popular icon of American sportscar culture, representing Chevrolet's successes on the road and out on track. But just like every great story – the journey commenced with a slow start on a rocky road.
The first-ever 'Vette appeared as a glamorous, bewildering concept car in January of 1953, at GM's Motorama event in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York. When the first production models rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan, six months later, the car didn't receive nearly the same level of attention or excitement from the public.
The use of fiberglass to construct a lightweight body for the Corvette was the beginning of a longstanding tradition, yet it initially provided little gain for the car that only produced a mere 150 horsepower from its 3.9l second-gen Blue Flame inline 6-cylinder engine.
Enter the V8
C1 Corvette sales remained sluggish until the wise decision was made to replace the gutless Blue Flame motor with a 4.3l small-block V8 from 1955. With a stronger, healthier V8 engine cutting the 0-60mph time by over 1 second, interest rapidly grew in Chevrolet's elegant and affordable V8 sportscar.
With the C2 Corvette came optional big-block engines pushing out over 400 horsepower, and convertible and coupe variants of the eye-catching Sting Ray model. Still, Corvette sales struggled to gain real momentum until 1973, when the release of the all-new C3 Corvette broke sales records for Chevrolet.
The first major redesign since 1963 came with the C4 Corvette in 1983, and again with the C5, in 1997, when things quickly started to look up for Corvette. The C5 proved itself as a capable roadgoing sportscar and a dominant force in motorsports, claiming victories in both the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The C8 Corvette
The evolution of the Corvette has seen 8 generations exhibit a variety of chassis and engine configurations. Between the release of high-performance Z06 and ZR-1 models have been countless wacky and wonderful concept cars, from hydrogen to Wankel power, that demonstrate GM's willingness to broadly experiment with different paths on a quest to discover new ground with the platform.
Now, nearly 70 years since the C1 rolled off the assembly line in 1953, and the dream of Zora has finally been realized – the Corvette is now a mid-engine sports car with the latest technology inside the plush new cabin, incredible weight distribution, and impressive handling characteristics that built on Corvette's successes in motorsport.
The lightweight construction of the body exhibits the most aggressive lines yet, with large air ducts on the front bumper that feed the radiators, and aerodynamic features all over the body that help keep the C8 planted to the road.
With the increased downforce, greater torsional rigidity, and balanced weight distribution, the C8 is not only more capable on the road and track, but it is also perhaps the most user-friendly to date. The steering is light and nimble, and the C8's new rear mid-engine layout gives the sensation of being elevated to speed, with an enormous punch of naturally-aspirated V8 power coming from behind the driver.
The base C8 Corvette is powered by a 6.2l LT2 cross-plane crank V8 pushing out a formidable 485hp and 465lb/ft of torque; meaning the C8 will achieve 0-62mph in 2.9 seconds, and a top speed of 195mph. The optional Z51 performance package is a must-have for those looking for even more speed and features an electronic limited-slip differential, race-spec adjustable suspension, a sport exhaust system that brings power to 495, and a third radiator to provide additional cooling.
The upcoming 2023 Z06 model ignores supercharging as a means of gaining additional power, instead opting for a bespoke naturally-aspirated 5.5l LT6 flat-plane crank V8, with 670 horsepower, a top speed of over 200mph, and the most delightful exhaust note that howls all the way up to an astonishing 8,600rpm.
Helping the driver manage the mighty LT2 engine is a Tremec 8-speed dual-clutch transmission activated by paddles mounted to the steering column. The C8 is the first Corvette in a long time to completely drop the manual transmission option, with Chevrolet citing low customer demand and structural concerns as reasons for the single transmission option. Still, the C8 seems all the better for it, with lightning-fast gear shifts that let the driver effortlessly accelerate out of bends without removing their hands from the steering wheel.
Inside, the C8 has a revolutionary new cockpit, upholstered in leather, microsuede, or a special textile compound, and carbon fiber or aluminum trims available to compliment the style. The driving position feels new and luxurious, with plenty of room in the spacious cabin that centers all the excitement around the driver.
An 8-inch infotainment screen is housed on the artistic central column that separates the driver and passenger seating, allowing the key functions of the car to be accessed and viewed, including climatic control, entertainment, navigation, and live car performance data.
The C8 boasts considerably more space to carry personal items than most other sportscars sharing the mid-mounted engine layout. The C8 is blessed with 2 storage compartments, one in the rear, which doubles as a housing for the removable roof, and a front trunk that contains adequate space for a small grocery shop or a duffel bag to be stored safely.
The C8 represents unmatched value in the sports car market, with base models starting from a shade over $60,000 MSRP, there isn't another American or exotic sports car on the road today that gives you so much bang for your buck.
Perhaps for purists, previous iterations of the Corvette that featured a manual transmission, or engine options such as a supercharger could prove to be more enjoyable investments, with the 'analogue-feel' of older, less tech-focused sportscars quickly becoming a growing trend among nostalgic Corvette fans.
There are endless options to choose from with a Corvette, and each car has a unique character thanks to a generous pool of special commemorative models, high-performance variants, and rare classics for collectors to cherish for years to come.
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This article discusses the issues and implications of high-stakes tests on English language learner (ELL) students. Specifically, ELL students are increasingly included in high-stakes assessments connected to accountability efforts (e.g., the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 [NCLB]), and thus it is crucial that issues related to academic achievement tests be critically evaluated relative to their use. The article analyzes these tests relative to their norm samples and the tests' validity to determine their usefulness to ELL students. The article examines commonly used language proficiency relative to definitions of proficiency, technical quality, alignment with criteria for language classification and reclassification, and academic predictive validity. The article concludes that currently constructed high-stakes assessments are inappropriate for ELL students and that their continued use for high-stakes decisions have adverse consequences. The article provides recommendations to address the issues related to high-stakes assessments and ELL students.
This article provides important points for consideration and discussion relative to high-stakes assessment reliability and validity for English language learner (ELL) students and for accountability systems in general.


Welcome to the final part of this HTML5 Flappy Bird tutorial series. We'll work on the game's user interface and finish up by adding some sound effects.
Welcome to the fourth part of this HTML5 Flappy Bird tutorial series. In the previous post we implemented endless scrolling of our game's ground layer. Today we'll do the same for the pipes that our little hero must fly between.


In this article, you will learn how to share Published iPAR Impact Reports.
Before you start: only published reports can be shared as everything on iPAR is private until published. If you have not done so already, first learn how to create a basic draft report and then learn what it means to publish a report. Alternatively, if you have yet to complete the initial fund setup, you should get started here.
WARNING -- What is Published cannot be Un-Published: in this tutorial, we assume you have created and published a report. However, do know that if you choose to publish a report, you cannot unpublish or delete it once published.
An Overview: Who can see a published report?
By default (and applicable to most funds), a published report is still only visible to users with login access to your account. So nothing automatically happens when a report is published. However, you are now able to share the report manually using the tools we describe below.
...unless there is a preexisting relationship between your iPAR account and an Advisor's account.
There is an exception to the above: if you have an existing relationship with an Advisor on iPAR, or an LP via an Advisor, published reports *ARE* automatically pushed to those individuals and firms. This is the only case where published reports are automatically shared, which happens when there is an existing relationship on the iPAR Platform between accounts.
The LP Portal is a paid feature allowing management of LP Users and LP access to reports through a secure login. Details and instructions are not covered in this article. If you are interested in learning more, see this article.
Manually Share Published Reports: "Settings"
From your Reporting dashboard (select the "Reporting" link from the left column menu), select the "Settings" button next to the Published Report you would like to share.
There are two sections to notice: "Share Secure URL" and "Report Password."
Make sure you know the report password. If needed, click the "Show" button to view.
Resetting the Password: you can reset the password at any time. However, do know this will effectively block access for anyone who attempts to access the report using the previous password.
Once you have the password, you should copy the "Secure URL" link provided starting with "https://reports..." This link behaves similarly to Google Doc links -- anyone who uses this link (and has the password) will be able to access and view the published report.
For now, just click on the link to view the behavior.
After clicking the link, your browser will open a new tab and prompt for the password.
Enter the password and, presto, the report is displayed!
The "Share URL" process provides you with manual control of access to published reports. Specific report links are perpetual and, as long as the password remains unchanged, individuals can access a report immediately or anytime in the future.
If you made it this far through the tutorials and articles, you deserve a big "Thank you" from the iPAR team. It truly is a pleasure to collaborate with each of you toward a better tomorrow via this wild ride we call Impact Investing. Our goal is to continually deliver value through software that is delightful to use. Whether or not we hit that mark is based on your feedback and use of the platform.
We are available to help anytime and always welcome your feedback + ideas. Please reach out to us at managers@iparimpact.com.


Working together with capitalizers in this middle stage are Captains who fill the role of people management, strategic leadership, and continual improvement of the process and structured work environment.
Need to maximize output. Business unit reaches its full potential, generates the most substantial profits or best resource utilization, repeatedly wins customers and delivers maximum value.
less effective at authoring or building because neither stage is predictable, because there are no processes, and because of less developed imagination and problem solving skill.
reluctant to deal with the unknown.
At the business unit level, traditionalism traits can scuttle important diversification.
frequently resist adjusting to changing market conditions.
prematurely erodes many business units.
Captain working in the extend stage will not perform well – Captains are uninspired because the trends will inevitably continue downward.
A source of tension exists with capitalizers who become frustrated by the extender's apparent disinterest in efficient delivery.
Mismatch exits with Capitalizers who organizes work according to a predictable schedule and the Extender who extends each engagement thinking that more assistance is better.
strong regard for hierarchy and may go by the titles of foreman, supervisor, manager, director and vice president.
savvy captain may engage a diversifier [author/builder] to help drive adaptation to the changing environment.
Frequently this diversifier is known as a change agent and can become the subject of dislike by the capitalizing workforce.
When change agents are used, the captain is able to maintain positive rapport and continue to motivate the capitalizer workforce.