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Clifton Massage
I have been involved in Sport and Recreation for over 25 years in various capacities. Starting as a junior weight lifter at the age of 14; my later career saw me continuing in the sports sector, starting out as a gym instructor in both public and private gyms. I went on to manage several of Bristol's Sports Centres and Swimming pools as an area manager. A career change, later in life, meant a move to London where I found myself office bound in a senior management position specialising in IT within the Banking sector. I moved back to Bristol in 2007 and retrained to be a sports massage therapist. Having been in a position of being a sportsman as well as a senior manager, in very different working environments, I very much understands that the body not only has to deal with the punishment and stress from physical activity, but also that of daily life.
Mr Chris Wood
Sports: Athletics, Golf, Gymnastics, Horse Riding, Weightlifting
Injuries: Ankle Pain, Hip & groin pain, Musculoskeletal, Neck Pain, Wrist & Hand Pain
Bristol Natural Health Service
Established over 20 years ago. Multi-disciplinary clinic. Acupuncture, Sports & remedial massage. Chiropractor. Cranio-sacral therapy & more. NHS links
Mr Richard Gibbons
Ms Keon Williams
Injuries: Elbow Pain, Lower Back Pain, Neck Pain, Sacroiliac Joint Pain, Sciatica
ASM Musculoskeletal Therapy & Massage
Caldicot (11.22 Miles Away)
My name is Anthony and I am the therapist here at ASM and after spending 20 years training, competing, studying and teaching in the sports field I am aware of the physical, emotional and psychological impact pain, injury and body dysfunction can have on sports performers. However as a therapist I have realised that sports performers are not alone and that the stresses and strains of everyday life in our current society means that many people spend their days suffering with acute and chronic pain, postural dysfunction and a lack of range of movement. The treatments available here at ASM combine a range of techniques to not only treat the painful body part/ injury but also establish the root cause of any pain/ injury by assessing and treating posture, joint function and pain referral patterns. I aim to provide a unique and personal treatment plan for each of my clients taking into consideration not only their training, exercise and movement goals but also lifestyle and employment factors. If you feel that I may be able to support you to improve your body's function, meet your daily movement goals or improve your performance please do not hesitate to contact me.
Mr Anthony Mayo
Sports: Athletics, Cycling, Football, Running, Surfing
Injuries: Ankle Pain, Hip & groin pain, Knee Pain, Lower Back Pain, Lower Leg Pain
Hayesgate Osteopathy
CHEPSTOW (12.47 Miles Away)
Hayesgate Osteopathy is situated just outside Chepstow, Monmouthshire off the A48 near the Marriott St Pierre golf and Leisure club. As well as Osteopathic diagnosis and treatment for a wide range of muscular , skeletal sporting injuries, daily aches and pains due to posture,work or just daily activities at any age can be assessed and treated . We also have a special interest in Migraine ,Headache Management and are registered as an associate practitioner with the charity Arthritis Action UK. Acupuncture and deep tissue massage can also be provided in treatment sessions where appropriate.
Mr Martin Boddy
Sports: Cycling, Golf, Running, Triathlon, Weightlifting
Injuries: Elbow Pain, Foot Pain, Lower Back Pain, Musculoskeletal, Neck Pain


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Year 8, 9 and 11: 1.00-1.55pm
Sixth Form - outside Hub between 1:20pm-1:55pm
Due to the large numbers of meals that will be provided on the Christmas Lunch day, Chartwells will only provide jacket potatoes with a choice of fillings as an alternative on 15th December 2021. Pupils can of course bring a packed lunch from home.
Lunch Menus: September 2021-March 2022
Please see the menu options below for all breaks and lunches.
Lunch Menu 1 (week beginning)
30 Aug; 20 Sept; 11 Oct; 1 Nov; 22 Nov;
13 Dec; 3 Jan 22; 24 Jan 22; 14 Feb 22;
14 Feb 22; 7 Mar 22; 28 Mar 22.
6 Sept; 27 Sept; 18 Oct; 8 Nov;
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13 Sept; 4 Oct; 25 Oct;
15 Nov; 6 Dec; 27 Dec; 17 Jan;
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Break Menu 1
How the canteen works...
The School has excellent on-site catering facilities whereby pupils can purchase breakfast before school (8.30am-8.50am), at mid-morning break (11am-11.20am) and during lunch break (1.20pm-2.00pm).
Every student is set up with an individual account. Money can be added to your child's account on-line via Schoolcomms (our on-line payment system) or cash can be added at one of three terminals/re-valuation units located in the school canteen. Access to your child's account is via a biometric system (fingerprint recognition). A letter will be sent to all parents/carers seeking agreement to participate and at the beginning of the academic year, the school will organise for an account to be set via fingerprint recognition. Gel pads are located at till points and recognise a child's unique fingerprint and calls up their unique account, these are cleaned by Chartwell's staff on a regular basis.
Schoolcomms enables parents and carers to pay on-line any time 24/7 and reduces the amount of cash being carried around school, as well as saving the school and Catering Partner time and money on administration.
Payments can be made by downloading a payment app. If you have a smartphone, you can download the "School Gateway"
app from the app store (Android and iPhone).
By doing this, both you and the school avoid incurring charges for text messages and future message exchanges will be FREE. It is quick and easy to do. All you need is the e-mail address and mobile phone number that the school holds on record for you.
Alternatively, you can visit the website www.schoolgateway.com and click on 'new user'. You will receive a text message with a PIN number to log into School Gateway. If you experience any trouble when logging in, please contact the school on 01633 653112 and we will update your details on SIMS. Details on downloading the app are also available via our school website.
SPECIAL DIET PROCEDURE
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Siri's Hebrew Voice Sues Apple Because She Doesn't Like The Way IPhone Owners Are Using Siri
from the how-not-to-sue dept
Thu, Jan 3rd 2019 09:39am - Tim Cushing
We cover a lot of weird and pointless lawsuits here at Techdirt. This one, filed by Israeli radio broadcaster Galit Gura-Eini, is one of the weirdest. At first brush, it seems like she might have a legit legal complaint on her hands.
Israeli radio broadcaster and voice artist Galit Gura-Eini, the voice of Waze's first female navigation directions in Hebrew, alleges that Apple has been using her voice recordings without authorization. Gura-Eini claims she was surprised to learn she was now the voice of Siri when the app launched in Hebrew in 2016. Earlier this year, Gura-Eini approached Apple requesting her voice be removed from the Siri app, but the request was denied.
But things get significantly stranger as her claims continue. First off, it appears the claim against Apple for unauthorized use is bogus. Apple's response to the lawsuit points out it licensed the recordings of Gura-Eini's voice from Nuance Communications. Nuance had the rights to Gura-Eini's voice, so Apple was under no legal obligation to remove the recordings just because she didn't want the company to use them.
Things go completely off the rail with Gura-Eini's other claims. She says she only granted a license to Nuance for "legitimate" uses. So she's suing Apple over the actions of users, claiming the end use of pre-recorded syllables by certain iPhone owners isn't legit.
The lawsuit suggests that Gura-Eini's voice is "widely identified and associated" with her own live persona. Furthermore, users have taken to using the voice to make it say inappropriate things. This amounts to turning the plaintiff's voice, "into a vehicle for improper and humiliating speech."
The licensee — Apple — cannot control how end users manipulate a series of recorded syllables controlled by an algorithm. Its use of Gura-Eini's voice for its Hebrew version of Siri is a completely legitimate use. No matter how disturbing it might be to hear your own voice saying horrible things you'd never say, the problem is end users, not Apple.
It's impossible to see how this case moves forward. If the licensing is all in place — and it appears to be (Apple is longtime partner of Nuance Communications) — the only thing left is someone seeking to soothe their ruffled feathers with $66,000 from Apple's checkbook.
Filed Under: galit gura-eini, hebrew, israel, siri, siri's voice, text-to-speech
Companies: apple, nuance
DailyDirt: Computers To Talk For Us
Mon, Nov 19th 2012 05:00pm - ITInnovation
Computers help people communicate all the time, but they can be really helpful for people who have no voice at all (eg. Stephen Hawking). Synthetic speech technologies are getting better — with better algorithms to generate more human-like speech and cloud-based systems that allow processor-intensive software to run on handheld devices. Here are just a few examples of some computer-created voices.
Most people usually think of synthetic speech software sounding like a HAL9000 or Gene Roddenberry's wife, so there's been a notable dearth of synthetic kid's voices. Until now. Meet Harry and Rosie — a couple text-to-speech voices that sound like British children. [url]
The Blizzard Challenge is an annual competition for taking a limited speech database and building a synthetic voice from it in order to learn more about how algorithms can be improved for speech synthesis. Someday, these results will actually make some Mission Impossible tricks seem plausible. [url]
A new smartphone app can translate spoken words in real time from Japanese to English (or Mandarin or Korean) and vice versa. This app doesn't do much for grammar, but it can get across some meaning even though it's not perfect. [url]
If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post.
Filed Under: asr, blizzard challenge, speech synthesis, stephen hawking, text-to-speech, translation, voice
Why Hasn't The Authors Guild Freaked Out About iPad Ebook Text-to-Speech?
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the inquiring minds want to know dept
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 05:03pm - Mike Masnick
Back in March, we pointed out how odd it was that the Authors Guild hadn't freaked out about the text-to-speech capabilities of the iPad, which would allow for ebooks to be read aloud. Of course, this was the same feature on the Kindle which caused the Authors Guild to freak out (with absolutely no legal basis), leading Amazon to make that feature optional.
It appears others are noticing this strange silence on the part of the Authors Guild. David Pogue, over at the NY Times wonders if the Authors Guild just wasn't paying attention:
This is exactly the feature that debuted in the Amazon Kindle and was then removed when publishers screamed bloody murder. But somehow, so far, Apple has gotten away with it, maybe because nobody's even realized this feature is in there.
Filed Under: copyright, ebooks, ipad, text-to-speech
Companies: amazon, apple, authors guild
Will The Authors Guild Freak Out About Text To Speech On The iPad?
from the yakety-yak dept
Fri, Mar 26th 2010 06:08am - Mike Masnick
When the second generation Kindle ebook reader launched with a text-to-speech functionality, the Authors Guild freaked out, claiming that this violated a totally made up on the spot aspect of copyright law. Plenty of copyright lawyers dissected this claim in great detail and concluded that the Authors Guild was making up stories about how they wanted copyright law to act, rather than paying attention to what copyright law actually said. There simply is no copyright violation in having a computer read a book aloud to you. However, after the Authors Guild ratcheted up the threats, Amazon finally caved and let authors choose to block the text-to-speech functionality.
Now, with the iPad coming out, some are noticing that it, too, contains such text-to-speech capabilities, and yet oddly, we haven't heard complaints from the Authors Guild (found via Copycense). Have they come to their senses, or have they just not realized it yet?
Filed Under: authors, ebooks, ipad, kindle, text-to-speech
Amazon Gives In To Ridiculous Authors Guild Claim: Allows Authors To Block Text-To-Speech
from the and-here's-how-we-shoot-ourselves-in-the-foot dept
Well here's an unfortunate surprise. Following the ridiculous claims of the Authors Guild that automated reading aloud of ebooks using text-to-speech software is a violation of copyright, Amazon has agreed to back down and make the TTS feature optional on a per-book basis. The company issued a statement explaining why it believes that there is no copyright violation at all, but is still making the feature optional:
Kindle 2's experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative work is created, and no performance is being given. Furthermore, we ourselves are a major participant in the professionally narrated audiobooks business through our subsidiaries Audible and Brilliance. We believe text-to-speech will introduce new customers to the convenience of listening to books and thereby grow the professionally narrated audiobooks business.
Nevertheless, we strongly believe many rights-holders will be more comfortable with the text-to-speech feature if they are in the driver's seat.
Therefore, we are modifying our systems so that rightsholders can decide on a title by title basis whether they want text-to-speech enabled or disabled for any particular title.
While this does, effectively, allow the copyright holders to shoot themselves in the foot yet again, it's disappointing that the company wasn't at least willing to stand up for its right to offer such a feature without needing permission.
Meanwhile, if you don't mind the temptation to bang your head against the wall repeatedly, you can read an interview the Authors Guild's Paul Aiken conducted with Engadget about this whole thing. What's amazing is his inability to even understand how having a computer read aloud a book is no different than a person reading aloud the book or the Kindle reading aloud the book. He seems to think each is a different case that deserves different rights (and, of course, different licenses).
Filed Under: authors guild, books, copyright, kindle, paul aiken, text-to-speech
Companies: amazon
Authors Guild Continues To Falsely Claim That Reading Aloud On A Kindle Violates Audio Rights
Say That Again
from the which rights exactly? dept
Wed, Feb 25th 2009 02:18pm - Mike Masnick
Roy Blount Jr. is a funny man. He appears regularly on the radio show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me…, and is one of their funnier panelists. But, unfortunately, I don't think he was joking when he wrote a silly Op-Ed for the NY Times defending the Authors Guild's stance that having a Kindle use text-to-speech to read aloud is somehow a violation under copyright law. Blount, who's the President of the Guild, seem to be arguing not from a legal perspective, but from a "but this is how we want it to be" perspective. That's because he has almost no legal argument at all. Using text-to-speech to read text you legally own aloud is not copyright infringement. It's not a "fixed" version of the material, and it's not a public performance. So, rather than come up with a legal justification for such a ridiculous claim, Blount resorts to this: "audio books are a billion-dollar market."
This is the "but the old way of doing business made us so much money, so any innovation must be illegal" argument. You know what else was a big market at one time? Horse & buggies. And Gramophones. And 8-tracks. But technology made them all obsolete at some point or another, and that wasn't illegal. You don't get to cling to an old business model just because it made you lots of money. Sometimes new technologies come along, and they provide a better experience for people, and the market changes. Already it's a stretch to say that a TTS read-aloud of a book really "competes" with an audio book, but even if it did one day, that doesn't necessarily make it illegal just because Blount and the Authors Guild wishes it were so.
Finally, Blount responds to criticism that the Authors Guild's stance goes against readers for the blind or the ability to read aloud to your kid at night. He basically just says "no, that's not true." But he doesn't explain why. That's because there is no good explanation, based on what the Authors Guild has said concerning "audio rights." Basically, the Authors Guild is trying to pretend copyright says what it wants it to say, rather than what it actually says. And, when people have pointed out examples of how the Authors Guild's interpretation of copyright is bogus, their response is "well, we didn't mean it for that." They are, of course, missing the point. Those examples aren't to show the full impact of what the Authors Guild is claiming. They're to show that the Authors Guild is wrong in what it thinks copyright grants them. For a group of "Authors" they seem to have trouble with basic reading comprehension.
Update: John Paczkowski has a great post on this, comparing Blount's statements to those of John Philip Sousa a century ago, complaining about the introduction of "playing and talking machines" and how they would destroy music.
Filed Under: audio rights, authors guild, books, copyright, kindle, roy blount jr., text-to-speech
Authors Guild Digs Itself In Deeper Concerning Kindle Text-To-Speech
from the stop-digging dept
We were among many different sites that laughed at the ridiculous assertions by Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken's attempt to rewrite copyright law concerning the "right" for people with a legally purchased ebook to have a Kindle ebook reader with text-to-speech read the book aloud. Aiken said:
"They don't have the right to read a book out loud. That's an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law."
This is, of course, incorrect. To demonstrate how incorrect it was, we applied it to other scenarios: such as reading to your kids at night. This wasn't to suggest that we actually thought Aiken meant you couldn't read to your kids at night, but to show how wrong the original comment was. Amusingly, the Authors Guild seems to have thought we actually believed this, and has issued an attempted clarification, which only serves to make things worse.
First, the Authors Guild isn't backing down — but says it's "studying this matter closely." Instead, it recommends that authors who haven't already made ebook agreements avoid doing so. Because, you know, when you're an author the best possible thing is to make it more difficult for people who want to read your book to get it. That doesn't seem very smart. All because someone might listen to their Kindle read it aloud? I would think that the potential of lost readers would be a much bigger concern.
Furthermore, in clarifying that, yes, indeed, reading to your kids is legal, the Guild claims:
The remarks have been interpreted by some as suggesting that the Guild believes that private out-loud reading is protected by copyright. It isn't, unless the reading is being done by a machine. And even out-loud reading by a machine is fine, of course, if it's from an authorized audio copy.
I'm having trouble seeing how that's correct, though, it would be great if the usual assortment of IP lawyers chimed in on this one. Having a machine read to you in the privacy of your own home isn't a performance, so there's no performance rights issues. Then if you go down the whole list of rights covered by copyright, none of them seem to apply. It seems that the Authors Guild is making up a new right (watch out, now the lobbyists will try to get it added): the "you can't do anything innovative unless you pay extra" right.
Filed Under: authors guild, books, copyright, kindle, paul aitken, text-to-speech
According To Author's Guild, You Cannot Read Books Out Loud
from the player-pianos-anyone? dept
Tue, Feb 10th 2009 10:35am - Mike Masnick
As you may know, when player pianos were first introduced, there was a massive fear among musicians that it would be the death of the live music industry. With a player piano, why would anyone ever need to go see a live performance again? In fact, the roots of our rather draconian modern copyright law come, in part, from this dispute. You can see it time and time again, as each new technology comes along, someone freaks out, demands an extra layer of gov't granted rights (and often a compulsory license) and only later discovers that these "threats" were really opportunities all along.
The latest such example comes from an absolutely extraordinary statement from Paul Aitken, the executive director of the Authors Guild, upon hearing that the new Amazon Kindle has an experimental text-to-speech factor. Rather than think about how this feature might expand readership, he immediately insisted that it's illegal to use it:
By that reasoning pretty much any use of text-to-speech software is illegal, which would make for a fascinating legal case. And, actually, if you take that reasoning further, any reading outloud from a book that is not yours is also a violation of copyright law, according to Aitken. Read to your kids at night? Watch out for the Authors Guild police banging down your door. I would think that in purchasing a book, some of the associated rights that come along with it are the right to either read it aloud or have someone else read it aloud to you, but perhaps we'll soon be hearing about a special new "text-to-speech" right with a special compulsory license that will add a nice little extra charge to every book you buy. In the meantime, who put the Luddites in charge of the Authors Guild?
IBM's I'm-Sorry-Dave-I'm-Afraid-I-Can't-Do-That Patent
from the a-patent-odyssey dept
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 04:29pm - Mike Masnick
theodp writes "Astronaut Dave Bowman may have found the HAL-9000 more believable had the Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer been equipped with the technology described in IBM's new patent for Generating paralinguistic phenomena via markup in text-to-speech synthesis. In the patent, IBM describes how you can dupe others into believing they're dealing with a real, live human being by using markup language to feign sadness, anger, laughter, filled pauses (uh, um), breaths, coughs and hesitations (mmm). Here's an example that shows how to make a more lovable HAL: <prosody style="bad news">I'm cough sorry Dave sigh, I'm afraid I can't do that.<prosody>"
Filed Under: patents, text-to-speech
Companies: ibm
IBM Seeks Patent On Typing-To-Speech In A Call Center
News You Could Do Without
from the seriously? dept
Mon, Apr 21st 2008 06:48pm - Mike Masnick
theodp writes ""Caller: What is my account balance? The call handler responds by typing in the response '250 dollars.'" That's an excerpt from a pending IBM patent for cutting offshore call center costs further by hiring reps whose local accents make them incomprehensible to their U.S. customers without the magic of IBM text-to-speech synthesis, which Big Blue explains converts typed responses into "the native language and accent of the caller so that the outgoing voice sounds familiar to the caller.""
As Theodp noted in sending this in, you would think that Stephen Hawking's computerized speech system might count as a bit of prior art. Of course, while the patent covers more than just that, it's hard to see how the idea of letting someone type responses that are converted into speech deserves monopoly protection.
Filed Under: call center, patents, text-to-speech


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Q: How to restrict a vcenter user to only one resoure pool? with complete access to that resoure pool I have been trying all permutations and combinations of the required privileges to be assigned to a role that have access to only one resource pool.
My Requirement is that i have 2 ESXI hosts(not clustered) and have more than 100vms inside it. in ESX1 host i have created a resource pool for the newly joined interns.

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*i want the interns to have access to only one resource pool. he can create remove VMS from that resource pool.

*He should not be able to see any other vms/hosts apart from his resource pool.

what i have done and failed to achieve.

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*created group "interns" created users inter1..10 and added the intern users to "interns" group.

*Created a role "new_interns" and added the group "interns". note: the role
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*added permission for "new_interns" group at each level from Vcenter->datacenter->host->resource pool ( but have not propagated to child because when i propagate the user is able to see VM/host outside the resource pool)

Kindly provide me any information related to this.

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I'm Not a Newt! I'm an Author.
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"Could you please put down your phone," she asked.
"Yeah," I said, without looking up.
"No, like right now."
"I just need to finish this post," I said, feeling like I was working against the clock, playing a dangerous game with my girlfriend's patience.
She sat impatiently, looking at me like I was a cat she was about to throw across the room. All I had left was to add the hashtags. But, which ones to use? If they're too popular you get lost in the shuffle, too small, what's the point? Be clever, be funny, be humble; rather, be a humble-brag monster of explosive optimism and saccharine contentment. #superpositivebooklover. #blessed. Post.
Oh, for fuck sake, I'm a tool!
That's how social media marketing often feels. Not only am I a tool, but a poor man with a gambling problem throwing coins down a well, waiting for one to jump back up. The big bite. Impossible.
When I received an offer from a publisher to publish my historical crime novel, Throw-Away Faces, I was excited. Finally, I've made it! I knew next to nothing about the industry, but my publisher seemed legit enough. Beggars can't be choosers when approaching a publisher unsolicited. I told myself this on more than one occasion. Yeah, okay.
Well, now that the book is published, all I can say is that I've accrued thousands of hours of rewrites and edits (good), relationships in the industry which will serve me well down the road (good), and a huge phone addiction predicated on wagering the worth of my book on the amount of "likes" it gets on Instagram or Facebook, or my author's rank on Amazon Central (VERY VERY BAD).
What I didn't know getting into the game is that the book market is absurdly competitive and awash with a lot of shit. It pays huge dividends to have an agent when shopping the book, and once publishers show interest, to pick one who pays their publicists to manage your marketing. This is key.
Otherwise, get ready to hate your life, and possibly your book, because you'll be throwing countless emails, letters and time into review queries that will never be looked at by newspapers, journals, and magazines. And, money into many .com black holes. This will boil down into an ill-conceived effort, commonly called a self-marketing plan, to master nuanced and disingenuous forms of marketing communication forged to manipulate strangers into clicking a link to buy your book. It'll never be enough. You will look in the mirror and see a Gollum.
When you're fatigued, your publisher will offer you cooperative packages that are vague in description, but enticing. They whisper sweet nothings into your ear, "Take a load off, Joe." "Let us do the work." "We'll send your book into the hands of the most talented, sexiest, and trusted reviewers in all the land." And, can you blame yourself for giving in? No, you really can't, but you will anyway.
The other option is spending countless hours online making virtual friendships and alliances, which is fine, and the right way to do it, but the task is a full-time job and will yank you out of the world of the living.
Don't get me started on the writer's block I'm currently experiencing because I now have the attention span of a newt who happened upon a horsefly turd convention.
"How was your day?" she asked.
"Fine." It wasn't; I didn't sell one book. I didn't get a word written for the sequel. I didn't do my research. I clicked the refresh button a lot. My phone says my screen time is up from last week. I drank too much coffee. I went down the spiral.
I forgot I'm an author.
So far, this is what I've learned from the experience: Do what you think is right to get your book out there, but not at the expense of your creativity. At some point, you just have to let it be, write the next one and make it better than the last. You've made your bed for now, but you can get a new one. The worth of your work has nothing to do with a stranger's thoughtless click of a "like" button. If it was, your time would be better spent engaging in #vanlife.
In the end, stay an artist. Stay balanced. And next time, get a publicist.
You're not a newt.
Throw-Away Faces—Historical Crime Fiction—Preface
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Greetings readers!
Throw-Away Faces will hit bookshelves January 10th, 2019. Here's a sneak peek. I'll be posting more in the coming days. If you're interested in learning more about the book, including a more in-depth synopsis, visit www.throwawayfaces.com TAF will be available for pre-order very soon. you can visit my publisher's webpage here: www.blackrosewriting.com
-Josef Alton
Dear Doctor Dooley,
You will not remember me, but you tended to a friend of mine who died many years ago. At the time when we met outside Glasgow I had no idea we would be linked through a common fate, death following us wherever we settled. Unlike you, I did not choose an occupation waged inside the crypt; I became a lawyer. As I write I am aware of the irony entangled within my words, and I will leave it for you to ponder. I will say, however, it was not the opacity, rigidity or even the aridity of the law that deadened my heart, but
rather its miscarriage, and further still a disturbed individual who waged an ill-conceived crusade against a miscarriage of justice through an evocation of evil.
It is not my intention within this letter to explain the details of my ill-
fated journey into the forests of the American frontier. Rather, I tracked you down some years back to find you long since departed for Ireland and I let the case rest. It was not until last week that I picked up the newspaper and read about the strange patricides taking place in Dublin and their disturbing similarity to the murders I experienced in Seattle when I was a young man.
I have spent the past few days writing furiously to reconstruct the events of June 1889 in Seattle, as I saw them. I know of no one else in Dublin, and I am sure, based on your standing as a doctor, that you have the proper friends to contact if this manuscript moves you and perhaps compels you to inform the Royal Irish Constabulary of the innocence of the girls suspected of murdering their fathers, and also the resurrection of a killer. I leave this manuscript with you in good faith, as I left my friend in your care many years before. Let us pray for a more positive result than the conclusion to our first meeting those many years ago.
Your servant,
Enoch Campbell
Throw Away Faces—The Cell of Nostalgia
Historical ficton
byresroad, crime fiction, GLASGOW, highlands, HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION, historical fiction, HISTORY, lowlands, nostalgia, novel, scotland, writing
When I was a child in Glasgow I could see Ben Lomond[1] on a clear day from my father's office window. It was not often but when he was free he would tell me stories of the Highlanders that lived above the city. He told me tales of the Highland caterans[2] stealing livestock for blackmail and tales of Rob Roy[3] MacGregor's blood feud against the Duke of Montrose.[4] I would look at the dim outline of the mountain as he recited the long list of events that led to both the Stuart Rebellions.[5] And when he was done with those stories we would look down onto the city and he would tell me about the riots that took place against the Union with England[6] and the Malt Tax Riots.[7]
He said long ago our family were Highlanders, but not anymore, no matter what my grandfather and uncle said. He said that we were outlaws, but at a time when most men were. Back then there was enough lawlessness going around between those abusing their powers and the malnourished, that it was pointless pointing fingers at people from so long ago. Ben Lomond and the city below it held these stories.
When I was a few years older a factory was erected next to my father's office and blocked our view of the Highlands. Ben Lomond was gone and Glasgow was too for that matter because all we could see out of the window was a wall of stones.
"They brought the Highlands closer to us," father said, to console me the first time I saw that the view was erased, "all this stone and mortar is from there."
His words did not console me. I recall it was about that time that I stopped daydreaming about the Highlands, what my ancestors might have looked like, and of Rob Roy. The tall buildings kept my eyes turned inwards, when maybe lang syne the vastness of Scotland's countryside made men more contemplative of their relationship with the wild. Our summer visits to the Isle of Skye never made me feel that way. I remember my feet always being wet, and shivering in bed with little more than a sheet to keep me warm.
Upon my first break from university I visited our new country home in Bearsden. The white-capped Ben Lomond was framed inside a windowpane rising above my father's desk in his study. It meant nothing to me, but it did to him and so I smiled and said to him he did the right thing to move mother away from the retched smoke of the city. 20 years had been too long in one place and Bessy, our old castle, had become a prison.
[1] Ben Lomond: Mountain north of Glasgow located at the foot of Lock Lomond. It's doubtful from Enoch's central Glasgow location on Byre's Road that he could have seen the mountain, but I made it so.
[2] Highland caterans: A Highland band of marauders, professional thieves, and/or mercenaries.
[3] Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734): A Scottish outlaw and folk hero. A traditional Jacobite, MacGregor was pro-Stuart and Catholic. He was also a cattle herder, and engaged in blackmail to protect people's herds from theft, sometimes from his own theft.
[4] Feud with the Duke of Montrose: After losing his lands he (MacGregor) waged a blood feud against his dispossessor, James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose. The tales that follow include a series of adventures where Rob Roy escapes capture and execution. Bloody brilliant!
[5] Scottish rebellions of 1715 and 1745: The 45' explained earlier (Pg. 47, note XXX) both were failed uprisings to reinstall the Catholic Stuarts to the English monarchy.
[6] The Act of Union 1707: At this time, England and Scotland were two separate states, each with their own parliaments, but under one monarch. Following the War of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1651) and the Glorious Revolution (1688), which saw the overthrow of the Scottish Stuart Dynasty from the English throne, the new Protestant English monarchy increased its effort to consolidate power on the isles. Scotland, politically fractured and near economic collapse, was forced into union in order to open England's colonial markets for trade. The Act of Union expanded English control in Scotland at a time when Scotland was looked at as a threat, and physically speaking, a harbor for England's continental enemies to exploit, namely the French.
[7] Malt Tax Riots: Began on June 23rd, 1725 in retaliation to the imposition of the English malt tax. As the economic promises of the 1707 Act of Union had yet to materialize, Scottish citizens took to the streets in protest and openly riot. The fiercest riots and anti-English sentiment existed in Glasgow.
Prologue: A letter, a manuscript, and plenty of murder still to come
crime fiction, DUBLIN, GENRE FICTION, GLASGOW, HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION, HISTORY, murder, MYSTERY, novel, PROLOGUE, PROSE, seattle, writing
You will not remember me, but you tended to a friend of mine who died many years ago. At the time when we met outside Glasgow I had no idea that we would be linked through a common fate, death following us wherever we settled. Unlike you, I did not choose an occupation waged inside the crypt; I became a lawyer. As I write I am aware of the irony entangled within my words, and I will leave it for you to ponder. I will say, however, that it was not the opacity, rigidity or even the aridity of the law that deadened my heart, but rather its miscarriage, and further still a disturbed individual who waged an ill-conceived crusade against a miscarriage of justice through an evocation of evil.
It is not my intention within this letter to explain the details of my ill-fated journey into the forests of the American frontier. Rather, I tracked you down some years back to find that you had long since departed for Ireland and I let the case rest. It was not until last week that I picked up the newspaper and read about the strange murders taking place in Dublin and their disturbing similarity to the murders I experienced in Seattle when I was a young man.
IDENTIKIT — SECTION FROM MY FIRST NOVEL — MEET THE ARISTOCRAT
ANIMATED, Fiction, novel, OLD WRITING
My friend Jesse Montini-Vose and I are working on turning my first novel into a series of short animated films. Here is the first sketch and a section from the first chapter.
Surprised that the Aristocrat knew her name, she snapped her head back to face him. She studied the terrible scene in front of her: the hooded man, the guillotine and the roses, and felt terror for the first time as if she was unaware of the danger she was in before, and had just now realized the severity of her situation.
"Why won't you let me leave?" she cried desperately. "Can't you see that I'm wounded and need help?"
His silence made her ashamed and she dropped her head in misery. Every creature within the oasis relaxed and allowed the evening breeze of the late sunset to pass through them. The aristocrat looked down at his coat and picked a piece of lint from his lapel. The collective exhale of the oasis normalized and the Aristocrat looked up, but refrained from pressing Beth any further. He turned in his chair and resituated his body, crossing his legs.
"There is no bother looking," he said.
"At what?" She thought, defeated.
"It has been healed."
Beth felt around her stomach, but couldn't find the pain; the hole had been plugged. She felt actual fear in the bullethole's absence.
"What are you?"
She closed her eyes to escape. She returned to the opaque plain of her subconscious and stood beside the petrified bodies of Alex and Cole, who still lay where she had left them. She looked up into the blank atmosphere and saw a black crow flap its wings overhead. "Crow?" She said, confused. The bird hovered overhead. She worried that he would get tired and fall. A snap popped at her feet and drew her attention down to Cole's hand punching through his rock mold. The blue hand felt around for her ankle, then a black loafer came into view and ground its blunt heal into Cole's icy flesh. The Aristocrat pivoted and swung around on the hand to face Beth. His lanky body towered over her and his chest heaved at her eye level as he peered down at her.
"These corpses are worse than bullets to you."
"They were my friends." She mumbled.
"Corpses will always be dead."
"And memories?"
"Burn them."
He raised his arm and attempted to place his hand on her shoulder, she pulled away and opened her eyes — she was back at the pass and caught herself from falling off of her horse.
"Twice in one day." Their voices said together in her head — the Aristocrat sitting again at his chair.
"Stop it." She yelled. "You have no right to be in there."
"But I must know." He said.
More ivy climbed up the legs of his chair.
"I must know what brings you here?"
"I told you, I don't know. I'm only here to cross over the mountains."
"You are lost?"
(He read her thoughts)
"You have a very limited concept of time to think that I am strange. If you knew where you were I would not be so wicked to you. You would know me quite well and know me as part of the mechanism.
"Mechanism?"
"Yes. So, I ask you again, what brings you here?"
"Brought me?"
"No, brings you. On what moment did you arrive?"
She closed her eyes to think, to disappear again. However, he still stood close to her in her mind, unwilling to give her peace. She jumped back, startled, but this time unable to pass back into consciousness.
"Shall we take a walk?" He asked.
He turned away from her and looked out onto the flat grassy plain.
"What secrets must mingle here?" He asked himself aloud.
Beth stood and watched him scan her thoughts.
The Aristocrat grabbed the collar of his mask and pulled the heavy canvas bag from his head and turned back towards her. Beth's eyes mapped his face; for a moment unsure of what was missing to make it so grotesque. The lower jaw of the man was missing and all that remained were a set of decayed molars rotting at the back of his splintered mandible and a sick tongue unrolled. In contrast, his upper teeth were pearly white and hung down, exposed for exhibition. His nose was thin and pointy. His eyes were clear and encircled with bruised eyelids and a thin pair of bleached eyebrows to match his white periwig. His pallor was as if he had walked inside from the cold. He ignored Beth's hand pinching her lip, and in one unconcerned flourish pulled a blue kerchief from his coat pocket. He wound it tight and tied it around his head so a triangle piece covered his teeth.
"It's rude to show your teeth to someone." He said, turning only slightly to make slight eye contact with her. Now, shall we?"
Beth's world went dark. It brightened to a bustling café. He looked around in wonderment, scanned the white walls, the ornate crown molding, and the brass handrails of an iron spiral staircase that stood behind Beth. She stood at the opposite end of a round granite tabletop.
"Sit." He said, as he took his chair. "Oh, my this is wonderful." He gasped. "I've been forward in time, but never outside of, well…" He closed his thoughts.
However, Beth hadn't heard a word from the Aristocrat. She was looking at a table on the other side of the room at a young woman wearing a white dress and black cardigan. Her hair was short. It was her. She sat with a young man wearing a black suit and a rounded white collared shirt. His brown hair was parted. Beth was unresponsive to the Aristocrat's ploys to rouse her attention. She looked at the two, ensnared within the vines of melancholy, saddened by a memory she felt guilty to have forgotten.
"Guilt?" He questioned rhetorically. "No, no, your youth is nothing to mourn."
His cold white hand pinched her chin. She pulled away, shuttered, and gave him a disgusted look.
"I'm not feeling guilty." She snapped, noticeably upset. "I just don't want to be here."
"In your past, or with him?"
"But, he seems like a nice boy?"
"A coward, actually."
The young man stood and walked to the front counter. He collected two cups and saucer in his hands and returned to the table. He leaned forward, fumbled in a last ditched attempt, but the china crashed to the tile floor. Everyone in the café turned to see what the matter was, but Beth looked away.
"I want to leave." She said, affected, nervously looking out the café's large front window. "I'll take you to where I can hurt you if you don't let me leave here." She said, now understanding the power of her own mind.
"They're so in love." He said, disingenuously.
All went black.
THE DUEL (SECTION FROM MY FIRST NOVEL)
Fiction, novel, perception, thought, war, writing
The crows had brought Simon to the hill. He left his horse at the bottom and climbed up its steep face. He settled into an earthen cavity behind the ruins of a stone bunker. He peered through an opening. There were two duelers, one dressed in white, the other black, as well as their seconds, and a judge. The pistols were raised. The signal was given and a loud crack rang out. The crows jumped and cawed on the moss-covered stones above Simon. The duelers stood — unwounded — a lead tangle somersaulted down a mountain of the same, mounded in between them. Simon dismissed the obvious; he was unable to believe the improbable, a draw. And, the judge, Beth's father?
The two-dimensional men on the hill thickened into a rounded quintet, working as one machine, pulleys and levers strung together by a shared principle, connected by a unifying theory: to perform a metaphor. Still, the task lay undefined, and its purpose cloaked in costume and formality. Conjoined twins, fused by the principle of balance, the duelers were at the heart of the mystery. Or was the father: the judge to blame? They stood admirably, unaffected by mortal existence, bored by the human echo in the hollow of time.
None of this explained why her father was there. It was a bad omen. This place was a place of fear, a trial. The men exchanged the guns for reloading. Simon watched the duelers. They moved the same, breathed the same; there was nothing distinguishable between them besides their appearance. Appearance had become arbitrary; death proven beatable. He knew it. What was left? Her father looked the same, but a wax copy, a facsimile of his former self. Something was wrong, Simon had gotten things wrong. He wasn't dead, this wasn't about dimensions; it was about something deeper. He was a part of it, concrete like the judge, not a symbol — not a diamond thought — but a personal shackle, unwanted, not a part of the scheme, but solid and unforgettable. This place wasn't a world, but a kingdom of memory.
Simon changed. The kingdom dissolved, the men evaporated, there was only the boy. He blinked, Simon saw himself, but it wasn't him. The boy was perfect like the cable to a gondola. His innocence transcended all violence, all war. There was no longer a war, hadn't been for years, not in the original sense. Yet, there was a fight still taking place. He was a participant, a performer trying to complete the saga. How long had he been on the run? He didn't know. Where was he going? Did it matter? It would find him when the time was right. He had no control. The lack there of was a relief somehow.
Simon stood up in the vacuum to engage with the boy, but the hill returned, the men stood at attention. The Duel — perpetual — returned to dictate the sun's decent. This is how the tides turn, by opposite twins. The boy was gone.
Simon walked around the bunker, exposed himself to the machine. The duelers did not waver. Jeffers, Michael, and the judge turned their heads. Their eyes scanned, they twisted their lips with disapproval.
"Young man," Said the judge, "you are underdressed."
"Painfully." Michael whispered.
"Magnificent!" Jeffers trembled.
"I escaped."
"Hiding?" The judge repeated.
"From the Capitol."
"Which Capital?" Michael asked.
"The Capitol's scouts."
(They didn't understand.)
"The Capital of what?" The judge asked.
The judged looked down, resisted a thought, looked up, unaffected.
"For whom?" Michael grinned.
"Magnificent!" Jeffers gasped.
"The Capitol is the government we are at war with." Simon said.
The judge closed his eyes to rub out his impatience.
"As I was saying; you are dreadfully underdressed. We are in the middle of important business."
"Yes, yes, important business, very important business." Jeffers said.
He fixed his spectacles.
"What kind of business?"
"Important business" The judge fired back.
"Truly, of the utmost!" Jeffers agreed.
"A complete waste of time." Michael mumbled.
"Remember Michael what happened the last time." The judge stabbed.
Michael tugged the kerchief tied tight around his neck that covered a deep scar.
"There is a score to settle between the two gentlemen." The judge pointed to the duelers. "All debts must be settled, all honor must be restored."
"Debts are paid and honor restored, quite right, debts and honor, balance is in order." Jeffers stuttered.
"Who offended who?"
Silence washed over them. Stuck inside of their own minds, Simon waited for them to resurface. They attempted to rescue any information that could reveal how the duel started. No answers. Jeffers broke the silence.
"We are here you see, well, here you see, because we must participate. Yes, participate. We must participate because we always have, all of us. Yes, but some do actively, yes like you, actively participate in this exchange."
"Shut up you fool!" Michael said. "He hasn't any idea what you are talking about."
Simon received no answer. They looked at him, pitifully, and confused; all they knew was the duel, no particulars. They feared the forests, the gorges, and the desert most. All they knew was the hill. They knew nothing of the war, of Simon's misfortunes, or of the witches. They had no answers. They were pulleys and gears; too busy performing from the inside to recognize forms from the outside. Aristotle was a myth.
"It's time." The judge said.
He looked sad. Long ago he had done something wrong; it ate at him like a wound at his side.
Jeffers and Michael returned to their places beside the judge whom assumed his position at the table. Simon stood behind Jeffers and the judge and faced the duel. Aristotle returned and stood on the far end of the hill, between the two duelers. His green eyes cut the somber grey that had settled over the meadow. A cold breeze swooped down — the boy seemed to bend with the wind like a reflection.
"Who is the boy?" Simon asked. "Do you see him on the far edge?"
"Gentlemen raise your weapons!" The judge cried.
The duelers raised their weapons.
"Gentlemen, proceed on my signal."
The judge lifted his arm in the air. Two explosions burst, Simon flinched. The two pieces of lead combined and fell. Simon eye's fell with them. He looked up to the boy. Aristotle: emotionless. Simon continued to stare. Smoke tethered between them. Aristotle mouthed words as the judge spoke.
"Gentlemen, due to the results of this last exchange, have the honor of either the man wearing white or the man wearing black been satisfied?"
The boy mimicked the judge's address.
The Second of each shooter went to retrieve their master's weapon while the boy smiled at Simon. He slipped from the other side of the hill and was gone.
Simon stood stripped. The games were useless. He had played long enough. They had nothing to do with him; he had nothing to do with himself. Identity was the last prank. Jeffers had called him active, he had realized that he was more so concrete, like the judge, but the spectrum of his existence transparent. There had never been meaning for him. The cabin, Beth's fortress, where had it gone? Everything was malleable. All contradictions.
"Where is the cabin?"
"You always have been my boy!" The Judge said, wet eyed. "I told those two buffoons the weather was going to turn. Like clockwork the clouds roll in. I tell you, young man, if there is sun in the morning, it is sure not to last. Awe well, that is just the way it is, just words from a traitor."
In his mind Simon recalled the camp, the sewers, the rebellion. He saw the knight's tattoo and the crows. He saw bombs, freedom: the totality of terror. He saw a witch and a trunk. He saw the Aristocrat. That sick twisted man without a jaw.
"Why am I here? Why are we here? What is the point to any of this?" He shouted.
"Don't raise your voice at me." The judge responded.
Jeffers peered through the chamber of his master's revolver and mumbled to himself.
"Yes yes, why, the most beautiful word to flower from opposition… Opposition is the giver and the taker, the machine of machines, indeed the mover of all things. …Scales and balance, yes, scales and balance. Where was I? Why? Yes, debt and honor restored and enemies befriend enemies. Suppression begets suppression until the bridge breaks, until the bridge breaks."
Jeffers slipped the bullet into the chamber and locked the carousel into place. His intelligence flickered from his beady eyes and ripened Simon's. Michael reloaded, looked up, but lost his will to speak. They passed the guns back to their masters. The judge looked up to the sky, finding solace where the silver clouds overlapped, an embrace that obscured a blue sky he knew was underneath. The seconds took their places. The judge lowered his head and stood prouder than usual.
"Tell her that I've always loved her." He said, without looking at Simon.
Simon felt worry.
"Gentlemen raise your weapons!"
Both duelers raised their weapons.
He held onto his lapels, smiled, pinched the brim of his hat, tipped it, and bowed to Simon.
The moment sat sticky, the breeze continued to blow, the judge took a second to wipe the sweat as it slipped from the canal between his mustaches. Simon turned his head; the boy was back, standing in the same place as before. Aristotle completed the circuit — Simon wanted to leave. It was time.
The judge threw up his arm and two bursts of blue flung themselves from each pistol. Simon closed his eyes. In the darkness he heard a buzz approach, like a propeller, coming right for him. He thought he would never get the chance to open his eyes again. But, the propeller never severed. He opened his eyes. The boy had both hands clasped over his mouth in horror (this wouldn't be the last time, Simon knew). Simon looked down beside him, a bloody hole through the Judge's neck. He wheezed and wheezed. Then silence. The breeze caught his hat and it tumbled down the hill. Jeffers and Michael walked up to their masters —both jealous — to retrieve the pistols. Unaffected with the gruesome death of the judge.
Simon stared into the judge's lazy green eyes and watched the silver clouds from above reflect and move across them. It was like looking down from the heavens, through the clouds, and onto the grassy hill. The dual perspective was not without injury. Simon shook, his bones ached. His heart tore. He looked at the judge's fading lips, curled into a half smile, and himself smiled by terror to complete it. Aristotle had disappeared again. The round was complete.


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World / Politics
U.K.'s May walks tightrope between trade and politics on trip to China
British Prime Minister Theresa May attends an event at Wuhan University on Wednesday in Wuhan, China. | REUTERS
Bloomberg, Reuters
WUHAN, CHINA – U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in China seeking to balance her desire to build a powerful post-Brexit trade relationship with a clutch of political concerns.
At the start of a three-day trade mission, May said she would raise the sensitive topics of China's human rights record and Hong Kong democracy in talks with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Her reluctance to formally endorse Xi's global Belt and Road trade-and-infrastructure initiative also risks impeding her pursuit of more robust ties.
"China is a country that we want to do a trade deal with," May told reporters on board her flight from London to Wuhan, which landed on Wednesday. The nature of the relationship between the two countries means she can still discuss "those issues" of concern, she said. "I will be raising both human rights and the issue of Hong Kong."
May's business mission to China is meant to demonstrate her government's intent to forge a global trade policy after leaving the European Union next year. While the U.K. can't sign any deals outside the EU until it leaves the bloc — and would be unable to implement them until at least 2021 — she is hoping to strike now, while Xi works to establish himself as a leading defender of globalization.
May's delegation — which includes 50 business leaders, Trade Secretary Liam Fox, a clutch of officials and her husband — are optimistic about progress toward formal trade talks.
"A number of the businesses here are looking to confirm some deals in China, which will be good for the U.K. economy," May said. "There's more that we can be doing in the interim, right now, in terms of looking at potential barriers to trade and the opening up of markets."
Asked why she wouldn't formally join the Belt and Road initiative, May struck a diplomatic tone, saying the plan had the "potential to be a hugely significant investment and to have a huge, significant impact" but added a caveat: "What I would like to see is ensuring that we have transparency and international standards being adhered to — and I will be discussing that with my Chinese interlocutors."
There were more cautionary words on China's human rights record and concerns over democracy in the former British colony of Hong Kong, which the U.K. returned in 1997 on a promise to maintain the city's "high degree of autonomy" for 50 years. On Monday, the European Union warned that Hong Kong risked diminishing its "international reputation as a free and open society" after banning a prodemocracy activist from running for the city's legislature.
"We believe that the future of Hong Kong — that 'one country, two systems' future — is important," May said. "We are committed to that. I've raised this in the past with President Xi, and he's shown commitment to that. And I will continue to raise it."
Ahead of her arrival in China, May also spoke on domestic politics, defying critics calling for her to resign, saying she is not a quitter and has a long-term job to do: delivering Brexit and domestic reform.
May has come under fire in recent days from several factions within her party. She has been accused by euroskeptics of watering down Brexit, by pro-EU lawmakers of risking Britain's economy, and by others who say her domestic agenda is too timid.
"I've said to you before, I'm not a quitter and there is a long-term job to be done," she said when asked about the recent criticism of her leadership and reports of a potential attempt to oust her. "That job is about getting the best Brexit deal, about ensuring that we take back control of our money, our laws, our borders, that we can sign trade deals around the rest of the world. But it is also about our domestic agenda."
Media reports have said the number of 'no confidence' letters submitted by lawmakers from May's party is nearing the threshold that would trigger a leadership contest. The committee that holds the letters does not comment on the actual number.
May's future as leader of the ruling Conservative Party has been subject to heightened speculation after she gambled last year on a snap election, which went badly wrong and cost her party its majority in Parliament.
During a similar trade-focused visit to Japan last year, May first used the "I'm not a quitter" phrase, vowing to fight the next British election as leader in 2022.
Since then the pressure has been amplified by gaffes, scandals and a growing concern among some that constant infighting over Brexit was drowning out attempts to win back the voters.
Responding to one of more than 10 questions about her leadership during a 25-minute briefing, May defended her record by singling out housing, education and employment rates as areas where her government has made progress.
But, she acknowledged a need to make sure the messages are better heard by voters and her own party.
"Are you asking me is there more for us to do, talk to people about, more generally about what we are achieving and what we are doing? … Yes," she said. "There is always more for us to be able to do to talk to people about what we're achieving."
China, trade, U.K., elections, Xi Jinping, Brexit, Theresa May


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30. George Gwilt Memorial roundels and fragment panel.
The two roundels of 19th Century foliage are all that remains of a memorial to the eminent architect and parishioner George Gwilt, d. 1856, whose tomb is in the churchyard just outside this window. A commemorative tablet in the Retrochoir states that Gwilt gratuitously superintended the complete restoration of the 'Ladye Chapel' (Retrochoir) in 1832.
Panel of Tudor fragments positioned in the centre of what was the Gwilt window.
(no. 30) is a framed panel made up of medieval fragments.
31. The Glaziers' Window.
The central figure in this single light window is St Andrew, patron saint of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass, ('The Glaziers' Company'), whose Livery Hall is in Montague Close just north of the Cathedral and who annually attend divine service here.
The sunshine above and furnace below are linked by the Company's heraldic motto 'O God Give us Thy Light'. The heraldic symbols appear of the other saints on whose days the Glaziers hold Court: St Paul top left, then clockwise, St Mark, St Peter and St Paul, and St Matthew.
Below St Andrew is the 'Glory Hole' or opening in the furnace used for melting glass, with blowing and gathering irons. The figure in the livery of the Master of the Glaziers' Company holds a sheet of handblown glass. On the left are the Company's arms. The Dutch postage stamp commemorates Maurits and Maise Mulder Canter, relatives of the benefactor.
Maker: Lawrence Lee, 1987. Lee's initials 'LL' are in the bottom right corner, with those of his assistants Christine Harrison and Loraine Marshall. Lee was Master of the Glaziers' Company in 1973-4.
Note: The pattern on the Saltire Cross held by St Andrew (Patron of Glaziers). These are 'grozing irons', once used to shape the sharp edges of glass pieces prepared for windows.
Presented by Stuart Lever (Master of the Glaziers' Company in 1992-3) and family, in memory of relatives Maurits and Maise Mulder Canter.
32. King David window – situated over South Door.
King David is depicted with his harp, accompanied by the Holy Family.
Maker: W.T.Carter Shapland, 1953. His mark, the letter 'S' on a stylised plough, reflecting his farming background, is in the bottom left corner.
Please visit our website for the most up to date information, https://southwarkcathedral.org.uk/about-us/our-history/stained-glass-windows-at-southwark-cathedral/stained-glass-in-the-south-choir-aisle/


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CASTLEFORD Tigers players Jake Webster, Michael Shenton, Paul McShane and Grant Millington will be special guests at Castleford Tigers Supporter Club's 'An Evening with the Senior Players' in the Hospitality Suite at the Mend-A-Hose Jungle next Tuesday (7.45).
There will be question and answer sessions with all four players.
Admission is £1 members and £3 non members.
There will be a raffle, plus a bar, tea and cofee.
Meanwhile, Castleford Tigers have launched an online archive and virtual museum that showcases a wealth of photography, memorabilia, audio and video extracts, as well as interactive areas.
An 18-month project brought together Tigers fans, player legends and club staff, who have all helped to build an impressive archive of artefacts that form the basis for the online archive and the museum.
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Missed our Rhodes Scholarships information session on July 14? We've prepared a recording of the session for you to review.
Co-facilitators
Dr. Christian Farrier, current Rhodes Scholar (Prairies and Balliol) Reading for DPhil Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford. Christian is also a graduate of the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.
Jessica Cohen, DPhil, is the current Scholars Academy Coordinator at UCalgary's Student Success Centre. She completed her Master's and Doctorate degrees in Education at the University of Oxford.
Applications for the 2023 Rhodes Scholarships
All applicants must be endorsed by their post-secondary institution before applying to the Regional Rhodes Canada Competition. Inquiries can be directed to sap@ucalgary.ca
The UCalgary internal deadline for the 2022-2023 cycle is August 14, 2022.
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The Killam Fellowships Program provides an opportunity for exceptional Canadian undergraduate students to spend either one semester or full academic year as an exchange student in the United States. For further information on the program, visit their website here.


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Eclectic and enigmatic, the UK's Monochrome Set have been the focus of many legends and myths. Tommy Gunnarsson speaks to its ironic and teasing frontman Bid about the group's twenty year history
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Dixie Ernill watches the Monochrome Set and Karen bookend a fine evening of skewed indie on a wintry night in Bristol.
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Street Orchestra comes to London: get ready to play
Why should orchestra music be confined to the concert hall? This is the thinking behind the Street Orchestra movement – and it's coming to London early next year.
Street Orchestra London (SOL) is modelled on the Ricciotti ensemble from Amsterdam which was founded in 1970. It will be a 40-piece scratch orchestra of players aged 18 and over. Members will spend several days rehearsing together before setting off on a tour of London's community and public spaces, as well as some extraordinary locations.
With a set up time of less than three minutes, SOL will perform four to seven performances per day over the course of four days, with the aim of captivating as wide an audience as possible through their performances of music from all times and conceivable styles.
A SOL performance is a different experience from that of any other orchestra; based on the belief that every human has an equal right to enjoy live, quality music, it aims to break any barriers that exist between player and public – by performing up-close for communities who rarely have access to this art form, bringing orchestral music to everyone, everywhere.
SOL has been established by Gijs Kramers, who was Artistic Director of the Riccotti ensemble for 10 years, and Nonclassical, a club-night and record label based in East London. SOL will be launched on 13th January 2016, during Nonclassical's Battle of the Bands and Monthly Club Night at The Victoria, Dalston.
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On behalf of The Law Offices of Millon & Peskin, Ltd. posted in Workers' Compensation on Friday, November 4, 2016.
In our previous post, we began looking at a workplace injury case involving a worker whose legs were amputated due to an accident on a railroad bridge scrap job. As we noted, before the case went to the Supreme Court, it was ruled that the case should go back to trial so that a jury could determine whether the railroad retained any control over the scrap job. If so, it was ruled, the railroad could be held liable for the worker's injuries.
The Supreme Court ultimately ruled in the case that control of the scrap job was entirely given over to the scrap contractor that hired the injured worker's employer. Because of this, the railroad could not be held responsible for the injuries.
The court noted that the railroad's contract with the scrap contractor specified that the agents and employees of the scrap contractor were not to be considered employees of the railroad, putting the contractor in full control of the job, including the movable steel plate which precipitated the worker's injury. Unfortunately, then, the worker was left only with workers' compensation benefits for what was a very serious injury.
The case is a good example of the type of issues that can come up when an injured worker sues a third party to obtain compensation for a workplace injury. Third-party litigation can take a variety of forms, depending on the injury and the parties involved, and injured workers are bound to come up against attempts to eschew responsibility for the injury.
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Blackness, darkness, shadow, shades, night, the labyrinths of the earth, abysmal depths, blacken someone's reputation; and, on the other side, the bright look of innocence, the white dove of peace, magical, heavenly light.
– Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks.
Of Shadows uses the serial selfie to speak to the intersections of Blackness and disability. In a wall mounted movement of five images using a lo-fi digital abstraction style that mutes the complexity of the subject, this series presents the disabled and Black body as both spectre and monstrosity; fiction and cautionary tale. Simply a danger, nothing more.
Under white supremacy, the presence of Black life is contrary and invokes violence. "Black" as a rule conjures images of the ominous and unknown in the white, colonial mind; thus, Black people are often hyper-visible around narratives of criminality, and – often, simultaneously – erased from narratives of disability. The story of these images is one of a familiar haunting, where the vulnerable body of the disabled Black person is threatening, even at rest and at pain, due to the insidious anti-Blackness of our society.
"Storywave Collective Presents: Who We Are" exhibition.
2017, March 12, Toronto, CA. Vari Hall – York University.
2016, December 8 – 12, Toronto, CA. Tangled Art + Disability.
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Jim Clark Model Gloves For Gpl !
Today you can grab the real Jim Clark's gloves.
Drop the file in your gpl/cars/cars67/Lotus folder.
Edited by dede-driver, Feb 21 2014 - 07:38 AM.
Hi Dede, since your gloves are so good (thank you again), it would be nice to complete the collection also with those used by Bandini and Gurney at Monaco, as already suggested by Duncan. I know that I would use them in my Monaco Historical carset.
Edited by G.Spinning, Feb 13 2014 - 04:57 PM.
G.Spinning, thank you, I love your 67 Historical carsets and I'm happy that you use my gloves to be more accurate in each track of this season.
Yes I planned to make this kind of gloves too. I'll probably release it this week-end. I also need some documents of missings 1967 gloves in order to have the fullset.
Then I will repack all the gloves in one .zip file with alternates and extras for each teams, ready to pach your Historical 67 carsets.
Of course, for the moment, you can already use Jim Clark's gloves for the team Lotus in Kyalami, Monaco, Zandvoort and Bugatti folders.
UPDATED today! Watch the first post!
Great, glad I could help with your research dede, thanks again for your work. Using your textures I made the light tan & black gloves of jimmy he used in '66. I'm guessing maybe he had two types of gloves made for himself each year, tan or red / black for '66 and plain brown or plain black for '67 but it seems he may have used his old '66 gloves for at least one race in '67. I also updated your brown '67 gloves just a little, to create a lighter colour for the elasticated strips and to impove the colour match just a little bit more maybe. I post the files here for anyone who might like them.
Thank you Duncan, you pushed the level of accuracy very far. I consider you as my teammate in this "fullset gloves" project. Now I want to go further.
Can you help me to find gloves I didn't release?
At the end what about making a sort of "all-in-one" patch for GPL which updates all teams of all mods.
Maybe Gammaworx could help us to have historically correct gloves per teams in every GP?
Jimmy's gloves had been on my wish-list for years!
The gloves looks very nice!


President Trump criticized those who backed the Mueller investigation and those who have peddled allegations of Russian collusion to win the 2016 presidential campaign, during a campaign rally in Michigan on Thursday night.
The president said Attorney General William Barr's summary of the final Mueller report was a "total exoneration" that exposed an "elaborate hoax" by a "group of major losers," "crooked journalists," and "the deep state," the Washington Examiner reports.
Trump told the Michigan crowd that Democrats and others acted together in what he called "the single greatest hoax in the history of politics in our country.
"After three years of lies and smears and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead. The collusion delusion is over," Trump said during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff among others seemingly turned on Mueller after he concluded his investigation without personally interviewing the president and without indicting him on any charges, a Daily Wire op-ed reports.
"Special Counsel Robert Mueller was the darling of the liberal intelligentsia for the past two years, but as soon as he released his long-awaited report that ended up clearing President Trump of all charges that he colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election, liberals turned on him," the Daily Wire op-ed continued.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews, the guy who always got a thrill up his leg whenever he saw former president Barack Obama, also thought Mueller must be kinda dumb.
Well, Chris, a few days ago you were singing the praises of the special counsel, now he's "missing boats"?
"The Russia witch hunt was a plan by those who lost the election to try to illegally regain power by framing innocent Americans, many of them. They suffered with an elaborate hoax," Trump added.
"Despite this terrible cloudy, this phony, corrupt, disgusting cloud, we have done more together in the first two years than any administration in the history of our country," the president contended.