Tributes have poured in from across English football for former Lincoln City and Boston United defender Kevin Austin, who has died at the age of 45.
Austin lost his battle against pancreatic cancer on Friday night, with his death being announced over the weekend.
The central defender enjoyed a long and successful career and was a key member of the Imps' 1997/98 Division Three promotion-winning team.
He also played for Swansea City, Bristol Rovers, Leyton Orient and Chesterfield in the Football League before ending his career at Boston, playing 46 games for the Pilgrims between 2011/12.
Many of his former teammates have taken to social media to pay tribute to Austin.
Austin was also incredibly popular at Swansea, another side he helped to promotion.
Imps fans have also been paying tribute to Austin.


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The Explored Recesses
"We loved not the insolent and importunate splendours of perfect light. Cobwebs and wholesome dust—we needed some of both in the corners of our minds. They mature the wine of the spirit perhaps. We would almost always have had, as it were, a topmost and nearly inaccessible file of tomes, which we never read, but often planned to read – records peradventure of unvictorious alchymist and astrologer. Thither a sunbeam never penetrated and unmasked. The savour of paraffin and brick-dust should never cling about it. Unfortunate (we thought) is he who has no dusty and never-explored recesses in his mind!"
That is Edward Thomas, in one of the extraordinary essays, collected in homely little books of imperishable beauty that he produced before he turned to poetry. I return to those sentences often in this culture of perfect intellectual confidence, in which everything is sooner or later penetrated and unmasked—this culture of explanation, in which all the ancient problems are either solved or scorned, and every obscurity of human life, every fog and every cloud, is just a research paper away from satisfactory clarification. There is no riddle of existence that cannot be resolved, or robbed of its sting, in a David Brooks column. We are lucid now, and efficient; we are the quickest studies who ever lived. We throw no shadows. We know how things really work. We have the definite measure of everything. (Happiness, for example, is defined for us by social science; is an objective of public policy). Even as we cozily admit our fallibility, we exempt nothing from our brilliance. We dispel inwardness with our analysis of it. Hurriedly and without any suspicion that precious things are being driven away, we march smartly through all the pains and all the perplexities, and we call this dream of transparency, this aspiration to control, this denial of finitude, reason.
Reason is precisely what it is not. Reason is more provisional, more modest, more patient. Reason is not a festival of ideas or a catalogue of best practices. It is also not an omniscient narrator. But the culture of explanation, the illusion of mastery, extends also to our novels. So much contemporary American fiction also seems researched, worked up, instrumentalized, by skillful minds eager to display their skills. Writers go prowling through eras of history or fields of science in search of their next project, disguising the absence of a calling as curiosity. They become experts. (And critics call the results of their expertise "richly imagined.") A subject is needed and one is discovered, something fascinating, something exotic, something cool, and with a plentitude of information, of natty and newly acquired knowledge, it is mastered, and settled, and the career moves on. But when Flaubert devoured volumes on agronomy in preparation for the great scene of the agricultural fair in Yonville, it was not because he was wanting in a subject or a style: the particulars—"geological strata, atmospheric phenomena, the properties of the various soils, minerals, types of water, the density of different bodies, their capillary attraction"—were welcomed into a prior poetical and spiritual conception. There is nothing vain about his facts. They are not effects. The death of Emma Bovary is not designed to provoke in the reader a swift celebration of the intellect of the writer, of his accomplishments in knowledge and knowingness. It is unforgettable for other reasons. Even if Flaubert was Madame Bovary, Madame Bovary was not Flaubert. A great writer knows when to disappear, and why. He is prepared to be bested by his children. His words are soaked in a sense of what is beyond words.
Philip Roth, as everybody knows, is brilliant. His mind reigns despotically in his novels, comprehending everything, putting everything in its right place, mastering everything. None of his people ever eclipse him. He is intellectually competitive even with them. His sentences are calm and clear, undisturbed and unsurprised. In their sovereign decorum they erase all contingency, all the spill of circumstance and affect that occasions them. They are so flat because they are so foreordained. Roth's questions always feel rhetorical, because you know that he is waiting with the answers. In recent decades—since Sabbath's Theater, which was a genuinely emancipating book—his wildness has given way to a solemn assumption of responsibility, a pedagogical and almost homiletical mood, and he has become a kind of official orderer of American experience. His tales, especially his "American Trilogy," also very brilliant, are often essays by other means. This is true even of the ones that do not treat public torments, though Roth's explorations of private torments have much less to say.
I should add that the thinness of these latter, and later, works is certainly not owed to the narrow confines of their settings. When the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy denounced American writing as "too isolated, too insular," as no longer a part of "the big dialogue of literature," he no doubt had Roth in mind. It was a stupid slander. The big dialogue of literature is always an exchange between localities. For the purpose of inquiring into the human heart, Istanbul is not more elemental than Newark. Achebe's villages are not more universal than Faulkner's. The universal is born of the particular: there is no other way. We are all provincial. In this sense, Roth is not a researcher novelist. He has his true subject in his life, and he seems solipsistic only when he fails. In his recent books, he has returned again and again to the theme of mortality. Surely there is no larger or more cosmopolitan theme.
The Humbling is the story of a despairing man's self-destruction. Simon Axler is an ageing actor who has humiliated himself in Macbeth at the Kennedy Center and appears to have been deserted by all his powers. We meet him in the middle of a grave mental crisis.
The worst of it was that he saw through his breakdown the same way he could see through his acting. The suffering was excruciating and yet he doubted that it was genuine, which made it even worse. He did not know how he was going to get from one minute to the next, his mind felt as though it were melting, he was terrified to be alone, he could not sleep more than two or three hours a night, he scarcely ate, he thought every day of killing himself with the gun in the attic—a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun that he kept in the isolated farmhouse for self-defense—and still the whole thing seemed to be an act, a bad act.
In the end it is the gun in the attic that delivers Axler from his misery. But first he checks himself in to a hospital for a while, and then he attempts to save himself in the unexpected arms of Pegeen, the lesbian daughter of some friends who was recently betrayed by a lover and is in search of straight sex.
Roth's account of this man afraid of living and afraid of dying is given coldly, in an almost clinical spirit. It is hard to be moved by a story that seems not to move its teller. We are given the externalities and the inevitabilities, but Axler's inner states are more told than shown. A lot of the book is talk, smart talk; but the articulateness is out of whack with the despondency. And Roth's noisy details, like that Remington 870 pump-action shotgun, do not help. Who cares what model the weapon is? The fact evokes nothing but facticity. Roth prides himself on his specificity, which he sometimes mistakes for authenticity, in a confusion of outer and inner. Often he simply resorts to lists. About the patients at the hospital, for example, he writes that "Everybody else would be sitting there gloomily silent, inwardly intense and rehearsing to themselves—in the lexicon of pop psychology or gutter obscenity or Christian suffering or paranoid pathology—the ancient themes of dramatic literature: incest, betrayal, injustice, cruelty, vengeance, jealousy, rivalry, desire, loss, dishonor, and grief." And two hard-boiled eggs.
Sometimes Roth comes perilously close to the research novel, as when a fertility doctor tells Simon and Pegeen—but it is Roth, of course, who is the explainer—that "the testicular cells that give rise to sperm divide every sixteen days. … This means that the cells have split about eight hundred times by age fifty. And with each cell division, the chance increases for errors in the sperm's DNA." This is mere information, it adds nothing, it is the pseudo-polymathy of a Googling age. But the most egregious example of Roth's imperious and self-regarding notion of narrative authority comes as Axler considers an opportunity to play the part of James Tyrone in A Long Day's Journey into Night:
Sitting there amid his books, he tried to remember plays in which there is a character who commits suicide. Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Julie in Miss Julie, Phaedra in Hippolytus, Jocasta in Oedipus the King, almost everyone in Antigone, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Joe Keller in All My Sons, Don Parritt in The Iceman Cometh, Simon Stimson in Our Town, Ophelia in Hamlet, Othello in Othello, Cassius and Brutus in Julius Caesar, Goneril in King Lear, Antony, Cleopatra, Enobarbus, and Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra, the grandfather in Awake and Sing!, Ivanov in Ivanov, Konstantin in The Seagull. And this astonishing list was only of plays in which he had at one time performed. There were more, many more.
And you don't have to take Axler's, or Roth's, word for it. The list goes on.
Deirdre in Deirdre of the Sorrows, Hedvig in The Wild Duck, Rebecca West in Romersholm, Christine and Orin in Mourning Becomes Electra, both Romeo and Juliet, Sophocles' Ajax.
And not even this silly inventory will satisfy the preening writer. He is compelled to add also that "Suicide is a subject dramatists have been contemplating with awe since the fifth century B.C., beguiled by the human beings who are capable of generating emotions that can inspire this most extraordinary act." By this point Roth has obliterated Axler. The latter's suffering has vanished before the former's reading. But nobody's heart was ever broken by the core curriculum. (Suicide is a subject dramatists have been contemplating with awe since the fifth century B.C., beguiled by the human beings who are capable of generating emotions that can inspire this most extraordinary act. Discuss. Do not write on both sides of the paper at once.)
The humbling leads inexorably to the humping. Roth's tiresome infatuation with virility, with a coarse and nasty masculinity, is once again on offer. The sex in this novel is joyless, witless, loveless. It is conceived as an old man's retort to death, except that it is already dead. His sex has pre-deceased him. In one scene, Pegeen wears a strap-on to bed with Axler.
'I'd prefer you to suck me off,' he said. 'While I wear my cock,' she said. 'Yes.' 'While I wear my big thick green cock.' 'That's what I want.' 'While I wear my green cock and you play with my tits.' 'That sounds right.' 'And after I suck you off,' she said, 'you'll suck me off. You'll go down on my big green cock.' 'I could do that,' he said.
This stuff is supposed to sound ferocious and advanced, but really it sounds as bored as the voice at the other end of a 900 number. Surely there comes a time in a man's life when talking dirty is no longer an ideal of erotic abandon. But there is no erotic abandon in Roth, not anymore; there is only conquest, and programmatic sex, and a sad prurience, and the bathos of a man who is most afraid of not getting laid.
There is also a threesome in The Humbling, in which Simon and Pegeen bring a poor creature named Tracy to bed. The man gets to watch, of course. The writing here is hilariously awful: "The green cock plunged in and out of the abundant naked body sprawled beneath it, slow at first, then faster and harder, then harder still, and all of Tracy's curves and hollows moved in unison with it." And then Roth explains: "This was not soft porn." No, soft porn is precisely what it was. Roth wishes to claim that for a man watching two women nothing less than civilization has been left behind, "there was something primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence." Transgression! And Pegeen was transfigured into "a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal." She was no longer, in other words, a lover. Is there anybody who does not see the male self-pity in all this? (Actually, there is. In The New York Times Book Review a few weeks ago, Katie Roiphe admired its vitality, its power to arouse. She was rightly lamenting the emphatic sexlessness of the younger generation of American male novelists, the men who dream of being boys. Rather implausibly, she blamed this evasion of a complete manhood entirely on feminism, but she was unwittingly accurate in her implication that Roth writes post-feminist porn. Must the American reader, and the American woman, choose either Michael Chabon's Lego or Philip Roth's cock?)
The women in Roth's novel are not imaginatively or attractively portrayed. They are disappointments and dangers, all of them; a man's false gods. Axler's wife of many years abandons him in the aftermath of his collapse. At the hospital he befriends a woman who believes that her husband molested their daughter and eventually she murders him. Pegeen capriciously announces, "two weeks to the day after the tryst with Tracy," that she is leaving. "It's not what I want. I made a mistake." This reversal consigns Axler to his fate. "She left in her car, and the process of collapse took less than five minutes, a collapse from a fall brought on himself and from which there was now no recovery." He marches right up to the attic. How can a writer who needs women so much regard them so perfunctorily? Perhaps the answer is in the question. Perhaps he cannot forgive them for how much he needs them.
This is a lonely book. Before the horrors of mortality, and the excruciations of a failing soul, Roth has chosen not to extend himself, or to examine his confidence. Wisdom does not interest him. He is interested mainly in his own powers, his own compulsions. The Humbling is a smug and therefore insolent recitation of surfaces and appearances. It certainly gives no evidence of any humbling: this is exactly how Ivan Ilyich did not die, and was not written. All mastery, no mystery—that is Philip Roth, and a lesser greatness.
Leon Wieseltier is the literary editor of The New Republic.
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Let's be blunt: the Rule 5 Draft is like the pickings at a singles bar at the end of the night (or so I'm told 😉 ) – it's a function of attention relative to what else is available. It's not difficult to break down: They're all relatively cheap backups to the backups, as were Bostick, Lee, and Kieboom a year ago. I'm always happy to see our guys win this "lottery" because the system otherwise is stacked against them — especially the guys from the D.R.
But let's not kid ourselves that this is anything more than procedural maneuvering. GM Mike Rizzo just raised the price on five trading chips as the Winter Meetings approach (yeah, I know they're local this year, but I don't think I have the guts to go *rimshot!*).
Very little that's been posted in the comments I would disagree with… Andrew Stevenson has raised his stock and scouts have noticed, which makes other folks more tradeable. It's no secret that the ideal path for Trea Turner is Robin Yount in reverse, but Rizzo appears to be showing folks with the placements of Stevenson and Bautista that he does have CF depth and therefore Victor Robles may be had (albeit along with someone else, no doubt).
Drew Ward had the kind of fall that everybody has been waiting for while Osvaldo Abreu held his own, thought not enough to be protected from next month's Rule 5. Nick Lee wasn't re-added, so he's eligible to be drafted, as is Jake Johansen, whom I suspect the Nats wouldn't mind terribly if he were taken because it'd take away some of the disappointment that's almost entirely due to his draft position. Ryan Brinley, who got lit like Kennedy at an open bar at AA, seems to have re-established himself.
Those of you on the Twitters have already seen this rant, but for the rest of you: Yesterday, the new, 10th team in the Carolina League was officially introduced — the Buies Creek Astros.
Ultimately, the team will be located in Fayetteville, but for two seasons the Astros affiliate will call tiny (pop. 2,942) Buies Creek, NC its home on the campus of Campbell University.
It's a boon for the small, private college, which will see its facility upgraded by the Astros and will reportedly collect all revenue generated by the games. And it's a HUGE MISSED MARKETING OPPORTUNITY.
Why? Well, anything with "Buies Creek" is already a collector's item. But they could have had fun with that it's a dry town and (mostly) a dry county and called themselves the Buies Creek Bootleggers. Instead, they chose the least imaginative name and logos.
I thought about trying to go to the Winter Meetings, but what does one actually DO there? Sit in the lobby and go, "Hey, there's Mike Rizzo?" Walk up to Billy Beane and propose a trade?
My nomination for the best minor-league team nickname was actually for a hockey team in Georgia: the Macon Whoopee.
That leaves the Nats REALLY thin on lefty relievers in the upper minors. Look for a few free-agent additions along those lines.
Glad to see you are fully up and running, Luke, especially after those ominous warning earlier in the week.
Trading Robles would really hurt; you have to think the only trade that would involve him is Chris Sale.
Presuming they non-tender Revere, the last thing the Nats should do is trade another hitter. All of baseball is short on pitchers and we're swimming in pitching prospects.
I'm out of the hospital, and can walk like an old man, but running? Hell, no.
By the way, Campbell is a Baptist college, so they might have to wait until they move off campus to become the Bootleggers!
Amazing. A pitcher from a great engineer ing. school. Rose Hulman in Indiana !!
What would nats do if Abreau is lost in Rule 5 minor league portion after trading Schrock ?
David Masters plays SS @ Harrisburg with a return of Reegie Corona ??
I can't see any MLB team thinking they can carry Abreu for a full season after his feeble hitting in AZ, not to mention his 21 errors at Potomac.
Just noticed that you said the minor-league portion of Rule 5. I make no claim to even come close to understanding the minor-league Rule 5 rules, but I think there are AAA and AA reserve rosters, and I would think that Abreu would be on the AA one.
Hilarious Jeff, again, shouting out Rose Hulman. Indeed, hidden talent at the Ivy of Indiana.
I don't see Rizzo trading Robles: he's still a mid-level prospect. If/when he performs well at the AAA level his value will be much increased. It's also possible he's potentially Werth's replacement in 2018. This winter I see Rizzo trading pitching, which he's very adept at finding.
Robles a 'mid level' prospect? Gasp!
He is step for step on the same level as Harper. It's amazing how much less hype you get when your English is lousy.
If they can teach him to swing without getting hit by pitches his ceiling is limitless!
I agree completely that Rizzo will look to trade pitchers, we have what a lot of teams are desperate for; ready for the show arms.
Plus it'd be worth the price of admission to hear Charlie and Dave try to spell Dustin Kamakana Mai Ku'u Makualani Antolin!
Also makes up for Erik Davis signing with Arizona. Is the org now goggle-less?
leaving Trevor Gott to bear the burden of being worth Escobar. Not Rizzo's best deal.
The Hawaiian is a slow mover but closed last year and that was his first year at AAA – and closing. Rizzo knows pitchers.
The Escobar deal was partially a salary dump, but I haven't given up on Gott. He posted some impressive numbers with the Angels at age 22. He had some injury issues in '16, although I was never clear exactly what.
Wow, they moved Robles to #1 over Giolito and Lopez. Their first five looks OK, but there are some shockers in the second five. I personally wouldn't have Kieboom ahead of Dunning, but that's a quibble. I also wouldn't have Neuse in my top 10, and if Franco is still hanging my list at all, it would only be at #10.
Hope Luke has time to do the top 10 arms and bats to actually force me to make my own lists.
I don't think anyone in America still has Stevenson at #9 anymore.
Lots of love for Juan Soto.
Interesting top ten. No Ward, no Severino, no Glover. And Neuse?
I've decided I'm the biggest Severino fan around. Despite mediocre minor league offensive stats, I still think he will hit at a reasonable level in the majors.
Not to be obnoxious, but I posted here an updated prospect list that had Robles at #1 a month and a half ago, and have been touting Soto as the biggest development of the Nats organization all year.
And yes, I actually have Stevenson at #9!
Good list. Top ten looks reasonable. After that… Grace and Simms over Dunning? Neither of the new Dominican SS?
Dunning – five starts at short season for a college product does not a man demonstrate his professional ceiling….
Grace – knocking on the door with the real prospect that his skills can play at ML. Were he to have been fully healthy, would rank higher.
Dominican bonus babies – have proven nothing. Better even to rank Elvis, because at least he earned a GCL placement. But no, one has to start showing results on the field.
Ah, thank you. Stevenson indeed rises….
I like your list, forensicane. Would have nine of your first ten and I believe because of his time in the majors (not his number of abs), Difo is not eligible.
My other player in the top ten would be Kieboom. I'm also high on Dunning.


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The complete 'Life Is Strange: True Colors' soundtrack has been revealed
Featuring tracks from mxmtoon, Phoebe Bridgers, and Girl In Red
By Ali Shutler
Life is Strange: True Colours. Credit: Square Enix
Ahead of the release of Life Is Strange: True Colors, Square Enix has revealed the complete soundtrack for the game alongside additional DLC.
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Split into two parts, the initial soundtrack will include original songs from mxmtoon, Novo Amor and Angus & Julia Stone alongside tracks from Phoebe Bridgers, Kings of Leon, Mura Masa and Metronomy.
Then, on September 30, Life Is Strange:True Colors – Wavelengths will be released which bolsters your in-game record collection to include songs from the likes of Girl In Red, Foals, Hayley Kiyoko, Soccer Mommy and Hot Chip.
"Music has always been a core part of Life Is Strange, the emotions and feelings that music can elicit are such an incredible tool in a game that is all about exploring empathy," explains Jonathan Zimmerman, narrative director at Deck Nine Games.
"For Life is Strange: True Colors, we wanted players to experience the peaks and valleys of Alex's journey visually, emotionally, and auditorily. We are delighted to be able to feature such a diverse roster of truly inspiring musical talent."
"With music being so important to Life is Strange, as music supervisors for the franchise we've continually tried to raise the bar," says music supervisor Ben Sumner.
"Life is Strange: True Colors is the most ambitious project to date with more licensed tracks than ever and exclusive new music from three major artists. A lot of passion has gone into making it all happen over the last few years, so it's great to finally be able to share it with everyone."
For the soundtrack, Mxmtoon has covered the Radiohead classic 'Creep' and provides the singing voice for protagonist Alex Chen. While Angus & Julia stone have recorded an entire album for the game, which can be heard here.
Life is Strange: True Colors will be released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on September 10. The game was recently delayed for Nintendo Switch.
In other news, Daemon X Machina is the next game that will be available to play for free as a one of Nintendo's Game Trials, so long as players have an active Nintendo Switch Online Membership.


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by	Karen Marston	on March 15, 2018 October 9, 2018
Omni Artists
Victor Gomez, Tuba
Tubist Victor Gomez has enjoyed a particularly fruitful international career; performing, given masterclasses, and private instruction domestically as well as internationally in the Americas, Caribbean, and Asia. During his travels, Gomez has performed in both domestic and international venues; such as: Carnegie Hall, Meyerhoff Hall, Abravanel Hall, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Beijing Concert Hall, Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, and Teatro del Lago in Frutillar, Chile. Gomez is proud to be Principal Tubist of the Symphony of Southeast Texas, as well as being an instructor of a thriving and competitive Tuba and Euphonium studio at Lamar University. Alongside these posts, Gomez is a regular substitute with the Houston Symphony, and has performed with the Chicago Civic Symphony, Houston Ballet, and Orchestra of the Americas. Being an avid proponent for chamber music, this talented brass musician is also a member of internationally acclaimed Omni Brass, a founding member of Brass Beats, and regularly engages & educates his community during tours with the faculty brass quintet at Lamar University.
Jody Ilgenfritz, Trumpet
Trumpeter Jody Ilgenfritz was born in Houston, TX and grew up in the coastal town of San Leon. He currently resides in Spring, TX with his wife, two kids, two Boxer dogs and two cats. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with family and friends, woodworking, and working out. He graduated from Dickinson High School and, then went on to attend the Moore's School of Music at The University of Houston. Ilgenfritz holds a bachelor's degree in trumpet performance from U of H , and his teachers include Roman Jakubas, Jim Austin, Noe Marmolejo, and Jim Vassallo. Ilgenfritz teaches privately in the Woodlands/Klein (Houston) area and is an active freelance trumpeter. He has performed with the Houston Grand Opera, Houston's Theater Under the Stars, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Masquerade Theatre, Woodlands Symphony, Brazos Valley Symphony, Orchestra X, Campanile Orchestra, the Symphony North of Houston, and toured with Omni's sister group, the Resonance Brass Choir. He has won the Clear Lake Symphony Concerto Competition, and in his third year at U of H, the Moores School of Music Concerto Competition.
Jody loves being a member of Omni Brass because the other members of the ensemble are also some of his best friends! This means Omni never feels like work! Performing in Omni gives him a chance to fulfill one of his greatest passions which is to travel. As a classically trained player, Jody enjoys the challenge of Omni's multi-style approach.
Trumpeter Micah Bell received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from TCU in 2007 and a Masters in Trumpet Performance in 2009. After that, while attending the University of North Texas, he was a member of the famed One O'Clock Lab Band. As an educator, Mr. Bell is a very active clinician in the DFW metroplex and East Texas teaching jazz and trumpet masterclasses as well as private lessons since 2004.
He is also a regularly performing professional musician all over the DFW metroplex and East Texas in many different types of musical settings. Mr. Bell has played with and backed up many prominent artists including Aretha Franklin, The O'Jays, Doc Severinsen, Wayne Bergeron, Andy Martin, Bobby Shew, Terrell Stafford, Allen Vizzutti, Greg Field, Marcus Printup, Ryan Anthony, Arturo Sandoval, Vincent Dimartino, Adam Larson, Eric Marienthal, Phil Woods, Denis Diblasio, Frank Greene, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Kirk Whalum, and many more. He has also been featured guest artist at the Collin College Jazz Festival, South Eastern Oklahoma University Jazz Festival, and with many high school, middle school, and college bands.
Micah Bell, Trumpet
As a composer/arranger, Micah Bell is very busy as well writing commissions for various ensembles. He is the chief arranger for the Imperial Brass and in addition to writing big band arrangements, music for his jazz quintet and whatever else the occasion may call for, Mr. Bell has had several pieces premiered at prominent conventions around the world. In 2005, his composition Midnight was premiered at the International Trumpet Guild convention in Bangkok, Thailand. He has since had numerous premieres of original works at conventions all across the country including Texas Music Educators Association, International Trombone Festival, and the North American Saxophone Alliance.
He is a regular member of the Imperial Brass, The Project Band, Omni Brass, Kris Berg Metroplexity Big Band and has served as Interim Director of Bands at Tyler Junior College as well as Interim Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Texas at Tyler. He currently serves as a busy freelance trumpet player, composer and arranger in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex as well as East Texas and is Professor of Music and Trumpet at Tyler Junior College. Micah is Omni's composer-in-residence, and frequently contributes original works to the ensemble's repertoire.
Trombonist Dr. Karen Marston is the founding member of Omni Brass, and has also contributed many of the group's arrangements. Karen is currently on the music faculty at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, CA, and serves as Director of the International Trombone Festival. Prior to her current posts, she was on the faculty at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, TX, where she was the founder of the San Jac Brass Symposium, a semi-annual, multi-day brass event featuring guest artists from around the world.
Dr. Karen Marston, Trombone
Karen holds degrees in trombone performance from the University of North Texas and Rice University (Texas), and both a masters and doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University (New York). Her teachers include Jan Kagarice, David Waters, and Dr. Vern Kagarice. Having completed an extensive dissertation project focused on innovative teaching strategies, her research is well-known to the trombone community, and has been a frequent contributor to the Journal of the International Trombone Association and the International Trombone Festival.
Karen has performed with the Houston Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, Orchestra X (Houston), the Composers Orchestra of Houston, the American Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Ebony Opera Guild (Houston), the Houston Masterworks Chorus, the Woodlands Symphony, Texas Brass, and the Resonance Brass Choir, and was active as both a contractor and freelancer in Houston for over fifteen years. Recently, she was also heard as a guest trombonist with the Alliance Brass Quintet, on their west coast tour.
Karen has received grants from the Brown Foundation, the San Jacinto Foundation, the Houston Arts Alliance, and the American Chamber Music Players of New York, and is currently an artist with Rath Trombones, England.
Michael Mizma, Percussion and Drum set
Percussionist Michael Mizma has been teaching at San Jacinto College (Texas) since 1990. He applies his teaching philosophy to all music disciplines: "Wake your brain, body and spirit to the task of becoming a better musician every single day." Former students have gone on to successful careers in performance, recording engineering, live sound reinforcement, television and radio broadcasting, and teaching.
Currently Michael is working on numerous grants to generate a body of literature for steel band and other large ensembles. In March 2010 the San Jacinto College Central Steel Band commissioned, and with the College Chorale, premiered the first of this type of work, Gary Gibson's "In the Shadows of the Forest", 2014 commission of Gary Gibson's "Language of Life, Voice of the Soul" for our entire music department, 2014 commission for Phil Hawkins' "The Pebbles", 2015 commission for Phil Hawkins' "Four Seasons", 2015 commission for Dave Longfellow's "History of the Steel Band", 2016 commission for Phil Hawkins' "Through the Soil", and 2016 world premiere of Paul Busselberg's "Psalms".
In addition to teaching duties Michael also owns his own company, Funnynotes, Incorporated. Through this company Mr. Mizma provides performing, recording, mixing, producing and compositional services. Recently, Michael has generated numerous recordings, and has toured with Omni Brass, Resonance Brass, appeared with the Birdsong Steel Orchestra for the Panorama semifinals in 2015, performed with Andy Narell on numerous occasions, made an educational tour to Seoul, South Korea for a week-long series of clinics, seminars, and performances at the Lee Jung Hee Jazz academy, toured Munich, Salzberg, Vienna and Prague with the Kingwood Orchestra, and completed three teaching and educational tours to Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil.
Michael has performed numerous times with the percussion group NEXUS, with Bob Becker, with Bob Becker and Yurika Kimura, jazz mallet master Dave Samuels, electronic media specialist Tony Verderosa, pan artist Andy Narell, Debbie Boone, and Marvin Hamlisch. Mr. Mizma is well-versed in many ethnic musical styles and techniques including steel pan Caribbean music, Afto-Cuban music, Brazilian music, Jazz and Eastern European Gypsy music. He is co-founder of the Steel Pan Caribbean Jazz group Tropic Envoy.
Michael also has audio engineering interests and completed drumset performances for Houston Fusion Group's latest CD. He produced, mixed, performed, arranged and engineered the Genetic Drift album "Love", mixed the debut CD by The Crisis, and has provided performance services for numerous studio sessions. Most of Michael's compositions are rooted in technological exploration. Most recently Michael contributed to the Percussive Arts Society International Convention with a clinic- performance entitled "Creating a Compositional Standard for Electronic Percussion Controllers" for which he composed three new works, most notably "Gettysburg", based on experimental treatment of speech and samples. The content of this clinic was also published in "Percussive Notes" magazine, the official publication of the Percussive Arts Society.
Michael is an artist for Dream Cymbals and Innovative Percussion.
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Brake is concerned by worrying new figures showing car traffic reached a new peak in 2015. This means that overall traffic has increased by almost 19% since 1995.
Motorway use has now increased by 10 percent in the last ten years and in 2015 saw 66.5 billion vehicle miles of traffic, 2.6% more than in 2014[iv].
There has been a worrying long-term decrease in the number of miles buses are now covering. From 2014 to 2015 there was a drop of 4.6% in bus and coach travel. This is perhaps not surprising; there has been a decrease of 21% in local authority supported bus services outside London in the last decade. A lack of public transport in some areas means many people are left with no other option than to use private vehicles.
Disappointingly, despite the recent increase in cycling, the amount of miles cycled in 2015, 3.2 billion, was down 6.1% on the year before. That's after a steady increase between 2002 and 2014. Taking a longer view, cyclists in 2015 travelled only around one quarter of the 14.7 billion miles ridden in 1949.
Increases in traffic on the road network mean a greater number of interactions of vehicles and pedestrians and, therefore, increases the likelihood of crashes occurring. Per mile travelled, the risk of being killed or seriously injured in a road crash has fallen almost every year since 1949 but there was a slight increase in 2014.


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/*
 * dgMaster: A versatile, open source data generator.
 *(c) 2007 M. Michalakopoulos, mmichalak@gmail.com
 */

package generator.randomisers;
import generator.extenders.IRandomiserFunctionality;
import generator.extenders.RandomiserInstance;
import generator.misc.Utils;

import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Vector;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class AnswerQuestionIDText implements IRandomiserFunctionality
{
    Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(AnswerQuestionIDText.class);
    EnglishWordRandomiser englishWordGenerator;

    int idx, nextAction, countGens, maxGens;
    Random random;
    Vector<String> vWords;

    public AnswerQuestionIDText()
    {
        RandomiserInstance ri = new RandomiserInstance();
        LinkedHashMap<String,String> hashMap = new LinkedHashMap<String,String>();

        hashMap.put("nullField","0");
        hashMap.put("maxWidth", "5");
        hashMap.put("minWidth", "1");
        hashMap.put("punctuation", "true");
        ri.setProperties(hashMap);
        englishWordGenerator = new EnglishWordRandomiser();
        englishWordGenerator.setRandomiserInstance( ri );
    }

    public void setRandomiserInstance(RandomiserInstance ri)
    {
        Utils utils;
//        String sNull, sWidthMax, sWidthMin, sPunctuation;
        LinkedHashMap<String,String> hashMap;

        hashMap = ri.getProperties();

        //load the dictionary
        utils  = new Utils();
        try
        {
            vWords = utils.readFile(hashMap.get("inputFile"));
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            vWords = new Vector<String>();
            vWords.add("Error!");
            logger.warn("Vector size is 0, error during while load file");
        }
        random = new Random(100);
        idx=-1;
        nextAction=999;
    }

    public Object generate()
    {
        String oneWord;
        String aFields[];
        String qtype;
        String retValue=null;

        if(nextAction == 10)
        {
            retValue = generateText();
            countGens++;
            if(countGens == maxGens)
                nextAction=999;
            return retValue;
        }

        if(nextAction == 20)
        {
            retValue="False";
            nextAction=999;
            return retValue;
        }

        if(nextAction == 30)
        {
            retValue="No";
            nextAction = 999;
            return retValue;
        }

        if(nextAction==999)
        {
            idx++;
            if(idx>=vWords.size())
                return null;
            oneWord = (String) vWords.elementAt(idx);
            aFields = oneWord.split(",");
            qtype   = aFields[1];
            if( qtype.equalsIgnoreCase("1") || qtype.equalsIgnoreCase("2") )
            {
                retValue = generateText();
                countGens = 1;
                maxGens   = 3 + random.nextInt(3);
                nextAction = 10;
            }
            if( qtype.equalsIgnoreCase("3") )
            {
                retValue="True";
                nextAction=20;
            }
            if( qtype.equalsIgnoreCase("4") )
            {
                retValue="Yes";
                nextAction=30;
            }
        }

        return retValue;
    }

    public String generateText()
    {
        return (String) englishWordGenerator.generate();

    }

    public void destroy()
    {
    }

	public boolean isListCompatible() {
		return false;
	}

	public Object generatefromlist(int pos, long numrecs, List<String> dslist) {
		//  Auto-generated method stub
		return null;
	}
}

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package com.jcxavier.android.opengl.sample;

import com.jcxavier.android.opengl.engine.EngineActivity;
import com.jcxavier.android.opengl.engine.RendererOptions;
import com.jcxavier.android.opengl.engine.texture.TextureManager;
import com.jcxavier.android.opengl.game.GameStage;
import com.jcxavier.android.opengl.game.SimpleGameStage;
import com.jcxavier.android.opengl.game.camera.OrthographicCamera;
import com.jcxavier.android.opengl.math.Vector3;

/**
 * Created on 11/03/2014.
 *
 * @author João Xavier <jcxavier@jcxavier.com>
 */
public class GameActivity extends EngineActivity {

    private SimpleGameStage mStage;

    @Override
    protected void onGameSetup() {
        // creates a basic test stage with a 2D, top-down default orthographic camera
        mStage = new TestStage(new OrthographicCamera());
    }

    @Override
    protected GameStage onGameStart() {
        return mStage;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onLoadAssets() {
        // assets can now be loaded if needed
        TextureManager.getInstance().preload("spaceship.png");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onConfigureOptions(final RendererOptions options) {
        // configures the renderer with basic options
        options.setBackgroundColor(new Vector3(0.1f, 0.2f, 0.3f));
        options.setDepthBufferSize(0);
        options.setStencilBufferSize(0);
        options.setSamples(0);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onGameFinished() {
        // game was finished, application is about to exit
    }
}


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Jelení hora může být:

 Jelení Hora (Jelenia Góra) – město v Polsku
 Jelení hora (Krkonoše) (1172 m) – vrchol v Krkonoších
 Jelení hora (Šumava) (1040 m) – vrchol na Šumavě
 Jelení hora (Krušné hory) (993 m) – vrchol v Krušných horách
 Jelení hora (Otínská pahorkatina) – vrchol o nadmořské výšce 653 metrů, který leží u obce Hodice v Otínské pahorkatině (Brtnická vrchovina)
 Doksy – původní německý název města je Hirschberg, tj. v překladu Jelení Hora

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 Jelení vrch – více než desítka vrchů či přírodních památek na území ČR
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With toxic chemicals turning up in drinking water throughout Maryland, Governor Larry Hogan recently signed a bill that bans the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAs, in paper products for food packaging, rugs and carpets, and in firefighting foams. The restrictions will take effect on January 1, 2024.
Often referred to as "forever chemicals," PFAs are a group of human-made chemicals that the Environmental Protection Agency says can have a harmful impact on human and animal health. The chemicals have also been found in Maryland's marine life, including rockfish, oysters, and crabs.
What are PFAs?
PFAs are used in coatings and products that resist heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. Found in a wide range of everyday products, PFAs help prevent food from sticking to cookware, they make clothes and carpets stain-resistant, and they help create more effective fire-fighting foam.
PFA molecules consist of a chain of linked carbon and fluorine atoms. The strength of this carbon-fluorine bond means the chemicals don't degrade in the environment (which is why they're known as "forever chemicals"). In fact, the chemicals are so resistant to breaking down that scientists are unable to determine an environmental half-life for PFAs, which refers to the amount of time it takes for 50 percent of the chemical to disappear.
PFAs have been used in industry and consumer products worldwide since the 1950s, with several industries relying on their use, including aerospace, automotive, construction, electronics, and the military.
Why are PFAs harmful?
Because of their ubiquity in a range of consumer products and their resistance to breaking down, PFAs are found everywhere: in bodies of water (including lakes and rivers), within the air, and in soil. PFAs have also been found in low levels in a variety of food products. Humans and animals become exposed to the chemicals when they ingest PFA-contaminated water or food; exposure may also happen when people use products containing the chemicals. Most people in the United States have been exposed to PFAs and have the chemicals in their blood.
Scientific studies have shown that human exposure to high levels of certain types of PFAs may be linked to harmful health effects, including:
Changes in liver enzymes
Decreased vaccine response in children
Increased risk of high blood pressure or preeclampsia in pregnant women
Small decreases in infant birth weight
Increased risk of kidney or testicular cancer
Studies of PFAs on lab animals have found that the chemicals cause birth defects, delayed development, and newborn deaths in lab animals. According to one study, PFAs pass through the placenta throughout pregnancy to accumulate in fetal tissue (further research is needed to determine the effect that highly persistent PFAs have on the fetus.)
Are other states looking to ban PFAs?
Nearly three dozen states are considering new laws and policies to tighten regulation of toxic chemicals, and PFAs are at the top of the list. At least 10 states are expected to consider regulations or restrictions on "unnecessary uses" of PFAs in carpets or other products or will require disclosure when the chemicals are used. Aside from Maryland, other states looking at reining in use of PFAs in commercial products include Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina, and New York, among others.
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Q: How to change the text of details tab on product page? Can any one tell me how to change the text of detail tab in  product page.
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A: Open your custom theme catalog_product_view.xml
app/design/frontend/vendorname/themename/Magento_Catalog/layout/catalog_product_view.xml

And add below code in the end of you XML file before body tag
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                <action method="setTitle">
                    <argument name="title" xsi:type="string">Your text here</argument>
                </action>
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A: app/design/frontend/<vendor>/<theme>/Magento_Catalog/layout/catalog_product_view_layout.xml
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    <body>
        <referenceBlock name="product.info.details">
            <referenceBlock name="product.info.description">
                <arguments>
                    <argument translate="true" name="title" xsi:type="string">About</argument> //set your custom tab name
                </arguments>
            </referenceBlock>

            <referenceBlock name="reviews.tab">
                <arguments>
                    <argument translate="true" name="title" xsi:type="string">Customer Reviews</argument> //set your custom tab name
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Unless otherwise noted, spectators are welcome at any of our outdoor canine competition areas to watch these remarkable dogs demonstrate their skills. Spectators can sit ringside or watch from bleachers and grassy hillsides situated near the competition areas.
The 130' x 140' lighted Main Show Field accommodates dog shows and events as well as corporate gatherings and family days. The Main Show Field features one 40' x 80' tented concrete pad and manicured lawn areas equipped with a sprinkler system. A lawn area with parking and another 40' x 80' tented concrete pad is also available near the Main Show Field. RV parking, spectator seating, competition equipment, tables, chairs and picnic tables are also available. Catering can also be arranged. Note: The field is the site of the national finals for the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge™ every year. Email us at [email protected] to book the field.
Located near the front of Purina Farms property, across from the Incredible Dog Arena, the 100' x 110' Agility Field features a 22' x 45' covered pavilion, a full set of agility equipment and ring-gating.
During National Specialties, the outdoor field can only be used for breed-specific trials. Events unrelated to agility can also be held here. Inquire for more information.
The spacious 10-acre Herding and Trial Field makes a superb location for herding competitions, lure coursing or for oval or straight-track whippet races. Developed specifically for field and test competitions, the field is perfect for sanctioned events.
The Herding and Trial Field has three fenced-in areas that can be used for herding. These areas include a lighted 100' x 200' A-Course, a completely fenced B-Course of about 10 acres that includes holding pens and a lighted round pen suitable for beginning dogs and instinct testing. Gravel parking is provided, as well as tents and equipment.
Purina Farms also supplies more than 150 Katahdin/Barbados Cross sheep that are accustomed to being herded. There is no fee for use of the sheep or the field. Although the ducks are not supplied, the Herding and Trial Field also features a 60' x 100' duck arena.
Along the west side of the Purina Event Center, the Working Dog and Flying Disc Competition Field is a 180' x 400' flat grassy area, situated for easy access and use.
Eight earthdog dens are available for use at Purina Farms. Two were established by the Missouri Earthdog Club, five by joint effort of the Dachshund Club of St. Louis and Gateway Terrier Association, and one by Gateway Terrier Association. All are in place permanently and ready for use by terrier and dachshund enthusiasts. A key to the shed at E-dog is located at the Purina Event Center. In the shed there is a plastic box marked "Common Usage". In this box you will find dowels, some rat cages for you to use, and layouts of all the dens. Please return any items you use to the box in the shed and be sure to close up the dens as you leave.
This fenced system consists of a Novice / Into to Quarry tunnel that backs up to a standard thirty foot tunnel with three ninety degree bends (Open/AKC Junior, AKC Senior) with a false exit. Sliders are in place where the false exit and den connect to the main tunnel. This den is not AKC compliant.
The original den at this site, the AKC Senior and MOE stakes den, has been replaced by a much larger den. In the works for over two years, the new design incorporates AKC Junior, Senior and Master designs, giving redundancy to the existing AKC dens. The footprint of the den also allows Missouri Earthdogs to run their Stakes Go To Ground competition at this den. The den was constructed by Nestle Purina of the new, plastic wood composition, providing low maintenance on the den. The yard of the den is 90' by 100', making it the largest of all the Purina Farms fenced dens. To accommodate the many levels of AKC competition at this site many sliders are available. Walk up to this Master den may be through the field where Den H, the original Master den, is located or from beneath this den. This den was designed by Shirley La Mear of Gateway Terrier Association and Susan Parsons.
This den is located up the hill from the multitasking Den E. It is fenced and consists of the standard 30' tunnel with three ninety degree turns. It is made of the new plastic wood material.
A few short steps up the hill from the AKC Junior earth, this fenced complex is a standard Senior den consisting of thirty feet of tunnel, three ninety degree turns, false den, and false exit. It is also made of the new plastic wood material. Dens F and G were both built and installed in 2013.
This beautiful den was rebuilt in January 2014 using the new plastic wood material. It is designed in an H shape to allow two variations of den entrances. The common middle section of the H design houses the baffle. Each leg of the H design houses a false exit, den, and a section into which the constrictor can be dropped. The den is located in a wooded area at the top of a large meadow, which provides an ideal setting for this event. Several options for the walk up to the den are available. Quiet and remote, most test organizers borrow a Gator from Purina to ferry each brace to the walk up starting area.
Still needing some finishing touches and plant growth, we're pleased that the E-dog neighborhood at Purina Farms has steadily improved and enlarged over the years. This was made possible by the cooperation between our three local earthdog clubs and Nestle Purina. Please contact any of the listed area E-dog clubs if you would like find out more about offering an earthdog event for your next show at Purina Farms.
The Portable Diving Dog Pool at Purina Farms measures 21' x 45.5' x 4' deep with a 40' ramp. The pool is available for titling events, open swim and training sessions upon request. Email [email protected] for details and availability.
Now considered one of the fastest growing canine sports, Barn Hunt takes place in the Main Show Field under a 40x80 tent. All gating, matting, ramps, bridges and tubes provided by Purina Farms. All breeds of dogs can compete in this sport, and it's also a great spectator event. Click HERE to find out more about more about barn hunt.


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What is no-fault divorce - and should you wait for a no-fault divorce in the UK?
It's NOT Divorce Day
Thoughts on Good Divorce Week...
The Panama Papers, privilege and financial settlements
Divorce | 11 Apr 2016 0
Prominent family lawyers have suggested – for example in the Law Society Gazette – that the Panama Papers might be used to show fraud. The Panama Papers, as will be recalled, are those leaked documents from a firm of lawyers in Panama showing a variety of their rich clients' financial dealings. And where the fraud shows that a former spouse (let's call him Edgar), has given false information to the court then the other spouse (say a wife, Cara) could apply to set aside any order made to resolve a couple's financial affairs. (The Supreme Court recently considered the fraud question, generally, in Sharland v Sharland).
So where does this leave Cara's lawyer, let's call her Lauren, if Cara comes to her office with a batch of Panama papers? The Court of Appeal was critical of family lawyers who tried to make use of private papers in a matrimonial finance case some six years ago, so most of us will be wary.
All papers handed to a lawyer (such as the Panama Papers) will be confidential. Most, in addition, will be covered by legal professional privilege (LPP). LPP is created by the common law, and enables a person to consult a lawyer, and to know that nothing which is discussed can be passed on, even in court. The main exceptions to this are when the client dispenses with the privacy ('waives privilege'), or when an Act of Parliament overrides 'legal privilege'. However, if documents enable a lawyer – whether deliberately or innocently – to further a client's crime, or other 'iniquitous' activity, they may be regarded as not ever having been covered by LPP (the 'iniquity exemption').
Meanwhile, if Edgar's information had been held by an accountant, a banker or an investment adviser, it would still be confidential, with a clear public interest in it remaining private. That said, the public interest in confidentiality (which is a lesser right than LPP) may be overridden by a superior interest, such as the right of another concerned person to a fair trial. In those instances LPP could not apply.
So if Cara brings in documents which Lauren knows have been 'leaked' from Panamanian lawyers, what is the lawyer to do? C thinks the documents show that Edgar has much more money than he admitted to in court. She wants to set aside the court order which Lauren and she obtained in good faith. She says: the order was based on a fraud; but can she rely on stolen documents to prove this?
Let us assume that in the Panamanian firm's offices, LPP is much the same as it is in English common law; and that an English judge, if confronted with documents which would be covered by LPP in a common law court, would be unwilling to admit them as evidence.
Panama papers and the 'iniquity exemption'
But what happens if the original lawyer's advice – whether the lawyer is aware of it or not – is part of the crime (i.e. the advice of Edgar's lawyer, in the case of Panama papers)? Are the documents or other information arising from the advice still covered by LPP? They are not, because the law says LPP did not arise in the first place. As the court said in 1884, when this aspect of the common law was laid down: if there is a criminal intent underlying the advice, then 'the client must either conspire with his solicitor, or deceive him. If his criminal object is avowed, the client does not consult his solicitor professionally, because it cannot be the solicitor's business to further any criminal object'. Therefore there is no privilege. (This is not to prevent alleged criminals instructing their lawyers; for the crime is not part of the advice, it is the subject of the advice).
First, lawyer and client must be clear as to whether the documents are covered by LPP. If so, that is an end of the matter. Lauren is likely to tell Cara that she can consider them no further. If they are not covered by LPP, but are only confidential, it is likely that the confidentiality can be overridden – for example, in the interests of justice.
If LPP does not arise then the following questions crop up:
If it is clear that the documents show (say) tax evasion or money-laundering, then the iniquity exemption applies and the most the documents can be said to be are confidential. No LPP arises.
If the lawyers were, in fact, acting as investment advisers or agents; and the advice they gave was limited to such advice (ie there was no legal advice), it may be arguable that no privilege arose. Investment advice is not acting in a 'relevant legal context'.
Lauren is entitled to wonder whether, if the iniquity were proved, then are Cara's actions tainted by the fact that the removal of the confidential documents was a crime; and that she could not, at one remove, benefit from it (ex turpi causa non oritur actio: from a dishonest cause an action cannot arise). Does one fraud upon another found an action? This needs further research.
If LPP applies to Edgar's documents, Cara cannot use them. If LPP does not apply, there is still confidentiality. That may be easily overridden. There remains the question: can Cara and her advisers rely on documents which were taken illegally in the first place from the Panamanian lawyers? Does the fraud of the person who leaked the documents, even though they reveal a fraud, exonerate Cara and enable her to use the information in fresh English court proceedings?
The views expressed in this article are those of David Burrows and may not necessarily be shared by any of the other contributors to this blog.
Author: David Burrows
David is a solicitor advocate (higher courts, civil) who specialises in family law. He is a founder contributor to Family Court Practice (Jordans, the 'Red Book'), and chaired SFLA (Resolution) National Committee in 2003. He writes extensively in for various publications, including Family Law and New Law Journal.


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Fieldrunners is a tower defense video game developed for several platforms. Originally released on 1 October 2008 as an exclusive iOS title, the game was later ported to Nintendo DSi, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, and mobile phones. It was released on the Android platform in July 2011, on the Amazon Appstore and Android Market, then on 25 October, where it was ported to HTML5 by Gradient Studios and Bocoup and released on the Chrome Web Store with the first level, Grasslands, playable for free. It is the first release of developer Subatomic Studios.

Gameplay
Unlike in other tower defense games, turrets can be placed anywhere and the enemies will go around them, forcing them to walk along any path the player makes. It is not possible to block the path however. Fieldrunners offers three types of gameplay: Classic, Extended and Endless. Playing in Classic and Extended modes limits the number of rounds in which the player must defend to 100. Classic only lets players build the original four towers, Gatling, Goo, Missile, and Tesla (except Skyway which substitutes Laser for Tesla and Frostbite which substitutes Ice for Goo). Extended mode adds the two new towers, Flame Tower and Mortar Tower (except Skyway which adds Tesla instead of Mortar). In Endless mode, the player may defend indefinitely. In any mode, the player may play in Easy, Medium, or Hard mode.

Maps
Maps were released over a course of updates. Only Grasslands was present during the initial release, featuring an open field in which enemies enter from the left and exit to the right. Crossroads was later released, also featuring an open field but enemies cross from top to bottom in addition from left to right. Drylands later followed, featuring an open field with three entry points, two from left to right and one from top to bottom. Two maps were included as in-app purchases, Skyway and Frostbite. Skyway features a field containing obstacles and with one leftmost entrance. Frostbite has four entrances on each side of the map which all converge in the center. Another update introduced a free map, Crystal Caves, and two in-app purchase maps, MudSlide, and LavaFlow. Crystal Caves features an open field with one entrance encircled by an additional train route. Mudslide features a field containing obstacles, a left entrance and an intersecting train route. Lavaflow features a field with two intersecting train routes and one left entrance.

Reception
Fieldrunners has received generally positive reviews, with the PSP version scoring 81% at the review aggregate website Metacritic. IGN gave the game an eight out of ten rating, and highly recommended it. Select Start Media was highly critical of the PC port, but expressed enjoyment of the mobile releases.

Of the iPhone version, Stuart Dredge of Pocket Gamer noted its "clever controls and cartoony visuals", calling it "the best Tower Defense game on iPhone so far".

The PSP version of Fieldrunners scored a high 81/100 on Metacritic. Reviews for the iPad Fieldrunners HD version have been positive.

Although having positive reviews, ratings on the game have been relatively lower than other games due to the fact it is a paid game that has IAP (In app purchases) for the full game and the high crash rate for some players. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fieldrunners/id292421271?mt=8

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(1) This transmits revised 25.1.7, Fraud Handbook, Failure to File.
(1) 25.1.7.2(1) - Added indicators of fraud and cautionary statement for certain cash-intensive businesses.
(2) 25.1.7.4(1) - Added reference to IRM 25.1.2.2 to include over-arching guidance to all compliance employees.
(3) 25.1.7.4(3) - Revised to reference IRM 25.5.4.5.6.
(4) 25.1.7.5(2) - Corrected title of Form 2797.
(5) 25.1.7.6(2) - Corrected link to Examination PSP office in the note.
(6) 25.1.7.7(1) - Moved existing IRM 25.1.7.8, Civil Closure, to IRM 25.1.7.7.
(7) 25.1.7.7(5) - Clarified guidance for convictions under IRC 7201.
(8) 25.1.7.7(6) c) - Added cautionary statement for certain types of businesses.
(9) 25.1.7.7.1 - Moved existing IRM 25.1.7.7, Assessment Procedure for the Fraudulent Failure to File (FFTF) Penalty, to a sub section of IRM 25.1.7, Civil Closure.
(10) 25.1.7.7.1(1) - Clarified guidance as to when the fraudulent failure to file penalty should be assessed.
(11) 25.1.7.7.1(2) - Immediate supervisory pre-assessment approval of the fraudulent failure to file penalty is required in writing.
(12) 25.1.7.7.1(3) - The fraudulent failure to file penalty based on tax reported on a delinquent return is not subject to Notice of Deficiency procedures; however, Area Counsel review and approval is required to ensure that case facts support fraud.
This IRM supersedes IRM 25.1.7 dated August 22, 2014.
This section discusses procedures that apply Service-wide concerning fraud in failure to file cases.
Willful failure to file a tax return is a misdemeanor pursuant to IRC 7203. In cases where an overt act of evasion occurred, willful failure to file may be elevated to a felony under IRC 7201.
If failure to file a return is fraudulent, a civil penalty known as the "fraudulent failure to file (FFTF) penalty" may apply under IRC 6651(f). This penalty may apply to all returns due after 12/31/1989 (without regard to extensions).
The civil fraud penalty under IRC 6663 may apply to all returns required to be filed after 12/31/1989.
Specific guidance on fraud indicators and the development of fraud can be found in IRM 25.1.1, Overview/Definitions, and 25.1.2, Recognizing and Developing Fraud.
IRM 20.1.2.2.7.5, Fraudulent Failure to File - IRC 6651(f), provides specific procedures for assertion of the FFTF penalty.
Consider whether business is a cash-intensive business and if cash must be used for paying expenses: for example, in the marijuana industry, where banks have been reluctant to provide bank accounts for these businesses.
Consideration should be given to any allowable expenses the taxpayer may have to offset self-employment income.
Prior history of criminal tax prosecutions for Title 26 violations.
If indications of fraud exist, the compliance employee will discuss the case with the group manager. If the group manager concurs that the possibility of fraud exists, the fraud technical advisor (FTA) will be contacted. Whenever feasible, a face-to-face meeting will be held between the compliance employee, group manager and FTA to discuss the need for fraud development.
DO NOT SOLICIT tax returns. If returns are submitted, they should be accepted but not processed, and clearly documented in the case history. See IRM 4.4.9.7.3, Delinquent Return Secured by Examination After SFR TC 150 Posted - Accepted as Filed Procedures, IRM 4.4.9.7.4, Delinquent Return Secured by Examination After TC 150 SFR Posted, With Audit Potential - Process Partial Assessment Procedures, and IRM 25.1.7.7 for proper handling.
DO NOT VOLUNTEER ADVICE to the taxpayer concerning any potential course of action to follow.
DO NOT DISCUSS tax liabilities, penalties, fraud, or criminal referral possibilities with the taxpayer.
In non-filer cases where a criminal referral is probable and where it is determined that a substitute for return (SFR) should not be posted to the Master File, use push code 037, potential criminal investigation referral/non-filer. For most examiners, the Audit Information Management System (AIMS) will remain a skeletal base until a transaction code (TC) 150 posts. Otherwise, use push code 036, non-filer, and an SFR will be generated. The request for push code input is made using Form 5345-D, Examination Request-ERCS (Examination Returns Control System) Users, or Form 5345-B, Examination Request Non-ERCS Users. The request is routed by the compliance employee to his/her group manager for review and approval. Upon group manager approval, the form is routed to the group secretary or other designated person for input.
The AIMS project code should be changed to 0149, non-filer referral for fraud, if a criminal referral is probable.
Interview the taxpayer to determine the reason or the intent of the taxpayer's noncompliance.
Ask sufficient questions to determine the extent of the delinquency, including the periods and tax due.
Document verbatim, if possible, the questions asked and the taxpayer's response or lack of response.
Identify any personal reasons that could affect the taxpayer's ability to comply. If the information is not provided by the taxpayer, attempt to secure the information from third party sources.
Attempt to get a definitive statement from the taxpayer regarding additional expenses not listed in the books and records. These expenses could include, but are not limited to, expenses paid in cash or "under-the-table" payments to employees.
Attempt to establish year-end cash on hand for each year under investigation.
Securing current financial information including a check of public records for assets, and a physical observation of the taxpayer's residence, place of business and/or other identified properties. When checking public records, in addition to identifying the assets, information may be available as to when the assets were acquired and the amount paid for such assets. This information will determine whether the taxpayer had the ability to pay the taxes owed when due.
Access to a full credit report is governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. See IRM 25.5.4.5.6, Statutory limitations on Acquiring Credit Reports From a Consumer Reporting Agency-Summons Required, for guidance.
If subsequent to receipt of a full credit report for a Balance (BAL) DUE investigation, fraud is discovered on a delinquent return (DEL RET) or a previously filed return, or unreported income is discovered, a summons must be issued under IRC 7609 for another credit report.
However, the Service may not obtain a full credit report of a sole proprietor, partner or fiduciary without a summons where there is no lien against the individual taxpayer.
Finally, use of a full credit report as a basis for a referral to Criminal Investigation (CI), a summons must be issued in accordance with IRC 7609, because of the third party record keeper notice requirement.
Contact the FTA for the criminal criteria when considering submission of a criminal fraud referral of a non-filer.
When the group manager and the FTA concur that firm indications of fraud exist and criminal criteria are met, the compliance employee will prepare Form 2797, Referral Report of Potential Criminal Fraud Cases. The Form 2797 should be prepared as described in IRM 25.1.3.2, Preparation of Form 2797 - Referral Report of Potential Criminal Fraud Cases.
Compliance employees should consider referring the secured DEL RET to CI for consideration if it has been determined that the DEL RET has a substantial understatement of income and/or a substantial overstatement of deductions that are fraudulent, and criminal criteria is met. The group manager and the FTA should become involved as discussed in IRM 25.1.7.5.
If failure to file and the DEL RET are fraudulent, assertion of both the FFTF penalty (based on the FFTF net amount due) and the civil fraud penalty (based on the DEL RET deficiency) should be considered. Again, the group manager and the FTA should become involved as discussed in IRM 25.1.7.5.
Collection function employees only should consider a referral to Examination Planning and Special Programs office (PSP), http://mysbse.web.irs.gov/examination/examorg/ppa/fieldexamwpa/10487.aspx, for FFTF penalty and civil fraud penalty consideration, if the DEL RET(s) is fraudulent and criminal criteria are not met. The referral information (including identifying taxpayer information) should be placed on a memorandum and forwarded to the Area PSP for assignment consideration.
If the criminal criteria are not met, the compliance employee will complete the examination or SFR action whether or not the taxpayer files a DEL RET.
Compliance employees should contact the FTA, if necessary, for assistance in developing the FFTF penalty. Further direction on assertion of the penalty is contained in IRM 20.1, Penalties Handbook.
The addition to tax under IRC 6651(f) (fraudulent failure to file) should be proposed when evidence clearly indicates the taxpayer fraudulently failed to file a return, or filed the return late. The civil fraud penalty under IRC 6663 applies only if the Service possesses clear evidence that the taxpayer reported an underpayment on his or her return attributable to fraud. Penalties should not be used as a bargaining tool.
In non-filer cases, a criminal conviction for willful failure to file a Federal return under IRC 7203 collaterally estops a taxpayer from denying liability under IRC 6651(a), the delinquency addition to tax, in a civil case. The addition to tax for FFTF is not automatic. Although a conviction under IRC 7203 does not collaterally estop a taxpayer from challenging the FFTF addition, the conviction further supports indications of fraud.
If the non-filer is convicted under IRC 7201, the taxpayer is collaterally estopped from denying fraudulent intent in relation to the civil fraud penalty or the FFTF penalty. The taxpayer may, however, contest the amount of the underpayment supporting the civil fraud penalty determined by the IRS or the amount of the tax required to be shown on the return in connection with the determined FFTF penalty. Collateral estoppel for a conviction under IRC 7201 only applies to the year(s) of the conviction and the civil fraud penalty or FFTF penalty, not the tax liability.
Taxpayer's use of dummy business entities, bank accounts opened under assumed names and use of false taxpayer identification numbers in an attempt to conceal the source of income or identity of the owner.
For example, some marijuana businesses have created dummy business entities in an attempt to get a bank account, thereby hiding the true nature of their business.
Area Counsel must provide written approval for non-assertion of the FFTF penalty under IRC 6651(f) if a taxpayer has been successfully prosecuted by the Department of Justice under any criminal statute for failing to file. If successful prosecution has not been obtained, non-assertion of the FFTF penalty will be at the discretion of the compliance group manager. Compliance group managers are encouraged to consult with their local FTA for assistance.
Once it is determined that the DEL RET is fraudulent and either criminal criteria is not met or a criminal investigation is concluded, the FFTF penalty, based on the tax reported on the DEL RET should then be assessed.
When the taxpayer files a DEL RET, the limitation period for assessment begins. The FFTF penalty, based on the tax reported on the DEL RET, must be assessed within 3 years of receipt of the DEL RET. The FFTF penalty does not keep the statute period for assessment open beyond the 3 year period in this scenario.
Written pre-assessment approval by the immediate supervisor is required. See IRM 20.1.2.2.7.5.1(8), FFTF Penalty Assessment - Procedural Requirements.
The portion of the FFTF penalty, based on the tax reported on the DEL RET, is not subject to deficiency procedures and should not be included in a Notice of Deficiency. However, if the delinquent filing results in a deficiency, only that portion of the FFTF penalty attributable to the deficiency should be included in the Notice of Deficiency.
To ensure case facts support fraud and because the assessment of a FFTF penalty attributable to the amount originally shown on a return is not reviewable by the tax court, all 30-day letters proposing a FFTF penalty on the tax reported on the DEL RET must be reviewed and approved by Area Counsel prior to issuance. See IRM 4.10.8.12.1(11), 30-Day Letters and IRM 20.1.2.2.7.5.1(3), FFTF Penalty Assessment-Procedural Requirements.
Letter 2777, Pre-Assessment appeals letter for the fraudulent failure to file penalty, may be used in lieu of the regular 30-day letter when appropriate.


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Man appears in court charged with attempted murder of toddler in Blackpool
Lewis Prince has not entered any pleas to the charges he faces
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16:03, 9 DEC 2022
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A man has appeared at Blackpool Magistrates' Court charged with the attempted murder of a toddler in Blackpool.
Police were called to a house in Brun Grove on Wednesday December 7 where a two-year-old boy was found with head and neck injuries. He was taken to hospital but has since returned home.
Lewis Prince, 28, of Browning Road, Swinton, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, assault and driving offences. He appeared before Blackpool Magistrates' Court this morning (Friday December 10).
Prince has not yet entered a plea to any of the charges he faces. Magistrates remanded him in custody and said the case was so serious it can only be dealt with in the Crown Court.
Prince will appear at Preston Crown Court on January 6.
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Sammy Hagar's LV Residency is Coming Together
One of the most famous rock and roll musicians of all time is planning an exciting new residency in Las Vegas. According to new reports, Sammy Hagar's LV residency will take place at the STRAT Hotel & Casino in northern Las Vegas. It's expected to be one of the best new shows in the city.
Las Vegas is home to a huge number of popular musicians. Unfortunately, many fear that the spreading coronavirus may reduce tourism rates here. Today, we'll look at Hagar's plans in Las Vegas, and discuss how the city may fare for the rest of 2020.
Let's get into it!
Las Vegas STRAT Proves to Be a Major Upgrade
There was a time when the Las Vegas Stratosphere was considered one of the coolest properties in Las Vegas. It first opened to the public in 1996 as the second-tallest freestanding observation tower in the Western Hemisphere. It also featured a hotel and casino for guests.
As time went on, however, the Stratosphere began losing revenue. Many felt its location at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip made it unappealing for many visitors. In more recent years, many criticized the hotel's lack of renovations.
Ownership of this venue has changed hands several times over the years. In June of 2017, it was announced that Golden Entertainment was taking control of this property. The company eventually announced a massive renovation for this venue.
Golden Entertainment renamed this property the STRAT. Half of the hotel's rooms went over a major renovation. The 80,000 square-foot casino was also changed.
Many famous individuals attended the re-opening of this Las Vegas hotel & casino. This includes Sammy Hagar. Now, it appears that Hagar is preparing a brand new "party" residency in this venue and many are beginning to get excited.
Plans for Sammy Hagar's LV Residency Are Revealed
Sammy Hagar is one of the most famous musicians in the world. He first launched onto the music scene through his band Montrose. In 1985, he truly became a superstar after replacing David Lee Roth as the lead singer of Van Halen.
Back in January, news began to surface that Hagar was planning a residency at the STRAT Hotel & Casino. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sammy Hagar's LV residency is set to begin sometime this June.
"I want to create the ultimate environment where I can throw the ultimate party, like I have done in Cabo for 30 years for my birthday, but at another time of year here in Las Vegas, which is really the party capital of the world," Hagar told the media. "I hate to put Cabo second to anything, but I feel in this case it's gotta take second place to Las Vegas."
Hagar is known for putting on raucous parties. He owns the Cabo Wabo Cantina venue on the Las Vegas Strip which regularly puts on exciting shows for guests. It sounds like he wants to bring something similar to his new residency at the STRAT.
This is just one of many famous Las Vegas residencies. Unfortunately, many now fear that the city's tourism industry may begin taking a serious hit due to the coronavirus. Here's what we know about the situation so far.
Coronavirus Fears Continue to Escalate in Las Vegas
For more than two months, a coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China has been spreading around the world. This virus, called Covid-19, is proving extremely difficult to contain. It's already infected more than 100,000 individuals around the world and killed thousands.
It's begun to hit the United States. Washington, California and New York are all experiencing major outbreaks. Many feel that in time, every state in the country will become infected.
Cases of the coronavirus in Clark County, Nevada are beginning to emerge. For this reason, many Las Vegas casino companies are seeing their stock prices plummet. There are fears that no one will want to travel to Las Vegas due to the potential to be exposed to Covid-19.
As of now, things don't appear to be too bad. There hasn't been a major drop-off in hotel occupancy in the city. If more infections begin to pop up here, however, this is likely to change.
Hopefully, Sammy Hagar's LV residency is a success. He may be able to help bring in more visitors to the STRAT Hotel & Casino. Stay tuned for updates over the next few months!
Donny and Marie Osmond End Their Las Vegas Residency
One of the most popular Las Vegas residencies has just come to an end. Donny and Marie Osmond are ending their famous Las Vegas show. The duos' final performance officially concluded on Saturday.
It's been a long time coming for these iconic singers. Now is the perfect time to look back on their long-running show, and talk about some of the other ones still available in Las Vegas. Let's get into it!
History of the "Donny and Marie" Las Vegas Show
As we've already mentioned, Donny and Marie Osmond have one of the most famous residencies in Las Vegas. Donny first gained fame in the 1970s as a teen idol. He took a break from music a few years later and stepped out of the public spotlight.
In the 90s, Donny resumed his music career.
In the mid-2000s, Marie Osmond was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. In 2007, she teamed up with her brother Donny to begin performing at the iconic Flamingo Hotel. Initially, they agreed to a limited six-week engagement.
The pair had such a successful show that the Flamingo continued to extend their deal. "Donny and Marie" was a 90-minute show backed by eight dancers and a full band. Solo performances also take place during each show.
Incredibly, Donny and Marie Osmond continued to perform for more than eleven years. During their run, they gained numerous awards including the "Best Show" award by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
This past weekend, this show was held for the final time. It was an emotional night for the performers and fans who have followed them over the years.
Donnie and Marie Osmond Officially End their Residency
All good things must eventually come to an end. The "Donny and Marie" show was extended year after year and was considered by many to be one of the best performances in Las Vegas. Saturday marked the last time this show will ever take place.
Both singers had trouble at times. The reality that this was their last performance seemed to affect them both heavily.
"I don't know how I'm going to get through this," Donny said to the crowd. Marie also gave a tearful statement. "I'm gonna miss you guys the most," she said to the band. "He can say all he wants about the crew and everything else, but I'm going to miss you. I love you."
Donny also took to Twitter to address his fans.
After 11 yrs & 1,730 shows, we just finished the final performance of our #DonnyandMarie Vegas residency.
?"May tomorrow be a perfect day, May you find love & laughter along the way. May God keep you in his tender care, 'till he brings us together again. Goodnight everybody!"? pic.twitter.com/AqkLZM7ltK
— Donny Osmond (@donnyosmond) November 17, 2019
Fortunately, this may not be the last time that we hear from these two. Despite both being in their 60s, there's a chance they will both continue to perform as solo artists. Marie is said to be creating a new show, perhaps even with a new partner.
Fortunately to visitors to this city, there are still some incredible shows available every single week.
More Las Vegas Shows You Need to Check Out
Las Vegas is known as the entertainment capital of the US. There are a huge number of fantastic shows taking place here throughout the year. The majority of them are absolutely fantastic.
One that many enjoy is the O by Cirque du Soleil. It takes place inside the Bellagio Hotel & Casino. It has fantastic reviews from critics and takes place every single day.
Recently, Lady Gaga also signed a two-year residency in Las Vegas. She is performing two shows, one of which is called Enigma and other called Jazz and Piano. Both have received great reviews.
Absinthe is another hugely popular show. It takes place inside Caesars Palace every other day. It's a contemporary circus, described as "an uneasy cross between terrific variety acts and a stag party."
There are always great shows taking place in Las Vegas. Make sure to check one out when you visit!


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Local June 8, 2022 | 2:17 pm
Spiral of violence continues: Man kills his friend with four shots
Police operation in Cambodia sector. LD photo.
The incident occurs a few hours after the assassination of the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Orlando Jorge Mera, also at the hands of a friend.
Barahona, DR
The most recent victim in this province as a result of the spiral of violence in the country is a young man who a friend killed on Tuesday afternoon with several shots in the Cambodia sector of this municipality.
The incident occurs a few hours after the assassination of the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Orlando Jorge Mera, also at the hands of a friend, and despite President Luis Abinader 's call for Dominicans to lay down their weapons and violence.
José David Camacho, 23, received at least four bullet wounds in different parts of his body, dying while receiving medical attention at the Hospital Regional Universitario Jaime Mota (HRUJM).
Camacho was taken in a delicate state to the emergency room of the leading health center in the region at 2:40 in the afternoon after being wounded by bullets in the Cambodia sector, where he lived.
The projectile-type impacts were made by a person identified as Marcos Dominici (Chici), who is unknown if he was arrested by the authorities or fled after committing the act.
Emergency service doctors made great efforts to save Camacho's life, but the shots he received damaged vital areas of his body.


How to Reset Password on Samsung Smartphones?
Read this informative guide to learn how to reset password on Samsung phone. The post has explored different options to do a Samsung reset password/pin/pattern.
Have you been locked out of your Samsung device and would like to reset its password?
Don't worry, it is quite a common issue and happens with a lot of people. It doesn't matter if you are trying to unlock a used phone or have forgotten your own password, you can easily unlock your device. To do this, you can take the assistance of a Samsung reset password tool or enter certain codes. There are different kinds of solutions that you can follow with respect to your situation. Get to know more about the Samsung password reset code and other solutions right here.
Part 2. How to reset password on Samsung phone when you can access it?
Part 3. How to reset password on Samsung phone when you're locked out?
Par 4. How to reset Samsung account password?
Almost every Android device has certain master codes. A Samsung device can respond to the codes that are related to specific operations. Most of these codes are a mix of special symbols (like * and #) as well as numeric digits. When we enter them to a device, they activate a code and perform specific tasks.
There are dedicated codes to check phone information, get network details, perform a SIM unlock, etc. Just like that, one can also enter Samsung phone reset password as well to unlock their device.
These are tried and tested Samsung Duos reset password codes and are expected to work on all the leading Samsung phones as well. Using these codes is extremely simple. Activate your device and tap on the emergency call button. This will load an emergency dialer. Now, enter these reset codes and tap on the dialer button to load them.
Important Note: These reset codes will restore your device to its factory settings. This means, its stored data and saved settings will automatically be erased. So if needed, don't forget to backup your Samsung phone beforehand.
Simply unlock your device with its existing pin/pattern and go to its Settings > Security.
Tap on the "Screen lock" option to continue. You might be asked to enter the existing pin/pattern again.
This will provide different options that you can choose as your phone's lock. Some common options are pin, password, pattern, swipe, and none.
Simply tap on any option of your choice and enter the new pin/pattern/password for your phone.
You would have to confirm the code again in order to a complete Samsung phone reset password.
If you are locked out of your device and can't remember the existing pin, pattern, or password, then you need to use a dedicated tool. We recommend using iSkysoft Toolbox - Unlock (Android) . It can remove all kinds of locks on a Samsung device like pin, password, pattern, fingerprint, etc. In the process, no harm or data loss is experienced. This means, all the existing data and settings on your phone would be retained. To learn how to reset password on Samsung phone, follow these simple steps.
Step 1. To start with, launch the iSkysoft Toolbox on your system and go to its "Unlock" module.
Step 2. Connect your locked Samsung phone to the computer using a USB cable and click on the "Start" button once the device gets detected.
Step 3. Enter crucial details related to your device like its brand, model, and name to continue. A pop-up will appear so that you can confirm the entered device information.
Step 4. Following the on-screen instructions, you need to boot your phone in the download mode. Just press the Power + Home + Volume Down button simultaneously to do it.
Step 5. As soon as your phone would enter the download mode, the application will automatically start downloading the recovery packages for your phone.
Step 6. After completing the download, it will restart your device in the normal mode.
Once you get this prompt on the screen, you can safely remove it from your system. You can unlock it without any problem and go to its security settings to reset the password.
Besides unlocking your device, you should also know how to do Samsung reset password of your account. As you know, your device can be linked to a Samsung account. This will let you access the device location and perform numerous other operations remotely as well. Therefore, if you don't know the existing password of your Samsung account, then follow this simple drill.
Go to your Samsung device's Settings > Account and tap on the Samsung account option.
Enter the Samsung ID of your account. Since you can't recall its password, tap on the Forgot Password option.
Type the linked Samsung ID and the displayed captcha code.
After when you will confirm the provided details, an email will be sent to your account. Just log-in to your account's inbox on your phone and click on the reset password link.
You will be redirected to the following page. Simply enter a new password and confirm it in order to reset your Samsung account details.
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In his September 16 address before the 55th Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)1, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy announced his intent to call back the 152 member States' trade ministers to bring the Doha Round negotiations to closure.
"The reasons why we must conclude the Round are becoming more critical by the day as economic and financial outlook continues to deteriorate," indicated Pascal Lamy. Indeed, Lamy worries that, in the current financial upheaval, nations give into the temptation of protectionism, as was the case in the 1929 crisis. Yet, as stated by the Director-General at the WTO Public Forum on September 24,2 the important lesson of the Great Depression is precisely that "protectionism and economic isolationism do not work".
By inviting the international community to rapidly bring the Doha Round to a close, Pascal Lamy is making a strategic mistake on two levels.
First, while he is right in calling on decision-makers to resist the siren calls of protectionism, one must guard against falling into the opposite excess. The current financial crisis has persuaded most international leaders––such as IMF's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and UN's Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon––that we must return to a regulated capitalism and to a stabilized international cooperation, as wall as calmly rethink the debate issues in terms of international conditions. It is thus surprising that Pascal Lamy, in the framework of the current food crisis, continues to plead for a rapid conclusion of the Doha Round and an increased liberalization of trade, at a time when consequences could prove even more ill fated than the financial crisis itself.
Then, this headlong rush concerning liberalization shows a binary approach––theoretical and ideological––where total liberalization in a multilateral framework represents the sole alternative to isolationism and protectionism. There are many other options and the fact that WTO's Director-General is not aware of them is a discouraging fact.