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Brachers appointed to NHS Commercial Alliance framework
Brachers is pleased to announce it has been appointed to the NHS Commercial Alliance framework, one of the largest procurement partnerships in England to provide legal services to the NHS.
The firm is contracted to the framework for a period of four years.
Brachers will deliver legal services across six selected areas:
- Primary Care
- Corporate and Commercial Law
- Employment Law
- Property Law
- NHS Governance and Public Law
- Health Law
The NHS Commercial Alliance is one of the largest NHS procurement partnerships in the country, available to all NHS bodies, public authorities and charities in England.
John Sheath, Head of Healthcare at Brachers commented:
"We are thrilled with this appointment, which follows a very competitive tender process. We are pleased to have been successful on all lots we tendered for as this is an ambitious national project.
The NHS works hard to provide a high standard of care against the backdrop of funding squeezes, lifestyle changes and an ageing population, and with the recent General Election, these issues are once again coming to the fore. We're excited to be working closely with the NHS Commercial Alliance as they navigate through these challenges."
The Alliance is a partnership of two procurement organisations, East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub and NHS Commercial Solutions, and aims to maximise spend efficiency and in turn deliver better quality healthcare. It also provides benchmarking and data analysis alongside other information to ensure members make better informed commercial decisions.
The appointment comes as the healthcare team retained its national ranking in the 2015 edition of the Chambers & Partners directory, the leading independent authority on the legal profession, underlining the quality client service the team delivers. The firm recently welcomed Jonathan Askin to the team, who has previously held posts as senior commercial lawyer for the UK government and senior legal counsel at the Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England), and primarily provides legal advice on all aspects of public procurement law.
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Round 2: Naive Guest
Development Time: 2 weeks (group)
Platform: Head Mounted Display
The purpose of this round was to develop a world that a naive guest, one that has neither seen our world nor is necessarily familiar with video games at all, can play through in its entirety. During the presentation, we could provide one verbal instruction to the guest and then we must step away. Stepping away and watching a naive guest play, and in many cases break, the world while saying nothing was one of the most challenging aspects of this round. The lesson of this round really resonated with me as I viscerally saw the importance of playtesting. Communicating clearly and succinctly is an important skill both inside the game space and out.
With the start of Round 2, all of the students are shuffled into new teams. As in the previous round, my new team elected me to the role of producer. Our team was assigned to use the Head Mounted Display (HMD), which would allow the guest to freely look around in a first person perspective. We felt that a space world could provide a good sense of freedom and the science fiction atmosphere could enable us to create clear goals that the naive guest would accept. In Troika, we decided that the guest is the pilot of a wayward ship and must locate and collect a resource for a damaged component in the engine. Moreover, we learned of a fully suspended motion chair available to us and we were eager to integrate it into our world. We felt that by integrating such a tactile interface, it would help engage the naive guest with our experience.
At our final presentation, a thirteen year old boy elected to drive our world. With the single instruction to "Fly into the planets," he took off away from the game world, away from all of the planets, and straight into a black hole. As we designed it, our play area was curtained by a restricted area that would warn and eventually kill the guest. One of the lessons I took away from this was to create an environment where the experience cannot end while the guest orients themselves to the world. Of the feedback we received, one was to gently guide the guest back into the play area if they wander too far.
In addition to the valuable game design lesson, I started to feel more comfortable with my new role. In particular, learning to create astronomical objects from scratch helped to build my confidence as a new texture artist.
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|Swamp Thing
Title screen of Swamp Thing (NES version)
|Toy Headquarters
|Barry Marx (NES)
Dan Kitchen (NES)
David Lubar (NES)
Christian Dana Perry (GB)
Curtis Norris (GB)
Timothy H. Mensch (GB)
|Mark Van Hecke (NES)
Ed Bogas (Game Boy)
Game Boy
|December 1992
Swamp Thing is a platform video game for the NES and Game Boy. Based on the animated series of the same name, it was published by THQ and released December 1992.
A Swamp Thing title was also in development by Microsmiths for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis but was canceled. It would have been published by NuVision Entertainment.[1]
The NES version of Swamp Thing borrows the game engine from The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants. Its introduction features the origin story of Swamp Thing and as depicted in the 1991 animated series. The player takes the role of the title character battling foes throughout the Louisiana swamps and other locations in a side-scrolling format. Swamp Thing's attack methods include punching and firing "sludge balls" which are acquired throughout the game. The player must venture through various stages, which include a graveyard, chemical factory, toxic dump, and finally, Arcane's lab. Bosses include Arcane's Un-Men, Dr. Deemo, Weedkiller, Skinman, and finally, Arcane himself.[2]
In Game Boy's Swamp Thing, stages include the Arctic, the desert, and contaminated rainforests. Swamp Thing also uses tools like camouflage and thorn skin, and he must recycle scattered garbage in order to score points and gain additional powers.[3]
Aside from marginal graphics, the NES Swamp Thing has received average to generally negative reviews for its high difficulty, poor music, and dull gameplay.[4] However, while the NES version of Swamp Thing was based on a Simpsons game, it also provided the foundation for a popular ROM hack entitled The Simpsons: Return of the Space Mutants. This 2001 title serves as a sequel to the original Bart vs. the Space Mutants game and is only available through a downloadable ROM format.[5]
While perhaps faring better than its NES counterpart, the Game Boy version of Swamp Thing was not met with high praise either, getting a 2.5/5 score from Nintendo Power.[6]
- ^ Swamp Thing Sega Retro. Retrieved on 7-23-11.
- ^ SubSane Swamp Thing Video Game FAQ/Walkthrough GameFAQs (April 5, 2005). Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ IGN: Swamp Thing IGN.com. Retrieved February 3, 2008.
- ^ Swamp Thing for NES Reviews GameSpot.com (December 9, 2006). Retrieved February 2, 2008.
- ^ CBG's Video Game Collection :: Return of the Space Mutants, retrieved 2018-03-15
- ^ Swamp Thing for Game Boy Reviews GameSpot.com. Retrieved February 2, 2008.


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Valentine's Day Unique And Special Messages, SMS In English, Hindi And Marathi
Here are some special messages for your , boyfriend, husband or wife in English, hindi and Marathi. If you are away from your beloved you can SMS attractive quotes which will enter straight to yours beloved heart.
Valentine's day is a day for lovers who can express his love in the form of messages, quotes or SMS if they are not along with each other. Though you can get several quotes but a unique message directly enters the heart. These messages can be used to propose to someone you love or to your spouse.
Love has no language and can be expressed with same feelings in any language, here I have quoted some messages in English, Hindi and Marathi for Valentine's day it consist of romantic as well as funny messages.
Valentine's day SMS and messages in English
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. Happy Valentines Day
My heart says you are fine, please confirm will you be my Valentine?
We may be apart but your love is in my heart.
Love is not finding someone to live with; It's finding someone you can't live without.
I asked God for a flower, he gave me a bouquet
I asked God for a minute, he gave me a day
I asked God for true love, he gave me that too
I asked for an angel and he gave me you.
Happy Valentine Day!
I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away.
I wrote your name in the sand,
but the waves washed it away.
I wrote your name in my heart,
and forever it will stay.
Happy Valentine Day!
Hindi SMS and message for Valentine's day
Mujhe gam nahi tera door hone ke babjood.
Tu har har pal, har chhan, mere jism ke har kan main hai moujood.
Tera pyar meri jindgi, teri mohabbat meri aarzoo
teri chahat meri zagir hai, teri ulfat meri justazoo.
Aap Ki Yaad Mai Sab Kuch Bhulaye Baithe Hain
Chiraag Khushiyon K Bujhaye Baithe Hain
Hum To Marenge Aap Ki Baahon Main
Yeh Bhi Maut Se Shart Lagaye Baithe Hain.
Kabhi sukhsagar kabhi gamon ka dariya
kabhi kaanto ki chubhan kabhi foolon ki ladiya
Ye Ishque bhi kya cheez hai
fir bhi kitni azeez hai
Marathi SMS and Valentine day message
डोळ्यातल्या स्वप्नाला...
कधी प्रत्यक्षातही आण !
किती प्रेम करतो तुझ्यावर,
हे न सांगताही जाण !!! :-)
Happy Valentine's Day!
पाहशील जिथे जिथे नजर उचलून...
मीच असेल उभा ओठांवर स्मित घेऊन :)
आलेत कधी जर तुझ्या डोळ्यात दुखांचे अश्रू....
तुला सुखाचे आनंदाश्रू तिथे तिथे देऊन.......!!!
Happy Valentine's Day!


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Many things have happened to our Happy Little Nut House since Owain was born in May 2008. I have recently realized that I am still recovering from the stress of being surprised 14 hours after his birth that something was wrong with his Heart. Finding out about his complex Heart Defect, standing by his bed fearing for his life. Watching over him after his 2 surgeries and caring for his special needs. That itself is a lot to handle, but when you combine that with the home addition that we started the week before he was born, another pregnancy, the kids dad always working out-of-town most of the time, and never being home, and my inability to work as much as I would like (both jewelry vending and working at home) I end up feeling Overwhelmed and Underpaid. It sucks to always be alone with the kids with almost no help.
I get stressed over money, our home addition, our back yard that is a never-ending construction zone, Owain's next surgery, the piles of laundry, dirty dishes and this strange and endless overflowing of toys that come from 4 kids. I stress over my cracked windshield, the new tires I need and the strange sensor light on the dashboard. I stress over silly little things like a house covered in Cheerios even though I just cleaned them up, along with the never-ending scattering of crayons and little scraps of paper that my happy little children left behind in a frenzy of brilliant craftiness.
I sleep very little at night (although at this point much of this is due to a very huge baby in the belly) and I spend my days worrying about dozens of things. Many times, I get through the day by turning my back on all of my stress and completely focus on my kids…but then when I try to focus on things again everything is so out of control that I don't know where to begin.
So to help me get through the week and get my head organized, I have decided to start Thankful Thursdays. Every Thursday I will post a quick list of things I am Thankful for, I would love it if you stopped back on Thursdays to join me.


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Monday, June 11, 2007
Death is Swallowed Up
Although the means may be different, the passion is the same, the desire to overturn the rule of death, to make taxes the only thing that's certain. The sentiment expressed by the apostle arises in the breast of all humanity, a shaking of fists against a ruthless destroyer. We say together, Let us have an end to death's reign.
I wish it were so. One would think, at least I would, that we would all feel this way. Not to force unending life upon those who do not want it, but rather to allow for the choice. Death now leaves no alternative. I vote for options.
I vote for a world in which anyone who so desires can choose to be healthy and strong indefinitely; rejuvenation treatments every 10 years, but only if you want them. I vote for the option to make backups of our minds that can be restored in artificial bodies should accidental death occur. I vote for the choice to be uploaded into virtual worlds, and to live there as long as I want to. I don't think that's asking too much.
I learned this morning of the death of a beloved aunt, gone at 66 years of age. The pattern of her experiences and personality, as wonderful as they were, are gone forever. Yes, a part of her lives on in our own memories, but the person she was is no more. Why should she have ended at 66?
Some have expressed to me that desiring more than 80 years or so seems greedy. Enough is enough. Life would get boring after that. But why 80 years? We only choose that number because it happens to be our approximate, average life expectancy where we live. Should those who live in Botswana be happy with 40 years? Would they be tired of life after 40 years? How about Ethiopians at 45?
The fact is, these numbers are completely arbitrary. We only think that 80 is acceptable and should be enough for anyone because that happens to be about all we can expect at this moment and in this country. Those who accept the Bible literally should recall that Methuselah lived to 969, and no one complains that he must have been bored from 80 on.
It's almost as if most of us have been brainwashed into a quiescent melancholy or quiet cynicism so that we accept death with meekness and without complaint. It is my belief that radical life-extension will come anyway, but perhaps it would arrive sooner if we all wanted death to be swallowed up.
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- Spaceman Spiff said...
I want death to be swallowed up, and along with it greed, oppression, hatred and everything else that enslaves us.
It is notable that after we had eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and introduced corruption, God went to great lengths to prevent us from eating of the tree of life.
One way of understanding that is that God knows that eternal life for beings who had made such a choice would be torment, and that fruit would not be good for us until we had been redeemed.
I don't way wanting more than 80 years is greedy. But I do say grabbing for more than 80 while so many do not get 40 is greedy. And I do say the only reason it is a remote possibility is because of what our greed has produced. If we were primarily concerned with justice, with ending cycles of poverty, and the exploitation of such cycles, then such technology would be a lot farther away.
I'm sorry about your Aunt. It hurts.
Two things -
1. Think about the possibility that we are already immortal.
2. If earth is overcrowded now, think how it would be if there was no physical death, or as is more likely the case, no more physical death for the wealthy. In our present state, physical immortality would lead to more social inequities than we have now, or a totalitarianism that would make those of the past seem mild. Get starships, then the situation may be different.


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Caramel art reprints! Two new card previews!
by Seppel
We only do one printing of each Furoticon set. When it's sold out, that's all we make. But sometimes,
we include cards from past sets in our newest set.
These are called
Why do we reprint cards?
Two reasons: first, it enables new players to easily get their hands on popular cards, and second, veteran players' cards retain their collector's value!
We try to make sure art matches the theme of the set, which means we get new art for the same card. But sometimes,
the past art is just awesome enough to get us to reprint the card with the same art!
In Caramel, we did two art reprints:
Iso is a very expensive, but very powerful Furre to play!
With a cost of 11 AP and 4 Otherkind GP, you'll have to amass a lot of resources to be able to play him -- but when you do, he'll turn the game massively in your favor!
Perilous Precipice is the opposite of
Co-ed Dorm!
Instead of generating Male or Female points, Perilous Precipice generates Herm or Otherkind points. Hooray for keeping options open!
You can find both of these awesome-looking cards in
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Caramel is available!
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17 comments:
on Dec 30th, 2014 @ 07:40 PM
Awesomesauce. Cool Ass card
on Dec 28th, 2014 @ 10:50 PM
I see Iso up there and the jeepers creepers song pops into my head
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 05:59 PM
love the art for Perilous Precipice. no wonder that it was kept.
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 03:33 PM
Both of these are very lovely cards and I'm glad to see them in this set.
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 02:22 PM
I got both of these reprints and am very jaipur with them. In fact I got a couple Isos.
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 02:13 PM
@Lafitte I asked Seppel after I got a Jaspian in mine, and he said they slipped them in as an extra pre-order bonus.
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 02:09 PM
whoooo more dragon cards
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 10:23 AM
hmm honestly i have no words next to i cant wait to grab these at the next con i goto
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 08:53 AM
I don't mind reprints to help out new players like myself. I just find it funny how soo many people hold an original copy of a card and find it's worth more than a card that does the same thing only printed later.
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 07:18 AM
But do you add cards from previous sets into the boosters? I had a couple 2nd cards included in my order. Not complaining though as I didn't have them...
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 06:19 AM
i want more duel lands
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 05:59 AM
they are sooo pritty
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 04:37 AM
The art on the haven is amazing
on Dec 27th, 2014 @ 01:41 AM
I really dig the art for both of these!
on Dec 26th, 2014 @ 09:18 PM
@JavelinChimera: That's happened to a bunch of us, and not just with these two cards. I haven't seen an official statement on it, but on the forums Keaton and I have both mentioned our pre-order boxes contained exactly one rare second vanilla card in a pack.
I'm not sure if it was a weird (but welcome) mistake, a way to clear out lingering second vanilla stock, or a special bonus for pre-orders.
on Dec 26th, 2014 @ 09:01 PM
Fantastic art on both of these. Iso looks very intimidating, and Perilous Precipice just feels so expansive and grand.
on Dec 26th, 2014 @ 08:54 PM
So I pulled a Perilous Precipice from my boosters but it was exactly the same as the Second Vanilla printing, I mean even down to the set icon. Makes more sense now, probably was supposed to be one of the reprints, just kind of a surprise at the time, haha.
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I found this interesting (especially the bit about braining spaniards) so thought I'd share it here...
A Brief History of the Quarterstaff
Journal of Western Martial Art
by Frank Docherty
The Quarterstaff has been known by many names, and throughout history has adopted them all at one time or another, some of them are:
* The Stave
* Balkstaff
* Shortstaff
* Tipstaff
* Cudgel
* Club
The Quarterstaff was for centuries considered the weapon of the lower sections of society, although the nobility had a healthy respect for the Quarterstaff, which they also practised. In reality Quarterstaffing, as a fighting art reigned supreme in England for many centuries. The English art of Quarterstaffing has throughout the many centuries, gained its own individuality and traditions. Through the dedication of the men and women, who for generations have brought this majestic weapon forward into the 21st century, with the blood sweat and tears of hard practice, and hard knocks.
Unfortunately the spread and growth of quarterstaffing has been limited, often by the lack of available written information, or qualified teachers. Of course there is a wealth of information to be found in such places as the British library, but all this information found through research in these literary institutions needs to be studied and translated from books and manuscripts sometimes dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries. The result of this, is that very few people know about, or practice the art of quarterstaffing today.
Research into English Martial Arts can, and is sometimes a very frustrating experience. But we have evidence from literary and Archaeological sources on many of the weapons and techniques used. It is known through these sources that the English warrior, and even everyday men and women used systematic training. They trained in an art probably already ancient to them, which had and has well understood combat moves that were part of a known fighting system. Literary and visual sources give many valuable clues as to weapons and techniques. Quarterstaffing is an ancient form of English stick fighting, and crosses all social boundaries. It is found from earliest times, throughout the middle ges, and into the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
"I might here speak of the excessive staves which divers that travel the waidoo carry upon their shoulders whereof some are twelve or fourteen foot long besides a pike of twelve....No man traveleth by the waie without his sword or some such weapon except it be the minister who commonly weareth none at all unless it be a dagger or hanger at his side "
(Description of England. William Harrison 1534-93)
The quarterstaff was, and is an extremely versatile weapon, it can be used as freely as the staff man wishes to use it. When used to strike or hit it is like a sword or battle axe, when used to thrust it becomes like a spear, strikes and thrusts can be from either side of the body. This makes it very difficult for any opponent to respond quickly to these attacks, that can change so readily from side to side, and from thrust to strike without pause. George Silver wrote about the quarterstaff as a reality. It was a weapon he used to fight and defend his honour with. His experiences of English quarterstaff fighting were from experience. In the following extract from his book Paradoxes of defence he said:
"The short staff hath the vantage against two swords and daggers, or two rapiers and poinards, and gauntlets, the reason and causes before are for the most part set down already, the which being well considered, you shall plainly see, that whensoever any one of the sword and dagger men, or rapier and poinard men shall break his distance, or suffer the staff man to break his, that man which did first break his distance, or suffer the distance to be won against him, is presently in dangr of death. And this cannot in reason be denied, because the distance appertaining to the staff man, either to keep or break, standeth upon the moving of one large space always at the most, both for his offence or safety. The other two in the breach of their distance to offend the staff man, have always four paces at the least therin they fall to great in number with their feet, and too short in distance to offend the staff man."
"Now there resteth no more to be spoken of, but how the staff man shall behave himself to keep that distance"
Silver also said:
"The short staff is most commonly the best weapon of all other, although other weapons may be more offensive, and especially against many weapons together, by reason of his nimbleness and swift motions, and is not much inferior to the forest bill, although the forest bill be more offensive, the short staff will prove the better weapon"
As a battlefield weapon the quarterstaff would be an oak or ash pole of about eight or nine feet in length, wih a circumference of about 4 and a half inches. It was a foot weapon of attack and defence. In attack it could be used for both the strike and the thrust. The pole would have been shod with iron at both ends. The weapon could be used at full range, or at very close range by changing the position of the hands on the pole. For hand to hand combat the quarterstaff was probably superior to the modern rifle and bayonet, and probably all rifle and bayonet whether modern or not.
Now if we were to look at two combatants armed with the quarterstaff, the staff would be about eight feet in length and the wood is smooth, so that the hands can slip over it with ease. The staff is shod with iron at both ends. The staff fighters would be without any armour or head protection. Each would carry a dagger or short sword at his right hip, attached to a waist belt, and the fighters would regard head, collarbones, wrists, arms, knees, and ankles as the most vulnerable targets.
In an excerpt from the book 'The Land Of England" by Dorothy Hartley which was written in 1979 you can see some remnants of Quarterstaff lore have survived and even in this brief description you can see the practicalities of the quarterstaff.
"This 'stave' or 'Quarterstaff' was the standard defence of the pedestian for centuries. The fen men used it to pole-vault across their dykes and marshes ( they retained the grip on the pole, it being horizontal distance, not height, they needed ). As a weapon it required skill, and the training was strenuous. The heavy pole could be kept whirling in front as the man advanced so that no one could reach him through its spinning circle. It could be made to whirl horizontally above the head with such force that, at a spring from the ground, the weight of the pole carried him full circle to face another direction. It could also be flung up in the air after the manner of a band leader whose raised pole can be seen far back along the following procession. ( These ornate processional manouveres may have originated in the old quarterstaff skills. ) The pole could also be suddenly thrust foreward in a lunge capable of bursting a man's belly, or be brought down from above, to break his head"
( Dorothy Hartley, The Land of England, pages296-7 )
An Englishman named Richard Peeke was involved in an episode during the English, Spanish wars and is a tale of how effective the Quarterstaff can be in trained hands, as an excerpt from maister Terry Browns book English Martial Arts explains.
"In the year 1625 England and Spain were at war and Peeke was serving in an English naval squadron, under the command of the Earl of Essex, which was attacking a Spanish naval stronghold. After heavy and accurate bombardment the English captured the fortress, whereupon, they sent forces ashore to carry the attack inland. In the wake of the English landings sailors were sent ashore to forage for food. Richard Peeke, of Tavistock in Devon, was among them. Unwisely he foraged alone and paid the price for his mistake when he was attacked by a patrol of spanish musketers. After a furious fight, during which Peeke was wounded twice, he was captured and taken in chains to Cales ( Cadiz ). from there he was transfered to Xeres where he was put on trial. Present at his trial, which in reality was a miitary interrogation, were four Dukes, four Marquesses, and four Earls. After much questioning Peeke was asked if he thought that the Spanish soldiers present would prove such 'hennes' as the English when they landed in England the following yeare. "
"No" replied Peeke. "They would prove to be pullets or chickens."
Peeke's insolent reply brought forth an angry response from the Spaniards.
"Darst thou then ( quoth Duke Mdyna, with a brow half angry ) fight with one of these Spanish pullets."
Peeke replied that,
"...hee was unworthy the name of an Englishman, that should refuse to fight with one man of any nation whatsoever."
At this Peek's chains and shackles were removed and a space was created for him to fight a Spanish champion by the name of Tiago. Both were armed with Rapier and Poinard. The ensuing fight continued for some time before Peeke, using the guard of the poinard, trapped the blade of Tiago's rapier and simultaniously swept the Spaniards feet from under him. Peeke's rapier, held to the throat of senor Tiago brought forth the necessary capitulation. Spanish pride had been sorely wounded and it was demanded of Peeke whether he would be willing to fight another Spaniard. Peeke replied in the affirmative provided he was allowed to fight with.
"... mine owne countrrey weapon called the quarter - staffe."
Upon this remark the Spanish unscrewed the head from a Halbered to create a makeshift Quarterstaff. Armed with the weapon of his choice Peeke stood ready to meet his next challenger. However the Spanish were clearly no longer so confident in the prowess of their soldiers for, to Peeke's consternation, two Swordsmen stepped forward to fight him. Peeke sarcastically asked if more would like to join them. The Duke of Medyna asked how many he desired to fight.
"Any number under sixe". replied Peeke.
The Duke smiled scornfully and beckoned a third man to join the original two. Peeke and the rapier men warily traversed each other, all the while thrusting and warding, till finally Peeke gambled on an all out attack. His first blow a left one of his adversaries dead and his subsequent blows left the other two injured and disarmed. No doubt they also left the spanish seriously questioning the wisdom of their invasion plans. Peeke's feat so impressed his Spanish captors that they released him and granted him safe conduct to England.
A tale to warm the heart of every Englishman, but the realities of the quarterstaff were far more gruesome, as a report from 1527 shows.
On the 4th of September, John Strynger late of Babworth, laborour, assaulted Henry Pereson of Babworth with a staff worth 1d. Which he held in both hands, striking him on top of the head so that his brains flowed out and giving him a wound 1 inch deep, 2 inches wide and 3 inches long of which he immediately died. Thus John feloniously murdered him, and immediately afterwards he fled about 9am and escaped. Robert Bramley, a man of good reputation and standing, first found Henry dead. ( J.C.Holt Robin Hood Pages 170-71 )
Although the quarterstaff is seen as a weapon of film and television by modern society may be even a weapon of myth, the reality as we have just read were very different, the quarterstaff, was not known as the king of weapons for nothing.
If we now travel back in history to documents written between 1540 and 1590 we can see written evidence of the English Maisters of defence. The officially recognised teachers were the company of maisters, these documents record the playing of prizes. The order of playing the free schollers prize, the Provosts prize, and the maisters prize. The playing of prizes was a very public affair, with the posting of bills declaring that a prize was to be played, which was an open invitation to any man to come along and challenge the player of the prize. The prize playing in London was held at a number of Inne's and playhouses, such as the Bull in Bishopsgate, Leaden hall, at the Greyfriars at Newgate, and at the Tower royal, salisbury court, Rochester house, Bridewell palace, and at the castle inn in Holborn. But the prefered places for the playing of prizes were the belsavage on Ludgate hill, and the Bull in Bishopsgate.
The company of maisters were a well organised company and made provision for aged maisters, the welfare of it's practitioners, the hiring and teaching of qualified teachers, as well as financial matters and the relationship of the company to the outside world. Following are some of the prizes played, where the quarterstaff was one of the weapons used.
William Pascall Plaid his maisters prize at the Leadenhall with three maisters, that is to say, Humphrey Basset, Roberte Cooke, and William Hunt, at iiij kinde of weapon videlicet the Long sword ( two hand sword ) the backsworde, the dagger, and the quarterstaff. Provost prize at the session hall without Newgate at iii weapons, the long sword, the backsworde, and the quarterstaff, with three provosts, William Hunt, John A Woode, and Robert Grene. Played his Schollers prize at Estham with xiiij scollars, at backsword, and the quarterstaff. Richard White plaid his provost prize at the leaden hall, at the long sword, backsword, and quarterstaff, with Edward Britten, and John Barfett. Robert Edmunds plaid his maisters prize at the whitehall before King Philip and Quene Marie at iii kinds of weapon, long sword, backsworde, and quarterstaff, thear played against him two maisters, Richard White, and Thomas Weaver.
All Quarterstaffs were made to the individual's stature, a description for measuring the length of a quarterstaff required for the individual was given by George Silver.
"You shall stand upright, holding the staff upright close to your body with your left hand, reaching with your right hand youre staffe as high as you can, and then allow to that length a space to set both your hands when you come to fight, wherein you may conveniently strike, thrust and ward, and that is your just length to be made according to your stature. And this note, that those lengths will commonly fall out to be eight or nine foot long"
The art of teaching the Art of the quarterstaff was still strong in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially among the boy scouts (see image above left). One fairground version of quarterstaff play was fought on a narrow plank of wood, over a river or stream, the idea was to thrust rather than knock your opponent into the water. The quarterstaff also had it's place in judicial combat, the defeated party being supposed as the guilty party.
The quarterstaff as a weapon was as popular as ever and flourished all over London, James Figg had his famous school of defence in or near Tottenham court road in London. Figg was a reknowned maister with the sword, and quarterstaff, as well as the bare knuckle boxing champion of England.
In the eighteenth and nineteenh centuries the quarterstaffs were generally shorter than the battlefield version. This gladiatorial weapon was about six foot in length. As the art became a gladiatorial form of combat, as well as a sport, the quarterstaff's cuts were numbered. And these amounted to seven major blows. The guardant postures used to protect the staff man from the various blows were quite simple in nature. There were four guards altogether and in the 1890s, were given the labels of C-D, C-D prime and A-B, A-B prime.
The broadsword target was used by quarterstaff players in the 19th century. This is the form quarterstaffing took after many years as a sport, and had degenerated from a battlefield art to a combat sport, but although I say degenerated, I mean no disrespect to the stage gladiators as they were formidible men, as was their quarterstaffing, but compared to the battlefield art, was far from worthy.
When dealing with the cuts and thrusts of the 19th century quarterstaffing the ordinary broadsword target is the place to look. The cuts were as follows:
1 to 4
2 to 3
3 to 2
4 to 1
5 to 6
6 to 5
7 to 0 the centre of the target.
The guards are easily recognised when these targets are looked at, and are such that they can ward off the blows in as easy a manner as possible. For a cut from 2 to 3 the staff would be held in C to D. For a cut from 1 to 4 the staff would be held in A to B The cut from 1 to 4 would usually be made with the butt end of the staff, due to the fact that the grip would be near a half staff grip. The guards illustrated in figure three would cover almost any attack, except a downright blow which would call for a St. George's guard. For cuts 6 to 5, 2 to 3, C to D is the guard. For cuts 4 to 1, 6 to 5, and 2 to 3, C' to D' prime is the guard. In battlefield quarterstaffing there are seven guards altogether. R.G.A.Winn a 19th cntury master at arms, and an expert with the quarterstaff, Saber, and Singlestick, wrote in his book Broadsword & Singlestick
"The quarterstaff gets it's name from the fact that it was gripped at the quarterpoints, and the centre of the staff. With the left hand at the centre, ( palm upwards ) and the right hand at the lower quarterpoint, ( palm down ) This gives a three foot point end, and a very useful eighteen inch butt end. ( this may give the length of Winns staff of about six foot ) the grip was changed by releasing one hand only, and swinging the staff to catch it appropriately for the next technique or strike. "
Winn's description of using thrusts says:
"As regards "points" it is well to lunge out, as one does when making a left handed lead off in boxing, so as to gain somewhat in the reach. points, which should be used with care in friendly bouts, are generally made with the point of the staff, but may also be effected with the butt; and this is the casewhen the combatants have come to rather close quarters, at the quarterstaff play, the men should then be started by the master of ceremonies at a distance of about ten or twelve feet".
So as you can see, Silver when talking about the quarterstaff refered to it as a weapon for the defence of ones life, whereas Winn thought it only a sport. According to C. Phillips Wolley an acknowledged expert with the quarterstaff, Saber and Singlestick. who in 1896 wrote in the all England series, Handbook of athletic games. He urged students to learn other forms of self defence, displaying Britain's rich martial heritage, before working with the staff.
"If quite unaquainted with fencing, broadsword, stick play or bayonet exercise, never be tempted into a bout with the quarterstaff, as this is a game at which feeling is apt to run somewhat high occasionally. "
Citing that, due to the fact that although combatants are well padded, and protected, accidents and quite severe injuries did occur. There have been many events that caused the near extinction of the traditional martial arts of England. The arts went into decline due to the integration into the art of war of firearms, this spelt the decline of the long bow,and many close quarter systems of combat. As we know the English were the foremost gun makers in the west at one time. The introduction of guns began during the fourteenth century. The first reference to a gun is in 1326 in an illuminated manuscript made for Edward III by his chaplain, this illustrates a cannon being fired, but it is firing an arrow rather than shot or ball.
The art of Quarterstaffing today is undergoing a revival, and one of the foremost experts is Maister Terry Brown, who has revived the Company of Maisters, and is teaching authentic English Martial Arts .This great art is still alive and kicking.
General and Historical Works:
Anglin,J.P. Autumn 1984 the schools of defence in Elizabethan London.
Castle,E. 1884 Schools and masters of defence
Holt, J.C. 1989 Robin Hood
Hutton, A. 1867 Swordsmanship and Bayonet fencing
McCarthy, T. A. 1883 Quarterstaff
George Silver Paradoxes of Defence Brief Instructions
Swetnam, J.1617 the school of the noble and worthy science of defence
Winn,R.G.A. 1890 Broadsword and singlestick
Wilde Zachary 1711 the English master of defence
Journal of Western Martial Art
About the author: Frank Docherty is an English Martial Arts practitioner with 18 years training in various martial arts and who is the Assistant Instructor to Ancient Maister Terry Brown in the English Martial Arts. His interest lies in theBroadsword, Backsword, Sword & Buckler, Sword & Dagger,Bastard Sword, Two Hand Sword, Quarterstaff, Bill Hook, Threshalls, Knife work based on Silvers System and Principles, and bare Fist Fighting. Mr. Docherty has a Shodan in Jodo ( Japanese Stick fighting ) a black sash in five animals kung fu, is a kickboxing Instuctor, and a shodan in Iai Jutsu.


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Trends are all about intuition. Or are they? A lack of in-depth information as to what the trend world involves has created a misconception. Nicola Cooper, a consulting senior trend analyst, looks at some of the key trends influencing the fashion world. She specialises in the 'Glocalisation' of trends for Africa with a focus on youth culture.
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Identifying and understanding trends is imperative. Assessing and analysing when they began, who they are going to effect and how they are going to present themselves, as well as their possible trajectory, have become a pivotal part of the business world.
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With the rise of individualism, creolisation (the process of assimilation in which neighbouring cultures share certain features to form a new culture), globalization, hyperculture and the general democratisation of fashion – as a result of the internet, social media, blogging and live streaming of trends and fast fashion pushing forward at such a speed – one trend seems to have barely begun before it's over.
Cathy Horyn of the NY Times: "In a world where fashion moves Instagram-fast, the look of the season is a thing of the past. And that's a cause for rejoicing."
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How does the past impact on the future?
What does this mean for brands, retailers, designers and trends in general? Does fashion have a future is the most important question.
After we have revisited the 20s, 30s, 50s, 6os, 70s and 90s does the original idea actually exist? In short: Yes. Though we may have other similarities to bygone eras and frequently, similar socio-economic circumstances, attitudes or preferential aesthetics, the thread of trends can be tracked down to their origin. Examples include the mini-skirt, the invention of denim jeans. Almost every item has a fine thread that ties it back to a former era is some way or another; some more evident than others.
What we do not share is the present – our zeitgeist (signs of the times), our mindset and the events and occurrences which we are faced with at present and will be faced with in the future.
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Fashion, brands associative value, retail loyalty and trends stand firm as consequences of Society, Technology, the Economy, the Environment and Politics. These do not arrive out of the ether; they are indicators of the world's current zeitgeist. Analysts gauge every aspect of not only the international zeitgeist but, in addition, focus on analysing the African landscape; which has many differentiating factors from its American, Australian, Asian and European counterparts.
The questions are reflected in the mirror.
One of the more apparent lessons of the rise of individualism, creolisation, globalization, hyperculture and the general democratisation of fashion, retailing and trends is the necessity for a point of differentiation.
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As Imitation versus Differentiation is the fundamental driver of fashion and trends, it has become more important than ever that Trend Analysts are able to identify trends from three dynamic components.
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The first component is interpreting international trends for a local market. There has been great skepticism about the majority of the world's retailers and manufacturers making use of handful of accredited and acclaimed 'Trend Authority' sites. In a recent article 'Is WGSN destroying creativity?' published in the Telegraph in April 2014, Marc Worth, founder of WGSN, the trend-forecasting service used by major fashion brands to guide their designers, has condemned it as a "monster" that has created "an industry of idiots" as he moves to set up a direct competitor (Williams, C. 2014. Online).
Worth, who sold WGSN to Emap in 2005 for £140m, caused great controversy with his overt public statement, sparking many international, local designers, retailers and manufacturers to question the exclusivity of information that has gone beyond the privy of WGSN. WGSN currently services and informs over 6,000 brands worldwide with the same information and inspiration – which further leads to the question of Imitation versus Differentiation as the fundamental driver in fashion.
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Africa has its own unique fingerprint and the sweeping global trends often do not take into account the diversity and complexities of Africa.
This in turn has increased the demand of specialised trend services which focus on the interpretation of international trends for a local market and glocalisation. Explained by Cambridge University Press (Online. 2015), 'Glocalisation is a combination of the words 'globalisation' and 'localisation' and is used to describe products and services that are both developed and sold to global customers, but designed to suit the needs of local markets.
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This in turn generates better sales, trade and cash flow with Africa; which is said to become the largest economy – greater than the United States and Europe combined by 2050 (Stylesight.com 2013. Online 'Africa Calling').
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Cretivity rocks!
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I found something damn weird, this thing is call Creativity! I wonder how much creativity 0705 has....
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WASHINGTON — Soon after Hillary Rodham Clinton left the State Department, her longtime spokesman talked wistfully about their paradise lost.
"We knew the golden age was coming to an end," Philippe Reines said.
Mr. Reines was referring to the coverage Mrs. Clinton received from the State Department press corps — in his view, a substantive, high-minded and worldly lot who diligently covered her diplomatic travels and policy initiatives. They were, Mr. Reines explained, in sharp contrast to "the parallel press corps" of political reporters who have scrutinized Mrs. Clinton's every utterance, scratched at any scent of scandal and speculated about her ambitions since she first refused to bake cookies.
As Mrs. Clinton has now moved back into that parallel universe ahead of a potential second presidential run in 2016, Mr. Reines and the other press operatives entrusted to guard her image remain armored and armed against a media they believe has it in for the former first lady. But some veterans of past Clinton campaigns think her bunker mentality toward the press is outdated, and that it is the couple's own psychological baggage that could hurt her chances.
After all, Mrs. Clinton has simply outlasted many of her old combatants — real and imagined — from the media wars of the 1990s. In their place is a virtual clean slate of Clinton reporters whose formative experiences with her come from the last campaign or her time as a senator. Some of the babies ready to board the 2016 campaign bus were actually babies in the 1990s.
"I wasn't politically engaged in that time," said Ruby Cramer, a reporter who was in single digits at the time of the Whitewater scandal and who covers Mrs. Clinton for BuzzFeed, the attention-grabbing Web publication whose news operation was not yet conceived in 2008. She has written pieces surveying Mrs. Clinton's support in Iowa and profiling her chief donors in California, but other than receiving warnings about the Clinton press operation, she said. "I don't think I came with any baggage."
Mrs. Clinton's press strategy will have a critical bearing on her political fortunes, especially as she faces earlier and more extensive coverage than any potential candidate in history. Reporters at a raft of publications, including this one, are treating Mrs. Clinton as a beat, an exceptional development for an undeclared candidate two years out from an election.
How and if Mrs. Clinton engages that press offers the first hint of the tone her possible campaign could strike in 2016, and whether it would be different from the approach of 2008, 2006, 2000, 1996 and 1992.
Mrs. Clinton's media skepticism is a longstanding condition. In 1995, Lisa Caputo, Mrs. Clinton's press secretary in Bill Clinton's first presidential term, wrote about the first lady's aversion to the national Washington media. That memo was among nearly 4,000 Clinton White House documents made public by the National Archives on Friday, the latest entry in a flurry of AOL-era flashbacks.
As a national figure for three decades, half of which has been spent representing or residing in the media capital of the world, Mrs. Clinton is encountering at least her third wave of political reporters. Through Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the vast right-wing conspiracy, the Senate candidate carpetbagger era, the Suha Arafat kiss, the presidential flirtations and finally the 2008 campaign, she has developed and maintained an attitude skeptical of the press. ("HC says press has big egos and no brains," Mrs. Clinton's late friend Diane Blair wrote in her personal papers during the 1993 White House Travel Office scandal.)
Most reporters acknowledge that Mrs. Clinton's perception of them as enemy combatants is not entirely irrational. But it is a view that has not always served her well.
In the 2008 presidential primaries, as Mrs. Clinton challenged an upstart media sweetheart, Barack Obama, many reporters in her press corps knew her primarily as the senator from New York and not the former first lady. Nonetheless, Mrs. Clinton kept those reporters at bay and failed to employ the charm offensive of which she is highly capable. Only on the eve of the disastrous Iowa caucuses, when relations between the campaign and reporters had already broken down, did she venture onto the press bus with coffee and bagels. "I didn't want you to feel deprived," she said during a visit that lasted one minute and 28 seconds. Hardly anyone ate a bagel.
Some Clinton veterans point out that while young reporters might not come into the campaign with chips on their shoulders, they often answer to editors who have their own Clinton histories.
"On one hand, you've got reporters in their early 20s whose direct experience watching her is as a largely praised secretary of state and a glass-ceiling shattering presidential candidate," said Blake Zeff, a former spokesman for Mrs. Clinton who is now the political editor at Salon. "On the other, you have older editors who come at this with a much longer view, steeped in old fights dating back to the 1990s and the Senate."
To the extent that Mrs. Clinton is following the old playbook of stiff-arming the media, so far it seems to be working out just fine. Polls show her as a prohibitive favorite — for now —and there is no candidate on the horizon who seems capable of generating the media heat Mr. Obama did. Mrs. Clinton's presumed supremacy has generated a virtual cottage industry of Democratic press operatives working on speculation to boost Mrs. Clinton and police her coverage.
While some of those pro bono boosters have sought to woo new reporters on the Clinton beat, there is still built-in skepticism about the media's intentions. "What's the point?" said a former Clinton press operative about shifting to a strategy of greater engagement when interest in Mrs. Clinton is already so intense, and when any tiny error could be amplified.
Sometimes, Mrs. Clinton's press handlers can seem more obsessed with the past and perceived institutional biases than the reporters covering her. The two veterans who essentially run the Clinton press operation — Matt McKenna, a Montana-based strategist employed by Mr. Clinton and his foundation, and Mr. Reines, who works for Mrs. Clinton — are both known to keep blacklists.
But it is Mr. Reines, varyingly caustic and charming, who is the ultimate Clinton survivalist and the operative who perhaps most embodies his boss's tortured relationship with the press. He has resided in Hillaryland for almost his entire career and developed a less than favorable view of the political press, comparing it to the hungry T-rex in Jurassic Park. "If you stand still, it doesn't notice you. But once you move even a little bit it's on the scent and you can't get rid of it," he said.
Mr. Reines, who was sidelined for much of the 2008 campaign, benefited from his exile as he found himself well positioned to follow Mrs. Clinton to the State Department, where he traveled with her extensively and entered her inner orbit. He is now considered a Clinton lifer.
On Thursday on the enclosed rooftop of the W hotel, Mr. Reines arrived late to the book party for "HRC," a new book that describes Mrs. Clinton's time at the State Department in a mostly positive light. His mere presence was a reminder to the myriad reporters and pundits in the room of the Clinton press shop's Golden Rule: "We treat others in the way they treat us."
As reporters gravitated toward him, Mr. Reines laughed with one of the book's authors and then sipped the evening's signature champagne cocktail. It was called the State Secret.


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Conversational commerce' - through spin off technology on chat apps for e-tailing - is emerging as the next big thing in ecommerce.
Consumers and companies, both ecommerce and essentially brick and mortar firms, are increasingly using messaging apps to discover content, browse merchandise, discuss business ideas and negotiate deals. Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced last week that it would do away with its $1 subscription fee so people could "use WhatsApp to communicate with businesses and organizations that you want to hear from. That could mean communicating with your bank about whether a recent transaction was fraudulent, or with an airline about a delayed flight". Which, essentially , is to allow businesses to connect with customers.
Chinese success story WeChat is already in the game. Instant messaging was WeChat's earliest core function, but users can now use it to chat, search for people nearby , distribute or collect money , pay restaurant and utility bills and order groceries. report by Ericsson suggests that A smartphone users in India spend 47% of their time on communication apps. Players in the space are riding on this habit to engage with their customers. Flipkart has introduced 'Ping', an inapp chat feature that allows users to share product images and chat with each other while shopping.
Several startups and firms with a proactive online presence have chat op ions on their websites. A handful of start ups are using the technology as the primary medium for business, harnessing he power of chat apps.
Bengaluru startup Goodbox uses a chat-based app to connect small and medium enterprises with customers. Goodbox, with a partner app and a consumer app, acts as a liaising enabler. Businesses hat use Goodbox pay the company a commission; it's free for consumers.
"Not all businesses have an apps and Goodbox offers this service to that segment so they can reach out to more customers," Goodbox cofounder Mayank Bidawatka said. Shoppo, a zero-commission service from Snapdeal, helps connect individuals and micro-businesses from over 868 cities, giving these firms an online presence.
"Shopo acts as medium to take specialised not available on regular e-commerce websites," Shopo senior vice-president Sandeep Komaravelly said.
Some startups help small businesses get on the app bandwagon, others offer to be personalised assistance like Bengaluru-based Joe Hukum, a chat-based order taking and concierge service.
The startup uses technology to offer hyper personalisation.
"The consumer today is very clear about what he wants but does not give much thought to where it is coming from," With fading brand loyalty , satisfying consumers is about delivering a product or service at the right price with maxi mum convenience," Joe Hukum co-founder Arihant Jain said.
From local shopping to movie ticket booking and delivery , the startup provides end-to-end services through a chat app that customers can customise according to their preferences.
Delhi startup Helpchat partners with cab aggregators, ecommerce websites and food brands such as Mast Kalandar to provide customers a one-stop app for all their needs.
"We've added an intelligence layer that anticipates a customer's order based on previous orders," Helpchat VP (marketing) Kali Charan Shukla says. " A customer looking for a product on an ecommerce site will get the price options on all websites that the product is available."
Shukla says the app offers hyper-personalised search results and a variety of options, with comparisons on the deals and offers available.
A combination of chat-based e-tailing apps and hyper-personalisation: That's where experts see the future of ecommerce. "This new world of hyper-personalisation, precision retailing or me-tailing," `full-stack' business futurist Morris Miselowski of businessfuturist.com notes, "recognises that a consumer's mobile device is increasingly at the centre of any retail interaction."


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Listen to Father John Misty Cover the Velvet Underground's "Who Loves the Sun"
Foxygen's Jonathan Rado also played a Velvets song for Mondo Boys' new Shangri-La Suite soundtrack
Mondo Boys are the duo of composers/producers Mike Griffin and Mike Schanzlin. Last year, they scored Eddie O'Keefe's film Shangri-La Suite. Today, they've shared their soundtrack in the form of a 30-minute mixtape. It includes contributions from Father John Misty and Foxygen's Jonathan Rado, as well as Burt Reynolds (who narrated the film) and more. Misty covers the Velvet Underground's "Who Loves the Sun" (from Loaded) while Rado plays the Velvets' "I Found a Reason" from the same record. (You may recall that FJM claimed that Lou Reed once visited him in a dream.) Listen to the Mondo Boys' Shangri-La Suite mixtape below. (FJM's cover appears at 2:59 and Rado's is at 22:22.)
In an email to Pitchfork, Mondo Boys said that they had just "one night with Father John Misty and one afternoon with Jonathan Rado to get these vocals done." They elaborated further on working with FJM:
Josh Tillman came in during the bottleneck of the score on a Saturday night. He showed up in sunglasses and did the first few takes great. It could have just stopped there but we wanted to try a few takes "going too far" just to see what would happen. We ended up reworking the track on the fly to fit Josh's voice, so the backing vocals and backing music were pitched up, giving it a touch of that chipmunk sound. Josh was really into it and said something like "I know you guys are going to try to fix that, but it's really cool" and encouraged us to leave it. We re-recorded the backing music but left those pitched vocals in the final version in the film. Afterward he treated us to an exclusive* Honeybear* listening party in his rental car (this was just prior to its release).
Read "Here Is the Scandalous Father John Misty Interview You've Been Waiting For," as well as our review of his new record Pure Comedy.
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What is Pacific Comprehensive Motor Insurance all about?
This policy provides insurance against liabilities to other parties for injury or death, damage to other parties' property and accidental or fire damage to your vehicle or theft of your vehicle.
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Often, there is room for negotiating the terms of the prenuptial agreement. When drafting a prenuptial agreement, most family law attorneys will throw in everything they can think of that is favorable to their client, presuming that their client will have to make some concessions and the agreement will have to be revised accordingly. When one party has the bulk of the assets and income, the family law lawyer representing the other party can often secure real concessions. Creativity is the hallmark of a successful prenuptial agreement negotiation. The family law lawyer's perspective in negotiating a prenuptial agreement should assume that a divorce will occur, and contemplate how the client would be treated if there was no prenuptial agreement in place. This will depend on the length of the marriage, whether children are born, and what the client's role in the marriage will be (primary breadwinner, homemaker), among many other applicable factors, which vary from state to state. Courts are relatively likely to give effect to parties' agreement unless some catastrophic or unforeseen occurrence has affected one party's ability to be self sufficient.
After acquired property and alimony: the two critical areasTwo critical areas of focus involve property acquired after the marriage and alimony. Most states will not allow custody or child support to be dealt with in a prenuptial agreement, at least not in any enforceable way, as these issues are typically subject to judicial review and approval. Property already owned by a party is generally exempt from marital rights, regardless of whether there is a prenuptial agreement or not, so what the parties acquire in the future, the payment of their joint debts and obligations after the marriage, and alimony commonly constitute the major focus of negotiations.
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Taking and Adding Pictures to a Case
Adding pictures to a case is an integral feature of the DVM Dx App. In any page that has a "Media" box, you can add pictures by:
- Tapping the Camera icon and taking a photo using your phone camera.
- Tapping the Photo icon and choosing a photo from the camera roll on your phone.
- Tapping the Video icon and take up to a 10 second video to add to your media documentation.
Once the photo or video has been added, there will be a thumbnail available to view in the "Media" field. You can tap on the photo to see it in a larger format. You can also delete the photo by tapping the red "-" circle icon.
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