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When we have large glass doors or windows, vertical blinds are often used to cover them Vertical blinds give a clean and elegant look to the room with their straight lines and often create an illusion of increased height or width to the room depending upon the way it is mounted. Vertical blinds can be easily mounted in two ways.
These installation methods are discussed in detail below –
Vertical blinds can be mounted inside the window frame. First, the valance is mounted to the upper frame of the window or door. The L shaped valance is mounted in such a way that the front of the valance will hide the headrail. From each end of the valance, 3 inches are left for positioning the brackets.
Here the brackets are installed inside the upper frame of the door or window, leaving around 3 inches from the side of the frame and out from the glass. The brackets are screwed into place and both the valance and brackets are attached to the inside of the frame. After repeating these processes on both sides of the window, the headrail is fitted. After completing the framework, the vanes are attached.
For mounting on the window frame, a window depth of 2.5 inches is absolutely necessary. When measuring, keep in mind about the window area with protruding door handles, which might be pushed into the blinds when they are not installed properly. This is particularly true for large sliding glass doors. Measure the depth of the handle and compare that to the measurement of the depth of the window to ensure the handle will be properly covered when the blinds are shut.
When mounting the vertical blinds outside the window frames, leaving approximately 4 to 6 inches of space around the window. This will offer the best privacy and coverage. The headrail is placed at 4 inches above the window by measuring from the bottom of the window, where you want the bottom of the blinds to reach.
With the aid of a helper, place the headrail directly on the mark, while making sure that it is on a straight level. The brackets are then fixed 4 inches from both ends of the headrail and are attached directly to the wall rather than the wooden frame of the window. Wall anchors help keep the brackets in place. The headrail is hooked into the brackets before attaching the vanes. If your vertical blind comes with a valance, attach it over the headrail and thereby covering it from view.
Mounting the vertical blind in either way requires precise measurements and professional help. This ensures that the vertical blinds are installed properly are fully functional. You can as contact your favourite blinds and curtains company in Dubai for proper installation of vertical blinds.

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Sabri Lamouchi may have played down his birthday celebrations on Thursday at the pre-match press conference, but following Nottingham Forest's deserved win over Derby County, he was a little more bullish.
Forest's French manager ensured that he was once again the toast of Nottingham having seen off the challenge of arch-rivals Derby County, courtesy of Lewis Grabban's 56th minute strike.
That winner courtesy of some sloppy defending in front of the Trent End saw Forest record three straight wins over the Rams for the first time since 1990, a perfect way to celebrate his 48th birthday.
"Of course, it's a great gift," said a delighted Lamouchi on his special day.
"It was an emotional game and for that reason, maybe the first half wasn't the best."
After a tense first half when Forest struggled to get into gear, Lamouchi's half-time words of wisdom clearly had an impact when Grabban fired into Kelle Roos' net 12 minutes into a second half which the Reds largely dominated.
"The second half was much better," he said.
"They made a big mistake and our striker, Grabbs played a fantastic game one more time with great finishing, like killer finishing."
Mini match report
For the first time since January 1990, Nottingham Forest recorded a third straight win against their arch-rivals Derby County.
Lewis Grabban's opportunistic strike in the second half after a defensive howler from the Rams was the only goal on a tense afternoon by the Trent.
Derby were first to threaten, as Bogle surged forward played the ball into Martin, his back to goal and laid it off to Lawrence who fired at Brice Samba, forcing the Forest stopper into a smart save just five minutes in.
Forest came close 10 minutes in when Lolley's corner ran through to Ben Watson on the penalty spot, and his shot struck a Rams shirt, with the referee waving away protests for a spot-kick.
Phillip Cocu was forced into an early change, after Matthew Clarke picked up a knock and was unable to continue, George Evans taking his place and Bielik dropping into the back four.
Forest were growing into the game after a quiet 25 minutes and it was Ameobi who stung the palms of Roos at his near post, gliding past Bogle from edge of the box.
It was Ameobi again just before the break, testing Roos' reflexes at his near post with a thunderous effort.
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It looked like the most likely to score was Ameobi, who bent an arrowed effort over Roos bar and maybe, just maybe that rocked the Rams.
From the re-start, a sloppy pass back to Roos by Bogle was too short and Grabban latched onto it before powering his effort beyond the stricken Roos and into the bottom corner.
The City Ground erupted.
Having been subjected to a torrent of abuse all afternoon, Tom Lawrence's frustration boiled over 20 minutes from time, lunging in on Yuri Ribeiro, and getting booked for his troubles for a challenge would on another day, could have seen red.
In their desperation to try and get back into the game, Derby threw on ex-Red Jamie Paterson for Bogle in the 72 minute, and his work almost yielded an equaliser, but for a smart stop from Samba.
Derby should have equalised five minutes later when Jack Marriott spurned a glorious chance inside the six-yard box.
Opposition verdict
Phillip Cocu felt Derby County were unlucky to lose to Nottingham Forest as he was left to rue Jayden Bogle's costly mistake.
Lewis Grabban got the only goal of the game in the early in the second half after he capitalised on Bogle's terrible pass.
Cocu was pleased with many aspects of his team's play, but admitted the mistake was critical.
"The boys did well and they started well. Defensively we were strong," he said.
"We had a great chance for Tom (Lawrence) - it was a good save. I can't be satisfied how we came out second half in the first 10 or 12 minutes.
"In the big games, in many games but especially in games like this, a detail, a mistake, bad judgement or sometimes class can make the difference.
"Today, the mistake of Jayden cost us the result.
"That is tough because I think we played quite a good game.
"We had good presence and played good football over a large part of the game.
"We created a good few opportunities, and deserved more than a 1-0 loss."
Defeat left the Rams 16th in the Championship, seven points behind fifth placed Forest having played a game more.
What the fans said
Mark Wolden : Just got home from game, Silva & Ameobi were great today plus other top performances from Worrall and tbh rest of Team put a good shift in!
Richard Leonard : Great effort by the whole team. Lolley form poor in comparison to last seasons awesome standard. Silva effort was great and tackled well but did not produce the killer pass today( being ultra critical) Ameobi was one that did look a threat and did chase down a lot ( like Grabban)everyone did their part.
Tim Wedgewood : Best team won, a brilliant team performance, well done you Reds.
Gavin Martin: Silva is becoming a big big player took his time to settle but the lad is really classy.
Malcolm Marks : Whole team was quality today. Hope Worrall shares his MOM award with them all.
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Forest go to Bristol City on November 23 after the international break


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Yankees Magazine: Going Places
Billy Bean kept a painful secret when he played in the Majors, but now he's trying to help baseball -- and the whole world -- take a step forward
Standing before a large group of Yankees Minor Leaguers, Billy Bean delivers his version of the Golden Rule: "If you are to wear the jersey, there's a responsibility that goes with that. Understanding what you say and what you do is going to matter more than before you wore the jersey."
It's almost too simple, in a way that might, in the hands of lesser orator, betray the words' weight. Is it hard to keep listeners' attention when you're projecting a message they've literally been hearing since kindergarten or before? But Billy Bean has played, and therefore, he has standing in this room -- and most others, as well.
Bean's shared past unites him with his audience, but it's what makes him different that has brought him to this stop on his journey. As one of just two players to have played in the Major Leagues and then publicly come out as gay, Bean, not to be confused with the Billy Beane of Moneyball fame, now goes around the baseball world spreading the message of diversity and acceptance as part of his role as Major League Baseball's vice president of social responsibility and inclusion.
This past spring, as he circled the Grapefruit and Cactus leagues, Bean covered a long and not-particularly-well-trodden road. He is a lonely traveler, traversing territory long thought off-limits for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. But as messengers go, Billy Bean comes bearing credentials. And people are listening, no matter how simple the lesson.
Valuable Lessons
Baseball, which famously desegregated seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, has been known to cut a sharp figure on many social issues, but these are still alpha male athletes playing competitive sports in sheltered cultures that don't always evolve at everyone's preferred rate.
"Every single athlete who has ever competed in any sport is conditioned to hear homophobic dialogue," Bean said. "That's just the way. And it's going to take a while to change that. Just like it took a while to change the way we talk about guys racially. It didn't happen in a year. It wasn't done in 1948."
But Commissioner Rob Manfred is unwilling to let the game's successes carpet over its shortcomings.
"I think sometimes people are too inclined to say, 'Sports is different; we have to tolerate it,'" Manfred said. "I don't believe that. I think we have a very good sense of what an appropriate environment is for our sport, and quite frankly, I think it is shared among all the major constituencies of the game."
So Bean faces the Yankees' Minor Leaguers -- a group featuring top prospects such as Aaron Judge and Jorge Mateo, as well as players who may never come close to reaching the Majors. Baseball, he tells the group, has a zero-tolerance policy that covers all kinds of discrimination, including race, color, religion, national origin, gender or sexual orientation. To drive home the message, he keys on negative examples from the sports world, highlighting anti-gay slurs from NBA star Rajon Rondo and boxer Manny Pacquiao, among others. He talks emotionally and practically of the repercussions they faced, punishment inflicted on their reputations -- and their wallets.
Since he took the job with MLB two years ago, after nearly two decades away from the game, Bean has spent most of his time serving as the elephant in a variety of different rooms. His goal isn't to reach those in the crowd who are not yet open about their sexuality, to use his example to coax them to speak up. Rather, he's trying to promote an environment that makes everyone feel included, whether players, coaches, employees or fans.
Like so much else in the Minor Leagues, the session is intended to be part of a larger education.
"We try to do everything we can to put them in a position to have success," said Gary Denbo, the Yankees' vice president of player development, who runs the club's Minor League operation. "That includes feeding them the right foods, trying to create a great workplace environment here where they come out every day and they've got everything they need to be able to go out and have success. And part of that is what happens off the field. The lessons learned in baseball are great life lessons. We hope they're taking all these things that they've learned throughout their baseball careers, and it makes them better people."
What Could Have Been
It's no small thing for Bean to be playing the role he is now. Over a six-year Major League career spent mostly in emotional hiding, the last place he ever expected life to take him was on a pioneering mission of this kind.
A fourth-round pick by Detroit out of Loyola Marymount University, Bean wasn't able to hold down a full-time Big League job, topping out at 192 plate appearances with San Diego in 1993. But he was a useful guy to have around -- smart, personable, with good baseball instincts. He could have had a long life in the game.
But the secret that he was keeping consumed him. He tried to keep up appearances by acting the ladies' man and was even married for three years before he secretly began a serious relationship with a man. Then on the day before the 1995 season opened, his partner, Sam -- whom Bean had kept hidden from all of his teammates to the point of refusing to let Sam stay at the home they shared when he would be on the road, lest anyone get suspicious -- passed away suddenly from HIV-related causes. Soon after returning home from the hospital, Bean had to drive to Anaheim Stadium for the Padres' final exhibition game, after which he was told he was being sent down to Triple-A. It was too much to handle, and what made it worse was that he felt he couldn't even tell anyone what he was going through.
Bean stuck around the sport for that last year, playing four games for the big club, then quit before the next season started. He was just 31.
"A lot of times, people ask, 'If you could go back, would you have come out?'" Bean said. "I say, 'If I went back as the same person, I wouldn't.' Because I wasn't healthy. I didn't have anybody in my life that could help me look at myself in a positive way. It wasn't until I stopped lying that I met those people, and I started to get more and more comfortable. But that took time, too."
Looking back, the unanswerable questions are the ones that pain Bean most. He recognizes that he, himself, might have broken the pact of the clubhouse. By spending so much time worrying about whether his teammates would accept him, wasn't he taking away their own agency on the matter? Players such as Brad Ausmus, Trevor Hoffman and Archi Cianfrocco were more than teammates; they were great friends. Why didn't he give them the chance to accept him?
"I have had that conversation with myself many times," Bean said. "Everything would have changed. I beat myself up over it for a long time. I feel like I underestimated my value as a player so much. I was blind, literally, and coming back, I think one of the rewards was to hear players like Ausmus, Harold Reynolds or Mark Grace talking about me as a player.
"I think I just had this darkness over me. I had no value as a human being, let alone as a player. I was so mired in it all. I broke a marriage up. My wife was devastated. It was devastating for me. I felt guilty about it every day. And then I confided all of my love and energy toward a person, and then he died, and then I felt completely alone. The degree of depression, I don't even know what level I must have been in. To not talk to anyone, to not show up at Spring Training, I look back and I think, 'That can't happen to anyone else.'
"And it took 15 years for baseball to even remember me! I had moved on. And it made me sad all the time, and I think that's why, as soon as the guys that I played with stopped playing, it was easy to disconnect from baseball. It just hurt too much. And I was mad at myself. It was never like, 'Baseball owes me,' or anything. It was just that I should have trusted people. I did develop relationships. And that's the core of my belief, why I know that I'm the right guy at this time to at least be an image. If I walk through a clubhouse, if there's one player in there on one of the teams during the season, and they're like, 'Man, I can relate to that guy. He looks like he could be a general manager, or he could be a manager.' If he respects me just for that, then I feel like not only did baseball pick the right guy, but it allows me to believe that my whole [damn] life was not thrown away."
When he left the game, Bean was actually mostly content. He began to live his life openly in Miami, getting involved in the South Beach restaurant scene. When he came out publicly, the second former Big Leaguer to do so (after Glenn Burke, who played for the Dodgers and A's in the 1970s and passed away in 1995), it made national news. But he didn't realize the role he had to play until shortly after, when he sat on a panel next to Judy Shepard, whose son Matthew's brutal murder in 1998 changed the course of hate-crime legislation in America.
"She's looking at me," Bean recalled, "and she said, 'Billy, you have a chance to change the dialogue. To change the way people act. And, hopefully, no other parent will ever experience what I have been going through.' This was literally 10 months after Matthew had died.
"I could barely contain myself. I don't know if I was overcome by shame, or caught up in the emotion, or feeling so badly, or living my truths of Sam dying and not going to his funeral, just pretending that relationship didn't exist. I thought, 'Here's this kid who was 115 pounds, 20 years old, and he had the [courage] to be his best self, to walk through the halls out and open in Laramie, Wyo. And I'm a Big League guy who was a coward, lying about everything. Trying to please people. Who's the hero? Who's brave?'
"In that moment, I just said, 'Tell me what you want me to do.'"
Best Foot Forward
During his session with the Yankees' Minor Leaguers, which came a year after he met with the club's Major League players, Bean was particularly gratified by two faces in the crowd: Brian Cashman and Jean Afterman. Having the Yankees' general manager and his top deputy in the room helped add heft to Bean's message. Cashman addressed the group after Bean, driving home that all members of the organization would be held to a high standard; there would be no exceptions.
"When you come here and suit up and put the Yankees uniform on," Cashman said, "we're going to demand that you create an environment of inclusion, one where people feel comfortable while they're here working."
Ever since MLB reached out to Bean in 2014 and asked him to come aboard as the league's first ambassador of inclusion, he has marveled at the ways that Cashman and the club's front office have embraced the push. The first time Bean attended MLB's general managers meetings, Cashman formally introduced him to the group. And Cashman and Afterman have joined Bean's efforts around New York, including a visit to the Harvey Milk High School at the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a fully accredited New York City public school that serves predominantly LGBT high school students, many of whom have been kicked out of their houses. The Yankees executives spoke to the students, passed around their World Series rings, and left them with plenty of Yankees hats and shirts, a small but meaningful gesture to help bridge what has historically been an uneasy relationship between athletes and LGBT youth.
For Cashman, the issue is really academic. Sure, there are business and PR benefits to reaching out to all underrepresented groups, but it goes beyond that.
"I want the Yankees to be better," he said. "I 100 percent believe in what Billy is providing. He's truly trying to help society progress. Obviously, the Commissioner's initiatives aside, it's just the right thing."
On the Road to Change
Bean's spring was anything but a break. He estimates that he spent about 25 straight days on the road -- from March 20-25 alone, he met with three different teams and spent time talking with students at the DeVos Sport Business Management Program at the University of Central Florida. If highway miles were currency, Bean would be Mark Zuckerberg.
"My staff is Billy Bean and a rental car," he joked.
It's a long month, and lonely, but nothing like what Bean experienced when he was in hiding. Most of the time, the work is extremely gratifying. David Denson, a young prospect in the low levels of the Brewers' organization, leaned on Bean for help before he publicly came out last year. And while examples from other sports, such as Michael Sam or Jason Collins, show that society is moving forward, it's still a long road.
So Bean focuses on the less visible victories. Within the next 10 years, he'd like to see 100 employees from the LGBT community among the thousands of staffers under baseball's umbrella. And he makes a point to take his message outside the clubhouses, whether to diversity summits, anti-bullying initiatives or other groups.
Bean knows that he can't get back the years when his mental torment kept him from living up to his potential -- "I can't change what's going on on the field; my days are done with that" -- so he moves down the road. Baseball has been at the fore of social progress before, and he's proud to be a part of continuing that legacy. It could be a coach watching his tongue in ways he never considered before, it could be teams directing marketing dollars toward LGBT causes, or it could be a star player publicly professing that he is gay. Whatever the progress looks like, the baseball establishment is behind the effort.
"I am confident that we are in a place where it can change," Manfred said. "And I'm really optimistic about the fact that it is changing as we speak."


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The world has indeed become smaller since the invention of courier services. Courier service providers deliver parcels, documents, goods, products such as drugs and clothes, and sometimes food for both their organizational and individual clients. Their services include both local and foreign. However, for this article, we will focus on the local courier service providers. Qualities local courier service must have is relative to the demands of both the individual and organizational clients. Having said that, we will look at the universally agreed-upon qualities local courier service must have to meet the needs of its clients, both individuals as well as organizations.
Definition: Local Courier Service
Local courier service is the exchange of items between two people who can be individuals or an organization within the same city or state. It is carried out by an individual employed by the local courier service provider. The clients usually pay for the local courier delivery service before the exchange. The service list would also include not just those in Dubai but also surrounding Emirates; these courier services provide regional courier delivery services across the UAE as well.
18 Qualities Your Local Courier Service Must Have
Local couriers deliver items like letters, documents, and parcels, for individuals and organizations. They are common in many areas where public and private businesses rely on same-day delivery of messages. Local courier services don't just stop at moving packages from one place to the other. The top-quality local courier service provider has a particular skill set or traits that ensure their service is of the highest quality. One of which is outstanding driving skills but for the regional courier that handles the demands of the top professionals in the industry, they need more than driving skills. The question now is what are those qualities that make your local courier service provider great.
Below are the most appreciated qualities to look for in a local courier.
(1) Excellent routing and directional skills
We all know that the primary function of courier services or couriers is moving packages from the sender to the receiver. It needs efficiency on the part of the couriers because most packages or shipments are urgent in nature or time-sensitive. Therefore local couriers require a high level of directional and excellent routing to complement familiarity with the local routes and neighbourhood. The use of portable GPS devices is standard in many local courier services to map out routes. But you must have an idea of the area you cover intimately. It would help you avoid unexpected difficulties and last-minute trouble spots easily.
(2) Composure
Local courier services have time-sensitive packages. These messages are often last-minute deliveries that need urgent action. As a courier service, you need to be calm when others – even the customer – have become agitated.
The stakes can be very high, most notably when the delivery includes things like medical items or confidential or sensitive documents. Composure is a paramount quality in the courier business. It allows the couriers to do their work efficiently without letting the pressure that comes with last-minute deliveries or agitation of the customers to affect the delivery process.
(3) Efficiency
It may or may not be easy to know how to move from one point to the other. But the bottom line is understanding how to make sure the job is done as fast as possible requires a high level of efficiency. It requires punctuality, being well informed about potential obstacles along the way and knowing how to surmount them and understanding the requirements of the customer to the last details. Efficiency in delivery of messages is the one quality your local courier must have before you can patronize them.
(4) Superior service skills
Local courier service is a document or package delivery service business. Therefore a courier service needs superior customer service and people management skills. Your work would require you to interact with both paying clients who can be both individuals and organizations as well as the recipient of the delivered items. Since these people are humans themselves, they expect not just quick and timely delivery but a reasonable level of friendliness, little knowledge of payments and service processes as well as help with problems. Sometimes you have to slow down and answer questions from the sender or receive instructions from them as well as the receiver. A pleasant and friendly attitude with office staff help improves client retention.
(5) Flexibility
An excellent local courier service offers all-round services all year round. This means their services are 24 hours a day and seven days a week. A person who enjoys the usual 9 – 5 jobs might not be suitable for this type of work. Local courier service is service-oriented like we have said earlier in this write-up, so their service is tailored to suit their customer's needs. Customer's needs vary widely with each customer. So good quality of a local courier service should include flexibility to adapt to whatever needs their customers to have.
(6) Effective record-keeping
Local courier service is usually responsible for keeping track of their delivery records. This starts by logging the client's details such as name, address, and phone number for service records and also payment recording and collecting. You would also need to get signatures from the recipient and the time of delivery as well. In event questions are raised about the delivery system and suggestions are made by clients. Effective record-keeping is an essential quality of any excellent local courier service. It isn't just for clients but also for useful revenue recording to report tax, most notably those who are self-employed, with delivering packages for various clients as contractors.
(7) Alertness
Long hours of driving is inevitable in the local courier service jobs. A driver for a local courier service often will be forced to work with limited rest. But the driver must refuse drowsiness or personal problems to affect the task at hand, which is the delivery of packages to their intended recipients. Staying alert is vital to the safety of the courier he possesses, and it's delivery.
(8) Effective time management
Local courier services need to have the quality of effective time management. There is hardly any free time because as the business grows, more customers are available, and this means an increase in the number of couriers. Therefore, you are continually collecting and running orders all day long. Thus, to meet up with customer's demand, you need effective time management skills. You also need physical fitness and stamina, especially for those local courier services that make use of bikes to make deliveries.
(9) Dutifulness
Showing an ample sense of responsibility to one's job is an excellent quality irrespective of the job you are doing. However, in local couriers, it is an integral quality. The local courier service has to know the proper way to treat potentially dangerous and life-changing objects, especially deliveries that have to do with medical supplies. A careless and irresponsible local courier service would fail in this regard, and it would affect client retention in the long run.
(10) The application of technology
Technology is one thing we can't take away from modern businesses, irrespective of the industry of the business. Local courier service also needs technology to improve their service delivery. Technology is vital for tracking packages as well as to notify drivers of the traffic conditions on the routes they are going to use. Local courier services who use the latest technology are a worthy courier.
(11) Insured and certified
In the local courier business, unexpected problems can arise. One good quality a local courier can and should have is insurance and certification. It would increase the confidence and trust of clients in the local courier. You are assured that whatever problem arises from the delivery of your package, the local courier would take care of it. It is also a way of protecting your clients and yourself from unforeseen circumstances.
(12) Strong track record
When you want to engage the services of a local courier, you should look out for one with quality track records of delivering excellent services. A strong track record means the local courier service has been around for years and has provided outstanding services at busy periods and in crowded areas without any issue.
(13) Fair value or value for money
Local courier company should provide fair value for money without dipping the pocket of the client too much. We know that often cheap means bad service but that shouldn't be the case with a good courier service company. They should be a balance in their charges without breaking the bank. One quality you should look out for when thinking of hiring a courier company for their services should be fair value for their services.
(14) Compatibility with your needs
You would need to consider this quality critically before hiring a local courier service provider. The courier industry is a service-oriented one, which means that your needs are what the companies in this industry are out to satisfy. Compatibility means that the company you choose should have services that suit your needs.
Since technology is readily available, communication is now more accessible between vehicles and drivers, as well as between the company and its clients. Therefore it should not be hard finding compatible local courier service providers.
(15) Safety
Local courier handles the transport of sensitive material such as documents, parcels, and sometimes medical supplies. When thinking of hiring a local courier service, you might want to consider the safety of your package with them. The local courier you want to hire must have safety precautions. It is an essential quality that an excellent local courier service should possess. It would ease your mind and prevent panic when there is a delay in your package delivery.
(16) Existence of local office
Before you hire a local courier service company, it would be wise for you to check if they have a local physical office. This is essential in emergencies. It would help you have access to the services they provide physically if the need should arise. As well as give you an idea that they would take responsibility for any loss or damage to your package or product. It is also vital when you want to take legal action about your damaged or missing merchandise. Otherwise, it would be difficult to prosecute a service company when you don't have any idea where their office is.
(17) See their current or previous work report
This is similar to looking out for a company with a proven track record only in this case you don't depend on the internet to provide you with the information you need. You can look for their clients and interview them personally. In this way, it would give you an idea of how the company relates to its clients, their policies, and the impact their services have had on their clients. You can get all this information from other clients because the way they relate with others is the same way they will connect with you or your company.
There are many local courier service providers that are available for you to hire or choose from online and make enquires. These qualities stated in this article about delivery services in the UAE can eliminate your worries about package or product transportation and delivery locally or within the UAE.
(18) A little degree of educational experience is important
Finally, not having a formal education is not a barrier to effective delivery in local courier services experience. However, having both formal and informal education gives an edge on the ways services are delivered in any professional and quality delivery courier services. The degree of educational experience, both formal and informal, of a local courier, manifests and encompasses all the conditions stated above. Having a formal educational experience on human behaviour helps a local courier to understand differences among clients and provide an encompassing approach to deal with each of the differences. More so, an informal educational experience help in the composure and strategy to deal with emergencies.
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It's all the entertainment you need!
Jay S. Jacobs
by James Gunn.
Directed by Raja
Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures. 93 minutes. Rated PG.
2 - Monsters Unleashed
me a sucker, but I was one of the very few people in the world who really kind of
dug the first live action
movie. Now, I recognize that the acting
generally wasn't that great, the monsters were pretty cheesy, the storyline
was dull and the CGI creation of Scooby-Doo looked all too obviously
computer generated. However, as much as I hold the original cartoon
series dear from my youth, I do recognize when I watch the old episodes as
an adult that they have the same problems (with the exception of the
computer-animated pooch, of course.)
But, Scooby-Doo, Where
Are You! will always be special to me because it is a very real part of
the life influences that made me who I am. It was brilliant kid's
entertainment (and still is, my nephew is only two and already hypnotized by
Scooby) that took a lighthearted look at things that fascinate kids
� ghosts, ghouls, werewolves, vampires and haunted amusement parks.
Besides, it had a cute dog who talked! What more could you ask?
As I grew up, I caught onto some of the show's more adult themes as well;
the reason for Shaggy's eternal munchies, whether or not Velma was a little
too fond of Fred (or Daphne, for that matter, as one school of thought goes.)
The show knew it was a little hackneyed and predictable (Nearly every
episode ended on a variation of the line, "And I would have gotten away with
it too, if not for those meddling kids and their dog.")
So perhaps it was nostalgia
that made me enjoy the first film so much. Or, perhaps it was because the
film didn't take itself at all seriously, trying (not completely
successfully) to make the movie as much a funny modern pastiche of the
series as the brilliant movie lampoon of a similarly sacred childhood show,
The Brady Bunch. So, I signed up for the ride and while I
didn't think the first movie was great, I did have a lot of fun while
watching it.
Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters
Unleashed is more of the same, and yet somehow this time it didn't
really work for me. Perhaps it is because of the tossed-together
storyline. Scooby-Doo 2 is like a Scooby's Greatest Hits reel,
bringing back several of the ghosts from the original classic show.
The theory behind the film is that Scooby-Doo and the members of Mystery
Inc. have become such media darlings for capturing numerous spooks that the
museum of their hometown of Coolville has set up an exhibit of the costumes
of their greatest conquests. (What happened to museums that had art
and antiquities?) Of course, one of the costumes, the pterodactyl
ghost, ends up being alive and destroys the exhibit. Then the ghost of
the knight comes to life, and soon there are also skeletons with giant
eyeballs, the ghost of the miner 49, the creeper and a tar monster plotting
to do the kids in.
Matthew Lillard is still
flawless at inhabiting the character of Shaggy, he is one of the rare actors
who so perfectly nails a cartoon character that he almost feels animated
himself. Linda Cardellini is still very fun as the shy, bookish,
brilliant Velma, though even more than the first film she is often made up
to be too sexy for the role (when Velma is hotter than Daphne, there's
something wrong in the universe.)
Again in this film, the real
life married couple of Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar get the
short stick. Fred is a vain airhead who is only there to look good in
an ascot (and how could anyone not look good in an ascot?). Daphne's
character has lost the little bit of dimension it was given in the first
film, although somewhere down the line, Gellar's character has become a
karate kicking Daphne the Vampire Slayer. I don't remember that from
the series.
The computer generated
Scooby is pretty seamless now. You no longer pay attention to the fact
that it is obviously a computerized version of a cartoon dog, now you just
look at him as a character, and still a very funny one, too.
You don't expect heavy
characterization from a show (or movie) that defines characters by the color
of the clothes they wear, but the attempts to give the kids "back-stories"
fall flat. Fred and Daphne's gradual realization of how much they care
for each other, Scooby & Shaggy's crisis of faith that they may not be
pulling their weight in Mystery Inc. and Velma's crush on a cute museum
curator (Seth Green); all these threads seem undercooked, plot contrivances
thrown in without any clear reason or particular need to get out of.
There are also the standard
issue potential bad-uns, Peter Boyle as Mr. Winkle, owner of the haunted
house and haunted mine, Alicia Silverstone as a yellow journalist looking to
make a name on the kids' failure and Seth Green as the mysterious museum
curator who may have a thing for Velma or may just be hanging with her for
The storyline doesn't matter
really. In the end, after all the action and monsters and romances and
bright colors and lessons about friendship and fart jokes; as the man says,
there was just not enough "there" there. To call the story
featherweight is to be dismissive of feathers, and anyone who doesn't know
who the bad guy is the first time they see them just isn't trying.
When you
get down to it, the worst thing about the film is that
there was really no reason other than money to make
Scooby-Doo 2. I'm sure we'll have to say the exact same
thing about the inevitable Scooby-Doo 3, which I hear is already in
the planning stages. (3/04)
S. Jacobs
Copyright �2004
PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved.
March 26, 2004.


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Brithvi V
Scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have discovered a key process during the invasion of the blood cell by the Malaria parasite, and found a way to block this invasion. According to the World Health Organisation, about 3.3 billion people are at risk of Malaria. To prevent this invasion, Prof Preiser's research team developed antibodies which can interfere with this invasion process. The team outcome was made possible with the development of a new screening assay that allows the rapid characterization of parasite signalling, which is significantly faster than conventional methods. The newly invented technique utilises a high-throughput fluorescence scanning approach if antibodies or drugs fail to prevent the invasion of the red blood cell by the malaria parasites, the sample will light up.


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Monday, October 25, 2021
Pennar Davies
He was a member of the separatist political party Plaid Cymru, became the Literary Editor for The Welsh Nationalist paper where he published work by R.S. Thomas, and was a significant advocate for Welsh-language broadcasting.
His son Dr. Meirion Pennar followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a leading Welsh language academic, translator and poet.
When I Was a Boy
When I was a boy there was a wonderous region
the other side of the mountain:
the sun livelier there, in its prime;
the moon gentler, its veil of enchantment
resting chastely on hill and dale;
the night like a sacrament,
the dawn like young love,
the afternoon like sliding on the Sea of Glass,
the evening like a respite after mowing;
the faces of ordinary folk like china dishes
and their voices like the soliloquy of countless waters
between the source and the sea,
and the people sons and daughters of old,
princes and countesses in the court;
and all the lines of nature, thought, society
and talent and will and sacrifice
and the saving and the wretchedness and the peace,
all the lines of venture, claim compassion,
meeting at eye level there
in an unvanishing vanishing point
called Heaven
and all on the other side of the mountain
in Merthyr, Troed-y-rhiw and Aber-fan
before I crossed the mountain
and I saw.
This post was suggested by my friend Burl Horniachek.
Entry written by D.S. Martin. He is the author of five poetry collections including Angelicus (2021, Cascade) ― a book of poems written from the point-of-view of angels. His books are available through Amazon, and Wipf & Stock.


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This continues our series of student reflections and�analysis authored by our research team.
The Internet is arguably the great technology ever to be invented. It allows us to research and communicate in new ways, with such ease. While a majority of us probably use the Internet for more mundane activities such as checking our email or googling diet plans, some people have realized the advantage of ease in spreading ideology and rationale for social and political causes. With the creation of new ways for communication and social media, there has been a recent rise in recruitment for activist and terrorist groups.
All websites have a domain, and that domain can be supported by a location anywhere in the world. There is no clear international law concerning the way the Internet must operate, meaning depending on the country promoting the domain, different rules will apply to it and jurisdiction over it varies. Terrorists from all different rationales have noticed the advantages the modern Internet provides them and are continually creating new websites and platforms to share ideas and recruit members. Websites belonging to terrorist organizations share similar themes in content including a history of the organization, details of their social and political background, notable accounts of events and people within, and often current news relevant to the group. However, these websites are often not as visible or accessible as others like Facebook or this website. The internet allows terrorist groups to do so much publicly and privately.
Public terrorist websites are ideal for spreading propaganda, and recruiting or at least enticing interest of potential new members. They operate similarly to sites belonging to designated hate groups, and some qualifying as both, the Southern Poverty Law Center maps, for ease of tracking. The propaganda piece of their websites helps them explain their ideology as well as create justification for their attacks, especially in instances where violence was apparent. The language used is careful and cautious, to help rid the readers' possible negative perceptions. Through these public sites, some also offer places for fundraising through donations, for enthusiastic supporters who may be unable to help actively. These sites and uses of the Internet may be harder to scan, but this privacy allows individuals within the United States to make connections with FTO that were previously not accessible without this technology.
Before the modern terrorism of today, individuals affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) were almost never American born. However, in the 21st century, we have seen increases in domestic terrorist attacks perpetrated by American born citizens claiming FTO affiliation. Roser, Nagdy, and Ritchie (2018), economists researching global development through statistics credit the Islamic State (ISIS) to be one of the first large-scale terrorist organizations to harness the power of the Internet to recruit and commission individuals to enact attacks. Christopher Cornell appears in our dataset with positive FTO affiliation. He is a native of Cincinnati, OH who converted to Islam in his late teens. At this time, he began using the Internet to connect on social media platforms with believed members of ISIS and quickly started to show support for their cause. Cornell was advised by his online connections to purchase assault-style rifles and commit an attack against government official in Washington, D.C. This online correspondence is part his tie and claim to an FTO.
In cases with anti-government rationale, it became especially important that we thoroughly searched for transcripts, files, or State speech that linked these perpetrators to an FTO even if they had never been out of the country. The perpetrators also do not have to have formal claim of FTO. Such as in the case with Christopher Cornell, the brief correspondences and intent to support ISIS is considered enough to be coded as �Yes� with �Foreign Affiliation� within our dataset. As the years advance in our dataset, cases of similar nature continue to increase, giving support to the idea the Internet has become a major resource for recruitment for FTO in the United States.
– Tia Turner
Board, The Editorial. "The New Radicalization of the Internet." The New York Times. November 24, 2018. Accessed December 04, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/facebook-twitter-terrorism-extremism.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Terrorism&action=click&contentCollection=timestopicsion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection.
Maura Conway; Terrorism and the Internet: New Media�New Threat?, Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 2, 1 April 2006, Pages 283�298, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsl009
Roser, Alex, Mohamed Nagdy, and Hannah Ritchie. (2018) – "Terrorism". Published online at�OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism' [Online Resource]
Weimann, Gabriel. Www.terror.net: How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2004.


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The introduction of new technologies within a society often results in a critique of how such innovations will affect human consciousness. Plato argues how the technology of writing influences one's memory, does not represent reality, and ultimately weakens the mind. Such arguments are presented in The Seventh Letter and Phaedrus which in turn, ironically, are recorded by way of text.
"The specific [writing] which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the resemblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality." (Plato, n.d.)
Unlike Plato, Ong (1982) seems to make a similar argument in his text; complicating our thoughts on the written word. My understanding is that Ong believes print and writing isolates humans from one another creating multiple perspectives that do not resemble the truth. I disagree with Ong, but I am slightly cautious because I have never experienced a predominantly oral culture. I try to imagine if oral culture is more united and truthful than print culture, but I instantly begin to wonder if both cultures demonstrate complexities because human beings themselves seem to complicate language, stories and texts; despite being oral or print based. If we take children for example before they are able to read or write, their oral stories are imaginative and creative and most importantly never are told the same way each time, consistently details change. This theory can be applied to all human beings; language changes in all capacities oral or print—I do not believe one is any better than the other or more authentic.
I do believe print has the potential to isolate; however not always. Print has created unity especially among groups in our postmodern world. For example if we take a group from a grade 10 class and ask them to read a text—the group than has a common thread to discuss, work through, connect and expand on. The students who do not read the text and instead stare out the window become isolated from the group losing the only thread that connects each individual in the room to form the group. Human society may have once been unified by oral culture, but nothing concerning contemporary society is unified or open. We are a culture of individuality—this may have been brought about by way of technology innovations, but I am really not convinced. However Ong seems very convicted, "The spoken word forms human beings into close-knit groups. When a speaker is addressing an audience, the members of the audience normally become a unity, with themselves and with the speaker. If the speaker asks the audience to read a handout provided for them, as each reader enters into his or her private reading world, the unity of the audience is shattered, to be re-established only when oral speech begins again. Writing and print isolate." (Ong, 1982, p.73) I believe that we have moved very far away from a unified model.
It is important to reflect on the influence of today's technological innovations on the 21century learner. Like those who were raised in a literate culture find it difficult to fully understand the influence of writing and text on an oral culture, I believe that some will find it difficult to comprehend the full effects of today's technologies on human consciousness. Today's learner has been raised in a society whereby the World Wide Web has been commonplace, a great number of North American households have multiple cell phones, and social networking is perhaps the most prevalent communication means among teens and young adults. Oral communication by way of face-to-face interaction is diminishing. How will such tools affect human consciousness? Will these tools "enrich the human psyche, enlarge the human spirit, and intensify its interior life"? (Ong, 1982, pg. 82). Will such innovations lead to a greater degree of human isolation?
Ong, W. J. (1982) Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word. New York, NY: Routledge.


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Thomas Jefferson to Louis A. Leschot, 28 December 1818
To Louis A. Leschot
Dec. 28. 18.
Th: Jefferson sends to mr Leschot mrs Eppes's watch needing repairs, and the key needing a new pipe. her servant will be here till the middle of the week and it is hoped mr Leschot will do it in time for him to carry back, as she lives at a great distance, and opportunities of sending it are very rare. Th:J. will pay the cost of repairs, and will hope to recieve from mr Leschot at the same time the amount of the work done for him and the family at various times, which with1 the cost of the gold watches first bought and which has been so long left in his hands, he proposes to pay him in a few days.
he wishes mr & mrs Leschot could come and dine here some day. he will send for them any day which will suit them, & he salutes them with friendship and respect.
RC (PPRF); written on a small scrap; dateline at foot of text. Not recorded in SJL.
On 8 Apr. 1819 TJ drew on James Leitch in Leschot's favor for "165.64 for watches" (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1353).
1. Manuscript: "with with."
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- Leitch, James; account with TJ search
- Leschot, Louis A.; as watchmaker search
- Leschot, Louis A.; letters to search
- Leschot, Louis A.; payment to search
- Leschot, Louis A.; TJ invites to Monticello search
- Leschot, Sophie Montandon (Louis A. Leschot's wife); TJ invites to Monticello search
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I Think My Gums Are Receding Lincroft, NJ
At Lincroft Village Dental Care, we focus on the health of our patients' gums just as much as we do on their teeth. We understand the critical nature of the gums and the role they play in keeping teeth healthy, strong, and intact. Through regular dental care, we can work to prevent gum disease. In certain situations, regular dental care is all a patient needs. However, if you do notice that your gums begin to recede, call (732) 842-5005 and schedule an appointment with our Lincroft, NJ dental office. Since gum recession can lead to further health challenges, it is important to address the issue right away.
Why are gums receding from my teeth?
There can be several reasons for this, and some of them may have to do with lifestyle. For example, it is important to brush your teeth at least twice a day and floss once a day. However, if you use a hard toothbrush or brush too aggressively, you can actually irritate your gums and cause them to recede. This is why we recommend that you use a soft or electronic toothbrush whenever possible. You want to make sure you are gentle when brushing near your gums, regardless of what you are using.
Your gums can also recede due to gum disease. This is actually the most common reason for the condition. At Lincroft Village Dental Care, we find that gum disease can impact patients of all ages, and when it does, it is critical that you come in for a dental cleaning and treatment. Otherwise, you can begin to see the gums recede or pull away from the teeth. The cause is plaque that becomes trapped between the teeth and gums. Since you cannot clean this area, it remains in place, turns into tartar, and irritates your gums. The irritation will get to the point that the gums swell, bleed, become irritated, and eventually recede.
Genetics can also give you receding gums, so if your parents had this problem, you may as well.
If your teeth are crooked and your bite is out of alignment, additional strain could be placed on some of your teeth. As a result of abnormal wear patterns, your gums could begin to suffer and eventually recede.
Why are my gums receding only on one side?
If your gums are only receding on one side, it could be simply because plaque just happens to have built up in this area of the mouth. Plaque does not discriminate, but there is a chance that you could have brushed or flossed better on one side of your mouth, or it could be a simple fluke that plaque became trapped in one area but not the other. Another plausible solution is that this mirrors general wear patterns. If your teeth are crooked and your bite is off, your gum health will also be impacted disproportionally.
Why are my gums receding on one tooth only?
While this could be related to the other causes listed above, it is most likely to do some type of dental trauma. Perhaps this particular area of the mouth was cut or suffered a severe abrasion. Whether the injury was caused by eating something sharp, your nail scratched it, or an outside force cut you, gums can sometimes have difficultly healing and may recede as a result of that injury.
Should I worry about receding gums? Are they really a sign of trouble?
Yes, you should. At Lincroft Village Dental Care, we encourage all our patients to pay attention to their gum health. We encourage them to call us right away if they see their gums bleeding, swelling or receding. We want to examine the patient as soon as possible in order to determine if gum disease is present and treat it. You are best served by receiving immediate care since we can treat the problem using less invasive methods. For example, you may only need a deep cleaning if you come in right away or perhaps you will need an antibiotic treatment as well, but by coming in early, you give your gums the best chance for restoration without the need for a gum graft. Otherwise, if you delay, they could recede to the point that the health of your teeth, your jawbone, and your entire smile are at risk. After all, the majority of people who lose an adult tooth also had gum disease at the time. Preventing and treating it is truly one of the best things you can do for your oral health.
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How do you prevent gum recession?
The best way to prevent gum recession is to visit our dental office for a teeth cleaning twice per year. We can remove the plaque and tartar that has built up over time in order to give your teeth a fresh clean feel while also reducing the likelihood that plaque or tartar will build up. Additionally, you can begin to use a soft toothbrush and monitor how aggressively you brush your teeth.
Is there a way to treat the condition?
Yes, if you are suffering gum recession due to gum disease, we must remove the disease. Generally, this requires us to perform a deep cleaning procedure in order to remove the plaque and tartar from the area in between the teeth and the gums. Once done, your gums can begin to heal and rejuvenate. There are also some laser procedures that we can use to help stimulate the gum tissue so it can begin to grow again. Otherwise, if the recession is really bad, you will need a gum graft to restore the tissue around the teeth as a protective measure.
What are the risks of not treating it?
Very simply, you could lose your teeth. Gum recession is typically caused by gum disease. The idea of not treating it is an incredibly risky option because it means that in addition to experiencing uncomfortable teeth and gums, you are also likely to suffer from bone and tooth loss.
To learn more about gum recession and how to treat it, call our dental office at (732) 842-5005.
Questions Answered on This Page
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Definition of Gum Disease Terminology
- Chronic Periodontitis
- Chronic periodontitis is the most common form of periodontitis, involving inflammation of the tissue surrounding the teeth and pockets forming as well.
- Necrotizing Periodontal Disease
- Necrotizing periodontal disease is an infection that causes lesions to form on the face and other symptoms due to the necrosis of gingival tissues, periodontal ligaments and alveolar bone.
- Periapical Cyst
- A periapical cyst is a pathological cavity, roots of the teeth, that typically has epithelium in the lining and contains fluid or soft matter.
- Periodontal Disease
- Periodontal disease is a serious inflammation of the gingival tissues and the periodontal membrane of the teeth that causes pain and helps form deeper gingival sulcus.
- Periodontal Ligament
- Periodontal ligaments are a group of tissue fibers that help attach the tooth to the alveolar bone, which can sustain damage from gum disease or improper oral hygiene.
- Periodontal Pocket
- A periodontal pocket is a potential area of space, known as a gingival sulcus, which is deeper than normal and can contain bacteria that cause an infection.
- Periodontal Surgery
- Periodontal surgery is the treatment of extreme levels of periodontal disease that can involve multiple techniques to remove the inflamed tissue and infection before it spreads.
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Pontins Championships 2002:
The 4BR Retrospective Review:
We give our opinion on the performances, plus we have the
official remarks for the top three in the prize list.
The Pontins Holiday camp in Prestatyn is not a venue that readily
brings to mind the beauty and grace of the Royal Opera House Covent
Garden, but on Sunday it was a worthy host to the bands that tackled
Joseph Horovitz's "Ballet for Band", and in particular,
Tredegar Band, who gave a winning performance that was worthy of
any that could be heard at the London venue. Forget the slightly
iffy smells of stale beer and fags, you could have almost been there
with the black tuxedos and sloane ranger accents – Tredegar
won the Harry and Margaret Mortimer Championships for 2002 with
a lot of style indeed. Others performed well, but it was also fair
to say that some gave renditions that were possibly closer to the
Royston Vasey, "Legs Akimbo" theatre company than that
of Horovitz's beautifully constructed ballet music.
Tredegar's performance though was top drawer material. What started
with an anticipated bass entry grew into a mightily impressive show
piece from band, conductor and soloists. The slow sections in particular
reeked of class and the clarity and execution of the detail was
of the highest order. Garry Cutt gave so much time and space to
the music that allowed all soloists to shine - especially flugel
player Andrea Lewis who simply sparkled throughout.
In second place came the newly sponsored Jaguar Coventry Band under
David Lea. Their performance started well and there was some highly
commendable playing in the exposed flourishes. We did think their
soloists had rather thin sounds but their playing in the quiet sections
was close to the best heard all day. Second was an excellent result
for the band. We placed them third, but they certainly were in there
on merit.
Flowers and Philip Harper will have left North Wales knowing they
had the ability to gain a better result and a better band performance.
Their best playing for us came in the slower sections where all
soloists did well - especially the flugel. Unfortunately the band
didn't sound relaxed and there were troubles with the ensemble work
throughout the performance. Third place from the adjudicators but
we had them fifth whilst some of their players will not wish to
go through the anguish of the journey to the contest. They were
close to not making the contest itself due to the problems on the
wind swept roads, so to come third in those circumstances is some
Ashton-under-Lyne produced a little cracker of a performance with
John Maines. There was much to admire throughout with all soloists
playing with style. Again it was the flugel that really caught our
ears, but band and conductor should take credit for a fine overall
show. Fourth from the adjudicators - fourth from 4BR.
We were also impressed with reigning champions JAG Mount Charles
and Russell Gray. They opened with style and there was some fine
tutti cornet work throughout the first section. Their Achilles heel
was possibly some insecurity and nerves in the slower stuff but
their performance really ignited the competition for us. We had
them second so they will be disappointed with fifth from the adjudicators.
Perhaps they took the final section too fast and with an aggression
that wasn't really needed, but it was a fine showing none
the less.
Pennine Brass and Ian Porthouse continue to make good strides in
the championship section. A more than commendable performance here
saw them come away with a well-deserved sixth place. The odd moments
of intonation and the tendency to over cook things at times were
perhaps their weakest element, but well done to one and all and
a place in the final frame was spot on.
Derek Renshaw and ASDA Stocksbridge came next and were disappointed
we understand to be drawn between the fancied bands of Tredegar
and Mount Charles. As soon as they started though they showed restraint
and there was a sense of purpose in their playing. Close attention
to dynamics earned them plenty of points and they were worthy of
their 7th place. Commendable stuff, and they do have some talented
players to continue to make a mark at this level – as long
as they forget about the reputations of the opposition.
In eighth place came Haydock Odgon Travel. With Nationals adjudicator
Malcolm conducting and son Ian playing, the Brownbills proceeded
to give a performance of real merit. Fine committed playing and
some excellent soprano and lyrical flugel work - this made for a
pleasing overall effort and a creditable top ten place. Too many
little weak individual moments cost, but this was a solid showing.
The standard from here on down was not what we expected from championship
standard outfits and some of the more fancied bands we felt failed
to respect how difficult "Ballet for Band" was. On paper
it appeards not to hold many technical problems for bands at this
level, but the style of the music is something brass bands find
very difficult to cope with. Basics of tuning and balance in passages
of extended quiet playing caught band after band out – many
to a degree that bordered on the naïve.
The first of these and last band on stage was Averley and Newham
who once again failed to produce the goods at this level of competition.
Perhaps it was too much too soon after their creditable Nationals
performance last weekend but we thought a band of this calibre would
put in a performance better than that which they gave. Some nice
playing in the louder moments was small comfort for a performance
that lacked conviction overall. Sorry guys but you left us shell
shocked and ninth place and perhaps a little fortunate!
Mossley were placed tenth. Some nice solo cornet work but too many
tuning problems and ragged playing made for a disjointed overall
performance and they fell away towards the end as volume replaced
the balanced rounded sounds that they produced at the beginning
of their show. Eleventh came PHG Lindley who will perhaps be disappointed
with their result. They were the pick of the lower half for us with
some fine euph and sop work and we thought they tried to make a
real effort to play the dynamics in the slower sections. Weaknesses
elsewhere though once more caught them out and they were penalised
Hepworth were a great disappointment for us and 12th place was
as good as they could have hoped for. One of our fancied bands prior
to the contest, they failed to impress with some cornet and bass
playing that really didn't cut the mustard – it was overblown
and ragged too often. Well done euph though who shone throughout.
Thornbury and Nigel Seaman were awarded thirteenth place and can
thank their flugel player for some fine individual playing that
certainly kept them around the half way mark. After an encouraging
start things began to
sound a little strained. This coupled with some nervy solo work
and untogetherness made for a performance that never really got
off the ground and they never felt in total control of the piece.
The MD tried in vain to ensure the style was correct, but the playing
wasn't up to scratch.
Nottingham City Transport started loud and got louder. A slightly
bizarre approach to the music in the opening section didn't really
come off and coupled with some harsh sounds meant fourteenth place.
It may sound harsh, but didn't the MD look at the dynamics.
They could certainly play the piece, but at this volume it destroyed
all the syle the music so demands. Fifthteenth place went to Colin
Hardy and Drighlington. A light sounding band - they started quite
well but found the technical difficulties a little too much deal
with. Well done flugel though who may have sounded nervous but played
so well, whilst the band left its best playing to the final section
– which was too late to make anything more of a token impression.
Before the contest, Staffordshire and David Maplestone were another
band we tipped to do well. Lacking in excitement, their performance
was littered with intonation problems and frequently sounded out
of control. Well done basses though - you impressed us. Sixteenth
place was your reward and a lesson for us both. The standard between
the First Section and the Championship is still big, and things
that can be possibly overlooked at the lower level, are required
basics higher up. The talent is there, but determination isn't
Philip Bailey and City of Coventry came next and although they
started with conviction the writing was on the wall once the basses
were left exposed. The flugel was the star of the show though and
if only they had another dozen players like this they would have
found themselves a good ten places higher. Seventeenth place though
was all they could manage.
BTM and David Stowell started so well off a number one draw. Some
excellent trombone playing throughout was the highlight for us but
the soloists didn't quite do their best on the day. Together with
a rather frenetic close meant a disappointing eighteenth place.
Meanwhile, Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass with Bryan Hurdley
came nineteenth and although we heard plenty of detail in the opening
sections, much of the good work was spoiled by some brisk tempi.
Harsh sounds to end and nervy playing in the quiet section meant
nineteenth was as good as it was going to get.
Thoresby Colliery UK Coal with Stan Lippeatt at the helm were a
combination we thought would push for high honours. However, what
we got was a performance that was pulled around more than a three-legged
dog on a lead. What was all that about eh? It was ballet music alright,
but why so much rubato? The look on the face of a very prominent
man in the movement close to us said it all. The soloists performed
well under trying conditions, but 20th place was what the overall
performance deserved. Not a great day for the band.
Longridge and Brett Baker came twenty-first and their performance
looked promising after a sensible opening. Then things turned for
the worst with some cornet playing that really went astray. Although
iy did pick up in places, there were some moments that were very
uncomfortable indeed and it was a performance that very nearly stopped
in a few places. They will hope for better things in 2003 for sure.
Kidlington and Catherine Underwood were the unfortunate band to
be placed twenty-second and last. It wasn't pretty stuff in the
main but we really thought it unlucky to be propping up the field.
Some nice flugel and bass work was spoiled by some serious over-blowing
at times and this surely was their undoing. Catherine Underwood
has a lot to offer though and it would be interesting to see her
perform with a stronger outfit. Sorry Kidlington.
So there we have it. We sat. We listened. And we've said it how
it was..….. for us.
Many bands had a bit of help from "guest players" –
including the winners, who had Robert Westacott from Yorkshire Imperial
Rothwell performing with class on the end chair. Others also took
the opportunity to utilize the generous rules to allow up to four
players in the ranks from other bands, and there were sightings
of Alan Wycherley, Glyn Williams and John Barber from Fodens Richardson
as well as sprinkling from Black Dyke and others from the top bands
in the country.
It may seem unfair, but the rule is there to assist bands rather
than just "sign up" star players, and it should be reminded
that nowadays the rules for National contests mean that players
can be signed to perform anything up to four days prior to the contest
– so what Pontins does isn't out of touch with what
goes on elsewhere. It also didn't make an ounce of difference
to the result either, so there. Tredegar were worthy champions for
a fourth time and there weren't many in the Hall on Sunday
who would have disagreed with that.
Adjudicators Remarks:
1. Tredegar
Not the perfect first bar, but then you play with a great purpose
and sound. Excellent duet from basses. Very neat playing all round.
Fine cornet at 7. I like the way you give room for the music to
be heard in space. Breadth. So well shaped to 10. Loveley flugel
playing and accomp just right. Sop super. 12 has the right balance
and style – it floats aong. I'm frightened to write
ion case I make a sound around 13!! Well done. Euph steers the band
well into a tempo. All is going along fine. The detail of accents
before 21 is welcomed. Fine euph before 23 and percussion play a
great part in the fine show.
This was a super show. So well directed and well played.
Richard Evans.
Not quite together on opening note but you settle into an impressive
opening section. Fine basses at 5 then all parts are clear. Lovely
feel for the music at 7. Not all secure at 8 but the music flows
so well. Good attention to dynamics. Good move into Lento. Very
expressive flugel, super sop and balance from 11. At 12 the playing
is restrained but flowing. 13 has good balance and shape. Good tempo
at the Moderato and you play with spirit. At 17 the music is enjoyable.
Allegro is very rhythmic and musical. Good drive to a great close.
A very good musical performance, by band, soloists and conductor.
Alan Lawton
2. Jaguar (Coventry)
Rather fast tempo makes the triplets appear rushed. Good sound
and balance in band. Good bass duet, well balanced. 6 – not
all together. 7 – Good cornet, then untidy in band before
8. Controlled well before and then 9. Well shaped to 10. Flugel
slightly flat. Fine soprano. Cornet good too. 12 - Well done with
dynamics here, and it still flows. 13 – Excellent. This performance
is being well directed. Most of this moves along so well. There
was very litlle wrong with this performance, especially from 15
A very fine performance. Well directed.
A rather quick tempo to open, but you play with a good style and
dynamics. Bsses play well again with good style from 5. Good cornet
at 7 then some rather loose playing. Good control at accel with
good balance. Flugel slightly flat and rather tentative. Good sop
and vbalance from 11. 12 flows well – some good sounds in
this section. This has been a good movement. Moderato. Correct tempo,
again all parts are clear. Neat playing sat the Allegro.
A fine close to a very good musical performance. Well directed.
Alan Lawton.
3. Flowers
Impressive! Be careful – triplets around 3 were lazy. But
apart from that it was most commendable! Duet really good, just
the right style. Cornets well balanced. In fact the balance from
the band is excellent. Fine shape to the section through to Lento.
Flugel bottom Bb not right – but the music is free. Sop great.
I felt the rhythm in first bar at 12 was not quite as it should
be. Then fine control. Well done 13 onwards but it didn't
maintain its quality. Great tempo at Moderato – it is the
key to all that follows. Nice use of dynamics. But timp too much
at 19. Fine detail in 4/4 before 21 and from there you are in control
to the end.
Thanks. Not the perfect performance, but a very fine one. Well
Fine opening and the dynamics are well played. Good efforts after
3. Fine basses at 5. Lovely cornet at 7 – all parts are clear.
Good accelinto the Piu Moto. Nice balance at 10. Flugel plays with
feeling (but a shade flat). Sop rather heavy for mf at 11. Good
control from 12. I lose the balance at 13 (too much sop). Final
notes before Moderato are not together. Moderato. Good tempo again
and all parts are clear. You have a good feel for the music. Per
rather heavy 3rd of 15. Good rhythm through 21.
A fine ending. A very good performance The overall musical picture
came through. Well directed.
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