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How did North Korea increase the performance parameters of the Hwasong-14 on July 28, that is to maximise its range capabilities to a true ICBM distance of 11,7000km (if fired directly East toward the US West Coast)?
This line from the KCNA press statement had me intrigued
The test also reconfirmed the specific features of the rocket system such as the rocket's separation from its launching pad, stage-separation, structural system, etc. which were confirmed at the first test-fire, and confirmed the performing features of motors whose number has increased to guarantee the maximum range in the active-flight stage as well as the accuracy and reliability of the improved guidance and stability system
It was the "performing features of motors whose number has increased" that had me going.
One thing that was possible, and broached in my earlier posts, was a different engine configuration for the second stage. It looks as if that is the key difference between the July 4 and July 28 Hwasong-14 ICBM.
That is the July 28 Hwasong-14 employed 4 vernier engines for the second stage, at least that's what I get from this Reuters report
Two separate U.S. officials who discussed the latest test, which lasted about 45 minutes, said it showed greater range than the July 4 ICBM launch, which North Korea said lasted 39 minutes.
One of the officials said it had greater height, range and power than the previous test because it used force stabilizing engines, which counter the effects of winds and other forces that can knock an ascending rocket off course
The image below (I'm on the fly) is of the second stage of Iran's Simorgh SLV, which I provide for illustrative purposes. Featured image, according to Norbert Brugge, could be of Hwasong-14 second stage static engine test (recently conducted). July 4 used two, July 28 used four (like Simorgh SLV below)
We must stress that we don't know how compact North Korea's nuclear warhead is, which would affect its combat range if the warhead is of greater mass than the dummy RV used in the testing programme.
Throw-weight is an important feature of strategic nuclear missiles. The Chinese DF-5 ICBM uses a first stage engine with similar thrust to that of the March 18 Revolution engine North Korea uses for the Hwasong-14 1st stage. The DF-5 has similar range to the Hwasong-14 ICBM.
However, the DF-5 uses a four engine cluster for the 1st stage. The DF-5 has the range of the Hwasong-14, but it has a ~3,000kg throw-weight. That's what enables it to deliver a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb to ICBM distances.
One infers that the Hwasong-14 ICBM can't do that. We did see North Korea parade two ICBM TELs with canisters on the Day of the Sun parade this year.
It could well be the case that North Korea is banking on two ICBMs, one to deliver the compact fission based warhead (boosted with thermonuclear reactions) and the second to deliver a two-stage thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb warhead to intercontinental distances. The second could have greater throw-weight than the first.
North Korea has not shown us what's the deal with the second ICBM (kinda) paraded, and hasn't tested a hydrogen bomb. First things first. But both probably are on the horizon.
Image below is of the TEL paraded this year, and that's the TEL used to transport the Hwasong-14 to the mobile erector launcher for firing.
This image is the other ICBM paraded.


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Today was a day for shopping for curtain fabrics and curtain rods. After completing my purchases at Fabric Warehouse in Libis, Quezon City, we proceeded to Causeway for a very late lunch. Dimsum mostly, although my daughter Sam ordered a shrimp wonton soup for herself. Disappointed that Causeway didn't serve egg tarts, we decided to have our dessert elsewhere. At Mom & Tina's, my husband suggested, which was a short five-minute drive away. We've never eaten there before although we're not totally unfamiliar with the bakery's products. When friends came over to the house a couple of weeks ago, they brought a tray of Mom & Tina's profiteroles, we liked it very much and my husband went to Mom & Tina's a few days later, bought a box of profiteroles and brought it home. That was when he first suggested that we go there sometime so we could see the other products.
Mom & Tina's is located along E. Rodriguez's Avenue in Libis, Pasig City, right beside San Jacinto Panciteria (I hear there are other branches). The first thing that struck me was the set-up. The place was large enough to accommodate twenty tables or so and I really liked that because I have little patience with cramped places like Conti's and Banapple. I mean, you can have great food but if you charge an arm and a leg and you cannot even sit your customers comfortably, well, I'd rather opt for take-out or go elsewhere.
Mom & Tina's in Libis has large tables and comfortable chairs and couches, the tables set sufficiently far enough from each other so that diners don't have to bump into the chairs of the people on the next table. And there is none of the Starbucks ambience either which I so hate. You know, groups of people occupying all the tables but not really eating or anything but just hanging out, just to be seen, because there's a perception that being spotted in Starbucks is cool. I love Starbucks' cakes and pastries but I really hate the contrived enthusiasm with which the baristas greet customers. None of that stuff at Mom & Tina's. No blaring music either. It's a decent place for decent crowds. All you hear is light chatter and the occasional peals of laughter. At least, that was what we witnessed for the hour or so that we were there. I have no idea what it's like there on weekdays.
I ordered a single-serve Oreo cheesecake and a cup of cappuccino for myself and I was happy with them. They were okay but nothing earth-shaking.
Younger daughter, Alex, with her obsession over mango cream pie, was so thrilled to see a version of her favorite pastry at Mom & Tina's. If you think there are too few mango slices…
…there's more mixed in with the cream. Alex complained though that it was hard to eat the pie because the bottom of the crust kept slipping off the tray. There's also the matter of the crust being "hard" rather than flaky.
My husband, Speedy, had a slice of brazo de mercedes. The brazo de mercedes was good — sufficiently sweet but not irritatingly so. Let me explain though that not every slice of brazo de mercedes at Mom & Tina's looks like the one you see in the photo above. That one appears to have ALL THAT CUSTARD but that's because it was sliced off one edge of the cake where there is usually a large concentration of custard. The diameter of the custard of an average slice of brazo de mercedes would be about half the size of what you see in the photo.
Our older girl, Sam, ordered iced coffee and no pastry. She was too full from the dimsum and shrimp wonton noodle soup.
The service at Mom & Tina's was good. The waiters were accessible but did not hover as though insisting that a customer orders more. They don't make suggestions unless asked unlike in fast foods where the order takers really push hard to make customers order more than they can eat. And waiters at Mom & Tina's pay attention to customers' needs. Initially, our orders consisted of the mango cream pie, Oreo cheesecake and coffees (the brazo de mercedes and iced coffee were afterthoughts). When the pastries arrived, there were two dessert spoons with each. Because there were four of us, the waiter anticipated that we meant to share the pastries amongst ourselves and provided sufficient flatware for all four of us. In a world where good service is fast becoming a rarity, little things like that make a lot of difference.
One negative comment I have is the penchant for using disposable aluminum trays even for dine in customers. The mango cream pie and the Oreo cheesecake, for instance, would have been more convenient to eat had they been served on dessert plates. Perhaps, it's a presentation thing but, really, dessert plates would have been more proper. Classier even because disposables so belong with the fast food culture.
Four coffees and three pastries and the bill was P578.00. Not bad. If we had gone to Starbucks, the bill would been almost twice as much. And given the quality of service and the comfortable dining set-up, the price wasn't bad at all.


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"HULLO! There is that old Box-coat again!"
This exclamation was made by a lawyer's clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper—a messenger in fact—who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open pane of the window against which he was leaning. The pellet, well aimed, rebounded almost as high as the window, after hitting the hat of a stranger who was crossing the courtyard of a house in the Rue Vivienne, where dwelt Maitre Derville, attorney-at-law.
"Come, Simonnin, don't play tricks on people, or I will turn you out of doors. However poor a client may be, he is still a man, hang it all!" said the head clerk, pausing in the addition of a bill of costs.
The lawyer's messenger is commonly, as was Simonnin, a lad of thirteen or fourteen, who, in every office, is under the special jurisdiction of the managing clerk, whose errands and billets-doux keep him employed on his way to carry writs to the bailiffs and petitions to the Courts. He is akin to the street boy in his habits, and to the pettifogger by fate. The boy is almost always ruthless, unbroken, unmanageable, a ribald rhymester, impudent, greedy, and idle. And yet, almost all these clerklings have an old mother lodging on some fifth floor with whom they share their pittance of thirty or forty francs a month.
"If he is a man, why do you call him old Box-coat?" asked Simonnin, with the air of a schoolboy who has caught out his master.
And he went on eating his bread and cheese, leaning his shoulder against the window jamb; for he rested standing like a cab-horse, one of his legs raised and propped against the other, on the toe of his shoe.
"What trick can we play that cove?" said the third clerk, whose name was Godeschal, in a low voice, pausing in the middle of a discourse he was extemporizing in an appeal engrossed by the fourth clerk, of which copies were being made by two neophytes from the provinces.
Then he went on improvising:
"But, in his noble and beneficent wisdom, his Majesty, Louis the Eighteenth—(write it at full length, heh! Desroches the learned—you, as you engross it!)—when he resumed the reins of Government, understood—(what did that old nincompoop ever understand?)—the high mission to which he had been called by Divine Providence!—(a note of admiration and six stops. They are pious enough at the Courts to let us put six)—and his first thought, as is proved by the date of the order hereinafter designated, was to repair the misfortunes caused by the terrible and sad disasters of the revolutionary times, by restoring to his numerous and faithful adherents—('numerous' is flattering, and ought to please the Bench)—all their unsold estates, whether within our realm, or in conquered or acquired territory, or in the endowments of public institutions, for we are, and proclaim ourselves competent to declare, that this is the spirit and meaning of the famous, truly loyal order given in—Stop," said Godeschal to the three copying clerks, "that rascally sentence brings me to the end of my page.—Well," he went on, wetting the back fold of the sheet with his tongue, so as to be able to fold back the page of thick stamped paper, "well, if you want to play him a trick, tell him that the master can only see his clients between two and three in the morning; we shall see if he comes, the old ruffian!"
And Godeschal took up the sentence he was dictating—"given in—Are you ready?"
"Yes," cried the three writers.
It all went all together, the appeal, the gossip, and the conspiracy.
"Given in—Here, Daddy Boucard, what is the date of the order? We must dot our i's and cross our t's, by Jingo! it helps to fill the pages."
"By Jingo!" repeated one of the copying clerks before Boucard, the head clerk, could reply.
"What! have you written by Jingo?" cried Godeschal, looking at one of the novices, with an expression at once stern and humorous.
"Why, yes," said Desroches, the fourth clerk, leaning across his neighbor's copy, "he has written, 'We must dot our i's' and spelt it by Gingo!"
All the clerks shouted with laughter.
"Why! Monsieur Hure, you take 'By Jingo' for a law term, and you say you come from Mortagne!" exclaimed Simonnin.
"Scratch it cleanly out," said the head clerk. "If the judge, whose business it is to tax the bill, were to see such things, he would say you were laughing at the whole boiling. You would hear of it from the chief! Come, no more of this nonsense, Monsieur Hure! A Norman ought not to write out an appeal without thought. It is the 'Shoulder arms!' of the law."
"Given in—in?" asked Godeschal.—"Tell me when, Boucard."
"June 1814," replied the head clerk, without looking up from his work.
A knock at the office door interrupted the circumlocutions of the prolix document. Five clerks with rows of hungry teeth, bright, mocking eyes, and curly heads, lifted their noses towards the door, after crying all together in a singing tone, "Come in!"
Boucard kept his face buried in a pile of papers—broutilles (odds and ends) in French law jargon—and went on drawing out the bill of costs on which he was busy.
The office was a large room furnished with the traditional stool which is to be seen in all these dens of law-quibbling. The stove-pipe crossed the room diagonally to the chimney of a bricked-up fireplace; on the marble chimney-piece were several chunks of bread, triangles of Brie cheese, pork cutlets, glasses, bottles, and the head clerk's cup of chocolate. The smell of these dainties blended so completely with that of the immoderately overheated stove and the odor peculiar to offices and old papers, that the trail of a fox would not have been perceptible. The floor was covered with mud and snow, brought in by the clerks. Near the window stood the desk with a revolving lid, where the head clerk worked, and against the back of it was the second clerk's table. The second clerk was at this moment in Court. It was between eight and nine in the morning.
The only decoration of the office consisted in huge yellow posters, announcing seizures of real estate, sales, settlements under trust, final or interim judgments,—all the glory of a lawyer's office. Behind the head clerk was an enormous room, of which each division was crammed with bundles of papers with an infinite number of tickets hanging from them at the ends of red tape, which give a peculiar physiognomy to law papers. The lower rows were filled with cardboard boxes, yellow with use, on which might be read the names of the more important clients whose cases were juicily stewing at this present time. The dirty window-panes admitted but little daylight. Indeed, there are very few offices in Paris where it is possible to write without lamplight before ten in the morning in the month of February, for they are all left to very natural neglect; every one comes and no one stays; no one has any personal interest in a scene of mere routine—neither the attorney, nor the counsel, nor the clerks, trouble themselves about the appearance of a place which, to the youths, is a schoolroom; to the clients, a passage; to the chief, a laboratory. The greasy furniture is handed down to successive owners with such scrupulous care, that in some offices may still be seen boxes of remainders, machines for twisting parchment gut, and bags left by the prosecuting parties of the Chatelet (abbreviated to Chlet)—a Court which, under the old order of things, represented the present Court of First Instance (or County Court).
So in this dark office, thick with dust, there was, as in all its fellows, something repulsive to the clients—something which made it one of the most hideous monstrosities of Paris. Nay, were it not for the mouldy sacristies where prayers are weighed out and paid for like groceries, and for the old-clothes shops, where flutter the rags that blight all the illusions of life by showing us the last end of all our festivities—an attorney's office would be, of all social marts, the most loathsome. But we might say the same of the gambling-hell, of the Law Court, of the lottery office, of the brothel.
But why? In these places, perhaps, the drama being played in a man's soul makes him indifferent to accessories, which would also account for the single-mindedness of great thinkers and men of great ambitions.
"Where is my penknife?"
"I am eating my breakfast."
"You go and be hanged! here is a blot on the copy."
"Silence, gentlemen!"
These various exclamations were uttered simultaneously at the moment when the old client shut the door with the sort of humility which disfigures the movements of a man down on his luck. The stranger tried to smile, but the muscles of his face relaxed as he vainly looked for some symptoms of amenity on the inexorably indifferent faces of the six clerks. Accustomed, no doubt, to gauge men, he very politely addressed the gutter-jumper, hoping to get a civil answer from this boy of all work.
"Monsieur, is your master at home?"
The pert messenger made no reply, but patted his ear with the fingers of his left hand, as much as to say, "I am deaf."
"What do you want, sir?" asked Godeschal, swallowing as he spoke a mouthful of bread big enough to charge a four-pounder, flourishing his knife and crossing his legs, throwing up one foot in the air to the level of his eyes.
"This is the fifth time I have called," replied the victim. "I wish to speak to M. Derville."
"On business?"
"Yes, but I can explain it to no one but—"
"M. Derville is in bed; if you wish to consult him on some difficulty, he does no serious work till midnight. But if you will lay the case before us, we could help you just as well as he can to——"
The stranger was unmoved; he looked timidly about him, like a dog who has got into a strange kitchen and expects a kick. By grace of their profession, lawyers' clerks have no fear of thieves; they did not suspect the owner of the box-coat, and left him to study the place, where he looked in vain for a chair to sit on, for he was evidently tired. Attorneys, on principle, do not have many chairs in their offices. The inferior client, being kept waiting on his feet, goes away grumbling, but then he does not waste time, which, as an old lawyer once said, is not allowed for when the bill is taxed.
"Monsieur," said the old man, "as I have already told you, I cannot explain my business to any one but M. Derville. I will wait till he is up."
Boucard had finished his bill. He smelt the fragrance of his chocolate, rose from his cane armchair, went to the chimney-piece, looked the old man from head to foot, stared at his coat, and made an indescribable grimace. He probably reflected that whichever way his client might be wrung, it would be impossible to squeeze out a centime, so he put in a few brief words to rid the office of a bad customer.
"It is the truth, monsieur. The chief only works at night. If your business is important, I recommend you to return at one in the morning." The stranger looked at the head clerk with a bewildered expression, and remained motionless for a moment. The clerks, accustomed to every change of countenance, and the odd whimsicalities to which indecision or absence of mind gives rise in "parties," went on eating, making as much noise with their jaws as horses over a manger, and paying no further heed to the old man.
"I will come again to-night," said the stranger at length, with the tenacious desire, peculiar to the unfortunate, to catch humanity at fault.
The only irony allowed to poverty is to drive Justice and Benevolence to unjust denials. When a poor wretch has convicted Society of falsehood, he throws himself more eagerly on the mercy of God.
"What do you think of that for a cracked pot?" said Simonnin, without waiting till the old man had shut the door.
"He looks as if he had been buried and dug up again," said a clerk.
"He is some colonel who wants his arrears of pay," said the head clerk.
"No, he is a retired concierge," said Godeschal.
"I bet you he is a nobleman," cried Boucard.
"I bet you he has been a porter," retorted Godeschal. "Only porters are gifted by nature with shabby box-coats, as worn and greasy and frayed as that old body's. And did you see his trodden-down boots that let the water in, and his stock which serves for a shirt? He has slept in a dry arch."
"He may be of noble birth, and yet have pulled the doorlatch," cried Desroches. "It has been known!"
"No," Boucard insisted, in the midst of laughter, "I maintain that he was a brewer in 1789, and a colonel in the time of the Republic."
"I bet theatre tickets round that he never was a soldier," said Godeschal.
"Done with you," answered Boucard.
"Monsieur! Monsieur!" shouted the little messenger, opening the window.
"What are you at now, Simonnin?" asked Boucard.
"I am calling him that you may ask him whether he is a colonel or a porter; he must know."
All the clerks laughed. As to the old man, he was already coming upstairs again.
"What can we say to him?" cried Godeschal.
"Leave it to me," replied Boucard.
The poor man came in nervously, his eyes cast down, perhaps not to betray how hungry he was by looking too greedily at the eatables.
"Monsieur," said Boucard, "will you have the kindness to leave your name, so that M. Derville may know——"
"The Colonel who was killed at Eylau?" asked Hure, who, having so far said nothing, was jealous of adding a jest to all the others.
"The same, monsieur," replied the good man, with antique simplicity. And he went away.
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Today's workout was GREAT. It just felt awesome! I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get through today's workout. The last time I was at this altitude, I ran one 7:30 mile and thought I would die.
Today, not so. I ran 10 of the hilliest and most beautiful miles I've ever run! See the image below.
Just a couple of weeks ago, I was considering quitting this thing. My knee was killing me. I was willing to concede that I had bitten off more than I could chew. The next time I get discouraged, I need to read this post to try to remember how I felt today! After chugging up one of the many hills today, I turned around to come down. A complete stranger running in the opposite direction reaches out and high fives me! That was cool.
Enough rambling.
Today's workout called for 10 miles with 8 minutes of uphill time. I probably had more like 40 minutes of uphill time. Even better. Average pace was a smidge over 7:40.
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- 8:27 (The hills and altitude start to show their teeth!)
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- 7:30 (I start to show my teeth back!)
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Long time I had never eaten buffet. Last buffet I had ever eaten, that was Mu kratha with my family at another province. When I ate Mu kratha, my mom always requested me to give sausage set and ingredients to the table. And Mu kratha in Thailand was popular buffet in Thailand due to some buffet shop had steak, grilled pork, grilled squid. I ate that and I felt happy very much!!!
But Mu kratha had very fat that made me obese.
So I was given up to buffet.
6 months later.
This day I quit my job from real estate company at Asok. I felt bad when I saw back to my former workplace that was "Interchange21 Tower". I shouldn't turn back to this place again. I walked forward to the BTS skytrain Asok station immediately. There were many people who still came to Interchange 21 and Exchange tower that was working tower at the Asok. I walked reversely.
Then someone sent messages in LINE application. I unlocked my phone before I looked who sent message.
Orn : Hey!!! Where are you?
Then I sent message to reply Orn immediately.
I : I'm at BTS Asok Station.
Orn : Really? So do you really think to quit?
I : Of course. I don't know why I am employee for?
Orn : I see. Let's be free together. Don't ponder.
After Orn stopped sending messages, I walked and held my bag to the meeting point. Then BTS skytrain arrived and opened its doors. I walked into it and waited for BTS closed. I saw many people who came here and talked loudly. Looked like they came from China. Their face were so Asian and their dressing style was so Chinese.
I didn't know what Chinese people talked about, but their sound was very loud than I thought. I didn't blame to them because Chinese's talking cultures were so loud as this.
Next station… Siam. Interchage with Silom Line.
Finally, BTS skytrain was arrived to Siam Station. It stopped and doors opened. Many people who wanted to get out from BTS skytrain were trying to run to next BTS skytrain for going to Silom line. Chaos of BTS was so generic until I saw it as usual.
Orn : Where are you?
I : At first entrance of Siam Paragon.
Orn : Yeah. Please wait at here. I will meet you.
After Orn finished sending messages, I still waited at the entrance of the Siam Paragon. Many Chinese people were coming to this place. Looked like some bloggers reviewed and recommended Chinese people to go this place.
3 minutes later…
"Hey you!"
Finally, Orn said hello and she waved her hand for greeting me. I heard Orn's voice and I moved my head to that direction. That was Orn.
"Orn!!! Let's go."
Going to Fuku Intown
"So where branch do you choose?" Orn asked. Actually, Orn wanted to eat Sushi buffet at Fuku Intown, but she didn't know Fuku Intown had 2 branches. I only knew Fuku Intown at the brance near escalator. So I brought Orn to go to that branch.
I and Orn walked from 3rd floor of Center Point until we went downstairs.
An yes! Oh yeah! Seats weren't fulled. I and Orn came to the seats that was at inside this buffet restaurant. I saw many people who ate buffet insanely. And my mindset about every buffet restaurant, there were some obese people who ate was true.
Then I sat with Orn. Orn picked ordered paper and pen to order sushi.
"Which sushi do you want?" Orn asked.
"Are that sushi have cheese?" I don't know why I stunt with cheese a lot?
"No. But this beef is so awesome? Do you need one?" Orn asked again.
"Beef? Yeah. I order it." I said and Orn wrote on ordered paper and she gave marked order paper to waitress before she sent it to chef.
Finally, that sushi was coming!
Taste of Sushi is so good, but feel meh to Japanese rice
When sushi came to the dish, I picked sushi with beef with my chopstick and dipped Shoyu sauce on the small bowl before I put it into my mouth.
"How about that?" Orn asked to me.
I chewed this piece of sushi and wanted to know this taste. Finally, I felt…
Holy shit!!! THIS BEEF IS SO GOOD, BUT….
"What happened with you?" Orn asked me when I had unusual face.
"I'm disappointed with rice." I answered. "Looks like rice isn't soft as you think. But beef is so very good."
"Really? But let's eat this salmon!" Orn smiled to me and she wanted me to eat this salmon in this bowl. Looked like salmon was cooked with spicy. Then I picked salmon into Shoyu sauce and ate it.
"How about that?" Orn asked.
I thought meats in this buffet restaurant was awesome. Salmon meat was very soft, but not too much. And it was cooked with spice, that taste wasn't so bad.
Free soft drinks
"Do you need another drink? That's free." Orn said.
"Yeah." I said and went to the drinks refill zone before I refilled my drink again.
I thought free drink refill was one of the greatest advantage in Fuku Intown. You need different drink? That's you want.
Stair to heaven, one of the signature menu
One of the signature menu of Fuku Intown was "Stair to heaven". But when this thing was served on my table. I thought that was so same. Nothing different. Salmon sushi again.
"Finally, Stair to heaven appeared. Let's eat this."
But… looked like Orn didn't help me to eat sushi. She ordered sushi to let me eat eat and eat a lot. What are you doing, Orn?
Until I came to toilet to puke everything on my stomach! And ate again.
This sushi buffet was so really awesome. With many meats I had ever eaten, they had very high quality, but big disadvantage was Japanese rice. It wasn't soft as I thought.
- Very high quality meat
- Free drink refill
- Near BTS skytrain
- Nice restaurant's environment
- Too less menus
- No ripe menus
- Meh Japanese rice quality (and make my stomach full easily)
- Gross price (promoting price doesn't include 7% vat)
- Too expensive
Verdict 6/10
Not recommend too much.


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The mobile Copyboxx will come to your construction site. The daily provision of copying, plotting, scanning and filing usually requires the time-consuming and costly use of courier and data services. We will bring these services directly to your site to help you save emails, couriers and waiting times. The mobile Copyboxx will accommodate your specific requirements and needs directly on your construction site.
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Orders are accepted and processed subject to these General Terms and Conditions. By placing an order, the client agrees to be bound by these General Terms and Conditions. Any amendments shall be made in writing. General Terms and Conditions of the client inconsistent with these shall not be binding.
1. Prices
Prices inconsistent with our price list shall be agreed on in writing. Offers made verbally or by telephone become binding through written order confirmation or written order acceptance. Prices do not include VAT, packaging, freight, postage, insurance and other shipping costs. Samples, sketches, sample layouts, sample prints, etc. ordered by the client will be charged separately.
2. Copyrights
The client declares ownership of all rights (property rights, copyrights, etc.) on the draft model he orders to be reproduced and assumes liability for all damages that may be caused by such reproduction. The draft models are reproduced in their original form as delivered by the client. We reproduce bank notes, postage stamps, identification documents, etc. neither in full size nor in color. Similarly, we do not carry out any covering or alterations on document templates. Reproductions as well as all other operations executed by the contractor are carried out without verifying the accuracy of the content of the material or of the draft models submitted by the client. The client assumes sole responsibility for their correctness. This provision applies accordingly to the transmission of digital files for the purpose of plotting or the like.
3. Delivery / Liability
If in default, we shall not be liable for any collateral damage unless the default results from a grossly negligent or intentional violation of the contract. In case of agreed collection of originals and goods by the client, these shall be released, without verifying proof of authority, upon production of the receipt requested at the time of order placement. No claim can arise from handing out originals or goods to an unauthorized person. Alternatively, shipments will be sent out collect unless delivery is carried out by authorized agents or by messengers of the client. Delivery costs are calculated according to the pricelist. When using our collection and delivery service the client will incur costs subject to our pricelist or the offer.
4. Warranty
Despite utmost care, deviation from quality (e.g. paper quality) may occur and shall be accepted by the client as proper completion of the contract. In case of works true to scale, warranty for exact settings is given. Deviations in proportion caused by shrinking or expansion of the used materials are reserved.
Liability for later changes effected by external influences (climate, light, humidity an the like) is accepted only insofar as they are caused by inappropriate work performance. Replacement free of charge shall take precedence for performances that are unusable due to material defects or processing errors. Should we not be ready or able to deliver a replacement, or should we default on a replacement delivery beyond a reasonable period due to reasons in our control, the client is entitled to withdraw from the contract or demand a price reduction.
The contractor accepts liability for the loss or damage of originals handed over to the client's agents during transport, as well as during storage and work processes executed by the contractor, to the extent of coverage through his transport insurance. Additional compensation is excluded in case of slight negligence. The contractor must be informed in writing of any damages of originals within two working days from delivery. The client shall be obligated to prove and substantiate the extent of the caused damage and shall avert and contain it. The contractor reserves the right to verification of all documents in order to be able to appraise the current value of the damaged originals.
The client shall not be entitled to make any further claims, particularly other claims for damages including lost profit or other financial losses. The above limitations of liability shall not be effective insofar as the damage is caused by gross negligence or intent on our part. They also do not apply to a client's damage claim for the lack of a warranted characteristic.
In case of negligent infringement of an essential contractual obligation our liability shall be limited to the foreseeable damage.
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Complaints about evident defects shall only be considered if made in writing within one week from delivery.
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All delivered goods shall remain the property of the contractor until the client has fulfilled all obligations to the contractor. If the delivered goods have been sold or released to a third party, they are superseded by the claims the client holds against them.
The client is entitled to resell and collect third-party claims. The contractor can revoke this authorization if the client does not properly fulfill his obligations to the contractor, especially in case of default.
The client shall resell the goods only under the condition of title retention on his part (extended retention of title). The acquisition in good faith by third parties shall be excluded.
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Invoices shall be payable immediately upon receipt of goods without any deduction unless other terms of payment have been agreed. The buyer shall be liable in his own name in addition to the third party for orders executed for the account of a third party. Complaints about an invoice shall be valid only within four weeks; thereafter, invoices shall be deemed as fully accepted.
If payments are not made within 30 days from maturity and receipt of the invoice or an equivalent payment request, we shall charge 7.50€ for the second reminder and 15.00€ for the third reminder. Simultaneously, we shall charge an interest of 8% points above the effective basic interest rate for the duration of the payment default. Enforcement of further claims for damages shall not be excluded.
In case of default, granted discounts/rebates shall not apply and list prices shall be applicable. If invoices require rewriting on grounds for which the client or invoice recipient are responsible, a general processing fee of 15.00€ plus postage shall be charged per invoice, and of 1.00€ per reprocessed packing slip.
Should fulfillment of the payment claim be at risk due to a deterioration of the financial situation of the client or the invoice recipient, which occurred or became known after the signing of the contract, the contractor shall be entitled to demand advance payments, retain not yet delivered goods and discontinue further processing.
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No liability shall be accepted for originals/draft models that are not collected within four weeks of order completion. The payment obligation of the client shall persist. The above limitation of liability does not apply to damages caused by a grossly negligent contract violation on our part or an intentional grossly negligent contract violation on part of a legal representative or a person who is employed by the obliged party in performing the obligation.
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Prior to accepting an order, the data format wherein the data are to be transmitted shall be clarified beyond a doubt. If processing of a data format becomes necessary, which, upon the required electronic conversion into a format used by the contractor, may encounter any deviations, a separate agreement shall be made.
Processing is based on the data sets as prepared for output (printer, plotter, digital copier) by the client or a by a third party employed by the client. The contractor shall have no verification duty.
The contractor shall assume no liability for errors of the end product that result from deficient data delivered by the client. This shall also apply in case of the contractor's directly forwarding the end result to third parties at the request of the client. Should the contractor detect an apparent defect he shall inform the client. If the defect is to be eliminated the client shall be charged the additional processing time.
The client declares that the data sets delivered by him are replications of the original data set and that the original is in his possession. The duty to back up data rests solely with the client. The contractor shall nonetheless be entitled to make a copy. Liability incurred for the loss or damage of the data storage media delivered by the client is limited to the value of the raw material.
Data and data storage media as well as other intermediate products shall be stored beyond the delivery date only subject to express prior agreement and for separate remuneration. Full details shall be agreed in a separate archival storage contract. The contractor shall be liable solely for intent and gross negligence.
The previously mentioned objects, insofar as they have been made available through the client, shall be treated with care until the delivery date. The contractor shall be liable for damages solely in case of intent and gross negligence.
If the previously mentioned objects are to be insured, the client shall be responsible to take out the insurance.
Information about the scope of the order contained in the delivered data sets is binding for the contractor. Information on the order size delivered by the client shall be used as the basis of invoicing. Deviations from the electronically transmitted information shall be made in writing.
The client shall bear the costs for expenses ordered by him or technically required to perform according to order. This also includes the costs for data transfers initiated by him (e.g. via ISDN), and in case of online data transfers, also the provider costs incurred by the contractor. Should, while handling the data, extra work become necessary due to incomplete or wrong information in the context of/or during data transfer, the client shall bear the resulting costs.
Liability for data losses due to transmission errors during scanning operations shall be assumed only if the contractor is to be charged with gross negligence or intent.
The client is informed that in case of a not merely insignificant adaptation of the transferred material by the contractor the latter shall become, under § 7 of the German Copyright Law, the sole copyright owner. The enforcement of claims from this right shall be reserved by the contractor.
As a result of different hardware equipment among the output machines (plotter, printer, digital copier) of the contractor and of the client, deviations in output quality may occur. To avoid this the client will receive a test output for approval, provided that the contractor is able to produce a test output of limited scope from the delivered data sets. If this was not possible and the client did not include a press proof sample in case of color deviations, he shall bear the risk of any deviations and in addition, shall pay any necessary corrections.
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Given that transmission errors or time lags during data transfer (e.g. ISDN) are beyond the contractor's control he assumes no responsibility for them. Insofar as we grant the client access to a mailbox located with the contractor, the client shall:
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- accommodate and comply with accepted principles of data security and data protection;
- inform the contractor immediately of any discernible damage.
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The client is notified, according to Art. 33 of the German Federal Data Privacy Law, that his address details and data are stored and processed electronically by the contractor. The contractor warrants that all persons who handle these data are familiar with the relevant data privacy laws as amended from time to time. The contractor informs the client that data transferred online are not protected from third party access.
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My son is going through a Pokémon phase, spending hours playing the collectable-card game and reading about the mythical characters. Not all myths are fun and games, however.
LGBT parents are a new phenomenon. Fact: Openly lesbian and gay parents have been around since the early 1970s, as evidenced by the first custody cases involving lesbian moms and their ex-husbands.
"Same-sex parents" are the same as "LGBT parents." Fact: Some of us are single. Some of us are transgender or bisexual and in opposite-sex couples.
We all had our kids after coming out. Fact: The earliest known gay and lesbian parents had their children in opposite-sex relationships before coming out. Even today, according to Gary Gates, a demographer at UCLA's Williams Institute, many LGB parents are raising children from prior opposite-sex relationships, although the number is dropping somewhat as people are tending to come out earlier. (There is less data to confirm this for transgender parents.)
We're all White. Fact: UCLA's Gates has also found, using data from the U.S. Census, that childrearing is "substantially higher" among African American, Latino, and Native American/Alaskan native individuals in same-sex couples. (The Census only gives insight into same-sex couples, not other parts of the LGBT community.)
We're all educated and middle class. Fact: Childrearing is "substantially more common" among same-sex couples with lower levels of education, according to Gates. Children of same-sex couples also have poverty rates twice those of children in heterosexual married couple households.
All our kids will be LGBT. Fact: This myth has driven much of the fear from the right-wing. Over 40 years of legitimate social science research, however, has shown that our children are no more likely to be LGBT than children of non-LGBT parents.
None of our kids will be LGBT. Fact: Some LGBT parents will indeed have LGBT children – not because we caused them to be so, but because, statistically speaking, it's bound to happen. As a community, we must make sure not to deny them their identities and visibility because we are afraid of the myth above.
Having LGBT parents negatively impacts children's adjustment. Fact: Cambridge University psychologist Dr. Michael Lamb, one of the world's leading experts on child adjustment, recently published an article summarizing over 40 years of research. He concluded that child adjustment is explained by factors other than family structure and parents' sexual orientation. Ongoing results from Dr. Nanette Gartrell's long-running U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study have also shown that children of lesbian parents are just as happy as those of non-LGBT parents. And a 2010 study by Dr. Charlotte Patterson of the University of Virginia found that adopted children of same-sex couples were well adjusted and developing in positive ways unrelated to their adoptive parents' sexual orientation.
Our kids won't be affected at all by having LGBT parents. This is a tricky one. Zach Wahls, who became a YouTube sensation when he spoke at an Iowa House hearing on marriage equality, famously said that the sexual orientation of his moms has had no impact on his character. They influenced his character in ways unrelated to their sexual orientation, he explained. That's his experience, and it is a valid one. In other families, I suspect, the obstacles parents have been forced to overcome in order to live authentic lives – and the desire for social justice this creates in many of us – have shaped our characters in ways we pass on to our children. A few studies have also shown that children of lesbian and gay parents have a broader conception of gender roles than children of non-LGBT parents.
Children of LGBT parents can also be teased or bullied about their parents' LGBT status. Their families may face legal, social, and financial obstacles. While these may be considered ways that having LGBT parents affects children, we must remember that the root cause here is not the parents' sexual orientation or gender identity per se, but rather biased attitudes and unfair laws.
We're completely different from any other type of family. Fact: Diapers. Laundry. Sports practice. Homework. Family dinners. Occasionally we get wild and go to the park or play checkers.
We're just the same as any other type of family. Fact: We still do not have full equality under the law, and we still struggle for acceptance and understanding. We may include more people under our family umbrellas, such as donors, surrogates, and birth parents (although LGBT people are not unique in that). We are part of a long history of LGBT people and their accomplishments.
Being LGBT is the most important way in which we define ourselves. Fact: We are parents, neighbors, relatives, and friends; teachers, coaches, scientists, farmers, doctors, cashiers, politicians; musicians, athletes, authors, and more. We are all colors, ages, and physical abilities. Not all of us put our LGBT identities first.
We are redefining family. Fact: The definition of family has evolved throughout history. In the 20th century, changing divorce laws, more open attitudes towards adoption, and advances in reproductive technologies are only a few of the factors that are continuing this evolution, along with LGBT parents.
Myths, like all good stories, have the power to enthrall. We must live in the real world, however, and dispel the myths that keep us from seeing it.
Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian, a GLAAD Media Award-winning blog and resource directory for LGBTQ parents.


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So proud to call Ilhan Omar one of Minnesota's own! Fellow Minnesotans: remember to vote in the primary on Tuesday! Here's everything you need to know about the candidates and races.
How was your week, friends? I crossed 'hammock camping' off my New Things List and was surprised to discover I liked it! It is a million times easier and more fun than tent camping.
I also opened my super-affordable ($35!) super effective class Bank Boost on Wednesday. In the last three months, Bank Boost students have collectively added more than $45,000 to their bank accounts! Class starts tomorrow, so if you're keen to join us, now is the time!
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Related to my hammock camping: if you're in MSP, you can rent outdoor gear for a pittance at the University Of Minnesota's Outdoor Center – even if you're not a student! I rented my hammock for $6!
I was on the Middle Finger To Perfection podcast talking about the ways I am (and am not) a perfectionist and how to stop using money to buy love or solve other people's problems.
I loved this colorful house tour!
What do 90-somethings regret most?
Every single one of these 90-something-year-olds, all of whom are widowed, recalled a time when their spouses were still alive and their children were younger and living at home. As a busy young mom and working professional who frequently fantasizes about the faraway, imagined pleasures of retirement, I quickly responded, "But weren't those the most stressful times of your lives?" Yes of course, they all agreed. But there was no doubt that those days were also the happiest.
Related: A better way to think about 'busy'
Periodic reminder that if you like my taste in links, you'd love my Pinterest boards. Are we friends there?
Confirmed: Paul Rudd is exactly as lovely as expected.
How to support the victims of California's latest wildfire.
Four bright spots in this never-ending maelstrom of bad current events:
- LeBron James' new school
- This devoted shopping cart-return-er
- This awesome, successful fundraising initiative
- This advertisement for Las Vegas, of all places
Nine women talk about their divorces.
Related: Surprising marriage advice … from divorced people.
I loved this: A Brooklyn Retreat Inspired by Movies of the 1990s
"I'm Outraged, but Failing at Activism. Why?"
If I focus on just one issue and apply genuine effort and attention to it, I just might contribute something useful. I choose to invest that energy in different ways, whether it's writing about a pressing issue, amplifying the voices of others, donating money and time to nonprofit organizations, or whatever I can think of that might be useful. Sometimes, I have no idea how I can be useful, so I ask people who are well positioned to point me in the right direction because I recognize that I don't have to have all the answers.
Hope you had a lovely weekend, friends!


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Bob DiMella, Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of MacKay Municipal Managers, appears on Money Life with Chuck Jaffe (moneylifeshow.com) to give a mid-year update on municipal bonds. Use the Download Article feature to hear this podcast about trends in the municipal bond marketplace.
Disclosures: This third-party podcast was recorded on August 15, 2018 and is provided courtesy of MacKay Shields LLC with permission to re-purpose from Money Life with Chuck Jaffe. It is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase an interest in a MainStay fund. Mutual funds are offered by prospectus only through a registered broker/dealer. MacKay Shields is a sub-adviser to certain MainStay funds. MacKay Shields LLC is a registered investment adviser and affiliate of New York Life Investment Management LLC, which is wholly owned by New York Life Insurance Company.


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Ritchie Blackmore undertook several stints with Screaming Lord Sutch between October 1962 and May 1967.
And it was in 1962 that his career began to take off when he first joined Sutch.
Blackmore recognizes that he learnt a lot of showmanship from him. He started developing his stage routine with him.
Ritchie was guitarist with the Dominators and had a cherry red Gibson ES835 guitar (identical to the one Chuck Berry used).
During May 1961, Blackmore and Roger Mingay both from the Vampires went to audition for Screaming Lord Sutch. Mingay was deemed more experienced and got the job, so Blackmore joined Mike Dee's band instead.
According to Ritchie Blackmore, he actually passed the audition - then turned it down because he was too young and they toured so much he just didn't want to leave home.
Ritchie Blackmore did join Screaming Lord Sutch & his Savages replacing Dave Wendells who supplied Bernie Watson for some weeks in May 62. Dave wendells later became guitarist with Love Affair and Hurricane.
In fact when Watson left to replace Mickey King the Cliff Bennett's Rebel Rousers, Blackmore accepted the gig, but had to fulfill his commitments as guitarist with Mike Dee & The Jaywalkers who were backing the Kestrels and Danny Rivers on the Johnny Burnette/Us Bonds/Gene McDaniels package tour until mid May 1962.
According to Ritchie, Pete Townsend of the Who also attended the audition for Sutch but had strangely failed.
In the beginning Ritchie, ill at ease dressed in animal skin, used to hide behind his amps and in the wings. So Sutch used to grab him and pull him out.
At one such gig on June 25, 1962, Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages headlined at Wembley Town Hall.
Keith Moon, another future Who, was in the audience and saw Ritchie Blackmore whose devastating runs up and down the guitar were leaving people gasping for breath.
Blackmore's Last Sutch gig during this first spell was at Putney on October 12th 1962; he then left to replace Mingay in The Outlaws, another outfit produced by Joe Meek.
After his stints with Heinz and Neil Christian, Ritchie came back to the fold in early 1965 for three months. Screaming Lord Sutch recruited all the members of the Crusaders, Neil Christian's backing band. Ritchie Blackmore, bass player Andy Anderson and drummer "Tornado" Evans, supplemented by four saxophonists featuring Ashton Tootell, Noel "Mac" Manus and Dick Errington, recorded a single with Sutch: Honey Hush/The Train Kept A-Rollin' (CBS 201767), released in May 1965. They promoted it at London Marquee Club, and then during a "Thank Your Lucky Stars" TV appearance. However the eight piece line-up prove too ambitious and Ritchie Blackmore eventually would leave the band, along with Anderson and Evans, to back Jerry Lee Lewis during a residency at the Star Club, in Germany.
Ritchie Blackmore rejoined once again Sutch in late 1966 and toured Sweden then Germany with him, this once disguised as roman soldier in his Roman Empire. He finally decided to stay in Germany until his next adventure… Deep Purple, the following year.
Ritchie Blackmore finally admits that Screaming Lord Sutch had a fantastic hand and had an amazing band.
His last gig with him was a jam at The Country Club, in Hamstead, London, in April 1970, in which he reunited with several ex-Savages such as Matthew Fisher, Carlo Little or Nick Simper. Blackmore was paid $500 for playing that night. The recordings were later released as "Hands Of Jack The Ripper" album.
Interviews of Ritchie Blackmore
"Record Collector" #228, August 1998
RC: In 1962 you started playing with Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages. Was that a big step up in your career? RB: Yes it was. I went to rehearsals with this guy, who was offering a lot of money. I'd never heard of him, but I went and passed the audition - then turned it down. I was only 15 or 16, and they toured so much I just didn't want to leave home. Then I went back about six months later and said I'd try it. I'd only rehearsed with him and I didn't know the stage set-up, I didn't know what was going to happen. We started playing "Jack the Ripper", and Sutch entered the stage in a coffin. I thought, "This guy is nuts and I'm playing in his band! I've got to go home with this guy, and he's driving the van." I was not amused.
RC: Sutch has commented on how shy you were. RB: Yeah, that's right. He used to grab my guitar neck and go, "Come on, move, move!" RC: And you used to hide behind your amps? RB: Oh yeah, behind my amps and in the wings. He used to grab me and pull me out. I learnt a lot of showmanship from him. He taught me you can get out there and act like an imbecile, and people will think it's wonderful. It's very interesting, it's like a whole psychology. You go out on stage and if you look self-conscious people will watch you. If you go out and throw yourself around like a fool, it's like a show, a whole masquerade. But the moment you start taking yourself too seriously and go into a shell, people see it. He taught me to just get out there and run around. In the end I was running around in a Tarzan outfit and these people were going for it. I can't believe it! RC: The same year, you rejoined Sutch's Savages. RB: When the bills started to mount up, it was back to Sutch. You'd get to the point where everybody in the band would go, "I can't take this any longer". They would leave, but you knew they'd come back. It was like breaking out of a prisoner-of-war camp: a month later they'd come back in. They would hate it, it was like a penance, but he was the only one who would pay any money. You could go with all the fancy bands but they didn't pay any money.
RC: The Three Musketeers got a mention on the "Shadow Of The Moon" album. You must have fond memories of that time. RB: Yeah, very fond… All the songs we had were really fast and the big thing in Germany in 1965 was that you played music to dance to… In the middle of the act, we'd do our special, a really fast number which was "Flight Of The Bumble Bee". You can imagine the audience watching us. It was great for me but terrible for them. So they used to disappear and our work went downhill. That's how I ended up back with Sutch again. He was brilliant, actually. When we were in the key of A, he would sing in C sharp. I don't know how he did it - it's very difficult singing in this totally unrelated key to what was being played.
"Guitar Player" - From Deep Purple to Rainbow (Steve Rosen)
Your work with Screaming Lord Surch was before Purple?Yes, I forgot about that. The Screaming Lord introduced me to showmanship. Before that I used to play in the wings, and when I met him he pulled me out front and demanded I jump around and act stupid. My first impression of him was that I thought he was mad. In those days nobody had that kind of long hair; God knows how long it was. And he had his own act. But he had a fantastic hand, he had an amazing band.Who was in the band with you at that time?Ricky Benson, who later went with Georgie Fame, and Carl Little, who the Stones wanted and he turned them down - he's heen kicking himself ever since. And [pianist] Nicky Hopkins used to come along now and then, because we all lived around the same area.You started developing your stage routine with Sutch?Yeah, that's right. He pulled me on the stage and I was slightly electrocuted, because he was touching the mike and me. After that I thought if he can get away with it, I can do that, because I could see how well he was going down and how much money he was earning. I thought, "I can run around the stage and act like a maniac. Maybe I'll get paid for it, too."
Dave Ling: You have a lot of nice memories of the early days?
RB "Not just good ones of course. The hungry days were mostly nice times but I often played with musicians I hated, too. Some of them were real snobs who only wanted to see the negative sides of playing rock'n'roll. This was really bad when I played with Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages. One half of the band consisted of rock and rollers, the other half were jazz soloists. They drove me nuts. There were good times though, especially in the Star Club in Hamburg in 1965/66."
Some appearances With Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages
in 1962
June 2nd 1962 - England, Peterborough, Corn Exchange supported by The Escorts
June 11th 1962 - England, Dunstable, California Ballroom supported by Jeff Knight & The Challengers
June 25, England - Wembley Town Hall supported by Paul Dean & the Dreamers
August 17th 1962 - Buckingham Town Hall supported by The Senators
October 12th 1965 - England, Putney Last gig
in 1965
February 12th 1965 - England, Farnborough Technical College supported by The Stormsville Shakers
February Saturday 13th 1965 - England, Dunstable, California Ballroom
March 24th 1965 - England, Bradford, Top 20 Club
March 29th 1965 - England, Hitchin, The Hermitage Ballroom supported by The Cortinas
April 27th 1965 - England, London, Marquee Club: launch of single 'Train Kept A Rolling'
May Saturday 22nd 1965 - Thank Your Lucky Stars TV appearance promoting 'Train Kept A Rolling'
May 1965 - Germany, Star Club
In Late1966 – early 1967
· December 5th 1966 - Scotland, Dunfermline, Kinema Ballroom
· December 15th 1966 - Brighton, Sussex University Supporting Cream
· January 14th 1967 - Germany, Scala Herford, Jaguar Club supported by The Rainbows
· February 1967 - Germany, Kiel Star Club supported by The Xceptions
in 1970
· April 14th 1970 - jam at The Country Club, in Hamstead, London
See also
Screaming Lord Sutch & his Savages
Heinz & The Wild Boys


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Grahamstown High Court received a new attorney, and she was admitted by her proud father and his long-time friend.
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Quinn doesn't get to come to the barn with me a lot, mostly because a) he has no horse sense b) he's deaf, so I get nervous with him out in wide open spaces. But on Saturday he gave me those big sad eyes as I was getting ready to leave, so I let him come. And thank goodness I did, because what a helper he is.
First he helped me put the new reflectors/decals on the trailer (you can tell since they're crooked).
He made sure that the couple of stray rocks in the barn aisle were not, in fact, edible.
He looked at me like this when I gave Henry cookies.
And then Henry looked at me like this when I gave Quinn one of his cookies.
They told each other funny stories at my expense:
He guarded the gate…
while looking really adorable. Because that's what corgis do.
When it was time to go home he gave me those sad, hopeful eyes again
and then sat on the couch like this for the rest of the afternoon.
Maybe he'll get to come to the barn more often.


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It was meant to be an innocuous, throwaway comment. Or at least that's what we're supposed to think. When Justin Bieber announced in a recent GQ interview that Metallica's 'Fade to Black' and 'One' were his 'jams', it surely wasn't intended to offend anyone. After all, if the crown prince of crap-pop likes a bit of old-school thrash metal who could take issue with that?
Well, lots of people apparently. The quote has been incredulously reported by music websites including Kerrang! and NME, smirking knowingly and inviting readers to get angry at the very suggestion that Justin Bieber could enjoy the music of such pillars of the metal establishment as Metallica. And using youth friendly language like 'jams' that provokes even people in their twenties into a rant against the youth of today.
Setting aside the remote possibility that it might actually be true. There's lots of reasons to call bullshit on this. The most striking is the idea that Justin Bieber only likes early Metallica, which as we all know, is Metallica at their most metal, before they started wearing cowboy hats, strumming acoustics and singing about kittens and tissues. Liking Metallica's early stuff more than say, a song that Avril Lavigne was capable of covering, is standard of any metalhead pissing contest and coming from someone like Bieber it's utterly unconvincing. It smacks of someone trying desperately to fit in, like a dad casually dropping the exclamation 'radical!' into a conversation.
But what problem does Bieber have with later Metallica? Surely it's not that is too commercial for even Justin fucking Bieber? There must be more plausible reasons. Perhaps, in a bid to broaden his musical palate, he's been listening to every album by every artist ever in chronological order and at the time the interview was given he was only five albums deep into Metallica's discography.
It's just not believable and well...not that interesting. But if it's really impossible to accept Justin Bieber's newly revealed penchant for Metallica, what other reasons could there be for this information being made public?
A more in-depth look at the GQ article reveals that Justin Bieber is actually quite annoying but also drinks sometimes, swears often, likes his music loud and has um... recently turned 18.
That last fact is significant because Bieber's record label are attempting to rebrand him as a manly adult man. Hence the drinking and the swearing and the chopping down trees in a big forest. Taken altogether that's fine, sure, who cares? But when you consider that the Metallica comment was also part of this interview, does that mean that Bieber's people think that listening to Metallica is an especially manly thing to do?
It's so deeply flawed it's almost too ridiculous to be a PR move. But is it more ridiculous than the reality of Justin Bieber actually liking 'early Metallica'?
If it's not a ludicrous attempt to beef up Bieber's image in the eyes of GQ-reading, beer-drinking, beard-having men, then it's a pisspoor attempt at winning over metal fans. Some of whom already dedicate more energy to hating him than is probably necessary.
Because it doesn't matter how early the Metallica it is, it will never be early enough. Fans argue about the jumping off point where the band started to become distinctly less 'metal' and while the Black Album meets the general consensus others will try to draw the line after their 1983 debut Kill 'Em All as the point when Metallica reached their thrash metal apex. Some even go further and suggest Lars Ulrich kicking against the walls of his mother's womb is the heaviest shit they've done.
Of course, as one horrified commenter on the Kerrang! website points out, this will no doubt lead to legions of Bieber fanatics watching Metallica videos on Youtube and commenting that James Hetfields beard is 'scary' and the like. Still, that can only be a good thing. Why shouldn't we share the music we love with new audiences? Even if it means sharing tastes with Justin Bieber.


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Topics of statutory research carried out in laboratories of the Center for Didactic and Scientific Research of Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (CDNMiN) in 2017:
1. Influence of constructed nanoparticles with biological materials.
2. Electronic transport and electron-phonon coupling in topological semiconductor insulators.
3. Manufacturing, testing and application (LED manufacturing, HEMT transistors, etc.) nanostructures based on III-V compounds.
4. Study of color and magnetic centers in doped oxide and semiconductor crystals.
5. Inhibition of heterogeneity of A2B6.
6. Creating molecular clusters in ionic spraying processes.