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The Best Hog Roasts in Wrexham
Wrexham is the largest town in North Wales, so being the largest town, setting up hog roast Wrexham was a sound idea. Wrexham has been revamping its community, the Stretton Watermill has been around for many years, and it's still working! There are many organized events in Wrexham, you can take a tour of this marvellous Mill; or visit the Wrexham County Borough Heritage centre to learn about a variety of things. We are doing a hog roast for the Wrexham County Borough Heritage centre soon. It is also host to some wonderful sites, such as the Cup and Saucer in Erddig Park, and The Lake at Action Park which is beautiful; we have hog roasted near here and the guests loved the scenery. Just like any town they have a range of exciting museums, ancient churches, and other fun and wonderful things to do. We have hog roasted from christenings at some of the churches and some special events for most of the museums. Some of the sites to see are just truly amazing in Wrexham, and to hog roast near them Its early June and Summer is nearly officially underway, we at hog roast Wrexham could not be more excited for summer this year as we have a feeling it's going to be fantastic for hog roasting. Our chefs love nothing more than roasting a whole freshly prepared pig in the sun, equally our customers love nothing more than having that pig carved onto their plate and garnished with freshly made salads. If the British weather turns for the worst (as it is prone to do) all is not lost as we bring along gazebos to cover the cooking and serving area at the event. The past week has seen fantastic weather for hog roasts in the UK and it has really shown in the amount of people enquiring with us with a clear vision of how glorious a hog roast in the sun could be.
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Whether your event is a private event, corporate or a wedding; hog roast Wrexham are willing to cater all events, big or small. Corporate events invariably bring in large numbers with us catering from 10 to 10,000. A recent event we catered at saw us cooking for 60 people which is a relatively low number for a corporate event. Enterprising Employment Wrexham was the customer and we arrived at their headquarters at 7am in order to set up our machine and get the hog roasting so it was ready for the 1:30pm serve time. Although it may be time consuming it is most definitely worth the wait. Succulent pork in soft floured rolls with crispy crackling, stuffing or homemade apple sauce drizzled on is more than a hearty meal. Because of the low number of guests; there was enough for seconds for a lot of the guests who risked bloating to fill their stomachs with more pork. As the event drew to a close, we carved any of the remaining meat onto a serving tray and left it on a table with the remainder of the crackling, stuffing and apple sauce. As we were clearing up rubbish we could see guests picking at the pork much to our delight. Once our machine was packed we left the event with many thanks from guests and the organiser himself.
Summer is also a fantastic time to have a Wedding and our Wedding menus compliment these joyous events spectacularly. Instead of a dull hastily made buffet for your wedding why not try one of our Wedding menus with selections of spit roasted meats, tasty canapés and tempting desserts. Any leftover meat from the roast can be carved up and served as excellent finger food at the evening celebrations. Recently the Jubilee weekend was a fantastic opportunity for hog roast Wrexham and a large number of the Welsh public seized this opportunity. We catered for street parties and garden parties all over the county. With the passing of the Jubilee madness, we at the hog roast Wrexham are looking ahead to the Olympics, this fantastic source of British spirit will have all of our chefs out hog roasting in the (hopefully) fantastic weather and rightly so. I can think of no better way to celebrate the Olympics than with a typically Welsh hog roast Wrexham and a cold beer. If you're interested in a hog roast for the Olympics or for any kind of event please make an enquiry using the contact section of the website


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English PEN have joined our colleagues at Scottish PEN, Wales PEN Cymru and PEN International, alongside the chairs of PEN International's Writers In Prison and Women Writers Committees have co-signed a letter to Jeremy Hunt. The letter urges him to call on the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho, to ensure that the play, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven written by leading Scottish playwright, Jo Clifford can continue to be performed in Brazil free from threats of censorship and violence.
Jo Clifford is a leading playwright and Scottish PEN member based in Scotland. Her adaptation of Great Expectations made her the first openly trans playwright to have a play running in London's West End. Her work has bravely challenged established assumptions and re-imagined known stories to celebrate often ignored narratives and help dream a new world into being. The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven is a piece written in 2009 that tells the story of a transgender Jesus Christ. On the play's launch, Jo said:
Christianity is often used as a weapon against LGBT people to deny us our rights. I wanted to see how this could be justified by the source texts, and in Jesus, Queen of Heaven make the simple point that Jesus never attacked us and assert our human rights to justice and respect.
Over the past two years, the play has been performed over 140 times in cities across Brazil, where it has faced unprecedented opposition from both the Evangelical and Catholic Church who undertook legal proceedings against the play in Jundiaí, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Garanhuns, including court orders for the play to be cancelled, which were successful in Jundiaí. In other locations including Londrina, Taubaté, Rio de Janeiro, Araçatuba and Brasilia, a concerted campaign against the play involved public calls for boycotts, threats made against companies involved in the production and the spreading of malicious reports via social media. Further to this, the play's director has received death threats for their involvement in this play and a number of films have been shared online that included death threats aimed at the cast. This is taking place against the backdrop of widespread killings of transgender people in Brazil, with more than 170 killed last year and over 95 killings in 2018 so far.
The letter calls on Jeremy Hunt, as the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to undertake formal proceedings to engage with the Brazilian government to ensure the performances of The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven can continue free from the threats of censorship and violence. This includes ensuring the remaining performances are able to run as scheduled and everyone involved in the production, including cast and crew are safe from any and all threats of violence.
The signatories include: Jennifer Clement, the president of PEN International; Carl MacDougall, the president of Scottish PEN; Philippe Sands, the president of English PEN; Sally Baker, the director of Wales PEN Cymru; Antonia Byatt, the director of English PEN; Salil Tripathi, the international chair of the Writers In Prison Committee; Jane Archer, the chair of Scottish PEN's Writers At Risk Committee; Elizabeth Nordgren, the international chair of the Women Writers Committee and Elizabeth Reeder, the chair of the Scottish PEN's Women Writers Committee.
Jo Clifford said:
The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven is a devotional play whose intention is to remind audiences that the Jesus of the Gospels has a message of love and inclusion for everybody. It is both ironic and sad that so often prejudice results in the play being attacked as being disrespectful to Christianity, when it is nothing of the kind. It concerns me greatly to find it the object of such sustained attack and to find the theatre company performing it the objects of vicious and repeated threats. I hope a way can be found to respect the constitution of Brazil – which states Brazil is a secular country and guarantees freedom of expression – and allow the play to be performed without threats or interference.
PEN International president, Jennifer Clement, commented:
PEN International stands with Jo Clifford. Our PEN Charter states clearly that we do our utmost to dispel all hatreds and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace and equality in one world.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The Archie TMNT Adventures continuity timeline
After I completed my previous research article, "The Mirage TMNT Continuity Timeline", I began receiving requests to construct a similar chronological reading order for Archie's TMNT Adventures series. For the most part, the Archie series is a far more intuitive, cut and dry read than the Mirage series. As such, there's no need for a complex Key and color-coding system this time around.
Really, the primary confusion of the TMNT Adventures series involves discerning where the abundant miniseries and Specials should go in relation to the ongoing series. This would often prove more difficult than I had anticipated, as the stories published in the Specials tended to contradict the ongoing series from time to time. Additionally, the ongoing series featured a very tight-knit narrative, allowing for a slim number of storytelling gaps where the miniseries and Specials could place. As such, you'll tend to find a lot of these stories bunched up in certain places.
For rationalizations on why I placed each story where I did, click "Review" and then scroll down to the "Turtle Tips" section of each individual article. Many stories are rather ambiguous and could take place more or less anywhere in the timeline (providing gaps in story serialization), so I often placed those tales where they "felt right".
I've also included some notations at the end of this article for convenience, detailing certain anomalies or points of interest.
Anyhow, with IDW currently rereleasing Archie's TMNT Adventures catalog in trade paperback form, the material is now easier to find and afford than ever before. They likely won't be publishing them in proper story chronology, so with any luck, this reading order will prove a useful resource to collectors trying to read the whole story in sequence.
TMNT Adventures (miniseries) #1 – "Heroes in a Half-Shell! Part I" (review)
TMNT Adventures (miniseries) #2 – "Heroes in a Half-Shell! Part II" (review)
TMNT Adventures (miniseries) #3 – "Heroes in a Half-Shell! Part III" (review)
TMNT Adventures #1 – "Return of the Shredder, Part I" (review)
TMNT Adventures #2 – "Return of the Shredder, Part II" (review)
TMNT Adventures #3 – "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles, Part I" (review)
TMNT Adventures #4 – "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles, Part II" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #10 – "Zen Million Years to Birth" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #3 – "The Night of Monsterex" (review)
TMNT Meet Archie #1 – "Origin of the Species" (review)
TMNT Adventures Vol. 1 – "Metamorphosis" prologue (review)
TMNT Adventures #5 – "Something Fishy Goes Down" (review)
TMNT Adventures #6 – "Of Turtles and Stones and Mary Bones" (review)
TMNT Adventures #7 – "Intergalactic Wrestling" (review)
Mirage Mini Comics Collection story #3 – "A Forgotten TMNT Adventure" (review)
TMNT Adventures #8 – "Wild Things" (review)
TMNT Adventures #9 – "Codename: Chameleon" (review)
TMNT Adventures Vol. 1 – "Metamorphosis" epilogue (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #5 – "Yo-Ho-Ho! And a Bottle of Mutagen!" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #6 – "Doomsday Hassle in Banshee Castle" (review)
TMNT Adventures #10 – "Going Down?" (review)
TMNT Adventures #11 – "White Light" (review)
TMNT Adventures #12 – "The Lost World" (review)
TMNT Adventures #13 – "The Final Conflict" (review)
TMNT Meet Archie #1 – "Green Legs and Gams" (review)
TMNT Adventures #14 – "Leave Heaven Alone" (review)
TMNT Adventures #15 – "The Howling of Distant Shadows" (review)
TMNT Adventures #16 – "Dredging the Ocean Blue" (review)
TMNT Meet Archie #1 – "Red Sails in the Sunset" (review)
TMNT Adventures #17 – "Fight the Power" (review)
TMNT Adventures #18 – "Mondo Metal" (review)
TMNT Adventures #19 – "The Man Who Sold the World" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals (miniseries) #1 – "The Wild Angels" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals (miniseries) #2 – "Under a Big Black Sun" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals (miniseries) #3 – "Ride of the Ruthless!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #20 – "Sun and Steel" (review)
TMNT Adventures #21 – "Space Junk Face Funk Cyber Punk Thief" (review)
TMNT Adventures #22 – "Rat Trap" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #4 – "Louie's Pasture, Part 1" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #4 – "Pig Heaven, Part 2" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #8 – "Cleaver's Critters" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #5 – "The Darkest Hour" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #6 – "The Darkest Hour II" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #3 – "Monsters are the Rage!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #23 – "Search and Destroy" (review)
TMNT Adventures #24 – "Gimme Danger!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #25 – "Raw Power" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #9 – "Full Circle" (review)
April O'Neil: The May East Saga #1 – "Lost Island of Past Lives" (review)
April O'Neil: The May East Saga #2 – "The Battle for Splinter's Brain" (review)
April O'Neil: The May East Saga #3 – "Splinter's Wicked Headache" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #7 – "It Takes Guts…" (review)
TMNT Adventures #26 – "The Keeper" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #1 – "If a Tree Falls…" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #1 – "The Last Sea Serpent" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #2 – "The Wrath of the Fire God" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #2 – "The Ghost of 13 Mile Island!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #27 – "In the Dark" (review)
TMNT Meet the Conservation Corps #1 (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #9 – "Be a Star" (review)
Unpublished – "Coney Island Days" (review)
TMNT Adventures #24 (back-up) – "It Started in… Chinatown" (review)
TMNT Adventures #25 (back-up) – "Dragon Rage" (review)
TMNT Adventures #26 (back-up) – "Questions" (review)
TMNT Adventures #27 (back-up) – "The White Ninja" (review)
TMNT Adventures #28 – "Midnight Sun, Part One" (review)
TMNT Adventures #29 – "Midnight Sun, Part Two" (review)
TMNT Adventures #30 – "Midnight Sun, Part Three" (review)
TMNT Adventures #31 – "Turning Japanese" (review)
TMNT Adventures #32 – "The Good, the Bad and the Tattooed" (review)
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #1 (back-up) – "Oo-La-La, Part One" (review)
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #2 (back-up) – "Oo-La-La, Part Two" (review)
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #3 (back-up) – "Oo-La-La, Part Three" (review)
TMNT Adventures #33 – "The Karma of Katmandu" (review)
TMNT Adventures #34 – "The Search for the Charlie Llama" (review)
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #1 – "You're Fired!" (review)
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #2 – "The Chinatown Connection" (review)
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #3 – "Big Trouble Under Chinatown" (review)
TMNT Adventures #35 – "The Black Stone" (review)
TMNT Adventures #35 (back-up) – "Mah Name!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #36 – "Steel Breeze" (review)
TMNT Adventures #37 – "Stump'd Again!" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #1 – "The Mighty Mutanimals!!" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #2 – "Snake, Rattle & Roll" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #3 – "Deadheads" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #4 – "Days of Future Past" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #5 – "Bad Attitudes" (review)
TMNT Adventures #38 – "United we Stand, Divided we Fall: Part One" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #6 – "United we Stand, Divided we Fall: Part Two" (review)
TMNT Adventures #39 – "United we Stand, Divided we Fall: Part Three" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #7 – "Armaggon…" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #8 – "The Cruel Sea" (review)
Mighty Mutanimals #9 – "Slash!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #40 – "1492" (review)
TMNT 30th Anniversary Special – "Paper or Plastic?" (review)
TMNT Adventures #41 – "…And Deliver us from Evil" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #7 – "The Return of… Monsterex!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #42 – "Future Tense" (review)
TMNT Adventures #43 – "Past Lives" (review)
TMNT Adventures #44 – "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (review)
TMNT Adventures #45 – "Mutations" (review)
Donatello and Leatherhead #1 – "Hassel in the Hollow Earth!" (review)
Donatello and Leatherhead #2 – "Found: One Lost World!" (review)
Donatello and Leatherhead #3 – "Attack of the Amazons" (review)
TMNT Adventures #46 – "Fox Hunt" (review)
TMNT Adventures #47 – "The Eyes of Sarnath" (review)
TMNT Adventures #48 – "Out of the Blue (Into the Black)" (review)
TMNT Adventures #49 – "The Dream of the Blue Turtle" (review)
TMNT Adventures #50 – "Kill Them!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #51 – "Chameleons are Forever" (review)
TMNT Adventures #52 – "Shattered" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #10 – "Fox Trap!" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #10 – "A Perfect Evening" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #11 – "The Fifth Turtle" (review)
TMNT Adventures #48 (back-up) – "Megadeath, Part 1 of 7" (review)
TMNT Adventures #49 (back-up) – "Megadeath, Part 2 of 7" (review)
TMNT Adventures #50 (back-up) – "Megadeath, Part 3 of 7" (review)
TMNT Adventures #51 (back-up) – "Megadeath, Part 4 of 7" (review)
TMNT Adventures #52 (back-up) – "Megadeath, Part 5 of 7" (review)
TMNT Presents Merdude and Michaelangelo #1 – "Dawn of the Kraken" (review)
TMNT Presents Merdude and Mondo Gecko #2 – "Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrel" (review)
TMNT Presents Merdude vs. Ray Fillet #3 – "The Last Tsarnian: Introducing Bloho" (review)
TMNT Adventures #53 – "The Animus War, Part 1 of 2" (review)
TMNT Adventures #54 – "The Animus War, Part 2 of 2" (review)
TMNT Adventures #53 (back-up) – "Megadeath, Part 6 of 7" (review)
TMNT Adventures #54 (back-up) – "Megadeath, Part 7 of 7" (review)
TMNT Adventures #55 – "Terracide, Part One of Three" (review)
TMNT Adventures #56 – "Terracide, Part Two of Three" (review)
TMNT Adventures #57 – "Terracide, Part Three of Three" (review)
TMNT Adventures #58 – "Adrift"/"How the Pre-TMNTs Got Their Colors" (review)
TMNT Adventures #59 – "Blind Sight, Part One of Two" (review)
TMNT Adventures #60 – "Blind Sight, Part Two of Two" (review)
TMNT Adventures #61 – "Once, Again, Always" (review)
TMNT Adventures #67 – "Of Wolves and Men" (review)
TMNT Adventures #68 – "The Howling of Distant Tomorrows" (review)
TMNT Adventures #69 – "Twilight" (review)
TMNT Adventures #70 – "A Dusk, a Dawn" (review)
TMNT Adventures #67 – "North to Alaska, Part One" (review)
TMNT Adventures #68 – "North to Alaska, Part Two" (review)
TMNT Adventures #69 – "North to Alaska, Part Three" (review)
TMNT Adventures #70 – "North to Alaska, Part Four" (review)
TMNT Adventures #71 – "How the Turtles Got Their Weapons, Part 1" (review)
TMNT Adventures #72 – "How the Turtles Got Their Weapons, Part 2" (review)
The Year of the Turtle #1 – "Chapter One: Go, Go, Mutant Turtles!" (review)
The Year of the Turtle #2 – "Chapter Two: Snow Way Out!" (review)
The Year of the Turtle #3 – "Chapter Three: Story's End!" (review)
TMNT Adventures #62 – "April O'Neil: The Angel of Times Square, Chapter I" (review)
TMNT Adventures #63 – "April O'Neil: The Angel of Times Square, Chapter II" (review)
TMNT Adventures #64 – "April O'Neil: The Angel of Times Square, Chapter III" (review)
TMNT Adventures #65 – "April O'Neil: The Angel of Times Square, Chapter IV" (review)
TMNT Adventures #66 – "April O'Neil: The Angel of Times Square, Chapter V" (review)
Furrlough #47 – "Ninjara, Part 1" (review)
Furrlough #48 – "Ninjara, Part 2" (review)
Furrlough #52 – "Chapter Three: Seed of Destruction" (review)
TMNT Adventures #62 – "Dreamland, Part 1 of 5" (review)
TMNT Adventures #63 – "Dreamland, Part 2 of 5" (review)
TMNT Adventures #64 – "Dreamland, Part 3 of 5" (review)
TMNT Adventures #65 – "Dreamland, Part 4 of 5" (review)
TMNT Adventures #66 – "Dreamland, Part 5 of 5" (review)
TMNT Meet Archie #1 – "Storm Drain Savers" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #8 – "Ninjara vs. Mondo Dog Catcher" (review)
TMNT Adventures Special #11 – "E = MC Zip Lock" (review)
*TMNT ADVENTURES: The main TMNT Adventures series was mostly written by one man: Steve Murphy (using the pseudonyms "Dean Clarrain" and "J.D. Vollman"). As such, the narrative is heavily serialized, with one story leading directly into the next. However, wherever there were breaks within the pacing, that's where I found it best to place stories from the miniseries and Specials. You'll likely notice quite a few stashed around the "Slash Trilogy" (after TMNTA #22 but before TMNTA #28). That's because, the trilogy aside, several one-shot stories were utilized as monthly filler during this period while the back-up serial caught up with the schedule so as to prelude the "Midnight Sun" arc. As such, that left plenty of room to throw in stories from the Specials.
*TMNT ADVENTURES SPECIALS: The TMNT Adventures Specials were a series of quarterly editions, each containing two to three stories. The stories in these Specials often occurred in different eras across the timeline of the ongoing, and the letters page even stated as such to soothe confused readers. These proved the most difficult to slot-in, as some contained contradictory elements (the 4-part arc between Special #1 and Special #2 was said to take place prior to TMNTA #5 in the letters page, but the stories-themselves contained references to later events) while others featured guest appearances from characters when there's scarcely any opportunity for them to show up (Man Ray's appearance in Special #6 is especially problematic). Still others contained an art style very chaotic and different than that seen in the ongoing. Be that as it may, I endeavored to include everything unless it made a positively irreconcilable contradiction to the series.
*THE MINISERIES: Perhaps the most important of the ancillary TMNT Adventures comics were the miniseries, which often acted as epilogues to story arcs in the ongoing or weaved in and out of issues, containing vital chapters. The placement of some could be a little bizarre (the Merdude miniseries acts as an interlude during the "Megadeath" back-up serial), but they were perhaps the easiest to fit, as they contained specific references to stories and events.
*THE MAY EAST SAGA: The lone exception is the May East Saga, which was originally published as canon to the TMNT Adventures ongoing (characters exclusive to the miniseries received biographies in the Mutant Universe Sourcebook #2) only to later be rendered non-canon by Special #11 (the events being written off as nothing more than a dream). "It Takes Guts…" is the only story to directly reference the events of the May East Saga, meaning it must be considered nothing more than a "dream", as well. I refrained from placing both stories in the NON-CANON category simply because they were initially written to be part of continuity and were removed after the fact. And if you haven't guessed, it's because they were terrible.
*THE FUTURE: Toward the end of the ongoing, Murphy began writing several stories taking place in the not-too-distant to very-distant future. I grouped them here in chronological order: The April story takes place in 1999, the Ninjara story in a non-descript high tech future, and the "Dreamland" story a hundred years from the present of TMNT Adventures. The Ninjara serial was published after the cancellation of TMNT Adventures in an... "adult" magazine. As a result, it contains nudity, cursing and gore and will likely never be reprinted with the rest of the TMNT Adventures material. It was also never completed and ends on a cliffhanger.
*THE FOREVER WAR: "The Forever War" was originally intended to be Steve Murphy's story arc spanning TMNT Adventures #71-75. However, editorial issues at Archie resulted in the cancellation of that storyline. It was later intended to be completed by Mirage Studios in 2009, but the sale of the TMNT brand to Viacom resulted in the story being mothballed once again. It is as yet undetermined if it shall ever be completed and published. For more, see my article, "Whatever Happened to the Forever War?" then e-mail IDW and tell them how much you want it.
*NON-CANON: Generally, I tried to avoid labeling something "non-canon" as much as possible. TMNT Adventures featured a wide array of artists, each with their own radically different visual style. So with that in mind, I didn't feel it appropriate to designate something "non-canon" just because it looked weird (the issues by Milton Knight, for example). The stories under this category were placed there because they contained fourth wall-breaking elements ("Storm Drain Savers"), cartoonish gags incongruous with the atmosphere of the series ("E = MC Ziplock") or positively irreconcilable contradictions in character origins ("Ninjara vs. Mondo Dog Catcher").
17 comments:
Great timeline, but shouldn't tmnt meet archie be a little later on the timeline? It has Cudley but Cudley is only introduced in issue 7 (well in 6 off-panel) which are both later in the timeline?
- 8/19/2014
- Mark Pellegrini said...
If you look, you'll see that the story from TMNT Meet Archie #1 that I have taking place before TMNTA #6 is "Origin of the Species".
The story from TMNT Meet Archie #1 that features Cudley, "Green Legs and Gams", is indeed placed further down the timeline beyond TMNTA #6.
- 8/19/2014
- Unknown said...
Is this a timeline of the order the comics were released or a timeline of the story?
- 10/15/2014
- Mark Pellegrini said...
@Sam Davidson
It's a timeline of the storyline chronology.
- 10/16/2014
- Kyle Benning said...
Dr. Spengler,
Awesome timeline! I'm going to try to complete my Archie run and get them all hardbound, and use your list as the structure for how I break up the hardbound collections.
I'll be leaving full issues intact instead of breaking up stories, so I have a few questions for your expertise.
You have the TMNT April Back-Up stories (Oo-La-La Parts I - III) between TMNT Adventures #32 & #33, and the main stories in those 3 issues between TMNT Adventures #34 & #35. With leaving the April O'Neil issues whole, would you put them in a hardbound collection between 32 & 33 per the back-up stories, or put them between 34 & 35 per the main stories?
- 9/14/2015
- Mark Pellegrini said...
Thanks for the feedback!
The "Ooh La La" back-up is a rather in essential storyline focusing on Inky, so placement on that one isn't too crucial, so long as it occurs after the introduction of Tattoo. Beyond that, it could take place almost anywhere.
- 9/14/2015
- Kyle Benning said...
Great, thanks!
In case you or anyone else is curious, my proposed Hardbound Map is going to be something along these lines:
HC Bound Edition #1:
TMNT Adventures (Mini-Series) #1
TMNT Adventures (Mini-Series) #2
TMNT Adventures (Mini-Series) #3
TMNT Adventures #1
TMNT Adventures #2
TMNT Adventures #3
TMNT Adventures #4
TMNT Adventures #5
TMNT Adventures #6
TMNT Adventures #7
TMNT Adventures #8
TMNT Adventures #9
TMNT Adventures #10
TMNT Adventures #11
TMNT Adventures #12
TMNT Adventures #13
HC Bound Edition #2:
TMNT Adventures #14
TMNT Adventures #15
TMNT Adventures #16
TMNT Adventures #17
TMNT Adventures #18
TMNT Adventures #19
Mighty Mutanimals (Mini-Series) #1
Mighty Mutanimals (Mini-Series) #2
Mighty Mutanimals (Mini-Series) #3
TMNT Adventures #20
TMNT Adventures #21
TMNT Adventures #22
TMNT Adventures #23
TMNT Adventures #24
TMNT Adventures #25
HC Bound Edition #3:
April O'Neil The May East Saga #1
April O'Neil The May East Saga #2
April O'Neil The May East Saga #3
TMNT Adventures #26
TMNT Adventures #27
TMNT Meet the Conservation Corps #1
TMNT Adventures #28
TMNT Adventures #29
TMNT Adventures #30
TMNT Adventures #31
TMNT Adventures #32
TMNT Adventures #33
TMNT Adventures #34
HC Bound Edition #4:
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #1
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #2
TMNT Presents April O'Neil #3
TMNT Adventures #35
TMNT Adventures #36
TMNT Adventures #37
Mighty Mutanimals #1
Mighty Mutanimals #2
Mighty Mutanimals #3
Mighty Mutanimals #4
Mighty Mutanimals #5
TMNT Adventures #38
Mighty Mutanimals #6
TMNT Adventures #39
HC Bound Edition #5:
Mighty Mutanimals #7
Mighty Mutanimals #8
Mighty Mutanimals #9
TMNT Adventures #40
TMNT Adventures #41
TMNT Adventures #42
TMNT Adventures #43
TMNT Adventures #44
TMNT Adventures #45
Donatello and Leatherhead #1
Donatello and Leatherhead #2
Donatello and Leatherhead #3
TMNT Adventures #46
TMNT Adventures #47
HC Bound Edition #6:
TMNT Adventures #48
TMNT Adventures #49
TMNT Adventures #50
TMNT Adventures #51
TMNT Adventures #52
Merdude & Michaelangelo #1
Merdude & Mondo Gecko #2
Merdude & Ray Fillet #3
TMNT Adventures #53
TMNT Adventures #54
TMNT Adventures #55
TMNT Adventures #56
TMNT Adventures #57
TMNT Adventures #58
HC Bound Edition #7:
TMNT Adventures #59
TMNT Adventures #60
TMNT Adventures #61
TMNT Adventures #62
TMNT Adventures #63
TMNT Adventures #64
TMNT Adventures #65
TMNT Adventures #66
TMNT Adventures #67
TMNT Adventures #68
TMNT Adventures #69
TMNT Adventures #70
TMNT Adventures #71
TMNT Adventures #72
The Year of the Turtle #1
The Year of the Turtle #2
The Year of the Turtle #3
HC Bound Collection of Specials:
TMNT Meet Archie #1
Coney Island Special
- 9/29/2015
- raziel2k said...
Hay what archi tmnt issue did they do the mechsuit story line. thanks .
- 4/14/2016
I love the work you've done on the various timelines on this blog - I completed my Archie TMNT collection last year (well, I don't have the Tundra collection - I have the digest that reprints the prologue from that edition, but the epilogue never made it to reprint anywhere that I am aware of. I also don't have the Furlough Ninjara stories) and used this timeline as a guide when constructing my own order (mostly the same but I grouped a lot of the stories from the specials by theme).
Something I've been considering, though, is a major reshuffling of the stories from the specials which involved Cuddly the Cowlick - it is pretty clear in issue 37 'Stump'd Again!!' that it is the first meeting between Cudley and Splinter ('So this is the Cowlick that I've heard so much about...'), which would mean that any story in which Cudley and Splinter know each other would have to take place after this issue.
This would result in 'Full Circle', 'Be a Star', 'Louie's Pasture', 'Pig Heaven' and 'Cleaver's Critters' at the least being moved to another point, the only real point being somewhere after the end of 'North to Alaska', since Ninjara is not present in any of those stories. As an added bonus, in some of those stories, April acts as if the Turtles are public knowledge... which they are, following the 'Blind Sight' storyline (for this reason, the unpublished 'Coney Island Days' could also be moved to this section).
It's a move that I honestly don't really want to do with my own timeline as I feel like those stories don't really 'fit' thematically or character development-wise that far down the timeline, but there is a continuity issue with when Splinter and Cudley first met each other - it's easy enough to just chalk up to being a mistake or a retcon though, of course.
- 6/15/2016
- Mark Pellegrini said...
Those are good points! I'd forgotten about Splinter's dialogue.
I agree that #37 was definitely written as the first Splinter/Cudley encounter, or that was the intent of the dialogue, anyway.
It's so hard to place a lot of those Special stories since they do actively contradict the ongoing series at times and leave you with little option on where they can go (Man Ray appearing in "Yo Ho a Bottle of.." having to take place before #13 because it leads into "Doomsday Hassle..." which features Shredder and Krang, but Man Ray's appearance in #16 was clearly written to be his second encounter with the Turtles, so...).
I'll look at shuffling those stories around, but I think at the end of the day due to such irreconcilable contradictions there'll never be a "perfect" continuity order, alas.
Thanks again!
- 6/15/2016
Yeah, I agree that a 'perfect fit' continuity is probably not really possible - a lot of the stories in the TMNT Adventures Specials seem like they were written to have generic/nebulous 'it could be take place anywhere' settings. It's when they actually use characters from the regular series like Cudley that it becomes hard to get them to fit - or when they decide to do a story about Splinter's birthday when the regular series has also done a Splinter's birthday story...
I personally prefer having all those stories I mentioned be earlier, before issue 37, even if they do contradict Splinter meeting Cudley in that story, because a lot of them don't really feel right to me later on in terms of the narrative and the character development. And hey, Cudley is a time traveler - maybe originally he met Splinter in issue 37 but then he traveled back in time and met him earlier! :D
- 6/15/2016
Also yes you are so right about Man Ray's appearance in issue 16 - he meets April for the 'first time' in that issue, but he also met her in 'Yo Ho Ho/Doomsday Hassle' which needs to be earlier for the Krang/Shredder appearance to work. It's probably best to just say that they are errors and leave it at that.
- 6/15/2016
- Unknown said...
So I was comparing this timeline to the one I've been working on; most of the differences are minor; however I do have a few things to point out, as well as a question.
TMNTA #40 - "1492" is misplaced on the timeline; it is currently listed after Mutanimals #9, when it should go before Mutanimals #7. (You have the order listed correctly in the reviews' "Turtle Tips" sections.)
As you note in your review of the issue, in the Prologue to Issue 41 Raphael and Ninjara have been to multiple museums, meaning that it is probably some time after they arrived in New York. However, in issue 42 Ninjara is still getting used to the lair, suggesting they just got to New York recently. As such I've always placed issue 41 after the Future Shark Trilogy.
I unclear on why TMNTA Special #10's "Fox Trap" & "A Perfect Night" and Special #11's "The Fifth Turtle" must take place prior to issue 53. Why couldn't they take place between issues 61 & 67 (and thus around the time they were published)?
- 7/26/2016
I'd honestly place "Zen Million Years to Birth" right before "The Darkest Hour". Placing it between TMNT #4 & 5 really feels too early on the timeline.
Here's why:
In "Zen Million Years to Birth" Splinter introduces the turtles to the concept of Zen. At the beginning of "The Darkest Hour" Splinter gives the turtles directions to practice on their yoga techniques, which they were introduced to in "Zen Million Years to Birth". It feels like a perfect follow up.
I know you refered to the telepathic communication in TMNT #17 and I understand it but is telepathic communication a Zen thing perse? Also in "The Darkest Hour" why would they need to practice their yoga techniques in "a really silent place" when they're that advanced?
The night of monsterex as the first divergent story from the fred wolf cartoon feels right too. Shredder just disappeared to the future, Krang probably doesn't know where he went either so he decides to take on the turtles himself. This is where the divergence begins.
What do you think? Love your work btw!
- 8/02/2016
I placed issue 41 after the Future Shark trilogy and Mutations as well - with The Return... of Monsterex* placed just before it as well, since it has the Turtles showing Ninjara "new" places/experiences of New York, which bridges into her and Raphael having experience going to museums etc in the prologue of 41.
That's also an interesting point about Zen Million Years and all the talk about Yoga techniques in The Darkest Hour - they do actually read well close together. In my timeline I've grouped a lot of stories by 'theme' after issue 25 and around issues 26 and 27:
TMNT Adventures Special #9 – "Full Circle" ("Full Circle" and "Be a Star" bookend this period)
TMNT Meet the Conservation Corps #1
TMNT Adventures Special #1 – "If a Tree Falls…"
The Conservation Corps # 1
TMNT Adventures Special #1 – "The Last Sea Serpent"
The Conservation Corps # 2
TMNT Adventures Special #2 – "The Wrath of the Fire God"
The Conservation Corps # 3
TMNT Adventures Special #2 – "The Ghost of 13 Mile Island!"
TMNT Adventures #26 – "The Keeper" (this story is last in this period because it and "Meets the Conservation Corps" are basically the exact same plot, so once again they sort of bookend this themed section)
TMNT Adventures Special #5 – "The Darkest Hour"
TMNT Adventures Special #6 – "The Darkest Hour II"
TMNT Adventures Special #3 – "Monsters are the Rage!"
April O'Neil: The May East Saga #1 – "Lost Island of Past Lives" (dream? I know it's retconned as one later and it really is a terrible story that honestly does kind of play out like it's operating under dream logic, but I'd honestly rather keep it in continuity in some capacity)
April O'Neil: The May East Saga #2 – "The Battle for Splinter's Brain" (dream?)
April O'Neil: The May East Saga #3 – "Splinter's Wicked Headache" (dream?)
TMNT Adventures Special #7 – "It Takes Guts…" (Mentions possible dream)
TMNT Adventures #27 – "In the Dark"
Unpublished – "Coney Island Days" (the use of the Boogeymen/Uncanny Trio bridges the gap from the horror themed issues to the more cartoon-like issues of this period)
TMNT Adventures Special #4 – "Louie's Pasture, Part 1"
TMNT Adventures Special #4 – "Pig Heaven, Part 2"
TMNT Adventures Special #8 – "Cleaver's Critters"
TMNT Meet Archie #1 – "Green Legs and Gams" (and this then starts bringing it back closer to what passes for normal in the Archie TMNT universe, using their return in Cuddly from the previous story as the lead in)
TMNT Adventures Special #9 – "Be a Star" (brings it "Full Circle", if you'll pardon the expression, with the original Headrush story, and all the stories in between give it time for the Turtles to be feeling nostalgic about the annoying little guy)
* Maybe it's just my dirty mind, but every time I see "Monsterex" I want to read it as "Monster Sex"...
- 10/11/2016
- TDG said...
I am really divided on the TMNTA series now that I have recently read it again.
I really enjoyed that the series decided to become its own thing after starting out with adaptations of the Fred Wolf cartoon, starting to tell more mature stories and having more continuity. I did not even mind the educational stuff about other cultures.
But the eco preaching... the damn eco preaching, white man's guilt, and native culture spiritual stuff. Honestly this was a complete damn turn off.
Even back then in my early teens I became fed up with this type of propaganda even if I did agree with the writer on some points, it just wasn't any fun to read about this stuff so much, the writer seemed to forget that comics in general try to be entertaining first.
Once the reader is enjoying the story then you can also try to teach him or her something.
Back then I quit after the Slash arc which after the Turnstone arc was my favorite longer running storyline. (making me miss out on the Future Shark arc, Black Hole arc, and Dreamland arc which I probably would have enjoyed).
Occasionally I would like to distill this series to just the stories I think are worth reading the most for new readers. But I would still end up having to add in some of the more preachy stories as otherwise there is no logical order to the stories I would like to select.
I would for example like to include the first arc with Queen Maligna and the Terracide arc, but that would still require including the Mutanimal comics which I don't find that interesting despite that I like the concepts of Null and the Four Horsemen. (I really wish they were foes that appeared in the main TMNTA series)
No to be honest, I really wish this series got a reboot, not necessarily from the start but set after the Final Conflict.
* Also a response to the previous poster, yeah I also keep reading "Monster Sex" instead of Monsterex, forcing me to read it over again closely. Weird.
- 10/11/2016
Wouldn't Mutanimals #7-9 go AFTER TMNT Adventures #40?
- 1/14/2018


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The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, named after the former Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and also known as the Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact or Nazi-Soviet Pact, was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939.
The pact's publicly stated intentions were a guarantee of non-belligerence by each party towards the other and a commitment that neither party would ally itself to or aid an enemy of the other party. In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol that divided territories of Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. Thereafter, Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. After the Soviet–Japanese ceasefire agreement took effect on 16 September, Stalin ordered his own invasion of Poland on 17 September. Part of southeastern (Karelia) and Salla region in Finland were annexed by the Soviet Union after the Winter War. This was followed by Soviet annexations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Romania (Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, and the Hertza region). It was only in 1989 that the Soviet authorities admitted the existence of the secret protocol of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. A concern about ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians had been proffered as the reason for the Soviet invasion of Poland, rather than Soviet expansionism.
The pact remained in force until the German government broke it by invading the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.
Of the territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1940, the region around Białystok and a minor part of Galicia east of the San river around Przemyśl were the only ones returned to the Polish state at the end of World War II. Of all other territories annexed by the USSR in 1939–40, the ones detached from Finland (Karelia, Petsamo), Estonia (Ingrian area and Petseri County) and Latvia (Abrene) remained part of the Russian Federation, the successor state of the Soviet Union, after 1991. Northern Bukovina, Southern Bessarabia, and Hertza remain part of Ukraine.
After the war, von Ribbentrop was convicted of war crimes and executed. Molotov died aged 96 in 1986, five years before the USSR's dissolution.
The existence of the secret protocol was denied by the Soviet government until 1989 when it was finally acknowledged and denounced.
Recent Russian historiography – perhaps taking its lead from the creation of a presidential commission to counter what it called falsifications of history to the detriment of Russian interests – has been inclined to defenses of the pact. This includes books by Andre Dyukov and one edited by N.A. Narochnitskaya that carries an approving foreword by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Vladimir Putin while condemning the pact as 'immoral' has also defended the pact as a "necessary evil".
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The outcome of World War I was disastrous for both the German Reich and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. During the war, the Bolsheviks struggled for survival, and Vladimir Lenin recognized the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Moreover, facing a German military advance, Lenin and Trotsky were forced to enter into the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ceded massive western Russian territories to the German Empire. After Germany's collapse, a multinational Allied-led army intervened in the Russian Civil War – 1917–22.
On 16 April 1922, Germany and the Soviet Union entered the Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which they renounced territorial and financial claims against each other. Each party further pledged neutrality in the event of an attack against the other with the 1926 Treaty of Berlin. While trade between the two countries fell sharply after World War I, trade agreements signed in the mid-1920s helped to increase trade to 433 million Reichsmarks per year by 1927.
At the beginning of the 1930s, the Nazi Party's rise to power increased tensions between Germany and the Soviet Union along with other countries with ethnic Slavs, who were considered "Untermenschen" (inferior) according to Nazi racial ideology. Moreover, the anti-Semitic Nazis associated ethnic Jews with both communism and financial capitalism, both of which they opposed. Nazi theory held that Slavs in the Soviet Union were being ruled by "Jewish Bolshevik" masters. In 1934, Hitler himself had spoken of an inescapable battle against both Pan-Slavism and Neo-Slavism, the victory in which would lead to "permanent mastery of the world", though he stated that they would "walk part of the road with the Russians if that will help us." The resulting manifestation of German anti-Bolshevism and an increase in Soviet foreign debts caused German-Soviet trade to dramatically decline. Imports of Soviet goods to Germany fell to 223 million Reichsmarks in 1934 as the more isolationist Stalinist regime asserted power and the abandonment of post–World War I Treaty of Versailles military controls decreased Germany's reliance on Soviet imports.
In 1936, Germany and Fascist Italy supported Spanish Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, while the Soviets supported the partially socialist-led Second Spanish Republic. Thus the Spanish Civil War became a proxy war between Germany and the USSR. In 1936, Germany and Japan entered the Anti-Comintern Pact and were joined a year later by Italy.
Munich Agreement
Hitler's fierce anti-Soviet rhetoric was one of the reasons why Britain and France decided that Soviet participation in the 1938 Munich Conference regarding Czechoslovakia would be both dangerous and useless. The Munich Agreement that followed marked a partial German annexation of Czechoslovakia in late 1938 followed by its complete dissolution in March 1939, which was part of the appeasement of Germany conducted by Chamberlain's and Daladier's cabinets. This policy immediately raised the question of whether the Soviet Union could avoid being next on Hitler's list. The Soviet leadership believed that the West wanted to encourage German aggression in the East and that France and Britain might stay neutral in a war initiated by Germany, hoping that the warring states would wear each other out and put an end to both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
For Germany, because an autarkic economic approach or an alliance with Britain were impossible, closer relations with the Soviet Union to obtain raw materials became necessary, if not just for economic reasons alone. Moreover, an expected British blockade in the event of war would create massive shortages for Germany in a number of key raw materials. After the Munich agreement, the resulting increase in German military supply needs and Soviet demands for military machinery, talks between the two countries occurred from late 1938 to March 1939. The third Soviet Five Year Plan required new infusions of technology and industrial equipment. German war planners had estimated serious shortfalls of raw materials if Germany entered a war without Soviet supply.
On 31 March 1939, in response to Nazi Germany's defiance of the Munich Agreement and occupation of Czechoslovakia, Great Britain pledged its support and that of France to guarantee the independence of Poland, Belgium, Romania, Greece, and Turkey. On 6 April, Poland and Britain agreed to formalize the guarantee as a military alliance, pending negotiations. On 28 April, Hitler denounced the 1934 German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact and the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement.
Starting in mid-March 1939, in attempts to contain Hitler's expansionism, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France traded a flurry of suggestions and counter plans regarding a potential political and military agreement. Although informal consultations commenced in April, the main negotiations began only in May. At the same time, throughout early 1939, Germany had secretly hinted to Soviet diplomats that it could offer better terms for a political agreement than Britain and France.
The Soviet Union, which feared Western powers and the possibility of capitalist encirclements, had little faith either that war could be avoided, or faith in the Polish army, and wanted nothing less than an ironclad military alliance with France and Britain that would provide a guaranteed support for a two-pronged attack on Germany; thus, Stalin's adherence to the collective security line was purely conditional. Britain and France believed that war could still be avoided and that the Soviet Union, weakened by the Great Purge, could not be a main military participant, a point that many military sources were at variance with, especially given the Soviet victories over the Japanese Kwantung Army on the Manchurian frontier. France was more anxious to find an agreement with the USSR than was Britain; as a continental power, it was more willing to make concessions and more fearful of the dangers of an agreement between the USSR and Germany. These contrasting attitudes partly explain why the USSR has often been charged with playing a double game in 1939: carrying on open negotiations for an alliance with Britain and France while secretly considering propositions from Germany.
By the end of May, drafts were formally presented. In mid-June, the main Tripartite negotiations started. The discussion was focused on potential guarantees to central and east European countries should a German aggression arise. The USSR proposed to consider that a political turn towards Germany by the Baltic states would constitute an "indirect aggression" towards the Soviet Union. Britain opposed such proposals because they feared the Soviets' proposed language could justify a Soviet intervention in Finland and the Baltic states, or push those countries to seek closer relations with Germany. The discussion about a definition of "indirect aggression" became one of the sticking points between the parties, and by mid-July, the tripartite political negotiations effectively stalled, while the parties agreed to start negotiations on a military agreement, which the Soviets insisted must be entered into simultaneously with any political agreement. One day before the military negotiations began, the politburo of CPSU, pessimistically expecting that the coming negotiations were going nowhere, formally decided to consider German proposals seriously. The military negotiations began on August 12 in Moscow with British delegation headed by Sir Reginald Drax, a retired Admiral, French delegation headed by General Aimé Doumenc and a Soviet delegation headed by Kliment Voroshilov, the commissar of defense and Boris Shaposhnikov, chief of the general staff. Without written credentials, Drax was not authorized to guarantee anything to the Soviet Union and instructed by the British government to prolong the discussions as long as possible and avoid answering the question that whether Poland would agree to permit Soviet troops to enter the country if the Germans invaded. As the negotiations failed, a great opportunity to prevent the German aggression was probably lost.


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Despite my love of drinks and entertaining, I absolutely hate making complicated cocktails for a crowd. They're fussy and messy, and every added ingredient translates into time away from my guests, distracted in the kitchen, shaker in hand.
So here's a hot tip: if you're hosting a holiday party with fancy libations this season, keep it simple with a crock-pot cocktail.
For my birthday, I put 2 litres of apple cider in a crock-pot with cinnamon sticks, clove-studded lemons, a chai tea bag and fresh ginger. I kept the Crown Royal Special Reserve Whiskey on the side for guests to pour separately. The crock-pot keeps the cider warm all night, but don't forget to heat it up at least three hours before your guests begin arrive!
The cocktail turned out soothing and delicious, and I loved seeing my friends serve themselves throughout the night, meaning I had more time to enjoy myself and mingle.
xo Jenny
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Tom & Jerry
Did you know it's possible to watch the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon for quite a while before you realize you're watching it in Polish? And even in Polish, it's still pretty good!
Travel Plans
Depart Korukoy Tuesday January 3 about 11 am
Catch a ride to Istanbul
(driving time 3 to 3 1/2 hours)
Overnight at Sheraton Istanbul
2 Cabs to the airport
British Airlines 675 Istanbul to London Heathrow departing 9:00 am arriving 11:20 am
(flying time: 4 hours 20 minutes)
British Airlines 103 London Heathrow to Calgary International departing 16:05 arriving 18:35 (flying time 9 hours 30 minutes)
Calgary to Wimborne in Cam's brother in law's truck
(driving time 90 minutes)
It's a long way to go to say two words I don't want to say:
good - bye.
The service to celebrate Mary Eileen Murray's life,
is set for Saturday January 7 at 2pm at the hall in Lousana.
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Since 2002, the Honda Pilot has been a utility option for families across North America, adapting along the way. Entering it's 3rd-generation, Chris Chase spends a week with the assimilating 2016 Honda Pilot.
Human beings are adaptable creatures, possessing the ability to adapt, both mentally and physically, to a wide range of circumstances.
Until recently, if you were a die-hard Honda loyalist looking for a crossover with three rows of seating, you'd have been grateful for that adaptability: the outgoing version of that brand's Pilot model was an outdated design, smaller and less-sophisticated than its key competitors, and largely devoid of the innovation Honda fans have come to expect from the company.
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All-new design: Large but still generic
But the Pilot did some adapting of its own for 2016, and the result is an all-new vehicle that's larger, more attractive, and more practical than its predecessor.
Notably, gone is the old car's boxy body, replaced with a sleeker one that better identifies it as a contemporary of popular competitors such as the Nissan Pathfinder, Toyota Highlander, and Chevrolet Traverse.
Powered by new 3.5L V6
Behind that slicker front end are mechanical innovations that include a nine-speed automatic transmission and a new V6 engine that, despite the same 3.5L displacement as the old Pilot's motor, is all-new and features direct fuel injection.
That direct injection system helps the new engine generate 30 hp and nine lb-ft of torque more than the old one, significant increases that put the Pilot in the meat of its class, with 280 hp and 262 lb-ft. On the road, that extra power mostly translates into improved high-end performance, with the motor pulling strongly from about 3,000 rpm right up to its 6,750 rpm redline. If you like interesting mechanical soundtracks, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the change in engine noise when its variable valve timing system switches from the economy-minded programming it uses in normal driving to a more aggressive setup that keeps it from running out of breath at higher revs.
In harder driving, the nine-speed transmission does its part with tightly-spaced ratios that keep the engine in the core of its power band. This translates into a busy feeling in normal acceleration, as it shuffles up through those ratios and settles the engine down just below 2,000 rpm at 100 km/h.
This transmission isn't always great at doing its work transparently, though. Here and there during our week with the car, it seemed indecisive, and the resulting rough shifts were out of character with what we expect from a big, family-oriented crossover. As much as continuously variable transmissions can be dull to drive, we couldn't help thinking one of those might have been a better fit here; Nissan likes that idea just fine, if its Pathfinder is an indication.
More gear ratios should translate into better fuel economy, but our tester averaged a thirsty 16.1 L/100 km city driving, against Honda's estimates of 12.4/9.3 L/100 km (city/highway).
The touchy throttle tip-in was off-putting, but we were less bothered by the firm ride, which gives the Pilot the driving feel of a smaller vehicle.
New Pilot Interior
More impressive, overall, is the Pilot's interior design. The driver and front passenger get a spacious environment created by a low centre console and push-button transmission controls. While we prefer an actual shift lever (mostly for something to rest our right hand on), we can't complain about the lack of one here. Other nice touches include a gauge cluster centred around an easy-to-read digital speedometer, and a large trip information display.
Honda's touchscreen infotainment setup is intuitive enough, but we will always prefer hard buttons for certain functions, especially the sound system's volume control.
Our tester had heated second-row captain's chairs in place of a standard three-place bench, and the three-seat third row found in all Pilot models. As much as we liked the front seats here, the second-row chairs are the place to be, with wide, soft cushions.
Cargo, Space and Legroom
Most surprising is a livable third row, with enough legroom for adults shorter than about five-foot-seven, and lots of headroom. One compromise is a bottom cushion set low to the floor to keep heads from brushing the headliner; the other is that some second-row legroom was clearly sacrificed to create that usable third-row seat.
Cargo space is, naturally, limited with the third row in place, but we liked the adjustable cargo floor, which can be set a few inches lower than the surface created by folding the third row down. This was great for keeping smaller cargo from sliding around on that vast surface.
Our Touring model tester had a power tailgate that frustrated us for its unwillingness to operate except under very specific conditions: if the car was running, only the dash-mounted button would work, and only if the car was in park. The exterior release on the tailgate itself would only work for us when the car was turned off.
Along with the new Civic — also completely redesigned for 2016 — the Pilot shows this well-respected automaker is once again looking for ways to set trends, even if it has had to follow a few to bring its mid-size crossover up to speed. It's far from perfect in our eyes, but the Pilot hits most of the right notes in terms of practicality. With this new design, the Pilot has done more than adapt: it has evolved into exactly the kind of vehicle many families now seek.
2016 Honda Pilot Specs:
Engine: 3.5-litre V6
Power: 280 horsepower
Torque: 262 pound-feet
Transmission: Nine-speed automatic
Brakes: Four-wheel disc brakes
Steering: Electric power-assist rack-and-pinion
Suspension: McPherson strut (front); multi-link (rear)
Fuel economy, ratings (l/100km, city/highway): 12.4/9.3
Fuel economy, observed (l/100km): 16.1
Price: $35,490, starting MSRP; $50,490 as tested
- Spacious front seating
- Usable third row
- Easy-to-read instruments
- Fuel consumption
- Generic styling
- Fussy infotainment


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What is LinkedIn? Would you believe there is a social platform where you can show off your career history and experience rather than your travel pictures and Outfit of the Day (OOTD)? LinkedIn is a platform that helps users build your professional network rather than their social circle. Read on as we explain more about Linkedin and give you tips on how to maximize it!
What is LinkedIn? | Social Tool for Career Development
What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is one of the most popular social platforms today. What makes it different, though, is it focuses on your professional life rather than your personal life. This social network allows you to connect with other people to broaden your professional network. LinkedIn is a great way to promote yourself or your business so the right people can connect with you.
It's a tool you can use to enhance or progress in your career by highlighting your professional experience and allowing you to connect with people or companies who might be in need of your expertise. Similar to Facebook and other social media platforms, you can also send a message through LinkedIn. When sending a connection request, you are given a limited character count to briefly introduce yourself to the other person. You can start chatting without limits once your request to connect is accepted.
How do You Use LinkedIn?
To enjoy the benefits of this platform, you must first create a LinkedIn account. You are required to use a legitimate email address and your real name to sign up. Once you fill in all the necessary information, you can log in and start filling out your professional experience.
You can even upload your resume so you can list down everything you need to explain your job history without having to worry about a character count. If you choose to upload your resume, though, make sure to leave out personal information such as your home address and telephone number since any document you upload can be easily downloaded by your connections. There are pros and cons to putting your resume on LinkedIn so think it through before you upload anything.
How do You Use LinkedIn to Find Jobs?
LinkedIn may offer a lot of features to help job seekers, but it's also popular for those who are looking for them. This site is especially popular with headhunters and recruiters, so make sure to create an impressive profile that will keep them reading. Once they find your experience suits their hiring needs, they can opt to connect with you or send you an InMail. It's not unusual for recruiters to be the first to reach out to a job seeker if they see a potential match for an open position.
You can also search for jobs in LinkedIn. The platform allows companies to post their openings, which you can look for through the search bar. You may even filter the search based on your areas of interest. Once you find a position you feel you are qualified for, you can hit the 'Quick Apply' button or contact the hiring manager via email if they include it in the post.
How do You Maximize the Potential of Your LinkedIn Profile?
First, it's important to remember that people are quite visual. We may not want to admit it, but on any social platform, people tend to judge based on the profile picture before they even check the rest of the profile. Make sure your profile picture on LinkedIn shows you in a light that's professional, warm, and friendly. You can use Photofeeler to see how your picture would fare on different social platforms.
You can also tweak other parts of your profile to make it stand out. LinkedIn also allows you to change your background photo. Use this feature to make your profile page unique and show others your expertise at first glance.
Your headline is also one of the first things people look at once they click on your profile. Aside from your name, this is the only information available to headhunters or recruiters when they make a search for potential candidates for a certain position. You have only 120 words to impress recruiters through your headline so make it count. Make sure to use these wisely so you will stand out among the sea of job seekers.
You should also take advantage of skills endorsements. This is a way for people you've worked with to vouch for a skill or expertise you included on your profile. The more endorsements you get, the more likely it is for recruiters to believe that you are indeed competent in that area. Return the favor to your colleagues by giving them endorsements as well.
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Now that you see how LinkedIn can help you grow professionally, you're probably wondering if it's free. The basic account is free, and while it is enough to get you noticed by hiring managers, it has certain limitations. For instance, you won't be able to send an InMail with a free account. InMail allows you to send a message to another person even if you are not connected with them. This means, with a free account, you either add the person first and use the minimal characters you're allowed to send a message, or wait for them to confirm your connection request before you can start chatting with them without a character limit.
A free LinkedIn account will also mean you will have a limited number of searches. If you're a recruiter, you can only view a certain number of people per month. Once you reach that limit, you're going to have to wait for the next month to continue your search.
Can You Have the Benefits of a Premium Account Without Paying for a Subscription?
If you're hesitant to upgrade to a premium account but still curious about its benefits, you can get a free 30-day trial. If you don't wish to continue after the trial and don't want to be charged, just make sure to end your subscription before the end of the 30-day period.
There are several premium accounts you can upgrade to depending on how you use LinkedIn. Whether you are a job seeker who wants to make sure your profile stands out, a recruiter who wants to source effectively and efficiently, or a businessman looking to grow your network or find the right prospects, there is a premium plan that will suit you.
For more tips on how to land a job using LinkedIn, check out this video from Work It Daily:
It might be unthinkable to use a social media platform to take your career to the next level, but it's possible with LinkedIn. While other platforms allow you to show off your travel pictures, delectable food, and other fun experiences, this one allows you to highlight your professional experience. It lets you connect with people who can help you improve your skills and grow professionally. So create an account now and see how this platform can help you rise up the career ladder!
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Cincinnati is a great place to immerse yourself in history, art and culture, and the best way to do it is with a charter bus, coach bus, party bus, mini bus, passenger coaches or school bus hired from Bus Rentals Cincinnati.
First on the list is the Cincinnati Art Museum. Holding a collection of over 60,000 artifacts spanning 6,000 years, the Cincinnati Art Museum is ranked alongside the Museum of Modern Art in New York as one of the best museums in the United States. Open six days a week, the Museum aims to make Cincinnati's most treasured cultural asset available to everyone.
If you have ever harbored a childhood dream to be a firefighter, make it a point to visit the Cincinnati Fire Museum. The museum highlights the history and technology of firefighting, as well as promoting fire safety. Based in a former Fire House, the museum holds some unique artifacts that date back to the beginning of firefighting in Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is the second oldest zoo in America. Open daily, the zoo is considered to be one of the most important animal conservation centers worldwide due to its success in breeding wild animals in captivity. New exhibits such as Cat Canyon, Night Hunters and the Spaulding Children's Zoo provide a fun filled and educational experience about the importance of animal conservation.
Stop by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center for an eye opening view into the history of slavery. Billing itself as a museum of conscience, the museum challenges visitors to study the meaning of freedom in their own lives as they walk through the exhibits. The location of the center in Cincinnati is in homage of the the role the city played in the Underground Railroad, when thousands of escaped slaves crossed the Ohio River seeking freedom.
A visit to the Taft Museum of Art is called for if you enjoy both modern and classical art in a more intimate setting. Beginning with a collection bequeathed by the Taft family to the people of Cincinnati in 1927, the Taft Museum today is rated one of the finest small art museums in America. The collection includes European and American Masters, Chinese porcelain and and European decorative arts.
The small sampling of the cultural delights that Cincinnati is readily accessible to you with the various size and types of buses available for hire from Bus Rentals Cincinnati allowing you and your group to travel in safety and style while visiting the various Art Centers, historical buildings and museums in Cincinnati.
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See, Eat, Drink, Be Alive – Bus Rental Cincinnati Brings You The Best Of Cincinnati
Welcome to Cincinnati, a city that is vibrant, alive and growing! A well-timed visit to Cincinnati will always leave our customers wanting for more. Take, for instance, Samantha, Bus Rental Cincinnati regular customer who came here with little expectations, for a business trip. Once she got home, she started planning her second trip to Cincinnati.
'The trip was awesome. Frankly speaking, I wasn't excited at all to visit Cincinnati but my office had my trip and hotel all booked up. There was no way of getting out. In fact, I was tempted to call Bus Rental Cincinnati to cancel the trip myself! But I have to say that I am now absolutely, irrefutably, unconditionally in love with the city,' Samantha shared with us.
Cincinnati is known and loved for its historical architecture. As the bus takes you to your destination, take a look out of the window. Architecture from all era, heritage and neighborhood will leave you breathless. Some parts of the city reminds you of the trendy New York city while others makes you think that you are right smack in the middle of Vienna! Feast your eyes and sense on the sights and sound without having to drive when you make use of our bus rental.
Cincinnati events – There are plenty of events and festivals to attend all year round so, before you book your trip, you encourage you to perform a simple search on the internet to find out more about what you can do here. Bus Rental Cincinnati would love to assist you by giving you some ideas about the events.
The Cincinnati Reds Parade day is a must – so much color, sound, people, languages, cuisine and laughter is to be had. If you have never heard of Oktoberfest, then you are in for the feast of your life. It is a German heritage that is not only celebrated over here in Cincinnati but in many other parts of the world and country. Ever since 1962, the Taste of Cincinnati has been giving locals, tourists and holiday merry-makers the time of their lives. Some of them are Bus Rental Cincinnati customers because driving there on their own and waiting for a parking spot simply did not make any sense when the event is of this size.
The MidPoint Music Festival is also a well known event that many people go to with bus rental. Cincinnati, as you can see, is so amazing vivacious in every way. Give Bus Rental Cincinnati a call right now to find out how you can save money, eliminate the headache of traveling and have the time of your life in Cincinnati.
Monday, January 14, 2013
MidPoint Music Festival in Cincinnati
Once upon a time, Cincinnati used to be well known for a fictional radio station called WKRP that dished out comedy, misadventures and running gags more than the music they played. Today however, music is one of the best things about Cincinnati and Bus Rentals Cincinnati is your perfect travelling partner while here.
Launched in September 2002, the MidPoint Music Festival is held annually at the city's downtown and historic Over-the-Rhine entertainment district. Now in it's 11th year, this year's festival will take place from Thursday, September 27 to Saturday, September 29 2012.
Unlike other music festivals where there is only one main stage the musical acts will be hosted on multiple stages, all within a walking distance of each other and attendees are encouraged to explore and discover the different musical acts. You can do this even more effortlessly when you rent a party bus or charter bus from Bus Rentals Cincinnati.
Temporary bike racks will also be located in front of several MidPoint venues will encourage even more exploration. After that, relax in the charter bus, party bus or mini bus rentals.
The VIP EXPERIENCE Presented by CVG costs $169 while all music access tickets cost $69 (Advance) and $79 day of event.
Tickets for Washington Park acts headlining the stage at Washington Park only, excluding all other festival venues are for Thursday, Andrew Bird, Here We Go Magic, Pomegranates, Bonesetters: $25 advance; $27 at the gate; for Friday: Grizzly Bear, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, James Wallace & the Naked Light, You You're Awesome: $30 advance; $32 at the gate and for Saturday: Freelance Whales, Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang, Stagnant Pools: $20 advance; $22 at gate
Most of the music played will be at venues accessible by all ages but do note that all performances that will be held at Cincinnati Club ($15) require patrons to be aged 18 and above.
So enjoy the music, explore the festival and get there in style with
Friday, January 11, 2013
Thrifting In Cincinnati
If you're interested in updating your wardrobe and furnishings with chic vintage pieces, Cincinnati doesn't disappoint in providing you with many places to go on thrifting expeditions. If you're new to thrifting, it's best to know a few fundamental things first.
Make a list
Have you ever gone into a store and left with many things you shouldn't have bought at all? Its best to keep a list with you to stay focused on what you really want to add to your collection. The wide selection available at thrift stores can overwhelm you, and could turn you into a hoarder. You'll know that you've moved to dangerous territory if you start thinking of getting an extra rental car to help you cart all your shopping away.
Go Often
If you're serious about thrifting, going often will ensure that you won't always have to wade through mountains of things. You'll know exactly which pile to avoid, and where the new stuff is, which saves a lot of time.
Dig Dig Dig
Don't be daunted by big piles of things. Sometimes you'll have to dig through many layers to find true gems, which is the whole point of thrifting in the first place.
Love What You Buy
It's simple really. To love what you buy, you have to buy the things you really love. It's relatively simple to find a whole host of items that you like, but to prevent yourself from becoming a hoarder its best to only buy the things that you are truly passionate about.
See Through The Paint
Some items might not look beautiful at first glance, but try imagining them with a coat of paint, or just a new pair of buttons. A little bit of extra work can turn something ordinary into your favorite buy of the year.
If you're wondering where to go for your very first trip, hop, skip, drive or take a bus down to Ludlow Avenue to check out the Mustard Seed Boutique. A charming shop with crystal chandeliers, it houses a wide array of clothing brands, from Marc Jacobs to Oscar De La Renta at reasonable prices. If you're based near Northside, Casablanca Vintage on Spring Grove Avenue will truly satisfy the vintage hunter in you with a large selection of furs, silk gowns and all the trappings of old Hollywood glamor. Another place for great finds is NVision at Hamilton Avenue, which offers redesigned and recycled clothing, art and furniture. They even make local deliveries for a small fee. So get on the thrifting bus as soon as you can before everyone else buys up all he good stuff.
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"What I am interested at the piano is the sound that is created on the way from one note to the next note. Timing is decisive, there is always one exact and just moment to continue playing." (Federico Mompou in an interview on Spanish TV)
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Sonographic measurement of lung aeration versus rapid shallow breathing index as a predictor of successful weaning from mechanical ventilation
Nabila I Laz1, Mohammad F Mohammad1, Sahar M Abdelsalam2, Radwa M Abdelwahab3
1 Department of Chest, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt2 Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt3 Department of Chest, Beni-Suef Chest Hospital, Beni-Suef, Egypt
Correspondence Address:MSc Radwa M AbdelwahabDepartment of Chest, Beni-Suef Chest Hospital, Beni-Suef 62611 EgyptSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/ejb.ejb_7_19
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ejb.ejb_7_19
Background Lung ultrasonography is a beneficial tool for evaluation of the extent of lung aeration through measurement of the amount of extravascular lung water. Lung ultrasonography offers some advantages over other methods of assessment of lung aeration including the lack of ionizing radiation and the possibility of use at patient's bedside. It facilitates dynamic assessment of the lung during mechanical ventilation and during weaning.Aim To assess lung aeration by lung ultrasonography in patients ready for weaning and to validate the significance of its use as a predictor of weaning outcome in comparison with rapid shallow breathing index.Patients and methods A prospective observational study was conducted on 30 critically ill mechanically ventilated patients for 48 h or more, and ready to undergo spontaneous breathing trial (SBT), according to the readiness criteria. It was conducted in Beni-Suef University Hospital from October 2017 to May 2018. Rapid shallow breathing index was measured before initiation of SBT, and lung ultrasound was done, before, during, and after SBT [lung ultrasound score (LUS) 1, 2, and 3] and were used as predictors for SBT outcome. Patients were divided, according to outcome, into successful weaning group (group A) and failed weaning group (group B).Results In the failed weaning group, LUS1, LUS2, and LUS3 were significantly higher than those of the successful weaning group. At cutoff value of 8.5, LUS3 could be used for prediction of weaning failure with sensitivity 85% and specificity 100%. Moreover, there was a statistically significant relation between LUS and the other variables including hospital stay, mechanical ventilation duration, and mortality.Conclusion Lung ultrasound is useful as a bedside tool that can help physicians in their weaning decisions.
Keywords: extravascular lung water, lung ultrasound score, rapid shallow breathing index, spontaneous breathing trial


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A CoreData shadow shop of domestic robo-advisers has concluded that automated advice is at least six to eight months away from "working" for the typical Australian consumer.
Speaking at the Calastone Connect Forum in Sydney yesterday, CoreData principal Andrew Inwood said Australian robo-advice processes are "pretty prosaic" and have not yet managed to deal effectively with 'know your client' rules.
CoreData has spent the past six months conducting a shadow shopping exercise on the Australian robo-advice sector, Mr Inwood said.
"We've been communicating with them, asking them questions, going through the process of setting them up, closing the funds down, opening them again, putting in money, changing systems, and changing bank accounts," he said.
"Once you open your account you've got to go through the whole process of identifying yourself as a client, which is horribly manual," he said.
Clients are often required to fill in a paper form and send it to the robo-advice company in order to prove their identity, Mr Inwood said.
There is only one exception – Acorns Australia – which has managed to circumvent lengthy processes by using the banks' existing knowledge, similarly to UBank, he said.
"There is still a long way for [Australian robo-advice] to go. It's not true of the US, and it's not true of the UK – but it's certainly true of Australia," Mr Inwood said.
"We've kind of rushed into this space [in Australia]. A lot of people used to be [online financial] calculator businesses and they've rushed into this space to try and be the next robo-adviser.
"But it's not quite working. I would suggest that we're six to eight months away from actually having it work."
That is not to say there will be a "big future" for robo-advice in Australia, he said.
"It systemises and robotises the whole front end of the sales process. The bit which is expensive for the banks and implies risk for the banks," Mr Inwood said.
"The bit where the mis-selling is – the bit where the ASIC inquiries are. The more that [wealth management firms] can do that, the better off they're going to be. My sense is that this wave is coming but it's still some way out."
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AHL Update
All About The All Star Classic:
Reminder: The AHL All-Star Classic is next Sunday and Monday (29-30) in Allentown, PA.
In recent news, forward Alexandre Grenier (Utica Comets) was added to the North Division; goaltender Anton Forsberg (Cleveland Monsters) was added to the Central Division roster; forward Christian Fischer (Tucson Roadrunners) was added to the Pacific Division team and defenseman Vojtech Mozik (Albany Devils) will replace Mark Barberio (St. John's) on the North Division team.
Following their success in the NHL, Kasperi Kapanen, Juuse Saros (recognize that name?!), and Brendan Perlini will not play in the game and are replaced by those mentioned above.
The All-Star Classic has 38 first-time participants, 13 AHL rookies and 11 former first- and second-round NHL draft choices. Also, 27 of this year's All-Stars were called up to the NHL (all info from theahl.com).
Fan of the Week
Ever wanted to become a penalty box attendant? Well, that wish came true for one San Diego Gulls fan! A season ticket holder named Adam Jones, who works another part time job as the outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles, decided that he wanted to become even closer to his beloved team.
Jones worked yesterday's game vs. the San Jose Barracuda and had his hands full with 16 total penalties from both teams, including an 11 penalty third period. If you ever see a game in San Diego, make sure to look around for Jones in the stands and say hi!
Check out which games to watch this week!
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Job DescriptionOur client is a financial services company seeking to recruit a Private Wealth Administrator.
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To undertake the day to day Trust and Company administration of a portfolio of companies and Trusts including timely performance of administration, book-keeping and accounts preparation and fee collection.
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• Candidates with good qualification grades who may have been working in a general administration role and would like to move into the Trust environment would also be considered.
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Book Passage – Corte Madera presents Joel Richard Paul and his book WITHOUT PRECEDENT: John Marshall and His Times
WITHOUT PRECEDENT: How the American Revolution Shaped Chief Justice John Marshall and the Supreme Court No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States. From the nation's founding in 1776 and for the next forty years, Marshall was at the center of every political battle. As Chief Justice of United States, he established the…Find out more »


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Our artificial intelligence future is here. Robot overlords? Sci-fi utopias? Not quite. From AI studio All Turtles, hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega explore the provocative ways entrepreneurs use AI to solve real problems today.Read more »
Our artificial intelligence future is here. Robot overlords? Sci-fi utopias? Not quite. From AI studio All Turtles, hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega explore the provocative ways entrepreneurs use AI to solve real problems today.Read Less
When controversial headlines flood Twitter and Facebook, these rage machines disseminate disinformation. AI plays a role in perpetuating fake news, but it could also be a part of the solution in detecting and preventing the malignant spread of fake stories. Renée DiResta is a researcher of computational propaganda and disinformation. On this episode, she talks through some recent news stories and how they serve as examples of the ways in which technology facilitates tribalism.
Show notes
Conversation with Renée DiResta (0:50)
Renée DiResta researches the spread of malign information on the internat (1:01)
Data for Democracy is a worldwide community working together to find truth through data and technology (1:02)
New Knowledge is an information integrity company (1:02)
The Covington Catholic news story (1:10)
How technology facilitates tribalism (5:54)
Using something like AI to intercept disinformation before it spreads widely (9:15)
Renée on her Senate report about Russia's disinformation in the 2016 election (12:20)
The sophisticated processes for gaming Amazon's review systems (19:30)
Eye roll please (31:21)
Waiting for the "right moment" to launch a product or company (31:25)
Listener question (34:18)
From Jacob via email: Jacob says he is excited about autonomous cars because he hates driving, but in a previous episode, a discussion arose about the fact that not only is it possible that bad actors may interfere with the security of self-driving cars while they're on the road, but that it "will happen." So this listener asks: What can we do about this? Cryptography is not bulletproof, and also has system performance impacts. What is missing in the tech ecosystem to prevent tragedies related to the "hacking" of self-driving cars?
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