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Classification of Parts and Accessories in the Customs Tariff
Memorandum D10-0-1
Ottawa, May 13, 2014
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In Brief
- The editing revisions made in this memorandum do not affect or change any of the existing policies or procedures.
This memorandum will serve to assist users of the Customs Tariff (Tariff) to determine the proper tariff classification of parts and accessories in accordance with the Harmonized System (HS) principles.
Table of Contents
- Legislation
- Guidelines and General Information
- Definitions
- Categories of Parts and Accessories
- Identifying Parts and Accessories
- Reference
Customs Tariff
Guidelines and General Information
1. For the purpose of administration of the Tariff, subject to relevant legal notes:
- accessory
- is defined as "an article which performs a secondary or subordinate role, not essential to the function, which could improve the effectiveness of the host machine, equipment, apparatus or appliance".
- part
- is defined as "an identifiable component of an article, machine, apparatus, equipment, appliance or specific good which is integral to the design and essential to the function of the product in which it is used".
2. The Tariff includes an integrated, vertically structured, hierarchical system of classification by headings, subheadings and tariff items and statistical subdivisions. All headings and subheadings are governed by the General Rules for the Interpretation of the Harmonized System (GIR) and by the Section and Chapter Notes. These rules make Section and Chapter Notes legally binding on the classification of materials, incomplete or unfinished articles, complete or finished articles and parts and accessories. Section 11 of the Tariff identifies the references that provide interpretive guidance to classification. GIR 6 is applicable in the classification of goods at the subheading level.
Categories of Parts and Accessories
3. The numerous headings and subheadings in the Tariff for the classification of parts and accessories fall within four distinct categories. Three of these categories apply to both parts and accessories. The other applies to parts alone. These categories are:
- (a) parts or accessories specifically named in a heading or falling within a generic class named in a heading;
- (b) parts of general use, as defined in Section XV, Note 2;
- (c) parts or accessories suitable for use solely or principally with a particular kind of machine or with machines of the same heading; and
- (d) multi-purpose parts and accessories.
4. Since parts and accessories are generally classified according to GIR 1, the heading texts and legal Notes determine their classification. Due consideration shall also be given to GIRs 2 through 6.
A - Articles (Parts or Accessories) Specifically Named in a Heading
5. The classification of an article specifically named in a heading and included in the terms of that specific heading in accordance with a legal Note constitutes an application of GIR 1. Any part or accessory specifically referred to in a heading text, or whose classification in a particular heading is directed by a legal Note, must be classified under that heading and under no other heading in the Tariff. This is true even if the part or accessory might be specially designed or otherwise principally suitable for a particular machine, appliance, instrument, vehicle or any other manufactured product.
6. Three examples illustrate application of Category A. The first two examples concern parts or accessories named in a heading. The third concerns parts or accessories classified according to a Section Note.
- (a) Heading 40.11 (New pneumatic tires, of rubber). Rubber tires are never classified as parts of machines of Section XVI or of motor vehicles of Section XVII, despite the fact that tires are not explicitly excluded from these Sections. New rubber tires are always classified in Heading 40.11 simply because they are specifically named in that heading, in accordance with GIR 1.
- (b) Heading 84.13 (Pumps for liquids). Parts, such as pumps for liquids, were classified under numerous parts provisions for machinery, precision instruments and motor vehicles in the former Tariff. Under the current Tariff, GIR 1 requires that they be generally classified in heading 84.13 since they are specifically named in that heading and in Note 2(e) of Section XVII and Note 2(a) of Section XVIII.
- (c) Heading 73.04 (Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron or steel.). Drill pipe is excluded from consideration under any parts provisions of the Tariff by virtue of Note 1(h) of Section XVI, which directs that it be classified in heading 73.04. In this case, the legal note emphasizes the precedence of heading 73.04 over any parts provisions of Section XVI in the classification of drill pipe.
B - Parts of General Use
7. Numerous terms in the legal Notes to the HS Nomenclature are set off by quotation marks (in the English text) or by italics (in the French text), such as "light-weight coated paper" and "parts of general use". They identify defined terms. These definitions are legally binding within the Tariff and therefore must be applied when classifying goods.
8. The HS expression, "parts of general use", is defined by Section XV, Note 2. Based on the application of GIR 1, the expression must be interpreted to mean the following:
- (a) articles of heading No. 73.07, 73.12, 73.15, 73.17 or 73.18 and similar articles of other base metal;
- (b) springs and leaves for springs, of base metal, other than clock or watch springs (heading 91.14); and
- (c) articles of headings 83.01, 83.02, 83.08 or 83.10 and frames and mirrors, of base metal, of heading 83.06.
9. "Parts of general use" have many applications with respect to goods described in Sections XVI to XX. However, they are specifically excluded from these Sections by legal Notes. It is worth noting that the same goods made of plastics are also excluded from those Sections. Plastic nuts and bolts, for example, are always classified in Chapter 39. Thus the classification of "parts of general use" in their respective headings is another application of GIR 1.
10. Section XV, Note 2 also specifies that the references to "parts of goods" found in Chapters 73 to 76 and 78 to 82 (but not including heading 73.15) do not include goods defined in Section XV Note 2(a), (b) and (c).
11. Subject to Note 1 to Chapter 83, articles of Chapter 82 or 83 are excluded from Chapters 72 to 76 and 78 to 81.
12. All articles (parts) described in paragraphs 7, 8, 9 and 10 above are always classified as "parts of general use". Classification of such an article within the HS is governed by the legal definition of "Parts of General Use". It is not affected by the application of the article, its comparative value or its suitability as an integral component of any machine, appliance, instrument, apparatus, vehicle or other manufactured product. Consequently, the articles specified in paragraphs 7, 8, 9 and 10 above are to be classified in their respective headings, whether or not they are identified by a part number or are specified as parts in service manuals, engineering diagrams or similar references.
13. The classification principle that applies to parts of general use may be summarized as follows:
Articles covered by the HS "parts of general use" provisions do not have to be articles for general use, but simply articles specified in the headings enumerated in Section XV, Note 2. For example, an iron or steel article having the essential character of a bolt, but committed by design to function as a fastening or holding device in a particular mining machine, is classified in heading 73.18 and not as a machine part since heading 73.18 falls within the scope of the expression.
14. The Appendix to this memorandum contains lists of articles covered by the expression "parts of general use".
C - Parts Suitable for Use Solely or Principally with a Particular Kind of Machine or With Machines of the Same Heading
15. The third category of parts reflects the application of legal Notes found, inter alia, at Section XVI, Note 2 (b), Section XVII, Note 3 and Chapter 95, Note 3.
16. The Notes referred to in paragraph 15 specify that parts of machines which are suitable for use solely or principally with a machine or group of machines of one heading and are not subject to either categories A or B above, and are to be classified as parts of that machine or machines. These provisions are legal Notes and the classification of parts falling under this category (e.g., parts dedicated to a single application) is an application of GIR 1.
17. Chapter 95, Note 3 specifies that a part or accessory not excluded by Note 1 to that Chapter, and suitable for use solely and principally with the goods of Chapter 95, is to be classified with those goods.
18. Dictionaries generally describe principal as "chief" or "first in importance".
19. To determine the initial application of the part(s), this information should be obtained from the exporter, manufacturer or trade literature.
20. The following examples illustrate the principles of categories A, B, and C:
- (a) Heading. 84.06 (Steam turbines and other vapour turbines) includes subheading 8406.90 for "Parts"
(e.g., rotors, stators, rotor or stator blades);
- (b) Heading. 84.09 (Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading No. 84.07
or 84.08) provides for parts of goods classified in another heading.
- (c) Heading 95.02 provides for "Dolls representing only human beings". Artificial eyes made of plastics for those dolls effectively have no other use.
D - Multi-purpose Parts and Accessories
21. Multi-purpose parts and accessories cover articles which are not specifically designed for one particular type of machine and therefore are capable of use in a variety of applications. They can only be included in this final category if they are not:
- (a) specifically named in a heading or covered by a legal Note (See section A);
- (b) "parts of general use" (See section B);
- (c) suitable for use solely or principally with a particular machine or class of machines (See section C); or
- (d) covered by any other provisions of Tariff.
22. Parts and accessories of this category are usually classified according to the provisions of Section XVI, Note 2(c), Section XVII, Note 3 and Chapter 90, Note 2(c) and to the relevant exclusions in the respective Note 1 to the Section or Chapter. Examples of parts of goods of Section XVI, but not of any particular machine, appliance, etc., include:
- (a) of heading 84.85 (for non-electrical goods) greasing nipples, oil seal rings, levers; and
- (b) of heading 85.48 (for electrical goods) certain types of thermocouples.
Identifying Parts and Accessories
23. Decisions of the Federal Court and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) and its predecessor organization, the Tariff Board, provide useful guidance to the classification of parts and accessories.
24. No one case provides a clear answer as to what constitutes a part and what constitutes an accessory. There is no one universally applicable test. Rather, each case must be determined on its own merits.
25. For an article to be classified as a part of a good it must be committed for use with those goods.
26. An article that can be used with goods other than those described in a heading, subheading or tariff item is not to be regarded as so committed. An article which has no other use than with such goods and is necessary to their function is committed for use with them.
27. Five criteria have emerged over the years which set forth basic considerations for the classification of parts. To be considered to be a part, goods:
- (a) form a complete unit with the machine;
- (b) have no alternative function;
- (c) are marketed and shipped as a unit;
- (d) are necessary for the safe and prudent use of the unit; and/or
- (e) are committed to the use of the unit.
28. These considerations have no particular order of precedence. Used singly or in combination, they are useful in determining whether or not an article constitutes a part.
29. For an article to be considered an accessory it must be solely or principally for use with a particular good and must supplement the functionality of that good,
Disposable Articles
30. The fact that an article may be a "disposable" item does not preclude its consideration as a part or accessory or even as an appliance, apparatus or other device in its own right. Changing technologies have led to the replacement of some re-usable parts with disposable ones. Proper application of the five criteria mentioned under the General Guidelines will take precedence over the inherent disposability of an article.
31. The Federal Court has affirmed and reaffirmed that:
The law must be construed by reference to the whole of its possible field of application and not by considering only the limited areas. Application of this concept to disposable articles recognizes the principles set forth in decisions relevant to the classification of parts and accessories while taking into consideration evolving technologies, particularly in the medical sciences.
Eligibility for Conditional Relief
32. Regardless of the classification of an article in Schedule I, whether in a particular parts heading (e.g., in headings 84.31 and 87.08) or specifically named (e.g., heading 85.01), that article may be eligible for consideration under a conditional relief tariff item provided two conditions are met. Firstly, the article must qualify from a commodity perspective and, secondly, it must be used as specified. Consequently, an article which is not classified under a Schedule I parts provision may nonetheless be eligible for the benefits of a conditional relief tariff item when both of these conditions are met.
Additional Information
33. For more information, within Canada call the Border Information Service at 1-800-461-9999. From outside Canada call 204-983-3500 or 506-636-5064. Long distance charges will apply. Agents are available Monday to Friday (08:00 – 16:00 local time/except holidays). TTY is also available within Canada: 1-866-335-3237.
Appendix A
Articles Covered by the Expression "Parts of General Use"
Section XV, Note 2 provides for:
in provision (a)
73.07 Tube or pipe fittings (for example, couplings, elbows, sleeves), of iron or steel.
73.12 Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel, not electrically insulated.
Note: Whether or not cut to length or fitted with terminal parts, provided they do not assume the character of articles of other headings. (See Explanatory Note.)
73.15 Chain and Parts Thereof, of iron or steel.
Note: See note at heading No. 73.12 above. (See Explanatory Note.)
73.17 Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (other than those of heading No. 83.05) and similar articles, of iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other material, but excluding such articles with heads of other material, but excluding such articles with heads of copper.
73.18 Screws, bolts, nuts, coach screws, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers (including spring washers) and similar articles, of iron or steel.
Note: The articles of this heading are used to assemble or fasten goods. Whether or not an article is committed by design to a specific assembly, Machine, etc., or fastening application does not preclude classification from this heading. in provision (b)
73.20 Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel
Note: The only exceptions are clock or watch springs in provision (c)
83.01 Padlocks and locks (key, combination or electrically operated), of base metal; clasps and frames with clasps, incorporating locks, or base metal; keys for any of the foregoing articles, of base metal.
83.02 Base metal mountings, fittings and similar articles suitable for furniture, doors, staircases, windows, blinds, coachwork, saddlery, trunks, chests, caskets or the like; base metal hat-racks, hat pegs, brackets and similar fixtures; castors with mountings of base metal; automatic door closers of base metal.
83.06 Photograph, picture or similar frames, of base metal; mirrors of base metal.
83.08 Clasps, frames with clasps, buckles, buckle-clasps, hooks, eyes, eyelets and the like, of base metal, of a kind used for clothing, footwear, awnings, handbags, travel goods or other made up articles; tubular or bifurcated rivets, or base metal; beads and spangles, or base metal.
83.10 Sign-plates, name-plates, address-plates and similar plates, numbers, letters and other symbols, of base metal, excluding those of heading No. 94.05
Note: Similar articles of other base metals classified to their respective Chapters of Section IV; if of plastics in Chapter 39; if of rubber in Chapter 40.
- Issuing office:
- Trade and Anti-dumping Programs Directorate
- Headquarters file:
- 4500-0
- Legislative references:
- Customs Tariff
- Other references:
- Superseded memorandum D:
- D10-0-1 dated January 24, 1994
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Finished in lovely Santorini black metallic with fully colour coded body styling, and complimented with Factory fitted HSE sport-line alloy wheels all with excellent tyres, Unmarked full leather upholstery with captains chairs, full extended leather pack which includes multifunction steering wheel, handbrake, gear lever, and door cards. Dual zone climate control and air-conditioning, premium Alpine Dolby pro-logic concert 6 CD player with 14 speaker surround sound system and MP3 compatibility, integrated blue-tooth hands-free prep, high definition touch screen satellite navigation, multi-function steering wheel with cruise control, heated electric folding mirrors, electronic traction control, corner brake control and emergency brake assist with dynamic stability control, seven air-bags as standard, front and rear parking distance control, full security system with alarm and passive immobilisation. All our Cars are H.P.I Clear and come supplied with a NEW MOT (with no advisories) a New service, RAC approved inspection, and RAC warranty aftercare for total piece of mind and all inclusive of the screen price.....! , 12 months MOT, Full service history, Excellent bodywork, Beige Full leather interior - Excellent Condition, Tyre condition Excellent, Four wheel-drive, Metallic Black, 1 owner, Quality comes first, View by appointment at our Newly refurbished Showroom in "Callington" Cornwall., £10,495
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Performance & economy
|Fuel consumption (urban)
|33.2 mpg
|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
|49.6 mpg
|Fuel consumption (combined)
|42.2 mpg
|0 - 60 mph
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|1765 mm
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Chickpea and cauliflower curry
(at time of publication)
- oil spray
- 1 medium-sized onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 ½ tablespoons Indian curry paste, eg. tikka masala or tandoori
- ¼ teaspoon dried red chilli flakes
- 500g fresh or frozen cauliflower florets
- 2 x 400g cans no-added-salt chopped tomatoes
- 420g can no-added-salt chickpeagarbanzoXsgarbanzosX, drained, rinsed
- 1 cup frozen sliced green beans
- 3 cups cooked brown basmati rice, to serve
- ⅓ cup fresh coriandercilantroX
1 Spray a large deep saucepan with oil and set over a medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic. Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until soft. Add curry paste and chilli flakes. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until mixture is fragrant.
2 Add cauliflower, tomatoes and 1 cup water. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes or until florets are tender and heated through.
3 Add chickpeas and green beans. Cook for 5 minutes or until heated through.
4 Top basmati rice with curry, scatter with coriander and serve.
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Kilojoules 1470kJ
Calories 350cal
Protein 14g
Total fat 6g
–Saturated fat 1g
Carbohydrates 55g
–Sugars 15g
Dietary fibre 11g
Sodium 110mg
Calcium 130mg
Iron 3mg
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Don't you love going to the woods (or the bush as we call it in Australia) – I love the woods/bush – the smell, the silence, the things to do – the getting away from it all.
Tramping, trekking, rambling and hiking are what you do in other parts of the world but here in Oz we call it bush walking and it is extremely even supremely popular in Australia where we have vast tracts of untouched scrub and bush which gives us ample opportunity to indulge in what many Aussies call their favourite pastime.
Let's see? what are some of the things we can do in the bush? I checked out the website for the national trust and I gleaned some fabulous clues for my Grandblessings next time we head off bush walking.
Lots of fun in tree climbing – I remember it well – Ahh the memories!
Tree climbing is mentioned in the Bible – Zacchaeus is the renowned tree climber chronicled so well for us in Luke 19:1-10.
Zacchaeus, the Tax collector – hated by everyone – a Jew – one of the people yet turned against his own, to work for the Roman elite – swindling his fellows. He was pretty small – He was despised and looked upon as THE worst of sinners by most people but became completely changed after spending time with Jesus.
Zacchaeus the tree climbing tax collector, sees the crowd – wants to be part of it – realises he has no hope – no one was going to let him see what was going on (remember he was hated by the crowd), so he hitches up his robes and runs ahead and climbs a sycamore tree. Pretty funny really. This little guy climbing a tree.
A sycamore tree is pretty leafy so I suppose he thought no one would see him tucked up there in the branches but as we know the story so well, Jesus knew him before he even thought of climbing that tree. Jesus got him down even went to his house (you can imagine what the crowd thought) and changed Zacchaeus life forever.
His life was changed from one who people hates to a person who is willing to help others.
Zacchaes trusted Jesus so dramatically that he was changed in such a dramatic way.
I personally can vouch for how Jesus can change lives – he changed mine in a most remarkable way. I was so lost in sin, so self-centred and so full of myself it astounds me that my sweet wife has managed to stay married to me for so long. Even she can see such a huge difference in my life to the guy she married all those years ago and all she can do is to praise God for it.
Like Zacchaeus of long ago neither of us didn't have to attend some amazing course to make us aware of where we were failing as a person – he and I probably wouldn't have gone anyway! – But what we both did do was to meet Jesus – Him up a tree and me by reading a book (Driven by Eternity by John Bevere) the ONE amazing experience delivered completely in differing ways changed both of our lives for good.
We both trusted Christ and were both bowled over by His forgiveness, mercy, grace and love. Both of us repented of our sins and let Jesus change us from the inside out.
How about you? Are you ready to be changed? You can't change by yourself – Believe me I tried for donkey's years – only one person can change you and that person is Jesus.
Another amazing thing to do as kids in the bush is….
It's a great past time in the bush – When Ben, my Grandson came to visit -we used to love to build cubby houses (as we call them in Australia) in the bush not far from our home. You guys call then DENS but we still love our CUBBIES.
We'd choose a spot – maybe even in a tree, use what ever was around – leaves, branches, twigs – you name it we used it and we would build THE most amazing creations.
God wants to build amazing creations out of the mess we made in our own lives – He looks at our lives and, where all we can see so often is just rubble, twigs, branches and dried up left overs, he sees what could be there – he sees His creation and what/who Jesus died for.
The story is told of a guy who fell into a muddy ditch. The poor guy tried as hard as he could to dig himself out but the more he tried the deeper he got.
Along came a friend of his and said "Mate, how did you get in there? I would help you, I promise, but I've got a lot to do today my diary is choc-a-bloc – if you are still there when I get back I promise I will haul you out – good luck bro"
Next along came the Pastor from the church down the road, saw the man, and said "Brother my poor brother how did you come to be in there?" The poor guy explained and asked for help – "Of course I'll help" said the Pastor – "I'll go to the church and pray for you straight away – God bless you my friend".
Then the guy met Jesus, without so much as a word, Jesus threw His strong arms around him and lifted him out of the ditch, washed Him off, bandaged up his cuts and abrasions, re-clothed him and virtually made him a new creation.
The guy couldn't help himself, His mate couldn't help him, even the pastor couldn't help – only one person can help you out of the messy cubby that you have built for yourself and that person is Jesus.
You can try all you like – you can go to whom ever you choose – you can pay extraordinary amounts of money and time visiting all sorts of gurus and healers but when it all boils down, Jesus has the answer.
Jesus can not only clean you but also your cubby – He can make you into a real warrior for Him. He can do what seems like the impossible and make you a completely different person.
There is heaps to do in the Aussie bush – I remember again when young Ben and I used to go bush bashing as we called it back then we just loved….
We had so much fun building boats sometimes out of all sorts of stuff we found and floating them down the creek that runs not far from our home and right in the middle of a typical Aussie bush, especially straight after a heavy downpour – so much fun and we got so so filthy – all fun when you are a grandfather of a ten your old.
God has a mighty plan for you and me – Ben and I didn't have a plan for our boats at all we just had huge fun watching them floundering on the rocks and quickly sinking.
God's plan for us may seem strange at times and completely coming from left field but be sure that God always knows what he is doing, not like Ben's boats who were rudderless, captainless and completely out of control and at the mercy of whichever way the tide took it.
Often we make so many mess-ups and even when we don't know what we are doing we can rely on God that he indeed does now what He is doing and he doesn't "mess up".
Let's not be like Ben's boats in the muddle of raging water. Let's not be at the mercy of whatever tide is running at the moment. Let's put our hands in the hand of God and let Him lead, I know I did and I have never regretted it.
Sure, things haven't been all that plain sailing but this one thing I know for sure is that God will never let us go. If he brings us to it, in His mighty plan for us, He will certainly see us though it.
God bless you this week – Keep focused on Jesus – He will keep His hand in yours
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Manfred Kihn
As firefighters, we train in all aspects of our job, but we face challenges because we use so many different types of equipment depending on what our duties are. We need to be proficient in using all of them. Why is this month's topic important? We use thermal imaging cameras (TICs) to help us see where we are going, but what is it that we are really looking at? How are we interpreting the images we are seeing on the TIC?
Image interpretation is one of the most critical skills a firefighter needs to develop to successfully use a TIC. Firefighters need to be able to glance at the TIC display and understand the image being shown. This is a learned skill that comes with understanding the technology of thermal imaging coupled with practical experience in the field.
Let's look at a scenario. You are responding to a structure fire call and your crew arrives on the scene to see smoke coming from the building. The crew begins pulling and charging attack lines, and you grab the TIC and do a quick 360° of the structure. The question is, are you interpreting what you are seeing on the TIC's display correctly? Every structure will demonstrate at least four different but totally normal images on a TIC based on many factors including day vs. night and winter vs. summer conditions. A mobile home, for example, will look different than a masonry structure. A wood-frame-sided home will look different than a steel structure.
Windows will also impact the information your TIC tells you based on single-, double-, or triple-pane designs. Window treatments if covering the window can impact image information as well. Older and poorly designed windows and doors can exhibit thermal images that could easily mislead you as to the real heat value of the structure without a normal image baseline.
When our naked eye sees things, our brain computes it and we understand it, but when we see images through the display lens of a TIC, we now must try to understand what we are looking at. Some heat signatures or anomalies will be obvious, but other images we will not understand. If we detect something and can recognize and understand it, then we move on; but if we detect something, cannot recognize it, and cannot understand it, then we must investigate it.
The TIC is giving us a clue. Remember, a TIC is detecting infrared radiation, which comes from anything with molecular activity, whether it be passive, active, or direct emitters. The image in photo 1 is a passive emitter. A passive emitter is an inanimate object, and the image is obviously a chair. The image is showing that someone had been sitting in it. Not all thermal images are going to be that easy to understand.
Testing performed on TICs tells us that these heat signatures or anomalies will last for several minutes to up to a half hour, depending on variables like the weight and size of the person, how long the person was there, the type of material the chair is made from, the room temperature, and much more. In this case, the anomaly in this chair could last upward of 10 to 15 minutes.
In photo 2, the footprints will last only several minutes, especially if they were detected on hardwood flooring as opposed to carpet. If we detect this image through the lens of our TIC, then we know this is very recent and the person could still be inside the structure unless already accounted for.
Again, the obstacles that we must overcome include reflective surfaces that give us reflective images (photo 3), such as glass, glossy surfaces, and stainless steel appliances. If you see someone giving you a wave and that someone is waving back, then I'm pretty sure that is you.
Now, let's talk about some of the other images you might detect, as structures will emit heat signatures from electronic appliances and heating/cooling systems, which are known as direct emitters or energy sources like in photo 4. Photo 4 is showing a refrigerator and coffee maker in very smoky conditions that display extremely well on a TIC. Other devices that display well on a TIC include cordless phone chargers, TV and DVD players, clock radios, microwaves, and washers and dryers.
When conducting a victim search, sometimes just detecting a part of the body like a hand or foot may be enough or all you can see based on the situation, but that may be enough for a successful search. Again, active emitters also include family pets.
Photo 5 shows five anomalies; two are caused by direct emitters (energy sources), two are passive emitters (two people were on the bed), and the one remaining is an active emitter (cat).
Firefighters need to be proficient in all aspects of their job. The practice of image interpretation through the lens of a TIC is just another example of how critical it is to train daily on the TIC.
Manfred Kihn is a 19-year veteran of the fire service, having served as an ambulance officer, emergency services specialist, firefighter, captain, and fire chief. He has been a member of Bullard's Emergency Responder team since 2005 and is the company's fire training specialist for thermal imaging technology. He is certified through the Law Enforcement Thermographers' Association (LETA) as a thermal imaging instructor and is a recipient of the Ontario Medal for Firefighters Bravery. If you have questions about thermal imaging, you can e-mail him at [email protected].


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A female Fictional Character of Dick Figures. Childhood best friend of Wolf that soon became a sister.role model for him as he became a brother role model for her. She acts as a more mature and down to earth character than anyone else as she does her best to become a mediator when things get out of hand and the voice of reason and sometimes authority.
Life of the Fox
Seductive, charming, and dangerously beautiful. Fox gains lives as a roommate with her BFF Stacy in a loft. She works as the head waitress at the Drunken Bear Tavern, run by Lad, making a well paid salary. She mostly hangs out with Stacy at Maulmart and going to the movies, while along the way she keeps a sharp eye out for Wolf to try to hang out with him as well. After hearing about Wolf's and Stacy's temporary date she laid down the law with Stacy being around Wolf and not to touch him again. She also makes it a goal to take care of Wolf like a little brother. Even though he tests her patience, Fox will never turn her back on Wolf. She knows deep down that Wolf will do anything in his power to protect her as well.
Sometimes when she gets tired of doing the normal routine, she asks Wolf to take her on a crazy adventure of his no matter how disturbingly crazy it may sound.
She knows her body as well as her beauty is dangerous to men if they try to do certain stuff to her. She tries to keep other men away enough so they don't hurt or kill themselves from over exposure to her sexy beauty. but she will use it against her enemies if needs be. Exposure to her sexiness can usually result in death but minimum effect is falling in a coma. Even if her appearance may not effect some people, like Wolf, contact with her body will have a hundred percent chance to effect any person no matter how blood thirsty and war bound they are. This explains why Wolf adopted Fox as a sister to avoid such a fate.
She has been known to turn sex orientations of others to attract them to her. That could also lead to death if they try to take advantage of her by Wolf coming in to kill whoever is trying to molest her. Fox's kind nature also affects others to find her even more attractive. Even though she does not give the appearance of a killer like Jade to make her hot in that way, Fox gives a different kind of hotness when she gets real angered with passion. This makes her sexually appealing to men who like the tough woman outlook.
Fox has the best way with children. Her beauty, kind, and gentle motherly nature makes her appealing for kids to instantly earn their trust. Lots of kids wish their mother were like Fox, but she makes sure that they accept their own mothers for who they are so not to take advantage of other's children.
- Healing kiss
- Soothing touch
- Body heat generator
- Lethal Sexiness
- Charm
Friends Met
Best friend back when they were children in school. She first met him as a shy silent kid, but like they say, the silent kids are the most dangerous ones to piss off.
Close friend in the neighborhood. they both always talked about boys and grew into puberty mentally at an early age. They always stayed in contact, which is after sometime when she finally heard about Wolf after his temporary date with Stacy, but Wolf became hard to find until a certain event happens.
First met Lad when After Wolf became friends with him. Soon after Wolf was able to persuade him to let Fox work at his tavern as the head waitress. So Fox see's Lad on most of the week while at work.
Like Wolf, she too unfortunately was forced to come in contact with her when Fifi followed Wolf to where Fox was and had a sample of Fifi's stupidity. Fox has a hard time keeping Fifi from doing anything with Wolf resulting in her stupidity.
Ran into Wolf when she first met Foully and has never heard him swear around her. She quickly takes a liking to Foully for, what she thinks, his cute way of trying to swear with no luck.
(Coming soon)
Little Blue
Met Blue's brother when he was introducing him to his friends. Little Blue had a crush on her, but learned to control it so, he can like Fox, get over her, then like her again.
Young Fox
A made up OC for Dick Figures. Energetic, bouncy, and popular. Young Fox became the mostly well liked kid in the school and neighborhood. even though she has been labeled popular she disliked the popular kids because she always thought of them as boring and cliche who tend to sacrifice who they really were to become someone else. She preferred to hang out with others who did what they liked without compromising themselves no matter how weird they were. She became close friends with Stacy at school and best friends with Wolf. Fox always likes to get into mischief for the thrill of almost getting caught and using her childhood charms to try to get out of getting in trouble when she get's caught. She has always looks for someone in trouble to either get caught up in their situation or start a situation.
She likes to hang around Wolf for his mysterious shy, quiet attitude and awkward nature. She thought that there is more to Wolf than what is shown as a child and made it her goal to find out. She has developed a protective sisterly bond with Wolf and fought for him when he was made fun of. Becoming best friends with Wolf will prove to be the biggest source of trouble and mischief she will ever get into.
She is forced to move school after the incident with Wolf killing his whole class and was heart broken when she knew she would never see her greatest friend ever. She then hung out with Stacy again as they joined the same schools from then on.
After hearing about super heroes appearing, she decided to make her own suit and appearance as FireFox. By being one of the hottest girls in Dick Figures, she can use fire and heat. But not just any fire, her fire has the ability to give off pheramones to others raising their sexual desires as a way to distract them. The heat gets the person to start feeling sexual tension the fire can either burn like any normal fire or causes the enemy to go into a uncontrolled state of seeking sexual pleasure. Wolf is the only one so far who is immune to her since he finds pleasure in killing or inflicting pain to others rather than being attracted to pleasures of sexual contact of women. FireFox can even affect females as well. if a female is affected she will start having sexual desires to the closest male around her. FireFox can covert the fire of others that are thrown at her into her own and gives her control over it to catch and redirect them. Her fire changes into a different mixture shades of color such as pink, purple, maroon, white, indigo, and violet. She can even make fire clones of herself to either copy her movements or move on their own. FireFox always tries to fight along side Lone Wolf even when he tells her otherwise. To her, she has called their unconfirmed alliance "The Pack". She may not agree with Lone Wolf's methods of crime fighting but she does her best to fight to supress rather than to kill.
FireFox's weapons can be made out of her flames to form different types of melee weapons. They react like a forcefield when hit on contact by other weapons to deflect them back by small but strong blasts from the weapon. On a person, it would burn right through them like a lightsaber. The only weapon she can't make out of fire are fireing weapons like guns and other weapons that fire projectiles.
FireFox wears a maroon colored silky sash across her breasts and short cloth skirt with a tight thin thong. Also wears a fox tail that is super pleasurably soft and flexible to her will. when she is pinned down by a person, she will rub her tail in the person's crotch and stun him from high sexual tension from the soft and warm feelings from her tail. She wears a mask and fox ears on her head.
She is second in command of Proffessor Stick of the Super Hero Headquarters or known as SHH. She has brought in others to the organization like Batman, Bloser, Pink Avenger, and Ban-shit. Pink was her first recruit.
Head Waitress
Fox has gained a position at the Drunken Bear Tavern as the head waitress. Wolf was able to get Lad to give her a job due to her natural ability to bring in a crowd. Now business has increased after she was hired and she was able to give Wolf free service when ever he came by. She gets big tips and gifts from many of the patrons who come in. She could end a bar fight simply by walking in on one. Everyone respects and enjoys her company even if she just comes by to take an order. She will even give strip teases to those who pay for them even if it is very costly, but they must be respectful for her to begin. Her charms and beauty helps her to maintain order in the tavern.
Short cover top and full side view of her leg in the split of her dress.
Fox Facts
- Seductress.
- Kisses have healing capabilities.
- Seems to have an ability to supress others negative attitudes and emotions.
- Well liked by friends and some enemies.
- As a child she wanted to be friends with the less popular kids.
- She always thought popular kids were jerks.
- She only uses her hotness for getting what she needs or just for fun.
- Fox doesn't intend to have sex with anyone. (She wants to keep her body fresh for seductive reasons)
- She seems to be the hottest DF on Fanon so far.
- As a child she always tried to play the role of the protective big sister for her friends.
- She can get real close if she wants to.
- Her real name is still unknown.
- She likes getting into trouble sometimes.
- She has a turn on for excitement.
- Sometimes she will do strip teases.
- Fox doesn't get into sweet talk.
- She is most times straight forward.
- Fox sees Wolf as the only family she has left.
- Very friendly.
- Becomes randomly strong when seriously angered.
- She likes to seduce others.
- Straight even though she seems bisexual.
- Fearless as Wolf.
- Loves her song to be sung to her.
- Her breast has massive amounts of power due to her hotness like Stacy.
- Uses breasts to stuns her opponents and blast a light of hotness energy.
- Uses her hot ass to literally burn things on contact.
- Uses kisses to effectively weaken a mind.
- Fox is a down-to-earth person.
- Responsible.
- Been in a Death Battle with Stacy.
- Has an identity as FireFox the super heroine.
- Helps out Blue with his wife Pink.
- Will stop any girl who tries to hook up with Wolf at any costs.
- Acts like a mother around kids.
- Very Forgiving.
- Is allowed to use Wolf's Cyborg Suit.
Fox's VoiceVoice of Miriam
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Three Drug Warrants Executed 13/10/17- Bilbrook
On the 13th October 2017, three drugs warrants were executed under the Misuse of Drugs Act in the Bilbrook area.
At one address, a small amount of Cannabis along with growing equipment was seized. A 31 year old male has been dealt with appropriately .
At a second address, a quantity of cannabis/vegetation was seized. A 19 year old male was arrested and will be dealt with accordingly.
At the third address, a large amount of heroin and crack cocaine along with weighing equipment and money was seized. A cannabis set up containing plant roots was also discovered in the loft of the property. This was dismantled and seized. A 33 year old male, 31 year old male and 19 year old male were all arrested for Possession with Intent to Supply and will be dealt with accordingly.
Can I thank residents for their continued support and ask that any further drugs intelligence please be passed to your Local Officers, 101 or Crimestoppers.
Many Thanks!
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PicStitch – easy photo montages
December 1, 2011
Ever see those single pictures made up of several different pictures? That is what PicStitch does. I don't know if photo montage is the correct term, but stitching is something I do to piece together panoramic shots. This app "stitches" multiple pictures together in several different predefined layouts.
In addition to piecing multiple photos into one, you have an array of effects available. Color filters, image manipulation, lots of export options including Twitter & Instagram, not to mention Aviary is integrated in. This free version is plenty good for me at the moment. The paid pro version must be awesome.
Here are some screenshots and a few sample pictures I made. I recommend getting this app.
HDR Fusion, just get it
August 29, 2011
I really don't know much about HDR photography so this review will be very simple.
Free iPhone photography app HDR Fusion is totally worth a download. HF is free and a really simple way to take *single* HDR pictures on your iPhone.
App usage is even easier than the built in camera.
1. Open HF
2. Point and shoot
3. Keep your phone still until you hear two camera shutter clicks
4. HF merges images
5. Save or Retake your photo.
HF takes two photos then auto merges the two into a single HDR photo.
There are a few manual controls like manual focal points and self timer, but overall this is a point and shoot affair.
Below are some screenshots. The actual HF interface looks almost identical to iPhone's camera so no shot for that.
Take note of the last 3 pictures of the slip on. Picture 1 was taken with HF, and the last two were taken with iPhone's camera in HDR mode. Kind of splitting hairs with this pic, in general I always prefer HF's output.
HF isn't mind blowing, but it's really simple and I love the auto image fuse. HF has found it's way into my Instagram workflow. Really fantastic if I'm snapping a stationary photo. Use HF to get a really rich shot, then run through Instagram filters.
Enjoy, and I would love to hear about any free iPhone photo apps I haven't covered yet.
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Sweet Chinese photo app
May 20, 2011
I stumbled across a really sweet free camera app, but it's 100% in Chinese so I have no clue what anything says. What I do know is this app is pretty awesome and has tons of photo effects, filters, borders and more.
This will be my first all screenshot app review. App usage is mostly straight forward as it has what you'd expect from a camera app :
– Snap new photo or select from your Camera Roll
– TiltShift
– color controls
– background frames
– loads of photo filters and effects
– share social or save locally
If you're adventurous and into photo apps, give this one a try. I think the AppStore's Genius feature is how I found this one, or maybe Appbzr. Either way, this is an amazing free camera app.
UPDATE: My apologies to the Chinese and Japanese. This application is Chinese and I couldn't tell you what the name is. I always scan the app store for photo, then look at non pay apps. This is how I found this gem.
Make easy photo collages with MoloPixFree
November 27, 2010
Just came across a handy photo app called MoloPixFree. In a nutshell this app snaps multpile pictures and then puts them together in a grid. The free version has two main options :
– grid size ( 2 or 6 pictures )
– shutter speed ( slow, medium, and fast ).
Usage is extremely simple. Pick grid size, snap photo. The camera automatically snaps 2 or 6 photos after you hit the take picture button. Shutter speed determines how much delay between pictures.
There is also a sharing feature, but you have to register with molo.com to use it. I haven't tried to share, but it looks like their own sharing service vs the standard social sharing options.
I don't forsee myself using this a lot, but it is useful and not polluted with banner ads. Here are some screenshots of MoloPixFree.
Nightime in the garden with iPhone4
September 1, 2010
It's official, this blog is now published from an iPhone 4. I had hoped it would have changed the game, but it seems like the game is just faster and shinier. That's cool, the new iPhone is a huge upgrade from the 3G.
Something new on iPhone4 is an eye tazer. Marketing might tell you it's a flash, but my pupils and my pets will tell you otherwise. Let's just say it's wicked gnar gnar bright.
So I've been bummed about the new flash until tonight. It's too bright to use on people or pets, but iPhone4 can take great night photos. I snapped a few garden shots while out with the doggies. These were all taken around midnight, so all I could do was aim.
I wouldn't enter any of these into a contest, but I am shocked how good these came out.
LEGO your iPhone pictures
May 9, 2010
LEGO Photo is another free iPhone photography app. Probably the most fun of the free apps, LEGO Photo let's you apply a Lego block filter to photos from the camera, or existing photos from you camera library.
There isn't much else to explain. Choose a photo, wait for LEGO Photo to process, then tap the screen to apply random filters. Once you find one you like, save the photo.
Here are some shots of LEGO Photo.
Mill Colour – free photo processing for iPhone
April 23, 2010
Mill Colour is definitely one of my favorite free photo apps for the iPhone. You would use this app to run your photos through various 'Looks', or color filters. Or you can manually adjust various levels in your photos by hand.
I was impressed with the amount id color controls and options in MillColour. Most free apps give one or two cool tricks, but MC gives you a bit more. Below are some screenshots. I think print is my favorite look right now.


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Tuesday (and now Thursday) Evening Radio Show
I would really value your prayers for tomorrow evening, Tuesday, May 24, when God willing, I will be hosting a one hour live call in radio program (the Andrew Tallman show). Andrew is taking a well earned break and has asked me to fill in for him.
My subject will be "Divine Election" as well as handling some of the many objections that are often raised by the subject. The show can be heard live across the Phoenix area at 6:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. EST) and also live on the internet (same time of course) at www.kpxq1360.com - (when you get there, click on the "Listen Live" button at the top of the page)
(For those wanting to listen in on the internet live broadcast, here is a website giving you the current time in each time zone around the world. For instance, 6:00 p.m. Tuesday in Phoenix is 2:00 am Wednesday in the United Kingdom.) - JS
UPDATE: In addition to Tuesday's hosting of the Andrew Tallman show, I have just been asked to do the same on Thursday (May 26) also at the same time, where I believe we will continue the theme of Divine election.


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Korea is a small country with water on three of its sides. More than half of its land area is mountainous. Koreans enjoy a rich and varied menu, however. They began growing cereals during the mid-Neolithic period, and rice cultivation was introduced to some parts of the country around 2000 B.C. Rice remains the main staple and is eaten with a great variety of side dishes featuring vegetables, fish, and meats.
Fermented foods, such as soy sauce, bean paste, and red pepper paste, were important sources of protein in early times and remain Korean favorites. Of course, no Korean meal would be complete without the ubiquitous kimchi, fermented vegetables essential to the traditional winter diet because of the scarcity of fresh vegetables. Today few homes are without a refrigerator, but kimchi remains on every Korean table. Each region has its own special kimchi, reflecting variations in climate and local traditions.
Koreans also enjoy varied holiday fare. Rice cakes, red bean porridge. or glutinous rice are found on most holiday tables. New Year's Day is always celebrated with steaming bowls of ttokkuk, rice cake soup. The Tano Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month features cakes made from rice flour and flavored with mugwort or azalea flowers. Chusok, the Harvest Moon Festival, is a time for thanking the spirits for a bountiful harvest and honoring one's ancestors. Crescent-shaped rice cakes are served at this time, while red bean porridge is eaten on the winter solstice. These traditions are vivid proof that food feeds both the stomach and the soul.
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Third-row Magic Seat: The Odyssey's rear row folds down into below-the-floor storage bins in one seamless motion, so you can accommodate larger pieces of cargo at the drop of a hat.
Of course, versatility won't be all that's on your side with the Odyssey; there's also a staggering 38.4 cubic feet of cargo space with all seats occupied and 148.5 cubic feet with all seats folded. Here's how the competition measures up:
While its standard features ably set the 2016 Honda Odyssey apart, drivers will also find that the vehicle allows them to take advantage of a number of available technologies that can't be equipped at any price on competitors. Such high-end amenities include:
HondaVac: The Odyssey can present an industry-first, a built-in vacuum cleaner to ensure that you can keep your minivan neat and tidy. A long reach lets you get into every nook and cranny, while the removable waste bin makes for easy emptying.
Ultrawide rear entertainment system: Taking a long journey with the kids just got that much easier; simply keep them entertained by playing a DVD or games console on the Odyssey's available 16.2?inch rear screen. The 11-inch rear monitors of the Nissan Quest or the 9-inch screens of the Dodge Grand Caravan will seem tiny by comparison.
Honda satellite-linked navigation system: Naturally enough, only the Honda offers this sat-nav system. Voice-command technology lets you input destinations on the go, and the system is also equipped with Sony-by-Voice and Honda HD Digital Traffic.
The 2016 Honda Odyssey is a favorite among everyday drivers, but it has also attracted more than its fair share of glowing reviews:
Kelley Blue Book – "Easier to park than a full-size SUV, not to mention being less fuel thirsty, the Odyssey is the feature-packed 8-passenger shuttle your family has been looking for."
Edmunds.com – "Class-leading steering precision and confidence-inspiring handling make the Odyssey feel smaller and more carlike than it actually is."
The Car Connection – "The 2016 Honda Odyssey isn't only an example of a minivan done well, but it's also an example of a family vehicle done well. It handles multiple combinations of passengers and cargo, kids and diaper bags."
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Summary A four-tentacled stand for an iPhone 6 Plus. I printed it on a See Me CNC Orion with MatterControl and the default slicer (the other two slicers didn't deal well with the suckers and base). This maxed out the print area of my machine. Instructions This is based on an old Blender rigging demo of a tentacle (http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/blender.org/demo/test/Octopus.blend) duplicated 4 times and arranged around an iPhone 6-Plus model. Exported to STL, sliced in MatterControl and Slic3r. UPDATE: Reworked to reorient the tentacles and flatten the base. Also added some fill on the base for the phone to sit on after a careless placement sent the stand flying. Much more stable this way. New file is TentacleStand.base.stl sliced with MatterControl's build in slicer. There does appear to be a void where the tentacles meet and my limited blender skills haven't been able to get rid of. The blend is up as well if anyone wants to fix it.


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Seva Warrior Yoga Crop Top (Black)
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Also available in Navy and Olive. KiraGrace x Tiffany Cruikshank. This is one HOT CROP TOP! We pushed the boundaries on this one with wide, open, and dramatic cut outs in the front and back. It is an ultra supportive, dramatic, and absolutely elegant yoga top.
- Portion of proceeds benefit Tiffany Cruikshank's Seva Foundation
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There's a line I read in a Liane Moriarty book where the character is looking around a cafe and thinking, If only I were here, which is odd because she actually is there. It's a feeling I instantly related to because I've often had a sense of being disconnected, as if I'm observing my life from a distance and thinking that it would be a beautiful place to be. I'm longing to… Read More
Life is a balancing act. You have to balance work and home. Achieve balance. How many times have we heard that it's all about balance? I don't see it that way anymore. A lovely friend and I were talking one time about all the things we juggle with work and young children. She gave me some great insight into how she looks at life. It's not about balance at all. It's about… Read More


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Singer/songwriter and former bass man with Noah and The Whale, Matt Owens, is going it alone this autumn with a tour of the UK, singing songs from his debut solo album, Whiskey and Orchids.
He will be stopping off in Cricklade to play at the Old Stables, behind The White Hart on Thursday, November 15.
The album has an Americana feel, what Matt calls the singer/songwriter vibe. He has persuaded some of the top names in the music business to perform on different tracks.
"I was so lucky to get some amazing personnel on the album. I didn't want it to be just like a live recording, just me and my guitar playing acoustic,'' said Matt.
Performing on the album are Michael Blair, who has worked with Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, Thea Gilmore, Robert Vincent who won the Americana Music Association's UK Album of The Year this year, and Carleigh Aikens from the Canadian band Bahamas.
The album was produced by Nigel Stonier, who is also a singer/songwriter, and he will be performing along with Matt at the acoustic night in Cricklade. Nigel has worked with such names as Joan Baez, Robert Plant and The Waterboys.
Matt said: "The first thing that happened was Nigel suggested we record it in Manchester. I'm a Londoner born and bred, although I am about to move to Somerset, so that was out of my comfort zone, but then I thought I had met some people from up north and they were all up for it. So here I was in a new place, all fresh, working with a producer I had never worked with before. We had the best engineer and world class artists and I don't say that lightly. I am so excited about this record and although I am biassed I think it's my best work.''
Matt had an interesting spin-off from his guests when Thea asked him to perform with her both on stage and on her latest album. Some of the songs that are recorded on this album were written by Matt even before his time in Noah and the Whale
Whiskey and Orchids is due for release in January and the single Lay Down Hugs is out now.
Matt was nicknamed Urby Whale by the boys in Noah and the Whale and somehow it stuck. with the people he met at that time including his now wife and even his lawyer.
"It came about because it was at the time when there was a whale in the Thames - an urban whale - and I was going on about it so they shortened it and called me Urby Whale,'' said Matt.
The name Noah and the Whale on the other hand came from a film called Squid and the Whale, where the producer's name was Noah. The band was started in 2006 as a duo of brothers Charles and Douglas Fink and they recruited Matt who began playing violin which he had learned as a child, and them moved to harmonium, glochenspiel and then bass guitar, although he had previously been a singer/guitarist.
"I got into bass playing, all the vintage gear etc and when we had our equipment stolen, Norman Watt-Roy, (The Blockheads) my hero on bass, took me to underground traders to get handmade bass guitars,'' said Matt.
Noah and the Whale notched up some prestigious gigs including a sell out at the Royal Albert Hall, Glastonbury Festival, arena tours with Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire.
Alongside Noah and the Whale, Matt also played in a rock 'n' roll band called The Little Mammoths.
"That band kept me grounded,'' he said. "Noah and the Whale were supporting Arcade Fire playing the big arenas, and the boys from Little Mammoths had to pick me up from the NME arena to fly over to Ireland to play in a Connemara bar to two people.''
Matt says he enjoys playing the intimate bars and is looking forward to coming to The Stables in Cricklade. tickets are £15 from www.facebookd.com/theoldstablesWH - Flicky Harrison


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One of the most successful tea-themed series of popular fiction is "The Tea Shop Mysteries" written by Laura Childs. Devonshire Scream, published in 2016 is #17 in the eighteen-book collection that began with Death By Darjeeling first published in 2001. Childs skillfully creates the warm, welcoming environment of The Indigo Tea Room in the colorful city of Charleston, South Carolina and populates it with the engaging cast of characters led by the main Tea-Lady, Theodosia Browning. Each book in the developing series is grounded in a comfortable format that satisfies for the quick read adventure that tickles the soul of the afternoon tea lover.
This isn't a book about tea per-se – but tea lovers do savor the tea tidbits that help flavor the narrative. And there are some juicy recipes included for those who want to replicate the tearoom atmosphere.
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Childs's 17th Tea Shop mystery (after 2015's Ming Tea Murder) starts off with a bang—or rather, a crash. Theodosia Browning, intrepid owner of the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston, S.C., is catering a glittering show of gems and jewels hosted by her friend Brooke Carter Crockett, owner of Heart's Desire Fine Jewelry. The elegant affair is proceeding apace when a truck smashes through the shop's front window and a gang of jewel thieves leaps out to commit a smash-and-grab robbery of gems worth millions. The theft only takes two minutes, but the brutal invasion robs Brooke of more than jewels: a shard of glass from the shattered window kills her 20-year-old niece, Kaitlin Crockett. When Brooke asks Theodosia to help find Kaitlin's killers, Theodosia comes up with a bold plan to lure the thieves with a fabulous brooch. A charming cast of characters, a cultivated and genteel setting, plenty of tea and scones, a plausible slate of suspects, and an exciting climatic chase in designer clothes and jewels all add up to another enjoyable outing with Theodosia and friends. (Mar.)
Book Reviewer – Lisa K's Book Thoughts
Laura Childs has bagged me again with this fantastic mystery steeped full of action and intrigue! Talk about a book starting off with a bang. DEVONSHIRE SCREAM had me gasping in shock only a few pages in. Seriously, I sat up straighter in my chair, and remember saying out loud, "No way!" DEVONSHIRE SCREAM takes the reader through a jewel hyst and murder, and carries us through as investigation brewing with ever increasing questions, all leading to an intense conclusion that left me absolutely breathless! Book after book, author Laura Childs continues to write brilliant stories in this delightful series. Each new story is fresh, entertaining, and fun. Returning fans, and new readers of the Tea Shop mysteries are in for a wonderful treat with this latest installment.
Cozy Mystery Book Reviews: Missy S
This was the first book of Laura Child's that I have had the pleasure of reading. I am now a fan and look forward to reading more of her books !! Even though this was the first book that I read in the Tea Shop Mystery series, it could have been the first in a series. Devonshire Scream is the 17th book in the series and I was skeptical about reading it this far into the series. But once I started reading it, I realized that I was wrong to think that. Theodosia owns the Indigo Tea Shop which even if you are not a tea drinker they will find a tea you will like ! Haley and Drayton work at the Tea Shop and they are most adorable !! Not to mention all of the people and friends that visit the shop and attend the special tea parties !! I loved the way that Child's describes it all so that you feel that you are right there in the room. I had the pleasure of attending a Mother's Day Tea years ago and it was nothing like one of Theo's Teas.But tea isn't the only thing brewing in Devonshire Scream. While attending a Jewelry Extravaganza at her friend Brooke's store, Heart's Desire, a smash and grab occurs. A vehicle crashes into the store where a group of theives grab all of the jewelry in a matter of minutes leaving behind injured patrons, broken glass every where and Brooke's niece dead with a piece of glass in her neck.
While Brooke deals with the loss of her niece and store, Theo with the reluctant help of Drayton deal with trying to solve the case. Although Theo has a nice list of suspects who she feels could have been a part of the "gang" of theives, you will be SHOCKED when the leader of the group is captured ! ! Who will solve the case first ? Theo and Drayton, local Detective Tidwell, or the FBI's agents that were brought into town ?? I look forward to reading more books by Child's and hope you do also ! ! !


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In Memoriam
The memorial exhibition honors the 2,977 individuals killed as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the six individuals killed in the bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993.
About the Exhibition
Immediately conveying the enormity of loss, a floor-to-ceiling presentation of 2,983 portrait photographs surrounds visitors as they enter the gallery. These four walls present a true cross-section of humanity, ages 2 and a half to 85, from more than 90 nations, spanning the spectrum of ethnicities, socioeconomic sectors, and faith traditions.
Using touchscreen tables, visitors can learn more about the victims' lives. Individual profiles are searchable by name, birthplace, place of residence, and employer. Through the touchscreen tables, we remember people for how they lived their lives rather than how they died.
The gallery's inner chamber provides a more intimate space for remembrance. Profiles of victims are projected onto the walls of this room along with personal photographs and recorded remembrances left by family members, friends, and former colleagues.
Objects on View
Artifact cases feature displays of recovered property and objects reflecting the interests and activities of the victims before their lives were cut short. New artifacts are displayed annually. This year, the commemorative objects on view reference individual victims' hobbies, writings, or drawings.
Giraffe figurine belonging to Leonard Anthony White
Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Gift of the White family in memory of our brother, Leonard Anthony White
Leonard White cherished going to the opera, exploring art galleries, and attending Broadway shows. Impressed by the elaborate giraffe costumes in a production of The Lion King, Leonard began collecting giraffe figurines. His family continues to collect giraffe-related memorabilia in his honor.
Timeline drawn by Lisa Anne Frost at age 12
Collection 9/11 Memorial Museum, Gift of Thomas Frost
In May 2001, Lisa Frost graduated summa cum laude from Boston University. She had been a dedicated student since childhood. Lisa's father credits her sixth-grade teacher as a formative role model for Lisa. Lisa created this biographical timeline for that teacher's class at Trabuco Mesa Elementary School in Orange County, California, when she was 12 years old. It documents milestones from her birth in 1978 to the start of the school year in 1990.
Mission to Remember: Acquiring Artifacts
As part of our mission to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993 terrorist attacks, the 9/11 Memorial Museum works with family members, close friends, and coworkers to collect artifacts and spoken remembrances that illustrate the lives, personalities, and passions of those who were killed.
In the video below, Executive Vice President of Collections and Chief Curator Jan Seidler Ramirez shares how her team collects objects for display in the Museum.


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This 1939 Ford was one of many shiny classic cars from a three-state area that were on display at the car show on Monday afternoon in Elks Park as part of Septemberfest in Rangely. There were sports cars, classics, hot rods, street cars and pickups of many ages and styles also offered as part of the show, which had about 60 cars.
Jeff LeBleu of Rangely was snapped up early on Monday morning and informed that he would be the grand marshal in Septemberfest's Star-Spangled Parade later that morning. LeBleu was honored for his involvement in a large number of community activities in the Rangely area and his contributions of time and energy in many events.
A cute Olivia Green of Rangely is pretty intense as she peddles her way through the Septemberfest bike rally sponsored Saturday morning by the Rangely Police Department. Various activities were scheduled to appeal to those of all ages, from the bike rally to a skeet shoot at the Rangely Elks Shooting Range north of town.


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By Mary Gordon
320 pp. Pantheon Books. $26.95.
Mary Gordon is the bard of the American Catholic experience. She's preternaturally talented, but her reputation has been unfairly shadowed by certain assumptions about Catholicism — in other words, that Philip Larkin was right about religion being a "vast moth-eaten musical brocade."
I've felt a kinship with Larkin ever since I stumbled on his 1974 collection "High Windows" in my high school library and sat transfixed, reading the title poem. As a cradle Catholic who has lapsed and returned more times than I care to consider, I have a special need for his elegiac asperity when it comes to lost faith. Yet I also learned that Catholicism was nothing to be ashamed of from the avant-garde film critic P. Adams Sitney, the first intellectual Catholic I had the great luck to study with. If a man who helped found the Anthology Film Archives and counted the groundbreaking director Jonas Mekas as a friend sincerely believed that Christ rose from the dead, maybe I could watch the resurrection of the wife in Carl Dreyer's "Ordet" with credulous wonder after all.
Gordon has managed to write from Larkin's and Sitney's perspectives at the same time. Like Larkin, she's an ironic progressive. Like Sitney, she's a practicing Catholic. But her vantage point is a lonely one. Pope Francis seems to act like a liberal believer, and his adoring crowds seem to want that too. Yet the church hasn't reformed its positions on abortion, homosexuality or celibacy. Forgiveness is wonderful, but did Francis have to shake hands with Bill O'Reilly at the Vatican?
Gordon's fiction traverses the Catholic world like a submarine, diving to the depths of its monstrosities and surfacing into the secular world to reveal intimate knowledge of what lies beneath. Many of her novels and stories face the risk that's encountered by all philosophically and politically inclined literary endeavors — a feeling that the characters are stand-ins for particular ideas, that plots are schematic frameworks for particular arguments. Yet in her exceptional new novel, Gordon animates the contradictions and subtleties of her outsider Catholicism, setting them within a dramatic panorama that reads — improbably — as swiftly as an airport paperback.
"There Your Heart Lies" is partly set during the Spanish Civil War and later in Franco's Spain. Its central character is a 92-year-old widow who puts me in mind of the 100-year-old protagonist of Sebastian Barry's "The Secret Scripture," a Protestant inmate of a mental asylum recounting her perilous life in Catholic Sligo, Ireland. Both women are riveting creations. Marian Rabinowitz's story opens on board the S.S. Normandie in 1937, when, as a young woman, she is on her way to Europe to serve the Republican cause, intent on volunteering in Spanish hospitals. Within pages, though, we're flashing back to 1936 and Greenwich Village, where we learn that she is a Vassar student, the one with "guts" and "brains" in her overbearing, conservative Catholic family. And that she has defied her family by marrying a Jew.
Marian's headlong fierceness echoes that of Mary McCarthy, who graduated from Vassar in 1933 and was a literary beacon for Gordon. Growing up in an Irish Catholic ghetto in Queens, Gordon felt McCarthy "was so glamorous, and so smart, yet Catholic. I'd always thought only Protestants were." The heroine of Gordon's novel shares McCarthy's atheism. She has made up her mind that Catholics are on the wrong side of history.
In the Spanish Civil War, and in Franco's reign, they certainly seem to be. Marian's worldview is easily reinforced until reality breaks through her preconceptions in a series of magnetically realized plot developments. Throughout, Gordon illuminates her scenes with kinetic precision. Government surveillance "is in the air: The lungs take it in like silicate." "Cancer. The word hangs over their heads like a vicious, shining hook." A woman fights hunger by eating carob pods and "grass boiled in salt water." A famished nurse hides two eggs and cooks them in wine to avoid having to share them if she's seen taking scarce water from jugs in the center of the ward.
Alternating with the story in Spain are sections set in Avondale, R.I., in 2009. Here Marian's granddaughter, 24-year-old Amelia, is front and center. Although she has come to live with her ailing grandmother after graduating from college and the bond between them is strong, at the outset it is unexamined. To Marian, the young woman seems naïve, little more than a "lovely face, always with a hint of puzzlement or surprise, like an animal lifting its head after drinking in a stream, startled, confused by the arrival of a stranger." The granddaughter has similar misapprehensions, imagining that the older woman's past, about which she has said little, is filled only with "unalarming relics: a snood, antimacassars, finger bowls."
Gordon avoids the obvious problems of the political novel by making the two women's re-education the book's emotional spine — and by populating it with vivid, unpredictable secondary characters. Yes, one of them is a priest. He navigates the world with humility, a raucous sense of humor and an uncanny understanding of the motives of people committed to violence. Through him, we begin to see how the unthinkable evolves into the partially reasonable and then the purely necessary. He's also the source of one of the novel's most pointed insights about violence: "Mostly, people are in impossible positions, and they act impossibly."


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I know I can't be alone in not liking Mad Men and Game Of Thrones, but I certainly feel it. I recently watched 6 episodes of each and I'm calling it a day there. The simple reason I give is that I don't find either entertaining, and entertainment is the whole reason I watch TV.
Why mention it then? Well, the reason I'm writing this, is that I have been made to feel "uncool" about my decision not to watch these two, oh so popular TV shows. In a recent discussion, people actually got angry about me giving up on Game Of Thrones. They thought I was cruelly depriving my husband of the pleasure also.
It's a personal choice based on my own personal values. I couldn't care less if the rest of the world watches them, I'm happy for them to have found something they enjoy, I really am. But I don't, and surely that's OK too? Am I really a "prude", as one person put it, not to want to watch women being raped, beaten, humiliated, used as prostitutes and in some cases being portrayed as enjoying it? Maybe I am, though I very much doubt anyone who knows me would describe me as prudish.
Is it "up tight" not to want to watch women being treated like a mindless underclass? Being cheated on, used for sex? Being completely degraded and debased? Yes, I know "it happened in the 50s" but my entire point is that it's still happening. – and that's my personal reason for not wanting to watch it "as entertainment".
There's an invisible line that exists between "entertainment" and "real life" these days which we're just supposed to accept, and if we don't we're "up tight" or "uncool" or "prudish". I choose not to accept it in these 2 shows and instead of just nodding and saying "OK", people ask "WHAT? WHY?" Or say "Oh my God, I'll lend you the box set it's amazing". When pressed, I tell them I don't watch them because I find them sexist, people roll their eyes and use the word feminist, like it's an insult. Just to reiterate, I'm not saying they shouldn't watch, I'm not the one who brought up the topic and I'm not saying the shows, in themselves are wrong or bad or anything other than "not my choice of entertainment".
I'm not particularly vociferous about my views, I doubt anyone would use the word "strident" about me (though if they did I certainly wouldn't consider it a bad thing). I'm quiet in my own personal way of rejecting sexism yet I still come under fire for it.
Well I've made a decision. From here on in, I'm going to stand up for what I believe in. I have a daughter now and I'm damned if I'm going to let her grow up without seeing me stand up for what I believe in, as an example to her.
Say I was to "tow the line" with the particular folks in the discussion that got me so moved to write this post,
Then how would it go? Tell me again; Strippers and lap dances both on TV and in real life are "entertainment" a "bit of fun" but importing women against their will to strip and lap dance (and way, way worse) isn't ok? So do you ask for ID and citizenship papers before or after she's shown you her vagina? OK let's move on…so getting a woman who's not a "professional stripper" say Jane from work, to take all her clothes off and dance naked for you isn't ok? But why? Why can't Jane make a few bob on her lunch break and dance naked in your lap in the photocopy room for £20? Oh, your wife wouldn't like that. Yet she's supposed to be OK with Crystal doing it because she's a professional.
And it's "entertainment" for a vastly greater proportion of the women in shows like Game Of Thrones to be naked, but objectifying women in the street or office or bus to work isn't ok? And you don't do it do you? Not even that girl at the bus stop with the knee high boots? You know the one…no? You can differentiate can you? You turn off your objectification goggles when you step into real life do you? What about the girl in the bikini on the giant poster in the bus shelter? Can you objectify her? Is that allowed?
Let's carry on, so it's "fine" for me to watch women cavorting round topless on the tv but if I went outside my flat right now and took off my top I'd be arrested? But if a man went out topless it'd be ok?
Hold on a minute…if it's OK for men to be topless then why aren't there loads of men cavorting around topless performing sex acts on each other on Game Of Thrones? Oh…you wouldn't want to see that. No. Ew.
What was your reason again? Oh yeah, because that's "gay".
So to summarise your rules – women being imported as sex slaves or beaten, raped, humiliated, underpaid and undervalued right now in "real life" isn't OK? But not wanting to watch it on TV in glorious high definition isn't OK either? And getting danced on by Crystal is OK but by Jane is not OK. And naked cavorting men is "gay" and not something you want to watch but naked cavorting women is ok because it's just entertainment. But you'd still arrest me if I try to run down my street topless.
Nope, sorry, you lost me.
To the people who are annoyed by my choices – I'm going to make it really simple – if it makes me feel bad, I'm not watching it, listening to it, reading it or accepting it. It doesn't affect you and I won't judge you for your choices.
I don't watch Mad Men or Game Of Thrones because they don't entertain me. Let's just leave it at that.
Oh, and I'm a feminist. Yeah I am.


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A famous piece by a writer declares music to be the Food for Love. If so than how can a person compromise with his food and eating habits? He is very particular about earning money and investing in good food as it matters to his health. Similarly, a good car is worthless without a good quality stereo.
The car stereo market is inflating everyday. There are certain criteria that need to be taken into account before deciding among the best options available today.
The most important thing to lead the way are features of a particular stereo. The features include various things like the display panel with floodlighting, the sound quality, the design, electronic shock protection, compact disc changers and the operation controls. The stereos available today are portable, have colored screens and vary in shapes and sizes.
The market provides a wide variety of products to choose from at an affordable price. The configuration depends on the type of facilities it provides like voice reversal, scanning, tuning for FM and AM and volume control.
The sound control system is worth giving a hard thinking, as it needs to be precise. The amplifier provides good quality sound to a stereo system. They contribute to the clear voice of the songs played. They also give adequate arrangements for connectivity with iPods and Memory Cards. We can even attach our mobiles to these jacks. These stereos have capacity of mobile and versatile entertainment by a mere connection of a few cables.
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