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THE NORTH COAST
Smuggling boats landed goods from the continent on the south coast of the peninsula in all seasons, but the north coast was used for continental traffic principally during the summer, when the Atlantic storms had abated.
The coastline on the north is less favourable for landings: there are fewer gently-sloping sandy beaches, and many of the suitable coves are too exposed to the wind, making approach more hazardous. The heavy surf for which the area is now famous was another problem, breaking up the floating 'rafts' of roped-together tubs. The main advantage of a north coast landing to the smuggler was that it was inconspicuous: revenue vessels kept an eagle eye on the south coast, but were less vigilant on the north.
Smuggling activity on the north coast focused on traffic with the West Indies, and with various off-shore depots, such as Ireland, the Scillies and Lundy Island. Ocean-going vessels heading for Bristol found it a simple matter to keep a clandestine rendezvous with small boats off the Devon coast.
At the extreme tip of Cornwall, Sennen was a centre of the free-trade. The inn was owned by a farmer who helped to finance local smuggling operations, with the help of the landlady, Ann George, and her husband. Dissatisfied with their lot, this unpleasant pair blackmailed the farmer, refusing to pay the rent on the premises. When they were evicted, they shopped their former employer, and he was sent to jail for his involvement. Needless to say, this treason made the two informers highly unpopular, and had some considerable bearing on a later trial in the town.
This sequel came in 1805 when the excise men impounded a large cargo — 1000 gallons each of brandy, rum and gin, and a quarter of a ton of tobacco. As they struggled to remove the cargo, a large and hostile crowd built up, and a running battle ensued. The owner of the cargo eventually appeared in court charged with inciting the mob to riot. The main witness for the prosecution was Ann George, but she was regarded as such a malicious gossip that the case was dismissed.
Another court case, at St Just, a short way north of Sennen amply illustrates a number of other interesting facets of the free-trade — in particular the financial arrangements made by smugglers in order to conceal the trail they left behind. Two smugglers from the town — Oats and Permewan — were very active around 1818. However, they took the precaution of employing a middle-man, who paid the merchants in France for the goods that they brought to Britain.
It appears that the middle-man, Pridham, got greedy, and kept the payments, instead of just his percentage. Furthermore, he threatened to report the smugglers to the authorities if they ended the arrangement. A meeting was arranged, at which Permewan proposed to terminate the contract. To prevent prosecution based on Pridham's evidence, Oats and Permewan hatched a cunning plan. Pridham had met Permewan in person just a couple of times, so Permewan sent his brother to impersonate him. While the meeting took place, Permewan himself made a point of establishing the perfect alibi, by meeting as many people in the town as possible. So when the blackmailer made his accusations, his evidence was ruled out of court.
SW5250 12m W of Redruth. Trencrom Hill is at SW5136 on a minor road 2m SW of Lelant. The cottages are at the end of a track leading away from the NT carrpark. At St Erth , you can still see the bridge under which the Redruth man hid: it is by the churchyard at SW549351 (map 203).
St Ives Bay is the first inlet sheltered from the Atlantic storms, and it should come as no surprise to learn that north-coast smuggling started this close to Land's End. John Wesley noted of the town that 'well-night one and all bought and sold uncustomed goods'.
The collector of customs here was at one stage John Knill, who, it appears, dabbled in smuggling a little himself. While he was mayor (in 1767) he paid for the fitting out of a privateer, which was used as a smuggler. He also built a steeple nearby to serve as a landmark for his vessels, and left some curious provisions in his will to ensure that his memory lived on in the town.
One story links Knill to a boat loaded with china that ran aground at the Hayle side of Carrack Gladden. The crew escaped, and someone removed the ship's papers since they implicated Knill and a squire of Trevetho. Roger Wearne, the customs man of the time, helped himself to some of the cargo, but got no further with it than the ship's side. As he was climbing down, one of the locals noticed his bulging garments, and a few well-aimed blows ensured that the china was worthless.
In St Andrews Street at St Ives once stood the Blue Bell Inn which was frequented by a Dutch smuggler called Hans Breton. It was said that he was in league with the devil, and that he paid duty on just one keg of brandy. This, however, never seemed to empty, and lasted 22 years.
Like most of their fellow countrymen, the people of St Ives enjoyed a story that showed the smuggler as hero and the preventives as at best fools. One episode which reinforces this impression took place in 1851. Despite the considerable — and largely successful — efforts that had been taken to stamp out the free-trade locally, a notorious local smuggler called James 'Old Worm' Williams landed smuggled Irish whiskey close to the St Ives breakwater, and hid the barrels in fishing boats and pig sties near the water. Later that night, three carts collected the haul, and carried it openly through the streets, heading east. However, the carts attracted the attention of a coastguard drinking in the George and Dragon in the market place, and when he investigated, he was knocked to the ground, bound and gagged. After some time, though, he managed to get free, and went for help. The officer he called on galloped off to the toll-house on Hayle causeway, but the toll-collector denied ever seeing any waggons. (In fact, the smugglers had got new horses at Skidden Hill, and had made for Hayle and Redruth). The Coastguard drew the conclusion that the smugglers had headed for Penzance, and made a fruitless trip there.
All that remained in evidence was Williams' smack, the St George , which was still in the bay. The only crew-man left on board was a Prussian cabin-boy who apparently knew just three words of English — 'I don't know'. According to tradition, though, he had been threatened with murder if he told more. Eventually the customs authorities, for want of greater crimes, detained the boat on the rather feeble charge that the ship's name was partially hidden where it was painted on the stern.
A passage relating the incident appeared in the West Briton, headed 'Smuggling', and Williams took the unprecedented step of replying. He claimed that he was in St Ives harbour to take on board baskets of fish, and suggested that the coastguard in the George and Dragon had been drunk and simply imagined the carts. The letter appeared on June 13th 1851, and the vessel was released on the 16th.
The customs men were, however, nothing if not persistent. They crept up some tubs nearby, and found with them rope and chain that matched samples from the St George. Nevertheless, the case was dismissed for lack of evidence.
The cabin boy, nicknamed 'Prussian Bob' settled in St Ives, and became known as 'Old Worm's Fool' on account of his fine performance.
A St Ives historian argues that the town was the last outpost of the trade: in the 1870s a local boat called Old Duchy smuggled rum from Holland. The trips ended when the excisemen put spies among the fishermen involved in the trade, resulting in heavy fines all round.
The area around St Ives and to the east has its fair share of smuggling tales: at Trencrom Hill, Lelant, one of two granite cottages once known as Newcastle was used as a 19th century kiddlewink — a beershop. Smugglers excavated a cave alongside for the concealment of contraband. The cottages still stand on the hill, but are private houses — there is no public access to them. The church at Lelant was also used for the storage of contraband spirits.
According to a St Erth legend, a Redruth man was being pursued by the excisemen, when he decided at St Erth Bridge that his exhausted nag could no longer carry both himself and the tubs. He dismounted, and hid under the bridge, whipping the horse off at a gallop. When he heard the officer's horse pass overhead, the man emerged and walked back home — the horse arrived a good deal earlier
3m SE of St Ives. The house with the tunnel lies close to Phillack at the end of a cul-de-sac on the N side of the inlet, at SW562382 (map 203). On the coast north of Hayle, the B3301 coast road to Portreath passes several landing points: Hell's Mouth some 5 m from Hayle, at SW605420 was a landing spot; and Ralph's Cupboard (named after a smuggler), a mile outside Portreath at SW644452 was used for storage.
Hayle was a popular landing place for smugglers, and in the garden of a house that was formerly the local youth hostel there is a remarkable tunnel that was allegedly used for smuggling. A sloping trench leads down from ground level to the arched tunnel entrance, where the hinges for a gate or door can still be seen. The tunnel is still open, and runs due north for hundreds of yards. It is possible to walk along it only in a stooping posture, though in the last two centuries, the average stature has risen considerably, so possibly 17th century smugglers could have walked upright.
Many smugglers' tunnels prove disappointing, or just non-existent, but this one seems authentic: it is the right shape; it runs towards the coast; it even has a drainage gulley along its length to keep the flat floor dry.
Among the local smuggling legends is a story of a smuggler who came to live in Hayle, despite the fact that he was a stranger to the area. He was comparatively wealthy, but seemed always to suffer from the cold — he had a very pale complexion, and shivered even in summer. When he stood in the sun, it's said, he cast no shadow. When the man died, it emerged that he had made his money by giving false evidence against a fellow, and claiming the reward. From that day on, the sun never shone on the perjurer.
SW8572 (map 200). To reach the tunnel described below leave Porthcothan by the road on the N side, turning up the valley along footpaths, and keeping to the S side of the brook. Walk up the valley until a tributary joins the main brook at SW865715 , then follow the tributary for some 300 yards. The low entrance to the cave is halfway up the valley side on the right. Look carefully: it's well hidden in bracken and gorse in the summer.
To the east of the St Ives area, smuggling traditions are fragmented and occasional. This is perhaps to be expected, since most of the inland areas could be supplied with continental luxuries far more easily from the south coast than the north. Nevertheless, persistent stories link some of the north coast towns and villages with the free-trade.
In The Book of the West, the vicar of Morwenstowe describes a cave used for concealing contraband, a little way up the valley from Porthcothan Bay, just west of Padstow.
At Porth Cothan the cliffs fall away and form a lap of shore, into which flows a little stream....About a mile up the glen, is a tiny lateral combe. Rather more than halfway down the steep slope is a hole just large enough to admit a man entering in a stooping posture...
The cave is still in existence, but there is no trace of the extensive tunnel that the writer goes on to describe. Some of the details he wrote about over a century ago can still be seen though: there are notches near the mouth, into which smugglers lodged a beam of timber; they then heaped earth against the beam and covered the pile with furze to hide the entrance. The tunnel supposedly led to a farm half a mile away.
SW855737 (Map 200). Take the B3276 Newquay to Padstow road, and turn off towards the coast about 4 miles outside Padstow, following signs to Treyarnon Bay caravan site, where there is ample parking. Walk across the beach, and S along the cliff path for about 600 yards. Pepper Cove is the 3rd inlet.
Smugglers were essentially opportunists, and were prepared to run practically anything that would turn a profit. When pepper was taxed heavily, it became a popular item for the Cornwall smugglers, and tiny Pepper Cove a little way north of Porthcothan takes its name from the boatloads of spice that were landed there.
It's an archetypical smugglers' cove: the entrance from the sea is narrow, and fringed with jagged rocks; once inside, a smuggler's vessel would be totally hidden by the high cliffs, so that unloading could be a safe and leisurely activity. The beach is sandy and free of rocks, and the gradient is sufficiently gentle that even a large boat could have been beached quite easily.
Nearby is Wills Rock: smugglers left a revenue man on the rock to drown in the rising tide; amazingly, the officer lived to tell the tale.
Here an Irish smuggling vessel chased an excise ship into the harbour, then hung out flags and fired guns as a victory signal. The smugglers sailed on to unload at Newquay, where the customs authorities were known to be very obliging about watching the wall.
In 1765 a beach 2 miles west of Padstow was in use as a landing point, and William Rawlings wrote in that year to the earl of Dartmouth that his servants encountered 60 horses carrying a cargo from the beach some 3 miles from St Columb...'having each three bags of tea on them of 56 or 58lbs weight'
Another local story — perhaps apocryphal — tells how a farmer, spotted carrying a barrel of spirits by a distant exciseman, lifted a gatepost from its socket, dropped the tub into the hole, replaced the gatepost and greeted the man with a cheery wave.
Jamaica Inn is at SX184768 on the A30 at Bolventor, Bodmin Moor, 10 miles outside Bodmin. Despite the many changes the inn has undergone, the bleak spot still hints at the malice and ill-fortune so vividly portrayed in the book.
On the windswept wastes of Bodmin Moor Jamaica Inn is perhaps the best known of all smuggling haunts, thanks to Daphne Du Maurier's novel of the same name. It is surrounded by barren country and often hemmed in by chill winds and thick mists, and the approach is perhaps more spectacular than the building itself. The fame of the inn is not entirely fictional: it was probably supplied with contraband booze landed by Polperro and Boscastle boats.
Port Isaac is at SW9981 nine miles N of Wadebridge. Parking on the beach at low tide (fee); at other times, park above the village and walk down the steep streets to the harbour area. Village centre closed to traffic during the high season.
Will you hear of Cruel Copinger?
'Cruel' Copinger was the most notorious of Cornwall's many smugglers, and the Rev RS Hawker paints a vivid picture of Copinger's arrival in a furious storm. The population turned out in the hope of a wreck, and spied...
a strange vessel of foreign rig...in fierce struggle with the waves of Harty Race. She was deeply lade or waterlogged, and rolled heavily in the trough of the sea, nearing the shore as she felt the tide. Gradually the pale and dismayed faces of the crew became visible, and among them one man of Herculean height and mould, who stood near the wheel with a speaking-trumpet in his hands. The sails were blown to rags, and the rudder was apparently lashed for running ashore....the tall seaman, who was manifestly the skipper of the boat, had cast off his garments, and stood prepared upon the deck to encounter a battle with the surges for life and rescue. He plunged over the bulwarks, and arose to sight buffeting the seas. With stalwart arm and powerful chest he made his way through the surf, rode manfully from billow to billow until, with a bound, he stood at last upright upon the sand, a fine stately semblance of one of the old Vikings of the northern seas.
The story continues in this vein, with baroque, if exaggerated flourishes by the Reverend. Copinger grabbed the cloak from one of the old women on the beach (note the cruel streak), leapt onto a horse behind Miss Dinah Hamlyn, and rode off to her home, where he introduced himself to the girl's father as Copinger the Dane. The ship, meanwhile, sank from sight.Copinger threw himself on the family's charity, wooed the girl, and appeared grateful for all they did for him. The father, though, sickened and died, and Copinger took over as head of the household. He married Dinah, and immediately... 'his evil nature, so long smouldering, break (sic) out like a wild beast uncaged...'
Copinger, it emerges, was head of a large and terrifying gang, half smuggler, half pirate. After the wedding...'all kinds of wild uproar and reckless revelry appalled the neighbourhood day and night'.
Copinger indulged in many daring exploits — but the reverend Hawker mentions only a few specifically. One was to lure a revenue cutter into a channel near Gull Rock. Copinger piloted his ship, the Black Prince , safely ashore, but the revenue cutter went aground, and all perished. To deter the excisemen on another occasion, the crew cut the head off a gauger, and carried the body to sea.
Copinger terrorised the locality, capturing men who had offended him, and forcing them into working on his boat. This story finds confirmation in other sources: a 97 year old man told a Penzance woman , that he was witness to a murder perpetrated by an associate of Copinger's, and that to prevent him from telling anyone he was abducted. He was released only when some friends ransomed him two years later.
Copinger amassed such a fortune that when he bought a farm he paid with gold coin...'Dollars and ducats, doubloons and pistoles, guineas — the coinage of every foreign country with a seabord'. The astonished lawyer reluctantly agreed to the payment by weight.
Copinger even controlled land transport, forbidding anyone to move on 'Copinger's tracks' at night. The paths converged at a headland called Steeple Brink, hundreds of feet below which was Copinger's Cave, where secret revelry went on...'that would be utterly inconceivable to the educated mind of the nineteenth century.'
Copinger extorted money from his mother-in-law by tying his beautiful wife to the bedstead, and threatening to whip her with a sea-cat unless the old woman paid up. He also whipped the vicar, and tormented a half-witted tailor, threatening to sell him to the devil. His union with Dinah produced a son, who, though deaf and dumb was as mischievous and cruel as his father, and who joyfully murdered a playmate when aged six.
Copinger's luck ran out, and he disappeared as he had arrived, in a violent storm. Standing atop Gull Rock, he waved his sword to the approaching craft and was eventually met by a boat in Harty Race 'with two hands at every oar; for the tide runs with double violence through Harty Race' The boat picked him up at Gull Creek, and the crew struggled through the waves to the pirate vessel. A crew-man who flagged was cut down with a cutlass. The tale ends...
Thunder, lightning and hail ensued. Trees were rent up by the roots around the pirate's abode. Poor Dinah watched, and held in her shuddering arms her idiot boy, and, strange to say, a meteoric stone, called in that country a storm-bolt, fell through the roof into the room, at the very feet of Cruel Copinger's vacant chair.
Port Isaac features prominently in the legend of Cruel Copinger. The advantages of the spot to the free-trading community are still obvious today: the long sandy beach is protected by high, rocky promontories on either side, and the valley stretching away inland must have provided easy access for the large numbers of men and horses needed to transport contraband in to the hinterland. Especially unusual is the life-boat house and fishermen's shelter, a triangular building that protects a cobbled courtyard from the lashing Atlantic rain.
At the shelter you can buy excellent lobsters, a reminder that Port Isaac was for a long time one of only two substantial fishing villages along this stretch of the north coast — Bude was the other. The Bloody Bones Bar at a local pub is a shrine to smugglers.
Cruel Copinger's biographer was the Reverend Hawker, vicar of this tiny hamlet. He wrote many tales of smuggling folk in the area, and one characteristic tale concerns 'The Gauger's Pocket' or the Witan-Stone (rock of wisdom) at Tidnacombe Cross. It is on the edge of the moor, near the sea '...grown over with moss and lichen, with a moveable slice of rock to conceal its mouth...a dry and secret crevice, about an arm's length deep. Smuggler Tristram Pentire, who tells the tale to the vicar adds...
'There, sir have I dropped a little bag of gold, many and many a time, when our people wanted to have the shore quiet and to keep the exciseman out of the way of trouble; and there he would go if so be he was a reasonable officer, and the byeword used to be, when t'was all right, one of us would go and meet him, and then say, 'Sir, your pocket is unbuttoned;' and he would smile and answer, 'Ay! ay! but never mind, my man, my money's safe enough;' and thereby we knew that he was a just man, and satisfied, and that the boats could take the roller in peace...'
Tristram Pentire seems to have kept the location of the Witan Stone a secret, because today, even knowledgeable locals at Morwenstow know nothing of the concealed hiding hole.
East of Hartland point, Bideford Bay provided a safe haven from the pounding westerlies. On the west of the bay the village of Clovelly, clinging to the cliff-face, had a notorious reputation as a smuggling haunt, and certainly many smuggler's luggers set out from the well-protected harbour there. A local legend about cannibals keeping tubs of salted human flesh in caves along the coast may well have been spread by smugglers to keep inquisitive visitors away from their hiding places. However, see this website, which calls the story into question. Today, locals will point out the smugglers' cave to the curious — it's a good walk east along the shore from the harbour.
Lundy Island was at the centre of a massive tobbacco smuggling scheme that defrauded fortunes from the exchequer in the mid 18th-century. The mastermind of the fraud was a Bideford man called Thomas Benson. He had inherited considerable wealth from his father, including a fleet of ships plying regularly to the American colonies, and returning with tobacco. Benson's fortune flourished from the trade, and in due course he became Sheriff of Devon, and later MP for Barnstaple. His business activities were not up to the standard expected of present-day public figures (though Benson was probably far from a black sheep by 18th-century standards). Benson conceived an elegant scheme to defraud the customs, involving both Lundy Island, which he rented from Lord Gower, and the steady flow of convicts who streamed through Bideford on route for the New World.
The defrauded customs men of Appledore, Bideford and Barnstaple were perplexed. 'We are at a very great loss how to act in this case...' they wrote in September 1751 '...as we cannot find that this island is within the limits of any port'. The problem persisted. The following year the board of customs feared that '...the island will become a magazine for smuglers (sic)'.
However, Benson's days were numbered. He had scuttled one of his ships to claim the insurance, and the government net was closing tighter on his customs frauds. In 1754 he fled to Portugal.
The Barnstaple custom house staff must have considered their lot unlucky in the extreme. They were on the losing side whatever happened: when smugglers were popular, the customs men were villains. But even when the local populace were at odds with the smugglers, the customs men were accused of being too slack in the execution of their duties. In 1746 the Barnstaple people believed that corn was being illegally exported (the corn laws made this illegal when the price of grain rose above a certain level). Of course, they looked to the customs men to prevent export and in April a mob took to the streets of the town.
The exporter, Major General Campbell, had a licence to ship the corn, but the 'mobb' suspected this to be a forgery. The customs men themselves were in mortal danger, since they had to ensure the grain was loaded legitimately. The mob burst into a granary in the town, and carried away 600 bushels of wheat. They 'patrol'd the streets beating old frying pans, canisters and blowing horns, threatening all who should offer to oppose them.' They even broke the window of a previous owner of the granary.
The mob were, however, possibly justified in their suspicions. Forged documents were commonplace, and there was a centuries-old tradition of fraud at the port. In one particularly memorable medieval example, smugglers were loading contraband leather from the Barnstaple quay, in full view of a corrupt official. A visiting merchant drew the man's attention to the illicit activity with the words 'here it is, blind knave', but the official simply laughed.
The customs men also had to deal with wrecks, and this was another source of friction. When a ship called Beulah was wrecked near Barnstaple in 1764 the locals swarmed around, and one of them, the wife of Richard Budd, assaulted the tide surveyor with a ladle. The poor man was apparently unaware that she was wife of the tenant of the local manor, and therefore entitled to salvage — she had lace and a candlestick in her apron. Also washed up was a small cask of rum which was doled out to the men who had helped with the salvage 'they being exceedingly wet and cold'. Mrs Budd evidently also partook — she got so drunk that she fell from her horse.
9m N of Barnstaple (map 180). Access to Brandy
is through the National Trust estate of Langleigh Valley. Drive to Langleigh
Lane on the W side of Ilfracombe and park before the 'Unsuitable for Motors'
Place names in the Ilfracombe area bear witness to the town's connections with the smuggling trade. On the east side of the town there's an inlet called Brandy Cove, and to the west, Samson's Bay is named after a famous local smuggler. The bay could be the model on which 2nd-rate adventure-story writers base their 'Smugglers Cove'. A gentle sandy beach makes landing easy, and there are several deep caves which really were used for the storage of contraband. The beaches are visible only from the sea, and the entrances are covered at high tide. The cliffs above the beach are now overgrown with brambles, but a gulley which cuts through the hill-side is deep enough to conceal even a thousand ponies carrying contraband inland. Was it coincidence that the coastguard station was sited so nearby?
Nearby Lee Bay, some 3 miles to the west of Ilfracombe, was the base of a former member of Cruel Copinger's gang. Visitors can follow a walk that traces buildings and coastline associated with local smugglers. Click here to visit the Smugglers' Path web page.
Lynmouth and Lynton
East of Ilfracombe the north coast of Exmoor is wind-swept and desolate, and there are few proper landing places. Those that there are invariably played host to the free-traders: The 14th Century Rising Sun Inn at Lynmouth has a long-established reputation as a smuggler's pub, and on the way to Martinhoe the Lynmouth road passes close to a spot known as 'Smuggler's leap'. Here, it's said, a revenue man and the smuggler he was chasing tumbled over the cliff together, locked in a desperate struggle. The smuggler had a small lead over his pursuer, but the King's horse was evidently of better stock than the smuggler's old nag, and capture seemed inevitable. In a last ditch attempt to escape, the smuggler reined the horse round, but the beast lost his footing — and as the smuggler plunged over the cliff, he grabbed his traditional adversary, and they plummeted together to the rocks below.
 The Winsor Magazine
 Coxe, 1984
 Graham, Frank, 1967, quoting Bottrell, W, Traditions and Hearthside stories of W Cornwall.
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As its name indicates, West Street originally marked the western edge of Reno city limits. For three decades following the city’s founding in 1868, this side of town was dominated by houses, churches, and schools, far removed from the central business district. That changed in 1907, when the two lodging establishments that still anchor the north and south ends of this block were constructed: the Colonial Apartments on the corner of First Street, and the Senator Hotel, on the corner of Second.
The brick commercial buildings in the block’s center were all constructed in the 1920s, replacing three large wood-frame houses that had stood there since at least 1890. Two additional private homes once stood at the site of the Colonial Apartments and its courtyard.
W. J. Hackett opened the Reno Hudson-Essex dealership at 148 West Street in December 1927. The Essex line was one of the Hudson Motor Car Company’s most affordable, with a 4-door sedan selling for just $795. Hackett ran the sales operations out of the front of the building, with a service department in the back, offering several different makes of cars over the next few years.
Not just an auto dealer, Hackett was also one of Reno’s most prominent musical figures. He directed a number of ensembles including the Shriners’ band, the Reno Municipal Band, and the Silver State Band, which played throughout the region.
In October 1932, after Hackett left the auto business, Tom Joyce moved The Fix-It Shop into the building. Joyce was an all-around handyman who had started out as a piano tuner and stage electrician in his native Montana. Later called Joyce’s Fix-It Shop, his business specialized in the construction and repair of furniture and upholstery, eventually moving into flooring under the name Tom Joyce Floors.
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3.2 Compositions and Education - Clarinet Music from Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-1991
Compositions and education
Concerning Russian clarinet compositions, the above-mentioned Trio Pathetique by Glinka is without doubt the most famous work. There are, however, a few other compositions from the 19th century. Aleksandr Alyabyev (1787–1851) composed a Woodwind Quintet in c minor. The exact composition date is not known, and the manuscript remained unfinished. B. Dobrokhotov completed the work, which was published in 1953 (Maistrenko 2017, 132). Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894) composed the Octet op. 9 for piano, strings and winds, which was published in 1849 and the Quintet op.55 in f major for piano and woodwind quartet (1855). Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) experimented with playing various wind instruments, one of which was the clarinet. His Konzertstück (Clarinet Concerto) in e-flat major for clarinet (in B-flat) and wind orchestra from 1878 is close to the tradition of the clarinet as a military band instrument. In the same period Rimsky-Korsakov also composed a Quintet in b-flat major for woodwinds and the small duos Canzonetta and Tarantella for two clarinets (in B-flat and A). Sergey Taneyev (1856–1915) composed the beautiful and lyrical Canzonetta for clarinet and strings in 1883. In the same year, he also wrote Andante, a decimet for doubled woodwind quintet. Sergey Taneyev’s nephew, Aleksandr Taneyev (1850–1918), composed the Arabesque for clarinet and piano around 1880. In 1885 Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936) wrote a series of Miniature Duos for clarinet and various second wind instruments. In the same year, Glazunov also composed small pieces for two clarinets: Adagio, Allegretto, Andante and Appassionato. The quintet Oriental Reverie Op. 14 No.2 for clarinet and string quartet is Glazunov´s own arrangement of the Two Pieces for Orchestra op.14 from 1886 (Maistrenko 2017, 139-140). The French composer Anton (Antoine) Simon (1850–1916), living in Moscow, composed a rather virtuoso work for that time, the Pièce Concertante (Clarinet Concerto) op. 31 for clarinet and orchestra around 1888. Pièce Concertante is dedicated to Rozanov and was only published in 1954 (Maistrenko 2017).
When looking at the music education and development of clarinet playing in Russia, one can see that major changes emerged in the second half of the 19th century. Until the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the only possibility for serfs to learn to play a musical instrument was in serf orchestras or military bands (Shakhman 2003, 75). This situation changed, however, and musical education in Russia became broadly accessible when Anton Rubinstein founded the conservatory of St Petersburg in 1862 and his brother Nikolay Rubinstein founded the Moscow conservatory in 1866. In the beginning, all clarinet professors were foreign: Ernesto Cavallini in St Petersburg (1862–1868), followed by the Germans Karl Niedmann (1886–1901) and Vasily (Wilhelm-Friedrich) Brekker (1901–1926). In Moscow, the first clarinet professor also were German: Voldemar (Wilhelm) Gut (1867–1872), Karl Zimmermann (1872–1891) and Joseph Friedrich (1891–1916) (Weston 2000, 58). Besides the two main conservatories, many music colleges (uchilishche) were founded all over the country from the 1870s on; first in Ukraine, then in southern and central Russia, and finally in Siberia (Maistrenko 2017, 175-195). Many of these music colleges were turned into conservatories at the beginning of the 20th century, aiming for the further professionalization of instrument playing and broader music education of the local population. Initially, the clarinet teachers were mainly German or Czech clarinetists and came from the from the local orchestras.
In 1916, Sergey Rozanov (1870–1937) was appointed as first Russian clarinetist in the position of conservatory professor. This is commonly seen as the beginning of the Russian school of clarinet playing (Maistrenko 2017, 120). Gradually a new generation of Russian clarinetists grew, taking over positions in orchestras and in teaching. Remarkably, the influences of the German clarinet tradition remained very noticeable even later in the Soviet Union: German system clarinets were played in Russia until the late 1950s and far into the 1960s, whereas French (Boehm-) System clarinets became common elsewhere in Europe and the US by the early 20th century at the latest (see Chapter 6). Furthermore, out of 453 biographies on clarinet and saxophone performers of all periods in Russia, 449 players are male and only four are female (Maistrenko 2017, 308-359). The clarinet has remained thus an outspoken “male” instrument for a long time. The number of female clarinetists in Russia remained marginal until far into the 20th century.
 Germany, Austria and to some extent the Netherlands are keeping their specific instrument traditions to the present day and French system clarinets are used partly only.


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A New Tallahassee Celebration Highlights Writers and Musicians
Tallahassee’s Newest Festival Celebrates Writers and Music
Austin has one. Washington, D.C. does, too. Vancouver, Los Angeles and Nashville have them.
Welcome to the world of the literary festival, Tallahassee.
Best known as a songwriter, guitarist and human rights activist, Canadian Bruce Cockburn is also the author of a memoir released in 2014, “Rumours of Glory.”
Tallahassee’s Word of [South] — “a festival of literature and music” — will take place on four stages at the award-winning Cascades Park on April 11–12.
Local author, businessman and public servant Mark Mustian was the brains behind this new Tallahassee tradition. He says he has wanted to do something like this for a long time, ever since he was invited to speak at several literary festivals after his book, “The Gendarme,” was published. When visiting Decatur, Georgia, St. Petersburg and Los Angeles, he kept asking himself why this couldn’t be done in his hometown.
In true Tallahassee style, though, Mustian, along with his 25-member steering committee, wanted to make this an event all its own.
“Instead of just making it the Tallahassee version of the South Carolina Literary Festival,” he said, “we decided to try and do something different and host a festival devoted to both music and literature.”
Mustian explains that it’s the relationship between music and literature that the event is mainly interested in exploring.
“Clearly, a lot of musicians write and care about literature, and a lot of writers love (and write about) music,” he explains. “It’s fascinating to see the two blended together, and the enthusiasm generated in connection with it.”
Organizers are particularly excited about some of the unique book and music pairings at the festival, including Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler and activist/singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn; best-selling novelist Jeff Vandermeer and guitarist Vernon Reid; author Mary Gaitskill and musical storyteller Peg Simone; Irish writer Clare Lynch and Irish singer Brendan Nolan.
In addition, they wanted the event to have a distinctly family feel. Children of all ages will find something to love at the event, with performers and writers dedicated to the art of children’s storytelling front and center.
A “Young People’s Tent” will be up all weekend, with musical and book-related events to capture the imaginations of Tallahassee’s children and adolescents. Emmy Award-winning actor Tony Hale will read from his children’s book to kick off the event on Saturday, and kid-centric — but decidedly adult-friendly — bands such as Gustafer Yellowgold and Lunch Money will perform.
For older kids, the author and New York musician Michael Hearst will present a “slightly edgier show,” while Ramona King will show how stories can be put to music.
There will be plenty of musical and literary diversity, so everyone in the Tallahassee community will find something to love.
“We’ve deliberately tried to not be pegged as only providing a specific musical (or literary) genre,” Mustian said.
From jazz to gospel, alt-country to folk, Word of [South] will have it all. Organizers hope to appeal to Tallahassee’s unique “creative class,” people ages 25-45 that the area has spent considerable resources trying to involve in the community culture.
While the festival schedule is still evolving, some things are already in place.
PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Ann Patchett headlines the festival on Saturday afternoon, while the Marcus Roberts Trio plays at brunch on Sunday. The gospel group Sweet Honey in the Rock performs Sunday afternoon, and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra will play — with special guests — on Sunday evening. The Avett Brothers will perform at the Capital City Amphitheater the Friday night before the official festival kickoff.
Organizers want to showcase local artists, too, and an exciting synergy was developed with Tallahassee Music Week, a KCCI-sponsored initiative designed both to encourage local venues to host local musicians and to put local musicians in unusual places during one week — all leading up to the Word of [South] kickoff. Ultimately, more local performers will also be involved in the festival itself.
Mustian and the Word of [South] steering committee recently hired Amanda Stringer, the director of the Tallahassee Symphony, to be its director, too. An investment like this in the planning and structure of the festival is a key element to its future success. And success is exactly what they have planned.
The overall goals are to expand the event to national prominence, both in terms of footprint and talent. Geographically, organizers want to incorporate the Capitol facilities and also grow down Gaines Street as the festival gets momentum.
“We’ll be doing significant advertising — even for the first festival — outside of Tallahassee,” Mustian said. “To achieve some national publicity and make this a festival that’s known throughout the Southeast, if not the nation.”
In addition to great opportunities for cultural exposure and pure entertainment, there are countless ways to become involved in the festival experience.
“We need tons of volunteers,” Mustian says. “To work at the park the weekend of the festival, to help with artists, to help with transportation,” the list goes on.
There’s also a great opportunity for vendors. Organizers will have up to 50 spots for those wanting to sell music or book-related items. Application forms for vendors are available online at the festival’s website, wordofsouthfestival.com. Tallahasseeans who want to help as volunteers may also contact the organizers via the website.
The vision is large, but the commitment is substantial, too.
To help bring this vision to fruition, Word of [South] is supported by many sponsors already: Tallahassee Community College is the presenting sponsor of the event, and a broad array of public and private participants are also helping, including the Leon County Tourist Development Agency, the city of Tallahassee, the Tallahassee-Leon County Community Redevelopment Agency, the state of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Talcor, Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, the Florida League of Cities, Demont Insurance Agency, CenturyLink, the Knight Foundation, Figg Engineering, AARP, Walmart, Mike and Judy Sheridan and others.
“Our hope is that after the first festival, people come to Tallahassee to try and figure out how we got this done,” Mustian says. “The sky is the limit in terms of making something this big. The response from artists we’ve asked to participate in the festival has been fantastic.”
“If we can’t do this at a national level [of quality], then I don’t want to do it,” he told his colleagues. National quality is definitely what they’ve achieved for this inaugural event.

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As a creative individual, it’s important to stay ahead of the design game (or at the very least, as caught up as possible). Being inspired is an important step in that process. There are many places to draw creative inspiration from: books, other people, the environment (hello Traverse City!), and of course, the internet. Nowadays, there are art and design websites everywhere; I probably don’t need to tell you that.
In college I had to take a science class to fill the general education requirements. I chose “Anatomy and Physiology”, mostly because it was the only one that fit my schedule. But I’ve got to tell you, nothing has continued to inspire my creative work more than what I learned in that class. I have a fascination and appreciation for the human body and the structures that make it up. The skeletal system was my favorite to learn about and what I am still most drawn towards. I almost spent $20 just this weekend on a hand cream that I didn’t need, just because it had a skull on it.
Two of my favorite blogs are based on anatomy. Skull-A-Day was started by Noah Scalin, a graphic designer from Virginia. He decided one day (out of the blue, or so it sounds) to make something every day for a year. To give the project some cohesion, a human skull was chosen as the subject matter. So every day for a year, he made a skull, in mediums ranging from paper, found objects, carved vegetables, rubber stamps, spray paint, and so on. The best part? He didn’t stop after a year. This project is now in its FIFTH year, and now includes creative skull submissions from readers. To make something every day is such an inspiring concept, especially when there are bones involved.
Next up is Street Anatomy, created by medical illustrator Vanessa Ruiz. This super-cool site posts on graphic, fashion, furniture and product design, illustration, and fine art that has anything to do with anatomy. One of the first posts I saw on this blog was a set of drawers, in the shape of a female torso, and hidden drawers all over it. Some of my favorites are the tattoos: I love the style and concept behind tattoos in the first place, and when combined with anatomy? WA-BAM, awesome.

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Both the companies have also sought spectrum for 4G services through equity infusion from the government.
New Delhi: The Department of Telecom is learnt to have circulated a draft cabinet note for the allocation of 4G spectrum to BSNL and MTNL and implementation of a voluntary retirement scheme at the two loss-making telecom PSUs.
The department has sought comments of the key ministries on the proposals, an official source told PTI.
"The Department of Telecom has sent a draft cabinet note on 4G spectrum allocation to BSNL and MTNL and implementation of voluntary retirement scheme in these organisation. Comments from some of the key ministries are awaited," an official source told PTI.
Both the companies have also sought spectrum for 4G services through equity infusion from the government. BSNL, which has the lowest debt of Rs 14,000 crore among all telecom operators, has sought 4G spectrum across India through equity infusion of Rs 7,000 crore. The total spectrum will cost the firm Rs 14,000 crore.
BSNL is among the two telecom companies that have been consistently gaining customers. All competitors of BSNL have 4G spectrum and invested heavily in building their network while the PSU has only 3G network.
Digital Communications Commission, apex decision making body the DoT, had sought recommendations from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on 4G spectrum allocation to BSNL and MTNl.
However, Trai is learnt to have said that the issue pertains to the administrative domain and the decision should be taken by the government.
The PSUs have been also ailing because of high revenue-to-wage ratio due to a high number of government employees that were transferred by the Department of Telecom to them at the time of their formation. BSNL has 1.76 lakh employees across India and MTNL has 22,000 employees.
Both state-run telecom firms have asked for a voluntary retirement scheme for employees on the Gujarat model. Under the Gujarat model, an amount equivalent to 35 days of salary for each completed year of service, and 25 days of salary for each year of service left till retirement is offered.
The VRS scheme for BSNL and MTNL will have a revenue impact of Rs 6,365 crore and Rs 2,120 crore respectively.
The revenue-to-wage ratio in case of MTNL has swelled to 90 per cent while in the case of BSNL it is around 60-70 per cent. The DoT has recommended that VRS of both PSUs should be funded through a 10-year bond issue and the bonds should be paid back by lease revenue that they will get from land asset monetisation.
Implementation of VRS is expected to lower expenses of the firms and given them liquidity.
BSNL employees associations have opposed the move of implementing VRS alleging that whole idea of government in implementing the scheme in BSNL is to cut down the size of the workforce to make it attractive for privatisation.
The union said that VRS has been implemented twice in MTNL and still the company is deep crisis.
BSNL Employees Union, National Federation of Telecom Employees (BSNL), All India BSNL Executives Association, BSNL Mazdoor Sangh, BSNL Association of Telecom Mechanics, BSNL Officers Association etc covering almost all workforce of BSNL will hold protest demonstrations across the country on Thursday to oppose implementation of VRS.

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Just came from the Mitt presser next to the Hillsborough River, with the onion domes of the U-Tampa in the background. Mitt wore jeans. He wears jeans a lot. Message: I am the common man. Anyway, Mitt called Newt “highly erratic” and warned that Newt is a time bomb, an “October Surprise” waiting to happen. He called on Newt to release all his documents regarding his work for Freddie Mac. Romney went so far as to say that Newt may have engaged in “potentially wrongful activity of some kind.” I asked him directly: Does he mean by that that Gingrich in his lobbying may be guilty of some kind of crime? Romney said no, but that there are regulations about lobbying (I didn’t quite grasp what he was saying), and “if he’s been lobbying he ought to acknowledge that.”
Anyway, it’s getting feisty in Florida!
[3:40 p.m. update: Just saw Newt at a megachurch next to I-75. Newt said of Romney: “If you’ve been campaigning for six years and you begin to see it slip away, you get desperate.” And: “It’s such baloney...It used to be pious baloney, now it’s just desperate baloney.” Said Romney should open a delicatessen.]
This place has a lot of memories for me, or at least would have a lot of memories if I could remember anything prior to about 15 minutes ago. This was one of my stomping grounds, because my Dad lived here for several decades, starting in the late 1960s. I used to take the Trailways bus from Hogtown. I’d write more about it but gosh, it’s so last-millennium. We move on. Faulkner was wrong, the past is past. And if it’s not, this is why we invented selective memory.
Here’s the story I wrote that’s in today’s paper, about the “boom burbs” north of Tampa. I can’t believe these places exist. I knew every inch of I-75, thanks to the bus rides, and trust me, people didn’t live in these places back in the day.
Newt coming into town soon. Expect drama.
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It’s a crossroads moment in a wild political year, and on a street corner in the suburbs, Newt Gingrich supporters wave “Toot for Newt” signs. A few Ron Paul backers offer modest competition. Most remarkable is the intersection itself: impossibly vast, 10 lanes on a side, counting the turning lanes. Locals boast that it’s the largest traffic intersection in Florida.
So this is somewhere special. The surrounding area is known as Wesley Chapel, which is just up the road from New Tampa, which is so far from the old Tampa that the city’s skyscrapers when glimpsed from a freeway flyover are little nubs on the horizon.
The boom burbs are a signature of the Tampa area and of the politically critical Tampa-toOrlando-to-Daytona Beach strip known as the I-4 Corridor. Florida’s solar-powered real estate industry went into a frenzy during the housing boom, carving cul-de-sacs in pastureland and creating from scratch huge bedroom communities pocked with cypress swamps and sinkholes.
“I moved to Florida 16 years ago. This street didn’t exist. It was a one-lane road,” said Tom Banks, one of the Gingrich folks waving the signs at the intersection outside the Shops at Wiregrass.
This is where presidencies can be won — or lost. The state has 29 electoral votes, as many as New York. It’s by far the largest of the swing states. It’s no accident that the Republican National Committee chose Tampa for its summer convention. On Monday, the men vying to be the party’s nominee will debate on a stage here ahead of the Jan. 31 primary.
The boom burbs pose a particular challenge for presidential candidates. The voters are often independent ticket-splitters, as transient ideologically as they are geographically.
The folks in the boom burbs also have a reputation among political operatives for being hard to reach. The rap on them is that they go home and vanish into their domestic lives. They don’t tend to vote in local elections. They’ll vote in a presidential race but aren’t likely to attend a rally or a town-hall meeting — not that there are many town halls around here.
“It’s a get-in-the-garage and shut-the-door type of community,” said Nolan Ryon, 25, as he strolled through an outdoor art festival at the mall. He’s a Republican but undecided.
“Everyone just wants privacy,” said Vicki Wise, walking with her husband, Jim. They don’t talk much with their neighbors, she said, and certainly don’t talk politics.
“They went to school somewhere else, they got married somewhere else, they raised their kids somewhere else, they spent most of their lives somewhere else. How to get new arrivals to feel a sense of participation in Florida is a challenge,” said former governor and U.S. senator Bob Graham (D).
While running for governor, and later while in office, he tried to connect with voters by doing “workdays” in which he’d pick up trash or chop onions in a restaurant kitchen, or something to that effect. He remembers Lawton Chiles winning a U.S. Senate race in 1970 by walking all across the state. But times have changed. There were fewer than 3 million people in Florida in 1950. That’s about the same number who moved here between 2000 and 2010....
[FYI there are now about 19 million people in the state.]


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Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir logged 1,144 new cases on Friday as the number of active cases reached 10,620 taking the total tally to 144,021, officials said.
Out of the new cases reported on Friday, 414 from Jammu division and 730 from Kashmir division.
The UT also reported 562 recoveries taking the total recoveries to 131,353 have recovered.
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The Reality Of Matchmaking Ones Own Senior High School Sweetie. The biggest blunder anyone can make within their dating are wanting every thing to work out flawlessly.
Group are inclined to forget that interactions bring a bunch of perform, effort, communication, and damage, so some partners plan to let go of as soon as the relationship begins to get tough. The fact remains, relations arent constantly will be peachy , particularly for people who find themselves nevertheless dating their own highschool lover.
Most of the time associations dont work out because people begin to expand aside, these people recognize that they desire different things, or these people become each person. As youngsters, teenagers, and older people, we’re continuously switching . Every single day you become and find out various parts of ourself which we didnt realize before, and this also suggests that we need to let go of parts of our personal past if they no longer offer people, this often includes everyone.
However, we sometimes will deliver components of our personal history into the destiny once we work on trying to keep them strongly related to our everyday life, this incorporates the school sweethearts. As mentioned previously, we are continuously changing, thus for any of folks who’re however using our boyfriend/girlfriend from highschool, it is very important for other individuals to know that our relationships with one of these folks havent often merely functioned as fast as they offer seemed.
The truth to be with your senior school lover is that it is rather challenging at times.
At the time you feel advancement and change, you’ll develop into someone different than who you are when you first found, so you might discover a person arent as compatible; but some people believe this reduction with your two don’t collaborating signifies that a breakup happens to be expected, but this may not be correct! Visitors need to learn to see this as a chance to see unique things you can do with each other and connect out to help you bring that spark back once again
Though there perhaps arguments in regards to what both of you need, men and women have to achieve that the happens to be a good factor. Whenever people clear concerning their opposing belief, they truly are speaking, referring to what people disregard that they have to does in associations. Becoming with all your twelfth grade lover implies that you need to open relating to your views, problems, and wants to allowed your honey understand what is occurring to you. Consequently, possible work off 1 to comprehend the particular most readily useful moves include for people collectively as a unit.
Another issue that is likely to happen with all your school sweetheart is definitely point. At times point is actually inevitable, specially after http://datingmentor.org/chatrandom-review graduation in case you are both attending different institutions. It is typically not easy to work through today, but this really another aspect of living in which interaction trumps all. Or, if you should be graduating post-secondary in order to find you want to stop by divergent locations, this might lead to further problems also. In the event that you really like oneself, you may make it move by remaining in experience of one another. I strongly are convinced that almost always there is an easy way to generate things work, but both couples need to be capable of undermine discover usual surface just where both is happier.
Nowadays, this really doesnt signify there arent good period. Are with someone who you must enjoy numerous elements of yourself with is definitely incredible. It could be difficult, but are with the university sweetheart will mean that you have to perceive countless firsts along. A person adept school together, one practiced the issues of post-secondary faculty jointly, whether you were in one school or don’t, you have been in the position to reveal your daily life with someone for so many years that you might understand them significantly more than you even determine your self, so you surely got to relearn reasons for all of them any time you both evolved and practiced improvement in your own lives. Overall, we increased collectively , even if you expanded into each person, we taught the steps to making action function and the ways to stay compatible, and those include signs and symptoms of an extremely powerful commitment. Therefore, while going out with your own highschool sweetie could be extremely hard, you may be suffering from one of many greatest dating ever, and if you’re mindful, it may be a relationship with the a great deal of like, depend on, and compassion that no you can break.

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Convenience is one of the key drivers of e-commerce, so companies need to make sure their efforts allow the purchase of goods from anywhere.
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Nashville calling: Supermodel Karen Elson wakes up at our new House
The fashion muse and singer takes us on a tour of Music City, and tells us about life as a local
Tuesday February 22 2022 By Osman Can Yerebakan Photography by Emily Dorio Video by Mika Matinazad Styling by Leslie Stephens Makeup by Colleen Runne Hair by Giovanni Delgado
Fifteen years is long enough to fall in and out of love – with people, objects, or places – but for Elson, Nashville proves the opposite. Just like many storied connections, hers with the city was accidental, beginning during a cross-country road trip with her ex-husband, the rock musician Jack White, while carrying their first child. ‘On a whim,’ she recalls, they bought a house in what presented itself as ‘a charming and lovely place to raise a child’. Two children, many songs, and countless magazine covers later, Elson still resides here. ‘It’s just one step removed from the metropolitan rat race, but with everything I need,’ she says.
'Anyone who assumes that we wear plaid shirts and sit on haystacks is wrong – not that there is anything wrong with that'
The Tennesseean capital and a British supermodel-musician may sound like an odd pairing, but Elson is ready to prove the eyebrow-raisers wrong. ‘Anyone who assumes that we wear plaid shirts and sit on haystacks is wrong – not that there is anything wrong with that,’ she says, recommending Robert’s Western World for that true tumbleweed-blown and lasso-tossing Western experience. Walking the runway for Chanel, Versace, Dior, Balmain, Gucci, or Alexander McQueen in her 25-year career has taken the modelling veteran across the globe. Here, in the American south, she finds the freedom to claim many other roles, including a mum, a neighbour, and a friend – or even ‘a dorky British woman, sitting here on my bed with a cup of tea, my big tom cat Fergus on my lap,’ Elson said in an interview last year. In fact, Nashville reminds her of her hometown of Lancashire, and her life before she was discovered at age 16 by a modelling agent. ‘Being from the north of England always created the impression in the fashion world that I was not sophisticated,’ she remembers. Similarly, the Nashvillian is ready to challenge the similar provincial tropes of her new home.
With her explosive red hair and Victorian features, Elson could be mistaken for a living Viktor & Rolf mannequin, and when she clutches her guitar, she could have been born and raised within a 10-mile radius. She does not hesitate to blend her two worlds and be a spokesperson for the city: Harper’s Bazaar UK and Russian Vogue have come down here to shoot her for their covers. (Sean Brock’s restaurant The Continental provided the backdrop for this feature.)
Cardigan, Proenza Schouler at Modiste; trousers, Modiste
To recharge, Elson heads to Radnor Lake for its hiking trails and vistas. ‘My friends have amazing niche boutiques here, too,’ she adds. Brooke Baxter’s vintage jewellery at Arrow and Anchor, Alyssa Spyridon’s rugs at Relic Home, and Salt Ceramics run by Jess Cheatham are her favourites, as well as the local boutique, Modiste, for its curated range of established international brands and young designers.
‘You might have a hangover, but you will be entertained here,’ says Elson, describing a typical few days in Nashville. Professionally, she has concocted a balance between creating locally (‘I write and record so many songs here,’) and hopping on a plane to New York or Los Angeles when the work calls. ‘But,’ she adds, ‘my day always includes driving my kids to school.’
Karen’s new record, Green, is out 28 April; it is her third full-length album (after The Ghost Who Walks and Double Roses – she also released her first EP Radio Redhead Vol. 1 in 2020). It was co-written and produced alongside the award-winning musical duo of Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk and ushers in a new musical era for her, in both direction and sound.


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Bobwahr around the reference section, eh? Dang, the old wide-open spacious fields of knowledge ain't whut they were when I were a wrangler! When a boy could travel across the plains of information from Saturday morning until dinnertime and never even be bothered by tyhe librarian!!
Sure is different now -- bobwahr, huh...and them purity filters and such. T'ain't the same, no suh. Wonder if Montana's still free....

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Chelsea FC launches club for gay supporters
Premiership football club Chelsea has launched a new network for gay fans.
The club said it will assist a fan who is setting up a supporters’ network alongside the Gay Football Supporters Network.
Chelsea fan Ed Connell, a season-ticket holder at the club’s ground, set up the network.
He said: “I am immensely proud to see this happen. I have been campaigning against homophobia in football for the best part of 12 years and spent the first seven or eight feeling very frustrated trying to get people to realise there was an issue so for me to see these things happening is fantastic.
“As a season-ticket holder at Chelsea I am delighted to see the club support the creation of a LGBT fan group, making Chelsea LGBT fans feel truly welcome at the club they support.
“The fan groups differ from club to club but what we want to do here is set up a committee to run things and start welcoming members from near and far.
“We want to work with the club to help the local LGBT community and make LGBT fans feel welcome, as it is a game we all love dearly regardless of sexuality.”
The club, which is owned by billionaire Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, said in a statement: “Working closely with GFSN chairman and Chelsea season-ticket holder Ed Connell the club will assist with the formation of the group and offer support and assistance to ensure its growth.
“The club is proud of celebrating our diversity with our Building Bridges initiative working hard to fulfil the vision of a club and community which is welcoming to all, regardless of race, religion, sexuality or gender.”
No active premiership football player has come out as gay since Justin Fashanu, who killed himself in 1997.
Championship football team Queens Park Rangers recently launched a historic partnership with LGBT club London Titans FC.
As part of the “virtually unprecedented” deal, the Titans will “proudly” wear the QPR crest – and will get coaching help from the club, fundraising support, and a greater LGBT presence at QPR match days.
Meanwhile, Manchester United will welcome gay club Stonewall FC to their ground for a friendly match.


Israeli diplomats recalled over tweets seen as critical of Netanyahu
Israel's ambassador to Switzerland and two other diplomats face possible dismissal for Twitter posts seen as critical of Netanyahu
Israel's ambassador to Switzerland and two other diplomats face possible dismissal for Twitter posts seen as critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
The disciplining of the three comes amid heightened Israeli public scrutiny over the impartiality of civil servants before a March 17 election that is widely seen as a referendum on the right-wing Netanyahu, now in his third term.
Yigal Caspi, the envoy to Bern, had retweeted remarks by Israeli journalists disparaging Netanyahu's planned March 3 speech to the U.S. Congress about Iran, an event that looks likely to deepen rifts with the Obama administration.
The other two diplomats, a political officer in New Delhi and a Foreign Ministry staffer in Jerusalem, appeared to have suspended their Twitter accounts on Thursday.
Israel's NRG news site quoted them as having tweeted direct criticisms of Netanyahu.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the NRG report was accurate and that the three diplomats had been summoned for disciplinary hearings that could conclude with their firing.


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Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles
Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultural continuities meet with new "creolized" or innovative practices, questions of politeness practices, constructions of personhood, or the notion of face have so far been neglected in linguistic research on Caribbean Creoles. Drawing on linguistic politeness theory and Goffman's concept of face, eleven mostly fieldwork-based innovative contributions critically examine a range of topics, such as ritual insults, strategic use of "bad language", kiss-teeth, the performance of homophobic threats, greetings, address forms, advice-giving, socialization and discourse, parent-child discourse, register choice and communicative repertoire in the Caribbean context.
[Varieties of English Around the World, G34] 2005. viii, 293 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements | p. vii
Politeness and face in Caribbean Creoles: An overviewBettina Migge and Susanne Mühleisen | pp. 1–19
Part I: Performing rudeness and face maintenance
The use of “bad” language as a politeness strategy in a Panamanian Creole villagePeter Snow | pp. 23–43
Ritualized insults and the African diaspora: Sounding in African American Vernacular English and Wording in Nigerian PidginNicholas Faraclas, Lourdes Pérez González, Migdalia Medina and Wendell Villanueva Reyes | pp. 45–72
Rude sounds: Kiss Teeth and negotiation of the public sphereEsther Figueroa | pp. 73–99
Faiya-bon: The socio-pragmatics of homophobia in Jamaican (Dancehall) cultureJoseph T. Farquharson | pp. 101–118
Part II: Face attention and the public and private self
Greeting and social changeBettina Migge | pp. 121–144
Advice in an Indo-Guyanese village and the interactional organization of uncertaintyJack Sidnell | pp. 145–168
Meaningful routines: Meaning-making and the face-value of Barbadian greetingsJanina Fenigsen | pp. 169–194
Forms of address in English-lexicon Creoles: The presentation of selves and others in the Caribbean contextSusanne Mühleisen | pp. 195–223
Part III: Socialization and face development
‘May I have the bilna?’: The development of face-saving in young Trinidadian childrenValerie Youssef | pp. 227–254
Learning respect in Guadeloupe: Greetings and politeness ritualsAlex-Louise Tessonneau | pp. 255–282
Notes on contributors | pp. 283–285
Index | pp. 287–293
“Grounded in politeness theory, this trailblazing volume extends the conversation on politeness and face, previously often focused on the individual, by exploring the sociohistorical context of Caribbean communicative practices - a welcome departure from the typical focus in creole studies on syntactic and lexical variation [...] The reader is offered a fresh look at discourse norms in a wide range of Caribbean creole communities. With this work, M & M have opened new and exciting possibilities for pragmatics research in the Caribbean.”
Shondel J. Nero, St. John's University New York, in World Englishes 26(3), 2007
“It is the pioneering nature of the collection and the wide variety of topics and theoretical frameworks which makes the collection so outstanding. I hope and believe it will inspire more creolists to work in this vein in the future.”
Angela Bartens, University of Helsinki, on Linguist List 17.2320, 2007
“The diverse contributions in this book do indeed fulfill expectations. The reader gains fascinating insight into politeness and face in several Caribbean languages, whether it be through the study of greeting practices, address, socialization, ritual, or other phenomena. Beyond that, the communicative practices described suggest that language use and non-verbal interaction are inseparable on a theoretical level; they must be studies together to be understood. They also remind us that a better understanding of the particular versus the universal remains a great challenge for politeness theory.”
Paul Listen, Bellingham WA, in Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 11(2): 245-272
“The editors have done a fine job in bringing together in this book original works by ten highly talented Caribbean scholars who address the nature of the construction of face and the socio-pragmatic insights of social order as determined by a variety of communicative performances which may be considered by many linguists to be outside the purview of mainstream linguistics. With clarity of expression the papers in this collection reveal how a society can express politeness and face in “irrational” ways by using linguistic structures specific to a particular social organization. Many of the authors must be commended for using linguistic data which are considered offensive to many to expose the basis on which society is peacefully organised. Overall, this important collection should be on the shelf of any serious linguist and scholar from related fields.”
Otelemate G. Harry, University of the West Indies, in English World Wide 28(3), 2007
“This theoretically important and down-to-earth survey of Caribbean speechways delivers a long-overdue correction to Creole studies. From address forms and greetings to insults and kiss-teeth, from Surinam to Jamaica and Panama to Guadeloupe, it offers an alternative view of the richness and exciting variety of Caribbean Creoles. The contributions from an emerging generation of scholars exhibit deep understanding, respect and mastery of data, cutting through old impasses with argumentation based in the complexity of these small but vital New World speech communities.”
Peter L. Patrick , University of Essex (author of Urban Jamaican Creole)
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Bayeck, Rebecca Y.
2020. Broadening creole studies. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:1 ► pp. 160 ff.
Muysken, Pieter & Geneviève Escure
2006. Creole linguistics. In Handbook of Pragmatics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Muysken, Pieter & Geneviève Escure
Schneider, Edgar W. & Raymond Hickey
WILSON, GUYANNE, MICHAEL WESTPHAL, JOHANNA HARTMANN & DAGMAR DEUBER
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The City of Byron uses the CodeRED Emergency Notification System to deliver important messages to Byron residents in the case of an emergency.
The CodeRED system uses phone numbers and addresses stored in the City’s utility database to create a user friendly, Internet-based interface to place calls quickly and efficiently in cases of emergency. Byron residents can also enter other phone numbers into the system to be notified on their cell phones or at work should a message be sent to their home number.
The system can also be used to deliver other public service announcements to residents.
The CodeRED System is entirely Internet-based and has redundant servers across the country. This ensures that the system will be available and can be activated from anywhere with an Internet connection. Even in the event an Internet connection is unavailable, the system can be activated by phone if necessary.
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Also: why Sienna Miller is criminally under-appreciated.
Tara Miele had a student film project premiere at Slamdance 20 years ago... and she's had a long and fascinating road to get to Sundance in 2020 with her feature Wander Darkly, starring Sienna Miller and Diego Luna.
We talk about how Time's Up and #MeToo saved her life, allowing her to be accepted in the industry as a professional filmmaker. She's juggled her family life with her career and made great sacrifices to carve out time to write her films. After doing micro-budget films and directing for television, she managed to bring this very personal and inspiring story to life.
And for another interview with a great female filmmaker, check out our podcast with Malin Ackerman. Enjoy!
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5GAA will carry out several activities during the Mobile World Congress 2017, where Ficosa will present the latest developments in connectivity for the automobile
5GAA is an association of companies that are global leaders in the telecommunications and automotive sectors working to speed development and marketing of solutions to new connected mobility needs and autonomous vehicles
Ficosa will play a key role in 5GAA to define the future of connected mobility solutions
Audi, BMW, Daimler, Vodafone, LG, Ford, Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei and Valeo are some of the global benchmarks in the telecommunications and automotive sectors that are part of this association
Ficosa, a top-tier global provider devoted to the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of high-technology vision, safety, connectivity and efficiency systems for the automotive and mobility sectors, has become the first Spanish company to join the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA). The mission of this association is to accelerate development, standardisation and marketing of solutions for connected cars and autonomous vehicles and their integration into Smart Cities, as well as laying the groundwork for implementing 5G technology in the automotive sector.
5GAA, which was founded on 27 September 2016, is made up of global leaders in the telecommunications and automotive sectors, including Audi, BMW, Vodafone, Continental, Ford, Samsung, Huawei, Valeo, Nokia, Telekom, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Denso, Intel and LG, among others. Ficosa has joined 5GAA as an expert in safety, connectivity and efficiency systems for the automotive and mobility sectors and will play a key role in defining the future of mobility.
In the words of Pere Mogas, Advanced Engineering & Technical Leaders Supervisor of Ficosa: “We are very proud to join this group and promote the mobility of the future alongside global business leaders. It is also recognition of all our hard work to be on the cutting edge in developing vehicle connectivity solutions and safety systems for increasingly assisted driving.”
Dino Flore, director general of 5GAA, says “Given Ficosa’s experience in research, development and marketing of components for the automotive industry, the company will surely play an important role in the efforts of 5GAA to define next-generation connected mobility solutions.”
Mobile World Congress 2017
5GAA will carry out several activities during the Mobile World Congress 2017 with executives and experts from the top companies in the sector and organisations associated with vehicle communications. Ficosa will also attend the most important mobile telecommunications event in the world with Panasonic to present the latest in connectivity for the automotive sector.
We’re pleased to invite you to visit our booth at MWC, in Hall 6, Section 6H31 from 27 February to 2 March.


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It’s that time of year again, friends! Our intrepid resident dragon was up questionably early this morning (he does know the first shop doesn’t open until 10a, right?) and hit THREE different comic shops to collect an impressive haul that MAY OR MAY NOT be included in the next #DrakesDrawing…
Stop #1: Legacy Comics, Glendale, CA
Back when I worked in Glendale, I was delighted to find this place around the corner (they have iZombie?! And a whole bookshelf of Duckberg comics?!) and always love an excuse to come by. As always, the folks over there are LOVELY, and I talked quite a bit with Alexis from the shop about hopefully future endeavors… I’ll post more about that as I can.
As always, these fine folks were hosting an entire shop and a generous assortment of comics as well as two very lovely ladies sharing their own free comics featuring cover art of their cosplays (See the last pic in this slideshow!) and were even so generous as to sign them for me! Hopefully, we can get them into the magazine at some point!
Stop #2: Emerald Knights Comics & Games, Burbank, CA
Emerald Knights is another local favorite! Don’t let the nondescript storefront trick you — the inside of this place is a bright and open haven of geekery and gaming! With everything from tabletop figs and card games to boxes and boxes of comics to pour through, you will be hard-pressed to leave without a big smile and maybe a few new favorites. The staff here are always incredibly helpful and knowledgeable, and can help you find just about anything you need in the shop! They had a ton of titles I didn’t see at Legacy, but it’s entirely likely a bunch of these are from last year, heh. Still! Free comics are always welcome!
Stop #3: The Perky Nerd, Burbank, CA
I know, I know. I’m greedy, trying to go to three shops in one day. But I can’t help myself! The Perky Nerd is a fantastic little shop, more gift shop than a comic book depot, but no less AMAZING and worthy of a shout-out. Their displays are constantly rotating, with curated picks and specials varying from a fan artist’s portfolio to the latest Batman graphic novel. I absolutely drooled over a copy of Batman: Damned — the 2019 reunion of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo, the team behind the Nolan-era JOKER (my most favorite Joker story ever, don’t @ me) and Christmas Carol-inspired Noël — here when it first came out. Today it was an impressive display of collectible FUNKO Pop!s, including a Freddie Mercury doll that was veeeeeeery tempting. They also hosted the Avengers Initiative cosplay crew, in anticipation of the newly-released Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness!
…All in all, an IMPRESSIVE haul!!! I have no idea when I’m going to sit and read all of these comics, heh. But more likely, I’ll put a bunch of these in the next Drake’s Drawing!!! So make sure you’re following us on Patreon or here for updates!
~Camarius, Head Sorceror


COLOGNE - Ford expects its new Mondeo to lead the company's turnaround in Europe.
The Mondeo begins what European development chief Martin Leach calls a 'product-led recovery,' designed to make Ford's European operations more profitable.
'It really represents the car with which Ford of Europe can make some money,' said Karl Ludvigsen, chairman of Ludvigsen Associates Ltd., a London-based industry consultancy.
'Since Ford of Europe has given up Scorpio-Granada level, this is its largest luxury car,' he said. 'Ford has to do its best to eke out high profitability from Mondeo.'
According to Ford, the Mondeo is better-driving, safer, cheaper to insure and maintain, more comfortable, better equipped, and better looking than its predecessor.
The Mondeo begins a five-year product offensive designed to reverse Ford's declining European market share. Nick Scheele, Ford of Europe chairman, said the company will introduce 45 new or heavily revised products in the next five years.
All of them will be designed with Ford's new computerized product development tool, known as C3P. The Mondeo is the first car to be designed with the system. Ford managed to eliminate the middle prototype stage and thus reduced the Mondeo's development time by a full year.
All Ford's other new products will be designed using C3P. The system enables engineers around the world to work on virtual designs at the same time. In the past, Ford's slow product development time has been a key reason why it has lagged behind its European competitors in launching new models.
Those competitors have steadily reduced Ford's market share. Ford's market share in Europe has fallen from about 11.5 percent in 1995 to 9 percent in 1999. Last year, Ford made only $28 million earnings on sales of $30 billion in Europe. That compares with record $6.1 billion earnings on $100 billion revenues in North America.
Ford's factory in Genk, Belgium, has the capacity to build 350,000-400,000 Mondeos a year. Ford of Europe expects to sell about 290,000 Mondeos during 2001, its first full year of production. That's an increase over the 231,943 Mondeos Ford sold last year. But it is far short of the 380,083 units sold in 1984, the same year Mondeo was named European Car of the Year.
Ford spokesman Dave Reuter said: 'The C-D (upper-medium) segment has shrunk quite a bit due to enlargement of the C (lower-medium) segment and the introduction of alternative models such as multiple-activity vehicles.
'We have quite a bit of market to reassume,' he said. 'The 290,000 projection gets us back to where we were before our slide.'
The Mondeo also has to perform another job. It's a job its predecessor - and indeed Ford's entire lineup - has failed to carry out in the past. That is: conquer Europe's largest and most important market, Germany.
Ford officials will not say what rival vehicles they benchmarked with Mondeo, but the segment-leading VW Passat is the clear target.
To succeed in Germany, Mondeo must be distinguishable from Passat, yet not offend conservative German buyers.
Ford has employed its 'New Edge' styling in the new car. Mondeo comes standard with 16-inch wheels, an inch larger than those of its predecessor. Customers can also get 17- or 18-inch wheels. The wheels sit within the distinctive New Edge wheel arches the car shares with Focus.
The interior space is within millimeters of being as large as the old Scorpio, said Chris Bird, Ford's European design director.
Thomas Mawick, analyst for Marketing Systems in Essen, Germany, said: 'The old Mondeo was hard to identify among other competitors in the segment, especially the Japanese. The new one will certainly change this.'
Historically, Mondeo has suffered compared with Passat in another key area - perceived value, Mawick said.
'The typical German person who knows something about the car market regards the Mondeo as a car you can get for a very low price,' he said. 'That of course kept sales at quite a high level, but it has negative consequences for the value of the car. Ford is aiming not to repeat this again.'
Ford also aims to address another traditional shortcoming: engines. The new Duratec HE four-cylinder engine family is 'the largest-scale engine development program in Ford history,' Ford says.
The new gasoline four-cylinder Duratec HE engine comes with two displacement options. The 1.8-liter will be available with 110hp or 125hp, while the 2.0-liter produces 145hp. The 2.5-liter, 24-valve V-6 produces 170hp.
More critically, the Mondeo will get a common-rail diesel during the first quarter of next year. A Duratorq Direct Injection Diesel, which features a Bosch V44 pilot injection pump system, will be available immediately.
Ford also believes safety will differentiate the Mondeo from its competitors. The car's 'intelligent protection system' senses the severity of a crash and dictates the force with which the dual-stage airbags deploy. The car has front, side and side curtain airbags as standard. The pedals also collapse in the event of a collision, a feature designed to reduce leg injuries.
Georg Auer contributed


The Harbour Master of Amsterdam announces the following:
Seagoing ships of which the cargo has been treated with fumigants in a foreign port arrive in the port of Amsterdam every year. These ships are subject to an action plan with regard to berthing and operations in port. The present action plan dates from 2012. Advancing insights, new developments and changes have made it necessary to adjust this action plan.
Solid bulk cargoes on board seagoing ships that have been treated with fumigants in a foreign port may not be not sufficiently free of fumigants upon arrival in the port of Amsterdam. From the point of view of safety and the environment in port, regulations haven been laid down in the Havenreglement Noordzeekanaalgebied 2012 (Port Regulations for the North Sea Canal Area 2012) with regard to berthing and operational activities of the above-mentioned ships. The Port Regulations for the North Sea Canal Area 2012 include the following regulations:
- a fumigator must draw up an action plan with regard to the above-mentioned operational activities on board these ship;
- this action plan must be approved by the Harbour Master.
On 5 November 2018, the Harbour Master of Amsterdam established and approved a new action plan dated 23 October 2018. At the same time, the Harbour Master of Amsterdam also designated berths for ships that have been loaded with cargoes that are not sufficiently free of fumigants.
Both items have been included in Decree 043 / RHN / 2018. The berths are also indicated on the map accompanying this Decree.
A copy of the currently applicable Decree containing the Action Plan and the Berth Designation Decree for ships carrying cargo that is not sufficiently free of fumigants, including the accompanying map, may be obtained from the Harbour Master or are available via a link on the Dutch pages of Port of Amsterdam's website, https://www.portofamsterdam.com/nl/scheepvaart/zeevaart/baors-en-besluiten#Besluiten
This is the link to the Decree with the and the accompanying map (Decree RHN 2018 43 – with map).
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The Home Buyers’ Arrange (HBP) is an application which allows one to withdraw funds from your own Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) to purchase or build a qualifying house for your self and for an associated individual by having an impairment. The HBP lets you pay off the withdrawn funds within a period that is 15-year.
Budget 2019 boost the HBP withdrawal restriction to $35,000. This pertains to withdrawals made after March 19, 2019.
You can easily withdraw funds from several RRSP if you would be the owner of every RRSP account. Continue reading “How exactly to be involved in the Home Buyers’ Plan (HBP)”

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These stories serve as a reminder that gambling can lead to extraordinary wins and life-changing experiences. However, they also underscore the importance of responsible gambling and the understanding that, for most people, gambling is primarily a form of entertainment. Success stories like these are the exception rather than the rule, and they should not encourage reckless gambling behavior.” “Gambling addiction is a serious problem that affects millions of people worldwide. It can lead to financial ruin, relationship problems, and even mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. Recognizing the signs of gambling addiction is crucial in seeking help before it’s too late.
One of the most common signs of gambling addiction is an inability to stop or control one’s gambling behavior. This may manifest as spending 918 kiss more money than intended on gambling activities, continuing to gamble despite negative consequences such as debt or legal trouble, or feeling restless or irritable when not able to gamble. Another sign of gambling addiction is a preoccupation with thoughts about gambling. This may include constantly thinking about past wins or losses, planning future trips to casinos or other gambling venues, and obsessively checking sports scores or betting odds.
Other behavioral changes that may indicate a problem with gambling include neglecting responsibilities at work or home in order to gamble, lying about one’s whereabouts or activities related to gambling, and borrowing money from friends and family members in order to fund one’s habit. If you suspect that you or someone you know has a problem with compulsive gambling, it’s important to seek help right away. There are many resources available for those struggling with this issue including support groups like Gamblers Anonymous and counseling services offered by licensed therapists who specialize in treating addictions. In addition to seeking professional help for your own struggles with compulsive gambling, there are also steps you can take if you’re concerned about someone else who may be addicted.

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