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When money is tight, try these 5 tips and tricks

For most of us, there will come a time in our lives when we have trouble with money. Whether we’re struggling to pay the bills, having to frantically redraw budgets for our kids’ birthdays or realising that the savings we’ve made for our year-end holiday are just not quite enough, money troubles are a common dread for most of us.

It doesn’t have to be this way, though. Through a combination of savvy, intelligent spending and clever workarounds, you can squeeze just that little bit more use out of the money you do have in your pocket, and use clever methods to get a little more. Read here for advice to help you when money is tight - there are lots of options.

Take out a loan

It sounds counterintuitive, but taking out a loan can really help you if your tight spot isn’t a massive emergency. If you’re really, seriously struggling, then a loan probably won’t help and could in fact hurt your situation, but if you just find yourself a little short each month then a loan could be the answer to your worries. Make sure you find yourself a good personal loan provider, because there are plenty of unscrupulous companies out there who just want to exploit you. Decide how much you need and don’t borrow more than that – it’ll only come back to bite you later. Once the cash is in your pocket, it’s a good idea to spend it on whatever debts or financial obligations you have, since consolidating your debts (remember those ads?) makes things much easier. If there’s a little left over afterwards, don’t be afraid to treat yourself!

Sell old possessions

Chances are there’s a lot of stuff gathering dust in your home that someone else could use much more than you could. If you’ve got kids, have a talk with them about their old (old, not new) video game consoles and see if they still use them; if they don’t, that could be a great source of cash for the family. If your kids don’t want to part with their electronics, or you don’t have any, then there’s still plenty of stuff you could get money for. Old DVDs, music CDs, smartphones and other electronics can all fetch a pretty penny on sites like CEX or Mazuma, and even if the amount isn’t transcendent, every little helps, right? There’s bound to be something in your house that you don’t need any more, and money troubles provide the perfect time to start thinking about selling. Another great option is discount and voucher codes - website like DealsDaddy.

Pick up blogging

If you’re a smart cookie and a writer to boot, there could be a place for you in the blogging world. If you’re new to this whole thing, blogging is basically just people writing down their thoughts about things, compiling lists of exemplary products in certain fields, or just telling stories about themselves or their lives. Some people have managed to make extremely lucrative careers out of blogging through clever use of affiliate marketing (building links to other websites within a blog) or targeted social media influencer campaigns. Be aware that if you do want to pick up blogging, it’s likely to take you a little while to build up the kind of following that will regularly make you money, so this probably isn’t really an option for those of you struggling in a short-term sense. Once you have got the following, though, it’s one of the most rewarding ways to make money there is.

Become an Uber driver

You might have heard some slightly unsavoury things about Uber, but the fact is that this company remains a great way to pocket a supplemental income, especially if you find yourself working significantly less than full-time hours. To become an Uber driver, all you’ll need is the right to work where you live, a clean driving license and a car that isn’t about to break down. If you’ve got all of those things, you can simply sign up with Uber and decide when and where you want to work. You control which fares you pick up, how much money you make and when you want to stop. Uber might not be the best job for people who hate driving, but if you often find yourself cruising around the city streets late at night looking for purpose, you could do a lot worse than driving for Uber.

Sell your designs

This one’s for the creative types among you. If you’re a dab hand with digital design, then you could sell your shirt designs, logos and other things on CafePress. You can design everything yourself, or you could enlist the help of a designer to assist you, and once you’ve decided on a design to sell, CafePress will print and ship items on demand as orders come in. Similarly, if you’re a craftsperson and you want somewhere for your items to go on sale, give Etsy a try. Etsy is essentially CafePress for physical objects: blankets, figurines, knitted clothing, anything. If you have a creative bone in your body and you’re itching to get your work seen while making a bit of fast cash, give these sites a go.

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While Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is getting most of the attention to start off 2020, the folks at Arc System Works are looking to shine the spotlight back on to Dragon Ball FighterZ. The game has had a number of DLC characters added over the last two years and in 2020, there will be a third season of new fighters joining the roster.

The third FighterZ Pass is already available, with five new characters. The first one coming up is Kefla from Dragon Ball Super, a fusion character combining Caulifla and Kal. She will be hitting the roster on the 28th of February and then in ‘Spring 2020’, Ultra Instinct Goku will also be coming along, joining all of the other versions of Goku already on the roster.

There are three more unannounced characters that will be revealed throughout the year. New characters aren’t the only big changes coming to the game though, as a new feature called ‘Z Assist Select’ is also being patched in, which lets you select a character’s assist attack, enabling new new combos and strategies while shaking up the meta, as some competitive players choose characters purely for their assist attacks. Adding in new selections will give more freedom in that regard.

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The battle between the Vermilion Parish School Board and the superintendent is over. Superintendent Jerome Puyau will resign, as part of a settlement reached this week.

ABBEVILLE, La. (KLFY)- The board voted to terminate Puyau earlier this month. Puyau intended to legally challenge the decision.

The Vermilion Parish School Board unanimously approved the agreement Thursday night. Here’s what the attorneys for both sides have hammered out. Puyau will resign his position before the end of this year, and announce he will retire from the school system in September 2020.

The agreement allows Puyau to continue working at the board office as a consultant to the new superintendent, and keep his current salary — as well as have some of his attorney fees paid for.

In a joint statement, Puyau and the school board say they decided it would be better to resolve their differences in an amicable way, and focus their attention on educating students in the parish.

Controversy erupted in Vermilion Parish in January 2018, when a teacher was arrested after protesting the superintendent’s $38,000 pay raise — as teacher salaries stayed the same.

Puyau was put on administrative leave twice during his tenure — once in 2018, and once in 2019.

While Puyau is on the way out, Assistant superintendent Paul Herbert is expected to be named interm superintendent at a special meeting at the beginning of the new year.

The school board is expected to come up with a plan to open the superintendent position, and search for a replacement, early next year.

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ESEE Izula Expert review: durable, attractive and highly functional

Bushcraft enthusiast Padraig Croke has been using the ESEE Izula for many years. He’s the perfect person to tell us about his long term experiences with the ESEE Izula in this Expert Review.

I have had the Izula II for a number of years now, and it has become a really solid part of my kit. At 4mm thick and with a comfortable 4 inch handle, it’s a lot more knife than it first appears. The Izula II was my first “non traditional” bushcraft knife. Having only dealt with scandi grinds up to that point, the Izula was my first introduction to a flat grind blade and ultimately led to a love affair with ESEE knives.

Why carry a companion blade?

Often times, when packing for a trip or a day hike the choice of tools comes down to the pairing of certain combinations. For example, if I was to take my Morakniv Garberg Carbon blade with me, a perfect companion to this could be a simple Mora 106 carving blade, or my Eldris, which is stainless. The question I ask myself is, what am I doubling up on here? Is there a reason I would choose to carry this blade over that one, and what do I plan to do when I’m out? Is it a craft based camp, or am I just going for a hike and some lunch? What type of woodland am I going to and what type of tools are going to be needed to process wood. If I was in a coniferous woodland for example, then maybe I would not need a heavy processing tool like an axe with me, as a saw and a large belt knife would maybe prove more effective. My small tinder and kindling sources in a woodland like that are most likely going to be processed by hand, gathering bundles of resinous branches off the forest floor or between the crooks of the trees. Or if my material is marginal… some light batoning and feathersticking. Carrying a larger knife in this instance would make sense, as the lack of an axe might limit your options, should you need to process something larger or split logs down. On the other hand, a broadleaf forest will consist of harder, denser woods that will burn much longer but will require larger tools to process it, such as a bow saw and a hatchet or small axe. In that case, the carrying of a hatchet would mitigate the need to carry a larger knife.

When it comes to carrying a companion blade or “neck knife”, I have found the ESEE Izula II finding its way into my kit on almost every trip since I’ve bought it, about two years ago, becoming one of my most beloved tools to carry. Paired with a larger knife, such as my Fällkniven S1X or ESEE PR4, the Izula can really deal with the more nimble of tasks required of a blade in the field. Food processing is a little tricky, due to the thickness of the blade, but ferro rod striking, notching and carving, and cutting cordage are tasks I regularly assign to the Izula II. Of course we all love our primary belt knives, but in reality I have found when I carry a neck knife like the Izula II, it’s often more than enough to tackle basic camp chores.

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The Izula II in use

There are a few reasons why this knife finds its way into my kit over others. Firstly, I find the amount of steel available to you when using it, is a lot more than other companion blades I’ve used in the past. The 4mm thick blade is a sturdy little piece of steel, and the chunky jimping on the spine gives plenty of purchase available for the hand. The micarta handles are another reason why this knife seems to punch above its weight. They offer fantastic grip and control, even while wearing gloves, and the extra length, even compared to the original Izula, makes it feel like a real knife in your hand, and not a toy. Over the years of use, the once bright micarta handles of my Izula have taken on a dark, tarnished look, which I personally really like. ESEE knives should look used in my opinion… and there is no doubt that this one has seen its fair share.

I have heard that people really like to push this knife, even as far as batoning with it. In practice, yes this is totally possible, as you can see from the photos. Within reason of what would be expected of something this size. It’s possible for me to take the Izula with me on a Sunday hike and process some light fuel for my pocket stove to get a brew on. I would give a word of advice though, and that is batoning with a knife this small can easily lead to batoning fingers accidentally… so be careful, should you choose to use it in this way. A neck knife or companion blade is there for your more intricate and simpler tasks, when the belt knife doesn’t need to be drawn, or if you choose not to carry a big knife, when for example you are on a morning hike, as mentioned above. With that in mind, the functionality of the Izula I am talking about here are tasks such as feathersticking, ferro striking, notching and light fuel processing, all of which the Izula excels at.

For me there were aspects of the knife that I felt I could modify for it to serve better as a useful tool for my own needs. The beautiful thing about the Izula, or any ESEE I’ve owned for that matter, is that they really do feel like workhorse tools! I’ve never been afraid to push an ESEE blade. Or to make modifications to it that would, in most cases with any other knife company, render the tool void of its warranty. In fact ESEE pride themselves on their ‘no questions asked’ warranty policy. Check out this blog post of theirs, where they talk about some of the blades that have been sent to them that have been replaced with no questions asked.

The Powder Coating and Spine

Due to the fact that ESEE use 1095, which is a high carbon steel, their blades are always going to be more susceptible to the elements in comparison to a stainless steel. Salty air near the sea or normal damp and humid conditions will rust 1095 quite quickly. ESEE’s solution to this is a high quality powder coating, which is a perfectly good method of protecting the steel from these issues. I have also heard that this serves to dull the sheen or reflection of the blade, particularly useful for low visibility requirements, such as for military personnel.

Although I do live in Ireland, which is famous for its wet weather (they didn’t lie) I have usually been careful enough with my blades so as to ensure they were dry when being placed back in their sheath. Best practice with knife work means that, if your knife is not in your hand, it should be in its sheath. The Izulas sheath, is a dense polymer that will not retain water or moisture like a leather sheath will, leading to a potentially damp environment where it lives 90% of its life. With a few exceptions, I’ve never had a blade rust on me, and as such, I felt that the blade would be more useful to me if I could use the spine to strike a ferrocerium rod. So I have stripped the coating using a paint and epoxy removal foam spray. This left quite an unintentional but attractive grey colour to my blade, while the serial number and logo are still visible. With the coating removed, I found the spine still unusable with a ferro rod. As such, the next step in this process was to file the spine down to a 90 degree edge. This was simply done by clamping the knife and removing a layer of metal using a file. With a bit of patience and work, it wasn’t too long before my Izula was showering sparks. Due to the high carbon steel, you could also catch a spark by striking it with some flint if you were so inclined.

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Replacing the Sheath

I really love the sheath that comes with the Izula. Its super solid, snug, compact and simple, and allows for multiple mounting options. A simple clip on the back allows for belt carry, as well as holes that are useful for paracord. I opted to use the top hole with a leather cord as a neck carry option for a long time. However, I found in this orientation it was a little tricky to unsheath with one hand. I upgraded to an Armatus Carry sheath, which, in my opinion are one of the best sheath makers on the market at the moment. They offer a huge range of folded kydex sheaths for some of the most popular knife models out there, and their range seems to be growing. I chose an orange one, as I felt it would lend itself to high visibility when in the woods, particularly because the Izula scales are so neutral in colour, the original black sheath makes it quite difficult to spot, should you accidentally leave it down. The orientation of the pull the dot snaps on the mil spec loops make this an extremely sturdy option, and there is no way you will lose it, when clipped to your belt. I usually like to carry it cross draw, allowing for easy access, and the shape allows for a thumb push to release the knife one handed when working on the forest floor. The addition of the loop also allows me to carry my Exotac or ferro rod, making it a compact little cutting and combustion package all in one.

There is a reason my Izula has stuck around while many other tools I have tried over the years have fallen to the wayside. It’s a durable, attractive and highly functional blade, that costs next to nothing in terms of weight on my person or in my pack. It will usually fit in my possibles pouch or in the top pocket of my pack and left there until it’s needed. Here in Ireland, people do not tend to carry EDC knives, but if I were to carry, I believe the Izula would be a solid contender. It’s light and unassuming.

You may be able to get a cheaper companion blade like the Morakniv Eldris, and that will serve you perfectly well. Personally I feel that the Izula is just that little bit more knife for your buck. It’s thicker, sturdier and feels like a proper full-tang tool in your hand. The drop point and handles make it a balanced little option, with fantastic grip and indexing, there is not much I wouldn’t entrust my Izula to. On top of that, combined with the no questions asked warranty from ESEE and an Armatus Carry sheath, it’s going to serve you with little fear of letting you down when it’s needed the most. Quite simply a fantastic tool to have in your kit.

On a final note, one of the main reasons why I almost always carry this blade, is aesthetically this blade just looks beautiful. The rugged design of a classic ESEE blade, the oversized lanyard hole in the back designed for a carabiner, the chunky jimping and drop of the blade. It’s just fun to use! Arguably, this is sometimes neglected or not spoken about in knife articles, where we instead rationalise and fetishize over the numbers (myself included). But when you are out there using the tools or equipment, are you really thinking about the fact that it’s made from 1095? In some instances you absolutely will be, and a carbon blade has many advantages. My point is, I believe one of the most important factors in what tools we choose to keep or sell on is that enjoyability factor. You want to use it, and you want to get outside so you have an excuse to use it! For me the ESEE Izula has that effect.

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Padraig Croke
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Padraig Croke is an avid bushcraft and outdoor enthusiast, spoon carver and hiker. He is the co-host of The Trial by Fire Podcast, a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things bushcraft and outdoors. He is also an admin at the Living to Learn online community and lead designer of The Bushcraft Journal Magazine.

In the Trial by Fire Podcast, Padraig Croke and Joe Price discuss all things buscraft and outdoor. You can find all episodes on TrialByFire, and all of them are available by searching for 'The Trial by Fire Podcast' on iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. And do follow @thetrialbyfirepodcast on Instagram.

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SAN JUAN – A student is getting the help he needs after an incident at PSJA High School Thursday morning.

The student attempted to take his life in front of a number of his classmates. A teacher and other students rescued the student before anything more could happen.

CHANNEL 5 NEWS spoke with a mental health professional who said the events may have been frightening for students and faculty, but there are some takeaways moving forward.

Ricardo Tovar is a psychiatric nurse. He said the biggest positive that we can take away is the student is safe now.

“He can get counseling on an outpatient basis, at least for this adolescent the treatment can begin,” he said.

Tovar said there are warning signs that parents and teachers should always look for to see if a child is in need of help. He said awareness is key.

“We all read about the feeling withdrawn, you’ll notice that your son or your daughter, where they were this person that would like to go out with their friends, now they are being isolated. Or you will see their grades all of a sudden there were a straight A, B student now all of a sudden you will see their grades deteriorate in school,” he said.

Tovar said once a parent sees that their child may be having an issue, the way they speak to them about it is extremely important.

“In the times that we need to intervene, be nonjudgmental, when you speak to your son or daughter focus on listening rather than lecturing. A lot of times when we start to lecture our children, that is when they stop listening and we are not going to get to them. So focus on the listening and acknowledge their feelings. To us a lot of times their problems don’t seem like problems, but to them they are,” he said.

Tovar said he hopes another positive moving forward is the stigma surrounding these types of illnesses can disappear. He said incidents like this should show just how important mental health is.

We don’t know why the student attempted to take his own life. We spoke with the PSJA school district. They said they are providing a counseling crisis team to speak with any students who feel they need professional help after the incident.

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R.J. Fuqua had 18 points for Oral Roberts (15-13, 8-7 Summit League), which earned its fourth consecutive home victory. Francis Lacis added 16 points. Deondre Burns had 15 points, 10 assists and six rebounds.

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Oral Roberts scored 63 points in the first half, a season high for the team.

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The enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a plate-based technique that uses a solid-phase enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to detect the presence of a ligand (commonly a protein) in a liquid sample using antibodies directed against the protein to be measured. The layout of controls, samples, and replicates across a 96-well plate is used to evaluate the meaning of data collected from those wells.

LabKey's ELISA assay type imports and interprets raw data from BioTek Microplate readers.

This tutorial can be completed using a free 30-day trial version of LabKey Server.

This tutorial shows you how to:

Set up an ELISA Plate Template and Assay Design

To begin, create an assay folder to work in:

  • Log in to your server and navigate to your "Tutorials" project. Create it if necessary.
    • If you don't already have a server to work on where you can create projects, start here.
    • If you don't know how to create projects and folders, review this topic.
  • Create a new subfolder named "ELISA Tutorial". Choose the folder type "Assay".

Next configure a plate template that corresponds to the plate of your ELISA experiment.

  • In the Assay List web part, click Manage Assays.
  • Click Configure Plate Templates.
  • Select "New 96 well (8X12) ELISA default template".
  • Enter a Template Name, for example, "ELISA Tutorial Plate 1".
  • Review the shape of the template, clicking the Control, Specimen, and Replicate tabs to see the well groupings. Notice that you could edit the template to match alternate well groupings if needed; instructions can be found in Customize Plate Templates. For the purposes of this tutorial, simply save the default.
  • When finished, click Save & Close.

Now you can create the assay design using that template:

  • Click the ELISA Tutorial link near the top of the page to return to the main folder page.
  • Click New Assay Design
  • Select ELISA and choose "Current Folder (ELISA Tutorial)" from the Assay Location dropdown, then click Next.
  • In the Assay Properties section, enter:
    • A Name, for example, "ELISA Tutorial Assay".
    • Select a Plate Template: "ELISA Tutorial Plate 1" (it may already be selected by default).
  • Review the fields defined in each of the other sections by clicking each heading to page through them. You could add or edit fields, but for this tutorial, leave the default design unchanged.
  • Click Save.
  • You will return to the main folder page and see your new design on the assay list.

Import ELISA Experiment Data

  • Download sample data:
  • In the ELISA Tutorial folder's Assay List, click the name you gave your assay design, here: ELISA Tutorial Assay.
  • Click Import Data.
  • Accept the default batch properties by clicking Next.
  • In the Run Data field, click Choose File (or Browse) and select one of the sample data files you just downloaded. Make no other changes on this page, then click Next.
  • On the next page, enter Concentrations for Standard Wells as shown here:
  • Click Save and Import Another Run.
  • Repeat the import process for the other two files, entering the other two Run Data filenames. The concentrations for standard wells will retain their values so you do not need to reenter them.
  • Click Save and Finish after the last file.

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When you are finished importing, you'll see the runs grid showing the files you just uploaded. Since you did not specify any other Assay IDs, the filenames are used. Browse the data and available visualizations:

  • Hover over the row for Assay Id "biotek_01.xls", click (Details).
  • You will see a visualization and tabular grid of the data. The server automatically generates a calibration curve for the control values.

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Racist Bloomberg Businessweek Cover Was Illustrated by Peruvian Artist

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Ok, by now everyone online knows about the controversy surrounding the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine cover that brought us all back to a time in America where racist caricatures were all the rage.

And by now, you all know that Bloomberg issues the standard and lame public relations apology, when editor Josh Tyrangiel said this in a statement:

“Our cover illustration last week got strong reactions, which we regret. Our intention was not to incite or offend. If we had to do it over again we’d do it differently.”

You also should know by now that basically almost everyone in media is slamming Bloomberg Business for printing the cover in the first place. But did you know that the artist who was commissioned to produce the cover was from Perú? That is what Fox News Latino reported today, confirming that Andrés Guzmán was the artist. His Tumblr page shows the cover with the following comment below it: “Did a cover for Businessweek about the current housing market boom. I was asked to make an excited family with large quantities of money. I slipped in my lovely cat, Boo which was my favorite part. Too bad I wasn’t asked to draw large quantities of cats. Drawing dollars was a drag.”

Here is what the top of Guzmán’s Tumblr page looks. The Bloomberg cover is on the left.

The original Tumblr post has over 43 likes. It was posted yesterday. Most of the likes are marked as favorites, although some commenters made note of the controversy. One person posted: “Bloomberg Businessweek is catching heat for publishing…advocates see as stereotypical,…” while another posted this “Sigh….seriously, Businessweek? Nobody saw this as…problem? I’m sorry, let me re-phrase…

According to Guzmán’s Tumblr, it says that he was born in 1986 in Lima, Peru and that he now lives in Minneapolis. He confirms that all the work on his Tumblr site is his. We did send a email to Guzmán to see if he would want to address the latest news about his piece, and we have yet to hear from him as of this posting. If he does respond to us, we will share.


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Born and raised in Northern Ohio, I'm named after the classic noir film and song, Laura, so it makes sense that I like writing stories with dark themes and quirky characters, in the tradition of Tom Robbins, Kelly Link, and Robert Altman. I currently live in Fairfax, Virginia where I teach creative writing at George Mason University. Most weekends, you can find me hiding from the Mothman in my cabin in West Virginia.

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Until recently, there has existed no single legal instrument in international law that clearly and unequivocally protects the rights of all migrants. The text of the International Migrants Bill of Rights (IMBR) fills that gap. It is the culmination of years of research by the IMBR Initiative.

The format of the IMBR is deliberate: Each Article (except Article 1, defining the term “migrant”) begins with a broad declaration of a fundamental right, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (together, these declarations form the IMBR Principles). Subsequent paragraphs within each Article detail the application of each right in the context of migration and distinguish between content drawn from widely-ratified human rights instruments (articulated with the language “shall”) from those that reflect progressive developments in state practice (articulated with the language “should”).

The most recent version of the IMBR is published in Volume 28 of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal.


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Ministry of Justice consultation on the future of courts - Law Society response

The Law Society has submitted a consolidated response on the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on the future of Banbury Magistrates’ and County Court, Maidenhead Magistrates’ Court, Chorley Magistrates’ Court, Fleetwood Magistrates’ Court, Wandsworth County Court and Blackfriars Crown Court.

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Law Society Annual General Meeting (AGM) postponed

The AGM of the Law Society has been postponed from July this year. It will now take place in October. This is in order to focus on the task in hand, supporting solicitors and the public as they deal with the crisis.

President Simon Davis, vice president David Greene and deputy vice president I. Stephanie Boyce will remain in their current positions until the AGM. Elections of a new deputy vice president will happen alongside the AGM. The process for nomination of new Council members will commence in June but the elections only take effect at the AGM.

Notice of the date of the AGM will be published in advance as required.

Simon Davis said, “This is a challenging time for society and the profession. Moving the AGM and elections will enable our resources to remain focused on our external responsibilities, rather than on internal governance changes. I think this is what our members would expect in these challenging times.”

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At London Bridge Plastic & Aesthetic Clinic, we offer the Brazilian butt lift (BBL)for patients who want a larger, rounder, and more attractive-looking behind and for patients who want to restore the appearance of their buttocks following a loss of volume.

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  • Is a Brazilian Butt Lift Right for Me?
    Unfortunately, loss of fat in the skin is a major contributor to the typical features of the buttocks. By restoring fat, autologous fat transfer, AFT, Lipofilling can improve the appearance and provide fuller buttocks – Brazilian Butt Lift, Buttock Fat Augmentation. The type of operation required to achieve the best result for you will depend on your goals and involved areas and will be discussed at the time of your Consultation.
  • Enhancing Your Results with Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)
    Autologous Fat Grafting can be enhanced by using your our Platelets from your blood in the form of Platelet Rich Plasma PRP, to enhance fat cell healing and survival. This is performed at the same time as AFT. Remember surgery will not change you or solve any life crises, but should boost your self-confidence and enjoyment of life.
  • What is Brazilian Buttock Lift with Fat Grafting, Autologous Fat Transfer AFT?
    Brazilian Buttock Lift with Fat Grafting or Lipofilling is an operation to restore or reshape the buttocks to provide a fuller, firmer uplifted, buttocks or correct deformities and asymmetry, by grafting of your own fat(autologous) into the buttocks. Fat is harvested from areas where excess fat is of concern, commonly the love handles, abdomen and thighs, but can also be the arms, back rolls, knees. The fat is carefully treated using a sterile Aquavage device, to protect the fat cells before being injected into the buttocks through one or two very small incisions using a thin cannula. The procedure should be fairly atraumatic, reducing the incidence of complications and maximising the healing of the fat cells.
  • What is the benefit of Fat Grafting, Fat Transfer?
    Fat Grafting uses your own fat cells (autologous fat) to enhance and lift your buttocks. Since the fat cells are your own, there is no risk of rejection or adverse reactions. The fat grafted buttocks will feel and behave naturally and there is no risk of implant failure or damage as with Buttock Augmentation with an Implant. Although, 1 or 2 treatments with Fat Grafting may be required to achieve the optimum shape or fullness, the results of Autologous Fat Transfer AFT are permanent.
  • What are the side effects or risks?
    Mild discomfort, swelling and bruising can occur. Some irregularity may occur at the site of fat harvest requiring additional treatment(s), such as Velashape or additional fat sculpting. Infection is rare (<0.1%) following Fat Tansfer AFT for Brazilian Buttock Lift, a course of antibiotics will be given at the time of your treatment. Some altered sensation around the treatment area and the site of fat harvest is common which is expected to resolve in 6 – 8 weeks. Deep Vein Thrombosis is very uncommon but we take all precautions during and after your surgery to minimize this risk.
  • How is the Brazilian Buttock Lift performed?
    Initial consultation will determine the goals of treatment and make note of any associated abnormalities or asymmetry and plan the optimum treatment to achieve the ideal result in each patient. Treatment is carried out under general anaesthetic as a day case. Autologous Fat is harvested by liposuction technique before preparation and transfer to your buttocks. AFT can be enhanced by using your own Platelets from your blood in the form of Platelet Rich Plasma PRP, to enhance fat cell healing and survival. This is performed at the same time as Fat Grafting.
  • How long will the result last?
    Autologous Fat Transfer AFT for Brazilian buttock Lift, provides a long lasting or permanent improvement. However, anywhere from 30 – 40% of the grafted fat may fail to survive, requiring an additional treatment after approximately 3 – 6 months in order to achieve the optimum results.
  • When will results of Brazilian Buttock Lift be seen?
    Improvement in fullness and shape will be seen immediately following treatment. Any swelling will resolve in 2 – 4 weeks, but return to normal feeling from 4 – 6 weeks. It will take 3 months for the grafted fat to stabilise in the area(s) treated.
  • What is the cost of the Brazilian Buttock Lift with AFT?
    The costs for the Brazilian Buttock Lift will vary depending on your individual case, and will include your pre-operative and post-operative care. You will be provided will a detailed quotation following your Consultation. Please read more about our Fees at LBPS
  • Am I suitable for Fat Grafting, Autologous Fat Transfer, Brazilian Buttock Lift?
    If you would like to improve your buttocks using your own fat, and gain by removing fat from an area (s) which concern you, then Fat Grafting, Fat Transfer is likely to be beneficial for you. A detailed assessment to determine your goals and options can only be carried out at the time of a thorough Consultation. If you do not have sufficient fat for harvesting, Buttock Augmentation with implants may be a suitable option.
  • Will the Brazilian Buttock Lift be painful or cause bruising?
    Minimal discomfort is expected following the treatment and no bruising should occur with the careful techniques used. Any mild bruising will usually resolve after 1 to 2 weeks. The treated area(s) may feel tender – moderate discomfort for the first 3 – 5 days. Mild discomfort is expected for 2 weeks.
  • When will I be able to return to normal activities?
    Restricted activities are advised for 2 weeks following the Brazilian Buttock Lift surgery . Wearing a support garment is recommended for the first 3 weeks day and night, then during the day for a further 3 weeks.

I want to say a huge thank you to Mr. Inglefield and his team. He has done an amazing job for me and I have the best results, it’s like a wish come true. Everyone was so relaxing and caring. You are truly an amazing surgeon and I couldn’t have asked for anyone else to do my surgery. Thank you. I would recommend him and his team to the whole of England and beyond!

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District Attorney Not Required to File Pitchess Motion to Review Peace Officer Personnel Files, Only to Disclose Files

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Date: Oct 20, 2014 01:42 PM

In November 2012, the San Francisco District Attorney filed a complaint charging Daryl Lee Johnson with one felony count of domestic violence and one misdemeanor count of injuring a wireless communication device with the intent to prevent use of the device to summon assistance or notify a public safety agency.  At Johnson's preliminary hearing, Officer Paul Dominguez testified that he responded to a 911 call with Officer Antonio Carrasco and that Johnson admitted that he hit the victim because the victim had allegedly "maced" him.

In December 2013, the prosecution filed a Pitchess motion pursuant to California Evidence Code sections 1043 and 1045 for discovery of the personnel records of Officers Dominguez and Carrasco.  The motion requested that the court conduct an in camera review of the personnel records to determine whether any items were subject to disclosure under Brady v. Maryland.  The assistant district attorney prosecuting the case submitted a declaration in support of the motion stating, in part, that the San Francisco Police Department had informed him that Officers Dominguez and Carrasco had material in their personnel files that may be subject to disclosure under Brady (i.e. material that was reflective of dishonesty, bias, or evidence of moral turpitude).

The San Francisco Police Department (Department) has a Bureau Order establishing the Department's procedures for disclosing Brady materials in employee personnel files.  The premise underlying the Bureau Order is that the District Attorney cannot legally access  confidential peace officer personnel files unless it files a motion pursuant to Evidence Code section 1043 (a Pitchess motion) and obtains a court order.  The Bureau Order requires the Department to notify the District Attorney of the names of employees who have information in their personnel files that may require disclosure under Brady.  In other words, the Department creates a list of employees who have potential Brady material in their personnel files. The District Attorney's Office then makes a motion under Evidence Code sections 1043 and 1045 for an in camera review of the records by the court.

After the District Attorney's Office filed a Pitchess motion for Brady material in the personnel files of Officers Dominguez and Carrasco, the defendant, Johnson, filed a motion requesting that the court conduct the requested in camera Brady review, declare Penal Code section 832.7 unconstitutional and direct the Department to allow the prosecutor access to the personnel files, or dismiss the case due to the prosecution's failure to comply with Brady.  The trial court denied the Pitchess motion, but concluded that Pitchess procedures did not apply to motions seeking review of personnel records under Brady and that Penal Code section 832.7 is unconstitutional to the extent it bars the prosecution from access to peace officer personnel records in order to comply with Brady.  Accordingly, the court directed the Department to give the District Attorney access to Officers Dominguez and Carrasco's personnel records to allow the prosecution to comply with Brady.

The District Attorney filed a writ petition challenging the court's decision.  The Court of Appeal denied the petition in part and granted in part.

The Court of Appeal stated that this case is the latest to consider the "interplay" between the United States Supreme Court's 1963 decision in Brady v. Maryland and the statutory discovery procedures articulated by the California Supreme Court in Pitchess v. Superior Court.  In Brady,  the Court held that the prosecution has a duty to disclose to the defendant any evidence that is favorable and material to the defense.  However, Penal Code section 832.7 provides that peace officer personnel records are "confidential and shall not be disclosed in any criminal or civil proceeding except by discovery" pursuant to Evidence Code section 1043.  Evidence Code section 1043 sets forth the requirements for seeking discovery or disclosure of peace officer personnel records (i.e., a Pitchess motion).  The Court of Appeal analyzed the interplay of these laws, and whether the prosecution may routinely require the trial court to conduct the initial Brady review of officer personnel records to determine whether there is material evidence that must be disclosed.

The Court began its analysis with Brady and noted that Brady requires the "prosecution team" to divulge impeachment or exculpatory evidence to the defense, even if the evidence is known only to police investigators and not prosecutors.  Thus, the prosecutor has an obligation to learn of any favorable evidence known to others acting on the government's behalf, including the police.  Turning then to Pitchess, the Court stated that California law requires that peace officer personnel files (as defined by Penal Code section 832.8) are confidential and subject to discovery only pursuant to Evidence Code sections 1043 and 1045.

The Court then explained that with respect to materials in peace officer personnel files, there are two distinct stages: identification and disclosure.  The identification stage requires access to officer personnel files to identify materials to be disclosed under Brady.  The disclosure stage involves the disclosure of those materials to the defendant.  The Court concluded that Penal Code section 832.7 does not prohibit the prosecutor from performing the role of identifying Brady materials in personnel files as the mere act of identifying Brady material does not constitute disclosure of the personnel information, nor does it breach the confidentiality of the personnel files.  Accordingly, the District Attorney's Office and the San Francisco Police Department are part of the same prosecution "team" and prosecutorial inspection of an officer's personnel file for Brady purposes is not a disclosure of the file within the criminal proceeding.

The Court of Appeal also analyzed whether Penal Code section 832.7's designation of officer personnel records as "confidential" prevents the District Attorney from reviewing the records.   The legislative intent of section 832.7 was to protect officer personnel files from public disclosure and to establish a procedure for discovery of information in the files.  The legislative history does not express concern over prosecutorial access, and the personnel records are not publicly disclosed when a prosecutor reviews the records for Brady material.  Therefore, the Court of Appeal held that a prosecutor's inspection of peace officer personnel records for Brady material does not breach the confidentiality of the records under Penal Code section 832.7.

However, the Court of Appeal held that the prosecution team must comply with Evidence Code sections 1043 and 1045 in order to disclose any Brady material to the defendant.  Evidence Code section 1043 provides that "[i]n any case in which discovery or disclosure is sought of peace or custodial officer personnel records," a written motion must be filed, along with an affidavit showing good cause for the discovery or disclosure sought.  Once good cause is established, Evidence Code section 1045 requires the trial court to examine the information in chambers and exclude certain information, such as complaints more than five years old.  Therefore, while the District Attorney's Office may conduct a Brady inspection of peace officer personnel records, it may not disclose the materials without first filing a Pitchess motion and obtaining permission from the court following an "in chambers" review.

On those bases, the Court of Appeal denied the District Attorney's writ petition in part, but ordered the trial court to modify its order to provide that if the District Attorney identifies any Brady material in the personnel records, the District Attorney shall file a motion under Evidence Code section 1043 to obtain disclosure to the defendant.

The case relies, in part, on the decision in Michael v. Gates (1995) 38 Cal.App.4th 737, in which the Court held that a police agency can review its own records without triggering any Pitchess requirements because there is no disclosure or discovery of the records in litigation.   In addition, a department does not necessarily have to give a prosecutor unfettered access to all personnel records.  The Court noted that police departments may devise their own policies and procedures for Brady compliance, including a process in which the police department selects a pool of documents for the prosecutor to review and identify Brady materials, as long as the process is adequate and provides for disclosure of all Brady materials.

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How ‘Bad Ink’ Co-Host Rob Ruckus Ended Up as a Las Vegas Budtender

October 21, 2016

If you’ve ever watched an episode of A&E’s Bad Ink, you might know co-host Rob Ruckus as the outspoken, tattooed, punk rocker that he is. But while he’d normally be speaking out against poor choices in body art, today he’s speaking up about something else: medical cannabis.

When Leafly stopped by Inyo Fine Cannabis in Las Vegas, Nevada, we were pleasantly surprised to see Rob’s familiar face behind the counter and hear his trademark voice offering helpful suggestions to patients. To learn more about Rob’s passion for cannabis and his path to serving Las Vegas-area patients, we sat down with the man. He shared his take on cannabis’s potential as medicine and revealed what attracted him to budtending in the first place.

Leafly: Can you give us a quick overview of your background? And how did that lead to you becoming a budtender?

Rob Ruckus: Cannabis has been a part of my life pretty much all of my life. I grew up in California and Las Vegas in the ’70s and ’80s, and it was something that was always around. You know, family members smoked when I was a kid. Growing up, cannabis was always just a part of my life. I didn’t always know that I was self-medicating, but it always worked for me.

“I spent two years doing nothing but studying terpenes and cannabinoids and different diseases.”

Even before Bad Ink, I was selling pot in front of that place [Pussykat Tattoo Parlor] when it was still a Blockbuster 30 years ago. So you know, this isn’t something I’m new to.

Right about the time I started doing Bad Ink, a friend of mine’s daughter was diagnosed with bladder cancer and was told that she wouldn’t [live to] five years old. Well, if the kid was going to go through the treatment [the doctors] wanted to give her, it would have been, you know, chemo, radiation. They’d have broken her hips, they’d have broken her ribs every year to help with her growing. She’d have never had a normal sex life. She’d have had a double colostomy. It would have been a horrible life. So the mother decided quality over quantity, and we started researching cannabis oil. That girl is now nine years old and completely cancer-free. I saw it personally work.

So you were sold?

I spent two years doing nothing but studying terpenes and cannabinoids and different diseases, but once the TV show came along, I had to stop everything. I was under a morality contract. I wasn’t allowed to advocate at all.

While I was under this contract, one of the local news reporters came to me, George Knapp. He was known for going up against the mafia, he’s known for going up against the FBI, he chases everything. He came to me and said, “I know what you did for this little girl. I know you cured this little girl of cancer. I want to put you on the news, and I want you to explain how it works and why it works and what you did.”

I had to explain to him I couldn’t do it because I was under contract. So we blurred out my face, changed my voice, I went on the air. We did this story about saving this little girl’s life, and then four days later they made it where children in the state of Nevada can get [medical marijuana authorizations]. Ha! I couldn’t say a word about that for a few years!

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Once the TV show was over is when I dove in head-first and took the millions of people that I reached from being on television and explained to them that there is a different way. You don’t have to have the chemotherapy and radiation and all this poison put into you. Luckily the Nevada [medical marijuana] program kind of coincided with that, and I got in early out here. Now I see the difference every day.

What kinds of things?

I see patients every single day that come in and weren’t supposed to still be alive, or they have epilepsy and their seizures don’t happen anymore. Or their kids have epilepsy and the kid went to school and started to have a seizure, sucked down some RSO inside of a honey stick, and the seizure stopped. People with rheumatoid arthritis, who haven’t opened their hands in 10 years, put a topical cream on their hands and those hands open up.

I’ve seen some absolute miracles with this amazing plant, and I want to use the celebrity that I did get from television to let people know that there is another way.

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What was it that got you started in budtending specifically?

I kept amassing all this information. I was looking up terpenes and cannabinoids and diseases. It was because I had people coming to me. You know, like friends of mine and family members. This was before any of the dispensaries opened up. My own mother was having problems, and I put her onto the oil. Two weeks later, her bloodwork was fine and she was released from the hospital.

Before July of last year, home extraction was still OK. As of July of last year, home extraction’s now a Class C felony. If I get caught doing what I used to do, it’s the same sentence as somebody who is making meth. So basically, now all I can do is just educate people on how to do it themselves. Until something changes.

Like what?

There are a few companies I’ve been talking to. Hopefully I will be producing RSO in a facility for all of the dispensaries in Nevada in the next couple months. But I have my limits, too. I can only do so much; I’m not a doctor. I’m an old punk rocker that used to be on TV for a while, who got sick of seeing his friends die and started doing his research.

When you meet people or patients for the first time, do you describe yourself as a budtender?

To be honest, I’m not even really a fan of the word “budtender.” I’m somebody who’s done his homework, and I love helping out other people. I gotta say, I get something out of it too. Because being able to see these people come back in a few weeks with smiles on their face instead of, you know, the light being out. A lot of these people are 50-, 60-, 70-year-old men and women who have just been given a horrible diagnosis. And then they go into a dispensary and they need someone to talk to.

Luckily, I’m 46 years old, I’ve been through a lot, I’ve been a musician my whole life. I’m good at talking with people. I’m good at talking with all kinds of people. So that’s what got me into going into a dispensary instead of just doing things on the side, on my own. I want to be with the people. I’m learning from them. I get to see the reactions that they’re having. Plus I learn from what they tell me, I learn more about how I can help people. It’s for other people, but I get something out of it, too.

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What do you do when you’re not budtending at the dispensary? What are your hobbies and your lifestyle like?

Well, I’m still a musician. I’ve been playing music out here for over 30 years. I play everything from jazz to country to punk rock. So you know, I can be in five or six bands at a time. I’m still working with some film stuff. I’m going to be doing a documentary about, like, ‘70s proto-punk in New York. I teach people how to make oil.

When I’m home, a lot of times I’m studying. I’m online learning about crazy diseases and what terpenes work for them. And then I also write for Cannabis Vegas Magazine. Something else I’d like to do is start a cannabis show, but it’s just not the right time for it. It’s because nobody is buying sponsorships, they’re not buying commercials. The country’s not ready yet. It’s going to take a couple more years before a TV show is ready.

What is your personal relationship with cannabis?

Well, the reason I’m a patient in the first place is being an old punk rocker, like myself, a guy named Ruckus. I didn’t get that name for nothing. I’ve fallen off of buildings, jumped off stages, I’ve been in more car accidents than I can count. You know my back and my knees and my neck are just shot. So, I’d say about seven years ago I was taking literally 40 loratab-10s [prescription opioids] a day. I was completely addicted to painkillers. That was just masking all my pain.

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That’s the other thing that got me into it personally — pain management and getting off of opiates. And that worked for both of them. Once I found out about this oil, I haven’t touched as much as an aspirin in the last six years. You know, my liver feels better, my kidneys, my whole well-being. My thought process is better. Everything is better since I’m off that poison.

“My whole thing is start small. I don’t want anybody to take too much and be scared off.”

Once every six months or so I’d be down on my back and not be able to get up. I’d be sliding around my house on a skateboard. I haven’t had that problem in six years. It was an immediate thing. I took that capsule, and the next morning I woke up [was] the best I’d felt in years.

When a patient is new to medical cannabis and overwhelmed by all of the nuances behind it, where do you start?

First thing I do, when somebody comes in, especially when people come in and say, “Let me have your highest THC,” that right there just tells me that somebody is uneducated. When I hear that from somebody, my first move is OK, let me show you something, and I’ll pull out a bottle and I’ll show them what myrcene is, what caryophyllene is, linalool and limonene — and explain what they are. They start getting educated right there, and getting that education is a good feeling. Like OK, this isn’t something I need to be afraid of anymore. And from there I go to, OK, have you ever smoked before? If it’s a no, then it’s like, OK, we don’t even want to get you started with [smoking] pot. We want to start you with like a tincture, so you can just do a couple drops, find your comfort level.

Every single person is different. I can’t tell somebody, “You smoke this and you’re going to feel like this.” Every person’s different. So my whole thing, especially with new people, is start small. I don’t want anybody to take too much and be scared off by this and never come back, because it’s happened to me before. I’ve had very, very good friends of mine that came down with cancer. I gave them oil capsules and it was too much for them. They’re like, “I don’t want to be that stoned ever,” and they didn’t go back to oil.

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If you scare somebody away from this, you could literally kill them. Which is the way I look at it. So my thing is always, always, always start them as small as possible and then let them build up as they feel comfortable.

With your involvement at Inyo, is there one particular moment that stands out as most impactful?

My favorite story is the mother that came in with her little girl—I believe she was seven years old—with epilepsy. She still went to school because it wasn’t totally severe, but she would have, you know, three or four seizures a week. Every now and then it would happen while she’s at school. So how does she medicate while she’s at school? Of course she can’t smoke anything, she can’t take any vapor. She can’t take a brownies or cookies, because what if one of the other kids takes it? We’ve got a big problem.

What I suggested to these people was honey sticks, which is just a straw full of honey that has Rick Simpson Oil in it. The kid could literally just bite the end of it and suck that honey stick down. And what I had the mother do was go get, like, big red straws and put the honey stick inside of that so she had to go through two straws in order to get to her medicine. Some kid isn’t going to look at her red straw with two crimped ends and think, “Ooh, that’s delicious! I need to eat that!”

So the kid would take it to school with her. I think it was her fifth day after [her mother] bought the stuff, she started having a seizure and sucked down that honey and oil real quick — and the seizure didn’t happen. None of the kids made fun of her for having a seizure. Which, you know, I remember when I went to school and kids, they’d laugh. Which didn’t happen to this little girl. None of the teachers knew she was medicating, so she didn’t get any shit from them, and none of the kids knew that she was, you know, sick anymore. So her life just became so much better. The mother came in a few weeks later just crying and thanking me so much. And I’m like, it’s not me, it’s the medicine that did it. Things like that just melt your heart. I go home and sleep with a full heart damn near every night.

What advice would you give to someone who is interested in becoming a budtender?

Study, study, study, study. Start looking up your terpenes. Start looking up your cannabinoids. This isn’t just selling pot to somebody. Sometimes people’s lives are in your hands, so if somebody comes in and they say they have a disease and you don’t know what will help that disease, or even the basis of that disease, you could literally kill somebody. So take it very seriously and do your research before you ever get a job like this.

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Any final thoughts on budtending, cannabis use in general, or any other elements of your life?

This is still a whole new frontier for everybody and we’re still learning new things every single day. There are new barriers being broken, and things being learned, and new terpenes being found. New ways of consuming. You know, it’s an amazing time to be alive, because I sure never would have expected this.

And get out there and vote out the bastards who are against us!

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New York, July 1973

It was just an hour and a half away until Led Zep would be on stage for the second night sold-out gig at Madison Square Garden, the end of an American tour that saw them playing to bigger crowds than anyone including the Beatles, Stones and Grand Funk had ever reached before.

You'd think Robert Plant would have looked exhausted. But no, he burst into the lobby of the fashionable Drake Hotel and looked pleased. He had just run out to get a new small amp and couldn't wait to begin fooling around with it. His smile turned into a frown when a dopey-looking guy ran after him shouting, "Jimmy, Jimmy."

"You've got the wrong guy," Robert scowled as he got into the elevator. The dope jammed his leg into the door so it wouldn't shut and said, "Well, who are you? What's your name? I've got something you might like to hear."

He thrust an envelope at Robert who got the door shut and said, "There are just so many of those people. I suppose I should be nicer but...."

Up in his suite on the fifteenth floor, Plant sprawled in an easy chair and began fiddling with the new amp while we talked. A little while later, a shirtless John Paul Jones wandered in looking for his hair dryer, apologized to me for not wearing a shirt and then spotted a stereo in the corner. "How did you get that?" he wanted to know.

Plant, eyes sparling, explained that he had just called Jerry Greenberg at Atlantic and had it delivered almost immediately. Jerry is the company's senior vice-president and general manager and knows how to make things happen fast. An Otis Rush record sat nearby, a reminder of Plant's favourite kind of music.

Robert stopped fiddling with his new gadget and talked about playing New York. "It does have a psychological sort of impression on me. Despite the fact that we can play for 18,000 people in Chicago, it's far more important to do better in New York.

"I think it's only psychological really. New York's audiences are no different to people anywhere. Last night at the Gardens was superb. The only time I ever get any nerves at all is when I play the Albert Hall in London. Playing in London always gets me nervy. London was always the place that I seemed to think had to be A-1.

"But now I have such a good time strutting about that I don't really think any place is any different to any other. There's so many individuals in front of you."

Plant says he's the same man onstage as off. "I wouldn't say that I become different at all because I'm not trying too hard. I mean, if I was over-trying then that would be the case but I'm not. It's like this (and he smiles broadly). But there are a lot more people that don't know you so you tend to be a bit more flashy. But, so long as I'm smiling it must be real. I wouldn't get too serious."

For the past four and a half years, Zep has been playing as a straight sole act because they have enough material and didn't think it fair to put anyone else when people were coming to see them. Robert says the set has gotten up to three and a quarter hours and though he and Jimmy vowed to put it back down, they can't seem to. But it doesn't bother him and he's not glad when the set is over. Robert's looking forward to a month's rest upon getting back home and then in about four weeks, they'll begin recording again. They've had the Garden performances recorded live and there's some live tapes from a few other places including Tokyo but so far they've not had time to listen to them because they've been working solid since a year ago. This tour hasn't given Robert any time to write.

"I suppose the time is there but after a gig you just really want to collapse and watch television. If the tour was less hectic, I would get into it. I scribble down a few bits of verbal now and again but as far as amazing the whole lot of lyrics, no.

"Sometimes we have backing tapes of tracks worked out and somebody goes, "Well, we got no bloody lyrics." Sometimes it's quite immediate like Black Dog. Things are there instantly like "I've got to roll, can't stand still" and all of that sort of "watching the ladies honey drip" and things come instantly to me. I'm not sure whether it's a gift writing about watching ladies honey drip or whether it comes from the blues that I learned close to that - The Raunch.

"Stairway to Heaven was basically conceived on the spot lyrically. Then sometimes we just do some backing tapes and they get quite intricate were I couldn't sing along instantly. I had to really listen to what was going on on my own. And then someone goes, "I ain't got no bloody lyrics" and a week later I'd come back with Over the Hills and Far Away or The Crunge. That was amazing because Bonzo and I were just going to go in the studio and talk Black Country through the whole thing - you know, "Aah bloody well how you doin', you alright mate?" And it just evolved there and then at the end of my tether, it came out.

"The Rain Song was just sort of a little infatuation I had. The next morning I'd scribble it out. If I had done it the day after, it would have been no good."

In the past, Led Zep have avoided the press like the plague. But on this tour, they've hired a big publicity firm here and are willing to talk.

"The only way we could get through really after so much silence was to get a liason `Look, they're ready to talk now. They're no going to throw you out a window.' The reason is because we really warrant it, you know.

"We know what we've done. We can look back on all the platinum and gold discs and the fantastic nights we've had but it's time everybody at least know what we're doing whether they appreciate it or not. And dear old England, they've hung on desperately in all those years of silence.

"There must be so many good people in England who when you do a tour, show up with as much fervor as I've got for what we do. They know that we are busy and not a lot of recluses or paranoid guys who don't want to talk to anybody. Now everybody finds out that we are quite active. I'd love to do the same in England on this scale."

Zeppelin are certainly opening up, and it looks as if one of the new areas they are moving into is film. A movie cameraman followed every moment of the band's triumphant final performance on Sunday.

Outside Madison Square Garden there were the usual swarms of street people pleading, "Got any extra tickets?" and the cops who manned the several barricades one had to pass before even entering the Garden warned everyone to hang on tight to the tickets in their hands.

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Led Zeppelin History

November 21, 1968 - Robert becomes a father to a baby girl named Carmen Jane.
November 09, 1968 - Robert marries Maureen in London. Their reception is a performance at the Roundhouse in London
November xx, 1969 - Tempers flare over Atlantic in the UK wanting to release singles
November xx, 1969 - Recording for Led Zeppelin III begins at Olympic Studios in London
November xx, 1970 - Plans are in motion for a Yardbirds reunion
November 08, 1971 - Finally after much anticipation, Untitled is released
November xx, 1972 - Houses Of The Holy is mixed and completed
November 10, 1972 - Led Zeppelin sell out 120,000 tickets in one day
November xx, 1973 - Initial recordings for Physical Graffiti commences at Headley Grange
November 04, 1973 - Led Zeppelin finalize the purchase of Headley Grange to be their new corporate headquarters
November xx, 1974 - The band makes plans and rehearses for the tenth North American tour
November xx, 1975 - Led Zeppelin records Presence in a mere 18 days
November xx, 1976 - Led Zeppelin book into Ezyhire Studios to rehearse new material for an upcoming tour
November 04, 1976 - The Song Remains The Same movie premieres in Europe
November xx, 1977 - Jimmy dispells rumors of Led Zeppelin’s break up
November 06, 1978 - Led Zeppelin purchase and ship new gear to Polar Studios to begin work on a new album
November 10, 1979 - Led Zeppelin and their entire entourage attend an ABBA concert
November 07, 1980 - The band meets with Peter Grant to announce the retirement of Led Zeppelin
November 29, 1999 - The RIAA announced that Led Zeppelin were only the third act in music history to achieve four or more Diamond albums, a Diamond album being awarded for accredited sales of more than 10 million units in the US.
November 01, 2007 - An announcement was made that Jimmy Page had fractured his finger on his left hand after a fall in his garden and the reunion show would be postponed to December 10, 2007.
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