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Building and Renovating

Building and Renovating in Mississauga

What am I allowed to build?

Permitted development and uses are regulated by the Zoning by-law. Visit the Zoning web page for more information

What is a building permit and why do I need one?

The requirement for a building permit is prescribed in the Building Code Act

Building permits are required to protect the interests of both individuals and the community as a whole. By reviewing and approving building plans before any work is done, the city can ensure that your project meets:

  • The Ontario Building Code, which outlines design standards that are in place to retain health, safety, fire protection, and accessibility.

  • The Mississauga Zoning By-law

  • Other applicable law, including conservation authority, heritage authority, site plan control etc.

It is the homeowner's responsibility to ensure that a building permit is obtained when required.

When is a building permit required?

A building permit must be obtained prior to the starting the following projects:

  • Construct/demolish a new building

  • Construct/demolish an addition to an existing building

  • Construct/demolish an attached or a detached garage

  • Construct a wood deck, greater 0.61m (2 ft.) in height

  • Construct a porch or a balcony

  • Construct a below grade entrance (basement walkout)

  • Add or increase the size of, doors and/or windows.

  • Adding a second unit (basement apartment)

  • Interior alterations (finishing basement, removing/adding interior walls including load- bearing walls and other structural components)

  • Construct/demolish a detached accessory structure (shed, gazebo, cabana) greater than 10m2 (107.64 ft2)

  • Alterations to existing roof (i.e.- adding new dormers, skylights)

  • Install solar panels and communication towers

  • Install solid fuel fire appliance (wood burning fire place, etc.)

  • Erect tents greater than 60m2 (645.85 ft2)

  • Recladding exterior building face (change in material brick to stucco, siding to brick, etc.)

  • Excavate a basement to increase existing headroom/ underpinning foundation walls

  • Install or modify HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems

  • Install, replace or repair plumbing, drainage or sewer systems

  • Change the use of a building

  • Fire damage repair

  • Install maglocks

  • Construct mezzanine

  • Undertake site servicing

  • Install fire protections systems (sprinklers, fire alarms, etc.)

  • Repair balconies and parking structures

  • Install commercial kitchen exhaust & suppression systems

  • Install spray booths, dust collector

  • Erect, alter or repair loading docks

  • Install, replace or repair a private sewage system

  • Replace a furnace that is changing fuel type, efficiency or capacity

  • Install a gas fireplace as a heating appliance

  • Create a covered or enclosed patio (i.e./ restaurant patios)

  • Install rooftop HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) replacements

  • Construct a structure of any size which contains plumbing

  • Install geothermal systems

When is a building permit NOT generally required?

Typically the projects outlined below do not require a building permit:

Although a permit may not be required, some projects below may require compliance with the Zoning by-law and other applicable city by-laws.

  • Construct/demolish a detached accessory structure (shed, gazebo, cabana) less than 10m2 (107.64ft2) with no plumbing

  • Construct/demolish an uncovered wood deck less than 600mm (2 ft.) in height

  • Replace doors and/or windows that are the same size as the existing

  • Recladding with same materials (siding to siding, brick to brick, etc.)

  • Re-shingle a roof

  • Install eaves troughs, provided the drainage is contained within the property

  • Damp-proof basements

  • Paint or decorate

  • Install kitchen or bathroom cupboards without plumbing

  • Carry out minor repairs to masonry

  • Erect a fence

  • Carry out landscaping work

  • Install a decorative gas fireplace

  • Retaining wall less than 1m in height

How do I obtain a building permit?

Building permit applications must be made online using our ePlans electronic review system.

The following application types can be submitted in person at our Planning & Building Customer Service Centre. You will be required to provide 2 copies of drawings for residential applications and 3 copies for non-residential.

  • backwater valves

  • emergency plumbing & building repairs

  • sewer conversions

  • pre-zoning applications

  • site servicing

  • occupancy prior to completion

Planning & Building Customer Service Centre

300 City Centre Dr

3rd Floor from parking elevators

Acceptable methods of payment include: cash, cheque, debit and credit card.

Application process

Before submitting an application request for a building permit, we suggest you consider the following:

  1. Do I need a building permit?

  2. Have I checked the zoning provisions for my area?

  3. Do I need the services of a design professional? (architect, engineer, qualified designer)

  4. Do I have complete drawings that show the existing and proposed work?

  5. Have I checked that I comply with any other applicable law and obtained any other required approvals?

Click here for the application process map

Required drawings & documents

To submit a building permit application, you must provide drawings, documents and forms in accordance with the minimum application requirements found below. The application fee is also due upon application creation.

It is recommended that you acquire the services of a design professional (architect, engineer, qualified designer) to prepare your drawings and documents. For some residential projects, the home owner may prepare their own drawings, but this is not recommended.

All work indicated on your drawings must conform to the Ontario Building Code, Mississauga Zoning by-law and other applicable law (such as conservation authority, heritage, site plan approval).

Click here for building permit application requirements

How long will it take?

At the time of pre-screening, your application will be deemed to be either complete or incomplete. This will determine the initial review time of your BUILDING PERMIT application.

  • Complete application: Contains all required drawings and documents, meets ePlans submission standards, meets all applicable law, and all required approvals have been obtained

10 Days - Residential housing type applications,

       new construction and alterations

20 Days - Non-residential applications

Timelines are measured from when the application is CREATED.

  • Incomplete application: may be missing drawings, documents, approvals, information, drawing may not contain sufficient information, identifies a non-compliance with Zoning By-law. Not subject to the prescribed review time.

Residential: AVERAGE 4 weeks

Non-Residential: AVERAGE 8 weeks

It is important to remember that processing times outlined above are the time to complete the initial (first) review of your application; it does not mean that your building permit will be issued within these times.

The AVERAGE length of a building permit application from application creation to issuance is:

  • New  Residential  - 11 weeks (detached, semi)

  • Residential Alterations - 5 weeks (detached, semi)

  • New Non -residential  - 15 weeks

  • Non-residential alteration - 7 weeks

  • Second Units  - 9 weeks

  • Zoning Certificate  - 5 weeks

    To obtain a permit in the quickest time possible, we recommend that you;

  • Review and provide all of the submission requirements to ensure you are providing all required drawings and documents

  • Review our sample drawings which will illustrate the quality of drawings & information expected

  • Address all of the examiners comments thoroughly and promptly

How much will it cost?

Most building permit fees are based on the scope of work and/or the area of work (m2).

Click here for a list of building permit fees

At the time of your application request you will be asked to pay an administration fee. This administration fee is non-refundable and will be credited towards your total building permit fee. Fees are required to be paid in full at the time of application creation.

Please note that there are penalties for starting construction before obtaining your permit.

There may be additional fees (development charges, etc.) and deposits (lot grading deposit, municipal services protection deposit, etc.) associated with your building permit application that may need to be paid prior to issuance. If applicable, these fees will be requested during the plan examination review.

Other approvals that may be required

If your property is subject to any of the following, you may have to provide a form of approval from the appropriate agency/department prior to your building permit being issued. It is best to provide this information at the time of your application request.

Site Plan Approval: Some properties within the City are subject to the "Site Plan Control" and site plan approval may be needed before a building permit can be issued. You may be required to submit a development application. Contact the Planning Division at 905 615 3200 x4165 for more information.

Conservation Authority: Certain properties within the City are located within conservation screening areas. Contact your conservation authority for more information
Credit Valley Conservation
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Conservation Halton

Heritage: Certain properties could be “listed” on the heritage register or be heritage “designated”. You can determine this by visiting www.mississauga.ca/propertyinformation and clicking on the “heritage” tab. Visit the Heritage Planning webpage for more information

Ministry of Transportation: Properties within a certain distance to provincial highways may require approval from MTO. Visit MTO’s Building Construction and Land Use website for more information.

Application status & resubmission

After the initial plan review, your “project status report” will be available in ePlans. This report will identify all of the outstanding issues that require action on your part. We may ask for more information or clarification on what was submitted. You will have to resubmit the requested information for a subsequent review; this is called making a resubmission or “applicant resubmit” in ePlans.

It is not uncommon for a building permit application to be reviewed more than once prior to it being found acceptable for issuance.

If you have questions about the outstanding comments on your application, you should contact the examiner directly to discuss. All examiner contact information is located on your project status report.

Click here for instruction on how to check the status of your application

All conditions placed on your application are subject to change until you have received the official plan review correction notice

Application revision

Revisions are made when you are revising work that was approved on a permit that has already been ISSUED.

If you are submitting additional or revised information for your application that is still in process, this is not a “revision” see “application status & resubmission”.

Once your building permit has been issued, should you wish to revise construction or scope of work, you will require authorization from the Building Division. This may be in the form of a “field revision” authorized by the inspector(s), or a formal “revision application”. Please speak to your inspector(s) to determine the type of revision required.

Changes to the scope of work indicated in the original building permit application may be subject to the recalculation of building permit fees and/or an additional hourly review fee.

The process of submitting a “revision” application is the same as submitting a new building permit request (see “application process”). The description of your revision permit should state “REVISION TO 18-####” referring to your original building permit.

Each revision permit shall be accompanied by:

- a covering letter summarizing and itemizing all the changes

- revised drawings and/or documents

- **NOTE: only submit drawings that reflect the revised work, do not submit drawings that do not contain changes.

Building permit history

You can search the history of building permits on a property by entering the address at the link below and clicking on the “building permits” tab.

Sample drawings:

As outlined in “application requirements”, each application must be accompanied by various drawings and documents.

Drawings should be drawn to scale. Drawings can be either in metric or imperial measurements.

Below are some sample drawings that illustrate the quality and information required. If you are not capable of preparing something of this quality, we recommend obtaining the services of a design professional (architect, engineer, qualified designer). These drawings are intended to illustrate quality and typical information required only. This is subject to change and may vary based on the scope of work and staff’s discretion. Additional information may be requested during plans examination.

Depending on the scope of work, the drawings submitted may need to bear the stamp of an architect, professional engineer, or qualified designer.

Site Plan

Floor Plans

Cross Section

Construction Notes

Attached Garage

Detached Garage

Building and Mechanical Plans Examination

The SMART (structural, mechanical, architectural review team) is responsible for the Ontario Building Code review of building permit applications. Plans examinations are performed under the authority of the Ontario Building Code Act.

Click here for information about building plan examination

Permanent Signs

Information on the installation of permanent signs can be found here

After your building permit has been issued, inspections are required to ensure that construction is being carried out in accordance with the issued building permit documents and Ontario Building Code.

Click here for more information on building inspections

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Building a Deck

Unless there are other specific requirements (ie: Conservation Authority, site specific zoning, Greenbelt restrictions, etc), the following information shall apply to the construction of all uncovered residential wood decks

Backwater Valve Permits

Mississauga City Council passed a resolution waiving building permit fees for the installation of backwater valves for residents affected by the flood on July 8th, 2013.

Backflow Prevention – Building Permit Requirements

On April 1, 2017, Region of Peel Council passed the Backflow Prevention By-law 10-2017. The purpose of the By-law is to prevent backflow into the Municipal Drinking Water System of The Regional Municipality of Peel for provisions of clean and safe drinking water.


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Back in the late 1970s the best toy line in the world was Mattel's SHOGUN WARRIORS. These were amazing Japanese robot toys imported for America's children, who knew nothing of Great Mazinger or Gaiking or even of Danguard Ace, and yet they knew instinctively that giant warrior robots were the entertainment motif of the future. Especially the ones with spring-loaded fists. Quick to hop on the toy licencing bandwagon, Marvel Comics immediately secured the comic book rights and amassed a vast library of reference material in order to ensure their comic was true to the original source material.

Just kidding. Actually they got some robot toys and told artist Herb "Hulk" Trimpe to go wild! The robots themselves are faithful-looking, but everything else is pure Trimpe. Since he's great at Kirby-esque machinery and monsters, this is actually a good thing.

Here we have our crack team of ethnically diverse robot pilot heroes, kidnaped by a secret science research facility that needs them to use the super robots to battle, say it with me, monsters from the depths of the Earth, who came originally from space. Which is a plot point near and dear to most all of the Toei robot cartoons from the '70s. Too bad our heroes seem to have been worked over with a belt sander or something. I'm almost positive they used to have noses.

They're thrown into goofy uniforms, given Akira's helmet from the RAIDEEN TV show, and find themselves in "Raydeen" battling a magma monster. And talking, talking, talking. I think writers at Marvel get paid by the word.

Just when you think things can't get any better, they roll out two more super robots! Too bad the issue is over. Also too bad is the fact that Mattel never released the giant two-foot versions of Combattler V ("Combatra") and Danguard Ace. America's kids had to make do with a dinky yet diecast Danguard, and it would be the 1980s before we got the Godaikin Combattler V! On the other hand, the really cool-looking robots from Mattel's giant Shogun Warrior line were all Go Nagai creations like Getta Dragon and Great Mazinger, and it's a good bet he wasn't letting anybody else make Mazinger comics.
In case you're wondering what actual Japanese super robot comics look like, here's a bit of COMBATTLER V manga:

Next week: DC enters the toy robot licensed comic race - as usual, years later!

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The Top 10 Free MMORPG.

MMORPG or Huge Multiplayer Online Part Playing Video game is an obsession among the more youthful generation of today. There are lots of reasons why individuals engage in such on-line tasks as well as a lot of the reasons are for socialization. Because of the popularity of these online games, many different variations as well as game quests have emerged, some are cost-free and some are not, yet only a few have actually permeated the leading game list for the majority of on-line gamers. Currently, what are the top totally free MMORPG?

Individuals turn to on the internet gaming because of lots of reasons; some for interacting socially, some for the adventure, as well as due to the fact that they can be whoever they wish to get on online games. Every MMORPG has a chat application in which gamers could interact with gamers from all over the globe. Socialization happens since players would intend to interact with other type players making use of the integrated conversation application to persuade on the internet gamers to join their celebration for a more powerful alliance. MMORPG’s deal gamers or individuals a different type of thrill. On the internet video games are dynamic because as your degree increases, the trouble and the experience likewise levels up. Last but not least, in the virtual world of on the internet games people could choose their character and also personalized them baseding on their requirements. They could put their dreams and desires in their character and also really feel as if that they are actually exactly what their personality is.

There are a lot of online video games in which people can select, yet there are just a couple of on the internet video games that penetrated the top degrees in terms of popularity, function, and also functions. So, let us provide the leading free MMORPG for the players.

Runes of Magic – battle against mysterious and hazardous creatures to resolve a long-perished kingdom.
Perfect World – customize your character to your heart’s need in this dream online game.
FlyFF – appreciate an on the internet video game who appears like it is constructed out of a comic strip.
Jade Empire – enjoy a distinct online video game with one-of-a-kind video game play features and air conditioner based on Zhu Xian.
DDO (Dungeons as well as Dragons Online) – this freshly transformed play-to-play to a complimentary MMORPG deal gamers the chance to uncover hidden treasures, loss humongous monsters, as well as leave traps set by the ancient race.
Fiesta – embeddeded in the island of Isya, players have an energised atmosphere where they can interact socially, make buddies, and also make new partnerships.
Rappelz – this complimentary MMORPG supplies on-line gamers the very best looking video game and a charming pet heating and cooling unit.
Sword of the New Globe – it is an unique video game offering gamers a chance to control approximately 3 characters at the same time as well as is among the best looking video games available on the on the internet world today.
League of Islands – it combines the attributes of a parlor game and also technique video games added with a great competitive action level.
Hands of FU – it is an amusing MMORPG offering arcade-action with anime-like graphics and also a 3D environment.

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Switch It Up With False Ox Switchels

Need a fun way to stay hydrated, and help your gut health all at once? Check out the newest addition to our beverage lineup, False Ox Switchels! Made by East-Enders (and Moberly customers) Mike Riley and Jim Squires, these delicious drinks couldn’t be more local.

What are Switchels?

Dubbed “the original energy drink”, switchels are made of organic apple cider vinegar, ginger, and water. We also carry their sweetened option, which uses a bit of cane sugar.

According to the False Ox team,

The version of Switchel found in Colonial era North America most likely originated in the Caribbean, and soon became a common drink in fields, farms, taverns, and households. Historically referred to as Haymaker’s Punch, Swizzle, or Switzel, Switchel is a healthy and delicious, natural hydrating drink.

Today, our False Ox Switchels are a natural way to stay hydrated, boost your immune system, and promote gut health.

While Switchel itself is non-alcoholic, you can make a variety of alcoholic mixed drinks with it, too. Check out the False Ox website for recipes

Why do we love Switchel?

What’s not to love? Our friends at False Ox make their Switchel with all-natural ingredients. You can reap a whole lot of benefits from Switchel, thanks to its balance of those ingredients: apple cider vinegar and ginger. Both are amazing for your digestive health, help boost your immunity, and provide you with naturally-occurring electrolytes.

We have both their Original and an Unsweetened varieties. If you’re looking for an immune boost, try the Unsweetened. If you need a little extra energy, reach for the Original.

Have you tried Switchel before? Do you have another name you use for this apple cider vinegar drink? Let us know in the comments! (And then come try this amazing stuff by False Ox.)

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Welcome to Mo Egeston Music. Maurice "Mo" Egeston is a pianist, band leader and educator from St. Louis, Missouri. He spends his musical time leading bands and writing music while also working as a collaborative artist, accompanist and educator in both the classroom and private studio. Mo did his graduate studies in chamber music and accompanying at Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville) with Dr. Linda Perry. He currently runs his own Mo Egeston Piano Studio and is an instructor at Teipen Performing Arts.  He has taught adjunct classes in the St. Louis area since 1996 (Applied Piano, Vocal Jazz Combo, Improvisation, Music Appreciation, Music of the United States, Masterpieces of Music).

If you are here for piano lesson information please click the link above. Contact Mo at -moisme1 at gmail dot com- with any questions about band bookings, lessons, accompanying, collaborative, club or studio work.

Groove Suites Vol. 1 Mo E All-Stars EP

Instrumental soul, nujazz, Latin and funk blended with organic drum and bass, house and downtempo grooves. The dance floor influence can’t be denied- but listening is just fine.  Check here for links to support our efforts with a purchase and here  for streaming options.

Catch Mo most Saturdays at the new Dark Room @the Grandel hosting his weekly Late Night Grooves event. Late Night Grooves is blend of modern soul, jazz improvisation and beats featuring trio and quartet collaborations with a variety of vocalists and instrumentalists including members of Mo E All-Stars. 10P No Cover.

(Read a recent shout out from the RFT here:

"Mo Egeston is one the 2018 STL's 77 Honorees" )

A 25 year veteran of the St. Louis music scene, Mo first emerged as a band leader during the birth of the Washington Ave. nightlife scene in the mid 90's. Soon after, regional favorites Vargas Swing brought the sounds of the swing revival to the St. Louis club scene and were featured on 2 national compilations.

Next came the pioneering live electronic dance music project Urban Jazz Naturals who released 2 dance singles globally and eventually evolved into mo & dawn: the remix project. See Mo's bio for a more detailed band and recording history.  (Mo E's bio)

 Download Mo Egeston Music booking one sheet.

In 2008 the Mo E Family was born as a catch all for the variety of projects Mo currently leads.

  • Mo E All-Stars original modern jazz fusion, modern soul, electronica, nu jazz & house

  • Mo Egeston: Groove Sessions solo improvisation with beats, loops and live sampling.

  • Mo E trio/Mo E3 Mo E 3 can be anything from a traditional instrumental jazz trio (soul, jazz, pop) to small dance music ensemble.  Mo E3 also collaborates with area vocalists including Jessica Butler, Mario Pascal, Paige Alyssa, Cheri Evans and Coco Rochelle (CocoSoul).

  • Mowinda violin & piano chamber music.  Classical, pop, tango & jazz

  • Coco & Mo- (Soul Alliance) Mo Egeston frequently collaborated with St. Louis based singer and songwriter Coco Rochelle. This collaboration is currently on hiatus since Coco is in ATL.  Stay tuned for future collaborations- we're not done

Mo E All-Stars were a part of the Second Season of the Chevy Music Showcase- STL Edition.  Follow the link to like the All-Stars page and stay up to date on Facebook.  The episodes aired in 2013 on KMOV-TV and can be viewed on YouTube along with other live clips. (Mo E All-Stars YouTube Playlist)

Mo was a member of St. Louis rock band Brothers Lazaroff  from 2008 through the summer of 2014. The band released the albums Give Em What They Need in 2010 and Science Won in 2012.  The band's Hope, Fear,Youth was released in the Fall of 2013. (Bros Laz on CD Baby )

In early 2014 Elizabeth Mcqueen meet Brothers Lazaroff released a KickStarter supported EP remix of the renown Austin singer and songwriter's album The Laziest Girl in Town

Mo also contributed a track to the Science Won Remixes (Link to Bandcamp)-  "I Could Stay Here for the Rest of My Life" features Elizabeth McQueen & Brothers Lazaroff. Listen to the single in the player to the right.

Use the links above and to the left to listen to band samples, watch video and check Mo's performing schedule.

Join Mo on Facebook  with a click and a like. Thanks for stopping by!


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Eat and Go

Last Saturday, Ian and I decided to have window shopping and food trip at the same time. I met Ian at Megamall around 11:15am after his Annual Physical Examination at Health Way. Our first activity for the day was to buy gifts for Jap and Beth's Wedding this coming Saturday, March 27. So we off to Department Store and bought our special gifts for them and have it wrapped for free. Then, the next thing we do is to have our lunch since it's already 12noon. Ian already done canvassing where to have our luscious lunch, he suggest to try the Eat and Go Restaurant located at the Atrium.

At first, we greeted by a courteous waitress and accompanied us at the couch. Since it was our first time to try this restaurant, we consume more than 5 minutes to finalized our orders. Finally, we settled to have our appetizer first, no other than our favorite Caesar Salad. There is no special thing in the salad; it's the usual Lettuce, crunchy croutons, bacon bits, and Caesar dressings, but we really enjoyed eating salad which makes my mind to order it once more when we visit this restaurant someday.

Caesar Salad Php 145.00
Ian choose to have Chicken Saltimbocca with roasted pepper rice and pasta in red sauce. The Chicken Saltimbocca is an oven baked chicken filet stuffed with ham and cheese and of course, the Saltimbocca sauce.
Chicken Saltimbocca Php 165.00

I ordered Pork Tenderloin with pepper rice and Carbonara. It is a pan-seared pork tenderloin slices with brown gravy as a sauce.
Pork Tenderloin Php 165.00
Of course, I cannot eat without my favorite hot sauce. So I requested Ian to find one for us.
For drinks, Ian prefers to try Kiwi Lime Grande. Remember, this is also one of his favorite fruits which he ordered as one of the side toppings during our food trip in Red Mango.
Kiwi Lime (Grande) Php 90.00
I'm not a fan of Strawberry; in fact I often eat strawberry fruits. Ian influences me to try the Berry Strawberry. At first, I refuse to try it but I'm just curious what does it taste. So definitely, I ordered Berry Strawberry.
Berry Strawberry Php 70.00
As usual, our date will not be complete without picture taking... ^_^

us :)

Eat and Go
Level 3 Mega Atrium
SM Megamall


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The Lynching of Richard O’Dwyer

July 23, 2012 5:37 pm

So often when people criticise the United States of America, it comes across as misinformed, self-righteous snobbery done largely with the intent of boosting our jolly British egotism. After all, the US has produced some of the finest writers, singers, artists, scientific minds and thinkers the world has entertained—yet now America is to publically disgrace itself by lynching twenty-four year-old Sheffield student Richard O’Dwyer in a gross abuse of unwarranted legal power while the British government avoid their moral obligations to prevent the mistreatment of an innocent citizen. Specifically, the USA is demanding his extradition to face charges of violating Federal criminal copyright laws while our Home Secretary, Theresa May, has signed the extradition notice and is refusing to review her ill-considered decision.

It is this man, the evil onewith the Mickey Mouse t-shirt on, that the USA want to imprison.

Richard O’Dwyer may be a familiar name but his story deserves telling, if only for clarification. Interested in web development, the Hallam student created which allowed users to search for links to television and movies online. It’s important to be clear; his website did not host copyrighted content, it merely provided links to it. The difference here means the site effectively operated as a pretty useless Google: users could search for whatever they liked but the results tvshack could deliver were very limited. You’d have been hard pressed to find the news on there. More interestingly, the results it did have were only those links which users submitted and the site let the world know exactly where it stood: ‘TV Shack is a simple resource site. All content visible on this site is located at 3rd party websites. TV Shack is not responsible for any content linked to or referred to from these pages.’ Of course, it’s impossible for anyone to write themselves a ‘get out of jail free’ card but consider almost any website with links on it carries this warning –from established institutions such as the BBC through to the Home Office webpage—and see it is a generally recognised and accepted disclaimer. While Richard ran the site, he occasionally received requests to remove the links to copyrighted content and he did so; these weren’t the actions of a hardened criminal hell bent on sticking two fingers up at Hollywood. Are they actions worthy of a ten year jail sentence?

In this pressing situation, it is important to establish question the jurisdictional power of the US; crimes are not crimes everywhere- an obvious example would be the age of consent or the age at which someone can buy and consume alcohol. It seems curious that America feel the need to involve themselves in the actions of a UK citizen, whose actions took place on UK soil and whose audience were largely watching from outside America. And the kicker? His site was hosted on Swedish servers. In fact, Richard and Captain America are only related by some content being American.

The British Government are not bringing any claim against Richard following a ruling in the similar case of, where linking was found not to be a crime. This means the UK does not consider Richard guilty of any offence. Under our law, there will be no charge. No punishment. No jail sentence. It seems extraordinary the US is trying to jail a UK student for a crime that our legal system doesn’t recognise. We aren’t alone in this either– recently the Federal Courts of Canada concluded linking isn’t copyright infringement in the battle of the National Post versus

Thanks Theresa, you’ve really done us proud.

Why then did Theresa May sign the papers to approve the extradition and what does that say about our relationship with America? Obviously copyright law has an important and substantial function but as this ‘crime’ is unrecognised in the UK, May’s decision seems entirely unfair. Wikipedia co-founder and adviser to our Government on data issues, Jimmy Wales, certainly has voiced his disgust through an online petition to reverse her choice. At the time of writing, 234,000 people had raised their hand in support of the cause. Moreover, a YouGov survey found only 9% of the country thought the extradition was justifiable. Sadly, Theresa May remains in that tiny fraction of the nation and told an enquiring House of Commons with damning finality that the decision had ‘already been taken.’

It is imperative to question the reasoning behind her conclusion. Both she and Prime Minister David Cameron had recently added their voices to a lengthy list of Extradition Act detractors. It is this act America is invoking and yet she has so easily bowed to the pressure. It is a curiosity and an atrocity that American legal teams should be so intent on an individual student in Sheffield. Is it the money? They allege he earned £147,000 from advertising; it seems unlikely a sum so insignificant in comparison to the majority white-collar crime profits would induce the white hot, dogged determination to charge O’Dwyer. Speculation must turn to the corporations who produce the material which is copyrighted; they are looking to make an example of someone. Pathetically, they chose a target they assumed could be bullied; a quiet student who wasn’t yet sufficiently established to be impenetrable (his site worked like a search engine but there’s been

Please sign the petition, as started by Jimmy Wales.

no word on any case against Google, Yahoo! or Bing.) Richard is relying on his court appeal but our Home Secretary should step in and stop the extradition. If not, he will become a victim of American media corporations using their government as frontage. This in itself is an affront to our legal position and serves to fuel Britain’s reputation as something of a doting sidekick to the United States; Britain have never used the act to extradite an American citizen while they are seemingly happy to use it for purposes so trite such as this. The act was intended to be used against terror suspects. Sir Menzies Cambell, former Liberal Democrat leader and advocate, criticised May’s decision, saying the act was ‘never intended for people like Richard.’ Her decision leaves her in a position of legal ambiguity and moral failure.

Richard O’Dwyer has committed no offence under the law of his country. Should he be extradited to the United States, it will tantamount to sending an innocent man abroad to be punished for a crime he could not have known he was committing. The stress, unwelcome media attention and inconvenience this is causing is not acceptable and the Americans should never have involved themselves with so keenly; it is not of their concern. To imprison him under the law of another country is obscene and unjust. Or, simply; you do not punish a rugby player for breaking the rules of cricket.

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The MR Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band

The MR Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band ref: 4968.1

The MR Ceilidh / Barn Dance Band

This band can perform as an all Scottish Ceilidh, Irish Ceili, English Barn Dance or a mixture of all. The MR Ceilidh/barn dance band is a lively band of three experienced musicians and a dance caller. They play and sing music and songs from the English, Scottish and Irish traditions for dancing and listening to, at wedding receptions, birthday parties and corporate events. Line up consists of melodeon and fiddle, guitar and flute, and flute and whistle. They work with experienced dance callers, who will get your guests dancing, mingling, laughing and enjoying themselves however little their prior knowledge of ceilidh dancing, and whatever their age. The band's aim is to make sure you and your guests have an enjoyable and memorable evening, tailored to your particular wishes and requirements.

The band usually play a mixture of English, Scottish, American and Irish music, but could provide a whole evening in any one of these if required. They usually play instrumental interludes, but some songs can be included on request.

Birthday"Just wanted to say a huge Thank You to yourself and the band that played at my birthday barn dance last week. The feedback from guests has been terrific, everyone had a really good time and we felt the dances were perfectly geared for my American theme as well as the fact we had a lot of children at the party. Only a handful of friends had been to a barn dance before, so they knew what to expect. The newcomers to the dancing absolutely loved it, they were apprehensive but are now all trying to persuade me to have another."
WeddingThe band are a pleasure to work with from start to finish. Beautifully organised, extremely courteous and more than wishing to please, they set a wonderful atmosphere as guests arrived at the Reception and walked into dinner. After speeches, they struck up lively tunes and it was such fun to see resistant dancers persuaded onto the dance floor. Their playing was both a delight and pleasure to listen and dance to. Highly recommended."
Annual dinner"I am writing to thank you very much for the providing such exceptional entertainment at our Annual Dinner on Friday 28th January 2011. We were highly impressed with the music and everyone really enjoyed the dances, as reflected in the excellent feedback we have received from our staff. Please extend our thanks to the rest of the band. We would happily recommend the Band to colleagues and business associates alike."
Birthday"Thanks to you guys for the great evening at Ilam. Lots of compliments especially for the gentle caller."
Wedding Anniversary"Please pass on our grateful thanks to your fellow musicians. We had a wonderful party and it was so lovely to watch the young and older guests dance together and laugh when mistakes were made. You made a great atmosphere and everyone enjoyed the evening."
Community event"Thanks so much for playing and calling at our community ceilidh. It was lovely to have a local band for our church ceilidh. Guests commented on how great it was to have a "proper ceilidh" and the dances were well suited to even the littliest of dancers. We have had many great comments back. Lots of people seemed to really enjoy the evening. Will be in touch for the next one!"
Birthday"May I just say a massive thank you to the band for making my birthday so very special and superbly enjoyable. All my friends loved the music and the dancing which obviously ensued and I will be asking you to play for me again next year at our wedding anniversary party. Thank you again and good luck with your future venues and bookings."


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Review: Thomas Heywood

The internationally famed Australian organ virtuoso, Thomas Heywood, wowed a summer evening concert audience at Christ Church Cathedral with a bonzer display to brighten glum skies and pour musical torrents down on expectant heads. He is an all-action performer, a showman, who radiates enthusiasm for music and the myriad possibilities of the organ. He is exuberant and his introductions are gems of interest and humour. His extensive transcriptions and transposition for organ are a joy and as such he is a vital populariser of organ music. His fingers and feet dance on the keys and pedals and his wife, Simone, actions the stops so quickly, to give the music an added excitement. Occasionally he rushes measure for urgency but that’s the rock and roll of the man, the passion at the core of his technique.

Opening with Overture from Orpheus In The Underworld, this was friendly and familiar with scary bits, fanfares, fast fingers, flashy feet, soaring and sonorous melody before the big flourish of the can-can. A dramatic Beethoven Coriolan Overture was electric with stops, pauses, flurries, creeping tones, hesitancy, almost indecision, then fanfares and fireworks before a gorgeous fade to silence.

A Brewer Marche Heroique changed into a romantic Vocalise from Rachmaninoff and then a battering of the senses with a powerhouse from Wagoner’s Tannhauser Grand March with cannonares of trumpet sounds that reverberated all around the cathedral.

After the interval the familiar and flowing Handel’s Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba, was a blast, as he eased into Elgar Salut D’amore (an engagement gift for the composer’s poet wife). This was romantic we’ll-meet-again stuff that changed into a bonzer Chopin Military Polonaise.

His introductions were always interesting as was his joke about swine flu (I rang the swine flu hot line and all I got was crackling). A Tchaikovsky selection from The Sleeping Beauty, was amazing with a beautiful Garland Waltz and a stunning Rose Adagio that made a summer night memorable.

Still full of life, he encored with a zippy, impressive Toccata. It doesn’t get much better – a virtuoso on the organ, an essential venue in a slow season, good company and the love and enjoyment of music from a world class musician.

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Members include siblings Mato Nanji, guitar; Pte(born Ptehcaka Wicasa), bass; Wanbdi(born Wanbdi Waste Win), drums; and cousin Horse (a.k.a. Tasunka), percussion; all are members of the Native American Nakota Nation. Addresses: Record company--Pachyderm Records, 7840 Co. 17 Blvd., Cannon Falls, MN 55009-4048.

Great blues music and a strong family tradition combine to inspire the members of Indigenous, hailed as one of the greatest electric blues bands of the early 2000s. The group, all members of the same Native American family, began their career in basement jam sessions in the early 1990s using old instruments. Within a few years, they had matured and moved into large concert venues--which included a performance at one of President Bill Clinton's inaugural balls--to become a sought-after musical act by the end of the decade. As the quartet gained exposure from constant touring in the late 1990s, critics quickly hailed the newcomers for their musical brilliance and exceptional stage presence. Mary Bowannie reported in News From Indian Countrythat the group "leaves some rock critics grasping for words ... [but] it is simple. Indigenous has the power to stir and unleash emotions that are deep inside everyone."

The members of Indigenous, three siblings and a cousin, were raised in South Dakota. A member of the Nakota Nation, the family lived on the Yankton Indian Reservation. Although the band members have described their years growing up on the reservation as an experience not unlike life in any suburban American town, the political climate for Native Americans was far from ideal. Indeed, the children were exposed even in early childhood to the American Indian Movement (AIM), as their father and uncle, the late Greg Zephier, was active in that cause. Later, when they came of school age, their experiences with bigotry at the local schools drove them back to their family for home schooling in a less hostile atmosphere. As a result, it was the home of Greg and Beverly Zephier, the parents of the sibling band members, which spawned the fledgling quartet in the early 1990s.

Early Jam Sessions at Home

As part of their education, the siblings studied music with Greg Zephier--himself a former musician--as their teacher. The children were still pre-teenagers when he introduced his pupils to some old musical instruments in the basement of his home. The equipment was leftover from a 1960s band called the Vanishing Americans with which Zephier had once performed. In addition to the instruments, the Zephier household contained a cache of vintage blues recordings, including many of the electronic genres that came to prominence during the 1960s and 1970s. The future Indigenous members listened to the records and emulated the music. As a group they held their earliest jam sessions at the family home. Zephier, as their mentor, insisted that the band practice for at least two years prior to attempting a public performance. During those earliest years, as Indigenous bassist Pte professed to Scott Hickey of the Fort Wayne News Sentinel,the young musicians practiced and jammed through 12-hour days, beginning at noon and continuing through dawn.

Eventually the musicians ventured forth with their music into their hometown of Marty, South Dakota, where they performed their first jam outside of their home in 1995 in a local casino before an audience of friends and family. For the next three years, their concerts were held in virtual privacy as they continued to hone their performance skills. Still under Zephier's guidance, they performed locally in casinos and other small venues, most often where their relatives or close friends comprised the audience. The limited concert schedule lasted three years before the band performed in a public concert. For the first two years of their public career, they appeared in a series of extended and exhausting tour engagements. Their earliest venues consisted frequently of off-road nightclubs where audiences were oftentimes very small and were largely unpredictable. Their earliest recordings were self-produced and marketed for local distribution. Indigenous released their first compact disc, called Awake,in 1994.

Family and Tribal Ties

Indigenous prides itself on a strong sense of family tradition and loyalty. Born in the 1970s, Mato Nanji, known as Mato in the group and whose name means Standing Bear in his ancestral Nakota language, is lead singer, guitarist, and primary composer and lyricist for the group. From the earliest Indigenous performances, his fiery guitar playing was widely recognized among the greatest of his generation. Critics compare Mato's extreme guitar styles--including playing with his teeth--to the sounds and antics of Jimi Hendrix. Though a member of the Nakota Nation, Mato's interest in music runs deeper than tribal ties. "We want our music to be color blind," he stated to Cheri Soliday-Paul in News from Indian Country, awarethat the band is perhaps too often recognized for the Native American ethnicity of its members instead of its engaging music. To many Native Americans, however, the band's success is a beacon of pride. Kevin Peniska commented in Lakota Times,"We, as Indian People, need to feel proud of this band and its accomplishments. The honor of one is the honor of all."

Wanbdi, the group's drummer, is the only female member of Indigenous. Her full name, Wanbdi Waste Win, means Good Eagle Woman in Nakota. Her intuitive drumming skill has been described as a subliminal glue that cements Indigenous into a unified music machine.

Wanbdi also receives credit as a lyricist for many of the band's popular songs. One year younger than Mato, Wanbdi, as with all of the band, received careful instruction from her parents in both the language and tradition of her people. Likewise, she and the band members followed the lead of her parents in rejecting drinking, smoking, and drugs, even in a modern music culture that sometimes exploits such practices. Ironically, it was a drunken driver who was blamed for an automobile accident early in 1999 that injured Wanbdi's neck and kept her away from the stage for several months. With other family members sitting in for her, Indigenous successfully maintained their grueling performance schedule in her absence. Egos, according to Wanbdi, are not an issue in their musical organization. They play for enjoyment, and not to impress.

Ptehcaka Wicasa, known as Pte, plays a resounding electronic bass in the group. His name translates in English as Little Buffalo Man. Ptehcaka provided his production skills to the band's Live Blues from the Sky album in the late 1990s. The album sold several thousand copies. Additionally, he writes lyrics for Indigenous songs with his sister Wanbdi and brother Mato.

Tasunka, the group's percussionist, is best known by his English name of Horse. He is cousin to Mato, Wanbdi, and Pte. Tasunka adds flavor to Indigenous' music through conga, timbales, bongos, and tambourine. He has been described as a great talent as well as a showman, with hands that fly in a blur and add powerful embellishments to the music.

Public Career

Despite untimely setbacks, including as a house fire that destroyed several of their instruments and the subsequent loss of their equipment in a burglary, Indigenous persevered. Their reputation spread, and their music came to the attention of some of the foremost musicians of the blues tradition.

Indigenous signed with Pachyderm Records in September of 1998. They released their first single, "Now That You're Gone," that same year. The record, according to K. L. Testerman in Lakota Times, was the fifteenth most played rock and roll song in the United States. On the Radio & Records chart listing, the popular Indigenous song bested rock and roll superstars such as John Mellencamp. Indeed, by early 1999, Indigenous' music reverberated from radio stations across the lower 48 states. This was true not only in the Midwest, but also in the Plains, the Western desert states, and the major urban music meccas of Los Angeles and New York. A second single, "Things We Do," was released on video and received the prize for best video at the American Indian Film Festival that year. It also served as the title track for the first Indigenous album on Pachyderm Records.

In the summer of 1999, Indigenous successfully overcame a disappointing experience at the Woodstock reprise festival. At Woodstock, although the band was thrilled to perform on the emerging artist handbill, the enthusiasm turned dank because of the antics of spectators who failed abysmally to connect with the musicians at the ill-fated gathering; the festival ultimately erupted into violence. Regardless, by the end of the calendar year, Indigenous was a popular opening band for prominent blues performers such as B. B. King and Bob Dylan. In late summer, they opened for King at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada, just weeks before rejoining King in his King of the Blues tour on September 1, 1999. Indigenous' television performances included an appearance on the nationally televised Austin City Limitson the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), and the foursome has been featured on popular talk shows. Indigenous' live performances, often at colleges and universities, were heard throughout the United States, frequently in the states of Nebraska, Minnesota, Wyoming, and Oklahoma.

Reviewer Steve Stancell noted in New York Beacon that the group's "expertise in the blues rock genre is firm...." The band is well-versed in Hendrix, according to Soliday-Paul, who commented on the band's "killer rendition of 'Red House'" and other electric blues classics. Critical comparisons between Mato and legendary Carlos Santana and Stevie Ray Vaughn were commonplace by 2000. Additionally, a distinct honor fell to Indigenous to perform as the opening act for Dylan in his Black Hills debut concert in 2000. With the release of their eleven-track Circlealbum on Pachyderm in May of that year, Indigenous embarked on an extended tour that brought them to sold-out audiences in more than 30 cities. Indigenous tours extended to charitable events, among them a free concert to benefit the Campaign Against Child Abuse and Neglect hosted at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by a consortium of sponsors, including the Ogala Nation Education Coalition. In the early 2000s, Indigenous was regularly performing as many as 200 concerts annually.

by Gloria Cooksey

Indigenous's Career

Began as a basement band at home, early 1990s; moved into local venues and self-produced recording, mid 1990s; began touring, late 1990s; signed with Pachyderm Records, 1998.

Indigenous's Awards

Native American Music Award, Group of the Year, 1999.

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Born on August 10, 1948, in New York, NY; daughter of Gordon and Edna Austin. Addresses: Record company--Playboy Jazz/Concord Records, Inc., 270 North Canon Dr., Ste. 1212, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, website: Website--Patti Austin Official Website:

A sophisticated vocalist firmly grounded in jazz, Patti Austin enjoyed a period of stardom during the heyday of smooth, expertly produced rhythm-and blues music in the 1980s. Both before and since this period in the limelight, Austin continued challenging herself, balancing more introspective and/or artistic work with the commercial. Austin has been, in short, a professional's professional.

Austin was born in New York on August 10, 1948, and grew up in show business. Her father was a professional trombone player at the time. The family lived in Bayshore, Long Island. At the tender age of four she made her performing debut, singing a song called "Teach Me Tonight" on the stage of Harlem's famed Apollo Theater during an appearance by vocalist Dinah Washington, who was also Austin's godmother. A child star, she appeared on Sammy Davis, Jr.'s television variety show, worked on stage with such stars as Ray Bolger of The Wizard of Oz, and when she was nine she went to Europe with a group led by bandleader Quincy Jones, who would become an immensely influential figure both on Austin's own career and on popular music.

"My friends didn't know I was in show business until I was 16," said Austin. "The rest of the time, I never talked about it, because I wanted people to accept me for me, not based on whether I had a hit record or was highly visible or all that nonsense."

Toured with Harry Belafonte

Austin's first major series of appearances as a mature singer came when she was 16, when she went on tour with pop vocalist Harry Belafonte, then near the peak of his fame. This tour led to a fresh round of television appearances and to a three-year stint as a lounge singer for various international locations of the posh Intercontinental hotel chain. Austin's first recordings were made during this period as well--for Coral Records in 1965. This material was reissued in 1999.

With this wealth of professional experience under her belt before she could even vote, it was not difficult for Austin to decide on a musical career. Recording executives and producers valued the young singer's know-how, and session-work opportunities began to flow her way.

"The first session I did was for James Brown's hit, 'It's a Man's World,' and when I got a nice juicy check from that," Austin recalled in a biographical sketch released by the Concord Jazz label. "I said, 'Hey let me do some more of this stuff.'" Austin became one of pop music's leading session vocalists in the early 1970s, backing both R&B and pop vocalists such as Paul Simon, Roberta Flack, George Benson, and Cat Stevens. With her vocals included on the soundtracks of hundreds of television commercials, Austin became one of America's most heard but least known singers.

That began to change when Austin was signed to the jazz-oriented label CTI in 1976, thanks to contacts with industry veteran Creed Taylor and Belafonte's former musical director Bill Eaton. The four albums Austin recorded for CTI helped to raise her profile in the industry and were widely appreciated by the architects of the "Quiet Storm" turn that black popular music took in the early 1980s. One of the albums, Havana Candy, was reissued in 1997 and favorably reviewed by Down Beat. The magazine pointed to "Austin's appreciation of the jazz legacy as well as her love of various pop styles."

Signed by Quincy Jones

The dawn of the 1980s brought Austin some especially high-profile session assignments: she sang on Gaucho, the rock group Steely Dan's complex exploration of the possibilities of soft rock, and, on a lighter note, appeared on the Blues Brothers album. She also enjoyed a hit single with "Razzmatazz" on Quincy Jones's Grammy-winning 1980 LP The Dude, and in 1981 was signed to Jones's Qwest label. That year, Austin's Qwest debut album, Every Home Should Have One, finally brought her stardom thanks to her chart-topping duet with James Ingram, "Baby Come to Me." The album was produced by Jones and Rod Temperton, the same team that would soon be responsible for Michael Jackson's epochal Off the Wall and Thriller albums.

"Baby Come to Me" was a perfect showcase for Austin's vocals, which had taken on an exquisite silky quality that blended nicely with the smooth instrumental textures of the period. The song appealed to pop and urban listeners, and was adopted as the theme song of the television soap opera General Hospital. Austin and Ingram followed it up in 1983 with another successful duet, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"; part of the soundtrack of the film Best Friends, the song was nominated for an Oscar, and Austin and Ingram performed it on the Academy Awards television broadcast.

Austin's next Qwest album, Patti Austin, was released in 1984, but its assemblage of six separate producers failed to bring together a cohesive whole, and Rolling Stone complained that "except on the ballads, Austin's powerful and technically proficient voice lacks distinction." Two more albums for Qwest failed to reach the chart levels of Every Home Should Have One, and Austin's career took a dip. She was also shaken by a house fire that destroyed nearly everything she owned and came within seconds of killing her elderly parents.

Strongly Affected by Fire

The accident made Austin reexamine her priorities in life. Recalling her life atop the charts in the early 1980s in an interview with Essence, Austin said, "My main concerns were looking good, the parties I would attend and the size of the limousine that would take me to them." Her star-studded circle of associates suddenly seemed less attractive: "Yes, they were the 'happening' people--on the charts and in the news--but they were miserable in their persistent bed-hoppings. They were all doing too many drugs and too much booze. They all had lots of stuff but not much soul or heart." Austin scaled back, built a new home in upstate New York, and reconnected with some of her former jazz associates.

Austin recorded a series of albums for the GRP label in the 1990s. One of them, Love Is Gonna Getcha, reunited her with Havana Candy producer and keyboardist Dave Grusin, and included the hit "Through the Test of Time." Austin enjoyed a moderate radio presence through the decade, kept up a steady stream of television appearances, and reveled in praise from such luminaries as opera star Kathleen Battle. In 1998 she recorded the In & Out of Love album for the Concord Jazz label, and the following year moved to Intersound for Street of Dreams, a disc that allowed her to showcase her interpretations of some of her own favorite compositions. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the All Music Guide called the album "a fine latter-day effort from a fine singer."

On the Way to Critical Acclaim

On the Way to Love was released in 2001. "The songs indulge in street argot here and there, but this is an upscale effort for the most part," wrote William Ruhlmann in an All Music Guide review. "It's not bad, but Austin can do much better."

In 2002, Sacramento Theatre Company premiered a production with the same title--On the Way to Love, a one-person show about Austin, starring Austin. This purportedly "grew out of a meeting with Peggy Shannon, the current artistic director of STC," who had first met Austin a decade prior while working on Shakespeare's Pericles for National Public Radio, according to Sacramento News & Review. "My challenge in this show is to tell Patti's stories and dramatize them so that it's not one long monologue with songs--because that's a concert." The production was scheduled to be performed in a couple of regional theatres with the goal being a Broadway run.

Of her 2002 release For Ella, a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald recorded in Germany with the WDR Big Band, reviewers were more enthusiastic. "Austin had always had an ear for great material, and she possesses the interpretive tools to makes something special," wrote Jazziz reviewer Mark Holston. Austin's previous efforts at recording standards from the jazz canon he says "were compromised by cheesy, popish orchestrations.... There's no scarcity of arresting performances on For Ella."

Ruhlmann said he considers this a sequel to The Real Me. "Austin does not, for the most part, attempt to sing in Fitzgerald's style, giving listeners her own interpretations that, in Williams' neo-swing arrangements, nevertheless hark back to the 1950s. ... Austin is better off putting her own stamp on the songs; that she does very well." She was nominated for a Grammy Award for this project and continued to tour in support of it into 2004.

by James M. Manheim and Linda Dailey Paulson

Patti Austin's Career

Made debut appearance at age four with vocalist Dinah Washington, her godmother; traveled to Europe with bandleader Quincy Jones, age nine; toured with Harry Belafonte; became leading session and advertising-jingle vocalist, early 1970s; recorded debut LP, End of a Rainbow, 1976; recorded four albums for CTI label, late 1970s and early 1980s; signed with Qwest label, 1981; recorded smash Every Home Should Have One, which included single "Baby Come to Me," a duet with James Ingram, 1981; released four albums on Qwest, 1980s; signed with GRP label, 1990; signed with Concord Jazz label, 1998; signed with Intersound label, 1999; premiered biographical one-woman show in Sacramento, 2002; released For Ella, 2002; nominated for a Grammy, 2003.

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over 10 years ago

I wish they would put up her true date of birth,which was 1950 I would know cause I knew her in high school.

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Chilmark fire chief sees danger in poor road signage

Tuesday night, Chilmark Fire Chief David Norton (foreground) and the selectmen's liaison to the fire department, Don Leopold (background), informed the board of the need to improve road signs and house numbers. - Rich Saltzberg

Chilmark is known for rustic and artsy roads signs and house numbers. For first responders, more often than not, it’s not a good thing, Fire Chief David Norton told the selectmen Tuesday night.

Norton, along with selectmen’s liaison to the fire department Don Leopold, informed the board they are about to embark on a plan to upgrade signs in Chilmark as a matter of public safety.

Norton said in many private roads are not labeled well or at all. Numbers can be on the wrong side of the road or out of sequence, a real problem for fire and EMS crews, he said.

GPS cannot always be relied on and that lack of clear signs and numbers in certain areas was something Aquinnah also wrestles with, he said.

Aquinnah Fire Chief Simon Bollin later told The Times his town does indeed struggle with similar problems. Beach stairs pose a special problem, he said, because often a 911 caller cannot provide a clear description of where they are on a given beach and first responders can easily be baffled by beach stairs and paths with little difference in appearance from one to the next.

“We tried for years to get the beach access numbered,” he said. Privacy concerns by property owners have thus far trumped the need to identify a distress locus, he said.

Norton and Leopold said they will start by first sizing up how many homes and roads in Chilmark are in need of improved numbering and signs. The chief said he is weighing the idea of simply making signs and numbers and putting them up if folks drag their heels on the matter.

“Let’s do something with proper notice,” selectmen chairman Jim Malkin said, “because we will have some people who will find this less than lovely.”

In other business, the board unanimously approved Josh and Angela Aronie’s food truck for another winter in Menemsha. The approval was contingent on board of health approval of the operation.

“The food truck is a great asset to the town and lots of people really appreciate it so we hope that it’s a success again,” selectman Warren Doty said.

The board also voted unanimously to appoint artist Margaret Emerson to the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council.


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Uber-Vamp mini-bust
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Moore Action Collectibles did a series of busts before they went, well, bust, based on the popular series Angel.  They did busts for Angel (modern and origin), Spike, Lorne, Cordelia, and Faith.  Both Lorne and Spike actually had multiple color variants on the outfits as well.

But when MAC followed the buffalo, Diamond Select Toys stepped in to pick up where they left off.  They've been producing figures, statues and mini-busts, and have already released 7 of their own in the same scale and style as the previous series.  Rather than being based on Angel, these are based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and have included Giles as a Fyarl Demon, D'Hoffryn, one of the Gentlemen, the Judge, Kulak, Oz and Werewolf Oz.

They have just released their eighth, the Uber-Vampire.  You'll remember this guy from the final season, when he was operating as a pawn for Caleb and the First.  Following closely behind this bust should be several more, including a couple Buffy's and a Spike.

Packaging -  ***1/2
The box has some nice photos of the actual bust, with some very basic info.  It does what it needs to do best (keep the bust safe) quite well, and they used the sturdy, solid styrofoam for the inserts, not that damn cheap stuff that ends up all over the place.  I've been repacking busts as part of my upcoming move, and I'm once again reminded how much I hate that cheap foam.

Sculpting - ***1/2
This work was doen by Gabriel Marquez, and he captured both the look of the Ubervamp AND the style of the other monster mini-busts.  There's excellent detail in the face, particularly around the mouth and teeth, and if you've forgotten what an ugly, mean looking vampire was, you'll remember pretty quick.

The leather tunic looks great, and the undead skin texture works perfectly.  Some folks think you need to have an asymmetrical sculpt to look ugly and scary, but the ubervamp proves otherwise.

Paint - ***
The paint isn't quite as good as the sculpt, although it's not terrible.  Some of the colors are applied with a bit of a heavy hand, particularly around the eyes.  But the work on the mouth and teeth is great, and the skin tone looks excellent.

Design - ****
I already mentioned it briefly in the sculpt section, but it's definitely worth mentioning again - the design and style matches up with the other monster mini-busts perfectly. He's in scale, and done without arms, in the classic bust style.

The base is also adorned with a symbol that fans will appreciate, and connecting the bases to the characters this way is another nice touch.  Although the base isn't identical to the other bases, the style still matches up.

Value - **1/2
At around $40, he's a pretty average value on the bust market.  You can find him for a few bucks cheaper if you look around (and I have some suggestions below), but getting busts less than $35 these days is getting to be pretty tough.

He's also a limited run of 2000, but that's probably pretty accurate for the current demand.

Overall -  ***1/2
Let me first say I'm not thrilled at all with the new humans DST is putting out.  The slightly smaller size than the regular minibusts (they have to be slightly smaller to have 2/3rds of their body) and the completely different design means it's very unlikely I'll be picking any of them up.  If they can't fit in with these, then they don't do me much good.

On the flip side, I'm very happy to see them keeping the monsters in the same style.  UberVamp fits right in with the other monsters from both MAC and DST, and will look fantastic on the shelf next to them.  The paint ops were a tad weak, but the sculpt and design make up for any slight failing.

Packaging - ***1/2
Sculpt - ***1/2
Paint - ***
Design - ****
Value - **1/2
Overall -  ***1/2

Where to Buy -
You can find them at most comic shops, or online at:

- Amazing Toyz has him for $38.

- CornerStoreComics has him for $38.

- Alter Ego Comics has him for $38.25.

- Time and Space Toys has him for $40, but if you're a Buffy Collector Club member, you can get him for $36.

Related Links -
I've reviewed some of the past busts:

- here's a review of the four monsters, Giles as a Fyarl Demon, the Judge, D'Hoffyrn, Kulak, and The Gentleman.

- and of course, you should check out the Diamond Select site for more info.

Figure from the collection of Michael Crawford.

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Weather for Small UAS—Part 107 Airman’s Knowledge Test Prep

Course Name: Weather for Small UAS—Part 107 Airman’s Knowledge Test Prep
Course Key: ATC #0403
Course Summary: Prepares the student for the FAA’s Part 107 Airman’s Knowledge Test for small UAS remote pilots.
Author: David Hook, ATP, CFII, AGI
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Pass the FAA’s Commercial Drone Test! Weather is the 3rd lesson in the training series intended to prepare applicants to take and pass the Part 107 Airman’s Knowledge Test. Intended for aspiring remote pilots-in-command as well as visual observers and UAS owner/operators, this lesson examines weather conditions, reports and forecasts, and online resources. Students learn

• Air masses, types of clouds, and associated weather patterns and hazards,
• Online weather charts,
• How to decipher coded weather reports,
• and much more.

A companion lesson to Aeronautical Decision Making for Small UAS Operators, this series of lessons make up the Part 107 Course and focus on the unique operational environment that remote pilots must understand and operate safely. Other lessons include Part 107 airspace classification, flight regulations, aircraft performance, and small UAS operations.

Planehook Aviation Services, LLC produces specialized aviation training courseware, including lessons focused on the unique needs of unmanned aircraft remote pilots and their visual observers. Planehook is a licensed aviation security consulting company in the State of Texas and specializes in flying safety and security. For over a decade, Planehook has provided its services to clients around the world. Planehook publishes its quarterly journal General Aviation Security and contributes regularly to its blogsite

Lesson author Dave Hook is a long time aviator with both military and civilian flight experience. Dave retired from USAF Special Operations Command as a commando A-team leader and evaluator pilot with over 20 years of service. He is an FAA-licensed flight instructor with over 35 years of flying training experience as well an airline transport pilot with multiple aircraft type ratings and an advanced ground instructor. Dave has flown radio-controlled aircraft for many years and is a member of both the Academy of Model Aeronautics and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, International. He is a licensed remote pilot and holds a small unmanned aircraft system rating. No stranger to courseware development and teaching, Dave Hook developed courseware and taught ground school and flying for both military units and corporate clients. He lives with his wife and sons in San Antonio, Texas.


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The Certificate 3 Guarantee is a key initiative under the Queensland Government’s five-year training reform action plan, Great skills, real opportunities. The Certificate 3 Guarantee provides a government subsidy to support eligible individuals to complete their first post-school certificate III level qualification. It also supports Queensland’s Year 12 graduates to transition to employment by providing fee-free training in high priority qualifications.

Training is subsidised by Queensland government and is paid to the RTO providing the training. There is a necessary co-contribution fee from the student for enrolment & training.

It is important that you consider and compare your training options and ensure they align with your chosen career pathway. Once the Certificate III course has been completed, you will have used your only Certificate 3 Guarantee subsidy entitlement.

 Eligibility requirements for Certificate 3 Guarantee funding if:

  • You are 15 years of age or older
  • Have finished or left secondary school (with the exception of VET in Schools students)
  • Are a Queensland resident
  • Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident (including humanitarian entrant) or temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permit on the pathway to permanent residency or a New Zealand citizen
  • Prospective students must not have or be enrolled in a certificate III level or higher qualification (not including qualifications completed at school and foundation skills training).
  • Employment status does not matter, nor is there any minimum education requirement, except the standard entry requirements for the course

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Courses commence regularly, so contact our friendly staff today to determine your eligibility and arrange your enrolment today!

2018 Individual Support courses

If you are looking for a fresh start & a new career in Ageing, Disability, Home & Community care in 2018, MyPaths Individual Support classes are the course for you.

Suburbs on our list are as follows

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Alternatively, if in class doesn’t suit your learning style MyPath also has the Certificate III in Individual support available online, so you can sign up and study at your own pace in the comfort of your own home.

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About the Cause

A countless number of children go missing every year. The category of missing children includes a number of problems including abduction or kidnapping of children by family members and by non-family members, run-away children or those forced to run away by family and surrounding circumstances, children who are in a difficult or aggressive environment, trafficked children, and lost children.

Children who go missing may be exploited and abused for various purposes from camel jockeys in the Gulf countries to victims of organ trade and even grotesque cannibalism as reported at Nithari village in Noida. There are also a large number of children who run away from homes after dropping out of school or facing difficulties at home. They usually run away to the glamorous big cities where they fall prey to exploiters and are employed in tea stalls, brothels, beggary, etc. Most of the children come from poorer families who do not have access to police services or whose reports are not taken seriously.

Because of this wide array of problems it is hard to survey the number of missing children. Very often, such cases are not even reported to the police as the parents fear shame from the society!

 National Women’s Parliament takes this cause very seriously and strives to help distraught parents and helpless children reunite with their families!


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Structural Demolition

National Wrecking Company has earned a reputation for safely and expeditiously demolishing all types of structures. Many projects have required the total removal of a building or structure from extremely densely-occupied areas. Regardless of the size or location of the structure, we have the equipment, manpower and experience to successfully remove the structure.

Interior Demolition

Interior DemoNational Wrecking Company can perform any type of interior demolition including complete or partial gut-outs of buildings.  Often times interior demolition activities are conducted simultaneously with our customers’ regular business operations. Our crews are available to work at all hours to minimize the disruption to any occupants.  We perform this work with minimal inconvenience to our customers and their neighbors. Frequent repeat business from customers of this type is a testament to our ability and success with this scope of work.

Trucking and Disposal

National Wrecking Company has the equipment and personnel to handle the safe and legal disposal of all debris and waste including special and hazardous waste streams. As a licensed special waste hauler, we can provide hauling and disposal of materials such as asbestos, contaminated soils, PCBs, waste oil and other chemically contaminated materials. We maintain ongoing relationships with major landfills, transfer stations and scrap yards as necessary for legal and prompt disposal and recycling.

Salvage Operations

To help reduce the cost of demolition, National Wrecking Company maintains a sharp watch over the ever-changing salvage markets. We have access to excellent markets for all ferrous and non-ferrous metals along with used machinery and equipment from numerous industries. We are recycling greater percentages of the waste than we ever have in the past. Nearly all demolition debris, including concrete, brick, lumber and steel, is being recycled to the maximum extent possible.

Environmental Remediation

COLFAX_LOGONational Wrecking Company, in cooperation with its affiliate company, Colfax Corporation, provides a full range of environmental services including (1) asbestos, lead paint, and mold abatement, (2) underground storage tank removal, and (3) soil and biological waste remediation.

Because of our relationship with Colfax, we can better manage the demolition and environmental remediation processes, which expedites the work resulting in a more cost-effective and efficient project for our customers.

Tank Decommissioning

National Wrecking Company is fully licensed to decommission and remove underground storage tanks no matter the size or contents.  Our Superintendents are certified in UST removal/decommissioning and all employees involved in the work have received OSHA 40 Hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard training.

We also have extensive experience removing above-ground tanks of all shapes, sizes and content including wooden, steel and concrete tanks.

Partial Demolition

National Wrecking Company is often called upon to perform the partial demolition of a structure where only a portion of the structure is to be removed. We are capable of dissecting a structure so that the remaining portions are properly supported and remain in a structurally sound condition.  We can provide whatever shoring, scaffolding or earth retention is necessary to ensure the stability of the structure and the safety of the public.


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Although we buy ingredients from all over the world, we only use well established UK agents who have an excellent track record in safety and quality assurance.

Good quality fish oils, such as ours, contain phospholipids that dramatically improve omega 3 absorption. They also contain an antioxidant called astaxanthin which helps keep the oil protected from oxidation. An investigation by showed that many popular fish oil brands were already oxidised before people even opened the bottle. As we have a good relationship with our long term loyal suppliers we know our oils are as fresh as possible and they have clear reliable use by dates. Furthermore, they are not exposed to the light and sealed immediately after packaging with airtight lids both limiting the risk of oxidation.

Bad quality fish oils could be contaminated heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury and arsenic as they use larger fish such as swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish, and albacore tuna. Fortunately, most fish oils have not been found to contain these heavy metals, especially ours which are made from smaller fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel, anchovies and sardines. Likewise some supplement have been found, by, to contain dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as they use fish from polluted seas or again larger fish which are higher up the food chain.

In another investigation from the it was found that some supplements claiming to be fish oils have a large percentage of other cheaper vegetable oils. So it is important to get your oils from a reputable source such as ours.

In summary natureMedical fish oils have:

  • A once a day dosage.
  • Are made by a trusted UK company.
  • Have reliable use by dates.
  • Have a low risk of heavy metal and toxin contamination.
  • Are endorse by a leading UK Oncologist.

Gopinath et al Consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids, fish, and nuts and risk of inflammatory disease mortality American Journal of Clinical Nutrition May 2011; 93(5): 1073-1079

Bhattacharya A ‘Effect of fish oil on bone mineral density in aging C57BL/6 female mice’ Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA. 2007

Burr MLDunstan FDGeorge CH. Is fish oil good or bad for heart disease? Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, Cardiff University, Wales CF14 4XN, UK. 2005

Christos Pitsavos, Demosthenes PanagiotakosMichael Weinemand, Christodoulos Stefanadis: Diet, Exercise and the Metabolic Syndrome Nov 10, 2006.

Nihon Rinsho.  Omega-3 fatty acids and cognition PMID: 24796092 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] 2014

Wiley-Blackwell Fish oils fight weight loss due to chemotherapy, Science daily Feb 2011

Tong H et al Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation appears to attenuate particulate air pollution-induced cardiac effects and lipid changes in healthy middle-aged adults. Environmental Public Health Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, 2012.

Roodhart J et al. Mesenchymal Stem Cells Induce Resistance to Chemotherapy through the Release of Platinum-Induced Fatty Acids. Cancer Cell, 2011; 20 (3): 370 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2011.08.010

Thomas R et al. Omega 3 and vitamin D deficiencies are common in Cancer survivors. The NCRI conference Liverpool 2011 ncriconference/2011abstracts/abstracts/B137.htm

Moreel X et al. Prostatic and Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Progression during Active Surveillance Cancer Prev Res July 2014 7; 766.

Brasky TM et al. Specialty Supplements and Breast Cancer Risk in the VITamins And Lifestyle (VITAL) Cohort, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2010; 19(7):1696–708.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey  (PDF). United States Center for Disease Control. Retrieved 2012-01-28.


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Rescuers dig through wreckage at a train crash in Nova Iguazu, Brazil, on Thursday. Officials said a packed commuter train was travelling 60 mph when it hit a parked train.
updated 8/31/2007 12:34:28 AM ET 2007-08-31T04:34:28

A speeding train carrying hundreds of commuters slammed into an empty train near Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring more than 80, officials said.

The commuter train was traveling at nearly 60 mph when it slammed into the rear end of an empty six-car train maneuvering slowly from one track to another, the Supervia company that runs the train said.

Some passengers aboard the commuter train had to be freed by rescue workers using blowtorches to cut through the twisted wreckage.

The collision, about 200 yards from a station on Rio’s poor north side, killed eight people, said Pedro Machado, commander-general of the Rio de Janeiro Fire Department.

“We have to use blowtorches to open the sides of the train cars to reach the people,” Machado said in a televised interview. “But now we’re positive that there are no more fatal victims.”

Brazil’s government-run Agencia Brasil news service said 84 people were injured, while the Web site of Globo TV said the number reached 101. Most suffered light injuries, the reports said.

Authorities later confirmed that all the passengers had been freed from the wreckage.

Trains are widely used to commute to downtown Rio from the city’s poor northern outskirts.

Joao Gouveia, Supervia’s operational director, said the number of casualties was not higher because the eight-car commuter train left the downtown Central station before the rush-hour crush that routinely packs the trains wall-to-wall on business days.

He denied reports that the engineers were among the victims.

“The two did not die,” he said. “One was injured and the other was not hurt.”

Marcos de Souza, director of the Posse Hospital in Nova Iguacu, said more than 20 people were taken to the hospital for treatment.

“They had fractures in their arms, their faces, everywhere,” he said in a televised interview. He said the hospital had a large emergency ward but was bringing in extra personnel to treat victims.

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