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Slack Jaws at Barracuda, ATX, September 25, 2017. Photo by Mor Fleisher-Leach.

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Seiðr Sources Masterpost 2021

Here is an updated list of all of the books and papers I recommend for the study of seiðr

The Viking Way - Neil Price

Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic - Clive Tolley

The Archeology of Seiðr: Circumpolar Traditions in Viking Pre-Christian Religion - Neil Price 

Old Norse Religion in Long Term Perspectives: Spinning Seiðr - Eldar Heide

A Biography of Seiðr-staffs - Leszek Gardela

Shamanism in the Old Norse Tradition: A Theory Between Ideological Camps - Stefanie v. Schnurbein

A Sourcebook of Seið - Stephen Flowers (there are a lot of problems with this guy but its just a collection of every mention of seiðr in the sagas and Eddas)

The Hunting of the Vétt: in Search of the Old Norse Shamanic Drum - Clive Tolley

Remnants of Seiðr: Charms and Incantations in the German Diasporas - Nóel Braucher

The Image of Seiðr in Old Icelandic Literature: Consistency or Variation- Lyonel D. Perabo

Seiðr & Shamans: Defining the Myth of Ritual Specialists in pre-Christian Scandinavia - Sebastian Klein

The Chicanery of Seiðr 

Out of the Waters Beneath the Tree - Catherine Heath

On Shamanic Traditions

SHAMAN An International Journal  for Shamanistic Research

ECSTATIC RELIGION A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession 

SHAMANISM Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy - Mircea Eliade

On Spirits

Spirits Through Respiratory Passages -Eldar Heide

The heroized dead. People, animals, and materiality in Scandinavian death rituals, AD 200-1000 - Kristina Jennbert

Vorðr and Gandr: Helping Spirits in Norse Magic - Clive Tolley

On Shapeshifting and Soul-parts

Shapeshifting in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature - Lyonel D. Perabo

Road to Hel- H R Ellis Davidson

Initiation Rituals in Old Norse Texts and their Relationship to Finno Karelian Bear Cult Rituals

Related Topics

ETHICAL WORLD CONCEPTION OF THE NORSE PEOPLE - ANDREW PETER FORS

The Religious Roles in pre-Christian Scandinavia

BALDR’S DRAUMAR (BALDUR’S DREAMS) 

Viking Worlds Things, Spaces and Movement

The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture - Paul C. Bauschatz 

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A Dynamic Response: How the Tax Market has Adjusted to Covid-19

Tax has often been described as a ‘recession-resistant’ sector– as long as there is an economy, there will always be the need for tax professionals. Indeed, professional services organisations will always need tax compliance and advice, and this becomes even more important during the global challenge we all face. The world has rapidly changed with the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). During this unprecedented time, it has been inspiring to see our clients and tax specialists working with high levels of resilience and adaptability.

As in-person meetings and interviews were increasingly discouraged, the tax market has continued to grow through remote teams and virtual video conferences. As a result of this, we at Mason Rak feel very fortunate to have remained busy and successful during this time.

The continued demand for tax experts in certain areas is good news for executive tax recruiters. Although tax functions have inevitably slowed to accommodate for remote working, a combination of empathy and resilience has allowed the industry to successfully step up the challenge.

“In the short term, everything I see tells me that the profession has responded magnificently to the crisis”, comments Andrew Hubbard, editor-in-chief at Tolley Taxation. Indeed, there has been an unusual level of competency in handling both the professional and personal impacts of the crisis. Tax professionals have also worked tirelessly to offer excellent client service throughout this time, something that Joe Scriven, Director of Tax Markets at LexisNexis, believes will result in an enhanced reputation of the tax profession in the long run.

In addition to adapting to an entirely new economic and legislative landscape, professional services companies have had to think carefully about their employees. For instance, they have created resources, including podcasts and articles, to help workers cope with the crisis, and have allowed a greater flexibility in working hours to allow for care responsibilities. In many cases, professional services organisations have assisted expats in relocating to their home countries to spend time with family and service clients remotely. We believe that this change will initiate a new era for the tax recruitment. The current focus on global remote working harnesses the international scope that we have been pioneering since our inception.

On top of the practical challenges imposed by reduced global mobility, the International Centre for Tax and Development outlines a new fiscal politics that is emerging from the pandemic, which threatens to disrupt tax models further. As leading accounting and law firms enter a new territory, they must reassess their tax offering and meet the new demands of their clients.

We are confident that this new challenge will only accelerate the tax industry to a brighter future. Having witnessed the resilience of our peers and colleagues over the past year, it is clear that the professional services sector is learning to adapt and excel in new ways.

 As such, while we might be inclined to focus on the negative impacts of the pandemic, we have already witnessed rapid and successful changes in the tax industry, and we are hopeful that this attitude will continue.

 Here are Mason Rak we are ahead of the curve with our market intelligence, thought leadership, and global reach. If you would like to have a further discussion about the global tax market, please don’t hesitate to contact Oleg Rak, Managing Partner, on oleg.rak@masonrak.com or call +44 786 911 3281.

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GHOST ADVENTURES Locks Down Travel Channel's Spook-Filled 'Ghostober' Event

Creepy thrills await as Travel Channel hosts the ultimate Halloween event this “Ghostober” - a cauldron of spooky, creepy and terrifying programming that will take viewers on a fun, spine-tingling journey across America. The goosebumps begin Saturday, October 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT with a four-part, four-week long “Ghost Adventures” miniseries that takes the paranormal investigative team - Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley - to the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” a treacherous nautical region in the Pacific Northwest. New series, specials and episodes continue all month long, culminating on Halloween night with “Ghost Adventures Live” - a special four-hour live investigation inside Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas Haunted Museum. With special guests, creepy objects that contain haunted histories and fan involvement, it’s the ultimate Halloween treat.

Additional premieres throughout the month include:

· “Chris Jericho: Monster Hunt” (wt), a one-hour special following WWE world champion and entertainer Chris Jericho as he searches for legendary swamp creatures in Southern Louisiana.

· “Scariest Night of My Life,” retelling chilling stories from victims of paranormal mayhem.

· “Most Terrifying Places in America,” showcasing the nation’s most horrifying haunts.

· “Haunted Live,” a weekly live and interactive ghost hunting series where viewers can help guide the investigation.

“Anchored by our mega-hit ‘Ghost Adventures,’ the entire month of October is a spooky and wild Halloween celebration with the most innovative creepy content and the biggest stars in the paranormal universe,” said Jane Latman, general manager, Travel Channel. “Between our live investigations and spine-tingling new specials, 'Ghostober’ is not for the faint of heart. Watch only if you dare.”

Visit TravelChannel.com and follow Travel Channel’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages where the “Ghostober” party continues all month long. Fans can check out exclusive content from their favorite series, including behind-the-scenes videos, photos and exciting giveaways. Join the conversation during live tweeting and real-time Q&A sessions with show hosts on Facebook Live including Zak Bagans and the “Ghost Adventures” crew. Amping up the fun is an all-new digital series, “Friday Night with Gunnarolla,” which follows Andrew “Gunnarolla” Gunadie as he embraces the frights and checks into spooky locations around the United States, and a new Facebook Live series that will follow James B. McDaniel, also known as Peppermint Fatty, as he recaps the week’s episodes and shares exclusive sneak peek videos from upcoming premieres, including “Ghost Adventures” and “Haunted Live.”

“GHOSTOBER” LINEUP:

NEW SERIES

SCARIEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE

Premieres Sunday, September 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)

“Scariest Night of My Life” retells chilling, true stories of victims of paranormal mayhem. Each episode features three different stories of people who lived through life-changing and spine-chilling supernatural encounters that happened during the course of one terrifying night. With powerful recreations filled with twists and turns, viewers are in for an unforgettable paranormal ride. #ScariestNightofMyLife

HAUNTED LIVE

Premieres Friday, September 14 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)

Viewers are invited to join the action in “Haunted Live,” a live interactive paranormal investigation series featuring the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, a team of paranormal experts that relies on a unique combination of scientific method and spiritual faith to navigate investigations. Each week, the team members will reveal a new haunted location to the public and utilize their skills, technology and unique experiments to capture evidence of paranormal activity in a live and unfiltered paranormal investigation. Through an on-location live video stream, viewers can monitor all of the “Haunted Live” activity on Travel Channel’s Facebook Live platform and comment on any findings in real time, directing the team where to investigate next. Fans can follow Travel Channel’s social media pages for the secret location reveal each week, and visit Facebook to join a special pre-hunt Q&A with the Tennessee Wraith Chasers. #HauntedLive

NEW SPECIALS

MYSTERIES AT THE MUSEUM - “Special: Zodiac Killer”

One-Hour Special

Premieres Wednesday, October 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

History enthusiast and adventurer Don Wildman investigates the most notorious unsolved crime in American history - the Zodiac murders. Diving headfirst into the case, Wildman meets with a retired inspector who worked the crimes, learns code-breaking from a Zodiac cryptographer, visits a DNA lab to understand how close authorities are to catching the killer and learns a new theory on who may be responsible. #MATM

CHRIS JERICHO: MONSTER HUNT (wt)

One-Hour Special

Premieres Wednesday, October 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT

WWE champion and famed author, musician and podcaster Chris Jericho has had a lifelong fascination with the unexplained. Now, he is on a terrifying mission to uncover the truth behind the fearsome swamp creatures believed to inhabit the swamps of Southern Louisiana. Wading deep into bayou country, Jericho searches for evidence of a legendary creature known as Rougarou, and a Sasquatch-like beast that roams the Honey Island Swamp. Is there a connection between these monsters? And what of the curse put on the region by infamous voodoo priestess Julia Brown in the early 1900s? Jericho encounters compelling proof from eyewitnesses, physical evidence and a startling revelation from BEYOND the grave. #MonsterHunt

GHOST ADVENTURES - “Graveyard of the Pacific”

Four-Part Miniseries

Premieres Saturday, October 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

In this special four-part miniseries event, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley head to the “Graveyard of the Pacific” - a treacherous nautical region within the Pacific Northwest where the freshwater of the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Here, DARKNESS plagues both land and sea - the ocean has claimed thousands of shipwrecks and countless lives, while unexplained deaths, diseases, fires and murders have impacted areas around the shoreline. The investigation takes the team to multiple haunted locations - from the UNDERGROUND tunnels weaving beneath the city of Astoria, Oregon, and the port city’s Norblad Hostel to the Fort Stevens Military Base outside of town where dangerous entities are believed to haunt various sites. The investigation culminates at the North Head Lighthouse in Washington, which bore witness to some of the most tragic shipwrecks of this watery graveyard. #GhostAdventures

GHOST ADVENTURES LIVE

Four-Hour Live Investigation

Premieres Wednesday, October 31 beginning at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT

This Halloween, join the “Ghost Adventures” team for the ultimate Halloween night event - a four-hour, live investigation inside Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas Haunted Museum. On the one-year anniversary of its opening, Bagans and the “Ghost Adventures” crew, along with special guests, will investigate the museum that contains hundreds of haunted objects, some so frightening and powerful they can’t even be touched. It’s sure to go down as one of the most terrifying nights in paranormal history. Through an on-location live video stream, viewers can monitor all of the “Ghost Adventures Live” activity on Travel Channel’s Facebook Live platform and comment on any findings in real time. Fans can follow Travel Channel’s social media pages for exciting giveaways and to join a special pre-“Ghost Adventures Live” Q&A session with Zak Bagans and the team. #GhostAdventuresLive

NEW SEASON

PARANORMAL SURVIVOR

Premieres Sunday, September 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)

“Paranormal Survivor” will take you through terrifying real-life encounters with the supernatural. Hear from those who’ve faced these feared spirits - and watch dramatic recreations that lure people back to the scenes of these harrowing confrontations. #ParanormalSurvivor

NEW EPISODES

MOST TERRIFYING PLACES IN AMERICA

Premieres Sunday, September 30 at 11 p.m. ET/PT (continues through October)

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Evil lurks in every corner of the country. “Most Terrifying Places in America” takes you on a treacherous trip across the nation’s most horrifying haunts. Take a ride on the dire side as we uncover the most bone-chilling manors and inns, and visit real life ghost towns so cursed shivers will run down your spine. Join us as we stop at the nation’s scariest attractions, which will leave you feeling like a wide-eyed, freaked-out kid again, and come along as we unearth the most frightening forests, forts and freeways. #MostTerrifyingPlaces

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Spine-Tingling across America? Who wrote this? They do realize he doesn’t go across America. -TDB

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https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010165210222-polimento-diamante-nanotecnologia.jpg

Artigo: Damage-free highly efficient plasma-assisted polishing of a 20-mm square large mosaic single crystal diamond substrate Autores: Nian Liu, Kohki Sugawara, Naoya Yoshitaka, Hideaki Yamada, Daisuke Takeuchi, Yuko Akabane, Kenichi Fujino, Kentaro Kawai, Kenta Arima, Kazuya Yamamura Revista: Nature Scientific Reports Vol.: 10, Article number: 19432 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76430-6

https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/noticia.php?artigo=revestimento-optico-absorve-reflete-mesma-cor&id=010160210222 Eles aplicaram uma fina película do elemento semicondutor germânio, com 15 nanômetros de espessura, sobre uma superfície metálica, criando uma superfície capaz de absorver uma ampla faixa de comprimentos de onda. A combinação desse material com uma cavidade que suporta uma ressonância de banda muito estreita produz uma ressonância Fano que é capaz de refletir uma faixa muito estreita de luz - em outras palavras, uma cor bastante pura. Bibliografia: Artigo: Fano-resonant ultrathin film optical coatings Autores: Mohamed El Kabbash, Theodore Letsou, Sohail A. Jalil, Nathaniel Hoffman, Jihua Zhang, James Rutledge, Andrew R. Lininger, Chun-Hao Fann, Michael Hinczewski, Giuseppe Strangi, Chunlei Guo Revista: Nature Nanotechnology DOI: 10.1038/s41565-020-00841-9

https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010110210222-chip-laser-qubits-1.jpg   Chip com guias de onda integrados, levando a cada um dos qubits iônicos. O laser é fornecido ao chip por meio das fibras ópticas à direita. https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010110210222-chip-laser-qubits-2.jpg

Nanoscópio brasileiro https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/noticia.php?artigo=nanoscopio-brasileiro-revelar-misterios-grafeno&id=010165210219 https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010165210219-nanoscopio-brasileiro-grafeno-1.jpg O que se sabe até agora é que, quando duas camadas de grafeno sobrepostas são giradas uma em relação à outra, a rede de átomos de carbono se rearranja, gerando novas propriedades inesperadas, do comportamento isolante à supercondutividade, sem esquecer o magnetismo. O nanoscópio tem como objetivo extrair informações sobre esta estrutura, como variações vibracionais e eletrônicas, mostrando as regiões na rede cristalina com resolução atômica, o que pode levar ao entendimento dos novos fenômenos físicos verificados no ângulo mágico de 1,1 grau, por exemplo. "Não conseguiríamos obter esta informação com nenhum outro equipamento. Além disso, o nanoscópio brasileiro utiliza a nanoantena óptica desenvolvida no Inmetro e na UFMG, chamada de PTTP [Plasmon-Tunable Tip Pyramid], a qual é ilustrada na imagem da capa da revista. Trata-se do elemento funcional, com ponta ativa de poucos nanômetros e que permite a coleta da informação óptica bem próxima da amostra," explicou Thiago Vasconcelos, pesquisador do Inmetro e um dos autores do artigo. Quase simultaneamente, uma pesquisadora brasileira descobriu que o deslocamento das camadas do material monoatômico também pode gerar um campo magnético artificial. https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010165210219-angulo-magico-grafeno-1.jpg

Um novo algoritmo - o conjunto de regras codificadas para formar um programa de computador - projetado para prever as órbitas dos planetas no Sistema Solar conseguiu prever o comportamento do plasma que alimenta os reatores de fusão nuclear, que estão sendo projetados para aproveitar na Terra a energia que alimenta o Sol e as estrelas. https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/020150210219-ciencia-sem-teoria.jpg Qin criou um programa de inteligência artificial e o treinou com dados de observações das órbitas de Mercúrio, Vênus, Terra, Marte, Júpiter e do planeta anão Ceres. Juntamente com um programa adicional, conhecido como "algoritmo de serviço", o sistema aprendeu a fazer previsões precisas das órbitas de outros planetas do Sistema Solar sem usar as leis de movimento e gravitação de Newton ou qualquer outra teoria. Isso já seria bom o bastante, mas então Qin aplicou o mesmo programa, com o mesmo treinamento, para prever o que acontece com o plasma no interior de um reator de fusão nuclear. E funcionou. "Essencialmente, eu contornei todos os ingredientes fundamentais da Física. Vou diretamente de dados para dados," disse Qin. "Não há nenhuma lei da Física no meio." Artigo: Machine learning and serving of discrete field theories Autores: Hong Qin Revista: Nature Scientific Reports Vol.: 10, Article number: 19329 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76301-0

Computador quântico D-Wave demonstra supremacia de desempenho Redação do Site Inovação Tecnológica - 19/02/2021 Computador quântico D-Wave demonstra supremacia de desempenho O processador da D-Wave trabalha com 5.000 qubits, embora a arquitetura não seja comparável à dos demais processadores quânticos. [Imagem: D-Wave] https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010150210219-supremacia-quantica-d-wave-3.jpg Supremacia de desempenho A D-Wave Systems, fabricante do único computador quântico que se pode comprar hoje, rodou uma simulação que demonstrou uma "vantagem de desempenho" imbatível em relação aos computadores eletrônicos. Não é a tão esperada "supremacia quântica", uma prova definitiva de que um computador quântico seria capaz de resolver problemas que computadores clássicos não conseguiriam resolver em termos práticos - mas é um marco na ciência da computação porque foi inesperado em razão das características do processador quântico da D-Wave. Ao rodar uma simulação dos átomos em um material de grande interesse tecnológico, o computador quântico superou a velocidade de processamento de um algoritmo clássico rodando em um computador eletrônico em mais de 3 milhões de vezes.

AlQattan encontrou uma solução em uma receita de xarope de milho, baunilha e água, uma mistura que é posta para secar e transformada em um filme fino, que é então recoberto com uma fina camada de tinta preta atóxica. Quando o alimento está pronto, uma técnica chamada padronização de interferência direta a laser é usada para gravar linhas em nanoescala no corante, criando uma rede de difração. Quando é atingida pela luz, essa nanoestrutura difrata a luz em um padrão de arco-íris, com diferentes cores aparecendo em diferentes ângulos de visão. A intensidade e a gama de cores podem ser controladas variando o espaçamento entre as linhas da grade ou o teor de açúcar do filme de xarope de milho.

https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010180210218-robo-sem-eletronica-3.jpg Robô a ar-comprimido Robótica macia Computação com ar Artigo: Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling soft-legged robots Autores: Dylan Drotman, Saurabh Jadhav, David Sharp, Christian Chan, Michael T. Tolley Revista: Science Robotics Vol.: 6, Issue 51, eaay2627 DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aay2627

https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010130210217-algas-marte-2.jpg https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010130210217-algas-marte-1.jpg Artigo: A Low-Pressure, N2/CO2 Atmosphere Is Suitable for Cyanobacterium-Based Life-Support Systems on Mars Autores: Cyprien Verseux, Christiane Heinicke, Tiago P. Ramalho, Jonathan Determann, Malte Duckhorn, Michael Smagin, Marc Avila Revista: Frontiers in Microbiology DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.611798

O avanço consistiu em usar no grafeno a técnica japonesa de dobraduras, criando "nano-origamis" que se comportam como transistores - só que transistores cerca de 100 vezes menores do que os transistores de silício. https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/noticia.php?artigo=grafeno-se-renova-artes-japonesas-origami-kagome&id=010110210217 No grafeno kagome, que na verdade é um híbrido de átomos de carbono e nitrogênio, os átomos se organizam em um padrão regular de hexágonos e triângulos, mas que se estruturam para formar uma estrutura favo de mel em maior escala, imitando o grafeno tradicional.

Novo método facilita a obtenção do óxido de grafeno reduzido. Artigo: Wavelength effect of ns-pulsed radiation on the reduction of graphene oxide Autores: Bruno Sanches de Lima, M. I. B. Bernardi, Valmor R. Mastelaro Revista: Applied Surface Science Vol.: 506, 144808 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.144808

Neurônio artificial de laser é 10.000x mais rápido que neurônio biológico https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/noticia.php?artigo=neuronio-artificial-laser-mais-rapido-neuronio-biologico&id=010110210215 E os intervalos de tempo entre os picos podem ser ajustados com precisão por meio da modulação e da frequência.

Azadi demonstrou que a luz é suficiente para prover uma sustentação para pequenos discos de plástico saírem voando de forma dirigida - cada "disco voador" tem o diâmetro de uma caneta.   https://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/imagens/010130210216-levitacao-por-luz-fotoforese-1.jpg Artigo: Controlled levitation of nanostructured thin films for sun-powered near-space flight Autores: Mohsen Azadi, George A. Popov, Zhipeng Lu, Andy G. Eskenazi, Avery Ji Won Bang, Matthew F. Campbell, Howard Hu, Igor Bargatin Revista: Science Advances Vol.: 7, no. 7, eabe1127 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe6855

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Claudia de Rham, Gregory Gabadadze, and Andrew J. Tolley “ Resummation of Massive Gravity ”

P.S. Popular Mechanics “ Did Scientists Finally Solve the Impossible Physics Riddle? ”

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Billy Tolley Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth, Career, Parents, Family

Billy Tolley Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth, Career, Parents, Family

Born Name William Andrew Tolley Birth Place William Andrew Tolley Height 6 feet Eye Color Blue Zodiac Sign Capricorn Nationality American Ethnicity Caucasian Profession Paranormal Investigator, DJ, Software Producer Wife Diana Tolley Net Worth $1.5 million Weight 95 kg Age 46 Sibling Two Parents N/A

Last Updated on July 30, 2019

Millions of people would get super…

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#Mr_Nyce_Watch Fashion Alert

Australian men have been told to “step up” when it comes to their fashion sense, according to a South Yarra tailor. Andrew Tolley says Australian men ... from The Fashion Team via #Mr_Nyce_Watch

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Congratulations Alysia Tolley, Alysia from Penrhyn Bay had a super first time driving test pass today in Rhyl.Alysia passed after an intensive driving course with Tomas Kapus. Well done Alysia drive safe and thank you for using Andrew's Driving School.#drivinglessons #drivingtest #drivinginstructortraining #andrewsdriving https://www.instagram.com/p/B0G7oJrFRd0/?igshid=cbvcxo5mwjws

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Let's Get Take Away from perrie murphy on Vimeo.

Royal College of Art Graduation Film 2015

Let's Get Take Away

An animated kitchen sink drama, following Phil and Judy as they go through a tough part of their relationship. It's got highs and lows, love and laughter, danger, tension, a boozer, a bisto mug, a few good scoldings, and a werewolf... what more do you need?

Using cut out Multi-Plane Animation and a replaceable head system, the characters have a tactile and hand-made aesthetic that combines traditional techniques with modern day technological wizardry.

Teaser: vimeo.com/133829337 Making of: vimeo.com/123426834

Credits:

Phil - Andrew David Judy - Victoria Manifold

Producer - Becky May Perryman

Sound Designer - Marcos Gomez Re-recording Mixer - Payam Hosseinian

Model Makers

Sarah Bick Alesya Bolotina Nicola Jane Francis William Horne Dominic Letchka Sophie Manhire Christopher Mayer Tope Olayinka Rita Sus Sophia Simensky Sam Thompson

Additional Animation by

Josh Saunders Roxana Bentu

Additional Voices by

Kevin - Terence murphy Charlotte - Catherine Rowney News reader – Thomas Harnett O’Meara Hunter - Tarrick Benham Youth 1 - Divian Ladwa Youth 2 - Rory Waudby-Tolley Youth 3 - Jamie Kendall

Special thanks

Blink ink - blink prize blinkink.co.uk

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Celia Mancini (King Loser) Interview

New Zealand rock ‘n’ roller Celia Mancini is the genuine article. She’s been hit by cars, broken bones at venues and yet continues to come back for more, no stranger to playing shows likely against doctor’s orders.

Performing since the 1980s, Mancini’s played in various bands whose influence can’t be measured in record sales and whose music generally ran contrary to what was popular in New Zealand at the time. (Take her former band, Christchurch’s seminal the Axel Grinders, who would’ve been more at home on Estrus Records than Kiwi label Flying Nun. In fact, the group only released a record on American Lee Joseph’s Dionysus imprint.) Celia is best known for starting King Loser with Chris Heazlewood; the duo also backed Peter Gutteridge in a 1990s incarnation of Snapper. Celia stresses that King Loser was “never a Flying Nun band,” which is true. Nevertheless, Flying Nun released three King Loser albums in the 1990s, all of them musically varied—from surf rock to experimental—and excellent. When the group ground down in the late ‘90s, Celia formed the short-lived Mothertrucker.

King Loser has been active again. Late last year (2016) they toured New Zealand. The shows were filmed by Andrew Moore and a King Loser documentary appears to be in the works. As mentioned earlier, Mancini is no stranger to injury and is currently recuperating from injuries sustained from getting hit by a car; she’s currently biding her time on house arrest. King Loser is set to record and start again once Celia breaks free from the long arm of the law.

Interview by Ryan Leach

Ryan: Did you grow up in Christchurch?

Celia: No. I was actually born in Auckland. I had a really good childhood—one of the best in the world. I’d go sailing and shit like that. My dad was a doctor. My mother’s side was from Scotland. She was fifth-generation Port Chalmers which is part of Dunedin. I realized Auckland sucked by 1985, so I went down and lived in Christchurch.

Ryan: You skateboarded when you lived in Auckland, didn’t you?

Celia: I was a New Zealand skateboarding champ in 1976. There are photos of me that I still have from the newspaper. I was really interested in sports when I was in school. In the 1970s, I was doing slalom. I always rode my trucks loose as. We’d clean up the trophies. It was wide open. There was no designation for men and women in the competitions then. I started skating again in the 1980s. I remember buying a Vision board. I’d skate with my boombox, listening to the Beastie Boys.

In 1988, Duane Zarakov, who was an early drummer for King Loser, asked me to play in his band The Axel Grinders. I was up in Auckland again at the time for some reason. I would move all over the country. I wasn’t into one scene. I remember getting Duane’s postcard to move down so I quit my job. I was in Christchurch two days later. They went from being a covers band to performing original material. We started writing songs together.

Ryan: Had the Axel Grinders released their sole vinyl release yet—the “Apparatus of Love” single on Dionysus?

Celia: No. I wrote “Apparatus of Love,” but they recorded that later on. I had gotten Rita (Le Quesne) to replace me and she appeared on that one. I had gotten kicked out of the Axel Grinders for being too Iggy. They were a bit jealous because I was playing in four different bands and managed Into the Void. Rita played in one of my other bands, The Stepford 5, who had a release on Munster Records. I had a group called The Ono Band which was a Beatles cover band that had some members of Into the Void in it. I also had a lounge band in the ‘80s. David Bowie’s entertainment lawyer was in Christchurch and he used to see us. It was very flashy and we’d play very nice places. All of that was fine by me because we liked the music and I loved the dresses. David Bowie’s entertainment lawyer said we were the best lounge act he’d ever seen. This was sort of pre-lounge, though. I called the music “easy listening.” I’d make enough money off the lounge band to support my rock bands.

Ryan: Was the lounge group the one you had with Bill Vosburgh (Perfect Strangers), After Dinner Mints?    

Celia: He was in After Dinner Mints and we also had a duo. Not many people know about the duo we had. Christchurch was really amazing.

Ryan: Right around the time you and Chris (Heazlewood) got King Loser together, you were also both playing in a latter incarnation of Snapper.  

Celia: Chris and I were in Dunedin. We had formed King Loser before we joined Snapper. We are both so flexible—into different styles of music. I had just arrived back to New Zealand from a trip I had taken to the States. Pete needed a keyboard player so he asked me to join. And of course, Chris was in on guitar. It was great playing with Peter; we spent a lot of time together. Gutman and I blended so well. Peter had stage fright. He used to drink vodka before playing; skull it. That’s all it was. Chris and I heard some tapes last year of our time in Snapper. We really liked them. I told Chris, “Chris, I thought we were shit in Snapper. This sounds quite good.” Chris said, “I thought so too!”

It was incredibly sad when Peter died. I was busy in court for some rubbish. Heazlewood was on the phone getting Gutman back from Los Angeles to Auckland. We got him back and then he died shortly afterwards.

Ryan: You appear on Snapper’s A.D.M. (1996) record. Snapper was essentially Gutteridge and Mike Dooley by that point, correct?  

Celia: Yeah. Brendan Hoffman was involved too. He was a sound-mixer guy. He lives in the States now. Chris and I were quite busy with King Loser by that point so we couldn’t really play with Peter anymore. A.D.M. wasn’t recorded how I would have liked to have heard it recorded. Pete’s vocals needed to be more pronounced. Simple, little Phil Spector things would have helped a lot.

Ryan: I like the single you released on Flying Nun, “Kiasu” (1996).

Celia: I did that in one afternoon! I fucked around, fucked around and then they needed the tracks. I made up “Kiasu” on the spot.

Ryan: What was your relationship like with Flying Nun? Was Lesley Paris your point of contact at the label?

Celia: Lesley is my second cousin. Paul McKessar was at Flying Nun at the time handling A&R. He was a total cunt. Paul McKessar hated me. Shayne Carter informed me that the label wasn’t too happy with me right before a New Zealand tour. At the end of it we arrived at Flying Nun’s offices in Auckland and Paul McKessar started yelling at me. It was like the voice from the intercom on the cartoon show The Peanuts. Unbelievably, he tried to kick me out of my own band!

Ryan: Did this happen around 1996’s Nunfest and the release of Caul of the Outlaw?

Celia: Yeah. Paul was just an A&R guy. I still can’t believe he tried to kick me out of my own band.  

Flying Nun was told by other people to sign us. We didn’t care about being on Flying Nun. David Mitchell (3Ds, Chug, Ghost Club, etc.) was telling Flying Nun about us. We rejected their contracts. We signed a three-record deal and we retained the rights to our work—all our merchandising and publishing. We had the right to release records with other labels as well. When I say we did three records with Flying Nun, one of them (Sonic Super Free Hi-Fi) was a rerelease.

Ryan: Right. That one came out on Turbulence Records first.

Celia: Yeah. They were from Belgium. We’ve honestly got about thirty records completed. Chris and I were and remain prolific. We just couldn’t help it. Sean (O’Reilly) is a songwriter now and he’s doing really well. But, again, we were never a Flying Nun band. I just looked at them as a distributor for our records.

Ryan: Looking back on your three LPs, is there one you prefer over the other two?

Celia: I like them all. And like I said, we’ve got heaps more. When we toured last September (2016), new songs came together. That’s why Chris and I were always recording. We were never certain we’d remember songs later on. We’d record stuff and just shove it into a bloody box. The only time we didn’t do that was when we were consciously making an album. Chris would record us on our reel-to-reel.      

Ryan: When Flying Nun was presumably spending more money on records and getting slicker, you and Chris were recording on the cheap on your eight-track.

Celia: We always made our own recordings. We didn’t want to spend thousands of dollars on recordings. We didn’t need to do that.

Ryan: I remember chatting with Andrew Tolley (Hasselhoff Experiment, Blood Bags, Perpetrator Records, etc.) and he mentioned Axel Grinders being revelatory. King Loser as well. You were doing something very unique in New Zealand in the 1990s, especially compared to what was popular at the time.  

Celia: I’ve always felt that King Loser was really different from other bands. Axel Grinders were too. King Loser was one of the weirdest bands around. Musically, we were always doing different things. Duane and I used to release Axel Grinders tapes ourselves. We’re starting to digitize all of our old stuff, so it’ll start coming out all over the place. There’s Snapper stuff too.

Ryan: There’s footage of you and Chris playing at your old place on K Road. I heard stories of you guys endlessly recording there.      

Celia: Yeah, yeah. We were together then….We went on tour to Australia.  

Ryan: Was that the tour with Garageland?

Celia: Fuck that band. We went on tour with Loves Ugly Children as well. Garageland opened for us. People came to see us, not them. We were on every fucking magazine cover in New Zealand. It was kind of weird. Once I get out of my criminal situation and get this damn ankle bracelet off of me I want to go back to Australia. I want to go to Japan too. But this ankle bracelet shit is ridiculous. The judge said I was “a danger to society.” So stupid.

           Sean (O’Reilly) lives in Auckland currently. We get together. Tribal Thunder and Chris are in Dunedin. Chris is coming up here to Auckland in about six days. So we’ll have a powwow then. We’re going to record again when I can get mobile.  

Ryan: How were those King Loser shows that you played last year (2016)?

Celia: Fucking awesome. Great. I loved it.  

Ryan: Isn’t Andrew Moore making a King Loser documentary?

Celia: Yeah. He made a New Zealand skateboard documentary (No More Heroes). He left us ladies out. It was such a small subject. I was a skate champ in ’76. He held a question and answer session after the film premiere in Auckland and I could tell he was frightened when he saw me standing up: “Oh, god, Celia’s grabbing the mic!” I wasn’t going to be unpolite. I politely asked him where the ladies where and walked off. But I guess the film was big for him. We’ll see how the King Loser one shapes up.    

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Seiðr Sources Masterpost

Here’s a collection of all the reputable (and maybe some slightly less reputable) sources I’ve found for seiðr and related topics

Seiðr

The Viking Way- Neil Price

Shamanism in Norse Myth and Magic - Clive Tolley

The Archeology of Seiðr: Circumpolar Traditions in Viking Pre-Christian Religion - Neil Price

Old Norse Religion in Long Term Perspectives: Spinning Seiðr - Eldar Heide

A Biography of Seiðr-staffs - Leszek Gardela

Shamanism in the Old Norse Tradition: A Theory Between Ideological Camps - Stefanie v. Schnurbein

A Sourcebook of Seið - Stephen Flowers (there are a lot of problems with this guy but its just a collection of every mention of seiðr in the sagas and Eddas)

The Hunting of the Vétt: in Search of the Old Norse Shamanic Drum - Clive Tolley

Remnants of Seiðr: Charms and Incantations in the German Diasporas - Nóel Braucher 

Seidhr, A Scholarly Study of the Art - Sir Sigurd

The Image of Seiðr in Old Icelandic Literature: Consistency or Variation- Lyonel D. Perabo

Seiðr & Shamans: Defining the Myth of Ritual Specialists in pre-Christian Scandinavia - Sebastian Klein

The Chicanery of Seiðr

Out of the Waters Beneath the Tree - Catherine Heath

On Circumpolar Shamanic Traditions

Shamanism in Siberia: Russian Records of Indigenous Spirituality - Andrei A. Znamenski

SHAMAN An International Journal  for Shamanistic Research

Related Topics

Spirits Through Respiratory Passages - Eldar Heide

The Religious Roles in pre-Christian Scandinavia - Marketa Chvalkovska 

Magic beyond the binary: magic and gender in the Poetic Edda - Meghan Callaghan

Viking Worlds: Things, Spaces and Movement

The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture - Paul C. Bauschatz 

The Ethical World-Conception of the Norse People - Andrew Peter Fors

Nine paces from Hel: time and motion in Old Norse ritual performance - Neil Price

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A Dynamic Response: How the Tax Market has Adjusted to Covid-19

A Dynamic Response: How the Tax Market has Adjusted to Covid-19   Tax has often been described as a ‘recession-resistant’ sector– as long as there is an economy, there will always be the need for tax professionals. Indeed, professional services organisations will always need tax compliance and advice, and this becomes even more important during the global challenge we all face. The world has rapidly changed with the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). During this unprecedented time, it has been inspiring to see our clients and tax specialists working with high levels of resilience and adaptability.   As in-person meetings and interviews were increasingly discouraged, the tax market has continued to grow through remote teams and virtual video conferences. As a result of this, we at Mason Rak feel very fortunate to have remained busy and successful during this time.   The continued demand for tax experts in certain areas is good news for executive tax recruiters. Although tax functions have inevitably slowed to accommodate for remote working, a combination of empathy and resilience has allowed the industry to successfully step up the challenge.   “In the short term, everything I see tells me that the profession has responded magnificently to the crisis”, comments Andrew Hubbard, editor-in-chief at Tolley Taxation. Indeed, there has been an unusual level of competency in handling both the professional and personal impacts of the crisis. Read the full article

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Travel Channel Presents GHOST ADVENTURES LIVE

Be afraid. Be very afraid. For 10 years, “Ghost Adventures” has brought chilling ghost investigations into viewers’ homes, creating unforgettable paranormal experiences for those brave enough to watch. In celebration of the scariest night of the year, Travel Channel has lined up a ghostly event to die for - “Ghost Adventures Live” premieres Wednesday, October 31 beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. On the one-year anniversary of the museum’s opening, the “Ghost Adventures” team - Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley - will lock down inside Bagans’ Las Vegas Haunted Museum in a special four-hour live Halloween investigation, hosted by special guest Josh Gates of “Expedition Unknown.” The team will investigate the 33-room historic mansion brimming with hauntings from its own dark past - and that now houses thousands of haunted objects, some so frightening and powerful they can’t even be touched, including Peggy the Doll who is known to cause heart attacks and the infamous Dybbuk Box, believed to be haunted by a malicious spirit.

Sealing themselves inside to face these extreme supernatural forces head on, and using the most advanced technology and equipment, the “Ghost Adventures” team will push themselves further than they’ve ever gone before. Over 30 cameras will capture the event live, while host Josh Gates will liaise between the dedicated nerve center and evidence review area positioned on site. In an unprecedented move, Bagans will attempt to open the Dybbuk Box, quite possibly evoking paranormal mayhem.

Anything can happen, and an exorcist and ambulance will be on location just in case. With the help of special guests and experts - including Dave Schrader, Lady Snake, Chris Fleming, Michael and Marti Parry, Bill Chappell and others - it’s sure to go down as one of the most terrifying nights in paranormal history!

“I’m excited for fans to join us on this special LIVE investigation at my Haunted Museum, which has its own sinister history. Many dark rituals took place at the house in the 1970s, and the residual effects can still be felt,” said Bagans. “After 10 years, our passion and enthusiasm for investigating the paranormal is only growing more powerful the more we develop our connections with every spirit and location we visit. So get ready for an unforgettable Halloween and some more incredible new episodes of ‘Ghost Adventures!’”

Through an on-location live video stream, viewers can monitor all of the “Ghost Adventures Live” activity on Travel Channel's Facebook Live platform and comment on any findings in real time, using #GhostAdventuresLive. Comments will feed directly to Travel Channel’s Social Command Center, monitored by digital host Andrew “GUNNAROLLA” Gunadie, who will share with Josh Gates and the “Ghost Adventures Live” team.

The frights don’t end on Halloween. An all-new season of “Ghost Adventures” returns on Saturday, November 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, as the team travels to St. Anthony, Idaho, to investigate a former school with a dark history of death. Children were sent to the Idaho State Reform School with the hope of being reformed, but the result was often the opposite. The former girl’s dormitory and infirmary were eventually transformed into homes where a family now lives in distress - plagued by intense unseen forces and violent attacks. As the team begins their lockdown, they document unnerving evidence of unexplained activity, disembodied voices and their own physical attacks.

Beginning Saturday, November 3, and running through December 22, fans can enter Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures Giveaway” each week for the chance to win a weekly prize pack with “Ghost Adventures” goodies or a gift card, and all weekly entries will be entered into the grand prize drawing - a trip for two to Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas Haunted Museum. A code will be revealed Saturday nights during each new “Ghost Adventures” episode at 9 p.m. ET/PT; viewers can then enter that code online for the chance to win. Check out “Ghost Adventures” on TravelChannel.com for more, including special show extras, behind-the-scenes photos and exclusive videos. Follow @TravelChannel, @GhostAdventures and #GhostAdventures on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram for additional content and updates. Follow the team on Twitter: @Zak_Bagans, @AaronGoodwin, @BillyTolley, @jaywasley

Plus, tune into a special four-part “Ghost Adventures” miniseries - “Graveyard of the Pacific” - beginning Saturday, October 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The team investigates this treacherous nautical region of the Pacific Northwest, where DARKNESS plagues both land and sea and haunted locations flood the area.

“Ghost Adventures” is produced by MY Entertainment for Travel Channel. For MY Entertainment, the executive producers are Michael Yudin and Joe Townley. Zak Bagans also serves as an executive producer on the series. For Travel Channel, the executive producer is Daniel A. Schwartz, Jane Latman is general manager and Henry Schleiff is group president of Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, AMERICAN HEROES CHANNEL and Destination America.

ABOUT TRAVEL CHANNEL

For the bold, daring and spontaneous; those adventurers who embrace the thrill of the unexpected; those risk-takers who aren’t afraid of a little mystery; if you’re up for anything, down for whatever, and above all, love great stories, journey on to Travel Channel. We’re more than you expect and everything you didn’t know you were looking for. Reaching more than 82 million U.S. cable homes, Travel Channel is the world’s leading travel media brand. Fans also can visit Travel Channel for more information or interact with other fans through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Travel Channel is owned by Discovery, Inc., a global leader in real life entertainment whose portfolio also includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

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Promotion Watch ’19: Let’s Congratulate Deloitte’s 386 New PPMDs for FY 2020

It’s been quite a while since we’ve done a post on new partner promotions at Deloitte, so we wanted to give some kudos to not only the 65 new partners in the class of 2020, but also the 237 managing directors and 84 principals who were recognized by Ucuzoglu & Co. for a job well done.

Here are the Green Dotters who got promoted, broken down by business line:

Audit & Assurance

Nick Accordino, Partner, Cleveland

Tricia Admire, Managing Director, McLean

Matt Albert, Partner, San Jose

Fernando Alonso, Partner, Kansas City

Zach Barnes,  Managing Director, Fort Worth

Brian Beglin, Managing Director, Charlotte

Lindsay Ann Bielski, Partner, Detroit

Matt Brito, Managing Director, New York

Brian Cassidy, Partner, Philadelphia

Hendrik Cloete, Managing Director, Tampa

Diane Craanen, Partner, Chicago

Shibani Dogra, Managing Director, San Diego

Justin Dutka, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Jesse Engle, Managing Director, Seattle

Paul Fischetti, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Ali Gee, Partner, San Francisco

Mike Gentile, Managing Director, Chicago

Carrie Gordon, Managing Director, Chicago

Matt Grams, Managing Director, Phoenix

Amy Groves, Managing Director, Stamford

Jeralyn Haber, Partner, Stamford

Amy Holcomb, Partner, McLean

Bobby Huang, Managing Director, Seattle

Alex Jackson, Partner, Jersey City

Beverly Janson Ho, Managing Director, McLean

James Kelley, Managing Director, Jacksonville

Robert Kerr, Partner, Atlanta

Joe Kick, Managing Director, Buffalo

George Kruglov, Managing Director, New York

Jenny La Crosse, Managing Director, Milwaukee

Kyle Lauret, Managing Director, Chicago

Dennis Leary, Managing Director, Boston

Matthew Lipschutz, Managing Director, Stamford

Nicole Luft, Partner, New York

Mike Lund, Partner, Chicago

Jonathan Margate, Partner, San Francisco

Aimee McDaniel, Managing Director, St. Louis

Brad McEachern, Partner, Costa Mesa

Nathan Mitchell, Partner, San Francisco

Shelby Ann Murphy, Managing Director, Stamford

Jean-Denis Ncho-Oguie, Partner, San Francisco

Mai Noonan, Managing Director, Seattle

Katie O’Connor, Partner, Costa Mesa

Sarah Patterson, Partner, Los Angeles

Jess Pennington, Managing Director, Phoenix

Jon Pickard, Managing Director, Hartford

Christy Pipes, Managing Director, Tampa

Hitesh Ramani, Partner, Parsippany

Doug Rand, Managing Director, Washington, DC

Kashif Riaz, Principal, San Jose

Jenna Lee Richman, Partner, New York

Leana Rolon, Managing Director, New York

Tessa Schneider, Partner, Denver

Michelle Silva, Partner, Parsippany

B.J. Spence, Partner, Boston

Ben Stanley, Partner, Memphis

Keiichiro Takagi, Managing Director, Atlanta

Steve Tepper, Managing Director, Chicago

Neal David Teutsch, Partner, Seattle

Dallas Thomason, Managing Director, Austin

Jiaojiao Tian, Partner, Stamford

Ryan Tolley, Partner, Boise

Nathan Uhl, Partner, Minneapolis

Cory Vann, Partner, Denver

Robert Vendig, Managing Director, Stamford

Keith Waldrop, Partner, Houston

Will Weeks, Managing Director, Boston

Daryl White, Managing Director, Princeton

Brent Wilberts, Partner, Des Moines

Matthew Wolfson, Managing Director, San Diego

Robbie Wong, Managing Director, San Jose

Jongsuk Yu, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Brian Ziberna, Managing Director, Raleigh

Client & Market Growth

Jim Carr, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Anthony Cauterucci, Managing Director, Arlington

Audrey Hitchings, Managing Director, Denver

Steve Mahar, Managing Director, Boston

Joe Mathes, Managing Director, Atlanta

Rick Rivich, Managing Director, Houston

Dan Spillett, Managing Director, Parsippany

Consulting

Sam Abu-Izz, Managing Director, McLean

Paras Agarwal, Managing Director, Seattle

Jenny Ahn, Managing Director, Boston

Will Arnold, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Kelly Alphonso Batts, Managing Director, Arlington

Sharon Beerling, Managing Director, San Francisco

Luis Benavides, Managing Director, McLean

Sarah Benczik, Principal, Arlington

Maurita Benjamin, Managing Director, Arlington

Aaron Berkowitz, Managing Director, Arlington

Aparupa Bhattacharya, Managing Director, Chicago

Ayan Bhattacharya, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Alan Brady, Principal, Los Angeles

Eric Bramley, Managing Director, Atlanta

Sasha Brecher, Managing Director, Arlington

Antonio Caroprese, Managing Director, Pleasanton

Stephen Casaceli, Principal, Charlotte

Will Chadrow, Principal, Seattle

Samrat Chakraborty, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Louise Chang, Principal, Chicago

Andrew Chew, Managing Director, New York

Brian Clay, Managing Director, Boston

Nydia Clayton, Principal, Arlington

Oniel Cross, Principal, Arlington

Alok Dalal, Principal, Chicago

Satish Damodaran, Managing Director, Atlanta

Manav Dange, Principal, Chicago

Andy Davis, Principal, Minneapolis

Paula Davis, Managing Director, Arlington

Tejas Desai, Principal, Costa Mesa

Hemang Dholakia, Managing Director, Charlotte

Maria Downing, Managing Director, New York

Aaron Druck, Managing Director, Arlington

Katie Dye, Principal, Austin

Tim Egan, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Roland Ehigiamusoe, Managing Director, Atlanta

Sally Fingar, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Jonathan Fox, Managing Director, New York

Jack Fritz, Principal, Chicago

Fred Giacoma, Managing Director, Chicago

Chelsea Gorr, Managing Director, New York

Yogesh Goswami, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Bob Grabowski, Managing Director, Arlington

Dan Grayson, Principal, San Francisco

Luis Hakim, Principal, San Francisco

Danielle Hawkins, Principal, Atlanta

Andrew Heller, Managing Director, Stamford

Stacy Hodgins, Principal, New York

Anthony Jardim, Principal, Boston

Sam Johnson, Principal, Atlanta

Tony Johnson, Principal, Chicago

Kumar Kanisan, Managing Director, Chicago

Deepak Kannangala, Managing Director, San Francisco

Vik Kapoor, Managing Director, Raleigh

Sid Karia, Principal, Chicago

Kate Kauffman, Managing Director, Chicago

Greg Klebes, Managing Director, McLean

Alina Klinova, Principal, Boston

Harry Kocken, Managing Director, Arlington

Matthew Kraus, Managing Director, Chicago

Arjun Krishnamurthy, Managing Director, Atlanta

Vinoj Kumaran, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Michelle Lane, Managing Director, Arlington

Mike Larson, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Nick Laughlin, Principal, Pittsburgh

Susan Leal, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Justine Lelchuk, Managing Director, New York

Nakul Lele, Managing Director, San Francisco

Dimitrios Liassidis, Principal, New York

Jinlei Liu, Managing Director, Boston

Bill Lloyd, Managing Director, Raleigh

Mic Locker, Principal, Stamford

Wilson Joseph Maliackel, Managing Director, Harrisburg

Praveen Mayalur, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Mike McCormick, Principal, Arlington

Dorsey McGlone, Managing Director, Boston

Denise McGuigan, Principal, Atlanta

Hilary Mclellan, Managing Director, Arlington

Keval Mehta, Principal, Princeton

Simmi Mehta, Principal, Austin

Nicholas Merizzi, Principal, Atlanta

Lee Merovitz, Managing Director, Chicago

Adam Benjamin Messer, Principal, San Francisco

Soumendra Mohapatra, Managing Director, Parsippany

Eduardo Morales, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Mani Murahari, Principal, Boston

Ramya Murali, Principal, New York

Christopher Newton, Managing Director, Houston

Joon Ooi, Managing Director, Atlanta

Karina Opdyke, Principal, Arlington

Hanish Patel, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Swati Suresh Patel, Managing Director, Chicago

Siddharth Sanjay Patil, Principal, Cleveland

Saikat Pattadar, Principal, San Jose

Nate Paynter, Principal, Charlotte

Ramona Pereira-Chakka, Principal, Harrisburg

Sid Pinnamaneni, Managing Director, San Jose

Sudhir Potturi, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Jeff Powrie, Principal, New York

Brian Proctor, Principal, Costa Mesa

Vinod Pukalay, Managing Director, Dallas

James Michael Qua, Principal, Los Angeles

Brian Rabe, Managing Director, Sacramento

Ranjit Rao, Principal, Atlanta

Keri Reed, Managing Director, Arlington

Ryder Riess, Principal, McLean

Rodney Runolfson, Managing Director, San Francisco

Christian Saint-Onge, Principal, Costa Mesa

Ulrich Schoppe, Managing Director, Austin

Rochak Sethi, Principal, San Francisco

Deepak Sharma, Managing Director, San Francisco

Paul Shean, Managing Director, New York

Ben Shirley, Managing Director, Boston

Rajesh Singh, Managing Director, Parsippany

Kirk Snyder, Managing Director, Atlanta

Cristina Stefanita, Principal, San Francisco

Bobby Stephens, Principal, Chicago

Karthik Sukumar, Principal, Costa Mesa

Ryan Michael Szostek, Managing Director, Detroit

Arpan Tiwari, Managing Director, Dallas

Anil Tondavadi, Managing Director, Dallas

Muna Tuna, Managing Director, New York

Michael Vero, Principal, San Francisco

Bob Quan Vuong, Principal, McLean

Ronald Wagner, Managing Director, San Francisco

Jeff Walker, Principal, Houston

Amanda Walters, Principal, New York

James Weaver, Managing Director, Dallas

Jim Whitehead, Managing Director, Arlington

Sreshta Wickramasinghe, Managing Director, Sacramento

Ezrick Kendale Wiggins, Principal, Atlanta

Jeff Williams, Principal, Atlanta

Emily Yoo, Principal, New York

Maryann Zeira, Managing Director, Parsippany

Finance

Shannon Fitzpatrick, Managing Director, Parsippany

Megha Maripuri, Managing Director, Minneapolis

George Sumrow, Managing Director, Nashville

General Counsel

Alex Alexander, Managing Director, Los Angeles

David Kaye, Principal, New York

Joybell Silverman, Principal, San Francisco

Michael Welsh, Managing Director, Arlington

Global

Anna Ilse Dempsey, Managing Director, Jericho

Katie Kaminsky, Managing Director, Milwaukee

Government & Public Services

Shannon Madigan, Managing Director, Arlington

Office of the CEO

Meghan Downs, Managing Director, Hermitage

Office of the Managing Principal – Businesses

Laurie Mason, Managing Director, Seattle

Risk and Brand Protection

Laurie Gannon, Managing Director, Stamford

Dieu Hua, Managing Director, McLean

Sandy MacIsaac, Managing Director, Arlington

Risk and Financial Advisory

Ben Anderson, Principal, Portland

Peter Bahnemann, Managing Director, New York

Matt Baker, Managing Director, Arlington

Betsy Besanceney, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Eric Bowlin, Partner, Richmond

Steven Cady, Managing Director, Charlotte

Cindy Marie Cerneka, Managing Director, Morrisville

Michael Corrao, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Brian Cutlip, Managing Director, Boston

Amy Dove, Managing Director, Austin

Shawn Michael Duffy, Managing Director, San Francisco

Malik Dzirlo, Managing Director, McLean

Ryan Foughty, Managing Director, Dallas

Jason Frame, Managing Director, Parsippany

Jacob Gregg, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Ramsey Hajj, Principal, Boca Raton

Paul Harker, Managing Director, Houston

Keturah Henry, Principal, New York

Brian Hibner, Managing Director, Chicago

Chris Hoff, Managing Director, Atlanta

Gregg Huber, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Meer Mahtab Hussain, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Maegan Jonson, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Willis Drew Kao, Managing Director, San Jose

Janice Keating, Partner, Arlington

Rick Kimsey, Partner, Nashville

Geoff Kovesdy, Principal, New York

Megan Levy, Managing Director, Atlanta

Saj Mathew, Principal, Arlington

Ezekiel McMillan, Partner, Arlington

Brad Mervis, Managing Director,McLean

James Miller, Principal, Charlotte

Ducky Min, Managing Director, San Francisco

Christine Michelle Murphy, Managing Director, Detroit

Lauren Nalu, Principal, Arlington

Badri Nemani, Managing Director, Arlington

David Oberst, Partner, Chicago

Clark Oeler, Principal, Pittsburgh

Jeff Olin, Managing Director, Costa Mesa

Nitin Pandey, Managing Director, Jersey City

Prashant Parikh, Managing Director, New York

Rishi Narendra Patel, Managing Director, Charlotte

Eliza Preoteasa, Managing Director, Chicago

Andrew Rafla, Principal, Jersey City

Subramanian Raman, Managing Director, Charlotte

Kelly Michael Rau, Managing Director, Cincinnati

Jonathan Rizzo, Principal, New York

Charlie Sanchez, Managing Director, Houston

Nikki Schutt, Principal, Stamford

Chrissy Scott, Principal, Chicago

Manish Shaida, Managing Director, Chicago

Colin Soutar, Managing Director, Arlington

Christopher Stewart, Partner, Arlington

Parag Thakkar, Managing Director, Chicago

Dina Trainor, Managing Director, Boston

Kevin James Urbanowicz, Managing Director, Houston

Justin Charles Wakefield, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Court Watson, Partner, Seattle

Charmaine Kathryn Wilson, Principal, San Jose

Talent

Casey Carlson, Managing Director, Boston

Holly Hernandez Elsasser, Managing Director, Phoenix

Tax

Jacob Aguero, Partner, Houston

Avi Ament, Managing Director, New York

Nazanin Azarian, Managing Director, McLean

Mat Beers, Partner, Miami

Abhishek Bhadauria, Managing Director, McLean

Samantha Bonanno, Partner, Tampa

Joel Booker, Partner, Dallas

Annie Bridenstine, Managing Director, San Diego

Todd Buffington, Managing Director, Kansas City

Sarah Caplan, Partner, Chicago

David Cauley, Partner, Atlanta

Brian Cavin, Managing Director, Nashville

Tom Cecchino, Principal, Stamford

Courtney Clark, Partner, Columbus

Jessica Craig, Managing Director, Boston

Brett Cummings, Managing Director, Dallas

Eugene Curtiss, Managing Director, Houston

Mike Daniels, Partner, Houston

Tarin DeVitto, Managing Director, McLean

Brian Matthew Drujak, Principal, McLean

Brittney Duffy, Managing Director, Houston

Megan Eastep, Managing Director, Dallas

Christina Noel Edwall, Partner, San Jose

Daphne Esposito, Managing Director, Chicago

Frank Falvo, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Richard Feuring, Managing Director, Washington, DC

Bill Fisher, Managing Director, Richmond

Mary Fuerst, Managing Director, Los Angeles

Dominic Gabbianelli, Partner, Atlanta

Joe Gartner, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Andrew Scott Guberman, Partner, New York

Kirsten Gulotta, Principal, New York

Kristopher Gustafson, Principal, San Francisco

Dave Hansen, Partner, San Francisco

Misty Henderson, Partner, Atlanta

Cory Joseph Hill, Managing Director, Chicago

Jared Steven Huish, Managing Director, Seattle

Rona Hummel, Managing Director, New York

Wendy Jackson, Principal, San Francisco

Mudit Kapoor, Managing Director, New York

Kyle Karrenbauer, Managing Director, New York

Matvey Kats, Principal, New York

Michael Kaul, Partner, New York

Bridget (Curtis) Kerbyson, Managing Director, Detroit

Mary Klaasen, Managing Director, Denver

Derek Krozek, Managing Director, Detroit

Matthew Lamberta, Principal, New York

Tomas Lenart, Managing Director, Pittsburgh

Daniel Lichaw, Managing Director, New York

Nicola Lostumbo, Principal, Chicago

Gregg Mangarelli, Managing Director, Milwaukee

Irene Manos, Principal, Stamford

Michael Mariani, Partner, New York

Shantanu Mohan, Managing Director, Jersey City

Alexis Morrison-Howe, Principal, Boston

Doug Nagode, Managing Director, Atlanta

Michelle Ng, Managing Director, New York

Sharon Niles, Managing Director, Boston

Joanne O’Brien, Partner, Los Angeles

David Orlandi, Managing Director, Stamford

Will Ou, Managing Director, San Jose

Nicole Patterson, Principal, San Jose

Katherine Plumb, Partner, Houston

Timothy Polefko, Managing Director, New York

Jarick Poulson, Managing Director, Salt Lake City

Farah Raja, Managing Director, San Francisco

Vasudha Rangaprasad, Principal, San Jose

Jason Richter, Principal, San Francisco

Jason Christophe Robertson, Principal, Washington, DC

Howard Sacks, Managing Director, Philadelphia

Jorge Sandoval, Partner, Costa Mesa

Micaela Saviano, Partner, Chicago

Mike Schlect, Partner, San Francisco

Andrea Schulz, Managing Director, Minneapolis

Jan Michael Skidds, Managing Director, Parsippany

Andrea Smith, Partner, Chicago

Roberto Sola, Managing Director, San Juan

Jim Sullivan, Managing Director, Boston

Adam Clayton Sylte, Managing Director, Seattle

Melanie Tomsula, Partner, Houston

Mary Rose Turman, Managing Director, Atlanta

Bella Verdiyan, Managing Director, Detroit

Elizabeth Wallin, Managing Director, Tampa

Clark Warner, Partner, Charlotte

Jeffrey Webb, Partner, Chicago

Greg Weiss, Partner, McLean

Dina Wiesen, Managing Director, Parsippany

Logan Wilkowich, Managing Director, Houston

Casey Yantosca, Partner, Boston

Hristina Zielinski, Managing Director, Stamford

Technology

Lori Geiger, Managing Director, Hermitage

John Gormly, Managing Director, Cincinnati

Tim Sanouvong, Managing Director, Dallas

Sachin Vaidya, Managing Director, Hermitage

Brian Craig Whyte, Managing Director, Arlington

Workplace Services

Vinnie Doherty, Managing Director, Parsippany

Katie Gray, Managing Director, Columbus

Congrats to all!

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It takes commitment to serve the community.

Fire and rescue personnel were recognized for their outstanding work at a Medal Day Ceremony on Saturday.

The Prince William County Fire and Rescue System held the third annual program at the Ferlazzo Building in Woodbridge, according to a release from the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue (PWCDFR).

Here are the awardees, who were honored Assistant Chief Matt Smolsky and Assistant Chief Lance McClintock:

Unit Citation

Technician II Christopher Clark

Technician I Kevin Ganssle

Technician II Daniel Jackson

Technician I Michael Baker

Lieutenant Todd Bell

Technician I Chadd Holmes

Technician I Kelly Hamner

Technician I Shaun Kent

Technician II Cager Mackaravitz

Technician II Greg Klatte

Technician II Anthony Aquinto

Captain Brian Ferguson

Technician II Victor Vega

Technician I Aldo Bonilla

Technician I Michael Chergosky

Captain Marcus Saager

Technician II Aaron Dillon

Technician I Neftali Mena

Lieutenant Tom Klimtzak

Technician II Adam Renner

Technician I Brandon Simon

Lieutenant William Sanderson

Technician II Victor Vega

Technician I Zack Markley

Lifesaving Award

Technician I Cody Durham

Lieutenant Beth Kenavan

Technician II Andrew Sanders

Lieutenant Bob Howard

Technician II James Helmick

Technician I Chet Prailey

Technician II Christopher Miller

Technician I William Carter

Technician I Kurt Hagen

Lieutenant Josh Dempsey

Technician II Josh Thomson

Technician II Nick Nurthen

Technician I Joel Bernardo

Technician I John Cramsey

Battalion Chief Tom Denner

Technician II Jeff Chapman

Lieutenant Matt Eckert

Technician II Leonel Teller

Lieutenant William Sanderson

Technician II Victor Vega

Technician I Nathaniel Deghand

Technician I Ian Sheedy

Lieutenant Brian Reader

Technician II Michael Mountain

Technician II Adam Renner

Technician I Zackery Markley

Lieutenant Justin Antes

Technician I Andrew Gorman

Captain Scott Arft

Technician II Neil Shoults

Technician I James Martin

Technician I Joseph Felsentreger

Technician II Kyle Straker

Technician I Ryan Turlik

Captain Brian Ferguson

Technician II Victor Vega

Technician I Aldo Bonilla

Technician I Michael Chergosky

Lieutenant Ryan Tolley

Technician II Jared Juliano

Captain Carl Ericson

Technician II Michael Favole

Technician I Emily Baden

Technician I Chris Drago

Technician I Bryan Smith

Lieutenant Jay Byler

Technician II Matthew Hall

Technician II Shaun Polite

Technician I Gabriel Lunders

Lieutenant Alex Stephenson

Technician II Stephanie Miller

Technician I Zach Burnette

Lieutenant Kevin Tobey

Technician II Andrew Hale

Technician II Christian Alloway

Technician I Asley Amezquita

Lieutenant Anthony Adamo

Technician II Ben Draxler

Technician II Rob Dimmel

Technician I Joseph O’Dell

Technician II Jemeel Brady

Technician I Rodney Woodward

Technician I Samuel Gorham

Technician II Joey Bloedel

Technician I Russell Lane

Technician I Brian Pelletier

Technician I John Payette

Technician II April Spicer

Technician II John Ransone

Technician I Samuel Field

Lieutenant Mike DeAtley

Technician II Peter Francisco

Technician I John Becker

Technician I Nicholas Gonnella

Technician II Alex Stephenson

Technician II Stephanie Butler

Technician I James Klenk

Technician II Keith Brock (Retired)

Dale City Volunteer Fire Department (DCVFD)

Lieutenant Thomas Mazzo

Firefighter Brandon Taylor

Technician Stacy Pyzowski

Recruit Maryan Ahmed

Meritorious Service Award

Technician I Asley Amezquita

Lieutenant Ken Zack

Lieutenant Nick Feliciano

Technician II Chris Gott

Officer of the Year

Lieutenant Ryan Kirk

Chief’s Commendation Award

Captain Jonathan Newell

Farrah Large

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