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Renfrewshire Schools Drumming Instructor Vacancy - Closes 29th Aug 2020
A vacancy for a Drumming Instructor has come up within Renfrewshire Schools. They say:
We require a music instructor with a specialism in pipe drumming to teach groups of learners in Renfrewshire Schools and to play an active role in supporting and leading our ensemble programme in schools and throughout the Local Authority.
Applicants will require a minimum qualification of a Diploma in a recognised music course or equivalent pipe drumming qualification and should have a sound working knowledge of teaching methodology in their instrument family.
Applications are particularly welcomed from candidates who can demonstrate experience of working with young people and share details of their successful approaches to learning and teaching. Experience of working with young people in a pipe band will also/would be welcomed/desirable/beneficial.
Vacancy closes on 29th August 2020 - head over to the website and find out more.
Steven is experienced with traditional piping, contemporary folk music and composition and possesses a unique style of playing which sets him apart from his peers. A graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Steven is perhaps best known for his work with Scot's Trad Awards 'Live Act of the Year 2015' RURA. In 2020 Steven was appointed to the role of Director of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, bringing his wealth of performance, composition and recording experience to this challenging role.
From his beginnings as a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2008 he has set about forging a dynamic performance career across the globe from Japan, India, China to the U.S., Canada and all around Europe- including extensively touring the UK. Steven has performed in large scale line-ups such as The Unusual Suspects to intimate solo spots in chamber concerts. He has appeared at some of the world's most renowned folk festival stages including Heb Celt, Celtic Connections- at The Old Fruit Market in Glasgow- and Tonder festival in Denmark.
He has also taken the stage as a soloist with quite a few orchestral line-ups including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Royal Northern College of Music's Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera and performed with Opera North in the U.K.'s first Opera to include bagpipes in the score. Other notable musical collaborations have included working with legendary Indian musician Rakesh Chaurasia, touring south east Asia with Judy Collins, as well appearing as a soloist with the Band of the Royal Marines and the NZ Army Band.
Steven is a founding member of Tryst, an ensemble of pipers/ composers exploring new writing techniques for a pipe core. Tryst have created a number of special performances, including appearing at the MG Alba Trad Awards, the annual piping concert at Celtic Connections, a special Celtic Connections concert featuring large scale commissions from each member of the ensemble, and the William Kennedy Piping Festival.
Steven's main project RURA are a multi award-winning act and one of Scotland's most sought-after folk bands. With three heralded albums, Rura affirm their position as one of Scotland's leading instrumental groups. Over the years Rura have collected many of the coveted awards in the folk scene including "Up and Coming Act of the Year" at the MG Alba Traditional Music Awards 2012, nominees for 'Folk Band of the Year' 2013 and were nominees BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for the coveted 'Horizon' award and are this years winners of 'Live Act of the Year' and they were nominated for 'Album of the Year' in the MG Alba Traditional Music Awards.
Steven has also kept busy as a writer whose portfolio ranges form solo bagpipe repertoire through to scoring for full Symphony Orchestra. In 2014 he took part in Creative Scotland's '20for14' project in which 20 writers across the arts were commissioned to create art which responded to Glasgow's hosting of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Steven's 'Bystander' project culminated in a suite of 5 pieces fusing impressionism with old and modern folk practices which was performed as part of Celtic Connections and released as an album.
He has also served as Musical Director of the Gordon Duncan Experience which is a trad big band project involving young people from various genres. Recently Steven lead the group in a live performance at the Scot's Music Trad Awards as well as a celebration of Gordon Duncan's work collaborating with Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton at the Perth Concert Hall.
Ailis Sutherland
Ailis is a piper and flute player from Kirriemuir, Angus. She started learning the pipes at the age of 9 and was taught by her father Alec Sutherland. Ailis joined her local pipe band in Brechin and started competing in the 2006 season in Grade 4A, progressing quickly with the band's promotions to Grade 3B and Grade 3A in consecutive years. During her eight seasons with Brechin, Ailis enjoyed success in the solos as a junior and was a member of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland from 2009 to 2015.
In 2014, Ailis joined Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band and won the Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championships under the direction of Ryan Canning in 2015. Later that year, she moved to South Uist to complete her third and fourth year studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands. There, she learned repertoire and wooden flute technique with Iain MacDonald (Glenuig) and started the folk band "Hecla" (MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards nominees). With Hecla and as a soloist, Ailis has been featured on most of BBC Radio nan Gàidheal and BBC Radio Scotland's traditional music programmes, including "Pipeline" and "Crunluath." Ailis graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Applied Music in August 2018, before moving to Glasgow.
She has been lucky enough to perform at festivals and venues around the world including Noite Celta de Porcía (Asturias), National Celtic Festival (Australia), Festival Interceltique de Lorient (Brittany), Piping Live! Festival (Scotland) and in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Romania, Switzerland and The Netherlands.
Ailis is in demand as a piping and whistle tutor at Fèis Bharraigh (Barra), Fèis Tìr a Eòrna (North Uist) and Fèis Rois (Ross-shire) as well as being one of the smallpipes tutors at Scots Music Group in Edinburgh. Since joining the National Piping Centre team in 2019, Ailis has taught on the Young Stars Schools, the Adult Gathering, Study Abroad programmes at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, the Oman Military and Police Force training courses as well as delivering general one-to-one and group lessons.
Finlay MacDonald
Finlay MacDonald has blazed a trail as one of the country's finest exponents of contemporary and traditional Piping. He has worked with many leading artists in the traditional music scene including Fred Morrison, The Unusual Suspects, La Banda Europa, Old Blind Dogs and Chris Stout. He combines the mastery and dedication of traditional Piping with a true sense of musical adventure and creative collaboration producing a unique musical voice which can be heard on numerous recordings and projects. His Compositions and arrangements have been played by many leading artists including The World Champions, Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band.
Always driven by collaboration and innovation, Finlay's passion for the music he has grown up with led him to the post of "Head of Piping Studies" at the National Piping Centre and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2020 he was appointed to the role of Director of Piping at The National Piping Centre where he continues to inspire and develop the very best of Piping talent.
"Finlay MacDonald has emerged as one of the leading lights in the current crop of young pipers with deep roots in the pipe band tradition, but grafted on to a distinctly contemporary musical sensibility to produce a compelling hybrid."
Kenny Matheison, The Scotsman
David Wilton
David Wilton started learning at the age of 6 under the instruction of P/M Willie Whyte in Montrose R.B.L. Pipe Band. He soon begun solo piping lessons with Walter Drysdale, competing successfully in the junior solos circuit until progressing into the senior level at 17. David has enjoyed solo success over the years; most recently winning the first Capt MacLellan Memorial Piobaireachd medal in the P/A grade; P/A Highland and Island Piobaireachd competition in Oban and the A Grade Rams Horn Snuff Mull Piobaireachd competition in London.
Previously he has placed 3 times in the silver medal at Oban and Inverness before moving up to the Gold medal. David has won the former winners March, Strathspey and Reel Competition at the Scottish Pipers Association competition and has won a prize on every occasion that he has been invited to the Uist and Barra competition as well as continuing to be a force on the Scottish Highland Games Circuit, winning many aggregate titles over the years.
David has a long running pipe band career playing with City of Brechin Pipe Band, Drambuie Kirkliston Pipe Band, The Clan Gregor Society Pipe Band and ScottishPower Pipe Band and Halifax Citadel Pipe Band. During his time he has been part of 2 World Championship winning bands and has 2 Champion of Champions titles amongst other titles. Currently, this is David's first year as Pipe Major of Grade 2 Lomond and Clyde Pipe Band.
As well as being one of Scotland's leading pipers, David has, in parallel with his piping career, enjoyed a successful Highland Dancing Career. He has 192 major championship titles including 7 World Championships, 10 Commonwealth, 13 British Championships and has won championships in Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand. David retired from dancing as the reigning World Champion and had only been beaten 3 times in his senior career, finishing 2nd each time. He is one of the most sought after dance pipers and lecturers in the field, regularly travelling the world imparting his knowledge of music and dance.
In 2011, David graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with 1st Class honours in Scottish Music – his principal study being the bagpipes with other studies in guitar, whistles and border pipes. During his time at the RSAMD he excelled in course modules such as techniques of teaching, which looked at teaching methods for all ages including children and adults with learning difficulties. As well as a full time instructor of the National Piping Centre, David assists in the co-ordination of CLASP competitions with Margaret Dunn and is on the Board for Piping and Drumming Qualifications.
Alisdair McLaren
Alisdair is from Perth, Western Australia. He began piping at Trinity College, Perth at the age of 13 where he also received tuition from local pipers June Corcoran, John MacMurchie and Malcolm Brown. In 1996 which was his final year of high school, he was promoted to Pipe Major of the Trinity College Pipes & Drums where he led the band to various juvenile championship wins in Western Australia. In the same year he was also a member of the Grade 3 Armadale City Pipe Band when they won the Australian & South Pacific Pipe Band Championships.
Alisdair joined Western Australia Police Pipe Band (WAPOL) in 1997 and was a part of a very successful period for the band winning the 1998 Grade 2 World Championships, 2001 Grade 1 American Championships and a 10th place at the 2004 World Championships Grade 1.
In 2005 whilst still living in Perth, Australia, Alisdair became the first fly in guest player for the world renowned Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, 12 times winners of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Associations World Pipe Band Championship. In 2006 Alisdair was appointed to the position of Pipe Major of the Western Australia Police Pipe Band which he held for 12 months before relocating to Glasgow in October 2007.
Alisdair is also an accomplished solo piper having won many prizes throughout Australia. At the end of 2008 he joined the ranks of the 11 time World Champions, Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band where he has won every Major title including the Scottish, British, European, Cowal, Ulster, All Ireland and World Pipe Band Championships. In 2011 and 2013 Alisdair was a part of the band that completed the "Grand Slam" winning all 5 major championships in one season including the World Pipe Band Championships.
In 2018 Alisdair was appointed Pipe Sergeant of the Glasgow Police Pipe Band where he is currently developing his skills as a leader of one of the UK's premier pipe bands.
Outside of the competition arena Alisdair is also the Pipe Major of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo's house pipe band, The Pipers Trail and has lead the band throughout the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in both 2017 and 2018. In 2017 he was very honoured to have been selected to perform as the lone piper for one of the shows. As a part of the Pipers Trail Alisdair has led the band at the Musikfest Der Bundaswehr, Dusseldorf, Germany 2017 & 2018 and also at the Norsk Militaer Tattoo, Oslo, Norway 2018.
Aside from piping Alisdair is a keen Triathlete having raced in many events throughout Western Australia and Scotland. Since 2014 Alisdair has completed the Ironman UK 70.3, Ironman Edinburgh 70.3, Ironman Wales, Ironman Western Australia and twice raced Challenge Roth in Germany. Recently, Alisdair completed Ironman Austria which took place in the beautiful town of Klagenfurt.
Margaret began learning the pipes at age 8 and was initially taught by her father Con Houlihan and Stephen Power (ex Scots Guards).
She moved to Scotland in 1998 to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama where she studied for 4 years and graduated with an Honours Degree in Scottish Traditional Music. While Margaret was at the Academy she joined the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band, under P/M Robert Mathieson, and with them won the World Pipe Band Championships in Grade 1 in 2000.
Margaret returned as Pipe Major of her local home band, Cullen, in 2006 and in 2007 the band won the World Pipe Band Championships in Grade 3B. The band progressed to grade 2, where they won the All Ireland Pipe Band Championships in 2013.
Margaret is a qualified examiner for the Piping and Drumming Qualifications Board exams (SQA approved) after passing the Institute of Piping Graduate Certificate with distinction in 2004.
Margaret has competed regularly around the Scottish Highland Games circuit and at the Argyllshire Gathering, London and the Northern Meetings. She has also competed in many knockout competitions through-out Scotland. Here are some of her prizes to date include:
1st MacGregor Memorial Piobaireachd (22 and under) Argyllshire Gathering 1999
1st B Grade March, Argyllshire Gathering 1999
1st Strachan Memorial A Grade March Strathspey & Reel, London 2000
1st Duncan Johnstone Memorial Piobaireachd 2001
1st A Grade Strathspey and Reel, Argyllshire Gathering 2003
Winner of the Silver Medal at the Northern Meetings 2007
1st A Grade March at the Argyllshire Gathering 2007
5th Former Winners MSR London 2007
5th Former Winners 2/4 March London 2007
Islay Inn Knockout Winner 2011
Piping for Pints Knockout, Aberdeen 2013
Scots Guards Club Knockout Winner 2014
Captain (Retired) Stuart D Samson MBE
Stuart Samson was born in Laurencekirk and has been playing the pipes since the age of 8. He enlisted into the Army in 1978, as a junior piper and joined the Drums and Pipes of The Gordon Highlanders in 1980. He was appointed Pipe Major of the Gordon Highlanders from 1990 – 1994 and then went on to carry out several Pipe Major appointments including the Pipe Major of the Highlanders and the Warrant Officer Class One Senior Pipe Major at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming.
He was commissioned in 2002 and was appointed the Director of the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming in April 2003. He was responsible for providing all the structured musical training for pipers and drummers in the British Army as well as advising the Higher Command and Commanding Officers regarding Pipe Band matters.
During this time he was also responsible as the Director of Army Bagpipe Music, for coordinating the musical programme and display for the Massed Pipes and Drums at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. He has considerable experience in this field having first performed in the Tattoo in 1979 and many times thereafter as a piper and Pipe Major.
Stuart has also been successful on the solo piping circuit over the years, winning the Silver Medal at the Argyllshire Gathering in 1988 and being placed second in the Gold Medal in both Inverness and Oban in 1995 and 1998 respectively, gaining an invitation to the Glenfiddich Championships in 1998.
Stuart completed his Army service in April 2008 having served 30 years and was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June of that year in recognition for services to Army Piping and a distinguished career. Stuart is currently a part time Instructor at the National Piping Centre teaching on the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland BA Scottish Music – Piping Degree. In addition to this Stuart is also the Director of Music for the Massed Pipes and Drums at the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland, which takes place annually in July.
Stuart Samson is not available for lessons and teaches only on the BMus Piping Degree.
Clare Lynas
Clare Lynas started piping at the age of seven in her local pipe band, Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia with PM Bob Martin. Throughout her piping career she has received tuition from Ian Speirs, Ian MacFadyen, Tom Speirs and most recently Roddy MacLeod MBE.
An experienced Grade 1 piper, Clare has played with ScottishPower, 78th Highlanders Halifax Citadel and is a current member of Lomond and Clyde pipe band.
Clare enjoyed a successful solo piping career in the junior circuit gaining entry in to the Silver Medal aged 18. She was a student of The National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music based in Plockton, after which she went on to complete an undergraduate degree in Classical Music at Edinburgh Napier University graduating with First Class Honours. Before starting at the National Piping Centre, she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Scottish Music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Her performance background includes piping at the opening of the Scottish Parliament, finale soloist at the Norwegian Military Tattoo and playing an own composition, commissioned by Alexander McCall Smith, at St. Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh University. Clare's vast experience ranges from solo piping, pipe bands and folk ensembles playing whistles, clarinet and piano.
Roddy MacLeod MBE
Roddy MacLeod MBE is the Principal of The National Piping Centre. One of the world's most accomplished competitive solo pipers, Roddy was tutored by piper and composer Duncan Johnstone and has won all of solo piping's most coveted awards, many of them several times over. He is in keen international demand as a recitalist, judge and instructor.
He was Pipe Major of the World renowned Grade 1 ScottishPower Pipe Band from 1995 – 2005 during which time he led them to over 45 Grade 1 Championship prizes in major competition including the Cowal Championships and the All-Ireland Championship. In 2008 he led the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band to the final of Grade 1 at the World Pipe Band Championships after bringing together a group of the worlds top solo pipers and drummers together for a short period of intensive practice. In 2016 the Spirit of Scotland reformed with Roddy at the helm once more, with lead drummer Jim Kilpatrick. They competed at all 5 major championships, winning prizes at British, UK and European Championships, and qualifed for the final of the World Pipe Band Championships, finishing 8th overall.
With a strong background in teaching, a dedication to the promotion of standards within piping and a zeal to widen popular appreciation of the pipes, he exemplifies the role, task and standing of The National Piping Centre. Roddy is also a Director and a Founder of Piping Live!, the Glasgow International Piping Festival.
Achievements Include:
Awarded MBE for Services to Piping 2003;
Winner of the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Music 2004;
Winner, Kishmul Banner composition competition;
Inducted into the Traditional Music Awards Hall of Fame 2012
Solo competition prizes include:
Glenfiddich Piping Championship, overall winner (5 times), MSR winner (twice), Piobaireachd winner (10 times);
Northern Meetings, Inverness – Highland Society of London Gold Medal, Bicentenary Gold Medal and Clasp (2), Former Winners MSR;
Argyllshire Gatherings, Oban – Highland Society of London Gold Medal, Senior Piobaireachd (2), Former Winners MSR (2), and Open Jigs;
Bratach Gorm (7 times);
Silver Chanter (7 times);
Gillies Cup Open Piobaireachd, London (9 times);
London Medallion Former Winners MSR (5 times);
Scottish Piping Society of London overall champion (7 times);
National Mod overall champion (5 times);
Uist and Barra overall winner (5 times);
Donald MacLeod Memorial Competition overall winner (3 times);
Springbank Invitational Overall Winner;
Dunvegan Medal;
Dunvegan Colonel Jock MacDonald Clasp (4 times);
Dr Allan MacDonald Cup for overall winner at Skye (3 times);
Highland Society of London Gold Medal, overall winner (Skye) (3 times);
Dr Dan Reid Invitational overall winner (3 times);
G.S McLennan Invitational overall winner;
Scottish Pipers Association overall winner (4 times);
Scottish Pipers Association Piping Times Knockout winner;
Highlands and Islands Festival Invitational Piobaireachd winner (4 times);
Clan Donald Quaich winner (twice);
Lochaber Tuagh Or Invitational Piobaireachd winner (3 times);
Haddo House Quaich Invitational winner;
Scotway Garden Festival 20th Century Piobaireachd winner;
Scotway Lord Provost of Glasgow's Competition MSR (3 times);
Recordings include:
World's Greatest Pipers, Volume 6;
Pipers of Distinction series (KRL);
Piping Centre Recital Series;
RSPS "The Last Piper";
Hebridean Piper video.
Roddy MacLeod MBE Piobaireachd Volume 1
Finlay Johnston
Finlay began learning the pipes at the age of 8 with his Grandfather, Alastair Sinclair, during a summer spent with him at his home on the Isle of Tiree. He began receiving lessons from Ronnie McShannon shortly afterwards and continued to do so since.
Finlay has been surrounded by piping his whole life. His mother, Anne Johnston (nee Sinclair) was a very successful solo piper, being the first woman to win the Silver Medal. His father (Tommy Johnston) was also a successful pipe band drummer and played under Leading Drummer Alex Duthart.
Finlay has played in several pipe bands over his career, most recently with Inveraray & District under Pipe Major Stuart Liddell during their rise from Grade 2 to the top end of Grade 1. He played in The Spirit of Scotland Pipe band under Pipe Major Roddy MacLeod.
In 2020 Finlay was appointed to the role of Head Piping Teacher at The National Piping Centre.
Prior to joining The National Piping Centre, he worked as a reed maker and is a time-served Mechanical Engineer.
Some of Finlay's main results include:
Glenfiddich Overall Winner 2018 & 2019
Donald MacLeod Memorial Overall Winner 2019
Uist and Barra Overall Winner 2019
Northern Meeting Clasp 2016
Northern Meeting Gold Medal 2015
Argyllshire Gathering Gold Medal 2012
Northern Meeting Silver medal 2006
John Mulhearn
John's piping career began in earnest at the age of nine, under the watchful eye of his father, Brian, and former double Gold Medallist and Pipe Sergeant of Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, Angus J. MacLellan. Alongside close attention to the technical intricacies of the chanter and pipes, a deep appreciation for the music and traditions was instilled at an early age. This rigorous grounding has gone on to influence what has become a wide and varied career as a professional piping teacher and performer.
As a teacher, John's first experiences were gained at Glasgow's College of Piping as an evening class and summer school instructor. This formative experience gave an early insight into the wide variety of ages, backgrounds and learning needs of piping students. Since 2008 John has been a full time member of the National Piping Centre's teaching faculty. The diversity of students attending individual lessons, courses, summer schools, workshops, seminars and online courses at the National Piping Centre, at home and abroad, has enabled John to develop a thoughtful, intuitive and responsive approach to teaching. Equally comfortable teaching the complete basics of holding the practice chanter, through to expressing the nuances of piping's classic repertoire, or mentoring pipers in search of a new approach to their playing, John's teaching style and experience caters for the individual needs of each student. In addition, as a holder of the Piping and Drumming Qualifications Board SCQF Level 8 certificate John is an approved examiner for all PDQB examinations. In 2020 he completed his Masters in piping studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was appointed the Head of Piping Studies, the BMus degree course in Traditional Music – Piping run by The National Piping Centre and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
As a performer and composer/arranger John's background is varied, showing an equally deep appreciation for the competitive traditions of solo piping and pipe bands as for more contemporary forms of expression. In terms of solo competition John has been a successful competitor on the annual highland games circuit from a young age, winning many awards over the years and in 2012 was runner-up in Highland Society of London's Gold Medal at the Argyllshire Gathering, one of solo piping's most prestigious competitions. Having been involved in a number of pipe bands since the age of twelve John is currently a member of the 'all-star' Grade 1 band Spirit of Scotland. It is in electronic music production that John has been able to stretch his creativity and find new avenues for exploring traditional music, with a number of critically acclaimed releases. John is also a founding member of The Big Music Society, a multifaceted project with the express aim of helping to foster new and creative approaches the piping's 'classical' tradition, Ceol Mor.
Wilson Brown
Wilson is originally from Crieff, Perthshire, where he started piping at the age of 8, taught by the late P/M John MacKenzie Dunblane. He received tuition from him for the next 28 years.
Wilson played for the local Strathearn Pipe Band in Grade 4, before joining the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band where he enjoyed success in Grade 2 and 3. Having joined Strathclyde Police in 1982, Wilson was a member of the police pipe band winning the Grade 1 World Championship on 5 occasions. He later became a member of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band.
Wilson was a police officer for 30 years before retiring from the force in 2012. He was a Chief Inspector and was the Area Commander responsible for delivering policing in East Ayrshire. One of the highlights of his career was as a member of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Bid Team where he was responsible for the security planning.
Wilson has a BA in Police Studies and a Post Graduate Diploma in International Event Management from Glasgow Caledonian University
In his solo career, Wilson won the Silver Medal, A Grade Strathspeys and Reels and the Gold Medal at the Northern Meetings. He retired from competitive piping in 1996 to focus on his police career. In 2016 he returned to the competition circuit where he competed in the Clasp at the Northern Meeting for the first time.
On retiring from the police, he worked as a part time instructor at the NPC teaching a range of students working towards SCQF qualifications.In 2016, he became a full time instructor, he holds a level 8 SCQF and is an approved assessor. He is a member of the PDQB and is the PDQB Training Co-ordinator for the NPC.
Dan Nevans
A native of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire in Scotland, Dan was first introduced to piping by his father John before receiving lessons from Bob McFie, Jim Semple, Logan Tannoch, Pipe Major James Wark, Donald MacPhee and William J Morrison.
Dan was one of the first members of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and holds an honours degree in Applied Music from The University of Strathclyde.
In September 2005 Dan joined then Robert Wiseman Dairies' Vale of Atholl Pipe Band and began his Grade One career. From 2010 to 2019, Dan was a member of Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band, winning the world pipe band championships in 2015. After a year as part of the management team at The Glasgow Police Pipe Band, Dan has taken a hiatus from pipe bands to concentrate on writing a book and recording original music for an album."
Ross Ainslie
Ross Ainslie is one of Scotland's finest traditional musicians and composers, playing pipes, whistles and cittern. He is renowned for his highly acclaimed solo material, and as a skilled performer and prolific collaborator who performs regularly with bands Treacherous Orchestra – of which he is a founding member – Salsa Celtica, Dougie Maclean, Ali Hutton, Jarlath Henderson, Charlie Mckerron, India Alba and has performed with Kate Rusby, Blue Rose Code, Zakir Hussain, Trilok Gurtu, Capercaillie, Shooglenifty, Carl Barat, Papon, Karsh Kale, Flook, Breabach, Soumik Datta, Tim Edey, Patsy Reid and Hamish Napier.
Born in Perthshire in 1983, Ross began his career as a member of the Perth and District Pipe Band, before joining the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band, where he was mentored by piper Gordon Duncan. Hugely influenced by Gordon's fearlessly innovative spirit and groundbreaking compositions, Ross began exploring his own abilities as a composer and writing his own tunes, and in 2002 he was a finalist in the prestigious BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year competition.
Ross has 3 solo albums to date Wide Open in 2013, Remembering in 2015 and Sanctuary in 2017, he is currently working on his 4th which is due out in spring 2020.
Prestigious industry recognition has come in the form of a multitude of awards,
Won Best Duo at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards with Ali Hutton in 2017 and Nominated for the same award in 2018.
Nomination for Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2013, 2016 and 2018.
Nomination for Best Duo at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards with Jarlath Henderson in 2014.
He's also received various awards at the Scots Trad Music Awards,
Nomination for Instrumentalist of the year in 2010.
Nomination for Live Act of the year with Jarlath Henderson in 2008 and with Treacherous Orchestra in 2009 and 2010.
Nomination for Album of the year in 2013.
Treacherous Orchestra won Album of the year in 2015
Ross was also Composer of the year in 2015.
His debut album 'Wide Open' was voted 9th out of 50 Top Scottish Albums of 2013 in the Sunday Herald.
Willie McCallum
Willie is a native of Campbeltown, where he learned piping primarily from his uncles Ronald and Hugh and P/M Ronald McCallum, Piper to the Duke of Argyll. His roots go right back to the early days of piping competition and his 4 times great grandfather, John MacAlister, won the Prize Pipe in 1782.
This season has seen Willie involved in the normal circuit of competition where he won some of the major events at the Metro Cup NY, Donald MacLeod Memorial, Springbank Invitational as well as major prizes at Inverness and Oban. His most recent success was winning the MSR contest at the Glenfiddich for the 8th time.
Some other notable career wins are the Gold Medals at Inverness and Oban, Senior Piobaireachd Oban (3), Bratach Gorm (4), Silver Chanter (3), Former Winners MSR Oban (5), Former Winners MSR Inverness (4), P/M Donald MacLeod Memorial (9), Springbank Invitational (9), Dan Reid Memorial (7), Donald MacDonald Quaich (3), Former Winners MSR London (5).
He runs his own piping business, Willie McCallum Piping, which involves teaching, as well as selling bagpipes, being consultant to bagpipe maker McCallum Bagpipes Ltd, in Kilmarnock and similarly involved at Bannatyne Ltd, Pipe Bag maker, working on developing bags and moisture control devices.
His teaching career started in the early 1990s and since then he has been involved in teaching several champion pipers who have won Silver Medals, Gold Medals, Former Winners MSR, Clasps and the Silver Chanter.
Willie lives in Bearsden with his wife Christine and has two children, Hailey and Scott.
Andrew began learning the pipes at the age of 9 under the instruction of Pipe Major Archie Campbell at Strathendrick Pipe Band. He also received tuition from Jim Semple and Jim Wark.
Andrew has played in several pipe bands over his career, Black Bottle – PM Don Bradford, Boghall & Bathgate – PM Craig Walker, Clan Gregor – PM David Methven (Grade 2 World Champions), the 52nd Lowland Regiment – PM Gordon Walker and most recently with Lomond & Clyde - PM David Wilton.
In 2008 Andrew was Pipe Major of Dunbarton and District Novice Juvenile Pipe Band winning the Cowal Championships and coming second in the World Championships, winning the piping.
Andrew is also a music instructor for Stirling Council.
Iain is originally from Carlisle, Cumbria and started piping at 12yrs old receiving tuition from his local pipe band.
He joined the Scots Guards in 1984 completing his training at the Guards Depot in Pirbright. During this time he was taught by PMaj's Dixie Ingram and Jimmy Banks at the Guards Depot Piping School where he completed his first Edinburgh Tattoo in 1985. Iain joined the 1st Battalion Scots Guards soon after and served with the Regiment for 26yrs, being posted in Pirbright, Germany (x2), Windsor, Edinburgh (x3), Wellington Bks in London, several tours of Northern Ireland and the Gulf War. He Served under PMaj's Rodgers, MacInnes, Webster, MacKinnon, Donaldson and Selwood. During this time Iain played for most members of the Royal Family, as well as Presidents and Heads of State of several countries. He passed his Army Pipe Majors Course at Edinburgh Castle under the direction of Maj Gavin Stoddart MBE, BEM and WO1 Bruce Hitchins BEM in 1997, and was appointed Pipe Major of the Regiment in 2006 after a year as Pipe Sgt at the ASBM & HD.
Iain had may highlights during his Army career playing in and leading the band during tours and Tattoos all around the world, competitions, concerts and many a Beating Retreat and Trooping the Colour.
After leaving the Army in 2010, Iain worked for five years with CVQO an education charity delivering and assessing BTEC Music Diplomas. During this time he also became a volunteer with the Army Cadet Force and took a role as a PMaj Advisor for the Tri Service Cadet Force Pipes and Drums. In 2014 he took over the position as Chief Instructor/Training Officer, and was promoted to Captain in December of that year. This is a role that he continues in today.
Iain is a qualified PDQB Assessor up to Level 8, and holds the PDQB Tutor and Teaching Certificates. He currently sits on the PDQB board, and is the PMaj of the Scots Guards Association Pipes & Drums (Scotland).
Willie Morrison was born and brought up in Locheynart, South Uist, and learned his piping from his grandfather, Donald John Morrison.
At the age of 22, Willie left South Uist where he was a crofter/fisherman to move to Ayrshire where he found work in the Johnny Walker Whisky Distillery and became a member of their famous pipe band. At this time Willie traveled extensively as a representative piper for the company.
As well as being a prolific composer, Willie has excelled in the competition area, winning many prizes including: Former Winners March, Strathspey and Reel at the Argyllshire gathering, March Strathspey & Reel at the Glenfiddich Champioships, Strathspey & Reels, Jigs and Silver Medal at the Northern Meetings and The Piping Times Knockout Competition
Connor Sinclair is a piper from Crieff, Perthshire.
He started learning the Bagpipes from the age of 5, which led to an incredibly successful and varied piping career. An accomplished solo piper, Connor has won many prizes – including the Gold medal at the Northern meeting and winning the MSR at the Glenfiddich in 2019. Connor has also won the World Pipe Band Championships twice as a member of the Grade 1 Field Marshall Montgomery Pipe Band, in both 2014 and 2016.
Having graduated with a degree in Scottish Traditional Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Connor focused on bagpipes, whistle and flute, although he also enjoys playing the guitar and mandolin.
Connor's musical influences are hugely varied and come from being immersed in Scottish music, culture, and history
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State 37: New Mexico (2014 Shiprock Marathon)
"It's really masochistic if you think about it," I told my friend Ryan as we sat in the finisher's tent, downing bottles of water and chocolate milk. "They load you up in a bus, haul you thirteen or twenty-six miles into the middle of the desert, drop you off and say, 'Alright, you're completely on your own now. Run.'"
In any big city race, there's a "loop" of sorts that we're expected to traverse, which gives us the illusion that we're sightseeing but with an elevated heart rate. Or we can trick ourselves into thinking we're participating in an extreme scavenger hunt. But when you're driving the very course you're expected to run, it can feel a little defeating. It's so remarkably easy to sit on a school bus for about thirty minutes. But knowing that returning on your own two feet will leave you ragged and gasping for air can feel like a kick in the gut.
If we're expected to run over five miles, then why did god invent cars?
2014 Shiprock Marathon Google Earth Rendering
Flag Song
But there I was, just a rattlesnake strike away from the Arizonan border, staring straight into the sun as it rose above the 2014 Shiprock Marathon. A crowd of two or three hundred other runners were shuffling excitedly for the race, every one of them grateful for the lack of sandstorms that had besieged New Mexico all week. A cloudless sky had welcomed us, along with a slight breeze from the northeast that got me well acquainted with the bone dry air of the high desert.
The non-profit NavajoYES organized the race, now in its thirty-first year. Instead of the national anthem, we were treated to a flag song, performed by a local drum group. Six men huddled around a large rawhide drum and began chanting to a tribal rhythm, their voices echoing harmoniously. The announcer rattled off a list of states near and far to a few hoots and hollers from the crowd, far from the louder calls he received when he began listing the different Native American tribes participating.
I started the race with a Canadian teacher and Marathon Maniac named Marc, whom I met on the flight to Albuquerque the day before. Affectionately known as "Mr. T" by his students, he was on the final stretch of his 50-states marathon quest, which will end in June with Grandma's. The first two miles were a gentle uphill, which we ran modestly, as if paying respect to the distance before sparring with it. I could feel the thinness of the air in my nostrils, a familiar sensation from my trips to Colorado. I was unsure how the race would play out at this point, but I was increasingly thinking it would be a slow day.
The start is a gentle, yet consistent uphill.
Once past the starting line, the race was quiet. The only sounds came from labored breathing, feet upon the pavement and occasional chit-chat. In that opening mile, an older runner plugged a nostril and sneezed out a thin mist, as if evaporation were irresistible in the high desert even to snot.
The first five kilometers were mostly uphill, culminating at 6,103 feet, the race's highest point. I still felt completely dry, having used these opening miles to warm up and get acquainted with the air. But once at the top, it was time to scream downhill, with no time to issue apologies to everyone who got fleeting glimpses of my soles.
The road pulled me downward, each foot behaving on its own, spinning relentlessly at a pace I reserve for much shorter races. One by one I sped past runners, wondering if I would see them later, heaving by the roadside, cursing my naïve exuberance. But I couldn't help it. I was feeling powerful and confident. I had not forgotten that the marathon has taught me time and time again one of its harshest lessons: reel it in at the beginning and save that boiling energy for the end.
Most of the race looked like this.
But with downhills, all bets are off. I can't help but banish the worrisome auditors that run pace calculations in my ear every two minutes. That voice that tells me to take it easy and play it safe becomes too faint over the roaring flood of adrenaline. I am all but forced to embrace the runner's id, the childlike freedom to run forever, unencumbered by the silly notion of conservation.
In times like these, I just want to fly.
During this flight, I could see for miles. The road shot out ahead of us, thinning until it became a gossamer thread that spilled over the horizon. There was nothing to distract us from forward movement, which given the endless desert ahead, seemed like a joke. It sometimes felt like running on a giant treadmill and we weren't going anywhere. Nothing changed except the people around me.
But I loved every second of it. This was an exercise in running, pure and simple. If you didn't like the activity itself, free from the polished sheen of flashy races, this wasn't your event. There were no changes in scenery to draw your attention away from the punishing distance, no turns to hide the many miles to come, and no monuments to admire as we crossed them off … with one very impressive exception.
I love this picture.
The race itself is named after a giant rock formation that juts out of northwest New Mexico like a castle. Where many mountains in the area are either rounded out or completely flat, Shiprock rises like a cluster of sharp spires. Its silhouette against the morning sun gives it the appearance of a villainous lair built thousands of years ago by a civilization forgotten by time. Given how haunting it looks, standing alone in the middle of a flat expanse, it didn't surprise me to learn that it holds a very special place in the customs and folklore of the Navajo.
For most of the race, Shiprock kept gaze over us. No matter how many miles we would run, it was always off in the distance, permanent, unfeeling.
I reached the halfway mark, where about fifteen minutes earlier, the half marathoners had begun their own journey to the finish line. Ryan was part of that pack, running his first ever half marathon. I was hoping that he would enjoy it, especially since this race would challenge him in many unique ways that he couldn't anticipate during training.
I kept hammering out the miles, invigorated by every downhill. It wasn't long before I felt like I was running alone. With every mile marker, the trappings of the organized race disappeared, leaving the runner bare to run, pure and simple. I started noticing that uphills were somehow capitulating to my momentum. I was breathing easily, my teeth weren't clenching and I had no curses to spit into the air. As I approached the back of the half marathoners, my heat-seeking straight line path became a bit more serpentine and it felt, once again, like a race.
If you zoom in, you can see the half marathon crowd about a mile ahead
Now with a crowd of people, I kept the relentless progress through the unchanging world. The desert remained ahead, infinitely revealing, with no end in sight. Every few miles I would sneak a glance at my watch and realize how close I was to running a PR pace.
What is happening? I asked myself. How is this pace possible? Is the downhill enough to overcome the thin air? Is 5,500 feet even considered altitude? How is it not even warm yet?
And yet, despite the confident pace and joyous stroll through the ancient plains, not all was well. Right at mile 19, I felt an awkward shift in my right foot, as if all the skin on the outside had separated from my flesh. I hadn't developed a serious blister in a long time, but I felt that streak end in one chilling step. Downhill running is a double-edged sword, and after wielding it with gusto for two-thirds of the race, I was beginning to notice the cuts on my skin.
Ryan 10/13 of the way through his debut half marathon
A mile later, we made the first turn of the entire race. The dedicated two-lane road we had been navigating for the last 20 miles stopped when it reached 491. We would run north for the last six miles, heading toward the town of Shiprock. Up ahead I spotted a runner with a bright, neon tech shirt and a white hat. I caught up to him and confirmed that it was Ryan, looking strong and smiling.
But I couldn't say the same for myself.
The altitude and hard effort had taken their toll and my body had started to rebel. Miles 22 through 24 were almost completely flat, which meant that I had to run harder to keep the same pace. Right on cue, my calves began to falter, and every step sent a buzzing current into my legs as if the road were suddenly electrified. Each one was closer to delivering an unwanted and untimely cramp, so I had to stop and walk, the ghost of my PR floating toward the finish line.
Airborne during the final dash to the finish
The rest of the race was the familiar pattern of grunt and breathe. I would run as fast as I could to the next aid station, drink and douse myself in water, and continue to the next one. It was finally starting to feel warm and the cold water absorbing in my tech shirt was heavenly. Though it was no longer muscular and dominant, the engine was still working and I kept a strong pace through those last miles.
We returned to Shiprock High School, where the buses had boarded four hours earlier. We left the road and entered a dry, dirt field, just a zig and a zag away from the cheers of the finish line. It was the first crowd of spectators we had seen all day and they were generous with their support. I passed under the timing sensors and stopped my watch at 3 hours, 28 minutes, having finished my twenty-second marathon in the sacred grounds of the Navajo.
Never would have guessed that time, I thought, clenching a proud fist.
Ryan finished just a few minutes behind me, ending his first half marathon just shy of two hours. When I first saw him, he mentioned something like "every part of me wants to die right now," but his smile betrayed the morbid sentiment. Most people aim for a local, flat race to test out their mettle. But circumstances made it so he would face the distance at altitude, on a downhill course in the middle of the desert with skin-flaking dry air.
(left to right) Ryan's sinuses acting up, Tom, me, Shiprock … and this picture makes it painfully apparent how short my shorts are.
All things considered, it was a great day for both of us.
That is, until we spent the remainder of the day trying to get out of the bottlenecked parking lot. The organizers may have done a great job with everything else, but if you're thinking of running the Shiprock Marathon in 2015, make sure they've addressed the post-race parking exodus, because it felt like being in the music video for "Everybody Hurts" but with legs on the verge of seizure.
Once back in Albuquerque, we got together with Amy and Aaron of Lavender Parking Running Fame at Il Vicino Brewing Company. We shared dinner and a few drinks with them and our college friend Tom, who graciously hosted us for the weekend, before moving to La Cumbre Brewing Company. Much to my delight they had also brought Giuseppe, their snow-white Westie, who often makes cameos in her race stories. During the course of the evening, I learned that they had hired the same photographer who worked my wedding, and that Aaron's parents live two houses down from Tom.
But more importantly, I learned that there's something special about running bloggers. Whatever chemical reaction that causes people to run and write about it also produces the most welcoming and caring people. It's an infinitely complicated route that has led me to this sport, but if I continue meeting such wonderful people, then I will gladly tread that same path for many years to come.
(left to right): Aaron, Ryan, me, Tom, Amy
As midnight approached, the day had already caught up to us. We had gotten up at 4 AM, throttled our legs, dehydrated ourselves and sat in a car blaring 90's hits for three hours. We said our goodbyes and drove back to Tom's where we all fell instantly asleep. At the moment, I am doing whatever it takes to make sure this massive blister heals before the 39.3 race miles I've committed to running this weekend. If the hot and humid forecast holds up, then I'm staring down another intense challenge.
Maybe we are masochists.
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The role of Martyna comes from her experiences as storyteller and leader of social initiatives, as well as form activities at the crossroads of sectors and cultures. Martyna graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Poznan University of Economics with a degree in Social Politics and also studied 5 years of psychology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.


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"On the fly" means in haste and without advance preparation. "I don't have time to cook a big breakfast in the morning, so I just grab something on the fly that I can eat in the car."
"On the fence" means undecided, having no definite opinion.
"Have you decided whether you're going to study law or medicine when you go to college?"
"Not yet, I'm still on the fence."
to sit on the fence means to refrain from commiting oneself to either side in a discussion.


Citibank India offers banking solutions for various type of clients customized to their needs – retail customers, corporate customers, high net worth individuals and Non-Resident Indians. All these customers can access their account online using Citibank Internet Banking solutions.
Citibank customers with net relationship value of Rs. 5 crores or more are considered Citigold private client and offered most premium banking experience. The services offered are – personalized attention from a senior banker, access to sophisticated Investment, Trade, Forex and Lending solutions from Citibank, convenient access to investment opportunities abroad, unlimited access to international airport lounges and signature golfing and travel privileges. This bank also provides Citibank Mobile App in android,windows and ios versions.
Non-resident Indians who are looking to transfer money to India, they need to open Citibank Rupee checking account. Customers who have Citibank Account in their country of residence can use Citibank global transfers option to transfer money quickly. International wire transfer option can be used to transfer a large amount of funds and want the funds to be available for use immediately after the transfer. US based customers with an account in any of the local banks participating in ACH (Automated clearing house system), can use Automated Clearing House facility to transfer the funds to their Citibank Rupee checking account. Customers availing ACH option can transfer up to 30,000 US dollars per day and can get the exact rupee amount that will be transferred before making the transfer. If you are looking for loans at low interest rates then Citibank Loans offers all type of loans at low interest.
What are the charges associated with Citigold private account?
Is there a daily limit on the amount can be transferred by NRIs to their Rupee checking account?
Citibank India has placed a daily limit of Rs. 30 lakhs per day for the Citibank Global Transfers from other overseas Citibank Accounts. There is a limit of 5 transfers per day and 15 transfers per month for Incoming transfers.


The committee investigating Russian interference wants Assange to testify.
Assange's lawyers said they are "considering the offer but testimony must conform to a high ethical standard," according to Wikileaks.
(Neil Hall/Reuters/FILE) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Britain, May 19, 2017.


With all that comes with planning a house move, we are SO ready for a holiday. After initially thinking that we should head overseas for some sun, the thought of researching holiday destinations on top of all we are doing to furnish a new house seemed a step too far (and researching holidays is one of my favourite things to do, so you can tell I have reached my limit of things to organise!). We decided to have a proper chilled out break in the Scottish homeland. I'm calling this our 'triple A' holiday as our aim is to have a total recharge of batteries!
First off we're heading to Aberdeen for a few nights. Our hotel has a pool and is near to Hazelhead Park, and is a good walk to the centre of the Granite city. We're planning to head to the Belmont Filmhouse for some cinema action, maybe even do a little Christmas shopping while we have access to the big chains, and I've been populating a little list of foodie stops that are rated highly by locals (although, I must also factor in a trip to Foodstory – one of my absolute faves!
Next up on the triple A itinerary, we have booked a cute little distillery cottage near to Aberlour, in the heart of Speyside, complete with log burner, and comfy leather sofas to curl up on with our books and DVDs during the autumnal chilly evenings. We're right on the doorstep of the Speyside Way and a short drive away from the coast, so some walking is definitely on the cards, as well as possibly a round of golf and a Glenfiddich distillery tour for Mr B.I'm hoping to get some great shots of the autumn leaves, they were wonderful last year.
Last year I took the fantastic Caorunn Distillery tour (which a couple of weeks ago won Scottish Gin Destination of the year at the Scottish Gin awards) so maybe I might just take another trip over over to their bothy gift shop! Read my post on the Caorunn Distillery Tour here.
We'll mostly be doing self catering during this week – buying locally in Aberlour, but one place we will definitely be heading to for my belated birthday meal is the Copper Dog Pub in Craigellachie. They source all their key ingredients within a 50 mile radius, ensuring excellent farm to fork freshness. From looking at their Instagram I'm anticipating a good meal there, especially if we walk the full 6 miles there from our cottage to work up an appetite. I think we'll also both be happy with selecting a drink or two from their well stocked bar!
The last leg of our 'triple A' holiday is a very familiar destination to us – we're heading to Aviemore for North Hop! I have already produced an insiders guide to making a weekend of it (just click on the image below) and we've got a couple of days afterwards to enjoy the MacDonald resort facilities. We may even treat ourselves to a beauty treatment on site to bring the holiday to a relaxing close.
Keep an eye on my Instagram for #TripleAScot pics, and let me know any recommendations I may have missed!


Trekking in the jungle can be intimidating. It is a place full of scary animals and creepy crawlies yet offering a bounty of amazing adventures. It is important to pack the right items when planning to trek any jungle. Here are some of the highly recommended items to pack when jungle trekking.
Expect do face some rather challenging damp and wet condition when trekking the jungle, more so because most of the jungles are rainforests. Thus, you should dress appropriately. Consider packing clothes that dry quickly and some that are water-resistant. The material should be sturdy enough to withstand tears as you find your way through the thick vegetation and offer enough protection against insects such as mosquitoes. Pack a breathable coat, a quick drying t-shirt and sweater, and water-resistant trousers.
You will be trekking, and that means doing lots of walking in some rather unforgiving conditions. You need footwear that is comfortable and able to offer adequate support and traction. The Therefore, you need proper jungle boots; a sturdy pair that is not too heavy. Standard hiking boot may suffice but consider the conditions of the forest you will trek.
You will need something better is you are going into an environment where you will frequently wade through muddy terrain and rivers. The military type of boots is an excellent choice. The boots are water-resistant, breathable, and have soles that prevent the mud from clogging thus providing a firm traction. Pick footwear made from sturdy canvas or leather. Remember to wear quality socks that dry quickly and has excellent water resistance to avoid keeping your feet in wet condition while in shoes.
The jungle is a place with thick vegetation and poor visibility and access. As such, it is important to pack the right gear that will make the trek less of a drudgery. You will thus have to pack a compass, camping knife, pocket knife, and a Massenet in case you have to slash your way through thick vegetation in the forest. You will also need to pack a first aid kit, some matches, ant-itch cream, insect repellent, water bottle, and some medications such as aspirin and antibiotics.
Remember to pack all your items in dry bags sealing these completely and place them in a waterproof trekking backpack. The aim is to keep water out even when you have to cross deep rivers all keep trekking even in very rainy conditions.
Are you looking forward to that planned adventure trip? Well, here are nine tips worth considering that will make your adventure travel easy, fun, and exciting.
Start your travels plan early, and you increase the chances of getting the best deals and prices. Decide on what type of trip you would like, jungle trekking, water adventures, camping trips or a remote hotel location. Doing this also ensures that you have a well thought out plan of the various activities you will engage in while at your destination of choice. Book your transportation modalities and accommodations in advance.
Ensure your visa and passports are current to avoid getting turned back at the airport because your documents are expired. Have your passport valid for at least six months before the date of departure. Also, make copies of your travel documents, and carry the copies separately from the originals.
Always have enough cash for the various small expenses you will have to pay for out of pocket. Do your best to have the local currency used in the destination country. However, consider using your credit card to handle the big expenses. Have a MasterCard or Visa, the former being most preferable. Also, know your credit card company's contacts just in case you lose your card while travelling.
You would not want to get blisters and tears, and you were sure that you bought the perfect pair of hiking boots. Give those new shoes a good breaking in and get your feet accustomed to them in readiness for the trip.
You cannot foretell what will happen during your trip, and it thus is prudent to consider taking measures that will secure your money, health, and properties. Getting travel insurance will be a brilliant idea.
Less is more when travelling more so because you want an easy time moving around as you enjoy the sights and sounds during your vacation. Having a packing list will help you pick all the things you need and that suit the requirements of your travels.
A travel journal is will not only serve as a keepsake for your adventures but will be a personal story, a reminder of all the thrills and excitement the trip gave you. You can also share the journal with your friends and help them identify different adventures that are worth experience in their next travels.
The change in geographical location, as well as that which occurs when travelling especially by air, can make you feel a bit off-the-weather. So, be ready to experience a bit of nausea, headache, and malaise. But, you can counter these feeling using some altitude sickness medication such as Diamox. Carry enough medications more so if you have allergies. Know the vaccinations required or recommended in visiting a particular destination. Have a medical kit with some medication, bandages, antiseptic, and other first-aid gear. Remember to carry some sunscreen if your adventures take you to a sunny destination.
Do not forget to carry other helpful items such as earplugs, pocket knife, flashlight, wipes, water bottles, and zip-lock baggies to take various delicate items such as cameras, phones, and flashlights. Have a waterproof bag to carry wet clothing separately from the dry ones.
All in all, going for adventures can be a life-changing experience, especially when visiting new locations. However, it is imperative that you be flexible and ready to expect the unexpected. The unexpected will often be a source of some of the best stories to tell or note in your journal and thus the need to have an open mind if you are to enjoy the adventure of travel fully. Flexibility is the key; be flexible, and you will be one happy traveller. Keep the above adventure travel tips in mind when planning for your next travels, and you will have the best of time, and you enjoy new experiences.


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Blackhawks Cap-pocalypse!
The Blackhawks sign their three stars, but what happens to the rest?
By Eamonn Brennan	• Published at 2:04 pm on November 17, 2009
On Tuesday, the Blackhawks were very close to signing their big three young stars to new contracts.
This is, to say the least, a surprise.
The mysteries abound: Why would Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith all agree to sign contracts that will keep all of them under the salary cap, a feat most thought impossible after the Blackhawks signed forward Marian Hossa in the offseason?
What will they each be paid? How did Blackhawks GM Scotty Bowman manage to pull this off?
The details of the deals are yet to be revealed. But if the reports are true, this means two things: The Blackhawks are good at business, and they won't have money to spend on players for about a decade.
See, the Hawks have built such momentum around their young stars, especially Toews and Kane, that it would have been foolish to let one of them go by the wayside. That sounds like a move the old Bill Wirtz-run Blackhawks might have made. No, the new Hawks are crowd-pleasers, and their crowds want to see Toews and Kane skate together for a long, long time.
Doing so is a wise business decision, but it's a little sketchier when it comes to the hockey. The Hawks are already committed to $43 million in salary for 2010-11, and the salary cap will likely hover at around $55 million. Add new salaries for the three players and you've got a sticky situation. Someone's going to have to go.
The same goes for the years that follow. What kind of depth will the Hawks have if all their salary is tied up in contracts for five or six players? Does Bowman have the chops to field a shoestring team good enough to win a Stanley Cup?
These are the questions Hawks fans have to ask themselves.
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Staunton, August 8 – "No state or regime goes to war firmly convinced that it will lose it," Andrey Piontkovsky says, and Vladimir Putin is no exception: if he goes to war with NATO and even if he escalates that conflict by using nuclear weapons, he will be acting on the basis of a belief that he can win it.
That belief, the Russian commentator says, is based on Putin's assumption that the logic of mutually assured destruction (MAD) which prevented a major war between Russia and the West has broken down because of divisions within the West about how to respond to Russian use of a limited nuclear strike.
According to the commentator, "even the most modest practical realization of [Putin's] idea of 'assembling the Russian lands' requires changes of state borders at least of two NATO member countries, Latvia and Estonia." Because of the Western alliance's Article 5 in which an attack on one is an attack on all, that would seem impossible given MAD.
Under those circumstances, Putin clearly assumes, many in the US would oppose responding. "All progressive and even all reactionary American society" would shout "'We do not want to die for f****** Narva, Mr. President!'" And 70 percent of Germans would insist on neutrality.
Putin therefore is "convinced that he can outplay [Western countries and leaders] in potential military conflicts which will arise on the path to the realization of the great idea of the Russian World despite the fact that Russia" is much weaker in conventional arms than NATO and does not have an advantage over the US in nuclear ones.
Indeed, Piontkovsky says, there is evidence that it already has. It was no accident that the first response of US President Obama and NATO Secretary General Rasmussen to the Ukrainian crisis were "declarations that military intervention by the US and NATO were categorically excluded since Ukraine is not a member" of the Western alliance.


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New Yorker journalist Hendrik Hertzberg asks about 'military coup' against Trump, claims he was sarcastic
Liberal journalist Hendrik Hertzberg courted controversy Sunday by bashing President Trump and openly questioning in a tweet: "Time for a military coup?"
After a request for comment, the left-wing New Yorker magazine reporter weakly attempted to defend himself in a tweet, claiming he was being "sarcastic."
Hertzberg, a longtime political commentator and staff writer at the New Yorker, was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and later served as then-President Jimmy Carter's chief White House speechwriter.
Over three hours after his initial tweet made waves, Hertzberg followed up by tweeting: "As somebody or other once said, I was being … sarcastic." That was a reference to a Trump remark from last week; the president said he "was asking a question sarcastically" to coronavirus experts at the White House about using disinfectant "by injection inside or almost a cleaning." Many of the president's critics said they didn't buy his explanation.
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The White House has been planning to shift Trump's public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Days after he publicly mused that scientists should explore the injection of toxic disinfectants as a potential virus cure, Trump has now rejected the utility of his daily task force briefings, where he has created friction with scientific experts. Trump's aides have been aiming to move the president onto more familiar ground: talking up the economy, in tighter controlled settings.
Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker courted controversy with a tweet about President Trump. (Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images, File)
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George Gipp played at the University of Notre Dame (1917–20) and became a school legend.
Gipp entered Notre Dame on a baseball scholarship, but he was recruited for football by the coach Knute Rockne, who saw Gipp drop-kicking and passing a football on a field adjacent to the practice field. Gipp played 32 consecutive games for Notre Dame and scored 83 touchdowns. In one 1917 game he was apparently going to punt but instead drop-kicked a 62-yard field goal. Gipp was named captain of the team for 1920, but he was expelled from the university for missing too many classes and frequenting off-limits establishments. He was an assistant to Rockne before being reinstated as a student. In his last season he enjoyed one of his greatest performances, gaining a total of 324 yards and leading Notre Dame, down 14–7 at halftime, to a 27–17 victory over Army. Later that season he fell ill and eventually developed the pneumonia from which he died. Two weeks prior to his death, he became Notre Dame's first All-American.
At halftime during a scoreless game with Army in 1928, Rockne asked the team to "win one for the Gipper," keeping a promise that he said he had made to Gipp on his deathbed. It is unlikely that Gipp ever made such a request, but the story reinforced the Gipp legend. (Notre Dame rallied to beat Army 12–6 that year.) The legend was further burnished when Ronald Reagan (the future U.S. president) played the role of Gipp in the film Knute Rockne—All American (1940).
Arda C. Bowser was one of the pioneers of professional football. He was a member of the 1922 Canton Bulldogs — the National Football League's first championship team.
Bowser, a left-footed punter, kicker, linebacker and fullback, went kick for kick in exhibitions with the legendary Jim Thorpe. He was the first NFL player to use tees — his were made from mud — and a reinforced-toe kicking shoe.
A longtime general insurance agent in Chicago, Bowser retired in 1948 and moved to the shores of Lake Fredrica in Orlando. There, he tended orange groves and played golf whenever possible. Bowser died at the age of 97 in 1996.
In 1922, Arda Bowser made $250 a game.
Bowser played only four years in the pros because his full-time employer, White Motor Co., made him quit. He was an All-American player in college and a member of the Bucknell University Football Hall of Fame.
Historians of the game say Bowser's mud tees that he first used at Bucknell led to today's kicking tee.
"We had the freshmen carry a washtub of mud on the sidelines, and when I needed some for a place kick, I ran over and got a fistful of it to make a tee," Bowser said.
The 1922 Canton Bulldogs won the first NFL championship with a 10-0-2 record. Bowser scored two touchdowns and returned a kickoff 90 yards to lead a 38-0 rout of the Louisville Brecks.
Bowser had replaced Thorpe on the Canton team after Thorpe left to form the Oorang Indians of Marion, Ohio.
Bowser said he once played four pro football games in four days.


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PFR Home Page > Boxscores > Buffalo Bills at Philadelphia Eagles - December 27th, 1987
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1987 NFL Scores & Schedule
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Buffalo Bills at Philadelphia Eagles - December 27th, 1987
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Coach: Buddy Ryan
Coach: Marv Levy
Sunday Dec 27, 1987
Start Time: 1:00pm
Stadium: Veterans Stadium
Buffalo Bills 0 0 0 7 7
Philadelphia Eagles 0 10 7 0 17
Eagles Paul McFadden 39 yard field goal 0 3
Eagles Anthony Toney 18 yard pass from Randall Cunningham (Paul McFadden kick) 0 10
Eagles Anthony Toney 2 yard rush (Paul McFadden kick) 0 17
Bills Andre Reed 4 yard pass from Jim Kelly (Scott Norwood kick) 7 17
Passing, Rushing, & Receiving Table
BUF 20 39 154 1 2 2 20 22 48.5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jamie Mueller
BUF 0 0 0 0 0 7 33 0 10 0 0 0
Ronnie Harmon
BUF 0 0 0 0 0 4 15 0 6 9 35 0 7
Ricky Porter
BUF 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 0 5 0 0 0
Chris Burkett
BUF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 50 0 22
Andre Reed
Walter Broughton
BUF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 23 0 0
PHI 16 21 177 1 1 5 43 30 96.7 10 46 0 23 0 0 0
Anthony Toney
PHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 48 1 10 5 46 1 18
Cris Carter
PHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 10
Keith Byars
PHI 0 0 0 0 0 23 102 0 22 2 37 0 30
Kenny Jackson
PHI 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 0 6 1 26 0 26
Michael Haddix
PHI 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 3 0 0 0
John Spagnola
PHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 24 0 10
Mike Quick
Gregg Garrity
Junior Tautalatasi
Bills Starters
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A few months ago we had a new Miller and Carter turn up in Coventry. It has taken me a while to go and try it but as soon as I found out there was Gluten Free options, I booked a table and we went.
We arrived for our table and were seated very quickly in a cute little booth right by where the chefs prepare the food. I always like that because you can keep an eye on how fresh the food is.
I asked for an allergen menu and th waitress bought the standard folder with the different sections and tables showing what's in everything. (We've all been there) As soon as I picked it up the manager came over and asked me if I needed any help, what I was looking at having, and how I can adjust the meals to make them Gluten and Dairy free. She was so helpful and I was really happy with her advice.
I ordered myself a Prawn Cocktail to start, which came fairly quickly and was so fresh!
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The steak came out and it was honestly the best steak I've ever eaten!! I had a Rumo Steak cooked medium with sweet potato fries. The steak was cooked to perfection and the sweet potato fries were so crispy, yet so flavoursome. I was impressed that all of the fries are Gluten free because they are cooked in separate fryers and are coated in rice flour.
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