Alexander Valley runs from the border with Mendocino County in the north to the south east side of Healdsburg. It contains over 40 wineries and several hundred vineyards with nearly 12,500 acres planted. The vineyards are planted on both sides of the Russian River and extend into the hills on the east side of the valley. Primary varietals are Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel and Chardonnay.
Real estate in the Cloverdale and Geyserville area is often a relative bargain compared to equivalent property immediately around Healdsburg. Smart buyers can save significant amounts on their purchase if they don't mind a slightly longer commute and slightly warmer weather. Cloverdale, at the northern end of Sonoma County, does enjoy less fog and more summer heat than Healdsburg and other areas closer to the Russian River valley.
The geography of the Alexander Valley and the layout of the roads explains some of the real estate pricing variability. There is a summer crossing of the Russian River that is highly convenient in the summer for quick access to Highway 101 and Healdsburg. On the other hand, in that area during most of the year you have to drive north on River Road and then south on Highway 101. This adds at least fifteen minutes for trips south in the winter for people living near the southern end of Cloverdale's River Road.
In Geyserville, the north bound River Road ends at the Vineyards, a lovely development with a lake and miles of riding and hiking trails. There is no need to "detour" to get to Healdsburg, so the end of River Road doesn't have a major impact on travel time. The dead end also reduces traffic impact on all the property in the area. The vineyards and homes along River Road here are closer to Healdsburg pricing due to the ease of access to Healdsburg.
The section of Alexander Valley along Highway 128 from Geyserville to the beginning of the Knight's Valley appellation is dense with vineyards and wineries. Home values are higher here due to proximity to Healdsburg. Many of the wineries in this section of the Alexander Valley produce superb, award-winning wines, so the vineyard values reflect the underlying quality of the wines that can be produced. There are quite a few lovely back roads in this area.
Sonoma County continues to be a favorite destination of smart buyers willing to pay a premium price for the wine country lifestyle. Many are successful and financially prudent (missed the bubble) Bay Area residents looking for second homes that will turn into their primary residence when they retire. Other highly-qualified buyers are looking for an additional residence or vineyard to add to their real estate portfolio for long term appreciation.
Two areas in particular are hot spots for premier property selling for over a million dollars. The greater Sonoma area, including Glen Ellen, accounted for over 80 sales in that price range last year. This area is especially attractive to buyers who are still working in San Francisco and appreciate the shorter commute from Sonoma.
An important factor to keep in mind as you look at Sonoma luxury listings on the properties linked below is that in this context luxury refers to selling price, not home quality. In many of the listings, the house may be an insignificant part of the overall value of the property, particularly on the large acreage and vineyard parcels. In addition, with the older housing stock typical of Sonoma and Healdsburg, even well built homes that were considered to be outstanding in their early years may have fallen on hard times due to deferred maintenance or simply failure to upgrade.
The most elusive property on the Sonoma County market today is a luxury contemporary home. There aren't very many of them around to begin with, let alone as active listings. The few that have been on the market with fair pricing have been quickly scooped up by buyers represented by savvy agents. In the most dramatic example of that, a Healdsburg house listed at over $6,000,000 sold the first day it was on the market last year.
The shortage of wonderful, authentic luxury homes may soon lead to an increased demand for buildable parcels as buyers decide the best way to get a great home is to build your own. Here's an estate grade parcel in Healdsburg. Here's a 201 acre parcel that would fit five homes for an estate compound.
Buyers and sellers who haven't been paying attention to Sonoma County real estate are surprised when they are told there's a shortage of homes on the market. There has been some national and state news coverage of declining real estate inventory, but until you start looking for a home, the shortage is not slapping you in the face to get your attention.
A normally intelligent and aware consumer might assume that the long slump in housing, particularly the active foreclosure and short sales markets, would have boosted inventory so that house hunting would be a simple matter of finding the right home and putting in a discount offer.
Instead, from the moment you start talking with a local real estate agent you are going to hear that inventory is low. So low, in fact, that the inventory shortage is the dominant factor in the real estate market in Sonoma County. As a buyer, you may have only half as many homes in your price range as you would have a year ago. You can still find your wine country dream home at a price you can afford, but at certain price points you and every other buyer looking for the same thing will be chasing too few listings. That's already happening.
The accompanying chart (click to enlarge) shows the situation as it has developed over the last two years. We have gone from a six month supply (often assumed to be the point of balance between buyers and sellers) two years ago, to less than two months of inventory now. This imbalance defines the house hunting experience today.
For Sonoma real estate sellers, the shortage is the first opportunity in many years to put their home on the market and expect a significant number of buyers to knock on their door. Last year saw a rise in sales and a modest increase in prices. That was encouraging news for people with equity in their homes who were considering a move, but at the moment, large numbers of potential sellers are still on the sidelines. Some are clearly waiting for prices to improve or to get out from underwater.
The complicating factor for sellers who are waiting is that nobody can say with certainty that prices will rise significantly as a result of the real estate inventory situation. After all, appraisers still have to validate value and bankers still have to make loans, so the underlying prices of the market have to be supported by a recent history of nearby sales. About the only thing we can say with certainty is that attractive homes that are aggressively priced to sell will see a flood of buyers.
The last time the market had this type of imbalance was in the run up to the housing bubble. Loose money fueled the price increases then, and we don't have that situation today. Great rates, yes, but the banks are insisting on full income and financial documentation and the appraisers are insisting on decent comps to justify valuations. It's a much healthier situation for buyers and sellers alike. What we are likely to see moving into the spring home selling season for 2013 is a continuation of buyers returning to the market chasing too few listings. It could get interesting.
If you are a potential home seller in Sonoma County, talk to your preferred agent (or me, of course) about listing your home to take advantage of this inventory shortage. The whole real estate community will appreciate it.
Blu Homes in Healdsburg. It's a match made in heaven. Blu Homes are a great example of smart, green construction and Healdsburg in the heart of Sonoma County's wine country is a fantastic place to live…and eat. Sunset's 2012 Idea House has been attracting large numbers of visitors every weekend during August. Sunset is keeping the house open to the public until September 9, so you still have two weekends to see this wonderful example of a green, precision-built home. The Idea House is a finished product, but you also have a chance to see (from a distance) the house next door, a Blu Home in the making.
Many of the people who have looked at Sunset's Breezewood model Blu Home are now looking for land in Healdsburg and Sonoma County to place their own Blu Home. There are always lovely parcels available for buyers who want to build their own wine country dream, but it may take some persistence to find just what you are looking for. I think one would fit just perfectly on my listing at 1240 Emerald Ranch Road, for instance. That's a site that already has underground power and water, paved roads, and an approved septic design.
If someone is dreaming bigger, the 201 acres at 11450 Los Amigos Road has enough room for five Blu Homes and all the associated granny units, guest houses, and other outbuildings that can accompany each one. You could also plant more than 50 of the acres to grapes on the beautiful, oak-studded meadows. The land is in both the Russian River and Chalk Hill Appellations.
From a real estate perspective, the construction of any house is the last in a long series of steps necessary to find a lot, make certain it is well suited to your goals, create plans, get permission from the local authorities to build, hire a wide variety of sub-contractors to prepare the site, bring in power, find water, create a septic system or hook to the sewer, etc. It can easily take one or two years from locating your ideal site until you can actually build unless you buy a lot that already has the infrastructure in place.
If you have any questions about how to get started with building your own country getaway with a Blu Home or just want to find out more about real estate in Healdsburg in Sonoma County, please give me a call at 707-869-1884 or send an email.
2 Acre and larger property for sale in and around Healdsburg.
Nobody wants to buy at the top of the market. On the other hand, trying to practice market timing in real estate has proven to be almost impossible. Prices nationally are drifting slightly lower, but some markets have already started to strengthen and prices may be rising.
If you aren't keeping track of what's going on in your key neighborhoods and price ranges, you are missing one of the biggest real estate stories of 2012, the return of multiple offers and bidding wars.
Let's set the stage with a simple chart of REO activity in the last 30 days (REO stands for Real Estate Owned by lenders). Reading across the bottom of the chart shows the status of homes and the height of each column shows how many homes are in that status category. For almost all readers, this chart looks perfectly normal…until you realize that in typical times, the active column should be substantially higher. What we are seeing here is a torrid pace of sales that is drawing down the inventory much faster than it is being replenished. The Active and Sold columns are self explanatory, and you can see that they are almost matched. What is not as obvious is that all the other columns could be added to the Sold column since they represent property that is under contract to be sold. Some of the contingent sales will fall out of escrow due to bad inspections, financing that can't be arranged, personal reasons including loss of job or divorce. Still, a large portion of the contingent sales (and all the pending sales) are going to be added to the Sold column. This simple chart shows that buyers are overwhelming the REO market.
The next chart shows the impact of a surplus of buyers in the market. Each column represents a day of sales and the height of the column shows the relationship of the price paid to the listing price, with the listing price equal to 1.0.
When there are only a few buyers in the market, discounts are common, and it would be normal to see numbers between .85 and .95. As more buyers begin to compete for the smaller inventory of properties, it is much more common to see people paying list price for properties. What this chart shows is that in recent weeks, it is more common than not for buyers to be paying above list price, a practice known as overbidding. What isn't evident on this chart, or even available as actual data, is that many of these sales had multiple offers from competing bidders. When you're in the market shopping for homes, the call from the listing agent for you to prepare your "highest and best offer" is a sign that you may have waited too long to get into the market.
The final chart shows that Sonoma County is not universally in a bidding war. Some areas are much more frenzied than others. The bottom of the chart shows selected areas of Sonoma County as defined by the MLS. The set of colums for each city match the sales categories we just looked at for Sonoma County as a whole. The sold column in a dark brown is starkly taller than the active listing column in blue for both northwest and northeast Santa Rosa. Even though those two area show a significant number of new active listings in the last 30 days, the volume of sales, pending sales, and contingent sales is far larger. The southeast quadrant of Santa Rosa may be the only area in the county where inventory actually increased during this 30 day period.
As an agent, I am encouraging all my buyers to start paying serious attention to these market trends. Prices are still very affordable. Interest rates are still at near-record low rates. Just don't expect to be scoring the record bargains that were avaialable when the competition among buyers didn't exist.
The old days of low-ball initial offers are mainly over.
You can still find bargains.
Many fixers aren't drawing the skilled wannabe homeowners who can convert them to charming homes.
Investors with cash are competing with renters needing loans.
Entry level homes are often selling for more than list price. If you see a bargain price, it may not be the realistic selling price.
I am going to be fielding questions about this on my Sonoma County Real Estate page on Facebook if you have questions about trends in the neighborhoods and price ranges you care about.


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Another Internet Retailer Top 500 company, Geeks.com, has also benefited significantly from Akamai's predictive segments solution. Ranked #203 on the Internet Retailer Top 500 list, Geeks.com is a leading direct-to-consumer eCommerce site offering computer components and peripherals. Geeks.com sought a business partner that could meet and implement its aggressive ROI requirements in order to drive more transaction volume and increased spend. Since implementing Akamai's advertising-related services, Geeks.com has seen many more first-time buyers on its site than it experienced in the past. Best of all, Akamai has been able to manage the display ad budget to meet Geeks' seasonal requirements, always at an ROI exceeding $12 to $1. "Akamai has done a great job meeting our requirements for transactions, cost and return on ad spend," said Glenn Kricheldorf, Channel Manager at Geeks.com. "We've noticed an appreciable increase in incremental transactions and first-time buyers on our site. They've really optimized our campaign, squeezing every profitable dollar out of it."
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A Felony is the most serious level of crime. A felony is defined as any crime punishable by at least a year in prison. Many felonies have mandatory minimum prison sentences outlined in the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines. Felony convictions can have consequences in addition to prison time. Many felony convictions result in a loss of rights to vote and own a firearm. A non-citizen can be deported upon a felony conviction. Likewise, an enlistee may be barred from joining the armed forces. Some crimes are very serious and require no previous criminal record to be classified as a felony, like murder or aggravated robbery. Other crimes become felonies when the person charged has a history of similar convictions. For example, when a person has been convicted of three previous qualifying DUI/DWI convictions within the previous 10 years, the next, or fourth, DUI/DWI they commit is charged as a felony. Some crimes become felonies based on a monetary amount. For example, theft of property or services worth more than $1,000 is charged as a felony. Felonies are very serious offenses that often have long lasting deleterious effects on a person's life. Often a person will be denied employment, housing and some services because of a felony conviction. A person representing themselves—pro se—is at a disadvantage when facing felony charges. Because the stakes are so high in a felony case, legal representation is required to ensure that your rights are not violated, that the case has been handled and charged appropriately, and that the proposed sentence is appropriate, or that the trial is fair. Felonies are complicated cases, and require a lawyer's expertise.
Examples of Felonies
Theft above $1,000
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What lies behind the acronym DKIM? How can this feature help your e-mail marketing strategies?
DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, is a system for validating the legitimacy of an email message by using an e-signature. When DomainKeys Identified Mail is enabled for a certain domain, a public cryptographic key is published to the global Domain Name System and a private one is kept on the mail server. When a new email message is sent, a signature is generated using the private key and when the email message is delivered, that signature is authenticated by the incoming POP3/IMAP email server using the public key. In this way, the recipient can easily know if the message is authentic or if the sender's address has been spoofed. A mismatch will occur if the content of the email message has been changed in the meantime as well, so DKIM can also be used to ensure that the sent and the delivered emails are identical and that nothing has been added or removed. This email authentication system will heighten your email safety, as you can verify the authenticity of the important emails that you get and your colleagues can do likewise with the emails that you send them. Depending on the given mail service provider's adopted policy, an email that fails to pass the test may be removed or may enter the recipient's mailbox with a warning sign.
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Muslim fanatics, so-called Islamists, are the most violent enemy of Christians in the world. While it is considered controversial to even mention this today, even less reported is the non-violent counterpart to these barbarians: militant secularists. The latter are growing in influence by leaps and bounds, even to the point of accommodating the Islamists.
According to CBN News, thus far this year there have been well over 1,000 attacks on French Christian churches and symbols, most of them Catholic. That's an increase of 17 percent in one year. As everyone knows, radical Muslims are to blame.
In the Middle East and Africa, Christian persecution is routine. The Christian character of Mosul in Iraq is gone—Christianity has been obliterated. Eritrea, known as the "North Korea of Africa," is under siege by a madman; women and girls are bearing the worst of the brunt.
In Nigeria, more than 2 million people, many of them Christians, are being driven from their homes by Islamists known as Boko Haram. During the first half of 2018, 6,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria, most of whom were women, children, and the elderly.
As University of Mississippi professor, and Catholic League advisory board member, Ronald Rychlak notes, "The only place in the Middle East where Christians face no restrictions on the practice of their faith is Israel." That, too, is underreported.
How bad is it getting? "If you're a Christian living in the U.K., now might be a really good time to think about emigrating to the land of the free and the home of the brave," Fraser says, "where the biggest nuisance for people of faith is an overabundance of options for worship." He also noted that Sweden is deporting Christians seeking asylum to countries such as Afghanistan.
Matters are better here at home, though militant secularists are targeting Christians and Jews at an alarming rate.
Government officials at the federal, state, and local levels, along with elements in the media, Hollywood, the artistic community, and higher education, are doubling down these days in their efforts to smear or otherwise denigrate people of faith. Ready to assist them are radicals who staff non-profit activist organizations, and the foundations that support them.
In the "civilized" world of the West, Christian men and women who take their religion seriously are subjected to bigoted inquisitions when being considered for a judicial appointment. Christian clubs on college campuses are denied the right to have Christians lead them.
Catholic schools are told they don't qualify for matching corporate gifts because they teach Catholicism. More common is the practice of denying Christian organizations a religious exemption, even when it is clear that not granting the exemption effectively neuters their right to be Christian. They are told that by clinging to their Judeo-Christian teachings, they are interfering with the rights of others.
Jews are accused of "dual loyalties," an anti-Semitic trope that has recently resurfaced in elite quarters. The BDS movement, which is popular on many college campuses, is out to crush Israel. The fact that such bigotry is led by young people—including in the halls of Congress—makes this all the more disturbing.
If those who preach the virtue of tolerance meant what they say, we wouldn't have any of these problems. But they don't—they are content to lie for a living. Worse, they are the guilty parties in the West.
Is it any wonder that militant secularists rarely condemn radical Muslims? To be sure, the former don't want to live under Sharia law, but they are prepared to take that risk provided their Muslim allies keep whittling away at our Judeo-Christian heritage. This is a sick pact that has grown exponentially since 9/11. It needs to end before more damage is done.
The text now made public is the letter that the pope emeritus wrote to the chief rabbi of Vienna, Arie Folger, in August of 2018.
Rabbi Folger replied to this letter on September 4, with a letter of his own that is also published in the book.
"To become the Mother of the children of God, Mary had to suffer all the pains of Calvary! For it was only then that from the height of my Cross I dropped the sacred words of that title for eternity, conferring upon her and entrusting her with the universal maternity of souls.
Creative words like all my words! At the very moment when I pronounced them, perceiving the whole human family through my virgin apostle in an immense vision of tenderness, I created in Mary a true motherly heart for each member of this family, while I created each soul as a true child of Mary, a child of her co-redemptive pains.
(1) A nun who wished to remain anonymous.
(Nihil obstat, Jos Du Bouchet, March 18, 1943. Imprimatur A. Leclerc, 28 May 1943).
The Virgin was absolutely certain of the Resurrection of her Son since he had openly predicted it; but she did not know the time, because it was not specified anywhere. She spent the night of Holy Saturday, which seemed very long, reflecting on the possible time of the Resurrection. Knowing that David, more than the other Prophets, spoke of the Passion of Christ, she went through the psalter, but found no indication of the time. However, in Psalm 56, David, speaking in the person of the Father to his Son, says: "Awake, my glory, awake my harp and my zither." And the Son answered, "I will awake at dawn…" When the Virgin Mary discovered the hour of the Resurrection, you can only imagine how eagerly she awaited daybreak.
That promise has been fulfilled, and continues to come true every day. I am privileged to be part of many meetings with officials of President Trump's administration, and each time, I am more and more impressed with how much is happening behind the scenes that people who elected him need to know. And it's not that the administration is trying to keep it secret; it's just that good news travels slowly.
For instance, were you aware that the long time problem of health care professionals being forced to perform abortions against their conscience is being addressed by the president in a very direct way? He has established an office to which such individuals can submit complaints, so that action can be taken to protect their rights of conscience. Various laws have been in place in other pro-life administrations to protect conscience rights, but the Trump administration is going after the offenders much more directly and vigorously.
It is almost impossible not to find a dire symbolism in the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on the first day of Holy Week, the day after – as Ross Douthat points out – Catholics worldwide listened to a Gospel in which St. Luke recounted the rending of the veil of the temple.
Notre Dame is the symbolic heart of the Catholic Church in France. And France – the "eldest daughter of the Church" – is in many respects the symbolic heart of the faith in Europe. Many felt something like physical pain watching this most magnificent and history-laden Catholic cathedral burning. Many too found in this horrific event a physical manifestation of the destructive fires that are ravaging the Church in France, Europe, and much of the world.


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Harrison Cady: View from the Headlands
A special exhibition of works by artist and illustrator Harrison Cady (1877–1970) Affectionately known to many as the bug painter, Harrison Cady (1877–1970) was a much loved member of Cape Ann's summer art colony throughout the 20th century. A prolific illustrator, a printmaker and a painter, Cady was one of the last links to our nation's Golden Age of Illustration, a distinction he earned through his long collaboration with writer Thornton Burgess. View from the Headlands, a special exhibition of works by artist and illustrator Harrison Cady (1877-1970) will open at the Cape Ann Museum on July 7, 2018, and remain on display through October 28, 2018. Cady began his 70-year career as an illustrator with the Brooklyn Eagle and later worked for numerous popular American publications, including Life magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, the Saturday Evening Post, and Good Housekeeping. His syndicated comic strip "Peter Rabbit" ran in the New York Herald Tribune for 28 years. A frequent visitor to Rockport, Massachusetts, Cady made it his permanent summer home in 1920, purchasing a seafront property known as "The Headlands." With his studio "the Silo" located nearby, Cady shifted his focus to painting landscapes and harbor scenes. Cady was an early member of the Rockport Art Association, founded in 1921. View from the Headlands draws on public and private collections throughout the region with examples of Cady's early magazine illustrations, his work with writer Thornton W. Burgess, and his later landscape paintings. The exhibition reflects the Cape Ann Museum's commitment to preserving and presenting work that celebrates the area's culture and history.
Harrison Cady: View from the Headland...
Saturday Jul 7, 2018 Sunday Oct 28, 2018
JULY 7, 2018 — OCT. 28, 2018
Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street Gloucester, MA 01930
27 Pleasant Street Gloucester MA 01930
http://www.capeannmuseum.org/exhibitions/view-headlands-harrison-cady/
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Crown sale may breach casino rules
Bo SeoReporter
Jan 21, 2020 – 1.39pm
James Packer's $1.76 billon sale of a stake in his Crown casino empire to billionaire businessman Lawrence Ho may have given Mr Ho's banned father Stanley an "indirect stake" in Crown in breach of its NSW gambling licence.
The elder Mr Ho, 98, is banned from any involvement with Australian gambling operations due to his alleged connections to organised crime, allegations that he denies and of which he has never been convicted.
A NSW inquiry, vested with the powers of a royal commission, will summon Mr Packer and the younger Mr Ho to answer questions before a public hearing.
Lawrence Ho and James Packer will face the NSW Inquiry into Crown's casino operations. Supplied
The inquiry will also consider whether Crown is suitable to retain its gambling licence, following allegations about its Melbourne location published by Nine's 60 Minutes, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald papers.
The allegations range from money laundering activities in its VIP rooms to the casino's connections with junket operators with links to criminal syndicates.
A spokesman for Mr Packer said the businessman is "happy to assist" the inquiry, and will return from the US to attend the hearings.
James Packer in Aspen with his partner Kylie Lim last month. The reclusive billionaire flew into Sydney on Wednesday. NGRE / BACKGRID
Despite objections by Melco, the inquiry will not excuse witnesses summoned from answering questions or producing documents "on the grounds of legal, professional or other privileges".
Adam Bell SC, one of two counsel assisting, said Great Respect, an entity set up by Stanley Ho that owns a 20 per cent stake in Melco's holding company, acquired an indirect interest in Crown as a result of the share sale.
Mr Bell also noted that Crown had not notified gambling authorities about the sale ahead of time, in possible breach of its licence.
Crown argues that it was not informed of Mr Packer's share sale "until after it had been executed, and in any event it was not within the power of Crown Resorts to prevent the execution of that agreement."
Great Respect is among a list of organisations being scrutinised to ascertain any "corporate or business connections" between father and son.
Lawrence Ho maintains that his company remains independent of Stanley Ho, and has noted that Melco competes against casinos in Macau associated with his father, who has always denied any links to organised crime and who has never been convicted of a criminal offence..
The sale to Melco, of which the first half was completed in June 2018, has been paused by Mr Ho and Mr Packer to "allow more time for the relevant Australian regulatory processes to be completed". The stake represents around half of Mr Packer's holdings in the company.
Casino kingpin Stanley Ho has long been dogged by allegations of involvement with organised crime. Bloomberg
The inquiry will also seek to ascertain the probity of any new "close associates" to Crown introduced by the deal with Melco, specifically whether these persons and their business associates are "of good repute, having regard to character, honesty and integrity".
Close associates are persons with a financial interest or power that allows them to "exercise a significant influence over or with respect to the management or operation of the casino business of the licensee".
Naomi Sharp SC, counsel assisting, said the inquiry would also consider allegations of money laundering, especially in relation to junket tour operators.
Junket operators arrange for foreign nationals - in this case, from mainland China - to come to Australia for the purpose of gambling at casinos,
"It is certainly not suggested that every junket is necessarily involved in organised crime or illegal activity," Ms Sharp said.
Crown has responded to these allegations by noting that it has a "comprehensive" anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing program, subject to ongoing supervision by the financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC.
The inquiry, chaired by former NSW supreme court judge Patricia Bergin SC, comprises five public hearings and is the first of three inquiries into Crown.
The findings of the inquiry, established by the NSW Liquor and Gaming Authority, are likely to inform separate inquiries by its Victorian counterpart and the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity.
Both these inquiries are on hold and awaiting the outcome of federal investigations.
The first of the NSW hearings will provide an overview of the vulnerability of casinos to money laundering and susceptibility of junkets operations to organised crime.
The second and third hearings will consider the permissibility of the share-transfer to Mr Ho and media allegations of criminal behaviour at Crown's Melbourne casino, respectively.
The last two hearings will consider the probity of Crown's close associates, and the adequacy of existing gambling regulations.
Mr Packer and Mr Ho, and a coterie of Crown executives including chairman John Alexander and director Michael Johnston, are expected to be summoned starting from the second hearing.
Counsel assisting the inquiry urged commissioner Bergin to take a "wide" reading of aspects of the statute, consistent with the act's intent to ensure that "casinos are conducted honestly and remain free from criminal influence and exploitation".
Bo Seo is a journalist for The Australian Financial Review based in the Sydney office. Email Bo at bo.seo@afr.com.au
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More Zoo for you to explore with more than 200 acres of adventure filled with more than 1,700 animals. See penguins like never before at Helzberg Penguin Plaza. Watch king and gentoo penguins torpedo through the water in their 100,000 gallon cool pool and see the Humboldt penguins bask in the sun and get their flippers wet in the 25,000 gallon warm water pool. Dip your hands into a shallow pool and discover the unique texture of stingrays and bamboo sharks at Stingray Bay. Journey to the Polar Bear Passage and marvel at our polar bears' beauty and strength. Swing into the Orangutan Canopy and get nose to nose with these orange apes. Take a walk-about through a mob of kangaroos. Get a birds-eye view of zebras, giraffes and rhinos on the African Sky Safari. Visit animals from the tropical rainforest, the African Savanna, the Australian Outback, the Asian mountainside, the north and south pole and everywhere in between.
Step beneath the waves and prepare for a world of glittering scales, darting sharks, gliding stingrays and a curious octopus. And get ready to come face-to-fin with some of the most fascinating creatures.
Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead
Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead is the perfect place to learn, grow, and have fun. Visit more than 250 animals and birds, learn about growing flowers and vegetables, experience a Kanza Indian encampment or a one-room school house, and take a stroll through main street to the fishing pond.
Burr Oak Woods Conservation Area
At Burr Oak Woods Nature Center, visitors can enjoy family-friendly expeditions, conservation area trails, bird watching and other natural habitat oriented activities.
Cedar Cove Feline Sanctuary
Cedar Cove is a non-profit sanctaury and educational center comitted to the care and preservation of endangered predator species while educating the public on the importance of preserving their natural ecosystems and the impending dangers of their extinction.
Lakeside Nature Center
Wildlife education programs for all ages with live animals. Nature Center is free, has a hiking trail, picnic pavilion and native Missouri wildlife exhibit.
Ernie Miller Nature Center
Discover more about the park's plants, animals and history by visiting the center's new exhibit gallery featuring live animal displays and interactive exhibits, visit the 500-gallon aquarium showcasing native stream fish, stop by the wildlife viewing room that overlooks a water feature with birdfeeders, and visit the gift shop for nature enthusiasts.


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Magical Reality
22 Jan 2021 to 25 April 2021
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With Magical Reality an exhibition is on display for the first time in Hamburg that features the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) who as the founder of the art movement coined »Pittura Metafisica« became one of the primary precursors of Surrealism and the New Objectivity.
The large-scale show of Metaphysical Painting is centred around a significant body of works created by de Chirico between 1909 and 1919. These iconic paintings of light-flooded, hauntingly empty squares – sites where time seems to have come to a standstill and the seemingly mundane is charged with new meaning – strike us today as particularly powerful and topical. The Hamburger Kunsthalle presents a selection of unprecedented quality and density of rarely travelled masterworks from over fifty collections worldwide: included are renowned American and European institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, the Menil Collection in Houston or the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Tate London and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm as well as private collections from Italy and Switzerland, among others. All in all eighty masterworks by de Chirico, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio Morandi, Alberto Magnelli, Alexander Archipenko, Pablo Picasso as well as Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger are to be discovered in the show. Based on long-term research and fruitful cooperation among colleagues, this exhibition has been made possible even in times of crisis and despite the current restrictions imposed on us by the pandemic.
The exhibition features the mysteriously magical paintings by de Chirico – and in his wake Carlo Carràs and Giorgio Morandis – who strove to render visible a reality beyond appearances and thereby laid the foundation for a »different Modernism«. At the same time, it traces and reveals the sources leading to this new approach, including the cultural influences from various parts of Europe which the widely travelled Italian artist, born in Greece, drew upon: the Greek myths he grew up with; his interest for German philosophy, Friedrich Nietsche, for example, and with the major works of late German Romanticism during his studies in Munich; his experience of light and space on the squares of Italy; his encounter with the French avantgarde in Paris and, finally, his military service in Ferrara. Based on its exceptional holdings of works from the late German Romantic period, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is specifically able to illustrate the notable influences of Arnold Böcklin and also Max Klinger on de Chirico.
In this unique combination of variegating European influences, and in the face of the First World War and the Spanish flu pandemic, de Chirico attempts to make visible that which cannot be seen by creating enigmatic, realistic-accurate potential worlds. He conjures another world beyond one of appearance. The intense general mood of these works rests on fastidiously executed depictions of prop-like objects and figures, recalling mannequins staged in scenes of exaggerated perspectives, acting in dream-like Mediterranean spaces filled with nothing but sunlight and bottomless shade. Fountains or large clocks refer to the eternal recurrence of the same and question the concept of time and space. De Chirico's iconography serves to unveil the ambiguity of symbols. It reveals the enigma underlying our reality.
This ambiguity, virtuosity and anticipated virtuality deeply impress us today, especially since the curfews and contact restrictions we encountered worldwide in 2020 have transferred the spatial, temporal and visual experiences of hauntingly empty squares to our present day. The century-old masterworks thus may serve the viewers as a kind of mirror, reflecting the experiences of one's own recent – external and internal – reality.
Accompanying the exhibition is a richly illustrated catalogue containing numerous essays written by internationally renowned experts. It presents the latest research results on de Chirico's circumstances of life, leading to the development of Metaphysical Painting and to the influences of the late German Romanticism and philosophy. The publication (Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich) is available at the museum shop for the price of 29 Euros and can be ordered online for €34.90 plus postage via www.freunde-der-kunsthalle.de.
DE CHIRICO. Magical Reality was developed in a first cooperation of the Hamburger Kunsthalle with the Paris-based Musées d'Orsay and l'Orangerie. An extended version of the highly frequented show there will be presented in Hamburg, aimed at reflecting the origins of the Arte Metafiscia and visualizing its particular iconography through an atmospherically dense spatial arrangement.
Sponsor: GENERALI DEUTSCHLAND
Supported by: Hubertus Wald Stiftung, Freunde der Kunsthalle e. V., Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg
The exhibition is under the patronage of the Embassy of the Italian Republic.
Culture partner: NDR KULTUR
Media partner: Hamburger Abendblatt
Mobility partner: MOIA
Curator in Hamburg: Annabelle Görgen-Lammers
General Curator: Paolo Baldacci
Curator in Paris Orangerie: Cécile Girardeau
Assistant in Hamburg
Sjusanna Eremjan
Find the exhibition on social media via #DeChirico #MagicalReality.
De Chirico. Magical Reality
Call for submissions: be part of the exhibition with photos of empty places
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978)
Das Gehirn des Kindes (Le Cerveau de l'enfant), 1914
Öl auf Leinwand, 80 x 65 cm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 ; Foto: © Moderna Museet / Stockholm
Der Lohn des Wahrsagers (La Récompense du dévin), 1913
Öl auf Leinwand, 135,6 x 180 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
Foto: © Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Louise and Walter Arensberg
Collection, 1950, 1950-134-38
Die Rückkehr des Dichters (Le Retour du poète), 1914
Öl auf Leinwand, 87 × 65 cm
Photo Courtesy, Geneve, Fondation Aga Khan
Der Wahrsager (Le Vaticinateur), 1914/15
Öl auf Leinwand, 89,6 × 70,1 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence
Die Heiterkeit des Gelehrten (La Sérénité du savant), 1914
Öl und Kohle auf Leinwand, 130,1 × 72,4 cm
Die Freuden des Dichters (Les Plaisirs du poète), Februar – März 1912
Esther Grether Familiensammlung
Robert Bayer, Bildpunkt AG
Die Sehnsucht nach dem Unendlichen (La Nostalgie de l'infini), Herbst – Winter 1912, Datierung auf dem Gemälde: 1911
Öl auf Leinwand, 135,2 × 64,8 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, erworben 1936
Der beängstigende Vormittag (La Matinée angoissante), Herbst 1912
Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto /Collezione VAF-Stiftung
Mart, Archivico fotografico e Mediateca
Die Eroberung des Philosophen (La Conquête du philosophe), Januar 1914
bpk / The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY
Der Troubadour (Il trovatore), 1917
akg-images / Cameraphoto
Die heiligen Fische (I pesci sacri), Dezember 1918 – Januar 1919
Öl auf Leinwand, 75,3 × 62 cm
Etro Collection
Foto: Etro Collection / Manusardi SRL
Carlo Carrà (1881–1966)
Komposition TA (Metaphysisches Stillleben) [Composizione TA (Natura morta metafisica)], 1916–1918
Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto / Collezione VAF-Stiftung
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978)
Prometheus (Prometeo), 1908
Öl auf Leinwand, 148 × 110 cm
Collezione Paolo Volponi
Courtesy Porro & C. art consulting, Milano
Sterbender Zentaur (Centaure mourant), 1909
Öl auf Leinwand, 118 x 75 cm
Assicurazioni Generali Photo © Assicurazioni Generali
Selbstbildnis als Odysseus (Autoportrait en Ulysse), 1922–1924
Öl auf Leinwand, 91 × 71,5 cm
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Peer-reviewed audio paper
"Like sitting inside a phone"
Jacob Kreutzfeldt,
Sandra Lori Pedersen
Fokus: Fluid Sounds
Experimental Audio Paper
Listen to the audio paper in Sound Cloud
Being at the same time intimately connected to everyday lives and places, and yet inaccessible to most people, the radio studio has a paradoxical position in the modern imaginary. Acoustically designed to be inaudible, the studio is barely noticeable to the listener, yet ever-present as a prerequisite for voices, dialogues and situations to enter daily lives. Nations listen in on what is happening in the radio studio, but few people have actually had physical experience with it. The ones who have, were there to perform – often as a host or as an interviewee.
Extended abstract
Indeed, it seems to be an essential quality of the radio studio for it not to impose itself on its listeners. The reasons for this can be traced to what Emily Thompson describes as the "Soundscape of Modernity", where sound is conceptualized as a "signal" and dissociated from space (Thompson 2004:1). The radio studio materializes a conceptualization of sound, as something to be controlled, and one of space as something constructed in sound, rather than something reflected in acoustics. (Ibid: 234). If we consider media, as having the capacity to "erase itself in the act of mediation" (Eisenlohr 2009: 9), and at the same time consider them concrete loci for public debate and the construction of subjectivities, what is the function of the radio studio? Which kinds of human extensions are issued by the radio studio? Which power relations are effected?
In order to explore the function and the site-specificity of the radio studio we took, as a point of departure, Marc Augé's (1995) concept of non-place as a feature typical of supermodernity. Augé defines the non-place as a space in which one is stripped of a multiplicity of identities, to be momentarily defined as a function of that space. Deprived of the organic relations and shared histories often found in modernity's places, non-places like airports, supermarkets and highways are rather defined by particular functions more easily imposed on subjects acting as passengers or customers. Travelling through such non-places according to Augé leave individuals to feel a "momentary availability" (ibid. 101), but also distance and solitude (ibid. 103).
Augé's analysis of non-places is instrumental in specifying the function of the radio studio on listeners experiencing it as an inaccessible and vaguely felt non-place. It also directed our attention to the users of the radio studio and the different roles they took on when entering the space: 'host', 'guest', 'expert' etc. Our investigation thus focussed on the users' conceptions of the radio studio. Using sound devices to record interviews and to take auditory notes, we ventured into the field in order to explore the radio studio from the perspective of the people who actually go inside it. We were wondering what it is like to gain access to that space? What is it like to be inside it? And finally, what kind of space is it?
Through interviews with radio studio users, through mini fieldwork and on the background of previous fieldwork in different studios, we have explored the space of the radio studio. Our fieldwork centred on the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and their facilities in Ørestaden, Amager, Copenhagen, specifically on the two-hour afternoon talk program P1 Eftermiddag (P1 Afternoon). What hosts and people who had been guests in radio studios told us were experiences of concrete places and they emphasized the technical character of the space extensively. Their accounts were about machine-like rooms in which some felt like they were just another cog in the wheel, but also about the pleasure of controlling the machine and the sound that was emitted from it. To be in the studio could thus be conceived as being inside a machine and being implemented in a larger apparatus of auditory production. It was also a place from where one could exert a certain control over this production, and be in control of whom one allowed to interfere with it.
The production explores the experienced character of the radio studio from the multiple perspectives of our informants. It is structured into a loose narrative form: basically taking the listener inside a physical studio space and then into the more mental spaces of its users. In the end, we attempt to break the narrative and radiogenic form in order to establish a more analytic and explorative perspective. Here, the researchers themselves emerge in a studio playing back sound snippets, comparing and discussing them in order to outline some of the discursive formations they encountered.
It is interesting how the experience of the radio studio as an unarticulated and vaguely defined space, when shifting the perspective to the users, is rather that of a mechanic and technological space. Most of our informants present an account of the radio studio as a powerful apparatus controlling not only sound qualities but also identities. Clearly there are power issues involved in controlling this machinery, of "coming across" and of navigating between subjectively felt identities and required functions. From this brief study, it seems that the technical character of the radio studio for most users overshadows it's potential to be a non-place in Augé's sense. For most users it is prominently a piece of machinery to comprehend and to operate. But, for experienced users and hosts the studio seems to work as an extension of their selves erecting deep anxieties as well as elevated pleasures. Most likely Augé's non-places like airports exhibit the same qualities of only allowing the momentary availability and freedom to users highly confident with its functions and flows, while the same space to the new user or immigrant might appear as a highly disciplining machinery. The experienced user operates the studio like an instrument.
This enquiry took its departure in a notion of place and "site-specificity", which was challenged by concepts of non-place and apparatus. We found that while the radio studio certainly functions as a particular kind of space, this has less to do with the specificity of the site, and more to do with the technical character of radio. Thompson notes that the aesthetics of the soundscape of modernity emerged out of the so-called "Machine Age" (Thompson 2004:1). An interesting perspective to explore further, would be if the radio studio, rather than being a futuristic space of the supermodernity to use Augé's term, is actually better understood as a reminiscence of an apparatus from the "Machine Age"?
Thank you to the participants.
In order of appearance they are:
Jacob Kreutzfeldt
Mark Vacher
Morten Michelsen
Tore Leifer
Laura Yaros
Speak: Sandra Lori Petersen
Augé, M. (1995) Non-places. Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity. London: Verso.
Eisenlohr, P. (2009) What is a medium? The anthropology of media and the question of ethnic and religious pluralism. Inaugural lecture, Utrecht University, May 26. Available from https://dspace.library.uu.nl:8443/bitstream/handle/1874/35975/Eisenlohr%20oratie%20text.pdf?sequence=1
Thompson, E. (2004) The Soundscape of Modernity. Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1930. Cambridge, Massachussets & London, England: MIT Press.
non-place
Radio studio
https://doi.org/10.48233/seismograf1606
#16 | August 2016
Fluid Sounds
With this special issue Seismograf introduces a new format: The Audio Paper.
Fokusartikler
Peer-reviewed article
Audio Papers – a manifesto
A germinal manifesto for the audio paper.
Sanne Krogh Groth,
Kristine Samson
Idiosyncrasy as Method
Holger Schulze's keynote presentation asking for individual idiosyncrasies as parts of research methodologies.
Hearing on the verge
An engagement with the sonic landscape by recording and listening in movement.
Nicole De Brabandere,
Through the air with the greatest of ease: Phonogenie
An audio paper that explores songs as temporal and affective phenomena.
Anne Robinson
Place Time (Sounds)
A discussion of Werder's 2005 (1) in relation to Werder's own oeuvre and to the work of John Cage's.
Ben Byrne
The radio studio is acoustically designed to be inaudible, but is yet ever-present as a prerequisite for voices and situations.
The New "Amagerkaner"
A speculative audio paper about the past of 2055 assessing site-specific found objects coming from a near-future.
Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira
Between maps and territories
An audio paper based upon Andreas Führer's soundwalk 'The Map is Not The Territory D'Or'.
Rasmus Holmboe,
Jan Stricker
A Sound Factory on Amager
An exploration of new forms of labour facilitated by new and old infrastructure, expanding notions of place and work itself.
Macon Holt,
Katrine Pram Nielsen
Mountain meets urban waterfront
An audio paper combining soundscapes from Norwegian mountains with a Danish urban, post-industrial waterfront.
Alexandra Baixinho ,
Tine Blom


text:
import logging
from concurrent.futures import Future
from typing import Any, Callable, List, Optional, TYPE_CHECKING

from parsl.app.futures import DataFuture
from parsl.data_provider.files import File
from parsl.data_provider.file_noop import NoOpFileStaging
from parsl.data_provider.ftp import FTPSeparateTaskStaging
from parsl.data_provider.http import HTTPSeparateTaskStaging
from parsl.data_provider.staging import Staging

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from parsl.dataflow.dflow import DataFlowKernel

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# these will be shared between all executors that do not explicitly
# override, so should not contain executor-specific state
default_staging = [NoOpFileStaging(), FTPSeparateTaskStaging(), HTTPSeparateTaskStaging()]  # type: List[Staging]

class DataManager(object):
    """The DataManager is responsible for transferring input and output data.

    """

    def __init__(self, dfk: "DataFlowKernel") -> None:
        """Initialize the DataManager.

        Args:
           - dfk (DataFlowKernel): The DataFlowKernel that this DataManager is managing data for.

        """

        self.dfk = dfk

    def replace_task_stage_out(self, file: File, func: Callable, executor: str) -> Callable:
        """This will give staging providers the chance to wrap (or replace entirely!) the task function."""
        executor_obj = self.dfk.executors[executor]
        if hasattr(executor_obj, "storage_access") and executor_obj.storage_access is not None:
            storage_access = executor_obj.storage_access  # type: List[Staging]
        else:
            storage_access = default_staging

        for provider in storage_access:
            logger.debug("stage_out checking Staging provider {}".format(provider))
            if provider.can_stage_out(file):
                newfunc = provider.replace_task_stage_out(self, executor, file, func)
                if newfunc:
                    return newfunc
                else:
                    return func

        logger.debug("reached end of staging provider list")
        # if we reach here, we haven't found a suitable staging mechanism
        raise ValueError("Executor {} cannot stage file {}".format(executor, repr(file)))

    def optionally_stage_in(self, input, func, executor):
        if isinstance(input, DataFuture):
            file = input.file_obj.cleancopy()
            # replace the input DataFuture with a new DataFuture which will complete at
            # the same time as the original one, but will contain the newly
            # copied file
            input = DataFuture(input, file, tid=input.tid)
        elif isinstance(input, File):
            file = input.cleancopy()
            input = file
        else:
            return (input, func)

        replacement_input = self.stage_in(file, input, executor)

        func = self.replace_task(file, func, executor)

        return (replacement_input, func)

    def replace_task(self, file: File, func: Callable, executor: str) -> Callable:
        """This will give staging providers the chance to wrap (or replace entirely!) the task function."""

        executor_obj = self.dfk.executors[executor]
        if hasattr(executor_obj, "storage_access") and executor_obj.storage_access is not None:
            storage_access = executor_obj.storage_access
        else:
            storage_access = default_staging

        for provider in storage_access:
            logger.debug("stage_in checking Staging provider {}".format(provider))
            if provider.can_stage_in(file):
                newfunc = provider.replace_task(self, executor, file, func)
                if newfunc:
                    return newfunc
                else:
                    return func

        logger.debug("reached end of staging provider list")
        # if we reach here, we haven't found a suitable staging mechanism
        raise ValueError("Executor {} cannot stage file {}".format(executor, repr(file)))

    def stage_in(self, file: File, input: Any, executor: str) -> Any:
        """Transport the input from the input source to the executor, if it is file-like,
        returning a DataFuture that wraps the stage-in operation.

        If no staging in is required - because the ``file`` parameter is not file-like,
        then return that parameter unaltered.

        Args:
            - self
            - input (Any) : input to stage in. If this is a File or a
              DataFuture, stage in tasks will be launched with appropriate
              dependencies. Otherwise, no stage-in will be performed.
            - executor (str) : an executor the file is going to be staged in to.
        """

        if isinstance(input, DataFuture):
            parent_fut = input  # type: Optional[Future]
        elif isinstance(input, File):
            parent_fut = None
        else:
            raise ValueError("Internal consistency error - should have checked DataFuture/File earlier")

        executor_obj = self.dfk.executors[executor]
        if hasattr(executor_obj, "storage_access") and executor_obj.storage_access is not None:
            storage_access = executor_obj.storage_access
        else:
            storage_access = default_staging

        for provider in storage_access:
            logger.debug("stage_in checking Staging provider {}".format(provider))
            if provider.can_stage_in(file):
                staging_fut = provider.stage_in(self, executor, file, parent_fut=parent_fut)
                if staging_fut:
                    return staging_fut
                else:
                    return input

        logger.debug("reached end of staging provider list")
        # if we reach here, we haven't found a suitable staging mechanism
        raise ValueError("Executor {} cannot stage file {}".format(executor, repr(file)))

    def stage_out(self, file: File, executor: str, app_fu: Future) -> Optional[Future]:
        """Transport the file from the local filesystem to the remote Globus endpoint.

        This function returns either a Future which should complete when the stageout
        is complete, or None, if no staging needs to be waited for.

        Args:
            - self
            - file (File) - file to stage out
            - executor (str) - Which executor the file is going to be staged out from.
            - app_fu (Future) - a future representing the main body of the task that should
                                complete before stageout begins.
        """
        executor_obj = self.dfk.executors[executor]
        if hasattr(executor_obj, "storage_access") and executor_obj.storage_access is not None:
            storage_access = executor_obj.storage_access
        else:
            storage_access = default_staging

        for provider in storage_access:
            logger.debug("stage_out checking Staging provider {}".format(provider))
            if provider.can_stage_out(file):
                return provider.stage_out(self, executor, file, app_fu)

        logger.debug("reached end of staging provider list")
        # if we reach here, we haven't found a suitable staging mechanism
        raise ValueError("Executor {} cannot stage out file {}".format(executor, repr(file)))

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