Today's lesson is all about survey funnels.
When it comes to marketing funnels there are many possible variations, but no matter how they are set up, they are all meant to accomplish the same thing. Turn prospects into customers.
There are also many things that can influence how a funnel converts, like the quality of the leads, where they enter, what you offer and the way they are nurtured through the process, which brings us to the next funnel strategy that you can use, surveys.
This type of funnel serves two purposes. The first is to encourage visitor interaction. Because they are required to answer questions and invest time to move forward they become more invested in what you have to offer.
The second is market research. As I mentioned in the last lesson, surveys are one of the best ways imaginable to conduct research, because it allows you to get to know who your visitors are and what they want. This will help you better address their needs in your marketing message based on their responses.
Keep in mind that your surveys don't have to be complex to be effective. They can be as simple as asking a few key questions via email and giving people a good reason to respond. The main objective again, is to send them to a dedicated landing page and get them to commit to giving you their contact information so that you can follow up with them after they've completed the survey.
There are many ways you can create a survey. You can build it on your website using basic forms. If you use WordPress there are many plugins available that make the process very easy.
You can host it on an external site like Survey Monkey, Typeform or with Google forms. Then just share the link to take the survey with your website visitors, email subscribers and social followers. You can also use the built in tools available on most social platforms to make a quick poll or quiz.
Which option you choose will depend largely on your own personal preferences, the type of functionality you prefer, and how you'd like to present it to your consumers.
The first step in creating a survey funnel is to think about the end goal.
Do you want to find out what your consumers problems are, so you can create a sales message that will grab their attention, or are you looking to gain a better understanding of their general demographics so you can target your ad campaigns more effectively? Once you know the end goal you will have a much easier time creating your survey.
Next you'll want to think about who your survey audience is.
Are they people you plan to target with paid advertising? If so, do you want to reach them based on a certain set of criteria like what their interests are, their age, income, ethnicity or education? Or are they previous customers who already know what your business has to offer? The questions you ask will vary depending on who you are trying to reach.
Lastly, you'll need to think about how you are going to effectively reach these people.
It's important to think about how people will participate in your survey, because it's location will determine who can discover and answer your questions.
For instance, if you're trying to find out if your customers are interested in a new line of products then you can email a set of questions that will help you determine if it's worth pursuing.
If you're looking for feedback from someone who just made a purchase, you could place the survey on the order confirmation page or in a follow up message. You can also send them a link on a postcard, depending on the type of business you run.
Taking the time to consider these things during the planning stage of your survey funnel will help ensure you get the best responses possible from the people who participate.
That's it for today's lesson. In your next lesson, we will be talking about how you can use a podcast to get more people into your funnels.
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I have a bunch of files in Inventor 2008 that I would like to convert over to SW 2007. I really don't have the time to open each file and perform a 'saveas'...is there a batch process conversion macro out there?
By the way, what are you, Elise Moss, doing on a SolidWorks forum? Switching teams?
Task scheduler doesn't have this option, and I'm looking to do the same type of thing. I have several Pro/E files that I need to convert to SW 2009. Have any suggestions?
This example shows how to import a STEP file using the IImportStepData interface.
' Postconditions: C:\Test\Part1_203.STEP is imported into SolidWorks.


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Q: Using Omnipay for Pin Payments I am trying to use Omnipay to process Pin Payment transactions and have the following code (almost exactly the same as the example on the Pin website, and containing my secret API Key instead of 'key'):
require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
use Omnipay\Common\GatewayFactory;

$gateway = GatewayFactory::create('Pin');
$gateway->setApiKey('key');
$gateway->purchase([
    'email'       => 'customer@email.com',
    'description' => 'Widgets',
    'amount'      => '49.99',
    'currency'    => 'USD',
    'card_token'  => 'card_nytGw7koRg23EEp9NTmz9w',
    'ip_address'  => '1.2.3.4'
])->send();

And get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method Omnipay\Pin\Gateway::setApiKey()

Do I need a legit 'card_token'? The one here is from the website's example - I was just hoping it would still process the transaction in the sandbox environment.

A: A look at Omnipay's Pin-gateway implementation shows that the method is actually called setSecretKey() (not setApiKey()).
So $gateway->setSecretKey('key'); should do the trick.

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Whiplash is a non-medical term describing a range of head and neck injuries resulting from an acceleration-deceleration mechanism of energy transfer to the neck.
These forces may result in painful injuries to the muscles, ligaments, and joints of the neck and other spinal areas. However, sometimes they may result in no injury or pain at all.
Whiplash differs in severity from patient to patient, and as such, symptoms vary between cases. Directly after impact, patients may not be aware of any neck swelling or bruising. Symptoms typically arise between 12 and 24 hours after the accident. However, pain and stiffness from whiplash is typically worse on the day following the accident and may continue to worsen with each day.
An Osteopath will perform a head and neck examination and discuss your symptoms with you to determine the best course of whiplash treatment. What can make whiplash injuries difficult to treat is that, while they usually present as neck pain, which usually responds well to osteopathic treatment, a lot of structures can be involved. The weight of the head moving around can put forces through your entire spine down to your pelvis, and through the front of your body down to your abdomen. A range of physical, and even psychological symptoms can result.
Gentle Tissue Massage – the Osteopath uses direct pressure and friction to try to release the tension in your soft tissues (ligaments, tendons, muscles).
Hot Therapy – By using heat, the osteopath seeks to get more blood to the target area because an increased blood flow brings more oxygen and nutrients to that area. Blood is also needed to remove waste by-products created by muscle spasms, and it also helps healing.
Joint mobilisation – to loosen stiff joints.
Exercise – to encourage flexibility, strength and good posture.
The importance of continuing your normal daily regime.
Advice for ergonomic and lifestyle changes. If needed, you will learn how to correct your posture and incorporate ergonomic principles into your daily activities. Even after you recover from whiplash, this posture work should help you because you'll be able to prevent other forms of neck pain that develop from daily living.


I used to think of the orchard as a sterile environment in which only fruit trees and grass existed. Sure, there's the ever present weeds and the occasional rogue tree sprouting up from the ground but there's much more than that. The reality of the orchard ecosystem is far more diverse and certainly more fun! Here are some pictures from the last year.
Who would have thought that smack in the middle of the row of peach trees, nestled into the mulch would have been an ideal place for a killdeer to lay her eggs? We kept close watch on the eggs whenever we went out to work in the orchard, and one day one of the eggs had hatched! Apparently the babies hatch out and very soon are on their feet and running around with their mommy. A couple days later and all the eggs had hatched and they had headed off to forage for food.
You have to admit that the camouflage of the eggs on the mulch is exceptional.
The last baby killdeer hatched out and ready to run.
As it turns out, bumblebees don't like it when you step on their hive entrance. They like it even less when you mow over it with an 8 foot wide mower being pulled by a 2.5 Ton tractor. I had never seen a bumble bee hive before and honestly thought that perhaps they weren't even the type of bees that lived in hives / colonies, so finding this was a real treat for us. Yes, bumblebees can sting multiple times unlike honeybees that lose their stinger, but thankfully we didn't have to experience that personally. Though large and intimidating, these bees were incredibly docile.
I asked the local honeybee group why no one keeps bumblebees instead of honeybees. I mean, who wouldn't want massive black and yellow bees instead of small little honeybees? The answer was somewhat surprising. Apparently bumblebees never store up large amounts of honey because, unlike honeybees, the queen bumblebee is the only bee in the entire colony that survives the winter. Where honeybees store up large volumes of honey to get them through all the winter, bumblebee queens simply have no need for the extra calories and help laying around.
Years ago I found a beehive on the property that is nestled into a small hollow tree. Today that beehive is still happy and productive. Earlier this year a nearby friend invited me out to see the beehive that he found in a tree on their property. Frankly their wild beehive is downright picturesque so I couldn't help but use the picture of his wind hive instead of ours.
A picture of a couple of our honeybee hives. One hive makes more than enough honey for our household for an entire year.
Earlier this year we used cheap paint filters from the hardware store to strain the honey we harvested from one of the hives.
Sadly these little eggs never hatched out. I was looking forward to seeing the tiny little babies that popped out of these eggs because the eggs were each about the size of my thumbnail. This bird nest was hiding under the cover of leaves on one of the grapevines we have been tending for the last several years.
The last two years have been excellent years for frogs. With all the rain we had there has been quite a diversity of them running …err… hopping around.
My oldest daughter Rainey spotted this one sunning itself 4 foot up the size of an old tree where we had setup a squirrel feeder.
There's lots of big toads of course. This one decided to wait out the heat of the day inside a flower planter that wasn't much larger than he was!
Like most of Texas, in Erath county we are cursed with wild hogs. Unknown to many, wild hogs are an epidemic that continues to spread across the state because of a lack of predators to curb their growth. 10 years ago we hadn't ever seen a wild hog in Stephenville. Today we have herds (sounders?) of 20+ that will burst out of the brush and will run across the field.
Naturally we caught a baby and bottle fed it.
Then we slapped a white flea collar on the pig and informed her that she was a dog now. Nobody complained.
The orchard is teeming with life and the pictures above are only a sliver of the life that exists out there. Unfortunately these pictures are the only ones I stopped long enough to take.
3 of my girls "helping" me work in the orchard the day after a good rain. Arguably they're just as much animal as anything else in the orchard.
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Heavy snow this week prompted concern for a group of backcountry skiers stranded at the Elkton Huts. CBSAR was dispatched to retrieve one of the party who was 5 months pregnant. Travis Henning's Imp was able to break trail to the hut, allowing the perfectly healthy woman to ski out.


David Wagner saw his Huddersfield team put together an impressive performance and register a 2-0 win over Wolves during the weekend. Aaron Mooy's sixth-minute goal certainly helped in easing the nerves for the relegation-threatened outfit and his excellent free-kick provided a safe platform for the visitors. Brighton were held to a 1-1 draw by Leicester City at home. A set-piece once again helped Brighton come up with the first goal, which came from Glen Murray. However, Leicester came back with a 79th-minute penalty from Jamie Vardy even with the team having just 10 men on the pitch.
Huddersfield did extremely well in the recent game against Wolves and this may provide a great motivation for the team going into this upcoming match. Huddersfield have an opportunity to pull 11 points clear off the drop and they have home advantage on their side. Brighton's primary plan has been to rely on Murray for the goals and defend with numbers. It is possible to expect yet another tactical brilliance from Huddersfield after their showing against Wolves. I would go with a win for the home team.
The games involving Huddersfield have witnessed an average of 8.5 corners per match. Brighton have been heavily dependent on corners as a means of goals, but the Seagulls have been averaging around 9.5 corners per match. Both teams do not get a lot of shots at goal and my pick would be to back under 10 corners in this match.
Huddersfield will be buoyant after the impressive win over Wolves. It was not a smash-and-grab victory. Instead, the tactical plan from David Wagner was executed to perfection from Huddersfield players, who were also able to take their chances. This victory can be a platform for Huddersfield to build on. Since the club has a couple of games against the likes of Newcastle and Southampton coming up, Wagner will be delighted with the timing of this result. Huddersfield scored two goals for the first time in a league match since February, and the weak offence still gives them plenty to ponder about ahead of the January transfer window.
Chris Lowe (shoulder) is the only injury concern for Huddersfield.
Brighton have been a defensively solid outfit over the course of the campaign. However, the lack of goals at the other end of the pitch has contributed to the Seagulls being unable to make a push for the top 10 places. Hughton will be more pleased about his team staying almost 10 points clear of the bottom three. The heavy dependence on Glen Murray does make matters difficult for Brighton, who do have the advantage of being devastating from set pieces this season. Murray is the top scorer at the club with seven league goals.
Glen Murray (thigh), David Button (knee), Matthew Ryan (ankle), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (hamstring), and Soufyan Ahannach (leg) are unavailable due to injuries. Meanwhile, Dale Stephens is suspended from the match.


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Your Theatre warming the heart with one-act plays
Feb 6, 2019 at 9:56 AM Feb 6, 2019 at 9:56 AM
Your Theatre, Inc. has cast two, short, one-act plays as part of it's February Heart-Warmer presentation running from Feb. 8 through 10 at the Rivet Street Playhouse at St. Martin's.
Appearing in "Adam's First Job" is Chris Podrecca of Mattapoisett, Carl Roy of New Bedford and Tim Goff of Fall River.
Appearing in "First Valentine" is Kevin Mitchell and Joanna Tomasz, both of Fairhaven.
Eric Paradis has directed both plays.
In "Adam's First Job." written by local playwright Ray Veary, Adam is hard at work in the garden of Eden, at his first job. It is a wonderous world, and this light-hearted, funny tale shows Adam breaking ground on the human experience that has been endured ever since.
In another fun look at life and relationships in pre-civilization, "First Valentine." written by local playwright Lawrence R. Houbre Jr., shows how Adam has invented a holiday. Adam and Eve are just outside the garden having a discussion about his lack of responsibility, just before he presents her with a gift and inaugurates the first holiday to celebrate love.
The last part of the presentation features special speaker Rob Palermo of Stamford, Connecticut, an ex-limo driver from Beverly Hills. He will relate stories from his years of driving, and share his experiences and the frustrating, rewarding and entertaining romps he endured.
It's a funny, yet poignant observation of the human condition told first-hand by a true explorer of down-to-earth mankind. He has driven for Jimmy Stewart, Elton John, and Joe Walsh, and will tell stories about driving for Johnnie Cash, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and Don Rickles.
This is an open seating event, please call 508-993-0773 to confirm a seat. General admission tickets are $12, $10 for military, seniors and students, and $8 for YTI subscribers.
The theatre is located at 136 Rivet St. (corner of County St.), New Bedford, in the auditorium of St. Martin's Episcopal Church.

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Artist: Walmar Wladimir Schwab, Swiss, 1902–2000
47.5 × 117 cm (18 11/16 × 46 1/16 in.)
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Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 183, ill.
Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 621, no. 644, ill.
Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 104-05, ill.


On Saturday, the day before the 60th annual Grammys, Variety reported that Lorde declined to perform at the award show because she wasn't allowed to do so solo, like her male peers and fellow Album of the Year nominees Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars. Though silent, Lorde's boycott was heard when Recording Academy president Neil Portnow told the Grammys press room, "It's hard to have a balanced year and have everyone perform. We can't have every nominee perform." What?
Anyone who watched the 2018 Grammys knows Portnow's weak excuse held little weight: Lamar and Mars were provided long performances. Even Broadway star Ben Platt and "Pray" singer Sam Smith, two men without major award nominations, performed without a collaborator. Why couldn't Lorde?
Lorde's small gestures—her feminist attire and refusal to perform—sent a powerful message. Her lack of visibility throughout the night showcased just how much the Grammy Awards failed to value her artistry, even if they nominated her for its highest honor. The Holzer's excerpt in particular illustrates just how an artist can be political even without standing center stage.
Next year, the Grammys better get Lorde, by herself, to perform. They owe it to her.


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Sandwich Tern Black Skimmer
Elegant Tern
Thalasseus elegans
Laridae
Version: 2.0 — Published January 1, 1999
Gary P. Burness, Kara L. Lefevre, and Charles T. Collins
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Figure 1. Distribution of the Elegant Tern in North and Central America.
After breeding, individuals disperse north along the Pacific coast to northern California, or, in years of warm water intrusions, to southern British Columbia. The species winters primarily in South America, but small numbers winter locally along the Pacific coast north to Nayarit, Mexico. See text for details.
Elegant Terns, adults; breeding plumage; California, April
; photographer Arthur Morris
Adult Elegant Tern, non-breeding plumage; Orange Co., CA
; photographer Brian E. Small
Editor's Note: Study of the mitochondrial DNA of terns, along with their plumage characteristics, have suggested that the heretofore broadly defined genus Sterna is paraphyletic. Reclassification of this genus now places Elegant Tern in the genus Thalasseus. See the 47th Supplement to the AOU Check-list of North American Birds for details. Future revisions of this account will account for this change.
This medium-sized tern with a long, shaggy crest, a pink flush on its belly feathers, and a distinctive bill, has the most restricted breeding distribution of any tern in North America (see Figure 1). It nests in isolated mainland or insular colonies, among larger, more aggressive larids—primarily Heermann's Gulls (Larus heermanni) and Caspian Terns (Hydroprogne caspia). Historically, at least a dozen breeding colonies existed, but commercial egging and the introduction of mammalian predators appear to have eliminated most of them. Only 5 nesting colonies remain, and 90–97% of the world's Elegant Tern population breeds on Isla Rasa, Mexico. Such limited distribution makes the species highly vulnerable and a "Species of Special Concern" in California.
After breeding, Elegant Terns disperse north and south along the coast from their nesting colonies. In southern California, breeding success and dispersal patterns appear related to oceanographic conditions, particularly El Niño–Southern Oscillation events, which affect the distribution of key prey, the northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax). A strongly social bird, this tern nests in tight groups and, when feeding in a flock, calls frequently. Individuals generally lay a single egg but have 2 brood patches. After hatching, the chick remains in the nest scrape only a few days; then, like young of other crested terns, it joins creches—large groups of chicks in which each individual is fed by its own parents. Because foraging skills are difficult to learn in this species, postfledging parental care lasts at least 5–6 months.
Compared to most other terns, the Elegant Tern has been little studied, and most work has been concentrated at 2 California colonies. Schaffner's ( Schaffner, F. C. (1982). Aspects of the reproductive ecology of the Elegant Tern (Sterna elegans) at San Diego Bay. Master's Thesis, San Diego State Univ., San Diego.
Schaffner 1982) research was especially comprehensive and covered reproductive biology, individual recognition, diet, and general natural history. Kirven ( Kirven, M. (1969). The breeding biology of Caspian Terns (Hydroprogne caspia) and Elegant Terns (Thalasseus elegans) at San Diego Bay. Master's Thesis, San Diego State College, San Diego.
Kirven 1969) reported general breeding biology, while Evans ( Evans, M. U. (1973a). The reproductive ethology of the Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) breeding at San Diego Bay. Master's Thesis, California State Univ., San Diego.
Evans 1973a) focused on breeding behavior. Extensive data on prey selection and diet are reported in Tordesillas, B. (1992). Dieta del gallito de mar elegante (Sterna elegans) durante la temporada de reproducción de 1985 y 1986 en Isla Rasa, B.C. (Aves: Laridae). M.S. Thesis, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F.
Tordesillas 1992, Loeffler, W. E. (1996). Dietary overlap and its implications for coexistence in a recently established assemblage of nesting seabirds at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. Master's Thesis, California State Univ., Fullerton.
Loeffler 1996, and Horn, M. H., P. A. Cole and W. E. Loeffler. (1996b). Prey resource base of the tern and skimmer colonies at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Orange County, and the Western Salt Works, South San Diego Bay. Carlsbad, CA: U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv.
Horn et al. 1996b .
Burness, G. P., K. L. Lefevre, and C. T. Collins (1999). Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.404


Scout Troop 210 and Cub Pack 1096 were represented on this Sunday in several ways -- flag ceremony, candle lighting, ushering, offeratory, Children's sermon, and Communion. Thank you Scouts! We love knowing you are there learning and practicing the skills and knowledge of Scouting.


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Jesús Alberto Cano Vélez (born 7 August 1950) is a Mexican economist and politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sonora.

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1950 births
Living people
Politicians from Sonora
20th-century Mexican economists
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
University of Guadalajara alumni
Academic staff of Universidad de Sonora
People from Magdalena de Kino
Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Sonora

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Q: how do I sort the output of 'locate' by file modification time When I use the locate command, I often wish that the output was sorted in reverse chronological order, just like with ls -rtc. What is the easiest way to achieve this?

A: The easiest way to achieve this is to pipe your list of files through a sequence of commands:
locate your-search-term |
  xargs stat --printf '%.Y\t%n\n' |
  sort -n -r |
  cut -f 2-

The first line locates your files — you know this already. The second line stat-s a file and prints the last modification time (epoch seconds) and the file path, for each located filename. The third line sorts the lines numerically descending. The last line cuts the modification time and the separator from each line, leaving the original path.


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10 Killed In Twin Bombings In Philippines
By @aronfraiman08/24/2020 10:00 AMNo CommentsBy YidInfo Staff
At least 10 people have lost their lives after two explosions that struck the southern Philippine town of Jolo, earlier today. Wounding several others, one of these explosions has reportedly been carried out by a woman suicide bomber linked to the radical Abu Sayyaf group. At least 17 government troops were injured in the two attacks.
Philippine Red Cross Chief and senator Richard Gordon confirmed the explosion hit at around noon (00:00 EST) on Monday in the capital of Sulu, one of the country's southernmost provinces. Gordon, said that a motorcycle loaded with improvised explosive devices went off near a military truck. The Red Cross office in Jolo is located near the site of the blast.
The casualties in the first explosion included five soldiers and four civilians. The second explosion came soon afterward, whilst authorities were still cordoning off the area. This explosion which was reportedly carried out by a female suicide bomber took the life of one person. According to a news report, Lieutenant General Corleto Vinluan reported these casualties and added that, if confirmed, this would be the fourth known suicide attack in the country.
The blasts took place near a catholic church, which was where a major explosion claiming 20 lives had been set off last year. The previous attack had come days after a majority-Muslim area in the region voted for greater autonomy in a referendum. The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack on Jolo island, where jihadist groups are active.
In a statement, Philippine police chief Gen Archie Francisco Gamboa said he has ordered an investigation into the deadly incident, adding that all perpetrators should be held accountable for the crime. Although no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, Sulu has always been under the stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf Group, an armed outfit that has allied itself with ISIL (ISIS).
Abu Sayyaf has long been crusading for independence in the southern region of Mindanao, claiming it to be a land that belongs to their ancestors since the pre-Spanish colonial period. The group has been a known accomplice to several kidnappings, robberies, and deadly bombings.
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Pterodiscus ist eine Pflanzengattung aus der Familie der Sesamgewächse. Der Gattungsname wird aus dem griechischen pteros für Flügel und dem lateinischen discus für Scheibe hergeleitet und bezieht sich auf die Struktur der Früchte.

Beschreibung
Es handelt sich um mehrjährige krautige Pflanzen mit einem kurzen, ausdauerndem Caudex. An der Spitze des Caudex werden in jeder Vegetationsperiode einjährige Triebe ausgebildet. Diese können bis 50 cm lang werden. Die gestielten Blätter sind leicht sukkulent und in der Spreite sehr unterschiedlich geformt. Sie können linealisch oder lanzettlich bis breit länglich oder elliptisch ausgebildet sein. Der Rand der Blätter ist entweder ganzrandig, gebuchtet, gezähnt, fiederteilig oder fiederschnittig.

Die gelben, leuchtend orangen, roten oder purpurnen, selten auch weißen, Blüten erscheinen einzeln aus den Blattachseln. Die schmal zylindrische, an der Basis oft leicht ausgesackte Kronröhre ist im unteren Teil verschmälert oder selten im oberen Teil trichterig. Die am Ende des ausgebreiteten Kronsaumes befindlichen gleich großen Lappen sind etwa kreisrund bis elliptisch. In der Röhre sind die vier Staubblätter eingeschlossen, deren Theken abspreizen. Ein fünftes Staubblatt ist meist als Staminodium vorhanden.

Die beiden Fruchtknotenfächer sind ungeteilt. Die manchmal stark verholzte, geschlossen bleibende Frucht ist seitlich etwas zusammengedrückt und besitzt an allen vier Außenkanten einen 1 bis 12 mm breiten, meist pergamentartigen Flügel. Das schwammige Mesocarp enthält große Höhlungen. Die Seitenansicht der Frucht einschließlich der Flügel ist breit elliptisch, eiförmig, kreisrund oder quer elliptisch (bei Pterodiscus aurantiacus). Oft ist sie leicht asymmetrisch geformt, an der Spitze ausgerandet oder mit aufgesetzten Spitzchen versehen. Für gewöhnlich ist sie an der Basis ausgerandet. Der Fruchtkörper ist meist in der unteren Hälfte am breitesten. Der obere Teil ist steril und bildet oft einen Schnabel aus.

Die Samen befinden sich entweder zu 1 bis 3 Stück in jedem Fach und sind dann länglich ausgebildet mit einer glatten Samenschale. Oder sie sind zu 4 bis 8 Stück, selten bis 10 Stück in jedem Fach und sind dann eiförmig mit einer runzeligen Samenschale.

Verbreitung und Systematik
Die Arten der Gattung Pterodiscus sind im Südwesten, Süden, Osten und Nordosten von Afrika verbreitet.

Die Gattung wurde 1844 beschrieben und umfasst 12 Arten. Als Typusart der Gattung wurde Pterodiscus speciosus  bestimmt.

 Pterodiscus angustifolius
 Pterodiscus aurantiacus
 Pterodiscus brasiliensis
 Pterodiscus coeruleus
 Pterodiscus elliottii
 Pterodiscus kellerianus
 Pterodiscus luridus
 Pterodiscus ngamicus
 Pterodiscus ruspolii
 Pterodiscus saccatus
 Pterodiscus speciosus
 Pterodiscus undulatus

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After the title's debate on a non-Playstation platform in Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II brings the series back to its original home of the Playstation 2. As to be expected the basic controls are similar to the original's for the most past, providing a familiar if renovated feel compared with the first installment. That is hardly to say the two systems are the same or even all that similar in what they offer, as Kingdom Hearts IImade a noticeable effort of raising the number of ways in which a player can fight through the game.
The basic controls seem to follow the design of Kingdom Hearts. The left analog stick is reserved for movement. The D-Pad is in charge of the command menu while X is for attacking and selecting, O is for jumping and cancelling a selection, and ■ is used for different menu operations as well as special mid-combat abilities. The first difference is with the right analog stick. While in Kingdom Hearts the right analog stick copied the D-Pad's functionality, in Kingdom Hearts IIis used to control the camera, giving better control over the view point in more dimensions.
The most noticeable difference from Kingdom Hearts remains with the ▲ button receiving quite a bit of importance both in-battle and during regular play. Starting in Kingdom Hearts II is a system called the Reaction Commands, a set of "pop-up" commands that become available at different times in the game. For instance, talking to an NPC or opening a chest no longer replace the menu's "Attack" command like it did in the first game, but instead those commands appear above the menu when the player approaches the chest or person he wishes to talk to.
The Reaction Commands also appear in the midst of battle and often save the player from what otherwise would've been deadly situations. Almost all the enemies in the game have unique Reaction Commands exclusive to them, and some bosses can only be beaten by properly activating their Reaction Commands.
Beyond the "how", the gameplay's "what" was expanded in this installment. The command menu has doubled in size and now consists of two four-slot lists, offering various new combat methods along with the familiar ones.
The attack command and magic sub-menu remained, along with the Summon option which now has a new rooster Sora can call upon for help. How the Summoned ally behaves in combat changed, however, and is closer in nature to the newly introduced Limit system.
The Limit system utilizes the basic party structure and lets Sora use powerful combo attacks with a specific party member. Each party member as well as the Summoned allies has their own unique Limit ability; the only exception is the Trinity Limit technique Sora can use on his own for the not-so-rare occasion in which he needs to fight on his lonesome.
Limit techniques replace the Attack command at times and offer a Reaction command. When the Limit gauge fills up an ultimate finishing move is unleashed, dealing heavy damage before ending the Limit. Regular Limits can only be used when Sora has remaining MP, but Summon Limits can be used more freely so long as the Summoned ally is still present.
The party is not the only place Sora receives help from. More than once an "independent" character joins the fight, separate from the playable party. Depending on who joins they might hurt the party as well, but will always help them at least somewhat by attacking their enemies.
The most unique and notice-worthy of this bunch is Mickey, who appears during selected boss fights should the party fall. A choice is presented to the player and should he choose to Not Give Up, Mickey appears as a playable party-replacement. While he is able to deal damage he is incapable of dealing finishing blows. The only way to end a fight is for Mickey to use a special Reaction command to fill up a gauge. Once three bars are filled, Mickey revives the party and then takes his leave. The chance of being saved by Mickey lowers each time he appears in battle, though it starts with a reassuring 100% on the first defeat.
On the matter of defeat there is another thing to note, being that Sora's HP depleting isn't the only way in which a Game Over occurs. Certain missions and conditions are set on various occasions, such as protecting an 'independent' party member or defeating a given group of enemies within a limited timeframe. Should the time run out before the enemies do, or if the protected character runs out of HP, it's Game Over.
About the biggest difference in gameplay from Kingdom Heartsis the Drive system. Given new, magical clothes, Sora gains the ability to tap into his full potential. Depending on which form he transforms into using the clothes his stats and abilities change, giving focus to one or more aspects such as his physical or magical abilities.
In order to change into a Form, Sora must "sacrifice" one or more party members during gameplay (they appear in any scene Sora enters while in a Form). Most forms are obtained as the game progresses, but two special forms are obtained randomly and only once certain plot events took place.
Overall, it's hard to say the gameplay remained too close to the original system introduced in Kingdom Hearts. However, it still retains much of its original charm and fluidity and seems to have simply grown up along with its main character, and is true to his growth as a warrior and a friend.
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Q: Make GCM work on all networks This is a follow up to this question.
Which port and protocol does Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) use?
The issue here is that there are many WIFI networks out there which blocks the ports GCM use, and for me is sounds crazy that a push solution uses so often blocked ports, it makes our solution unreliable. We build apps for consumer market, not enterprises, so we can make reservations like "will only work on port range 5228-5230, make sure these ports are opened in your network".
I can't be the first one encountering this problem, was is the rational behind Google's use of these ports, and how can I work around it in a best practice way?

A: As I understand it, when you set a firewall in your network, it blocks all ports except default ports (used for general purposes such as HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, etc...). If you to use other ports, you have to open them manually.
Google needed some ports for their service, and they chose 5228-5230. In a similar way, Apple chose 5223 for their push notifications. Both will be blocked in a normal firewall configuration, and have to be manually opened.
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The bagel makes up the bulk of the calorie total. One large, 4.5-inch bagel has about 337 calories, while a medium-sized, 3.5-inch bagel has 270 calories. The calorie count is similar for whole-wheat and white bagels, as well as for bagels with toppings such as poppy seeds or onion. The lox has 99 calories per 3-ounce serving, and the cream cheese has 50 calories per tablespoon. Low-fat cream cheese has just 30 calories per tablespoon. A typical sandwich of a medium bagel with lox and 2 tablespoons of regular cream cheese contains 469 calories.


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Constant demands by chocoholics and a huge drive on Facebook where more than 22,000 people joined the group "Bring back Cadbury's Wispa Gold", has finally led to the reintroduction of the delicious Wispa Gold bar. To commemorate the re-launch of this chocolate, the company has actually created a special gold leaf covered Wispa Gold bar. This special gold edition bar is priced at £961.48 ($1,630) making it the most expensive bar of chocolate to go on sale ever. The mammoth price is said to be the value of its weight in gold. The bar is covered in edible gold leaf and sheathed in a gold leaf wrapper. This special gold bar was delivered to Selfridges by Tony Hadley (singer with Spandau Ballet whose biggest hit was Gold) accompanied by a full security team to ensure it is kept under lock and key. The bar will be on display for a week in the stores jewelry department. What is more, all proceeds from the sale of this gold edition will go to the UK Lowe Syndrome Trust.
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Q: Usuing Join, Max + groupBy orderBy Query Builder Laravel Im trying to translate this query from mysql
SELECT usuario_cia.idusuario_cia,usuario_cia.nombre,usuario_cia.fkcompania,
            mobil_gps.idmobil_gps,  mobil_gps.fkmobil,MAX(mobil_gps.fechahora), mobil_gps.bateria
    FROM usuario_cia
    INNER JOIN mobil_gps ON mobil_gps.fkusuario= usuario_cia.idusuario_cia
    WHERE usuario_cia.fkcompania=24
    GROUP BY idusuario_cia
    ORDER BY mobil_gps.fechahora DESC;

to a function in my Laravel model with Query Builder, I have a big problem with the max, rigth now I have this:
$datos=$query->join('mobil_gps','mobil_gps.fkusuario','usuario_cia.idusuario_cia')

    ->select( 'usuario_cia.idusuario_cia','usuario_cia.nombre','usuario_cia.fkcompania',
        \DB::raw('mobil_gps.idmobil_gps'),\DB::raw('mobil_gps.fechahora'), \DB::raw('mobil_gps.fkmobil'),\DB::raw('mobil_gps.bateria'))

    ->where('usuario_cia.fkcompania', $id_compania)
    //->max(\DB::raw('mobil_gps.fechahora'))
    ->groupBy('usuario_cia.idusuario_cia')
    ->orderBy(\DB::raw('mobil_gps.fechahora'), 'desc')

    ->get()->toArray();

but if I uncoment the max part everithing crash.
Could u give me any suggestion?

A: You have to use MAX() in select():
->select(..., \DB::raw('MAX(mobil_gps.fechahora)'), ...)

This is also the only place in your query where you need DB::raw().


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Oscar Could Leave Chelsea – Reports
By blue admin	 On Jun 25, 2014
Reports are gathering that Chelsea are ready to sell another of their big stars. This time it's their Brazilian midfielder Oscar – a target for both Paris St Germain and Juventus.
This time six months ago, this would have been simply laughable. Jose Mourinho was praising Oscar to the skies, saying he was undroppable in the number 10 role behind the strikers. So much so, in fact, that he was indirectly responsible for the sale of Mata to Manchester United, after the Spaniard was deemed surplus to requirements.
Now, it's more believable. Oscar's form dropped off noticeably in the second half of last season – to such an extent that he found himself regularly on the bench. Willian was more than often preferred to him as a starter, and the manager voiced suspicions that Oscar was holding himself back for the World Cup.
Some analysts commented that the purchase of Cesc Fabregas was a sign that Oscar could now go the way of Mata. However, I believe this was a misreading of where Fabregas will play. It is unlikely that the Spaniard will play directly behind the striker, as Oscar usually does, but that he will hav e deeper role. That still leaves plenty of space ahead of him for Oscar to play in, and may free him up to make more dangerous runs into the penalty area.
However, it is possible that if a high enough offer came in, Chelsea would be willing to accept it. The newspapers suggest he could leave for as little as £40million, but this seems unlikely. Chelsea know his worth and are unlikely to let him go for anything under £50million or even £60 million, especially if PSG are bidding. The Parisian club has been trying to secure the services of either Oscar or Eden Hazard for some time now – and appears to have given up, for the moment at least, on the near-impossible task of prising the Belgian away from Stamford Bridge.
The source for these stories does not seem to be one with a detailed inside knowledge of Chelsea's affairs – unlike the reporter who broke the Mata and Luiz stories – and given that, it may well be that these rumours are being floated by PSG contacts, or even by Oscar's representatives. Either way, until the stories start emerging from Chelsea-related sources, this is a suggestion that is unlikely to fly.
Oscar's performances so far in the World Cup have been encouraging. He looks more like the player who started 2013/14 in such fine form. If he can return to Chelsea and maintain those sort of displays, Chelsea's valuation of him may well increase to the point where it exceeds even PSG's ability to pay.
It also might encourage Jose Mourinho to play him more, which could well put these transfer stories to bed for good. Or at least until the next transfer window.


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Published in the April 27, 2017, edition of the Lyons Recorder.
Ever since the 2013 flood, and even earlier, Town of Lyons leaders, homeowners, and the Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) have been talking about accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as a possible solution to provide more options for affordable rentals in town.
As of Monday night, the first homeowners to participate in the Town of Lyons ADU process got the first step of approval from the PCDC. Next it will go to the Board of Trustees on May 1.
All 5 members of the PCDC present at the April 24 meeting voted to approve the conditional use review for a detached ADU (an apartment in a separate building) at 327 Seward Ave. No members of the public gave input at the public hearing for the conditional use review. The conditional use review was passed with a recommendation that the Lyons Fire Protection District give input at the next step before the Board of Trustees, and a statement clarifying that Town of Lyons municipal codes about home businesses apply to a recording studio in the building.
Also known as mother-in-law apartments or carriage houses, ADUs are small apartments in either the existing house, a garage, or a separate outbuilding. The original Town of Lyons ADU ordinance, established in 2013 after the flood, allowed small apartments to be permitted on single-family residential lots, but no homeowners in Lyons applied to participate in the program for those 3 years. With the goal of encouraging more lower-cost, market-rate rentals in town for employees of Lyons businesses, seniors, and others who need affordable housing, the Lyons Board of Trustees directed the PCDC in early 2016 to work with the Lyons Utilities and Engineering Board to look for approaches that could help encourage ADUs.
At the end of 2016, the PCDC and the Board of Trustees voted to change town code, removing the additional utility connection fees for "detached" ADUs in separate buildings from the main house on single-family residential lots in town limits. Attached ADUs within the same structure as the main house don't require conditional reviews, but do require permits.
Now that a barrier that many have said made building ADUs financially prohibitive is removed, our community will see how many Lyons homeowners can and do move forward to build ADUs to provide more rental opportunities. ADUs probably won't be added in all parts of town with R-1 zoning. Some neighborhoods with homeowners associations are likely to prohibit ADUs.
I would like to see more rental housing stock in Lyons, and I recognize ADUs as a market-rate solution that might help. But I don't think it is a magic solution that fixes all our affordable housing issues. Except for the mysterious creatures that I call "benevolent landlords," most homeowners will charge market-rate rents, which we have seen to continually rise here in Lyons.
The town has a total of 26 permanently affordable rentals (already in Lyons before the September 2013 flood), according to the Boulder County Housing and Human Services department: 8 apartments at Bloomfield Place, 12 apartments at Walter Self Senior Housing, and 6 apartments at Mountain Gate. Also, Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley plans to build 6 permanently affordable homes (3 duplexes) at 2nd and Park Streets on residential lots purchased in 2016.
The Town of Lyons lost a total of about 70 flood-destroyed homes to both the federal buyout programs (including the 16 homes in the Foothills Mobile Home Park buyout, closing on April 28) and to the changed use of the Riverbend mobile home park property to an event venue (rezoned for commercial use). In March 2015, a proposal for subsidized, affordable Boulder County Housing Authority rentals and some Habitat for Humanity for-sale affordable homes (a total of 50-70 units) on five to seven acres of Bohn Park was voted down 614 to 498 by Town of Lyons voters in a special election.
In March, the Town of Lyons and the City of Longmont agreed on a sales price of $925,000 for the land, east of U.S. 36: 6.45 acres on the north side of Colo. Hwy. 66 at 4651 Ute Hwy and 3.43 acres on south side at 4652 Ute Hwy. FEMA will pay for the part of the land where the Lyons public works building will be relocated, on 2 acres in the furthest northeast corner of the northern parcel. Insurance funds from the Colorado Intergovernmental Risk Sharing Agency (CIRSA) will pay for the new public works building, which was damaged in 2013 flood. On March 20, the Lyons Board of Trustees unanimously approved both purchasing the Longmont water treatment plant land and ratifying the Lyons Primary Planning Area Master Plan, an amendment to the Lyons Comprehensive Plan to guide decisions about future annexation requests.
According to attorney reports to the Lyons PCDC and Board of Trustees, state law has different requirements for town-owned land, which can be annexed into town limits directly without assigning zoning, but the property must be zoned by 90 days after the annexation. The plan for annexing the 9.88 acres is for the Board of Trustees to hold two readings of an annexation ordinance on May 1 and May 15. Although not required for this annexation step, the trustees expect to hold a public hearing (for members of the public to comment) at the second reading on May 15. Then the Town of Lyons officials and staff will come up with a schedule for subdivision and zoning and will bring it back to the PCDC for the zoning process when the final plat is ready (before July 25, to meet the 90-day requirement).
In 2015, Lyons was awarded a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Agency as matching funds to extend the sewer and water to this site in order to increase the likelihood of development and increase the employment base in Lyons. The utilities expansion work must begin by mid-June to not lose the funding. Then the next priority is to zone the 2 acres where the Lyons public works building will be located for municipal use.
After the Town of Lyons has the land, The Board of Trustees can determine the best path forward for the remainder of the parcels, and when sold, reimburse the town water enterprise fund. The land is determined as acceptable for mixed use, residential, and commercial development, including light industrial. The town might also consider offering incentives for light-industrial businesses to swap land near the center of town that could be residential for land on the eastern corridor.
The parcels have been considered as a possible area for affordable housing, discussed in past years when the town applied for a national resiliency grant that it did not receive. Also, if light-industrial businesses move from central areas of town to this eastern corridor area, land could open up for future affordable housing in more centrally located areas.
This column is a weekly commentary (opinion column) about affordable housing in the Lyons Recorder. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints about this column, please contact me directly at areinholds @hotmail.com. For a history of post-flood efforts for affordable housing in Lyons, you can read previous columns from both Lyons-area newspapers posted on my blog at lyonscoloradonews.wordpress.com.
Published in the April 19, 2017, edition of the Redstone Review.
LYONS –Since last month's column, two closing dates are scheduled in April that might affect affordable housing.
The Town of Lyons plans to close on purchasing the former water treatment plant from the City of Longmont on April 25.
According to an attorney report to the Lyons Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) on April 10, state law has different requirements for town-owned land, which can be annexed into town limits directly without assigning zoning, but the property must be zoned by 90 days after the annexation. The plan for annexing the 9.88 acres is for the Board of Trustees to hold two readings of an annexation ordinance on May 1 and May 15. Although not required for this annexation step, the trustees expect to hold a public hearing (for members of the public to comment) at the second reading on May 15. Then the Town of Lyons officials and staff will come up with a schedule for subdivision and zoning and will bring it back to the PCDC for the zoning process when the final plat is ready (before July 25, to meet the 90-day requirement).
After the Town of Lyons has the land, The Board of Trustees can determine the best path forward for the remainder of the parcels, and when sold, reimburse the town water enterprise fund. The land is acceptable for mixed use, residential, and commercial development, including light industrial. The town might also consider offering incentives for light-industrial businesses to swap land near the center of town that could be residential for land on the eastern corridor.
The Town of Lyons is set to close April 28 with the owner of the former Foothills Mobile Home Park on a buyout with federal Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds.
The former 1.26-acre Foothills Mobile Home Park at 104 5th Street, had 16 residential units, some rented lots for owned mobile homes, and some rented units, most which were destroyed by the 2013 flood. The State of Colorado set priorities for how the FEMA funds from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program could be used for buyouts of flood-destroyed homes, prioritizing single family homes (the buyouts Lyons saw in the past year) over the Foothills Mobile Home Park, considered a commercial property. But now the buyout can be completed with the CDBG-DR funds. The appraisal value and sale price will be public information when the sale is completed.
The buyout will be a welcome move for owner John Baranway, who has expressed since the flood that he wanted to develop a new mobile home park, if he received buyout funds and was able to buy other property in the Lyons area that is out of the floodplain. And this buyout also provides some additional federal funds under the Uniform Relocation Act to the 16 displaced households of the Foothills Mobile Home Park – funds that are only available for mobile home park residents displaced by a federal buyout.
And for neighbors, this buyout is an opportunity for an extension of undeveloped, deed-restricted buyout land, and completed demolition and cleanup of remnants of the destroyed mobile homes.
The Town of Lyons is required to grant a 90-day notice after the April 28 closing date to a current renter of a house at the west end of the property. Then after those 90 days, when the tenant moves out, the demolition can begin. The time-frame requirements for reimbursements of demolition and cleanup costs are mandated by the federal funding sources.
After the September 2013 flood, the Town of Lyons lost a total of about 70 flood-destroyed homes to both the federal buyout programs (including the 16 homes in the Foothills Mobile Home Park) and to the changed use of the Riverbend Mobile Home Park property to an event venue (rezoned for commercial use). For history of post-flood efforts for affordable housing in Lyons, you can read previous columns posted on my blog at lyonscoloradonews.wordpress.com. This column is a monthly commentary (opinion column) in the Redstone Review about affordable housing. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints about this column, contact me directly at areinholds@ hotmail.com.
Published in the April 13, 2017, edition of the Lyons Recorder.
At Monday's Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) meeting, commissioners heard updates about future annexations and prepared for upcoming public hearings on annexations and accessory dwelling unit special use reviews. They also shaped a draft of possible code changes that could allow homeowners to rent out rooms as short-term vacation rentals.
The Town of Lyons plans to close on purchasing the former water treatment plant from the City of Longmont on April 25. At the Monday, April 10, PCDC meeting, the commissioners received a report from Town of Lyons planning staff and a consulting attorney about how annexation will work for the land east of town.
The attorney update to the PCDC commissioners described how state law has different requirements for town-owned land, which can be annexed into town limits directly without assigning zoning, but the property must be zoned by 90 days after the annexation. The plan for annexing the 9.88 acres is for the Board of Trustees to hold two readings of an annexation ordinance on May 1 and May 15. Although not required for this annexation step, the trustees do plan on holding a public hearing (for members of the public to comment) at the second reading on May 15. Then the Town of Lyons officials and staff will come up with a schedule for subdivision and zoning and will bring it back to the PCDC for the zoning process when the final plat is ready (before July 25, to meet the 90-day requirement).
In 2015, Lyons was awarded a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Agency as matching funds to extend the sewer and water to this site in order to increase the likelihood of development and increase the employment base in Lyons. The utilities expansion work must begin by mid-June to keep the schedule and not lose the funding. The next priority after that is to zone the 2 acres where the Lyons public works building will be located for municipal use.
In March, the Town of Lyons and the City of Longmont agreed on a sales price of $925,000 for the land, east of U.S. 36: 6.45 acres on the north side of Colo. Hwy. 66 and 3.43 acres on south side. FEMA will pay for the part of the land where the Lyons public works building will be relocated, on 2 acres in the furthest northeast corner of the northern parcel. Insurance funds from the Colorado Intergovernmental Risk Sharing Agency (CIRSA) will pay for the new public works building, which was destroyed in flood.
After the Town of Lyons has the land, The Board of Trustees can determine the best path forward for the remainder of the parcels, and when sold, reimburse the town water enterprise fund. The land is acceptable for mixed use, and residential and commercial development, including light industrial. The town might also consider offering incentives for light-industrial businesses to consider swapping land near the center of town that could be residential for land on the eastern corridor. The Board of Trustees will also consider whether this land could be part of Lyons Urban Renewal Authority for another possible funding sources.
The area has been a possible area for affordable housing, discussed in past years when the town applied for a national resiliency grant that it did not receive. If light-industrial businesses move from central areas of town to this eastern corridor area, land could open up for future affordable housing in more centrally located areas.
The PCDC also continued a past discussion on a policy to allow limited short-term vacation rentals in rooms of homes that are owner-occupied. The commissioners expected to prepare some final recommendations to the Board of Trustees for proposed changes to town code after a finalized draft. Currently, short-term vacation rentals are not allowed in residential zones in Lyons unless there is a conditional use review for a bed and breakfast.
Homeowners must pay sales tax to the state and have a short-term vacation rental business license for the Town of Lyons.
When rooms are rented to guests, homeowners must display a document (similar to a building permit) that is visible from the front door, that identifies the home as having short-term vacation guests, and provides contact information for the owner or a designated person managing the vacation rental.
The Town of Lyons needs long-term rentals that people who work in town can afford. Those of us who care about affordable housing should watch the proposed changes to vacation rental policy and determine how the decisions affect other rental stock.
The first conditional use review for an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) will be held April 24. ADUs are small apartments in either the existing house, a garage or separate outbuilding. At the end of 2016, the PCDC and the Board of Trustees voted to change town code with the aim of encouraging more ADUs for lower-cost long-term rentals that people who work in town can afford. The changes to town code removed the additional utility connection fees for "detached" ADUs in separate buildings from the main house. Attached ADUs within the same structure as the main house don't require conditional reviews, but require permits.
Also on the agenda for the April 24 meeting, although not related to housing: the PCDC commissioners will have a public hearing about annexation of Planet Bluegrass-owned land in Boulder County to the west, across Hwy 36, from the current Planet Bluegrass festival grounds. And, the PCDC will review a Deed-Restricted Buy Out Properties (DR BOP) Neighborhood Handbook for adjacent property owners who want to use undeveloped buyout properties for uses such as gardens.
PCDC chair Gregg Oetting also reported that Mayor Connie Sullivan will be appointing a commissioner to fill a PCDC vacancy.
Tiny homes as accessory dwelling units?
Finally, the PCDC commissioners got a brief update from Lyons flood recovery planner Matt Manley about options for town code changes to respond to Board of Trustees direction to look into whether tiny homes on wheels could be included in the Lyons ADU policy.
Manley said that an amendment to International Residential Code could be made to allow homes under 400 square feet on a foundation. However, the town's hired building inspection company, Charles Abbott Associates, estimates a cost of $1,200 to make that amendment to the code. He also said that other options would be for Lyons to adopt a completely new building code. For tiny homes on wheels, the town would have to write its own code or choose to rely on the National Fire Protection Association 1192 Standard on Recreational Vehicles (not intended for year-round living), with a few additional requirements.
The term "tiny homes," describes a trend that started in the early 2000s of small constructed homes that are on built on a trailer frame with axles and wheels, registered like recreation vehicles (RVs). Tiny homes on wheels, which have a vehicle license like RVs, don't fit into the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) standards for manufactured housing (mobile homes), the International Residential Code (IRC) that building inspection companies like Charles Abbott Associates use, or the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1192 Standard on Recreational Vehicles, which currently applies to any RV but is not intended for year-round living.
Discussion with PCDC commissioners included suggestions that if tiny homes on wheels were allowed as ADUs, there could be a recommendation to the Board of Trustees that a limited number be allowed in town, or that a landowner could have a limited time to have such an ADU, such as 3-5 years. This would allow the town to evaluate if there are any issues with tiny homes as ADUs.
It's interesting that this PCDC discussion about a temporary trial period synced up with a panel discussion that I attended earlier that day at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado titled "Housing Security: A Roof Over Every Head." Andrew Heben, project director with Square One Villages in Eugene, Ore., has worked with his city of 160,000 in order to provide transitional housing for homeless people who had been living in tent cities, and his organization is using tiny homes.
This is a weekly commentary (opinion column) in the Lyons Recorder about affordable housing. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints about this column, please contact me directly at areinholds @hotmail.com. For a history of post-flood efforts for affordable housing in Lyons, you can read previous columns from both Lyons-area newspapers posted on my blog at lyonscoloradonews.wordpress.com. The Town of Lyons lost a total of about 70 flood-destroyed homes to both the federal buyout programs (including the 16 homes in the Foothills Mobile Home Park buyout, closing on April 28) and to the changed use of the Riverbend Mobile Home Park property to an event venue (rezoned for commercial use). In March 2015, a proposal for subsidized, affordable Boulder County Housing Authority rentals and some Habitat for Humanity for-sale affordable homes (a total of 50-70 units) on five to seven acres of Bohn Park was voted down 614 to 498 by Town of Lyons voters in a special election. At the end of 2016, Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley purchased six residential lots in Lyons to build three permanently affordable duplexes.
Published in the April 6, 2017, edition of the Lyons Recorder.
After years of negotiations with state and federal officials about funding for a post-disaster buyout of a flood-destroyed mobile home park, the Town of Lyons signed pre-closing documents with the owner of the former Foothills Mobile Home Park on Monday.
The former 1.26-acre Foothills Mobile Home Park at 104 5th Street had 16 residential units, some rented lots for owned mobile homes, and some rented units, most which were destroyed by the Sept. 2013 flood. The Town of Lyons will complete this buyout with federal Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery funds. The State of Colorado set priorities for how the FEMA funds from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program could be used for buyouts of flood-destroyed homes, prioritizing single family homes (the buyouts Lyons saw in the past year) over the Foothills Mobile Home Park, considered a commercial property. But now the buyout can be completed with the Community Development Block Grant funds. The appraisal value and sale price will be public information when the sale is completed.
Finalizing a closing date for the buyout will be a welcome move for owner John Baranway, who has expressed since the flood that he wanted to develop a new mobile home park, if he received buyout funds and was able to buy other property in the Lyons area that is out of the floodplain. And this buyout also provides some additional federal funds under the Uniform Relocation Act to the 16 displaced households of the Foothills Mobile Home Park – funds that are only available for mobile home park residents displaced by a federal buyout.
And for neighbors, this buyout is an opportunity for an extension of undeveloped, deed-restricted buyout land, and completed demolition and cleanup of remnants of the destroyed mobile homes. Deed-Restricted Buy Out Properties (DR BOP) Use and Management Plan meetings have been going on since November. A Neighborhood Lot Handbook meeting is scheduled for April 12 at 6-7:30 p.m. at Lyons Town Hall.
Look for more details in upcoming columns as information becomes available.
To learn about possible options for new mobile home parks in Lyons, see the Manufactured Housing and Flood Recovery in Lyons, Colorado report that was prepared in 2015. The study was commissioned by the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF) in November 2014 to understand the potential role of manufactured housing in Lyons' long-term flood recovery.
The report defines "manufactured houses, sometimes called mobile homes or trailer homes," as "housing units that are built in a factory and on a permanent steel chassis" and describes the role of mobile homes in Lyons before the 2013 flood and demographics of who lived in mobile home parks affected by the flood. The report describes the damage to the Foothills Mobile Home Park and the Riverbend Mobile Home Park, the local, state, and federal regulations, flood recovery fund eligibility, potential strengths and weaknesses as a type of affordable housing, and potential scenarios for new mobile home parks.
This is a weekly commentary (opinion column) in the Lyons Recorder about affordable housing. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints about this column, please contact me directly at areinholds @hotmail.com. For a history of post-flood efforts for affordable housing in Lyons, you can read previous columns from both Lyons-area newspapers posted on my blog at lyonscoloradonews.wordpress.com. The Town of Lyons lost a total of about 70 flood-destroyed homes to both the federal buyout programs (including the 16 homes in the Foothills Mobile Home Park) and to the changed use of the Riverbend Mobile Home Park property to an event venue (rezoned for commercial use). In March 2015, a proposal for subsidized, affordable Boulder County Housing Authority rentals and some Habitat for Humanity for-sale affordable homes (a total of 50-70 units) on five to seven acres of Bohn Park was voted down 614 to 498 by Town of Lyons voters in a special election. At the end of 2016, Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley purchased six residential lots in Lyons to build three permanently affordable duplexes.


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Actor Duane Howard admits to sex with teenager – she says it was violent, he says there was consent
National News | October 17, 2018 by Kathleen Martens Attributed to: | 2 Comments
First Nations actor Duane Howard apologized Tuesday for what he calls "consensual sex" with a 16-year-old girl in 1993.
"I want to clarify I did not rape Lauraleigh (Paul)," Howard said in a telephone interview with APTN News.
Howard was 30-years-old at the time.
"I wanted to apologize for the one-night stand; we had casual sex."
Howard can be heard taking several deep breaths over the phone.
"I did not know she was 16," he added.
When Howard had his sexual encounter with Paul in 1993 the age of consent in Canada was 14. The law was raised to 16 in 2008.
The telephone interview was conducted with Howard's publicist, Holly Carinci, listening on the line.
Howard apologized for "the incident" in a video posted to Facebook earlier Tuesday. The nearly five-minute video has since been removed.
Howard said he "apologized for this encounter" to Paul in person in 2016, and she accepted his apology.
"Since then we have had what I thought was a close friendship," he said, noting he has private messages to this effect.
He said he has been reeling since she characterized what happened as an alleged crime on her Facebook page on Oct. 10, being unable to sleep more than a few hours a night and feeling quite emotional.
(Lauraleigh Paul in an undated Facebook photo.)
Calling it "an ugliness I no longer wished to be burdened with," Paul described a sexual assault in a post on her Facebook page Oct. 10.
The Vancouver-based entrepreneur wrote:
"It was a violent rape. He slithered into the room, I say slithered because he literally crawled across the floor to get to me. I couldn't breathe as he had my mouth covered and pushed into my face with his hand. I can remember how painful it was.
"My neck hurt because of the way he was keeping me quiet. His scaly skin against mine. My vagina was tearing, and it stung and burned, made me cry for days."
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Her post remains up and has been shared and commented on hundreds of times.
"They had quite a close friendship," noted Carinci. "This has been very shocking and it's one of the reasons he's been so silent.
"Duane has been completely bowled over and has received nothing but hatred from the community."
Carinci asked that, for Howard's own safety, APTN not report his whereabouts.
She clarified that his video apology on Facebook was written by two women from his community on Vancouver Island.
"His apology – to be clear – was for what he thought was wrong by having albeit consensual sex with a teenager way back then," Carinci said.
Howard said he took the video down on Facebook after a few hours when it seemed to be doing more harm than good.
"I felt that it was just making matters worse. Everybody was angry…everybody felt that I wasn't being remorseful."
He confirmed he looked tired in the video, and had been feeling lots of "ups and downs."
He said only "about six people" have called or messaged him while he goes through this difficult experience.
"What I'm really upset about is that none of my brothers from the community … try to support me."
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Filth and scum no different from a white man power and fame use people be ashamed of yourself native pride my ass use and abuse human traits no matter of skin color but can I add my comment the white man stole your culture my ass you are no different from the majority of humanity you are shot no respect period
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Savage woman-hater Michael Sams abducted estate agent Stephanie Slater and murdered Julie Dart but was caught when his first wife recognised his voice on Crimewatch
Wooden-legged loner Michael Sams kidnapped Stephanie Slater for eight horrific days in 1992 after murdering 'dry run' victim Julie Dart the previous year
Jeff Edwards
Steve MyallDeputy Features Editor
Updated 11:18, 13 MAR 2018
Ordeal: Stephanie Slater reunited with her Dad in 1992 after her kidnap by Michael Sams (Image: Mirror)
Michael Sams was the most difficult type of criminal for the police to combat; a cunning and ruthless 'lone wolf', who would stop at nothing.
In July 1991, Sams, 49, decided to get rich by kidnapping someone who would be valuable - for whom a large ransom would be paid.
He built a lair to keep his hostage in, an old workshop by the River Trent in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Then he decided on a dry run to see if his plan would work.
He drove to the red light district of Leeds, and, taking a leaf out the Yorkshire Ripper' book, he decided to abduct a prostitute.
He lured 18-year-old Julie Dart into his car and, threatening to stab her if she struggled, drove her south to Newark.
There he stripped her, tied her to a chair and forced her to write a letter to her fiancée asking for money to be paid for her release.
He then pushed her into a cell he had constructed out of timber and metal sheets.
Sams went home, but his phone rang that night, alerting him to the fact that Dart had escaped. He had rigged up a trigger mechanism, which meant an escape from her cell would cause his phone to ring.
Julie had smashed her way out of the cell, but there was no way out of the workshop for her. Sams rushed back to the scene and murdered Dart with a hammer. He wrapped her body in old blankets, and the next night, put her in the boot of his car and drove to a country lane near Huntingdon to dump her body in a field.
Victim: Teenager Julie Dart was killed with a hammer after trying to escape from Sams' lair (Image: Mirror)
Julie Dart, from Leeds, had been placed in a coffin-like box and chained to the floor.
Killer Michael Sams, serving life for the murder of teenager Julie Dart and kidnap of estate agent Stephanie Slater (Image: PA)
Stephanie Slater in January 2002 (Image: Channel 5)
Heartrending detail of Stephanie Slater's kidnap ordeal that she could never explain
Her letter had arrived with her family who had called in the police. But a bombshell was too follow.
Even though his victim was dead, Sams sent a letter to the police demanding £140,000 for Julie's safe return.
He demanded a bizarre communication chain using the personal columns of a newspaper.
However, when Julie's body was discovered, he abandoned his extortion attempt.
Sams' plan had not worked the way it was supposed to, but as far as he was concerned, it just need fine tuning. He needed another hostage. In January 1992, he struck again.
He placed a call to an estate agency in Birmingham. Calling himself Mr Southwall, he asked to view a run-down semi-detached house in the Great Barr district.
An appointment was made and on 22 January, estate agent Stephanie Slater, 25, went to the house to meet the new client.
It was her first appointment of the day. By lunchtime, she had not come back to her office, and her colleagues had begun to worry.
When the phone rang at 12.22pm, their anxiety turned to terror. A man's voice told receptionist Sylvia Baker: "Stephanie's been kidnapped. A ransom demand will be in the post tomorrow. If you contact police, she will die."
The smiling face of Michael Sams, who put Stephanie Sams through 8 days of kidnapping hell (Image: Daily Mirror)
Michael Sams, Stephanie's captor, at the time of his arrest (Image: BPM MEDIA)
At the house, Sams had held a knife to Stephanie's throat, then bundled her into a car and drove her to the same lair where he had kept Julie Dart, in Newark.
This time he had refined his plan by constructing an escape-proof cell - a wheelie bin with a lockable lid.
After forcing Stephanie to strip naked, she was pushed inside the bin and the lid locked.
West Midlands police, alerted by Stephanie's colleagues, were sure this was the work of the same man who had kidnapped Julie Dart.
The ransom demand was soon received, this time it was for £175,000. The deadline was set for January 29. If the money was paid she would be released unharmed two days later. If not, she would die.
Chillingly the package had included a cassette tape with Julie's faltering voice begging the police to co-operate with her kidnapper.
On 28 January the phone rang at Stephanie's office and Sams demanded to speak to her boss, Kevin Watt.
When Watt answered, Sams asked: "Have you got the money ready?" Told that he had, Sams snapped: "You will get a call at three o'clock tomorrow" and promptly hung up.
Police were secretly recording the call. It was going to prove a vital breakthrough.
In the meantime, the money was assembled. When the call came the next day, Kevin Watts was ordered by Sams to drive to Glossop near Manchester.
It was the start of a trail of clues left by the kidnapper that eventually led Watts with the bag of money to a bridge over a disused railway in the Pennines, near Barnsley.
In the misty darkness Watts saw a tin tray on the bridge parapet. As instructed he placed the cash on the tray. Down below, hiding in the pitch dark, Sams tugged a rope and the money fell at his feet.
Drop off: The bridge over a disused railway in the Pennines, near Barnsley, where Sams collected his ransom money (Image: Mirror)
Stephanie Slater was kidnapped by murderer Michael Sams after he arranged for a viewing of a property (Image: PA)
Michael Sams profiled in Daily Mirror from July 7 1993 (Image: Daily Mirror)
Stephanie Slater's best friend says she "never got over" horrific eight-day kidnap where she was held in coffin
He jumped on a motorbike and escaped.
Although Watts had been shadowed by scores of undercover police, Sams had got away with the money. The bag with a radio tracker in it was still on top of the bridge.
At his lair he opened the bin and told Stephanie: "I've got the money, you're going home".
Sams was true to his word. After blindfolding her, he drove her to the end of her street in Birmingham, and let her go.
He thought he'd got away with it, but with Stephanie free, the media had the story and the hue and cry unnerved him.
He rang her office and threatened receptionist Sylvia Baker, not knowing that the police had left their tape recorder in place. On 20 February the tapes were played on Crimewatch on the BBC.
Sams' former wife, Susan Oake did not watch the show live, but had recorded it while she was out. When she watched it later, she recognised her husband's voice and called the police.
In 25 years Crimewatch snares 57 murderers, 53 rapists and sex offenders and 18 paedophiles
Police grabbed Sams the next day. They found his workshop, the wheelie bin cell and many other things Stephanie had been able to tell the police about in great detail.
"Sams was an arrogant man who hoisted himself on the petard of his own self confidence. And his luck ran out" said DS Bob Taylor in July 1993 (Image: Daily Mirror)
Family picture of Stephanie Slater (Image: PA)
Ransom money recovered from Sams' workshop (Image: Daily Record)
The ransom money drop point (Image: REX/Shutterstock)
At trial he admitted kidnapping Stephanie but denied the kidnap and murder of Julie, confessing to police three days after being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1993.
Stephanie never got over the attack and died last year from cancer.
Donal MacIntyre's Murder Files is on at 10pm tomorrow (Wednesday March 14) on CBS Reality
Julie Dart
Michael Sams
Stephanie Slater


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