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It's all in the family
By Sylvia Edwards Davis
| Contributing Editor | 13th May 2013
A renovation project in Paris
Bernard and his sister Ann decided to pool resources and invest in a holiday property for the whole family to benefit from. Together with their respective significant others Anne and Ronnie the idea was to find somewhere where their grown up children and the whole extended family would enjoy going to visit all year round. Ronnie has family in Paris, and they all had visited the city many times and loved it so the answer became clear. There were so many things to see and do that they would never run out of good and interesting reasons to visit Paris.
Once the decision to buy was made, it was simply a matter of deciding where in Paris. The conditions were that the property should have good transport links and to be able to reach it on the metro from the Gare du Nord without making any changes.
An elegant Haussmann building
Both Anne and Ronnie had separately seen the area in Paris called the Butte aux Cailles which they both liked for its good mix of restaurants and shops and the village atmosphere. They agreed that they all preferred an older property with character and, of course, it would have to be within the allowed budget.
Great bones but needed work
What resulted from the search was a little treasure in their preferred area of Butte aux Cailles. The apartment is on the third floor of a Haussmann building facing the southern sky, which get loads of light. The property had good bones but needed renovation. Refurbishing a property is a challenge in your own town, renovating remotely in a foreign country, in a busy city, that was an entirely different proposition.
The kitchen, after
Nearly every surface was redone and the works covered the entire range of trades. Since it is located on an avenue, as most Haussmann buildings are, they also invested in replacing the windows facing the boulevard to double-paned, which served to reduce noise and provide additional insulation. So how did they manage the long distance process? We asked Bernard and Anne to share their experience, and also spoke with Tim, their renovation specialist, to ask him about the particular challenges of renovating in Paris.
How did you manage the practicalities of a renovation from a distance?
The renovation process went very smoothly. The four of us made an initial visit to Paris to discuss our preferences with Tim. Once work started Anne became the main liaison point between us and Tim, our renovation specialist, which worked well.
The bedroom, after
What is your favorite thing about the flat?
The flat is a calm oasis and is so lovely to come back to after a day out. We all like to visit our flat several times a year, sometimes with each other, sometimes with friends and sometimes with our children. We love it!
What is your favorite thing to do around your neighbourhood" (quartier)?
It's just a 10-minute walk from the Butte aux Caille in one direction and in the other direction there's Chinatown. Just round the corner from the flat we have discovered a restaurant that does food from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam which is really good.
What would be your advise to someone thinking about renovating their Paris flat?
The key is to find a builder you can rely on particularly if you cannot speak French and who understands the style you want to create in your home. As we are based in the UK, we were able to compare prices of the furniture between branches in UK and in Paris and find a cheaper price for the same goods.
The living and dining-room, after
The point of view of a professional:
Tim, what would you say is the main difference between a renovation in Paris compared to a village or rural property?
I have been doing renovation and general contracting work in Paris for over ten years, but have over 35 years in the field, with my specialty being carpentry. Even after having worked in Paris for over ten years, there are still a litany of challenges that come with each new project. In sourcing materials, for example, it is not unusual to have entire suppliers close down two hours a day for lunch. In scheduling deliveries, parking is always a challenge and you are always under the watchful eye of the parking officials.
As most buildings are centuries old and without elevators, there are challenges in getting materials and equipment to the site. If a building has an elevator it is typically minuscule and sensitive to weight restrictions. Performing renovations in apartments, there are regulations regarding the periods during which noise can be made, which I respect to the letter of the law. This notwithstanding, more often than not, you will have a neighbor that is retired or working from home, who decides that hammering at 10:30 in the morning disrupts their breakfast time. All kidding aside, we do our best to adapt to the surroundings while respecting the timeline to delivery the project.
Also as the buildings are older, most of what we uncover comes during the demolition phase and it is at this point that modifications to plans can or must be changed. All tradesmen must be licensed and insured to perform the work. However, for most work done on the inside of the apartment, no permits or approval is required with the exception of the demolition or modification of a load-bearing wall, which requires approval of the co-ownership and syndic and studies performed and reports submitted by an engineer and building architect licensed through the bâtiments de France.
What would you recommend to somebody thinking of buying an apartment to renovate in Paris?
My best advice for those looking to do renovations is to do your research, hire qualified builders and be cautious about hiring designers who are not qualified in dispensing structural advice, but focused only on aesthetics. Because a qualified contractor or builder has had more practical and on-hands experience, they can see a project through to conclusion. Check the references of your builder, make certain that you have an easy time communicating with them and that's the best that you can do to increase your chances of delivering the best results while also increasing the value of your property.
• With thanks to Tim McCafferty of SAINT MAC, SARL www.saintmac.fr Tel. 06 60 26 42 28
For further information about any of the above properties or for help with your property search, please call our consultant at +44 (0)1225 463 752 or email [email protected] or contact one of our local property finders with expert knowledge of the area.


The City of Flagstaff is committed to ensuring taxpayers experience a smooth transition in licensing and reporting TPT activities with the Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR). Early transition has begun for licensed businesses ahead of the anticipated start date of January 1, 2017.
1. Register your Flagstaff business location with ADOR electronically. Taxpayer Education Tutorials videos are available at (https://www.azdor.gov/TaxpayerEducation/Tutorials.aspx).
Add "Flagstaff" as a location in the Region Code screen (region code FS).
Add the appropriate Business Codes as instructed in the Taxpayer Education tutorial videos (https://www.azdor.gov/TaxpayerEducation/Tutorials.aspx).
It is State law that you file the State's multijurisdictional TPT-2 tax return form electronically and remit your payment online via AZTaxes.gov (www.aztaxes.gov/Home).
The filing and payment due dates are listed in the Transaction Privilege and Use Tax Due Date Calendar located on this webpage.
City business and deduction codes are different than state business and deduction codes of the same business description!
Please pay special attention when licensing and reporting to ensure both ADOR and City of Flagstaff codes are reported accurately!
For additional information please email salestax@flagstaffaz.gov or call (928) 213-2250 .
The City of Flagstaff Sales Tax & Licensing Division thanks you for helping make TPT Simplification a success. We are confident these changes will make it easier for all Arizona businesses to report state, county, and city TPT taxes to one jurisdiction.


Publishing giant Mills & Boon, high-street bookseller WHSmith, online eBook retailer Kobo along with the self-publishing platform Kobo Writing Life have partnered up to offer the Romance Writing Life competition.
Romance Writing Life was created in the hopes of discovering talented new writers of Romance. The winning title might be an unpublished gem just completed by the author a week before submission, a self-published novel that's already been enjoying some success digitally or just the first chapter of an new masterpiece. The author who wins the grand prize might be a savvy mid-list author with several self-published books under her belt who's looking to break into print, or a creative writing student eager to share her writing with the world for the first time. The competition is open to everyone who loves to write romantic stories.
Mills & Boon, WHSmith, Kobo and Kobo Writing Life are all committed to promoting quality authors and books. This collaboration between a brick-and-mortar retailer, a historic book publisher, and a digital bookseller is unprecedented and provides the winning authors with an incredible promotional reach. We're thrilled to be working together to bring new and talented authors to the forefront, and we can't wait to begin the judging process.
To be eligible for this competition, the author must reside in the UK, Canada, or the United States.
Every author must have an active Kobo Writing Life account to enter the competition. You can register for an account here.
The submitted title should be an original, unpublished or self-published, fictional Romance novel, to which the author owns all the rights. We are accepting any and all Romance genres, including but not limited to Historical Romance, New Adult Romance, Contemporary Romance, and Paranormal Romance.
Authors are required to submit a synopsis of no longer than 500 words, and the first chapter of the manuscript of no longer than 5,000 words. Though only the first chapter is required, the winner must be prepared to submit a full manuscript of 70,000 words or more to Mills & Boon on or about September 30, 2015.
To find out more about Romance Writing Life, click here.
Sounds like a great competition! Is there a way to enter without providing banking information during the account creation process? I am not comfortable doing so.
All you are required to do is create an account on Kobo Writing Life, Marcy; you're not required to actually publish a book through our wonderful platform (but if you want to, just check the video in the LEARNING CENTRE to see how easy it is).
The banking information in KWL is ONLY required when you are ready to hit the PUBLISH button. The reason we do that is to ensure we have a way to pay you for any sales of your book(s).
So in answer to your question, you do not need to provide banking information. Just make sure, when entering the contest, to use the email address that you used to sign up for your free KWL account.
That's great news! Thank you for the quick reply.
Is the competition open to people living in Ireland?
Hi Mary. Residents of Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, are eligible. However, those residents of the Republic of Ireland are not.
We do our best to be as global as possible in everything we do, Alexandra, but the laws of particular territories and regions have laws that make it almost impossible to navigate, so trying to include those regions in a contest makes it virtually impossible for us. You might have noticed that about other contests that didn't originate in Australia or New Zealand. We have the same challenge, regularly with Quebec, a Canadian province that has laws that pretty much guarantee that almost any cross-Canada promotion is not going to happen there.
But do note that we have sponsored contest within New Zealand. See links below for our sponsorship of a fantastic contest in collaboration with the New Zealand Society of Authors.
OMG. I will be entering Rose in the Dark into this competition.
What an exciting competition however I was sad to see I cannot enter as I reside in South Africa. Nevertheless, best of luck to all the writers.
I'm very sad that the competition is so limited. I live in South Africa. So many doors are closed just because my address is in the wrong country. Good luck to the authors who are allowed to take part.
Are you releasing information about the contract? Or is that to be determined at a later date?
The winner will get the opportunity to sign a regular contract with M&B (both print and digital). Unfortunately, we are not at liberty to divulge the details of the contracts signed between M&B and their authors. That said I'll report your request to M&B an see whether we can provide any further detail on this specific contract.
I have a quick question. Although it says the first chapter is to be submitted, would a short prologue (approx. 1000 words) and the first chapter be acceptable, provided that the synopsis, prologue and first chapter were within the 5,500 word limit?
Please, bear in mind that the synopsis is to be included in your submission. You cannot replace that with the prologue. However, the prologue can be considered as a part of the first chapter and, in your submission, you can include that in the section devoted to the first chapter. The total word limit is 5,500. However, beware that you must respect the maximum word-count allowed for each section (Synopsis: 500 words, First Chapter: 5,000 words).
The submission guidelines indicate a 1 page synopsis of 500 words. To me, that means the document should be single spaced. Since we have to submit a single document, should it all be single spaced? Are there guidelines as to font size that I missed? Thank you.
It says in the contest details that' the winner must be prepared to submit a full manuscript of 70,000 words or more to Mills & Boon on or about September 30, 2015.' The problem is, the editor guidelines for three of the M&B lines (Romance, Presents and Medical) only ask for 50,000 words and only publish stories around this length—so 70,000 words would be far too long for submission to these 3 lines. Would the editors really want 70,000 word stories for these lines?
Because of the nature of my day job I'd prefer to enter under a pen name and keep my real identity private. Would it be okay to do this if I gave my real name on the entry too? I don't mind giving it, i just wouldn't want it published.
The only place your REAL name is required would be on the official signature documents and the contract with the publisher should you be a winner. 🙂 Kobo and our partners fully respect an author's desire to use a pseudonym and maintain anonymity.
Romance Writing Competition – Closing Date 14th July. Good luck!
Question, is this contest open to teen romance as well? Or is it strictly for adult romance?
Can you enter more than one book?
Is the competition deadline 31st July or 13th July? There have been conflicting dates on different websites.
Hi Amy, deadline has been extended to July 31st.
Why is the competition not open to the rest of the world? A while ago your site informed us that the deadline date will be 14 july and nothing was said about where your country must be. Now i am not able to participate.
Hi Isabella, our deadline was extended to July 31st. The countries eligible to enter are listed above – UK, Canada, and the United States.
My synopsis is under 500 words – however, it is one full page plus two short paragraphs so it extends to two pages. Will this disqualify me? Or should the synopsis be single line in order to enter one page only for the synopsis? If so – can I enter again?
Hi Linda, the synopsis should be no longer than 500 words, and the first chapter of the manuscript of no longer than 5,000 words. Hope this helps.
For the paranormal book, can it be young adult? Also, can you submit more than one entry?
Young adult is fine but unfortunately you can only submit one entry.
Will there eventually be a total of all of the submissions reported to Kobo members? Just curious.
I have submitted my entry however I wrote my synopsis in single line format and only included my name and title of work on the first page not on every page of the first chapter. I am worried this will mean my entry is not valid and would appreciate feedback to let me know if this is the case or if I am just over worrying. Oh and I did not put the word count, although it was 500 for the synopsis and 5,000 for the first chapter which I did. I wrote my contact details on the first page though as requested. Will my entry be ok?
I ma sorry to hear that.
As per the competition guidelines your entry should be invalid. That said, the final decision is up to the judges. Even if we cannot speak in their behalf, it is possible they validate the entry anyway if they see the reason for doing that.
thanks for getting back to me – I am gutted to be honest – bit like when you send an awful email and want it back but can't get it….., once its gone its gone…..oh well at least I know and I do however appreciate your feedback instead of sitting around moping and hoping I kind of know now…..
Congrats to the people who have or will be getting the call soon! Can't wait to see who won.
Are they announcing the winners today?
Hi, due to the high number of entries we've had to delay our announcement. We will be announcing the winners on October 1st.
Wow. Sounds like a great response to the competition. Will the winning entries be called before Oct. 1 to let them know? Fingers are crossed!!
Hello, um, aren't the winners supposed to be announced today? I'm just curious to if they have been announced yet and I can't find the page, or they just haven't been announced yet.
did they announce the winners somewhere?
Winners will be announced today!
I seem to have missed the winners announcement?


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Original Campus is part of my entrepreneurial journey and my success is measured by how many of you embark on this journey with me and make a difference to your life and the lives of others.
At OC we believe that discovering who you are, and defining your goals should be the start of your journey.
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Build your dream career but also build a great life. That is why areas such as physical health, and service to others are encompassed in our approach.


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Q: Are there 8 inch or bigger Touchscreens for embedded use (would an iPad work)? I have a requirement to build an 8" touchscreen interface on an instrument. I'm a software developer and working with a hardware team but since this touchscreen is likely to have some significant software development I wanted to see if the SO community could provide me with some early intelligence.  I have two questions:

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*Does anyone have recommendations for an 8" touchscreen  (capacitive or resistive) for embedding in an instrument? I could communicate with it over RS232, SPI, or some similar protocol.

*Could I use an iPad or similar tablet for this? The embedded processor will host a web server so the tablet could just use a browser to hit the home page and all control would be done that way. I see two obstacles: I need a tablet either with an RJ45 connector (or one that has an external adapter to Ethernet). I want to avoid having to add WiFi to the instrument (although I can if that's what it takes).
I would want a tablet that I could force to boot into the browser and have the browser always go to the home page (which would be set as the instrument's home page). It wouldn't be that big a deal if the user found some way to navigate away from the instrument, but powering on/off the instrument would always bring it back to the home page. It's OK if I have to learn the native programming language of the tablet to write an app that forces this to happen, I just don't know if it's even possible since these tablets are built for general purpose use.

A: I currently have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" Which is a very nice and comfortable size, this is Android based.
The Android platform (Especially the latest iteration of Honeycomb) support things that may be able to connect an RJ45 connector. Android Honeycomb 3.1 and higher supports USB host mode, so if you could convert it with an adapter then you're set.
Alternatively you could use the android ADK (Accessory development kit) to convert the RS232 or RJ45 port for the device.
Embedding the Android platform into your instrument would be very nice, because its extensive list of features and flexibility as a development platform would be beneficial.
More info here: http://accessories.android.com/
and here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.2.html

A: Using an iPad or similar "finished" device as your display is probably over-kill and expensive - especially for volume production.  TFT display panels and touch membranes are separately available components for you to integrate as necessary for example this supplier has touch membranes to 10.4 inch. Google "touch TFT panel" for similar suppliers in your area.

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Frenemies is Ken Auletta's reckoning with an industry under existential assault. He enters the rooms of the ad world's most important players, some of them business partners, some adversaries, many "frenemies," a term whose ubiquitous use in this industry reveals the level of anxiety, as former allies become competitors, and accusations of kickbacks and corruption swirl. We meet the old guard, including Sir Martin Sorrell, the legendary former head of WPP, the world's largest ad agency holding company; while others play nice with Facebook and Google, he rants, some say Lear-like, out on the heath. There is Irwin Gotlieb, maestro of the media agency GroupM, the most powerful media agency, but like all media agencies it is staring into the headlights as ad buying is more and more done by machine in the age of Oracle and IBM. We see the world from the vantage of its new powers, like Carolyn Everson, Facebook's head of Sales, and other brash and scrappy creatives who are driving change, as millennials and others who disdain ads as an interruption employ technology to zap them. We also peer into the future, looking at what is replacing traditional advertising. And throughout we follow the industry's peerless matchmaker, Michael Kassan, whose company, MediaLink, connects all these players together, serving as the industry's foremost power broker, a position which feasts on times of fear and change.
Ken Auletta has written the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker since 1992. He is the author of twelve books, including Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman; and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies. In naming him America's premier media critic, the Columbia Journalism Review said, "no other reporter has covered the new communications revolution as thoroughly as has Auletta." He lives in Manhattan with his wife.


Once i try to join my server directly via the in-game server browser it lets me join perfectly fine. So this must mean that there is an issue with A3Launcher. How can i fix this, because i feel like im losing a lot of potential players with this bug.


Jebel Ali Golf Resort & Spa in Dubai. Top golf courses of UAE.
Jebel Ali Golf Resort & Spa: This is one of the world's best championship standard nine-holers, and a great place to play if you are visiting either Dubai or Abu Dhabi. The opening hole, a testing par-5 with an approach over water to the green, underlines the somewhat tropical and garden-like feel to Jebel Ali, quite a surprise is you are expecting a dusty, dry, desert environment. It also gets you used to the small and fast greens, excellent bunkering and tightish fairways, which are mostly lined with a variety of palms, small trees and flowering shrubs, all liberally growing within the sandy waste areas (peacocks, guinea fowl and all manner of exotic birds don't look at all out of place in this garden-like setting). The course also features a large saltwater lake with interconnecting bridges which comes into play on five of the nine holes, mainly in front of the greens. Four different sets of tees provides a different aspect to each hole as well as the opportunity to play an 18-hole round of 6375 yards (using the Black / Blue tee-box combination). The elevated tee at the exquisite par-3 8th, gives a wonderful view over the course, the surrounding desert and out onto the Arabian Gulf.
Gently undulating terrain - easy to walk (depending on how hot the day is). Buggies usually taken.
From the Sheik Zayed Road (E11) in the south-western outskirts of Dubai, take exit 13 onto the D53 direction Port & free Zone / Jebel Ali Golf Resort. Follow signs to Jebel Ali Golf Resort for approximately 5.5 km.
2014/15 visitor fee, 18-holes (2x nine-holes) in high season (Oct thru' May): Sun-Thur AED 320; Fri/Sat: AED 405. Golf cart included. [Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc]. Credit cards accepted.
Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends. Worth booking in advance. Maximum handicap: men 28, women 45. Proof of handicap may be requested.
Non-metal spike facility. Golf carts (fitted with GPS) available for hire.
On the Tuesday prior to the Dubai Desert Classic, the Jebel Ali Challenge Match brings together some of the world's top professional players to showcase this excellent resort. A US$1,000,000 prize is on offer if any of the Challenge Match players makes a hole in one ! Jebel Ali is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World and can boast some of the best facilities of any Dubai resort hotel, including a marina, shooting club, horse and camel riding, swimming pools, and of course the golf.
PO Box 9255, Jebel Ali, Dubai, UAE.
A member of The Leading Hotels of the World. A large resort hotel right next to the sea, with 8 restaurants, golf, riding, shooting and many more activities.
A chic 4-star hotel in the bustling Media City area, with Emirates Golf Club, Hard Rock Café, the new Marina Dubai and the beach all within easy reach.


COLE ON LIVERPOOL: "They are not the biggest club any more."
Many Chelsea fans couldn't understand a quote from Joe Cole shortly after he signed for Liverpool. We had read that he felt that he had joined the biggest club in the world. Cole now sets the record straight.
'When I joined, the guy interviewing me said "you've joined the biggest club in the country" and reeled off the trophies they'd won.
I just said "Yeah, if you put it like that, I suppose you're right", and Liverpool used that as the headline to the interview.
I didn't want to upset anyone so I just went along with it. But obviously they are not the biggest club any more.
I always felt that something wasn't quite right about the interview and it's good to hear finally that they used the interview to give themselves a boost because let's face it, apart from the Champions League and FA Cup, they haven't won the League for over 20 years!
Good luck to Joe Cole at Villa this season. Hopefully he will get a consistent run of games to get back to being somewhere near his best!
"He's here, he's there, he's every f***ing where, Joey Cole, Joey Cole!"


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Q: Why mongoose opens two connections? It's a simple file from mongoose quick guide
mongoose.js
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/Chat');

var userSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  name: String
});

var User = mongoose.model('User', userSchema);
var user = new User({name: 'Andy'});

user.save(); // if i comment it mongoose will keep one connection

User.find({}, function(err, data) { console.log(data); }); // the same if i comment it

I tried to use db.once method, but effect the same.
Why mongoose opens the second connection in this case?

A: Mongoose uses native mongo driver underneath, and it in turn uses connection pooling - I believe the default is 5 connections (Check here).
So your mongoose connection will use up to 5 simultaneous connections when it has simultaneous requests.
And since both user.save and User.find are asynchronous, those will be done simultaneously. So what your "program" tells node:
1. Ok, you need to shoot a `save` request for this user.
2. Also, you need to fire this `find` request.

The node runtime then reads these, runs through the whole of your function (until a return). Then it looks at it's notes:

*

*I was supposed to call this save

*I also need to call this find

*Hey, mongo native driver (which is written in C++) - here are two tasks for you!

*and then the mongo driver fires the first request. And it sees it is allowed to open more connections then one, so it does, and fires the second request too, without waiting for the first to finish.

If you called the find within a callback to save, it would be sequential, and the driver would probably reuse the connection it already had.
Example:
// open the first connection
user.save(function(err) {

  if (err) {

    console.log('I always do this super boring error check:', err);
    return;
  }
  // Now that the first request is done, we fire the second one, and
  // we probably end up reusing the connection.
  User.find(/*...*/);
});

Or similar with promises:
user.save().exec().then(function(){
  return User.find(query);
})
.then(function(users) {
  console.log(users);
})
.catch(function(err) {
  // if either fails, the error ends up here.
  console.log(err);
});

By the way, you can tell mongoose to use only one connection if you need to, for some reason:
let connection = mongoose.createConnection(dbUrl, {server: {poolSize: 1}});

That would be the gist of it.
Read more on MongoLab blog and Mongoose website.


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Bizarre adventure in the middle of the big sea
More and more games are inspired by historical events, such as the history of the Three Kingdoms in Dynasty Warriors or the historical wars of Japan in Touken Ranbu. And today, we will travel back in time to the Age of Discovery of South America with the Sailing Era.
Sailing Era begins with the introduction of four characters from four countries: Portugal, China, Arabia, and Japan. Despite their different backgrounds, they both aspired to explore lands that were still far away and strange in the world. Everyone has their own reasons, some are simply curious, but there are also those who have a strong desire for revenge.
The game is designed in an isometric perspective format, a perspective that allows players to easily observe multi-dimensionally from 2 sides and top. The main characters will never seem to meet face to face, even when controlled by the player to the same location. However, the opening can be shocking because there will be a long "textbook history" page waiting for you.
Getting more resources in Sailing Era is quite random and unpredictable. Commodities are subject to irregular changes in price, not to mention unexpected events such as suddenly catching fire, all of which can happen in an instant. Black number players are forced to restart the previously saved process.
Moreover, the longer you stay at sea, just a little inattentive, the faster your reserves will "evaporate". Despite the assigned tasks, the direction in the game is very vague. Most games don't mark where you need to go. Players only have to trust their intuition and learn from each try, downloading and re-downloading the save until you know exactly what to do. Not only that, the English translation was judged to be unnatural, with many mistranslation errors and poor expression.
A commendable point that many gamers appreciate in Sailing Era is the historical element that the game brings. Depending on your location, there will be NPCs in different shops and all have voices in the same intonation that matches the language spoken by that country. The characters all have extremely fluent pronunciation, not sounding awkward at all. However, the main characters are only partially voiced with sighs or short sentences.
With Sailing Era, players can use either a handheld controller or a keyboard and mouse. However, the keyboard will be the option chosen by more gamers. With a handheld controller, the user interface is not only cluttered, but you can't re-enable any buttons. With a keyboard, on the other hand, you can practically rearrange most of the buttons and create a custom layout you're most comfortable with.
However, no matter which method you choose, controlling the ship is quite difficult. Battles seem to be randomly triggered as soon as you're at sea. Several battles are required for the story to progress. Especially at the beginning of the game, it will take you quite a while to finish a battle.
Sailing Era is a game with fascinating historical elements and beautiful graphics. Unfortunately, however, the gameplay part of this game is constantly being 'buying time' due to the annoying and tiring gameplay loop, combined with confusing translation. Unless you have a tutorial on hand or have a lot of patience to go through the process of trial and error, and learn from experience, you'll probably want to spend your time on another game.
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Washington, D.C., was founded in 1790 following the design of Pierre L'Enfant, a French architect commissioned by George Washington. According to L´Enfant biographer Scott Berg, "the entire city was built around the idea that every citizen was equally important," but to build a city, cheap labor was required. Enslaved African Americans at that time outnumbered white population five to one. In retrospect, it´s hard to understand the paradox of a city that was planned for equality being built by enslaved African Americans.
L´Enfant´s design marked the shape, form and limitations of the city until the present time. The Capitol Building, one of the most symbolic pieces of architecture in the city and in the country, was located on a higher point that overlooks the city of Washington on the eastern end of what became the National Mall, filled with impeccable marble neoclassical buildings and iconic monuments that commemorate the nation's history and ideals.
The medallion located in the crypt under the Rotunda of the Capitol determines the organization of the city. From its center radiate the four ordinal directions that organize the city into four quadrants, northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest. These quadrants are divided on the city's north-south axis by North Capitol and South Capitol Streets and its east-west axis by East Capitol Street and the National Mall.
Just a few blocks south from the UnitedStates Capitol and its pristine surroundings are two of the most contrasting examples of social segregation in Washington, D.C., the southwest and southeast quadrants. Historically poor and African American, these quadrants have seen their communities destroyed and displaced in the name of improvement and revitalization more than once.
Just a few blocks away from SouthCapitol Street, the incessant sound of drilling and banging and the dance of the cranes from the massive construction site right next to his house keep Will Randolph company as he rushes to leave home for work. Randolph doesn´t complain. He and Leisha Randolph, his mother, got an offer to move into theCapitol Quarter townhouses, a sought-after development located in southeast, after they were displaced because the public housing project where they were living in northwest got funding from a federal grant to go under renovation.
The CapitolQuarter Community, built in 2009, replaced the former ArthurCapper/Carrollsburg housing project, a 1950s, mostly African-American community that had fallen into disrepair and was filled with crime. The idea of demolishing the complex to make way for a new, mixed community, more suitable for the vision of the Capitol Riverfront, a revitalization project on the waterfront area, was imminent from the moment the plans to redevelop the area began. Since 1999, a $600 million investment has gone right into cleaning up the strip clubs, car lots and empty properties surrounding the housing project in the southeast quadrant. The plan to start construction of a brand-new baseball stadium that opened in 2008 wasn´t limited to the stadium, the whole area went through a process of revitalization that continues to this date. The stadium and the Capitol Riverfront project on the waterfront triggered the construction of a high number of apartments, condominiums and office buildings, bringing close to 11,000 new households to the area and turning it into the densest area in Washington, with mixed-income buildings, business centers and an entertainment district with a waterfront location.
The promise made to the original residents of returning to a new and improved neighborhood proved true for only a few. Just 12 percent of the original residents of Arthur Capper were able to return to the place they had known as home. Formerly hosting 707 households, the new project includes 138 market-rate townhouses, 76 medium-income units, 13 ownership units and 86 subsidized rental units. Randolph and his mom live in the latter. They can afford it by paying only a percentage of his salary as rent instead of a fixed-market price. The project was originally set up to provide residents who were living there prior to the renovation better conditions than the ones they formerly had, but the new properties are targeted for higher income brackets, with market prices ranging from $600,000 to $1,000,000 and above. Of the 313 newly developed units, only 114 are occupied by former residents.
In "ArthurCapper, an oral history project", conducted in 2015 by Sociologist Johanna Bockman from George Mason University, there are several testimonies of residents feeling betrayed by the fact that they never got to voice their concerns about being displaced from the place they recognized as home; taken away from their old jobs and schools. To these people the story repeats again while they see their communities disappear to serve the interests of privileged urban development and gentrification. Years of segregation and urban redevelopment have left their mark on the city's under privileged black residents.
On any given day, young mothers push their babies in strollers through the spotless streets and the brightly colored townhouses of their neighborhood in southwest, young white professionals jogging or buying their groceries at the5,000-square-foot Harris Teether that opened just in 2014. Here you can find everything that makes a neighborhood desirable. But Randolph and his mother don´t feel that way. From his perspective, the community that is divided between owners and renters doesn´t feel like home. "Many of my neighbors won´t speak to me unless I´m walking my dog. I believe it´s a serious issue when it takes an animal for you to communicate with people. And I´m probably one of the nicest people you will ever meet." Randolph is a sophisticated, well-dressed, thirty-something, young professional working on HIV prevention who holds a master's degree in organizational communication, and who is African- American.
Throughout the years, not only the former site where Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg housing project used to be has changed, but the whole area has morphed to the point of being unrecognizable. Where there once was abandoned industrial space now there is a carefully maintained waterfront. Where there once were vacant lots and scattered construction sites, now there are condos, most of them listed above 500,000k. Where there once were warehouses, now there are high-end restaurants. Where there once were liquor stores, gas stations, strip clubs and car repair shops, now stands a baseball stadium.
It´s easy to forget how the area once looked and felt. How disinvestment and marginalization lead to poverty and high crime rates. It´s also hard to believe that you just need to cross one street, South Capitol Street, to take a look at southwest today and imagine how southeast must have looked 10 years ago. But most importantly, it takes only one street to realize that a different approach should be taken to prevent the same patterns from repeating, to dignify and preserve the communities that have long lived there and have given character to these areas instead of cleaning them and erasing every single trace of their original inhabitants.
Let´s now cross to the west side of South Capitol Street.
On the corner of South Capitol and N Streets SW, you can see a group of older African American people gathered outside Cap Liquor Store. Most of them are residents of James Creek, Greenleaf and Syphax Gardens, the public housing projects that were built in the 1940s to host an AfricanAmerican, socially disadvantaged population.
Bounded by SoutheastFreeway, South Capitol Street, the Anacostia River and Maine Avenue, this area hosts a community of approximately 900 households. Built as a combination of mid-rise apartments and townhouses surrounded by gardens, basketball courts and a recreation center, the area has intended to provide a safe and healthy environment to raise a family. But the reality today is very different.
And it´s true. In the 2000 U.S. Census, the makeup of the area was 65 percent African American dwellers, 27 percent white, and 7.8 percent other. But it has changed a lot. The 2010 U.S. Census showed the remaining African American population went down to 54.3 percent and the white population went up 32.3 percent, leaving 13.4 for other races.
The future of the public housing is uncertain and the hopes of the people living in them are not high. Displacement is imminent; it´s just a matter of time. There are plans to attract at least 12,000 new households to the area and the construction of new condos has already started. Cranes dominate the landscape and the DC Housing Authority has announced plans for the redevelopment of the Greenleaf complex that comprises four blocks near the Waterfront Metro Station and while nothing has been formalized, the uncertainty about the future among the residents is getting stronger.
Buzzard Point, the farthest part of the southwest quadrant, also known for many years as the forgotten peninsula, once filled with vacant lots, crumbling warehouses and stripper clubs, is undergoing one of the most ambitious redevelopment transformations that area has experienced since the urban renewal movement that took place in the 1950s. In October 2017, the Buzzard Point Waterfront development opened, revealing the same formula as Capitol Riverfront: high-rise apartment buildings, restaurants, shops and more.
Even though construction sites still dominate the landscape, the Wharf already provides access to restaurants, condo buildings, boutiques and even a concert venue. The only recognizable thing is the fish market on Main Avenue that has been standing there since the 1800s.
Washington,D.C., is among the five most expensive cities to live in the United States. The median annual income for white families in D.C. is $120,000 while it is $40,000for black families, and the latter ones are struggling to remain living in neighborhoods currently under a process of investment and development. The dwellers of public housing projects, where the rent is based on a sliding scale determined by family income, are wondering about when they are going to get notified to move out to give space for new private development.
From her balcony of the top floor of the Greenleaf mid-rise complex, Muhammad can count at least six different cranes working incessantly. Every other day she stands outside the balcony to check out how the weather looks for the day and to see how the landscape from her window changes.
The closest construction site is just a street away. Muhammad remembers how in a community meeting several months ago, residents were told that the construction on that site was going to be a church. The 10-floor structure that's being erected now looks nothing like the promised church.
All of the change the neighborhood has already seen is nothing compared for what´s still to come. The future for residents like Muhammad is blurry. Ten years from now, the challenge will be to see if the residents of the existing public housing projects were able to remain in the area to benefit from the projected improvement or not.
It'sclearly not an easy task. The challenge is that residents like Muhammad and her children will be able to remain in an improved, healthier environment than the one they are living in right now. And that those other residents of southwest feel considered and part of the future of the city instead of having their communities cleansed one more time.
Green,Matthew, Yearwood, Julie, Daughtery Laura, Mazzenga, Maria. Washington 101: An Introduction to theNation´s Capital. UnitedStates, Palgrave and Macmillan, 2014.
Howard,Gillette. Between Justice and Beauty:Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington D.C.Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
TimothyHughes. Federal Orrery, Boston, Feb.16,1795 http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/601963.Accessed Oct 2017.
UnitedStates Census Bureau. District ofColumbia, Race and Hispanic Origin. Earliest Census to 1990. www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/DCtab.pdf. Accessed Oct 2017.
Lewis, Roger. Shapingthe City. Washington D.C. The AIA Press, 1987.
Fletcher,Kenneth. "A Brief History of Pierre L'Enfant and Washington D.C." SmithsonianMagazine, Apr 30, 2008. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-pierre-lenfant-and-washington-dc-39487784/.
Borchet,James. Alley Life in Washington. Family,Community, Religion and Folklife in the City 1850-1970. University ofIllinois Press, 1982.
Hyra,Derek, Prince, Sabiyha. Capital Dylemma:Growth and Inequality in Washinton D.C. Routledge, 2016.
Tavernise,Sabrina. "A Population Changes, Uneasily." New York Times, Jul 17, 2011.
UnitedStates Census Bureau. District ofColumbia, Median Household Income. 2010.
Dingfelder,Sadie. "Navy Yard on track to be D.C.´s most densely populated neighborhood." Washington Post, Jan 8, 2016.


WHY RENT, WHEN YOU CAN OWN! THIS TOWNHOME FEATURES 2 BEDROOMS, 1 1/2 BATHS, 1 CAR ATTACHED BASEMENT GARAGE, KITCHEN WITH ISLAND, AND IS LOCATED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SHOPPING AND DINING. ENJOY RELAXATION AT THE COMPLEX POOL. ASSOCIATION FEE INCLUDES HEAT, HOT WATER, GROUNDS MAINTENANCE, AND SNOW REMOVAL. ONLY 20 MINUTES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CT CAMPUS. MAKE THIS TOWNHOME A MUST-SEE!
Super clean 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath townhouse with own entry. Updated kitchen and baths, carpet and paint all in great condition. Sliders to deck, storage area in shared basement, 1 car detached garage, shared laundry area all convenient to unit. heat and hot water included in condo fee! Nice!
Beautifully contemporary 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath in Ryefield 1. Unit features: open floor plan, hardwood floors in living room, remodeled kitchen and baths, finished office in lower level. Complex is pet friendly. Building 1 was not found to have foundation concerns, documentation available. Seller to pay off special assessment at closing.


Guided Heritage Tours – Sunday 7th May, 2017 – Our 'First Sunday of the Month Guided Heritage Tours' start at Cultybraggan Camp, just outside of Comrie on Sunday 7th May 2017, from 11am til 4pm with last tour at 3pm.
Suitable for all ages and abilities, we will guide you around the best preserved WW2 Prisoner of War Camp in Scotland and latterly a MOD training establishment – we will take you past the Chapel, Officers Mess, Guard Block, Comrie Allotments, the Nuclear Bunker and through the last remaining almost intact part of the camp – Compound D and give you a fantastic insight to life in a POW camp and talk about escapes, murders and reconciliation.
Only £4 for adults, £3 for concessions and under 16's absolutely free. Tea and biscuits available too.
If you can't make it on Sunday 7th we are also running tours on June 4th, July 2nd, August 6th September 2nd & 3rd (Doors Open Day Weekend) and October 1st or you can visit the Camp at any time and go to Hut 1 Comrie Heritage Centre, which is open every day of the year except Christmas Day, from 7am til 9pm, where you will find an exhibition on both Comrie and Cultybraggan Camp through the ages up to the present day, as well as how the old guard hut was environmentally refurbished. Here you will also find a 'Self Guide' leaflet to help you look around the rest of the Camp.
Or perhaps you would like a guided tour of the Camp out with our Guided Tour Days please call or email for more information or to book, see contact details below.
Talks on Cultybraggan Camp – if your group would like a talk on Cultybraggan Camp 'from WW2 to the present day', we'd be delighted to arrange for one of our volunteers to come to you or you could come to us. For more information please contact us – details below.
Would you like to be a Tour Guide or Meet & Greeter? – learn something new, meet new people, be part of a really friendly group and even get a chance to become an official rated tour guide – we would love to hear from you.
Contact Details – Please just call us via CDT office, now at Hut 3&4 Cultybraggan Camp, on 01764 670769. Our email address is ComrieHeritage@gmail.com. You can also go to the Cultybraggan Facebook page where we announce events, post photographs and keep our friends up to date.


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The Science History Institute has additional spaces, including the Jacobs Reading Room, the Dow Public Square, an outdoor courtyard (with approximately 4,500 square feet of space that can be tented), and a parking lot. Separate costs for these spaces are applicable and based on availability.
The Jacobs Reading Room is situated within the Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History. Founded in 1988, the Othmer Library preserves the history of chemistry and related sciences, technologies, and industries, serving as an unparalleled resource for researchers. The Dow Public Square is a grand hall and more contemporary event space that is adjacent to the Jacobs Reading Room. Both of these spaces are available for evening events and can accommodate up to 300 people each.


1. Bring 1 inch of water to a boil in a large saucepan. Put green beans in a steamer basket, place in the pan, cover and steam until tender-crisp, 4 to 6 minutes. 2. Meanwhile, heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add garlic and paprika and cook, stirring constantly, until just fragrant but not browned, about 20 seconds. Add shrimp and cook until pink and opaque, about 2 minutes per side. Stir in beans, vinegar and salt; cook, stirring occasionally, until heated through, about 2 minutes. Stir in 1/4 cup parsley. 3. Divide the green beans among 6 plates. Top with the shrimp mixture. Sprinkle with pepper and the remaining 1/4 cup parsley.
Note: Shrimp is usually sold by the number needed to make one pound. For example, "21-25 count" means there will be 21 to 25 shrimp in a pound. Size names, such as "large" or "extra large," are not standardized. In recipes calling for a specific count, order by the count (or number) per pound to be sure you're getting the size you want. To peel shrimp, grasp the legs and hold onto the tail while you twist off the shell. Save the shells to make a tasty stock: Simmer, in enough water to cover, for 10 minutes, then strain. The "vein" running along a shrimp's back (technically the dorsal surface, opposite the legs) under a thin layer of flesh is really its digestive tract. To devein shrimp, use a paring knife to make a slit along the length of the shrimp. Under running water, remove the tract with the knife tip.


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Guidelines for social media
Here are 6 legal points to help keep your social media activities on the straight and narrow.
Please note that these Guidelines should not be construed as legal advice specific to your branch's needs, but instead they are meant to be general information to help identify potential issues. In addition, these Guidelines are subject to periodic revision, as the Internet and social media are in a state of continuous evolution. So, please be sure to check back from time to time for the latest updates.
While we have tried to address the most important issues relating to social media sharing, there may be some topics that still need attention. So, please let us know if you have any suggestions for topics to add or ways to make these Guidelines more user-friendly. By the way, these Guidelines do not address what you can do on your own branch church or Reading Room website. There is another set of Guidelines for church websites.
1. Providing links through sharing functions
Many people want to share content that they didn't create themselves, such as images and articles, through social media, but do not want to worry about getting legal permission to do so. Generally, rather than cutting and pasting content, the easiest and safest thing to do is to provide a link to the original page where that content is hosted.
You can do this by sharing the web address or "URL" (Universal Resource Locator, usually beginning with "www") of the page you wish to share. Even better, you can use the built in sharing functions that many websites offer, including CSMonitor.com, JSH-Online, ChristianScience.com, and MaryBakerEddyLibrary.org. These sharing functions are designed to let people know about the host site's content by providing a direct link to the content, as well as often including a brief excerpt, thumbnail photo, or other welcoming material.
These kinds of sharing functions provide buttons which may be labeled in a variety of ways, depending on the design of the website. Once you get started, it should become pretty easy to identify the right button to use for your social media platform of choice. You will need an account on the destination social media platform in order to post to it.
Buttons for sharing on Facebook may say "Recommend," "Like," "Facebook," or even just show a stylized letter "F."
Buttons for sharing on Twitter may say "Tweet," "Twitter," or even just show a stylized bird.
In addition, there are a number of other social media sites, too numerous to mention here. Some pages on CSMonitor.com include additional social sharing options which can be accessed via the "More" button.
No further permission is needed to use these built-in sharing functions. The same thing goes for linking to videos on YouTube and other popular video sites, but note that some videos are authorized to be embedded, whereas others can only be linked to, depending on the selection made by whomever originally posted the video.
For these reasons, you may wish to consider limiting your social sharing of content belonging to others to content which is made available via the built-in sharing functions described above.
2. Ask yourself: do I need permission to cut and paste?
If, after reading the section above, you still feel that you absolutely have to cut and paste a whole article or image, then the next question is whether you need permission from the owner of that content to use it. After all, using copyrighted content without permission is the very definition of copyright infringement.
Sometimes it seems that any kind of photo or other content you find on the web is fair game to use and share because practically speaking, all you need to do is "right click" and it's "yours." But even though the technology makes it really easy to copy and capture content, the content likely belongs to someone who may require permission before you post it.
In fact, most items on the Internet are owned by someone. So consider that you may need permission before grabbing and posting that text, photo, video, or music. And for images and video, this means not only getting permission from the owner of the image or video, but also from the people depicted in the image or video, who may be entitled to rights of publicity or privacy. Violation of these rights can be very costly, if a lawsuit results. Most websites have a Terms of Service and/or Copyright/Permissions page that explains how content on the site can be used. In addition, most sites provide a "Contact Us" page with information about how to get in touch with the site's management. These pages often include information for how to request permission to reuse the site's content.
3. Some images are not as "free" as they look
Some sites seem too good to be true, and in many cases they are. In particular, be careful of grabbing and posting images from Google images, Flickr, Wikipedia, and similar sites. Images from these sources may seem great, but they are not necessarily free to use. And sometimes the rights information associated with a given image will say the image is available for free use, but it actually isn't. These sites do not necessarily investigate the ownership rights of content that their users post, so there is not a sure way to tell if the content on these sites is legitimately available to reuse or not.
4. Get permission to use Mother Church content
You may need to get permission from The Mother Church to post its content. You may wonder whether this content is just OK to use as church members "within the family." While some of this content is available for sharing through built-in social media functions without additional permission (as discussed in Section 1 above), we still ask that you get permission before posting content outside of these functions. The primary reason for this is that we don't necessarily own or have the legal ability to offer all Church content for others to reuse.
Properly attributed quotes from Mrs. Eddy's previously published writings in English are OK to use, for instance anything from Science and Health or the collection known as Prose Works in English. Please note that permission is required to quote from Mrs. Eddy's more recently published writings, which are available in the Mary Baker Eddy Library and copyrighted by The Christian Science Board of Directors. Please see Section 1 above regarding using the sharing functions built into our websites.
5. The Cross and Crown
The Cross and Crown design is a registered trademark of the Christian Science Board of Directors, and may be used to mark Church-related websites and the Church's social media accounts -- but only with permission from the Trademark Administrator at The Mother Church. Please do not use the Cross and Crown as your business or personal avatar, profile picture, or other personal identifier. Here's some more information about licensing the Cross and Crown.
6. Privacy and defamation
Be alert before sharing private facts about others without permission, such as may be found in testimonies. This can result in legal problems. Also, be careful not to make false statements about individuals or companies that could harm their reputation - this is called defamation, slander, or libel. Even if another publication or website has published the same information, you could still be liable for publishing it if it is false and could harm reputation.
Questions? Feel free to email us at copyright@csps.com.
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So if I'm being asked in a Bible thumping, you're going to hell if you're a medium kind of place, I think I could answer, "Import/Export" without telling a lie.
I was telling someone I was working with that, I was a legend in my own mind! Teacher, mentor and friend Marveena Meek overheard me and said, "We all are Steve!" Made me feel better!


I guess this should go without even saying, but here you have it: Warning – Spoilers Ahead!
The "real" or True Ending of MGS5: Phantom Pain is considered by most gamers I've heard extremely disappointing – and one of the reasons to get this unwanted achievement is that you lose one of the best buddies in the game – Quiet (fortunately, we have a guide on how to keep Quiet as a buddy in MGS 5).
What do you think about the "True Ending" of the game? Is it indeed disappointing, as most other gamers say or you personally enjoy it? And if the game's crashes or other problems are preventing you from getting to the end, make sure to check out our guide on how to fix them!


how many of you have modded your v-6??
Who wants the Mopar/Borla Exhaust??
stage II Jet chip w/o aftermarket exhaust??
Good news for SXT owners?
3.5L Magnaflow Single System For Sale.
Come on V6'er get out to the track and run!
Truely, Is the 2.7 SE magnum worth looking at?
2.7L with Flowmaster 50 and no resinator!!!
What is this thing on my 3.5L exhaust pipe?
2.7L as an alternative fuel engine?
Interested in a Turbo kit?
MSD ignition and coil pack for SXT?
Found an Exaust for the 2.7-3.5L Engines!
Interested in a tuner for the V6?
Jetchip 2.7L HP Gains? Superchips?
Superchips Email!!!!!!For one for us!
3.5 and a 2.7 test monkey FREE PARTS!
Who has lowered their car?
Had to de-chip The Beast today.
This is my Charger. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Ordered my Airaid + cleaning kit today.
Tell it it's a police car!
Just ordered my WR and Stage II!
300 Limited with Mopar Duals?
Interest in Headers for the 3.5L?
Factory D dyno's only up to 5500rpm?
!!Mod for burnouts in SXT!!
Jet Stage 2 install and initial impressions.
2.7L Sudge Problem??? HELP NEEDED ASAP!!
DC outlet in front console?
Dealer Demo? Are they a good deal?
EVIC Diagnostic Mode 146psi Oil Pressure?
Demo Sxt Or New Se?
Break In Period/procedure For Sxt?
2.7L Exhaust = decrease acceleration?
2.7L 0-60mph times before and after mods?
2.7L mpg increase with K&N drop in or Tornado?
Which CAI and CHIP is best for the 2.7L Magnum?
Jet Chip Stage II Fuel Mileage?
New Dilemma..RT or SXT? Help?
SXT 0-60 times before and after mods?
Keep headlights off with unlock?
What do i need to burnout?
Leather Seats ever soften up?
Buying a '05 Mag tomorrow. Does Black have flake?
Which SXT CAI You Guys Like?
Pull Fuse 11 after new exhaust put on?
Stock SXT...How loud is yours?
Is that the Hemi !
Interesting find on the 300M.
Can you Turbo a 2.7?
Who has external XM or Sirius setups??
3.5L in 2008 Grand Caravan???
How many HP does a Jet Chip 2 add?
turning the key on does nothing?!


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Guidance on where to find open content for use in teaching and how to ensure that it is correctly attributed can be found on the Library website. Guidance on embedding content into Minerva can be found here. The University also provides access to video content which can be used in teaching via the following platforms:
Lecture capture recordings
Mediasite is the University's media management system and can be accessed directly at mymedia.leeds.ac.uk or via Minerva, on or off-campus. Mediasite is where a user's digital content, including lecture capture recordings, is stored for review, editing and publishing. To support students to view lecture capture recordings offline whilst working remotely, it has been agreed temporarily that students can be permitted to download Mediasite content from module areas. This is being run as an opt-in service and can be requested by following the information detailed here. This process is subject to change and will be reviewed regularly.
VideoLeeds is the University's video showcase platform and is a way to easily watch and showcase content, as well as searching for specific content from different Faculties. Watch this short tutorial on VideoLeeds.
Video content from the courses developed by the Digital Education Service is available on VideoLeeds and can be used in your teaching. Full list of courses and channels.
Box of Broadcasts
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is a shared, online, off-air TV and radio recording service for UK higher and further education institutions. It is the result of a partnership between BUFVC, Jisc and the BBC. BoB enables staff and students to access over 1 million broadcast programmes from over 60 channels, including all BBC TV and radio content since 2007. No registration is necessary, simply log in with your Leeds username and password on or off-campus. For more information, please see the Digital Education Service website.


How many excuses do you have in a day? I hesitate to guess. Whether it's to avoid giving someone feedback to a colleague, making that call to sell your great idea to a stranger or even saying "No" to that coffee - we all make excuses to avoid the feeling of anxiety or loss and the affect on our ego!
Resilience, courage and discipline all come to mind when I consider the development of a character required to avoid these excuses.
Be up front with yourself - build your list of tasks/goals/challenges and all the excuses to avoid tackling these. Then, remind yourself why you need to complete these tasks/goals/challenges, how you're going to achieve these and how you might reward yourself!


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Apple to pay $113mn to US states over iPhone battery complaints
Apple also settled a case with France's consumer watchdog to pay 25 million euros ($27.4 million) in a related case.
By AFP News
Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to settle litigation with more than 30 US states over its slowdown in performance of older iPhones to manage battery power.
The latest "batterygate" settlement will divide the settlement among California and 33 other states, according to a statement by state Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
The settlement resolves complaints that the tech giant made misrepresentations about iPhone batteries and software updates that throttled processing performance to manage insufficient battery power, according to the state official.
"Apple withheld information about their batteries that slowed down iPhone performance, all while passing it off as an update," said Becerra.
"This type of behavior hurts the pockets of consumers and limits their ability to make informed purchases. Today's settlement ensures consumers will have access to the information they need to make a well-informed decision when purchasing and using Apple products."
The settlement resolves complaints about Apple's iPhone 6 and 7 generation phones which according to the states' complaint were susceptible to performance loss.
Apple agreed to a new settlement on allegations that it slowed the performance of older devices such as the iPhone 7 to manage insufficient battery capacity Photo: GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / SPENCER PLATT
Apple had no immediate comment on the matter.
In the court documents, the iPhone maker said it agreed to the payout "solely for the purposes of settlement," without any admission of wrongdoing.
Earlier this year Apple agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the same issue.
In December 2017, Apple admitted that iOS software was tweaked to slow performance of older iPhones whose battery life was deteriorating to prevent handsets from spontaneously shutting down.
Critics accused Apple of surreptitiously forcing users to buy phones sooner than necessary, and the outcry forced Apple to upgrade its software and offer steep discounts on battery replacements.
French prosecutors opened an inquiry in January 2018 at the request of the Halt Planned Obsolescence (HOP) association.
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Mercedes' modern F1 revival started with the creation of a works squad for 2010 – the platform for a meteoric rise up the Grand Prix order. The team generated huge excitement from the off with the sensational return of Michael Schumacher, but headlines soon followed on track: three podiums in their debut season, all via Nico Rosberg – who then claimed a breakthrough pole/victory double at China in 2012. The following season he was paired with Lewis Hamilton, the duo going on to stage some epic title battles as the Silver Arrows swept all before them to become one of the most dominant forces of the modern F1 era. And with Hamilton now partnered by steely Finn Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes remain very much the team to beat. (Bio from Formula1.com).


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Israeli trade union announces strike
Israel's largest trade union announced Tuesday it was launching a general strike at daybreak that would shut down the country's international airport, but said it would allow one incoming flight — the plane bringing England's soccer team for a match against Israel. The Histadrut labor union said it was protesting the failure of local authorities to pay the salaries of thousands of workers. The strike was set to begin Wednesday morning and has no end date. Full Story


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Belarus protesters gather as President Alexander Lukashenko rejects calls to rerun vote
Posted Sun 16 Aug 2020 at 7:40pm Sunday 16 Aug 2020 at 7:40pm Sun 16 Aug 2020 at 7:40pm , updated Mon 17 Aug 2020 at 3:32am Monday 17 Aug 2020 at 3:32am Mon 17 Aug 2020 at 3:32am
Alexander Lukashenko rejects election re-run in fiery speech.
abc.net.au/news/belarus-protest-alexander-lukashenko-rejects-vote-rerun/12564170
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has vehemently rejected any possibility of holding a rerun of a questionable election that gave him a sixth term in a landslide, despite pressure from massive protests.
A large crowd has come out to support Mr Lukashenko ahead of a speech in a public square
He has claimed Western powers are meddling in the sovereignty of Belarus
Anti-government protests started after officials said Mr Lukashenko won a sixth term with about 80 per cent of the vote
Mr Lukashenko spoke to a group of supporters who had rallied near the main Government building in Minsk on Sunday.
A Reuters reporter estimated the crowd at about 5,000, while Government officials said 65,000 people had attended.
At the same time, larger groups of up to 200,000 streamed toward the site of an opposition rally 2.5 kilometres away.
It was the ninth straight day of anti-Government rallies.
The authoritarian President has ruled the ex-Soviet nation with an iron fist since 1994, repressing opposition figures and independent news media.
But this year, fed up with the country's declining living standards and Mr Lukashenko's dismissal of the coronavirus pandemic, sustained anti-government protests before and after the August 9 presidential election posed the biggest challenge to his 26-year rule.
On Sunday, the 65-year-old accused Western powers of interfering in his country's sovereignty.
Supporters of Mr Lukashenko chanted his nickname, "father", as they waited for him to appear. (AP: Sergei Grits)
He claimed they were gathering military units in countries along Belarus's western borders.
And Mr Lukashenko denounced suggestions by some Western nations the presidential elections should be rerun.
"If we follow their lead [and rerun the election], we will perish as a state," Mr Lukashenko said.
Belarusian opposition supporters say the election that returned Mr Lukashenko was a sham. (AP: Dmitri Lovetsky)
In contrast to the first days of protest when large contingents of police and special forces were deployed against protesters, police appeared to be all but absent when the opposition supporters entered the square.
The gathering ended peacefully about three hours later.
The atmosphere was celebratory, with people carrying the red and white flags used in Belarus after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, before Mr Lukashenko restored the Soviet version four years later.
They called out, "Long live Belarus" and "We won't forget or forgive".
Russia, former Soviet states look at providing support
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to send unspecified security assistance to the former Soviet republic if Mr Lukashenko asked for it.
In previous months, Mr Lukashenko had warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin had wanted to take over Belarus, a nation of 9.5 million people.
As Mr Lukashenko invoked fears of Western military designs on Belarus, the Collective Treaty Security Organization, a military alliance of six former Soviet states including Belarus, said it would make a decision about providing assistance if requested by Belarus.
Election officials said last week that Mr Lukashenko won a sixth term with about 80 per cent of the vote.
Protesters said the election was a sham and alleged results were manipulated.
Some opposition supporters say they have been beaten by police. (AP: Dmitri Lovetsky)
As post-election protests grew, about 7,000 people were arrested at the demonstrations, which police harshly tried to put down with clubs, rubber bullets and flash grenades.
When many detainees were later released, they showed extensive bruises they said were due to police beatings.
Some protesters at rallies carried pictures of loved ones so beaten by police they could not attend.
On Saturday, hundreds of opposition supporters turned out for a funeral for one protester, Alexander Taraikovsky, 34, who died last week in Minsk under disputed circumstances.
The Government claimed he was killed by an incendiary device he was carrying.
But his partner saw his body and said there were no marks on his hands, just a hole in his chest, and she believed he was shot.
Police have engaged in brutal showdowns with protesters following presidential elections in Minsk in August. (AP: Sergei Grits)
As Mr Lukashenko's supporters waited for his appearance at the rally, many chanted his nickname of "Batka", or "father".
They also chanted "Maidan won't take place," referring to the months of protests in Ukraine in 2013–14 that drove then-president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country.
Mr Lukashenko's supporters have wanted to highlight the positive aspects of his rule.
Yet Belarus's declining economy and Mr Lukashenko's dismissal of the coronavirus pandemic as "psychosis" are among the factors that have galvanised the largest and most sustained protests the country has ever seen.
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Belarus Opposition Leader calls for more protests, EU to impose sanctions
Belarus protesters detained, beaten after President Alexander Lukashenko wins election
Thousands in Belarus form 'lines of solidarity' in protest against President Lukashenko
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Catholic hospital argues fetuses are not people
In a malpractice case involving a Colorado woman and her unborn twins, lawyers for a Catholic Hospital are arguing that the court "should not overturn the long-standing rule in Colorado that the term 'person,' as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive. Colorado state courts define 'person' under the Act to include only those born alive. Therefore Plaintiffs cannot maintain wrongful death claims based on two unborn fetuses." From the Colorado Independent:
Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year's Day 2006. She was vomiting and short of breath and she passed out as she was being wheeled into an examination room. Medical staff tried to resuscitate her but, as became clear only later, a main artery feeding her lungs was clogged and the clog led to a massive heart attack. Stodghill's obstetrician, Dr. Pelham Staples, who also happened to be the obstetrician on call for emergencies that night, never answered a page. His patient died at the hospital less than an hour after she arrived and her twins died in her womb.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Stodghill's husband Jeremy, a prison guard, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of himself and the couple's then-two-year-old daughter Elizabeth. Staples should have made it to the hospital, his lawyers argued, or at least instructed the frantic emergency room staff to perform a caesarian-section. The procedure likely would not have saved the mother, a testifying expert said, but it may have saved the twins.
The lead defendant in the case is Catholic Health Initiatives, the Englewood-based nonprofit that runs St. Thomas More Hospital as well as roughly 170 other health facilities in 17 states. Last year, the hospital chain reported national assets of $15 billion. The organization's mission, according to its promotional literature, is to "nurture the healing ministry of the Church" and to be guided by "fidelity to the Gospel." Toward those ends, Catholic Health facilities seek to follow the Ethical and Religious Directives of the Catholic Church authored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Those rules have stirred controversy for decades, mainly for forbidding non-natural birth control and abortions. "Catholic health care ministry witnesses to the sanctity of life 'from the moment of conception until death,'" the directives state. "The Church's defense of life encompasses the unborn."
But when it came to mounting a defense in the Stodghill case, Catholic Health's lawyers effectively turned the Church directives on their head. Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect "unborn persons," and Catholic Health's lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments. Instead, they are arguing state law protects doctors from liability concerning unborn fetuses on grounds that those fetuses are not persons with legal rights.
Read full story here.
Bill Dilworth
Yes, RC bishops have the duty and authority to hold RC institutions accountable for their stance on RC teaching. For example, the local bishop controls which Catholic theologians may teach in a Catholic university.
My point was that the bishops were not the ones directing the lawsuit, or deciding the strategy, or claiming that fetuses are not persons. They are getting involved after the fact. Seeing the bishops' hands in every stupid, hypocritical, or wrong decision made by any RC institution is simple conspiracism, and denies the agency of individuals. Believe it or not, some attorneys are actually capable of unscrupulous behavior without direct orders from the local diocesan chancery.
I imagine that the CHI Board of Trustees will be called in on the carpet about this, and that the fetus defense will be dropped; I don't see how the CO bishops could avoid doing it, even if they wanted to.
Dallas Bob
The Catholic Church is massively involved in its hospitals, including its bishops. From one of the link above:
"The Catholic bishops of Colorado are not able to comment on ongoing legal disputes. However, we will undertake a full review of this litigation, and of the policies and practices of Catholic Health Initiatives to ensure fidelity and faithful witness to the teachings of the Catholic Church."
Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, S.T.L., Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Denver
Most Rev. Michael Sheridan, S.Th.D, Bishop of the Diocese of Colorado Springs
Most Rev. Fernando Isern, Bishop of the Diocese of Pueblo
If they aren't hypocrites they will repudiate the defense of the hospital's attorneys as it clearly conflicts with Catholic teaching. The above listed bishops claim authority to ensure Catholic Health Initiatives's faithful witness to Catholic teaching. Seems reasonable to expect them to weigh in just as they have with contraception.
Bob Button
"Disavow their legal strategy"? Again, this was the strategy of CHI's lawyers, not that of the bishops of Colorado. CHI is sponsored by a group of women's religious orders,and run a board of trustees, with nary a bishop in sight: http://www.catholichealthinit.org/body.cfm?id=37473
A self-serving press release from the bishops aimed at damage control does not cut it. Let's see whatever comes of this "investigation". When the bishops come out and disavow their legal strategy stating they will pay millions of dollars in damages if their investigation shows their hospital's negligence I will start to listen. But remember this is the Church that fought against their child abuse victims tooth and nail (See the Rudy Kos trial in Dallas for a vivid, stomach turning example). This is yet another example of rank hypocrisy from an institution that claims they are persecuted because of contraception but gleefully pulls the levers of power to take away the constitutional right to choose. This sordid affair is extremely sad but unsurprising.
Well, judging from the reaction of the bishops of Colorado, the attorney's strategy was news to them:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/catholic-bishops-investigate-hospital-fetus_n_2546353.html
Honestly, do you really think that the bishops are involved with every decision made by the lawyers retained by every Catholic non-profit organization? That sort of evil villainy would tax the energy and datebook of even Lex Luthor.


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HomeNewsCampusTemple announces updated sustainability plan
Temple announces updated sustainability plan
The 2019 Climate Action Plan aligns with the city's goal to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050.
22 April 2019 Megan Milligan Campus, News
The university announced its updated climate action plan on Monday, which aims to reduce carbon emissions. | JEREMY ELVAS / THE TEMPLE NEWS
Temple University released a Climate Action Plan on Monday, Earth Day, that falls in line with Philadelphia's goal to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050.
The university used the city's climate plan as a reference for its own, said Kathleen Grady, the university's director of sustainability and chair of the Climate Leadership Working Group. City Council approved a purchase agreement with a solar company in November to power city facilities, and the university is looking to mirror this strategy, Grady added.
"We wanted to look at the city's documents because we recognize that we are a large institution and player in the city of Philadelphia," she said. "…We need to be working in a coordinated way."
The university will partner with an outside renewable energy provider, but has not yet decided what type of energy will be used and what company will source it. Using an off-site energy partner will be cheaper because it will have a larger and more efficient power facility than if it were built on-campus, Grady said.
"We're expecting the plan to pay for itself," she said. "Other portions of the plan that require funds will create finance through the savings from the energy efficiency projects."
The Climate Action Plan includes ways to make facilities more energy efficient and adaptable to changing climate and educate the Temple community about sustainability goals.
The university also conducted a waste study as part of the plan, discovering that, too often, coffee cups were put into recycling containers. Those cups — for hot or iced coffee — aren't recyclable, Grady said, and students and companies on campus need to rethink their packaging.
The Climate Leadership Working Group, a collection of students and university staff in operations and academics formed in 2016, coordinated with 300 people to create the new Climate Action Plan. That included Temple students, faculty and staff; city officials and climate change experts, Grady said.
Sarah Kuchan, the director of grounds and sustainability for Temple Student Government, sat in on a series of town halls during Fall 2017 to represent students in the Climate Action Plan. At the town halls, attendees offered feedback, critiques and suggestions to the Office of Sustainability about reducing Temple's carbon footprint. Grady also went directly to classes, which ensured students who couldn't make it to the town halls were heard, Kuchan said.
From 2006-18, the university reduced all its U.S. campuses' net greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent, even when it expanded by more than 2.2 million square feet and increased enrollment by more than 9,000 full-time students, according to the 2019 Climate Action Plan report.
In 2018, the university jumped from a bronze to silver rating in the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System, The Temple News reported in September. Every building on campus built after 2014 is certified by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a green building rating system, and the university improved its stormwater drainage.
Compared to the university's 2010 Climate Action Plan, the new plan redefines the best practices to reduce carbon emissions based on evolving research. It takes the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change into account, which announced in October that if current practices continue, the world would reach a 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit temperature increase between 2030 and 2052, meaning sea levels would rise and ecosystems would be lost more quickly.
As part of the 2019 plan, new student orientation will be more focused on sustainable living, and there will be a shift in the campus culture around protecting the environment, Kuchan said. Incoming freshmen will see institutional changes in terms of the university's energy sources, and facilities that are more sustainable over their four years at Temple, she added.
Students can also expect to see changes in the university's Dining Services, including switching to more eco-friendly food packaging, Kuchan said.
The university will incorporate sustainability into students' academic curriculum, said Jacek Ghosh, the director of sustainability education. The university offers certificates in sustainability and is working to introduce interdisciplinary degrees between the Tyler School of Art's Environmental Design program and the College of Public Health.
Students need to be involved for real change to occur, Ghosh said.
"If students aren't here advocating, you can have a good plan, but things will just go back to the way they were," Ghosh said.
"We need people to push," he added.
Megan Milligan
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Jewish and pro-Israel groups said Hill's remarks at the United Nations on Wednesday were anti-Semitic, which resulted in CNN dropping the Temple professor from their programming Thursday.
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