You can easily sell your home yourself.
That vacation you've been wanting.
A year, or two, of college.
The downpayment on your next home.
In this day and age with all the tools available it just makes financial sense to sell your home yourself..
The following steps are the basics of what you need to know to sell your home DIY. You can easily do this on your own.
1. Establish a realistic price. Your price depends on past sales in the neighborhood. the condition of your home will also affect the price. Check to see what similar homes to yours have been selling for in your immediate area. It's the market that ultimately decides the value of real estate therefore it's important you use the market to price your home.
Insure the roof is in good condition.
Test all electrical, plumbing and appliances.
Declutter by renting a storage unit.
Clean, clean and clean again. Everything.
Because first impressions are so important when selling make sure your home makes a great one!
3. Decide what type of financing you will accept. The 4 main types are conventional financing, FHA financing, VA financing and USDA financing. FHA, USDA and VA loans are government insured. The government insured loan types require less of a down payment or in the case of VA and USDA no down payment. The homes must pass a certain appraisal standard by being in good condition. The appraiser may ask for some repairs to be made if he/she deems it necessary. Conventional loans are borrowing straight from the bank and have less restrictions on the property. Conventional financing is the next best thing to cash for a seller.
When you sell your home yourself it's important to consider the financing when looking at offers.
4. Determine how you want to market your home. With the advent of the internet everything in real estate changed. It's easy to sell your home yourself now. The consumer, you and your buyer, have all the information you need for a successful transaction. As opposed to the "old days" when real estate agents controlled real estate now buyers are online looking for homes on their own. That's where they find yours. I have buyers all the time calling me about homes they found For Sale By Owner (FSBO). That's what you'll be, a FSBO, with a lot of extra cash in your pocket. Many places you can list your home online like Zillow.com for free. There are some paid sites available too. While print advertising isn't the most effective there are still buyers who look at the newspaper and real estate magazines.
5. Purchase a yard sign. Make it a sign that looks professional rather than the cheap supermarket for sale by owner signs. You'll want the sign to be eye catching and weatherproof. You have options such as a corrugated cardboard sign or an aluminum sign. You can even get a metal frame like real estate companies use. The more professional the sign looks the more buyers will take notice.
6. Write a letter to your neighborhood and/or send out postcards letting them know your house is for sale. Many homes are bought by friends or relatives of your neighbors so they can be close.
7. Hold open houses. If you do it all right you may only need one, if that, but it's a good idea to schedule one right away. Schedule your open house for the first Saturday or Sunday after you are on the market. During your open house have flyers or fact sheets to hand out to prospective buyers. List all of your homes special features on the fact sheet including square footage, number of beds and baths and any other things that are great about your house.
8. Determine how you are going to give prospective buyers access to the house. Whether someone is going to be available to show buyers or if there will be a lockbox on the front door. This is a big decision. You will decide to either let buyers tour your home unsupervised or there will always be someone there with them. If you are willing to work with a real estate buyer's agent than you'll want the info for that agent. Same if you decide to let prospective buyers in on their own. You may want to qualify buyers ahead of time by asking for their financing approval information in the form of a letter from the bank or mortgage company.
9. Answer your phone and emails! If you absolutely can't answer then return calls and emails as soon as you possibly can. This can not be stressed enough if you want to successfully sell your home yourself. One of the biggest complaints about real estate agents, albeit unsuccessful agents, is they are unresponsive. You can also follow up in a few days asking if they have found a home yet. if they haven't ask what could you do to make them consider yours. Like I always tell my trainees that one call you didn't have time for could be that one full price cash offer.
10. You've gotten everything ready. In most cases the hardest part is getting the house ready to sell. When you hire an agent you still have to do that on your own anyway. An agent may walk thru and help you decide what you need to do to get your home ready but with our premier program we make it easy for you to figure out by yourself.
The house has had several showings and now someone wants to make an offer. Everything leads up to this point.
11. You have an offer. The number one thing to remember here is to keep it professional by keeping emotion out of the equation. Remain calm. The prospective buyer may ask you to pay closing costs for them, they may point out things wrong with the house trying to drive down the price or they may simply make a lowball offer. You don't have to accept it. You have taken great care in pricing your home properly. Now carefully consider your counteroffer. Unless, of course, you have a full price cash offer which you'll immediately accept..
The type of financing, any concessions the buyer is asking for and the closing and possession date all need to be considered. When an agreement has been reached all of the appropriate paperwork needs to be filled out, signed and submitted to your buyers lender and a title company for title insurance and escrow. Real estate contracts can be found online or in many states at title companies.
12. If you haven't already it's now time to find your next home. What I like to do for my clients is write a 45-60 day contract on the sale of their home. that leaves us 2-4 weeks to find a new home and write a 30 day contract on that purchase. The idea is to coordinate both closings back to back on the same day.
13. And now it's time to move out of your old house and into your new home. You did it! And saved a ton of money. The whole process is really pretty simple. It may disrupt your routine for awhile but that's going to happen anyway regardless of how you decide to sell your home. The decision is how much is it really worth to you. You can pay an agent many thousands of dollars to go through the motions for you or you can Do It Yourself and keep all that money.
Congratulations! Enjoy your new home. You certainly earned it.
For disclosures purposes I am a real estate agent licensed in the state of Kansas. If you prefer to hire and pay an agent and live in Kansas I can help. If you don't live in Kansas we have a vast network of good, "honest" and professional agents around the country that can help.


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Football Based Cryptocurrency Chiliz Surges By 380 Percent In A Week
Chiliz is one of the newest cryptocurrencies in town and was designed by Socios as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT). The coin is about a week old and already it is gaining grounds in the cryptocurrency universe. The coin was designed basically for fans of both traditional and online sports to use for engagement and crowd-funding their best teams, leagues, events and everything football-related. The rate at which the coin was accepted when it was introduced last week was more than enviable. The cryptocurrency surged as high as 75 percent within 24 hours of its launch and had a market value of $1.3 billion.
This week, Chiliz has gained the position of the best-performing cryptocurrency. Chiliz, as at press time had a trading volume of $4.4 billion dollars with a price of $0.648685. The record-breaking cryptocurrency which is fast becoming one to be reckoned with, has surged by 380 percent in one week.
Chiliz has also made it to the list as the 30th most valuable cryptocurrency. When it first its appeared, the cryptocurrency was 65th on the list of most valued cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency has really done well, from 65th to 30th in just a week. Currently, Chiliz has a market supply of 5,547,664,720 Chiliz (represented by CHZ) coins in circulation. The market capitalization has surged from $1.3 billion to $3.5 billion, which is admirable.
Chiliz' surge is arguably as a result of the most recent rally following news of Paris Saint Germain (PSG) progressing to the quarter-final stage of the Champions League games. The coin rose by almost 110 percent as a result of PSG's Champions League qualification. The football team also took to twitter to share the noticeable rise in demand for sport tokens and digital collectibles in general. The power of social media is widely known. For example, the prices of Bitcoin fell after Elon Musk tweeted that prices 'seemed too high'.
Chiliz is already planning on expanding the coin to other sports and is working on a partnership with Formula One already. The fast-racing cryptocurrency can be traded on platforms such as HBTC, Huobi Global, Globally-recognized trading platform; Binance, Xtheta Global and OKEx.
With how successful Chiliz has been since its launch, cryptocurrency experts expect many clubs to launch their own tokens. Chiliz is also expected to get on the list of the top ten most valuable cryptocurrencies before the coin gets to a month.
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Q: Getting space between navbar list items I'm trying to make a navbar but have problem getting space between the list items. I tried using justify-content: space-between; but it didnt solve it. Im using CSS flexbox and this is how I did it:

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A: Not sure how much space you need but you have too many flex nesting and seems unnecessary. I removed the flex properties on the nav.
Your html was also invalid as ul cannot contain div tags
The issue before was you nested 2 flex elements making the 2nd element becoming a flex child of the first flex container and the first flex container had justify-content space between effectively making your second flex container(flex child of first container) width less than 100%

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A: just set width: 100% for '.NorMenu' class.

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You have a unique method of creating a live sound — how did it develop?
A few years ago I was playing in a band, all the guys I was playing with were great musicians and friends, but also in other projects. I was ready to tour and not have a day job and live and die by my music, while their mindset was to stay in L.A. and find a record deal which is a waste of time. I started doing solo shows. At first it was just me and my guitar, then one by one I started adding things that filled out the sound so I wouldn't be just another guy with a guitar. It worked out well because I started getting a much more enthusiastic response from people than I did even with a full band. Over the course of the last 2 years of tour it just evolved itself into what it is now, I guess it was just born out of my need to do more than strum a guitar.
What prompted you to explore music writing?
It's hard to explain, but I don't think anything prompted me, I've always just known that playing music was the one thing I would do, I guess in a sense I was always a writer, it was just taking the time to develop that, which I have to add is a never-ending process.
Why did you decide to perform solo, as opposed to performing with a group?
It kind of goes back to the first question of just having a better time of it solo. I think it was my drive to do more than just play clubs in one small area, it's hard for me to be musically on the same page as anyone, so rather than having the headache of trying to get along I just decided I'd just put it all on myself, which though it's more of a challenge and not as safe, it is more rewarding.
It may sound corny to say, but real life. All my songs are autobiographical, I think that's where I find the most inspiration for my words. I also feel inspired by a ton of other artists, a lot of the time I'll be listening to someone else that I look up to and I'll get an idea for a song, it's always totally unrelated to the song I'm listening to, but for some reason good music opens up a door inside my mind.
This sounds funny to say, but there have been some funny instances where drugs helped too, which I should explain….as you can imagine sitting in a car for hours at a time on the road, I've developed a bit of a chronic pain in my back. As it turns out the meds they prescribe for that kind of pain kind of tweak your mind when you're on them. For some funny reason 2 or 3 of the songs on the new record were written while under the influence of such drugs. I can't say I encourage anyone to take drugs in order to write, but I do tend to take advantage of whatever state of mind I'm in in all other instances, so why wouldn't I take advantage of this?
What do you value most about the live setting?
I love the risk involved. Because I play solo I can be as spontaneous as I want. Sometimes I'll have some ridiculous idea half way through a song, and there's nothing to stop me from giving it a try, it's funny, it's either a huge success, or huge mistake, but that keeps it interesting, I don't mind making mistakes live, it always makes for good stage banter.
What did you try to accomplish with your new album, Looking Back From Space?
With this record I think my main goal was just to be happy with the final outcome, to really truly make the record I intended to make. My first record was just a way for me to have my songs captured, though I'm still proud of it. It turned out that as I grew as a live performer my shows ended up being more produced than my record, which was funny because I was afraid when i was making that record I wouldn't be able to 'play it live'. This time around I didn't give myself any kind of limitations, I just filled out the songs however I wanted, knowing full well they'll have their own sound and evolution as I play them live.
What have you learned from recording the album?
I think I've learned about myself as a songwriter, I always have this underlying fear of writers block. Every time I write a new song, I think, "man, that's it, I won't write anything else worthwhile". With this batch of songs I feel like I've proven myself wrong, and I've learned to have a little more confidence in my writing.
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Professional Boxer Aims To Get Back In The Ring
Jun 30, 2017 | LifeStyle
Brandon "The Cannon" Adams is reclaiming his near perfect record after a false performance drug testing result
LOS ANGELES, CA, June 30, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Many top athletes are accused of performance enhancing drugs, and even more so when they are successful. Unfortunately for Brandon "The Cannon" Adams, he was targeted right before the biggest fight of his professional career. By 2015, Brandon was a rising star and the boxing community took notice He was invited to participate in ESPN's nationally televised annual Boxcino Tournament. The prestigious opportunity pitted Brandon against 7 other junior middleweights. The winner's reward: A Top-10 world ranking.
Brandon defeated all his opponents over the course of the four-month tournament and made the finals. However, this is when tragedy struck. One of the defeated fighters falsely accused him of taking performance enhancers. He was told that he was disqualified from the tournament, Brandon was forced to set aside his training to appeal the decision before the Boxing Commission. He proved his innocence and was given the right to re-enter the tournament, but by that time he had only two days to lose 12 pounds to make the weight qualification.
Brandon took extreme measures, abstaining from all food and drink, using the sauna for extended durations to shed water weight. He miraculously made the weight qualification, but by the time he entered the ring for the finals he was dehydrated to the point of risking a stroke. The bottom line is that he should have never been permitted to enter the ring, but it was the showcase he had been working his whole career for.
Although visibly disoriented, Brandon managed to win the first round with natural adrenaline, but his body completely shut down in the second. It was apparent that Brandon was no longer able to adequately defend himself against even the most average punches, the referee stopped the fight and Brandon suffered his first real loss.
After the defeat, Brandon's career and life took a took a tough turn. His promotion and management gave up on him. He was unable to book another fight, and all his savings dried up in support of his wife and kids. However, Brandon did not despair. He took responsibility. He found work and kept training in his free time, staying ready, never giving up on himself.
"My wife Erica really picked me back up, she said we're in this together and we just gotta' keep fighting," said Brandon Adams, Professional Boxer. "So that's what I'm doing, I'm coming back to restore my name and reputation for me and my family."
Brandon Adam's story is palpable. Raised by a single mother, he grew up the seventh of nine children in Watts, California – an impoverished municipal, notoriously stricken with gang violence and street crime. Brandon saw his older brothers get shot and lost best friends no more than 100 ft. from where he slept. The tough times were certainly endured, but Brandon elevated, using boxing as a means to remain focused and out of trouble. His determination has never waived. He will not stop until he is a world champion, but he does need help. With enough support, Brandon can become the first ever crowdfunded boxer to make a comeback as an independent fighter in the world of professional boxing- a shot he works obsessively to earn each and every day.
"I am very excited to be back in the ring," said Brandon Adams, Professional Boxer. "I have been training daily and look forward to the future. I am overwhelmed by the positive support of my friends and family."
For more, please Brandon's Indiegogo campaign page here: https://igg.me/at/thecannon/x/16866732
The Cannon is already at almost half of his funding goal. For the love of boxing, or to support a true warrior with a heart of a champion, please share his story. Thank you.
About Brandon "The Cannon" Adams
Brandon Adams began fighting out of necessity to defend himself from being bullied. He was also the smallest of his friends and naturally had more to prove. Fighting was a reality in the streets of Watts to a point where other parents would purchase boxing gloves for the neighborhood kids, since they couldn't prevent the fighting, at least it offered a safer option. Thus, Brandon's love for boxing was born. He became a formidable opponent in "backyard" boxing and as a result his dream of becoming a pro boxer came into fruition. His neighbor "Big Al" took an interest in Brandon and began taking him to a Los Angeles "old school" boxing gym. Brandon worked hard and even helped around the gym. His work ethic caught the eye of the gym manager who in turn introduced him to boxing Hall of Famer and trainer, Dub Huntley.
Promoters began to take interest and Brandon Adams landed an opportunity to fight in the prestigious ESPN Boxcino Tournament. The Boxcino tournament consists of five shows, to include a preliminary round, semi-finals and finals in each division, lightweight and middleweight. The tournament is a winner-takes-all format with the champion receiving a Championship Belt and becoming ranked as one of the top-10 boxers in the world.
For more information about Brandon Adams or to book him for a boxing tournament, please visit: www.brandonthecannon.com.
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How do you take your martini, Mr. Bond? (Just don't hit 'em too hard at your holiday party).
With the arrival of December comes an occasion some of us definitely look forward to, and others tend to dread – the holiday party. Depending on where you work or where you're invited, it might be lots of fun… or decidedly not-so-fun. The same goes for holiday parties with family and friends – although hopefully those are enjoyable. And regardless of the situation, it behooves you (yes, I just used that word) to clean up appropriately. Plus, dressing up smartly can be quite fun – especially when you change up just a few things from your co-workers or friends (like fit and color/texture combos) and end up looking like a million bucks (or at least deserving of that bonus). What follows is a suggestion that can go either CEO-level dressy for a fancy holiday party, or a bit toned-down for slamming some nog at a friend's house (people do that, right?). Stand by for further style suggestions later this month covering both a laidback Christmas and a more dressed-up Yuletide celebration. Enjoy, and happy holidays!
A versatile navy color, a slim fit and a great price make for a terrific top layer.
Before we get into what to wear for the rest of your night, let's assume it'll be cold before you get into that party — and let's assume you're in need of an outerwear revamp. There's no denying the style power and versatility of a great topcoat, and this navy wool overcoat from Combatant Gentleman fits the bill perfectly. Its price is more than solid, and for a new introduction to the brand, it would seem that the quality should be on-point from past experience. The fit looks to be trim yet workable over a suit, and the soft Italian wool should also be workable for that pricepoint. The navy color is going to work with all kinds of outfits outside of this particular occasion, as well.
Two options, one dressy and one more casual — but both affordable.
So Combatant Gentleman is the pick for our suiting option as well, but not just for kicks. The brand has made its mark in the affordable tailoring realm, offering up solid picks for more-than-agreeable prices. Its blazers, while not 100% perfect, are also an extremely great value for the price. So picking up one of its charcoal suits can knock out two birds with one stone – if you're in need of a first-time suit on a budget, or if you want to refresh your suiting game for not a lot of dough. This birdseye suit is a nice visual departure from a flat charcoal color, too. If the occasion doesn't call for a suit, you can swap in a crisp, slim Frank & Oak cardigan (much sleeker than a thicker shawl number). That can then be paired with some navy wool trousers and accomplish the same goal. Of course, dark denim can be swapped in with your cardigan for an even more toned-down look.
Take your pick of two collar styles, both for a tremendous price from Standard Shirt.
While it's worth looking at a site like EXPRESS for its shirt deals, there's not a shirt that offers a price-quality ratio quite like Standard Shirt; that makes sense given that two styles of white dress shirts are all the company does. And they combine that quality with smaller touches (like a wider, suit-ready collar) in an inexpensive package. I threw on the brand's spread collar shirt for a rather sweltering Michigan wedding and was also pleasantly surprised with its breathability. The crisp white shirt is definitely going to be a great anchor for either the suit or cardigan any way you look at it.
A tie with some visual interest at a low price.
If you need to ditch the tie in favor of just that slim cardigan or tailored charcoal suit over a crisp shirt, that's the way to go. But if you do still need that tie, The Tie Bar, as always, has you covered. While a navy knit tie could also be a good, versatile buy in this case, a grenafaux tie brings that same amount of texture and visual interest while looking a bit more suit-ready. And in this case, the texture of the tie will bring a bit more punch than a standard silk number, allowing it to stand up to the birdseye suit nicely.
Take your pick of either vintage fabric and a higher price, or an old standby in a nice fabric.
So we have two pocket square options here – one that's flashy and conversation-worthy, made from vintage fabric, and one that's still conversation-worthy, but mainly for the punch of pattern and color it brings. When your suit and tie both have some texture, throwing in another dash in a contrasting color still works, mainly because of that color difference. Either would add a bit something extra to your suit that a solid white pocket square might not (although that works with this outfit, too). While the price for the General Knot square is a bit of a splurge, keep in mind that if you go cardigan-only, you save that cash.
A dressy wingtip boot with seasonal fabric design touches to stand up to the chilly weather.
Johnston & Murphy can sometimes be a bit overlooked what with a company like Jack Erwin competing right in its wheelhouse, but the brand delivers on seasonal numbers, like these mixed-media boots. They're the perfect middle ground for stomping through some snow or rain to get into that party, yet they still look crisp, slim and appropriate for tailored wear. There's a touch of brown in there on the sole, but that won't look too out of place next to the charcoal suit. If funding is tight, JC Penney's classic Stafford Wingtip is going for a right steal now. Either way, black shoes can look especially sleek this time of year (and if SPECTRE is any indication, black shoes are going to be the way to go for the months ahead).
Two for the price of one, with a crisp look to boot.
EXPRESS' quality might sometimes be suspect, but when you need a belt (or in this case, two belts) at a decent price in a pinch, a reversible option never hurts. They do all kinds of belts, but this is a sharp, sleek pickup that'll go well with those crisp black shoes and the dialed-in black watch (more on that below). You can always go beltless if you find that's more sleek, however.
Super-crisp style for under $100.
KOMONO's at it again – this brand flies under the radar occasionally, but its dressier watches are just as solid a value as its more casual, seasonally focused timepieces (like the Winston Herringbone timepiece I reviewed earlier this fall). The Winston Regal in Black is super-sharp, and the thin case and no-nonsense dial fall right in line with the sharp pieces in the rest of this ensemble, from the black boots to the crisp white shirt and black belt. And at under $100, it's an excellent steal on a budget.
High-quality socks that'll be worth more than the price tag.
Whereas we've dialed it back with the suit and watch, these socks tip the scales more in terms of price. American Trench is a Style Guide favorite (check out more on its socks here), and there really isn't a brand doing made-in-America socks as well as they do. So in this instance, it makes sense to splurge on some high-quality dress socks that can stand up to repeated wear with a workhorse charcoal suit; while socks with a pop of color are an option too, you might be pleasantly surprised at how sharp a sock looks when matched with a trouser (especially in a clean charcoal-on-charcoal combo).
While it can be a bit off-putting to see so many dark colors in an outfit, from the suit to the pocket square to the shoes, belt and watch, it can be refreshing to go sleek, simple and yet still put-together. Plus, other cold-weather occasions leave plenty of time for working in colors, and each of the above pieces can be mixed and matched into those outfits as well. So go sharp this holiday season and see where it takes you. Once again, enjoy and let me know your holiday outfit picks below.
What do you think of the above ensemble? Will you be going dressy or casual this year at your holiday party?


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Check on you immediately after an emergency.
Keep spare sets of your keys.
Know where your emergency supply kit is kept.
Have copies of important documents, such as information about medication and dosage, equipment, and other needs.
Learn about your personal needs and how to help you in an emergency.
If you receive home-based care (e.g., home care attendant, home health aide, visiting nurse service), include caregivers in developing your plan and familiarize yourself with your homecare agency's emergency plan.
If you have a pet or service animal, also plan for his or her needs (i.e., temporary relocation, transportation, etc.).
If you rely on home-delivered meals, always stock nonperishable food at home in case meal deliveries are suspended during an emergency.
If you take medication, make a list of the medications you take, why you take them, and their dosages. Remember: emergencies can affect your ability to access medications. Don't wait until the last minute to refill your prescription medications.
Have a plan with your doctor to get emergency prescription refills.
If you receive dialysis or other medical treatments, find out your provider's emergency plan, including where your back-up site is located.
Contact your medical supply company for information regarding a back-up power source, such as a battery.
Follow the manufacturer's directions when installing and using the equipment.
Check with local fire and building officials for regulations governing generator and fuel use.
Ask your utility company if the medical equipment qualifies you to be listed as a life-sustaining equipment customer.
If you rely on oxygen, talk to your vendor about emergency replacements.
Take time to plan on how you will talk to friends or emergency workers in an emergency. During an emergency, your normal way of communicating may be affected by changes in environment, noise or confusion. Know how and what you will need to communicate during an emergency.
If you are hearing impaired, you can request police, fire, and medical assistance from public pay phones and/or emergency call boxes. For more information, visit the Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities online.
Ready New York: My Emergency Plan is a workbook designed to assist New Yorkers with disabilities or access and functional needs create an emergency plan. My Emergency Plan walks users through establishing a support network, capturing important health information, planning for evacuation, and gathering emergency supplies. First responders or caregivers can also use the workbook to help people during an emergency.
One of the best ways to be prepared for an emergency is to stay informed.
The Ready NYC mobile application for Apple and Android gives you the power to be prepared by allowing you to make and store an emergency plan on your mobile device, and share your plan with your support network.
The Advance Warning System is designed to disseminate hazard and emergency information to agencies and organizations that serve people with disabilities or others with access and functional needs throughout New York City. The program is managed by NYC Emergency Management and the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene.
Before an emergency, call 311 to locate accessible transportation options. These can include the MTA subways and buses, Access-A-Ride, and accessible taxis. To locate additional information about accessible transportation for people with disabilities access and functional needs, visit www.mta.info.
According to the MTA, there are nearly 6,000 accessible buses that provide service and 109 accessible subway stations. Accessible subway stations include features such as elevators, ramps, and tactile warning strips.
Those who are unable to travel on the MTA subways and buses can use Access-A-Ride if they qualify. This service is a shared-ride service and can transport individuals door-to-door.
Accessible taxis are available through the accessible dispatch system, and there are five ways to book an accessible taxi. To find out more information about these services, visit NYC.gov/mopd.
If these options do not meet your needs and you require immediate assistance, call 911.
When an emergency strikes, it is important to seek safe shelter. Some emergencies may require you to shelter in place, while other emergencies may require evacuation. Be ready to explain to first responders and emergency workers that you need to evacuate and how you will need to be assisted.
In the event of a coastal storm or hurricane, the City may open evacuation centers for those are unable to stay with family or friends outside the evacuation zone. For a list of evacuation centers near you, including accessible evacuation centers, visit the Hurricane Evacuation Zone Finder online at NYC.gov/knowyourzone, or call 311.
Include variety of telephone options (land-line, cordless, cellular) if possible.
Customers with life-sustaining equipment registered with providers will receive priority during outages, but if it takes more than a couple of days to restore power, it is important to be independent and have a back-up source of electric power, such as a battery. Before the power goes out, make sure to charge all medical and communications devices.
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Mr. James Sims, the successful stock grower on the old Arms place, in the southern part of the county, on the Ocklawaha River, was called to Orange Springs Friday to attend the funeral of Mr. Andrew McBride, one of the pioneer settlers of Orange Springs.
The deceased was over 70 years of age and came to the springs from Bellville, Illinois over fifty years ago. He was twice married. By his first wife he had a son, who is Dr. Andrew McBride of Holder. His second wife was Miss Simms, a niece of Mr. James Simms, whom he married some twenty odd years ago, and who survives him.
The deceased was a most estimable man and a citizen whom that section is sorry to lose. To the bereaved the Star extends condolence.
Note © Linda Flowers...Andrew Mcbride was born August 31, 1831. He died November 30, 1905 and is buried at Orange Springs Cemetery. He came to Orange Springs from Indiana about 1850. His first wife's name was Julia. She was born in New York July 25, 1832 and died August 4, 1878. They had four children together. Julia is buried at Orange Springs Cemetery also, as well as three sons, Horace, just three years old, George, seven months and Andrew. A daughter Mary, who died at only three months of age. Andrew, Julia and three children who died in childhood are all buried together in one of the latgest family plots of the cemetery.
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Should we allow kids to play with toy guns? We asked a child psychologist.
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I never thought to buy my kids toy guns. I bought them lots of Lego, and a lot of those tiny Lego people were holding tiny guns, but that was about it.
Then, for my son's last birthday, one of his friends bought him a toy gun set. I was surprised by how much he loved it. Foam bullets started whizzing through the house.
But the recent gun protests in the US made me stop and think. There were kids, some of them traumatised, getting up to speak, or standing out in the cold holding signs, trying to change laws, because they genuinely feared other kids firing at them with real guns.
Should we really be giving our kids toy guns to play with? Is it a bit wrong? Or is it all just harmless fun?
Principal child psychologist Dr Kimberley O'Brien from the Quirky Kid Clinic has never bought toy weapons for her kids.
In fact, she doesn't want her kids playing with them at all.
"I cringe if they get given a weapon as a present because I think, 'I'm going to have to get rid of that, subtly,'" she tells Mamamia.
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O'Brien thinks parents should avoid giving their kids toy guns.
"I think any sort of weapon gets kids excited and they generally want to put it to use, which means that they might be shooting a parent with a Nerf gun or slicing a sibling with a sword. So I think you're probably best to go for toys that help them to get rid of their energy but without doing any damage."
She believes getting kids to jump on trampolines, kick a soccer ball or catch a Frisbee is better.
"It doesn't have to be about that physical combat," she says.
O'Brien says not all kids like gun play, especially in a group situation.
Holly and Andrew talk about toy guns and whether they will lead to your kid being violent, on our podcast for imperfect parents. Post continues after audio.
"Put a weapon in kids' hands and things can get a little bit chaotic. You can see that they get into character and then might not make the best decisions. For kids that are not comfortable in that setting, it can be quite anxiety-provoking."
She believes it's better to give kids toys that will challenge them, rather than a gun that "doesn't really stimulate their cognitive ability".
"I think buying a weapon is really underestimating your kid's intelligence, because the majority of kids love to be stimulated. It could be that they want to do a 1000-piece Lego model. They might have a science kit and want to be scientists one day."
O'Brien thinks parents make judgements about other parents who give their kids toy guns.
"There's a lot of education out there for parents to know that if you give your kids guns or weapons that it's pretty likely they'll want to use them and someone's going to get hurt. So I think if you see another parent handing out weapons to their kids, you do make a judgement call and think, 'Okay, maybe we won't do playdates at Jamie's house, because they've always got guns. It's probably not going to end well.'"
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San Diego Radiosurgery Among First To Deliver Gated Treatment in North America Using Novalis Tx™ Radiosurgery Platform and ExacTrac® Adaptive Gating | Varian
San Diego Radiosurgery Among First To Deliver Gated Treatment in North America Using Novalis Tx™ Radiosurgery Platform and ExacTrac® Adaptive Gating
San Diego, Calif. – January 7, 2010 – San Diego Radiosurgery, a service of Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, California, is among the first in North America to treat a patient using the Novalis Tx™ radiosurgery platform with ExacTrac® Adaptive Gating. ExacTrac Adaptive Gating from BrainLAB addresses respiration induced tumor motion, allowing treatment only when the tumor is in the targeted position-ensuring precise dose delivery in order to protect nearby tissue and organs.
"We are extremely excited to bring this new technology to the patients in San Diego County," said Lori A. Coleman, M.D., Medical Director of Radiation Oncology at Palomar Medical Center. "The ability to gate treatment allows us to minimize dose to normal tissue, while optimizing dose to the tumor. We are now able to treat patients whose tumors are in areas that may have been previously untreatable or very difficult to treat."
Using ExacTrac Adaptive Gating, doctors at San Diego Radiosurgery were able to treat a small lesion in the liver while minimizing dose to nearby normal surrounding tissue. ExacTrac Adaptive Gating offers motion management tools that monitor and adjust for changes in respiration and tumor movement. Tumor motion changes that occur naturally from day to day previously inhibited doctors' ability to use highly-focused radiation to treat areas such as the lung and liver. When treatment was possible, large margins were required to compensate for tumor motion and ensure sufficient tumor coverage, potentially harming nearby healthy tissue and organs.
ExacTrac Adaptive Gating combines continuous optical infrared tracking to monitor external patient movement and X-ray imaging to verify internal tumor position. During a gated treatment, radiation delivery is paused until the tumor is in a pre-defined target area, enabling doctors to administer a safer dose for more effective treatment. Gated radiation delivery also allows patients to maintain normal breathing patterns, creating a more comfortable treatment experience than is possible with breath-hold and restrictive immobilization techniques.
"With the Novalis Tx radiosurgery platform, we offer our patients revolutionary tumor treatment that is fast, typically does not require an invasive procedure or anesthesia and potentially shortens the number of treatment sessions needed," Dr. Coleman said. "Adaptive gating has added another very important tool to the platform, allowing us to extend this revolutionary treatment to more patients."
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San Diego Radiosurgery uses the Novalis Tx(tm) image-guided radiosurgery platform to offer revolutionary treatment of the brain, neck, head and body using precisely focused, high-energy radiation. A non-invasive, painless procedure that requires no anesthesia and no recovery time, radiosurgery can destroy tumors or treat other medical conditions that cannot be addressed by conventional surgery. San Diego Radiosurgery is located in Palomar Medical Center's Department of Radiation Oncology at 555 East Valley Parkway in Escondido, Ca. Visit www.sdradiosurgery.com for more information.
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Homebuilding in Delaware final month. Significant development in employment is anticipated to begin in the second half of 2021, the U.N. labor group stated. Credit…Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
Global employment will take years to return to prepandemic ranges, the United Nations' labor group stated on Wednesday in a report that urged governments to construct social safety methods to keep away from the destabilizing results of deepening financial and social inequality.
The pandemic worn out round 144 million jobs final 12 months, together with a projected 30 million new jobs that may have been created, the International Labor Organization stated in its evaluation of employment and social developments.
"The hit on labor markets in terms of jobs, and in terms of the effect on people's incomes, has been four times greater than the financial crisis," Guy Ryder, the group's director basic, stated in an interview.
The group expects to see vital development in employment beginning in the second half of 2021, however "this will be uneven and not enough to repair the damage caused by the crisis," Mr. Ryder stated.
Overall, the world economic system is unlikely to revive these misplaced jobs till not less than by 2023, and that can depend upon progress in curbing the unfold of the coronavirus, a prospect now overshadowed by its resurgence in Asia and elements of Latin America.
Rich international locations, with entry to vaccines and the monetary sources to help wage-support plans, will recuperate sooner. The United States is more likely to face unemployment of round 5.1 p.c this 12 months, the report stated, dropping to round 3.9 p.c in 2022, a stage marginally decrease than at the begin of the pandemic.
But round the world, some 205 million individuals will nonetheless be unemployed in 2022, up from 187 million earlier than the pandemic began, the group stated, most of them in decrease earnings and poor international locations. "This unequal recovery risks accentuating still further inequalities in the world of work between countries and within countries," Mr. Ryder stated.
The pandemic has had a "dramatic" social impression, disproportionately hitting employment of ladies and youth; reversing progress in decreasing pressured and little one labor, and sharply driving up the variety of working individuals nonetheless trapped in poverty, Mr. Ryder stated.
"It's very difficult to make comparisons with the 1930s, but we're in that sort of territory," he stated, referring to the Great Depression. "Unless we take care of what's happening in the world of work and labor markets, there are some very unpleasant things that can happen in the world."
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Katherine Tai, the United States commerce consultant, stated the actions "provide time for those negotiations to continue to make progress."Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times
The Biden administration on Wednesday moved nearer to imposing tariffs on sure items from six international locations in retaliation for taxes these nations have imposed on digital providers provided by corporations like Facebook, Amazon and Google.
The United States finalized a listing of merchandise that may be topic to tariffs however instantly suspended the levies for 180 days whereas worldwide tax negotiations proceeded.
Under the administration's announcement, 25 p.c tariffs would apply to about $2.1 billion price of products from Austria, Britain, India, Italy, Spain and Turkey.
The Trump administration started investigating these international locations' digital providers taxes in June 2020, and the United States confronted a one-year deadline to take motion.
The announcement comes as international locations round the world are attempting to succeed in settlement on a spread of worldwide tax points. Those negotiations are being carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Katherine Tai, the United States commerce consultant, stated the actions on Wednesday "provide time for those negotiations to continue to make progress while maintaining the option of imposing tariffs" if vital at a later date.
"The United States is focused on finding a multilateral solution to a range of key issues related to international taxation, including our concerns with digital services taxes," Ms. Tai stated. "The United States remains committed to reaching a consensus on international tax issues through the O.E.C.D. and G20 processes."
In addition to the six international locations named on Wednesday, France has additionally been a goal for potential retaliatory tariffs by the United States over its digital providers tax. The Trump administration deliberate to place in place tariffs on $1.3 billion price of French items, together with cosmetics, purses and cleaning soap, however in January, it suspended the tariffs indefinitely.
A Depop pop-up retailer in London in 2019.Credit…avid M. Benett/Getty Images
Depop, the vogue resale market beloved by Generation Z, shall be acquired by Etsy for $1.6 billion, the two corporations introduced on Wednesday.
The money deal, which is anticipated to shut by the third quarter of this 12 months, underscores the rising affect of clothes resale platforms. More consumers are turning to the secondhand marketplace for one thing cheaper and — potentially — greener as the overproduction of clothes more and more provides to landfills.
The pattern seems to have been accelerated by the pandemic as extra consumers regarded to declutter wardrobes, earn money by promoting their previous garments or arrange vogue customization companies from their bedrooms.
Investor urge for food can also be on the rise. Last month, Europe's largest secondhand vogue market, Vinted, raised 250 million euros in a funding spherical that valued the start-up at €3.5 billion ($4.26 billion), whereas in the United States corporations reminiscent of ThredUp and Poshmark have gone public this 12 months.
Depop, which was based in 2011, has been significantly profitable in constructing a market for youthful customers, who're adopting secondhand vogue sooner than some other group. Ninety p.c of its customers are beneath 26, with 30 million customers throughout 150 international locations. The platform is especially recognized for its classic garments and streetwear — and for creating a brand new cohort of on-line influencers well-known for promoting their wares.
"We are simply thrilled to be adding Depop — what we believe to be the resale home for Gen Z consumers — to the Etsy family," stated the Etsy chief government, Josh Silverman.
He stated he believed the platform had "significant potential to further scale" and stated that he noticed "significant opportunities for shared expertise and growth synergies" for Etsy's attire sector, which was valued at $1 billion final 12 months.
According to the Boston Consulting Group, the world marketplace for pre-owned attire is price as much as $40 billion a 12 months — about 2 p.c of the complete attire market. It is anticipated to develop 15 to twenty p.c yearly for the subsequent 5 years.
The transaction is anticipated to shut in the third quarter of 2021, topic to antitrust opinions in Britain and the United States.
A dormant JBS processing plant in Greeley, Colo.Credit…Chet Strange/Getty Images
A cyberattack on the world's largest meat processor pressured 9 beef crops in the United States to close down on Tuesday, union officers stated, and disrupted manufacturing at poultry and pork crops.
The assault might upset the nation's meat markets and raises new questions on the vulnerability of crucial American companies.
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The meat processor, JBS, stated late Tuesday that the majority of its crops would reopen on Wednesday.
JBS advised the Biden administration that it was a ransomware assault, and that the ransom demand had come from "a criminal organization likely based in Russia," a White House official stated.
The assault affected methods in North America and Australia, JBS stated.
Thousands of employees in Australia, Canada and the United States had been affected as shifts had been altered or outright canceled.
Factory workers and graziers in Australia haven't been advised when crops would reopen, native information retailers reported.
Even in the future's disruption at JBS might "significantly impact" wholesale beef costs, in keeping with analysts at Daily Livestock Report.
The assault was the second to hamper a crucial U.S. enterprise operation. Last month, a ransomware assault on Colonial Pipeline, which transports gasoline to almost half the East Coast, set off gasoline shortages and panic shopping for.
The house décor superstore At Home in California.Credit…Getty Images
The house décor superstore At Home agreed final month to promote itself to the non-public fairness agency Hellman & Friedman for about $2.4 billion. But simply over per week later, the firm's largest shareholder, CAS Investment Partners, publicly opposed the deal, arguing that it was "grossly" undervalued.
At the coronary heart of the dispute is the way to worth an organization that obtained a pandemic bounce, however could quickly face a brand new actuality. At Home filed its proxy statement on Wednesday, providing an in-depth have a look at how it's grappling with these dynamics — and the DealBook publication broke down the particulars.
The pandemic halted these efforts, and At Home's inventory worth plunged under $2 a share. But homebound consumers pushed up web gross sales by almost 50 p.c in its third quarter — and its share worth rose, too. At Home restarted the gross sales course of in November.
In March, when At Home's inventory was buying and selling at round $28 a share, Hellman & Friedman and one other unnamed non-public fairness agency collectively bid $32 a share. Talks continued as At Home's rebound continued — the firm twice up to date its projections — prompting Hellman & Friedman to boost its provide 5 instances. (The different agency dropped out after bidding surpassed $32.)
Hellman lastly provided $36 a share, up 17 p.c from the place At Home's inventory traded earlier than the deal talks leaked. On Wednesday, its shares are buying and selling a little bit above that, seemingly on shareholders' hopes of a better provide.
The query is how a lot At Home's enterprise will proceed to develop. CAS thinks the firm might be price greater than $135 a share by the finish of its 2026 fiscal 12 months, and that the proper sale worth is subsequently above $70 a share — a roughly 128 p.c premium.
But At Home is frightened that consumers will revert to prepandemic habits. Other retailers whose companies jumped throughout the pandemic have disillusioned buyers:
Shares of Home Depot dipped final month despite smashing expectations, and that firm declined to supply monetary steerage for subsequent 12 months.
The Container Store additionally noticed its shares fall final month regardless of topping expectations, and is equally withholding steerage.
At Home is searching for different patrons. As a part of the go-shop provision in the Hellman deal, the retailer has reached out to 17 monetary sponsors and seven corporations. So far, only one — an funding agency — has signed a nondisclosure settlement, although it has but to make a suggestion.
Employees of Verizon put away site visitors cones after putting in fiber optic cables on 138th Street and Park Avenue in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, final week.Credit…Desiree Rios for The New York Times
Veterans of the nation's decade-long efforts to increase the broadband footprint fear that President Biden's new infrastructure plan carries the identical bias of its predecessors: Billions shall be spent to increase the web infrastructure to the farthest reaches of rural America, the place few individuals dwell, and little shall be dedicated to connecting tens of millions of city households who dwell in areas with high-speed service that they can not afford.
There is a political and financial logic to devoting billions of taxpayer {dollars} to bringing broadband to the rural communities that make up a lot of former President Donald Trump's political base, which Mr. Biden needs to win over. But some critics fear {that a} capital-heavy rural-first technique might go away behind city America, which is extra populous, numerous and productive, Eduardo Porter studies for The New York Times.
About 81 percent of rural households are plugged into broadband, in contrast with about 86 p.c in city areas, in keeping with Census Bureau knowledge. But the variety of city households and not using a connection, 13.6 million, is sort of thrice as huge as the 4.6 million rural households that don't have one.
Connecting city households doesn't require laying 1000's of miles of fiber optic cable by meadows and glens. In cities, telecom corporations have already put in numerous fiber and cable. Extending broadband to unserved city households, most of them in low-income neighborhoods and typically house to households of colour, usually requires making the connection cheaper and extra related.
The new media firm that may mix WarnerMedia and Discovery has a reputation: Warner Bros. Discovery. David Zaslav, the government who will run the mixed corporations if the merger is accepted by regulators, introduced the title at a town-hall-style assembly on Tuesday with WarnerMedia workers in Burbank, Calif. In his first alternative to introduce himself to his potential workers, Mr. Zaslav, who has been accountable for Discovery since 2007, spoke with the WarnerMedia chief government Jason Kilar from the stage of the Steven J. Ross Theater on the Warner Bros. lot. The two executives didn't point out the way forward for Mr. Kilar, who has retained a authorized crew to barter his exit from the firm.
Oil costs climbed on Wednesday with futures persevering with at their highest since late 2018. West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, climbed above $68 a barrel.
On Tuesday, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allied producers reminiscent of Russia rapidly met and agreed to proceed their plan of regularly easing oil manufacturing curbs. OPEC additionally famous that oil demand was "showing clear signs of improvement."
Stocks in the United States and Europe had been barely increased on Wednesday. The S&P 500 rose 0.2 p.c and the Stoxx Europe 600 climbed 0.3 p.c.
Recent financial knowledge has pointed to a strengthening financial restoration, however buyers are carefully expecting inflation that may require central banks to take motion that might curb development. On Wednesday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development stated that the annual inflation rate throughout its 38 member international locations rose to three.3 p.c in April 2021, in contrast with 2.4 p.c in March. The soar was fueled by a rise in vitality costs of 16.3 p.c, the highest fee since September 2008.
AMC Entertainment, the movie show chain, spiked greater than 80 p.c, heading for a brand new excessive and extending a run that has lifted the inventory worth from $2.01 in early January to greater than $50. Those features have been fueled by a rush of funding from retail buyers who snapped up the shares together with different "meme stocks."
On Wednesday, AMC stated it could provide these small buyers perks like free popcorn. In a press release, the firm stated greater than 3 million small buyers personal its shares. The firm stated on Tuesday that it raised $230.5 million by promoting shares to a hedge fund.
Americans shall be eligible for a free beer from Anheuser-Busch as soon as the nation's vaccination fee reaches 70 p.c.Credit…John Gress/Reuters
The brewing large Anheuser-Busch stated on Wednesday that it could provide Americans one other incentive to get vaccinated: free beer.
The firm stated in a statement that it could "buy America's next round" of beer, seltzer or nonalcoholic beverage as soon as the nation reached President Biden's objective of getting 70 p.c of the grownup inhabitants get not less than one coronavirus vaccination by July 4. So far, 63 p.c of grownup Americans have acquired not less than one dose.
"We pride ourselves on stepping up both in times of need and in times of great celebration, and the past year has been no different," stated Michel Doukeris, the chief government of Anheuser-Busch. "As we look ahead to brighter days with renewed optimism, we are proud to work alongside the White House to make a meaningful impact for our country, our communities and our consumers."
Reaching the vaccination objective by Independence Day will not be straightforward. The tempo of vaccinations in the United States has slowed, however the largest features in current weeks have been made in vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds, who will not be eligible for the $5 debit card for free beer. However, progress has been made in reaching some teams, together with Latinos and individuals with out faculty levels, with the highest charges of vaccines hesitancy, in keeping with the Kaiser Foundation.
Anheuser-Busch's provide comes as different companies and states have launched their very own giveaways to encourage vaccinations. Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia said on Tuesday that the state would give away weapons and different prizes, together with vehicles and lifetime looking and fishing licenses, to vaccinated residents.
Other states, together with California, New Mexico and Ohio, have began lottery drawings to award money prizes to those that have been vaccinated.
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Ruda je naravni mineralni depozit, ki vsebuje kovinsko ali kakšno drugo surovino v taki količini, da se jo splača gospodarsko izkoriščati. Pridobivanje rude imenujemo rudarstvo. Koplje se jo v rudnikih in dnevnih kopih.
Poznamo več vrst rud. Iz nekaterih lahko pridobivamo več kovin, nekatere pa uporabljamo samo za izdelke. (npr. bakrova ruda ni za pridobivanje kovin, temveč za pridobivanje bakra)
Nekatere rude vsebujejo veliko mineralnih snovi, te rude imenujemo Bogate rude. To so npr.
Aluminijeva ruda - 70% minerala Boksit
Železova ruda - 85% (in več) minerala Hematita

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Q: Declaring a function without printing the signature [SML] Is it possible to declare a function in SML without printing the signature?
I found out that you can print a string without printing val it = () : unit by doing:
val _ = print("Test1");

Is it possible to the same with functions? something like:
val _ = fun foo x = x + 5;
foo 10;

The following program won't compile in SML.
I'm know that I can use let\local but then I can't use them outside the closure. Also I am looking for a way, without importing additional libraries.

A: What you ask of relates only to the REPL, as function signatures are only printed in the REPL. You can avoid for functions (or other value declarations) to show up by defining them in a local scope, as you suggest (let, local or opaque struct).
A little hack is that multiple re-definitions in a row will yield the latest definition, but then you still need one at the end.
If you want to re-use a value in your code without the REPL printing it, perhaps you are looking to completely disable REPL declaration output, or run a compiled binary?
In Moscow ML you can run the REPL without declaration output with
mosml -quietdec file.sml

But with SML/NJ and others I don't know.


"no person shall subject any relation of the deceased person to a mourning period of more than one week from the date of the burial ceremony.
Mr Ezeani said a committee would be set up to monitor people adherence to the law.
He finally stated that the bill passed also prohibit blocking off the streets or road during the burial ceremony, lavish celebration.


Brightly pink and magenta for the two princesses.
Beautiful orchids and fragrant peonies decorated the church. Mother's favourite plant, orchids, was the best gift for their guests in handmade fabric purses. Dragees, mashmallows, lollipops and cookies for the candy bar. Lanterns on the ceiling and lots of candles on the tables gave the necessary atmosphere for a great party by sea!


The Note 8 is probably too big to convert the phablet non-believers, but it'll make Note People really happy.
WiredThe Note 8 has every feature a great smartphone should, and then some. This is the biggest, bestest screen. The two cameras take fantastic pictures.
TiredThat big screen massacres your battery. Live Focus can be screwy. Samsung still loves overwrought software tweaks.
Samsung's Galaxy Note has been the best big phone since the beginning of big phones. While some of us crowed about how silly we looked holding it up to our faces, millions of people found they liked using a stylus, appreciated the bigger battery, and enjoyed all that extra screen space. The Note's grown in size and popularity with every model; there are millions of Note People now, and they love their monstrous slabs of smartphone.
There was one small blip along the Note's journey—OK, more like one huge epic disaster. The Note 7 had an inconvenient tendency to catch fire. Samsung spent the last year trying to rehabilitate its image, and make sure its phones never exploded again. That may explain why, even though the Note 8 is Samsung's largest and most powerful Note to date, it has almost nothing you've never seen before. Samsung had bigger things to worry about.
Even without flashy gimmicks, the Note 8 has a more complete feature set than virtually any of its competitors. Fast performance, nice design, waterproof, good camera, wireless charging, mobile payments, pen input, fingerprint reader, VR support, and so much more. Most phones lack a few things on that list; the Note 8 has them all and then some. The only tradeoffs come from Samsung's overwrought software, and having to shove a surfboard into your pocket. That, and the price tag: The Note costs just shy of $1,000. You can get it for less by trading in your old phone, or with any number of strange Samsung bundle deals. Even still, it's seriously expensive.
I've been using the Note 8 for a week and a half. It joined me on a weekend trip to the middle of nowhere, took the brunt of a spilled cup of coffee, clanged around in my pocket and bag through long workdays, train rides, bike trips, and seasons-long binges of 30 Rock. There are a few things about it that drive me crazy, and one that might be a deal-breaker, but for the Note 8 is mostly a terrific phone. It's probably still too big and unwieldy to convert the phablet non-believers, but it'll make Note People really happy. And mine, at least, doesn't explode.
The Note 8 is so big it'll give you an inferiority complex. It's so big it makes Dwayne Johnson look like Peter Dinklage. And yet, it's the same size as lots of other phones. The last time Samsung made a phone with a 6.3-inch screen, they called it the Galaxy Mega and everyone made fun of it. This time, the Note's only slightly larger than the iPhone 7 Plus and effectively the same size as the Galaxy S8 Plus. It's still a really big phone—tall and narrow, like someone smashed your last phone with a steamroller—but so are most phones now.
All 6.3 inches of the Note 8's display look fantastic. Samsung's OLED displays always show rich blacks and vibrant colors, and this is so big and high-res that you can't help but admire it. A toothpick-thin bezel surrounds the Note's sides; the Infinity Display looks every bit as impressive here as it does on the Galaxy S8.
Inside, we get a slight upgrade to the S8. Samsung has always been good about checking off the whole spec list and making really powerful phones. Done and done. Outside, it's very much a Galaxy: glass on all sides, logos on the back, more monolith than machine. It's not quite as cleanly designed as the S8: The seams on the sides are a little more pronounced, and the squared-off corners don't fit quite as snugly in my palm. The fingerprint reader remains tucked up near the camera on the back, where my finger never ever finds it on the first try. The phone withstands submersion in a swimming pool, but I'm still deathly afraid of dropping this precious glass box on the sidewalk.
In case you number among the doubters, let me explain the delights of a big phone. More screen means more room for keyboards, which makes typing far easier (and before you say, "well, what about one-handed," I'll add that voice typing and swipe-typing both work great). On a phone this big, you can watch a YouTube video or TV show without squinting. My Note shows me more tweets than your iPhone, and plays games more immersively. Big phones rule because phones aren't for holding up to your face and making calls. They're for getting work done, filming vlogs, and playing Minecraft. All those things are better when they're bigger.
I have issues with a lot of Samsung's ideas about software, specifically whatever ideas led the company to make an app called "Internet" when Chrome exists, and to sort all the phone's settings into inscrutable categories. Samsung does know how to take advantage of big screens, though. I've constantly found myself dragging my calendar and phone apps into view at the same time, or researching stories in the browser on the top half of the screen with Evernote open on the bottom half. In a gesture to conference-call-passcode-hunters everywhere, the Note 8 even lets you save these apps in pairs and open them together with a tap.
Ordinarily, bigger phones also mean better battery life, since there's just more room in the body. Despite its size, the Note 8 has a smaller battery than the Note 7 or the Galaxy S8 Plus (3000mAh rather than 3500), probably to avoid cramming the body too tightly and running into last year's fiasco all over again. With relatively light use, it still lasts a 15-hour day. But when the screen's on, I've never seen a battery die like this one. I lopped off 40 percent during a two-hour drive just by using Google Maps; a little Netflix and some light Twittering killed the entire battery in less than eight hours. The screen alone usually accounts for upwards of 50 percent of my battery spend—and that's with the display at its default setting, not even the highest-res it can be. Every time I turn on the Note, I try to minimize my time with it so as not to kill the battery. I don't like feeling afraid to use my phone.
Two things separate the Note 8 from the rest of the Galaxy lineup. First, Samsung's tiny S Pen stylus, which appears unchanged from last year's Note 7. It's a nice, simple tool. Samsung created lots of software for the S Pen: write a note, turn it into a GIF, send it to your friends; select some text to translate; take a screenshot just by drawing a rectangle. Pop the pen out of its hiding spot in the bottom right corner of the phone and it'll open a note, so you can jot down your thoughts without turning on the screen. But I'm not a pen user, honestly. Mostly I like the S Pen because it's a great thing to fiddle with.
Big phones rule because phones aren't for holding up to your face and making calls. They're for getting work done, filming vlogs, and playing Minecraft.
The other advantage? The Note 8 marks the first Samsung phone to ever have a dual camera rig. Two 12-megapixel sensors work together or separately, one about where you'd expect and another zoomed in. They both take beautiful pictures! I just wish there were more to do in the camera app. You can use Bixby Vision to identify objects in the frame, or put some stickers on the pictures… and that's about it. Next to the LG V30's inexhaustible library of tools, Samsung's setup feels lacking.
That said, I'm blown away by how good the Note 8's camera can be. For instance: On a hike, I picked up my tiny, perpetually moving dog, and stuck him on top of a huge tree stump. He did not enjoy this maneuver. I had a few seconds to get a shot, and no chance of stillness, but the Note 8's camera captured the moment perfectly. Virtually all of my photos came out clear, sharp, and well-focused. The app is fast, the image stabilization works wonders on videos or at super-high zoom levels, even the burst mode's as fast as any phone I've tried. I trust this camera completely, which doesn't happen often.
You know what I don't trust? The Live Focus mode, which uses both cameras to approximate a soft-background portrait, a la the iPhone's Portrait Mode. Sometimes it works great, and my photo looks like I shot it on a DSLR. Sometimes it decides that part of my subject should be in focus and part of her should be really, really blurry. Sometimes, it looks like someone went over the photo on their first ever attempt at blurring in Photoshop, and you just get a weird rectangle of focus. You can tweak the amount of background blur after taking your photo, which helps, but only because you'll want to remove the effect a lot.
The Live Focus feature actually perfectly encapsulates my feelings about the Note 8. It's a great idea, with all the right hardware behind it, but Samsung didn't quite finish the feature. Job number one was clearly safety, which was of course the right call. The Note 8 is a great phone with potential to be an exceptional one, once Samsung has more time to work on it. Some battery optimization would be nice, and there's so much more those two cameras could do. Other than the battery I had zero actual problems with the Note 8, and it'll make lots of Note People really happy this upgrade cycle. But Samsung missed a couple of opportunities to blow everyone else out of the water. Metaphorically, of course.


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Cecile Richards: 'Abortion is Healthcare'
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Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards affirms to Rep. Diane Black and other members of the House Oversight Committee her belief that: "Abortion is healthcare."
Wow. @CecileRichards just told me in @GOPOversight that abortion is healthcare. As a nurse, I will challenge that every time. #ProLife
— Diane Black (@RepDianeBlack) September 29, 2015
Black, the author of a bill that passed the House and would redirect taxpayer funds from Planned Parenthood to other federally qualified health care centers that do not provide abortions, challenged Richards on why she dismissed her legislation as not acceptable to women when those other healthcare centers outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics 20 to 1. Richards responded that they do not provide abortions and "abortion is healthcare."
"As a nurse, I will challenge that every time," Black countered. "Abortion isn't healthcare." Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life (AUL) also tweeted out Richards' response to Black's question:
Congresswoman @RepDianeBlack to Cecile Richards: "I'm a nurse. Abortion isn't health care." #prolife #prowoman pic.twitter.com/F2PkUx3wPp — Charmaine (@CharmaineYoest) September 29, 2015
Richards, who said that she once worked as a labor organizer and then for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, earns nearly $600,000 per year as the head of the nation's largest provider of abortions. She also receives compensation for Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the organization.
Stating on numerous occasions that she was trying to be as cooperative as possible with the committee, Richards nevertheless evaded some questions about her abortion business, often responding she "did not know" the answer to questions a CEO might be expected to know. At one point, as Live Action president Lila Rose tweeted, she was asked if babies who survive abortions should be given medical care, Richards replied, "I have never heard of such a circumstance happening."
.@CecileRichards asked if babies who survive abortions should be given medical care: "I have never heard of such a circumstance happening."
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) September 29, 2015
"No matter what her spin, Cecile Richards' words can't take back what high-ranking officials at Planned Parenthood already said when they didn't realize they were being recorded," Rose continued in a statement sent to Breitbart News. "The undercover video footage is undeniable, and it shows Planned Parenthood violating at least three federal laws in its criminal baby organ-harvesting operation."
"Planned Parenthood admits on video they put profits over their clients' health by subjecting women to longer, more dangerous abortion procedures to harvest more intact baby organs to sell," she said, adding:
In the hearing today, Richards offered no defense of Deborah Nucatola's remarks that Planned Parenthood "can do a little better than break even" when it sells the baby organs it harvests. Richards herself in a letter to Congress admitted to charging $60 per body part, which could bring in over $500 per aborted child in addition to what it charges for the abortion itself – significantly more than the legally allowed reimbursement of "actual costs."
When asked about a Stem Express worker who admitted she cut open the face and harvested the brain of a baby whose heart was still beating, Richards avoided discussing it, claiming that she's only responsible for her employees, not vendors who work in her facilities.
Richards continued her disinformation campaign in the hearing, including the lie that abortions only comprise three percent of Planned Parenthood's services, something the Washington Post has declared misleading, as Planned Parenthood absurdly equates an abortion with a urine test.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America also tells Breitbart News that Richards could not possibly defend what she and her organization do in performing abortions and harvesting the organs of aborted babies.
"Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, attempted to defend the indefensible today in front of Congress: huge travel costs, her own exorbitant salary, the lies she has told about mammograms, and of course, the chopping up and sales of aborted baby body parts," she said in a statement. "There is no reason that taxpayers should be funding this organization. There are thousands of other federally funded health centers that provide the same or better care than Planned Parenthood and do not do abortions, and taxpayer dollars should be redirected there."
"Watching Ms. Richards, and her allies in the room who parroted Planned Parenthood talking points, was sickening and disheartening," Hawkins added. "They are actively deceiving the American public and the taxpayers who are subsidizing a possible criminal enterprise."
Both Rose and Hawkins agree that while they are pleased Congress is finally investigating the activities of the abortion giant, ultimately they seek to eliminate Planned Parenthood's taxpayer funding.
"American taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize an organization that profits off criminal behavior and the inhuman practice of harvesting and selling aborted baby body parts," Rose said.
During her testimony, Richards and her Democrat supporters on the committee also repeatedly vilified David Daleiden, president of Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the group that produced the undercover investigative videos exposing Planned Parenthood's practices of harvesting the body parts of aborted babies for sale.
In response to Richards' testimony, Daleiden released the following statement:
Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards admits in her written testimony before Congress today that she is "proud" of Planned Parenthood's baby body parts harvesting program. In person, Planned Parenthood's CEO frequently hid behind the corporate veil of Planned Parenthood's affiliates and could not provide basic information about Planned Parenthood's abortion revenue and fetal harvesting practices. Planned Parenthood's CEO's evasive testimony will only prolong the controversy over this corrupt and unaccountable organization, while taxpayers continue to foot the bill for their expanding late-term abortion business and baby parts harvesting chop-shop. Her testimony clearly demonstrates that Planned Parenthood, at least on Cecile Richards' watch, has no intention of ending these atrocities against humanity and is not worthy of taxpayer funding.
The Center for Medical Progress continues to cooperate with the now-five Congressional Committee investigations, subject to an unconstitutional prior-restraint TRO from Planned Parenthood's allies at the National Abortion Federation. If Planned Parenthood wants to see all of CMP's footage released, as they claimed in the hearing today, then they should tell their cronies at the National Abortion Federation to back down from their unconstitutional suppression of First Amendment rights to free speech and citizen journalism.
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Publish dateSaturday 11 May 2019 - 02:13
Afghan Taliban claimed some progress in peace negotiations with USA
The Afghan Taliban on Thursday claimed "some progress" in peace negotiations with the United States, as both sides concluded another round of talks in Qatar, but failed to reach any agreement over the withdrawal of the foreign forces.
AVA- "Today, the 6th round of talks between IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) and US negotiation teams ended, with some progress made on the draft agreement prepared in the last round of talks. Both sides will consult with their leaders and discuss the remaining points in the next round of talks," Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen said.
"In general, this round was positive and constructive. Both sides listened to each other with care and patience," Shaheen wrote on Twitter.n He said both sides would come to the next round of talks after internal consultations and preparations to discuss points yet to be finalised.
No date has been announced for the next round, but sources say it could be held after Eidul Fitr.
Taliban sources in Qatar said lack of progress on the withdrawal of foreign forces was one of the major irritants to strike a deal. They said both sides had differences over the timeframe for the withdrawal, as the US had suggested some 18 months for withdrawal, while the Taliban wanted "complete withdrawal" in less than a year.
The Taliban are unwilling to strike any deal on any other issue unless the US announced withdrawal, and in return the Taliban will guarantee to prevent Afghanistan from being used against the US and other countries.
But US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad insists both sides should find "commonground on four inter-connected issues: troop withdrawal, counter-terrorism assurances, intra-Afghan dialogue & negotiations, and reduction in violence, leading to a comprehensive ceasefire". He tweeted last week that nothing would be final until both sides agreed on all the four issues.
The 6th round of talks, which started on May 1, got tense at one stage, as suggested by one of Khalilzad's tweets in which he asked the Taliban to "put down arms, stop the violence, and embrace peace". On their part, the Taliban advised Khalilzad to "forget about the idea of us putting down our arms. Instead of such fantasies, he should drive the idea home (US) about ending the use of force & incurring further human & financial losses for the decaying Kabul administration".
Sources said that as tension had heightened, Khalilzad met the Taliban political affairs chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, to defuse the tension.
Qatar, which acts as the mediator in the talks, also agreed with Khalilzad's assertion regarding the four components of the framework agreement.
A Qatari Foreign Ministry statement had stated that both sides had agreed to discuss four issues in the previous rounds of talks. Meanwhile Pakistan reiterated support for the US-Taliban talks. Foreign Office Spokesman Mohammad Faisal said on Thursday that Pakistan "supports a political solution to the Afghan conflict and has consistently maintained the position that an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process is the only way forward".
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Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman discusses the new ways in which citizen advisory committees will be interacting with the town board, and the new rules they're being asked to abide by. Independent/Desirée Keegan
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Southampton To Rein In CACs
November 6, 2018 By | Stephen J. Kotz
Just about every hamlet in Southampton Town has its own citizens advisory committee, with some playing a more active role in community affairs than others. On Thursday, November 1, the town board agreed to make some changes in the way they operate that the sponsor, Councilwoman Julie Lofstad, said "would make them more inclusive and representative of the community."
"The way it has been now and in the past is a CAC group will meet to discuss something they feel strongly about and take a vote to support or not support a certain issue and send it to the town board or other appointed boards," she said. "But there are a lot of people working two jobs, or they have to take the kids to soccer practice. Not everyone can attend the meetings. But if you did attend and you wanted to have your voice heard, you couldn't because you'd be a guest and couldn't vote," Lofstad noted.
Starting with the new year, CACs will no longer be able to simply pass a resolution, voicing a thumbs down or thumbs up opinion. Instead, they must provide a public comment period and take detailed minutes, reflecting the opinions of all in attendance who weigh in on a given issue, and submit those minutes to the town board for it to review.
The board also agreed it would remind CACs that the purpose of the committees is to serve as links between the community and the town board and that they should limit their discussions to town board-related items, said assistant town attorney Richard Harris.
He said requiring these committees to provide minutes of their meetings that include the comments made by non-members would allow the groups to present a broader range of opinions that more accurately reflects the opinions of the community.
The new rules will clarify that elected officials are not allowed to serve on CACs to avoid potential conflicts of interest. The board will also request that committees send a list of potential new members or those seeking reappointment to the town board before the end of the calendar year. Committees will also be required to set up an annual meeting schedule at the beginning of the year and provide agendas to committee members at least 48 hours before a meeting.
Supervisor Jay Schneiderman in the past has been critical of some CACs for overstepping their bounds by holding candidate forums or even privately interviewing people running for town office. "They shouldn't be involved in partisan politics. They should never be interviewing candidates," he said. "They are supposed to be advising the town board, not discussing who should be on it."
Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni said he was concerned about CACs taking formal positions for or against applications before the zoning board of appeals or the planning board. As a former member of the ZBA, he said there were times when an attorney would cite a CAC's position or lack of one on an application as representative of the broader community's position.
"As advisory boards, we felt they shouldn't be doing that," said Lofstad. She added that committee members have the right to support or oppose applications as individuals, just as any other member of the public would.
Deputy Supervisor Frank Zappone said in the past, town board members would meet informally with CAC chairs several times a year to receive their input. He volunteered to coordinate similar meetings in the future.
Lofstad said she wanted to finalize the rules and present them to the various committees before the end of the year.
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The "no white after Labor Day" rule doesn't reply apply in southern California, but I definitely start phasing my white items out of my day-to-day wear come Labor Day weekend. Since it crept up on me this year, I thought I'd share a few items that will be inspiring my wardrobe for the next few days.
Gorgeous round up. The top in the first image is amazing!
I'm not usually drawn to white in my wardrobe, however there have been some recent findings at hm and zara that i'm loving!
I don't really ever wear white...but I sort of want to now.
I can never get enough white in my closet! I want to wear it every day.
All fall, and winter long too.
YES! I wrote a similar posts about Labor Day whites. I LOVE to wear white, so I am going to wear the hell out of it the next few days!
love that dress!! so white and pure!