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Algiers Point is a location on the Lower Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. In river pilotage, Algiers Point is simply one of the many points of land around which the river flows—albeit a significant one. Since the 1970s, the name Algiers Point has also referred to the neighborhood in the immediate vicinity of that point.
The course of the Mississippi River past and through New Orleans is in the shape of a crescent. As the river reaches the downriver end of that crescent, flowing by then in a northerly direction, it makes a sharp "right-hand" turn to the east. The French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny and Bywater lie on the outside of the bend on the river's left descending bank. The point of land on the river's right descending bank is, and has historically been, called Algiers Point.
Assalamu alaykum ^^ I am so glad to be back on YouTube for this video that is very important to my heart, I am presenting my hometown on this one and I will make more in the future about Algiers and as many other cities as I can. • Did you like the places I filmed? Here are the details about them : 02:02 ► Audin Square (Place Audin), situated in the center of Algiers, this place is a famous landmark for Algerian citizens. 02:08 ► University of Algiers Benyoucef Benkhedda ; It was founded in 1909 and is organized into seven faculties. 02:19 ► A work of art in Didouche Mourad disctric made by the Tunisian artist El Seed, visit his website here : http://elseed-art.com/ 02:22 ► Grand Post Office, built in 1910 by Voinot and Tondoire in a neo-Moorish style, it is situated in full centre town of Algiers. 02:51 ► Place of the Emir Abdelkader, in memory of the famous emir Abd El-Kader, resistant during French conquest of Algeria. 03:04 ► The Bardo National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography (El-mathaf El-ouatani Bardo) is a national museum since 1927. Before being converted as a museum, this palace was built in the eighteenth century and it is said that it would have been the property of Prince Omar before the French conquest. 04:25 and at 06:49 ► Marquam E' chahid, the iconic monument commemorating the Algerian war for independence. It represents three standing palm leaves which shelter the "Eternal Flame" beneath. 04:35 ► Bab El Oued, which means "the River's Gate", is a popular district which extends from the Casbah beyond "the gate of the river". It is the capital's darling and best liked borough. Famous for its square with "the three clocks" and for its "market Triplet", it is also a district of workshops and manufacturing plants. 04:38 ► Bastion 23 - Palais des Rais, built in 1576 by Dey Ramdhan Pacha and located in the lower Casbah in the Bab El Oued neighborhood. 05:50 ► The Museum of Antiquities is an art museum in Algiers, Algeria. The museum opened in 1897. In 1911, it was described as having "the finest collection of the kind in Algeria." The museum holds objects related to Algeria and Rome. 06:41 ► Jardin d'essai, a botanical garden created in 1832 by A. Hardy. and situated in the east of Algiers, in El Hamma neighbourhood. It extends over 58 hectares and contains exotic plants and arboretums. (Thanks to my friend Jasmine who conducted a precise study about the Jardin D'essai for these precious precisions ♥) 06:46 ► The National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers ((in French) Musée National des beaux-arts d'Alger) is a museum located in Algiers, Algeria. On May 14th, 1962 over 300 works of art were brought to the Louvre in Paris from the Museum. (A lot of these precisions were find on Wikipedia, For more informations, please visit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers , I know that Wikipedia pages are sometimes criticized, but this one is reliable and truthful, it summurizes everything in a smart way) • If you are interested, here are my social medias : Instagram ► http://instagram.com/goroundmary Pinterest ► https://www.pinterest.fr/marygoroundpins/ Facebook Page ► https://www.facebook.com/marygoroundthoughts/ Here's an instagram account that will make you discover the beauty of Algeria ► https://www.instagram.com/topalgeriaphoto/ Thank you so much for your support, love and respect. Sending you my positive vibes, MG.


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How to use Windows 11 updated accessibility features
Windows 11 contains various accessibility improvements compared to Windows 10, but the most noticeable is the name change. The feature set known as "Ease of Access" in Windows 10 was transformed into Accessibility in the the latest Windows version. Microsoft even changed the icon into a human-shaped one, which is the recognized Accessibility icon in most parts of the world.
In this article, we'll go through the updated Accessibility options in Windows 11, touch on how they can sometime differ from Windows 10, and suggest how these features can be utilized by Windows users.
Getting to Your Accessibility Center
In Windows 11, the Action Center is a great space for quickly getting to the things you need including your Accessibility settings.
Click on the Wi-Fi/Volume/Battery in your taskbar in the lower right corner to bring up the Action Center up. Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut Win + A to open up the Action Center.
Out of the box, you'll be able to find the Accessibility icon here, as well as sound control, brightness, airplane mode, and Focus Assist.
Now, if you don't see Accessibility as an option or if you'd like to change what comes up in your Action Center menu, right click anywhere within the menu to bring up the "Edit Quick Settings" button.
For any tiles you wish to remove, click the Pin icon with the strikethrough.
If you'd like to add tiles to your Quick Access menu, click the "+Add" button to bring up the following menu.
From here, add the options you use most often to your Quick Access menu bar. You can also find and pin the Accessibility menu from here if for some reason it doesn't auto populate in your Quick Access menu.
Checking Out Your Quick Access Options
If you click on the Accessibility button icon in the Action Center menu, you'll open up another menu with options to toggle often-used functions on or off.
These are far from the only Accessibility tools available on Windows 11, and you can open the full settings menu by either clicking "More Accessibility Settings" in that quick-access menu or by using the Win + U shortcut.
The easiest parts of the Accessibility menu to get to are those toggle options that live in the Action Center.
Briefly, these tools offer the following functionalities:
Magnifier – zooms in on a section of your screen. You can use your mouse to navigate around to different parts of the screen. This is helpful if there are areas with smaller print or buttons that are difficult to make out due to contrast issues.
Color filters – will lower the saturation on all of the elements on your screen and essentially make it black and white.
Narrator – reads the text on the screen out loud to you. Narrator outlines the text as it's reading. You can also choose whether Narrator will tell you about associated keyboard shortcuts.
Mono audio – brings all of your audio out of one channel instead of the left and right channels, which can be helpful for people who have diminished hearing in one ear but not the other.
Sticky keys – allows users to press keys one at a time instead of simultaneously and still access the associated commands. For example, instead of having to press Ctrl + C together, "Sticky keys" allows someone to press the Ctrl button and then the C key.
Main Accessibility Menu
Accessibility lives within the Settings menu, and you can quickly navigate to the full list of features. Note that most of these are also available in Windows 10.
Hit the Start button and select the Settings app from menu that appears.
From there, select Accessibility from the side panel to open the main Accessibility page. You could also use the search function within the Settings menu to quickly search for the setting you need.
Or you can press the Win + U shortcut to pull up the Accessibility menu.
In what follows, we'll explore the additional Accessibility options based on the categories of those they're aimed to help.
Options for the Blind/Visually Impaired
For most of us, it would seem impossible to navigate a computer if we couldn't see the screen. Knowing that, Microsoft has included a set of these features to help visually impaired users get the most of their Windows experience.
We've already touched on the Narrator and Magnifier features, and now we'll take a look at some of the additional features included in Windows 11.
1. Text Size, Cursors, and Pointers
Combined, these features make it easier to interact with text and other elements across the computer's interface.
From Accessibility, select the "Text Size" option.
From here you can access the text size slider. It is a fairly self-explanatory feature that allows a user to increase the text size over more or less all of Windows instead of having to do zoom individually on various apps they're using.
Be sure to click "Apply" after moving the slider. The changes may take a few seconds to take effect.
Go back to Accessibility, and select the "Text cursor" menu this time.
From here users can also customize the color and thickness of their text input cursor.
Additionally, the "Text cursor" indicator option creates visual markers at the top and bottom of the cursor bar, which can be various sizes and colors based on the user's preference.
Users can also customize their mouse pointers to make them more visible by going to "Mouse pointer and touch" from the Accessibility menu.
You can change the mouse pointer's, style, and color.
If you select the last option under "Mouse pointer style", you will be able to select another color for your mouse pointer.
2. Visual Effects
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These features can make it easier to distinguish between windows by making them slightly transparent. You can find this option by going to "Accessibility-> Visual effects".
This, coupled with another feature we'll touch on in a bit, can really help those with low vision.
Animation effects make for a nicer UX for most of us, but in some cases, users may wish to simply have the menus appear and disappear on screen.
3. Color Options
According to the UK-based non-profit organization Color Blind Awareness, 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women today suffer from color blindness. On this context, Microsoft has included several filters for various types of colorblindness.
You can find these profiles under "Color filters" in the Accessibility menu.
If you scroll down further on this menu and tap on "Colors" you'll get the option to use even more colors.
You'll be taken to a menu that's not actually housed within the Accessibility menu. Instead, you'll head over to the Personalization section.
The accent color on this page can be toggled to Manual or Automatic. Automatic will match the accent color based on your background photo.
But for those with visual impairments, manual may be a better option. This lets you set your own color that will remain no matter what your background is. The accent color will outline windows, which will work well with the transparency we mentioned earlier as to help users distinguish between multiple windows on one screen. A color such as a bright white will stand out against most background colors.
Another important Accessibility option is "Contrast Themes" which used to be called "High Contrast Themes" in Windows 10. You can access via "Accessibility-> Contrast Themes".
Compared to Windows 10, these themes are much more robust in Windows 11. They're a lot subtler in Windows 11 while offering enough contrast to be useful to those who need to use higher contrast settings for their vision.
There are four themes, and users can edit from those presets to make unique setups. Microsoft also made a big effort to provide an aesthetic option for those who need more contrast on their computers.
Options for the Deaf/Hearing Impaired
Those who are deaf or have a hearing impairment rely on visual cues in their digital environments, and Microsoft has created some features specifically for those users. They're also useful for those who are using their computers in a space where it's not possible to rely on audio.
1. Audio Effects
You can find these features by going to "Accessibility-> Audio".
From here, you can set up notifications from your system via a flashing screen. You can either flash the active window, the title bar of the active window, or the entire screen. This will let you know that something has come in when you can't hear the ping from the system.
2. Captions
Captions are one of the most widely used tools by those who have audio processing disorders and those who have a hearing impairment.
You can get captions in Windows 11 by visiting the Captions menu under Accessibility.
From here you can customize how your captions look when you're using them (white on black, large caps, yellow on blue etc).
In the future, Windows 11 users will be able to download a package that allows live captioning. This feature, currently only available to Windows Insiders, will transform any audio into text in real time.
This means that users will be able to take advantage of real-time captions during their Zoom meetings or videos which don't have captions built into them.
Options for Users with Mobility Impairments
One of the biggest improvements in terms of Accessibility in Windows 11 is related to voice typing and dictation. While the feature was plagued by bugs in Windows 10, the new version finally works as intended.
1. Voice Typing and Dictation
This is a great feature for people affected by mobility impairments involving issues with manipulation of objects by hand who need to create documents or input text. Users can "write" in Notepad, Microsoft Word, and online sites like WordPress and Google Docs.
If you're in need of more voice functionality than just text input, you can set up the speech recognition. This allows you to control your computer with your voice. It requires some initial setup so that it can recognize your voice.
To get started with the feature, go to "Accessibility-> Speech".
From here, you will have to turn on the "Windows Speech Recognition" toggle.
3. Up next, follow the steps to set up the feature.
If you'd like to use the "Auto Punctuation" function, you need to enable it, as well. To do so, use the Windows and H shortcut to pull up the voice typing menu.
Click the gear icon to open the "Settings".
Next toggle on the "Auto Punctuation" setting.
2. Eye control
When it comes to acute mobility impairments, Eye control can help patients communicate by typing responses using their eyes. Go to "Accessibility-> Eye control" to find this feature.
You'll need a compatible eye-tracking device before you can start communicating only with your eyes though and someone to help you set everything up by enabling the "Eye control" toggle.
What is the Disability Answer Desk?
Microsoft created a support center called the Disability Answer Desk that caters to people who want to use the Accessibility features, as well as those who want to make their content more accessible to others.
This webpage acts as a hub for those looking to find out more about Windows Accessibility. Scroll through tips (broken into categories like keyboard shortcuts and YouTube videos) and find resources such as webinars. In addition users can access useful phone numbers, live chat, American sign language support, and download the Be My Eyes app.
Are accessibility features only for those with physical disabilities?
Microsoft spent time developing tools that would also help people with mental health issues and learning disabilities such as dyslexia. Additionally, some of the features are great for all users, especially those who log a lot of computer hours.
Using features like dark mode can help us see better, but most of us still end up squinting to find things, like the cursor bar or pointer. This can lead to eye strain, headaches, and fatigue. Using these features can help alleviate some of the stress that constant computer work puts on our bodies and brains.
How can I suggest Accessibility changes?
Microsoft has a Feedback Hub app where users can request that changes. It's easily accessible from your PC, just search for it using the magnifying glass icon in the task bar. Here you'll find multiple sections that allow users to suggest feedback. There is a drop-down menu that allows the user to pick a category, and Accessibility is third on the drop-down list.
Some keys to offering good feedback, according to Microsoft, are making sure you have a concise and descriptive title and keep each piece of feedback limited to one issue only. Be aware that device, OS, and app information are automatically submitted with your feedback.
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Misha Collins is an American actor who is best known for playing the Angel Castiel on the television show Supernatural.
Misha was born Misha Dmitri Tippen Krusnic on August 20, 1974 in Massachusetts, USA. His mother named him after a former boyfriend she had when she visited Russia. Misha graduated from Northfield Mount Herman Private School in 1992. Prior to attending the University of Chicago to study social theory, Misha pursued a variety of interests including taking an EMT course, working construction, at NPR (National Public Radio) and interning at the White House.
After college, Misha moved to Washington DC with his girlfriend, now wife, Victoria Vantoch and started a software company. On a whim, Misha decided to take an acting class and made the career move that changed his life. After landing roles in Liberty Heights and Girl, Interrupted, and changing his name to the now familiar Misha Collins, he moved to Los Angeles.
Misha has guest starred in several top television shows including Charmed, CSI, ER, Monk and NYPD Blue. His mastery of the Russian accent help him win the role of Alexis Drazin on season 1 of 24. Misha was added to the cast of Supernatural during season 4 as the Angel of the Lord Castiel and is slated to reappear in the season 5.


The area around the eyes can show signs of age and stress, or reveal to the world an alert and youthful appearance. Our aesthetic division provides surgical and nonsurgical treatments to rejuvenate the upper portions of the face.
Drooping or sagging eyelids often cause the appearance of being older, tired, or sad. For many patients, the cause for this is from excess upper eyelid skin (dermatochalasis) that may weigh down the eyelid or be cosmetically unpleasing. Some patients may also have pronounced fat pockets that are normally present in the eye socket, but that protrude forward into the upper eyelid space, creating a puffy appearance around the eyes. The removal of this excess skin and bulging fat (upper eyelid blepharoplasty) helps to rejuvenate the face and restores a more youthful appearance.
The position of the eyebrow contributes heavily to the appearance of the face as well as the position of the eyelid and eyelid skin. Drooping of the eyebrows (brow ptosis) is one of the frequent causes of a saddened or tired appearance. Drooping of the eyebrows often co-exists with dermatochalasis and can often exaggerate its severity. Mild to moderate elevation of the brow can be achieved at the time of upper eyelid blepharoplasty with the placement of additional internal elevation sutures, resulting in a beautiful, natural-appearing brow lift.
Similar to the upper eyelids, the appearance of the aging lower eyelids can contribute to poor facial aesthetics. With age, the lower eyelids may develop wrinkles and sagging, as well as protrusion of the natural eye socket fat into the lower eyelid space, creating the appearance of significant puffiness around the eyes. Lower eyelid blepharoplasty removes the bulging fat and any excess skin that may be present, helping to reduce the wrinkles and puffiness. This helps to restore a more energetic and youthful appearance.


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Before Global Inheritance started, founder Eric Ritz's partnered with a number of high profile fashion brands to create Fashion Peace.
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Common sense doesnt have a color.
Since 2002, Global Inheritance has teamed up with some of the most influential companies internationally to present educational and interactive programs that reach thousands of people at a time. With the help of our partners, we've found ways to relate activism to generations that are immersed in music, arts, fashion and sports.
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Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Linux-based servers. It's one of the most popular open source hosting control panels. Webmin is largely based on Perl, running as its own process and web server. It defaults TCP port is 10000 , and can be configured to use SSL if OpenSSL is installed with additional required Perl Modules. Installing Webmin on CentOS 7, its really an easy solution, just follow my steps bellow.
How to Install Webmin on CentOS / RHEL 7/6 and Fedora 28/27/26/25?
you need some extra rpms that you need to install beside that .
By default, Webmin uses a self-signed SSL certificate so your web browser will warn you that the connection is not secure. You can accept the self-signed SSL certificate and proceed to the log in screen.
I think the same method should work for Redhat /Feodora 26/27/28 and Oracle Linux .
webmin.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.
Job for webmin.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status webmin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.


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Keywords: HVDC link, Emergency control scheme, PMU, MPC, SIME.
In this paper various control schemes used for the enhancement of tranisent have been studied. There are two main control schemes used for transient stability enhancement: Prevntive controle scheme and Emergency control scheme. In this paper the main focus is on emergency control scheme. Further various emergency schemes have been presented in this paper like fast valving, braking resistors, fast valving in coordination with braking resistor, HVDC link for the improvement of transient stability. At the end of this paper a new control scheme has also been proposed in which PMU's are used in coordination with HVDC link for the improvement of transient stability. PMU's are used for the continuous monitoring of the system parameters.
Naveed Ullah, , US Pakistan Center for Advance studies in Energy, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Naeem Arbab, , US Pakistan Center for Advance studies in Energy, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Uzair Muhammad, , US Pakistan Center for Advance studies in Energy, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Tanvir Ahmed, , US Pakistan Center for Advance studies in Energy, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Violence erupts as army disperses Tahrir Square sit-in
Demonstrators chased from protest hub by early morning military assault but regather hours later
Salma Shukrallah, Saturday 9 Apr 2011
Protesters walk past a burned truck after soldiers beat protesters with clubs and fired into the air in the pre-dawn raid in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 9, 2011.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
ElBaradei calls for dialogue between army and people
Egypt Health Ministry reports one killed and 71 injured after military disperses Tahrir sit-in
Armed Forces orders arrest of NDP's Ibrahim Kamel
Protesters set up tents in Tahrir Square, again
Egyptians protest, defy army bid to disperse them
Many have been injured and one has been reported dead by Egypt's Ministry of Health, after Egypt's military cracked down on protestors early Saturday, aiming to disperse a mass sit-in on Tahrir Square.
Gunshots echoed around downtown between 2 and 5:30am, half an hour past curfew, as clashes continued between military and demonstrators. Witnesses say live ammunition was used, in addition to tasers, batons and teargas grenades.
At around 6am the military withdrew from the area surrounding Tahrir and protestors regathered in the square, where an army bus and truck were burning. Rocks could be seen scattered all across the intersection and parts of the ground were blood-stained, the smell of teargas still lingering.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has released a statement claiming the attack was targeted against thugs and members of the former-ruling National Democratic Party who they accused of 'conducting sabotage' in the square. Among those blamed for sabotage was Ibrahim Kamel, already accused of plotting the infamous 'camel attack' of 2 February, one of the bloodiest days of Egypt's 18-day revolt. The Council has since issued an order for Kamel's arrest.
In another statement, the Council said that those who continued to sit-in past curfew hours after demonstrators had left the square were "outlaws".
The military's attempt to disperse demonstrators came after several army officers -- who some allege are only claiming to be so -- joined the Tahrir sit-in.
Youtube videos were circulating days before Egypt's "Cleansing Friday", showing army officers calling on their counterparts to join Tahrir Square protests and condemning the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
Several sources have claimed the officers who appeared in the videos were retirees living abroad who were seeking vengeance on Egypt's military institutions.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces mentioned in its second statement that several of those gathered in Tahrir Square past curfew claimed to be military officers.
Protestors vowed to protect the military officers who joined them overnight, but after the military succeeded in routing the crowd from the square the officers' fates remain unknown.
The armed forces have used violence to disperse protesters on Tahrir Square before. On the last occasion, the military apologised the following day, saying there had been no order to assault the protesters and calling the incident "unintentional".
On Saturday morning, thousands regathered in the square in defiance of the army, vowing to keep protesting until ousted president Hosni Mubarak is tried and the full demands of the revolution are met.
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S Elizabeth interviews musician Gemma Fleet of The Wharves on her project "Lost Voices" which explores vocal improvisation in folk culture. Volume 1. "Keening and the Death Wail" has roots in Fleet's own childhood. She believes she encountered an Irish traveler funeral; an "unhindered display of grief" wherein the woman in mourning was not being hushed, but instead comforted by family and loved ones whose wails and cries joined in with her own.
S. Elizabeth is a fancier of fine old things, nostalgic whimsies and magics both macabre and melancholy. She is a shadow seamstress, star stitcher, word witch and weaver of the weird. She currently lives among the mosses and swamps, enjoys her coffee a great deal, and is a friend to all felines.
To cry into one's pillow, to weep one's heart out in the face of broken-hearted grief, is something we are, no doubt, all familiar with. To take it a step further though, deep into the realm of grievous loss and public mourning–that is a notion which has become foreign to us. However, there was a time when this type of collective sorrow and mourning display was common practice.
The death wail is a keening, mournful lamentation, usually performed in ritual fashion soon after the death of a member of a family or tribe. Examples of death wails have been found in many societies, including among the Celts and various indigenous peoples of Asia and Africa, as well as with Indigenous Australian peoples.
Voices is a project which explores vocal improvisation in folk culture, and Volume 1. Keening and the Death Wail, is a 31-page booklet and cd of audio examples released by Susan Records in November of 2015, and which delves into the history and the art of keening. The author, musician Gemma Fleet of The Wharves, writes authoritatively and evocatively on this ancient, traditional art of lamentation as it relates to the Irish funeral and other cultures worldwide, as well as tackling it from a feminist perspective, and how it ties into the grieving process.
The booklet opens on a personal note, wherein Fleet recounts compellingly how, when she was younger, she believes she encountered an Irish traveler funeral; an "unhindered display of grief" wherein the woman in mourning was not being hushed, but instead comforted by family and loved ones whose wails and cries joined in with her own.
Gemma graciously gave of her time to answer a few questions about this fascinating and dramatic mourning tradition, and it is with this memory that we begin.
What was it, that prompted you In 2015– twenty years after you first heard the lamentation of that Irish traveling funeral– to begin this project?
I came across a video of the Greenham Women protesting in parliament square , they were dressed in black and keening. The sound brought back the memory of the funeral I had witnessed all that time ago and prompted the research. For me, certain sounds evoke a rush of emotion and hearing that sound again it was like I was there.
Where does one go to find information on these ancient traditions? Who did you talk with and how did you find out about them? How did you go about gathering data on oral traditions in languages that are barely spoken anymore?
I am lucky enough to be in a band with a Gaelic speaker (Dearbhla Minogue from the Wharves) we looked at some of the songs and translated bits, the Gaelic used was very old and hard to translate. I also spoke to some work colleagues from Ghana and Croatia who have similar practices, they were interested in the project as we were working in a music therapy centre at the time so understood my interest. Other than that I talked to family members and carried out research in many libraries in England, Ireland, Canada and the US. I found some of the older books easier to find in the US funnily enough, stories from Irish immigrants who continued traditions.
Where did you find the audio extracts? How did you feel, listening to them? I realize that it's a strange question, "what is your favorite death wail?" but were there any amongst the ones you featured that you were particularly struck by or that resonated with you?
My favourite tracks are the ones we recorded, the feeling in the room was strangely melancholy as we started to vocalize and think about keeners, other clips I got from a variety of places including a BBC radio 4 programme from the eighties that seemed to have some very rare clips from the producer's field recordings.
You state that "Using music and poetry, as any musician will tell you, can relieve and give space to feelings that cannot be appropriately discussed with dialogue": I'm keenly interested in how, as a musician yourself, this project and all that you have learned on the subject may have affected your own music?
The project prompted me to create a song called 'My Will' with the band The Wharves, we used the improvisations recorded with a mixed group of women (even including one heavily pregnant woman) to start the song, it's a song about community spirit and feeling supported through tough times by other women.
Keening wasn't just an art form, you also speak to important feminist implications with regard to these lamentations and death wails. You state that "participation in funerals allowed women to express themselves in the public domain and challenge the social order as the authoritative figure in the funeral ceremony." Keening as a form of protest comes up in your writing as well. Can you elaborate on these ideas for us?
The last part of your book is a nod to Elizabeth Kubler Ross's Theory of the 5 stages of grief. How do you think this ancient tradition accommodates these stages of mourning?
I don't think there are any 'rules ' to mourning , the Kubler Ross theory as a basis identifies certain behaviours. I feel the act of keening gives room for expressing anger, confusion and sometimes mania that comes from loss where a funeral the typical western sense is usually somber and , in my experience, rushes of unbound emotion subdued.


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Q: How to cancel a Paypal Order after user approvation? (API v2) I'm actually trying to create an application that use Papal API v2.
I succesfully create the oreder and get money on sandbox.
I use JS Paypal method onApprove to call order.capture to get the order and create the subscription on my systems.
But if there are some issue on my serverside code, how i can block the order on paypal API to stop get money from user if something going bad?
        paypal.Buttons({
            locale: 'it_IT',
            style: {
                shape: 'pill',
                color: 'blue',
                layout: 'vertical',
                label: 'buynow',
                fundingicons: 'true',
            },
            createOrder: function (data, actions) {
                return actions.order.create(my_PlanOrderDef);
            },
            onApprove: function (data, actions) {
                console.log(data)
                console.log(actions)
                return actions.order.capture().then(function (details) {
                    if (!CloseProcess(details)) {
                        console.log("FAIL! HERE SOMETHING GOING BAD ON MY LOGIC, AND I NEED TO CANCEL THE ORDER PAYMENT");
                        return false;
                    }
                });
            },
            onError: function (err) {
                console.log(err);
            }
        }).render('#btnPaypalContainer');

CloseProcess method just call my serverside logic to create a subscription on my system.
I probably miss something in paypal v2 logics so apologize me, any idea to accomplish this task?
Thank You

A: When an order is created, it is valid for 72 hours.
When an order becomes approved, it is valid for 3 hours.
There is no method to cancel an order.
If you don't wish to use an order, discard its id and do not capture it.

To change to a server-side integration for order creation and capture, follow the Set up standard payments guide and make 2 routes on your server, one for 'Create Order' and one for 'Capture Order', documented here. Both routes should return only JSON data (no HTML or text). Inside the 2nd route, when the capture API is successful you should store its resulting payment details in your database (particularly purchase_units[0].payments.captures[0].id, which is the PayPal transaction ID) and perform any necessary business logic (such as sending confirmation emails or reserving product) immediately before forwarding your return JSON to the frontend caller.
Pair those 2 routes with the frontend approval flow: https://developer.paypal.com/demo/checkout/#/pattern/server

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Q: Is it possible to replace Excel's VBA Editor/IDE with a modern alternative? Is it possible to replace Excel's built-in VBA Editor or IDE with a modern one such as VS Code or VS Studio?
As a C# developer, I prefer the Visual Studio IDE. Excel's VBA Editor/IDE is very dated by comparison. It lacks the sophisticated features found in even the most basic IDEs, such as column selection, jump to references, and useful keyboard shortcuts. As an example, there's no keyboard shortcut for terminating a debugging session.
While it does support many useful features such as suggestions, syntax checking and syntax coloring, they don't work well. It still lacks anything like intellisense. The syntax checking is very obstructive and limited to the most obvious cases. The syntax coloring is limited to keywords and comments. It's autocompletion only works in limited scenarios.

A: You might consider using VB.NET instead of VBA for your Excel development. Excel-DNA (which I develop) is an open source framework for integrating .NET in Excel, which tries to make the VBA to .NET conversion as easy as possible.
Then you can use any editor for the VB.NET (or C#) code, including the Visual Studio Express editions or SharpDevelop.


It's a new year. Yay. It was a lovely festive season in our house, and once the rush and bustle of the festive season was over we had a lovely evening at a friend's place, where the new year began with laughter and chatter and sparklers and bubbly.
Now the new year is a week old. Facebook and especially Instagram feeds are still flooded with New Year resolutions of all kind, and frankly, I'm getting a bit fed up with them all.
I remember that even as a child it made not much sense to me when the adults talked at length about what they were wanting to change the following year. I'm probably to pragmatic about that. If you want to change it, just do it. Which proves why this slogan of a very famous sports brand is not only very clever but also very to the point. No more excuses. No more blabla. Just do it.
Anyways. As different religions and regional cultures celebrate new year at different times of the year, each with their own outbursts of great plans and resolutions, we are but a small drop in the ocean and are mostly taken ourselves way to serious yet again.
If anything I quite like to be reminded that January is named after Janus, the Roman god of gates, doors and beginnings, who, with his two faces was said to look both forward as well as backwards. For me, New Years is more for reflection and looking backwards than looking forward with great plans.
Forward is a clean sheet. Clean like the new calendars, which are still empty and stress free and not filled to the brim with things to do, to remember, to organise, to buy.


OAKHURST — Everyone is invited to Branches Books & Gifts on Saturday, June 30, to visit with two local authors whose grasp of the natural world is inspirational, each in their own way.
The author event takes place on Saturday, June 30, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Brenda Negley is the author of Nelder Grove of Giant Sequoias: A Granddaughter's Stories, and Roger Thompson penned We Stood Upon Stars, recently named Amazon's number one best-selling Yosemite book.
Brenda will sign her beautiful tome, now in its second edition, and to discuss stories from her experience with beloved grandparents John and Marge Hawksworth, long time stewards of Nelder Grove.
Roger will be sign books and talk about We Stood Upon Stars and his memoir, My Best Friend's Funeral. He'll also be discussing his newly launched Summer Adventure 5-Day Reading Plan devotional.


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February 2018 – different senses – in Birmingham, Steve Lawson & Poppy Porter's Illuminated Loops (25th February); in London, Nest Collective's Queer As Folk with Sam Gleaves and Landless (28th February)
A couple of quick dips into wider worlds, with minimal blather from me..
This isn't the first time I've featured the audio-visual collaborations of jeweller and live artist Poppy Porter and multilayering bass guitar maestro Steve Lawson, but if you haven't heard of/seen either of them before, nor encountered their unusual duo approach, here's an opportunity to go and immerse yourself at a new show in Steve's current home town of Birmingham…
Steve Lawson/Poppy Porter: Illuminated Loops
Tower of Song, 107 Pershore Road South, Kings Norton, Birmingham B30 3EL, England
Sunday 25th February 2018, 7.30pm – information here
"Steve Lawson and Poppy Porter bring their amazing music and live art show to Birmingham. Steve plays his textured bass guitar loops, Poppy draws what she sees. Poppy is synaesthetic – she "sees" sound, and as the images appear on the paper, Steve treats the emerging art as a graphic score, folding it back into the music in way that creates a glorious feedback loop of art influencing art. It's an immersive experience, to watch the art take shape before your eyes, to hear the music morph and twist as it is improvised in response to the art."
Back in London, the Nest Collective (in collaboration with internationally-minded arts inspirers Dash Arts) have been broadening their commitment to presenting and celebrating the breadth and ongoing relevance of folk music by staging Queer As Folk, "an ongoing series of events celebrating the work of LGBTQ+ artists working in folk, world, and roots music".
I don't feel well-equipped to dig into this topic in depth yet. Most straight blokes such as myself who start digging – even with the best intentions – into LGBTQ+ history and culture tend to find it rapidly and explosively unfolding into our faces like a long-compressed jack-in-the-box… or, more accurately, as if someone's abruptly whisked our blinkers away and we find ourselves in the heart of a bustling, previously invisible party (with its own long-running stories of love and loss, inspiration and pain, quarrels and solidarity, bullying and resistance). It's quite jolting – although often inspiring – to be confronted with one's own ignorance.
During my own lifetime, while lesbian women have had an long-established presence in the singer-songwriter field (the redoubtable Holly Near and Joan Armatrading in the '70s, Melissa Etheridge and Judy Small in the '80s, the Indigo Girls in the '90s, to name just the obvious few), it's been more difficult to identify other aspects of the queer spectrum within folk unless you were already deep in the scene or privileged with word-of-mouth knowledge. Still, all of that is there – as, indeed, it's everywhere – and this gig, while first and foremost an occasion for good music, should help any fresh attendees to open up a new perspective (and perhaps offer some new interpretations of folk traditions with their shifting tales of love, lust, disguise and transformations).
Enough of me and my vagueness. Here's Nest Collective's matter-of-fact briefing for the evening: the rest can just be learned in time…
The Nest Collective & Dash Arts present:
Queer as Folk: Sam Gleaves + Landless
The Old Queen's Head, 44 Essex Road, Islington, London, N1 8LN, England
Wednesday 28th February 2018, 8.00pm – information here, here and here
"Born and raised in southwest Virginia, Sam Gleaves performs innovative mountain music with a sense of history. Sam carries on the ballads, dance music and storytelling he learned from numerous mentors in the Appalachian tradition including multi-instrumentalist Jim Lloyd and ballad singer Sheila Kay Adams. He tours extensively in the U.S. and, in 2016, toured the UK supporting Peggy Seeger.
In 2015, Sam collaborated with producer Cathy Fink and released a debut record of original songs, titled Ain't We Brothers. In 2017, he appeared at the Cambridge Folk Festival and brought forth a new eponymous record with his singing partner Tyler Hughes, a fellow southwest Virginian steeped in the region's musical traditions, which has received glowing reviews… Appalachian novelist Lee Smith has heralded Sam as "the best young songwriter around… courageous as hell and country to the bone."
"Landless are Ruth Clinton, Meabh Meir, Sinead Lynch and Lily Power. They sing unaccompanied traditional songs from Irish, Scottish, English and American traditions in close four-part harmony. Their repertoire features songs of love, death and lamentation, as well as work songs, shape-note hymns and more recently penned folk songs. They've performed in a variety of settings, both in Ireland and abroad, and are closely involved with traditional singing sessions in Dublin and Belfast."
Tags: bass guitar music, Landless, Poppy Porter (jeweller), Queer As Folk (concert series), Sam Gleaves, Steve Lawson, synaesthesia, The Nest Collective (event/promoter)
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Arraignment Postponed for Two Defendants in Pop Smoke's Killing
Pop Smoke (AP Photo)
Arraignment was postponed today to Aug. 24 for two young men charged with killing rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills home nearly five months ago.
Corey Walker, 19, and Keandre Rodgers, 18, are charged with capital murder in connection with the Feb. 19 killing of the 20-year-old New York-based rapper, whose real name was Bashar Jackson.
The murder charge includes the special circumstance allegation that the murder was committed during the commission of a robbery and burglary.
Prosecutors will decide later whether to pursue the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole for the defendants, who are also facing gang and gun allegations.
Two boys aged 15 and 17 were charged with murder and robbery in juvenile court in connection with the same crime, according to the District Attorney's Office. Their names were withheld because they are minors.
Officers went to 2033 Hercules Drive in the Hollywood Hills about 4 a.m. on Feb. 19 in response to a 911 call and found the mortally injured rapper, who was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Los Angeles police said last week, when making five arrests in the case, that investigators believed the men and boys entered Jackson's short-term rental home and shot and robbed him inside. Investigators believe the suspects are "members of a Los Angeles street gang," according to police.
Walker, Rodgers and Jaquan Murphy, 21, were arrested Thursday and held in lieu of $1 million bail each.
Online jail records show that Murphy remains in custody on an unrelated case.
LAPD Capt. Steve Lurie said the 911 call that brought police to the Hercules Drive address came from someone on the East Coast who "stated a friend of theirs home was being broken into by multiple suspects, and that one of them was armed with a handgun."
"When officers arrived there approximately six minutes later, they discovered a victim inside the house had been shot," Lurie said. "They called the fire department, who arrived and transported that victim to Cedars-Sinai, where he was pronounced dead."
The suspects were wearing masks and were last seen running from the home and possibly getting into a nearby vehicle.
Officers detained several people who were inside the house, according to Lurie, but "all of those folks were released. … No one was arrested at the scene."
According to various media reports, the up-and-coming New York rapper posted photos earlier Feb. 19 or late Feb. 18 from a party at the home, even revealing the address. According to TMZ, one of the photos showed a person holding a large sum of money.
Investigators believe at least some of the suspects are also involved in the killing of 18-year-old Kamryn Stone in the Rose Bowl parking lot in Pasadena Sept. 14, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Property records indicate the home where the shooting occurred is owned by Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave — who appears on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and is a daughter of musician John Mellencamp — and her husband, Edwin Arroyave.
Pop Smoke released an album in July 2019, and one of the songs, "Welcome to the Party," was considered by many the song of the summer. Nicki Minaj did a remix of the song a few months later.
The rapper also collaborated with Travis Scott on a song called "Gatti."
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After the last episode, here's my top 5, along with other random thoughts.
Caila: Caila is exactly like I thought she was going to be. She's the perfect amount of sweet and fun for Ben. She handled Kevin Hart and Ice Cube well, and just rolled with the punches. Her conversation with Ben about her last boyfriend was great. She was able to articulate that she was trying to catch up to the story of how they met.
Lauren B: I loved her yellow dress. We don't know much about her, other than the fact that she's a flight attendant, but Ben makes it very clear that she's someone to watch despite having no dates.
Jojo: Jojo really broke out tonight. She seemed like the voice of reason during the group date (until she couldn't figure out where Indiana was) and then Ben stole her and they had a classic "rooftop" moment that reminded me of Chris and Des.
Amanda: Amanda told Ben she has two kids, and she was able to open up more. She's sweet, but was very upset over Olivia's behavior. I was surprised when Amanda said Olivia was getting inside her head. She needs to be a little more confident.
Jubilee: Jubilee and Ben had a great moment. I think he's very intrigued by her story. She seems like a very strong person and I liked her scenes during episode 2. It looks like next week is going to be drama though.
It was actually pretty rude of Olivia to try to kiss Ben, knowing that the girls were watching the screen. I also didn't include Olivia in my top 5 because I think she's going to crash and burn.
Lace and Olivia's conversation was hilarious. How much time does Lace need with Ben?
I love Shushanna. I wish we got more of her.
I don't know what was funnier, Ice Cube and Kevin Hart or Olivia's facial expressions.
Jade and Tanner are getting married really soon. That's pretty early, but then again, they got engaged in a matter of three weeks.
This cast reminds me of last season. Olivia= Britt, Jojo= Carly, Lace= Ashley S., Becca= Becca, and Amber=Amber.


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BAYAN USA 15 January 2015, 19:00 UTC
BAYAN USA Turns 10! Isang Dekada, Isang Laban / One Decade, One Fight
BAYAN USA Turns 10!
Isang Dekada, Isang Laban / One Decade, One Fight
From the Philippines to Ferguson: Resist State Repression, Fight for Liberation!
This 2015, BAYAN USA commemorates its 10 year anniversary by reaffirming its commitment to fight against state-sponsored repression and for national and social liberation from US imperialism, both in the Philippines and the US.
This year marks 10 years since the founding of the US Chapter of BAYAN USA, the oldest and largest overseas chapter of BAYAN Philippines, and one of the largest progressive alliances of Filipino-American organizations. Founded in 2005 during the blood-stained peak of the Bush-Arroyo regime's Global War on Terror and US-backed counterinsurgency program "Operation Plan Bantay Laya/Freedom Watch" in the Philippines, BAYAN USA has grown to be a leading critical voice and center for educating, organizing, and mobilizing the broadest ranks of Filipinos and allies in the US for freedom and democracy in the Philippines, the Philippine diaspora, and for racial, economic, and social justice in the US.
Down With the US-Aquino Regime!
The US-Aquino regime not only continues the anti-people and repressive policies of its predecessors, it is actively facilitating the increased US military presence and intervention in the country as part of the so-called Asia Pivot. The murder of Jennifer Laude and the subsequent refusal of the US to surrender custody of Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, the US serviceman formally charged with her murder, are just the latest in a long, historical pattern of reactionary violence committed by US military personnel against Filipino civilians with no repercussions. This adds fuel to the fire of the perennial demand for genuine national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Philippines.
Despite riding onto the presidential office on the coat-tails of his family name, Benigno Simeon Aquino III demonstrates again and again his failure and insincerity when it comes to alleviating the poverty and misery the majority of Filipinos suffer, and what drives over 4,500 Filipinos to leave the country every day in search of a means to survive. Not only have poverty and landlessness, especially for victims of typhoons such as Haiyan and Pablo, worsened under Aquino, but rampant government corruption continues with impunity. Any opposition to the status quo is met with repression, as witnessed by the 491 political prisoners, 226 extrajudicial killings, and 26 forced disappearances of activists who dared to fight for the poor. BAYAN-USA is one with the masses who know the only solution is to force a seachange in the entire system, starting at the top with Aquino.
Solidarity for Black Self-Determination & All Oppressed Communities in the US!
In the US, Filipinos are an ethnic minority with a long history of resistance and struggle for racial and economic justice beginning as early as the turn of the 20th century during the formal US colonial period of the Philippines. As an immigrant community of color, we understand wars of aggression, militarism, state violence, white supremacy, labor exploitation, and racism from the receiving end. This has compelled Filipino-Americans to contribute greatly to the labor, immigrant rights, and racial and economic justice movements in the US.
BAYAN USA sees the self-determination of Black people, migrant workers, and all other oppressed communities in the US as crucial to our liberation as a people as well, and decisive in the struggle for freedom and democracy within US borders. BAYAN-USA must contribute to the legacy of our elders and ancestors, by vastly expanding our ranks and engaging our members in shared struggle with allies against a common enemy.
Fight for Liberation! Build the Anti-Imperialist United Front!
With over four million Filipinos in the US, we are the largest concentration of Filipinos living outside the Philippines. Sending over 60% of the estimated $20 billion in US dollar remittances from overseas Filipinos to the Philippines annually, we keep the Philippine economy afloat. Such economic power must translate to political power. As immigrants and migrant workers, we are justified in criticizing and speaking out against the Philippine government's failed economic policies precisely because of our forced migration and its impact on our families. While the Philippine government continues in its downward economic spiral, the migrant and immigrant movement grows in strength and numbers, keeping our eyes on the prize of genuine Philippine liberation, and the right to return Home or to freely choose to migrate .
BAYAN USA is an integral part of the larger, national struggle for freedom and democracy in the Philippines. As an alliance based in the US, BAYAN USA must also live up to its responsibility to play a great role in strengthening and contributing to the anti-imperialist struggle in the US. We understand that while the two countries are on separate hemispheres, the shared struggle of the Filipino people and oppressed peoples in the US is rooted in the same rotten global monopoly capitalist system. We celebrate our 10 years in the National Democratic movement by dedicating ourselves to building and strengthening solidarity ties between peoples in the Philippines and the US, and to do our part to advance the worldwide movement against US imperialism.
Long Live the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines with a Socialist Perspective!
Continue the Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform and National Industrialization!
Long Live International Solidarity!


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Warner Bros. is going on a suicide mission, setting up the DC Comics property "Suicide Squad" for Dan Lin ("Sherlock Holmes") to produce as a potential franchise.
In a departure from normal comic-based fare, "Suicide Squad" concentrates on a group of incarcerated supervillains rather than the usual focus on superheroes. The first version of the squad debuted in a 1959 DC Comic, and a series was launched in 1987.
Stephen Gilchrist from Lin Pictures will co-produce. Justin Marks ("20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Hack/Slash," "Street Fighter") is penning the screenplay.
"Suicide Squad" will feature a mix of well-known and unknown villains recruited by the government to accomplish a task deemed too dangerous for superheroes. The historically independent operators must bury their own interpersonal conflicts and agendas to form a cohesive unit to take on a singular task.


McMurry University offers 153-degree programs. Student-to-faculty ratio is 11:1. 1 high safety campus. Acceptance Rate is 61%. The most popular test is SAT - 70% of students submitted it in comparison to 56% of students who submitted ACT. 51.9% are women, and 48.1% are men. McMurry University is a member of 7 athletic associations. The average annual total cost of attendance at McMurry University is 18541$, that is above national average. Total price of living is between $30274 and $37361 per year. 37% of full-time McMurry University students completed their education in 150 percent of time: graduation rate is at the level of national average. Average salary after attending is $37,500, so if you studied 2 years, you'll get your funds back in less than 2 years.
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The McMurry University is a private and academic-year institution, so it's net price represents an average of all programs and includes only undergraduates who first enrolled in the fall term and receive Title IV aid. The total cost of attendance depends on whether undergraduates live on campus, off campus (not with family), or off campus (with family).
Depending on the federal state, or institutional grant and available, McMurry University students in your income bracket may pay more of less than the overall average costs.
905 of McMurry University undergraduate students were awarded with some type of financial aid, it's 90 percents of all undergraduate students. This makes McMurry University number 88 in the amount of financial aid awarded to students among all educational institutions in Texas.
Students at McMurry University awarded 5 types of loans or aids, the biggest percent of students received a federal, state, local or institutional grant aid.
Here are the learning opportunities available in McMurry University.
McMurry University graduation rate is below the national average.
37% of full-time students enrolled for the first time to McMurry University completed the education program and got a degree in 150 percent of the expected time of completion.
McMurry University acceptance rate is below national average.
Average acceptance rate for all institutions in state in the same net price range is 68%, so McMurry University acceptance rate value is below state net price average for 7%.
The McMurry University full-time retention rate is 63% and part-time retention rate is 100%.
The student-to-faculty ratio at McMurry University is 11:1, that means that for every 11 students the institution has one professor, lecturer or specialist with a degree in education. Lower student-to-faculty ratio is better - it means that professors can dedicate more time and attention to each student.
In McMurry University the biggest percent of students are enrolled in on-campus courses.
Here are the students enrolled exclusively in distance education courses at McMurry University and grouped by their location. Distance education courses are the most popular for students located in Texas.
The campus located by S 14Th And Sayles Blvd address in Abilene, Texas.
Main Campus in comparison of all branches in the US. It is calculated as the average percent of crimes yearly by five years of data for every campus, based on an overall number of students studying there. The branch is a part of McMurry University with 0.6% of maximum crimes a year. The only type of crimes detected on Main Campus is burglary.
McMurry University offers 153 programs in total: 147 are for Bachelor's degree and 6 are Master's degree.
This is one of the lowest number of programs in comparison with other 471 universities in Texas state. McMurry University is one of the few institutions in Texas that offers a Master's degree program.
McMurry University provides coursework for undergraduate students and graduate students.
In 2014-2015 academic year estimated full-time equivalent undergraduate enrollment was 936 students with 28077 сredit hours for 12-month instructional activity period. The enrollment for graduates was 3 with 66 credit hours.


Enviably low mortgage interest rates have been a key driver of the strong price growth in the residential property market, according to the Residential Property Prospects, 2014 to 2017 report from BIS Shrapnel.
It's expected that price growth will continue between the 2014/15 year through to 2015/16 - news sure to be welcomed by investors and existing homeowners alike.
By 2016/17, price declines are expected, paving the road for those with less financial leverage to take out variable or fixed home loans.
What's been keeping the market buoyant?
A number of factors have contributed to strong residential property markets over the last 12 months in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Darwin, notably low interest rates and tight markets.
Brisbane's market is turning itself around, with the Sunshine State capital tipped as the top contender for the best price growth during the next three years.
"[A]ffordability has improved significantly after weak price performance in recent years, and low dwelling construction means there is a sizeable deficiency in place", BIS Shrapnel noted in a June 23 statement.
"The momentum in the Sydney market is also expected to continue for now as the market is estimated to still be in deficiency. However, as rising new dwelling supply works its way through to completion, pent up demand pressures will ease and the strains on affordability as interest rates rise will take their toll, leading to a forecast price decline by 2016/17."
With growth anticipated in key cities over the next year, before slowing and tailing off, there's still time to capitalise off favourable capital gains.
BIS Shrapnel Senior Manager Angie Zigomanis explained that the current average variable interest rate is the lowest level seen in more than 40 years, with the exclusion of the emergency rates put in place during the global financial crisis.
With affordable loan products available, homeownership is still proving to be a boon for Australians.