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Richard Powell tackles the property potential of one of this year's capitals of culture, Istanbul, before nipping across the Mediterranean to experience Turkey's sunshine state, Northern Cyprus.
Getting about by road in Istanbul is tricky right now as the city is working to modernize its metro system, and reduce its choking twenty-four hour traffic by half.
It's a pain for visiting tourists taking cabs, and undoubtedly worse for commuters, but a delight for historians who have uncovered objects beneath the ground thought to be the oldest signs ever of civilization on the continent.
There are 8,000-year-old graves, sunken ships, jewelery, combs and sandals; so many artifacts in fact, that a new museum is about to open to showcase them at Yenikapi.
On top of this ancient ground, however, still sits the remainder of tumbledown properties that escaped the last big earthquake here in 1999, where an estimated sixty percent of housing is deemed to have been built illegally or considered unsafe for living.
But among this ramshackle landscape and the Ottoman mosques and Byzantine churches nestled therein, a new renaissance of ultra-modern glass, concrete and steel towers are springing up to cater to the city's burgeoning and increasingly affluent population.
Istanbul has some 13 million inhabitants with an average age of just 28, making this Europe's fastest growing city and Turkey's economic powerhouse. Over 400,000 new residents arrive each year to work or study and more than a quarter of a million new homes are required each year, for the next five years, to accommodate them.
The explosion of new money in this city can be seen through the plethora of luxury goods shops, plush nightclubs, and luxury apartment blocks springing up across either side of the Bosphorus.
A new 1,700-unit housing complex called Tulip Turkuaz is a case in point. It's a joint venture between two Turkish government quangos (Emlak Konut and TOKi) and a Dutch construction firm (Van Herk Group) going up in the Bahcesehir district of Istanbul.
Prices start from $75,000 for a one-bedroom, 70 sq. meter apartment to $310,000 for a four-bedroom apartment at 290sq. meters. A guaranteed net rental yield of six percent per annum for the first five years of ownership is available with a choice to opt-out and switch to a rental management firm after three years.
The process of purchasing property in Istanbul is relatively straightforward, with no restrictions on foreign ownership. So far, half of this development has sold to domestic and foreign buyers. Guarantees of construction completion underwritten by the Turkish government provide assurance to cautious overseas investors.
David Richardson, of Property Sun Turkey, is handling sales for this and other regional developments in the UK. He has been doing business in Turkey for 15 years, typically selling mid to high-priced holiday homes of $230,000 to $770,000.
"Property prices are undervalued so there's an opportunity to make good money in Istanbul -- up to 40 percent profit -- in the next two years for a well-chosen off-plan investment," he says.
The Financial Times has listed Turkey as one of the top ten place to safely buy residential or holiday homes. Price Water House Coopers and the Urban Land Institute rank Istanbul as the number one City Development Prospect in 2010.
Confidence in the country is at an all-time high because while Europe was mired in recession and its neighbor Greece was on the brink of bankruptcy, Turkey's economy grew six percent.
Some of this money has been filtering down into a number of local initiatives, including an extensive program of restoration around Istanbul, polishing everything from traditional wooden Ottoman houses to tombs, fountains, bazaars and other well-known sights, as well as essentially, the city infrastructure itself.
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The Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, so-called since the Turkish military intervention on the island in 1974, still sees UN troops manning the Green Line border separating north from Euro zone-south.
Visitors must first land in Turkey under international law before flying on to Cyprus's divided capital Nicosia, adding two hours on to what would otherwise be a four-hour direct flight from the UK. From there it takes 30 minutes to reach the main TRNC resort of Kyrenia by road.
This resort, in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus is dotted with new developments, from holiday homes for British families to upmarket golf courses and extravagant Las Vegas-style casino resorts for Turkish and European tourists.
The sun shines here 300 days a year, so you can even visit during the depths of the British winter and you will be guaranteed sun. Not only are there plenty of options to choose from, with beaches and pretty villages set amongst a spectacular landscape. It's also how the Mediterranean used to be.
The area is good value for money too, as North Cyprus uses the Turkish Lira, making this Euro-free zone even more attractive. Now tourism has taken over, and British ex-pats love the widely-spoken English and that you drive on the left-hand side.
While the global downturn has seen a slew of construction projects in the region abandoned or put on hold, development is picking up again quickly, not least because TRNC didn't have any foreign debt it could default on, unlike the ailing emirate of Dubai.
As such, British property developers, Israeli investors and Turkish construction companies are bringing a mass of both commercial and residential properties onto the market this year.
The TRNC government is also rolling out an ambitious campaign to make the area the key tourist destination of the region, as well as a world-class international exhibition and conference hub and European healthcare center.
Ersan Saner, Minister of Tourism, Environment and Culture, says despite the downturn, year-on-year visitor numbers were up one percent on last year because of investment it had made in its world-class corporate conference facilities.
"Thanks to these facilities we received half a million visitors last year, while numbers dropped markedly elsewhere in the region. As well as continuing growth in this area, we will now concentrate on boosting tourism through a range of new initiatives, including wildlife conservation and a huge network of cycle paths. We're expecting tourist numbers to leap between 5-10% this year, up to 1.3m per year, after that."
The minister's bullish attitude is riding at the forefront of an aggressive campaign to draw in major tour operators and appeal to entirely new sectors of tourism include providing healthcare under the draw of the island's year-round warm and sunny climate.
"We are targeting countries in northern Europe, particularly during the winter," he adds.
Mr. Saner is dismissive of claims that the Turkish, US, British and United Nations military presence in the area could act as a deterrent to tourists, or that the inconvenience of having to first land in Turkey before flying on to Northern Cyprus could put elderly healthcare patients off coming.
"Do you see soldiers walking around on the streets," he asks? And, in all fairness, you mostly do not. In fact, many of the barracks dotted around the landscape look deceptively abandoned, by day.
Other environmental initiatives being rolled out include plans to provide green energy to the entire region. The TRNC is working with Israeli firms to roll out desalination plants to irrigate its often parched land, transforming huge swathes from dust into rolling green golf courses.
But it's not just construction and environmental firms looking to capitalize on Northern Cyprus's rapid development. Finance is nudging its way in too.
The TRNC's Economy and Energy Minister, Mr Sunat Atun, says a major US insurance company that is already operating in the south of the island recently applied to his department for a license to open in the north; and, major banks are flocking to the area to offer both domestic and international buyers payment plans and mortgages on off-plan property.
The minister, who only joined the region's government some nine months ago after a career in shipping, says the isolation the north of the island has endured since the 1974 invasion continues to hit local businesses hard. But he is confident its current surge in interest and investment opportunities will finally allow it to leave this difficult period in its history behind.
In 2003, travel restrictions between northern and southern Cyprus were eased, enabling people to cross the border for the first time in nearly 30 years, raising hopes that progress might be on the way.
As EU entry approached, a revised UN reunification plan was put to both communities in twin referendums in April 2004, and even though the north voted for reconciliation with the south, and the south voted against it, the increase in diplomacy saw an immediate boom in construction and property sales.
"Turkey is undoubtedly being held to ransom over Cyprus by the EU," Mr Atun adds. "But every year now is better than the one before, and the more international support we can gather, the faster we will be able to progress."
Meanwhile, domestic residents are snapping up properties as fast as they can under an initiative backed by the mainland Turkish government that lends a helping hand to Cypriots who otherwise risk being priced out of the market by wealthier expat buyers.
"Credit is a new concept for Turkish Cypriots," one local property saleswoman explains. The big players here are now the likes of BNP Paribas and Dutch Ambro, whereas before, local buyers could expect to have 5 or 10-year payment plans from the construction company.
"A shift towards mortgages meant many were getting squeezed out, so the Turkish government stepped in to offer preferred mortgages to Northern Cypriot nationals so they could compete with foreign property buyers."
"Homes here are as cheap now as they ever will be," the minister says, who like everyone else in the region is expecting this year to bring yet another steep hike in prices.
Soner Yetkili, Head of the North Cyprus Developer's Association, oversees the standard of construction carried out in the area. He says premium land, especially beach front plots, is being snapped up by developers as quickly as it is being made available.
Meanwhile, private and state English and Russian schools are popping up in these areas, along with private healthcare facilities for foreign residents.
He says if Northern Cyprus didn't have the international restrictions on it that it still has; it would look very different to now, and will look very different soon.
"If they just ease the restrictions a bit, it will make things much, much easier for us," he explains.
Foreign homebuyers should watch out though, as the Greeks, who had to move off their land when the Turkish military arrived in Cyprus in 1974, are still not happy about it, and take exception to houses being build on what they see as their territory. Sometimes, the British legal system agrees.
In 2006, a British couple won a case brought against them by a Greek man who said they had illegally built on his land in Northern Cyprus, but the then Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Booth, sent him packing with $1m of the pair's legal fees to pay.
However, in April this year, the tables turned and an appeal by the couple to the Supreme Court -- to overturn a Court of Appeal judgment to demolish their house and return the land to the Greek owner -- was dismissed. The retired couple must also pay the rightful owner compensation by drawing on funds tied up in their properties back in the UK.
David Richardson, Managing Director of Property Sun Turkey Limited says that his company took the step a few months ago not just to sell properties on mainland Turkey but to include North Cyprus properties too, thanks to ongoing inquiries by Brits.
He believes that although there is much press in respect of property buying in North Cyprus, the reality and facts are that if professional guidance is sought and due diligence taken, then the opportunity to purchase a wonderful home on this beautiful unspoiled part of the island is no different to buying anywhere else in the world.
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Early Church History: Part 15 Paul in Jerusalem
Aug 13, 2007
After preaching the word for many years, Paul arrived in Jerusalem and was welcomed by James and the believers there (Acts 21:18). If there was any conflict between the gospels of James and Paul, it certainly is not because of James or Paul. In fact, when Paul gave them an account of how the non-Jews were being converted, "they" rejoiced.
" (19) And after he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. (20) And when they heard it they began glorifying God. . ."
But James told Paul that there were certainly many who still disagreed with Paul's gospel of uncircumcision--that is, the idea that circumcision was not necessary for salvation or to be in a covenant relationship with God. These were unable to distinguish between the law itself and the covenant that established one's relationship with the law.
" . . . and they said to him, 'You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law; (21) and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs [traditions]. (22) What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come."
Paul did not "forsake Moses." That was either a smear tactic or a total misunderstanding. Paul wrote in Rom. 3:31,
"Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law."
Yet Paul recognized that the cross changed many FORMS of the law, whereas many of the Jewish Christians were attempted to add Jesus Christ to Judaism without making the necessary adjustments found in the book of Hebrews. The form of sacrifice changed; the form of priesthood changed; the manner of feast-day observance changed (from external to internal). These form changes were prophesied in the law itself and in the prophets, showing that the Mosaic forms were meant to be temporary from the beginning. Yet the moral laws, revealing the mind of God, did not change. These were "established" by the cross.
Paul recognized that their doctrine of the need for physical circumcision was a recognition of the continuing validity of the Old Covenant--at least for Jews. They seemed to have some knowledge of the New Covenant, though they never mention it, and this division is the basis for today's rise of Dual Covenant Theology, where Jews are saved by being good Jews under the Old Covenant, while non-Jews are saved by the New Covenant.
But Paul clearly shows in his writings that NO ONE can be saved by one's ability to keep the law--Jews included--because all have sinned (Rom. 3:23). If Dual Covenant theology is correct, it simply dooms all Jews to the judgment of God. Dual Covenant Theology might be politically correct and may make modern Jews happy, but it points them down an illusory road to salvation.
Nonetheless, Paul was now in Jerusalem, and so he accommodated their sensitivities. There was, after all, nothing inherently wrong in submitting to the traditions of men, as long as one did not depend upon it for one's salvation. If we view these traditions as matters of culture, as Paul did, then there is no problem.
James said to Paul in Acts 21:23, 24,
" (23) Therefore do this that we tell you; we have four men who are under a vow; (24) take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses in order that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law."
Paul complied with this request (vs. 26). It took seven days to complete the purification process (Lev. 14:8), after which time a sacrifice was to be made on the morning of the eighth day (Lev. 14:10; Acts 21:26). This presented an interesting situation for Paul, who had no confidence in animal sacrifices. I do not doubt that God led him to participate in this conciliatory gesture, but James' plan backfired. Before that sacrifice could be made for the five of them, God intervened on behalf of Paul himself. Verse 27 says,
" (27) And when the seven days were almost over, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the multitude and laid hands on him, (28) crying out, 'Men of Israel, come to our aid! This is the man who preaches to all men everywhere against our people, and the Law, and this place; and besides he has even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.' (29) For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple."
Fanaticism makes people assume things without first hearing the evidence. This story is included in Scripture as a prophetic lesson for us today. Paul was the only one in trouble here. The other four men are not even mentioned again, because the Jews had no problem with those who subordinated Christ to Judaism and its leadership. But if a Christian dares to speak the truth about the New Covenant, circumcision, the temple, the priesthood, they find that truth is unwelcome in such circles.
The Jerusalem Church, in other words, was able to continue worshipping in the temple ONLY BECAUSE they continued to sacrifice animals, give homage to the temple and its levitical priesthood, and to be circumcised. In the case of James, the evidence is that he knew that these things had passed away. But to keep peace among fanatics is often difficult, and by his own admission, there were thousands of Jews who opposed Paul's teaching--even though James did not.
There are groups today who are again trying to perform the same First Century experiment, trying to merge Christianity with Judaism. It simply will not work in the end. It will work only as long as Christians subordinate themselves as second-class citizens, and as long as they subordinate Christ to Judaism. It will work only as long as they place value in a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, the reinstatement of animal sacrifices, and a Levitical priesthood that is open to Jews only.
Christian Zionism is the modern counterpart to the Ebionites and Nazarenes in Paul's day. They follow in the footsteps of those believers in Jerusalem that James mentioned in Acts 21:21, who misunderstood Paul. They want to hang on to the old external forms and rituals and rebuild the dividing wall in the temple.
In the end, however, they will find that Jews will continue to demand concessions from Christian Zionists until Jesus Christ is totally expunged from their belief system. This is the real lesson of James, for just five years after Paul's arrival in Jerusalem, he himself was martyred--simply for believing that Jesus was the Messiah. It made no difference to those temple priests that James had bent over backward to observe all the customs of the temple. All he had to do was to admit that Jesus was the Messiah, and suddenly he found himself worthy of death.
Some day the Christian Zionists will learn the same lesson. Their viewpoint will be destroyed even as the Ebionite viewpoint was destroyed--by the destruction of the Israeli state. God will yet cast out "Hagar" (Jerusalem), as Paul says in Gal. 4:25, 30). The New Jerusalem ("Sarah") and her children will be established as the true inheritors of the promises. But those who do not learn from history will be doomed to repeat it.
This is the fifteenth part of a series titled "Early Church History." To view all parts, click the link below.


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13.Simple and sweet. Straightforward, and classy.
14.The entire crew went away leaving only this.
15.This is how a husband quits a job.
16.So basically, this is it. Think what you want. Nice.
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" A panda with a record of aggressive behavior attacked a man who jumped into its enclosure at a Beijing zoo to pick up a toy, local media said on Thursday.
Twice before he has attacked people who climbed in to his cage, one of whom was drunk and the other who was simply curious, the newspaper added."
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I disagree with the reporter`s characterization of the panda`s behavior as "aggressive", the poor thing was only defending its turf. If a drunk breaks into my house he`s lucky if I don`t blow him away, and that doesn`t make me an aggressive person. We are allowed to use lethal force to protect ourselves and our property.
Giant Pandas are cute as the dickens, but some idiots don`t realize that these adorable creatures are huge bears. It`s OK to take a photo of a panda, but it`s not Ok to jump into its enclosure to give it a hug or to retrieve a toy.
This incident happened in Beijing, if the same thing happened in an American zoo the man would have contacted a lawyer as soon as he was released from the hospital.
Fortunately, the man`s injuries were not serious, his pride was hurt more than anything else.


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NEW ORLEANS � The New Orleans VooDoo announced on Wednesday the signing of former Nicholls State kicker Alex Romero.
�This is just a great honor for Alex,� Nicholls coach Jay Thomas said. �He (Alex) worked very hard here at Nicholls and I have no doubt that he will do the same for the VooDoo.�
Romero lettered three years at Nicholls before graduating in the fall, and finished with 156 career points and converting on 23-of-40 field goals. His career long of 45-yards came against South Dakota State in a 2006 game at John L. Guidry Stadium. He was also 85-for-93 in extra point attempts for his career.
The Des Allemands native is most remembered for his performance against then-No. 5 Texas State in 2005 when he kicked a field goal in regulation to send it to overtime, and then one in the extra period for the victory. The win proved to be the tiebreaker between the two schools that allowed Nicholls to officially be named Southland Conference champions for the first time in school history.
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"…it is better to heed a wise man's rebuke than to listen to the song of fools." – Ecc 7:5
God does not condone this kind of behaviour. Men dressed as women is outright shameful… or it used to be. How did it change?
"What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter." – Isaiah 5:20
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Intro Membership Progress Tracking WordPress Plugin
Amazing membership platforms need to be easy enough to use when membership sites are established, but need to provide the room for these sites to grow as they achieve success. Inside this MemberMouse Review, we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using MemberMouse for WordPress membership websites, and the way that MemberMouse matches the requirements of various users. Membership Progress Tracking WordPress Plugin
Getting Started
The cool thing about this is you can alter the registered URL, so if you want to use MemberMouse on a staging site before visiting a production website, you can enroll the staging site URL and fully setup your website and members for launching, then migrate to the URL to the live website. As soon as your website URL is registered on your MemberMouse accounts, you can then download the MemberMouse plugin from your dash and then install it in your WordPress website. From that point, you're all set to start configuring your site.If you do not want to establish the site yourself, you can purchase Quick Start support out of MemberMouse for $299, which includes a WordPress installation (optional), MemberMouse setup following a consultation telephone, and an optional migration of membership data from an present site. Membership Progress Tracking WordPress Plugin
MemberMouse Overview
Additionally, MemberMouse can provide upsells to members, or automatically provide downsells to customers that want to cancel so as to improve customer retention and maximize revenue. MemberMouse additionally allows members to upgrade or downgrade memberships .You may take a look at a complete feature list from MemberMouse for each the juicy details in one place, or visit our overview of some MemberMouse attributes.
Configuring MemberMouse
MemberMouse creates several webpages when installed (like an eCommerce plugin), for example checkout pages, login/out webpages for associates, and much more. It is possible to customize these pages so as to test the best approach for your store, but I decided to first get setup.You are able to check out your membership dashboard when you log in to see some compacted information about your site, but since I haven't put anything up yet, I headed down to the General Settings menu to determine what choices I had.Under general settings, I navigated to"Other Settings" and managed to change that which members see if logged in, including the page they're redirected to and whether to display protected menu objects (for instance, if you are protecting products from non-members). 1 setting that many of you may find interesting is the"Access Sharing Security"This little box allows you to restrict the number of different IP addresses may log into your site using the same credentials in a 24-hour period. I would allow more than one IP address in case members use a computer and a mobile device to view your content. That way they do not get frustrated by being locked from the site when using a different apparatus. For some membership sites, the capability to limit login information is non-negotiable, therefore MemberMouse becomes an appealing option.MemberMouse also lets you make Employee users under General Settings so that support or sales employees can log in to your website and member center so as to create or assist members, but don't have access to web site configuration options. As a final note on installation, MemberMouse includes a couple of built-in widgets which you could use to exhibit content throughout your site. By way of example, the"Protected Content" widget may exhibit upcoming content to associates according to which membership level access they have so they know what to look forward to (date could be included as well). Membership Progress Tracking WordPress Plugin
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Creating Products with MemberMouse
1 word of caution for those trying MemberMouse: see the tutorial videos. Usually documentation is excellent for when I get stuck instead of as a beginning point, but I wasn't certain why products and memberships were split in the way that they were.MemberMouse assigns membership access to unique goods. If you're new at this, it may seem redundant to different memberships from goods at first; nonetheless, this permits you far more flexibility in pricing your membership products. You may produce a"Bronze" membership access level and connect it to multiple goods, like a standard product (at one price), a discounted merchandise (using a promotional cost ), and an affiliate product (with a price for users known as an affiliate). After viewing the videos and understanding this arrangement, I really liked the flexibility offered by dividing membership access from products.Products are created beneath Product Settings. Both virtual and physical products are managed from the exact same page, and once your products are set up, you can then create membership access levels and delegate them to your products. To start, delegate your"Associated accessibility" to your merchandise to"none" because you'll be setting up memberships afterwards.Together with MemberMouse, you can make sign-up fees or trial intervals. If you enable"Trials", then you may optionally set a cost for a trial period (which can be 0 ), then decide how long that trial period will run. If you merely need to use this to get a lump-sum payment, then you can decide on a one-day trial and then initiate the membership. This is not ideal, as the monthly charge won't be shown immediately at checkout because only the signup fee is revealed, but it works well enough that it shouldn't be an issue. Your product description should explain fees and billing anyhow.You can even make products"shippable" to make the most of the limited shipping approaches accessible MemberMouse for memberships which involve bodily products. Membership Progress Tracking WordPress Plugin
Creating Membership Gain with MemberMouse
Once products are made, you can then create membership accessibility levels to connect to any of your membership solutions. These membership levels will establish the content limitation principles for members. But, you can also edit the accessibility rules onto a per-post or per-page basis.When you make a membership level, you may assign that accessibility level to a particular product. This is precisely what I had been talking about in regard to versatility — you can assign an access level to as many products as you need, so in the event that you provide promotional pricing for email readers or testimonials from the affiliates, you can tie the identical accessibility to every one of the products.You will also select which classes will be shielded for that access level from the same display. Multiple post categories can be chosen for access. As a result, MemberMouse supports both tiered and topic-based memberships.As a default, access will be restricted for the whole article for every single post in the class. Access may also be set on a per-post or per-page basis whilst editing a post or page. The article / page editor is also where you are going to manage content dripping. Dripping is elastic and super-simple, as you can set a delay in access for every membership level concerning days.Once content dripping is set up, it is possible to view schedules for each membership degree under Product Settings > Content Dripping Program to get an overall view of if each access level can view content. This page will also allow you to mass edit access rights for each membership level, and customize content dripping times for each entry level. It is really useful for all those that already have a lot of content generated, and only want to assign drip times and get rights from one screen.Not sure how it'll look to each member? Examine the top of your display when previewing your own site.
MemberMouse Smart Tags
Before you begin setting up your site to sell membership products, you will want to check out some of the built-in shortcodes for MemberMouse, known as Smart Tags. It is possible to use smart tags to insert buy links for your merchandise, selectively restrict (or eliminate restrictions from) specific parts of content to create excerpts, and show member data. Smart tags also allow you to insert links that enable members to manage their own subscriptions, update memberships, or buy new products. Since you can customize the member's"My Account Page", you can upsell bundles for all members, or dynamically display upsells for every membership level.
Selling Bundles
MemberMouse has yet another sales option of which you can take advantage. Members can't purchase more than one membership level using MemberMouse. But, you can use a different content restriction instrument, known as a bundle, to provide a topic-based membership. This is also how you're able to provide upsells to present members. You may assign many goods to a package in the same manner which you can assign many goods to a membership access level. Packages allow you to expand the content accessibility a product provides when used in this way.Because Bundles are tied to goods in the same way as membership access, bundles can also benefit from content dripping. The benefit to using packages is that members can buy more than 1 bundle at one time.
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Selling and Handling MemberMouse Memberships
When you are done learning about smart tags, setting up goods, access levels, and articles dripping, you will want to sell the memberships you've created. While MemberMouse automatically produces a whole lot of pages, it doesn't produce a catalog or sales page. For me this is a good thing, since I believe selling memberships to potential users needs long-form content anyhow — members probably are not going to come to your site and navigate for memberships straight away.To market memberships, you'll need to create posts or pages with buy links. You can copy purchase links from your merchandise settings for each item, or create a buy link using a smart label if the connection has been posted in your WordPress site (which is what we've done in the screenshot). You can even utilize MemberMouse's built-in button styles rather than the ones out of your theme (mine are somewhat lackluster since we're using the default theme).
MemberMouse costs are determined by the amount of users for your membership website, yet MemberMouse is not a true SaaS solution, as the MemberMouse plugin runs on your servers. You put in the plugin on your site, but may also possess a MemberMouse accounts; your site then checks in with the MemberMouse licensing server to deliver data on site usage. As a result, website performance is completely dependent on your hosting and environment.MemberMouse pricing ranges from $20 a month for 1,000 users up to premium and specialist programs at $300-600 per month for websites with more than 100,000 users (service is included for the majority of plans). Each pricing tier provides different benefits (such as premium support starting with advanced programs ), but here is a rough breakdown of price based on number of users.
Managing Members
Among the great things about MemberMouse is that members can handle themeselves, which can help free up time you would otherwise spend on site management. By way of example, member upgrades, downgrades, and cancellations can all be accomplished by members in the"My Account" page. You can also personalize the member"My Account" page to automatically upsell your merchandise for you, or to try to save sales if members want to cancel.When members make changes to their accounts, these changes are automatically reflected in your email lists or other integrations built-in to MemberMouse so you don't have to manually manage changes in membership (i.e., moving out of the"gold" listing to the"platinum" email list). The members center is geared towards simplifying and simplifying your website direction, which can save massive amounts of time for websites with tens of thousands of members.If you want to downsell members who would prefer to cancel, you can make the most of the MemberMouse Conserve the selling webpage , which lets you create a downsell that will be shown to associates who want to cancel a membership. If members do cancel, you can choose to difficult cancel the membership, which blocks access to the members area and logging in, or you may pause the membership. When a member pauses their account (or you choose to place cancellations to membership pauses), their membership is really suspended so they have access to some material that has been released up to that point, but are removed from the drip program and cannot get any content that is new. Membership Progress Tracking WordPress Plugin
Billing and Payments
Billing is very flexible with MemberMouse, and bicycles are completely customized. You may continue to charge on a recurring basis forever, or you could set a number of bicycles for the membership (such as"3 payments of $19.95″). Additionally, you are able to bill a one-time fee for memberships (though I'd recommend avoiding this unless you're just starting out, as you'll always have to chase new associates, which kind of defeats the purpose of a recurring billing model ).You might also use coupons with MemberMouse, and determine whether to use them to the first billing cycle or the lifetime of the membership. Coupons can provide a percentage a dollar-amount reduction. Coupons are also created to provide an totally free membership, or you might create a membership to get a client yourself and deductions which subscription instead. Coupon use can be restricted to specific products or a number of applications.The very best thing about billing is that you may control recurring billing activities, such as refunds, straight from MemberMouse instead of logging into your account with your payment processor. You can use one onsite payment system, such as Stripe or Authorize.net, and at the exact same time use PayPal or ClickBank to supply up to three payment choices.As cards are tokenized and saved to get associates, MemberMouse can also help automate overdue payment managing to save your customer management team time and keep your revenue stream flowing. When MemberMouse finds that a card has been declined, it marks the member's accounts as overdue, then sends the member and email asking him to login and update the card information in the account. The penis is then immediately charged the amount as a result of member account is reactivated.
MemberMouse isn't really designed to be an eCommerce platform, but it does permit you to sell some physical products through your website and to sell physical products with subscriptions, such as magazines (although I believe it does a far better job with virtual products than physical goods ). When you produce your goods, you mark it as"shippable", subsequently set up fundamental shipping prices (like regular and expedited shipping).Personally, I'd just include shipping as part of their membership prices a month (and advertise this fact!) To simplify my store management, but the delivery methods can be useful for promoting'swag' items and other physical products for your site.
MemberMouse has a couple of integrations built in to help you with your site administration. First, email is essential for communication and participation. You can take advantage of this integration to manage your relationship with members having an email platform you're already acquainted with, and transferring members between lists is automatic to help save time.MemberMouse also integrates with iDevAffiliate to manage affiliates to your membership website. When customers are sent in an affiliate, this will be mentioned in the member account, and you'll be able to opt to dynamically display content or provides to members based on which affiliate referred them to your website.
Talking of Developers
If you are an advanced user, or have a developer on staff, you can further automate a good deal of MemberMouse functions. Besides clever tags (shortcodes from WordPress lingo), there are lots of actions and filters available, as well as a well-documented set of international functions for use in templates and other customized code.Additionally, you can create push notifications for site administrators and members for occasions such as new member signups or charge receipts. Nonetheless, these push notifications may also be used to trigger actions in third-party integrations (i.e., sending information to an accounting program ). MemberMouse additionally has an API that programmers can use to incorporate MemberMouse with external programs, which is not the case with all plugins. This allows you to create, get, and upgrade information about members.
Total documentation is available, and has been fairly useful for me personally. Some documentation includes video walkthroughs, and all settings and functions are documented. I just used the service desk one time for an issue with the smart tag library, and received a response to the question I filed at the morning later the exact same afternoon, and got a follow-up email to let me know the issue would be resolved within the next release.In addition, there is programmer documentation accessible for site customizations. If you're running a membership site with tens of thousands of members, odds are you own a programmer on retainer or a single on team, so having docs useful for tweaks and customizations is a plus. Membership Progress Tracking WordPress Plugin
MemberMouse Review
MemberMouse offers enormous functionality and will make it possible for you to treat your membership website like a business instead of a hobby. Since it is intended for sites with tens of thousands of members, this should not come as a surprise. Establishing a site and fundamental content limitation is easy (especially with the help of the"Getting Started" videos), but much more personalization is possible in case you're eager to generate a time investment in website optimization and setup. There's definitely a learning curve involved in using MemberMouse, however it is in proportion to the sum of functionality you escape the plugin, as it has almost everything you could want in a membership platform.
MemberMouse makes it easy to enhance the Lifetime Value of your members by providing the ability for same-sex earnings. By eliminating obstacles to buy for existing members, you are able to drastically increase conversions. When members have been logged in, purchase links simply start a pop-up confirming that the order will be charged to the card on the account to make the purchase essentially a one time sale (account info is currently prepopulated with the payment information tokenized in the customer account). As you've gone through the time and cost to acquire these members, up-selling them is made as easy as possible to generate extra revenue and also to help them locate other goods.Another interesting feature is the capacity to email buy links to members, so that if the link is clicked, members are logged in and delivered to some pre-populated shopping cart to again remove as many barriers as possible to purchase.The level of service MemberMouse offers was interesting for me, as many membership alternatives offer you the plugin / integration and service, and that is it. The Quick Start agency is a white-gloved setup and installation, which is offered by a few different services, but MemberMouse additionally supplies a list of recommended contractors, and supports present users to become affiliates to promote the services. Developer resources are also a great improvement, and help you to customize, tweak, or expand your usage of MemberMouse past WordPress. Membership Progress Tracking WordPress Plugin
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The tribunal appears to have been fed up with the seeming inability of the police to enforce the April 2015 ruling to stop diesel vehicles more than 10 years old from plying on the roads of the national capital in order to help lower alarming levels of pollution.
The police have issued challans and levied fines on offending vehicles "but they have hardly met any success," the bench noted on Monday. "It is also stated that vehicles are released by the magistrates after imposing fine under the Motor Vehicle Act and the vehicles surface again on the roads."
After revoking registrations, the RTO will issue a public notice and hand over the list of such vehicles to Delhi's traffic police, which will take appropriate steps in line with the tribunal's directions.
"We hereby direct RTO, Delhi, to deregister all diesel vehicles which are more than 10 years old," said the bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar.
Taxi owners are worried. Diesel commercial vehicles older than 10 years are currently allowed to re-register in nearby states after they get a no-objection certificate from Delhi.
"Previously, we could sell 10-year-old diesel vehicles in nearby states and use the money to make a down payment for a new vehicle," said Sanjay Samrat, president, Delhi Taxi Tourist Transporters Association. "Revoking registrations will turn old vehicles to scrap. The compensation being talked of under the voluntary scrappage scheme is hardly enough. We will move the Supreme Court."
He was referring to the Centre's expected policy on scrapping old vehicles and the compensation that will be provided.
The NGT bench also directed the heavy industries ministry to file an affidavit on the status of electric and hybrid vehicles in the country and what benefits it was considering for those who wish to dispose of their old vehicles. It also ordered the ministry to write to the chief secretaries of all states in a week in this regard.
At the last hearing, the tribunal had indicated it favoured deregistration of diesel vehicles older than a decade after it was told by the Delhi government's counsel that more than 3,000 such vehicles were impounded in the past year.
The order will hit owners, said auto industry representatives.
"Users of 10-year-old vehicles will be inconvenienced," said RS Kalsi, executive director, marketing and sales, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. "They had bought cars which were conforming to laid-down norms and suddenly these have been directed to be deregistered. When the Centre is already readying a vehicle scrappage policy, the timelines set in it should be followed and incentives given to take old vehicles off roads."
Rakesh Srivastava, senior vice president, sales and marketing, Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL), echoed this sentiment.
"Users of such vehicles will be adversely affected," he said. "The order has also come at a time when the central government itself has taken strong initiatives by setting a clear timeline for moving towards BS VI (environmental) norms and supported the same with a vehicle scrappage policy."
Taxi aggregator Uber doesn't expect any fallout from the order. "We don't have vehicles that old. We don't think it impacts us at all," said a spokeswoman. Ola did not reply to email queries from ETAuto.
The move is not likely to act as a spur for purchases, experts said.
"Since the regulation was already in place it is not likely to spur fresh demand," said an executive. Since buyers pay road tax for a period of 15 years when purchasing a vehicle, it would have been better to set that as the timeframe for scrapping, he said. Auto stocks were little changed on Monday.
The reason for the order is understandable but owners should be given time to comply.
"Any change to existing laws that is immediate or in the short term would cause serious implementation problems," said Kumar Kandaswami, senior director, Deloitte India. "Going by the announcement, if a person bought a used, 10-year-old diesel car yesterday, it can potentially be useless tomorrow, irrespective of what condition it is in. I would wait to see the details. The best scenario would be for the stakeholders to have time to plan a response to a new legislation. This applies to both manufacturers and users."
Given that the order is likely to be challenged, uncertainty could reign for a while. Industry executives said a holistic view was needed to address issues related to air pollution.
"The IIT Kanpur report (issued earlier this year) shows that cars are responsible for less than 2% of vehicular pollution. The remaining 98% also needs to be addressed to sort out environmental concerns. One needs to take a holistic view," Kalsi said.
If the order leads to lower pollution, it should be welcomed, provided action is taken on the ground, said Shekar Viswanathan, vice chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor.
"On a practical basis it would have been better for the authorities to remove these old vehicles step-wise and stage-wise instead of doing it at one go," he said. "The authorities could have looked at phasing pre-BS I vehicles first followed by BS I, BS II and BS III vehicles. This would have allowed enough time and opportunity for the existing customers to replace their old vehicles with a new one."
The order won't have much impact on the second-hand car market.
"At Mahindra First Choice Wheels, we certify and retail only vehicles that are less than 10 years old, with the vast majority being of the four-five year vintage," said Nagendra Palle, CEO, Mahindra First Choice Wheels. "So we don't expect to see any adverse impact of this decision. With owners of these vehicles looking to dispose and replace, we hope to see an uptick of our retail volumes. In the case where there is inventory closer to 10 years old, we would expect to see a drop in transaction prices in Delhi due to potentially diminished demand."
In the transport segment, lack of effective implementation may defeat the intent of curbing air pollution, experts said.
The NGT had banned entry and operation of 10-year-old diesel trucks and buses in Delhi in April last year. Delhi then stalled renewal of permits for 10-year-old commercial vehicles. Commercial vehicle owners have moved 12,000-15,000 trucks and buses out of Delhi for sale in other states after procuring an NOC since then.
There are around 15,000-20,000 diesel-powered light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles with local and inter-state national permits operating within Delhi, said SP Singh, senior fellow at the Indian Foundation Of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT).
"As per existent norms, only trucks with BS IV emission standards are allowed within the capital," he said. "Transporters have been proactively replacing their vehicles with new ones but with BS III standards. Enforcement is an issue. The ban with immediate effect on 10 year old commercial vehicles/ trucks and de- registration order of NGT may yield limited results."
Special commissioner (traffic), Delhi Police, Sandeep Goel, said he is yet to receive the NGT order and can only comment on details pertaining to implementation after a detailed perusal.
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Critic Sven Birkerts speaks slowly and searches carefully for his words. He seems almost embarrassed by the antidigital-firebrand role for which he is becoming known. But it's a role he has sought out. It's tough work, his sigh seems to say, but someone's got to do it. Birkerts's opposition to electronic culture - he fears we are making a Faustian bargain, gaining efficiency and connectedness at the price of our souls - is summed up forcefully in his new book, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in An Electronic Age (Faber and Faber). Just how antidigital is Sven Birkerts? In the attic study he and his wife share in their home just outside of Boston, Birkerts's typewriter is at one end, as far away as possible from a desktop PC. Birkerts and his wife stagger their hours in the study so that she is not disturbed by the noise of his typing - nor he by the spectacle of her word processing.
Why is he so adamantly antiWired? That's what Harvey Blume wanted to find out.
Wired: You have staked out a radically antidigital, antiwired position. What do you fear most about the new communications technology?
: The erosion of presence, the loss of immediacy of engagement, whether person-to-person or person-to-environment. The opposite of presence to me is virtuality, simulation. I see the polarity as central to our time.
When did the changes that worry you begin?
We've had labor-saving devices and inventions all along, of course. What's happening now is that the innovation is coming at a more rapid pace than ever before. We had the telephone, already a great mediation device, both imposing and reducing distance between people. We got used to it. TV came along, causing a kind of crisis in the culture. We accommodated. But at some point in the last 20 years, these things came at such a rate we gave up on accommodation and simply began to accept. We just breathe in technology these days - the whole panoply, everything from phones to answering machines to e-mail to computers to fax. It's not that these things are necessarily evils. But we don't have the chance to grow into them, to learn their meaning and their measure and their shortcomings, because they are coming at such a rate and in such multiples.
If you were around in 1900, would you have been one of those people, like Mark Twain, who opposed the phone?
Probably. That may be my disposition. Today I'm being driven to a greater sense of dissent just because there's a greater sense of acquiescence everywhere I look. That angers me, drives me to make stronger, more strident assertions to the contrary. In 10 years, I'll probably be walking around in a pelt, with a beard, barefoot and screaming, and they'll lock me away and that will be the end of it.
Why do you think that working with a computer is so much worse than working with a typewriter?
Software represents the tool-making, calculating, analytical side of ourselves. And yet when you sit down to write at the screen - I'm talking about certain kinds of writing - you're trying to break through to the other side.
Don't you think it's fascinating that at the very moment we are learning to write code - code that is comparatively simple - we are also beginning to understand ourselves as DNA-coded beings?
There's a fine line between understanding ourselves as coded and fiddling with the code. When we begin messing around with it too much we eventually exceed some threshold and wind up in an environment where we understand nothing. Having demythified all our myths and demystified all our mysteries, we're going to find the spiritual residue of ourselves in grave condition.
You're good at pointing out the dark side of connectivity. It's true every new technology casts a shadow - the automobile, for example, brings pollution and dependence on oil - but can't you see any of the liberating impact of computers?
Yes? Did I hear yes?
Yes, I think there's a steady, inevitable overcoming of human provincialism. We're becoming schooled to larger perspectives. Though it's not always easy to believe, we're going to be more tolerant of diversity and difference. We will grasp a sense of global living in a way we never could before.
You wrote: "By degrees - it is happening year by year, appliance by appliance - we are wiring ourselves to a gigantic hive." But human culture is so fantastically complicated it's hard to imagine us living like social insects, electronic or not.
Pretty soon, every household will be a centered unit that pulls all its elements together into one great communicating pipe organ. At the same time, there has to be a flattening of the human. It's essential to the hive life, which challenges the old terms of what it means to form a life. As everything else in our society becomes streamlined, it becomes harder to resist the trend. Over the generations, people will have increasingly similar lives.
If it's a hive, who is the queen? Is the queen electronic?
There is something in us, possibly our own DNA, that recalls animistic ritual - the fear of night, of the gods who come back in different form on the big screen. If somebody comes along who's a persuasive demagogue and really commands the wires, commands the codes, and is an irresistible presence, I can imagine some dangerous scenarios. I can also imagine a spiritual leader tapping in and turning those same desires in the other direction. So it's a gamble. Electronic Church or electronic Reich? It could be either.
Some people do better on the phone than in person, don't they? They're more comfortable, less embarrassed. Why not think of viewing online interaction as another possibility for communication?
You're arguing for pluralism: we can have the old but we also can have the new, whereas I say that the new makes it harder to have the old. We're compelled by invisible collective pressures to move in the direction society is going. I feel I almost have to physically resist going online. There are so many compulsions and expectations to my daily life: Can you send me the disk? Can you do it now? Can you do it tomorrow? Not going online has become a point of principle for me.
So staying offline is an experiment you perform on yourself, a kind of performance art?
A kind of performance art. I've gone in five years from being seen as slightly retrograde to being seen as positively a crank. Five years from now, if I'm still not online it's going to be seen as grandstanding.
You're going to need a doctor's note. What use can Wired readers make of your objections? Besides junking their machines, that is.
I don't want people to junk their machines. If I have a mission in talking about this, it is to bring the question out, bring it forward. The last words in my book are "Refuse it." I sound like I'm speaking for the world. But I'm speaking only for myself. I don't tell anyone else to refuse it, only to think about it.


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COWES, England — At the Royal Yacht Squadron, they still wear black tie and toast the queen every Saturday night. They still fire the cannons from their battlements to start the Rolex Fastnet Race and scores of other races throughout the year.
But as it celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2015, the Squadron — as it is known in Britain and in much of the sailing world — is not quite the same club of old.
It remains seriously exclusive and thickly populated by royals: from Prince Philip, the now 94-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, to Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain, to the Aga Khan.
Yet the Squadron elected its first three female full members this year, even if their names have yet to be released publicly. The club also has adopted a palpably more open approach to those who dwell outside Cowes Castle, the Squadron's clubhouse on the Isle of Wight that was first used for defensive purposes when built by Henry VIII in 1539.
"I think we're more relaxed about it all," the club's commodore, Christopher Sharples, said in a recent interview in the castle. "There used to be the feeling that you mustn't put your head above the parapet or you're certain to be shot. And I think they've got quite good parapets here."
They do indeed, as well as a memorable, concentration-sharpening sign affixed to them: "Warning. Starting cannon may fire at any time."
"I think there was a notion for quite a few years that the Squadron was a bunch of sort of pompous old guys together, very much the blue-blood, old-school type of thing," said Mike Broughton, a British navigator and former British naval officer. "To be honest, I think over the last 10 years in particular, they've worked hard to modernize and also to modernize in terms of professional racing. They've modernized their racing management, which has been great to see actually, and they've worked hard to keep up with the times."
That does not mean, however, that the time has come for an outsider with a profound love of the sea (and fancy dinners) to ring up the Squadron and ask to be emailed a membership application.
"The first thing to say about that is you get invited; you don't apply," Sharples said.
The club's regular membership is now capped at 535, and there is a four-year waiting list. "There are also about 70 naval members who come in from a slightly different category," Sharples said. "They come in through a side door and don't have to queue up, and that's because of our longstanding relationship with the Royal Navy."
The club remains the only one whose member yachts are allowed to fly the white ensign of the Royal Navy.
The recent decision to add female members is part of a wave of similar moves by long-established British clubs: the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews in Scotland elected its first female members in 2015 after 260 years of existence.
"I'm a firm believer that if a club wants to be a single-sex club only, it can be, but not if it's connected to sport," Sharples said. "I think if you have a social club in London, I liken it to bull elephants hanging around a watering hole. Well, nobody seems to mind about that do they? But if on the other hand you are connected to a sport where you have facilities that sportsmen use, it seems to me much better that you give equal opportunity to ladies to use and access those facilities."
When the club was founded by 42 gentlemen in 1815 in a gathering at the Thatched House Tavern in London, prospective members were required to own a vessel of at least 10 tons.
Today, boat ownership — at any tonnage — is not a requirement. "You have to be somebody who is actively involved in sailing," Sharples said. "If you have access to a boat or regularly sail on somebody's boat, that's fine."
To become a candidate, one needs a proposer, a seconder and three other initial letters of support, plus eight additional letters: all of these from club members. Only then does one join the list with a chance to eventually face an election, which involves the full membership.
Avoid too many blackballs and you will join a club with a uniquely rich maritime history whose members and their boats played a role in both World Wars. The membership roll has included the Arctic polar explorers Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, a Russian czar, British kings, the round-the-world solo-sailing pioneers Francis Chichester and Robin Knox-Johnston, as well as Ben Ainslie, Britain's biggest sailing star of the moment, who the club hopes can finally bring the America's Cup back to the Squadron.
It left here in 1851 when the yacht America — owned by a syndicate of New York Yacht Club members — defeated a fleet of yachts representing the Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight.
The Cup, a silver ewer, had been purchased for the competition by a Squadron member, Henry William Paget, First Marquess of Anglesey, who had had his right leg amputated after being wounded by one of the last cannon shots of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Cowes Castle was Paget's summer home, and it became the Squadron clubhouse after his death in 1854.
The cup purchased by Paget was eventually renamed the America's Cup. Though the Australians at last managed to wrest it away from the New York Yacht Club in 1983 and yacht clubs from New Zealand and Switzerland have since won it, the British have yet to reclaim possession.
Ainslie, an honorary Squadron member and four-time Olympic gold medalist, helped Larry Ellison's Oracle Team USA retain the trophy in 2013 by playing a major role in the epic comeback in San Francisco against Emirates Team New Zealand. But he is now head of his own team, Ben Ainslie Racing, which will represent the competitive arm of the Royal Yacht Squadron in the 2017 America's Cup competition in Bermuda.
That will come in the final year of Sharples's four-year term, which has already included the bicentennial celebration.
"I suppose my ultimate aim, if you like, is to help Ben bring the Cup back to this club before I step down," Sharples said.


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Nissan X-Trail 1.6 DIG-T Tekna 2015 Road Test
The Japanese built 2015 Nissan X-Trail is already out-selling the Qashqai worldwide with 700,000 bought so far, 50,000 of them in Europe. Most have been 1.6DCIs, but new to us, and relevant amidst all the fug about diesel, is a 163PS 1.6 petrol turbo.
This stumps up 240PS torque at 2,000rpm and, while no shed tugger, it's adequate for the 1,574kg 7-seater X-Trail.
The only drivetrain option for the 1.6DIG-T is front-wheel drive with a 6-speed manual transmission. Our top spec Tekna on 225/55 R19 tyres emits a reasonably low 149g/km CO2 and none of the nasty NOx of a diesel.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so I won't try to persuade you one way or the other on that subject. Interior fit and finish is very good, though the white leather might not stay white for very long. The centre rear seat is pleasantly elevated, giving a good view out for passengers. The panoramic glass sunroof makes it light and airy. While midgets, leprechauns and small children might feel at gnome in the rearmost seats that pop up out of the luggage deck.
To drive, it's obviously no Porsche Macan. The Active suspension helps the big, deep-profile 225/55 R19 tyres soak up bumps, potholes and sunken drain covers, but can leave the car a big soggy and understeery at the front. However, it's sufficiently pleasant to drive for that to be forgivable, and if you want to go more quickly you can select a Sport setting that gives a sharper front end at the expense of a harder ride.
Our Alpine route took us up some steep inclines, but the engine was decently flexible in 3rd gear two-up, though this will inevitably change with all seven seats occupied. One place it let us down was a long, steep motorway incline when, even at just over 2,000rpm in 6th where it develops maximum torque, it ran out of puff and 5th was needed. 6th gives 30mph per 1,000rpm. We averaged 6.5 litres per 100 kilometres on the meter, which is 43.46mpg and close enough to the official NEDC average of 44.1mpg.
The significant factor about the 7-seater X-Trail 1.6DIG-T, though, is the price. From a reasonable £21,995 to £28,445 for the very comprehensively equipped Tekna that we drove.
That makes it considerably cheaper than the likes of the KIA Sorento, for example. And rather more environmentally friendly for the school run than the average diesel battlewagon.


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