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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history.
While Donald
J. Trump has been
vague about his position on many issues, he has been explicit about several
that would fundamentally change America's direction.
If his campaign promises become
reality — and it is not clear how many he will actually pursue — the Affordable
Care Act could be repealed with the help of a Republican-dominated House and
Senate whose leadership had virtually given up hope of recapturing the White
House. Mr. Trump said he would replace the act with something better, but he
never offered a plan.
The Supreme Court would veer
right – perhaps eventually far to the right of where it was before Justice
Antonin Scalia's death created a vacancy that Mr. Trump will now fill, and
there is the prospect of several more openings during his tenure. The wall he
promised along the Mexican border would be built, and the prospect of
immigration reform may be buried beneath it.
torture of terrorism suspects, something that President Obama explicitly
banned, would return — interrogation techniques the current C.I.A. director recently
said his officers would never return to.
Mr. Trump will not be able to pull the United States out of the Paris climate
accord, he can legally ignore its provisions, in keeping with his questioning
of the existence of man-made climate change. He could proceed with what he once
called a ban on Muslims' entering the country, but later amended – after being
accused of racism – to a ban on visitors from a list of troubled nations,
almost all of which are Muslim-majority.
He would pull back the troops
that the United States has stationed around the world to keep the peace –
unless America is paid for the protection. He would tell NATO that the United
States will live up to its post-World War II security commitments only if other
nations first pay their fair share. He repeatedly dismissed the idea that those
forward deployments are in America's own interests, that they prevent Chinese
or Russian adventurism and keep open the trade routes for American goods.
As the president-elect, Mr.
Trump will soon be briefed on how to use America's nuclear codes – the codes
Hillary Clinton and Mr. Obama said he could never be trusted to hold. And
within the first year of his presidency, it should become clear whether Mr.
Trump meant it when he said that he was comfortable with the thought that Japan
and South Korea, both signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, might
abandon its longtime commitment and build weapons of their own.
If the United States "keeps on
its path, its current path of weakness, they're going to want to have that
anyway, with or without me discussing it," Mr. Trump said.
Perhaps the most unpredictable
matter is how Mr. Trump will deal with Russia and its president, Vladimir V.
Putin, whom he has repeatedly praised in terms that shocked even his own party.
Would he lift the sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea – a move that
Mr. Trump seemed to suggest was justified – and its harassment of Ukraine?
Would he back off from the Obama administration's decision to bolster the
American military presence off Russia's borders?
There has been a growing
bipartisan consensus in the foreign policy and intelligence leadership that
Russia must be both constrained and contained, its harassment of the new
members of NATO halted, its cyberattacks deterred. But Mr. Trump never once
argued for Russian containment – once a staple of his party's foreign policy –
and repeatedly argued that he, and he alone, could negotiate with
authoritarians like Mr. Putin.
"My administration," he said
recently, "will work with any country that is willing to partner with us to
defeat ISIS, and halt radical Islamic terrorism. And that includes Russia." On
Wednesday, Mr. Putin seemed to return that sentiment, sensing his opportunity
and saying he looked forward to restoring "fully fledged" relations with the
United States.
Mr. Trump dismissed Russia's
human rights violations, its jailing of journalists and political opponents,
its rigged elections. He would measure the country, he said, solely by its
willingness to chip into American projects.
"If they
want to join us by knocking out ISIS, that is just fine as far as I'm
concerned," he said. "It is a very imperfect world, and you can't always choose
your friends. But you can never fail to recognize your enemies."
Mr. Trump
has been consistent in some areas. Since the late 1980s, he has nurtured a set
of preoccupations, chiefly that America's allies – Japan and Saudi Arabia among
them – are ripping America off. He maintained that position even as Japan faded
from the scene as a major world power and as Saudi Arabia emerged as one of
America's most critical allies in a region of the world where Mr. Trump sees
little reason for the United States to remain.
In an interview in
March, he had no compunction about threatening the kingdom's survivability. "If
Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection," Mr. Trump said
during a 100-minute conversation, "I don't think it would be around."
The mystery is how much of that
kind of talk arises from deeply held beliefs, and how much is an opening bid by
the author of "The Art of the Deal."
"He sees himself as a dealer, a
negotiator who knows that you get nowhere unless you threaten," said Graham
Allison, a longtime Harvard professor who has begun a new project in "applied
history," taking lessons from past moments to inform America's current
strategic choices.
Indeed, the world is about to
discover whether the most outlandish promises Mr. Trump made in his campaign
about rethinking the international order – thoughts that often seemed at best
off the cuff – are about to become reality.
Financial markets abroad panicked on Tuesday night, fearful that a Trump
presidency would instantly send the country into uncertain economic territory
that investors had discounted as wholly improbable just 24 hours ago. But there
was a far more mild decline as Wall Street opened, suggesting that investors
here saw other possibilities. Mr. Trump, who never argued with the notion that
he is a protectionist,
time and again vowed to punish companies that move jobs abroad, a task that
would begin with the abolishment of Nafta, the trade agreement that once was
envisioned, by President Bill Clinton, as the first step unifying the Western Hemisphere.
To Mr. Trump, it is "a disaster."
The Trump vision, in fact, is
an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a
nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its
alliances but the economic return on its transactions. "We will not be ripped
off anymore," he said in the interview in March. "We're going to be friendly
with everybody, but we're not going to be taken advantage of by anybody."
bristled at the suggestion that his wall-building, trade-deal-canceling views
would take America back to an era of isolationism, arguing that he was simply
freeing the United States from the binds of international rules that are not in
the nation's interests.
"Not isolationist, but I am
America first," he said when he was asked whether his own policies had echoes
of the movement by the same name championed by Charles Lindbergh in the 1930s.
"I like the expression," he
said of "America first." From that moment on, he began using it at his rallies,
and it became the stuff of bumper stickers and chants.
He is also unabashedly business
first, and that extends to his tax proposals, which also leave the markets
deeply uncertain.
Starting with the day he
descended the long escalator in Trump Tower in June 2015 to begin a quest
almost no one thought would succeed, Mr. Trump laid out an agenda of tax cuts –
modest for families, and sharp for businesses – that he argued would be the
stimulus a sluggish economy needs.
But he also paired those cuts
with a major plan to rebuild America's dilapidated airports and collapsing
bridges, with $137 billion in federal tax credits as an incentive for private
industry to spend upward of a trillion more. While privatization is hardly a
new idea, Mr. Trump has described an approach few have ever tried before – and
it is far from clear how it would work. Presumably, users of that
infrastructure would ultimately pay for it, in tolls and usage taxes, through a
mechanism few understand.
No one knows how much of this
agenda, largely thrown together rather than the product of deep study and
debate, is for real. His policy office in Washington, created to lay out the
position-papers common to most campaigns, was gradually disbanded. He is
famously volatile, capable of changing his mind in an instant if he sees new
avenues for profit, all the while denying he had ever suggested another path.
In Mr. Trump, Professor Allison
sees a revolution in approach reminiscent of the 1828 election of Andrew
Jackson, another populist who rode to power rebelling against what amounted to
America's first Establishment.
"My God," Professor Allison
said on Tuesday night, as the results veered toward Mr. Trump. "We are in a
strange new land."


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I went to one job fair my last year in college. The hope was to have a nice "real" job waiting for you once you graduated. The mythical smooth transition. I walked into a large room. Everyone, including me, was wearing a suit and tie and looking good and professional.
Every company had a table set up with their name on it, and a line of students building up waiting for their chance. The students were asking the companies for jobs. It looked like humans being rounded up like cattle.
I walked into the big room, saw the mass of eagerness and hope, and stood there shocked. I stood there for three minutes. Then I turned around and got the hell out of there.
With the graduation near and the real world fast approaching I went to the guidance counselor's office. I think the school called it a career center or something like that. I met with a counselor who was supposed to guide me in the right direction. A person who would tell me what I could do for a job, for the ultimate in stability—a career.
She looked over my course of study. A major in business management, a concentration in human resources, lots of classes in mathematics and Excel. I had all the makings of America's Next Great Business Leader. I was excited for my future.
"I think you should look for a job in the canned foods or the defense industries."
What… The… F…?
I was stunned. Canned foods and the defense industry did not sound awesome. I thought she was joking until I saw her face. She was not joking.
In 2002 the economy was reeling from the dot com bubble and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. If you watched the news it sounded like the world was coming to an end. The counselor figured those were growth industries. She was looking out for my best interest.
I didn't know what to do.
I moved back into my parent's house and started working at a hotel. I had to wear a suit and a tie to work every day. And I got paid minimum wage.
I wanted to go snow skiing. I figured wherever there's skiing there are hotels to lodge the visiting skiers. Best to get experience and save money before moving to far away mountains. So I wore a suit and tie to the hotel everyday and I hated it. At least I finally learned how to tie a tie.
With my hotel experience I easily got another minimum wage job at a hotel in Lake Tahoe. I was on a grand adventure. I moved to the other side of the continent to live the dream, to ski powder in the big mountains. I moved to the mecca of snow skiing in North America—Lake Tahoe.
Earning just enough money to buy a ski pass, beans, and ramen noodles, I lived a life I had dreamed about as a little kid. I went on new adventures. I skied deep powder and steep mountains. That life was bigger and scarier than I ever imagined.
After several seasons in the mountains I moved back to my hometown in North Carolina, broke, with no direction in life, no marketable skills, and trying to recover from injuries I sustained while skiing.
I caught the wine bug while living in Tahoe and I fell in love with wine, particularly Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. So I got a job buying and selling wine in a small wine shop in Durham.
One day I realized that wine is basically a food product. That darn guidance counselor was right after all. I figured I was pretty much working in the canned food industry.
After a couple of years I wanted to see where wine could take me so I moved to the capital of the wine business in North American—Napa Valley.
I was homeless for the first month I lived in California, staying at a rundown motel for a couple of nights and camping in parks other nights. I needed a job. The harvest was fast approaching. There are always lots of temporary jobs during the harvest working in the cellars cleaning barrels, crushing grapes, and making wine.
I took a temporary job working in the cellar for Pine Ridge Vineyards. It was an established winery with vineyards scattered across some of the best growing areas in the valley. It was hard work. I cleaned floors, barrels, and got inside the huge stainless steel fermenting tanks and cleaned those too. I crushed grapes, pumped wine from the bottom of the tank and sprayed it over the must, and transferred wine into the small oak barrels.
We worked with hoses to transfer wine and clean tanks. Removing the hose from a tank after a pumpover is an adventure. The hose has pressure and wine in it. Once the pressure is released the wine explodes out of the hose. I've taken more cabernet showers than I can count.
It was hard work. I went home every day soaked in wine and water. I'm glad I did it. It was something I never wanted or expected to do. I learned a lot. There is some beautiful magic that happens when you see a tank of red grapes turn from juice to fermenting juice. The young wine tastes wild.
When the harvest was over they moved me to the shipping department where I shipped wine all over the country. I worked in a beautiful winery, working with great people and the years flew by.
Living in Napa Valley is the good life, it's easy to get complacent, and that's what I did. During the warm months the weather is unbelievable, warm in the day and cool at night. During the cold months I drove to Tahoe every weekend to go on ski adventures with my old buddies from Tahoe. We climbed and skied many of the classic lines I'd been dreaming about for years.
Then I got run over by an avalanche and life was very painful. With a lot of help from family, friends, and doctors and nurses, I recovered and went back to work. It was a bookmark in the story of my life. Or maybe the end of a chapter. Whatever. I had to learn from it. I started searching.
After five years of working the same job I made a change. I quit and left the comforts of Napa Valley and moved back to the mountains. I had to jump. With no job and no ideas I hoped I'd figure it out quickly.
It is hard to be satisfied with what you have. It is easy to obsess over what others have or what you do not have. This seems to be a common human characteristic. I look at my friends back home that I grew up with and I still remain close to. Most of them have houses, jobs, wives, kids, dogs, and their friends and family close by. I catch myself being jealous. I find myself focusing on what I don't have instead of being grateful for what I do.
Of all people I should know better. Not so long ago I wanted just to be able to breathe on my own. To be able to swallow. And then to be able to speak. When it was all taken away from me I longed for the simplest of life's pleasures. It pains me when I forget that lesson.
It's important to remember that we all have our own path to take in life or maybe our own path to make in life. If I had stayed at home and attained the joys of a house, wife, kids and a career, I would have been miserable. I would have always wondered what it would have been like to ramble on and seek out adventures.
There is no right way or wrong way, there just is. And that is ok. Accept things as they are. Go out and learn and then keep learning. Never stop learning. Try to create a lot of value for other people. If you have a want, a goal, or a dream, well, go out there and give it a hell of a shot.
In her commencement speech to Dartmouth College in 2014 Shonda Rhimes said, "But dreams do not come true just because you dream them – it's hard work that makes things happen."
When dreams come true they are no longer dreams. The dream becomes a truth or a reality. Reality can be taken for granted. As a kid my bedroom was plastered with posters of my hero's climbing and skiing huge mountains. From my home in the flat hot middle of North Carolina, these pictures did not represent reality, they were not real, they were dreams. Before I knew what happened I had lived a version of these pictures I grew up staring and dreaming at. I had my own pictures now. Living the dream was better and worse than I'd ever imagined. It was not a fairy tale. It took a lot of hard work, sacrifice, and climbing mountains of self-doubt to achieve my dreams.
And then what happens once you achieve your dreams? Complacency, self-doubt, looking at what your friends have that you don't. It's a cycle. There is a price to pay for chasing your dreams, for choosing your own path. It's worth it. For me it was the only way. I don't wonder "what if". I have the scars of experience.
So if you find yourself stuck in a bleak situation with no ideas, then step back for a moment. Don't make a choice. Wait, observe, read, figure out a goal or maybe dream one up. Try many things. Stumble around and see what Life has to offer. If something doesn't work, quit, and try something else. Never stop learning. There is no script you have to follow except the one in your head and you can change that if you want.
If that doesn't work there is still plenty of opportunity in canned foods and the defense industries.


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This is 2015 and it is time for an addition to my blog. – I am inaugurating a new feature. I'm calling it Looking Back Twenty Years. What I will do with this feature is that I will review a film from 20 years ago, on a monthly basis. So, for the rest of this year, you can look forward to a once-a-month review, of a 1995 film. I won't be paying the strictest attention to the exact release dates – for now we will call it films from 1995, and leave it at that.
I thought of this film a few days ago, when Barack Obama gave his State of the Union Address to the nation. Then today, I was out to the post office and for some food shopping when I tuned in the On Point news show on NPR. The topic was about how Anti-Austerity Gains Steam in Europe and the just sworn in new Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras. Mr. Tsipras garnered only about 36% of the vote, which said another way – the election resulted in a man winning the office despite that 64% of the country did not vote for him. As Frank Underwood told us last year on House of Cards – democracy is over-rated.
But I am neither a global economist nor a political commentator. I mentioned those recent events merely to show how I arrived at the decision to watch the 1995 film, The American President which starred Michael Douglas and Annette Bening as the leads, with Michael J. Fox, David Paymer, Richard Dreyfuss, Anna Deavere Smith, Samantha Mathis, and Martin Sheen as the main support characters.
Let's set it up for you – Michael Douglas plays an incumbent President of the United States called Andrew Shepherd. He's a single parent as his beloved wife had died before his Presidential election. It is late in his second year, and his 3rd State of the Union Address is a little more than two months away.
He's facing stern competition from the Republican Senator Robert (Bob) Rumson, played by a marvelous Richard Dreyfuss, who looms as his party's candidate when Shepherd comes up for re-election. Bob is not about playing fair, and he's always ready to call into focus what he feels are Andrew Shepherd's character issues. Bob is also one to never miss an opportunity to talk to the press and end each and every instance that he speaks publicly with: My name is Bob Rumson, and I'm running for President.
So with two guys at the top of their political parties ready to contest the election – one would expect debates. And if one has paid any attention at all to the political process we could expect some mud-slinging.
Straight out, I will tell you – there are no debates, and no Barbara Walters or 60 minutes styled interviews. This is mano v mano. Of course, in Hollywood 's film world – that's never enough. So a third main person has to be introduced. Actually in the film, this 'third person' is actually the co-lead – and that would be Annette Bening as Sydney Ellen Wade – and she's soon to become President Andrew Shepherd's love interest.
Directed by Rob Reiner with a terrific script by Aaron Sorkin, this is a fabulous and entertaining movie. As I said up top, I don't do political commentary – so the main issues in the film, which put Rumson and Shepherd in opposing corners, and are what the voting public will have to decide on – issues like reducing fossil fuel emissions, and gun control will only be mentioned – but not discussed by me.
So the President and Ms Wade meet. She's a tough, smart, and reliable environmental lobbyist, She's also a hired gun or in more polite terms she's a high-priced player in the world of politics. She in fact, earns a higher salary than the does the President. On her first day on the job – in a meeting with Shepherd's Chief of Staff, A.J. MacInerney (Martin Sheen), Wade will call the President – the chief executive of fantasy land. When she says that she's unaware that Shepherd has just entered the room and is standing just behind her.
So they meet cute, and in the time-worn concept of all love stories – their first meeting isn't the smoothest. But Sorkin handles the love story aspect beautifully. He aims to take the Presidency out of the equation, at least as it relates to Shepherd and Wade, and he does this by humanizing Douglas's Shepherd. The point being that although Shepherd is the 'most powerful man' on the planet he's also lonely, and he will stumble a bit when asking Wade for a date, just like we did when we were new at it.
The fact that their first date is a State Dinner with the President and Wade sitting at the table with the guest of honor – the President of France and his wife might be problematic for most people. No worries – while Shepherd can't speak French, Wade can.
So it went beautifully. Then comes some problems – the President isn't just any man – in fact, so much is done for him, that when he first tried to call Sydney Ellen Wade from the oval office, he didn't even know how to get an outside line. He can't just call up a florist and order flowers like you or I can.
Andrew Shepherd: Hi, I'd like to order some flowers.
Then there's a discussion about what flowers to send – since dogwood wasn't available he settles on two dozen roses. Shepherd then finds out that his personal credit cards are back in Wisconsin in storage. So he asks to be billed.
Andrew Shepherd – Andrew Shepherd – short pause – I'm the President
longer pause
… of the United States
And so it goes. While there's not a laugh every moment, once Sydney Ellen Wade enters the film, the laughs come quite often. Of course there's some tensions to follow between Shepherd and his senior domestic advisor, Lewis Rothschild (Michael J. Fox), the president and his pollster Leon Kodak (David Paymer), and between Shepherd and his Chief of Staff MacInerney.
And the path to bliss between Shepherd and Wade has its own built in speed bumps.
And as usual with a Sorkin script you can expect at least one over-the-top, super speech. Rather than type it out, I'll let you watch it, so you can enjoy it once more. Just ignore the 10 seconds ad at the beginning….and the less than stellar resolution.
While you may not agree or even like the politics in this film, there's really no denying that it was a supremely entertaining movie.
While it only garnered one Oscar nomination, after all,Hollywood is nothing if not political, this film did get 5 Golden Globe nominations – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
My name is JustMeMike, and I am recommending this film.


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DetailsA smaller-than-average Venus Flytrap clone that makes up for what it lacks in size with vigor and color. Paradisia can develop interesting and attractive patterns of pink and red in the traps and spines. Note: the pink and red is developed by strong light while the traps remain open.
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I've been busy showing off fair New Orleans to my brother and sister-in-law. My parents treated us to two nights, KIDS FREE, at a hotel in the French Quarter.
As they've never been to NOLA before, we enjoyed introducing them to the sights, sounds and tastes of New Orleans.
We took a carriage ride, listened to music on Frenchman street, visited museums, took walking tours, and explored a cemetery.
We ate crawfish, beignets, bread pudding, gumbo, po' boys, pralines and fried alligator. We drank mint juleps, Abita beer, hand grenades and many of our favorite hurricanes by candlelight at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop.
I never expected to close out last night singing karaoke at a gay bar with my sister-in-law. But we had a blast (and earned ourselves some free shirts, too!)
And all I can say is that I love this city more and more.


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Montana Colors History Part 1 (video Youtube)
Montana Colors History Part 2 (video Youtube)
Original product from BARSELONA
Actually a name should be enough to identify a product. Anyway, up until today, originality is not in fashion and everybody tries to get the maximum profit with the minimum effort. At the moment falsifications of our products are still available in the market, so we want to advise you to always check on the bottom of every can, our NAME and ADDRESS in SPAIN. This data, together with the graphic element beside, differentiate Original Montana Colors spray cans from fakes, which don't offer the same quality.
After the plagiarism attempt we suffered in 2000, we also patented and started using MTN name on our products, hopefully we can use exclusively our name soon.
Well, it's better to be copied than to need to copy someone else!
"Montana Colors" - The begininings
Montana Colors adventure started in 1994 and keeps going on today, even after the adversities suffered thru the years.
Back in the day, 1993, Jordi Rubio, a young sales manager from Felton Spray Co., doing marketing research, discovers in Barcelona, a top seller of Felton Spray. The results of that shop were incomparable with other customers of the brand.
Visiting that business, to understand the reason of such great success, Jordi crashes in a new and captivating phenomenon. Moockie, the shop employee, is a respected Graffiti Writer. His passion, shared with other friends like Kapi, another famous writer from Barcelona, is the reason of such a great flow of young people to the shop. Graffiti is moving a lot of writers to a simple hardware shop, increasing dramatically its sales.
Jordi, as young as Kapi and Moockie, immediately feels and understands the passion which moves these guys. A new project illuminates his mind, developing a spray can for Graffiti writers. Jordi proposes his idea to Felton, but the Company doesn't agree. Back in those days, Graffiti was just vandalism from the point of view of every American or European Paint Producer. It was not interesting because it was thought not profitable.
Strongly motivated by his idea, Jordi quits his work at Felton.
Together with his workmate Miquel Galea, he establishes, in 1994, Montana Colors.
The target is clearly to produce a spray can, strictly designed for every Graffiti writers' needs. Basically top quality paint, a good range of colors and a low price for the final customer.
Mixing up Jordi and Miquels chemist knowledge and all the experience offered by Kapi and Moockie , Montana Colors rises with the first spray can for Graffiti Writers, a 200ml can in 60 colors. The characteristics were the ones which every writer dreamed about, clean lines, good pressure, excellent coverage and a very affordable price.
"Aerosol Art Festival", organized by Kapi and Moockie during 1994 in Barcelona, was the perfect stage for introducing Montana Colors spray cans. Next stop was starting sales in Game Over Shop (now Bunker Shop Barcelona), the first Graffiti Shop ever. Rumors about a special paint crossed all Europe and writers started coming over from Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland just for filling their vans and going back to their countries with Montana's.
Originally born for Barcelona market needs, the small company starts to grow to satisfy big demand from everywhere.
In 1995 Montana Colors introduces a new 400ml can and starts distributing in several European Countries. The success of the original idea was clear, sales were dramatically growing but it followed a strong need for improvement and innovation.
With this target, in 1996, Jordi designs a new spray and introduces it in Game Over Shop. While Moockie is testing the can, Kapi, deeply impressed, exclaims: "Wow, it's hardcore!!!". His reaction was so natural that it was no discussion about the name for the new spray can, Montana Hardcore! Since 1996 up today, basically "the spray", Hardcore is a 400ml can, with a powerful and fast valve, a glossy color range and a still incomparable coverage.
We proudly can say Hardcore represented the greatest change in the way of painting Graffiti.
In 1997 Montana Colors forges and patents the Donut, a special colored ring that encircles the valve and identifies spray paint color. Up until today it's probably the idea which competitors have copied the most.
Two problems
It seems a happy end story but between 1999 and 2002, two big troubles are on the way, threatening Montana's existence.
In 2000, a German major company made an offer to buy Montana. The offer was refused and it followed a campaign, which we consider not loyal, against our company. We suffered the consequences of big unpaid left by some of our clients who switched to the competitor. We had to defend our right to use our name in several trials. We found a bunch of faked copies of our Hardcore cans, in some European country. Last, but not least, we were slanderously blamed to use dangerous substances in our paint, in a famous, but maybe not independent, magazine.
In our opinion, no major company has any interest in Graffiti, except the business side and the monopolistic control of the market. We are proud to keep defending Graffiti with our original name, Montana Colors!
In the middle of that trouble, another really bad fact struck Montana. June 2002 … A static electric accident causes a scary fire that destroys our factory in Vacarisses. Fortunately we had no victims, but with no production and no money, because the high costs of lawyers and trials we had to suffer for defending our name, we were so close to disappear.
It's hard to keep going when you have no factory and a big company to face with, in several trials. During those sad moments we felt so strong the support of our people. Directors, employee's, customers, friends, writers from everywhere, everybody made their best attempt at keeping Montana alive.
It was a really hard time, we lost so many things, but we also felt that both the fire and the competitor pulled out something we didn't need, fake friends and dangerous people.
Montana today
In Spain we say that when something can't kill you, it makes you stronger. This is, at least, our experience.
After the fire, we were able to reorganize quickly our production, with our distributors and writers support, so today, proudly, Montana is still the reference company in aerosol technology applied to Graffiti.
Loyal to our principles, from 1994, we keep investing our energies in development, quality, people and environment. Full respect. We keep manufacturing paint. To keep our quality, for the same reason, we produce exclusively in Barcelona.
We don't feel just like part of a business, we feel ourselves as part of the Graffiti Movement, we grew up with it.
We are not a multinational company, we are not machines, we are people with a passion for what we do everyday.
We are the Original Montana Colors.
Šaltinis: www.montanacolors.com
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Details(Yarrow) Drought tolerant, heat loving perennial that will and a spark of color to your summer garden. Achillea FIREFLY™ Sunshine stands 28-30 inches tall and spreads up to 28 inches wide. Although taller than some of the other Yarrow on the market, FIREFLY™ Sunshine boasts a sturdy, upright habit. Blooming mid to early summer the bright yellow blooms contrast beautifully with the silvery green foliage. When finished blooming we recommend a light trim to encourage additional blooms. FIREFLY™ Sunshine likes to be planted in full sun locations with average to low water needs. Yarrow is a deer and rabbit resistant perennial, yet brings all the beauty of butterflies and pollinating bees to the garden. Yarrow make a great cut or dried flower for indoor enjoyment. Plant in mass, in containers or as a border for wonderful summer color. Easy to grow, FIREFLY™ Sunshine Achillea would love to brighten up your summer garden.
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Cho Pei Lin is a pioneer in introducing Litigation PR to Singapore and her forte includes providing strategic PR consultancy in public affairs and public education campaign communications, corporate, litigation and crisis communications and government relations ...Read more
Committed Leadership
Led by owners-directors who are distinctly set apart by the pride we take in our work
With an extensive experience in marketing, communications and branding, Ginny-Ann Oh's expertise is in marrying organisations' brand and public perception with communications objectives, to develop holistic integrated marketing communication strategies. She spearheads strategic and stakeholder communications, and is well-versed in corporate PR and issues management... Read more
Julie Chiang's passion and love for her job led her to take the road less trotted. She heeded the government's call for entrepreneurship and creativity – Julie is one of the founding consultants of Asia PR Werkz. In her professional career, Julie has developed a broad-based communications practice which includes Consumer & Lifestyle PR, Healthcare PR, events management...Read more
Wee Ling has expertise in key areas of communication in the fields of corporate public relations, lifestyle and consumer technology, public policy messaging and issues management. Her strengths in strategic PR, media management as well as campaign conceptualization and development assists clients of Asia PR Werkz across a variety ...Read more
Sharon Koh, Associate Director of APRW's new Integrated Marketng Communications (IMC) Practice, brings with her over 13 years of Marketing and Brand Development experience on blue-chip accounts. A proven marketing strategist with diverse marketing experience from Proctor & Gamble, Trend Micro and most recently, Budget Airline, Scoot.As Head of Marketing and a pioneer employee at Scoot ...Read more.
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Quick Wind Pullover
Corrina Ferguson
An intriguing cable and drop stitch pattern adorns a simple silhouette. A semisolid yarn creates lots of interest in the curving and opening fabric.
Finished Size 35 (38½, 42½, 46, 50)" bust circumference. Pullover shown measures 35″, modeled with 4″ of positive ease.
Yarn Mrs. Crosby Steamer Trunk (100% superwash merino wool; 164 yd [150 m]/3½ oz [100 g]): French chambray, 6 (6, 7, 8, 9) skeins. Yarn distributed by Lorna's Laces.
Needles Size 8 (5 mm): straight and 24″ circular (cir). Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.
Notions Markers (m); removable m; cable needle (cn); tapestry needle.
Gauge 17 sts and 24 rows = 4″ in Cable-Drop st patt.


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though the delivery is long but it's worth the wait and was given 2 additional packs of 12pcs diapers.
Ordered last week and expected it to be a bit longer due to pre order item but it came really quickly!
Receive after one day
Just tried using
It's very soft, gentle to skin!
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Pee-Ka-Poo has been called the Hermès of Diapers.Because through thorough research, we have infused TOP quality materials in our diapers to offer your baby the best of ALL worlds.
The SUPER DIAPER formula makes our diapers 300x THINNER yet; 300% MORE ABSORBENT!
And here's your chance to get them at a steal!
Our 12pcs Taped Diaper or Pull Up Pants are both at a discount of 32% OFF a whole carton (12 packs)!
As such, for a carton of Taped Diaper will be price slashed to $40 (U.P $58.80)
And the price for a carton of Pull Up Pants will be slashed to $64 (U.P $94.80)
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A combo of 1 carton of 12pcs Taped diaper (12 packs) and 1 carton of 10x10pcs Bamboo Wet Wipes (120 packs) at 45% OFF! $112(U.P $202.80)
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Free of harmful ingredients, enjoy an all-natural bathing experience with your baby!
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Enjoy our 10 x 10pcs Bamboo Wet Wipes at a whooping 50% OFF the WHOLE carton (120 packs) at just $72! (U.P. $144)
Oh yes, we have not missed out on featuring our big packs of diapers for this 12.12 sales!
With a usual price of $149.50, you can now mix any sizes of 80pcs Taped Diaper and 50pcs Pull Up Pants for just $120!
It is a 20% OFF all 5 packs of diapers and yes, it is priced just on the mark for FREE DELIVERY to your home
Here's what the 33% OFF bundle ($199) consists of:
1. Mix n' Match ANY 4 packs of 80pcs Taped Diapers and 50pcs Pull Up Pants 2. 3 x 280ml Happy Sparkles Shampoo3. 1 carton of 80pcs Bamboo Wet Wipes
Its key feature is our PERMASORP CORE!
It is thinner, more absorbent, more breathable and more comfortable.
And most importantly, it doesn't contain any bacteria breeding wood pulp.
So, what else makes a 3rd Generation Diaper better than a 2nd Generation Diaper?
This video shows you a comparison of the absorption speed between a leading diaper brand and Pee-Ka-Poo diapers.
This proves that Pee-Ka-Poo diapers absorbs much quicker than leading brands, ensuring dryness, therefore no diaper rashes.
When babies put their weight on diapers, how much pee actually leaks back to touch the skin?
The video shows that Pee-Ka-Poo diapers lock in wetness way better than other leading brands.
The result shows brand X still leaks while Pee-Ka-Poo remains dry. Urine on the skin breeds bacteria that cause odours and diaper rash, demonstrating here that Pee-Ka-Poo prevents diaper rash.
Even after a diaper absorbs pee, the density of the core of a diaper determines if pee leaks or stays in the diaper.
The video shows that many leading brands have cores that are very loose.
When toddlers move, this causes the core to split, leading to leakage spots.
Pee-Ka-Poo's Permasorp Core doesn't split despite movement even from the most active toddlers, therefore preventing leakage.
Many diapers in the market use wood pulp.
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This video shows that leading brands with wood pulp have hollow breakage areas that allow leaks to happen while Pee-Ka-Poo's Permasorp Core remains intact throughout the diaper.
Whether a diaper is comfortable or not, all you need to do is touch and you'll know.
Pee-Ka-Poo diapers are so soft and comfortable and they are also thinner than most leading diaper brands, yet more absorbent.
Pee-Ka-Poo uses the latest technology to produce its diapers and we select the finest of materials to ensure comfort and safety. Assuring your peace of mind.


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Pension Auto-Enrolment without Pain!
"There are two choices for sorting out your Auto-Enrolment responsibilities," writes Sian Castle, co-founder of Sapien Global Services, "and time is running out".
According to the Pensions & Lifetime Saving Association, fewer than 5% of employers have so far automatically enrolled their employees into a Pension, and if you are one of the estimated 1.8 million or more employers still to go through the process, time is running out. And the choice is really quite simple; you can do it yourself or you can get someone else to do it.
Do It Yourself
If you choose to go through the process yourself, there is a wealth of guidance, educational and support available from a number of sources. A good example is Pension Solution, launched before Christmas by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings, a membership organisation for the Pensions and Savings Industry in the UK. Their new services aims to provide a guide, education, training and support to businesses that want to operate their pension scheme internally.
"From the first moment to completion, our step-by-step guide will answer your questions, talk you through each stage, and help you find the right pension scheme for your business." These have broken down the process into nine distinct steps – Plan, Research, Forecast, Choose, Assess, Explain, Enroll, Contributions, Post-Staging Obligations. It's clear and well written, even if it does expose just how much there is to think about.
Access to the services requires a paid subscription to the association but this is a modest £49. If you're going to invest time into doing it yourself, this is a good place to start your research.
Get Someone Else to Do It
The other approach is to simply outsource it to someone else. So what are the costs and what are the benefits?
Costs typically start with a set-up – getting everything right, registered, and running – followed by an ongoing monthly or annual fee. These costs need to be balanced against the savings to the business – internal time spent managing the administration, and the risks of getting it wrong and incurring the wrath of the Pensions Regulator. And for the employee, the likely best service and getting the best from their pension is more likely to come from a professional and not just the best efforts of someone in the office.
So, lots of resources and services out there, but really just two choices. Go it alone, or get someone to do it for you. Whichever way you're considering, time is running out… Auto enrolment is not optional. It is the responsibility of the employer to ensure implementation of an Auto Enrolment compliant scheme.
We recommend that you commence the process at least nine months prior to your staging date. Employers are obliged to register their scheme with the Pensions Regulator within four months of their staging date. Non compliance may result in significant penalties , ranging from £50 to £500 per day for employers with up to 50 employees. Whichever option you choose a) do it yourself or b) get someone else to do it , it is important that you allow sufficient time to collate data, assess your workforce , design and implement a compliant scheme.
Sapien Global Services specialises in outsourced payroll and accounting for small to medium sized businesses. Headquartered in London, Sapien offers a range of outsourcing services designed to provide low-cost packaged services and free up owner managers to focus on what they do best, growing and developing the business.


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Benefits of Providing Mentoring to Your Alumni NetworkFebruary 12, 2018
Many times, we talk about mentoring and alumni networks as two separate programs for your organization, and most of the time they are. But have you ever considered the benefits of bringing these two amazing programs together? Thats right, we are talking about connecting your alumni with your current workforce through mentoring.
If this sounds absurd, it really shouldnt. Building the relationship between current individuals and alumni has been happening in the education system for quite some time, so bringing it over to the business world isnt really a stretch of the imagination. The goal for both programs is overall career development and providing benefits for both the participants and the organization.
Your organization has the potential to receive many benefits from providing mentoring for your alumni. Here are a few benefits that we want to make you aware of
Increased Engagement
Alumni engagement can be just as beneficial to an organization as employee engagement. These benefits include increased organization brand awareness, referral programs, and a shared pool of knowledge. While most alumni networks rely solely on providing career tools and relevant content to that their alumni can access whenever they need, providing a mentoring program could change the game for you. You arent just giving them tools or articles, you are providing them with a solid reason to continuously be engaged with your organization through their mentoring relationship.
Increased potential for Boomerang Employees
As the war for talent becomes more competitive every day, organizations need to find new, easier ways to attract employees. Providing mentoring for your alumni can make that happen. When an organization has an alumni network, they are more likely to have the possibility of hiring boomerang employees. These boomerangs are former employees that are rehired by an organization. They bring with them a wealth of outside knowledge, along with the internal knowledge they already have of the organizations processes and culture. Your mentoring program will be a constant reminder of the type of organization that the individual was formerly associated with and will help to increase the likelihood of them wanting to re-join your workforce.
Increased Awareness for Top Talent
Alumni have the potential to create amazing buzz for your organization, not only with potential clients, but also with potential talent. As we just mentioned, the war on talent has become a consistent reality for HR professionals in every industry and organizations must look for advantages in all areas, this includes your alumni network. By providing your alumni with a mentoring program, it gives them the opportunity to tell their peers about your organizations career development priorities. This is a great advantage to have when competing to attract quality people to your organization.
If you are interested in learning more about implementing a mentoring program or an alumni network, please contact us today.


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** Walk-ins are welcome! However, we highly recommend registering on-line to reserve a spot. If we fill up on-line, we will not be able to allow walk-ins. Thanks!
March Madness Beer Pong Tournament is sponsored by Pub on Pearl that encourages people to come and watch College Basketball during March Madness and play some Beer Pong and win some prizes!!!
We will be hosting a Beer Pong Tournament at Pub on Pearl - Address: 1101 S Pearl St, Denver, CO 80210
Price: $10 per team, $5 per individual. No gender requirements for teams. Each participant receives complimentary first beer.
Location: Pub on Pearl: Address: 1101 S Pearl St, Denver, CO 80210
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This month's focus is on design inspired by my adventures in India in 2008. Our adventures were based in Gujarat and Rajasthan. I have very vivid memories of bright colours that zing and yet also being amazed at the white costumes of daily life and the notion of keeping them white. Memories of textiles in a multitude of techniques: bandani (shibori), ikat, wood block printing, embroidery, mirror work, natural dyeing including indigo, simple and complex weaving patterns. Then there is the echo of over ornamentation that crosses over into decoration on houses and public places. India is rich, diverse visually and an overwhelming feast for the senses.
As a starting point, I decided that I needed to select 2 motifs: a very difficult task. The criteria were that they had to have some significance for me and that the primary source was not textile. I did have a lovely time looking back through images and remembering. These motifs would then be converted into woven designs. My intention is not to reproduce Indian textiles but rather use them as inspiration.
I spent a lovely day with a friend who was living there and with some of his Indian friends. I visited their home and saw marble screens with decorative carving to let in the light and keep out the heat. We saw a number of exquisite and very diversely patterned screens in various castles where they were used to separate the women's quarters so that the women could look out but no man look in. A whole subculture existed there. The concept of looking through and community appealed. I have chosen a screen pattern and squared it to suit my purposes.
A common image used in various forms relates to the peacock. This sacred bird was declared the national bird of India in 1963. It has a very long history of design motif usage both in architecture and textiles. The shape of its tail is used extensively to frame windows and entrances. I came across this glorious example in a wonderful palace courtyard in Udaipur. The fact that feathers are universally used in design was also of influence in selection.
The following are some of the pieces I have woven using both motifs.
In spite of the fact that India does equal colour, I chose to acknowledge the imapct that white had for me. This colourway is also very reminescent of the interior of the mud house.
This silk wrap combines both motif in the design.
But, India does mean colour. Saturated colour has been used in this double weave scarf using the screen motif.
This scarf combines several techniques acknowledging the diversity of Indian textiles. Variations of the feather motif have been used.


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Sheldon Creed
Fresh off an ARCA Racing Series championship in 2018, Sheldon Creed graduates full time to the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, where he'll run for Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors driving the No. 2 Chevrolet Silverado for GMS Racing.
Creed first started racing when he was three, riding BMX bikes and winning a state championship two years later. The next year, he started racing motocross, winning two Barona MX Park championships in 2005. Afterwards, he was invited to KTM's Jr Supercross Challenge, finishing second. At the age of eight, Creed began competing in Quarter Midget racing, eventually moving to Championship Off-Road Racing's Trophy Karts. Creed won a championship in each year of Trophy Kart competition, and also won the 2012 Superlite championship.
In 2013 he burst into the national limelight driving in the Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks and Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. He took home the Speed Energy Stadium Truck Series championship in 2015 while also winning gold medal in the Stadium Super Trucks division at the X-Games in Austin, Texas.
He went back to back with Stadium Super Truck Series championships in 2016 and, at age 18, became the youngest driver to compete in the Dakar Rally. He made his NGOTS debut that summer at Eldora Speedway.
In 2017, Creed competed in several motorsports disciplines, including running the Baja 1000, Trans-Am races, 11 starts in the ARCA Racing Series, six combined K&N Pro Series starts and made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at Road America.
In addition to Creed's ARCA title in 2018, he also scored his first career K&N Pro Series West victory at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track. In the fall of 2018, he was announced to drive several races for GMS Racing in NGOTS competition and was announced the full-time driver of the No. 2 machine in November 2018.


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http://scpsandbox2.wikidot.com/flying-spidersnake last tab.
I can't seem to write complex skips.
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Not feeling it as is for a few reasons, mostly "what if" related:
1. What if there aren't any more glass bottles nearby to form the base? Do they keep traveling farther and farther outward, sleepwalking style, to find one? Also, by my calculations, assuming the average beer bottle/glass bottle is 1.5 inches in diameter at the bottom (I'm looking at a Dos Equis for reference, which has the same volume you describe), making a layer of beer bottles necessary to form a "base" layer of glass bottles for the bottom of the tower will require 4,840 bottles. Impracticality ahoy. Remember that if this effect leads to building the tower beginning 3 m away from the bottle, that's a circle 18 feet in diameter. 57 feet around.
2. Can you imagine how long this has to take, considering that the people building this are doing it one piece at a time and then returning to their normal activities?
3. The idea that it's an SCP that makes people stupid until the Law of Averages makes them fall down is…admittedly innovative but not the most interesting. Weird though it sounds, at this point in time on the wiki, death as a consequence is seen as almost cheap by many people.
4. Is there some kind of supernatural force that makes a giant shitheap of trash stay contained to a 3 m area around the SCP? I mean, this should become a disaster pretty quickly, unless the SCP is imbuing its affected subjects with advanced engineering degrees.
5. Don't care for the AWCY connection. It feels too easy to say "it made these guys do weird shit! Anartists!" I don't feel any particular message coming from what I see so far, and I should be getting that vibe by now.
In short: Definitely an intriguing idea, but I'm not sure if I like it in its current form. I do know there are parts of the execution that don't sit quite right with me, as described above.
Ech, pretend this post is a reply to Eskobar's.
1. It seems I didn't think the engineering part of this through. The 3 m restriction and beer
bottle base really kills it, though.
2. The large amount of time it takes is intentional.
3. I didn't think of it as a consequence, the people just got unlucky.
4. Yes, and yes. hand waving intensifies.
5. The message is sort of unconventional for AWCY. If it helps get the message across, the description is an extended metaphor.


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Please contact me at (610) 639-5148 for more information about this property or to schedule a showing. I specialize in Paoli , PA real estate and Paoli homes for sale.
Welcome to the Steeplechase Model at Chapel Hill. First floor owner's suite.Lot 3 60 day delivery from Agreement of sale. Chapel Hill is a new community of semi-custom homes designed to provide the perfect balance of open space, convenience, camaraderie, and privacy. Quality standard features that are options at other communities include site finished Oak hardwood flooring throughout the first floor, Wolf Cooktop, Woodmode's Brookhaven Cabinetry,36"" Bosch Refrigerator/Freezer, subway tile backsplash in the kitchen, and two (2) zone gas heat. Master Bedroom on the Main Level.Other floor plans available. Optional elevator. Low maintenance living. Open every day 12-5pm or by appointment. Photos are of decorated model and may show some features that are decorator features and upgrades. There are two decorated models to be seen. **Pricing is for Phase 1. Visit our site for additional pricing.Price includes a lot premium of 15,000.
Hoa: Yes
Total Baths: 3
Fullbaths: 2
Halfbaths: 1
Bathrooms Count Main Level: 2
Bathrooms Full Upper Level 1: 1
Bathrooms Count Lower Level 1: 0
Bathrooms Count Upper Level 1: 1
Bathrooms Count All Upper Levels: 1
Bathrooms Full All Upper Levels: 1
Bathrooms Full Main Level: 1
Bathrooms Half Main Level: 1
Room List: Living Room, Dining Room, Master Bedroom, Bedroom 2, Kitchen, Family Room, Bedroom 1, Laundry, Other, Attic
Story List: Lower 1, Main, Upper 1
Beds: 2
Bedrooms Count Upper Level 1: 2
Bedrooms Count All Upper Levels: 2
Rooms: 8
Builders Name: CHAPEL HILL CONSTRUC
Property Condition: Average+
Roof: Shingle
Construction Materials: Stone, Other
Builder Model: STEEPLECHASE
New Construction Yn: Y
Construction Completed Yn: N
Property Attached Yn: N
Window Features: Energy Efficient
Year Built: 2018
Historic Yn: No
Senior Community Yn: N
Exterior Features: Sidewalks, Lawn Sprinkler
Foundation Details: Concrete Perimeter
Structure Type: Detached
Ownership Interest: Fee Simple
Sale Type: Standard
Parking Capacity: 2.00
Attached Garage Yn: No
Garage Yn: Y
Open Parking Spaces Count: 2
Garage Features: Inside Access, Garage Door Opener
Num Of Attached Garage Spaces: 2
Total Parking: 4
Appliances: Cooktop, Oven - Wall, Dishwasher, Disposal, Built-In Microwave
Basement: Full, Unfinished
Fireplace Features: Gas/Propane
Interior Features: Master Bath(s), Kitchen - Island, Butlers Pantry, Sprinkler System, Stall Shower, Dining Area
Walls Ceilings: 9'+ Ceilings
Fireplace Yn: Y
Flooring Type: Wood, Fully Carpeted, Tile/Brick
Levels: 2
Architectural Style: Colonial, Contemporary
Basement Yn: Y
Acres: 0
Lot Size Dimensions: 0000
Lot Size Source: 0
Lot Sqft: 0
Lot Size Units: 0
Vacation Rental Yn: N
Entry Location: 0
Fireplaces Count: 1
Accessibility Features: None
Cross Street: DEVON RD
Other Structures: Above Grade
Sub System Locale: BRIGHT_TREND
Outdoor Living Structures: Deck(s), Patio(s)
Above Grade Fin Sqft: 2,835
Above Grade Fin Sqft Source: 0
Living Area Sqft Source: 0
Living Area Sqft: 2,835
Sqft: 2,835
Price Per Sqft: 317
Listing Tax Id: TBD
Tax Year: 2018
Total Taxes Pymnt Freq: Annually
Tax Annual Amount: 0
Tax Assessed Value: 0
Above Grade Finished Area Units: 0
Living Area Units: 0
Cooling: Central A/C
Heating: Forced Air, Zoned
Hot Water: Natural Gas
Laundry Type: Main Floor
Utilities: Cable TV
Cooling Yn: Y
Heating Yn: Y
Cooling Fuel: Electric
Central Air Yn: Y
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Property Details for MLS® # C4266702
215 Castledale Wy Ne, Calgary
4 Level Split Detached Home for Sale
- Price: $349,900
- Bedrooms: 4
- Bathrooms: 3(full) 1(half)
- Parking: 2
- Status: Active
- Year Built: 1983
Beautiful lot size, Wonderful Layout, Great Location and best of all lots of space for a growing family! Walking distance to Prairie Winds Park, Super Store, Tim Hortons, Doctors Clinics and plenty of shopping and public transportation all around, only minutes from the McKnight/Westwinds LRT station. This home is perfect for those looking to dig their roots or for potential investors as a well located income property. Ready for immedite possession, Come and check out this property today and see for yourself why this home is made for you!
Contact Kelly Kernick About MLS® C4266702
Kelly Kernick, 403-875-7629 at Urban Real Estate Services, 820, 26th Street NE , Calgary, Alberta, T2A 2M4
property information
- Property Type: Detached Home
- Style: 4 Level Split
- Year Built: 1983
- Total Floor Area: 1,573 sq.ft
- Finished Levels: 3
Community Information
- Address: 215 CASTLEDALE WY NE
- Neighbourhood: Castleridge
- City: Calgary
- Postal Code: T3J 2A4
- Included: Dishwasher-Built-In, Refrigerator, Stove-Electric, Window Coverings-All
- Bedrooms: 4 (Bedrooms Above: 2)
- Bathrooms: Full: 3 / Half: 1
- Rooms Above Grade: 6
- Basement: Part, Partly Finished
- Floor Finish: Carpet, Laminate Flooring, Linoleum
- Exterior Features: Back Lane, Paved Lane, Schools, Sloping Lot
- Exterior Finish: Vinyl
- Construction: Wood Frame
- Foundation: Concrete
- Roof: Asphalt Shingles
- Front Exposure: West
- Frontage: 12.3000 metres
- Depth: 28 metres
Upper Level Room Dimensions
- Master Bedroom: 3.12m x 4.42m
- Bedroom: 2.44m x 3.96m
Main Floor Room Dimensions
- Other: 1.40m x 1.78m
- Living Room: 3.43m x 4.98m
- Kitchen: 3.43m x 3.58m
- Dining Room: 2.97m x 3.53m
Lower Level Room Dimensions
- Storage Room: 1.70m x 2.13m
- Great Room: 3.96m x 5.79m
- Bedroom: 2.67m x 2.74m
- Utility Room: 1.83m x 2.51m
- Laundry Room: 1.98m x 3.23m
- Bedroom: 3.23m x 3.68m
services & amenities
- Features: Patio
- Parking: Double Garage Detached, Over Sized (2 Total Parking Spaces, 2 Covered)
- Heating: Forced Air-1
- Heating: Forced Air-1, Natural Gas
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Automatic Car Starters Helping You Stay Warm
COLUMBIA - With the freezing temperatures and recent snow, some drivers were forced to spend time in the cold scrapping ice off their cars.
Automatic car starters are very popular this time of the year. Mechanics at Sound Performance are busy installing them.
"Nobody wants to get in a cold car when it's iced over in the morning or have to run out there because they forgot to start their vehicle or stand out there and scrape their windows," owner Marc Schumer says.
The remote allows you to start your car without going outside. A standard car starter requires you to be within an 800 to 1200 foot range. Higher end remotes allow you to start your car from up to three miles away.
It takes about 20 minutes for the car to reach a comfortable temperature and defrost.
"It will warm the interior vehicle up. It won't be completely warm but it's enough to dethaw the ice on your windshield," Schumer says.
Installing automatic car starters cost around 350 dollars.
A standard six cylinder car uses 2.8 cents worth of fuel each minute it idles. That means during the 20 minute period it takes it defrost and warm up the car, you're spending less than 60 cents worth of gas to have a warm and defrosted car.
"Most of the time if it's iced up you're going to have to start the car and let it run anyways to let that ice melt on there so if you really need it, it's not wasting any gas compared to what you're already doing," Schumer says.
Using an automatic car starter also has a safety value.
"A lot of people are in a rush when they get in their vehicle and their window's iced over so they'll get a small patch scraped and they're not going to be able to see traffic," he says.
Manager Mike Waldrep says these aren't the only perks.
"A lot of them do turn the heated seats on and stuff in vehicles and they kinda work with the car so your seats are work and the windows are deiced."
More advanced automatic car starters allow you to do standard car commands from anywhere in the world.


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The following is a homily I prepared for a joint assignment between my Homiletics and my Theology of Marriage class. It is based on a section of Pope Saint John Paul II's Love and Responsibility, a text written before he was pope that could be described as the philosophical companion to his Theology of the Body.
I want to talk today about three things: sensuality, sentimentality, and love, hopefully without making you blush too much. Each of these have almost certainly been present in your life so far, and I pray that all three will continue. However, if you focus only on either sensuality or sentimentality, you will fall short of the loving union that is marriage. If you strive only for love in a way that excludes sensuality and sentimentality in a way that somehow excludes one or both as beneath you, you will never live the true conjugal love to which you are called in marriage. All three of these are absolutely necessary to a lifetime of married love.
When I say the word "sensuality," what do you think of (after the blush dies down). Let me offer you a definition for us to work with. Sensuality is the physical aspect of love. Deborah and Danny (any married couples here), look at each other. Do you feel that spark of attraction? If you don't, find it. Deborah and Danny, if you don't, let me know, and we can skip the rest of this and just go to the party (but it won't be a wedding reception anymore).
Sensuality is that spark that happens when you look at your beloved. You take in the sight of your beloved, and it brings you joy, even pleasure. That's ok. I firmly believe (and Saint John Paul II is with me on this one) that married life absent of sensuality is an unhealthy relationship. There is a risk, though. If that's all there is, then you fall into the risk of simply using each other for your own pleasure. If you go down that road, you risk not only failing to achieve the marital love to which you are called but even falling into the very opposite of love – that should scare you. Luckily, I am going to take a guess that even hearing me say that is repugnant. If you look at your beloved and think of just using them for pleasure, it should disgust you, and it probably does. But that doesn't mean that the pleasure should be absent because you are afraid having a less holy relationship. If you are to live the married love for which God created you, it must include that spark.
How about sentimentality? I'm guessing this term, itself, brings up the sappiness of the average chick-flick (sorry, Deborah). If you have ever watched "Sleepless in Seattle," sentimentality was the emotion that was being obstructed throughout most of the movie.
Sentimentality is that desire to be close. It's the emotional fulfillment that comes from just being close to your beloved. You know what I'm talking about. You've been there. It's that part of a relationship where you are happy just to be in the presence of the one you love, when it doesn't matter if you're working, cooking, reading, talking, or just watching Netflix and chilling, it's a joy that derives from the presence of the one you love.
Sentimentality runs deeper than sensuality because it doesn't focus on the person's body, the physical pleasure of their presence, but the whole person. It doesn't run the same risk of using your beloved and declining into the very opposite of love. At the same time, though, the risk may be even more insidious. Even though it, like sensuality, falls short of marital love, it can more easily be mistaken for it. As long as you seek just proximity, but not seek to give yourself, you will fall short of the love to which you are called and which God offers you in your married life. At the same time, if your relationship lacks this sentimentality, it will fall apart; think of the married couple who can't stand to be in the same room as one another. Can you really say they love each other, anymore?
Pope Saint John Paul II refers to sentimentality and sensuality as the raw materials for true conjugal love. They are both absolutely necessary, but they are not enough. If that's the case what is the next step to refine these raw materials into true conjugal love? The answer is love itself.
Let me explain. Each of these is necessary. When you experience sensuality, you are drawn physically to your beloved. When you experience sentimentality, you are drawn emotionally. When you love, you are drawn spiritually to the whole person, body, soul, and spirit, and, on top of that, you seek to give yourself wholly to your beloved. This is what purifies and refines the raw materials; When you both recognize your attraction to your beloved and seek to give yourself completely, body, spirit, and soul, to the other, then you will be able to experience true conjugal, married, and total love, a love that is free, total, and fruitful.
So, Deborah and Danny, this is my prayer for you. Embrace the sensuality in your relationship. Embrace the desire to be together and just spend time around each other. Purify these by truly desiring nothing more than to give yourself in your entirety to each other and seeking nothing but to be loved in return. If you do that, you have the building blocks for a life together.
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Speedboat death: Victim was 'too cold' for medics to find vein
A woman who fell into the Thames after a speedboat crash was so cold that paramedics had to drill into her bone to try to save her, a court has heard.
Charlotte Brown was killed when she was thrown into the water along with Jack Shepherd, 30, while the pair were on a first date in December 2015.
The Old Bailey was told her body temperature was just 25C when she was pulled out of the river by the RNLI.
Mr Shepherd, from Paddington, denies manslaughter by gross negligence.
The jury has heard he had tried to impress Ms Brown, 23, with a boat trip past the Houses of Parliament after a meal at The Shard.
However, the craft flipped over when she was driving and hit a log in the river.
The web designer was found clinging to the upturned hull of the boat and Ms Brown was pulled from the water by RNLI crew members. Ambulance crews then battled to save her.
Paramedic Andrew Alcroft told jurors Ms Brown was in cardiac arrest and hypothermic when she was found.
He said medics had to drill into a bone to administer fluid as they could not access her veins.
"We were unable to get intravenous access because no veins came up," he told the jury.
Prosecutor Michelle Nelson asked: "You say that it was so cold you could not get access to her vein?"
"Yes. There was no blood pressure because of the cardiac arrest," he replied.
He also told the court Ms Brown was considered hypothermic as her body temperature was below 30 degrees.
Normal body temperature is 36.9C.
The court has heard that a post-mortem examination recorded the cause of death as cold water immersion.
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Earlier today, Avast published a full list of companies affected by the second-stage CCleaner malware, as part of its ongoing investigation into the CCleaner hack that took place last week.
Avast was able to compile this list of affected companies because, over the weekend, they were able to find a second server used by the attackers.
Last Friday, Avast published an update on its investigation of the CCleaner hack in which it said it managed to get its hands on the database of the server where the CCleaner malware was sending information about infected hosts.
Unfortunately, that server's database contained information for user infections between September 12 and September 16. Avast said that the database holding info on infected users crashed on September 10 after the server ran out of space.
Hackers installed a new server on September 12, which Avast, with the help of law enforcement, seized on September 15. The IP address of this main server was 126.96.36.199.
Avast finds second server holding backup database
Today, Avast said that after more digging around they were able to find a second server where hackers sent a backup of the original database before reinstalling the server and starting from scratch.
Avast said this second server was located at 188.8.131.52, on the same hosting provider as the first. ServerCrate, the hosting provider, provided support and made available the second server to Avast.
This means investigators now have a full list of infected hosts (except a 40-hour period when the server was down) affected by the CCleaner malware — both the first and second stage payloads.
1,646,536 computers confirmed as infected
Hackers compromised the CCleaner infrastructure in July, and between August 15 and September 12, the official CCleaner website offered a version of the app that was infected with malware.
Avast says that over 2.27 million users downloaded tainted versions of the CCleaner app in that time interval.
Based on data from the two C&C server databases, Avast says that 1,646,536 computers were infected with the Floxif first stage malware and reported back to the C&C server.
40 computers infected with second-stage payload
Based on a strict set of filters, Avast says that the C&C servers ordered the delivery of a second-stage malware (a potent backdoor) to only 40 of these 1.6 million computers.
Last week, Avast and Cisco said that only 20 computers were infected, meaning investigators found 20 more in the database backup.
Last week, investigators didn't reveal what companies were affected. In a table published today, Avast went public with this information, embedded below.
According to the table above, most infected hosts — 13 computers — are on the network of Chunghwa Telecom, a Taiwanese ISP. Second on the list is Japanese IT company NEC with 10, followed by Samsung with 5.
ASUS, Fujitsu, and Sony had two computers infected with the second-stage payload, while Avast found one infected computer on the network of IPAddress.com, O2, Gauselmann, Singtel, Intel, and VMWare.
The table above only lists successful infections. The C&C server used a filter to target certain networks, but not all were infected.
The filtering rules for the server seized last week targeted companies such as Google, Microsoft, HTC, Samsung, Intel, Sony, VMWare, O2, Vodafone, Linksys, Epson, MSI, Akamai, DLink, Oracle (Dyn), Gauselmann, and Singtel.
The filtering rules retrieved from the backup server shows that before September 10, attackers targeted a different list of companies, such as HTC, Linksys, Epson, Vodafone, Microsoft, Dlink, Gmail, Akamai, MSI, Cisco, Cyberdyne, Tactical Technologies Inc. (TTI), and GoDaddy.
Researchers say this filter is only the one used at the time of the backup, and between August 15 and September 10, attackers most likely targeted many other companies.
Avast jumps on the Chinese APT hack theory
In addition, Avast confirmed it found evidence linking the attackers to China. Last week, Kaspersky and Cisco said the same thing, hinting this attack might be linked to the Axiom APT.
Clues included PHP code found on the C&C server, the myPhpAdmin logs, and the similarity of certain code snippets to past Axiom malware.
Avast also says that after analyzing all the logins on the two servers, the login activity pattern fits a person living in the Eastern Russia, China, and India timezones.
Nonetheless, attribution is difficult. "The problem with all these indications is that they are all very easy to forge," said Avast. "They might have been added simply to make investigation more difficult and to hide the true origin."
With the new information in hand, here's an updated timeline of events.
July 19 ⮞ Avast announces it bought Piriform, company behind CCleaner.
July 31, 06:32 ⮞ Attackers install C&C server.
August 11, 07:36 ⮞ Attackers initiate data gathering procedures in preparation for August 15 when they poison the CCleaner binary, and later the CCleaner Cloud binary.
August 15 ⮞ Piriform, now part of Avast, releases CCleaner 5.33. The CCleaner 5.33.6162 version was infected with (the Floxif) malware.
August 20 and 21 ⮞ Morphisec's security product detects and stops first instances of CCleaner malicious activity, but they did not have insight into what exactly they stopped.
August 24 ⮞ Piriform releases CCleaner Cloud v1.07.3191 that also included the Floxif trojan.
September 10 20:59 ⮞ C&C server runs out of space and stops data collection. Attackers make a backup of the original database.
September 11 ⮞ Morphisec customers share detection logs detailing CCleaner-related malicious activity with the company's engineers.
September 12 07:56 ⮞ Attackers wipe C&C server.
September 12 08:02 ⮞ Attackers reinstall C&C server.
September 12 ⮞ Morphisec notifies Avast and Cisco of the suspicious CCleaner activity. Avast starts its own investigation and also notifies US law enforcement. Cisco also starts its own investigation.
September 14 ⮞ Cisco notifies Avast of its own findings.
September 15 ⮞ Authorities seize C&C server.
September 15 ⮞ Avast releases CCleaner 5.34 and CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3214. These are clean versions.
September 18 ⮞ CCleaner incident becomes public following Cisco, Morphisec, and Avast/Piriform reports.
September ?? ⮞ ServerCrate provides a copy of the backup server to Avast.
Avast also published a revised list of IOCs (indicators of compromise) in its most latest report. Sysadmins can use these IOCs to search for infections on their network.