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Brentin Mock is a staff writer at CityLab. He was previously the justice editor at Grist.
When law enforcement leaders convened one October day, it was to draw attention to the alarming rise in violent crime in cities across the U.S. They announced a new report, "A Gathering Storm," which warned that FBI crime stats had "confirmed our concerns and those of police chiefs that violent crime had dramatically risen," and "that this trend was ... expanding into other parts of the country."
However, this uptick in crime happened within only one year, which does not a trend make. The report notes this in its foreword:
There are some in both academia and government who believe these increases in violent crime may represent just a blip and that overall crime is still relatively low. They argue that before we make rash conclusions we should wait and see if the violent crime rate continues to increase over time. This thinking is faulty. It would be like having a pandemic flu outbreak in a number of cities, but waiting to see if it spreads to other cites before acting. Importantly, for many police chiefs, mayors and others living in dangerous communities, they do not have the luxury to "see what happens." The time to act is now.
You might be thinking that this meeting was the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference held last October, where FBI Director James Comey implied that rising crime was the result of a "Ferguson effect." It wasn't. The "Gathering Storm" convening happened 10 years ago, when police chiefs were sounding the same tocsins about new crime waves overtaking U.S. cities that are often heard today.
What happened after that uptick in homicides between 2005 and 2006? It dropped down considerably in the years after, plateauing until about 2012 when there was another small rise, only to drop again. It then again began rising over the 2013-2015 period that's been unaffectionately, and somewhat erroneously, dubbed the "Ferguson effect" era. Given that crime was in more often in decline in the years over that 10-year period, those 2006 alarms seem premature now.
That's not to say that the temporary hike in homicides a decade ago should have been ignored. Nor should examination of the current rise in homicides be cast aside. But the problem then, and the problem now, is that the voices guiding these narratives around crime were operating with incomplete data. The information that was used to confirm police chiefs' concerns in the 2006 "Gathering Storm" report came mostly from preliminary figures from the 2005 FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR).
The FBI won't release 2015's final crime figures until October of this year, so conjecture around "Ferguson effects" causing the current rise in violent crime is also premature. So says the University of Missouri researcher Richard Rosenfeld in a new report released for the National Institute of Justice.
"What has become known as the 'Ferguson effect' on the homicide increase," writes Rosenfeld, "is subject to considerable controversy and evidence-free rhetoric."
His NIJ report seeks to provide some direction on how to look at the 2015 rise in homicides in cities across the U.S. with the limited data available. First, it should be noted that the rise in homicides since 2014 is a real thing. In Rosenfeld's own research, he looked at homicide rates from 56 major cities (populations over 250,000) and found that the 2014-2015 homicide escalation is "nearly unprecedented."
Many cities' homicide numbers grew by more than 25 percent in that timeframe; 12 cities had homicide rates that increased by more than 50 percent. But looking at the total one-year rise in crime across all of those cities—16.8 percent—the bulk of that increase happened in just 10 cities.
These top 10 cities all had larger percentages of African Americans and people living in poverty than the other 46 cities. These 10 also account for two-thirds of the total rise in homicides from 2014-2015, so any talk about a new wave of violent crime should probably be applied specifically to just this subset of cities. Final numbers collected and crunched by the FBI later this year will give a more complete picture of the nature and distribution of homicides, as well as whether similar rises were found in smaller cities.
So, the rise in killings is indisputable at this point, even if they occurred in just a few cities. However, "[t]he question now is whether an increase of that magnitude merits the attention it has received from pundits, advocates, and federal officials," writes Rosenfeld.
His report delves into three theories about the rise in crime, one being the "Ferguson effect" theory. This theory is uniquely tough to evaluate empirically because there's still no clear definition of it, writes Rosenfeld. Many have taken it to mean that police have relaxed their engagement with the public, making fewer arrests, out of fear of being captured on camera phone, or because of backlash from activists. But, as Rosenfeld points out, this isn't exactly what the originator of the phrase meant:
The dominant de-policing interpretation is that highly publicized incidents of police use of deadly force against minority citizens, including but not limited to the Ferguson incident, caused police officers to disengage from their duties, particularly proactive tactics that prevent crime. Interestingly, however, that is not the interpretation of the individual who evidently coined the term. Sam Dotson, Chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, used the term in an interview with a reporter in November of 2014, three months after Michael Brown was killed. ...
He stated that the police in St. Louis were redeployed from their normal and more proactive responsibilities to address protest activities and civil disorder in Ferguson and elsewhere in the St. Louis area during the months immediately following Brown's death. As conditions returned to normal, so did police activity. For example, arrest rates returned to pre-Ferguson levels after decreasing during the late summer and fall of 2014.
Dotson also said in his "Ferguson effect" reference that some people may feel more "empowered" to break laws in the post-Michael Brown environment. Rosenfeld writes that could be the case—if people in certain cities no longer feel they can trust the police in resolving matters, especially given how police handled the situations involving Brown and Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Writes Rosenfeld:
Intentionally or not, the St. Louis police chief invoked an important strain of sociological and criminological thinking in his explanation of the Ferguson effect: the idea that violence escalates when individuals and communities are alienated from the legitimate means of social control. When persons do not trust the police to act on their behalf and to treat them fairly and with respect, they lose confidence in the formal apparatus of social control and become more likely to take matters into their own hands. Interpersonal disputes are settled informally and often violently. Honor codes develop that encourage people to respond with violence to threats and disrespect. Predatory violence increases because offenders believe victims and witnesses will not contact the police. Individuals engage in "self-help" and entire communities become "stateless" social locations.
If that's the case, any effects on crime can't be solely pegged on Ferguson—it could just as easily be called the "Watts effect." More ethnography-focused research is needed, writes Rosenfeld, to tie escalating homicides to black people's attitudes toward police.
Meanwhile, Rosenfeld explores two other plausible explanations of why homicides rose sharply between 2014 and 2015: an expansion of urban drug markets and a drop in incarceration rates. Looking at the drug angle, Rosenfeld notes the explosion in heroin-death rates, which doubled between 1999 and 2014.
This could help explain Baltimore, which had the steepest homicide rise of the top 10 cities, but which also is now considered the heroin capital of the U.S. As noted by Rehab International:
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore is home to the highest number of heroin addicts and heroin-related incidents of crime in the country. In 2013, there were more than 300 deaths related to heroin overdoses in Baltimore. Both The Fix and ABC News call the city "the heroin capital" of the United States. One in 10 of Baltimore's residents (60,000 people out of a population of 645,000) is addicted to heroin, a hot commodity in a region plagued with crime, systematic disgruntlement, and drug smugglers who use Baltimore's key placement in the middle of the East Coast as a stopping point as they ship heroin up and down the coast. Baltimore dealers and users get first call on the unadulterated heroin, getting a purer (and therefore deadlier) form of the drug compared to the finished product that is eventually distributed throughout the United States.
However, the heroin effect might not explain the rise in killings in other cities that don't have as strong of a drug problem. There are other problems with the drug theory for Rosenfeld, like the fact that heroin deaths have been steadily rising for the past 15 years, but the homicide rate has not climbed steadily with it.
Similar problems exist for the incarceration theory. Yes, more people have been returning home from jail in recent years. But the data is either unavailable or unclear about whether 2015's homicides were committed by those recently released from prison. The constant throughout Rosenfeld's report is that all of these questions could be answered more effectively, and more quickly, if the FBI released its crime stats more frequently. Writes Rosenfeld:
Researchers would have been in a better position to begin addressing the 2015 homicide rise, with evidence rather than speculation, if timely crime data had been available as the increase was occurring. We would have known whether the homicide rise was confined to large cities, whether other crimes were also increasing, and whether arrest rates were falling. The debate over the homicide increase would have been better informed. Technical impediments to the monthly release of crime data no longer exist. A large and worrisome increase in homicide should be the catalyst to finally bring the nation's crime monitoring system into the 21st century.
The moral here is that it is reckless to put theories out about why crime is happening or escalating without having all of the information in place. Policies get created based on poorly developed theories, as seen with "broken windows" and "zero tolerance." The consequences are people's lives: Entire black communities were destroyed due to the exploitation and manipulation of crime stats that fueled mass incarceration in the 20th century. While slogans like "the Ferguson effect" may help sell books, they don't help achieve justice.
An Apartment List report reveals the cities apartment-hunters are targeting for their next move—and shows that tales of a California exodus may be overstated.
As the city's real estate market heats up, neighborhood groups say that cash investors use building code violations to encourage homeowners to sell.
The automaker-turned-mobility-company announced last week it wants to build a living, breathing urban laboratory from the ground up in Japan.
A new exhibit from the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association showcases the simple visualizations of complex ideas that have changed how we live.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.


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"The Internet of Things probably already influences your life. And if it doesn't, it soon will, say computer scientists," states a recent article in the MIT Technology Review. Imagine your refrigerator communicating with your treadmill, or being able to turn on your dishwasher from your smartphone. These may sound like futuristic magic tricks but they are well on their way to becoming an everyday reality with the rise of 'The Internet of Things'.
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Street Throne Appears Again
The infamous and mysterious "Capitol Hill Street Throne" appeared again this week at the top of another Capitol Hill incline, triggering locals to participate in a customary ritual that has developed over the years since the strange arrangement made its first surprise appearance in 2006.
"The Throne" as locals call it, is a living room chair and a gold statue of a young woman of unknown identity which both appear, with only 60 minutes notice, at the top of a hill at about midnight.
Locals have made a ritual by performing "improv" (improvisational acting) inspired by Adam Sandler's "Click", a film in which the main character discovers his remote control allows him to control all of the life around him.
Typically, locals on The Throne pretend to control everything around them as they drink beer (part of the custom) while cars and pedestrians pass by. This goes on until the police arrive to give citations for open containers and public intoxication, a sober reminder that the powers they have assumed are definitely not real.
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Warning: spoilers if you've not read Insurgent!
The idea behind Divergent is that when you turn sixteen, you are tested to decide which faction you belong to: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite. Tris, the main character, tests as Divergent – she does not belong to any faction. But she cannot reveal this information to anyone. So she chooses a faction, and keeps her true traits to herself.
The use of first person present is fairly fundamental in establishing the pressurised atmosphere of the novels. It begins with Tris' test and keeps building as she joins other initiates in her new faction. As a reader you are on edge, and this reflects Tris' feelings. She is determined to fit in, but is scared of what might happen if her Divergent skills are spotted.
The character of Four is an interesting one. He arrives to train the new initiates, and his entrance screams "potential love interest". I was expecting Tris to follow the stereotype of becoming reliant on him, and being less able to act for herself. But she doesn't – much like Katniss, as I mentioned in my review of The Hunger Games. And with Tris, her determination to do what she thinks she should, regardless of the consequences, heightens with Four's presence. Another female character thinking for herself! Yay! But Four's story arc very much engages your curiosity, and moves nicely into the plot of Insurgent.
As an outsider, Tris is a bullying target for her fellow initiates. Her family were Abnegation, which preaches selflessness – the opposite of her new faction, where you look out for yourself first of all. This is where Tris develops even more as a character; she refuses to be beaten by the bullies and so works harder and harder at topping the rankings and proving herself better than them. And people she makes enemies with in this initial phase are brought back cleverly in Insurgent. The continuity between books is great – rather than feeling like a second book, Insurgent picks up precisely where Divergent left off.
In many ways Insurgent sets up for the final book in the trilogy (due this autumn), but the repercussions of events in Divergent permeate it and tie the two tighter. Tris is dealing with the personal consequences of having killed another person, yet has chosen a faction where she must be fearless. Roth manages scenes where Tris needs a weapon but feels so completely unable to use it very well, and the impact of this on her relationship with Four (or rather, Tobias) plays out nicely. Now the faction lines are blurring, Tris and Tobias' characters are less constrained. The two are determined to do things their own way and aren't always honest with each other as a result. This not only makes them both more interesting characters (one might say unnecessarily 'tortured' when they're at their most melodramatic) but much more flawed. As readers we are not being treated to the gospel according to Tris and Tobias, which is excellent.
Insurgent is full of unexpected surprises and twists, making what could otherwise be little more than a set-up for Allegiant a gripping story. The Hunger Games may have all the headlines, but I'd pick Divergent ahead of it. If you're a fan of the genre and haven't yet read this series, I'd definitely recommend a read.
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A Nigerian drug dealer, Izuchukwu F. Ezimoha, who was killed after being sentenced to death over drug related offence in Indonesia, has been buried in his compound in Ezigbo village, Ihiala LGA of Anambra state.
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On April 30,Mrs. Ashinwo and her daughter, 30-year-old Oluwatosin Ashinwo, an employee of MTN in Ilorin, Kwara State were attacked by a knife-wielding obsessed suitor of the young lady, 45-year-old David Ogundele.
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The benefits of creating a backyard habitat are many.
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These videos resonated with me so deeply that I must share them with you! I've studied and reviewed each one multiple times. If you are interested in learning a bit about yourself, others and the world we share together – then you are in for a treat. Enjoy!
Dr. Brene Brown has inspired millions of people, including me! If you have the time, please watch all four talks.
The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown
Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
Listening to shame | Brené Brown
http://www.ted.com Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on. Her own humor, humanity and vulnerability shine through every word.
Brene Brown on The Power of Being Vulnerable
Listen to podcast version: http://apple.co/2qbZNPX Good Life Project founder, Jonathan Fields, interviews Brene Brown on the power of vulnerability, daring greatly and being brave. Topics explored include what it takes to live a good life, the power of vulnerability, the daring way of life, what it means to be brave, how people handle judgment, the intersection between human nature and entrepreneurship, how to decide whose opinions matter and so much more.
The price of invulnerability: Brené Brown at TEDxKC
TEDxKC talk synopsis: In our anxious world, we often protect ourselves by closing off parts of our lives that leave us feeling most vulnerable. Yet invulnerability has a price. When we knowingly or unknowingly numb ourselves to what we sense threatens us, we sacrifice an essential tool for navigating uncertain times -- joy.
Why Setting Intentions Sets You Up for Success
It's about time I let you in on a little secret. There's a way to approach whatever life throws your way feeling cool, calm and collected. You heard that right! And getting your hands on this secret will kick off a chain of events leading straight to your biggest dreams. I'm talking about setting intentions.
In 2012 I shifted into a healthier mindset.
Kris Carr's web page landed on my radar. This woman is extraordinary.
As a student in her 21-day Crazy Sexy Total Wellness Program, I learned to have fun with nutrition. The online private forum for worldwide students was an experience I'll never forget. I've watched many (okay, maybe "most") of her YouTube videos and have been inspired and motivated.
Gratitude | Louie Schwartzberg | TEDxSF
Nature's beauty can be easily missed - but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day. (Filmed at TEDxSF.) Learn more about Louie and Moving Art at www.movingart.com.
Beautiful short video titled: Gratitude
Enough said.
12 truths I learned from life and writing | Anne Lamott
A few days before she turned 61, writer Anne Lamott decided to write down everything she knew for sure. She dives into the nuances of being a human who lives in a confusing, beautiful, emotional world, offering her characteristic life-affirming wisdom and humor on family, writing, the meaning of God, death and more.
Anne Lamott delivers an incredible TED talk. This author wrote the book called "Bird by Bird" that inspired me to keep writing last year. Perhaps this website is a result of that. Thank you, G.H., for your encouragement!
How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon
Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he's met in the years since.
This is a wonderful story about how our life experiences set us up to enjoy our lives in such unexpected ways.
He delivers a poignant message. The audience was in tears at the end. (Hint: You will be, too, is my guess)
10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee
When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations - and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening.
Oh, this is awesome.
Why you don't get what you want; it's not what you expect | Jennice Vilhauer | TEDxPeachtree
Psychologist Dr. Jennice Vilhauer explains the psychological and clinical reasons why *we* are at the heart of *why* we're not living the life that we want in this fascinating talk and what we can do about it.
It's all about expectations, folks.
…or is it ?
How to speak up when you feel like you can't | Adam Galinsky | TEDxNewYork
We all experience moments when it's hard to speak up - whether it's at work, in our relationships, or out in a public with a stranger. Business psychologist Adam Galinsky shows research and shares helpful tips on how to find your voice when it matters most, and to advocate for others who need it.
As an introvert, this video speaks volumes to me!
Kathy Stevens Speaks at Niagara VegFest 2014
Niagara VegFest 2014 invited Kathy Stevens to speak about the impact of animal agriculture on animals, humans, and the planet. Along the way Kathy shares some of the life-altering lessons she's learned in fifteen years of animal rescue and advocacy.
Kathy Stevens spoke at the Niagara VegFest in 2014. Her message is a simple one. To save our planet, we must move to sustainable food sources: Plants!


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The act of repeating a process with the aim of approaching a desired result, goal or target is called iteration. Each repetition of the process, or "iteration", is where the results of the previous are used as the starting point for the next iteration to get closer to the required end result. When you gather market intelligence you must test the affect of new knowledge on your opportunity each time - you iterate and get closer to your desired result.
Applying the technique of iteration to manage risk when building your value proposition and business model is necessary and essential as they are just paper prototypes that will define your business. Initially you will not have any critical user testing feedback. All your initial validation calculations are based purely on your view and maybe family and close friends. You should draw up a list of questions relevant to your customers and use their response to help you refine your product/service and business model so that it will provide value for your market as they see it.
You will need to identify your potential customer and then get out and talk to them. Importantly, as you ask your questions you must listen to all items which those customers raise. A single item may consistently be identified as a problem and you may be able to address that issue whilst developing your value proposition and business model. This is your chance to build the strongest product/service and business model that you can.
The iteration process is not a one off and needs to be continually implemented throughout your product/service and business model development. Reviews will continue long after market entry to ensure your offering continues to deliver on market expectations. It is essential that every time you speak with customers you capture that valuable information. You are testing more than your product or service, you are testing your business model and building a portfolio of future opportunities. These opportunities may be for additional products or services to support long term growth or, in the event of negative feedback, provide the option to change direction or pivot.
Whenever you can, provide customers with early prototypes as this will help you refine your solution. You will also be able to test your business model and make adjustments if need be. Your customers will test your prototype and provide feedback on its performance. It is important that you ask your beta testers if your solution is of value to them and how much would they pay for it. You need to know if they would they buy your product or service and how likely they would be to recommend it to friends or co-workers.
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Helen Moriarty – Senior Consultant, Aid Effectiveness (Casual Staff)
Helen is an experienced consultant who specialises in international development with a focus on program design, review and evaluation. She holds a Masters of Evaluation from Melbourne University. The vast majority of Helen's work over 29 years has been carried out in developing and middle-income county settings, mostly in the Asia – Pacific region. This variety has provided her with a solid understanding of the political landscape and cultural challenges involved in working across a range of development setting - from community-based to sub-national and national government levels.
Hands-on experience in various roles throughout all stages of the programming cycle (as proposal writer, contract manager, project director, participatory planning adviser, design team member, mid-term reviewer, and evaluator) has helped to ground Helen's advisory work, and brings an understanding of the complexities involved in setting and achieving realistic development goals in challenging real-world settings. She has a strong interest in partnering the aspirations of high level development goals with the practicalities of constrained environments.
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What do you tell a child when a natural disaster darkens the news? "Things like that don't happen here." "The grown-ups in charge have it under control." And when it does happen here, and the grown-ups in charge haven't a clue, there's Plan C: "Scientists are working on it."
In "An Inconvenient Truth," "here" is the whole world, and hard-working scientists bring both bad news and good: Humans are changing the atmosphere in ways that will harm the earth, but we can delay or modify the effects if we act soon. That double-edged message has found a large audience as a slide show, a film and a book for adults. Now comes a book version for children 11 and up — or, as the cover puts it, "Adapted for a New Generation."
Adapted how? For starters, this book is better organized than the original, with a table of contents, chapter headings and an index — useful features that the adult edition lacked. It is also about 40 percent shorter. Much of what has disappeared is Gore himself; his autobiographical musings are gone, replaced by a brief introduction. Fair enough: Readers who barely remember the 2000 election will care more about Gore's message than about the personal journey that led him to spread it.
What remains is most of the "good parts" of the movie: enough geoscience to explain the basics of climate change, and a travelogue of parts of the world where global warming either poses a threat or (Gore suggests) has already taken hold. The beleaguered polar bears are here. So are shrinking glaciers in Switzerland and atop Mount Kilimanjaro, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and deteriorating coral reefs. The main culprit is carbon dioxide; the solution, a grab bag of technical fixes. "We have everything we need to begin solving the climate crisis," the book concludes hopefully.
The science, as far as it goes, is well supported, but some foibles remain from the film. Gore pegs recent hot spells and extreme weather like Hurricane Katrina to global warming a lot more confidently than most climate scientists are ready to do. Many experts suspect that the recent run of hot summers is due to global warming combined with an upward swing in natural temperature fluctuations. A swing back could cool things off for a while, even as overall warming continues. Gore is also mighty optimistic about the ease of reining in humanity's appetite for carbon-spewing combustion.
The big question, however, is whether the book's intended audience still needs it. The DVD of the film is required viewing in many schools. Politicians, news editors and curriculum developers are piling onto the green bandwagon. The next generation has plenty of inspiration; what it needs now is nuts-and-bolts information for school reports and debates. Who is doing the science, and where and how? How do researchers analyze satellite data and computer models? What is likely to happen in the near future? This book doesn't tackle those questions, but someone must.
Information abounds in Joseph B. Treaster's book "Hurricane Force," but it goes down so smoothly you won't notice. The story starts in the path of Hurricane Katrina, which Treaster covered in August 2005 as a correspondent for The New York Times and witnessed as it struck downtown New Orleans. "I watched as a dangling traffic light shot across an intersection like a bullet pass, then swung back on its tether," he writes. "Nearby, windows shattered and glass sprayed down on the sidewalk like lethal snow."
A Florida native and a veteran of a dozen hurricanes, Treaster knows his subject. He explains how hurricanes originate as fragile combinations of swirling, moist air and warm ocean water, how they change character on coming ashore, what makes them so capricious and deadly and, finally, how disaster agencies plan for their arrival.
Scientists are the heroes of the early chapters. Meteorologists from the National Weather Service track storms from command posts inside concrete bunkers. Some fly straight into them to drop instrument canisters, crossing into the eye of the hurricane — "a place of powerful beauty," as one researcher describes it. Later, the spotlight shifts to emergency planners, aid workers and victims. Treaster also tells his exciting "how I got the story" story: driving into New Orleans on the eve of the storm's landfall, shadowing the police chief, listening to overwhelmed 911 operators and interviewing residents as the city flooded.
The dozens of photographs and some well-chosen maps mesh with the text. There are no how-it-works diagrams, but the writing is so vivid that readers won't miss them. A hurricane is "a roaring natural turbine" wrapped around "a flexing double column of air — like a rumpled sleeve within a rumpled sleeve." Its path over land zigzags "in a windshield-wiper effect." It's no surprise that Treaster's annotated list of references (a welcome extra) includes fiction by Joseph Conrad and Jack London.
Readers will finish this book fascinated but probably content to keep their distance. Despite better forecasts and hurricane-proof building techniques, Treaster makes it clear that when a big storm wheels ashore, the best place to be is somewhere else. "Unless I'm reporting on a storm," he concludes, "you won't find me trying to reason with hurricane season."


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Around Bluegums
We are located in the foothills of the world heritage listed Barrington Tops National Park, close to many beautiful walks with prisine rivers, waterfalls, water holes and Chichester Dam.
Our cabins are set on 180 acres which you are free to wander and explore. As you wander you will see wallabies, pademelons and water-dragons. Regular bird visitors include the satin bower bird, black cockatoos, king parrots and wattle birds as well as magpies and kookaburras.
The Tawny Frog mouth can be seen at night time if you go for a wander often resting on a post waiting on some food. Some of our guests awoke to 2 Tawny Frogmouts sleeping in the tree outside their cabin and another told me they were having breakfast watching a koala asleep in the tree so you just don't know how lucky you might be here at Bluegums.
Barrington Tops National Park
The rainforests in Barrington Tops National Park are part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area; the most extensive strip of diverse rainforest anywhere on earth. The World Heritage Area is a direct window into the past and the future, providing a link to the ancient pre-human world and a stunning and irreplaceable record of life on our planet.
Carved out of ancient volcanic flows, the park rises from near sea level to over 1500m and protects one of the largest temperate rainforests in mainland Australia, along with a host of diverse habitats and wide range of birds and animals.
Beautiful Walks
You can explore the rainforest on one of the park's many walking tracks (links below)
Jerusalem Creek Trail
Blue Gum Loop Trail
Rocky Crossing
or you can wander up to Chichester Dam. It's a pleasant walk and despite being in the middle of a beautiful declared wilderness area it is quite an impressive structure. You will see and hear plenty birds along this walk. There are toilets, a bbq area and hot water for tea facilities here.
Beautiful Swims
There is a beautiful salt-water pool on site (also a tennis court) or beautiful rivers and waterfalls nearby. We can give you a map and shortcuts to secluded waterholes.
Beautiful Wildlife
Around your cabin you are bound to spot some wallabies and padamelons. Wander by the 3 dams on site to see water dragons and turtles and if you are lucky an echidna or koala. Lots of beautiful birdlife also, see how many you can count during your stay. As you head back to Dungog if you stop at the old wooden bridge you may see a playptus at dusk or dawn.
When in Dungog…
Dungog Common – The Dungog Common Loop Walk is a medium walk of five to ten kilometres. Drive to the starting point at Common Road Entrance. You will enjoy lovely views of the surrounding area, creek crossings and some lovely hidden waterfalls. For mountain bikers – this is where the annual MTB Festival takes place.
James Theatre – The oldest Theatre in NSW still in operation. 8 Brown St Dungog just down from the Visitors Info. Watch a movie, have a cup of tea and a slice of homemade cake….a delight!
Dungog by Design – a new shop opened by a collective of artisans living and creating in the Dungog Shire.
Dungog Contemporary – Dungog's newest independent gallery with a gallery shop – art books, jewellery and selected objets d'art and an online stockroom of limited fine art editions by well known Australian artists.
Dungog Museum – 105 Dowling Street, DungogCollecting, Preserving and Interpreting Local History and Heritage for Everyone
Local Growers Stall – fruit and vegetables is run by Local Living Dungog, a community centre group promoting sustainable living in the Dungog Shire. Visit the market, held at side entrance and front of CWA Hall, on Saturday mornings. There will be local honey, eggs, fruit, herbs, vegetables and much more. BYO shopping bag if possible.
Where to eat….
Tin Shed Brewery -Dowling St , a new favourite in town – local beers, cider and
Settlers Arms (wise to book for weekend dinner- 02 4992 1615)
Stella Bistro
Long Room Cafe
Coffee Bean Cafe
Dungog Pizza
The RSL and Bowling Clubs both have a Chinese restaurant with take away available and The Bank hotel on the corner has many dinner specials.
Other things to do nearby..
Our favourite in Maitland is the Regional Art Gallery, always interesting exhibits and events and a fantastic cafe, well worth visiting on your way here or on your way home.
The drive to Gresford is rather magnificent so bring your camera, from there you can visit a winery, Bunno Bunno olive grove or the Flying Duck cafe in Vacy.
Tocal College & Homestead has one of Australias finest collections of colonial farm buildings dating from the 1820s. The homestead is open every weekend, Saturday and Sunday from March to November. Its also open other times for groups by apt Ph 1800 025 520


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"The Fly" is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, published 1922.
Mansfield's short stories are out of copyright and available at various places online. Download "The Fly"by Katherine Mansfield as a document.
Mansfield wrote "The Fly" in February 1922 as she was finding her tuberculosis treatment debilitating. She died in January of 1923, soon after its publication. Thirty-four seems young to be contemplating old age, and to write about an elderly character with any sort of gravitas, but it's likely Mansfield always had empathy for the elderly. She had probably sensed she would die young. For one thing, she'd faced plague. The Beauchamp family escaped central Wellington to live in Karori, probably to evade the bacterial infections which were highly dangerous to Wellingtonians at the turn of the 20th century. Aside from that, Mansfield grew up with weak lungs. The family doctor told her family (if not Mansfield herself?) that she was a case of tuberculosis waiting to happen.Continue reading "The Fly by Katherine Mansfield"


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Rockport in Aransas County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)
Erected 1988 by Texas Historical Commission. (Marker Number 4325.)
Location. 28° 1.796′ N, 97° 2.817′ W. Marker is in Rockport, Texas, in Aransas County. Marker is at the intersection of Broadway Street (Business State Highway 35) and East Orleans Street, in the median on Broadway Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Rockport TX 78382, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Aransas County (here, next to this marker); The Big Blue Crab (approx. 0.2 miles away); First National Bank of Rockport Hoopes-Smith House (approx. ¼ mile away); Rockport's Harbor (approx. ¼ mile away); Fulton-Bruhl House (approx. 0.3 miles away); Woman's Club of Aransas County Building (approx. 0.3 miles away); Bracht House (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Rockport.
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Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on March 19, 2012. This page has been viewed 575 times since then and 2 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on March 19, 2012. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.


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Bookkeeping and accounting can be a hindrance to your performance and it is good to ensure that you have utilized your time to the maximum in other activities to grow your business. Concentrating more in business or interacting with the customers helps build a good rapport with them, hence, the more you are likely to find your business productive and effective. Do not let your business lag behind due to some challenges that can simply be solved effectively. Delegating the accounting and bookkeeping to the experts will leave you overwhelmed by the accuracy of work and efficiency whenever you retrieve the accounts and books. It is more possible to experience timely services for the tremendous growth of your business. There are unique and disturbing accounting challenges that may be affecting the smooth flow of your business. It is very easy to do away with such challenges and change the game by delegating the accounting and bookkeeping tasks to the accounting services gurus. By doing so, you are likely to find that your entity has expanded after some time and the growth rate cannot be paralleled with any other peer business.
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What are Calcivirus?
This disease is highly infectious and although signs may include fever, bleeding from the nose, and lethargy, many rabbits who are infected display no signs and die suddenly.
Unfortunately, there is no cure for this disease, however infected rabbits can be offered supportive treatment. Prevention is an essential aspect in the management of this condition, an effective vaccination against this disease is available and should be discussed with your veterinarian.
Rabbit calicivirus, also known as viral hemorrhagic disease, is a reportable disease in some parts of the world. This highly infectious disease was first reported in 1984 in the People's Republic of China, from here it was spread to Mexico City in 1998, however was considered eradicated by 1992. Another outbreak, following a laboratory incident in Australia occurred in 1995 which lead to the virus being released, killing millions of rabbits within two months and spreading to the USA. Currently, the USA is considered disease free, although the virus is reported across Australia and New Zealand.
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Symptoms of Calcivirus in Rabbits
Rabbit calicivirus is a highly infectious and often swift acting disease. Symptoms of mild cases are often depression and loss of appetite. Rarely, rabbits recover from this disease after experiencing these symptoms and go on to have immunity against re-infection.
In more common peracute forms of this disease, the rabbit may experience rapid deterioration with a fever developing following infection, an onset of seizures, fevers, and coma, leading to death within 12-36 hours of symptom onset.
Some rabbits may go on to experience other symptoms such as swelling of the eyelids, bleeding from eyes, and paddling. Respiratory signs may develop such as cyanosis. For these rabbits, unfortunately the disease often progresses to a fatal stage within a few weeks of infection. For many rabbits the only sign is unexpected, sudden death.
- Depression
- Loss of appetite
- Fever
- Seizures
- Respiratory signs
- Blue mucous membranes
- Coma
- Death
Causes of Calcivirus in Rabbits
The origins of calicivirus are not completely understood, but it is known that the condition is caused by the RHDV virus, a member of the genus Lagovirus and family Caliciviridae.
Calicivirus is transmitted through the oral, nasal and conjunctival pathways after the rabbit comes into contact with an infected animal, object or organism. This virus is shed through the urine, feces and respiratory secretions and is often spread between rabbits on carriers such as flies, fleas, mosquitoes and other rabbits. The virus may also be carried on contaminated items such as clothing, food, bedding or water, highlighting the importance of strict isolation if a case is suspected. This disease is endemic in both New Zealand and Australia.
Diagnosis of Calcivirus in Rabbits
Your veterinarian will examine your rabbit carefully. Often with this disease the diagnosis is made by considering your pet's symptoms and other history such as vaccination status and exposure to sick pets, or rabbits who have died suddenly. Your veterinarian may also perform diagnostic tests to rule out other similarly presenting conditions such as:
- Toxicity
- Heat exhaustion
- Septicemic pasteurellosis
In post-mortem investigations, pets suffering from this disease are commonly seen with hemorrhagic lesions and congestion of the liver, lungs, heart and other organs.
Treatment of Calcivirus in Rabbits
Unfortunately, there is no known treatment for this disease in rabbits. Your rabbit may be treated symptomatically with intravenous fluid therapy, syringe feeding, and analgesia, but because this disease often causes internal hemorrhages the prognosis is poor. Your veterinarian may discuss euthanasia on humane grounds as the best option for your pet.
As the virus can live in the environment for up to seven months, if you suspect an infection has occurred it is vital that the area is thoroughly disinfected using an effective solution.
Recovery of Calcivirus in Rabbits
The most effective way to protect your pet against this disease is to have him vaccinated annually for this disease. Other steps you can take to protect your rabbit are:
- Keep your rabbits housed indoors and rabbit-proof your environment to ensure wild rabbits are unable to gain access to your backyard
- Maintain excellent personal hygiene – wash your hands thoroughly after coming home, especially if you have been in contact with other people who own rabbits or places where rabbits may have been
- Wash your hands prior to handling your pet
- If you come into contact with other rabbits thoroughly disinfect your clothing
- When introducing new cage mates place the rabbit in quarantine for 5 days, ensuring strict isolation protocols are in place
- Control insects such as flies
- Provide regular flea treatment to reduce the chance of infection spread from parasites
- Following an infection disinfect thoroughly with 10% household bleach, 10% sodium hydroxide or 1-2% formalin
Calcivirus Questions and Advice from Veterinary Professionals
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Calcivirous run uncontrolled in Australia and in some states such as Queensland it is encouraged by local and State Government. My Question here is: WHAT EFFECT DOES IT HAVE ON US HUMANS?
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Today at morning my California white rabbit give 4 new babies.
After I removed all babies from the cage and after I feed them her mother milk.
When I put the mother rabbit in after some minutes she is bleed some blood from the vigena .
What is this symptoms.
Or it is calcivirous....?
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|Dear all, Kerala Kala Samithi is organising its General Body Meeting on Monday, 30 September 2013. The agenda for the meeting is: Presenting the report and income-expenditure statement of last year (2012-13). Convening a new executive committee comprising of members from each hostel for the coming academic year. Venue: Physics Lecture Theatre. Time : 5.00 PM. All are welcome! ----------------------------------------------- Regards, KKS Executive Committee 2012-13
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"I am leaving you with a gift –
peace of mind and heart. And the peace I
give is a gift the world cannot give."
– Jesus in John 14:27
Jesus is talking about a different kind of peace.
Peace – a state of completeness, well-being,
a state of being in good health, able to rest
and function at full capacity, and free from
danger or conflict in every area of your life
and in every relationship.
"God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God." – Jesus in Matthew 5:9
To bring shalom is to make complete or restore. Not just that we stop fighting but that we start working together for each other's benefit.
"the Kingdom of God…is a life of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit." Romans 14:17
"Search for peace and work to maintain it." Psalm 34:14
"Work for the peace of the city…pray to the Lord for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare."
v 7 Jeremiah 29:5-14
How can a home bring peace to a neighborhood? Let us ask God to help us understand His purpose.
How can a home bring peace to a neighborhood?
There is a peace, a healthy state that we can find in Jesus. We can be safe and sound, able to rest and function at full capacity, complete, with our guilt removed, and free to enjoy life. Our God wants us to receive it and share it with others. We should understand this, pray for it, and work toward such a peace in ourselves, in our homes, in our neighborhoods, and in our city. In this way we will pursue peaceful relationships inside our homes through forgiveness. Jesus motivates us to love neighbors by listening to them in an attempt to understand them and build relationships. This listening works best when we host people with food and offer to help them in what they're doing. From this context we may create new personal relationships and repair broken ones. We will work toward natural peace and we will bring the spiritual peace of our God. Our homes will be a gathering place for our church family to grow. We will pray for our neighbors and our neighborhood. Our homes will bring peace to the neighborhood.
6. Take Action – follow God in His redemptive work
7. Bring Spiritual Peace
8. Life Group
9. Pray for the lost and your neighborhood
What's the one thing that God is asking you to do?
What is one thing you can do to respond?


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Battery – a relatively simple part of the car does not require special care, but it becomes sensitive when a cold winter morning, you try to start the car and the battery says " NO! " . In order to avoid such things , it is better in advance to anticipate problems . Here are some tips on how not to be in trouble in winter.
Are you sure the battery is to blame?
Often the car ignition problems during the winter is not due to the battery. It – only the consequence of failure. Usually batteries are already on the "death" limit for tidy wiring or a malfunctioning generator or called voltage relay-regulator.
Usually it is sufficient to start the car 40 percent. battery power. In winter, when the air temperature falls well below zero, the battery capacity is reduced, and if it is fully charged, the power to start the engine stiff enough. So what to do?
First, before the start of the winter, we advise you to check the battery voltage. If you turn off the car engine and all electrical appliances battery voltage should be about 12.7 V. If the voltage is lower – in the winter waiting for trouble. But, do not immediately throw away a battery – usually enough to fully recharge.
When you turn on the engine and at about 1500 to 2000 rpm., The voltage should be between 13.8 to 14.5 V. The voltage should not change strongly turn on the lights or other electrical devices. If it is too small, it is not the fuel cells, a generator or transducer – controller, which means that the battery is not being charged fully. Sometimes the tension is even greater, but it is also dangerous – risk of battery "boil", it turns into a liquid gas, and in some cases, batteries may simply explode!
The generator can fully recharge the battery, and for other reasons. For example, if the car a powerful built-in stereo sound, it uses much more energy than it generates generator. Therefore, the battery is running out of juice.
What kind of battery to buy?
Wrong to think that when you purchase a more powerful battery resolve problems.
Battery describes one of the main parameters – its capacity, which is measured in ampere hours (Ah).
Manufacturers recommend the car to install a certain capacity of the battery. Specialists advise to install more than 10 percent. more capacious battery. For example, if the manufacturer recommends the use of 55 Ah, this is a larger capacity than 60 Ah battery mount do not recommend. The reason is simple – the car calculated generator to recharge some battery capacity and larger just can not charge fully, i higher capacity becomes meaningless. Unless install and more powerful generator. In addition, the starter since it will not be more powerful – he will use only the power that complies with the technical requirements.
Batteries come in three types – serviced, partially served and not served. We recommend buying the past. Although they are a bit more expensive, but they do not require absolutely no maintenance. Those who like to "live" in the garage, can buy the battery serviced – the less expensive, but it requires constant maintenance (checking the electrolyte level, add fluid).
For trouble guilty and dirt
Often, due to troubles in the winter guilty and simply untidy wiring or just dirt . So before frost we recommend some simple work that later winter mornings will feel at ease.
First, inspect the battery terminals – they have to be clean and neaprūdiję and screws wires screwed on tightly .
Often, the battery current "stealing " irregular electrical appliances, for example , all the while acting on the trunk light . Maybe messy cable with damaged insulation.
Cluttered high-voltage wires, dirty contacts and the layer of dirt in the engine compartment – all of which can have an impact on that part of the energy wasted.
The city drivers are at higher risk
If you drive a car rarely or for short distances , the generator fail to charge the battery . This is especially true in winter, when it comes to not only turn on the lights , but also full capacity to act in the heating system and other devices. Therefore, it is recommended at least once a year ( preferably before the winter) and remove the battery fully charged at home or workshop . This is an inexpensive service that can save you a lot of time and nerve cells in the future.
In winter, when starting the engine consumed electricity normally -functioning car restored in just about 20 minutes of engine operation . But remember that at one time turned the entire car electronics consume several times more power than the generator generates . Therefore, running on very short distances sometimes recommend to bundle heating at full capacity , that evening from work would return to public transport.
A few more tips
The greatest enemy of the battery – forgetfulness. Left the light on the battery discharges within a few hours.
Check the condition of the battery manufacturers recommend every oil change.
If the battery is completely discharged, charge it as soon as possible – the discharged battery begins an irreversible process, its capacity decreases rapidly and after a while even full immersion longer appropriate. This is particularly important in the winter, because the battery is discharged quickly freezes, ice crystals formed and dismantles inside the plates.
And at the end of the tip, where the car nebeužsiveda you try to start the wire the vehicle battery. First, connect the positive pole, but then negative. Another car's engine should be turned off, because it can burn your car's engine control processor. After starting the engine, disconnect the cables in reverse order – first disconnect the negative pole, and only after a positive.
Source – delfi.lt: http://auto.delfi.lt/advice/autopiloto-patarimai-akumuliatorius–jautriausia-automobilio-vieta-ziema.d?id=38076097


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BUYER: daddyohoho
TEAMS: Phillies, Nuggets, Raiders
1980 Topps #526 Phillies Team
This is your typical '70s/'80s team card. A couple of afros are spotted in the lineup, someone's wearing light blue pants, and the manager is floating above. I love the Phillies name on the scoreboard. (It looks like the way an off-brand soda would have been written back then.) The previous owner of this card was a big Phillies fan of a set collector, because all of the check boxes are filled in on the back.
Yeah, not much else, plus some Dykstra overload like the Mets got. Cheer up, though, daddyohoho, there's still another Claim It! left to go, so there might be something good there for you.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
July Group Break: Phillies - Nuggets - Raiders
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House Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled a new plan yesterday aimed at reviving the stalled economy by reforming the way the federal government regulates. While acknowledging that sensible regulations can provide "clear, firm rules that all Americans can live by," he said that "bad or unnecessary regulations can slow the economy down significantly, and the evidence suggests red tape is holding back the recovery."
He's right. Federal regulators look at our diverse, interconnected society and see a need for a complex, detailed government bureaucracy to regulate, plan, direct and constrain private activity—rather than appreciate that decentralized knowledge, dispersed among millions of people, generates an unplanned spontaneous order.
Regulators Need Humility
As Speaker Ryan declared, "What federal agencies need more than anything else is some humility."
He might have added that Congress – and Presidents and presidential candidates – should also acquire some humility. When government constrains prices or the types of products that can be offered, dictates particular technologies, or prohibits certain behavior, they substitute centralized and binding human judgements and design for evolutionary processes unleashed by a competitive marketplace. As a result, regardless of intent, such government interventions tend to hinder competition, innovation, and growth.
New crises, whether real or perceived, inevitably lead to new legislation and new regulations. Since regulations can provide competitive advantage, it is often in the self-interest of regulated parties to support them, (often hiding behind public interest arguments) even while other parties oppose them. Thus, talent and energy gets channeled into lobbying for favorable government treatment (a zero sum game at best) rather than into entrepreneurial activities that lead to growth and prosperity.
Take the Federal Communications Commission's recently proposed rules on Internet privacy, for example. They would override the practices that have emerged to satisfy diverse consumer preferences and, with no evidence of harm, create artificial distinctions between competing Internet providers by imposing top-down requirements on some. Regulations under the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank Act, which limit prices, control entry, and dictate what consumers may purchase, inevitably substitute regulators' preferences for consumers' and limit the products and arrangements that could emerge from competitive markets.
Competitive vs. Regulated Market Incentives
The table below contrasts some of the incentives provided by competitive market forces with those provided through regulation.
Competition Is A Powerful Regulator
As the table illustrates, competitive pressures encourage innovation and growth, whereas regulatory pressures lead to less-productive activities, precaution and maintenance of the status quo. This often ends up protecting vested interests and harming consumers, because as Mannix observes, "competition is the most important regulator of our economy."
Similar to evolutionary pressure in the biological world, competitive pressure in a market economy rewards innovation. It motivates entrepreneurs to fill new niches, redirects resources to their most valuable use and helps the economy adapt to changing conditions. A competitive economy is a "complex, dynamic, evolutionary problem-solving system—more like an interdependent ecosystem than an efficient machine."
A "Better Way"
Ryan's plan recognizes that competition, choice and decentralized decision-making provide a "better way," in which agencies "pursue non-regulatory solutions when feasible," "write regulations only when necessary," defer to state and local governments, and "avoid creating barriers for new and small businesses."
We live in a diverse society made up of individuals in varied circumstances and with different preferences. Regulatory approaches at the national (or supernational) level that reduce competition, choice and feedback disrupt evolutionary processes, protect favored interests from challenge and make the economic ecosystem as a whole less able to adapt and innovate.


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sweikert925 replied to kimruger's topic in Registration Issues? Other Questions?In my experience there is no such thing here as automatic bank transfers between a US bank and a Costa RIcan one. You have to do that via wire transfer and there is a rather significant charge each time. Check with your US bank so see what their procedure is.
That is the way I am leaning, but since I don't have a house yet and haven't even sold my US home, I can't really budget for the solar until I have all the figures to do so. But even if solar is an add-on down the road it is pretty definite that I will do that.
It is my intention to make use of solar power either for heating water alone or potentially the whole house. Yes, I know it is less of a matter of economics to do so since the break even would be quite a long time. But ecology and sustainability are things I have strong opinions about. I've already gotten an estimate from one of the solar installation contractors here and will eventually get others.
Noted, and thanks for your thoughts. Can't do much about noisy monkeys I suppose, but pools can have heaters.
Not fond of them at all. As they are technically birds, my previous statement needs to be amended: ...and being out of earshot of any neighbors unless they are either a) birds* or b) monkeys. *except roosters
I have begun to look for a house to purchase and would welcome any leads. My area of interest is within 50 km of San Ramon. I would like a house of at least 2 br/2 ba with US style kitchen and secure parking. Also wanted is at least a half acre of land. Preferences include being reachable with minimal travel on dirt roads (<1 km), a pool, laundry room, pantry and being out of earshot of any neighbors unless they are either a) birds or b) monkeys.
Thanks induna and eleanor2. But if I won't have to pay a whopping sales tax for the cars listed on encuentra24.com then I'm a little puzzled at the prices I see there. To take one example. I see late model Toyota CRVs listed there for mostly in the $19,000 to $26,000 range - which is the same prices I see for those SUVs on Car Max in the US. I expected them to be nearly double the US price given the import duties levied. What am I missing? [I should mention that after going back and forth several times on this, I have finally decided to sell my 2013 Ford Escape and buy a car locally when I arrive rather than ship my car there. Yes, I know that some are firmly in the other camp on this question but I didn't want the additional hassle of importing a car and having it made CR roadworthy.]
A few questions on this topic: Are the prices I see listed on encuentra24.com before the 13% sales tax? (I assume so since the prices seem awfully reasonable given what I know about car prices in CR). Can anyone offer an estimate for the final price after all taxes and fees? Listed price plus 15%? plus 18%? (Yes, I know some haggling would be recommended to bring that price down). Can cars in CR that don't originate in the US be verified through Car Fax or is that only a resource for American originated cars? If so, is there any alternative means to check its history? Thanks.
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Is anyone familiar with this site?: https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/country_result.jsp?country=Costa+Rica And does anyone care to comment on whether the prices posted are in line with your own firsthand experience?
I can echo David's complaints about WLCR - I used to be a regular participant until Scott booted me off for complaining about the blatant anti-semitism that was directed at Ambassador Haney just after he took up his post in CR. Hi David!


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