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Compact HDBaseT Transmitter - HDMI over CAT5 - USB Powered - Up to 4K
Extend HDMI to an HDBaseT display or receiver over Cat5e or CAT6 cabling
Product ID: ST121HDBTD
- Installs easily and discreetly, with a compact transmitter that's USB powered and features a built-in HDMI cable
- Maintains astonishing picture quality up to 130 feet away, with support for UltraHD 4K over non-proprietary CAT5e or CAT6 cabling
- Ensures compatibility with your existing HDBaseT hardware, with HDCP compliance
- Also supports HD video resolutions such as 1920x1200 or 1080p up to 230 ft. away
- No software or drivers required with plug-and-play installation
- Dolby® TrueHD, DTS-HD MA Audio
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This compact transmitter uses HDBaseT™ technology to extend your HDMI® signal up to 230 feet (70 meters) over a single CAT5e or CAT6 cable, to an HDBaseT display, projector or receiver (sold separately). The transmitter supports Ultra HD and Full HD video resolutions (4K and 1080p), with support for the accompanying digital 7.1 audio.
Easy and discreet installation
For a simple and tidy installation, the HDBaseT transmitter features a small footprint and a built-in HDMI cable that connects directly to your video source, reducing clutter by eliminating the need for an HDMI cable at your local source. The transmitter is powered using USB, which means you can use a USB port on your source device to power the transmitter, which is perfect for extending from areas where power outlets may be limited.
Use your own HDBaseT display, projector or receiver
The compact transmitter works seamlessly with other HDBaseT equipment, such as HDBaseT displays, projectors, and receivers. The simplicity and versatility of this compact transmitter make it the ideal solution for transmitting an HDBaseT signal to a boardroom or classroom projector, enabling presenters in your office to quickly connect their laptop computer and share presentations or data sheets.
Seamless integration with your existing infrastructure
This transmitter extends HDMI and 7.1 surround sound over a single cable, unlike some HDMI extenders that require two cables and only offer minimal audio support. Extending HDMI with one cable reduces potential failure points while also lowering your cost in cabling.
Plus, because the HDBaseT transmitter uses standard network cables, it works with existing Ethernet infrastructures. This makes it the perfect solution for deploying digital signage in large buildings such as shopping centers, stadiums, schools or hospitals.
Astonishing 4K picture quality from an impressive distance
With high-quality HDMI cables beginning signal degradation at 30 feet, it can be difficult to maintain the brilliance of 4K video even at shorter distances. But with HDBaseT you'll be amazed at how your Ultra HD picture, four times the resolution of high-definition 1080p, is just as brilliant, even at distances up to 130 feet from your video source.
Even if you're not running 4K, HDBaseT supports High-Definition 1080p and lower resolutions at even greater distances, up to 230 feet from your source, giving you piece of mind to know that this extender will comfortably work with any HDMI video source and display.
What is HDBaseT?
HDBaseT is a standardized, zero-latency, video distribution technology that's revolutionizing HDMI distribution. HDBaseT uses an advanced method of modulation that enables you to distribute uncompressed HDMI audio and video along with additional signals, over a single Ethernet cable. Offering greater versatility than traditional HDMI extenders and longer distances than HDMI cables alone, HDBaseT is the clear choice for every integrator and system designer, because it can do so much, with just a single cable.
The ST121HDBTD is backed by a 2-year StarTech.com warranty and free lifetime technical support.
- Transmits your HDMI video signal from a secure location to a remote HDBaseT display, projector or receiver, in a convenient, customer-facing viewing area
- Turns your HDMI video source into an HDBaseT signal that can be used to create brilliant digital signage displays in hospitals, shopping centers or restaurants
- Replaces a defective HDBaseT transmitter in your existing HDBaseT infrastructure
Product Numbers
Exertis IE
Ingram IE
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Technical Specifications
|Warranty Information
|2 Years
|Cat 5e UTP or better
|Audio Specifications
|7.1 Surround Sound
|Max Distance
|70 m / 230 ft
|Maximum Cable Length
|0.1 m [0.2 ft]
|Maximum Digital Resolutions
|4096 x 2160 (4K) @ 30 Hz
|Wide Screen Supported
|Local Unit Connectors
|1 - HDMI (19 pin) Female Input
|1 - RJ-45 Female Output
|Power Source
|0% - 80 % RH (non-condensing)
|Operating Temperature
|0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)
|Storage Temperature
|-10°C to 60°C (14°F to 140°F)
|Physical Characteristics
|Product Height
|2.5 cm [1 in]
|Product Length
|31 cm [12.2 in]
|Product Width
|35 mm [1.4 in]
|Weight of Product
|108 g [3.8 oz]
|Packaging Information
|Package Height
|47 mm [1.9 in]
|Package Length
|15.6 cm [6.1 in]
|Package Width
|99 mm [3.9 in]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|0.2 kg [0.5 lb]
|What's in the Box
|Included in Package
|1 - HDMI transmitter
|1 - 4.3 ft. [1.3 m] USB cable for power
|1 - quick start guide
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Frequently Asked Questions
Before You Buy
If you need to use a video extender with a video adapter or converter, you should position the adapter or converter as close to the video source as possible. For example, if you need to take a VGA signal from a computer and send it 200 feet to an HDMI® projector, you should convert the signal from VGA to HDMI and use an HDMI extender.
Note: For more information on when to use cables or extenders, see the following FAQ: http://www.startech.com/faq/video_signal_converters_when_to_convert.
Yes, this video extender works with set-top boxes, provided the set-top box meets the following requirements:
- The set-top box must be High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) compliant.
- The set-top box must support devices being connected between the video source and display. If the set-top box requires a direct cable connection between the video source and display, it won't work with this video extender.
No, this device is designed to be a point-to-point solution using networking cabling only.
This device outputs HDMI video signals. If you have a display or video destination that uses another type of video connection, there are ways that you can convert the video signal or connection. These options are outlined below and organized by the target connection.
When you consider whether to convert an HDMI video signal to another connection type, it is important to know if the media that is being converted from the HDMI video connection is protected by High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). If the media is protected by HDCP, you cannot convert to analog video connections because they do not support HDCP. You may experience this issue when you use devices like Blu-ray players, DVD players, and certain gaming consoles.
|Target connection
|HDMI to VGA: https://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/?filter_AVINPUT=HDMI&filter_AVOUTPUT=VGA.
HDMI to DVI: https://www.startech.com/Cables/Audio-Video/HDMI/HDMI-to-DVI/.
|HDMI to DisplayPort: https://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/?filter_AVINPUT=HDMI&filter_AVOUTPUT=DisplayPort.
There are a few things you'll want to take care of before you deploy your new video extender in your setup.
It's important to make sure you have everything you will need ahead of time. These items are listed below.
- Transmitter
- Receiver
- Video source
- Display
- Video cables
- (Optional) Ethernet or fiber cables
- (Optional) Power adapter(s)
It's also important to test everything in a simplified setup ahead of time to make sure everything works and that you understand how it works.
In order to set up your video extender, complete the following:
- Position your video transmitter near your video source.
- Connect the video output from your video source to the video transmitter.
- (Optional) Connect the power adapter to the video transmitter.
Note: Not all video extenders require external power, or require external power on both ends. Refer to the manual for more information.
- Position your video receiver near your display.
- Connect the video output from your video receiver to your display.
- (Optional) Connect the power adapter to the video receiver.
- If using a wired video extender, connect your network cabling between the video transmitter and the video receiver.
- (Optional) If you are extending anything else supported by your video extender connect those devices to the transmitter and receiver.
- (Optional) If you are using a wireless extender, there may be a sync button you need to press to pair the transmitter and receiver.
Now that you have set up your video extender, you can check that everything is working. You should be able to see your video source's output on the display connected to the video receiver.
If at this point you have further questions regarding a Startech.com video extender, contact our technical support team for further assistance.
To get the highest quality signal from your source to your display when you use an HDMI extender, do the following:
Make sure that the HDMI versions of the source, extender, and destination are compatible. For example, if you require 3D support, make sure that all of the devices can support 3D over HDMI.
Use the least amount of adapters, splitters, or converters as possible. Each device that you use in your setup creates additional points of potential failure and creates more steps for an HDCP key to hop through, which may cause issues with older displays. For more information on HDCP, refer to the following FAQ: http://www.startech.com/faq/video_signal_converters_HDCP.
Use an HDMI extender that exceeds the requirements of the setup. For example, if you need to extend the signal 200 feet, it is best to use an extender capable of more than 200 feet.
Make sure that all of the CAT 5/6 runs are as straight as possible, with the least amount of coiling.
Make sure that all of the patches, wall jacks, and cables use the highest possible CAT specification, (for example, CAT 6), and were tested to conform to the standard.
Use patches, wall jacks, and cables with the same pin configuration. For more information on T568A versus T568B wiring, refer to the following FAQ: http://www.startech.com/faq/network_cables_a_vs_b_pinout.
Keep the cabling away from sources of high noise.
Make sure that you use adequate electrical grounding in your setup.
- The power adapter may not be connected at the correct unit or may not be connected at all. Please check your product manual to see where your power adapter has to be positioned.
- An adapter to another video signal may be connected to the Transmitter or Receiver unit. Please avoid any converters for the initial setup.
- The Cat 5 or 6 cable coming from the transmitter or receiver unit may be connected to a network switch. Some of our video extenders will work in this configuration, but others will not. Please check your product manual to see if your model can be used connected to an IP network. For the initial setup, avoid connecting the Cat 5 or 6 cables to any network switch, hub, or router.
- The category of Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cables may not meet StarTech.com's requirements. Ensure at least Cat 5, 5e, or six cables are used, and they have eight wires. Some Cat 5 cables only have four wires. If using Cat 6 cables, be aware they have more twists per foot, so you may have to use shorter cable lengths if using Cat 6 cabling between your video extenders.
- Bundling up the UTP cabling connected to the extenders can cause crosstalk, which will prevent the video signal from showing on the display. Unwrapping the cable should resolve this issue.
- Please check to see if your model has an adjustable Gain dial on the remote unit.
- If it does, use it to adjust the color until it is acceptable.
- Replace the VGA cable with a higher quality cable like StarTech.com's MXT101MMHQ.
When you troubleshoot issues with a video extender, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:
Video and Ethernet cables
Video extender
Video source (such as a DVD player or computer)
Video destination (such as a monitor or projector)
Note: When you are testing setup components, you should avoid using video adapters. For example, if you are converting a VGA source to HDMI for use with an HDMI extender, you should use an HDMI source when you test the components.
To test your setup components, try the following:
Use the cable, video extender, video source, and video destination in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.
Use a different cable, video extender, video source, and video destination in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.
When you test your cables, it is recommended that you do the following:
Test each cable individually.
Use short cables when you are testing.
When you test the video source and video destination, it is recommended that you do the following:
Remove the video extender from your setup and test to make sure that the video source and video destination work together without the video extender.
Test to make sure that the video source and video destination work together at the resolution that you want to use.
Note: In order for your setup to work properly, the video source, extender, and destination all need to support the resolution that you are using.
This device supports up to 4Kx2K resolutions @30 Hz with a color depth of 8 bits. If you are running a 4K resolution at a refresh rate higher than 30 Hz or a color depth higher than 8 bits, your display will appear blank.
To resolve this issue, you need to lower the resolution, refresh rate, or color depth, by completing any of the following:
- Connect a display to OUT 1 that is only capable of 4K at 30 Hz with a color depth no higher than 8 bits.
- Connect the least capable display to OUT 1.
- Connect an additional display to your video source (for example, a video card in a computer) and use this display to reconfigure the display connected to OUT 1 to run at 30 Hz and 8 bits color depth (or lower).
Compliance and Safety
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Safety Measures
- If product has an exposed circuit board, do not touch the product under power.
- If Class 1 Laser Product. Laser radiation is present when the system is open.
- Wiring terminations should not be made with the product and/or electric lines under power.
- Product installation and/or mounting should be completed by a certified professional as per the local safety and building code guidelines.
- Cables (including power and charging cables) should be placed and routed to avoid creating electric, tripping or safety hazards.
* Product appearance and specifications are subject to change without notice.


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One might not think of tofu as a processed food, but it seems to follow the definition found here:
Food processing is any deliberate change in a food that occurs before it's available for us to eat.
Is tofu considered a processed food? If so, in the 'continuum' chart, which would tofu fall under?

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Richard Whittall:
The Globalist's Top Ten Books in 2016: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
Middle East Eye: "The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer is one of the weightiest, most revelatory, original and important books written about sport""The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer has helped me immensely with great information and perspective."
Bob Bradley, former US and Egyptian national coach: "James Dorsey's The Turbulent World of Middle Eastern Soccer (has) become a reference point for those seeking the latest information as well as looking at the broader picture."
Alon Raab in The International Journal of the History of Sport: "Dorsey's blog is a goldmine of information."
Play the Game: "Your expertise is clearly superior when it comes to Middle Eastern soccer."
Andrew Das, The New York Times soccer blog Goal: "No one is better at this kind of work than James Dorsey"David Zirin, Sports Illustrated: "Essential Reading"
Change FIFA: "A fantastic new blog'Richard Whitall of A More Splendid Life:"James combines his intimate knowledge of the region with a great passion for soccer"Christopher Ahl, Play the Game: "An excellent Middle East Football blog"James Corbett, Inside World Football
Friday, September 15, 2017
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Shure ULXD24/SM87A ULX-D-Digital Handheld Wireless System
Shure ULX-D™ Digital Wireless offers uncompromising audio clarity and extremely efficient RF performance with rugged, intelligent, encryption-enabled hardware. Advanced rechargeability options eliminate the need for disposable batteries while extending usage times and life cycle.
Generations ahead of any other available system in its class, ULX-D Digital brings a new level of performance to professional sound reinforcement.


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Our view: Improve Utica by changing the mindset
AT ISSUE: No room in Cornell plan for Debbie Downer and Gloomy Gus
Yet for a good half-century, too many Uticans have wallowed in negativity, repeating like a mantra a series of truths, half-truths and mistruths that remain detrimental to the city's image. You've heard them all. It was a mob town. . . .
Who has a fixation on Utica's mob past? Certainly not the people living in Utica, most of whom were not even born when those things happened. Certainly not the new immigrants . . . Oh, I know . . . It is the local newspaper that periodically dredges up 50-year-old mob stories on the thinnest pretext . . .
Cities that have barely half their former population need to downsize — getting rid of empty but once-beloved eyesores and corralling growth and commerce into areas where services are easy to provide.If mean that, OD, then lets bulldoze Sangertown Mall which is showing signs of age and "corral" retail back into Utica where the services have always been easy to provide. And lets bulldoze that arterial too . . . That way we could "corral" Uticans into shopping in their own city. But, of course, you don't mean that, OD . . . That would require your suburban friends to give up some things.
Just how does the OD expect Utica to pay for the corralling? And what about the infrastructure already in place? Should we throw it away (while extending more infrastructure into New Hartford)? And what about the loss to Utica's tax base that will occur? Is New Hartford offering to make up for the lost tax base? The OD would have Utica dig its own grave before forcing it to jump in and burying it.
When your family grows and relocates, it's still family. Until we embrace a more regional attitude, we'll continue to sputter in our own little corners.Why is every OD directive to Utica coupled with a "regional attitude" theme?
Utica has done more than embrace the regional attitude. It ponied up with money and assets. It gave the suburbs its water system, its sewer system, and paid half the acquisition costs of land for the road that gets people there. Utica residents in their water and sewer rates still subsidize the cost of the extra miles of water and sewer pipes needed to transport water and wastewater to and from the suburbs because the authorities insist that everyone must pay the same rates. Uticans even pay to pump water uphill to allow development on the hills in New Hartford ... but New Hartfordans don't pay more. Why is that? Uticans paid for half of the study to solve the sewer consent order problem -- a problem created by suburban development -- and will pay for a quarter of the 180 million dollar solution.
For years and years, well-heeled people who could well afford to pay Utica taxes took advantage of Utica's offerings but escaped paying by moving across the municipal line. That forced the fewer people left behind to pay more -- and made Utica less affordable to newcomers. If we really are a "family," then the spoiled bratty suburban kids need to grow up and stop hitting grandma up for more while she lies on her deathbed. The suburbs need to share what they have.
A Regional Attitude is NOT lacking in Utica. It's lacking in the suburbs. . . . and in the editorial board of the Observer-Dispatch.


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It's all fun and games until a bunch of dudes celebrating their La Liga title on a plane take it one step too far. Specifically, hitting the wall of said plane so hard that a panel near the emergency exit falls off. Even more specifically, when the person doing the hitting is Lionel Messi of F.C. Barcelona, and said punchy behavior, which earned him a lecture from the pilot and flight crew, is caught on film.
No word if Lithgow's wing-gremlin gained entry.
Messi told off for hitting airplane emergency exit door (with video) [Sport Post]


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Collector's EditionPhotographs by Richard Mosse
Availability: Limited quantities
This is a special collector's edition of Richard Mosse's first monograph Infra. It features a specially designed cloth cover and is limited to a print run of 500 copies.
Infra, Richard Mosse's first book, offers a radical rethinking of how to depict a conflict as complex and intractable as the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mosse depicts the rich topography, inscribed with the traces of conflicting interests, as well as rebel groups of constantly shifting allegiances at war with the Congolese national army (itself a patchwork of recently integrated warlords and their militias). For centuries, the Congo has repeatedly compelled and defied the Western imagination. Mosse brings to this subject the use of a type of color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Originally developed for military reconnaissance and now discontinued, it registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink. The results offer a fevered inflation of traditional reportage, underlining the growing tension between art, fiction, and photojournalism. Mosse's work highlights the ineffable nature of current events in today's Congo. Infra's photographic dialogue begins as an intoxicating meditation on a broken genre, but ends as a haunting elegy for a vividly beautiful land touched by unspeakable tragedy.
Richard Mosse (born in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1980) holds an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art, and additional degrees from Goldsmiths, London; King's College London, and the London Consortium. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including at the Palais de Tokyo and the Tate Modern. In 2011, Mosse was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, with a supplemental stipend from the Leon Levy Foundation. Mosse is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery.
Adam Hochschild (essay) is the author of numerous books, including King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918. Among his many honors is the Theodore Roosevelt–Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Historical Association in 2009. Hochschild teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Bob Dylan's Debut Album Turns 50 Years Old
Fifty years ago today (March 19, 1962), the self-titled debut album from Bob Dylan was released. The world was certainly a very different place in 1962 than it is in 2012.
The humble rumble of of one man with one guitar and one harmonica was not standard fair for pop music fans. Even 'folk' music was more about The Kingston Trio, clean-cut boys singing harmonies on traditional compositions, than it was Woody Guthrie to most.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, comes this scruffy young man, armed with his simple artillery, a knowing smile, and a million ideas waiting to get out. The seeds sown with this simple yet striking collection of songs, would forever change the music world…eventually.
The simplicity of 'Bob Dylan' is something to behold. It's as raw, uncomplicated and as uncompromising as any blues or country records that came before it. That stark reality of sound with nowhere to hide. The voice, guitar and harp come at you with no pretense or garnishment, like a hammer to the head, while Dylan tries so hard to sound older than the (almost) 21 year old he was.
Dylan puts on a playful and sincere performance throughout, partly playing a role and partly trying to find his own identity. The ragged 'Highway 51′ or the haunting Blind Lemon Jefferson song 'See That My Grave Is Kept Clean' are bold first steps for someone barely out of his teens.
Most of the songs within were not part of his live repertoire at the time, but rather songs he'd learned from others on the folk circuit, such as Dave Van Ronk's arrangement of 'House Of The Rising Sun.' Simply put, songs he thought would work in the context of his first outing.
In the 2005 documentary 'No Direction Home,' Dylan said of his first album "The mystery of being in a recording studio did something to me and those were the songs that came out," later adding he thought he had "recorded the wrong songs."
In fact, the album only contains two Dylan original compositions, 'Talkin New York' and 'Song To Woody,' with the remaining eleven songs being traditional folk standards, albeit with his identifiable stamp on them. Songs like 'Baby Let Me Follow You Down,' 'In My Time Of Dyin,' and "Fixin To Die' became his own.
Within a year, 'Blowin' In The Wind' would establish him as one of the most important songwriters around and within three years, he would issue his first full on rock and roll recording and ultimately turn the music world upside down, influencing countless artists along the way.
The immortal bard of rock and roll would go on to make grander statements, albums that still have no equal, but this is where it all began…fifty years ago. Ripples are still rolling on the water this stone was thrown into. Half a century on, dig it!


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'Katherine, you are fired. But we still need you to work tomorrow, OK?"
Ostensibly ridiculous. Why would any employer want a person who was just fired to continue working? Well, let me explain.
The law requires employers to provide notice to dismissed employees who are fired without legal cause. Almost invariably, employers provide severance instead. Few know that employers also have the option of offering working notice. An employee given working notice is required to do just that - continue working through the notice period that the employer provides. For every day worked, the employee is entitled to one less day's financial compensation.
The pitfalls of having an employee continue working are obvious - workplace sabotage, breach of confidentiality, disparaging comments to their co-workers, lackluster performance and low morale, to name several. Working notice is especially ripe for disaster where the relationship is acrimonious and the employee bitter. Allowing an employee in a highly sensitive position to have continued access to confidential information, business secrets, or company property is obviously imprudent.
But, that said, working notice has its advantages.
- Working notice provides an employer more bang for its buck since it avoids a large lump-sum payout and still gets work performed for its money. This is particularly appropriate if the relationship ended amicably or the employee is not in a position to cause harm. Employers can take solace in the fact that employees on working notice remain subject to the same workplace policies and standards as others. Just because Katherine is being terminated does not mean that her employer must accept dismal performance or workplace misconduct while she works out her notice.
- Offering working notice can be an effective litigation strategy. Employees seeking damages for wrongful dismissal must mitigate their losses by seeking suitable alternative employment. By offering working notice, Katherine's employer has arguably offered her the perfect mitigation - what alternative employment could be more suitable than one's own job? Employees who reject working notice in hopes of a big payout may be sorely disappointed when their wrongful dismissal damages are eliminated or slashed for rejecting their employer's reasonable offer to mitigate. The Supreme Court of Canada came to just that conclusion in the Evans vs Teamsters decision.
- Providing working notice can avoid the draconian financial consequences of being on the hook for a terminated employee's long-term disability (LTD) benefits. Employees are generally entitled to a severance payment equivalent to the salary and benefits they would have received if they had continued working during the notice period. However, many insurance companies require employees to be actively employed to remain covered under their LTD policies. Since terminated employees can't remain on their employer's LTD plan, calamity results when an employee provided a cash payout becomes disabled during the notice period - Katherine would be entitled to LTD benefits but is no longer insured. This very situation recently played out when Canac Kitchens was ordered to pay an employee the equivalent of LTD benefits to the age of 65 after he developed cancer during the notice period.
Employers can avoid this risk by offering working notice, thereby securing the employee's continued LTD coverage. Working notice is especially prudent when an employer knows or suspects an employee to have health issues at the time of termination.
So while working notice is certainly not always recommended - and sometimes just plain reckless - it can be used strategically to stave off litigation and save money. Maybe putting up with Katherine for a few more months isn't so bad after all.
Howard Levitt is senior partner of Levitt LLP, employment and labour lawyers. He practises employment law in eight provinces and is author of The Law of Hiring in Canada.


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How to recycle shares a few recycled craft ideas from your old jeans and have a hundred patience to make home decors with old jeans labels. Very inspiring and eco-friendly, an amazing way to add to your house interior decoration. Transforming denims jeans and label into impressive, stylish carpets and furnitures.
Nature at it's Best
Recycled Scrap Metal Sculptures
Recycled Waste by Making the Best Compost
Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment. Compost is a key ingredient in organic farming. At the simplest level, the process of composting simply requires making a heap of wetted organic matter (leaves, "green" food waste) and waiting for the materials to break down into humus after a period of weeks or months. Always aim for a balance of 50% greens and 50% browns in your compost bin to get the right mix. Here are some tips in making the best compost.
Perfect Compost
50% GREENS (Quick to rot)
Provide Important Nitrogen and Moisture.
Animal manure with straw
Annual weeds
Brussels sprout stalk
Carrot tops
Citrus peel
Coffee grounds
Comfrey leaves
Cut flowers
Deadly Nightshade
Fruit peelings and pulp
Fruit seeds
Grass mowings
Hedge clippings
House plants
Ivy leaves
Old bedding plants
Perennial weeds
Poisonous plants
Rhubarb leaves
Soft prunings and plant debris
Tea leaves and bags
Vegetable peelings and pulp
50% BROWNS (Slower to rot)
Provide Carbon & Fibre and Allow Air Pockets to Form.
Autumn leaves
Christmas tree
Corn starch liners
Cotton towels
Cotton wool
Egg boxes
Egg shells
Evergreen prunings
Natural corks
Paper bags
Sweetcorn cobs
Thorny prunings
Tomato plants
Used kitchen paper
Vacuum cleaner contents
Wood ash
Keep this out!
Things You Should Never Include.
Cat litter
Cigarette ends
Cling film
Coal ash
Crisp packets
Dairy products
Disposable nappies
Dog faeces
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Thursday, January 12, 2017
"Crow's Theology" - Ted Hughes
Crow realized God loved him-
Otherwise, he would have dropped dead.
So that was proved.
Crow reclined, marvelling, on his heart-beat.
And he realized that God spoke Crow-
Just existing was His revelation.
But what Loved the stones and spoke stone?
They seemed to exist too.
And what spoke that strange silence
After his clamour of caws faded?
And what loved the shot-pellets
That dribbled from those strung-up mummifying crows?
What spoke the silence of lead?
Crow realized there were two Gods-
One of them much bigger than the other
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Two links related to me for you this evening:
* John C. Wright talks about Old Man's War and the New Comprehensibility, but rather more importantly, he launches his own new science fiction movement: The New Space Princess Movement:
The literary movement will follow two basic principles: first, science fiction stories should have space-princesses in them who are absurdly good looking. Second, The space princesses must be half-clad (if you are a pessimist. The optimist sees the space princess as half-naked). Third, dinosaurs are also way cool, as are ninjas. Dinosaur ninjas are best of all.
I have nothing bad to say about this proposed new literary movement.
In discussing OMW, incidentally, Wright brings up a small objection about recreational sex in a co-ed military (i.e., that it's shown not having any effect on unit cohesion and etc); this isn't the first time the topic has been mentioned. It's an interesting topic, although I would note that strictly speaking the issue of sex in the regular CDF ranks is not touched on at all; everybody screws around in the book in the interim period between getting their new bodies and starting basic training. Once they start training and fighting, sex exits the book. To be honest, I don't know what the rules and regs about sex in the regular CDF are once the recruits are formally inducted; I didn't think about it at the time. My assumption is that it's "don't screw around with your platoonmates." The Special Forces, of course, would have an entirely different set of rules, as discussed in The Ghost Brigades.
* Here's an interesting essay on Old Man's War from author Gabriel McKee, which takes the book to task for its level of militarism, which McKee finds "morally reprehensible":
Scalzi's characters universally take glee in fighting. I hoped that someone, somewhere in this book would feel a pang of conscience about their army's xenocidal imperialism. The narrator eventually does express some guilt in one scene about two thirds in. While slaughtering a species of aliens that literally can't fight back (they're under an inch tall), he begins to worry that military life has turned him into a soulless killing machine. His superior officers laugh off his concerns, and his guilt lasts all of nine pages, after which the character just gets over it and goes back to following orders. It's a shame, too—if the book would have been far more enjoyable for me if it had brought some moral complexity to its wanton destruction.
Naturally, I don't think the book is as morally reprehensible as McKee does; in particular I would dispute that the majority of the characters take glee in fighting (indeed, one of the characters who clearly does meets a sticky ending). But I think it's an interesting take on the book, and I think a discussion regarding the morality of the OMW universe and characters is worth having, even if I don't agree with the McKee's characterization of the events in the book or the conclusions McKee comes to. Check it out for yourself and see what you think.


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There are preloaded applications which update based on frequency settings, such as Weather and Peep. These applications have a settings menu that typically can be accessed by using the Menu button while you are in the application. In the settings menu there is an item called Update Schedule
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When you sign up for the Google Market or Gmail with your Gmail account information, you are also signed in to the Google Talk instant messaging application. The Talk application tracks the presence of your Google Talk contacts in order to let you know who is available to instant message. Each presence change uses power, even if you do not have the Talk application open.
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text: J.A.A. Purves Report post Posted May 21, 2011 Some Preliminaries: I kept noticing over the last week or so that some rather unfortunate things were being said in other threads about the Biblical doctrine of Inerrancy. I'm collecting these unfortunate remarks together and will respond to them here in order to encourage more conversation on the topic. However, I've also learned in past discussions not to take anything for granted, so adding to excerpts of Pope Pius XII provided by SDG, and of Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, Jerome, Augustine, & St. Gregory provided by Ryan H., here's some other thinkers to help lay the groundwork for this discussion. I consider this stuff elementary, but might as well begin with it. RC Sproul - A contradiction is a statement that violates the classical law of noncontradiction. The law of noncontradiction declares that A cannot be A and non-A at the same time and in the same respect. That is, something cannot be what it is and not be what it is at the same time and in the same respect. This is the most fundamental of all the laws of logic. No one can understand a contradiction because a contradiction is inherently unintelligible. Not even God can understand contradictions. But He can certainly recognize them for what they are - falsehoods. The word contradiction comes from the Latin "to speak against." It is sometimes called an antinomy, which means "against law." For God to speak in contradictions would be for Him to be intellectually lawless, to speak with a forked tongue. It is a great insult and unconscionable blasphemy to even suggest that the Author of truth would ever speak in contradictions. Contradiction is the tool of the one who lies - the father of lies who despises the truth. There is a relationship between mystery and contradiction that easily reduces us to confusing the two. We do not understand mysteries. We cannot understand contradictions. The point of contact between the two concepts is their unintelligible character. Mysteries may not be clear to us now simply because we lack the information or the perspective to understand them. The Bible promises further light in heaven on mysteries we are unable to understand now. Further light may resolve present mysteries. However, there is not enough light in heaven and earth to ever resolve a clear-cut contradiction. Summary: 1. Paradox is an apparent contradiction that under closer scrutiny yields resolution. 2. Mystery is something unknown to us now, but which may be resolved. 3. Contradiction is a violation of the law of noncontradiction. It is impossible to resolve, either by mortals or God, either in this world or the next ... The Bible is called the Word of God because of its claim, believed by the church, that the human writers did not merely write their own opinions, but that their words were inspired by God. The apostle Paul writes: "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God" (2 Timothy 3:16). The word inspiration is a translation from the Greek word meaning "God-breathed." God breathed out the Bible. Just as we must expel breath from our mouths when we speak, so ultimately Scripture is God speaking ... Christians affirm the infallibility and inerrancy of the Bible because God is ultimately the author of the Bible. And because God is incapable of inspiring falsehood, His word is altogether true and trustworthy. Any normally prepared human literary product is liable to error. But the Bible is not a normal human project. If the Bible is inspired and superintended by God, then it cannot err. Isaac Watts - Propositions are next to be considered according to their sense and signification, and thus they are distributed into true or false. A true proposition represents things as they are in themselves; but if things are represented otherwise than they are in themselves, the proposition is false ... Note, It is impossible that the same proposition should be both true and false at the same time, in the same sense, and in the same respect; because a proposition is but the representation of the agreement or disagreement of things; now it is impossible that the same thing should be and not be, or that the same thing should agree and not agree at the same time and in the same respect. This is the first principle of human knowledge. Yet some propositions may seem to contradict one another, though they may be both true, but in different senses or respects, or times: as, man was immortal in paradise. But these two propositions must be referred to different times; as, man before his fall was immortal, but at the fall became mortal. So we may say now, man is mortal, or man is immortal, if we take these propositions in different respects; as, man is an immortal creature as to his soul, but mortal as to his body. A great variety of difficulties and seeming contradictions, both in Holy Scripture and other writings, may be solved and explained in this manner. C.S. Lewis - It is common enough, in argument with an unbeliever, to be told that God, if He existed and were good, would do this or that; and then, if we point out that the proposed action is impossible, to be met with the retort, "But I thought God was supposed to be able to do anything." This raises the whole question of impossibility. In ordinary usage the word impossible generally implies a suppressed clause beginning with the word unless. Thus it is impossible for me to see the street from where I sit writing at this moment; that is, it is impossible to see the street unless I go up to the top floor where I shall be high enough to overlook the intervening building. If I had broken my leg I should say "But it is impossible to go up to the top floor" - meaning, however, that it is impossible unless some friends turn up who will carry me. Now let us advance to a different plane of impossibility, by saying "It is, at any rate, impossible to see the street so long as I remain where I am and the intervening building remains where it is." Someone might add "unless the nature of space, or of vision, were different from what it is." I do not know what the best philosophers and scientists would say to this, but I should have to reply "I don't know whether space and vision could possibly have been of such a nature as you suggest." Now it is clear that the words could possibly here refer to some absolute kind of possibility and impossibilities we have been considering. I cannot say whether seeing round corners is, in this new sense, possible or not, because I do not know whether it is self-contradictory or not. But I know very well that if it is self-contradictory it is absolutely impossible. The absolutely impossible may also be called the intrinsically impossible because it carries its impossibility within itself, instead of borrowing it from other impossibilities which in their turn depend upon others. It has no unless clause attached to it. It is impossible under all conditions and in all worlds and for all agents. "All agents" here includes God Himself. His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. This is no limit to His power. If you choose to say "God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it," you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words "God can." It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God. Wayne Grudem - ... the Bible clearly teaches that God cannot lie or speak falsely (2 Sam. 7:28; Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18). Therefore, all the words in Scripture are claimed to be completely true and without error in any part (Num. 23:19; Pss. 12:6; 119:89, 96; Prov. 30:5; Matt. 24:35). God's words are, in fact, the ultimate standard of truth (John 17:17). Especially relevant at this point are those Scripture texts that indicate the total truthfulness and reliability of God's words. "The words of the LORD are words that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times" (Ps. 12:6, author's translation), indicates the absolute reliability and purity of Scripture. Similarly, "Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him" (Prov. 30:5), indicates the truthfulness of every word that God has spoken. Though error and at least partial falsehood may characterize the speech of every human being, it is the characteristic of God's speech even when spoken through sinful human beings that it is never false and that it never affirms error: "God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should repent" (Num. 23:19) was spoken by sinful Balaam specifically about the prophetic words that God had spoken through his lips. With evidence such as this we are now in a position to define biblical inerrancy: The inerrancy of Scripture means that Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact. This definition focuses on the question of truthfulness and falsehood in the language of Scripture. The definition in simple terms just means that the Bible always tells the truth, and that it always tells the truth concerning everything it talks about. This definition does not mean that the Bible tells us every fact there is to know about any one subject, but it affirms that what it does say about any subject is true. It is important to realize at the outset of this discussion that the focus of this controversy is on the question of truthfulness in speech. It must be recognized that absolute truthfulness in speech is consistent with some other types of statements, such as the following: 1. The Bible Can Be Inerrant and Still Speak in the Ordinary Language of Everyday Speech ... 2. The Bible Can Be Inerrant and Still Include Loose or Free Quotations ... 3. It is Consistent With Inerrancy to Have Unusual or Uncommon Grammatical Constructions in the Bible ... Robert L. Thomas - A mark of hermeneutical change in the 1970s was the first appearance of evangelical commentaries on the Synoptic Gospels that freely advocated the use of historical-critical methods of analysis. Those commentaries illustrate a drastic change in hermeneutical method among evangelicals that began during that decade. In 1978 the International Council of Biblical Inerrancy was convened to deal with such issues. Evangelicals saw that they must define biblical inerrancy more precisely. The council issued its statement on biblical inerrancy, but postponed its specific findings on hermeneutics until a future meeting. Rather than define evangelical hermeneutics more carefully at this second meeting in 1982, the theologians' discussions initiated more confusion about biblical interpretation than had exited before. One reason for the hermeneutical turbulence was publication of Anthony C. Thiselton's The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description with Special Reference to Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein ... Thiselton transformed the search for propositional truth into a search for subjective human bias. From the 1960s, home Bible studies had pooled the ignorance of untrained Christians as each participant shared "what the passage means to me." That sort of approach was not to be the basis for discussions at meetings of evangelical theologians ... Henry A. Virkler & Karelynne Gerber Ayayo - In the study of Scripture, the task of the exegete is to determine as closely as possible what God meant in a particular passage, rather than "what it means to me." By accepting the view that the meaning of a text is what it means to me, God's Word can have as many meanings as it does readers. Such a position provides no basis for concluding that an orthodox interpretation of a passage is more valid than a heretical one: indeed, the distinction between orthodox and heretical interpretations is no longer meaningful ... If Jesus Christ is, in fact, the Son of God, then his attitude toward Scripture will provide the best answer to the question of inerrancy. A full discussion can be found in John W. Wenham's Christ and the Bible. Several points are summarized here. First, Jesus consistently treated the historical narratives of the Old Testament as straightforward records of fact ... Second, Jesus often chose as the basis of his teaching those very stories that most modern critics find unacceptable ... Third, Jesus consistently adduced the Old Testament Scriptures as the authoritative court of appeal in his controversies with the scribes and the Pharisees ... Fourth, Jesus taught that nothing could pass from the law until all had been fulfilled (Matt. 5:17-20) and that Scripture could not be broken (John 10:35). Finally, Jesus used Scripture in his rebuttal to each of Satan's temptations ... Jesus does not seem to have made any distinction between the validity and accuracy of revelatory versus nonrevelatory (historical, incidental) matters. His attitude, as recorded in the Gospels, seems to be an unquestioning acceptance. Harold Lindsell points out that even liberal and neoorthodox scholars, who themselves deny biblical inerrancy, agree that Jesus viewed the Scriptures as infallible ... St. Thomas Aquinas - Therefore that first signification whereby words signify things belongs to the first sense, the historical or literal. That signification whereby things signified by words have themselves also a signification is called the spiritual sense, which is based on the literal, and presupposes it ... The multiplicity of these senses does not produce equivocation or any other kind of multiplicity, seeing that these senses are not multiplied because one word signifies several things, but because the things signified by the words can be themselves types of other things. Thus in Holy Writ no confusion results, for all the senses are founded on one—-the literal—-from which alone can any argument be drawn, and not from those intended in allegory, as Augustine says (Epis.48). Nevertheless, nothing of Holy Scripture perishes on account of this, since nothing necessary to faith is contained under the spiritual sense which is not elsewhere put forward by the Scripture in its literal sense ... The parabolical sense is contained in the literal, for by words things are signified properly and figuratively. Nor is the figure itself, but that which is figured, the literal sense. When Scripture speaks of God's arm, the literal sense is not that God has such a member, but only what is signified by this member, namely operative power. Hence it is plain that nothing false can ever underlie the literal sense of Holy Writ. Quote Redemptio Sehnsucht. Cincinnatus's Ploughshare. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The image of Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, has received a further boost with the successful recent completion of renewing its IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) Registration. Oman Air has successfully passed the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) and renewed its registration as IOSA Operator. The renewal is an outcome of the IOSA audit the Airline underwent on September 2006, whereby the Carrier remains among the airlines, which reached this internationally recognized standard, after a thorough evaluation in all areas of Operations, Safety, and Security. Oman Air achieved the distinction of being the 24th airline worldwide, and the 3rd in the Arab world to be registered with IOSA (www.iata.org/registry).This itself is a matter of pride for Oman Air's management and staff, and is particularly creditable considering the fact that IATA represents some 250 airlines comprising 94% of the international scheduled air traffic.
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Eng, Talal bin Yahya al Riyamy Head of Quality and Safety Department - Oman Air said, "Safety is Oman Air's number one priority, and IATA is a quality association that has set the bar high to ensure that our membership represents best practice in safety. IATA accredited Audit Organizations perform the audits with specially trained auditors and according to internationally recognized procedures. The audit was carried out over a one-week period by an internationally recognised, quality-based, audit principled team of six auditors from Wake QA - an IATA-accredited IOSA audit organisation in the UK. The procedures comprise a checklist with 739 standards, split in eight sections, covering the areas of Corporate Organization & Management, Flight Operations, Operational Control & Flight Dispatch, Aircraft Engineering & Maintenance, Cabin Operations, Aircraft Ground Handling, Cargo Operations, and Operational Security. The objective of the IOSA audit (IATA Operational Safety Audit) is to reach an internationally recognized and comparable standard in operation and safety management. The mutual recognition of IOSA audits prevents that for a codeshare partnership each airline has to audit their partner."
He added saying that IATA developed IOSA audits and determine the standards for safety and quality. The programme aims to se and promote air safety practices and is recognised by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), JAA, and other aviation authorities around the world. All new members of the association will be required to pass IOSA before they join. Moreover, all existing members must contract for an IOSA audit by the end of 2006 and complete an audit by the end of 2007 to retain membership. This award is a testament to the commitment of every Oman Air employee toward upholding and maintaining excellent safety and quality standards. This significant milestone was a result of Oman Air's strong and continuous commitment to the highest levels of international safety and quality standards set by IATA in all fields of aviation.
Corporate Communications and Media Department in Oman Air clarified that IOSA was launched in 2003 as the industry's first global standard for airline safety management. Inherent in the IOSA Programme is a degree of quality, integrity and security such that mutually interested airlines and regulators can all comfortably accept IOSA audit reports. The standards incorporate many requirements from ICAO, FAA, and JAA, as well as best practices from airline audit programmes in existence already. By 2007, all IATA Members will need to have successfully undergone the IOSA audit in order to achieve or maintain IATA Membership. IOSA registration lasts for two years, at which time a recurrent audit is required to ensure ongoing compliance with IATA standards.


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Jewelry Design Focus: Pitch Black Ring
A Good Jewelry design example, the Pitch Black is a creative Ring design. Pitch Black was designed in 2011, and here is a how it is described by its designer: The Pitch Black is an organic ring design that is both elegant and comfortable.
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16 February, 2012 – Jakarta, Indonesia
The OECD-Indonesia Policy Dialogue was launched with a comparative background paper on disclosure of beneficial ownership in several jurisdictions and a consultative meeting on 5 October 2011.
This workshop provided a range of legislative and regulatory options for policy makers and regulators in Indonesia seeking to improve the disclosure of beneficial ownership and control. The trade-off between the costs and benefits of stringent disclosure rules is particularly important in order to understand the policy options available to Indonesian policy makers and regulators. This is critical to enhancing their capacity to monitor related party transactions and conflicts of interest. The discussion focused on key issues of design and did not attempt to set out a detailed blueprint for a disclosure regime; this will be up to Indonesia to decide, specifically.
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It's the year 1930 and Ethel is sitting at the kitchen table of her best friend, Lucy. It's their morning ritual, they always start their day visiting over a steaming cup of Lucy's amazing coffee while feasting on a big plate of Ethel's homemade biscuits.
This morning is different, though. Ethel has some news, some really big news! This news is so big she's thinking if she doesn't get it out right now, she's going to bust!
Lucy, knows something is up, she's never seen Ethel so fidgety, so talkative. Not able to stand it another minute, she asks, "Ethel, what is going on? You're hiding something, something big! C'mon! Spill the beans!"
Unable to contain her excitement any longer, Ethel blurts out, "We did it! We ordered our home last night, right from the Sears catalog! We're getting, The Lexington!"
It wasn't just the kids pouring over those Sears catalogs back in the day! From 1908 to 1940, you could order a home from Sears, Roebuck and Company through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Sears sold between 70,000-75,000 mail-order homes during that time period.
The Modern Homes designs ranged from fancy three-story versions known as Honor Bilt that were sturdy enough for areas of the country where the winters were snow-covered, to less expensive models (Standard Built) better suited for southern states where the winters weren't as brutal and where the summers were hot. There was even a 2-room style (Simplex Sectional) that was just right for a cottage at the beach or on the lake.
Are you as fascinated over the idea of building a home from a mail-order kit as I am? Is that not just the most amazing thing! I wonder how long it took the average family to save up to buy their Sears, kit-built home?
Today we're going inside a Sears & Roebuck Craftsman in the Venice area of California. The listing says, "This home–originally a 1923 Sears & Roebuck craftsman–has been completely rehabbed and now combines period detail with contemporary convenience." (See print screen of real estate listing below)
Isn't it an adorable home! Sears mail-order homes can sometimes be a little tricky to recognize because homeowners were encouraged to add their own touches to make them their own. So the homes can be as different as the owner, with extra dormer windows added, a bigger porch, extra trim, etc….
It makes me feel almost teary-eyed to think of the hardworking families who ordered these kits and put their homes together with their own hands, creating a safe haven for their family.
Let's go inside and take the tour!
No entrys back then, you would have walked right into the living room. I wonder if there used to be a wall separating the living area from the dining space. Would love to see the original floor plan for this home.
Cute kitchen!
The listing says it's a "period kitchen." I wonder if these are the original cabinets. Love the flooring!
It looks so much bigger inside than I expected!
Love how so many of the rooms have access to the beautiful gardens.
This Sears Craftsman home has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. It has four sitting porches…love that! We can just see one of the porches through the open door.
Huge room…love that it has a fireplace.
A sweet nursery or child's bedroom.
Here's the third bedroom. I hope the windows are original although I'm guessing that would be pretty rare to find.
Pretty bathroom with double sinks…the flooring looks original.
Loving the size of the rooms in this house!
The second bath. Such great bathrooms!
Looks like there's a cute building out back, too. Notice the stone/rock patio…really like that!
What a great home! Notice how it looks around the roof-line, particularly on the corners. In my research I read that the way the corners were designed is one way to spot a Sear's Modern mail-order home. Apparently the corners look very different on non-kit houses.
I'd love to learn more about these houses! I just ordered two books on Amazon about them…this idea of mail-ordering a home from a catalog just fascinates me!
Do you know anyone who lives in one of the Sears, Roebuck and Co. Modern Homes sold during the period 1908-1940? Do you live in one? Wonder what it would cost to mail-order a house today! Wonder how many are still standing…I hope a lot!
You'll find more information about this home in the listing HERE where the pictures in this post were found.


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Bonnyrigg is located between the North and South Esk rivers and has a strong heritage based on manufacturing and coal mining. The town has adapted over the years and today employment is more varied whilst the town centre remains a vibrant focal point for the community. The development is an excellent example of our Strategic Land and Planning team and our regional office, Taylor Wimpey East Scotland, working successfully together to design and achieve planning consent for a masterplan covering a large area.
We are constructing a development of over a thousand homes with supporting facilities and infrastructure. After carrying out the necessary remediation and infrastructure works (including building the first phases of the distributor and spine roads, sustainable urban drainage system, a sub-station and moving overhead high voltage cables underground), we started to build the first homes in the spring of 2007. We sold land for about 400 homes to other private developers and together we had completed over 620 homes by the end of 2012. Hopefield is already becoming part of the Bonnyrigg community.
We provided Midlothian Council with the land necessary for the delivery of the 100 affordable homes. Working on a contractor basis we built 53 of these affordable homes for the council during 2011–2012 (the remaining 47 have been built by another developer under a separate contract with the council).
The site, which consisted of agricultural land and a former colliery, was first identified for development through the Edinburgh and Lothian Structure Plan (approved in 1997) and was included as a major housing allocation in the first Midlothian Local Plan (adopted in 2003). After securing the purchase contracts needed to bring the land necessary for the project under our control, we achieved outline planning consent in August 2003 for 1,100 new homes, a new primary school, retail, employment and sports/recreational uses. In June 2005 Midlothian Council approved our detailed masterplan, which later received a Commendation in the Development Plans Category of the 2007 Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning.
The 1,100 new homes originally envisaged have received planning consent, however as the development matures and as the result of good design, it has become clear there are additional parcels of land that will provide us with additional capacity to deliver around 200 further new homes.
Main infrastructure delivery started at the end of 2005. These works included construction of the new £4.5 million Bonnyrigg by-pass and remediation of the former colliery site. Our remediation strategy for the site was agreed with and approved by Midlothian Council. This comprehensive strategy ensured that no waste material was taken away from the site. Instead the material generated has been re-used under roads and areas of landscaping. Five mine shafts have been capped to allow development to proceed.
We control 52.6 hectares of land to the south of the current site.
We are continuing our successful relationship with the council and engaging with both planning officers and elected members on a regular basis, and this land for Phase 2 of our proposed development has now been allocated within the emerging Midlothian Local Development Plan. We will be preparing an application for planning permission in principle, with a view to submitting in the first half of 2017.
We believe that this second phase of Hopefield could potentially provide a further 800-1,000 homes, including 25% to be allocated as affordable housing, together with the necessary community facilities.
The masterplan has a central park with approximately 5 acres of open space that includes a children's play area and two five-a-side football pitches. Footpaths and cycleways, including the popular Penicuik to Dalkeith cycle route, link this park with the rest of the development and the surrounding community.
Construction of a new primary school was completed in 2012 with the first pupils starting at the beginning of the 2012/13 academic year. The school has 15 classrooms plus a special needs unit, nursery, gym, kitchen, library, expressive arts room, and support staff facilities. We have delivered it in partnership with Midlothian Council, on time and within its £6 million budget.
We have detailed planning consent for a local centre, which includes shops and offices. We are currently looking for a suitable commercial developer to buy the necessary land and build the commercial centre. In addition, as part of the Section 75 planning agreement we have provided 12 acres of serviced land to Midlothian Council for use as an employment park and we have also made financial contributions of over £2 million for improvements to the town centre, a secondary school, and Poltonhall's sports facilities.
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EU businesses that provide applications to consumers through the Google Apps platform may require additional mechanisms to the new contract terms offered by Google - in order to legitimately transfer personal data collected from app users overseas, an expert has said.
Google has announced that it will offer "model contract clauses" to app providers as a means for those businesses to lawfully transfer personal data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Out-Law.com asked Google to provide a copy of the model contract clauses it intends to offer, but a spokesman for the company said the information was not available yet.
However, data protection law specialist Kathryn Wynn of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, has said that if it is Google's intention to store the data collected by app providers in the cloud, then complex contractual arrangements may have to exist to make that activity legitimate.
How the cloud will rain on data law
Cloud computing refers to the use of computers and software on an internet-based network to do information processing rather than the use of local computing resources. It allows internet users to access or store information without owning the software to do it and many online companies, such as Google, operate huge servers that store the data and deliver it to users.
Current EU data protection laws prevent companies sending personal data outside of the EEA except where adequate protections have been put in place or in circumstances where the destination country has been pre-approved as having adequate data protection. Only a handful of countries, including Argentina, Canada and Switzerland, have qualified as having adequate protection. The EEA includes all 27 EU member states, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein.
When a company wants to send personal data to other non-EEA countries, that company must ensure that adequate protections are in place, even when the transfer is from one group company to another.
What can a company do to work within the red tape?
Model contract clauses have been approved by the European Commission as one mechanism companies can use to legitimately transfer personal data they collect to other companies based outside of the EEA. The clauses insert standard provisions into a contract that enable the flow of data between EU-based businesses and those located in "third" countries, ie, a non-EEA entity that is not a pre-approved country. The clauses enable outsourcing of personal data processing to firms based in non-EEA countries.
In a company blog, Marc Crandall, senior manager of global compliance at Google Enterprise, said that the new clauses would offer app providers "an additional option for compliance" with the EU's Data Protection Directive.
Kathryn Wynn said Google was probably setting up the model contract clauses to enable it to provide overseas cloud storage of the personal data that app providers collect from users of those apps. She said though that it "can be quite difficult in a cloud computing context to put in place valid model contract clauses".
"In order to be compliant with the 'adequacy' requirement of the Data Protection Directive the app providers would have to enter into model contract clauses with the first non-EU Google entity in the contractual chain that imports the data and the model contract clauses would need to detail each jurisdiction in which the data could be hosted. This will implement valid model clauses that will ensure an adequate level of protection for the personal data transferred," she said.
"If model contract clauses are not correctly implemented and there is a risk that the adequacy requirement will not be met, app providers would need to rely on another mechanism for compliance in order to justify overseas transfers of their users' data outside of the EEA.
"In those circumstances app providers could rely on their own self assessment of adequacy to justify overseas transfers of personal data outside the EEA," Wynn said. "Self assessment is where companies look at various aspects of the data protection regime in third countries, and consider things such as the strength of local laws, the security of data centres and take into account the sensitivity of the personal data that would be transferred to those countries.
"The existence of the model clause obligations in the contractual chain, even if not correctly implemented because they are not between the correct parties - ie, if between the Google entities rather than the relevant Google entities and the apps providers, will help in the overall assessment of adequacy. However, those provisions alone will not achieve adequacy," Wynn said.
"The more sensitive the personal data the more robust the adequacy requirements. Companies relying on self assessment as a mechanism for legitimising personal data transfers need to conduct due diligence and keep an audit trail of their assessment," she added.
What do companies in the US have to do?
Model contract clauses have been popular with EU businesses looking to transfer personal data to third countries, although other existing frameworks for safeguarding personal data when sent outside of the EEA have also been developed.
The US-EU Safe Harbor scheme is an agreement drawn up between the European Commission and US Department of Commerce that allows for the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US where data protections meet EU standards.
US organisations that conform to the protection requirements in the Safe Harbor scheme are deemed as having met European safety standards outlined in the Data Protection Directive. The Directive sets out standards around the lawfulness of personal data processing as well as for the security of personal data that is held by organisations, among other things. Google is one of 2,500 US firms accredited under the Safe Harbor scheme.
To qualify for Safe Harbor, a US organisation must develop its own self-regulatory privacy policy, join an existing privacy programme, or be subject to a statutory or law body which achieves the same standards as those set in the Safe Harbor scheme. Member firms are audited annually to ensure they are complying with their commitment to the privacy of data transfers.
Last year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) claimed Google had breached the Safe Harbor agreement by misusing customers' personal information it collected from Gmail users in its social network service Buzz without permission. Google failed to give notice to customers that their email contacts would be shared with other users if they chose to sign up to Google Buzz when it launched in 2010, the FTC said.
Google settled the case with the FTC by promising to conduct privacy audits every two years for 20 years; promising not to misrepresent the way it deals with personal data; and promising to obtain explicit consent before sharing users' information with other companies.
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Inspired by archival designs, this three-dimensional ornate heart features diamonds and seven different colored gemstones, with the word "Tiffany" spelled out on the back. Pendant in 18k rose gold with round brilliant diamonds and colored gemstones. Size small, on an 18″ chain. Gemstones: pink tourmaline, iolite, orange fire opal, yellow fire opal, amethyst, neon tsavorite and yellow citrine. Round brilliant diamonds, carat total weight .40.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Durand Scott scored 17 points and Reggie Johnson added 16 points and 13 rebounds to help Miami to an easy 72-50 victory over Central Florida.
Shane Larkin had 11 points and six assists and Kenny Kadji scored 10 for the Hurricanes (7-1), who led wire-to-wire in winning their sixth straight game.
Keith Clanton led UCF with 15 points and nine rebounds. The Knights (6-3) didn't have another player in double figures after shooting only 35.4 percent (17 of 48) for the game.
Miami jumped out to a 37-21 halftime lead behind Johnson and Larkin. UCF got within 11 points on a 3-pointer by Matt Williams with 11:04 left in the game, but that was as close as it would come.


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Well, I'm off on another cliff jumping adventure starting tomorrow, so I won't be posting here for a while. I'm moving to Victoria, BC, on Saturday and will hopefully find work there soon after. Actually, I'm looking for a pastry apprenticeship, so I have lots of pavement pounding ahead of me, and lots of talking myself up - both things I dread but both are necessary if I'm ever going to get anywhere. You can read about my adventures on my Wandering Coyote site.
This recipe comes from one of my Moosewood cookbooks. I've made this soup quite a bit and it's very flavourful and easy to make. Cod filets are best because they retain their shape, but if you can't get them or they're too expensive for you, halibut or another firm-fleshed white fish will work just as well. I know it's a little late for Chinese New Year, but you don't need a special occasion to make this.
Cantonese Fish & Vegetable Soup
5 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked in 1 1/2 cups boiling water
1 large onion, thinly sliced
3 cloves of garlic, minced or pressed (or use more or less to your taste - the more the merrier as far as I'm concerned)
1 tbsp freshly grated gingerroot
2 tbsp veg. oil
1 large carrot, julienned
4 cups water
1 1/2 lbs cod filets, cut into bite-sized chunks
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tbsp dark sesame oil
3 tbsp cornstarch dissolved in 3tbsp water
1 red pepper, diced
1. Soften the mushrooms in the boiling water; discard stems & slice the mushroom caps. Reserve the liquid.
2. In soup pot or dutch oven, saute onions, garlic, carrots, and ginger until soft & fragrant. Add the four cups of water, mushrooms & soaking liquid. Bring to boil. Add fish.
3. In a small bowl, combine the soy sauce, sesame oil, and dissolved cornstarch. Add to the broth with the diced pepper. Simmer until thickened and serve.


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Take Our Jobs, Please
Check out this invitation from the United Farm Workers:
There are two issues facing our nation—high unemployment and undocumented people in the workforce—that many Americans believe are related.
Missing from the debate on both issues is an honest recognition that the food we all eat—at home, in restaurants and workplace cafeterias (including those in the Capitol)—comes to us from the labor of undocumented farm workers.
Agriculture in the United States is dependent on an immigrant workforce. Three‐quarters of all crop workers working in American agriculture were born outside the United States. According to government statistics, since the late 1990s, at least 50% of the crop workers have not been authorized to work legally in the United States.
We are a nation in denial about our food supply. As a result the UFW has initiated the "Take Our Jobs" campaign.
Farm workers are ready to train citizens and legal residents who wish to replace them in the field, we will use our knowledge and staff to help connect the unemployed with farm employers. Just fill out the form to the right and continue on to the request for job application.
Perhaps some U.S. citizens really will work these jobs. Somehow I doubt there will be very many.
It's too bad I learned about this site only just after my most recent piece at the Washington Examiner Opinion Zone, in which I talked about how so much of the American economy now depends on the benign neglect of our immigration laws.
I almost wish we could see the consequences of having an America free of illegal immigrants. Based on past precedent, it wouldn't make much difference in stopping terrorism. But it would really, really hurt American agriculture and business.


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Director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project
James D. Esseks is Director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project. He joined the Project as Litigation Director in 2001 and has been in his current position since 2010. James oversees litigation, lobbying, policy advocacy, organizing, and public education work nationwide that aims to ensure equal treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people by the government; equal rights and protections for LGBT couples and families; protection from discrimination in jobs, schools, housing, and public accommodations; and fair treatment by the government of people living with HIV/AIDS. Prior to joining the ACLU, he was a partner at Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., in New York. He graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He clerked for U.S. Judge James R. Browning on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Carter in the Southern District of New York.
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April Book Club Meeting (Ended)
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Meet local authors, explore and debate timely industry events and get to know like-minded financial literature enthusiasts. The CFA Society of Chicago Book Club embraces discussion of a wide range of themes in the informal environment provided by the book club. From tried and true classics to cutting-edge industry ideas, well-known leaders and niche topics in between, we have something for everyone.
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The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself by James Grant
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