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This was my first wine maker dinner with the Australian Wine Appreciation Society. Held at the Fish House in Stanley Park, Mr. Bruce Tyrrell from Tyrrell's Wines regaled us with stories of his family's past and about the wines we were about to enjoy that evening. Although the Tyrrell family established themselves in Australia in 1858, it wasn't until the 1950s when they started for make wine under their own label. Previous to then, they were strictly grape growers. A feather in their cap was the introduction of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay to Australia.
Bruce is the fourth generation of the Tyrrell family to work in the wine trade in Australia. Although the family started farming in the Hunter Valley, Bruce expanded their holdings to McLaren Vale in South Australia and Heathcote in Victoria.
In 2006, Bruce Tyrrell was recognised with an Order of Australia medal for his contribution to the Australian wine industry; improving grape quality, research, tourism and export opportunities. In 2009, he became a Hunter Valley Living Legend at the Hunter Valley Wine Industry Awards. Also, in 2009, Garry Walsh and Campbell Mattinson made Tyrrell's their Australian Red Winery of the Year and James Halliday his Australian Winery of the Year.
Yet with all these accolades, Bruce is a down to earth fellow, with a great passion for wine, and making people feel comfortable.
Our Reception Wine
Our reception wine this evening was Tyrrell's Lost Block Semillon 2010. It had a light citrus nose. Off dry with a round mouth feel and medium minus acidity to back it up. Lime peel and ripe citrus fruit flavours. This Semillon is meant to be enjoyed now. Semillon though is a very age-able wine grape, with Australia's Hunter Valley (home to Tyrrell's) being one of the prime growing locations in the world. If you are interested to find out more about the Semillon grape, check out this Wikipedia link.
Our First Course
Starting off our evening meal was a Halibut Ceviche make with citrus, cilantro and chili brine, and served with Pugliese toast points. Our wine pairing was the Tyrrell's Vat 1 Semillon 2004. The wine was medium lemon in colour with a greenish tinge. Toasty oak nose with some citrus and waxiness. Light body, medium plus acidity, dry, with a very light mouthfeel. Citrus, green apple and "oaky" notes on the palate. I put "oaky" in quotes as this is not an oaked wine. The oak that you sense is actually an attribute of the Semillon grape as it ages in the bottle. This is an exceptional, elegant wine. This was one of my favourite pairings of the evening. The ceviche was spicy and had a high acidic, cilantro flavour. This meshed nicely with the acidity in this wine. It was a complementary flavoured pairing.
Our Second Course
Second course was a grilled Juan de Fuca Sablefish filet, with smoked horseradish butter, golden beet puree and cress salad. Our wine pairing was Tyrrell's Vat 47 Chardonnay 2006. This wine is special to Bruce as his daughter will be married in 2 weeks and this wine will be served at the wedding reception. This wine was medium minus golden in colour. It has ripe tropical fruit, lemon, and smoky vanilla aromas. Tropical and stone fruit aromas, along with lots of cinnamon on the palate as it was aerated. The sable fish was soft and buttery and melted into the Chardonnay. Again, nice complementary flavours between the food and wine. The beet puree was subtle and I think toned down the acid and the oak from the wine.
Our Third Course
The third course was a duo of Australian lamb – Dijon crusted Rack of Lamb, and Sous Vide Leg in Shiraz Rosemary jus. Our wine pairings were the Tyrrell's 4 Acres Shiraz 2011, and the Tyrrell's Vat 9 Shiraz 2010. The Vat 9 Shiraz 2010 was light, bright, translucent ruby in colour. On the nose there was purple fruit and bramble berries, along with minerality and a hint of smokiness. Medium body, dry with firm tannins. Ripe berry fruit, and vanilla flavours with spice on the mid palate. This was my favourite wine of the evening. It is the top Syrah of the Tyrrell's estate. The 4 Acres Shiraz 2011 was much lighter bodied than the Vat 9 Shiraz. It was medium translucent ruby in colour. Black berry and I think some cranberries on the nose. Bright red cherry and raspberry flavours, spicy with high acidity on the palate. Light and bright flavours. The darker more tannic Vat 9 Shiraz paired the best with the Dijon crusted Rack of Lamb. It is also my overall favourite pairing. The Rack of Lamb was very tender with a light Dijon accent. The Vat 9 Shiraz seemed to enhance the salt in the Dijon crust.
Our Fourth Course
Our fourth course was a seared duck breast – confit duck with shallot risotto and braised fig compote. The pairing was the Tyrrell's Stevens Shiraz 2009. This wine was named after the Stevens grape growing family. Their vineyard is notable for the purple coloured soil that they say makes bigger, richer wines. This wine was opaque ruby in colour with a light vanilla, capsicum and purple fruit nose. Medium plus body, dry with high acidity. Dark berries, plums and spice. A bit hot at the back of the tongue. The slightly sweet fig compote contrasted nicely with the fatter, darker duck flavour. The shallot risotto though was quite strong and there was a strong consensus at our table that it overpowered the duck and did not work well with this wine.
Our Cheese Course
To finish off the evening we had a Spanish Valdeon Blue cheese, berry fruit preserves and crackers. Our pairing was the Tyrrell's Rufus Stone Heathcote Shiraz 2006. This is from a newer vineyard for the Tyrrell family. The land being bought and vines planted in 1994. This wine has 2-3% Viognier blended in with the Shiraz during fermentation, which helps to bring out the colour from the Shiraz skin, plus adds a flowery component to the wine. The blending of Shiraz (Syrah in France) with Viognier, was pioneered in the Hermitage region of the Rhone Valley, France. The Rufus Stone Heathcote Shiraz was almost opaque ruby in colour. Smoky dark fruit and raspberry aromas. Very high acidity, minerality, with bright raspberry fruits. It was interesting to me but that behind the acidity and minerality there was an undercurrent of dark fruit flavour. Peppery feel on the sides of your tongue on the finish. This was a wonderful pairing with the Spanish Valdeon Blue cheese. The cheese had salty, smoky and spicy flavours, which meshed nicely with the fruit and the minerality in the wine.
This was a wonderful evening, and I thank Mark Anthony Brands for bringing me as their guest to this event. And a special thanks to Bruce Tyrrell for spending quite a while with me chatting about Semillon, the Australian wine industry, French wine, and so much more. Please buy Bruce's wines so he can afford his daughter's wedding!


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Hi, I'm Lucy and I'm a biblioholic.
As a former substance abuse counselor, I know that a behavior is considered an addiction if it interferes with your life and creates a problem. This leads me to wonder if I have a true "addiction," like some people have an addiction with substances (legal or illegal) and behaviors (legal or illegal). If not an addiction, it is certainly a "dependency." Anyone interested in a 12-step program for bookaholics?
Does being a biblioholic disrupt or interfere with my life, or cause a problem? Only when I need to move all these books from one home to another!
I started checking the internet to see if there was such a word as biblioholism or if a group existed for bookaholics. Try looking up either of those words and you'll see how many sites address this very thing. I found a site that gives reader comments that complete the statement "You know you're a bookaholic when…" All of the comments there are true of me, and my favorite is "…when you select your handbags based on whether they are big enough to fit a book."
No matter where I go, I have a book in my purse. You just never know when you'll have a couple of minutes to read a paragraph or two while you wait for someone to show up, or for your car to be serviced, for instance. And sometimes I carry a book with the sole intent of going somewhere only to read. I have a different book (sometimes a stack of books) sitting next to each of my reading places, and I go back to read some of my favorites many times.
I found one site that seems to have disappeared, which gave an excellent definition of "biblioholism" that describes me exactly (and probably you, too). "Biblio" means "book," so this site states that biblioholism is "the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire and consume books in excess."
The only feature of biblioholism that definition doesn't mention is writing. I do an obsessive amount of that, as well, but I seldom bother to market what I write. (And that's another whole problem I need to address at some point.) I write in several genres, usually with several in various stages of completion at a time.
Yes, I also read (and write) e-books, but nothing will ever replace the feel of paper as I turn each page. When I am forced to part with books, it's as if I'm killing my children! Rather than give away the thousands of books I have, I simply have more bookshelves built.
"You know you're a bookaholic when _______." You might fill in the blank on this statement and find out something about yourself. Put your answer in the comments. I'd love to see it.
If you are interested in reading one of my latest books, check out this bookstore.
A hui hou!

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UPDATE: On April 8, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts unsealed the case identified in our motion. Our legal director Matthew Segal said:
"This is an important victory for open courts and open government. Vital issues about the security of our personal information should not be litigated behind closed doors. Yet, since at least 2008, that is exactly what was happening with the government's efforts to force technology companies to access their customers' devices. We collected these cases and filed this motion because we believe that getting these issues right requires dealing with them openly.
"We filed our motion to unseal this case because we believe that the public's rights will not be respected if they are not litigated openly. Now that the government has agreed that this case should be unsealed, and now that a court has unsealed it, we hope that undue secrecy will not occur in the next case or in any other pending case. This was an important first step. Now that this basic information is publicly available, we will look closely at the documents to determine any potential next steps."
Transparency is more important than ever now that the government has dropped its request to force Apple to access data on a locked iPhone in the San Bernardino case. The FBI would have us believe that this attempt was exceptional.
But it was not. Research conducted by the ACLU of Massachusetts and the national ACLU reveals more than 60 cases in which the government invoked the All Writs Act to attempt to conscript Apple or Google to break into personal electronic devices. Going back as far as 2008, these requests span more than 20 states.
In some instances, an individual document was sealed or missing from the public index of a case, otherwise known as a docket sheet. But almost all of the cases included docket sheet entries that demonstrated the existence of an All Writs Act application or order or both. Not so in Massachusetts, where the ACLU discovered what we suspect is an entirely sealed docket associated with the government's request for an All Writs Act order.
On March 31, 2016, the ACLU of Massachusetts filed a motion in federal court to make this docket public, which would reveal whether the government filed a formal All Writs Act application against Apple, whether it was opposed by the company, and whether it was granted by the Court. The public needs this bare minimum of information to better understand how government authorities have attempted to use the All Writs Act of 1789 to defeat 21st-century technology.
The government has made clear it will continue to seek broad authority to compel tech companies to access personal electronic devices. Such precedent would threaten both the data security of individuals and the entire system on which that security relies. This past month highlights why the conversation about digital security must take place in full view of the public. As the government tries to retreat back into the shadows in California, the ACLU's motion seeks to shine a light on the government's actions in the Commonwealth.


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by David A. Huston
As I urged you when I went into Macedonia—remain in Ephesus
that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine....
1 Timothy 1:3
IMMEDIATELY AFTER PENTECOST, the apostles began teaching the doctrine they had learned directly from Jesus. This doctrine came to be called "the apostles' doctrine" (Acts 2:42). Later, Paul told the leaders of the church in Ephesus, "I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God" (Acts 20:27). The apostles' doctrine and the whole counsel of God are one and the same. Both terms describe the entirety of the teachings that Jesus entrusted to His apostles. In those early years of the New Testament church, everyone who was taught by Paul or one of the Twelve believed the same doctrine. This resulted in a genuine unity of the faith.
It did not take long, however, for false teachers to come along teaching doctrines that were not in harmony with the apostles' doctrine. This began a gradual fracturing of the apostolic church into various factions, which eventually led to the huge divisions we see in Christendom today. As apostolic believers, we like to think we have unity of the faith, but the truth is, we are nearly as fractured as the denominational world. And whenever any elements of the apostles' doctrine are ignored, minimized, watered down, or otherwise not set clearly before the people, the effect is to fail to declare the whole counsel of God and to not have the apostles' doctrine at all, which makes the unity of the faith an impossible objective.
The following list describes twenty areas of doctrine where profound disagreement exists within the modern-day apostolic movement.
May the Lord give us genuine apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, until we all come together unto the unity of the faith.
Note to the reader:
If you would like to comment on the contents of this paper, please contact us through our website at www.GloriousChurch.com. We welcome and appreciate all honest comments, questions, and criticisms.
Copyright © 2007 David Huston
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this article may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or author; EXCEPT THAT PERMISSION IS GRANTED to reprint all or part of this document for personal study and research provided that reprints are not offered for sale.
All Scripture references are from the New King James Version of the Bible, copyright 1990 by Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, TN, unless otherwise indicated.
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TINTIN, in Dutch known as KUIFJE, can only be described as one of the very top European strips and has to be among the greatest strips in the world. Even if Amazon feels they're only fit for children between 4-8, this is saying something. So don't get me wrong: it is not to put Hergé down that I built this page, but to show that you can always find mistakes in the best of work; and to show how times do change. Hergé had an enormous influence on European strip artists like Joost Swarte. I have always enormously enjoyed these strips, even if it's really nothing but James Bond as a boy scout; which means, no dames on the set. Maybe that explains why they are so much more palatable (much as I like dames myself, join the club).
TINTIN is often called a French strip; actually, it's Belgian. I have the Kuifje books in Dutch and, mostly, use the Dutch covers and character names. Other people have done hard work here, only to have their links timing out. Then there's the (also French) Tintin Cyber Catalogue—at least, there used to be. Unsurprisingly, there is plenty of more solid info available than I have to present. Try the Tintin Web Ring. (I tried to get on this ring, but they never even took the trouble to reply. Too much cussing and nudity on this site, I guess. Same for the Lucky Luke ring.) Unfortunately, all these links definitely have a habit of dying in your hands. Don't ya know it.
Hergé turned out enormous volumes of work which were translated and published all over the world. Besides the Kuifje titles he published much more; there's a list at the bottom of this page. All his stuff is very well done if, naturally, some is better than other. What else is new? Well, Hergé kept re-designing his strips, for example by changing old-fashioned planes into jets for a new edition, and other things as well. The funny things my sick mind is concerned with here are what he never bothered to change.
And now that I have got all this off my chest, I can go back to reading the books without being bugged by
what after all are mostly pretty minor, details.
One more thing: All this stuff is Copyright by Hergé and don't you forget it.
Some of the following cover pictures are linked to a page with more info; the titles are linked to Amazon.
The first KUIFJE "album". Only, when it first appeared somewhere around 1970, it was a rip-off and publisher Casterman even denied it was authentic. But if you read it, you got convinced it was authentic. And finally, after all these years, it appeared with the Casterman imprint.
Replacing the even more politically incorrect TINTIN IN CONGO. After all, there is no Soviet Union anymore so who's to complain?
Not the first KUIFJE "album", but the first one in the format Hergé would stick to.
The book is so politically incorrect by now, it's a miracle there have been no protest riots in the streets. Is what you would think. But here in Curaçao, where some 90% of the population is "negro", in Hergé's terminology, I can't remember anybody ever taking exception to his stereotyped characterizations. For what it's worth, my opinion is that nobody, black, blue or white, can relate to this weird but at the time popular way of drawing blacks and recognize himself in there. It's just too far out and altogether removed from reality.
Click on the cover picture and I'll show you what I mean.
It has now disappeared from the back-cover of the Tintin albums.
Some real good laughs, if unintentional, can be had here by Americans, and these days by most people all over the world. It shows how Europeans looked at the U.S.A. not so long ago. Kuifje even narrowly escapes being burned at the stake by Indians; as if those things were still bound to happen around 1940.
Much less primitive than its two predecessors; as a matter of fact quite sophisticated. Good plotting, solid characters. Drawing style, too, is technically much better. Part 1 of 2 volumes. Dumb-ass detectives Jansen and Janssen, Dupond & Dupont (dese guyses love disguises) are introduced here and are kept in for future appearances.
Part II. This one gets really funny. Racism again raises its ugly head. To get your bellyful of laughs, click on picture.
One of my favorites. If only because there's a parrot in there that keeps repeating a knife throwing artist's remark after him:Caramba! Missed again!
An expression I have had many occasions to use as a photographer; not to worry about that.
Good and solid. There's a King Kong type of gorilla in it, only real-life sized.
Clearly shows Hergé's attitude towards monarchy. It's all about a dirty plot in a Balkan country to rob the 'rightful' king of his throne. Of course, this must be prevented. (See also Charlie Chaplin's A King in New York on this sort of idealism). What can you say? But very entertaining indeed.
The first book with Captain Haddock. Many Kuifje villains keep making their appearance under new identities, but they are still obviously the same characters; often even looking alike. But Haddock is such a strong vaudeville comedian (and I'm sure Hergé must have seen this right away) that he keeps coming back. On Haddock there's more to say, click picture link.
Essentially science fiction. OK. The first Kuifje I remember reading.
Look, I am not making a habit of discussing plot improbabilities or anything like that or this page would never get finished.
Really fine. Again, part 1 of 2. This is where, I feel, Hergé is reaching the top if his career.
Part 2. Even better! Intro of Professor Girasol, Zonnebloem, Calculus, whatever you want to call him. A real schlemil and all absent-minded professors you've ever seen rolled into one. Too bad that here superstition starts working its way into Hergé's work. Clink the lick.
Of course, you can't go far wrong when you lift so much out of R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Part 1. Really fine with a good sense of mystery, and the superstition is still easy to take. Just go along for the ride and enjoy the trip.
Part 2. I cannot restrain myself here and will remark that it's inconceivable that Kuifje would be saved from being killed by Incas by the occurrence of a solar eclipse they didn't expect. The Incas didn't figure on this? Cummon, gimme a break.
Or so I wrote a while back. Well, as happens more often than I care for, I was wrong. It was the Mayas who wouldn't have been fooled—the Incas didn't know the first thing about astronomy. Brings up the question: Did they, then, worship the sun as Hergé would have us believe? It's all very moot.
Very funny! What more do I have to tell you?
Here Hergé has a serious plot problem (How do I get Haddock on the scene to save Tintin in the nick of time?) but he works his way out of it very cleverly: He doesn't even try to answer the question and turns it into a joke.
Part 1 of 2; published when I had just made it to High School. That's in the early 1950s, if you want to know. Very impressive (I don't mean the fact that I made it to that crummy school or even that I finished it). Don't be put off by things we know much better now; it's still pretty accurate and, to paraphrase Harvey Kurtzman (The Katch and Hammer Kids), without the monkey business there is no comic strip. Much better than the average SciFi novel anyway. Yeah, that often is not saying so much.
Part 2 of 1. That can't be right... Anyway, they arrive on the moon and get back home safely. But even when I read it first I couldn't imagine how they could have reached the moon with two stowaways on board—and pretty hefty ones, too. Hope I didn't ruin the suspense for you, but the fact there are more titles coming is a dead giveaway, after all. Also, the interior of the rocket ship is even roomier than Jules Verne's Nautilus.
And by that proverbial way, Hergé should be ashamed of himself, always insisting on copyright claims. His decors in this book are shamelessly ripped off from George Pal's Destination Moon; the movie that probably inspired him in the first place.
That's some title to attract strip crazed kids!
The book where prima donna Bianca Castafiore is introduced. Now that I've typed that down, a great surprise. I had always figured she was in the strips practically all the time, but it turns out she's only in four of them. With a vengeance: A rather impressive personality. (Hergé was an opera fan, specifically Verdi).
Adolf Hitler is in there as well, but not everybody has found him. You want to brag to your friends (such as they are) with your trivia knowledge, click on the link and I'll help you out.
More trivia on that same page on castle Molensloot/Muizenmeul/Moulinsart. Or whatever it's called in your language. Eureka! I found the original! Triviata galore!
If you have dutifully clicked on my preceding links, you will have to agree with me that Hergé was a racist. But he didn't want to be one! More power to him. Try this one and I'll offer proof.
Here, I feel, the quality of the strips starts to decline. A pity, but what do you want? I myself recently made a translation of something that was godawful. Not that I could really help it, but neither could Hergé, of course.
Still a fine work (the strip, not my translation).
Hmmm... This one, as far as superstition is concerned, is definitely over the edge. Yetis yet, for starters, forsooth. Click the pic and have a good laugh, if not intended so by Hergé.
A healthy bounce back to reason and fun! A plot that might well have turned out to revolve about occult forces, but he fools you all right. Also very sympathetic in, for a welcome change, its non-bigoted treatment of gypsies. I love this one.
Sorry, my friend Hergé here went too far. I got more laughs from what he seems to believe in than from the gags. Still, that's something. Actually, it's an awesome lot!
Click and shake your head; or waggle your belly-button to choice.
The last album Hergé completed. Don't care much for it.
But in here Jansen and Janssens, or whatever they're called in various languages, do have their great moment which really makes it worth your while. Also Bianca Castafiore is, for once, not ridiculous but even dignified. And Zonnebloem, or Girasol, or Calculus, or Chicken Feed—who knows or even cares? so much for trivia—tries to cure Haddock of his alcoholism. About time, too. But does he succeed? Buy the strip and find out.
What I really like about this one is the come-back of Alcazar from Broken Ear; only, he's better shaven here.
Hergé's last album which he never completed. For the die-hard fans. It's in very crude form and if you can learn anything from it, is that his strips were much more dependent from the drawings than from the plots. Wodehouse, it ain't.
I devoutly wish to gott that the publishers would bind those books so they wouldn't fall apart right away.
There are more titles and also movies, some of them animated; not all are available in English.
Cigars of the Pharaoh (1991)
Animated, Color, NTSC
Secret of the Unicorn (1991)
Animated, Color, NTSC; directed by Stéphane Bernasconi (Part 1)
From Hergé's archives:
The Adventures of Totor
Tintin in the Soviet Union
Movies, also available as strip albums:
Kuifje en het Haaienmeer
Kuifje en het Geheim van het Gulden Vlies
Kuifje en de Blauwe Sinaasappels
De Avonturen van Jo, Suus en Jokko:
Het Testament van Mr. Pump
Bestemming New York
De 'Manitoba' antwoordt niet meer
De Uitbarsting van de Karamako
De Navajavallei
Leo en Lea bij de Lapino's
De Guitenstreken van Kwik en Flupke (Vol. 1-2-3-4-5-6)
[Tintin on the Spree]
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Sharing my recent trip to Los Angeles!
At the beginning of August I headed to Los Angeles for a quick trip to attend the PFH Convention and speak on a panel. It's always a treat to escape to California. This time around I stayed in Downtown LA with my cousin and had a chance to explore the area.
The Broad | The museum is home to many amazing pieces of art. I'm a huge fan of Yayoi Kusama and was very excited to visit the Infinity Room, I previously visited her exhibit at Hirshhorn Museum when it was in D.C. The broad museum is a contemporary art museum and has works by artist such as Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol. Admission to the museum is free however you are able to obtain tickets online here. Insider Tip, if you are a blogger or affiliated with press, be sure to request a press ticket in advance. The press pass allows you to skip the line to enter the museum and skip the line for the infinity room. I reached out 3 days in advance via this link, and was able to obtain a press ticket which allowed me to get in and out of the museum very quickly.
The Last Bookstore | A short walk from The Broad is an amazing bookstore, The Last Bookstore. Aside from the awesome photo opportunities here, there are a ton of books!! I spent a ton of time browsing the vault filled with old books.
Grand Central Market | Food heaven! There are so many options for food here, I could have easily spend breakfast, lunch, and dinner here! I had a delicious lunch at La Tostaderia, fish ceviche tostada with chips and guac. Absolutely delicious!
Angels Flight Railway | Just across the street from Grand Central Market is Angels Flight. It's a historic railway that reopened in 2017 and charges $1 for a one-way ride. It's a fun way to get a view of the city and experience a historic landmark of the city.
Bradbury Building | Just around the corner from Angels Flight Railway and Grand Central Market is the Bradbury Building. It's a historic building in downtown LA, and you can easily walk into the lobby and marvel at the beautiful architecture.
Sunset at Griffith Observatory | This is a classic LA landmark. I highly recommend going around sunset to catch day and night views of the city. I went with my cousin on a Thursday night and it was super busy!


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Top Real Estate Agents in Iowa
This article has listed to real estate agents in Iowa. Before looking at the list of realtors, let's have a quick look at state of Iowa.
Iowa is the 26th largest state and the 30th most populous of the 50 US states. The largest city by population is the capital, Des Moines. Its nickname is the Hawkeye State. It was only in the latter half of the 20th Century that Iowa's agricultural economy made the transition to diversify into information technology, manufacturing processing and financial services. Other industries include biotechnology and green energy production.
In colonial times, Iowa was a part of French Louisiana and Spanish Louisiana and this is why its state flag is patterned after the French flag. It was after the Louisiana Purchase that laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the Corn Belt. Iowa is a Midwestern state which is bordered by the Mississippi River to the east, and to the west is the Big Sioux and Missouri rivers.
15 Top Real Estate Agents In Iowa
Mike Bails
Mike Bails is a native of the city of Iowa and leads the corridor in development, income and investment properties and new construction. He has been selling real estate since 1999 and is a member of the Board of Directors for The Iowa City Area Home Builder's Association. He is married with two children Mariah and Caden. Mike met Angie while attending the University of Iowa, are a real estate match made in heaven. Angie owns a rental property management company, Brotherton Investments. Together, they are building a home in Solon on 23 acres.
He knows the region well and uses technology to boost his real estate business. When he's not working, Mike likes to jump in the family RV and camp.
Emily Farber
Emily is a realtor and specialises as a buyer's agent, listing agent, notary and into staging. She is an Iowa City area native with a lifetime of local experience and knowledge with a large repository of contacts. As a realtor, she has an eye for detail and a passion for helping others and a natural enthusiastic nature to thoughtfully guide you through the buying and selling process as you move toward your goals.
She feels that real estate helps her utilize her background in education in leading others towards positive outcomes. Also, she focuses her energy and work ethic by combining my talents for careful listening and observation. Her interests also include helping others, the natural ability to hunting down the best options.
Emily has degrees in both Journalism and Secondary English Education from Iowa State University. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and a teacher. She taught fitness classes and managed a fitness studio. An active member of the Red Cross as a team lead for the Johnson County and surrounding areas and volunteers at children's schools' PTOs.
Karen Converse
Karen is a Broker Associate with ten years of experience. Her specialities include being a buyer's agent, listing agent, relocation and staging.
As a Broker Associate for RE/MAX Pride Real Estate, she will take you through the process of buying or selling your home from start to finish with my knowledge, skill and desire to put your needs as my top priority.
She is her tenth year as a realtor and has the right experience to take you through the buying and selling process. In 2017 alone, she sold just under 7 million dollars in home sales in Oskaloosa and the surrounding areas.
For sellers, she will ensure that she markets your home on over 80 websites and Facebook. She will put your house out to as many buyers as possible that fit your home as quickly as possible. Also, she will help you take your home from living mode to selling mode so you can present your home at its best to potential buyers.
For buyers, she will find the right home that you are looking for and assist you in your search with flexible hours. She can give you a fair idea of the market value if you are interested in properties in the region.
She is married to Chuck and has 3 children. Her interests outside of work include charity projects, walking, biking, all kinds of music and home improvement and tiny house shows.
Mark Charter
Mark Charter is a realtor with 13 years experience and specialises as a buyer's agent, listing agent, and relocation specialist. It was after Mark became one of the best selling and most recommended agents that he started his own firm, Charter House Real Estate, to serve central Iowa.
He looks to give his clients the perks and options that they desired and deserve. He looks at different options for his clients like shortlisting contracts of 3 months, flexible commission options and access to a free moving truck.
The motto of Charter House is "Real estate redefined" because real estate can be done in a better way, and at Charter House, they believe that 100%. With a proven sales track record, Mark is sure to help you buy or sell your home with the objective of putting his clients first.
Matt Mauro
Matt is a licensed realtor for over 23 years and specialises as a buyer's agent, listing agent, consultant, property manager and landlord. He has been a licensed realtor since 1995 and this was at the age of 18 when he did not know much about the industry.
He started investing in real estate when he was 23 years old. This was when he started buying and re-selling distressed properties then residential rentals and finally commercial properties. This has given him a wealth of knowledge and resources that he has provided his clients that are choosing their home or taking on home projects.
Estate sales can often be emotional for the family. They are going to need someone who can put them in touch with the type of professionals that collaborate for a common goal. Often times the property needs to go through probate or the family need assistance with auctioning off belongings. There are times when repairs need to be completed to ensure a saleable property. He enjoys working on these types of transactions when it comes to moving pieces and making it effortless for the seller.
When it comes to classic homes, he finds it fun to pursue his clients. Every home is unique in its own way with classic materials you just won't find in most homes today. In order to sell it, you need to get updates, knowledge of areas, grants, and materials used at the original time built is key information.
Sheila Denburger
Sheila is a realtor with close to 20 years of experience. He specialises in buyer's agent, listing agent and staging. Sheila Denburger is the Owner and Principal Broker of Gatton Realty & Closings, a real estate agency located in Oskaloosa Iowa. She is a graduate of William Penn University, where she received a BA in Business.
After graduation, Sheila worked as a Special Projects Coordinator for a major corporation in Oskaloosa, where she discovered her passion for relocation. That position was the stepping off point to her extremely successful career in real estate. She joined Gatton Realty Inc. in 1999 and is now co-owner and a consistent Multi-Million-Dollar Producer in the Oskaloosa market.
She has a strong insight into the Oskaloosa market and has deep roots in the community at large. She and her husband Randy have raised 4 wonderful children and have been blessed with 11 grandchildren! She loves the support and family values the Oskaloosa area provides, and this is why she loves to give back to the community whenever she can.
Maya Vander
Maya is a real estate associate. Her specialities include being a buyer's agent, listing agent, relocation specialist, luxury properties realtor and property manager. She has the ability to understand and meet the client's needs as a trusted advisor through the buying and selling process. He prides himself on bringing properties and clients together. As a natural negotiator, she stays calm and focused through what can be a complex and stressful time for her clients, providing value-added guidance and driving towards a successful outcome. He values the importance of listening to buyers and sellers and his outgoing personality immediately puts his clients and counter-parties at ease.
Her decision to get into real estate was that he has a history of investing and flipping homes and having grown up in a family that deals with real estate. She has lived in several countries abroad including Israel, the Netherlands, Spain and Singapore before moving to Los Angeles and Miami, and thus have a deep appreciation for the variety of cultures our great city brings together. She carries her expertise and experience in her work in Iowa.
Tom Webber
Tom is a broker associate and has an experience of more than 13 years. He specialises as a buyer's agent, listing agent, consultant, property manager, landlord and military relocation professional. Get to know what your home is worth and let Tom use his resources and time to sell your home.
A realtor is the #1 benefit to secure the right deal at the right time. You should avoid the stress of going through it on your own. This is because moving is stressful enough and why would you need the stress when you have someone like Tom to get you on your way.
He loves the process of looking for your right home. You can expect him to share in the fun and have a light-hearted and real approach to your home buying experience. This is because he is down to earth, light-hearted and real.
There is a time to talk serious but it comes naturally throughout your buying experience and he can help you make the most informed decisions on whatever property you are looking at.
Also, he works at Legacy Green Builders and Developers in which they specialise in "Earth & People Friendly" homes in Iowa that are "Built Green From The Ground Up"
You can consult with him in your pursuits to finding, negotiating, closing, and rehabbing or renting your next investment. His words, he wants to be your 'guy' in real estate.
Troy Anderson
Troy specialises as a buyer's agent, listing agent, foreclosure, short sale and property management. He feels that most teams try to sprinkle colorful words to describe themselves. But he has chosen a different path. He recognises himself and his team as high performance 'maniacs' that are dedicated on making you better off than you were before you met us.
Team Troy believes that real estate should be about you the client. They feel that real estate is not about them or their brand. It's about helping people buy and sell their homes. He believes in giving back to local causes.
Simply put, he believes the "real" in real estate is proven by the one who creates the most energy. This is the one who understands the difference of context vs. concept. Also, this is one who performs, the one who gets the job done.
Zac Bales-Henry
Zac is a broker with 12 years of experience. His specialities include being a buyer's agent, and a listing agent. He is a lifelong native of Des Moines and attended Lincoln High School and went on to run cross country and track for Drake University. His real estate career started at the age of 20. Currently, he is a broker for Coldwell Banker MAG. He is also the sales lead for ZBH & Partners. He is a licensed agent for over 9 years. In 2016 he was given the honor of Realtor Magazines 30 under 30. He is committed to my community and strives to give back through his charitable foundation called the ZBH charitable fund. He also takes it on his own to give scholarship to students with learning disabilities.
Whitney Russell
Whitney is a realtor that specialises as a buyer's agent, listing agent, relocation and new construction specialist.
He is originally from Mt. Vernon, Iowa Whitney has lived in the Iowa City area since 2009 and never wants to leave! When Whitney isn't busy helping you with your real estate needs she volunteers for the City Circle Acting Company of Coralville and supports various other non-profits in the area.
She also enjoys spending time with her friends, family, husband, Ben, and two rescue dogs, Jim and Chi Chi. Whitney believes that the stress of selling should be fun and exciting and this is what she will do for you.
Denise Hamlin
Denise is a realtor and a broker-owner at Cardinal Realty. He specialises as a buyer's agent, listing agent, relocation specialist and staging expert. His special area of expertise is helping relocate buyers and sellers. In terms of validation, it would seem that she has done a fair amount of relocation herself and through her personal experience in relocating of buyers and sellers, there is a sense that they will get all the help they need.
She believes in a more personal approach to real estate. For her, communication is the cornerstone of her business, with technology coming in a close second. Also, she strongly feels that the Internet has changed how we do business and has incorporated it well into her strategy.
Her main goal is to do a good job for my clients. By combining a personal approach with the latest and best in technology her clients get the best of both worlds is what she feels.
Jeremy Anania
Jeremy was born and raised on the Southside of Des Moines. He started working at a young age answering phones and filing paperwork at his grandfather's Insurance agency, located downtown on Court Ave. After Graduating, he spent many years in Sales and Sales Management until starting his own Residential Appraisal company. In addition to appraising homes, investment properties proposed construction and vacant land, he was also part of training programs for Realtors and Loan Officers on many aspects of valuing properties including appraisal rules and regulations that could affect their clients.
While operating a residential appraisal business for more than 13 years, Jeremy has seen many homeowners sell their homes under market value or offer too much when buying. With his knowledge in real estate and being a part of so many transactions as one of the top Residential Appraisers in Central Iowa, Jeremy became a realtor and has put together a team of professionals that can be a direct resource to homeowners in helping them make the right decisions up front with one of their largest investments.
Berni Nash
It was after several decades of helping buy and sell homes for clients that she has embraced the process. She helps in facilitation, negotiation, execution of the normal duties of real estate agents. Also, she knows what it takes to perform for her clients to get them to the finish line.
She is an advocate for their side, rally their morale and support their journey. This is why she feels that she is in an important moment of her lives where she gets to know the humans behind the transactions. This happens to help those that are ready to move into their homes and those seeking out to find the best in the market especially when the market is down.
It happens when she sees the faces of a husband and wife seeking to get the most for their home even though the market has slowed down at the exact time they need to sell and anxiety is clouding their decision-making. She sees it with a single dad who needs guidance finding the right home for his two boys, close enough to the school he thinks is best for them, in a neighborhood he feels good about.
Her clients' hopes and dreams become her hopes and dreams. Their goals become her goals. In her way of saying it, "We're suddenly and completely all in this together." As your agent, whether buying or selling, she is a licensed professional that you can also call a friend.
Ryan Koller
Ryan is a realtor that specialises as a buyer's agent, listing agent, relocation specialist and foreclosure expert. He believes that a good realtor starts with listening to his clients' needs along with coaching them through the entire process. If you are buying or selling, his goal is to make the best of every situation and make it the most enjoyable experience. Ryan previously worked as a financial consultant, a real estate investor, property manager, building new construction only add invaluable information when selling or buying a home. He holds an MBA from the University of Iowa with a concentration in finance. Also, he believes that it takes teamwork and hard work to provide results for clients.
Home Warranty For All
When it comes to protecting your home, you should invest in a home warranty. But before you do that you should get yourself a free home warranty quote. Ensure that you get a good idea about the home warranties in Iowa and pick the best one in your locale. You need to ensure that the company that you choose is not out of business and that the company that you choose has a functioning service team.
So what is a home warranty exactly?
A home warranty is a service contract that promises to repair or replace damaged appliances and systems, provided it meets the terms and conditions of the deal. You should review what is covered in a home warranty to know which home warranties to sign up for. Here, you can learn about the benefits for home buyers, sellers and realtors:
Homeowner And Buyer Benefits
- Cash flow protection on unexpected repair and replacement of appliances.
- One call and a nominal fee, the issue is sorted.
- No need to screen and follow up with contractors and other professionals.
- Most major systems and appliances are covered under the standard plan.
- Provides ongoing home protection, renewable year after year.
Seller Benefits
- Appliance protection plan as an incentive to attract buyers.
- Minimal cost premium not paid until closing.
- Budget/cash flow protection on unexpected repairs.
- Reduced after sale worries. This means, if a breakdown happens after closing the deal, buyers will call the warranty company, not the seller.
Real Estate Professionals Benefits
- Homes with home warranties tend to sell faster and closer to the asking price – minimizing marketing efforts.
- Reduced after sale hassles – when a buyer experiences a breakdown, they call the warranty company, not the agent.
- Satisfied clients will generate increased repeat/referral business.


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For some, getting in touch with nature can be a spiritual experience. The beauty and wonders of the world can definitely be therapeutic to all of us.
My recent Alaskan cruise to Glacier Bay on Holland America's Eurodam had an amazing effect on calming my anxiety. From the time the ship left Seattle until its return to Puget Sound a week later, I was in awe of the vastness and natural beauty of America's largest frontier. The islands, waterways, passages and tundra of the Pacific Northwest are truly majestic. The miles and miles of mountaintop ice fields, waterfalls, salmon-filled streams and glaciers of Alaska are the most incredible masterpieces of nature that I've ever seen.
The week's most precious moment occurred when our captain negotiated the ship to within a few hundreds yards of John Hopkins Glacier inside Glacier Bay. Everyone on the ship was silent as the massive ice structure popped with new cracking, hoping to see a large chunk calve into the cold waters below. When it finally happened, a chorus of awes was heard echoing across the water. My friend's wife, in the balcony next to me, turned my way with tears in her eyes.
"That was one of the most exciting things I've ever seen," she said. "Almost spiritual."
An Alaskan cruise lives up to the hype. It's a vacation everyone should take. Put it on your bucket list, and make plans to scratch it off soon.
Here's what I experienced: I saw six bears in the wild, dozens of whales, several mountain goats, a large bull moose, too many sea otters and dolphins to count and even a few salmon sharks. I viewed the massive Mendenhall Glacier and Grand Glacier, and cruised up close to Marjorie Glacier and John Hopkins Glacier. The views at sunrise and sunset were spectacular. My camera got a work out.
I learned that Juneau and Ketchikan offer harbor town shopping at its best. The salmon fishing out of Ketchikan is fantastic. Victoria, B. C. is a beautiful city with a lot of history and a vibrant downtown. A visit to Butchart Gardens is the perfect ending to a week loaded with beauty.
The staterooms on Holland America were the best I've stayed in. On an Alaskan cruise, a balcony cabin is worth every penny. The food was fantastic, and as is the norm for a cruise, I ate way too much of it – but would do it again. The port dining at the local crab shacks was outstanding.
The most surprising thing I took from this cruise? September is the best time to cruise Alaska. The prices are lower, the sales are better in the ports, the wildlife seems to be more active, and believe it or not, the temperatures were fantastic. It rained on us one day with temperatures hovering around 70 degrees each day.
It was an incredible trip in every way. I'd love to book the same for you for 2018. I recommend booking now while the cabin selection is good.
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Since the dawn of design and marketing, people have used their understanding of human motivations and behavior to design products and experiences. They've also employed those insights to identify a target audience and market the items to that group. Using a variety of data — including demographic and psychographic information — they seek to craft design and marketing efforts that align with the human decision-making process.
Much of the knowledge they employ has its origin in a much more scientific field — neuroscience.
In this column, we'll explore how strategic marketers and designers can apply (and are already applying) a variety of tools in neuroscientists' arsenal.
Building on the scientific method
Designers and marketers are already building upon the fundamentals of neuroscience and human behavior. They draw insights from quantitative and qualitative research studies. They interview, survey and analyze website traffic to understand how and why users are behaving in a certain way. They create hypotheses based on these findings and test their ideas through prototyping and user testing. Sometimes, they'll go as far as visiting users in their native environments (ethnographic studies), just to capture new insights.
A/B (or split) testing is at the heart of data-driven marketing but is also central to scientific experimentation. We can't view the black box of a person's thoughts as they interact with a website, but we can quantify consumer perception of a landing page by testing two versions that differ by a single element. While causation can be tricky to prove, iterating design or campaign changes can isolate them and better explain downstream behavioral effects.
Just like design, marketing itself has become a science. Marketers use a variety of industry-standard metrics to record levels of consumer engagement with marketing content. Clicks, conversions and impressions all represent varying levels of consumer engagement with content that can be measured and forecast over time. But while these metrics are standard and often very helpful, they aren't the end-all in determining consumer intent.
They don't necessarily answer why a consumer clicked your ad. The question that marketers' insights try to answer is the question of motivation. So although the metrics quantify human behavior, it's important to look at the story they tell over time to help answer why the numbers might look the way they do.
Applying neuroscience findings to design & marketing
In addition to using neuroscientific methods, specific findings on human memory, recall, perception and bias — and how all these factors interact — can also help marketers and designers move their industries forward.
Memory processing
For example, an understanding of the workings of memory processing can help marketers decide how much information to show on a website or in an advertisement. Studies have shown that, for most people, working procedural memory can only handle five to seven items at any moment. Too many stimuli will overwhelm users. This is one reason why simplifying designs is linked with better usability.
Depth of vision
Additionally, understanding the effects of color, depth and movement on the brain can help designers create cohesive experiences that drive users toward business goals. For example, by adding shadows and layers, designers can leverage the visual cortex's innate ability to perceive distance to create a hierarchy between layers of information, purposely highlighting the most relevant pieces to draw the user's eye.
Companies with a strong focus on design have leveraged this knowledge. In a direct response to the simplification and "flattening" of web design patterns, Google researched and modeled physical materials like paper to create Material Design, a design system inspired by how items on a real world desk would layer.
Google's illustration of the principles of Material Design
Behavioral targeting
The quantification of consumer behavior enabled by scientific methods is why behavioral targeting, arguably a kindred offshoot of neuroscientific research, has become an important tool in a marketer's arsenal. By using it, you're guaranteed an audience that has a statistically higher chance of being interested in your type of product than an audience of randomly selected individuals.
But as advertising targeting continues to increase in complexity, competition for consumers' attention also increases. It's not enough just to segment your audiences and target them with content that you think will match their interests — everyone else can use those platform tools as well. You must choose the audience segments that matter most to your business and create a product with a distinct value proposition. Then tell them about it with messaging that's dialed into their motivations.
Brain plasticity & trends
But today's valuable insights won't stay fresh forever. Our brains are plastic, constantly evolving with our environment. Learning a new language, regaining motor control after a traumatic injury, or even just getting used to a new office are all miracles of our brains' ability to adapt. Similarly, our brains are constantly being molded by the technology to which they are exposed.
Snapchat is a great example of an app taking advantage of evolving consumer motivations and behaviors. As tech consumption increases, our ability to retain everything to which we are exposed decreases, and Snapchat becomes a perfect fit for those folks unwilling to commit to the permanence of an Instagram or Facebook upload.
Snapchat also demonstrates its understanding of its audience by offering full-screen video ads that run 10 seconds or less. This creative is shorter than the standard 30-second YouTube or commercial TV ad, and, unlike YouTube TrueView ads, Snapchat ads are skippable at any point in the ad play. With such a departure from standard creative length and interactivity, how does Snapchat's ad engagement perform when stacked up against its industry rivals?
In 2015, Media Science Labs, an industry-leading consumer neuroscience research organization, ran experiments with users exposed to creative on each channel in a controlled environment. They found (PDF) that Snapchat outperformed Facebook in-feed, Instagram in-feed, and YouTube TrueView ads on metrics they defined for visual attention.
In addition, they found that Snapchat ads also delivered higher electrodermal activity — a method of measuring emotional response — to the ad stimulus and provided a purchase lift of over two times the other ad formats when users were asked to rate their willingness to purchase the advertised product.
MediaScience comparison of Snapchat ads to others
It's worthwhile to note that Snapchat ads and TV ads both command 100 percent share of the screen, essentially hijacking users' awareness and immersing them in the content experience, despite the leaner ad creative. It's possible that the shorter attention spans and "instant fix" needs of today's audience may be motivating a shift in lean ad creative and product strategy.
A well-targeted ad designed to speak to a particular audience segment can trigger the reward center of the audience member's brain and truly motivate them to take action. In this way, deeply personalized design, paired with an ad delivery style aligned with user attention, can be a powerful combination.
Lessons of neuroscience
Neuroscientists are academically trained to conduct research like this that produces statistically significant results, but that doesn't mean you need to hire a neuroscientist. Instead, look for employees with a strong background in statistics, research, interviewing and counseling — all skills that can contribute to any company's design and marketing performance.
Depending on the complexity and number of users your product has, hiring specialists may be something worth considering. Many large companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon employ neuroscientists, ethnographers and data scientists to comb through user research. Most companies, however, aren't that large and probably don't need a fleet of scientists.
When it comes down to it, thinking critically and skeptically about your team's strategic process — examining every effort through the lens of human behavior and motivation — can do wonders for your design or marketing strategy even if you have a liberal arts degree rather than a doctorate in neuroscience.
Keep the focus on exploring human behavior, and, with advancements in data science and technology, studying how people use digital products and designing solutions for them will continue to be a fascinating pursuit.
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Durrës(Italian Durazzo), city and seaport in western Albania, capital of Durrës District, on the Adriatic Sea near Tirana. The city is in a fertile region in which corn, grain, sugar beets, and tobacco are grown and livestock is raised. An important commercial and communications center serving central Albania, the city has a power plant, a dockyard, and factories producing bricks, cigarettes, leather products, and soap. Exports include grain, hides, minerals, and tobacco. The city is linked by rail with Tirana and Elbasan. Durrës is the seat of a Greek Orthodox metropolitan and, since the 5th century, of a Roman Catholic archbishop. Remains of Byzantine and Venetian fortifications are outside the city.
street in old townDurrës was founded in about 625 BC as Epidamnus by the Corcyreans, who were the ancient inhabitants of the island of Corfu and by the Corinthians from the Greek city of Corinth. The Romans seized the city in the 3rd century BC and changed the name to Dyrrhachium.
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Durrës was under Byzantine rule in the 8th century AD . Venice took the city in the 14th century. In 1501 the Ottoman Turks captured Durrës and held it for 412 years. In 1915, during World War I, Durrës was occupied by the Italians.
The city was taken in 1916 by the Austrians, subjected to Allied naval and air attacks in 1918, and reoccupied by the Italians. In 1939, Italian troops used Durrës as a point of disembarkation in the invasion of Albania. In 1940, during an Italian invasion of Greece in World War II, the city suffered heavy damage. Population (1990 estimate) 85,400.
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the Skenderbeg Museum
the bust of Skenderbeg
Albanian National Hero
Skenderbeg, in Turkish Iskender Bey, real name GEORGE KASTRIOTI (1403?-1468), Albanian chief and national hero. The son of an Albanian prince, he was sent to Constantinople (present-day Ýstanbul) as a hostage when the Ottoman Turks began to occupy Albania. He was educated as a Muslim and enlisted in the Turkish army. His military skill earned him favor with the sultan, and he was given a command. In 1443, when he learned that Albania had revolted against the Turks, Skenderbeg deserted and returned to his native land. He renounced Islam for Christianity and became the leader of the Albanian chiefs. In 1461, Skenderbeg, with the aid of Pope Pius II and the governments of Venice, Naples, and Hungary, forced the Turks to accept a 10-year armistice. When Skenderbeg abrogated the armistice in 1463, he was forced to fight Turkey without the aid of his former allies, and shortly after his death, Albania was defeated.
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More Photos of Kruja (2012)
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the sleepy town of Permet
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Drink Water! – 076 – Portapotty Races
By Drink Water!
Seaver also tiny rain deer?
Several tiny reindeer? Geeze
Are you encouraging this behavior for 2018? Do we really need more ways for people to break the portapotties?
Ha! No, not really encouraging. This was a popular sport back in the day, circa 1999- 2001. Just running the race for old time's sake.
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Narrator Amy Tallmadge's adolescent overly enthusiastic tone does little to help the jumpy and convoluted rendering of thoughts, theories, and information on WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, and YOU'VE GOT MAIL. Erin Carlson's behind-the-scenes look at the genius of Nora Ephron does not do her brilliance justice. The research may be thorough and the tone bright and breezy, but her ultra-contemporary writing style makes her ideas difficult to follow. Countless mispronunciations make the listener wonder about the production values. These include names as simple as David Susskind's surname and as common an expression as "roman à clef." In more capable hands, this work would have had much more to deliver. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2017]
Trade Ed. Hachette Audio 2017
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Gibraltar Cadets working for Vocational Qualifications
This year the Gibraltar Cadets are celebrating their 10th anniversary and, in a milestone event, 30 local cadets have recently started to work towards their Cadet Vocational Qualification Organisation, National Vocational Qualifications Levels 1 & 2.
These courses give cadets the opportunity to develop their own personal skills in teamwork and citizenship.
They are internationally-recognised qualifications which combine a mix of theory and practical work and aim to help young people and adult volunteers to receive recognition for the skills they learn as cadets. These qualifications can then be used to help cadets to gain places at college, university or to secure employment.