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Home Prices Slowed More Than Expected in April
Does Tuesday's raft of economic data related to housing and consumer confidence paint a positive picture for the housing industry? Glenn Kelman, Redfin CEO, joins MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... been been been been been been BdB ... on Tuesday showed the Essen P case Shiller twenty city home price index for April ... rose ten point eight percent which is lower than expected ... joining us first to talk about the home sales data out this morning ... is when Kelvin ... chief executive officer of real estate brokerage Redfin ... led ... to these numbers paint a bullish or bearish picture for the industry ... it's really a mixed message we saw sales ... down year over year prices declining their pockets of strength in the country ... ah but the market is softening ... so we have seen a great run-up in prices of the past eighteen months the now buyers are starting to step back ... and you know what is theirs ... as unknowns but the controversy is different regions of stories where he saying ... for the strawberry is wasting for the week pockets ... across the country ... well in second cities we really see a boom people are fleeing the high prices from the coast wages are stagnant so the coming of places like Denver Dallas use in Salt Lake ... because housing is still affordable there ... and because they can just borrow more the way they could five six seven years ago ... the half to find a place for they can they ... last so Americans are really on the move ... and are moving towards the center of the country ... and we've also seen recent purchase was actually in our newspaper about how when the baby boomer changing the way there's a realm of moving into retirement ... is an increase in cash by switching more people that are coming to mortgage but how does that impact ... the market didn't work ... well I think the millennials are really struggling to compete because they're not only going up against AB Willer says that the cash they're also going up against BlackRock ... so there's all sorts of folks that are willing to put cash on the barrel because lending regulations ... have made sellers really wary ... of having to work with the borrower is gonna get an appraisal just to get the home sale through ... their taking less money from the cash fire soon so ... the first timers who are out there borrowing money to get their first home ... are finding that they just can't compete ... and they walk away ... how does obviously how does the Fed Reserve planned all this obviously a breach moving in one direction not Guinea get any lower than they are now ... anytime soon how's this for potentially impacting us go ... well I think the government's fired every bullet that it has a mainly taken rates as low as they could possibly go it's had a perverse unintended effect on the market there's just a bunch of people who borrowed money at three a half percent ... they are gonna sell for the next thirty years there are so many folks who are surprised ... that inventory didn't loosen up last year ... even as people were no longer underwater on their mortgage and the reason was ... there to keep that house forever even if they live somewhere else to go in a rented to someone ... because they borrowed money at such a great great so it's just walk up alot inventory ... as usual when thank you so much for joining


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Reading I think i would create a feature type and publish it? I need to do this all in REST. Does anyone have any code examples?

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In his rookie run for mayor, R.T. Rybak promoted a four-point agenda for campaign finance reform, saying he wanted to restore trust in Minneapolis city government.
He said he would ban all contributions outside election years, impose a $100 election-year limit, mandate disclosure of all contributors and require real-time Internet disclosure of contributions.
Not only did Rybak not get his reforms -- he blames state law and the Legislature -- but he has even broken self-imposed rules on political money that were a centerpiece of his maiden 2001 campaign.
Rybak version 2001 scorned contributions by political action committees. His 2009 campaign committee reported $9,000 in PAC contributions by Sept. 1, all but five at the maximum election-year level of $500.
In 2001 he declined contributions from those who did business with the city and derided incumbent Sharon Sayles Belton for taking them. Now Rybak's campaign has taken money from developers and their lobbyists, plus members of a law firm that represents the city.
To be sure, Rybak, in his first term, pushed through tighter ethics rules for City Hall, fulfilling another campaign pledge. The package requires disclosure of conflicts of interest and bars city employees from participating in decisions from which they stand to gain financially. It also tightened restrictions on nepotism and established an ethics board.
"It's the most sweeping ethics ordinance we've ever passed," Rybak said in a recent interview. He said he remains dissatisfied with how campaigns are financed. But Rybak and aide Peter Wagenius said they concluded early on that state law preempts local efforts to tighten campaign laws, and they said they found little enthusiasm among legislators for allowing the city to enact tighter limits. "There wasn't a lot of appetite for it," Rybak said.
Campaign reform faltered
There's disagreement on what the state already allows. Minnesota Senate Counsel Peter Watson said that the city can't tighten disclosure requirements but may impose tighter contribution limits. The state law governing elections in Hennepin County and its larger cities allows them to adopt their own contribution limits. Hamline University election law Prof. David Schultz said he thinks the city can go further in both areas.
Rybak's 2001 idea to bar off-year fundraising represents another reform that didn't happen. He hosted just such an event at the end of his second year in office and never looked back, raising a total of $135,434 in his non-election years; last year he pulled in the most yet: $40,555.
In any event, some attorneys say that Rybak's original proposal to bar such fundraising wouldn't have been constitutional.
The mayor said he has discovered since taking office that he needs a modest sum annually for campaign-related expenses, such as communicating with voters, and traveling to political conventions or supporting candidates such as Howard Dean or Barack Obama. "You need a lot of resources that shouldn't come out of public resources," he said.
Rybak in 2001 wanted candidates to disclose all contributions, but he hasn't done so in the campaign reports he's filed with Hennepin County. The law doesn't require disclosure of contributions of $100 or less, but 2001 candidate Rybak declared: "I'm ready to do so." He said recently that he'll start doing so by the end of this campaign.
Running with the PAC
The 2001 Rybak said that turning down contributions from political action committees and from "special interests seeking big city subsidies" meant that "I'll be able to walk into City Hall with no strings attached."
He has taken contributions this year from PACS affiliated with law firms, labor unions and tribal groups. He has also accepted them from developers who have proposed city-assisted projects. He has taken contributions from several lawyers at the Lockridge Grindal Nauen firm, which has city contracts for outside legal work and Washington lobbying.
Rybak said he has changed his position from rejecting contributions from certain groups -- a 2001 spokeswoman said he'd turned back more than $10,000 -- to disclosing them so that people can make up their own minds.
He said he focuses on policy issues and is not involved with the city's purchases of goods and services. He said he does little development dealmaking, despite claiming in 2001 that he could negotiate tougher with developers than Sayles Belton. However, he does have the power to sign or veto council actions on purchasing or development deals.
Rybak isn't the first office seeker to change his standards once elected. Hennepin County Board Chairman Mike Opat ousted an incumbent in 1992 after saying he'd stay no more than 10 years, not take PAC money and not raise money except in election years. Opat also sought a ban on contributions from people doing business with the county.
Since then he has taken PAC money, raised almost $8,000 in his most recent off-year, and is in his 17th year in office.
Rybak's fundraising has intensified. He raised almost $260,000 through Sept. 1, despite facing only lightly financed challengers. That's over $14,000 more than he'd raised at the same point in 2005 when he faced a much better-known and better-financed opponent -- Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin. And state law prohibits Rybak from shifting cash to a potential gubernatorial bid.
Still, Rybak said he's dissatisfied with the fundraising system. "I'm very frustrated by how we continue to finance campaigns," he said. "I don't think it's healthy to have campaigns financed the way we do."
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After getting dumped by her sugar daddy, a degenerate junior high teacher, Cameron Diaz, sets her sights on the rich new substitute. Co-stars Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake. Opens June 24.
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UC Irvine coach Turner apologizes for remarks about player
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Oregon beats UC Irvine 73-54 to advance to Sweet 16
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Cal fires coach Wyking Jones after 2 8-win seasons
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NCAA Latest: Oregon tops UC Irvine for last spot in Sweet 16
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Where's Cinderella? Favorites dominating in NCAA 2nd round
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UC Irvine dubs assistant as its own 'Sister Jean' in NCAAs
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No. 13 seed UC Irvine upsets Kansas State 70-64
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NCAA tournament teams in San Jose content to slow it down
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Robert Cartwright had 17 points to lead five UC Irvine players in double figures as the Anteaters defeated Long Beach State 75-67 in the...
UC Irvine beats UC Riverside 63-44 in Big West tourney
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Collin Welp came off the bench to score 15 points and lead UC Irvine to a 63-44 win over UC Riverside in the quarterfinals of the Big West...
Leonard lifts UC Irvine over CSU Northridge 86-74
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IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Evan Leonard had 17 points as UC Irvine extended its win streak to 13 games, beating Cal State Northridge 86-74 on Saturday night. ...
Welp, Leonard lead UC Irvine past Cal Poly 110-72
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Collin Welp had 19 points as UC Irvine won its 12th consecutive game, romping past Cal Poly 110-72 on Thursday night. ...
UC Irvine wins Big West crown, beats UC Riverside 68-47
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At the EuroBLECH trade fair Bystronic is presenting a networked automation solution for the cutting, bending and sorting of sheet metal products. An interview with Bystronic CEO Alex Waser.
Mr. Waser, in what direction is the sheet metal processing business developing with the current trend towards digitalization?
Sheet metal processing is becoming more versatile than ever before. In future, digital solutions will enable our customers to produce both large and small series using flexible systems. What is more, the manufacturing process will become more transparent. In future, users will prepare offers faster, carry out detailed simulations of their manufacturing processes in advance, and while their production processes are running they will be supported by monitoring systems that provide real-time information. All this will result in an optimization of costs and processes. And this in turn, is the prerequisite for sustainable competitive success.
What highlights is Bystronic presenting at the EuroBLECH exhibition?
With the Production Cell, Bystronic is showing a fully-automated solution for the cutting and bending of sheet metal products. With this solution, we integrate laser cutting, material handling, sorting, bending, process monitoring, and MES concepts into a networked production environment. Bystronic has never before offered such a comprehensive automation solution. What makes the Production Cell so unique is its compactness and versatility. It has room on our exhibition booth, and thanks to its modular design, it can be integrated into a wide variety of manufacturing environments. Another new factor in this context is that Bystronic is taking over FMG. With this specialist company for material handling and warehouse solutions, we are increasing the depth of our portfolio with valuable know-how.
What innovations are you presenting in the field of laser cutting?
We are enhancing our high-end platform ByStar Fiber
with a 10 kilowatt laser source. This opens up hitherto unachieved cutting
speeds. For all users who focus uncompromisingly on fiber laser technology,
this primarily provides one benefit: a competitive edge.
And we are presenting another innovation on the ByStar Fiber. Bystronic has developed a new cutting head for fiber laser cutting. This enables us to optimally integrate the 10 kilowatt speed into the cutting process. We want our customers to be fast and to produce with high quality.
What role does software play in an increasingly automated and digitalized manufacturing world?
Software helps our customers to plan, interlink, monitor, and optimize all their processes. Hence, with BySoft 7, we offer a comprehensive solution that integrates all our machine systems and the associated process steps. Moreover, we will continue to enhance our range of software. With new solutions in the field of MES. With immediate effect, we are working in close partnership with the IT specialist Lantek.
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There is so much more to health than just what and how much we eat and exercise. In fact, the lifestyle component encompasses over 50% of our total health which is definitely a component to pay attention to. That is why I wanted to talk about how to create a healthy morning routine.
While everything in life seems to spin at the speed of light, we struggle to maintain a schedule, find time to live healthy and make everyone happy in our lives. We often forget that the very thing making our life happen is the breath inside of us. I'm not opposed to pouring energy into work, family and things you love, in fact I am so for it I want more of you to give, but the only way that you can be, do and give more is if you have more.
You have to fill yourself up in order for that to overflow abundantly to other things. So often we forget that. We forget that without restoring our own personal body, spirits and minds we will run ourselves into the ground or worse, live a passive, complacent life.
Today we're just talking about how to fill you up so that you can fully do, be and give more to the things you love and cherish of this world. We're talking about creating a morning routine.
Habitual literally means the regular, usual, constant, persistent and continual things you do. The habits you have.
If you're like me, you've been striving to create healthy habits for what seems like your entire life. Unfortunately we live in the do this, be better, do more society that has really crushed all confidence that we can be that disciplined, happy and healthy individual you occasionally see roaming the earth.
There are so many values to a morning routine that far exceed most diet and exercise choices you will make in a day. Not to mention a morning routine is something you should enjoy, value and cherish. Research has shown time and time again that how you start your day is typically how you end your day.
The bottom line, how you start your day is typically how you end your day. If you want your day to go well. If you're looking for success, drive, joy, happiness and peace of mind, there is no better way to kick that off than starting your day with a well established morning routine.
It is critical to remember a morning routine is not a habit I want you to strive for but a discipline you do daily, and there's that pesky D-word coming out.
There are a million different ways you could create a morning routine. From length of time, to what you do, where you do it to what you wear. Yes, every detail could vary. That is the fun part, creating "you" time, alone time, time to regroup, refresh and restore to start your day.
You can do whatever you like and need within your morning routine as long as you stick to the one and only rule. That rule is simply this; just do it and do it daily.
This means you have discipline to set your alarm and actually get up without hitting snooze. You have to be disciplined to put away the distractions, not work or get bogged down by your to-do list. Discipline to own this time as restorative, healing and revitalizing so ultimately you have more of yourself to give.
There are a lot of ways to create a morning routine. It may take some trial and error before you find something that works for you. By all means, remember we're not looking for perfection, because you won't find it. Instead just focus on the morning routine you've created and accomplish what you can that day. Here are a few tips to creating the perfect routine:
- Start by writing out what an ideal morning looks like. This could be your dream morning. What you wished you could do and accomplish in the morning hours before the world wakes up.
- Take that list and make time commitments to each activity. That means jotting down how long it will take you to shower, workout, pray, read, or whatever activities are on your dream list.
- Determine what time you would have to wake up to complete your dream morning. Is it realistic? Then do it. Set your alarm and make it happen. If it is unrealistic continue with the tips.
- Prioritize what you really want. If you're stuck on time, just make a list of your top 2-4 things you really want to make happen and set your alarm based on that.
- Write it down. Not because you have to keep the exact schedule, but just so you know, you get comfortable with and you mentally plan to make the most of this sacred time.


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Oemf is a Lightroom preset that will enhance your photo to beautiful, warm vibrant colours and beautiful tones of green. This preset works well for photos that were taking a shady area (cold and flat).
Each of my presets comes with 9 versions of the specific preset.
- Standard version (preset name)
- Overexposed version (preset name + light)
- Underexposed version (preset name + heavy)
Each one of the above also come with zero grain, with a touch of grain, as well as lots of grain. With each one of these versions you will need less tweaking after you applied the preset.
Please do take note that Lightroom Presets will not FIX your photos and that each preset will look different on every photo, depending on the way you shoot, the light used etc. The purpose of Lightroom presets is to give you a good base to work from, saves you time and also gives newbie Lightroom users an advantage to creating professional looking images.
For the best results, you need to shoot in RAW and apply these presets to RAW images. Please also have a look at the before and after, to choose the best suitable presets for yourself.
How to import presets:
- Before you can import presets into Lightroom, you must un-zip the downloaded preset file.
- Open Lightroom
- Navigate to "Develop"
- On the left, in the Preset tab, Right Click and select "New Folder"
- Name the folder after the preset batch you've purchased and are importing.
- Right Click on the folder you've created and select "Import"
- Navigate to the desired preset folder
- Batch select all presets within the folder and select "Import"
- Now you can begin editing.


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Does NOT actually damage stone, my pen is proof.
More Ravager Encountering Tips
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Travels in packs like a hyaenodon. Have a bola ready or be prepared to run because they are like hyaenodons on steroids with a superiority complex.
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Super fast creatures and can jump so be careful. They travel in packs
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The highest level one in a group will be the alpha, similar to Direwolves.
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They roam in packs and are pack boosted. They also do bleed damage.
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Jumps, does bleed, travles in packs, can be bola, takes lots to trank, cooked ovis is king, halves resource weight, walks freely on ziplines, resuced fall damage, and looks amazing.


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Labor Strikes Again In South Africa; Goldminers Spared, For Now
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South African platinum miners started strikes again today, hitting Anglo American Platinum, Impala Platinum and Lonmin, three of the world's top platinum producers.
Platinum price remained firm, because we already have a good inventory, reportedReuters:
Spot platinum was down 0.3 percent on the day to $1,448.40 per ounce by 1223 GMT, while bullion gained 1 percent to $1,248.11 after falling earlier to $1,231.36.
Analysts said the market was largely sanguine on the action, seeing little real lasting impact.
"This is possibly more posturing by AMCU, and maybe they will accept some sort of compromise settlement and leave it at that," Societe Generale analyst Robin Bhar said.
"The three main producers have built up some inventory, knowing about intermittent strikes, so there's no panic in the market as consumers and end-users are covered," he added.
First Trust ISE Global Platinum Index Fund (PLTM) was down 0.7% this morning.
There were talks of labor strikes in the gold mines too, but the gold miners managed to avert that by challenging the labor union AMCU in court. "Gold producers challenged the legality of AMCU strikes that were scheduled to begin January 23 and now will be delayed until January 30. If the strike is eventually considered illegal, the AMCU would be forced to convince members to strike when they can be fired for doing so. It is reasonable that they would look to see how the strikes at the platinum mines go before moving forward," said David Mazza, Head of ETF Investment Strategy at State Street.
South African gold miners advanced this morning. AngloGold Ashanti (AU) gained 5.2%; Harmony Gold (HMY), 3.9%; Gold Fields (GFI), 3%; Sibanye Gold (SBGL), 2.1%.


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Get More Out of Your Internet Connection with the Right Router
The new Cisco RV180 and RV180W VPN Routers provide fast, secure access for local and remote employees
When it comes to fundamental networking components, few devices are as important as your router. The router connects your business to the rest of the world, linking your local network to the vast resources on the Internet. It allows everyone in your office to share a single connection to the Internet, and it may also help protect your business from online threats, as well as give employees remote access to your network. Before you can choose the best router for your small business, you need to know what you want it to do for your network. Now that the Internet has become crucial to most companies' day-to-day business operations, you need to know how your company uses its Internet connection. Here are some questions to consider:
- Are employees asking to access business applications or other network resources when they're working from home or on the road?
- Do employees send and receive large files via email or an FTP website?
- Do you offer streaming videos for customers?
- Do you plan to install an IP-based voice system?
- Do you want to beef up your network security?
The right small business router can help you get the most out of your Internet connection. And, if it's made for a small business, the router should also be easy to install and work right out of the box. Cisco's line of RV Series Routers meets these criteria. The latest in Cisco's Small Business RV Series Routers, the Cisco RV180 VPN Router and the RV180W Multifunction VPN Router , are affordable, secure, high-performance routers that support even advanced features that your business can grow into.
Built for business Both of the RV180 models are designed to meet a range of small business connectivity needs. The RV180W is a multipurpose wireless router with an integrated high-speed Wireless-N access point that can also act as either a repeater or a bridge in your wireless network.
As the name implies, the RV180 routers have a built-in secure VPN. It's an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) VPN that can connect both individual users and multiple offices to your local network. It uses enterprise-class encryption and authentication and supports IPSec and Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) VPN client connections, as well as IPSec gateway-to-gateway VPN tunnels. The RV180 routers can support as many as 10 VPN connections at once. Employees should use the Cisco QuickVPN client to securely connect to the office network through the router.
Other security features include an integrated firewall to block dangerous traffic from entering your network and content filtering to block objectionable websites, keywords, and applications. The RV180W supports Wi-Fi security standards, too. You can also use the RV180 models to create separate VLANs, either to create a safe way for guests to access the Internet separate from the rest of your network, or to control employees' access to sensitive data or particular applications.
In addition, these routers have a built-in 4-port Gigabit Ethernet managed switch that delivers fast data transfer for bandwidth-intensive applications. It includes quality-of-service (QoS) features that let you give critical applications, like voice and video, enough bandwidth to always run at optimal speeds.
Like all new Cisco network hardware, the RV180 routers also have native support for IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol. You can use this router to begin establishing a presence on the IPv6-based Internet today, or use it in the future when new IPv6-based networking applications come out.
No matter what you need from your Internet connection, an advanced small business router like the RV180 or the RV180W can help you meet those goals. These routers offer out-of-the-box reliable connectivity and secure access to both local and remote employees, and they let you expand at the pace that's right for your business.
What do you need from your router and Internet connection?
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Right router connection is very ok but not everybody knows much about it. People needs to be educated.


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Rum Review: Appleton 151 Dark Jamaican Rum
Posted by Arctic Wolf on March 6, 2010
I am going off on a side rung today as I continue to review the ladder of Appleton Estate Rums. I call this a side rung because the Appleton 151 Dark Jamaican Rum is not part of the progressive ladder I have been following from the Entry Level Appleton VX up to the rare old Appleton 21 Year Old Rum. As well this rum is no longer advertised on the Appleton Estate Website. I am unsure whether the rum is in production anymore, although a friend of mine who visited Jamaica told me it was still available and was a local favourite amongst Jamaicans.
I cannot verify the claim, but I am confident enough of its veracity that I am going ahead with my review.
Here is an excerpt:
"…Sweet burly molasses and spice is about all I can say at this point as the strength of the alcohol numbs the palate before much else can be deciphered. I let everything sit in my mouth for a little while and decide that the flavour is quite complicated, but as I mentioned, the heavy alcohol strength has numbed my ability to distinguish anything individual…."
For the complete review please click on the following Link:
Review: Appleton 151 Dark Jamaican Rum
I did a little mixology research for this review and found two nice punch constructions which I used with the Appleton Dark Jamaican Rum to great effect.The Punch recipes are "forrest Approved", and I think you will enjoy them!
I must also thank the Edmonton chapter of The RUM CHUMS for providing this sample for me to review. Thanks guys I appreciate all the help you provide!
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Greghead1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 20 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Soldtotenant.ca is company that offers home ownership solutions to people who are not able to obtain conventional financing. Our solutions focus on preparing the tenant buyer to be in a position to purchase the property they are living at the end of term through financial education and building a plan with them along side our team of Mortgage professionals.
Home renters who value the dream of owning their own home one day. Our ideal target market is individuals, couples or families who want to own their own home but are not able to qualify through conventional financing.
This site must have the following impact on our audience:
1. Have a very clean and professional look to it.
2. A trustworthy and friendly image. Unlike a stuffy banking website, that is definitely not the look we want
3. Our logo (see attached) must be used and colors incorporated
Feel free to unleash your creativity!
High level design requirements include:
1) Video (youtube) on the front page, centred in the middle. We want people to watch the video as soon as they land on the page.
2) Download free report by entering email address. Would like to show an icon of a report (see example from http://www.leasetoowncalgary.com).
3) Featured Listings - Would like space to show 3 featured listings on the side somewhere. Again, have a look at some of the listed websites below for examples.
4) BBB logo. Better Business Bureau accreditation logo (will include in attachments). This should be highly visible.
5) Phone number 1-555-555-5555 (will provide real number once it is obtained) should be always highly visible at the top somewhere
6) Facebook and Twitter links to our facebook page and twitter page (those pages not yet setup)
7) Ability for users to post our site to their facebook and twitter accounts (this should go somewhere out of the way at the bottom)
8) Apply Now link, somewhere visible on the side that allows users to jump directly to the application page
Site map will include the following, with sub pages under some of them. The sub pages will be determined later on.
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Here are examples of our competition's websites. We want our site to stand out as a much more professional and trustworthy image:


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Just a quick update.
The other day, I pushed a patch to the Haskell
base library that will enable kind polymorphism for the
Category type class. That change will come to the public when GHC 7.8.1 is released.
This is a simple change that makes Category far more general, while not breaking any code already out there. (The change was originally proposed by none other than Edward Kmett, although he's not the only one wanting it.)
Out with the old, in with the new
The typical definition of
Category looks like:
class Category cat where
id :: cat a a
(.) :: cat b c -> cat a b -> cat a c
Which is all great. But there's a problem with this. By default, the type variable
cat has a kind something like
(cat :: * -> * -> *) - meaning a
Category can only be created from types where
a and
b are of kind
This isn't very rich or expressive. In fact, there are many legal
Category instances which cannot be created with the above definition, as the parameters (
a and
b) are of a more exotic kind - for example, not of kind
* but of kind
(*,*) - the kind of promoted tuples.
Luckily for us, GHC has kind polymorphism. So we just needed to enable it. This is a completely backwards compatible change as well.
With that little addition of
LANGUAGE PolyKinds, we can now host much richer instances of
Category. With
-XPolyKinds, kind generalization occurs automatically. So at pretty much no cost, the change turned:
class Category (cat :: * -> * -> *) where
class Category (cat :: k -> k -> *) where
where the
k stands for a kind variable, and can be instantiated to various new kinds, not just
In GHC 7.8, if you ask for the kind of
Category, you will get:
Prelude> import Control.Category
Prelude Control.Category> :i Category
class Category (k :: BOX) (cat :: k -> k -> *) where
Control.Category.id :: cat a a
(Control.Category..) :: cat b c -> cat a b -> cat a c
-- Defined in 'Control.Category'
instance Category * (->) -- Defined in 'Control.Category'
Prelude Control.Category> :k Category
Category :: (k -> k -> *) -> Constraint
Prelude Control.Category>
(For the curious: the
(k :: BOX) annotation cannot be given explicitly, and is a form introduced as a result of
PolyKinds, where kind parameters are introduced 'implicitly' in their definition.)
Logical entailment
There's a simple instance of
Category which we already know and love: the instance for function types. Let the type variable
cat become
(->) and we get:
id :: cat a a
= { given the equality, cat = (->) }
id :: (->) a a
= { by syntactic equality }
id :: a -> a
(.) :: cat b c -> cat a b -> cat a c
= { given the equality, cat = (->) }
(.) :: ((->) b c) -> ((->) a b) -> ((->) a c)
= { by syntactic equality }
(.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> (a -> c)
And these are the regular types of
Prelude.id and
(Prelude..), so:
instance Category (->) where
id = Prelude.id
(.) = (Prelude..)
Another example Edward brought up though, is logical entailment (or logical implication.) This is an entertaining example because it's easy and looks very similar to the above types. With modern GHC features, we can formulate this using the new
Constraint kind.
Dict be the ultimate reified dictionary, using a GADT:
data Dict :: Constraint -> * where
Dict :: ctx => Dict ctx
Given a term of type
Dict x, we can witness the constraint
x. Max Bolingbroke wrote some stuff about this trick when he implemented
Now, let the type
a |- b read 'a entails b', implemented as:
newtype (|-) a b = Sub (a => Dict b)
I'll get to the explanation in a moment. If we peer through the looking glass we can see the term
Sub Dict as a kind of evidence that some statement
a |- b holds. So now there are some obvious statements we can make about entailment. For one, there is the simple property of reflexivity: "if
a, then
a", or in other words
a |- a:
reflexive :: a |- a
reflexive = Sub Dict
Another property is transitivity. Given the implication
a |- b, and
b |- c, we can derive the statement
a |- c.
First, we must introduce a helper. Given a term
r which requires context
b, we may derive a term
r requiring context
a, iff
a |- b.
In other words, we may substitute the constraint under which a given term occurs:
(\\) :: a => (b => r) -> (a |- b) -> r
r \\ Sub Dict = r
Remember the definition of
(|-) which is
Sub (a => Dict b). Given a dictionary of
b, we automatically derive the constituent
a for the constraint.
Dict will imply the constraint
b, but
Dict is a term, and thus we can 'peel it off' by abandoning the
Dict like the above, leaving only
Now we can define the property of transitivity:
transitive :: (b |- c) -> (a |- b) -> (a |- c)
transitive f g = Sub (Dict \\ f \\ g)
We can view the
transitive function as taking two pieces of evidence and returning a third. We use the helper
(\\) to 'build' the final evidence piecewise: first we get
Dict \\ f which replaces
c for
b, and then we replace
b for the constraint
a. This then 'trivially' witnesses the fact we can replace
c for
But these definitions are the exact instances of
Category for
(|-), and they directly mirror the instances for
(->) too:
id :: a -> a
reflexive :: a |- a
(.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> (a -> c)
transitive :: (b |- c) -> (a |- b) -> (a |- c)
And therefore:
instance Category (|-) where
id = reflexive
(.) = transitive
Note that the kind of entailment is:
(|-) :: Constraint -> Constraint -> *
With a kind-polymorphic
Category, the type
(|-) can now be a valid instance where it couldn't be before.
By the way, the above definitions are all available as part of Edward's constraints package.
This change was proposed a while ago, and could have been implemented as early as GHC 7.4 technically. But it's a nice addition to top off what will already be an awesome 7.8 release.
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Paul Casey Wins Abu Dhabi Championship
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PAUL CASEY SAW A SIX-SHOT LEAD evaporate to just one stroke at the Abu Dhabi Championship but hung on to edge Louis Oosthuizen and defending champion Martin Kaymer.
It was Casey's first win in two years, hard to believe for a guy with so much talent. Casey said he has been concentrating a lot on majors and that it may have hurt him in regular events. I saw him at the Ryder Cup and expect him to be a top player for years to come. He's only 31 and was recently married.
Here's a snippet from the post-tournament media conference:
Q. How much is this win a weight off your shoulders and also how much of a boost is it to win so early in the new year?
PAUL CASEY: Well, it felt great two years ago to win so early and then I really didn't follow it up with anything. But it feels very different this time. As you said, a bit of a weight off my shoulders. It feels great. It feels like a payoff for all of the worrying I've put in, certainly recently, the past couple of months. It shows that marriage is clearly good for me.
−The Armchair Golfer
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It's hard to believe that Casey hasn't won more on the world stage, showing only, I suppose, how really difficult it is to win out there. It makes you appreciate what Tiger has done all the more. I expect to see Casey really competing in the Majors this year but only time will tell.
- Chris@parfectgolfer said...
In some of clips I saw of Abu Dhabi, Casey looked really focused. There was a look in his eyes that struck me as clearly different, clearly in control. He's attributing it to marriage, which really makes sense if it brought stability and perhaps consistent routine to his life. Those things make the difference when you have to prepare at such an elite level. Here's just hoping that this isn't just the "honeymoon" period and that he's able to make it stick and make a great showing at some Majors! :)
- The Armchair Golfer said...
Casey does have nine wins on the Euro Tour, and he's played well in majors, with a few top tens. England's got some nice players, with Casey, Rose, Poulter and Donald. These guys are definitely capable of making some noise.
- Matt Spence said...
In recent years, I think winning at Abu Dhabi, Qatar (this week's event), and Dubai (next week) are more difficult than half of the events on the PGA tour (basically, the half that Tiger doesn't play and are therefore skipped by many other top players as well). This year that will be magnified with so many PGA Tour players becoming 'Affiliate Members' of the Euro Tour to try to cash in on the Race to Dubai.
I watched a lot of this event on the Golf Channel and Casey hit the ball great. If he were an above average putter (by tour standards), this guy may never shoot above 58 ;-)


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Kim Kardashian let it rip Friday on Instagram, mincing no hashtags in her slam of Katie Couric, whom she deemed a "fake media friend."
It all started out pleasantly enough, it seems, with Couric sending Kardashian and boyfriend Kanye West a baby gift with a note congratulating both of them and saying (as a fellow "K"?) "may I humbly suggest you continue the K tradition" in naming the baby girl. It was signed, "Fondly, Katie Couric."
So that's all well and good, right? Until Couric, in an interview with InTouch that was posted Thursday, declared that she just didn't get the Kardashian phenomenon.
"I don't understand — why are they so famous?" she posited. "I think it's mostly teenage girls that are interested."
Kimmy no like.
So Kimmy went to Instagram to post a picture of the gift and the accompanying note, captioning it with the hashtags #IHateFakeMediaFriends and #MayIHumblySuggestYouNotSendGiftsThenTalk[Trash].
Then sister Khloe Kardashian Odom chimed in, tweeting, "God I love this new side of u!" as she quoted her older sister's post and sent it along to her own bajillion Twitter followers.
But Couric's no dope. She responded within hours, with a statement Friday afternoon to E! News.
"I was responding to a reporter's question and explaining how I'm intrigued by the public's fascination with her family. I didn't mean to hurt her feelings," Couric said. "The gift is genuine, and I'm happy for Kim and Kanye."
Time will tell if Kim gets over the tiff, we suppose.
Meanwhile, the reality-TV star is not the first celeb to take a shot at Couric this month. Jennifer Aniston was on "Chelsea Lately" with Chelsea Handler, who was relating a story about chatting with Couric, and Jen asked, "What's Katie Couric? Is she a legitimate journalist? Is she getting tabloidy? Wasn't she on the 'Today' show?"
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Religion, State and Education: Turkish and American Perspectives
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
Erik Owens
Boston College
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:15pm
Location: Boston College, Boisi Center
Abstract: Turkey and the United States provide fascinating points of comparison with regard to the role of religion in public life, and particularly the role of religion in each nation's educational landscape. Turkey's government was strongly—even stridently—secular for eighty years, but in the last decade Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has led a series of major reforms to make the state and its schools more accommodating to the religious beliefs and practices of its citizens. In this talk, Owens will draw upon research and fieldwork from a recent trip to Turkey to examine why Turkish educational reforms are so controversial, and what they can tell us about our own national debate about religion, education and the state.
Erik Owens is associate director of the Boisi Center and adjunct assistant professor of theology and international studies at Boston College. His research explores a variety of intersections between religion and public life, with particular attention to the challenge of fostering the common good of a religiously diverse society. He is a contributor to and co-editor of three books: Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape (2009), Religion and the Death Penalty: A Call for Reckoning (2004) and The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics (2003), the last of which was called a "must read" by Foreign Affairs in 2009. Co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and Politics section, he also sits on the AAR's Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion and the steering committee of the AAR's "Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives" group. He received his Ph.D. in religious ethics from the University of Chicago, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. from Duke University.
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On April 9th, 2013, Turkish Parliament agreed to extend the deadline of the ongoing debate about major constitutional reforms that could have important consequences for Turkey's religious and cultural minorities.


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WASHINGTON - Jan. 31, 2011 — The United States is asking besieged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to lift the emergency police powers that have safeguarded his iron rule while focusing behind the scenes on elections this fall that could be a chance to achieve a legitimate democracy without Mubarak in control, administration officials said.
Two American officials said the U.S. government would prefer that Mubarak, 82, not run for re-election in presidential voting scheduled for September.Egyptian army says it won't use force
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of diplomacy and the difficult situation the Obama administration finds itself in.
In public, the administration would say only that elections should be open and fair.
Video: Obama confronted with major political hurdle (on this page)
"The United States government does not determine who's on the ballot," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday.
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Neither Gibbs nor State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley would say what the U.S. thinks Mubarak should do. Options include that Mubarak would step aside in favor of his newly named deputy Omar Suleiman, or announce that he will not run for re-election in the fall.
"That is not for our country or our government to determine," Gibbs said. "I don't think that people that seek greater freedom are looking for somebody else to pick what and how that change looks like."
Push for 'concrete steps,' not appointments
Washington is trying to smooth the way for a more representative government in Egypt without alienating pro-democracy protesters or its ally over three decades.
The U.S. is pressing Mubarak to institute a set of reforms as a first step toward meeting the demands of protesters clamoring for his ouster. The immediate gestures are for Mubarak to lift emergency laws in place since 1981, allow non-governmental organizations to operate and free political prisoners. Elections would follow on schedule.Video: Gibbs: Egyptian's concerns must be addressed (on this page)
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The U.S. cannot force Mubarak to accept any of those conditions, although it has leverage born of 30 years of partnership and billions in aid.
Gibbs dismissed Mubarak's move Monday to appoint a new government, saying the situation in Egypt calls for action, not appointments.
Mubarak named a new government in an apparent attempt to defuse the weeklong political upheaval in his country. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have flooded the streets, calling for his ouster.
American officials continued to wrestle with the dilemma Monday of strengthening support for peaceful demonstrations, while not completely undercutting Mubarak, whose close cooperation with the United States on Israeli-Arab peace talks and other issues has made Egypt America's most important ally in the Arab world.
A coalition of opposition groups has called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand Mubarak's removal. In an apparent attempt to defuse the weeklong political upheaval, Mubarak named a new government Monday, but the appointments were treated with scorn by demonstrators.
The United States, too, is unsatisfied with the response so far from Mubarak, officials said.
President Barack Obama called last week for "concrete steps" to expand rights, but avoided outlining the specific steps expected of Mubarak.
Part of the hesitancy is that the U.S. doesn't want to give the impression that its backing for Mubarak is contingent on a small list of reforms.
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Otherwise, a new dilemma could arise. If the Egyptian government meets U.S. expectations, does the Obama administration congratulate Mubarak and risk undercutting Egyptian democracy activists? Or, does it continue to press for greater reforms, potentially alienating an ally even while it is showing signs of becoming a democracy?
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Beginning less than two weeks after Tunisian protesters ousted their long-time president, the Egyptian unrest has had the United States in a bind since its start. The U.S. has spent billions establishing Egypt as a bulwark of American influence in the Middle East and the government's collapse could threaten efforts from an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal to counterterrorism operations and pressure on Iran.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed Sunday for an orderly transition to lasting democracy in Egypt and said U.S. officials "obviously want to see people who are truly committed to democracy, not to imposing any ideology on Egyptians."
She warned Sunday against a takeover resembling the one in Iran three decades ago, with a "small group that doesn't represent the full diversity of Egyptian society" seizing control and imposing its ideological beliefs.
The unspoken concern is that an Egyptian revolution could make American foreign policy dramatically more difficult in the Middle East.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) � Before Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to New York's famous skyline or flooded lower Manhattan, the storm came howling into dozens of other communities across the Eastern Seaboard, bringing relentless winds, drenching rain and heavy, punishing surf.
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Jessie Oonark
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Big Woman, 1974
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Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired through a grant from The McLean Foundation
Jessie Oonark, one of the best-known artists of the Canadian Arctic, has had many honours bestowed upon her, including the Order of Canada. Her drawings, prints, and wall hangings have been featured in many group and solo exhibitions, including a touring retrospective exhibition organized by the WAG in 1986. She began drawing shortly after moving to Baker Lake in 1955, and her experience as a talented seamstress is apparent in her approach to design. She compresses many visual ideas into strong single images, and in this print the Inuit amautik, or mother's parka, assumes the force of a feminine symbol. Traditional facial tattoos and the crescent-shaped woman's knife, or ulu, projecting from each side of the woman's head are also cultural attributes associated with Inuit women.
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great hat
Love this hat -- it's lightweight so it's great for really hot days.
Fabulous Wide Brim Hat
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
I love this hat. It offers tons of sun protection with its wide brim and has a really classy look to it. I wear it with sundresses in the summer or at the beach or on the river. Its the perfect hat for many occasions.
A great standard sunhat.
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
- Fit: True to size
- Height: 6'0"
- Weight: 175lbs
I got this for a friend's birthday gift. She's a fan of big hats so I thought this was right up her alley. She loves this thing, wears it all the time. She said she likes it because it's not too floppy, but still has a nice wide brim that keeps the sun out of her eyes. She has blond hair and the natural color looks really good on her. Tip: make sure to measure your head before buying. I had my girlfriend measure hers so we could make sure to get the right size - I wouldn't think my girlfriend had a big head, but she ended up needing a large! We went with the large for this gift and my friend said it fits perfectly.
Love this hat..
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I frequently wear this hat when I know I will be out in the sun. It may be made out of straw but it is still of decent quality and I would get another one if need be. Overall very happy with this purchase.
Fashion hat
Nothing more than a damn good looking hat. I've worn this to the pool, to parties, errands... I purchased all these hats and ended up keeping the Natural with the white pin stripe ribbon. Casey's right (review below), it's only glued on and you can't really pack it unless you really strategically go about it. But for something to throw on while you're playing in the sun, it's awesome. They do make great hats. I love the shape the most. I didn't want a huge floppy hat that you can't see out of. This has a beautiful shaped brim and every lady comments on it.
Try it out. It's a pretty fancy accessory!
Glued-on band.
The band of the hat peeling off a bit.
Didn't quite nail it.
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
- Fit: True to size
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When I bought this hat I told myself I should spring for one of the more expensive sun hats because then I?d only have to purchase a hat once, instead of destroying a cheap sun hate every summer like I had been. Boy was I wrong. The side bar lists the material as ?textile? but when I received the hat I was disappointed to discovered that the hat was made of paper straw like all the $20 sun hats I?d destroyed, and while it does seem to be made of a higher quality paper straw than I am used to, I am still a bit skeptical of its durability. Additionally the band around the base of the hat is glued on and after a few uses has already started peeling off.
It is a really cute hat though.
Little frustrated but a great hat.
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
- Fit: True to size
I LOVED this hat, tried two colors but the pin stripe and the color combos didn't work for my wardrobe. Fits great and and not to floppy and held shape well!
Also I wear a 7 1/2 in hats, yeah big, I know. But the Large fit great.


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From Lobby to Sky Bar, Meyer Sound Low-Voltage Systems Enchant Guests at Five-Star Qatar Hotel
Soaring 300 meters over Qatar's capital of Doha, The Torch Doha—one of the Middle East's newest five-star hotels—captivates guests with luxury and a flair for aesthetic refinement. Throughout the hotel's public spaces, the elegant décor is complemented by music that flows through an extensive (yet discreet) installation of 195 Meyer Sound low-voltage self-powered loudspeakers and 55 miniature subwoofers.
"Meyer Sound's low-voltage systems were the only solution that could meet the stringent requirements for full spectrum audio including extremely compact enclosures, wide frequency response with ultra-low distortion, high SPL-to-size ratio, superior speech intelligibility, custom color finishes, and flexible mounting options," says system designer and project manager, Pradeep Kumar of Doha-based AVtech, the integrator for all the hotel's music systems.
A particularly challenging space for controlled, quality sound was a 20-meter high lobby atrium, for which Kumar specified ten MM-4XPD directional self-powered loudspeakers. Other lobby and reception areas are served by MM-4XP self-powered loudspeakers and MM-10 miniature subwoofers.
Ceiling systems throughout the hotel's Three Sixty revolving restaurant, meeting rooms, health clubs, and business center employ a total of 109 low-voltage Stella-4C loudspeakers, while a quartet of robust UPJunior VariO loudspeakers take care of the lofty cantilevered pool area and the Sky bar. A total of 31 sleek, surface-mount Stella-4 loudspeakers blend with the décor in the sushi restaurant, lounges, and bars, with additional MM-10 subwoofers filling in the lower octaves. A Galileo loudspeaker management system with a Galileo 616 processor optimizes audio response in the acoustically challenging lobby zone.
The low-voltage loudspeakers receive both audio signal and remote DC powering from rack-mount power supplies, featuring two MPS-481 and seven MPS-488HP 48V DC units, as well as 12 Stella-188 18V DC units deployed around the installation.
"The hotel management is extremely happy with the quality of the Meyer Sound system," Kumar reports. "It was more than they expected. Every detail of the music is crystal clear, even at low levels that allow guests to comfortably engage in conversation."
"It is a wonderful system," adds Sherif Sabry, The Torch Doha's director of sales and marketing. "The sound quality is very high throughout, and we are pleased that there is no echo in the very high lobby atrium."
In addition to Meyer Sound products, the venue also features an Allen & Heath iDR-8 that handles mixing and matrixing of local audio sources in the meeting rooms, while AV switching is assigned to an Extron SMX System MultiMatrix.
The 167 luxurious rooms of The Torch Doha occupy 17 floors of the Aspire Tower, an iconic symbol built for the 2006 Asian Games held in the surrounding Aspire Zone sports complex. Architect Hadi Simaan, in association with AREP and Ove Arup & Partners engineers, designed the Aspire Tower building. The Torch Doha hotel project—with architecture design by Karim Azzabi and interior design by Artline R+M & Associates of Doha—was completed in 2011.


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Brazil sacked coach Dunga on Tuesday after the Selecao failed to get out of the group stage at the Copa America Centenario.
Peru eliminated Brazil with a 1-0 result on Sunday thanks to a controversial goal that appeared to come off the hand of striker Raul Ruidiaz.
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Raul Ibanez's 3-run double leads Angels over Nats 4-2
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first major league matchup featuring twentysomething stars Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, it was a guy born two decades earlier, Raul Ibanez, who came through with the biggest hit.
And after delivering a tiebreaking three-run double as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning to help Trout's Los Angeles Angels beat Harper's Washington Nationals 4-2 Friday, the 41-year-old Ibanez was showered with a particular nickname when he returned to the dugout.
"After he got that hit, we were calling him `Viejo,' — `Old' in Spanish," Trout said with a smile.
Ibanez might be, um, much more experienced than many of his teammates, but he happens to be leading the Angels this season with 15 RBIs.
Raul Ibanez just changed the tone of this game in a matter of seconds. Watch: http://t.co/VbTdpAzBO2 #Angels
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"These guys make me feel young," he said about his teammates with the Angels, his fifth club in a 19-year career. "And I have five kids at home. They're 12 and under, and I'm the biggest kid in the house, really. I feel right at home around these guys who are 22, 24, 25 years old. They definitely keep you young."
He came through on a night that Trout and Harper went a combined 2 for 8 with zero runs or RBIs, and Albert Pujols went 0 for 5, staying on 498 homers.
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The 22-year-old Trout, the 2012 AL Rookie of the Year and a two-time MVP runner-up, was 2 for 5 with a pair of singles. The 21-year-old Harper, the 2012 NL rookie honoree, was 0 for 3 with a walk. The two outfielders became pals while teammates in the Arizona Fall League in 2011 and chatted with each other before the game.
Neither recent first-round pick in the amateur draft — Trout was No. 25 overall in 2009, Harper was No. 1 a year later — was much of a factor once play began, though. Instead, all eyes were on Ibanez, taken in the 36th round in 1992.
"He's been around the block," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said.
Fernando Salas (1-0) won with a hitless seventh.
Joe Smith worked the eighth and Ernesto Frieri pitched the ninth to earn his second save, despite allowing Desmond's leadoff homer. Frieri struck out Denard Span with a man on second to end it.
The Nationals led 1-0 entering the eighth, when they brought in reliever Tyler Clippard (1-2). Pujols led off and reached on the first of shortstop Ian Desmond's two errors in the inning. Later, Erick Aybar's third hit of the night scored Pujols to even it.
After Clippard walked Chris Iannetta to load the bases — "The biggest thing that hurt me," the reliever said — the lefty-hitting Ibanez came up.
"Everybody likes being up in that spot," said Ibanez, the second-oldest player in the majors, behind Cleveland's Jason Giambi, 43. "That's what you play for, that's what you compete for — to try to be up in that spot — since you were a kid in the backyard playing."
Raul is in high demand after the game #Angels pic.twitter.com/OZ4o7KhUuz
— Eric Kay (@EKayAngels) April 22, 2014
Nationals manager Matt Williams did not have a lefty reliever ready to go, in anticipation of Ibanez being used there, because he wanted Clippard to get through that inning.
"Clip's been the eighth-inning guy here for a long time," Williams said. "Certainly (his) track record indicates that he's good against lefties. He's just as effective against left-handers as he is right-handers. So I want to stay with him there."
Ibanez, without a hit in his previous 11 at-bats, connected on a changeup, Clippard's specialty.
"It is a pitch I'm getting hurt on," Clippard said, and wondered aloud about whether he's tipping his pitches to opponents.
NOTES: Angels 3B David Freese, who is hitting .143 with a .197 on-base percentage, was out of the starting lineup and struck out as a pinch hitter in the seventh. … The Angels recalled LHP Nick Maronde from Triple-A Salt Lake. He fills the roster spot opened up when the Angels optioned RHP Josh Wall to Salt Lake on Sunday.


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Remote Virtual Machine Installation
Enable creating virtual machines on properly configured remote hosts.
- Name: ColeRobinson
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 10
- Last updated: August 11, 2008
- Percentage of completion: 60%
Detailed Description
Fully support remote guest creation in virt-install and virt-manager. This entails allowing a way to specify existing managed storage on the remote connection, or provisioning new storage on an existing pool at install time. Install methods are either PXE or a managed cdrom.
Ideally coupled with this will be better remote connection support: use libvirt's avahi advertising to search for potential remote connections when adding a connection in virt-manager.
Benefit to Fedora
Remote VM installation isn't for everyone but it's pretty compelling for folks managing more than one physical machine for virtualization. A central box can be used to do all provisioning, where previously an admin would have to interact directly with the host. This will also encourage interested users to manage their storage and installation media using libvirt's storage capabilities, whose benefits are outlined at the VirtStorage feature page.
Changes are largely limited to python-virtinst (virt-install) and virt-manager. Infrastructure is already present in libvirt, excluding necessary bug fixes. This will augment existing local guest creation by adding the option to choose managed storage rather than specifying a path manually, but the remote case is an entirely new feature.
Test Plan
- Follow steps in test plan for VirtStorage to create storage on a remote host
- Use virt-manager and virt-install for each of the following on the remote host:
- Test install methods --pxe and --cdrom with managed storage
- Test with vm storage as a an existing volume
- Test with vm storage allocated on an existing pool
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Users will no longer need to log into individual machines to provision VMs. Adding remote connections to virt-manager will be largely automated through polling for connections on the local network.
- libvirt: storage support (Done)
- python-virtinst
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- virtinst api extensions to support managed storage (Done)
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- Use extended virtinst apis for remote storage management during install (in progress)
- Poll avahi for remote libvirt instances when adding a connection (in progress)
Contingency Plan
Ordered priorities for incomplete items:
- virt-install managed storage interface
- basic virt-manager managed storage support (use existing interface, check to see if specified path is managed on host)
- avahi libvirt polling
- thorough virt-manager storage integration (basically replace all File Chooser dialogs with a pool + volume listing, with option for local file chooser and allocating storage on existing pools)
As needed, chop off pieces from the bottom on up. The first two parts are required for this feature, the others will make the experience much cleaner.
virt-install remote support patches and discussion Wiki pages to be written once interfaces land.
Release Notes
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From the South, New Braunfels is the dividing line north to Nottingham; then west to Broadway (both sides of Nottingham between New Braunfels and Broadway will be zoned to Woodridge); then North on Broadway (both sides to Cambridge) until Sunset; then North on Broadway (both sides to Woodridge) until Ridgecrest; then West on Ridgecrest to Everest (both sides of Ridgecrest, including the Ridgecrest apartments, to Cambridge) then South on Everest (both sides to Woodridge) to Sandalwood; then West on Sandalwood (both side to Cambridge) to the Railroad tracks; North to 410.
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Ballroom glamour, gypsy gusto and Tchaikovsky
Karina Smirnoff didn't just pop into her sequins out of nowhere, you know.
There's a reason that she and a string of the other high-octane performers who partner with the celebs on "Dancing With the Stars" have come from Russia or Ukraine. Over there, ballroom dancing has been red-hot for generations.
It will heat up the opening day of Charlotte's Ulysses arts festival, too, along with gypsy dancing, "Dark Eyes" and a host of other symbols of Russia and its neighbors.
The Russians are coming - along with Ukrainians, Belorussians and others - to the Levine Museum of the New South on Saturday. The family-friendly community day launches a monthlong celebration of Russian culture and, especially, one of its best-known incarnations: Tchaikovsky, the composer of ballets, symphonies and other beloved works.
In March, N.C. Dance Theater will perform "Sleeping Beauty." Opera Carolina will stage "Eugene Onegin." The Charlotte Symphony will showcase the charm and storminess of Tchaikovsky's orchestra works.
Performers from those groups will offer brief samples of that Saturday. But the day will mainly be devoted to the likes of folksingers, gypsy performers and cooks - and ballroom dancers.
Americans may not associate Russians with the world of ballroom flashiness. But where they come from, every town has a dance school, says Tatyana Thulien, a Charlotte resident raised in Ukraine. What's the attraction?
"It's beautiful," Thulien says. "It allows you to incorporate everything in your body and soul for self-realization, to get the best out of yourself."
The gypsy dancers will represent an earthier side of the Russian spirit - "full of fire, full of life," Thulien says. "They symbolize freedom of soul."
Besides taking in the performances, people who turn out at the Levine Museum can compete in a trivia contest about Russian history, geography and culture. Russian-speakers will teach basic words and show people how to spell their names in the Cyrillic alphabet. Kids' activities will include art, games and face-painting.
And at midday, the festival will serve up Russian food. The treats will include blinis - crepes filled with sour cream, strawberry jam or butter - followed by chocolates and cookies. Russian tea will wash it all down.
Most of the performers (and cooks) come from the Charlotte area's Russian-speaking community. Estimates of the group's size run as high as 50,000 people.
Even though they've moved far from home, Thulien says, they strive to keep the connection with "the traditions of our ancestors" - and share them with their neighbors in their adopted home.
"Politics, war and economic interests may divide people," Thulien says. "But art unites people. ... It's the best way to encourage mankind's survival on the face of the earth."


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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
SHOESday: it's all in the details
The details I love about these shoes are the straps and the t-bar strap which pulls down into a "v" shape which is echoed at the top of the strap as well (which, lets face, is more flattering for the leg as well), and that the buckle is in the shape of a bow. Now I'm not really a bows kind of person (mostly...) but the little bow is an unexpected detail, as well as being the designer's logo, which in my view makes it a nice touch.Not a great picture to get the bow detail, but you can (almost) see it there.
14 comments:
- Bells said...
Well the great shoe shopping spree of 2005 was highly successful, by all your accounts. Wow. They're unique aren't they? Such a delightful point.
I'm bearing both toe and heel today. Is that improper?
- 12 February, 2008
- The Love Collective said...
I like yer blog.
Just showing love.
- 12 February, 2008
- kms said...
nice shoes, tho how you walk in all your pointy heels i dont know. and what lovely feet you have :)
- 12 February, 2008
- Donna Lee said...
I saw a woman wearing shoes like that the other day. Now,mind you, we are deep in winter up here. She had bare legs and I got cold just looking at her. I love these shoes but have given up pointy heels since I dislocated my ankle a few years back. I need more support than that. I do love them, though.
- 12 February, 2008
- Meggy said...
Fab shoes, I am a shoe girl too but I can't wear the T-bar (due to large ankles) nice blog :)
- 12 February, 2008
- SadieandLance said...
Oo la la sexy lady!
- 12 February, 2008
- lilypotter said...
I'm always in awe of women who can wear heels. I know I'd break an ankle or something, which is too bad because I'm really short and I'm thinking heels might help that.
Yours are stylin' though!
- 12 February, 2008
- MadMad said...
Very pretty!
- 12 February, 2008
- TinkingBell said...
Oh Nice! Love the t-batr and you have to love those gorgeous straps - mmmmmm!!!
- 12 February, 2008
- Sarah said...
Love the details
- 12 February, 2008
- Liz said...
They are SERIOUSLY gorgeous shoes. And I'm a serious connosieur!!
I have added you as a link, hope it's ok. I'm having a blogoversary competition, so come on over and visit!
- 12 February, 2008
- Nora said...
Man, that was some spree! These are stunning.
- 12 February, 2008
Since I'm on a chocolate brown kick, these shoes are especially gorgeous.
- 13 February, 2008
- Snoozen said...
Simply stunning shoes, did you leave any shoes in Singapore after that shopping expedition...
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Metformin does not improve heart function in patients without diabetes
Although some research has suggested that metformin, a medication often used in the treatment of diabetes, may have favorable effects on ventricular (heart) function, among patients without diabetes who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; a procedure such as stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; a certain pattern on an electrocardiogram following a heart attack), treatment with metformin did not result in improved ventricular function, according to a JAMA study released online to coincide with its presentation at the 2014 American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions.
Treatment for STEMI includes immediate treatment with anticlotting medications and PCI to restore coronary blood flow. STEMI results in left ventricular dysfunction (decreased pump function) in up to 50 percent of patients, and approximately 20 percent to 40 percent of patients develop heart failure sometime after STEMI; heart failure after STEMI is associated with a 3 to 4 times higher risk of death. Left ventricular dysfunction is regarded as the strongest predictor for adverse outcome after STEMI, according to background information in the article.
Chris P. H. Lexis, M.D., of the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands, and colleagues randomly assigned 380 patients who underwent PCI for STEMI to receive metformin hydrochloride or placebo twice daily for 4 months to determine whether metformin helps preserve left ventricular function after STEMI in patients without diabetes. Left ventricular ejection fraction (a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps blood with each contraction) was assessed by magnetic resonance imaging.
Left ventricular ejection fraction 4 months after beginning the study did not differ between the metformin group (53.1 percent) and the placebo group (54.8 percent). In addition, N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide level (a cardiac biomarker) was not different between the 2 groups.
Major adverse cardiac events were observed in 6 patients (3.1 percent) in the metformin group and in 2 patients (1.1 percent) in the placebo group.
"Because left ventricular function is currently regarded as the most important predictor of morbidity and mortality after STEMI, it is unlikely that metformin will have a significant effect on long-term outcome after STEMI in patients without diabetes," the authors write.
"The present findings do not support the use of metformin in this setting."
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I'd use #3.This is about how to ask the percentage of alcohol in a drink in casual conversation.
For example, you and your friend are in a restaurant or a bar. Your friend loves alcohol and knows a lot about it. You don't know much about alcohol. You look at the drink your friend is having, and would you say:
1. What percentage of alcohol does it contain?
2. What's the percentage?
3. How strong is it?
If the above sentences are unnatural, please tell me more natural ways to say it. Thank you.
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