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We welcome you to enjoy our canalfront upscale three bedroom two bath home. The home is clean, bright and open.
Be sure to click on our link to view the video of the wonderful home.
We have lots of dockage and a huge covered boat house. We are located in a waterfront paradise in the heart of Pine Island, just minutes to Boca Grande Pass.
There is shopping and a full service marina close by.
Boat rentals and restaurants are close also. The large new county boat ramp is just one street over. They sell bait and tackle and rent kayaks also!
Our home is a great place to just sit and fish off the dock and enjoy the views down the canal.
World class kayaking for beginners or experts! Lots to see and do! Nice low dock for easy on and off of kayak or canoe.
It is home of the largest tarpon population in the world and some of the most scenic waterfront vistas. Our home is nestled in the fishing village of Bokeelia on the Northern tip of Pine Island. Also Pine Island offers some of the best bird watching found anywhere.
Access to open water, gorgeous sunsets, and some of the most beautiful nature is right out the back door.
Trout, Reds, snook, mackerel, tarpon and flounder are abundant in this pristine estuary called Pine Island Sound, Matlacha pass, and Charlotte Harbor. Cayo Costa State Park is just minutes away - some of the most beautiful beaches on the West Coast of Florida.
Our charming canal front three bedroom, two bath home is newly and completely renovated with all new furnishings and will comfortably sleep 6 people.
You will enjoy the very open Kitchen Living and Dining area which has plenty of space for entertaining. The sunporch is an enclosed concrete block room with windows on all sides - great breeze and lush landscaping.
One of the unique features of the property is the completely covered and huge two-boat boat house that is connected to the main home, where you can park your Boat or boats away from the elements. We also have additional dockage all along our 90 feet of seawall.
An extra large fish cleaning stations and a gas Weber grill will help you deal with the day's catch.
Keywords: Boca Grande, Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor, kayak, canoe, waterfront, clean, open, bright
Pam and I along with our young son, love to connect with nature. We like to take in the beauty while walking or boating. Bokeelia and Pine Island give us lots of opportunity to do those things we enjoy. When we found quiet friendly Bokeelia we fell in love with the area.
The Owner purchased this house in 2003
The neighborhood is full of friendly folks. The atmosphere is quiet and full of natural beauty. Lots to see and do! It is a reflection of Florida's more relaxed coastal living from the past. It is like going back in time.
The home and its location make it easy to explore all the beauty in the area.
This is simple easy relaxed living! Take a walk, have coffee by the water. Watch the osprey or eagles and have breakfast. Kayak or boat the calm waters. Take a few photos and then have lunch at a fun seafood place on the water.
Lots to see and do close by.
This clean and comfortable canal home on the north end of the island has all the needed amenities for a great tropical vacation! The house has an open floor plan, large kitchen with a spacious island and beautiful lanai overlooking the water and boat house. The local community is quiet, colorful and friendly. The most unique part of this cozy home is the boat house. This allows you to dock your boat out of the sun and climb a few steps up to get to the fish cleaning station or the house. Chris is very attentive to any questions or problems that come up and reasonable with different situations that may arise. We had a great time here and recommend this beautiful property.
What a great stay we had in this lovely home nestled in a quiet neighborhood on the canal. This house is in a perfect location – pleasant walk to a couple of restaurants, boat landing right around the corner and ideal for long walks around the neighborhood. Bokeelia is a boaters dream! So many islands to visit which makes this area even more intriguing. Quick drive to Ft. Meyers to visit the Edison Ford museum which is a must! We also visited the Randell Research Center in Pineland and the Useppa Museum.
This is a perfect house with its open floor plan, private bedrooms/baths and lovely landscaping. Very nicely appointed kitchen with high end appliances and water views, spacious living room area with plenty of seating, large TV and a generous master bedroom with a comfortable king bed and en suite. Fabulous lanai right off the kitchen/living where we spent the majority of our time, when we weren't out in the boat, watching boats go by and just relaxing with a good book.
Thoroughly enjoyed ourselves – Chris was great, quick with answers to any of our questions. We highly recommend this property. Thank you for a wonderful stay at your lovely home.
Our family thoroughly enjoyed our stay. Mr. Irvine was very easy to work with, returned our deposit promptly. The house is as pictured and very clean. Granted it's not meant to be a 5 star hotel but we found it very accommodating and convenient with our 29 foot boat. Very unique set up with a boat slip that is essentially under the house. Even though we caught no fish (thanks to hurricane Hermine) had a great Labor Day weekend~
My husband and I stayed a week here, we had just spent a week in the Florida Keys, and decided to take another week before heading home. We found this nice home, it's well maintained, along with many upgrades. More than enough room for the 2 of us, but the home could easily accommodate 4 adults and 2-3 children. Love the open floor space, but at the same time it allowed for us to relax, be comfy and cozy. A lovely screened porch area, allowing you to drink coffee in the mornings, or sit out and read as you watch a few boats go by. All though we were not looking for a fishing spot, this is a perfect location if you have a boat, or big on fishing. With cleaning stations, boat dock areas, covered, and has beautiful views. Also noticed electric hook ups. We enjoyed the serene comfort, and peace. We were there to just recharge our batteries so to speak.
Chris was wonderful to work with, no problems with the booking, nor getting the deposit back. We would absolutely recommend this home, but just as important we were very impressed with working with Chris as he made everything so simple. We will be back!
My wife, adult daughter, and I rented this wonderfully comfortable home from May 2-9, 2015. We brought our 17 1/2 ft flats boat for fishing every day. Most important was the dockage. It was just great--a covered boat garage large enough to accommodate 2 flats boats, just down a few steps from the porch, complete with hose, electrical hook up, and a cleaning station, plus additional dockage for a third boat outside at the side dock near the cleaning station. Absolutely quiet water dockage on quiet canal. Best dockage location I have ever seen for a rental. Will definitely return. My wife liked the large amount counter space, comfortable beds, and the air conditioner was ample to cool the house on a very hot sunny day. Porch has ceiling fan with plenty of room to store rods, reels, tackle. Boat ramp only 2 blocks away and live shrimp at two marinas on the way out to the bay. The extra refrigerator in the garage was nice to store extra ice, beer, etc., and a new flat screen TV in the living room was a nice addition, complete with Wi-fi. My son and daughter-in law visited for part of the time so the house with 3 bedrooms accommodated 5 comfortably. Plenty of room for boat trailer storage in gravel space near the street. Lots of storage room in the garage. I could not ask for more, and the owner was extremely helpful and prompt in responding to questions. Fishing was great. We had very windy conditions for 3 days but could use Jug Creek to get out of the wind. Went down to Cabbage Key for lunch and out to Boca Grand Pass to view the Tarpon madness. Fished every day. I can't recommend this rental enough--you won't be disappointed!
Would definitely stay here again, lots of room for boats. Easy access to Charlotte harbor, boca grande pass, and matlacha. Nice place, sleeps 6 comfortably.
Beaching, Waterfront Restaurants, Wonderful Views, Relaxing, fishing, kayaking, reading, biking.
|Refundable damage deposit
|cleaning fee
|$150 + Tax
Rates are subject to change. Please call or write for most accurate rates. Holiday rates can be higher and last minute rates at certain times can be lower. Prices vary depending upon size and makeup of group (pets or boats etc).
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6.1 The Lisbon European Council in March 2000 agreed
to set a ten-year goal for making the EU a dynamic, competitive
economy, sustainable and knowledge-based, enjoying full employment
and social cohesion. It was also agreed at Lisbon that future
Spring European Councils should evaluate progress and mandate
work for the next year, on the basis of a "synthesis"
report prepared by the Commission. This is the second annual synthesis
report. The Committee cleared the first in March last year[8].
The report
6.2 The report measures progress towards the strategic
goal against a number of agreed indicators relating to employment,
innovation, economic reform, social cohesion and the environment.
It reaffirms the importance of the objectives set at the Lisbon
and Stockholm Europe Councils, welcomes progress made to date,
but identifies some key areas where further or faster progress
is needed. For the first time, it also reviews progress in implementing
the EU sustainable development strategy agreed at the Göteborg
European Council. An accompanying staff working paper contains
a detailed breakdown of progress made against particular objectives
and indicators.
The delivery gap
6.3 The broad thrust of the Communication is that most
of the policy proposals required to deliver the Lisbon objectives
are now on the table, and good progress has been made in a number
of areas. But there is a 'delivery gap', caused by the inability
of the Council and European Parliament to agree on proposals in
certain key areas such as energy liberalisation and financial
services. Deadlines for decisions and their implementation are
being missed, often in the face of short-term sectoral or political
interests. The Commission President, Romano Prodi, highlighted
the gap in letters in November 2001 to Heads of State and Government
and to the President of the European Parliament. The Commission
says that:
"The Members of the European Council must assume responsibility
for leadership over their respective governments. They should
ensure that their ministers resolve disputes over the detail of
individual proposals, rather than accept that missed deadlines
are simply replaced by new ones or that they are called upon to
sort out the detail of complex proposals. The European Parliament
must assume its share of the responsibility for ensuring that
the delivery gap is overcome.
"Where blockages cannot be overcome the real importance and
urgency attached to the proposals is called into question. In
such cases the Commission will consider withdrawing the proposal
it has made. Where the lack of progress, for example for gas and
electricity, is harming competition and holding back market integration,
the Commission as it did in the 1990s for telecommunications
will consider adopting legislation to open markets using
its powers under the European competition rules."
6.4 To bridge the delivery gap, the Commission says that
the European Council should consider options such as:
Sustainable development
6.5 Economic, social and environmental objectives all
affect the quality of life. The Lisbon Strategy should ensure
that each of these three elements is given appropriate weight
when policy is set. The Commission says that it is developing
mechanisms for assessing the impact of its proposals for their
sustainability and coherence in the long term. It will be especially
important over the next 12 to 18 months to improve the coherence
of policies on transport and energy. Further opening up of these
markets will lower prices but must not remove incentives for individuals
and businesses to invest in clean technologies and energy efficiency:
6.6 The Commission calls for the energy tax directive
to be adopted by December 2002 and says that it will bring forward
new proposals in 2002 on:
Economic and social cohesion
6.7 The Commission says that the European social model
is helping people back to work, recognising that a job is often
the best protection against social exclusion; it combines an affordable
system offering a high level of social protection with a focus
on social cohesion which is often felt to be lacking in the United
6.8 Under this heading, the Commission calls on the European
Council to:
Active labour market policies
6.9 The Commission says that the employment rate targets
must be maintained and effort accelerated to create more and better
jobs and to get more people to work. Its view is that measures
should be favoured which will help particular groups, such as
women and older workers, to enter and remain in the workforce.
In 2002 it will present a proposal for the revision of the European
Employment Strategy in which it will integrate the Lisbon objectives
and targets. It calls on the Member States to indicate how they
will contribute to achieving these targets by setting "ambitious
but achievable" national targets from 2003 within their National
Action Plans for employment. The Employment Guidelines for 2003
should reflect this undertaking.
Clean technologies
6.10 The Commission suggests that the development and
wider take-up of clean technologies will be important for stimulating
growth and employment. Exploiting their full potential will mean
that current market barriers to investing in them must be overcome
and a favourable business environment created. The Commission
says that it will follow the forthcoming report on environmental
technologies, by developing an action plan for tackling obstacles
to their take-up.
The Commission Staff Working Paper
6.11 In Section I, the Commission presents a detailed
analysis of progress made. In Section II, it provides a number
of illustrations of policy developments. Annex 1 shows in chart
form new policy and other actions developed at European level
in response to the Strategy. It also indicates where proposals
are currently pending before Council and the European Parliament
and, in the case of adopted measures, the date in which they enter
into force. Annex 2 contains a full set of the agreed structural
indicators which helped to provide a basis for the assessment.
They are available, together with the relevant data and definitions,
on the Eurostat web site (http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat),
where they are periodically updated. Given the date of publication
of the report much of the data available reflects forecasts and
estimates for 2001.
The Government's view
6.12 The Minister for Europe (Mr Peter Hain) says that
the report's strong reaffirmation of the importance of the aims
and objectives agreed at Lisbon is consistent with the Strategy
and is welcome evidence of the Commission's commitment to economic
and social reform in the EU. He says that the Government agrees
with the bulk of the Commission's analysis. He adds that it is
also important that the Commission continue to review those elements
of the process within its own control, such as wide consultation
before proposals are published.
6.13 The Minister then comments:
"The report considers also how sustainable development can
be addressed through the economic and social reform agenda, in
particular through environmental technologies and transport policies.
The Government welcomes the emphasis on the need for long-term
consistency between policies.
"Within these broad priority areas, the majority of actions
proposed relate to adoption of legislation currently being negotiated
(e.g. energy liberalisation), or policies already being pursued
by Member States at the national level (e.g. delivery of government
services online). Where the Commission indicates a need for new
proposals, the Government will need to consider carefully the
detail, appropriateness and likely contribution to Lisbon objectives
of these proposed measures. These include: transport infrastructure
pricing; transport safety; co-operation and exchange of good practice
in organisation and delivery of healthcare; tackling obstacles
to uptake of environmental technologies."
6.14 As for the question of subsidiarity, the Minister
says that the individual proposals trailed in the Communication
will need to be evaluated to ascertain whether they accord with
this principle.
Press coverage
6.15 In a joint article in The Times on 12 March,
the Prime Minister Mr. Tony Blair and the Swedish Prime Minister,
Goran Persson, stress the need for the EU to modernise its economic
structures if it is to "compete successfully with the best
in the world and provide a strong foundation for an inclusive
society". If the EU was to match the United States in terms
of productivity and employment, output would be 40 per cent higher.
They call for labour markets to be more flexible, energy markets
to be opened up to competition, reform of financial services to
proceed at a faster pace, transport networks to be strengthened,
the liberalisation of electricity and gas markets and for the
Barcelona Summit to commit the EU to a target of achieving the
widespread availability of broadband technologies by 2005. In
a separate article written by two of its staffers, the paper comments
that the Prime Minister, the German Chancellor and other leaders
are "expected to bow to political reality and accept the
French refusal to commit to a deadline for opening the consumer
energy market to competition". They remind readers that presidential
elections take place in France in six weeks' time.
6.16 The report provides a comprehensive and authoritative
picture of progress, or lack of it, over the year. Because it
has to meet the deadline of the Spring European Council, it is
timely, though we need to explore ways of getting it deposited
more speedily next year. It also provides useful early warning
of Commission thinking on proposals which it believes it should
bring forward. The detail in the Staff Working Paper makes it
a useful work of reference.
6.17 The Minister does not comment on the Commission's
suggestion that the Presidency should make full use of qualified
majority voting to ensure decisions on reforms are not held up
We assume that the Council will prefer to attempt to reach consensus
on areas of particular political sensitivity for individual Member
States, rather than resort to outvoting them. Nevertheless, after
the publicity given to this Council as being "a summit about
jobs", a failure by the leaders to agree to give greater
momentum to the Lisbon reforms will be hard to dismiss lightly.
6.18 We ask the Minister to write to us after the
Barcelona European Council on 15-16 March, informing us of the
outcome of the discussions on the Communication and what actions
he expects will flow from it.
6.19 Meanwhile, we shall not clear the document.
9 The
President identified the Community Patent, the pending legislation
on public procurement, the proposals on distance marketing of
financial services and on UCITs (investment funds), and within
the financial Services Action Plan the pending proposals on market
abuse, collateral, prospectuses, pension funds, cross-border payments
and international accounting standards. (Footnote from Commission
Communication). Back
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the priority package, progress has been made on all items with
the exception of the Community Patent, public procurement, pension
funds, and prospectuses. In addition, decisions are urgently
needed on the Galileo satellite navigation system and the institutional
framework in the Lamfalussy report. (Footnote from Commission
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Close to 2600sq home with addition of a 2 bedroom legal suite with city permit($2400 monthly rental). Owner spent over 200,000 did the interior and exterior renovation and addition. Functional layout and tasteful reno and decor make this home very charming. Most desirable location surrounded by all big tree fence very private and quiet inside. Excellent school zone: Lord Byng Secondary & Lord Kitchener Elementary
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The act or process of editing or revising a piece of writing; preparation for publication.
- n. An edited work; a new edition or revision.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Edited or censored version of a document.
- n. The change or changes made while editing.
- n. The process of editing or censoring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of reducing to order; the act of preparing for publication: said of literary or historical matter.
- n. A work thus prepared; a special form, edition, or version of a work as digested, revised, or rewritten.
- n. The staff of writers on a newspaper or other periodical; an editorial staff or department.
- n. The act of drawing back; a withdrawal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the act of putting something in writing
- n. putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
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If this speculation has merit, then the process of literary redaction is short-circuited - what we should see is evidence of thoughtful variation on those experiences that find words to express the love of God for us.
"The so-called redaction feature allows users to black out sensitive sections before e-mailing or printing a document."
Education at Nanjing. 49 Finally, the Zhonghua editors also consulted the Jiangnan shuju [omission: Chinese characters] redaction, which is a revision of Mao Jin's
"The decision around redaction or editing - if you will, because I think a lot of people are perhaps not familiar with the word redaction - those decisions are not taken by politicians or ministers.
The pictures were circulated widely on the Internet with speculation the redaction was a slight against McCain, but Palin said she meant no disrespect to her former GOP running mate.
Someone in Drum's comments suggests that Adobe -- which has, of course, been making a big push to be thought of as a player in the open government movement -- come up with a fool-proof "redaction" option built right into Acrobat, which seems like a pretty good idea.
Biblical criticism today is understood as the application of general historical principles and RATIONALIST assumptions to the BIBLE and has evolved into various sub-disciplines such as redaction criticism, source criticism, form criticism, literary criticism, etc.
The Martian finds that the terms used for these fabrications are "redaction" or
Before referring further to my 'redaction' of opinions, I desire to say that at this moment I am as closely an adherent to the doctrines of grace generally, and to the general sense of Saint
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
But they had not forgotten that a violent debate arose on the "redaction" of this article; and that the ministers had been already accused on account of the obscurity of the clause, which they refused to correct into such words as might prevent all future quibbling and special pleading.
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Back Row (left to right): Jason Barlow, Natalya Delaney, Olivia Herrera, Jan Wiley, Matthew Ballman, James Nave, Front Row(left to right): Cherise Jackson, Susan Julio
We have a dedicated team that sells and implements all of our new merchant clients. We are seeing more and more companies realize the value in accepting cards for payments. Our mission is to work with our clients to educate them and provide them with the right solution for their companies. We work with all types of businesses, from retailers (business to consumer) to energy companies (business to business). We have a solution for all of them.
We would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the team. Jim Nave (SVP, Manager of Merchant Services), Jan Wiley (AVP, Supervisor of Merchant Operations), Olivia Herrera (Merchant Analyst), Cherise Jackson (Merchant Analyst), Matt Ballman (Merchant Analyst), Susan Julio (Merchant Analyst), Jason Barlow (Officer, Merchant Sales), and Natalya Delaney (VP, Merchant Sales).
Jim Nave has more than 40 years of treasury management experience supporting all types and sizes of companies in Houston and across the United States. He manages the Merchant Operations team and the Merchant Sales team. Along with those responsibilities, he also manages a Houston Treasury Management sales team that supports correspondent banks, energy, medical, commercial, and corporate companies.
Jan Wiley supervises the Merchant Operations team, and she has been in banking for over 40 years and in the merchant business for over 22 years. Together, her team has over 150 years banking experience and over 75 years of experience in the merchant processing business.
In September 2013, we created a new team dedicated to selling merchant services solutions. The first two members of the team were Jason Barlow and Natalya Delaney. Jason has been in banking for 12 years and with Amegy for six of those years. Prior to joining the new sales team, he worked in the Amegy branch system selling merchant processing along with other banking services. Natalya has been in banking more than 13 years and has worked in the merchant processing business for seven years. Prior to joining the team, she worked for WorldPay in the Houston market where she sold merchant processing to middle market companies.
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To learn more about the benefits of accepting cards for payments, visit with your Amegy Banker or Treasury Management Officer. We will engage our experts to help you evaluate the benefits and costs of accepting cards.
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In order to help businesses manage their ownership records, Amegy Bank is pleased to present an affordable solution to handling every aspect of the shareholder recordkeeping process. The solution allows business owners and their shareholders to easily and conveniently access valuable information online.
As a certified and regulated stock transfer agent, Amegy Bank can act as an
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Ownership Recordkeeping has an advanced system that operates in an online, real-time environment. Company and shareholder access to the system is available for instant inquiry of ownership records.
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Amegy Bank is pleased to introduce Skylight Financial, a NetSpend company. Skylight Financial provides the Skylight PayOptions Program, an innovative and convenient payroll card solution that allows organizations to achieve a cost effective, 100% electronic payroll for employees without traditional banking services or for those who simply want more options.
The Skylight ONE Card is a Visa branded card that provides access to funds at millions of ATM and retail locations, even online and over the phone. In addition, the Skylight ONE Card offers flexibility and convenience, plus a number of features and benefits. Some of the Skylight PayOptions solutions include the following:
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TEXPO | April 6 – 8, 2014 | The Woodlands, TX
Amegy Bank is a proud sponsor of TEXPO which is hosted by The Alliance of Texas Treasury Associations (ATTA). ATTA is dedicated to improving treasury management through education and communication. Amegy bankers will be speaking during four different sessions. Please stop by our booth (502-504) in the exhibit hall. For more information about TEXPO, visit: http://www.texpoconference.org/
Upcoming Amegy Bank Seminar in Houston | June 12, 2014 | Houston, TX Mark your calendars to attend a lunch seminar on Thursday, June 12, 2014, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at The Junior League of Houston. We will discuss escalating fraud situations that are primarily related to credit cards and electronic payments and tools that can be used to protect your company from fraud. More details to come. Location: The Junior League of Houston, 1811 Briar Oaks Lane, Houston, TX 77027 Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
DAFP Big D Treasury Conference | September 18, 2014 | Dallas, TX The Dallas Association for Financial Professionals (DAFP) is a forum for the exchange of treasury and financial management knowledge and practices. Members are corporate practitioners and banking and service provider professionals whose responsibilities include decision-making in the fields of finance, investments, services, and cash management. Amegy is pleased to be a sponsor of the upcoming event that will be filled with educational and networking opportunities.
Association of Financial Professionals (AFP) Conference | NOVEMBER 2 – 5, 2014 | Washington D.C. The AFP Annual Conference brings together more than 6,500 treasury and finance professionals. Amegy Bank participates in the educational and networking events at this conference. This year's event includes 140 educational sessions and outstanding speakers including Dr. Ben S. Bernanke, the two term chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. If you plan to attend, we encourage you to let your Treasury Management Officer or Amegy Banker know so we can include you in our event communication.
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC 20001 For more information, visit: http://an14.afponline.org/
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ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES)—the experts in building product evaluation and certification—has issued ESR-2092 to NUDURA Inc. for their Insulated Concrete Form Wall System, providing evidence they comply with the code requirements of the 2015, 2012 and 2009 International Building Codes® (IBC) and International Residential Codes® (IRC).
The Insulated Concrete Form Wall System is used as stay-in-place formwork for structural concrete, load-bearing and non-load bearing, below grade and above grade walls. The product consists of expanded polystyrene foam plastic panels connected with plastic cross-ties, and valid through November 2018.
"We are pleased to publish this report for NUDURA Inc. to the latest 2015 I-Codes and AC353 requirements, allowing them to provide industry-leading reports to Code Officials, Engineers, Specifiers and other construction industry professionals," said ICC-ES President, Shahin Moinian, P.E. "In an era when there are a number of new comers in the industry, we are happy that NUDURA Inc. chose the experience and expertise of ICC-ES for its conformity assessment needs."
"NUDURA Inc. is pleased and proud to continue its long standing relationship with ICC-ES. Although we know there are choices in Evaluation Service Providers, we believe that the vast majority of U.S Building Officials continue to trust ICC-ES for competent, authoritative and independent reports when it comes to Insulating Concrete Form Evaluation. ICC-ES remains the only entity that is accredited to the requirement of ISO/IEC 17065 to conduct product evaluation to its ICC-ES Acceptance Criteria AC-12 for Foam Plastics and AC-353 for Insulating Concrete Forms. This can't be said of any other Evaluation Agency," said Keven Rector, Technical Services Manager at Nudura Corporation.
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Smokies Rib Shack
Smokies Rib Shack
Vision Statement
Our Vision – Is not to be the only, restaurant you dine at, but to be the best restaurant that you dine at. We strive to reach beyond the borders of our present location and extend our services throughout middle Tennessee and surrounding communities. We envision providing jobs in these communities and contributing to local charities, thereby giving back to you, our most valuable asset. Through growth and consistency in what we do, we will achieve our goals.
Robert and Helen Brown
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We moved from Orlando florida to Carthage Tennesee to pursue our passion and dream of cooking good food in our own restaurant


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With previous projects covering a broad cross-section of design, encompassing the Television, Financial, Drinks, Mobile & Music Industries always focused on a multi-disciplined approach on all projects. Innovation and strength of concept are the most important aspect in the approach. Current projects include brand & user experience, digital platform & social strategy development and some exciting conceptional personal work.
His work has earned recognition by the Drum Marketing Awards and has featured on Creative Review and Computer Arts.


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Diamond Jubilee: Alcester marks Jubilee with Olympics-themed parade
Residents of Alcester continued their Diamond Jubilee celebrations while many more street parties were held across Coventry and Warwickshire.
Hundreds of people were in the market town for the second day of its Best of British weekend which took over the High Street.
All the shops were decorated and an Olympics-themed fancy dress parade took centre stage.
Parties were also held in Dulverton Avenue and Knoll Drive in Coventry.
'Be really proud'
The street market in Alcester attracted hundreds of people who packed into High Street for the celebrations.
There was red, white and blue in the shop windows, in the bunting across the street and in the clothes of many who were there.
Dawn Chambers of Brackley, Northamptonshire, was visiting the Alcester area for the weekend.
She said: "The street party is wonderful. A lot of hard work has gone into it."
The charity street market was named Alcester to Athens and many people in the fancy dress parade were dressed as Greek Goddesses and Olympians.
Nick Payne won the adult category in the fancy dress competition, dressed as ski jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, who famously competed for Great Britain in the 1988 Winter Olympics, and six year-old Annabelle Wolverson won the under-10s section.
There was also the ancient tradition of beer testing, where beer is tested "to check it is fit for human consumption."
John Bunting, whose family has been involved in the annual street market for generations, said it was "fantastic" and the weather had been better than last year.
The street market was opened by Canon Capron, who is leaving Alcester for Stratford-upon-Avon.
Visiting from America
Street parties were also held across Coventry, including Knoll Drive.
Resident Ann Richards, who has lived in the street for 25 years, was wearing a union flag dress for the occasion.
"I wanted to celebrate the jubilee as a drive and to enjoy the day with our friends and neighbours," she said.
Karen Nield came over from South Carolina in the United States to join in with the festivities in Knoll Drive.
She said: "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It's a thrill to be here.
"I didn't want to watch it in the States. I had to be in England."
There were also parties at Two-Tone Village on Ball Hill in Coventry and at Upton House in Warwickshire.
See all the latest Diamond Jubilee news and features at bbc.co.uk/diamondjubilee.


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A customer in the British Virgin Islands contacted BRUSH Aftermarket after a failure of one of its Salient Pole alternator units following 25 years of trouble free operation.
During a thunderstorm the roof of the power station leaked and allowed water to enter the open ventilated top of the alternator while it was operating on full load. A third party protection relay failed to operate correctly, the result was a fire in the end winding. On reviewing the photographs supplied BRUSH thought the alternator looked recoverable, however the customer feared the worst.
A BRUSH winding engineer visited the site and conducted a full appraisal of the alternator, the rotor was removed and the rotor and stator were tested to determine if the alternator was indeed recoverable. The results of the tests were favourable and the decision was taken to rewind the stator and refurbish the rotor.
A coordinated recovery program was undertaken by the BRUSH Aftermarket UK office, the rotor was refurbished at the BRUSH Aftermarket facility in Ridderkerk, The Netherlands and the stator re-wound on site by engineers from the UK and The Netherlands.
The stator was moved to a clean location on site & the old windings removed, the core was re-tested and the new windings inserted, tested and coated with resin. When the resin has cured the windings were coated with a red oxide anti-tracking air drying varnish. The rotor was completely refurbished including re-winding the poles, using the existing copper coils.
Upon delivery to site, engineers from BRUSH Aftermarket re-assembled, installed and re-commissioned the alternator, successfully returning the machine back to full commercial operation.
The refurbishment of the Salient Pole Alternator reinforces BRUSH Aftermarket's ability to successfully carry out repairs and refurbishments on generators of any age or type.


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CANNES — British digital studio Slingshot has launched a U.K. distribution arm, headed by former Fox Searchlight and Icon exec Elizabeth Draper.
The company plans to release 10-12 titles a year, combining its own productions with worldwide acquisitions. Slingshot's first two productions are "Sugarhouse," a psychological thriller starring Ashley Walters, and romantic comedy "French Film," starring Hugh Bonneville and Anne-Marie Duff.
Slingshot was launched last year with backing from Arts Alliance and the Creative Capital Fund. Its philosophy is to employ an all-digital, low-cost approach to filmmaking, offering gross participation to cast and crew in return for reduced upfront payments.
It intends to use digital technology in similarly innovative ways for distribution. It has struck a deal with Arts Alliance, which also owns the arthouse circuit City Screen and the online DVD rental and download site Lovefilm, to handle the digital storage and distribution of Slingshot's titles.


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Beyoncé's 'Sorry' gets VEVO premiere
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One of the things that has become boring about a Beyoncé album campaign is that when she drops a video to VEVO, there is ZERO excitement. That's what happens when she releases her visuals all in one go. Don't you miss the days when you actually use to anticipate the release of an actual Beyoncé video?


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I think I've blogged about urban artist Slinkachu's Little People projects twice before, but recently I saw some more images of his/her work and thought I'd love to share them. This is pure street whimsy and delight .... I'd love to discover some Little People in the streets of a sprawling city like London.
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Charges against the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole attack will be referred to a military commission, which enables the government to seek the death penalty, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday in a statement.
Abd Al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad Al Nashiri allegedly planned the Oct. 12, 2000, assault in the Port of Aden that killed 17 sailors, wounded dozens and severely damaged the ship.
He also allegedly planned two more attacks, one on the USS Sullivan as it refueled in the same Yemeni port, and another on a French oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden that resulted in one crew member's death and left 90,000 barrels of oil flowing into the water.
A military judge has not been assigned to the case, but Al Nashiri will be arraigned at Guantanamo within 30 days, the statement read.
The 46-year-old Saudi national, who was captured in 2002 in Dubai, was held at a secret CIA site in Poland between December 2002 and June 2003, and is now being held at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Open Society Justice Initiative, a New York-based human rights group, and lawyers for Al Nashiri challenged Poland for "active complicity" in the extraordinary rendition program carried out under then-President George W. Bush.
AFP reported that Al Nashiri underwent simulated drowning or waterboarding dozens of times, citing documents.
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Twin Peaks is a TV cult classic from the 90s. That's pretty much all I knew about it when I started watching its thirty episodes two weeks ago. The show has been hugely influential in the TV world and traces of it can be seen in everything from The X-Files, to Parks and Recreation, to Psych. I'll be referencing details of the show throughout my post, and if you'd like to be caught up to speed without watching the whole thing, conveniently, there's a blog that pretty nicely gives a blow by blow of each episode:
Twin Peaks jumps from mystery to horror to absurdist comedy to melodrama to soap opera to sitcom without any warning or transition. The fractured scenes and narratives make the show both compelling and unique. It has a way of sucking you in and getting in your head.
But despite the outward narrative brilliance, the heart of Twin Peaks is nihilistic trash.
By chance, I started reading Shows About Nothing at the same time I started watching Twin Peaks. It's a book about the pervasive nihilism that shows up throughout popular culture. And that's when I started noticing the moral depravity of Twin Peaks.
I guess I should define nihilism. In a nutshell, it's the philosophy that life is meaningless and that "good" and "evil" are likewise meaningless fabrications.
The first episode of the show opens with the discovery of Laura Palmer's body. Initially the town of Twin Peaks is horrified and distraught over her rape and murder. But then the show systematically breaks down all semblance of good and evil in each of the characters and even in the murder of Laura Palmer itself.
In one of the must repulsive twists in the program, we find out that Laura was a wild girl who probably wanted not only to be raped but also killed. It wasn't really so bad because she wanted it. For about a week, I've tried to think of a word to describe how I feel about that twist. Disgusting and misogynistic, certainly, but I still haven't come up with the right word.
After the attack itself is robbed of morality for good or bad, we find out that the attacker wasn't really in control of himself, and so he's not to blame. It was as unavoidable as it was unfortunate.
The same goes for all of the many affairs that go down in Twin Peaks. Shelly cheats on Leo because he's crazy and abusive. Ed cheats on Nadine because she's crazy. Nadine cheats on Ed because she's crazy. Wilma cheats on Hank because he's in jail and a hardened criminal. None of these people are really doing a wrong or right thing in choosing fidelity or infidelity. Whether they are faithful to their spouses is irrelevant because all of their relationships are so far removed from anything that could be seen as normal, natural, or healthy. Their lives are meaningless.
|Ben Horne
Ben Horne is maybe the most obvious example of the nihilistic thesis on which Twin Peaks rests. He begins as a purely loathsome individual. He runs a brothel, he's plotting to kill the woman he's having an affair with so he can take over her estate, he's at the center of so much fraud and conspiracy that it's almost impossible to keep it all straight.
Ben has something of a wakeup call when he realizes he almost had sex with his own daughter in his own whorehouse. He goes temporarily insane, and when he comes to, he decides that he's going to change and become a good person. In one scene he goes through every book of scripture from all the world's religions and moral philosophies, explaining to his daughter that he's going to incorporate every bit of wisdom he can into his own life.
Well, his first big attempt at virtue ends in the collapse of one of the only wholesome-ish families in the show (the Haywards) and his own death. The indictment against not only religion, but all moral philosophy is clear. It makes no difference if Horne is living an evil life, an insane life, or a moral life. His destiny and the wellbeing of everyone he knows is governed by sheer caprice.
|Dale Cooper, coffee connoisseur
But the most devastating nihilistic thread throughout the series is the story of the protagonist, Dale Cooper. Even when we discover that he had an affair with his old partner's wife, Cooper is the only character that has anything like a shred of moral authority by the end of the show. But the things that make him a "good" person are the same traits that lead him to ruining and ending lives. His spiritual inclinations help him in discovering Laura's murderer, but they also lead him into "the black lodge" and turn him into the very killer he had been trying to stop. Ultimately his whole journey and effort was pointless, and he made matters worse simply by being alive.
I got really angry with the last episode for many reasons, some of which I'll get into later, but mostly because I really liked Dale Cooper, Dr. Hayward, Audrey Horne, and almost all the denizens of Twin Peaks. The last episode systematically tears down everything each character was, stood for, and believed in. Rather than raising interesting and challenging moral questions, the show digressed into literal and frightening nonsense until we'd been beaten over the head with the idea that life is pointless and awful. I'm going to quote directly now from the first chapter of Shows About Nothing:
If art no longer communes with the good, the true, and the beautiful and if it feels duty bound (whence such an obligation in a nihilistic world?) to inform us that its magic is merely illusory, then it loses its capacity to enchant or even pleasantly distract. It loses its claim on us.
Yup. That's exactly what happened with Twin Peaks. The show, not life, became "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
The Question of Content
While watching Twin Peaks, I thought often about the question of content in a TV show. I think lots of people would see some of the plot highlights of the show (e.g., murder, rape, demonic possession, infidelity, prostitution…) and automatically give the show a miss. But murder, rape, demonic possession, infidelity, and prostitution also feature prominently in the Bible. I don't think any of those subjects are necessarily off limits for the morally conscious or careful TV watcher.
In fact, last Saturday I had a kind of crisis. The night before I had just seen the episode where they first postulate that Laura Palmer had wanted to be raped and killed. I went to bed with the taste of revulsion in my mouth, but the next morning I woke with a start and vocally said to myself, "Rashomon!"
|The iconic gate from the opening of Rashomon
Rashomon is a film by the late and great Akira Kurosawa. It's the fragmented telling of a rape and homicide that happened in the forests of medieval Japan. There are two reasons why the name of that movie surfaced in my mind that morning. I love Rashomon, and in one of the tellings of the story, the woman says that she wanted to be taken by the bandit and for the bandit to murder her husband. It's a repulsive thought, but I didn't find the movie repulsive at all. In fact, I think it's one of the most elegant and eloquent examinations of human motivation, memory, and life. So why was I on board with Rashomon but so disgusted with almost the exact same scenario in Twin Peaks? I bought Rashomon on Amazon, and after watching it again, I have the answer.
Rashomon is ultimately a beautiful movie about a horrible subject. It begins with two men sitting under the ruined gate of Rashomon sharing their disbelief and revulsion at the recent events in town. One of them was even an eye witness to the incident. The facts, as they say in Pushing Daisies, are these: a notorious bandit came upon a samurai and his wife. The bandit had sex with the wife, and the samurai had a violent, unnatural death. What follows is a series of conflicting accounts of how it all happened. Each account should be definitive, since they were all eyewitnesses, but the motivations and actions of the different players couldn't be more different in each telling.
There are a few things I love about this setup. For one, it throws a wrench at Occam's razor. There is no simple explanation for what happened. For another, it opens up an engaging and complex investigation of human motivations. It becomes clear that each teller's story is tainted by their own fears, suspicions, and motives.
It's in the murdered samurai's story, for example, that his wife claims that both he and the bandit are impotent, and that she wanted to be raped by the bandit so that she could run away with him and leave her husband to die. That tells us much more about the samurai than it does his wife.
And that's the difference between Twin Peaks and Rashomon. Whereas Twin Peaks is dismissive of humans, their beliefs and motivations, Rashomon obsesses over them.
And then there's the way Rashomon ends. The two men from the opening scene, now joined by a cynical (dare I say nihilistic) wanderer, find an abandoned baby. The cynic steals from the baby and walks off saying that selfishness is the only way to survive. We're left with the priest, the villager, and the baby. The villager, who we discovered stole a dagger from the samurai's corpse, in a moment of redemption vows to take the baby home and raise it with his other children. The priest then says, almost to himself, that his faith in humanity has been restored.
Dark, but optimistic.
And then there's the way Rashomon ends. The two men from the opening scene, now joined by a cynical (dare I say nihilistic) wanderer, find an abandoned baby. The cynic steals from the baby and walks off saying that selfishness is the only way to survive. We're left with the priest, the villager, and the baby. The villager, who we discovered stole a dagger from the samurai's corpse, in a moment of redemption vows to take the baby home and raise it with his other children. The priest then says, almost to himself, that his faith in humanity has been restored.
Dark, but optimistic.
I started thinking of other books and movies that are dark or tragic, but that I think are great and inspiring. To Kill a Mockingbird, Nolan's Batman trilogy, Lost, even Harry Potter. These all have very dark themes and plot lines, but ultimately I think an engaged viewer can get a lot of good from them.
One last rant about Twin Peaks
Morals aside, there are some things about Twin Peaks that I just have to get off of my chest. The soundtrack for that show is unbearable. I know that the 80s and 90s were a dark time for music generally, but please explain this:
It's the worst, right? And then there's the atrocious opening title sequence.
At any given point, the music is almost pathologically inappropriate for whatever's happening on screen. I was laughing out loud for most of the first episode.
Next, I don't understand the obsession David Lynch had with Joan Chen. She's the first face we see in the show, and she really doesn't play an important role at all. But somehow she has a special title card in the opening sequence, and everyone keeps going on about how beautiful she is all the time. After she dies, we just keep hearing about her. This must be some kind of fetish Lynch had, because although she's not ugly, almost every woman in that show is more attractive than she is. I don't get it.
And last, I have a deep suspicion that the producers didn't know where they were taking the show, which is really insulting to the audience and to their profession. I'm fine with leaving some loose ends, but the last episode was just nonsense. And I hated the cheap scare tactics they used in the "black lodge" scenes. It's like Lynch just found out what a strobe light was and said, Dudes. You know what would be awesome? If we filmed an entire episode with this. I also got pretty weary of all the "scary people" trying to swallow the camera. As I was watching it, I texted my brother, "If David Lynch could put it into 3D and make fart smells come out of your TV, he would." The whole episode was full of cheap shots and scenes that were frightening only on the most superficial and shallow level.
In the end, I don't regret watching Twin Peaks, but that's not much of an endorsement, is it?


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The Laptop Millionaire
- How Anyone Can Escape the 9 to 5 and Make Money Online
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 14-05-2012
- Language: English
- Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
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Regular price: $35.87
Publisher's Summary
Go from ZERO to $10,000 a month in 28 days and discover financial freedom online!
Every day thousands of people are losing their jobs, their income, and their security - perhaps you are one of them. And for others, a job alone might not be enough. With the right strategies, however, you can achieve financial independence - faster than you ever thought possible. The Laptop Millionaire provides 32 easy-to-follow step-by-step strategies proven to make real money online. You'll learn how you can replace your income in 90 days or less, and forget about having a job; instead, create your own economy!
The Laptop Millionaire reveals the exact strategies author Mark Anastasi used to make millions, and includes the success stories of other millionaire internet entrepreneurs. Whether you need an extra hundred dollars a week or want to start an Internet empire, this audiobook gives you the tools and advice you need. His no-fluff, no-filler strategies provide a blueprint to online success, allowing you to discover the laptop entrepreneur lifestyle for yourself.
You'll discover:
- How anyone can make $700 to $3,000 a week thanks to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube;
- How to turn $400 into a $10,000-a-month business thanks to eBooks;
- How to make $6,000 to $20,000 in 90 minutes thanks to joint venture webinars;
- How millions of people worldwide are making a full-time living from home, thanks to the internet;
- How your laptop can give you the freedom and ability to live anywhere you want in the world;
- How 7 simple millionaire secrets can transform your life; and
- How financial independence starts at just 400 clicks per day.
If you apply the principles from The Laptop Millionaire, you will be well on your way to living the dream and mastering your financial destiny.
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- James
- 14-10-2015
Obvious it's a cheap whipped together product
Although it is informative on a general level, it's so obvious that it is something that was thrown together quickly to make $$... Bravo because it worked
- Ken Premo
- 01-06-2012
10 Easy Steps to Become an Internet Spammer!
What would have made The Laptop Millionaire better?
I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. Not only is this a sales-pitch disguised as a book, but also a direct rip-off of "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich" by Timothy Ferriss. Ironically, the author suggests taking someone's work, adapting it, putting your name to it then selling it online as one of get rich quick strategies.
There is lots of talk about how rich the author is and lots of reference to the programs, webinars, and other materials you can purchase if you sign into his website (membership site). The basic strategy is to sell something online by compiling an email database and regularly spamming them. Oh, and don't forget the up-sell!
The only person getting rich with this book is the author.
What didn't you like about Erik Synnestvedt's performance?
Mr Synnestvedt's reading of the book, while technically competent, makes listening difficult as he has the tendency to end every sentence with a slight whine. It is like listening to Truman Capote reading a business book - very distracting.
70 of 75 people found this review helpful
- 06-10-2012
Information to be put into Action!!! GREAT Audio
Where does The Laptop Millionaire rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
This audio does not do the book any justice. You need to book for all of the information that was given or at least a supplemental pdf for what was discussed in the audio. AWESOME!
What other book might you compare The Laptop Millionaire to and why?
The Four Hour Work Week, it gives you so much information on how to take action to succeed in being a Laptop Millionaire and put it into overdrive.
Would you be willing to try another one of Erik Synnestvedt's performances?
It depends on the information given, not too fond of Erik's speech, however the information was so outstanding it did not bother me as much.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It would have been nice, however it was too much information packed in each part. I needed the break in between the two sessions to collect my thoughts.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Brett
- 14-08-2015
Beginners' dreambook!!
I am a complete beginner in the realm of Internet business. This book was an excellent resource that taught me what all is out there and where to begin. I am forever grateful for the value you, your mentors, and your case studies have brought to my life. I will return to this book and this wealth of knowledge often this point forward and I look forward to sharing a testimonial.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
- Gordon
- 03-07-2013
This book Offers Up Some Great Content / Ideas
I purchased this book with the clear understanding that many books like this preach how you can make millions and untold riches. So as a Internet Marketer with over 30 years experience (well before the WWW) I thought I would listen and review. I was pleasantly surprised and found a great deal of information that I didn't know as well as ideas that got my mind thinking.
Firstly, many of the claims and figures seem a bit high but at the same time, I have had some incredible success with marketing books and epubs online that my own family has trouble believing. The same with social media, I have had some losers and some real winners and generated interest in products that I least expected.
Other than the above, I found many of the ideas, tricks and tips work and in many cases the author provides examples that seem low but reasonable. And he's quite right when he says you can make $20 a month on certain promos. Seems like a minor amount but it can be scaled up.
For the money I spent and my own past knowledge, this book is worth listening to from start to finish. You will get lots of ideas and you should try them all. Without being able to verify claims made, I still feel that a good 95% of what is recommended will work. One needs to be creative when you market.
Lastly, if a person didn't make at least $500 - $2000 in your first year with the advice provided, you need to go back and reread the book. The value is there but always take large dollar claims with a grain of salt and be willing to try the techniques yourself. I can say and be willing to put my own reputation on the line and say that there is ALOT of great info in this book.
Take Care
ps. As a Canadian, I worked in California a few years ago and had many clients then selling books, consulting and other online products. Even the poor performing products were able to generate a surprising amount of income that comes in each month.
pps. A few years ago, I sold a book online called HOW TO MAKE $95,000 IN DESKTOP PUBLISHING. I produced it myself and ran 2 online ads for about $100. My first year I grossed about $30,000. Yes, this sounds liek BS but it isn't and to this day, I am still blown away with how I was able to sell as many copies as I did. That was my first experience with online sales and it was a great learning experience.
14 of 17 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 27-01-2013
Narrator Ruins This Book
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
No! The narrator makes the book impossible to listen to. He does this whine-thing with his voice in an attempt to sound sexy or something. It just sounds put on and awful. It really ruins the book because I could not pay attention to anything except his weird attempt at something with his voice.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
He is awful. He does a vocal thing at the end of every sentence that sounds like he is either trying to be sexy or is trying to make his voice deep. It's is so awful that I am going to return this book.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Made me mad that good information was ruined by an awful narrator.
10 of 12 people found this review helpful
- Francisco Urosa
- 21-01-2015
wow. anybody can be rich if he/she only desires so
make a full time living working from home. Don't just sell your time for money
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- sjb11946
- 15-07-2015
Very Powerful and Uplifting.
I would recommend this book to anyone. It was a great book, very inspiring, and just makes you want to get out there and start putting all this information into action.
Before I read this book, I've always wondered how people make so much money and it truly is amazing how easy it can be to make money.
I just need to know how to create a great website now. lol
4 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 04-07-2017
this book provided amazing and very valuable ideas. I have been marketing for a few years and it was helpful and inspirational. This is a book that I will go back and read and listen to many times. An excellent marketing resource.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Angel
- 06-04-2017
invaluable Information
Great book the information provided was invaluable. Would definitely recommend this book to other people. The author not only provides with motivation but with real case scenarios of what to do in the real world of Internet Marketing.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Brenda
- 24-03-2017
great book!
loved all the detailed information! great start up or even intermediate! using ALL of this information!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- jj
- 18-06-2012
I almost did not buy this.. big mistake!
My first impression was.. not another millionaire, internet marketing book! I was wrong. This guy throws out one strategy after another, over and over again. I have read other books in the same genre and this one tops my list by far!
The book also includes many credible testimonials and URLs. It gets straight to the point with each chapter having examples and concise actionable steps. I also bought the digital print version from the books website as the book is full of how to lists.
The author does not try to up-sell you (unlike other similar books), instead he gives you enough information to choose your interest and take action today.
A true manual for succeeding on the internet if you are prepared to apply yourself and stick with it. Personally not keen on the narrator, but worth getting past to receive the information.
30 of 31 people found this review helpful
- Kev Partner
- 06-09-2012
Awful, just an extended sales letter
I wonder how many times Mark Anastasi directs the listener to his website in the hope they'll buy something?
There are just enough interesting points in this book to mean it's not a complete and utter waste of time but you'll have to work hard to filter out the hype to find it. I also recommend ignoring the advice in the case studies to, for example, violate Facebook's terms and conditions. Too many of these suggested money making schemes have the whiff of short term scams about them, very few seem to be the basis of long term businesses.
At the end of the day, the author made most of his money by selling materials such as this to people like you and me and most of the examples are of other people selling material on how to make money - eventually the supply of people daft enough to pay for such recycled stuff is likely to run out.
And, to cap things off, this is the worst narration I have ever heard. It is JUST bearable if you turn the speed up to 1.5 but otherwise it's fingernails-on-blackboard awful.
If you want to be rich (or think you do) you'd be better off listening to Felix Dennis's book "How to get rich" which is also available on Audible.
14 of 17 people found this review helpful
- Marc O'Brien
- 14-04-2013
Haven't finished the book yet, but already I've been able to "grab" a couple ideas from it. A good mixture of suggestions, plus interspersed with his own life story. It's definitely motivational as I relate to some of the things he's been through in life.
What I also like, is he supplies links to actual websites & information rather than just vague ideas.
I've been suffering from a chronic illness & I'm hoping books like this will help me get back on my feet and self sufficient again.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Sigurdur
- 06-03-2017
brilliant book!
the book opened my mind to the possibilities of making money online. I highly recommend it.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Michael
- 29-09-2015
Some Strategies Outdated But Overall Great Advice
What made the experience of listening to The Laptop Millionaire the most enjoyable?
Good solid strategies for making money online.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Laptop Millionaire?
Even after several years of working online I got a few "ah-ha" moments.
Which character – as performed by Erik Synnestvedt – was your favourite?
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes. And then re-listen to again.
Any additional comments?
The book needs updated. There are several outdated strategies that just no longer work. These should be removed or altered. If the author wanted to pick just a few and outline in detail a step by step formula for building up an income stream using it, the book would be even better. But perhaps that is for another title.
Overall this book is well worth the price and anyone who is seriously interested in making money online who who already makes money online and wants to scale up should consider getting this book.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Sasha
- 11-10-2012
Really Annoying Audio
This Book has good content but the audio sounds weird and gets annoying. if you are going to publish an audio book make sure you use a voice that sounds human and is not just an auto tuned machine
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
- clevett10
- 10-10-2017
voice takes a while to get used to
I loved this book as it touches on so many areas of making money online. it doesn't however go into depth. I would recommend picking a strategy from a chapter then looking for more learning on that
- Srjane
- 25-07-2016
This did it for me!
If you could sum up The Laptop Millionaire in three words, what would they be?
Motivating. aspirational, scary
Who was your favorite character and why?
I loved the story and the examples
What about Erik Synnestvedt's performance did you like?
I just liked the whole book
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The whole book was an eye opener for me. I had never read a book like it before and it set me on a path of adventure and change
Any additional comments?
I'm not sure the author exists because there is a tiny bit of info online about him, but if he does, I would like to thank him personally for writing this book. It was a catalyst for me with lots of references where I could go and seek further information. I haven't looked back although I have not yet got anywhere near being a laptop millionaire. Early days though!
- Amazon Customer
- 07-07-2016
Have gone over this while on holiday, one chapter at a time (approx 30 to 40mins per chapter). After 4 chapters I bought the kindle version two for the links and lists. I've conceived a number of business ideas, and initiated 3 of them. Fingers crossed that I'll see some income soon!
- Kobus
- 27-01-2016
Unbelievable content
Don't be fooled by the negative reviews. I found this book to be brilliant!!
I have never had any experience with any online entrepreneurs or content on the online market place. I can understand that if you have it might be you are reading the same story again, but the information was to the point,relevant, accurate and worth every dollar spent.
I love reading books on success, passive income and human potential training, and probably finish 2 audiobooks a week. This is definitely #1 on my list for the year so far.
Thanks Mark, I will meet you one day and discuss my success with you from the brilliant content you have shared.


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Yes, this is a roundabout turn from the previous roundup but then Lampard truly didn't show what he was capable of and didn't look fit at all. However, in his cameo against former club Chelsea he displayed all of the qualities he was renowned for in his trophy-laden, goal glittering Stamford Bridge career. A trademark late run while ensuring the finish was simply too much for Courtois in the Chelsea goal ensured that Chelsea left the Etihad with only a point after seemingly being on course for all three.
Liverpool are looking a shadow of their former selves, particularly in midfield and up front while in defence they have a nasty habit of letting in silly goals. Much like United, they have a specific weakness that teams are continually exploiting with no signs of improvement. West Ham had the look of a much better footballing side while Stewart Downing exposed Steven Gerrard for a lack of pace and positional awareness time and again.
Tottenham slipped to a 1-0 home defeat to West Bromwich Albion, a rather frustrating afternoon for Spurs after initially beginning brightly and then subsequently fading away thus allowing West Brom to snatch the lead and ultimately, the win. What is clear is that Pochettino is finding it hard to bring some much needed consistency to Spurs' play, the aim being they come away with scrappy wins instead of scrappy defeats, a task made all the harder with the added pressures and distractions the Europa League provides.
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