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After the Gold Rush: Rethinking Leasing Issues
By Dennis L. Greenwald
The consequences of the dot-com crash and the general economic recession during the past few years have caused what can best be described as a "paradigm shift." This shift has resulted in dramatic ramifications to the real estate industry that, although not equal in magnitude to the real estate recession of the early 1990s, have nevertheless been enormous. The first of these events was the spectacular—and spectacularly sudden—burst of the technology bubble.
Referred to by such names as the "tech wreck," the "dot bomb," the "dot gones," or the "dot-com crash," the collapse of the technology sector of the American economy affected the real estate industry with an immediacy and a directness not seen in recent history. Yet to some extent the real estate industry has itself to blame. Many landlords (just like many lenders, real estate brokers, investors, stockbrokers, and venture capitalists) lived by the infamous words of Gordon Gecko (from the movie Wall Street) in their belief that "greed is good." What happened in the commercial leasing market mirrored the spike in technology prices in the stock market; that is, in many instances there was a feeding frenzy to throw money at the latest company whose business involved cyberspace. Just like investors, many landlords took the technology bait. They have paid for it dearly.
At first, technology tenants appeared heaven sent. In some markets (notably, of course, the ones that are presently suffering the most), each new tenant seemed willing to pay a higher rent than the one before—each tenant therefore driving rents up and setting a new platform of rent for the next tenant in the building or in the building across the street, or across town. Not only were rents skyrocketing, but landlords were delighted to discover that, unlike tenants of old who required elaborate build-outs and correspondingly substantial tenant improvement allowances, many technology tenants tended to prefer more open, less elaborate space, with fewer traditional workplace accoutrements. Indeed, "young, funky, and edgy" were the words of the day. Bandwidth, not wainscot, was what tenants wanted—and they wanted it fast. These tenants were often start-up companies, so the sooner the landlord could deliver the space, the happier everyone would be. They wanted their businesses up and running, so they didn't have time to wait for an extensive build-out of their space. Besides, the "modified industrial look" often suited these tenants just fine. Because many technology start-ups were created and owned by young people, they intentionally did not want a workplace that looked and operated like the stuffy old offices of their mothers and fathers.
The consequences of this phenomenon were not only increased rental rates, but often the transformation of entire neighborhoods seemingly overnight. (The so-called "SOMA" area (south of Market Street) in San Francisco is an example of one area that was greatly and quickly enhanced during the technology boom.) So not only were technology tenants paying higher and higher rents, but they were also pulling the market up with them, particularly in the technology regions (or technology "corridors"). With so many new tenants vying for space and with so many paying increasingly higher rents, the market for space became tighter and rent became more expensive.
Of course, the combination of high rents and a shortage of product is not that terribly unusual for those who have been in real estate long enough to see the vicissitudes of the real estate market. But two aspects of this market made it particularly volatile. First, unlike tenants in previous real estate booms, many technology tenants were start-ups with the dangerous combination of operating in an entirely new industry and having little cash, no operating history, and a management team with little or no experience. Second, when it came to technology tenants, landlords seemed to abandon many of the fundamentals of leasing and managing real estate assets. Just like investors who were willing to purchase any "Internet" stock no matter what the business plan of the company, no matter what its duration of existence, and no matter who comprised its management team, many landlords abandoned traditional, prudent thinking.
Landlords should learn a number of lessons from both the "tech wreck" and the general economic conditions that face us now, which, because of the inevitable periodic rise and fall of real estate, will undoubtedly be of value in any market.
Spreading Your Risk
One of the most devastating mistakes many landlords made during the technology bubble was to lease a large percentage of their space to technology tenants. Perhaps it was because technology tenants were generally willing to pay the highest rents (and with a generally lower demand for a tenant improvement allowance) that landlords could not pass them by. But sound leasing practice suggests that a landlord devote only a portion of its building to the highest risk tenants. More stodgy businesses may not have been willing to match the "tech rents," but businesses in more traditional industries would more likely still be tenants today. So while the most creditworthy tenants might generally pay the lowest rent, there is an obvious and very good reason for that: they are generally better able to survive bad economic times. What maximum percentage of a landlord's space should be leased to tenants from a single, new industry, nobody can say for certain. But putting almost all of a landlord's tenant eggs in one industry basket—especially a new one with no track record—is risky business.
Taking a Piece of the Action
Either in addition to rent or as a separate inducement to the landlord to enter into the lease, a number of tech tenants gave landlords stock, stock options, or warrants. Irrespective of whether such stock or rights to purchase equity in the tenant constituted "rent," this arrangement can have a variety of adverse, if not bizarre, consequences for the landlord. For example, if the tenant is unable to pay rent, should the landlord back up his or her bet on the tenant by allowing the tenant a couple of months' grace period in the hope that the tenant will bounce back and the landlord will be able to cash in on its equity? And if the landlord has a sufficient amount of equity in the tenant, could the tenant claim that the landlord has some good faith obligation to refrain from terminating the lease under the theory that the landlord is, in essence, a joint venture partner of the other shareholders (or of the tenant) and therefore owes some duty of good faith to the tenant? (Weaker claims of a de facto partnership have prevailed in some courts, particularly in California.) In any event, such a claim by a tenant might at least transform what would otherwise be a relatively simple eviction proceeding by the landlord into a full-blown trial, preceded by months of discovery.
The other difficulties with the landlord's having a right to acquire an equity position in the tenant are the basic structure of the securities to be acquired and the terms and conditions of the stock acquisition. Many landlords are unsophisticated in dealing with stock options and warrants. Unfortunately, many tenants—especially the new tech start-ups—were equally in the dark about precisely what was being offered to the landlord and how to effectuate the transfer of shares lawfully. As a result, many landlords thought they were legally vested with some right to acquire shares of the tenant when, in fact, they were not. For example, it was often unclear what class of stock could be purchased, whether the value of the stock could be diluted by the tenant's issuing more shares, when the right to purchase vested, what the purchase price was to be, or whether the shares were restricted. Indeed, this author suspects that many such preemptive stock purchase rights violated various securities laws.
Bottom line: The landlord should decide whether it wants to be a landlord, an investor, or both. If the landlord wants to be both, the lease should clearly state what the landlord gets and precisely how and when the landlord gets its equity position. Even if such share ownership is lawful, the landlord should know that it might be later subjected to some claims by the tenant that transcend the landlord–tenant relationship.
Should the Broker Feel the Pain?
If there is any segment of the real estate industry that can be said to have truly profited from the rise and fall of the technology industry, it would have to be the real estate brokerage community. In fact, one could say that the brokerage community is actually getting two bites of the technology apple: one bite for leasing so much of the dot-com space so quickly (and at such high rents) and another bite for leasing the same space again—as they are now in the process of doing.
With many of their landlord clients suffering a double dose of pain by enduring a decrease in rents along with an increase in vacancies, shouldn't landlords consider tying at least a portion of the broker's commission to the fate of the landlord? Even in strong, steady markets it is advisable to structure the payment of the broker's commission in stages so that if the tenant breaches the lease during the initial part of the term, the broker's commission is at risk. Although it would be unrealistic to expect a broker to accept a commission payment schedule that spreads commission payments over the term of the lease, it is certainly reasonable to defer a portion of the commission until some point in the future when the tenant is "seeded" and has actually paid rent for some period of time.
The problem with some tenants—and this problem was especially acute with certain tech tenants—is that they sometimes get into their premises with "no money down." In other words, they have a rent-free period, they receive a tenant improvement allowance, and they don't post much of a security deposit or any guaranty. The not-surprising result of this situation can be that when the free rent burns off, a struggling new tenant defaults and the landlord is left with nothing but vacant space and a bunch of invoices the landlord has already paid to its broker, lawyer, space planner, and contractor.
To spread the risk of a tenant default early in the lease, at least a portion of the commission ought to be contingent on the tenant's surviving for some minimal period of time. In the alternative, or in addition, any commission due the same broker upon the reletting of the property should be at a rate that is less than is customary for a new lease.
Concession Recoupment
Commercial landlords routinely grant new tenants a variety of monetary concessions. Tenant concessions come in a variety of forms, but the most typical include a tenant improvement allowance, a rent abatement period (during which all or part of the monthly rent is forgiven), a move-in allowance or perhaps even a furniture allowance, or the buyout by the landlord of the tenant's existing lease of a different premises. Although the amount of such concessions is, in reality, entirely market-driven (that is, more concessions are given during periods of high vacancies, and more concessions might be given to more creditworthy tenants), the rationale for granting such concessions is that they are necessary to allow a tenant time to absorb various costs inherent in moving to new premises. In any event, the net effective rent to be paid by the tenant is what is critical in analyzing rent, and concessions should always be factored in when calculating net effective rent.
Good business practice and common sense suggest two rules landlords should follow when granting tenant concessions. The first is that not all of the concessions should be front-loaded to the first months of the lease. Concessions should be staggered (spread out) over a broader period of time. Otherwise, a tenant may have virtually no obligation to pay any improvement cost or even to pay rent for several months. This results in a particularly dangerous situation when dealing with new businesses because when the time comes for the tenant to actually write a check for its rent, it may have run out of money. By staggering the concessions (for example, instead of making the first six months rent free, staggering those six months of free rent periodically over the first three years of the lease term), the landlord will start receiving some rent early on as a buffer against the loss it might suffer from a tenant whose business fails during the first year.
The second thing a landlord should do is to include a provision in the lease that upon a default by the tenant (beyond the applicable cure period), the landlord is entitled to recoup any monetary concessions as part of its damages. In other words, the grant of concessions should be conditioned upon the tenant's performing under the lease. ("After all," says the landlord, "I wouldn't have given you any concessions had I known you were going to breach the lease.") Such a recoupment provision may be of little value against a defunct tenant, but not all tenants who breach become defunct. Moreover, if there is a viable guarantor, a concession recoupment provision may be of significant value because the guarantor would still be liable for the amount of the concessions.
Letters of Credit and Guaranties
The posting of a letter of credit by a tenant is a relatively infrequently used but nonetheless very valuable method of securing a portion of the tenant's lease obligations. Letters of credit are infrequently employed for three basic reasons. First, weaker tenants often cannot obtain them (or those weak tenants do not want to pay the fee for the letter of credit or cannot post collateral with the issuing bank to secure their obligation to reimburse the issuing bank). Second, the most creditworthy tenants usually are not required to post them. Third, letters of credit seem to intimidate landlords, tenants, and their respective lawyers. This third reason is unfortunate because one need not be an expert in letters of credit or commercial paper to arrange for a legally enforceable letter of credit that can easily be drawn upon by a landlord following a tenant breach.
When obtaining a letter of credit, the landlord's counsel should keep the following in mind. First, the issuer should be a reputable, local financial institution that regularly issues letters of credit. Second, the term of the letter of credit must be long enough to cover the lease term. This is sometimes problematic because some financial institutions will issue a letter of credit for only a fairly short term (a year) and the letter of credit must therefore be renewed throughout the term of the lease. Even if the letter of credit is automatically renewed, the issuer usually reserves the right to terminate it. One way to avoid this problem is to provide that if the letter of credit is not renewed (or replaced with a comparable letter of credit) within a certain number of days before its expiration, the issuer is required to give the landlord notice, the landlord can thereupon draw down on the letter of credit irrespective of whether a default exists, and the cash will then serve as a security deposit. Third, the letter of credit should provide that the only condition to payment is the landlord's written statement that the tenant is in breach of the lease beyond the applicable grace period. It is critical that the letter of credit be clear and direct on this issue and that the tenant have no right to contest the landlord's claim of default. Remember, what the landlord wants is the quick and easy ability to draw down on the letter of credit without the issuer's having its lawyers analyze the demand and without any right of the tenant to challenge the validity of the landlord's claim of a default. Fourth, because the letter of credit may be in an amount that exceeds the actual amount of any specific monetary default by the tenant, the letter of credit should provide for partial draws so that the landlord can draw down what is owed. In the alternative, the landlord might want to be able to draw the entire amount down upon any default, apply a portion to the existing default, and retain the balance as a cash security deposit.
Landlords should bear in mind, however, that the bankruptcy (or potential bankruptcy) of the tenant can significantly affect when a landlord would want to draw upon a letter of credit. Although this area of bankruptcy law is still evolving (and although this subject is beyond the scope of this article), for as long as the security is in the form of a letter of credit, it might not be subject to the limitations on recoverable damages by a landlord under the Bankruptcy Code. Once the letter of credit is converted to a cash security deposit, that security deposit may then become subject to limitations of recoverable damages under the Bankruptcy Code. Because the value of any security is an important element in any lease transaction, bankruptcy counsel may need to be consulted when taking or drawing upon a letter of credit.
Lease guaranties are also a traditional method of providing a form of security for the landlord. Although this article does not deal with the many issues pertaining to lease guaranties, two issues are germane to the current economic situation. One recent phenomenon (and again, with particular reference to new technology tenants) was the situation in which a landlord accepted a lease guaranty from an individual whose net worth was entirely or substantially tied to the value of the stock of the tenant. So when the tenant failed, the net worth of the guarantor went down with the tenant. The obvious rule that landlords so often fail to remember is that the guarantor's financial strength needs to be independent of the financial health of the tenant.
The other lease guaranty issue to bear in mind is the inclusion in the guaranty of what is colloquially called a "bankruptcy revivor" provision. In essence, that provision provides that if a tenant's payment is required to be disgorged by the landlord (for example, the payment is deemed to be a preferential transfer or a fraudulent conveyance under bankruptcy laws), that payment amount is "revived" as an obligation of the guarantor. It's bad enough that the landlord might have to return a payment previously received from the tenant, but to then find that the guarantor might be exonerated with respect to that payment adds greatly to the landlord's woes. So a bankruptcy revivor provision can only help clarify that the guaranty applies to all obligations of the tenant, even if some of them were—at one point in time—actually paid by the tenant.
Renegotiation of Leases Following Foreclosure
Part of the fallout of the real estate recession of the early 1990s was not only a massive number of foreclosures but also the renegotiation of leases following such foreclosures. Although the current economic downturn might not be as severe for the real estate industry as it was in the 1990s, the market has been soft, and whenever there is a weak market, foreclosures are often not far behind. The degree of lease renegotiations following foreclosures will depend principally upon whether or not the leases are subject to some form of subordination, nondisturbance, and attornment arrangement with the lender.
A discussion of subordination, nondisturbance, and attornment agreements is beyond the scope of this article, but suffice it to say that if such an agreement has been executed by the tenant and the lender, the lender (or the successful bidder at a foreclosure sale) basically steps into the shoes of the landlord following the foreclosure sale. When there is no nondisturbance agreement by the lender and the lease is subordinate to the loan, however, the foreclosure can wipe out the lease. Obviously, there are state-specific rules about how and when a lease is foreclosed on, but if the lease is wiped out under applicable law, then the tenant is free to negotiate a new lease or vacate the premises. In certain (if not most) jurisdictions, if the tenant remains in possession and continues to pay rent, the leasehold will probably be deemed to be a month-to-month tenancy. This result was an unpleasant surprise for many lenders that did not want to lose their tenants. In fact, many leases that were inadvertently wiped out in foreclosures during the 1990s were at rental rates well above the market prevailing at the time of the foreclosure. Consequently, we may see the same feeding frenzy by tenants' brokers and tenants to renegotiate their leases in a soft market because many of those leases will have actually been terminated by foreclosure.
Technology's Continuing Impact
Although the burst of the technology bubble accounts in large measure for the state of the commercial real estate economy, the flipside of technology is that it continues to affect the development, use, and leasing of real estate in significant and positive ways. Cyberspace and other forms of technology have now been around long enough for trends to emerge. But certain previously anticipated trends have not developed. It was not long ago, for example, that many real estate gurus were predicting the demise of shopping centers along with the end of certain kinds of retail establishments that they believed could not compete with Internet sales of the same product. A 1998 Time magazine cover story was about "kissing your mall goodbye" and how Internet sales were "faster, cheaper and better." But because shopping is considered by most to be as much a form of entertainment as anything else, the customer base for retail stores has not necessarily eroded. Indeed, technology now seems directed toward enhancing in-store sales to the extent that many retailers believe their Internet sales augment—and do not detract from—in-store sales. In fact, many retailers are moving to install in-store, online kiosks that allow the customer to order from a broader range of merchandise than the retailer can maintain in stock at any particular store. In addition, some online sales provide that the item will be available at the store and the customer can pick it up at his or her leisure and, if unsatisfactory, return it on the spot. In short, retailers are discovering that technology is an opportunity to provide what is called "multichannel shopping," whereby in-store sales, catalog sales, and online sales are blended.
It is increasingly interesting how technology will affect the entire "shopping experience." Developers and retailers are keenly aware that, just as some sociologists saw the evolution of the shopping center into a social center with historical roots in the village green, the shopping center of past decades is now evolving into a combined shopping, entertainment, cultural, and community experience, in which everything from shopping, dining, a variety of forms of entertainment, child care, senior care, spas, museums, cultural centers, and performance venues all blend together to provide an environment for leisure time.
The real estate economy may be soft, but these times will pass. The exciting things on the horizon are how "smart shopping" (that is, technology enhanced shopping) will mix with other forms of entertainment and cultural activities to form the next generation of the village green.
Dennis L. Greenwald is a member of the Santa Monica, California, law firm of Greenwald Pauly Foster & Miller.


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ENNA report : Challenges of European aid in Afghanistan
European donors are committed to Afghanistan. Yet, given the complex challenges that lie ahead donor commitments cannot be taken for granted. Despite the urgent need for more effective management of development cooperation and humanitarian aid and the procedural changes introduced by the TMAF, European donors still lack a common voice. Managing complexity and uncertainty through improved donor coordination will be key in the decade of transformation.
The current state of development in Afghanistan is characterized by dependence on foreign funding, looming instability, weak governance and Afghans' fear of being abandoned after withdrawal of foreign troops in 2014.
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Afghanistan cannot reach any of the Millennium Development Goals before 2020, conflict and natural disasters pose constant risks.
Yet the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment for Afghanistan notes several areas of progress. The average annual per capita income in Afghanistan increased from around $175 to roughly $530 from 2002 to 2011. Under 5 child mortality has decreased from more than 250 per 1,000 children in 2001 to 161 in 2008. The number of female child marriages (under 15) has fallen from 11% to 3% and the maternal mortality ratio (maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) has decreased from 1,000 in 2000 to 460 in 2010. There is improvement in the situation of Afghan women after the fall of the Taliban and student enrolment too has increased since 2001.
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No user should escape !
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In more brutal times of history, an empire wanted to make everyone living as the subject of the empire like Dropbox founder reportedly saying about his product in wired : the product is needed by everyone having a pulse (wired stood corrected at the end of the article of wrongly telling the quote as being – everyone having a nipple).
As a freelancer, I have the opportunity of hearing a talented bunch of professionals in Salt Lake, Calcutta educating me about success in the Age of Measurement as built by Analytics and Big Data which can be summarized as below
User + Geometric progression + Exponential connections + Viral Growth —–> Millions of Users —> Hundreds of Millions of users.
After that, what happens is no guesswork but matter of history. So be it !
The more I heard about the Age of Measurement ( the evolution of the Age of Empire ), the more I started to get some occult (= cannot explain) connection between Big Data, Analytics and Vedic Astrology. These thoughts made me write another esoteric piece – a synthesis between Big Data tool-kit and Vedic Astrology as trending techniques.
I was asking myself as why no user should escape has become such a critical aspect of a start-up business or any business of this age of measurement. Why companies are so serious about tracking user footprint – in email, in social media, in digital walks. Why anticipating user behaviour is becoming so important ? Is it because of the fact that we are able to measure it or is it because of the fact that we have suddenly become hyper-concisous about customer satisfaction or we have now a measured linkage in terms of money available between user behaviour and keeping track of it ?
I suspect the first and the last one, that is having some incentive to track this the deciding factor.
No user should escape business model will give rise to increasing automation on one hand and higher revenue / employee ratio. This increasing automation will be called as technological progress (which is a malleable term and can mean anything with suitable parameters put in to measure progress) and the higher revenue / employee ratio will be considered success or leverage where with employee =1, the revenue will reach the combinbed GDP of some 100+ countries.
But managing, anticpating and keeping 100 million users for months or year after year is a job demanding tremendous skill and strain on the best manager's management abilities. History has proved that every such configuration has been unstable and either withered away slowly (Holy Roman Empire) or imploded ( Communist Russia).
100 million users or human animals impinging on a mesh can only be managed with a theory we have at had and that is the kinetic theory of gases and the behaviour now can only be meaningfully told in statistical terms.
Currently, we have no such theory and some honourable men, like Chris Anderson have announced an end of theory by arguing that correlation is enough to satisfy our curiosity for causation and denying us any higher aspiration for knowledge or searching for causes.
This end of theory is neverthless a theory !
Extension of this 'no user should escape' with more Big Data will usher us into an age of statistical witchcraft and as soon as we admit that our ability to handle huge data sets will allow us to have knowledge of inner mechanism of a phenomena, all higher questions related to self will be forgotten.
One such self-referential query is : Why do I or my company want that everyone should be the user of my service / product ?
In spite of having the historical proof of finding this aspiration defeated after a brief phase without a single exception, why does this adamantine will exerts itself ?
In another way of expressing : Why finding the inevitability of Death, why do we feel a sense of deathlessness within us ?
No user should escape or I should be or am the Lord of all I survey is a human behaviour should give us more valuable knowledge about us rather than correlating data sets more efficiently.


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Please review the latest communication sent out from the Liberal Education Program office. LEP Letter. A valuable resource for transfer students are the Transfer Student Assistants. Transfer Student Assistants are experienced, knowledgeable, and want to help you have a smooth transition into becoming an Southern owl. They hold office hours on the 3rd floor of Buley library.
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Brianna Cully began as a Transfer Student Assistant in August 2017. She transferred from High Point University and Tunxis Community College to SCSU in Spring 2016. Currently, Brianna is studying Psychology with a Concentration in Mental Health. Briana is the secretary of Active Minds, the mental health advocacy club on campus, and a part of Tau Sigma Honor Society and Golden Key International Honor Society. She will be graduating fall of 2018 and will be pursuing a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Office hours: Monday 12:00-2:00 PM ,Wednesday 2:00-4:00 PM.
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May 24, 2011
More often than not, if a developer describes a game as "for kids†it means they've made something that no discerning member of the human race would ever want to play. "For kids†is essentially a byword for "terribleâ€. This makes Honeyrun HD an even more pleasant surprise.
A simple, 3D bee-simulator, Honeyrun tasks you with collecting flowers in a meadow. There's a time limit to make things more interesting, and a variety of power ups, including apples and glowing, golden, which extend your time and grant extra points.
You control your bee by tilting your phone, and unlike most games with accelerometer features, you can move up and down as well as left and right. The controls aren't the tightest I've used, and could do with a little refinement, but they do their job well enough.
As well, the visuals aren't the sharpest in the world, but they create a pleasant, cutesy atmosphere that's hard to fault. Indeed, the whole package here is one that's designed to look good to a child's eyes, and Honeyrun does just that. It'll never make you go wow, nor will it be the one app that you whip out to show your friends, but it's solidly made and robust enough to keep even the most cynical eye entertained.
Of course, the game isn't without its faults. For a title aimed at children, sometimes the time limits can be a little strict, and it's quite easy to crash through the barriers at the edge of the world and into the unknown. Equally, there doesn't seem to be an option to turn out the sound effects, which can get a little annoying.
Still, Honeyrun HD is a perfectly pleasant little game. It won't appeal to a sophisticated gaming palette, but for younger gamers, it's actually quite good. There are a few kinks that need ironing out, and I'm still not convinced that the Android platform is the perfect place for a child-oriented game, but if you have some young 'uns you need to keep quiet, Honeyrun might be a decent place to start.


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Add a yoke to the classic pants pattern!!!
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I am from Greece where women are usually a little curvier, especially in the bottom area... What I've learned all these years of trying to turn my flaw into a benefit is that the classic pants are not very flattering for any body type. So I always have to make this little alteration to all pants patterns in order to divide each back piece into two. Unfortunatelly I don't know how this type of pants is called, I would be greatful if someone of you informed me how this little piece of fabric is called. If you liked my technique, please visit my blog littlemisssewshine.wordpress.com
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Nov 10, 2016, 04.18 PMby MarshalBlake
Thanks that's exactly what I was looking for. I hope tailor will cope with it.book report writers .
Feb 28, 2015, 09.53 PMby TinaMc
THank you for this very helpful tutorial. I used it and it worked great. I feel like you left out an important step. Once the pieces are cut you need to add seam allowances to the top of the bottom piece and the bottom of your yoik piece. Otherwise, your piece will end up being being 1 1/4 inches too short using a standard 5/8 inch seam allowance.


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Episode 166: Norwich (h) - The Aristocrats
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In today's Arsenal Vision Post Match Podcast Elliot (@YankeeGunner), Paul (@PoznanInMyPants) and Tim (@Stillberto) talk about the current best players in the world Eddie Nketiah. Paul goes head to head with the entirety of Twitter. Giroud, Walcott and Coquelin's performances all scrutinised. Elliot talks to stats guru Scott Willis (@oh_that_crab) who we will hear on a regular basis on the podcast. This and much more all discussed on this week's Arsenal Vision Post Match Podcast.
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You can now listen to the podcast on YouTube.
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With the banking crisis of 2008-09 and its associated high-profile risk management failures, increased regulatory scrutiny has significantly magnified the need for analytically skilled risk management professionals. Key regulatory initiatives include emphases on capital and liquidity, stress testing, model validation, interest rate risk and Basel III. Our recruiting efforts span the entire range of these initiatives, with specific engagements in the areas of capital and liquidity planning/analysis, capital program management, resolution program management and ALM.
Ensuring the right people are doing the right things at the right time has never been more important from a regulatory compliance perspective. Attracting the right combination of skills, experience and leadership potential is not only important from an immediate compliance perspective, but also over the medium-long term to build a risk-based culture and capability across the organization.
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The CSI Library is celebrating Black History Month with a traveling exhibition and program from the Staten Island Museum featuring Staten Island entrepreneurs. The exhibition, entitled Portraits of Leadership: African-American Entrepreneurs of Staten Island, highlights Staten Island's African-American community by looking at representative entrepreneurs. Curated by Jeannine Otis with photographer Willie Chu, guest historian Cynthia Copeland, and folklorist Chris Mulé, the multimedia exhibition combines text, image, and video. On February 16, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Jeannine Otis will be giving a talk on the exhibition. Ms. Otis will discuss her concept for the exhibition, the challenges she faced in putting it together, and other stories behind the exhibit. The exhibition, located in the Library Gallery Space in the Volpe Rotunda, will run through February 27, 2012.
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Of all the odd things we've seen or read about the iPhone 6, this Russian language YouTube video probably the most peculiar. Not only is a video starring an alleged iPhone 6 prototype handset - of what origin we haven't a clue - but the presenter then proceeds to chuck it around to show how damaged it gets when dropped.
What this proves is anybody's guess. Well, apart from how shonkily made a "prototype" iPhone 6 is.
Sadly, we don't speak Russian so we're not sure if there's a full explanation of where the device came from (left on a stool in a Moscovian bar?) or the exact reasoning for such an odd turn of events. However, it grabbed our attention and it's a strangely alluring video, if only to see how not to treat prototype handsets.
The real iPhone 6 is expected to be released around September time and there have been many rumours suggesting that Apple will introduce two different models with different screen sizes. We'll keep you informed of any further developments over the next month or so. Expect the speculation to ramp up.
READ: Apple iPhone 6 release date, rumours and everything you need to know


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A short story.
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Made-in-April Jul 15, 2015
Pretty cool. I found it one day and it just stuck to me ever since. awesome :)
ezrafitz4life Jul 15, 2015
you wrote an interesting story. I voted because I loved it. I see a writing career in your future. if you're wanting to become a writer, you are doing great right. I hope you write some other stories soon. ^-^
ladymidnightsun Aug 30, 2012
revenge. lets drown the messenger. sweet. poor dad lets remember him. sad. the dad died. nice story
eviethebookworm Jul 03, 2012
@Jazzyb17 Why thank you, dear (: Did you vote? Because if you didn't, then you don't fully love it :b
Jazzyb17 Jul 03, 2012
I love this story it pulls on my heartstrings! i'm so proud of you! :)


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Review: Redrum
Posted by Arctic Wolf on August 12, 2012
Three-D Spirits, Inc. (www.redrum.com) was founded in 1996 with the goal to create exceptional handmade rums. The currently produce three spiced and flavoured rums, Redrum, VooDoo Spiced Rum, and Jolly Roger Coconut and Key Lime Rum. The subject of this review, Redrum, is a blend of 100% Virgin Island Rums. The rum is bottled at 35 % alcohol by volume, and includes flavours of natural mango, pineapple, coconut, and cherry.
According to Dan DaDalt, Chief Rum Runner, for Three-D Spirits, Redrum is a completely unaged spirit. To quote from Dan:
" I chose this direction mainly because I felt it (an aged rum) would not work as well with the natural fruit flavors as a more neutral rum base."
This product is being brought into my market by River Valley Beverages who arranged for me to receive a sample for review.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
"… I can piece out the coconut, the cherry, some grilled pineapple and the mango all lifting into the breezes. This actually smells quite nice. Although vanilla is not listed as one of the flavours, I seem to also sense some real vanilla essence in the air… "
You ,may read my full review here:
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An action by the US government is causing a flurry of not so complimentary comments across the internet. A group of 17 Uighur detainees who are on the road to release are being given laptops to train them for life outside Guantanamo.
Army Lt. Col. Miguel Mendez oversees detainee classes, as well as the multilingual library and, now, the new virtual computer lab. "We're getting them computer classes to prepare for their return." Nury Turkel is a Uighur rights activist in Washington, D.C. He felt the computer training would "give hope to the men that their freedom is nearing" after eight years in U.S. custody. DVD language training is part of the course, which along with basic computer skills should help them find future employment. He indicated that detainees heading to Spain, for example, would get basic Spanish language classes.
E-mail is being instituted, but restricted to an intranet on the base. Walking across the half acre compound with a note in hand will be about as effective as the internal intranet web that is being set up for them. However, they can learn "send" "bcc" and how to attach a document to their missives to each other. The men already have access to a telephone for contacting the outside world.
This isn't the first time Gitmo residents have been given the use of laptops. In October, 2008, a judge allowed alleged terrorists 12 hours a day battery power to use Toughbooks prosecutors had loaded with the government's evidence against them. The purpose was so they could review and prepare for their upcoming trials. The computers had no internet access.
The case of the Uighurs is a different story. Originally from what is often called Eastern Turkistan in the Republic of China, they are no longer detained as enemy combatants, and are housed separately under the least restrictive conditions deemed practical. They have never been charged and were officially cleared for release in September, 2008.
Although they are free to leave Guantanamo Bay, they must find a country willing to accept them. Sweden took in one such individual and has gotten nothing but diplomatic grief from China. The reason behind China's dissatisfaction is the movement towards Uighur independence from China, by both peaceful and terrorist actions. The Uighur detainees at Gitmo are considered to be domestic terrorists by the Chinese government. Not so different from the Buddhist separatist faction in Nepal, the Muslim Uighurs believe a return to their homeland would result in religious discrimination. They fear harsh mistreatment at the hand of the restrictive Chinese government, due in part to the stigma of having been a prisoner at Guantanamo.
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Common Questions Around Excel 2007 OLAP PivotTables
Today's author: Allan Folting, a program manager who works on the Excel team.
I have gotten lots of questions from customers around specific functionality in Microsoft Excel 2007 PivotTables that is missing when connected to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Service Pack 2 cubes:
- Filtering individual calculated members
- Showing non-visual totals when filtering
I have also gotten lots of requests for the ability to add calculations to OLAP PivotTables using the object model, specifically:
- Adding calculated members/measures
- Adding named sets
Today I'll discuss these topics and outline current ways and workarounds to address this.
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This module is delivered in a 'blended learning' mode. The basically boils down to my belief that you will learn as much from personal discovery and from your peers based on your own shared experience as you will from listening to my lectures on set topics. As such I expect that at least 50% of your time will be dedicated to participating and interacting with one another (and me) on a variety of social media vehicles (especially appropriate given the topics in our study). Continue reading Participation in Social Media Discussion
Critical Reflection
The final assignment for this module is to evaluate the effectiveness of the module itself. Please critically reflect on the past twelve weeks and consider the following in completing your evaluation:
- What did you find to be the most valuable aspect of the module for you personally;
- What were the most effective aspects of the module?
- What did you find challenging?
- What didn't work and how would you improve it?
- What topic would you add to future delivery?
This submission should be of no more than 1,000 words. It will account for 10% of your term mark.
Please submit via email (email@example.com) before 8 January.
Collaboration in Your Own Time
We didn't get a chance to get into exploring collaboration and how institutions are being disrupted by the way in which collaboration (whether in the enterprise, in society and on a global scale) is being enabled through the various aspects of Social Computing
Sample Review – Social Computing: An Overview
Note: I have left in headings for your reading/unpacking convenience – I do not expect or recommend you leave these in your own.
Citation: Parameswaran, Manoj and Andrew B. Winston. "Social Computing: An Overview," Communications of the Association for Information Systems (Volume 19, 2007) 762-780. Continue reading Sample Review – Social Computing: An Overview
Week 2 – Collaboration
Action Items this Week
- Visit the forum and respond to the question for week 2 – discuss amongst yourselves;
- If you haven't done so: Choose a journal article to review.
- Form your own groups and choose a topic that you will research, develop and present to the class later on in the term. Choose a topic and lock in your choice via the Group/Topic signup form.
- For our next class (22 October – No Lecture Next Week) please browse to http://www.fsf.org and explore the Free Software Foundation. What do they espouse? What are the principles behind 'Free Software'? How is it different from Open Source Software?
Buy Buttons on YouTube and Twitter – Commerce wades further into the social
The New York Times points out that this week both Twitter and YouTube have signalled their intentions to add buy buttons to material in their social feeds. Is the boundary between social and selling becoming more porous or is there something insidious afoot? Fast Company highlighted the Twitter move on Wednesday. [Read more …]
Couple lose almost everything after Facebook removal van scam
A family has been left with "virtually nothing" after a 'man with a van' from Facebook drove off with £10,000 worth of belongings while helping them move home. [Read more …]
Algorithmic Governance
Pitched as being one of the potentially most pervasive applications of big data, algorithmic governance posits that in a evidence-driven policy world and perfectly transparent process, machines can both construct and enforce the law. One of the bigger criticisms of this is the potential biases initially engineered into the system.
Case as example, Google image recognises blacks as gorillas.
Journal Article Review
This assignment will ask you to analyse a learned discourse, summarise it and present your own thoughts about its contribution and relevance to the field of Social Computing.
Continue reading Journal Article Review
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This is a simple headphone or loudspeaker matching unit that I made from an old tape recorder PSU that I picked up on a car boot sale for 50P. It was a 6Volt output type. I opened it and removed the PCB. I also removed the three mains pins, live, neutral and earth. The old output wires were disconnected from the low impedance side of the transformer and soldered to the old mains input side. I fitted the wires with a 1/4 inch jack plug. A hole was then drilled in the case to take a 3.5mm stereo jack socket. This was connected in mono configuration to the old 6V winding. A standard set of low impedance stereo headphones can now be plugged into the unit and the 1/4 inch jack plug plugged into the equipment. I find this very useful when making small receivers when I don't want to have a matching transformer in the equipment itself!
These old recorder PSUs are a very good source of cheapo transformers for all sorts of uses! The PCB has often failed, but the transformers themselves are generally OK


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I posted in the main forum a little while back about good jobs for soloing, mainly with a focus on storyline content. Dancer came up fairly often as the job to do it with, so I levelled it up to my current cap of level 95 as quickly as I could (read - I did what I shouldn't have done and levelled the job without necessarily understanding it). I haven't really stocked up on gear yet other than my AF1 and a set of Aurore since I'm not sure where to focus my efforts. Have been skimming posts here to try and get some ideas.
However, my main concern at the moment is that I'm not sure I necessarily understand the job properly, because I'm not able to solo as easily as people here seem to be able to. This could well be because I'm still working on getting the rest of my stats up to scratch - my dagger and evasion skills aren't capped (working on this at the moment), and I don't yet have Utsusemi: Ni on my Ninja sub (currently saving up for it). If after reading this you believe those two points are enough for me to not be functioning optimally, then that's fine, just tell me to fix those first and I'll come back once I've done that.
That being said, here's my essential understanding of the job from a straight up perspective:
* Keep steps up on mob, focusing on evasion or defence depending on how well you can hit
* Reverse Flourish wherever needed to keep building TP
* Keep Haste Samba up (if not using Fan Dance to reduce damage)
* Keep shadows up to reduce damage
* Curing Waltz for when your life drops
* Weapon skills when TP is not needed elsewhere to drop mob HP
I know that's very basic and there is probably a lot more nuances to the job, however not having a strong melee background in this game, I'm probably approaching it the wrong way somewhere.
To people who do solo through Aby mobs and NMs, where do you focus your efforts, and how do you actually go about the fight?


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MARK D. EVANS was born in 1979, near London in the United Kingdom. After moving around the country, doing the usual kind of things like attending school and university, he ended up in a profession that had nothing to do with writing. This turned out to be a rather large blunder, considering he'd been writing ever since he could pick up a pencil. It transpired that the blunder was probably due to his childhood mystification as to why anyone would willingly put themselves through the torture of writing a whole book. Naturally by adulthood, this was exactly what he wanted to do.
He doesn't write for any one particular genre and his tales can be genre-blending, but he always tries to put something new in his work which often comes in the form of warped ideas or a dark twist. He considers his finest moment the time he completed a screenplay for a two-part episode of a famous science-fiction series. Unfortunately, he took so long writing it that the series finished before he did.
His first publication, Dead End Train, was a short story which made it into the Kindle Top 10 of free ebooks.
Mark currently resides in London. His full-time profession still has nothing to do with writing.
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Hed Geek below nailed it right on the head. Definitely worth a read.
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Hed Geek
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Downloaded this on the back of "We Are God".
Okay, so this is slightly predictable, but it's still really well written and, when I think about it, it's less a horror story than a melancholic love story. When I think about it that way, it's actually really rather creepy. Ironically.
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Absolutely loved it!
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This story is quite well-written, the premise is good and it builds up nicely... but very early on I started to form an idea as to what the resolution was going to be, and I was saying to myself "Oh no, please don't let it be THAT." But it WAS - in my view possibly the worst device that can be used to resolve a horror story. I even remember when I was aged 11, a fellow pupil used the same type of ending for a story we all had to write and got told off by the
teacher for resorting to such a cop-out climax! So, sorry, but this story needs a far better ending in my opinion.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Chili Cornmeal crusted Tofu
The triangles above are the cornmeal tofu
You can bake or fry this. I found the basic recipe from a book called Veganomigon The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook
I changed it a bit because I can not have really hot spice.
Olive oil
1 pound extra firm tofu, drained
1 cup soy or almond or rice milk
2 tab cornstarch
1 cup cornmeal (I used Maseca a corn masa flour)
2 tab chili powder (I used only ONE)
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon cayenne (I omit)
1 tab grated lime zest (I didn't have)
1 and 1/2 tsp salt (I used way less)
Slice the tufu width wise into eight then cut each of those slices in half diagonally--from t
he upper left corner to the lower right corner---so that you have sixteen long triangles. Set Aside.
Combine the milk and cornstarch in a bowl. Mix vigorously with a fork until the cornstarch is mostly dissolved.
In another bowl combine cornmeal, and seasonings. Dip the tofu slices individually into milk mixture. Then dip each into the cornmeal mixture using , now, your dry hand to coat well. Place each piece on the parchment paper on your prepared sheet--see below.
For baking--preheat oven to 350 and line a baking sheet with parchment Place coated tofu on the baking sheet in a single layer. Spray with oil lightly coating and flip and spray other side. Bake 12 minutes on a side flip and 12 more minutes.
To Fry instead of baking: heat 1/4 inch oil in large cast iron skillet over med. heat. To test if the oil is ready sprinkle a pinch of batter. When batter sizzles, and bubbles form rapidly around it you are good to go. Transfer the coated pieces in 2 batches so as not to crowd. Fry 3 min on one side and use tongs to flip and fry 2 more minutes. Drain the fried tofu on a clean paper bag or towel.
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Parental Conflict
Outcomes and Interventions for Children and Families
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1. Conflict in context
Changing family life
Introducing inter-parental conflict
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We are excited to offer a new group of international students the chance to study in the U.S. for the summer and be immersed in the artistic culture of Santa Fe and the state of New Mexico.
Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) June 18, 2015
More than 500 students and faculty from around the world will travel to Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD) this July as part of the university's fourth annual ArtFest and Vacation English Immersion (VEI) courses. ArtFest15 and VEI programs run July 9–29 on the SFUAD campus and provide art and English workshops and other cultural activities for college-age students and high school juniors and seniors. Participants hail from the U.S., Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and for the first time, China.
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"We are excited to offer a new group of international students the chance to study in the U.S. for the summer and be immersed in the artistic culture of Santa Fe and the state of New Mexico," said Radi Simeonova, on-campus director of ArtFest15. "These students will connect with new friends from a global creative community while participating in multi-disciplinary workshops."
High school juniors and seniors may also attend ArtFest15 from July 9–14 through one of three shorter workshops in digital arts, film or photography. These workshops are designed to give high school students a chance to experience the academic rigor, creative expansion, and challenging nature of higher education.
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Rick Riordan Quotes About HouseQuotes about: House
She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you?" "What did... he looked like a guy. So?" "A good-looking guy, or a slobbering dog-headed guy?" "I guess... Not the dog-headed guy." "I knew it!" Sadie pointed at me as if she'd won an argument. "Good-looking. I knew it!" And with a ridiculous grin, she spun around and skipped into the house. My sister, as I may have mentioned, is a little strange.
They would find this House of Hades. They'd take the Doors of Death. And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm long enough to snatch Percy and Annabeth out of Tartarus, then that's what he would do. Nemesis wanted him to wreak vengeance on Gaea? Leo would be happy to oblige. He was going to make Gaea sorry she had ever messed with Leo Valdez. "Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.
Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. "Rachel may use a guest room in the Big House for now, until we give the matter more thought." "I'm thinking a cave in the hills," Apollo mused. "With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.
Brother dear," I said, "did your soul leave your body while Amos was talking, or did you actually hear him? Egyptian gods real. Red Lord bad. Red Lord's birthday: very soon, very bad. House of Life: fussy magicians who hate our family because dad was a bit of a rebel, whom you could take a lesson from. Which leaves us—just us—with Dad missing, an evil god about to destroy the world, and an uncle who just jumped off the building—and I can't actually blame him." I took a breath. [Yes, Carter, I do have to breathe occasionally.]
I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told us that magicians tried to stay out of Manhattan. He said Manhattan had other problems--whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.
No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue and hieroglyph, and background notes on the construction of the magical headquarters of the House of Life. I will spare you that pain. It's big. It's full of magic. It's underground. There. Sorted.
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|31 Jan 2013
Windows 8 Pro with WMC 64-bit
Problem on recording screensaver in Windows!
Hello everyone,
I am having a problem on recording my screensaver, whenever I use screen recording programs such as Camtasia Recorder or Snagit and open the preview or open the .scr file, it don't record the screensaver instead it record the desktop!
So what should I do to make the program record my screensaver? , if there is no way, is there a program to convert .scr to .mp4 or .avi or any video format?
Thanks in advance!
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|02 Feb 2013
Windows 8.1 Pro RTM x64
As far as I'm aware of, there isn't. You'll have to film it with a digital camera (they should all offer some form of movie capability) and then upload the resultant file to your PC for editing.
|My System Specs
|02 Feb 2013
Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
If it is really important for you, I think there is a workaround that would allow you to record a Windows Seven screensaver. This is just an idea, I have not tested it but it should work. it includes a bit more preparations but, as I said, if it is important for you it is doable.
Install any of the free virtualization applications, Virtual PC(*), VirtualBox or VMware Player. Set up a Seven virtual machine, you can use your own install media and use Windows on vm a few days without activation. Only if you want to keep it do you need a valid license.
When installed, start your new Seven vm. Start your screen capture program, expand Seven vm to full screen, start screensaver. When enough, exit vm full screen, stop screen capture on host and that's it.
Should work.
(*) Although Windows XP Mode is only available for Seven Pro or better, Virtual PC is available for every edition of Seven except Starter. See this post for installing Virtual PC on Home editions of Seven: Hey/Help
|My System Specs
|02 Feb 2013
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Camtasia Recorder part of Camtasia Studio v7.1 works for me with the inbuilt screensavers but it's not free or cheap, but what Kari suggested should work well enough.
What screensaver are you trying to record?
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