text: It sounds like driver issues. When you do the clean install, what do you do next? I found I needed to just wait while it found the necessary drivers - a notification pop up said it was looking for them, so I waited. Sure enough it found all of them. So it can be good to wait 10 to 15 minutes while it sorts the drivers. When it's done that, Windows update tends to just open up to tell you to do the updates. Then when it's all updated you can start adding programs. Maybe try running it without all your programs added for a day and see how it is - it could be a program you've installed isn't compatible. Windows defender updates as well so you can get started and then put your own antivirus on later when you've checked everything is running ok. It just overrides Defender then. Maybe try that - just waiting after clean install and not installing anything else - drivers or programs but just let Windows update and install everything. What specs are your laptop? ie model, processor, graphics? If it has Nvidia graphics it could be a driver issue. I have a laptop with Nvidia and there isn't a driver for the graphics, but it doesn't sound like that - more related to your network adapters. That might happen on restart a few times, and you have to reconnect to the internet, but give it a bit of time to find all the drivers.


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Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil 10th February 2017 Written Episode Update
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The Episode starts with Khurana asking for Naina. Raghav defends Naina and praises her. Khurana asks where is she, did she leave you. Raghav says this is my house, not your office, Naina values relations, not money. Naina asks Ahana how did you think I m agree, how will I keep child for nine months and give away the child. Ahana says sorry, I did not think so, I will be with you all the time and support you, I have seen truth in you, you took big step for your husband, everyone can't do this, there is something in you, you are scared, but I ain't, you have love and compassion, you have passion to do anything for family, you forced Mehra foundation to pay for your mum's treatment, just you can do this. Naina says you are giving me much importance. Ahana says just you can give me
Raghav says she always supported me, I did not see such girl like her, you people value money so much and doubt everyone, its not the case with me, I trust my wife. Khurana asks is your wife a woman, I have seen many such men getting cheated by wives. Ahana says its big decision for me, I want to know what your husband feels about this decision.
Naina says my husband does not know I m with you, he won't know it. Ahana asks what do you mean, your tummy will appear after 4 months, if he asks you to abort baby then, I can't take risk. Naina says no, we will be divorced till then, I won't meet him. Ahana asks what, divorce, but you are doing this for him, whom you love the most, such big sacrifice for him, I don't understand. Naina says yes, its different to love and stay together, my fate is not supporting me, love is not made for me, I lost love, I want to fulfill my husband's dreams, your happiness and Raghav's happiness just has this way, he is my friend and support, he is very clean hearted. Naina cries.
Naina says you said my goodness touched your heart, I m nothing in front of him, I identified his goodness very late, I m ready to do anything for his happiness, this is love right. Ahana says you are courageous, you are making his fate and mine too, I m really happy to meet you, I have to think, give me some time. Naina says I can understand, you think, I have thought of it, I will wait outside. She goes.
Naina thinks can I take such big step, what am I doing. Khurana comes to same hotel and orders drink. He sees Naina and says Mrs Ethical Mehra is here, but in this five star hotel, great, where is that tiger who trusts his ethical wife a lot. He goes to Naina. Naina answers call and says no need to send anyone, I remember your room no, I m coming. Khurana hears this and says lets play. He calls Raghav.
Raghav answers. Khurana says Shri Ram, I mean Raghav, I got your wife in this hotel, she has come here in a suite just for relations, its your duty to know about her, think how a poor man's wife meets someone in this hotel, I m just thinking. Raghav ends call.
Ahana says Naina, I decided, my child will grow in your womb. She hugs Naina and asks her not to worry, I will tell you about money, I will give you 80000 euros for this work. Raghav is on the way and thinks why did Naina not tell me. Naina says 80000 euros, my needs…. Ahana says tell me, if you need more. Naina says I just want 60000 euros. Ahana asks are you asking for less money. Naina says I just want 60000 euros to get my husband's patent back, he can use some money for his work. Ahana says you don't know business, you are going for loss. Naina says I just have need, not greed, Raghav is very talented, everyone uses him, I just want to support him in his bad times. Ahana says you are really very nice.
Ahana signs the cheque and asks her to fill any amount, don't hesitate, this is happening for my child, I can give any amount for my child. Naina says I know, but this is not needed, I have one request, I want money in two shares, I want 20000 euros in cash, which I want to throw on someone's face, and you make any excuse to make 40000euros reach my husband, he should not feel its anyone's favor, else he won't accept, just tell him you like his product and want to invest in his product. Ahana says fine, you will get 20000 euros cash, go and throw money on that man's face, I also want you to free your husband from those bad people. Ahana says I will just come and goes. Raghav reaches hotel.
Raghav comes to that suite and rings bell. Naina sees Raghav and worries. He asks are you inside Naina. Ahana asks who is it. Naina says my husband is standing outside, please go there, I don't want any problem. Ahana goes. Naina thinks what to tell Raghav, how did I know I m here. She opens the door. Ahana hides. Raghav asks Naina what are you doing here. He enters the suite and looks around. Naina gets tensed. Raghav says I know why you came here. Naina worries.
He says you came here for job right. She gets relieved. He says you had to do waitress job before, you came here for job, I don't have a problem, no job is big or small, you don't need to hide, don't do it if you don't want, give me some time, I will make everything fine, you trust me right. Naina says more than myself. He says work if you want by heart, else not, Asha is planning to go India, we should go there. Naina and Raghav leave. Ahana sees them and thinks my heart broke seeing their true love, they love each other a lot.
Naina thinks don't know I m going to do right or wrong, but Raghav will get all his happiness, which he deserves. She gets Ahana's call and disconnects. Raghav books medical appointment for Asha. Naina thinks he worries for Asha a lot. He says its good, Asha cancelled her trip on our saying. Naina hugs him and cries. He asks her what happened. He says don't take tension of my job and patent, everything will be fine soon, if you want, Asha can stay with us. She says you did a lot for me, always, and even today. Kal ho na ho……plays……
Raghav asks Naina what happened. Naina says I m fine. He says liar, look into my eyes and say.
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If I had to pick a few novels that I'd recommend in a heartbeat, they would have to be, in no particular order (and as only the beginning of a discussion):
"Juneteenth" by Ralph Ellison. He set out to put the American experience all into one book, and even though this is a posthumously published part of an unfinished novel, it's still pretty doggone close.
"Miss Lonelyhearts" and "The Day of the Locust" by Nathaniel West. A teacher in college recommended this book to me, fascinating in itself and makes you wish he'd lived longer and written more.
"The Human Stain" by Philip Roth. This is an awesome book. Everything is a Chinese box, with characters within characters. Everyone's a stereotype, and yet they're not. Best American novel written in the last ten years, for me.
Three way tie: "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe, "Less Than Zero" by Bret Eason Ellis, "Bright Lights, Big City" by Jay McInerney. They're hyperbolic, manic, mannered, and yet they perfectly sum up a time and a place. And very funny, and appalling, and appallingly funny, and funny because they're appalling.
"The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst. I laughed when I heard the premise of this book, chalking it up to the idea that a publisher will print any novel as long as it's not mine. But I loved this book so much.
"In the Beauty of the Lilies" by John Updike. I loved this book the most of all of his, because it weaves the movies and religion into a rich generational tapestry.
"Shalimar the Clown" by Salman Rushdie. I thoroughly enjoyed this book last year, not just for the story, which was very riveting, but the long prosy riffs he unravels so effortlessly.
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. I read this one afternoon at the river and could smell the wind coming off the Keys. When I finally went to Key West, I felt like I had already been there.
"Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow. He was another that I had to read everything he'd written. This is his best, though "The March" was as good a book as I've read in the past five years.
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. It's unfortunate that Steinbeck's critical reputation has fallen down, because this is a wonderful work that unfortunately gets typecast as Depression era agitprop. Instead, it's ageless, sweeping, and compulsively readable.
And for my money, the greatest American novel ever is "The Great Gatsby." I wouldn't have said that necessarily 10 years ago, but I've reread it at least three times since then, and it gets better every single time.


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- Decreased cabling development costs
- Integrated global engineering organization
- Established a global PDM system supporting multiple languages
The Challenge
As the principal builder of cement plants around the world, F.L. Smidth adopted a 3D CAD strategy in 2004 to increase productivity, foster collaboration, and secure a competitive advantage. Moving to 3D required an integrated PDM system that could manage the many references among parts, assemblies, and drawings, as well as integrate with the company's ERP and legacy 2D document management systems.
The Solution
The company chose SolidWorks Enterprise PDM software as its PDM solution because of its ease of use, direct integration with SolidWorks software, and ability to connect and operate with existing ERP and legacy systems. By deploying SolidWorks Enterprise PDM, F.L. Smidth reduced its mechanical equipment engineering effort by 30 percent, decreased cabling development costs, integrated its global engineering organization, and established a global PDM system supporting multiple languages.
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HALIFAX -- It's like a big family picnic. You've got grandpas and grandmas, moms and dads and kids all over the place.
It's become the biggest reason Team Canada players have started saying "yes" to playing in the IIHF World Championships. And all those relatives wanting to stay around to the end may also be a big reason Canada is winning gold at this tournament again.
"I have all my family here, my wife (Andrea), my daughters (Gracie and Karys), my sons (Josh and Carson), my mom (Bernice), my dad (Bernie), my brother (Brook) and my father-in-law (Bruce)," said captain Shane Doan of half the population of Halkirk.
"It's wonderful. It's one of the greatest experiences you and your family can have with the game. Hockey Canada is brilliant at organizing it.
"You just show up and they do everything.
"Last year I took two of my kids to Moscow. You normally probably wouldn't take your kids on a holiday to Moscow. But they got to go to the Kremlin and saw a lot of things they'd never have seen in their lives. My daughter is studying the history of North America and she's really into what's around here and what she's looking forward to seeing in Quebec City.
"Hockey Canada plans trips for them on the mornings and afternoons of game days. They do everything. You show up and they do everything. It's a wonderful experience. They look after the meals, plan their days, and make it a really enjoyable time.
"Guys all get to know your kids. The first thing my kids wanted to know when I decided to come again this year was if Jason Chimera was coming. They think he's crazy and like him a lot. The kids play ball hockey in the hall at the hotel. And it's great for the rest of the family, too. They're always asking 'What's this guy like?' and 'What's that guy like?' Here they can sit down with a guy like Rick Nash and really get to know him."
Nash brings his grandfather John every year.
"It's awesome. He's been to all the world championships and even the Olympics with me. It's something special for me and my grandpa. It makes it a special relationship between the two of us."
Steve Staios has his wife Susanna, son Nathan, daughter Ella, dad Paul and mom Mary from Hamilton here this year. And it's extra special with his mom and dad.
"My parents came from Macedonia nine months apart and landed in Halifax at Pier 21. They both have such vivid memories of their arrival in Halifax and Pier 21 is 50 metres from our hotel. They didn't realize how close they'd be to it.
"There are so many experiences involved around the team for your family and Hockey Canada does such a great job that you really feel fortunate to be part of this," said Staios.
Goaltender Cam Ward has wife Cody, mom Laura and dad Ken from Sherwood Park.
"It's great to bring your parents. They did so much driving around to get you to hockey when you were a kid, it's nice to bring them on a trip like this for hockey.
"Last year I brought my best friend from Sherwood Park to Moscow. I'll never forget his excitement when I made that phone call to invite him."
Team Canada provides one airline ticket per player. That's it. It doesn't matter if the event is in Prague, Innsbruck, Goteborg, Helsinki, Moscow, Riga or Halifax and Quebec City.
"It's not a huge expense," said Hockey Canada CEO Bob Nicholson. "It's the organization of activities, meals and everything from a mini-rink for the kids at the Metro Centre to a room at the hotel with video games and table top hockey at the hotel that takes a lot of staff time and effort," he said of Scott Salmond's team which hosted a Mother's Day brunch after practice yesterday.
"It's where we can really show the players how much we respect them for playing for Team Canada," said Nicholson.
While the families don't show up until midway in the tournament after the players have had a chance to bond together, the wives, kids, parents and grandparents arrived the day before the 10-1 win over Germany and are a key to success the rest of the way, according to Ken Hitchcock.
"Players don't want it to end. The players don't want to go home. They're enjoying this with each other and with their families here now," said Hitchcock. "Hockey Canada is just so damn good at it that the family keeps you going with their excitement, too."
It's one thing to have the pressure of playing for your country. But when one guy's grandpa and another guy's daughter can't wait to see Quebec City, it adds a whole new dimension to "Go Canada Go."


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New Social Innovation Online Business Academy for Women in Chile and Peru
Twenty women from the Copiapó Province in Chile have inaugurated the test phase of a new social innovation online business academy for women in Chile itself and Peru. The academy was created through a partnership between Freeport-McMoRan and the Thunderbird School of Global Business Management. The program is called DreamBuilder: The Women's Business Creator and is currently being piloted in communities surrounding the Freeport-McMoRan's mining operations in South America; Cerro Verde in Peru and Candelaria/ Ojos del Salado and El Abra in Chile. Richard C. Adkerson, President and CEO of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., says, "Empowering women through education provides opportunities for them to live more productive lives, which would enable the development of healthier, more sustainable communities."
This is a unique multi-levelled business skills training and certification program that helps women build their dream of starting or growing their own business. Using social innovation web based technologies; all the instruction, tools and resources are delivered through an online learning format to provide women with business knowledge and training. It is a cloud-based and designed specifically to support women entrepreneurs in Chile and Peru. Maria Veronica Bondi Etcheberry program participant says, "My dream always has been to have my own business to be an independent and self-reliant woman, to be able to support my children and have my own resources. Thanks to this school, I will have the opportunity to learn and manage my business, and better yet, to be my own boss."
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Sangeeta Haindl is a staff writer for Justmeans on Social Enterprise. When not writing for Justmeans, Sangeeta wears her other hat as a PR professional. Over the years, she has worked with high-profile organizations within the public, not-for-profit and corporate sectors; and won awards from her industry. She now runs her own UK consultancy: Serendipity PR & Media.


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Hoonuit: New Name for Atomic Learning Video Tutorials [1]
Hoonuit (previously Atomic Learning) [2] provides short, easy-to-use web-based tutorials on more than 250 common software and operating systems, including Adobe Creative Suite, Google Drive, Mac OS X, Microsoft Office Suite, Twitter, Windows, and more! You can also go beyond the 'how-to' with workshops, career skills, and college success training that is specifically designed to teach faculty, staff, and students how to best implement soft skills in personal life, courses, and educational careers.
Hoonuit is free to members of the campus community and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
To access, go to Hoonuit [3] and log in using your IT Account NetID and password.


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This pack offers you a great variety of patterned cake cases, so you are sure to have the right design, whatever the occasion. The pack includes two hundred and fifty greaseproof cake cases in star, spot, snowflake and two striped patterns. Perfect for adding a decorative touch to your delicious cupcakes, fairy cakes and muffins.
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Real Estate SEO Success: How Long Does It Take?
By Matthew Bushery
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Success with a search engine optimization (SEO) campaign doesn't happen overnight. There is no magic bullet that instantly boosts your search engine rankings or gets thousands of visitors to your website. Rather, real estate SEO success requires the long-term approach: gradually optimizing your online presence, creating lots of interesting content, sharing that content across social media and email, and conducting an array of other activities.
Continue reading to learn how long it takes to set up each aspect of your real estate SEO strategy, when you can expect to see the fruits of your labor, and how to maintain and enhance your standing on search engine results pages (SERPs).
Essential Real Estate SEO Tasks
From blogging and advertising to social media and email marketing, your real estate SEO tactics are all interconnected. Done right, each of these activities can help your website get found in SERPs, guide the right people to your website, and, eventually, fill your contacts database chock-full of leads. But each of these areas takes a different amount of time and requires a different approach.
Here's the optimal order in which to take care of the marketing tasks necessary for real estate SEO success.
1) Get a responsive website.
This is the one real estate website SEO task that's simply a one-time deal. Securing a responsive real estate website is paramount before conducting any other SEO maneuvers. Check out website providers to determine which site is best for your online marketing needs. Look for specific functionality in sites, like a practical navigation setup and the ability to add lead capture forms. Above all, make sure it looks and functions perfectly on mobile devices.
This is important not only because Google greatly prefers to see mobile functionality for websites (so much so it created a how-to guide to maximizing sites for mobile), but also because more and more real estate searches today take place on smartphones and tablets, as evidenced in Google's graphic below:
Switch to a responsive website if you don't have one, then take on the content creation, optimization, and promotion activities below. You'll thank yourself in the long run, as mobile becomes even more vital to a successful real estate SEO scheme.
2) Conduct keyword research.
Next up on the SEO priority list is conducting thorough keyword research. This is one of the core SEO activities that takes a considerable amount of time to perform and is never complete. Long-tail keywords that are popular or weak today may be the opposite next week, meaning you have to dedicate time once every few weeks to ensure you implement popular terms and phrases in your content that will help your site get found by local buyers and sellers.
Given the nature of keyword research, there is no point in time where you can say, "Well, I've done enough to succeed with my SEO." It's a necessary evil in the world of real estate search engine optimization, but one that will pay dividends over the long haul.
3) Begin blogging regularly.
Next up, optimize your real estate blogging strategy. Generate lots of interesting real estate blog ideas and produce posts that appeal to your target audience. For example, compile local market data for your audience, tell buyers what to look for in properties in your area, advise sellers on how to price their homes — anything that makes you stand out as the ideal agent in your community is perfect, just be sure to use your keywords in your blog posts.
Come up with a list of 10 or so terms that are highly searched by local buyers and sellers. Use one or two focus keywords for each article. Do this many times over with your content (while continuing to research new, better keywords) and you'll begin to improve in SERPs.
4) Construct landing pages.
Whereas long-tail terms are optimal for blog content, landing pages on your site should focus on primary keywords — ones that are consistently searched by your audience. For instance, a long-tail term for your market may be "two-floor brownstones in Bushwick Brooklyn," but "Brooklyn homes for sale" is likely to generate more traffic due to its more general nature.
There is no right number of landing pages to create for your website. It's better to try several options to find those that produce the best results. Identify ones you think buyers and sellers would find most useful. For example, a lifestyle page that exhibits all of the great restaurants, theaters, nightlife spots, parks, and other amenities could help drive a considerable amount of the right traffic to your site.
5) Delve into the world of advertising.
Many of the same keywords you utilize in your on-page real estate SEO can also be used in your real estate advertising. Become familiar with Google AdWords and the process of researching keywords for ads — which differs in some ways from keyword research for your site. Primarily, finding the right keywords for ads is based on cost per click: The more popular and competitive a keyword is, the higher it costs to bid on it and get your ads shown above others.
Mastering real estate advertising takes dedication in terms of time and effort. Regularly find and bid on new keywords for your ads — along with creating compelling copy — and you'll be well on your way to becoming better acquainted and proficient with AdWords. Expect this process of familiarizing yourself to take a few months.
6) Build your social media presence.
Regarding ease of set up, one SEO task that you won't expend much energy completing is creating your real estate social media accounts. The usual suspects like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ are the prime places to start, since sharing your content on those sites typically yields the best results. Don't neglect other social platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram, though — the former of which can generate lots of real estate leads, and the latter of which can bolster your brand awareness (when used correctly).
After developing your social media presence, use social scheduling and monitoring tools to automate tweets, updates, and other posts and make it simple to track the success of your online presence. The ways in which social media affects SEO are numerous: Primarily, you can build links through social and drive traffic to your site.
7) Create some videos for your site.
Home walk-throughs, updates about local market conditions, testimonials, interviews — these are just a sample of the real estate video marketing content you can create for your site and YouTube account and, gradually, better your SEO. Whether you use a mobile app or a professional camera, videos have proven to lead to significant improvements in SERPs for pros and brands of all kinds, so start recording today.
There are several great video apps for smartphones and tablets, each of which has simple filming and editing features anyone can figure out, so don't think you need to master some fancy video camera to get professional-looking results.
8) Get lots of links on other websites.
The whole point of these promotional tasks is not only to drive traffic to your site, but also to build links leading back to your site. Yes, your email recipients and social media followers may share your content on their sites, but you don't want just anyone linking to your content. Try to get big fish — those with sites that rank highly in SERPs and have a positive online reputation in the eyes of Google and Bing — to link to and mention your content.
Develop a list of notable real estate industry members, publications, blogs, and other outlets you think would be interested in your content. Then, reach out to them to let them know you've created some great content. Don't just ask them to share it, though. Rather, explain the content's value. Asking for links only comes across as desperate and rarely leads to actual external linking, so try to build relationships with these folks to raise the chances that they will share your content.
When to Expect Real Estate SEO Results
The great news is that time invested in mastering SEO for real estate pays dividends — as long as you remain committed.
Many agents initially have roadblocks to success with real estate SEO. For instance, a study by Ascend2 found more than 40 percent of professionals working with SEO cited lack of search optimization budget and know-how as the top impediments to success with their SEO campaigns. Having said that, half of these pros stated SEO effectiveness grew for their businesses year-over-year, meaning their efforts paid off the longer they stuck with their SEO strategies.
Numerous SEO experts acknowledge it takes time to see solid success with a search campaign. Though these are just rough estimates of how long it takes an SEO plan to increase your site traffic, they're all similar in sentiment:
- Integrity Marketing and Consulting Founder and Digital Marketing Director Brian Hughes: "Before giving up on an SEO strategy, give it at least three or four months to take root. If you're actually committed to long-term SEO success, you may have to wait as long as a year to see really outstanding progress."
- G/O Digital Content Manager Danielle Legler: "With a good consistent strategy and no other major site issues, it is reasonable to expect a three-to-six-month window to move up into the top 10 results."
- Tenfold Traffic Founder David Melamed: "It can take months for your SEO efforts to start showing significant improvements, and can certainly take that long to start showing a real ROI. Many links don't get their full value for three months. After all, Google wants to see that the links are here to stay."
- First Page Sage SEO Evan Bailyn: "A well-run SEO campaign should be able to show results within four to six months. I am defining results as 'new, targeted, organic traffic that produces leads.'"
The main takeaway from these professionals? You won't get on page one of search results after just a few weeks of work. It takes time to establish your real estate SEO strategy and for search engines to recognize that hard work. Google and Bing don't make SEO easy for a reason: They want the best of the best to stream to the top of SERPs so searchers see the most pertinent, informative, and useful content.
Aside from these predictions regarding how long it takes for SEO strategies to take shape and yield results, other optimization experts have very specific SEO recommendations that can help you succeed in the world of search:
- Nifty Marketing President Mike Ramsey on creating great content: "Things are changing so fast that you would quickly find yourself falling behind when the next updates come around. The best method is to focus on getting in front of your audience with great content all across the web and in turn finding ways to get feedback. It's hard to work like Google doesn't matter but the companies that will fare the best over the coming years will do just that."
- The Vetters Agency Founder and CEO Kristine Schachinger on testing your site: "Though we haven't been given these [SEO] rules by the search engines, we can test against the algorithm and do things we know work because a + b = c. Math is predictable, testable, and somewhat verifiable."
- Advice Interactive Group CEO Bernadette Coleman on keyword placement: "A good keyword in the title that reflects the literal theme of the article or asset will ultimately determine whether it ranks in search and social."
- Online Marketing Coach Founder Mike Murray on multi-purpose keyword use: "It's not just about ranking so high that you can stop paying for a keyword phrase. Depending on the conversions and ROI goals, maybe you will keep a keyword phrase with both paid and natural search."
Discover more advanced real estate SEO tips and tricks and expert advice that can help you master local SEO for real estate on our Academy.
What else do you want to know to better your real estate SEO strategy? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
Published on February 5, 2015
Written by Matthew Bushery
I'm the Sr. Content Creator for Placester, where I educate real estate professionals about modern marketing and, in turn, help agents and brokers make the most of their online presence, earn more traffic, and generate more leads and business.
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"Monster" is one of the most brilliant anime that i have watched, it has an interesting story with very well developed characters and the atmosphere of the anime. I am trying to keep this review SPOILER FREE.
Monster is a psychological thriller anime through and through. The story is set in Germany after the cold war. The main protagonist is an Japanese neurosurgeon(Dr.Tenma) who is extremely talented and a prodigy. His life is going smoothly until the point where he has to make the decision of saving a 10 year old boy or a mayor. He saves the boy and loses his post as he did not save the mayor(hospital politics). After 10 years have passed on a series of murders come to light and the suspect is the boy that Tenma saved……
Monster has a very slow start(there is a reason it has 74 episodes), it is like a puzzle which when completed gives an outstanding result. There are many characters in this series which at first look's as if they are not involved with plot at all, but as the story progresses you would realize each characters importance to the main plot.
The atmosphere the anime is set in is quite dark and gloomy which actually is important as the plot it self is quite dark. The most important part of Monster is it's storytelling, the way the events are mentioned is quite astonishing. The characters in the anime are well developed.
It is the type of anime that i would not recommend binging. It took me almost 10 days to complete the anime( i can watch at least 20 episode a day). I admired the show and actually researched on some point from the anime.
This anime is one of the best and very few match up with it, so it is a must watch.
I wrote this review just after watching the last episode of monster so it is short and misses a lot of points, i will write a longer review for this anime.


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Former Minnesota Vikings star Paul Krause of Lakeville will retire from the Dakota County Board of Commissioners after 20 years, the county announced on Friday.
Krause, 72, has represented District 6 since 1995 and won't seek re-election when his term ends at the end of 2014, he has informed the county.
The race to replace him has already begun; retiring state Rep. Mary Liz Holberg, R-Lakeville, announced in mid-March that she'll run for the County Board seat after leaving the Legislature. The seat represents Lakeville on the seven-member board.
Krause, a Pro Football Hall of Famer who also played for Washington, holds the all-time NFL record for interceptions with 81. He played in all four of the Vikings' Super Bowl appearances.
"We'll all miss his steady and practical approach to our work," said Board Chairwoman Liz Workman. "Paul is a man who says what he means and means what he says. That kind of genuine, straightforward presence on the board has been invaluable to us all."
Krause is the chairman of the county's Physical Development Committee of the Whole and of the Regional Railroad Authority and vice chairman of the Counties Transit Improvement Board, a five-county body established in 2008 to invest in and advance transit projects.
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The year is 1965. A man and his two friends are sitting in a Fiat outside south Mumbai's Regal theatre, looking for a woman. She'd called to propose an almost-blind date, claiming to have met the man and sought his autograph in Darjeeling not long before.books Updated: May 20, 2011 23:45 IST
RD Burman: The Man, The Music
Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal
Rs 399 pp 366
The year is 1965. A man and his two friends are sitting in a Fiat outside south Mumbai's Regal theatre, looking for a woman. She'd called to propose an almost-blind date, claiming to have met the man and sought his autograph in Darjeeling not long before. The man spots the woman and enters the theatre just in time for James Bond's Goldfinger. The girl excuses herself soon after and comes out. The intrigued man runs out but finds her rushing away in a black Ambassador.
The narration of this filmy episode — Rahul Dev Burman's budding romance with his would-be first wife, Rita Patel — illustrates how the latest book on the musician stands apart from the versions that came before.
Ex-scribe Raju Bharatan's A Journey Down Melody Lane, put the introduction matter-of-factly and called Rita "a classy Gujarati". Bharatan took at face value Rita's mother-in-law Meera Dev Burman's assertion that all was well in the family. In his well-researched documentary, Mujhe Chalte Jana Hai, RD fan Brahmanand Siingh didn't have the space to elaborate on how RD used the only clue she'd left — that she frequented Nirmala Niketan, the social work institution — to trace her. And there was nothing on how the marriage progressed.
Here, authors Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal project a more three-dimensional view of RD. Their reconstruction sees ma-in-law Meera keeping a starchy distance from the beginning, Rita's vegetarianism driving a growing wedge between husband and wife, and her increasing alcohol intake raising the bile she spewed at her ma-in-law. So though Bhattacharjee and Vittal promise that theirs is a fans' account rather than a bio, they haven't lost sight of RD's failures and have packed in some brilliant vignettes in a life less ordinary. RD or Pancham, born to a disciplinarian father but raised by an indulgent granny, was poor at studies. At a time father Sachin Dev was away in Bombay making his musical career, RD was in Calcutta cycling around to buy pot and practising water ballets, a bizarre mix of opera and water sports splashed about at south Calcutta's Anderson Club. He played the harmonica while floating in water. At age 16, he was taken to Bombay on the ruse of learning classical from Ali Akbar Khan — again an account that's more nuanced in the Bhattacharjee-Vittal book.
Then began a career that changed a thing or two — in composition, use of singers and instruments, and recording techniques — in Bollywood music. Bhattacharjee brings to the book the same nose for trivia that led him to compile a book of lists on his other hero, Amitabh Bachchan. Amid the celebration and cerebration on the music, scores are settled as to why RD preferred Kishore over Rafi (he was, simply, quicker to pick up newer things). Effusive commentary — say, on how RD incorporated management mantras for his team far before they became fashionable in corporate India — is kept to a minimum. A list of his A-team — that included at times Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Shiv Kumar Sharma and Trilok Gurtu as well as regulars Manohari Singh, Maruti Rao Keer and Bhanu Gupta — comes right at the front. At the end are indices of songs and names.
Between his first composition — 'Ghar aaja ghir aaye badra', originally scored for Guru Dutt's shelved project, Raaz, then used in Chhote Nawab — and his last, 'Kuchh na kaho', based on his father's folksy tune, 'Rangila rangila', Pancham had closed many a circle. By starting the book with his last few hours and ending with reminiscences, this book does the same. In between lies a trove of songs that refuse to age. And now, this book.
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Don't know if anybody is still following this thread, but for anyone who cares about PSO2 news Sega still has it on the mind apparently for NA.
They recently officially announced it's delay. With the closing of first quarter of 2013 (the original slated release time frame), I guess they finally decided to make it official even though most of us figured it was delayed and in worse case scenario canceled.
But with the latest news, it's nice to know that Sega hasn't completley just dropped it. I want to say they won't just cancel it considering the fact that they've probably spent a decent amount of time and human hours trying to get it state side.
Actually the delay announcement is anything but good news for the NA release...
It was an indefinite delay, that means they haven't even mapped out when they want it to be released, and considering up until that announcement that the USA was given not even a peep since close to a year beforehand, it really speaks volumes that they went from having a planned release window, to being delayed indefinitely. They also continue to have zero announcements or updates on the progress of its localization (which close to all companies tend to keep their audiences taste buds wet with in order to keep excitement for their game surging).
Cancellation is quite a formidable possibility :/
hey im back
Been on the JP servers for quite some time now. Wish I hadn't lost interest but it is a great game! I plan on revisiting the game soon. ^_^
Recurring Void Effect
I don't care about the delay I just want to play. Learning Japanese as a precaution if it doesn't get released in english
i dled the english translation off bit torrent but stop at 97% got trolled hard
I've been dabbling on the JP servers since closed beta. It's a lot of fun, but I'd like to switch to the US, so I've been taking it easy. And you don't need bit torrent to get the eng patch. I don't think I'm allowed to link to it, but just google "psu mods"
Unfortunately, strangers do have the best candy.
Is there any way for me to try this game out? I went on the official website and there is no "DOWNLOAD" button anywhere.
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Year-end cleanup. Closing threads with no activity since 2013.
Tuxedo Mask!!!


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Titantic Violin That Played As The Ship Sank To Be Auctioned
"Titanic" may be known for Celine Dion's heart-tugging classic "My Heart Will Go On" or Kate Winslet's nude art show, but another familiar piece from the historic ship itself will be auctioned off.
If proven authentic, the violin belonging to Walter Hartley — the heroic band master who played as the Titanic was sinking — will have survived the tragedy that took the lives of more than 1,500 people in April 1912.
The potential artifact is expected to sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds on April 20 when it is auctioned by Titanic experts Henry Aldridge and Son, the Daily Mail reports. The ship's plan sold for a record £220,000 in 2011.
The anonymous seller of the violin claims that Maria Robinson, Hartley's bereaved fiancé, had given him the violin and retrieved it after his death.
The music piece has undergone a series of tests over the past seven years to prove its authenticity and the final round of results are due early next month.


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From Comedy Central America…
QUESTION: Is that it? This is Honduras. There's a new Human Rights Watch report out about alleged atrocities, abuses, whatever you might want to call them, during the first months or year of the Lobo administration. I'm wondering if you've seen this report yet. If you have, what do you make of it? And if you haven't —
MR. CROWLEY: I haven't seen the report itself, but obviously this is something that has been part of our ongoing conversation with the Lobo government. We do think there's been progress made through reconciliation commission that has been stood up by the Lobo government that was called for under the San Jose-Tegucigalpa Accords. But we are – we remain concerned about ongoing human rights abuses in Honduras, and we have raised those on a regular basis with the Honduran Government. And obviously, that is critical to both Honduras and moving forward and repairing the split that does exist within Honduran society and manifested itself within the past year, but also in terms of Honduras's broader acceptance back into the OAS and international community. Countries, including the United States, will be looking to see how Honduras improves the human rights conditions on the ground for all of its citizens.
In other comedic news, RAJ has the tale of how the Honduran government is attempting to illegally appoint public defenders for the President-in-exile so that they can hold a show trial, find him guilty, and satisfy the OAS that the rule of law has been restored. Only in Honduras.
Meanwhile, RAJ says, the International Commission of Jurists has discovered that the Honduran "justice" system, which is so intensely partisan that the courts dismissed judges purely for expressing opposition to the coup, has ignored most of the recommendations of the Commission. The punchline, as is often the case, is Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady: two parts blarney to one part Rasputin.
El Pais has constructed a map of where the cables are from. They show Honduras with only one cable. The Llorens cable is no longer findable by search on El Pais, though the cable itself is still there. The Ford cable is still there. Why is it that errors with regard to Honduras only go one way–toward sending it down the memory hole?


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Petr Janata
University of California - Davis
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Petr Janata is on the faculty in the Psychology Department and Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis. He received his B.A. from Reed College and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. After investigating song learning in songbirds as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, he resumed his music perception research at Dartmouth College. His projects have examined expectation, imagery, sensorimotor coupling, memory, and emotion processes in music. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and a Templeton Advanced Research Program grant from the Metanexus Institute. In 2010 he received a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship to further his investigations of what music-evoked autobiographical memories tell us about the functional organization of the brain.


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FRESNO, Calif. --A teenage girl is safe after she says a man tried to kidnap her. It happened on Cain and Douglas in Visalia.
The 14-year-old girl says a man tried to pull her into his car, but she was able to get away.
The suspect is believed to be a man in his twenties with light complexion, about 6'2", 6'3", and 180 pounds. The man was seen in a late 90s black Honda Accord.
If you know anything about the case, you're asked to call Visalia police.


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For the 12 million Indians who go to the movies each day, it is mostly a world of song and dance and fantasy: handsome heroes and beautiful heroines larger than life . . . and revenge with a swashbuckling, ''angry young man'' cult figure, Amitabh Bachchan, always triumphant, most usually outside the law.
The moviegoers' daily world is one of poverty and squalor, a world with a 60 percent illiteracy rate. They do not want to see rural poverty depicted, a mirror of their lives, during their precious moments of relaxation. They simply want to escape.
Yet, slowly but perceptibly, this is beginning to change.
The change is not a revolution. Things move slowly in a culture whose epic poetry, dance, and music stretch three millenniums. And it is this very cultural heritage that has provided the touchstone of the Hindi cinema in the largest producer of films in the world.
Film is one of the few universal media - it is certainly the most powerful one - in this disparate land, whose 10,813 cinemas are supplemented by mobile theaters and tents. This is not a large number by Western standards. In India there is one cinema house for 63,000 people, as compared to the European average of one for every 1,800 people in 1981. But here the cinemas are packed.
More than 700 films are made each year in this country - that's two films a day - most coming from the garish world of the Hindi-language industry, centered in Bombay.
This is a movie-mad culture, where Indians idolize their film stars. They live the lives of their heroes and heroines, to escape the tedium and dashed dreams of their own.
One can move from a poor southern village, whose harsh reality is never seen in Hindi films, to northern, Muslim Kashmir, whose communal pressures are likewise never depicted in film. Yet, if lost for conversation, one can always discuss Bachchan's newest contract or a starlet's newest home. A simple, unskilled peasant regales you with details about such things.
When Bachchan was hospitalized last summer, because of an accident during filming that nearly cost him his life, hundreds of thousands of Indians went to Hindu temples, Sikh shrines, and Muslim mosques to pray for his recovery. The prime minister, Indira Gandhi, rushed to his bedside.
Actors are even called heroes in popular magazines, a decided advantage for N. T. Rama Rao and M. G. Ramachandran, both of whom have been catapulted from ''hero'' to chief minister in southern states now controlled by Mrs. Gandhi's political opposition.
''One would think,'' said the respected film critic Chidananda Das Gupta, ''that a study would have been done on how a preliterate society like India is affected by watching so many films. Particularly now,'' he said with some derision, ''since there are two cases in which the cinema has taken over the state.''
When Rama Rao campaigned for public office in January, his regional party was only seven months old. He had no organization, except his formidable fan clubs. Teen-age boys and girls and elderly women fanned out through the countryside. Though they were dressed in clogs and saris, bundled in blankets against the winter cold, they were universal - ''little old ladies in tennis shoes.''
NTR, as he's affectionately called, had so often played the gods Rama and Krishna that he had come to be seen as a god. Likewise the swashbuckling Tamil leader, Ramachandran, who would put Clint Eastwood to shame, was synonymous with triumphing over adversity, whatever the odds.
Thus, the Bombay ''dream factory'' continues with its formula, tried and true. There are at least three song-and-dance numbers in every Hindi film. There is a chase scene, often lasting 30 minutes, a rain scene, and plenty of fights. Obstacles to happiness are most usually due to accident or villainy, almost never equated with problems demanding social change.
I was first struck by how often it rained in Hindi films, thinking it symbolic of this often parched, drought-prone land. An Indian friend made me feel less than sophisticated when she patiently explained that kissing is still banned by the film censor, and since every film is believed to need its measure of romance, rain provides the answer. Clinging, water-soaked saris and dhotis leave little to the imagination on what comes next.
Films in India are decidedly an event.
According to Mr. Das Gupta, however, and a growing number of sociologists, the flair and the fantasy are not pure escape. They mask a deeper message, which is impeding social development and change.
By reinforcing all of the more unrealistic, and negative, forces of a traditional society, the Hindi-language cinema, so its critics charge, reinforces all of the existing prejudices as well. This confirms that traditional stereotypes which exist in the nation, where one is constantly assaulted by tradition battling modernity.
For, although film settings are always opulent, and heroes and heroines always upper- or upper-middle-class, men continue to dominate women; loyalty is to caste and family, almost never to the state; the mother-in-law is omnipotent; and anything that questions religion is simply never seen.
Labor disputes are not solved by legislation or by a workers' strike, but by a change of heart by the management, always portrayed as a kindly father figure, in a highly patriarchal society. If a woman falls in love with an inappropriate man, it is resolved by her death in an accident. Bands of family-linked heroes violently resolve their own disputes. Revenge is a powerful motive. There is little respect for state authority, even less for the law.
In case after case before tiny courts in rural areas, police officers cite duplication of a crime depicted in a film. They charge that a primary catalyst is an impossible quest for consumer goods, laying responsibility squarely at the cinema door.
Yet the film world is slowly changing, as ''middle cinema'' launches a valiant attempt to bridge the worlds of Calcutta's largely Bengali-language art films, celebrated abroad, and Bombay's highly escapist, purely commercial films.
By producing a handful of yearly productions, in the Hindi language, meant for a mass audience, the new school of directors has combined social themes with enough light entertainment not to offend the sensibilities of an audience demanding fantasy.
In ''Arth,'' Mahesh Bhatt's autobiographical account of adultery - the first time in its 87-year history that the Hindi cinema has depicted adultery so openly and starkly - actress Shabana Azmi asks her estranged husband, ''If I had done the same thing, would you accept me back?''
He pauses momentarily, looking patently confused. Then, in a whisper, provides the film's moral message. One word - ''no.''
''So, there you have it,'' says the newly confident Miss Azmi, and she slowly walks away.
It is not a startling development for Western film devotees. But in India, it is revolutionary. A traditional wife just doesn't leave her husband, no matter the abuse.
And, to the incredulous delight of even the film's producer, it is doing terribly well. And not just in Calcutta, New Delhi, and Bombay, but also in the many towns and villages that are the backbone of this kaleidoscopic land. Now in its 22st week of viewing, it could be one of the most popular films of the year.
Perhaps true, perhaps fanciful, a story is being told of an elderly couple in the Punjabi town of Patiala, lower class by all appearances, as they watched a film.
When Miss Azmi walks away, the woman is said to have begun cheering. Her husband is said to have begun beating her in the darkened hall. What was different was that the largely male audience subdued him.
Social realism or fantasy? We may never know.


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Johanna Gilligan has worked in the field of food education since 2003. She began her career at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where she taught inquiry-based plant science to students in Title 1 schools. In 2006 she moved back to New Orleans and worked as the Educational Programs Manager with the New Orleans Food and Farm Network while simultaneously launching her own business, Clean Plate Projects, LLC. As a consultant, she has worked with many organizations, most notably with Rethink–a non-profit whose mission is to develop civic engagement among youth by bringing their voice to school reform. Her school food reform work with Rethink students generated national attention for its innovative approach and hard-hitting successes, eventually being profiled on the HBO documentary series, "Weight of the Nation". Johanna founded Grow Dat Youth Farm in collaboration with Tulane University and many additional partners and individuals in 2011. Johanna was a 2012 Urban Innovation Challenge Fellow at Tulane University, and has also been a finalist for Echoing Green and the Kellogg Foundation's Food and Society Fellowship. In 2012 she was a nominee for City Business Woman of the Year and a recipient of City Park's Presidential Awards.
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Leo Gorman taught social studies at Warren Easton High School and ran market gardens near Xavier University. He has interned multiples seasons on three organic vegetable farms and has worked as an educator, youth organizer and photojournalist throughout Latin America and the United States. Leo is thrilled to be part of a project that merges his passions for youth empowerment, community education and sustainable agriculture. He loves to grow stuff and eat it with friends and family.
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Jabari Brown has been gardening organically for the last three years. It was a strong desire to give back to his community and sustainability that drew him to gardening. His motto is: "What good am I if I can't teach others what I have learned?". Serving at Grow Dat Youth Farm, he has the awesome opportunity to teach students about gardening while also learning from master gardeners.
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Jeanne holds a Master of Science in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Specialized Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies from Cornell College. Previously she served as the Co-Chair of the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee and lectured as an adjunct Professor with the Payson School for International Development at Tulane University. Jeanne has worked with food and social justice projects in San Francisco, including Mission Pie, Global Exchange and Brava for Women in the Arts. Using a justice-based approach to food systems and a critical lens, she is interested in how food issues intersect with gender, race and location. Jeanne is proud that farming connects her to many generations of her family who continue to farm on the Kansas prairie. She is honored to be a founding staff member of the committed and innovative Grow Dat team.
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Sarah Howard comes to Grow Dat with a background in community organizing and community health education. She learned about food justice issues in New Orleans while working on a campaign to re-open the historic Circle Food Store in the city's 7th Ward. While helping to start a community garden in the neighborhood, she also rediscovered a love for growing food. Sarah gained additional skills in sustainable agricultural production through apprenticing with local urban farmer Macon Fry and at the Full Sun Farm in Big Sandy Mush, North Carolina. Sarah holds a BA in Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and African American Studies from Harvard University. She is a student of herbal medicine and is a certified Louisiana Master Naturalist.
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Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture
ASCs are facilities: (1) where patients have surgeries, procedures, and treatments and are not expected to need an inpatient stay, and (2) that have been certified and approved to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' ASC program.
Ambulatory Surgery Center Toolkit
Survey Form
- Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey—English (PDF - 303 KB; MS Word - 89 KB).
- Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey—Spanish (PDF - 89 KB; MS Word - 57 KB).
Survey Composites and Items
- Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey Composites and Items—English (PDF - 278.3 KB).
- Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey Composites and Items—Spanish Version and Description of Translation Process (PDF - 164 KB).
Survey User's Guide
The User's Guide provides a general overview of the issues and major decisions involved in conducting a survey and reporting the results. The User's Guide includes information on getting started, selecting a sample, determining data collection methods, establishing data collection procedures, conducting a Web-based survey, preparing and analyzing data, and producing reports.
- Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety: User's Guide (PDF - 735 KB).
2014 Ambulatory Surgery Center Pilot Study Results
- Results from the 2014 Ambulatory Surgery Center Pilot Study (PDF - 1.88 MB)—Pilot study results are provided for the items and safety culture composites on the AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture from 59 ambulatory surgery centers that participated in a pilot test of the survey in the United States in 2014.
Additional Resources
Action Planning Tool (PDF, 368.7 KB; Word, 111.77 KB)
This tool was designed primarily for users of the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture and is intended for use after your organization administers the survey and analyzes the results. It provides step-by-step guidance to help survey users develop an action plan to improve patient safety culture.
Research Reference List
The purpose of this research reference list is to provide citations for articles published on the AHRQ safety culture surveys. It includes references on the use of the surveys; psychometric analyses; analyses linking the survey to outcome data; reviews of instruments; and international studies.
Introducing the AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture
This free Webcast from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) discussed the development of the new AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture, presented results from the pilot test, and introduced the available toolkit materials. In addition, survey users shared their experiences using the survey and plans to improve their patient safety culture.
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Charleston's Best Outdoor Dining Spots
Charleston, SC, has a ton of outdoor dining experiences. We have compiled the ultimate list of the Charleston area's best outdoor dining locations!
Red's Ice House
The original Red's Ice House is located on historic Shem Creek in Mount Pleasant. Red's has a casual vibe and is the perfect spot to enjoy the Lowcountry wildlife and scenic Charleston sunsets with friends and family.
Saltwater Cowboys
One of Shem Creek's newest restaurants, Saltwater Cowboys opened the last weekend in February and is here just in time for the beautiful Charleston weather. Located on the mouth of Shem Creek this locally owned restaurant has a killer view, massive outdoor dining area, and a beautiful rooftop deck.
The deck has been rocking all day. What a gorgeous day!Posted by Saltwater Cowboys on Sunday, March 18, 2018
The Shelter Kitchen + Bar
The Shelter Kitchen and Bar is one of the Mount Pleasant areas favorite hangout spots. Locally owned and operated since 2012, they have gained a reputation of offering an amazing locally sourced menu. Open for lunch, dinner, and brunch on the weekends The Shelter is the perfect location to grab a quick bite to eat or drink with friends.
Poe's Tavern
Located two blocks from the beach on Sullivan's Island, Poe's Tavern brings out some of the beautiful historic charm of the Charleston area. Poe's is known for their fabulous and fresh burgers, fish tacos, and salads with a laid-back beach vibe.
The Obstinate Daughter
Another one of Sullivan's Island top dining locations, The Obstinate Daughter offers the whole package. Beautifully designed and decorated, The Obstinate Daughter is a Southern restaurant that is influenced by French, Italian, and Spanish cuisine and supports the lowcountry by using fresh and local ingredients.
Sullivan's Restaurant
Sullivan's Restaurant opened in 1988 and has been family operated for over 29 years holding a special place in locals hearts. The casual atmosphere and affordable menu with a large selection of seafood makes it a great place to bring the family or go on a date.
FUEL Cantina
Located at an old filling station in the heart of downtown Charleston, FUEL Cantina is an island inspired restaurant known for their authentic jerk sandwiches. In 2012, FUEL was on The Food Networks: Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. FUEL offers daily specials and a dog friendly patio equipped with TV's and music making it an attractive location for people of all ages.
Located at 492 King St. in a building that dates back to the late 1800's and is believed to have been a Leon's & Bluestein's clothing store, Four Ninety-Two holds a large historical significance and has a great story behind its restoration. In 1989, Hurricane Hugo wrecked Charleston. The building was damaged and remained abandoned, until a local restaurant group purchased the property. Restoration and preservation were an essential part of the renovation, including historic colors and reuse of any original materials to keep the aesthetic of the vintage building. Four Ninety-Two opened in 2015 and is the perfect place to enjoy award winning cuisine, cocktails, and mingle with friends and family.
If you're looking for a refreshing pre-dinner, hump-day treat, stop by @492king and sip on this rum punch with @stripedpigdistillery spiced rum! We got a little taste yesterday at our #TasteMakersCHS gathering and you should not miss it! #chseats #chsdrinks . . . . . . #foodandbeverage #bonappetit #eater #eaterchs #chucktown #chs #charleston #southcarolina #cocktails #rum #punch #basil #happyhour #492King #charlestonsc #foodielife
Leon's Oyster Shop
Opened in the summer of 2014, Leon's Fine Poultry & Oyster Shop is another downtown Charleston restaurant. Located in a restored historic building that was once a body shop and belonged to Leon Ravenel who served the Charleston area for many years. The building revisits much of the original industrial design and also houses some remaining memorabilia from Leon himself. Serving Southern friend chicken, fresh oysters, soft serve ice cream, and an excellent selection of beer and wine Leon's is a great place to dine for lunch or dinner.
Community Pizza House
Community Pizza House in North Charleston located across the street from the Tanger Outlet Mall is a great place to grab a tasty bite during a shopping trip, work lunch break or even for dinner and drinks with friends. Community Pizza House is known for its craft pizzas cooked in a custom wood fired oven, with indoor, outdoor, and rooftop dining space.
Mixson Grille
Mixson Grille is located within the Park Circle Community in North Charleston and is apart of the Mixson Club - a modern take on a fun and friendly social club with a pool and other activities for the entire family. Mixson Grille uses only fresh and local ingredients and has its own garden producing seasonal vegetables and herbs right outside the restaurant. The modern and beautiful atmosphere make Mixson Grille the ideal location couples, families and people of all ages.
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Madra Rua Irish Pub
Located near Park Circle in North Charleston, Madra Rua Irish Pub instills an authentic Celtic aesthetic making you feel like your in a pub in Ireland itself. With accents of dark wood and cozy nooks this Irish pub has gained a loyal local following and is the best hangout spot in the area for European football fans. With offerings of traditional Irish fare such as corned beef and Shepard's pie Madra Rua has been recognized as the #1 pub and bar in North Charleston by TripAdvisor.
Triangle Char + Bar
Another local staple in the Charleston community is Triangle Char + Bar with locations in West Ashley and Mount Pleasant. Triangle Char + Bar has developed their vary own "trianglosophy" which has allowed them to stand out and be known for having one of the best burgers in Charleston. Using only local, grass fed beef from cattle raised in South Carolina as well as regional pastures they strive to serve fresh food and be productive members within the local community.
Al Di La
Owners of Al Di La Giuseppe and Fabio left their native country of Italy in the early 90's and spent two decades producing world class Italian cuisine in Manhattan. Keeping their Italian heritage and roots the owners decided to move from the Big Apple and open an authentic Italian restaurant in West Ashley. With offerings of Italian wines, specialty crafted cocktails and fresh handmade pastas Al Di La is sure to bring you back time and time again.
The Lot
Offering a modern twist on American fare, The Lot on James Island creates dishes using local ingredients and strives to make each meal a special experience for its guests. The Lot has great indoor and outdoor dining space and creates its menu using the seasons highest quality meats and produce.
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Bohemian Bull
Inspired by the local culture and lifestyle of James Island and the surrounding Charleston area, the Bohemian Bull has a casual relaxed feel that makes it the perfect spot for family and friends to enjoy great food and wind down. Open 7 days a week, Bohemian Bull offers excellent happy hour and daily specials and brunch on Sunday mornings.
Tattooed Senorita
The Tattooed Senorita located off of Folly Beach Rd. is a laid-back roadside gem serving creative Mexican cuisine and cocktails. Providing ample amounts of outdoor seating this hip spot is a locals favorite place to grab lunch on the way to the beach or stop for dinner and drinks on the way home.
Pier 101
A beach lovers ideal restaurant and bar, Pier 101 is located directly on Folly Beach Pier offering beautiful ocean side views. Folly Beach Pier has been hosting beach lovers since the 1930's and it is Pier 101s goal to bring back those carefree beach vibes. The menu and decor is intended to reflect the decades past and allow visitors and locals to enjoy wonderful food and the beach side view.
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Loggerheads Beach Grille
Loggerheads Beach Grille, is another excellent spot on Folly Beach with a great outdoor environment. Loggerheads is committed to providing a family-friendly atmosphere and serving fresh seafood, burgers, and drinks at affordable prices. With a great outdoor patio, scenic views and live entertainment daily Loggerheads is the place to be after a long day at the beach.
Bowens Island Restaurant
Proudly serving the Charleston area since 1946, Bowens Island Restaurant is one of the most local seafood joints you can find. Serving long time locals and visitors alike Bowens aim is to serve you simple, yet excellent seafood. Located 5 min from Folly Beach, this long standing business is famous for its local seafood and uninterrupted view of the river and its beautiful wildlife.
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On June 14, 2014, the California Supreme Court held that employers could not satisfy California's compensation requirements for the commission sales exemption by attributing commission wages paid in one pay period to other pay periods. This decision may have substantial impact on employers who pay employees on a commission basis, especially those employers who pay commission sales employees a base salary which is close to minimum wage.
Supreme Court decision in Peabody
In Peabody v. Time Warner Cable, Inc., Case No. S204804, Time Warner contended that a former account executive was not entitled to overtime pay because she fell into the California's "commissioned employee" exemption. The exemption requires, among other things, that the employee's earnings exceed one and one-half times the minimum wage. The exemption also requires that more than half of the employee's compensation be commissions. Here, Plaintiff's hourly wages were only $9.61 an hour so they alone did not satisfy the requirement the employee be paid one and one-half times minimum wage. These hourly wages were paid every other week. Plaintiff's total compensation exceeded one and one-half times minimum wage when the hourly wages were combined with commissions paid the employee. However, commissions were paid only once a month. The commissions paid were earned throughout the proceeding one month period.
As a result, it was undisputed that, during some pay periods, the employee's earnings fell short of one and one-half times the minimum wage. In addition, it was undisputed that the Plaintiff regularly worked 45 hours per week and was paid no overtime. Time Warner claimed that the employee's commission payments should be reassigned from the biweekly pay periods in which they were paid to earlier pay periods in which they were earned. Time Warner argued that attributing commission wages in this manner would satisfy the exemption's minimum earnings prong and therefore free Time Warner of the obligation to pay overtime. The California Supreme Court rejected this argument and concluded that it was impermissible for Time Warner to attribute commission wages in this fashion.
First, the Court held that absent an express exception created by the legislature,1 all wages, including commissions, must be paid no less frequently than semi-monthly. While there is no obligation to pay unearned commissions in any pay period (for example, commissions are not earned until receipt of client payment, which occurs only once a month), earned commissions, like all other wages, must be paid at least semi-monthly unless the payment falls within an exception.
The Court went on to hold that "whether the minimum earnings prong is satisfied depends on the amount of wages actually paid in a pay period," and that "an employer may not attribute wages paid in one pay period to a prior pay period to cure a shortfall." The Court explained that permitting wages paid in one pay period to be attributed to a different pay period was inconsistent with several labor code provisions and that the DLSE's enforcement policy requires payment of more than one and one-half times minimum wage in each pay period.
Responding to arguments based on federal wage and hour law, the Court differentiated federal and state law stating that, unlike state law, "federal law does not require an employee to be paid semimonthly," and "permits employers to defer paying earned commissions so long as the employee is paid the minimum wage in each pay period." Given these differences, the Court cautioned employers against reliance on federal authorities when construing state regulations.
Implications for California Employers
As a result of the decision, California employers seeking to rely on the commission sales exemption need to ensure that employees are paid at least one and one-half times minimum wage each pay period. Minimum wage is currently $9.00 per hour (going up to $10.00 per hour January 1, 2016) meaning that total compensation under the commissioned sales exemption must be at least $13.50 per hour in every pay period. Because the exemption only applies if more than half the employee's compensation is commissions, increasing the base wage may be an unappealing option. Paying commissions in the pay period (at least semi-monthly) in which they are earned, as Peabody requires, will help resolve this issue. This will add to the administrative burden, but is now clearly required.2
If there are still pay periods in which total earnings do not reach one and one-half times minimum wage, the best alternative may be to allow employees to draw against future commissions so as to guarantee the minimum required semi-monthly payment. However, if employees regularly fail to actually earn the required commission, this methodology may be viewed as a subterfuge to avoid overtime.
Employers should also remember that Federal law only allows the commission sales exemption if the employee works for a retail or service establishment. Thus many employers are not eligible for use of the exemption under Federal law and overtime will need to be paid unless another Federal exemption applies.
Employers should also remember that the California commission sales exemption only exempts employers from paying overtime. For employees covered by the commissioned sales exemption, the employer is still required to record the clock times of the start and stop of each work period, provide the employees with meal and rest breaks (and pay premium pay if it fails to do so) and otherwise comply with legal requirements applicable to non-exempt employees.