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"Good sense on LPG subsidy"
The National Democratic Alliance government's decision to limit the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) subsidy to those earning Rs.10 lakh or less per year is one of those rare moves that will be cheered by economists and the poor alike. The decision makes eminent sense — why should the well-to-do be subsidised? Politically, the decision will win the government a lot of points with the poor, who will hopefully be the beneficiaries of the savings made by limiting the scope of the subsidy. The more the government saves, the more it can spend on expanding the reach of LPG connections among those who currently do not have one. And given that the effect of removing this subsidy will, at current prices, mean an increase in the LPG bill of a household consuming 12 cylinders a year by just a little more than Rs.2,200, or about Rs.188 a month, it is not going to receive brickbats from that section of society either. The message is clear: if you are not going to give up your LPG subsidy on a voluntary basis, then it will soon be compulsorily taken away from you. The government's Give It Up campaign has encouraged 57.5 lakh beneficiaries of the LPG subsidy to opt out. But that clearly is not enough, considering there are 16.35 crore LPG consumers in the country. However, the government is still opting to trust the people, with the declaration of income above Rs.10 lakh being a voluntary move at the moment. The assumption is that once the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas gets its hands on the full list of people declaring an income of above Rs.10 lakh a year from the Income Tax Department at the end of this financial year, this leeway will also be removed. (Technically, the subsidy is being removed for those who earn more than Rs.10 lakh, or whose spouse does.)
And it should, given the economic merits as well of such a move. At the moment, the government's revised estimates show that it spent as much as Rs.2.66 lakh crore on subsidies in 2014-15. With such a large subsidy bill, it is imperative to fix the two major problems plaguing most subsidy schemes in India: leakages and mis-targeting. Leakages refer to the phenomenon where the subsidy does not reach the intended recipient due to corruption, pilferage or a variety of other causes. This has been quite successfully addressed via the government's decision to transfer the subsidy payments directly to the recipient's bank accounts, something made easier with the Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana. The decision to limit the LPG subsidy by income groups is an attempt to address the mis-targeting problem. By doing this, the government is trying to ensure that the subsidy is only going to go to those who need it. The hope is that rather than using the resultant saving simply to shore up the budget deficit, the Centre will use it to ensure that LPG connections are provided for those who still depend on firewood and kerosene stoves.
Vocabulary :-
Alliance - a union or association formed for mutual benefit
Alliance - a union or association formed for mutual benefit
Eminent - Good
Beneficiary - the recipient of money or other benefits
Brickbats- An unfavorable remark (criticism)
Voluntary - to do / give something willingly (without being forced or paid to do it)
Opting - to make a choice from a range of possibilities
Opt out - choose not to do something
Leeway - freedom to do something the way you want to do it
Spouse - A marriage partner; a husband or wife.
Plaguing- causing worry / pain
Phenomenon - something that exists and can be seen
Imperative - Crucial
Intended - planned
Pilferage - the act of stealing
Via - through
Shore up - support
Deficit - loss
Firewood - wood that is burnt for a fire


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I wanted to share this stop-motion animation that has gone viral.
Before seeing this I thought only toys came to life after dark! It turns out that books are in on the fun too! And why shouldn't they be?! :@)
This was created at the Type Bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West, (416) 366-8973

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A memorial to those who served the country in World War II would be a welcome addition to the National Mall in Washington both for patient veterans of that war and for future generations.
Groundbreaking for the long-overdue monument is set for Veterans Day Nov. 11.
The new memorial would replace the Rainbow Pool, located at the far end of the reflecting pool that stretches from the Lincoln Memorial. The design includes 56 pillars (one for each state and territory that fought in the war) and two large rainbow-shaped pools surrounding a sunken plaza.
This memorial has been called everything from "a massive granite mistake" to "a fitting symbol for those who gave their lives in the preservation of freedom."
Contentious debate over both design and placement of memorials on and around the Mall has had a long history. The Washington Monument itself, for example, was disputed for some 40 years. Now it stands as a key symbol of the city.
Indeed, it is those controversies that put in place rigorous decision processes before a memorial to a war, group, or president is built. That includes a triumvirate oversight group and requisite time for debate.
In this instance, a civil suit filed at the eleventh hour by four groups, including the notable D.C. Preservation League and the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, calls the execution of at least some of those processes into question. That it's important not to bypass the rules goes without saying.
Preserving the sweeping vistas on the Mall, included in the original plans for the city, has also been a bone of contention. With approval of the revised design for the WWII memorial, that appears to have been done.
Careful concern, too, is warranted regarding the sheer number of memorials placed on the Mall.
The axis that includes both the two-mile stretch from the US Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, as well as the line of sight from the Jefferson and Washington Memorials to the White House, has a long history as a place for the nation to congregate.
Leaving space for that freedom of expression is paramount.
Memorials bring an immense number of tourist dollars to the District of Columbia. Others in and around the Mall are planned.
But when the desire for those dollars competes with aesthetics and the commemoration of history, something is decidedly amiss.
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652 Asclepias curassavicaCommon Names: scarlet milkweed, bloodflower, silkweed, Indian root Family: Asclepiadaceae (milkweed Family)
Scarlet milkweed is an erect, evergreen perennial subshrub, often grown as an annual. Like most milkweeds, it has opposite leaves and milky sap. The leaves are about 5 in (12.7 cm) long, narrowly elliptic, and pointed at both ends. Scarlet milkweed gets about 3-4 ft (0.6-0.9 m) tall and usually has a few pairs of symmetrical branches. The flowers are orange and red and borne in terminal and axillary clusters that are 2-4 in (5.1-10.2 cm) across. It blooms continuously from spring until autumn. The fruits are spindle shaped pods, 3-4 in (7.6-10.2 cm) long, that eventually split open to release little flat seeds that drift away on silky parachutes. A cultivar with yellow flowers is available.
Scarlet milkweed, Asclepias curassavica is native to South America but has become a naturalized weed in tropical and subtropical pastures, fields and disturbed areas throughout the world, including central and southern Florida.
CultureScarlet milkweed is easy to grow, thriving in dry, moist, and even wet soils. The leaves are sometimes attacked by aphids which produce an excrement (called honeydew!) which is in turn colonized by a grayish black fungus called sooty mold. None of this is life-threatening to the milkweed, and eventually some other predators (such as ladybugs) will come along and polish off the aphids. If you do want to intervene in nature's drama, the aphids are easily washed off with a stream of water or suffocated with horticultural oil or a mild solution of dishwashing detergent. Light: Full sun to partial shade. Moisture: Regular garden watering is adequate. Scarlet milkweed does fine without supplemental watering in the eastern US. Hardiness: USDA Zones 8 - 11. Scarlet milkweed remains evergreen in zones 9B-11, but if it does freeze to the ground, it usually comes back in spring. In cooler climates it can be grown as an annual. Propagation: Scarlet milkweed can be started from cuttings, and it grows quickly from seed.
Use scarlet milkweed in perennial borders and meadow gardens. Its dependable bright orange and red flowers stand out against the dark green foliage. Scarlet milkweed is a thin, unobtrusive little plant that can be squeezed in among other perennials and shrubs and still counted on to show off its pretty flowers. Butterflies and other nectar-sipping insects are attracted to the blossoms, and both monarch and queen butterflies lay their eggs on scarlet milkweed (as well as on other milkweeds, including the southeastern native, butterflyweed, A. tuberosa). The dried pods are used in arrangements.
Most flowers have a ring of sepals, collectively called a calyx, and above that a ring of petals, collectively called a corolla. The milkweeds have an additional ring of appendages that sits above the corolla like a crown; it is called a corona. Daffodils (Narcissus spp.) have a corona, too. In scarlet milkweed, the corolla is usually crimson and the corona is orange.
All milkweeds are poisonous if ingested, and the milky sap is a skin irritant. The butterflies whose caterpillars feed on milkweeds contain the same poisonous glycosides and are poisonous as well.
Steve Christman 3/16/00; updated 1/21/04


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This rare and collectible Porsche 356 A coupe has recently benefitted from a restoration by Porsche specialists, Classic Showcase of Oceanside, CA. With only 30,015 original miles on the odometer, this beauty is a very sought after example, with a numbers matching motor and transmission, it has been registered with the 356 registry, and it has the special Reutter Coachwork. During the restoration process, Classic Showcase disassembled and documented the vehicle, the body was stripped, it was body worked and fit, all parts were fit to the car in bare metal; it was primered, sealed, painted base coat/clear coat, all parts were painted off the car individually, then it was color sanded and buffed, and the systems were restored, or replaced, as needed. The sheet metal and the engine compartment have also been restored, as well as the undercarriage. Sound deadening was installed prior to having the interior fit by their master upholsters. The interior is trimmed in all the proper German materials and it even features the Porsche radio blanking plate. The bright work was replated as needed. This is a very nice example of a highly collectible model that was restored in a desirable color c
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Stewardship of the Air
Let me say at the outset that after forty years of breathing the miasmic exhalations of Geneva, I must admit that things are definitely better under Mr. Cannon's supervision than they were in the days of U.S. Steel. We have all heard arguments on both sides in this affair. Recently Mr. Cannon publicly injected a religious note into the discussion with his declaration that the reborn steel mill is a child of divine intervention, an act of providence.
The connection between the sacred and profane is entirely a proper one, and I welcome the excuse for a philosophical discourse. For as we learn even from the Word of Wisdom, body and mind—the temporal and the spiritual—are inseparable, and to corrupt the one is to corrupt the other. Inevitably our surroundings become a faithful reflection of our mentality and vice versa. The right people, according to Brigham Young, could convert hell to heaven, and the wrong ones heaven to hell. "Every faculty bestowed upon man is subject to contamination—subject to be diverted from the purpose the Creator designed it to fill."1 This principle meets us in the law of Moses: "Ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land. . . . Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel" (Numbers 35:33—34). And today we are told that "the whole world lieth in sin, and groaneth under darkness and under the bondage of sin. . . . For shall the children of the kingdom pollute my holy land?" (D&C 84:49, 59). "I have promised . . . their restoration to the land of Zion. . . . Nevertheless, if they pollute their inheritances, they shall be thrown down; for I will not spare them if they pollute their inheritances" (D&C 103:13—14).
Brigham Young explains:
You are here commencing anew. The soil, the air, the water are all pure and healthy. Do not suffer them to become polluted with wickedness. Strive to preserve the elements from being contaminated by the filthy, wicked conduct and sayings of those who pervert the intelligence God has bestowed upon the human family.2
And this is now brought home to us in the great bicentennial address of President Kimball:
But when I review the performance of this people in comparison with what is expected, I am appalled and frightened. Iniquity seems to abound. The Destroyer seems to be taking full advantage of the time remaining to him in this, the great day of his power. . . . I have the feeling that the good earth can hardly bear our presence upon it. . . . The Brethren constantly cry out against that which is intolerable in the sight of the Lord: against pollution of mind, body, and our surroundings.3
Brother Brigham states the problem in terms of a flat-out contest between the most vital necessity of life and pure greed, a principle as old as the human record, rooted in a fundamental fact of nature: "The world is after riches. Riches is the god they worship. . . . What constitutes health, wealth, joy, and peace? In the first place, good pure air is the greatest sustainer of animal life."4 "The Lord blesses the land, the air, and the water where the Saints are permitted to live."5
As is well known, all metals are lifeless crystals arranged on a hexagonal plan which can grow only by accretion from without—they are, so to speak, expansive, acquisitive, and dead by nature. On the other hand, all organic life favors pentagonal forms (with the Fibonacci progression) and grows from within, reproducing itself in the life process.
Throughout the human experience that strange dichotomy between the organic and inorganic meets us in parable, history, myth, and folklore. Brother Kimball referred expressly to the Destroyer. There is no more ancient, pervasive, or persistent tradition than that of the adversary, the Prince of Darkness, most often and most widely described as the lord of the underworld who sits in his Stygian realm upon all the mineral treasures of the earth, worked by toiling slaves amidst foul and pestilential vapors. Many years ago Jakob Grimm made a long study of the subject. Our lord of the underworld rules under many names—Satan, Loki, Mammon, Mulciber, Hephaestus, etc.; and his workers are the gnomes, trolls, kobolds, the dwarfs, and other grimy, hard-working creatures. The model is plainly taken from prehistoric mining regions such as the immensely old Varna works in Yugoslavia and others in Asia Minor and Cyprus. For the classical writers, Spain was his kingdom, with its blighted regions of mines, smelters, and foundries—all worked by starving, filthy, driven slaves, converting the landscape into barren wastes of slag and stunted vegetation.
Cyprus was early stripped of its forests to provide fuel for the copper and silver smelters.6 Plato tells us that Attica in his day had become "the skeleton of a body wasted by disease." The abundant forests were gone; gone were the food for animals and the storage for water. "In the old days," he says, "the water was not lost, as it is today, by running off a barren ground to the sea."7 Though that enlightened city passed an ordinance against throwing garbage into the streets as early as 500 B.C., today 2,500 years later Athens is strangling in smog, which is literally destroying those glories of Plato's day which have survived until the present.
The big boss is best known by far under his names of Pluto and Plutus, the one denoting his function as the lord of the underworld and the other as the god of riches.8 The best known public appearance of Pluto is his rape of Proserpine, the most famous rape in song and story.9 She is the daughter of Demeter, Mother Earth, and represents everything that is fresh, beautiful, green, young, and growing. Pluto, in his black quadriga or black stretch limousine, sweeps out of his subterranean realm amidst choking clouds of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and assorted particles, and snatches Proserpine away from the scene to go down and live with him as a very rich but unhappy bride. In northern mythology when the maiden goes down to live below, her name is changed to Hell. With her departure all the upper world becomes as dull and gloomy as Pluto's own busy factories, foundries, and smelters. This makes Pluto's claim to rule over the earth complete. He takes the treasures of the earth and with them creates the wealth and the armaments that enable him to rule through the ages with blood and horror.
The psychological side of the legends is significant. The Pluto figure is shunned and avoided by men; no ancient tribe claimed him as an ancestor. No cult paid him honor, for all the fear and dread his power inspired. His uncompromising enemy is Dike—justice or righteousness. Theognis of Megara, a ruined aristocrat, lamenting his lost fortune, sings the praise of "Plutus, thou fairest of gods and most desirable of all things, through thee even the basest man can become a pillar of society" (esthlos aner).10 Shakespeare says the same when he has Timon of Athens, after losing his fabulous wealth, tell us how gold can make "black white, foul fair, wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant,"11 how it can turn scoundrels to senators; and most to the point, how it can transmute the foulest stench into the balms and spices of an April day. Plutus is always selfish, always reluctant to share what he has with his brother (Hyginus). His gifts to mankind are dullness of intellect (anoia), boundless self-importance amounting to self-adoration (megalauchia), and hybris—that arrogance which guarantees ultimate ruin.
In a fable told in the Phaedrus, we are told that when Hercules, after completing his philanthropic labors among men, was received into heaven, all the heroes and demigods gathered round to congratulate him on his arrival. When Plutus came to greet him he promptly turned his back on him. This shocked them all, and when he was asked why he did it, Hercules replied, "Because he makes men base and corrupts everything he touches."12 But the best known trait of Plutus to the ancients was his blindness, which is the main theme of the philosophers and poets. There is no proportion between merit and mischief, reward and deserts, right and wrong when Plutus bestows his gifts.
At first, in archaic times, Plutus was an agrarian figure, the reward of the hardworking farmer, but with advancing civilization he was given a new persona, wealth as such and no questions asked. "Plutus has become the common guide of life," writes the poet Antiphanes, "because people think it will get them everything, and they are not particular how." When the schoolmen started to make the rules in late antiquity, they ordered Arete (virtue, honesty) to step down and yield her place to Pluto.
It is easy to recognize in Pluto the Cain figure. Cain began as a farmer; but when following Satan's instructions, he made use of that great secret of how to murder and get gain, the earth refused him her strength, and he became a wanderer. Since time immemorial that homeless tribe (the land of Nod means land of unsettled nomad) is designated throughout the East by the name Qayin, meaning a wandering metal-worker, the mark of his trade and his tribe being the face blackened at the forge; he is a skillful maker and peddler of weapons and jewels, the twin destroyers and corrupters of mankind. Long ago, Eusebius, called the father of church history, tells of an early Christian tradition that the evil spirits which constantly seek to defile and corrupt human society "move about in thick polluted air," as a most fitting environment for their work. In a passage from a famous Hermetic work, the Koreø Kosmu (excerpt 23), the Air complains to the Creator, "O Master, I myself am made thick and polluted, and by the stench of dead things from the dump I reek to heaven, so that I breed sickness, and have ceased to be wholesome; and when I look down from above I see things which are too awful to behold."
Of the Sagas of the North, the one best known to us, thanks to Wagner, is the Nibelungenlied. The Nibelungs were hideous dwarfs who mined, smelted, and forged deep within the earth. They possessed the Rheingold, which gave any possessor infinite power, but forced him to renounce love and doomed him to destruction. Freia, the goddess of youth, was bartered for the gold and carried by the giants; whereupon the earth was covered with a pall of smoke, and all things, including the gods, began to age and wither. Note the Proserpine parallel. The story is an endless procession of tricks, lies, and murders for power and gain. We are introduced into a world of ringing hammers, glowing forges, warped and deformed dwarfs plotting their dirty tricks and murders, brainless giants knocking each other's brains out, men and women of high society plotting and poisoning, all of them after the same Rheingold—because the Rheingold of course made its owner the ruler of the universe. A recent production of the "Ring" in Germany, in which the protagonists are steel and munitions barons, departs not a jot from Wagner's intent.
The most famous passage relevant to our subject is from another medieval epic, the opening refrain from Macbeth: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air."13 Shakespeare must have got the idea from the Bible, which calls Satan the Prince of the Air, but also the Prince of Darkness—that kind of air. He is also called the Prince of this World, who promises power and gain to all who will make a pact with him. The theme of Shakespeare's tragedy is fraud and deception as a means of obtaining power and control; in the closing lines Macbeth admits that he has been taken in: "I . . . begin to doubt the equivocation of the fiend that lies like truth,"14 i.e., the double-talk of the promoter that put him on top, the rhetoric of Madison Avenue: "And be these juggling fiends no more believed that palter with us in a double sense; that keep the word of promise to our ear, and break it to our hope!"15 The worst thing about the "filthy air" is that it turns out to be a smoke-screen; Macbeth is led on and put off from day to day until he is done in. It is a smooth, white-collar scam such as Macbeth half suspected from the beginning: "But 'tis strange; And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's In deepest consequence."16 What kind of honest trifles? Such pleasant bits as those pacifying public relations assurances, "We are not monsters or ogres, we are people just like you. We love our families just like you, we go to church too!" Or to quote the scriptures, "I am no devil" (2 Nephi 28:22). That, of course, is all perfectly true—the workers are not the culprits, but the pawns of owners, who use them to justify profitable pollution while hiring as few workers as possible and paying them as little as possible.
Not only Wagner, but Ibsen, Shaw, and others call attention to the moral dilemma that beset the nineteenth-century industrial society, as it does ours today. When getting gain entails the destruction and degrading of life, what should we do? Undershaft, Shaw's super tycoon, replies with the simple motto, "Unashamed." The great fortunes that made America a world-class power were paid for by mill towns in which life was very near to hell. But the owners lived far away, and starving immigrants desperately competing for jobs were willing to submit to anything.
No more vivid description of that world can be found than one written in 1855 by a prominent Latter-day Saint living in England. I thought of his essay last fall. Looking toward Provo from Redwood Road where it enters the valley at an elevation to the west, I paused to behold the dense, murky, brown fog jammed against the mountains right behind the Brigham Young University by the prevailing winds, and I remembered the opening lines of the composition,
All nature smiles, and teems with health and brightness and fragrance, where you are, but over the valley before you rests an awful, impenetrable, dark, black cloud, . . . approximating to a realization of your ideal of the "dark valley of the shadow of death.". . . You walk down the hillside, and, as you enter the thick, dark cloud, . . . you feel no more the invigorating influences [of the sun], . . . a sense of oppressiveness falls upon you, and you realize, to your unmistakable discomfort, that the darkness around [you] can not only be seen, but felt and tasted. Suddenly, to your great astonishment, you discover that this dreary spot is inhabited by human beings!17
He contrasts the situation with that of the Latter-day Saints "spreading themselves on the face of the earth, and carefully cultivating it," invigorated by "the pure, bracing air, [and with it] health."18
For 100 years, Utah Valley was idyllic. Agrarian economies, as we know, are the stablest on earth. They have existed for thousands of years throughout the world and are still going strong. Industrial economies, on the other hand, though surprisingly ancient, are expansive, acquisitive, extractive, unstable, speculative, competitive, destructive. In England it meant the Deserted Village, and the vast futility of empire. It has kept any attempts at achieving a stable American civilization off balance for 200 years.
Our Latter-day Saint philosopher of the 1850s tells us what he found when he entered the factory town: "Overpopulation—filth, want of employment, destitution, moral degradation, physical degeneracy, disease, and untimely death."19 Who would ever have thought 135 years ago that this would be an accurate description of our inner cities today?
Men of science viewing such scenes deplore as possibly the worst aspect of the whole thing the fact that people can adapt themselves to such a life, especially if the alternative is starvation. How much can people live with? Do you recall the last sentence of Orwell's novel 1984? "He loved Big Brother." Or how people could go on for years resigned to daily life in the Gulag Archipelago? Or how the prisoner of Chilon finally refuses to leave his rat-infested dungeon because he has become accustomed to it? Jake Garn says that we should all learn to live with corporate pollution lest we jeopardize the profits of big business. But where do you draw the line? How much cigarette smoke should we tolerate, for example?
This brings up the question of degree or intent. To return to our ancients, Aristotle tells us that there are two kinds of goods which we are after in this life, goods of first intent and goods of second intent.20 Goods of second intent are good because they help us obtain other things. Thus a pencil, a watch, shoes, a hammer, a stove, etc., are all useful for obtaining something beyond their own value. Goods of first intent, on the other hand, are good in themselves and need no excuse; they are not the means but the goal. Thus millions of people take the plane to Hawaii—the plane is a good of second intent, it gets us there; but the delights of the islands are goods of first intent, whose enjoyment needs no explanation or excuse. People crave them for what they are and actually need them more than any of the amenities. Goods of first intent: "All things which come of the earth . . . are made for the benefit and the use of man, both to please the eye and to gladden the heart, . . . for taste and for smell, to strengthen the body and to enliven the soul" (D&C 59:18—19). Utah Valley, without the steel mill, offers treasures of first intent. The mill is not beautiful and for most of us has precious little utility. What is it then? It is a good of third intent, the one and only thing which is not good of itself, and not useful of itself but is prized above all else—it is money. Letters to the editor have been quite frank in telling us to wake up and realize that those dark clouds to the west mean just one thing—money.
Clear examples of third intent lie all around us today. Take the town of Beatty, Nevada, for example. "The residents here," says the news report, "are dusting off the welcome mat for something the rest of the country abhors: a dump to house nuclear waste which will remain 'hot' for tens of thousands of years. . . . Despite protests by Governor Richard Bryan and others, . . . Beatty residents say they would welcome the dump, if handled properly, because it would mean an economic boost." Only in southern Utah could we top such eagerness to sacrifice forever values both of first and second intent for number three, a quick monetary shot in the arm. Where else but in Utah would you ever find an Anti-Wilderness Society, composed of mining, lumber, and cattle interests? What? Making war on the lingering remnants of our precious wilderness already in full retreat, as people by the millions buy vans and camping gear, and take off to our over-crowded parks and national forests in forlorn search of remaining open spaces? Of course the object of the league is not to destroy the wilderness—those are the very men who like to play Wild West; their behavior is explained by one word—money.
Another example to convince you that there is such a thing as that ruinous good of third intent. A Houston financier bought the Pacific Lumber Company in 1985 by selling high-yield, high-risk corporate notes through Drexel Burnam Lambert, specialists in what some people call "junk bonds." To pay off the $795 million debt they were logging the largest stand of virgin redwoods remaining. Instead of cutting some trees, the company was felling all the trees in selected tracts. Maximum harvesting of these trees, many over 1,000 years old, was to satisfy debts incurred. Needless to say, "spokesmen for the company" assured us that this was only common industry practice, and was not environmentally unsound.
They say production can be sustained indefinitely under current plans. Just wait 1,000 years and the clear-cut will grow right back again. Here one of earth's supreme goods of first intent, unsurpassed anywhere in its haunting magnificence, exists merely to pay off junk bonds, third intent pure and simple. Not long ago a governor of California, championing the cause of those who were bent on turning all the groves into cash, uttered the famous one-liner: When you have seen one redwood, you have seen them all.
I grant you that the product of the operation is useful, a good of second intent; but how carefully do we balance the value of one against the other? Should whales be slaughtered to make useful soap and shoe polish? Should the sacred Blue Canyon of the Hopis be strip-mined to light millions of bulbs glorifying the gambling dives of Las Vegas?
When U.S. Steel moved in during World War II, advertising its vastly profitable operations as a selfless patriotic contribution toward making America strong and free, the people cheerfully accepted the inconvenience. After World War II, a new excuse was needed for uncontrolled pollution, and the smelters came up with the slogan, "The Solution to Pollution is Diffusion." There would be taller smokestacks. But being still further pressed, they took the bull by the horns with a campaign brazenly proclaiming, "Mining is Beautiful!" adding "when it creates a common heritage." Brigham Young never ceased telling the Saints that the one thing that would disrupt the civilization of Deseret was mining in the Territory. What the company called a common heritage was temporary jobs for "Chicanos, Blacks, Native Americans, and sons and daughters of the immigrants," but I strongly suspect that the miners were as little aware of the heritage as the stock holders and owners were.
"Oh what a powerful argument human self-interest is!" says Tertullian.21 Here is a bold headline: "Timber Spokeswoman: Environmentalists Gag Free Enterprise." But here is another by Jack Anderson: "Timber Firms Ax Free Enterprise."22
Within the past ten days we have had a classic example of the overpowering argument of third intent. Last autumn Congress finally got through a bill against the fierce opposition of the billboard interests, tightening restrictions on the industry. Billboards are not ornamental, and they are not useful; they are strictly goods of third intent. For years now, enlightened communities throughout the land have put increasing controls on the things. But what do we find now in Utah Valley? The Herald displayed a picture of "officials cutting the ribbon on a new billboard campaign," which is to adorn Provo and Orem with a rash of new giant signs, "hoping to encourage Utah County residents to keep dollars here." At the same time we learned that the authorities are planning to attract more retirees to the state. The people I know who have moved to Provo from both coasts have done so expressly to get away from the ticky-tacky urban clutter of billboards, remembering the mountains and the clear, blue sky of their childhood—and we offer them billboards cunningly placed where the eye cannot avoid their impudent and offensive intrusion. And we think that is going to make us richer?
The first reply to complaints when the mill reopened was, "If you don't like it then why don't you just move out?" Again we have Brigham's reply, "This is our home."23 "This earth is the home he has prepared for us, and we are to prepare ourselves and our habitations for the celestial glory in store for the faithful."24 "This is the habitation of the Saints; this is the earth that will be given to the Saints."25 Again we have the support of the ancients. The earth, says Aristotle, was made to be a home for man, permanently, and for that he must achieve a stable balance with nature, harmonious and pleasant to all. Cicero echoes this sentiment when he says that the earth is a fit home for both gods and men, and man has his part to play in taking good care of the garden. This must be a stable, eternal order with man at the top of the animal scale, held most responsible if things go wrong.26
Notice that all these references are to one's local home as well as earthly habitation. They are now one—where do you move when pollution is universal? Now the dispute takes on a wholly new direction. It is a new ball game. Heretofore we have always heard that air is free, and it is a free country, and business cashed in on the boundless ocean, as a free dumping ground for industrial garbage. But then Heyerdahl found his rafts floating in displays of garbage even in the remote vastness of the mid-Pacific and the mid-Atlantic. Last year we all held our noses as we watched the three-month odyssey of a scow loaded with 3,000 tons of waste, which it tried in vain to dump surreptitiously in various places. That no longer goes. If the ocean is finite, how much more so the limited airspace of the valley, an even less proper receptacle for tons of industrial filth, that must be inhaled by 250,000 people with every breath (taking in between 10,000 and 12,000 liters of air every day).
For nigh on 200 years, smoke-blackened skies were joyfully hailed as the sign of prosperity and progress, and still we hear the pious protests, "Are you against progress? Do you want to turn back the clock?" Again the answer should be seriously considered.
Before the late war [World War II], one could not buy a watch that did not have a phosphorescent dial. The things were immensely convenient and economical, indispensable. We could not live without them, and their manufacture gave employment to thousands of poor people, for it was largely handwork. In spite of all those great benefits and blessings touted by the industry, you cannot buy one of those watches today. We have actually turned back the clock on progress, made a technological retreat, trashed an indispensable commodity. But it took Jane Addams a whole generation to bring about that drastic change. Her argument was the naively simple one that making phosphorescent watches killed people, since the worker had to tip the tiny phosphorus-bearing brushes with her tongue, dooming her to the deadly phossey-jaw. But of course the disease took years to show up, and so for long years that was the franchise of the industry to continue. This is an extreme case, but the same delaying tactics are followed everywhere. You will recognize the likeness to the effects of breathing Geneva air. Maybe not so drastic, and not so quick, but granting the same license to pollute and jeopardize health.
But the problem is more serious than that. Every passing month brings forth new evidence from around the world that the physical danger entailed in the operation of such plants as Geneva is far greater than anyone had heretofore realized. The contribution of such combustion centers to acid rain, greenhouse effect, and damaged ozone is irreversible. Here an entire issue of the National Geographic (December 1988) asks on the cover, "Can Man Save this Fragile Earth?"27 We have long known that there is something wrong, if only by the duck test: if it looks bad, tastes bad, smells bad, and sounds bad in duplicitous argument, then it must be bad.
"The respect that makes calamity of so long life" is always the time element, allowing for endless obfuscation: No definitive proof, requires further study, experts disagree, a complicated problem, we are doing everything in our power, or we have done everything in our power (meaning in both cases we can't do more and intend to go on stalling), we are leaning over backwards, studying the problem, we are bringing in our experts to reject the findings, only a small sampling, figures out of date, taking it under advisement, etc. Along with this goes a swelling liturgy of praise for the benign effects, the lofty intent, and boundless benefits of the operation.
Imagine an official offering a sizeable sum of money to a local institution with which I am associated. The head of that group says he would thankfully receive the generous donation the moment the company was ready to show him a letter from the EPA stating that EPA emissions standards, low as they are, were being observed at the plant. Being a lawyer, he knows the real nature of the offer and puts his finger on the spot, and there the matter ends.
A far better gift than cash handouts to our nature-loving Boy Scouts, and school children, and to the freedom-loving citizens attending the festival in July, would be "the clear blue sky [arching] over the vales of the free,"28 the clearer the freer, including freedom from respiratory complications in later life. But of course there is one serious drawback to that. The clear blue skies cost much more than the highly publicized handouts.
I could be accused of being prejudiced and extremist, but I would not have taken my position at all if I was not forced into it by the bristling headlines that have suddenly emerged on every side; and the issue never would have reached the covers and front pages of staid conservative journals had it not been thrust upon them by the crushing accumulation of evidence sounding alarm in all quarters. I was brought up in an alarmist atmosphere first by my grandparents, then by the Axis Powers, and now by a sea of frightening statistics; but especially the scriptures kept me thinking. After hearing Jack Anderson this morning, I feel that if anything, I am much too complacent.
I do not worry very much about Geneva anymore; it is only a small fumarole at the base of a mighty volcano which is now shuddering and groaning ominously. Brother Anderson said that he hears the great waterfall roaring just ahead. So let us both end with the Book of Mormon:
For behold, ye do love money. . . . O ye pollutions, . . . who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? . . . Why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans, . . . and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord . . . for vengeance upon your heads? Behold, the sword of vengeance hangeth over you; and the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints upon you, for he will not suffer their cries any longer (Mormon 8:37—41).
The following letter to the editor was written immediately after the original presentation:
February 16, 1989
Editor The Daily Herald 1555 North 200 West Provo, Utah 84601
Dear Sir:
People often say they do not understand me. They say it so often that I should have the sense to shut up in public. And now I have gone and done it again. Since it is a preacher's duty to make himself understood, when he fails he owes his hearers an apology. And I fail every time I step into the past, where I prefer to spend my days. There my students lose me. The past simply does not exist for us today, except in old costume movies revived on TV. So the idea of the age-old confrontation between agriculture and industry in days long past rings no bells.
For example, nothing is more beyond dispute than that people who worked in mines and mills have throughout history been underpaid and overworked, living in unspeakably dismal conditions. Most of them right down to modern times have, in fact, been slaves. I have written feelingly about them. But to interpret the above statement as a description of the workers at Geneva, where friends and relatives of mine have worked from the beginning at far better wages than I ever received, is about as far as misunderstanding can go. And to say that it depicts them as hideous and deformed dwarves, forging the fatal Rheingold, either makes me the world's worst communicator or denotes a hair-trigger predisposition to jump at conclusions.
Then why did I bring up the subject at all? We have here a discussion that has reached something like a stalemate. Each side accuses the other of being insufficiently informed, and both are right. I have the advantage of being equally uninformed on both sides, and look on only as a spectator. But what I see is a drama of immense age and impact, something that has been quite fundamental to the scenario of life on this afflicted globe. We are told that in cases like this, one cannot know too much about the subject, and in an impulsive moment acting on that unproven premise, I agreed to bring ancient instances into the discussion. That was a mistake. It is rash and foolhardy to go out for the recondite and esoteric stuff unless you are prepared to take it all the way, which is hardly to be done in half an hour.
Recently, indignant citizens have been reminding me of "what has made this country great." Unfortunately they can only tell me what has made it rich—a very different thing, as Socrates would tell you. Every time the Nephites got rich they stopped being great. What has made us rich in the first instance is vast, natural resources. Just an hour before sounding off, I listened to Jack Anderson tell how the Japanese, with none of our fabulous resources, are able to run rings around us in almost every department, getting very rich indeed by all-out work and dedication. But that is not real greatness—the soaring Dow-Jones is not forever. To me the austerity, "plain living and high thinking" of old New England, the devout wisdom of the Founding Fathers, and the studious and courtly ways of a handful of Southern gentlemen showed us the way to be great—a way we have not followed.
Time did not allow me to give the conclusion to the talk, which was to declare that I no longer worry much about Geneva, that the only time it really got to me was on those sweet spring nights when every breath from the west reminded me of what I was missing. Unfortunately, breathing was not optional or I could have escaped that prejudice too. Today I see in Geneva a smoking fumarole at the base of a mighty volcano which is just about to blow—Jack Anderson's talk left me in little doubt about that. I take small comfort in the conviction that before long circumstances are going to settle the problem for us. Sincerely, Hugh Nibley
* This talk was given 16 February 1989 in Provo, Utah, as part of a Clear Air Symposium at Brigham Young University.
3. Spencer W. Kimball, "The False Gods We Worship," Ensign 6 (June 1976): 4 (emphasis added).
4. MS 22:738 (emphasis added).
6. Strabo, The Geography of Strabo XIV, 6, 5.
7. Plato, Critias 111A—D.
8. Ernst Wüst, "Puton," in Paulys Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, 23 vols. (Stuttgart: Druckenmüller and Waldsee, 1951), 21:1:998—99.
9. Ibid., 21:1:1000.
10. J. Zwicker, "Plutos," in ibid., 21:1:1035.
11. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act IV, scene iii, lines 28—29.
12. Phaedrus, Fables IV, 12.
13. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act I, scene i, lines 14—15.
14. Ibid., act V, scene v, lines 49—51.
15. Ibid., act v, scene viii, lines 25—28.
16. Ibid., act I, scene iii, lines 137—41.
20. Aristotle, Metaphysics V, 2, 3—4.
21. Tertullian, De Spectaculis II, 89—90.
22. Jack Anderson, Herald 132 (2 January 1985): 21.
26. Cf. Cicero, De Natura Deorum II, 39; 45; 53.
27. National Geographic 174 (December 1988): front cover.
28. Charles W. Penrose, "O Ye Mountains High," in Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985), no. 34, verse 1.


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The iPhone has access to a huge volume of content like photos, games and streaming video. Your television can play that content in all of its glory, offering a huge improvement over your phone's small display. Seems like a match made in heaven, right?
That depends. Though playing content on your TV via your iPhone is great, it's not possible out of the box – you need to add this capability with adapters, apps or hardware. Here are the five easiest ways to send content from your iPhone to your TV.
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The easiest way to play media on your television from an iPhone is to use an official Apple AV Adapter, which converts your iPhone's 30-pin or Lightening port to HDMI. There are also adapters that output to Component, Composite or VGA. Your iPhone should be detected as if it were a streaming media player like a Roku or Apple TV.
Video will only play from apps that support video out. In some cases, support from an app may be dictated by the model of iPhone you have. Hulu's app, for example, only handles video out on an iPhone 4S (or newer).
Using the adapter is pretty simple, but it's also costly. Prices vary between $30 and $50 depending on the type of video output you need. Also, this requires a wired connection between your iPhone and your television, which can be inconvenient if your television is far from your couch.
DLNA stands for Digital Living Network Alliance 6 UPnP/DLNA Servers for Streaming Media to Your Devices 6 UPnP/DLNA Servers for Streaming Media to Your Devices UPnP devices are able to see and communicate with one another, and one of the best uses for this technology to stream media around the house. Read More , and it's a standard (like WiFi or USB) that's meant to make connecting different home media devices easy. Many televisions support DLNA, and so does the PlayStation 3 How To Jailbreak Your PlayStation 3 With PSGroove How To Jailbreak Your PlayStation 3 With PSGroove Read More , streaming media players from Netgear and Western Digital, and plenty of other set-top hardware.
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Though simple, this option has some notable limitations. You can play files stored on your iPhone, but you can't play streaming content from an app (like a video, or a game). This option is great for viewing a photo album or watching a movie you own as a video file, but useless for Netflix or Hulu.
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Other devices (like the Xbox 360) won't appear automatically, but can be paired using a simple process. Just open the app on the device you'd like to use, then go to Settings and select Pair. A code will appear on-screen. Open Safari and go to youtube.com/pair then enter the code you were given, and presto! You can now play YouTube videos on your television.
Technically, this isn't't streaming because the videos are played on the device you paired with rather than your phone, which is just acting as a remote. That has an upside, though; you can now use the phone for other activities without interrupting your YouTube video.
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All you need to do is download the Roku app, which is free, and login into it with your Roku account. Once you've done that, go to the Play On Roku option at the bottom of the app's main menu. This will direct you to folder views of any music, photos or video on your phone. Just tap what you want to watch (or hear) and it will play via your Roku-connected TV within seconds. You can continue to play media while handling other tasks on your phone.
The app also acts as a remote, so you can play streaming content or change settings. Like the YouTube Pair feature, however, you're not actually streaming content from the iPhone to the Roku, but instead command the device's built in streaming apps via your phone.
Streaming content from your iPhone to a bigger screen, as you can see, depends on what you want to do. There's really only one way to directly play streaming media on a television, and that's via the adapter cable. But there are many ways to view photos, listen to music, or command apps on other devices via your iPhone.
How do you send video from your phone to your TV, or do you even bother to do so? Let us know in the comments.
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Personally, I use ArkMC and I'm totally satisfied with this app. It's very user-friendly, supports lots of different formats and it's compatible with my Xbox. 5/5
I use ArkMC for streaming media from my iphone. It is a video player and streamer with official Dolby Digital Plus. It streams and playbacks media files not only locally on your device, but also from your iPhone/iPad/Smartphone to HD TV, MAC, PC, AllShare TV, Xbox360, PS3 or any other DLNA/UPnP devices.
I understand that it's been 3 years but I use ArkMC on my iPhone 6 and it works very smooth. Have no problems with streaming of video nor with audio. Recommend!
Can you stream live feed from say watchEspn from an iphone to Android TV and how would you go about doing so?
I finish work quite late at night. So when I get home if I don't go straight to bed, I'll find one of my favourite videos on YouTube and using the pairing feature stream the content from my iPhone 6 directly to a smart TV.
I live in the sticks and have to purchase our GB. Steaming movies just isn't possible for us to do without using a lot of Gb. Any suggestions on how to stream using an iPhone ?
I used Apple TV to play a streaming video last night. Worked fine.
I don't think all iPhones are supported. Anything lower than the 4S will not stream video...only audio.
Is there a solution to mirroring the entire iPhone display on a TV regardless of what app you may be in at the time?
DisplayOut by Ryan Petrich is a very solid app on Cydia. It Mirrors, detects orientation, supports game and video content and allows custom zoom & aspect ratio. it was a few bucks and sure worth it for me in the past. I kinda like choosing my own content vs. having Comcast, TimeWarner, or Apple decide for me.
I've used DisplayOut on all iphones going back to 3G and also several iPads. Turns out, the iPad 2 was much better in terms of video quality than the iPhone 4S. I haven't tried w/ the newer iDevices, only the 30-Pins. I still have a $50 Component Video to 30-Pin cable from 5-6 years ago.
These days I'd reccommend the AppleTV2 with XBMC for this type of tomfoolery. Or even the Chromecast.
Lightning to HDMI connector will do that.


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City: Phoenix
Zip: 85016
Sub Division: Biltmore Hillside Villas 3
Property Description
Stunning Biltmore Property: This is by far one of the most beautiful residences located at the Arizona Biltmore Hillside Villas III surrounded by open spaces. Quality craftsmanship for a Golden Heritage custom built home exceeds all expectations. Soft contemporary 2770 square foot home with large eight foot windows showcasing mountain views from all the rooms: features timeless elegance and sophistication with its 12 foot ceilings. This single level home with no steps is a highly customized open floor plan with split bedrooms and upgrades throughout. To capture the full experience of this original owners extremely well maintained 3 bedroom, 3 bath and 3 vehicle garage property it is truly a must see. New Samsung WiFi kitchen appliances installed October 2017. Move in ready too!
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- Directions:
- From 32nd St. and East Lincoln Drive go West on East Lincoln Drive to first drive on right and proceed into Biltmore Mountain Estates. Guard will direct to property.
- Cross-Streets:
- 32nd Street And East Lincoln Drive


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What to Expect When You're Expecting (…an Offer On Your Home)
If considering selling a home for the first time, the task can seem as daunting as having your first child (you just don't know what all to expect!). Sure…you know what people "tell" you, and you've heard the good, the bad, and the ugly…but what "really" happens when your home is on the market? You may be asking yourself questions that you feel too embarrassed to even ask your Realtor: "Will people have access to my home at all hours of the night"?, "How DOES that blue device on the door work?", "How much notice will I get before showings?", "How clean does my home really need to be…is there a balance between sanity and clean enough not to turn off potential buyers" and so many more. Here, I will attempt to uncover the mystery so that when you put your home on the market…you know what to expect.
First and foremost, no question is too silly for your Realtor. We've all been there. I remember years ago, prior to getting my Real Estate license, I was working at an apartment community and found this device in the parking lot (a Realtor's supra key…except at the time, I had no idea what it was. I knew it wasn't a calculator; there was no screen). I picked it up, eyed it carefully (as it kept beeping at me (("beep!", "beep!", "beep!")) and thought, "Oh my gosh, it's some type of bomb!".
Thankfully, I've made a lot of progress since then…but I still have my days So, go ahead, ask your realtor those questions you are dying to ask. Chances are, we've been there, too.
First and foremost, make sure you do your homework and find a Realtor whom you're not only comfortable with, but who is also responsive to your needs and seems to be working towards your goals, and most importantly, listens to what those goals are. Every person's motivation for selling a home is different. We can't assume everyone has the same goals, wishes, concerns.
So what "does" happen before putting a home on the market, and while it's on the market? Before the "For Sale" sign even hits the yard, a savvy Realtor will:
Meet with you to determine your goals
Get a look at your home / possibly snap some photos to see how it compares to other homes that have sold with like features, structures, within a similar area in close proximity ("comps") and suggest a competitive list-price.
Make suggestions in furniture-placement, possible decor, painting, touch-up, cleaning, etc to make sure your home presents well in the photos to get the prospective buyer to want to see your home in person. You also want to make sure that your home doesn't "just" look good in the photos, but will make the buyers fall in love once they get to your home as well. You don't want your home to be the one who has a showing appointment and the buyers walk in the front door and are in and out, then off to the next home in less than 5 minutes. *Remember…you have 7 seconds to make a first impression. What impression does your home give within those first 7 seconds? (Is the temperature at a comfortable setting? Is music playing? Are the blinds all even, working and tilted 3/4 of the way up to allow natural light to flow throughout the floorplan? (Yes, this is the time to make it look lived in, yet not If you've ever sold a home, you understand my sarcasm. Don't worry…most of our homes aren't picture-perfect all of the time, either (though most of us wouldn't admit it). My biggest suggestion here is don't delay a listing appointment because your home isn't picture-perfect yet. Your Realtor can help you get your home to this point…and you may be closer than you think. You want your home depersonalized enough so that the potential buyer can see themselves in the home, but not so much that it seems cold and "sterile". Your home likely already looks great, so just keep in mind that anything we suggest in terms of changes or enhancements is to get to your goal (usually selling at a higher price or faster pace). A big part of our job is to tell you what to do to get there…a fabulous marketing plan alone will only get you so far…or worse-it will attract a large number of potential buyers to be turned off by a home once they get there in person. (Don't worry…if I'm your Realtor, I will not let this happen to you
Your Listing Goes "Active" and You're On the Market!
The listing agreement is signed, the sign is in the yard and your home sparkles like never before…and you wait. "What happens now?", you ask yourself.
Then…you get the call from the appointment-showing service, letting you know you have your first showing. "Yay!". (You jump up and down and do your happy dance, wondering if you should start looking at homes). This is typically an hour's notice and an hour's showing time, though you can discuss options with your Realtor. Remember that most buyers are looking at several homes, so they may not be there at the beginning of the showing appointment. You have a key in the lockbox, of which only Realtors have access to with their e-key or supra key device (which also tracks which Realtors show your home, along with their contact-information), so your only job at this point is to leave your home(lights on, music at a low level, smelling great ((not over-powering)). Some sellers attempt to stay at home during the showings. Most buyers feel very awkward with the seller there and make their showing short and sweet, because they feel uncomfortable looking around. (Remember…you need to give the buyer time to feel at home there-so "at home" that they can see themselves living there and want to send you an offer). It's difficult for a buyer to get in that mind-set when they see you at home and still see you in your home. Give them space to feel at home…
A reputable Realtor should always respond to your calls / emails and texts during a reasonable time, but remember…we service many clients at one time, and with a lot of that time spent behind the wheel, give your Realtor at least until the end of the day to respond. (I, personally do not answer my phone when I'm in front of another client as I strive to give the person in front of me my undivided attention). As independent contractors, we are also typically the ONLY person to answer our calls…which come to ONE phone- our cell. (Some teams are set up a little differently, but for the most part, this is how it works). Be mindful of the fact that a LOT goes on behind the scenes, so even if you are not hearing from your Realtor every single day, that doesn't mean that they are not skillfully working on your behalf to market your home, following up with showings, working on search-engine optimization to get more buyers to your awesome home-listing on their website, creating pay-per-click ads and spending money on a plethora of different lead-generation sources to get your home SOLD. Sometimes there's not an update every day…but definitely expect a marketing update once per week, with any suggestions on what you may need to both do differently in your strategy. (This is a different market we are currently in…and some "tried-and-true" methods now sometimes do not work, and others that may surprise you, actually do. Every home, neighborhood, marketing audience is different. A good marketing plan will analyze those factors and have a plan to tackle objections!
Once you get an offer (happy dance!) or possibly even a few if you are priced well and your home is in a neighborhood that's very popular, along with a dynamic Realtor, it's show-time! (Contrary to popular belief, you actually do NOT have to accept the first offer, or any offer for that matter. However, even a low-ball offer can go up, and chances are, your Realtor will do their detective-work to find out just how much those potential buyers love your home). Go ahead and make that counter!
People are always willing to pay more for things they love
The initial negotiation process may last a few days. It could even last as long as a week. In my experience, it takes longer to close smaller "gaps" than larger ones. From there, you enter the transaction phase of the contract (repair negotiation, title searches, appraisals, oh my!) that your Realtor will gracefully guide you through. This is when we put on our "Project Manager" hat, and let you know what's coming "next" before you get there. We may repeat things (I typically give people an overview when the process begins, but they are typically thinking of other things so I remind them, every step of the way. Let's face it…you usually have a lot on your mind when selling a home…much less selling one home and trying to find the next one that feels like "home" all at the same time! Couple that with the emotion of letting go of a family home that you may, or may not be ready to move from (but "need" to move from), and emotions can fly. In these situations, I try to take myself back…back before I sold Real Estate, and put myself in my sellers shoes. Sometimes, we are guilty of getting into our "robot modes" because we do this for a living every day. We aren't being anti-caring; we are simply task-oriented beasts attempting to get your home sold.
Fiercely protective of our clients, the fangs sometimes come out for you during negotiations, but don't despair–your Realtor hasn't lost their mind.
All is fair in love, war and Real Estate and everyone typically shakes hands and makes nice before the closing. The goal is ultimately the same, even though we (the listing agent and the buyers agent) represent different parties. (Most sellers are surprised and glad to know that they won't need to talk to the other party at all).
That's pretty much it.
Simple, right?!
Obviously, there are some details and blanks to fill in that may fit your own situation, but it's really not brain-surgery. That's what to expect when things go "right". The most complicated situations that those who are NOT well-versed in the Real Estate contract encounter is what to do when things go WRONG. (This is the pitfall many find themselves in when trying to sell a home themselves, without a Real Estate Agent). As Licensed Realtors, most of us have been through it all…and can easily guide you through the next step or exactly how to jump that hurdle.
I would love to hear your comments about the fears, questions and concerns you had when selling your first home! Perhaps you're there right now…I would love the opportunity to answer any questions that you may have. Even if you're in the "pre-planning" stage, it doesn't have to be such a cumbersome process!
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OTC Isn't Always Cheaper: When It Pays to Get a Prescription
Over the past several years many medications that once required a prescription can now easily be obtained in the aisles of your pharmacy or grocery store. You may be familiar with allergy meds like Claritin, Zyrtec, and Allegra, or heartburn drugs like Prilosec, Prevacid, and Nexium. All are now available exclusively over-the-counter, or have both OTC and prescription versions.
This is great for you in many ways. It's easier to walk over to the shelf and pick up what you need, and you don't need to visit your doctor for every minor illness. A prescription medication needs FDA approval to make the jump to OTC status, and must meet certain requirements, so you can know you are still getting a safe, effective treatment:
- Their benefits outweigh the risks.
- The potential for misuse and abuse is low.
- They can be used for self-diagnosed conditions.
- They can be adequately labeled.
- A health care provider is not needed for safe and effective use.
On the other hand, you could also be paying—literally—for the convenience. Many people hand over the money and don't think twice because of the luxury of having easy access to these medications.
What's there to think about? You may not know that you can often get the same medication with a prescription for less. This is especially true for the new drugs making their over-the-counter debut, like allergy nasal sprays Flonase Allergy Relief and Nasacort Allergy 24HR.
These lower prices do come with the inconvenience (and potential cost) of requiring a prescription from your doctor. The savings will also depend on the type of prescription insurance you have, your co-pay, and what your plan will cover.
It can still pay to do the research though. For example, many insurance companies will pay for omeprazole 20 mg capsules—the generic capsule version of Prilosec OTC tablets. The OTC version can cost $10 for only 14 tablets, while you could get a full month supply of the prescription generic for that amount (or less) with insurance or a GoodRx discount.
A newer example is Flonase Allergy Relief, which can cost upwards of $20 per bottle without a prescription. In contrast, the generic prescription version (fluticasone propionate) is $10 – $15 at most pharmacies with GoodRx, and on most insurance plans.
The takeaway? Before choosing convenience over cost, take some time to speak with your pharmacist about potential savings.
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This afternoon, 8/13 Professor Judy Mitrani-Reiser will speak about critical care facilities in Nepal and how the earthquake on April 25th affected them.
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), and Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association reconnaissance briefing will be streamed live from the University of California, Berkeley from 2:45PM – 4:45PM EDT. Watch it live here.
Other topics in the briefing include: Engineering Seismology and Geotechnical Engineering, EERI Reconnaissance Overview & Findings, Structures and Data Collection, and Social, Psychological & Mental Health. More information about the briefing.
Graduate Seminar: Modeling Cyclone Risk and Seismic Building Vulnerability in Central America and the Caribbean
This seminar will introduce two research projects applied to the Country Disaster Risk Profiles initiative of the World Bank: a hurricane hazard model and a probabilistic seismic vulnerability tool (PSVT). The windstorm hazard model is a novel approach which yields characterizations of windstorm activity (rate of occurrence, trajectory and spatial wind field) in the Central American region for use in natural risk assessment. The generative mechanism of storms is formulated as a superposition of stochastic processes whose joint opera;on yields synthetic cyclones activity in the region. The outcomes of the model match observed data acceptably well. A brief reference to the risk estimation procedure will be offered. Vulnerability functions estimate building damage caused by an acting hazard intensity. The PSVT is a software tool for creating vulnerability functions for seismic risk analysis. The approach estimates structural response of user-defined models subjected to ground acceleration signals integrating the equations of motion. Ground signals are realizations of random process models of site–specific ground motion hazard.
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Nov 3, 2009: Coffee Art
I think there's a Mona Koa coffee, now there's a Mona Lisa (in) coffee.
newtimer Tuesday Nov 3 08:44 AM
Neat, but why an image of Mona Lisa? Kofi Annan would have been more appropriate.
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Well now we know the reason for Mona Lisa's smile...a good cup of joe.
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#2-It's my coffee, and I'll paint who I want to.
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That work of art will stay up for years.
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That's a latte coffee.
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They're making a mocchary of great art.
Shawnee123 Wednesday Nov 4 08:28 AM
I always thought Mona Lisa had a nice mug.
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Good thing they didn't do one of the Prophet Mohamed! There would be a war on by now.
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This is a huge "one-day coffee-lovers event," and these dorks actually had to search for something iconic to reproduce?
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But he was unable to pose as a result of being 60 gazillion miles up a Colombian mountain picking beans one at a fucking time. Between lines of coke.
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Juan Valdez and his mule Conchita!
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Smart Campus Project
The Smart Campus project aims at experimenting new ways to develop services for the Trento university students and, more generally, for the citizens of the Trentino region. The goal is to promote an open development approach, with the participation of all people and institutions of the Trento university campus. The technological backbone of the project is the Smart Campus platform, an open source platform that supports the development and delivery of services, as well as a growing set of services, also released as open source.
The project, which is funded by TrentoRISE, was launched in 2012, and has a duration of 3 years.
The University of Trento and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler participate in the project both as providers of innovative ICT solutions, and as institutions of the campus.
All the code, documents and artifacts produced by the Smart Campus project are subject to the following license terms:
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The core development of the Smart Campus project is run by a team that includes developers, researchers, computer scientists, designers, and managers: see here for the members and roles within the Smart Campus Lab.
The conception and the constant improvement of the services delivered by Smart Campus would not been possible without the participation of our ever growing community. In particular we are thankful to the students of the 2012 and 2013 HCI course of the Computer Science degree at the University of Trento for acting as beta testers of our apps and for actively contributing, through the Smart Campus forum, to their enhancement.
The Smart Campus software builds upon important open source software projects that we want to acknowledge here.
The platform execution environment is mainly built on Java and exploits several well-known open source tools and frameworks such as Apache Tomcat, Fuse ESB, MySQL database, MongoDB database, and JBoss Application Server.
The platform also includes specialized components that offer advanced functionalities to support the service delivery:
- The social and semantic engines integrated within the Smart Campus platform are provided by the KnowDive group of the University of Trento.
- The service wrapping and service orchestration engines integrated within the SmartCampus platform are provided by SAYservice srl.
- The trip planning engine, also provided by SAYservice, relies on Open Trip Planner, an open source multimodal trip itinerary planning and network analysis platform. This platform makes an extensive use of the OpenStreetMap open cartography data available under the ODbL license terms.
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Currently, we target Android OS as the mobile client execution environment. In addition to the official Android SDK, our Android libraries and apps exploit the following third-party libraries: ActionBarSherlock, CollapsibleSearchMenu, and android-support-v4-googlemaps.
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