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Illinois Pages:Black Representation Under Cumulative Voting in IL
A 19th Century Champion of Democracy: An Early Critique of Winner-Take-All
Communities in America Currently Using Proportional Voting
Illinois Election Administration
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Illinois Pages:Black Representation Under Cumulative Voting in IL
A 19th Century Champion of Democracy: An Early Critique of Winner-Take-All
Communities in America Currently Using Proportional Voting
Illinois Election Administration
Illinois Articles:May 14th 2009
Let's Make Every Vote Count
The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation magazine, highlights FairVote's research in an important piece on the "broad support" growing in the states for the National Popular Vote plan to elect the president. April 7th 2009
Chicago's Special Election is a Waste: Fill Vacancies in One Election, Not Two
Huffington Post
Former FairVote analyst Dan Johnson-Weinberger says Illinois should fill vacant house seats in a single election. Among his proposed solutions is instant runoff voting.March 2nd 2009
Instant democracy available in instant runoff elections
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn proposes insant runoff voting as a solution to the problems that plague the current special election to fill Rahm Emmanuel's vacated House seat.February 25th 2009
More economical solution to costly special election
FairVote Democracy Fellow Erik Connell details the pitfalls of runoff elections: cost and low turnout. He advocates instant runoff voting as the solution to these problems.February 24th 2009
Drive to enfranchise DC clears Senate hurdle
Associated Press
The U.S. Senate votes 62-34 to move the DC House Voting Rights Act forward.January 24th 2009
Don't Name That Senator
New York Times
Rhode Island State Representative and FairVote Analyst David Segal argues for special elections for senatorial vacancies and for instant runoff voting.January 24th 2009
How Not to Pick a Senator
Washington Post
Editorial calls for special elections to fill Senatorial vacancies. December 17th 2008
Electoral College debate reignites
Small Newspaper Group (Illinois)
The debate over the Electoral College reignites in the land of Lincoln.November 7th 2008
Push to Expand Early Balloting and Voter Rolls
The New York Times
EAC Chair Rosemary Rodriguez and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton endorse universal and automatic voter registration.October 28th 2008
When winner takes all, we lose: Fix electoral college now
New York Daily News
Bill Hammond calls for a National Popular Vote to make New York voters matter in the Presidential Election.July 31st 2008
Why Aurora needs a mayoral primary
The Beacon News
Commentary urges Aurora (IL) to consider instant runoff voting.June 14th 2008
Ballot moves could pre-empt town meeting
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette
News article on effort by IRV activists to place measure on November ballot.June 1st 2008
Instant replay? Activist group seeking second chance at placing advisory questions on ballot
The News Gazette
An Urbana (IL) group is seeking a special meeting of the Cunningham Town Board to consider putting the adoption of IRV for city primary and general elections on the Nov. 4 ballot.May 14th 2008
Unconventional wisdom: longer nomination helps Democrats
Belleville News Democrat
A Rob Richie Op-Ed explaining how the hotly contested presidential nomination between Obama and Clinton revitalizes the democratic voter turnout for all elections as well as Americans' involvement in politics.May 11th 2008
Confusing ballot designs still plague elections
The Associated Press
The Associated Press reports, ballot designs are still confusing voters


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It's been seven months since the Jacksonville City Council agreed to revise the city's sign law so the Jacksonville Transportation Authority could build bus shelters with advertisements on them.
Now, council members are wondering where those shelters are, while JTA insists it is moving as fast as it can to get the shelters built.
JTA lobbied the council to change the sign laws so it could hire a sign company that would build and maintain bus shelters in Jacksonville. In return, the sign company would be allowed to place commercial signs on the shelters, which would generate revenue.
JTA officials argued that this was the only way to get more shelters built, because the it didn't have the money to maintain the shelters. Supporters of the city's sign law opposed this effort, arguing that bus shelters with signs would become visual pollution. They also expressed concerns that allowing signs on bus shelters could lead to the entire sign law being thrown out in court.
After the sign law was amended, JTA agreed to meet with critics of amending the law to see if there was a way to build the shelters without signs. But that action has angered council members who supported amending the law.
"I think it's safe to say that I've been frustrated by this," said Councilman Warren Jones, who sponsored the legislation amending the sign law. "I was really hoping to see some shelters up before summer came."
Summer officially begins June 20, although it's hot enough now. There will be no shelters built or under construction by that time.
Last month, Councilman Art Graham, the council's liaison to JTA, castigated JTA's board for taking so long to get the shelters constructed. Graham expressed frustration at JTA for talking to its critics after the council already voted to amend the sign law.
Any discussions about finding a way to build the shelters without ads should have occurred before JTA went to the City Council, he said.
"In the years that I've been on council JTA has repeatedly said this is the only way it can build more shelters," said Graham. "So it's very frustrating for council to approve this and then see JTA say maybe it won't build the shelters."
Councilman Johnny Gaffney said the council took a lot of heat from Jacksonville residents who opposed changing the sign law.
"I voted for it because I believed we needed bus shelters," said Gaffney. "I would really like to see them start building some."
JTA spokesman Mike Miller said the agency is committed to building the bus shelters and expects to get bids in the next few weeks.
Miller said it's possible some shelters will be up this summer, but they won't have advertising. The agency is working with downtown redevelopment groups to build shelters downtown.
JTA says there are shelters at about 350 of the 3,200 bus stops in the city. JTA hopes to build 80 to 100 shelters a year. About 20 a year go up now. The cost of a shelter is $4,000 to $12,000 a year, depending on the type and location.
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10.30am after 10.00am Mass
Tuesday every 2nd of the month
Our Lady of the Annunciation
147 Bingham Road
Addiscombe, Croydon
Surrey CR0 7EN
Website Link
Group Leader:
Mrs Bodil Cronin
020 8654 7768
About the Addiscombe Group
Are you over 50 with a Tuesday morning to spare and looking for somewhere to deepen and share your faith?
If you can answer yes to the above question, the Life Ascending group may be for you. All human life provides opportunities for growth and development, and the latter part of our lives is no exception. Indeed, there is then more time and still much to do.
We remain spiritually young. We have a mission to fulfil, and friendship to share and receive, and the Life Ascending exists to enable older people to do just that: to come together in friendship, to deepen our faith, and to find a joyful fulfillment through Christian witness.
Programme for 2018
20th February: Talk by Bishop Howard on 'Spirituality and the indwelling of God in our souls'
6th March: Lenten Talk by Sister Assumpta
20th March: Talk by Sr. Annette, DMJ, on the Dark Night (in the Small Hall)
Easter Break
10th April (not 3rd): Talk by Deacon Sean on the Sacrament of Holy Orders
24th April
8th May: Introduction on the Synoptic Gospels by Deacon Sean
22nd May
5th June
19th June: Introduction to the Gospel of St. Mark by Deacon Sean
3rd & 17th July
Summer Break
11th & 25th September
9th & 23rd October
6th November
20th November: Introduction to the Gospel of St. Luke by Deacon Sean
4th December


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When the Mormon Battalion returned home to the Salt Lake Valley, it is said that the men of the Battalion were most destitute of what?
a. Faith
b. Clothes
c. Food
d. Weapons
Yesterday's answer:
(C) Disguise himself as a tin vendor repair man
From the life of Lewis Mousley: On this mission he labored in England, Germany, Switzerland, and Bohemia. While doing missionary work in Bohemia, he had an unusual experience. A Catholic priest, who had joined the Church, told Bro. Cannon a plan he had whereby they might preach the gospel to many people who otherwise might never hear of it. His plan was that they should fit themselves out with tinker's utensils and go among the people mending tin ware, etc. While they were mending, they were incidentally to preach the gospel. The plan was carried out for some time and many people were baptized. The police, however, who were very vigilant, discovered what they were doing, and the brethren were forced to give up their plan.
Andrew Jenson, L.D.S Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1901) Vol. 1, 687-688.


text: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Discovery Laboratories Inc. dcso after Thursday's closing bell it plans to reduce its workforce by 55 employees, or about 34%, following the delays in the regulatory approval and the commercial launch of its pediatric drug Surfaxin. In connection with the restructuring, the company expects to take a one-time charge of $4.5 million to $5 million in the second quarter. Discovery Labs said it expects to realize annual expense savings of $8 million from the reduction in workforce and related operating expenses. Also under the reorganization, Chief Operating Officer Christopher Schaber will be leaving the company, Discovery Labs said.


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It was a bike race where you look around and see heaven, but when you're finished at the bottom, it hurts like hell.Christina Chappetta proved herself at the Mountain of Hell in Les Deux Alpes, France on July 1, topping her age category and completing the 25-kilometre course with over 2,500 metres of descent in 46 minutes and 39 seconds (46:39), over nine minutes ahead of her nearest challenger.
The course starts on a glacier, taking the 800 riders through ice and snow, before dropping into the Les Deux Alpes bike park, then an urban downhill cruise through the village, before finishing on a hiking trail that is only open to riders for two hours during the race.
To top it all off, it was Chappetta's first-ever mass-start race, and she began in the 11th row of 28 after qualifying first among women overall.
"It was pretty awesome to be up there at the front of the pack with those really, really fast guys and be in the mix," she said.
Though riders' upload started at 5:30 a.m., the race itself didn't kick off until 9 a.m. Thankfully, Chappetta said, temperatures were a chilly but favourable five degrees Celsius considering the elevation.
"You're waiting for hours for everybody to get there, to put their bikes in line. You're watching the sun come up and it's a huge party, obviously," she said.
With minimal chance to train and feel out the course, Chappetta's approach was to consider it as a blind race.
"My strategy was just to look ahead, stay focused. It's the longest downhill run I've ever done," she said. "You're starting at 3,600 metres, so it's really low oxygen. You want to try not to redline too quickly. I knew there was going to be a massive pedal about a third of the way down the mountain. We pedalled probably 80 to 100 metres of elevation ... It's a nasty, nasty uphill before you drop in again."
Blistering speed was also on order for the race. Chappetta estimated she hit top speeds of 80 km/h with the fastest man going 127 km/h.
"You think you're going fast and you're in control but all of a sudden, somebody flies by you," she said. "'Oh, OK, I could go faster.'"
While Chappetta said riders on course were cheering for her, especially after they spotted her ponytail. She said it was a little strange to be a rarity as a woman taking part.
"Coming from Whistler, there are tons and tons, hundreds if not thousands of women that mountain bike and are super amazing and inspirational," she said. "But here, it's like you're just one tiny, little girl in this sea of guys."
Through the tight switchbacks and razor-thin cliff edges, Chappetta eventually earned some breathing room and then found a riding buddy to partner with to complete the course.
"I tucked in right behind a local guy and he and I just got to rip the last few kilometres of the trail. By the end, we had a big hug and a big high five and said 'That was an awesome run,'" she said. "I was stoked. When I got to the bottom, I think I was screaming and I was so happy, so sweaty, so tired, so many things."
Only then could Chappetta analyze the damage to her bike: four lost spokes and twisted bars that she partially corrected after a crash.
"Usually in a downhill or enduro race, you just carry on, but it's a long run, so you just stop, make the most of it, get your focus back and finish strong."
Five local men also raced, with Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association (WORCA) vice-president Jerome David taking 12th in the masters 2 (40 to 49) division, while Benoit Reneault was 32nd in the same category. Resort Municipality of Whistler chief administrative officer Mike Furey and WORCA president Craig MacKenzie were 22nd and 24th, respectively, in the masters 3 (50-plus) division. Cadham finished 64th in the 19-to-29 event, but Chappetta said he deserved a better fate after flatting in qualifiers and starting right at the back of the pack. Still, she noted he passed over half the field en route to his finish.
Chappetta won the all-expenses-paid trip through WORCA, which offered four spots for local riders to go to France. Chappetta earned her spot through an application while others won through a local race. In addition to the riders and WORCA brass, Mayor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden, Furey and Whistler Chamber of Commerce CEO Melissa Pace and others were also part of the entourage. The Les Deux Alpes municipality picked up the tab for every Whistler attendee to take part in the trip, which Les Deux Alpes is using to try to learn more about how to become an all-season resort.
As part of the trip, Chappetta said there have been plenty of other events aside from the race, meeting local politicians, speaking in local schools, exploring Les Deux Alpes, and going on amazing hikes thanks to the help of their hosts.
"They're things I can't even plan. If I were going on a vacation by myself, none of these things could have possibly come together so perfectly," she said. "It's been an amazing week of mingling, hanging out with the locals, getting to know what their mountain town is all about and how they succeed."


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"It" does, in case you're wondering.
This was "It" this afternoon...
Young Father: tallish, slightly built.
The Offspring: strapped to the chest of the aforesaid in some sort of carrying pouch.
Am: stopped in car at set of lights.
The action: YF is ambulating along footpath, arms held partly outwards, gazing into smartphone carried in right hand with left
hand similarly disposed while holding a cardboard cup of [presumably coffee]. (Said beverage presumed as YF looked the "latte type".)
There is a sudden jerk in the perambulating gait of YF as he trips on a piece of proudly positioned pavement and nearly tumbles.
YF manages to maintain balance and regain his pace after a step or two.
Am: Starting to move again with the traffic and with a slew of imprecatious thoughts directed at YF mixing with thoughts of the sheer
hopelessness that's beginning to seep into and sap society.
Epilog: Well, you get what I mean. You WOULDN'T get a better performance at a circus!! It's just a pity this one's free and available.


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Gecko scam on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko
More Informatio about Asian Gecko Scam
Recently a huge amount of gecko's are being hunted from the forest traded and used as a scam in southeast Asia where people are desperate to become rich and become victim of the fraud, as a part of the scam several international buyers offer and claiming to buy gecko's for several millions of dollars a gecko weighing minimum 300 grams and even several millions for a gecko of 1 kilo above weight these buyers claim that the saliva of the gecko can cure aids and any kind of cancer and that only 300 grams above specimen can be more effective, several sellers will come out of nowhere offer the victim a gecko for cheaper price.
Victim buys the gecko for a large sum and wants to sell the gecko to the international buyers but they will no longer respond to the victim.
Cause International Buyer and seller are partners
Gecko scam on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko
Scammers in Jail
We were just informed that 20 scammers are in the hands of authorities as of late afternoon today.
200 Billion Scam
But now they created a "bidding" starting at 200BILLION. First off, who would pay 200 BILLION for a 5.7kilo gecko?
NO ONE. This is either a joke or a kidnap.
Second, if you're selling a 200Billion gecko, you will be sending proper photos SHOWING different angles. This alone shows the seller's lack of interest to make money or seriousness of the deal.
We requested from the first broker of this gecko to submit different shots but they never emailed back. Perhaps its just another scam to get buyers to send money?
Pls take note scammers, this photo will NEVER pass so stop this joke and get real geckos.
This is scam folks, there are buyers al over when you look for a gecko tokay suddenly there will be a seller, when you buy the tokay for cheaper, the big buyer disappears, and you have a expensive tokay gecko as pet that will be dead when you can't feed him.
Please report the Scammer to the Authorities
or send us the details who scammed you
Bukas may 20 stop buying na po nang Gecko, Tokay or Tuko!!!!!
Whuahahahaha mga ulol!! Scam ito, buong Southeast Asia na baliw , nag hahanap nang Tuko.!! .
These animals should be protected from these sort of scams.
How does it work? Ganito yan
May bumibili ng tuko for 15million pesos. Buyer << Scammer 1
Nag hahanap sila, ikaw at buong Pilipinas nag hahanap nang Tuko
wala naman talaga 300 gram above na tuko , imported lang mga yun.
lahat na mga tao nag huhuling nang kahit anong size na tuko ayaw naman nila bilhin 300gram below na tuko
tapos may mga lalapit at ibebenta ung tuko nila. imported na malalaki
<< Scammer 2
Kaya lang since di daw sumasagot ung buyer, ibebenta nila sa murang halaga. say 100k << Scammer
bibilhin na lang ng ikaw o isang tao yun para sya mag benta sa buyer << Victim.
Which is di naman talaga bibilhin.
Scammer 100k +
Victim 100k -
scam nga!
Yun kunita pang isa eh yun mga inutusan mag huli nang mga maliliit na tuko 500 pesos per Tuko
you can see the profiles on sulit
1) Big Buyers
Big Buyers there are no address or other info this account came out of nowhere it started all this month
only a telephone number that cost 30 pesos simcar and a free email from yahoo or gmail
2) Sellers
- Seller profiles there are 2 kinds those who go to the forest to catch tuko and those who bought from the hunters
- Second Scammer sellers, offering Tuko gecko for 30,000 to 500,000 pesos
3) Brokers
brokers have all information on there profiles including address and landline
4 ) Small Buyers
Buyers have all information on there profiles including address and landline
5 ) Spammers
Nag popost nang mga blogs at articles, para i search nyo sa internet may mga reviews na, may naka benta at
nag popost nang ads, na naging mayaman sya. part of the scam ito
6 ) Mistery Shoppers
nag papangap na, true ang story, na cure sa aids at cancer
so people will have to believe it's true, and another story na mayaman na daw sya. at pumunta sa malaysia na
laboratory bla bla bla.
search the internet well the same story on different blogs, but nothing from reputable website all on unknown small website where blog posting is free.
why most buyers and sellers have picture of gecko tuko that are from google images
why most buyers and sellers have picture of gecko tuko that are from google images
These animal are very common in Asia no endangered, and it doesn't cure anything,
why 300 gram
why most buyers and sellers have picture of gecko tuko that are from google images
these picture they got from the internet, cause they never had seen or bought a gecko before.
Why they need pictures to show as proof to other buyer they can scam
1 buyer says , ti's export worth
another buyer says, the saliva enzymes are stronger
another one says it's expensive cause they are indangered.
they say tomorrow will be stop buying tomorrow there will be people offering you gecko
this happened in Indonia and Malaysia, there are no big buyers, only those people like you wanting to buy
but when you sell it the big buyer is no more.
gecko for sale don't buy
If it's to good to be true is scam
You have been Warned!
300 grams
400 grams
500 grams
worth millions are not true
I have been getting reports coming from these scammer trying to shut down this account
but i hope sulit will not deactivate this i already countered the reports
i am sure this account will not be deleted.


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AJMF Hosts Purim Party for the Ages
Terminal West, which opened in West Midtown in 2012, is the location of the AJMF7 Purim party.
For the past three years the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival has held its main Spring Fest event at Variety Playhouse in Little Five Points, but the 7-year-old festival is moving its headliners to one of the hottest music venues in Atlanta.
Terminal West, which opened in West Midtown in 2012, is the location for the AJMF Purim party, featuring A-WA and Jaffa Road.
The festival moved from Variety because of concerns over the venue's availability and because of the need to find a space better suited to the AJMF crowd, Executive Director Russell Gottschalk said.
"We knew the ownership of Variety was going to be in flux," Gottschalk said. "We weren't sure when it would be sold and when it would be closed for renovations. The other reason we switched is the size."
Terminal West has a room with a capacity of 625 people; Variety holds more than 1,000, he said. "We're usually in the 400 to 700 range at our Spring Fest, which is a perfect-size crowd for Terminal West."
An added bit of fun to the festival's main event is the Purim theme, with attendees invited to dress up in costumes. Purim actually is March 23 and 24, but the AJMF event March 26 promises to offer enough upbeat music and drinking to make people forget that small fact.
Want to go but can't afford a ticket? The Marcus Jewish Community Center's Young Adults group purchased 200 tickets and is giving them on a first-come, first-served basis at atlantajcc.org/pldb-live/purim-party-31972.
"Terminal West is an amazing venue," AJMF programming team co-chair Eli Sperling said. "The sound is incredible, and it's in a great convenient location. We feel that A-WA is one of the most cutting-edge bands in Jewish music today, and we are thrilled at the opportunity to bring them to Atlanta and share their sound."
The building that now houses Terminal West operated as an Iron and steel foundry for more than 100 years before being converted into a concert venue in 2012. The site now regularly hosts lesser known musical acts with small but passionate followings.
The music of A-WA and Jaffa Road should fit right in at the 7,000 square foot venue.
"We are extremely excited to have booked and be hosting the AJMF Purim Party at Terminal West this year," added Trent Allison, one of the general managers at Terminal West. "I myself, am of Jewish faith, so it hits pretty close to home for me. Needless to say, we are counting down the days till the AJMF Purim Party on March 26th and are looking forward to the incredible weeks full of live music."
What: Purim party featuring A-WA and Jaffa Road
Where: Terminal West, 887 W. Marietta St., West Midtown
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, March 26
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door, 18 and older


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In 2013 I launched my first Startup.
It was quite a big deal. I was only 21 and I quit my job after only one year (it was my first job). The Startup wasn't too original, it was basically a web agency for other startups in Paris...
We were 2 friends working on this. A builder (me), and a seller (my friend Thomas). It went well, but then it went down because of financial issues. Two and a half year later, we went bankrupt.
I was 23 or 24 at this time, and I started to work again as an IT Consultant for some big company. I was an employee with a permanent contract, with a very low salary and not enough time to work on anything interesting.
In 2016 I started my first "side work"
One day my old partner told me that his family lawyers were looking for a developer to build their new website. I contacted them and I basically build a simple Wordpress website for them. They were quite happy with the result and they told me:
Client: Listen, we have this idea, this big online-social-network-CRM that we want to build for our company and use with our clients. We know there are a few solutions that already exist, but we want our own thing.
They're quite entrepreneurial as you can see.. They continued:
Client: We know that you're currently employed full time, and thus have not enough time to build something like that, but if you can work on the side of your job, you could make some extra money
Me: That's awesome! As I'm not super well paid at the moment, I would love to do some extra work! With my current schedule, I can work for you approximately 2 days per month. That will give you some time to see the product grow and take the right decision during the process. Sounds good ?
Client: Perfect!
And that's how I made an extra 800€ per month over the last two years.
Now, this small lawfirm in Paris not only has a full featured, taylored CRM that allows them to chat with their client, manage their business cases and documents, but also didn't pay 50k€ at once to some web agency to see their idea come to life.
Instead, they hired me, a semi-freelance developer, that helped them take the right decisions in the building of their product. Yes it took them a long time to have their perfect product. But at least they are overly happy with it, because they had the time to watch it grow and adjust every detail on the way.
Furthermore, paying 800€ per month is much much more easy to manage that a full 50k invoice from some web agency.
It was a win-win situation.
in 2017 I imagined a website to help people to find side projects
I presented the idea to a friend who is also a developer.
The idea was a kinda network-oriented-job listing platform where freelancers could "hire each other". In order to sign in you would need a valid VAT number.
We thought about two things:
- a "pay per application" business model. So posting a job is free but you pay $7 each time someone applies to your job post
- Targeting Laravel developers exclusively.
We called it "Laralance".
Those two ideas were heavily criticized by the community (both on the official laravel slack channel and on reddit).
We had so much negative feedback that we completely abandonned the idea.
But damn I wanted for such a website to exist!
Seriously, do you know any job board where you can find a side project to work on ?!
How do you even find a client like the one I had ?! That was a perfect situation to make extra money !
Ugghh.. it HAS to exists.
It HAS to exists because web developers can't launch a business alone.
It HAS to exists because project manager can't launch a business alone.
It HAS to exists because sales and marketers can't launch a business alone.
It HAS to exists because designers can't launch a business alone.
There are 3 personalities required to start a business:— Kyle Fox (@kylefox) 15 mars 2016
1) Builder
2) Seller
3) Organizer
(Doesn't need to be 3 different people)
Well, IMO, he forgot the designer ;)
That tweet alone gave me the motivation to build the platform.
So I finally build it
Way simpler that what I originally thought of. Way faster. Way better.
At first I wanted it to be aside.works or sideproject.tech or something like that... but then I bought findamaker.io. Way, way better domain name, and the indie hackers community approved.
Powered by Algolia Instant Search, I made a VueJS / Laravel Single Page Application in less than a month.
On twitter I tried to be as open as possible about the development process, but I don't have enough followers to gather enough feeback, so I kinda built it my way. Plus, I'm not that good at tweeting stuff regularly, but I'm trying !
Finally, after the nginx setup was done on my server, I was able to release findamaker.io. Well, "release" is not the best terminology here, because I didn't make any big launch yet. But there it is, fresh and available.
Thanks to Algolia Instant Search I now launched the fastest job listing website ever (probably) (joking).
For who ?
As you've seen above in my little story, you might think the primary target (those who will pay to post jobs) of the platform are going to be small companies looking for developers / designers.
What if I told you anyone can use it ?
You're a programmer and you got an idea for a great product ? Then you can use findamaker.io to find a designer or a marketer to partner with you.
As long as you have the intention to build something, you shouldn't be stopped because you're alone
And that is why I build this website.
To find a great partner to build a business not only brings you more motivation, but also gives you more chance of success.
Next goals
- Improve design (I should get a designer)
- Post this on Medium
- Post this on Indie Hackers
- Create a few more job posts to make the website more alive
- Contact a few "famous" people to promote the website and allow them to create a few job posts
- Post this on several Facebook Group and Slack Channels
- Post on Product Hunt
- Post on BetaList
- Make the website faster
- Improve SEO
- Spend some money twitter / facebook / google ads
- Listen to feedback ;)


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A few weeks ago, I signed up for an account with Brand Yourself, an online resource which helps with controlling your search engine results. Brand Yourself walks you through different tips and steps to gain better control of which websites make it to the front page of the search results when someone is searching your name.
After signing up, I inputted my websites and follow Brand Yourself's advice for boosting the rankings of my Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. By simply adding my first and last name to the bio sections of both websites, their rankings improved greatly in just three weeks!
Brand Yourself also provides you the option to continue boosting your score with additional tips and steps. I feel more confident about search engine results because of the Brand Yourself tool. Knowing that I've got more control over what shows up in my search results brings peace of mind when I'm applying for jobs.
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Queen of the Night
I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty—I rolled around on the ground with the filmmakers from XY Content to get these shots of Queen of the Night, the Drama Desk Award winning, immersive dinner theater extravaganza.
Article: Galore Darling - C0-Producer of the Fabulous Queen of the Night - Jennie Willink
"We're so happy we got to chat with one of the co-producers Jennie Willink of the critically acclaimed immersive NY theater show Queen of the Night. She told us all about the show and why we should def check it out..."
Blue Man Group
We made thousands of hours of video during my 14 years with the worldwide phenomenon, Blue Man Group. This is the first TV spot we ever made and it's still my favorite. Got dirty making this one too.
Article: Fast Company - Freak Control
A recent meeting covered several major events, including an opening in Amsterdam, a new tour, and the construction of a theater. Willink blinked and then suddenly sketched out a plan. "It was like watching a crazed supercomputer doing 64 million simultaneous computations," cofounder Matt Goldman recalls. "Eighteen months. Five huge projects. Boom."
Article: American Express OPEN Forum - Organization Insights Behind the Blue Men
"Making ideas happen," Jennie Willink proclaims, "is pretty much all I think about." After more than twelve years with Blue Man Group, Willink leads the company's creative team - a 30+ person group that generates and executes ideas for new acts, music, advertising, and characters...
The Paul Holdengraber Show
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CHESS Facility
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) is a NSF-funded National User Facility located on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. The mission of CHESS is to provide a national hard x-ray synchrotron radiation facility for individual investigators, on a competitive, peer reviewed, proposal basis. With 11 experimental stations, the facility is used by approximately 1,100 investigators per year from over 150 academic, industrial, government, non-profit, and international institutions. CHESS impacts a wide range of disciplines, serving researchers from the physical, biological, engineering, and life sciences, as well as cultural specialists such as anthropologists and art historians. CHESS users conduct studies encompassing, but not limited to, the atomic and nanoscale structure, properties, operando, and time-resolved behavior of electronic, structural, polymeric and biological materials, protein and virus crystallography, environmental science, radiography of solids and fluids, and micro-elemental analysis, and other technologies for x-ray science.
The CHESS facility is hosted by the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE), which also operates the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) as the x-ray source for CHESS. Computing services for CHESS are provided centrally by the CLASSE-IT department. The primary computing services used by CHESS are:
- high-speed data acquisition for x-ray detectors at the CHESS experimental stations
- access to and long-term storage of x-ray data collected by CHESS users
- software libraries and parallel computation resources for CHESS staff and users.
More information about the CHESS facility may be found at http://www.chess.cornell.edu.
CHESS Cyberinfrastructure
The CLASSE cyberinfrastructure (CI) consists of an interconnected series of high-availability server clusters (HACs), data acquisition systems, control systems, compute farms, and workstations. Most of these systems run either Scientific Linux or Windows on commodity 64-bit Intel-based hardware and are centrally managed using Puppet. The median age of key CI components is approximately 5 years, with an average refresh rate of once every 10 years. The CLASSE CI components most relevant to CHESS are described below.
Central Infrastructure
The central Linux infrastructure cluster runs the core CLASSE infrastructure services, including name services, file systems, databases, and web services. Recently, a dedicated oVIrt cluster has been commissioned to run centrally-provisioned virtual machines. These clusters utilize shared 10Gb iSCSI storage domains, and they provide file systems and other basic services to the rest of the lab.
CHESS Data Acquisition (DAQ)
The CHESS data acquisition system runs on a dedicated HAC and provides 10Gb network connections to each experimental station. Data collected at the stations are written directly to the data acquisition system over either NFS or Samba, where it can then be processed on the CLASSE Compute Farm or end-user workstations. CHESS users can also download their data remotely using a Globus server endpoint or via SFTP.
Compute Farm
The CLASSE Compute Farm is a central resource consisting of approximately 60 enterprise-class Linux nodes (with around 400 cores) with a front-end queueing system that distributes jobs across the Compute Farm nodes. This queueing system supports interactive, batch, parallel, and GPU jobs, and it ensures equal access to the Compute Farm for all users.
CESR Control System
The CESR control system, responsible for running the particle accelerator that produces x-rays for CHESS, consists of a dedicated Linux HAC. Although the CESR, CLASSE, and CHESS DAQ clusters are essentially identical, the CESR cluster runs many more control system services and is able to operate independently from the CLASSE central infrastructure. This isolation ensures continuity of CESR operations in the event of a power failure or general network outage.
User Connectivity
Based on their requirements, CHESS users are either granted restricted "external" CLASSE accounts (providing access to station computers and remote access to data) or full CLASSE accounts (providing access to the CLASSE Compute Farm and full interactive desktops, both local and remote).
While collecting data at the experimental stations, CHESS users generally connect their instruments and experimental equipment to a private subnet that is selectively firewalled from the rest of the CLASSE infrastructure. If users require direct write access to the CHESS DAQ filesystems, they may use dedicated station and kiosk computers located at the experimental stations and in other restricted-access locations. Outside the experimental stations, CHESS user data is made available for read-only access through the CLASSE public network.


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Episode #4: Phoebe Lapine
Phoebe Lapine is a food and health writer, gluten-free chef, wellness expert, culinary instructor, Hashimoto's advocate and speaker, born and raised in New York City, where she continues to live and eat. On her award-winning blog, Feed Me Phoebe, she shares recipes for healthy comfort food and insights about balanced lifestyle choices beyond what's on your plate. Named by Women's Health Magazine as the top nutrition read of 2017, Phoebe's best-selling debut memoir, The Wellness Project, chronicles her journey with Hashimotos Thyroiditis and how she finally found the middle ground between health and hedonism by making one lifestyle change, one month at a time.
Phoebe is a frequent contributor to Food and Wine, The Huffington Post, Yahoo Health, and Mind Body Green, who named her one of 100 Women to Watch in Wellness. Her recipes and writing have also appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, SELF, Shape, Glamour, and O! Magazine, among others. She is a regular host of cooking shows and wellness programming for Healthination and AOL.
When Phoebe Lapine was first diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, she didn't want to hear it. She thought her symptoms could have been a byproduct of her stressful life, not of a chronic illness. As time went by, she eventually came to terms with her diagnosis and discovered she could use her skills as a chef and recipe developer to heal her body. On this episode, Phoebe and I talk about her journey to "healthy hedonism," the challenge of moderating the extremism of some holistic health solutions, and why just being herself (one of the things I love about Phoebe) is at the core of her choices about food, her book, and her business.
Why, at age 22, she went through a period of denial about her diagnosis
What it was like to hear that she would have to be on medicine for the rest of her life
The mysterious symptoms that finally convinced her to see another doctor
Why holistic health solutions felt completely overwhelming and undoable at first
The reality of getting a diagnosis--you learn what is wrong, but not usually how to fix it
Her year-long experiment dedicated to her health, which ultimately became her book
What healthy hedonism means for Phoebe (and her approach to times of celebration)
Why prescriptive health books don't often resonate--and why a story is more compelling
Why vulnerability and honesty will always be at the core of the stories she shares
Her advice for receiving a chronic illness diagnosis--and how you can take it one day at a time
Resources on Feed Me Phoebe, including her directory of holistic practitioners in NYC and her upcoming e-course launching on September 17 (with registration starting August 26).
Some of her favorite wellness Instagrammers: Dana James (@danajames), Lily Diamond (@lilydiamond), Liz Moody (@lizmoody), and Serena Wolf (@serenagwolf)
Phoebe's blog: feedmephoebe.com | Website: phoebelapine.com | Book: thewellnessproject.com


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The Hong Kong government is using back channels to try to revive stalled talks with student leaders after more than two weeks of street protests.
It has sought the help of a middleman to broker the talks which were canceled Thursday last week, just hours before these were due to begin, after the government accused protest leaders of trying to use the process to incite more people to join their movement.
The middleman, a "highly respected" person, has been contacting leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Student (HKFS) about restarting the negotiations, Ming Pao Daily reported Thursday, citing Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Raymond Tam.
An announcement will be made as soon as a date is set, Tam was quoted as saying.
However, Tam said the students' demands regarding political reform for the 2017 chief executive election is a "long shot" but they could discuss electoral arrangement for 2022.
The government will be as open as possible about such discussions and willing to involve a bigger cross section of society.
On Wednesday night, HKFS secretary general Alex Chow said he had yet to be contacted by the middleman.
He said the government's hard line gives any discussions no leeway even if the students acknowledge that dialogue is necessary.
The identity of the middleman remains confidential but some leading academics are reported to have offered to mediate, including Joseph Sung, vice chancellor and president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Leaders of six major religious groups, including the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Taoist Association, also offered their services in a joint statement on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, top academics and professionals including Joseph Wong, former secretary for the Civil Service, and Edward Chan, former chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association called for the talks to proceed.
On Wednesday, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing urged the students to obey the law and go home.
He said it will be most upsetting if rule of law collapsed and called on the protesters "not to let today's passion become tomorrow's regret".
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Production Quality or Content? 2
The other day. the NY Times had good piece on podcasting. There was a great quote from Dave Winer (one of the creators of podcasting), "I love podcasting because it turns us all into investigative journalists of our own lives.". Here is Dave's elaboration on the statement. One of the main things in the piece is the spectrum of investment people make into equipment for podcasting. There has been a bit of discussion going on online about production quality in podcasts. Dave Slusher has also written about it in response to to this piece posted by Steven Hill on Steve Gillmor's blog.
Essentially a lot of traditional radio types are saying podcasting sucks because of bad production quality. This is bullshit. Production quality is not irrelevant, after all if you can't understand what is being said, the content doesn't mean much. But regular radio generally has what most would consider great production quality. But 90% of what you here on radio is shit content. I believe that the quality of the content is vastly more important than the production quality. I don't care how good something sounds if there is nothing worthwhile to hear. As long as I can hear what is being said, I am fine with some background or ambient noise or the occasional umh, ahh or cough as long as the podcaster has something interesting/funny or relevant to say. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of podcasts out their with awesome production quality, check out Digital Flotsam, Bob and AJ, the Zedcast and Accident Hash for just a few examples. But there are plenty of podcasts with what many pro's would consider poor production quality that are vastly more listenable than almost anything on the radio. Morning Coffee Notes, Evil Genius Chronicles and Dawn and Drew all qualify here. None of these are edited, all contain what would be considered flaws and I listen to all of them because they are real and have something to say to me. I have heard quite a few podcasters over the past year buy more elaborate gear to try get better sound quality. Frankly once they reach a certain point, the extra tweaks are only marginal improvements at best if they are even noticable. In many cases I have heard people talk about new mikes or mixers and frankly can't tell any difference from the previous shows.
You don't need a lot of expensive studio gear to make a great podcast. But you do need good content. If I can hear the content, that is what counts. Entertain me, inform me, make me think, make me laugh, introduce me to new music. This is what counts. the rest is just icing on the cake.


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FBI Gone Wild | Unfilter 18
Posted on: September 20, 2012
Posted in: Featured, Unfilter, Video
The Internet Archive is amassing the worlds TV News Since 2009, we explore this amazing new tool, plus we cover the details of a new study linking the commonly used chemical BPA to childhood obesity, we'll summarize the tensions developing between Japan and China, and so much more.
The media is trying to link the Military\'s reactionary pull back in Afghanistan to the innocence of muslims YouTube video, but the grim facts paint a much different picture.
Then It's your feedback, and our important updates.
All that and a lot more on this week's Unfilter.
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Show Notes:
Higher BPA Levels Are Linked to Obesity In Kids And Teens – Forbes
NDAA Case: Indefinite Detention Injunction Does Irreparable Harm, Obama Admin. Lawyers Argue
Condom used as evidence in Assange sex case \'does not contain his DNA\'
China's Top Cop Goes Missing, as Officials Stay Mum and Bloggers Erupt
Tech Giants Form Internet-Freedom Lobby to Counter MPAA, RIAA Clout "Another lobbying group hit Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. But think again before you start screaming that it's just another lobby representing the 1%." This is just another lobbying group representing the 1% only this time is the Internet 1%ers
ACT THREE: Feedback
- By all means \"offend\" as much as you possiblly can
- Citizen Detention Needs more Attention
- What\'s in it for Google?
- Monsanto\'s GMed corn
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Nicholas is live streaming his marriage proposal, and hopes to have the JB audience tune in, and maybe help get his girl friend to the right location!
The site people can visit is http://rachelwillyoumarryme.com/
- Visit his site an hour before the event (countdown on his website)
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A late program leading into the wee hours of the morning features local and international dance and chill/lounge music will entertain, uplift and relax you through the night. Another great program on our local radio RPP FM.
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- i flew in yesterday and didn't have dinner. i had trouble falling back asleep after waking up at 4 in the morning. i kept thinking of how my mother called me abnormal again when i was back home and how nothing had changed and i felt that she was taking back the understanding and approval she had once given me. i wasn't sure if i had the right to ask for her approval back and if it even mattered. then i sleep past breakfast and lunch. G calls me and tells me she had a fight with her boyfriend because he promised her mother he will not have sex with her before they get engaged. she starts off by saying how angry she is and ends up telling me how satisfied she is with her boyfriend in every way and asking me if i agree. 1 blueberry bagel with cream cheese and blueberry jam. i finally got C's postcard, though she has showed me a picture and i know what's on it. on the front is an animal that looks like a cartoon hedgehog with antlers, though i believe it is simply a cartoon deer.
- asian slaw. 4 tofu cubes. when can people stop using ginger in slaw and calling it asian? chocolate and vanilla ice cream. i wonder if i should ask D what she is writing me. two days ago she asked for my current address. i told her i'd just dreamed about her: we passed each other on the escalator; she was telling her colleague how the camera should be moving. now that i think back on that dream, i realize we were both going upward, but my escalator was faster and i surpassed her. after giving her my address, i asked her if she was writing me a postcard. she said, i'm writing you more than a postcard. but what else does she have to say to me?


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Binary Options Weekly October 7-11 2013
New week after a long time away, starting October 7th, brings 24 new market events! Pay special attention to the German Unemployment Change on Tuesday, can have an effect on the EUR/USD.
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- Canadian Building Permits: Published on Monday at 13:30 GMT. The market expects a score of -2.4%. If the outcome is 21.1% or higher, PUT USD/CAD. If the result is -3.1% or lower, CALL option on USD/CAD.
- Japanese Current Account: Tuesday, 00:50. Exp. 0.65T. 0.71T or more, CALL USD/JPY. 0.29T or less, PUT USD/JPY.
- German Trade Balance: Tuesday, 07:00. Exp. 15.1B. 15.7B or more, CALL EUR/USD. 14.1B or less, PUT EUR/USD.
- German Factory Orders: Tuesday, 11:00. Exp. 1.2%. 1.4% or higher, CALL EUR/USD. -2.9% or lower, PUT EUR/USD.
- Canadian Trade Balance: Tuesday, 13:30. Exp. -0.7B. -0.5B or more, PUT USD/CAD. -1.1B or less, CALL USD/CAD.
- U.K. Manufacturing Production: Wednesday, 09:30. Exp. 0.3%. 0.4% or higher, CALL GBP/USD. 0.1% or lower, PUT GBP/USD.
- German Industrial Production: Wednesday, 11:00. Exp. 1.1%. 1.4% or higher, CALL EUR/USD. -1.9% or lower, PUT EUR/USD.
- French Industrial Production: Thursday, 07:45. Exp. 0.7%. 0.8% or higher, CALL EUR/USD. -0.8% or lower, PUT EUR/USD.
- U.S. Unemployment Claims: Thursday, 13:30. Exp. 307K. 310K or more, PUT USD/JPY. 305K or less, CALL USD/JPY.
- U.S. Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment: Friday, 14:55. Exp. 77.2. 77.8 or more, CALL USD/JPY. 76.9 or less, PUT USD/JPY.
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Web conference room integrations with Kaptivo, Dolby and Relay, the BlueJeans app for iOS, are just some of BlueJeans industry-leading innovations for video conferencing and group video meeting rooms of all kinds.
BlueJeans Relay for iOS functions like a telephone switchboard operator, connecting various conference room endpoints. Relay for iOS is unique because it is an iOS interface for hardware-based conference rooms. You can join group video meetings, and record them with moderator controls.
For the user, the ability to see a roster of who is in the room adds value to the group video meeting experience. A meeting indicator that facilitates better time management (making sure video meetings begin and end at the correct times) that you don't typically get in a hardware-based room set up. You can still join the group video meeting, from your mobile device or a tablet, without a laptop computer. Even if a conference room system is different, the platform is familiar, and thus that the experience is too.
According to BlueJeans Tech Evangelist, Tedd Fox, "BlueJeans Relay is the foundation that BlueJeans video conferencing for rooms was built on. It is so much more than joining a group video meeting."
For Fox, there are two notable differences in regards to the Dolby Voice Audio integration, which Fox hails as "impeccable." The quality of the experience that people have with these integrations, such as the Dolby sound integration, is affecting the way that these video conference rooms are being set up. Secondly, the way that people interact with BlueJeans supported meeting rooms is a game changer. "If you're on headphones, and you have your laptop at a coffee shop, I can't hear anything else in the background."
In an office setting, with the Dolby Conference phone in the room, Fox notes, "The room hears everything. I can literally whisper in the corner of these conference rooms, and you can hear it."
Better audio affects the way people interact in all aspects of the meeting room: the volume of their voices, where and how they sit and position themselves, and other body language related to how people compensate for the typically tenuous dynamics present in a video call. With BlueJeans video enabled spaces, "You see that people visibly relax. It's not so tense. "
Launching in late fall 2017, the Kaptivo integration for BlueJeans video calling is a collaboration solution that brings the whiteboard experience into the group video realm. The Kaptivo technology—a micro-optical camera—removes the added step and hassle of moving your video camera in a video-enabled meeting room by beaming the whiteboard visuals directly to attendees' screens, "project into the meeting as if the apparatus itself is an attendee," explains Fox.
The visual equivalent to Dolby, in terms of removing distracting information, Kaptivo does so without visual distortion, and in real time. This means that shadows, even the person writing on the whiteboard, are automatically detected and removed from the visual space, leaving behind only the data you want.
As edits are made and contributions evolve on the whiteboard during the course of the meeting, Kaptivo captures the entire whiteboard process as a cohesive, cumulative document that is easily downloaded and shared as a PDF. "Everyone in the group video can see what is happening on the whiteboard, in real time. There can be Post-Its, stickers, or other stationary objects used during the session, and those are picked up, too," Fox explains.
Simply add the Kaptivo device to your BlueJeans conference room system, and you're ready to go—and it's fast, too. "I've been told it takes two to three minutes to install the Kaptivo device, and another few minutes to get Kaptivo fully integrated into the conference room."
Like BlueJeans video conferencing, Kaptivo is activated with ultimate simplicity, at the touch of a button. Just as BlueJeans is delivering best-in-class audio through the Dolby partnership, Kaptivo delivers an effective, essential workplace tool for your group video meetings to ensure they are as productive and reliable as possible—without sacrificing valuable whiteboard collaboration sessions.
Fox concludes, "A group video meeting is successful when people have great visual and audio experiences. That's what BlueJeans video delivers for conference rooms."


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Sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) are found from almost every manufacturer because they're popular. You can find many price ranges and sizes. Some of them aren't much larger than a sub-compact car, though some are giant behemoths that have pickup-truck stylings. While most people choose midsized models for fuel economy, plenty of cargo space, and full power engines, you may want to consider smaller SUVs that get better fuel efficiency, though may have less space for cargo. Large models offer towing capabilities and have the most space, though they aren't as maneuverable, get poor fuel economy, and may cost more.
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The best thing about SUVs is that they appeal to many types of drivers. They're versatile because they can carry a lot of cargo (and you can rearrange the seats to bring more stuff), but they also carry up to eight people, depending on the design. They also allow the driver a higher sitting position, which allows them to see more of the road. Most of them have some towing capacity, though it does vary depending on the style, size, and manufacturer.
SUVs also have all- or four-wheel-drive systems, which means they get more traction in rain, snow, and sleet. Extra traction also allows them to have more control in off-road terrain.
The one caveat is that they do have a higher profile and more weight, which could lead to roll-overs if you have to maneuver quickly in an emergency. Along with such, the extra weight and height can lower fuel economy.
Points to Consider
Power train options are plentiful but do vary depending on the manufacturer. Therefore, you can find four-cylinder engines and many smaller SUVs utilize them to help with fuel economy. You can also find turbocharged four-cylinders, six-cylinder engines, and V8s available. Some of the larger models may offer upgrades to diesel engines.
You can also find hybrids or Eco Boost options that allow you to use some green energy or prevent the engine from using too much fuel while driving or in stop-and-go traffic.
It's also essential to mention that some of the seating isn't as comfortable as others. Third-row seats can seem like the best idea to add more seats for passengers, but it's always a good idea to sit on them before buying to make sure an adult can be comfortable.
It's best if you can determine what size SUV you require before researching options. You can find subcompact, large, midsized, and small. Knowing what you want ensures that you only research those models, saving yourself some time and helping you create a shopping list of sorts.
Price Ranges
You can find options that are less than $20,000, but that's only if it's a subcompact vehicle that's stripped down with hardly any features. Most prices start in the mid $20,000 range and are equipped with standard features. Of course, standard features vary depending on the maker. If you want something with all the bells-and-whistles, you're likely to spend around $30,000, all for subcompact SUVs.
If you're interested in a midsized SUV, you should expect to pay between $30,000 and $50,000, depending on how upscale the design and features are. Along with such, large SUVs can cost more than $60,000, especially if you want a premium or luxury model.
While you can find diesel or hybrid models, these tend to cost more than their traditional counterparts because they use a different method for the power train.
Types Available
Most people aren't aware that there are multiple types of SUVs. Learning about the different options can help you choose one based on your needs.
Some people classify SUVs into two types: Car-based and truck-based. The car-based SUVs, sometimes called crossovers, have unibody construction, which means the body and frame are bonded into a single piece or unit. They usually have an independent suspension, which provides smoother rides and better handling. Many of them include all-wheel-drive systems and can handle some off-roading but aren't suitable for deep water, high rocks, steep inclines, or loose sand. Most crossovers have limited towing capacity, as well.
Truck-based SUVs, while still popular, aren't as easy to find. The market is shifting to crossovers because of the fuel economy selling point. Truck-based SUVs use a body-on-frame platform, usually similar to the manufacturer's pickup truck style. They usually allow for more towing capacity and hold more cargo than crossovers. You can usually find four-wheel-drive systems, allowing you to tackle the more serious off-road terrains. However, the ride is usually bumpier, and the handling can get cumbersome.
Many reporting agencies now use a size grouping system to ensure that more information is provided.
Vehicles like the Honda HR-V, Chevrolet Trax, or the Jeep Renegade usually fall into the category of subcompact SUVs. You can also find smaller models like the Toyota RAV4 or the Honda CR-V. These typically have less space for cargo and passengers, but they are still roomy inside. Because they're smaller, they are easier to maneuver and park.
Small SUVs
While tough to find sometimes, small SUVs are perfect for people who want more room than a traditional car. You've got a higher driving position and more cargo space. Sometimes, fuel economy is similar to sedans, as well. If you are considering a similar-style wagon, the Subaru Outback is an excellent choice.
Compact Sport
If you're looking for performance-oriented driving and want something upscale, the compact sporty SUV has a nice finish, quiet cabin, and better handling. They also have more amenities. However, most of these styles come from Japanese or European brands.
Midsized SUV
The midsized SUV is an alternative to the minivan and looks sleeker and less like a soccer-mom style. They usually provide excellent balance between interior space, power, safety, and cargo room. You can find a variety of manufacturers that offer midsized SUVs, such as the Honda Pilot and the Toyota Highlander.
Larger SUVs do offer more towing capacity and power, but they're bulky, clumsy, big, and thirsty. If you routinely haul heavy trailers, they're perfect, but if you want cargo and seating capacity, it might be best to choose a midsized version.


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STOLEN TRUST is a stand-alone contemporary romance with a sensuous heat level and suspense elements.
A parolee hides her past from a bounty hunter set on revenge.
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Articles on Brian Szewczynski, Dr. Joel H. Popkin, Eamon O'Marah, Karen Shaylor Wong, Dr. Min S. Ahn, Jon Gould, Marlene Aron, Thomas Clark and Nancy O'Hare.
Brian Szewczynski of Bellingham has joined the personal training team at the Kingsbury Club Medfield, a multi-purpose health club in Medfield.
Szewczynski will teach a handful of cardio classes, including kickboxing, boot camp and high-intensity training. He has more than 15 years of fitness experience.
Szewczynski was formerly the leader trainer of the Atlantis Sports Clubs of Braintree and Holbrook. He has a B.S. in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and is A.C.E. and CPR/AED certified.
Shrewsbury resident Dr. Joel H. Popkin has been named 2011 Community Clinician of the Year by his physician peers of the Worcester District Medical Society.
The Community Clinician of the Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts Medical Society to recognize a physician from each of the society's 20 district medical societies who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the community, and who stands out as a leading advocate and caregiver. The Worcester District has nearly 1,700 physicians as members. The award was presented at the district's annual business meeting.
Popkin is a specialist in internal medicine at Fallon Clinic. A graduate of New York University, he earned his doctorate in medicine from SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, graduating magna cum laude.
After completing his training in internal medicine at Saint Vincent Hospital in 1977, he joined the Fallon Clinic, becoming the associate program director of the Saint Vincent Hospital Internal Medicine Residency in 1990. In 1998 he became the program director, a post he held until 2007.
Popkin recently co-directed and published a decade-long study of radon and lung cancer in Worcester County. He is an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
His previous honors include the Fallon Clinic Teacher of the Year (1992) from his peers at the Fallon Clinic, the House Staff Award for "Dedication to Education and Professional Growth" (1994) from the residents of Saint Vincent Hospital, the Community Educator Award (2000) from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the Outstanding Primary Care Educator Award (2001, UMass), the State Senate Citation for Primary Care Educator (2001), the Educational Policy Committee Recognition Award (2007, UMass) and a certificate of appreciation for Commitment to Medical Education (2009, UMass).
His current community service includes weekly volunteering at the St. Anne's Free Clinic in Shrewsbury, ]membership on the editorial board of Worcester Medicine and serving as the president of MusicWorcester.
Based in Waltham, the Massachusetts Medical Society, with nearly 23,000 physicians and student members, is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts.
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O'Marah holds a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. He was selected to the Providence Business News' 40 Under 40 list of business leaders.
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Karen Shaylor Wong of Prudential Stephan Realtors in Sudbury has been installed as the 2011 regional vice president of the Women's Council of Realtors, a national professional development organization.
A Sudbury resident, Shaylor Wong will serve a one-year-term as regional vice president and be responsible for all of the New England chapters. She has been active with the council for 11 years and held the positions of state governor, state president and the local Central Middlesex chapter president and treasurer. She has been a realtor for 19 years and is also a member of the Asian Real Estate Association of America.
Shaylor Wong is the relocation director for Prudential and holds the Prudential Fine Homes designation. This designation requires sales of homes valued within the top 10 percent of the marketplace and extensive community involvement.
Dr. Min S. Ahn, a double board certified facial plastic surgeon and medical director of The Aesthetic Wellness Center in Westborough, was chosen to serve as the featured moderator at the national conference of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) in San Diego.
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The Hopkinton resident specializes in facial aesthetic rejuvenation.
The AAFPRS is the world's largest specialty association for facial plastic surgery.
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In this new position, Gould will represent Wingate to members of the community, physicians and hospitals, and serve as the key contact for development activities for post acute services. He will also maintain his role as vice president of acquisitions and development.
Gould's efforts as vice president of acquisitions and development resulted in the startup of several ancillary services companies including West River Care, West River Billing and West River Pharm. He is also responsible for the addition of 669 beds to the Wingate portfolio.
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India New England is a Waltham-based newspaper.
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O'Hare is a clinical physiologist and health care strategist. Previously, she was a senior clinical physiologist in the cardiovascular division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a consultant for the Sterling Planning Alliance in Boston. Most recently, she was director of strategy for the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Mass. General Hospital.
O'Hare holds a faculty appointment in the graduate school of engineering at Northeastern University.
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Alaa Al Aswany
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany, translated into English by Russell Harris, has an odd opening chapter. Two of the Gaafar children in the novel materialize and leave the author a copy of his manuscript in which they speak in their own voices. The novel then embarks on the story of Bertha and Karl Benz and the invention of the first automobile. This segues into the formation of the Automobile Club of Egypt and the fate of the Gaafar family.
Founded by foreigners and the Turkish aristocracy and under the patronage of King Fuad, the Automobile Club serves as a venue for the king and his sycophants to gamble, drink alcohol, and engage in all manner of licentious activities with a bevy of women selected specifically for that purpose. James Wright, an English man, is appointed as the club's managing director. The employees of the club are Egyptian, and their treatment and compensation depends on where they're situated in the hierarchy.
Into this club enters Abd el-Aziz Gaafar, a once respected landowner who has been reduced to taking a menial job at the club to provide for his family. His untimely death leaves his bereaved wife and four children destitute. Two of his sons, Mahmud and Kamel, become employees of the club. Mahmud earns additional income by becoming a gigolo; Kamel works in the Club's storeroom while studying for his law degree. Said, the eldest son, marries. He abandons his mother and siblings to their own devices. And after an unfortunate marriage and divorce, Saleha decides to continue with her education to fulfill her father's dream by becoming a university professor.
Simmering in the background is the beginnings of the political upheaval that would eventually overthrow the king and end British rule of Egypt. We see evidence of the exploitation of the workers and the poverty that forces them to tolerate inhumane treatment. James Wright's racism rears its ugly head in his opinions of and interactions with the local population. We also see evidence of internalized racism in how the Egyptian supervisors treat those beneath them in the hierarchy.
The novel has some strengths. In addition to the Gaafar family, we are introduced to their neighbors and the club's other employees. The wide array of characters, their backgrounds, overlapping stories, and struggles to survive makes for interesting reading. The narrative moves forward at a rapid pace. The plot sustains the reader's attention with most chapters ending with a mini cliffhanger that is picked up again a few chapters later. Al-Aswany skillfully alternates the narrative between first person and third person point of view.
There were also some weaknesses. The opening chapter in which the two characters speak to the author served no purpose, did not enhance the story in any way, and could easily have been omitted. And the ending was abrupt and lacked closure. But the main weakness lay in characterization.
Although the Gaafar children are depicted as unique individuals with differing temperaments, the portrayal of some of the remaining characters bordered on being stereotypical: the septuagenarian women desperately seeking humiliating sex with virile, young men; the too-good-to-be true young English woman who defies her father, is enamored of all things Egypt, and falls in love with an Egyptian; the racist who spews racial bigotry every chance he gets; the corrupt officials who have no qualms about torture; and the Egyptian supervisor with his internalized racism, gleeful torment of his compatriots, and obeisance to all things western.
In spite of these weaknesses, this was an interesting novel. It sheds light on Egypt in the 1950s, portrays the political and moral corruption of the king's court, and illustrates the panoply of ills that imperialism inflicts on a country and its indigenous population.


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Wonderful colors transform a classroom!
DK and I are designers so we love color! But we figured the kids do too. So why not ask the kids to respond to the colors? "Ask the kids" has become our mantra for everything we are doing in room 220. Just in case you are wondering we "Ask the teacher" too! It's a truly co-creative adventure in this summertime Inquiring Minds' co-laboratory.
We started one day with a color workshop. We put a color palette in front of our student volunteers and asked them how they would use these colors in the room? How would they use them in a color code system for the library books? They had already selected the wall color — Benjamin Moore Billowy Down (see our post), a great choice everyone agrees. And one that harmonizes with many, many other colors.
They had an immediate consensus: For the library, the color code system should move from the lightest colors for the easiest to read books to the darkest colors for the most challenging, complex books. A sophisticated and intuitive system emerged very quickly. We eliminated the L-Z system since it was no longer needed. Since Z is 'the end', does it mean the reader has reached his/her limit? Should students just read whatever they want and not focus on the level (more on this in the post on The Library).
A lot of classrooms use rainbow palettes
How have other systems in other classrooms been developed? Often they use the color spectrum – yellow through violet – which is very pretty and may be organized intuitively but all colors is not a palette. And therefore it's not unique.
Now when you walk into the room starting in the back corner wrapping left to right all the way around the room an array of colorfully labeled books give students a visual cue. More on the library, including the cost of creating it and time/labor required in a future post.
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers should have more flexibility to spend billions of dollars collected through the state's landmark cap-and-trade system designed to combat climate change, analysists recommended Thursday.
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I know, I know. Who needs to go to a bank in this day and age? Am I that much of a dinosaur? Well no, but when it comes to technology I think my mum is.
And so it was that I had to go to the bank to sort out mum's stuff. And when are the banks open? Business hours. And who am I during business hours? Loretta! This is one of the main reasons I went to get my photo card. I don't look anything like the photo in my driver's license. But I do look like the cute girl on my photo card 🙂
Anyway to the bank. I don't worry about going to the bank anymore. I'm there regularly thanks to mum! And so most of the staff know me now. This time however there was a teller I didn't recognise. And of course out of the three, she was the one to serve me.
Things were going very smoothly as I explained the transaction I wanted to make. Then I swiped my card and entered my PIN. My accounts must have come up on screen then and the teller had a frowny face.
"Whose card do you have?" she asks. I tell her it's mine. "Because it's coming up with different details." I know the 'different details' are that she sees Loretta in front of her and not boyname whose name the account is in. Before she can ask I give her my photo card and smile. It's a genuinely happy smile, because I know that there is no way that she can imagine that I'm a boy.
She looks at me, looks at my photo card, looks at her screen, looks at my photo card. And her frowny face changes to confused face as the evidence starts to mount in my favour. I'm sure she doesn't know what to do next when her supervisor sitting in the next window says "Yes that's her." The confused face slowly goes away as she finally understands.
And then it's just a normal banking transaction. Finally she no longer looks bewildered and she returns to her usual smiling customer service face, and the matching customer service.
This is another one of those times when things don't run as smoothly as I'd like. But at the same time it makes me feel good about myself as it reinforces my femininity. I guess it's like being told that 'you look pretty.' And my ego just laps it up!


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Say it with Krusteaz/
How is it the end of October?! Christmas is just around the corner and we will soon be swapping our pumpkins for Christmas trees and fall leaves for *hopefully* snow (come on Vancouver weather). Before that new season is upon us, we wanted to spend some time in the kitchen, baking a few treats for our neighbours.
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We grabbed an assortment of cookies and muffins and wrapped them up in a small wooden crate to give to our neighbours.
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The Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans is a haven for the artistic and bohemian. Five years after Hurricane Katrina, it's one of the neighborhoods benefiting from the surge of gay and lesbian transplants, relocating and rebuilding the city.
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Poole and Penton lived in New Orleans before the storm but moved to Denver. When the lease ran out on a chocolate shop they owned there, they decided to come back. "There is opportunity and affordability here," said Poole. "We've been watching properties since Katrina. Prices are great now, right for businesses and there's no bad neighborhood. It's the perfect time to be here."


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On September 17th, I'll be attending Kharkiv's sixth "scientific picnic" - a festival of science and education that brings scientific and popular culture out into the open. Entrance and participated are free, and previous years have boasted an audience of more than 10,000 visitors.
The idea of a scientific picnic is to capture the public's imagination by popularizing science, with many professionals and enthusiasts explaining scientific phenomena in simple terms through spectacular public experiments. The format also allows the audience to directly engage in scientific activity - children and adults alike can get involved and conduct their own workshops, games, competitions.
A central theme of this event, which is close to my heart is that of inclusion: combating discrimination, inequality and negative stereotypes in science.
Once again, entrance to the festival is free, participation is free, and events running from 13: 00 - 17:00.
Participating organisations making this possible include Kharkiv City Council, Kharkiv City Youth Leisure Center, the Public Information and Analytical Center for Youth Development, Center Commons Perekotypolis, Detskaya ploschARTka, and the Centre of Gender Culture.