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Adrienne Maloof may have been MIA on this week's episode of RHOBH, but she was certainly a topic of conversation. Adrienne is taking to her Bravo Blog to thank Mauricio for defending her to the group and to Brandi Glanville. Adrienne says Mauricio is a man of integrity and compares him to her father.
Adrienne writes, "I want to sincerely thank Mauricio for stepping in on my behalf. I admire his sensibility and his level headedness. Mauricio has always been a gentleman and the voice of reason amongst the husbands.
I've heard from others that Brandi is sorry for what she said, but I have yet to hear it from her directly. If anyone should be upset in this situation, it should be me.
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Because Politics
Politics, can be intimidating. But it can be worse in university campuses because you know exactly what you're getting.
So let's say we've got an election coming up for a society in campus, nothing big in general, just showing the crowd the new face of the club, and some of the hopeful candidates are starting to become, apparent. Regardless of who the candidates are, sometimes it seems as if we've taken politics in campus a little bit too seriously. And also it seems as though we are having the same players representing a set of ideals. What's even more cliché is that, the same set of players in campus that back these candidates, and holding back their voices to be heard.
Frankly speaking, I personally think that politics are a no-fly zone with strangers. It's always unpredictable how a person may act towards your political views, hence it can be a tense or an uncomfortable subject to bring up at times. Don't get me wrong, I could talk about politics for hours. But then again, it's only for self-pleasure. Who's going to listen? The politicians? Definitely not, because that would only happen in a democracy, no?
So to begin with, most universities are pretty left-leaning. And thanks to that, comes the two classic polarizing figures. You've got the stereotypical conservatives, who would die for their beliefs. It's funny how they'll easily tell you how wrong abortion is while simultaneously lowering taxes and advocating for the death penalty. On the other side, you've got your classical liberals. Imagine that anything you say to these people can and will be used against you. Let's say you're having a conversation with your fellow comrade: "Hello there, Miss. You look lovely this evening." Response: "Ugh, you are such a misogynistic bastard. Don't tell me I look nice, because I know you're just trying to sleep with me. What do you think I am, some skank? I'm a woman, and I have all the same rights as men do and deserve to be treated that way."
Well, let me use the previous paragraph as an aside to mention that these were some crude stereotypes. I really hope no one takes too much offense to these. But if you do - well, I could really care less, because the end point in my article will hopefully make you think otherwise. If not, okay. But before I get there, let us elucidate some more common political advocates we'd find on campus. Sometimes you'd come across the people who try and play both sides, who would never want to upset anyone at all (this used to be me). They're constantly like "I'm fiscally conservative, but socially liberal." Hold up. Are you trying to tell me that you are all for conservative economic policies? Do you hear yourself? I know from empirical evidence that things such as trickle-down economics doesn't work. To add on, do you even know fiscal economic strategies? If any of us actually know the economic policies in full detail, on both sides, that'd be great.
Having taken the subject of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, and being a person who cautiously tries to dissect economic strategies, it is darn impossible to completely understand the premise of these policies (for me, at least). I would also like to add that economics is not a predictive science, even though the textbook teaches you about prediction. If you tell me you're going to slash welfare funding, one might presume that this would increase poverty. But then again, there are so many factors that affect an economy, that we can't ever be certain about anything. Sure, we enjoy our public goods, such as street lights and restrooms. These things aren't free and need to be paid for, and while more autonomy and less taxes is a good thing, it isn't virtual for our society to function and sustain the benefits we take for granted.
Are you still with me on this? Okay, thanks. I'll continue that sometimes you'd find the people who have read five minutes on libertarianism and confidently claiming this to be their ideology. They worship Ron and Rand Paul and make sure to watch every Clint Eastwood movie that has ever existed. They really value their liberty, but then again who doesn't? After that, they run out of things to say, but by that point, we've stopped listening to them anyways.
But I say the worst out of all these people, though, are the clueless yet want to be involved ones. If it's anything, they are the ones that make the rest of the world think we are a country full of inbreeding, incest-loving excuses for humans (also very harsh and very sarcastic). These will be the first people to argue on one side or the other and used rehearsed quotes they heard their dads say at the dinner table. Most of the time, they'll probably get their facts wrong, and if ever questioned, it's safe to say they'll resort to some defensive cocoon that is impenetrable with logical thoughts and ideas.
I think this pretty accurately sums up the majority of the make-up of thinkers (or lack thereof) on campus. We get into conversations with people that are either on our side, and we just reaffirm what we "believe" in. Or heaven forbid, we find someone who disagrees with us and wants to argue (ugh). That usually ends up with sour faces in which neither side is listening to what the other has to say, because at the end of it, they only care about their opinions.
I wonder, what has made our society become where our political thoughts are so polarized and pre-determined? We don't often longer think of politics as picking sides on contemporary and moral issues, but rather we have to find a group that has a set of beliefs that we would most like to associate ourselves with. It makes no sense to me. Since when have we become the society that has moved away from debating with each other thoughtfully and carefully, with respect? Elections nowadays are not about picking the people that you want to represent you, but they have more so become picking the lesser of two evils.
I would personally want a club to head in what I think is the right direction. It's only natural to want the club to expand care and love to every person in our campus, because I believe that is right. But when it comes to elections and voting, I feel like I'm playing a game that is rigged. Does my vote really count? Some say, "Yes." But I beg to differ. I'm not even expressing myself to the fullest extent. It's simple for me to make these complains. After all, I'm just your average student in a university, and my opinion is as meaningful as it is meaningless. I can't change the way things work and the way people think, but perhaps I can still speak what's on my mind.
So instead of us squabbling on campuses about what we believe in or what we've been told to believe in, shouldn't we band together and form some sort of social change? People always say that us youngsters think we have it all figured out. I'll be the first to admit that I sure as heck don't. But what I do know is that - and this may be feeble-minded of me to say - is that not everyone who holds a high and favorable position in a club clearly don't have it all figured out either. Let's work together, negate the differences amongst us, and move towards a society that values each of its members. Is that too much to ask?
By Serena Lynn
21/2/2016 08:07:30 pm
i believe social liberal's are the one's you are referring to not classical liberals. classical liberals fall on the side of conservatives these days while "modern" liberals are generally social liberals.
Serena Lynn
22/2/2016 12:22:52 pm
I like the way you think.
15/2/2017 07:19:46 pm
The student council should do their responsibility for their fellow students. I am currently the officer of student council in our school. I am doing my part to make my co-officers happy and the students. In our university, the students are willing to support our activity. Before the election process, our professors gave us a chance to have a campaign.
Matthew Jerome van Huizen
21/2/2016 09:40:19 pm
Brilliant article. I think the last paragraph is fantastic. Its the clash of ideas which procures the best ideas usually. Everyone ought to be given the right to speak.
Serena Lynn
22/2/2016 03:08:23 pm
Thank you for the kind comment, I'm glad you enjoyed the article as much thought I've given in to provide my readers a good read. :)
Matthew Jerome van Huzen
21/2/2016 09:42:22 pm
Although, I might say I'm the loser in this battle, socially traditional Burkean conservative and fiscally distributionist.
23/2/2016 02:33:23 am
A very fresh piece (: So often when adults disagree a lot of unnecessary negativity gets churned about. Gets quite distressing sometimes.
Serena Lynn
23/2/2016 04:54:39 pm
Thank you for the kind words. That just inspired me to write more. :)
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Jacob Young could be key for Texas in NCAA Tournament
Teammates aren't surprised guard has made most of chance
AUSTIN - Jacob Young is relishing his told-you-so moment. But don't conflate that with a typical quest for revenge against a faceless chorus of naysayers. The focus of this particular journey has been on opening eyes and gaining acceptance.
These first two seasons at Texas have been difficult on the sophomore guard.
Questions lingered over whether Young, once the state's No. 9 player from Yates, was a Big 12 fit. He struggled mightily as a freshman, averaging 3.7 points while shooting 28 percent from the field and 23 percent from 3-point range.
Almost as bad was Young's inability to channel his boundless energy into a positive. Coaches and teammates loved his spunk and come-at-me demeanor, but that impetuous nature often caused more harm than good. Shaka Smart and his staff kept searching for ways to channel those qualities into something greater.
Up until late last month, Young had done little to quell any chatter over his worthiness. Over UT's first 24 games, he averaged 4.5 points on 38 percent shooting, culminating with a scoreless outing in a loss to Kansas State.
Then, documents emerged alleging junior guard Eric Davis received $1,500 from ASM Sports agency, an action prohibited by the NCAA. Erring on the side of caution, Davis has been withheld from UT's last five games and will not return this season.
Next man up
Already without Andrew Jones (leukemia), and with freshman Jase Febres still struggling to adjust, Young was the proverbial next man up. He embraced the opportunity and shed some of his more toxic traits in order to augment what made him so dynamic in high school - making plays.
Over his last five games, Young has averaged 14.4 points on 50 percent shooting, 1.4 steals and 0.6 turnovers. He hit on 13 of 28 3-pointers (46.4 percent) during that span, including a career-best 6 of 7 display during a 29-point outing against the Red Raiders in the Big 12 tournament.
Though Texas lost, Young nearly willed them back. He scored 20 in the second half - including 12 straight - to put some fear into one of the nation's elite defensive teams.
"It just feels so great," Young said. "I can now do what people and fans thought I really couldn't do. I'm just proving, showing that I can play at this level."
Outsiders, even some insiders, were left with gaping jaws. Not his teammates.
"I wasn't really too surprised seeing this," Mo Bamba said Sunday. "He does it every day in practice; he was doing it earlier today in practice. With him, it's just pace and finding open gaps and finding his teammates a little bit more. Jacob is such a three-level scorer, it's funny to see that no one really realizes it until he scores 30 points."
Young is the very definition of an NCAA Tournament wild card. He could be the difference, one way or the other, Friday when 10th-seeded Texas meets seventh-seeded Nevada at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
'Piece of work'
If Young can suppress his more reckless inclinations and emphasis what he does so well - spacing the floor, attacking in transition, slashing through open lanes - the Longhorns have a terrific chance of upsetting the two-time defending Mountain West champions.
"He's a trip," Smart said. "He's a piece of work. But I love him because, No. 1, he's got a great competitive spirit and I just feel like if you've got five guys on the court with that it gives you a much better chance.
"Now from there, you've got to have poise and you've got to be locked in on the plan. You can't foul the 3-point shooter and all kinds of stuff that he's got to keep getting better at. But he's made strides. He's not going to score 29 points every game, but if he can come in the game and give us a lift with his competitive spirit and his intensity, make a few shots, make the right play - which he's done in several games this year as of late - then he really helps us."


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Holy Toffoli! Two goals in 23 seconds and the Kings shocked the Sharks at Staples Center on Thursday night to take a 2-0 series lead. As usual, Jonathan Quick was amazing, except I'm beginning to think the Kings players think they can go into a coma for long stretches because of his greatness.
Speaking of coma's, I thought Anze Kopitar was going to go into one when he got hit in the face with the puck in the 3rd period. After Kopitar left, the Kings were without 2 of their top 3 centers, and you could tell. The Sharks won 44 faceoffs to the Kings 21, and they outshot the Kings by a wide margin until the last few minutes of the 3rd period. I also take back half of those bad things I said about Jake Muzzin, who is playing some better defense.
This game was phenomenal, but the finish wasn't better than the Miracle on Manchester in 1982, or the Frenzy on Figueroa in 2000. Both of those comebacks had much greater deficits, and were at much more pivotal points in those playoff series than where we are now. The Sharks have had plenty of playoff disasters over the years, but that collapse has to be right up near the top. If these guys were a Canadian team, they might have their citizenships revoked by now.
That collapse serves them right for that cheap bull shit they pulled in the 2nd period when Vlasic faked an injury to draw a penalty on Carter, only to come back one shift later and score a goal to put the Sharks ahead. Of course Shark fans are now crying because Raffi Torres is suspended for the rest of the series, and because they think they were wrongfully penalized for delay of game just before the Kings comeback. At least Sharks Coach Todd McClellan wasn't bitching too hard. He admitted "When you get three, you better beat this team."
The Sharks are just as good as the Kings at home, so it's hard to imagine LA sweeping this series. Still, the Kings need to put the Sharks away quickly so they can buy some time to get healthy before facing the Blackhawks. They'll need the likes of Stoll and Matt Greene to win that series.


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As the Senate begins debating possible immigration legislation this week, don't forget that immigration made America what it is today and continues to benefit our country. The benefits are broad, not only to the economy, but also to our vibrant and diverse culture and our historically prominent position as a place of refuge for those being persecuted in their own countries. This article summarizes the threats to our economy if Congress and the president succeed in cutting in legal immigration – one of the likely results will be a diminution in America's strong economy relative to other regions.
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A new Doctor Who video preview for this Saturday's series finale has been released.
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Hey Everyone (Tess)!
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you would have seen me mention Tess Woods. Tess is my favourite Aussie author who knows I exist. My favourite Aussie author who doesn't know I exist is Liane Moriarty (Helloooo Liane! Here I am! I love you too!) In fact the reason I picked up Tess woods debut novel and read it in the first place was that the first line in the description on NetGalley read:
What would you risk to be with the love of your life? A family is threatened by an irresistible attraction in this compelling debut that will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty and Anita Shreve.
Instaclick. Gotta have that one. And I loved it! Tess noticed that I liked it too, clicked "like" and commented on my Goodreads review. Then I messaged her to tell her I was posting the review on my blog. Then we found each other on Facebook. We had so much in common, studying the same course at the same university (though I didn't quite finish it....) Similar taste in so many things. Instalove! Well, instaonlinebestfriends.
We have been in touch online on an almost daily basis. Then, the other day,Tess asked me for my address so she could send me a card. I pm'd her my address, and a few days later this arrived in the mail!
Beautifully wrapped, but a bit bigger than just a card...
Here's the card, with a lovely message that brought tears to my eyes
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An inspirational quotes book
and a block of organic chocolate, that didn't melt on it's trip to the tropics
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Thanks Tess!
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We are now in the second half of 2011 and business owners are beginning to look ahead to how they will close the year. Uncertainty levels remain high as financial markets react to deficit spending, credit downgrades, unemployment and a weakening U.S. economy. In an environment plagued with uncertainty, it is especially critical to stay focused on those items that drive the greatest levels of customer and business value.
Preparing a great budget for 2012 is an excellent way to clarify goals and keep your team focused on business objectives. In this article, I've included some tips for preparing a great budget for your business.
Start with your view of the future – A great budget starts with a realistic assessment of the market, the relative positioning of your products and services and identifying factors that could materially impact your ability to meet your objectives.
Exercise your business – Your final budget may be represented by a set of financial statements, department budgets and sales plans, but your budget process should also include financial modeling of your business under different scenarios. Exercising your business by evaluating and modeling alternative scenarios can improve your ability to respond to opportunities and challenges.
Prepare an operational budget – A great budget is driven by strategy, geared towards successful execution of your objectives. Your budget should always be owned by your operating executives and never by the accounting function. The budget should be a compilation of firm commitments from your management team and used as a tool to drive accountability.
Stretch your business – A great budget starts with objectives that are achievable but require innovation, leadership, continuous improvement and success in capitalizing on market opportunities.
Give your budget a memory – A great budget should include financial returns for investments you have made. Business cases prepared prior to the approval of the investment are a great source for this type of information.
Think activities and rates rather than amounts – A great budget is zero based and requires on-going justification of resources. Providing goods and services to customers drives activities that result in cost. For each category of cost, analyze the underlying activity and the cost incurred each time the activity is performed. Set improvement objectives to decrease both the level of activity and the associated cost incurred when the activity is performed.
Decide and commit – A great budget has adequate review by senior management to ensure that operational commitments have been made, that objectives require stretch but are achievable, that priorities are adequately funded with appropriate trade-offs identified and that the tough decisions have been made.
You are what you measure – A great budget incorporates quantified market and operational objectives to supplement financial objectives. If you use key performance indicators to measure aspects of business performance, be sure to establish goals for these metrics and tie them to your financial objectives.
Communicate and align – A great budget aligns the goals of every department with your strategy and business objectives. Develop financial and operational metrics to support top-level business objectives and establish supporting department metrics and objectives that cascade throughout the organization.
A great budget doesn't just sit in a binder in the CFO's office gathering dust. It is used throughout the year as a tool for communicating priorities, making decisions and measuring performance.
Does your business need help with building a budget that clarifies your goals and financial objectives? If you need help in developing your budget, establishing relevant metrics, improving your financial reporting or finding cash for your business, please send me an e-mail or call me at 480-433-1310. I would enjoy helping you prepare your business to succeed in 2012.
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Our Color-A-Thon event is just over a month away and we appreciate all of your support in our fundraising efforts. We have raised more than $3,000 and are well on our way to reaching our goal of $5,000. This will allow us to continue to provide field trips, enrichment programs and other activities to our students and teachers.
Fundraising will continue throughout the next week. If you still need to register, you can register and donate online at http://shop.schoolathon.org/181621.
The PTO is also looking for volunteers to assist with the Color-A-Thon event on April 29.
You can volunteer in 3 easy steps:
- Click this link to go to our invitation page on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/tmm8sK
- Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on VolunteerSpot)
- Sign up! Choose your spots – VolunteerSpot will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!
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Phil and I took the kids to their very first ball game. Sounds exciting doesn't it? And it was untill the heavens opened and the rain came down. We got to sit in our seats but that was about it. We ended up running back to the car and heading home. The game ended up starting but there was no way we could've sat there for 2 1/2 hours with the kids. Not without spending our mortgage payment on stuff to eat. Any way, here are the 2 pictures I took before the deluge hit.
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A 3-year-old girl died of a meth overdose. What are Alameda County authorities hiding?
The story of Mariah Sultana Mustafa's death is nightmarish, which is why it's important to read and absorb.
"Spiders crawled up her tiny limbs, as monkeys danced and bunnies hopped about. Her fingers curled up in jagged spasms, her belly shook violently, and her pupils grew nearly as wide as her big brown eyes. Her heart pumped as fast as it could to cope with the methamphetamine coursing through her 33-pound body."
So began the story powerfully told by the Bay Area News Group's Matthias Gafni and David DeBolt.
Mariah was hallucinating and convulsing after ingesting a lethal dose of methamphetamine on Oct. 16, 2015, while living in a Stockton foster home. That was 13 days after she was rushed to the hospital with meth in her system, and barely three weeks after authorities removed her from her young mother and grandmother's home in Alameda County.
What compels us to look at this story are its eerie parallels to the 2008 death of Amariana Antoinette Crenshaw, as detailed by The Sacramento Bee's Marjie Lundstrom. Amariana was 4 when she died in an explosion and fire at her foster mom's rental property in Sacramento.
The names and dates are different. But the stories are all too familiar. As with Amariana, Mariah's death is unsolved, though San Joaquin County law enforcement authorities say the one suspect, the foster mom's boyfriend, committed suicide.
In each instance, authorities removed the children with the help of placement agencies, turned over their care to foster parents who had spotty records and failed to heed red flags.
Inexplicably, Mariah's records from Alameda County did not follow her to San Joaquin County. As a result, San Joaquin officials may have lacked important information about Mariah's first three years that might have altered how she was handled. We'll never know.
Government clearly has a responsibility to do whatever it can to protect children from unfit and abusive parents. If authorities remove a child, they must find a safer placement. And if the system fails that child anyway, there must be a public accounting of what happened.
Hard-working child protective service workers certainly cannot prevent every death. Tragedy happens. When it does, the goal must be to try not to repeat it.
In 2007, the California Legislature approved legislation requiring that counties make public critical documents related to the deaths of children in foster care. In 2016, the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown expanded the law to require the release of records in near-deaths as well.
San Joaquin County authorities complied by providing documents to the Bay Area News Group reporters. But Alameda County officials have refused. The Alameda County Counsel's office did not respond to calls from The Sacramento Bee seeking to understand its justification.
Legislators seeking to carry bills in the public interest ought to return to the topic of foster care deaths and near-deaths. If there is a loophole in the disclosure law, lawmakers should close it, and go further by requiring counties to publicly announce when foster care deaths occur.
Mariah died in 2015. And yet the death went unreported for three years, becoming public only after reporters learned that a lawsuit had been filed on behalf of her older brother.
Yolo County Supervisor Matt Rexroad, who has been a foster parent, is urging that the California State Association of Counties embrace disclosure of key original documents in foster care deaths and near-deaths. The association should adopt that policy, but hasn't.
The Legislature has made clear that it expects the disclosure of case files, with redactions necessary to protect privacy. The point is not to embarrass or defame social workers. It is to learn from mistakes. As the deaths of Mariah and Amariana illustrate, mistakes recur too often.


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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: Hi there, > > [snip] > >>In Log4J1.2, Level extends Priority and Logger extends Category. >>The log method on Category only takes Priority parameters. >>So any calls to the log method resolves to a method on a Category >>instance that takes a Priority parameter, even when the source code is >>invoking the method on a reference of type Logger and passing a >>parameter of type Level. [1] >> >>In Log4J1.3, Priority extends Level, and all the constants on the >>Priority class are actually of type Level. >> >>The result is that no code compiled against 1.2 will run with 1.3 at >>runtime. And that no code compiled against 1.3 will run with 1.2 at >>runtime. >> >>If you *can* find a way to write one logger class that (compiled against >>either version) will run against both libs that would be great - but >>please *test* that after compiling your code (against either library) it >>works at runtime with either lib version in the classpath. I've spent >>some time thinking about this and believe it can't be done. > > > [snip] > > You can do something like this with reflection, but this might impact the > performance and has consequences for secure environments :( I can not see all your guyz problems. I replaced Priority with Level and removed the "isAsignableFrom" section and everyting works and compiles fine. Even the TRACE is defined in Level and Priority so there is not even reflection magic required. Am I missing something??? Maybe I should get the 1.3 alpha release and have a look if I can find the problem Simon was talking about... The tests all worked excellent with 1.2.12 and Log4j12Logger works fine with prior versions. And as I said that is how the log4j guyz told to do it a long time ago. I did not check this with log4j versions prior than 1.2.6. But as I pointed out earlier, the Log4J12Logger is using the log4j type "Logger" anyways and that came together with the type "Level". Maybe we do not even need two Log4j Loggers - what do you think? > > - Jörg Regards Jörg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDQRNgmPuec2Dcv/8RAov7AJ9h8KClx4OLUva1y4nh7kt3UT6oNQCff9Ag vmmncN1sx9UGEKyvxY8CYXk= =MQ7y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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The Most Interesting Day of Todd Williams's Life
I considered not posting this because I was concerned it'd ruin my writing career. Then I realized I don't have a writing career.
Time to sit back and wait for the Pulitzer.
One summer day a young man name Todd Williams was driving up the Highway 101 when a police car with flashing lights sped up behind him and pulled him over. Todd's heart was racing as he moved over to the right shoulder of the freeway which was surrounded by green hills and pastures. Todd put his car in park and it turn off, he then looked in his rear-view mirror as the cop stepped out of the police car. The cop was of average build, in his late-thirties, had a mustache, and was wearing sunglasses. He walked up to the passenger side of Todd's car as Todd was rolling his window down.
"Hello, officer," said Todd.
"License and registration," said the cop.
Todd handed his license and registration to the police officer.
The officer read Todd's name aloud, "Todd Edward Williams."
"That's me," said Todd, waving stupidly.
The cop lowered his sunglasses and stared sternly at Todd for an awkward moment in silence.
"Well, whoop-de-doo," said the cop, "Do you know who I am?"
Todd looked at the officer's badge and said, "Umm, Officer Bryant?"
"That's not who I am, buddy," replied the cop.
"Well I guess don't know who are you, sir."
"Well I don't know who the fuck you are, either" said the cop, becoming heated. "Just cause' I know your stupid fucking name doesn't mean I know who you are, does it now?!"
"No, sir, I guess it doesn't"
The cop continued, declaring, "And just cause you know your stupid fucking name doesn't mean you know who are, or that you know who I am just cause' you can read my stupid fucking name tag, huh!?"
"No, sir," said Todd.
"What do you want!?" the cop yelled.
"Nothing, sir."
"You don't like that do you?" snarled the cop.
"Like what?"
"Like me getting mean and crazy like this," the cop hissed. "You don't like me getting all crazy like this do you?"
"No, sir," said Todd.
"You know what? I don't know who I am either."
"Alright…" said Todd.
The cop looked past the cars speeding along the highway and said, "I should have been Todd Williams."
Confused, Todd said, "I'm sorry?"
"You're not sorry," said the cop, "You may think you are, but you also think you're Todd Williams, but you're not."
"Can you tell me why you pulled me over?" asked Todd.
"Why does anything happen?" replied the cop, "What if I pulled my dick out right here, huh? Can you tell me what we're doing here right now?"
"Well, you pulled me over…"
"I've got an idea," said the cop, "This is gonna be fun."
"What's that?" asked Todd, unsure if he was hearing the officer correctly.
"Here's my idea, I'm gonna hand you my gun, and then you're gonna shoot me in the head and kill me."
Todd was dumbstruck and said, "Excuse me???"
"Shut the fuck up," said the cop as he took his handgun out of his holster. He removed the safety, cocked the gun, and offered it to Todd. "You ever used one of these?" he asked.
"It doesn't matter. You just aim and pull the trigger. You ready, bitch? Take the gun and blow my head off."
"No!" exclaimed Todd.
"Yes!" yelled the cop, "Yes, I say! Yes! Yes! Yes! YES!"
"You're crazy!" screamed Todd, who reached to turn the key in his ignition.
"Give me those!" The cop reached in the car and took the keys out of the ignition. He aimed the gun at Todd and yelled, "Don't fucking move!"
"Oh my God," said Todd.
"I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll give you til' the count of three and if you don't take this here gun and shoot me in head, I'm gonna pump some lead into that stupid little face of yours."
"You're fucking nuts, man."
"One…" said the cop.
"I'm not going to shoot you!" yelled Todd.
"Two…" said the cop.
"God please," said Todd, closing his eyes.
"THREE!" The cop turned the gun up and staring firing through the roof of the car.
When he realized he was not dead Todd opened his eyes in fear and looked at the cop. The cop was grinning.
"Don't be afraid," said the cop, "it was a joke."
Todd began to tremble and said, "No man, death is no fucking joke…playing with peoples lives is not a fucking joke!"
The cop took off his sunglasses and turned his head to the side. He looked at Todd and said, "Really? I think it's pretty fucking funny if you ask me."
The cop then pointed the gun to his own temple and pulled the trigger and blew off his head.


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Best aquarium filter for large tanks
Learning about aquarium filters before purchase can help you make a better choice. Using the best filter for your needs will make your fish keeping experience all the more easier. Aquarium filters improve water quality by removing toxic chemical build up.
When used in combination with frequent partial water changes they can provide the living conditions that fish will love.
Best type of aquarium filter
Aquarium filters are primarily used to clean the fish tank's water. By cycling the liquid through the device toxic components are removed and particles are captured.
This results in clear water that is pleasing to look at and healthy for the fish and other inhabitants. Water changes are always required but a good aquarium filtration system can reduce the water change frequency resulting in easier fish keeping.
It is true that some aquariums can be maintained without a filter. This is not done without sacrifice however. To do so requires a very small number of fish compared to what could be kept in a filtered aquarium. This low biological load is the best that can be hoped for without a fish tank filter.
Internal aquarium filters
There a number of filter varieties to choose from. The variety of filter you choose will mainly depend upon your individual needs and budget.
External filters are used on very large aquariums. There are both canister filters and sump varieties to choose from. These will generally be the most effective form of aquarium filtration because of the vast surface area where bacteria can process te water. On the downside they are always the most costly.
Many different sponge filters are available in a range of sizes but the principle is the same for each. Air from a pump is fed into the sponge where is exits through a tube to the aquarium surface.


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Celebrating 50 years with FPCCT
In 1967 Sam & Eleanor Morris formed French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust and for 50 years we have protected 12,500 acres in Northern Chester County. Join us in celebrating by participating in one of fifty activities represented on our treasure map below. Or click here to download the PDF.


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Ep 61 - Red-Eyed Stoner Salad
Happy December! I'm pretty sure my body is going into hibernation mode, and it's got me feeling a little dreamy. That heavy-liddedness can really make the eyes glow for some people. Is there any hope for those who suffer from a case of the red-eyes? Not much, unfortunately. But a good allergy defense, and a few OTC options can make things a lot more comfortable in the long run. Be wary though, Ben Stein may not have your best interest at heart! Before we get to all that though, I brought leftover stoner salad!
Light-hearted links
Gotta have my Refresh eyedrops lol
That great Weedist article
And that fantastic Yahoo answer
A couple other generic resources
And a forum breakdown on the benes and boons of rodelization
The Weekender by Jane West
My ASA buddy Seth Green on The CBD Podcast
And Grapes and Grass on iTunes


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Don't let lack of legal aid mean financial loss in divorce settlement
Since the withdrawal of legal aid funding for the majority of divorce financial order claims, a large number of parties to divorce have attempted to "go it alone" in their divorce settlements to avoid legal fees.
However, this "do it yourself" approach could see some parties, typically the wife or the lowest earner, losing out and being left in a financially vulnerable position. It may also be the case that fear of the costs associated with protracted and acrimonious divorce will mean children lose out as well.
Fears are growing that parties with no independent wealth are being forced into early acceptance of discriminatory settlements which leave them vulnerable, whilst also being left unable to vary the terms.
To find out about the legal ramifications of divorce and the ins and outs of divorce settlements, please click here.
Spend money to keep money
Sometimes we have to spend a little time and effort to get the best deals in life, and this is as true for divorce financial settlements as it is for anything else in life.
Entering into negotiations regarding a financial settlement can be scary if you have no money or income of your own to pay for legal representation, but without a divorce solicitor to advise you, you could end up losing out on what is rightfully yours from the family financial pot.
This so-called "pot" includes the value of the marital home, the value of pension contributions your spouse has made during the lifetime of your marriage, and any items of financial value which have been accrued and were intended to benefit the family.
It is crucial that divorcing spouses seek legal advice to help them ascertain the true value of their pot and to see how much they are entitled to. Most solicitors can also help to arrange mediation for divorcing couples. This is another method to help spouses seek clarity and fairness in their settlement without the need for a court hearing.
Lower income families can obtain legal aid for help with mediation costs and this can go a long way to keeping all fees down.
Healys divorce solicitors – ensuring fairness for you on divorce
The main benefit of having a divorce solicitor's representation is the expert knowledge of family law they possess and this is essential in ensuring divorcing spouses get everything they are entitled to in a divorce settlement.
Our team of divorce solicitors in London and Brighton has many years' experience in bringing and defending divorce financial claims and we work with clients all over the country.
We believe our clients should always be in control of costs and advise, at the outset, on estimated costs and likelihood of success.
For a no-obligation discussion regarding your financial claim options on divorce, please call our London or Brighton offices today. Or, if you would prefer, email your enquiry to email@example.com.


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Austin Clements, a DEV associate, is co-authoring this series.
Previously we wrote about developing a concept for a new media business. We came up with a specific approach to building hyper-niche video channels online under the banner of TrueVue. But how would we know if our new channels would appeal to viewers?
To help answer that question TrueVue partnered with a social product studio called Casual Corp which is expert at discovering, validating, and building new product lines. They guided the TrueVue team to follow a Customer Development process that begins with having one-on-one interviews with prospective customers to understand behaviors and preferences. The idea is to take the guesswork out of development and maximize audience appeal by designing a product around direct customer input.
We began with open-ended questions so subjects would not be influenced by the direction of the team. Asking closed questions such as "Is high definition video important to you?" inhibits the customer from offering creative input. Instead we asked "What attributes do you associate with high and low quality video?" which gives the customer an open platform where she can freely voice a perspective. For example, we found that many times the reputation of the source was more important than the technical attributes of the video.
An early goal was to find out what type of content our audiences would love and how they wanted it delivered to them. We initially identified six niche categories for content, each with distinct target markets, where we thought a dedicated video channel would resonate. We then began asking questions about what type of content would work best within the video solution we were describing.
One of the proposed channels was for triathletes. We needed to learn everything we could about what triathletes want from online videos. Would they prefer training videos, event highlight reels, or product reviews? Did they want to see short three minute clips or more in depth coverage? Do they care if it is professionally produced and high definition? Does it matter who curates the content? As it turns out, triathletes mostly prefer to see videos of six to ten minutes related to technique and training.
We conducted several rounds of interviews where each set of questions was more specific than the last. As we learned more about the customer we were able to ask better informed questions. Our first round of surveys focused on video quality attributes, but by our last round we were asking about which specific sources provide the most credible content. We were looking to continuously refine our hypothesis until we had a detailed understanding of the specific benefits and costs of our product to the costumer.
Once we received our answers and felt like we had a good idea of the specific value a video channel would provide them, we needed to test our hypothesis or what Casual Corp calls, "validating your value proposition." "If you ask anyone 'if they like a better video experience' almost everyone will say yes", explains Thor Ernstsson of Casual Corp, "but the true test occurs once you ask that same person to actually prove how interested they are." Ernstsson suggests that if we were to follow up on that question by telling the customer that the service is only $1 per month and asking for credit card information we will get a much better gage of customer interest.
To validate our value proposition we set up several landing pages with varied messaging to describe the product. We asked potential customers who visited the landing page to input their email address so that we could notify them when the channel launched. This commitment is smaller than a dollar subscription, but still separates the curious from the customers. The triathlete landing page that focused on training videos actually performed the best and we discovered that messaging around improving performance is the best way to connect to this audience.
Whether in publishing, music, video or gaming, all media businesses face the challenge of connecting content with an audience. The customer development process provided us with keen insight early in our product development cycle. Seeking validation forced us to step away from the whiteboards, get out of the building, and finding out what an audience really valued about the product we proposed to create.


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If you are looking for a great getaway for two, a couples' retreat to enjoy with friends, or simply a place to soak up some Caribbean rays, Zen Villa at Pointe Milou may be just what you need. You will be just minutes from Lorient, making it easy to find many dining options. The nearby attractions include Lorient Beach that is just a short drive away. Staying on the grounds is also a lot of fun because everything you need is right there. The pool can offer hours of relaxation on its own, and with the BBQ right there, it's easy to fix yummy food while enjoying the view. Scoot over to a lounge chair after eating, and a nap will surely come to mind. It is best for those over 18.
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Fabulous views and great sunsets!
Zen Villa is a 2-bedroom retreat designed with views facing west towards Lorient Bay.
There are living and dining areas with comfortable, contemporary rattan furniture opening onto the pool area, as well as an interior, air-conditioned living room.
The gourmet kitchen opens to the dining room, the pool, and its canopied BBQ area with dining table and chairs. A heated jacuzzi is located at the far end of the pool.
The master bedroom has a small terrace which opens to the pool area and the second bedroom has a balcony that catches the morning sun. Each bedroom is equipped with an en-suite bathroom, air-conditioning, a flat screen television, and a DVD player.
A wonderfully romantic property with stunning grounds, fabulous views, and great sunsets.
Info: A continental breakfast is included during Winter and Holiday seasons.
Bedroom 1: 1 king bed, air-conditioning, DVD player, en-suite bathroom, flat screen TV, mosquito netting
Very bright and comfortable.
Bedroom 2: 1 king bed, air-conditioning, DVD player, en-suite bathroom, flat screen TV
Nicely decorated with rattan furniture and mosquito netting.
|Apr 15, 2019 to Nov 22, 2019
5 Night Minimum
|1-4 people
|Nov 23, 2019 to Nov 29, 2019
7 Night Minimum
|1-4 people
|Nov 30, 2019 to Dec 14, 2019
5 Night Minimum
|1-4 people
|Dec 15, 2019 to Jan 5, 2020
14 Night Minimum
|1-4 people
|Jan 6, 2020 to Apr 14, 2020
7 Night Minimum
|1-4 people
|Apr 15, 2020 to Nov 20, 2020
5 Night Minimum
|1-4 people
|Nov 21, 2020 to Nov 27, 2020
7 Night Minimum
|1-4 people
|Nov 28, 2020 to Dec 14, 2020
5 Night Minimum
|1-4 people
Notes on Rates:
- All rental rates are based on two persons per bedroom.
- This property charges rates in US Dollars (USD).
- Rates do not include: tax of 5%, island charges of 10%.
- Rates are subject to change.
Choosing the right villa is just the first step in creating the perfect vacation experience. We help you plan every element of your villa vacation, from rental cars to spa treatments, completely personalized to you.
- spa services
- chef/cook services
- butler service
- car rental
- restaurant reservations
- activity and sightseeing
- ferry/airport transfers
- grocery provisioning
- laundry service
- Bedroom 1
- 1 King, Air Conditioning, TV, DVD Player, Exterior Access, Terrace/Balcony
- Ensuite Full Bath with Shower, Two Sinks
- Bedroom 2
- 1 King, Air Conditioning, TV, DVD Player
- Ensuite Full Bath with Shower, Two Sinks
Beds & Baths
Main House
- 1 Housekeeper: Off Sunday and holidays
- BBQ Outside (Gas)
- Blender
- Coffee Maker Nespresso
- Dishwasher
- Docking Station
- DVD Player
- Fax
- French Satellite
- Fridge
- Honeymoon
- Hot Tub
- Ice maker
- Internet Access/WiFi
- Iron/Ironing Board
- Jacuzzi (Not Heated)
- Microwave
- Oven/Stove
- Pool at Villa
- Private
- Radio
- Safe
- Sunset View
- Television
- Toaster
|Air Conditioning
|A/C throughout villa : + living room
|Pointe Milou, St. Barts, facing west towards Lorient Bay
|Your personal concierge will greet you at the airport or ferry dock on arrival, assist you with picking up your rental car and will guide you to the villa where you will receive an orientation. Departure transfers not included.
|Dining room seats 6
|Holidays and High Season: Breakfast included every day except Sunday
|18 years and older, please.


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Asking Price $379,000
3 bed · 2.5 bath · 2300 sF
Lovely three bedroom home with hardwood floors, marble countertops and slate finish appliances. Gas fireplace in living room, large dining area with an open floor plan. Master suite on second floor. Egress window in basement allows for additional living space. Radiant floor heating and on demand hot water heater. Two story garage is plumbed and wired to make a studio space on the second floor.


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Photo Grid - Collage Maker
Helps the user combine parts of photos
- Category Photography
- Program license Free
- Version 5.37
- Size 28 MB
- Works under: Android
- Program available in English
- Content rating Teen
- Package name com.roidapp.photogrid
Program by
Cheetah Mobile (Photo Editor)
225 Bush St. floor 12th. San Francisco, CA, 94104
Create fun collages with your pictures.
Photo Grid - Collage Maker allows you to use as few or as many pictures as you want when making your collage. If you use over about seven or eight, the collage starts to look cluttered, and the details can't be seen as easily. Once you have the pictures you want to use, you can choose a frame so that they stay together. After the frame has been added, you can change the position of the pictures so that they look how you want them before adding text and stickers.
The frame can be left blank, or you can add a bit of decoration or texture, similar to the kind of frame that you would have on a wall or on a shelf. There are several types of grids available with Photo Grid - Collage Maker. You can also select from hundreds of stickers and other types of images to add a bit of fun and color to the collage. Words can also be added. You can use different fonts and sizes, even placing some of the words in bubbles to make it seem like the people in the pictures are talking.
- Hundreds of stickers
- Easy to use
- Change font colors and sizes
- Lots of notifications
- Over about seven pictures looks cluttered
1.A brand new flat logo, which makes PhotoGrid more fashionable
2.You can find all features in the "+" button at the bottom
Potentially dangerous permissions
- CAMERA: Required to be able to access the camera device.
- READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Allows an application to read from external storage.
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Allows an application to write to external storage.
Other permissions
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: Allows applications to access information about networks.
- ACCESS_WIFI_STATE: Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
- GET_TASKS: This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
- INTERNET: Allows applications to open network sockets.
- VIBRATE: Allows access to the vibrator.
- android.permission.FLASHLIGHT
- com.android.vending.BILLING
- com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
- com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES
- com.roidapp.photogrid.permission.C2D_MESSAGE


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lengthy low-risk, low-volatility U.S. financial environment should not be viewed as a "new paradigm," influential bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach said on a webcast on Tuesday.
Wall Street gained on Tuesday, with the S&P 500, Dow industrials and Russell 2000 setting record closing highs, as technology stocks bounced back and investors positioned ahead of an expected Federal Reserve interest rate hike.
Against that backdrop of soaring stock markets, the CBOE Volatility Index, also known as the VIX Index or the "fear gauge" for U.S. stocks, has been dropping.
Friday, the index plunged to 9.37, its lowest since Dec. 27, 1993. "We're on increasing watch for volatility," Gundlach said, pointing out that "there is a massive amount of money that is being short VIX.
"It's a trade that's made a lot of money and it's very very crowded, which suggests to me the days of low volatility are numbered," he said. We "probably won't see it continue through year end."
Gundlach, who runs more than $105 billion at Los Angeles-based DoubleLine Capital, said investors should rotate out of U.S. stocks and into European equities, and also avoid U.S. Treasuries as he sees rates moving higher during the second half of the year.
"I strongly urge investors to peel a portion of their S&P holdings and move into Europe," Gundlach said.
Gundlach said he expects the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which stood around 2.21 percent on Tuesday, to move higher during the latter half of 2017. However, he does not expect it to hit 3 percent. Gundlach said the relative value between U.S. Treasuries and lower-yielding overseas government bonds are keeping U.S. yields in a tight range.
All told, short-term investors should brace for a rocky summer, Gundlach said.
"If you're a trader or a speculator, I think you should be raising cash today literally today. If you're an investor you can easily sit through a seasonally weak period," Gundlach said.
Reporting By Jennifer Ablan; Editing by David Gregorio


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[COMMENT: The following is snipped from an email by Edward C. Noonan. Some of the quotes are from their own words, and are devastating -- if we will wake up and see what they are in fact doing to us. The story told with admiration by Carroll Quigley (see below) is nothing short of treason -- a planned subversion of our Constitutional order.
Quigley reports in hundreds of pages of detail the inner
workings of the conspiracy which people mock as "oh, that conspiracy theory!"
Is Quigley a conspiracy nut? Hardly. And neither are we who believe
what he wrote to be the truth of the matter.
E. Fox]
Yes the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] is evil. It is currently led by David
Rockefeller and avowed
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." -David Rockefeller, from his own book, Memoirs.
Every modern day President has had CFR members in their cabinets... BOTH Democrats and Republican! Please remember the CFR is the secret organization that founded the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK.
In 1913, CFR founding father Colonel House helped pick the charter members of the original Federal Reserve Board. Among those chosen were Paul Warburg [ House Warburg and House of Khun-Lobe & Co. ] and Benjamin Strong [ House of Morgan and House of Khun-Lobe & Co. ]. House, Warburg, and Strong were American Round Table group members. According to Round Table Group historian, Carroll Quigley, [Note: Quigley was one of Bill Clinton's admired university professors - E. Fox] the aim of the dynastic banking houses was, "...nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.
apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in
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These are not my words, but a quote directly from Carroll Quigley's book.
If this single quote from Bill Clinton's mentor, Carroll Quigley isn't enough to make you put on your own TIN-FOIL HAT and stand at my side, I don't know what will. Here Carroll Quigley readily admits the CFR and the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK was formed to "dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole."
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Passing of a Friend
I've just now learned of the passing of someone that many will miss. Lyle was a fixture at BMW motorcycle rallys. He has been at almost every one that I have ever attended. Lyle put in a million miles on his BMWs. Imagine that. Crossing the whole US is around 3k depending how you do it...
I remember sitting in the shade by a creek at a rally in South Dakota a couple of years ago. Friends from Germany, Mexico, Canada, Turkey, and all over the US enjoying the company and beautiful day. We were playing a game with Lyle where we would describe riding a road and he would tell us the number, and where it went. Or the opposite - name a road number and he would tell you a story about riding it. None of us could stump him.
I'll always remember Lyle with several friends in tow among the bikes and tents or surrounded at dinner by wannbe's like me, eager to hear his stories. He was always smiling and laughing.
Lyle actually passed in August near his home - riding his motorcycle. He will be missed.
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Secured by Design is a group of projects intended to reduce crime in residential areas, businesses, and car parks. Secured by Design is working to create security standards to not only reduce crime, but to help people feel more secure in their homes and places of business.
Secured by Design has been accepted by police forces across the UK and has partnered with more than 400 companies that provide high quality security products for construction, businesses, and consumers and help to fund the Secured by Design initiative. Funding is used to research ways to prevent crime, to test theories, and to establish crime prevention standards. Secured by Design standards have been shown to reduce burglaries by as much as 75% and criminal damage by as much as 25%. The Association of British Insurers estimates Secured by Design standards could save the UK more than £3.2 billion over the next 20 years.
One initiative with which Secured by Design has worked with is improved security for double-glazing windows and doors.
Website: www.securedbydesign.com
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Real Estate Talk:
Qualifying A Buyer
Determining if the buyer has funds to purchase
By Joseph Marovitch
Listing brokers (broker that is contracted to sell a property) state they will qualify buyers before an offer is presented. To qualify a buyer is to determine if the buyer has the funds to purchase the property.
Sometimes the client mistakenly thinks "qualifying a buyer" means determining if the buyer can purchase the property and has serious intent to buy, even before a first visit.
Brokers are not allowed to deter other brokers from bringing clients and the assumption is if the buyer is visiting then they have intent to purchase, if they like the property.
When we qualify a buyer, what we do is request that the buyer has a pre-approval from a recognized financial institution or a letter of proof from the financial institution stating the buyer has the funds in the event they are paying cash and no mortgage.
Before a visit, a listing broker can ask the selling broker (broker representing the buyer) if their client has a pre-approval or proof of cash, however, if the selling broker says no, they are still allowed to visit.
Sometimes the client mistakenly thinks "qualifying a buyer" means determining if the buyer can purchase the property and has serious intent to buy, even before a first visit.
When the selling broker brings an offer, the listing broker can request a proof of cash or pre-approval accompany the offer. If there is not a pre-approval or proof of cash, the listing broker can shorten the time period for the buyer to provide proof of financing, thereby saving time and aggravation.
What the listing broker and seller do not want, is to go through the trial of due diligence including visit, inspection and providing documents only to find out just before or at signing that the buyer does not have the funds.
State Of The Market
According to a Reuters poll, there is no indication that home prices will cease to increase even though economists expect prices to be pulled back by high household debt and the lack of affordability to purchase these expensive properties. The factors driving market prices appear to be foreign investment, low interest rates and the psychology that if prices are rising in Vancouver and Toronto, they will keep on rising. This may be the case for the next few years. It may be a good time to sell but buyers beware. Eventually the market will drop and there is no rule that says buy high and sell low.
Previous issues
Buying a Condo
Perils of Overpricing
Promise to Purchase First!
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Joseph Marovitch has worked in the service industry for over 30 years. His first career was working with families from Westmount and surrounding areas, hosting children between the ages of 6 to 16 as the owner and director of Camp Maromac, a sports and arts sleep away summer camp established in 1968. Using the same strengths caring for the families, such as reliability, integrity, honesty and a deep sense of protecting the interests of those he is responsible to, Joseph applies this to his present real estate broker career.
Should you have questions please feel free to contact Joseph Marovitch at 514 825-8771, or firstname.lastname@example.com


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I hate it when I open my wardrobe, stand and gaze at the clothes blindly not knowing what to wear! And then, on most occasions I end up wearing my everyday jeans and an old t-shirt like I have nothing else to wear. I am sure most of us have been in similar situation. 😉
This week is slightly busy for me. Having to go out quite often, I decided to make the most of what I already have in my closet. If you peek into my wardrobe you will see I have almost every clothing in every colour and shade. Pink is not my most favourite colour, but I have decided to wear a piece of clothing in pink all week along. Yesterday was an exception and today it begins. 😀
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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Killing Peter Pan
Too good not to pass along. http://productiveclassrevolt.blogspot.com/2013/04/captain-hook-with-12-gauge.html?showComment=1367133755260#c902559079435695658
4 comments:
- Marcus said...
If anything, this article only strengthens my argument that voting should be a privilege and not a right. There must be some type of "means test" to determine whether the person wielding a ballot is in fact an adult, not a child masquerading as an adult. The notion that some shithead has the right to vote merely because they've attained the age of majority is farcical.
Ask me why I don't bother voting (outnumbered 100-1 by shitheads, might be my response) and why I think democracy sucks (an dilemma that will be solved eventually when the whole stinking, tyranny-of-the-majority edifice collapses under its own weight and people will have to learn how to look out for themselves, again, or perish). Ugh.
- April 28, 2013 at 2:49 PM
- Brian said...
I agree Marcus. We now have a mob rule democracy. The mob, as ignorant as it is, may actually be the majority now.
- April 28, 2013 at 9:24 PM
- Anonymous said...
I raised my sons with having to earn mountain dew, college, car, etc. They now support wonderful families as well as the loser 47% and it makes me ill. WE need to take our country back.
- May 1, 2013 at 7:45 AM
- Brian said...
I think it's gone. Re-electing our loser Congress and President spoke VOLUMES about the collective intelligence of our countrymen.
- May 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM


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State Bank of India, India's largest Commercial Bank in terms of assets, deposits, branches, number of customers and employees, enjoys the continuing faith of millions of customers across the social spectrum.
Founded in 1806, Bank of Calcutta was the first Bank established in India, and over a period of time, evolved into State Bank of India (SBI). SBI represents a sterling legacy of over 211 years. It is the oldest Commercial Bank in the Indian subcontinent, strengthening the nation's trillion-dollar economy and serving the aspirations of its vast population. The Government of India is the single largest shareholder of the Bank, ranked 217th on the Fortune Global 500, with 61.23% ownership. The equity shares of SBI are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange Limited, Mumbai along with the National Stock Exchange, Mumbai and the Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) are listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
SBI, headquartered in Mumbai, has an extensive network, with over 22,000 plus branches in India, 59,000 Pan-India ATMs and 195 overseas offices spread over 36 countries having the largest presence in foreign markets among Indian banks. On 1st April, 2017, the Bank merged five of its Associate Banks and Bharatiya Mahila Bank with itself. With this first ever large scale consolidation in the Indian Banking Industry, the Bank entered the league of top 50 global banks with assets worth more than USD 531 billion, 209,572 employees, 500 million customers and 740 million accounts.
SBI puts customers and clients at the centre of everything it does and by continuing to do this, it will always remain the "Smart Bank" to partner with.
This offering is an end-to-end proposition and service continuum that supports corporate India of all shapes and sizes, from start-ups, through big companies, to partnering with the largest global corporations and financial institutions
From it's unique position with home markets and truly global reach, SBI is transforming Investment Banking so that the Bank can continue to help our target clients achieve their ambitions.
SBI's non-banking subsidiaries/joint ventures are market leaders in their respective areas and provide wide ranging services, which include insurance, merchant banking, mutual funds, credit cards, factoring services, security trading and primary dealership, making the SBI Group a truly large financial supermarket and India's financial icon. SBI has arrangements with various international / local banks to exchange financial messages in all business centers of the world to facilitate trade related banking business, reinforced by dedicated and highly skilled teams of professionals.
SBI, the most trusted brand in the banking horizon in India, has had a remarkable presence for over 40 years in the US, with the opening of it's New York branch in 1970. The branch is FDIC insured and offers a bouquet of services to the clients by dedicated verticals for Corporate Credit, Trade Finance, Deposits and Remittances.
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Pull on a pair of Landscape Padded Palm gloves and get to work with genuine DuraHide™ leather to protect your hands when you're in full swing. DuraHide™ leather provides extreme abrasion resistance when operating power tools and handling abrasive materials. For comfort, we encased D3O® palm padding to absorb impact through the hand and reduce fatigue as the day goes on. The Landscape Padded Palm glove conforms to your hand with breathable TrekDry® to help keep you cool and comfortable in the summer heat. When the job's done, just toss them in the wash for a fresh start to the work week.
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Predictive rating system
Ho, Mun Kit
Date of Issue2016
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The consumption and production of online reviews have become an integral part of our modern lives as the Internet takes over as the main source of information. Unfortunately the vast volume of information cannot simply be digested by traditional means – reading, and additional tools will be required to select better ones that are worth reading. This solution should also help in processing highly unstructured texts with subjective opinions. The development of Natural Language Processing has made it possible to for machines to process through large amounts of textual data and find out important points. This project makes use of text mining and machine learning methods to categorize texts into structured information and then derive a new rating by evaluating the sentiment of the author. This standardized rating also aims to reduce human bias inherent within written reviews. This project focuses on food review data within a local setting, Singapore, which was scraped from a website. Aside from constructing a new rating system, we are interested in finding out local preferences from their reviews. Due to a limited length of word lists fed into the system, it was not able to sufficiently recognize and evaluate one particular aspect. Aside from that aspect, the system demonstrated that it performed well in narrowing down customer choices and produced normally distributed ratings.
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Elliot York Cameron
is a spoken word poet and educator from Western Sydney. He is a finalist of NSW Poetry Slam, Sydney Slam and Bankstown Grand Slam, and an otherwise humble person when he isn't writing bios. Over the past five years he has become part of the furniture at Enough Said Poetry Slam, and is now a proud member of their organising committee.
Elliot has performed his work at Wollongong Writers Festival, Viva La Gong, Parramatta Poetry Slam, Poetica, BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!, Sydney Writers' Festival, TEDxSydney and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. His poetry was selected to feature in Baby Teeth Journal's August 2018 publication, and he will perform at the National Young Writers' Festival this September. Elliot has recently combined his love for poetry with his passion for education, leading poetry workshops in Wollongong and Western Sydney.
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Fanwor: The Legend of Gemda (Atari ST)
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DescriptionFanwor - The Legend of Gemda is an action adventure game inspired by The Legend of Zelda, but with slightly reduced complexity and the main focus on action and exploration.
Once there was peace in the land of Fanwor, as Princess Gemda ruled the land protected by the eight "Gems of Power". Somehow, during her holidays, monsters stole those Gems and locked them in deep dungeons. Of course you, the player, has to recover all eight.
You do this by travelling through flip-screen landscapes filled with monsters. You can hit them with your sword, which kills most monsters instantly, but some of the stronger monsters take several hits before they vanish. The player starts with 20 health points and those can only be recovered by finding one of the eight gems or a (rare) fairy lake. Getting one of the gems does not only restores full health, but also increases the maximum health by 10.
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- "Fanwor" -- In-game title of version 1.12
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ReleaseOriginally, the game was written for the Magic Game Contest 1999, organised by several forum members and companies in the Atari ST field. The goal of the competition was to convert a classic computer- or videogame as pure GEM application ("GEM" was the graphical user interface of the Atari ST's "TOS" operating system). Out of 10 entries in the competition, Fanwor was voted on the third place.
Competition results at Demozoo
- Magic Game Contest
- 1999 – #3 Best GEM remake of a classical game
Related Web Sites
- Original webpage of the game (archived) (Original page of the game (German) by Thomas Huth. Including details, download of version 1.12 and links to both Linux version and the source code.)
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Ahmad Wali Karzai, President Karzai's half brother and head of Kandahar provincial council since 2005, was killed on Tuesday July 12, 2011 by his bodyguard associated to the Taliban who has been called "Brother" by President several times in open speeches to public. Death of a brother is too hard to bear, especially of a brother for whose defense Karzai stood like an iron-wall against the world and never let his brother be defamed by international community who accused him of being the king of drug trafficking in south in addition to working for CIA. President Hamid Karzai time and again denied Wali Karzai's involvement in drug trade saying that, "That is complete nonsense. Ahmad Wali was already accused of dealing in drugs. I investigated it thoroughly: naturally, none of it is true."
Wali Karzai had survived several attacks by Taliban in past. But not this time, as the attack was carried out by the snake in grass – his own bodyguard. And surviving such attacks is almost impossible.
The assassination of Wali Karzai was not unforeseen. The series of targeted killing - that has been continuing in the country since long and government failure to counter it- is to be blamed for his death.
Jawad Zahak, head of Bamyan provincial council, Gen. Dawood Dawood, police commander in north zone and Khan Muhammad Mujahid, Kandahar police chief were all killed in June, May and April respectively. The trend of target killing that moved at a slow pace in the last years, has taken lives of high government officials quite rapidly in 2011. The government's role in stopping the trend has not been more than a spectator. The government itself seems quite perplexed as attacks have been carried out by Afghan soldiers and bodyguards in many cases.
Politics is a dirty game. It is dirtier in countries like Afghanistan where death follows you at every step. Playing this game, the President lost his father, Abdul Ahad Karzai in 1999 and now his brother. The death of Wali Karzai should be taken as a red alarm by the President and other high ranking officials in whose hand fall the country's present and future. They have to move the country towards betterment, even if it is for the sake of their own lives.