text: Share: Comments Print November 3, 2009 at 9:01 PM Microsoft's MSN gets a makeover — and how Posted by mwatanabe Microsoft's MSN Web site has been around a long time. And some – even some at Microsoft – would say it looks it. So the company is fixing to launch what it calls a "refresh" of the MSN site built around a redesign of the home page. A preview of the redesign is going public Wednesday at http://preview.msn.com. The expectation is that it will go live sometime in the first quarter of 2010. A less cluttered look and fewer links are immediately apparent in the redesigned site. Portals such as MSN change over the years, but the one thing the big ones consistently try to do is to draw the most number of eyeballs possible. In MSN's case, the company says, that amounted to 600 million unique visitors worldwide in August. "This is an important, valuable asset for Microsoft," Bob Visse, general manager of MSN Product Management group, said of the site. Still, while Microsoft had tinkered with MSN over the past few years, it had not redesigned it to this extent in a decade, the company said. The current look has remained relatively stable for a decade or so. The biggest change users will notice is a reduction in the clutter that marked the old site. Visse said the redesigned site has 50 percent fewer links. The readability is also enhanced by a more pronounced airiness on the site, compared with the relatively densely packed look of the current site. The redesign also reorganizes the site's content into areas of emphasis: news, sports, entertainment and local (which also includes a local events calendar). "Content is still the No. 1 area of consumption," Visse said, referring to the how the site focuses on what Microsoft considers core content areas. That contrasts somewhat with the other leading portals, Yahoo and AOL. The former offers technology and applications that allows users to personalize their page more, while the latter emphasizes numerous special interest sites that link from the main page. Another noticeable component is the prominence accorded Bing, which since its introduction to the market as an improved, newly branded search engine has won a good deal of visibilty. In fact, the Bing presence (Visse said 45 percent of Bing searches come from MSN) was one of the things that underscored the redesign effort, Visse said. The others were Microsoft's Silverlight technology to play video, Windows Live technology and support for advertisers, especially some of the biggest brands. In executing the redesign, Visse said, Microsoft examined broad trends of online behavior, and, of course, social networking stood out prominently. That shows up in the new look, with a component that allows users easy access to their Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as Windows Live communications tools and Hotmail e-mail accounts. Comments


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Planning is Everything
When it comes to non-profits, charities, and CLCs specifically, there are some important considerations for the planning stage of your fundraising campaign. We've boiled these down to three questions crowdfunding nonprofits should be asking themselves during the development phase of a campaign. Having answers to these questions will help your organisation to get the ball rolling in the right direction.
1. Can Your Crowdfunding Campaign Be Related To Something Tangible?
Many nonprofits, charities, and NGOs that have entered the modern crowdfunding world have found that they have better results when funding directly results in something physically measurable. Physical outcomes give supporters a visceral sense of potential accomplishment that may be more inspiring than merely meeting an abstract budgeting goal.
A great example of this is Kim Barker's organisation, Baby Warm. Every crowdfunding campaign that Baby Warm initiates results in the purchase of an incubation unit that will help a wildlife rehab volunteer save baby animals. Kim says:
"From my experience with helping raise funds, I know that people are more likely to donate to a specific thing they can envision rather than making a general donation – so the natural step was to fundraise specifically incubators."
If you currently don't have a tangible outcome as the target of your fundraising concept, maybe shifting some things around in your budget can lead to a better outcome. For instance, maybe you already budgeted for a big-ticket purchase that you can move over to the crowdfunding section of your ledger. It may require a bit of creativity to come up with a way that your CLC's fundraising goal can be linked to a physical outcome, but if there's a way it can be, you will likely have greater support from your community.
2. What Is Your Organisation's Story?
Branding is often associated with the commercial, for-profit world, but really, branding is just how an organisation builds a public face that people can come to know and trust. Branding is important, even for non-profits, and an important part of branding is having a story. A good brand story isn't a way to mislead anyone. Instead, a brand story is a way to describe what your organisation is doing and why.
Your brand's story is arguably the most powerful part of your campaign because it's what enables you to connect with people. Without a story, your organisation will be talking at people instead of sharing a vision that others can empathise with. If your organisation has good brand story, other people will want to be part of that story.
"Storytelling is a powerful technique for building relationships. It's an age-old concept that brings people together and keeps them engaged."
– Marketing gurus Neil Patel and Ritika Puri
To help your non–profit find its story, ask your team:
- Why are we doing what we're doing?
- Why is what we're doing important?
- What motivates us specifically to do it?
The answers to these questions will help you shape your message to potential contributors. Develop an easily relatable story for your organisation and tie it in with all your messaging.
Lights. Camera. Action!
As recently reported by The Guardian, video will soon account for 69% of all consumer Internet traffic. In 2015, the focus will increasingly be on mobile video. According to an analysis by Liveclicker, 25% of all e-commerce videos were played from mobile devices last year, up 19 percent from 2013. With no signs of slowing down, video, especially mobile-friendly video, is where the money's at, when it comes to developing content that will help your community legal centre succeed. You may run cases conducive to a long-term Youtube strategy, or perhaps you can simply have an intro or demonstration video on your homepage or donation page. Either way, video engages people in a way text and static images do not, and that's not going to change.
With video, you can tell stories, answer questions, and demonstrate usage. Really, possibilities are as unlimited as your creativity is!
Stay out in front of these trends and you'll surely to reap the benefits of being an early adopter. You will spread awareness of your brand, broaden your contributor base, and increase donations!
3. Are You Approaching Your Messaging Like a Marketer?
Many CLCs and non-profit organisations do not have the resources to have a professional marketing team on staff, but that doesn't mean someone in your organization can't learn some basics about marketing, web design, and writing good copy. You may have a great story, an honourable mission, and a large network of people that want to support you, but none of this will automatically lead to a successful campaign if people don't know what you want them to do.
Testing your messaging is instrumental in determining if your story and call to action will resonate with new people.
All your communication – emails, social media posts, website calls to action – must be two things:
- Clear
- Concise
Clear means virtually anyone can quickly and easily understand what you are asking them to do. People that interact with your crowdfunding campaign need to be able to understand what you want, why you want it, and how people can help you get there. If someone reads your cause description and can't understand one of those things, revise your copy.
To test the clarity of your communication, show it to a few people not involved with your organisation before you're ready to publish. Testing your messaging is instrumental in determining if your story and call to action will resonate with new people.
Concise means saying what you need to in as few words as possible. Get to the point. Remove unnecessary text and clutter from your messaging. Here's what Demian Farnworth, chief copywriter for Copyblogger, recommends:
- Eliminate petty sentences, use active verbs, and get to the point.
- Cut your introduction and jump right into the meat of the story.
- Eliminate sections that are irrelevant (often impossible unless you leave your copy for a day or two).
- Use simple words, short sentences, and small paragraphs.
Along with careful planning in general, having solid answers to these questions should get your CLC or other non-profit organisation off to a great start developing a successful crowdfunding campaign.
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We have updated this guide! Click here for an updated Anatomy of a Backpack.
The Anatomy of a Backpack guide is a quick breakdown of common backpack terms and definitions so that you can make the best informed decision when shopping for a new backpack in-store or online. Below we break down a simple everyday backpack and define feature.
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Common backpack features DEFINED:
Loop handle - Usually made out of nylon or leather in higher end backpacks. A loop handle is usually present for easy handling or for the ability to hang up the backpack on a hook or closet when not in use.
Bike light attachment - A small square sewn on to the front of the backpack that most commonly made out of leather or synthetic leather material. Originally a safety feature to help bicyclists on the road, it's main purpose is to have the ability to attach a clip-on bicycle light although some fashion brands use it as a decorative feature.
Front Pocket - A smaller zipper pocket found on the front of the backpack for quick access to smaller items like pens, wallets or cell phones.
Side Pocket - Narrow and deep pockets found on the side of a backpack. Usually used to hold water bottles and umbrellas. Some backpacks add velcro or zippers to keep these pockets closed when not in use.
Reinforced Bottom - Usually made of leather or another tough synthetic material. This feature prevents the bottom of the backpack from premature wear and tear when being placed on the ground. Not all backpacks have this feature, but it's a nice addition and one to look out for when shopping for a new backpack.
Padded back - Most backpack backs are padded to provide a nice cushion when worn. Some backpacks include extra back features to aid in overheating or extra padding for comfort. These features can be different with every manufacturer.
Shoulder straps - Should straps can be made of a variety of material and like padded backs, can include special features to be more ergonomic when worn. Most backpacks have padded shoulder straps, especially ones made for heavy load carry like hiking or school backpacks.
Shoulder strap adjustments - The hardware on the shoulder straps that allow you to adjust it length. This allows for the wearer to adjust where the backpack sits on their back when worn. Most modern backpacks have this feature.
Main Compartment - The largest pocket in the backpack is called the main compartment. Some main compartments feature smaller accessories pockets to compartmentalize smaller items.
Mesh pocket - A small pocket usually sewn into the main compartment made out of mesh.
Other common terms:
Laptop Compartment - A piece of foam or material that creates a pocket in the main compartment that can fit a laptop or tablet. Laptop compartments can be padded for extra protection.
Hardware - A term used that refers to the zippers and other small parts in a backpack. For example: Metal hardware i.e. metal zippers, zipper pulls, etc.
Pull tabs - Usually a piece of leather, nylon or other material attached to the end of a zipper to make it easier for the user to open and close the zippers.


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Voter registration up at deadline for Nov. 6 election
More Texans than ever are registered to vote this year, but experts warn the challenge of getting them to the polls remains.
As of Tuesday morning, more than 15.7 million Texas had registered to vote in the Nov. 6 elections, the Texas Secretary of State's Office reported. That record number will be higher once the tally from the final day of registration is complete.
Texas ranks bottom of the pack nationwide in voter turnout. The last time more than half of registered voters cast a ballot in a midterm election was 1994, when Democratic Gov. Ann Richards lost to Republican George W. Bush, according to state data. In 2014, the last midterm election, about 14 million people were registered in Texas.
Competitive races like Bush-Richards help drive turnout, said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston. Since that year, Democrats haven't won a statewide election.
"If elections aren't competitive, then one side of the partisan divide feels like they are not being included in the process," Rottinghaus said.
But this cycle, a barn-burner race for U.S. Senate and a handful of hotly contested Congressional seats could help drive more voters to the ballot box, he said.
"From a tactical point of view, the fact so many groups have been registering voters for so long gives a competitive candidate an opportunity to harness those votes," Rottinghaus said.
New voters continued to trickle in Tuesday afternoon at Lamar University, where Pete Churton, volunteer deputy registrar, assisted new voters signing up for the first time and helped older ones certify a change of address or simply check to make sure they were in the books.
"Having a voice and being able to vote" motivated graduate student Shelby Hare to drop her bags and sit on the floor of the Speech and Hearing Sciences Building to complete her application.
Another graduate student, Rachel Nguyen, said she "didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to vote," especially after seeing past elections that didn't turn out how she'd hoped.
While the rest of the state saw an increase in voter registration, the number of registered voters in the Golden Triangle remained largely the same compared to previous election cycles.
In 2014, there were 146,000 registered voters in Jefferson County, according to tax assessor-collector, Allison Nathan Getz. More than 3,000 residents voted to register for the 2016 elections, bringing the total up to 149,317 registered voters. Usually presidential election years are higher, she said.
The most recent numbers for 2018 — totaling to 148,215 voters as of Tuesday morning — indicate a slight drop from previous years but ahead of the last midterm.
"I think that people are more involved and engaged in the process," Getz said, pointing to the impact of social media and around-the-clock news services.
"It's important to be concerned about the state elections at the top of the ticket, but you've really got to be focused on the local elections because that's what impacts your life every day," she said.
Contested elections in Jefferson County include county judge, county clerk and county treasurer. Also at stake are the Precinct 1 constable and 172nd state district judge seats.
James Nelson, Lamar University political science professor, attributed voter interest to competitive and noncompetitive Southeast Texas political communities. Nelson, whose specialties include American politics and political behavior, defined competitive communities as areas where "two parties have close to the same number of voters."
"Part of what you may be seeing is that Jefferson County is very competitive. Some counties very much around it are not," Nelson said. Travis County, which includes the capital city of Austin, was "among the highest" for voter turnout, he added, while rural counties tend to be among the lowest.
As of Tuesday morning, there were 38,124 registered voters in Hardin County, tax assessor-collector Shirley Cook said in an email. Data for previous election cycles were not immediately available.
Of the 12 local Hardin County elections, only the race for Precinct 6 justice of the peace is contested. Eleven Republicans will be unchallenged in the November election.
In Orange County, election officials continued to process voter registration cards Tuesday afternoon, including 62 that had been filed on the last day to register. The dozens of applications include new voters and changes of address, elections administrator Tina Barrow said.
As of last week, the county had 53,300 registered voters, up from 53,064 in the 2016 election cycle. In 2014, there were 50,553 registered voters.
Barrow said it was likely that the U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and his opponent, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, was drawing people to the polls. Two contested local government races could also play a factor, she said.
Only two of 11 local races are contested, Barrow said.
According to Barrow, political engagement looks like it's up from the last gubernatorial election in 2014.
"We weren't this busy" then, she said, adding that media attention on such races as Cruz-O'Rourke has "got a lot of people wanting to come out to vote."
Getz, the Jefferson County tax assessor-collector, said it's up to those who registered to now follow up.
"You can register all the people in the world that you want, but people have got to vote," Getz said. "It doesn't do us any good to register all these people if they don't take the time to vote."
Allie Morris reported from Austin. Haley Bruyn in Beaumont contributed to this report.


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First remember the medium we use – the human voice. For a good delivery we must use our voice in the best possible way employing variety in pitch, volume and pace. We must also have interesting words to attract interest from the audience. A challenging task indeed!
Exactly how to produce a good delivery starts with the assembly of the words of your first sentence. For this we must address HOW we structure our speech. This itself will follow from the subject and what we feel about it. Are we angry? Do we want to make out opinion known? Is this a challenge to our audience? Are we trying to inspire, effect change or simply draw attention to some important point?
Each of these will encourage a different way to start.
I think gender equality has gone too far!
I think minority groups have too much influence on society!
Should we ban HGVs in bad weather?
I'm going to tell you a secret!
So a prime requisite of a good delivery is having a good form of words.
Look at how Winston Churchill delivered his speeches composed of simple words but spoken with passion. We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…
So we need a good subject, we need a good strong start to waken the audience and we need the right words to keep the audience in our grip.
Perhaps the most important ingredient in a good delivery is how you appear to the audience. If we look interesting the audience will be interested. We should use our body as well as our hands for gestures.
For impact stand up straight with head held high. For rapport a more gentle welcoming stance will help and a smile will add impact.
Avoid "excluding" gestures and employ "including" gestures. Take the audience with you. Engage with them, look them in the eye and take in the entire room.
Asking questions is a good ploy but be careful of the smarty in the audience who might answer out loud.
Above all we should use all the skills we learn as speakers to produce a good delivery: use of voice; the best form of words; good, clear construction; appropriate gestures – body, face and hands and perhaps the most important element is enthusiasm. If you don't feel passion for your subject the audience will realise that swiftly.
Even if you are not enthusiastic about your subject – fake it!!!!
All the earlier mentioned techniques will fail if you look bored or don't speak with passion.
Tonight I'm going to tell you why I love aeroplanes!!!! It's because they are brilliant!!!
In conclusion, a good delivery stems from a good script, good acting, a good use of gestures and a belief in what you are saying. In short a good delivery is a result of a performance!
Try this next time you are asked to speak.
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After all the ladies drove the long dirt road lined with cattle and hay fields they arrived to Rancho San Julian and the sweet smell of simmering stone fruit filled the air. Elizabeth Poett Cambpell and Katie Isaacson Hames welcomed us and the class began. Elizabeth and Katie learned how to preserve food alongside each other as their mothers, together, taught them. Elizabeth is a home cook and helps run the Rancho San Julian cattle operation. Katie is a farmer at Midland School and has even had her own canning business. It was clear by the smells coming from the kitchen and by the vast amount of stone fruit on the table, that we were all in good hands.
Many of the women had canned before and many had not. As we gathered around the long kitchen table Elizabeth and Katie went over tools needed and walked us through the process. We split into groups and some began slicing fruit, while others took turns cleaning jars and and others helped stir the already simmering pot of peach jam.
Our teachers went through many of their secrets and tips and even though I had jammed before I learned so many new things! There was plenty of time for questions and then the jamming and sealing the jars began. Everyone took a turn learning and helping with the water bath process.
There was a full spread of treats for us to enjoy, all made by Emma, including peach hand pies and a peach shrub drink (recipes on next blog post), and pickled vegetables.
As I drove back down the dirt road, I felt like I had learned a great deal about jamming and had more respect for the process. And my heart felt full ( and so did my stomach) after spending the afternoon learning with such a lovely group of women! The class felt informal, informative, sweet and warm. Thank you Elizabeth and Katie for sharing your expertise with us!
Below are Elizabeth and Katie's list of equipment needed and their Classic Peach Jam Recipe!
- Canning pot with canning rack
- Mason jars, lids and rings
- Stainless steel funnel
- Jar lifter
- Magnetic lid wand
- Spatula
- Jam Pot
- Wooden spoon
4 pounds of peaches
4 cups of sugar
3 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon
Rinse peaches, cut in half and remove pits.
Toss the peaches, sugar and lemon together and set in fridge overnight.
Place fruit mixture into preserving pot and bring to a boil. Stir frequently.
Cook over a high flame. Continue stirring frequently.
As the jam thickens, lower the heat and stir more often to prevent sticking.
When jam is a good consistency, you are ready to can.
Turn off heat and ladle the hot jam into prepared canning jars. Leave ¼ inch headspace.
Process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes.
Once you have mastered making traditional peach jam, you may want to play with new flavors. For example, adding a couple of split vanilla pods to make peach vanilla jam, or a cup of bourbon to the mixture for peach bourbon jam.
Happy Jamming!
Love, Lauren
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Surveys provide a reliable link between the company and the customers. While sitting in the comfort of their homes or offices, customers can now communicate with a company administration thousands of miles away, in another continent. This has been made possible through the phenomenon of online surveys. Today, providing online questionnaires and questions to clients is a trending technique designed to satisfy customer demands and boost revenues. Tractor Supply Company (TSCO) is counted among the smart business ventures that provide their customers with the option of filling online surveys. The Tractor Supply Survey can be easily found online at www.tractorsupplusurvey.com.
Tractor Supply Company or TSCO is an American retail company with a chain of stores. It was opened in 1938 and has its headquarters in Brentwood, Tennessee, USA. Tractor Supply actively operates in 49 States of America and employs more than 25000 people. The key products that it produces include; power generators, lawn mowers, garments, footwear, supplies for pets, trailers and accessories, lawn and garden supplies, heating supplies, tools with much more.
Tractor Supply has 1617 stores. Maintenance of such a number of locations is not an easy task and demands constant precision. The Tractor Supply Survey allows the company to keep a check on its customers.
To take the Tractor Supply Survey, you must have the following:
- A computer or cell phone
- Basic comprehension of English or Spanish
- An invitation to take the survey
- A recent Tractor Supply receipt
- You have to be a legal US citizen
- You should be 18 years or older
- You should have some spare time on your hands
When you are certain that you have the above mentioned things, you are ready to start the Tractor Supply Survey:
- Go to www.tractorsupplysurvey.com
- Enter the ticket, date, time, store and register number. These will be printed on your receipt, so keep it with you
- Click the 'Start' tab
- Answer all the questions keeping in mind your last visit to a Tractor Supply store
- Give your valid contact details
- You can choose to participate in the sweepstakes and get to know news and updates
- Lastly, click on 'Next' and you are done!
The Tractor Supply Survey offers the participants to proceed in Spanish or English. A sample receipt is also given at the beginning to help identify the required digits quickly. The survey itself is easy to fill and takes little time. The participant is asked about the cleanliness, behaviour of employees, availability of products, ease of locating merchandise and the economic feasibility. A progress bar also indicates the percentage of the survey completed, which adds to customer friendliness of the survey. However, the survey must also ask about the ease of parking, the security and emergency precautions taken at the store.


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Supported Products
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Supported Plans
- Pro
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Status Board offers big screen signage for office availability. With a quick glance at a TV around your office, team members can easily find conference rooms based on availability and amenities. You can also customize your status board(s) to only show availability on specific floors or specific spaces.
Status Board works with most modern browsers, and can display in either landscape or portrait depending on the display. If you already have TV's in your office, chances are you can use the same system to run Status Boards. Some TV's have limited browser support built in, but you'll have the most reliable experience connecting a separate device like a Chromebit or Airtame.
We're not able to maintain a list of compatible TV browsers (it's a REALLY big industry), and we'd recommend testing before deciding to use a separate device or not. We do not have native apps for Apple TV or Roku at this time.
Maps on Status Board:
Get started with Status Board in a few simple steps:
You can follow the video below or review the steps in the article for a tutorial on how to setup a Status Board.
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- Configure a board
- Robin Admins can set up new boards in Dashboard. Go to Manage > Devices > Status Boards > Add a board
- Name the board based on its location in your office
- Select board type: Scheduling or Maps
- Don't have Maps? Contact us to learn more.
- Select building and floor
- Click Next
Can I restrict Status Boards to an IP address?
Absolutely! When setting up your board, enter in IP addresses or IP CIDR blocks under Advanced options. Boards will only load information on these approved networks.
- Configure privacy options to manage info displayed on each board
- Click Activate status board
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- Copy the link
- Once you've activated the board, copy the unique Status Board URL
- Paste the URL to a device that is broadcasting your status board in the office (e.g. mini PC or Chromecast)
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- Open in a browser
- Set the board to fullscreen on your TV
- The board updates automatically as room statuses change
Map Kiosk for Status BoardLooking to search & book spaces from a Status Board in your office? Check out our Map Kiosk. Follow the steps above to create a Status Board for maps, then select copy kiosk link in blue to connect to your big screen.
Deleting and recreating a Status Board
If you delete a Status Board for a building or level and then recreate the same board, the Dashboard will activate a new link. Be sure to copy the updated link to your Status Board device (the old link will no longer be valid).
To edit or delete a Status Board, go to Manage > Devices > Status Boards and select the pencil icon next to a board from the list.


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Our projects confront contemporary problems, especially concerning the Millennial generation, with an authentically inclusive intention. This collective is about welcoming everyone to critically question society today, and come together to drop the penny.
That's exactly what we're doing in our current project, 'Island Biography (Home for Now)'. It confronts the question of housing, plodding over the history of landlords vs tenants wearing boots made of poetry, photography, media and the tradition of objets trouvés.
This exhibition will be at The Workshop in Lambeth (www.theworkshoplondon.com) on the 25/26 May 2018, 10am-5pm with an evening viewing on Friday 25th May. Free entry. Come along – join us!
There are various parts to 'Island Biography'. Firstly, there is a series of six doors, each printed with one section of a seven-section poem about the history of housing in London, detailing various instances of the elite dominating the land and the domination being resisted.
Photographs presenting the complex dynamic of housing are displayed around the doors, leading you in to a totality of strangely simulated experienced, pushed into a frame, everything inside functioning as a reproduction of 'home', whatever 'home' could mean, that place you spend half your wage on, and all you get in return is a single room and a tiny window.
Hanging from the ceiling around the main doors and photographs are little cardboard doors. They display poems written by people at local community centres during Penny Drops workshops, so that anyone can express their hopes and concerns about housing in London.
More cardboard doors will be available during the exhibition so that any guest can write their own housing poem and add it to the show.
Island Biography (Home for Now) is about pushing into the problem that rejects us, grabbing the grey hair in the thrones that shakes its superior finger and casts us into this quiet loneliness, into our single rooms and simulated existences. Those grey-haired grotesques in power were educated for free and benefited from the social privileges of a Keynesian economic system, and with that firm footing in our land they tossed us into the postmodern condition of constant physical loss alongside endless ontological insecurity.
That strange place between ontological emptiness – no longer able to believe any universal enlightenment imperatives about existence – and empirical inability – in this place where we know our jobs are perversely meaningless and cannot ever hope to buy a single house to comfortably live in. That place is where we are trying to enter with this project. And with you too, whoever the hell you are.
We can no longer just accept that easy binary. We the authentic people against the commodity selling us unnecessary ephemera. That divide is dead.
We know it is dead, that reified divide between appearance and reality, but we still have to perform.
Žižek talks about this a lot. He reminds us that at the beginning of Das Kapital Marx mentions the fact that when we see a commodity, we are not surprised by its abstract appearance, by the schemata of magical associations it ignites in us, but rather by its total banality, its very average physical existence. But between this material dialectic of us looking and the commodity simply being, there is something. Something else. This thing we know is not there. We are perfectly aware that the commodity in fact will not bring us more friends, more love or a better quality existence. But we want it anyway.
Žižek describes this with a joke. There's this woman (he says man, but let's say woman), and she thinks she's a grain, a grain of corn or whatever. She is a farmer and she's terrified of being eaten, being crushed, being turned into food, because she's a grain. So she goes to therapy, to an institute, all the rest of it, and after years she comes out and she's fine. She goes back to the farm.
But then one day she rushes back into the therapist's office, in a panic. The therapist says, 'What's wrong?' And the woman says, 'Well, there's this chicken on the farm. I think it's going to eat me. I'm terrified. I'm in a bad way. I will get eaten by a chicken…' etcetera and so on.
The therapist shakes her head in confusion and says, 'But, we have been through this. You are cured. You now know that you are not a grain. You know you are a human. Right?'
'Yes, I know,' says the farmer, 'but I don't know if the chicken knows that.'
We know this absurd system of abusive power is dead, it cannot go on and the young will not accept this once the grey-hairs finally kick the solid guise of the ideological structure holding them up in weightless air. We know that. But we are not sure that the system knows that. So we keep performing, like the madwoman with the pecking chicken.
That is why we keep doing this. Because although minor manifestations of bellicose abuse may have whimpered away from the spotlight that youth movements cast on them, like the Parkland students in Florida this year (2018), the grounding of that power still resolutely remains. It remains everywhere, even if it is only us who see it as a corpse beyond repair. The leaves have all fallen and rotted in the mud. But the root is still stuck. The universality is still there.
We do not want to misunderstand universality. The manifestations and the performances of power over the world are unique and special – the fist-fronted systematic Russian homophobia is not the same as the religiously-supported gay-hatred of Uganda. The universality is in the source of the power, the idea used as conceptual grounding to brutally break resistance and to conquer every inch of the world with the claw of colonial capitalism. The universality is in the breath before the ideological discourse is even spoken.
And that is why we keep up this fight. Because the appearance is dead, belief is dead, but the power behind it is not. To believe in the individual structure of the body is still to believe in a metaphysical idealism that ends in God. We are not rejecting God or Christian morality or Enlightenment dogma if we go on with these themes of belief, of corporeality, existing within a body and rejecting the rhizomatic power of rebellion as unity, never as individuality.
Here, with this project, we reject the body, reject the singularity, we totally abandon the simplistic divide between We the Material and They the Ideal. We reject the ideal and the entirety of metaphysical structures. We have words, we have thought, we have power. And we use them to pull up a chair into the middle of this material game and give every side a little physical talking to.
A little physical talking to through doors that open onto nothing, doors that enclose no privilege. We are not locking in the Self or the source of words. We do not favour the presence of the spoken word over the absence on the other side. We just heave a little physicality out of a door and invite you in, into this place that is not navigable by structures because doors do not open or close, into this non-place that is never 'I', always 'we', and where we are everywhere.


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Stop discrimination and help my son have a trained aide in a regular education class.
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Tristian is a 6-year-old boy who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (mild) and ADHD (moderate) at the age of three. Since the 2016-2017 school year in Weslaco Independent School District (Weslaco,TX), we have run into several problems. While Tristian was enrolled in North Bridge Elementary, the self-contained special education teacher placed my son and other students in the bathroom for "cool down time" where there were cleaning chemicals accessible to students. Needless to say, I brought this up health and safety hazard to the WISD Special Education Director. At this point, I moved my son from that campus into another local elementary, Clecker-Heald.
My son is high functioning with a normal IQ and is more than capable of learning. However, I had to fight to get him out of the self-contained special education class because WISD automatically places all students previously enrolled in the PPCD, special education pre-k, to the self-contained unit. This essentially is a "cookie cutter" prescription for all students, regardless of their abilities or needs. For this reason, I sought out a special education advocate who aided me in fighting for the accommodations and opportunities that Tristian needs.
However, less than two weeks after being enrolled in his mainstream class (November 2016), his regular education teacher suggested to have Tristan placed in a resource class instead. I declined her suggestion, saying it was too soon to make a decision about placement. Additionally, Tristian had never been in a regular class, was coming in late into the class, and needed time to adjust. Then, after less than a month of having my son in her class, she stated that perhaps he needed to repeat kindergarten. In the last two months (including holiday break), she has suggested to have Tristan repeat kinder for a total of three times, and that placing him in the self-contained unit is probably best.
Although Tristian's IEP and BIP plan have not been completely followed, his teacher stated that she wants to help, but since she went to school for regular education and not special ed, she doesn't know how to help him. I offered multiple solutions: I could attend school to help him, provide pamphlets with information about Autism and ADHD, more inclusion and resource, an aide trained in Autism or ADHD, and additional professional development. She shot down all of my suggestions except the possibility of having a trained aide. However, WISD employees state that having an aide for my son is difficult to provide because of budgetary issues. Additionally, WISD touts itself as an anti-bully zone, but Tristian's cousin, who is enrolled in the same class, has shared that she has to defend Tristian from other students that repeatedly tell him to stop his hand flapping, which is a common stim of Autistic individuals.
Currently my son receives inclusion time for one-hour, along with speech and OT therapy. I took it upon myself to get private tutoring for my son because the teacher has not assessed him so we don't know how far behind he is, he has therapy at home, and most recently due to the teacher's comments, I have a social worker coming in to school for the next few months to help my son. I have tried everything, even received clearance from the district to be with my son or volunteer at the campus, and I currently go to school three times a day. From my experiences with WISD schools and what I have been dealing with after trying to help them and being turned down with offered solutions, I can't help but feel like they are trying to pigeon-hold my son once again by placing him in the self-contained unit so they won't have to provide the services he needs. By placing a high functioning Autistic child with ADHD in a self-contained classroom, he could begin to mimic social cues from students with more severe diagnoses, severely negatively effecting his behavior more. Most importantly his academics will not be prioritized since in self-contained classroom, as they focus more on life skills. Tristian has the right to be in the least restrictive environment.
I am asking for help to have WISD employees stop discrimination, cookie cutting all special ed students, and to get my son the help he needs. Tristian is a 6-year-old who currently cannot read or write, but is fully capable of doing so if only he was receiving the appropriate support and accommodations. In this case, Tristian is desperately in need of an aide due to the lack of training and experience WISD staff have in meeting the needs of high functioning special needs students.
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I have been performing market research for my blog for over a year now and it has been tremendously helpful in finding out what my audience struggles with the most and in turn how I can help them out by offering my advice. Every blogger has their own set of problems that may differ from person to person, but in my research, I have found the same 5 problems that constantly come up in my search results. Today I will be sharing these five common #bloggerproblems and my solutions for them.
1 / Daylight Savings or cloudy days
This is one of the most common problems that I find people posting about. Either daylight savings time is over and it gets dark at 5:30 pm or it's a cloudy day (not ideal when taking photos because natural light is preferred). To these problems, I suggest using a light kit! I stockpile photos on the weekend to use for my blog and Instagram. Since I only have two days to get it done, my first move is to take photos on the day that it's not supposed to be cloudy. If both days are projected to be cloudy, I use my light kit. Since I have a small time frame to get my photos taken (within a two hour block when my daughter is napping), I can't fully rely on the weather because tasks need to get marked off my list, and the tasks don't care what the weather report is. A light kit is used for taking photos indoors when you need extra light sources. The bulbs that are used are daylight bulbs so it mimics natural light. Here's the light kit that I use; it has been such a help in keeping me on track regardless of weather conditions.
Along with using a light kit, you may still need to add a touch of brightness to your images during post photo editing. Bumping up the brightness in your photo editing program is the second step when you're taking photos with a light kit. You may also need to adjust the temperature of the photos to make them cooler if your photos have a yellowish tint to them (this can occur when shooting with artificial lighting sometimes). The brightness and temperature settings are in different locations across editing programs, but they are common so they should be available in all of them.
2 / Too tired to blog in the evening
I can totally relate to this. I work a 9-5 and am on the computer all day. The last thing I want to do in the evening is look at the computer again let alone use my brain again when it's drained from a days work. However, sacrifices need to be made, so a compromise is to compose blog posts laying on the couch using voice dictation. At least Google can do the typing for you! Here's a post all about using voice dictation to create blog posts.
An alternative solution is to dedicate you work breaks and lunches to working on blog posts. At least this way it's not the end of the day so you should be more alert and have great thoughts to still work with (thoughts that haven't drained from your brain yet due to the 9-5!).
3 / Don't know what to blog about
This could be a problem if you haven't really determined what the purpose of your blog is or if you don't plan out your content in advance. If you are blogging on the fly, meaning, you sit down at the computer and try to think of something to post about, you're doing it all wrong. You should be planning out your content in advance. You do this by performing market research. Here are a few ways how:
- Use Google Trends to find popular niche-related content
- Set up an automated task to research twitter hashtags/keywords for you (here's the link to the free resource that I used to create this task for public use).
- Check niche related FB groups for questions
If it's still difficult to find topics to post about, maybe the niche that you are in isn't the right one for you. You may need to go back to the drawing board and determine what your area(s) of expertise are and build from there. This isn't a bad thing because it may help you discover an area where you can be of better help to a different audience.
4 / Too many ideas creating overwhelm
On the other hand, you may have too many ideas for blog posts and get overwhelmed. This is an awesome boat to be in because this is where planning content in advance comes into play. You may have 25 ideas for blog posts and not know what to do about it. Here's what you do:
Seamlessly organize your thoughts using Evernote (here's a post all about this).
Preplan/Schedule your blog posts out by adding them to your editorial calendar (If you have 25 ideas and post weekly, that's 6 months of blog content, sis!).
Yep, just two things, it's that simple.
Related: 5 Reasons Your Blog Needs an Editorial Calendar
5 / Not posting on schedule
I get so tired of seeing people tweet apologies for not posting in a long time and giving a million and one excuses for it. Honestly, spare us the details and give us the goods. Life happens and you're not going to post consistently all the time. People know this. So rather than opening a post about why you didn't post in a long time, just write an amazing post to make up for lost time. Rather than tweeting about your absence, tweet that you have an awesome post up and share the link.
So do you deal with any of these common #bloggerproblems? Tell me all about it in the comments!


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I read an interview with Matt Bomer, the suave Neal Caffrey (White Collar), where he shared that he was looking for a house in LA a while back.
"There was a place I was interested in, but I couldn't get in touch with its owners". So he resolved to jumping their fence.
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While teaching English this summer, I was fortunate enough to work for a company that had a spectacular text book. It encouraged open discussions in English, and didn't just talk about the boring topics like shopping, movies, etc. My level 4 book had a section on gender issues. This is a subject I studied quite a bit at university, and follow in the news, but not one I have ever taught. So, I challenged myself to teach gender to students with English as a second language.
Hands down, this was one of the hardest subjects I have ever had to teach. Not because of a lack of knowledge, but because it involves such sensitive issues that society has coached us to not discuss publicly. Well, I did and it was the best class I have ever led.
I began by having the students create a list of issues related to gender, not only for women but men as well. Here are some things we came up with for men; custody rights, mental health stigma, body pressure, lack of support for sexual abuse, paternity leave, inability to cry. For women; pay gap, hormones being used as an excuse for feelings, maternity leave, pressure to find partners, tampon tax. This list is only a small sample of the massive ideas my students developed.
I then did something very controversial, I told my students I was going to make some statements that might be upsetting but I encouraged them to disagree with me. I said: Gay is against nature and wrong. Women are the lesser sex. Transgender/transsexual's are just a mental disorder. The reactions I got were astounding. All of my students (even the quiet ones) got up in arms. They debated me, fought me. They spoke more in this class than in any other. They were understandably angry at my narrow minded statements, but it was only after we finished our discussion that I admitted that I didn't agree with a word I said. I showed them how by phrasing things in that method got them to talk more than any other way could have.
Unfortunately, while teaching this subject, my boss overheard me. My company is very clear that they do not require me to give in lesson plans, and they do not censor what I teach. But, my boss did not like what I was saying or how I was saying it. He couldn't tell me to stop, he had no authority to because our manager had already given me the Ok. So, instead, he pulled me aside and claimed I was "talking too much for an English class" and he refused to hear my explanation. Just because he didn't like what I said, he literally told me to stop talking in class.
That is what our society does. If people don't like what one person says, they make them be silent. Especially in regards to issues related to gender like LGBTQ+ rights or equality among the sexes. It makes people so uncomfortable! I felt uncomfortable discussing it, but I am glad I did. Because, I had multiple students write me thank you cards saying that my gender class was their favourite class of the summer. Many even said an adult had never talked to them about these issues, and they were grateful I did. It was wonderful for me to hear that, but also sad to know that 16 year old kids had never had someone discuss gender issues with them. These are vital to encourage a tolerant, accepting world. We need EDUCATION around this, and all issues, to ensure there is a better tomorrow.


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Wellness Wednesday: Dance
September 26th, 2007
I've decided to participate (on a semi-regular basis) in Lunar Musings's wonderful new project called Wellness Wednesdays!
This week, after dancing at two different weddings (above the fiansor and I slow dance at my brother's wedding) I was thinking about how good dancing makes me feel. I'm not a great dancer by any means, nor do I know any dancing styles like swing or latin (though I'd like to learn someday.) No, I just like to shake my booty from time to time. Dancing is good for the soul. So, where do I dance?
I like to car-dance (dancing in the car to good tunes on the radio...bound to get some weird looks thrown your way, but that's ah well.) I like to dance in the shower (just be careful not to fall on your ass, it can get slippery in there!) I like to dance in my apartment with or without the fiansor or the cats (the cats don't really love to dance with me I'm afraid). I like to make little playlists on my itunes of good dancing tunes and then dance around my studio.
I'm afraid the first dance at my wedding won't be anything fancy, but it will be lovely all the same. And then later, I'm sure we'll be getting down and having fun with friends and family. Isn't it amazing how dancing can make a wedding so much more fun?
Need some dancing inspiration?
-Check out NIA, a fitness and expressive movement practice that combines dance and yoga and martial arts and is loads of fun. Jaime teaches NIA and there are classes all over the place that you can check out.
-I loved reading Gabrielle Roth's Sweat Your Prayers. Roth writes, teaches, and makes music based around the idea of combining spirituality and movement. She has developed a practice involving 5 different rhythms that are fantastic to dance to. I got some of her music online and it's a wonderful way to sweat out whatever is going on with you.
- There are also loads of cool places to check out Freestyle Dancing, which is usually a gathering of people who dance barefoot to live music and can be quite fun.
-And there's even expressive movement therapy (sort of like art therapy with movement) that can be done one on one or in small groups. I've had one experience of this in a group and it was pretty powerful. So much is stored in the body, it makes sense that movement would help us connect to those stuck areas.
So, go shake your booty.
Ooo, update: I made this button thingamabob for the Wellness Wednesday crowd. So feel free to save it to your computer and put it on your blog if you're doing this project too! I've got it so it links to the intro to Wellness Wednesday.
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I just love this picture of you and your sweetie.. so very loving!
…got your comment about the kitty…oh my you have a mango kitty too!…so very sweet.. ..meow.. : )
What a cute pic! And a fabulous post.
I too, am going to participate in Wellness Wednesdays. I think it's something that will really inspire me.
I'll have to look more into what Wellness Wednesday is about. Sounds neat!
As for dancing, I am NOT the dancing type. I look like a bug flailing around when I try to dance. It is not pretty. And here in the South, dancing at weddings isn't the norm. Can you believe that? Nope, it isn't.
But, I love that you dance! I think it is great and I'm sure it is great for the soul.
Light and love to you today,
Karen Beth
What a romantic photo! Just danced my virtual feet off at the Bloglandia Ball, whic made me want to REALLY go dancing. Solo dance all the time – but would love to just be able to dance with my sweetie again (he needs a new hip, which puts a crimp on things).
Enjoy your dance!
Beautiful photo…you must be so excited for your wedding!
dancing. I love to dance. I was on a semi-professional dance team. I married a man with NO rhythm. So sad. He tried to take lessons poor thing. But really – he is the meaning of the term white man syndrome.lol. I dance anyway.
I love to dance. Once a year, I go into NYC with my girlfriends for drinks and dancing. It's so much fun. I should do it more often.
LOL!!!! "Shaking your booty", and "falling on your ass"??? What's gotten into you my friend?! LOL!
LOVE the slow dance photo….and so nice to see a pic. of your Cutie!
wonderful photo!! I love to dance with my daughter out in our Sun Room. Dancing just makes us all feel alive…thanks for such a great post!!
Oh your button for Wellness Wednesdays is gorgous!
I am so nerdy with this stuff but i am going to try and add it -
otherwise Jessie is my blog designer:)
and btw – i dance in the car too – I bop around in my
seat and even make my hands dance – only one at a time
of course:)
What a wonderful idea! The girls and I like to dance around to 'Bikini Bottom' from the Spongebob SquarePants movie. Shows you how highbrow I am…
You should check out http://universalselfcare.blogspot.com to go along with your Wellness Wednesdays! xo
Hi Leah! Groovy, dancing at every given opportunity … it is definatley good for the soul (and the weight!).
I'm doing 'The Big Draw' at the moment ( a drawing a day for 1 month) and have LOTS of commitments at home, or else I'd be doing W.W. too. However you have reminded me to 'shake my booty' a little more often than I do at present; fab stress reliever! Thanks, Hugs, E


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We've all done it. You drive in your car for half an hour, get somewhere, but can't remember the journey. Your mind has been wandering for the entire car trip. Most people complain they are constantly distracted, can't think straight, and have too many thoughts going on in their heads. That's why most people are not really living where they are supposed to be – the present. We're too caught up thinking about the future or the past!
So what's the solution? Mindfulness.
Mindfulness involves 3 things:
- Attention and focus
- Living in the moment, the here and now, and not being distracted
- Being non- judgemental
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Technically, the 2-hour chart indicators are flat above their mid-levels and pointing a bullish bias.
Ether Price to Break Higher?
There were mostly ranging moves in ETH/USD during the past three sessions above the $320.00 support and the pair remained in the bullish zone.
On the other hand, ETH/BTC continues to decline and it recently moved toward 0.042BTC. Bitcoin traded at a new all-time high above $8,000, pressuring ETH/BTC. However, ETH/USD was mostly stable during ETH/BTC's decline.
Looking at the 6-hour chart of ETH/USD, there is an important ascending channel forming with support at $305.00. The pair recently traded near the channel resistance at $339.58 and failed to break higher. At the moment, the pair is consolidating gains above the $320.00 support.
The channel might continue to play a major role for ETH/USD and as long as the support at $305.00 is intact, the pair remains in a significant uptrend. On the upside, the channel resistance is now just above $340.00.
An initial support on the downside is near $320.00, followed by the 50 percent Fibonacci retracement level of the last leg from the $286.10 low to $339.58 high near $312.00. However, the most important support is $305.00 (channel lower trendline).
Moving on to the 2-hour chart of ETH/USD, there is a connecting bullish trendline with support at $325.00. On the upside, there is a bearish trendline with current resistance near $332.00.
A successful close above $332.00 could trigger further gains toward the 4-hour chart channel resistance around $340.00. The overall price action suggests a bullish picture if ETH/USD stays above $305.00.


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Why Yahoo Bought Blink, A Self-Destructing Messaging App (Yes, Exactly Like Snapchat)
Yahoo has been rethinking its app game since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012 — but whoever thought the 20-year-old tech company would be interested in self-destructing text messages? The latest acquisition for Yahoo is Blink, a Snapchat-like program that erases your texts, pictures, doodles and audio and video recordings so you can have secret chats without leaving a digital trail. The terms of the deal haven't been revealed, but the Blink blog states the company will shut down the app in the next few weeks as it makes its transition from startup to Yahoo, so Blink-ers better time their texts correctly.
In a statement, the Blink team said:
We built Blink because we believe everyone should be free to show the same honesty and spontaneity in their online conversations as they can in person. We look forward to the possibilities that will come from bringing the Blink vision to Yahoo.
A product of Meh Labs, Blink, which was initially created as Kismet, launched its self-destructing messaging just a year ago on iOS, and branched out to Android earlier this year. About half of its users are based in the United States, but the app has found many fans in the Middle East.
Although it's still unclear why Yahoo wanted the self-destructing app, it's not necessarily a surprising acquisition — self-destructing messaging is one of the hottest mobile trends and, possible, the future of mobile conversations. In 2013, Forbes reported that more teens and young adults have been gravitating to self-destructing mobile apps over time-capturing platforms like Facebook, perhaps because it adds another level of privacy to the digital world.
"They felt free and light in conversation," startup founder Steve Chung told Forbes. "Liberated."
According to a 2013 survey from the Pew Research Center, 26 percent of 18-to-29 year olds use Snapchat, while only five percent of 30 to 49 year olds do.
Despite Snapchat being known as the app for teen sexting, the game-changing platform did attract the attention of tech giants — namely Facebook, which offered the company a multimillion-dollar deal. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel turned down the deal, but that didn't stop Facebook from creating its own Snapchat knockoffs, including Facebook Poke. However, Business Insider reported last week that the company is now killing off its Snapchat imitators because they poorly performed in The App Store.
So, maybe this is Yahoo's chance to capitalize on the market where Facebook failed. It may also help Mayer's plan of taking the company mobile. Not only has the company made some serious overhauls to its desktop interfaces such as Yahoo News and Flickr in the last year, but it also acquired numerous apps to redefine the smartphone experience and attract new users.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January, Mayer announced the acquisition of Aviate, a program that takes over your Android by rearranging your homepage with the apps you use the most. So, if you check Yahoo Movies every day, Aviate will put that app, along with similar ones, on your homepage. Many tech experts predict this type of software will boost the company, which has been having a tough time dominating the smartphone market.
Aside from Aviate, other newly acquired apps like Blink and Wander, a social diary platform, show that Yahoo may be trying to up its mobile game by appealing to younger users — a demographic that Yahoo is sorely missing. Not only do young adults tend to pick Gmail over Yahoo Mail, in 2013 none of Yahoo's apps ranked in the Top 100 chart of the iTunes App Store. Meanwhile, younger-appealing apps such as Twitter, Vine and Snapchat all made the cut.
It's not like Yahoo doesn't already have a sizable smartphone reach, but the company still lags behind Google and Facebook. If it's true that teens and young adults are crazy about ephemeral messaging, then an app like Blink could make Yahoo "cool" again and lift its profile among younger users. After all, 79 percent of people between 18 and 44 have their smartphones with them more than 20 hours a day — who better, then, to market to?
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The year has got off to a slow start, the RICS reported this morning.
Sales, new instructions and enquiries all fell during January, and the perennially gloomy RICS said that its member estate agents sensed "little prospect of a turnaround".
While "modestly positive" about the longer term, the RICS said Brexit and high prices were causing sellers and buyers to hesitate.
During January, new buyer enquiries fell for the sixth month running across all parts of the UK, with the exception of Scotland – where demand was flat.
Agreed sales also fell again with the pace of decline gathering momentum.
Prices also continued to slip, with negative readings in London, the south-east, East Anglia and the south-west.
On lettings, the RICS said that tenant demand rose modestly in the three months to January. However, new landlord instructions continued to dwindle for the 11th quarter in a row.
RICS chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said that agents were "continuing to find the market a difficult one in which to do business".
He added: "Resolution of the Brexit negotiations is widely seen as critical to encouraging potential buyers back into the market although whether that will be sufficient in London and parts of the south-east where affordability remains stretched and the tax changes are most penal, remains to be seen."
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Laurel Canyon is different in that it is a wooded community without manicured lawns or any particular vision. The homes are modest in size, streets are narrow, and the neighborhoods are filled with large trees. The area is bounded by Mulholland Drive on the north, Laurel Canyon Blvd. on the east, and the mountain range on the south and west. Laurel Canyon Blvd, Lookout Mountain Ave, Kirkwood, Mulholland Drive, Wonderland Ave, and Sunset Plaza Drive are Laurel Canyon's main roads.
Laurel Canyon is located on the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Area which is one of the largest parks in the county. From any house in the area one can access any of the 6 parks in five minutes: Coldwater Canyon Park, Franklin Canyon Park, Laurel Canyon Park, Fryman Canyon, Runyon Canyon Park, Wilacre Park, and there is also the new Laurel Canyon Dog Park. For those who love the outdoors, hiking and jogging opportunities are plentiful.
The Canyon is situated on top of a giant fold in the earth which was created when the Pacific and North American plates sheared. This east-west fold is what we call the Santa Monica Mountain Range. An understandable concern for residents is land stability. Surprisingly, the Canyon is safer than the flats when it comes to earthquakes, the major concerns for residents should be landslides and topsoil erosion. In the summer, the average high temperature is 84 and the average low is 64.
The pride of the community is The Wonderland School which enrolls gifted and high ability children from all over the Los Angeles Unified School District. Approximately 500 students attend grades K-5th. It is located at the corner of Lookout Mountain and Wonderland Avenues.
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Steve Ditko, cocreator of Spider-Man and creator of Squirrel Girl, has died at age 90. A look at his life and the career of a legendary comic creator.
Why one reader decided to cosplay as her favorite comic book character, even though she doesn't like attention.
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Shannon Hale talks to Book Riot about Real Friends, her new graphic memoir and gives a sneak peak at the next Squirrel Girl novel.
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i had so much fun taking photos of lily's third birthday party. princesses, cake, cinderella, face painting, games! it was such a sweet combination of shy little ones coming together to celebrate their pal, lily. a happy belated birthday to a sweet princess who equally enjoys batman! what a doll.
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As A Child In Indonesia, Obama Ate Dog Meat
They were nice dogs, obedient dogs, however they were dead dogs, killed after having fallen off the roofs of cars driven by Mormon missionaries.
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Robin Gibb Awakens From 12 Day Coma
...but was immediately put back into a coma by Trini Lopez accompanied by a performance artist named Thor doing a visually persuasive version of 'If I Had A Hammer'.
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Peaches Geldof gives birth to son ''Astala'...mother and pup reportedly doing fine!
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Man Utd get double dose of the "Blues"!
Man Utd got a severe double dose of the "Blues" after they looked like a lump of Swiss cheese (remember Basel?) and now the other "Blues" will be laughing all the way to the toothless "Wolves" den!
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"The Special One" pokes Pep in the eye, ouch!
Jose Mourinho, The Special One, is special and only after 2 seasons at Real he has poked Pep and his purist "Barcas" firmly in the eye. Next stop Man Utd? Man City and the rest can then shut up shop!
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The Cat People's SPAY TODAY! Program has gotten a big shot in the arm from the Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation. The BABW Bear Hugs Foundation believes in helping domestic pets by providing, financial support through their grant program for animal welfare, pet rescue, rehabilitation, and therapeutic pet programs. The grants are to be used to prevent pet overpopulation, provide food and medical expenses for animals, and other needs required by pets.
The grants are funded through the sale of their Bearemy's Kennel Pals®. One dollar from the sale of each plush animal in this line is donated through the Build-A-Bear Workshop Bear Hugs Foundation to qualified non-profit(c)(3) organizations working with or on behalf of domestic pets throughout the United States and Canada.
The Cat People organization is extremely grateful to the Foundation for this assistance. Our SPAY TODAY! Program is more than 20 years old, and each month receives many more requests than we can grant. Receiving this infusion of funds will mean that we can immediately provide assistance to financially strapped pet owners wishing to alter their cat. People in need of assistance getting their cat altered can call us at (661) 327-4706, and we will provide assistance while funding from this program lasts.