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You see them mentioned from time to time, for example just the other day there was a post here describing how a charity considers that they are overused. But what exactly are special guardianship orders (SGOs)? I thought it might be useful to write a post explaining the basics of these still slightly unusual 'children' orders.
SGOs are relatively new. They were introduced on the 30th of December 2005 by section 115 of the Adoption and Children act 2002, which inserted a new section 14A into the Children Act 1989. The idea was to add another option to the types of orders available to the courts for dealing with children needing a new home away from their birth parents. They could be used where existing options such as adoption were not appropriate, for example because it was considered appropriate that links with their birth family not be severed, as they would be by adoption.
An SGO is an order appointing one or more individuals to be a child's "special guardian" or "special guardians". The order places the child with the special guardian(s) and gives the special guardian(s) parental responsibility for the child. It enables the special guardian(s) to exercise their parental responsibility to the exclusion of all others with parental responsibility, apart from another special guardian. This means that the special guardian will have responsibility for most decisions relating to the child. Note, however, that unlike adoption an SGO does not take parental responsibility away from the child's birth parents and there are therefore some occasions when the parents must be consulted, for example in connection with a change of the child's surname.
And that really demonstrates the point of an SGO. It is a sort of 'halfway house' between fostering and adoption. On the one hand it does not break the links between the child and its birth parents as an adoption order will usually do, while on the other hand it gives the special guardian(s) the stability of having parental responsibility, which foster parents do not have.
An SGO is also not the same as a child arrangements order stating that the child shall reside with a person. That person would have to share parental responsibility with the birth parents. Further, the birth parents can apply to discharge a child arrangements order, but may only apply to discharge an SGO with the permission of the court. An SGO also lasts longer than a child arrangements order – a child arrangements order usually expires when the child reaches 16, whereas an SGO usually lasts until the child reaches 18. In short, a special guardian is more secure with an SGO than they would be with a child arrangements order.
As that last paragraph indicates, an SGO is not necessarily a permanent arrangement, in the way that an adoption order is intended to be. An SGO can be varied (changed) or discharged (cancelled) at any time before the child reaches 18.
Anyone can apply to be a special guardian, provided that they are aged 18 or over, are not a parent of the child and fall into one of the following categories:
- They are a guardian of the child; or
- They are a local authority foster carer with whom the child has lived for a period of one year directly before the application; or
- They are named in a child arrangements order as a person with whom the child is to live or they have the consent of each of the persons named in the order as a person with whom the child is to live; or
- They have had the child live with them for three of the last five years, and the child has not ceased living with them more than 3 months before the application; or
- The child is in the care of a local authority and they have the consent of the local authority; or
- They have the consent of all those who have parental responsibility for the child; or
- They are a relative with whom the child has lived for a period of at least one year immediately preceding the application; or
- Anyone else with the permission of the court.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, there is some concern that SGOs are being made too often. I'm afraid I'm not qualified to comment upon that, but they are, as I've said, another option available to the courts, for use in appropriate circumstances.


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On September 2nd it was back to Hogwarts Day
It's a special day when all of the wizarding students take that very famous train back to their beloved school.
Just like those very famous Hogwarts students, I find myself here in Edinburgh Scotland where one of my favorite book friends began. J. K. Rowling use to live in this area and would write in the local eateries and coffee shops. Not only that but she took a lot of inspiration from her surroundings and they found their way into Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In Scotland and the rest of the UK it's known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.
Just like Harry Potter, I find myself completely enamored with the area. It draws me in and says, "come explore further." I simply can't resist. Each time I come to Edinburgh I find myself having a "Harry Potter Day." In each place I've discovered my own little corners to daydream and create in. I find a quiet inside and allow myself to become charmed.
I've created this little guide incase you too should find yourself in Edinburgh and just happen to like Harry Potter as much as I do.
The first stop is where the first draft of Harry Potter was written.
Spoon Cafe and Restaurant
It's a great little place to curl up with a book, and some wonderful eats. When JK Rowling was writing Harry it use to be called Nicholson's. There is another more famous eatery which also has the Harry Potter claim to fame. You have to be a true fan and in the know to know about the Spoon Cafe. It is one of my favorite places in Edinburgh and I go here every time I'm in the city.
6A Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DH, UK
Here's the other famous Harry Potter cafe I told you about…… Elephant House.
This is the second place JKR use to write Harry Potter. All of the edits were done here. You have to wait in line to get in which gives one a good time to view the menu. It's a full menu complete with great meals and wonderful sweets. Just before 2 o'clock or around 3 are good times to go here. The lines aren't long. Anytime before or after that the lines are horrendous. The painted sign in the window claims they are the "Birth Place of Harry Potter" and indeed they are.
A little cafe law never hurt anyone !!
There is a 3 hour cafe law in Edinburgh. You have to purchase something, such as coffee, tea, food etc, from the time you're served the clock starts ticking. After 3 hours any cafe or restaurant can kick you out no matter how many things you've purchased. Edinburgh is a UNESCO heritage protected site as the world's most literary city. It probably works hand in hand with writers sitting everywhere taking up tables writing.
Harry Potter Scavenger Hunt Anyone?
Greyfriars Cemetery
If you make a right hand turn coming out of the Elephant House and walk down one block, Greyfriars Pub is on the right hand side of the street and behind that is the cemetery.
JK Rowling would often times walk in this cemetery either going to or coming from the White Elephant.
The names on the tombstones inspired some of her more known characters. Time for a little scavenger hunt. See if you can find the following names:
Thomas Riddell (There's actually loads of notes, flowers etc here. You shouldn't have a problem finding it)
William McGonagall ( Professor McGonagall)
Elizabeth Moodie (Mad-eye Moodie)
Anne Potter
Grizel Arbuthnut
Daniel Scrymceour
I have to share that I have been in many a cemetery but Greyfriar is one of those very imaginative places that could make one truly believe in haunted places and spaces. It is both exquisitely beautiful and creepy all at the same time. It is also one of the cemeteries that has the greatest sense of humor. There use to be a little dog referred to Greyfriars Bobby who sat on his owner's grave for 14 years. The caretakers of the cemetery also took care of the dog. Both caretakers are buried in the cemetery as well. On one of the tombstones there is this very long epitaph saying how well he took care of this little dog. In smaller print at the bottom of the tombstone it reads, "buried somewhere near here. " 🙂 I chuckled a bit to myself.
George Heriot School
Come out of the cemetery the way you came in. When you get to the street make a right. Go to the next corner which is rounded. Follow it around and you'll see this cool looking school called the George Heriot School. This is the school which inspired Hogwarts.
Candlemaker Row
Retrace your steps from the George Heriot School and head back toward Greyfriars pub. Pass the pub on your left and go down the hill. When you get to the end of the street look up. You'll be seeing the back of Elephant House. JK Rowling use to write on the third floor of this building.
If you continue you on this sidewalk to the left you'll find yourself in a large square in the center of the road surrounded by big buildings on either side. This is known as Grassmarket. There are many Harry Potter inspirations here.
Directly across from you will be a pub named Maggie Dickson's Pub. There is a gruesome tale to this one which I'll tell you in person. This story inspired Nearly Headless Nick.
Harry Potter Mural
Victoria Street
Standing in the square facing Maggie Dickson's Pub you'll see a street that is going up and has many-colored houses on it. This is known as Victoria Street and is the inspiration for Diagon Alley. Nowadays there are lots of Harry Potter inspired things with their own personal flare to them such as a witches store, an antique book store and many really fun shops.
While walking down the street that inspired Diagon Alley, I discovered a new shop called Diagon House. It's so popular that they have a waiting line to get into the shop. It's a wonderful two-story shop filled with so many curiosities from all 7 Harry Potter books. Want to know if you're the stuff wizards are made of , be sure and get measured.
Balmoral Hotel
Way down the Royal Mile, make a left onto North bridge and this will take you to the Balmoral Hotel. It's by Waverly Station. This is the hotel that JK Rowling finished the Harry Potter series in. She couldn't get any peace at home with 3 kids and 3 barking dogs and a husband. She thought ,"I can throw money at this problem." She rented room 652 for two years and would go there and write. It became her writing office and space. There is now a note in that room which reads," JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11th January 2007." The note leans against a bust of Hermes, the god of writing.
So it's here what has become known as a "Harry Potter Day." I take great comfort in it as I pass these places coming and going. Spending time here with my own creations and sharing happy moments with family and friends.
May your books open doors to wandering paths and may you find them always.-Author Valarie Budayr
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Robert Connor Dawes Foundation donates money in Pippa Rea's name
The Warrnambool community has donated more than $40,000 towardscancer research in Pippa Rea's name.
Pippa was 11-years-old when she died from a rare, incurable brainstem tumour in March 2015. Her Warrnambool-based family donated the tumor to the Royal Children's Hospital Tumour Tissue Bank.
Mum Virginia Rea said 100 tissue vials, DNA strands, Ribonucleic acid and a live cell line were generated, allowing for multiple opportunities for global collaboration and research. Pippa's cell line has been shared through Sydney, Melbourne, USA and Canada.
The Robert Connor Dawes Foundation donated the money in Pippa's name. Director Liz Dawes said was a genuine way to make a difference, thanking the public. "The only ways we're going to make breakthroughs in research is to use the samples and find out what's going to work to have them to not be fatal," Mrs Dawes said.
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What a fantastic Iydea for dinner!
You might think of Iydea as a café, serving lunch – cafeteria style. This is certainly true of the Kensington Garden's branch, which for many years now, has been every hungry Brightonian's answer to a hearty, veggie lunch, quick-smart!
However, since expanding and opening the Western Road branch, with its extended opening hours, it means you can now enjoy Iydea's award winning food at any meal time!
The vibe is the same: show casing all the main meals, sides and sauces behind glass, customers queuing and viewing, before choosing what they might like to munch.
The restaurant is modern, but rustic, with lots of wood, evoking a feeling of nature and good honest grub, which is basically what Iydea is all about.
In addition, it is a vegetarian only restaurant / café, which does wonders for your conscience, as well as your digestion! And before you meat loving, burger guzzling, carnivorous diners, write this place off…I guarantee, you will not miss the meat!!
There's something great about being able to see your food before you choose it.
Menus can only go so far in persuading you towards a certain dish, because let's face it, it's not until your meal arrives that you really know if you've made the right choice! Being able to choose my meal based on the way it looks and not how it sounds, is a welcomed change.
Joining the queue at the glass, deliberating over the selection, reminds a bit of my school days. Then I notice the variety and the vibrancy of this food – it suffices to say: it is nothing like school dinners! Making a decision is going to be hard; maybe this is why restaurants use menus?
The queue forming behind me forces my hand. My partner has taken the lead, so I make sure my choices differ from his and confidently make my selection.
The premise at Iydea is a simple one. Start at one end, pick your main, choose two sides from the vegetables and salads, and finally two sauces. The mains change on a daily basis, although you will find some favourites making reappearances throughout the week.
Today's menu boasts the following: chilli bean enchiladas, goat's cheese arancini, roast vegetable lasagne, Thai corn fritters, leak and Wesleydale sausages, broccoli and Brie quiche, vegetable Dhansak and re-fried bean roti.
From this wonderful array of vegetarian dishes, fresh, tempting and ready to eat, I pick sausages, while my partner opts for the Thai fritters. The sides look equally as appetizing: chickpeas, pearl barley, fresh veg, slaw, purees, potatoes, salad and more.
The striking colours of the sauces pop from behind the glass; I am not entirely sure what each one is, but they all look great!
If you are intrigued about the ingredients, do not fear, each one of these spectacular dishes, side sand sauces has a detailed description, clearly pinned above it.
Furthermore, if you have certain dietary requirements, Iydea offer you a helping hand by noting if the dish is gluten free (GF), vegan friendly (V), or even if there is a vegan option available (VO).
After paying for our meals and selecting a drink to accompany them, we take our seats by the window and take in the atmosphere. There is a steady flow of new diners coming in and out, some grabbing a take away on their way home from work, others eating in: alone or with friends. Iydea is the perfect place to stop for quick and healthy dinner.
Here you would not feel self-conscious dining on your own; equally, you don't feel out of place settling in for a few hours, with a glass of wine – like we are tonight. A restaurant and a café in harmony.
Our meals are great; our plates are full! My sausages are delicious: meat-free but somehow meaty. They are just as good as some of the top quality meat sausages I have had in the past. The gravy they are served with is thick and complimentary.
My sides of chilli broccoli – which retains its bite – and pearly barley with olives, pepper and red onion, add a brilliant freshness to my plate.
The sauces, one of which is recommended by the girl who serves me, add extra levels of flavour still. I have chosen a salsa and pickled beetroot; when I team this pickle with a chunk of sausage on my fork, I find my magic mouthful!
My partner's Thai corn fritter comes on a skewer covered in a peanut, satay inspired sauce and is served on rice. Like the sausages, the sweet potato and chickpea fritter is filling and packed with flavour. To accompany this, he has the carrot and coriander puree – cooked in coconut oil – along with the red cabbage slaw.
Both sides are beautifully bright and sweet and make perfect partners for the fritter. His sweet chilli sauce adds a kick and the garlic and coriander yet more colour and intensity. We wash all this down with a large glass of white wine and bottled local pale ale.
Dessert is ordered at the counter, although it is not on display. There is plenty to choose from, with many vegan options. We decide to try the vegan panna cotta, a dessert traditionally made with cream and egg whites, as it sparks a certain intrigue.
The other pud is picked because an apple tarte tatin will be warm and comforting, on this cold and wet evening. Both arrive as beautifully presented as each other, bought to our table by a member of staff.
My coconut, lime and coriander panna cotta is an interesting flavour combination, but not the constancy I am used to.
The light, almost jelly like nature of panna cotta, seems to get lost in its transition to a vegan dessert.
However, the big slice of chilli infused whiskey soaked pineapple is glorious and really livens up this dish. The tarte tatin – served with dairy free ice cream – is flaky, syrupy and sweet. Surprisingly, this time, the absence of dairy makes no difference to the flavour or creaminess of the ice cream. This dessert gets top marks!
At the time of writing this review, Iydea is awarded Gold for 'Best Café' and Silver for 'Best Takeaway', at the Brighton Food and Drink Awards, which illustrates perfectly just how great this place is. I too would highly recommend Iydea for a hearty, super tasty lunch or dinner; whether you are vegetarian or not, this food is sure to satisfy any diner.
I immensely enjoy every visit I make to Iydea; personally, I just don't see how this could be done any better!


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Introduction Generatepress Smart Slider
Within the past 10 years, I have used a lot of different WordPress themes and have been really disappointed. Up till recently, I had been utilizing MyThemeShop, that was pretty good. But I had to perform a great deal of customization to allow it to do and operate how I wanted it to. A few of weeks ago I decided to provide GeneratePress a try, and let me just say, it's by far the best WordPress theme I have discovered in 10 years. I was blown away and am moving all of my sites to GeneratePress. I will go into precisely why in my comprehensive GeneratePress review below. And if you are wondering, yes I have tried Genesis, Astra, OceanWP, Avada, X theme, Divi as well as many other lightweight and heavier multi-purpose themes. Generatepress Smart Slider
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GeneratePress is a free WordPress theme created by Tom Usborne, a developer from Canada. I have really seen it for many years from the WordPress repository. Most of you realize that I'm pretty picky when it comes to web performance, so I have a tendency to dismiss everything in the repository. Typically because a lot of stuff on there is not that good, or not supported for long. However, in this case, that was a mistake. The theme now has more than half a million downloads, 80,000+ busy installs, with over 500 5-star evaluations. So obviously Tom is doing some thing right here.
I Really set up the free version of the motif and in a matter of 15 minutes bought the premium version. I could tell right off the bat, the developer was thinking exactly how I was envisioning a theme should work. And I will go into that more below, but let us first look at some of the qualities. I'm going to be covering the superior edition of the subject, since it's worth . In fact, Tom, if you ever read this and so are seeing Scottsdale, Arizona, coffees on me.
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It also works great with the popular fast-growing Elementor page builder. If you want to dive into even more customizations, these really are a terrific combo. I've also read that people using Beaver Builder have had success.
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Diving Into GeneratePress
Now it is Time to the fun part! I test a new theme right from the box without any customizations to just see how fast the foundation is. This tells me a great deal of what I can expect by the time that I add everything for this. Running the stock GeneratePress WordPress theme on Kinsta hosting clocked in at a whopping 265 ms load time. I was very impressed.
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This is a programmer that cares about performance! And I have Seen exactly the same throughout all the premium add-ons. They are literally as small as you can possibly get them. In fact, Font Awesome is most likely the biggest file contained. And that is not even his. Together with Font Awesome 5 coming around the cornerwe can expect that to get smaller also.
The premium add-ons Are installation in what I'd call a modular design. You can activate/deactivate whatever you are not using to guarantee they do not load on your website. Since the co-developer of the perfmatters plugin that has a script manager built, I felt at home with this. Everything should be designed this way.
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One of The best features of GeneratePress is I no more need to use a Child theme. This makes my life much simpler. No more editing my functions.php or header.php files. I will literally upgrade my GeneratePress motif this exact moment and not lose a single customization. The hooks add-on definitely can help make it possible. It permits you to add custom code/PHP everywhere throughout your WordPress site. Generatepress Smart Slider
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The WordPress customizer options is really where GeneratePress really shines! Remember, lots of these choices are enabled by the premium add-ons. I can not show you everything, otherwise, we would be here daily. But allow me to show you few which actually come in handy.
Responsive Columns
Another Plugin I highly suggest grabbing is your free Lightweight Grid Columns. Not to my surprise, this can be created by the same programmer as GeneratePress. It allows you a super simple way to incorporate responsive columns to any page or post. Features include:
Desktop grid thickness
Tablet grid thickness
Mobile grid thickness
Add Customized courses
Insert custom inline styles
Equal height columns
Here is An example below:
You May Want to Also catch his incredible WP Show Posts plugin too. View my featured articles on the sidebar of this website? That's using the WP Show Posts plugin. I have it set to show posts from a specific"featured" category. You might also have it show past modified/updated posts, recent articles, etc.. I'm using the free version and it works terrific.
To Begin, Click here to download GeneratePress.
Sections Add-on
The Sections add-on in the premium version of GeneratePress lets you perform all kinds of things concerning design. Think of it like a page builder with no bloat. GeneratePress is certainly not just for blogs! I am in reality using GeneratePress for our ecommerce website (perfmatters.io) that is running Easy Digital Downloads. Feel free to check it out. However, as you can see below, it looks nothing like a blog.
Speed Tests
For those Of those who are regular readers, you likely did not even notice that I changed the entire motif that forces woorkup.com. It only took me about an hour for GeneratePress to mimic my MyThemeShop motif that I had spent annually customizing. Here is a comparison under.
woorkup.com Old MyThemeShop Theme
My old MyThemeShop theme was already pretty fast, but I spent a great deal of time customizing it. In fact, I have gotten a lot of emails from you guys asking me to publish all my customizations. My advice today is, just get GeneratePress!
woorkup.com New GeneratePress Theme
With the New GeneratePress theme I was able to achieve faster speeds and 600 fewer lines of code! And keep in mind, I don't have a kid motif. Each of the customizations were made using the awesome GP hooks and snippets plugin (both CSS and PHP).
Like the WordPress theme I have working on woorkup? You're in luck. Tom asked if he could create a replica of woorkup to your brand new GeneratePress blog library. I am happy to allow you to know that now you can install my woorkup motif on your GeneratePress site with only a click! It is called the Marketer theme. Get started using a great blog layout instantly.
brianjackson.io Old Array Theme's Theme
I also Moved over my personal website, brianjackson.io, to GeneratePress. Previously I was using a theme from Array Themes. It is a fairly basic minimum site, as I don't use it for much. Since you can see it already loaded pretty fast.
brianjackson.io New GeneratePress Theme
I had been Able to duplicate the entire look 100 percent in GeneratePress in under an hour. And as you can see it loads faster! Amazing. I was able to eliminate a few plugins which weren't needed because of GP.
forgemedia.io Old Array Theme's Theme
Additionally, I Moved over our business site, forgemedia.io, to GeneratePress. Previously I was using a motif from Array Themes. It's a pretty basic minimum site, as we just use it for our LLC. Since you can see it already loaded pretty fast. Generatepress Smart Slider
forgemedia.io New GeneratePress Theme
I had been Able to again move everything over and get it looking exactly how I needed it in under an hour. And since you can see it loads faster! Amazing. I was able to get rid of a total of four plugins and it dropped my whole page weight 2x!
I can not express my Excitement about finding GeneratePress and I am moving over all my sites to it (which includes some EDD e-commerce websites ). Once I've got my 9 sites all running in GP with no child themes, my entire life will be a breeze! The developer has revived my faith in multi-purpose themes, and that when done the right way, can actually perform quicker.
And The best news is, I now have a thousand more options to choose from than I did before.
What GeneratePress Is Great For…
GeneratePress Is the ideal option for performance-focused users that wish to be able to customize and control precisely how their site looks.
You Can make GeneratePress do pretty much anything. And because GeneratePress has a focus on functionality, the website that you build will have a fantastic base to make it load quickly.
Because Of that, those who assemble WordPress sites for a living love GeneratePress. They will normally pair it with a WordPress page builder and use it for literally any kind of site.
However GeneratePress Might Not Be A Good Fit If…
…you Need something which will immediately appear perfect from the box.
For Example, if you realize you want to create a style blog, you may be happier choosing a niche theme that is developed exclusively for fashion bloggers.
While GeneratePress has gotten a lot easier to use, as a result of its pre-built Site Library, GeneratePress still seems very barebones when you first install it.
So To create GeneratePress look how you would like it to, you will almost certainly need to go in and personalize things. And while the significant benefit of GeneratePress is how customizable it is, many users, particularly casual users, do not like having to make those changes themselves.
GeneratePress Features That Make It Unique
Here Are a few of the particular features that explain why GeneratePress is so common.
Lots Of Customization Options From The Real-Time WordPress Customizer
Beyond Performance, another place where GeneratePress does well is its customization choices.
GeneratePress Utilizes the WordPress Customizer for customization, which can be convenient as you will have the ability to see all of the changes that you make in real time.
The Free version of GeneratePress provides you decent possibilities, but should you have GeneratePress Premium, you'll be able to customize pretty much all about your website.
For Example, if you go in the Layout area, you can configure detailed settings to your:
- Header — you can move your header around and change its own styling
- Navigation — GeneratePress gives you two different navigation options, including sticky menus
- Sidebar design — you can use a Couple of sidebars
- Blog post layout — like featured image size, metadata, etc..
- Footer layout — just like how many widgets to add
Likewise, The Typography area enables you to control the font for every single element on your site, including buttons:
And You also receive a thorough region to control the color of every single element on your site.
All In all, GeneratePress will give you a lot more customization choices from the WordPress Customizer compared to most other topics. This level of detail may be a bit overwhelming if you are a newcomer. But once you understand how the settings come together, you will have complete control on how your website appears.
Optimized Performance And Fast Page Load Times
Around All its attributes, GeneratePress consistently has a focus on excellent performance and tidy code. The entire theme is less than 30 kB, which will be about as little as you'll ever find for a WordPress theme. Even most other optimized WordPress topics are still 200+ kB. And a few poorly coded topics can even surpass 1 MB!
GeneratePress Also does not have any code dependencies, which will help you avoid the leave obstructing error that Google Pagespeed Insights often mentions.
Put That collectively, and you get a superfast-loading motif. How fast? To give you a sense, I ran a small test.
First, I set up a vacant website using a haphazard popular WordPress.org motif (Envo Magazine). After analyzing its functionality with Pingdom, it:
- Had a performance tier of 77
- Loaded in 1.05 moments
- Had a page size of 243.9 kB
- Had 15 requests
That is Not bad at all! However, GeneratePress can perform.
Next, I triggered GeneratePress on the exact same test site without altering anything else. Here's how GeneratePress did:
- Had a performance grade of 87, 10 points greater
- Loaded in 666 ms, ~37% quicker
- Had a page size of 26.8 kB, ~90% smaller
- Had 9 requests, ~40% less
If You do that same test with different topics, you'll continue to find that GeneratePress is one of the fastest-loading WordPress topics in existence. Generatepress Smart Slider
Other Useful Premium Extensions, Plus Much Modular Approach
Past Giving you more style controls in the WordPress Customizer, GeneratePress Premium comes with a lot of other helpful features such as:
- Elements — a unique feature that allows you create custom hooks, page headers, or layout templates.
- Page Header — lets you create a unique page header on a per-page basis.
- Sections — that is kind of like lightweight page building. It lets you create different"sections" on a page, each with their own design and column settings.
To Remain lightweight, GeneratePress also gives you a modular interface where you can select and choose what features you would like to activate.
That Way, you don't need to slow your site down for a quality which you're never going to use.
Pre-Made Starter Sites Make It Easier To Design Your Site
In The past, you needed to construct GeneratePress websites from a blank canvas regardless of what, which left the motif difficult for casual users to install.
Earlier In 2018, though, the developer added a new Website Library feature for GeneratePress Premium users which lets you easily import any one of the 25+ pre-built demo sites.
You Can import them directly from your WordPress dashboard.
Yes this Website still uses GeneratePress! All I did was click on a few buttons to import a demo site.
Page-Level Settings Give You Comprehensive Control Over Every Bit Of Content
With Most topics, every page and post will use the very same settings for the most part. You might have some custom templates or formats — however you don't have very much control beyond that.
GeneratePress Changes that by providing you a new Design meta name box for each and every post and page:
You Can utilize this meta box to:
- Change how many sidebars your site uses, or the sidebar orientation (like changing the sidebar from right to left)
- Choose how many footer widgets to utilize
- Disable certain elements, like your header, navigation menu, post featured image, post title, or footer
- Create a special"container" to your page builder
Where These controls are the most helpful is if you are using a WordPress page builder.
By Disabling certain components, you're in a position to create the proper baseline for your page builder layout, which makes it effortless to create custom content as needed. Generatepress Smart Slider
GeneratePress Replies: Cheap And Works On Unlimited Sites
The Core GeneratePress motif can be obtained at no cost at WordPress.org.
That said, If you're serious about using GeneratePress, I feel you need to purchase the GeneratePress Premium plugin, as that is what makes the theme so flexible. The free version does not give you almost as many settings in the WordPress Customizer. And you will also miss out on the premade Site Library.
GeneratePress Premium can be still fairly reasonably priced. It costs just $39.95, which gives you use on infinite sites. You will also get a 40% discount if you would like to renew to keep on receiving support and updates following the initial year (you can, of course, continue using GeneratePress following the initial year without renewing — you won't receive any more upgrades ).
When You consider the normal premium WordPress theme will usually cost around $60, GeneratePress offers a fantastic value.
As I mentioned, I don't believe GeneratePress is for everyone.
If You want a niche-specific theme, you can probably save time by buying a theme that satisfies your requirements for your market from day one.
However, If you're ready to spend some time altering preferences, then GeneratePress' style controls give you the flexibility to flip it into any type of WordPress site. Or, you might even have the ability to locate a starter website that fulfills your needs to save some time.
Additionally, It's one of those fastest-loading WordPress topics you will find. So if you're seeking the best performance possible, utilizing GeneratePress as your WordPress site's foundation is a good decision.
If You combine it with fast-loading hosting, you should have no problem making your site load in under one minute. Generatepress Smart Slider
To Begin, Click here to download GeneratePress.


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Macular Hole
What is a macular hole?
A macular hole is a small break in the macula. Macula is the central area of the retina that is responsible for central vision such as reading, driving, and seeing fine details.
Our eye's interior is filled with vitreous, a gel-like substance that fills about 80% of the eye and helps maintain its round shape. As we age, the vitreous slowly shrinks and pulls away from the retina. This is normal and some people may experience this as "floaters" or black spots in their vision.
However, if the vitreous is firmly attached to the retina when it pulls away, it can tear the retina at the macular area and create a macular hole. Macular hole can also occur in people with high myopia, a history of injury to the eye or trauma, and retinal detachment.
What are the symptoms?
- Gradual distortion or blurriness in the central part of the vision
- Dark or grey blindspots (scotomas) in the middle part of the vision
- Reduced vision which makes performing routine tasks such as reading difficult
How is it diagnosed?
A comprehensive eye examination will be conducted to confirm the diagnosis. This includes OCT and retinal photography, and fluorescein angiography may also be needed to determine the extent of the damage to the macula and retina.
How can it be treated?
In many cases, vitrectomy surgery is necessary to help improve vision. It involves removing the vitreous gel that is pulling on the macula and replacing it with a fluid that is similar to the fluid produced in the eye. The eye is then filled with a special gas that stays in the eye and slowly dissolves over a few weeks. The gas forms an air bubble that gently presses on the hole and encourages new tissue to heal the hole.
Following surgery, patients must remain in a face-down position for a few days to allow the bubble to press against the macula. Maintaining the face-down position is crucial for a successful vision recovery.
Visual outcome also depends on how long the macular hole has been present before the surgery.
The chances of getting a macula hole in the other eye are 10-15%. Therefore it is important to have your regular eye examination with your retina specialist.


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High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) has today announced the five coaches who are joining a programme aimed at increasing New Zealand's pool of world-class coaches.
HPSNZ is working with national sport organisations to accelerate the development of coaches, so that they are capable of producing World, Olympic and Paralympic Champions.
HPSNZ Chief Executive Alex Baumann says coaching is his number one priority, because of the essential role coaches' play.
"When you have the best coaches in the world leading programmes which are focused on the athletes, then you have the critical ingredients for success,'' Baumann says.
The five coaches who make up the fourth intake to the Coach Accelerator programme are:
Coach Accelerator is a three-year professional development programme aimed at increasing New Zealand's pool of world-class coaches. During the three years, the coaches receive individualised professional development programmes, which include access to coaching mentors, high performance athletes and support personnel, as well as experts from various high performance environments.
The content of the programme is split between developing skills and practical coaching. The focus in the first two years of the programme is on professional development, while in year three the focus is on applied learning with high performance athletes.
The Coach Accelerator Programme began in 2009 with an initial group of six coaches, and there have been intakes every year since then.
The coaches who formed the first intake to the Coach Accelerator Programme and recently graduated are: Dayle Cheatley (bike), Mike Hesson (cricket), Steve Hansen (rugby), Dave Thompson (rowing), Tom Willmott (winter sports), and Yvette McCausland Durie (netball). You can hear about their experiences on the programme by clicking here.
The coaches who started the programme in 2010 are: Scott Talbot (swimming), Tim Brazier (triathlon), Mark Stallard (rowing), Grant Bradburn (cricket), Gary Stead (cricket) and Justin Grace (bike).
The coaches who made up the 2011 intake are: Gary Hay (rowing), Janine Southby (netball), Erik Duvander (equestrian), Darren Smith (hockey), and Gordon Walker (flatwater canoe).
For more information please go here - www.hpsnz.org.nz.


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My Dreams are what define who IAM, and what IAM, so my Dreams started before I was Born, at the Moment I was conceived, although I did not remember many dreams before the age of 1, I do remember I had them, and even memories to go with them, so Dreams are something I have had all my Life, and that is why I can not assume that everyone has the same Dreams I have, I can tale you that I do feel they are important, because I have read many people throughout time that have written stories about their Dreams about Pyramids, and I read these stories at such a young age, it is hard to know if that is why I had the same Dreams, till one day I remember having one of those Dreams way before I read about other Peoples Dreams, it was then I was sure that these Dreams meant something to me, if they meant so much to others, and Isaac Newton was just two examples, because my Cousins Dreams were like Sir Isaac Newton's in many ways, for one, Sir Isaac Newton always saw himself as Jesus in His-Story, my Cousin was always Moses, and I was always looking at it from the viewpoint of a White Wizard with a Dog, only I was the Dog and not the Wizard, from a young age this White Wizard was an old man with long White Hair and Beard and looks a lot like me nowadays, maybe even a whole lot older, I will not know until the day I die, which in my Dreams is always when I get hit by Lightning, but that already happened, the Meteorite that hit me in the head hurt more, and I lost as much memory, but did not remember as much from the hit by Lightning, the Meteorite knocked some sense into me, the Lightning showed me the Path, I just can not remember what roads I took to get there, so I lost me way back.
Not everyone puts much thought into Dreams, but if people have been having these same Dreams all throughout History, then maybe that is why they put them in the Bible to begin with, why else would they tale a Story about a Society of humans who did not believe in Money or Barter, because the Dark Wizard Moses destroyed the Pyramids and all their Technology just for Gold that he would use to make Money, and then Jesus comes along and wants to rebuild the Pyramids that the Arab thieves had plundered to build their substandard homes and defacing the Pyramids at the same time, because Money was all they cared about, and in the end they murdered Jesus to shut him up about what happened during the time of Moses, because people were starting to worship the story about Moses, and Jesus said that Moses was the one who enslaved people with the use of Money and Laws, and Moses did not believe in the Light of God, Moses believed that God was a Spirit that existed in the Technology he possessed, which was the Staff of Power, but other Wizards had this same technology, only Moses knew how to use the Power for Evil, so His-Story is right out of the Bible, its only from the viewpoint of looking at things from the Lightside of the Darkside does this become obvious, dreams are real when they are happening, it feels like you are there, because in your mind you are, because the Galattice is Dream Land for every Life-Form in the Universe, you can get lost in your Dreams, and it is only in your ability to distinguish between what is real when you are awake, to what was just a Dream, or even worse would be if you believed a Theory was Reality, because then you would be lost forever, and the same is true if you believe that God is a Deity or Spirit, not really sure what that even means to tale you the truth, because in all my Dreams God is always Real.
During the Gulf War I wrote about my Dreams and how I started to Dream I was awake, so I can no longer tale the difference between being awake or dreaming, and that is called Schizoaffective, do not confuse that with Schizophrenia which is the inability to distinguish between Dreams and being awake, because when I am awake I hear so much noise in my Head I can not Sleep, so the other way around is no problem for me, but this is my dilemma, when I am Dreaming I know I can never think of certain things, so I do not think of them when I am awake, so for example, I can sit for hours without going to the bathroom, and unless I am using Cannabis, I never feel like going, it is normally just a stomach ache that gets me to do that, and that alters my Dream States as well, because I have no REM Sleep, my brain is always trying to make this up when I am awake, so some normal responses like thinking about going to bathroom would make me wet the bed when I was 1 or 2 I think, so at a young age I decided to put it out of my mind, so when I am dreaming, I never think about going to the bathroom for any reason, because unless I know I am awake, which means I must acknowledge that I do not hear Tinnitus while I am sleeping, because that always wakes me up and then I can not get back to sleep, so I never listen to what Sound is going on in my head, so I never listen to the noise in my head no matter how load it is, not easy to do when you are awake, its much easier when I am asleep, other than that, I can not tale that I am asleep until I wake up, so I never do anything in my Dreams that I would not do in real life, and it why I have such a hard time telling the two apart, so if I dream I am staring at the ceiling, or off into space, I have no idea if I am just Dreaming that I am doing that, or if I am awake, and I am actually doing it, so no matter where I am, when I doze off to sleep, I take in that reality, and bringing it into my Dream Reality, and often wake up with things from my Dream Reality mixed in with my awake Reality, which makes me have to reset my Reality, shaking it off so to speak, so I had to find ways to change my Reality when awake, so now that I started using Hearing Aids, it reminds me that I am awake, and Newton did not have that option, he had thoughts he was never able to coup with, so we all have our Nightmares, mine is to never hear that Tinnitus, because then I know that I am Dreaming and can not wake up, and this happens far to often, so my Dreams take over and I can Fly and do things I can not do when I am awake, so I started to enjoy these Nightmares, and people would tale me these were Dreams not Nightmares, and that confused me, when did Nightmares become Dreams, because I thought Dreams were supposed to be Fun and Nightmares Scary, and the kind of Flying I do is always scary, and then that started happening when I was awake, only I was really flying in Helicopters and other aircraft, and I one day I wondered what it would feel like to just walk out the door, and someone got up and walked out the door just like it was their bus stop, and memories like that are hard to get over, you realize that could have been you, and that could have been because this is a Dream, so you remember it like it was a Dream, so it becomes a Nightmare and never really happened, so you start to wonder what is a Dream and what is a Nightmare and how do you tale the difference between them if you can not hear the noise, I can see the noise but I can not hear it, and when I am awake, I can hear the noise so loud I can not stand it, so my dreams effect the way I think and the way I write, but does it mean just because this was all in a Dream that it is not Real?
Isaac Newton said that in his Dreams he came up with all the Math we used to this day, so is that Math Real?
Theories can also be from Dreams, and most theories were dreamed up, and some people do have the same dreams, so why is it that I have had the same dreams of others? Is it because I know they have had them and I can somehow choose what I Dream of, because I know I can do that, but I know I also have to behave the same way I do when I am awake, because of the off time (not often) I get confused between the two realities, so in my mind there is no difference till I wake up or go to sleep, and theories are the same way, but they may only work in your Dreams and not in your Reality, but as I said, my Reality is always based on my Dreams and My Dreams are always based on Reality and I act the same in both Realities so the outcome is always the same, I only defy the laws of physics in my Nightmares, so I have no delusion about the two or any conflicts, so Dream's tale a lot about a person, and so does their Nightmares, because I would only do things in my dreams that I would do in Reality, Nightmares are things I would never do when I am awake, so I would never confuse a Theory with Reality, but that is not true for most people, and I think it has something to do with these dreams and it is why I am writing about them now, because I need to keep my Theories that do not work in my Reality out of my Reality, because Science Fiction is a Nightmare, and it is why I like watching it during my Reality, so I will not have Nightmares when I go to sleep, because if there is one thing I can say is that I hate it when I can not remember if it was a Dream, a Nightmare or a Reality, because unless I can remember what sound was in my Head, I have no way of knowing which one it is, and that can drive you insane, and it is why I say that believing that Theories are Facts is a Nightmare, and that people who believe they are Dreaming, because in Reality the Universe may not work that way, but I know for a fact that My Dreams and Reality both work the same, its just my Nightmares that most people try to convince me are just my Dreams, are what theories are to me, which are things that can not happen in Reality, and Time slowing down as I approach the speed of Light is one of them, because in my Dreams I can Fly at the Speed of Light, because that is how fast this Planet I live on travels through the Universe at the Subatomic level, and if I turn on a flashlight, the Light will still travel at the speed of Light away from me, so it works in both Realities the same way, time does not slow down its always in the moment, its like when you are scared or some event causes time to slow down, but you do not actually age any different, even though it might have taken years off your age, reality has to be defined by what is actually happening, and I hope no one actually feels this way, because even if we actually could fly at twice the speed of Light, which is what we are really talking about, since we are already traveling at the speed of Light, since that is why Light travels this fast to begin with, because the Universe does not move, nor does the Light or Energy, so we move through the Universe in the Direction the Light is pointing, knowing this we know that the ratio of the Frequency times the Wavelength is equal to the speed of Light, if the Earth at rest is already traveling at the speed of Light, then Light can not travel any faster, so turning on a flashlight would not logically seem like it would move when you think about it, think about it like a fishing line, you hook the Universe when you turn the Flashlight on, it grabs the fabric the Universe is made of, meaning the 0 Dimension, and regardless of how fast you are driving in a car, flying in a spacecraft, even if you could travel twice the speed of Light, the Logic and Reason behind this concept in terms of differences the human brain could detect, from your prescriptive, the line could not feed out any faster because that is as fast as anything can travel through the Universe, because all Atom's turn to Light at that Speed and this is how fast Light Travels, because if we reverse the view and look at it like the Universe is moving, and we are standing still, which is what it feels like, which is not reality, that is a Dream, because in reality I know that this Planet is spinning over a thousand mile an hour, an is traveling at an average of 666,666.666 miles an hour as its orbiting the Galaxy, and the Galaxy is traveling at Millions of miles an hour compared to other Galaxies: that are traveling at the Speed of Light, and beyond, so we need to know our Limits, so do not ever forget that just because it feels like we are not moving, we are moving faster than we can imagine, that is a fact and not a theory, and why anyone would come up with a theory that Time would Slow down has no concept of Reality, because we would be seeing Light distortions if that was true, because Galaxies far away seem be moving at twice the speed of Light, and yet they appear to not be moving, but I see no time dilatation or streaks of Light if Einstein was right which proves he was wrong, because the speed of an object traveling through the Universe is governed by the laws of physics, and those laws are absolute, so keep your Dreams Real and your Theories Real, Energy can only travel at a known frequency to wavelength ratio, and it most always add up the speed of Light, so never allow faster than Light Theories to be considered anything but Science Fiction, or your whole Universe will fall apart in a Nightmare that will never end, so keep Science Real.
My Dreams and my Day Dreams are not the same, I day-dream about what I am doing while I am doing it, its much more efficient that way, because sometimes I can not stop my day dreams, since I do not have enough REM Sleep, regardless of if I get No REM Sleep, at best I get very Low REM Sleep, so my mind is constantly trying to dream, so why not let it, and continue what I am doing, as long as it is not dangerous, it would be stupid to do that if I was driving, and anyone that has ever done that when they were writing, wake up to pages of characters from you push keys on the keyboard as you sleep, I have seen people sleeping on their keyboard at work, with auto save turned on, so I know my Limitations, I normally only do this when watching TV, I never remember eating in a dream, but I do remember watching a movie, and I can sit and watch the whole thing, sometimes I will wake up to find I was actually watching a different movie, so I have to stay awake to watch new movies, so its best to lay back and dream about dreaming, that way I get to dream, but I never know if it is a Day Dream, a Dream, or just Reality, maybe I did just fall asleep and Dreamed I was awake, so when I fell asleep I was actually awake, and that made sense to me once day, so I knew I was dreaming, and woke up, so its never a good idea to test to see if you are Dreaming, because then you find it very hard to fall back to sleep, just like my Tinnitus, I just ignore the Ringing in my Ears all day when I am awake, so it is not a distraction when I dream, but there are enough differences besides no eating or drinking, so I do not have to go, there are many things most people would do in a dream, which I do not do in real life, therefore I can not do them in my Dreams, so the two never change, its just the same day over and over again till I get it right.
When I was a Child I had dreams about Dragons, Wizards and Witches, I loved to Fly on Dragons, and it was always cool to be a Wizard or Witch, and sometimes you meet people in your dreams that are both, as you do in your Reality, or at least mine as a child, I had other dreams of past Lives, and things I had to do in my Future, like Write this Book and Publish it, of all Dreams, this one might come true some day, for now, its just a book I started as a Child and never stop writing in it, I start over, throw the old ones away because no one ever read them but me, so as a Child I was pretty much like I am today, still acting Childish, maybe that is an Aspie thing, we never grow up, because by all reports Newton was that way also, but flying on Dragons is well-known in books, and I read all that I could find, so I knew how many that was, but it never compared to my dreams, so as a Child I wanted to learn to push the Limit to Flying like Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which did not come out till the 70's, and this was still the middle 60's, but I thought about those dreams after reading that book, then watching the Movie, and now writing this book, because it reminds me what pushing the boundaries of your Mind is all about, maybe the Reason I can not get REM Sleep is that I trained my Brain, not to go into REM Sleep Mode, so I could Lucid Dream all my Life without knowing that was what I was doing, and now that I cannot stop, even long enough to take a Sleep Study Test and get REM Sleep, then this is all because as a Child I had dreams about Dragons, Wizards and Witches, and I loved to Fly on Dragons, and you can not do that in REM Sleep, you can only do that in Lucid Dream State, or it was the Anthrax Vaccine, because this is about the time I first noticed this.
We all have our own Dreams and Nightmares, but when it comes to the Trinary Science of Sleeping, it is all Electrical, you can record it all during a Sleep study, and I have one every year, next week I go for another, so I will see if I am doing better or worse at sleeping, but I know I do not have Sleep Apnea, all I really want is for the VA to give me a new Prescription for Oxygen that I have been on for over 20 years now, but I just moved from out of State, so the VA has to run all these test all over again, just to give me Oxygen, and after two years I finally got it again, but in my Dreams, I can do Oxygen, I do it all the time, it does not help when I am awake, but I do know that is what I need right now, so I have Nightmares when I am awake, its called Real Life, having to have a whole new set of people take a look at my Dreams, and what do you think they will find? Maybe I am Dreaming this, maybe Life is just a Dream...


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This year at the Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod event instead of having a wildcard race – which paid $10,000 to the winner last year – a burnout contest was held Friday.
And the winner was Stevie "Fast" Jackson. For his thrilling burnout, Jackson collected the $5,000 first-place check.
"This is awesome," said Jackson. "This is just as good as the race. The reason it is so awesome because all of them people are excited about coming to watch drag racing (Friday night). It (the burnout) was crazy. It was over the track. I was steering it with the throttle, pumping the brakes, chutes, it was fun. The burnout is the most fun thing I do out here, so it was good." During the burnout, Jackson acknowledged his car did experience some problems. "The thing went out there and shut off," Jackson said. "I don't know if it blew up or not, but it would not start."
If you rolled with Dale Pulde, you fixed stuff. That's just how you rolled back in the day. If the race car broke, you fixed it. If the rig broke, you fixed it. In this colorful story of a team's never-ending desire to be self-sufficient, the iconic Funny Car describes the times their rig broke and how they fixed it. The best part might be when former business partner Mike Hamby made the most of a roadside situation.
Nitro veteran John Lawson went for a wild ride in his nostalgia Funny Car during the Northern Nationals at U.S. 131 Dragway in Martin, Michigan.
Longtime videojournalist Les Mayhew is back at it again with his popular Nitro America You Tube channel. Mayhew made his way up to the United Nitro Funny Car event in Seattle, and the finished product is as great as it has ever been
When it comes to 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force, there's no such thing as normal. Such is the case in the meeting the parents gathering for John and wife Laurie. Without spoiling the story, here's the setting. They meet the family at a fancy pizza joint, and it didn't take long for the moment to end up on the sordid side. This is one you just have to hear to believe it.
Two-time 2018 NHRA Factory Stock Showdown winner Joe Welch crashed his ultra-quick Dodge Challenge Saturday at the NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl of Drag Racing.
Thanks to our coverage partners over at D3TV, we present live action from this weekend's Lucas Oil NHRA Sportsman Drag Racing Series at Heartland Park - Topeka in Topeka, Kansas.
If you like old school drag racing then you will love the Meltdown Drags from Byron, Ill., presented by our coverage partners over at D3TV.
In a career spanning five decades, Dale Pulde drove more than 70 different nitro Funny Cars in NHRA and IHRA tour events, in match races and in the Hot Rod Heritage Series. Considered by many one of the greatest natural driving talents in history, he also was a capable tuner whose cars were known for their reliability and good looks as well as their performance.
In this episode of Legends, the Series, season four, Pulde talks about lessons learned from the late Mickey Thompson, about the death of close friend and mentor Joe Pisano on the day Pulde was to begin driving for him, on "valley fever," the disease that almost killed him, and on his legacy.
Perhaps the best gauge of Pulde's success in the old IHRA series is not that he won a record 20 races and three championships (1977, 1982 and 1985) but that he won them against Raymond Beadle, Kenny Bernstein, Mark Oswald, Billy Meyer and Ed McCulloch.
On the NHRA side, he went to the final round of the 1972 Winternationals at the tender age of 21 driving the Steve Montrelli-tuned, 429 Shotgun-powered M/T Ford Pinto, won his first national event in 1978 at Gainesville and won his last at Dallas in 1996 while subbing in the "Smokin' Joe's" Ford Mustang for an injured Whit Bazemore.
Most of all, though, Pulde is associated with the "War Eagle" name he and partner Mike Hamby applied to the series of Pontiac, Buick and Dodge Funny Cars they campaigned in the 1970s and 1980s.
So, sit back, buckle up and enjoy a ride that began in quarter midgets and ended in the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame.
Thanks to our coverage partners at DragStory.com and Mark Walter, we present to you the live video feed from the Good Vibrations Motorsports Funny Car Nationals at Keystone Raceway Park.


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Color and Credit: Race, Regulation, and the Quality of Financial Services
56 Pages Posted: 24 Mar 2017 Last revised: 3 Apr 2019
Date Written: April 2, 2019
The incidence of mis-selling, fraud, and poor customer service by retail banks is significantly higher in markets with lower income and educational attainment. Further, areas with a higher share of minority population experience significantly worse outcomes even after controlling for factors such as income, education, and house price changes. Regulations aimed at improving access to credit to such areas are partly responsible for these findings. Specifically, low-to-moderate-income (LMI) areas targeted by the Community Reinvestment Act have significantly worse outcomes, and this effect is larger for LMI areas with a high-minority population share. The results highlight an unintended adverse consequence of such quantity-focused regulations on the quality of credit to poor and minority customers.
Keywords: discrimination, product quality, financial sophistication, consumer protection, regulation
JEL Classification: G21, G28, L13, L14
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It seems to me that, in general, people either really like Wes Anderson's films, or they really don't. I don't think this is a matter of sophistication, or people "getting it", or not. I think that, given his very distinct style, and the themes and nature of his storytelling and wit, either people really appreciate the films, or they can't sit through them. I fall into the former category. Frankly, I think The Darjeeling Limited is brilliant.
The Darjeeling Limitedis a film about the three Whitman brothers: Peter (Adrian Brody), Jack (Jason Schwartzman), and Francis (Owen Wilson). They meet, at Francis' request, aboard the Darjeeling Limited, a train in Indian, to embark upon a "spiritual journey". It is the first time they've been together since their father's funeral a year before.
As The Royal Tenenbaums, the film deals largely with the relationships between children and their parents. In the wake of their father's death, and the brothers' estrangement, each reacts a different way. Peter, married, starts taking on their father's things–a watch, glasses, a car. Francis, likewise, starts adopting the habits and mannerisms of their mother. Jack, meanwhile, isolates himself, and writes short stories that remind readers of actual events, although Jack claims all his characters are fictional.
I like Anderson's films for their minor redemptions. His characters undergo change over the course of the story, but neither they, nor their situations, are ever totally resolved, or made perfect. Their actions are flawed, and their resolutions do not make them saints–better people, almost certainly, but only slightly, which is something I find much easier to accept than when the Bad Guy becomes a good guy at the end of an action flick. Peter, Jack, and Francis are not benevolent or moral or honest, and in the end, they're still selfish and foolish. But do learn something about what is genuinely important, and what's not, and we leave them as they go off to make more mistakes and experience more tiny victories.
Naturally, getting from beginning to end is filled with Anderson's array of dry wit and gags. Really, it's wonderful stuff.


text: So yeah, I think it's obvious I haven't written in a long time. We got a puppy, and life has just been super busy… Monel and I got engaged back in February in the airport we met in (Chicago O'Hare). Phoebe was there too as we were on the way to Hawaii for vacation.It was quite a surprise for both of them, but what a great feeling it was. The craziness of wedding planning has been going on lately and as you can tell from the title of this post, we got a dog recently!He is a handsome boy! Brindle pit mix and he is a bundle of fun and joy. We rescued him from the humane society event that they were holding a the Detroit Zoo. Unexpected but awesome! Life has been challenging adjusting to having a puppy vs basically only having to take care of myself but in a very good way. I'll try and make it sooner that I'm on here again. Haha. Adios for now!Stay classy!


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Nov. 1, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020
Join us for the 28th annual Check-Out Hunger campaign to support Harvesters at more than 125 grocery stores throughout the region. This holiday campaign is our largest annual fundraiser, which helps feed the hungry throughout our network of more than 760 nonprofit agencies.
YOU can help this holiday season by having your cashier scan a $1, $5, $10 or $20 Check-Out Hunger donation coupon to add a donation on your grocery bill. Or you can grab a few extra nonperishable items to add to our in-store barrels.


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For those who haven't had the chance to venture out to Masso Osteria and try Scott Conant's signature pasta al pomodoro, his line of cooking and pantry essentials, Sprezza, recreates the experience at home.
The "Chopped" chef partnered with Sogno Toscano, a globally recognized family farm in the heart of Tuscany, for his debut collection.
Comprising nine sauces and pantry essentials, the line also includes Pesto Genovese, Bruschetta Spread, Oven Baked Olives, Mediterranean Fantasy Olives, Black Olives Spread, Sun-dried Tomatoes, Artichoke Hearts and Fattoria I.G.P. Extra Virgin Olive Oil — everything you need to make your very own rustic Italian feast that's sure to impress even the most finicky of judges.


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Louisville, Colorado, USA – On April 10, Sounds True will release the third volume in its series of recordings from the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music held every year in the city of Fes, Morocco.
The new recording is titled Under the Moroccan Sky and features artists from India, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, United Kingdom, Egypt and France, recorded at the 1999 and 2000 seasons.
Author: Angel Romero
Angel Romero y Ruiz has been writing about world music music for many years. He founded the websites worldmusiccentral.org and musicasdelmundo.com. Angel produced several TV specials for Metropolis (TVE) and co-produced "Musica NA", a music show for Televisión Española (TVE) in Spain that featured an eclectic mix of world music, fusion, electronica, new age and contemporary classical music. Angel also produced and remastered world music albums, compilations and boxed sets for Alula Records, Ellipsis Arts, Music of the World.


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Holiday Fun or Frenzy?
Are you waking up every morning thrilled to meet Jack Frost and begin the countdown to Christmas or not so much?
For me the Holidays are always filled with mixed emotions and I really begin to wonder some days that I just might be a manic depressive. Then as quick as possible I remember I have a toolbox to deal with this kind of crap. Oh yes, thank goodness for Access Consciousness and the tools.
Today I asked myself -- What tool can I choose to get myself out of everyone else's head?..
The Art of Asking Questions
Curry Glassell joins her Access Consciousness colleague Megan Hill in her first episode of the What Else Is Possible Show.
Megan describes Curry as one of the most phenomenal creators in the world, and Curry puts it down to being the question "what else is possible?".
This question can change your whole day. When there is drama or trauma, you can get to enthusiasm and possibility to get out of it a lot easier. If you have a problem, know what you can change it.
We are taught to believe that wealth comes from having access to lots of money. But experience has shown me that this is not true. I was raised in a billionaire household and yet lived most of my early adulthood in deep anxiety about my personal finances. At the age of forty, I was a single mother with $2 million of debt and no idea of how financial systems work.
Living a life of prosperity – creating the right riches for you – has nothing to do with how much money you have around you. It is about having a healthy mindset and a willingness to create.
Of course, wealth creation is easiest if you have the right tools, so here are some that I believe are key to financial freedom. Most exciting, every single one of them is within your reach, right now!..
Replacing Feelings With Question
Whenever money is mentioned feelings and emotions arise. Money has such a charge on it, things such as worry, shame, guilt, lack, exhaustion and despair will often come up when talking about money.
What feelings do you have around money? Every feeling you have, even the positive ones, will lock you in.
We are often more willing to let go of feelings and emotions labelled as negative such as sadness, worry, anxiety, and doubt because these do not serve us as much and are not generally pleasant to be around. It is when we feel content, comfortable and satisfied that we hold onto it because we judge it as we are doing good. We have enough, things and working and if it's not broken, don't fix it, right? Not necessarily!
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Would you know what to do in the event of a disaster?
After a major disaster, first responders such as fire, ambulance, and police will be overwhelmed with the requests for assistance from the community, and that help may not come as quickly as desired. Mitigating factors also add into the delay of response from emergency personnel, especially in Island County, such as communications failures, damages to road and premise, and response time of the volunteer first responders. It is in this time that neighbors reach out to one another to help keep their families safe.
CERT, or Community Emergency Response Team, is a program that educates people of all ages and abilities about disaster preparedness. The program addresses hazards that may impact the local community with training in basic disaster skills such as fire safety, light search and rescue, basic first aid for disasters, and working within a team. Participants receive hands on practice along with the training, and through out the year, CERT members have access to programs for continual skill training. This gives a proactive trained response, rather than a feeling of fight/flight or hopelessness in the face of overwhelming odds. In any stressful situation, people default to the strongest level of personal training or experience they have had, whether that is a program such as CERT or erroneous practices gleaned from a trendy movie.
In 1985 Mexico City was hit with an 8.1 earthquake that devastated the city. Without training, neighborhood citizens were credited with over 700 rescues. However, the citizens were untrained, and of the 300 deceased, 100 deaths were from those volunteers. Based on situations such as this, Los Angeles decided to take a more proactive approach to their citizens before the city was struck by another critical earthquake. The city sent a team to Japan where the practice of training the citizens to help as responders is common. From there, CERT was developed. Not only did CERT serve to provide basic emergency actions, but it decreased panic, and gave the people confidence in a situation that left many feeling powerless to act and react positively.
The CERT course enables a person of any age or ability to render aid to their neighbors until first responders arrive, be it a few hours or days. Trained CERT responders size up home, community, or workplace. Responders reduce potential damage by turning off utilities if needed, suppress small fires, aid in evacuation, and assist other residents. Additional duties include the gathering of information to aid professional emergency personnel in evaluating and responding to neighborhoods. Trained CERT responders do not respond to emergencies out of their local neighborhood or workplace; nor do the CERT members do medical aid, fire suppression, or search & rescue beyond their training.
The 20-hour CERT course covers six topics.
- Fire Safety
- First aid & Triage
- Light Search and Rescue
- Disaster Psychology
- Terrorism
- Disaster Drills
There are still CERT courses available in Island County for 2016. To register contact email@example.com
August 19-21 855 E Whidbey Ave, Oak Harbor
September 9-11 1164 Race Road, Coupeville
October 14-16 Country Club Fire Station #2, Camano Island


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Most business startups are focused on selling their products or services. That's understandable. If you're not selling, you're not generating revenue, and without reliable cash flow, your company struggles to survive. But not too long after launching a business, you're looking at hiring your first employees. You want to make sure you get the right employees from the beginning. Employee turnover is a costly proposition, especially for a fledgling business. It is estimated that it costs 2.5 times a person's salary to replace a lost employee. That's as much as $75,000 for an employee making $30,000 per year.
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One of the best ways to make your employees happy and less likely to leave your company and take another job may be to offer a small business retirement plan. In fact, nearly half of American families have no retirement savings account, even though the average retirement savings of American families is $95,776. That number can be deceptive because the median amount of savings for families is just $5,000--hardly enough for a healthy retirement. That counts those with savings and those without. The median amount for those with savings is $60,000. It's no wonder many American employees surveyed have said they would leave their job that has no retirement plan if they had a chance take one with a good plan. Other reasons to offer a plan include the tax savings for business owners and retirement advantages for them.
Attract Top Talent to Your Small Bussiness with An Attractive 401k Plan
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The U.S. unemployment rate just dropped to 3.9%, a level not seen since the year 2000. While this is definitely good news, it also creates small business hiring challenges. Attracting top talent is hard enough, but it is even tougher in this kind of a marketplace, where nearly everyone who wants a job has one. So as a small business owner, you have to come up with innovative ways to recruit talented people. One way to do this is by offering a robust 401k retirement plan from a 401k company.
Attracting Millennials with Attractive Retirement
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Considering the Millennial generation's detachment from politics, religion, and marriage compared to previous generations, it should come as no surprise that they also self-report a lack of engagement at work.
Companies looking to hire from the pool of 75 million young workers face increased pessimism about business's role in society as well as the one-two punch of low engagement and low commitment.
Adapt, Overcome
If there is a solution, it's to adjust to the times. That starts with understanding the root of the change.
Millennials, defined as those born between 1981 and 1996, are higher educated than any previous generation, and yet they enter a world that no longer offers the pensions that incentivized previous generations to stay at the same company for a lifetime. This factor contributes significantly to the "job-hopper" stereotype of younger workers today. Whereas Baby Boomers were rewarded for their life-long loyalty with a guaranteed monthly income in retirement, today's workers, particularly in private industries but increasingly in the government sector as well, are largely responsible for their own retirement. Add an average student loan debt of $50,000 and it's not surprising that young people are willing to jump ship if a new job offers even 25 cents more an hour.
Millennials also report low engagement at work, a costly revelation that's due in part to 60% believing that companies care more about themselves than society as a whole. Engagement, in practical terms, means caring. Overcoming this pessimism will take more than an offer of employment.
Lead by Example
To boost engagement, engage. A strong benefits package goes a long way toward building a strong team. And if retirement benefits are explained well, managed well, and regularly communicated to employees, they can become more than just a stack of paperwork filled out at the start of a new job; they can serve as a reflection of the company's commitment to its workers.
Communication is key. With consumer confidence soaring, there's no excuse for mediocre optimism among your staff. The stock market in 2017 experience a 20% gain in 401(k) accounts, the largest in four years and "the second-longest in history." There's money to be made in well-managed 401(k) plans. One problem is that employers aren't communicating this as a perk akin to salary.
A Pew study in 2016 found that "Younger workers are generally confused about many aspects of their plans, and more than a third of those under 30 could not name the type of retirement plan their employer offers."
The survey also found that young workers want to be able to take their retirement with them if they do leave, because 60% of those under age 30 don't anticipate working for the same company into retirement.
"Less than half of workers under 40 said they understood their retirement plans well enough to be able to estimate how much they would get at retirement. Those in their 20s were less likely to be able to estimate their benefit than those 30 to 39 (28 percent vs. 57 percent, respectively)."
In a low-unemployment economy, it's more important than ever to stay competitive. You can't keep Millennials from shopping the market for a different job, but with a genuine investment and competitive benefits, you can show them that different isn't necessary better. You do that with high quality, well-managed plans.
Take Action
Life Inc., Retirement Services can serve as both advisor and third-party administrator, offering the perks of high-end, well-managed 401(k) plans, as well as the tax benefits normally reserved for large companies. Contact us today to find out how your retirement plan can attract and retain new talent with a local 401(k) plan.


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Chuck Lyons
Sun N Lake Realty is proud to have the team of Chuck and Jackie Lyons as part of our Real Estate team. Chuck brings years of experience as a Realtor and also has his CAM License (Community Association Manager). This allows Chuck to manage and oversees many different types of properties, both rentals and leases. In his field, Chuck has an excellent understanding of the principles of human resources, contracting, accounting, people skills, insurance, physical plant maintenance, education, government relations, board management, construction, and law. When it comes to property management the team of Chuck and his lovely wife Jackie, truly make the difference. By the way, Chuck and Jackie also own the only "Edible Delights" franchise in Highlands County!
Robert Kroeger
Robert Kroeger recently joined the team at Sun N Lake Realty and we could not be happier. Robert has been in Residential Real Estate for over eight years. Prior to that he was in the homebuilding business in which he gained valuable experience which he has carried over to Specializing in residential properties. Robert has focused his time in the Sun N Lake area of Highlands County. He resides in Sun N Lake with his wife MaryJo and has lived in Sun n Lake of Sebring for 12 year. As an avid Golfer, they have been active members of the Sun n Lake Golf Club for the past 10 years. If you are looking to buy or even list your property I am here to assist you in any way possible.
Jim Serwas
Jim and his lovely wife Donna have been visiting Sebring and the Sun N Lake Area since 1984. Originally from Wisconsin and after living through those cold winters most of their lives they realized it was time for the "Weather" change even though they would miss their beloved Green Bay Packers. They made the great decision to move to Sebring (Highlands County) and the Sun N Lake Area in 2004 to enjoy the benefits of the fantastic weather, Golf Courses, Lakes and small time feeling of Sebring. Though considered a small town, Sebring boasts the conveniences of a much larger city and the both love it here! Jim has had his Florida Real Estate License for over nine years and four years ago, obtained his Brokers License and purchased Sun N Lake Realty. Though a small office, Sun N Lake Realty is well respected amongst its peers in Highlands County and Jim is steadfast in maintaining its core values and assure that all Sun N Lakes Clients receive the quality Service, Honesty and Integrity required throughout a Real Estate Transaction.