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2005 Duclot Primeur Cru, Prestige case Bordeaux (9bts)
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There are over 200 different grape varieties used in modern wine making (from a total of over 1000). Most lesser known blends and varieties are traditional to specific parts of the world.
The Region
Bordeaux remains the centre of the fine wine world. The maritime climate on the 45th parallel provides for temperate winters and long, warm summers, perfect conditions for growing grapes suited to the production of classically-constructed, long-lasting wines. This vast region of 120,000ha of vineyards (four times the size of Burgundy) is home to 10,000 wine producers and 57 different AOCs. Red now makes up 88 percent of Bordeaux wine, and is usually referred to as Claret. The origin of this name was to differentiate the lighter-coloured wines of the coastal region from the deeper "black" wines from up-country regions.
The Left Bank, comprising the wine regions of the Médoc, Pessac-Léognan and Graves are planted predominantly with Cabernet Sauvignon, which thrives on the gravelly soils left by the ancient course of the river. This is a thick-skinned variety which ripens late, producing powerful, tannic wines capable of long ageing. It is blended with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and sometimes Petit Verdot. The highlights of the Médoc are the four communes of St- Estèphe (blackcurrant concentration); classical, cedarwood and cigar-box Pauillac; richly-fruited St Julien; and elegant, fragrant Margaux.
On the Right Bank, most famously in St-Emilion and Pomerol, it is the fleshy Merlot grape which prevails, sometimes supported by Cabernet Franc. Here the soils are more mixed, with gravel and clay underpinning the rich, fruity wines of Pomerol. Styles vary more in St-Emilion, depending on the predominance of sand in the lower-lying slopes, or limestone on the hillsides and plateau.
By the 18th century, individual properties - known as châteaux, however humble - were becoming known for the quality of their wines and in 1855, those of the Médoc (plus Haut-Brion, a property commended by Samuel Pepys as early as 1663) were classified into five levels of classed growths. Lafite, Latour, Margaux and Haut Brion were cited as First Growths, to whose ranks Mouton Rothschild was elevated by presidential decree in 1973. Beneath the ranks of the classed growths lies a raft of fine châteaux known as Crus Bourgeois, while a host of less well-known "petits châteaux" still makes attractive, enjoyable Claret at affordable prices.
The other jewel in the Bordeaux crown is the district of Sauternes, making some of the most outstanding sweet white wines in the world (from the likes of Châteaux d'Yquem, Rieussec and Climens). The foggy autumn mornings along the banks of the Garonne River near Sauternes and neighbouring Barsac enable the noble rot, botrytis cinerea, to form on the skins of the grapes, which can still ripen in the afternoon sun as late as the end of October or early November. The Sémillon grape is the prime component, but Sauvignon Blanc and a little Muscadelle are also planted to provide insurance if the weather is less favourable to Sémillon, as well as offering a counterpoint in flavour.
There are many inexpensive dry white wines - more Sauvignon than Sémillon - from regions such as Entre-Deux-Mers and Graves, with just a handful of outstanding properties located in Pessac-Léognan. The most famous of the great dry whites hail from Châteaux Haut Brion, Laville Haut Brion and Domaine de Chevalier.
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With this questionnaire we want to collect and channel all the complaints and suggestions that the citizens of Seville wish to express in relation to tourist apartments. The requests that arrive to us will be sent to the corresponding area for their management.
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The City Council of Seville, within the framework of its responsibilities, has initiated a process of regulation and management of accommodation with tourist purposes as a complement to the regulations of the Junta de Andalucía (Government of Andalucía) contained in Law 13/2011 of December 23 on Tourism in Andalusia.
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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During what he called one of his "favorite events every year," President Obama presented 16 outstanding individuals, including four African Americans, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
President John F. Kennedy created the Presidential Medal of Freedom 50 years ago to honor exceptional Americans for their courage and contributions to society during their careers.
The president praised Ernie Banks for his play in the Negro Leagues and for being the first Black player on the Chicago Cubs major league baseball team. Nicknamed "Mr. Cub," Banks, won Most Valuable Player awards in 1958 and 1959 and played in 14 All-Star games.
C.T. Vivian, a Baptist minister and adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was honored for his work leading the Freedom Riders and his efforts to register Black voters in Selma, Ala., where he was bloodied by Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark after leading a Black delegation downtown to register.
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BOULDER — Colorado women's soccer coach Danny Sanchez might have been a bit surprised, pleasantly surprised, that his team reached the NCAA Tournament last fall — in his third season.
Of course, he'll take it. But that means the bar has been raised regarding expectations for the program, he added.
"I think last year we jumped ahead a little faster than we thought we would be," Sanchez said. "To be honest, we were probably one of the last teams to get into the NCAA Tournament. But we can build on that."
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Parts one through three dealt with almost all of the main deck; only Saproling Burst and Two-Headed Dragon are left and will be dealt with first. After that comes the sideboard, which will conclude the card-by-card analysis.
Saproling Burst. Fires of Yavimaya makes everything shine, but it makes this shine a lot more than everything else. With Fires in play, three tokens are usually made (sometimes four, sometimes two, but generally three) and they attack for 12. Then come the normal Burst token attacks. Even without Fires, Burst is a great card. It gets a lot better once all the tricks involved are mastered; if the opponent doesn't know them that's an added bonus. At best, I can give an introduction to them here, although most of them are the same as they've always been. Standard procedure as always is three tokens in most situations. Making more than three requires some reason. Two good ones are needing to block that X creatures (the number of tokens) or die or the opponent being unable to block that many without dying. Other than those it's generally better to stick to a limit of three. The second most common number is two. When the opponent is at 20 and nothing is happening, it's generally better to make two so they can go all the way, especially against a control deck. The main other reason for sticking to two is to make sure they are 4/4 (or 5/5 with Fires). That can be to deal with any number of opposing creatures, with the most common being Kavu Chameleon (game one) and most often Chimeric Idol(s). Only making one creature is reserved for situations where anything smaller would be killed. There are a ton of interactions involving Saproling Burst in this deck and otherwise; the most important thing to remember is not to play a Burst when it won't do any good and to play other creatures first in wars when Fires is not on the table.
Two-Headed Dragon. It's time to bring in the big guy. Who would have guessed that my big tech for a PT would be Two-Headed Dragon? It was Seth Burn who came up with the idea. He came up with the idea while I was at the Magic Invitational. So I got back and suddenly there are eight heads in the deck! It took a moment before I realized he was serious. After testing them, it became clear they were amazing. What does the Dragon do? What doesn't it do? It even double blocks, which is something that should never be mentioned until it actually happens. A lot of players will forget. When it doesn't have to play defense, and it almost never does, it's very difficult to block. Rith gets blocked forever by a lowly Thermal Glider, but almost no one has two of those. In the mirror matchup, it moves from a minor edge for this version (due to size) into a big advantage outside Rhystic Lightning, since if we could stall the Dragon would come and win the game. In other matchups it was similar. When it came out, it just won the game in short order. For a while there were four, then I made it two and two in the sideboard because of mana curve issues - extending the curve to six spreads it pretty thin. Then it came back to three when the sideboard tightened up and I stopped wanting the fourth that much anyway. The Dragon serves a few other purposes. It blocks Blinding Angel, goes over Evil Eye of Orms by Gore (don't laugh, they're out there), it's unaffected by Teferi's Moat and it takes a separate Story Circle to deal with it (since most players will correctly name green against Fires).
Rith, The Awakener. Then there's the other dragon. Rith has one big advantage over Two-Headed Dragon, which is that if it deals damage against another green deck the opponent will need a Dragon or a Simoon/Quake to stay in the game. The other advantage is that for the three-color versions, Two-Headed Dragon would be too painful to pump and Rith is actually easier to cast. If the mana isn't there for two heads, then I guess the deck has to go with one. Rith has a lot of issues, though. Its ability is nice but mostly redundant against most non-green decks. It only hits for six damage, which isn't too shabby but not in the Dragon's range. Finally, and this is big, Rith gets blocked! Birds of Paradise buys a turn, Thermal Glider buys a lifetime and even Defiant Falcon keeps hope alive. Rith needs Armadillo Cloak to make its dreams really come true.
Wax and Wane. Fires decks often splash white to play Wax and Wane. Enchantment removal is vital against much of the field, taking out Fires or Burst against other Fires decks and Parallax Wave against rebels or W/G. Against control it goes for Story Circle or Teferi's Moat. The big advantage of Wax and Wane is that it has a perfectly solid second option. Two damage to the opponent is a horrible deal, but if a temporary +2/+2 saves an early mana creature that's great. If it makes a Jade Leech beat up a Blastoderm or a pair of Chimeric Idols that's even better. It almost never goes dead, and even with just four Brushlands backing up Birds of Paradise white mana will be available more often than not.
Aura Mutation. Then there are those who get greedy. Gone is the insurance of a backup ability against decks without enchantments or when no white mana is available. Unlike Wax and Wane, Aura Mutation will be a dead card a significant portion of the time. That's the bad news. The good news is that when Aura Mutation works it is devastating, sufficiently so against other Fires decks that it drove my whole team crazy in testing. Not only does it take out Saproling Burst for only two mana, it creates five bonus 1/1 tokens. The tokens mean that Mutation is never a purely dead card against any deck; a used up or about to be killed Saproling Burst can be turned into five tokens, and sometimes Fires can be turned into three. This gets most annoying when a control player finally gets tired of holding removal and tries to kill one. The bottom line on Aura Mutation turned out to be that it was great but a worse maindeck card than Wax and Wane for W/G decks and for Fires decks. As a sideboard card it suffers because of Simoon and because of opponents playing around it, especially by focusing in on the white mana. It's still worthwhile for those with white mana, but I don't think the white mana is worth it.
Simoon. Our team missed it for the Pro Tour, but since then it has come to my attention that this is the proper sideboard card for the mirror. There are three basic plans to try and win the mirror matchup. One is Aura Mutation, with the plan being to take out the opponent's Saproling Bursts with a profit, then ride that advantage to victory. That strategy is better than nothing, but misses the point and is often easy to play around. The other two are Simoon and Tangle, both of which are reasonable. Simoon wins out, in large part because it is far more useful against other deck types. It can come in against Rebels, it can come in against W/G, it wrecks blue skies decks the deck would otherwise have no sideboard against. Tangle was basically just for other decks with Blastoderms and Saproling Bursts. Simoon also benefits from opponents continuing to run River Boa and often 'cheating' on the land. If a Dust Bowl version is facing less than 24 lands, Simoon can make mana disruption into plan A. Don't be afraid of "wasting" Simoon on a 1-for-1 trade to mana lock an opponent, but when possible try to get two (or even more) for one with it. I recommend four copies.
Tangle. Tangle is the next best thing to Simoon. Tangle mostly neutralizes Saproling Burst and Blastoderm. Anything else that attacked with them is knocked out cold for two turns. Tangle truly shines when Lumbering Satyr gets involved, but it turns out Satyr is a poor card for both maindeck and sideboard. Tangle is the only way out if one side falls behind in the mirror matchup, and will almost always at least trade for a good offensive card and some time. I prefer to use Simoon and get ahead in the first place. Using Tangle and Simoon together would require too much sideboard space, and there aren't enough cards to take out of the deck anyway. It's vital to keep enough creatures in the deck.
Reverent Silence and Calming Verse. It's no Aura Mutation or Wax and Wane, but without a splash Reverent Silence is the best option for enchantment removal. It trades with a penalty (can't be helped) with Parallax Wave and normally with a penalty with Story Circle. It's pretty rare for Silence to nab multiple enchantments, but it happens. Calming Verse was in Rob's sideboard at the PT, and it's something we considered too. Often there will be a Fires or Burst on the table and killing it is a shame. But being able to cast Silence for free is more important. Two copies seems about right, since it's never clear when they won't be very useful. Too many messes up the ability of the deck to pull a 12 card transformation sometimes.
Obliterate. Ka-boom! Blowing up the world has never been so reliable, but it's also rarely been so expensive. Drawing Obliterate before its time is virtually the same as a mulligan until it finally starts to matter. The majority of the time, Obliterate will sit in hand and do absolutely nothing. That by itself is a good reason the deck only uses one in its sideboard. In exchange for that, it will win games no other card could have won. Often it will take a completely and utterly lost game and turn it into one that the opponent cannot win. If it's going to get used, it's vital to be prepared. After the world blows up, the next turn should be Forest (or even better against blue, Karpulsian Forest) and Llanowar Elves or Birds of Paradise. The next turn should be land and Idol, or Port to set up bigger creatures later on. Wait as long as possible before pushing the button. When playing Obliterate, it should basically be ignored as a dead card, with the exception of placing a higher value on the one time tapping of Rishadan Port and Dust Bowl under Tsabo's Web if Obliterate is already in hand. That only changes when the game has gone sufficiently poorly that the plan shifts to Obliterate. At that point, cards are hoarded in hand, lands and mana creatures are carefully rationed and threats are discarded rather than cast to make sure they are not exposed. Be warned, if it gets to that point the opponent will probably know what's coming and likely have a Thwart in reserve.
Flashfires. Crush the rebellion! Or at least take out its basic lands. Flashfires was so popular in Chicago that rebel players splashed blue or even green primarily because it allowed them to play fewer basic Plains. One player even used Tinder Farm because he couldn't find Ruins of Trokair in time! Turned out to be a great choice, because his opponents kept using Rishadan Port on it. That's the best part about using weird lands; opponents don't know there's no reason for them to be in the deck and get scared to death of them. At any rate, Flashfires is an amazing answer to rebel players that play a lot of Plains. It's a poor answer to rebel players that play few basic Plains. Given that the number playing a lot of non-basics should keep going up, Flashfires starts to become much less effective. That makes it more tempting to instead use...
Tsabo's Decree. REALLY crush the rebellion! Not just burn their homes to the ground, but have them all drawn and quartered in public as a warning to the next ten generations that some decks should never be played. Tsabo's Decree is amazing. It has just two problems. One of them is the 5, and one of them is the B. Together they make it very hard to cast. This version of the deck does a great job of getting the 5, but B is hard. Birds of Paradise is a good start. After that comes either City of Brass or Sulphurous Springs. Brian Kibler got away with eight black sources, and to me that's pushing it but I guess it worked. I would consider this to be an 'approved variant' of the deck, using painful lands to get the all powerful Decree. Is it worth the pain? That depends on just how many multicolored rebel decks are out there, and how much the pain and nonbasic status hurt the deck in other matchups. So far, I've been very happy to not suffer those points of pain, but I'm not certain I'm right.
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TIANJIN, China(AP) High expectations aren't a problem for the Netherlands, considered among the favorites for the men's Olympic soccer title.
``We're the two-time European (under-21) champion. We're proud of that,'' Netherlands coach Foppe de Haan said. ``That makes everyone think we're good. And we are good. The only reason for being here is to win.''
Selected by many to contend for medals along with defending Olympic champion Argentina and its South American rival Brazil, the Dutch are considered the favorite in Group B, which also includes Nigeria, the United States and Japan.
Making its first appearance in Olympic football since 1952, the Netherlands plays Thursday against Nigeria in Tianjin, the second game of a doubleheader following the United States vs. Japan.
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``Messi is one of the best players in the world,'' Feyenoord forward Roy Makaay said. ``Our goal is to win the gold medal.
``We want to be first in our group. We want to play Messi in the final, not earlier. We want to try to avoid Argentina until the final.''
The Group B winner will face the Group A runner-up in the quarterfinals and vice versa. Assuming Argentina wins its group, winning Group B will be imperative for the Dutch to avoid an early meeting.
Besides Makaay, the Netherlands' inclusion of Liverpool forward Ryan Babel is the reason many are predicting a medal for the Dutch.
They also can rely on familiarity. Besides its consecutive European U21 titles the past two years, the Dutch finished fifth at the 2005 Under-20 World Cup and third at the Under-17 World Cup the same year.
Two-thirds of its 18-man roster come from five Dutch league teams: Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, Heerenveen and Alkmaar.
But the side could have been stronger if not for the early season start of Eredivisie, which excluded other over 23s like Makaay.
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Pittsburgh, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/10/2014 -- Seegrid is exhibiting at the largest expo, MODEX, for the manufacturing and supply chain industries. Attendees visiting Seegrid booth #7317 will learn about the latest material handling trends and flexible automated guided vehicle technologies available.
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Selected producer will be allocated a 40-minute session:
- 20 minutes to present the cross-media approach of their project. The pitch will focus on how the project will be/is developed to travel on a selected number of platforms (min. 2 platforms excluding TV and theater since these formats will not be pitched)
- 20 minutes for a panel of interactive and transmedia experts to give their first impression on the pitch and offer guidance and helpful advice
Other participants will also attend the pitching sessions.
2: Didactic presentations by key cross media players (each in their field)
The pitching sessions will be completed by presentations on key elements of the digtal market, such as detailed budget costs, business plans, audience engagement, new parnerships, best practices, distribution, etc.
Digital experts
CARTOON will appoint 30 digital stakeholders from the new platforms and cross-media fields who are willing to share their knowledge, including:
|Broadcasters' digital representatives
|Digital entrepreneurs
|Game companies
|Game and apps publishers
|Digital book publishers
|Digital distributors
|VOD platforms
|Toy and licensing companies
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Last year, a total of $11,500 from individual donors, partners, and grants enabled Cycle Toronto to teach almost 500 people about basic bike maintenance through free on-street tuneups, to install 700 free bike lights for cyclists who needed them, and to deliver 14 free safe cycling workshops in communities across Toronto. The organization also gave away 1000 copies of our Toronto Cyclist Handbook, teaching passers-by about traffic laws and safe riding techniques.
Cycling education is a major part of Cycle Toronto's work to make this a better, safer bike city. They need your help to get to $20,000 this year, to expand and strengthen the Street Smarts cycling education program. Help them raise $20,000 to fund Street Smarts 2014 & receive a charitable tax receipt.
With $20,000, Cycle Toronto will reach 2,000 people at 20 workshops and 24 on-street events over the course of six months and promote safe cycling across Toronto. They will work with Ward Advocacy Groups to make these events attractive, exciting and relevant to local needs. And continue to collaborate with their long-term partner CultureLink Settlement Services to further develop this program. CultureLink is a registered charity which reaches 17,000 new immigrants every year with engaging and innovative programs. CultureLink will recognize your Street Smarts donation with a charitable tax receipt.
To make a donation, you have two options:
1. Donate online with payment by Interac, Visa, MasterCard, or American Express by following these steps:
• Visit CultureLink's Canada Helps page
• Click the "Donate Now" button
• Enter your "Donation Amount $"
• Under "Fund/Designation" select from the drop-down menu: "Cycling Program - Street Smarts Educational Activities"
• Click "Continue"
• Review your donation details, and click "Checkout"
• Continue following the checkout instructions
Note: Donations made on-line through Canada Helps generate a tax receipt immediately from Canada Helps.
2. Donate by mail with payment by cheque or money order:
• Make out a cheque or money order payable to "CultureLink Settlement Services" and include a note that it is for the "Cycling Program - Street Smarts Educational Activities".
• Ensure you include details of the individual to whom the tax receipt should be made out, including a mailing address.
• Mail your cheque or money order to:
Cycling Program
CultureLink Settlement Services
2340 Dundas Street West, Suite 301
Toronto, ON M6P 4A9
With your support, Cycle Toronto can expand their Street Smarts cycling education program and reach thousands of people in 2014.
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PowerBoom: innovative increase of load capacity
The parallel PowerBoom system is a pioneering development from Liebherr. The simple mechanical add-on system increases the load capacity of large crawler cranes by up to more than 50 percent. The award-winning technology also delivers excellent value for money.
Massive increase in load capacity
An LR 11350-P1800 with a parallel boom hoists a 340-tonne gondola on to a 110 metre turbine tower. The gross load for this application in Eemshaven (Netherlands) is 378 tonnes. The fast, efficient complete installation of the gondola makes wind turbine erection considerably easier.
The lattice sections are installed parallel to each other at the bottom section of the lattice boom of the PowerBoom system. This drastically increases the stability not only in the direction of the load but also to the side. The load capacity of long boom systems in particular can be increased dramatically by the P boom.
Operating with a luffing jib also allows massive load capacity increases to be achieved since the torsional moment is increased by the PowerBoom. This drastically extends the range of use of the crane.
Economic, flexible solution
In 2013 Liebherr received a design award from the International Construction Equipment Forum (ICEF) for its parallel PowerBoom system. The jury of experts particularly highlighted the economy and flexibility of the system in action.
The system is simple to retrofit - all crane operators require are two additional adapters. Standard intermediate lattice sections are used to form the parallel boom. The lattice sections installed in parallel are merged near the turntable using the lower P adapter and bolted to the crane. The upper P adapter reconnects the double boom. This enables the crane to achieve load capacities of the next higher crane class, delivering excellent value for money.
Perfect extension for the LR 11000 crawler crane
The parallel boom system is currently available for LR 11000, LR 11350 and LR 13000 cranes. The increase in load capacity has proved to be extremely effective on the compact 1000 tonne LR 11000 crane. Components from the luffing jib are used for the PowerBoom in this case. This keeps the sections of the main boom available for a particularly powerful luffing jib.


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About the Author
Dashiell Hammett based his "hard-boiled" detective fiction on personal experiences. Leaving home at 13 and working a variety of odd jobs, he was employed by the Pinkerton Agency from 1915 to 1922, except for a tour as an ambulance driver during the Great War. He quit detective work partly from disillusionment from the agency's participation in strike-breaking.
Sam Spade's office was modeled on Hammet's own apartment in San Francisco.
Other Works by Dashiell Hammett
- Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection includes "Two Knives" a short story funny enough for Peter Arno to choose it.
- The Continental Op, a selection of
short stories featuring the unnamed protagonist of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse.
- Nightmare Town selected stories.
Film Adaptations
A scene from the 1931 movie starring Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels.
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Warner Brothers released a lighter (and less sexually explicit) version in 1936 starring Bette Davis, entitled Satan Met A Lady
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The trailer from John Huston's 1941 adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor.
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Art Theft
The Los Angeles Police Department's Art Theft Detail hosts a site with news, summaries of real cases, and even puzzles allowing you to guess whether a work is real or fake.
Hammett's Legacy
The International Association of Crime Writers (North American branch) awards the yearly Hammett Prize for "literary excellence in the field of crime-writing, as reflected in a book published in the English language in the US and/or Canada." See past winners here.


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This is my first tut, but hope it helps. this will go through the basics of Dragons. all Dragons (The Occidental (western), the Oriental(eastern), the Wyvern(wings, and back legs) and the Amphithere (wings, no legs, or arms)) not just the one you see in the title pic, and how to build a basic body diagram, so that you can work on your own style not how to draw in the style of others, like i said hope it helps. Critism is welcome!
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Paul Kane
Canadian (born in Ireland), 1810–1871
Portrait of Michael Peter Empey, c. 1830
oil on paper on board
20.1 x 18.4 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift in memory of John A. Russell by his family
Painting, Canadian Historical (1800-1910)
In Upper Canada in the 1830s, a good portraitist could make a decent living from commissions. While the Toronto-based Paul Kane had little formal training, this small but careful portrait of Peter Empey, a friend of the artist, demonstrates Kane's early efforts to distinguish himself as a professional artist. This early work was executed just before Kane launched himself on a self-guided tour of major European art centres. While in London, England, he met the famous American ethnographic painter George Catlin. Catlin would prove to be a major influence on the young artist's later work, as seen in the sketches and studio paintings Kane produced upon his return to North America, which documented his mid-nineteenth-century voyages through the North American Northwest, and his contact with First Nations people.
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Martin O'Neill has admitted Zlatan Ibrahimovic is no longer "over-rated" as he prepares to send the Republic of Ireland into battle with Sweden's superstar striker.
A decade ago O'Neill, in his role as a television pundit, described Ibrahimovic as "the most over-rated player on the planet", a comment which was put to him at his press conference ahead of Ireland's Group E opener against Sweden at the Stade de France this evening.
The 64-year-old said: "Well 10 years ago, that might have been the case. Lots of things can happen in that time. I remember myself feeling for a period of time that Henrik Larsson was over-rated. After about three and a half minutes, I changed my mind.
"He's a top-class player. He's one of the best in Europe, if not the world. He's Sweden's talisman and he will be hard to keep quiet during the course of the game.
"All world-class players, regardless of how well or how closely they are marked, are able to elude things during the course of the game, and he is one of those players."
Ibrahimovic scored 11 times during Sweden's qualification campaign and represents a major threat to Ireland's hopes of getting off to a winning start in Saint Denis, and his ability and track record have certainly impressed skipper Robbie Keane, whose 67 international goals tell their own story.
Asked if he liked the 34-year-old, Keane said: "Yes, of course - how could you not? He's a top, top player, as the gaffer referred to. He's been doing it for a long, long time and he seems to be getting better and better.
"He scores goals no matter where he's been, he's a top player."


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Microscopy is used to view objects or specimens that are too small to be seen with just the human eye. Microscopy is a technical field that involves the use of Microscopy components such as microscopes or microscope objectives to obtain greater detail of examined samples. Microscopy can also utilize specific illumination techniques to increase detail or contrast. Many microscopes are now compatible with cameras, enabling images or video to be projected onto a monitor, or allowing images to be saved for later examination.
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- Norway
Stretching from the North Sea near Denmark and Scotland into the Arctic Ocean covering northern Finland right up to the northwestern tip of Russia, Norway features a fjord-indented coastline. Other inland regions of Norway are generally display a mountainous topography alongside cities and small towns interspersed with some of the best unspoiled natural beauty. Attracting a whole lot of hikers and skiers from all around the globe, Norway offers numerous mountains, waterfalls, lakes, woods and Ski resorts for a distinctly delightful touristic experience. Most pleasant during summer, unless you like the snow, Norway offers the rare opportunity of witnessing the spectacular natural phenomena of the 'Midnight Sun' and the 'Northern Lights'.
This rugged landscape which was literally shaped by the ice-age showcases large, completely unpopulated areas which have eventually been converted into national parks. One of the most sparsely populated countries in the World, Norway predominantly is a Christian country with an overwhelming Lutheran majority. Having rejected membership to the European Union, Norway is one of the richest countries in the world supporting the Scandinavian model of development.
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As fallout from the deadly September 11 terror strike on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya continues to grab headlines, GOP lawmakers sent a letter to President Obama suggesting the Benghazi tragedy potentially could have been avoided or at least minimized if not for political posturing — an administration policy aimed at concealing the disastrous results of American military intervention there. Now Congress wants answers.
Among a wide range of concerns, the Republican congressmen want to know why security at the compound was so ineffective despite repeated warnings about the extreme and growing threats. The letter also demands to know why the administration decided to pursue a policy of "normalization" in Libya, a dangerous country so recently ravaged by violence and a bloody civil war.
Separately, analysts and former officials are wondering whether anything could have been done to avert the tragedy or at least contain it after the well-coordinated attack began. According to news reports, the U.S. government had a drone in the sky shortly after the terrorist assault on the compound began.
The drone operators actually watched the final hours of the tragedy unfold, multiple media outlets have reported. Some critics also suggested that American security forces in the region could have and should have been deployed to Benghazi immediately in an effort to rescue U.S. personnel under siege.
In an October 19 letter sent to President Obama, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the National Security Subcommittee, essentially accused the administration of denying proper security to the mission in Libya for political reasons. Senior U.S. officials, the letter explained, supplied information demonstrating that the administration repeatedly rejected requests for more security despite increasing levels of violence.
Even worse, they wrote, the administration "systematically decreased existing security to dangerous and ineffective levels." U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the attack, had warned about the dire situation over and over again in the days and hours leading up to the attack.
In fact, the letter detailed numerous instances of violence aimed at Westerners and the new regime. The increasingly brazen attacks were even cited by diplomatic personnel, including Ambassador Stevens, as they practically begged the State Department for more security assistance.
Meanwhile, multiple U.S. officials in Libya repeatedly warned Washington, D.C., about the escalating problems. In September, not long before he was killed, Ambassador Stevens reported that Benghazi had entered a state of "maximum alert" as extreme Islamist influence was exploding in the area.
Instead of responding with assistance, however, the administration was withdrawing security assets.
"We have been told repeatedly that the administration did this to effectuate a policy of 'normalization' in Libya after the conclusion of its civil war. These actions not only resulted in extreme vulnerability, but also undermined Ambassador Stevens and the diplomatic mission," Rep. Issa and Rep. Chaffetz said in the letter. "The normalization process, which began in November 2011, appeared to have been aimed at conveying the impression that the situation in Libya was getting better, not worse."
Despite some claims to the contrary, the letter added, the deadly decision to refuse security requests while pursuing the "normalization" policy had nothing to do with budgetary constraints, as even senior State Department officials testified. Instead, it appears to have been a political ploy to keep the rapidly deteriorating situation in Libya, where Obama unlawfully waged war without even consulting Congress, from becoming yet another potential scandal for the administration.
"The American people have a right to know why the administration withdrew security resources over the objections of embassy officials and why their government did not heed the warnings of Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues," the lawmakers said, demanding answers. "Whether based on political concerns or bureaucratic neglect, the actions of this administration contributed to an inadequate and ineffective security posture in Libya as it emerged from civil war."
Americans deserve a "complete explanation" about why the administration decided to pursue the half-baked "normalized presence" in Libya "at what now appears to be at the cost of endangering American lives," according to the letter. "These critical foreign policy decisions are not made by low or mid-level career officials — they are typically made through a well-structured and well-reasoned process that includes the National Security Council at the White House. The ultimate responsibility rests with you as the President of the United States."
The Republicans also expressed concerns about the administration's repeated false claims that the attack was just a protest over a YouTube video that spiraled out of control. Numerous top officials parroted that narrative over and over again, citing the "intelligence community." However, it is now known that the "intelligence community" knew it was a terrorist attack almost from the beginning.
Citing witnesses and photographic evidence, the two Republicans alleged that the U.S. compound in Benghazi did not even meet traditional diplomatic security standards. And if the State Department cannot meet those guidelines for some reason, it must submit a waiver notification to Congress. Apparently none was ever provided, the letter stated.
Benghazi, of course, was the city at the heart of the Western-backed "revolution" that brought about regime change in Libya with overwhelming military support from the Obama administration. Shortly after the collapse of the Gadhafi dictatorship, the al Qaeda flag was flying over the city's court house.
Despite all of that, the diplomatic compound there never received the amount of security personnel that even senior State Department officials said was needed. Even the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli did not have enough security officers, according to officials cited in the letter.
Democrats criticized the GOP lawmakers' efforts to get answers, with the Oversight Committee's top Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, calling it an "undeniably partisan" scheme to make the tragedy a political issue. Ambassador Stevens' father has also urged people not to politicize the issue as Obama tried to deflect mounting criticism over the attack from Republicans.
Meanwhile, analysts and former officials have suggested that even once the attack began, the U.S. government should have taken immediate action to rescue its personnel. Sources cited by CBS News claimed, for example, that a Predator drone was in the sky watching the attack as it happened. For reasons that remain unclear and in dispute, nothing was done.
Security personnel could have been scrambled to the scene as well, according to experts, who pointed out that the deadly assault lasted for hours. U.S. military teams are known to be all over Europe and the Middle East.
"You find a way to make this happen," said retired CIA officer Gary Berntsen, who led the U.S. team that responded after the terror attacks on U.S. diplomats in East Africa. "There isn't a plan for every single engagement. Sometimes you have to be able to make adjustments. They made zero adjustments in this. They stood and they watched and our people died."
Perhaps an even more important question, however, has barely been explored by the establishment press or politicians so far. Aside from the constitutional problems, was arming, training, and financing known terror leaders — more than a few of whom were openly affiliated with al Qaeda — to overthrow a foreign government a wise policy decision?
Based on recent developments and even the broader historical perspective, the answer appears to be that the lawless war was a terrible move for more than a few reasons. Recent reports have suggested, for example, that a known extremist who was held in Guantanamo Bay before helping lead Western-backed forces against Tripoli may have even been behind the attack on the U.S. mission.
Then there is the question of blowback: the consequences of the American government's foreign intervention that so often come back to haunt the United States and even the world. Former CIA chief Michael Hayden has even suggested the attack in Libya was the result of U.S. intervention there.
A year after being "liberated," meanwhile, Libya remains in chaos as various factions, including Gadhafi loyalists, continue to wage war against each other. The embattled central government in Tripoli, despite firm backing from the United Nations, NATO, and Obama, is widely perceived as illegitimate. Weapons from the war are now all over the region. And the problems are likely to keep getting worse.
Related articles:
Libya: Now What?
Islamist Mobs Attack U.S. Missions in Libya and Egypt; Ambassador Dead
Intervention in Libya Led to Attack on U.S. Consulate, Ex-CIA Chief Says
Obama Under Fire for Failure to Defend Free Speech Amid Embassy Crisis
Gadhafi Loyalists Still Battling New Western-backed Rulers in Libya
Obama, Biden Didn't Know About Libya Security Requests, Spokesmen Say
Republicans Troubled by Romney Remarks on Embassy Attacks
Al Qaeda Flag Flies in Libya As Conflict Rages
UN, Obama Fighting Alongside Al-Qaeda in Libya
Despite Violence, UN & Obama Hail Libya Election
Clinton: Obama Will Ignore Congress on Libya War
UN Report: NATO's Libya War Armed al-Qaeda
Islamist Mob Attacks U.S. Embassy in Yemen; Analysts Cite Blowback
"Libyan Rebels" Create Central Bank, Oil Company
Photo: In this Sept. 18, 2012 photo, Libyans walk by an anti-Moammar Gadhafi mural in Benghazi, Libya.: AP Images


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Intrigo: Death of an Author
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
It is the best of the three films, offering in some odd ways a corrective to the prior installments.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Scout Tafoya's series on underrated films heads into the 2020s with a Tony Scott classic.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
Theo Angelopoulos' Landscape in the Mist is a work of art that comes from the feelings, the dreams, the sorrows, and the flashes of life…
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho pens a letter to Roger about Michael Apted's 63 Up.
A tribute to the late, great Terry Jones.
A dispatch from the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, featuring reviews of Kourosh Ahari's "The Night" and Andrew Davis' "Mentors—Tony & Santi."
Josh Radnor's "Liberal Arts" is an almost unreasonable pleasure about a jaded New Yorker who returns to his alma mater in Ohio and finds that his heart would like to stay there. It's the kind of film that appeals powerfully to me; to others, maybe not so much.
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.
Jesse, the character played by Josh Radnor (who also wrote and directed the film), has stayed in academia but surely in its least pleasant job. He is a New York City college admissions officer, turning young people away at the gates of Valhalla. He receives an invitation to a retirement party for Peter (Richard Jenkins), a professor who was one of his undergraduate heroes. Jesse returns to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, a campus so beautiful I now understand why I subscribed to the Kenyon Review for years: Its pages must have absorbed the grace of the campus.
The retirement is far from perfect, because Peter has to admit to himself that he has no desire to retire. Richard Jenkins is the kind of actor you can easily imagine being someone's beloved mentor and understand why he would surrender that role with reluctance. At a party, he introduces Jesse to Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a 19-year-old daughter of friends, who is studying improv theater. Did I mention that Jesse is 35?
It's not so much that they fall in love as they fall in love with idealistic conversation. Zibby still lives in a world where such talk is common. Jesse is starved for it. The fresh promise of his undergraduate years has never been replaced for him by the working world. Their 16-year age difference is undeniable, but the young student finds his age to be one of his attractions, as young students have been known to do.
Also on the campus, we meet two familiar types. One is Nat (Zac Efron), who wears a deliberately absurd hat to signal "I am not like anyone else," and utters philosophical aphorisms as if he is the campus Thoreau. The other is Dean (John Magaro), never seen without holding a copy of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. It is to Radnor's infinite credit that he never explains why the novel is a telltale character marker.
We also meet Judith (Allison Janney), Jesse's professor of romantic poetry and another huge role model. Janney brings to the character that acerbic wit she does so easily, and they have a scene together I wouldn't dream of spoiling for you.
Elizabeth Olsen is the film's most enchanting asset. In performance after performance, she has grown in assurance and appeal. Yes, she is separated from Jesse by 16 years, but she is not a victim in their relationship. She and Radnor have an ease together, a delighted comfort, that is so much more attractive and plausible than the ludicrous thrashings of "love" in so many pictures.
"Liberal Arts" has been criticized in some quarters as a sitcom, in part because Radnor stars in a famous one, "How I Met Your Mother." Those who see it that way are well-guarded. God forbid that they would ever "fall for anything." I strive to leave myself vulnerable.
There is a word to explain why this particular film so appealed to me. Reader, that word is "escapism." If you understand why I used the word "reader" in just that way, you are possibly an ideal viewer for this movie.
The 2020 Oscar nominations.
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A review of Netflix's Dracula, from the creators of Sherlock.
A review of the new Netflix crime docuseries about former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez.


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I am working on a Java Applet.
I have been trying to find a way to slightly blur the screen when an invalid action is preformed by the user.
My idea is this: redrawing the current background image slightly skewing where the image gets drawn by a few pixels and adjusting alpha as necessary.
public void paint(Graphics gfx){ gfx.drawImage(buffer, xShake, yShake, this); } public void shake() { fade.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(AlphaComposite.SRC_OVER, alpha)); fade.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON); //adjust xShake and yShake somewhere in here (maybe) alpha += 0.10f; if (alpha >= 1.0f) { alpha = 0.0f; } else{ repaint(); } }
My question is now, how would you guys go about making the screen blur, the above attempt failed. If there is an existing java class that handles this, that would be great.
The above is just my current idea on how I might be able to do it, I don't know why it isn't working.
When I adjust xShake and yShake in the method, I have final image back in it's original position by the end of the method. When that's the case, no change happens on the applet. Otherwise, if I have xShake and yShake end at a spot other than the original, a mere fade occurs...
Any help is always appreciated, thank you!


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Struggling to find the best buy-to-let mortgage in Wisbech? speak to one of our buy to let mortgage advisers today
The term 'buy to let' generally refers to either the practice of buying a property to be let for profit or to the type of mortgages used to purchase a property for such letting. Many countries, both in the western world and in the developing nations, have seen a surge in the growth of the buy to let property market in the last 2 decades and this has fuelled a growth in amateur landlords and the but to let mortgage providers who are keen to encourage and profit from them in turn. In addition, this growth has generated a lot of commerce in other related sectors such as buy to let insurance.
Buy to Let Deal of the Day 11th Jan 2017
Many countries, both in the western world and in the developing nations, have seen a surge in the growth of the buy to let property market in Wisbech the last 2 decades and this has fuelled a growth in amateur landlords looking for quality mortgage advice, this is why mortgage brokers in Wisbech who specialise in Buy-to-let are so important and the but to let mortgage providers who are keen to encourage and profit from them in turn. In addition, this growth has generated a lot of commerce in other related sectors such as buy to let insurance.
Wisbech Buy to let mortgages have been available in the UK since the mid-nineties and they are specifically designed for investors to borrow money to purchase property in the private rental sector. The amount that a prospective but to let investor can borrow is generally determined by the rental valuation of the property. The annual income for a rented property has to cover a certain percentage of the mortgage repayments, the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) states that landlords should seek to be able to obtain gross rent returns equivalent to between 130 per cent and 150 per cent of the rental property's mortgage repayments, this takes into account the surplus rent to cover costs of property maintenance and slack periods when the property may be vacant of tenants.
Wisbech Buy To Let Mortgages.
Some buy to let mortgage lenders in Wisbech will lend you a maximum sum based on a multiple of your salary (usually a multiple of three) plus a percentage of the forecast rental income on the property. So if your annual salary is said 30,000 Franks and the forecast rental income is 10,000 Franks they will lend you 95,000 Franks. Other mortgages, in addition to factoring in your salary, will include any existing loan commitments you have, and then apply what is known as the 'deduction rule'. This rule relates to the annual mortgage payments worked out at a pre-set level of interest.
Buy to let mortgage interest rates are generally fairly close to residential mortgage rates but will generally be slightly higher and typically charge higher fees. This is due to the fact that buy to let loans are considered by the financial sector to represent a greater risk than residential owner-occupier mortgages, and they generally are.
The Situation in the UK About Buy To Lets
The buy to let market literally 'exploded' in the Wisbech around the beginning of the millennium with rising property prices and the increasing availability of buy to let funding fueling a surge in would-be investors trying to cash in on the trend of the market. One reason for their popularity is the tax advantages that are available to the UK buy to let investors. Rental income is treated just like a salary by the Inland Revenue, and is therefore often taxed at 22% or even 40%. However, landlords are allowed to deduct costs from the taxable portion of their rental income, and these costs can include the interest of the buy to let mortgage repayments as well as maintenance costs on the property. These tax incentives made the buy to let market very attractive for both professional investors and amateurs looking to make the most out of their savings.
Would-Be Buy-to-let Investors
The market peaked around 2007 and now the market is saturated in many areas across the country with too many properties available to tenants. While buy to let is generally not a good idea for people who do not possess some extra budget there are a lot of remortgage deals which will fund a deposit for a home. If you are worried about losing money during void periods many companies will provide insurance which can deliver as much as six months mortgage payments in the event of a property in Wisbech remaining unoccupied.
You may still be lucky, and find a hotspot but you need to do your homework and the figures correctly. Buy to let trends differ from town to town and literally from street to street. Good advice for potential investors is to visit the local letting agents who should be able to tell you who is renting what at the moment so you can define your target audience. It could be students, young professionals or families, for example. Look for areas that do have a shortage of properties and for indicators that people will move there, such as new business developments.
Buy to let mortgage deals are still rife and the rates are almost as competitive as with conventional deals. The mantra with your buy-to-let must be 'don't expect to get rich quickly'. You need to look long-term: an absolute minimum of five years – but probably nearer to ten years.
How do you really start a buy to let propertyinvestment business in today's market? Let me give you the ten things I think you needto consider.
Hi there, my name's Tony Law from your Your First Four Houses.
My channel'sall about helping you get to investment property number four as quickly and as painlessly aspossible.
Let me give you these ten things, I feel, you need to have at the forefrontof your mind in order to be successful in this property investing world of ours.
Thevery first one is to, you need to understand your financial goals.
Let me give you a specificway you should do this.
You basically need to understand how much money you're spendingevery single month.
Download three months worth of bank statements,work out what you're actually spending every single month, and that is the target thatyou need to hit, essentially, to be financially free.
The sooner you hit that target, thesooner you can basically give up the day job, essentially, and focus far, far more of yourenergy on building your property portfolio.
When you know what that number actually is.
Now I run a paperless office, largely, but when you know what that number is I needyou to do something vert manual for me.
I need you to go and draw up one of these, it'seffectively the kind of thing that you'd see if you were trying to raise finance for aparticular project.
At the top of it, you're going to have thattarget, that number that you've just worked out.
Running up the side, you're going tohave integers at about, say, 500 pounds, little marks going up the side.
Whenever you do adeal that puts money in your pocket you need to colour that in.
It may sound primitivebut it's incredibly powerful.
I've recommended this to a lot of people that use it and theyfind it really, really helps them keep focused.
Moving on quickly to point number two, youneed to work out how much time you can give to this.
Really, if you're working full-time,that doesn't mean that you haven't got time to do this.
You've got your lunch times, you'vegot your evenings, and you've usually got your weekends.
How much time can you give to this? The moretime you can give, the better and faster results you're going to achieve.
Next number three,I need you to start building your education.
Now, there's a number of ways that you cando this.
You can look at podcasts, you can get books, webinars, you can employ a coach,mentor, you can look at some courses.
The sooner that you can build your knowledge,the sooner you're going to better achieve bigger and better deals.
One of the specificthings I'd like you to consider if maybe this is an area of weakness for you, is to maybeget some training on negotiation because this is a real key thing that will really helpyou when you're speaking to agents or when you're speaking specifically to seller.
Pleaselook into that.
Number four, the sooner that you can focuson picking your strategy, the sooner you're going to be successful.
Now, I like peopleto focus on maybe one or two core strategies.
Rather than having more of a shotgun approach,it's better to be more laser focused.
See if you can work out which one or two corestrategies would work really well for you and start focusing on those.
Number five,research the different areas and work out where you should be actually buying.
Now,I did a video recently on this that basically gives you a really detailed explanation onhow to work out supply and demand in any area within about 60 seconds.
You need to lookat other things.
In the area that you're actually looking at,what's the situation with regards to perhaps new employment? What about transport links?Are they being improved, specifically? What about population? Is there an increase ordecline that you've noticed? All of these things can really dictate the better areasto actually invest.
Point number six, go and see a mortgage broker.
You need to find outwhat kind of mortgages you can get.
Again, I did another video here on how to actuallyimprove your credit rating.
I would strongly suggest that you watch that.
That will giveyou some real key tips to improve your credit rating, which is going to mean you'll getbetter access to better mortgages at lower rates.
Number seven, you need to learn how to findgreat deals.
Now, I know that this is a massive topic and we can go into this in a lot moredetail.
Essentially, you do need to understand how to find better deals.
You need to learn,very specifically, what makes a good deal for you.
Honestly, this is a real key thing.
You may have no funds at all but if you can find and negotiate really good deals, honestly,you'll never have problem raising the funds.
I'll invest with you if you can find reallygood deals.
In essence, there's lots of people around you that will be delighted to put moneyinto the deals if you can find them.
Next, start building connexions.
When I say that,I'm talking about connexions with agents.
I'm talking about connexions with deal sources.
I'm talking about connexions with people who can help you fund your next deal.
The sooner you start building genuine, sincere,honest, full-on relationships, friendships with people, honestly, the sooner you're goingto actually be successful in this property world of ours.
Number nine is simply exitstrategy.
So many people I talk to have no clear exit strategy.
They don't really understandtheir exit strategy at all.
I always encourage people to consider two exit strategies.
Iwould love you to do the same.
Even before you buy that very first property, just consider,are you holding this for the long term? Is this a flip that you want to churn to getthe money out very, very quickly? If things don't work out, is there a second way outfor you? Number ten, this is the big one.
This is whereso many people stumble and that is, you have to take action.
Now I know that seems bleedinglyobvious but so many people, they build their knowledge, they learn, learn, learn, but theystop at the action taking point.
Frankly, I don't really understand this if I'm beingtruthful with you.
I think it's largely down to fear quite often.
Quite often, perhaps,having somebody behind you that's maybe got their hand in the small of your back and justpushing you forwards or just giving you a bit of a shove to actually take that actionmight be really beneficial for you.
Let me ask you a question.
How many properties haveyou actually been out to see this week or this month? If they answer is none, then you're not takingany action, I would respectfully suggest.
You need to take that action.
I really hopethat you found that helpful.
I just want people to be successful in this property world ofours and to get to that magical place where the income that's coming in surpasses themoney that's going out.
If this sort of stuff really helps you, I am absolutely over themoon.
My name is Tony Law from Your First Four Houses.
I really hope you found thisone helpful.
I look forward to seeing you in the next video.
Before I go, please ifyou can take a moment to subscribe to my YouTube channel, if you haven't already done so.
Thatwould be absolutely brilliant.
If Facebook's more of your kind of thing, please like myFacebook page.
Thanks ever so much.
I look forward to seeing you in the next video.
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Welcome to Property Investments UK,and today we're going to be looking at a couple of client's questions.
This one is regardinghow to best work out rental demand, so if the property is going to be popular when youcome to rent it out.
The question is "Hi, Rob.
Hope you're well.
Just a quick question.
What is the best way to work out rental demand?" There's a couple of ways to do this, whetheryou're looking at maybe single lets or HMOs which are classed as houses of multiple occupation.
They're slightly different, you see, depending on how you're looking to see what the levelof demand in a particular area for those types of listings.
The first way is to simply checkhow many listings there are in an area and how long they've been on the market for.
Ifa property's been on the market for a long time, available to let, it might be somethingto do with that property or it might be an indication that in the area, there might be toomuch supply and not enough demand, so it might not be the best of area to currently buy inor you need to do something slightly different with your property strategy in terms of providinga slightly different type of property or different standard or property to make sure yours isrented over and above anyone else's.
Essentially you're looking to see how much propertiesthere are in an area and how long they've been on the market.
That's key for not only properties that arecurrently showing as lives, properties that are available to let, but it's also good tohave a look at properties that have currently lets, so when you're looking at Rightmove andZoopla, they're the two main property portals you'll probably be using on a day to day basis,you can check on there or tick a filter that gives you access to properties that have "LetAgreed" on it.
If you do a property search in your chosen area, so whether that's Manchesteror Liverpool or London, whatever the location might be, and tick "Property" or "Let Agreed"it'll give you an indication of how active that property market is and how many of thoseproperties.
If you're showing 50 property listings and only 2 of those are let agreedthan maybe there's a bit too much supply.
If you're showing 50 listings and 20, 30,40 of those are let agreed, then you can have a bit more confidence and more active demandor buoyant area.
One thing Rightmove and Zoopla will also showyou is how long the listing has been live, so you can see when that listing first cameon the market.
For example if you're checking listings in March and the listings showingwas 1st of January or was 2nd of January, you know it'd been on the market for a coupleof months.
That's probably an indication that the market isn't that buoyant.
As we saidearlier it might be a problem with that particular property, either the description, the photos,or the type of listing, but I'd also look at not just one property but a couple of otherdifferent listings in that area to see if maybe is actually the area.
There's just notas much demand for rental properties.
Obviously the key thing to look for is thelowest listing time possible, so if you're in a very buoyant area those properties willbe coming on the market and then getting rented very quick.
If they're only on the marketfor a couple of days, perfect.
If it's a couple of weeks, that's generally okay.
That's probablyactive for most locations around the UK.
If it's been on for a couple of months then that'sprobably an indication that it's not as quite an active area.
When it comes to HMOs we tend to use slightlydifferent property portals, so Rightmove and Zoopla is fantastic for straight forward vanillabuy to lets to check that kind of rental demand, but the majority of listings for HMOs or sharedaccommodation, individual rooms, is going to be using the main website if the momentis Spare Room.
You look for something similar.
You look for the level of listings, the amountof kind of demand and supply within these particular areas and how long listings havebeen live for.
You just follow the same kind of process just use probably slightly differentportals.
For straightforward vanilla buy to lets, Rightmove and Zoopla are great.
If you'relooking at HMOs then Spare Room is great, so hopefully that helps give you a bit ofan indication of how to check the rental demand in any particular area.
Thank you for watching this video.
If youlike this content and you'd like to join our free online property training course, we'vegot a link for it on this page and in there we cover a range of different property strategiesto help you get started either building a long-term property portfolio or creating cashflowing property business.
We also look at ways to increase your return on investmentwith any of the properties you may be considering, and we also have a couple of cheat sheetsand downloadable documents in there as well.
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Liberty University welcomed 2013 with its annual Winterfest, a two-day new year celebration chock full of explosive concerts, inspirational speakers, and exciting activities.
Guests also enjoyed all the recreational amenities Liberty has to offer, including indoor sports, rock climbing, swimming, ice skating, and extreme winter sport activities at Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre, Liberty's year-round snowless ski slope that is the first of its kind in North America. As if that were not enough, the festivities included two nights of concerts lined up with some of the biggest names in Christian music.
More than 7,000 flooded the Vines Center for the event's kickoff on Sunday, which opened up with beats and rhymes from rapper and Liberty alumnus Humble Tip. Jamie Grace then took the stage for a soothing set of melodies. Audiences were surprised when headliner TobyMac joined her on stage for a duet performance.
Royal Tailor then shared its soul-heavy pop/rock tunes with the crowd, followed by a stunt performance by Peter Nestler and an electric set from Christian rock vets Kutless. Christian speaker Nick Hall challenged the masses from the Bible, embodying the two-fold purpose of Winterfest — to provide top quality entertainment as well as challenge guests in their faith. In addition to speakers, group breakout sessions were offered for Christians to encourage one another in their faith.
Sunday's slate wrapped up with a stellar performance by Liberty alumnus TobyMac, blending rock and hip-hop with no shortage of lights, stunts, and energy.
On New Year's Eve, an even larger crowd packed the Vines, welcomed by rapper KJ-52. The early acts included fist-pumping jams from the alternative rock band Fireflight, contemporary worship from The Museum, and a passionate, rocking set by Building 429. Illusionist Brock Gill wowed the crowds before Christian rock heavy hitters RED took the stage. The explosive performance included pyrotechnics accompanying heavy riffs, pounding beats, and melodic hooks.
While the audience's hearts slowed from the pulse-pounding set, speaker Bob Lenz delivered a powerful Gospel presentation, reaching hearts on a spiritual level.
As midnight neared, Casting Crowns took the stage, sharing deep, spiritual lyrics to the beat of their contemporary rock sound. The crowds then bid adieu to 2012 and rang in 2013 with a roar of cheers as balloons and confetti rained from the Vines ceiling.
"Winterfest 2012 was a huge success at Liberty University," said Matthew Hockensmith, Winterfest coordinator. "Bob Lenz delivered a powerful message encouraging those in attendence to seek their identity, meaning, and purpose in Christ; not in what the world deems important. Over 200 people made first time decisions or recommitted their life to Christ."
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Two of the most impressive aspects of the game were the Seahawks defense coming through with clutch stops under pressure and the long passes by QB Russell Wilson. The Hawks' defense has come through time and time again this year, keeping the Seahawks competitive in every game this season.
Russell Wilson looked good with some long completions early in the game. And he made a clutch pass at the end to win the game. Wilson finished 16 of 27 for 293 yards, his best performance of the year. But it was clear that Russell Wilson is no Tom Brady. The Patriots QB was extremely impressive to see in live action. Super poised in the pocket, he simply picked his targets and delivered a laser pass for a completion. He made it look effortless. It was only when the Seahawks finally pressured him late in the game did his smoothness and accuracy fall apart in the final minutes of the game.
Just like they did when in the final seconds of the recent Seahawks-Packers game, the stadium went berserk when Sidney Rice caught a deep ball from Wilson for a touchdown with about a minute left in the game. The fans, myself included, were in utter disbelief. Yes, we imagined the home team could win after the previous touchdown but few of us thought they would actually pull it off.
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