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May 7, 2012
Today is Day 2 of doing the Live Below the Line 2012 campaign. It's a massive charity campaign where you can't eat more than £1's worth of food over 5 days. It was started by the Global Poverty Project and the Oaktree Foundation in Australia and now it's spread to the US, New Zealand and …


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Business ownership percentage is very important for obtaining small business loans. If one person has less than 80%, they usually cannot close the loan by themselves. Many lenders want 100%.
Apply below for programs that allow less than 100% to complete funding.
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100% Business ownership NOT required for financing.
- 100% is not needed.
- Shareholders as low as 25% for some bank statement loan programs. Most options require at least 51% to 81%.
- 1 Owner can sign in many cases.
- Remaining shareholders do not need to sign for some programs.
Top 7 Benefits:
1. Financing programs that fund with less than 100% ownership.
Get approved and also be able to close the loan with less than all the owners applying and signing on the note.
2. 1 owner may be able to close by themselves.
Another benefit is the other owners do not need to sign. Therefore, you don't have to negotiate with them and convince them to sign on the loan.
3. 1 Shareholder may be able to make decisions.
You can make the decisions on the company loan even though you are only one of the shareholders for some options. Decide how much to borrow, for how long and any other options offered by the lender.
4. The other partners do not provide a personal guarantee.
The personal assets of the non signing partners are protected. Many are not spouses or family members and their assets are separate when applying.
The personal assets of other shareholders will not be at risk under the loan, which is significant. Others often hold Real Estate and other assets separately.
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Related Business Ownership percentage issues
Decision making.
When there are several owners with similar shareholder percentages, it is difficult to complete many basic transactions such as sales with vendors, contracts and contract changes.
Shareholder percent of assets.
Assets that are in the company name are owned by all of the owners.
There is excellent business financing against vehicles with monthly payments. Carefully review how shareholders are specifically listed on all assets, including on titles for loans against vehicles.
Selling, negotiating, or transferring joint business assets
Assets in the company name with multiple owners must have the approval of all of them for any changes. Everyone must agree and sign for the sale, transfer and any loan against an asset.
Anyone excluded from the sale invalidates that sale.
Selling with multiple owners.
All must approve and sign any sales contract when the company is sold. One party cannot sell it alone.
Ownership control of Checking and savings accounts
Checking, savings and other commercial accounts can be opened without all owners. Authorized signer information is keep on file by financial institutions.
One signer also cannot remove another signer from the account. Other signers must agree to their own removal. If one owner wants to be on an account alone, they can open a business checking account with themselves as the only signer.
They should check what the banks' rules are for making changes. Changes such as closing an account, withdrawing money are difficult later without specific documentation.
Changing stakeholder percentage.
Update the articles of incorporation or organization to increase or decrease these sipercentages. The articles may vary by state.
Many times, corporate articles do not list share percentages. Most articles list principals such as President, Vice president, CEO and officers. The lender does not have the breakdown.
A big reason businesses fail is disputes between owners, including who has the authority to make decisions and complete transactions. Including specific percentages and shares owned eliminates many future disputes. New corporations should include this information in their paperwork.
Use addendums and corporate change paperwork to add this information. Another option is to add a notarized corporate change resolution or additional information page. File these with the Secretary of State.
FAQ: Frequently asked Questions:
Do I need 100% ownership to get a business loan?
100% is not always needed to get a small business financing. Programs are available with percent ownership below 80% and as low as 25 in some cases.%.
Does my business partner have to sign if they don't want to?
Partners do not have to sign when one has enough ownership. Ask the lender what is required for closing.
Can I remove my partner from the business to get a loan?
No, and you cannot remove your partner without their approval in general. Lenders do not want quick changes just to get the funding. Get approval from the funding source first before attempting this.
Conclusion: Business loans closed with one signer has major advantages
As described, one company shareholder with the authority to close a loan has many advantages. They can make all the decisions on their own. They do not have to discuss and get agreement from others, which is often a major hurdle. This includes financing and applying for working capital loans.
Choose financing that funds and closes with one owner. Find out the requirements from the lender and make changes to your company profile for insufficient shareholder percentage, if needed.

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Celebrities are speaking out after a documentary exploring the singer's conservatorship premiered last week
A number of celebrities have spoken out in support of Britney Spears, following the premiere of a New York Times documentary which delved into the singer's ongoing conservatorship and the resulting #FreeBritney movement.
The film, titled Framing Britney Spears, tracks the singer's rise to pop stardom, her struggles with mental health and subsequent hospitalisation, and her notorious conservatorship battle, which has seen her father control her career and finances for over a decade.
In light of its release on Friday (February 5), Miley Cyrus gave a shout-out to Britney during her performance at yesterday's Super Bowl (February 7). "We love Britney," she declared during the rendition of her 2009 hit "Party in the U.S.A".
Miley Cyrus says "we love Britney" during her Super Bowl #TikTokTailgate performance. https://t.co/UAejlDmeOI— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 8, 2021
Paramore's Hayley Williams said of the doc on Twitter: "Holy fuck. No artist today would have to endure the literal torture that media/society/utter misogynists inflicted upon her. The mental health awareness conversation, culturally, could never be where it is without the awful price she has paid."
In an Instagram comment, Khloe Kardashian said she was "praying for queen Britney", adding that the documentary is "so, so, so sad".
Sarah Jessica Parker also showed her support for the singer, simply tweeting: "#FreeBritney."
RuPaul's Drag Race star Tatianna said: "Framing Britney reaffirmed my hatred for Jamie Spears, my dislike of Justin Timberlake, my disappointment in Diane Sawyer, and my love for Britney."
the Framing Britney Spears doc holy fuck.— hayley from Paramore 🥀 (@yelyahwilliams) February 6, 2021
no artist today would have to endure the literal torture that media/society/utter misogynists inflicted upon her.
the mental health awareness conversation, culturally, could never be where it is without the awful price she has paid.
Courtney Love previously spoke out about the situation, claiming that she knows "more about the Spears case than almost anyone". The Hole frontwoman added: "It's one of the worst things I've ever seen done to another woman, and trust me I've seen it all."
Britney's father, Jamie Spears, was appointed her conservator in 2008 after she was admitted to psychiatric hospital for five days. Despite the conservatorship scheduled to end in 2009, it's still ongoing today. Though it's mostly been handled privately, it's come to public attention in recent years, in part due to the #FreeBritney movement – a hashtag started by concerned fans campaigning for Britney's independence.
The conservatorship was recently extended, and Britney's former estate manager says she could be under it "for the rest of her life". The singer's lawyers have said she won't perform again until her father is removed as her conservator.
Watch the trailer for Framing Britney Spears below.
Her phenomenal rise to superstardom. A downfall that shocked the world. And now, an ensuing conservatorship battle. #NYTPresents: Framing Britney Spears. Premiering Feb. 5 on @FXNetworks and @Hulu. pic.twitter.com/BZBkec7mMt— FX Documentaries (@FXDocs) January 21, 2021


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I'm sharing today about how I organize my family photos AND how I create our yearly albums! As a organizational junkie (well, before kids, at least), I love having a system in place so it's easy to find what I'm looking for when I want to print or share a photo. I also like to keep it organized so that when I create our yearly albums, I know that I'm not missing any that got lost in the shuffle.
So first! Our yearly albums! This is a project that I started a few years ago when my son was around one. Before that, I'd been doing a quick little press printed album each year with the basic highlights of our year together. It was just me and my husband then, so we'd have a photo or two from each adventure we went on, our anniversary and birthdays, that sort of thing. I wish now that I'd been better about printing out EVERYTHING the way I do now, because let me tell you, I NEVER go back in the old hard drives and archives to just browse through those photos for fun. It's so sad when photos just live on your computer! I have such great memories of looking through my parent's big photo albums (the binder kind with the sticky pages), that when my son was born, I knew I wanted to give that same gift to him. So here's how I do it, from start to finish!


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Armonica are an Italian duo who despite only working together for 12 months, are already kicking up a storm on the circuit, especially with their productions! With a release on Diynamic Music in December that was highly acclaimed, and a release dropping this week on andhim's Superfriends Records, 2018 promises to be a huge year for the guys!
We sat down with them recently and spoke about their recent productions, their Cocorico residency in Italy, and their plans for 2018…
Interview with Armonica
Hey guys, how are you? Great to meet you both
Very well thank you … we're very happy to to chat with MI4L.
How has the start to 2018 treated you so far?
2018 started very well … after 1 year of this "Armonica" fusion we can not complain.
We're digging the new track of yours on Superfriends Records. It's an awesome remix of andhim's 'Huso'. Tell us more about how you came to be involved with the label?
For us it was wonderful news .. we loved andhim, their tracks were and are fundamental parts of our sets .. so when the request arrived we were incredulous, then of huso … one of our favourite records.
And how did you both meet? Were you instantly of the belief that you guys would collaborate so well together as a duo, both as producers and playing out?
We met because we were both, and still are residents of the club cocoricò, in Italy. From here we started playing b2b and from here we decided to join forces both in our dj sets and in our productions.
How would you describe your sound?
We do not really love defining ourselves on a particular sound … The truth is that we go to the studio and start playing with the machines .. we do everything with the maximum fun.
What musicians would you say are your main source of inspiration?
We decided to share our listenings on one of our playlists called goat serious on spotify GOAT SERIOUS di armonica
You released on Diynamic Music last month. How did it feel to have another highly esteemed imprint so keen on you being a part of their label?
For us Diynamic has always been a point of reference .. we see each other again in the sound .. for us it was a great achievement!
Diynamic Radio Show January 2018 by Armonica
* Turn your mobile device horizontally if you do not see the SoundCloud player or CLICK HERE.
What is the dance scene like where you live in Riccione, Italy?
Riccione for Italy in particular, cocorico has always offered a great musical proposal … I think that Italy is very forward in the musical product and at this moment Italian artists are doing a great job in the world music scene.
Do you find where are you now to be the most beneficial music and career wise?
Sea, sun, music and piadina… what else
You guys have been in the game for quite a number of years. What advice would you give to someone starting out?
We do not want to give advice to anyone … the only thing we can say is to have fun in the studio and not to follow the fashions … but above all to never give up.
How's 2018 looking for you? Is it due to be an exciting year?
We are used to never expecting anything … however, for now it has started very well .. we will continue to work in the studio with the sole objective of making people dance with our music.
Any further goals or ambitions yet to achieve in the future?
Just to keep on putting out music that people continue to want to dance to. We have releases coming up on Get Physical, RKJVK, and MoBlack Records soon so watch out!
Armonica's remix of 'Huso' by andhim is out on 26th January on Superfriends Records


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Guildford Hockey Club Est. 1912
The Under 10 Girls were out in force again today with Lightning, Storm and Fire teams all playing a series of matches. The future of GHC looks bright with this kind of commitment and quality (11 wins from 12)...
Guildford's U10 girls "Lightning" team played in a mini tournament at Reigate Grammar Priory Hockey Club. They played four matches against Horsham and against Reigate.
The girls played well as a team and won all four matches 2-0, 1-0, 2-1 and 1-0.
They rotated between positions so that they all took a turn playing in attacking, mid fielding and defending positions.
Goals were scored by Caitlin, Rithika, Cecily and Tamara.
They all had a great time and are looking forward to the next match!
Incredible start of the second half of the season for the Storm girls!
Before the tournament began we had a great team chat which encouraged the girls to put in practise all the things we have been talking at training. They were eager to go and showed great team commitment.
What I liked the most was the real team effort, communication between them and trusting each other on the field. We are finally using space and playing the ball wide and it is paying off. Fantastic hockey from everyone in the team and determination resulted in Storm winning all their four matches ( 3-0, 4-1, 2-0 and 4-1).
Niamh, Isobel and Bea were brilliant in attacking and managed to score some lovely goals as a result. Elsa and Martha supported the forwards constantly making it difficult for the opposition to attack. Grace and Mimi did a fantastic job at the back, using the ball wide and distributing it so well to the rest of the team support by Rosie who with a strong hits was clearing the balls and supporting the defence. Goals by Niamh, Isobel, Bea, Rosie and Elsa.
Well done girls for entertaining us; coaches and parents had a lot of fun. And thanks to parents for driving all the girls to Reigate. Here is to continuing improving, working together and having fun.
Team: Isobel, Grace, Niamh, Elsa, Rosie, Martha, Mimi & Bea
Coach: Mercedes
On Sunday 13th January post a festive break Guildford Girls U10s started the 2019 year with an away trip to Reigate to take part in a friendly festival.
Thankfully for those recovering from the Christmas relaxation it wasn't too early a start and the team arrived full of cheer and keen to get back to matches and putting all their hard work in to practice.
We had three games and the key for the girls was to see if they could remember the lessons learned from the pre-Christmas tournament at Teddington and also to build on the hard work they had been putting in as both individuals and playing as team over the last few months.
To say the coaches were impressed would be an understatement! Before the matches started we asked the girls to focus on three things: think fast and be switched on from the first whistle, keep the structure and think of your role in the team as opposed to yourself, play hard and compete for each ball and for each other.
It was brilliant to see them do this from the off and continue to do it all the way through each match.
Overall we won 2 vs Reigate and Horsham and lost one game vs East Grinstead.
The first game we won 4-0 and Fire showed their dominance from the first whistle, moving the ball round well, competing and winning most 50:50s and scoring through Emily and Martha. Great performance to open the 2019 year and set us on out winning way.
The second game we won 1-0. What we really liked about this game was that while we were on top and controlling the game, we didn't panic when the goal didn't come and stuck to the job confident we would score if we kept playing the right hockey. And we did! Great attacking play by Emily, Emilia and great linking and passing by Martha, Sophie and Issy in the midfield.
The last game we lost 0-1 but it was a brilliant game to watch and while we always like to win, being part of a great game and coming out second is also fun and we can sometimes learn more from these games. The girls played really well and it could have gone either way with chances for us in the opening 5 minutes and then a sustained period of pressure from EG leading to a goal. Great to see or defenders Issy and Bibi getting really involved in this game and also our star goalkeeper Beth being called in to action too!
Overall great to be back on a pitch, to see the girls responding so well to the coaching on Fridays and Sundays and then being keen to take on board lessons learned to improve further.
Onwards and upwards as Guildford Fire start to ignite the hockey scene ......
Team: Beth, Bibi, Issy K, Issy T, Sophie, Martha (1), Emily (4), Emilia
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Agro Alpin Innsbruck
02. - 05. November 2023 | Trade fair for agriculture and forestry technology
The Agro Trade Fair for agriculture and forestry technology to share his visitors on a sustainable, multifunctional agriculture and forestry information. This exhibition would raise awareness of the activities of farmers and the use of natural resources, forest and soil create.
The Agro Alpin will take place on 4 days from Thursday, 02. November to Sunday, 05. November 2023 in Innsbruck.
02.11.2023 - 05.11.2023*
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Brief History
The University School of Law was established in June 1977. Initially the classes were conducted at the School of Languages of the University. Than after Acharatlal Girdharlal Charity Trust donated for construction of Independent Building and foundation stone(Shilanyas) laid down by Prof.Pratap Chandra Chundar, Hon'ble Minister of Education, Union of India on 19-11-1977 In the year of 1982 the School was sifted to its own building.
In the beginning two courses at LL.M. were offered in the subject of Commercial Laws and Criminal Laws.
As per the Survey conducted by "India Today and ORG Group" for 2012, the School of Law is Ranked 1st Position in Gujarat and 17th Position in India to Impart Legal Education.
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Some great insights into the success of one of the most amazingly awful books to make Amazon's bestseller lists:
Zachary Bonelli - "Tunnel Vision"
... the lens of hyper-consumerism changes attitudes toward literature to such an extant that sane, intelligent individuals end up drawing nonsensical and bizarre conclusions.
... there is no paradox when it comes to Billionaire Dinosaur's popularity. My natural conclusion: a significant number of individuals in the Western world are so philosophically and intellectually weak (due to poor education and the omniprescence of manipulative market systems) that they blissfully and mindlessly consume harmfully insipid entertainment. Those who have bought into the central tenets of consumerism cannot draw this conclusion. It does not fit with any consumerist system of thought about how the world works. Hence, the quote that began this post; Phronk eventually throws up his hands and declares that, since he can find nothing any of substance or quality in the writing or the publication of Billionaire Dinosaur, its quality must lie in its effect on others, because if it's popular, then it must generate quality somewhere and somehow.
There's actually a germ of truth to the idea that "if it's popular, it must somehow be good," better known as the Fifty Million Elvis Fans Principle. It's just not the germ of truth that the fellows Bonelli quotes think it is.
Here's how this works. If you take anything that's popular and you scrutinize it enough, you'll find something about it that draws an audience. Note that this something is not always a good thing; sometimes what makes something popular is the fact that it plays to an audience's worst instincts, or its need to have its prejudices confirmed. Billionaire Dinosaur (there's more to that title but I won't print it here, trust me) seems to getting the attention it does mostly for the same reason people slow down to stare at a road accident. it's not the work itself that people are interested in, but the buzz around the work.
From what I can tell, a fair majority of the interest in creative work offered in a mass-market context operates along the same lines. The work itself — the story, the experience we have with it on a personal leve — becomes less important than the conversation around the work, which is something that takes place in public between people. It's easier to talk about something that happened between you and your friends than it is to talk about something that happened deep inside you, in big part because we practice doing the former a whole hell of a lot more than we do the latter. (Yes, I say this even in the face of a whole subculture of navel-gazing and pseudo-psychologizing; the reasons why are worth a post unto itself.)
Another convenient side effect of this kind of socialization, in my purview, is how shows that present really ugly, vile material (Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones) can become mainstream hits. It's not that we've become by default inured to such things; it's that the water-cooler conversation around them, even if it doesn't take place at any particular water cooler, makes the material all the easier to stomach. If we're all grossed out together, then we're all by definition that much less grossed out, because we can share the feeling (and because the baseline for what constitutes an outlier for any one of us has been moved).
Does that count as "quality"? I suspect you could fashion an argument that it does; it's quality in the sense that it gives people something lively and stimulating to swap words over. But people can do that about something that has no value apart from the noise generated around it, and every conversation eventually ends. It may be fun to produce or read stuff that has no other significance, and which is in some way designed to be disposable, but one of the weird things about living in the digital age is how nothing ever really goes away completely. Our culture can now preserve anything for which the slightest rationale can be hatched to preserve it. Parallels come to mind of the gyres of plastic now found in our oceans. Not good parallels, as you might imagine.


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WPS-based PIM with calendar, todo and address book (Dan Khen/IBM EWS).
The calendar provides a means for a user to keep track of their day-to-day activities. The calendar allows you to view months at a glance and to schedule events for one or more days. The events may be scheduled to occur on a single day, daily, monthly, weekly, or yearly. To remind you of a given event, you can set an event alarm.
The ExCal package also includes a simple address book.
The Calendar is an example which demonstrates some of the key features of Workplace interface and the value of using IBM's Common User Access (CUA) methodology for user interface design and behavior.


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Converse One Star Academy Ox Shoes
Inspired by the classic retro silhouette, the Converse One Star Academy Ox Shoes utilise a low-cut profile. The upper's hairy suede has been rendered in an amber hue, broken through by black detailing on the lateral panels with a star cut-out flanked by parallel strips. The laces, collar and seams of the eye-stays are decorated in white to contrast the bright body but equally act as a complementary tone to the glossed off-white midsole. The sole is finished with a rubber stamp at the heel. With a Chuck Taylor influence being clear in the One Star series, this lifestyle orientated silhouette is perfect for the summer with perforations throughout to improve breathability and an Ortholite insole for additional comfort.
Converse have favoured hairy-suede across a wide range of the One Star series, potentially inspiring the colourways of recent collaborations with the likes of A$AP Nast.
Please be aware that, due to licensing restrictions, we cannot ship Patagonia, Converse, Levi's or Nike products to customers outside the UK and European Economic Area.
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The new online archive hosts 18,000 digitized documents and almost 50,000 photographs related to the artist's life and work.
Marcel Duchamp
The Hirshhorn Shows Off Its New Duchamp Collection
The Hirshhorn Museum, which previously had only one work by Duchamp, now ranks near the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art as holding the most prominent public collections of his work.
An Art Historian's Ode to His Mentors, Including Leo Steinberg and Beatrice Wood
Francis M. Naumann's Mentors is an accessible and richly detailed celebration of intense cross-generational exchanges.
Eight Women Visual Artists Use Duchamp's Provocation as a Springboard
Marcel Duchamp's "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" provides a provocative foundation for an exhibition of female artists who riff on the liminal spaces between ideas and events.
Bringing Back from Obscurity a Jamaican Photographer Who Worked with Duchamp
Enacting a posthumous reassessment, the book Percy Rainford: Duchamp's "Invisible" Photographer has poignantly rescued the neglected artist Percy Rainford from erasure.
A New Book Probes Duchamp's Last Hours of Life
Duchamp's Last Day is a bravo performance capturing the ephemerality of life and the physicality of art.
Imaging a City of Marcel Duchamp's Readymades
Have you ever accidentally walked into an occupied bathroom? That incredulous shock of embarrassment is precisely what the Swiss Institute's new exhibition conjures.
50 Years Ago Today, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage Played Chess
Spoiler alert: Cage lost … twice.
Dada's Holy Grail
Marcel Duchamp's zines leapt from their lair to entertain artists and educate the public.
Dalí and Duchamp's Lasting Friendship, and the Art It Might've Inspired
For the first time, an exhibition explores these artists' friendship and the visual parallels within their distinct work.
Deciphering Duchamp's Clues
The Turkish-American artist Serkan Özkaya and the novelist Augustus Rose discuss their fascinations with Duchampian detective work at Postmasters Gallery on Wednesday.
For Centennial of Duchamp's "Fountain," Some Museums Will Offer Free Admission with a Password
Dropping the right name could get you into a museum for free on Sunday, April 9.


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Help Us Save Our Beautiful Land
and preserve our way of life
We love our way of life and our open countryside and we wish to preserve its simplicity and beauty. Our purpose is to promote, encourage and pass down to our children the traditional values of a rural lifestyle, to protect our economy, our environment, our health and our beautiful land.
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Activity Update for Your North Texas Heritage Association
On Monday, April 13, 2020, our Association took the unusual action of trying to start a dialogue with APEX Clean Energy and EDF Renewables.
As you know, these two companies have, for some time now, been actively recruiting our neighbors to lease their land for wind farms. Many of you have been approached to sign contracts for your land as well. And even though there are far more of us who have not signed than have signed, the total amount of land now under lease is approaching the size necessary to start construction of a wind farm. Our membership is composed of landowners that firmly believe in property rights. It is part of our Texas heritage. But we also believe as Texans we owe our neighbors the common respect of not destroying their property values for our own personal gain. We are especially upset when these personal gains come from Government or County subsidies that originate from our own taxes.
There are other issues that we believe both APEX and EDF have overlooked, or have decided to ignore, that deeply concern us. One of the major concerns is the danger a wind farm could pose to our environment – we have known for some time that the migratory route of the highly endangered Whooping Crane flies through the land that APEX and EDF have leased for their turbines. To document this, NTHA contracted a respected Environmental Biologist consulting firm from Austin to do a rigorous, science-based, study of the area. The biologist has confirmed, beyond any doubt, that the Whooping Crane flyway passes exactly through the center of the proposed wind farm footprint, and further, that this area is a well-documented critical stopover area for the Whooping Crane. There are only 505 Cranes left in the wild, so the loss of even a single breeding pair to the APEX or EDF installations could severely affect the genetic pool that is needed for the survival of the species. For hundreds of years the Whoopers have stopped off in our tanks and wetlands to rest and feed before resuming their 5000-mile migration – so a loss of this magnitude would be of national significance.
So NTHA, in the hopes of convincing APEX and EDF to consider the terrible long-term impact their projects will have on this part of Texas, has written what's called a "Demand Letter" to both corporations. It was delivered today.
A Demand Letter, while not having the weight of a lawsuit, is a legal document that outlines the reasons why we believe APEX and EDF have, or shortly will, break several serious laws, the most well-known being the Endangered Species Act. It is a warning letter of sorts, and is used to try and find a mutually acceptable solution without having to resolve differences in a court of law. The letter was written by our lawyer, Bill Eubanks, from Eubanks & Associates in Colorado. Bill is widely recognized as the leading and most successful lawyer in this area of environmental law, and has extensive experience litigating issues like this, very successfully, in the past.
You need to know APEX and EDF do not have to accept our interpretation of the seriousness and folly of their plans. They can press ahead despite the overwhelming evidence found by our environmental survey. If they do, we intend to respond appropriately. But it is our hope that they will see reason and suspend their activities definitively – after all, both companies present themselves as champions of the environment, and drape themselves in the flag of the green environmental movement. They will not want to be known as the corporation that killed some of the last remaining examples of the most endangered species in North America. The spotlight is now on them and what they do.
To support these legal actions, we have initiated a publicity campaign that presents our concerns with the APEX and EDF projects. You will soon be seeing advertisements in our local papers, and hopefully coverage in the media, reporting on this development. We believe that the voting public needs to know our concerns.
So today marks a major turning point in the direction NTHA has taken to protect "our beautiful land" and to preserve the heritage we share as country folk. We will no longer sit by while others destroy the environment around us, and use Federal subsidies gained from our taxes to do it. If your friends ask you what is going on, tell them we have decided to fight the degradation of our way of life, and to defend the majestic birds who fly over our fields.
Considering the risks APEX and EDF pose to our community and our environment, irrevocably terminating their projects is the only resolution we will find acceptable.
We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We're Doing Something About It
North Texas Heritage Association is an organization that supports over 600 rural landowners representing over 420,000 acres of land in Clay, Jack and Montague counties, often ranchers, united to fight for our rural heritage. Our purpose is to promote, encourage and pass down to our children the traditional values of a rural lifestyle, to protect our economy, our environment, our health and our beautiful land. To this end, we choose to oppose the construction of industrial wind farm complexes in Clay, Jack and Montague counties.
To this end, we choose to…
Shannon (Clay Co.) Turbine Collapse is #6 in Top 10 Turbine Failures
Oppose Wind Farms
We choose to oppose the construction of a wind farm industrial estate in our communities and to actively convince our neighbors and civic leaders of the folly of this course of action.
Support SMAC & ENJJPT
We stand proud with our Euro-Nato Pilots and the Joint Jet Pilot Training Program (ENJJPT) who train over our land at low level routes. We support Sheppard Military Affairs Committee (SMAC) as they advocate for SAFB.
Protect our environment
We seek to protect our natural environment by supporting efforts to save our birds and our wildlife in their natural habitat.
Insist on Safety
We will hold civic leaders accountable for the safety issues created by wind turbines that have not been addressed by the wind companies.
Although strong believers in property rights, we are focused not only on the immediate but the long-term negative effects of wind farms and the irreversible encroachment of our lands.
The Facts
Jack County Tax Abatement Financial Analysis
Jack County citizens and their respective property values are under attack by speculative windfarm investments relying on abatements and hedges against the energy market for financial viability.
The Massive Heights of Wind Turbines
EDF Renewables and Apex are currently leasing land in Clay and Montague counties in an attempt to construct an industrial wind farm complex. The proposed heights of the wind turbines vary but the latest information is 480 feet to over 500 feet. Wind turbines over 600 feet tall are now being produced by some companies. 500 feet is the equivalent of a 50-story building in height. The Shannon wind farm turbines are currently 300 feet tall.
Tax Abatements & Federal Tax Subsidies for Wind Farm Companies
To date, no wind farm complex has been completed in north Texas without tax abatements from local county governments and/or local school districts. The wind farm companies already receive federal tax subsidies from the IRS. Federal tax subsidies (Production Tax Credits, or PTC) mean that the IRS grants tax relief on a produced kilowatt hour basis for wind farm corporations to subsidize their profits. While you and I pay all of our income tax, the wind farm companies often pay minimal income tax because of the dollar for dollar tax credits. When counties or school districts also give a tax abatement, they exempt the companies from paying much of the property taxes on their assets. Officials often grant property tax reductions in exchange for immediate funds. In each case, these foreign corporations receive tax breaks at the expense of the local residents.
Our National Defense & Economic Disaster
The proposed wind farms will interfere with two of Sheppard Air Force Base's (SAFB) low flying training routes. If SAFB loses three more routes, they face the danger of losing the ENJJPT Euro-Nato Jet Pilot Training Program. This would spell economic disaster for Wichita Falls and its MSA. The increased heights cause increased collision hazards as well as the interference and degradation of air control radar.
Wind Turbines Will Reduce Your Property Value
Wind Farms have a negative effect on property values. Michael McCann, of McCann Appraisal, LLC based in Chicago, concludes that: "Residential property values are adversely and measurably impacted by close proximity of industrial-scale wind energy turbine projects to the residential properties", up to 2 miles and a range of 25% to approximately 40% of value loss. In 2013, an Ontario Superior Court of Justice determined that landowners living near large wind farms do suffer from lower property values, with the court accepting a 22-55% reduction. Value reductions are starting to surface locally from the Shannon Wind Farm. See claycad.org for property reductions on Cobb Road. The negative aesthetics including the blinking red lights, shadow flicker and the whirring noise can be seen and heard from miles away and are discouraging prospective land buyers from the area.
Safety Issues Have Not Been Properly Addressed
Safety issues have not been properly addressed. If you take a look at the objective Daily Top 10s Wind Farm Failures Video you will see the Shannon Wind Farm collapse of Alterra's GE turbine 1.7-103 in 2017 as number 6. This same model has recently collapsed in another wind farm. This video prompts the question of whether the local volunteer fire departments are equipped to fight fires so high in the air. A common theme of the wind farm failures is investigations that do not produce answers as to the cause of the collapses, although they are quickly put back into operation. Safety is always an issue, especially in cold, rainy weather. Hazards include thrown blades or blade bits, ice throw, turbine fires that can spread to the local range, and tower collapses, all of which have happened relatively close to, or in, Clay and Montague Counties. NTHA has introduced ordinances for both Clay and Montague counties, where wind energy is totally unregulated, insuring safety setbacks of 2000 ft. from neighboring property lines. The ordinances have received support from county commissioners but have not been approved. NTHA will continue to hold civic leaders responsible for the safety issues created by the wind turbines.
Environmental Hazards & Disturbances
Wind turbines create environmental hazards and disturbances. Maybe the biggest and most well-documented hazards are to local birds, such as the endangered Whooping Crane and to bats that are critical to the health of our range land grasses. Wind turbines kill well over one million birds and countless bats every year in the United States. Bats are particularly vulnerable to wind turbines. Wind farms affect localized weather patterns often effecting local rainfall for ten miles from the turbines, cause infra-sound pollution and provoke a wide variety of well-documented human health effects in local residents. Other effects on the environment include driving away wildlife such as deer and wild turkeys, thereby ruining the environment for sportsmen and for ranchers who derive income from hunting leases.
"The proposed wind farms could impact flying training operations for two of Sheppard's low-level training routes in the area. These routes are vital to effectively training fighter pilots not just for the United States, but for our NATO allies as well – five of which only train fighter pilots here in Texas. The Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) Program partners review the Memorandum of Understanding every 10 years, and one of the reasons ENJJPT has repeatedly decided to stay at Sheppard is the availability of quality airspace for training. Sheppard AFB is the largest employer and the primary economic driver in this region, contributing almost $4 billion to the Texas economy every year. Maintaining Sheppard's military value is critical to the economic health of the region and it's just the right thing to do for our country. It is imperative to make sure we protect non-renewable national defense assets like these military training routes."
Frequently Asked Questions
My neighbor has signed on with the wind farm company. Since it will be right next to me anyway, why shouldn't I sign on, too, and get my share of the payments?
Just because your neighbor signed on doesn't mean the project is going to actually happen. More of your neighbors have not signed than have signed, and they are working hard to make sure the wind farm doesn't proceed. Even so, when you sign you are signing to lose at least 25% of your property value and also lose control of your own land for the next 40 years. No more hunting, no more hunting leases, your land will be scarred forever. And your community divided. What will you leave to your children and grandchildren? Read the lease the wind companies offer you with the help of a good lawyer… you will be amazed at how much of your "property rights" you will give up, and how few options you will be left with.
I have property rights. Why are you trying to tell me what to do with my land?
More than trying to tell you what to do with your land, we are trying to stop you from destroying the value of our land. We all have property rights, and we all can make choices with what to do with them. We also have a community and neighbors. What you do with your property will have longterm negative impacts on all your neighbors as well – wind turbines, for example, will drive down your neighbor's property values even as far away as ten miles or more. Studies have proven that as long as you can see a turbine, your property values will drop. We all have always been taught "Do unto your neighbor what you would have him do unto you".
Our small schools need the money from the wind farms to survive. Why shouldn't we take it?
The tax income from wind farms is eventually decreased by the income from property taxes as the surrounding land value decreases due to these same wind farms. The taxes paid by the wind farms is offset by the loss of net worth of the district's residents.
The wind farm money could pay for renovations on the Clay County courthouse. Wouldn't that be a good thing?
Not at the expense of our farming and ranching community. The County Government has a larger responsibility to the local residents than to non-resident foreign Corporations that don't even provide significant local employment.
I hear wind farm companies get huge income tax breaks from the federal government. Why are we giving them more subsidies locally?
An excellent question for which I have no answer. Why does a newly arrived foreign Corporation receive a tax break when a family who has been operating a local business and paying full taxes for over 100 years, receives nothing?
How do tax abatements work?
The Texas Legislature established the tax abatement programs in 2001 because, according to the law's advocates, the state's heavy reliance on property taxes was making it difficult to attract large industrial projects, for which property taxes are a major expense. Chapter 312 abatements exempt all of part of the increase in property value from taxation for as long as a decade. Chapter 313 abatements limit taxes for 10 years for school district maintenance and operations in exchange for property improvements and job creation. A 2018 report by the state comptroller found the program was taking $25.5 billion off the property tax rolls from 2016 through 2027. Eleven percent of the businesses receiving tax breaks are in the energy sector, including wind projects in more than a dozen mostly rural counties. Each company receiving a tax break is supposed to create at least 10 jobs. But the Statesman investigation found that the vast majority of renewable energy projects, which require far fewer people to operate than a manufacturing facility, have won waivers that allow them to sidestep that state requirement. Wind energy companies geared up this legislative session to keep their ride going, hiring at least 20 lobbyists, paying them as much as $1.2 million, as they sought to keep subsidies in place.
What is a reinvestment zone? Why shouldn't a wind farm qualify for that?
Talk about property rights infringement! A County can declare an industrial reinvestment zone covering a wide area of private properties that might include your land so they can receive tax subsidies. They can do this without your permission or even notification. You still have no obligation to sign a lease with a wind farm company, of course, but you now have no say or input into the foreign wind farm corporation installing a turbine just across your fence from your home.
I have been approached by a wind farm company about signing a lease. What are some things I need to be aware of?
First, get a lawyer who specializes in wind farm contracts – in the contract, all your obligations start with the phrase "… the landowner will…" and the foreign Corporation's obligations begin with "…The corporation may…". It goes downhill from there. Any layman stands no chance to protect his or herself from a corporate lawyer who has been recruiting hundreds of landowners for years. Maybe the best thing to be aware of is that a large majority of landowners who sign leases later regret doing so.
Once we start this can we ever stop it?
Talk with many of the landowners who signed on with the Shannon wind farm or the Bobcat Wind Farm south of Windthorst. Many are regretting their decision and they are stuck with their ill-informed choices. It is imperative that we protect our beautiful land and keep the rural landscape for generations to come.
Join the Fight
Get Involved
How can I join North Texas Heritage Association?
North Texas Heritage Association does not have any signed-up "Membership" per se. What we do have is a loosely knit group of supporters who share the common bond of wishing to stop these turbines from ever being built. Most, as a first move, sign the anti-wind farm petition to become affiliated with the Association – this gives North Texas Heritage Association your email address so we can include you in our mailouts and news notices. At this time there are over 600 supporters already signed up, representing more than 420,000 acres of land, with more signing up daily. We will be delighted to have you as a new member and will receive your help and support with gratitude.
What else can I do to support NTHA?
There is always something that supporters can do to help. Specifically, there are four ways each one of us can make a signficant contribution:
Contact Your County Commissioner
Contact your precinct's County Commissioner directly, either in person (always the most effective method) or by telephone, and inform him that you are steadfastly opposed to wind farms in your County. Be polite, but be sufficiently forceful that you leave no doubt in his mind that wind farm tax abatements or tax reinvestment zones are totally unacceptable to you. The Commissioners need to have a very clear understanding of what your wishes are as a citizen, taxpayer, and voter.
Contact the School Board
Contact all the directors on your local School Board, and do the same thing. You must call them all for this to be effective, as there are no precincts in an ISD. School Boards play an outsized role in approving wind farms, as the school tax abatements are significant, and wind farm companies can offer strong inducements for an ISD to vote in their own interests and against the very residents of their districts.
Contact Your Neighbors
Contact your neighbors about this issue and tell them your feelings. Don't assume that they already know about the danger, or that they are sufficiently knowledgeable regarding the urgency of this threat. Urge them to sign up for the petition above. This level of personal contact will be fundamental to the success of our endeavor.
Contribute Financially
And lastly, make a significant financial contribution to our cause. We are engaged in a struggle with multi-billion dollar foreign Corporations with deep pockets, and who have little regard for your wishes or concerns – they have demonstrated over and over that they will spend whatever it takes to establish their projects, and destroy your property values, health, and peace of mind in the process. The only way we can prevail is to fight them with talented legal and professional consultants who can present our case successfully. Such talent is very expensive. We do not levy membership fees or dues, and we have no corporate sponsorships – every penny we have comes from the contributions of individual landowners such as yourself.
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The wooden house withstands the strong winds and torrential rains that these months shake the Brazilian Amazon and all its extension. That's a quiet and beautiful place, full of fauna and native vegetation, 38 km from Santarém, in the Pará State. Miguel, a 32-year-old Spanish boy, lives there.
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How is going there regarding the coronavirus?
In Santarém, so far, the situation is calm. However, in the rest of
I have heard that there have been contagions in the indigenous populations, so they are creating their sanitary measures to avoid infection. The indigenous people can plant and fish, as they have always done, but the traditional activity of selling fish and agricultural products in the city is not an option. They continue crossing the river and going to the town to buy food, but always following hygiene precautions.
How is society behaving?
In Santarém, the use of gloves and mask is now mandatory. People are becoming aware of the seriousness of the matter. However, they continue with their daily routines of going out and going to work. Latin America is not Europe. If you don't open your business, you don't eat; people don't have savings or subsidies for the unemployed. In Brazil, unemploying means crime. Robbery, kidnapping, even murder. You have to survive. Brazil cannot be close.
How is the Brazilian healthcare? Do you think it could cope with this pandemic?
The public system is deficient in workers and services. The health system is not able to cope with the pandemic. The private network is a way better, but almost no one can afford it. There are no tools here. People are dying without being get tested. The humblest people are the most vulnerable and probably the ones who will get sick first.
The evolution
Is confinement obligatory?
Confinement is already mandatory, but people are still in the street and shops are still open. Everything is as usual, although every day the number of infected and dead people rises dramatically. The favelas are completely unprotected against the coronavirus since the population lacks water and food, which makes the conditions in these places highly unhealthy. Furthermore, crime is gaining control where politics can't keep it.
Millions of Brazilians do not have essential tools and live in thousands of favelas where following basic sanitary recommendations – such as frequent handwashing with soap – is just impossible. Working from home is not an option for families who share one or two poorly ventilated rooms or when feeding the family requires going outside every day. In these overcrowded communities, where few trust the authorities, even the most basic infrastructure is often lacking, and people live up to date.
The Brazilian gouvernment
What do you think of Bolsonaro's measures?
Bolsonaro continues to deny the severity of the pandemic. He wants everyone to continue working, saying that "hunger kills more than the virus". Therefore, he's encouraging his citizens to unfollow the Minister of Health, trying to ignore the health warnings and hiding the severity of the pandemic. Money and profits are more important. The economy mustn't stop, no matter if millions of people are losing their lives.
A few days ago, Flavio Bolsonaro – one of his sons engaged in politics – released a video: "Brazil cannot stop (using the Portuguese hashtag #obrasilnãopodeparar). People need to continue working to keep the country safe and the economy growing". This video – which minimized protective measures – has been removed from social media almost immediately, following an initiative of a federal judge. The Brazilian strategy could cost many lives, and that cannot be allowed.
The government should prioritize people, considering urgent measures and taking care of citizens' health.


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Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen returned from a weekend summit in Beijing on Chinese President Xi Jinping's sweeping Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) laden with deals he believes will offset the impact of impending trade sanctions from the West over his regime's rollbacks on democracy.
China held its second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation from April 25-27 to outline the implementation of the BRI, which aims to strengthen infrastructure, trade, and investment links between the Asian superpower and 154 countries and international organizations.
Hun Sen had joined nearly 40 other heads of state and 150 global representatives at the weekend forum, where he congratulated Xi in a speech that praised the BRI, saying it had created 20,000 jobs for Cambodians and is expected to generate another 80,000 in coming years.
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While "The Hanging Garden" benefits from some imaginative plotting (the tale blends spooky fantasy with drama and some off-kilter humor), it quickly bogs down with the overly familiar theme of the dysfunctional family.And writer-producer-director Thom Fitzgerald is a little too ambitious. In fact, he has created so many plot threads that he can't possibly pull them together in less than two hours.
The film does feature some good performances, though, particularly from Canadian television star Chris Leavins, who plays "Sweet" William, a formerly obese 20-something who returns home to Nova Scotia for the wedding of his sister Rosemary (Kerry Fox).
Once there, he is plagued by visions of traumatic events from his youth, including abuse at the hands of his alcoholic father, Mac (Peter MacNeill); the discovery of his homosexuality; and his subsequent suicide attempt - the act that gives the film its title.
The haunting visions force William to confront his past and accept mistakes he has made. Meanwhile, his mother (Seana McKenna) is so fed up with Mac's drunken antics that she abandons him, as well as their youngest daughter, tomboy Violet (Christine Dunsworth).
There are some interesting ideas here. But they're so underdeveloped and superficial that it's hard to relate to either the characters or the dramatic situations. And the melding of styles doesn't always work. Some scenes are treated with inappropriate whimsy, while others that are played for drama seem laugh-able.
But there's no denying the strength of Leavins' performances, as well as MacNeill, Fox and McKenna. If only Fitzgerald's scripting and plotting were as good.
"The Hanging Garden" is rated R for profanity, simulated sex (some of it overheard), vulgar slang, violent slapping, drug use and male nudity.


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"The summer of 2009 has not been our finest hour."
So wrote Newsweek editor Jon Meacham (Aug. 24) in response to those individuals who have brought Hitler and Nazism into the debate on health care.
There's political commentary and there's hate speech and I'm sick and tired of hate speech passing for commentary.
Earlier this month, conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh told listeners nationwide, "Adolph Hitler, like Barack Obama, ruled by dictate"; followed by, "[the] Obama health care logo is damn close to the Nazi swastika logo."
On July 28, Fox News conservative commentator Glenn Beck told a nationwide television audience, "This president is a guy who has exposed himself over and over again who has deep-seated hatred for white people… This guy is, I believe, a racist."
If I were the head of Fox, I would have immediately suspended Beck from the airwaves, allowing him to come back only if he offered specific, verifiable proof of his accusation or made a sincere public apology to President Obama and TV viewers and gave assurances that he would not engage in such talk in the future. Sadly, that was not the response from Fox. Instead, they released a statement saying that Mr. Beck "expressed a personal opinion, which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel."
Apparently, executives at Fox do not know the difference between opinion and hate speech.
Does anyone at Fox remember the racist and sexist remarks made by Don Imus toward the Rutgers women's basketball team in 2007? Imus was suspended. He later apologized to the team in person.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an apology from either Limbaugh or Beck. Why? No one seems willing to hold them accountable.
However, according to the New York Times (Aug. 14) "About a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from 'Glenn Beck,'" Among them ConAgra, Geico, Procter & Gamble, and the insurance company Progressive. Pharmaceutical companies Roche and Sanofi-Aventis, and electronics retailer Radio Shack have pledged to remove ads from "Glenn Beck."
ConAgra issued a statement saying that "We are firmly committed to diversity, and we would like to prevent the potential perception that advertising during this program was an endorsement of the viewpoints shared."
"We have TV today that's very polarizing and controversial," said Donny Deutsch, a former advertising executive and frequent contributor to both CNBC and MSNBC. In an interview, Deutsch told viewers that any individual offended by Mr. Beck's remarks should write the CEOs of the companies that advertise. Deutsch considers this the "ultimate check and balance."
Good start, but not enough.
Anyone who participates in hate speech should be fined and banned from all public airwaves, PERIOD.
This is not about free speech. It's about responsibility and how a responsible citizen should behave. And any citizen or media company granted a license and opportunity to speak over radio and television has an even greater responsibility for what they say and do.
Don't like the policies of the Obama administration? Great, offer your rebuttal from the mountaintop in all its detailed glory. But to compare the President of the United States to Hitler; to call him a racist without a shred of evidence to back it up is bigotry that should be condemned as reckless and wrong.
This is not about politics. This is about intolerance, and the signs don't get any clearer than those demonstrated by Beck and Limbaugh.
And the choice we have is just as clear: speak up and denounce it or stay silent and allow it to grow.
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EDFI ElectriFI is making available a USD 6m revolving working capital facility (USD 4m from its global facility and USD 2m from the Nigeria Country Window) to Amped Innovation, a company designing and supplying high efficiency, lower cost solar home systems (SHS) and appliances for distributors across the world.
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When you're in your twenties, it's fine to rent. As you get into your thirties, and certainly as you get married and think about a family, it's not so fine anymore. People look at you funny. By the time I hit thirty-five, my friends not only thought it was weird I hadn't bought a house yet, they told me. "Are you nuts? Interest rates are so low." That's what they said, but this is what I heard: You mean you're still paying rent? Don't you understand that for just $500 a month more and a longer commute—plus a $30,000 down payment that you otherwise could put into an interest-bearing account—you could do what I do on the weekends, which is clean the gutters, mow the lawn, shop for a new water heater, pray that property values don't sink, and that after twenty years you'll actually start paying more on the principal every month than on the interest?
Is this a cynical view? I'm not sure it is, especially considering that the economic spasms convulsing the nation began when the subprime mortgage market collapsed. Too many people who shouldn't have bought homes bought them, because too many banks were happy to oblige. And government is complicit, dangling the carrot of tax credits and deductions. Politicians know it's not businesses that are the nation's economic engine; it's the compounded effect of millions of us spending our money on cars and flatscreen TVs and $2 coffees at Starbucks. And houses. Especially houses. The sales pitch works. Heck, homeowning is woven into the fabric of the American dream itself.
The fact is, just because you can buy a home doesn't mean you should. A generation or two ago, with money borrowed from their hometown bank, Americans bought a house and stayed. It made sense. Their houses weren't meant as nest eggs, but simply nests. My parents live in the same house they did forty-five years ago. Today the average American moves a dozen times in her life. Maybe now, in the new real estate reality that we explore starting on page 55, houses will no longer be investment vehicles, but will once again simply be homes.
You can see where this is going. Last year we bought a house. In Decatur. My wife loves it. A massive oak that's well over a century old towers over the front yard. It produces approximately 18 million leaves, which I rake most weekends. Naturally I wouldn't trade any of this. Probably. But at least now I can relate.
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