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Dear Brie,
Thank you a million times for all the time, patience and devotion you have put into me and my music. You have blessed me so much. You will never know how much you have done to make me who I am. I never would have gotten this far without you. You are a wonderful teacher and I love you! Love, Mattie W.
Dear Brie, You have been so sweet during these past months. Trying to explain what E major is and so forth. I love you girl! Love, E Major
Dear Brie, Thank you for all your time with Brady. You make it more enjoyable for him. We appreciate you. Beth and Bo
Miss Brie, Thank you so much for taking the time to go with me and look at the piano. Your help and advice were invaluable! Thank you so very much for sharing your time with us. We are so excited to have a piano to practice on. We really do appreciate your example of care and generosity. With Love, Laura and Jim M.
Brie, Thank you for everything you've done to invest in Mattie's life. All the lessons are greatly appreciated, but even more than that, she has had your beautiful example of godly womanhood to look to during this very crucial season of her life. We love and appreciate who you are! Keep Shining! Love, Mark and Bonnie W.
Dear Mrs. Brie,
How are you? I'm doing OK. I can't WAIT 'til the piano recital! I hope that I'll be ready by then! Oh well! God knows what is best! I've got to get back to homeschooling! Thank you for helping me progress in my piano! Love, Hannah Grace B.
Dear Brie, Thanks so much for all the effort you put into the Spring Recital. It was great, and so special for Em. But even more, thanks for all the love and friendship and support you've given Emma as her piano teacher, youth leader and friend. It is so comforting to me as a Mom to know that God has provided other Godly women to be an influence and support for everything God has called me to do. Thanks for being such a blessing! --Amy B.
Dear Brie, For several weeks I've wanted to express my thanks to you for taking on my children as your piano students. I don't know that they realize the opportunity for learning music that they have with you. It is my prayer that they will consider what is before them and recognize, rather seize, this opportunity. My husband and I both agree that your encouraging words alone are worth the time spent with you. We appreciate you... Sincerely, Donna S.
Brie, Thank you for all your wonderful work with the girls. We think you are a fantastic teacher and we appreciate the love for music you are sharing with the girls. With Love, Laura, Karina and Kyleigh
Dear Miss Brie, Just to let you know, when I play the piano, I think of you. And how you play so pretty. You are the best teacher I ever had. From, Karen L. (age 10)
Dear Brie, Thank you so much for being my teacher. Love, Jerusha S. (age 12)
Thank you, Brie for teaching me. Love, Josiah (age 10)
Merry Christmas, Miss Brie. Thank you for being my piano teacher. I love it. -McKenzie (age 6)
You are a wonderful teacher and your encouragement could not have come at a more perfect time - I am sure God had his hand in leading me to you. Strangely enough I was not nervous at all (at the recital) - Never before have I felt so at ease and comfortable playing. All those students -(especially me) - are VERY blessed to have you as our teacher. -Jan C.
Dear Brie, Thank you so much for your sweet giving spirit to us and your diligence in teaching us. Thank you so much for your investment in our family and in our piano. It is so encouraging having such a special teacher who believes in you and makes the music come alive. I love the way you help us to feel our music. I have so much appreciated your investment in my life. Rhonda S.
Dear Brieta, Thank you again for your gracious offering of music at our Celebration of Life event on Friday night! -Teri
Dear Brieta, Thank you so very much for that lovely CD. It is beautiful, soothing music. We will treasure it. Ted, Anita and Darron M.


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Today was our second dialogue class. I thoroughly enjoyed last weeks session. Probably I was a total girly swot and had done my home work. I was prepared and ready to go. Same this week. I got down the rest of Eagle and Standing Head to Knee. SH2K wasn't as flowing and I did slow down in my delivery so I could think.
I loved it though! I delivered from the start right through to SH2K. We were lucky to have three instructors there today to offer feedback. I had Meagan in stitches when I started Half Moon as my nervous 'telephone' voice came out. Or as Jules said the 'actor voice.' Once I settled down and chilled out I was more me. I have to remember I am not playing a part, I am me, teaching yoga. My feedback was to watch this fake voice thing as I will be called out for it but it did disappear toward the end.
Apart from a few jumbles of words in the wrong order and a missed word here and there I feel I did well. SH2K still needs a bit more practice. My training buddy also did good. I've had a head start so am more ahead but this doesn't matter. I can understand it must be hard in this situation if one person is flying ahead. I'm being very encouraging and supportive as she has been getting nervous. After class we were running through Awkward whilst we showered! We still have 11 weeks to get this down. Some people go not even knowing Half Moon. As Jules told us back in 2003 when she did TT they weren't allowed to learn it before hand & she learned the lot in nine weeks so it is possible. I personally need my sleep so that is why I am cramming as much as possible now to make the experience less stressful. Also as I've said many a times I am a girly swot, type A personality, I don't do things unless I can give 100% and do it was well as I can. No half arsed efforts from me.
I'm onto the big three now, Standing Bow Pulling, Balancing Stick and Triangle. We probably won't be doing dialogue next week as we are off to the Scarborough Beach studio for freshly graduated instructor Hannah's 1st class in Australia. She's already taught a class in Mexico so it won't be her very 1st class. I'm looking forward to this and talking to her about her LA experience. It also gives me more time on Standing Bow as it's a long one.
Congratulations to the 30 Day Challengers at Bikram Yoga Leicester. I hope Friday's classes with Rachel and her birthday gift to her students of "Death by Yoga Truck" was enjoyable.

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Top- Veromoda, Jacket & Slip dress- Veromoda, Stockings- Forever21, Shoes- Koi Footwear| Location- Amanzi
Currently the fashion world or rather the Instagram world seems to be going through a phase where there is something for everyone. No matter what your style is, you're bound to find your style soulmate and no doubt love every outfit she adorns. But every season there are a few trends that #trend on Instagram and currently I feel like these are the top 5! For the fun of it & to of course in an attempt to create "different" content, I layered all those 5 trends in this look.
1) Ruffles & Big Sleeves
You've probably been watching all your favourite bloggers, national & international rocking this much loved trend. I honestly have seen more people than I can usually stand donning this trend but I still can't seem to get enough of it! This top from Veromoda has not only got those big, eye catchy sleeves but it also comes in the much loved colour of the moment, pink. Win win I say.
2) Slip dresses
The fashion world had a moment with this trend not so long ago but this season, it's back & in daring fabrics. So if you thought you could get away with your body con, non-shiny slip dress, think again. It's all about this dress in fabrics like velvet, satin and shiny versions of polyester. The shinier, the better. Also, don't be afraid to go a size up. Oversized dressing is yet another trend to watch out for!
3) Net Worth
Fish net stockings are having a moment on Instagram and I couldn't stop myself from giving it my own spin. Pair it with ripped jeans or a skirt or dress or even a peek at the ankles is all you need to be the good girl gone trendy.
4) Metallic
This is one trend that has been carried over from last season and how! It's all about those metallic moto jackets, culottes, dresses or even nails! The best way to rock one of these is by pairing it with more casual pieces. So say, pair a muted gold moto jacket with a pair of ripped jeans (and maybe the fish net stocking under it) along with a simple white top. Or simpler, get those chrome nails on!
5) Tress free
Post the wedding, I got 5 inches taken off my mane because I was kind of done with the long hair look (only to crave it 3 days later). But I've been loving the laid back vibe when it comes to tresses. I've noticed most people giving their irons and curlers a skip and rather going for simple blow outs & lots of sea salt sprays to get that volume and texture going. So honestly, this is probably the best time to rock your bed head and get away with it.


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It's single panels with crappy contrast until I can get my Mac and therefore Graphic Converter back from the shop.
Having wrangled Paint for the last hour and a half or so I am annoyed and can think of nothing else to tell you except for an anecdote about Zeppo Marx, which was told by Morrie Ryskind, who had been a writer for the Marx Brothers. Zeppo, having quit the act, had gone into theatrical representation, and Ryskind was one of his clients. There was a period of about a month during which Ryskind couldn't get in touch with him. Finally, running into him around town, Ryskind asked what was up. Zeppo was his agent; why hadn't he been returning Ryskind's calls? Because he had been undergoing psychoanalysis, Zeppo said.
Psychoanalysis? asked Ryskind. What for?
I was masturbating, said Zeppo.
Ryskind reports that he didn't really believe this excuse, but it was kind of a conversation stopper. I bet!


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Dave Seddon talks to former Preston North End goalkeeper coach Alan Kelly about his time on the Deepdale coaching staff and the role he has recently taken up at Everton
The clock was turned back more than 30 years last month when Alan Kelly took up the offer of a job at Everton.
Having followed in his dad's footsteps by serving Preston as a player and in a coaching capacity, Kelly is doing similar now that he has pulled on a Toffees' tracksuit.
"When dad left Preston in 1985 after being manager, he went to Everton for a few months," Kelly told the Post.
"I remember going over there a few times to watch him train with the Everton players – Neville Southall, Peter Reid and Graeme Sharp spring to mind.
"In many ways my dad was a pioneer in that he went there as a goalkeeper coach. There weren't many specialised keeper coaches around then.
"Dad had been manager and assistant manager at Preston but his time with Everton involved working with the keepers.
"Neville Southall loved the work with my dad – I know he was gutted when he left to go to the United States."
Kelly Jnr answered a call from David Unsworth to go and work with the Everton keepers when 'Unsy' was given the caretaker manager's role at Goodison Park following the sacking of Ronald Koeman.
Having left North End in August after more than four years as goalkeeper coach, it was an offer too good to refuse.
Kelly said: "I was in Ireland on a family break when I got a phone call from David Unsworth.
"To be precise I was in the Guinness factory in Dublin about to sample the local culture, shall we say.
"By train, plane and taxi I got home at 2am and I was at Everton's training ground by 8am.
"I'm enjoying it and there are lots of familiar faces.
"I've known Unsy for a long time.
"When he and Graham Alexander were caretaker managers at Preston at the end of 2011, I came in and worked with the keepers then. I know John Ebbrell who is helping Unsy, from our time as players at Sheffield United.
"Phil Jagielka was an apprentice at Sheffield United when I was keeper there, while I know Seamus Coleman and James McCarthy from the Republic of Ireland set-up.
" Then of course there is Jordan Pickford, who I worked with at North End when he had that magnificent half-season on loan."
Kelly thoroughly enjoyed his time as goalkeeper coach at Deepdale.
Pickford, Declan Rudd, Chris Maxwell, Thorsten Stuckmann, Sam Johnstone Jamie Jones and Anders Lindegaard were among the keepers under his tutelage.
"Without a doubt, I worked with some great keepers," said Kelly.
"It was a fantastic four-and-a-half years back at a club which means so much to me and my family.
"Preston have been on an upward curve for the last few years and being part of that as keeper coach was brilliant.
"With Chris Maxwell, I stuck my neck out to make sure we signed him because I knew what he would bring to the team.
"To see where he is now is superb. Maxi epitomises what you want from a team.
"He works hard, is a great character about the club and is a great lad.
"Declan Rudd was here on loan when I first came back in 2013.
"In that first few months you could see the quality Declan had. When he came back to stay for the whole of the next season he was superb.
"He's been unfortunate this season with the injury but Declan is a talent and still young for a keeper.
"Stucki is a brilliant lad – people forget how well he did when he came in to replace Jamie Jones and kept a run of clean sheets.
"He then got his moment of glory when we played Manchester United in the FA Cup. I would say Stucki worked as hard as any player I have seen.
"Sam Johnstone was an absolute diamond to work with and you can see how well he is now doing with Aston Villa.
"If he continues to make the progress he is doing, there is no reason why Sam shouldn't be knocking on the England door. "
Someone to have already knocked on England's door – and indeed walked through it – is Pickford who won his first cap against Germany on Friday night.
He spent the first half of the 2105/16 campaign with Preston when they were new to the Championship.
Said Kelly: "When Jordan was still at Sunderland, I was once asked what I would pay for Jordan?
"My answer was £30m and that was the fee Everton paid for him.
"Some of his displays at Preston were the best seen at the club –he maybe saved us 10 to 15 points in that early part of the season.
"Jordan is only 23 but has nearly 200 games under his belt. Some lads at his age are only just starting to come out of the academy system.
"From the age of 17, he was prepared to go out on loan and get experience.
"He went to Alfreton in non-league, to Carlisle, then to Bradford and to Preston.
"For me, that is the way that young keepers should be developing.
"It's been a huge rise for Jordan when you consider he's now played for England, played in Europe and is in his second season in the Premier League."


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Carmony -- whose company's Linux operating system has found its way onto PCs from retailers Sears.com, Kmart.com, Walmart.com, Amazon.com, and others -- says Linux's move to the desktop centers on the alignment of three keys: technology, demand, and distribution channel.
"All three need to kind of keep pace with each other," Carmony said in an interview. "I don't want Dell to do this prematurely. It takes a lot to move their needle."
Carmony explained that if Dell, recently called out again for its half-hearted desktop Linux efforts, were to undertake a major Linux sales and promotion campaign, the expected return would be huge -- and any disappointment would bring another five years of limited, low-light Linux offerings from the high-volume PC giant.
"They don't create demand, they only fulfill it," Carmony says. "I don't want me to be the one pressing Dell [for Linux offerings], I want demand."
Inching into retail online
Those pushing for more desktop Linux offerings sometimes complain that Linux is not available in retail stores, and thus is not something that consumers can touch and investigate. However, online sales of Linux machines through major retailers' Web sites is the natural launching pad for the newer operating system, Carmony says.
When online distributors and retailers are happy with their online sales, then they will consider pushing the merchandise into stores, Carmony says, hinting at upcoming major retail deals.
Where Linux PCs and notebooks are for sale in stores today it is typically as a low-cost item, though it is among the most popular items at Fry's Electronics, according to Carmony.
And while Fry's does not provide Linux expertise on its store floor, Carmony says the in-store displays and Linux-savvy staff at smaller retailer Micro Center -- an initiative launched last summer -- have been a success.
"It's not so much volume," Carmony says, comparing Fry's and Micro Center. "With Micro Center, there's a very different trend we've noticed. When [customers] turn it on, there's much higher registration from Micro Center than from Fry's by I'd say three or four to one."
Carmony explains that while a typical Fry's customer may buy the budget, $200 Linspire PC "for spare parts" or even with the intention of installing Windows, the Micro Center customers know they are getting Linux, want to get Linux, and become Linux users.
On store shelves now
Micro Center's PowerSpec Brand Manager Jay Price says the 19-store national chain has been pleased with the success of its PowerSpec Desktop Linspire models since the store introduced Linux sections and staff last year. "With Micro Center's dedicated in-store Linspire displays and our highly trained sales staff, we have been able to meet the needs of our customers looking for a viable alternative operating system," Price says.
All of the Micro Centers stores feature the Linux section and staff, but the Linux flavor is limited to Linspire. As for application software, Price says, "We suspect that advanced Linux users would most likely prefer to purchase [or download] standalone Linux software to load on their own." Price describes the typical Micro Center Linux customer as a consumer looking to add another computer to the household. "In some cases, they are being used as the primary operating system," he says. "In many cases, they are being used as an alternative operating system, or as a second or third PC within a household. The demand for these PCs continues to gain momentum as they gain mainstream acceptance."
Major players mindful
Although he is glad that Dell is not jumping into Linux ahead of demand, Carmony says Dell and all of the other original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are contemplating their Linux plans, including talks with Linspire and likely other Linux sellers and organizations. "There's not a single OEM that's not looking at it," he says. "It's not a matter of if with these guys, it's a matter of when."
"Within the next 18 months, you will see Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, and all the big guys at the retail table, offering something Linux," Carmony predicts. "Those dominoes are going to fall."
Carmony says that while Linux desktop software may not be ready for a mass supplier such as Dell, the keys of better technology, increasing demand, and a functional distribution channel are in step as more Linux hits the mainstream. "Demand is right on par for where it's hitting the channel, so we're not ahead of ourselves."
Carmony also says the success of the Linux desktop toe-dipping is a good basis for more mainstream sales of Linux. "The most encouraging thing I can say is that people who are selling, without exception, are all really happy," he says. "At the end of the day, that's what you want."


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A cool blue and cold beachside photo shoot titled Plage Blanche starring model Karlina Caune in white furs along side a pair of wolves. Photographed by Eline Kechicheva for the December 2015 issue of Marie Claire France.
See the Plage Blanche series below:
Marie Claire France December 2015
Photographer: Eline Kechicheva
Model: Karlina Caune
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It seems to be the thing to do these days - cut down on consumption and stash a little more away for a rainy (or snowy) day. Even the squirrels are into it these days.
Our two backyard apple trees have always been more of a deer-and-bunny cafe than a source of pie for us; we just don't have the wherewithal in the midst of winter to trim and spray, spray, spray.
But this year, we keep finding apples in the oddest places - places that the wind couldn't have sent them. Then we saw a squirrel tiptoe into the wisteria that runs along the top of the fence, take a bite out of an apple tucked into the bare branches, and go about his business. Since then, we have found more squirrel banks, such as this one tucked onto the grape vines,
which have been trimmed bare for the season.
The owner of this particular stash came out to complain about our messing about so close to his fridge, but Scotty put a stop to that sort of insolence.
Arf, arf, arf.


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COVENTRY ska legends The Specials are reuniting for a national tour – and say the door is open for founder member Jerry Dammers to join them.
The chance of a full-scale Specials revival taking place has been eagerly anticipated by fans for years. It's 30 years since they first took the UK's music scene by storm
There have been countless rumours of a get-together for the 2-Tone pioneers over the past few years and now that dream is about to become a reality.
Original members Terry Hall, Neville Staple, Sir Horace Gentleman, Roddy Radiation, Lynval Golding, and John Bradbury, have all confirmed they will be around to kick-start the tour in April 2009.
Although relations with the band's founder member Jerry Dammers are said to remain "strong", the popular keyboard player has decided not to take part.
Frontman Hall said the band were playing in 2009 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut single, Gangsters.
He said: "It's the right time to do it – we talked about it at 25 but we weren't together enough.
"Now we're all getting on and it feels comfortable."
Talking about the absence of Dammers from the line-up Hall added: "The door remains open to him."
Coventry music historian and Coventry Telegraph columnist Pete Chambers, said he was really excited by the reunion, hinting that the biggest gig of all might take place a little closer to home.
He said: "As for a Coventry date, stand by for something very special, just keep watching this space."
The gigs will mark the first time the band has officially worked together since they split in 1981 – though members of the band did play a secret show at this year's "Bestival" under the banner Terry Hall And Friends.
The band is regarded by many fans and critics as one of the most influential UK artists of the late Seventies, pioneers of the UK ska revival.
Their songs dealt with the turmoil of living through a recession, multi-cultural life, and the social ills of Margaret Thatcher's Britain.


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Tuesday, January 29
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Off at spotlight today looking for a gift I stumbled on this - half cross stitch half tapestry but end up with a cushion. All wrapped up in a neat little bag this is my new project on the go.
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It would nice to explain why the cosmological constant is what it is. Yet, no one tries to explain why the earth's orbital radius is what is beyond saying that it needs to be roughly what it is to support life. Where does this analogy break down? We have observed many other, apparently lifeless solar systems; it is possible but improbable that we might someday find indirect evidence for a bubble beyond our own in the cosmic microwave background.
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[W]hen highly educated folks making six figures still can't afford to live in your city (and it takes over an hour's commute to get to downtown from slightly more affordable areas), you simply don't have the conditions to grow a knowledge economy....
Entire downtown neighbourhoods and chunks of the west side are growingly becoming ghost towns as permanent residents are replaced with investors who don't occupy their units....
A massive capital injection from abroad makes Vancouverites feel wealthy, while the city is in no real terms wealthier. Talented people continue to leave and with them the future of our city.
Monday, March 23, 2015
For example, imagine a radical 100% tax on all personal wealth over $1M that is not charitably donated. Food is cheap, millions of people in the world are hungry, and there's a lot concentrated personal wealth we could throw at the problem. There exist Bill Gates, several other billionaires, and many millionaires. Yet, if all of Gates' wealth is redirected toward immediately feeding the hungry, where do all the bags of grain come from? The Gates mansion does not have that much food in it. The bags of grain come from a combination of many people and animals eating less grain and of farmers producing more grain (and of more people working on farms instead of elsewhere, and of more raw materials being used to build farm equipment, fertilizer, pesticides, and the like, instead of other things, and of more fuel, water, and electricity being used by farms, and...)
Generally speaking, taxes do not take away real resources from wealthy people, except to the extent that it reduces wealthy people's consumption of goods and services. What matters is consumption. Moreover, personal wealth taxes can be evaded by creating a corporation structured so that you tightly control it and "investing" your personal wealth in this corporation. If the government also heavily taxes corporate wealth, then (along with many other crazy changes) almost everything will end owned by "non-profits" that pay their executives fat salaries and "re-invest" most of their remaining net income in things like comfort, prestige, and power. Exhibit A is all the money universities and hospitals pour into their campus buildings and grounds.
As folks like Scott Sumner keep saying, let us tax consumption alone. Replacing all income taxes with a value-added tax (VAT) does this. Less radically (for the US), instead of taxing personal and corporate income as we do now, the Internal Revenue Service could tax personal income minus personal savings. Your capital gains, dividends, and interest income should not be taxed, but your negative savings, i.e., net withdrawals from their savings/brokerage/etc accounts should be taxed.
Morally speaking, if a rich man lives a modest lifestyle, why should he be more than modestly taxed? How is his net worth, his labor income, or his capital income morally relevant? If someday the rich man exercises his option to live lavishly, only then tax him lavishly.
From another angle, why tax my dividends at one rate and my wages at another? Tax $1K income saved at 0%, regardless of where it come from. Tax a person's Nth $1K of annual consumption spending at a progressive rate r(N). Yes, there will still be tax deductions and tax credits that complicating things, but equalizing tax rates across income sources is still a nontrivial simplification.
If my personal consumption includes lavish job perks from my employer (which might be myself), then how are these taxed? The Right Way to solve this problem is stop taxing income and go pure VAT. The inferior but less radical solution is a corporate/self-employed consumption tax with complicated rules, but no more complicated than the current income tax rules for corporations and the self-employed.
The Achilles heel of taxing income minus savings is imputed rent. If I own a house and live in it, that is consumption, but it is not obvious how valuable that consumption is. In effect, I am both landlord and tenant, paying myself some unknown rent. Is the IRS going to estimate and tax every home owner's imputed rent? The "estimate" part isn't a show-stopper; it wouldn't be any more difficult than what property tax assessors already do. The howler is the "tax" part, which would effectively be a federal home property tax. Again, the Right Way is a VAT. A bit closer to political reality would be the policy of just not taxing imputed rents and maybe not taxing housing rent of any kind.


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current news: FACARD, Barcelona January 16th, 2019 (no responses)
The workshop "FACARD, Frobenius Action in Commutative Algebra: Recent Developments" will be held at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Barcelona on January 16 – 18, 2019.
The focus of the workshop is on recent developments in positive characteristic algebra and other related topics. It is addressed to Ph.D. students, postdocs and interested researchers in general. There will be two minicourses at graduate level and research talks given by international experts and young emerging scientists.
Minicourse speakers:
- Holger Brenner (Universität Osnabrück)
- Linquan Ma (Purdue University)
- Josep Àlvarez Montaner (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
- Angélica Benito (Universitad Autonoma de Madrid)
- Javier Carvajal Rojas (University of Utah)
- Alberto F. Boix (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
- Ricardo García López (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Eloísa Grifo (University of Michigan)
- Jack Jeffries (University of Michigan)
- Jonathan Montaño (New Mexico State University)
- Julio José Moyano Fernández (Universitat Jaume I de Castelló)
- Yusuke Nakajima (KAVLI IPMU)
- Luis Núñez Betancourt* (CIMAT)
- Ilya Smirnov (University of Michigan)
- Francesco Strazzanti (INdAM)
- Naoki Taniguchi (Waseda University)
- Matteo Varbaro (Università degli Studi di Genova)
* To be confirmed
For more information see the workshop website.
upcoming conferences
- February 23rd, 2019: SLAM 2019
- March 11th, 2019: Polytopes 2019
- March 15th, 2019: Spring Southeastern AMS Sectional, Auburn
- March 19th, 2019: Interactions Between Commutative Algebra, Representation Theory, And Algebraic Geometry; A Conference In Memoriam Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, Münster, Germany
- March 22nd, 2019: AMS Sectional, Honolulu
- March 30th, 2019: KUMUNUjr 2019
- April 7th, 2019: CIMPA-UI-IPM Isfahan School and Conference on Representation of Algebras, Iran
- April 12th, 2019: Graduate Workshop in Commutative Algebra for Women & Mathematicians of Other Minority Genders
- April 12th, 2019: Graduate Workshop in Commutative Algebra for Women & Mathematicians of Other Minority Genders
- April 26th, 2019: USTARS 2019, Iowa State
- May 20th, 2019: The 27th National School on Algebra, Bucharest
- May 28th, 2019: Thematic Program in Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic Geometry, Notre Dame
- June 10th, 2019: Ideals, Varieties, Applications (Celebrating the Influence of David Cox), Amherst
- June 10th, 2019: Vietnam-USA Joint Mathematical Meeting
- July 1st, 2019: Summer School on Probabilistic and Statistical Thinking in Nonlinear Algebra, Max Planck
- July 1st, 2019: Recent developments in CA, Trento, Italy
- July 8th, 2019: RRAGE: Ragnar's Ramifications in Algebra and Geometry Emerging
- July 21st, 2019: SIMCARA, São Carlos, Brazil
- July 29th, 2019: Equivariant Topology and Derived Algebra, in honor of John Greenlees' 60th birthday
- August 19th, 2019: Length 3 Resolutions
recent conferences
- January 16th, 2019: JMM 2019
- November 22nd, 2018: Combinatorial Categories, Osnabrück
- November 16th, 2018: D-modules and Hodge Theory at UIC
- November 8th, 2018: Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory, Tulane University
- November 3rd, 2018: AMS Sectional, Fayetteville
- October 27th, 2018: AMS Sectional, San Francisco
- October 20th, 2018: Fall Central AMS Sectional, Ann Arbor
- October 13th, 2018: KUMUNU 2018
- September 29th, 2018: Route 81 2018, Syracuse
- September 29th, 2018: AMS Sectional, U of Delaware Newark


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I didn't have the big scope set up, so I took a couple of pictures with the small scope.
This is the fallknaven knife first, after grinding some of the shoulder off with a silicon carbide stone and then sharpening with arkansas stones.
It looks like the last bevel is really steep, but it's not. I sharpen knives with oilstones like this, rounding the shoulder (but not steep rounding, just a product of hand honing), then a tiny bit of fine work with the final stone and then a leather strop.
A view of another section (it's hard to get a good picture with this scope because you have the scope in your hand and focus at high magnification depends on the scope pretty much touching whatever it's looking at, so all of the operation has to happen with one hand - holding the scope still on something that's not held down, turning the focus wheel at the same time with the same hand, and then using the other hand to tell the computer to catch an image)....anyway..another section. What this results in is a sharp edge (and this shaves hair easily, even though it's powder stainless), but a hair here or there will get missed.
And here's a tidioute. This is 1095, which is an awful lot like vintage steel. I'm sure you can get bump imported 1095, but I doubt tidioute is using cheap stuff because the blades are so small. This is a new knife (I didn't have my daily carrier handy), so I didn't hone it to remove the shoulder. Not sure what they use to sharpen these at the factory but the bevel is both very well polished and very steep. It equates to an edge that doesn't feel that sharp.
Note also that despite the very high magnification (probably 100x), the finish above the bevel is very fine. The entire bevel is finished that well. As I've been gushing already, I don't think they make much money per knife, their level of fit and finish is so far above everything else without being amatuerish like a big wide convex grind that you'd see on a benchmade knife or some other giant hunk of metal.
No bubbles on this.
I have run into these things at random so far, the bubbles on this, the bubbles in the AI chisels, the possible carbides being removed from the A2 from LN. So far, no japanese chisel and no vintage steel has had any bubbles in it.
Though there's nothing advanced about 1095, I've seen several technophile knife user reviews where the reviewer has bought a GEC 1095 knife and remarked how well the knife cut and how it cut far longer than they'd expect 1095 to. There's no magic going on, these blades are just appropriately hard (I think they told george they shoot for 60 or 61 or something, and I haven't seen that on any other 1095 knives, even though some claim it. Other 1095 knives that I've had sharpen very easily and quickly on oilstones, which is a tip off that they're not close to 61).
I'm still sticking to my comment that the japanese steel is the best quality I've ever seen, the good vintage stuff is between, and the modern stuff is lacking.
When I get the scope set back up, I'll get some more irons in it.
I'm surprised that fallknaven would not check something like this. This is a utility type knife, so it's no big deal, but it's the kind of thing both the steelmaker and knife maker should catch on QC. It is, though, a hard knife and it holds its burr with vigor, so I'm sure it will wear well. In good 440C, though, the knife would cost a third as much, and could potentially be better. The knife, with plastic handles and hex screw fixturing is essentially $1 worth of knife and a lot of $s worth of laminated powder metallurgy. But the powder isn't delivering what it should as far as quality goes.
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It's a sign of the rise in popularity of sauvignon blanc that next month sees the first World Sauvignon Congress. Apparently, scientists and professionals involved with the variety all over the world will be attending. But they won't be there just for a bit of back-patting. Although sales are booming, not least in the UK, the event aims to "enhance sauvignon's prestige", because, as the founders see it, sauvignon doesn't get its due. They say it's "often underestimated and is rarely ranked as high as certain red wines and chardonnay".
I know what they mean. I was tasting with a top UK sommelier the other day and when we came to the sauvignons, he said, without pausing for breath, that like most of his peers he didn't like the variety.
Sommeliers suffer from over-exposure to endless customers asking for Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé and New Zealand sauvignons, as if there weren't any other whites, but there is another reason sauvignon gets shortshrift from some pros. Unlike chardonnay et al, it rarely improves with age, so almost all should be drunk young. To me that's one of the attractions.
2007 Dourthe No 1 Sauvignon Blanc, £5.66-£8.49
20th vintage of this consistently good, zesty white Bordeaux (Wine Rack, £5.66 when you buy 3; Waitrose, £6.99).
2007 Clos Henri Sauvignon Blanc, £13
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2007 Iona Sauvignon Blanc, £9.99
Exceptionally pure fruit and minerality from the Cape (Waitrose).
"Cabernet sauvignon is an offspring of sauvignon blanc."
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I am that person who roams with a battery pack and has her Pokemon Go app open all the time! Yes guilty as charged.
So if you've been playing Pokemon Go consistently then, you probably have walked a few miles extra to hatch that egg or hunted that Charmander a few blocks and it is entirely normal.
In London, my absolute favourite place to catch em all is Holland Park! I have also been to Hyde Park and Regents, but Holland wins hands down.
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Caught these and ignored a Pidgey and Rattata cause those guys are just everywhere!
Zoomed out and that's how Holland Park looks like.
Lots of drowzees too, just like everywhere in London!
That's an 1100 CP Jynx that's practically waiting to be caught!
Holland Park also has a lot of peacocks who are vying for your attention! But there's just too many Pokemon around so the poor creature doesn't have a big audience.
Absolute bliss to catch some evolved Pokemon.
Not even ashamed to admit I followed some ten-year-olds because they had an android Pokemon tracker app to get that Kabuto
My happiest moment was catching about six Bulbasaur and 3 Squirtles. I'm closer to Blastoise and Venasaur.
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Came across this sign from the police which urges you to respect the sanctity of the place, well I apologise on behalf of fellow Pokemon trainers and let's pledge not to go overboard okay?
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Happy Hump Day! I'm actually getting my post up on time this week for the ABC Challenge! Today I've got Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Violet Voltage. I decided to top it with NYC Starry Silver Glitter. I absolutely love this combination and wear it frequently. Please disregard the dog hair on my nail in one of the photos, I didn't notice it until I uploaded the photo; the joys of having a dog :)
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Go on a Journey - a Scrapbook Circle Sketch
Here is the original sketch:
This layout was also created with the lovely prompts from Picture This, use a male in your life & tell a story about him through your layout, and Paper Issue's issue of the Unbeleafable Outdoors! These are my boys & we LOVE to be outdoors. This is from a camping trip.
I really love the Echo Park Happy Camper collection, and I have been saving it for this camping trip we took! This was my boy's first time in the kayak. So fun!
I got this little saying from Crate Paper's Instagram feed a while ago. I just screen shot it and printed it with my other photos.
I layered the title veneer under the transparent letters for a little dimension. Man, kayaking around Reelfoot Lake was so super fun - it's an amazing park. These cypress trees grow up out of the middle of the water and the roots are super cool and creepy. I told my husband I felt like Ariel in the "Kiss the Girl" scene in some of the waterways! haha!
Patterned Paper and camping stickers - Echo Park Happy Camper
Cardstock and geotag brads - The Paper Studio
Cork Stickers - Crate Paper
Vellum, tranparent alpha and wood veneer - Studio Calico
Thanks for looking!!
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Great take on the 2 challenges. Your paper definitely matches your story and the moments you are used to share with your boys. Thanks for joining us @PT and feel free to take part in the next challenge......tomorrow! ;-)ReplyDelete
So cute photo,love his adventure seems so cool!Love paper stacking and your title.Thank you for joining us at Picture This.ReplyDelete
I love your journey theme with your boys in this layout. Nice combination of colors and choice of background papers. Thank you for playing along with us at Picture This! : )ReplyDelete
What a great photo and memory for your sons! Love all the small details like the fish and the fishing pole and the title! Thank you for sharing at Picture This and hope you will join in our next fun challenge ( Wish upon a Star) that is going on right now until the end of the month.ReplyDelete
Beautifully done!Love lots red color and little green color!Thanks for joining us at Picture This!ReplyDelete
This is wonderful! Such great details and take on the sketch and PT challenge. Thanks for sharing with us at Picture This!ReplyDelete
Boys and adventure, such a perfect mix. Great layout. Thanks for joining in with us at PT.ReplyDelete
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I bought some dipes from a lady on ds. She got the money on the 16 of feb. I PMed her to ask if she sent them yet on friday 2/25, she said she mailed dipes on 2-18. However she was out of town and couldn't provide a DC # until today. But our PM's were deleted from my inbox and I have tried to search for her name but couldn't come up with anything. so could someone help me? How can I find her on ds I have her display name and all.
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Mama, I may can help you with this. Pm me. I won't be on much the next few days but I will get to your pm.You could also try anothr team member. Do you remember even part of her user name? Could you email the addy that you sent paypal to and request her DS user name?
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Michael La Crosse To Program KKCW/KLTH Portland
iHeartMedia Portland has appointed Michael La Crosse as Program Director for AC "K103" 103.3 KKCW and Classic Hits "106.7 The Eagle" KLTH Portland OR.
La Crosse joins the stations from Los Angeles where he programmed AC 103.5 KOST until the start of this year. He has been serving as an advisor working on special projects since then. La Crosse has also served as PD of Rhythmic Oldies "Hot 92.3" KHHT Los Angeles, Operations Manager of iHeartMedia Spokane, PD of 94.7 WLS-FM Chicago, and Promotions Director, Music Director and Assistant Program Director of Smooth Jazz 95.5 WNUA Chicago in his career.
He fills the opening created by Chris Shebel's announcement that he would leave at the end of the year to relocate to Palm Springs.
iHeartMedia has announced that Michael La Crosse has been named Program Director for Portland's KKCW and KLTH. The appointment is effective October 9.
"Michael's skillset is a natural match for taking the reins of KKCW and KLTH in Portland. His vast experience in programming for these formats and working with top talent is second to none," commented Tim Herbster, SVP/Programming for iHeartMedia's Pacific Northwest Region. "We can't wait to welcome him to our community."
La Crosse comes to Portland from Los Angeles, where he most recently was the Program Director at iHeartRadio's KOST and KHHT. Previously he was Operations Manager at the iHeart cluster in Spokane, including KKZX, KQNT, KISC, KCDA, KIXZ, KZFS. A native Chicagoan, La Crosse programmed WLS-FM and was Assistant Program Director/Music Director at the former Smooth Jazz station WNUA.
"I'm excited to be joining the great teams at KKCW and KLTH. They are among the gold standards in their respective formats and I'm very humbled and lucky to be joining them," commented La Crosse. "My thanks to Greg Ashlock, Robert Dove, Tim Herbster and Andrew Jeffries for providing this opportunity."


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I did know this was coming. I just didn't want to know this was coming. Even when I applied for the job in Beyond Bob, I did it knowing that if I got it I'd have to move and I'd be moving without him, as much as I wanted to think we'd be able to come up with something. And earlier this week when we started talking about what to do and moving in together … I wanted to believe it could happen, but I didn't really.
We've been talking about the level of conflict in the relationship since November and his response was always, it's going to work out, we'll be together forever, I've known since very early but that's ok I can wait for you to see it the way I do, you'll see. He worked really hard to sell me on a vision of the future that he was building from very early on. We'll live in a six-bedroom house. I'll get you a nanny. We'll hire a housecleaner. You can quit your job and write if you want to, I would love to support you. One day we'll buy an RV and go on a trip, us and the kids. Wouldn't that be fun? By the end all I could envision when I thought about this was the two of us sniping at each other, and a couple of horrified kids looking on with nowhere to go because they're stuck in a moving vehicle.
But this was just my lack of faith, even when the conflict began to be intractible and I told him I didn't want to discuss or hear about his fairytale endings anymore.
Even as I knew how early he latched on to me was a problem–even as I knew that the stories he told me about our future together were hypothetical–I so badly wanted to believe them. I so badly wanted it to be true. My god, he knew exactly what to promise me to get me hooked, didn't he? I'm not saying it was intentional, but it worked. I so badly wanted single motherhood to be over. I so badly wanted the fairytale ending. I couldn't let go even when I knew I needed to, that the fairytale ending would have me locked in a very nice castle with a lunatic.
For the last few months it's felt as if all I do is erect and defend boundaries. Don't do this–don't say this–stop doing that–you're hurting me. Stop sending me your ex-wife's emails to you with your vitriolic commentary. Stop asking me to review your replies to her, and then edit and edit them, because while you say you're not angry at her those replies are so full of hate that they can only escalate the conflict between you. Please stop teasing me and trying to provoke me. Please stop telling me that only idiots are liberals. Please stop making generalizations and assumptions about women and feminists. When I got completely worn out and run down and started having to get angry to make myself heard and understood, he said I was being oversensitive.
And what he did to make it so easy for me yesterday was respond to my tearful and apologetic break-up by saying that after talking to Niamh he realized that he can't spend his life tip-toeing around someone so over-sensitive she will always over-react and heap abuse and blame on him. His tone was even and reasonable, even while he found a way to blame me for the whole failure of the relationship. When I heard that, I knew that no matter how long we might have stayed together, he never would have heard or understood a damned word I'd say about anything, and no matter how much it hurt, the ending was a very very good thing.
I've had hateful, hurtful letters bouncing around in my head now for almost 24 hours. "Screw you" emails. "Fuck off" emails. "This is all your fault" emails.
Early on, when the Trader and I first started dating, Niamh told me an unrelated story about a previous boyfriend, J, who'd always had hard-luck tales about exes being nuts. At the time I'd just heard about his crazy ex-wife and his crazy ex-girlfriend, who'd hit him a few times. (I'm not excusing that behaviour but by the end I could definitely see how a reasonable woman could be driven to hit the man to try and make him hear her.) I remember thinking that this was something I'd have to watch out for, but after all I had to give the guy a chance. Maybe he did attract crazy women who all had patterns of being vicious and unstable and violent and mean. By the end, feeling myself becoming vicious and unstable and violent and mean, I knew it was him.
There's not a chance that anyone will ever be able to convince him that his behaviour brings this out of the women he dates. If after seven months of trying to tell him, first gently then pointedly then heatedly, that he is instigating these responses both in me and in his ex-wife, there's not a chance.
So you can see how the regret burnt itself out quickly.
But not so much the grief. I really wanted what he said this relationship was and could be. I wanted it so badly. Partially because when the good was good it was great. Partially because I knew that if it ended that it was unlikely I would find the fairytale-ending with the kids and the rest of it with anyone else. That biological clock isn't ticking loudly, thanks to PP, but meeting the Trader made me realize that I hadn't let go of that one as much as I thought.
Now if I move to Beyond Bob, with the knowledge that I can't move PP again for years, it's very unlikely that I will end up in a long-term live-in relationship for years. That hurts so much I can't quite look at it yet. This is not what I wanted from my thirties.
Don't get me wrong, there are lots of good things for me and for PP in this move, and I believe it's the right thing to do on a lot of levels (still compulsively knocking on wood in case it doesn't pan out). A nice little condo townhouse near a conservation area, biking distance to work and her school, close to a historic downtown shopping district–doesn't that sound idyllic? I just can't move her again for a while. Which means we'll be living alone. For years. Great for her. But I'm so tired of being a single mom.
I've done a lot of sobbing in the past 24 hours (interspersed with the mental composition of rage-filled emails). It's already mostly working its way out of my system, which I guess means I'll be able to eat again soon. And I have lots of other things to look forward to. I'll be all right soon (though desperate for things to do, good god, to keep me busy and distracted while PP's not here on weekends. Any offers gratefully accepted, except for next Friday night which is thankfully taken).
Then on Twitter I providentially saw:
"When something is not working well, give it a joyful funeral and move on."
I'm not quite up to joyful, but I did decide to gather some representative items from our relationship and bury them in the woods, if burial includes sticking them in a hand towel–part of one such gift, white with "I love you" embroidered in red on the bottom–and leaving it all inside the well-rotted stump of a dead tree. I took a kitschy christmas mug, a condom, a bottle of nice-smelling handwash that I will almost certainly never use because I prefer unscented and I did tell him so but he wanted me to use it anyway, the claddagh ring necklace, and an unopened box of chinese white tea, wrapped it all in the towel, and put it in the tree stump. Then sobbed again. There's a lot of that, I suppose it's to be expected.
I thought, maybe someone else will find it and the necklace can be part of their own fairytale, even if it wasn't part of mine. And it's bound to entertain whoever finds it.
(Other gifts I will give away, the computer bag in black that I wouldn't have really wanted to use but it's black and he wanted to give it to me, the jewelry box with the claddagh on it, the rest of the fancy-smelling soaps, etc. I'll keep the ring. Eventually I think I'll want it, though right now I can't look at it.)
Twenty paces from the tree on the way back I wanted to run back and grab it and say, "I didn't mean it, I take it back," but I know I do mean it and it's for the best. For me and more importantly for PP. So it's there. I wonder how long it will be before someone finds it and what they will think? It's helping already, I think, to have let it go so concretely.
I cried at the burial. Tonight will be the wake, and if I could I'd invite you all over and we'd all get drunk. In any case, I plan to laugh.


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These are a few things on my list… There's so much to look forward to!
1. Buying a drawing tablet; it has been on my list of "Things to Do!" for ever, now… I am looking at a few options, so hopefully it should be with me, soon.
2. The Jupiter Skye Shop – Well, I will be selling some of my wares (yes, truly) on Tumblr, for starters…
3. Reading more books, and setting myself up to complete more challenges based on the same.
4. Learning more about make-up! (At least, the basics. Would love to attend a class/workshop conducted by Virginia Holmes of FAT MU or perhaps, Shrutika Rao – that would be if she is teaching… )
7. Striking out unrealistic goals from my very many lists… There are goals that seem petty, and are just not ME anymore. (This has come from my ability to let go! Passionately following this mantra.)
8. Writing the book, or well – one of the many, I have always wanted to…♥
On that note, I wish all of you good tidings as you chart out a few simplistic goals for yourself… Or just things, to look forward to accomplishing/doing in the coming year. Lots of LOVE!
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See… I said I'd get bored with themes. Am I terrible, or what?
As a little aside, and hoping in a way that the title doesn't draw too much attention to the rest of this post…
I'm not much of a political person in rl, but there are some features of UK politics which I find absolutely abhorrent. The blatant attempt to buy votes as a general election approaches is just one example.
One such is a recent announcement that every 'low income' household with children (which roughly means Labour's target voters) will be given a free laptop. That's right. A free laptop. Obviously a lot of these will be on eBay the day after they're received, to be traded for beer and cigarettes, but someone else has clearly thought this through, and placed a pre-emptive add on eBay already.
I nearly wet myself reading it.
As a nice touch, the final proceeds from the 'sale' will got to the Haiti earthquake appeal.
ps… still fiddling…now it's a sorta blue-green 🙂


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1. It was dark outside when I took Makayla for her morning stroll.
2. My favorite constellation, Orion, is creeping into the morning sky.
3. The outside temperature was 56 degrees.
4. The pool water is getting cold.
5. I had to use my poop-finder flashlight.
6. I turned the air conditioner off in the truck yesterday and was amazed at how much power that under-powered vehicle actually had.
7. Chris wore a sweater last evening as we ate dinner on the deck.
8. I haven't heard the house air conditioning come on in over 12 hours.
9. I'm heading off tis morning to risk life and limb playing racquetball again after the summertime hiatus.
10. The Maryland Renaissance Festival begins tis weekend.
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Having a property purchase fall through, is stressful, emotional and pricey – all at the same time. But you can buy insurance to protect yourself.
Zoopla has partnered with The Home Insurer, a broker, which will scour the market to help find the best deal for homebuyers. But how does Home Buyers Protection Insurance work and exactly what do you get for your money?
Here's the lowdown on this type of cover.
What is Homebuyers Protection Insurance?
A policy that covers you for the loss of upfront expenses you've made in good faith to buy a property – legal, survey and mortgage lending costs, for example – in the event of the purchase falling through.
Don't lose your upfront costs if your property purchase falls through
Protect against gazumping and your house purchase falling through, claim back:
- Up to £1000 in conveyancing fees
- Up to £750 in survey/valuation fees
- Up to £500 in mortgage/lender fees
- 24 hours x 365 days Legal Claims Helpline
- £5000 Legal Expense Insurance
- £0 Excess
Cover lasts for 180 days from offer accepted.
Save 29% on Home Buyers Protection Special Offer
Zoopla Limited are an Appointed Representative of uSwitch Limited, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, firm reference number 312850. Insurance arranged through The Home Insurer, a trading style of Property Expert Ltd, registered in England and Wales (Company Number 7275751) authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority firm reference number: 615253. The Home Insurer offers a non-advised service which means that they source and arrange the product but do not offer advice or make any recommendations when arranging your insurance.
What exactly does it cover me for?
This insurance covers gazumping (where a seller accepts an offer from one buyer and rejects it later in favour of a higher offer from someone else). This is a practice that's on the rise again, according to recent reports.
It also covers events such as the seller pulling out (perhaps due to being made redundant), or you not qualifying for the mortgage you need to buy the home (usually this means less than 90% of the price you have offered).
In many cases an adverse survey or something unexpected thrown up by the local authority search will also be covered - please read the policy wording for full cover details.
Are there limits to the amount I can claim back?
Yes. You'll be able to claim a maximum of £1,000 in conveyancing fees, £750 in survey/valuation fees and up to £500 in mortgage/lender fees.
When in the Move process do I buy it?
You can purchase Home Buyers Protection Insurance as soon as you have had an offer accepted on the property you want to buy. But it will also have to be within 14 days instructing your solicitor to start on the conveyancing work.
How long does the cover last?
For 180 days from the day you buy the policy – which means you have six months to complete.
How much does it cost?
If buy it through Zoopla the insurance costs £49.95, which is £10 cheaper than the standard retail price of £59.95. You'll need to pay the premium as a one-off lump sum.
What if I'm buying in Scotland?
Even though in Scotland, an offer must be honoured once it's been accepted, house sales still go to sealed bids – and can fall through for a host of other reasons outside gazumping.
So, whether you are buying in Scotland, England, Wales or Northern Ireland Home Buyers Protection Insurance can be worthwhile cover.
How do I make a claim?
If you need to make a claim, simply call the claims line number which you'll find on your policy documents. You'll need to quote your policy scheme reference and schedule number.
Is there an excess to pay if I do?
There is no excess. This means that if, for example, you pay £750 for a survey – and then made a claim on your cover – you would get back the full £750.
How long will it take for the money to come through?
This will vary from case to case, most claims should be paid in a matter of days.
What exclusions should I watch out for?
Home Buyers Protection Insurance will not cover expenses incurred before the policy was in place, known as 'retrospective claims'. For example, your claim would be rejected if you bought cover after being gazumped.
The policy will also only pay out for events which are outside your control – known as 'insured events'. For example, you cannot claim if a property purchase collapses just because you have changed your mind.
Click here for more information about exclusions, and here for the visit for the policy wording document.
When wouldn't I need it?
This kind of cover, unlike buildings insurance for example, is not compulsory. However, it's well worth considering when entering into any house purchase. Upfront fees can run into hundreds of pounds at a time of when money is typically in scarce supply.
You might also be interested in…
- Top tips on home insurance - If you're moving house, here's how to check you're insured at every step – from your old front door to your new one.
- What survey do I need? - Buying a property? To get the full picture of what you're paying for, you'll probably need to get a survey done. Start your homework here.
- When's the right time to buy home insurance when moving home? - Getting buildings and contents insurance for your new pad is vital. But what time is the right time to press the button?
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The IDC study Brazil Mobile Phone Tracker Q2 shows that were sold 10,779 million smartphones and 1,265 feature phones between April and June this year, a figure 23.1% higher than the first quarter. Comparing only the smartphones, the increase was 16.6%. In the case of feature phones, 38.4%. In the second quarter of 2015, the total market was only 1.7% lower, the smartphone 4.8% and the feature phones rose 35.1%.
The feature phones are reheating the market, says Diego Silva, Research Analyst at IDC Brazil, who led the study. "In 2015, there was a lack of options for these devices; today the offer is much higher. In addition, conventional cellular serves well to the demand of rural areas where the 3G does not work well and 4G has not yet come. In this case, the lowest investment is worthwhile. "
In the second quarter, the average ticket of smartphones was R$ 1,045 to R$ 1,152 in the first. Of smartphones sold, 64.2% were in the range of R $ 499 to R$ 999. Between April and June 2016, the smartphone market was worth R$ 11.4 billion, revenue 10% higher than the first quarter. Compared to the same months of 2015 it was 15.7% higher. This year, the expectation is 40.3 million devices sold.
Large retailers are anticipating to this month the collective efforts for debt renegotiation, to bring consumers back to stores. This is the case of Casas Bahia, which by the end of October, promotes the Feirão do Nome Limpo (Cleared Name Event) exclusive to those who pay by payment book. The discounts can reach 90% and the debt installment extended to up to 15 times without interest. Each case will be examined separately. The Ponto Frio has not this event, however provides conditions, which facilitate the negotiations.
By the end of October, Magazine Luiza should also announce your special scheme. Currently, the physical stores and the call center are the main channel of negotiation available to customers who have debts. Similar system is offered by Lojas Colombo and Máquina de Vendas Group, owner of Ricardo Eletro, which recently held regional debt payment events with local trade associations, but still is expected of new activities.
Most Brazilians, 60.4% of them are willing to use self-service technology in purchases over the next three years, reveals the study High-tech Retail, conducted by Croma Marketing Solution. More than half of the interviewed see the technologies as useful for shopping, especially the applications (58%), self-service (56%), new payment methods (57%) and 3D visualization (44%) the one with greater willingness to experiment (46%), followed by the virtual reality (39%), new payment methods (30%) and interactive screens (28%).
More than 400 stores of the main retail networks from all over Brazil will redesign by Samsung until December. The initiative increases the visibility of the brand; update the points of sales and leads consumers to their portfolio. In some stores, the case of Fast Shop Shopping Barra (RJ), the new and exclusive 4D VR feature will be available to the consumer; they will be accommodated in a seat and will have the feeling of being on a roller coaster. The stores will have tools like a smart POS, interactive screen installed at all points of sales remotely controlled by Samsung, through which will made exclusive offers to consumers.


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suzy sings, "talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, do-do-do-do, talk about it...won't you take me to funkytown!"
i ask her where funkytown is.
"i don't know. it's just what my dad sings!"
and i'll never forget the first week of school when she was sitting at the table drawing when she burst out with, "hello, my name is johnny cash."
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(PRWEB) July 18, 2012
Global Travel Publishers announces the launch of Mark Nolting's 8th edition of Africa's Top Wildlife Countries. Available in July through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others, the new edition of the book will explore and chronicle the essentials of embarking on safari in Africa. The compendium will feature the most up-to-date information and maps of the continent and wildlife with the same depth and comprehensiveness of past books in the series. http://www.globaltravelpublishers.com
Africa's Top Wildlife Countries 8th edition will feature detailed information including how to choose a safari, as well as a guide for seeing wildlife in specific areas. There are seven charts, covering everything from expected temperatures to best wildlife viewing destinations. With detailed maps and photographs of animals and lodges, readers will be able to gain thorough knowledge of Africa.
Included in Africa's Top Wildlife Countries 8th edition will be ratings of accommodations and listings of lodges by country. Consisting of 616 pages, the book features 533 color photographs and 73 easy-to-read maps. The countries included are Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. An extensive discourse on African facts, the book will be informative for everyone from first time visitors to experienced safari enthusiasts.
As a consummate explorer and researcher, Mark Nolting's expertise is the result of over 25 years of adventuring and study. In addition to the Africa's Top Wildlife Countries series, Mark previously authored the comprehensive African Safari Journal. Mark joined his wife, Alison Nolting, 19 years ago to head the Africa Adventure Company. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Alison managed safari camps before joining Mark to lead their team of experienced Africa consultants.
Mark Nolting is also the founder of the award-winning Africa Adventure Company, which will celebrate its 26th anniversary as a top Africa specialist this year. Africa Adventure Company's first-hand knowledge of Africa and wildlife permits them to offer highly personalized trip planning and advice. Well-known for delivering expert safari guidance, Africa Adventure Company presents the 8th edition of Africa's Top Wildlife Countries to share with all Mark Nolting's vast knowledge and enthusiasm for African wildlife.
About Africa Adventure Company
The Africa Adventure Company is an award-winning travel outfitter and leading Africa specialist known for its extensive portfolio of more than 75 safari trips to over 14 African countries. They pride themselves on planning personalized safaris of a lifetime with a commitment to sustainable tourism and eco conservation, while promoting camps that are symbiotic with nature and the community and offering exquisite game viewing with top notch guides. Their expert team of safari consultants has all traveled to Africa and strives to provide valued advice with a customized approach. The team is managed and directed by Mark and Alison Nolting, two people whose combined experience and knowledge of Africa is unsurpassed in the safari business. Mark is the author of Africa's Top Wildlife Countries, an award-winning guide book now in its 8th edition that is considered by the travel industry as the quintessential guide for planning a safari, and the African Safari Journal, a diary, phrase book and wildlife guide, all in one. For more information about Africa Adventure Company, visit their website at http://www.AfricanAdventure.com or call 1 (800) 882-9453.


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"Where do most after market electric fans fit on Triumphs?"
Canley Classics about electric fans:
Smack bang in front of the radiator core masking anything up to 30/40% of the core, look how big that motor is, and how much area the fan blades mask when both stationary and when rotating, even the mounting brackets mask parts of the core. If you can't get the fan on the engine side of the radiator sucking warm air through it then take it off and throw it in the bin.
Even we sometimes don't listen to our own advice and quickly learn the lessons all over again.
Many years ago I built John Kipping a Herald that became known universally as the Rally car. It was built initially to recreate the 1959 Trans African Herald prototype proving run immortalised in 'Turn left for Tangiers'.
Built with 1500 running gear and a full width radiator I made the mistake of fitting an electric fan ignoring our own advice. Anyway John and myself set off on the long slog down through Europe to Gibraltar to catch the ferry across to Morocco. As we crossed through Spain and things warmed up it became apparent that engine temperature seemed to be increasingly controlled by the fan cutting in, a worrying sign as we would be crossing the Shara desert in a few days time! Things came to a head in the Atlas Mountains in the Shara, on the climb the fan was working continuously barely stopping us from boiling over, and then to cap it all we lost all the water from the radiator. The fan was of the type that bolts directly through the core and one of those mountings had worn through a tube. The hole was fixed with Araldite (wonderful stuff should be in everyone's toolkit), all our drinking water was put in the radiator, and the fan was thrown at a passing camel!


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This is a 100% Natural Cowhide Leather Rug.Celestial Leather hair on hide leather is characterized by a very warm and soft feel. It is particularly suitable for demanding customers who are looking for a distinctive grain pattern, a natural leather texture and vibrant natural features of value. They fit beautifully on every kind of environment, classic or modern and are themselves alone a precious element of home design. They come available in various types, tricolor, bi-color, single color or exotic, etc.
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HIGH POINT, NC – Furniture with nailhead trim is enjoying a sudden surge in popularity, says the American Home Furnishings Alliance.
The classic accent, no longer limited to leather or upholstery, is now appearing in places where it's seldom seen – like wood furniture.
At the most recent home furnishings market in High Point, NC, nailhead trim had migrated from sofas, chairs and chaises to consoles, chests, and buffets, says AHFA.
It is also used in patterns rather than straight lines, it becomes a textural element to accessorize a traditional table, chest or console.
"The industry's top designers have embraced this as the new 'on-trend' embellishment," says Jackie Hirschhaut, VP at American Home Furnishings Alliance.
Hooker Furniture employed nailhead trim in consoles and chests to outline curves and add embroidery-inspired patterns.
Nailhead trim detailing also appears on Hickory Chair's Muse cabinet, and on Magnussen Home's new high-style Onyx bedroom collection with crocodile-embossed leather and chrome-plated nickel nailheads.
And HGTV HOME Furniture collection collaboration with Bassett furniture features a Mum table shimmering with nailhead. And nailhead trim outlined Taylor King's new "classically transitional" sofas and chairs this fall.
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After their best ever season, in 2012/13, when they won the County Plate and achieved a phenomenal win-loss and points difference record, as well as regularly playing top-flight Junior rugby with sides from across the Thames Valley (Berkshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire) and Wales, Grove U16 are readying themselves for Oxfordshire Division 1 rugby in the 2013/14 season.
U16 rugby also brings lifting in the line-outs, and the 2013/14 season new rules in the scrum.
Following very intensive pre-season training, half of it with the Club's First XV and other Senior and U17 players, the squad is now getting ready for the new season.
Join Us -- Great Fun and Great Rugby !!!
As always, we are keen and welcoming of new recruits -- all we ask is that you really want play, and enjoy, rugby. No pressure to commit, just join us for training and see how it goes. We have a truly fantastic team spirit (and great tours!), and play some really fast, exciting and powerful rugby. We are looking to expand our squad to support the higher level of rugby, and are open to keen recruits of all standards (we have a great coaching team, who can help every level of player).
For more information about joining the Grove Rugby U16 squad, you can just turn up to a training session (check our fixtures page for our whereabouts on Sundays), or contact us beforehand.
Grove U16 players at the Kassam -- Ball Boys for Welsh-Scarlets game
Photos include three of the squad and other Grove RFC Juniors as ball boys at the London Welsh-Scarlets game on 25th August 2013 at the Kassam Stadium, Oxford. Go Welsh!!! (And the other dozen or so teams that members of the U16 squad support, including Grove's mighty and recently-promoted 1XV!!!)


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For Father's Day: Dave Shares His Favorite "Dad-isms"
Father's Day is on the way, and I could think of no better way to honor dads than by letting them know we've been listening to them all these years. Especially when it comes to "dad-isms".
A "dad-ism" is a quote made famous by dads. Not any one particular dad, but the whole lot of them. These are phrases that have stood the test of time, been taken seriously by children and joked about when they become adults. Pretty much every dad has a handful of dad-isms in their verbal arsenal. Dad always had those sayings and quotes that contained a hidden message or pushed you to succeed at a difficult task, or just had you scratching your head, wondering "what in the world is he talking about?".
I went through the office to gather a few favorite dad-isms from my coworkers. Here's what I've come up with:
"Get out of my face, before I change my mind".
"Shut the door! Were you born in a barn?"
"Go ask your mother."
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."
"Eat it. It'll put hair on your chest".
"This is why we can't have nice things!".
That's only a few. A mere drop in the bucket in the hundreds - even thousands - of dad-isms out there. What's your favorite? Please share in the comment section below.


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