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Steve Apfelbaum and Alan Haney have developed this webcast to give restorationists and would-be restorationists with little or no scientific training or background the "how to" information and knowledge they need to plan and implement ecological restoration activities. Based on their work in southern and central Wisconsin, they have set up a step-by-step process for developing, implementing, monitoring, and refining on-the-ground restoration projects that is applicable to a wide range of landscapes and ecosystems. They offer systematic, step-by-step strategies along with inspiration and benchmark experiences. Tune in and learn how to champion your restoration projects!.
Steve Apfelbaum - Steven has conducted ecological research, designed award-winning projects, successfully navigated regulatory programs, and contributed his unique creative scientific expertise and enthusiasm to over 1,500 projects throughout North America and beyond. He is one of the leading ecological consultants in the U.S., providing technical restoration advice and win-win solutions where ecological and land development conflicts arise. Apfelbaum has authored hundreds of technical studies, peer-reviewed technical papers, books, reports, ecological restoration plans, regulatory monitoring and compliance reports. He promotes using ecological and conservation design principles in developments, industrial projects and parks that help clients save money while increasing ecological functionality, improving public perception and generating award-winning outcomes. Apfelbaum is also a highly sought after speaker at educational events focusing on ecological restoration, ecosystem assessment, alternative stormwater management and conservation development.
Alan Haney - For over 25 years, Alan has studied effects of fire and timber management practices on community structure in the Upper Great Lakes. He began studies in Superior National Forest in 1976 on birds and vegetation in upland communities during post-fire succession. He and his colleagues later expalan promoted and helped organize the first regional oak savanna conference in 1993 with USnded their studies to include post-harvest succession. In 1986, Alan began working with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources on savanna restoration and management. A EPA support. In 1991, as Science Advisor to the Sand County Foundation, he promoted the idea of a regional partnership focusing on savanna restoration. In 1997, Alan chaired a national conference on savanna restoration and management. Alan's areas of expertise include community structure and adaptive management. Alan has edited or authored several books including Ecosystem Management (with Mark Boyce, Yale Univeristy Press 1997), Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land (with Steve, Island Press 2010), and One Family's Forest (with Lowell Klessig, Back Forty Press 2010). Alan's areas of expertise include ecosystem management and community structure.
Lisa Brush - Lisa is the Executive Director of The Stewardship Network. Lisa has been leading collaborative conservation initiatives in the nonprofit environmental sector for over two decades. In her role as co-founder and Executive Director of The Stewardship Network she has engaged thousands of professionals and volunteers in identifying community and conservation needs of the 21st century and determining strategic support The Network can provide. She has managed and overseen grant projects from federal and state agencies, as well as family and private foundations. She has been involved in all aspects of organizational management including foundation/agency relationships, grant based project funding, budget tracking, contract negotiation, implementation, accountability, project reporting and staff and board development. Lisa has facilitated strategic planning sessions, focus groups, citizen task forces, community visioning sessions, and public involvement and feedback meetings with groups ranging in size from four to four hundred. Lisa emphasizes tried and true in-person methods of bringing people together augmented by the use of cutting edge online technology. Lisa serves on numerous boards of directors, has a BA in Science in Society from Wesleyan University, an MS from University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment, and is a graduate of Michigan State University's Great Lakes Leadership Academy.


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OPEC manipulating Numbers to show a lower production output from Iraq and Iran.
OPEC manipulating Numbers to show a lower production output from Iraq and Iran. (taz).
While Iraq requested to be exempt from OPEC's oil freeze and has puts its September output about 335,000 barrels per day more than OPEC's estimated figure for September, another member of Cartel, Iran, claims its oil production last month was 3.89 million barrels per day (mb/d), while OPEC's figure for Iran was 3.665 mb/d.
"OPEC's statistics based on secondary resources are not true. Iran's output was 3.89 mb/d in September," an official from National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) told Trend on conditions of anonymity Oct.27.
Before, Ali Kardor, the head of NIOC told Trend Oct.17 that OPEC has put Iran's oil output figure about 250,000 barrels per day less than the real volume.
Iraq announced this week that it is at war with terrorist groups and needs to be exempted from OPEC's oil freeze plan.
PS: Russia won't cut production output either.
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From the glamorous weddings, stunning crowns, and glitz of being a member of the royal family, it's easy to see why marrying a royal might entice commoners. However, tying the knot with a public figure isn't always as exciting as it seems from the outside.
In recent years, many monarchies have become more liberal when it comes to accepting outsiders into their families. Still, although we are well into the 21st century, some outdated regulations remain in place, which can certainly test any relationship — especially one playing out in the public eye.
From antiquated laws to strange rules involving seafood and board games, royals who marry commoners often ask a lot of their spouses. We've watched Kate Middleton marry Prince William and take on her duchess duties, wearing all of the right clothing and showing up at charities and events. And yet, Duchess Kate has had to contend with the paparazzi following her every move during her pregnancies, as well as the release of private photos.
In November 2017, the world received the news it was expecting: Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle were engaged, marrying on May 19, 2018. Like Duchess Kate, Markle's life is under a microscope, and she's dealt with racist backlash due to her mixed race heritage. Still, Markle will have to confront even more customs and practices.
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How I Work
I explain how I work in each of the following categories:
Midlife Awakening Coaching
Midlife: The territory of genuine prosperity, passionate relationships and joy
In midlife [somewhere between 30 and 60 years of age] your soul's purpose comes knocking on your door – usually, but not always, through a midlife "crisis" – insisting on genuine prosperity, passionate relationships and joyful wellbeing.
And to the degree that you do not have these qualities of a joyful and meaningful first "half" of life, your life is turned upside down.
Typically, and very naturally, your soul inquires after some of life's deeper questions now:
Is this all that life is really about?
Who am I?
And what is it I really, really want out life?
These questions are explored and clarified throughout a 5 step "art and science" creative process:
The first step is containing the crisis at midlife – whether in the career, health or relationship channels.
The second step is understanding that everyone has a purpose, a gift, a vocation and in the second "half" of life we have a responsibility to truly live out the passionate vitality of this contribution and purpose.
The third step is to begin the process of articulating the meaningful vision of this purpose-driven life, in all its facets, qualities, textures but especially in the career, health and relationship channels of ones life.
The fourth step of the work is learning specific strategies to attract, create and implement this new vision as the main focus in ones life while adjusting to the necessary changes and integrations that are required to live with genuine prosperity, passion and joy.
The last step is to create sustainable practices for this best life that deliberately animates and creates a territory and river of joy that spills into every aspect of your life in a ongoing way.
"At 40, I was trying to make decisions. Where was my life going? What do I want? What will I be doing when my children grow up and move on with their lives? I was feeling good about my relationship with my husband, my children and my choice of friends, but something was missing.
I had spent many years getting over life circumstances and needed a new direction. Michael had helped me in my early thirties through my post partum depression and the loss of my brother due to a life threatening illness. It was a very dark time. Based on the light that he shone on my life through that time, I knew he was the person I wanted to help guide me. My confidence was low, I was used to being alone, and I often questioned what my purpose was.
Michael sat with me and guided me through my thoughts, my excitement, and whatever I was tripping over. We laughed along the way and he encouraged me to organize my dreams and focus on the direction I want for my life. The discussions I had with Michael were all about me. Not the kids, not my husband,
but me!
Who knew? I was still there, alive and well.
Michael has a way of drawing out all the stuff (?!), good and bad and helping you sort it out. He has a kind and gentle nature and allows you to express yourself and dig deep. He reminded me I am validated to express myself, live my life, have my own opinion and stand up for what I believe is the best life possible.
Now I know I definitely have something to "bring to the village. Michael – you're fabulous! Thank you."
JL, 40, Green Designer, Vancouver, Canada
Spiritual Counseling
"When we are in alignment and within the territory of our Original Natures, we feel a movement, a joy, like a river moving in us…" MTK
My spiritual counseling work began in 1983 when a small group of friends and I bought and opened theSpiritual Healing Center, a non-denominational spiritual resource center that provided spiritual counsel, meditation and contemplative classes to folks from all spiritual traditions and religions who wanted to live full and authentic lives of meaning and joy.
We also responded to the AIDS crisis and helped people die consciously and also for folks who were dying of AIDS.
As a spiritual guide over these past 25 years,
I have learned that the health and vitality of our inner life – and the challenges and initiations that come with it – can be seen and measured simply by the distance we travel form our "home" [our heart area]: if we go out beyond our frontier lines of our own knowing, we loose our sustenance, our nourishment and our vision for our lives.
And our bodies natural instincts and feelings inform us when we have gone too far. Our inner nourishment is gone. We feel parched, empty, alone.
When we are in alignment and within the territory of our Original Natures, we feel a movement, a joy, like a river moving in us – guiding us back to the ocean of our authentic life, our fulfillment, our joy.
Since "your outer life is a reflection of your inner life" I initially do a comprehensive assessment of your outer life first. This 360 degree panoramic view of the external context of your life gives me an overall global picture of what is being reflected in your mind, body and soul.
We also get a birds eye view of our symptoms, relationship challenges, career transitions, spiritual history, relationship with money, practices and experiences with teachers, mentors as well as your chief complaint(s).
From here we collaborate and create a Spiritual Life Plan to come back into alignment with your home, your eternal vision of sustenance and joy.
We then set clear intentions, priorities and settle in to meeting regularly to re-imagine and re-shape your spiritual life from the inside out.
We intentionally ally with the ultimate and greatest spiritual teacher for each of us – Life itself – to help guide us back home to what is real, relevant in your life.
In other words, the light and direction on this initiatory path will be provided by your inner and outer reflections and experiences from your ordinary daily life.
From here it is simple a matter of following the golden threads from your life home toward your accurate vision of sacredness, liberation and belonging that you have consciously defined.
Wholistic Psychotherapy
All symptoms are purpose-driven.
Until you understand their purpose(s), symptoms remain active, a mystery.
I work from a wholistic perspective. What this means is that we sit down and discuss the whole context of your life – everything from your health to relationships to career.
Then through examining all of these different parts of your life – including the accurate mind, body and soul symptoms – the secret purposes of your symptoms begin to reveal themselves.
And when we take a closer look at all these different aspects of your life, the big picture begins to emerge for us. From here, we will focus on the accurate details that we have prioritized, that will make a difference.
Once you understand that your symptoms are not random but are purposeful, you are then empowered to align yourself with these deeper purposes and make healthy choices for your recovery.
And the transformation of your symptomatic life into a rich and meaningful life is natural, inevitable.
This process of wholistic healing is New Medicine
"When I first came to see Michael my life was falling apart, nothing made sense and almost every aspect of my life came to a stand still.
My experience with Michael was profound and life changing.
His sensitivity and ability to clearly define and deliver his depth of knowledge is extraordinary.
Michael's ability to deliver complex ideas and demonstrate how to implement them in day to day life is brilliant!
Michael's methodologies, vast knowledge and experience are married with real life experience which is invaluable.
If you follow the process with an open mind and the will to tap into new territory – you will be rewarded.
He is a gifted mentor on the journey of life.
MTK has a gift and if you reach out for his help you'll be forever grateful."
EA, Business Executive, Israel.


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'Boring Halloween Selfie' Flipbook Has a Big Surprise
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With Halloween just around the corner, this special Halloween flipbook captures the mood perfectly with a big surprise. You might think that this is a 'Boring Halloween Selfie' creation, but try telling that to the terrifying fluorescent ghost that appears!
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the world's first blacklight flipbook with invisible UV marker.


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Get Packed presents a new range of handheld strapping tools from Zapak that supersedes the ZP22 and ZP26 models.
Zapak ZP96A battery powered strapping tools are portable by design and provide a reliable seal on straps without metal seals or buckles.
The second generation hand strapping tool features a brushless motor that delivers higher torque output and saves battery power resulting in increased cycle numbers.
Lighter than the ZP26 model that it now replaces, the Zapak ZP96A battery powered strapping tool weighs in at only 3.5kg, thanks to its new Panasonic 18V Li-Ion battery.
Zapak's 96A strapping tools feature a new design that allows for convenient single-handed operation conforming to CE safety regulations. A pre-programmed touch panel controls the tension and sealing to perform with greater precision.


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Nimbuzz is the free call and messaging app for the connected generation.
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At the heart of Nimbuzz is the live Contact list – an always-on, hyper-connected, dynamic address book, enhanced with "real-time-presence" showing at a glance who's online, offline, busy or away, their status messages, avatar pictures and social community activity. From here, users launch free and cheap calls between each other, IM chat sessions, picture sending, chat-room sessions, location based services and various other communication & interactive features.
Nimbuzz users enjoy the freedom of communicating with friends between any internet enabled device, from mobile to mobile, mobile to PC/Mac and vice versa, harnessing the power of the Internet (Wi-Fi, 3G, 2G, GPRS).
With its mobile, Web, Wap and desktop clients, Nimbuzz is available on thousands of the worlds' most popular devices across all major platforms – Symbian, iPhone, iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry, J2ME, as well as Windows and Mac desktop computers.
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A roundtable interview on the history of the Los Angeles hotel. * Dylan Trigg on alien origins. * Outward From Nothingness. * For nothing, against everything. * Nietzsche and moral nihilism. * Moby-Dick and nihilism. * "In many ways, Moby-Dick was more like a Victorian blog, and I often think that if Melville had been writing his book today, he would never have finished it: he'd be perpetually entering 'whale' into a search engine". * Writers and suicide. * Sebald on Walser. * Digression in Walser, Bernhard and Stifter. * Peter Orner on Juan Rulfo and the beauty of not writing. * No future. * More on Punk: An Aesthetic. * The art of punk. * The unshackled cultivation of Rimbaud. * Stig Saeterbakken reviewed. * A 1983 documentary on Borges. * Hallward on Deleuze. * The New Republic on Sam Jordison's Not The Booker. * Freud on creative writing and daydreaming. * Audio interview with Deborah Levy over at Granta. * Deborah Levy: "Modernism is the air I breathe as a writer" (video). * Dada in Paris. * The Barbican celebrates Marcel Duchamp. * Will Self on Kevin Jackson's Constellation of Genius, 1922: Modernism Year One. * Luke Neima reviews Umbrella: "The most compelling part of Self's novel is not that it outwrites (or even pretends to parallel) the High Modernists, but that it has the nerve to state that contemporary writers can still aspire to compete". * David Foster Wallace and the web. * Debbie Harry shows Americans how to pogo. * Who controls the internet? * Jokes, improv and John Cage. * Brian Eno's imaginary landscapes. * Roxy Music live, 1973. * An interview with Quentin Meillassoux. * Niven Govinden's Black Bread White Bread longlisted for the DSC Prize. * 3:AMer Christiana Spens's postcard poetry. * Darran Anderson on Susan Sontag's On Photography. * Heidi Julavits interviewed. * Ian Dury's daughter. * Vintage Soviet art and propaganda. * A teaser trailer for Bret Easton Ellis's The Canyons. * An interview with David Niven. * John Peel's record archive. * Groundwork, a new philosophy blog from Kingston University students. * Sylvia Kristel (aka Emmanuelle) R.I.P. * Eudora Welty on writing. * Is the editor dead? * Action philosophers! * Charlie Brown and Utilitarianism. * Lars Iyer's Wittgenstein Jr. * Le blog de Jean-Paul Sartre. * Hardcore violence moral panic circa 1980-81. * An anthology of Californian hardcore fanzine We Got Power! * The me who knew it. * Dressing For Pleasure revisited. * Pic: Lee Miller by Man Ray, 1930.
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Learn about the history of striped and sunshine bass stockings in the St. Johns River.
School of striped bass at Silver Glenn Springs. Striped bass seek refuge in these cool waters during the summer.
Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) are a popular sport fish and naturally occur from the St. Lawrence River in Canada to the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Established stocked populations occur along the Pacific coast and many inland water bodies across the United States. Florida was home to the southernmost native populations of the Atlantic strain striped bass; however due to degradation of river habitat and water quality, natural reproduction ceased in the St. Johns River by the early 1970s
Striped bass are a cool-water fish and do not survive water temperatures above 80 degrees for extended periods. Warm waters like the St. Johns produce small population numbers that rarely reach more than 20 lbs – a small size compared to their northern cousins which may exceed 50 lbs. Landlocked by high ocean temperatures, they cannot survive in Florida's warm waters without the numerous springs found in the St. Johns River Basin which provide a cool water refuge during the summer months.
Beginning in the late 1960s, advancements in rearing techniques allowed for intensive culture of the striped bass in Florida. By this time, state and federal biologists believed that few striped bass were naturally reproducing in the St. Johns River and began developing stocking plans to both restore the species and provide additional angling opportunities.
The first striped bass stocked into the St. Johns River occurred in 1972, and annual stockings continue. In the early years of the program, biologists did not keep clear records of the locations of collected brood fish. Most are thought to have been collected from the Nassau and St. Marys rivers, but fish from South Carolina and Chesapeake Bay were also used. Biologists believe that original native striped bass may have adapted to the slow currents typical of the St. Johns River by producing more buoyant eggs, a trait missing from stocked fish from other areas. During years striped bass stocking did not occur, biologists found no fish from those year classes were present. This supported the theory that no natural reproduction was occurring in the river.
In 1981, further developments in hatchery rearing led to large scale production of the sunshine bass, a hybrid striped bass created using white bass females from Florida's panhandle and striped bass males from the St. Johns River. These fish exhibit "hybrid vigor", making hardier fish with improved growth rates and able to withstand higher water temperatures. Generally, white bass females are easier to acquire for brood fish making it easier to get the number of fish needed to create a successful fishery. These fish supplemented the stockings of the Striped bass throughout the 1980s and 1990s in order to provide more fish for anglers.
As state priorities shifted to the conservation and management of other native species within the river, the sunshine bass stocking program was temporarily discontinued from 2000 through 2008. Decreasing numbers of striped bass brood fish during this same period also resulted in lower stocking success. Although striped bass remained a focus for restoration by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), who took over the Atlantic striped bass stocking program from the state in 2009, brood fish availability became less predictable. Environmental conditions such as flood and drought severely impacted the ability for the USFWS to collect brood fish from South Carolina. Due to angler demand, officials reintroduced sunshine bass stockings to increase angling opportunities.
In total, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and USFWS have stocked over 20 million striped bass and nearly 10 million sunshine bass in the last 40 years. As part of a joint agreement in 2009 between the FWC and the USFWS, biologists with FWC's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) at the DeLeon Springs Freshwater Fisheries Lab continue to monitor survival and angler catch data each summer. At accessible locations, fish utilizing the large springs as thermal refuges are counted and photographed and creel surveys are conducted to estimate angler catches. Monitoring allows researcher to detect changes in populations and habitats so that adjustments can be made to stocking requests.
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Strong Security On A Budget For Merchant Card Services
Merchant card services and strong security go hand in hand and it is possible to obtain both on a budget with the help of Vantiv.
As a small business, budget is important to you. In the search for merchant card services, it is critical to focus on strong security. In the effort to save money, it's important not to open yourself up to possible fraudulent activity.
Your merchant account should support focus on a number of security measures ranging from in-store payment security to fraud protection at the point-of-sale.
What Happens During a Data Breach
You may have heard about data breaches and how they can cost small businesses a significant amount of money, and potentially cause the business to close, but do you really know what goes on? Understanding the real side effects of a data breach helps you understand the important need for sensible security solutions within your merchant card services.
If there is a data breach, it could affect your reputation. Your reputation is your most prized asset because it builds and maintains the integrity of your brand. Even if you have the best reputation within your community, a data breach can ruin everything. 46% of the organizations that have experienced a cyber security breach identify a damaged reputation and decrease in brand value as additional outcomes.
Part of the problem is that due to the Internet, stories are likely to spread faster. A person can disclose the security breach on social media and it can spread like fire. This can lead to a loss in customer trust as well. You need customers to trust your business and everything that you do. If there is any kind of security breach, that trust is compromised – and you may never be able to get it back. Any time that you handle consumers' card transactions they trust that the information is going to be processed and then deleted. If it falls into the wrong hands along the way, they are going to come back to you.
You need to consider solutions that allow you to prevent data breaches or the negative effects of them. Your credit card processing at the point-of-sale is the place to start. It can help you as a retailer ensure that your customers are well protected. Making sure payment security is built into your card processing helps you to hold onto your reputation.
How are You Doing?
Vantiv recently asked 500 consumers to share how they think retailers are doing in terms of providing a seamless shopping experience. Surprisingly, it seems like no one is getting it right entirely in all areas, which means that there is improvement across the board, including for your small business.
Most people are satisfied with price accuracy between online and in-store experiences – which means that if you have goals, you want to make sure that the prices are accurate. It is also important to be able to check inventory, return items in-store when purchased online, and maintain consistency of account information regardless of whether it's in-store, online, or on a mobile device.
Understanding where you stand in terms of consumer demand is critical. You want to make sure that you see eye to eye with your customers.
As consumers are moving faster than ever across channels, there's an unspoken expectation that everyone cares about the integrity of their personal information. This includes retirees, boomers, generation Xers, and millennials. This means it doesn't matter who your target demographic is. Security is a big part of the shopping experience and it doesn't matter how you take your payments, it needs to be done in a secure manner that takes into consideration fraud and security.
Budget Isn't the Only Focus
The reality is that you need strong security in place for your merchant card services. Not all companies allow you to focus on both security and budget. While it can be tempting to focus on budget alone because you are a small business and you want to contribute as much to the bottom line as possible, this can be extremely dangerous.
In your effort to save money, you could be putting your reputation and overall brand value in danger. If you experience a data breach, everything you have worked for could come crashing down.
This can be avoided easily enough by taking advantage of payment security solutions with small businesses in mind, both in-store and online and considering data security and fraud. You can protect your customers more heavily and establish a higher level of trust. Customers will be more apt to purchase with you because you are giving them the confidence to use the payment options.
Look for budget friendly merchant card services that deliver strong security. Payments should be smarter, faster, and easier, and more secure, and allow you to provide more options for people to pay for the products and/or services that you offer. This can help to boost business and contribute more to the bottom line, it is ultimately your goal.


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This is a well polished opal from Yowa Queensland. It has been drilled and a leather like strap included.This has come direct from our factory in asia where we spend a lot of time getting a top professional finish. On each stone we spend app a hour getting the best glossy finish possible.This field is known for its amazing patterns and rich chocolate ironstone
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Dot Com Social is a new and exciting talk show from creator Emmylou McCarthy, taking a behind-the-scenes look into Australia's most popular social media accounts and introducing the personalities and small businesses behind their success.
Dot Com Social aims to create a platform for individuals, businesses and organisations to explore the power of social media and its ability to positively affect both brand and image.
Tickets Available for the dates below.
Oct 30th - Shellie Froidevaux - Creator of Iron Chef Shellie (This single episode is not a live braodcast)
Season 1 will premiere on Monday 6th of November at 8:30PM (AEST).
Live Show Dates & Guests
Nov 6th - Jess Rufus - Founder of Collabosaurus
Nov 13th - Chelsea Thomas - Creator of I heart Bargains
Nov 20th - Emily Hazell - Founder of the Serotonin Eatery and special appearance by @lifeofjinkee!!
Nov 27th - Abby Gilmore - Blogger & Supporter of Mental Health & Olivia White from @houseof white
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Some factors to consider when comparing bulkhead, or basement, doors are weatherproofing, insulation and slope. Bulkhead doors are made of wood, polyethylene or steel. The type of material chosen depends on the slope of the entrance and whether the foundation rises above the ground.
Bulkhead doors can be customized to match the home's decor adding both aesthetic quality and value. New basement doors should be sealed to protect from the weather. Panel inserts are also available for the sides of the doors and allow small windows to be added, providing light and ventilation.
Other considerations are ease of use and escape. The doors should be easy to open with minimal effort and should not slam closed. The type of hinges and bars used determine this. Many building codes specify that basements used as sleeping quarters must have a means of escape in case of emergency. A basement bulkhead's ease of use keeps it up to code. The amount of maintenance and upkeep depend on what material is used in the doors. Steel doors require annual painting. Polyethylene doors are generally maintenance-free except for occasional cleaning. Wood doors are not recommended because moisture tends to rot the wood and cause mold.


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Everyone has their own reasons for giving back. For me, it's simply about making the world a more fair, equitable and little better place than what I found. I know I have been blessed to grow up where I did, when I did. I believe everyone deserves the chance to live a healthy, productive life. Those are the values I learned from my family, and they're why I started UDiON Foundation. Read the rest of this entry »
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In 2012, I moved to the town of Banff, Alberta. The town's permanent population, according to its 2014 municipal census is 8,421, while its shadow population (non-permanent residents) is 965, for a combined population of 9,386, which led to the development of Observer Observed. On top of the transient nature of the town, the park attracts over 3 million visitors per year. These incredible numbers are what sparked my interest in focusing on tourism. I find the millions of photographs taken by people fascinating and the idea that regardless of where we find ourselves in this world, many of us are compelled to document our surroundings and share our experiences.
In 2013, I began to explore these ideas by creating large-scale panoramic photomontages where multiple images of tourists are compressed into a single image within the Banff landscape. These people represent the constant flow of life that exists around us, which we rarely make direct observations of. Without passing judgment, these photographs feature how people seemingly interact with each other and the world around them through technology.
In September of 2014, upon expanding the project to Iceland while attending the Listhús í Fjallabyggð residency program in Ólafsfjördur, my focus was on the tourists whom traveled there. This created a thought provoking comparison to the photographs taken in Banff. Banff National Park is Canada's oldest National Park and was originally designed to drawn tourists to the natural hot springs that were found in 1883. As already mentioned, today the national park see's over three million visitors a year. In comparison, in 2008 Iceland experienced a major economic and political financial crisis. Because of this, tourism has become a more significant part of the national economy. In 2014, the population of Iceland was 300,000, yet there were over a million tourists that traveled throughout the country.
In The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a virtual Age, Richard Louv states that "…the Nature Principle suggests that, in an age of rapid environmental, economic, and social transformation, the future will belong to the nature smart – those individuals, families, business, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of nature, and who balance the virtual with the real."[1] While observing tourists documenting the landscapes around them, I wonder if this is the new generation of "nature smart" people, who are equally drawn to the beauty of these places for a refreshment of the mind and the creation of new ideas. Similarly to Louv, I also believe that "[w]hat's different now is not the presence of technology, but the pace of change – the rapacity of the introduction of new media and adoption of new electronic devices,"[2] and although this change is occurring, as a society we can balance our technological selves and become "nature smart" through our constant desire to have a close connection to the natural world. By layering people taking photographs of the natural, landscape, I will analyze this "second digital revolution," by emphasizing the number of visitors that document such picturesque places, regardless of the quality of images taken or on what social platforms the images will ultimately be displayed.
[1] Louv, Richard. The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin of Chapel Hill, 2012. Print. 4.
[2] Louv, Richard. The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin of Chapel Hill, 2012. Print. 37.
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It happens to all of us some time. As wonderful as A Course in Miracles may be, a time will come when the joy and peace it brings seems to evaporate. The high suddenly becomes a low. Or, perhaps it isn't that extreme. Perhaps you wake up one morning to realize that the last day or last several days have been rather blah. However you might describe your feelings, "pure joy" would probably not be your first descriptive choice.
Course students often wonder what, if anything, they should do in such circumstances. Is the Course failing? Do they need to double up on practicing the Workbook lessons? Or, should they just live with it, on the premise that you can't expect to be living in pure joy all the time? The Course, however, provides quite a clear answer, and it is emphatic that not only can we do something about it, we should take note of every loss of joy and act to correct the situation. Pure joy is our natural state, and when we are less than wholly joyous, something is wrong.
The final two paragraphs of Chapter 5, Section VII, of the Text, give a remarkably clear and effective prescription for what we should do when we lose our joy or our peace. First, it describes how the problem comes about.
The steps leading up to the problem (T-5.VII.5:1-2)
- Something or someone says or does something that triggers an adverse reaction in you.
- You decide to react to this situation or person with a lack of love-fear, anger, judgment, withdrawal, or attack.
- As a result, you lose your joy. The loss of joy involves these sub-steps:
a) You perceive your response as "sin" and judge yourself for it.
b) You expect some kind of attack (from the other person or from God) in retaliation for your unloving response.
c) You become defensive.
That is how the problem develops. These steps describe the way we descend into guilt and fear, probably dozens of times, perhaps more, every day. The question we face is: How can we restore our joy? Or, we may be asking how can we return to full communion with God? Restoring divine communion and restoring our joy are really the same thing.
Improper attempts to solve the problem
The key to solving the problem lies in the third sentence of paragraph 5: We are the ones who have made the decisions, and we can undo them. Our unloving response was our own decision. No one else, nor any external force, has constrained us to react without love. Likewise, our reaction to our unloving response—our judgment of it as "sin," our guilt, our fear of attack—is also our own choice. We alone have decided to respond and react as we have done; therefore, we can reverse these decisions (T-5.VII.5:3).
Guilt, however, is definitely not part of the healing process; in fact, it is contraindicated. "Repentance in the usual sense" (T-5.VII.5:4), according to the American Heritage Dictionary, means "remorse or contrition for past conduct or sin." The same dictionary defines guilt as "remorseful awareness of having done something wrong." Clearly, then, "repentance in the usual sense" is the same thing as remorse and guilt. Repentance, in the sense of remorse and guilt, cannot be the solution because guilt is the problem! Guilt is what is producing our fear and keeping us apart from God. If we allow ourselves to feel guilty, we will simply reinforce the original error (T-5.VII.5:5).
The Greek term in the New Testament that is translated by the English word repent is metanoia, which means, literally, a change of mind, or thinking differently. Rather than speaking of sorrow and guilt over wrongdoing, the original meaning agrees precisely with what the Course is teaching: changing the way we think about ourselves and the world.
Another thing to notice about the process set forth by the Course is that it does not involve changing the other person at all! It is purely about changing our choice of how to respond.
Before I go any further into the solution, however, I want to linger a bit over the way we discover the problem, and to point out some things that may hinder or short-circuit the healing process.
First, the healing only becomes possible when I notice and admit that I am "not wholly joyous" (T-5.VII.5:1). If I never notice my feelings, I may never begin to heal. If I bury and deny my unloving reaction to my brothers and sisters, hiding it from myself because I don't want to admit to having such unholy feelings, I will never be motivated to change my mind.
Don't make yourself wrong for having upset feelings. I used to do that a lot, and sometimes I still do. You know how we think: "If I am spiritual, I shouldn't feel sad or depressed." That simply isn't true. We're all in process here. We still have egos. That's why we're still here. Just notice, without judging yourself, how you feel. Feelings are just an indicator of what is going on with you. The Course tells us that the only proper use of judgment is to judge how well we are guarding our thoughts by observing how we feel (T-4.IV.8:5-6).
As Jesus taught earlier in the Text, denial can be either healthy or unhealthy (T-2.II.2:1-4). Healthy denial is denying that any form of error can hurt me. Unhealthy denial is an attempt to conceal something. Burying or repressing my feelings is unhealthy denial. To have my joy restored, I first must allow myself to feel joy's absence. This may mean experiencing my anger completely, instead of trying to shut down the feeling. It may mean deliberately going into my sadness. Not that I should act it out or let it take me over; just that I should fully acknowledge what I am feeling, while I simultaneously realize that what I am feeling is purely the result of my own decisions (T-5.VII.6:2). I am not wholly joyous because I decided not to be wholly joyous. "I choose the feelings I experience" (T-21.II.2:4), the Course teaches.
Second, I cannot allow myself to feel guilty for having such dark feelings. I need to realize that my perception of them as "sin" is hindering my healing rather than helping it. An unloving response to my brother or sister is not something useful, nor is it a skillful way to interact. Unloving response does not heal anyone. Unloving response does not reflect the truth. For all of these reasons, unloving response is a mistake, but it is not a sin. The choice to respond in this way needs to be undone, but it does not need to be punished. It does not make me a bad person.
What to do when we are not joyous
I see five simple steps presented in paragraph 6, summarized in the italicized portion. The five steps, in my own words, are:
- Recognize the problem
- Be responsible for the solution
- Choose peace
- Refuse guilt
- Listen to the Holy Spirit
1. Recognize the problem
"I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace" (T-5.VII.6:7).
When you notice that you are not at peace or not wholly joyous, the very first thing you should do is acknowledge that your condition is the result of your own active decision to see another person lovelessly, not the result of what someone else did. You chose to feel this way (T-5.VII.6:2-3). When you choose not to love you are choosing not to be joyful, because "There is no difference between love and joy" (T-5.In.2:3). Use alternate words if you like: "I must have made a bad choice. I am choosing to feel angry. I decided not to love." Use whatever words work for you at the time.
This is a crucial step. We usually convince ourselves that our anger, hurt, pain, or distress-whatever the form our lack of love is taking—is caused by someone else. "You make me so angry!" is a common way of thinking. Often it is very difficult to break free from this perception and to recognize that the source of our upset is our own decision to withhold love, even when we know that the Course is correct. This is why Jesus admonishes us to "Be very firm with yourself in this" (T-5.VII.6:4). We dare not let any taint of such thinking remain or it will pollute all our thinking. (See W-pI.190.5.) As long as we refuse to accept that the problem is in our own minds, the healing cannot begin. If we are not at peace, it is because we made a wrong decision about how to react to our brother or sister. "It is impossible that happenings that come to [us] were not [our] choice" (T-21.II.3:2).
2. Be responsible for the solution
"I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise" (T-5.VII.6:8).
By accepting responsibility for the original decision to perceive my brother without love, I recognize that I can decide otherwise. I can choose to let God's Love flow through me, rather than react in anger. "The power of decision is my own" (W-pI.152.Title). I must acknowledge the power of my mind to miscreate in order to recognize its power to heal. My "power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which [I] seem to find [myself]…" (T-21.II.3:3).
We are often afraid of the word responsibility because we associate it with blame and guilt. Real responsibility is just realizing that the source and solution of our upsets are not outside us, but within us.
You are the only one in control of your life. You are the only person who thinks thoughts in your mind. Acknowledging your responsibility is also recognizing your power. You can reverse the judgment you made against your brother. Your interpretation was simply mistaken. Recognizing that, you can make your upset disappear.
Sometimes we are so locked into our perceptions that, in all honesty, we really don't want to let go of them yet. We're angry and we don't want to stop. We're depressed and we don't want to be cheered up. That's okay. Go ahead and be angry or depressed! Don't fake it. Don't push yourself beyond where you really are. Don't think, "I should not be angry." Trying to make the feeling go away will just increase your guilt and make the situation worse.
The Course never tells us not to be angry. It just tells us to recognize that when we are angry, we are choosing that feeling, and nothing outside ourselves can be blamed for it. The Course says, "Anger is never justified" (T-30.VI.1:1). That doesn't mean, "Don't be angry," but it does mean "Don't try to blame your anger on anything outside your own thoughts."
3. Choose peace
"I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace" (T-5.VII.6:9).
This is an expression of my will. It is not merely a wish, but the declaration of a firm choice. I am taking charge of my mind and directing its movement, determining what it will choose. I am making a choice to perceive my brother differently, recognizing that my peace has vanished because of my mistaken choice, not because of what he may have done.
This is the choice for peace. It is opening myself to the Holy Spirit so that He can change my mind about the situation. Do I want to hold onto my anger, my sadness, my judgment, or whatever form of upset I have? Or do I want peace? Which is more important to me? Would I rather be right, or be peaceful? (T-29.VII.1:9). It is possible to experience peace even in the midst of "upsetting" circumstances. In reality there are no upsetting circumstances, there are only upsetting thoughts about circumstances.
So, what do you do if, when you get to this step, "Choose peace," you realize that you really don't want to choose peace? One thing that has worked for me is to consciously give myself permission to continue being upset, whatever form that may take: Anger, depression, sadness, anxiety, or any form at all. I tell myself, "Okay, Allen, you want to be angry? Then be angry; it won't kill you. And God still loves you." I find that this makes me very aware that I am actually choosing the upset, and therefore choosing not to be peaceful. Sometimes, just the sheer absurdity of preferring my pain to peace gets me moving again in the right direction.
In T-30.I.8-9, the Course suggests that if you can't seem to let go of your feelings, you can at least notice that "I don't like the way I feel now" and, because you do not like the feeling, admit to yourself that "I hope that I have been wrong." In other words, the way you are looking at things (your unloving thought about your brother) has brought on unpleasant feelings. It would be good, therefore, if the way you are looking at things were mistaken. Realizing this may open the way for you to want peace.
4. Refuse guilt
"I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him" (T-5.VII.6:10).
Don't make yourself wrong for the reaction you had to your sister or brother. Refuse to feel guilty. There is absolutely nothing to feel guilty about. Your reaction was, in reality, a distorted call for love. Only your negative interpretation of that reaction makes you feel guilty. (The negative interpretation is based on a negative belief about your self; i.e., that you are a bad person.)
Peace comes through acceptance, and acceptance of your own feelings, without judgment, is the start of acceptance of others. The desire to hurt someone who hurt you can be a source of guilt and further attack, or it can be the start of healing—as we recognize that we really had that desire, and that it is actually a distorted call for love. It does not call for punishment, it calls for the love that is lacking. When we see that, we can begin to understand that the other person's "attack" is, like our own anger, a misguided, twisted attempt to express love or to ask for it. Their attack arises from fear, which is simply a lack of love. When we forgive our own fears we can begin to forgive the fears of the other person, and peace is the result. (See also T-12.I.8:5-13.)
If you get angry, if you attack someone else, if you give in to depression, that is not a cause for guilt. There is no cause for guilt. You made a mistake, yes; you made a wrong decision, yes. But that does not alter who and what you are. You are Love. You are the Son of God. You don't deserve punishment, you don't need to make yourself miserable to pay for what you did. You simply need to change your mind! For a moment you forgot who you are; that is all. In forgetting, you thought you saw sin in yourself. You can choose to remember who you are, right now. You can translate that perception into one of love. You will see your brother differently. You will see yourself differently.
All you need to do is turn it over to God and change your mind about it, that is, to make the decision over. You allow the Holy Spirit to decide for you; you decide with Him for God, which means He will give you a different way of perceiving the brother you have judged. If you do that, the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of your loveless perception of your brother. That is such an amazing statement! As Jesus said two sections earlier (T-5.V.7:9), undoing is the key to the solution because it eliminates the guilt. When the Holy Spirit is done with His job, the consequences of our mistaken choices have been erased.
He may show us that we have a part to play in His undoing, some action to take or some words to say—or He may not. We will know what to do or say: "For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world" (W-pII.275.2:3).
5. Listen to the Holy Spirit
"I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for God for me" (T-5.VII.6:11).
You let Him take the guilt away, and in response, you listen to His Voice and do what It tells you. You hear His thought about the situation. It is not up to you to interpret the events of your life. It is not up to you to decide what is true and what is not. God has already decided that, and the Holy Spirit will "decide for God for [you]." The only decision you have to make, the only choice, is to listen to the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. You might say that the only real decision is the decision not to make decisions by yourself (T-7.X.6:5-8 and T-30.I.2:1-4).
The Holy Spirit will always interpret everything that arises in you or your brother as some form of love, or a call for love (T-12.I.3:1-4). Any action you then see fit to take will be one that is toward joining with the other person.
Notice how all this is dealing primarily with your own feelings of guilt. The ego is going to tell you that you are a bad person, that your anger or hurt feeling has separated you from God and from your brother. The Holy Spirit is going to tell you that nothing bad has happened, and nothing has been lost; you are still perfectly one with God. What you did or what you felt has not changed what you are. All that happened was that you interpreted your brother and yourself incorrectly; if you let Him, the Holy Spirit will transform your perceptions.
All of this is dealing with your own guilt feelings, and the other person is seemingly forgotten! You are changing your mind, not changing circumstances or other people. As you change your mind (which is the source of all your experience), you will see that your experience also begins to change, but that is not the first objective. You don't have to change anything. Leave that part to God. Don't try to fix the other guy; let go and let God.
As you change your thoughts about yourself, and decide differently about yourself, you will begin to see how the same thing that is true of you is true of the other person. They are making the mistake of choosing to react without love, out of fear. You'll see how that isn't anything to be angry about, and your desire toward them will shift from trying to defend yourself or trying to attack them, to wanting them to find the same peace of mind that you have found. Your forgiveness of yourself will lead naturally to forgiving the other person as well.
This whole process is remarkably similar to what Jesus began to describe way back in Chapter 4, Section IV. I encourage you to read over that other section now, particularly T-4.IV.2:1-5 and T-4.IV.5:1-6.
As a final remark on this remarkable prescription for peace, let me encourage you to memorize these lines. The effort will repay itself hundreds of times over.
An exercise
Try using the Course's prescription with a personal example.
- Examine your mood or feelings right now, and see if it is "wholly joyous."
- If not, search your mind, and try to identify the loveless perception of a brother or sister that is causing your loss of joy.
- With that example in mind, slowly repeat the words of this exercise from the Text. As you do, open yourself to a new perception of your brother or sister, one that comes from love. You will be surprised at how powerful this exercise can be!


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The Irish Warriors are the most successful team in the International Cup, having won the event twice and placed in the top four at every other event since. They are the current title holders. Along with Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, the Irish are in the upper echelon of international sides. They are currently ranked third overall for wins at the cup with 78%.
In addition, the Irish are the current holders of the European Championships (18 a side), but could only manage 5th at the Euro Cup (9-a-side).
The recent resignation of the Irish coach, Shane McElhone, has opened the door to David Stynes to take the reigns for the International Cup. David Stynes is a three time international cup veteran, and the younger brother of AFL Brownlow Medalist, the late Jim Stynes. For the last three years, Stynes has been the head coach of the Moorabin Kangaroos in Victoria. He will also remain part of the playing squad for this tournament.
The Irish will be sending both mens (Warriors) and womens (Banshees) teams to the tournament, with a squad of 28 that will include 14 traveling from Ireland along with 14 based in Australia. Australian based players are playing for clubs in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
To qualify for the Irish side, players had to participate in trials in both Ireland and Australia, as well as from feedback from the relative clubs. There are a lot of new faces in the Irish squad, especially those coming from Ireland, but they were all part of the European Championship winning side.
Training for the Irish players has continued since January between ARFLI fixtures, while Australian based players continue to train with their clubs, as well as playing in the Harmony Cup earlier this year.
The Irish side has been able to attract some sponsorship through Blu Marine this year for both mens and womens sides, which will go a small way to defraying the costs of the tournament for the sides involved but the majority of funding has come from the players themselves.
AFL Europe has provided some assistance in the form of a raffle with prizes including tickets to the AFL Grand Final, a sherrin signed by Buddy Franklin, and a signed Collingwood jumper. (If you are overseas and interested in buying a raffle ticket please email firstname.lastname@example.com )
Ireland havent been beaten in 18 a side football since 2009. When asked about Irelands chances of beating the likes of New Guinea and New Zealand, the President of ARFLI, Paul Brogan, told me that while standards in Europe have been improving – as evidenced by the close finish in the final against Great Britain last year – its teams like New Zealand and Papua New Guinea that are still the ones to beat.
The difference between Ireland and the other contenders is a more developed grassroots system, according to Brogan. Players in New Guinea and New Zealand have the advantage of being able to pick up the sport from a very early age and develop relatively naturally, whereas Irish players have to adapt skills learnt in rugby and gaelic football to the Australian game.
The International Cup is showcasing the worldwide talent, that exists in the sport, giving the opportunity for lads to aspire to play on the greatest stage of all, the MCG. This tournament helps the development of the sport outside Australia, giving guys and girls the chance to represent their nation at a global event. – ARFLI President, Paul Brogan
Brogan says that based on history, Papua New Guinea will be one of the main challengers, but New Zealand should be favorites to take out the tournament, particularly when you factor in their excellent performance against an AFL Academy side earlier this year.
The Irish side will arrive in Melbourne on the 6th of August. The International Cup commences on August 9th.
Players to watch:
- Muirus Bartley – Plays for the Leeside Lions and has played some representative footy with the European Legion and named in the 2011 World XVIII. He kicked the winning goal to get the Irish over the line in the 2013 European Championships.
- Ronan Geraghty – currently playing for Sydney University in the NEAFL on an AFL scholarship. He debuted in July last year for the Uni after only playing the game for 18 months.
Note: AFL Europe has an article on the Irish side at http://www.afleurope.org/title-defences-no-walk-in-the-park-ic14/


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Even with the start of this summer's south metro freeway repairs still a month away, 900 people already have signed up to receive instant e-mail updates on the coming construction work.
It's a measure of just how much inconvenience lies ahead.
Starting in May, the stretch of southbound Interstate 35E between County Road 42 and its junction with I-35W will be closed completely for 30 days to allow crews to put a new concrete deck on the bridge over 35W.
"Think about that — closing 35E for a month," said Dakota County Administrator Brandt Richardson. "My goodness, it's going to have a major impact."
The state job has Richardson's attention at the county level because it's rare for a freeway to close for a month and he knows local roads will carry some of the burden.
Richardson cringes at the prospect that all the traffic from southbound 35E will pile onto County Road 42, which is already busy and often slow-moving.
"When they close the 35E bridge, the last exit will be the County Road 42 exit," Richardson said.
He asked the county transportation staff to anticipate that and do what they can to smooth out the inevitable delays.
"I am assured that they are talking together about signal timing and trying to anticipate some of this," Richardson said. "This is going to be a major stress on the entire road system."
The official Minnesota Department of Transportation detour will route cars away from 35E, sending southbound traffic first west on I-494 and then south on 35W.
But a lot of people may ignore the detour signs and take their chances on 35E, expecting to find a way to avoid the long detour, Richardson said.
After the first few days, people will figure out that the "Road Closed Ahead" signs on southbound 35E mean what they say, Richardson said. "The more folks in our community know this is coming and can plan for alternatives, the better off we will all be."
A MnDOT survey taken among the 900 people who have signed up for e-mail alerts found that most people plan to cope with traffic inconveniences by finding alternate routes, rather than shift to a bus.
And the disruption will not stop with the closure of southbound I-35E.
I-35W northbound near the junction with I-35E will be closed for one weekend early in May to allow removal of the I-35E bridge deck.
From mid-June to mid-July, after the I-35E bridge work is finished, MnDOT will confine traffic to one lane in each direction from the split at I-35W to Cliff Road to allow for bridge painting and repair. That stretch of interstate is 5 ½ miles long.
Then in August, a 12-mile stretch of I-35 from County Road 2 in Elko New Market up to the split with I-35E will be restricted to single lanes in both directions for pavement repair.
The Burnsville Chamber of Commerce has been working closely with MnDOT to bring its members up to date on the coming projects, said President Bill Corby.
Between the freeway projects and the work this summer on a new interchange at Hwy. 13 and County Road 5, "It does create kind of an issue for our businesses as far as getting customers to them easily, " Corby said. "I don't think there is a huge access issue. It's more of a congestion [and] confusion issue."
For more information on the projects and to sign up for e-mail updates on the work, go to www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/projects/i35eelkotoeagan.
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One of the most popular ways for lenders to get people in homes is to offer a low initial interest rate, so the loan is more affordable for the first few years, and then slowly increase that rate. This type of interest rate is referred to as an adjustable rate, and while it is attractive if you are looking for a low payment at the beginning of your loan, it can cause trouble down the road when the rate "adjusts" (which is a nice way to say the rate will increase). These types of mortgage loans proved disastrous for many homeowners across the country and helped cause the foreclosure crisis of a few years ago. The simple truth is that while the initial payments are affordable, as soon as the rate increases the homeowner is unable to make the higher payment. The solution is to find a way to have the rate fixed, so the payment does not fluctuate so much that the payments get too high.
One way to fix an adjustable rate is to modify your existing mortgage loan. Here are some of the ways a modification will help to fix an adjustable rate:
• A modification is a change in the terms of your mortgage loan.
• The term most commonly changed is the interest rate; most times it is lowered from its current rate.
• The change in rate can also be to make a variable rate switch to a fixed rate, giving the consumer assurance that the rate will never again go up as the market fluctuates. When the rate is fixed, so is the payment.
If you have an adjustable rate on your mortgage and are worried it might rise to a level that results in too high of a monthly payment, consider modifying your mortgage to more reasonable terms. The first step in the process is to call your lender and ask for an application for modification. Once you have the application in hand, call us for help. The application can be cumbersome, and the process confusing. Many times the lender will ask you to provide the same documents more than once, but when you let us take over for you we can expedite the process and eliminate duplicate requests.
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Ailith Stormbound
A devout paladin of Kord, Ailith is driven to complete her intiation quest.
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(Stats: 19AC, 43HP)
Half-elf, Ailith is daughter to a elven man and human woman. Her father, apparently a follower of the fallen god Pelor, was one of the thousands of elves to leave over the last 60 years. Ailith left her mother and younger sister some 20 years ago and joined Kord's paladain chapterhouse in Meerguard under Morgan's tutelage. She has been training ever since in the service of her god, and is on this quest as her initiation rite.
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