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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Artscape Inc. v. Ivitas Inc.
Case No. D2006-0937
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Artscape Inc., Portland, Oregon, United States of America, represented by Keith Larson, United States of America.
The Respondent is Ivitas Inc., McLean, Virginia, United States of America, represented by Dozier Internet Law, P.C., United States of America.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name <artscape.com> is registered with Network Solutions, LLC.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on July 24, 2006. On July 25, 2006, the Center transmitted by email to Network Solutions, LLC a request for registrar verification in connection with the domain name(s) at issue. On July 27, 2006, Network Solutions, LLC transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details for the administrative and technical contacts. The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on August 4, 2006. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was August 24, 2006. The Response was filed with the Center on August 24, 2006.
The Center appointed Jordan S. Weinstein as the Sole Panelist in this matter on September 14, 2006. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
4. Factual Background
Complainant manufactures translucent decorative films overlaid to windows to give them the look of stained or colored glass. Since 1999, Complainant sells these decorative films under the name ARTSCAPE. Complainant promotes the sale of its ARTSCAPE decorative window films at its own website at "www.artscape-inc.com". Complainant has obtained a U.S. registration for the trademark ARTSCAPE in connection with its window film, assigned Registration No. 2,484,264, and issued September 4, 2001. The registration claims first use of the mark in commerce as of April 1999.
Respondent is a Virginia corporation. The domain name it registered, <artscape.com>, resolves to a page which simply states "Hi All". Respondent's website contains no discernable source code, wallpaper, Meta tags, or text other than these two words.
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
Complainant asserts it has been very active in using the name ARTSCAPE for commercial activity since 1999. Complainant filed an application to register its trademark in January of 1999 and contends it has been selling products under the ARTSCAPE name since that time. Complainant has a patent on the products it sells and continues to sell them and utilize the name for its legitimate business. Complainant has a website on which it promotes its ARTSCAPE decorative window film products. It uses the name <artscape-inc.com> for the web page and for its e-mail address, but contends it would use the domain name <artscape.com> had Respondent not registered it. Complainant asserts (but provided no evidence) that there is a lot of confusion between <artscape-inc.com> and <artscape.com>. In an effort to combat this confusion, Complainant put the following statement on its web page: "The authentic website for Artscape Decorative Window Film." Complainant asserts this confusion is unnecessary because Respondent does not use <artscape.com> for a legitimate purpose. Complainant asserts there is no information or ability to communicate on Respondent's website; rather, the web page says "Hi All" and nothing else.
Complainant provided a Google search for the term ARTSCAPE, showing that Respondent's web page comes at a higher level than Complainant's. Complainant contends this indicates more search activity for Respondent, even though <artscape.com> is used for nothing but "Hi All". Complainant contends that Respondent must be getting website hits which were intended for Artscape Inc. and this probably hurts Complainant's business.
Complainant asserts that because it has registered the trademark ARTSCAPE it has the right to the name in all circumstances, including the domain name. Complainant asserts that Respondent has not used the domain name for a legitimate purpose for at least a year, and possibly for three or four years. Therefore, Complainant contends the right to the name ARTSCAPE should also extend to the domain name <artscape.com>, especially since the domain name is not used for anything other than "Hi All".
Complainant contends it is unclear why Respondent would register <artscape.com>, as there appears to be no connection with Respondent's business, which is a Vietnamese travel business as shown on its web page. Complainant asserts it could find no reference on Respondent's web page "www.ivitas.com" to the domain name <artscape.com> or anything like it. Complainant asserts that it could easily draw the conclusion that Respondent acquired and registered the domain name in bad faith either to sell it for profit or to prevent Complainant from using the registered name in conjunction with the domain name. In either instance, Complainant contends that it seems the domain name was registered in bad faith.
B. Respondent
Respondent contends that it purchased the domain name at issue prior to September 4, 2001 (the issue date of Complainant's registration). Respondent contends that the domain name was purchased for $6,000 in anticipation of establishing a platform for the sale of one of the largest collections of Vietnamese art held by a private party in the world. Respondent contends that the owner of the art collection, Mr. Dzung Hoang, has approximately a thousand works of art in his collection, and the collection is valued at between $6 and $7 million. Respondent contends that Mr. Hoang listed accurate identifying information with the domain name registrar, that the administrative contact is Respondent's agent which handles many of his U.S.-based business affairs, and that the corporation listed as the registrant is a holding company for a broad range of Mr. Hoang's international business interests. Respondent contends there has never been any deception or other attempts to conceal the identity of the Registrant.
Respondent contends it never received any notice from Complainant of trademark infringement or cybersquatting until receipt of this Complaint under the Policy. Respondent contends Mr. Hoang is its sole owner, and Respondent is one of many corporations and business entities Mr. Hoang uses in his international financial endeavors. Mr. Hoang emigrated to the United States from South Vietnam in 1975 and has been a real estate developer since that time. He has since invested heavily in the telecommunications industry, providing telecommunication services to Vietnam. Since his emigration, Mr. Hoang began collecting Vietnamese artwork. Respondent contends that Mr. Hoang's works are from about fifteen different Vietnamese artists.
Respondent contends that Mr. Hoang is a man of significant financial wealth, has never considered selling the domain name, has no current interest or need to sell the domain name, and has never offered to sell it. Respondent contends the domain name <artscape.com> is one of a few domain names owned by Respondent; all others he owns are used actively in businesses. Respondent contends it has never purchased any other domain names which are held passively, and Mr. Hoang has never been the subject of any UDRP proceeding as a Respondent in the past.
Respondent contends that it and Complainant are not competitors, and neither Respondent, its principals nor any other companies or subsidiaries are involved in any way in Complainant's line of business. Respondent contends that its domain name purchase closed on September 4, 2001, seven days before 9/11. Afterward, Mr. Hoang focused his attention elsewhere and has not yet decided when to launch his site to sell the artwork. Respondent contends the website is held passively and not to generate any revenue or for any commercial purpose.
Respondent contends that Complainant's mark is not widely known, is a weak, generic and at best merely descriptive mark, deserving the lowest level of protection, and applies only to an extremely narrow area of business or commerce. Respondent contends it is conceivable that other legitimate, active uses of this domain name could be made by others. Respondent contends that a search on a meta search engine revealed a broad array of companies and entities using the exact term, some of which relate to commercial enterprises, while others relate to art fairs and art-related events. Respondent notes that ARTSCAPE was registered by third parties in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, attaching copies of Registration No. 2,444,877 for ARTSCAPES in connection with printed formed PVC sheets, oil paintings on canvas, crossword puzzles, printed acrylic sheets, calendars and greeting cards; Registration No. 2,521,519 for ARTSCAPES BY BLUE SKY & Design in connection with custom construction of waterfalls, pools, water sculptures, artificial rock gardens and other services; Registration No. 2,903,781 for TV ARTSCAPES…YOUR PERSONAL WINDOW TO THE WORLD in connection with pre-recorded music and audio-visual material for commercial, home and educational use, Registration No. 2,982,085 for ARTSCAPES in connection with apparel, and Registration No. 2,941,610 for ARTSCAPE in connection with computer services and providing temporary use of non-downloadable software. Respondent contends that Complainant did not file any opposition to these registrations. Respondent also contends that the domain name <artscapes.com> is being held passively by a Canadian-based art group, yet Complainant has initiated no attempt to obtain this domain name. Respondent contends it has made no effort to trade on the goodwill of Complainant or Complainant's window film product, to the extent such goodwill exists.
Respondent contends there are no circumstances to indicate bad faith in its passive holding of a domain name: the trademark is not well known, it has a limited market reach and protection, a Response was filed to the Complaint, Respondent did not conceal its identity, Respondent's contact information was correct and proper, and it is not impossible to conceive of a good faith use of the domain name.
Respondent contends that it never had knowledge of Complainant's existence, never heard of Complainant before it received the Complaint, that it properly registered the domain name and did not attempt to hide its identity, that it is not a competitor of Complainant, that it has no interest in interfering with Complainant's window film business, and that virtually none of the elements relied upon by past Panels to transfer a passively-held domain name exist in this matter.
Respondent complains that all it has done is to plan ahead in contemplation of one day sharing Mr. Hoang's Vietnamese art collection with the world. Respondent contends it was not a speculator grabbing the domain name in hopes of one day selling it for profit. Rather, Respondent contends it purchased the domain name for $6,000 five years ago, and has the right to maintain ownership of this property without the threat of hijacking.
Respondent contends that Complainant initiated this process in bad faith in an attempt to pirate away and hijack the domain name of Respondent and its affiliated global organization. Respondent requests a decision finding the Complainant attempted to reverse-hijack this domain name.
6. Discussion and Findings
A. Applicable Policy Provisions
The Policy requires Complainant to prove each of the following three elements in order to prevail in this proceeding:
(1) the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights; and
(2) the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and
(3) the domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
Policy, paragraph 4(a)
It is not sufficient to prevail that a complainant prove only registration in bad faith; rather, the complainant must prove both registration and use in bad faith. See World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. v. Michael Bosman, WIPO Case No. D99-0001; Robert Ellenbogen v. Mike Pearson, WIPO Case No. D2000-0001.
However, the Policy states that the following circumstances shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith:
(i) Circumstances indicating that [the respondent has] registered or acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or
(ii) [the respondent has] registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that [the respondent has] engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
(iii) [the respondent has] registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
(iv) by using the domain name, [the respondent has] intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to [its] website or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of [its] website or location or of a product or service on [its] website or location.
Policy, paragraph 4(b). These circumstances are non-inclusive, and the panel may consider other circumstances as constituting registration and use of a domain name in bad faith. Id.
The respondent may demonstrate rights or legitimate interests to the domain name by any of the following, without limitation:
(i) Before any notice to you of the dispute, your use of, or demonstrable preparations to use the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or
(ii) you, as an individual, business, or other organization have been commonly known by the domain name, even if you have acquired no trademark or service mark rights; or
(iii) you are making a legitimate non-commercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert customers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue.
Policy, paragraph 4(c).
Where a respondent is in default, the panel may draw such inferences as it considers appropriate. Policy, paragraph 14(b).
B. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Panel agrees with Complainant that the domain name <artscape.com> is identical or confusingly similar to Complainant's registered trademark ARTSCAPE. Thus, this prong of the test has been satisfied. The Panel notes, however, that while Complainant's registration is prima facie evidence of the validity of the registration of the mark, and of Complainant's ownership of the mark and its exclusive right to use the registered mark in connection with the goods identified in the registration, 15 U.S.C. §1115, Respondent has provided evidence that others have registered the term ARTSCAPE in connection with other goods, including such arguably related goods as printed acrylic sheets, and printed and formed PVC sheets, and have incorporated the term into domain names for art-related websites.
C. Rights or Legitimate Interests
The Panel agrees with Complainant that Respondent has failed to establish rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. Neither Respondent nor its owner appear to use the term "artscape" for any commercial enterprise, legitimate or otherwise. There is no evidence that Respondent or its owner are known by the term "artscape". While Respondent asserts that it has plans for disseminating art from Vietnamese artists on a website linked to the domain name, Respondent has failed to make any connection between the art and the term "artscape". This Panel rejects Respondent's contention that "artscape" is generic for either Complainant's products or Respondent's artwork; at worst, the term is suggestive of the products or services because it includes the word "art" combined into a unitary term. This Panel must give credence to Complainant's valid registration of the ARTSCAPE mark, which is prima facie evidence that the mark is not generic.
D. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
It is in the third prong of the test where Complainant's complaint falls short. Complainant's case for bad faith is based on its speculation as to reasons why Respondent registered the domain name: that "it seems like the domain name was registered or acquired primarily for the purpose of selling, renting or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the owner of the trademark …", and that "the domain name was registered in order to prevent the owner of the trademark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name". Yet Complainant admits that "it is not clear why [Respondent] would register the domain name <artscape.com>". On this point, the Panel agrees with Respondent in that there is no objective evidence, nor even evidence from which a clear inference can be drawn, that Respondent did anything other than passively hold the domain name at issue.
The Panel recognizes that in appropriate circumstances, passive holding of a domain name can constitute evidence of bad faith. See, e.g., Telstra Corporation Limited v. Nuclear Marshmallows, WIPO Case No. D2000-0003. However, each case Complainant cites for this proposition was decided by default. In such cases the Panel may draw appropriate inferences from the fact that a Respondent has failed to answer a Complaint. Rule 14(b). To the contrary, not only has Respondent here provided a timely response to the Complaint, but it has certified its response with the signature of Respondent's principal and augmented it with exhibits. This Panel is required to treat the parties with equality and give each a fair opportunity to present its case. Rule 10(b). The Panel cannot ignore the fact that Respondent has provided evidence from which the Panel could construe a lack of bad faith; namely that the registration of the domain name was not made for purposes of sale or transfer to the trademark owner, or to prevent the owner from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name. On the other hand, Complainant could point only to the fact that the domain name was being passively held, and argue that such passive holding constitutes bad faith. Respondent provided evidence to the contrary which this Panel cannot ignore. Therefore, the Panel finds Complainant has not established this prong of the test.
E. Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Simply because the Complainant's proof of bad faith was based upon speculation does not mean the Complaint was brought in bad faith. As stated above, there is no objective evidence that Respondent's website was registered in good faith aside from the evidence Respondent submitted with its response. Obviously, Complainant did not have the benefit of this information prior to filing its Complaint. While Respondent faults Complainant for not contacting it prior to instituting this Complaint, this Panel recognizes that holding Complainants to such a requirement places them in a dilemma: either they risk an adverse inference for not contacting the domain name registrant, or they risk cyberflight by warning a registrant whose domain name was abusively registered, making it more difficult for a Complainant with a legitimate complaint to obtain control of a domain name that should rightfully be its own. This Panel will not force Complainants to make that choice where there is no prior objective evidence of good faith registration. The Panel therefore declines to make a finding of reverse domain name hijacking in this case.
7. Decision
For all the foregoing reasons, the Complaint is denied. This Panel also denies Respondent's request for a finding of reverse domain name hijacking.
Jordan S. WeinsteinSole Panelist
Dated: September 28, 2006
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Take only memories, leave only footprints. Your visit to an Illinois state park can be pleasant if you abide by a few simple rules. Stay on designated hiking trails. Don't pick any flowers. Confine your pet to a leash. Wear comfortable walking or hiking shoes. Take water with you on long hikes. Use insect repellent to help ward off mosquitos and other insects.Be sure to protect yourself from wood ticks, carriers of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and deer ticks, carriers of Lyme disease. Deer ticks thrive in woods and fields with tall, dense grass. Wear a long sleeve shirt, button your collar and stuff your trouser cuffs into the tops of your socks. Wear light-colored clothing to better see is any ticks have attached to your cloths. Examine your clothing and skin frequently for ticks and also check your pets. Ticks prefer warm, moist areas, so pay particular attention to inspecting your groin, armpits and scalp. Carefully remove any attached tick immediately with tweezers. You may also want to preserve it in a small bottle of alcohol should symptoms appear later. Symtoms can be flu-like and some victims suffer a red, bull's eye rash with a clear center around the site of the tick bite. Not all deer ticks carry Lyme disease, but if suspect you are bitten, contact your doctor. Lyme disease can be treated with antibiotics, and patients can recover fully when treated.
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It's Monday! What are you reading?/ posted in: Reading
We take a break from World Equestrian Games coverage for this weekly meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.
The Passage by Justin Cronin – I'm a bit late to the party on this one so most people probably have a general idea of the story.This will be a Semi-Spoiler post.
It starts with the discovery of a virus that slows the aging process. Unfortunately it also turns people into crazed bloodthirsty killers. Whoops. So the test subjects escape as they always do in these books and start to destroy humanity. The last test subject is a six year old girl named Amy who appears to have the slow aging without the vampire qualities. She is taken and hidden away while North America collapses. I liked this part of the book. It reminded me some of World War Z.
Then it jumps ahead 90 years. The descendants of a group of quarantined children during the epidemic now live in a society with very strict rules about how to survive in a world overrun with monsters. This part drug along for me. They are forbidden to try to contact the outside world. Of course someone finally does build a radio. He gets a signal that turns out to be coming from Amy who just showed up at their Colony. There is also a message to return her to Colorado if you find her.
The last part of the book is a small group's journey from the colony in California to Colorado. They get to see what the world beyond their walls is like. I liked this part.
This is the start of a series. If you don't realize that, the ending will frustrate you since nothing is resolved, they are about to start a big adventure, and it ends ambiguously. I liked the ending but I've heard people complain about it.
It was super long but the story moved right along except for the middle part.
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy by Paula Butturini – The author is an American journalist living in Europe. During the fall of Communism she was severely beaten by Czechoslovakian police. Five weeks later she got married to John, the Warsaw bureau chief for the New York Times. Twenty three days after that he was shot and nearly killed by a sniper in Romania. His wounds took a year to heal but then he fell into a deep depression that it took years for him to recover from. They retreated to Italy to work on his depression. This book is a memoir of their life and the meals that held her sanity together. She developed a routine of making three meals a day from fresh food from the Roman markets as a method of healing body and spirit.
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan –
This is the first book of the Kane Chronicles, the new series from the author of the Percy Jackson series. This series is based in Egyptian mythology. Carter and Sadie Kane have been raised separately since an accident killed their mother six years ago. Carter is living a nomadic life with his Egyptologist father. Sadie is raised by her mother's parents who won a custody battle and only allow her to see Carter and her father two days a year.
On a visit their father is captured while doing what looks like magic in the British museum. Now these siblings who don't know each other have to work together to figure out who or what their parents are and to stay alive to find out their own powers.
I liked this book. It is very different than the Percy Jackson series. Their guardian is Bast, the cat goddess who retains feline characteristics even in human form. She's a great character. She gets distracted by a crane with a wrecking ball and has to chase it. She doesn't think taking things is stealing because she's a cat and everything she sees is automatically hers! So true….
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley- This is the sequel to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. In this book Flavia investigates the murder of a puppeteer. I'm not crazy about these books. I'm not a fan of mysteries in general but this seems disjointed.


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Jonathan was employed as a Photographic Officer for nearly 10 years. The remit was wide – from crime scenes to aerial photography, from public disorder to surveillance, and more.
As well as operational work there was also a need for more pr and commercial images.
These images are just a few of those taken by Jonathan.
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Category talk:Mailing lists
From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
There seems to be a great deal of overlap between "Category:Mailing lists" and "Category:Regional", but I can also think of instances both ways where one and not the other is appropriate, so merging is probably not the solution. Perhaps what we need is better demarcation of the boundaries between the two categories. Any ideas on this? Mwalimu 15:03, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- While there is overlap, there will be mailing lists that aren't part of a regional group, ie like the gayfurries mailing list that 2 runs. I think if a regional group has a mailing list, that it should be put in both categories. Rama 15:17, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)
The USA furry mailing list map is no longer at that webpage. Does anyone have that thing saved? Perhaps we can put it up somewhere at wikifur? I would like to have a visual representation of a map somewhere, maybe an updated version of the map? --Gavinfox 00:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


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Here's a playlist from a pro! When it comes to picking the right tracks to keep a party going, look no further than DJ Rashad Hayes. Hailing from Brooklyn, N.Y., he's spun at parties for Jay Z and Drake, among other A-list hosts. With summer well under way, Us Weekly asked Hayes to share his hottest summer jams.
"Down On My Luck" by Vic Mensa: "My pick for one of the songs of the summer. Just a sublime and incredibly melodic song. I dare anyone to listen and not have it in your head for the rest of the day."
"Your Style" by Troy Ave: "Troy Ave is the next artist out of NYC. He has the streets buzzing and heavy airplay on NY radio without a major deal. Great artist and this is a great summertime jam. The remix is even crazier with Puff Daddy, Mase, and T.I."
"2 On" by Tinashe: "The current women's anthem killing the clubs in New York. As a DJ you want to hear that ROAR from a crowd and this gets that everytime you put it on. Big Salute to Tinashe. She's a great new artist and I love her movement. She can sing and dance her ass off."
"The Walker" by Fitz and the Tantrums: "This is an anthem and it's just a perfect song in every way. It's like a marching soul funk rock song with gospel influences. It's got so many things that are right with this, so many elements, that it just makes you shake your head at the genius of it. Pure genius."
"Sing" by Ed Sheeran: "Perfect summertime jam. You just feel alive when this song is on. You'll be hearing it through the summer. And rightfully so. Straight banger."
"Am I Wrong" by Nico & Vinz: "Now this is one of my favorite songs at the moment. It has my vote as the next 'Someone that You Used to Know.' You know how you always have that one song that comes out of nowhere and everybody loves it? This is it. Absolutely."
"Latch" by Disclosure: "This song is so beautiful that it's haunting. How could one song be so perfect in every way? Big shout to Disclosure. Those dudes are bad."
"Dontcha" by The Internet: "This is a great nu-soul funk group. Everything about this song just feels like a warm breeze. Beautiful vocals and just an amazing song."
"Foreign" by Trey Songz: "It's probably a tie between this and his other single "Na Na." Trey is heavy in the NYC clubs and the airwaves with these. These are just sonically perfect. Especially for the summer. Trey is a bad dude. Definitely love these."
"Around the Way Girl" by LL Cool J: "This is an oldie but goodie. This song embodies that warm summer feeling of just being outside and everything being right with the world. You can't listen to this song without a smile coming across your face. Your head just nods on instinct to this one."
"Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: "And the impervious inescapable absolute-must for any summertime playlist. It's not even contrived having this in the list. It's an absolute perfect song. You know a song is perfect when you don't want it to end. Am I right? Absolutely."
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AcceleRead AcceleWrite by Vivienne Clifford and Martin Miles provides full instructions on how to use a computer with text to speech software, to improve reading, writing, spelling and listening skills of pupils who are experiencing literacy difficulties. This is achieved through structured phonics exercises over a recommended period of time. The detailed electronic manual explains the theory behind the approach.
The comprehensive package includes perforated, colour-coded flash cards, photocopiable record sheets, along with blank flash cards for you to print off with your own sentences.
Please note: AcceleRead AcceleWrite requires a text-to-speech engine to be installed on your computer.
Includes CD-Rom and cards.
You can find out more about the AcceleRead AcceleWrite program by following this link to view the 'What works for children and young people with literacy difficulties' By Greg Brooks. This book takes a look at the results from schools who piloted the program with their pupils.
SprintPlus helps children, young pupils and adults with reading, writing, spelling and learning difficulties. Thanks to the speech and language technology you can listen to any available text on your computer. SprintPlus can read text out loud as it is being entered. It helps in developing the user's reading and writing skills.
SprintPlus evolves with the user's needs. It is a very helpful tool for young as well as adult readers. It has proven its efficiency in the field of education, from primary and secondary right through higher education.
You can use SprintPlus on your Windows PC to read any selectable text in any programme, on websites, in emails and on social networks.
- Ideal for proofreading. All selected written text is read aloud using a natural voice.
- The homophone checker makes sure you use the correct one.
- Reading comprehension can be improved by highlighting the text with different coloured markers and using the summarising tool.
- The word prediction provides phonetic support as words such as 'Fotograph' will predict 'Photograph'.
The SprintPlus comes on a USB drive.


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In addition to the daily tours, which introduce the museum over ca 35 minutes, Nobel Prize Museum offers special tours and events for individuals, companies and of course all kinds of groups.
Tours are available in the following langauges: Swedish, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Hungarian. These tours can be combined with food and refreshments in the museum's Bistro Nobel.
Book a 60 minute guided tour at the museum, maximum 25 persons per group. If you would like a longer tour, please contact our booking office for price indication.
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A passport is a very important document that will enable you to enter and exit various countries that you plan to travel to. Before you leave for your trip, always make sure that have made photocopies of your passport and when in another country you can use a photocopy unless it is mandatory to always have the original with you. What then happens when you lose your passport? Here are a few tips to help make the experience less painful.
search through you possession and even ask for help if you are in a group just to make sure that it really lost before you report it. Trace back your steps and go back or call places where you last used it. Once reported, a passport can be made invalid for travel and that is why it is important to report as a last resort.
Report loss
The first step to take regardless of your location is to report to the authorities. It is not only a mandatory procedure in most countries but you may also be able to get another document to use in place of the passport until you can replace it. It will also be easy to trace it in case someone else tries to use it. Most embassies will not issue a new passport without a police reports so don't forget this important step.
At this point you can also notify your bank just in case someone else tries to access your account using the passport.
Visit your consulate or embassy:
it is a good a idea to notify them about the loss of your passport. Some countries may allow you to get an emergency passport. Also notify them if you have no money because you cannot access it. Go prepared with some of payment for the replacement passport. Personal checks are not usually acceptable but you can use your credit card a traveler's check or money order.
You will find assistance at the embassy on how to apply for another passport. You might need a birth certificate and other forms of identification to apply so always make sure you have copies of these when you travel. If you don't have them with you, you can always call home and have them mailed to you.
Replacement passports are usually only temporary and so the first step when you get back home will be to apply for a permanent one. If you have happen to find your lost passport, send it to the embassy or consulate or destroy it since they are already invalidated and cannot be used for travel.


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I have a laptop of purchased last year with Windows 10 installed. Recently received an update message from Microsoft to update. When I attempted to update several different times I got an error message 0xc1900107. Not sure what is causing this error and why the update will not download. Any help would be appreciated.


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How a lens is rated is nothing if not subjective, in the main it comes down to personal likes and expectations.
Rating numbers in review forums illustrate that reality – that being said I recently acquired a Helios 44M-4 I'm using on a k50 and a Spotmatic.
I wasn't expecting to be overwhelmed, my interest lay primarily in the much talked about bokeh, which kind of reminds me of that produced by a mirror lens, and of course everyone has their favored copy of a Helios whether a 7,6,2, 4, or others.
Truth of the matter is this is a lens whose sharpness exceeded my expectations and definitely a keeper. It really steps up it's game from f4 to f8, such a sweet spot is common to lenses, though their aperture location may vary. And when you add a hood to this lens, which I always do with any lens either indoors or out, it really shines – very rich colors.
I've known others who've had one Helios or another and while I thought they were a good lens I wasn't in a rush to acquire one and there weren't any turning up in my favorite haunts.
I kind of fell into this lens, a "closet find" that was gifted to me, as a result I'm almost compelled to ask friends to root in their closets in the hopes of coming up with another gem, as a few of the lenses I own were closet finds and the rest from thrift stores, flea markets, and yard sales.
This is a well built lens and at f.2 considered to be fast – made in Russia with a production run from 1958 to 1992.
The focus ring is a little stiff, common I understand due to the lubricant used that is noted for drying out.
I thought to CLA it but putting that off as I kinda like the way it adjusts – a reduced chance of sliding past focus once acquired, and it's not all that stiff, just enough that others might niggle about it.
I may in time but everything else is almost pristine, not even dust, so I figure why bother, if it isn't broke or requires a wrench to turn leave it alone.
What I did do though was to remove the rear mount and manipulate the aperture pin as it doesn't have a A/M switch so it would stay depressed and allow for a full manual ability to set the aperture – not brain surgery or rocket science, basically a simple procedure.
Helios lenses produces a very distinct and sometimes over the top circular bokeh – mirror lens do the same but their's are referred to as "donuts" as they are hollow in the middle resembling a donut.
I happen to have a 600mm f.8 Sigma mirror – a real beast whose intent seems to be to challenge the user to capture a good image – the sole reason I keep it – the challenge.
Yet inspite of all the negatives that have been deservedly said it is a lens that can surprise you at times if you accept the challenge.
In the past "kit lenses", those that came with a camera, were in the vast majority of a much higher quality than those today – but in the rush to digitize they are often overlooked.
Being a kit lenses the majority available are of the 50mm or 55mm version and they abound – ebay seems to be teeming with them.
But like all things sold on ebay once an interest is noted prices begin to creep up – so I would advise people to look around a little first-check out those thrift stores, flea markets, and the like.
Pawnshops have been recommended to me as a source, but the few I've checked out weren't offering any spectacular deals.
I happen to have the multi coated six aperture blade Helios version with the original Zenit front and rear caps.
It's a lens I wouldn't hesitate to recommend bearing in mind that reviews and opinions are subjective and one man's treasure could be anothers trash.
The above photos were taken on a whim, something quick to add to the blog demonstrating the capability of this lens.
The Raspberry tea? Kinda fell into that too, good stuff.


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About Ms. Flynn
"Immigration is a mystery and a mastery of obfuscation, and the lawyers who can figure it out are worth their weight in gold."
INS spokeswoman Karen Kraushaar, on immigration law
April 24, 2001
Ms. Flynn graduated from Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with a J.D. degree, and in 1994 with an M.A.H. degree in Humanities from Louisiana State University. After graduating from law school, Ms. Flynn served one year as Law Clerk for the Hon. Steve A. Alford, then Chief Judge of the 19th Judicial District Court in East Baton Rouge Parish. Since 1978 she has engaged in the private practice of law in Baton Rouge, and for many years she has limited her practice to immigration and nationality law. She is admitted to practice before all Louisiana State Courts, the Eastern, Middle, and Western Federal District Courts in Louisiana, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ms. Flynn served as Louisiana Chapter Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association ("AILA") for two years from 1986 to 1988, and she served as Chapter Chair for AILA's Mid- South Chapter (comprising five states) for one year from 1996 to 1997. During those years, she served on AILA's Board of Governors. Ms. Flynn has served on numerous AILA committees at the chapter and national levels. In 1987 Ms. Flynn served as Chair for a two-day seminar for attorneys practicing in the vicinity of the Oakdale Federal Detention Facility (in rural Southwestern Louisiana) to encourage representation of persons detained there, especially pro bono representation of persons claiming asylum and persons with strong family ties to the United States. She has chaired conferences of AILA's Mid-South Chapter several times.
Since 1987 Ms. Flynn has lectured at national conferences for immigration lawyers in the areas of family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, non-immigrant visas (of all types), asylum, exclusion, deportation, relief from deportation, employer sanctions, citizenship, naturalization, and the immigration consequences of crimes. She has lectured at many local and state seminars and meetings of non-immigration lawyers about basic immigration and nationality law, employer sanctions, the immigration consequences of crimes, farm-workers (H-2A's) and temporary workers (H-2B's). She has served as a formal "Mentor" for AILA attorneys for many years, now limited to the areas of employment-based second-preference petitions with national interest waivers, H-2A's and H-2B's.
Over the years since 1987 Ms. Flynn has written many articles in many areas of immigration law for national publications directed toward immigration lawyers. From 1996 until recently she has been a contributing author of articles for AILA's annual Visa Processing Guide, a book which informs immigration lawyers about visa processing (both non-immigrant and immigrant) at U.S. Embassies and Consulates around the world. She has been recognized as an expert in immigration law by the Middle District Federal Court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Ms. Flynn is a member of several associations, including: Federal Bar Association, Louisiana Bar Association, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Louisiana Eastern, Western and Middle Federal District Courts, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Amnesty International, and the National Immigration Project.
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His hair was dark and soft and curled a little because it was getting long. He must have thought it made him look too pretty. He disliked anything that made him attractive. He asked her to shave it. She liked the hair. She imagined touching it with her fingers and coming away with the sweet dark smell of his scalp on her hands. He left his wool hat at her house one night and she had slept with it next to her face. She hated giving it back, and crawled around her blankets at night trying to catch his smell as it disappeared.
She knew the drive to his house. She knew the trees she would pass, the fire hydrants, the dogs barking behind their fences. She knew where she would park, where the tires would hit the curb. She knew the way she would breathe and straighten her skirt, and the feel of the heat that would prickle down her arms and explode in her fingertips when she saw him through the kitchen window, coming to the door. He usually stared her down. Big dark eyes that studied her like a rare specimen. It wasn't exactly an adoring gaze. It was more one of bewilderment and concern. He greeted her like this the day she came to shave his head. He opened the door very cordially, one hand behind his back like the headwaiter at a French restaurant, bowing slightly. She sensed his hand brush gently against her back as she came in. She moved too quickly for it to rest there.
"I have everything ready," he said severely, as if she had arrived to perform some critical operation.
She sat down at his kitchen table and smiled at him. The cold winter sunlight pooled in through the window and lit her hands folded on her lap, and she hoped he would remember her like this when he was an old man.
They went down the stairs out of the sunny kitchen and he followed close behind her. The bathroom in the basement was cold and lit by fluorescent lights. He knelt in front of her, and she thought that with him on his knees like this she could either love him or kill him. She could hold his head tenderly against her belly, or break his neck with one quick move. She could do both of these things with her hands.
The razor looked comical to her when she picked it up, hot pink against the cracked cement walls of the bathroom that were painted a dark fungal green. She ran the faucet. Waited for the water to heat up. Waited for it to be just right. She moved her wet soapy hands gently around his head, soaking his hair, around his ears, across his temples, to the nape of his neck. Some of it dripped down his face and he let it run to his chin and fall to the floor. She took the hair from his head in clumps, trying to ignore his back pressed against her legs, lifting and falling with his breath. And when she had washed the soap away his head was like a smooth ostrich egg. Porcelain white, shining and bare. His eyebrows stood out like black coal marks, alone on his face.
And she caught her breath when she saw the two of them in the mirror. The fluorescent light made their faces a sickly pale green and their eyes were underlined by dark circles. They both looked so tired. He looked sick and cold, and she looked as if she had been crying for him for a very long time.


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"The ability to cultivate and appreciate beauty greatly enhances one's ability to heal and enjoy life at every level" David Wolfe
Everyone wants to be beautiful with gorgeous long eyelashes. The beauty industry has come an awful long way to helping us achieve that since the famous 1913 Maybelline cake mascara made from coal powder and Vaseline came out.
Having been in this industry for over 25 years, I've seen a lot of stuff. I was there right at the very beginning of the eyelash explosion. I brought eyelash perming, which is now eyelash lifting, to the market in the UK followed by eyelash extensions. I know everyone says that, but I can tell you that it really was me! I was flattered that everyone else thought it was so good, they followed with vigour and enthusiasm.
At the time of the eyelash revolution, botox and fillers were getting big. I have to say that botox and fillers have come on a long way too. Do you remember those weird dropped eyebrows and 'ducks bottom' lips? Thank the lord that the aesthetic industry has learned how to be more subtle.
I feel that it is vital to pay attention to your diet and stress levels if you want to be beautiful and I love David Wolfe's book, Eating for Beauty where he shares how to draw out the inner beauty through health and well being. It's a good one to have in your salon waiting room.
My view of 'real beauty' is one of 'natural enhancement' so you look healthy and not over done. Makeup should cleverly bring out the best in you and not be plastered or caked on. There are plenty of fabulous 'natural' foundations available to smooth out any impurities on the skin to give it a fresher look. Long eyelashes, nice eyebrows that frame the face and a swipe of lip gloss should have most people looking beautiful.
Health has to be the very first step and I think it is a good conversation to have with our clients. We should be encouraging our clients to eat well and reduce their stress levels, as someone who is eating junk and stressed out will not be beautiful however much botox or eyelashes they have.
The next conversation will be how to enhance their beauty and we all know that eyelashes make a huge difference. Without a doubt longer eyelashes make the eyes look bigger and more youthful and feminine, so you should never have trouble selling eyelashes to your clients. Try selling the benefits of having lashes more than the features, ie a conversation like "with lash extensions, your eyes will look bigger and more youthful" rather than "there are many types and lengths of lashes that could suit you".
You should also practice what you preach, so make sure you feel great yourself and your own lashes look good.. that, in itself, will sell, sell, sell.
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I have been thinking for a long time about how important it is that we believe in people until they believe in themselves. I think this is a significant role of leadership.
Many people don't see value in themselves but we, through listening prayer and discernment can help them see things – beautiful things –that have been there for a long time. In short, we can help them 'uncover' the truth about themselves. And when they begin to believe in themselves, we can nurture them to see things in themselves that they may have not yet seen. We help them identify good things in their DNA that they have not given much 'weight' to either because this fallen world we live in has 'marred' their view of themselves or because their deep wounds from living in this world has colored or distorted their worldview.
This is one important aspect of loving another person.
When people begin to see good things in themselves –gifts from God— they journey towards their best self. When we continue to believe in them by helping them find ways to use these abilities and skills and 'giftedness' we help them move forward in their love for themselves and others. This process takes time and requires discernment, timing, wisdom, grace and courage. In the end, one of our goals is simply to help facilitate ways for people we love to love others, and in doing so, experience the deep meaning and purpose in their lives they were created to experience and which they may be lacking in. In the end, at least for me, there are very few things in this life that are more significant than the fact that God can use me – once a Jewish, drug dealing, juvenile delinquent – as an agent of transformation into another person's life. By grace, Jesus the resurrected one, has resurrected in me (in part through the Body of Christ) things I never saw in myself and, has enabled me to use these God-given abilities to bring positive and transforming change into the lives of others. If God, who is rich in mercy, has done this for me, then in doing this for others, I will realize God's image in me, and experience one significant piece of the meaning of life.
I heard a very powerful story recently from a highly esteemed professor about how her peers believed in her when she was only 13 years old. She said 'they saw potential in me that I did not see in myself'. She explained how a group of teenagers befriended her at a time when she saw herself as very unlikable. It was their friendship that brought her to faith. Their willingness to see potential in her caused her eventually to see things in herself that brought her to places where she could trust God.
This idea of seeing potential in people energizes me. Indeed, it motivates me to think differently about how we can help one another see the image of God in each other and experience the kingdom of God.
Keith Wasserman


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Heat waves in late July and August are vicious. It's this time of year that plants go crispy and lawns turn yellow. There is nothing worse as a plant lover to come home to wilted plants completely zapped of life from extreme weather conditions. Planters that get full sun suffer the most when temperatures are above the 90's. Even containers in shady locations aren't immune to added heat stress.
For those of us without the means to install an automatic irrigation system, moisture gels may provide relief when it comes to the task of keeping planters watered. Moisture gels retain water within the soil so that it is accessible by plants for a longer period of time. This, in return, means you can sweat a little less when it comes to watering your plants.
Ideally, the best time to incorporate moisture gels into your soil is at the time of planting. If you've already planted, don't worry it isn't too late. Add the suggested amount (as per product package) to the top 2-3 inches of soil in your containers so that the roots' can get to the enlarged crystals.
Moisture gels or crystals are usually packaged in bags. When opened, they resemble large grains of sand but watch out! With contact to water, they expand to a much larger size. While moisture gels require some up front cost, the results last for many years and provide a good return of beautiful container plants. As always, we don't recommend using this as a way to avoid watering your plants. You should still check them regularly to ensure best results.
Article and photography by lilyofthevalley for Jeffrey Erb Landscape Design.


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Ted Baker | Lip Balm Gift
Ted Baker has just released one of the cutest gifts this summer in the form of their little trio of Lip Balm Gifts in Vanilla, Berry and Blackberry which smell delightful! As a self-confessed lip balm addict I am dying to try dig for these in a beach bag this summer, they're chic, pastel and embellished with a little gold. I ask you, has a lip balm ever been more on trend? They'll look fantastic in one of those acrylic box clutches that were all the rage a while back. Is my coveting showing yet?
Gift them as a set, split them between your friends or give a little gift to yourself!


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Visa Europe revealed important stats about the usage of Contactless Cards. Poland, Spain and the UK use this payment methd the most, with UK usage growing by 300% year over year.
Visa Europe revealed important stats about the usage of Contactless Cards. Poland, Spain and the UK use this payment methd the most, with UK usage growing by 300% year over year.
According to The Enterprise Guide to Global E-commerce by Shopify, a 246.15% increase is anticipated in worldwide e-commerce sales from 2014 to 2021. This doesn't just mean that a vast amount of buying and selling happens online but also that it is a highly attractive and profitable field for cybercriminals to take advantage of.
It is vital for e-commerce merchants to deploy the best practices for securing cardholder data.
E-commerce solutions consist of hardware, software, processes, services, and methodologies that facilitate and implement online transactions. Merchants may consider different methods of implementing online payments to their platform such as developing their own e-commerce payment checkout or using a URL Redirect, inline frames (iFrame), Direct Post Method (DPM), JavaScript Form, Application Programming Interface (API), or wholly outsourced e-commerce solutions. Although these methods differ in technology used and implementation applied, none of them completely remove the burden of compliance from the merchant.
Here are the key points to keep in mind, regardless of how you implement online payments on your e-commerce platform:
Ensuring PCI DSS compliance of e-commerce merchants dealing with online payment transactions is required and paramount to set an important baseline for security, protecting cardholders and merchants' reputations.
Here are 6 industry best practices that any merchant should follow:
We offer various PCI DSS compliance services powered by our own technologies that you can learn more about here.
I am the Founder of Advantio.
Technology has been my passion since I was a kid; when I first heard the handshake of an old 300bps modem I realised security would be key in an interconnected world. Since then it has become my passion and primary focus.
The reason why I've started my own business is to make IT Security simple.
Certifications: CISSP / CCSA (Checkpoint) / ITIL Foundations / ACSA (ArcSight)/ Linux+/ PCI-QSA / PA-QSA


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Nancy Tallman: The Park City Real Estate Strategist
Nancy Tallman
Read what some of our real estate clients have to say.
Nancy Tallman is one of the most accomplished and recognized REALTORS® in Summit and Wasatch Counties, as dedicated to her clients' objectives as she is knowledgeable about the Park City area real estate market.
A real estate industry leader, Nancy was president of the Park City Board of REALTORS® and served as dean of the Utah Association of REALTORS' Leadership Academy. She is a recipient of the prestigious Utah Association of REALTORS® "President's Award" as well as the Park City Board of REALTORS®' "Meritorious Service" award. She co-authored The Essential Guide to Buying and Selling Luxury Real Estate: Insights from America's Top Luxury Agents, an Amazon Best Seller, and has been interviewed on "Selling the Dream," a podcast made by and for REALTORS® who work in resort markets. A non-stop worker, Nancy's prestigious appointments have never interfered with her business – she is a top-producing agent and has been among the 1% of all agents included on the America's Best Real Estate Professionals list from RealTrends.
Nancy's extensive involvement in the real estate industry has given her the knowledge that her clients rely on, and has earned her the respect of her peers. Her professionalism stems from 16 years in the healthcare industry, where her work focused on the negotiation of complex, multi-million-dollar contracts. Since relocating to Park City from Los Angeles in 2003, Nancy has directed her energies to ensuring that innovative marketing strategies, aggressive negotiating, and creative problem solving redound to the benefit of her clients. As a result of her expertise and fierce devotion to her clients, more than 80 percent of her transactions come from referrals and repeat clients.
Nancy balances the demands of a successful business with her devotion to her husband and two teenagers, and still finds time to partake in the lifestyle that lures so many to Park City, from CrossFit and power yoga to skiing and hiking. She also takes an active role in the community, and has served on several non-profit boards, developing connections and knowledge that make her a valuable resource for her clients. A Los Angeles native, Nancy earned a Master's degree in Public Health from UCLA. When her husband, Larry, was seeking executive positions outside of California, they decided to move where others vacation, and her family has never looked back. Attracted to Park City for its resort attributes and easy access to a major international airport, the entire Tallman family understands the incredible benefits of this amazing city.
Nancy's Specialties
- Strategic Marketing and Sale of Properties
- Knowledge of Park City Marketplace and Inventory
- Aggressive Negotiating Skills
- Personalized Service and Attention to Clients
"Thank you. I am grateful for your time and professional guidance navigating this important investment." ~ Jim Gault, Park City, UT
"You have been a pleasure to work with! Thank you for all of the hard work and clear, easy communication. Hope to work with you again in the future." ~ Domonique Kiernan, San Clemente, CA
How Nancy Works
Nancy works with a select handful of buyers and sellers at any one time so that she may help them focus on their strategy. When you work with Nancy, you are not pawned off on an assistant or buyer's agent. You get her expertise 100% of the time to make the purchase or sale of your home as efficient and profitable as possible.
"I appreciate your continued fresh ideas and information, such as market updates and showing feedback. You are very courteous, sincere and professional. I appreciate your expertise and wisdom in securing an accepted offer and knowing the best way to negotiate". ~ Karen Romney, Salt Lake City, UT


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By Katherine LacazeThe Daily Astorian
Published: November 21, 2014 2:29PM
Eighteen locally owned businesses in the historic Gilbert District are making it worthwhile to shop small during the traditional post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy.
The Gilbert District will be participating for the first time in the national Shop Small Saturday campaign Nov. 29 with an all-day event highlighting the district's 100th anniversary. Shoppers will be encouraged to patronize small and local businesses.
"The shops here are really unique and have things you can't get anywhere else," said Kathleen DeLand-Peterson, the neighborhood champion and event organizer. "There is a place for Internet shopping, but nothing can replace going into a store and looking, and feeling, and touching and seeing the item you want to purchase."
Shop Small Saturday was created in 2010 by American Express, but businesses do not have to accept American Express to participate in a neighborhood event. In 2012, neighborhoods across the country were encouraged to host events to bring together their communities and encourage local shopping.
At least 18 businesses from the district, which encompasses the four city blocks on the corners of Broadway and Holladay Drive, will distribute 100 collectible cards during their regular business hours. All the cards will contain information directing people to an online blog to learn more about the Gilbert District.
The district has a "rich and colorful history that we would like to share with the community," DeLand-Peterson said, adding, "What would be better than to have a memento of the 100th year (of the district's existence) and the businesses that were here on that 100th year?"
Cards for each corresponding business will have specific store information and also make the holder eligible for a later promotion, such as a discount, special or gift. Card holders are encouraged to keep their cards for future savings.
DeLand-Peterson said businesses can decide what promotions they want to tie to the card at a later date, when they have slow periods.
She also hopes the event will encourage locals to visit businesses they haven't visited before. Several shops' prices are comparable to their Portland equivalents, DeLand-Peterson said.
"It's just a really fun event to get the community involved," she added.
In addition to handing out cards for future use, several businesses also will hold store promotions on Nov. 29. For instance, Beach Books will offer 10 percent off all store merchandise from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Seaside Yoga, Shear Pleasures Salon & Spa and Hold Fast Tattoo Company are offering discounted gift certificates.
If the event goes well this year, DeLand-Peterson hopes the district will participate in the future.
Thank you Seaside Signal for your continued support of the Historic Gilbert District
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I'm hard at work on my favorite part of writing, which is, oddly enough, just writing. I've taken the material I had already written for Grace of God and I'm doing a lot of revision based on my outline and my more fully-fleshed ideas about the novel. I've abandoned the original approach in the first chapter and broken it into two chapters. The man who saves Grace, John McDermott, gets his own introductory chapter because I want him to be the moral center of the story. He's a more prominent character in the book now than I had originally intended. I think readers will be inherently interested in learning more about John and the impact he has on Grace throughout the novel. Let's see how it unfolds. In the meantime, here's the chapter where John is introduced.
John McDermott's morning had begun like most of his mornings – sitting on the back porch drinking his coffee as he watched the sun rise above the trees on the far end of his pasture. This particular morning had missed its sunrise as had the previous three mornings. Heavy rains had pelted the great state of Alabama for more than three days straight. Just when he thought he'd get a break, another front would move in and drop buckets of rain on his cows and the overgrown pasture in which they roamed.
He'd gone out for his customary morning walk around the pasture to check on things and tidy up his farm despite the rain in each of the past three days, but he felt drained this morning and had stayed put on his porch having an extra cup of coffee or two. The unyielding rain had zapped his energy. His old bones ached. His cranky hip fussed at him when he stepped onto the short step leading into his house. Instead of walking the pasture, he'd taken a nap. The cows could wait. There was plenty to eat and drink.
In his youth, he would have trudged out into the rain and still finished all of his chores by the time his wife called him for lunch. He would have relished the challenge of man against nature, savored the grit of the mud on his shoes and clothes, but nature was slowly winning the battle bit by bit. His wife was gone now, and so was his youth.
By late morning, he had returned to his porch with another freshly-brewed cup of coffee still trying to shake off the remnants of his long nap. He glanced out into the relentless rain that hung over his property like a thin, white veil. Puddles formed all around his yard as the earth regurgitated the rain, too waterlogged to absorb much more. He shook his head in disbelief. He hadn't seen a rain like this in all of his 65 years. Noah's Ark came to mind, and he mused that he'd have to build an ark for his cows if this continued.
He didn't recognize the distinct buzz of a low-flying airplane in the distance until he returned to his porch with his lunch. He sat the plate down on the small table next to his rocking chair and fingered the stale sandwich while he stood near the railing. He took one bite and chewed slowly before he acknowledged the sound growing in its urgency. He leaned over the railing and tried to peer into the sky, but the clouds and rain offered him no perspective to identify the source of the sound.
John's farm stood in the path of a regular landing route at the Birmingham airport many miles to the south. He regularly saw airplanes high above his field pointing toward the big city's airport. Generally, the planes were too high in the air to cause much of a ruckus. He really only noticed them when they punctured the bright blue sky with a metallic glint, but he rarely heard them because he lived far enough away from the airport.
By the time he recognized the noise as that of an airplane, he knew something was wrong. He was no pilot, and he had only flown on a plane twice in his life, but he knew the surrounding area well enough to know that the closeness of the noise was not normal. He also knew the sound of the engines suggested trouble. He'd worked on many farm machines in his life and he knew the sound of a struggling engine. This plane was in trouble.
Fed up with his inability to catch sight of the invisible plane from his porch, John donned a rain jacket and an old farmer's hat and hurried down the porch steps into the pouring rain. He walked further into his backyard to get a better view of the surrounding area and peered into the sky. The rain felt like darts in his eyes, and he could see nothing above him, but the sound of the sputtering engines increased until a high whine rode the slight breeze.
He finally isolated the general direction of the noise and concentrated his search on the horizon above his pasture. For a brief moment, he thought he saw a dark object, like the Loch Ness Monster emerging from the deep, pierce the low-hanging clouds above his pasture, but it disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared. He walked toward the pasture aiming for the stand of trees on the far side. Several cows stared at him inquisitively, but he ignored them.
Just as he was about to give up and return to the damp confines of his porch, the rain let up, and while the clouds still hung low over his pasture, visibility improved enough for him to see the airplane descend just on the other side of the stand of trees. The plane wobbled side to side at first and then righted itself, but it continued to descend.
John stood still with his hand above his eyes to shield them from the gray glare of the daylight. The trees on the far edge of his pasture grasped for the plane as if they were pulling it to the ground. His heart rate increased and his stomach ached as he watched the plane try to reverse its descent. It continued to fall from the sky, banked left, and then dropped behind the scraggly pines. John's breath hitched as he waited for the impact.
An fireball lit up behind the trees and the ground at John's feet rumbled as if an earthquake were gaining momentum and rolling through the area. He staggered a bit as if the explosion threw shrapnel at him, but he was too far away to get hit by any debris, and beyond the initial fire, he couldn't see much behind the trees.
He paused momentarily staring at the horizon in disbelief, but then, instinct kicked in and he turned back to his house. He moved as fast as his old legs would let him and bounded up the steps with his heavy boots thumping across the old wooden porch. The screen door protested when he swung it open and thumped loudly against the frame as the determined old man made a beeline for the phone hanging on his kitchen wall.
He mashed 9-1-1 on his phone and gave a vivid description of the crash and location to the dispatcher. He heaved a big sigh of relief when he hung up, but his heart still raced in his chest. He couldn't believe what he had seen. He felt the need to do something, but he reasoned that no one could have possibly survived that explosion. A morbid curiosity overcame him.
Death was nothing new on the farm. He'd seen cows die during childbirth. He'd lost his wife to breast cancer a decade ago. He'd seen one of his farmhands get mangled to death in a piece of a equipment once – a sight that still gave him nightmares. Being an old man, he didn't want to get too cozy with death, but he'd never seen something so dramatic as a plane crash, and he wondered what it must be like on the ground just beyond the trees.
Before he could think anymore about it, John zipped up his jacket and grabbed the keys to his rickety pickup. He made a quick transition through the gate to his pasture, but as he was returning to his truck after closing the gate behind him, it started to rain again. The whole world around him gave in to the sound of the rain pattering on the ground. The rest of the world huddled into itself as if it were waiting for the merciless rain to stop. Had he not seen the crash with his own eyes, he would be hard-pressed to believe that it had happened because the visible flames had rescinded behind the trees and the fog of the rain obscured the smoke rising from the crash site blending it into the dreary backdrop.
He pressed the gas pedal and maneuvered the truck over the terraced pasture. The bumpy ride made his back ache despite the deep, vinyl cushion of the bench seat in his truck. He drove as fast as he could without jarring himself from the driver's seat. When he reached the trees and drove through the only gap large enough for his truck, he could see the smoke still swirling violently up from the remains of the plane that were strewn across the outer reaches of his pasture. He kept driving until the wreckage became more visible, and then he stopped at the nearest bits of twisted, charred metal.
John stepped out of his truck. The smell of jet fuel overwhelmed him. He instinctively pulled the lapel of his jacket up to shield his nose. Another smell greeted him, one that he could not quite place but it reminded him of the many cows he had found dead on the outer reaches of his pasture. The rain pelted him like it was warning him to stay away, but he persisted in walking toward the wreckage. On the far side of the scorched patch of earth, he could see the remains of the fuselage broken into three large pieces. The forward half had the nose wedged into the ground and was nothing but a black shell of its former self. He could not identify much beyond the outline of the front of the plane.
The tail section had broken into two pieces and remained remarkably intact. They were badly tattered and had some scorch marks and large pockmarks, but were identifiable. He hesitated to take more steps forward. Even from the distance, he could see the bodies through the opening of the tail section. He swallowed hard. A sickening feeling overcame him. Death on this scale exceeded his imagination. He moved forward anyway, his feet smacked the waterlogged earth beneath him.
As he moved closer, the sound of the rain and the pop of metal filled his ears. No cries for help and no sounds of struggle. Everyone had died. There were no survivors. John shook his head at all of the despair. Everyone single one of these families represented here would get bad news. They would live with the reality that their loved ones perished in a fiery crash in some god-forsaken field in the middle of nowhere. His nowhere.
He took another step toward the crash and hesitated. The jet fuel fumes and the odor of burned flesh pushed against him. He stood far enough away that he was unable to see the details in the fuselage, but as reluctance and curiosity battled in his mind, he knew that each step forward would lead him to things that he could never un-see. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath in spite of the odor. He exhaled quickly and then began walking to the broken tail section.
The smoke, although subdued by the pouring rain, grew thicker as he stepped toward the wreckage. The mangled metal and strewn-about remnants of the cabin littered his path forcing him to look at the ground carefully to avoid tripping or hurting himself. The earth squished beneath his feet. Each step sunk into the mud a few inches. This part of his field had always been swampy, but the relentless rain had made it even more so. He kept his eyes focused on the immediate area around him as if he were reluctant to look at the fuselage that smoldered and cracked a few hundred yards before him.
He saw something move, just a tiny flicker in his peripheral vision, but with all the death and devastation around him, his senses were attuned to any potential signs of life. He turned his head to confirm the movement. A streaked, pink object fluttered to his right. His heart stopped and he took a deep breath before he hurried toward the movement as quickly as his failing hip would allow. His heavy footsteps sent mud splattering all around him, and as his mind raced to make sense of what he saw, he cast a wave of mud upon the pink blanket as he came to an abrupt stop. For a very brief moment, he just stared at the ground before him, stunned. Unbelievable.
"Good God almighty!" he exclaimed. "You're alive! Oh my God!"
A baby dressed in a yellow jumper and wrapped in a tattered pink blanket whimpered and whined as the rain came down upon it. Amazingly, it didn't wail or scream. It simply acted as if it were suffering some discomfort. There were no apparent significant injuries to it other than a gash on its forehead, but even that gash seemed superficial.
John shook himself free from the shock and fell to his knees to examine the baby. He peeled away the soaked blanket. He couldn't see any injuries. He carefully slid his hands under the baby and pulled it into his arms. Its jumper was soaked and he could feel it through the arms of his jacket. He pulled the baby close to him to give it some warmth. It whined and emitted a little cry as if he had awoken it from a deep sleep. He looked into its eyes, which were sea blue, and he thought it acknowledged him in some way. A spur of hope anchored in his chest in spite of the sharp pain in his hip as he pushed himself up and hurried back to his truck.
He grabbed on old blanket from behind the bench seat and swaddled the baby in it before he sat behind the wheel of his old truck. He looked out the windshield, dotted with drops and streaks of rain, at the wreckage. The stench of jet fuel permeated the air of his cab, and the rotting smell still punched his senses. Death and despair lingered in the air. He looked at the baby ensconced in the over-sized blanket. This little human had survived it all. It was a miracle, an impossibility that could only be explained by divine intervention. That much he was sure of. He had witnessed a miracle.


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Hi all, recently installed OpenOffice 4.1.5 on a Kali Linux VM. For an assignment, I need to open a password-protected ODS file. All I know is that this password is a 4-character password, and I have a simple python script to randomly generate all possible ascii characters (a-z, 0-9), but I'm finding a way to input these generated random passwords into the password prompt when I open the file. Is there some parameter I can enter the password into when launching from terminal?
office filename.ods -password
or something like that? Please help!