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The Szakoly power plant, which started its activities in 2009, produces electricity from the combustion of woodchips and sawmill by-products. With a capacity of 19.8 MW it produces 130 GWh of electricity per year for the national grid, the equivalent of the annual consumption of 50,000 households in Hungary.
"In Hungary, Veolia has been a forerunner in the field of renewable energy production from biomass through its power plants in Pécs and Dorog. I am delighted by the takeover of the Szakoly biomass power plant, which strengthens our position and anchors our presence in eastern Hungary, where we have already been operating the Debrecen and Nyíregyháza power plants since 2015," said György Palkó, Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Hungary.
"Our target is the long-term efficient and successful management of the power plant, which employs 55 people," said Attila Vollár, head of DBM Zrt. "We are exploring further developments, including cogeneration. The heat produced during the generation of electricity could be used for heating greenhouses in partnerships with fruit and vegetable producers."
In 2015 in Hungary, 10.5% of gross electricity produced was from renewable energy sources. "Biomass represented 52% of the renewable energy sources, which can be further increased by the continuous operation of the Szakoly power plant," added Attila Vollár. It will contribute to the achievement of Hungary's targeted 14.65% share of renewable energy sources in gross energy production by 2020.
In Hungary, Veolia operates power plants and heating networks, notably for the cities of Pécs, Dorog, Esztergom and Tata. In Pécs, Veolia operates the largest 100% biomass cogeneration heating network in Europe, which is supplied by straw and wood. Veolia in Hungary produces more than 600 GWh of electricity a year, which is the equivalent of the annual consumption of 230,000 households, and supplies 121,000 households with heat.
Veolia also provides energy services to more than 30 industrial customers as well as for buildings.
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It's the Middle of December, there is about 6 inches of snow on the ground and tomorrow we have a farmers' market (outside)
back in July the Oxford Uptown farmers' Market council, of which I was a member at the time, decided a winter market would be a really good idea. We would get to market our produce once a month November thru April. It would mean income for us farmers who tend to get financially strapped around February when the seed and other input orders go out but little to no money is coming in.
It was hot and humid on the evening we made this decision. But it ain't no more. Now it is cooold and snowy. And the idea of a farmers' market in a parking lot is not sounding so great to me any longer.
Granted we do have quite a bit of produce to sell at this market and getting some cash is always a good thing but selling fresh produce when it is below freezing creates a few problems. The big one is how do you put produce out on tables to display it in a beautiful fashion without destroying your stock? The answer is you don't put the stuff out on tables, keep it all in coolers which will be used to keep things warm, not cooler (so the name of the vessels become oxymoronic). The other problem is staying warm. We will have to stand in pretty much one spot for a couple of hours in temps that probably will not get above 28˚F. I plan on wearing a hat, layers and really warm boots and I should be fine.
I am thinking the turnout will be light but people will probably be buying in bulk since we will not be back for at least another month and likely it will be more like 3 months before we venture out to sell again. Why? well weather is one big reason and the other is we will not have a lot to sell come the middle of January. Perhaps taters and garlic and a few onions but probably not much else (especially if we do well tomorrow).
Am I crazy or what?
A record of the activities, quirks and issues that are Boulder Belt Eco-Farm of Eaton, Ohio
Friday, December 16, 2005
Farmers' Market in Winter
Tags: Farm life, farmers' market, local foods
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- Bleebo said...
Sweet! Keep posting. I have no idea what really goes on with farming or how hard it really is to be successful at it. I'll check back.
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A farmer's market in Ohio in December? You're some brave people. I'd love to be able to get some fresh produce but all the markets here are shut up tight.
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Congratulations to Christopher!! One of only 18 students from the region selected for the NVMTA honors recital. Unbelievable performance!!
1st grader Richard at the NVMTA Bach Baroque competition. Richard made it to the semi finals. Needless to say he was one of the youngest in the region to get that far. Congratulations!


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Interesting places of Simferopol
Simferopol – the largest city on the Crimean Peninsula and its capital, an important transport and industrial center. But due to the lack of access to the sea, Simferopol over the last hundred years have anchored in the status of a transit point on the way to the Black sea.
In any city there is something to see and the capital of Taurida is no exception. If your plane or train leaves only in the evening, and in the city you early in the morning, then don't waste time sitting in the waiting room – explore Simferopol and its surroundings!
Some places, which will be discussed in the article, just a little-known, some neglected, some long time was kept secret! But they are interesting for tourists and tour of at least a pair of them will have a great to pass the time and to see or try something new.
Caves Of Chatyr-Dag.
It is only a little to drive off from the Simferopol and the eyes of the travelers will open ridge the Chatir-Dag. Near Simferopol of particular interest are the unique caves, accessible only to members of a tour group. Marble cave and Emine-Bair-Khosar is deservedly considered among the most beautiful in all of Europe. Just imagine: Marble length – 200 meters, and the height of the arch – about 30 meters.
The fishing village.
Tickets to the Crimea to buy, usually, for recreation. Authentic village near the city gives you the opportunity to fish in the pond, take a bath, go horse riding and even hunting in the surrounding woods. A great place to while away the day!
Golf club.
In Crimea, yet there is only one decent Golf club and a 15-minute drive from Simferopol to the tract of Kizil-Koba. European and American field does not reach to the level, of course, but if you are a beginner, the big difference will not feel.
Bike Post.
At the 41st kilometer of the highway Simferopol – Alushta more than 10 years there is a point of gathering of bikers where they spend the night, chatting and repairing their motorcycles. During the day you can look at gorgeous bikes of all models and modifications, and in the evening to see how real men walk. But entertainment is not for children and women!
Abandoned military facilities.
If you are interested in this subject, the neighborhood of Simferopol can offer at least two interesting directions. If a little drive to the West from Simferopol, you can find the transmitter IFRS "the Seagull", which is a 5 masts with a height of 120 meters each. Its purpose is to detect the coordinates of enemy aircraft and ships with an accuracy of 50 meters to 1900 kilometers. Be careful, as the masts are under voltage in order to protect from sawing.
Well, if you go to the North-West of the city, you will find the radio telescope TNA-400 in the School.
Installed reflector with a diameter of 32 meters at the base height of about 30 meters was in 1957 to ensure launches of spacecraft to the moon. They even planned flights to the planets of the solar system! Today the radio telescope is protected, and to come close will fail, but because of the fence it looks very impressive.
And at the end of the article let us give you a small travel tip. To save a lot of time, nerves and money on finding accommodation and cheap flights will help the service "Travel Saver Calendar"developed by the website Momondo.ru. With it, you will also be able to rent a car for easy movement while on vacation. We wish you exciting adventures!


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Formula Drift Round 5 Victory for Chris Forsberg in Nissan 350Z
NOS Energy Maxxis Tires Nissan 350Z driven by Formula Drift Professional Championship Points Leader Chris Forsberg
Vaughn Gittin in the Falken Tires 2010 Ford Racing Mustang GT in Monroe, Washington
The Seattle, Washington Drift event put Chris Forsberg in the NOS Energy Maxxis Tires Nissan 350 Z to the ultimate test, photo by John Choi
Chris Forsberg (center) took first place in Formula Drift round 5, Eric O'Sullivan and Tyler McQuarrie took second and third place at Evergreen Speedway, photo by John Choi
Chris Forsberg and Vaughn Gittin will next race at Infineon Raceway for Round 7, Locked and Loaded of the Formula Drift Series
Vaughn Gittin uses K&N products on his 2010 Ford Mustang to protect his engines and for additional power
Eric O'Sullivan took second place in his Subaru WRX and Tyler McQuarrie rounded out third place at Evergreen Speedway in his Nissan 350Z. Vaughn Gittin in the Falken Tires 2010 Ford Racing Mustang GT with K&N is now in fifth place overall in the Formula Drift 2009 points standings. There are only three events left in the Formula Drift season and the pressure is on for the drivers.
The judges were tough and qualifying was challenging on Friday. Seven drivers made the field including all the Team Falken factory drivers, McQuarrie, Gittin, Darren McNamara, Daijiro Yoshihara and Calvin Wan. Privateers Ross Petty and Taka Aono also made the cut.
The event's nickname, Breaking Point, lived up to its name as a number of drivers hit the track's banking and tight transitions throughout the course. McQuarrie and Gittin fought hard for 3rd place, but after an intense battle between McQuarrie came out on top. McQuarrie uses K&N to protect the engine of his Nissan 350Z. Falken Tires uses K&N air filters in its Drift and ALMS cars.
Gittin has used K&N products long before starting his professional drifting career. "K&N is the best for me because of the abuse I put my cars through on the track," said Gittin. "When I'm in a cloud of smoke on the track, it's not just smoke. That cloud is filled with rubber parts. If I did not have K&N my motors would get damaged."
Forsberg, as the points leader, was a marked man from the start. He battled through the tough competition and met McQuarrie in the semi-finals. It was one of the best match-ups of the event and both drivers put it all on the line. Forsberg got the best of McQuarrie overall for the ultimate win.
"My K&N filters took the beating from the track debris, rubber and smoke and continued to give me additional power," said Forsberg. "K&N protected my Nissan 350Zs engine."
Formula Drift returns to Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California for Round 6, Locked and Loaded on August 21-22.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------- Skill : Blend Class : Wyvern Cost : 20 sp, and 1-3 sp per round Skill Type : Active Casting Time : Instant Difficulty : Level 0 Stats Base : Mostly Dexterity Syntax : do blend Blend is a skill which allows a wyvern to blend in with his or her surrounding. While blended, the wyvern will need to spend his or her spell points constantly to reflect the concentration required in maintaining total silence and invisibility. The wyvern will not be able to perform any other actions while using this skill. However, opponents will have a very hard time targetting him. Blend is very similar to the 'hide' skill, but costs a little more and can only be used outdoors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: help skill hide


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Car Black Box X9000 + GPS + G Sensor + Dual 2 Lens, which means two separate lenses sensing events in a vehicle or on the road. Record of GPS position and route can be viewed on Google Maps. G Sensor - the record of movement (deflection) while driving a car - it captures hard braking, acceleration, side impact, crossing over potholes, etc.
You will appreciate a large 2 "inch LCD display (rotary 270 degrees) where you will be able directly to play the video records. Maximum video resolution (1 channel lens) is 1280x 480 pixels and 30 frames per second and (2 channel lens) has a resolution 640 x 480 pixels at 30 frames per second. Car camera has a rotating lens that can be set to your needs.
Cyclic recording and motion detection function are the advantages. Camera can almost continuously record in the set time loop. Motion detection means, that the camera is automatically activated once the vehicle is in operation. Anti Shake mode ensures protection against shakes of rough roads. The evidence of causing damage to the vehicle, for example after driving over potholes or at traffic accident from the other side than from the front, through 3D accelerometer sensors (recording of overload G)
Car black box recorder - conclusive evidence
Recordings from black box can be used as:
- the record of the way of use of the vehicle, evidence of damage, routes, speed, handling of drivers, etc
- evidence about the car accident - easier to prove guilt of parties of accident - you can see the speed, braking, rear impact, time, date and GPS location
- evidence of causing damage to the vehicle, for example after driving over potholes or at traffic accident from the other side than from the front, through 3D accelerometer sensors (recording of overload G)
- evidence of pirate driving of traffic participant who threatens you or generally arrogantly violates regulations
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- Start of recording: manual start by button or by exceedance of accelerometer, and it even keeps record before the event
- Displays the current date and time in the video
- Software: PC Suite installation files are loaded from the internal memory card at insertion, support Google Maps
- Power supply: 12V car lighter adapter, at termination of recording battery backup prevents against to loss of currently being recorded sequences
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First of all, I would like to give my sincerest thanks for the whole Solus Team for their work, because of them my distro-hopping is over after 2 months of switching distros!
Also I would like to ask, if there is a correct way to delete unused locales in /usr/share? They take up around 377 MiBs on my system. I saw, that on Debian-based distros and in AUR there is a localepurge tool, which can get rid of unused locales, but I didn't find it in the Solus Repository. I'm on Budgie, if this information helps.
Thank you, once again!
Dovloran I dont know if this exactly will accomplish what you want but maybe you are looking for sudo eopkg rmo which removes orphan programs
sudo eopkg rmo
adurante Thank you, but I'm referring directly to the files in the folder which i mentioned above. However, I love the sudo eopkg remove-orphans, too! 😀
Even if you purge them now they will return the next time the package is updated. 377MB is quite a small amount given current storage technologies where even a small SSD is 128GB.
Justin It's not the file size that's the problem, it's the load time that it gives Firefox. Wouldn't be a problem if you didn't have to disable each one, one by one.
**EDIT: And also keep in mind a lot of people use older hardware, where that size might actually be significant.
EbonJaeger I have no delay loading Firefox but I do have relatively new hardware. If you do disable other languages, what difference is there in load times?
EbonJaeger For Firefox just disable the language packs you don't use from the add-ons.
PS: Old hardware doesn't necessarily mean smaller disks.
Well, actually I've switched to the Brave Browser and it's loading time is blazing fast. Yes, my SSD sadly is only 128GB, because this is a new notebook and I wasn't able to buy a bigger/better one, yet.
Anyway, thank you for your help, I will leave them alone, because they won't cause any trouble in the future I guess. 🙂
kyrios For Firefox just disable the language packs you don't use from the add-ons.
I know. One. By. One. That's a LOT of language packs.
Just to chime in because I don't see an actual answer regarding localepurge: we have no such thing since it would mean "breaking" an installed package. eopkg doesn't have a concept of a partial install either.
DataDrake Thank you for this information! 🙂
EbonJaeger yeah I know, but it's a one shot.
This allows to have a localized firefox out of the box (even on multi user systems on which the users use different locales).
FWIW this is how Fedora handles the language packs
Usually, whenever I install a distro that I want to keep it for more than a week (yep, I'm a distrohopper), I use bleachbit. There are some options in it that can remove many unused languages. The only issue in Solus, but a minor one, is that it doesn't start using adm privileges. Just go to terminal:
sudo eopkg it bleachbit
sudo bleachbit
Be happy 😃
sudo eopkg it bleachbit
sudo bleachbit
In case anyone else does this, I experimented with using bleachbit as raf_lozano does, to remove locales in Solus and assess the damage. It left plenty broken, but simply running sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall fixed everything right up again.
sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall
Thanks everybody!
N1X3L and it puts the locales back
kyrios My point exactly! Thank you for breaking it down list-style though. I see now how I was a bit vague by neglecting to spotlight that the locales were being restored.
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'We were told to pack a suitcase and go' - Homes evacuated over bomb scare in Norwich
PUBLISHED: 09:45 29 January 2019 | UPDATED: 17:13 29 January 2019
Houses in the leafy suburbs of north Norwich were evacuated after an unexploded device was discovered.
Around four homes in Mallory Road, Old Catton, were cleared after police warned of a bomb threat in the area on Monday evening, according to one witness.
"It was just after 6pm," he said. "We didn't know what the problem was but they said it was a bomb of some sort. We were told to pack a suitcase and go."
The man, who did not want to be identified, said he joined around a dozen other people on the street as police cordoned off the road.
"Police said it was some sort of hand grenade," he added. "We all had to evacuate our homes straight away, we were told to just go.
"All we could see were about four or five police cars with flashing lights on and they blocked the road off for about three hours."
In a Twitter post, Norwich police confirmed an unexploded device had been discovered and they attended the scene with explosive ordnance disposal (EOD).
A spokesperson said the ordnance was a suspected Second World War device but that police were unsure whether the device was live.
They confirmed it had been removed by the EOD.
The houses along the short, tree-lined street sit several feet apart, and despite its close proximity to the airport the area is quiet but for the rustling of the trees and the murmur of distant cars.
Another witness on the same road, who did not want to be named, said he was "making his tea" when police knocked on his door.
But he said the situation did not worry him, and added: "Police just told us to go and that was all I heard, they said they found something.
"We went to our family, I think most people did and then we came back."
It was not until Tuesday morning when he found out an unexploded device had been found close to his home.
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DIC reports growth for 2010
150 new companies set up shop, 48 have expanded business and operations in the region
Dubai Internet City (DIC), part of TECOM Investments, has announced that 150 new companies set up in the ICT cluster last year.
Forty-eight of DIC's business partners also expanded their businesses and commercial operations in the region.
DIC has revealed that it expects further growth in 2011, as enterprise spending in the Middle East, Europe and Africa increases by 1.3% from 2010 to reach $795.2 billion.
"The year 2010 proved positive for us on the back of an industry uptrend and saw many businesses emerging as winners. Additional investments in potential growth areas and operational expansion beyond the region were also witnessed. For DIC, this translates into more companies opening direct offices at the ICT park with most of the leading brands driving the region's positive trend," said Malek Al Malek, managing director at Dubai Internet City and Dubai Outsource Zone. "The favourable year-on-year trend for the ICT cluster reflects the development in the region that continues to attract a large community of ICT professionals and specialists. We believe the new investments and influx of top level executives will continue in 2011 with multinational organisations across the globe regarding this region as the next growth area."
The sectors that saw the most new additions in Dubai Internet City in 2010 were telecommunications and networking, software, internet and multimedia.
Several top global brands also opened offices in DIC's ICT business park including Cable and Wireless Europe, ADP Dealer Services Gulf, Pitney Bowes Software, China Communication Service, and Versata.
A large number of companies from firststeps@DIC, a facility which allows businesses to lease short-term office space while exploring market opportunities, expanded into full-fledged operations.
Malek said: "Technology is key driver of growth and contributes significantly to the economy of the country, reflecting the entire region's position as a fertile ground for small businesses. Though big businesses are the mainstay of the economy, smaller, nimbler organisations continue to expand their role as major growth enablers. As the region's key technology cluster, Dubai Internet City remains integral to facilitating the growth of SMEs by creating and offering the necessary infrastructure and technical capabilities to grow from a grassroots level."


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It is none of your business who she sleeps with.
Why is it necessary to share intimate details in order to build a friendship or to become good friends? Some people consider this as a way of building trust. Yet when those intimate details are met with indifference and judgment all of that trust goes out of the window. There are other, more productive ways of building trust. Like, housesitting or sharing a project or a small business venture. In my opinion, sharing intimate details, not a good one. There is too much at risk and quite frankly, in that capacity, unnecessary. Too many times it becomes ammunition that eventually kills the friendship. Being offered up as gossip. Used as character assassinations in petty arguments or even assumed proof that this that and the other is going on.
Your girlfriend started talking to you about a life event. Honestly, she just needed to verbally make sense of the situation and talking to a person rather than talking to a brick wall makes her look less crazy. However, she needs and wants you to behave as said brick wall. Let's keep in mind, that a venting session does not require feedback. A question is not being asked of you. What is being asked of you is to be an impartial, but active listener who waits until they are invited to participate. Not unlike the brick wall. Your presence is enough. Revel in that light. Trust me it is greatly appreciated and makes the friendship stronger. This practice will lead you to an opportunity to share your ideas and ideals. In the meantime, it is best to leave them out. No one wants to be judged for their decisions, especially when these decisions are life important. How many times have we witnessed a person judging us on the same things they do themselves. Those very things that they would not have shared with you. People simply do what is best for them.
The inability to be a brick wall creates an environment where your homie becomes guarded and feels alienated. She will cut you back, because she is uncomfortable sharing with you. The friendship suffers since she feels unsupported. You making a statement like "I'm not judging you, but…" is judgmental in nature. Saying with a tone of condescension "Is that something you really want to do?" or that nasty two word aside, "Yeaahh, but…" tugs at the threads of the friendship slowly pulling it apart. Now its like "Well shit, that's my fault, I told you too much." The result is her just shutting the fuck up from now on. Feelings have been bruised and the budding friendship ends up compartmentalized.
"Hey girl, How's everything with you and your boo?"
"We good. How about that urban show everyone's watching? It came on last night right?"
We should be able to confide in each other without the unnecessary comments and judgments on life choices. If you can only discuss the good things and not the bad, just shut up totally. We all need to vent every now and again. It is essential for a strong friendship. Nevertheless, everyone has something to say. Who you should be with. What your relationship should look like. How cautious you should be. Whether or not you should be sleeping with him or her. These ideas/commentary are based in perspective. Perspective , like assholes, everyone has one. Your standpoint, wants and needs are never considered in their opinion. So, I am sharing my intimate details with you why?
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With individualized network governance comes great responsibility. While the EOS main net has apparently launched, it also hasn't, at the same time. For everything to be up and running, each person who is running an EOS node needs to vote on who should be trusted with processing network transactions.
Apparently, the principal problem is that this voting process involves each user broadcasting his or her private keys in a way that somehow proves ownership of the funds that they have in their individual wallets.
The exact requirement is that 15% or 150,000 of all of the owned EOS tokens are proved in this way, which also means that these users have "voted." At this point, with only 7% of all tokens proven, the complete main net launch has hit a major snag.
With this specification in mind, it isn't clear why the EOS development team announced that the main net had been launched on June 10th and as a result, why all of the major crypto news outlets seemed to support this announcement.
The easiest explanation for the reluctance of 93% of the network to vote is that the process, as mentioned above, depends on broadcasting one's private keys. If you are not quite sure what a private key is, just think of it as the password that unlocks your Crypto wallet, that only you should have.
Most Crypto networks start out by reassuring their users that their private keys will never be compromised and can never be compromised for any reason, due to the protocols that run them, as is the case with Zcash and zero-knowledge proofs.
In short, with a verification technology like zero-knowledge proofs, only encrypted public keys are, in effect, used to prove ownership of funds as well as to prove the validity of transactions.
The fact that EOS ran a year-long ICO and then had this happen to them should definitely call for concern.
It is not common to ask users to do anything with their private keys that has any chance of compromising their wallets. With such an arguably large problem at hand, it appears logical to state that as of now, the future of EOS is in doubt, even if 15% of all tokens are voted with in the end.
How can a network call itself secure when at its core, it is promoting practices that entice the testing of its boundaries?
With all of this under consideration, it would be wise to keep your EOS tokens, off-line, if possible, at least until this process plays out.
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I spilled a tea mug (rather than the too common coffee mug ;-) on my keyboard.
This old PC, a very nice DELL which worked perfectly for 5 yrs, runs Windows XP.
I cannot get past the CTRL ALT DEL at login.
Any idea? get a wireless or other external keyboard? clean the keys one by one? It is now dry for sure...
Thanks ! :)
Is your computer a laptop?
yes, DELL Latitude D505
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4931 Bonita Bay BLVD 2601 Bonita Springs, FL 34134
- Condo
- 4,240 Sq Ft
- 3
- 4 full, 1 half
Agent Remarks about 4931 Bonita Bay BLVD 2601 Bonita Springs, FL 34134
From the moment you enter this top floor residence, prepare to be impressed by the mesmerizing views of the Gulf of Mexico & Estero Bay. Private elevator foyer beckons you to step inside and experience sunsets from the open terrace. Stylish and elega
Property Features
- Approx Living Area SqFt: 4,240
- Year Built: 2006
- Total Bedrooms: 3
- Bathrooms: 4
- Full Baths: 3
- Half Baths: 1
- Building Levels Description: Penthouse, See Remarks
- Builder/Manufacturer: No
- Construction: Concrete Block, Poured Concrete
- Description: Private Road
- Cooling System: Central Electric, Zoned
- Heating: Central Electric
- Water: Central
- Sewer: Central
- Pets Allowed: Yes
- Master Bath: Dual Sinks, Separate Tub And Shower
- Dining Room: Breakfast Room, Eat-in Kitchen, Formal
- County: Lee
- Area: BN04 - Bonita Bay
- Community: Bonita Bay
- Subcommunity: AZURE
- Age Restricted: No
- Community Features: Boating, Gated, Golf Course, No Subdivision, Tennis
- Days on Market: 385
- Original Price: $3,250,000
- HOA Fee: Yes
- HOA Fee Includes: Mandatory
- Master Plan Fee: $2,435/Annually
- Annual Property Taxes: $30,472
- Repo/Reo: No
- Short Sale: No
- Approval: Application Fee
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Arepa & Co - Bethnal Green254 Paradise Row, London, London, E2 9LE Venezuelan, Brunch, Caribbean, Gluten Free, South American, Tapas, Vegan
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Arepa & Co brings Venezuelan cuisine to London. With a contemporary design, terrace and private dining areas, they bring the Latin spirit and gastronomy to the infamous Paradise Row in Bethnal Green. They offer a great selection of tapas-style dishes, ideal to share and a great way of sampling the Venezuelan cuisine. For mains, you can choose from the traditional Arepas (cornbread buns stuff with different fillings), Cachapas (sweet corn pancakes topped with meat and a great selection of ingredients) or their traditional rice bowls. Brunch is an institution at Arepa & Co, a popular alternative to the traditional English Breakfast that draws the crowds, hearty, flavourful and generous. Arepa & Co started as a market stall in Camden Market and quickly won the hearts of Londoners and now with two sites in East London, it is the place to go for an authentic Venezuelan experience. Arepa & Co started as a market stall in Camden Market and quickly won the hearts of Londoners and now with two sites in East London, it is the place to go for an authentic Venezuelan experience.
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16 November 2019
The food is great, the staff young and helpful but the lighting is to bright and music club loud!!! We really enjoyed our evening although conversation was hard to exchange but they did turn it down! Overall a great evening and the food is fabulous street quality with a very reasonable bill to finish!
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I write about my husband, who also is my Master and about our relationship, in which I am his slavegirl. We practise DD and have learned that it helps us a lot. Apart from that, you'll find my opinions on everything, like sex, sessions, music, people, more on relationships, sorrows, hopes and whatever else I want to write about. Feel free to leave a comment (nothing rude or insulting, please)
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
when to blog and what to blog?
Hopefully I manage to write a bit now and then about our relationship. Master does not always allow me to go online and often there is not much happening at home, apart from me analyzing our relationship to death, until I am upset and feel distressed for no real reason. Maybe I manage to use this blog here and get things clear.--> self-therapy?! Diary?! I have no idea yet, and it is just my rambling, but this helps when hubby/Master is not here to talk to.
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AppNexus, PubMatic and Smaato Lead Its New Roster of Partners
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 14, 2015) - AerServ, the only mobile-first video mediation platform, today announced steady company momentum as it increases the available supply of quality mobile video ad inventory, and a growth rate of 300% in the sales of its in-app mobile video inventory over the past 12 months. AerServ's continued growth has been bolstered by several key partnerships with established demand partners including AppNexus, PubMatic, Smaato and many others. AerServ partners provide their platform users with seamless access to AerServ's high quality mobile and mobile video ad inventory, enabling smarter, more efficient mobile video campaigns, both in-app and across the mobile web.
According to eMarketer, consumers are increasingly spending more time watching video on mobile devices, but advertisers have had challenges entering this arena. By integrating with the market's leading SSPs, AerServ is greatly expanding available mobile video inventory and enabling advertisers to reach consumers through this channel.
"We've seen tremendous growth in sales over the past year, and demand for our inventory is only increasing," commented AerServ CEO Josh Speyer. "Advertisers are realizing that mobile video, and specifically in-app mobile video, is one of the most effective ways to engage with consumers. Through strategic integrations with industry leaders, we have continued to grow the number of buyers we are able to offer publishers across mobile video."
"Despite studies pointing to mobile video advertising as the most rapidly growing market, (BI Intelligence forecasts a combined average growth rate of 73 percent between 2013 and 2018), issues remain -- namely lack of access to quality inventory at scale," said Eric Hoffert, SVP, Video Technology at AppNexus. "We're pleased to help our buyers capitalize on the growing mobile video market through easy, efficient access to AerServ's unique, high quality mobile video inventory."
About AerServ
AerServ is the leading mobile ad serving and mediation platform, specializing in mobile video technology, with proprietary yield optimization tools that increase revenue across all formats and ad units. AerServ works in alignment with thousands of apps, from premium publishers to independent developers, to optimize their existing ad network revenue through mediation, and tap into aerMarket's demand inventory to supercharge their earnings. AerServ's entire platform and infrastructure were built with a publisher-first mentality. Technical integration is super simple, and publishers can serve multiple ad formats through one integration, reducing time even further. Publishers get best-in-class support with hands-on care from integration specialists, account managers, and software engineers. Whether you are looking for a simple way to monetize your mobile inventory or an advanced way to increase revenue, AerServ can get you there easily and efficiently. The company was founded in 2013 and has offices in Irvine, CA. Visit AerServ at www.aerserv.com or follow us on Twitter at @AerServ.
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Because you are making a Group Booking, there are additional Terms and Conditions that apply. Please read them and click 'I Accept' below to continue with your booking
General Group Booking Terms
By making a group reservation through Hostelworld.com you agree to the following terms and conditions as set by Hostelworld.com and as set by the hostel in question.
- In order to make a group reservation on Hostelworld.com it is necessary to pay a deposit. The balance is due directly to the hostel according to their payment conditions.
- The booking deposit is non-refundable.
- Please note that any cancellations must be notified directly to the hostel at least 24 hours in advance of your scheduled arrival date, unless otherwise stated in the hostel's conditions.
- Hostelworld.com are not responsible for changes or amendments to your reservation once it has been processed. All correspondence with regard to changes to your booking need to be dealt with directly with the hostel.
- Cancellations for reservations must be made directly with the hostel and must conform with the individual hostels cancellation policy (see below)
- It is your responsibility to pay the balance of your accommodation cost to the hostel in accordance with their payment conditions (see below). Failure to do so may result in your reservation being cancelled by the hostel.
- Individual hostels may have special booking conditions relating to group stays, please read the hostel booking conditions carefully before making your reservation.
Hostel Specific Terms & Conditions
The remainder of the amount due will be charged to your credit card ???? Should numbers or room selection change, the per person deposit times the number of people who actually travelled will be deducted from the total accommodation charge levvied by the hostel.
The following group types are not accepted by this hostel: Holiday with Friends, Junior / Primary School, High / Secondary School, College / University, Business Trip, Stag/Hen/Bachelor Party, Sports Group, Cultural Group If you have misrepresented the type of group you are booking for, your booking may be cancelled by the hostel."
Any cancellations resulting from agreement to these terms and conditions under false pretences will result in loss of deposit.
Debe aceptarlos para que podamos confirmar su reserva.
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Chic Hostel Bangkok
Descripción de la propiedad
Chic Hostel Bangkok concept is based on the combination of Modern Life- Style and the Rich Color of the Moroccan Architecture, with full amenities and services. That's not all, we are the first and the only Hostel in the region that has a swimming pool and the Guest Self Service Check-In Kiosks, that guaranteed to enhance the guest check-in experience. Guests with reservations can self check-in immediately upon arrival without having to wait in line at the reception counter.
Chic Hostel is definitely your destination in Bangkok.
***Property Policies & Conditions:
1. Check in from 2pm and check out until 12 noon.
(1) Early check-in and late check-out will incur additional charges.
(2) For any bookings through travel agencies, please present your voucher or e-voucher upon arrival.
(3) Upon your departure, please return your key card in good condition to avoid THB300 chargeable amount.
2. Payment:
(1) Cash or credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Union Pay) is welcomed.
- Settlement by credit card can be used for any amount over THB500.
(2) Full payment prior to or upon arrival.
3. Cancellation Policy:
(1) If cancelled or modified up to 7 days before the arrival date, no fee will be charged.
(2) If cancelled or modified later, or in case of No-Show, the total amount of balance due will be charged and no refund will be given.
(3) Modification is honored based on availability.
4. Child and extra bed:
(1) Children cannot be accommodated at the hotel.
(2) The minum age to stay at the hostel is 18 years old.
(3) There is no capacity for extra beds in the room.
5. No food & drink, pets and smoking allowed in the bed rooms. Ver las reglas de la casa
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Anybody want a free TV? The TV I grew up playing Gran Turismo 5 Prologue on needs to go to make space. Can't put it to the curb because you KNOW some kid is going to chuck something through the screen.
52" Hitachi projection TV, 1080i and 720p.
Has HDMI, auto-focus feature (a godsend with projection TVs), rolls on wheels (another godsend), and doesn't weigh an obscene amount.
Works fine, but parents want it out.
To keep this car relevant, it would make a pretty decent garage TV. And if you stop by, you can laugh/get pissed at me for how much junk is on top of the Mustangs!


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Ill-fated penalties, unexpected absences, and tired legs each hindered the men's hockey team in its goal of staying in the NESCAC playoff race. Last weekend, the Cards (2-18, 1-13 NESCAC) traveled around the northeast, first stopping in Williamstown, Mass. for a duel against their Little Three rival, the nationally ranked Ephs (13-5-2, 9-4-1 NESCAC).
"Under the circumstances that we've been in and not being able to get over the hump and win games, it's definitely hard enough to win games in this league, so I thought we came out and played pretty good," said Head Coach Chris Potter. "We gave them a short-handed goal on our power play, which is never a good start. We competed pretty hard, and obviously they are a very good team that has good goaltending, and I thought both goalies played well. We had a couple of chances there to make it a different hockey game and we didn't capitalize on our scoring chances, while they did. At times, they played very well, and at times, we controlled the pace of the game, but we did some things that we've been doing all year that have put us in the situation that we're in."
After going down two goals early against Williams last time the two played, Wes wanted to control the pace of play and get on the board early. The first period didn't involve much action at Lansing Chapman Rink, with one failed power play for the Purple and Gold and another four-on-four opportunity.
The Cardinals caught a break early in the second frame when Williams got called for a boarding penalty on an illegal hit to Quincy Oujevolk '17. A man down, the Ephs broke out of their defensive zone and found themselves in a two-on-one situation. A cross-ice pass from Craig Kitto landed on the stick of Alex DeBaere, and the puck was sent behind Wesleyan net-minder Dawson Sprigings '17 for the one score advantage.
If fans were not paying close attention to the game, they would have thought that the Ephs second goal was just a replay of the initial score. Kitto received the puck from a teammate and fed it cross-ice once again to an open DeBaere in the slot, who rifled the puck into the net for a 2-0 lead. After two periods, the Ephs led the Cardinals 30-9 in total shots.
Wes would find its first glimpse of hope in the third with only 95 seconds remaining in the contest. Opting for an extra-skater, Sprigings was pulled from the net, and Alex Carlacci '16 took advantage of the scenario, scoring off assists from Terence Durkin '16 and Cam McCusker '18. The Cards pulled Sprigings again, hoping for an equalizer, but could not put the puck past Williams goaltender Sean Dougherty, who sports .917 save percentage on the season. Wesleyan was outshot 41-17 on the game, as Sprigings had 39 total saves. The Cards were 0-2 on the extra-man advantage, although stopping all three Ephs power play chances.
"Personnel [is our biggest issue], and I don't mean our players, but we had a few things that beyond our control have happened, mostly the defensive core," Potter said. "Right now, we have two or three forwards at times playing defense. When it gets late in the game, we've been up in some games like Middlebury, Bowdoin, Hamilton, but when teams start to shorten their bench in the third period, we get some mismatch problems in our own defensive zone because of these issues. There have been times where we are stuck with five forwards on the ice. That's been frustrating for the guys and I'll take the blame on that with not having the right personnel in the aspects of recruiting and other things. No matter what, we have to deal with it, and the guys are competing well enough to win, but there are some situations that we haven't been able to handle."
The next day brought more of the same offensive struggles for the Cardinals as they traveled to Middlebury (8-9-3, 5-6-3 NESCAC) to skate in Chip Kenyon Arena. After Sprigings faced a barrage of shots in the opening period, the Panthers finally struck at the end of the frame with Evan Neugold finding the puck off a rebound and sending a wrist shot over the shoulder of Sprigings. After one period, Middlebury held a commanding 17-5 shot difference.
The Panthers would capitalize again, this time on a power play after Alternate Captain Jay Matthews '16 was called for a high-sticking infraction. The Cardinals held strong throughout the majority of the man-down situation, but with approximately 20 seconds left, Middlebury's Derek Pimentel tapped in another rebound after teammate Jake Charles fired a shot to the net that Wesleyan was unable to clear.
Middlebury would make it a three-goal lead before the second period expired, as Midd skater Ronald Fishman gave a drop-pass to fellow Panther Mike Najjar in the slot, and he whipped it into the back of the net for the definitive lead. Wesleyan's best chance of the game came when James Kline '17 skated into a one-on-one situation and fired the puck right into the chest of Panther goalie Stephen Klein.
The third period proved unexciting and yielded no more goals, as the game ended in a 3-0 win for the skaters from Vermont. Middlebury coach Bill Beaney became just the 12th coach in NCAA history to accumulate 600 career wins.
The Cardinals currently sit last in the conference with just two points. Eighth place Tufts currently has nine points and each team has four games remaining. Each win counts as two points, so Wesleyan is not yet mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, although their odds are extremely slim. Despite the low chance, the team will continue to lace up their skates and fight this upcoming weekend at Spurrier-Snyder Rink against Colby on Friday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. and then on Valentine's Day versus Bowdoin at 3 p.m.
"They've competed and it's a very long, long shot that we can get into the playoffs, but we're still not mathematically eliminated," Potter said. "We've played well enough to win games, but to think that we're going to go and win the next four games at this point would be unrealistic. Obviously, I want to win, but we can't continue to make the mistakes that we're making, fail to finish off games, commit penalties on the power play, among other issues. Those things don't go into the equation of winning. They have fought and they haven't quit, so we can win any game."
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Open Arts Objects provides free open access films (over 35) on select works of art from museums around the world, accompanied by free teaching resources. This project is part of the current strategy within the Open University to develop a series of public facing initiatives that can help inspire wider and diverse constituencies to enjoy and understand art works and visual culture.
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Geraldine reports
We saw 4 or 5 bats flying close to the museum building, with many feeding buzzes being heard on our detectors. The range of calls went from very low right up to 55, however we now believe that all the calls were from Common Pipistrelles. Dick made a recording and analysed it today.
As we approached the southern bridge over the lake, we got another flurry of bat activity, again Common Pipistrelles.
Thanks to Malcolm , Viv , and Sarah for their
company and input.
Geraldine and Dick"


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On 5 October 2015, the OECD released its final report on recommended limitations on interest expense deductions ("Action 4") under its Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). Action 4 is focused on the use of third party, related party and intragroup debt to achieve excessive interest deductions or to finance the production of exempt or deferred income. A best practice approach to tackling these issues should apply to all forms of interest and payments equivalent to interest, to ensure that groups in an equivalent position are treated consistently and to reduce the risk of a rule being avoided by a group structuring its borrowings into a different legal form.
A best practice rule to address base erosion and profit shifting using interest expense should therefore apply to: (i) interest on all forms of debt; (ii) payments economically equivalent to interest; and (iii) expenses incurred in connection with the raising of finance (such as payments under profit participating loans or guarantee fees with respect to financing arrangements, to name a few).The best practice approach does not apply to payments which are not interest, economically equivalent to interest, or incurred in connection with the raising of finance. However, any payment may be subject to limitation under the best practice approach when they are used as part of an arrangement which, taken as a whole, gives rise to amounts that are economically equivalent to interest. One of the aims of the best practice approach is to link the amount of interest deductions in an entity to the level of its taxable economic activity. A rule that limits the level of debt in an entity will not necessarily address base erosion and profit shifting risks, when an excessive rate of interest is applied to a loan. Therefore, such a rule would need to establish further mechanisms to identify the maximum interest on the permitted level of debt.
A key question is whether a general interest limitation rule should apply to the interest an entity incurs on its borrowings without any offset for interest income (gross interest expense), or after offsetting the interest income it receives (net interest expense).A gross interest rule has the benefit of simplicity and is also likely to be more difficult for groups to avoid through planning. However, a gross interest rule could lead to double taxation, where each entity is subject to tax on its full gross interest income, but part of its gross interest expense is disallowed. A net interest rule would reduce the risk of double taxation, as an entity's interest income would be set against its interest expense before the interest limitation is applied. It would also allow an entity to raise third party debt and on-lend borrowed funds within its group, without the entity incurring a disallowance of part of its gross interest expense. Taking into account these considerations, the general interest limitation rules will apply to an entity's net interest expense paid to third parties, related parties and intragroup, after offsetting interest income.
Based on the above, from an economic, commercial and transfer pricing angle, it is reasonable to argue that when dealing with limitation interest expense rules, corporates should firstly have net interest expenses and secondly, said net interest expenses should arise as a consequence of entering a raising of finance arrangement. Otherwise, only an arm's length test could apply as best practice approach. The OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines specify the following two categories of transfer pricing methods that multinationals can use to test the arm's length character of their related party transactions:
- Traditional transaction methods, regarded as the most direct methods, which require the use of prices of gross margins agreed by third parties as the basis of testing the arm's length character of related party prices.
- Transactional profit methods, which test the profit results earned by related parties, relative to the profit results earned by comparable third parties.
Based on the above, the taxpayer should seek to apply the most appropriate method to demonstrate that the outcome of its taxable transactions falls within the range (prices or margins) that independent parties would achieve in comparable circumstances.
To this end, in the context of determining arm's length interest expense deductions, Baker McKenzie Luxembourg has developed a two-step methodology, looking at: (i) the minimum return allocation; and (ii) residual income allocation of the financing debt instrument, which is in line with the methods sanctioned by the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines.
Our two-step methodology
(i) Minimum return allocation
Firstly, we considered the Transactional Net Margin Method ("TNMM") as the most reliable method to establish the minimum arm's length return on the debt instrument.
(ii) Residual income allocation
Secondly, Baker McKenzie considered the profit split method as the most appropriate method to be applied to test a fair and balanced split regarding the residual investment income received by the issuer of the debt instrument. When using this method, the residual investment income is respectively assigned to the debt instrument and equity invested / instruments issued by the tested party entity, in line with economic indicators and financial ratios, linked to independent parties under similar terms, conditions, and circumstances.
The profit split methodology applied in this step was also based on the guidance included within the final report released by the OECD in October 2015, on aligning transfer pricing outcomes with value creation ("Action 8-10"), under its Action Plan on BEPS, which is detailed below.The transactional profit splits constitute a useful method, which has the potential to align profits with value creation, in accordance with the arm's length principle. Furthermore, it seems to be the most appropriate method, particularly in situations where the features of the transaction make the application of other transfer pricing methodologies problematic.
The current guidance on the application of the transactional profit split method in Chapter II, Part III, Section C of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines1 indicates that the main strength of the method is that it can provide solutions for highly integrated operations, such as global trading of financial instruments , for which a one-sided method would not be suitable.
While the guidance on splitting profits provides a number of examples of potential allocation keys, it focuses on asset-based and cost-based allocation keys. There is a hesitant mention of an approach which splits profits, so that each party achieves the same return on capital (paragraph 2.145).
Chapter VI of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, Special Considerations for Intangibles, makes a number of references to the transactional profit split method and to situations where the current guidance on its application may need to be clarified. For example, the guidance suggests that:
- In some cases, profit splits or valuation techniques may be useful for evaluating arm's length allocations of profit in situations involving the outsourcing of important functions, where information on comparable uncontrolled transactions is unavailable.
- When no information on comparable uncontrolled transactions is available, a transactional profit split method may be useful in situations involving the pricing of transfers of intangibles. This may include the transfer of partially developed intangibles; or the transfer of all, or limited rights in a fully developed intangible.
Profit splitting factors, mentioned as possible mechanisms, are used in practice to various extents and include invested capital, costs, surveys of functional contributions, weighting of factors, as well as equalized expected rates of return. Moreover, Action 8-10 provides a scope of revisions of the current guidance on the transactional profit split method:The guidance on transactional profit splits and selecting the most appropriate method should emphasize the point made in paragraph 2.2 of the current OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines that the nature of the transaction, determined in accordance with the guidance in Section D of Chapter I, is vital when selecting the most appropriate transfer pricing method, even in the absence of information on reliable, comparable uncontrolled transactions.
The sharing of profits or losses under a profit split may in some circumstances reflect a fundamentally different commercial relationship between the parties, in particular concerning risk allocation, to the paying of a fee for goods or services. In cases where the delineation of the actual transaction is such that a share of profits would be unlikely to represent an arm's length outcome, the revised guidance will emphasize the need to use and adjust the best available comparables, rather than selecting a profit split method. An appropriate method using inexact comparables is more likely to be reliable in such cases, than an inappropriate use of the transactional profit split method. As such, the guidance regarding methods to be applied in such difficult cases will be expanded. Selecting the most appropriate method is particularly acute when there is a lack of reliable comparables data, as is very often the case in developing countries.
With respect to the profit splitting factors, as previously mentioned, Action 8-10 stresses the need for a strong correlation between profit allocation factors and the creation of value, in order to ensure an outcome that is consistent with the arm's length principle. In addition, the sensitivities and practical application of the various mechanisms, including the capability to independently verify underlying data, should be compared so that guidance is provided about the appropriate application of the mechanisms. A transactional profit split method can be used to support results under a TNMM, or to determine royalty rates, or in other ways that are practical, that respect the form of the contractual arrangements and help simplify pricing outcomes.
In closing, for most entities a clear correlation between earnings and taxable income is expected. Therefore, measuring economic activity using earnings should be the most effective way to ensure that the ability to deduct net interest expense is matched with the activities that generate taxable income and drive value creation. Consequently, Baker McKenzie has determined the most reliable profit level indicators ("PLIs") at each level of the two-step methodology in order to establish the aforementioned correlation.


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Free gas and electrical checks are among the incentives being offered to landlords with properties in Barrow-in-Furness in a bid to encourage them to accept people at risk of homelessness.
The social housing shortage across Cumbria has left some local authorities with little alternative but to think of new ways to increase the housing stock available to them and the people applying for affordable homes.
Barrow Borough Council has decided to address the growing housing crisis in the borough by trying to encourage more private landlords to take on new tenants by launching a new scheme.
Aside from free gas and electricity checks, the incentives being offered to landlords also include smoke and CO2 detectors, designed to ensure that the properties meet the council's safety standards.
Cllr Dave Pidduck, chair of the committee and leader of Barrow Council, "It's an initiative that is really important. We have landlords that have short and long term apartments.
"If we can get them [landlords] to join the scheme that will be for the benefit of the town but also for then. They will benefit working with the local council."
If fully implemented this incentive scheme will allow the council to offer six to 12 month tenancies for those presenting to the council's homelessness service.
Cllr Brendan Sweeney said: "It's [the scheme] a no brainer. There is a huge number of private sector houses in the borough and there are really good landlords used to taking people in. This is encouraging more to have a go at it."


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Nightwing #39
Writer: Sam Humphries
Artist: Phil Jimenez, Matt Santorelli, Jamal Campbell
Colors: Alex Sinclair, Jamal Campbell
Nightwing will lie with the fishes if he can't escape from the Judge's powerful grasp!
What you missed:
Dick is determined to not let the judge get away with the crimes he's caused in Bludhaven. The Judge uses others to commit murders all in the name of revealing corruption. As Nightwing he tracked the judge to one of the city's most popular casino's only to discover its a trap.
What happened:
The Judge has Nightwing tied up in an abandoned house that's sinking into the sea. Another piece of the mystery unveils as the judge and Dick travel down memory lane to their second encounter, an adventure that not even Batman knows about! *insert gasp here* The Judge reveals who he claims to be, shaking Dick to his core.
What I thought:
Such a fantastic issue! This arc really takes us back to how Batman started, as a mystery series. The Judge is an incredibly interesting character because of how vague and unknown he is. This is the first time we get an idea of who he could be and what happened to him. Of course in true mystery-cliffhanger fashion, we just get his side of the story which we can't guess probably isn't the whole truth.
Not just one artist works on this issue, which usually bothers me but its used in a very tactful way. Each artist works on a separate part of the story whether that's the flashback or the present day. It gives each part of the tale a unique perspective.


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Ava Sinclair's newest release, the burning hot western age play ménage Staking Their Claim, has been fighting it out for #1 in Amazon's Historical Erotica and Erotic Westerns categories, and this morning the book finally grabbed those spots and held them for a while! Congratulations, Ava!
★★★★★ Nicole H. Vela @ Amazon.com "Gold Rush!" on September 26, 2015
Life has thrown this beauty a curve, Jenny Beaumont, has lost her brother and is merely existing. She has come to claim on her brother behalf. Can she pull off the charade? And danger is all around what will she do, no family, no prospects. Under all that material is a beauty. Cody Drake and Nigel Simms are looking for adventure and looking for gold. What they never expected was to find a pint size beauty, in the guise of a young man. What they are proposing has never been done,not in those parts but what can they do when duty and honor call. She has become a ward/ a little, Jenny thrives and grows to love her guardians but when jealousy shows its ugly head, will it come between the friends ? She must figure out what to do. Once again she is looking for trouble and trouble finds her. Can they work through it all? They will do whatever they have to to protect and cherish, love and honor. And Can she love her men and stay alive when the danger threatens to consume her? With each book, Ava Sinclair captivated and seduces us. Each book transports us to another reality. The book is outstanding and everything you come to expect from Ms. Sinclair, the characters are endearing and leave you feeling like your visiting family. The age play dynamic is perfectly written, the plot wasn't rush, the story just embraces you! This book will leave you addicted!! Definitely a must read!
★★★★★ Nichols Reviews @ Amazon.com "Staking Their Claim" on September 30, 2015
Jenny has lost everything. Her brother has passed and her greedy family has promised her to a wealthy man. Disguised as a man she heads to the mining town of Coloma to stake her claim and make it on her own.
Cody cannot believe the full figured woman he runs into used to be his friend's little sister. She isn't so little anymore and he is determined to take care of her. His friend Nigel agrees to help him tend to Jenny in her time of mourning but taking care of her turns into a love that neither of them can deny.
Under the care of two handsome protectors, Jenny is determined to make the most of her fresh start. I loved Staking Their Claim because it stayed true to the time period. You didn't read about Jenny already knowing about sex when she was just a virgin. We follow her journey towards healing and love in the most unexpected places. I also loved the slight age play undertone. It wasn't heavy or just thrown in. It was subtle and didn't take from the story. I really enjoyed reading this and cannot wait for more from Sinclair.
★★★★★ SH @ Amazon.com "Another winner!"
Another winner from Ava Sinclair! I was drawn in from page one and read it straight through! The book is written well with a storyline that is believable and characters that you can't help becoming attached to. There is danger, suspense, romance, love, mild AP, and some steam. Loved it!
★★★★★ Alicia Janowitcz @ Amazon.com "Cowboys x 2!" on September 28, 2015
Another great read by Ava Sinclair. She's written cowboys and Highlanders and more cowboys and even hot Victorian men. The variety keeps me coming back. Sizzling hot sex, dominant men and in this case…cowboys! Can't wait to see what she comes up with next!


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A healthy and happy relationship is a beautiful blend of good sexual chemistry and great understanding as well as mutual happiness and proper communication. But most importantly, the one thing that can truly make or break a relationship is emotional intimacy.
Every time you hear the words intimacy, you probably think of physical closeness with your partner. While that is definitely one of the building blocks of a successful relationship, intimacy isn't just about that. Many people crave and long for another form or kind of intimacy that has to do with emotional closeness with one's partner, deep-level bonding, and great levels of understanding. This type of closeness and contact is called emotional intimacy.
What Is Emotional Intimacy?
Do you ever feel like your partner doesn't really understand you at times? Or that there is a certain lack of closeness between you and your partner which results in feelings of insecurities and often in a deficiency of trust and communication?
Most of the time, this results from a serious lack of emotional intimacy in a relationship, which is simply defined as a kind of emotional bond or closeness between two people that makes them feel loved, secured, trusted and understood. It is a way of being able to look deep into your partner's soul and heart, understand them at a great, deep level, accept them for who they are, and to effectively communicate your feelings and thoughts to one another without any fear or hesitation.
Most of us are never taught how to effectively develop this kind of intimacy in our relationship regardless of how much we long for it and wish to be emotionally intimate with our partners.
However, developing emotional skillfulness in a relationship requires a lot of work, effort, and attention from both sides as they are equally responsible for bringing it to their relationship. Being emotionally adept also requires the two individuals to provide a safe and comfortable space for each other so that both are able to express their real selves without feeling too vulnerable.
How to Develop Emotional Intimacy
If your relationship with your partner seems to be lacking emotional intimacy, there are a number of ways and things through which both of you together can strengthen your relationship and build the kind of emotional closeness that you are looking for. If you need help, you can always seek out couples counseling.
Trust Your Partner
Lack of proper trust between two people can take a massive toll on the marriage or the relationship itself. With trust also comes great respect and a deeply-found love. Without the presence of either of these, it is next to impossible to create a safe and secure space.
The ability to trust your partner wholeheartedly and have them trust you back is a core requirement to nourish emotional intimacy. This is also because the foundation of trust, faith, and belief is what also brings two people closer to one another.
Spend Quality and Meaningful Time Together
There is no such thing as 'too much time' when it comes to your partner. Ironically, nowadays couples hardly find the time to have lunches and dinners together, which can be due to various factors such as work commitments, looking after the kids, house chores, etc.
It can be a huge challenge to find the time to sit together and have a heart-to-heart session, or perhaps go out for a long drive with your partner in today's fast-paced life. However, that doesn't mean it is impossible.
Emotional intimacy requires two people in a relationship to spend meaningful and quality time together even if it means doing dishes or grocery shopping together. It could even mean a dinner date every weekend, a walk around the neighborhood every night after finishing all the work, or perhaps even sitting down after dinner and enjoying a warm cup of tea or coffee together.
The goal here is to spend some interrupted time with your partner during which you just focus on each other, talk things out and actively listen to what the other has to say.
Be Curious About Your Partner
Curiosity isn't always bad or negative. Being curious and inquisitive about your other half means that you want to get to know them more because we human beings are ever-evolving and are always full of surprises. Each day you learn a new thing or two about your partner and so do they.
The process of getting to know your partner doesn't really ever stop. The effort you put into it actually shows them that you are invested in them, care about them and that you want to know all about them and who they truly are.
This bridges any possible distance between two people because showing interest in each other's lives helps create a safe space and goes to show that you are emotionally involved and invested in them.
Be Present, Active and Attentive
One of the most overlooked and easiest ways of successfully developing emotional intimacy in a relationship is being present and being in the moment.
Being attentive, active and fully present is one of the greatest gifts you can give to your partner if you are to be emotionally close and intimate with them. Shine your partner with full, undivided attention when they are with you because your partner is the most important person in your life.
This also includes listening to your partner intently while expressing yourself emotionally as well. It will further help develop excellent communication skills between you and your partner because a small amount of attention can go a long way in building trust, comfort, closeness and of course, love.
Creating the perfectly happy and healthy relationship and acquiring the right balance is definitely a lot of work but once you are there, you will realize that it was worth every second spent and possibly one of the most rewarding aspects of a relationship.
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Mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - are increasingly being used just like computers. We use them for online shopping, banking and socialising. They often have even more personal information on them than our home computers - images, videos, location markers of where you are and where you've been - but with much less security.
Your mobile device can be very vulnerable to cyber attacks or just traditional theft.
TOP TIPS: Protect your mobile devices
- Make sure your mobile device is locked with a secure password
- If you're using a WIFI network in a public place, make sure the connection is genuine and secure
- Don't leave your Bluetooth on unless you are using it
- Download a reputable and genuine anti-virus app
For more information on securing your mobile devices, please see Get Safe Online


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I got push back from readers when I dissed some flavorless suburban condo complexes in the context of urban agriculture. My observation was meant to be simple. We're on a trajectory of ever larger, more complex, and highly leveraged institutional "solutions" to endemic social and economic problems that don't actually make things better. Quite the opposite. What we need are small, direct, hyper local, and incremental responses that address immediate needs at a very low burn rate. This was misinterpreted as, "Oh, you think growing zucchini is more important than solving the housing crisis for working families." Not what I'm saying. At all.
Everywhere I go in the world I find older neighborhoods that were built in a surprisingly similar manner regardless of geography, culture, religion, politics, or climate. Philadelphia has a wide variety of established neighborhoods that rarely get above three stories tall. Yet they provide convenient employment, local shops, schools, hospitals, houses of worship, groceries, culture, public parks, universities, and so on. Everything is within a reasonable walk or bike ride of a generous supply of homes. The residential and commercial activities are completely mixed together. Rich and poor tend to occupy the same neighborhoods in close proximity even if their accommodations are wildly disparate. Before planes, trains, and automobiles there weren't that many options beyond shoe leather, horses, and sailing ships so urban form and daily customs accommodated that reality.
On the other side of the planet we see the same traditional development pattern in Japan. Notice the small ground floor shops with modest living quarters above. Cosmetic differences aside these machiya (shop houses) perform in exactly the same manner as the row houses and neighborhood corner shops in Philly. This architectural convergent evolution is a direct reflection of the resources, technology, and level of social organization which happened to be very similar in both places.
Here's Istanbul. Same same. For thousands of years all around the world this is the dominant development pattern. Small lots built up with many small compact buildings in a row, very often with shops and other activities mixed with residential space. Streets are narrow and nearly everyone walks everywhere most of the time. It's highly efficient in every way and continues to endure into the modern era. Humans built this way for a reason.
Most of San Francisco was built out just before the arrival of the automobile and the shift to suburbia. Shops downstairs. Residential accommodations upstairs. This is how all successful towns were built everywhere until about the 1920s. The streets are a comfortable mix of pedestrians, motor scooters, cyclists, cars, and buses. There's no need for complex transportation systems because daily needs are all close at hand. This wasn't an aesthetic choice. It wasn't something reserved for the rich or forced on the poor. It's just the thing that made pragmatic sense back in 1885. There's a huge amount of private taxable value sitting on a very small amount of publicly maintained infrastructure. Inducing an Indian casino, auto dealership, or premium outlet mall to goose the tax base wasn't necessary. The neighborhood is naturally fuel and energy efficient by passive design. An abundance of large single family homes were mixed with a generous supply of tiny studio apartments and everything in between.
When I see these condos I don't object to the architecture or even the way the buildings and complexes relate to each other per se. They aren't that different physically from the traditional form seen all around the globe. There's no more or less open green space here than in Philly. The faux Spanish casitas are pretty close to Japanese machiya in their morphology. The clusters of narrow side streets are reminiscent of Turkish souks. The density is comparable to many of San Francisco's quiet neighborhoods.
The real problems are the administrative constraints, social prohibitions, and poor economic performance. Decades of suburban life have conditioned everyone to demand certain characteristics. Renters are a transient and unsavory element that destroys the value, safety, and respectability of the community. Therefore only owner occupied single family units are permitted. Anything too small or too inexpensive will attract the poor and undesirable. So let's only build homes large enough for middle class families to filter out the riffraff. Strangers loitering on the street are a menace. Homes must be buffered and isolated from the public realm. It is absolutely forbidden to conduct any kind of commercial or professional activity within the residential enclave.
Each condo is required by law to have a two car garage because there's a perceived shortage of parking spaces in the neighborhood. This is in direct contradiction to the official desire to get people to walk, bike, and use public transit like the newly expanded commuter rail system. That train is meant to take people thirty miles to either downtown LA or the far reaches of Riverside to theoretical employment centers. But opening a small mom and pop business on the corner is illegal due to zoning regulations, the need for multiple off street parking spaces, and the fact that a cash strapped municipal government just subsidized some national chain big box stores in to the district in search of sales tax revenue which killed any chance of survival for local shopkeepers.
Lots of new construction and increased density are required to expand the supply of homes and make them more affordable in a region with a severe housing shortage. Except there isn't an "affordable housing crisis." Instead we've had a national economic policy that's consistently driven down real wages for the majority of the population for the last forty years and concentrated wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Those same policies have condensed access and opportunity to a small number of geographic hot spots and denuded all others. You can't fix that by building more condos. And let's not forget that a third of the space and cost of each new building is dedicated to parking two cars in their own snug living room.
The key to building a stronger town is cultivating dynamic household economies. Each home needs to generate wealth within its walls one way or another. And all the households need to sustain each other collectively in a fine grained interconnected web. Sounds hokey right? But that's exactly what Main Street was a hundred years ago. I'd like to say that converting all those thousands of two car garages into mom and pop grocery stores, studio apartments, medical clinics, and bicycle repair shops would be a positive first step for getting these places back to the solvent traditional urban pattern. How hard could it be to swap out the roll up doors? That was my whole point about highlighting urban agriculture. It's about getting back to primary local production and restarting the value added process right in the neighborhood.
But that's not going to happen. Instead, we're going to continue to do more of what we've been doing. And it's going to fail. Not tomorrow. Not next year. But eventually the whole big pile of overly leveraged 12,000 mile supply chain debt soaked tech extravaganza is going to break down and crash of its own dead weight. When we finally get back up and dust ourselves off we'll have no choice but to reinvent things. A century from now the most successful places will probably look a lot like the places that were successful a century ago. Everything else? Detroit.


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Churchill Downs Incorporated Secures $1 Million in On-Track Insurance Coverage for Jockeys Competing at Six Company Racetracks
Churchill Downs Incorporated ("CDI" or "Company") (NASDAQ: CHDN) has finalized agreements with AIG Insurance to provide $1 million in on-track insurance coverage for jockeys who compete at CDI racetracks located in states where jockeys, who are independent contractors, are not currently covered by workers' compensation programs.
The CDI-operated tracks now offering $1 million in on-track major medical coverage include Arlington Park, Calder Race Course, Churchill Downs, Ellis Park, Fair Grounds Race Course, and Hoosier Park. Jockeys competing at Hollywood Park, CDI's racetrack in the Los Angeles area, are already covered by California's workers' compensation program.
The increased major medical coverage, with $1 million in lifetime benefits, replaces the $100,000 in coverage CDI racetracks previously provided jockeys through an agreement with the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, a professional organization representing more than 40 North American racetracks. CDI will cover the majority of the cost for the new insurance premium and is working with horsemen's groups in Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Louisiana to set up funding mechanisms through which racehorse owners will contribute to the cost of the increased coverage. The funding mechanisms implemented may vary by state or racetrack. CDI's ability to offer $1 million in on-track coverage is contingent upon horsemen's participation.
"While racetracks do not employ jockeys, they are important contributors to our live racing product, and Churchill Downs Incorporated is committed to funding the lion's share of the cost for the $1 million in on-track coverage," said Andrew G. Skehan, executive vice president and chief operating officer. "This is an industry-wide issue that requires an industry-wide response, and we look to our horsemen to assist us in paying for the added cost of this increased coverage."
Churchill Downs Incorporated, headquartered in Louisville, Ky., owns and operates world-renowned horse racing venues throughout the United States. The Company's racetracks in California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana host 121 graded-stakes events and many of North America's most prestigious races, including the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks, Hollywood Gold Cup and Arlington Million. CDI racetracks have hosted nine Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships – more than any other North American racing company. CDI also owns off-track betting facilities and has interests in various television production, telecommunications and racing services companies that support CDI's network of simulcasting and racing operations. CDI trades on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol CHDN and can be found on the Internet at www.churchilldownsincorporated.com.


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A recent Gartner report identified the importance of the Cynefin framework for IT departments as a sense-making methodology, suggesting a significant market share by 2016. Cynefin is emerging as one of the main approaches to understanding complexity within the Agile community and provides a means to integrate, and understand the proper boundary conditions between methods and tools.
In this presentation the creator of the framework will give an overview of the framework and discuss its application. The presentation will include an outline of new micro-narrative based approaches to understanding user requirements and project monitoring.
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