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- £1,311 per week
- £187 per night
- 11 Guests
- 6 Bedrooms
- 5 Bathrooms
- No Pets
Beds & bedrooms
- Bed linen provided
- 3 king/super-king beds
- 1 double bed
- 3 single beds
- Washing machine
- Tumble dryer
- Dishwasher
- Freezer
- 5 WCs
- Towels provided
- En-suite bathroom
- Bath
- Shower
- Family friendly
- Cot
- Travel cot
- Highchair
Special Features
- WiFi
- Open fire or woodburner
- Welcome pack
- Countryside views
- Garden
- Barbecue
- Private parking
- Rural location
Nearby activities
- Walking
- Cycling
- Watersports
- Fishing
- Golf
- Pony trekking/horse riding
- Ground floor WC
- Ground floor bath/shower room
- Walk-in shower
Important - please note
House Rules
- Check in: 7:00pm
- Check out: 9:00am
This traditional farmhouse is set in stunning countryside and has been spectacularly restored to keep as many original features as possible and has a magical mix of the old and new. This Llanwrtyd Wells Holiday Cottage includes carvings on one of the beams that dates back to 1678 and several original pieces of antique and vintage furniture from when the house was a working farm. Sat on a hillside overlooking the valley and mountains this is a perfect property for a family trip , groups of friends or that special occasion. The area has many great outdoor activities with great mountain biking, cycling, walking , fishing and the tiny town of Llanwrtyd host many great events such as the Man vs Horse Marathon, Real Ale Wobble , Bog Snorkelling and Wife Carrying Race.
Ground Floor
Large kitchen with flagstone floor, fully equipped including fridge freezer, rangemaster 6 hob over cooker, dishwasher, microwave, toaster and table and chairs.
Large dining room with seating for 11. Traditional fireplace housing large wood burning stove. 1678 is marked on the wood above the fireplace giving a unique insight into the age of this property.
Lounge with TV, DVD.
Utility room with washing machine, tumble dryer.
Shower room with wc, sink and shower unit.
Hall leads on to a stunning original staircase that has been lovingly restored.
Upstairs - First Floor
Bedroom 1 - Double bed , with ensuite shower room.
Bedroom 2 - King size bed with ensuite shower room.
Bedroom 3 - twin bedroom.
Bedroom 4 -- single bedroom.
Master bathroom with bath and wc and sink.
Showeroom with shower unit, wc and sink.
Upstairs - Second Floor
Bedroom 5 - Huge attic space with king sized bed, leading on to a large landing space could be a reading room, or second lounge / play room and an ensuite shower room with shower unti wc and sink.
Bedroom 6 - King sized bedroom access via a separate staircase.
Front lawn area with table and chair to sit out and enjoy the spectacular views of the surrounding mountains.
Additional Information
- Heating and electric included
- All bed linen and hand / bath towels included
- Cot and high chair available, along with potty, plastic cutlery. Babysitting facilities available on request. (Please bring your own cot bedding)
- Strictly no pets or smoking allowed
- Wifi included
- Please note bedroom 6 is accessed via a steeper that usual stair case.
- First supply of logs included (additional logs available to purchase)
- Christmas tree and decorations included for Christmas and New Year bookings
- Complimentary welcome pack including essentials such as tea, coffee, milk and cakes
- Pick-up from local train station also available on request (advance notice required)
- Can be booked together with Llety Llanwrtyd to sleep 21 in total.
Beautiful house and really peaceful and beautiful surroundings. Plenty of room for our party of 11.
Recommend as a great place to stay and as a base to explore local area.


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String Of Pearls Indoor Plants
A plant with a distinctive and unusual appearance, string of pearls, also known as string of beads, is bound to be a conversation piece. Indoor plants with small, bright green, bead-like leaves that appear on long, slender stems, string of pearls are usually planted in hanging baskets where it had space to cascade freely. The string of pearls indoor plants grows well in bright light, including sunlight. You should provide this string of beads houseplant with average indoor temperatures (around 72 F./22 C.) throughout its active growth. During its dormancy, however, you'll need to provide cooler conditions, generally somewhere between 50 to 55 F. (10-13 C.). Give these indoor plants well-draining sandy soils, preferably the type most suitable for growing cacti and succulent plants. Pot your plant in a hanging basket so its trailing foliage can hang down.
As with most succulent plants, the string of beads indoor plants requires little care. This succulent plant is drought tolerant, surviving long periods without water. In fact, the plant's water-storing abilities allow it to be watered thoroughly one week and then pretty much forgotten the next week or two. Watering too often can increase the chances of root rot. So be sure to let the soil dry out at least half an inch or so between watering. In winter, cut back watering to about once monthly. Occasionally, you may find that pruning becomes necessary as part of your string of pearls care in order to maintain its size or appearance. This is simple to do.
String Of Pearls In The Hanging White Pot
The watering needs of string of pearls indoor plant vary with the season.
Hanging String Of Pearls Indoor Plants
When kept indoors, place the plant in a hanging basket, allowing its foliage to cascade over the edge of the basket. Its bead-like leaves are good to look at.
Green String Of Pearls Indoor Plants
The String of Pearls is a succulent plant that has a trailing or cascading habit. Its pearl-like foliage hangs on the string-like stems, hence the name.
Hanging String Of Pearls In The Pot
The string of beads houseplant makes an excellent conversation piece. Your family, friends, and neighbors will love it as much as you will.
Kitchen With String Of Pearls Indoor Plant
Place String of Pearls plants in average room temperatures. If the plant is placed indoors, make sure that the room temperature ranges between 55°F and 80°F.
Hanging Plastic Pot With String Of Pearls
String of pearls is a succulent, and like other succulent plants, it requires little maintenance to keep it happy and healthy.
Mounted Shelf With String Of Pearls Plant
String of pearls requires minimal hands-on care and will thrive despite neglect. It will live longer and look better, however, if given occasional attention.
Terracotta Pot With String Of Pearls
As with most succulents, string of pearls plant feeds lightly and rarely requires supplemental fertilizer.
Wall Pot With String Of Pearls
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Hello All
I'm looking for advice onpoint and shoot cameras. I'm looking for one with a faster lens than the Canon A620 that I use now. If the Canon A620 is pretty much state of the art for a fast lens, then just let me know and I will end my search right here.
What is driving this question is thatwith the A620 set to shutter priority of 1/125 second, I find that I still need a lot of light to use that shutter speed. I'd like to find a camera that gives me a little more exposure latitude, so that I can maintain the 1/125 shutter speed in early/late morning and late afternoon/early evening shooting conditions. I would be willing to forgo a zoom lens if that is necessary.
Any suggestions or advice you may have would be appreciated.
Unfortunately, I don't think they make them anymore (point and shoot digital cameras with fast lenses).
Lenses starting out at f/1.8 to f/2 used to be relatively common. But, unfortunately, the current crop of digital cameras tends to have lenses with a widest available aperture of around f/2.8 on their wide end.
So, I'd probably shop around for an entry level dSLR model with a bright prime (fixed focal length versus zoom) on it if you want something for low light use. That way, you could get a brighter lens and a higher usable ISO speed.
In a smaller point and shoot model, the Fuji F10/F11/F20/F30FD models do much better than most since they have higher usable ISO speeds. But, their lens starts out at f/2.8 and loses light from there as you zoom in.
While there are some P&S digicams with lenses whose maximum aperture is f/2.7, and even a few with f/2.6 lenses, the majority only do as well as f/2.8.
So if that's what you want, as JimC says, you might start looking at dSLRs.
As an alternative to fast primes, you might look at constant aperture zooms. Most inexpensive zoom lenses for dSLRs, as well as the zoom lenses in digicams, may have apertures like f/2.8at their shortest focal lengths, but the aperture gets smaller as the focal length gets longer. But there are some zoom lenses that have constant apertures throughout their zoom range. They may have a maximum aperture of f/2.8 at their shortest focal length, which would make them no better than the less expensive lenses, but as the focal length gets longer, the aperture stays constant, which means they are a lot brighter at those focal lengths.
Without going the dSLR route, you might want to consider one with optical or sensor (NOT digital) stabilization. Usually they're claimed to allow you to shoot at shutter speed 2-3 stops slower. So in your case you could shoot at 1/30 sec when you normally shot at 1/125 sec. Of course this doesn't help if your subject needs to be frozen with a fast shutter.
I use a Sigma 30mm EX F 1.4 lens on my Pentax K-100D, my Canon XT, and my NikonD-40 and D-50 and have had great results. I like the lens a lot and sometimes it can be rather easily found over on E-bay. I paid $309 for my most expensive one and less for the other two lenses.
Sarah Joyce
I had a similar question, since I was considering evenyually getting a more portable second camera (though I guess it would technically be a third, since I still have a semi-busted Olympus C740). I thought back to a camera I had seen someone at school with once. It was a little bit old, but every once in a while, someone makes an extraordinary camera that is undermarketed and doesn't sell, so it's phased out. I'm talking about the Olympus C3040, which has an f/1.8 lens which I believe goes to f/2.6 at full zoom. This is a stop and a half faster than anything else I've seen (i.e. than the standard f/2.8 ) As for quality, since I've never used one, I can't speak for that, but the Olympus I used performed well (though you should be advised that this model is only 3 or so megapixels, like mine was). The panorama software included by Olympus works well, as long as you follow the instructions, and the movie mode was crap. The manual controls were generally quite good, if you like to use full control.
I'm very grateful for the appearance of this message, zaphodchak. It's reminded me to look back at myold digicams. My3Mpix Olympus C3020Z, similar to the C3040, had an f/2.8 lens, and I sold it, good as it was.The lens was excellent, and crystal clear.
My next digicam, (the last but one), used heavily from Jun03 to Sep05, wasa 5Mpix Casio QV-5700, and that has an f/2.0-2.5 3x zoom lens. I still use it occasionally for its external flash sync socket and its up-to-5-shot exposure bracketing, but I'd completely forgotten its extra stop at wide aperture over its successors (Casio EX-Z750, Kodak Z712is).
It's a good thing I looked atthe 5700 again just now, to remind myself, because its ready-for-action AA batteries had got rather low, even though they're 'Hybrio' cells.They're being topped up right now. Thanks!Alkaline cells didn't last very well for that purpose even though they were just running the clock & other settings.
It seems that the trend among digicam manufacturers is to forgo fast lenses in favor of higher ISO settings, in the hope that the result will be the same. Of course, any increase in ISO results in a proportional increase in noise, especially with the smaller image sensors used in P&S digicams.
I think the digicam manufacturers have put the cart before the horse, in that, they've dropped the fast lenses before they've cleaned up the high ISO noise problem.
Yes, it's very unfortunate, but I can see where the big savings in manufacturing come from smaller (slower) lenses, and more dense pixel sensors. Maybe if there's enough education among the mass digital camera buyer market (more pixels is not always better), then the manufacturers will start catering to image quality and low-light performance (high ISO without noise)
Also Canon's earlier Powershot G series (up through G6, which was 7 megapixels) all had a maximum aperture of f/2.0 at wide angle. A G6 may well offer better image quality than the Olympus, though it may be more expensive. I think later G series Powershots moved to f/2.8 but added Image Stabilization which should more than make up for the half-stop difference.
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Natural Seduction For Men is a program designed to quickly and efficiently put a man into the right mental and emotional state for him to be able to naturally, comfortably, quickly and successfully seduce women he finds attractive into having sex with him through his natural style of seduction.
Since every man is different, has a different natural seduction style, and has a different level of skill with seducing women, results will vary to some degree, as will the definition of "quickly". However, when a man using this program encounters a woman who is compatible with his natural style of seduction, this program will make it vastly easier to seduce her into having sex with him in the short term.
The goal is to achieve the best possible mental and emotional state for successfully and comfortably sexually seducing attractive women. If you have ever noticed that sometimes you're "in the flow" and you can do no wrong, and seduction is almost effortless, and other times, it's a real struggle, you may have realized that the difference between those two cases is always down to two factors: your own mental and emotional state, and the woman you are dealing with.
This program will take care of the first one. The second one will rely on the compatibility between your communication style and seduction style and her communication style and preference for how to be seduced. Not every woman will need the same things, which is why not every woman will respond, regardless of how skilled you are with seduction.
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Happy New Year to all,
I hope your holidays were filled with many good things, especially the warmth and love of time spent with family and friends. What I treasure most about the holidays is the unique spirit of the season. It is a special, uplifting time when people seem to have more open minds and open hearts. I have resolved this year to try to hold on to this spirit as we enter a time of great uncertainty and change.
We have witnessed very strong reactions to last fall's election results. No matter how you feel about the outcome, as a healthcare professional, you must not disengage from the process. A new Congress has been sworn in, and we are at the eve of the inauguration of a new president. State legislatures are beginning their sessions and health care is at the top of everyone's agenda. There is much concern and uncertainty about the direction healthcare system reforms and changes will take. I am, however, very certain about one thing. As nurses and child healthcare professionals, we have an important message about what children need to grow and thrive and that message must be delivered with volume and force. There will be opportunities to influence the system in a positive way. If you think at this point that I need new glasses, preferably without the rose-colored lenses, please stay with me a few moments longer.
I have always been interested in the subject of change and have utilized various models of change to good effect during portions of my career. Lessons learned from the study of change, particularly The Change Theory of Nursing by Kurt Lewin, are particularly applicable in the current health policy environment. Lewin theorized a model of change consisting of three stages: unfreezing, change and refreezing. The process of initiating change entails creating the perception that a change is needed. A crisis is exposed or created such that staying where you are is not an option and doing nothing will result in disaster. The results of the past election have definitely created an unfrozen situation in health care. Though there certainly is some danger in the direction change may take in the current political environment, there is also increased opportunity to influence that change especially where child health policy is concerned.
In times of change, it is more likely that individuals and systems will be able to let go of old patterns and overcome prior influences. Also, it has almost always been possible to achieve bipartisan cooperation in enacting important legislation for children. Reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a prime example. Secondly, to take advantage of these dynamics, we must speak with one voice. We must courageously speak the truth about issues, policies and proposals that affect our children and present evidence to back what we say. We must maintain our credibility with policymakers on all sides of the political spectrum. We must be cautious and thoughtful and resist being drawn into hyper-partisan political warfare, but never shy away from presenting our positions.
Navigating this environment will require courage, skill and the knowledge and engagement of all our more than 8,500 members. I have a great deal of confidence in NAPNAP's health policy team and the ability of our organization to be a powerful and credible voice for America's children. In doing so we can take advantage of the current change environment to the benefit of our children and our ability to care for them as they need and deserve. I know one policy opportunity that is just around the corner. Although it seems like just yesterday, the most recent two-year reauthorization of CHIP expires this year and must be addressed by Congress in the coming months. I ask all of you to remain informed and engaged in NAPNAP's important policy work, both on the federal level and in monitoring and influencing the work of your state legislatures. Be sure to join our Feb. 1 Child Health Policy Learning Collaborative call to learn more about our next steps on CHIP. We also look to you to answer our calls to action in the coming months regarding child health priorities. Let's start the new year resolved to participate in our important advocacy work. We have an opportunity to make change work for us. Let's take it.
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TMEA - Region 22
8isit the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) website - http://www.tmea.org/ to join/renew membership, view audition selections, find information regarding the 2017-2019 TMEA All-State Convention and more.
Parent/booster organizations may register by clicking on the "Programs" tab and selecting "Boosters."
EPISD middle/high school students may participate in the All-Region audition process provided the entrance fees for the school and the individual students are paid by the respective entry deadlines via the campus choir director. Only high school students selected from the Area auditions in January participate in the TMEA All-State Convention held on February 13-16, 2019 in San Antonio, TX.
All students are encouraged to practice sight singing skills daily in addition to learning the assigned musical selections. Students must be members of the parent school organization to audition.
For more information - contact the Vocal Chairs:
NOTE: All choir directors should plan to assist in judging/assisting with auditions even if your school does not have students competing.
*Teachers need to contact Vocal Chairs for the Region Handbook that includes contract and other information for both middle & high school!
High School All-Region
Go to www.tmea.org and click on the "2018-2019" All-State Audition Material - Vocal" to view the selections and rehearsal notes. Selections with an (*) asterisk are for Area auditions. EPISD Fine Arts Library has music packets available...CD's will be ordered soon.
NOTE: EPISD is in Region 22 and in Area "A" when looking for information.
Important Dates (to be determined at the Spring meeting - May 2018)
NOTE: HS All-Region Contracts are due at the registration for contest!
Middle School All-Region
EPISD Fine Arts will be ordering music for the campus choir director to check out for his/her students wishing to audition. Notice of availability will be sent to the directors.
Directors: *CD is available at TMEA Fall meeting.
*HS - TBA - with contracts!
*MS - $15.00/student - with contracts!


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Helping ambitious female business leaders who are seeking more time, energy and confidence to be unstoppable. Heart of Human helps you dig deep not only to understand, but also leverage your power to make change happen.
Heart of Human was developed in recognition of the desire to live our best life.
Too often our fear of failure stops us from unleashing the magic inside us. We see others succeed and wonder what the secret is, often believing we don't have the same ingredients that they have.
The journey to following your heart isn't always easy but the satisfaction of a living a life in alignment to who you are is one that is always worth embarking on.
Heart of Human helps you discover that 'you've always had the power and that you just had to learn it for yourself'.
The programs, coaching and resources are dedicated to help you get clarity, clear obstacles and build confidence to become the best you can be and live a life that truly fulfils you.
Our best life and the ability to make change happen, for ourselves and others, lies at the intersection of passion & purpose, whole human wellbeing and courage & resilience.
If you are a business leader, research tells us that 70 percent of people (you/your team) are disengaged in their jobs and if you are a business entrepreneur, research tells us greater than 60 percent of businesses in Australia fail within the first three years.
To add to this research, 20 percent of Australians are reported to experience a mental illness in any one year and that number is increasing.
It's no co-incidence - chasing our dreams and creating meaningful change isn't easy.
This means that there are challenges you need to be able to deal with if you want to live your best life. To get clarity on the life you want, to discover what's needed, to dig deep, and overcome the hurdles you'll face.
I've learned that the key to your success lies in revealing your heart which gives you the power to create the life you want.
There's a process I've proven in aligning your desires, your capabilities and your vision, and it starts with my H.E.A.R.T.® framework.
Whether you are a leader in business or a business owner/entrepreneur you are 'Heart of Human'.
Sharing our heart truths is what connects our community and creates the power for change.
"When I first started my business I had no idea what I was letting myself in for, I had these big dreams but I found myself getting stuck until I began to understand how I was getting in my own way, I needed someone to show me what I couldn't see myself"
"I realised in my corporate life I was trying to fulfil someone else's dream rather than taking the time to really get to know who I was and what I wanted, I'm glad I realised what my path was and found the courage to move into the role I really wanted"
"Leading a team through a big change isn't easy and I wasn't sure how to get their buy-in to the change. I now see that I needed to really understand what they were individually passionate about and harness that energy to really lead the change. Some people realised they weren't in the right environment for them and that was okay."
"I'd never considered I'd be facing burnout doing something I loved but that's exactly what happened until I began to learn what it meant to manage my energy. I'm so much more effective in my role and I work less hours and get more done"
"I'm smiling now but it's been a really tough journey starting my business. There is so much nobody tells you about that you only find out when you're in it. I'm great at taking action but I didn't realise it wasn't the right action. I'm so glad I was able to talk with others about the struggle and learn how to navigate through"
"Getting clarity on my aspirations for my life and aligning them to my skills and talents has been the most effective way I've been able to succeed in my role. There were times I wanted to give up but now that I know what truly drives me I'm able to do what I'm good at knowing it's aligned to what I want"
"Talking about the possibility of failing is incredibly scary as I don't like to fail but I realised I was never going to succeed unless I was prepared to face my fears. The truth is we all have be ready to face our fears if we want to achieve our dreams, and the secret is knowing how to cultivate the resilience to get back up"
"When I got my first Managing Director role. I kept thinking people would find out I'm a fraud. I realise now that most people that find the courage to chase big dreams feel like an imposter at times and it's a good reminder that you're going in the right direction. What I've learned now is how to trust myself more"
Hearts of Humans
A selection of the heart centred humans that I've had the privilege of working with - Thank you


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I watched a Thomas Friedman – Discovery Channel – video on India and Outsourcing the other day and now this from Jeff Matthews. I love the way some people can look at the year and the events and give you some different angle and perspective
Thursday, December 29, 2005
The Business Story of the Year.
Parnell: Yo where's the movie playin'?
Samberg: Upper West Side, dude.
Parnell: Well let's hit up Yahoo Maps to find the dopest route.
Samberg: I prefer Mapquest—
Parnell: That's a good one too.
Samberg: Google Maps is the best!
Parnell: True dat!
Both: Double true!
Samberg: 68th and Broadway—
Parnell: Step on it, sucka…
—"Lazy Sunday" video from Saturday Night Live
The business story of 2005—if I may be so presumptuous as to declare it myself (and, since this is my blog, I will)—can, I think, be summed up quite neatly in the following URL:
That URL takes you to a web site called YouTube ("Broadcast yourself. Watch and share your videos worldwide!").
YouTube contains almost any kind of video you want to see—from Ashlee Simpson's lip synch unmasking on Saturday Night Live to OJ Simpson's car chase and the Beatles' final gig on a rooftop in London—and many you don't, particularly the bizarre and highly personal videos posted by individuals you'd rather not have your daughter bring home for dinner, if you catch my drift.
The video you will see at the above URL is a Saturday Night Live-sponsored "digital short," called "Lazy Sunday," and it shows two earnest young white Manhattan-ites rapping earnestly about going to see "The Chronicles of Narnia."
And for those of us who have failed to find anything funny coming out of Saturday Night Live since, oh, Eddie Murphy or Martin Short left, the video is hilarious.
What does a YouBet video have to do with the Business Story of the Year?
Well, it was created, produced, filmed, edited and uploaded digitally, very likely without the use of a single product from Microsoft. Furthermore, it was searched for and downloaded by hundreds of thousands of individuals likewise without the expenditure of a single dollar going to Microsoft.
Finally, and not surprisingly, not one of the products shown or rapped-about in "Lazy Sunday" mentions a Microsoft product.
Which is why, in the category of "Most significant business story of the year 2005," I nominate the undermining of Microsoft's monopoly by a band of mostly anonymous individuals who did it with nothing much more than ideas in their head and lines of code in their computers.
Which is, I think, pretty cool.
Jeff Matthews
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Use your jetpack and grenade launcher to keep your city safe from falling bombs in this frantic retro game!
Instructions: Use the mouse to play, your goal is to avoid the bombs while falling and collect balloons for ammo. When you're on the ground you'll need to shoot the incoming bombs in Missile Command style.
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Every day biscuits for small and large dogs
Enriched with calcium, vitamins and minerals. Probono biscuits also contain a blend of vitamins A, E and B group vitamins as well as magnesium, zinc and iron. Ingredients: wheat and whole wheat flour, beef meat & bone meal, bran, plant fats, non-lauric non -sucrose coating, vitamins & minerals, Tetra Potassium Pyrophosphate (tartar control agent).• Delicious, tail wagging biscuit treats for Small and Large doggies.
• Enriched with Calcium, Vitamins and Minerals.
• Helps control tartar for clean, healthy teeth.
• No artificial flavourants, colourants or preservatives.
Recommended by veterinarians.
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Las Vegas 2018 Real Estate - A Year in Review
Posted by Las Vegas Homes By Leslie - on Tuesday, February 12th, 2019 at 10:27am.
2018 was an interesting year for real estate in Las Vegas.
In 2017, the Las Vegas real estate market was in full recovery mode, climbing to heights we never predicted, and creating a robust sellers market. When the clock turned to 2018, the market started to level off, becoming more realistic and much more conducive to buyers. Home sales decreased somewhat, creating a more balanced market, and condo and townhome sales remained steady.
Las Vegas real estate across the board slowed down toward the end of 2018 with increasing home prices and predictions of interest rate hikes. This is the worst time to be sitting on the fence. If you see a home purchase in your near future, visit a bank or broker and lock in the best rate, now.
Las Vegas Single Family Home Sales Highlights
Current as of January 3, 2019. All data from Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® MLS. Report © 2018 ShowingTime.
Single family home sales have leveled off, creating more of a buyers market. Prices, however, continue to rise.
- New Listings: +4.8%
- Closed Sales: -8.1%
- Days on Market Until Sale: 31 days compared to 38 days in 2018
- Average Sales Price: +12.8% from $254,500 to $287,000
- Percent of List Price Received: 99%
Las Vegas Condo & Townhome Sales Highlights
Current as of January 3, 2019. All data from Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® MLS. Report © 2018 ShowingTime.
Unlike single family homes, in 2018 Las Vegas condo and townhome sales held steady with a large increase in new listings.
- New Listings: +19.5%
- Closed Sales: -.1%
- Days on Market Until Sale: 27 days compared to 31 days in 2018
- Average Sales Price: +20.8% from $138,712 to $167,574
- Percent of List Price Received: 98.7%
View our report on the Las Vegas Top 20 Master-Planned Communities in 2018
By Leslie Hoke
Las Vegas Homes By Leslie
8010 W Sahara Ave #150, Las Vegas, NV 89117
Direct: (702) 321-1763 Fax: (702) 224-2146
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The insurers, PetroVietnam Insurance Corporation (PVI), the Viet Nam National Aviation Insurance Company (VNI) and Bao Viet Insurance Company, will provide aviation insurance to the entire fleet of Vietnam Airlines, Jetstar Pacific Airlines and Vietnam Air Service Company for their worldwide flights.
The contract, signed on December 26, will also include aircraft body insurance and liability insurance for passengers, cargo and war risk.
General Director of Vietnam Airlines Pham Ngoc Minh shared that the co-operation between the VNA and the PVI–VNI–Bao Viet consortium will not only cater to the best interests of the participants but will also, and more importantly, provide safety precautions for the passengers.
"Along with the investment to develop the fleet and service quality to become one of the leading air firms in the region, the guarantee provided by three of Vietnam's prestigious insurers will give passengers more reasons to consider VNA as an option," explained Minh.
VNA became an official member of the SkyTeam Alliance on June 10, 2010. It is also the first representative of the alliance in Southeast Asia. The firm has more than 300 flights per day, with 96 air routes to 21 domestic destinations and 29 international destinations.
The firm has a fleet of 82 modern planes, which include the Boeing 777, Airbus A330 and Airbus A321. It aims to expand the fleet by acquiring technologically advanced planes such as the Airbus A350XWB and Boeing 787-9. — VNS


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Juan Manuel Barrientos Valencia – known in the gastronomic world as Juanma – is a Colombian chef, entrepreneur, and most importantly, an advocate of peace. He is the creator and founder of the El Cielo restaurants and the El Cielo Foundation. He has taken his cuisine to areas of major conflict in Colombia and through his cooking has been able to start a process of forgiveness and reconciliation within his country. We had the honor of spending some time with this incredibly inspiring man who has revolutionized traditional Colombian cuisine and has a schedule so packed it made our heads spin.
At age 34 you have been named one of the 50 best chefs of Latin America as well as Young Leader of Peace in Latin America, which title do you wear more proudly?
"It depends really, I think both. If we're talking about food and cooking, being named one of the best chefs in Latin America is just amazing for your CV. Three years in a row I have been the youngest chef in Latin America to make the 50 Best list and my first restaurant in Medellin – El Cielo – has actually been recognized as a tourist destination. We were deemed so essential to the city that they made us an actual site to see. I'm very proud of all of that, but I've also been recognized by several foundations world wide as an entrepreneur working for peace. I have been invited by president Obama and the White House as a panelist of the global entrepreneurship summit – an event that took place at Stanford University – to speak about Cooking Peace, the main project of my foundation. Last year I even received the order of Democracy Simon Bolivar on behalf of the restaurant and our foundation, in the degree Cross Commander. It was given by the House of Representatives of the Colombian senate for our invaluable contribution in creating peace through the culinary craft. We were recognized as a clear example of how civil society can lead initiatives that represent a positive advancement in our country's key issues; in how cuisine and gastronomy can transform adverse conditions in a society, even beyond its range of action. That's huge to me and goes far beyond any personal gain."
How exactly does your El Cielo Foundation 'cook peace' in Colombia?
"We train wounded soldiers who have been mutilated by land mines or in combat, former guerrillas and ex-paramilitaries in cooking and the other areas that make up a kitchen, in the hope that they will overcome their adversities and gain the tools necessary to create a new life. Also, so they can reconcile and forgive their former enemies. In the ten years that we have been active we've become an inclusive organization, where – in addition to working with soldiers and former guerrillas – we also train wives of kidnapped soldiers, victims of violence, peasants and indigenous people who have been forced to leave their places of origin. Throughout these years more than three hundred people have been trained under our supervision. Thirty percent of our El Cielo restaurants' annual profits are donated to support these projects and we are the first in Colombia to work with both sides of the fence. Most foundations in Colombia either work for people who have left the army, victims or indigenous people, but we are the first in sixty years to work with everyone and who show our work to the world; who show that peace can be accomplished. Right now this is a relatively safe thing to do, however six years ago during the war it was very dangerous. But, we did it and thankfully we've been successful at it. We've been recognized by the president of Colombia, the minister of defense, by the army, the police – actually, the police in Colombia honored me at their 125th anniversary as one of fifty heroes in law enforcement history, civilian or police. That was a very big honor."
What led you to become an activist?
"My mother is not a religious person, her way of teaching me about God was through meditation and social work. Through sharing with others. When I was nine and all my classmates were going to church to prepare for their first communions, I spent my time doing social work and I donated the money my parents would've otherwise spent on my party to a family who didn't have any money to rebuild their house. It was then that I understood the power of spirituality, the power of helping people and of giving back. It changed my life, it became my religion. The very first month I opened El Cielo I had deaf people working in my kitchen, as well as wounded soldiers. Three years later we started working with indigenous people and victims as well. Then a year later we invited surrendered guerrillas and ex-FARC military. Now, everyone is working together."
Born and raised in?
"Medellin, Colombia. But my family lived in exile in London for a while when I was seven years old. My father was a respected lawyer in Colombia and the mafia was after him. So, we had to escape. I also lived in Houston, Texas for a while and when I started cooking I moved to Buenos Aires for three years and to Spain after that. When I came back to Colombia I opened up El Cielo in Medellín, now we also have locations in Bogotá and Miami as well."
You live between the three places?
"I do, but I go to about twelve countries each year and am on roughly a hundred and fifty flights."
The airlines must love you!
"[Laughs] They do, but I sometimes lose track of where I am. For instance, right now it's Friday and I arrived in Miami last night, then after the weekend I fly to Medellin, where I arrive at one in the morning and get picked up to go to another city at four. So, I have about two hours to sleep and re-pack my bags … It can get a little crazy."
Do your wife and daughter travel with you?
"On the longer trips they do, but on trips like these when I'm only gone for three or five days, I go alone. It's easier and better for the baby. But, when we go overseas, when I get invited to Paris or Madrid or the Caribbean for example, we all go and I try to add a few days for us to spend some time together and rest up a bit."
We already know what your father did, how about your mother?
"My father was a lawyer but he now works in commodities actually. He has his own company and sells paper, starch, cardboard, plastic; any kind of packaging material. Before I started El Cielo I worked as a manager at his company, now my father works with me as well. We have businesses within the company – bottled water, coffee, chocolate – and my father manages all of them. My mother was home with us when I was growing up and now handles all the HR for my businesses. We have about two hundred employees world wide and she makes sure they're all happy. We've become quite the family company actually. Both my sisters work with me as well, one of them runs our catering division and the other manages our so called 'innovation'. For this year alone we needed to create about five hundred new recipes, my sister helps me with that. We work together, but I am the one who creates and she's the one who creates order."
How did you become a chef?
"I had been working with my father as of age sixteen and I was very happy doing so. I kind of decided to study cooking just for fun really and because of this I didn't really take culinary school all that serious. So, I ended up getting kicked out. After that I decided it was time for something else and I took off to Buenos Aires to work with Japanese chef Iwao Komiyama, an amazing learning experience. When my time there was up I headed to Spain to work with Juan Mari Arzak. I told my parents I was taking a sabbatical and went to work in these amazing restaurants, as a hobby really, but when I came back to Colombia and I was still working for my father – I continued working for him while I was away – I realized I loved cooking way more than I thought. So, I opened El Cielo. Initially I started it as a side business, I thought I'd just cook a bit at night while working for my father's company during the day. Basically I was pulling eighteen hour days: I would go to my father's office at eight in the morning, scoured the markets during lunch to buy all my provisions for dinner service, then back to the office and around four or five in the afternoon go to the restaurant to cook until two in the morning. After a while I realized I was really hooked on the restaurant life and, so, I told my father I quit and I started focussing solely on El Cielo. Ten years later it still feels like a hobby."
If you hadn't become a chef, do you think you'd still be working at your father's company?
"Yes, I really enjoyed it. But, I also think I'd be doing a lot of social work. I'm very pro-environment and I'd probably be doing something to raise environmental awareness. Actually, the end of this year we're going to start teaching kids about nutrition via a plant based foods program. We want them to learn how to feed their bodies with the right foods that are super nutritional and at the same time have minimal impact on the environment."
Do you feel that becoming a father has something to do with this new project?
"Yes, for sure, everything. When my wife and I started practicing to become parents [smiles] I actually cut red meat out of my diet. Because I am a chef I felt I had to know more about the impact food has on our bodies. Eventually, I ended up eating mostly vegan. I'm still a chef, so of course I have to eat meat every now and then and I still enjoy it very much, but I have reduced about ninety-five percent of my meat consumption. My daughter is raised completely vegan, the only exception we make in her diet is for organic chicken eggs, but other than that she eats no animal products and neither does my wife."
Has this way of eating impacted your menus in your restaurants?
"Yes and no. Yes, because my menus are my essence and I definitely turned them into healthier menus. No, because my goal in each restaurant is different. For example, in El Cielo we want to deliver an experience to the senses, that's the goal, and I'm still and always will be faithful to that goal. So, I will use what I have to in order to achieve that goal. But, I have reduced the use of dairy and red meat in El Cielo significantly. That allowed me to think in more healthier ways for my other restaurants as well. For example, I own a pizzeria and we used to offer just regular pizzas. Very gastronomic pizzas with amazing ingredients, but just the regular ones that have gluten, dairy, etcetera. Now, we also offer gluten free and vegan options and that opened a lot of doors for me. I'm actually opening a health food restaurant in Medellin right now. Really healthy food served in a really cool environment."
Are the Colombians ready for this?
"Absolutely. I think the idea of first and third world countries is no longer relevant. In every country you can get really good food, íf you can afford it. It doesn't matter if you're in Paris or in Bogotá, all that matters is you having money in your pocket. There are no tiers of countries anymore, there are just tiers of equality. Medellín was named Most Innovative City in the world one year ago and the city has actually won the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize two times. Of course we have poverty but ninety-nine percent of the people in Medellín have access to public services and if you are poor you won't be charged for them. We're well ahead of the curve compared to some other countries that are considered first world."
What do you think is the biggest misconception about Colombian food out there?
"I don't think there is a misconception about Colombian food, I just think people don't really know what Colombian food is. If we're talking about Peruvian food, the misconception could be that it's just ceviche, right? Yet, this is far from true because they have so many other amazing dishes. If we're talking Mexican food we can think it's just tacos, which is not true because if you go to Mexico there are a hundred thousand different plates to choose from. The thing about Colombia is that no one can even name one plate. This – and my social activism – is what I want to accomplish with my restaurants and my food, I would like to show the world what Colombian cuisine is. Bring it to the world so people can actually get to know it."
Guilty food pleasure?
"Ice cream."
Dairy free?
"No, no, with dairy ánd sugar. I've cut down my intake of white sugar as well – it's so bad for you and the environment – but ice cream is just different [laughs]. It for sure is my guilty pleasure. And, even though I know I have an amazing pizzeria, every Sunday I have to eat Papa Johns or Dominos. Don't ask me why."
What has been your favorite dish you've ever made?
"I did a pork rib with Tamarind sauce and Atollado rice – Colombian risotto – with cumin, vegetables, an apple foam and onions in vinegar. It's comfort food but it's so good. I've also made a dessert out of a ciabatta bread once. I took all the flavors of raw ciabatta – like the sourdough and the acidity of the yeast – and made seven different textures out of them, including an ice cream with a ciabatta cracker. I guess you could compare it most to cookie dough ice cream, but then ciabatta dough. Really fun. I also really liked my white onion soup with white chocolate nitro rocks. Sweet and savory, cold and hot, crunchy and creamy."
What advice would you give a starting chef?
"Dedicate yourself. This is not just for young chefs, I think it goes for all millennials. I'm not a millennial, I was raised more generation X or even Baby Boom. My parents would not give me an allowance when I was growing up, I received a salary when I started working after school and if I didn't go to work, I wouldn't have any money. Nowadays people are used to being congratulated just for showing up somewhere. Best example, back in the day when you would run a marathon only the first three to finish would receive a medal. Nowadays everyone who participates gets one, even the ones who finish last, and it has created this unrealistic expectancy in people. We expect praise just for doing something. People are no longer taught to commit and it creates this counterproductive short-term thinking. Many millennials start working and after six months feel they need – or deserve – a new experience. But, six months at a company won't teach you anything, yet there is no one telling them that. Instead they're being told that life is short and you should chase your dreams. But even though life is short, accomplishments take time and commitment. My grandfather's father died at age thirty five, my grandfather at age ninety, so his life expectancy tripled in one generation. Even if the world goes fast, you now – hopefully – have ninety years to accomplish something. This means you can actually think long-term and you shouldn't change course every three months, because the only thing that's going to leave you with five years from now is a CV worth nothing. Your CV will hold nothing of substance. At the restaurant we call them jumpers, kids who come in saying they've already worked in ten different places at age twenty three, thinking this is a great accomplishment. If you come to me with a resume like that, I don't want you. I don't care if you've been in the best kitchens in the world, if you're staying only three months I can't do anything with or for you. But if you've had your own hotdog stand in the streets of New York for ten years and you come in for a job, I will teach you everything you need to know and I will give you that job. So, my advice would be: commit to what you love. It's worth it."
What's next?
"So much. This year I'm actually opening seven new restaurants … A few new locations of my pizzeria; the health food concept; another fine dining restaurant; a club and a mixology concept. In September I'm also organizing a food festival in my city and we're building a small luxury El Cielo Hotel in Medellín right now – which I'd love to turn into a chain of hotels. Then in October my book on entrepreneurship comes out as well, for people who want to start their own businesses."
You're a busy man!
"[Laughs] Yes, I work a lot. But I enjoy life and I enjoy what I do, so even if I travel for work, I still get to travel. My main goal is to be a restaurateur and a social advocate, all while enjoying everything life has to offer. I think I'm doing well so far."
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The boys (and girls) of summer weren't kind to Atlantic City casinos, which saw their collective August gaming revenue fall 4.8% to $298.1m. Slots take was down 2.6% to $219.5m, while table games tumbled 10.5% to $78.6m. Unlike their Nevada regulatory counterparts, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement doesn't break out its table revenue tally into specific games, so we have no idea whether AC was similarly undone by a VIP baccarat whale's hot streak. For the year to date, AC's gaming revenue is down 8.9% to $1.97b, putting AC on track for its first sub-$3b annual haul in over two decades.
Just three casinos posted revenue gains in August, with the market-leading Borgata up 13.3% to $62.6m, Resorts Atlantic City up 11.6% to $14.6m and the struggling Revel up 2.2% to $20.4m. The rest were all in negative territory, with Caesars Entertainment's generally reliable Harrah's off the most, down 18% to $32.9m thanks to a 50.2% decline in slots revenue. The Tropicana's slots take was off even more (63.5%), pushing its total haul down 17.8% to $21.4m. The rest of the laggards scored thusly: Caesars ($27.7m, -0.8%), Trump Taj Mahal ($26.6m, -15.5%), Bally's ($26m, -9.3%), Showboat ($19.6m, -9.5%), Atlantic Club ($14.5m, -1.7%), Golden Nugget ($12.5m, -4.3%) and the Trump Plaza bringing up the rear ($8.8m, -17.2%).
Since misery loves company, AC should take some solace in that it's not the only gaming jurisdiction suffering the end of summer blahs. In OHIO, the Casino Control Commission reported total revenue from the state's four casinos was $70.9m, down 1.6% from July and down 15.9% from March, the first month in which all four facilities were open for business. All three facilities that were open in August 2012 reported year-on-year declines, including a 17.2% decline at Caesars' Horseshoe Cleveland and an 8.9% drop at Hollywood Toledo.
In MICHIGAN, the three Detroit-area casinos saw August's combined revenue fall 3.5% year-on-year to $112.9m, with MotorCity's 1.5% gain not enough to offset declines of 4.8% and 7.7% respectively at MGM and Greektown. For the year to date, Detroit's gaming hall revenue is down 4.5%.
In MISSOURI, five of the six St. Louis-area casinos posted revenue declines in August, leading to a collective 4% decline year-on-year to $89.2m. Only Pinnacle Entertainment's River City posted improved revenue, and only by 2% to $18.2m. This is the 12th straight month the state's gaming joints have seen overall revenues fall.
In ILLINOIS, the operators of the state's riverboat casinos think they have the answer to falling revenue: two more hours per day. At present, Illinois' floating casinos are required to close for two hours per day, but the Illinois Gaming Board will hear arguments as to why this practice should end at its next meeting in Chicago on September 19. Perhaps Atlantic City could find a way to switch to a 26-hour clock or something.


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Yesterday I attended the Vancouver DTES Annnual Women's Housing March, which demanded social housing, not condos for the old Pantages Theatre demolition site. A post-march Block Party was also scheduled in support of affordable housing, but the Eastside community was in no mood for celebrating. The previous night, Verna Simard was thrown from a sixth-floor window of the nearby Regent Hotel. Simard's death marked almost a year to the day since Ashley Machiskinic, another Aboriginal woman and resident of the Regent, suffered the same fate. Incredibly, the Vancouver Police Department ruled Machinskinic's death a suicide, despite several eyewitnesses who observed a pair of shoes follow her out the window a minute later.
This is the context in which a Vancouver cop has decided to launch a new blog, "Eastside Stories: Diary of a Vancouver Beat Cop." The blog, penned by Constable Steve Addison, features photos of women shooting heroin on the street, homeless men sleeping on benches and brags about busting drug dealers a block away from InSite.
Addison admits that he does not ask permission of his subjects before he photographs them, claiming that "Words really don't express a lot of what goes on down here" and defending his choice because technically, "if someone is in public, he or she is allowed to be photographed." No word on how much choice a woman sleeping on the sidewalk has when it comes to being "in public."
I'm reminded of Pamela Masik's controversial art exhibit, grotesquely titled "The Forgotten," which was due to exhibit at UBC's Museum of Anthropology earlier this year, but was pulled when residents of the DTES vehemently objected. Masik's series of 69 enormous eight-by-ten-foot canvasses portrayed the missing and murdered women of the DTES with crass and clumsy embellishments such as meat-packaging cellophane placed overtop one of the portraits. Another portrait represented a murdered Aboriginal woman with her head bleeding into a bucket. Even more disturbing, Masik's source material for most of the women was police mugshots -- so the legacy Masik hoped to create from these women (as what? A warning? A lesson?) was based on images of them after arrest, often intoxicated or otherwise compromised.
Like Addison's blog, the audience of these works is not the residents of the DTES, who not only know personally the individuals represented in this exploitative way, but live daily under the same threats and risks which face the subjects. Addison claims that "There's a tremendous appetite in the public to know what's going on down here," but fails to include the voices of those living that reality. Instead, his blog relies on tired sensationalistic and anti-poor tropes appealing to bourgeois affectation -- he even publishes a poem by a homeless youth to tug at our heartstrings. This technique both serves to further marginalize the DTES residents by portraying them as caricatures rather than as fully formed human beings, and also channels Vancouver condo-king Bob Rennie's daring refrain of gentrification, "Do you have what it takes to live in the Downtown Eastside?"
As long as the VPD continues to look the other way while DTES women are tossed out of sixth-story windows, this vibrant and autonomous community don't need a Beat Cop to tell them how the VPD criminalizes and polices the city's most vulnerable and most marginalized people.
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NIX Nodes
Switch to Manual Mode
Here, it will ask you for an IP address. An easy way to get one is from a block explorer such as https://chainz.cryptoid.info/nix/#!network. Find a latest version node and click on the "node list" button. You may need to attempt a re-sync once again.
Once sync'd and you've completed any sends you want to do, you will probably want to get back to the NIX Nodes section and switch back to Automatic Mode, as there is no guarantee the node you manually added will remain online forever.
If for whatever reason you are unable to get your mobile wallet to work properly, or perhaps your device is destroyed/lost/stolen and you want to use the funds but don't yet have another device to restore to, you can easily import your seed phrase into an electrum-nix desktop wallet.
Begin by downloading the Electrum-NIX wallet for your Operating System from the NIX website or directly from GitHub. After you've installed it, open it and:
Select File, New/Recover (or skip to #2 if you've just installed electrum-nix for the first time)
Give your wallet a name (Mobile Wallet might be an obvious choice)
Select "Standard wallet"
Select "I already have a seed"
Enter your 12 words and then click on the Options button and select "BIP39 seed"
Select "legacy (p2pkh)"
Change the derivation path to: m/0'
If you wish to keep this wallet installed, you should probably encrypt it when prompted to do so.
You will now have access to your NIX mobile wallet using Electrum-NIX. From here, you can send them anywhere you like.
Once you've emptied your wallet/sent whatever funds you want to send, you can either keep the wallet for future use (encryption recommended), or delete it using File, Delete.


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NOTE: The code snippets for this Community Guide are provided at the end of this document.
This guide shows you how to implement an HTTP triggered Azure Function that provides a simple Chat Server prototype. It implements an HTTP triggered Azure Function that receives a new text string as input from the web client and then writes that text string to an Azure Storage Table. It then collects all the existing text strings that have accumulated up to that point in that table and sends them all back as a one concatenated string back to the client. If multiple clients hit this Azure Function, everyone will see all the text messages that have been submitted by all client apps up to that point in time.
This is a simple starter prototype that focuses on triggers and bindings, and we only demonstrate its operation within the Azure Functions page in the Azure Portal. You can develop it further on your own to work with an actual web browser app or a mobile device app on the client side. To do it properly, you would need to return a text string that formats all the text messages from the table into an actual HTML5 fragment, such as list items in an ordered list element or as rows in a table element. You would also want to create the necessary client-side code to interact with this Azure Function and display the results, perhaps using something like jQuery. However, this is outside the scope of this guide. In this example, we only return a simple new-line delimited list of concatenated text messages that we view in the Azure Functions Output panel in the Azure Portal.
1.Create an HTTP triggered Azure Function, and edit the code in the Run.csx file, as shown at the end of this document.
2.Define the required triggers and bindings for this Azure Function in the function.json file, as shown at the end of this document.
3.In the Azure Functions page on the Azure Portal, go to the HTTP method menu in the upper right, and select the POST option.
4.For the Request body, provide the following JSON encoded data:
"message": "Azure"
5.Click the Run button, and you should see "Azure\n" appear in the Output panel.
6.Click the Run button again, and you should see "Azure\nAzure\n" appear in the Output panel.
7.If you change the text in the JSON object's message property, you will see that text string ends up within the text displayed in the Output panel as well. The order is somewhat out of sequence, but that can be fixed by sorting the items by timestamp rather than just calling the ToList directly on the table contents – a LINQ query can be used to accomplish this. But we are just keeping the example super simple here to focus on triggers and bindings.
The Run function receives the following parameters:
•HttpRequestMessage req
•ICollector<MyMessageEntity> outputTable
•IQueryable<MyMessageEntity> inputTable
•TraceWriter log
The req parameter provides the input from the HTTP trigger that contains a new text message string to be added to the table. The outputTable parameter provides the output binding to the table where we write the new text message. The inputTable parameter provides the input from the same table from which we read all existing messages. Other clients may have added more messages recently.
We call the ReadAsAsync method to read the HTTP request message body content as input. We then extract the message from the message body, and we call the Add method to add it to the table by way of the outputTable parameter.
Finally, we iterate over all the existing messages in the table using the inputTable parameter and build up a concatenated string named concatenatedMessages. The result is then sent back to the client by calling the CreateResponse method.
The function.json file defines the following bindings:
An input HTTP trigger binding named req that only supports the POST HTTP method.
An output HTTP binding named named $return.
An input table binding named inputTable that binds to a table named MyMessageTable.
An output table binding named outputTable that binds to a table named MyMessageTable.
NOTE: The connection string is shown as "AzureWebJobsStorage", but this may be changed to any storage account that you have available.
This community guide has described a simple code example where input and output bindings can be used to implement a simple prototype that can be developed further into a fully functional Chat Server that could be used in a collaborative web app.
// Run.csx
#r "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage"
using System.Net;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table;
public static async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Run(HttpRequestMessage req, ICollector<MyMessageEntity> outputTable, IQueryable<MyMessageEntity> inputTable, TraceWriter log)
// Get request body
dynamic data = await req.Content.ReadAsAsync<object>();
// Set name to query string or body data
string message = data?.message;
// add message to table
new MyMessageEntity() {
PartitionKey = "My Message Entities",
RowKey = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
Message = message
// get concatenated string containing all messages in table seperated by new lines
string concatenatedMessages = "";
foreach (MyMessageEntity messageEntity in inputTable.ToList())
concatenatedMessages += messageEntity.Message + "\n";
// return HTTP response containing concatenated string containing all messages
return message == null
? req.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, "Please pass a message in the request body")
: req.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, concatenatedMessages);
public class MyMessageEntity : TableEntity
public string Message { get; set; }
"bindings": [
"authLevel": "function",
"name": "req",
"type": "httpTrigger",
"direction": "in",
"methods": [
"name": "$return",
"type": "http",
"direction": "out"
"type": "table",
"name": "outputTable",
"tableName": "MyMessageTable",
"connection": "AzureWebJobsStorage",
"direction": "out"
"type": "table",
"name": "inputTable",
"tableName": "MyMessageTable",
"take": 50,
"connection": "AzureWebJobsStorage",
"direction": "in"
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So on with the next part: last time we found out that a half-giant with little to no magical expertise could break through the Fidelius Charm of a heavily protected house to retrieve a one year-old child, which came to be regarded as the saviour of the world later on by a select group of people known as wizards.
Based on everything that I have learned in the Harry Potter series about the Fidelius Charm, the retrieval of Harry should not have been possible. In theory, you can destroy everything on the inside of the Fidelius Charms range. But that will not alter anything that happens outside that perimeter and will not change the nature of the secret that is kept. Say that, for example, I decided to Fidelius my own house and to confide that secret to only one person, then, apart from me, only one other person would know that the house was still there. The rest of the world would remain at large of where the house is or whether it even exists. Let's say that I then decided to ignite several kilograms of TNT inside the house. Please note: the surrounding would have adapted to non-initiated persons to be completely normal, except perhaps for a missing house number. If my Fideliused house would be gone thereafter, nobody would know it isn't there anymore except me and that person, and none of the surroundings would be affected by that explosion of TNT. For any other person, the street should therefore still stand as it always did. I would be able to go and see what happened inside the house, and so would the secret keeper, but the Fidelius would not expand to others.
As long as I don't get to know who was confided into the household of James and Lily Potter, I will consider the retrieval of Harry by Hagrid a massive plot hole, bigger than the house left in the street after Voldemort blew it to smithereens in his botched killing attempt. Which nobody seems to have spotted either, so far.
As soon as Sirius Black knows what has happened, he goes after secret keeper Peter Pettigrew. Peter fakes his own death and blows up the street around him as a ruse to get away from Sirius. Seconds later the aurors (which are whatever passes for a wizarding police force and peacekeeping army) show up. Naturally Sirius is apprehended and taken into custody. However, he never gets a trial. In the third book it is recounted how this all ended.
In 1993, it seems to be common knowledge amongst the higher echelons of society and the Hogwart teaching staff that the Fidelius was involved in the protection of the Potters. Before that, at least Dumbledore, Sirius, Peter, James and Lily would have known that the Fidelius was involved. Any attempts by the ministry to locate the Potters after the vanquishing of Voldemort would have shown their searches to be fruitless, as they were in Godric's Hollow, Potter Manor, and stayed there.
One can argue that Snape was amongst the circle of initiated, but he will be discounted for his hate of Sirius for now, in spite of what the 8th movie shows.
Only the death of the secret keeper transfers the responsibility thereof to the circle of those knowing the location. The secret keeper never died though and there is no known procedure to cancel it. So, for all clarity, the Fidelius was still in effect. Blacks innocence on the betrayal of the Potters could clearly be proven after asking him to divulge the location of Potter Manor. (Assuming of course that the Potters are of high enough a standing to have a manor.) The sodding idiots in Azkaban or the ministry never did. They would have little reason, but Dumbledore or any other person knowing where Potter Manor is could tell you that Peter Pettigrew logically betrayed the Potters because he was the only person capable of doing so. If you would have asked Sirius to tell where Potter manor is, he might not have been able to tell you and this would have given the indication that the secret keeper is still alive.
As all wizards seem to know each other, it is possible to discern the social circle of James and Lily to see who could visit the manor and who could not. If Sirius did not betray the Potters, you might want to reconsider the possibility that Sirius didn't blow up the street, or at least change the circumstances to allow for excessive violence against the betrayer. It is very easy to find out that Sirius is innocent, as I may have hinted at. Let me spell it out for you: the connection between Sirius and James falls just short of them marrying one another. Their friendship is really strong. It is known that Sirius loathed the dabbling into the Dark Arts of his family. He did enough to distance himself from his family, and his family did enough to have never considered Sirius a member of the family ever since. Joining Voldemort's cause therefore seems to be unlikely, lest he had a change of mind. Voldemort was taking over, so you could doubt his allegiance to the non-dark side.
However, his character is only a minor aspect. As soon as Voldemort had vanquished, everyone in the wizarding world knew of it in no time. Perhaps even within hours, as the very same night showed falling stars on account of mr. Diggle celebrating the downfall of the Dark Lord. Information travels very fast apparently. Now everyone also seemed to know the Potters had something to do with it. As is normal for humans, they immediately swarmed ground zero, the place where it all happened. As it is under a Fidelius Charm, everyone outside of their circle would have noticed that the manor couldn't be located or even accessed. If they could not have been found, it would have become clear that the Potters did not wish to be found and had taken several measures to prevent localization of their manor. One of these measures was the Fidelius Charm, known to several people, including the supreme mugwump himself. As nobody could enter Potter Manor or even find it, Dumbledore could have happily concluded that the secret keeper was still alive. Those capable of entering Potter manor knew that Pettigrew was the Secret Keeper.
So either the Dark Lord broke through the Fidelius by unknown means, or he got the information from Pettigrew. Dumbledore therefore should have known that Peter is responsible for their betrayal, or that some measures regarding the Fidelius Charm had to be taken to ensure better protection against future dark lords.
As soon as Sirius was apprehended and thrown into Azkaban, Dumbledore would have known about this because of his position in the Wizengamot and general position as a beacon against darkness. He was a respected man by that time. Dumbledore should therefore have been one of the first people to be able to declare the innocence of Sirius Black, Remus would probably have been a close second one, and any other person close enough to James and Lily to be on visiting terms would have known as well, as they still would not have been able to disclose the location of Potter Manor to anyone else. Sirius seems to have been big news back then.
You can all see where this is going. Feel free to further speculate about wizarding stupidity and their lack of knowledge about right and wrong and ponder what would have happened if your childhood dream of being a wizard in the world of Harry Potter is still an as merry dream as you thought it was…
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Emily Belson is a senior in the School of Foreign Service majoring in Regional and Comparative Studies in the Middle East. She has focused on women's rights and gender equality in the Middle East, and her ISD research will study sexual violence used by terrorist organizations in conflict zones. She studied abroad in Amman, Jordan, and has worked as a research assistant for the Georgetown Institute for the Study of International Migration.
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Matt Ellison is a senior in the School of Foreign Service studying international politics with a concentration in international security, and is completing an ISD Certificate in Diplomatic Studies. His research with ISD will analyze the recent thaw in US-Cuban relations, with a focus on the history of the negotiation process and the contemporary effects on and within Cuba. Matt has contributed to nuclear security research at the Stimson Center and spent the summer of 2017 as a fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. As an SFS undergraduate Matt has served as assistant director of Georgetown's International Relations Institute for high school students, and as a member of the board of the Georgetown International Relations Association.
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Daniella Montemarano is a second-year MSFS candidate studying international conflict resolution and multitrack diplomacy under the Global Politics and Security concentration. Daniella specializes in transitional justice; stabilization operations; the rule of law; and gender, peace, and security. Prior to joining MSFS, Daniella led peacebuilding projects in West and Southern Africa and the United States, addressing issues like women's political participation in rural Cameroon and post-conflict reconciliation within the Liberian diaspora community. Her recent work includes electoral violence analysis at the US Department of State and trial monitoring at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Daniella served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana (2012- 2015) and holds an honors B.A. in History and Political Science from New York University. Her ISD research project aims to develop a cross-regional model for insurgency-related Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) operations in the Horn of Africa and the Lake Chad Basin.
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The scenario creator on my computer I can click maximize also
the mouse hover on the edges show it "could" expand but it neither expands
nor maximizes.
It remains a small window. 640x480?
When scrolling through the region settings under the "regions" tab this is very annoying and unpractical to
get to see the overview of regional settings if I can't maximize-expand the window.
For that reason I use notepad++ which isn't optimal either but still better than the Scenario Creator 2 since
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