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Rental Property Defects–Tenant Rights in New JerseySeptember 7, 2016
Every rental property in New Jersey comes with an implied warranty of habitability. This warranty cannot be waived and exists even if there is no written lease. At least that much is clear. What is more difficult to establish in the turbulent "he said, she said" dialogue of landlord-tenant disputes is what conditions render a…Read More >>
Holiday Hosting–What could possibly go wrong?November 10, 2015
We are coming up on the best time of year, the Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays. Family, food, fun. Few people (other than personal injury attorneys) think about some of the hazards that inevitably crop up. Thankfully rare, they do, nonetheless, occur, from exploding turkey fryer's to trip and falls, to serving too much alcohol. My monthly newsletter…Read More >>
Dangerous products in your homeSeptember 9, 2015
Lurking in your closets, under your sink, in your laundry room Thousands of people, mostly kids, are sickened every year. Here are the facts: protect yourself and your family: http://letamericaknow.com/view_newsletter_ysk.php?memberid=22152&orderid=656&newsletterid=283&issueid=1510&subscriberid=448160
Are Doctors more dangerous than guns?August 10, 2015
Doctors are generally put on a pedestal, and this country treats them as honored members of the society, worthy of respect. We assume they are hard-working and noble. Of course many doctors are. However, no individual is perfect, and in any large collection of individuals, in whatever profession, there are those who simply aren't competent…Read More >>
The Truth About Car InsuranceAugust 5, 2015
Insurance is the one thing we buy which we hope we will never use. After all, who wants to be injured or be in an accident. But we have to have it, both because the law requires car insurance and to protect us and our families. Consumer Reports September 2015 issue has a wonderful article…Read More >>
Is your Surgeon competent?July 15, 2015
A major public interest organization has put together a scorecard to assist patients in determining the quality of their surgeon. Before you agreed to surgery, a second opinion is always warranted except in the most dire of emergencies. Equally important, check out your surgeon to find out if he of she is competent. If someone…Read More >>
Should You Form an LLC for Your Investment PropertyFebruary 6, 2015
by Christopher K. Costa, Esq. Many clients have come to our office seeking to "protect" themselves and their assets by putting their investment real estate into a limited liability company ("LLC"). These clients have ranged from sophisticated investors who seek to create multiple layers of LLCs for a portfolio of investment properties to couples who are…Read More >>
Slow Ride: Housing's Recovery Taking a Breather – Housing Mercer County, NJNovember 26, 2014
Housing Mercer County, NJ By Liz Ann Sonders- June 2, 2014 – www.schwab.com After a sharp recovery off the post-bubble low in housing, many of the key indicators have stalled. Housing has been historically considered a key driver of the US economy. But starting in the early 1990s, the relationship began to weaken. Housing was…Read More >>
Chris Costa will be a featured speaker at the National Business Institute CLE seminar "Handling Real Estate Transactions with Confidence"November 24, 2014
Located at the Holiday Inn Princeton, 100 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540. The presentation will cover commercial loan documentation and closing procedures. For more information: please click here.


text: Just learned about this charity, Cybersmile, that deals with cyber bullying. Would love to see something done with this cause as I have seen what cyber bullying can do to people. Plus I think since we're an internet community that bands together and does good for the world, we set a good example of how the internet can be used for good and it's kind of fitting.

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Less is more for global construction provider
23 August 2012
Rider Levett Bucknall, one of the world's largest construction companies has selected a range of InTechnology's managed network, data and exchange services to deliver more services for less.
Harrogate-based InTechnology now provides the firm with a portfolio of Cloud-based services including virtual server hosting for the entire EMEA element of its global data, over 8TB capacity of its managed backup service and a managed exchange delivered as a bespoke Software as a Service (SaaS).
Mark Evans, IT manager at Rider Levett Bucknall said: "The whole firm relied upon our existing BT NetEquip service - unfortunately, it was slow, out-of-date and in need of replacement. We needed to deliver more services and efficiency with less resource, money and waste.
"Even though it would require a fundamental change to our infrastructure, I was convinced that moving to a private MPLS network was the right approach. As InTechnology's resilient private network offered 64 times better bandwidth and a 50% reduction in cost in comparison with the existing BT offering, it didn't take long to convince the board that InTechnology's was the right solution."
"The business and technical account management is the best I've ever dealt with and way beyond what other companies - including IBM and Microsoft - can offer. It's not just about technology; it's about the people."
Evans elaborates that one of the firm's key criteria was an enthusiastic account management team that would buy into and support its objectives: "The business and technical account management is the best I've ever dealt with and way beyond what other companies - including IBM and Microsoft - can offer. It's not just about technology; it's about the people."
Stefan Haase of InTechnology added: "By introducing virtual server hosting, managed backup and managed exchanged services, Rider Levett Bucknall has used the Cloud to help it deliver more services efficiently and effectively to its network of over 100 offices and 2,800 staff.
"It is benefitting from the scalability and the flexibility the firm needs to meet its business and IT requirements with the enhanced security and peace of mind that our own highly resilient MPLS network can deliver."
Evans concluded: "We now view our service as a crème de la crème solution that meets our requirements and provides increased resilience and flexibility - I know exactly where my data is, I know it's safe and I can even visit it if I want to!"


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However, to begin, I want to wish everyone, every single one of you, a joyous, happy, and healthy Easter. I don't care what your religious preference is, I want everyone to have a wonderful day today! If you are Christian and celebrate this sacred day, may you feel Jesus within you and have a blessed day.
Now for the main point...
It is the month of March. March is more than just the third month of the year, complete with Ides, St. Patty's and occasionally Easter, it is also Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. However, NO ONE seems to realize the impact that colorectal cancer has on people with inflammatory bowel disease. I've seen just about everyone talk/post/tweet about how age correlates with the disease, or even IBS (don't get me started), but not a peep (Easter pun?) on Crohn's and Colitis and their excruciatingly increased risks of such cancers. Having IBD can increase your risk of colon cancer by more than 5 times that of the normal population, but I guess no one is counting.
Why...why is that?


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France to impose new tax on luxury hotel rooms
Submitted by Michael Wukoschitz on 26 September, 2011 - 17:35
On 7 September 2011, the French National Assembly has adopted a finance bill which includes a new 2% tax on hotel stays where rates exceed EUR 200 per night. The bill is subject to ratification by the French Senate. Once ratified the new tax shall be due as from 1 November 2011.


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When dist-upgrading Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 UpdateManager asked to enter a "new" user password for MySQL. I denied 3 times. This asking was put misleadingly. I better should have entered a user password for me for the »MyQSL« privilege system, as I know now.
Now my database »mysql« > table »user« does not shows a password entry for me. I can do most administrative tasks on my MySQL database though. I feel that this is a security gap. I'd like closing it.
I entered a password. But now I cannot access my MySQL server through my LibreOffice Base frontend any more: "Access denied." How to rconcile both requirements?


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Friday, March 24, 2017
Coffee Brake: Return of the Left Handed Spanner
Mostly I've cooked eggs and sausages and the like, which slowly sizzle. But greens simmer in ham stock (which boils down to give us the magic of pot likker), and water near the boiling point is much more responsive to small changes in heat input. Which is how induction burners modulate the temperature setting.
Basically, they are binary, either on or off. So my greens kept going from wildly boiling to just sitting there, with varying cycle times as I reduced the setting. ^^^^^^^^ to ^_____^_____ .
Microwave ovens, I have noticed, do the same thing. Defrost cycle is full for a few seconds and then your frozen chicken just sits and spins for a while. I guess I understand this makes empirical sense, but I can't shake the notion these digital cookers are wasting my time.
The greens came out fine, objectively, but I was irritated by the process, which subverted my usual sense of carefully tending the situation.
A couple of days earlier, Vince had pinged me to relate a story about the (my) Roadmaster. Like many 90s cars, it has a resistor buried in the key, the value of which has to match what's wired into the column. There are maybe a dozen different resistances possible, with the theory this adds a complication to delay a would-be thief. With enough time it would be defeatable, but if you're trying to steal a Roadmaster in a hurry, you'd be borked.
This system is prone to failure as things get loosey-goosey over the decades. Vince had been experiencing intermittent warnings, which come with a 3-minute delay when triggered. Anyone who has met Vince knows that's plenty of time for him to write up several DT posts, re-lace his boxing boots, wax the Mustang, and also FaceTime me, which he did.
How to bypass it? At this fairly late date, the notion of anyone stealing a Roadmaster seems un-bloody-likely. He dug into it and found out he could wire the required resistance right into the lock mechanism. Total cost, about 12 cents. Total time, about 3 minutes. Excellent return on the marginal cost.
Try to do that (or whatever the approximate modern equivalent might be) with anything made in this century.
Which reminds me of the puzzled question I got a while back from a friend who had recently bought a 2007-ish 5-series. He was looking for the dipstick to check the oil. Couldn't find it. Since I am barely engaged with the modern world, I was like, whaaat? But sure enough, there isn't one. The car is smarter than you.
Looping back around to the binary cooker, it reminds me of a story you've probably heard about famous car guy Neil Young (who I believe is involved with music in some way). He is well known for detesting the loss of musical data inherent in common mass market low-bitrate audio formats. Neil is reported to have said something like: "If analog music is like being bathed in a warm mist of water, digital is like being blasted by a spray of tiny perfect ice cubes."
I wouldn't like that.
I don't like my induction hotplate and am really glad we opted for a semi-pro old school gas blaster. Over the summer, I think I might build a wood-fired brick oven out in the side yard. I've seen plans for a tandoor made from a couple of flowerpots, a steel trash can and a bag of vermiculite that gets to 900 degrees on 10 charcoal briquettes.
I don't like my friend's hands-off BMW. I do like the (my) Roadmaster and so does Vince. I knew it would grow on him.
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Roadmaster. A vehicle which always lived up to its name. The most perfect hauler of people, dogs, cats, beer kegs, car parts and junk ever made.ReplyDeleteReplies
hauler is right - my pal with the E39 M5 would sometimes swap me for the weekend so he could pick up a driveshaft or quarter panel for one of his historic rally cars - good deal for both of us - the Roadmaster is only 3 auto gears, but with NorCal coastal traffic it was rare i'd get to shift more than that in the M5, such a beastDelete
My head spins with the articulateness of your descriptions with less of an idea of what you actually said. Clearly I have a problem. On the matter of the dipstick-less Beemer, the other half possesses one also. Absolutely asinine. Trust the idiot light on the dash............right. Dipsticks fer sure.ReplyDelete
- BuickFanMarch 26, 2017 at 9:44 PM
I think this speaks to a larger problem in society today, the acceptance that everything is disposable. Companies are motivated (and financially rewarded) for making things so complex you are forced to pay them to fix it, and for making them fail in a relatively short period of time. After all, why should they want to make a car you can enjoy for 60 years if they can make one that falls apart in 10 and forces you to buy another? And since most Americans are convinced they need shiny new things, nobody bothers to question it. Except DT, which is one of many reasons I love this website. Keep up the good work.ReplyDeleteReplies
not only replace/repair, but basic maintenance pwned by the manufacturer - see:Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware - basically John Deere has DRM-ed the entire environmentDelete
...a farmer and right-to-repair advocate in Nebraska, told me. "You want to replace a transmission and you take it to an independent mechanic -- he can put in the new transmission but the tractor can't drive out of the shop. Deere charges $230, plus $130 an hour for a technician to drive out and plug a connector into their USB port to authorize the part." "What you've got is technicians running around here with cracked Ukrainian John Deere software that they bought off the black market," he added.
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I have to admit, I wasn't ever a big Harry James fan. Mostly, as it turns out, I hadn't heard enough of his stuff. Thanks to Christian Bossert (Switzerland), I found myself searching high and low for more!
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Count Basie is beloved by all, and for me he was my first love. Finding Jumpin' At The Woodside (1938) early in my dance career, Basie was all I wanted to dance to. However, as I matured as a dancer … Read More
I am asked all the time for more great beginner balboa tracks. And as much as I don't necessarily think balboa music can be defined narrower than "classic big band swing" I do find some tracks at lower tempos easier … Read More
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If you only read the industry blogs, you'd think marketing automation was old-hat for B2B marketers. But in reality, most of us are still learning. The tools and the strategy that drive marketing automation are evolving every year.
Just take a look around you to see how much the landscape is changing. With more people immersed in their devices, apps, and online experiences, the where and how of meeting customers continues to shift.
Here are six marketing automation predictions to help you prepare for the challenges ahead and succeed in 2017.
1. Customer Loyalty Will Be the Focus
According to research by eMakerter, digital marketers are planning to allocate more of their budgets to customer loyalty in 2017. Why? Just open your Instagram app to see how the influencer approach to marketing has impacted the landscape already. In 2017, a focus on retention will make all customers micro-influencers, whose loyalty to brands will promote purchases among their networks in a ripple effect of influence. Marketing automation programs in the coming year will need to support loyalty programs that go beyond "buy two, get one free." The loyalty programs of the future need to be personalized and part of a multichannel experience, so that no matter where your customer is interacting with your brand, they will be recognized as VIPs.
2. The Machines Will Rise
Well, at least machine learning will. Machine learning can sound intimidating at first, but it boils down to using data to predict behavior patterns and alter your automation accordingly. Think of it like an A/B test where the winner isn't fixed, but fluid. With machine learning, brands can detect at a deeper level how customers will behave based on their previous interactions, firmographic data, and other factors. Using that information, the marketing automation software of 2017 will be able to serve buyers with content and offers it has predicted will lead to a conversion.
3. Social Media Will Go Beyond Surface-Level
From Facebook Live to Instagram Stories, social media is becoming increasingly present in its users' lives. In 2016, we saw the rise of advertising on Instagram. In 2017, the platform intends to roll out even deeper conversion points — for example, the ability to click on items in images and make a purchase in-app. With so much purchasing power moving to social networks, it will become an even more important source for data. The best marketing automation software will provide native integrations with all major networks and add interaction data directly to customer profiles — perhaps even as a factor in lead scoring. That's a lot more useful than a long list of likes.
4. Bots Will Play Their Part
Amazon Alexa is an excellent example of how bots are playing an impactful role in the connection between brands and buyers. In addition to providing answers about the weather and conducting Internet searches, Alexa serves its owners with Amazon's best deals of the day, tailored to their interests. Bots like Alexa (as well as messenger bots like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger) will need to be integrated into automation systems in 2017.
They not only save time by helping answer customer questions, but they can also gather information and create one more point for marketing automation to engage with relevant content.
5. Stronger Focus on Accounts
Lead generation is still the engine of B2B marketing, but it has its weaknesses — high volume, low quality, low conversion rates, etc. Account-based marketing (ABM) is quickly proving its value as a strategy for engaging more directly with target accounts and investing effort where it's likely to pay off. According to a study by SiriusDecisions, 58 percent of B2B companies already have a pilot program in place.
The marketing automation platforms of the near future will evolve to accommodate these new strategies, adding ABM software features like personalized retargeting, advanced segmentation rules, and dynamic web content to their stack, or integrating with third-party providers that already offer these features.
6. Experiences Will Take Priority
More than ever before, buyers are wary of the sales pitch. They no longer want to know just what a product does; they want to understand why they should bring it into their lives. Experiential marketing is key to answering that question, and marketing automation in 2017 may explore more outlets for this — everything from VR to in-person interactions, and events. Taking automation offline will certainly be a change from the hyper-digital focus of recent years, but will be essential to standing out, particularly among a younger, more skeptical audience.
Over to you
No matter what trends surface, the most important thing to keep in mind is that your audience is unique. Use your marketing automation platform to meet them where they, with what they're looking for, and you'll be set up for a successful new year. What are your plans for 2017? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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After taking engagement photos for Matt + Amber on their visit to the Ozarks, I knew their destination wedding at Big Cedar would be nothing short of beautiful and fun. We started our time together taking precious photos of Amber and her mom in the lodge as she got ready for her first look with her dad then her groom. Even though they were surrounded by all of their closest family and friends, their gaze went back to each other all throughout the day. The new Garden Chapel at Big Cedar Lodge was a breath-taking setting for their ceremony and full of the most perfect light. After lots of sweet moments together, dancing, and capturing all the details of the day, Matt + Amber were ushered into their new life together through a tunnel of sparklers. Enjoy all of these beautiful moments from their most memorable day!
Cake: Big Cedar Lodge
Catering: Big Cedar Lodge
DJ: Complete Music (Springfield, MO)
Tuxes/suits: John Pickens (Shreveport, LA)
Hair: Katelyn Jones – W3 Salon (Springfield, MO)
Jewelry: Kenneth Jay Lane – Nolte's Bridal (Overland Park, KS)
Make Up: Tabitha Headley – W3 Salon (Springfield, MO)
Coordinator: Julia Paschke – Big Cedar Lodge


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I keep meaning to post this Necronomicox link and forgetting. Probably NSFW, but so much fun. Via Warren Ellis, of course.
- Hee! Thanks for the link :) Not sure I'd want one for myself...
- I won't be buying one but I am tickled that they exist.
- Aren't they made to 'tickle'?
- That is not the phraseology I'd use to describe their purpose.
- that's just not right... seriously.


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Lenox Coffee Opens On 129th Street/
Listen up Harlem! A new specialty coffee shop, Lenox Coffee, just opened up this week! Located at 60 West 129th Street, is a new small coffeehouse that also offers breakfast items like pastries, bagels, and baked goods.
Opened by Aaron Baird and Jeff Green, who were college roommates at the New England Conservatory in Boston, found themselves back in New York, both living for some time in Harlem. Both shared a love for coffee and wanted to open a coffeehouse for a while, so when the opportunity presented itself in form of a space on Lenox Avenue, they didn't hesitate.
The shop itself has a rustic, old world charm-very comfortable with dark woods, redbrick walls, tin ceilings, decorative column, and school house lights. It's perfect for spending an afternoon on your laptop or just reading a book while lounging on their leather chesterfield couch, while you enjoy one of their specialty chai lattes.
Owners Aaron and Jeff plan to soon host community events, like poetry readings and open mic nights, so stay tuned for that. Â Lenox Coffee is open seven days a week, 6am to 6pm Monday through Friday and 8am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday.
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Take part in one of our events
Join our Junior Dragonflies at the Junior Great North Run for 9-16 year olds
The Dragonfly Run is a fantastic way to encourage pupils to take up running, as well as enjoying a great (and messy) day out!
Hold a Dragonfly Day
Registration per class (max 30 pupils): £10.00
Register your school or nursery to receive your Dragonfly Day pack which includes all the information and materials needed to hold your own Dragonfly Day.
Each pack includes information about Dragonfly Cancer Trust and can be tied in with any lessons you may be planning around nature, charities or PHSE lessons on the world we live in, depending on the age group taking part.
Materials are provided so that each pupil can decorate their own dragonfly peg to take home and hang up to remind them to be happy every day. Each pupil then collects donations to bring back into school to add to your school's fundraising efforts.


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The Amazar Pulp and Saw Mill (APSM) – the single most controversial forestry project in Siberia
Chinese Version via link: 俄罗斯造纸项目考验绿色"一带一路"
One quarter of 214 million m3 of wood harvested in Russia is exported to China. In Asian Russia most logging is driven by signals from Chinese market. Facing growing demand for wood and shortages in domestic supply, Chinese authorities are pushing for greater imports from Russia, ignoring the fact that its neighbour will cease to be a reliable supplier within a decade. On the website …
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A glimpse of hope for Siberian forests
Two different events in Russia and China may mean the beginning of the end for the Amazar Pulp and Saw Mill Project pursued by Heilongjiang Xingbang Company in Zabaikalsky Province of Russia.
In late March 2018 Greenpeace received an official reply from President's Administration to a letter sent in late January. The reply lists among preconditions for completion of the Amazar Mill some of very familiar arguments that the RwB raised for years such as:
– need to update EIA and expand it to assess …
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WE are celebrating 10-years of the project "Conservation of Threatened and Migratory Birds in the Erguna (Argun)-Midflow Transboundary Wetland, China/Russia" supported by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) in 2007. This project, invented by Australian conservationist Daniel Hanisch as follow-up to his lonely guardianship of Erguna Wetlands Nature Reserve in Hulunbuir, spurred development of the "Save the Argun!" – the ancestor of this RwB's web-site and started many long-lasting partnerships. See below an article written by Claire Salisbury, CLP to celebrate World Heritage site listing.
Over a decade of research, …
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Report on biodiversity, water scarcity, and transboundary river basin management in fluctuating climate.
Rivers without Boundaries Coalition continues documenting and analyzing transboundary basins of Dauria, hotspot of global biodiversity divided between China , Russia and Mongolia and not well known by the international community. New report is focusing on water resources management in Kherlen\Kelulun River transboundary basin to promote climate adaptation, ecosystem-based river basin management approach, strategic environmental assessment of development options related in water management in transboundary river basins of Dauria. Kherlen was selected as extreme example of discrepancy …
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The topic for the book with such teasing title was selected due to outstanding flood that took place on transboundary Amur River in summer and autumn of 2013 and need to explore feasible options for integrated flood management jointly implemented by Russia and China.
Now, as in September 2016 the "Lionrock" typhoon again brought havoc to villages and towns of the Far East and helpless management agencies instead of concerted action started are again discussing "flood-prevention hydropower", we should remove brackets in the book title: "Lessons Unlearned". But our …
Argun River, Baikal Lake, Kherlen River, Mongolian Great Lakes, Onon River, Selenga River, Uldz River »
Sukhgerel Dugersuren (OT Watch and RwB Mongolia cooperated with the Front Line Defenders to prepare a chapter of the forthcoming nonfiction graphic novel about human rights defenders challenging extractive industries around the world. We republish it with kind permission of Sukhgerel.
Mongolia is a new star on the extractive industry's stage. Being brand new means it does not have the necessary legal framework, norms and standards aimed at protecting the environment and the rights of local communities.
The World Bank leads a team of international financial institutions, namely the International Financial …


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A whole range of facial aesthetic treatments are now available at W5 Dental.
You can book a FREE facial aesthetics consultation with Dr Kishan Raichura to discuss your options.
Visit us on our 16th November Open Evening (5 – 9pm) and you'll also benefit from 20% discount on any facial treatment booked.
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In 1976, Yamaha released the first of the CP series stage pianos. These 'electric grands' became instant classics with their authentic sound and live performance convenience. Thirty years later, Yamaha celebrates those milestone keyboards by unveiling the latest and greatest in the CP series: the new CP300. Drawing on Yamaha's rich tradition and experience, the CP300 gives the live performer all the sound and expressiveness of a superbly mic'd grand piano with the portability and versatility of a modern digital instrument.
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Steve Brooks became New Zealand's youngest real estate agent when he started selling houses at 15 while still at Christchurch Boys' High School.
Brooks, now 25, bought his first property at 16 for $89,000 and sold it for $145,000 six months later.
At 18, he started his first business, Brooks Homes Ltd.
He then started My Refund, the South Island's first tax-refund company, and watched it grow from zero to 80 staff in 12 months.
He added a few businesses to his list, including My Body, My Bar, My Will and My Accountant.
He started Rebuild Me in 2012 to cater for homeowners who have opted out of Earthquake Commission work.
The company was formed "to fill a need" and was growing quickly, he said.
Brooks has had his own issues since the earthquakes, with Western Pacific, the insurer of some of his 20-odd properties, going into liquidation in April 2011.
However, the quakes created a "lot of room for new ideas, innovation and great businesses".
The rebuild would "make so many millionaires" because of the opportunities in Christchurch, he said. "It won't just be the construction industry that benefits. It will have a flow-on effect.
"If the construction guys are doing well, then they might choose to upgrade their car, and the guy who sells cars might invest some of that extra money, and so on and so on."
Brooks said he had a goal to be a self-made millionaire at 19. He achieved that goal at 19.
"I work hard, really hard, and I just try to think of ideas to fill a gap that I might see. It's in my blood, I think."
The city urgently needed more housing to keep up with returning residents, workers or people moving to Christchurch because it was the place to be, he said.
Brooks hoped to start a scheme for young entrepreneurs in Christchurch because he felt there was a a gap.
"I would have liked something like that to be available when I was still at school," he said.


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During the foreclosure process, can a bank come after you for anything or is the house the only collateral?
Against all advice my friend is foreclosing. Can the bank sue or take legal action against you for anything for other belongings (cars, boats, garnished wages, etc). The house is not worth as much as he owes on the mortgage anymore.
In this case, it all depends on the state and the type of loan which is issued to the borrower. If the loan is a non-recourse loan, then the loan company cannot collect on the difference. Therefore, if the house is sold at 100K and there is still a difference of 25K, the lender cannot go after the borrower anymore because technically, the borrower do not owe anything since it has already been settled. However, if it is a recourse loan, the company will have every right to collect for the difference. The banks can also sue your friend for as assets in order to satisfy the debt that your friend owes, as well as the losses incurred by the company. However, they cannot do this if your assets are protected by bankruptcy. An example of a recourse loan would be a HELOC or a Home Equity Line of Credit. If your friend has this kind of loan, the the lender can seek your friend in order to recover the difference. In order for you to understand this situation fully, you must contact a real estate attorney. This way, you will be able to learn whether or not you need to pay the difference after the sale of your property.


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Wondering which way Alamo Fire smoke will blow? The answer may not be so simple
Esteemed Tribune photographer and columnist David Middlecamp made an inquisitive observation Friday afternoon in regard to his coverage of the Alamo Fire northeast of Santa Maria.
"It was interesting to feel the wind at my back at ground level from the ocean and see smoke from the top of 3,000-foot Los Coaches Mountain blowing the opposite way toward Nipomo at Alamo Fire on Friday," he said.
Middlecamp and others have written me asking about this phenomenon. Not only can you see it occurring with smoke, but also subtropical moisture that arrives from the south and cold fronts from the northwest. In other words, cold fronts along the Central Coast often move in from the northwest despite the surface winds coming out of the southeast. It's believed that Ben Franklin may have been the first person to understand that weather systems move in a different direction than surface winds might indicate. He was probably the first person to hypothesize the existence of the jet stream.
So why does this happen? As Bob Dylan would say, "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind."
Nature never likes anything out of balance, and air will naturally flow from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure. When that happens, it's called the wind. The eastward rotation of the Earth on its axis deflects the moving air away from its initial course in the free atmosphere or planetary boundary layer. This layer lies above the frictional influence of the Earth's surface. The apparent force responsible for turning the wind flow is called the Coriolis Effect.
At the earth's surface, friction with lakes, oceans, trees, buildings, canyons and mountains reduces the wind speed, which in turn decreases the Coriolis Effect, resulting in greater differences in wind velocities from those higher in the sky. Friction also causes turbulence, which can lead to even greater differences from the upper-level winds. To make matters more complex, areas of high pressure will cause air to sink downward, while low-pressure systems will cause the air to rise in the atmosphere.
Another layer completely is the fact that these giant fires can generate their own weather, producing mushroom-cloud-like formations called pyrocumulus clouds — which occurred with the Alamo Fire. Heat from a wildfire or volcano causes the air to rise in the atmosphere because it's less dense, in much the same way a hot air balloon raises. As the air rises into the sky, it cools to the point that water vapor condenses to form visible clouds. Air rising inside the cloud can trigger thunderstorms and gusty and unpredictable winds that can be life threatening, especially for firefighters. These convective storms can contain areas of organized rotation a few miles up in the atmosphere. Under the right conditions, these thunderstorms can spin out tornadoes, which occurred in April 1926 when the Tank Farm Fire in San Luis Obispo erupted.
A rough average height of the free atmosphere for much of the Central Coast is a few thousand feet, depending upon the surface topography. Smoke, ash and embers from extremely hot wildfires can rise miles up, which can be transported for hundreds of miles depending on the atmospheric stability.
So how can you predict which way the smoke will blow?
Every morning, the 30th Weather Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base launches weather balloons with tiny transmitters called radiosondes. As the weather balloon climbs through the atmosphere, its transmitter broadcasts back to the receiving station readings on temperature, dew point temperature, pressure and GPS coordinates for the winds.
When they reach 100,000 feet, the balloons expand to more than 40 feet in diameter, and by 110,000 feet they usually rupture. When they pop, the radiosonde — about the size of a milk carton — comes floating back to earth on a small parachute. When hiking in some of our more remote areas, it's not uncommon to come across one of these little white radiosondes.
The wind and other atmospheric data from these weather balloons can be viewed on the website of the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles/Oxnard at www.wrh.noaa.gov/lox on the "Upper Air" tab.
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The digital era has created unprecedented opportunities to conduct business and deliver services over the Internet. Nevertheless, as organizations collect, store, process and exchange large volumes of information in the course of addressing these opportunities, they face increasing challenges in the areas of data security, maintaining data privacy and meeting related compliance obligations.
Forward-looking organizations are recognizing the need for a holistic approach to meet these challenges. In this context, "holistic" means an approach that enables the organization to address the following three objectives in a unified, cross-disciplinary way, rather than as three separate problems to be addressed by different groups within the organization:
Such an approach requires cooperation among the IT, human resources, legal and finance departments as well as business groups and the marketing department—in short, any group with a stake in collecting, processing, using and managing personally identifiable information (PII), intellectual property, trade secrets and other types of confidential information.
It is important to point out that the proposed approach to data governance for security, privacy, confidentiality and compliance does not call for modifying or replacing the organization's existing information security management systems or IT governance processes. Rather, it augments them by specifying additional roles, tasks and technical tools that can help organizations better protect data privacy and security and satisfy compliance obligations.
This article presents an overview of the Data Governance for Privacy, Confidentiality and Compliance (DGPC) framework developed by Microsoft to assist organizations in creating a data governance program that addresses all three objectives in a holistic manner.1 In particular, this discussion focuses on the risk management portion of the DGPC framework.
IT professionals may ask why they would want to employ yet another framework if they already have a successful IT governance process, a well-established control framework and an effective information security management system to meet their security needs and compliance obligations. There are two reasons for this:
The DGPC framework works in concert with the organization's existing IT management and control frameworks, such as COBIT, and with security standards such as ISO/IEC 27001/27002 and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). To the author's knowledge, no other existing industry framework provides this combination of benefits and integration.
The DGPC framework is organized around three core capability areas: people, process and technology. This section briefly summarizes the first two areas and offers a more detailed look at the technology-related considerations that are integral to threat identification and risk management.
PeopleData governance processes and tools are only as effective as the people who use and manage them. An important first step is to establish a DGPC team that consists of individuals from within the organization and give them clearly defined roles and responsibilities, adequate resources to perform their required duties, and clear guidance on the overall data governance objectives. Essentially, this is a virtual organization whose members are collectively responsible for defining principles, policies and procedures that govern key aspects of data classification, protection, use and management. These individuals—commonly known as "data stewards"—also typically develop the organization's access control profiles, determine what constitutes a policy-compliant use of data, establish data breach notification procedures and escalation paths, and oversee other related data management areas.
ProcessWith the right people involved in the DGPC effort, the organization can focus on defining the processes involved. This begins with examining various authority documents (statutes, regulations, standards, and company policies and strategy documents) that spell out requirements that must be met. Understanding how these legal mandates, organizational policies and strategic objectives intersect will help the organization consolidate its business and compliance data requirements (including data quality metrics and business rules) into a harmonized set.
The next step is to define guiding principles and policies that generate the appropriate context in which to meet these requirements. Last, the organization should identify threats against data security, privacy and compliance in the context of specific data flows; analyze the related risks; and determine appropriate control objectives and control activities.
TechnologyMicrosoft has developed an approach to analyze specific data flows and identify residual, flow-specific risks that may not be addressed by the information security management system's and/or the control framework's broader protective measures. This approach involves filling out a form called the Risk/ Gap Analysis Matrix, which is built around three elements: the information life cycle, four technology domains, and the organization's data privacy and confidentiality principles. The following sections explain these concepts and discuss how they come together in the Risk/Gap Analysis Matrix.
Information Life CycleTo identify residual risks and select appropriate technical measures and activities to protect confidential data, an organization must first understand how information flows throughout its systems over time and how the information is accessed and processed at different stages—by multiple applications and people and for various purposes. Figure 1 illustrates this concept of the information life cycle. Understanding the risks within each life-cycle stage helps clarify what safeguards are needed to mitigate those risks.
Most IT professionals are well acquainted with these life-cycle stages, so discussing them in detail here is not necessary, except for one important facet: the need to include a transfer stage.
As data are copied or removed from storage as part of a transfer, a new information life cycle begins. Organizations should place as much emphasis on security and privacy for data that are being transferred as they do for the original data set. This requires understanding transfer vehicles—such as private networks, the Internet and storage media sent by courier—and their inherent risks. For example, media sent by courier or postal mail can be lost or stolen, so measures such as encryption should be taken to protect the data on those media. Data security also requires understanding how the recipient organization's policies, systems and practices differ from those of the current keepers of the data. If the recipient does not have the same security capabilities and processes as the current keepers of the data, protections may need to be placed on the data or the process before transfer.
Other transfer challenges can arise when individuals and departments run reports or extract subsets of data from centralized databases for processing—particularly if they are using desktop data-mining and analysis tools that generate reports and data sets in the form of document files and spreadsheets. These files can also be easily transferred as e-mail attachments or saved to laptops, handheld smart devices or USB drives. Given that more than 60 percent of US data breaches in 2009 were attributed to lost or stolen laptops or media, organizations should closely monitor and protect such data transfers.2
Technology DomainsOrganizations also need to systematically evaluate whether the technologies that protect their data confidentiality, integrity and availability are sufficient to reduce risk to acceptable levels. The following technology domains provide a frame of reference for this task:
Data Privacy and Confidentiality PrinciplesThe following four principles are meant to help organizations select technologies and activities that will protect their confidential data assets. They are high-level statements that can be followed by more detailed guidance—clear, concise statements or questions that inform the risk management and decision-making process.
The Risk/Gap Analysis MatrixThe Risk/Gap Analysis Matrix, shown in figure 2, brings together the information life cycle, technology domains, and data privacy and confidentiality principles in a tool that helps organizations identify and address gaps in their existing efforts to protect data against privacy, confidentiality and compliance threats within a specific data flow. The matrix provides a unified view of the flow's existing and proposed protection technologies, measures and activities.
Each row depicts a stage in the information life cycle. The first four columns in the matrix represent a technology domain, while the far-right column represents manual control activities that must take place to meet the requirements of the four data privacy and confidentiality principles at each stage of the information life cycle. The four principles form the basis of questions that will be asked for every cell of the matrix.
Assessing Risks With the Risk/Gap Analysis MatrixThe matrix gives organizations a powerful tool for risk assessment and mitigation. The analysis process shown in figure 3 and the following steps can help organizations identify gaps in existing protective measures and select corrective actions:
The following is a threat enumeration example of what the definition of the threat categories described in step 2 may look like:5
– Principle 1: Honor policies throughout the confidential data life span.
Choice and consent (collection, use and disclosure)- Inadequate notice of data collection, use, disclosure and redress policies- Unclear or misleading language or processes for the user to follow in choosing and providing consent for the collection and use of personal information
Individual access and correction- Limited or nonexistent means for users to verify the accuracy of their personal information
Accountability- Lack of controls to enforce customer choice and consent as well as other relevant policies, laws and regulations
– Principle 2: Minimize risk of unauthorized access or misuse of confidential data.
Information protection- Lack of reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of data- Unauthorized or inappropriate access to data
Data quality- Inability to verify accuracy, timeliness and relevance of data- Inability of users to make corrections as appropriate
– Principle 3: Minimize the impact of confidential data loss.
Information protection- Insufficient safeguards to ensure the confidentiality of data if they are lost or stolen
Accountability- Lack of a data breach response plan and an escalation path- Lack of system encryption of all confidential data- Inability to verify adherence to data protection principles through appropriate monitoring, auditing and use of controls
– Principle 4: Document applicable controls and demonstrate their effectiveness.
Accountability- Improper documentation of plans, controls, processes or system configurations
Compliance- Inability to verify or demonstrate compliance through existing logs, reports and controls- Lack of a clear noncompliance escalation path and process- Lack of a breach notification plan and other response plans that are required by law
Identifying these threat types offers a starting point for organizations to assess their data flows and consider how assumptions about privacy, confidentiality and compliance may change when a flow crosses a trust boundary, such as during transitions between life-cycle phases.
The following is a threat enumeration example of what the definition of the threat categories described in step 2 may look like:5
– Principle 1: Honor policies throughout the confidential data life span.
– Principle 2: Minimize risk of unauthorized access or misuse of confidential data.
– Principle 3: Minimize the impact of confidential data loss.
– Principle 4: Document applicable controls and demonstrate their effectiveness.
Identifying these threat types offers a starting point for organizations to assess their data flows and consider how assumptions about privacy, confidentiality and compliance may change when a flow crosses a trust boundary, such as during transitions between life-cycle phases.
As organizations manage growing volumes of confidential data, they face increasingly complex challenges in protecting the data against theft, misuse or unauthorized disclosure. In addition, organizations need to take steps to prevent accidental collection or use of customer and employee personal information, in violation of each individual's preferences, and also to meet related compliance obligations.
A program based on the Data Governance for Privacy, Confidentiality and Compliance framework complements existing security standards and control frameworks by providing a holistic approach to identifying data-flow-specific threats against data privacy, security and compliance and by addressing residual risks in effective and efficient ways.6
This article provides a high-level overview of the three components of the DGPC framework—people, process and technology—and a more detailed summary of key aspects of the technology component:
1 For more information about the DGPC framework, see the white papers and webcasts of the series "A Guide to Data Governance for Privacy, Confidentiality, and Compliance," available at www.microsoft.com/datagovernance.2 Open Security Foundation DataLossDB, http://datalossdb.org3 These policies may consist of requirements derived from laws, standards, promises, individual customer or employee choices, commercial obligations, and other sources.4 For a detailed description of "traditional" threat modeling and how to build data flow diagrams, see "Microsoft IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide," available from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd941826.aspx.5 For a more detailed list of technical and nontechnical questions that illustrate the types of threats against each principle, see the Application Privacy Assessment questionnaire available at www.microsoft.com/privacy/datagovernance.6 To learn more about Microsoft's DGPC framework and how Microsoft tools can be used to identify and mitigate gaps in existing protective measures, visit www.microsoft.com/datagovernance.
Javier Salido, CIPPhas 12 years' field experience working with large enterprise and government customers, first as a consultant and later as director of services for Microsoft Consulting in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. A former researcher at the Network Security Laboratory at the University of Washington (USA), Salido has published multiple works at IEEE conferences, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and in the "A Guide to Data Governance for Privacy, Confidentiality, and Compliance" series published by Microsoft Corp. He currently works with the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Group on privacy-related topics.
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Parents are being urged to take responsibility for their children after a study was carried out by police in a bid to tackle the ongoing issue of noise disturbance and litter at the Howegate.
Following numerous complaints by the town's residents, a multi-agency meeting was held at the beginning of this month by councillors, police officers and representatives of Scottish Borders Housing Association.
They now await the outcome of an environment survey carried out by the police to identify any improvements that can be made.
Hawick and Hermitage councillor David Paterson, who organised the meeting, told the Hawick News: "We realise that this has always been a busy area at nights, especially at weekends, but constituents who have lived in this area for over 40 years have certainly been telling me that it has now become unbearable due to the noise and the mess left by some youngsters that seem to congregate at this area at weekends.
"With all agencies working together hopefully, we can come to a solution that is acceptable to all."
At a Hawick Community Council meeting held last week, its vice-chairman, Cameron Knox, warned that youths as young as 14 are regularly causing disturbances in the Howegate on Saturday nights, adding: "There are quite a few folk who are scared of it at the weekends."
Watson McAteer, the town's honorary provost, responded: "The police have agreed to spend a bit more time when they can to be seen visibly in the area, so you are absolutely right to raise it as an issue.
"What can be done now and what we can do in the longer term to get this nuisance more than anything else at a manageable level."
Police inspector Carol Wood said: "We are fully aware of the ongoing issues with youths congregating and displaying anti-social behaviour in the Howegate area, particularly during weekends.
"Local officers have been working alongside the Scottish Borders Council and Scottish Borders Housing Association to address these issues.
"Part of our efforts to address these issues saw us undertake an environmental survey of the area to identify improvements that can be made.
"This typically looks at factors like lighting, landscaping etc, and we await the results of the report.
"I would also urge parents to take responsibility for their children and be aware of where they are and what they are doing.
"If your son or daughter is going out at a weekend and is hanging about in the Howegate, officers are observing under-age drinking and the youths are having to be assisted by street pastors or the police. This cannot continue.
"We will continue to work in partnership with various organisations and the local community to tackle anti-social behaviour in all its forms."


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The big night's drawing ever closer – yes, there's under a month to stock up on Hogmanay booze.
Before that though, the small matter of Xmas to endure.
Most serious music fans are pretty nihilistic, but at the same time always looking for ways to enhance their record collections, so embracing Santa and all his commercial ways may lead to that Velvet Underground acetate being shoved down your chimney come the 25th.
Of course, with the advent (ho ho ho) of the mp3, musical gifts are less tangible nowadays – you can't even sign your name when sending that not-all-that-special someone their Adele download.
Fortunately you can combine music and alcohol, a twin-pronged attack to get you through Yule. Several acts have their own personalised wine – often from their own vineyards. Including AC/DC and the Grateful Dead – surely acts who are more familiar with Jack Daniels or similar. Though Simply Red and Olivia Newton-John are definitely (red red) wine bands. And you'd not be too surprised to learn that beardy miserablists Elbow have an ale named 'Build a rocket boys!' Conversely, Pharrel Williams' 'Qream' is (or was) a liqueur, and definitely aimed at the laydeez…
Happily, vinyl is still on the up, as are T shirts, with quite a few bands bundling the two together. Perhaps The Ramones' label might try this, so that anyone wearing a tee would actually get to hear the music first.
There are some items I can't even mention in a family newspaper (Grimes, Rammstein and Tenacious D gifts are available under the counter). Similarly, musician-endorsed drug paraphernalia is so ubiquitous and obvious that I'll leave you to sort that out for yourselves and instead suggest a Taylor Swift apron – a counter to Katy Perry's pants. Similarly wholesome, have a grin like Harry Stiles with a One Direction toothbrush. Still in the bathroom, there's a Prodigy toilet seat cover (furry), White Stripes soap, or, for that recently-disinterred look, Alice Cooper eyeliner.
The list goes on. Gwar have a hot sauce, while glam metallers Kiss put their name to everything from cologne to coffins. OK-Go offer air freshener, Flaming Lips have a fetus-shaped Christmas tree ornament (no, me neither) and Deadmaus sells cat headphones. Metallers Slayer do a nice chunky Xmas sweater, but with skulls instead of trees.
Top of my own list to Santa might be a Justin Beiber piñata – surely unofficial, it basically encourages you to beat the beyausus out of the wee pop gerbil with a big stick.
However, my personal favourite is a singing bottle-opener – twist off the cap and Aidan Moffat's dulcet tones will kick in with 'The Little Beer Song'. Inspired, perhaps, by Factory Records' line in surreal branded goods – headed notepaper, a 'menstrual egg timer' and a lawsuit sit in the Manchester label's catalogue alongside albums from New Order and Happy Mondays. Sadly, completing the 'set' for the Factory completist in your life is impossible as the Haçienda nightclub – Fac51 – has, like all good venues been turned into a block of flats.
But for something a bit more affordable, calendars are always a surefire gift. Last year, traditional top seller Cliff Richard wrestled with One Direction for the nation's hearts. Actually, that didn't come out like it was meant to…


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Stop Pissing off Your Partner - Vent, Gather Info, or Fix?/
Some of the most common gender differences I see in relationships regard communication styles. For example, it is not uncommon for a woman to want to talk through things and vent about her concerns. However, many men interpret this as a request to fix the situation. It makes sense -- if someone we love is hurting and tells us that, why wouldn't we want to do what we can to "fix" it? But interestingly, the woman often becomes irritated because she says he isn't listening to her or is trivializing her concern. And the man gets annoyed, because he thinks she isn't taking his advice to make the situation better.
If you recognize this pattern in your relationship, what can you do about it? The best approach is to be clear about your expectations from the start. For example, if everyday when you get home from work you like to tell you partner about what happened and share your frustrations, state up front what you're looking for. "Hi hon, can I just vent about my day? You don't have to do anything. I just need you to listen." And if you're on the receiving end you could say, "I noticed I'm getting really irritated listening right now and frustrated that I can't do anything. Do you want me to help you fix this problem, or do you just want me to listen?" This will make a big shift in communication and avoid hurt feelings.
I think there can also be a third category, depending on your personality. Sometimes people share stories and ask questions because they are on a "fact finding" mission. They want to gather perspectives so they can come to a more informed decision for themselves. So recognize this as a middle area, and clearly state your intentions for the conversation. "I don't need to vent, but I'm also not looking for a fix. I'm curious about your ideas around this topic just so I can gather information." With this clarity, the partner who is giving the feedback will be less likely to feel discouraged if you don't take their advice.
Like developing any new habit, it can take time to create this new pattern of interaction. Being clear about your intentions and expectations is a great practice in transparency. In the long run, we're much more likely to get our needs met when we own them and articulate them from the start.
(Originially posted as part of the Love & Sex Blog for Pacific San Diego Magazine.)
~Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus, San Diego, CA -- Sociologist, Sex Therapist, Sexuality Speaker, Sexologist


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One blogger has compared the average ages of actors and actresses when filming a given movie together — and what he found will probably come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the complaints many actresses have been leveling against Hollywood for quite some time.
Using data from all the roles played by actors and actresses in movies with more than 10,000 IMDB votes from 2000-2015, a blogger named CuriousGnu found that, on average, actresses are about seven years younger than their male counterparts at the time of filming. The median age for women was 32, for men, 39.
The graph also reveals the demand is highest for actresses under the age of 35.
Hollywood's problem with casting actresses over 40 is well documented. Meryl Streep has called out Hollywood's attitude toward older women, telling Vogue that the industry sees them as "grotestque on some level," while Helen Mirren called the aging double standard for actresses "f*cking outrageous."
Younger actresses are consistently cast as the love interests for older men — as Vulture points out, Emma Stone, who is 26, romanced the 45-year-old Edward Norton in Birdman, while 25-year-old Jennifer Lawrence, star of the latest installment of the X-men series, has coupled up with Bradley Cooper twice (he's 16 years older than her).
Last year, Maggie Gyllenhaal revealed that she was rejected for a role playing the love interest of a 55-year-old actor because she had reached the ripe old age of…37.
Lately, actresses have also been speaking out about their industry's wage gap, in which women are paid less for their work than men.
Pay discrimination against women occurs across many industries, of course. In 2015, the Institute For Women's Policy Research found that women typically make 79 cents for every dollar men earn.
Now, watch a video explaining why there are so many superhero movies. Then, listen to some of the most powerful Oscar speeches ever.


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Of course Pakistan is not an ideal place to be a minority. This piece is no defense of Pakistan's record on minority rights. Pakistan can and should do much better. Now that we have cleared this bit, let us compare the situation of minorities in India with the situation of minorities in Pakistan. I write this piece as rebuttal to an essay written by one Sadanand Dhume.
In his piece Dhume has expressed concern over the direction in which India is going with respect to minority rights. However his argument still revolves around the notion that India may have its shortcomings but it makes no sense to compare an inherently pluralistic society like India to an inherently intolerant and monolithic society like Pakistan.
Dhume refers to Pakistan's Shia population as a minority and I accept that categorization. Shias make up to 15% of the Pakistani population. 2% are Hindus and 1% are others. The population makeup of minority and majority populations in India and Pakistan is very similar.
Now let us examine some of the claims made by Dhume:
Among many other absurd theories peddled by Hindutva ideologues there is a popular myth that Hindu population of West Pakistan at the time of Partition was around 22% which came down to 2% due to slow ethnic cleansing carried out by the State of Pakistan over 70 years.
Dhume writes:
In undivided British India, in 1941, the areas that constitute today's Pakistan were about 78% Muslim; the rest of the people were Hindu, Sikh and Christian. Today Pakistan is 97% Muslim…By contrast, in India the Hindu majority has declined gently from 85% of the population in 1951 to a shade under 80% today. In short, religious minorities have shrunk dramatically in one country while growing over time in the other.
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There were in fact 17% non Muslims in West Pakistan and 83% Muslims. At the time of Partition most of them moved to India and less than 2% were left in Pakistan. So Pakistan started with a 2% Hindu population. Indian Punjab had over 30% Muslims and after the Partition only 2% Muslims remained on the Indian side of Punjab. This was a population exchange. Not ethnic cleansing as is often argued by Hindu extremists. Today the Hindu population share of Pakistan is slightly higher than what they started with just after the partition. For a detailed research on the subject please refer to this blog.
Dhume is however right about the increase in the population share of Muslims in India. He is wrong when he puts this fact as evidence of Muslims' well-being in India. There are three reasons due to which Muslim population has grown faster than Hindu population in India.
Even Pakistan's Hindu population has grown at a faster rate as compared to their national average because most Hindus in Pakistan belong to lower income groups.
Dhume went on to make a rather bizarre claim. He reckons that minorities in India are treated better than minorities in Pakistan because Indian cricket team wears a "neutral blue" outfit rather than wearing a Saffron colored Hindu outfit. Sometimes appearances can be deceptive, still Dhume does not come across as a person who would believe North Korea is more democratic than USA just because North Korea calls itself 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea'.
Beyond this point I write on Muslims are really treated in India. It is a long and harrowing read.
A recent study published by PEW ranked India fourth after Syria, Iraq and Nigeria in a list of countries where social hostilities involving religion is very high. Here I list a number of issues faced by Muslims in India that are not faced by Hindus in Pakistan being a minority.
Hindus in Pakistan do not face massacres and mass rapes like Muslims face in India on a regular basis. Nellie, Bhagalpur, Mumbai, Gujarat, Muzzafarnagar are just few of the many examples that can be found in recent history. To constantly live with the feeling that one day, due to some event not connected to you, a mob will attack your house, rape and kill you and your family is a miserable way to live.
Hindus in Pakistan are not constantly held responsible for the crimes done by Hindus in other parts of the world. Muslims in India are answerable for any crime committed by a Muslim anywhere in the world.
India exerts constant pressure on its Muslim minority to prove loyalty to the Nation via majoritarian themes. Allegiance to the national anthem or the national flag is not good enough. A Muslim has to deify the nation into Bharat Mata and Sing hymns for the deity. Vande Mataram or else…
In India Hindutva extremists openly call for the rape of Muslim women, even ask people to dig out dead Muslim women from their graves and rape them, such people are rewarded by the masses during elections.
There is no pressure from the Pakistani society to take away the rights granted to Hindus under the Hindu Personal Law. In India there is massive pressure from the Hindu society to bring in Uniform Civil Code that will dissolve the Muslim Personal Law and ask Muslims to abide by the customs that Hindus deem correct for them.
Pakistan does not put restrictions on the dietary habit of Hindus and other Non Muslim citizens of Pakistan. A Non Muslim citizen of Pakistan is free to consume alcohol and eat pork. In India beef is banned in many states because beef is consumed mainly by Muslims and Dalits.
The politics of Pakistan is not focused on Hindus. You will hardly find any talk shows on Pakistani channels discussing Hindu matters. The Hindu society of Pakistan is not constantly under pressure from the media or the politicians. In India almost every issue can be linked to the Muslim minority. Hindu majority of India is obsessed with Muslim issues. Even the population explosion of India is blamed on 14% Muslims and not on 80% Hindus of India.
Muslims in India are regularly jailed for years (sometimes for decades) on terrorism charges fabricated by the police. Eventually they are released by the courts due to lack of evidence but are never compensated for the decades lost in prison.
There are hundreds and thousands of internally displaced Muslims in India who have lost everything during majoritarian mob violence, these people settle in slums. The Govt provides no assistance in their resettlement.
Every few days a new video emerges in India where a Hindu mob is seen lynching a Muslim man, where a Hindu mob appears to unleash brutal violence against Muslim families including women, children, elderly and the disabled.
There are hundreds and thousands of Hindu extremists on Indian social media who threaten and abuse Indian Muslims in the most vile and vulgar ways.
As Aakar Patel puts it:
That is the main thing that would have disturbed me as a Muslim, I think. Having lived through the reality and understood it, one would then be confronted with this relentless, middle-class Hindu focus on Muslims as the problem. See any story in The Times Of India and go through the comments written by readers. I have been writing in Pakistan's papers longer continuously than any other Indian and I assure you that either they are editing their nastiness out of reader comments, or we Indians have some truly vile people in our midst and they are not a small minority.
In Pakistan those who attack minorities are seen as terrorist. In India the media uses terms like 'activist' or 'vigilante' or in one case 'animal rights group' to describe people who brutally lynch innocents on the streets of India, record their act on camera and proudly post it on social media for everyone to see.
On the creation of Pakistan Dhume writes:
Pakistan was carved out of British India in 1947 for an explicitly communal reason: as a separate homeland for Muslims based on the belief that Indian Muslims constituted a distinct nation, and that Hindus and Muslims could not live together in peace as compatriots.
Savarkar and Golwalkar are considered to be the most eminent ideologues of the Hindutva ideology that rules over India today. Both Savarkar and Golwalkar through their extensive writings supported the Nazi action against Jews. Golwalkwar wanted to carry out a holocaust against Indian Muslims. He even prepared a district-wise plan for the extermination of Muslims.
The two nation theory and the idea of a homogeneous Hindu Rashtra was first peddled by Hindus. The Muslim leadership remained divided over the idea of Pakistan. In fact most Muslims rejected the idea of Pakistan and chose to live in an India which they believed would remain pluralistic and secular.
Finally I would like to agree with Dhume that it is borderline ludicrous to compare India with Pakistan on minority rights. In fact it is ludicrous to compare India with any other country on minority rights.
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Zircon ion probe (secondary-ion mass spectrometry or SIMS) data from a set of intrusive rocks emplaced in the vicinity of major ore bodies, as well as from large igneous intrusions in the Gällivare area, gave the following results: (1) the Dundret ultramafic–mafic layered complex (1883±5 Ma), the Aitik granite (1883±5 Ma), the Nautanen diorite (1870±12 Ma), the Vassaravaara ultramafic–mafic layered complex (1798±4 Ma), the Aitik dolerite (1813±9 Ma), the Bergmästergruvan and Sikträsk syenites (1795±4 Ma and 1801±3 Ma, respectively) and the Naalojärvi granite (1782±5 Ma). These data broadly fall within the ranges 1.89–1.87 Ga (early Svecofennian) and 1.80–1.78 Ga (late Svecofennian), but geochronologically allow further subdivision into pulses at 1885–1880, 1875–1870, 1800 and 1780 Ma. During these events, large layered ultramafic–mafic and felsic plutonic rocks were generated with distinct overlap in time suggesting coeval felsic–mafic magmatism. Results also indicate the presence of inherited c. 1.87 Ga zircon crystals in the plutonic rocks at 1.78 Ga, supporting reworking of the previous crust. These data indicate the importance of mantle-derived mafic underplating in the process of crustal magma generation in the region. The c. 1.88 Ga event that generated ultramafic–mafic layered complexes is tentatively suggested to have played an important role in the formation of the Aitik Cu–Au porphyry system. The later event at c. 1.80 Ga, generating voluminous mafic–felsic units, is suggested to be coupled to the regional iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) overprint.
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SANTA CALRA, Calif. - Out with the old and in with the new! Do you have an old phone, possibly with a damaged or broken screen, laying around your room? For the rest of the Santa Clara baseball season, you can bring in your used, old or even broken handheld devices to Santa Clara home games for recycling and receive a raffle ticket for an iPad3 and free admission for every device donated!
The raffle winner will be drawn on Sun., May 27 at the last Bronco baseball home game vs. LMU at 1 p.m.
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