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To achieve this look, paint your upper cabinets a different color than your lower cabinets. While there are millions of color combinations, some of the more popular include black on bottom and white on top, or bold colors on bottom and neutral on top. You could also contrast colors between wall cabinets and island cabinets. Energize your kitchen by painting your cabinets a bright color, such as emerald, cobalt or golden yellow. Be conscious of how it will coordinate with the wall color and fixtures in your kitchen, as well as the rest of your home. With vibrant cabinets, you'll want to stick to light and neutral wall colors to keep your space from becoming too dark or busy.
While most small kitchens don't have the space required for large, rectangular pot racks, there are options for smaller spaces. Pot racks don't have to hang from the ceiling; some can be wall–mounted, like the pegboard wall above. Find places to add shelving for additional storage. A row of narrow shelves, added to a kitchen island, can be perfect for cookbooks. Look for additional places including corners, or over a counter.
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Metalscape – Episode 139
ITE: Immortal Cookies, $50 spending spree, Nicaragua driving, roof leakage, news, Ron static, deviant fart, My Little Pony, I'm not a fag, I'm just a Power Puff Girls Connoiseur, "I don't particularly care for the children", Zach Moore: Flight Attendant, Comics, Wintersun and the Cool Part.
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Gotan Project – Rayuela
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Keelhaul – Pass the Lampshade
Vektor – Cosmic Cortex
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I love the podcasts, honestly. I loved them, and their humor. There just needs to be more of them!
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The doxa of creative work and the doxa of research arise from different epistemological underpinnings – creativity from the unexplainable force of the imagination, and research from the logical force of understanding. [my links]
In simple terms, she said that it is common knowledge that creativity is a manifestation of imagination, while research is a process based on studying, understanding, and logical thinking. By using the word doxa, she tells us that these beliefs are so widely accepted that they don't even need to be expressed. In other words, everybody considers them to be true.
I agree with her: most people think that way. But I believe that they do so because they don't have a clear understanding of how people tap their creativity and what it means to do research.
The concepts that artists pull their creations out of thin air and that researchers only exercise logic are both wrong.
Let's look at artists first. They couldn't create anything without studying the world around them, the work of other artists, and the tools they need to do their work. Ideas don't just spring out of the mind of an artist fully clothed and armed, like Athena out of Jupiter's head.
As an example, consider what writing a novel involves.
The author needs to invent characters and design a plot for them, so that they can interact with each other. Some authors start with a plot and others starts with the characters, but, in either case, they must ensure that those two elements are consistent, credible (and interesting). This can only come after years of observing how people interact and trying to understand what motivates them.
And then, authors cannot write their novels with any hope of success unless they know their craft: structure, voice, pace, dialogue, to name some aspects of it. This means that they need to learn techniques, read a lot, and write a lot.
Creative writing is the Cinderella of Academia. This status of affairs reflects the almost universal opinion that, because everybody can write, studying creative writing is a trivial activity pursued by people who want to have it easy at the University.
It is only when people actually try to write something worth reading that they realise how little they know and how much they need to work in order to get any recognition.
Furthermore, to write a novel an author needs logic, discipline, and rigour, otherwise his/her four hundred pages will be full of inconsistencies, loose threads, and untruths.
In order to create realistic characters placed in a realistic environment and doing realistic actions, an author needs to do a lot of research. Most (I would say all, but I don't want to be so absolute) authors define their characters and their plots to a level of detail that remains below the surface of the finished product. What ends up into the novel is only the tip of the iceberg.
Authors also perform another activity typical of research: experimentation. This can be in the content, the dialogue, or the form. For example, Peter Carey, in his historical novel True History of the Kelly Gang, doesn't use a single comma, while Alessandro Baricco, in his short novel Silk, uses line breaks to control the pace and convey meaning. And if this seems too literary and abstract, how much research do you think Frank Herbert had to do in order to create the universe in which his Dune stories take place?
I'm talking about creative writing because I had a couple of non-fiction books and a couple of Science Fiction stories published. Therefore, I can talk about it with some credibility. But I'm sure that equivalent concepts apply to other creative activities.
I hope I have convinced you that creative work couldn't exist without logical thinking, knowledge, and research. If not, think again.
Now, let's look at research. I shall go out on a limb here and say that without imagination any type of research would be impossible.
It is standard practice in academic papers to present the results of research in a logical fashion: you write about existing results, identify a gap, and explain how your results close it. There is more to it but, in essence, research papers are logical to the core. This is especially true in Physics, the prototypical scientific discipline.
But this is not how research actually works. Most neatly presented conclusions are in reality the result of hunches, leaps, backtracking, crises, and serendipitous events (i.e., strokes of luck). Research works somewhat like solving a jigsaw puzzle: you start from the edges and the pieces you can easily recognise. Then, you fill the gaps to complete the picture. Sometimes, you feel that a piece might be right in a certain spot and place it there, hoping to have it confirmed later. But both academic papers for the scientific community and magazine articles for the rest of us present the research process as if the researchers had started the puzzle from the top-left corner and systematically worked their way to the bottom-right piece.
The key point I'm trying to express is that logic cannot add knowledge. It can be used to extract information that for any reason is still hidden in the data and, sometimes, this leads to surprising and useful results, which in turn can trigger new avenues of research. But, ultimately, truly new discoveries occur when a researcher follows a hunch and jumps over a gap in the logic. This what Edward De Bono calls Lateral Thinking. And what about the creativity that any experimental researcher needs in order to overcome the many technical (e non-technical) problems s/he encounters daily?
In other words, imagination plays an essential role in the progress of Science and Technology. The logical chain of thought is often reconstructed after the discovery has been made or a working solution found. When a scientist gets enamoured with an idea and invents an experiment to verify it, s/he will not necessarily tell you.
Think to Einstein and his special theory of relativity. He postulated the constancy of the speed of light. He certainly didn't deduce it logically.
To conclude, successful creative endeavours require study, understanding, and logic, while research produces its best results thanks to insights, imagination, and dedication.
So, please, let's stop perpetuating these stereotypes of wild artists and white-coated scientists!


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Whenever you are trying to organise a large pool of digital content it's not long before somebody uses the term metadata.
So what is metadata? If you look at a formal definition you will read something bordering on the existential like "data describing data".
I find the best way to start a conversation about metadata is to look at a familiar example like digital photography.
Lots of people have digital cameras and take loads of photos. These photos are typically stored as JPEG files that contain the actual photo and some information about the photo like: The date and time the photo was taken, where the photo was taken, the dimensions of the photo and the focal length used to take the photo.
This additional information is called metadata and in this case is captured automatically by the camera when a photos is taken.
Once you import your photos to a computer for use with photo management software like Windows Live Photo Gallery it can make use of the metadata captured against each photo in order to provide you with different views into your photo collection. For example you might want to see "photos taken on a specific day" or "photos taken in a specific location".
Managing a large collection becomes a lot easier when you are able to sort, filter and group your photos in this way but what if you wanted to see all the photos in your collection that has a boat in it?
Since your camera can't determine (at least not yet) whether a photo contains a boat, you need to manually point out which photos do contain a boat. Capturing metadata manually is often refered to as "tagging".
The biggest benefit from the effort of capturing this information is that it allows you to get more specific views into your collection for example "photos of boats taken during my vacation to South Africa in March".


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Big Lies
There are three different types of lies that people tell from time to time. The first type is the little white lie that doesn't really effect anyone in particular, lies like "I'll get that for you as soon as I can" or "Yellow is so your colour". People tell little lies like that all the time. The second type is the more major lies such as "Of course I'm not cheating" or "I did not murder him" ,lies that are a bit more serious, where bad things will go down of you are caught out. The third type of lie, the type of which we are basing this story, are the most rare and the biggest. These are the type of lies that change the world.
Many, many years ago, on the edge of a vast empire, there was a small border garrison filled with very frightened young men.
They had every reason to be frightened. The part of the empire they guarded was far away from their homes and all they knew. But the place was far from empty. The plains to the north were filled with all kinds of monsters and wild men. They ignored the border and regularly swooped down onto whoever was foolish enough to live within their reach. Perhaps the worse of the wild men was a tribe called a Scarleh, savage brutes to a man and by far the most savage was their leader Jasook the terrible. This monster of a man was over seven feet tall with arms like tree trunks. There were stories that he would eat five grown men each day for his dinner, though that was probably an exaggeration, he probably couldn't have fit more than two men in a single sitting.
Jasook made it a point of visiting the little garrison every few days and calling out a soldier to fight him. No one man could stand against him and it usually ended quickly and gruesomely. They couldn't just lock themselves inside, Jasook would get angered by the affront and smash open the building, killing all inside. So whenever he appeared, the poor men huddled in the garrison would draw lots and whoever lost would be sent out to meet their fate.
It so happened that one day, when Jasook was making one his regular raids, that one of these young men called Jon lost the draw and was sent outside. He was a thin, reedy man about as far from suited to the rigours of the brutal frontier as any man could be. As he stumbled out of the garrison gates after being pushed by his colleagues his thin armour rattled with his terror. Peering from behind his shield, he could see Jasook waiting for him, mocking him with his eyes. "Is this the best that you can field against me?" The monster roared, "This puny thing is barely even worth my time. I expect something better next time" As closed his eyes and waited the inevitable he could hear the thud, thud of Jasook's immense feet on the ground as he approached, closer and closer.
But then there was something else a heavy beating getting louder and louder. Willing himself to ignore the terror running through him, Jon pulled his head out from behind the shield and opened his eyes. Behind Jasook, its immense wings still outstretched, was a dragon, the biggest that Jon had ever seen. It was right behind Jasook and the warrior had turned to face it. Raising his sword and shouting a battle cry, he threw himself at the beast, but it was much faster. It snapped up the warrior in an instant, his blood curdling screams cut short by shaking its head violently. Dragons are notoriously messy eaters and bits and pieces of the Scarleh champion flew all around, some even hitting Jon on the shield and sword. Big as he was, Jasook did not last long as a meal and without so much as a whisper, the dragon was back in the air, soaring up into the clouds.
Jon just stood there for the longest time, shocked at what had just happened, and surprised to be alive. He was startled to hear a noise from behind him. He turned and saw the gate of the garrison open up, and one of the other men's head stick out. His face turned from fear to amazement. There, standing in front of the door was Jon, his shield and sword splattered with blood and assorted pieces of Jasook splayed around the ground. The soldier was flabbergasted, he asked Jon "My God, did you do this?"
Jon probably should have gone and told the truth right there, but his head must still have been swimming from the adrenaline and instead he said "You damn right I did! That Scarleh thug will never be troubling us again."
The gates were thrown and Jon was hailed as a hero by the rest of the soldiers. Extra rations of beer and wine were shared out and Jon told the epic (and completely fabricated) story of how he defeated Jasook. The officer in charge called out all of the riders and pigeons and every other method they had to send a message, to spread the word about this remarkable upset.
Within hours, men where appearing from other border posts asking to meet the man who defeated Jasook. Jon was given pride of place at every meal and each time he would tell the story, adding a little more embellishment, all lapped up by his adoring audience.
Eventually the look outs spotted a trio of riders approach from the south, their flags flying long behind them. They were imperial messengers, summoning Jon to the court of the emperor. Jon travelled in style, stopping at every castle and town along the route, staying at the finest homes and inns, and telling his tale to rapt audiences.
Eventually Jon and his retinue reached the imperial capital on the warm shores of the southern sea. He was immediately rushed to the emperors throne-room where he told the most magnificent version of his story yet.
"As the I looked at the smashed pieces of my evil foe, the blood dripping off my sword, I knew that though he had fought well I was ultimately victorious. And that, your majesty, is my story" Jon then bowed in front of the emperor. He could hear clapping from the throne, quickly joined by all those around him. The emperor then bade him to stand "A hero such as you, should not bow before any other man, not even me!" As Jon nervously stood up the emperor sat up and stepped down from his throne. He grabbed Jon's hands and embraced him "It is an honour to embrace the hero of the north. You have proven yourself a man of true worth. I have been waiting for such as you for many years, come come!"
Leading Jon by the arm. The emperor crossed the ornate throne-room, flunkies and courtesans jumping out of his way like the seas parting. He slowed at tables covered in jewels and gold, at robes of nobility and office and at his beautiful daughter each time bringing a lump to Jon's throat. But the emperor came to a stop at a case, within which an elegant bejewelled helmet. "Do you have any idea what this is son?" asked the emperor. "Is that the Darik's helmet?" Jon spoke in hushed tones about the great hero of imperial legend. "It is my boy, the very same and until now I have been unable to find a man worthy to wear it again. With this as your standard and my armies under your command the savages to the north will finally be stopped"
"Come again? Lead your army?" Jon was shocked "Of course my boy I can think of no man more deserving. My spies have told me that the Scarleh have already heard of your great deeds, they are quivering in their boots over the thought of facing you again. Your country needs you Jon, we are in a time of need, you cannot refuse"
That last line was filled with just enough menace to tell Jon not to say no and within a month Jon was marching back along the great northern plain with over a million men behind him. While all the officers and men fawned over Jon with his shiny new armour, the emperor and his generals issued most of the orders, Jon was expected to lead from the front "By example!" Word came from scouts that the whole Scarleh horde, hundreds of thousands of men were moving to intercept them. They would be there within the hour.
As the rest of the army formed up and prepared Jon found himself with very little to do, just to ride around in his horse and look good. "You're inspiring the men brilliantly!" shouted the emperor over the noise of marching armour "Now get to the front of the army so that they can see you and know victory is at hand"
From the leading edge, on his massive warhorse, Jon could see the massive Scarleh force arraying before them. None of the men there were as big as Jasook had been, but they were still far larger than any man in his army. He wanted to just run and hide but that wasn't possible. He looked at the men behind him, looking at him with hope in their eyes, he then turned to the imperial camp were a red flag was being waved, the signal. Jon raised his hand shouted "Advance!" and the great war machine started to move.
Jon's experience of the ensuing battle was confusing to say the least. From ordering the charge his next memory was in the midst of the fighting with imperial soldiers and Scarleh all around him. Funnily enough, it seemed that a great deal of the Scarleh were already dead, while not as many of his men had fallen. Occasionally one of the fierce warriors would appear out of the nowhere and try to bring Jon down. As he would try to fend off the attack, dozens of his troops would gang up around the fighter and his battle cry would turn to a scream of terror as he was laid low by attacks from all sides. Within an hour all of the Scarleh that hadn't died or fled had been captured. Jon's army had won.
It was miraculous. With the Scarleh defeated, the armies turned their attention to the other wild men. With Jon leading the charge each battle was a rousing victory. Jon was getting braver and braver and by the end of the campaign he had many stories that he didn't have to lie about. There was even an expedition to the northern mountains to destroy the roosts of the dragons. By the end of the season the entire northern plain was under imperial control and at peace.
When Jon returned to the Capital he was treated as a hero. Honours, riches and title were heaped upon him. In the end he married the emperors beautiful daughter and became his heir. With empire at peace and commerce able to flow again, prosperity returned to the world. Those were good years.
It was many years later that Jon figured it out. His father in law was no fool, he couldn't have believed Jon's story, especially after he met him, but he also knew people. The empire at the time had been demoralised by constant harassing from the north. People saw no way out and even the emperor couldn't change their minds. Then along came Jon and his beating Jasook. Here was a normal man, one of them who had beat a Scarleh champion, they weren't unbeatable. The army could always have beaten the Scarleh and all the other threats from the north, they just had to realise that.
Jon may have lied that day, many years ago. But his words certainly changed the world.


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And now we come to the second round of our Devin Townsend discussion, of the second disc and the one that definitely gripped more of the fans coming from Ziltoid The Omniscient. It was the sequel that so many of them had been asking for, the glorious return of Ziltoid and the madcap space insanity that had defined that album.
And yet, if I'm being completely honest, the more I thought about it the more I wasn't sure a sequel to that 2007 record was a great idea. Sure, there was undoubtedly more space to be tapped in the gloriously epic and epically silly saga of Ziltoid, but that album also ended in a way that didn't exactly leave itself open for sequels in the same way. It's similar to the sense of annoyance I had when I saw Disney's live action Alice In Wonderland directed by Tim Burton that actually turned out to be a sequel, couldn't be bothered to call itself Through The Looking Glass, and was a total piece of shit. Not spoiling anything, but when you transform what was designed as a pure flight of fantasy or madness into something grounded in a more concrete reality - you run the risk of breaking the joke.
And it seemed like Devin Townsend was running into problems too. A followup to Ziltoid was announced in 2009, and yet it took him five years to fully get the project to coalesce. He utilized the character on a satirical radio show in 2013 and bandied around the idea of a visual project, but this year he finally managed to pull things together for Z², and to placate the label he had to bundle it with a Devin Townsend Project album that actually managed to be pretty damn awesome. And even despite my serious misgivings going into this record, I have to admit I was still pretty damn excited for a new Ziltoid adventure - did we get it?
Well, in a way. It's definitely a new Ziltoid adventure that has plenty of callbacks to the first album seven years ago. It's bigger, heavier, more gloriously exaggerated than ever - and I'm not sure it works at all. Speaking as a fan who is really trying to like this and as a fan of progressive metal and musicals, I wanted Dark Matters to click with me in the same way the first Ziltoid story - and it just doesn't. Where the first Ziltoid story was a flight of fantasy, a daydream that nimbly balanced comedy with epic power, Dark Matters is a cartoon, and not a great one. I'm not saying it's bad by any stretch, but I am underwhelmed and a little disappointed that this was the direction that Townsend took the story. On that note, I'm going to throw up a spoiler warning here - I'll avoid talking about the big twists, but the overall arc will need to be discussed. You have been warned.
So appropriately, let's start with the lyrics and themes. Townsend has described the overall theme as 'Ziltoid against the world', and he's not far off, originally being revered as an alien unlike any other on Earth before his bumbling triggers an invasion from the War Princess of Titan and her army of poozers to crush humanity and take their coffee. And of course he is scapegoated until he makes an uneasy truce with the humans and their leader Captain Spectacular to take her down through the utilization of his Planet Smasher except for his own sinister motives. And if this sounds cliched as all hell, it's because it is - and to be fair, the album knows it. The album is firmly tongue-in-cheek, the fourth wall is broken frequently, and with the exception of Captain Spectacular played in hilarious fashion by Chris Jericho, everyone seems to be treating any attempt at drama with outright derision. The closest we get to a serious theme overlaps with the individualist flavour of Sky Blue and the first Ziltoid album and the general contempt it has for pack mentality and people not thinking for themselves, and to be fair it's well-articulated between the fart noises and toilet humour.
Yeah, remember how I mentioned this album was cartoonish? This is probably the biggest change in tone since Ziltoid The Omniscient, and I'd argue it's not for the better. It mostly comes down to a sense of contrast - Ziltoid's original quest for coffee and the supposed enlightenment it would bring was definitely absurd, but it was an absurdity played mostly straight by everyone involved. Yeah, it was hilarious, but it also allowed a greater breadth of tone - you could have straight out serious moments like 'Solar Winds' and they'd land impressively well. But Dark Matters opts to go for broad comedy across the board, with the only elements of gravitas coming through in the heavier music, not the actual content - where the concept was the original joke, now it's the entire narrative and it renders chunks of the album overpoweringly silly. It doesn't help matters that Dark Matters only bothers to take breathers for melodramatic narration that's also more concerned with landing jokes than building gravitas. Well, either that or exposition dumps - for as great as Townsend is at setting a scene through instrumentation, especially surrounding the Poozers and their War Princess, the latter played for glorious effect from Dominique Lenore Persi of Stolen Babies, the choice to have the narrator tell us how these characters supposedly behave rather than let them show us gets distracting.
Now you're probably noticing at this point that I'm not really talking about the music. Well, here's the thing: for as gloriously decadent and symphonic as it is, a titanic wall of sound filled to the brim with crunching guitars, cacophonous drums, horns, spacey keyboards, and a full backing choir, it doesn't modulate or show a lot of contrast. Most of this is an issue with production - just like on Sky Blue, many of the sounds bleed a little too long across the mix which smothers more distinctive textures or simply overloads the mix with more sounds than it knows what to do with - but here it's even more distracting because it actively makes the backing choral vocals that much more difficult to make out. Now let's be fair, even though there isn't a lot of contrast we're still dealing with powerfully melodic, incredibly heavy, and a ton of explosive swell and power, and there are some exceptions to the rule. I dug the explosive howls of 'Deathray', the heavy groove of 'March Of The Poozers' that seemed to blend industrial flavoured guitars with a pulpy circus vibe, the gleaming guitar melody that drove 'Earth', and of course the heavy crowd chorus of 'Dimension Z', but beyond that, this album rarely stops to take a breath, and the album's titanic momentum means the fairly thin story feels inconsequential - until, of course, we hit tracks like 'Wandering Eye' and 'Through The Wormhole' that are overloaded with plot. And very little of any of it is supported by the backing lyrics, most of which drift into much of the hyperbolic platitudes of which I have no idea how serious Townsend was intending them to be taken.
And all of this circles back to this record's purpose - because of course it's a comedy, a pulpy sci-fi alien cartoon that works in broad wacky tones with the biggest joke being the juxtaposition between cosmic exaggerated horrors and what they really are. But here's the thing: that's really the biggest actual joke, and it's one that gets hammered into the ground by the album's end. Ziltoid is initially considered by humanity to be a wonder beyond all others until it's revealed he's a bumbling schemer with delusions of grandeur who wouldn't be out of place next to Starscream. The War Princess brings some gravitas until you realize she's really just a vain, petty monarch who goes after Earth effectively out of boredom and spite. The Poozers are Borg-like monsters that also fart across the stars and sound like Beaker from the Muppets, and the Planet Smasher, held up as a power even Ziltoid fears, is a fuzzy, adorable creature the size of a football. And maybe it's telling that even despite all of this, humanity is totally clueless and is way too quick to lionize and demonize said figures - and if the album gave any weight to that satire, Dark Matters might have had more impact with me. But as it is, beyond that we don't get a lot of real jokes beyond cheap toilet humor, and to me, that comes across as lazy.
Look, I know musicals are usually broad, and on a certain level, Z²: Dark Matters does exactly what it's designed to do: be a broad, wacky space opera that doesn't remotely take itself seriously. But this sort of album lives and dies on good jokes, a well-told story that can balance the tone, and performers who are game for it - and really, I think Townsend only really nailed the last perfectly. Yeah, he's appropriating cliches and bringing some satire to the table, but the record is so flagrantly broad in narrative and execution that it feels thin, especially in comparison with its predecessor. That said, if I completely ignore the first Ziltoid release and the companion disc Sky Blue, does Dark Matters hold up? Well, yeah - as harsh as I've been, it's still a fun record that's going to get a very light 7/10, but as a step in the Ziltoid Saga I'll hoped for more. And as for the possibility of a third entry... it's Devin Townsend. Whatever we're going to get, it's going to be interesting.


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Industrial real estate market treading water
The vacancy rate for leased industrial space in Kent County rose to 18.4 percent halfway through last year, up from 18.1 percent at the start of 2010. But when owner-occupied buildings are included, the overall vacancy rate for all industrial properties was 11.5 percent, up from 11.2 percent six months earlier.
"There were only a handful of notable transactions completed over the past six months, while consolidations and foreclosures continued," wrote Jill Langosch, vice president of research for CB Richard Ellis of Grand Rapids, in the firm's industrial market report.
"Building sale activity has been extremely slow. However, the number of buildings available within the market is increasing as more lenders are foreclosing on industrial properties. Market pricing will remain lower than normal, particularly the sale of many of these distressed assets," she added.
According to the CBRE/GR report, there were only two transactions countywide for more than 100,000 square feet of space in those six months, and three other deals that ranged from 48,000 to 76,000 square feet. Langosch said there wasn't any speculative construction during that period and her firm doesn't expect any new building projects in the immediate future.
The county's industrial market has 96.6 million total square feet of space, and 53.3 million square feet is considered leaseable. At a vacancy rate of 18.4 percent, that means 9.8 million square feet of leaseable space is empty.
A majority of the county's leasable industrial space — 24.7 million square feet — is in the southeast sector, which had the county's highest vacancy rate at 24.4 percent. The northwest sector, with 7.4 million leasable square feet, had the second-highest vacancy rate at 21.6 percent.
"Overall, average market lease rates have dropped slightly over the last six months. Lease rates continue to vary depending upon specific requirements. Tenants continue to find aggressive rates for bulk warehouse space, while rates are higher for tenants with specific needs," said Langosch. "Furthermore, some landlords are challenged to secure financing for specific tenant improvements."
Lease prices ranged from a low of $1.50 per square foot to a high of just under $5.00 per square foot. Another 200,000 square feet of vacant industrial space should go on the market soon from the General Motors 36th Street stamping plant in Wyoming, which could drive leasing rates down even further.
CRBE/GR said a recovery in the market is being slowed by all the usual suspects: high unemployment, a lack of capital, volatility in the financial market, and the uncertainty that has been expressed by consumers and businesses.
The overall vacancy rate for all industrial properties nationwide also rose from 13.2 percent to 13.5 percent, a figure that is higher than the 11.5 percent rate in the county.
"Leasing agents report an increase in inquiries, showings and overall activity. However, many tenants remain cautious and are slow to commit to leases. Companies continue to report profits, but are waiting for longer-term visibility and uncertain tax and health care issues associated with the November elections," said Langosch. "Thus, we anticipate the market will continue to tread water."


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Bread and Soup 2019 Dates:
January 10th – February 28th, 2019
Thursday evenings in the Spring semester from 5-7 p.m. in KC Dix (second floor).
What is Bread and Soup?
All you can eat soup, bread, and fruit!!
Bread and Soup is an opportunity for students to help feed the hungry in our communities. One in six children go hungry in Portage County alone, and you can make the difference. By eating a simple meal together with your fellow students, faculty, staff, and community members, you can make a direct impact on those who go hungry in and around our state. For every meal purchased, one dollar goes towards helping the local community by providing meal boxes and hygiene packs.
How much does it cost?
- Students simply use a meal swipe
- Faculty, staff and community members pay $6 to partake in bread, soup, assorted fruits and beverages
- Children 10 years and older pay full price
- Children ages 3-9 years of age pay $3
- Children under the age of two are free!
Come together to partake in a meal for a common cause – to feed those in need.
Bread and Soup History
Since 1983, Hiram College has hosted an annual Bread and Soup meal each winter where students, faculty and community members can purchase a simple bread and soup meal on Thursday evenings in the Kennedy Center, eat in solidarity with those who have fewer food options than most of us, and benefit those in need in our community.


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Late Night Gravy #13
Kicking off the New Year with some solid sounds tonight! I want to apoligize ahead of time, I put this together while I was snowed in on New Years Eve so there was lots of beers involved and it might not be the tightest mix in the world. Doesn't matter though cause it's all about rockin' the Gravy!! Threw in a little bit of everything in this episode, some electronic, some hip hop, some old school funk, and lots of Gravy to top it off. As always "Late Night Gravy" pairs well with booze and any other party favors you prefer.
Gravy Intro
"One For J.J." - Sound Directions
"Posed to Be" - Breakestra ft. Chali 2na, DJ Dusk, & Mixmaster Wolf
"Getting There" - Flying Lotus ft. Niki Randa
"The Kill" - Flying Lotus ft. Niki Randa
"Harlem Clavinette" - J.J. Johnson & His Orchestra
"The Bird" - Jimmy McGriff
"Geek Down/Murda Goons" - Dilla, Ghostface Killah, & MF Doom
"Too Deep" - J Courage
"Spinning" - Zion I
"Underwear Goes Inside the Pants" - Lazyboy ft. Greg Giraldo
"Notturna" - Visione
"Gazebo" - Tony Trimm
"Body Rock" - Baron Zen
"Guiding Resolution" - Poets of Rhythm
"Boogie Philosophy" - DePhazz
"Blow Your Head" - J.B.'s Allstars and Fred Wesley
"Ox 9000" - Vast Aire
"Why'sdaskyblue?" - Vast Aire
**Download this episode HERE**
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[TFC 0.79.29][0.13.0]TerraMisc - Misc, Magic, and More!
Necoxus posted a topic in Addons & ApplicationsTerraMisc Introduction TerraMisc is an addon without any defined theme; I add in random things cause I think that TFC would be better with it or that it would have a positive impact on gameplay. Feel free to suggest things as long as they aren't things that the TFC devs themselves have openly opposed or rejected, plus they have to appropriate for all audiences as per forum rules. Links: Github:https://github.com/Powerman913717/terramisc Twitter:https://twitter.com/necoxus Donations: Paypal*Donations received allow me to contribute more time and resources to this project. Thank you!* Contents Note: All of my recipes should be compatible with the NEI TFC Addon. Longbow and tiered metal arrows! Crossbow and tiered metal bolts! (Crushing Damage!) Quiver for compatibilitywith Longbow and Crossbow! Alternate Red stone recipes, this includes pistons and sticky pistons! Suet, Tallow, and Candles! Additional meleeweapons such as Halberds, War Hammers, and Poniards! New chain mail armor variant! Alternate Clock and Compass recipes! Decorative road blocks for more beautiful looking roads and paths! Fruit press, which produces fruit juice from all berries and a few other fruits! (Works like the TFC Hopper.) (Now with additional fruit support and juices!) Fruit wine, fermented from fruit juice, can also be used to make vinegar! Sugar extraction from fruit juice! Soy Milk, dairy replacement! Mod Spotlights Downloads Changelog Legal/Modpack Authors/Terms of Use Support/Bug Reports


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At some point, the Rockets should just call the Heat and offer to trade Omer Asik for LeBron James. Because, why not?
Houston's desperate attempts to trade its backup center fell short last week when a reported deal with the Celtics never came to fruition. But the trade market for Asik might have jumped the shark before that. The Rockets and Nets engaged in "preliminary talks" about swapping Asik and Jeremy Lin for Deron Williams, ESPN.com reports.
The Nets, not surprisingly, "balked," according to Ohm Youngmisuk.
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey pulled off a couple of coups in the last two offseasons, nabbing James Harden and Dwight Howard to transform Houston into a Western Conference title contender. Before bringing in Howard this summer, though, he signed Asik to a three-year deal in 2012 to bolster the back line of the Rockets' defense.
Asik performed well in his one season as a starter, but has become extraneous with Howard's arrival. The 27-year-old Turkish big man has grown disillusioned with his playing time and has requested a trade, which the Rockets have made every attempt to fulfill.
And by "every" attempt, we mean every attempt — no matter how far outside the bounds of reality.


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Twitter complied with half of all the UK government's requests to access users' accounts this year.
The UK requested access to 299 accounts between January and June 2015. Twitter said that it had given access to personal information for 52 percent of these requests.
The social network said the requests were made "typically" in connection with criminal investigations, and that affected users would be made aware of requests. However, if a government agency, like a police force, prohibits alerting the user, they will never know.
It will refuse a request when an exact Tweet or Twitter account was not specified, and will ask for further clarification from requests that are "overly broad." Occasionally, it found that users challenged the requests after notification.
So what data does Twitter keep?
Some real-time information like IP logs may only be stored for a short amount of time, but a lot is automatically collected.
If government agencies ask Twitter to preserve records which could become evidence in legal proceedings, it will keep a snapshot of the account for 90 days. The requestor must include the details of the Twitter account, have a valid official email address and send the request using a law enforcement letterhead.
The requests can be sent to the San Francisco or Dublin HQ. Twitter operates under US and Irish data protection law.
What if I deactivate my account?
Even after deactivating your account there will be a "brief period" in which Twitter can access your account information and Tweets.
Can the UK government see my direct messages?
If there is a valid, legal request made with a warrant then Twitter is obliged to hand over all information, whether it is publicly visible or not.
Why did Twitter decline half the requests?
If there isn't a warrant in place, the company will weigh up whether there is a legitimate emergency involving danger or death or physical harm.
The amount of requests from government agencies like the police have more than doubled since last year, when 116 requests were made. This is a stark contrast from 2012 when Twitter received just 11.
Turkey, Japan and US government agencies made more requests than the UK.
This could be due to awareness of an international cyber-bullying phenomenon, and public scrutiny and outrage surrounding abusive Tweets.
Twitter and Facebook are also increasingly reported as core communication tools to recruit jihadists in Britain.
Twitter will comply with non-government requests: Twitter fans can request their own account information too.


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Love is a fickle thing. It plays by its own rules and most of the time, it came out of the left field only to left on a whim. No wonder some chose to opt out of it rather than risk being at its mercy. Because love could be cruel, and stories such as Love for Sale was a cautionary tale for some and a ray of hope for others.
After years of being comfortable with solitude, an impulsive bet with his pride at stake got Richard Achmad (Gading Marten) bending over backwards trying to find a date for his friend's wedding. Until his search led him to a dating app called Love.inc where his oversight trapped him in a 45 days contract with Arini Kusuma (Della Dartyan).
The best movies were the ones that made you forget they weren't real. But the ones that would stay in your heart forever, were those that hit too close to home and coaxed feelings out of you. And Love for Sale was one of the latter. It enamoured with its simplicity and whisked you away with its honesty. Much like love, actually, it was a pleasant surprise that ignited a storm of emotion, uncaring of whether you wanted it or not.
Love for Sale was a cliche. Not just because I have read one too many stories under the trope of contractual relationships. But also because there was something so blatantly cliche about someone who fell in love with another person whom they constantly spent time with. "Tresna jalaran saka kulina" did become a famous saying for a reason. And yet. And yet. There was something so honest and relatable about Richard's story. Because it was a scenario that we, any of us, could easily found ourselves in. Not under a contractual relationship with a shady dating company, surely. But in that cheesy as fuck moment where you looked at someone whose presence you've gotten really used to, and then the emotions just came in waves and you just knew, without a doubt, that you were fucked. Because you were in love.
Look further, and you realised that even the whole dating app shenanigans made sense. All relationships, after all, came with contracts and expiration date. Andibachtiar Yusuf and M Irfan Ramly just put a spin on that indisputable fact. It was how they cleverly disguised a story about someone's journey to make peace with solitude. Because you never knew how suffocating the silence was, until someone came along and played a tune for you, only to turned it off and disappeared with it afterwards. Then suddenly the silence was too loud, and being alone turned into loneliness. And that, that right there, was why Love for Sale was such a gem: it was really easy to relate to. Mostly due to how Gading Marten and Della Dartyan exceeded any expectations. They just let go and became one with their characters, deluding us into believing that what they had was real.
Watching Love for Sale was like reliving all the buried feelings and got lost in the riptide. It reminded you of what you've had and what you've lost, and why you should make peace with that. With its brutal honesty and fine simplicity, it would either help you remember that some risks, such as love, are worth taking. Yet for others whom, for their own reasons, chose to not let their head wandered to the cloud, it was a resounding cautionary tale.
Director: Andibachtiar Yusuf. Writer: Andibachtiar Yusuf & M Irfan Ramly. Relased on: 15 March 2018. Casts: Gading Marten, Della Dartyan, Verdi Solaiman, Torro Margens, Dayu Wijanto, Rukman Rosadi.


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Apple iPhone 7 32GB Silver - Demo
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The Apple iPhone 7 dramatically improves the most important aspects of the iPhone experience. It introduces an advanced new 12MP camera with an ƒ/1.8 aperture for great low-light photos and 4K video system. Optical image stabilization. The best performance and battery life ever placed into an iPhone. Immersive stereo speakers. The brightest, most colourful 4.7-inch Retina HD display with wide color and 3D touch. An A10 Fusion chip for up to 2x faster performance than the Apple iPhone 6s. And just to make sure you can take your Apple iPhone 7 anywhere it is now splash and water resistance. This is the iPhone 7 and it looks every bit as powerful as it is.
Techexchange sell Demo/'As New' devices at a fraction of the cost of a new phone. These are phones that for one reason or another have been out of their package at some point in time, customer returns, factory seconds or phones used briefly. They are in 'as new' condition with minimal / no marks on them. They come in their original box and contain all their original parts and accessories. We run thorough tests on them before they go out for sale. We sell them cheaper because they aren't brand new, but we assure you they are in perfect condition externally and internally. If you notice anything you are not 100% satisfied with, we will refund your money or exchange your purchase. A Techexchange 6 month warranty will ensure your phone is covered in the event of any hardware faults. For further information on the warranty please refer to: https://www.techexchange.co.za/techexchange-warranty
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|12MP (f/1.8, 28mm, 1/3"), phase detection autofocus, OIS, quad-LED dual-tone flash
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|7MP (f/2.2, 32mm), 1080p@30fps, 720p@240fps, face detection, HDR, panorama
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Children of all ages, get outside and join Holly Twining in an animal/insect inspired yoga class!
Move, laugh, and breath deeply alongside the beautiful Stillwater River...
Caregivers can choose to stay and play or drop off their littles to enjoy an hour of free time!
Mantis Yoga for Kids will run on Mondays from 4-5pm for 6 weeks - yahoo! June 19, 26, July 3, 10, 17, 24
Drop in cost: $10; sibling $5; caregivers come along for free. Please pay with cash or check upon arrival.
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Owen Forsyth 3D & VFX
My Personal Projects
This website is all about my personal projects. I have learned a lot in the few years I have been interested in visual effects and 3D design, modeling & animation.
You can also see more on the below profiles
ProjectsI have a huge collection of projects that I have worked on over the years, you can see them here. I work with Autodesk Maya, Adobe After Effects, Element 3D & Photoshop. Have a look and see what you think.
I have a wide range of interests when it comes to 3D & animation. Sometimes I build from scratch, sometimes I use pre-built 3D models both free & paid.
WWII Panzer Panther Tank
One of my first ever solo projects
I built this 3D model from scratch. All in all this project took me 6 weeks in total, I built every aspect of this tank from the tracks all the way down to the nuts & bolts. I am going to return to this project soon to finish it off. Hopefully one I can it rigged and make it move
The Ruins
Pre-made 3D Model
Different Images from a project
This model was built by someone else. My part in this project was trying a few different effects in Autodesk Maya. The 3D model is an obj / fbx format. I chose to use Autodesk Maya for this project as I was interested in using the physical sun & sky in the mental ray plugin.
Also the effects I used in this project was trying out the fog features in Autodesk Maya. I used some tutorials from Youtube to help me out with the effect and settings. I do plan on revisiting this project soon, I am also interested in animating the fog effect and a camera possibly in After Effects.
Porsche 911This project is all about the lighting and shadows I made this in Autodesk Maya. I also wanted to try out the reflections in the car paint and windows. I built up a photographer's studio for the background of this project in Autodesk Maya. I built a 3 point lighting system overhead to cast a studio light.
Predator DroneThis image of the drone was made in Autodesk Maya where I used the physical sun and sky settings in Mental Ray for Maya, I also added shadows and a 360 sky image in the background
My Animations
These projects were made up using a combination of 3D models, images and video, everything in this set of videos is digitally made and not real. My main focus is photo-realism in my projects.
I dont always get to update the website but update social media often. You can see more of my work there
More Places
3D Animation
Owen Forsyth City Logo
I built the entire city from 3D models from a model pack.
Using Element 3D and Adobe After Effects I added my name into the project and building the city around it, animating the camers from different angles
The Rooftop Scene
This project was made up from Video CoPilots rooftop tutorial, using the model pack provided from them. I added the drop ship model and then built up the shooting sequence using various elements.
Post Apocalyptic Dublin Series
Post Apocalyptic Dublin is the latest and my favourite project.
I got some images from my home city of Dublin, Ireland, some famous landmarks from around the capital.
I have watched films where L.A, New York and other cities being destroyed, so I decided to try it for myself, using all the skills I have learned over the years.


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"Be obscure clearly." – E.B.White
In my previous entry I spoke about how essential it is for a writer to practice 'good writing'. But what is good writing? How does one work out the principles of writing well? What are some common mistakes that beginning writers would do well to avoid? If you're looking for a book to answer these questions, you should no look further than The Elements of Style.
What began life as an English professor's lecture material has now become the style bible of countless authors. No matter what you wish to write – a short story, a thesis paper, a love letter, a business proposal – this book will make it easier. Carry it everywhere you go, and read it from cover to cover as many times as it takes to commit the contents to memory.
Good writing, it appears, is a combination of three things:
- Usage
These are rules pertaining to the usage of the English language. These could perhaps be termed the 'non-negotiables', guidelines that have been in place for so long now that it would be 'wrong' not to follow them. For instance, "use the proper case of the pronoun", and "the number of the subject determines the number of the verb".
A good grounding in grammar will ensure that a writer's usage of the language is correct. Though Elements cites quite a few common mistakes of usage, if you want to be more thorough, use a grammar book. (You already have one of those, don't you?)
- Composition
Composition is the art of designing a piece of writing. Things like form, voice, tightness etc. fall in this group. Rules governing composition are more subjective than those of usage, and the writer is welcome to discard guidelines that he thinks are of no use, but he would be well advised to think long and hard before doing so. Three of my favourite commandments from this part of the book are 'Make the paragraph the unit of composition', 'Use definite, specific, concrete language' and 'Omit needless words'.
- Style
In addition to usage and composition, the writer must also cultivate his own 'style' of writing, of saying things. A writer may find that his natural style is to overwrite and overstate, whereas another writer may be a master at brevity. One may love to use metaphors and similes while another may prefer talking straight. Here the lines blur even further than they do with rules of composition; here the writer must make his own way, and 'steer by stars that are disturbingly in motion'. (But even here there is invaluable advice, like 'Write with nouns and verbs', 'Do not construct awkward adverbs' and 'Avoid fancy words'.)
By far the most important mandate of writing, however, can be summed up in two words: Be clear. All writing is communication, and if you feel the need to be vague for some stylistic reason, you must be vague in a way that is clear. No matter how many rules you follow or abandon, remember at all times that the primary purpose of all writing is to be read, and the primary purpose of all reading is to understand. The most important question you must answer at all times is whether or not you're saying what you mean in the clearest manner possible. Everything else is mere commentary.
By clearing your mind, and your language, of clutter, 'your style will emerge, because you yourself will emerge, and when this happens you will find it increasingly easy to break through the barriers that separate you from other minds, other hearts – which is, of course, the purpose of writing, as well as its principal reward. Fortunately, the act of composition, or creation, disciplines the mind; writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.'


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It's been a very productive week for our tiny house, T42. (It's also been a very exciting week for Isha and I because we made A Big Announcement!) This week, with the help of a few friends and a couple Tiny House Sidekicks, we managed to install the sleeping loft, the studio pocket door, the bathroom pocket door, the studio wall, the access hatch for our loo bucket, and do the first coat of paint on the interior of our little house. (If you'd like to see more photos and the play-by-play, be sure to check out Niche Consulting on Instagram!)
I worked solo for two half days the first couple days of the week, caulking seams, spray foaming our fenders, and finishing priming. I'd started T42 Sealing & Priming a few weeks ago when my baby cousin was in town and she's right, it's boring. But listening to books on Audible kept me entertained. I also got our keyless door lock installed so we can remain Key Free.
[T42 Roof Complete]On Wednesday, the roofers from TB Quality Construction finished installing our roof. This is the same team that did The Lucky Penny's Copper Penny Roof and, once again, they did a great job! Additionally, Andy (who joined me for the first two Build Blitzes) spent a day helping the inside of our little house take shape. We built the frame for the sleeping loft out of cedar 2x4s and then attached birch plywood to the bottom and with the help of the folks building near us at Green Anchors, we hoisted it into place and anchored it there with structural screws. We supported the hanging corner of the loft with a 4x4 post and then cut the pocket door frame and door down to size. We also built a little wall next to the pocket door to finish out that wall. The clearance underneath our sleeping loft will be about 5'8" once our finish floor is installed, which is too short for folks like Andy to stand up in, but perfectly comfy for Isha (who is 5'5") and me. (I'm 5'2" on a tall day!) This gives us more room in the sleeping loft, which we're really looking forward to! I was so excited to have this new room in the house I couldn't resist getting a little paint on the wall, so I painted our lavender wall that day, too!
On Thursday I ordered our cork flooring, picked up more Colorhouse no-VOC paint at Green Depot, washed the skylights, insulated our sleeping loft with Roxul Safe & Sound mineral wool insulation, and started noodling through installation of the access hatch in the bathroom.
Friday I was joined by my pal Chris and two Tiny House Sidekicks, Christine and Robb, for a painting party. We finished some caulk and priming details and then started playing with color. The ceiling is a creamy white, the long walls are spring green, the tongue wall is lavender, and the tail wall is barely blue. It's so fun to see the house transformed by color!
Sunday Isha and I installed the access hatch in the bathroom for our loo bucket. It felt strange to cut another hole in the house after working so hard to seal everything up. If I had it to do over again I'd definitely have had it cut out in the factory since the access hatch is harder to flash than the windows. Nevertheless, we got it done and we're excited about being able to empty our loo bucket from outside the house instead of carrying the bucket through the kitchen and outside! We also installed the pocket door for our bathroom, which we'd been holding off on until the access hatch was cut because we knew it would be more difficult to do once that wall was in place! (Saws require clearances!)
We also made a trip to Ikea to select our sink and explore storage solutions for our studio. Our water heater and exhaust fan are on order and this week I'll be ordering our kitchen cabinets, our bathtub, and our countertops so that we can work on Cabinets & Built-Ins for Build Blitz #5. If you'd like to join us, please sign up. This is the last T42 Build Blitz before September so if you've been itching to get some hands-on building experience, this is your chance!


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Brian Mulroney, whose estimated $2-million in legal fees at the Oliphant inquiry will be paid by the federal government, testified yesterday that he never sought money for personal damages when he settled his lawsuit with Ottawa more than a decade ago because it would have come from taxpayers.
In his last day of cross-examination and his sixth day of testimony, Mr. Mulroney told the Oliphant inquiry that when his lawyers came to him in 1997 and told him the government was ready to settle his defamation suit against the RCMP, he had an important stipulation. "I had no interest in asking for any, or accepting, any money that came from the taxpayers," Mr. Mulroney told Mr. Justice Jeffrey Oliphant.
Mr. Mulroney's description of his gesture to taxpayers came only one day after the inquiry revealed that the Canada Revenue Agency didn't require him to pay tax on half of the $225,000 in cash that he accepted from German-born lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber in hotels between 1993 and 1994.
Those payments were never disclosed during the mid-1990s lawsuit, which Mr. Mulroney launched after the RCMP accused him and Mr. Schreiber of defrauding the federal government in connection with more than $20-million in secret commissions European manufacturers paid to the lobbyist. As part of the 1997 settlement agreement, the federal government paid the former prime minister's legal and public relations costs – about $2.1-million.
Yesterday, it emerged that taxpayers are again on the hook for the latest incarnation of Mr. Mulroney's legal team, which has numbered as many as five during some hearings before the Oliphant inquiry.
A spokesperson for the Privy Council Office said last night that the office has set aside more than $2-million to cover Mr. Mulroney's legal expenses and is awaiting invoices from the former prime minister. A Treasury Board policy can be used to cover legal expenses of former prime ministers with PCO approval. Mr. Mulroney has also employed public relations firm Navigator Ltd. during the inquiry, but nothing in the Treasury Board policy offers compensation for such work. Robin Sears, Mr. Mulroney's chief spokesperson, said last night in an e-mail that the government will not pay his firm.
During his last day of testimony, the former prime minister squared off for the first time against Mr. Schreiber's lawyer, Richard Auger.
Several of Mr. Auger's questions focused on the last cash instalment that Mr. Mulroney received from Mr. Schreiber, which Mr. Mulroney says was held in a Manhattan safety deposit box.
Mr. Mulroney said he could not recall when he cleared out the box – which held the 75 Canadian $1,000 bills – but the former prime minister acknowledged that he used most of the money to pay for his children's education in the United States.
Mr. Mulroney said he did not use the money from the safety deposit box until after he declared it as income in 2000. But in response to repeated questions from Mr. Auger, he said he recalls few details about when the money was removed.
"When was the last increment removed from the safety deposit box in New York?" Mr. Auger asked.
"I have no idea," Mr. Mulroney replied.
"Could it have been in 2001 or 2002?"
"I have no idea, sir," Mr. Mulroney repeated.
"Could it have been in 2008?"
"Two thousand and eight? No, sir," Mr. Mulroney said.
"Could it have been in 2005?"
"Well, I think I've indicated to you that it was most likely beginning in late 2000," Mr. Mulroney said.
"Well, you said in increments. So the first increment was removed in late 2000?" Mr. Auger asked.
"I believe so, yes."
"How much?"
"I can't remember, sir."
An intervention by Judge Oliphant ultimately drew a more detailed account of where the money went.
"Mr. Mulroney, at that time did you have children or a child attending school in the United States perhaps?" Judge Oliphant asked. "I happen to be a father who has a child that has been educated out of the country, and I'm wondering if some of the money went to that?"
Mr. Mulroney confirmed that that was the case.
"I think there were in that time frame at least two, if not three, in New York and Connecticut at the time, in that general time frame, and you're quite right, that's what it was used for principally," he said.
According to news reports from 2001 to 2004, three of Mr. Mulroney's children were studying in the United States.
Mr. Mulroney's daughter, Caroline, was taking law at New York University when she married Andrew Lapham in September, 2000, in a high-profile wedding in Montreal. The New York Times published a story on the wedding, given that it involved the daughter of a former Canadian prime minister and the son of Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harper's, the current affairs magazine based in New York.
Before Mr. Mulroney finished his testimony, Judge Oliphant sought assurance that he felt he was treated fairly.
"Mr. Mulroney, you've been on the stand for, I think, the longest of any witness I have either been involved in as a lawyer or in 24 years as a judge," the judge said. "I want to assure myself before you leave, sir, that you feel, despite probing questions that may have been asked, that you leave here feeling that you've been treated fairly and with respect."
"I think precisely that, Mr. Commissioner," Mr. Mulroney replied. "Both you and [lead commission counsel Richard] Wolson and his colleagues and other members of the group have treated me very fairly and with great respect and the probing questions I thought were appropriate and didn't either bother me or offend me in any way, and so the answer to the question is very much in the affirmative and I thank you, sir, for your kindness."
Before he left the hearing room, Mr. Mulroney and his wife, Mila, shook hands with at least three of the inquiry lawyers.


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Learn How to Flash Stock ROM in Samsung Galaxy E7 or How to fix bricked Samsung Galaxy E7: If You have a Samsung Galaxy E7 and if you are facing any problem like your galaxy E7 is Bricked, stuck at the Samsung Logo, Galaxy E7 gets blank out screen, E7 is not starting or Bootloop problem, also if your E7 is rooted and you want to Unroot your Galaxy E7 or any of problem is happening with your Samsung Galaxy E7 then don't worry about your Bricked Galaxy E7, here you will get all in one complete solution for your Samsung Galaxy E7, you can easily fix your E7 by simply Flashing Stock ROM in Samsung Galaxy E7.
|Samsung Galaxy E7
Samsung Galaxy E7
Samsung Galaxy E7 is entire range smartphone, it comes with very good and attractive features like 5.5 inches screen, 720 × 1280 resolutions, works on android version 4.4.4 KitKat, upgradable to 5.1.1 Lollipop, CPU- Quad Core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53, Internal Memory-16GB, 2 GB RAM, primary camera- 13 MP and Secondary camera- 5 MP, 2950 mah battery. and it comes with Dual Sim 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi also.
One Solution To Fix Every Single Problem In Bricked Samsung Galaxy E7
You can solve the any of Problems about your Galaxy E7, By simply Flashing Stock ROM in Samsung Galaxy E7, some of problems I've listed below, which you can solve easily by just flashing ROM:
- If your Samsung Galaxy E7 is not starting
- If your Samsung Galaxy E7 stuck at blank out screen only
- If your Samsung Galaxy E7 stuck at Samsung Logo
- You can Unroot your Samsung Galaxy E7, and again get its warranty officially.
- If your Samsung Galaxy E7 Stuck at Boot-loop.
- If you don't have a backup of your Stock ROM and you've already installed a custom ROM in your Samsung Galaxy E7, and want to revert it back into your original condition, just Flash Stock ROM.
- According to me flashing ROM in any device is a best trick to comeback android again in its original condition, which make feels you like you've purchase your phone after flashing stock ROM. and the best advantage is that if you've rooted your phone, then its common you had lost your warranty, and after flashing Stock ROM you can get your phone's warranty back officially.
Warning: This tutorial is only for Samsung Galaxy E7, don't try this tutorial for flashing ROM in other android phones.
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Requirements To Fix And Flash Stock ROM In Samsung Galaxy E7
Before going for flashing Stock ROM in Samsung Galaxy E7, you've need some requirements, that I've Listed below:
- A PC or Laptop
- Make sure your phone's battery is charged at least 50%
- Enable USB Debugging- Go to your settings> about phone> find Build number and tap it 4-7 times until its show you a message "Now You've a Developer Option". Now go to your settings> developer options> Tick on USB Debugging. (If your phone is not bricked, otherwise leave this option)
- Make a full Backup of all your apps and important data, because flashing ROM can erase everything from your Phone's memory. (If your phone is not bricked, otherwise leave this option)
- Download Odin Flashing Tool From Here– Odin 3.09 (this is a zip file, first extract it to use)
- Download USB Driver for Samsung Galaxy E7 – USB driver (this is a zip file, first extract it to use)
- Download Stock ROM for your Samsung Galaxy E7, check your model and download Stock ROM from here I've listed below:
Samsung Galaxy E7 Stock ROM/Firmware For SM-E700H – Download (5.1.1 Lollipop)
Samsung Galaxy E7 Stock ROM/Firmware For SM-E700F – Download (5.1.1 Lollipop)
Make sure you've check all the above requirements that I've listed, all the downloads- Odin, USB Drivers and Firmware(Stock ROM) comes with in a zip format you have to extract all the files before using.
you can extract these files with 7Zip, if you don't have 7Zip then download it from here.
How To Flash Stock ROM (Firmware) In Samsung Galaxy E7
For flashing firmware in Samsung Galaxy E7, check once again the requirements, if you've done then go further and follow carefully the given steps:
After installing USB Drivers in your PC or Laptop, Reboot your Samsung Galaxy E7 into Download mode by pressing Home button + Power Button + Volume Down key at a same time for 3-4 seconds until its goes to Download mode, and select continue for flashing process:
|Download mode- Galaxy E7
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Now Open Odin.****.exe and after reboot your device in download mode connect it with your PC with help of a data cable, after connecting Odin will indicate you a message "Added" and ID: COM port on Odin will turn Blue or Yellow depending on Odin's version, that also means Odin tool is ready for flashing firmware.
Now Click on AP or PDA for selecting your firmware that is in .tar or .tar.md5 extension, simply select it and now click on start option on Odin, and leave all settings remain, you have to check only "Auto Reboot" and "F. Reset Time" and leave all settings unchecked, after clicking on start button your flashing process will be start and it takes 5-7 minutes, and when its completed, it will indicate a message PASS on Odin, your device will be automatically Reboot and restart in few minutes, keep patience and do not unplug before its complete, check in below image:
In case, If you got a multi firmware like AP, BL, CP, CSC and .PIT files, then while flashing select all your components one by one and also .PIT file if you have to flash a multi firmware , Check only Re- Partition and F. Reset Time and leave all settings unchecked, now click on start and until your flashing completed. see image in below:
Fixing Boot loop Problem In Samsung galaxy E7, After Flashing Firmware
In some cases, your device might stuck in Boot loop problem, to solve this simply reboot your device into recovery mode by pressing Power Button + Home + Volume UP and do a wipe data/factory reset, and reboot your device, it will start properly and all problems are now solved! congratulations! you've successfully installed Stock ROM in your Samsung Galaxy E7.
|recovery-mode-Samsung Galaxy E7
Problems While Flashing Stock ROM Via Odin
I've listed some common problems while flashing Stock ROM in Samsung Galaxy E7, so if you are facing any problem, check it double, and try again:
- If you don't install Samsung USB Driver properly
- lose or Duplicate Data Cable
- Wrong firmware, which means you are not using compatible firmware for your device
- Check only Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time and leave all boxes unchecked for single firmware, and for multi firmware- check Re- Partition and F. Reset Time and leave all boxes unchecked.
[[Note= Sometimes Flashing Stock ROM Might Soft-Brick Your Device, Do At Your Own Risk! I'll Be Not Responsible For Your Soft-Bricked Android]]


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Whooohoo! I am finally have the rest of the Taste the Crellies Collection by Jolie Polish for you today which I used in my bordered fishtail nails. :) This is going to be a long post but definitely keep reading to see 3 pretty pastel polishes and a tutorial on how I did my fishtail nails! Let's get started. ;)
|Bordered Pastel Fishtail Nails
The first crelly I have for you is Hey Pink Hotty!
|Hey Pink Hotty by Jolie Polish
This splendid pink is really thin but it is perfect for jelly sandwiches -- I used 4 coats and no topcoat necessary.
|Hey Pink Hotty by Jolie Polish
The second crelly is Purple Crelly!
|Purple Crelly by Jolie Polish
Even though the name is 'plain', I can assure you that this lavender shade is so not boring. This is your classic purple pastel polish that EVERYONE needs in their polish collection -- I used 3 coats of Purple Crelly plus a clear topcoat because it naturally dries matte.
|Purple Crelly by Jolie Polish
Okay, the third and final crelly is called Teal Me This Looks Good!
|Teal Me This Looks Good by Jolie Polish
I know this one is supposed to be a 'teal' color but in real life I would describe this as more of a jade. I don't own any green polish like this so I'm very happy to finally have this color in my collection -- I used 3 coats plus a topcoat since it naturally dried matte.
|Teal Me This Looks Good by Jolie Polish
Phew! I am done swatching all of Jolie Polish's crelly polishes! :D It feels so good to be an official swatcher for an awesome indie polish brand and to have every polish they have ever created swatched at some point on my blog. ;) Let's get onto this nail art now!!!
|Bordered Pastel Fishtail Nails
You can probably see now why I wanted to use these 3 polishes together to create my fishtail (aka braided) nails. :) These pastels just go so well together!
|Bordered Pastel Fishtail Nails
The polishes and materials that I used for this manicure are:
Purple Crelly
Hey Pink Hotty
Teal Me This Looks Good
+ black acrylic paint
+ square rhinestones
|Square Nail Art Rhinestones from Simply Spoiled Beauty Products
Here is a closer look of the rhinestones that I used! {Use my Simply Spoiled Beauty Products discount code 'polishpals' for 40% your entire purchase}
|Bordered Fishtail Nail Art Tutorial by PolishPals
Here is my little fishtail pictorial that I made for you all this morning! Please let me know if you have any questions on how I did this technique; I hope that the photos make it clear on the steps but I'm sure there are still some unanswered questions out there. Remember that you can use ANY colors you want for this fishtail mani! I just used 3 of my favorite pastel colors -- virtually any color combo will work though. :)
|Bordered Pastel Fishtail Nail
And let's close this post off with a thumb shot. <3 Thanks guys for checking out the remainder of my Jolie Polish swatches + a fishtail mani tutorial! I am now done typing for today baha... ;)
Your Polish Pal,


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St Patrick's Day Holiday Arrangements
St Patrick's Day Holiday ArrangementsNews & Events
Saint Patrick's Day Bank Holiday
The following will be closed on Saint Patrick's Day Friday 17th of March:
The SU Office, the Library, the Academic Writing Centre, the SU Cloakroom, the SU Engineering Desk, the SU Shop, the Student Health Unit, Sult, Caife na Gaeilge, and Smokey's Café.
The Wall Café will be open with reduced hours 11:00-15:00. The Reading Room will be open as usual.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!