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It's that time of year again to see what is happening in High Point April 2015! The excitement and energy is everywhere, thanks to the High Point Market Authority who is the official sponsor and organizer of the High Point Market. It was created in 2001 to represent all Market constituents, including exhibitors, building owners and retailers. The Market Authority promotes the Market and runs the event every April and October.
Aside from inspiration, finding new resources and sourcing for our clients, there are numerous educational events and social activities. Here are just a few:
Explore the meaning of "Gracious Design" with Southern Living Senior Homes Editor Zoe Gowen and a panel of acclaimed designers whose signature styles define graciousness and hospitality. Panelists include Barry Dixon, Meg Braff, Angie Hranowsky, and Paige Sumblin Schnell. Breakfast buffet opens at 8:00 am and presentation starts promptly at 9:00 am. Open to all market-goers. Please RSVP to email@example.com by April 10th.
Want to make the most of your time at Market? Make this informative event your first appointment. In just a half hour, we'll tell you what you need to know to navigate High Point like a pro. A short video will show you the basics of the comprehensive free transportation system, how to find your way around the Market area, and where to go when you need assistance. Plus, a member of the Market Authority staff will be on hand to answer any specific questions you may have. No time to attend? View the video at www.highpointmarket.org.
Design Panel & Booksigning with Coastal Living Editor-in-Chief Antonia van der Meer
Join Antonia van der Meer, Editor-in-Chief of Coastal Living and an exclusive panel of top designers, as they discuss the roots of happiness described in Antonia's new book "Beach House Happy" – Balance, Surprise, Tradition, Color, Generosity, Nature – and how to incorporate these elements into the home. Design Panel with Coastal Living Editor-in-Chief Antonia van der Meer Booksigning of Antonia's new book, Beach House Happy, to follow.
After all of that learning and shopping, you need to unwind and there are plenty of cocktails and parties!
Happy Hour at The Antique & Design Center
Whiskey Tastings compliments of Troy & Sons Distillers in the Boiler Room Bar and complimentary Hors D'oeuvres & Live Music throughout the Antique & Design Center on Ground & Mezzanine of Historic Market Square, including everything from Bluegrass to Latin Jazz to French Favorites on Accordion to accompany your Happy Hour shopping.
Meet Tobi Fairley
Celebrate the inaugural launch of the new Tobi Fairley collection for Soicher Marin. Tobi Has a signature look that is fresh and simple, combining colorful, large-scale prints with classic furniture styles for a beautiful and functional result. Since establishing her design firm more than 15 years ago, Tobi's award-winning projects have spanned the nation with designs that have been featured on television, in major shelter publications, and online. Light hors d'oeuvres and drinks to be served.
Sneak peak via Editor at Large
Also, stay tuned for Tobi's new collection with CR Laine.
One of our favorite events is "Stars under the Stars". Previous markets included KC and the Sunshine Band, Billy Ocean, Little River Band, The Temptations, JoDee Messina, The Beach Boys and Rick Springfield. This April Taylor Dayne and Christopher Cross will take the stage.
They set up a huge tent in front of Showplace and everybody relaxes and has so much fun!!
Another great event sponsored by the High Point Market Authority is the Style Spotters Program. What exactly is a style spotter? Style spotters are trend setters that see ahead of the curve in home fashion trends. They will navigate the show and capture images of their favorite products. They will then pin those photos to Pinterest boards and will list the exhibitor's name and showroom number. They present the exhibitor with a sign that highlights the Style Spotter's name with a QR code and URL for the Pinterest board.
Our 2015 Style Spotters Look Forward to Spring Market
Home fashion experts offer their first take on the styles of spring, 2015
As we head into the waning weeks of winter, our attention turns to the arrival of spring. For many of us, the new season means a welcome turn toward warmer weather, and for all of us, spring brings new fashions, styles, and trends – and they'll all be waiting for us at Spring Market. To get in the right frame of mind for the event of the new season, we asked our 2015 Style Spotters to tell us what they'll be looking for when they arrive in High Point on April 18. So sit back, relax, forget the lower temps and shorter days – let's start thinking spring!
Arianne Bellizaire, Inspired to Style
As an interior decorator and blogger (but more importantly a lover of good design), I love spaces with bright, bold colors and interesting pattern combinations. I'm expecting to see lots of both at this Market, but I've noticed a growing trend toward more subtle spaces done in black, white and gold color palettes. It'll be interesting to see how this trend is represented at Market.
To me, High Point Market is a bit like Disney World! There's so much to see and never enough time, so I've learned that having a plan for who and what you want to see is the best way to maximize your time.
"Having a plan … is the best way to maximize your time."
– Arianne Bellizaire, Inspired to Style
Who's on my "must-see" list this Spring? Well, I'm looking forward to visiting Emporium Home, Bungalow 5 and Noir Trading Inc. to see their trend-forward accessories and case goods. I'll drop into Vanguard Furniture Co. Inc., Hickory Chair and Wesley Hall Inc. to see their beautifully designed upholstery pieces. I'll head into CR Laine Furniture to get a sneak peek at Tobi Fairley's newly unveiled upholstery collection, and Thibaut Fine Furniture to see how they've incorporated gorgeous fabrics and wall-covering options into their showroom vignettes. Currey & Company Inc. and Visual Comfort & Co. can always be counted on for over-the-top lighting elements, and finally, I'll visit the Antique & Design Center at Market Square to see an impressive array of one-of-a-kind antiques.
Kati Curtis, Kati Curtis Design
I'm inspired by my travels, and those inspirations are reflected in my design work. While hiking in Mexico, I saw beautiful, repetitive patterns in the Mayan ruins. In India, the vibrant colors captivated me; in Indonesia, the craftsmanship that went into the hand-carved exotic woods spoke to me, and in Israel, the gold leaf and precious stone inlays compelled me to seek more. So at Market, I'll be excited to see how designers and manufacturers are incorporating these influences in products today.
"I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more navy and green."
– Kati Curtis, Kati Curtis Design
Global and tribal elements, as they appear in motifs, colors and patterns, are of real interest to me. Seeing what's new – particularly inspired by the American Southwest, Mexico, South America, Southeast Asia and India – is something I'm really looking forward to at Spring High Point Market.
What else is important to me? Colors that are deep, rich and clean, but also influenced by today's fashion. So in 2015 I'm looking forward to seeing a lot more navy and green (favorites of mine), from what I have in my wardrobe to what I use in my designs.
I'm always on the hunt for new products … beautiful pieces with extra storage are an ongoing obsession. Inlaid pieces are exciting to me right now, and that probably has a lot to do with India, which, in so many ways, always seems to hold my attention.
Details are of particular importance: a leather strap on the back of a chair, a turned leg – these elements of craftsmanship are interesting to me, so I'll be looking to find gorgeous handmade intricacies in the smallest details, as well as the largest.
Beth Dotolo, RID, ASID, NCIDQ, Pulp Design Studios
High Point Market has become an incredibly important event for my interior design firm, Pulp Design Studios. When my partner, Carolina Gentry, and I began attending years ago we quickly realized that Market was a one-stop-shop that provided us with not only unlimited design inspiration and a first look at new trends, but also unparalleled networking opportunities and vendor exposure, which we've been able to utilize to grow our business. This year, I'm incredibly honored to be participating in a larger capacity as a Style Spotter.
"Perhaps the thing I look forward to most is being able to have a tangible experience of these amazing new products and trends."
– Beth Dotolo, Pulp Design Studios
For Spring Market, I am looking forward to seeing even more amazing new products and capturing the latest home fashion trends. I am excited to see the interior industry's take on the highly debated 2015 color of the year, Marsala, with hopefully more interior friendly shades in blush and rose. I expect copper, brass, and gold to still be strong. I'm predicting a global product influence, with a modern take. And, I am also looking to see fearless and large scale patterns that will make an impact, yet still be livable.
Perhaps the thing I look forward to most is being able to have a tangible experience of these amazing new products and trends. Come April, you'll find me sitting in and running my hands over just about everything.
When it comes to Style Spotting this Spring, I'll be looking for products that have qualities that align with the values my partner and I have embodied for Pulp Design Studios' design and business approach: Purpose, Quality, Individuality, Creativity, Humor, and Adaptability. Wrap all those qualities into a stylish product, and consider it "Spotted!"
Lori Gilder, Interior Makeovers Inc.
It truly is a thrill being a part of the 2015 Style Spotters team. This will be my third trip to Market and while I'm looking forward to the treasure trove of sources I find in venues like Market Square and Interhall, this year I'm also excited to scour the outlying showrooms and Antiques and Design Center for those one of a kind finds!
"I'm hoping to see more mid century modern influences … with a twist."
– Lori Gilder, Interior Makeovers Inc.
With a passion for designing kitchens and baths, I'll be on the hunt for unique products and materials, current color and fabric trends, rare vintage finds, architectural design elements, innovative lighting and fabulous furnishings, all of which will speak to my kitchen obsessed clients. It's all about finding those special gems that become the crowning jewel in the kitchen of their dreams.
I'm naturally drawn to crisp clean design elements and the architectural integrity of a space. I'm hoping to see more mid century modern influences … with a twist. I'm also a huge fan of mixing metals and while I adore the brass trend, I do expect to see more rose gold and copper details integrated into casegoods, seating and lighting.
With 12 million square feet of showroom and exhibit space, High Point Market is a driving force in the creative process. Staying ahead of industry trends and developing relationships with product designers and vendors helps us create those unique environments that our clients expect.
Patti Johnson, IDS, DSID, Patti Johnson Interiors
In addition to the fantastic color and inspiring designs that designers get so excited to see at Spring Market, I will be hunting the unique customizable upholstery, custom case good pieces and one of a kind items that really make a home personal for my clients. Lead times are also very important to both my business and to my clients.
"I'm always 'Style-spotting' to find great new resources."
– Patti Johnson, Patti Johnson Interiors
Designing from a standpoint of a "Well Designed Life," to borrow a popular phrase, more and more people are now working from home and/or have very long commutes. Thus their homes must be a haven for well-being throughout while co-existing with integrated home offices. Sourcing creative solutions on that front, I also love to throw in a wild card or two while maintaining a core principle of Cohesive Design. This means that every furnishing, fixture, finish, lighting or object ultimately "makes sense" in the overall design of the space. My clients like quality and comfort, and I can easily achieve this by using some of my wonderful classic go-to brands such as American Leather, Bernhardt and John Strauss Furniture. Still, I'm always "Style-spotting" to find great new resources so that nothing is ever repeated or becomes stale in my designs.
Last but not least are the wonderful educational and social activities available to every attendee at High Point Market. I encourage everyone to find time to attend a session. Of course I love seeing all the fab friends I've made via social media while visiting the beautiful showrooms – and I'm really excited to be a 2015 Style Spotter!
Courtney Lake, Monogram Décor
What I am looking for as a High Point Market Style Spotter is innovation and creativity with a modern touch. My eye is always drawn to pieces that have a bit of "quirk" to them. An interesting application of veneer or a fun drawer detail are all signs that the manufacturer was not just thinking about practicality. Whether it's the hinges on a case good or the stitching on the seams of a sofa, these are the type of things that get my blood pumping.
"Expect to find me digging for the hidden gems."
– Courtney Lake, Monogram Décor
I want to see what the ladies of Taylor Burke have in store for Market. I met them at their first Market and was immediately impressed by their product and the agility to which it could be morphed to fit a client's needs.
I will also be searching out what new things are coming from California-based company SkLO. I had the pleasure of working with them on a model home and was smitten with their innovative approach to glass. I love finding art and accessories that are not only beautiful but have a purpose.
So, this Market, expect to find me digging for the hidden gems that make me coo, clap and do a happy jig. And yes, I do dance when I get excited ….
Jonathan Legate, Jonathan Legate Interior Consultation
I love spring! It is a time of rebirth when everything is new and vibrant: it's a breath of fresh air. Even the familiar has a sparkle – it has grown, evolved and become new again. Just like the season, Spring High Point Market is filled with the new and familiar shining in a fresh, bright light.
"Keeping a finger on the pulse of design is crucial."
– Jonathan Legate, Jonathan Legate Interior Consultation
As a designer with a reputation for mixing the new with the familiar in both traditional and contemporary settings, keeping a finger on the pulse of design is crucial to my work. This year, personally and professionally, I am focusing on many things including:
Naturals / Organics
From the materials and processes used to manufacture items to pattern references in art and fabrics, items that reference and respect the earth they come from. Exotic marbles, driftwood, clay, semi precious stone and shell. Linen, cotton and wools, natural vegetable dyes, soothing colors. Sustainability.
Metallics / Luxury
From glass and brass to shimmering velvets and silks on luxurious upholstered furniture, reflective, lacquered finishes, semi precious and man made materials. Copper, bronze, bold brass, platinum, rose gold. Vibrant tones. Chic.
Tribal (this is really quite personal, inspired by a recent trip to South America)
From rugs to woven baskets and blankets to hand hammered bowls and found artifacts, inlaid tables and trays. Earthy tones with vibrant pops. Worldly.
Pure Classics
Art and artifacts from the 19th to mid 20th centuries. 50's, 60's, 70's fabulous lighting and furniture, strong lines that give way to sensuous curves. Scandinavian design, simple details against the fabulously ornate. Sophisticated.
Leslie Hendrix-Wood, Hadley Court
Gracious Living. Timeless Design. Family Traditions. Those have always been the guiding principles behind my life, my interior design work here in Midland, Texas, and the information I share with my blog's readers on Hadley Court.
"I'll .. be looking to spot … products … that represent the quality workmanship I value today.. which also have the style attributes I believe will represent tomorrow's timeless designs."
– Leslie Hendrix Wood, Hadley Court
As a 2015 Style Spotter, I'll be looking at the beautiful new introductions from my go-to resources like Bernhardt Furniture, Jonathan Charles Furniture, Century Furniture and Gabby Decor. After that, I'll also be looking to spot new products plus antique resources that represent the quality workmanship I value as an interior designer today, which also have the style attributes I believe will represent tomorrow's timeless designs for America's luxury furniture collectors and connoisseurs.
One other event we don't want to miss is the Junior League of High Point Designer Showhouse.
The 2015 Showhouse, a circa-1912 Tudor Revival home, will feature both local and national designers and will celebrate the theme "From High Point to the World." Each designer will draw inspiration from the history of the Terry property and the furniture-rich history of High Point. The home's transformation will create a modern, livable space in a historic home.
It will run from Saturday April 18 – Sunday April 26, 2015 and Friday May 1 – Sunday May 3, 2015 from 11:00 am – 6:00 pm daily.
Read my friend Lisa Mende's blog for a great story about the house!
Here are just of a few of the new introductions:
Bernhardt Furniture Criteria Side Chair
Margot Sofa by Gus Modern
Dunes and Duchess Lakehouse Lounging Bench – You choose the color and fabric!
Stay tuned for updates on our incredible finds, upcoming trends and all of our happenings in High Point!!


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Hi! I'm Elissa, an intern at Shewanders from San Franscisco. As we start a new season we shed the summer mindset and transition to the (only slightly) cooler months of fall. My sister is making one of the biggest transitions into adulthood this fall, she's going to college! She's preparing to end her high school years but she's not quite ready to be an adult in the real world. It's made me think of the transitions everyone make as the Fall starts. If you're starting something new write a list of goals for the future. If you're ending something and shedding the old then take time to reflect on your experiences and write down what you have learned from them. Transitions can be crazy times and it's always helpful for me to look back at what I have accomplished and what I'm working towards. Hopefully this playlist helps you make that transition from summer to fall.Happy Fall! - Elissa
For the Spotify Playlist click HERE!
1. Leave a Trace – Chvrches
2. Baths – Animals
3. Push Pull – Purity Ring
4. Grow Old With Me – Blackbird Blackbird
5. Pretty Thing – Broods
6. When I'm With You – Best Coast
7. Myth – Beach House
8. Mountain at my Gates – Foals
9. Crystals – Of Monsters and Men
10. Restless – New Order
11. The Ghosts of Beverly Drive – Death Cab for Cutie

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After reading some particularly egregious nonsense, you have probably asked yourself; "How could anyone in his right mind believe that?" There is an answer to your question. In. fact, the person who believes the nonsense will usually provide the answer himself if you give him half a chance. Go to the source. Read the believer's account of how he came to believe. He will probably give a clear enough description that you can see where he went wrong. It will give you an insight into human. psychology. It will probably ais he very entertaining. Here is an example of how it works.
I recently heard of craniosacral therapy. It is a method some osteopathic physicians use to restore health by adjusting the bones of the skull and sacrum. Anatomists can demonstrate that the skull bones are fused together in adulthood and cannot move. Other fallacies inherent in the therapy are too numerous to list: craniosacral therapy is totally implausible and has been thoroughly debunked elsewhere.
So how could anyone in his right mind believe in it? To find out, I went to the horse's mouth. My local library had a book entitled Your Inner Physician and You: CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release, by Dr. John E. Upledger, who is a major proponent of craniosacral therapy. I decided to read his account with as open a mind as I could summon, and give him a fair chance to convince me.
He describes his eureka moment. He was assisting a neurosurgeon by holding the dura (membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord) steady while the surgeon removed a calcified plaque. He wasn't doing a very good job of holding still. The surgeon complained. Most of us would have thought our own muscles were at fault; however, Upledger observed that the dura was fluctuating up and down at about ten cycles per minute, overcoming his attempts to hold it still. Nobody had ever observed this before.
He hypothesized that this "craniosacral rhythm" was intrin-sic to human health. Since the cerebrospinal fluid within the dura is in a closed space, the skull bones must move in and out to accommodate the rhythmic changes. The nervous system controls the rest of the body, so if the bones are not moving freely, nerve conduction might be abnormal and health might suffer. Perhaps he had found the basic cause of all disease.
He tried mobilizing the cranial bones through hands-on manipulation, and convinced himself he could feel the bones move one-sixteenth of an inch or more. Patients with autism, seizures, cerebral palsy, headaches, dyslexia, colic, asthma, and other diseases reported dramatic improvement. He found that well people treated with monthly adjustments reported more energy, felt happier, and were sick less often.
He felt he had achieved a glimpse into the "core." He states, "I'm not quite sure as yet what the core is all about, but I do know that at times the craniosacral system feels like the entrée into the deepest region of the patient's (and my own) total being. I'm not quite sure as yet what the 'total being' is all about, but it feels like the craniosacral system is where it all comes together, whatever it is."
So far, he had failed to convince me. It seems obvious that he had experienced an illusion (ideomotor activity; as experienced by Ouija boarders and water witchers). His false perception was reinforced when patients seemed to respond to treatment (perhaps from placebo effect, suggestion, hypnosis, a wish to agree with the doctor, the natural tendency of symptoms to improve with time, hands-on massage therapy, or whatever). I found his claims implausible and unbelievable.
This was bad enough, but then he really got carried away.
He thought he had found a "cure-all," but apparently it wasn't enough to cure all, since he proceeded to add other treatments to his armamentarium. He discovered tissue memory he found his hands "almost moving by themselves" to certain areas of the patient's body that seemed to contain some sort of memory of an old injury. He could feel heat and pulsations: under his hands these increased, then decreased until the sensations seemed to stop. At that point the patient's pain would subside. The patient sometimes felt an emotion (fear, anger) and at that time or later might remember a forgotten injury.
He proceeded to discover energy cysts (energy from an injury supposedly forms a ball deep in the tissues and stays there until released), somatoemotional release (touching the patient and giving permission allows old traumatic memories to surface and ventilate), and healing energy (which he transmits from the fingers of one hand to the other hand through the patient's body). Next he tried hypnosis. He regressed a patient to age two days, where she remembered her grandmother saying she should never have been born; insight caused her symptoms to disappear. He asked to talk to a patient's Inner Physician, who would explain the cause of the illness. One Inner Physician appeared to the patient in the form of a seagull and asked to be addressed as "Mermaid." (I am not making this up.)
He found that combinations of therapies worked even better than one at a time. Multiple hands with multiple therapists got results logarithmically faster. He tried therapy in float tanks: it worked wonders. He tried swimming with dolphins: multiple therapists surrounded the patient and were told to silently encourage the dolphins' freedom of choice, and to think that the dolphins were at least equal to them in knowledge and skill, and probably superior. (Perhaps this was true.) Dolphins spontaneously came up and touched the therapist's back to relieve the patient's symptoms. In one case, they reduced a leg-length discrepancy from three inches to one inch. At the same time the therapists' own skills were enhanced in "some non-conscious way."
Onward and upward, enthusiasm undaunted, he tried sound therapy for an orchestra conductor. Hearing a cello play a concert "A" tone caused back pain; "G" relieved upper and lower back pain, while "B" worked only for his upper back.
He would try anything his intuition suggested to him. He sensed that a patient had excess energy, so he grounded the patient's big toe to a drainpipe with copper wire, and-lo and behold-it worked! He successfully applied the same therapy to a woman with sympathetic reflex dystrophy who was in so much pain she would scream when the therapist's hand came within three inches of her body (!?). He had her husband connect her to the kitchen sink at home with a thirty-foot copper grounding wire so she could get around the house. (My hus-band says this sounds like a reasonable way to control a wife, but he may be prejudiced.)
Upledger never reports a failure. Everything seems to work for him. With that kind of reinforcement, how could he doubt? He is an intelligent and educated man and is admirable in many ways. You have to respect his creativity, imagination, and the courage to try unorthodox things in defiance of traditional medical education. New ideas should be encouraged: eventually some will lead to breakthroughs. It is obvious that he believes he has helped patients and patients believe they have been helped.
If the skull bones really could move as much as one-sixteenth of an inch, it would be easy enough to measure and prove it. Unfortunately, Upledger is so convinced his treatments work that he has no motivation to prove the effect is real. He wants to keep on truckin' and to "spread the word." He doesn't pause to reflect that if his hypotheses were demon-strated to be true, it would be a major scientific discovery worthy of a Nobel Prize. He doesn't stop to think that he is subjecting his patients' money, time, health, and perhaps even their lives to unproven treatments.
Evolution has given the human mind a great ability and desire to find patterns everywhere and the motivation to seek explanations. If we can't find meaning, we will invent it. If something seems to work once, we will repeat it with the expectation that it might work again. We have a tendency to jump to conclusions because there is a survival value to deciding quickly. We rely strongly on personal testimonials, because until recently (in an evolutionary sense) that's all we had to go by. As any magician knows, our senses are prey to many kinds of illusions. Illusory perceptions allow us to accomplish things we couldn't otherwise do; for instance, our brains fill in the blind spot in our visual field. All these traits were instrumental in our developmental success as a species.
Every one of us can be fooled, so don't cast any stones. Be skeptical of weird ideas, but go to the source and listen carefully and sympathetically. Approach it as a case study of self-deception. Try to pinpoint where logic went wrong. You might learn how to better avoid making mistakes yourself, and you just might have a few laughs in the process. Just remember, you're not laughing at an individual; you're appreciating the humor in the very human failings we all share.
Further Reading
Dr. Hall is a retired family practitioner and Air Force colonel who resides in Puyallup, Washington. This article was first published in May/June 2003 issue of Skeptical Inquirer.


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The heavy-duty, industrial strength of Aquametrix probes have made them ideal for wastewater applications. But as Mark Spencer, President of Water Analytics and the manufacturer for Aquametrix, points out in this Water Online Radio interview, they are also being accepted by a growing industrial audience. With a new series of controller and transmitters called the 2250 and a slim, pH differential probe being launched, it's been a busy year for the company.
Spencer discusses some of the future innovations in instrumentation that he's working on, including an IoT-enabled smart sensor. "Disruptive innovations come from small companies," explains Spencer. "There are so many opportunities out there. The problem is not finding the opportunities. It's actually limiting yourself so that you focus more."
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
What Sucks Presents: Things I Can't Believe I Haven't Discussed Yet On This Blog V.1: Tarantulas, Religious Nuts, Psycho Brides, Platform Diving!
Are you kidding me? A freaking giant, hairy, poisonous spider that can jump 8 feet at a time? This blog should have a daily post about these things!
…Religious Extremists Who Won't Take Polio Vaccine Because They Believe The Shot Is A Conspiracy To Render Them Sterile
Hey A-holes, we could wipe out Polio, instead you think it's a plot by our government to make you all sterile. Why is it that government can't pave roads, but whenever someone thinks of a conspiracy plot, all of as sudden we're governed by a bunch of friggin' kick-ass James Bond types? I've had a street light out on my block for over a year and the government can't get it's head out of its ass, but I need someone rubbed out and all opf a sudden they are the people to call? Hey dickheads- there are not that many things we've cured- polio is one of them- get your heads out of your asses!
…Those Sales Where Women Get Some Kind Of Deal on Wedding Dresses And They Storm the Store
You women are animals- you're buying a dress, why do you have to make it like that episode of WKRP In Cincinnati that examined the stampede at that Who concert?! Control yourselves!
…Platform Diving
What do you think, most boring sport? It's gotta be up there, you climb up a tall ladder, and walk out on a slab of concrete, then fall off it. You make a splash, you don't get a metal. You don't make a smash, you're a winner.
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It became an issue of great concern after a girl was amputated due to a delay in treatment when she was denied boarding at Jiayuguan Airport. This event reflected many problems for China today in its transformation phase: for example, what should the relevant aviation laws and regulations do to help protect the interests of the individual in need while not hurting the interests of other parties concerned. What should they do to help the person in need when the potential risks can not be measured accurately? At the same time, it is also very important for the passengers, especially those who are critically ill and their relatives, to familiarize themselves with the transportation rules beforehand and communicate with the airline in time. Above all, what responsibility should the relevant legislature and enforcement departments undertake when dealing with the similar kinds of cases. Or how should the dominant airlines provide the passengers with the comfortable and convenient transportation services. All in all, learning how to protect the consumers' rights as well as the interests of the disadvantaged in light of humanitarianism, should become a compulsory course for those privileged organizations.
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Uncle Buck (1989)
Miles: ...NUTS!
[snaps his fingers]
Buck Russell: I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you!
[of Anita's mole]
Buck Russell: Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.
Miles: Where do you live?
Buck: In the city.
Miles: You have a house?
Buck: Apartment.
Miles: Own or rent?
Buck: Rent.
Miles: What do you do for a living?
Buck: Lots of things.
Miles: Where's your office?
Buck: I don't have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: I don't need one.
Miles: Where's your wife?
Buck: Don't have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It's a long story.
Miles: You have kids?
Buck: No I don't.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It's an even longer story.
Miles: Are you my dad's brother?
Buck: What's your record for consecutive questions asked?
Miles: 38.
Buck: I'm your dad's brother alright.
[Buck's beat up old car pulls up]
Bug: [sarcastic] Ever hear of a tune up? Hee hee hee hee hee.
Buck: [also sarcastic] Ah, heh heh heh. Ever hear of a ritual killing? Ah, heh heh heh heh heh!
Bug: I don't get it.
Buck: [serious tone] You gnaw on her face in public like that again and you'll be one. Ah, heh heh heh heh!
Buck: The guy's a predator and you're his prey.
Tia: Really?
Buck: You bet.
Tia: And how would you know?
Buck: When I was his age, I was a guy zooming girls like you. Pretty face, good chip on your shoulder.
Tia: I recommend you stay out of my personal life!
Buck: Do your parents stay out of your personal life?
Tia: They don't know my personal life.
Buck: Have they met twiddle-dink?
Tia: His name is Bug.
Buck: [chuckles] First or last?
Tia: First!
Buck: What's his last name, Spray?
Tia: You should talk, Buck!
[at a meeting with the assistant principal, who's got a big unsightly growth on her face]
Anita: I'm Anita Hoargarth.
Buck Russell: [Staring at it] I'm Buck Melanoma. Moley Russell's wart. Not her wart. Not her wart! I'm... I'm the wart. She's my tumor. My... my growth. My... uh, my pimple. I'm Uncle Wart. Just old Buck "Wart" Russell. That's what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They'll call me that. "Melanoma Head's coming." I'm s... uncle! Maisy Russell's uncle!
Miles: You have much more hair in your nose than my dad.
Buck: How nice of you to notice.
Miles: I'm a kid that's my job.
Buck: Well, well, well, they certainly are scraping the bottom of the barrel for cheerleaders these days.
Tia: What are you doing here?
Buck: We were just driving by to get some ice cream. Thought you might like to join us.
Tia: I said I would be home at 10. It's not even 9!
Buck: Who said anything about that? I thought you might like to join us for some ice cream. Maybe your Bug here can join us. We can talk about burying the hatchet. You know what a hatchet is, don't you, Bug?
Bug: It's an ax?
Buck: Sort of, yeah, yeah. I got one in my car if you'd like to see it.
Bug: [getting scared] I'll pass.
Buck: Fair enough. I like to carry it, you never know when you're going to need it. A situation may come up say for example, someone has been drinking, and about to drive a loved one home... then I'd like to know I have it. Not to kill, no. Just to maim. Take a little off the shoulder. Swish! The elbow. Slash! Shave a little meat off the old kneecap. Fowap! Ooooo! You got both kneecaps? I like to keep mine razor sharp. Sharp enough you can shave with it. Why I've been known to circumcise a gnat. You're not a gnat are you, Bug? Wait a minute, bug, gnat. Is there a little similarity? Whoa, I think there is! Ha ha ha. You understand what I'm talking about? I don't think you do. I'll be right back. Heh heh heh heh.
[walks away]
Tia: I'm sorry.
Bug: Look, I think you'd better split. I don't exactly want him to go berserk with an ax on me.
Tia: He's all talk.
[Buck pulls out a small hatchet from his car]
Buck: Here it is! Come over, come on, I want to show it to you. Maybe later. Okay.
Buck: What time do you want me to pick you up after school?
Tia: Don't bother! I'll get a ride with friends
Buck: No, I have my orders. What time?
Tia: Are you really this stupid? I said I would get a ride. I always get a ride.
Buck: Hey, I'll just call the school, find out what time, and meet you right here.
Tia: Go ahead, call the school. I won't be here.
Buck: Stand me up today and tomorrow I'll drive you to school in my robe and pajamas and walk you to your first class. 4:00 okay?
Buck: [is trying to make Tia go out bowling with him] We've done the battle of the wills. The deck's stacked in my favor. You're just gonna lose again.
Tia: Try me.
Buck: How would you like to spend the next several nights wondering if your crazy, out-of-work, bum uncle will shave your head while you sleep? See you in the car.
Tia Russell: [eating Chinese take out] This is such a wonderful dinner, Mother. How do you find the time?
Buck: [struggling to open the washing machine] Do I have to talk dirty to you? Come on! Open up for daddy! I'm gonna shove a load into you! Here we go! Come on, it's nice and easy. Aaah! Come on, here we go! Ah! Take that! Take that! Come on! You don't want the crowbar, do you? Come on! Open up! Ugh! I'm gonna shove my load into you whether you like it or not!
Buck: [struggles to pick a hissing, fighting cat up out of the bushes] Come on.
[takes it into the house]
Buck: Hey who left the cat out?
Maisey Russell: We don't have a cat.
Buck: [takes the cat back out] Shoo.
Buck Russell: How many times a day does the dog eat?
Cindy Russell: How many times do you think?
Buck Russell: I don't know, four or five.
Cindy Russell: He eats once a day.
Buck: What, did you have a few drinks this morning? Huh? Yeah, I think you did.
Pooter-the-Clown: What are you? Mother Cabrini? You never touch the stuff?
Buck: No, no. It's just that I wouldn't be drinking if I was going to entertain some kids. You know?
Pooter-the-Clown: I don't have to take this shit from you. You know who I am? In the field of local-live-home entertainment, I'm a god!
Buck: Get in your mouse, and get out of here.
Pooter-the-Clown: Hey, you, let me tell you something you low-life-lying-four-flushing-sack-of-shit.
[Buck punches him, gets back up like an inflatable clown, Pooter groans, Buck punches him again]
Buck Russell: Do you think she hates me?
Maisy Russell: With a passion.
Buck Russell: Really? Do you think it's the hat?
Maisy Russell: No.
Buck Russell: No? A lot of people hate this hat. It angers a lot of people, just the sight of it. Ah, I'll tell you a story about that on the way to school.
Maisy's Teacher: Does anybody have a special story to tell the class about something that happened this week?
[Maisy raises her hand]
Maisy's Teacher: Maisy?
Maisy Russell: My uncle was micro waving our socks and the dog threw up on the couch for an hour.
Maisy's Teacher: Honest?
Maisy Russell: Mm-Hmm.
Maisy's Teacher: Why was your uncle micro waving your socks?
Maisy Russell: He can't get the goddamn washing machine to work.
Maisy's Teacher: Blasphemer!
Buck: Did you brush your teeth?
Miles: Yeah. You can even feel my toothbrush.
Buck: You know, I have a friend who works at the crime lab at the police station. I could give him your toothbrush and he could run a test on it. To see if you actually brushed your teeth or just ran your toothbrush under the faucet.
[Miles imagines hearing sirens, Buck leaves]
Maisy Russell: If that's true, we're gonna really have to start brushing our teeth.
Tia: Uncle Buck?
Buck: Yeah?
Tia: Got a minute?
Buck: I got lots of minutes.
Tia: Now that everything's okay with my grandfather, I want to go out tomorrow night.
Buck: You can go crazy after I leave. Until then, I'm not letting you out.
Tia: [getting angry] You just can't find any way to be cool can you?
Buck: You mean easy? No.
Tia: I mean decent!
Buck: You mean blind!
Tia: Who are you trying to score points with? My parents? How many times have they had you over here since we moved? Try none until they went up Shit Creek and got stuck!
Buck: [looking frustrated] Get used on your parents' time.
Buck: You know there's uh, one family charity case who loves you very much.
Tia: [crying] I'm sorry.
Buck: Hey, come on. Nothing to be sorry about. I'm just glad I got a chance to know you again.
Tia Russell: Are you crazy?
Buck Russell: I can be.
Tia Russell: You could have taken his head off!
Buck Russell: Yeah, but would he notice?
Buck Russell: [dancing to Young MC's "Bust a Move"] Hey, nice music! Who is that, the Grass Roots? Just kidding, I know my music!
[Miles is gawking at his birthday breakfast]
Buck Russell: You should see the toast. I couldn't even get it through the door.
Buck: Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes.
Cindy Russell: Oh, good.
Buck: Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum.
[Miles and Maisey watch Tia make out with her boyfriend]
Miles: That's a pretty stupid thing to do during Flu season!
Maisey Russell: I'll bet she's getting the tongue!
Buck Russell: [inquiring about the health of Bob's father-in-law] Her dad?
Bob Russell: Hard to say.
Buck Russell: Oh, those medical terms eh?
Maisey Russell: I don't know why we need boys at all. They're so loud.
Miles Russell: [Off screen] Shut up!
Maisey Russell: Shut up, yourself!
Tia Russell: We need boys, so they can grow up, get married, and turn into shadows.
Buck Russell: [On the way to his brother's] Oh boy, those kids. I haven't seen those kids in a while. Tia's gotta be nine. Nine, maybe ten. Oh boy. And the two new ones. They're uh Larry and uh. Larry and uh. Uh Betsy. Betsy, uh Jennifer. Jennifer. Larry and Jennifer. Oh boy.
Tia: Do have any idea how embarrassing this is? You driving me up to my school where everyone can see you? I can't believe I'm related to you.
Buck: You just get that big stick out of your keester young lady, and we'll get along just fine.
Tia: Can I ask you a personal question?
Buck: Sure.
Tia: Did you ever have anyone embarrass you like this?
[a very long pause as Buck glances up, then down, and side to side trying to remember and contemplating Tia's question until he makes eye contact with her again]
Buck: No.
Marcie Dahlgren-Frost: Marcie Dahlgren-Frost. Dahlgren is my maiden name, Frost is my married name. I'm single again, but I never bothered to remove the Frost. And I get compliments on the hyphen.
Buck: [into the phone] Hey, Bobby we should really get together sometime. I haven't been over at the new house since you moved. By the way, I want to apologize for last year at your old house about those bushes. I had no idea they all would catch on fire like that. You were right. I should never have put the barbeque grill that close.
Buck: [while flipping a huge pancake] Here's where we separate the men from the boys.
[Chanice is listening to an answering machine message from Buck]
Buck: I think about those two little dimples on your buns. Hahaha.
Chanice Kobolowski: Dimples!
Buck: What do we call them? One, one was on the right was Lyndon and left was.
Chanice Kobolowski: It's Johnson.
Buck: Johnson.
[Chanice laughs]
Buck: And then there was your boobs we did. Now, your boobs were Minnie and Mickey, I remember that because of Disney World. And Felix! Felix is what we called your.
[cut to the next scene, where a cat meows loudly]
Buck: Art Linkletter was right. Kids do say the God damndest things.
Tia Russell: If my whole family moved away from me, I'd have a heart attack too.
Tia: Hey, Mom. Next time you take off in the middle of the night, why don't you hire a murderer to watch the house?
Maisy Russell: They have rent-a-shoes!
Tia: And rent-a-foot disease!
Miles: You always kick me around, I'm an American and I have rights.
Tia: Maisey, do I kick you around?
Maisey Russell: No, but you said 'shit' twice, only once that counts though.
Tia: Let the dog out.
Maisey Russell: Parcey!
[their dog Parcey emerges from the dryer]
Tia Russell: Have a bad day today? It hurts when someone screws with your life, doesn't it?
Miles: Who's gonna take care of us?
Cindy Russell: Mr. and Mrs. Neville.
Miles: Is that a joke?
Cindy Russell: You don't like the Nevilles?
Miles: Their dog's a ball sniffer.
Cindy Russell: Don't talk like that!
Miles: Mr. Neville yelled at Michael Larson because their dog was sniffing Michael's balls.
Cindy Russell: Don't use that word.
Miles: I don't know another word.
Cindy Russell: Well, I'm sure we can talk to Mr. Neville about the dog.
Bob Russell: What about Buck? I'm sure he'd be happy to watch the kids.
Cindy Russell: This is no time to discuss your brother. I don't want him here.
Bob Russell: It's just a thought.
Cindy Russell: He isn't married. He doesn't have kids. He doesn't even work!
Bob Russell: He's a little out there. But he's responsible, and he's family.
Chanice Kobolowski: Okay, okay. Buck, I love you. I can't help myself. I want to get married. I want to have a family. I want to do it with you! But you know, the clock is ticking away here. I would just like to hear the pitter-patter of tiny feet before I die.
Buck: I'll get you a mouse and a piece of sheet metal.
Mr. Hatfield: For crying out loud! It's two a.m.!
Bob Russell: Sorry Mr. Hatfield!
Party Guest: I wouldn't go in there with that hat
Buck: Thanks for the tip!
[first lines]
Tia: Get your bag off the table, people eat there.
Maisey Russell: People eat off of plates.
Tia: Don't give me any crap, Maizy.
Cindy Russell: When Dad goes to New York, I'm going to take a week off work.
Tia Russell: So you can interview new housekeepers?
Cindy Russell: I've had enough of your ugliness.
Tia Russell: Oh really?
Cindy Russell: Mm-hmm. We're all just a little tired of the act.


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"A new heart for a New Year, always!" — Charles Dickens
Hang the twinkle lights, pop the champagne, and throw on something fancy, because 2016 is finally over and it's time to celebrate. Now isn't the time for negativity and doubt — it's the time for hope and change,
The prospect of a new year always brings about the chance for a new beginning, and 2017 is no exception. You can never give up hope, especially when a fresh start is right around the corner.
Whatever change you seek, little steps can mean big results. Here are six tips to help make this the happiest, healthiest new year yet:
1. Stay Positive. You can listen to the cynics and doubters and believe that success is impossible or you can trust that with faith and an optimistic attitude all things are possible.
2. Take a morning walk of gratitude. It will create a fertile mind ready for success.
3. You create your world from the inside-out. Remember that outside circumstances and events have no power over you.
4. Talk to yourself instead of listening to your complaints, fears and doubts. Feed your mind with words of truth and encouragement you need to keep moving forward.
5. Live your purpose. Remember why you do what you do. We don't get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.
6. Challenges are opportunities. Trust that everything happens for a reason and expect good things to come out of challenging experiences.
I would like to wish you and your loved ones a glorious, rewarding and productive new year. Look to the new year as a chance for renewal and make some ambitious plans. Lastly, don't forget to smile and laugh more, best natural anti-depressants.
With gratitude,
Nora Paxton


text: The nineteenth century witnessed a transformation in how the relationship between the human and the non-human world was understood. In the sciences, a more contextual approach to studying the relationship between animals and plants saw the biologist Ernst Haeckel coin the term 'ecology' to refer to 'the relationship of the organism to the surrounding exterior world'. Outside of the sciences, the social and environmental consequences of industrialization and urbanization were informing a growing cultural understanding of the dynamic relationship between human societies and the non-human world upon whose resources they relied. This issue of 19 focuses on the development of ecological ideas in Victorian culture and literature. Building on the recent turn to ecocritical methodologies within Victorian studies, it examines the Victorian roots of the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which human actions are seen to have shaped ecological and geological systems at a planetary level, and suggests the ways in which Victorian culture can help us both historicize and theorize our present planetary condition. Comprised of five scholarly articles and an interview with Claire Colebrook, a literary theorist who has turned to the philosophical implications of the Anthropocene in recent years, this issue brings to light the multifaceted and heterogeneous understanding of ecology in the Victorian period. It covers topics as diverse as climate change, animal welfare, queer ecology, labour conditions, and imperial expansion, and traces ecological ideas in canonical figures, such as John Ruskin and Thomas Hardy, and lesser studied writers, such as Edward Carpenter and Ada Cambridge, as well as in the broader material culture of autobiography, periodical fiction, and paintings.


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William L. Wainwright was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the 12th House district including constituents in Craven and Lenoir counties. Rep. Wainwright served in the NC State Legislature for more than 20 years!
Wainwright was known as a dedicated public servant who was known for his deeply-held faith and the passion he brought to every aspect of his life. To honor this great man, the annual scholarship banquet is called The William L. Wainwright Scholarship Banquet.


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Doc Edge : Forgetting Dad
A week after a seemingly harmless car accident, Californian data processing executive and father of five, wakes up with total amnesia. He no longer recognises his wife and children and has a great deal of difficulty with the simplest daily tasks. There is no evidence of brain damage or other physical causes. Was Richard really struck by a horrible affliction, or was he trying to escape from a life he could no longer lead?
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Every country has its own weird and wonderful ways that baffle and confuse visitors. The UK is no exception, of course. London is particularly famous for having many housing quirks, due to the density of the population, prices and British culture. Are you or your students traveling to London for our Teacher Development or the Internship Programme? Here are the top seven oddities that the ADC team want to prepare you for. Our international team shares their favourite pet peeves and funniest stories from the adventure that is London housing.
1. The famous hot and cold water taps
When Winston Churchill visited Stalin during the war, he was most impressed with the modern wonder of technology that was mixed taps. You would think that - over 70 years later - Britain would have joined the rest of the world. But no. Many houses in Britain still have separate taps for hot and cold water.
If you use the public restrooms at ADC you will find that we're wholly traditional and your choices are the following: 1. Use cold water. The Brits say it's character building. 2. Mix the water in the basin - perhaps reserve this option for when you are at your place of residence and you know exactly who's been using it. 3. Scald your hands.
2. Brits don't mind if their houses are a bit chilly
Is it a sign of endurance? Unless the temperature is polar, the British don't force their little ones to wear jackets and mittens. As adults, they can't wait to change out of their winter clothes into spring attire. So perhaps the reason that they seem to endure the cold better than other nations is due to nurture rather than nature? Extremely high energy prices and poorly insulated houses don't help either. Whatever the reason, bring sweaters and possibly hot water bottles and slippers when coming to the UK. Because British homes are chilly, whether you're prepared for it or not.
3. Windows
Never mind the fact that double glazed windows are a rarity – inviting the winter into plenty of homes - the Brits also love their health and safety rules. In an ideal world, that would mean fitting all homes with double glazed windows so that people can keep warm. Instead, windows often don't open fully in case anyone would feel the urge to jump out.
4. Low pressure
When Brits travel abroad, they often discover what true shower pressure is. You know, the kind which actually rinses the shampoo out of your hair in less than a 100 years. So don't be surprised if the pressure isn't up to your country's standard when you have your first shower on British soil.
5. Carpets everywhere
British people love a bit of carpet. It's probably because their houses tend to be a bit chilly. The former landlord of one of our Country Managers also said that it decreases the humidity. Fortunately, bathroom carpets have become unfashionable in recent years. So you see, there is progress.
6. Locking the bathroom
Not every private bathroom in the UK has a functioning lock. The Brits expect each other, and visitors, to knock if the door is closed. ADC has had students who feel that their human rights are infringed by not being able to physically lock the door. But please remember, Brits value privacy more than their afternoon tea and would rather die than to walk in on someone. Hence, they will knock!
7. Pull a string
Another thing which has flabbergasted many of the European members of our team is the fact that many British bathroom lights are operated by pulling a string. We don't have an explanation for this, but we can say that if you struggle to find a switch, try looking for a string to pull instead.
The important thing to remember is that every country expects visitors to respect their customs. British people love a bit of banter and are very good at making fun of themselves, but as guests we should always respect their homes. At the end of the day, London is a huge metropolis with over nine million inhabitants from all over the world. Every house is different. A true Londoner might say that their home has personality and that counts for a whole lot here.


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The cost and complexity of delivering groceries is what ultimately led to the downfall of Webvan and other startups that have tried to disrupt the $600 billion-a-year grocery industry. But a new wave of promising delivery startups are relying on a tried-and-true model to disrupt groceries: membership.
Membership grocery services help secure consumers as repeat customers and allow companies to lower individual shipping fees on every order. Shipping fees are typically a big barrier to grocery delivery because orders must be delivered fast to guarantee freshness.
The grocery delivery model is attractive because it guarantees that customers are getting fresh food straight from their local supermarket, without having to waste time in the store. The typical American family of four visits the grocery store twice a week, according to the USDA.
In a new report from BI Intelligence, we define what an e-commerce membership program is and how retailers are taking the Costco model and updating it for online grocery shopping. We also assess the advantages and disadvantages of e-commerce membership programs for the retailer, as well as what consumers might look for in these programs and what incentives are needed to get people to sign up.
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As Underpinning Experts, Interhome Construction also specialize in basement waterproofing solutions. Dealing with a leaky basement? A leaky or wet basement can have many causes. Cracks of the foundation, leaking of window wells, joints that are not sealed, the sloping of your yard and your outdoor drainage system and more. Concrete Pros provide professional wet basement solutions, both exterior and interior basement waterproofing, french drain installations, sump pump installation, weeping tile systems, including the repair of foundation cracks and basement underpinning in Toronto and the GTA. We offer both residential and commercial waterproofing services.
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When installing exterior waterproofing, your core mission is to halt water invasion in any way possible. We use highly waterproofing materials that are designed to effectively protect the foundation, joints, walls, and floor structures from the damaging effect of groundwater moisture or precipitation. We cover the exterior foundation with these highly waterproof layers, providing some structural support also. We also make sure your drainage system directs water away from the sides of your house and there is proper sealing. Finally, we can install a new weeping tile drainage system which allows ground water to be channeled away from exterior walls.
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French Drain Installation
If you want to improve drainage around your home then you should strongly consider the installation of a french drain. A french drain is designed to redirect both surface water and groundwater away from your exterior walls and foundation. A french drain can be a great solution especially if you experience pooling of water in your backyard after a heavy rain. When installing a french drain we pay close attention to the placement area, trench lines and grading to make sure the installation will properly and effectively channel water away from your structure.
Sump Pump Installation
Another solution to remedy wet basements and protect your basement from flooding is the installation of a sump pump. There are two types of sump pumps, the submersive and the pedestal. The choice is determined by the kind of basement you have and we will offer our assessment and recommendations. Keeping your basement free of water and moisture safeguards you from mold growth and the deterioration of building and structural materials.
Weeping Tile System Installation
Another way of keeping your basement dry is the installation of a weeping tile system. During our assessment we determine the best placement area and direction that will give you the best drainage results. The weeping tile system is installed above the mud zone of your foundation and helps to prevent build ups. A weeping tile system diverts water below your basement floor and ensures that none of that water enters your basement area.
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About 175 people gathered this morning in the auditorium at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center to talk about ways to green their company's environmental footprint and save some money at the same time.
Companies are looking to reduce their energy and water bill costs by taking steps to make their processes more efficient.
It's all about applying the quality-improvement techniques that companies are by now long familiar with – lean manufacturing, Six Sigma – and adapting them to their use of resources such as energy and water, said Joseph Jacobsen, associate dean at Milwaukee Area Technical College.
What's causing the shift to thinking green? Business owners can sense that carbon regulations are coming and want to get ready, while others are realizing that saving energy and water helps save -- or stem the rise – in utility bills.
"Green is not just environmental sustainability. Green is business sustainability too," said Jon Dommissee, director of new product development and marketing at Bradley Corp.
Bradley, a local maker of plumbing fixtures, and the state Focus on Energy were sponsors of this morning's Green Manufacturing Summit, and the Journal Sentinel was media sponsor.
Monday, February 16, 2009
"Green" means business survival
From an article by Tom Content on JSOnline.com:
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[info]When? - 22nd of January, 2015
Where? 98 - 100 Lygon St, Brunswick
Price? - $19
Website? - http://www.thealehouseproject.com.au/
Reviewers – Fridge, Lee, Nikki, Shanan, Stefo, Tony[/info]
Let me start out this review by saying that I love the Alehouse Project. When it comes to craft beer in Melbourne I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who does it better. Which is why, when I saw this post on Instagram last week -
I jumped on the chance to check it out, seemed like a perfectly fitting parma to kick off 2015.
If you're a fan of beer then you've no doubt already heard about the Alehouse Project, but in case you've been living under a rock, this is a pub with twelve taps of continuously rotating microbrewery beers. Every time you visit there's something new to try and I've yet to sample a beer I didn't like.
This week in particular the Young Henry "Stupid Sexy Flanders" cherry flanders ale was absolutely fantastic - couldn't recommend it more highly, absolutely delicious beer (and probably the best name for a beer I've ever heard).
Feels like I'm wearing nothin' at all... nothin' at all... nothin' at all!
A new discovery last night was the beer garden, way down the back, past the couches and tabletop arcade table, take a right and there is a quaint little spot in the sun, its cosy but comfy, perfect for a summer weekend arvo sesh.
Anyway - I digress. On to the parma.
We arrived, spied the menu...
and placed our orders. It was relatively early on a Thursday evening so the pub was pretty quiet, didn't take long at all for the food to arrive.
Then it did.
The schnitzel wasn't hard to see, thats for sure (more on that later). When it first fell to the table I thought "Uh oh, this is processed shit" But I was surprised to find real chicken under the relatively thin crumbs.
Unfortunately thats about everything positive I've got to say about this parma, and you don't know how much it pains me to write this review as I really like this pub - but it just wasn't good.
The chicken was dry, and there was a pretty noticeable black border around one side of my schnitz. Chicken size was inconsistent around the table, with the one pictured being one of the bigger ones.
There was so much nudity on display here I thought we had accidentally wandered into Schnitz n' Tits. Only 3 quarters of the chicken had toppings on it (thats being generous), and the toppings themselves just weren't good. The napoli was straight from a can, the cheese was like rubber and the ham ... actually the ham was okay, carried a decent flavour.
While it was real chicken underneath the toppings every element of the dish was completely tasteless. We took to loading it up with salt, pepper and tomato sauce in an attempt to bring it back to life, which helped a little, but shouldn't be necessary.
When the menu said "fries" I was expecting shoestring fries (aka. Maccas chips), So I was pleasantly surprised when a side of proper, thick cut chips accompanied my chicken. It was a relatively small serving and they were in desperate need of some salt, but they were decent. Maybe a little undercooked but not criminally so.
The "salad" was just some lettuce leaves tossed in oil, nothing to write home about but it was relatively enjoyable. Since our visit to The Wolf & I my eyes have been opened to the possibility of a good simple salad. Now the Alehouse was nowhere near the Wolf's standard, but I didn't dismiss it as quickly as I once would've.
In this day & age I class anything under $20 as pretty reasonably priced, this one came in at $19, which isn't bad, but when compared to what we actually received it is a bit steep. If this parma was $10 - $15 with a pot of craft beer thrown in I'd be more forgiving, but full price with no freebies for that? Not great.
I really did not enjoy writing the review this week. I love the Alehouse Project and urge you to check it out if you haven't yet.
At the time of writing this the parma has been on the menu for 9 days. It's still a baby, plenty of time for retooling.
If anyone from The Alehouse is reading this, first of all, I'm sorry. Secondly, you've got a good foundation with the chicken you're using. if you upgrade your napoli to something a little less tomato-pastey, make sure you cover the schnitzel in all of the toppings (cheese to the edge!) and season your chips before putting them on the plate then you're on the way to having something decent.
I'm more than happy to come back for a re-review if things improve. Until then, I'll just stick to the beers.
- Amazing craft beer pub - possibly Melbourne's best.
- Tomato paste napoli
- Gratuitous schnitzel nudity
- Burnt schnitzel
- Unseasoned chips


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If you wanted to know the specs of my recent install, or had any questions, check out this video. I basically answered all of your questions .
I wanted to let you guys in on my experience at the Xquisite Salon. I normally do my own hair entirely. I haven't been to a salon in about 3 years! So when I knew I wanted to color my hair at a salon I was very nervous because I had no idea where to go. I didn't want to go just anywhere. I mean, these extensions are expensive and I didn't want to have to hurt someone for messing them up, ya know? ;-) So I did a little research and came across Xquisite Hair Design on the internet.


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Over the past four years, the people of Automattic have demonstrated to me that it's possible to do work you love with people you love. It's not common — not yet — but it's possible.
– VaultPress Eclectic Happiffier Chris Rudzki
Automattic is a distributed company — we all work from wherever we are. Right now, "where we are" is 197 cities around the world: New Orleans, USA. Montevideo, Uruguay. Tokyo, Japan. Vilnius, Lithuania.
Once a year, we get together somewhere in the world to meet, work alongside, learn from, and laugh with one another in an exhilarating, exhausting week called the Grand Meetup. This year, 277 Automatticians descended on Park City, Utah, for seven days in mid-September.
We introduced ourselves to new colleagues, reconnected with coworkers we haven't seen since last year, and worked on ways to make WordPress.com even better. And of course, lots of us blogged about the experience, in words and images.
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Approaches to culture with 21st Century teens
How can culture get students thinking – and talking?
Ahead of his webinar on 28th and 30th May, Edmund Dudley looks at why it is important for our teenage students to learn about culture in their English lessons.
Millions of young people around the world are currently learning English, making it a truly international language. In addition, many teenagers regularly use English to communicate and interact with others online. This raises a number of questions about the cultural content of any English course for teenagers.
What do we mean by culture in the context of a language lesson?
Let's begin by thinking about English-speaking countries. Take Britain as an example. When you think about British culture, what springs to mind? What examples could you give? Take a moment to think of three things.
So what did you say? Your answers reveal something about what you think culture is.
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Longreads' Best of WordPress, Vol. 5
Longreads' Best of WordPress, Vol. 5.
TPR Storytelling is a foreign language teaching methodology that was invented by Blaine Ray of Bakersfield, California. TPR Storytelling (TPRS) teachers tell personalized stories in their foreign language or English as a Second language classrooms as their students act those stories out.
Students comprehend the stories by virtue of the live action visual aids and acquire the target vocabulary because it is repeated dozens of times within the daily story. Sentence structure, vocabulary and grammar are acquired because non-stop comprehensible input is provided by the teacher.
Blaine Ray's TPR Storytelling is used by thousands of elementary school, middle school, high school, college and adult education English as a Second Language, English as a Foreign Language and Foreign Language teachers nationally and internationally. The long-term memory strategies, constant comprehensible input and intense personalization of this methodology are based on the pedagogy of Dr. James Asher (TPR) and Dr. Stephen Krashen (The Natural Approach). TPR Storytelling is similar to Classical TPR, except that the 3 Steps of TPRS® allow students to acquire the narrative and descriptive, rather than the imperative, modes of speech. The goal of TPRS® is to make students fluent and proficient in a second language through ample exposure to interesting, comprehensible input. TPRS® teachers direct their efforts toward their students, rather than the textbook, the grammar or the curriculum. We teach kids. As a result, we have students who are excited about foreign languages, eager to stay in our classes all the way through school…. and who are bilingual.
TPR Storytelling begins with introducing the vocabulary (step 1). Students then act out the stories as the teacher tells (or, more accurately, "asks") re-tells and asks questions about a story that uses the vocabulary words (step 2). The oral story is then followed up with reading (step 3). Students rapidly acquire the second language just as Dr. Krashen imagined: effortlessly and involuntarily. The method relies heavily on the five hypotheses of The Natural Approach: the acquisition hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the natural order hypothesis, the affective filter hypothesis and the monitor hypothesis, which are explained in detail in Foreign Language Education The Easy Way, by Dr. Stephen Krashen, as well as lots of comprehensible input through access to books.
Longreads' Best of WordPress, Vol. 5
Wonderful collection of stories from across all of WordPress!
Reading and story telling for my students.
We're back with another collection of our favorite stories from across all of WordPress! You can find our past collections here — and you can follow Longreads on WordPress.com for more daily reading recommendations.
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1. What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Talk About When We Talk About Making (Tim Maly, Quiet Babylon)
After a successful "creators' conference" in Portland, Maly asks some tough questions about whether the creators are taking into account the factories and anonymous services that help them succeed in the first place.
2. The Secret Life of Max Stern (Sara Angel, The Walrus)
The Nazis stole his family's paintings. He emigrated to Canada and became one of the country's foremost gallery owners…
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Silent Whistler
Whistling is something that happens in countries around the world, some places even use whistles as codes to spread messages long distances. My dad used to whistle tunes easily and when I was growing up Wolf Whistles were an embarrassing part of life. I was 12 and had just started at a new school when another student was whistling as the teacher came into the room. The teacher flounced out of the room again and came back in swaggering and whistling before announcing, "A whistling woman and a crowing hen are good for neither god nor men." I've remembered that all these years, not as a reminder of how to behave but because I thought she was a pompous spoilsport.
There was an unassuming, little lady who worked where I did about 20 years ago and I discovered that with two fingers she could produce a deafening whistle that would…
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Laptops in Classrooms
Clay has explained in a blog post why he bans computers from his classroom. Jay chimed in his agreement:
I've updated this post after discussing the issue with my class.
I can think of no journalism professors I admire more than Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen. But I (so far) disagree with them on the subject of whether to allow students to use laptops and mobile devices during class.
Clay has explained in a blog post why he bans computers from his classroom. Jay chimed in his agreement:
Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away https://t.co/WG3EOCaGW8 by @cshirky. I've come to the same place.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 10, 2014
They both have notably more classroom experience than I do, and they might be right. I encourage you to read Clay's full explanation and won't try to summarize it here, but he cites research about how multitasking can interfere with learning.
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Bookstore Intrigue
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You and your date go to a bookstore with a coffee shop (these are increasingly easier to find). You split up for a designated period of time (around 1/2 hour).
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It's been 15 years since tragedy struck the United States when planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, affecting everyone across the nation. To this day, the country remembers what happened on 9/11.
Read: Austin honors fallen on 15th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
While celebrities and public officials around the U.S. have expressed their mourning on social media, here's a look at what Austin's own are saying:


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A little about Pilates
The Pilates method originated with one extraordinary man, Joseph Pilates. Born in Germany in 1880, he overcame childhood diseases including asthma and rickets to become a gymnast, boxer, circus performer and self-defence instructor.
Joseph Pilates opened his first studio in 1926 in New York with his wife Clara and it became popular between dancers of the day to improve their performance and rehabilitation.
Not much was spoken in his studio (English was not J. Pilates' first language), so the method was taught heavily with hands-on corrections.
Pilates called his method 'Contrology' but this became known as 'Pilates' after his death in 1967.
His method was continued by teachers, evolving and developing and is now spread around the world, inspiring and helping many people with hands-on corrections for a healthier lifestyle every day.


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Theatreincludes TheTaming of the Shrew (Shakespeare's Globe), War Horse (National Theatre West End), Twelfth Night (Sheffield Crucible/ETT), A Handful of Stars (Theatre503/West End), Dancing at Lughnasa (Royal & Derngate Northampton/Oxford Playhouse), King Lear, I'll Be the Devil and All's Well That Ends Well (RSC), Truth and Reconciliation (Royal Court Theatre), Melmoth the Wanderer and Merry Christmas Betty Ford (Lyric Belfast), Still, The Blackbird Sings (The Project Dublin), Arsenic and Old Lace (Salisbury Playhouse), Twelfth Night (Theatre Royal York), Philadelphia Here I Come and Aristocrats (Ourobourus), The Boy With the Bomb in his Crisps (Belgrade Coventry), The Water Harvest (Theatre503), The Ladies Cage (Manchester Royal Exchange/Finborough), Tricky (Blood in the Alley), The Early Bird (Ransom), Elizabeth (Kabosh), The Blind Bird (Gate Theatre), The Seagull, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The White Devil and Three Sisters (Mercury Theatre Colchester).
Television includes Victoria,Officially Special, Titanic, River City, The Message, Locked Up Abroad, Ultimate Force.
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Disney Wish List
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That dress is gorgeous, I could totally see myself wearing that to the Disney parks!ReplyDelete
Sarah :)
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The little Mermaid dress is everything and as for the mug it is right up my street. I've never thought to look for goodies on Disney but they have some really good stuff there.ReplyDelete
Oh those shoes are super swanky, but I'd worry about my ankles. Maybe the mug is safer!ReplyDelete
so cute, love the jack skellington cup!ReplyDelete
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I have that snowglobe! I got so excited when I saw it haha. I'm in love with that Little Mermaid dress, that would definitely be at the top of my wishlist! I've never really understood the Shoe Ornament fad, I'd much rather real shoes that look like that haha!ReplyDelete
Great wishlist :)
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In most cities, the downtown area serves as the central business district (CDB) and the nightlife hub. However, Tampa's downtown area competes with other places for the honor of CBD and the happening place to be. After 6pm, downtown becomes a ghost town, with only the few people who are able to afford the few housing opportunities staying there. Most people gravitate towards neighboring areas, such as Ybor City or South Howard Avenue. The weekends remain the same, unless there is a game or concert at the Tampa Bay Times Forum or a show at the Straz Center. Urban planners in Tampa have been trying to ease this problem for many years, and the recent development of parks in downtown Tampa have helped draw people to the area outside of business hours.
The planning and redevelopment of the Hillsborough River Riverwalk, an initiative to contribute to sustainability of the Hillsborough River, has led to more utilization of Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, located on the north end of downtown Tampa. Curtis Hixon Park is becoming a premier event location, recently hosting the inaugural Gasparilla Music Festival, holding regular concert series, and even hosting an outdoor ice skating rink every December. Lykes Gaslight Park, located in the interior of downtown Tampa and encompassed by high-rises, has been the location of many Occupy Tampa demonstrations, Latin Fest, and Pops in the Park concerts.
These examples of parks in CDBs can help urban planners draw people into city areas that can lose people after that 6pm, business-hours, cutoff. Retail businesses and restaurants located in the CDB can benefit from the increased amounts of visitors. For a city like Tampa, that has multiple CDBs and recreational areas, focusing on development and planning of parks and event areas in one CDB, such as downtown, will help drive people to the area beyond just business reasons. Holding key events at these parks can give the CDB a new identity, one that makes people consider it when making their evening or weekend plans.
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NC college grad among 3 dead after mom kills children and then herself, Ga. police say
A 24-year-old graduate of Elon University and his younger sister were shot and killed in Atlanta on Wednesday, and their mother, who then killed herself, is suspected in their deaths, police say.
Chris Edwards, who graduated from Elon in North Carolina in 2018, and his 20-year-old sister, Erin, were found dead around 6 p.m., the Cobb County Police Department said. Their mother, Marsha Edwards, 58, was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.
Police had responded to requests for a safety check at Marsha Edward's upscale townhouse that evening, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, but police have not said when the shootings occurred or what might have ben the motive.
The Atlanta community, where the Edwards family is well-known, is trying to make sense of the tragedy.
The father, Christopher Edwards, is an orthopedic surgeon, chairman of the Atlanta Housing Authority board and a member of the Morehouse School of Medicine Board of Trustees. Marsha Edwards founded local medical equipment supply company MME Enterprises LLC. The parents are divorced, according to the AJC.
Both children were aspiring journalists, and Chris Edwards was working as a digital content manager for the Atlanta Mayor's Office of Film & Entertainment, according to his LinkedIn page.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her husband shared in the loss and extended their condolences.
"Derek and I join the greater Atlanta community in mourning the loss of three members of the beloved Edwards family," Bottoms said on Facebook. "Chris and Erin were beautiful, vibrant, and brilliant young adults, whom we had the pleasure of knowing their entire lives. They filled the lives of all who met them with joy, compassion, and kindness. May the peace of God, that surpasses all understanding, be with the Edwards family and all who had the honor to have known them."
On social media, the family often appeared happy. Marsha Edwards posted photos of her and her daughter vacationing in Italy together days before the shooting.
She also posted on Instagram that she "could not ask for better children," and that she had "the best summer" with them.
Chris Edwards, who earned a bachelor's degree in media and arts at Elon, dreamed of inspiring African-Americans to pursue careers in broadcasting, according to his personal website.
At Elon, he co-hosted a weekly radio show and was a television anchor and producer for student-produced sports shows.
"Chris was the person who got me introduced to sports journalism on Elon's campus, Elon senior Andrew Vendelis told the Elon News Network. Through 'One on One Sports,' Chris' mentoring and leadership allowed for me to explore different ways of approaching sports journalism that I still use in my toolkit to this day."
Vendelis said he and the sports show "can never repay Chris for how much he contributed to Elon and our organization, and we'll miss him dearly."
Chris Edwards recently attended the 2019 National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention & Career Fair in Miami. His mother was at the conference with him.
"My ultimate goal is to work as a professional sports television or radio broadcaster," Edwards said on his personal website. "More so, I strive to inspire future African-American broadcasters that you can reach your dreams, and make a difference if you put the work in and have a little faith along the way."
The NABJ extended its "condolences, prayers and thoughts to the family, friends and colleagues of Marsha Edwards, Christopher Edwards II and Erin Edwards" in a statement Thursday. All three were NABJ members.
Sarah Glover, the group's president, said in a tweet that she was "in shock that these two promising young adults and budding media professionals are no longer with us. Rest In Peace."
Like her brother, Erin Edwards was working toward a journalism career, and she about to start her junior year at Boston University. She called herself a "passionate storyteller" on her LinkedIn page and had just finished an internship with NBC New York.
Boston University told Boston TV station WBZ that Erin Edwards was "an active student within the College of Communications and known to many on campus."
The university, which resumes classes after Labor Day, notified students, faculty and the campus community of the tragedy Thursday saying Erin would be remembered for her energy and empathy.
Police are still investigating why Marsha may have killed her two children and then herself. Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to contact the Cobb County Police Department's crimes against persons unit at 770-499-3945.


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"The headquarters of the LASER COMPONENTS Group is located in Germany. Günther Paul founded LASER COMPONENTS GmbH in 1982. Today, it has not only expanded to include production facilities, but also has sales offices in Great Britain, France, Sweden and the U.S.A.
We also work closely with our distributors in other countries. You will find a list of our partners in the following."
The Laser Components Group
Our locations include both production facilities and our own sales offices. In addition, Laser Components GmbH is a shareholder in both of the companies Blau Optoelektronik GmbH and LT Laser Tools GmbH.


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Credit Card Debt
Bankruptcy is a very good way to relieve you of your credit card debt. Some credit cards are "secured," which in a bankruptcy can also be either discharged or paid back for pennies on the dollar. Credit card debt is considered a unsecured debt — which means the creditor does not have a lien on your personal property. This is the type of debt that a bankruptcy is best used for. Also, you may have other unsecured debts which a bankruptcy can also relieve you of.
The attorneys at Lynch Law Offices, P.C., can help you explore your options for discharging credit card debt and other types of debt. Our team of credit card debt attorneys in DuPage County has extensive experience handling Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies for clients in Lisle, Wheaton, Naperville and across the Greater Chicago area.
If you file for Chapter 13 rather than Chapter 7, you will have to pay back some portion of your unsecured debts — usually less that 20 cents of what you owe over five years. Also, any unsecured debts that remain will be discharged.
Rarely, credit card companies challenge the discharge of debt owed to them, by claiming that the debt was fraudulently charged by:
- Submitting a fraudulent application
- Using the card without any intent to repay the debt
In deciding whether credit card debt was "fraudulent," a judge will consider:
- The length of time between the charges and the bankruptcy filing
- Whether or not an attorney was consulted before you charged the debt
- The number of charges you made
- The amount of the charges
- Your financial condition at the time you charged
- Whether the charges were above your credit limit
- Whether you made multiple charges on the same day
- Whether or not you were employed
- Your employment prospects
- Whether there was a sudden change in your buying habits
- Whether the purchases were luxuries or necessities. Luxury goods over $500 purchased within 90 days of filing cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. Nor can cash advances of more than $750 taken within 70 days of filing.
If you have run up your credit cards in the two to three months prior to filing for bankruptcy, it is likely you may have to pay a portion of the debt. It is best to have the help of a Naperville credit card debt lawyer to better understand your rights and options.
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If you are a concerned resident of Apple Valley and Victorville, you will want to take note of another big business in your area that wants to raise rates in the interest of profit.
A public hearing will be held on April 30 to get public input about a requested 30 percent rate increase over the three years: 2015 to 2017.
Apple Valley Ranchos Water Company (AVR) has it's local office at 21760 Ottawa Road in Apple Valley. However, what you think is your little local water company isn't really your friendly neighbor. Looks can be deceiving, as the company is really owned by a big global business that is only interested in big profits, the Carlyle Group.
One local resident who attended the Apple Valley Town Council meeting on Tuesday, April 22, it was revealed that the company already has shown a profit of 12% in recent years, and that stockholders are guaranteed an 8.75% return on their investment as a minimum. It was also announced that $2.5 million has been spent on water system improvements, much of it as speculative major infrastrustructure improvements in outlying areas that don't have any homes being built.
Water users are supplying the capital for this company to make huge profits, all the while telling them to conserve water. It's a case of, the less water you use, the more the company needs to charge per unit to make a profit.
Single-family homeowners should be outraged, as they are the only property type that has the three-tiered system. The request by AVR asks to the have Tier 1 level reduced so that these properties must cut their usage levels even further or be slapped with the higher Tier 2 and Tier 3 rates.
The Town of Apple Valley uses Best, Best and Krieger law firm, which specializes in water issues. Their attorneys have been going to Caliofrnia Public Utility Commission (CPUC) hearings in San Francisco to help fight these types of water rate increases.
Not only would single-family home owners be the hardest hit, any rate hikes to the Town of Apple Valely would effect all property owners with a double-whammy. That's because they also bear the cost of upkeep of the town's facilities, fire protection, and other needed city services.
Apple Valley Ranchos Water Company was acquired by The Carlyle Group in 2010, a global alternative asset manager. At that time, AVR was owned by Park Water Company, a Downey, California-based investor-owned water utility company (principalsHenry H. Wheeler, Jr. and the Wheeler Family). Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.
Park Water and its subsidiaries at the time provided water distribution to approximately 225,000 people through nearly 71,000 service connections. In addition to AVR, it owned the Mountain Water Company is located in Missoula, Montana, the largest investor-owned water company in the state serving nearly 50,000 people. Apple Valley Ranchos Water Company serves about 65,000 people in Apple Valley and Victorville, California.
Robert Dove, Carlyle Managing Director and Co-Head of Carlyle's global infrastructure practice, said, "We are pleased to have reached an agreement with the Wheeler family to acquire Park Water, a well-managed company with dedicated employees. This investment is a strategic addition to our fund, and Carlyle is keen to support Park Water and its subsidiaries by providing capital to reinvest in the company's operations to ensure the highest quality water standards and customer service."
Mr. Dove added, "We are particularly pleased that Mr. Wheeler has agreed to continue his involvement with Park Water by being a member of the board of directors and serving as a consultant to the company."
Carlyle's investment was made by Carlyle Infrastructure Partners, a $1.14 billion fund that invests primarily in transportation and water infrastructure projects in the U.S. and Canada ranging from $100 million to more than $1 billion in enterprise value.
The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with $97.7 billion of assets under management committed to 76 funds as of September 30, 2010. Carlyle invests across three asset classes – private equity, real estate and credit alternatives – in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America focusing on aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology & business services and telecommunications & media. Since 1987, the firm has invested $64.7 billion of equity in 1015 transactions.
The Carlyle Group employs more than 900 people in 19 countries. As of June 30, 2009, in the aggregate, Carlyle portfolio companies have more than $84 billion in revenue and employ more than 398,000 people around the world. Web: www.carlyle.com; Video: www.youtube.com/OneCarlyle
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