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40 reviews | 4.4 out of 5
We bought this game for my husband, myself, and my 5 year old. It is a great game. Well worth the money spent. We have played every part of the game. It is a better value then the Mario Party 8. It has a lot of differnt stages and mini games. I am very impressed with the quility. I would highly recommend this for any age group. No matter the age it is a great family fun game night game.
My family and I are huge Mario Party fans...from the very beginning, so when we learned of a new one finally coming out we were thrilled. Needless to say, getting it and playing it, HUGE let down.
It is like the creators took and easy route this time. There are no mini games after every round, everyone is in the same car going around taking turns as "captain" the challenges are weak and some just down right dumb, for example there is a card mini game that you have to try and beat the other players with choosing the higher number...well everyone can see the numbers you have and what you choice so you always end up in a tie and no one wins.
Also you don't use the WII remote motion wise for much anymore in this game. You now press the A button to jump, and pretty much everything has a button command to move, etc in the game. Another big disappointment in the game, not using the WII functions!
I am very disappointed in this Mario Party. They strayed way to far from the Mario Party theme and made this game an un-fun family game! Again if you are a Mario Party Fan....I would avoid this game...You will be highly disappointed. I know I was.
When I discovered Mario Party 9 was coming out I was really excited. Me and my family have played the Mario Party games sinse the very first one. I heard that this one was being created by someone knew so I was a little skeptic. And I was right to be. There aren't as many characters to choose from like before. There aren't mini-games after every round of turns. There are no stars that you have to travel around the board after. You have to stay in a cart with all the other players throughout the entire game. Overall I'm very disappointed. I love Mario Party but this seems like a whole other game.
I was very happy with Mario party8, first one I ever played. So, so, so fun! Well I got married to a gamer (3 years ago) and he has played almost every Nintendo game there is (sadly I'm not exaggerating) and when I told him #9 was on it's way he quickly raced to the Nintendo wii store and bought Mario Party2. We have been using the classic controllers and playing that one for the past couple of weeks. I am pretty hooked on #2 I really like it. My only complaint is how long the old games (2 and8) were. I never played more than the 10 rounds. That being said, this game flies.
My husband and I flew through the first 3 stages in about 40 minutes. There is a mini boss battle ½ way through the board and a boss battle at the end. If it's your turn you're driving the car so you run into stars and things that take them away. Now I have no idea why they are "stars" not coins, but that was my first disappointment. Now I'm not the gamer but when I play Mario I expect coins! Not in this one. There is no place to buy dice blocks, instead you land on spaces to get everything (dice blocks and mini-games mainly)
It's also harder to mess with your opponents. There is no boo that I've seen and I've played 4 out of 5 of the stages so I have no hope. No way to run them over and take things, really it's just if you land on the space that lets you do something like take a dice block or you have to give 10 stars to last place. It's kind of a let down. It seems more like a $20 game, not a full price one.
Now the pro's, because there are some!
It is a fun looking game, colorful, bright, and little details in the background.
You can play 1-4 players, so my husband and I can play with just us, or add in 1 or 2 computes. There are 1 vs 2 minigames if you have 3 players. So that's cool, and you don't have to wait for a computer to do it's thing for ½ of the game.
Some of the minigames are pretty fun, but I haven't seen one that's been a big challenge. My 3 year old nephew can play them all, I mean all.
It is a fun game and I will play it, but unless Mario Party 10 is very different I will not spend the money on it.
Better than other Mario Party games my daughter has played.
I boyfriend bought this for me the day it came out. I played this game with my family and my friend. They love the new twist with this Mario Party game and we love the new mini games.
My grandson wanted the mario game for his birthday. I have played it with him and it was fun and entertaining. Good game for children.
I was really excited also when I saw that Mario Party 9 was coming out and had to preorder it right away. I love that so many people can play together in the game. The mini games are fun and there's lots of them and boards. Once thing I was disappointed on was that fact that you cannot play on teams as you could on Mario Party 8. My wife likes to play with me on the same team and was also dissapointed about that in this game. I'm not really sure if I like all the players riding around in the same car and taking turns as captain but it does speed up the game play.
If you have anyone in the family that likes Mario this is a great game to play solo or with others.
I was so excited to see a new mario party was coming out. I had a 50 dollar gift card that i had received as a gift. I was all hyped up because I grew up on Mario Party, and many of my childhood memories are of playing this game with my cousins and sisters. I was so disappointed when I was met with a completely different game. The mini games are alright, but i hate the car with everyone in it. There is simply no fun in it. It feels like they totally short cutted on this one. I'm so disappointed that I just don't like playing it unless someone asks me too.
If you have never played mario party before, this is a great game I'm sure
If you loved the old Mario parties, this mario party is a huge flop :(
We have another Mario party game that we love. I wanted something new that we could play together. This game is very fun. I like the working together in the car. The Donkey Kong level is really fun and we like buying the new vehicles to use on the levels.
my grandson loves this game
Bought this as a gift for a 12 year old who was having a gaming party for his birthday and even he was insulted at how simplified and boring this game is compared to the last one.
We went and traded it and got Mario Party 8 again.
My 5 yrs old son loves playing mostly mario party 9 its worth! it has several different kind of games so fun!
I bought this for the kids because why else, it's a Mario game. The kids have played and played this game since the purchase. I have played it two times with them and it's a pretty fun game. It's like an animated board game with different levels. I don't get into it as much as they do but they will play it all day long if you let them. All in all I think the game was well worth the money and it was ready same day when I purchased it online. You can't beat that and even saved some money by the online purchase.
this is a great game. this is the first mario party game i've played and i love it! I love all the places like toad road and boo's horror castle. I also love the boss battles and the minigames. the graphics are awesome and its a fun family game. although i wish there were more characters to choose from and more minigame spaces. overall...Great Game!
I got this for my 5 year olds birthday present and he loved it. I would say its expensive, but that's the normal price for wii games I guess. The game itself has a large variety of options of playing, so you're sure to find something you like. Also great because up to 4 players can participate.
Really like it quite different from the last one which gives you a reason to buy it. Mini games are not to hard at all and seem to have more of the old fashion controls. Games are about 30 minutes which is nice but wish you could make them longer would be my only thought.
I bought this game about 3 months ago, it was supposed to be a Christmas gift for my husband! :) We started playing the game, and my oh my is it ever addicting! The game itself is very creative and funny! Interactions with other players is fun. Definitely a great game for family time!
Lots of new mini-games which are fun i like the multi-player cause you all travel together. It's actually a really fun party game for the price! if you want a great family game this will give you hours and hours of family time with the kids even my 4 year old joined in for the fun


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The New York Times cited Richard Land, President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, in their analysis of the Southern Baptist Church's recent call for immigration reform. According to the New York Times article, "Richard Land, president of the Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission in Washington, described the move as "a really classic illustration of Gospel love and Gospel witness."
According to a Baptist Press account of the SBC decision to support immigration reform, Land stated, "The immigration crisis is fanning the flames of hostility and animosity and distrust between various elements in our society, and it is time for our representatives in Congress and our president to put aside partisanship, to put aside narrow political interests and do what is best for the country."
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I found tiny little linen mice for a shelf or two.
Coasters and cozys for my coffee and tea.
Hedghog dollhouses, oh the cuteness.
Bags and baskets for my goodies.
Something to keep my tasty treats.
Something just for fun.
Found these all at Lammymade. Does anyone know Japanese? I wish I did.


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Rpm, or rotations per minute, measures the rotational speed of an object. If you want to convert a rotational speed to a linear speed, such as miles per hour, you need to know the diameter of the circle the object spins around. The larger the diameter, the larger the circumference, meaning the longer the distance covered. When converting, you need to make sure you convert the units properly, which is easier when using a calculator.
Enter the diameter in feet. For example, if the diameter equals 2 feet, enter "2."
Push the multiplication sign.
Enter "3.14" to multiply by pi and change the diameter to a circumference.
Push the multiplication sign.
Enter the rotational speed. In this example, if the rotational speed equals 100 rpm, enter "100."
Push the multiplication sign.
Enter "60" because you need to multiply by 60 to convert from feet per minute to feet per hour.
Push the division sign.
Enter "5,280" and push the equal sign to find the speed in mph. You divide by 5,280 to convert from feet per hour to miles per hour. In this example, when you push the equals sign, your calculator displays 7.14 miles per hour.


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People ask me how I write my interactive tutorials. I can point at the HTML+CSS+JS but that doesn't show the process. I decided to rewrite one of my interactive tutorials from scratch, documenting the process along the way.
I originally planned to use a very simple tutorial, but I decided to use line drawing instead. It's a medium sized project for me, with multiple diagrams, multiple layers in each diagram, draggable handles, and scrubbable numbers. I think it covers a reasonable set of the things I use for my tutorials. This tutorial shows how I put everything together.
This is an interactive tutorial about making interactive tutorials.
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Outside of games or even product development, there's a broad problem called global optimization in which you are trying to find the maximum of a function in some space. If we think about a "space" of all possible game designs, then we're trying to find good places in that space. Hill climbing is the simplest approach to function optimization — in each iteration you make a step to improve. The problem with hill climbing is that you run into "local maxima" — you are at the top of your little hill but there's somewhere far away in game design space that's even better. You can't see that far away so you never find those other game designs. Metaheuristics are different approaches to dealing with this for function optimization; some of these ideas also seem to apply to game development:
- Simulated annealing says: start with big steps early on, make smaller steps later on. This already happens with many games, with early development making larger changes and post-launch being smaller changes.
- Swarm optimization says: explore multiple places at once. Early on, you can prototype many different related games, and then see what works well and what works poorly. Later in development it's impractical to build many different games but you can explore small variants with A/B tests.
- Genetic algorithms says: explore lots of places at once, randomly mutate them, and make copies of the best solutions. This seems like what the modding community provides. Let them explore many alternative sets of game rules, and then incorporate the best features into other mods or into the base game.
- Variable neighborhood search says: alternate between making small changes for a while and then making a few big changes every once in a while. This could mean periodic patches and also bigger changes in the form of expansion packs.
- Graduated optimization says: first optimize a simpler problem, then use the solution to simpler problems as a starting point for exploring a more complex problem. This happens in games that start small and grow more complex over time.
Are there other techniques you use to avoid your game design getting "stuck" in a local maximum?
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"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." –Star Trek
Five years ago I started Red Blob Games to help game developers with interactive tutorials and also to make my own games. I had already been interested in interactive tutorials since 2004 and likely even earlier than that, but it wasn't something I had spent much time on. In August 2011 I made a explanation of "blind spots" when driving a car and discovered that by playing with the diagram, I learned things I hadn't ever learned when I had merely read about the topic. I decided to make many more interactive explanations of math and computer science topics, especially for game development. It was something I wanted to see more of in the world.
Around the same time, I discovered the work of Bret Victor. He wasn't writing interactive tutorials for game development, but he was thinking much bigger. Much, much, much bigger. His articles on "explorable explanations" and "ladder of abstraction" made me realize that there's a lot more to this than I realized.
The first interactive tutorial I published under Red Blob Games was at the beginning of 2012, about damage roll calculations and probability. Also early in 2012 I became pessimistic about making my own games so I decided to focus on helping others with my tutorials.
With the probability page, I followed a "textbook style" of starting with the basics and working my way up. I think that style didn't work so well. The top of the page was too bland; it didn't make people want to read more. For my second interactive tutorial, 2d visibility, I decided I needed more of a "journalist style" of starting with the juiciest thing at the top of the page and then the details later. I think this worked better.
My third interactive tutorial was for curved roads and tracks. This project made me rethink my strategy. In 2012 I had been exploring "small" topics I didn't know much about while learning visualization, javascript, d3, svg, etc. This project took five months, and it was a topic not many people cared about. The combination of I'm learning something new (takes a lot of time, as I'm a slow learner) and it's not very useful stung badly and I had to do something different.
In 2013 I was more focused. I had some topics to explore, and I was better about prioritizing and "shipping". I wanted something that was both a topic I knew about and a topic that would be useful. I started with my guide to hexagonal grids. Not only did I want to have the best reference to hexagonal grid math on the web, I wanted to make better visualizations and a cleaner underlying implementation than I had for my previous articles. I'm quite happy with the way it turned out.
Also in 2013 I used Emscripten to port my old OS/2 game to run in the browser, I spent a month learning signal processing, and finished by writing a page about signal processing concepts and procedural map generation.
In 2014, I wanted to follow the success of 2013 with another topic I knew about and that people would find useful: pathfinding. I started with a tutorial for Tower Defense pathfinding (flow fields), then wrote a longer page about Breadth First Search, Dijkstra's Algorithm, and A*.
One thing that had gone wrong in earlier tutorials was that I explained the theory but not how to implement the algorithms. I had stayed away from implementations because I didn't want to pick a programming language, only to have a different langauge become popular a few years later. I want my pages to last for decades. But at the same time, it was definitely a weakness of my tutorials. I decided to write an implementation guide for the A* page, with both Python and C++ code, as well as a little bit of C#. To make sure that the code I presented on the web page actually ran correctly, I used Emacs Org Mode to write code that would get run during the html export process, and both the source code and its output would be shown on the page. This solved a problem I had with previous pages in which the code on the page would differ slightly from the code I had tested.
My style evolved from "journalist style" to "action movie style". In a James Bond movie, our hero might be falling out of an airplane, fighting the henchman for a parachute. Then the movie switches to Bond talking to his boss about the geopolitical situation in some country. The first scene is exciting but gives no explanation; the second scene is quiet and explains things. The movie alternates between visual-excitement scenes and story-informative scenes until we have a final battle in a secret volcano lair, as exciting as the opening scene, but the viewer now understands the plot and motivations. I now aim to start my tutorials with something cool looking, but without much explanation of how it works. Then I give explanations. Then I give something cool looking again. Then more explanations. Maybe something doesn't work out. Maybe we have to try something different. At the end, there's some demo that's cool, but better because the reader understands the algorithm.
Towards the end of 2014 I went to a workshop that Bret Victor organized to bring people together to talk about interactive documents. It was at this workshop we ended up with the Explorable Explanations page maintained by Nicky Case.
The workshop was absolutely amazing. It inspired me to write up notes on how I write tutorials (draggable markers, A* page). Unfortunately it also paralyzed me when I tried to write new tutorials. I started overthinking everything for a while. When I get stuck on complicated things I find it useful to go back to something simpler. I wrote a quick page about straight lines on a grid.
In 2015, I wanted to try something more ambitious, so I tried procedurally generating downloadable code libraries. I wanted my readers to pick a programming language, formatting style, and hexagonal grid characteristics (offset vs axial, y-up vs y-down, size, skew, etc.), and then my procedural generator would create a downloadable library that implements the hex grid algorithms for their needs. Neat, eh? I wrote a series of blog posts about this (1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7). I wrote an implementation guide and also generated code for C++, Python, Javascript, C#, Haxe, Java, Typescript, and Lua. I also procedurally generated unit tests for each of those languages and ran all of them as part of the publish process.
I also got a bit distracted working on pathfinding optimizations. I wrote a partial page about differential heuristics (which I think is a fantastic optimization with large speedups from little code) and a partial page about waypoint graphs instead of grids (which I'm less excited about now). 0fps wrote a nice optimized grid pathfinding library; I tried it and it ran A* in a mere 1-3 milliseconds on an 800x800 grid map. Pretty cool. But I didn't understand the algorithm and didn't write a tutorial about it.
I realized at some point that my most successful pages were about problems that I had in a real project, and the least successful pages were about problems that I expected to have in a future project. Curved roads and tracks weren't something I needed for a real project, as I've always used grids in building games. Regular A* was fast enough for all the projects I had worked on, so optimizing it further had never been something I needed to do for a real project. Every time I ventured into a topic where it didn't matter for my own projects, that tutorial failed.
This hit me hard. Over the past three years, half that time was wasted writing things that didn't really work out.
I decided that I needed to work on more real projects. I dug through existing projects to see if there was anything I hadn't written much about, and I found one: simple procedural map generation in 50 lines of code. The rest of 2015 I spent updating my skill set (C++, OpenGL, physics, networking, shaders, distance fields, etc.) instead of tutorials, so that I could work on real projects.
In 2016, I updated some of my existing pages (1 - 2), but lost motivation to work on new tutorials. I tried several times to work on a tutorial about coordinate systems but failed each time. I continued learning things by working on small projects (React.js, SVG, Lua, WebAudio, Pixi.js, neural networks, hexagonal tiling of spheres, stylized map rendering) but I don't have much to show for it. I've worked with game developers on small projects but don't have anything I can share yet.
So that's the past five years.
- The first year I worked on small tutorials and learned how to use Javascript, text, and diagrams to build the kinds of explanations I wanted to build.
- The second year I made the guide to hexagonal grids and a few other things.
- The third year I made the A* pathfinding tutorial, started adding implementation guides to my pages, and came up with a style I liked for my tutorials.
- The fourth year I wrote some fun projects but nothing had the impact of my earlier work, and I started to figure out why.
- The fifth year I learned a lot but lost motivation to write big tutorials.
I'm very happy with what I accomplished during this five year mission. The hexagonal grid guide and the pathfinding tutorial are the best things I've written. I loved exploring the capabilities of the medium. Web articles can be interactive explorations of topics and don't have to be static like magazine and newspapers articles. When I started, very few people wrote interactive essays, and now I see many people writing them. I think we'll see a lot more of them.
I love writing tutorials and I love working with game developers, but 2016 convinced me that I need to change my path. I don't know what's next for me. Will I extend my mission? Will I write my own game? Will I move on to something else? I don't have a plan for 2017.
Update: [2017 Mar] Going to the Game Developers Conference helped convince me that I should spend my time helping people make interactive tutorials. I'm working on two tutorials with other people, I've joined communities of people making interactive tutorials, and I'm also mentoring summer interns who are making interactive diagrams. Thanks for all the support!


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Brian Butterfield on M&M: Mike Napoli 'a guy that's going to chase you down to get some extra work'
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Red Sox third base coach Brian Butterfield joined Mut & Merloni Wednesday to discuss Mike Napoli's play at first base, his approach to defensive shifts as a coach and how David Ortiz has thwarted other teams' shifts.
Butterfield also addressed the strange situation that arose in Tuesday's Red Sox game, in which Jarrod Saltalamacchia's throw to first sailed off target after his arm made contact with the umpire's facemask.
Saltalamacchia didn't bring up the issue at the time, he said, because he wasn't aware the play should be called dead, and Butterfield said nobody else quite knew what happened until the moment had passed.
"I don't think anybody really saw it until after the fact," Butterfield said. "I didn't see it, because you're watching to see what the runner's doing, and you see Salty come out of the chute, and your eyes gravitate over toward first base and we saw the ball go out in right field. So I don't think anybody saw it from the dugout, and then when it was finally realized it it was a little bit too late."
Butterfield said Napoli, who has spent much more time at catcher than first base over his career, has worked tirelessly to improve his defense at first.
"He's a hard worker," Butterfield said. "He's a guy that's going to chase you down to get some extra work. It's not a case with some players that you've seen in the past where you've got to hunt him down to work defensively, to make them better defensively. He's a tremendous kid. Nap works. He cares about everything we do. He wants to be a great defender. He's very accountable. When he doesn't pick a ball, he's very upset with himself because he feels like he let his infielder down.
"He's handling the welfare of three other infielders and a pitcher and a catcher, and the No. 1 priority is being able to get around that bag, and being able to adjust and pick balls out of the dirt and be athletic. And sometimes it's an underrated thing because the profile is to have that first baseman be a home run hitter, which Nap has provided, and we knew he was going to provide that, but we've been very pleased with the way he works and how diligent he is."
Following are more highlights from the conversation. To hear the interview, go to the Mut & Merloni audio on demand page. For more Red Sox coverage, to go weei.com/redsox.
On Will Middlebrooks' role in defensive shifts: "As things have evolved and we've had a a chance to see Brooksie play defense and do some things, we've realized, this guy's 6-foot-4, 6-foot-5, but he's a tremendous athlete. He's got body control, he's fearless, and when we first started talking to him about playing some different positions, playing a rover position, playing over by second base, he said, 'Whatever it takes. I'm not afraid to go over to the right side.' For a young player, he's been able to step in and play relaxed and play with confidence even though he hasn't gotten out of the gate like you'd like to offensively. '¦ He's another guy that I didn't have to chase him down during spring training because he wanted to get that extra work, and he's on board with everything we're doing."
On his emphasis on defensive positioning in general: "There's a lot of video work that we have to do. '¦ We spend a lot of time as coaches on the video. We try to look at tendencies. We're still trying to get a real good feel on what the pitchers' strengths are, and then you look at tendencies. If you eliminated all the bases from the field, if Abner Doubleday hadn't put out bases, and you just looked at where guys hit the ball, people really wouldn't concern themselves too much with playing two guys on the left side and two guys on the right side, as much as putting people in places where there is the greatest tendency for them to hit ground balls.
"That's basically what we try to do. The nature of it is, you're not always right. You'll go through periods where they'll hit the ball where your guys are and then you go through periods where they don't hit it where your guys are. The thing that we try to always reaffirm to the players is remember, we're not trying to defend broken bats or balls squibbed off the end of the bat. We're trying to defend balls hit firmly off the barrel of the bat."
On David Ortiz hitting against the shift: "He's a guy that we tried to overshift for years. '¦ I've never seen a guy that can manipulate the barrel of the bat as a power hitter like David can. I'm just in amazement every day watching him take batting practice. It seems as though he's gotten better. He's better at being able to maneuver the ball to the left side of the field. I've seen people with three people on the pull side and the one dog by himself over on the left side with a runner in scoring position, and all David wants to do is win a game and drive in a run. So far he's just made a lot of people pay for it. It sure is nice that we're on the same side so we don't have to defend that big guy."
On working with John Farrell in Boston compared to in Toronto: "Without a doubt there's a difference. I think it's just the evolution of a guy who hasn't had a lot of managing experience but he's highly intelligent. He's a baseball guy. He takes care of his coaches. I just think he's more comfortable in a managerial role. … There's an awful lot of responsibility that a manager has, and I think as the repetition continues to get better, he's a lot more confident. He's just like everybody else that has done it a little bit more — you can see the confidence and it seems like he's enjoying himself a lot more. I think he loves being in this city, too."
On whether Jose Iglesias has a chance to be an elite defender in the majors: "From the short period of time that I've seen Iggy play defense, I think he most definitely does. '¦ Iggy has matured to a point where he has gained the trust of his teammates, managers and coaches. He's starting to value the baseball a lot more than he ever has, and that's important. Having said that, looking at Stephen Drew, he's a guy that I absolutely love, and if you look at the scoreboard and see he's hitting .160, that doesn't matter to me. A guy that catches the baseball consistently, can take away hits and is tough, intelligent and unselfish is the kind of quarterback we need to be playing shortstop in order to pour champagne on each other's heads at the end of the year."
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Cryptozoic Entertainment Announces Batman: Arkham City The Board Game
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Cryptozoic Entertainment has announced the release of a new board game based on Batman: Arkham City.
Batman: Arkham City The Board Game is due out February 2013 for the price of $45. It will be a two player board game where you can play as Batman and the other gets to play as every member of Batman's rogues gallery and the inmates of Arkham City. The inmates can earn points by helping other villains escape Arkham City and Batman earns points by stopping them.
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Today is 4th February 2013. It is known as Li Chun (立春) or the Beginning of Spring. It is also the start of the feng shui year. On this day the Dragon hands over his duties over to the Snake for his turn on the one-year roster.
But on a serious note, 2013 is also a Widow Year, which basically means due to the difference between the solar and lunar calendars, there is supposedly no Li Chun or Beginning of Spring (I've written an article here http://www.pureclassicalfengshui.com/?p=1397). And having no Li Chun is believed to be inauspicious for couples who wanted to get married this year.
Furthermore, 2013 is the year when all the Stars return to their respective Home Palaces. In this year all the Stars will be able to exhibit their natural disposition and energies to maximum effect. This means the auspicious stars will be very beneficial while the inauspicious stars will be very harmful if aggravated. Sectors to pay particular attention to in your house and offices are the Southwest and the center of the property. Try not to spend too much time within this 2 areas and avoid any renovations or loud activities here if possible. Conversely, expect good fortune to come visiting you if you have a main entrance located in the Northeast, South or North sectors of the house or office.
Lastly, remember to welcome the God of Wealth into your house (http://www.pureclassicalfengshui.com/?p=1434) on 10th February by opening your West facing Main Door and windows between the hours of 11pm of the 9th and 1am to ensure prosperity and good luck for the rest of the year.
Oh, by the way, for those of you who had your properties feng shui audited, kindly do your adjustments as per your feng shui reports. For those who had us audit your premises last year, kindly remember to remove all cures and enhancers if you had not already done so. If you do not know what to do, kindly contact or watsapp Esther at 9621-0363. Thanks!
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Editors for this issue: Katherine Biber with Laurie Berg, Rebecca Scott Bray and Lesley Townsley
Pages 191 to 254
Liberal Law's Fear of 'Culture'
Ben Golder
This article offers a critical response to a recent speech delivered by the Chief Justice of New South Wales on the topic of violence against women. The article argues that the Chief Justice, in framing the issue of gendered violence in cultural terms, unhelpfully adopts an understanding of (certain) 'cultures' as monolithic and unchanging and in so doing actually marginalises resistant voices both outside and within those cultures who are struggling to rearticulate and contest patriarchal norms.Price: $8.80
Stop and search without reasonable suspicion: Is Western Australia becoming a police state?
Thomas Crofts
A Bill is currently before the WA Parliament which will allow police to stop and search without the consent of the person and without reasonable suspicion that the person possesses anything related to an offence. This article explores the reasons for the proposed extension of police powers and argues that the powers are unnecessary, that the legislation contains inadequate safeguards, that it is likely to lead to the targeting of certain groups in the community and that it could undermine public confidence in the police.Price: $8.80
The Honeymoon Killer: Plea bargaining and intimate femicide - a response to Watson
Asher Flynn and Kate Fitz-Gibbon
In October 2003, US citizen Christina Thomas died while scuba diving on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. Following over five years of delays, her husband David Watson accepted a plea bargain to which he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of criminal negligence. Watson was initially sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment, suspended after 12 months, however this was later increased on appeal to suspension after 18 months. Using Watson as a framework for analysis, this article examines some of the limitations of an inefficient justice system, with a particular focus on the private nature of the plea bargaining process, and the potentially favourable representations and sentencing of men who kill a female intimate partner. The authors argue that the need to respond to court inefficiency and under-resourcing in the criminal courts creates pressures that can result in a desire for increased efficiency being prioritised above other justice concerns, and this allows for existing flaws within the operation of the criminal justice system to be exacerbated, and excused.Price: $8.80
Fact-finding, Proof and Indigenous Knowledge: Teaching Evidence in Australia
Katherine Biber
Evidence is a compulsory subject of study for law students seeking admission to legal practice. It teaches students principles of proof, fact-finding and the thresholds to admissibility for the evidence that supports truth-claims in litigation. This article explores several opportunities to introduce Indigenous perspectives into the teaching of Evidence. It explains several barriers to participation in litigation for some Indigenous people, and proposes several ways of removing the barriers. It also explores ways that law students can learn to re-consider legal notions of 'fact' and 'truth' by considering these notions from Indigenous perspectives. Finally, it sets out several recent amendments to the uniform Evidence Acts designed to accommodate Indigenous perspectives into the rules of evidence.Price: $8.80
Religion, Politics and Asylum Seekers
Mitchell Landrigan
This article explores Kevin Rudd's use of religion in politics on the topic of asylum seekers when he was Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. Specifically, the article examines how Rudd sought to use religious language to win votes. Naming Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a role model and citing the parable of the Good Samaritan in relation to asylum seekers, Rudd said Christianity must always take the side of the marginalised. As Prime Minister, he faced challenging political circumstances in relation to asylum seekers. However, it is surprising how little tough criticism Rudd endured when his government failed to live up to the high Christian standards he had laid out as Shadow Minister.Price: $8.80
The impossible victim: Judicial treatment of trafficked migrants and their unmet expectations
Ramona Vijeyarasa
This article discusses the voluntary decision-making of potential migrants inherent in the majority of situations of trafficking and trafficking-like working conditions, through the lens of Australian jurisprudence and particularly R v Dobie, the first and thus far only conviction for human trafficking in Australia. The author responds to the tendency of courts to consider it impossible for an individual whose decision-making contributes to their eventual exploitation, to be a victim. To the contrary, the author proposes a contractual approach to the issue of trafficking and argues in favour of courts utilising evidence of victims' negotiations with their traffickers and their expectations concerning conditions of work in destination countries as a benchmark against which to assess redress. Such an approach also values the agency of female migrants who seek economic betterment abroad. The author explores the philosophical limitations of recognising one's agency and the difficult task of balancing an individual's desire for a better life and the opportunities that work abroad may offer with the limits society places on the ability of individuals to give up their freedom.Price: $8.80
Is there a 'desirable migrant'? A reflection on human rights violations at the border: The case of 'virginity testing'
Marinella Marmo and Evan Smith
This article aims to bring to a wider audience the case of 'virginity testing' carried out by British immigration officials in the 1970s, performed on women who sought to emigrate to Britain from the Indian sub-continent. This episode in British immigration history should encourage all of us to consider the gross violations of human rights that can occur at the border with the selection of migrants. It is acknowledged that the 'virginity testing' arose in specific circumstances which, we hope, would not occur again, but this case study provides us a shocking reminder to resist complacency about the severe infringements of human rights that can take place at the border, and can become internalised, accepted, supported or even imposed by the highest levels of the immigration control system.Price: $8.80
Recognition of same-sex parenting in Australia: South Australia the final frontier?
Sonia Allan
South Australia is the only jurisdiction in Australia that does not recognise same-sex parenting. This article provides an overview of the laws in South Australia and the other state/territory and federal jurisdictions. It argues that the law places children who are parented by same-sex couples in South Australia in an unequal and unacceptable position when compared to children in all other Australian jurisdictions. Suggestions for legislative change which would bring South Australia into step with the rest of the nation are made.Price: $8.80
Coronial law reform
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Coronial law reform is continuing in Australia with similar issues echoing throughout jurisdictional reviews. In light of Western Australia's current coronial review, this Brief traces some of the key issues in coronial reform.Price: $4.40
Remembering the Rule of Law
Melissa Castan
We celebrated a 'Rule of Law' day on 11 November, when the High Court handed down decisions in three important cases that reflected the fundamentals of fairness, natural justice and equality before the law.Price: $4.40
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While some may consider sport ephemeral or too much of a national preoccupation, it is also fun – but, importantly, it has its impacts on human rights ... and vice versa.Price: $4.40
Asia Pacific: Are Pacific Islanders eating themselves to death?
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Seven of the world's ten most obese nations are in the Pacific. In part this is due to the popularity of cheap, fatty off-cuts of meat exported from Australia and New Zealand to Pacific Island states. With some medical experts now warning of 'dietary genocide', this article examines part of the complicated relationship between diet and development.Price: $4.40


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This is a historical version of this statute chapter. Also view the most recent published version.
609.25 Kidnapping.
Subdivision 1. Acts constituting. Whoever, for any of the following purposes, confines or removes from one place to another, any person without the person's consent or, if the person is under the age of 16 years, without the consent of the person's parents or other legal custodian, is guilty of kidnapping and may be sentenced as provided in subdivision 2:
(1) To hold for ransom or reward for release, or as shield or hostage; or
(2) To facilitate commission of any felony or flight thereafter; or
(3) To commit great bodily harm or to terrorize the victim or another; or
(4) To hold in involuntary servitude.
Subd. 2. Sentence. Whoever violates subdivision 1 may be sentenced as follows:
(1) If the victim is released in a safe place without great bodily harm, to imprisonment for not more than 20 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $35,000, or both; or
(2) If the victim is not released in a safe place, or if the victim suffers great bodily harm during the course of the kidnapping, or if the person kidnapped is under the age of 16, to imprisonment for not more than 40 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $50,000, or both.
HIST: 1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.25; 1979 c 258 s 8; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 636 art 2 s 24
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The iPod nano's middleweight stature also shows up in its display. It's a 2.5-inch 240 x 432 pixel jobbie, a bit like a slimmer version of a phone screen from 2008. Pixel density is respectable, making text reasonably sharp, but it doesn't come close to the Retina displays of the 2012 iPod touch and iPhone 5.
Display quality isn't quite top-notch, either. The iPod nano uses a TN panel, which suffers from contrast shift when tilted the wrong way. It's not a disaster, but coming from one of the pioneers of high pixel density screens, it's disappointing to see a fully redesigned product end up with something second-rate.
The small, relatively low-res screen makes the 7th generation iPod nano of limited use for video. It's too dinky to watch anything longer than a few minutes on, and as there's no way to access quick fix video resources like YouTube here.
The new iPod nano does have one feature you don't get in Apple's other devices, though, an FM radio. It uses the headphone cable as an antenna, and lets you pause stations by using the internal memory as a buffer. Few media players offer this function.
Nike integration is the other key non-musical addition. Used in tandem with a £15 sensor, available separately, the iPod nano can monitor runs, calculating how far you've run or walked, supplying you with tunes on the way.
The clock function may come in handy too, but crucially there's no alarm clock here as the iPod nano doesn't have an internal speaker or a vibration motor. There is a countdown timer and stopwatch, though.
Other than these little extras, the iPod nano 7th generation is all about playing music - and podcasts/audiobooks, if that's your bag.
As with Apple's other products, sound quality in the 7th generation Apple iPod nano is respectable but not particularly note-worthy. Output is clean and has enough power to drive smaller headphones, but for mammoth high-impedance pairs you may need to use an amp.
There's the usual basic selection of EQ modes on tap too, with 22 on offer. Apple seems to have improved the quality of these in recent times, with a non-distorting bass boost, but the fidelity of control needed to please audio fans isn't really here. All the presets fiddle with the sound a bit too much, and you're best off leaving it on "flat" or "off" if you use remotely decent headphones.
The iPod nano 7th generation offers a volume limit - handy if you're looking to buy a nano for a child - and there's a sound check mode that normalises volume levels across tracks.
Unlike Sony branded players such as the Sony Walkman A845, Apple doesn't have any quirky features that automatically create mood-based playlists on the fly, but it does support Apple's Genius Mixes, created by iTunes.
Given the relative paucity of features and the many much lower-cost alternatives that are available, the iPod nano 7th generation does not seem particularly great value. However, to an extent it's a symptom of the stagnancy of the media player market.
Cowon keeps on trundling out models that feel as though they should have been released four years ago. Sony's players are at times barely indistinguishable from their predecessors. A change in design hasn't led to anything particularly note-worthy in the 7th generation iPod nano, but that doesn't change the truth that this is one of the nicest small players to use. The weakness of the word "nice" is telling, but then maybe not all of Apple's products need to be "magical".
The 2012 iPod nano 7th generation doesn't have the chops to make the same impact as a new iPod touch or iPhone 5. Its screen isn't great in some respects, it's a bit expensive and it doesn't do all that much. However, it's so much of a joy to use on a day-to-day basis that we can learn to accept most of its limitations. Strong design and Apple's excellent UI are enough to mitigate this partly underwhelming redesign.
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I'd be keen to know what the battery life is like please.
I think there is still a market for stand-alone music players. I don't like using my phone for music as it ends up being connected to speakers and therefore not in my pocket - I then walk away and miss calls. There is also the issue of GSM interference spoiling the music.
I don't think this player justifies the cost over the sansa clip. My ideal player would be an oversize clip with a bigger battery. We should be able to get a weeks worth of music by now. No need for "video" screens either!
@sengstaken>> I'd be keen to know what the battery life is like please.
30 hrs. Should be good for a week at about 4 hours a day.
The Sansa Clip seems to be about 11 hrs.
All things been equal, I think the extra £60 for this doesn't seem too bad.
I find battery life playing music not the greatest. I have yet to see close to 10 hrs. But 7 or 8 is pretty good. I use Hesh 2 Skullcandy headphones which require a healthy volume setting. So earbuds might get you better results. I find the volume output is marginally if you like loud music. Is this a design or simply a lacking headphone amp? What I really hate is the new power connector.
does this have voice recorders?
I have a 2nd generation iPod Nano that I use primarily in my truck connected to a Pioneer AVIC-Z2 head unit with the iPod adapter (30-pin) but, wanted to increase storage capacity to load up more iTunes songs so, I bought the 7th generation iPod Nano. First off, the lightning connector required me to buy the 30-pin adapter which isn't cheap at $30 to interface with my Pioneer system. Unfortunately, with the adapter the 7th gen iPod will play but not charge like my 2nd gen. So, I thought wouldn't be a big deal because my older iPod Nano can run for about 2 weeks without a charge using it around 2 hours a day for my daily commute. The new iPod lasted about 5 hours until the battery exhausted. I charged it again to 100% thinking it may not have been fully charged the first outing. To my dismay, it ran out around 5 hours again. I only used it for playing MP3 and none of the other features like Bluetooth were enabled. I don't like the lightning-to-30 pin adapter due to its awkward connectivity and additional space it requires for use with a compact MP3 player.
I returned both the iPod Nano and adapter and plan to buy a used 2nd gen. iPod Nano with 8GB capacity that works with my Pioneer system and has longer battery life.
My opinion is Apple made a bad design choice to go with the lightning connector. Requires buying an expensive adapter to use with iPod 30-pin interfaces. 7th gen. iPod Nano battery life is terrible and for those that just want an MP3 player to play iTunes, the additional features of FM radio, Nike app., podcasts, Videos, & Bluetooth will only consume more battery.
I have it and it's extremely easy to use battery life up to 30 hours of music , 10 hours of video and you cannot install apps , but you can sync from itunes music , videos , podcasts , etc. But on the 2nd page where is clock and settings , you can sync ITunes U and Audiobook those two will appear on the second page or the 3rd page , or what page you select them to be . What is new for this ipod nano , as it says on the video , it has bluetooth wich allows you to connect to your car , your wireless headset and you can connect to the other devices from Apple. And exteremely rare for this ipod , if you keep charging your ipod , you will increase your ipod's battery life !!! I'm not joking because i have one of my own and i have done that and i increse my ipod's battery life , up to 38 hours of music and and 18 hours of videos !!!And now about photos you can now pinch to zoom and picture , wich the previous ipod nano , dosen't do that ! Only at videos you can sync movies only mp4 and you can double tap on the screan and voila ! The video's bigger it can support 1000 charges , and if you leave it 7 days at charging you can activate bluetooth , you can keep the screen on and the battery will not respond till the next charging , i mean it frozez . You know if you leave your ipod ( 7th gen) 30 seconds at charge the battery will increase "a quarter" of battery. I think is the best mp3 , mp4 , ipod from Apple looking at the increased battery life ! ( MY OPPINION )
yes , but not with the included earpods , only with earphones with microphone
I'm so disappointed in my Nano because it has no alarm. I need an alarm to wake me (yes, with ear buds.) Such a waste of money for me. :(
can you watch movies?
why does it have photos if there is no camera?
then sell it.
Does it have an internal speaker?
To get games and apps on it insert the I pod into the computer and click on my computer then go onto your name I pod than make a folder and have happy gaming! I managed to get Gta vice city and Gta 3 on my 7G ipod Nano.
Gone through two in less than a year. First one wouldn't charge after a few months. Apple replaced it. Second one now has no sound after two months. Nice that Apple replaces them but getting to be annoying.
How do you download the game after making the folder?
I am on my 4th 7th generation Nano and now heading back to
get the Apples store as this one (will
be my 5th device in less than year) has also broke and shown same fault issue
as the others that failed. Screen started flickering and jumping then end ups going
white and then fails and goes black. Typically
i can normally see in ITunes but device
screen just not working at all... If you leave hooked up via usb port it starts
to go white around top edge of screen. Has anybody experience any issues like
I typically use this for gym and running where this is when
it has failed
i miss my old school 80g iPod when I it finally died, so I had to buy the nano 7th gen and i been using it for 1 year and I think it sucks! bad battery life so I bought one of those portable charging things. yes I know its the headphones over ear Sony MDR-x10 ones that go in ear to uncomfortable, then they say it can hold up to 4,000 something songs witch is a bunch of bull mine only held 183 and it is telling me I cant ad more songs memory is full. then I find out its how you import the songs and format and more crap I have to read up on to know what the heck wave, aa bla bla, and now I need to go back and convert the songs already on the iPod. they should make an iPod for us older guys that does nothing but play music I don't need podcast, don't need to know how many steps I taken take out movies to dam thing is way to small to see it anyways same with photos I have a big screen tv for that and LG phone for on the go.
Can anyone confirm this.
I use a headphone amp and currently play my iPod nano 5 gen via the 30 pin into the jack socket input to the amp.
I tried an iPod touch with the lightning output plugged in to the micro USB input of the amp, a Shure SHA900, and it plays fine. I then tried an iPod nano 7 gen with the same connector, lightning to micro USB, and it's totally quiet.
Is the nano 7 lightning output different to the iPod touch lightning output. I think it may be a different OS.
Anybody know if there's a short, about eight cm, connector with a lightning plug to go into the iPod seven on one end and a headphone jack PLUG to go into the amplifiers line in jack socket on the other end.
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Area Female Athlete: Moenkedick captains the Pirates
Teresa Moenkedick is not perfect.
She is, however, the perfect leader for the Verndale Pirates volleyball team.
Moenkedick is the lone senior on the 16-6-1 Pirates so she handles the entire leadership duties. But she handles them well.
"She's a natural leader on the court and she's a good teammate," said Verndale head coach Shelly Glenz. "The younger girls do look up to her. I know my daughters Shania and Jordyn think the world of her. She is very welcoming and encouraging. She's a quiet leader, but a great role model in school. She has a lot of character for an 18-year-old girl. She's a phenomenal kid. She was our homecoming queen. She's the type of girl everybody just likes."
Except for opposing teams. While great for the Pirates she's a handful for defenses as Moenkedick is the go-to offensive player of the Pirates.
She tallied 12 kills, 27 digs, one block and one set assist in the Pirates 3-0 Park Region Conference victory over Menahga Oct. 2.
Against Pillager Oct. 4, Moenkedick posted 24 kills, 32 digs, one block, one set assist and one ace serve during a 3-1 win.
She concluded her week with 49 kills, 99 digs and two ace serves in the Bertha-Hewitt Invite. Verndale finished second in the tournament with a 4-2 record.
"She's been our go-to girl the last two years," said Glenz. "She is just a really natural athlete and has amazing body control. She can just play whatever we need. She can do whatever she wants to do. She's really quick. She's small. She is only 5-foot-7, but she has an amazing jumping ability. She has springs. Plus, she can hit everything."
The four-year varsity player was the team's libaro her first two years before moving to outside hitter. Her past experience has helped Moenkedick lead the team in digs routinely, said Glenz.
Moenkedick is also an efficient server. She doesn't have many ace serves, but also doesn't have many service errors.
"She's our kill leader and our dig leader," Glenz said. "She's going to leave a big hole. She is our dependable outside hitter. She has really improved at hitting around the blocks. She's a really smart hitter. She advanced her game by hitting down the line with a sharp cross court hit. It's a hard hit because there is a narrow margin to hit. Either you hit the net or you hit it out. She has mastered that hit, though."
Glenz said she doesn't use Moenkedick enough. But that's why she is such a great leader on this team.
"We should be going to her 80 percent of the time," said Glenz. "She can just get the job done. But she's a very unselfish player. She doesn't want the glory. She wants to be the teammate."
Other notable performances:
Cross Country: Leric Larson, Pequot Lakes, won the Pine River-Backus Invite in 16:51.
Soccer: Rachelle LeBlanc, Little Falls, scored two goals against Zimmerman.
Volleyball: Kelly Pearson, Staples-Motley, finished with 18 kills, 31 digs and three ace serves against New York Mills.
Heather Theisen, Wadena-Deer Creek, finished with 40 set assists, 10 digs and two blocks against Perham and 35 set assists, seven digs and four ace serves against Staples-Motley.
Caitlin Volkmann, Wadena-Deer Creek, finished with 16 digs, 12 kills and three blocks against Perham and 13 digs, nine kills and two ace serves against Staples-Motley
Jenae Herron, Aitkin, finished with 22 digs and 13 kills against Isle and 14 digs and 10 kills against Rush City.
Mikayla Michaletz, Aitkin, finished with 27 digs, 13 kills, four blocks and two ace serves against Isle and 14 kills, 11 digs, four blocks and four ace serves against Rush City.
Noelle Kurowski, Little Falls, finished with 18 digs, 13 kills and six ace serves against Becker.
Kelly Mast, Pillager, finished with 118 set assists, 30 digs, 13 kills, 12 ace serves and two blocks at the Bertha-Hewitt Invite.
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Downwind cruising
This may be a silly question, but what else are first posts for??
If i plan on sailing a straight line from point A to point B on a large cruising boat (40+ feet) and the wind is close to directly behind me (we'll say between 135 degrees and 225 degrees if the boat is on a 0 degree heading), will it be possible to unfurl the jib in 5-10k wind conditions while heading downwind? This is assuming that the trip is a short one (less than 5 miles) and it will just generally be a pain to head upwind to raise/lower sails.
Yes, but it would be a painfully slow trip. You would have minimal apparent wind and a small amount of sail area.
Won't you be heading upwind to hoist your main anyway? You can hoist the jib immediately afterwards.
If you're thinking of using only the jib, well, it might be possible to unfurl the jib downwind in 5 knots but at 10 knots there might be too much pressure in the sail. Having the main up would negate this problem since you could unfurl the jib in the lee of the main.
In the end, in such conditions you should be able to head upwind and douse the jib in under a minute.
I have done what you're suggesting (except with a hank-on drifter, very light cloth, 155% LP) in very light conditions (just a couple of knots pretty far aft) for a short trip. I knew the wind was so light that the main wouldn't even fill. All the main would have done would be to shadow the jib and get damp. The trip was slow, but so was the wind, and we were in no hurry.
Jeff's implicit suggestion is that you sail two reaches, one on either tack. This will increase your apparent wind, and even though the trip will be about 40% longer, you will probably go more than 40% faster.
Better to have your main up, it'll project more area than the jib. Then you can blanket the jib on a deep broad reach to unfurl/furl it.
I have never had a problem unfurling the genoa on any point of sail eneven up to 20 knots and I have a 150% gennie. The answer though is why would you want to unfurl in 5 knots in the first place unless you're out for a sunday afternoon just to be on the water.
Thanks for all of the replies!
The question is related to a charter trip I am going to do. A couple legs of the trip will be downwind in fairly shallow water where time is not factor at all. It will also be with a very small crew---2 people. Since there will be plenty of time for fun, fast sailing, I was really just looking for a couple of days of lazy, slow movement without the necessity of moving under motor or heading upwind, raising, lowering, etc..
Try a series of long lazy jibs under headsail only with the breeze about 45deg of the stern.
It is easier to furl and unfurl a headsail with some breeze than dead to wind or with no wind. Some tension on the jib sheet and furling line prevents fouling of the furling line in the drum.
On occasion this is my favourite point of sail, very relaxing and good for the sunbathers in your party.
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Can anyone help me with this query please?
I recently made a s42 claim and proposed a premium of £13,000. The counter notice accepts all the terms except for a premium required of £25,700. My offer was made on the basis of an unimproved value of £150,000 for the flat which has a little over 59 years unexpired lease (the premium calculation was done by a chartered surveyor for me) whereas the FH valuer has put it at £160,000.
We are so far apart that I think negotiation would not result in much reduction if any so I will have to go to the LVT for a decision but I am told that it will cost me about £4,000 with expert valuation and legal representation and that this is what the FH is hoping will deter me from going this route.
Do I need the legal representation if it is just a premium dispute and could this be dealt with as a written case rather than a hearing?


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About Forbes Under 30 $1M Change the World Competition
- Forbes Under 30 $1 Million Change the World Competition is the largest-ever competition for young social entrepreneurs,funding those disruptive and scalable ideas that address global challenges.
- The competition is open to both Profit and Non Profit Organisations. It is not a b-plan competition rather the participating companies must be in operation and the prize money should be utilized to quicken the most promising ideas.
- Applications had to be made Online on the official website of HeroX.com and will be screened by the Wharton Social Impact Initiative of the University of Pennsylvania. The finalists will be announced on September 9 and final round will be held on October 6, 2015 and the finalists have to travel to Pennsylvania, USA from October 5-6, 2015 for the Forbes Under 30 Summit.
- A full-pass to the Summit will be provided; finalists are responsible for their own travel expenses.
- International applicants need to be mindful of visa and other logistics issues.
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The challenge will award a total of $1,000,000 USD in cash and in-kind prizes
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- Finalists will be invited to participate in the Under 30 Impact Lab – an afternoon during which the attendees at the Under 30 Summit will work with challenge finalists to help them solve problems and accelerate their growth.
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- Candidates are required to answer around 30 questions in which they have to write short answers upload documents and create short videos.
- Candidates have to submit all the documents well before August 26, 2015 at 11:59PM Eastern Time.
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Forbes Under 30 $1 Million Change the World Competition Selection Process
- From the pool of applications received, five or six competitors will be shortlisted who will receive a cash award of $100,000 USD.
- Candidates shortlisted will be asked for follow-up information or telephone interviews. The shortlisted candidates selected will be intimated before September 9, 2015.
- The shortlisted candidates will be informed email on or around 12:00 noon ET on September 9, 2015.
- The shortlisted candidates d must be able to travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 5-6, 2015 for The Forbes Under 30 Summit.
- At the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia on October 6, 2015 they will have to compete in the presence of 2,000 world-class mentors and the best young entrepreneurs and game-changers in the world, as culled from the Forbes 30 Under 30 lists.
- At The Forbes Under 30 Summit the winner will be selected.
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- True to the competition's name, the judges will look for innovative models that attack big problems with solutions that are ascendable.
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- Judges are looking for solutions in the areas of education, extreme poverty, sustainability, global health and any other numberof other social problems.


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March 3, 2011
Yesterday, we talked about how help is long overdue for homeless youth. We've said it once and we'll say it again: there is not enough information about this very vulnerable, often overlooked population.
In fact, there isn't even a baseline count; that is, we don't even really know how many homeless youth there are in the country.
This is why the Alliance is urging communities to include youth in their annual point-in-time counts. All communities are required to regularly conduct counts of their local homeless populations (required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development) and while "youth" is a line item, hardly any communities report youth numbers.
But we need to start counting.
Our own district is starting this year. The DC Alliance of Youth Advocates is conducting a homeless youth survey in mid-March in concert with the George Washington University and the Interagency Council on Homelessness. The effort is meant to gauge how many youth are experiencing homelessness in the District, how youth in the District become homeless, and what the community can provide with services and programs to assist youth out of homelessness and into stable housing conditions.
DC is taking an essential step forward. In order to solve a problem, we must first fully understand it – and conducting this kind of count can increase our knowledge on this important social problem.
How does the youth homelessness situation look like in your community? What steps are being taken to end youth homelessness? Are you available to help DC AYA and their partners conduct a youth count in mid-March? Let us know!
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In January of 2016 Ortiz was the subject of two different television programs on different networks. The concert film Como Un Sueño that showed in theaters the previous year made its TV debut on Telemundo. It was followed by the four-episode biographical documentary, Gerardo Ortiz: Sin Censura for NBC Universo, that focused Ortiz's daily life off the stage. ~ Jason Birchmeier
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Imagine you're building a home. What if you could design it so your electric bill was next to nothing, but it would cost you 10 percent more upfront? Would it be worth it to you?
For Jennifer and Sloan Ritchie of Seattle, Washington, the answer was a resounding, "Yes!"
"Sloan is a builder and he believes in the reality of climate change and understands how buildings contribute to that. He was looking for something that focused on energy efficiency and was aligned with his vision for creating really high-performance housing," says Jennifer Ritchie. Heating and cooling can account for as much as 60 percent of a building's electrical load.
The couple knew they eventually wanted to build a dwelling that matched their sustainability values. They found out about Passive House - buildings that are well insulated and low cost to maintain - and when an infill lot in Seattle's Madison Park neighbourhood fell into their laps in 2012, it was the perfect opportunity. Or so they thought.
"Right out of the gate, we decided we were going to build a Passive House," says Ritchie. But there were obstacles.
"One of the basic principles of Passive House is to design the building so it gets as much free heat from the sun as possible, and then holds onto that heat for as long as possible," says Jordan Goldman, a Passive House consultant with Zero Energy Design in Brooklyn, NY. Averaging only 58 days of sunshine per year, Seattle isn't exactly ideal.
There were also problems with where the lot was situated. "Everyone we talked to said this was the worst lot possible to build a Passive House because it was surrounded by tall houses. Getting the southern exposure we needed was going to be a challenge," says Ritchie.
In addition, they wanted the modern three-story to be bright. "We're a family of four and we wanted lots of light. The challenging thing with infill lots is they can be really dark," says Ritchie. This proved to be the biggest obstacle for their designers, Marie Ljubojevic and Lauren McCunney at NK Architects in Seattle, WA.
After designs were created, NK applied the Passive House model, but they had to keep tweaking it. "I don't know how many times we had to change the window sizes, just to be able to capture enough energy and keep it in," says Ritchie. But they persisted.
The family has since spent a year in their new domicile, called Park Passive. Last winter was unusually cold for more temperate Seattle but Ritchie, who hates the cold, says she was comfortable. "On the day the newspaper said it was the coldest day on record, it was 70 in our house. And we didn't run the heater."
The couple estimates the cost of building to Passive House standards, was about 5 percent higher than conventional methods but says it costs a lot less to run than their old home. "In our old house, in the wintertime we spent $250 a month on heat and electricity. Now, our bill is about $30 a month year round, and this house is twice the size," says Ritchie.
In her book American Passive House Developments, author Mary James describes Passive House as an approach that allows architects "to design superinsulated, very airtight buildings that require minimal energy use to heat, cool, dehumidify, and ventilate." Such structures achieve the ultimate energy independence - freedom from fossil fuels - while maintaining comfort and low operational costs.
To understand Passive House strategy, it's helpful to understand the concept of a building envelope. "In effect, it is the structure that protects you from the outside environment and keeps you comfortable inside. In a colder environment, you heat the interior; in a warmer environment, you cool it. Insulation helps prevent warm or cool air from leaking out," says Goldman.
If you've ever felt a draft next to a window or door, then you've experienced a leak in the building's envelope.
[Passive houses] achieve the ultimate energy independence - freedom from fossil fuels - while maintaining comfort and low operational costs.
According to the National Institute of Building Sciences, the first building envelope was probably a cave. Building science quickly evolved to wooden, stone and metal structures, and today, a lot of construction uses glass.
In order to prevent leaks in those structures, building analyses look at how the foundation, floors, walls and roof are built and insulated. The Passive House model minimizes leaks and maximizes heating and cooling retention in all four areas.
Germany was an early adopter of Passive House concepts (called PassivHaus) in the mid-1990s, but it is relatively new to North America. There are only an estimated 40 to 50 certified Passive Houses in the US, which often leads to claims of firsts, such as first Passive House in Brooklyn and first Passive House in New York. Likewise, Park Passive is the first Passive House in Seattle.
Contrary to what the name implies, Passive House doesn't just apply to houses. Around the country, projects have included studios and art centers, and Hollis Montessori School is the Nation's first certified Passive School.
Located in southern New Hampshire, where winter temperatures frequently dip below freezing, Hollis recently underwent construction of a new schoolhouse and "now uses 85 to 90 percent less energy than other similar schools in the northeast," says Goldman.
The school was tested for leaks, using a method called a "blower door test," and according to Frank Grossman, the school board member who championed the project, "We were ready to go find all the leaks but nothing needed to be done." In fact, Hollis performed so well, Goldman says it's one of the most airtight structures in the country.
The Passive House concept proved itself toward the end of construction at Hollis, according to Goldman. "After we got the building insulated we were working without the heat on in the middle of winter, on a cold day and the building maintained a temperature of 67 degrees. We had small heaters and we didn't even need them, which I thought was really cool."
Hollis too faced increased costs of about 10 percent. Grossman says the board was "supportive but cautious," and they never calculated a payback period "…because of what we wanted to accomplish. We want less of a [carbon] footprint and an environmentally respectful building, and the price was reasonable to do that," says Grossman.
The Ritchies wanted to take advantage of their environmentally respectful abode by holding open houses to promote Passive House. Initially, they planned to live in Park Passive for a year, show it off, and then sell it. Now Ritchie says she doesn't want to move.
"In the old house, Sloan was pretty chintzy about the heat. At night, he would turn it down to 65 degrees and then tell everybody to wear a lot of clothes." Now, Ritchie says she wears shorts and flip-flops in the middle of winter. "I don't want to sell it, because I love it, she says. "I can't see ever living in a drafty house again."
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A Big Score for SAT Tutors
By Burt Helm
It's test time. On Mar. 12, high school students, mostly juniors, will be taking a new version of the SAT, the most common college-entrance exam in the U.S. Among the changes: three sections instead of two, a top score of 2400 instead of 1600, harder math, and a new writing component that will require a hand-written essay.
Anxiety among students and parents is running high, and test-preparation companies, which offer books and other materials, classes that typically cost $900 or $1,000, and personal tutoring that can fetch $100 to $400 an hour, are cashing in. But while college-admissions officials will be judging the students' results, investors will be keeping a close eye on how the test-prep companies, which are competing in a sector estimated at $960 million this year, utilize this marketing opportunity to boost their bottom lines.
By and large, the SAT changes aren't drastic. The math section involves more sophisticated algebra but retains the same level of geometry.
The major addition, the new writing section, is very similar to the SAT II Writing Exam, though the essay question will be more specific than that test, says Sandra Riley, a representative for the nonprofit College Board. The multiple-choice questions will be similar to grammar questions found on the PSAT, which most students take before taking the SAT.
But the specter of an unfamiliar test compels parents to seek expert help, says Adam Newman, vice-president for research and client services for Eduventures, a Boston-based research outfit that tracks the education business. "This is a pure marketing and expansion opportunity" for test-prep companies, says Newman.
And those outfits are riding a big bounce. Kaplan, which has 24% of the market, according to Jefferies Securities analyst Richard Close, saw a 50% year-on-year revenue increase in its SAT-related business in the latter half of 2004, says Jennifer Karan, national director of SAT programs at Kaplan, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Washington Post (WPO ). At the Princeton Review (REVU ) the market leader in SAT prep with a 27% market share, Executive Vice-President Steve Quattrociocchi was reluctant to predict revenues, but he indicated that a boost of somewhere between 20% and 50% in SAT-related first-quarter revenue is likely.
That would make it a spike similar to 1994, the last time the College Board modified the exam. Meanwhile, competition for students seeking entry into competitive colleges continues to heat up, with 14% more students taking the SAT than five years ago, according to the College Board, which also predicts that college applications will continue to rise until 2009, as more baby boomers' children come of age.
Test anxiety has reached an a new high. "Parents are using business terms like ROI [return on investment]," and asking for quantitative estimates of score increases before signing up, says Lisa Jacobson, founder of privately owned tutoring business Inspirica, which has offices in New York and Boston. Jacobson's home answering machine no longer accepts voice messages but directs callers to her e-mail account. "They start calling at 6:30 a.m., and they don't stop until midnight," she says.
While Inspirica continues to focus on its one-on-one tutoring service, bigger fish like Princeton Review and Kaplan are introducing a host of new products to capitalize on the burgeoning market. In addition to classes and books, they're marketing online classes and PDA- and cell-phone-based quizzes. Last year, Princeton Review rolled out "premier" tutoring services similar to Inspirica's one-on-one product.
Test prep and tutoring services in the U.S. took in an estimated $702 million in 2003, and that's expected to grow to $960 million this year, according to Eduventures. But the U.S. still lags behind other countries in standardized test-prep spending. In Japan and South Korea, the vast majority of students sign up for prep courses, says Eduventure's Newman, vs. from 15% to 20% of eligible students in the U.S. In those countries, all students must pass a test to be eligible for top universities.
As states require additional testing to satisfy the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. students will be taking more standardized tests at several stages of their academic careers. But test-preparation services for public school exams, which depend less on the bank accounts of upper-middle-class parents and more on the finances of beleaguered school districts, have had mixed success.
Princeton Review has had trouble securing contracts with school districts in recent months. It has missed Wall Street's earnings estimates in four of the last five quarters due to lagging performance outside of its SAT business, including declining enrollment in graduate and law-school admissions exam-preparation classes.
Still, experts expect to see growth well beyond the new-SAT spike. "We live in a society where testing is not going away," says Close. "There will continue to be growth here [for test prep companies] in the 5% to 10% range" for the next several years, he says.
Parents are accepting the trend with resignation. "It makes your child mature very early on. It's a very early lesson that you always strive to do your best," says Antica Black of Manhattan, whose daughter is a sophomore at a private high school in Connecticut. Her fifth-grader son just finished the Independent School Entrance Examination and Manhattan Private School Assn.'s standardized test before applying to five different kindergarten-through-eighth-grade schools when they moved to the city.
Black says she isn't too worried. "I've already been through this a lot," she says. And just in case, test-preparation companies are there to help, every step of the way.
Helm is a reporter for BusinessWeek Online in New York
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Inconvenient bus schedule
I frequently have to use the late-night buses from San Francisco to my home in Corte Madera and I want to bring attention to the absurd transfer scheduling arrangements at Marin City.
The northbound No. 70 from San Francisco is scheduled to arrive two minutes after the northbound No. 22 to Corte Madera, Larkspur and the Ross Valley is timed to depart, and while it is sometimes possible to transfer, missing that connection, since the No. 70 is frequently late, means having to walk home 1.5 miles from the Paradise Drive bus pad.
This scheduling arrangement between two Golden Gate bus lines is all the more inexcusable since the No. 22 now starts at Marin City, instead of Sausalito as it used to, so there is no reason why the bus cannot wait for the No. 70.
The prospect of having to wait 55 minutes at Marin City for the next No. 22 is unappealing under any circumstances.
I am a strong supporter of public transit, having used Golden Gate buses since 1977. On the whole the service is fine, especially the morning and evening No. 18 commute services.
However since the demise of No. 20 that used to run all day from San Francisco via the Ross Valley, the local services in this part of Marin have been pretty mediocre.
The late-night No. 22 is usually empty as it trundles its way via the Strawberry Shopping Center and often sits for five minutes at Tamalpais Drive and Tamal Vista Boulevard, so as not to be ahead of its incredibly slow schedule.
Any chance of bringing back the No. 20, which was an incredibly useful service, popular and reliable?
John Ellis, Corte Madera
Try Meatless Mondays
Kudos to Miguel Villarreal and his pioneering work to promote healthy eating habits, including the Novato School District's participation in the growing Meatless Monday movement (Marin Voice, Oct. 6, "Putting health on school menus").
The reasons to reduce meat consumption are clear: it's better for our health, the environment and animals.
A growing consensus among health care practitioners is that reducing our consumption of animal products reduces our risk of contracting many diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Taking animals off our plates one day each week reduces our environmental impact more than eating local all year long.
And the case for animal protection couldn't be clearer. Farm animals, just like the dogs and cats we consider members of our families, are individuals with distinct characters, cognitive and emotional abilities and the capacity to suffer.
Yet our food system treats them like mere units on a production line with little consideration for the suffering they endure on the farm, on the long and crowded truck ride to the slaughterhouse, and the slaughter itself.
If we all went meat free on Mondays, we'd prevent more than a billion animals from enduring this fate.
Three years ago Miguel led on this issue, and since that time numerous school districts including San Diego, Los Angeles and Pleasanton have followed his lead by instituting Meatless Monday.
It would be great if all schools in Marin County adopted Meatless Monday and thereby promoted healthier, more sustainable and more humane diets.
Carol Misseldine, Novato


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Ben Ainslie confirmed his dominance of the Finn class, the Olympic single-handed dinghy, by winning the World Championship for an unprecedented fourth consecutive time in Moscow yesterday. Ainslie had led the series at the end of each day and the final race was abandoned shortly after it had started leaving him well in front of the other 97 competitors.
Jorg Bruder of Brazil had previously won the Finn Gold Cup, the prize for this championship, on three occasions between 1970 and 1972 and was on his way to the regatta when he was killed in an aeroplane crash in 1973; and, though the legendary Dane Paul Elvstrom won four consecutive Olympic gold medals, he was never able to match this performance from the British sailor.
When Ainslie won his second Olympic gold, in Athens, he fought back from a dubious disqualification in the second race, while in Sydney he trapped his only serious opponent for the gold medal, Robert Scheidt of Brazil, in a situation that sailed him out of contention.
Yesterday he had to face only one serious challenger to retain his title, Emilios Papathanasiou of Greece, and the situation became Sydney 2000 revisited. Ainslie hounded the Greek towards the unfavoured end of the start line, fouling him in the process. Papathanasiou was white with anger and hammered on the side deck of his boat with his fists, so that, after Ainslie had quickly completed his 720-degree penalty turn, the two of them were a long way last.
The race lasted only 10 minutes before the wind dropped away to nothing and was abandoned with no time left to re-sail it. On Saturday Ainslie, after an indifferent first race, in which he finished 10th, realised he was somewhat behind the eight ball and only level on points with Papathanasiou. Sitting out the boat on the weather side, or hiking as the sailors call it, produces considerably increased performance in the stronger breezes. "I had a moderately good start," said Ainslie, "and hiked like a bastard."
His coach, David Howlett, is still amazed at his performance in the Finn, particularly on the downwind legs. "He is 40 metres faster on the leg than anyone in the light winds, and 150 metres faster when the wind is strong," he said.
Rod Carr, the chief executive of the Royal Yachting Association, agrees. "Ben has remarkable natural talent and it's a pleasure to watch him," he said.