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Clausthal Institute of Environmental Technology (CUTEC) is a company of Lower Saxony. We have been a highly knowledgeable partner and innovative service provider in the field of environmental and energy technology since 1990.
Senior Management team
Prof. Martin Faulstich took over as Managing Director of CUTEC at the beginning of 2013. Dipl.-Kfm. Martin Eberhardt, Dr. Stefan Vodegel are the other members of the Senior Management Team.
Organisational structure
The Institute has four operating departments which work on advanced development of information, resource and energy technology. The Power Systems Analysis Department (which is located at the Lower Saxony Energy Research Centre in Goslar) concentrates on information technology. The Metal Recycling Department explores ways of exploiting valuable resources. The Chemical Power Systems and Thermal Process Technology Departments focus on energy. Central services provide the support needed by the project-orientated operating departments to work effectively and produce successful outcomes.
Strategic orientation
The CUTEC Institute operates at the science-industry interface and conducts research which has direct application relevance. The goal is to quickly translate basic research results into practicable technologies into practicable technolgults obtained from basic research into prearelevace. __________________________________________.
Through interaction between different fields of process technology at a single site, we are able to analyse, modify and ultimately optimise processes and process flows from the energy and environmental perspective despite the high level of complexity involved.
Our portfolio includes publicly funded projects and projects carried out on a contract basis as well as innovative services and consultancy and the generation of expert reports.
The history of the Institute
The CUTEC Institute came into being when the Memorandum of Association was signed on March 28th, 1990. The State of Lower Saxony has always been the sole shareholder. The Institute has its roots in Clausthal University of Applied Sciences (TU Clausthal) and is still closely associated with the university.
Five years after the Institute was set up, the staff moved into a new building on the university campus at the end of Leibnizstraße. As CUTEC was in the process of being set up, the first Managing Director Prof. Kurt Leschonski acted as the driving force, and he then guided the fortunes of the Institute until the year 2000. Prof. Otto Carlowitz took over command in 2000 and handed his responsibilities on to Prof. Martin Faulstich in 2013.
The full story of CUTEC's foundation and early years is related in the following article by Gerda Vollbrecht, the first Senior Management Team member:
"Do you remember how it all began"? (PDF-Datei)
Photo top right: Prof. Kurt Leschonski at the Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Institute's new building.
Photo top left: Helga Schuchardt (Lower Saxony Minister of Science and Culture from 1990 to 1998) and architect Mr. Husemann at the laying of the CUTEC foundation stone at CUTEC.


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Minister Paul Martin has named journalist Michaelle
Jean as Canada's next governor general. Jean will
be installed as Canada's 27th governor general Oct.
just 48 years old, the award winning journalist
will become one of the youngest governors general
ever, the third woman in the job and the first black
person to call Rideau Hall home.For more details
here. (Photo
courtesy:CBC Photo)
According to the Ontario Society of Professional
Engineers (OSPE), 10,225 foreign trained immigrants with
engineering backgrounds immigrated into Toronto in 2001
alone. This number is greater than the entire Canadian
graduating class of engineers in that year. Toronto offers
only 17% of the total jobs in Canada An ongoing survey
of foreign trained immigrants having engineering backgrounds
in Ontario being carried out by CAPE shows that over 80%
of them cannot find a job in their field of expertise.
Therefore before you make a decision to immigrate to Canada
on the basis that you will be able to make a smooth transition
to practice your engineering expertise in Ontario , we
would recommend that you study this website.
Council for Access to the Profession of Engineering
(CAPE) is an Ontario based, not for profit, membership
organization that began in 1990 when a number of independent
associations serving internationally trained engineering
graduates got together.
about Canada and Canadian Immigration
and Americans support biometric technology in passports
and drivers' licences: survey
But citizens of both countries are concerned about cost
and government abuse
Aug. 2 /CNW/
On both sides of the border, support for
including biometric identifiers in government-issued identification
documents is high, though slightly higher in Canada, according
to a new survey conducted by TNS, the world's largest
custom market information company, and TRUSTe, the online
privacy leader.
"Including biometric data such as fingerprints or
retinal scans in ID documents are perceived by the public
to help prevent fraud and identity theft, but, at the
same time, many Canadians and Americans express privacy
and cost concerns about government use of the technology,"
said David Stark, privacy officer of TNS.For full text
open at Canada's largest year-round school
Aug 2005
CBC News
A brand-new school opened its doors west of Toronto for
a new school year Tuesday - launching the largest implementation
in Canada of year-round schooling.
Instead of getting one long break in the summer, 1,100
students at the new Roberta Bondar Public School in Brampton,
Ont., will get a series of smaller ones spread out over
the school year, as well as a much shorter summer vacation.
"It's pretty cool," student Kushman Kardaliwal
told CBC News.
"We get to start before everybody else and we get
more breaks than everybody else."
There will still be the same number of academic days as
other schools, plus holidays on such days as Good Friday,
Easter Monday and Victoria Day and the Christmas to New
Year's break.What's new are the short breaks in October,
February and again in March.
Clips from Goa
Joel D'Souza & Fred Noronha
agrees to give more funds for IFFI
PANAJI, Aug 2: With the Planning Commission providing additional
funds to Goa, the Chief Minister, Mr Pratapsing Rane, today
said the government will consider holding the 36th International
Film Festival of India in Goa, and added that he would take
a decision on it after consulting party colleagues within
three days.
in Konkani literature ignored
PANAJI: On July 31, another significant landmark in the
history of Konkani went almost unnoticed. It was on 31 July
1905 - hundred years to the day - the first Konkani novel
written by Eduardo Jose Bruno de Souza was released. De
Souza's 174-page novel "Kristanv Ghorabo", which
was well received, was based on a family living the Christian
ideal in their day-to-day life. The novel, in Romi script
with 25 chapters, started a new chapter in the life of the
Konkani language.
lashed the State with full fury once again
Rains lashed the State with full fury once again, wreaking
havoc for over 75 families residing in the Mala locality
of Panjim, whose houses were flooded. Over 75 families were
affected when the rains lashing the State flooded the residences
of 50 families residing near the Panjim Planning and Development
Authority (PPDA), Hotel Four Pillars, Neogi- nagar and other
parts of Mala. Families residing on the ground floor have
been shifted to their neighbours' homes on the top floors,
as they refused to evacuate.
buried alive, 2 rescued in major landslide
MARGAO: At least nine persons are feared to be buried alive
while two were rescued till late Sunday night in a major
landslide at Dicarpale, Davorlim, along the Margao-Quepem
road. The incident occurred around 9 pm when a slope of
the hill caved in and fell on a structure.
30th 2005. 'BOB' PETER NICHOLAS ZUZARTE
age 86, formely of Mombasa, Kampala, Nairobi and Vancouver
BC. Husband of 58 years to Stella. Father of Pamela, Josephine,
Brian, Audrey, Mary-Lou, Johnny, Dorothy, Kevin, Hyacinth,
Bernadette and Marcellus. Funeral arrangements pending.
Condolences may be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
July 27, 2005. LAURENTE, MAUDE - Peacefully
in her 92nd year; beloved wife of the late John Delfin Laurente;
loving mother of Greta (Lino), Meldrita (Menino), Stafford
(Bella) and Lauriette; caring grandmother of David, John,
Lilian; Muriel, Marwin, Merle, and Michelle; Marc and Justin;
Louwellyn; great-grandmother of Julia, Sonia, Nicholas,
Shawn, and Alexander; Cathleen, Seana, Cameron, Joshua,
Marisa, Myriam, Jaelin, and Ciarra. Maude is also survived
by her brother Francis D'Costa (U.K.). A proud parishioner
of St. Pius X Church, Maude was a member of the Catholic
Woman's League, New Hope Choir, Over 50 Club, Red Cross
and volunteered throughout the community., Grandmother (as
affectionately known by all), was born in Karachi, Pakistan,
moved to and raised her children in Kenya (East Africa)
and finally settled in her beloved Canada.
July 31, 2005. REBELLO, REGINA OLIVIA CECILIA
(nee DaSILVA) January 23, 1920 - July 31, 2005 Peacefully,after
a valiant and courageous battle with cancer. Predeceased
by her husband Joseph (Joe). Loving and cherished mother
of Mabel, Rowland (Ella), Ruben (Juliet), Muriel (Patrick)
and Mozina. Loving gran to 14 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Survived by her sisters Evelyn, Clara, and Iris. Predeceased
by her 4 sisters and 6 brothers. Regina will be dearly missed
by many nieces, nephews and dear friends. The family would
like to thank the nursing staff and Dr. Hudson at the Credit
Valley Hospital, and family doctor Dr. Moodley for their
special care.
listing of events in 2005 please click
warned against carrying scriptures to Saudi
News Service
Hyderabad, Aug 3 (IANS)
Indians travelling to Saudi Arabia have
been warned not to carry religious scriptures,photographs
or idols.
official statement issued here Wednesday said that religious
activities in private residences or undertaking missionary
or preaching activities are banned in Saudi Arabia and could
invite stringent punishment.
Banswal, principal secretary (political) to the Andhra Pradesh
government, said the Indian ambassador in Riyadh had said
that detention cases of Indian nationals on allegations
of involvement in religious activities in that country were
statement said the Saudi religious police recently arrested
nine Indians for preaching Christianity.
"He (the ambassador) has therefore expressed the view
that it is urgent and important that all Indian nationals
be forewarned prior to their departure from India against
carrying any religious scripture, photographs or idols with
them to Saudi Arabia," said the statement.
ambassador said the Indian nationals should also be strictly
briefed against organising group religious activities in
private residences or undertaking missionary or preaching
"This would be a major preventive measure in promoting
the welfare of the Indian nationals in Saudi Arabia,"
the statement added.
Indo-Asian News Service
LOOKING OUT FOR a life partner? Circulate your message among
thousands of largely-Goan readers. For a listing in this
column send details to firstname.lastname@example.com
with the subject line CYBER-MATRIMONIALS. Click
for latest listings.
Places and Things
Heritage Action Group believes that everything that
we find in and on Goa - cultural, architectural, social
and historical- is Goan heritage whatever its source
or origin and needs immediate and urgent attention.And
we at the goa heritage action group will do our best
to protect it, highlight it, save it, conserve it
and give it the exposure it deserves. To the best
of our ability. In the manner we think right suitable
to the time warp we find ourselves in and to the political
and social climate we find ourselves in.
will be expressing our solidarity with Goans in Goa
and abroad on the occasion of the release of the book
on 6th August 2005.The price for the book is Rs. 600/-
donation price.
memories that this show evoked will last a lifetime…."
is how one member of the audience put it. I believe
she encompassed what everyone who was present felt.
"Never before have I enjoyed myself so much…,."
put in another gentleman from Mississauga. "I
hope Francis D'Costa continues to bring in shows
like this for us to enjoy..". Several ladies
from out of town said they had traveled from Ottawa,
Montreal, Calgary and Buffalo, New York just to take
in the show and meet relatives at the same time. In
fact, one of the ladies said that she came again on
the 24th, even though she had seen the show on the
previous Sunday -17th July….so much did she
enjoy herself. They were so enthusiastic about coming
again, it was truly heartwarming. Yet another lady
visiting from Australia said that being able to attend
the show was one of the highlights of her trip to
Canada. For full text click
& Wellness
chemicals found in broccoli
Mail Health Section
Compounds isolated from broccoli could provide a new weapon
against bladder cancer, new research has shown.
A previous study found that eating the green vegetable
could help protect people from the disease.Men who ate
two or more half-cup servings of broccoli were 44 per
cent less likely to suffer the disease than those eating
fewer than one serving a week.For full text click
Closer to Regulating Traditional Chinese Medicine
Health Minister Releases Public Consultation Report
July 29 /CNW/
Ontario has moved closer to regulating traditional Chinese
medicine (TCM) and acupuncture with the release of a public
consultation report, Health and Long-Term Care Minister
Smitherman announced today.
The consultation report was written by Parliamentary Assistant
to the Minister of Research and Innovation, Tony Wong,
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Mike Colle, Parliamentary
Assistant to the Minister of Health Promotion, Peter Fonseca
and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training,
Colleges and Universities, Richard Patten.
"We have promised to regulate traditional Chinese
medicine and acupuncture, and hope to introduce legislation
by the end of the year," Smitherman said. "The
work done by Tony Wong and his colleagues is going to
be invaluable in helping us decide how best to proceed."
The report contains 10 recommendations on the regulation
of TCM and acupuncture including:
community begins at home
Guardian HEATHER ENNIS, Staff Writer
a healthy community doesn't start in a doctor's office,
according Peel region's newly minted medical officer of
"I believe the factors that determine people's health
lie very much outside of the health care system,"
said Dr. Hanif Kassam, who officially took the reins of
Canada's second largest health unit July 4. He comes to
Peel from York Region, where he most recently served as
the associate medical officer of health.For full text
Government Enhancing Quality of Life for Seniors
Ensuring New Research And Best Practices Used In Caring
For Seniors
-The McGuinty government is improving quality of life
for seniors by making sure the best research on seniors'
care is available for use across Ontario, Health and Long-Term
Care Minister George Smitherman announced today.
"Every day we are learning more about the best ways
of caring for our oldest and most vulnerable members of
society," Smitherman said. "Today we are introducing
two ways of taking this new knowledge and applying it
in long-term care homes and seniors' homes for the benefit
of seniors and those who care for them." For full
text click

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Anna Petrashishina
The Garden Of Eden - Poem by Anna Petrashishina
The Lord made trees of every kind grow, both pleasant for the eye and good for food.
But there was an animal named a serpent that was really rude.
He did not want God's plans to rule.
So he decided to use Eve as a tool.
In the middle of the garden God planted the tree of life, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
But in it lived the Devil.
He knew if Eve ate the apple, man would fall.
Sin would come in between man and God like a wall.
Adam and Eve ate it and their eyes were opened to their nakedness.
When the Lord found them, they were forced to confess.
The Lord was angered, but did not let them die.
Even though the disobedience made him cry.
Instead he punished all man so they can suffer.
He even made giving birth tougher.
That was the beginning of sin.
That day the Devil did win.
He had victory over our soul.
He had the power to make our life painful.
This is where our story begins.
How our beautiful life became cluttered with sins.
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OPENING NIGHT, Friday, February 14 at 7pm
WARNING: Some films may contain adult content; viewer discretion is advised.
Directed by Justin Malone, USA, 20m
Locked in a lonely routine, a homeless man is softened by a newfound friendship.
Directed by JS Mayank, USA, 10m
In a world where time flows backwards, an old man eagerly awaits meeting his wife for the first time as she comes to life, while his granddaughter contemplates her mortality…
The Hustle
Directed by Topher Field, Australia, 7m
Enter the world of the Pool Hustler, where the stakes are high and your wallet keeps the score.
The Boxer
Directed by Meredith Nolan, USA, 4m
Newsie gets involved in a 19 century bare knuckle boxing match and changes the outcome of the tournament.
The Egg Trick
Directed by Stephen Kroto, UK, 8m
Do you know the joke about the broken egg?
The Blue Dress
Directed by Lewis-Martin Soucy, France/Spain, 10m
When a morose supermarket cashier is inspired to go on a quest for a blue dress, we soon realize that more than the wardrobe doesn't fit.
Sunday Sundaes
Directed by Shayna Cohen, USA, 10m
Marshall uses his imagination on his quest to find out who invented dessert while dealing with his parents' divorce.
Spy Vs Guy
Directed by Seth Worley, USA, 17m
A retired Russian spy hunts down sensitive technology after it falls into unsuspecting hands.
Eutanas S.A.
Directed by Victor Nores, Spain, 10m
Euthanas Inc. For those who need or want to put a legitimately spectacular end to their lives.
E FOR EVERYONE, Saturday, February 15 at 10:30am
Over Snoep
Directed by Wisse Stolk, Netherlands, 13m
Pieter finds his Christmas drastically changed by the sudden hospitalization of his mother.
Directed by Jennifer Sheridan, Matthew Markham, UK, 3m
A fisherman hooks something unexpected and proves there's more than just fish in the ocean.
Directed by Ben Charles Edwards, UK, 10m
A lonely 9 year old boy stumbles across a modest caravan in the American Midwest.
Directed by Katie Aldworth, USA, 9m
Paper planes crossing galaxies, animated amoebas, a girl on a distant planet, a boy on Earth, and an unstoppable love.
Directed by Sasha Fox, USA, 4m
Two teens meet for the first time after months of dating via text, but their first date is nearly thwarted by the allegiance to competing super heroes.
The Interviewer
Directed by Genevieve Clay, Robin Bryan, Australia, 12m
Thomas Howell gets more than he's bargained for in a job interview at a prestigious law firm.
The Loudest Minds
Directed by John Grey, UK, 15m
Left alone after dance class, a shy little girl forms an unexpected bond with her boisterous new imaginary friend.
The Magic Ferret
Directed by Alison Parker, Canada, 12m
A young orphan named Sam yearns to find a forever home, so he and his pet ferret Booger conjure up a little magic.
Directed by Hornet Productions, USA, 5m
A young man tries to ask the most popular girl to prom. But will she notice him?
The Trap
Directed by Rio Fitch, Canada, 5m
A little girl sets a trap for an unsuspecting visitor.
Directed by Jessica Keller, USA, 4m
A 1950's period piece based on the true story of a girl who learns the importance of time through loss.
DOCUMENTARY, Saturday, February 15 at 1pm
WARNING: Some films may contain adult content; viewer discretion is advised.
Disappear Here
Directed by Dean Mcdermitt, USA, 15m
An inside look at the art of COSPLAY.
Fantasy Land
Directed by Gabrielle Tillenburg, USA, 9m
A self reflective essay film that explores the identity of the filmmaker as she searches for a lost memory, hidden somewhere in the magical world of Disney.
Jungle Warfare College
Directed by Jesse Veverka, USA, 10m
Chhattisgarh, India, a new state formed in 2000, is the center of a Maoist uprising that has continued since the 1960's. This is a documentary short that shows a cross section of this conflict and Brigadier BK Ponwar who vows to fight it.
Reporting On The Times: The New York Times And The Holocaust
Directed by Emily Harrold, USA, 18m
Inspired by Laurel Leff's award winning book Buried by The Times, this film explores how The New York Times handled reports of The Holocaust during World War II.
Lao Tang
Directed by Haitao Guo, USA, 11m
A portrait of an illegal Chinese immigrant's life in the U.S.
The Committee
Directed by Lisa Mills, Robert Cassanello, USA, 24m
A film about a little-known investigative committee of the Florida State Legislature from 1956-1964.
ANIMATION, Saturday, February 15 at 3pm
WARNING: Some films may contain adult content; viewer discretion is advised.
Directed by Nancy Chung, USA, 5m
A girl goes through puberty… in about 0.38 seconds
Directed by Trevor Wolfson, USA, 3m
A man wants something other than his simple black and white life. But he will quickly learn that everything is good in moderation.
Dji. Death Fails
Directed by Dmitri Voloshin, Moldova, 4m
Dji is an unlucky reaper. All he has to do is collect the soul of a dying man, but many obstacles prevent him from completing this simple process.
Directed by Gabriel Garcia, Brazil, 14m
Meet Ed and his extraordinary life.
Fortune Faded
Directed by Alexander Heringer, Germany, 4m
Every moment leads to another one.
Green Acres
Directed by James Beck, USA, 7m
A parched tortoise wanders through a vast desert desperately in search of water.
Light Me Up
Directed by Ryan Walton, Derek Dolechek, USA, 9m
A story about a family of light bulbs.
My Art Is Not Dead
Directed by Savannah Steiner, USA, 11m
A poor artist accidentally discovers the use of blood to paint his works and now he's on the search for the perfect color.
Nell The Narcoleptic: Asleep On The Job
Directed by Belle Barber, Linden Kirkby, New Zealand, 5m
It is a normal morning in Nell's apartment when she receives an overdue rent payment notice.
Directed by Carl Knickerbocker, USA, 3m
Status, consumption and class struggle.
Stop It
Directed by Vatt Pictures, USA, 6m
An animation film about driving.
COMEDY, Saturday, February 15 at 8pm
WARNING: Some films may contain adult content; viewer discretion is advised.
America 101
Directed by Richard Speight, Jr., USA, 10m
One man's life becomes the lesson of the day when he takes a frenetic ride through his own twisted version of the American experience.
Directed by Aaron Rosenbloom, USA, 7m
A meditation on fruit.
Grandma's Not A Toaster
Directed by Andrew Napier, USA, 10m
Three siblings plot to steal their ailing Grandmothers fortune, without realizing Grandma has a plot of her own.
Directed by Sean Osorio, USA, 5m
Three young adults attempt to recapture their childhoods by becoming super heroes.
Killing Vivian
Directed by Mandy Fabian, USA, 12m
What do you do when your best friend becomes obsessed with killing your dog?
Directed by Gianpiero Alicchio, Italy, 10m
Two friends invite two girls out for dinner. At the end of the evening though, something goes wrong.
Directed by Greg Rom, South Africa, 11m
On a day seemingly like any other, a stranger strolls into a bustling bank and armed with little more than a plan, seeks to get away with the contents of the vault.
Directed by Colin Foster, Peter Kimball, USA, 9m
Opening your son's bedroom door is always a surprise.
Social Media Anonymous
Directed by Jason Berger, USA, 7m
A support group for social media abusers.
The Wound
Directed by Jack Mcwilliams, USA, 13m
When a man's wound comes to life, he develops an odd affection for it.
SCI-FI/HORROR, Saturday, February 15 at 10pm
WARNING: Some films may contain adult content; viewer discretion is advised.
Directed by Jennifer Gerber, USA, 4m
A young man discovers a whole new world through an abandoned camera that he finds on the Brooklyn Bridge.
In Vain
Directed by Charles Frisby, USA, 16m
Popular internet blogger Alexis suffers from a mental breakdown as mysterious visions in her mirrors haunt her every waking moment.
Killer Kart
Directed by James Feeney, USA, 15m
Four wheels, one basket, and tonight, for the closing crew of a small-town grocery store, a blood-splattered aluminum nightmare.
Directed by Gianni Carella, Belgium, 14m
Mieke makes a discovery, a very dark one. Something that will turn her life upside down.
One More For The Road
Directed by Navin Ramaswaran, Canada, 18m
A couple go on a road trip to rekindle their marriage.
Only Fair
Directed by Peter Rautek, Austria, 11m
Travel through the history of mankind.
The Body
Directed by Paul Davis, UK, 17m
A killer uses the cover of Halloween to dispose of his latest victim.
The Cadaver's Swan Song
Directed by Robert Mai, USA, 9m
In the aftermath of a gruesome epidemic two friends will have to deal with a surreal hospital staff and their own dissolving friendship in order to acquire medical help.
DRAMA, Sunday, February 16 at 1pm
WARNING: Some films may contain adult content; viewer discretion is advised.
Directed by Richard Scobie, Ireland, 15m
Gordon and Michael, two graduates who come up with an innovative business idea . They pitch their project to a group of investors.
Directed by Moritz Krämer, Germany, 7m
Back in the changing room Helen makes a surprising discovery. Everything around her is edible – the chair, the TV, the walls…
Internet Story
Directed by Adam Butcher, UK, 10m
A series of shocking events unfolds when a young man creates a public treasure hunt for his own amusement and a video blogger decides to pursue the riddles across country.
Directed by M. Keegan Uhl, USA, 11m
Almost fully recovered from an accident, a man struggles to communicate that his emotional wounds are still fresh.
Directed by Joanne Postlewaite, UK, 3m
In a dystopian future a strange encounter breaks up the monotony of a man's working day.
Red Snow
Directed by Luka Popadic, Serbia/Montenegro, 23m
Is it moral to kill to prevent more killings?
The Artist's Assistant
Directed by Jack Kendrick, USA, 21m
A young art school graduate gets a dream job working for a renowned New York City artist.
FLORIDA FLAVOR, Sunday, February 16 at 3pm
WARNING: Some films may contain adult content; viewer discretion is advised.
A Hawk Once Told Me
Directed by Michael Ruiz-Unger, USA, 13m
A young boy becomes obsessed with the idea of flying when his mother passes away. His only salvation comes from a mystical hawk he befriends.
Check Out
Directed by Bobby Marinelli, USA, 11m
Kelly, a bagger who has Downs Syndrome requests some time to talk to Allison, her manager, about a promotion.
Directed by John Wikstrom, USA, 10m
Through the eyes of Chloe, a curious retriever, peek into the moments that aren't supposed to have an audience.
I'd Rather Be Crazy Than Boring
Directed by Maritza De Quesada, USA, 9m
A mentally ill young woman struggles to get better without losing her magical world.
Directed by Dale Metz, USA, 13m
A leisurely trail ride takes an unexpected turn.
Directed by Kevin J. O'Neill, USA, 9m
Evan Wilder is preparing for his Colonoscopy and runs into a situation that becomes dangerous.
Directed by TL Westgate, USA, 9m
An elite, high-tech task force confronts a dicey situation with time running out.
The Grind
Directed by Job Jaime, USA, 14m
A Cuban baker must do whatever is necessary to protect his father's legacy from a violent neighborhood kingpin.


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Orbital diagram and current position of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). The comet is at approx. magnitude 18 and located about 6.25 AU from the Sun. Could this brighten into one of the brightest comets ever? It's possible. It is possible that this comet could develop a spectacular tail or briefly approach the brightness of the full Moon toward the end of 2013. Alternatively, the comet could break up when it gets closer to the Sun. The comet was discovered by Russian scientists Vitali Nevski (Belarus) and Artyom Novichonok (Russia). It is currently approaching the Sun from between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Comet ISON appears on course to achieve sungrazer status as it passes within a solar diameter of Sun's surface in November 2013. Whatever survives will then pass nearest the Earth in late December 2013. Astronomers around the world will be closely tracking this large snowball to better understand its nature and how it might evolve during the next 15 months.
"The face of this entire planet could be rearranged in a matter of days; not thousands or millions of years. If we haven't learned that by now because of the hardness of the scientific heart; we're about to."
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Forbes picked this story up from News Before Its News Site. They had it up 2 days ago.
Extincton Protocol or The Watchers has an even better article up about how many Sungrasers their have been lately. 2500 in fact since 2000. Back in the 70's we were lucky to see a dozen.


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Industrialization of China (1900 - 1939)
- The early years saw the growth and development of business in Hong Kong, Shanghai and the treaty ports.
- In 1906 JM & Co became a limited company.
- In 1907 BCC signed a contract for the construction of the Kowloon to Canton Railway.
- The heart of Jardine Matheson's business was in Shanghai and from 1912 the city was regarded as the Firm's headquarters.
- The Firm began to expand into new products and services needed for the growing industrialization of China.
- A cold storage company was set up in 1920 on the Shanghai river front under the Ewo banner.
- In 1921 JM & Co's cotton mills in China were amalgamated to form Ewo Cotton Mills, while the Ewo Press and Packing Company served this industry.
- 1923 saw the formation of the Jardine Engineering Company ('JEC') which played a large part in providing machinery, equipment and services for the growing infrastructure developments in Hong Kong and China.
- Among JEC's early achievements were the installation of the first lift in mainland China in 1930 in Tientsin, and the first Schindler lift in Hong Kong in 1931. They also pioneered the ammonia-type air-conditioners and led in areas of heating and sanitation.
- The conflict in China and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 marked the beginning of a decade of turmoil.


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The ebb and flow of the battle has changed with the addition of Dynamic Infestation which is spread through Cysts. Dynamic Infestation is required to build alien structures and blocks the creation of Marine Structures. The consequence of this is that placing Marine structures deep in enemy territory is generally harder. It also means that a chain of Cysts must be defended across the map from the the hive to any desired build location. Dynamic Infestation forces the Kharaa to spread more 'organically.'
In addition, the marines now have to construct Power Nodes to enable their buildings within a given room. Defending these power nodes is now an important part of the game-play, as is defending the alien Cysts.
Hive locations are now called Tech Points and they are the only place where a Hive or a Command Chair can be placed. The marines need to hold 2 or more Command Chairs and the Kharaa 3 Hives to unlock all available technology. All maps have 4 tech points or more, often with both the alien and/or the marine start randomly assigned on match start.
Finally the Gorge is no longer the main builder, now only able to construct the new offensive chamber Hydra and a physical blockage called the Clog. However a Gorge's heal spray and bile bomb remain critical elements in any Kharaa victory. The Alien Commander now builds every alien building (with the exception of the Hydra and Clog).
As a new player, you will become a "Rookie" for your first 4 hours of play, rendering your name and your chat text in a green font. Please help those rookies on your team.
- Dynamic Infestation now surrounds the Hive automatically.
- Alien structures must now be built on Dynamic Infestation, which are spread by Cysts, and lose health continuously if infestation recedes from under them. This is excluding the Whip which can uproot itself to move about.
- The Alien Commander, who is a lifeform who enter a Hive to gain an overview of the map similar to Marine Commander. Research upgrades and builds structures.
- Alien structures are now grown on Infestation directly by the Alien Commander and will automatically construct themselves.
- All Alien structures Mature and so become stronger over time, often unlocking further upgrades and passive abilities.
- Offense Chambers have been changed to weaker Hydras spawned by Gorges, with a maximum of 3 per player. Furthermore the Alien Commander can spawn shortrange tentacles called Whips.
Once mature, Whips will throw grenades back to the Marine who threw them.They can then be upgraded with the longer range anti-armour Bombard ability.
- Now build Hives on Tech Points, points that can be occupied by Frontiersmen Command Stations.
- The Alien Commander can now deploy Nutrient Mist which will Heal both structures and Kharaa, accelerate construction and upgrades. It also accelerates the gestating process by 4x.
- Alien abilities such as Leap, Blink and Stomp must now be researched by the Alien Commander using a Hive. Each upgrade requires either 2 or 3 hives to build and that ability will be lost once the number of Hives falls below the requirement.
- The Defense Chamber is now referred to as the Crag. Aside from it's usual heal it also has an activatable that boosts healing rate by 50 hp/tick for a short time.
- The Sensory Chamber is now referred to as the Shade. Its ability allows you to spread Ink, rendering an area pitch-black to Marines. It can be upgraded to a deception shade which spawns fake aliens to confuse marines.
- The Movement Chamber is now referred to as the Shift. It can create eggs in the immediate vicinity which are prioritized for spawn over those in any hive. It regenerates energy the energy of nearby aliens and can be upgraded to a structure that can teleport other structures surrounding it to infestation anywhere.
Kharaa Lifeforms
- Lifeform upgrades are now termed Evolution, which remain free to select and now researched from Shells, Veils, and Spurs, which requires a specialized version for each corresponding Evolution.
- Alien Vision now renders the world a green overlay, and highlights all players and structures in a bright opaque orange tone, augmenting the Alien's combat awareness. Destroying a Power Node renders a room pitch black for a short time, making Alien Vision grant a huge combat advantage over the marines.
- Skulk can no longer bunny-hop, instead has Wall Jumping as an alternate skill-based movement system. His shift makes him walk silently and stick to walls better.
- Lerk gets his Spikes back and can cling to walls with shift. His spores abilities requires second hive research
- Gorge no longer builds Hives or Harvesters (he can help grow structures with Heal Spray). He can now Belly Slide with shift, for increased movement speed and drifting.
- Fade's Blink ability turns the fade blue and small while also receiving less damage. Also no longer has Metabolize or Acid Rocket. A fade needs his blink researched, requiring a second hive. As alternative his shift launched him in his walking direction.
- Onos no longer has Devour, but now stuns Marines using Stomp, and builds up momentum using Charge with the shift key to travel at faster speeds.
- Skulks now spawn inside Eggs that spawn around the hive, which can be killed by Marines, prolonging alien spawn time.
- All lifeforms have an alternate-fire ability (Podcast #5 at 15:52).
- Structures now rely of the presence of a Power Node. Most structures in a room without a Power Node will not function and become unpowered.
- Former Command Consoles, now referred to as the Command Station, can only be built on a Tech Point, which can also be occupied by a Kharaa Hive. A second Command Station is now required for many upgrades.
- The ARC replaces the Siege Cannon; it can be moved and deployed by the Marine Commander.
- The Sentry Turret has a limited field of view, but has greater firepower. It does greater damage as it continues to focus on a single target, making it ideal against buildings.
- Light Machine gun now referred to as the Assault Rifle.
- New Weapon: The Flamethrower. Particularly effective against Kharaa structures and Dynamic Infestation, it also applies a debuff against targetted Kharaa which robs them of 60% of their Energy while ablaze.
- Weapons not brought over: HMG, Grenades.
- Heavy Armor changed to an Exosuit, capable of using a Minigun. An additional upgrade makes dual miniguns available. ExoSuits are permanent, cannot build, phase or weld and require support to survive.
- Ability to "lockdown". Lower recoil for limited firing arc (game code and Twitter post by Flayra).
- boombox... (Tweet by Flayra)
- Marines can sprint for a limited time, which lowers your weapon.
- Melee attack on some weapons including the Assault Rifle can bash Skulks away (NSPlayer interview).
- Female Marine Model to come post-release (Blog Post (scroll down)).
- Some weapons have alt-fire abilities (Forum post by Max).
Commander Experience
- Squads form automatically when players are close in proximity.
- The Marine Commander can drop weapons for players, but players on the ground can buy their own weapons/equipment at an Armory or Prototype Lab (Forum post by Charlie).
- Commander view will be variable height, allowing it to move up and down depending on the height of the map. (Forum post by Max)
- Many actions will give automatic orders to marines. For example placing a building will direct nearby marines to construct that building.
- Welder/Builder bots can be constructed and directed by the marine commander. These are ideal in support roles and can replace marines for routine construction.
General Gameplay
- No official combat game mode will ship with NS2. (There is a mod out there though!)
- Maps are smaller: instead of a sprawling network of halls and non-rooms, maps are made up of 6-10 rooms, each with a "landmark" (lighting, custom props, theme) to help players characterize it easily (Forum post by Charlie).
- Unified resource model to balance the teams for team sizes from small to large (NSPlayer interview).
- There is no random map generation built into NS2 (Forum post by Max).
- Filter for vanilla and modded servers in server browser (Forum post by Charlie).
- Marine Waypoints use AI pathfinding to give you directions rather than just a destination (Forum post by Charlie).
- The HUD is minimal and context-aware.
- Built on DirectX9 (Forum Post by Max)
- Eventual post-release content (Forum Post by Cory)
- "Some of the tools have been moved over to Mac, we will support linux ultimately but not sure when. Probably before 1.0, will support dedicated servers." (Charlie @ Bashandslash.com around 40:27+ mark)
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The Last Prophet
Ian Hunter on Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Who has been the most influential person of the last half-century? A tough question, that. I asked several of my acquaintances; interestingly enough, their immediate and unanimous response was: "Oh, Pope John Paul II, of course." Other names mentioned were Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, Bill Gates, Billy Graham, and—for sheer evil—Osama bin Laden.
As it happens, my vote (though I am not a Roman Catholic) would also go to Pope John Paul II, who has stood astride our age like a colossus. But a case could be made for another man, one whose name was not mentioned by a single one of my respondents: Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn.
So much has Solzhenitsyn been forgotten, both in the West and in the formerly Communist East, that the subtitle of Joseph Pearce's recent perceptive biography is "A Soul in Exile." If ever a man was unfashionably (and unfairly) stereotyped it is Solzhenitsyn, a soul in exile indeed: On the comparatively rare occasions when his name surfaces he tends to be dismissed as a cold warrior, a tsarist sympathizer, an authoritarian, a latter-day Jeremiah, even a Chicken Little.
Even former admirers have "gone off" him. Not long ago I asked a former colleague, a history professor and a Russian Orthodox, who had championed Solzhenitsyn during the dark days of Communism, to give a talk on Solzhenitsyn as part of a lecture series on "Great Christians of the 20th Century." My colleague declined, saying that he now doubted whether Solzhenitsyn could be considered a Christian in any meaningful sense.
Faith's Thread
Such a claim is preposterous, as Pearce's book demonstrates. Solzhenitsyn's Christian faith is the most consistent thread in a long, turbulent life.
It is true that as a university student, then as a soldier, Solzhenitsyn was an avowed Marxist. But following his arrest and imprisonment (for belittling remarks about Joseph Stalin made in private correspondence, for which he spent eight years in forced labor camps in the Arctic), Solzhenitsyn underwent a Christian conversion. He told Pearce: "When at the end of gaol [he was released in 1953], on top of everything else, I was stricken with cancer, then I was fully cleansed, I came back to a deep awareness of God and a deep understanding of life." That understanding, initially deistic, would later express itself through an orthodox Christian worldview.
Solzhenitsyn erupted into public attention during the brief Soviet thaw of 1962 when the authorities unexpectedly allowed publication of his short masterpiece One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the story, drawn from his own experience, of a political prisoner in a forced labor camp. He had already completed two longer novels, Cancer Ward and The First Circle, but their publication was banned. However, both novels circulated widely through the Russian literary underground in hand-copied form (samizdhat) and were subsequently published in the West.
But the thaw did not last long, and Solzhenitsyn's criticism of the Soviet regime in Ivan Denisovich had brought him to the attention of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. By the late 1960s he was acclaimed abroad as the greatest Russian author since Tolstoy, and his international reputation made it difficult for the KGB to simply lock him up and throw away the key, as they regularly did to less well known dissidents and Christians.
What Solzhenitsyn's many Western admirers would come to understand only a decade later was that he was as implacable a critic of the unbridled consumerism of the capitalist West as he was of the repressive totalitarianism of the Communist East. "Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience," he once said, "both capitalism and socialism are repulsive."
In 1969 Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Russian Writer's Union. A year later, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Correctly deducing that if he went to Stockholm to receive the prize, the authorities would revoke his passport and prevent his return, Solzhenitsyn stayed put, but he sent a powerful acceptance speech (which was read by the prominent Roman Catholic novelist Francois Mauriac) defining the nature and purpose of art.
"The task of the artist," Solzhenitsyn wrote,
Following publication in the West of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, his history of the prison camps to which dissidents were sent, Solzhenitsyn was arrested on February 12, 1974. The next day he was stripped of his citizenship and deported as a traitor. Throughout the long years of persecution, Solzhenitsyn had never sought to defect; now, by official fiat, he would spend the next two decades living as an exile. But as his wife, Alya, said at the time: "They can separate a Russian writer from his native land, but no one has the power and strength to sever his spiritual link with it, to tear Solzhenitsyn away from it."
In the West
Solzhenitsyn spent his first years of exile in Zurich, where he completed his autobiography, The Oak and the Calf, and wrote an account of Lenin's role in the October Revolution, Lenin in Zurich, that refuted the adulatory official propaganda line about Lenin. Then, in the fall of 1976, Solzhenitsyn moved with his family to a secluded estate near Cavendish, Vermont.
For the next decade, Solzhenitsyn maintained a monastic and disciplined routine that enabled him to finish what he considered his greatest achievement, The Red Wheel, a grand cycle of books retelling Russian history. During this time Solzhenitsyn was seldom seen, and only rarely gave interviews or made public pronouncements. One exception was in June 1978, when he delivered the commencement address at Harvard University. The West's emphasis on secular rights, Solzhenitsyn told the Harvard students, had produced shallow, feckless societies that now stood at the brink of "the abyss of human decadence."
"It is time in the West," Solzhenitsyn told his Harvard audience, "to defend not so much human rights as human obligations." Instead of the rhetoric by which human rights trump human responsibilities, it was time for humanity to learn a lesson from the wormwood and the gall of Soviet experience. "Through deep suffering, people in our country have now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive."
Solzhenitsyn concluded his remarkable address with these words:
This was not what his audience expected to hear, and the counterattack was swift and savage. The Washington Post pronounced Solzhenitsyn unbalanced, and accused him of being fitted to live only under totalitarian regimes; Roslynn Carter, wife of the hapless US President, denied that the United States was materialistic. One American commentator called Solzhenitsyn "a freak, a monarchist, an anti-Semite, a crank, a has-been not a hero." From this moment on, it was no longer possible for Western liberals to consider Solzhenitsyn one of their own.
Solzhenitsyn's defenders were few, but Malcolm Muggeridge was among them. As the wolves snarled and bared their fangs, Muggeridge declared:
In 1979, a full decade before the Berlin wall came down and with it the final ignominious collapse of the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn told a biographer, Michael Scammell: "I am firmly convinced that I will return. It seems to me it is only a matter of a few years before I return to Russia. I have no proof of it, but I have a premonition, a feeling." At the time, it seemed highly unlikely.
A Different Place
Yet Bernard Levin's column in the London Times on June 4, 1993, was headed, "A Giant Goes Home." Levin wrote: "We have it on Shakespeare's authority, no less, that the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. But can there ever have been any revenge so sweet, or any revolution of the clocks so meaningful as the news that Alexander Solzhenitsyn is shortly to return to his homeland, Russia, after almost twenty years of a forced exile."
Just before Solzhenitsyn made his return, in the form of a two-month pilgrimage by rail across Russia, he stopped off in Rome for an audience with Pope John Paul II. The meeting was highly symbolic: two men whose lives and words had demonstrated for those with eyes to see the triumph of the human spirit over totalitarianism. Solzhenitsyn had said that Karol Wojtyla's accession to St. Peter's chair in Rome was "a direct gift from God." And the pope, typically, had read and pondered Solzhenitsyn's writings.
The Russia to which Solzhenitsyn returned in 1993 was a very different place, metaphysically almost beyond recognition. In Moscow the statue of Alexander Pushkin looked out on a McDonald's. There existed a voracious market for Western porn. It was Charles Bronson's Death Wish, not the movie version of Ivan Denisovich, that flew off the video shelves. A British journalist made a search of Moscow's largest bookstore but was unable to find a single copy of any of Solzhenitsyn's novels.
For a short time, Solzhenitsyn had a weekly fifteen-minute television program called "Meetings with Solzhenitsyn." In a few months it was dropped due to viewer uninterest, replaced by a program featuring the Italian parliamentarian and porn queen, La Cicciolina.
In fact Solzhenitsyn had returned to a new kind of exile, the wasteland of postmodern Russia. He now lives in seclusion on a woodland estate outside Moscow, a house not dissimilar to his Vermont retreat. At age 84, having suffered two heart attacks, does he think about death? A reporter from the New Yorker once asked him that question. He answered: "[Death] will be just a peaceful transition. As a Christian, I believe there is life after death, and so I understand that this is not the end of life. The soul has a continuation, the soul lives on. Death is only a stage, some would even say a liberation. In any case, I have no fear of death."
Michael Nicholson poignantly described his fate: "As for Solzhenitsyn, he finds himself sounding a tocsin that has pealed through centuries of Russian history and grappling in his declining years with the fear that perhaps he rings in vain." In a 1996 article titled, "Russia Close to Its Deathbed," Solzhenitsyn wrote that the "moral qualities" of the current Russian leadership were indistinguishable from their Communist predecessors. Two years later, he said: "It is as if, just having survived the heaviest case of cholera, to immediately upon recuperation get the plague. It is very hard to withstand."
The Future
And what of the future? Is it possible that Russians might slow down, think, perhaps even pray, change directions? With God, anything is possible—but even Solzhenitsyn considers it unlikely. He told Pearce: "The characteristics of modernity, the psychological illness of the twentieth century, is this hurriedness, hurrying, scurrying, this fitfulness—fitfulness and superficiality. Technological successes have been tremendous but without a spiritual component mankind will not only be unable to develop further but cannot even preserve himself."
In his last public appearance in Moscow, Solzhenitsyn said that one defining characteristic of contemporary humanity is "the loss of the ability to answer the principal problem of life and death. People are prepared to stuff their heads with anything, and to talk of any subject, but only to block off the contemplation of this subject."
Will Solzhenitsyn's powerful voice be heeded? Not in the West, certainly, where he is a forgotten man. In Russia, then? It seems unlikely. The Russian writer Alexander Genis was probably correct in describing Solzhenitsyn as "the last remaining prophet in the abandoned temple of absolute truth."
Of course it is a common fate of prophets to be ignored, even ridiculed, in their own time and generation, yet to be appreciated, occasionally even heeded, by posterity. It may prove to be so with Solzhenitsyn. If Russia is to find a path out of its quagmire, it will perforce have to consider his critique of how it got there; and if Russia hears about its past from him, it is not beyond all hope that it might hear him when he speaks of its future.
Ian Hunter is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of biographies of Robert Burns, Hesketh Pearson, and Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Clerk Andrea Specht Finds Her Voice With the Guidance of One of the State's Most Respected Juristsby Chato B. Hazelbaker
By the end of Andrea Specht's clerkship with Associate Justice Paul H. Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court, it was hard to believe they had been working together only a year. Specht and Anderson finished each other's thoughts, ribbed each other playfully, and corrected and cajoled each other in a way that suggested a longtime partnership.
"It is the type of rapport that you can only have with someone in whom you have complete confidence, and they know you have complete confidence in them," Anderson said. "I want my clerks to become my independent counsel." Specht became exactly that.
The professional relationship between Anderson and Specht demonstrates that the path from new graduate to legal professional is about more than passing the bar exam, gaining employment and delivering technical skills. A successful lawyer goes beyond the job description and works to build great relationships.
A judicial clerkship offers recent graduates the opportunity to develop professional confidence and high-level research and writing skills and to gain experience with, and insight into, the administration of justice. For Specht, the combination proved significant.
Specht initially believed that the clerkship would essentially be a postgraduate year spent as a research assistant. But she quickly moved beyond the basics of the job's research and writing accountabilities and found herself with a voice - fully integrated in the judicial process, while advancing her professional development under the guidance of one of the state's most espected jurists. "Being taken seriously as an attorney was a really rewarding experience," Specht said.
"Good lawyers need to be able to enter the dialogue and carry their weight at the table," Anderson commented. To be effective as a clerk and lawyer means stretching the boundaries of one's thinking and looking at all sides of an issue. In the clerkship setting, this can mean thinking about solutions out loud. "This has to happen in an environment where it is all right to make mistakes," Anderson said, adding that searching for a solution is like walking down a hallway and trying every door. The hallway surrounding his chambers makes a powerful analogy as the hallway is circular and one never knows how many doors are ahead. "You try every door," Anderson said. "Some look like they might work, and then open onto a 50-foot cliff, but you have to try every door." Anderson was quick to point out that "trying every door" also is key when working in front of the court; a well-prepared lawyer will have thought through all the potential solutions well enough to know which solutions will not work and why.
Specht found this exploration of all potential solutions to be a rewarding part of the clerkship, and one that helped her recognize herself as a legal professional. "People are asking for your opinion and you have to articulate and support it," Specht said, emphasizing that it's especially important to be able to explain the process by which you came to a point of view. "It's great to contribute to a complex discussion and feel like you added something of substance."
While she identified the development of research, writing and analytical skills as some of the greatest professional rewards of her clerkship, Specht, like Anderson, believes that there are other vital things that factor into moving from law student to lawyer. "Having knowledge of the law is not enough," Specht said, referring to what it takes to be successful in the highly competitive legal field.
That there is a broader purpose to the law is a value emphasized throughout the clerkship experience. Anderson imparts this value to clerks by taking them to a range of events, including meetings with county attorneys and public defenders, where clerks often are surprised to learn about the impact that each case carries. Anderson is quick to point out that the court is not primarily interested in the lawyer winning or losing a particular case, and sometimes this is a disconnect with the lawyer.
Anderson points out, "We are a court of policy and doctrine." Anderson and Specht often talked about the broader themes during the year she spent at the court. The closer Specht came to the application of law in the real world, the more she realized that the American system of justice is necessarily an imperfect one. Specht took comfort in knowing that the lawyers, judges and other participants in the system are largely good and intelligent people striving to make positive changes in the lives of others. Anderson and his clerks build the majority of their workdays around writing memoranda and opinions; however, Specht showed her natural curiosity as she and Anderson discussed current affairs at the local, national and international level. Both looked forward to these discussions as opportunities to test each other's intellect and knowledge.
Humor is not lost in the weighty proceedings of Anderson's chambers, and in the appropriate moment it can strengthen the working relationship. Specht, after learning that Anderson had a keen sense of humor, captured a moment. After receiving a long, verbal to-do list from Anderson, she asked simply, "Would you like fries with that?" Anderson's belly laugh confirmed that he appreciated Specht's humor as a way to bring some fun into a demanding, and sometimes stressful, work environment.
A successful clerkship will advance significantly a lawyer's writing skills. "In our English common law system we write to test the soundness of our reasoning," Anderson said. It is not uncommon for him to require more than 20 drafts before sending an opinion forward. Both the justices and the clerks agree that the first three months of a clerkship are particularly difficult for this reason. Mistakes are not tolerated, but as time passes clerks begin to see that if the legal interpretation is ambiguous, a jurist has failed in his or her responsibilities to the community. Anderson goes out of his way to provide clerks with evidence of this by taking them to visit legal professionals who dissect the work of the court.
The standard for clarity is high, and there are no shortcuts. "A lot of muddled thinking gets camouflaged in poor writing," Anderson said. His exacting standards apply not only to the clerks, but to himself. Current clerk Matt Berger, also a University of St. Thomas School of Law alumnus, was asked to evaluate an opinion during his first 10 days. Anderson wanted him to ask hard questions and look for the flaws. Just a few days into the clerkship Anderson appeared pleased that Berger had been able to find some flaws and even suggest ways to address them.
Anderson keeps a small statue of Michelangelo in his office to remind him of the artistic elements of written work, which he believes emerge toward the end of the writing process. "It is not enough to be structurally sound," he said. "You have to deal with the nuances of communication." Those nuances require hours of intellectually rigorous work; however, judicial opinions demand the investment of time and care.
In talking about what made Anderson and Specht's partnership so successful, Anderson has a lot to say to the next generation of law students hoping to become clerks. "I want to work with someone who has explored the nooks and crannies of life." Evidence of academic achievement is critical, and a good indicator of success, he said, but he also seeks people who have led interesting lives and have demonstrated a commitment to the community. He also looks for people he can connect with personally.
Specht's application caught Anderson's eye. She had outstanding academic credentials, had worked professionally between college and law school, and had shown a commitment to nonprofit and social organizations. Following Specht's interview, Anderson knew they were on the path to a great rapport. Specht attributes the interpersonal connectivity to three critical characteristics of a successful judicial clerk: the ability to listen well, a healthy sense of humor and intellectual curiosity.
At the top of the list was Specht's ability to be a good listener and demonstrate genuine interest in what the justice had to say. Anderson is a self-described story teller, and he wants his clerks to gain knowledge about who he is and how he thinks through the story. Anderson also believes the increased understanding and knowledge gained through story telling facilitates a better working relationship.
While there have been many lessons learned along the way, one of the things that both Specht and Anderson truly seem to cherish is their enduring friendship and the prospect of staying in contact for many years to come. They soon will co-write an article for the William Mitchell Law Review, and Specht knows she will rely on Anderson as a key adviser as she contemplates future decisions in her legal career and community service endeavors.
Source: http://www.stthomas.edu/lawmagazine/2008/Winter/oneyearpartnership.html


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Last week marked the second OpenStack Design Summit. OpenStack, if you're not familiar with it, is an open source project founded by a joint effort and code contribution of NASA and RackSpace; however, the project has grown rapidly and has many more participants today. Among companies participating in the OpenStack project: Cisco, Dell, NTT, Citrix, and many others.
The energy at the conference was quite amazing and attendance went well beyond what the organizers expected. In the interest of full disclosure, I chaired the Service Provider track, which brought together presenters from AT&T, KT (Korea Telecom), and other companies rolling out OpenStack offerings. I expect that this track will become a fixture at future Design Summits, as many service providers throughout the world will be interested in a low-cost, high-quality open source-based cloud computing software stack.
Beyond the technical presentations there were a couple of items that I found really interesting. They both applied well beyond OpenStack itself and offered insights and opportunities for users no matter what cloud infrastructure is used.
The first item was the keynote presentation by Neil Sample, VP Architecture for eBay. eBay is considering Rackspace as a platform for its use of public cloud (although Sample was careful to note that eBay is also considering Azure as well).
What was fascinating about Samples presentation (which you can review on SlideShare here) was that he walked the audience through eBay's thinking on the topic and offered real financials about the numbers driving its decision.
EBay's Load Lessons
The fundamental reality confronting eBay is that it has extremely spiky computing use (see slide 4 of the presentation). Even after taking all the obvious, straightforward actions (e.g., move non-critical computing to off hours to reduce peak load; move remaining excess computation load to off- hours locations to take advantage of unused capacity), eBay still faces peaky load that has, in the past, required it to own more capacity than it typically uses.
So eBay set out to investigate how it could leverage public cloud computing to reduce its computing costs. eBay spends about $80 million per year on data centers, and each "computational unit" (its normalized measure) runs it around $1.07. What eBay found was that, for a broad range of public cloud computing costs, it could reduce its total spend significantly. In fact, even if the public cloud cost for a comparable computational unit was up to four times eBay's internal cost — in other words, even if a computational unit from a cloud provider cost $4.28 — eBay would still save money. A lot of money. (See slide 10 for the graphical presentation of the cost curves).
Why is this? The primary factor driving the public cloud computing benefit is the fact that an eBay data center's cost structure is almost entirely fixed — $.88 of the $1.07 computational unit remains whether there is any work done in the data center or not (see slide 8 of the presentation).
If eBay can avoid purchasing computing capacity that sits idle by using a public provider, it can save money even if the public provider costs significantly more than eBay's own resources.
Essentially, this is an example that illustrates something we preach all the time — data center utilization rates are the key to cloud computing economics. Unless one can guarantee that a cloud data center will operate — on a sustained basis — at 70% or more of capacity, it will be hopelessly uncompetitive from a financial perspective.
If eBay can manage its capacity such that its own data centers operate at high utilization rates and it can harvest additional capacity from public providers at anything like typical rates, it will drop its overall computing cost by something like 40%.


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(CNSNews.com) - The radical Islamic organization behind the Philippines hostage drama is linked to Osama bin Laden, according to a leading American terrorism specialist.
And rumors persist that bin Laden, the Saudi-born militant accused by the U.S. of masterminding the 1998 bombings of American embassies in East Africa, may be responsible in some way for the escalation of Islamist militancy in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
Bin Laden helped finance the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in its formative days, says Yossef Bodansky, the author of a biography on the wanted terrorist.
The U.S. State Department, too, believes the ASG maintains ties with Muslim fundamentalist organizations elsewhere, including bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
Abu Sayyaf ("Father of the Executioner" or "Father of the Sword" in Arabic) is the smaller of two groups fighting for an independent Islamic state in southern Philippines.
It formed in 1991 out of a split over strategy within the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which entered talks with the government and signed a peace deal in 1996.
Like bin Laden, ASG's first leader, Abduragak Janjalani, was a veteran of the Muslim war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s, a breeding ground for fundamentalist militancy.
Having studied in Saudi Arabia, trained in Libya, and fought in Afghanistan, Janjalani returned to the Philippines, where he sought to establish a pure form on Islam, which would outlaw such "western evils" as television and dancing.
He attracted younger Muslims unhappy with the relatively cautious campaign being waged by the MNLF for an Islamic state.
The organization has been involved in numerous attacks against Christians in recent years, including a hand-grenade attack on a Catholic cathedral that killed seven worshippers, and the murder of 52 people in a raid on a Christian village in 1995.
Among victims either seized, murdered, or both in its anti-Christian campaign were a Catholic bishop, a Catholic monsignor, a Belgian priest, an Italian priest, a Protestant pastor, an Episcopalian priest, as well as other church workers and nuns. A missionary ship was bombed in port.
According to a report in the Manila Bulletin, Abu Sayyaf militants "repeatedly demanded the removal of Christian crosses atop churches and schools."
Janjalani was killed during a firefight with police in 1998, leaving a leadership vacuum. It is reported that his younger brother, Khadaffy, now heads up the group's operations. He is reputed to be even more militant, and an explosives expert.
The group finances its operations through robberies and ransom kidnappings, the State Department says. It remains small - with only some 200 men under arms - but highly effective.
In his book Bin Laden: The man who declared war on America, Bodansky says the Philippines insurgency was the first major Islamic network supported by bin Laden, a millionaire businessman who turned his back on a life of wealth and privilege to bankroll a holy war against Christians and Jews.
"Bin Laden traveled to the Philippines in winter 1993," says Bodansky, who heads the U.S. Congress' taskforce on terrorism and unconventional warfare.
"He presented himself as a wealthy Saudi investor eager to help fellow Muslims in the country's southern islands." There he bought property and opened bank accounts.
From early 1994, groups of mainly Arab "Afghans" - veterans of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan - began to arrive in the Philippines and establish operational cells around the country.
According to Bodansky, one of the most senior commanders involved in this process was Ramzi Ahmed Youssef, an Arab who is now serving a prison term in the U.S. for planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.
(Youssef is one of three Arabs whose release from American prisons the ASG group demanded in exchange for the safe release of another group of hostages, mostly Catholic schoolchildren, seized in March.)
Bodansky writes that Youssef was involved with the ASG in plans - subsequently aborted - to assassinate US President Bill Clinton during a 1994 visit to Manila, and Pope John Paul II a year later.
The plot to kill the Pope was aborted when Youssef and his colleagues had a work accident while mixing explosives in Manila. His cover and safehouse blown, Youssef fled to Pakistan, where the government - under massive pressure from Washington - handed him over for trial in the US.
Despite the accidental collapse of the operation, "Osama bin Laden proved his ability to establish a comprehensive and resilient support and finance system, which survived the subsequent Filipino and American investigations," says Bodansky.
"In early 1995 bin Laden put the Philippine operations behind him and began preparing for a marked escalation of direct confrontation with the Islamists' Mideast archenemies."
But the latest upsurge of violence in the Philippines - including the seizure of mostly foreign hostages - may be a sign that bin Laden has renewed his interest in the Philippines jihad.
The Manila Bulletin daily recently quoted senior military officials as saying bin Laden had paid a secret, one-day visit to the southern Philippines last month, arriving on "an unidentified foreign submarine" on March 18 and leaving the following day on a fishing boat.
The report claimed bin Laden had brought in weapons from Indonesia and held talks with senior Islamist figures.
Also See:
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Holland MI Real Estate & Homes for Sale
247 Properties Found
The median home value in Holland, MI is $190,000.
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The average price of homes sold in Holland, MI is $190,000.
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78 W 22nd Street Holland, MI 49423
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Woodland Schmidt David DeYoung
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Be a part of Holland's urban redevelopment! This completely remodeled home is within a block of Black River School and within walking or biking distance to downtown Holland and all that it has to offer! This beautiful craftsman style home features a kitchen with custom cabinetry, a farm-style sink, a built-in computer nook, and cork flooring. A custom snack bar wraps around an exposed brick chimney and original wood floors expand through the entire home. The gorgeous bathrooms have a custom tile shower, granite sinks and a claw-foot tub. Enjoy sitting on the covered front porch or entertaining in the unusually expansive back yard filled with gardens! This home boasts modern amenities amidst the character, charm and warmth of yesteryear! Come take a look at this gorgeous home!
Courtesy: RE/MAX Lakeshore Linda Streur
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End unit at Pointe Lake Village. 2 bedroom 2 1/2 bath(plus den/office) Four season room, main floor laundry, two stall garage. Fully finished lower level.
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Saturday, 7/29 1:30-3:00PM
Courtesy: Five Star Real Estate Lakeshore LLC Jeff Simpson
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3 Bedrooms And 2 Full Baths. 13' Vaulted Ceilings, Finished Walkout Lower Level. Upgraded Appliances And Custom Window Treatments Are Just A Few Of The Many Extras Included. Relax And Enjoy The Views From Your Deck Off The 10 Acre Association Park Directly Behind Your Home. Large Lot with Underground Sprinkling.
Courtesy: CENTURY 21 Affiliated Holland Heather Davis
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Privacy and privilege are wrapped as a package in this incredible location. You'll appreciate the neighborhood feel yet be able to retreat to an exclusive backyard when you need to. Resort to your private section of Pine Creek to off the generous deck or--hop on your bicycle for endless miles of trails to Lake Macatawa or Riley Trails Park. Ranked 37 West Ottawa High School campus is close by as is Great Lakes Elementary. Inside this all-brick-front beauty, you'll find the exact amenities you're hoping for with rooms to celebrate with friends, cook up memories in the galley kitchen with stainless steel appliances, wine cooler built in--all while being able to be a part of what is happening in the living room. Rooms have current color-schemes which allows a swift move in. Seller is a lice
Courtesy: RE/MAX Lakeshore Ted Dozeman
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CAREFREE LIVING ON THE WATER!! Super sharp 2 bedroom, 2 full bath condo with cathedral ceiling at Crystal Waters. Awesome open concept floor plan with huge great room, kitchen with island open to dining area, large master suite with its own updated bath, nice laundry room with cabinets for storage, second bedroom is nice plus and another full bath and a covered deck overlooking the lake complete this amazing unit. Best value around for just $129,900. See it today!
136 152nd Avenue Holland, MI 49424
Courtesy: RE/MAX Lakeshore Sandi Gentry
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Custom Designed & Custom Built by Brian Meiste, this walkout ranch has it all with almost 2,500 sf, Three bedrooms , Three baths with room for expansion for up to 4800 sf of living space. Open foyer to the living room w/ built in gas log fireplace - French doors lead to formal dining room with another set of French doors to the entertaining size kitchen with walk in butler's pantry, center island w/ snack bar - all painted white wood cabinets, high end Stainless Steel appliances & door to patio w/ gas line to grill. Main floor also includes laundry, Master suite & two additional bedrooms. Completely a smart home with control 4 that has cameras & can entirely control the home from your smart phone.
337 Greenwood Holland, MI 49424
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Saturday, 7/29 10:30-12:00PM
Courtesy: Assist 2 Sell Buyers & Sellers Douglas Yntema
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Wonderful Waukazoo Woods ranch that is MUCH bigger thank it looks from the street - You must get inside to see the fabulous family room & kitchen addition - featuring a huge island & more beautiful cabinets than you've ever dreamed of having, as well as up-to-date appliances too. The family room features a vaulted ceiling & sliders to the deck & great backyard. This one must be seen!
6677 N Audubon Holland, MI 49423
Courtesy: Five Star Real Estate Lakeshore LLC Adam Kunkel
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Fantastic location in the Castle Park association, two screen porches surrounded by quiet woods. Cottages in Castle Park are beyond the standard access to a private beach, there is so much more. Situated on an open campus, amenities include beaches with swim buoy protection, 8 quick dry clay tennis courts, salt water pool, greek amphitheater, The Castle, Eb's Barn, the Barnswallow (Ice cream parlor) and more. Traditions like the Saturday night dance, Playclass (for the younger children), the Old Timers Room (gathering place for adults on weekends), tennis with a pro for lessons and tournaments. Association meals at the Castle, live music, plays and movies in the amphitheater. Effective association stewardship via elected trustees and president provide solid planning for future projects and
375 Tr Trail Holland, MI 49424
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Saturday, 7/29 9:30-11:30AM
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Woodland Schmidt Rick Genzink
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Come and view this well maintained home in Leisure Acres Subdivision. A great location with only a short drive to Tunnel Park, Riley Trails Park, and Lake Michigan. This home has 3 bedrooms, with potential for a 4th in the lower level, and 2 and a 1/2 bathrooms. Home also has an eat in kitchen with an island and solid surface counters, a downstairs office space, a master suite, a three car garage, a finished basement, and a workroom in the basement. Sliding doors open onto back deck overlooking the beautiful backyard! Schedule your private showing today and see all the possibilities this home has to offer!
135 W 11th Street Holland, MI 49423
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Saturday, 7/29 10:00-11:30AM
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Woodland Schmidt Bryan Myrick
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As soon as you walk in the door and see the beautiful foyer, the custom woodwork, bookcase and railing you will know this is home. This absolutely incredible home is located in the very desirable Holland Historic District within walking distance to downtown Holland, Lake Macatawa and close to brand new construction right down the street. This home features 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1700 square feet and updates everywhere. Recent updates include fresh paint throughout the home, a newer roof, newer furnace, steel appliances and all recently painted. The living room and dining area flow well into the den/TV room and large bedroom which is currently used as an office. The upstairs features access to the incredible roof top deck, 3 more bedrooms and the updated bathroom with tile floors.
Courtesy: Five Star Real Estate Lakeshore LLC James Coe
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Choice southside location in a quiet neighborhood! Well cared for ranch with many recent updates including newer windows, furnace, water heater, appliances, and added insulation. Main floor has a bright living room, laundry, and a cozy family room with a fireplace! Spacious basement that has a finished rec room, plenty of storage, and a bathroom area that has a lot of upward potential.Hot and cold water in the garage and a great storage shed in the back. Close to parks, schools, shopping, and medical facilities. This house has everything you need on the main floor and would make a great alternative to a condo.
74 W 40th Street Holland, MI 49423
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Saturday, 7/29 1:00-3:00PM
Courtesy: Keller Williams GR North Lucas Howard
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Welcome Home!! This 5 bedroom, 2 full bath home is located in a quiet well established Holland neighborhood! The main level has an open concept floor plan with updated kitchen, living room, two well sized bedrooms, full bath, and deck overlooking the yard. You'll appreciate the large kitchen with remodeled cabinets. The lower level offers an additional three bedrooms, full bath, and laundry. The home has updated double-pane energy-efficient windows. You will enjoy the spacious, private backyard complete with your own apple tree. The garage has been finished to include additional attic space for storage. Schedule your private tour today!No showings until Sat 7/29 accepting offers until Monday 7/31 @ 4pm. Presenting that evening.
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Courtesy: @Home Realty LLC Nick Bellmore
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Welcome home to this stunning 4 bed 2 bath Bi-level on a cul-de-sac lot in West Ottawa District. The open concept main level features the gorgeous kitchen, including stylish cabinetry, island with snack bar, beautiful counter-tops, neat and clean appliances, cathedral ceilings and many windows allow a generous amount of natural light. The master suite features jack and jill attached full bath. Two large bedrooms with new carpeting and paint, a second full bath, and the updated laundry/mud room round down the main floor. The lower level features a large, finished recreation area with utility closet for extra storage space, Outside you'll find the large deck, and spacious backyard! Schedule your showing today!
168 E 34th Street Holland, MI 49423
Courtesy: Keller Williams Realty Holland Brent Hoitenga
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Loads of potential but needs work... separate family room and large screened in porch. private back yard.. force yourself to save money by using sweat equity.. Home has been rental and city rental letter good for until 2019. Easy to see.
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Friday, 7/28 11:00-1:00PM
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Woodland Schmidt Manuel Barajas
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Welcome home to this beautiful ranch home located on the North Side of Holland. 5 bedroom 3 full bath home has a large open concept floor plan with a fenced in backyard. Skylights allow sunlight to flood on the main level. Kitchen has updated appliances and beautiful subway backsplash. This one won't last long. Call today to schedule a private showing!
Courtesy: RE/MAX Lakeshore Alicia Kramer
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Fantastic end unit in Willow Woods Condominium Association. Floor plan includes living space with vaulted ceiling and open concept floor plan. Kitchen hosts large island and breakfast bar. Dining area with box window. Living Room featuring a gas fireplace. Master bedroom suite with full bath hosting dual sink vanity and spacious walk in closet. Second guest bedroom and second full guest bath. Laundry room with added pantry storage. Large front entry and additional den/office/tv room (mechanicals in closet). There are additional switched plugs in the decorative alcoves above the hall and living areas for holiday decorating. Two car garage (approximately 2' deeper than standard). There is decking and light installed above garage for additional storage.
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Saturday, 7/29 10:00-12:00PM
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Woodland Schmidt Kyle Geenen
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Come take a look at this completely updated home just steps from Lake Macatawa on Holland's South Side! This 3 bedroom, 2 full bath home has a mid century modern feel that you'll absolutely love. The newly updated kitchen and dining room has hardwood floors that lead into the spacious living room overlooking the large backyard. Huge windows in the living room bring in ample amounts of that Pure Michigan sunlight to brighten your day. The master bedroom on the main floor has a large closet and is adjacent to the updated full bathroom on the main floor. Take the stairs to the lower level and you'll find another full bathroom, bedroom, and the cute laundry room with clever built-in storage above.
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Saturday, 7/29 10:30-12:00PM
Courtesy: RE/MAX Lakeshore Ted Dozeman
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Quality, character and attention to detail best describe this amazing 4 bedroom, 3 full bath home in an amazing southwest Holland neighborhood. This completely updated house offers over 2700 finished square feet of great living space! Main floor offers an updated kitchen, gorgeous family room with cathedral ceiling, formal dining and living rooms and main floor laundry. Upstairs you will find 3 large bedrooms including a huge master and completely remodeled full bath. The walkout lower level completes this great package with recreation room, fireplace, 4th bedroom/office and another full bath. Brand new concrete driveway, vinyl siding, newer windows, granite in kitchen/bath, hardwood floors, stainless appliance and the list goes on. See it today!
Courtesy: Keller Williams Realty Rivertown Zachary Newhof
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Built in 2015 by Eastbrook Homes this beautifully decorated ''Newport'' with 3,744 finished Sq Ft has it all! Located in the desirable Macatawa Legends neighborhood, w/ access to a beautiful clubhouse, 3 dining options, fitness center & outdoor inground pools & hot tub. Beautiful curb appeal with Quincy Park right in your back yard. As you enter you will find a convenient front office area with glass-panel french doors and custom-built wainscoting, double sided gas fireplace and large living room windows overlooking Quincy Park. The spacious kitchen includes a beautiful center island,large walk in Butler Pantry, granite counters and tiled back splash, generous dining area with access to a lovely deck. The mudroom is conveniently built with a coat closet, custom built bench and 1/2 bath.
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Sunday, 7/30 2:00-5:00PM
Courtesy: Boardwalk Realty & Management Kimberly Quist
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WOW! over 3,000 finished Sq. ft and just one block from Lake Michigan and the Riley public Access and trails! This beautifully updated home features 3 bedrooms and 2 and a half bath on the main level. The master suite has dual closets (one walk-in). The kitchen has a nice breakfast bar and eating area that leads to a nice deck(with a gas line out to deck) overlooking a private wooded large fenced yard. The lower level is awesome with plenty of room for an entertainment center and sectional (as seen in photos) but also a pool table (which is negotiable) AND there is a bonus room with a bar and 2 more non-conforming rooms ( office, workout room??) The laundry area has plenty of storage and a nice washer and dryer that stays!(plus the main level has laundry hook up also) This home has it all!
891 E 10th Street Holland, MI 49423
Courtesy: Greenridge Realty Holland Kevin Ridlington
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Check out this brand new listing in the Heights. This home is 3 bedrooms 1.5 baths, Lots of living space, fenced in back yard. new flooring, and the roof is only 3 years old. home warranty is also included. Call today, you don't want to lose out on this house.**Open House Thursday 7/27/17. 6:00pm-7:30pm
3060 Roberts Way Holland, MI 49424
Courtesy: Windpoint Realty LLC Kyle Gummere
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You won't want to miss this great three bedroom, two and a half bath ranch-style home in a quiet neighborhood in West Ottawa schools! The main floor offers an open-concept floor plan that includes a kitchen with snack bar, living room, dining room with sliders to deck, master bedroom with walk-thru bathroom, and an additional bedroom and half bath. The finished daylight lower level features a large family room, bedroom, full bath, and plenty of storage. This home won't last long so schedule your private tour today!
Courtesy: Five Star Real Estate Lakeshore LLC Allen Dannenberg
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Check out this beautiful conveniently located condo between Holland and Zeeland, near many amenities. This 2nd level unit has cathedral ceilings and a deck covered porch to enjoy grilling out on warm summer nights. Take advantage of the spacious living room with a slider to the large balcony where you can enjoy water views and lovely sunsets! There are walking trails all around the complex as well as a common area with a playground and a gazebo which make this a great place to live! Single stall garage with storage. This condo features 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms plus a main floor laundry room.
Courtesy: RE/MAX Lakeshore Brian Veneklasen
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Idlewood Beach- Large contemporary home with Lake Michigan access located on a private double lot with very nice patio. Main floor master bedroom with large closet. Three bedrooms on the upper with bath. This home has cathedral ceilings with a large fireplace in the living room. It has newer stainless appliances, full basement for further expansion, Oak paneled family room. This house is in need of a new paint job but priced accordingly and below SEV. Great house, Great location and a Great value. Call for your appointment today!
Courtesy: Greenridge Realty Hamilton Jack Dekker
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Enjoy carefree living in Berryfield Condominiums. Brand new condos w/quality & convenience, a variety of floor plans, walkout units & the quality of Interra Homes construction. End unit features soft close Riverrun cabinets, laminate plank flooring, full master suite w/private bath, walk-in closet, cathedral ceiling in main living area, spacious granite kitchen counters, large pantry, mudroom/laundry room off the kitchen. Price includes walkout finished LL, pond view lot, central air, garage door opener, dry-walled garage, 4-season Michigan room w/cathedral ceilings & a 12x12deck. Flex room on main level. Located close to shopping, bike paths, restaurants, downtown Holland, Lake Michigan & West Michigan amenities. Photos are of different unit. Finishes/features will vary.
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