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How To Find the Best Financial Advisor for YouFind a financial advisor who adheres to a fiduciary standard.
If you were to write down the most important things you'd like in a financial advisor, topping your list would probably be trustworthiness, the right credentials and the ability to meet your specific financial needs. After all, you don't want to trust just anyone with your money.
But, how do you go about finding a financial advisor who is right for you? You're in luck. GOBankingRates put together this helpful guide that tells you everything you need to know.
Here's an overview of the information you'll get related to finding one of the best financial advisors for your needs:
- Types of Financial Advisors and Services
- Financial Advisor Credentials
- How Financial Advisors Are Compensated
- How To Find a Financial Advisor
- Important Questions To Ask a Financial Advisor
- What To Watch Out For and How To Avoid Frauds
Read: Do I Need a Financial Advisor?
Types of Financial Advisors and Services
Although the world of financial advising and services is vast, here are some of the most important types for individuals seeking financial advice.
Robo-advisors are best for people who need assistance with investments but don't require human interaction. Robo-advisors typically feature online user interfaces and mobile apps and are responsible for providing automated portfolios based on the investor's preferences and needs. A robo-advisor takes more of a cookie-cutter approach to investing because an actual human isn't involved. On the plus side, robo-advisors are much cheaper than traditional financial advisors because they don't include financial planning — only investing help. Take a look at GOBankingRates' list of the best robo-advisors of 2019-2020 to learn more.
Traditional Financial Advisors
Traditional financial advisors are different from robo-advisors in that they use a personalized approach to provide a full range of financial planning options in addition to investment planning. As your life circumstances and needs change, a traditional financial advisor can guide you in making the best decisions regarding your finances. If you desire face-to-face interaction, a traditional financial advisor is your best choice.
Hybrid Financial Advisors
Hybrid financial advisors offer traditional financial advising services coupled with technology. They are more hands-off than traditional financial advisors, often use technology to come up with your investment plan and conduct a majority of business over the phone or online. These professionals are best for people who need some help with financial planning but don't want or need to hire a full-service financial advisor.
Financial Planning
Financial planning is based on long-term objectives and involves all facets of your financial life. It's a method of managing your money in a way that will help you realize your financial goals. A financial advisor can help by analyzing and evaluating your overall financial picture throughout the process to make the adjustments needed to keep your finances on the right track.
Investment Advisory Services
Investment advisory services involve an investment advisor providing expert advice to clients related to stocks, bonds and other securities. These services typically grant the advisor discretionary authority to make investment decisions on behalf of clients as long as the decisions are in line with the client's guidelines and stated goals.
Retirement Income Planning
Financial advisors can help you develop a retirement income plan by understanding your vision for retirement, evaluating and analyzing your projected income and expenses and advising you on how to best reach your retirement income goals. Retirement income planning is a process that requires monitoring your financial needs and making necessary changes when needed. Strategies include adjusting discretionary spending, modifying investment allocations and planning retirement account withdrawals to help you achieve your financial goals in retirement.
Good To Know: Signs You're Overpaying Your Financial Advisor
Financial Advisor Credentials
A financial advisor's credentials are extremely important. Here's what you should look for:
Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
A CFP is a professional designation issued by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards. Someone who holds this designation is best at offering general planning advice on a wide variety of personal finance issues, including investing, saving, paying for college, purchasing long-term care insurance, choosing a mortgage and estate planning.
To qualify for this designation, you must:
- Have at least a bachelor's degree
- Have at least three years of full-time personal financial planning experience or 6,000 hours total experience
- Complete a CFP-Board registered program or hold one of the following: CPA, ChFC, CFA, CLU, Ph.D. in economics or business, Attorney's License, Doctor of Business Administration
- Pass a certifying exam
- Take 30 hours of continuing education courses every two years
- Follow designated conduct standards and an ethics code
Personal Financial Specialist (PFS)
PFS is a professional designation issued by The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Those who hold this designation are experts in the following areas of personal financial planning: estate, investment, personal income tax, retirement and risk management.
To qualify for this designation prospective candidates must:
- Belong to the AICPA
- Possess a valid CPA certificate issued by a state authority
- Have a minimum of two years of full-time teaching or business experience — or 3,000 total hours — in personal financial planning within the previous five years
Educational requirements for this designation include:
- At least 75 hours of personal financial planning education within the previous five years of application
- Successful completion of the final certification exam
- 60 hours, or equivalent, of continuing education courses every three years
Investment Advisor With CFA: Chartered Financial Analyst Certificate
CFA is a professional designation issued by the CFA Institute. Although investment advisors holding CFAs often work for corporate clients, they are still regarded as investment management specialists. People looking for help with selecting stocks might find an advisor with a CFA designation to be a good option. To attain this designation, candidates must meet these requirements:
- Be in the final year of a bachelor's degree program OR
- Possess four years of work experience OR
- Possess a combination of work and university experience totaling at least four years
Other requirements for this designation include:
- Completion of a 750-hour self-study program
- Passing scores on three separate six-hour course exams
- Four years of professional experience in the investment decision-making process, either before, during or after completing the CFA program
Do Financial Advisors Abide By Fiduciary Duty?
Fiduciary duty means advisors must act in their client's best interest at all times by putting their personal interests aside, refusing to take actions that would allow them to profit from their positions — unless the client agrees — and disclosing potential or current conflicts of interest.
Although any financial planner or advisor can choose to abide by fiduciary duty, most financial planners or advisors are not held to a fiduciary standard. One exception is a certified financial planner. Those who hold this designation are held to a fiduciary standard by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards.
Learn More: What Is a Fiduciary Financial Advisor?
How Financial Advisors Are Compensated
When you're trying to find the best financial advisor, make sure you know how they're compensated. Here are the ways financial advisors are usually paid.
Commissions Only
Financial advisors who only receive commissions as payment will require you to pay a commission upfront for any investments you choose to make. For example, if you want to invest $3,000 and the advisor recommends a mutual fund that charges a 3% commission, you'll pay $90 for the commission and $2,910 will be invested in the fund.
Fees Only
Financial advisors who only receive fees might charge a flat, hourly or retainer fee to help you manage your finances. These types of advisors usually work on their own and don't represent a company.
Fees and Commissions
Financial advisors who receive both fees and commissions will charge you a flat, hourly or retainer fee for financial planning services. They will also collect a commission from any eligible investments you make that they recommend.
Learn From Others: I Met With a Financial Planner the First Time at 50
How To Find a Financial Advisor
Before you start searching for a financial advisor, it's important to know what your financial goals are. Once you know what you need from a financial advisor, it will be much easier to find the one that's right for you.
Word of Mouth
Asking for the names of trusted financial advisors from your network of family and friends can be a helpful strategy. But don't simply take someone's word that their financial advisor is the right choice for you. You still need to do your own research.
Professional Networks
Professional networking organizations such as the Garrett Planning Network, Financial Planning Association and National Association of Professional Financial Advisors (NAPFA) are good places to look for advisors who might match your needs. You can use the search engines on these networks to find advisors by location and specialty. Once that's done, you can contact the ones you're interested in by sending your contact information and a message directly from the platform.
Important Questions To Ask a Financial Advisor
According to the NAPFA, here are some important questions to ask a financial advisor you're considering hiring. Depending on your needs, you might not need to ask all of the questions. They're merely suggestions.
- How are you compensated?
- Do you itemize commissions, if applicable?
- Do you accept referral fees?
- Are you held to a fiduciary standard at all times?
- Are you willing to sign a fiduciary oath that states you'll always put my interests first?
- Have you ever been disciplined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)?
- Do you provide full-service financial planning or just investment management?
- Do many of the clients you work with fit my profile?
- Are you confident you can help me reach my financial goals?
- What will happen if you're no longer able to work with me?
What To Watch Out For and How To Avoid Frauds
Unfortunately, fraud is not uncommon in the financial planning and advice industry. According to the Federal Trade Commission, consumers reported losing $1.48 billion to fraud in 2018 — an increase of 38% from the previous year. The first step in avoiding fraud is to verify the credentials of any financial advisor you're planning to work with via the FINRA BrokerCheck website or the SEC website.
Here's what else you need to know.
What To Watch Out For
Be on the lookout for financial advisors — or those claiming to be — who are involved in any these potentially fraudulent activities:
- Works to gain trust in certain religious, military or ethnic communities and convinces people to invest as part of a Ponzi scheme
- Requests payment upfront for an investment, citing a finder's fee or incidental fee
- Approaches you online and asks you to invest in a high-risk, high-yield investment that's unregistered, claiming phenomenal returns
- Unsolicited offerings via newsletters, blog posts or social media
- Unsolicited heavy stock promotions that might be part of a "pump-and-dump" scheme
- An invitation to buy initial public offering shares before a company goes public
- Pyramid schemes
- Any investment termed "Prime Bank" or "Prime World Bank," which are scams
- Promissory note scams, especially related to the elderly
See: Do You Need a Financial Advisor If You Aren't Rich?
What To Do if You Feel You Are Caught in the Middle of a Fraud
Reporting the alleged fraud immediately and documenting it as thoroughly as possible are the two key steps if you suspect fraudulent behavior. You can report the alleged fraud to local, state and national law enforcement agencies as well as financial regulators such as the FINRA and the SEC. Documentation should include any contact and registration numbers you have for the person in question, a detailed timeline of events, your account statements, logs of phone conversations or emails and copies of your most recent credit reports.
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If you've ever watched any sporting event in your life, you just knew.
You just knew that after Phil Cuzzi made one of the most egregiously, unbelievably horrible calls in the history of professional sports — to the detriment of the Twins — that the Yanks would win the game. That's just the way life works.
I'm not going to waste your time with a recap. Either you know what happened or you don't.
But suffice to say, Major League Baseball's long-time policy of instituting left- and right-field umpires for playoff games in order to more effectively determine fair/foul situations is seriously flawed. When an umpire whose sole reason for existing is to determine whether a ball is fair or foul can't tell, from 15 feet away with no obstruction, that a ball has obviously landed in fair territory, then something is wrong.
Personally, I've always felt that umpires have an exceptional amount of leeway when it comes to their decisions, as it relates to other sports. Countless times, a player is incorrectly adjudged out because the ball got to the base first, or vice versa, but no one makes any sort of institutional complaint — maybe, once in a while, the manager will get hot and bothered, but generally it's accepted as "part of the game": we may have gotten screwed by a bad call this time, but we'll benefit from one at some point, so it will all even out in the end.
But this is too much. I have no personal vendetta against Phil Cuzzi, and I'm sure he feels bad about what happened, but as the title suggests, this is absolutely ridiculous. Obviously I'm not the only one to suggest that MLB needs to clamp down on outrageously poor officiating such as this or that this incident single-handedly justifies the expansion of instant replay in baseball. But let me add my voice to the chorus saying that this blown call needs to be the spark for some kind of action — whether it's Cuzzi's exclusion from the remainder of the playoffs, the further use of replay, or whatever, this is clearly not "part of the game".
Twins fans are surely, and justifiably, upset today. And perhaps they're formulating conspiracy theories about how the Yankees are predisposed to getting favourable calls at home. But ultimately they, like all of us, are staring at this reality: the live, human umpiring system is imperfect, but when it proves itself this imperfect, the impetus presents itself to either replace the specific human, or replace the entire system.
Knowing baseball, systemic change seems highly unlikely. But if Phil Cuzzi has any further part to play in this year's postseason, then it is a matter of grave concern to all fans of this game.

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Its been 28 years since Selena debuted her first album, Selena and Google decided to honor the late singer with a special Google Doodle two years in the making! "My family and I are honored and extremely excited to have worked with Google on this Doodle and exhibit launch, not only as a way to celebrate Selena's life and the dreams she achieved but as a tribute to Selena's fans around the globe. This project is just yet another testament to the power of Selena's legacy, which is still going strong 22 years later," Selena's sister Suzette Quintanilla says in a statement.
"Selena has always transcended cultural boundaries and having this Doodle featuring a strong, Latina woman on the homepage of Google around the world is a perfect example that. We hope that everyone – both fans and people learning about Selena for the first time – enjoys this celebration and feels the positivity and hope Selena embodied and still continues to represent today," she continued.
The video showcases the star in one of her biggest hits, "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom." October 17 is the date Selena's first album in 1989.


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The humanitarian system has been stretched to its limits with aid agencies unable to support people living in areas blighted by complex conflicts in countries like Syria and Central African Republic, according to a new report examining the sector.
The State of the Humanitarian System, which is published every three years and produced by Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (Alnap), reveals that agencies are struggling to reach people in many of the world's trouble spots.
Researchers found there were fewer humanitarian emergencies in the three years leading up to 2015 compared to previous years, but significantly more people were targeted for assistance; 78% more than 2007-8 levels. With countries like Mali, South Sudan and Central African Republic all seeing fresh violence in the years leading up to 2015, humanitarian organisations found it harder to reach communities in conflict-ridden areas.
A lack of funding, technical capacity, as well as problems recruiting staff were cited as reasons for inadequate provision for those in hard to reach communities.
In Central African Republic, the report notes that humanitarian organisations scaled back activities in the country in the autumn of 2013 despite an increase in needs in the country. A lack of interest from donors, as well as problems recruiting French-speaking staff to work in the region were blamed for the difficulties. In Mali too, the report notes that attempts to deliver aid to the north of the country were hampered by fighting in the region.
The report notes that it is virtually impossible to get solid evidence on aid-delivery in Syria due to the nature of the conflict. It says: "Getting solid information on the aid picture for the whole of Syria has been extremely difficult, and as a result the humanitarian community is unable to determine if the aid getting through is the most relevant and appropriate to people's needs. Until 2014 there was no information on needs for Syria as a whole."
By contrast, the report praises aid agencies for their ability to meet the needs of communities affected by natural disasters and other short-term events. In the Philippines, researchers found that the international response to Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, backed up by $1bn in overseas money, had been "timely and met the critical objectives of providing food, water and shelter and preventing significant post-event mortality and morbidity".
Alnap researchers also found that aid efforts were being hampered by a lack of local community involvement in humanitarian operations. With 2,500 aid workers and recipients included in the survey, the majority of recipients felt they did not play a big enough role in delivering aid to their communities, with 70% of funding going directly to UN agencies and the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
The report comes a few months after the UN announced it had increased its annual appeal for international aid by 500% in a decade, with $20bn requested in 2015 to combat multiple crises.
With international crises becoming protracted, and refugees finding themselves displaced for longer periods, the UN has also warned that many of its aid projects are in urgent need of cash. It reports that humanitarian appeals are underfunded by 40%.
"There are more Syrians under UNHCR's care today than any other nationality on earth. Yet by the end of 2014, only 54% of the money needed to assist refugees outside Syria had been raised. Inside Syria, humanitarian organisations received even less," said Melissa Fleming, from the UNHCR, in June.
John Mitchell, the director of Alnap, said that the humanitarian system is "failing to protect people in conflict situations" and failing to give these people "appropriate assistance".
"We've seen fewer emergencies in the last three years, but they have been more severe and conflict-related," he explained.
"I would much rather be waiting for aid in a typhoon hit country than I would in Central African Republic."
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Dan Ohlman Shows Off His Miniature Movie Sets (18 pics)
CGI is used for just about everything nowadays but there was once a time when it wasn't so prevalent. Miniature sets were often used to create movies and former cabinet maker Dan Ohlman fell in love with the concept. He ended up opening Musée Miniature et Cinéma which is a five story museum in France that is home to 100 miniature film sets.
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Builder yelled at me for parking over MY drive?
I live in an end-of-terrace house and the house on the corner of the next street are making flats. This has been going on now for 4 months and they're no way complete nor had we been given notice of these works being carried out. Almost every day concrete/wood deliveries are made and lorries park over my drop kerb. I never complain, as I've never had to take my car out at the time of their visits. However, today, I came back from shopping and a lorry was parked over 3 driveways, including mine. I pointed to the driver I needed to get my car onto my drive (they know me and my car now), but he wouldn't move the lorry and in the end I had to drive over 2 of my neighbour's drives to get my car in. When I got out of my car I didn't get one apology and they sat in the lorry cabin with their feet up on the dashboard smoking. I went up to the cabin and said I had trouble getting my car in and that they're parked over my drop kerb. One of the builders yelled, "HOW DO I KNOW WHAT YOU WANTED BY POINTING TO YOUR DRIVEWAY AND DON'T GET ALL LEGAL WITH ME!" Well, it is my drop kerb. I have been back home 2 hours now and the lorry still there whilst they unpack/finish lunch. One of the builders said to me that I should leave a notice up not to park over my drive, but I shouldn't have to as the works as carried out at the road on the corner, so really using my driveway this road is a bonus for them. What do I do?
They ignore "Please don't park here signs" too.
Police call it a 'civil matter', Susie.
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- artherLv 510 months agoFavourite answer
Go and tell the boss you've had enough and not to block your driveway or put any of their stuff on your property due to his workers mouthing off .
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- boy boyLv 710 months ago
its not true the police will do nothing ...people parked over my neighbours drive ..they got nicked ...nobody is allowed to park over a driveway if it has a dropped kerb ...im a builder ..i would not park over someones drive ..they are chancing their arm ...go and see the main man ......get up early and park across your drive
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- STEPHENLv 710 months ago
The police will not do a thing if you can't get INTO your property because someone is obstructing your drive, they just say "wait until they've gone".
If you need to get OUT of your property and are unable to do so because it is obstructed they will come and tell the driver to move.
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- Rona LachatLv 710 months ago
Police may not deal with it. Suggest you try parking control next. The entire planet does not have the same parking rules.
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- PearlLv 710 months ago
maybe you should leave a notice for them so they dont do that
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- SusieLv 710 months ago
Don't you have laws?? Most places don't allow people to block driveways. Call the police.
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The Championship consists of designing a small (1m–2.5m) automated sailboat able to successfully complete various challenges at sea completely autonomously.
The ENSTA Bretagne team, with its wide experience and many successes in the field of autonomous marine robotics, has often taken part in this international competition, and this year took first prize for the second time.
The event was held from August 26 to 31 at Calshot, off the coast of Southampton in the UK. 7 teams participated, hailing from France (ENSTA Bretagne), Finland (Aland University of Applied Sciences), the UK (Aberystwyth, Plymouth and Southampton Universities) and China (Shanghai Jiao Tong University in and Zhejiang University).
ENSTA Bretagne's robotic sailboat "BRAVE" maintained a lead over all its competitors throughout the race, and perfectly completed the 4 challenges set for the 2018 event.


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Baby Stanley is an adorable and tiny Boxer puppy who insists on playing with the big dogs.
When he was rescued, he was sick and weighed 2 pounds…
Slowly but surely he grew up into a big boy. 🙂
He loves to play with his huge foster brothers no matter what!
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Smart Metering Systems (SMS) has appointed Miriam Greenwood to its board as a non-executive director.
Greenwood, a qualified barrister and corporate finance specialist, takes up her new board position with immediate effect.
SMS said Greenwood has spent "more than 25 years working for a number of leading investment banks and other financial institutions".
Greenwood also spent nine years as a non-executive director of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (OFGEM) before stepping down in 2013, and she currently chairs OFGEM's Gas Network Innovation Expert Panel.
Last year she established an independent corporate finance advisory business, SPARK Advisory Partners.
She currently holds non-executive director roles with a number of companies including Henderson Global Trust plc, Mithras Investment Trust plc and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Limited.
Commenting on the new board appointment, SMS chairman Paul Dollman said: "We are delighted to appoint Miriam to the board and look forward to working with her.
"Her experience in the energy sector as well as her financial background will be of great value to our company as we continue our expansion plans."


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Affix this fabulous fat ball set to your garden bird feeder or dangle them off your bird table and you should – in theory – attract lots of wild birds to your back garden. This is a set of 12 high engery bird food.
- Made by Tom Chambers as on label Fabulous Fat Balls
- High energy food for garden birds
- 12 Pack of fat balls
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Social Class, Women and Industrial Revolution in the Importance of Being Ernest
The mouse is lucky: only the present can hurt her – the poet has the past (painful memories) and the unknown future to fear (insecurity). Burns raises the mouse to man's level 1
Burns' own experience is representative of all mankind's. Themes Respect Earth and Its Creatures respect for nature's creatures, especially the small, the defenseless, the downtrodden (or, in this case, the uprooted). Mouse represents common folk who are often tyrannized by the high and the mighty. Foolproof Plans Can Go Awry
"Songs of Innocence (1789) & Songs of Experience (1794)" - William Blake "Innocence & Experience" "two contrary states of the soul" In Songs, Blake opposes examples of innocence and experience from o Natural creation o History o Society Can an individual who is innocent (inexperienced) be truly good, or does the achievement of goodness require experience? But… Both perspectives are equally important and inseparable. Juxtaposes o Childhood (untainted, naturalistic world) o Adulthood (corruption and restraint) Speakers – disconnect poet from his narratives Songs of Innocence Depict o naivete of children o Hopes o Fears Deliver scathing criticism of society – e.g. "The Chimney Sweeper" The Lamb Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o'er the mead; 2
Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice! Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Little Lamb I'll tell thee, Little Lamb I'll tell thee! He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee. Little Lamb God bless thee. The Lamb Form: 2 stanzas, 5 rhyming couplets, plus repetition of last lines Song/chant-like - childlike, lamblike innocence Question: naive and profound – tapping into the nature of creation Jesus as The Lamb Traditional image: gentleness, meekness, peace Child = lamb = Jesus More positive aspects of Christianity… But… God made the lamb, Why did the innocent lamb have to be sacrificed? Cf. The ritual sacrifices of lambs in many of the world's great religions The Tyger Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 3
And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread...
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Housing reviews: A little less conversation, a little more action...
As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and.... Wh...
As we all know, Peter Redfern is critical to the future of the British housing market and....
What? Wait? You don't know who Peter Redfern is? Really?
Well, let's be honest about this. Until a few days ago, he wasn't a familiar name to me either, despite being a perfectly honourable and successful individual as chief executive of Taylor Wimpey, one of the country's leading volume house builders.
But his significance for the housing market extends beyond that because he has been named as the chair of a review, commissioned by the Labour Party, into the causes of falling home ownership, future home ownership trends, and 'the housing crisis'.
His review will not be partisan in terms of its membership. It is unclear as to the political allegiance of Redfern himself, and the other review members are known to be scrupulously independent and well-regarded in the property industry; they include Dame Kate Barker from Credit Suisse (we'll come back to her in a moment), Terrie Alafat, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing, and Ian Mulheirn of Oxford Economics.
This team will conclude the review by the end of this summer and will report back to Labour's highly-respected front-bench housing spokesman John Healey, himself a former housing minister in the days of Gordon Brown's premiership.
So far, so worthy: but haven't we been here before? And more than once?
In little more than a decade, three other independent reviews with broadly similar remits ("fix the housing problem" in other words) have been commissioned by governments or parties. For those who missed them, ignored them and never heard of them, they were:
1. Barker Review of 2004
Chaired by – yes, you guessed it – the same Kate Barker who is now on the Redfern Review, this review was regarded as extremely important at the time and recommended:
- the government to help with measures to make homes more affordable;
- additional public spending of up to £1.6 billion per year on social housing;
- additional 'planning gain' so communities and councils benefitted more from new housing schemes;
- changes to local and regional planning processes to allow better, quicker decisions;
- measures to identify sites and unlock other barriers to development.
2. Calcutt Review of 2007
Focusing chiefly on how to deliver more new homes and chaired by John Callcutt, then chief executive of volume housebuilder Crest Nicholson. it recommended:
- more edge-of-town settlements;
- brownfield development intensified and greenfield development minimised;
- more partnerships between councils, developers and government to identify and prepar land, and speed planning processes;
- government to stipulate faster build-out of landbanks if involved in joint ventures or partnerships with private builders.
3. Lyons Review of 2014
Chaired by former BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons, this review was commissioned for Labour but was very well received by the property industry as a whole and recommended:
- speeding up planning processes;
- stronger government powers to force councils to prepare five-year housing-led plans;
- strengthening council powers to compulsorily purchase land;
- politicians lead on the need to identify and build on sites, and not continue what it called an 'artificial shortage' of sites because of local opposition to development;
- planning permission lifetimes cut from five to two years to encourage faster building;
- more flexibility on council borrowing to fund house building;
- new-builds to be made available to local owner-occupier buyers as a priority;
- changes to Right To Buy to allow 'one-for-one' replacement with new social housing.
So do you see what I mean by "we've been here before"?
With all respect to Peter Redfern and his colleagues – and they deserve respect, because their task is not easy and all-too-often is thankless – it is nonetheless difficult to imagine what they can come up with that will be more innovative and practical than many of those recommendations produced over the past 12 years from the three previous reviews.
What differs now is that the housing shortage is worse, the need greater and the problem arguably higher on the political agenda.
What is missing from the three reports listed above – and I bet from the Redfern Review when it reports this year – is one additional recommendation.
That is, that politicians should stop kicking the issue into the long grass by ordering more analysis and more discussion, and instead take action on the findings of those past reviews.
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Michael Keywood, owner of Belvoir Mansfield, a Letting Agent in Mansfield, has said that 'the East Midlands Regional Plan (EMRP) currently provides a requirement for housing growth within each Local Authority area to 2026. For the Mansfield District the overall requirement set out within the EMRP for the period 1st April 2006 - 31st March 2026 is 10,600 dwellings, which over the same period averages out at 530 dwellings per annum (dwpa). New builds are popping up on green and brownfield sites, and it is great to see that the target is attempting to be reached. It is great news for home ownership levels and for landlords looking to invest in the area as supply is increasing with demand, and not forcing the prices to skyrocket but remain stable and equitable for all.'


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Giant aneurysms coiled with the assistance of Comaneci - the adjustable remodeling mesh. Three examples from the last few days: Italy, France and first Comaneci case from Chile; conducted by Dr. Pablo Giacaman Garcia from Hospital Regional Concepcion.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Luke's band Au is playing tonight at Holocene.
You should go see them and have a great time before he moves to NY, makes it big time and you never get to see them again.
Listen. Read.
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As part of its commitment to developing people, Mitchells & Butlers is proud to offer its employees the opportunities to be #ReachingNewHeights in their careers. For those looking to seize the opportunity, Mitchells & Butlers will provide the support and time flexibility for employees to take on an apprenticeship. 14 Vocational Learning Attraction Manager Lauren Carroll has recently taken on this opportunity, enrolling onto the CIPD Level 5 HR apprenticeships with Crosby Management Training, earlier this year. Lauren is always working to give young people the opportunity to shine, placing them in a whole host of apprenticeships across the UK, so she knew the time was right to work towards her own apprenticeship.The CIPD Level 5 HR apprenticeship aims to further develop HR professionals who are leading on people initiatives in larger organisations. As part of the undergraduate degree equivalent course, Lauren has not only been #ReachingNewHeights in her HR career but Lauren's put on her walking boots for a trip to Snowdonia National Park. Providing a valuable team-building experience and opportunities to develop resilience, leadership and decision making, Lauren gave us the rundown of why apprenticeships are perfect for those looking to take their career to the next level."I know the power of apprenticeships for those in entry level roles, but I'm also a massive advocate of apprenticeships for those further along their career journey. For me, I've been with Mitchells & Butlers for nearly three years and when the opportunity arose, I jumped at the chance to develop myself with the CIPD Level 5 HR apprenticeship."This apprenticeship gives me the opportunity to work towards a broad HR apprenticeship, having a behind-the-scenes view of areas of the business I had never previously seen. As a broad HR knowledge and the ability to influence senior team members, is a key skill that is so valuable as you progress through your career journey, this apprenticeship has become even more important to my career."The Snowdonia trip with Crosby Management Training was amazing and allowed me to put into practice some of the skills I'd learnt so far whilst learning some new ones, in a setting away from the office. I was with a group of fantastic people and I would definitely recommend for anybody to take up the opportunity for an away day as part of their apprenticeship. With no mobile phones and just each other, it was great to share experiences and stories with one another whilst also being able to step outside the office. Taking on some valuable opportunities to develop my leadership skills especially, leading our team to staying afloat on the rafts and also working as a team to successfully navigate to the right place during gorge-scrambling was a really rewarding moment."I'm looking forward to taking these experiences with me and working towards finishing my apprenticeship by next Summer."Want to find out more about how an apprenticeship at Mitchells & Butlers can take your career to the next level? Discover the opportunities.


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• Full afternoon tea for two including freshly made sandwiches, scones, cakes and fancies• Chocolate fondue served with marshmallows and fresh fruit• Your choice of speciality teas or coffee• For an extra treat choose the sparkling option and you will also receive a glass of Champagne each
Treat yourself to a nice little Afternoon Tea in Telford and you will find yourself sitting in the restaurant of a rather delightful country hotel in the heart of rural Shropshire. It's the perfect gift to celebrate with a best friend, treat someone in your family or celebrate a special occasion.
The gentle hum of conversation, the chinking of fine bone china tea cups on saucers and the distant sound of the coffee machine gurgling and whooshing. This is the typical blissful scene when you stroll into Haughton Hall for your afternoon tea experience
Nestled in 35 acres of countryside complete with fishing lake, gardens and woodland too, it's a rather lovely place to head to for your afternoon tea. Standing proud with its white-washed walls, this Georgian style manor house is warm and welcoming. Walk in to reception and you'll be shown to your table. There's the formal restaurant area that has that classic drawing room style, complete with crisp white linen tablecloths and the lounge bar, which has a more 'sofas and low table' feel with a modern colour scheme
The Haughton Hall waiting staff will look after you with attentive, yet discrete service, offering freshly brewed tea or coffee to accompany your afternoon tea. They will also serve you with a traditional platter, stacked with delicate finger sandwiches freshly made with classic fillings, as well as home-made scones with jams and cream and a selection of tasty cakes too.
Then there's a little extra treat that sets a Telford afternoon tea apart from the others - a chocolate fondue! A little pot of gorgeously gooey melted chocolate will be served on a tray adorned with fresh fruit morsels and colourful marshmallows ready to be dipped and devoured. Absolutely delicious!
And the final little touch of decadence? Why not go for the sparkling version of this Afternoon Tea in Telford and have a flute of Champagne brought over to you. Perfect for a toast to your afternoon of chatting, catching up and relaxing at lovely Haughton Hall over that quintessentially English tradition - all with a chocolatey twist included for the two of you too!
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Report published in November 2014
Up until the April 2014 report on Domestic Violence in the Criminal Justice System, it had been very difficult to generate statistics describing the state of domestic violence in Marion County. The Polis Center at IUPUI conducted a feasibility study for the Domestic Violence Network to link data from four sources that collect information on victims and perpetrators of domestic violence in the legal system, including The Julian Center, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD), Marion County Prosecutor's Office, Indiana Supreme Court. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating the domestic violence data, given the quality and incompleteness of some of the required data sets, and to determine what analysis and reporting are possible given these limitations. Data had to be cleaned and standardized to ensure comparability across the data sets, and an algorithm was developed to identify unique individuals across all four data sets.
The result was a report of statistics representing the picture of domestic violence for incidents where the legal system is involved. It does not count all of the incidents that go unreported.
This November 2014 report provides an update on the statistics presented in the first report. In addition, it looks at other factors such as the season and month of domestic violence activity and geographic patterns. It also explores the effectiveness of the Baker One Initiative, which targets high- risk perpetrators and collects special data for cases where domestic violence is suspected.
Domestic Violence Victims and Perpetrators
- In 2013, there were an estimated 11,559 victims of domestic violence (1.3% of the population) and 9,945 perpetrators reported in the legal system.
- 14% percent of victims experienced more than one incident of domestic violence during the 2013 year.
- 16% of perpetrators are implicated in more than one domestic violence incident.
- 9% of perpetrator-victim pairs were involved in a domestic violence incident with each other more than one time.
Demographics/Socio-economics of Victims and Perpetrators
- Victims are predominantly females (80%)1, with the largest group aged 20 to 24.
- Perpetrators are predominantly males (80%)2, with the largest group aged 25 to 29.
- 51% of victims are Caucasian, however, African Americans are disproportionately represented among domestic violence victims.
- 87% of the perpetrator-victim pairs in the Marion County Protective Orders records have the same race, with 50% of the pairs both Caucasian.
- 77% of perpetrator-victim pairs (in the protective orders) involve a male perpetrator and female victim.
- African Americans are disproportionately represented among perpetrators in crime incidents involving domestic violence as compared with Caucasians.
- Caucasian victims appear to be more likely to obtain a protective order than African American victims
Where Does Domestic Violence Occur?
- In 2012, 77% of reported domestic violence incidents occurred at home.
- The domestic violence rate is highest in Center Township, which is double the rate in the IMPD jurisdiction.4
- Low-income neighborhoods have a higher reported incidence of domestic violence than middle- and upper-income areas.
Read the full report here.


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Treat Yourself
Five… Four… Three… Two… One! Get the New Year off to a great start with fantastic deals.
Along with twinkling trees and candy canes, the Holidays also brings car advertisements, and it isn't just the holiday hype. The best shopping span is between Christmas and New Years Day to purchase a vehicle, whether new or used. Maybe the gifts you were hoping to receive weren't under the tree this year, or perhaps, after weeks of shopping for others, you're looking forward to buying for yourself.
Treat Yourself
If you are looking to find a luxury vehicle at a lower rate, December is the best month to find a good deal. This month has the year's highest discounts and best incentives, according to the automotive experts at Edmunds, read more here.
One reason why car prices are the best near the end of the year is that fewer people are shopping for a new car at the end of year holiday season. Another is because cars technically become one year older on January 1st which affects buyer's perceptions of the vehicle's worth. This is especially true for models just two or three years old. If you want to save yourself hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, then reserve the rest of the year spent on the beach and your winters for days spent on the lots.
If you had a new car on your wish list for 2018, it's not too late to make your dreams come true. In fact, waiting until now might really pay off. If it's not in this year's budget, don't rush the decision. Instead, start planning for a trip to the dealership this time next year.
Right now lease the 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio or Alfa Romeo Giulia as low as $349/month for 24 months!
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Nuke It From Orbit, It's the Only Way to be SureComments
Reed O'Connor's ruling that Congress accidentally repealed the Affordable Care Act is exactly as bad as you'd expect:
A late Friday evening in mid-December — with the midterm elections safely in the rear-view mirror — is not when a public official releases something important that they want to receive a lot of public scrutiny. So it is almost certainly not a coincidence that Texas U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor chose exactly such a moment to release his opinion in Texas v. U.S., holding that the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional and should be struck down in its entirety.
Should O'Connor's partisan opinion survive the appellate process, it would not only be a catastrophe for tens of millions of Americans but evidence that Republican courts simply will not allow future Democratic Congresses to govern.
But, on the legal merits, O'Connor's opinion would need a great deal of work to rise to the level of being shoddy. The basis of his argument is the recent decision by the Republican Congress to remove the tax penalty for people who don't carry health insurance (the so-called "individual mandate"). O'Connor argues that, because the mandate no longer carries a tax penalty, it is unconstitutional, based on the idea that, when Chief Justice John Roberts upheld most of the Affordable Care Act in the 2012 case NFIB v. Sebelius, the mandate was upheld as a valid exercise of the federal taxing power.
And he then argues that the mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the ACA, so that the entire statute — including the Medicaid expansion, which the mandate doesn't affect at all — is unconstitutional.
If you think that this doesn't make any sense, you're right. First of all, as amended by Congress, there is no longer any "mandate" to purchase health insurance — consumers have the choice to carry insurance or pay… nothing. And the argument that, if the non-actually-existent "mandate" is unconstitutional, the entire bill must fall is even worse. According to O'Connor, Congress "intended" to preserve the original mandate because "knew that provision is essential to the ACA."
As Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan Law School observes, "[o]n no account did Congress in 2017 "intend to preserve" the individual mandate. It meant to get rid of the loathed mandate — and it did, by eliminating the penalty that gave it force and effect."
A legal opinion premised on the idea that Congress could not possibly have intended to do what it literally did seems unlikely to stand up. And indeed, liberal and many conservative legal experts have assailed the ruling.
At least if Ginsburg and Breyer are able to stay on the Court, it is very unlikely that it will hold up. And while upholding it would be bad politically for Republicans in the short-term, don't buy heighten-the-contradictions arguments that it would actually be OK because it would quickly lead to single payer. Even in the most optimistic Senate scenario in 2020, the odds that there are 50 votes to both eliminate the filibuster and nationalize the American health insurance industry are roughly the same as this year's Super Bowl being between the Jets and Cardinals. Redundant evidence that Republicans don't actually support the goals of the ACA doesn't actually change the politics.


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Office paper
La Corbeille Bleue is our branch dedicated to managing the collection and treatment of office paper waste generated by companies and administrations.
An all-in-one solution
Paprec supports the increasing awareness for social and environmental responsibility, and as such has become the leader in the collection and treatment of office paper.
Through its service offer La Corbeille Bleue, Paprec offers a wide range of solutions for the management of office paper waste.
Paprec owns 5 factories in France that recycle over 100 000 tons of office paper, archives, and confidential documents per year.
La Corbeille Bleue's agencies are:
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Sorting and upcycling paper
La Corbeille Bleue supplies companies with rubbish bins made by Burocity, for sorting office waste at the source. The company also supplies a varied range of storage and collection furniture: skips, boxes, etc.
In our factories, all your office waste can be collected for treatment and recovery. We also take care of the destruction of your confidential documents at our secure sites or at your site, using autonomous garbage compactor trucks.
The daily recovery of paper
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Paprec also manages the cleaning out of your archive storage spaces, with secure vehicle transportation and shredding at our authorised sites.
For all your office waste (old papers, archives, cumbersome garbage…), Paprec offers an all-inclusive package that includes collection equipment, cleaning, collecting, transport, and treatment of waste in our registered factories.
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Scraping ice off your windscreen. Having more month left than money. Going to work in the dark. Coming home from work in the dark. Bad weather. Failing new year resolutions. Post-Christmas chocolate withdrawal symptoms. The January diets. All things we hate about January!
There are only two more weeks and we will have made it through January and into February. But while we are here and it is still January the blues are for some, a very real thing. I feel like most people are affected by the January blues and I'm included.
Being a January baby, maybe I notice it more than others. I have often felt the cold reality of other people's sadness and gloom in this season. I have found that it is our lack and our wanting at this time of year that can lead to this unhappiness. I have also found it in the attitude of our friends or neighbours, due to their own lack or want. Often people's emotions and attitudes can have an impact on your life. Just in the same way our own emotions and attitudes can lead to a change in other people lives.
Do we have to do things we enjoy to have joy in our lives? So often I have found that my joy comes from my enjoyment. However, as a child of God, I should be filled with Joy all the time because I know Jesus's sacrifice has ultimately paid the price for my salvation.
I love the 1991 movie Hook. (You didn't think you would get a blog from me without a movie reference, did you?) The movie is all about Robin Williams' character finding his happy place so he can become Peter Pan once again. Having watched it recently I realised that everyone is looking for their happy place but from time to time we choose to find it in worldly things such as material possessions, completing life goals or good weather.
However, I don't believe we can be who God has called us to be, without joy.
Perfect, complete and never-ending joy can only come from God and the knowledge of what he has done for us. I'd love to say I had perfect joy all the time but I don't. I'd even love to say I try to remember to have some joy some of the time but even this can be hard to achieve. So, what does authentic joy look like and how can our attitude reflect the joy we feel. Maybe it starts with the small things. Smiling to a stranger. Bringing in our neighbour's bins for them. Sending an encouraging word to a friend.
At this time of year, here are three things to consider…
We should remember that our Joy, ultimately should come from God. Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Also, remember our Joy has a knock-on effect on those around us. Philemon 1:7 Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord's people.
Why not consider this time of year and your attitude towards it? Philippians 4:4 Rejoice…have joy all the time.
Remember that God has given us many things to be joyful about and see how your actions can make a difference to other people's joy and your own.


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The X Factor - Saturday 1 September - Janice Robinson (video)
The X Factor - Saturday 1 September at 8pm on ITV
Janice Robinson (50-year-old from Garfield, New Jersey) sings Livin' Joy - Dreamer.
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The search for a new music superstar gets underway as The X Factor returns to ITV.
Heralding the start of a new era for the nation's most talked about entertainment show, is a brand-new panel with Robbie Williams, Ayda Williams and Louis Tomlinson joining music mogul Simon Cowell as judges.
Returning as host is Mr Saturday Night, Dermot O'Leary, who will be on hand to guide viewers and contestants alike through their X Factor journey, providing them with a word of advice or a much-needed hug as the contestants perform in front of the judging panel.
This series sees the return of the arena auditions at The SSE Arena, Wembley, where the hopefuls will have to perform not only for the judges but live in front of members of the public, making it the biggest audition of their lives.
Should they impress and secure three or more 'yeses' they will go through to the judge's deliberation, where the judges will review and decide who gets to perform in the Six Chair Challenge. This is all before the competition really heats up and culminates with the live shows later in the year.
Expect outstanding vocals and sensational performances, as the judges and contestants go all out in a bid to be crowned The X Factor Champion 2018.
Source ITV Press Centre
September 1, 2018 6:59am ET by ITV Press Centre


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With Father's Day coming up on Sunday, we asked around for remixes of one of New Zealand's classic radio moments.
To go along with our listener submissions, our man Kings delivered a remix of his own - putting a new spin on 'The Answer is Sunday - What is the Question?'.
Check out the original clip below and listen to Kings' remix above!


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Helpful, Responsive, Patient and Accommodating.
Everyone at Abernethy Center was so helpful, responsive, patient, and accommodating. Their process is seamless and made the planning fun instead of stressful. Instead of running around like crazy the day of the wedding, my family and I were able to relax and enjoy the day since the staff had everything under control.


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Work in Progress
It has been a busy and interesting summer, to say the list. The musical has taken up the majority of my time, and when I'm not acting/singing, I'm so pooped that writing has been difficult. I have free written a few angsty pieces here and there, but otherwise I have been dry of ideas. I … Continue reading
Musicals, Rewrites, Hipsters, Oh My!
As some of you may know, I have been heavily involved in bringing a movie musical to life. It has kind of made thinking about other projects difficult (though I continue to plug along). When I say heavily involved I mean…I'm singing, acting, and rehearsing. Often. And when I'm not doing those things, I'm thinking … Continue reading
Gimme a Gold Star for GLEE!
Hello everyone, I wanted to explain why no new posts have arisen the last month or so – as promised in the last post, I have been trying and trying to create a great audition video for GLEE. It started out badly. I sang a lot in high school and still do, but not with … Continue reading
Glee, or The News That Was Not
Okay, so I'm straying from the theme here in only the slightest sense. Yesterday, I learned that they announced in January that Glee was holding an open casting call for three new roles. Then I realized that even though they said they would be holding auditions in February, there has been no news. Or has … Continue reading


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The other day I visited the Art Chapel in Abergavenny for the first time, after hearing so many good things. I've been to the associated Art Shop in the town many, many times but the owners recently opened up the Art Chapel as more of an events space with a cafe, keen on showcasing local, fresh … Continue reading Visiting the Art Chapel, Abergavenny
Category: Galleries
The other day Max and I went to Blue-Ginger Gallery, near Malvern, Worcestershire, with his mum to prep some work they were both exhibiting. Above: the view from the car park. Below: inside the gallery. There was quite a lot there that I wanted to take home with me, I think knowing that we're moving … Continue reading Visiting Blue Ginger Gallery, Malvern


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So, I'm contemplating adding a pup to our "pack".
Henery is raw-fed. What are your thoughts on feeding a growing puppy raw? I know that the balance of nutrients/minerals etc is crucial while puppy is growing. My other thought was to feed something like Innova Evo or Honest Kitchen until the puppy is full grown...?
Natura states that Evo is not for puppies but I have known people who have raised puppies on Evo. Fall River from the forum here raises puppies on raw. There is an Aussie breeder, Day Break, I do believe that does as well. It is done successfully but I would get some advice from experieince. Caleb was 6 months when I put him on raw.
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I feed my Gus raw. He was born nov.7 the breeder fed raw/ground. i bought 50 lbs. to start off with. I have done a ton of research, and i feel confident about Gus's feeding plan. He now eats prey model whole raw meaty bones and a few table scraps. i do really try to feed "prey model" 80/10/10 and i am a bit of a poop watcher especially when i first started (and i still do about once a day) make sure i look and see how it looks! : I weigh Gus's food, feed 3 times per day and he eats between 2-3% of his expected adult weight (depending on how many training treats he scarfs down!!) Gus is doing great and apart from a few soft stools when i first switched to prey model from the breeder's ground (soft stools i've learned is usually caused from feeding too much at once or too much variety too soon or not enough bone) i would suggest the raw feeding group there is tons of raw feeders there. I think that as they get older it will get even easier as the weighing and feeding 3 or 4 times per day won't be essential. I'd go for it if i was you, you already do it for Henry so its not like your starting from scratch and your pup would wonder why henry gets the GOOD stuff and he gets the - well you know- !! What is the pups expected ETA?
Oops! I hadn't realized that Evo wasn't for pups. :-[ Thanks!
Henry's breeder's litter (Gorsebrook Irish Belle X Corhampton Woodecoy Beretta) is expected early June, with the pups going home late July! ;D
What does the breeder think about one of her puppies beig fed raw? I personally would never do it.
We are getting a puppy hopefully this summer, and it will be raw fed. However, I carefully selected a breeder who weans them on it, and will guide us through the process to make sure that our puppy will get everything necessary to develop well.
Unless your breeder raw feeds and/or you have a precise, trailed and tested feeding regime in place with help from a mentor, personally I wouldn't do it. Complete balance in the diet isn't so crucial for an adult dog (we don't need a degree in nutrition to feed ourselves) but it is VERY important to get it as accurate as possible for a growing puppy especially when concerning calcium.
One of my boys was raw fed but I had decades of raw feeding experience behind the plan I used.
Thanks for replying everyone!
I definitely think I'm a little too nervous (and too new at the whole raw thing in general) to feed raw to a growing pup... but was just curious because Henry is eating raw.
So, probably my best bet is to go with a high-quality puppy kibble until pup is full grown then?
Join the yahoo group called Rawpup http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/R...guid=176113409
Lurk there for a while and see what you think. You've got plenty of time to decide
I would not be too nervous. However, you do need to know more in order to feed a puppy. I am sure there are resources, and maybe a raw feeding breeder might be a good one.


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Albany, NY — 12/27/2017 — Glaucoma is caused due to rise in the intraocular pressure, if persists may lead to permanent eye damage.This increased pressure damages the optic nerve which transmits message to the brain High pressure is built due to the blockage of the trabecular meshwork which results in the accumulation of aqueous humor. Depending on the size of trabecular meshwork blockage, glaucoma can be categorized as open angle and narrow closure glaucoma. In open angle glaucoma trabecular meshwork blockage is wider than narrow angle glaucoma. This disease results in various symptoms such as redness in eye, nausea, vomiting, narrowing in vision and pain. This disease can be diagnosed by measuring eye pressure through tonometry.
Glaucoma cannot be cured with various medications which could prevent the complete vision loss. These medications include eye drops, surgery and oral medications. Currently, the most widely used treatment for glaucoma includes eye drops and oral medications. Eye drops include Travatan Z®, Xalatan®, Lumigan®,Alphagan®P, iopidine®, Trusopt®, Azopt™, Diamox®, Combigan™, Cosopt® and Neptazane®. Lack of improvement in glaucoma patients with eye drops may compel the physicians to opt for second line of treatment which includes, prescribed oral medication which is in the form of carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.
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Population above the age of 40 years is more prone for this disease due to malfunctioning of various eye structures. Rise in geriatric population around globe would augment the growth of this market. In addition, strong reimbursement policies in various nations for the treatment of this disease would also enhance the growth of this market. Recently, the Glaucoma Foundation (GF) of the U.S. granted around USD 40,000 to the researchers to improve the quality life of glaucoma patients. Despite all these advantages, various risks associated with glaucoma treatment would hinder the growth of this market. These risks include fatigue, headache, drowsiness, allergy, reduced pulse rate, shortness of breath, depression, eye redness, itching, burning and blurred vision. In addition, laser surgeries would outwit this market which would also hamper its growth. The laser surgeries would overtake over chemo and eye drop therapy since it would serve wide range of patients with less side effects.
Some of the market players in glaucoma pharmaceutical market include Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc., Allergan Inc., Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Merck & Co. Inc., Santen Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd. and Novartis International AG amongst other significant players.
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At first glance, Areca Roe's photographic series, 'O Pioneer,' seems to depict placid vistas of the American West, not dissimilar to what might be seen on a vacationing friend's Instagram. But on closer examination, Roe's images are actually miniature scenes, with faux fur comprising the textured landscapes.
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The Minnesota-based artist shares with Colossal that she was inspired by photographers who captured persuasive images of the West in the late 1800s, and whose work "helped propel the problematic narrative of Manifest Destiny, but also solidified support for national parks." She continues, "My photographs are clearly a simulation, a farce, with the fake fur as a reference to the lure of potential bounty as well as the resulting devastation." You can see more of Roe's work on her website. She also has created limited edition prints of 'O Pioneer,' which are available in her Etsy shop. (via Colossal Submissions)
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Website: The Psychology of Positive Living: Natural health, psychology and personal empowerment.
I'm a freelance writer, blogger and essayist. I'm interested in the Why and How of people, culture, science and social trends. My intersection of interests brings me to this:
We lean towards our best self when we seek answers that stir questions, when we accept infinite (and extraordinary) possibility, when we sense Other as inextricably part of us.
Meaningful humanity exists only when we remember our invisible web with the universe and each other. Only then do we break our illusion of separateness, only then do we awaken our forgotten self pulsing her primordial heartbeat in time with forever.
~ Laura
I graduated with a B.S. in psychology and minor in marketing from Rollins College and University of Florida. I have a certificate of completion in Stress-related disorders – Institute for Brain Potential. My continuing education includes:
Theory & Practice of Creative Writing
A Writer's Guide to Descriptive Settings
Focus on Writing the Personal Essay
Post college I worked for ten years in marketing and advertising. I'm married with one child and one ridiculously spoiled pug who was born on Christmas day and whose breed originates as a companion to Buddhist monks. That my dog seems to blend Eastern and Western origins without much of a bark suggests humans probably can find overlap too.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person.True nobility comes from being superior to your previous self ~ Hindu Proverb


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Sinuses Pain: How the Nose Affects Sinusitis
The olfactory neural gives us the ability to smell. The nose is a vital part of our own five major senses. Our own body's main passageway in order to breathe is by means of our nose; the nasal is our air highway hooking up the outside world to the lungs. When air enters our nose it is warmed, moistened and cleaned simply by curly hair just like projections known as cilia; these types of hairs produce mucus. This is the last stop before the air actually goes into the lungs. Dirt and allergens turn out to be trapped in the cilia and pushed out of your body through sneezing, coughing or clearing your throat. This ability to do this may help the body fight contamination, maintain a healthier a person and avoid sinusitis nose.
More about Fungal Sinusitis Anyone can Suffer from Fungal Sinusitis, as It is Often Called
Nonetheless, those with weak immune system have a higher chance of contracting this disease especially those with diabetes, Aids, and other chronic diseases. For people that have strong immune system, fungal infections usually are harmless and non-invasive. But it is often invasive and can spread with other neighboring houses for those who find themselves immuno-suppressed.
- The worst case scenario, when the mucous in the sinuses provides actually grow to be hardened as well as impacted, surgery may be your only option.
- Your ear, nose and throat doctor (ENT) will be able to tell you what steps you need to take in order to keep your sinuses inside idea top shape.
Mycetoma or candica ball is a condition where fungal colonies develop and occupy the cavities of the sinuses, more commonly in the maxillary or sphenoid. Signs include stuffiness, nose blockage, and discharge that is one-sided.
Chronic invasive fungal sinusitis will be similar to the previous type, but advances a lot more slowly and does not have the acute and poisonous symptoms. It has every one of the features of persistent sinusitis but does not respond to antibiotic treatment.
For the particular acute sinusitis, treatment plans may strike the average person sometimes and vanishes after a few years. When an individual has chronic sinusitis, he or she will suffer the condition frequently and will take close to a few weeks or months before it goes away. Often, chronic sinusitis is named as chronic rhinosinusitis. Because of the contamination, a person who experiences this condition has thickened paranasal sinuses as well as nose membranes due to continuous inflammation.
Q: What's the procedure Plan? A: The treatment plan for fungal sinusitis will be sadly one that could be really frustrating for the individual and also for a doctor because it is typically long term and takes a great deal of patient compliance in order to be effective. The thing here is fungus are very resistant microorganisms. Just like in the event of fungal diseases of the skin or perhaps claws, the fungi should be totally eliminated. Or else, exposure to an environment which is conducive regarding the development of fungi would very easily result into a re-infection.
The matter of fungal sinusitis, treatment with decongestants and nasal corticosteroids in order to decrease the swelling of the sinuses and nasal passages and decrease the mucus release stays to be an important part of the regimen. Antibacterials, nevertheless, are not usually given to deal with fungal sinusitis, unless of course there is a cross or blend infection. Agents in which work against fungi, known as anti-mycotics or simply anti-fungals tend to be recommended. Anti-fungals are usually quite expensive and therefore have to be taken purely as recommended. As a last resort, especially in cases of wide spread fungal sinusitis, sinus surgical procedure can be performed to fix the particular anatomic damage and to remove the fungal components.
There are Four Types of Fungal Sinusitis:
Sensitive fungal sinusitis is an allergic reaction to fungi within the environment. That generally exhibits by means of signs such as nasal blockage and discharge. Several patients can also produce nasal polyps.
- Acute fulminant fungal sinusitis will be a fast spreading infection wherein the nose cells turn african american as well as necrotic.
- If not treated rapidly, it can be fatal or spread to the eyes and also brains.
- Patients may experience severe headaches, temperature, facial pain, nasal blockage and eliminate.
- Your cosmetic structure offers friends known as the paranasal sinuses; they are responsible for keeping the form of your own face.
- They consist of four parts referred to as the maxillary, ethmoid, frontal and sphenoid sinuses.
- With this structure in place you may not have to worry about your own face becoming deformed and odd designed.
- Onto your nose is divided into two areas known as the actual sinus septum; this has two separate passages for air to flow to your lungs.
- It is made up of cartilage and bone to include stability to your facial structure.
When Looking At Sinusitis, Nose is the Primary Part of the Body that is Being Affected
When you have seen, television advertisements and ads regarding sinusitis have nose as their logo. This is because the sinuses are found at the rear of the particular nose. They're hollowed spaces in the frontal part of the skull and it is where mucous is drained to the nose. When these sinuses are usually painful, that brings about congestion and the mucus is not energy depleted properly. This inflammation is often caused by either viruslike or infection. When the mucus is not drained properly, it accumulates in the sinuses leading to a lot more computer virus or microorganisms being created.
Patients suffering from fungal sinusitis can also make full use of the latest forms of treatment such as nebulized remedy and medicated sprinkler system. Here are a few helpful information concerning this kind of forms of treatment: - Nebulized therapy entails giving medication using a nebulizer. Treatment is topical, with very little chance of medication being absorbed into the blood stream, lowering side effects. Anti-fungal nose medication is typically taken in, travelling deep in to the tooth decay directly on to the site of infection. Compared to oral medications, relief is more quickly with fewer side effects.
The medical doctor can also order regarding diagnostic tests being a nasal or even neck swab regarding culture; and image resolution tests like x-ray or CT-scan to be able to visualize the paranasal sinuses as well as nearby structures. Imaging studies are useful in figuring out the truth of fungal sinusitis as to it's specific kind - whether fungal ball, allergic yeast sinusitis, acute or chronic invasive fugal sinusitis.
Most Cases, Sinusitis Nose Takes Place When a Cold Lasts Longer Than Normal
The a smaller amount mucous movement there is in the nasal cavity the much more likely contamination can emerge. When mucus sits stagnant in the hole this can create different infections like microbe, viral or fungal attacks. The purpose of the sinuses and the nasal cavity are the just about the same except for the size of the openings in the nasal cavities, called ostia, which can be smaller (ostia). Mucus moves from the nasal cavity towards the sinus cavity, but occasionally the mucous becomes put in these small spaces causing an infection. It is the discomfort and swelling of the sinuses that leads to sinusitis nose. This can hinder the normal process of the sinuses pushing all that gunk out of the passageway to be able to allow for the free circulation of your breathing.
Diagnosing and also Treating Candica Sinusitis Several types of sinusitis generally show itself through the same symptoms - headaches, facial soreness, nasal blockage and discharge. But if the facial pain is so severe in fact it is associated with dark-colored discharge, fungal sinusitis is often the diagnosis. A CT scan is advised to appropriately identify the situation.
Fungal Sinusitis Q&A Q: Is Fungal Sinusitis Common? A: The actual fungus that cause fungal sinusitis include the most common types of fungi we know, such as the frequent bread molds. Furthermore, these fungal factors are found almost anywhere - in the dirt as well as in...
Sinus Characteristics, a leading pharmaceutical company, have their complete line of medicines for bacterial and fungal sinusitis as well as allergic rhinitis. They also produce very successful nebulizers and medicated irrigators to aid quick and easy remedy.
- Your chronic sinusitis unresponsive to antibiotics and other drugs?
- If it is, you might want to go for second opinion as you may be suffering from fungal contamination of the sinuses.
- Fungal infection is brought about by plant-like creatures called fungi, which usually thrive in warm and humid climates.
- This particular makes the dark and damp cavities of the sinuses a great breeding ground for these kinds of organisms.
Sinusitis and Nose Contamination is Oftentimes Thought to be One
Individuals an infection in an individual's sinuses, the nose is the main part of the body that is impacted. One of the most common symptoms of experiencing sinusitis is clogged nose. In addition ,, the sufferer may also feel symptoms such as disturbing headaches, drowsiness or dizziness, stuffed headedness, cool, a fever, and cough. The voice of the victim can be affected. Sinusitis will be classified into two categories; the severe and also the chronic.
Q: Will be Fungal Sinusitis Common? A: The particular fungus that cause fungal sinusitis consist of the most common types of fungi we know, such as the frequent bread molds. Moreover, these fungal elements are found almost anywhere - in the soil and also in the air we breathe. Quite remarkably though, there are more diagnosed cases of microbe, compared to fungal sinusitis, especially when contemplating the particular severe instances (acute means the onset of manifestations is sudden or abrupt). The reason for this is that many people with a healthy immune system can tolerate fungi.
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Minimal Exposure to Harmful Fungi Would Normally Not Bring about an Inflammatory Response
Only certain people, due to their underlying medical conditions are at greater risk for fungal sinusitis. This kind of group includes anyone who has hypersensitivity (allergic) reaction to the causative mold; people that have prolonged contact with a host contaminated with fungi; lastly, those patients which have a weakened immune system such as those who have diabetes, cancer or Helps.
Steam Does Wonders When Sinusitis Will be Involved
Sitting in a hot shower and letting the steam enter your sinuses can make you feel so much better. It helps loosen sinus and upper body overcrowding. In the event that the shower was not eradicating sufficient you can try using nose sprays; just be careful and also make use of what is directed because an excessive amount of can make your symptoms worsen.
The lining of the nose cavity is made up of a mucous membrane; this kind of acts as a last stop fighter towards particles stepping into the lungs and producing infection. In all parts of the mucous membrane you can find small blood vessels that enable the particular mucous to warm; this in turn makes it easier for the hairs to confine contaminates before our airways are jeopardized.
- Order to relieve sinusitis and nose infection, there are lots of cures that one can choose from.
- For those who have themselves be looked into by their doctors, standard medications in many cases are being prescribed.
- But, if you want safer and also less costly remedies, then choose natural remedies.
- These remedies are generally composed of herbal remedies which have been been shown to be very effective in treating sinusitis and nose attacks.
You are still fighting a chilly after 5 to 7 days, chances are that it is more than a cold and needs to be treated. Sinusitis is an unpleasant problem as well as varies coming from adults to be able to children. Adult symptoms are often the same as the common cold: exhaustion, nighttime coughing, headache, eye strain, temperature, a sore throat. Children's signs and symptoms tend to be a little more drastic than the adults symptoms. These people suffer with heavier symptoms, typically is connected with by high fevers, changing colds, respiratory problems and darkened mucous coloured drainage. They could come on more powerful but they also lessen prior to adults' signs.
- For the particular non-invasive type of fungal sinusitis, surgical removal of the fungal ball or polyps is often recommended.
- Corticosteroids are beneficial towards hypersensitive fungal sinusitis.
- When it comes to invasive type, anti-fungal drug treatments are necessary along with surgical removal of dead cells.
- It is also necessary to deal with the immune deficiency.
Medicated Irrigation is Another Option to Take Into Account
This treatment requires sprinkler system of the nasal passages with saline as well as medicated answer. It moisturizes the nasal cavities and also washes out unwanted allergens trapped inside the sinuses like bacteria and molds.
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To learn more about this important subject please visit our site to learn more about sinusitis and also the nasal. Also be sure to sign up for our own free Sinus Mini-Course on various aspects of sinus conditions.
Q: How do you know It really is Fungal Sinusitis? A: The manifestations of candica sinusitis are in fact, much like microbial sinusitis. Nonetheless, a visit to the trusted health practitioner can help work-out a differential diagnosis. Your doctor will probably ask you some questions in order to come up with a track record. Past exposure to fungal elements; repetitive rounds together with sinusitis; and unresponsiveness to be able to antibiotic treatment provide essential cues that it could be a case of yeast sinusitis.
Dealing With Sinusitis and Nose Infection is Not that Easy
There are lots of things necessary to be considered. For one, avoidance of the possible causes of sinusitis like polluting of the environment and allergens ought to be noticed. Creating a regular exercise and observance of proper diet can be necessary. Both strengthen a person's immune system thus virus as well as bad bacteria cannot easily permeate the body. Quitting bad habits for example cigarette smoking can be another essential thing to be done.
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You've been through the Academy. You've worked hard to develop your skills, while serving your current agency. Maybe you've obtained your Intermediate or Advanced DPSST certificates along the way. Now, you're looking for a work-life balance that allows you to enjoy your time off, while being active in your community with family and friends. We want to talk to you!
The Patrol teams work four 11.25 hour days, followed by four days off. Quarterly, each team participates in a six hour training day, where valuable refresher topics such as defensive tactics, EVOC, CPR/First Aid, and recent legal updates are covered. This schedule, combined with a set training day every quarter, makes finding a balance between work and home time easier.
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"It was just one big street party and as far as I am concerned, Bersih 4 was a failure," a friend told me a month after the biggest-ever peaceful demonstration in Malaysian history. He went on to question what had Bersih 4 achieved? Nothing has changed.
Such views are not isolated and I have heard it from more than a few friends who are as sick and tired as me of the political mess we are in and the endless tales of corruption and intimidations.
I hear you and am really interested to hear suggestions as to how we can institute real change but I want to hear really doable, impactful and within what is provided by our Constitution stuff. I am not into any arm struggles, suicide bombings or bullet in the head stuff though for a laugh I may entertain it.
But don't give me a "unless you are willing to die (literally) for democracy" lecture when you are not willing to stand up openly against the almost daily tyranny and injustices all around us. It is always easier to get others to do the dying for us, isn't it?
Other suggestions I have heard before include occupation of Parliament until there is a change, a long march to Putrajaya ala Gandhi's Salt March, a self-immolation ala Tunisia's spark to the Arab Spring, appeal to the Rulers to intervene and yes, a super mega rally of one million or more people on the streets of Kuala Lumpur.
Yes, all the above would be sensational headline-grabbing stuff but we all know that in all probability they won't bring about any change when the incumbent has control over all the key institutions of security.
So what is left? Is there no hope? There must be a way whereby in a democracy, even one as flawed as ours, for citizens to express their frustrations and effect change. Yes, and it is through the BALLOT BOX. It is totally impactful, instant and legitimate. That's right, the perspex, transparent ballot box. There is no magic bullet, no shortcuts. Sorry to disappoint you.
The question is how do we get people to cast their votes to effect a change and to make sure that their votes count.
If the 47 percent who voted Barisan Nasional at the last General Election only knew half of what the other 52 percent knew about the systemic corruption, wastage, abuse of power and gross mismanagement of our national wealth, there is no way they would want to keep things as they are.
The challenge is how to get the facts to them. We all know that the bulk of these 47 percent are in the semi-urban and rural constituencies and that they are mostly Bumiputras whose language is primarily Bahasa Malaysia, both in Peninsula and East Malaysia.
We must find a way to circumvent these barriers especially in East Malaysia where roads are almost non-existent, communication poor and education is low, we have to do it the good old fashion way – face-to-face.
Apart from voters education in the rural and semi-urban constituencies on their rights and the truth about what's happening to our country, there are three other important activities to ensure that the ballot box truly reflects the will of the majority of the voters in a constituency.
The first is new voters registration. If you really want to serve your community, organise regular new voters registration exercises together with your local EC office. Since the EC has disallowed political parties to register new voters due to alleged abuses, this need to register new voters has become even more urgent.
The second is to make objections to the upcoming redelineation exercise by EC for those of you living in Sabah and Peninsula Malaysia. Sarawak just had its redelineation exercise early this year. Electoral boundaries are drawn unfairly through gerrymandering and malapportionment to favour the ruling coalition. Though it is an uphill challenge to object to EC's proposal, we have to do it because it is our right and BN should not have a walkover in this process.
Lastly, to really make our votes count is to guard our votes on Polling Day. Volunteer yourself as a polling agent, counting agent, booth agent and poll observer. We have heard of mysterious electrical blackouts during the counting of votes, appearances of phantom voters, extra ballot boxes, vote-buying and bribed counting agents. You can make a huge difference to make sure that our votes are not stolen.
Again, I am sorry to disappoint you. Instead of hoping for a quick and dramatic solution or waiting for a saviour to deliver us from a non-performing Government, we have to go down to the ground, talk to people, convince them one at a time and monitor the whole election process.
No pain, no gain; no sacrifices, no rewards. Let the battle for GE14 begin.


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Cultivate are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new click and collect service. You'll now be able to pre-order your local, ethical and delicious produce to collect at our stops by using our new shopfront on the Open Food Network. You'll get first dibs on all our produce, avoid queuing at our stops and be able to plan your weekly shop in advance.
The new service has been made possible by the Open Food Network (OFN), a web infrastructure where a special importance is given to collaborative governance and non-profit principles. The project was born in 2012 in Australia with the objective to provide a food distribution infrastructure based on common goods principles. The idea was to decentralise food systems and to give power back to those who produce and buy on distribution channels. In order to respect the principle of transparency and to provide a decentralised and fair organisation, the Open Food platform is an open source. Each user is able to create his own project freely, to innovate and invent new solutions.
OFN manages to reduce food waste, food miles and CO2 emissions, to enable better prices for farmers, to support communities, to increase organic production, to boost local economies and, of course, to obtain flexible and transparent pricing.
It is for all these reasons we decided to utilise OFN and take the learnings we made from the development of our own online shop to create a click and collect service, rather than re-launching a comprehensive shop. Thanks to the hard work of OFN intern Raphaëlle we are now ready to launch to this new service to our customers and offer the convenience of ordering online and collecting at any of our VegVan/market stops. We hope this enables people to shop with us more regularly, whilst also making our product range more visible.
OFN has also allowed us to develop our partnership with the L.O.V.E project more comprehensively. Through their paper distribution network we are also offering the villages surrounding Oxford the opportunity to have Local, Ethical and Delicious produce delivered to their doors. Working with Bill we are establishing a profit share business model so that we can offer people great value organic produce on their doorstep. Full list of our delivery areas below.
As one of the first food hubs in Oxford to use the system we hope that we can be a pioneer and encourage other local food organisations to join us on the platform which is already operating successfully in other towns in the UK.
The Cultivate Click & Collect service is open for orders every Monday – Wednesday for collection at our stops in Oxford Thursday-Sunday.
Visit the shop here.
Home Delivery Service is currently only available in: Wootton (Abingdon) / Henwood / Dry Sandford / Cothill / Boars Hill / Hinksey Hill / Whitecross / Sunningwell / Bayworth / Frilford / Besselsleigh / Forest Hill / Stanton St John / Beckley / Woodeaton / Noke / Islip / Oddington / Charlton / Merton / Fencer / Mercott / Horton Cum Studley


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Novation Launch Control XL now controls you DAW
Novation have just released a firmware update for the popular Launch Control XL so that it can control additional DAWs such as Cubase, Logic and Pro Tools. Now that the perfect, affordable mixing controller will suit many more producers we are sure to see them in many more studios worldwide.
What Novation have to say…
The Launch Control XL is no longer just the ultimate Ableton controller.
Novation are proud to announce that with support for Mackie's HUI protocol built in, Launch Control XL now works with Cubase, Logic and Pro Tools, mapping its sliders, rotaries and buttons to their mixers' volume faders, pan pots, mute and solo buttons, and more.
So what's new?
It's a new firmware release (Downloadable from the Novation website) that includes the below features:
Use the LCXL to control any DAW that supports HUI
Faders will automatically map to the mixer
The pots above the faders control pan and sends (selectable)
The top two rows of pots remain independent for MIDI learn
The buttons below the faders will control track select
The bottom row of buttons will control mutes, solos or record arm your tracks
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