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By Leith van Onselen
Just when you though Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's negative gearing scare mongering could not get worse, we get this via the Herald-Sun:he [Turnbull] said."Labor's policy on negative gearing, let's be quite clear, what that will do is in practical terms, remove about one third of the demand for established residential properties,''
"It will reduce the number of properties that are available for rent, it will reduce the value of properties and it will inevitably lead to an increase in rents.''
Are we seriously expected to believe that channeling negative gearing into newly constructed dwellings would magically "lead to an increase in rents"?
Sure, there would be less "investment" (read transfer of ownership) in existing dwellings, but those homes would not magically disappear from the supply-demand equation. Rather, those homes would be purchased by an owner-occupier, thus reducing demand for rental properties by the same proportion as the fall in rental supply.
Moreover, by channeling negative gearing towards new builds, dwelling construction will increase, as will the supply of rental accommodation. And this extra supply would obviously lower rents. It's not rocket science.
On superannuation, negative gearing and capital gains, Labor has been prepared to give honest answers to the hard questions:
•Are these subsidies working as intended?
•Are they helping the right people?
•And can Australian taxpayers afford them?
Our fully-funded plan to tighten unsustainably generous superannuation loopholes, which disproportionately benefit very high income earners already comfortable in retirement, will return $14 billion to the Budget bottom line – and it has been public since last April.
This year, we took on a structural flaw in our tax system that governments and oppositions have been too scared to confront for thirty years.
Labor's plan for housing affordability will reduce the upward pressure on housing prices, and this is a good thing.
We have become a society that cannot house its own children.
But we cannot be a society that refuses to help our children.
That's why we have we have to break the dismal cycle – and break it now.
Nothing will help first-home buyers more than levelling the playing field against property investors and speculators who currently have their interest costs subsidised by the taxpayer.
Our measures will:
– lift investment in new housing
– help increase supply
– and help boost jobs in construction.
Over the last five years, every State and Territory Government – Liberal and Labor – have abolished First Homeowner Grants for buyers of established dwellings and redirected them for buyers of new dwellings.
Likewise, Australia's foreign investment regime encourages buyers into new housing for the same reason – to boost supply and create jobs.
All of this is designed to reduce upward pressure on prices of established dwellings and increase supply.
And none of this has had the dire consequences foreshadowed by the Liberals' fact-free scare campaign.
Where was Mr Morrison and Mr Turnbull when his own party was redirecting resources from established dwellings into new housing?
Where were their warnings about a stock market collapse and the collapse of the value of all houses?
They were silent, because they knew then, as they actually know now, that Labor's campaign will not have the consequences that Mr Turnbull says, it's actually good for the economy.
Our plan will also deliver Budget repair that is fair, returning $32.1 billion to the bottom line over the next ten years – and $7.3 billion a year by the end of this decade.
Our reforms are prospective, not retrospective.
No-one who has invested under the current arrangements will lose any deductibility, no-one will be left high and dry.
But currently, 93 cents in every dollar of investment goes to the purchase of existing housing stock.
This doesn't create jobs, boost supply or help with housing affordability.
These subsidies are not working as intended.
And let's be clear – neither negative gearing, nor the CGT discount are equity measures.
They are certainly not tax benefits for battlers.
Someone in top tax bracket is two-and-a half times more likely to be a negatively geared landlord than someone who is not in the top tax bracket.
The wealthiest 20 per cent of Australian households own 72 per cent of investment property – and 51 per cent of investment property debt.
The current system also enables aggressive tax minimisation for a fortunate few.
Last year, 64,000 Australians used negatively geared property to reduce their taxable income to zero.
It's just plain wrong.
This year, negative gearing and the CGT discount will cost the Budget over $10 billion.
More than this government spends on higher education, or childcare.
It is not right that an investor looking to acquire their seventh or their tenth house receives more taxpayer assistance than an Australian seeking to buy their first home.
Our policy is about balance, fairness and giving working and middle class people to fulfil the great Australian dream of home ownership.
Thousands of empty homes adding to Sydney's housing crisis, experts say
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The sins of negative gearing
Sydney's housing affordability crisis is being artificially inflated by up to 90,000 properties standing empty in some of the city's most desirable suburbs, experts say.
Vacant properties were among the "perverse outcomes" of tax incentives that encouraged some investors to favour capital growth over rental returns, according to the analysis by the UNSW's City Futures Research Centre.
The mismatch between housing supply and need could be artificially inflating Sydney's housing shortage, experts say.
The mismatch between housing supply and need could be artificially inflating Sydney's housing shortage, experts say. Photo: Supplied
"Leaving housing empty is both profitable and subsidised by government," researchers Bill Randolph and Laurence Troy said. "This is taxation lunacy and a national scandal."
According to 2011 census, in Sydney's "emptiest" neighbourhood of the CBD, Haymarket and The Rocks, one in seven dwellings was vacant.
Close behind were Manly-Fairlight, Potts Point-Woolloomooloo, Darlinghurst and Neutral Bay - Kirribilli, which all had vacancy levels above 13 per cent. These neighbourhoods, together with central Sydney, account for nearly 7200 empty homes.
The analysis of the 90,000 unoccupied dwellings across metropolitan Sydney compared the number of empty homes in a suburb against the rate of return investors made by renting out a property.
It found that properties in neighbourhoods with lower rental yields and higher expected capital gains were more likely to be unoccupied.[My emphasis]
Gordon-Killara on the north shore had the highest share of vacant apartments, with more than one in six unoccupied on Census night.
By contrast, only one in 42 dwellings (2.4 per cent) in Green Valley-Cecil Hills, in Sydney's west, was unoccupied.
The results suggested property investors in some of Sydney's most sought-after areas were focusing on growing the value of their properties, with losses offset by tax incentives such as negative gearing.
This could leave investors indifferent to whether the dwellings were occupied, Dr Troy and Professor Randolph said.
HBS Guy wrote:Mike Seccombe in the Saturday paper launches a powerful attack on negative gearing using data from Anglicare's 2015 rental affordability snapshot.
RightLeftRight wrote:Can you rent a negative geared property to a son or daughter?
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Jay Weidner has been at the leading edge of getting the word out about the epidemic of psychopaths in our modern world. Psychopaths tend to be extremely smart and excel in the areas of business and enterprises with large organizations, such as large corporations, the military, the arena of politics, large medical establishments, and organized religion. They are masters at blending into situations, have little to no empathy (aside for themselves), and DO NOT think like "normal" people with a conscience. This makes them potentially very dangerous and difficult to identify.
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My pleasure! =) Hope all is going well with you.
Im still wondering what my tactic should be. I agree with being knowledgable but yet I don't want to waste time on something I do not believe in. It is difficult to decide how to manage.
why are you studying religion?
Welcome aboard! =) Hope you're doing great today...
Welcome, Stephanie. It is very interesting that so often when people study religion they become atheists. This sort of happened to me.
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Upwire: Standardizing on GCP to deliver business messages quickly and reliably
About Upwire
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sydney, Upwire provides communication workflows to business customers worldwide. The business has a presence in Australia, Europe, and the United States.
Using Google Cloud Platform solutions has allowed Upwire to meet client demands for fast, reliable messaging while fostering innovation internally and at client businesses.
- Reduces time to develop a proof of concept from weeks to days
- Cuts proof-of-concept development costs from more than $100K to less than $100
- Delivers near 100% availability and helps enable business to meet message delivery SLAs
- Empowers people without coding skills to create innovative message delivery solutions
Processes millions of voice, SMS, and email messages per month
Headquartered in Sydney, Upwire provides business messaging workflows to customers worldwide from offices in Australia, Europe, and the United States. The business provides drag-and-drop interfaces that enable businesses to create interactive voice response (IVR) systems, two-factor authentication, SMS chatbots for customer service, two-way SMS campaigns, SMS and IVR credit card payment services, and voice biometric authentication. Upwire describes its workflows as being built for people with no IT skills at all, they can just drag and click each step of the way.
Upwire is the culmination of a journey that started in 2002. Ben Brophy, Co-founder, Upwire, says he and fellow Co-founder, Shane Berkinshaw, began developing the concept that became Upwire when working for an established communications business.
"At that time, industry participants relied on traditional infrastructures to run their businesses," Brophy explains. "Business messaging providers had to close deals with customers that required considerable investment in infrastructure. The costs involved were such that providers faced an uphill task adding more infrastructure for redundancy, and this increased the risk to services if a problem occurred."
Providers also faced the problem of not being able to plan for peaks and troughs in customer usage yet having to operate an infrastructure that enabled one customer to send 10 million messages without impacting another customer's services.
The emergence of public cloud services prompted Brophy and Berkinshaw in 2008 to create a business that ran infrastructure and associated products in the cloud. "We were able to do a lot of heavy lifting for large corporations that needed assistance with activities such as database cleansing," Brophy says. "Companies could connect and deliver messages to our products and infrastructure via application programming interfaces (APIs)."
However, the founders wanted to unleash the creativity and innovation they believed was limited to people with coding skills. "In 2013, after the release of HTML5 allowed us to effectively create drag-and-drop environments, we mapped out a solution we thought would enable anyone in the world to be truly innovative," says Brophy. "It would allow people without coding skills to create high-quality communications systems, and more than that, it would allow true democratization of technology."
Rapid Expansion
Brophy and Berkinshaw then created Upwire, a business that is expanding quickly. "We have a new capital raising planned, we have offices in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia, and we have clients all over the world."
Starting the new business in an environment of increasingly mature cloud services prompted the founders to move from a multi-cloud architecture to a single cloud platform. Having established close relationships with product managers and developers of products such as App Engine, Brophy and Berkinshaw understood enough about Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to realize the platform was the best fit for Upwire.
"We were going to take on large enterprise and corporate customers and we needed to be comfortable with a service provider's capabilities in encryption, redundancy, and backups," says Brophy. "We also needed to be sure Google's product portfolio and investments aligned with our need to continually innovate."
Growing on Google Cloud Platform
The fact Google hosts customers on the same infrastructure on which it runs its own business also prompted the founders to consolidate onto Google Cloud Platform. Upwire initially used App Engine to run applications in an infrastructure-abstracted environment before expanding to products such as Compute Engine for infrastructure as a service; Cloud Storage for unified object storage; Cloud Datastore to run a NoSQL database, and Cloud SQL to run its relational databases.
Machine learning-powered Dialogflow Enterprise Edition powers interfaces with Upwire modules that in turn integrate with third parties to run customer service chatbots. In addition, Upwire has integrated Cloud Speech-to-Text and Cloud Text-to-Speech and made them configurable objects on its platform to enhance its offering to customers. Google Translate powers the translation of Upwire-powered services into a wide range of languages.
For example, a person may book a table at a restaurant via a Google Assistant using Dialogflow Enterprise Edition. She then receives a booking confirmation via SMS. The recipient may reply to the SMS and talk to the same booking bot as they did via Google Assistant. The person may also place a voice call to the number to adjust or make a new booking. The same process can be initiated using SMS or voice.
"Upwire running on Google Cloud Platform helps businesses relieve pressure on scarce coding resources and allows people who understand business logic to innovate."—Ben Brophy, Co-founder, Upwire
Proofs of concept at minimal cost
Running on Google Cloud Platform enables Upwire to complete proofs of concept at minimal cost in just a few days. "Customers were used to proofs of concept (PoC) that took weeks and cost $100,000, including the cost of setting up servers," explains Brophy. "With Google Cloud Platform, we can complete some PoCs in days for under $100; needless to say, customers have been very surprised. In addition, Upwire running on Google Cloud Platform helps businesses relieve pressure on scarce coding resources and allows people who understand business logic to innovate."
As part of Upwire's everyday operations, the pay-as-you-go-model that GCP offers has enabled the company to align infrastructure costs with growth. This has allowed the business to cost-effectively expand into new markets without the burden of considerable capital expenditure on infrastructure. At the same time, Upwire can dedicate the savings to building a better product for customers.
To date, Upwire has gained the confidence of near 100% availability with global reach by running its product on Google Cloud Platform in multiple regions worldwide. "Even if something went wrong at an infrastructure level, we and our customers have the considerable engineering resources of Google Cloud Platform working to fix it within minutes," says Brophy.
"With support from Google Cloud Platform, Upwire easily handles all the messaging and business logic associated with the various threads and interactions this service generates."—Ben Brophy, Co-founder, Upwire
Handling huge volumes of messages
Perhaps most important to Upwire is how Google Cloud Platform can reliably deliver large volumes of business messages quickly. "We deliver millions of messages ranging from password resets to trade confirmations in the United States, and they are all time critical," says Brophy. "We have to meet a range of service level agreements." For example, the company might have to deliver time-stamped emails within a set number of seconds and show that they have been delivered to a domain or a telecommunications provider.
Brophy points out that Upwire's business is considerably more complex than simply moving messages back and forth. "Our product handles the movement of rich content such as micro-web forms that capture data," he explains. For instance, a system might help manage registrations by sending an automated SMS to people who have not sent in all the required documentation. The SMS includes a link that people can click to access a traditional content microform that can be used to capture a driver's license or other missing information. It is then encrypted and sent back to the customer.
"With support from Google Cloud Platform, Upwire easily handles all the messaging and business logic associated with the various threads and interactions this service generates," Brophy says. Overall, Google Cloud Platform has to support millions of voice minutes, SMS messages, and emails every month.
"With Google, we have the opportunity to reduce costs and be less intrusive to the end customer. In addition, we see the ability with artificial intelligence to tailor every communication to the individual and his or her sentiment at a particular time of day."—-Ben Brophy, Co-founder, Upwire
Next up: Analytics
With Upwire well established on Google Cloud Platform, Brophy and Berkinshaw are now exploring opportunities to use BigQuery to analyze data so businesses can undertake more intelligent communications. "With Google, we have the opportunity to reduce costs and be less intrusive to the end customer," Brophy explains. "In addition, we see the ability with artificial intelligence to tailor every communication to the individual and his or her sentiment at a particular time of day."
About Upwire
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Sydney, Upwire provides communication workflows to business customers worldwide. The business has a presence in Australia, Europe, and the United States.


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Monday, August 27, 2012
Lies Grandma Told
I was recently looking at some photos of my brother, sister and I as kids, with Grandma Lill's cockatiel, Charlie, sitting on our shoulders. All of us had our heads cranked straight ahead, but were looking at him out of the corners of our eyes. I realized that all of our pictures with Charlie were like that - because Grandma always told us if we looked right at him from close range, he'd peck our eyes out. I don't know if that's true, or if she thought it was true, or if she didn't want to take a chance on it being true, but I'm still scared to look a bird in the eye at close range 40+ years later.
Are you happy, Grandma??
I started thinking about some of the things she told us as kids - "If you swear, rocks and dirt will come out of your mouth, but if you talk nicely, flowers and sweet things will come out of your mouth instead." I wondered briefly what rocks and dirt would taste like, but then decided that a flower in my mouth probably would not taste much better, so I went into the bathroom, locked the door, and crawled up to the mirror above the sink, and very cautiously said the first bad word I could come up with. Shortly thereafter, I started to wonder if Grandma was full of... well... baloney.
Being a woman small in stature, and having charge of the three of us all day while my mother worked and Grandpa was out at the farm, she needed an Equalizer - and I think she found one in her little white lies. For a long time after the "Rocks and Dirt" story, we talked nicely. When I discovered that her attic was filled with wonderful old things to play with (without permission) she told me the floor was bad in spots, and if I stepped in just the wrong spot, I'd fall in between the walls and even Grandpa would not be able to get me out. I never went up in the attic again without her.
She told me about her classmate at school, who squeezed a pimple on Friday and was dead of blood poisoning by Monday.
She told me the man across the street was a policeman, and if I left the yard without permission, he'd see it, and he *could* arrest me if he had a mind to. Not saying he would, but you never know. He doesn't like it when kids leave the yard without permission.
But she was right regarding a lot of things in life, and despite the occasional bamboozling, she taught me a lot. "Don't always trust whoever you're doing business with, they may not have your best interest at heart." "Never quit your job until you have another one lined up."
When someone is talking trash about you, "consider the source."
Don't brag up your boyfriend to your girlfriends.
And, "If you have leftovers, you know everyone at your table got enough to eat," followed quickly by "Grind up your leftovers and put them in the meatloaf."
Love ya lots, Grandma, and miss you every day.
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I was just thinking this morning of some of the things my mom used to say and what I would say these days. They were expert at telling us things to keep some kind of control over our behavior, huh? Fun post, Karen.ReplyDelete
My grandma always told me that every stitch we sewed on Sunday would have to be taken out with our nose when we died and I've heard others say their grandma told them the same thing. It doesn't seem like we hear as many of those kinds of sayings anymore. It does make me smile when I remember some of those things my grandma said. Loved the post and thanks for helping us to remember.ReplyDelete
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Legislation creeps in that erodes religious liberty
The dust has barely settled on the 2012 election, yet the jockeying for political contests in 2014 and 2016 has already begun.
It seems we have become so enamored with the election process itself that we tend to forget the critical nature of the work our elected officials must now do. It is important. It is demanding. And it is appreciated by interested citizens who trust our elected officials will act for the collective good of all Americans.
In collaboration, there is understanding. And in that understanding, there is strength that creates innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges we face in Colorado and throughout our great country. This collaboration preserves freedom and the rights of all individuals.
I was a press intern for a U.S. Congressman in Washington D.C., years ago, and I learned very quickly that these men and women are essentially very good people. They are not perfect, but they are good, and they try to do the correct things in representing all of their constituents. While they may disagree with each other's political beliefs and behavior, they are supportive of the Constitution, the branches of government and the Office of President.
Perhaps there was a spirit of cooperation then; perhaps less influence from special interests then; and, certainly less political machinery and campaign dollars then. But today's elected officials are still good people. We all must collaborate a little better and see what collectively we can accomplish.
During the adoption of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the debate continued as to what should be done to preserve the rights of each individual. The framers of this document remembered how the British violated these rights, which lead to the Revolution. A "Bill of Rights" should be created, they said, to spell out and preserve our most important freedoms and fundamental rights. In fact, in the formal ratification of the Constitution, several state conventions asked for these amendments; some even ratified the document with the understanding that they would be adopted.
In September 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments that preserved these rights. While the first two, concerning the number of constituents each representative would represent, and the compensation of Congressional representatives, were not ratified, Amendments 3-12, now known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures. The first of these amendments deals with the most precious of these rights.
Amendment 1 – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, of the press; or the right of the people to peacefully assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


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But 1D is a New Age boy band. Its members don't dance or play instruments (really). Instead, they are part-charming, part-edgy and have impressive voices. The fivesome, who were formed on the U.K.'s version of "The X Factor" in 2010, provided some memorable moments at a sold-out MetLife Stadium show in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Monday night, showing they have chemistry.
But most of the night, they were clumsy.
1D kicked off the concert with heavy fireworks, matched with screaming, screeching, yelling and crying from more than 80,000 passionate fans — and their parents — who filled the venue for the "Where We Are" tour. They started with the title track from their third platinum-selling album, "Midnight Memories," offering their most rock 'n' roll moment of the night as Niall Horan played guitar and Liam Payne sported a New York Giants jersey.
But during that song, and other upbeat ones, you couldn't hear the voices of the band members — including Harry Styles, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson — over the loud instruments and heavy bass. During "Rock Me," though, the boys worked the center of the stage nicely, each placed in a corner and singing directly to fans. However, most of the time, they were sloppy and out of place.
There was no real choreography onstage. While one sang, another did a silly dance, looked awkwardly into the camera that was taping the show or playfully shoved the other. Even when Horan spoke seriously to the crowd about how the band was humbled to perform at stadiums — they all mentioned the Super Bowl nearly a dozen times because it was held at MetLife Stadium earlier this year — Payne uttered mindless words on his microphone. And at one point, Styles ate a banana onstage.
The band doesn't seem to take itself seriously — which can be a good thing — but that makes it hard to take its musicianship seriously.
1D shined when band members sang slower songs such as "Don't Forget Where You Belong," the recent hit "You & I" and "Moments," where Malik's voice was striking. The simpler performances were tighter and gave each member a position onstage, showcasing the group's brotherhood and talents.
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My first showI will NEVER forget attending this show..My big brother, who had been a U2 fan for years was kind enough to give up his tix so i could go and experience the most spriritual, exciting performance I have ever seen. i was 13 years old and almost jumped out of my skin, seeing the Joshua Tree songs live...Mtv was so exciting back then, I looked forward to every world exclusive video...seeing the U2 documentary...The meadowlands was alive and kicking and will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart...Singing Bullet, Streets, WOWY and of course the long standing 40 all the way out into the parking lot, into the car, out to the turnpike...I am now 36 and have seen every tour since JT...I hope i have kids in the near future, because Iwould love to have them experience the feeling..And one last note, since my big bro gave up his ticket that nite, Every tour since, I have bought him a ticket for a show..I can never thank him enough for letting me have an evening that has truely changed my life...And on my 30th bday, i got The Joshua Tree logo tattoo'd on my lower back...Keep it up Guys..I LOVE YOU ALL!!


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Best tent I've ever had. Not too heavy, easy to set up, roomy. Well engineered inside.
I live in Hilo, Hawaii, where it rains a ton. The first night, camping in heavy rain I was nervous about having to spend the next day drying out everything. NOT ONE LEAK! This was HEAVY rain, and after ten minutes of checking out every stitch and corner from the inside with my flashlight, I just sat back and enjoyed the sound of the rain pounding on my AWESOME new tent!
Have been in a few more storms since and still watertight! I love this tent more than any other I've ever had, by far!
Design: two pole, plus mini pole,
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: very easy
Weight: 5 lbs
Price Paid: $215
Used it three weekends (one this winter 2006 in the White Mountains). Easy to set up, wind resistant (in very windy conditions). Not suitable for winter, because there's too much ventilation.
I wonder why they used two different kinds of door zipping system. Condensation is fair for a single wall.
Design: three-season freestanding dome, single wall
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: sleeves, very easy
Weight: 6 pounds
I bought this tent about 4 years ago and have used it under varied conditions: wind, snow, sleet, rain and like it a lot recognizing its limitations. It is well ventilated so when it gets to about freezing it gets a bit chilly.
I camped at Vedawoo in a snowstorm with temps around 20 and it was not a pleasure. It tends to freeze up pretty good even with the ventilation if it is cold. Use should probably be 30 or above. It has stayed dry during hard rain, is easy to set up and really a good tent.
I have the footprint and think it is essential. It has served me well in high winds, which surprised me. It is pretty roomy with ample room for my dog, me and my gear.
Price Paid: I don't remember, I got it from MH
I just got back from a 10-day trip in the Ozark Mtns, and it got very cold at night. My Jet froze very heavy and leaked a lot. Do I need to treat my tent with something?
Sleeps: 2
Price Paid: $150
This has to be the best design for a single wall tent ever! I have been looking for one for a while, but haven't had a good feeling about any in my price range until this baby came out. Two doors, one side fully mesh (vestibule side) the other has a roll back panel for over the V-shaped mesh door, about 3-4" full perimeter mesh along the bottom, roomy vestibule with (useless) window, plenty of pockets inside, awesome head room and incredible floor space for a two-man. I'm 6'3" and sleep/sit comfortably.
I bought this tent in early spring, used it about 15 times in all kinds of weather from 40 degrees to about 87, in the rain, foggy nights, hot and humid and sunny days, mostly in NY/NJ. Condensation wasn't that much of a problem (for a single wall). It did get hot inside when trying to get away from the bugs and take a nap inside during the sunny days.
Set up isn't that bad at all, and keep in mind it's not 100% freestanding, you need to stake out the rear door side (2 pegs), the vestibule (of course) and panels along the perimeter. I wish they used clips instead of sleeves, but it's still all good. But I still get it up quickly in the rain with minimal/no wetness inside.
The window seems to never be clear unfortunately, so trying to see out is a bit foggy, but serves well during lightning storms.
The rear door is a two-zipper design, one would be better. Not closing it correctly/fully caused me to wake up with a few centipedes and such in the tent.
With its odd shape, I'd say the fitted footprint is essential.
Overall, I love this tent. Have been through quite a few other types in the past few years with most being sold, traded or returned, but this one is a definite keeper and the one I always bring out with me these days. It's usually for just myself and my 65-pound dog, with the occasional second person, and there's still plenty of room for me, dog, another person and gear inside or out. Also has been the tent that 3-4 people hang in (comfortably sitting) until the rain stops and they can set up their tent and fly.
I would have liked to use it some more before writing a review, but there aren't any out there on this tent and I wanted to give people a better working idea of it.
I highly recommend this tent to anyone who has considered a single wall but has been skeptical, and/or for people who like being out in the rain.
Design: Semi freestanding, single wall, 3 season odd shaped dome.
Sleeps: 2
Weight: A bit under 6 pounds.
Price Paid: $187


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1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon sugar
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mint leaves
thinly sliced cucumber*
thinly sliced lemon slices*
any other Pimm's Cup favorite: orange, lime, strawberries
In a small pot, bring the lemon juice, sugar and 1/2 cup of water to a boil. Meanwhile sprinkle the gelatin into the bottom of a medium sized bowl. Pour the boiling mixture on top. Allow to cool slightly, when pour the gin, Pimm's, and the 1/4 cup water or club soda. Stir gently. Pour into wide mouth glasses. Allow to cool about 1/2 hr then refrigerate about 2 hours or set but still "loose" . Stick 1 lemon slice and 1-2 cucumber slices in each cup, suspending them in the mixture. Top with mint leaves. Return to the refrigerator and refrigerate an additional 2 hours or until set. Serve with a spoon.
*You want to use the smallest lemon and skinniest cucumber (try an English cucumber) you can find.
Yield: about 16 oz
My thoughts:Since trying Pimm's Cup a couple of weeks ago, I've become a devotee. Part of the appeal is visual-the pretty colored liquid with the lemon, cucumber and mint floating within. I wanted to capture this look and the unique flavor of Pimm's in different medium. What better way than suspended in gelatin? Sort of like a more adult, elegant Jell-O shot, these are perfect for a light dessert.
Why is this recipe called Pimm's Cup Jelly when it is not jelly or even jelly candy? "Jelly" is a common British term for what Americans generically call "Jell-O" or gelatin. Since this is a reinterpretation of the quintessentially British Pimm's Cup, it seemed fitting to use their term.


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whatsticksmedia necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 154 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Lifesta is a new innovative variation on the "daily deal" or "group buying" concept. Group buying sites provide a great, affordable way to discover what a city has to offer by selling heavily discounted deals (often 50% and up) for products and services in the area. These sites receive significant discounts by aggregating large groups of people and guaranteeing a certain volume of customers to the businesses offering the products and services. Some examples for group buying sites are: Groupon.com, LivingSocial.com, BuyWithMe.com, ScoopSt.com etc.
Deals sold on such sites are typically lifestyle oriented: Food & drinks in restaurants and bars, spa (massage, manicure / pedicure, waxing), classes (cooking, golf, tennis), fun activities (ice skating, boat tours, cigar and wine tasting) etc.
- The typical consumer is 18-35 years old, about 70% women
- This is a young, hip consumer looking for an affordable way to experience and discover new things to see and do (for themselves and/or their families).
- They usually live in or near a large city
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- Should include the name "Lifesta" (possibly all lowercase if aesthetically better)
- Should be rectangular, not square so as not to take up too much vertical space at the site header
- May contain multiple colors but translate well into a 2-color logo for printing on merchandise (e.g. shirts, bags).
- Color palette is open, though we do want a warm, welcoming site so select colors accordingly
- Should appeal to both men and women
- We're totally open to ideas! One idea we had was showing the feet of a person relaxing somewhere (though not on the beach so it doesn't feel like a vacation site). You can experiment with this concept or create your own, we're happy to see anything as long as it communicates what the site stands for.
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End of the Year Commentary
L. A. Marzulli
My wife and I were riding in our car yesterday and she was on Facebook. She was on Russ Dizdar's page and he was asking people to encapsulate 2011 with one word. I immediately replied, Disaster. 2011 was a year of unprecedented world-wide disasters. Here is a link to a BLOG that lists some of the more pertinent ones.
World, Disasters, 2011 Timeline
On the Discovery Channel a few nights ago and they did a special on the Disasters and it could have come right out our DVD Watchers: Signs in the Heavens and Earth, except that they never brought to bear the prophecies that warns us of a time, such as this, that we are living in. The aftermath of the Fukishima earthquake and tsunami are still affecting the planet as the area is far worse than Chernobyl – the site in the former Soviet Republic whose reactor melted down – and it has essentially become a no-mans land. There are seals in Alaska that are now being tested for radiation poisoning. There is also a floating debris field, the size of California, that is in the Pacific ocean and headed toward our west coast…. I wonder whose going to clean that mess up?
My good friend and co-producer, Richard Shaw and I, discuss these weather anomalies in Watchers 2: Signs in the Heavens and Earth – and I believe we were on the cutting edge and one of the first to point out the correlation between Biblical prophecy and the record-breaking weather events that we saw this year. A few days ago there was a 9.5 earthquake in Siberia. Oh, don't worry folks it's only business as usual! As I have stated numerous times on this BLOG, I believe that we are in the birth pains that will eventually give birth to The Time Of Jacob's Trouble. To set the record straight one more time, it's called Jacob's Trouble, not Bob, Fred, or Earnie's. Everything hinges around Israel and the Jewish people. If you don't by that, and I know there are many that don't, good luck in trying to figure out what's going on.
This leads me to the Arab Spring, which in my opinion was one of the most unprecedented events in modern history. Millions of people revolted in the Arab world and the nations of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, got rid of their dictators. As I also pointed out in the early days of the revolution, there would be no democracy in those countries and we would see the rise of the Moslem Brotherhood. This is exactly what has happened. In the end Sharia law will rule the day and all eyes will be on Israel. Remember when 2 million people gathered in Egypt's Tahrir square and chanted – To Jerusalem we go, Martyrs in the Millions? 2 MILLION IN EGYPT CHANT "WE GO TO JERUSALEM, MARTYRS IN THE MILLIONS" – YouTube
You also may remember that I Blogged about the Iranian's closing The Straights of Hormuz and now 6 months or so later the Iranians are practicing war games to do just that. I was right about the Arab Spring culminating in Sharia law, and it would appear that the Iranians will attempt to close Hormuz if attacked. In my opinion we are seeing the last moves of what I call the Cosmic Chess Match. It is being played out right in front of our eyes. Of course we are distracted at every turn and Biblical prophecy is usurped by the 2012, Mayan Calendar, red herring, but for those of us who have eyes to see, it's all coming down in the Middle East, around Israel, just like Yashua/Jesus told us it would in the last days.
In closing today's last post of 2011: We do a lot here behind the scenes. We receive emails, telephone calls, and letters from people who are being abducted, who are caught up in cults, who are having objects move in their homes, who are seeing black helicopters over their houses at two in the morning, who have implants, who are at the end of their rope and all they can do is cry. It's just me and my wife Peggy. There is no staff or offices, no secretary, no intern, just the two of us and when these calls and letters come in I take the time to minister to each one. I have conducted deliverance's over the phone and I have counseled with people every week. I also decided not to go non-profit and thus we do not have a 501c3 status. It's the end of 2011 and some of you have been prosperous while others are just getting by. There's only a few days left and if you feel led, please make a donation to this ministry as it would be very helpful. (There's a donation button on the right side of this page) Peg and I are headed to the Antelope Valley Prophecy Conference and then we're taking three days off. I will be back on Wednesday and will also appear on Coast to Coast that night, discussing the recent findings on the Shroud of Turin. I'd like to thank Rose and the prayer team for covering this ministry in prayer as the Fallen One continues his ongoing mission to rob, kill and destroy. This is hardball and it's only going to get more intense in 2012. I will post another MP3 called Sound Paintings, on Saturday, when I return from the conference. It's another 45 minute music extravaganza that tookme over a year to write and record. Another gift for your ears. Unless WWIII breaks out I will se you all on Wednesday. Blessings! Peace – out!


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Right now I'm replacing a few selections in the DLZ to conform more truly to the real Delitzsch, but doing so in a text file is hard because you can't really reconize the words. It would be simple to do so in an RTF file, but then I need to get the RTF file into BibleWorks identifiable format for import.


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As well as Wei-Yin Chen pitched through his first seven innings in a 4-3 loss to the Royals on Wednesday night, one of the main storylines of the night ended up being how the Orioles couldn't score more runs off Kansas City starter Ervin Santana.
Santana has historically had a penchant for giving up homers, which you would think would play into the Orioles' hands since they lead the majors with 137 homers.
But Santana, who allowed a majors-worst 39 homers last season for the Angels, has cut down on allowing the long ball. Yes, he's allowed 17 in 19 starts this year, but you take away back-to-back starts against Los Angeles and St. Louis – when he yielded a combined seven homers – and he's only allowed 10 in other 18 starts.
Also, Santana's strikeout-to-walk ratio is his best since 2008 and he had a 2.89 ERA at home this season.
So maybe that's why Orioles manager Buck Showalter chose to play small ball early. Maybe that's why Manny Machado, who has 133 hits on the season, dropped a sacrifice bunt after Nate McLouth led off the game with a double.
With two on and no outs in the eighth, Machado dropped another bunt to move the runners over. The Orioles only scored one run that inning, taking a 3-1 lead. That seemed to be enough at the time, especially given the way Chen was pitching and that the 'pen wouldn't need to log many innings. But it wasn't.
It was a far cry from the go-for-the-jugular offense the Orioles showed off in Texas, where they circled the bases on the Rangers and took advantage of their mistakes.
Sure, the Orioles scored two unearned runs on Matt Wieters' two-run homer in the second, which came with two outs after Adam Jones reached on an Eric Hosmer fielding error. But the Orioles also had runners on first and second with no outs in the second, partially because of a Chris Getz fielding error, but didn't score that inning because of one of the three double plays on the night.
"We just got to swing the bats better," Showalter said. "We are not a club that's completely dependent on the home run. We can do some things. There's two sides to it, you got to do some things to get people out there and you then you got to get them in. So, we have pretty consistently this year; just the last couple games we haven't done it."
Chen allowed two home runs to Hosmer, which truly proved to be the difference. He hadn't allowed two homers in his first 10 starts this season.
He was forced to work behind in the count both times. And on Hosmer's game-tying home run in the eighth inning, Chen threw a 2-1 pitch that was right in Hosmer's hot zone. According to his hot zone chart on ESPN.com, Hosmer hits .353 on balls at the knees and on the inner third of the plate.
"I think the location was OK," Chen said of the pitch through interpreter Tim Lin. "But I think I can do better. Obviously tonight, he swung the bat really well. He's a really good hitter."
Still, Chen earned the right to face Hosmer there. Darren O'Day was already warming up and said after the game that he was coming in to face the next hitter, Billy Butler, regardless.
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"He was really good," Showalter said of Chen. "I think their gun is a little high here but he still threw the ball well. He was the difference tonight. We didn't score much and to still have a lead at some point, that's [an] attribute to Santana and to Chen. They pitched well. We just didn't score enough runs."


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I hope that we find out the mother at the end of season 8 and then season 9 could be "How I Married Your Mother"(the initials even stay the same)
I am totally love with the show.Don't worry gamer, you are not the only one. I think Season 9 is one of the Season I enjoy a lot. Almost love every single episodes Will end the journey next month
It ends tomorrow.*prepares to cry*
Quote from: gamerfan09 on March 30, 2014, 11:11:00 PMIt ends tomorrow.*prepares to cry*I was tearing up just watching those videos that Alenaveda posted.
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Game wardens target deer smugglers
The smuggling operation across the Texas border proved lucrative, netting over $2 million for hauling the undocumented 41 who went by such aliases as "Hit Man" and "Spike."
But the illegal cargo wasn't immigrants from Mexico. It was white-tailed deer, secretly brought into Texas from northern states to breed with native deer in an effort to produce trophy bucks with chandelier-sized antlers.
The imports are illegal as the state tries to protect Texas deer against diseases that could decimate native herds.
When the smuggler - a prominent East Texas deer breeder named Billy
Powell - was sentenced three weeks ago to six months home confinement and fined $1.5 million, it sent shock waves through a growing Texas industry.
Some people might find deer-breeding a strange niche, since the state's deer are so plentiful they can be nuisances, munching on gardens and straying onto roadways.
But Texas game warden Capt. Greg Williford said breeders cater to high-dollar hunters who want that "trophy showpiece for their mantle."
'Monster antlers'
Deer breeding can also be profitable in a state where hunting is practically a birthright, with a $2 billion annual economic impact.
It's legal, as long as it involves registered, captive deer from within the state. Capturing wild deer, or importing new stock from out of state, is not. Importing semen is allowed.
"There's a strong market for deer with those monster antlers. Hunters will pay thousands of dollars to bag one," said Michael Merida, U.S. Fish and Wildlife special agent in Fort Worth. "That's why a frozen semen straw from a big-name buck can be worth $2,000, and a breeder can extract 70 or 80 straws at a time."
The actual animals can sell for "insane amounts," much like purebred race horses, he said, noting that one buck recently sold for $450,000.
A Texas A&M University study found deer breeding pumped $650 million into the U.S. economy four years ago and was the fastest-growing industry in rural America. In Texas, permits have been issued to 1,233 breeders, who have 103,000 deer registered.
Fears of disease
Amber Andel, Texas Parks and Wildlife breeder specialist, said the field has grown by about 20 percent a year but could be slowed by the drought.
The laws are aimed at stopping the spread of "chronic wasting disease," which has infected deer in at least 12 states and is similar to mad cow disease. It can't be transmitted to humans. No state has eradicated the disease once it's established.
Violations can also be prosecuted under the federal Lacey Act, which carries harsher penalties.
"Antler fever is what we call it," said Roy Douglas Malonson, owner of the RS Deer Ranch, covering 221 acres of rolling green country in Waller County. "Some get caught up in it. They want the best of the best and get obsessed."
Mounted deer with massive antlers - including one he bred, "Cajun Bakerman" - hang from walls at Malonson's hunting lodge, which opened this month.
He said he bought "some genetics," or semen, from Powell.
"Powell is one of the nicest guys you'd ever meet," said Malonson, who said he was stunned by Powell's recent conviction. "I can't imagine him doing something like that."
But investigators say Powell smuggled deer into his breeding operation near Jacksonville in Cherokee County.
He pleaded guilty to obtaining 41 deer from Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio over a three-year period and was ordered to pay $1.5 million in fines and restitution and spend six months in home confinement, enforced by an electronic ankle monitor.
$12,000 to shoot buck
A year earlier, a Houstonian who owns several oil-related fabrication facilities, Robert Eichenour, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being accused of bringing 14 deer from Minnesota to his 3,200-acre exotic Circle E gaming ranch in Grimes County. He was also fined $50,000.
Eichenour paid about $1,500 each for the smuggled deer, then charged hunters $12,000 or more for bagging a large, white- tailed buck, authorities said.
His attorney, Trent Gaither, of Houston, said authorities are "going overboard" with the penalties, noting the offense would be a misdemeanor under state law.
State authorities, meanwhile, say they have 20 active investigations into breeding operations, including three spawned by the Powell case.
"We're not letting up," Merida said. "We hope the convictions will start being a deterrent to others."


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Housebroken: Yes
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Fences: No attempts to jump 4ft
Energy Level: Low
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Dempsey was found as a stray skinny and flea ridden. He is an absolute cuddle bug and his favorite thing to do is sit on your lap in the recliner. Despite being found thin he shows zero food aggression towards people even with high reward items. He is untested with food and other dogs. He walks gently on leash with me and my infant and stroller. He has low drives and has shown no desire to chase squirrels or other small animals. He is not interested in plush toys but loves those involving food rewards. He is vaccinated and we will schedule a neuter. He is very social at home but initially reserved in new situations. He is located in Northern Indiana.
His adoption requires a home check an pet introduction. Contact me for furthur details.
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High-end shoes are no longer just the obsession of women who are slaves to fashion. Even though they're expensive, high-end shoes that look like pieces of art are making inroads into mainstream fashion.
Shoes are having a 21st century moment as they've pushed from mere accessory to the centre of the fashion stage.
Sexuality, social status, fashion IQ: The reasons for our shoe obsession are many, but one thing's for sure: more, and more avant-garde, designers are taking on the feet.
"There has been a big emphasis on high designer shoes in the past 10 to 12 years, so more women are certainly willing to spend more money on high-end shoes, but there's also been a real focus on shoes as art pieces," said Colleen Hill, assistant curator of accessories at New York's The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
The museum went directly to the source — a Who's Who of shoe designers and some high-profile collectors — for "Shoe Obsession," an exhibition that runs through April 13 at the museum.
Outlandish beer heiress Daphne Guinness lent some of her favourites. So did jewellery designer Lynn Ban, who owns roughly 800 pairs and says, "I've worn them all, at least once."
The exhibition shows off 153 specimens, mostly from this century, including Ban's silver-platform Chanels with handguns for heels (They came with a warning against packing them in carry-on luggage when flying). From the eerie, bone-white Exoskeleton made of resin and produced through 3-D digital printing by Janina Alleyne to the disco-ballish silver sparklers without a heel by Giuseppe Zanotti (also Ban's); nary a style is left unrepresented by FIT.
Hill and Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the museum, have co-written a book, "Shoe Obsession," to accompany the exhibit. During a recent walk-through, the two spoke of designer shoes as the new millennium's "It" bag, which has not gone unnoticed by major department stores.
The flagship Macy's in Manhattan expanded floor space for shoes by 10 percent, boasting 250,000 pairs. Saks Fifth Avenue enlarged shoe departments in about a dozen stores around the country, with the Manhattan store's department 40 percent larger, spanning the entire eighth floor and hosting the first Louis Vuitton shoe shop within a department store.
Shoes by established designers and design houses — Manolo Blahnik, Salvatore Ferragamo, Roger Vivier, Chanel, Prada, Christian Louboutin — remain popular, but quirky stars have arisen as quickly as heels have gone so high that four inches is the new "low," the two curators said.
The new design generation? Modernists Kei Kagami, with art pieces that take on an almost orthopaedic terror, and Noritaka Tatehana, working in stamped leather, spikes and tall toe platforms absent a heel, stand out in a strong contingent from Japan.
Brazilian shoe designer Alexandre Birman lent the exhibit three pairs done in painted reptile skin.
"Shoes have a psychological, sociocultural and seductive significance to our culture, from the Hollywood celebrity to the everyday woman, which goes beyond a materialistic obsession," he said in an email.
The centuries have spawned many beautiful shoes, but the masses joining in a more recent phenomenon known as the "Sex and the City" effect continues to ripple in fashion.
Shoes are so popular, in fact, that Hill cited recent data noting the average American woman owns nearly twice as many shoes as she did a decade ago — about 17 pairs.
"What we're seeing in a way is a kind of democratization of the kind of phenomenon that we saw in 'Sex and the City,'" Steele said. "At first it was just sort of some people who were really obsessed with high-end designer shoes. This has now spread."
Shoes, she said, have moved from accessories to fashion's main story "to being the main story, in part because designer clothes have gotten so expensive. So even if you're spending $900, $1,000 on a pair of shoes, something insane, that's less than you'd be spending by far than if you were getting a dress or something, and people seem to feel that it's more worth it."
Height, Steele said, "has reached this great moment," when compared to a decade ago. "We've gone about as high as most people can walk in shoes, unless you're Lady Gaga. That's about six inches, but some people can do higher."
Ban is one of them.
"I can go maybe 10 inches, but that's, like, standing at a cocktail party not moving. Anything for fashion," she laughed.
While a high toe platform to match rear height remains popular, with Ban and millions of other fashionistas, "we're starting to see a new trend toward what people are calling sexy shoes, by which they mean single-sole shoes instead of a platform, so I think that implies that the heel will get a little bit less vertiginous, and instead the emphasis will be on interesting materials and decoration, and different shoe shapes," Steele said.
There's no way to categorize popularity in shoes today. There's a range of heights, shapes and embellishments — feathers, crystals, beads, spikes, human hair made to look like the tails of ponies, moulded and painted resins, painted python. All are included in the exhibition.
Linda Wells, editor in chief of Allure magazine, said in a New York Fashion Week interview that shoe trends are like fashion trends in general — you can find whatever you want: pointy toes, stiletto heels, high platforms, fancy flats, more masculine shapes.
"Everyone likes buying shoes. You don't have to take your clothes off or be a model size to wear them," Wells said.
Overall, Steele said, "high heels have really become the prime symbol of erotic femininity. However high it is, but the concept of the high heel, that's really important. It's such a powerful trope for women and for men."
Shoes, Steele said, are "fierce," but also feminine, high and often striving for that "Cinderella factor" that can transform the wearer. It's all "quite delightful," she smiled. "It just makes you want to run out and go shoe shopping."


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Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at the impact of bus funding cuts and what can be done to improve services
The Campaign for Better Transport has a blunt message about the national state of our bus services. The charity has entitled its report 'Buses in Crisis'.
Recent Government figures show the number of local bus journeys are at a 12-year low. According to the data, 1.2 billion journeys were made in Britain between April and June this year. That's a 10 per cent dip from the peak of 2008.
The statistics follow on the back of the publication of The Campaign for Better Transport's report about bus funding across England and Wales from 2010 to 2018.
It made Freedom of Information requests to all 110 local transport authorities across England and Wales to get a full picture of recent bus cuts.
In short, it found local authority bus budgets in England and Wales were cut by £20.5 million in just the last year - the eighth year in a row budgets have been cut.
Stephen Joseph, its former chief executive, wrote in the foreword: "The lack of affordable public transport affects wider Government policies. It stops people getting access to training and jobs. It makes access to healthy food in shops more difficult. It makes it more difficult for people to get to health services, especially more specialist services in hospitals. So cuts in bus services add to poverty and social exclusion, and to isolation and loneliness."
Among, the report's key findings for England was a net reduction in funding of £20.2 million to supported bus services in England in 2017-18. Since 2010-11 there has been a net reduction of £172 million in this sector.
The study also painted a picture of vastly reduced bus services. In 2017-18 290 bus services have been reduced, altered or withdrawn. Factor in figures since 2010 and that figure rises to 3,088.
In Wales there was a net reduction in funding of £211,819 to supported bus services in 2017-18, down one per cent from the previous year. But since 2010 the net reduction stands at £10 million. Statistics also revealed 82 per cent of Welsh authorities reduced or spent nothing on supported bus services during 2017-18.
The report is dotted with quotes from concerned commuters up and down the land telling how the cuts are impacting on them.
A guide dog owner from Lancashire tells of reduced independence, while a man in Northamptonshire feels cut off by reduced bus services. While others felt they needed a car to get to the doctors or do their weekly shop.
Cuts have come from three different directions: the Bus Service Operators Grant was cut by 20 per cent in 2012-13 and has not been increased since; local authorities have their funding cut generally; and its claimed the free travel scheme for pensioners and the disabled is under funded.
The report laments: "It is not just sparsely populated rural areas who are affected. Across the country, smaller towns now find themselves in the firing line, caught in a spiral of lost bus services and other damaging trends such as struggling high streets."
But it isn't all doom and gloom. Some authorities have protected their services and in a few cases, like Lancashire, authorities have actually increased funding again.
So what can be done to improve things for commuters across England and Wales?
The Campaign for Better Transport makes a host of recommendations to improve the plight of passengers.
It wants to see a national strategy for bus and coaches with long term funding and targets to reverse the decline in bus use and to increase use of them. Other advice is bringing together and co-ordinating funding.
In Wales the campaigning charity wants to see the new Wales and Borders railway franchise being used to integrate buses and trains more effectively. It would like to see stations developed as transport hubs, plus integrated timetabling and joint ticketing.
In October the charity responded to media reports about Department for Transport figures showing the number of local bus journeys are at a 12-year low.
Darren Shirley, the chief executive of Campaign for Better Transport, said: "The falling number of passengers taking the bus is a consequence of continued cuts in funding to supported services. Nationally and locally this is resulting in fewer services and higher fares. The statistics back up what our research has been showing for years: that buses are in crisis.
"They are vital for the economy and the environment but year on year people, especially in rural areas, are losing their bus service making it difficult to access jobs, education and other essential public services."
However, the Government feels local councils are best placed to decide how to provide supported bus services. It has devolved £43m of the Bus Services Operators Grant directly to local authorities to support non-commercial services. It also points to the Bus Services Act 2017, which introduces new bus franchising powers for local authorities as well as providing other tools to improve bus services.
A Government spokesman said: "We recognise that buses are vital in connecting people, homes and businesses, and that's why we have given local councils extra powers to work in partnership with bus companies to improve the services passengers expect. This is on top of the public funding provided to bus operators and councils to fund services.
"While local authorities are best placed to decide how to provide supported bus services, we provide around £250 million every year to support bus services and a further £1 billion to support older and disabled people using the free bus pass scheme, benefitting people up and down the country."


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Rachel & Daniel date night
If Sarah had a Robsten, it would be Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig. During the Golden Globes live-blog, I could feel her, all the way in Chicago, wanting to turn the entire conversation into a mega gush about her favourite couple.
They are indeed hot.
And she makes him so.
Here they are in New York last night, hand in hand, at the premiere of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Scarlett Johansson). What a face, non? Fascinating combination here. La Jolie et Le Jolie Laide. And then when he gets into a funk she tells him to f-cking lighten up.
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A Transaction forms a unit of work. The Transaction manages what happens within that unit of work, and when an error occurs the Transaction can roll back any changes performed. There are the following types of transaction.
Pessimistic transactions arent supported in JPA but are provided as a vendor extension. They are suitable for short lived operations where no user interaction is taking place and so it is possible to block access to datastore entities for the duration of the transaction. You would select pessimistic transactions by adding the persistence property datanucleus.Optimistic as false .
By default DataNucleus does not currently lock the objects fetched in a pessimistic transaction, but you can configure this behaviour for RDBMS datastores by setting the persistence property datanucleus.rdbms.useUpdateLock to true . This will result in all "SELECT ... FROM ..." statements being changed to be "SELECT ... FROM ... FOR UPDATE". This will be applied only where the underlying RDBMS supports the "FOR UPDATE" syntax.
With a pessimistic transaction DataNucleus will grab a datastore connection at the first operation, and maintain it for the duration of the transaction. A single connection is used for the transaction (with the exception of any Identity Generation operations which need datastore access, so these can use their own connection).
In terms of the process of a pessimistic (datastore) transaction, we demonstrate this below.
So here whenever an operation is performed, DataNucleus pushes it straight to the datastore. Consequently any queries will always reflect the current state of all objects in use. However this mode of operation has no version checking of objects and so if they were updated by external processes in the meantime then they will overwrite those changes.
It should be noted that DataNucleus provides two persistence properties that allow an amount of control over when flushing happens with datastore transactions.
Optimistic transactions are the only official option in JPA. They are suitable for longer lived operations maybe where user interaction is taking place and where it would be undesirable to block access to datastore entities for the duration of the transaction. The assumption is that data altered in this transaction will not be updated by other transactions during the duration of this transaction, so the changes are not propagated to the datastore until commit()/flush(). The data is checked just before commit to ensure the integrity in this respect. The most convenient way of checking data for updates is to maintain a column on each table that handles optimistic transaction data. The user will decide this when generating their MetaData.
Rather than placing version/timestamp columns on all user datastore tables, JPA1 allows the user to notate particular classes as requiring optimistic treatment. This is performed by specifying in MetaData or annotations the details of the field/column to use for storing the version - see versioning for JPA. With JPA1 you must have a field in your class ready to store the version.
In JPA1 you can read the version by inspecting the field marked as storing the version value.
In terms of the process of an optimistic transaction, we demonstrate this below.
Here no changes make it to the datastore until the user either commits the transaction, or they invoke flush(). The impact of this is that when performing a query, by default, the results may not contain the modified objects unless they are flushed to the datastore before invoking the query. Depending on whether you need the modified objects to be reflected in the results of the query governs what you do about that. If you invoke flush() just before running the query the query results will include the changes. The obvious benefit of optimistic transaction is that all changes are made in a block and version checking of objects is performed before application of changes, hence this mode copes better with external processes updating the objects.
Please note that for some datastores (e.g RDBMS) the version check followed by update/delete is performed in a single statement.
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DataNucleus allows the ability to operate without transactions. With JPA this is the default behaviour. DataNucleus supports these allowing the ability to read objects and make updates outside of transactions. Persist and Delete non-transactional updates are committed to the datastore at the end of the operation, so are in the datastore when control returns to your application. Any other non-transactional updates are committed to the datastore by the subsequent transaction , with the updates being queued until that point.


text: Josh Macciello came out of nowhere with a renegade bid to buy the Dodgers, his fortune supposedly based on owning gold mines, producing movies, importing rare earth minerals, and partnering with a mysterious Korean billionaire. Then, he made the single biggest mistake any fraud who doesn't want his story scrutinized can make: he pitched a profile to an alt weekly. [LA Weekly]


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New Milford Bulls to host 2013 kick off party National champs
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The New Milford Bulls' Pop Warner football and cheerleading program will hold a 2013 kick-off party soon. The event is set March 2 from 2 to 6 p.m. at The Maxx along Railroad Street.
Registration discounts and incentives for the 2013 season will be offered at the event.
"Our focus is to build both strong bodies and minds through the team-building skills of youth sports," reads the program's flyer. "We do not discriminate and every child plays regardless of ability, ages 5-15."
The party will feature food, music, games and prizes. Players from the Danbury Militia football team will be there to meet the youths.
For more information, visit www.newmilfordbulls.com.


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Maybe there was a reason Seahawks defensive end Raheem Brock felt he was within his rights pull a dine and dash on a $27 tab at a Philly restaurant, his conviction for which we told you about last week. It seems Brock is used to getting preferential treatment from police in Philly and in other places. Philadelphia magazine inquired into Brock's DUI arrest in Seattle late last year, only to find the paperwork had gone missing. And after getting tangled in red tape, the magazine finally got its hands on the documents.
The police report says a car Brock was driving was fishtailing at a speed of 90 mph at 2:35 a.m. After he was pulled over, a breathalyzer showed his blood-alcohol level to be .115 and .111. But that's not the best part. From Philly mag:
According to the report, after being read his rights, Brock asked the police, "You guys don't take care of your athletes out here?" The police asked Brock to explain what he meant. His response? "Every time I have been stopped out east, Chicago, New Jersey and Philadelphia," replied Brock, "the cops either followed me home or gave me a ride."
The incident happened on Nov. 13, 2010, and the statute of limitations for DUI in Washington is two years. No decision has been made on whether charges will be filed against Brock. Which means the state of Washington still has another year to let the clock run out to prove that it, too, takes care of its athletes.
Raheem Brock Pulled an Allen Iverson on Police [Philadelphia Magazine]
UPDATE: Brock has been charged in connection with that DUI arrest.


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RE 362 Program Design in Leisure Services 3 cr.
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Study of the principles, practices and organization of leisure programs including program classification systems, activity selection, program formats, needs assessments, program operation strategies and evaluation of programs.


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Alabama Counties: Clay County
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Clay County was created by the Alabama Legislature on 1866 Dec. 7. It is named for U.S. Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky. The county is located in the east-central part of the state, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. It encompasses 605 square miles. The Talladega National Forest is located in the western part of the county. The county seat is located at Ashland. Other communities include Lineville and Mellow Valley.
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Bill Gates this week and last sold another 20 million shares of the company he co-founded, taking $752 million out of his shrinking Microsoft portfolio.
In four transactions between Feb. 12 and Feb. 18, Gates reduced his Microsoft holdings to just under 338 million shares.
Gates remained the largest single holder of Microsoft stock, but only by the slimmest of margins. Former CEO Steve Ballmer, who stepped aside earlier this month, currently owns 332 million shares. The share difference between the two long-time friends and business colleagues was only 4.7 million after Gates' selling spree.
Over the last decade, Gates has sold an average of 80 million shares annually, or 20 million each quarter, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), part of a plan to divest holdings in the company he and Paul Allen founded in 1975. Gates has pledged to give away the bulk of his wealth, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a tool for that task.
Between Oct. 28 and Nov. 1. 2013, Gates sold 20 million shares worth $711 million, for example.
Gates' remaining shares were worth approximately $12.8 billion near the end of trading Friday.
With the 20 million shares sold this month -- likely the limit for the quarter -- Gates remained on track to hand over the crown to Ballmer in the next quarter, which ends June 30. Gates will have exhausted his holdings by September 2018 unless he stops or slows his selling, which he shows no sign of doing.
His dwindling portfolio was not the only change this month to Gates' position within Microsoft. On Feb. 4, the day Microsoft announced that Satya Nadella was its new CEO, Gates stepped down from the chairmanship of the board to become a hands-on advisor to Nadella on technology and product selection decisions.
Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst of Moor Insights & Strategies, described Gates' new role as consigliere to Nadella. "He'll be Nadella's advice guy," Moorhead said in an interview two weeks ago.
That change in titles, from Chairman to the longer Founder and Technology Advisor, was historic, Moorhead argued. "This is a milestone, an indication of not only a changing of the guard in Microsoft, but also a change in the technology business between the past and the future," Moorhead said.
So it will be when Gates runs out of his Microsoft shares.
Bill Gates unloaded another 20 million shares of Microsoft in the last 10 days, putting another $752 million in his pocket and reducing his lead over Steve Ballmer to under 5 million shares. (Data: Microsoft SEC filings.)
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