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This is the latest Lewis chronology:
The file that appears below lists all works of C. S. Lewis in chronological order (now 488 in number, one more than the previous version because of the addition of the brief "Undergraduate Criticism" from 1960) in the location where they were first published or delivered (if spoken) as far as I am able to determine. Corrections are welcome. This version, slightly revised and added on March 18, 2017, includes works listed in the bibliography of Adam Barkman's C. S. Lewis & Philosophy as a Way of Life. It also includes the recently discovered (by Christopher Marsh) "A Christmas Sermon for Pagans."
This file describes what is happening in Oxford, Cambridge, the UK, and Europe at the time that Lewis writes his various poems, essays, and books, dividing the life and writings of Lewis by academic topic, i.e. English, Philosophy, History, etc.


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The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth - and death - is taking place. This image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble images were taken in the light of neutral hydrogen during March and July 2005. Color information was added with data taken in December 2001 and March 2003 at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission.
(An interactive version of this document is available in the "Related Links" section of this release.)
When Galileo used his homemade telescope 400 years ago to view mountains on the Moon, satellites circling Jupiter, and myriad stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, he launched a revolution that changed our view of an Earth-centered universe.
The launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope aboard the space shuttle Discovery 15 years ago initiated another revolution in astronomy. For the first time, a large telescope that sees in visible light began orbiting above Earth's distorting atmosphere, which blurs starlight and makes images appear fuzzy. Astronomers anticipated great discoveries from Hubble. The telescope has delivered as promised and continues serving up new discoveries.
Astronomers and astrophysicists using Hubble data have published more than 4,000 scientific papers, on topics from the solar system to the very distant universe. The following list highlights some of Hubble's greatest achievements.
Shining a Light on Dark Matter
Astronomers used Hubble to make the first three-dimensional map of dark matter, which is considered the construction scaffolding of the universe.
Dark matter's invisible gravity allows normal matter in the form of gas and dust to collect and build up into stars and galaxies. The Hubble telescope played a starring role in helping to shed light on dark matter, which is much more abundant than normal matter.
Although astronomers cannot see dark matter, they can detect it in galaxy clusters by observing how its gravity bends the light of more distant background galaxies, a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. Astronomers constructed the map by using Hubble to measure the shapes of half a million faraway galaxies.
The new map provides the best evidence to date that normal matter, largely in the form of galaxies, accumulates along the densest concentrations of dark matter. The map, which stretches halfway back to the beginning of the universe, reveals a loose network of filaments that grew over time and intersect in massive structures at the locations of galaxy clusters.
Astronomers also used gravitational lensing in a previous study to make the first direct detection for the existence of dark matter. Hubble teamed up with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, and the Magellan optical telescopes to make the discovery. Astronomers found that dark matter and normal matter were pulled apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies, called the Bullet Cluster.
A Speedy Universe
By witnessing bursts of light from faraway exploding stars, Hubble helped astronomers discover dark energy. This mysterious, invisible energy exerts a repulsive force that pervades our universe.
Several years later, Hubble provided evidence that dark energy has been engaged in a tug of war with gravity for billions of years. Dark energy, which works in opposition to gravity, shoves galaxies away from each other at ever-increasing speeds, making the universe expand at an ever-faster pace.
But dark energy wasn't always in the driver's seat. By studying distant supernovae, Hubble traced dark energy all the way back to 9 billion years ago, when the universe was less than half its present size. During that epoch, dark energy was struggling with gravity for control of the cosmos, obstructing the gravitational pull of the universe's matter even before it began to win the cosmic tug of war. Dark energy finally won the struggle with gravity about 5 billion years ago.
By knowing more about how dark energy behaves over time, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of what it is. Astronomers still understand almost nothing about dark energy, even though it appears to comprise about 70 percent of the universe's energy.
Galaxies from the Ground Up
Hubble provided solid evidence that galaxies grew over time to become the giant galaxies we see today.
The telescope snapped images of galaxies in the faraway universe in a series of unique observations: the Hubble Deep Fields, the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and as part of an armada of observatories in the All-wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey. Some of the galaxies existed when the cosmos was only 700 million years old. The observations provided the deepest views of the cosmos in visible, ultraviolet, and near-infrared light.
In the most recent foray into the universe's farthest regions, Hubble uncovered a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies. The galaxies unveiled by Hubble are smaller than today's giant galaxies, reinforcing the idea that large galaxies built up over time as smaller galaxies collided and merged. Many of the galaxies are ablaze with star birth.
By studying galaxies at different epochs, astronomers can see how galaxies change over time. The process is analogous to a very large scrapbook of pictures documenting the lives of children from infancy to adulthood.
The deep views also revealed that the early universe was a fertile breeding ground for stars. Observations showed that the universe made a significant portion of its stars in a torrential firestorm of star birth that abruptly lit up the pitch-dark heavens just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Though stars continue to be born today in galaxies, the star-birth rate is about half the rate of the opulent early years.
Planets, Planets Everywhere
Peering into the crowded bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy, Hubble looked farther than ever before to nab a group of planet candidates outside our solar system.
Astronomers used Hubble to conduct a census of Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets residing in the bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy. Looking at a narrow slice of sky, the telescope nabbed 16 potential alien worlds orbiting a variety of stars. Astronomers have estimated that about 5 percent of stars in the galaxy may have Jupiter-sized, star-hugging planets. So this discovery means there are probably billions of such planets in our Milky Way.
Five of the newly found planet candidates represent a new extreme type of planet. Dubbed Ultra-Short-Period Planets, these worlds whirl around their stars in less than an Earth day. Astronomers made the discoveries by measuring the slight dimming of a star as a planet passed in front of it, an event called a transit.
The telescope also made the first direct measurements of the chemical composition of an extrasolar planet's atmosphere, detecting sodium, oxygen, and carbon in the atmosphere of the Jupiter-sized planet HD209458b. Hubble also found that the planet's outer hydrogen-rich atmosphere is heated so much by its star that it is evaporating into space. The planet circles its star in a tight 3.5-day orbit.
These unique observations demonstrate that Hubble and other telescopes can sample the chemical makeup of the atmospheres of alien worlds. Astronomers could use the same technique someday to determine whether life exists on extrasolar planets.
Besides testing the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet, Hubble also made precise measurements of the masses of two distant worlds.
Monster Black Holes Are Everywhere
Hubble probed the dense, central regions of galaxies and provided decisive evidence that supermassive black holes reside in many of them. Giant black holes are compact "monsters" weighing millions to billions the mass of our Sun. They have so much gravity that they gobble up any material that ventures near them.
These elusive "eating machines" cannot be observed directly, because nothing, not even light, escapes their grasp. But the telescope provided indirect, yet compelling, evidence of their existence. Hubble helped astronomers determine the masses of several black holes by measuring the velocities of material whirling around them.
The telescope's census of many galaxies showed an intimate relationship between galaxies and their resident black holes. The survey revealed that a black hole's mass is dependent on the weight of its host galaxy's bulge, a spherical region consisting of stars in a galaxy's central region. Large galaxies, for example, have massive black holes; less massive galaxies have smaller black holes. This close relationship may be evidence that black holes co-evolved with their galaxies, feasting on a measured diet of gas and stars residing in the hearts of those galaxies.
The Biggest "Bangs" Since the Big Bang
Imagine a powerful burst of light and other radiation that can burn away the ozone in Earth's atmosphere. Luckily, flashes of such strong radiation occur so far away they will not scorch our planet. These brilliant flashbulbs are called gamma-ray bursts. They may represent the most powerful explosions in the universe since the Big Bang.
Hubble images showed that these brief flashes of radiation arise from far-flung galaxies, which are forming stars at enormously high rates. Hubble's observations confirmed that the bursts of light originated from the collapse of massive stars.
Astronomers using Hubble also found that a certain type of extremely energetic gamma-ray bursts are more likely to occur in galaxies with fewer heavy elements, such as carbon and oxygen. The Milky Way Galaxy, which is rich in heavy elements released by many generations of stars, is therefore an unlikely place for them to pop off.
Planet Construction Zones
Astronomers used Hubble to confirm that planets form in dust disks around stars. The telescope showed that a previously detected planet around the nearby star Epsilon Eridani is orbiting at a 30-degree angle to our line of sight, the same inclination as the star's dust disk. Although astronomers had long inferred that planets form in such disks, this is the first time the two objects have been observed around the same star.
Some stars have more than one dust disk. Hubble images of the nearby star Beta Pictoris revealed two such disks. The observation confirmed a decade of speculation that a warp in the young star's dust disk may actually be a second disk inclined to the star. The best explanation for the second disk is that an unseen planet, up to 20 times Jupiter's mass, is orbiting it and using gravity to sweep up material from the primary disk.
The telescope also witnessed the early stages of planet formation when it observed a blizzard of particles around a star. The fluffy particles are evidence of planet formation because they were probably shed by much larger, unseen, snowball-sized objects that had collided with each other.
Going Out in a Blaze of Glory
A Sun-like star ends its life in a blaze of glory, much as trees display colorful foliage in autumn before the barrenness of winter. Sun-like stars die gracefully by ejecting their outer gaseous layers into space. Eventually, the outer layers begin to glow in vibrant colors of red, blue, and green. The colorful glowing shroud is called a planetary nebula.
Hubble revealed unprecedented details of the death of Sun-like stars. Ground-based images suggested that many of these objects had simple spherical shapes. Hubble showed, however, that their shapes are more complex. Some look like pinwheels, others like butterflies, and still others like hourglasses.
Turning its vision to the tattered remains of a massive star's explosive death, Hubble helped astronomers rewrite the textbooks on exploding stars. The telescope's observations of Supernova 1987A showed that the real world is more complicated and interesting than anyone could imagine. Hubble began observing the supernova shortly after the telescope was launched in 1990.
Among Hubble's findings were three mysterious rings of material encircling the doomed star. The telescope also spied brightened spots on the middle ring's inner region, caused by an expanding wave of material from the explosion slamming into it.
How Old is the Universe?
Hubble observations allowed astronomers to calculate a precise age for the universe using two independent methods. The findings reduced the uncertainty to 10 percent. The first method relied on determining the expansion rate of the universe, a value called the Hubble constant. In May 1999 a team of astronomers obtained a value for the Hubble constant by measuring the distances to nearly two dozen galaxies, some as far as 65 million light-years from Earth. By obtaining a value for the Hubble constant, the team then determined that the universe is about 13 billion years old.
In the second method astronomers calculated a lower limit for the universe's age by measuring the light from old, dim, burned-out stars, called white dwarfs. The ancient white dwarf stars, as seen by Hubble, are at least 12 to 13 billion years old.
Quasars, the Light Fantastic
Quasars have been so elusive and mysterious that the hunt to define them would have taxed even the superior analytical skills of detective Sherlock Holmes. Since their discovery in 1963, astronomers have been trying to crack the mystery of how these compact dynamos of light and other radiation, which lie at the outer reaches of the universe, produce so much energy. Quasars are no larger than our solar system but outshine galaxies of hundreds of billions of stars.
These light beacons have left trails of evidence and plenty of clues, but scientists have only just begun to understand their behavior. Astronomers using Hubble tracked down the "homes" of quasars to the centers of faraway galaxies. Hubble's observations bolstered the idea that quasars are powered by a gush of radiation unleashed by black holes in the cores of these galaxies.
A Shattered Comet Rocks Jupiter
Imagine setting off every atomic bomb on Earth all at once. Now imagine repeating such an apocalyptic explosion two dozen times in a week! Unleashing such energy would destroy Earth's surface, but the giant planet Jupiter hardly flinched when it underwent such a catastrophe in 1994. Hubble provided a ringside seat to a once-in-a-millennium event when two dozen chunks of a comet smashed into Jupiter.
The telescope snapped dramatic images of massive explosions that sent towering mushroom-shaped fireballs of hot gas into the Jovian sky. The doomed comet, called Shoemaker-Levy 9, had been pulled apart two years earlier by Jupiter's gravity. Each impact left temporary black, sooty scars in Jupiter's planetary clouds.
Pluto and Beyond
Hubble explored the outskirts of our solar system to study Pluto and other icy objects.
The telescope spied two new moons orbiting Pluto. Named Nix and Hydra, the moons have the same color as Charon, Pluto's only other known moon. The moons' common color further reinforces the idea that all three moons were born from a single titanic collision between Pluto and another similarly sized Kuiper Belt object billions of years ago.
Hubble also searched the solar system's last frontier, a region called the Kuiper Belt, to view the frozen bodies residing there. The Kuiper Belt contains the relics from the early solar system, and may offer clues to the origin and evolution of our Sun and planets.
With Hubble's help, astronomers discovered that an object named Eris is only slightly larger than Pluto. The diameter of Eris is 1,490 miles. By comparison, Pluto's diameter, as measured by Hubble, is 1,422 miles.
Studying the solar system's farthest known object, unofficially named Sedna, Hubble provided surprising evidence that the frozen body does not appear to have a companion moon of any substantial size.
Turning its gaze closer to Earth, Hubble found that Ceres, the largest known asteroid, may be a "mini planet," sharing many characteristics of rocky, terrestrial planets like Earth. Ceres' mantle, which wraps around the asteroid's core, may even be composed of water ice. Ceres resides in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter.
In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects. Hubble does not travel to stars, planets and galaxies. It takes pictures of them as it whirls around Earth at 17,500 miles an hour. In its 17-year lifetime, the telescope has made nearly 100,000 trips around our planet. Those trips have racked up plenty of frequent-flier-miles, about 2.4 billion, which is the equivalent of a round trip to Saturn.
The 17 years' worth of observations has produced more than 30 terabytes of data, equal to about 25 percent of the information stored in the Library of Congress.
Each day the orbiting observatory generates about 10 gigabytes of data, enough information to fill the hard drive of a typical home computer in two weeks.
The Hubble archive sends about 66 gigabytes of data each day to astronomers throughout the world.
Astronomers using Hubble data have published nearly 7,000 scientific papers, making it one of the most productive scientific instruments ever built.
NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Nathan Smith
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif.
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Nolan Walborn
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.,
(phone) 410-338-4915, (e-mail) firstname.lastname@example.com
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.,
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Keith Noll
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.,
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Lars Lindberg Christensen
ESA/Hubble/ST-ECF, Garching, Germany,
(phone) 49-89-320-06-306, (cell phone) 49-173-38-72-621, (e-mail) firstname.lastname@example.com

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text: Plant hormones are important signaling molecules that control many developmental processes, including cell division, differentiation, organogenesis. In contrast to their animal counterparts, plant hormones can regulate a multitude of apparently unrelated physiological processes, their roles often overlap and they mutually modulate their effects. This indicates the important role of synergistic and antagonistic interactions between different plant hormones. However, the molecular basis of hormonal interactions is still largely unknown. The physiologically best characterized interaction is between auxin and cytokinin. These two plant hormones exhibit synergistic interaction to promote cell division in cell culture, but antagonistic interaction to regulate lateral root development or lateral bud outgrowth. The main aim of our studies is to reveal the molecular components and mechanisms balancing the output of auxin and cytokinin pathways in order to regulate plant organogenesis. We use lateral root organogenesis in Arabidopsis as an ideally suited model system for these questions, because it encompasses fundamental aspects of plant development, such as dedifferentiation, re-entry into the cell cycle, coordinated cell divisions and differentiation, and is in antagonistic manner regulated by auxin and cytokinin. Recently, we have shown that cytokinin modulation of polar auxin transport represents an important mode of auxin-cytokinin interaction. We further investigate underlying molecular mechanisms with focus on (i) transcriptional and (ii) postranscriptional control of auxin efflux carriers by cytokinin. We identified novel cytokinin response elements in promoters of AtPIN1 and AtPIN7 auxin efflux carriers and using yeast one hybrid we aim to determine cytokinin controlled upstream regulatory pathway. Beside transcriptional regulation, our recent data document impact of cytokinin on cellular trafficking of AtPIN1 protein and its stability. Investigation of cytokinin interaction with cellular endocytotic machinery applying chemical and forward genetic approaches will be our key strategies in the future to determine components of this regulatory pathway. To identify novel components of auxin-cytokinin interaction we have applied two main research strategies, transcriptome profiling and a forward genetic screen. Genes recovered from both transcriptome profiling and a forward genetic screen represent candidates for novel cross-talk components that will help us to reveal mechanisms integrating auxin and cytokinin signaling pathways.


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Parents and ToddlersClass/Course Date(s) & Time: Thursday 23rd November, Starts 10:30 Finishes 11:15
Class/Course Level: Suitable for all levels
Bodhisattva KMC (Venue Map & Information)3 Lansdowne Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN3 1DN
These classes are suitable for parents with babies and toddlers. They consist of a short talk and a guided meditation to help parents relax, unwind, and develop a peaceful mind. The babies remain with the parents during the class. After the class parents are invited to socialize in our beautiful World Peace Café.Class/Course Fee: £2.00


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Not your ordinary garage sale, this is being hosted by some of Melbourne's music luminaries:
Mark Harwood of infamous experimental record store Synaesthesia, the Laser King himself Robin Fox and many more. Even if you're not in the market for bits, this curious assortment can't help but titillate the mind and the wallet. See you there!
see FB entry for pic of the warehouse door
|Warehouse in the middle of the street (see photo for entrance)
Sedgman St
Brunswick, Melbourne
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|1 day record fair / garage sale / gathering featuring stalls from Synaesthesia, Round & Round, Sunshine and Grease, The house of Robin Fox + various books and other oddities. Free entry, there will be a bar, dj's etc…


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In the early '70s, Kenny Burrell met Grover Washington, Jr. in Chicago where they jammed together at the Jazz Showcase, promising someday to get together and make a record. In 1984, well afterWashington's massive commercial disco hit "Mr. Magic," the saxophonist had the inclination to do a straight-ahead jazz record, and reconnected with master guitarist Burrell to do this one-off project. Drummer Jack DeJohnette, bassist Ron Carter, and percussionist Ralph MacDonald joined the front men, the entire combo being CTI label refugees, to do this project for Blue Note records. This turned out to be a most satisfying session, with few -- if any -- commercial concessions. Only standards, originals, and Brazilian-tinged tunes are played, with not a hint of rote funk or fusion as these players had produced a decade prior. Togethering is a great title in that many of the melodies are practiced and well rehearsed for Burrell and Washington to play in tandem. They strike an attractive sonic pose on the modern, airy Richard Evans tune "Soulero" that goes earthy and funky, a really good song with fine solos. The quirky and intriguing title track has the principals playing alongside each other, but diving off in angular degrees à la Thelonious Monk. Carter's deep soul hues during "Asphalt Canyon Blues" withBurrell's guitar tagging along also makes for interesting, non-standardized listening. There are two Duke Ellington offerings, including Burrell's popping sounds setting off the straight-ahead "What Am I Here For?," while the regretful ballad "Day Dream" has Washington's soprano all wistful and imaginary during this inspired, spatial take. The lone tune on tenor saxophone for Washington is "A Beautiful Friendship," and he assimilates the languid, relaxed tone of his first hero, Sonny Rollins. If any purist mainstream jazz listeners ever had problems with these musicians going for a buck by putting more R&B into their music, all is forgiven with the issuance of this marvelous album, which is more of a showcase for their true colors and collective musicianship beyond their commercialized efforts. Burrell and Washington proved to be a fine pairing -- a subtle, effective jazz partnership.


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Archive for category Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin, the stuff I wish I'd known
Posted by Bricky in Cryptocurrency on December 7, 2013
About 2 months ago, when bitcoin was hovering at around $120/BTC, we – my wife (who has a much more sensible head with money than I do) and I – considered investing. We quickly ruled out buying BTC directly – the exponential rise it had seen at the time was readily apparent, and we decided we'd missed that boat. But we looked quite seriously into mining it (and also Litecoin, which is a little easier to mine).
Long story short: we decided that the profit in mining would be marginal, and that we'd missed the boat in straight investment. So we left it be.
Roll forward to 2 weeks ago, when we checked again. The price had jumped to around $700/BTC! And the meteoric rise did not seem like it was going to stop. We bought some the following day (albeit with a small amount of money), at $800/BTC. And again a little more the day after, at $877/BTC.
And roll forward to today – when we sold all our bitcoins (yielding about twice our investment!), while the market was "correcting" (as I write, bitcoin has dropped from about $1200/BTC two days ago, to about $700/BTC right now). It's been a really really fun two weeks, and I can't begin to tell all the stuff I've learnt (and the stupid mistakes I've made!).
So why this post? Well, this is the instructions I wish I could give myself 2 weeks ago:
- Read the babypips forex trading guide.
- Get familiar with the software analysis tools. The obvious one here is metatrader 4 (aka mt4), which is free. But there are numerous online sites now that offer equivalent (or better) analysis tools – eg. tradingview.com, bitcoinwisdom.com, and www.bitcoinity.org (to name but a few – there are many others).
- Don't use the Mt Gox exchange for day-trading. It's too unreliable. I've seen it crash twice in the last few days, and while we were lucky enough not to lose money on it, many others were not so lucky. Sometimes, especially if you day-trade, you need to buy/sell fast!
- Don't use cryptsy.com, at all. I've watched an IRC chat while they literally lost about 20% of the trades that the people in the chat were doing there. And they have a bot that replies to all support tickets after 24 hours and closes them! (really! No human will even look at your ticket unless you re-open it!)
- Sign up for a bunch of exchanges, and start the verification process on each. It takes from 3 to 10 (or more) days to complete verification. And do a small test trade on every exchange before putting serious money in – you'll be amazed at the problems that pop up.
- Read, follow, and try to understand this blog. I honestly don't think I've ever seen a more concentrated source of useful info anywhere else on the web.
- Never, ever, buy-in on a pump & dump. If you own the coin beforehand, then ok, but do not attempt to catch it early and buy in – you'll lose money. Anyone who is organising a pump & dump is trying to take your money.
- Keep abreast of all the news related to cryptocurrencies in general. You must know the news first. I've found twitter particularly useful, and also /r/BitcoinMarkets and /r/Bitcoin. And of course you can search google news also. Bad news takes about an hour to hit the price, good news takes considerably longer (maybe a day). So it's much easier to make money on good news.
- Don't read the trollboxes. You're wasting your time and they'll just feed your doubts.
- Don't go to bed in a risky position. Aside from the fact that you won't sleep anyway, you'll probably lose your money. If you absolutely must, then at least set up a stop before you go.
Disclaimer: I am, of course, a complete amateur at this kind of thing. So keep that in mind
Edit: One more thing – Bitcoin is here to stay. I have no doubt about this whatsoever. Currently my expectation is that it'll settle somewhere between about $1300/BTC (the Bank of America estimate) and about $35000/BTC (the Winklevoss estimate) next year, and longer term it will become the standard currency on the internet.
Edit (June 2014) – 7 months later: Well it pisses me off when I find posts like the above on the net, and then wonder whatever happened the guy. So here's what happened us:
- We sold all as I said above, when things began to take a dive. We had approximately doubled our initial investment at this point.
- For the next few months, bitcoin dropped in value gradually (down to about $430/BTC). I day-traded for a while during this fall in an attempt to profit from it. But I'm not particularly good at day-trading, so, we didn't make any money from this. (but at least we didn't lose any either).
- Through an accident I lost the use of one arm for about a month. This gave me a lot of time to think, and a break from the usual work pressures. I put this time into writing (slowly – with one hand) a trading bot. [Aside: I can highly recommend one-handed coding as a way of writing really good code!]
- This bot is proving to be very successful (although it has become less-so over time – as more people write similar bots), and increased our holding of BTC by about one third.
So, as I write, BTC is starting its meteoric rise once again (it's up around 50% in the last two weeks) and our holding has increased substantially. And I also get to sleep more since I stopped day-trading
Edit (Jan 2015) – another 7 months later: Well, bitcoin continued to fall (now hovering around $250/btc), but the bot has proved very successful. We have more than trebled our holdings (when measured in BTC) since we started. We'd also be up if we were to convert back to fiat, but there's little reason to do that now: while the gains provided by the bot continue to outpace the losses in BTC value, we'll remain as we are.
Edit (Feb 2016) – 13 months later: So the bot is running for around 2 years now. Still turning a tidy profit, and maintaining it serves as a hobby which I quite enjoy.


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|Portland Commercial-Review, Portland, Indiana, December 7, 1913
Fellow research Judy Myers sent me a copy of the obituary of my paternal 2x-great grandmother, Olive Jane (Smith) Wehrly (1846-1913) from the Portland, Indiana Commercial Review.
11 Children Survive Her
Mrs. Olive Wehrly Dies Monday From Inroads of Lingering Illness
Husband A Few Years Dead
Many Descendants Left By Well Known Resident of South Shanks Street
Mrs. Olive Smith Wehrly, widow of the late William P. Wehrly, died at the home of her son-in-law L.D. Jackson, South Shanks street about 7:30 o'clock Monday evening after a lingering illness. Mrs. Wehrly has been in failing health for the past year or more and for a number of weeks has been confined to her bed.
She was born at Lisbon June 17 1846 and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, both deceased. Mrs. Wehrly is survived by the following children, her husband having died about three years ago: Prudence, wife of L.D. Jackson at whose home she died, Martin Wehrly, J.W. Wehrly, and Blaine Wehrly, all of this city; Belle, wife of Clifford LeMasters and Alva Wehrly, both of Salamonia, Mrs. Ethel Shreeves of Van Wert, Ohio, Henry Wehrly of Garrett, Mrs. Oda Scholer and Harvey Wehrly of New Castle, Mrs. Kate Andrews of Hamilton, Ohio. One brother also remains, John Smith of Humboldt, Nebraska.
Judy notes some issues with the obituary:
Travis,I found my paper copy of her obit, not the greatest, but look at the date! The paper is the Commercial Review in Portland.1) This implies that she died 6 DEC 1913. She was born at Lisbon 17 Jun 1846. I have seen issues of the paper where they had a mistake in the date, but I haven't seen one where the month was wrong. So. . . Using a day of the week calculator I found that 7 Dec 1913 was a Sunday, but 7 Jan 1913 was a Tuesday.2) Here is the abstract of her death certificate from Jay Co.
Wehrly, Olive Portland Jan 6 1913 F Jan 26 1846 CH-2A 39 Green Park, Portland, INShe died in Portland on 6 Jan 1913. She was born 26 Jan 1846. Next two entries are volume and page references. She was buried in Green Park.3) And then there is her tombstone: born 23 Jun 1846, died 6 Jan 1913I am going to assume she died 6 Jan 1913!It is easy to see how Jan and Jun may have been interchanged someplace along the line, but what to do with 17, 26, and 23. (My husband suggested averaging them!)If you get a copy of her death certificate, please let me know what it says. They are not engraved in stone! And I'm sure they were mistakes in transcribing them.One of my relatives died in her teens, her death certificate has her mother's name on it instead of hers, and the last name is mutilated.Thanks,Judy
A mystery for me to have to go to the library and solve. It would appear that the masthead of the newspaper might be wrong, as January 7, 1913 would be a Tuesday, and not December 7th. The obit does state Olive died on a Monday.
Other errors include daughter Belle being married to the wrong LeMaster, she was married to Luman Cooper LeMaster, not Clifford.
The birthplace of Lisbon is interesting, it could be referring to New Lisbon over the county line in Henry County, Indiana. In his biography, Olive's father William was listed as a resident of Henry County. All census records indicate a Michigan birthplace, however.


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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A 40 percent decline in the death rate of diabetic American adults from heart disease and strokes is a sign that patients are taking better care of themselves and receiving improved treatment, according to a government study released on Tuesday.
While the drop in death rates from cardiovascular disease was the most dramatic, overall death rates among diabetic adults dropped 23 percent from 1997 to 2006, according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
"Diabetes leads to many complications and shorter life spans," Edward Gregg, the study's lead author and chief of epidemiology and statistics in CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation, told Reuters on Tuesday.
"The fact that we found substantially lower death rates in both men and women was very encouraging," he said.
Diabetics are less likely to smoke than in the past and more likely to be physically active, the CDC said, although it noted that obesity levels among diabetics continues to rise. Better control of high blood pressure and high cholesterol may also have contributed to the decline in death rates among diabetics, it said.
"When you see an effect on mortality like this, it's not due to one factor, it's really all those factors," said Gregg.
The study examined data from 250,000 patients.
Despite the significant decline in diabetic deaths from cardiovascular disease, the rate is still twice as high as those without the disease, the CDC said.
On average, diabetes diagnosed in middle age reduces a patient's life expectancy by 10 years, although the gap likely will narrow as diabetics live longer, said Gregg.
An estimated 25.8 million people in the United States have diabetes, which is marked by high levels of glucose in the blood, the CDC said. The number of people with diabetes continues to increase, said Gregg.
Obesity is a major cause of the increase in Type 2 diabetes, which is most common in adults, he said.
"There's still a long way to go," said Gregg. "The fact that Type 2 diabetes can be prevented with lifestyle intervention means that we really need to do more."
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Spain's opposition Socialist Party called for the resignation of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy over a corruption scandal on Sunday as a poll showed the lowest support on record for his centre-right People's Party (PP).
Media reports over the past two weeks alleged at least a dozen senior PP officials, including Rajoy, received payments from a slush fund operated by its former treasurer.
Rajoy denies wrongdoing, but the scandal has provoked fury among Spaniards already disenchanted by deep recession and high unemployment, as support for the two biggest parties slumps.
"Rather than the solution for this country, Rajoy has become yet another problem," Socialist leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, who served as deputy PM under the Socialist government which lost a landslide election in 2011, told a news conference.
An opinion poll published in the country's biggest-selling newspaper El Pais on Sunday showed neither of the two big parties could win a clear majority in an election.
The Metroscopia poll showed 23.9 percent support for the PP - the lowest on record and down from 29.8 percent in the same survey last month. The PSOE was little changed at 23.5 percent.
Spain has suffered five years of recession or economic stagnation and unemployment - already the highest in the European Union at 26 percent - continues to grow.
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What is a circumcision?
Circumcision means cutting off the foreskin or ring of tissue that covers the head of the penis. If you decide to have your newborn son circumcised, it is usually done the day he goes home from the hospital.
Fewer children in the U.S. are being circumcised now than several years ago. In 1979, 90% of American males were circumcised compared to 60% now.
The following information should help you decide what is best for your son.
What are the cultural aspects of circumcision?
Followers of the Jewish and Moslem faiths perform circumcision for religious reasons. Nonreligious circumcision became popular in English-speaking countries between 1920 and 1950. At this time it was thought that circumcision might help prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Circumcision never became a common practice in Asia, South America, Central America, or most of Europe. Over 80% of the males in the world are not circumcised.
What is the purpose of the foreskin?
The foreskin on the penis is not some cosmic error.
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What are the pros of circumcision?
Some of the reasons you may want to circumcise are:
It can be emotionally painful to be a trailblazer about the appearance of one's genitals.
All in all, nonreligious circumcision is mainly cosmetic surgery.
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Some of the reasons not to circumcise include:
Circumcision of boys for religious purposes will continue. The need to circumcise other boys is open to question. Just because a father was circumcised doesn't mean that the son needs to be circumcised. Because the foreskin comes as standard equipment, you might consider leaving it intact, unless your son will be going to a school where everyone else is likely to be circumcised. The risks and benefits are both too small to swing the vote either way. This is a parental decision, not a medical decision.
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Exactly. A team that is going to compete cannot keep waiting on guys beyond a few years pro without any progress at all. None of those guys matter in the grand scheme of things, so it's better to have more draft age players with our team's mark on them - on the hope that one of these guys turns into a diamond in the rough. It was clear that none of these guys moved past the initial positive impression they made on our organization.
NHL guys who are not top picks don't make some meteoric moves in their first few years. Late round picks, or failed early ones, rarely putter along and then amazingly transform in an off-season. It's a slow, consistent development of their skills - with the possible addition of an asset like a growth spurt or great strength or speed training.
None of these guys showed anything new over multiple camps and games in WBS or here. They need to be culled from the herd so that we can make the same evaluation on Megna or Sammuelson or Morrow or whoever. It's up or out.


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Christie's Rudy problem
Talk to early presidential state or Washington operatives and you hear the same thing over and over about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's presidential prospects: He's the second coming of Rudy Giuliani.
National Democrats have given the idea new life the past week, looking to ding Christie after allowing him to coast to reelection untouched. But the comparison is hardly new: Republicans have invoked it for years, and not in a favorable way – intimating Christie is too provincial and, like the former New York mayor, will prove too liberal to win his party's presidential nomination. Even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has made the analogy privately in conversations.
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( POLITICO's Turn the Table: What Chris Christie's victory means for 2016)
It's become a proxy for the debate among Republicans about whether Christie will have staying power in Republican primaries dominated by social conservatives and tea party activists.
The comparison rankles Christie supporters, but there is some truth to it. Both are tough-talking ex-prosecutors from the tri-state area. Christie is being cast as the moderate in a potential 2016 primary, just as Giuliani was before he bowed out of the 2008 running. And they're allies: the only person Christie asked to stump for him in both his gubernatorial campaigns was Giuliani.
But the parallels only go so far. Christie approaches a potential presidential campaign in a stronger position to appeal to the conservative base. He has the look of a much better national candidate than Giuliani was.
( Also on POLITICO: Christie: I'm focused on N.J.)
Here's a closer look at how the two stack up:
Social issues
There were many deal-breakers for Giuliani with social conservatives when he ran for president in 2007 but one that mattered most – he favored abortion rights. Christie does not.
"He checks a box that makes – even with whatever issues he might have with the tea party or whatever – it's not as emotional, it's not as sort of irreversible, as the [issues] that I faced," Giuliani told POLITICO in an interview.
Christie's supporters frequently point to his stance on abortion when his conservative bona fides are called into question. He's also against gay-marriage, a fact that's better known thanks to his administration's appeal of a court ruling allowing same-sex nuptials in New Jersey. Giuliani's complicated personal life and multiple marriages also didn't sit well with conservatives.
( Also on POLITICO: Christie won't commit to four years)
But perception can be a problem too – Giuliani was believed to be pro-gay marriage because he was close friends with a gay couple, and it was used against him. Christie's decision to ultimately drop the appeal of the gay marriage ruling when it became clear he would lose upset some social conservatives, although it pleased many of his GOP donors, who've shifted on the issue since 2008.
"Rudy never had a credible argument he could make to that element of the base and frankly he never tried," said David Polyansky, who advised the presidential campaigns of Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee. "[But Christie] can still talk the talk on life on marriage and even the second amendment."
Christie favors limited gun-control restrictions, and he will face questions about that in places like New Hampshire and South Carolina. But he starts out from a better position than Giuliani did.
( Also on POLITICO: Can Christie be GOP's Bill Clinton?)
The straight-talk, tough-guy thing
In 2009, he told his campaign rival to "man up and say I'm fat." Since then, he's become a YouTube video waiting to be made, dressing down constituents at town halls one day and exploding at critics the next, in the blunt-spoken style that's made him one of his party's best-known figures.
It's all reminiscent of Giuliani, who years earlier regularly sparred with reporters or callers on his weekly radio show. Audio of those shows played during his presidential run painted a less-than-leaderly picture of the man who early in his mayoralty famously said his city could "kick your city's ass" and went on to gain hero status after Sep. 11, 2001.
When people argue that Christie's anger is a turn-off, they may be missing just how angry the electorate is right now. The risk for Christie is seeming like he's angry at voters themselves – getting into back-and-forths with people at town halls, as he did at an event for Mitt Romney in early 2012, might not wear well.
( Also on POLITICO: Christie on Time cover: 'Who cares?')
But for the past five years, Republican voters have been looking for a nominee who can take the fight to Democrats. And unlike Giuliani, who ran after eight years of a Republican in the White House, Christie would be running after the GOP lost presidency twice.
The timing for an angrier candidate, in other words, may be a lot better.


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- "I seal my office with a spell none but a wizard could break!"
- —Snape[src]
This spell (incantation unknown) enables a witch or wizard to seal a room in such a way that only witches or wizards could break it.[1]
Severus Snape cast this spell on his office at Hogwarts Castle.[1] He suspected, incorrectly, that Harry Potter, a fourth year student at the time, had broken it to steal potion ingredients,[1] when, in reality, Barty Crouch Jr (under the guise of Alastor Moody) had broken the seal in order to steal Boomslang skin from Snape's personal stores, so he could keep making Polyjuice Potion.[2]
Behind the scenes
- The seal is seen in the GBA video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In the game, the Headmaster's office is locked by a similar spell, instead of being concealed by a ugly stone gargoyle.
- This may be related to the floating eye curse, a spell that seals doors using a floating eye, and can only be broken by a wizard. It might also be related to the parchment-sealing spell.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First mentioned)
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 25 (The Egg and the Eye)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 35 (Veritaserum)


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Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood 'Extremely Excited' to Host the CMA Awards Again
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are obviously doing something right. In addition to having their respective award-winning country music careers, the two bombshell country stars have now been invited to host the CMA awards a whopping five times. Luckily, the dynamic duo isn't getting tired of hosting the awards show -- in fact, they both admit to being really excited to host the 2012 CMA Awards.
"I think I can speak for both of us when I say that we are extremely excited to be back for a fifth year hosting the CMA Awards," Underwood said in a statement. "Each year we work harder so that we can help present the best show possible."
The CMA recently confirmed the exciting news, and Paisley and Underwood have already taken part in a photo session and chosen the best promotional shots for the awards show.
"We are excited. I think you walk out there with people expecting a certain thing now and that's a great place to be," Paisley said about hosting the show. "I think they know who we are. They know what we do up there together and we've become something different together than we are separately I think, which is fun."
Both Paisley and Underwood have hauled home their fair share of awards from the event, too. Since taking home the Best New Artist award in 2000, the 'Water' hitmaker has scored a total of 14 CMA awards, while his 'Good Girl' counterpart has won an impressive five in her own right. With those numbers backing them up, the annual CMA awards has become a special night for both stars.
"I really think that the CMA Awards are a very special thing in our town," said Paisley. "When they say it's 'Country Music's Biggest Night,' it is. It's the biggest night of ratings that we ever get. The reason that I think it has worked is because we both take it so seriously that we're ready when we walk out there. We are focused on making sure that we're not just crossing our fingers that it works, that what we have ready is ready."
"I feel like each year our hosting gets better and better," Underwood adds. "We want to top that every year, so it's a good challenge."
To see if Paisley and Underwood can best their previous CMA Awards hosting gigs, tune in to the live awards show on Nov. 1 on ABC.


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Unfortunately, no one knows the definite answer what happens to the Spanish economy over the next year or two. You can only predict and learn from the past, and only draw conclusions from that. But professional property investors knows, time to buy in Spain is now.... when the property are cheap and there are a lot of bank repossessions and real bargains on property in Costa Blanca or on property in Costa del Sol area.
News that reach the people from outside Spain, by the mass media, the state and situation of the Spanish economy, don't show even 1% of the today's Spanish reality. The news misslead the current macroeconomic situation in Spain and Spanish real estate market. We always trying explain to our client what's going on, on Spanish costas and in property hot spots in south of Spain. Sometimes in vain. Some people still think by stereotypes, and it's hard to convince them.
Spanish crisis? ... not on southern coasts
First of all. The situation in the Spanish real estate market in the area in which we sell houses and apartments, in the south of Spain, near the beaches and the coastal areas, differs radically from the center of Spain, Madrid, Bilbao, Toledo, Santander and Barcelona, or otherwise, largest cities in this beautiful country.
Here the property crisis is invisible, where shops and restaurants are full of visitors and customers, and every store you need to wait in line for the cash register. And there is a economic crisis, and it is a "strong", but in large Spanish cities in the north and center of the country.
In Spain, of course, is huge unemployment, especially among young people are out of work. Many people lose their jobs and permanent salaries. However, in the south of Spain, on the coast of the Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca and others, that there is no crisis. You will don't notice a sign of economic crisis. I just can not see it.
Spanish beaches are the main reason to invest in Spanish property
We do a lot of real estate sales transactions, every week. On the Spanish coast, is a huge number of people, not only professional real estate investors, but also ordinary people who once could only dream about a house in Spain. New properties from developers and constructors, selling out like crazy, as before, developers sales black holes in the ground. And there are hungry buyers from overseas.
Who is buing property in Spain today?
Swedes, Norwegians, French, Germans and Russians are buying cheap property in Spain. Poles are catching up. Once, many people could only dream of a house or apartment in Spain. Maybe you should listen to the richest and wisest of the world, such as famous Donald Trump, who actually encourages foreign investment in real estate, mostly talking about property in Spain and property in the United States.
Spanish fiestas and great Spanish culture is a magnet for home buyers in Spain
But what is associated with the property crisis in Spain? How to use it for own purposes? It's mean few good things for the new home buyer in Spain. On the Spanish property market are available great properties and we have in our offer amazing property bergains. Some property owners are desperate to sell their property and come to us incredible deals on the property in good locations in Spain, at very low prices. Of course, good location, high-end homes, are doing well. Here is difficult for an incredible opportunity, but sometimes happens...
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This is not a case with Spanish banks and taking out a mortgage in Spain. It is difficult, in general, it is harder to take a mortgage in Spain at the moment. But in IBERMAXX for our new clients, we have prepared special offers where there will be not difficult to find for you a right mortgage loan with a good intrest rate. Leave it to our real estate office.
To sup up our arguments on how to invest in Spanish property: you should now came to Spain and see around for yourself. What to do? First of all, please call our office in Torrevieja (Costa Blanca South branch) or L'Albir (Costa Blanca North branch).
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It gives easy possibility of flying to many countries and cities of Europe. The main cities of Costa del Sol, in case of property investments, are those which are located to the west from Malaga. These are: Marbella, Torremolinos, Banalmadena, Fuengirola, Mijas, San Pedro de Alcantara, Manilva, Estepona, Velez-Malaga, Nerja, Torrox, Rincon de la Victoria, La Linea de la Concepcion and Sotogrande.
Do not forget about beautiful historic cities such as Cadiz and Sotogrande-area for the rich and famous, and about English Gibraltar. Costa del Sol is located between other two Spanish coasts: Costa de la Luz (The Coast of Light) and Costa Tropical (Tropical Coast). Have a look on property in Spain on Costa del Sol by Ibermaxx Real Estate agency.
A rapid property development of Costa del Sol became reality in the middle 60's. Modern apartments, luxury hotels or high quality resorts do not bring to mind tourist towns of Greece or Portugal. During last few years, a big urban development appeared in Spain. Thanks to big foreign funds many new villas, luxury blocks of flats properties, resorts and shopping centres were built on Costa del Sol. Statistically, there are about 400,000 foreigners live on and own property on Costa del Sol, most of them are British and people from north Europe and Scandinavia.
Some harbour cities such as Puerto Banus (Marbella) lure the wealthiest nations such as Arabs and wealthy Russians. There are the most expensive and luxury properties of the whole Spain set among the Costa del Sol hills. Antonio Banderas has got a house here and Madonna has just bought another property on Costa del Sol. This coast is visited by 2 million of tourists every year. The average temperature reaches 18 degrees and there are 300 sunny days per year.
This Spanish coast still remains number one holidays destination among people from all over the Europe. There are about 70 golf courses for lovers of this sport. They are available all year. Properties near golf courses are also worth a look. That is why Costa del Sol is sometimes called Costa del Golf. This beautiful Spanish coast offer numerous attractions such as horseback riding, safari with dolphins, snorkling, riding a bike and many others. Property purchase on Costa del Sol and Andalucia can change your life forever.
All the previously mentioned facts are the main reasons why many people decide to buy a property on Costa del Sol in Spain. People who want to invest here or settle down with their families are not discouraged by the fact that realty prices are the highest in this part of Spain. Traditionally it is a region which lure gangsters and mafias from all over the Europe. Many properties come from an unclear source.
Puerto Banus, next to Marbella, a road along a yacht harbour is so called "show-off" for wealthy people who want to show their money. There are exclusive boutiques with the best brands such as Armani, Dior or Dolce Cabana very close. Having coffee and watching everything around you can be a great activity. Property in Puerto Banus an Nueva Andalucia belongs to the most expensive ones.
Far from the coast you will find beautiful Andalucian towns and villages which create real Andalucia and Spanish real life. These towns are: huge and precious Seville (in summer it is the hottest place in Spain with temperature over 40 degrees), antique Cordoba and Granada with Sierra Nevada and Alhambra.
Gibraltar is also a worth visiting place although do not forget about your passport as there are emigration and customs controls. For those who prefer longer trips and who want to step foot on the African Continent, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar and visiting Tangier in Marocco should be a great idea for holiday.
Nerja is a town set in the eastern part of Costa del Sol which has experienced the biggest Spanish property development lately. Most of the most interesting properties of east Costa del Sol are located in Nerja close to Pueblos. The main attraction for tourists are Nerja Caves.
These are open for tourists caves in which concerts and dancings are organised too. There are also beautiful beaches, seaside promenade and a beautiful Balcon de Europa Hotel. There is a beautiful mountain range called Sierra Almijara set to the east from Malaga (it finishes in a place called Mara).
Dream of Spanish property on Costa del Sol? Check up the Ibermaxx portfolio from Costa del Sol. Mortgages and huge choice of properties from Costa del Sol.
Nueva Andalucia property
Properties for sale from area of Nueva Andalucia close to Marbella and Puerto Banus on Costa del Sol. Villas, apartments, new developments from IBERMAXX real estate agency overseas property portfolio. Check the real estate prices in the area of Nueva Andalucia in southern Spain. Here you will find current information about property sales prices in Nueva Andalucia, and prices of available properties for sale in our agency.
Foreign investment in real estate in one of the most prestigious locations on the Costa del Sol in Spain. Visit IBERMAXX real estate agency branch in Marbella on Costa del Sol. Current offer for sale in Nueva Andalucia IBERMAXX branch property in Spain, premises in Marbella.
Nueva Andalucia is a very prestigious and well-known place on the map of Spanish real estate and a great place to invest in a house or apartment on the Costa del Sol. During the housing boom in Spain, property in the area of Nueva Andalucia was always highly sought after by both investors as well as by ordinary families, dreaming of buying a house or an apartment on the Costa del Sol. Here you will find informations about property prices in Nueva Andalucia.
In the days before the Spanish crisis and the Spanish housing bubble, have been build here a lot of new apartments and urbanizations, also golf courses. It's very green and rich in Mediterranean vegetation zone on the Costa del Sol near Marbella and Puerto Banus. Real estate arose among beautiful trees, shrubs and flowers. Urbanizations in Nueva Andalucia are very spacious and with lots of greenery, so beloved by people looking for real home on the Costa del Sol.
In Nueva Andalucia typical Andalusian architecture prevails, apartments are only a few floors up to four elevations. On most neighborhoods are communal swimming pools, and most properties have large terraces, where you spend most of the year. Andalusia's perfect climate is great to rest all year and search for luxury type of property abroad.
The entrance to Nueva Andalucia is located at the bullfighting arena near Casino Puerto Banus and Andalucia Plaza Hotel. From the bull fighting arena you need to follow inland, towards the Central Plaza, a shopping center, where there are dozens of shops, bars, restaurants, bank branches and car rentals on this Costa del Sol area.
If you decide to buy a property in Nueva Andalucia, it also is a place beloved by golfers and fans of this elite sport. Golf on the Costa del Sol can be practiced throughout the year, and the best months to play golf on the Costa del Sol are winter months and autumn, when temperatures are lower and the heat is not as intensive as in the summer months.
If you decide to move to Nueva Andalucia, golf courses Las Brisas, Los Naranjos Golf Course, Golf Course Aloha Golf, and Golf Course La Dama de Noche are available. Tha last golf course La Dama de Noche is floodlit at night so you can play golf, even in the middle of the night.
You should also traced offer to sell apartments in the complex La Dama de Noche from the offer of our real estate agency on Costa del Sol. The area is full of restaurants, bars, shops, places of entertainment for children and adults.
In a word, everything you need to live and move to Spain on the Costa del Sol.
In Nueva Andalucia you will find a number of venues for adults and nightclubs offering entertainment for adults only in Nueva Andalucia. Also dining with paid sex.
In Nueva Andalucia is also some gym and fitness clubs available, where you can improve physical condition. There is a hairdresser, pharmacy, medical centre and car repair points.
After purchasing property in Nueva Andalucia you become the owner of a property located in a great location and a very prestigious location in Marbella and the Costa del Sol. Walking distance to pubs and venues in Puerto Banus, where are the best places and boutiques with designer jewelry, watches and clothing are available for discerning buyer.
At the same time you will get peace and quiet of the place. From a distance, you can see the mountain range of Sierra de Ronda. If you own a boat or a yacht, you can enjoy the opportunity to berth your yacht in Marbella and Puerto Banus. You can also charter a yacht to spend holiday on the Costa del Sol.
We offer property sales in Nueva Andalucia, here you will find apartments for sale in Nueva Andalucia, villas for sale in Nueva Andalucia, a rural property, a rural estates and typical Spanish haciendas, Fincas and Cortijos. Our agency also has in its offer land for sale in Nueva Andalucia, townhouses in Nueva Andalucia, commercial premises and a place to conduct your own business in Nueva Andalucia. We have for sale, restaurants, bars, cafes and shops in Nueva Andalucia. Also for sale in Nueva Andalucia hotels, hostels and guest houses for sale. If in our current offer you can't find interesting property, call our offices in Spain, and we will prepare for you the current portfolio of available best real estate in Nueva Andalucia.
Also in our property range from bank auctions in Spain, bank repossessions, and cheap real estate from the secondary market, such as studios and cheap bedsits for sale in Nueva Andalucia near Marbella and Malaga. Opportunities for people with a low budget designed to purchase Spanish property, and for those undecided about the major investment on the Costa del Sol. We also offer mortgages in Spain in banks in Nueva Andalucia.
When you contact our real estate agents in Andalusia and start the search for your dream second home in Spain, it's useful to know the offer to sell the property from the surrounding cities and towns on Costa del Sol. It's worth comparing property prices in different locations, to be fully aware of your overseas investment decision. You must be absolutely sure that this is a place where you want to spend the next few years, or to profit from renting your Spanish property.
Be sure to check out offers to sell the property to a nearby Marbella and Puerto Banus. Check the real estate prices in San Pedro del Alcantara, see realties in Rio Verde, Puerto Almendro real estate, property for sale in Marbella del Este, which is east of Marbella, and offer to sell property in Manchones Nagueles.
Other sites worth checking prices, are property in Atalaya Isdabe, property in Bahia de Marbella, Benahavis real estate and houses for sale on the surrounding golf courses. Other cities and urbanization worth the investment in foreign real estate is El Herrojo, El Madronal, El Paraiso, Guadalmina real estate, apartments for sale in Guadalpin la Venta, and the houses and apartments in La Quinta, La Heredia, La Alqueria and terraced houses on Lomas de Marbella.
After the signing of the deeds of the property, once you have become a rightful owner of an apartment in Spain, you might be interested in renting your property for vacation. If you just don't have a mortgage on your home, or if you have one. A good idea might be to rent the property for a holiday or long term rental. In this way, you can cover the hole in the family budget, as well as paying your mortgage monthly installments.
The holiday home rental in Nueva Andalucia, you can generate a lot of money from holiday rental and this is due to a very desirable location. Lots of families in Europe and Spain is looking for a holiday home, villa or apartment in Nueva Andalucia, near Marbella. You can get a lot of income from renting your property on the Costa del Sol.
Our real estate agency can take care of renting your property in Spain, as well as we can hold the keys to your apartment in Spain. Another option is a long-term rental apartment in Nueva Andalucia. In this case, we have to look for a solvent and reliable tenant who will regularly pay rent into our Spanish bank account.
The last option for you can be an individual posting your property in the media and on the websites regarding holiday rental, where you can upload photos of your apartment in Nueva Andalucia, and thus customers can find your holiday rental home.
Nueva Andalucia has an excellent geographical location on the Costa del Sol. It's close to Benahavis, a little further from the city of Ronda with beautiful streets, old town and the bullfighting arena. There was born the Spanish Corrida. Estepona is also just a 20 minute drive from Nueva Andalucia.
Nueva Andalucia is home to thousands of foreigners who have bought property here. In Nueva Andalucia lot of people lives from United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Finland and Sweden. Residences have here Russians, Poles, and Latvians. There is no lack in Nueva Andalucia of Dutch, Swiss, and the people of Vienna in Austria. There are French and Italians here. Croats, and many Romanians and Bulgarians.
Best get to Nueva Andalucia from Malaga Airport, which is about 55km from Nueva Andalucia. Even during the summer, this trip should not take more than 1 hour by car. It is convenient to rent a car at the airport in Malaga in one of the many rental companies that are available at the airport. The cost of renting the car, even during the holiday season is not high and reaches up to a few hundred euros for a 4-person family car.
Luxury property Spain
Luxury property for sale in Spain. Premium class properties in our real estate agency portfolio. Top quality properties to buy in Spain. Offers from Costa Blanca South, Costa Blanca North and luxury property for sale on Costa del Sol, Costa Brava and other regions of Spain. Check our offer of so-called top shelf sector of properties. We offer seaside properties, countryside properties, large villas, fincas and luxury premises for sale in Spain.
Check our foreign real estate agency offers. This is the property segment with the highest standard of technology and the highest quality of finishes and fittings in luxury properties. Luxury mansion by the sea in Spain, country estates, large and luxurious villas and estates with a large plot of land. We have it all.
Luxury property in Spain, now at lower prices. Plenty of opportunities from primary and secondary real estate market in Spain.
Luxury properties for sale from IBERMAXX
To call some property a luxury property, it must meet certain standards of this kind, comply with the relevant standards, as defined by the rules of the country. On the Spanish real estate market there are no specific rules and regulations, in order to called property a luxury property. However, there are certain requirements that determine a property called a luxury suite, a luxurious villa or luxury penthouse.
The most important of them include, above all, a high standard of finish, air conditioning (previously installed in the walls of the property), the relevant properties sunlight illumination, the minimum hight of real estate at 2.9 m, and adequate protection against noise coming from outside. High quality windows.
The minimum living area of the luxury property should be 100m2, although there are few exceptions from this rule, such as very good locations in Spain, where real estate prices depend only on the prime and prestigious location. Browse our current offers of luxury homes and apartments in Spain. Here, information on the prices of luxury real estate in Spain.
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The LevelUp! Workshop
The number of Artists in LevelUp! Workshop, watching videos, critiquing each others art, mastering art faster, and smarter. LevelUp! is collaborative, dynamic, and every artist has a unique experience. We're growing fast! The bigger we get, the more powerful the mastermind gets.
LevelUp is now 1 year old with many happy members. Our biggest strength is each other and the the mastermind of all the artists in it. Together we critique, encourage, and inspire each other on our journey through art mastery.
Jason Manley, the instructor of the workshop, and his team collectively has decades of experience in teaching art, building the best art platform technology, and executing it in a very simple way.
Study art from the masters and industry leaders. Get great art workshops, and in-depth assignments that inspire and help you improve. Learn to draw and paint from the ground up, or improve your skills and refine your talent to reach your goals.
Easily create and upload your artwork and assignments, all at your own pace. Share ideas freely. Be open to critique. Get dozens to hundreds of critiques per assignment. The most powerful workshop ever created.
Study art, idea development and design with like minds. Discover colleagues and kindred spirits. Connect with talented artists that strive to improve. We are all here to help you level up and we all love art.
For years I've been plateaued as an artist. I had a handful of useful skills, but never seemed able to take the next step into achieving fine-art abilities. So far, Level Up has been exactly what I've needed. Not only is it giving me inspiring lectures to view, but I'm challenged by the assignments and feedback.
For me, the price and flexibility of the program is exactly what I've been looking for. This course offers the equivalent of what many art schools do, however, the buck stops with you. It's up to you to make it happen and I appreciate that. My only potential concern with this program is that Jason gets swamped by so many students! I'm anticipating Level Up to grow and hope the quality continues.
Level Up is a safe environment to be stretched and develop a thicker skin to evaluate your art. You won't be coddled here, but you will grow and be encouraged in the process. Here's to Stage 2!
"Level up was just what I had been looking for. Real understanding of how everything works, assignments with clear objectives and feedback all without breaking the bank. You also get to work at your own pace, which is cool and leaves out the pressure aspect, but I've found it has given me extra motivation since starting. Now I have clear instructions set out in front of me, and some guidance, there are no more excuses. It's down to me now to practice, learn and improve."
"So far the course teaches the essentials of an art education worth tens of thousands of dollars. The assignments are creative and fun. I know in the past couple weeks I've improved my art skill drastically in both technical ability and art theory."
"This January I saw the Level up! announcement on a Friday and on Monday I signed up.
Level up! is giving me the opportunity of having the mentoring I have been
looking for years and the fighting chance to pursue my dream of being a good Concept Artist.
Jason does an excellent job commenting, correcting and cheering up people
to be self-demanding and get the best they can of their own work to improve
their abilities. Also I believe he is very conscious of his responsibility
and he really enjoys watching his students progress and helping them out.
As long as I can afford it and my right hand keeps working properly,
I'm not going anywhere, I'm staying here to learn from Jason Manley…"
"Level Up is by far one of the best learning experiences i've come across, Jason is an amazing mentor, in only a couple of weeks work i've learned so much and improved my art beyond my expectations, I've still got a VERY long way to go, but now I know i'm on the right track.
I think there is a big difference between a free demo which you can watch, and then do or not do, and a demo which is geared towards a specific class and then followed by an assignment to go say, do 20 studies and post them with your name where you will receive feedback and also be unable to progress until you've done so satisfactorily.
I think if you have incredible self-discipline and lots of time, you can get whatever you need from free learning sources. (And I'm not just talking about art programs, but other areas that folks normally take say, college classes for as well.) The information is out there, but the benefit of a structured class is the structure, the specificity, and the convenience.
If you haven't done the START workshops, I would recommend it. There are 20 master copies in composition 1.1. Even though this is a technique I was aware of, without the structure and the assignment, I would have found excuses. As it is, I'm wrapping up number 20 tonight having done 1 a day since I started, except for 1 day to photograph and upload and 2 that have taken 2-days to complete. I've been able to see improvements, and I never would have done this much on my own at this time – it's super busy for me at work – but the assignment and the structure have let me carry through.
That's the strength I see in an organized program, even one that is go-at-your-own-pace, and I think paying for something makes you take it more seriously, also, just by dint of human nature.
However you choose to study – happy drawing!
"I'm gonna go ahead and say it; this program has been a big help to me already. I'm still forgetting to 'think' when I draw, but I see my faults sooner ( usually about 5 minutes after I posted now…), and its become easier to identify the main issues. A lot of the first level stuff isnt even new to me; I've had a fair share of art-history in art school, it's just somehow easier to apply this time around. maybe its the program, maybe I'm just older now.
"OMG this is just what I need. Thank you so much for doing this! Just signed up for 12 months. I'm looking forward to the courses."
"I can't believe how much this is sharpening my analytical ability when I now view my own works, and others (non-studies). I am excited about these studies, and am finding my ability to keep working a painting (I used to quit way to early) is increasing significantly. cheers!"
"If you're doubting to sign up; It's pretty damn great, and you should sign up right now. No Youtube tutorial or googled instruction book on 'how to draw' comes close to getting some specific feedback from a professional, who also took the time to lay out a course for you with clear goals to aim for. I can't tell you how much it helps to no longer wonder if you're on the right track, because this way you know you are.
You get pushed to get the maximum out of your work with the right feedback on how to achieve it, supported by the underlying theories on why, which are also fully explained in easy-to-understand videos. So you're not only getting better, you also learn why the stuff you make is getting better.
And the cherry on top? It's really affordable compared to other art courses. So if you've got the drive and are committed to becoming great, it's worth saving up for and laying down some money."
It does help man, I'll take doing skulls for an example. About a month ago I was drawing skulls with absolutely no theory-backing. I had an untrained eye and an untrained mind. Then yesterday I drew some more skulls, and the only practicing I did inbetween was the Level-Up classes comp 1.1, comp 1.2, color & light 1.1, and all the instructional videos that go with them.
To me that looks like a noticeable improvement. They're far from perfect awesome skulls, but they're definitely better. I can only blame it on the Level-Up courses, because that's really all I did for practice. The weird part is that the assignments didn't even have me drawing skulls (except the Power-Up one, which is what I'm drawing the skulls for), and yet they've improved. I applied the same theories, techniques and workflow I learned from the assignments to doing those skulls, and it worked. I wouldn't have that skill if I hadn't done Level-Up.
So it does help!
I've only been at LevelUp for about a week, but I'm already seeing drastic improvement.
But, like anything, you get what you put into it. It gets the fire under your posterior, and gets you moving.
Don't think of the cost, think of the value.
Get every bit of value you can out of this amazing experience, if this is what you want to try.
But, you're always going to be the one who's doing the work. No art school, workshop, or course, is going to hand it to you on a silver platter. You're given assignments, and you're expected to put everything into them.
You're getting top advice from peers, and professionals. That gets you in gear, and you'll get where you want to be only as long as you apply yourself.
two months into the program.
1st assignment in – I've definitely been getting a lot of help from Jason's feedback, as well as peer analysis.
2 Months later –
Here's a testimonial from one "Level Upper" I'm a late starter in painting or rather had a 15 year break in it. Painting and drawing was a passion of mine in my childhood and teens, but I let it go. Now with work and family, finding the time to paint is a challenge.
When I found out about this program it was a perfect fit! You can do the studies at your own pace without deadlines or scheduled classes. It's actually amazing how cheap the program is and it offers great videos teaching the subject matter and really valuable feedback on your work. Actually even during the free Start! workshops you already learn a lot.
I'm only in the beginning of the program but here's an example illustrating what I've learned. I started a painting that I promised my wife before starting Level Up. I had a several month break painting it and started the program a few months ago. I just finished the painting now and changed the approach I was taking a lot. Pic below has the work in progress painting before Level Up on the left and on the right the finished one. Of course I have a lot to learn still, but I hope this illustrates my learning of values, composition, edge control and colors.
Huge thanks for Jason and conceptart.org for providing this program!
Jason Manley's instructional videos are very helpful and do a wonderful job of breaking down topics in a way that's easy to understand and to start practicing right away. I came here from an animation program that focuses on animation-specific drawing, and so I was semi-familiar with terms like 'focal point' and 'eye line', but Comp 1.1 video really tied it all together for me– it helped me to figure out what composition is and how to better assess what makes a composition work for or against a painting. The comp painting exercises have been great practice for learning good composition habits, and also have really improved my value accuracy, spatial accuracy, edge work, and speed when drawing from ref.
Jason is also awesome about leaving regular feedback and encouragement for the many (like, MANY) participants on the forum! I'm impressed by that, it must take a lot of time.
Like other people here, I'd been stuck in a plateau before starting here, but within a couple of months after joining had managed to make noticeable improvement! If you're frustrated with your growth as an artist, I'd definitely recommend levelUp– from everything I've seen, if you are serious about improvement, then you WILL see improvement. (I am very much looking forward to jumping back into my own lvUp studies soon!)
All the testimonials are posted by real artists, taking LevelUp. For the original post by the member, visit this thread to see them all.


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Brian Williams returns to TV
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'Awful' photo of drowned migrants sparks outrage
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