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By David Bramante | March 4, 2018
I just finished reading "The Future of Brokerage Black Paper" by Robert Hahn and Sunny Lake (see below), and I've sent it to a handful of top agents and brokerage owners for them to read and weigh in on the ideas. I want to strike a conversation up with these agents about the issues I have been actively wrestling with as a Lead Agent of BRE Investment and now as a Team Leader at Keller Williams Realty Downtown Los Angeles, and I want these conversations and some answers to my questions like… yesterday.
When I ran BRE Investment LLC on its own and out of an office in Silver Lake, in the historic landmark Neutra Office Building, I had a handful of full-time and salaried employees at the brokerage company. And what started out as a boutique real estate company which handled property management, leasing, Airbnb supervision, and brokerage sales in Silver Lake and Echo Park, it eventually dissolved back to its core competency of services… my core competency of real estate sales in Echo Park.
This was a boomerang back to my origin story, because the success of my sales in the area allowed me the opportunity to expand our services, and that uncontrolled expansions which I allowed was the reason we had to retract. As I have told many people over the last few years, I wish I had never expanded our services and I wish I had brought in some commission-based agents. I thought about it on a weekly basis for nearly two years but did not act on any of it, because I allowed myself to be distracted by the new problems we were handling.
Through the experience of running BRE Investment and leading the scope creep of its services, I learned that I had made several mistakes in my calculations of what an effective real estate team / boutique real estate brokerage was about. And looking back, I was ultimately not able to create the winning formula for a boutique brokerage with an eye on expanding into other hip areas, like Venice. What was missing with BRE Investment in those years?
As a recap, I believe me being the only rainmaker on the team selling real estate, and having a staff that focused on the wrong services (management, leasing and Airbnb) was a losing formula. After two years, I went from a single agent to an agent with a team and offering "full-service real estate services" to a single agent yet again. And not much to show for it, except from an imaginary PHD in real estate brokerage. My experiment in expansion had gone terribly, terribly wrong. I slowly and sadly fired the staff one by one, and focused on real estate sales exclusively as a one man band like the old days.
I was older and the world around me in Echo Park had changed. My peers in the area, like Courtney and Kurt, and Tracy Do Real Estate, had increased the size and success of their real estate teams and had dialed in their marketing to very impressive levels. Things on the Eastside had gotten much more competitive in 2017 compared to the old days of 2005 when I first started selling real estate in Echo Park. I realized at that point in early 2017, it made little sense to be a single rainmaker agent, in any way that I looked at it, and I wanted to join a brokerage again.
I started examining my real estate business decisions with regard to building a real estate brokerage. I started reading like a maniac, trying to crack the code on what had gone wrong. I had clearly missed something so obvious. Neglected what haunted me every week. All that wasted time and energy, and all those wasted paychecks I cut every two weeks. It was was a transfer of my commission wealth to my salaried employee's wealth, and I had brought in all the business… so that stung and made me sick.
And so in that mindset I began examine joining a real estate brokerage again. I had worked at Sotheby's, Re/Max, Re/Max Commercial, Marcus & Millichap, Keller Williams Realty Santa Monica, and briefly worked with Brock Harris' mentor Leslie and with Clint Lukens at Clint Lukens Realty.
I ultimately decided to go back to Keller Williams, but this time in Downtown Los Angeles. I knew the ownership and after joining I began discussing taking on a leadership role in the office. While me coming into the brokerage alone was a shift at the office merely because the office didn't have a Team Leader for about six months, my activities were to be focused on the numbers: agent count and company dollar. I wanted to work on these, and continue to sell with my clientele, but with a vengeance. I brought BRE Investment the brand into KW DTLA, and was given a mandate to change KW DTLA once and for all. Previous leaders without sales experience and without experience in managing an office had all failed. So this seemed like a win-win.
The main request was that I recruit, recruit, recruit because that would directly impact company dollar. This was something I felt I should have done, only after the fact, at BRE Investment. And so I would take my skills as a listing agent with a bizarre appreciation for cold calling and start contacting the agents in the area.
And so after six months as the Team Leader of Keller Williams Downtown LA, and as the owner of BRE Investment 2.0, I've been reading hard and fast on how a skilled salesperson can quickly become a proficient manager, and how focusing on being a leader is significantly better than micromanaging as a manager. I am consuming books at an alarming rate, and I love it. And I'm re-reading the ones that bring the most value to me and my agents, recommending some of them so that we're all on the same page and speaking the same language and so that I can change the culture from the inside out.
I started as the Team Leader on September 1, 2017 and officially took control of the position on October 1, 2017. So now six months into the role, we have Keller Williams Realty's Family Reunion event in Anaheim. After being at the event and hearing Gary Keller's Vision Speech, I tracked the activity online as I thought about the ideas. I was quickly on Inman.com, and I found and read Robert Hahn's and Sunny Lake's "black" white paper on the idea of the future of brokerage, and what they envision is the financially successful future of the broker-agent relationship. This is the very problem I have seen and thought about for years.
Experiencing the different pressures of a real estate brokerage first hand, and having started several real estate tech companies myself, Robert and Sunny are asking the questions everyone in real estate should be asking (and should have been asking for a while):
- How is technology going to affect the industry for its current-role players?
- What's the most financially sustainable version of a real estate brokerage now and in the future for its current players?
From where I stand, these are the two important questions of the day. These are the most important questions of the day. So even though it's always on my mind and in my conversations, Robert Hahn is making me think hard and fast about the future of the real estate brokerage.
I'm approaching my role as Team Leader at Keller Williams DTLA like a would-be CEO of a real estate tech company, and I'm only more interested in that now that Gary Keller has announced to the world that KW is a tech company (as of 2018). I actually met with the Josh Team at KWRI in Austin in early December 2017, and spoke to their team about some of the tech ideas that I had.
I'm obsessed with the book "Lean Startup" and tech culture, have taken Ruby on Rails classes at General Assembly, created real estate tech companies and now I have all of that experience juxtaposed against the new experiences I have had as the Team Leader of the office for the last six months. And I'm asking my self how to I reconcile all I have learned with the future of real estate brokerage.
Blog Notes:
- The Future of Brokerage: http://www.notorious-rob.com/future-of-brokerage/
- The Future of Brokerage Black Paper:
- Lean Startup: http://a.co/fvowqQU
David Bramante is the Team Leader & Managing Partner of Keller Williams Realty Downtown Los Angeles, and the manager of BRE Investment in Echo Park.
He has been a top producing California Realtor since 2005, helping clients sell, buy, invest and lease residential and commercial real estate in Los Angeles.
As a real estate consultant, he has hired, mentored and coached over 150 Realtors in Southern California, including many top producing Realtors in Los Angeles County.
For questions about the above blog post, becoming a real estate agent, or joining Keller Williams Realty, send an email to David directly at david (at) breinvestment.com or davidbramante (at) kw.com.


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I've finally figured out how to change the header on my blog - hurrah!
It's not perfect but it's neater, smaller and much more like what I had in mind as my logo is nice and big now. I'm sure I'll be tweaking things for a while yet to come.
I've also added a links page at the side ->
so go have a look there too for more interesting sites for your browsing pleasure.
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It's time again to answer questions from you, my vigilant fans! Got a question for the Governor? Sound off at Ora.tv/OffTheGrid.
J. David Scott from Ontario, Canada asks: Jesse...Any chance I could convince you to become a Canadian and straighten out the clowns running this country?
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No, it's too cold up there. I left Minnesota, why would I go to Canada? That's too far north. Ha!
-Jesse Ventura
Ronald Cavalier from Ohio writes: The bombing of the MSF Hospital in Afghan was no accident because the doctors treat all sides of the war. Your thoughts on this?
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There's where we need another investigation right now. It's a reminder to the public that when we go to war, the major casualties are always civilian. So all those people out there that support war need to remember that the civilians are usually the ones that die the most.
This is a prime example of it. Shameful.
-Jesse Ventura
Terry McPhink fromSouth Dakota writes: What are your thoughts on Ben Carson?
Jesse Says:
I'm not paying attention to the Republicans that much.
I respect him as a medical doctor but I also question him, because he seems to lack any scientific position. You would think that someone who has worked in medicine would be more respectful of science and believe in it more.
-Jesse Ventura
Mark Lukic from New York asks: Hypothetically, if your son wanted to join the military during this time of perennial war, would you support his choice? Or would you try and convince him not to join?
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I would try to convince him not to join.
My definition of a just war is this; a war is justified if you're willing to send your kids to fight it. I'm not willing to send my kid to the Middle East. I would try to talk him out of it.
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Mira Fischer / Patrick Kampkötter:
Effects of the German Universities' Excellence Initiative on Ability Sorting of Students and Perceptions of Educational Quality
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Is Soft Paternalism Ethically Legitimate? - The Relevance of Psychological Processes for the Assessment of Nudge-Based Policies
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If I close my eyes, nobody will get hurt. The effect of ignorance on performance in a real effort experiment
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Janna Ter Meer:
The indirect effect of monetary incentives on deception
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Anastasia Danilov / Timo Vogelsang:
Time for Helping
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Lying
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"Read my Lips!" Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Electoral Competition on Shirking and Trust
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Food and dessert bars have become a popular trend for today's weddings. Whether you want luxurious and elegant or simple and fun, there are tons of ideas for snack stations that will reflect on your personality and compliment the theme of your wedding. Here are a few of the most popular options.
Popcorn Bar
Set up a gourmet popcorn buffet with different flavors so guests can make custom combinations. Make the station pop with different colored popcorns that compliment the aesthetic and theme of your wedding. Add a station that houses toppings and seasonings, such as peanuts, nacho cheddar, candy, and chocolate chips. Provide favor bags so guests can take snacks to go.
French Fry Station
Add pizzazz to your french fry station by serving crinkle cut, shoestring, wedge, waffle, sweet potato and regular fries. Complete your setup with delectable toppings and dips like truffle oil, aioli, sea salt, blue cheese, beef and gravy, and anything else you think your guests will love.
Biscuits and Grits Bar
Do you want a food bar with Southern charm? You can't go wrong with a Southern biscuit and grits station. Offer different flavors of homemade biscuits, such as cheddar and jalapeno or traditional buttermilk. Serve plain or cheddar grits with crumbled bacon and shredded cheddar cheese. Add a table with additional toppings and condiments such as, sausage gravy, flavored butters, and honey.
Mini Cupcake Bar
For this idea, you can either serve pre-made cupcakes or set up a bar where guests can make their own. Select different flavored cupcakes, such as vanilla, chocolate, or red velvet. Set the cupcakes on decorative stands and provide different flavors of frosting as well as an array of toppings.
Snowball Station
Another Southern favorite sure to keep guests cool during those spring and summer weddings are snowballs! This is a perfect treat for a New Orleans wedding and the flavor combinations are endless. Offer different flavored liqueurs so guests can spice up their chilly treats.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Day 19: an owl egg cosy
This project was like a last
minute essay.
You finish it on time but
you really don't want
to hand it in.
I like some parts of it, namely
(I did change the wings)
and I was happy with the fabrics
that I chose.
But I don't like the look
of leaving the edges raw and
I'm not happy with my
The back actually was going
to be the front and I had cut
out wings with Elvis on it.
I thought it would look so cool
but it just didn't work
although I liked the look
of the guitar.
5 comments:
- intothedawn said...
OMG that is totally adorable! It turned out very cute, but I think I agree, not quite liking the edges left raw, I'd be afraid of raveling over time. Still, very sweet little egg cozy!
- February 19, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- emosback said...
very sweet. I like the raw edges! :)
- February 19, 2010 at 8:55 PM
- sukigirl said...
Thanks guys, I really appreciate your comments!
I've seen this technique done brilliantly by other people.
I'm starting to see past some of my mistakes and seeing the sweetness in him too.
I would love to make him over again and take my time with these new techniques.
- February 20, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Mette aka mettuska said...
Nice work! Owls are always so inspirating (is that the right word?) I have to go and draw something now...:)
- February 20, 2010 at 9:59 AM
- sukigirl said...
Thanks Mette, yes they are so inspiring (you were very close :0)
When my knitting skills improve I really want to tackle some owl gloves.
- February 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM
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Roxy Music – The First Five
Roxy Music has always been about style. Formed in 1971 from a bunch of art school dropouts (Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzenera, Andy Mackay, Paul Thompson, Eddie Jobson, Brian Eno, et al) they would record 5 great albums back to back. The band looked sharp in space glam gear (later it would be expensive suits) and played a mix of rock, glam, psych, frak-out and pop that would, though not as highly regarded in the US, be in direct competition w/ David Bowie in the early 70's. For the cover art of their first 5 LPs they chose women, (not band photos) to illustrate their style and their 1940's mindset. Each had one of the 70's hottest models on a beautiful gatefold sleeve, (with the band photograph inside). 1974's Country Life saw a small break from form with 2 nearly nude models posed amongst some pine trees. Most of the copies got through uncensored but the US censored copy is hilarious (just the trees). Some were also delivered as the nude cover w/ an opaque green cellophane outer sleeve. Below are the original covers along w/ a few outtakes. Enjoy the covers then go buy the music. BTW Siren has the big hit "Love Is A Drug".
Big Fan: Roxy Music
Roxy Music – formed by a bunch of British Art School lads in 1972, Roxy Music went on to record 8 lps, heavily influence the glam and later punk scene in Britain, turn Bryan Ferry into an international superstar and Eno into a brilliant ambient musician and one of the most sought after producers in the world. Never really big in the US (except for 1975's Love is a Drug and 1982's Avalon) they were huge, huge, everywhere else in the world. Starting off as a super-glam outfit and morphing into a more lounge lizard, sophisticated persona, Roxy still performs today, after many splits and reunions – in a truncated version (Ferry, Mackay & Manzenara). Ferry tours on his solo work and has recently appeared in H & M ads. Eno (real name Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno) records an occaisional LP and collaborates with David Byrne on various projects as well as producing (Bowie, U2, Devo, Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, et al.) The later LPs are more lush and easier on the ears. The first 2 w/ Eno are a art school freakout with odd early synth bleeps and psych guitar work by Manzanera, and Ferry's wobbley croon on top of it all. Highly recommended – check out "For Your Pleasure" or 'Stranded" as a good starting point to their early career.
Brian Eno
Bryan Ferry
Photographers: Mick Rock
Mick Rock (born 1948, London England). Known as "The Man Who Shot the Seventies" Mick has been a busy man. He's probably best known for his shots of Bowie (as his official photographer), Lou Reed and Iggy – among hundreds of others. He's shot the covers of Lou Reed's Transformer, Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs, Queen II, Joan Jett's I Love Rock n Roll as well as the chief photographer for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Short Bus. Wait there's more, he's directed the videos for Bowies' John I'm Only Dancing, Gene Jeanie, Space Oddity and Life on Mars. His recent subjects include The Misfits, Snoop Dogg, The YeahYeahYeahs, The Chemical Brothers, Queens of the Stone Age, Daft Punk, and on and on, and on and on. He currently lives in NY with his wife and daughter and continues to shoot and show. Check out his site at www.mickrock.com
And the best Mick Rock photo ….. ever
Style: Skinny Rock Stars in Expensive Skinny Suits
This appeared in NY Times Style with the title "Ballad of a Thin Man……Godfathers of Glam Who can Still Rock a Skinny Suit" I think that pretty much says it all.


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This is my first time sleeping at Malay Kampung. We actually went to Kampung Baru Huma Luas, Chenor, Temerloh, Pahang for Bakti Siswa. Bakti Siswa is actually a kind of activity by university to bring benefits to the village and villager there. Rui Jing, Ranjeni and I were sisters at there. I was glad that I can be the youngest. (n.n) Our father, En Asri (or Tok Pat) is the head of village. He told us that others villager might dont want to adopt us because we are from different religion. He really good to adopt us. He also told us that last time he also adopt one chinese guy from Sabah when they organise activity at the kampung. I was very happy and respect to Tok Pat that he treated us equally regardless of race and religion.
We had lunch in his house, prepared by his daughter. One of the dishes is Ikan Patin goreng. Our mother said that when you come to Pahang, you must eat Ikan Patin, because it is one of the dishes only in Pahang. The fish is only available in Sungai Pahang.
I done the painting too. The words JKKK is my drawing. Everyone said that the letter JKKK is the nicest, Muahahaha. I did not know I done mural before or not (or maybe I had not done for a long time), but I was satisfied with my painting skill.
Rui Jing and me is showing our first-done-Bunga-Telur in our live.
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Ric Flair Coming Out of Retirement and Returning To The Ring?
by admin on Nov.05, 2008, under Wrestling News
Could Ric Flair really be lacing up his boots once again?
After an amazing sendoff at WrestleMania earlier this year, Ric Flair is rumored to be considering stepping back into the ring.
During a question and answer session with fans at a 1PW event in Great Britain last weekend, Ric Flair admitted that he is considering a return to the ring. Flair claimed that his retirement from wrestling only applies to the United States and Europe, and he has stated that he is in talks with promoters in Japan regarding some potentially big money matches with wrestlers such as Great Muta and Masa Chono.
Flair stated that while part of him would like to do the matches, he's conflicted because of his promise to Shawn Michaels that Wrestlemania XXIV would be his final wrestling match.
For what its worth, Hulk Hogan did a radio interview up in Rochester, New York: and spoke about Ric Flair's retirement. Hogan said that it was a great storyline but he doesn't think we have seen the last of Ric Flair in the ring.


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Most Poignant and Memorable TV Drama Characters
Huang Rong in TVB 1983 Legend of the Condor Heroes (Barbara Yung), first viewing in 1990
Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Tang Guoqiang), first viewing in 1996 or 1997
Xiao Yanzi in original Huan Zhu Ge Ge (Vicki Zhao), first viewing in 1999
Jang and Princess Seonhwa in Ballad of Seodong (Jo Hyun Jae & Lee Bo Young), first viewing in 2006
Seol Gongchan and Joo Yoo Rin in My Girl (Lee Dong Wook & Lee Dae Hee), first viewing in 2006
Xu Changqing in Chinese Paladin 3 (Wallace Huo), first viewing in 2009
If I have to coin one term to describe Wallace Huo in Chinese Paladin 3, it would be "innocently dreamy." He was perfect as the loveable and gullible Daoist priest with an uptight personality. Most people who played the game do not like Xu Changqing as a character. Fortunately, the scriptwriter and Wallace Huo's wonderful performance completely transform Xu Changqing from a lackluster scum into one of the best characters in the series. His innocence about the material world and his adorable mannerism didn't feel contrived nor forceful. Because of this successful performance, I became a semi-Wallace Huo fan. And despite his popularity, I really admire how low-key he remains in real life. I think Wallace does a pretty good job in picking out his roles.
Bidam in Quean Seondeok (Kim Nam Gil), first viewing in 2009
Mo Shaoqian in Sealed with a Kiss (Hawick Lau), first viewing in 2011
Top 6 Favorite Characters in Sealed with a Kiss (read the last paragraph)
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Ashley Williams November 4, 2005 HIST 218 - Ramsey The Romantic Hero in Goethe's Faust Long hailed as the watershed of Romantic literature, Goethe's Faust uses the misadventures of its hero to parallel the challenges that pervaded European society in the dynamic years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Faust is the prototypical Romantic hero because the transformation of his attitudes mirrors the larger transformation that was occurring in the society in which Goethe conceived the play. Faust's odyssey transports him from adherence to the cold rationale of the Enlightenment to a passion for the pleasures that came to define the Romantic spirit. Faust not only expresses the moral contradictions and spiritual yearnings of a man in search of fulfillment, but also portrays the broader mindset of a society that was groping for meaning in a world where reason no longer sufficed as a catalyst for human cultural life. The period of German Romanticism in which Goethe wrote Faust was plagued with the same intrinsic turmoil that Faust himself felt prior to making his deal with Mephisto. The destruction that the French Revolution had exacted on the European consciousness was evident in the attitudes of the people most touched by the tumult of the era - people who came to realize that absolution was no longer a pertinent intellectual goal. ...read more.
He rejects the popular deism of the Enlightenment with the attitude that "feeling is everything" (line 3521). Happiness, God, and the heart form a mysterious single entity that flows through the universe. Faust's choice to venture into the occult parallels the trend towards mysticism seen in Romantic culture. He summons the power of the supernatural through declaring himself a God. This act embodies the Romantic attitudes that glorified the primacy of the individual. Faust supports the idea of individual primacy when he tells Wagner that the self is the place from where everything originates (line 590). The context of Faust's statement that he is "the one made in the very image of God" conveys the Emersonian notion that because God is invested in every man, a man rules his own moral universe (line 635). Faust's rejection of Enlightenment principles is evident in throughout the play. The contrast he makes between the rational world and the world of imagination (line 660) is a typical Romantic complaint about the rationalist period from which he was emerging. Like Goethe's Romantic contemporaries, Faust glorifies the culture of past eras, where art expressed a mode of life driven by imagination - a far cry from the formulaic restraint of the Enlightenment. ...read more.
He feels remarkably guilty about what he has done to Gretchen and blames his lust on her downfall, exclaiming, "I wish I had never been born!" (line 4688). The tragic irony of the situation is that Faust only becomes capable of true love after it is too late to save Gretchen from her fate. The lesson of Gretchen's heavenly salvation espouses the quintessentially Romantic notion of the spirituality of true love. This attitude allows for her redemption, despite her sins, because "all her crime was love" (line 4501). Goethe's Faust is a work in which a new type of hero emerges to satisfy the needs of a changing society. With Faust, Goethe succeeded in representing a microcosm of the tensions that accompanied the shift from rationalism to Romanticism. Complex and dynamic, Faust, like the great men of his era, is a hero whose most notable achievement is his transformation of the lives of others as well as his own. In this respect, the lesson of the Romantic hero is comprised less of romance than of utility. Following the trends of the Goethe's contemporary evolving society, the means by which Faust succeeds in accomplishing his goals are largely selfish, brutal, and unethical. This is perhaps Goethe's single greatest reflection on the modern nature of heroism. ?? ?? ?? ?? 5 ...read more.
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This paper describes a dynamic model developed for the purpose of determining the final equilibrium configurations of buoyantly unstable icebergs. The model places no restrictions on the size, shape, or dimensionality of the iceberg, or on the variation range of the configuration coordinates. Furthermore, it includes all six degrees of freedom and is based on a Lagrangian formulation of the dynamic equations of motion. It can be used to advantage in those situations in which the iceberg has a complicated potential function and can acquire enough momentum and kinetic energy in the initial phase of its motion to make its final configuration uncertain on the basis of a static potential analysis. The behavior of the model is examined through several model simulations. The sensitivity of the final equilibrium position to the initial orientation and shape of the iceberg is clearly evident in the model simulations. Model simulations also show that when an iceberg is released from a nonequilibrium initial state, the time taken for it to settle down varies from about 40 s for a growler to nearly 400 s for a large iceberg. While these absolute times may change with better parameterization of the forces, the relative variations with iceberg size are likely to be preserved.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Honduras_Costa Rica (Liberia, La Fortuna, Monte Verde, San Jose)
Crossing the border of Honduras into Costa Rica was really easy and a very different feeling. At the costa rica border, queues were formed in a very orderly manner. The buses awaiting at the entrance were also forming neat lines and it was air-conditioned! -- I guess in all places that has large groups of tourists coming in all the time, there is much more scrunity on the small detaisl such as queues and orders.
With my immigration pass stamped, I quickly bought a ticket from the bus ticket guy and made my way to my first stop: Liberia.
Some information about Liberia: In this town lives over 35,000 people. Liberia is the capital of the Gunacaste province. It is known for its churches architectual and its national parks but most tourists by pass liberia to go to the beaches such as Tamarindo, Playa de Coco , playa hermosa etc etc ( Europeans and US citizens love it there! )
And what greeted me along the way was the wonderful amount of greenery all around.
It reminded me of the fresh air in Munnar India. Loved that place totally.
And the wind turbines that was planted along the way created a very countryside feeling which I liked.
Finally reached the town and loved it immediately. I love all the small dainty towns- because it gives you an atmosphere of relaxation and friendliness. ( Alot of people had said I look like a guatemalan so when I was there, everyone spoke to me in spanish hahaha) Searched around for hostels and realised that most of the hostels had rooms for two, so even if it was only me, I need to pay the price of 2 which was not worth it for me. So I searched around for places with dormitories and I was so relief when I finally found one after 15 minutes of searching - thank God for small towns. Put my bag down and started roaming around-
Loving the decorations all around for an upcoming celebration
sat chilling in front of the church , appreciating its architectual and surroundings
and witnessed a wedding in procession for about an hour or two,
and looking at small children play in the playground nearby and them bouncing on a trampolin. Did I mention alot of Central American children are very beautiful and most are of mix heritage because of the US peacecorps who came, travellers who comes so often and the different roots such as Indian, Chinese etc. They are so beautiful - some with long eye lashes, some with such nice skin color, some with such sweet smiles etc etc
Felt hungry and so I decided to find the famous local food store before it closed.
Really yummy as usual. - black bean rice with huevos and banana chips
After dinner, drowsyness came over me. Decided to sleep and prepare for the travelling for the next day to Monteverde.Because the schedule for the buses were not fixed and only could be known in the morning, I made my way once I woke up at around 8am. Realised I had missed the morning bus to Monteverde and had to wait till around late evening, I tried to plan of what I could do. Searched through the guidebook and decide to go to La Fortuna for the famous Arena Volcano and the natural hot spring which was indeed an eye-opener, the place though touristy, is really nice. Imagine seeing red lava flowing out from the volcano and natural hot spring out in the forest. More will be explained later :)
Upon arrival to La Fortuna, founded the youth hostel Gringo Petes that was recommended and indeed it was quite a lovely place to stay at though the toilets are a little small.They have individual big lockers for you to safekeep your things which is very useful and good for a hostel to have since for 3/4 of the day you would not be there.
Quickly asked the hostel regarding the tour to the Volcano and the hot spring. It was arranged. It was not cheap but it was not expensive either. Most of the tours start in evening so I made my way exploring the town.
Before though, I went to find some food to satisfy my hunger.
Looks similar like the rest. But this time its black bean rice with sweet potatoes.
Spotted the misty volcano because of the rain ( wondered whether it would affect the lava flowing)and the animals that were in the fields and the murals of the town
Time flew pass and soon it was time to go back to the hostel for the tour
first we stopped by a forest and had to trek a little through a trail and come up to a shelter that had a few groups there as well. The tour guide then pointed to a pitch of darkness from afar and said that you will be able to see the lava spewing. ( I was thinking to myself, what!?!?) But after 1 hour of waiting and feeding of mosquitos, the tour guide announced that because of the rain we are unable to see the lava. I was a little disappointed because I have never seen it before. As we drove off on the way to the hot spring. Suddenly he stopped and asked us to get out of the car and bring our cameras along. I looked up and Oh my,first there was red liquid bubbling then it started flowing out with steam all around it.
The feeling of seeing that happen before your eyes is awesome. It also made me pray for the people who stays near volcano because seeing the volcano spew, I cant imagine how some town were envelop in lava when their volcano erupt, taking away their things, their lives and turning them into ashes.
Capturing the sights with our camera, we made our way to the natural hot spring ( it was like a mystery). He brought us to another forest, then told us to follow another trail, we were told to climb down some stones, and before us was a stream. Told to strip to our basics, then walk in slowly to the edge then jump in ( it was a little scary because the water was rushing along and the area where we were told to jump in, we initially did not know the depth and not knowing what was in the water.) and lucky me, I was chosen to go in first. Thank God nothing was there. The water was warm , not hot. but still the feeling of being out in the opening under warm water was still quite comforting. After half an hour, the tour guide called us up where we all quickly tried to change.
Felt really really sleepy then so I am thankful this was a tour where i could sleep and not worry because it will stop directly in front of my hostel.
La Fortuna was a good place to be for me :)
The next morning, I left for Monteverde which was famous for its adventure activities like rafting, bungee jump etc and its cloud forest. When I got to Monteverde, I went from one hostel to another but it was totally packed to the brim. ( please book beforehand, most of the hostels are fully booked for most of the period, its a tourist town)Finally I pleaded with one of the hostel lady and she helped me recheck and told me that there is a lady that will be moving out in the evening so I can put my bag in her office while I walk around then come back and move back in during the evening. However because the room was booked for the next day, I needed to find another hostel. At that moment, I was so thankful for that lady. It was the hostel with the internet and reception room upstairs and seperated from the hostel living rooms.Went to the vistor arrival center to find out about the timing to Monte Verde. Realised that they charged us by per one-way ride. It was too early in the morning to walk so I booked a one-way ride to the Santa Elena cloud forest and then decided to walk back after since I had the time and could explore the area as well.
In the morning was the first group to reach the Santa Elena cloud forest. Was wonderful being in the forest all alone. Just exploring. Following signs. My aim was to reach the highest that I could.
Some very interesting sights
1. Bleeding barks\
2. Interesting flowers/fruits
3. nice birds
With my feet filled with mud and being close to the top, I ended my trek up.
and began my walk back to the town. It was a fantastic idea. Loved the exploration
The fields,
The art shops
Finally got back to town after 2 hours plus 3 hours of walking.Rested my weary back. and quickly went to find another hostel to move in to spend the night. Found one by God's grace. The weird thing was that the room ahd 4 beds , 2 were occupied by 2 males and I was the only girl in the room. Shouldnt it be seperated? Well could not complain , was too tired. That night, the wind howled and blew and it was so cold. And they did not have hot water for the toilet on the first floor. The wind was so strong till the roofs kept rattling and the doors keep slamming shut even though we have put on the ledge and I could hear the wind howling in my ears because my bed was near the window.
The next morning, I made my way to San Jose for the plane back to Guatemala and then back to Monterrey :)
This ends my trip in Central America, I had fun and also scares travelling alone. But the experience was really well-lived. Thumbs up!
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The Trump administration has terminated the humanitarian program that enabled nearly 60,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States following an earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010, killing thousands, displacing more than a million, and sparking an ongoing outbreak of cholera. An announcement made by Homeland Security officials Monday set an expiration date of July 2019 to allow for the affected to make arrangements to leave.
The Temporary Protected Status program, signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, allows foreign nationals from countries affected by natural disaster or armed conflict to remain in the U.S. and apply for work permits. Periodically, the government reviews each group and decides whether to maintain their status. The Obama administration renewed protections for Haitians several times, citing poor conditions at home—as Politico reports, roughly 40,000 people who lost their homes in the earthquake still live in camps.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke, facing a Thanksgiving deadline to renew the T.P.S. status for Haitians, decided against it. After consulting U.S. and Haitian officials (who asked the Trump administration to extend the protected status), Duke declared that the on-the-ground conditions in Haiti no longer warranted the protection granted under the program. Monday's judgement was based on determinations that the "extraordinary conditions" for justifying their presence in the United States "no longer exist."
"Since the 2010 earthquake, the number of displaced people in Haiti has decreased by 97 percent," a statement from the Department of Homeland Security said. "Significant steps have been taken to improve the stability and quality of life for Haitian citizens, and Haiti is able to safely receive traditional levels of returned citizens."
The Trump administration has repeatedly stated that the program is meant to be temporary, not a route to permanent residency in the U.S. Back in May, then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly granted Haitians a six-month T.P.S. extension, shorter than is standard, and suggested that they "need to start thinking about returning." Consequently, thousands crossed the border into Canada, hoping to receive asylum in Quebec.
Monday's decision sent dismay through the remaining Haitian communities in the U.S., who are primarily based in Florida. Those who have found jobs face the prospect of scouring for work in a country with high unemployment rates. For those who had children while living in the U.S., the options are even more bleak: they can leave their children (born U.S. citizens) with a guardian, take them back to the unfamiliar Haiti, or remain with them illegally in the U.S., constantly evading deportation. The effects will be felt sharply back in Haiti, too. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, its struggle to rebuild relies heavily on money sent home from the U.S. As the Times notes, remittances from the Haitian diaspora totaled $2.36 billion in 2016.
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XV. One Must Fellowship Clearly How to Discern the Essence of the Pharisees and of the Religious World That Defies God
5. What is the consequence of someone who believes in God in religion and suffers the confusion and control of the Pharisees and antichrists? Can one be saved by God if they believe in God this way?
Bible Verses for Reference:
"They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch" (Mat 15:14).
"For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed" (Isa 9:16).
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings" (Hos 4:6-9).
Relevant Words of God:
Pastors and leaders in the religious world, for example, rely on their gifts and positions to do their work. People who follow them for a long time will be infected by their gifts and be influenced by some of what they are. They focus on people's gifts, abilities and knowledge, and they pay attention to some supernatural things and many profound unrealistic doctrines (of course, these profound doctrines are unattainable). They do not focus on changes to people's disposition, but rather they focus on training people's preaching and working abilities, improving people's knowledge and rich religious doctrines. They do not focus on how much people's disposition is changed or how much people understand the truth. They do not concern themselves with the substance of people, much less try to know people's normal and abnormal states. They do not counter people's notions or reveal their notions, much less mend their deficiencies or corruptions. Most of the people who follow them serve by their natural gifts, and what they express is knowledge and vague religious truth, which are out of touch with reality and are completely unable to confer people with life.
from "God's Work and Man's Work" in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Those who have not undergone judgment express nothing but human flesh and thoughts, mingled with a lot of human intelligence and innate talents. It is not man's accurate expression of God's work. The people who follow them are brought before them by their innate caliber. Because they express too many seeings and experiences of man, which are almost disconnected from God's original meaning, and deviate too far from it, the work of this type of person is unable to bring people before God, but before him. … what he demands of people does not vary from individual to individual; he does not work according to the actual needs of the people. In this type of work, there are too many rules and too many doctrines, and it cannot bring people into reality or into normal practice of growth in life. It can only enable people to stand by a few worthless rules. This kind of guidance can only lead people astray. He leads you to become what he is like; he can bring you into what he has and is.
from "God's Work and Man's Work" in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Those who do not understand the truth always follow others: If people say that this is the work of the Holy Spirit, then you, too, say it is the work of the Holy Spirit; if people say it is the work of an evil spirit, then you, too, become doubtful, or also say it is the work of an evil spirit. You always parrot the words of others, and are incapable of distinguishing anything by yourself, nor are you able to think for yourself. This is someone without a position, who is unable to differentiate—such a person is a worthless wretch! Such people always repeat the words of others: Today it is said that this is the work of the Holy Spirit, but chances are one day someone will say it isn't the work of the Holy Spirit, and nothing but the deeds of man—yet you can't discern this, and when you witness it said by others, you say the same thing. It is actually the work of the Holy Spirit, but you say it is the work of man; have you not become one of those who blaspheme against the work of the Holy Spirit? In this, have you not opposed God because you cannot differentiate?
from "Only Those Who Know God and His Work Can Satisfy God" in The Word Appears in the Flesh
There exist in the church many people who have no discernment, and when something deceptive happens they just stand by Satan's side. When they are called Satan's lackeys they feel so wronged. And someone might say they have no discernment, but they always stand on the side without truth. There has not been a single critical time when they have stood on the side of truth, not a single time when they have stood up and argued for the truth, so are they really without discernment? Why do they always stand by Satan's side? Why do they never say one word that is fair or reasonable for the truth? Is this situation really created by their momentary confusion? The less discernment someone has, the less able they are to stand on the side of truth. What does this show? Does it not show that those without discernment love evil? Does it not show that those without discernment are the loyal offspring of Satan? Why is it that they are always able to stand on the side of Satan and speak the same language as it? Their every word and deed, and their expressions prove amply that they are not any kind of lover of the truth, but rather that they are people who detest the truth. That they can stand on the side of Satan proves amply that Satan really loves these petty devils who fight for Satan's sake all their lives. Are all these facts not abundantly clear? If you truly are someone who loves the truth, then why can't you have any regard for those who practice the truth, and why do you immediately follow those who do not practice the truth the minute they have a slight change of countenance? What kind of problem is this?
from "A Warning to Those Who Do Not Practice the Truth" in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Some people do not rejoice in the truth, much less judgment. Rather, they rejoice in power and riches; such people are deemed to be snobs. They exclusively seek out those denominations in the world with influence and those pastors and teachers coming from seminaries. Despite having accepted the way of truth, they remain skeptical and are unable to devote themselves fully. They speak of sacrificing for God, but their eyes are focused on the great pastors and teachers, and Christ is brushed aside. Their hearts are filled with fame, fortune, and glory. They do not believe at all that such a meager man is capable of conquering so many, that one so unremarkable is capable of perfecting people. They do not believe at all that these nobodies among the dust and dunghills are the people chosen by God. They believe that if such people were the objects of God's salvation, then heaven and earth would be turned upside down and all men would laugh their heads off. They believe that if God chose such nobodies to be perfected, then those great men would become God Himself. Their perspectives are tainted with unbelief; indeed, far from unbelief, they are preposterous beasts. For they only value position, prestige, and power; what they hold in high regard are large groups and denominations. They have no regard at all for those led by Christ; they are simply traitors who have turned their backs on Christ, on truth, and on life.
What you admire is not the humility of Christ, but those false shepherds of prominent standing. You do not love the loveliness or wisdom of Christ, but those wantons who associate with the vile world. You laugh at the pain of Christ who has no place to lay His head, but admire those corpses that seize offerings and live in debauchery. You are not willing to suffer alongside Christ, but gladly go into the arms of those reckless antichrists though they supply to you only flesh, only letters, and only control. Even now your heart still turns toward them, toward their reputation, toward their standing in the hearts of all the Satans, and toward their influence and authority. And yet you continue to hold an attitude of resisting and refusing to accept the work of Christ. This is why I say that you do not have the faith of acknowledging Christ. The reason you have followed Him to this day is entirely because you were forced. In your heart forever tower many lofty images; you cannot forget their every word and deed, nor their influential words and hands. They are, in your heart, forever supreme and forever heroes. But this is not so for the Christ of today. He is forever insignificant in your heart and forever undeserving of reverence. For He is far too ordinary, has far too little influence, and is far from lofty.
from "Are You a True Believer of God?" in The Word Appears in the Flesh
It would be best for those people who say they follow God to open their eyes and take a good look to see exactly who they believe in: Is it really God that you believe in, or Satan? If you know that what you believe in is not God but your own idols, then you had best not say you are a believer. If you really do not know who you believe in then, again, you had best not say you are a believer. To say that would be blasphemy! No one is forcing you to believe in God. Do not say you believe in Me, as I heard enough of those words long ago and I do not wish to hear them again, because what you believe in are the idols in your hearts and the local villainous snakes among you. Those who shake their heads when they hear the truth, who smile widely when they hear talk of death are the offspring of Satan, and they are all objects to be eliminated.
from "A Warning to Those Who Do Not Practice the Truth" in The Word Appears in the Flesh
If there are several local villainous snakes in a church, as well as some small flies who follow them who have no discernment whatsoever, if those of the church still cannot cast off the binds and manipulation of these snakes after they have seen the truth, then these fools will be eliminated in the end. Though these small flies may not have done anything terrible, they are even more cunning, even more slick and evasive and everyone like this will be eliminated. Not one will be left! Those who belong to Satan will be returned to Satan, while those who belong to God will surely go in search of the truth; this is determined by their natures. Let all those who follow Satan perish! No pity will be shown to these people. Let those who search for the truth attain provision and allow them to take pleasure in God's word to their hearts' content. God is righteous; He does not treat people unjustly. If you are a devil then you will be incapable of practicing the truth. If you are someone who searches for the truth then it is certain that you will not be taken captive by Satan—this is beyond all doubt.
from "A Warning to Those Who Do Not Practice the Truth" in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Because of their petty cleverness, those without discernment will come to ruin in the hands of evil people and they will be led astray by evil people and will be unable to return. These people should be handled in this way, as they do not love the truth, because they are incapable of standing on the side of the truth, because they follow evil people, they stand on the side of evil people, and because they collude with evil people and defy God. They know perfectly well that those evil people radiate evil but they harden their hearts and follow them, moving contrary to the truth. Are these people who do not practice the truth but who do destructive and abominable things not all doing evil? Although there are those among them who style themselves as kings and those who trail along behind, are their God-defying natures not all the same? What excuse can they have to say that God does not save them? What excuse can they have to say that God is not righteous? Is it not their own evil that will destroy them? Is it not their own rebelliousness that will drag them down into hell? Those who practice the truth will in the end be saved and made perfect through the truth. Those who do not practice the truth will in the end invite ruination through the truth. These are the ends that await those who practice the truth and those who do not.
from "A Warning to Those Who Do Not Practice the Truth" in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Recall what followed after the Jews nailed Jesus to the cross 2,000 years ago. The Jews were expelled from Israel and fled to countries around the world. Many were killed, and the entire Jewish nation was subjected to unprecedented destruction. They had nailed God to the cross—committed a heinous crime—and provoked the disposition of God. They were made to pay for what they did, were made to bear the consequences of their actions. They condemned God, rejected God, and so they had but one fate: to be punished by God. This is the bitter consequence and disaster that their rulers brought upon their country and nation.
from "God Presides Over the Fate of All Mankind" in The Word Appears in the Flesh


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Go to SETUP | SETTINGS |BOOKING ENGINE SETTINGS to set up features and functions for your website and change the system labeling.
Booking Engine Settings affect how your rooms display and what information required from guests. Although most of these are primarily for your website, there are a couple of settings that do effect the Front Desk and GDS Bookings. These fields are labeled with (Front desk) and (GDS). If you are using buuteeq as your interface, then much of this information is controlled in your buuteeq interface.
See Property Profile Website and GDS and System Setup
When you click on Booking Engine Settings, the screen will appear with the default settings shown below. These settings are available to enable certain features in your PMS and on your Booking Engine.
To edit these Settings, click Edit at the lower right of the screen.
For details on each section and how to Edit the information, see the links below.
To see the details of each section, click on the title and a list will expand:
- Show Room Type Calendars – To enable a Room Type menu to appear below the calendar in the inquiry page of the booking engine, so that guests can see availability for specific Room Types, choose YES. Useful for properties with many room types, or properties where each room type is a unique room such as a Vacation Rental or a B&B with theme rooms.
- Number of Guests: Don't prompt for number of guests on enquiry page – Every Room Type has a Maximum Capacity. If you prompt for 'the number of guests' on the enquiry page, then results will be limited to Room Types with capacity to match the number of guests. In fact, guests often book several rooms; if you limit the available options to rooms that match the group capacity then you may miss out on bookings. For example, 4 people may prefer to book 2 Double Rooms (max capacity 2) rather than a Family Room (max capacity 4). If you want to ask for Number of Guests, choose YES.
- Show Guest Types – Choose YES. to enable the booking engine to dispaly Guest Types during the booking process.
- Use Promo Codes- Choose YES. to enable the use of Promo codes set up in My Agents.
- Advertise rates tax exempt - if your property is in a tax jurisdiction that allows you to advertise rates without taxes included in the rate advertised (such as most USA properties); or if your property is tax exempt(rare case); tick this box.
- Display room capacity and number of beds on results page – displays under each available room on the results screen - helpful information.
- Number of Rooms Available – on the results screen, there is a column that will display the number of available rooms for ach room type. Some properties want to prefer to hide this information.
- Display Room Type Thumbnails – Displays a small thumbnail image of the room type on the results page. (Front Desk)
- Display Restricted Rates – if you wish to show restricted rates with an explanation of the restriction – such as a minimum stay or maximum stay – then select this. If not checked, then only bookable rates will show on your Booking Engine requests. It is recommended to always have this option turned on so the guest receives a message like: This rate plan requires a two night minimum to book. (Front Desk)
- Show Rate descriptions – This displays the rate description in addition to the rate value. Example: Spa Package rate : $220.00 per night.
- Rooms to Display – Defines maximum number of types to display on results page. 0 = unlimited.
- Don't ask for Dietary Information – if you serve meals and need to know preferences, choose ASK..
- Don't ask for Special Needs Information – if you want guests to indicate special needs choose ASK..
- Phone number Mandatory – if you require a phone number with every booking, choose YES.
- Address Mandatory - if you require an address with every booking, choose YES.
- Use Sources – if you want to turn on the ability for guest to select where they heard about your property, choose YES. (Setup Sources)
- Source mandatory – if you want to make it a requirement that the guest selects where they heard about your property, choose YES.
- Weekly Rates - If you do not use weekly rates, then choose NO.
- Room Assignment - This flag determines if online bookings will automatically be assigned a room number when they are made If checked online bookings will come in with type assignment but not room assignment. (GDS)
- Allow non Continuous Bookings – This flag tells the booking engine if it should check to make sure a single room is available continuously during the queried method. This flag is unchecked by default as most guests do not wish to change rooms during their stay. When unchecked the booking engine will only show results when there is a room continuously available for the length of stay, on all queries five days and shorter in length.
- Do not use Multi Lingual Engine – Choose YES, if you want to turn off the multi-lingual functionality of the booking engine. See Multi-Lingual Booking Engine
- Round Bookings to Whole Number – Choose YES to round bookings
- System Theme Color - Changes the background colors of the Enquiry screens used by guests to make bookings. Select from the picker or place in your HEX values.
- Maximum Book Ahead days - Choose YES to place a value in this box to allow guest to book x number of days in the future – note, this does not affect GDS and Global Booking Network sites, they can always book 365 days in advance, so place rates for at least these many days if distributing to them.
- Check for Clean Rooms if booking is less than x hours from Checkin - The Booking Engine technology can allow a Room 'clean/dirty' check before allowing a booking. If you place a value in this field, the Room Status will be checked to make sure at least one room of the type is set to CLEAN x hours before arrival time. The arrival time time is set in the General Settings under Check In Time. Thus, if you want to make sure only rooms that are set CLEAN can be booked 24 hours to arrival time, then you would make your "Minimum Booking Lead Time (hours in advance)" to be 0 (so even 'same day' bookings can be made); and the "Check for Clean Rooms if booking is less than x hours from Checkin" to be 24; thus if your Arival Time is set as 3 pm (15:00) then a room would have to be set as CLEAN for any booking that wanted to book between 3 pm 'today' and 'tomorrow' in order to show as available. This allows one to continue selling online bookings ( even enabling 'Self Checkin' and self-booking for walkins) as long as there is a Room that is set Clean and available.
- Email notification of web site bookings Remember every new booking will debit availability for future bookings. In addition, the system can send the property notification of bookings by e-mail or SMS. You also have the option to send an automated booking confirmation to the guest. Choose YES to receive an email confirmation when a booking is made on your website:
- Email booking confirmation to guests: Choose YES to send an email confirmation to a guest when they make a booking on your website:
- Check for Clean Rooms if booking is less than x hours from Checkin: Set the number of hours (0-24) prior to your check in time (check in times are listed on General Setting tab) that you want the system to run a secondary availability query based on room status of clean. Typical booking engine queries are based on room type availability for the dates selected. If this setting has a 1 or greater, we then then look at a room status "clean" as a subset of the types
SMS Active – Choose YES, if you want to activate SMS. This will send a special message to the operator. There is a set-up fee, monthly fees and a per message fee to receive SMS booking confirmations. Please call +1-707-847-3922 ext.201 for a quote.
Web Address after booking – Place the website address you wish the Booking Engine the guest to after completing a booking.
Online Items Headers – The Booking Engine has a place where you can use HTML in order to make a 'storefront' or guests' ability to add Inventory Items to their bookings. For example, you may want to sell tours and services with a booking. Items will allow you to upload pictures and descriptions for Items. This Header area is simply an area where you can introduce those Ietms you wish to sell via the Booking Engine. There are no commissions on the value of Item sales. If you do not use this feature ignore the box titled Online Items Header. If you do use this feature, enter the Header text or HTML that will display above your Inventory Items.
Example for Cape Schanck Lightstation - http://requests.bookingcenter.com/enquiry.phtml?site=SHANCK
Web Tracking Code – This area is available for customers who are members of the Marketing Services Organization (MSO service) and use the Booking Engine provided by BookingCenter in order to track website customers, analyze a ROI ('return on investment') for your SEO/SEM, or simply analyze your 'look to book' ratio. Our Web Tracking code won't work for customers who use XML interfaces to our system, either those designed by their webmaster, or any of the Booking Engine products that interface to BookingCenter (such as BookingSuite, Odysys, Easy Innkeeping, GuestCentric, etc). If you are using an XML interface to our system, ask that provider to provide a similar function for you.
The basic Web Tracking Code and the Web Tracking Code Last Page are detailed in a help article we provide here. Have your webmaster or SEO/SEM provider read that article. While BookingCenter support staff will paste Web Tracking code into your BookingCenter product, we cannot troubleshoot its success/failure for you unless we were hired as your Booking Engine developer to make a customized Booking Engine. What we advise is to add a User in BookingCenter to allow your SEO/SEM provider to login to BookingCenter to directly add their code to your Booking Engine settings area. This means he/she can 'tweek' their code until she gets it right for your system. Whoever is going to actually enter the web tracking code, they should learn how to access and make the settings work by reading this article.
SEO/SEM consultants need to read the two articles referenced above in order to get a technical understanding of how the Web Tracking and Last Page code work. Further, we advise your SEO/SEM consultant make TEST bookings before you accept that their 'tracking' is working. Failure to perform test bookings is a frequent cause of frustration for our customers, so do not bypass this step. Your SEO/SEM consultant should cancel the test bookings via accessing the system or having your staff do so. BookingCenter staff will not cancel test bookings for you or your SEO/SEM consultant, though we will assist you in doing so.
There are thousands of webmaster who have experience using Google's free tracking codes, so tracking the success of SEO/SEM should not be expensive nor difficult for you. Use of Web Tracking Code is a great investment in marketing.
(Front Desk)
Custom System Labels are the terms used to describe your Room, Guest and Tax categories in your PMS. The labels entered here will be visible in your PMS system and to your customers when making an online booking, and can be edited at any time in your PMS. These labels can be edited in SETUP | SETTINGS | BOOKING ENGINE SETTINGS. See Booking Engine Settings
You can change the labels to fit your property needs. For example, you may want to label your Room Types Suites, Cabins, Camp sites, Beds, etc. To learn more about how to edit your system label, See Custom System Labeling


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Now, I know what you're thinking. "Oh great! Another bacon themed post on a food blog. Just what we need!" Well, you're right. It is great and it is just what we need.
Although the title is a mouthful (and a delicious one at that) the sandwich only takes about fifteen minutes to make and looks and tastes gourmet and fantastic. Ingredients are as follows
For the mayo:
2 (big-ish) tbls of mayo
1 tsp chopped basil (dried basil actually works fine)
2 tsp minced garlic (or 1 tsp garlic powder if you can't handle the raw garlic. Few can.)
For the sammich:
2 slices toasted sourdough bread (I actually don't have access to sourdough in Chile, but I know it would be great)
3-10,000 slices of cooked bacon (all depends on how much you love bacon. I used three.)
A handful (is that a legitimate measurement?) of baby arugula
4 tbls grated parmesan cheese
Alright so I made the mayo first and set it aside. It's very simple. You mix the mayo, basil and garlic (or garlic powder) in a small bowl and put it in the refrigerator.
Next, start cooking the bacon because it takes a little while. On a medium heat cook them for about ten minutes, flipping occasionally. You don't want the bacon too crispy because it won't stay on the sandwich.
When the bacon is done frying remove the bacon to another plate, preferably with a paper towel on it so some of the grease can be absorbed and LEAVE THE BACON GREASE IN THE PAN BECAUSE WE GONNA COOK WITH IT.
That's right, folks. We're cooking with (bacon) grease.
This is where the parmesan comes in. Leaving the heat on medium, drop your 4 tbls of parmesan cheese into the grease and flatten it out. (Now is a good time to put your bread in the toaster, by the way, if you want everything to work out.) Let the parmesan sizzle in the grease for about three minutes then carefully flip it over for another minute or so. Remove it from the grease onto the plate with the bacon. Now wash off your arugula and you have all your ingredients ready!
Pile it on however you like. Mine turned out like this:
This is a great and easy sandwich to make and impress people with your sandwich-making prowess. Buen provecho!


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Prompted by recent debacles with such games as Mechwarrior Online, Code Hero and The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, Loaded Dice re-evaluates crowdfunding a year after we first took a look at the topic. It turns out we are no longer as sanguine as we once were.
Derek champions the virtues of lighting your money on fire, while Kevin spends his time being butthurt and feeling burned. Dubs and Vince alternate between perplexed amusement, and the sort of Schadenfreude that can only be truly appreciated by the sort of smug sons of bitches they are.
Additionally, the review this week is on the relatively successful Kickstarted Digital TCG SOL FORGE
In the draft this week we discuss Battfleck and the upcoming desperate
cash in cross-over movie.
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Originally published 2000, Updated June 2008
URL: http://www.kingcorn.org/news/timeless/GrowingPoints.html
Growing Points of Interest
R.L. (Bob) Nielsen
Agronomy Dept., Purdue Univ.
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054
Email address: rnielsen
at purdue.edu
- Recovery from early season damage to corn is often dependent on the health of growing point region.
here is something about 30 mph winds and sand/grit/soil blasting across corn fields at seedling height that makes one curious about the ability of corn to recover from early season damage.� The same can be said following a thunderstorm accompanied by strong winds and damaging hail (Nielsen, 2008b). Whenever corn is damaged early in the growing season, growers are sometimes faced with the decision of whether or not to replant the field.�
One of the most important, and most difficult, steps in making a replant decision is estimating the surviving plant population in the field.� Corn is remarkably resilient to aboveground damage early in the season, yet growers often underestimate the ability of corn to recover from such damage.� Consequently, much of the replanting that occurs each year is a waste of money and effort.� Use the worksheet in my replant publication (AY-264-W) to estimate yield and dollar returns to corn replanting.�
The health and condition of the corn plant�s growing point (apical meristem) plays a major role in determining whether a damaged corn plant will recover or not. A plant damaged aboveground but with a healthy, undamaged growing point will usually survive.� However, damage to the growing point area will either kill the plant or severely stunt its recovery.�
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The growing point is that meristematic area of the corn plant where leaves and, eventually, the tassel are initiated. Morphologically, the growing point area is located near the top of the young plant�s stalk tissue. Prior to stalk internode elongation, the growing point is initially located 1/4 to 3/4 inch below the soil surface, near the crown of young seedlings at growth stages VE (emergence) to about V4 (four leaves with visible leaf collars [Nielsen, 2008a]).�
The growing point remains below ground until V5 to V6. Stalk internodes begin to elongate shortly before V5, eventually elevating the growing point above the soil surface. From this point forward, the growing point becomes increasingly exposed and vulnerable to aboveground damage.
Prior to V6, while the growing point is belowground, corn can tolerate quite a bit of aboveground injury from �single event� damage by frost, hail, wind, cutworm feeding, sandblasting, tire traffic, 28% N solution burn, etc. However, repeated injury to young plants (e.g., multiple days of sandblasting) or extended periods of sub-optimal temperatures (i.e., �darn� cold weather) and cloudy conditions following the damage may prevent photosynthetic recovery (renewal of green leaves) long enough to eventually kill the plant even though the growing point is technically not injured.�
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While corn younger than V6 can tolerate a fair amount of aboveground frost damage to exposed leaf tissue, lethal cold temperatures (28F or less for several hours) can �penetrate� the upper soil surface (especially dry soils) and damage or kill the growing point of a young corn plant. Corn younger than V6 is also susceptible to belowground damage from soil insects, disease, and flooding or ponding.�
Human nature being what it is, most growers can�t avoid walking damaged corn fields the day of or the day following the injury to begin assessing the consequences of damage to their corn field. Unfortunately, most of the time a fair assessment of the recovery potential of damaged plants cannot be made that soon. Damaged corn fields need to be left alone for several days, sometimes up to a week, after the damage occurs to give the plants some time to exhibit visible recovery.
Splitting open a damaged corn plant is a time-honored practice when assessing the consequences of early-season damage to corn. The stalk tissue near the growing point region should remain firm and yellowish-white, as should the growing point region itself.� Discolored or mushy tissue near the growing point usually spells trouble for the injured plant. Injury that occurs close to the growing point area (e.g., hail damage, stinkbug feeding) may alter normal hormonal activity and eventually cause deformed regrowth of stalk or leaf tissue.
Visible recovery of leaf development from the whorl of surviving plants will be evident within 3 to 10 days after a damage event, depending on temperature and soil moisture conditions. Warmer temperatures and adequate soil moisture encourage rapid recovery, while cooler temperatures and/or drought stress slow the rate of recovery. Given sufficient time, surviving corn plants will exhibit new leaf tissue expanding from the whorls, while dead corn plants will still look, well� dead.
Related References:
Nielsen, R.L. (Bob). 2003 (rev.) Estimating Yield and Dollar Returns to Corn Replanting. Purdue Univ. Coop. Ext. Service Pub. No. AY-264-W. [On-Line]. Available at http://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/pubs/AY-264-W.pdf. [URL accessed 6/1/08].�
Nielsen, R.L. (Bob). 2008a. Determining Corn Leaf Stages. Corny News Network, Purdue Univ. [On-Line]. Available at http://www.kingcorn.org/news/timeless/VStageMethods.html. [URL accessed 6/1/08].
Nielsen, R.L. (Bob). 2008b. Recovery From Hail Damage to Young Corn. Corny News Network, Purdue Univ. [On-Line]. Available at http://www.kingcorn.org/news/timeless/HailDamageYoungCorn.html. [URL accessed 6/1/08]..


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Western Digital offers new My Passport Essential portable hard drive and two other models
Western Digital is a name that is synonymous when it comes to storage space, and this time around the company intends to excite the market with three more models – we're looking at the My Passport Essential portable hard drive, the My Passport Essential SE portable hard drive and My Book Essential external hard drive. All three of these will come in a range of capacities to suit your needs and budget, but what makes it all the more special would be all of them boasting lightning-fast USB 3.0 connectivity to keep up with the times. Not only that, Western Digital intends to make its mark on the market with the highest industry capacity where the My Book Essential drive is concerned, sporting up to 3TB of storage space. Of course, if you don't think you need that much space, you can always settle for 1TB and 2TB capacity.
Each purchase will come equipped with WD SmartWare visual backup software that is capable of delivering automatic, continuous backup, where you are able to enjoy the additional space required to store or back up all of your digital memories including high-resolution photos and videos, music and other critical files, without missing a beat. With USB 3.0 connectivity, you are able to transfer large files in an instant, making USB 2.0 feel as though it was USB 2.0 beating the crap out of USB 1.1 all those years ago. Boasting a data transfer speed of up to 5Gb/s, this translates to a two-hour HD video being transferred within a mere 3 minutes – that's shaving off 10 minutes in comparison to a USB 2.0 port transfer.
The My Passport Essential is WD's smallest portable drive, where it will come in a 500 GB capacity as well as five fun colors to choose from including Midnight Black, Cool Silver, Real Red, Pacific Blue and Arctic White. As for the My Passport Essential SE, it will be available in 750GB and 1TB, arriving in stylish black, silver, metallic blue and metallic red colors. Last but not least, the My Book Essential won't take up too much space on your desk with its relatively tiny footprint, and can hold up to 3TB of data. Expect the My Passport Essential portable drive to retail for $99.99, while the My Passport Essential SE drives will start from $129.99 upwards all the way to $169.99. As for the My Book Essential, it will fall between the range of $129.99 and $249.99.


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Seattle Parks and Recreation Christopher Williams, Interim Superintendent
Photo Credit
Photo Credit: TIA International Photography
1 results for "Lawton Park"
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Lawton Park
Baseball/Softball Fields Play Area Trails Soccer Fields
Address: 4005 27th Ave. W, Seattle, WA 98199
Visitors to Lawton Park can enjoy leisurely strolls down a wide pathway that carries the visitor through hills, woods and grassy lawns. There is also [...]View Park


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Your personal values might include your attitude toward the environment, the poor, your material needs and community involvement. Professional values straddle a fine line between your responsibility toward helping your company make a profit and the concept of corporate social responsibility. Understanding basic values and ethics business owners and managers must have to create a responsible workplace will help you develop professional values that balance your personal ethics with your desire to climb the ladder.
Accountability and Responsibility
When you mess up, admit it. If you blame others for your failures or make excuses, people lose respect for and faith in you. At times, you'll fail because you made a mistake. In other instances, things beyond your control cause your department to fail. If you consistently make excuses when you fall short, peers will believe you are crying wolf even when you have a good reason for failure and begin to chalk up your misses to a lack of skills, abilities and qualifications.
You'll need to develop your own definition of loyalty to help you support peers and superiors. If someone close to you messes up after making an honest effort, sticking by her side is loyalty. Some go as far as saying that covering up for a peer's dishonest actions and not ratting her out is loyalty; however, covering for a boss or peer who is wrong can hurt her more than it helps her. In these cases, honesty is the best form of loyalty.
In the business world, the reasons for telling a lie, misleading or saying nothing when you can or should say something can be significant. For example, some food marketers label their products as 97 percent fat free, when in fact more than 30 percent of the calories come from fat. This is because the former claim is based on weight, which is mostly water. Telling customers your lunch meat is 97 percent fat free to maintain your brand and sales, when 30 percent of the calories come from fat is technically honest. Or is it? Putting your customers first can lower your sales and profits and is a professional value not everyone shares.
Teamwork is essential to business success, and teamwork relies on trust. If you diss others behind their backs, including your competitors, the people who listen to you will begin to wonder what you're saying about them. Negative comments often get back to co-workers, bosses, customers and competitors, and your reputation diminishes in your office and marketplace. Even if what you are saying about someone is true, stop and think before you vocalize something negative. Sometimes, if you can't say something nice about someone, it's better not to say anything.
The concept of professionalism often relates to your conformity to workplace norms concerning your treatment of others and the workplace. This includes showing up on time, dressing well, keeping your work area clean, sending email messages without typos and without exposing the addresses of others, not using company equipment and supplies for personal use, not playing music -- even with headphones -- that others can hear, refraining from gossiping, parking where you're supposed to, respecting office kitchen and break room practices, avoiding foul language and not leaving early.
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That's because I would like to expand my work to products, packaging and advertising a bit more.
In order to make this happen I decided I needed to do something a bit different than the usual postcard.
I squeezed my little brain trying come up with a new idea.
The plan was to invent something a bit more creative and try to impress the clients-to-be with my brilliance.
What I came up with is this: a little glass jar that has a label with my own illustration. A sort of a mock up of my little product and packaging.
I'm not a designer so I've tried to stay away from fonts and actual design and focusing more on the illustration aspect.
Here it is what the finished thing looks like.
Inside the jar I added two very important things.
Firstly, some lollies that have two different purposes. Number 1, simply filling the jar. Number 2, getting the way to the client's heart through his stomach! And because of this I hope they will keep the jar on their desk for weeks!
Also, on top of the lollies I've added a little piece of nice thick paper. On it is printed a QR code that leads to a webpage that I've designed (unfortunately I couldn't escape the designing part here) where I introduce myself and explain why the heck I'm sending this thing to them.
On top of the jar, I added a little sticker that says "Knock Knock. Who's there?".
I hope my attempt to "enter" their world should be clear at this point.
These are all the materials I used for the project:
-15 glass jars
-round stickers
-label printed on sticker paper
-QR code printed on thick textured paper
I must point out the QR code is the only way they have to found out who is sending the package.
I figured keeping the sender mysterious would add a bit more interest to the whole experience.
I know, this could be risky since the usual thing to do would be putting your name and web address on every single element of the promo.
But since this is an unorthodox way of promotion, I decided to do things a bit unconventionally for once.
The idea of doing this unusual promo comes from the fact more than once I've heard art directors say they want to receive something unique and clever and personalised and different when receiving stuff from illustrators.
I hope this little promo experiment ticks all these boxes!
To start with, I'm going to send only 15 of them and see what's the response. So I made a very selective list of all the creative agencies here in Australia I really would like to work with.
Also, I tried to pay attention to the ones that already use illustrations for their projects.
Now the only thing I have left to do is shipping them!
This will be definitely the most pricy expense of the whole project.
That's why I will try to deliver some of them myself (without them getting to see me, of course;)).
Fingers crossed they like it!


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Notes, tips, tutorials, how-tos, etc... All related to Unix-like OS namely FreeBSD and Linux. My way of giving a bit back to the community. ;)
Thursday, April 12, 2012
HowTo: Permenantely disable repositories in CentOS / SL
In this post I'll go over 3 methods that can be used to permanently disable repositories in CentOS.
Method 1: yum-config-manager
yum-config-manager command can be used to disable repositories. To disable a YUM repository, log in as root, identify the repository ID and use yum-config-manager to disable it:
For example, assuming you'd want to disable ELRepo repository:
$ su
# yum repolist all
# yum-config-manager --disable elrepo
Method 2: edit repository file
Login as root and edit the repository file under /etc/yum.repos.d/ and change the enable flag enable=1 to enable=0.
For example, assuming you'd want to disable ELRepo repository:
$ su
# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo
# Enabled repository
name=ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el6
# Disabled repository
name=ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el6
Upon running yum repolist you'll notice that the disabled repository no longer shows.
# yum repolist all
Method 3: remove repository file
Of course you can always use blunt force and simply remove the repo file from /et/yum.repos.d/.
For example, assuming you'd want to disable (in this case remove is a better word) the ELRepo repository:
$ su
# rm /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo
Run yum and check if the repository has been removed:
# yum repolist all
For further information on yum and its immense uses :
$ man yum
4 comments:
- toracat said...
If you had installed packages from the repository you are going to disable / remove, then make sure you are not missing any security updates available for those packages.
Also, if the repository was installed through yum, the easiest (cleanest) way to remove it will be to use yum. In the case of ELRepo, it would be:
yum remove elrepo-release
[ I don't know why ELRepo was used as an example in this blog. It is a great repo. :-) ]
- 13 April, 2012 17:14
- Dag Wieers said...
ELRepo provide additional hardware support, does not replace any distribution packages and works with most of the high-profile repositories, so indeed not the best example :-)
If it was installed/enabled it is likely that some packages from ELRepo were needed for hardware support, and disabling ELRepo will deprive you from future (security or bugfix) updates that may cause that hardware no longer to work in the future. Reader beware !
- 14 April, 2012 15:42
- pschaff said...
Indeed. ELRepo is the only external repository I have no qualms about enabling by default and setting to priority=1 (not that I would advocate that as universal advice, and it does not apply to elrepo-testing, elrepo-kernel, or elrepo-extras), and that was true even before I started helping out by building packages there. :-)
You would do well to use one of the repositories that does not play well with others as an example.
- 14 April, 2012 20:05
- tangram said...
Thanks for taking the time to provide input.
You own your machine and as such if you want, for whatever reason, disable a repository you should be able to so if you wish.
ELRepo was merely used as an example. The post doesn't recommend adding or removing repositories. It lists methods to permanently disable repositories.
ELREPO was used as an example the same way that RPMforge, Adobe, ATrpms, etc could have been used.
In no way does the post imply that ELRepo is a lesser or better repository than any other. It was, once again, use as **an example**.
So if there any methods that you'd like to share on how to permanently disable repositories you're welcome to share them and I'll update the post.
- 15 April, 2012 18:04