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Located in the eastern side of Naples, the Vesuvius is an explosive volcano in a quiescent state since 1944, and is one of the most fascinating natural areas of Italy.
Its characteristic look that dominates the magnificent bay, which can be admired from the seafront or from the hill of Posillipo, has made it the true symbol of the city. It is famous around the world for its devastating eruption of 79AD, which destroyed the whole area of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia.
Today, the Vesuvius is one of the most picturesque hedged-in parks of the planet, an ideal destination for nature-trails lovers, with over 50 miles of paths to explore in order to reach the huge crater, from where you can enjoy an unparalleled breathtaking view.
|Full Day Small group Tour to Pompeii and to the Mount Vesuvius, departing from Naples
|Leave from Naples for an exciting excursion: in one day you can visit both Pompeii with its ruins and the Vesuvius, the volcano that submerged the ancient Roman city with the disastrous eruption of 79 AD. Do not miss this extraordinary tour, including archaeological sites, nature and panoramas!
€ 80,00
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|Full Day Tour to Pompeii and the Vesuvius for small groups from Sorrento
|Depart from Sorrento for an extraordinary tour: in a single day you will visit Pompeii and the Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that destroyed the ancient Roman town with the eruption of 79 AD. It is an exciting group excursion not to be missed, sick into both history and uncontaminated nature!
€ 99,00
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|5-Days Escorted Tour from Rome to Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento, Capri and the Amalfi Coast
|Visit the delights of Naples and Pompeii and marvel at the beauty of the Amalfi Coast and learn more about this fascinating region in the care of our knowledgeable and friendly tour guides. Book this escorted tour from Rome to get the best from your Italian holiday!
€ 890,00
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|Tour of Mt. Vesuvius departing from Sorrento with Wine Tasting
|Reach the head of Mount Vesuvius hiking. From your perch, peer inside the volcano's steaming crater and enjoy unparalleled views of the Bay of Naples. Have a tipical lunch and wine tasting at a quaint winery in the shadow of Vesuvius.
€ 85,00
per person
|Half Day small group Tour to the Mount Vesuvius, departing from Naples
|This half-day excursion, departing from Naples, will give you the opportunity to enjoy closely the Vesuvius, the volcano that erupted in 79 AD, destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum. Accompanied by your guide, you will go down the paths of Vesuvius, enjoying a breathtaking view!
€ 75,00
per person
|Private Walking guided Tour around of the Mount Vesuvius
|Discover one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, the dormant Mount Vesuvius, close to the city of Naples. Our private tour of Mount Vesuvius gives you plenty of historical facts about its past and eruptions, but also marvelous panoramas towards the Gulf of Naples and the Sorrento coast.
€ 72,10
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|Half-day Food & Wine Tour of the Mount Vesuvius, departing from Naples
|Join this half-day tour to visit the vineyards on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, the majestic volcano that dominates the Gulf of Naples. After a leisurely stroll along the scents and the sceneries of this area, you can enjoy a Mediterranean lunch accompanied by a tasting of the renowned local wines.
€ 85,00
per person
|Day tour in Pompeii with wine tasting, departing from Naples
|In this tour, you will gain unparalleled insights of its history, art, culture, architecture and lifestyle of its ancient inhabitants. The tour would then end with an incredible Mediterranean lunch paired perfectly with wine, overlooking Pompeii from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
€ 105,00
per person
|Full day VIP Small Group tour to Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius from Naples
|Depart from Naples for an extraordinary VIP small group tour: in a single day you will visit Pompeii and the Mount Vesuvius! It is an exciting group excursion not to be missed, sick into both history and uncontaminated nature!
€ 110,00
per person
|Day trip to Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius from Positano
|On this day tour, you can grab the opportunity to visit the most famous UNESCO site of Italy in Pompeii and the stunning natural park of the Vesuvius volcano. You will discover the history of Pompeii and enjoy a breathtanking view from the top of the Mount Vesuvius.
€ 120,00
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The Messengers and many more and his songs have been featured in hit TV shows like X-Files,
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Ron Keels official autobiography Even Keel: Life On The Streets Of Rock & Roll was published in 2014.
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EC 155B1 manufactured by Airbus helicopters is powered by 2 Arriel 2C2 engines and equipped with latest technology. It is the latest version of the Dauphin family famous for its versatility and comfort.
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Doug Conant, co-founder of ConantLeadership (a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works in the 21st century) and former CEO and President of the Campbell Soup Company
The primary leadership challenge of the 21st century is finding a way to deliver sustainable high performance in the midst of unprecedented change. Modern life has become hectic and fiercely complex. There are relentless requests from meetings, emails, text messages; there are questions to answer, problems to solve, fires to put out. Leaders, and the people under their stewardship, increasingly feel awash in demands and often feel there is little time to get "real work" done between interruptions. These are overwhelming times.
One of the most powerful lessons I have learned in my over forty years of leadership experience – and the lesson at the heart of the book I co-authored with Mette Norgaard, TouchPoints – is that the countless interruptions that present themselves in the course of a typical day are not keeping us from our leadership work, they are our leadership work. When we pivot towards an approach that "leans in" to these interruptions, our opportunities to lead meaningfully moment-to-moment multiply dramatically. Each interaction, planned or unplanned, enables us to personally exercise our leadership: to set expectations, bring clarity to an issue, or infuse a problem with energy and insight. If we choose to view these moments not as distractions from our work, but as the work, then we can begin to lead more effectively in each and every moment.
I am driven by my goal of leaving a legacy of leadership contribution and my desire to be helpful, but I am chiefly inspired by the purpose of my work, which I arrived on after much reflection. My purpose is: to help build world-class organizations that defy the critics and thrive in the face of adversity. It is worth mentioning how essential it is for leaders to anchor their work in a clear and compelling sense of purpose. While many leaders know what they want to get from a leadership position, very few are mindfully aware of what they hope to give. The best leaders know why they want to lead and what they intend to contribute – and that guides their everyday behavior.
There are many leaders who have inspired me immeasurably on my leadership journey; it would be difficult to choose only one to celebrate. That said, looking back in history, two leaders who approached their leadership challenges with remarkable aplomb are Teddy Roosevelt and Mother Teresa. Some of the many 21st century leaders who deserve recognition for their extraordinary leadership message are Indra Nooyi and Tim Cook.
Three books that I have on my nightstand at present are: A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future by fellow Northwestern University graduate, Daniel Pink; Are You Fully Charged: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life by Tom Rath; and a newly released book entitled Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family by Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia (who is also the co-author of the well-known book, Conscious Capitalism).
You can't win in the marketplace until you win in the workplace. Leadership is all about the people. Answering the persistent call of leadership – which is to deliver high performance in an enduring way – requires leaders who consciously work to win with integrity and to engage their employees with a performance mindset. Because there are a variety of best practices that leaders can employ to bring about superior outcomes, it's a challenge to isolate one leadership lesson as being the most important. In fact, there are several tenets that are equally important and they have the most impact when applied together. A few to consider are:
Douglas R. Conant is a New York Times bestselling author and keynote speaker with over 40 years of leadership experience at world-class global companies. In 2011, he founded ConantLeadership – a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works in the 21st century.
Doug also serves as Chairman of the Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute (KELI) at Northwestern University, Chairman of CECP (formerly the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy), and Chairman of Avon Products.
From 2001 to 2011, Doug served as CEO and President of the Campbell Soup Company. Doug's mission to achieve superior employee engagement was a crucial contributor to the company's exemplary performance — and to his development of a uniquely effective leadership model that advanced stakeholder value (now the ConantLeadership model).
Among his many accolades, Doug was named a Top Thought Leader in Trust for 2014 and 2015, a Top 100 Leadership Speaker by Inc. Magazine and a Top 30 Leadership Professional for 2015 by Global Gurus. Doug earned his BA from Northwestern University and his MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.


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- Published: April 26, 2018
Profits Unlimited is research service by former hedge fund manager Paul Mampilly, one of the rapidly growing newsletters in the investment sector. By mid-2017, it had over 90,000 subscribers. Banyan Hill Publishing publishes it, and its objective is to guide ordinary Americans into making profitable investment choices. He mails out new investment recommendations in an 8-page newsletter to his subscribers each month. On a weekly basis, the Unlimited Profits subscribers receive one or two stocks updates, and Paul Mampilly tracks their investments. In 2017, some of the open portfolio's stocks were up by 18-38% while stocks of a semiconductor company he recommended in June 2017 are up by 160%. Read this article at weeklyopinion.com.
Regarding Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, Paul holds that the bubble will eventually burst in time. He says that people remain attached to their cryptocurrencies failing to notice the opportune time to sell when the prices pick. When the prices fall, they stay glued to the former higher prices waiting for prices to go up. And when the bubble bursts unexpectedly, they lose their fortunes. He says Bitcoin is rising due to high publicity reports of its prospects.
People retire at 65 years, but Paul Mampilly retired at 45 years due to his smart investments. When people viewed Amazon with skepticism, he saw the potential. He grew Kinetics Asset Management fund from $6 billion to $25 billion with 26% in average returns. During the financial meltdown of 2008, Paul earned $88 million form a $50 million investment in the Templeton Foundation competition winning the award in 2009. Paul Mampilly is hard working evidenced by his work a cafeteria when he was attending SUNY in Albany, and currently, as he researches investment choices for Americans. Visit the website Releasefact.com to learn more.
He has strongly advised people to invest in precision medicine as the sector will burst into fortunes. Precision medicine will revolutionize the treatment of diseases such as cancer, arthritis among many other conditions since pharmaceutical companies focus on treatment rather than cure them reducing symptoms or delaying disease progression.
With precision medicine, doctors analyze patient's DNA and specific factor coming up with unique profiles. This kind of data analysis allows physicians to determine patient-specific medical intervention. With the development of patient's genomic profiles, doctors can prescribe ideal treatments timely. Biotech companies in precision medicine have announced clinical trials while others have announced advanced works on potential innovations. Paul Mampilly in Unlimited Profits Newsletters has promised to name some of the leading firms in precision medicine. By implication, he was referring to Myriad Genetics (MYGN) as one of the firm one should invest in.


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GPS Goes Net-Centric: The 2nd Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., is finishing up delivery of the Zero Age of Data Navigation Message Replacements on the secure Internet protocol router network (SIPRNet), providing the ability to deliver Global Positioning System information online. Divorcing users from a reliance on "fragile" signals in space is a "historic achievement," said Maj. Chuck Daniels, the GPS operations center director. The first end user of the new data stream is Air Combat Commands' small diameter bomb program, where the bomb's GPS accuracy requirements are more stringent than what is available directly from satellite. NOTE: Air Force Space Command on May 3, 2006, clarified this announcement. Read the update here.)
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FMGE Council
All Foreign-qualified doctors have to get through a Qualifying Examination called Foreign Medical Graduates Examination, conducted by Medical Council of India. Then only they will be permitted to practise as doctors in India.
LIMRA, which has been giving counseling sessions along with all types of help to the students who aspire to pursue their medical education abroad, is providing new facilities and training opportunities from this academic year, which are never even thought of by such other educational agencies in India. They are:
All Foreign-qualified doctors have to get through a Qualifying Examination called Foreign Medical Graduates Examination, conducted by Medical Council of India. Then only they will be permitted to practise as doctors in India.
LIMRA students will have these coaching classes totally FREE of cost. So far one has to spend around Rs.75,000 for these classes at Delhi.
In order to make these classes fully effective hassle free, LIMRA is establishing its office at Davao Medical University. LIMRA is the only agency in India that runs an office at the Philippines to take care of its students.
LIMRA is also taking efforts to give training on Hospital Administration and Clinical Treatment to the students when they study at Davao.
LIMRA will also conduct coaching classes for PG Medical Entrance Examinations (NEET- PG) along with Prof Dr. J.Rajkumar, (Ex Chairman of Surgeons Association of India.
LIMRA is also building up a library with modern equipment and books for the FMG and NEET PG students. Providing all the above facilities both at Davao and in India, for its students.
Anatomage Table is the latest digital equipment which has revolutionized the teaching of Anatomy and Surgery in Medical Education. This tool is found in less than hundred colleges in the whole world. Davao Medical College is the only Medical College in the Philippines that has the "Anatomage Table".
A newly designed digital tool called "SIMULATION LAB" is being used in a few Medical Colleges in Western Countries. This is established and installed at a high cost at Davao Medical College in order to make the teaching of Surgery and Concepts of Medicine highly effective.
Except for Tuition Fees which is very low, Donation or Capitation fee is NEVER collected from students. Students of Davao Medical College after completing their Doctor UG Course, can easily pursue their Higher Education in the Medical Universities in USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Thus Davao Medical College stands as a Gateway to Higher Education in these countries.
Students of Davao Medical College are given "In House Training in Treating Patients" in five Hospitals exclusively attached to this Medical College. This makes the students have hands-on experience with more number of patients than in other colleges. The disease pattern of these patients is also various and varying in their nature.
I got groomed up as a doctor only due to the ever lending helping hand of Limra and its Director Mohammed Ghani. After completing the course, landing at Chennai, I joined the Coaching Classes Programme of Limra. Senior experienced faculty from all over India, well designed study materials for all 19 papers, weekend examinations, counseling on the performance of the Model Examination at month ends all these in a period of five and a half month took me to the winning post of getting through the exam at first go.Dr. Joshua (167/300)
The MCI - FMG Qualifying Examination has been an insoluble riddle for many of the doctors who have finished their UG studies abroad. But Limra Overseas Educational Consultants at Chennai through its intensive coaching classes in a period of five and half months solved the problems. Regular revision of all 19 subjects, combined with the clinical experience schedule at a Multi Specialty Hospital gave me confidence and I got through at the first attempt itself.Dr. Divya (191/300)
If at all, somebody is responsible for my stature here as a doctor, it is our beloved Mr Mohammed Ghani and his team of administrative staff. Years back, when I missed admission in the medical colleges in Tamilnadu by a few marks, we approached Limra. Mr Mohammed Ghani explained to our family the positive sides of learning medicine at DMSF, at Davao, the Philippines. My parents and others were taken aback at the very idea of sending a girl abroad for studies. But Mr Ghani assured us of a very safe place at Davao. Years rolled on. I felt quiet at home when I was at DMSF.Dr. Irin (150/300)
The Russian University gave me a degree in medicine, but it is Limra that made it meaningful and useful by their coaching classes programme for the MCI FMG exam. I felt fresh learning of the entire Medical UG course with Limra's intense coaching on all the 19 subjects, Limra also gave me clinical experience in a Multi Speciality Hospital in Chennai and it made me to get a new practical version of the subjects. All these made me get through the FMG Examination with flying colours.Dr. Sanafer (154/300)


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The Question Lies on Varick Street: A 22-Minute Novel
No time to read? Then you might need…
A 22-Minute Novel.
The perfect fit for a high-texting, tweet-rich lifestyle. 140 chapters total, each no longer than 140 characters.
The Question Lies on Varick Street
by Thomas J. Prestopnik
Mathematics professor Anita Chapel is missing. Her niece, literature instructor Tracy Fuller, lover of all things mystery, is trying to find her, but her aunt has left behind only a string of numbers that are clues to her whereabouts. With help from her boyfriend, Will Archer, Tracy follows the numerical breadcrumbs to search for her aunt. But where is the professor really leading them? And does she have a connection to the mysterious man in the red sweatshirt? The answers, and the question, lie on Varick Street.
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I'm tired of the BING maps at Garmin Connect. IMHO and compared with Google maps, they are [just awful], at least for Japan and for our rides in the hills.
- No English/Romanized names at all (Google maps have this).
- Poor detail, ugly font.
- No topo/terrain feature unless you zoom in way too close to be of use.
- A pale ugly yellow background color.
Based on some of TCC discussions (www.tokyocycle.com), here, briefly in passing, here, I decided to try Ride With GPS instead and am very impressed.
- A very nice interface.
- Google maps!
- A screen/map layout that looks great on my wide Benq LCD monitor at home.
- No distracting ads like mapmyride.
- I was able to upload a full year of rides in a few clicks using their "bulk uploader".
So far, Ride with GPS looks like a great choice. And, of course, it is free (if it is as good as it seems, I'll send a donation). It seems to be a start-up by two guys in Oregon ... so I guess I do worry about long-term viability and will not delete any data from my hard drive just yet ... But Garmin Connect has handed them a great opportunity by its switch to Bing.
Are there other alternatives I should be considering?
Any reason to try one of the Japanese alternatives, such as Yahoo Japan's LatLongLab?
Several options to embed -- here is Yanagisawa and Sasago trip from last April, a link to a static map image here (perfect for blog comments) or the full embed:


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What sweets do you associate with the holiday season? Apple pie? Gingerbread? Pumpkin cheesecake?
For me, it's all of those, but nothing more so than pecan pie. That said, I often find a slice of this very rich dessert to be almost too much after a big holiday meal—which is why I'm such a fan of these petite pecan squares!
They have all the flavors of the traditional dessert, but with a thinner filling and a smaller, handheld size.
These squares would be lovely on a holiday dessert buffet (no slicing or silverware needed), the perfect contribution to a potluck celebration or great wrapped up as a "from your kitchen" gift.
Also, for those of us who are a bit apprehensive when it comes to rolling out that perfect pie crust, this shortbread crust—which is pressed into your pan—is a dream come true!
Maple Pecan Squares
1616 squares
Meal dessert
Prep 30 minutes
Cook 40 minutes
Total 70 minutes
- 2 sticks (1/2 pound) unsalted butter, divided and at room temperature
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 1 egg yolk
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- pinch salt
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 6 ounces (1 cup) chocolate chips
- Photos by Sheri Silver
- 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8" x 8" baking pan and a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- 2. Beat 1 stick of butter and 1/2 cup sugar till light and fluffy. Add the egg yolk and beat again. Add the flour, cornstarch and salt, and beat once more. Press into your pan (slightly damp fingers work best) and bake for 15 minutes. Set aside; keep oven on.
- 3. In a medium saucepan, melt the remaining stick of butter. Stir in the maple syrup, brown sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, remove from heat and stir in the pecans, heavy cream and vanilla. Pour over the crust and return to oven for 20 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
- 4. Using your parchment paper to assist, transfer the bar to a cutting board, and cut into 16 squares. Place on your prepared baking sheet, and keep in fridge to firm up while you prepare the chocolate.
- 5. In the top half of a double boiler, set over barely simmering water, melt the chocolate chips till smooth. Working with one square at a time, dip the bottom into the chocolate, shaking off any excess. Return to your baking sheet and repeat with remaining squares. Use a fork to drizzle any remaining chocolate over the tops. Keep chilled till ready to serve.


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Carrier bag campaign
News NavbarRemember to re use your carrier bags: that's the simple message behind a new campaign from the Scottish Government and Scottish retailers.
Research shows 92 per nike store cent of people think reusing carrier bags is good for the environment but that 59 per cent forget their reusable bags and have to take new ones at the checkout.
Based on the premise that an elephant never forgets, the campaign will run on TV and radio as well as in supermarkets and shops across the country.
Twelve major retailers and almost 500 independent shops are on board, potentially reaching millions of consumers, making this the biggest high street campaign ever undertaken by the Scottish Government.
Launching the campaign at Scotmid's store in Leith, Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said:
"Millions of shoppers taking a small step can lead to a big change. The beauty of this campaign is that everyone who shops literally all of Scotland can be engaged in sustainable behaviour.
"Discarded carrier bags are a blight on our landscape and when you consider that our natural environment is worth over 17 billion a year and supports around 240,000 jobs, it's clear that action to reduce bag use is not only good for the planet but good for the economy too.
"There is clearly a collective desire on the part of the public and retailers to reduce carrier bag numbers. By taking the simple action of remembering to bring a carrier bag with you every single person in Scotland can play a role.
"Almost everyone in Scotland goes to the shops on a regular basis and th nike store is campaign will help people remember and, in turn, help retailers reach the target we have set them a 50 per cent reduction in bags dished out to customers.
"Reusing bag nike store s is one of the simplest steps people can take towards leading greener lifestyles. Everyone is able to play their part and I hope to see Scots up and down the country embracing this campaign.
"Taking a small step like reusing a carrier bag will encour nike store age people to make other changes to their behaviours and ensure that collectively we are making a big difference locally, nationally and globally."
John Drummond, Chief Executive of the Scottish Grocer's Federation, said:
"We are very pleased to be working with the Scottish Government on this initiative to reduce the number of carrier bags handed out to customers.
"It's often very difficult for convenience stores because consumers regularly make unplanned visits and therefore don't always have their re usable bags with them. However, retailers are making determined efforts to encourage customers to change their habits, to use durable bags for sustained use on an on going basis."
Fiona Moriarty, Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, said:
"Working with their customers, retailers have already delivered some spectacular reductions in the numbers of new bags handed out down by a quarter in just two years. They are now going further, faster with a commitment to a 50 per cent reduction by June this year.
"Ideas including taking bags off display and reducing the amount of new plastic in bags are part of that but so is encouraging customers to change their behaviour.
"That's why stores are offering durable carrier bags for life, tips and incentives and working with the Government to get more customers re using bags.
"This campaign is a positive example of the Scottish Government and retail businesses working together to achieve the environmental gains we all want."


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i remember vividly how i was blessed with the cutest, most adorable and handsome little boy. carrying for nine months was not easy. i was sickly and mostly annoyed by the changes in me. when he finally came out, all the hardships and pain became a distant memory. he was so perfect–all 9.5 lbs of him. that was years ago.
today, kobe celebrates his ninth birthday and i am still awed by him. he has grown to be a good boy. always mindful of others, responsible, and caring. recently, kobe has become quite helpful in the house. i never tells him to, but he does volunteer for small chores (so is little sis, julia). so far, i have no problems in school with him. constantly on the honor's list and is proving to be quite an athlete. what more could a parent ask for?
if i have all the money in the world, i would give him every toy his heart desires. but for now, it will have to be one gift from me and other one from his dad. there is nothing more i wish for him except for him to continue to be the good boy that he is and that he stay healthy.
happy birthday, son.


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The Chuckit! Ultra Ball is the ultimate product for a game of fetch. This ball was developed to have high bounce, buoyancy, visibility, and durability, ensuring a fun time is had by both you and your dog. As an added bonus, this product is compatible with Chuckit! Launchers.


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wall mosaic
18 sq m (196 sq ft)
exterior wall mosaic situated at the entrance to the Heiser Natural
Sciences Complex, New College, Sarasota, Florida. The mosaic
is made of nine individual, irregularly shaped sections, assembled
to form one large mosaic 14' by 14' (4.25m by 4.25m). The design
weaves together imagery from five of the disciplines
housed in the complex: biology, computer science, physics, mathematics
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Hotwheels is a best-seller line of product from Mattel that fascinates children arround the world. In this action, the target was to create corners inside C & A Shops to expand the child-fashion wear sells. The concept was created by the genial Creative Director Nelson Doretto Jr. and we developed an video game machine, based in HotWheels cars design to illustrate the campaign concept: Go Faster than 250 mph!. So, if you bought a Hotwheels shirt, cap or other piece of cloth, your son was invited to play and every time he acelerates on the video game machine he wons a Hotwheels car.
Besides that as shopper campaing deserves, promotional materials were created to conduce a potential client to C & A shop inside the mall. From the Park entrance, passing through the stairs and the C & A Shop showcase .
Deliverables: The Hotwheels Machine, Shopper Materials, Corner Shop
Creative Direction: Nelson Doretto Jr.
Art Direction: Beto Prado


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Time stands still. Looking up at the clock on the wall opposite to me, I see the minute-hand slowly moving. TIme passes. I look out the window and see birds; birds sitting on trees, birds flying freely about in the air, birds chirping and the cool breeze blowing against their direction, and they struggle to fight against the force of it, probably losing a few feathers in the process, not caring and still going strongly. 'Birds have willpower too,' I chuckle as I say it to myself out loud. I am alone in my room, the laptop is heating up my thighs but I don't really care. That's the way I like it, pushed deep into my soft pillows with the back of my head resting against them, my laptop over me, enjoying the beauty of the world outside me, sipping on a soft drink and listening to some sweet music. On mellow days Jazz and instrumentals usually help, however I feel like some John Mayer tonight. I put on one of my favourite songs, 'Half of my heart', I have memories associated with it, I look at the time and the clock slowly ticks, making each second count as if I've to do something important and I'm still not even halfway through it yet.
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Time passes and the electricity is back. I move back to my room, sit with the laptop on my lap once more and open up my blog. I want to write, maybe that will keep me company. So I do exactly that. Yes, it gives me alot of pleasure. I realize time was stagnant before, because I wasn't doing something I loved. Something I enjoyed, something which satisfied not only my fingers and my mind and put my thoughts into words, but something that satisfied my soul too. I look at what I've written, and I smile. It is my passion, and I've just recently discovered it.


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What is "global salvationism"? It is a name invented by David Henderson, formerly head of economics at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, for a highly popular doctrine (Economics, Climate Change Issues and Global Salvationism, University of Westminster).
The doctrine has two aspects. One relates to the economic fortunes of poor countries for which global capitalism is blamed. The other is the doomster message that "the planet" is going to hell unless far reaching changes are made in official policies.
The whole package is the accepted wisdom not only of pop stars but of most of the arts world. G8 leaders have been flirting with it; and many business leaders are afraid to criticise it. The best way to tackle global salvationism is not to oppose the whole package but to try to unpack it.
Let me concentrate on climate change. The only thing I will say about the scientific discussion is that some of the key figures in it emit a whiff of intolerance. Knowledge is not advanced by resolutions and majority votes, even of scientific academies.
A non-specialist can, however, at least formulate some key questions about global warming. The key questions are:
1. How fast is it happening and where? What are the confidence limits around the suggested answers?
2. How much damage is caused, to whom and over what time span?
3. What are the costs and benefits of various ways of tackling it, including adaptation as well as prevention?
4. Which depend on concerted action and which can be beneficial if undertaken by a single country?
Note that the contribution of human economic activity has mainly indirect relevance. Global warming could be very harmful even if it was due to natural processes; and it could be fairly benign even if man-made.
A level-headed summary of these matters has just been provided in the UK by the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee (The Economics of Climate Change). It is likely to infuriate zealots, even though its specialist adviser was David Pearce, a distinguished environmental economist and former chief government adviser.
My own contribution is to suggest how to approach judgment when the evidence is fallible. This is to see if there are several different considerations pointing in the same direction. I shall call it the cumulative or confluence principle.
In the case of reducing greenhouse gas emissions there are indeed at least three arguments pointing in its direction. There is not only climate change but the need to reduce dependence on oil and old-fashioned anti-pollution policy.
The oil argument itself comes in two halves. There is the danger of the rest of the world being held to ransom by political developments in the Middle East; and there is also the growing pressure on energy supplies from the emergence in the world economy of powers such as China and India.
A verdict on such grounds in favour of energy saving cannot be for all kinds of savings and at all costs. A measure which seems to score most highly on all four criteria is a genuine carbon tax, which was unanimously endorsed by the Lords Committee in place of the British Britain's so-called climate change levy which does not affect is not applicable to transport or to households – who no doubt imagine that because "industry" pays the bill it does not cost them anything. But even the increase in this levy, planned for September, has once again been postponed on the pretext of the volatility of oil prices. British Treasury officials actually boast that fuel duties are now almost ten 10 per cent lower in real terms than they were in 1999. Greenpeace reasonably responds that the decision "beggars belief . . . The day before Tony Blair welcomes world leaders to Gleneagles to broker a deal on climate change he shows himself incapable of taking the most modest and obvious steps here at home".
This is just an illustration. The main point I want to make is that if three or four only moderately strong different arguments point in the same direction, then the case for action is much stronger than if they are considered one by one. The basic idea is, when in doubt, look for a multiplicity of justifications – or objections. If this multiplicity has enabled President George W. Bush to go along with an energy-saving agenda, so much the better.


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Windows 10 on going forced update making things worse.Its downloads updates and reboots itself when its wants.You are middle of something important and bam windows update rebooting your pc.MS added new setting called"Active hours" but its only for 8 hours with no custom options.Hope this Guide helps.
Now there are few ways we "kinda" stop it from doing data mining and updating.
Method 1: Update Service
Windows Update is actually just another Windows process and it can be stopped with steps below :
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- From the Services list which appears find the Windows Update service and open it
- In 'Startup Type' (under the 'General' tab) change it to 'Disabled'
- Restart
To re-enable Windows Update simply revert back to above steps and change the Startup settings to 'Automatic'.
Methods 3: Group Policy Editor (gpedit)
The group policy editor will notify you about new updates without installing them but security updates will install them automatically. So its kinda 50/50ish option.
- Open Run command (Win + R) or ( In Search) type: gpedit.msc and press enter
- Go to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update.Then change the Configure Automatic Updates setting to "2 – Notify for download and notify for install"
- Restart
- Open Settings app (Win + I) again and Go to > Update and Security > Windows Updates."Check for updates" that will apply new configuration settings.
This only works for Windows 10 Education, Pro and Enterprise editions.
Methods 4: Registry Editor (regedit)
Regedit is kinda tricky option but it works.
- Open Run command (Win + R) or ( In Search), type: regedit and press enter
- Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
- Now create a '32-bit DWORD' value called 'AuOptions' and under 'Value Data' type 2 and click 'OK'
- Restart
- Open Settings app (Win + I) again and Go to > Update and Security > Windows Updates."Check for updates" that will apply new configuration settings.
Methods 5: Use 3rd Party Software
There few application we can use to stop all kinds of windows back doors and updates. Most of them are self explanatory. i am personally using "spybot beacon". Its free to use,virus free and has nice support forum.download the installer, install and do your thing…
Some other software:
I have just tested few them but there are many more option to can choose from. As always read before using them.
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Oliver & Bonacini Café Grill, Bayview Village is the first of O&B's casual dining restaurants. This large urban space feels very downtown despite its North Toronto location. A gleaming open kitchen extends into the airy dining room, featuring washed tin ceilings, leather banquettes and dramatic and distinctive light fixtures. The menu offers something for everyone, including fresh, made-from-scratch soups, salads, sandwiches, pastas and fire-roasted pizzas.
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Paul and I both had the Cheesecake (honey ricotta). I had really wanted to try the Creme Caramel, but we were informed that they had run out of that so we both ordered the cheesecake. (Really, how does a restaurant that has participated in Summerlicious for so many years run out of a dessert option by 1:30pm? Seriously?) I was really disappointed. I've also discovered that I'm not a fan of ricotta cheesecake - the texture just really throws me off. The berry compote was flavourful, but that was the only highlight of the dessert.
Ok, I have to split this into two areas. The hostess and our servers. Let me say, the servers we had were awesome. Awesome. They were friendly, attentive and quick.
I cannot, however, say the same for the hostess. I'm biting my tongue here because everything else about this meal was well done, but needless to say, our greeting (or lack of) almost ruined the entire lunch for me. We were really close to just walking away before being seated.
I understand that these restaurants are busier than usual during Summerlicious. I get that. And this place was swamped. But that doesn't mean that customers shouldn't be greeted with a smile and in a prompt manner. Maybe it was because I was super-polite and not as "assertive" as some of the other guests. In any case, I felt invisible and ignored.
Unfortunately, even though we've had some great meals at O&B Cafe Grill, we don't plan on going back anytime soon. Especially not during Summerlicious. This isn't a knock at the servers or the chefs - the food and the service was perfect. No complaints at all. But that tiny incident with the hostess really upset me.
I know that the lack of my business won't be missed by them, but I'd like to spend my hard-earned money at a place where I don't leave feeling all tense and frustrated.


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Dr. Kamwangamalu is Professor of English and Linguistics and Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of English at Howard University. He holds an MA and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has also received a Fulbright Award and, more recently, a Howard University Distinguished Faculty Research Award. Prior to joining Howard University, Dr. Kamwangamalu taught at the National University of Singapore, the University of Swaziland, and the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, where he was Professor and Director of the Linguistics Program.
He is recognized internationally for his scholarship in the field of sociolinguistics and, more specifically, in the areas of codeswitching, multilingualism, language policy and planning, world Englishes, language and identity, and African linguistics. He has published widely on most of these and related topics. His scholarly articles have appeared in Chicago Linguistic Society, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Studies in the Linguistics Sciences, TESOL Quarterly, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, World Englishes, Language Problems and Language Planning, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, to name a few. He is also the author of the monograph The Language Planning Situation in South Africa (Multilingual Matters, 2001), co-editor of Language and Institutions in Africa (Center for Advanced Studies of African Society, Cape Town, South Africa, 2000), and editor of special issues on language and society in post-apartheid South Africa for the journals Multilingua 17, 2-3 (1998),International Journal of the Sociology of Language 144(2000),World Englishes 21, 2 (2002), and Language Problems and Language Planning 28, 2 (2004).
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Martedì, Febbraio 28, 2012
Love in Transition
photo by Patrick de Volpi
When I first landed at the Narita International Airport I definitely thought it was entertaining.
But to render the idea of what I felt when I actually arrived in the Harajuku area in Tokyo, that adjective should be centuplicated.
-Am I in Disneyland or in some Fun Land Park?- the question flew across my mind.
I found the whole setting to be super amusing: people, streets, shops, temples, cats and even banks were absolutely colorful and inviting.
Even after many years of down-to-earth emotions, Tokyo still looks like a lively, 24-hour, non-stop amusement park experienced by 20 million people each day. It's not news that Japanese people love to play; from pachinko to video games, and karaoke to theme parks, the Japanese have a peculiar feel on how to enjoy drinking, eating, traveling and dancing together.
Tokyo's visual background is almost comparable to a giant manga roll—a real-life comic book filled with funny pictures, videos, music and neon colors.
Boys and girls, men and women are wearing the most interesting fashions on the planet, and they are showing off the majority of a brand's bag, shoe, watch or dress for every square meter of the world to see.
But here …
Love is in transition.
Difficult to catch.
As it is all around the hectic present we are trapped in, to be honest.
In the Capital of the East, though, social models and pattern changes happen earlier than elsewhere.
That's true for love matters, as well; I can personally guarantee it.
Love relationships are not fashionable nowadays; it's better to have money to buy a ticket for some exotic place.
Love and marriage can wait …
According to a recent survey, this year's St. Valentine's date night might have had plently of vacant spots.
The survey said about 60 percent of men ages 18-34 have no girlfriend, up nearly 10 percent in just a few years.
A record 49.5 percent of women in the same age group have no boyfriend, up almost 5 percent.
Being a couple seems to be on the way out, a kind of bother.
Why is that? How could that happen? How come, in the cutest of the capital of the world, in which pictures of hearts and romance are visible everywhere, love isn't a desiderable state?
There are at least two main answers to these questions:
Due to the economic recession, the nature of intimate relationships before marriage is in a state of transition.
Worst of all, intimacy has become irrelevant to most young people.
This lack of desire seems to resemble a sort of hikikomori or a tendency to be pathologically reclusive, which leads leads people to shut themselves away from love.
Listen to what nearly 10 percent of young boys and girls are saying—We are not in a relationship because we do not know how to be in one .
What is, really, the big problem for dating, getting married or even splurging on the occasional dinner for two?
One simple and nitty reality is that marriage has little to do with romantic love for most of the Japanese people.
Girls in Japan used to tell me - Japanese men just don't understand romance (Are there any men in the world who do?)
But, what the hell? We can't demand romance from our own family .
Having understood that, even dating for romance or for sex (let's not lie about this) does not exactly mean enjoying it for long periods of time.
Women grow very independent, self-confident and determined. They are able to take care of themselves.
Men, instead, are less confident, are scared of responsibility, are concerned about money and have, virtually, very little to say.
We might also blame technology for the lack of love around the Japanese archipelago, but the Internet is a crutch, not a cause.
Perhaps we should also consider how love and Romanticism are presented in Japanese literature, movies and manga productions.
In my opinion, the greatest writer of all has been Soei Shonagon who completed her journal-book, Makura no Sōshi better known as The Pillow Book around the year 1002.
Shonagon was a court lady to Empress Teishi in Kyoto during the gorgous Heian Era (794-1185).
In those years, the main purpose of the people living at court was to write poems, to paint and to observe the beauty of nature and depict human feelings.
With her journal, which is filled with lists of all kinds, Shonagon has been able to reach the deepest secrets of people's hearts:
When I make myself imagine what it is like to be one of those women who lives at home and faithfully serves her husband—a woman who does not have a single exciting prospect in life, yet believes she is prefectly happy—I am filled with scorn. Often, these women are of relatively good birth, yet have no opportunity to find out what the world is like .
This was just one of many thoughts of Shonagon, a Japanese woman of a thousand years ago. I love her !
Nowadays, there are writers such as Haruki Murakami and Natsuo Kirino as well as many others, who are talking of love in their fiction books and, quite often, their stories are about how love hurts or how love can drive you crazy [/i] or even about teenage couples who are eternally separated by terminal disease
Most of the movies follow the same pattern as the books: depressed, introverted, vacillating, extreme, fragile love.
The latest movie I have seen was Norwegian Wood which is director Tran Anh Hung's adaptation of the Murakami novel, which has sold around 4 million copies since its 1987 publication.
The movie is dramatically stylish and has several emotional scenes, as well as great actors.
But how are love relationships depicted? Are they happy and healthy?
They don't look like it. We also have to consider, though, that a simple and happy love story isn't that interesting—otherwise, Romeo and Juliet wouldn't be eternally inside our hearts!
And after all this long digression in the Japanese sense for love, I could assert that love is having a pretty hard time globally-speaking, not just in Tokyo.
It's especially hard for those of us who are living in big cities.
Single life for women and men is becoming an undeniable reality.
It does not count how beautiful or sexy we are (am I serious?); it's a matter of blind fortune and compromise, folks!
Love is in transition in Japan, and it is in the entire, lonely planet.
My suggestion, though, is to try to catch it whenever we have the right chance, to never give up no matter what.
It's worth it, isn't it?
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I had an interesting thought today. Why do you eat of plates? Our dining table is covered by a fine oilcloth, why don't we eat of that?
The plain answer, I think, is that we've been taught when we were young to use plates, to the point that it even seems unhygienic not to do so. Imagine a dinner with meat, potatoes and a batch of sticky sauce on your dining table.
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If you're looking for deeper reasons for why one eats of plates it's probably easy to find out. Just have a dinner directly on your table. I suspect the reasons have something to do with the difficulty of cleaning up afterwards and sharp knives and scratches in the surface.
Pottery is a pretty old technology. The point is that it's part of our culture, we never think about it, we just do it. But it's one of the million of things that make up the great technological advancements civilisation has made over the past centuries. If we weren't able to absorb them, if we had to think about all of them, we would never have gotten anywhere.
A similar thing goes on in software. With a programming language you can build anything you can think of, provided you have the hardware to run it on. But still it takes time to invent new things. Old things have to be absorbed into our culture before we can move on, otherwise the leap is too great.
Of course behaviours that once have been embedded might stop making sense as the environment changes, unnoticed. When you dig into it the reasons stop being reasonable. I think you'll find that traditions and rituals provide a rich source of examples of this phenomenon - it made sense to those who concocted it, but 50 years later it's really silly when you think about it. Of course, that might not stop you from enjoying it.
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In any case, I think it's sometimes interesting to turn things we take for granted upside-down. Today I've been thinking about the corner stone of object-oriented programming. Let's be pragmatic. What's an object?
You might think of attributes and methods. My take on it is that it depends.
In some types of code, it's a very useful modeling utility.
For instance, just think of the string class in your favourite programming language. It encapsulates most of the stuff you'd want to do with a string in a neat little package you can easily instantiate as many of as you like. If you've ever tried the horror that is the built-in string handling in the C standard library (not to pick on it, it was probably fine for its time), you'll really appreciate that. You might miss the occasional method or two, but still, it's very useful and easy to understand.
Library code is full of neat little packages like this. Dynamic arrays, linked lists, HTTP handling, database connections, widgets in a graphical toolkit.
As you go to application code, the answer is in many cases less clear cut. To a certain extent, this is perhaps because the concepts are less understood or perhaps just less well-defined.
In my applications I find that I have objects that are more or less just data (plain old data, PODs as they call them in C++ lingo) and objects that aren't really objects that I instantiate, let do a well-defined job and then throw away, but more of the sort of puppeteers or glue. These are all objects that give me head-aches. I also find some objects that are like the library objects, neat little packages. These are usually a great relief.
The first type of objects, typical application objects, are troublesome because they go against the culture of object-oriented programming. Which says that you shall divide your code into neat little interacting packages with methods and encapsulated attributes, instantiated and used dynamically.
But if we step back, then what's the purpose of objects? As I see it, it's a way of organising code. Think of it as a hierarchy. At the lowest level, you have the individual lines of code. We organise them into functions which let us deal with perhaps 10-100 times the amount of code, still maintaining an overview, like the headlines in a newspaper that groups the thousands of lines of text into articles.
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As a program grows, you need another level, one that will give you 10-100 more code without losing the grip of the program. This is plain hierarchy theory. Look at the folders on your computer for a prime example. An object is one such next level, one that is more flexible out of the box than traditional function library modules because it has state.
However, just because you need another level, it doesn't mean that the code will fit well into the object-oriented thinking of a neat little package where the data is encapsulated inside. I personally think it's impossible in many applications; otherwise it's going to take a lot of hard thinking, and I mean really a lot, because I have often wasted hours trying to find a way out of my crippled semi-objects.
It is true for the plain old data structures. In many cases, you just need to group a set of attributes under a name without the functionality making use of the attributes logically or even illogically belonging to the grouping. So just put them in, recognising this as a case where the object thinking is useful but not a 100% fit.
If you're writing getters and setters for this kind of stuff, you're wasting your time serving the culture of object-oriented programming as it was taught to you.
The same goes for glue code. It may organise the code better to put it inside an object. If so, go for it even if you're never going to do typical object stuff with it.
In any case, as I see it the goal here is a well-organised program. A well-organised program is obviously easier to understand, and thus easier to work with, extend, fix bugs in, etc. Think about that and forget culture next time your wrestle with program design and nothing seems right.


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Wednesday, December 3, 2014
[Camden] 6 Weeks
I realize I missed writing his 5 week check-in but I think I will start doing it every other week since there isn't a lot that changes from week to week. I will still be taking weekly pictures to have but just won't be writing a blog post every week.
Mr. Camden is now 6 weeks old! He has been smiling at us a lot recently which I absolutely LOVE. It seems like he's also trying to find his voice and sometimes he scares himself when he lets out a little coo :)
He loves his little activity mat. If he gets fussy, I can lay him on that and turn the music on and he is a happy little clam just looking around at everything. I've been trying to do more tummy time with him but he's still not a fan.
He's a great sleeper! This past week he's been going between 6-7 hours between feedings at night. I can't say I'm complaining ;) I still can't get over his chubby cheeks. I can't stop kissing them!!!
We love you Cam!!
Here's a few pictures from this week!!
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This is evidently an arcade available in Japan. You can see it on Capcom's site. From what I read, in Japan you can hook up to the arcade with a toy called a "Link PET EX (Exceed)" and upload your Navi from a GBA game to fight in the arcade, Net Battle other players, and so forth. (There's also another kiosk mentioned called "Battle Chip Stadium" which may or may not bear any relation to the arcade game.)
For obvious reasons, I have not been able to try these arcades. I rather doubt any of this will come out in English, but I suppose you never can tell.
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Two years ago (well, September 28, 2011 anyway), we regaled you on this site with tales about how the Bay Area's home prices – while admittedly quite high – were complete justifiable. If you don't have time to read those prescient words, I can summarize: home prices may have been high in 2011, but Bay Area households pulled in a ton of income (second only to the Government driven economies around Washington, D.C.), making houses somewhat affordable to many households in the area.
Am I proud of that call now that we've seen 20% year over year price returns in many areas, and 52% absolute returns on the house I purchased in July 2011? Well, yeah, of course I am. However, the mark of a truthful person is to change your opinion when presented with new data. Here's to being honest: the Bay Area is getting pretty frothy.
Household Incomes in the Bay Area for 2013
As I told you in 2011, the Census Bureau has a way-too-expansive definition of the Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma Counties. Including everything from Wine Country to Silicon Valley may have its perks, but we tend to err on the side of where the action is, like our friends at Burbed (our favorite Bay Area real estate blog!). On that site, they constantly argue the boundaries of the "REAL Bay Area", signified by articles such as this one. (I would be more expansive – pulling in all of the peninsula, all of Santa Clara County, and parts of Fremont.)
Well, DQYDJ doesn't have half of the snark skills of the two lead writers at Burbed – so we'll make do with what we can define… the 'Inner Bay Area'. We have defined that as the Census Designated MSA San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, along with Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. Those are the regions most of you think of as the 'geographically isolated' (by mountains and water) areas around the San Francisco Bay (Sorry, Marin).
Since our skills with R are much sharper than back in 2011, let's lead off with this graph of 20 quantiles of household incomes in that area (weighted, this time):
What sticks out? Perhaps that the 100th percentile is 'only' ~$1.375 million a year. That's merely an artifact of the CPS data – suffice to say, over $1.375 million in household income puts you into the top 1% of the top 1% of high earning regions – not too shabby. Median income is spot on where you'd expect it – $75,018 for households in the region.
While it's easy enough to get a rough read on how your household income stacks up, what would a DQYDJ article be without a calculator incorporating the above data? We took our few-thousand datapoints and used the site ZunZun to curve fit it – so you can enter whatever you want and see how it stacks up. Neat, eh?
Bay Area Home Prices
Okay, fair enough – people are ridiculously high earning in the Inner Bay Area. How about them there real estate costs?
How about them, indeed. We turn to our friends at Redfin (who, we might add, are the firm we used to purchase DQYDJ HQ), who bring you this incredible chart of the rebound in price per square foot in Santa Clara County (it's worse in San Francisco and San Mateo County). Here's a chart of sale prices per square foot in Santa Clara County:
As for the median price, since we used DataQuick back in 2011, let's do it again: the median price for a home sold in Santa Clara County in May 2013 was $665,000. Wondering how many Bay Area households can afford that?
Luckily for you, there is now a calculator for that!
Well, not bad – even with our assumptions, 578,319 households in the Inner Bay can afford the median Santa Clara house. Of course, not everyone is looking in any given year – many already have a house (or, horrors, are happy renting!). And this of course ignores the effect of foreigners buying houses with suitcases full of cash.
The Bay Area Affordability Breakdown
I know last time people enjoyed my quick summary of what households can afford in the Bay Area – so let's once again quantify what sort of payments are possible on the Bay Area's inflated incomes!
Using our 28 debt to income number, 20% down payments and 4.5% 30 year mortgages (and ignoring suitcases full of cash – domestic or foreign!):
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Maybe you have an issue with me assuming 20% down payments for everyone, or the relatively conservative 28% front end debt to income ratio. Maybe you think I should try to factor in foreigners with briefcases full of cash – regardless, this is a solid measure of affordability. And, for the record, there are north of 1.7 million households in the Inner Bay Area.
Conclusions – What Do the New Numbers Mean?
Simple, my friends – the game has changed since 2011. Yes, Bay Area households can still afford a ton, and you should expect to see high sale prices in the area. But, at the same time, be wary of prices creeping back to their 2007 peaks (DataQuick says for the 9 county region the median sale was $665,000 at the 2007 peak, it is 'only' $519,000 now).
Which leads us to our title. Is it a bubble?
Bubbles are, of course, notoriously tough to call when you're living inside of one. I would say that our little side trip into Canadian real estate gave us more evidence of a bubble than this data – but it's impossible to ignore the warning signs at this point. Here's the best advice I can give you:
If you're thinking about buying in the Bay Area right now – go into it with eyes wide open.
Do you think we've hit 'definite bubble' levels yet? If you don't, would you agree that a bubble is blowing (again, only 3x% of homes affording the Santa Clara median)? Am I wrong and 2010-2012 were a 'negative bubble' or anomaly and prices are fair now? Dump your thoughts on me in the comments!
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The fitting functions were derived with help from ZunZun.
Thanks to Ironman at Political Calculations for the calculator template – beats building it for scratch, like some of our other calculators.


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House Bill 115, sponsored by Reps. Theresa Gavarone (R., Bowling Green) and Scott Wiggam (R., Wooster), creates the opportunity for people to voluntarily submit information to a new Department of Public Safety database. That database would be linked to LEADS, the system on which police run license plates.
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Her older son is high functioning, works, and recently started to drive. Her younger son is more severely autistic and cannot drive, but such a database would link both sons to vehicles she owns.
She turned to Ms. Gavarone when she learned such a database didn't already exist.
"Law enforcement officers have a split second to make decisions," Ms. Gavarone said. "This will give them more information that may help the situation."
Someone with a communication disability or that person's parent or guardian may voluntarily access a form to be made available on the state Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities Agency's website. In addition to information about the person with the disability and the vehicle, a signed certification of the condition from a physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist would be included.
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The bill passed both the House and Senate unanimously and was recently signed by Mr. Kasich. It had broad support from groups like the Ohio Association for the Deaf, Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the Ohio Center for Autism and Low-Incidence.
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Some news on feedback I've been getting recently.
Harri Ruuska, a fully blind Finn, has emailed me to tell me how he's been able to use Textise to solve accessibility problems he's been having with some web-sites. In an email titled "Textise is a BRIGHT diamond", Harri explains how some web-sites cause his screen reader's cursor to jump back to the top of the screen every 10 seconds, which suggests they're using some sort of auto-refresh code.
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Harri uses the Jaws 7.0 screen reader, which isn't exactly the latest version (the latest I've seen in v11.0), so I suspect that this sort of problem would be solved by an upgrade, but the software's not cheap so there are probably many people out there who'd benefit from this use of Textise.
Harri concludes his email: "VERY BRILLIANT!!!!!! Let me say you have done A VERY FANTASTIC JOB and you have completely solved the problem that we are experiencing.
I really hope that you receive the appreciation and support for being able to go on with future developments of Textise.
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So thanks to Harri for his support and enthusiasm. Quite made my day!
I was also contacted by sukh, who left the following message on the About Textise page:
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There is a problem with my router – losing roughly 80% of packets sent to it. My current speed is 2.5kpbs, but can still view sites thanks to this site!
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Again, it's fabulous to discover new uses people are finding for Textise. Thanks, sukh. If you find a new way of using the program, please let me know at ian @ willysoft.co.uk or leave a message on the Feedback & Suggestions page.
Finally, I've recently noticed that the City Of San Antonio in Texas, US is using Textise on its new official web-site. Have a look for the "Text Only" link at the top right of all of the pages – it uses the javascript snippet from this blog to create a text version of the current page using Textise. You can find the site at sanantonio.gov.


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The Brownie Policeman is produced in a limited edition of 250 pieces worldwide. He comes inside a deluxe RJW presentation box which is signed and numbered.
The matching-number service will be provided to other pieces in the series.


text: The 65159 crush proof commercial vacuum hose is ideal for a number of applications including dry and wet-dry commercial vacuums, extraction equipment, car wash vacuums, central vacuums, and as a general use all vacuum hose where flexibility and a smooth interior is demanded. Sold standard in 10 foot lengths the 65159 commercial vacuum hose can be cut to length as necessary or provided in cut lengths direct from Cen-Tec Systems. The 65159 hose accepts standard 1.5" threaded end cuffs and fittings making it immediately compatible with most major wet dry vacuums, central vacuums and car wash applications.