We encounter at the Cafe Crust, an unique approach expressed by a contrast design, a project made by Ignitus Architectural Studio in Ahmadabad, India. Once entered in this cafe, you will feel like you have stepped into another world, the ambiance is not connected with anything from the outside world. The lights in contrast with the black background of the ceiling give the cafe a mysterious appearance, rather specific to the ancient temples. The yellow lights substitute the lit torches that, inevitably leads the imagination. The walls and the black ceiling blur and leave aside any trace of agitation of the city and create an enigmatic and impressive atmosphere that is somehow imposing. Excepting the chairs, whose bodies are made of black polymer and have feet of pine, the rest of the furniture, including the wall decorations are entirely made of pine wood.
The ambience created by the contrast between black and white, turn the Cafe Crust, into a place where time and space seem to blur. Without specifically targeting a particular clientage, the café seems to address ritualistically to all those who love coffee and find moments of peace and relaxation when they serve it. Having a modern design, Crust seems in the same time connected to a historical time, the architects have managed to design a temple that worships coffee.


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September 17-18 the silver sleeves racing team entered the Twincam Wolseley hornet in the 24hrs of lemons race at the ridge.We were ahead of the second place finisher by 70 miles!
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Barcelona plot Inter Milan transfer raid as Lautaro Martinez eyed as Luis Suarez replacement
Barcelona want to sign another striker to provide competition for Luis Suarez and Inter Milan's Lautaro Martinez is on their shortlist
Ollie SaltSport Reporter
Barcelona are eyeing Inter Milan striker Lautaro Martinez as a potential replacement for Luis Suarez (Image: REUTERS)
Barcelona have identified Inter Milan striker Lautaro Martinez as a long-term replacement for Luis Suarez, according to reports in Spain.
Suarez, 32, has enjoyed six successful years at the Nou Camp, scoring 188 goals in 264 games and winning four Spanish titles, as many Copa del Reys and the Champions League.
He is in fine form this season, too, with eight goals under his belt in 13 La Liga appearances for the reigning champions.
Yet according to Sport , Barca are determined to bring in another centre-forward to ease the workload on Suarez and fill in upfront when he is unavailable.
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And Martinez, who has netted 13 goals in 19 appearances for Inter this term, is reportedly on their shortlist.
It is believed Barca technical director Eric Abidal has held talks with Inter officials over the Argentinian, who still has over three years to run on his current deal at the San Siro.
He joined the Italian club last year, completing a £20m switch from Racing Club having scored 18 goals in 27 appearances for the Argentinian outfit in the 2017/18 campaign.
The Catalans are keen to provide competition for Suarez in attack (Image: Getty)
Lionel Messi destroys Barcelona team-mates in training day after Ballon d'Or win
Martinez immediately became a key player for Luciano Spalletti, but it proved a disappointing debut season for him, scoring just nine goals in 35 appearances.
After just 19 games under Conte this season, though, the 22-year-old has already bettered that tally with a return of 13 goals for the ex-Chelsea manager.
Sport go on to claim that it would be "very difficult" for Barca to prise him away from Italy given how important he is to Inter's Serie A and Champions League hopes.
And Martinez is on their radar having scored 13 goals in 19 games for Inter this term (Image: REUTERS)
Barcelona legend Rivaldo hints Lionel Messi could retire in 'next two or three years'
The player is also said to have a release clause of £94m in his current deal, which would be a hefty outlay for the Spanish champions just six months after they spent £100m on Antoine Griezmann.
Nevertheless, Griezmann has not exactly got off to a sensational start at the Nou Camp, scoring a mere six goals in his first 19 games for the club.
He would be very difficult to sign due to his importance to Antonio Conte's side (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Lionel Messi's WAG celebrates Barcelona hat-trick against Mallorca with shots
Martinez is set to lock horns with Barca this evening in a pivotal Champions League outing for Conte's men at the San Siro.
Ernesto Valverde's men have already sealed qualification from Group F, holding a four-point lead over Inter and Borussia Dortmund in first place.
If Dortmund claim victory in their clash with Slavia Prague, the hosts will need to beat Barca to guarantee their place in the last-16.
Conte will be hoping for a better showing from his side, who slumped to a 2-1 defeat in their trip to the Nou Camp back in October.
Martinez was on the scoresheet that night, firing Inter in front with a brilliant finish from close range after two minutes.
But Suarez turned the game around for Barca in the second half, thumping in a sensational volley before converting the winner with six minutes remaining.
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ClinEdge/goBalto/Oracle Webinar - Are Next-Generation Technologies Key to Cost Reductions in Rare Disease Research?
Are Next-Generation Technologies Key to Cost Reductions in Rare Disease Research?
There are approximately 7,000 rare diseases that affect approximately 30 million people in the United States – more than half of whom are children. Medicine spending in the United States is shifting from traditional small molecule drugs towards specialty medicines that treat relatively few people with chronic, complex or rare diseases. Recouping the costs of research and development are challenging as there exists an inverse relationship between the cost per year for a therapy and the number of patients, with less expensive therapies typically for larger patient populations.
While rare disease product approvals are held to the same evidentiary standards as common diseases, designing and conducting clinical trials in rare diseases face unique, complex and costly challenges in meeting these standards. Reducing costs and improving efficiencies is, therefore, paramount – are innovative, next-generation technologies the solution?
• Adoption of blockchain technologies to promote data integrity, transparency, collaboration amongst partners and availability of granular patient information in an anonymous fashion.
Scott is a clinical strategist with a 25-year background in clinical drug development focused on rare diseases, orphan drugs, and advanced therapeutics. Scott's focus is on patient-centered approaches to drug development; reducing the burden of clinical trial participation; and leveraging novel and disruptive technologies to bring new therapies to patients faster. Committed to collaborative efforts to further drug development, Scott has developed active partnerships with rare disease patient-focused organizations, patient advocacy groups, drug development institutes, and academic research centers. Scott serves on leadership committees for a variety of rare disease societies and congresses, and also regularly speaks on novel strategies to accelerate rare disease drug development. Scott holds a master's degree in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed a Graduate Research Fellowship at The National Institutes of Health.
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After losing a child to a rare congenital disease in 2012, Harsha was determined to apply his years of post-doctoral clinical genomics data research experience at National Institutes of Health and industry product development experience to develop products and solutions to help accelerate clinical research. His venture Jeeva is building a Uber-like model for clinical trials using digital health technologies to significantly improve efficiency while reducing patient burden and drop outs.
Harsha has authored 15 high impact journal publications, 2 book chapters, and inventor on 2 patents. He is a keynote speaker, convener of #DigitalOMICS meetup around the Capital Beltway and other part of several conference organizing committees. Harsha has received numerous Awards for his work in genomics, precision medicine and rare diseases including the Lead India 2020 Award for leadership and outstanding achievement for the cause of rare diseases, NTT DATA Healthcare Life Sciences Silver award for outstanding achievement 2017, Sanofi Genzyme patient advocacy leadership award 2016, Bioscience company of the year 2014, NEI director's innovation award 2012 for building their genomics cyber infrastructure. Harsha earned his M.S. in Computer Science (2004) and Ph.D. in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2007) from Virginia Tech.
Joan is the Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at ClinX, a global service solutions provider for research sites, patients and healthcare organizations. Prior to joining ClinX, Joan's 20+ years in the health life sciences industry includes working in senior management roles at SCORR Marketing, CenterWatch, Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development at Tufts University, and PAREXEL International. Joan holds a B.S. in Marketing.
Joan is on the Board of Directors for Greater Gift, The Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP), the US PharmaTimes Steering Committee for CROY, Steering Committee for Pharma Intelligence/Informa Clinical & Research Excellence Awards, Steering Committee for PopUp Star and is an active member of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) and the Drug Information Association (DIA).


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Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio to get a lock on quantum signals
Researchers bring the workhorse of classical physics, the lock-in amplifier, …
Chris Lee - Jun 9, 2011 11:09 pm UTC
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There is an art to making good measurements. In the ideal case, you want a really sensitive measuring device so that you can measure the smallest of changes to the signal you are interested in. But what you find is that most of the sensitivity is wasted, because in addition to signal, there is always noise. And for most "on the bleeding edge" experiments, the noise is huge compared to the signal.
In classical physics, there is a seemingly magical machine, called a lock-in amplifier, that extracts signal from the deepest and darkest pits of noise. But it seemed that the way quantum mechanics worked would make a quantum lock-in relatively useless. It turns out that, with a bit of clever thinking, you can make a quantum lock-in, and the resulting measurements have even more exquisite sensitivity.
Getting a lock on the lock-in amplifier
So what is this lock-in amplifier that you speak of? Basically, if you already know something about the signal that you want to extract, then you can use that to get the rest. Imagine that I have a very weak light emitter sitting in a very bright room and I want to know how bright it is. The bright light in the room is the noise and I want to see my very weak emitter. There are several possibilities that are, on the surface, very different, but they're actually all the same thing.
In this first case, I know what color to look for. Say it emits a very pure form of blue light—I design a filter that only passes that specific color of blue and look into the room through that filter. I will, with any luck, see my signal. That's because, for any given signal, the total amount of noise is nearly always much greater than the signal, but the amount of noise just in the region of interest around the signal is usually smaller than the signal. So any filter that is specific enough will allow you to see the signal.
How do you filter the signal? Typically, it's very small and changes slowly, putting it right in the worst of the noise. The first step is to shift the signal to a higher frequency, which we do by multiplying it with some pure oscillating source. Now we are looking for very small changes on a high frequency signal, where it is still drowned in the surrounding noise.
To extract the signal, we multiply it again, this time with a second oscillator with the same frequency. This has two effects. First, the oscillator can be very strong, so it acts as a sort of amplifier, making the signal stronger. The second is that we can now just look at the part of the signal that's changing very slowly. All the noise, apart from the tiny component that happened to have the same frequency and phase as the oscillator, gets eliminated.
Going quantum
The key to the success of the lock-in is the ability to multiply electronic signals together. That might not seem very difficult, but in fact, it's a nonlinear operation. For everything apart from semiconductor-based electronics, nonlinear operations are inefficient and difficult; for quantum mechanics, they appear to be impossible, because, on the face of it, quantum mechanics is entirely linear.
The linearity, however, comes about because there is a lot hidden in a single mathematical symbol (H, for the record). That symbol represents all the interactions of a quantum system with its environment. For most purposes, you choose your interactions so that they eliminate as much nonlinearity as possible.
What the team of Israeli researchers realized was that if you choose the environment correctly—in this case, a series of radio frequency pulses and laser light fields—then you can do the equivalent of a multiplication. The key is that you have to choose your oscillators so that they do not commute with the signal—commute is the mathematical term that refers to the fact that certain pairs of quantities, like position and momentum, cannot both be measured to arbitrary precision. Once you have a multiplication, the war is won and lock-in amplification nirvana is within your reach.
In a bit more detail, the researchers used a single strontium ion as their sensor. The ion is placed into a superposition of two different spin states (the spin state is the orientation of the ion's magnetic field). In response to the noise in the surrounding magnetic field, the probability of finding the spin in either up or down oscillates randomly a very small amount. The researchers added a tiny oscillating signal to that noise, and then went through the lock-in process.
Recall that we need two multiplication processes. To do this, the researchers chose to modulate a spin state with a series of radio frequency pulses that invert the probabilities of spin up and spin down. This process was then applied twice—once to shift the measurement away from the noise and a second time to retrieve the signal, which is the spin state. Therefore any particular measurement is random, and you must repeat this many times to calculate the probability of spin up and spin down to retrieve the actual signal.
To test this, they tuned their lock-in right through the noisiest place in the spectrum: the 50Hz line, where the stray fields from the electrical mains are the bane of every physicist's existence. They used these lines to quantify just how good their system is. Then, just to show off, they used the same system to measure the frequency shift of a laser as it tuned through one of the resonances of the strontium ion.
Just how good is this thing? Try 13pT/Hz1/2 good. Basically, that says that at 1Hz you can see changes that are on the order of 10-12T. For reference, the Earth's magnetic field is 1 million times stronger than this. But the important part of this research is not the numbers—experiments always start off crappy and get better, so this will improve until it hits the quantum limit—it's the fact that this is a generic instrument. It can probe anything that interacts electromagnetically. Sure, it is a rather complicated instrument, but no more so than the atomic clocks that we shoot into space at regular intervals, so it will, I think, find itself in widespread use in a fairly short time.
Nature, 2011, DOI:10.1038/nature10010 (About DOIs).
Chris Lee Chris writes for Ars Technica's science section. A physicist by day and science writer by night, he specializes in quantum physics and optics. He Lives and works in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
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Top American juniors set to compete at Wimbledon
By Sally Milano, USTA.com
Four Americans ranked in the Top 10 of the ITF World Junior Rankings – 16-year-old Francis Tiafoe of College Park, Md.; 16-year-old Stefan Kozlov of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; 15-year-old CiCi Bellis of Atherton, Calif.; and 16-year-old Tornado Alicia Black of Boca Raton, Fla. – will lead a strong U.S. contingent into the main draw of the Wimbledon Junior Championships, which will be held from June 28 to July 6 in London.
Bellis, the No. 2-ranked junior in the world and the reigning Easter Bowl champion, and No. 4 Black, the 2013 US Open junior finalist, lead a field of eight American girls accepted into the main draw. The others are No. 29 Sofia Kenin (15, Pembroke Pines, Fla.), No. 34 Usue Arconada (15, College Park, Md.), No. 36 Dasha Ivanova (17, Beaverton, Ore.), No. 50 Katrine Steffensen (18, Scarsdale, N.Y.), No. 57 Kaitlyn McCarthy (16, Cary, N.C.) and No. 60 Raveena Kingsley (15, Parkton, Md.).
Kozlov, a 2014 Australian Open junior finalist and the top-ranked American boy in the world rankings at No. 6, and eighth-ranked Tiafoe – both of whom have held the world No. 2 ranking this year – are joined in the main draw by No. 12 Michael Mmoh (16, Temple Hills, Md.), No. 24 Alex Rybakov (17, Coral Springs, Fla.), No. 50 Henrik Wiersholm (17, Kirkland, Wash.) and No. 54 Logan Smith (17, Carlsbad, Calif.).
Accepted into the girls' qualifying field are No. 78 Michaela Gordon (14, Los Altos Hills, Calif.), No. 87 Olivia Hauger (16, Tulsa, Okla.) and No. 99 Raquel Pedraza (16, Claremont, Calif.), while No. 46 Taylor Fritz (16, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), No. 68 Dennis Uspensky (17, Atlantic Beach, N.Y.) and Noah Rubin (18, Rockville Centre, N.Y.) are set to compete in the boys' singles qualifying draw.
Last year, Taylor Townsend reached the Wimbledon girls' singles final, and last month the 18-year-old from Chicago made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the French Open, advancing to the third round. Previous American junior singles champions at Wimbledon include Donald Young (2007), Chanda Rubin (1992), Zina Garrison (1981) and Tracy Austin (1978).


John is a Brancardier for the Lourdes Pilgrimage which travels annually from Liverpool to the Southern French town. On the journey, Brancardiers are responsible to the welfare of the sick and disabled pilgrims making the journey. The role includes washing, dressing feeding patients whilst at all times treating them with respect and dignity. John has been involved for 57 years.
In addition to making the gruelling journey, John has recently volunteered to be part of Lourdes Hospitality. This means he visits for a further two or four weeks of the year to take care of other pilgrimages, performing the same duties of care for the pilgrims making the journey.
Giving is in John's nature, and when he was a school teacher he gave up his Easter Holidays for 17 consecutive years to take a groups of 30-40 underprivileged children on holiday to Wales.
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\section{Introduction}

The superconductivity (SC) discovered in iron pnictides has stimulated intensive researches in condensed matter physics since 2008~\cite{Kamihara} . The basic structure of these materials is a stack of layered square lattices of Fe-As/Fe-P intermediate by alkali / alkali earth / rare-earth ions or oxides. So far, such ingredient has been successfully achieved in many families of iron-based superconductors, which can be classified as: 1111 (e.g. LaFeAsO), 122 (e.g. BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$), 111(e.g. LiFeAs),  21311 (e.g. Sr$_2$VO$_3$FeAs), 32522 (e.g. Sr$_3$Sc$_2$O$_5$Fe$_2$As$_2$), 22241(e.g. Ba$_2$Ti$_2$Fe$_2$As$_4$O), 10-3-8 (e.g. Ca$_{10}$(Fe$_3$Pt$_8$)(Fe$_2$As$_2$)$_5$), 10-4-8 (e.g. Ca$_{10}$(Fe$_4$Pt$_8$)(Fe$_2$As$_2$)$_5$), 1144 (e.g. CaRbFe$_4$As$_4$ ), etc ~\cite{Chen X,Chen G,Ren Z,Rotter,Wang X,Hsu,Zhu1,Zhu2,Ogino,Sun Y,Kakiya,Ni1,Iyo1,LiuY,Meier}. Superconductivity emerges from chemical substituted parent compounds with long-ranged antiferromagnetism (AF) or simply in stoichiometric compounds.

In 2013, superconductivity with $T_c$ up to 42 K in a new type iron pnictide compound Ca$_{1-y}$Ln$_{y}$FeAs$_{2}$ (Ln = La, Pr, Nd) was reported and named as 112-type iron-based superconductor~\cite{Katayama,Yakita1}. Although this new system contains similar elements as the tetragonal 1111, 111, and 122 families (space group $I4/mmm$), the crystal structure is monoclinic (space group $P2_{1}$), with a small tilt of the whole quadrangular ($\alpha=90\degree$, $\beta=91.4\degree$, $\gamma=90\degree$) at room temperature and additional zigzag arsenic chains between Ca/La layers~\cite{Katayama,Yakita1,Yakita2} (Fig.\ref{fig:1}(a)). On cooling, the only symmetry of $P2_{1}$ structure will be broken to be triclinic $P1$ by reducing $\gamma$ from $90\degree$ to $89.9\degree$~\cite{Jiang1}, much similar to the 10-3-8 system ~\cite{Ni2}. While the magnetic order, forms just below the structural transition temperature $T_s$, is very similar to co-linear antiferromagnetism in 1111 or 122 type of iron pnictides with wave vector \textbf{Q}$_{AF}$= (1, 0) in orthorhombic lattice~\cite{Dai}, but the ordered moments rotate 45\degree\ away from the stripe directions (Fig.\ref{fig:1}(b)). Such unique features result in a structurally untwinned lattice but twinned magnetic domains at low temperature for the weak magneto-elastic coupling~\cite{Jiang1}. Unfortunately, just like the rare-earth doped CaFe$_2$As$_2$ ~\cite{Lv}, only filamentary superconductivity can be found in Ca$_{1-y}$Ln$_{y}$FeAs$_{2}$ compound. Though the iso-valent substitution of As by Sb/P or  post-annealing of the crystals may improve the superconducting transition and volume, it is still hard to obtain bulk superconductivity with full Meissner shielding volume~\cite{Katayama,Yakita1,Yakita2,Kudo}. Recently, Jiang \emph{et. al. } have finally realized bulk superconductivity by slightly doping Co into the \textquotedblleft parent\textquotedblright compound Ca$_{0.73}$La$_{0.27}$FeAs$_{2}$ with $T_s=$ 58 K and $T_N=$ 54 K~\cite{Jiang2}. Both antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases coexist microscopically with each other in the underdoped region, and optimal superconductivity with maximum $T_c= 20 $ K is obtained at 4.6\% Co doping level. Surprisingly, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) research reveals that lanthanum doping, which is generally believed to introduce electrons~\cite{Chen X}, will actually enhance $T_N$ but suppress $T_c$ simultaneously~\cite{Kawasaki}. To understand the magnetism and superconductivity in this fascinating material, it is necessary to further establish the detailed phase diagram concerning different chemical dopings both at Ca and Fe sites.

\begin{figure}[!ht]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.15,clip]{fig1.pdf}
\caption{(a) Crystal structure of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$FeAs$_{2}$. (b, c) Comparison of antiferromagnetic structures between Ca$_{0.73}$La$_{0.27}$FeAs$_{2}$ and BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$. The red dash box represents the nuclear unit cell, and the green dash box is the magnetic unit cell, respectively. \label{fig:1}}
\end{figure}

In this article, we report our results of crystal growth and characterization of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$\-As$_{2}$ with various Ni doping levels ($0 \leq x \leq 0.24$) and La doping ($y=$ 0.18 and 0.24). Most of them show bulk supercondutivity at the superconducting state, and systematic evolution of transport properties at the normal state. With the $T_N$ determined from neutron diffraction experiments on the single crystals and previous report~\cite{Jiang1}, and $T_c$ obtained from magnetization and resistivity measurements, we establish a three-dimensional phase diagram of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$\-As$_{2}$ with rich interplay between $T_c$ and $T_N$.

\section{Experiment}

\begin{figure}[!ht]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.3,clip]{fig2.pdf}
\caption{(a) Photo of the Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ crystals. (b, c) SEM image and EDX spectrum of one typical crystal.\label{fig:2}}
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 Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$\-Ni$_{x}$\-As$_{2}$ single crystals were grown by self-flux method using CaAs as flux~\cite{Luo H}. Before the crystal growth, the precursors CaAs, LaAs, Fe$_{1-x'}$Ni$_{x'}$As (in nominal composition) had been prepared with raw materials Ca(Alfa Aesar, $>$99.5\%), La(Alfa Aesar, $>$99.9\%), Fe(Alfa Aesar, $>$99.5\%), Ni(Alfa Aesar, $>$99.99\%), As(Alfa Aesar, $>$99.99\%) by solid state reaction method. For CaAs, the Ca granular and ground As chips with a ratio of 1 : 1 were sealed into an evacuated quartz tube and placed in a box furnace. The raw materials were heated to 400\degreecelsius{} slowly and held for more than 10 hrs, then further heated to 630\degreecelsius{} slowly and held for another 20 hrs, and finally quenched to room temperature. The mixture for the first batch was ground into powder, sealed into an evacuated quartz tube, and heated up to 670\degreecelsius{} again for complete reaction. For LaAs, the starting materials La and As chips were mixed with a ratio of 1 : 1 and loaded into an Al$_{2}$O$_{3}$ crucible and sealed into a quartz tube. The whole ampoule was slowly heated to 500\degreecelsius{} in 20 hrs, held for 10 hrs, then heated to 850\degreecelsius{} in 10 hrs and held for another 20 hrs. The Fe$_{1-x'}$Ni$_{x'}$As powders were prepared by the same method we used before~\cite{Chen Y}. All precursors were checked to be high pure crystalline phases by X-ray powder diffraction. Finally, for the Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ samples, precursors CaAs, LaAs, Fe$_{1-x'}$Ni$_{x'}$As with a molar ratio of 3.7 : 0.3 : 1 and total mass about 10 grams were grounded to mix up homogeneously, then pressed into pellets, loaded into a $\phi 21$ mm $\times$ 60 mm Al$_{2}$O$_{3}$ crucible and sealed into a quartz tube with inner size $\phi 23$ mm $\times$ 100 mm. For the Ca$_{0.76}$La$_{0.24}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ samples, we grow the crystals by changing the molar ratio to 1.65 : 0.35 : 1 for the corresponding precursors CaAs, LaAs, Fe$_{1-x'}$Ni$_{x'}$As. The ampoule was heated to 900\degreecelsius{} in 15 hrs and kept for 10 hrs first, then heated to 1180\degreecelsius{} in 5 hrs and held for 20 hrs for melting. At the last stage, the furnace temperature was decreased to 950\degreecelsius{} at a slow rate of 3\degreecelsius{}  / h and then quenched to room temperature. By cracking the melted pellet after exposing them in the air for several hours, sizable shining plate-like single crystals were successfully obtained.

\begin{figure}[!ht]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.16,clip]{fig3.pdf}
\caption{(a) X-ray diffraction patterns of Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ single crystals at room temperature. (b) The Ni doping evolution of $c$-axis, where the insert shows the Laue photo of one typical crystal. (c) Linear relationship between the nominal Ni concentration $x'$ and the real Ni concentration $x$. The dash line is a straight line with $x$ = 0.8 $x'$.\label{fig:3}}
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To check the quality of our crystals, the crystallinity, chemical composition and planeness of cleaved surface were characterized. Single crystals X-ray diffraction (XRD) were carried out on a SmartLab 9 kW high resolution diffraction system with Cu K$\alpha$ radiation($\lambda$ = 1.540598 \angstrom) at room temperature ranged from $5\degree$ to $90\degree$ in refection mode. The Laue photos of the crystals were taken by a Photonic Sciences Laue camera in backscattering mode with incident beam along $c$-axis. The microscopic morphology and energy-dispersive X-ray spectrum (EDX) of the crystals were measured by a high resolution cold field emission scanning electron microscope (SEM) (Hitachi S-4800) equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer. The accurate composition of our samples were determined by the inductively coupled plasma (ICP) analysis.

The superconducting transition temperatures were determined by DC magnetization measurements on a \emph{Quantum Design} Magnetic Property Measurement System (MPMS) with zero-field-cooling method and $H \parallel ab$ plane, where the demagnetization factor is nearly zero for the very thin crystals.  The superconducting and normal state transport properties were further measured by standard four-probe resistance measurements on a \emph{Quantum Design} Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) down to 2 K. Four Ohmic contacts were painted by DuPont 5025 silver paint on the crystals with contact resistance less than 1 $\Omega$. Temperature dependence of resistivity was measured by sweeping temperature in a low rate of 1 K/min. For each doping, we measured at least 3 typical pieces of crystals to repeat the results.

The antiferromagnetism on several samples were measured by elastic neutron scattering experiments on the cold neutron triple-axis spectrometer FLEXX-V2 at BER II, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany. The fixed final
energy was $E_f =$ 5 meV (in wavelength $\lambda_f=$ 4.05 \angstrom) with a velocity selector before the sample and a cold Be filter after the sample. The wave vector {\bf Q} at ($q_x$, $q_y$, $q_z$) was defined as ($H$,$K$,$L$) = ($q_x$a/2$\pi$, $q_y$b/2$\pi$, $q_z$c/2$\pi$) reciprocal lattice units(r.l.u.) by simply using the tetragonal notation  where a $\approx$ b $\approx$ 3.90 \angstrom{ }and c $\approx$ 10.31 \angstrom. All the samples were aligned in [$H$, $H$, 0] $\times$ [0, 0, $L$] scattering plane, to reach the magnetic wave vector \textbf{Q}$_{AF}$= (0.5, 0.5, $L/2$) with $L=\pm 1, \pm 2, \pm 3,...$ .

\section{Result and discussion}

\begin{figure}[!ht]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.3,clip]{fig4.pdf}
\caption{The DC magnetic susceptibility for Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ single crystals.\label{fig:4}}
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\begin{figure}[!ht]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.25,clip]{fig5.pdf}
\caption{Temperature dependence of the resistivity for Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$\-Ni$_{x}$\-As$_{2}$ single crystals. All data is normalized by the resistivity at 300 K and shifted upward with 0.3 and 0.4 one by one for (a) and (b), respectively. \label{fig:5}}
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\begin{figure}[!ht]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.3,clip]{fig6.pdf}
\caption{(a, b) The extra electrons dependence of the coefficient A, B from the fitting $\rho(T)/\rho$(300 K) = {$\it\rho$}$_{0}$ + A{\it T} + B{\it T}$^2$ of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$. Insert of (b) shows the typical fitting results for Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ with $x=$ 0, 0.04, and 0.072 at normal state, where the red lines are fitting curves. (c) The extra electrons dependence of RRR of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$\-{\it TM}$_{x}$\-As$_{2}$ ({\it TM} = Ni, Co). The extra electrons are defined as $2x + 0.63y$ for Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ and $x + 0.63y$ for Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$As$_{2}$, respectively. The shadow areas are guides for the eyes.\label{fig:6}}
\end{figure}

We have successfully grown two groups of Ni doped 112-type iron pnictides with different La contents: Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ and Ca$_{0.76}$La$_{0.24}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$. The crystallographic results are quite similar for the two series, thus we only show typical results of the former one with La concentration $y=$ 0.18. Figure \ref{fig:2}(a) shows the as-grown crystals of Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ with the largest size 5 \texttimes{} 6 \texttimes{} 0.5 mm$^3$. All crystals have shiny surface after crashing from the ingot in the crucible. The SEM image in Fig.\ref{fig:2}(b) shows the detailed characteristic of the crystal with some naturally cleaved edge along [1, 1, 0] direction, as determined by X-ray Laue reflection (Fig.\ref{fig:3}(c)). Figure \ref{fig:2}(c) gives the EDX spectrum of the same crystal in Fig.\ref{fig:2}(b), all elements including Ca, La, Fe, Ni, As can be detected, and their contents can be roughly estimated from the spectrum weight. To check the crystalline quality, we have performed single crystal XRD measurements on each doping level at room temperature. Five typical XRD patterns are presented in Fig.\ref{fig:3}(a) for Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ with $x=$ 0, 0.012, 0.04, 0.1, 0.24. The sharp (0 0 {\it l}) peaks indicate high $c$-axis orientation of our crystals. No 122 phase  of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$\-Fe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$, which has larger lattice parameter $c$ and can be only indexed by even peaks along $c$-axis, has been found in all examined samples. The slightly shift of Bragg peaks toward to high 2$\theta$ angles indicates the decreasing of the length of $c$-axis with Ni doping level increasing, as summarized in Fig.\ref{fig:3}(b). The chemical composition of our samples are characterized by ICP analysis with about 1\% uncertainty. If we suppose the nominal Ni doping level $x'$ in precursor Fe$_{1-x'}$Ni$_{x'}$As, then we have a linear relation between the real content of Ni $x$ and the nominal one $x'$, $x$ = 0.8 $x'$, where the error bars in Fig.\ref{fig:3}(c) come from the statistics among 3-5 pieces of crystal in the same batch. Such segregation coefficient is same as the case of Ni doped BaFe$_2$As$_2$ ~\cite{Luo H,Chen Y,Zhang1,Ni3}, suggesting common ability of congruent melting between Fe and Ni in iron pnictides. The systematic evolution of the $c$-axis and real compositions prove the reliable and repeatable of our grown method. In order to compare with the previous results, we will use the real composition $x$ in the following discussion.

\begin{figure*}[!ht]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.45,clip]{fig7.pdf}
\caption{Neutron diffraction experiments on Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$\-Ni$_{x}$\-As$_{2}$ single crystals. (a - c) Magnetic Bragg peaks by scaning $Q$ along [$H$, $H$, $H$] direction for $x =$ 0, $y =$ 0.18 and $x =$ 0.024, $y =$ 0.18; $x =$ 0, $y =$ 0.24; $x =$ 0.024, $y =$ 0.24. The solid lines in the figures are gauss fittings of the data. (d - f) Temperature dependence of the magnetic scattering at {\bf Q}$_{AF}$ = (0.5, 0.5, 0.5) for the corresponding doping in (a - c). The antiferromagnetic phase transition temperature $T_N$ is marked by the black arrows.\label{fig:7}}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}[!ht]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.34,clip]{fig8.pdf}
\caption{The 3D phase diagram of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$\-Ni$_{x}$\-As$_{2}$, where the AF, SC represent antiferrmagnetism and superconductivity with transition temperature $T_N$ and $T_c$, respectively. \label{fig:8}}
\end{figure*}

Figure \ref{fig:4} shows the temperature dependence of the DC magnetic susceptibility for  Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ with $x=0 \sim 0.12$. For the Ni-free Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$\-FeAs$_{2}$, the onset diamagnetism appears at 25 K with a very broad superconducting transition, and the diamagnetism does not saturate at 2 K. With very little Ni doping, the superconducting transition temperature $T_c$ can be significantly improved from 25 K for $x= 0$ to 34 K for $x=$ 0.004, then slowly drop down upon further Ni doping. This may indicate that this system is very close to an optimal condition for superconductivity. More impressively, after dopping more Ni, the superconducting transition width become very sharp and most of the superconducting samples have nearly full Meissner shielding volume ($4\pi\chi\approx -1$) at base temperature($T = 2$ K). Upon further doping, this system turns to be non-superconducting over $x=$ 0.12 for heavily overdoped electrons.

The normalized temperature dependence of resistivity up to 300 K $\rho(T)/\rho$(300 K) are presented in Fig.\ref{fig:5} both for Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ and Ca$_{0.76}$La$_{0.24}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$. The systematic evolution of superconductivity is very clear for both groups of our samples. The normal state of all dopings behaviors like a metal similar to the BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ system ~\cite{Chen Y,Ni3,Zhang2}. To describe the electronic transport properties, we fit the $\rho(T)/\rho$(300 K) data by an empirical formula in the combination of linear and quadratic components: $\rho(T)/\rho$(300 K) $= \rho_0 + AT + BT^2$ within a wide temperature range from 30 K above the $T_N$ or $T_c$ to 300 K, which is commonly used in some cuprates, pnictides and organic superconductors~\cite{Analytis}. Generally, the coefficient A represents the non-Fermi-liquid behaviors, while the coefficient B means the proportion of Fermi-liquid behaviors, and $\rho_0$ is the normalized residual resistivity. In this way, we can also obtain the residual resistivity ratio RRR = $\rho$(300 K)/$\rho$(0 K) = 1/$\rho_0$ related to the strength of impurity scattering. For both cases with $y=$ 0.18 and 0.24, such fitting agrees very well up to 300 K. Similarly, we can calculate the magnitude of RRR in Ca$_{0.74}$La$_{0.26}$Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$As$_{2}$ and Ca$_{0.8}$La$_{0.2}$Fe$_{0.98}$Co$_{0.02}$As$_{2}$ compounds reported before~\cite{Jiang2,Xing X}. By simply considering both La and Ni/Co dopants contribute electrons into the system, e.g., the DMFT calculation indicates 0.17 e/Fe in the Fe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ layer for Ca$_{0.73}$La$_{0.27}$FeAs$_{2}$ compound~\cite{Jiang1}, we could unify the electron doping level to be extra electrons, with 0.63 e/Fe per La and 2 e/Fe per Ni or 1 e/Fe per Co. Here, the value of extra electrons equal to $2x + 0.63y$ for Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ and $x + 0.63y$ for Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$\-Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$As$_{2}$, respectively. We thus summary the fitting parameters $A$, $B$, and RRR versus extra electrons in Fig. \ref{fig:6}. Interestingly, $A$ and $B$ show opposite behaviors upon electron doping, suggesting the transport behaviors become more like Fermi liquid with the increasing extra electrons, much similar to the overdoped case in BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$~\cite{Zhang2}, which is consistent with previous reports\cite{Jiang1,Jiang2}. The rapidly decreasing of A also supports that the Ni-free compounds are nearly optimized for superconductivity. It should be noticed that RRR scales very well with extra electrons, no matter the specific chemical dopants. Indeed, higher electron doping level means stronger scattering from the impurity effect and larger $\rho_0$. This probably is the cause of the quick $T_c$ reduction for $x\geq 0.012$ in Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$.

By a careful inspection of the data in Fig.\ref{fig:5}, one can find resistivity anomalies in Ni-free samples Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$FeAs$_{2}$ and Ca$_{0.76}$La$_{0.24}$FeAs$_{2}$ around 50 K and 60 K, respectively. The anomalies disappear immediately after substituting Ni. Such features may be induced either by structural transition or magnetic phase transition, similar to the case in Ca$_{0.73}$La$_{0.27}$FeAs$_{2}$~\cite{Jiang1}. Therefore, we perform elastic neutron scattering experiments on several compounds of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ with $x$ = 0, $y$ = 0.18; $x$ = 0.024, $y$ = 0.18; $x$ = 0, $y$ = 0.24; $x$ = 0.024, $y$ = 0.24.  Temperature dependence of nuclear scattering at {\bf Q} = (1, 1, 0) is done to search possible structural transition, NO clear peak splitting OR extinction effects are found for all samples within the spectrometer resolution, indicating very weak lattice distortion in these compounds. Then magnetic scattering in {\bf Q}-scans along [$H$, $H$, $H$] direction ($\theta-2\theta$ scans) at different temperatures are measured, as shown in Fig.\ref{fig:7}(a-c). Resolution limited peaks are mapped out centering around the wave vector {\bf Q}$_{AF}$=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5) for the samples with $x$ = 0, $y$ = 0.18; $x$ = 0, $y$ = 0.24; $x$ = 0.024, $y$ = 0.24, suggesting long-ranged stripe magnetic order in them. There is no detectable magnetic Bragg peak in the compound with $x$ = 0.024, $y$ = 0.18 (Fig.\ref{fig:7}(a,d)). The order parameter of the antiferromagnetism can be characterized by the temperature dependence of the intensity of magnetic Bragg peak, as correspondingly shown in Fig.\ref{fig:7}(d-f). The Neel temperature $T_N$ are determined to be 48 $\pm$ 2 K , 60 $\pm$ 1 K, 26 $\pm$ 2 K, and the ordered moments are 0.27 $\pm$ 0.1 $\mu$$_{B}$ , 0.33 $\pm$ 0.05 $\mu$$_{B}$ , 0.09 $\pm$ 0.01 $\mu$$_{B}$ for the three samples $x$ = 0, $y$ = 0.18; $x$ = 0, $y$ = 0.24; $x$ = 0.024, $y$ = 0.24 , respectively. The $T_N$ determined here for Ca$_{0.82}$La$_{0.18}$FeAs$_{2}$ and Ca$_{0.76}$La$_{0.24}$FeAs$_{2}$ are consistent with the temperatures of the resistivity anomalies. Therefore, the Ni dopings indeed suppress $T_N$ rapidly in Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ system, while the La doping have weak effect on the magnetic order.

Finally, together with all results from resistivity, magnetic susceptibility and neutron diffraction experiments, as well as previous report~\cite{Jiang1} on Ca$_{0.73}$La$_{0.27}$FeAs$_{2}$ compound with $T_N=$ 54 K, we sketch a three-dimensional phase diagram for Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ system,  as shown in Fig.\ref{fig:8}. Some conclusions can be found in this phase diagram. First, by fixing the La doping, the electron doping from Ni quickly suppress the magnetic order and introduce a superconducting dome with co-existing region with AF. Second, in the non-Ni-doped Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$FeAs$_{2}$, La doping can slightly change the $T_N$ around 55 $\pm$ 5 K. Third, the higher La doping level give smaller superconducting regime with further Ni doping because of higher defect/impurity scattering in the samples, but extend the co-existing region of AF and SC. Therefore, the effects from La and Ni dopings are more complicate than those cases simply introducing electrons to suppress the AF and induce SC in other iron pnictides.

\section{Summary}

In summary, high-quality sizable single crystals of Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ have been grown successfully by the self-flux method. Transport behaviors at normal state can be simply described by doped extra electrons in the 112-type families. The detailed phase diagram shows that bulk superconductivity can be introduced by Ni doping above $x=0.004$ after suppressing the long-ranged AF order. Although the La doping have weak effect on the magnetism of Ni-free Ca$_{1-y}$La$_{y}$FeAs$_{2}$, larger co-existing regime between SC and AF but narrower superconducting dome are obtained for $y=0.24$ system rather than $y=0.18$ case due to stronger impurity scattering. Such rich phenomena on the electronic states opens a new opportunity to reveal the origin of the magnetism and superconductivity in iron pnictides.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
This work is supported by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (Nos. 11374011, 11374346, 11674406 and 11674372), the Strategic Priority Research
Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB07020300), the Ministry of Science and
Technology of China (No. 2016YFA0300502), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS (No. 2016004).
\section*{References}

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James Ro is responsible for the growth and strategic direction of Envoy Energy. He has extensive experience working with companies in the areas of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and raising growth capital. Prior to acquiring ComTech CNG (installs and services CNG fuelling stations), James has spent most of his career in investment banking on Bay Street and held positions at Scotiabank, E&Y Orenda Corporate Finance and an investment bank boutique; he advised private and public companies and worked with leading private equity firms in Canada, including Onex Corporation, Birch Hill Equity Partners and TorQuest Partners. James holds an Honours BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.


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By J.M. Darhower
A sexy ebook about two seventeen-year-olds—one a victim of human trafficking; the other the son of the man who enslaved her—who fall in love and question everything they ever believed…
Haven Antonelli and Carmine DeMarco grew up under vastly different circumstances. Haven, a second-generation slave, was isolated in the middle of the desert, her days full of hard work and terrifying abuse. Carmine, born into a wealthy Mafia family, lived a life of privilege and excess.
Now, a twist of fate causes their worlds to collide. Entangled in a web of secrets and lies, they learn that while different on the surface, they have more in common than anyone would think.
In a world full of chaos, where money and power rule, Haven and Carmine yearn to break free, but a string of events that began before either of them were born threatens to destroy them instead. Murder and betrayal are a way of life, and nothing comes without a price—especially not freedom. But how much will they have to sacrifice? Can they escape their pasts? And, most of all, what does it mean to be free?
The hot, dry air burned Haven's chest. She gasped, struggling to breathe, as the dust kicked up by her frantic feet made it hard for her to see. It wasn't as if it would help anyway, since it was pitch black out and she had no idea where she was. Everything appeared the same in every direction, nothing but desert all around.
Her feet felt like they were on fire as every muscle in her body screamed for her to stop. It grew harder and harder to continue with each step, her strength deteriorating as her adrenaline faded. A bang rang out, her footsteps faltering as she swung in the direction of the noise, spotting a faint glow of light in the distance. A house.
She darted toward it, trying to yell for help but no sound escaped her throat. Her body revolted against her, giving out when she needed it most. The light grew brighter the harder she ran until all she saw was a flash of white. Blinded, she tripped and collapsed to the ground, pain running through her in waves as the light surrounding her burned out entirely.
The basement was dark and damp, the only exit a set of metal doors locked with heavy chains. With no windows, it was sweltering, the air polluted with the stench of sewer. Dried blood tinged the concrete floor like old splatters of red paint, a grotesque canvas of prolonged misery.
Haven lay in the corner, her frail body unmoving, except for the subtle rise and fall of her chest. Her long brown hair, usually somewhat frizzy, was so matted it appeared only half its length. By society's standards, she was as sickly as they come. Jutting collarbones and limbs like twigs, her ribs could be counted through her bruised and bloodied skin. She thought herself to be healthy, though. She'd seen people worse than her before.
The day had begun like every other. Haven woke up at dawn and spent most of the morning cleaning. In the afternoon she spent some time with her mama, the two of them sitting against the side of the old wooden house. Neither spoke as the sound of the television filtered out of an open window above them. The news told of a hurricane brewing in the south and a war waging in Iraq, the significance of both lost on Haven.
Her mama said listening to it was a waste of time, because their slice of the world was barely a blip on the big radar, but Haven couldn't help herself. The five o'clock news was the highlight of her day. She needed to feel like she was real, that something—or someone—she'd had contact with still existed out in the world, somewhere.
Screaming started inside the house, interrupting the news as fighting made its way into the living room. Haven climbed to her feet, not wanting to be caught eavesdropping, when she heard something that stopped her in her tracks. "I want the girl gone!"
"I know, Katrina! I'm working on it!"
"Not hard enough!" Katrina was the lady of the house, a harsh woman with short black hair and wickedly pointy features. "Get rid of her already!"
Get rid of her already. The words suffocated Haven. The fighting moved from the living room to upstairs, their voices fading as tense silence crept in.
She was in serious trouble.
"This world's scary," her mama whispered. "People will hurt you. They'll do things to you, sick things . . . the kind of things I hope you never know about. And they'll trick you. They'll lie to you. You have to be on guard at all times, baby girl."
Haven didn't like where the conversation was going. "Why are you telling me this?"
"Because you need to know," she said. "You have to run."
Haven stared at her in disbelief. "Run?"
"Yes, tonight. There's more to life than this, and I'm afraid of what will happen if you stay here."
"But I can't run, Mama. I don't know what's out there!"
"People out there can help you."
Tears formed in Haven's eyes. "I can't leave you."
"It's the only way," she said. "You have to get away from here, find someone and tell them who you are. They'll—"
"Save you?" Haven asked, finishing her sentence. "Will they come here?"
"Maybe." Something sparked in her eyes. Hope?
"Then I'll do it," Haven said, "for you."
After nightfall, when Haven thought no one would look for her until morning, she quietly slipped away. She ran for the world outside of the ranch, determined to find help so she'd never have to return.
Waking up in the musty basement, she realized she'd failed.
A clanking jolted Haven awake, a blinding light assaulting her. Cringing, she noticed the doors open and someone standing a few feet away. A man with olive skin approached, his dark hair slicked back on his head. He wore black pants and a white button-up shirt, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. Haven gaped at the silver gun holstered to his belt.
Her voice cracked. "Are you the police?"
The man knelt near her, setting a small black bag on the floor. He didn't answer but gave her a bemused smile as he pressed his large palm to her forehead.
Haven closed her drowsy eyes and got lost in the silence until the man finally spoke. She opened her eyes again, surprised by his gentle tone, but recoiled when she met a hostile glare.
Behind the stranger stood someone she knew well. Michael, or Master as he preferred to be called, scowled at her with his dark eyes, the whites of them dingy yellow. His lip was curled in a sneer, his wiry hair graying around the ears.
"Relax, child," the stranger said. "It's going to be all right."
She looked at him, wondering if she could believe it, and panicked when he pulled a needle out of his bag. She whimpered, trying to move away, but he grabbed her and jabbed it into her shoulder blade.
"I'm not going to hurt you," he said, letting go and handing the offending little weapon to Michael. "I'm only trying to help."
"Help?" Her mama had told her people out there would help, but she'd also warned her that some of them would lie. Haven wasn't sure which group this man fell in to, but she leaned toward the latter.
"Yes, help." The man stood. "You need to rest. Save your energy."
He walked away, and her master followed him without saying a word. Haven lay there, too drained to make sense of it, and her eyes closed when she heard their voices again.
"She looks horrible!" the man yelled, all trace of kindness gone. "How could you let this happen, Antonelli?"
"I didn't mean for it to," Michael said. "I didn't know she'd try to run!"
"This started before yesterday, and you know it! You should've been watching her!"
"I know. I'm sorry."
"You should be." Haven started to slip away, but before sleep took her, the man spoke once more. "I'll give you what you want for her, but I'm not happy about this. At all."
Haven awoke later, still on the concrete floor. Every inch of her ached, and she grimaced as she struggled to sit up. A throat cleared nearby, the stranger once again standing in the basement with her. "How do you feel?"
She wrapped her arms protectively around herself as he moved toward her. "Okay."
His voice was calm but firm. "The truth."
"Sore," she reluctantly admitted. "My head hurts."
"I'm not surprised." He knelt down and reached toward her, the movement making her flinch. "I'm not going to hit you, child."
He felt her forehead and grasped her chin, surveying her face. "Do you know who I am?" She shook her head, although something about him struck her as familiar. She thought she might've seen him from a distance before, one of the visitors she'd been kept away from throughout the years. "I'm Dr. Vincent DeMarco."
"Doctor?" They'd never gotten medical attention before, even for the severest of problems.
"Yes, I'm a doctor," he said, "but I'm also an associate of the Antonellis. I arrived after you went missing. You suffered a minor concussion, and you're dehydrated, but there's no permanent damage that I can see. You're lucky you were found. You could've died out there."
A sinking feeling settled into the pit of Haven's stomach, a small part of her wishing she would have. It had to be better than being killed at the hands of a monster.
Dr. DeMarco looked at his watch. "Do you think you can walk? We should leave soon."
"Yes, you're going to be staying with me now."
She shook her head, cringing as her pain intensified. "I can't leave my mama. She needs me!"
"Maybe you should've thought about that before you ran away."
She tried to explain, her words sluggish. "They were going to kill me. I didn't have a choice."
"You always have a choice, child," he said. "In fact, you have one right now."
"You're giving me a choice?"
"Of course I am. You can come with me."
"Or?"
He shrugged. "Or you stay here, and I'll leave without you. But before you decide, tell me something. You ran away because you thought they were going to kill you. What do you think they'll do to you now?"
She stared at her dirt-caked feet. "So I either go with you or I die? What kind of choice is that?"
"One I suppose you won't like making," he said, "but it is a choice, nonetheless."
Tense silence brewed between them. Haven didn't like this manipulating man. "What do you want me for?"
She was used to being punished for speaking out of turn, but she had nothing to lose. What would he do, kill her?
"I never said I wanted you, but I'm a busy man. I can use someone to cook and clean."
"You can't pay someone?" She regretted the question immediately and backtracked. "At least it would be legal. I think this is illegal. Isn't it?"
Truthfully, she wasn't sure.
"I suppose it technically is, but—"
Before he could finish, shouts rang out above them in the house. Haven flinched at the loud thump and startled cry, tears stinging her eyes when she realized Michael was hurting her mama.
Dr. DeMarco sighed. "Look, I'm not going to wait around all night waiting for you. If you don't want my help, so be it. Stay here and die."
The man stood to leave. Haven climbed to her feet, muttering, "Why me?" She wanted to believe there was a point to it all, but she wasn't sure anymore.
He gave a slight shake of the head. "I wish I knew."
The soles of Haven's feet burned as Dr. DeMarco led her out of the basement. "I'm not chasing you if you run," he said, laughing bitterly when her panicked eyes darted to his gun. "I'm not going to shoot you, either."
"You're not?"
"No," he said. "I'll shoot your mother instead."
She gasped as he let go of her arm. "Please don't hurt her!"
"Stay where you are and I won't have to," he said, walking away.
Although her legs were weak and she felt dizzy, Haven refused to move an inch as he disappeared inside the house. The sky glowed bright orange as the sun dipped below the horizon, casting distorted shadows along the ground in front of her. She didn't know what day it was, had no clue how much time had passed. She scanned what she could see of the property, searching for some sign of her mama. She wanted to call out to her, to find her. She wanted to ask what she was supposed to do.
But her mama never appeared. The sun disappeared, and out of the darkness came Dr. DeMarco again. He didn't look at her as he opened a door to a black car. "Time to go."
Timidly, Haven slid into the rigid passenger seat and peered around as he slammed the door. The harsh stench of fresh leather in the confined space made her feel like a weight was pressing on her chest. She had trouble breathing, struggling to stay calm when he climbed in beside her. Dr. DeMarco frowned as he reached into the backseat for his bag. He pulled out another needle and stuck her without a word.
Blackness came again.
The small road cut through the dense forest, the painted lines so faded it appeared made for one car. A new highway diverted traffic from the area, so the only people who navigated there were locals and those who lost their way. Haven lay slumped over in the passenger seat of a car, woozy as she watched the trees whipping past in the darkness. She turned from the window, fighting sickness. Her eyes found the clock on the dashboard, the numbers glowing a quarter after twelve.
She'd been out for hours.
"I didn't mean to sedate you for so long," Dr. DeMarco said, noticing her movement. "You slept the entire flight."
"In an airplane?" He nodded. It was her first time even being near a plane. She wasn't sure whether to be glad it was over or disappointed she'd missed it. "Where are we now?"
"Almost home."
Home. Haven didn't know what that meant.
"Before we get there, I want to make something clear," Dr. DeMarco said. "You're going to have some normalcy living with us, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I expect your loyalty, and if you betray my trust in any way, there will be consequences. As long as you remember that, we won't have any problems." He paused. "I want you to be comfortable with us, though, so you can speak freely as long as you're respectful."
"I'd never disrespect you, sir."
"Never say never. Sometimes we don't realize when we're being disrespectful." Haven wondered what he meant by that, but he didn't explain. "Do you have any questions?"
"You said 'us.' Do you have a family?"
"I do. I have two sons, ages seventeen and eighteen."
"Oh." She was on the verge of panicking. She hadn't been around many people her age and had never had any contact with teenage boys. Studying him, she noticed the plain gold band gleaming under the moonlight on his left hand. Married. "And your wife, sir? Their mama?"
The moment the question came from her lips, Dr. DeMarco's demeanor shifted. His posture stiffened and his jaw clenched as he stared straight ahead, his foot pressing harder on the gas pedal. He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles turned as white as bone, conversation ceasing.
So much for speaking freely.
The car turned off the pavement and drove down a bumpy path that cut through the dense trees. They came to a clearing, and Haven gaped at the house that came into sight. The old plantation home stood three stories high, with columns spanning the height of the structure. The white paint was faded, tinting the exterior a dull gray. A large porch wrapped around the first floor, with smaller ones running the lengths of the second and third.
Dr. DeMarco parked between a smaller black car and a silver one, and Haven stepped out cautiously, taking in her surroundings. All she could see in the darkness beyond were trees, while a porch light made the gravel faintly visible beneath her feet. Dr. DeMarco grabbed his luggage before heading toward the front door, and she limped behind with empty hands, having nothing of her own to carry. She'd never had much, all of her clothes ragged hand-me-downs that she'd left behind without a choice.
After stepping onto the porch, Dr. DeMarco pressed his finger to a small panel on a rectangular keypad. It beeped before he opened the door. Haven stepped into the house, pausing as he closed the door and punched something into an identical keypad on the inside.
A green light flashed as a lock clicked into place, the door automatically securing itself. "It's wired into a computer network," Dr. DeMarco explained. "The house is impenetrable, the glass bulletproof and windows nailed shut. You need a code or fingerprint authorization to get in or out."
"What happens if there's a power failure, sir?"
"It's on a backup generator."
"And if the generator doesn't work?"
"Then I suppose you'll stay locked inside until power's restored."
"Will I have a code?"
"Maybe someday, when I feel I can trust you with one," he said. "After what you pulled in Blackburn, I'm sure you can understand my position. I'm a lot closer to civilization than they were."
She couldn't understand his position, refused to try. "What happens if there's an emergency?"
"There are ways around the system, but I don't foresee any situations that require you to know those tricks."
"But what if there's a fire and I need to get out?"
Dr. DeMarco gazed at her. "You're a crafty one, aren't you?" Before she could respond, he turned away. "I'll show you around."
Straight in front of them was the family room, with several couches and a television on one of the walls. A fireplace was tucked in the back beside a piano, the wooden floor shining from the glow of the moon streaming through the large windows. To the left was a kitchen filled with stainless-steel appliances, an island in the center with pots and pans hanging above it. The dining room behind that had the longest table Haven had ever seen, big enough to accommodate fourteen. She wondered how often all those seats were taken, unable to imagine cooking for that many people. To the right were a bathroom and a laundry room, as well as an office tucked underneath the staircase.
The second floor belonged to Dr. DeMarco—a bedroom and a bathroom, along with another office and a spare room. Some of the doors had keypads beside them, a sign Haven wouldn't be going into those rooms.
They continued up to the third floor, the stairs ending in a large open space. A window lined the back wall, in front of it stood a table with two plush gray chairs. The other three walls held doors leading to bedrooms, but the area itself was packed full of bookcases. Hundreds of dusty books lined the shelves. Haven stared in shock, having never dreamed of seeing so many before.
"Our library," Dr. DeMarco said. "It doesn't get much use and I imagine it still won't, considering Antonelli said you couldn't read."
Haven could feel his eyes on her, but she remained quiet and didn't meet his gaze.
A door opened nearby and a boy stepped out from one of the bedrooms. He was tall and lanky, with shaggy brown hair. Dr. DeMarco turned to him. "Dominic, this is, uh . . . She's going to be staying here."
Dominic eyed her curiously. "Hey."
"Hello, sir," she said, her voice shaky.
His laughter echoed through the room. "Oh, that won't do. Just call me Dom."
Dom headed downstairs as Dr. DeMarco led her across the library, striding past the middle door without a word and stopping at the last. "This is where you'll sleep. Go in. I'll be back."
Haven hesitantly stepped inside. The furniture, the curtains, and the carpet were all plain, everything a dull white with dustings of wood. Most of the house held the same effect, the walls empty and rooms uncluttered. There were no pictures and no knick-knacks, nothing to hold any sentimental value. Nothing to give her any idea of what type of people she was dealing with.
She still stood just inside the doorway when Dr. DeMarco returned with a pile of clothes. "They'll be big, but at least they're clean."
She took them. "Thank you, sir."
"You're welcome," he said. "Get cleaned up and settle in. This is your home now, too."
He'd said it again. Home. She had lived with the Antonellis her entire life and never heard it referred to as home.
Dr. DeMarco walked away but stopped after a few steps. "Oh, and help yourself to anything in the kitchen if you're hungry, but don't try to burn down my house. Doing so won't get you a code any faster. I'll let you burn to death before I let you outsmart me."
Haven ran her hand along the fluffy comforter. She'd never had a bed before, much less a bedroom of her own. Her nights in Blackburn had been spent in the stables, in a back stall on a worn-down mattress with some of the springs exposed. The temperature was comfortable there at night, so she hadn't had much use for blankets, one of the ratty covers they kept for the horses enough for the occasions it did get cold. She preferred not to use them, because they were itchy on her skin, nothing like the material against her fingertips now.
After stripping out of her old clothes, Haven went into the connecting bathroom. A large tub sat in the corner with a long counter and a sink across from it, a rectangular mirror on the wall above the sink.
Hesitantly, Haven surveyed her reflection, her sunken cheeks and the cuts covering her face. A bruise ran along the right side of her jaw while blood caked her hairline from a gash in her forehead.
It was like a layer of dirt had settled on her body, tinting her skin a slightly darker shade, but it wasn't enough to cover her scars. There were dozens she could see and even more on her back, constant reminders of what she'd been through. The bruises faded and sometimes so did the memories, but the scars . . . the scars remained.
She drew a bath and slid into it, hissing as the scalding water came into contact with her skin. She scrubbed every inch of her body raw as tears pooled in her eyes, overwhelmed and unsure about what would come of her. Dr. DeMarco had been civilized, but she wasn't fooled by his gentle voice and small tokens of independence. Nothing came without a price. While Dr. DeMarco might not have looked like a monster, she wasn't naïve enough to believe one didn't live inside of him, lurking under the surface.
Experience told her one always did.
She got out after the water cooled and found a towel in a small cabinet. It smelled like flowers and was soft against her skin as she wrapped it around her body. Heading back into the bedroom, she grabbed the clothes and slipped on the black flannel pants. They hung limp on her frail form, and she had to roll them up to keep them in place. She grabbed a white t-shirt and unfolded it, noticing the football on the front. Turning it over, she flinched at the big black number 3 covering the back.
Time passed slowly as sleep evaded Haven. She huddled under the blanket, trying to find comfort, but the stillness was unsettling. It was too new, too foreign. A prickly sensation crept across her skin as the walls closed in on her, hunger and anxiety taking its toll.
In the early morning hours, it got to be too much, and she quietly slipped downstairs. The hallways were dark, but she noticed a subtle glow of light in the kitchen. Tiptoeing to the doorway, she peeked inside and saw a boy in front of the refrigerator. He was a few inches taller than her, his skin the color of coffee with a lot of extra cream. A few days' worth of stubble accented his sharp features, and his thick hair was dark, shorter on the sides than on the top. His gray shirt hugged his chest, the short sleeves shoved up to his shoulders. Ink marked his right arm, a tattoo she couldn't make out in the darkness, and he had on a pair of pants identical to the ones she wore.
He drank juice from a glass, unaware of her presence, and Haven took a step back to flee. The movement caught his eye, and he turned in her direction, the drink slipping from his hand when he spotted her. It hit the floor and shattered, the spray of liquid soaking his pants.
Jumping back, he looked down at himself. "Shit!"
The curse sent Haven into a panic, and she darted forward to clean up the mess. He bent down at the same moment Haven dove to his feet, their heads colliding. The force knocked him backward, a piece of jagged glass stabbing him when he caught himself on the floor. He cursed again as blood oozed from the small gash and stuck his wounded thumb into his mouth. She noticed, as she looked at him, a scar running through his right eyebrow, slicing it in half.
His gaze lifted, a pair of vibrant green eyes greeting Haven, intense passion swirling in the color that took her breath away. She broke eye contact, her chest tightening as she snatched a towel from the counter to clean up the juice. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she pushed the glass into a pile, but she was disrupted when his hand seized her wrist. She yelped at the zap of static electricity, and he blinked rapidly, just as caught off guard.
"What's wrong with you?" he asked, gripping her tightly.
"I'm sorry," she said. "Please don't punish me."
Before either could get out another word, the overhead light flicked on and Dr. DeMarco's harsh voice rang out. "Let her go!"
The boy dropped her wrist so fast it was as if he'd been savagely burned. "Sorry," he said, the word barely audible as he climbed to his feet.
Haven struggled to breathe as Dr. DeMarco poured a glass of water from the faucet and handed it to her. "Drink," he commanded. She forced the water down and gagged, her stomach more interested in expelling its contents. "What happened here?"
They replied at the same time, answering in sync. "It was an accident."
"It won't happen again, sir," Haven continued. "I swear."
Dr. DeMarco blinked a few times. "It's not often two people accept blame around here."
As if on cue, the boy spoke again. "Yeah, well, it wasn't really my fault. She scared me. She's a fucking ninja or something."
Dr. DeMarco pinched the bridge of his nose. "Watch your mouth, son. Go get ready for school."
He started to argue, but Dr. DeMarco's hand shot up to silence him. The sudden movement startled Haven. She recoiled, bracing to be struck.
The boy eyed her strangely. "What the hell's wrong with—?"
"I said go!" Dr. DeMarco said. "I don't have time for you."
"Fine, what-the-fuck-ever."
Dr. DeMarco turned to her after the boy stormed out. "He isn't usually . . . well, never mind; that's a lie. He is usually like this. He's finicky and angry, but that's neither here nor there. He's set in his ways, and it doesn't matter what I do. Carmine is who he is."
Carmine. A strange name for a strange boy.
"Why are you up, anyway?" he asked. "I figured you'd sleep most of the day to recover."
"I didn't know what time I was supposed to get up."
"You get up whenever you get up," he said. "You can go back to bed now."
"But what about—?"
He didn't let her finish. "I'll handle this. Don't worry about doing anything today. Just rest."
J.M. Darhower
J.M. Darhower lives in a tiny town in the Carolinas with her family.
Publisher: Pocket Star (November 25, 2013)
Fiction > Romance > Contemporary
Fiction > Thrillers > Suspense
Fiction > Women
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How do you accurately categorize and elevate the appropriate price for tools such as 1-on-1 coaching, group coaching, memberships, and live events?
As I pivot more from the services side or the agency side to the coaching stuff, just curious your thoughts on how to accurately categorize the appropriate price of that in my head and how to continue to elevate that. So there's a couple things. 1....
As I pivot more from the services side or the agency side to the coaching stuff, just curious your thoughts on how to accurately categorize the appropriate price of that in my head and how to continue to elevate that.
So there's a couple things. 1. It's gotta be consulting, not coaching...
So just curious your thoughts on how to start to, I don't know if pivot is the right word or transition or augment, the amount that I'm charging for either one on one coaching or group coaching, or have a membership, and it's all around funnels and ads. And that's my expertise as an agency and what I do from, from a day to day perspective. But as I pivot more from the services side or the agency side to the coaching stuff, just curious your thoughts on how to accurately categorize the appropriate price of that in my head and how to continue to elevate that.
Okay. So there's a couple things. It's gotta be consulting, not coaching, even though technically speaking, they're both the delivery of advice to people and the reason why it was a perception around what coaching is versus the perception around what consulting is, is literally the same thing. But if you say coaching, cause it's gonna feel like X. And if you say consulting, it's more magnetic to people with money, et cetera. So that's thing number one, the other thing is assuming the outcome is of greater value to them than the price charged, regardless of what that price is. The owner, the only thing you got to do to transition is literally start or charging new one. I'll, I'll illustrate it with a story. So back in 2009 ish or something, you know, during the, the Hunter Thompson era, uh, and guess that was more of the Hunter Thompson, Keith Richards combined era. Now I'm just in the Keith Richards zero, you know, I've abandoned the Hunter Thompson methodology for. Personal health reasons. Um, I had done mass control and all that. It was a couple of thousand dollars and literally was like, I think I'm going to see if I can sell a consulting for a hundred grand. And there was no, here's why it's a hundred grand. There was no rationalizing it. There was no big announcement. There was here's what I got here. Fluid will do for you. Here's how I want you to do next. Give me a hundred thousand dollars. And within, I think it was two or three weeks. I had a check. And a client for a hundred grand and that was it. And so it's, it's all mental. Yeah. And again, I'm, I am saying all of this with the understanding that the thing you're selling is of greater value to them than the money received. That part of the equation has to be intact or else it's not going to work long term, but if it's intact, dude, just raise your price. Then as, as Dan Kennedy, you know, one of the gazillion things I learned from him, he would always say, Hey, you know, the. The big secret that charging high fees is keeping a straight face when you quote the fee. Meaning, you know, not that you're trying to pull anything over on them, but not being afraid to do so in the absence of fear, rationalization, anything like that, here's how much it is, the end, you know. Awesome. Thanks man. Appreciate it.
Yep. I'll give one more thing about that and it's going to be. The who you're able to sell to is going to be dependent on who you're attracting into the funnel. And that is dependent on the content and the bait quote, unquote that you put out. So be sure you're putting out whale bait and not minnow bait, you know, so like my, my a hundred dollars, Wescott some sales thing is in many ways it's minnow bait, because it would assume the person is in that position of starting over, even though who I really want, I'm trying to filter out it's people like that. You Jitsu instructor that did that. Nick had mentioned earlier, You know, discover the secret campaign I use to make an extra $3,000 a month. That's not willing to be magnetic to the high ticket person, uh, the high ticket person for consulting. And you know, this is usually like the business owner who's doing between 500 grand and you know, five to 20 million a year. And it's owner operated. Those folks respond to very little. Different messaging and content such as replace yourself, train your team better, get more done, maximize revenue without added expense, that type of thing. It's magnetic to them. So it's really important to get the right people to quote the high ticket too.
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Agreement on revision of EU directives on electronic communications
EU	Last modified: April 29, 2009	Published: April 29, 2009
Update 5 May 2009: The European Parliament has today published background material, which can be accessed by clicking here and Malcolm Harbour (MEP) has published an interview.
Following today's Coreper I meeting, the Czech Presidency and members of the European Parliament issued press releases stating that agreement has been reached on the substance and on the detailed wording of revisions to the EC directives on electronic communications.
The next steps are formal debate (5 May 2009) and voting (6 May 2009) in the European Parliament plenary, and adoption by the Council of Ministers on 12 June
2009, followed by formal publication of the Directives in the
Official Journal.
The Czech Presidency's press release can be accessed by clicking here.
Catherine Trautmann (MEP)'s press release (in French) can be accessed by clicking here.
One consolidated texts are available, we will post them on this website. In the meantime, the pages showing the state of advancement of the Parliamentary process (not yet reflecting the agreement reached on 29 April 2009) can be accessed via these links:
Framework, authorisation and access directives
Universal service and users' rights directive + e-privacy directive + data retention
Creation of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)
Please do not hesitate to contact Yves Blondeel for a discussion.


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Q: Por que esta forma de usar case não funciona? Tenho o seguinte código:
def label_file_type(type)
    label =
    case type.to_s
    when ['.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png'].include?(type) then
        content_tag(:span, 'Imagem', class: ['label', 'picture'])
    when ['.mp3'].include?(type) then
        content_tag(:span, 'Áudio', class: 'label audio')
    when ['.txt', '.pdf', '.doc', '.docx', '.odt'].include?(type) then
        content_tag(:span, 'Documento', class: 'label document')
    else
        content_tag(:span, 'Indefinido', class: 'label')
    end
end

Isto é um helper. Por algum motivo, a única saída que recebo na tela é a do else. É como se a instrução estivesse ignorando todas as comparações e pulando direto pra última. Alguém sabe me explicar o porque de isso não funcionar dessa forma?

A: A sintaxe deveria ser:
def label_file_type(type)
    label =
    case type.to_s
    when '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.png'
        content_tag(:span, 'Imagem', class: ['label', 'picture'])
    when '.mp3'
        content_tag(:span, 'Áudio', class: 'label audio')
    when '.txt', '.pdf', '.doc', '.docx', '.odt'
        content_tag(:span, 'Documento', class: 'label document')
    else
        content_tag(:span, 'Indefinido', class: 'label')
    end
end

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A little help for the housing crisis?
Taken together, two ballot measures have the potential to create some movement at last on a problem that's been essentially frozen for decades.
A little help for the housing crisis? Taken together, two ballot measures have the potential to create some movement at last on a problem that's been essentially frozen for decades. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/10/23/little-help-housing-crisis/1689089002/
Tom Elias, Columnist Published 7:00 a.m. PT Oct. 23, 2018
An apartment project is being built near Springville Drive and Highway 101 in Camarillo. Some believe if Proposition 10, the rent control measure on the Nov. 6 ballot, passes fewer rental units will be built in California.(Photo: CHUCK KIRMAN/THE STAR, )Buy Photo
Across California's political spectrum, agreement is solid that this state suffers from a significant housing crisis — one of both affordability and supply.
But there's little agreement on what to do about it. Some politicians push for massive building within existing cities, especially near rapid transit stops and frequently used bus routes. Others suggest that almost half of all newly built housing should fall into the "affordable" category, with income limits on buyers.
One thing is for sure: Steep rises in the price of existing homes make it hard for all but the wealthiest people in the under-40 age categories to buy, especially in coastal counties where increases have been highest. At the same time, rents in many cities are so high that a majority of households devote half their income or more to housing costs.
Two propositions on the Nov. 6 ballot enter this fraught area, one allowing vast expansion of the rent controls now operating in 15 California cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco. The other expands the right of homeowners over 55 to transfer existing property tax valuations to any replacement house or condominium they might buy.
Rent controls have been sharply limited since the 1990s by the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, named for two state legislators of that time. The law greatly eased strict rent controls in cities like Santa Monica, Cotati and San Francisco. Yes, rent controls there still apply to older apartments as long as they remain occupied by the same people. But when renters move out, prices can rise to market rates. The original ordinances kept strict controls in place even when vacancies occurred.
Under those original laws, many landlords neglected maintenance. Paint peeled, plumbing deteriorated and stucco cracked because landlords felt their profits were too thin to make repairs. Tenants often had to do the repairs themselves.
Costa-Hawkins gave landlords relief but led to widespread under-the-table subletting, with original tenants re-renting to others at rates far below what an open market would allow. Many tenants who rented when young grew older and wealthier but clung to their low-cost units for decades — a form of welfare for the middle class.
Still, rent controls allow many to stay in prime areas they otherwise could not afford. Expanding the controls, as Prop. 10 would allow cities to do, might slow the high-rent tide.
Prop. 5 would affect housing very differently. Current laws, adopted a decade or so after passage of the landmark 1978 Prop. 13 property tax limits, allow homeowners over 55 to carry their current tax valuations (1 percent of the latest purchase price, plus a 2 percent increase each year) to a replacement home of equal or lesser value within their own county. But only 10 of the 58 counties accept transfers of these valuations.
One result, Realtors say, is at least 70 percent of over-55 homeowners have not moved in 17 years. And less movement by older homeowners cuts the supply of homes for younger families.
Several counties that once participated in the transfer program pulled out because they believed they lost property tax money. That concern has led most public employee groups, including the state sheriff's association and teachers' unions, to oppose Prop. 5.
But the Realtors backing it say it could free up existing housing for homeowners wanting to move up in price category. That, in turn, could open up more starter homes for young buyers. If more homes come on the market, Realtors argue, prices may drop and ease the affordability problem.
Taken together, these measures have the potential to create some movement at last on a problem that's been essentially frozen for decades.
Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com.
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SIR, - What a shame that Mr David Collins was disturbed by the amplified PA system on Sunday, October 12, at the start of the Herts 10K Challenge (Herts Advertiser, October 16).
Did he think of the people who gave up all of their Sunday to make a difference to Grove House day hospice. I also heard the noise and it made me think of all those good people.
I don't use Grove House but donate work that only makes them £100 each three months but they are so, so grateful.
I hope Mr Collins never has to use Grove House but if he does he will surely change his mind over one hour of noise.


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